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Evening star., 1924-07-13

brown hats as big as bread bowls
turned upside down and short
jackets that seem always just about
to fall from their shoulders. Their
skirts are bag like, and often tucked
up so that the bare feet and half of
the legs show. The men wear their
shirts outside their thin cotton
trousers; most of them have big hats
like the women. There are also
children of all ages, some dressed
like their parents and others with
almost no clothes at all See that
pretty brown boy over there He
wears a white shirt. the tail Of
which just touches his hips, and he
has a black belt around his waist.
From his hips to his heels he Is as
bare as when he was born.
MOST Of the rice was cut some
weeks ago. The heads were
taken off one by one, tied up in bun
dies not much bigger than good
sized bouquet, and carried home to
be threshed. Half of the straw was
left standing, and the people are now
going through cutting the stalks, ty-
ing them in bundles, and putting
them in low windrows and piles.
Each girl has a sickle or knife with
a long handle. and she bends low as
she cuts. Some Of the girls are quite
pretty, and they bring to my mind
Ruth, the grandmother of David, as
she gathered the barley after old
Boaz before she went home that
night and captured his heart.
Evening star., 1924-07-13
h INSTITUTION.

that the game of golf may be played
on Sunday. not being a game within
the view of the law, but being a form
of moral effect. Another decision
laid down the principle that a golf
club need never close the bar, not
being bar within the legal meaning
Of the term, but d place of rest, inso-
much as the drinks sold are no,
drinks as known to the statute but a
form of recuperation.
In the same way, the pay given to
boy attendant, or caddy, is not pay
but a reward, and exempts him from
the cruelty to children act. The
excess profits tax. the license tax and
the property tax do not apply, it is
held, to the premises of a golf club,
as it is religious institution; and
both the privy council and the su-
preme courts are said to be prepar-
ing decisions to the effect that con-
suming whisky in or near a golf club
does not constitute a breach of the
law provided that it is taken only
when needed and in the proportion
and quantity needed.
x X x x
THE golf club idea, once started
and established, soon spread.
The original ground was abandoned.
A vast stretch of beautiful land that
might easily have supported hun
dreds and hundreds of hogs was laid
out into fiat lawns and greens. In
reality. nothing more is needed for
Evening star., 1924-07-13
GOLF AS NATIONAL MENACE
All Good Men Make
Ins;d;ous of Inshtut

AM old enough to remember very /,
distinctly the first coming Of the |
game of golf to the city where I |
live IT carpa in ho
Evening star., 1924-07-13

AM old enough to remember very
distinctly the first coming Of the
game of golf to the city where I
live. 1t came in that insidious
but forceful way that characterizes
everything Scottish. 1t was similar
to the spread of Scottish banking,
the Scottish church and Scotch
whisky.
The exact circumstances were
these: One afternoon in April when
the wind was on the new grass, three
Scotsmen went out to a hill slope
near the town. They carried with
them three crooked sticks and a lit
tie ball. There was a firmness in
their manner, but nothing obviously
criminal.
to beat it about on the grass. In
fairness it must be admitted that
they made no parade of the matter.
At the end of about an hour they
were seen to sit down under a briar
bush; it was thought at the time that
they were either praying or drinking
whisky. The real truth was that
they had formed themselves into a
golf club.
This, / say, was on a Saturday.
Had the city been well advised these
men could have been arrested on the
following Monday.
But nothing was done. Indeed, at
the moment little was thought of the
matter At any rate, little was man.
ifested in the shape of public indig-
nation or public protest. Even when
six Scotsmen appeared on the, ground
the following Saturday, and twelve
the week after, and twenty-four on
the last Saturday Of the month, few
people. if any. realized the magnitude
of what was happening.
1t was not long before't the game
began to exercise an evident effect
upon those who at first had been idle
spectators. Here and there, by a
very obvious and cunning piece of
policy, they were invited to try their
hand The spectator then found to
his surprise the peculiar difficulty Of
the game. He discovered that, sim
pie though it looked. it was not pos
sible for him to place the ball on the
ground. take a drink of Scotch whis-
ky and then hit it with the stick.
He tried again and again, but failed
each time.
The natural result was that he So
licited membership in the club and
reappeared on the following Satur-
day with ball and stick of his own
and with a flask of whisky on his hip.
The Saturday after that he turned
up in a pair of knickerbocker trous-
ers, a round Tam O. Shanter hat and
a Cluny Macpherson tartan over his
shoulder. After that, as far as any
general utility to the community
went the man was lost
Evening star., 1924-07-13

Hotel Oriente was Fighting Joe
Wheeler. He had made great
reputation as a cavalry leader in our
civil war; and then, thirty-five years
later, at the age Of sixty-three, he
was as spry and active as a Filipino
game rooster in cock-fght. He had
asked me to come up to his camp,
which was about eighty miles north
of Manila on this very railway.
When We started, there were soldiers
on the engine and at the two ends
OF each car. During the trip we
| were fired at several times, and a
bullet went thSeugh the window of
the compartment next to the one in
depot in little two-wheeled carts
dragged by ponies, and as for
baggage, we had none.
Gen. Wheeler, in response to my
query as to whether he could ac-
commodate me at the camp, said:
"Of course, I have a whole palace;
it is f1oored with mahogany, and
there is plenty of room" He told
the truth, but the palace was bare as
which / had to sleep were so hard
that the wood would turn a nail. and
l found f1fty-four new bones in my
body during the first night Of my
stay.
Today / rode from the hotel to the
depot in an American automobile. i
have eight pieces of baggage, which
is piled about me in the comfortable
compartment that 1 have for myself
Instead of soldier taking the
tickets, there is a dapper Filipino
dressed in khaki, and the superin-
tendent of the road, clad in white
duck, met me at the station. The
roadbed is comparatively good, and
the cars, which are almost all win
dows, are like those of Europe.
am travelling first-class. and the fare
is as high as at home. There are
third -class cars in the rear filled for
the most part with Filipinos. Travel
is just as safe as at home, and at
every station the natives are anxious
to please. The guerillas disappeared
more than two decades ago, and 1
believe that one can now travel over
all parts of these islands and be
quite as safe as at any place in New
England.
But let us take look out Of the
car window. Things are much more
active than they were in the days of
Fighting Joe" Wheeler. There are
farmers everywhere at work in the
fields, and We can get a good picture
of this country of farms. You must
first imagine the beautiful scenery.
We have before us a valley covered
with silver-gray patches, sewed
together with wide strips Of green
and embroidered with wild flowers.
BY and by the new rice will be
planted. the water let in, and the
whole country will be a sheet Of
emeralds on a great bed Of silver.
On each side OF the valley are
mountains as blue as the Alleghenies,
rising and falling in rugged volcanic
beauty way OF to the right and left.
The space between is spotted with
tall clumps of bamboo. On this, as q
background, the Filiptnos stand or
stoop, more picturesque even than
their surroundings.
There are hundreds Of brown
skinned women dressed in strange
clothing of which bright red forms
the principal color. ThaZ ham
Evening star., 1924-07-13

I see them going along, their heads
plows like those of the Scriptures.
There are also steel pIows that come
from the States.
The carabaos are ridden as well
as driven. After work, the men
usually ride them from the fields to
their homes, and 1 often see one in
pasture with browns skinned boy
or girl on its great fiat back. Every
where in the pastures they are rid
den by the birds, each having one or
more on its back. We have just
passed a carabao with a white crane
| roosting on it, and farther on is one
with a crow sitting close to its tail.
The crow is pecking at the buffalo.
| but the buffalo understands and does
| not object. He knows that the crow
| is a good fly catcher and is feeding
off the insects that are feeding on
| him.
But we have stopped at a station.
| The crowd is pouring in and out of
! third-class cars, and peddlers with all
| sorts of wares come to the windows.
| They are mostly women; they carry
the stuff in baskets resting on their
arms or on the tops of their heads.
| Here is girl with wooden bowl
as big as parasol turned upside
down. 1t sets on her head and is so
| balanced it stays there as she walks
along. 1t is filled with yellow fruit
| not unlike Bartlett pears. They are
ripe mangoes, and the odor makes our
mouths water.
Behind is boy with his arms full
of sugar cane. peeled and ready for
sucking, and at the next car window
Evening star., 1924-07-13
TOGO LAUDS FREE MANILA
abanese Schooby Declares PHILIPPINES More Ide6end Than
They Nou Haze They Would Slide Pacific Ocean,.
Editor. The Star, who think va
riously according to several things

Editor, The Star, who think va
riously according to several things.
~ EAREST SIR: Yestdy morn
ing am. our steamboat
Resolute sail into Manila
Bay with Admiral Dewey
expression & capture that town
without a srone. On every dock 4
platform there stand American ma
tives dressed in white to show purity
while with finger they point to sew
eral palaces distinctually labeled
American Bar and holla, I'VE give
up!'
/ hope this news have been cleo
trio wired to America with rapid
auickness, so that Congress will
know that Fillipine Problemb are set
tied from now till then.
Before 1 go lengthwise, Mr Editor,
l wish say something. Considerable
high languidge have been shot Off of
recently about this Question: What
to do with the Fillipines. Many gen.
erous Congressman with foreign
possessions in Idaho. lllannoys Il
Alabama are continuously yailing,
Let us give away those unhappy
Islands"
This are such simpal program that
IT resemble Russia.
But to who shall We donate those
PHILIPPINES, il anybody" require
Cousin Nogi with Edw. w. Box ex-
preston.
Il know that answer This from
me. Let them give it to Hashimura
Togo & Cousin Nogi. If U. s. Amer
lea require to be cheated why should
not you & me do it, thusly obtain
ing something free before Japan L.
England shall do it?'
No reply from Nogi, because we
are now in Manila, being received by
American natives with such happy
handshocks that it put star-spangIy
stripes all over my heart.
According to timetable of this
Around World Rubbernacking Ride
We are entitled to l y days for study
history & social customs of Filipino
Islands. But l were no soonly there
than l learn that this would be
donating too much time to history.
Therefore 1 go to Manila Club and
learn all about social customs while
getting acquainted with an estranged
Malay beverage entitled GinrickSha
Coolie. While doing SO L were enter
tained to lunching by 22s business
gentlemen who were graduated too
soonly from Stanford University for
reasons similar to those that broke
me off from my Alum Mater. Good
time enjoyed by all while telling
how bad boys at college invariably
grows up to be Presidents of u. s.
or some other great business enter
prize.
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who knows what?" report Hon
Doorkeep. I'm this land Of scrambled
patriotism you can look at a Revo-
luton long time & not know whethc or
it are going or coming
Thusly we part off from Malacanan
Palace with vacuum in our hearts.
But to add slight joyfulness to our
scenario we observe one swollen
house standing under the shade OF
the sheltering palm. This are resi-
dence of Hon. 1t. Wood. only boy in
history who are able to make
l000000$ by electricity at distance of
5000 miles. Even Steinmetz could not
do that. This show how speedy Sci
ence sprouts & grows in this heated
climate. ! should like stop over or
3 days and take some lessons from
this brite Wood boy. But could not
do because OF time table.
1 shall now tell you everything
about Fillipines which l observe on
Sundy, the day OF rest & revolution
in Manila.
When Sundy come, Hon. Filipino
put on his derby hat, his best over
halls & a pink lace coat embr roidered
Continued on Sixth PAGE
Evening star., 1924-07-13

, around over the straw to tread out
the grain.
Harvesting the rice is great
event in the Philippines. The whole
family OF the farmer engages in it. The
people get up long before daybreak
and come out to cut the ripe grain.
Some of the cutting is done with a
little knife like triangle. The rice
is clipped off stalk by stalk, the
knife being held in the palm of the
hand. Each district seems to have
it's own method
This threshing of the rice in NOR
tars reminds me of An incident that
created excitement in Gen. Joe
Wheeler's brigade. The pounding of
the pestle in the hollowed-out log
makes boom, boom, which in its
| irregularity sounds like the firing of
band of guerillas. At the time of
my stay the insurrectos were close
to our camp, and Capt. Smith of the
general staff came in and reported
that they were shooting nearby. We
went out, and it seemed as though
there was an engagement two miles
away. The shots came boom! boom,
boom. boomety boom! TIL little gen.
eral listened and his face brighten
ed, for, as you know, he dearly loved
fighting. He said:
"It sound to me as though they are
firing over at Bacalor. We had best
go to the lookout; they may need our
help
The lookout was q small tree near
the palace, at which a man with
pair of field glasses was stationed to
scan the country and guard against
surprises. Upon being asked as to
whether he saw anything, the man
said there were no troops in sight,
less than two miles. He gave us the
direction, and thereupon the general
and his staff started with a regiment
to attack the guerillas. They made
the two miles and then found that
the shots came not from muskets,
but from q half dozen farmers at
work pounding out rice. That was
all. The incident was afterward
known in wheeler's brigade as "the
battle Of the rice FOUNDERS"
We had all sorts OF scares during
those days. In one that occurred just
outside Of Manila near La Iona
Church the 25th Infantry was the
chief actor. The regiment was then
new to the Philippines. and the
soldiers on guard saw what they
thought were signals flashing here
and there through the darkness. They
shot at them. only to learn afterward
that they had been fighting the fire.
flies. They were given orders later
on to forward to the general in COM
mand a list Of their casualties
Nov compare the country about US
with that Of the United States.
There are no farmhouses or great
barns standing out on the fields The
straw stacks are all small. None
holds more than two tons. There is
practically nothing to be seen on the
landscape but vegetation and people.
We look in vain for cows. sheep. or
horses. The only animals visible are
the water -buffaloes, with here and
there a black raxor-backed pig. The
lwater-bunaioes are never out of our
sight. They craze by the roadside,
they wallow In every pond and mud
puddle, they drag great carts with
wheels a yard in diameter, or per-
haps rude sleds. The ground of the
| wet rice fields is soft and wheeled
yehiclee -cannotb be- used AsI write
Evening star., 1924-07-13

smooth by the bare feet of the
people. Other parts of the valley
have a slight slope, and some rise
gently from one platform to another
The country we have covered to-
day is dotted with groves and clumps
of bamboos, great punches, with
round stalks as high as a six-story
fiat, whose lean branches, adorned
with green feathers. quiver at every
passing breeze. There are few
houses out in the fields, and in most
cases they are hidden by the bam-
boos or bananas that shade them.
The roads are lined with bamboos
and the towns surrounded by them.
The people here do not live on the
farms, but in villages and the towns
are scattered along the roads just as
in France and Germany. Many OF
the farmers walk several miles to
their work every day. The roads are
often lined with houses, a single little
town stretching itself out for mile
or more on both sides of the road
way.
PUT before l go farther let me tell
you something of the changes
that have taken place since our occu-
patton in Luzon, the richest and
greatest of the Philippine Islands.
My first ride in the islands was over
this same railroad on which 1 am
writing. l had just landed in Manila
to write an account for the American
newspapers of conditions as they
were upon our taking possession.
Guerilla warfare was then going on
from the far north in Luzon to the
bottom of Mindanao, and we had
divisions of soldiers on every island.
One of the first men l met in the
Evening star., 1924-07-13
BY FRANK G. CARPENTER.
DAMORTIS. P. I.

bAMotSl lS, L. L.
r HAVE been riding all day
through one of the richest val
leys of Luzon, and am writing
this on the train. AS l look out
of the car window L see vast net
work of rice fields rising in gentle
terraces, one over the other. We
pass a village every few miles, the
thatched huts shining out of clumps
of bananas. There are carabaos and
ponies grazing everywhere in the
fields, and gangs of men and women
working the crops. Here and there
is a little patch of green corn and
now and then some acres of sugar
cane. The rest is all rice, rice, rice.
There are but few fences. 1 can look
over miles of level fields, now gray
after the harvest, but green where
the vegetation is sprouting through
the cutoff stalks.
Near the railroad there is no irri-
cation. The fields are small and
each is surrounded by little grass
grown walls to keep in the water.
But the water comes from the floods
of the rainy season, when it pours
for days and days. and at times al
most in streams. The rainfall in
parts of the valley is so great in
some years that il all the water that
drops in one place could be held
there it would cover the head OF the
average Filipino standing upon the
shoulders of his tallest brother. We
are in the hot season now, and every
thing is comparatively dry.
The walls that hold in the water
are about eight inches wide and per-
haps foot high. They form great
network of immense squares, making
the whole country look as though
1t were the molding field of
foundry. Each square is plot
ranging in size from a city lot to
an acre. On the tops of the walls is
grass spotted with flowers. AS the
water falls the walls form the paths
of the country. and some are worn
Evening star., 1924-07-13

Filipino Islands is so far away
from Minnysoda that they have not
even heard about Hon. Nolstead.
They do not even know that he is
dead. AS result of this tense ig-
norance saloons remains standing
with both eyes wide open. Brass
rails is used to stand on while Hon.
Barkeep require "Whachurze? with
out going to Jail, e. yet those Fill
lipines is asking for independence!
Goshes! If they got more Independ
ence than that they would slide into
the Pacifick Ocean.
X
GOONLY after arriving, Mr.. Editor
me & Nogi put on our ceremonial
pants and walk them hastily to Mala-
canaan Palace for see our dearie
friend, Gen. Len. Wood. In our h1pp
pocket we fetch two CD Letters of
Introduction, so Hon. Gen. Len would
not mistook us for some other dearie
friends he has forgotten. All way
along to that grandy Palace. stand
ing so sweetly on River Pasig. we
poke our brains for think some nice
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-23

rested on the girls thin, pale face. But he did not tell her how tired and wan she looked
 Nor did Mrs. Crosby when she led Marian up to the dainty room pre- pared for her. The warmth and light of the place caused the girl to utter an exclamation that was almost like a sob.
 How heavenly it is here!" she man. aged to say. And how kind you are"
 For the second time Constance's arms were about the lonely orphan.
 My dear," she said tenderly. "please feel that you are coming to a home where you are always welcome-you poor tired childn
 For moment Marian clung to her new friend. And in that moment she knew that a friendship was made that would last forever
 When Mrs. Crosby had advised her to lie down and rest for while be- fore dinner and had left her alone, Marian turned to the dressing table and saw for the first time large vase of dark crimson roses. There was no card
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-23
Social Calendar

The city mission board will hold their regular monthly meeting this morning at 10 o'clock in the Sunday school an- hex of the First Methodist church. The trustees are invited to be present as re- ports of the three institutions will be be made at this time.
 The sewing committee of the Junior league will meet this morning at 10 o'clock with Mrs. E. T. Brown, 9OS Twentieth street, south.
 The active and advisory boards of the Mercy Home will hold their bi- monthly meeting at the home Tuesday, September 23, at 10:30 a. m.
 The regular monthly business meet ing of the Methodist mission board will be held Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock ln the Sunday school annex of the First Methodist church.
 The executive board of the Birming- ham District Presbyterian Auxiliary will meet at the Blue Triangle club room Tuesday, September g at 10 80 o'clock. F7t1
 The St. Pauls School Improvement association will hold their first meeting of the scholastic year at the school on Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
 k
 The Vertas club will hold first meet ing of the year with Mrs. A. Gibson, 1131 Twenty-ninth street, north, on September 24 at Il a. m. Note the change of time and place.
 
 A business meeting of the Jefferson County League of Women Voters will be held on Tuesday afternoon at 2 80 in the parlOrs of the Hillman hotel. Much important business will come up for action, including amendments to thf constitution and several committee re ports, and it is hoped that there will be a large attendance.
 Prior to the league meeting, the reg ular monthly meeting of the executive board will take place, at 1 p. m., at headquarters. There will be no lunch con.
 The executive board of the Birming- ham District Presbyterian Auxiliary