The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-23
HEAD HUNTING
 FILIPlNOS CIVILIZED
By LEO T. HEATLEY international News Service Staf
 


 New York, Dec. 23 That the Filipino girl hasn't got a single thing on the modern American fapper in the matter of scanty dress; that there America as there are in the Philip pine Archipelago, and that the only difference beaween the head hunt ers'' of the East and those of the West is that the American variety is busy chasing blondes and brunettes while the Filipino sticks to the dark type, were interesting points made by Miss Josephine kremser, advocate of Philippine independence, in an inter- view here.
 ''The only difference between the head hunters of Broadway or the Main street of any town in the United States and those of the Philippine Islands Is in the motive" said Miss Kremser. When you know both kinds you like the tribesn1en 8 lot better, al- though his methods are not quite so genteel. Remember, he has never had the benefit of civilization Miss kremser plans to appeal to the Washington government to give further consideration to the claims to independence made by the Far East ern islands. She is the moving spirit of a group of students, professional eraI thousand Filipinos in New York. Many wrong impressions have been created by those who picture the head hunters and barbarians as an
 
 are few tribes who are ignorant and who dress scantily, but they do not represent the Filipino any more than the Indian does the United States. In Mexico, Brazil, Chilli and all Central American countries such conditions exist, but who can say that these peo- pie are incapable of governing their respective countries?
 "The Japanese question has been pointed out a reason for failing to give the islands independence. The differences in peoples, race, religion and national traits are factors which do not appeal to Japan, and as for colonization, few realize that in view of the fact that though the Philip pines are so near Japan there are more Japanese on the Pacific Coast and in Hawaii than there are on the islands. The Filipinos do not wei come the Japs-in fact, are most Un- friendly to them in every respect
 Independence Wanted
 .aThe people of the islands want their independence and they Will not enjoy their full share of prosperity until the question is settled one way or the other. Some American bankers do not want the islands taken from the control of Americans. They fear national disa ster. That may have been true years ago, put tocay' ue- spite reports to the contrary, the Philippine national banks are in bet fer shape than ever in their history. "All the Filipinos ask of AmerIcans is that they study their cause 1mpar- tially and not gather impressions from the naked specimens they see In the Museum of Natural History. They heionr to a remote age, just as bar barism will in a few years
 Although some people would have YOU believe that head hunters roam wild over the islands. don't know or l a nIace on the islands where a wom- an is not safe The woman alone in Broadway or any other main street is | in more danger from head hunters ] +La. +be u,onoan in Manila The men and women of the Philippines are moral and chiva1rous. You never see | a, woman standing in a street car | while men sit with their faces buried | in newspapers"