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>ercans Find Hard Task Scheme Educating the Igoro

several hundred Igorot boys are
learning how to work and cultivate
the land after the most approved
blacksmithing. carpentering and all
the other trades that are valuable
to them in their home village or
town. They are learning something
about stock breeding. and at the
same time getting a simple, practical
education, which fits them for the
places they are to hold as the lead
ing men Of their districts. The Igo-
rcts have been skilled in carving for
many generations. They have shown
that they can do excellent work in
basketry. and the girls are learning
to weave and make lace.
X 4 x y
InF late years the Filipino govern
ment has been paying too much
attention to shirts and pants for the
Igorots, and too little to the right
education to At them for the places
they must hold in their own tribes in
the future.
The Christian Fflipinos. who make
up eight-ninths or more Of the popu-
lation of these islands. resent the fact
that the civilization Of their nation
has been more or less misrepresented
by the photographs OF these almost
nude tribesmen of the mountains.
1t Is natural for the traveller to
write Of the bizarre and the strange.
In discussing the Chinese, for in.
stance, he is apt to emphasize the
fact that some Of them live on rice
and rats. and that they have button
hole eyes and. bound feet rather than
strongest nations on earth and have
q civilization that antedates ours by
50 centuries or more.
The Filipinos feel that the United
States got wrong idea OF them from
the exhibition Of the savage tribes
only at our worlds fairs. and that
the Christian Filipino, who is q civil
ised man. is hardly Appreciated by
US. They want to stop such misrep-
resentation, and they are now going
to the extreme in trying to prevent
the publication OF pictures Of the
non- Christian tribes as they really
are in the wilds and have been there
from time immemorial. They have
withdrawn from publication the semi
nude photographs OF the Bureau of
Science. and want nothing to go out
from here showing people not fully
clad.
II We held the same views as to
the various peoples OF the United
States, we should have to show our
red Indians only in swallow-tail coats
and white neckties, and shoe the
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houses to take the place of the
shacks built upon posts that they
have in their villages and are being
taught how to live in a clean and
sanitary way.
During my stay l have visited all
parts Of the camp. chatting the while
with Maj. Garfinkle. He speaks in
the highest terms Of the Igorots, say
ing that they make excellent soldiers
and are quick to learn and take up
things.
When the Igorot first comes to the
camp he is clad only in q striped
homespun cloth about ten inches
wide and two yards long. This is
wrapped around the waist. drawn
between the legs and tied at the
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'resents a Photob1ay

doorstep-it's snowing-she's fallen
asleep.
WHATS this place saloon, |
W guess-men talking at little Ia
bles-aren't they d tough-lookins
lot? See. that ones got revolver
why, it's Edward the Roo-talking
with two men-he's giving them
money-what is this?
Give US a hundred apiece and well
do it,
It's in the street again-Edward
and one Of the two toughs-theyve
got little black masks on-they're
sneakiEg up to Madeline where she
sleeps-they've got big motor
drawn up beside them-look. they've
grabbed hold of Madefine-theyr
lifting her into the motor-help:
Stop. Aren't there any police yes.
yes, there's man who sees it-by
Geei It's John. John Holdfast-grab
them. John-pshawl They've jumped
into the motor, they're OF.
Where is it now oh. yes-its the
police station again--thats John; he's
telling them about it-he's all out of
breath-look, that head man. the big
fellow, he's giving orders.
Inspector Fordyce. take your big
gest car and ten men. If you over
take them, shoot and shoot to kill
Hoorah. Isn't il great-hurry.
Don't lose a minute-see them all
buckling on revolvers-get at il.
at
Look, look. it's motor-fuil
speed down the street-look at the
houses fly past-it's the motor with
the thugs-here comes another-my.
It's just flying-it's full of police
there's John in front-F1ick,
Over bridge-out in the country
early daylight-the first motors
slackened. it stops-hoorah, It's
broken down-hoorah. The police,
The police. All ten of them in their
big car-see them jumping out-see
them pile into the thugs! Down with
them; paste their heads off, Shoot
them, Kill them. Isn't it great
isn't it educative-that's the Roo
Edward-with John at his throat
choke him. Throttle him,
That's Madeline-she's unbound
and she's talking; say. isn't she just
real pretty when she smiles?
Yes, John, 1 have learned that /
was wrong to put my art before your
love. I will marry You as soon as
you like
Flick, flick.
What pretty music, Ding. Dong.
Ding. Dong. Isn't it soft and sweet
like wedding bells. It's a little
church up in the country-see all the
people lined up-oh, there's Madeline
in q long white veil. Isn't she just
sweet, And John
Flick. flack, flick, fiack.
"Ckranian troops on the march
What: I don't seem to understand.
Anyway. / guess it's all right to go
now. Other people are going
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front SO that the ends of the cloth
form little aprons hanging down in
front and in back. He usually has
in addition a travelling bag of about
the same shape and size as the hand
bags that American girls carry. 1t
has a ring at the top, and this is
tied to the loin cloth SO that the bag
rests on the small of the back like
a hustle.
When the Igorot first comes to the
camp he has long hair and is a bit
frowsy. The Army cleans him up,
cuts his hair, fixes his finger nails,
put clothes on him, gives him a feed
and twentyfour hours later you
could not recognize the naked savage
he was when he enlisted.
AS a soldier he learns many things
He is taught how to fix a window
or door, to lay up stones, to shoe a
horse, to repair a wagon, and how
to drive mules. AS he continues in
the service. his education goes on
He learns how to build a house; and
when after three years he goes home
he puts up a dwelling for his family
of the same sort as he had here at
he is given some schooling, and his
children learn a great deal.
Maj. Gaffinkel speaks highly of
the intelligence. honesty and COM
mon decency of the Igorots. He says
they are truthful, honest and above
board. They always call a spade a
spade. They will look you in the
eye and answer you courteously.
truthfully and as correctly as they
can.
The men 1 have seen are fine, up0
standing fellows who speak English
fairly we'll. They are not over
friendly with the Christian Filipinos,
whom they fear. They want to be
governed by their own chiefs IL they
are not governed by the Americans,
and do not hesitate to say they do
not want independence. AS it is now,
all the Christian tribes are ruled
almost directly by the governor
general OF the island. Their prov
inces are administered more like our
former territories, the officers of
WHICH were appointed from Wash
ington.
asked Maj. Garfinkle as to the
practice of head hunting. He tells
me it is to a certain extent based on
customs similar to those Of old days
in the Tennessee mountains. where
feuds between families were Of long
standing and resulted often in kill
ings. When two men of different
Igorot clans get into q scrap and one
is killed the family OF the killer has
to pay, ANA tho killing goes on. The
usual weapon Is spear. and the
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bare pickaninnies Of the South with
patent leather.
In Baguio, which is near Camp
John Hay, the Igorot school children
are not allowed to go to school clad
only in the simple geestring that they
wear at home, and when the IEorot
soldiers Of Camp John Hay were sent
not long ago to take part in a pro-
cession at Manila the politicos were
horriied to fnd that they came bare
footed and barelegGed, with a coat
only reaching half way down the
thigh. Now, by the order Of the gov
eminent, these soldiers are clad in
the uniform OF our Army, and they
climb the mountain trails in clumsy
shoes Of coarse cowhide.
This camp Is today one OF the
great civilizing forces among the
savage tribes Of the mountains. Its
troops consist OF Filipinos, Ameri-
cans and Igorots. but the two COM
panies Of the latter have with them
their families. including not only their
wives and children, but also their
parents, grandparents, uncles and
cousins. The Igorot likes to have his
people with him, and 4 large part Of
the community always goes with the
soldier. The government is taking
advantage Of this custom to teach
the Igorots how to live more COM
fortably than they have in the past.
In the first place, the camp itself is
great object lesson. 1t is a land
scape garden, kept up like the
grounds Of the suburban home of a
multi i-millionaire. ! doubt II there
Is a more interesting or more beauti-
full camp In all the three and 4 half
million square miles over which floats
the American flag
We have here on the roof Of the
hundred acres Of hill and hollow,
spotted with buildings Of one kind or
another, We are almost as high up
As the top Of Mount Washington, and
the vegetation is that Of the semi
tropical zone. There are tall pines
and ha1awoods. and fern trees as
high as one-story cottage. There
10 an Italian sunken garden, in the
midst OF which is a fountain playing
over the statue Of an Igorot woman
who sits on q pedestal, and q golf
course that would be considered
treasure by any country club Of the
States. There is a wonderful open
air theatef. with an arena as big as
that Of the old Roman one at Aries,
In south France. It has 4 concrete
stage, surrounding tree in the CEN
ter, and the seats are terraces with
ratings OF growing semi.tropical
flowers.
The camp has hundreds Of acres Of
green lawns, miles of iine roadways,
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relic to be used in certain ceremonies.
the object of which is to insure good
crops for the season. There is Il
war dance connected with this cele-
bration, in which the head is placed
in the center of the dancing ring
and the warriors and their women,
almost nude, circle around singing
out their victorious cries. I saw a
dance of this kind not far from Camp
John Hay. in which an imitation head
was used instead of the real article
1t was weird to the extreme.
The dances l have seen were grace
full. The men threw their arms back
and forth; they turned and swung
this way and that, each seemingly
independent of the others, but all in
harmony that was surprising. Al
times they tossed their hands into
the air. and the movement of the
arms seemed to be quite as important
a part of the dance as that of the
feet. Now they jumped up and down,
making me think of the dances OF
Russia Or those of the Eskimos. and
now swung back and forth. their long
finely woven loin cloths Tapping
against their bare legs. Their ma
hogany skins shone like varnish
under the fire.
Some Of the head hunting dances
were especially interesting. The peo-
pie went through the motions of kill
ing and taking the heads, and with
a skull of papier mache, its horrid
stump painted blood red. danced
around in IL ring singing the song
of the head hunter
l remember one scene that was an
nounccd as the war dance Of the Ifu-
gaos. in which we had a battle right
under our eyes. The savages were
armed with shields and spears and
they fought to the sounds of the
brass gongs. Their shields clanked
together. They had knives that
flashed in the light of .the fire. I
have seen many a fencing match on
the stage, but none that showed more
action and determination to kill.
The Igorots are short. The women
seen in the market hardly reached
to my shoulder, and the men were
only a half foot higher The young
girls are straight and plump and
some not unbeautiful Their hands
and feet are small and delicately
made. The older women are. to say
the least. plain. Their hard work
leaves many wrinkles. and a. 35 they
seem to be 60. Those in the market
are well covered. They wear jackets
that reach to the waist, and their
skirts are blue and white cotton
strips wrapped tightly around the
hips and thighs. and falling to their
bare brown calves.
Copyright. 1924, Carpenters World TravSh.)
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BY FRANK G. CARPENTER.

Camp John Hay. Mountain Province, p. 7.
Y HAVE come here to Camp John
Hay in the mountainous land Of
the head-hunters to tell you
something of how Uncle Sam is
civilizing the pagans. OF ali the
Filipinos, there Is about one in every
nine who does not believe in the
Christian religion: and right here in
northern Luzon are several hundred
thousand people belonging to tribes
whose ideas of God. man and the
universe are far different from ours.
These people have their own laws
and their own customs and their re-
ligions mean as much to them as
your faith does to you. In governing
them, the most careful regard has to
pe taken as to what they believe and
what their people have believed from
time imrlemoria!.
The danger in establishing schools
founded upon our Christian civiliza-
ton is that the teaching often con-
fiGtS with their traditions, and just
now a wave Of opposition is spread.
ing over this part OF the country,
leading to the withdrawal Of the
ISorot and other children from the
schools because the old men think
such Institutions destructive Of the
faith Of their forefathers and Of what
they believe to be right. For this
reason thousands have left the schools
and / am told confidentially that
many OF those receiving instruction
are doing so only because the Philip
pine constabulary or police compels
the children to go.
1t is now eight or nine years since
our Government planned a set OF
farm schools for this region. 1t did
not expect to turn these naked peo-
ple, whose chief attire was a gee
string for the men and a cloth wrap
ped around the loins for the women,
into q people OF white collars ana
long skirts. It planned a certain
number of Agricultural schools for
each district, and the idea was to
prepare the people to work out their
own destiny on their own lands and
to give them such . practical educa-
tion as would enable them to do 50.
Then came into power q COVER
nor 'who knew not Joseph" and the
result Is a large number OF schools
~:.h sE1ristian Filipino teachers mod
eied after q system, which, whetner
rightly selected or not. is angering
the people.
The old scheme was largely in
dustrial It was much like the farm
scheol that have described in the
TrtaIe2A Valley not far from whore
! am now writing. In that school,
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and the barracks where the Igorots
live are comfortable beyond anything
they have at home. The soldiers have
an electric plant, a cold-storage plant,
shops of all kinds, a commissary
store and the full equipment Of a
settled community.
x X + X
TN connection with this. Maj. Adam
! darflnkel. the commander of the
post, who had charge of the keeping
order in the mountain province. has
established an Igorot village, where
these former sayages are learning
how to improve living conditions
Here under government direct3en
they have put up comfortable frame
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THEREFORE, We go into that I'm
perial Mikado Hotel which stand
there looking sort of Aztec like Pasa-
dena, Cal. Straightly up to desk we
march--and what see there? BY
golly, standing with his thumb on
register there stood Jo. that reformed
bootblacker to which Arthur kicka-
hajama had gave US Letter of In
Producing,
please to meet you and be enter
tanned" holla me & Nogi in unicorn.
poking that fatal Letter at him.
He read with curio eyes.
so pleasant to have YOU here in
our midst" he dictate with ~ bows,
Samurai salute. 81 can give you room
& bath, light extra, for IL yen pr
nightly. Please pay in advance &
the place is yours as long as you
behav correctly
But dearie social friend ! man
ipulate. Il have wandered through
all hotels, world over-America plan,
Europe plan & etc-yet nevermore
before was / charged pay in advance
before going to bed
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be waiting for US. With boiled heels
& weery elbows of finally it got
night. and 1 think brilliantly that
maybe We should GO to Imperial Mi
kado Hotel for slight room & bath.
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! OLD-HOME WEEK IN Japan
Wallace Letters of Schoob Reports W<
Discovery of Too Many Togos in Oriental Emtre.

q To Editor The Star, who think he
got all the HISTORICAL Dotta about
my birth and ancestry:
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BY JOHN T. ROWLAND.

HHE Labrador coast runs nearly
north and south for 500 miles,
and from its northern end at
Cape Chidley the distance Is
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Thmty-Foot Motor Boat Fights Sea and Ice on Labra

For his profession as a writer
Of sea stories-of actual expert
ence, such as related here, as well
as imaginative-John r. Rowland
is especially well equipped, since
much of his life. beginning with
his college days, has been spent in
Knocking about in boats" Be
sides the hazardous voyage de-
scribed in this article, he has
cruised In Alaskan waters, and
has made many trips in sailing
vessels to DR.. GrenfelIs mission
in Labrador.
{ During the World War Mr..
Rowland served as a watch off1cer
on one of the American destroy
ers operating about the British
Isles and the coast of France. He
had also engaged in the shipping
business, managing a four-masted
schooner plying to the West
Indies, on which he made one voy-
age as mate. Like true ro-
mantle, Mr.. Rowland prefers SAIL
Ing vessels to steam or power
boats. resorting to the use of the
latter only when sailing is I'M
practicable.
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this time that we had missed the is
lands clean, when all at once they
fairly burst out of the fog dead
the wheel and slapped his thigh.
my. that's a fine piece of naviga-
ton. sir, what wi the currents and
ALL" he sang out
were what had saved the day. We
came to anchor in a lovely little
sheltered nook and in less than an
hour the worst gale of the season
was snorting through the Daryrs
shrouds.
IRON this point northward to Cape
Chidley DaryPs progress con-
sisted of daily battles against head
winds and tumbling seas. She was
an able little craft and was never in
any particular danger so long as she
had sea room, but when we drew in
on land and began hunting for
harbor some ticklish moments de-
veloped.
On one occasion the steering gear
was carried away just when we were
running through a narrow channel
among the reefs. Bob saved the ship
and our lives by steering her with a
stilson wrench clamped to the little
brass pipe which was her rudder
head. To do this he had to crawl in
head first under the deck in the stern.
In that position, Of course, he could
see nothing, so George squatted be-
side him and passed along my di-
rections how to steer. We got
through all right and came to anchor
without mishap.
But our last day on the Labrador
coast was really the best of the lot.
Here the chart was quite useless, but
q fisherman who had made several
voyages down that way had given me
4 good description of guiding marks
in the way Of islands and capes. We
passed several of these and had
raised Chidley Island-the northern
most island of Labrador-when the
inevitable fog shut in. I decided 1t
"Oul0 Oc J3St 40 "Sii ~ NoAA - - ~'
and run for port. George. as usual,
was steering and Bob and I were sit
ting on deck discussing the chances
Of getting a shot at a bear next day
IL the weather cleared. when all at
once we found ourselves rushing
broadside on toward a reef over
which the sea fairly boiled.
This was such an uncanny phe-
nomenon that for a moment l could
ouly point at the reef and cape
George turned and saw 1t and his
hands fell from the wheel. Then al
together we realized what 1t meant
a strong current was sweeping Dairy
bodily in toward the land. George
swung her around and Bob opened
| his motor up wide. Then began one
| Of the grimmest races I have ever
seen, while to all appearances we
stood still in one spot with the water
| racing along our sides and that rect
| frothing and foaming scarcely a hun.
dred feet behind our stern.
Little by little Daryl gained ir
her desperate tussel with the eur.
rent-and then another reef appeared
further along. The poor little boat
pounded ahead with her motor fairly
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only shelter for some distance in
either direction.
AS usual the weather was thick-a
drizzling fog with promise OF wind of
the ice fields out to sea-and the af-
ternoon was nearly spent When we
had run our distance by log and
should have been close to the island
1 suddenly discovered that 1 had
made bad error in plotting the
course. / went forward and sat
down on the cabin trunk trying anx-
iously to devise some way to rectify
the mistake without making it ap-
parent to all hands, for I was afraid
they would lose faith in my naviga-
tion If they knew.
The situation was not pleasant. 1t
looked to me as tnough the only
thing to do would be to keep on un-
til dark and then heave-to and pray
for a calm night. Even this had its
drawbacks, for the glass had been
falling all afternoon and there was a
lot of drift ice about. I sat staring
into the mist ahead, convinced by
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groaning, and all along on our port
quarter reef after reef raised its
ugly head out of the fog. Our navi-
cation. of course, was "ail out NO
one could tell where this current
might have borne Us, and. Ito make
matters worse, the fog th1ckeneo ana
1t began to grow dark.
For perhaps half an hour we strug-
gled on, sometimes missing boilers
by q margin of feet, and all the time
fighting to get away from that shore
with its terrible thrush of water
Suddenly, to. our dismay, we saw the
dark loom of land right ahead. L
yelled at Bob to back his engine and
jumped forward to let go an anchor.
Next instant we shot out OF the fog
and found ourselves behind low.
shelving point of rocks in harbor
that seemed literally made to order.
We anchored without even the for
mality of a sounding! Next morning.
when 1t cleared, / found that we had
been sucked up into Joksut Inlet,
long, deep ford which runs back into
the interior, where it widens to form
sea loch.
Since the tide rises and falls there
through a range of some 20 feet. a
vast quantity of water rushes
through the mouth of the Joksut on
every tide. All night long it roared
against its rocky shores like the
thunder of a hundred elevated trains,
but we were safe and snug in our
little harbor behind the point. z
Next day we fell in with the Hud-
son Bay Company's supply ship, Pei
lean, on her yearly pilgrimage into
the bay. The meeting was oppor
tune, for we learned from her mas
ter that our orders had been changed
without our knowledge and that the
new post to which the Daryl was as
signed would not be at Stuarts Bay.
whittier we were bound, but at quite
a different point some 200 miles far
ther west We proceeded up Hud-
son Strait in company with the Pel-
ican and arrived at our destination
a week later.
Daryl had arrived now at the north
end of the mainland of North Amer
ics, on the Atlantic coast. This was
slightly farther north than the tip
of Cape Farewell, Greenland, and. to
the best of my belief, the farthest
that such a craft as ours, under her
own power, had ever ventured along
that desolate coast
Copyright, 1924
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Odors Of Metals.

MANY, persons are sensitive to the
characteristic odors OF metals:
others deny that metals possess any
odors at all and support their opinion
with the assertion that no substance
can possess an odor which does not
give of by volitilization invisible
floating particles
d A series OF experiments has been
made, regarded as proving the ex-
istence OF odors ernanating from all
metals AT ordinary temperatures
these odors are. in many cases, al
most irnperceptible. But they be-
come stronger when the metal is
heated. Yet, IL the heating is con-
tinued for long time, the odor dis
appears. The conclusion has been
reached that every metal produces
continuously q gaseous matter, COM
posed not of the atoms OF the metal.
but of a product of their chemical
Scientists have sue
ceeded even in isolating and confin-
ing In a vase the odorous emanation
from q metal