The log cabin Democrat., 1920-05-04

All aboard! Let's go. We're start Ing from Manila, the great picturesque, Americanized Oriental city, and will travel by automobile POO miles to the north to Baguio, the sumner capital of the Philippines. The trip can also be made by train.
 We have ahead of us one of the most scenic, spectacular and thrilling auto mobile trips in the world. We will aaye excellent roads all the way. The Philippines are, ill fact, A paradise for autoists. possessing $500 miles of fine macadamiZed roads
 Tue first part of the trip is through typical small towns and then across the centcal plain of Luzon and through several rich and fertile provinces. where tropical vegetation Is seen at it's Best Here one is impressed with the great agricultural wealth of the Philip pines, which represents one of the Easts greatest producing areas, with the advantage of immense natural re- sources for the development of further production It Is regrettably true that even in the United States there Is far from any real understanding of the cetentialities of the islands.
 At some points rice fields, looking in she distance like the greenest of green Awns, stretch away as far as the eye ssn see. If you want color, if you want to feel the romance and mystery sf an Oriental twilight, pass this way as the red eyed sun at the end of the dying day is slowly sinking behind the intending eXpanse of green fields At first you cry out in ecstacy at the gorgeous scene. But KS you ride along, your eyes fastened on the panorama of tintS and colors. and with the i'm penetrably black Oriental night com ing on fast, you become enthralled. You no longer try to express your feel sngs. You cannot. You realize that those aow fast changing colorful master pieces in the heavens and on the land scape are pictures that no man can ad- eQuately describe nor human hands du- sIicate. So what's the use of trying
 True, these are but impressions, but vne traveloguer considers himself justi- ded !n mentioning them, for they are a part of the trip to Baguio and return Indeed the gorgeous sunsets in all parts of the Philippines leave an i'm pression on the mind of the tourist that IS everlasting.
 We leave the palms and tropical foliage and enter the zone of rugged pine We pass from the soft incense laden air of the warm Iowlands to the crisp. invigorating ozone of the tenn perate zone, all within q few hours time.
 For mile after mile the road now fol- lows the tortuous course of river, the noad lying in the bottom or on the rocky sides of a granite canyon.
 The Philippines are rich in hydro electric possibilities. This power Is the
 
 everlasting. Your traveloguer is nei- ther prophet nor the son of a proph- et, but he predicts that one day there win be innumerable Philippine govern nent owned hydro-electric plants in his canyon We are now passing through. Think of the possibilities of sugh project Today the trip from Manila to Baguio is too expensive for the average Manila worker and his family, many of whom may live and die without behoidlng the wondrous beauties of their own island of Luzon Think of what d blessing il would be to Filipino mothers and children to feel upon their fevered brows the cool invigorating breezes of the mountain gops now so near and yet so far! With Ihe Philippine government owning its own electric railways and hydro cleo, ric plants It would be possible to bring