Connecticut western news., 1920-06-10

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 summer 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 have excellent roads all the way. The Philippines are, in fact, paradise for autoists, possessing $500 miles of fine macadamized roads
 The first part of the trip is through typical small towns and then. across the central 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 East's 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 potentialities of the islands.
 At some points rice fields, looking in the distance like the greenest of green lawns, stretch away as far as the eye can see. If you want color, If you want to feel the romance and mystery of 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 fn ecstacy at the gorgeous scene. But as you ride along, your eyes fastened on the panorama of tints and colors, and with the inn penetrably black Oriental night com ing on fast, you become enthralled. You no longer try to express your feel ings. You cannot. You realize that those now 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- plicate, So what's the use of tryingI
 True, these are but impressions, but the traveloguer considers himself justi- fed in 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 inn bo fp1 ofk AI,o 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 lOwlands to the crisp, invigorating ozone of the tenn perate zone, all within a few hours ime.
 For mile after mile the road now fol- lows the tortuous course of a river, the road 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 cheapest power on earth. And it is everlasting. Your traveloguer is nei- l ther prophet nor the son of a proph- i ct, but he predicts that one day there will be innumerable Philippine govern ment owned hydrO-electric plants in 1 this canyon We are now passing ! through. Think of the possibilities of such a project! Today the trip from Manila to BaguiO is too expensive for l the average Manila worker and his ! family, many of whom may live and ! fife without bchOlding the wondrous 1 beauties of their own island of LuZOn 1 Think of what a blessing it would be ! to Filipino mothers and children to l feel upon their fevored brows the cool, 1 iuvigOrating hrpcZes of the mountain i tops. now so near and yet so far! With 1 the Philippine government owning it's 1 own electric railways and hydrO-elec- tric plants it would be possible to bring