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Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1948-06-01
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En+erfuin Consul
Ramirez at Dinner

Before a large basket center
piece of pretty red roses, Hon.
Pedro A. Ramirez, Philippine Con-
sui in the Pacific Northwest, sat
down on an informal dinner re-
Gently staged in his honor, by
some of the more festive crew of
the USAT General Leroy Eltinge.
The frolicsome sponsors are men,
beers of the Fraternal Order of the
Caballeros de Dimas-Al8ng, Inc.
The place was the popular eatery,
the Kiang Nam Cafe, 7th and King.
More than half hundred prom
inent people, mostly civic, social
and fraternal leaders of the COM
munity, attended Mr.. and Mrs.
Pic De Cano, the former a high
ranking dignitary in the brother
hood afore mentioned, acted as
host and hostess for his grateful
fellow members. The delightful
satisfying dinner was followed by
short program. Mr.. EustaQuio P.
Monico was the Master of Cere-
monies, and 1st Asst. Steward Tel
|. Baylor took the task of present
ing the Queen, Anita l, and the
two Queen Contest candidates, the
Misses Beverly Corpuz and Ellen
Robertson, and others. The main
part of the program was the il
Eliminating speech delivered by the
guest of honor, Hon. Pedro A,
Ramirez.
Some of those present were Mr..
and Mrs. Salvador Zamora and
Mr.. and Mrs. Jose Zalazar and son,
of the consulate staff; Mr.. and
Mrs. Pete G. Lyons. Chief Stew
ard, Special Division, SEPE; Mr..
Myron w. Hutchins, Chief Steward
of the USAT Gen. Leroy Eltinge,
Misses Mary Sullivan and Esther
Boulleau, Stewardesses; Mr.. and
Mrs Victor VanHee; Engineer
Jack Enrico; Mr.. and Mrs Ale
jandro @. Langley; Mr.. and Mrs.
Vincent Pilien; Editor and Publish.
err V. A. Velasco; the Messrs. Sal
vador D. Elleccion, Abelardo S.
Cruz, Teodolo A. Ranjo, Florentino
F. Saldivar. Narciso Della, Ar
senio D. Election, Marcelino Di-
vina, Lorenzo p. Oreiro, and many
others.
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1948-06-01
Requlu Stresses Need For
Closer Understanding Among
Countries Of Common Culture

Speech of General Roberto Regaa before the Pan
American Association, lnc of Oakland at Clairmont Hotel
(Oakland), May 49, 1913.
MI. Chairman, Members of the Consular Corps, Dstn-
gushed Guests Members of the Pan American Asso
citation:
consider distinct and great honor for the young Re
public Philippines to be elected member of the
Association of the East Bay On behalf
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1948-06-01
Signal Honor

Let this occasion be remembered
not only as the night you paid sig
nal honor to the Republic of the
Philippines. Rather let this be
night of resolution and rededica-
ton to the concept which the great
Franklin d. Roosevelt and Cordell
Hull so aptly called the Good
Neighbor Policy" And as you now
stretch your warm handshake to
my people across the Pacific, let
this mark the beginning of cru
SADIE to spread the gospel OF good
neighborliness to other lands and
climes so that all the peoples OF
the world may forever live in an
atmosphere of freedom. peace and
security.
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1948-06-01

a big cigar and a broad smile
in Seattle? Questions like this have
often been fired at this writer and,
to his embarrassment, has always
been at loss to give complete
and satisfactory answer
| have not been to the Seattle
Philippine Consulate often, myself,
and have not formally met more
than two of the distinguished peo-
pie that now compose the per-
sonnet of this dignif1ed office. But
the public must know and the pub
lie (Filipino public) is used to
asking the Forum editors any ques-
ton that pops up in its mind. We
just have to supply the answer.
Consul Interviewed
So up to the 18th floor of the
Smith Tower l hurried and re-
quested Consul Pedro G.. Ramirez,
who opened the Seattle Philippine
Consulate on February "a, 194S and
who is still headman of the con-
sulate outfit, to give me a few
notes on his colleagues and/or
subordinates.
Here we have it. Not an ex-
haustive biographical sketch of
each personality = readers nova
days want the whole thing in a
nutshell, that is why we have so
many "digests" of reading matter
but just line or two on each per-
son that any visitor is likely to en-
counter in the three-room office of
the Philippine Consulate.
Consul Ramirez
Starting with the headman-
Hon. Pedro G. Ramirez is the Phil
ippine Consul in Seattle. Immedi-
ately prior to his appointment to
Seattle he was consul in Hawaii.
Lawyer by education. Consul RAM
irez has held many government
positions in the Philippines. Mar
ried and has two daughters.
Trade Assistant
Mr.. Salvador G. Zamora is the
trade assistant in the consulate.
He has to his credit Is years of
faithful service in the Philippine
Notiono1 Don1y &c o,tditor IIo ig n
graduate in business administra-
ton of the University of the Phil
ippines.
Secretary of the Consulate
Mr.. Juan Athena is secretary of
the consulate. Before coming over,
he was a senior in business ad-
ministration in a Manila university.
He worked for short time at the
Philippine Consulate-General in
Honolulu prior to coming to Sc
attic.
Clerks
Mr.. Jose Salazar is a clerk in the
consulate. Mr.. Salazar had been a
debate stenographer in the Con-
gress of the Philippines, and has
been in government payroll for ten
years.
Mr.. Juan Romero is also a clerk
in the consulate. Altho an old-timer
} oiexn Ovor Tue0u.
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1948-06-01


on your part and for especially
dedicating this event as Philip
pines Night. | am sure that your
action will go long way toward
further cementing the historic and
cultural ties that bind the Philip
pines with the Pan American coun-
tries.
United Nations Charter
Three years ago when the repre-
sentatives of the 55 nations met at
San Francisco for the purpose of
shaping a new world organization,
they embodied in the United Ma
tions Charter a provision which
recognizes regional arrangements
as consistent with the general pat
tern of international order. To
night we are witnessing another
step toward the strengthening of
that international order as you
welcome within your midst another
nation having similar cultural back
ground and political theology.
This unique occasion is indeed
of historic and unprecedented sig
nificance 1t is the first time that
the Philippines has been elected to
membership in any Pan American
organization. In taking this impor-
tant step, the members of the Pan
American Association have merely
proved their keen perception of the
forces that have brought about so
many sweeping changes in the in
ternational panorama today. Be-
cause the Philippines and the Pan
American countries share COM
mon tradition, and kindred cul-
tural and historical background, it
can be truly said that our country
today is as close a neighbor of the
United States as any of the Latin
American nations to the South.
Furthermore, the modern technolo-
gical conquests of time and space
has brought about the physical
proximity of the Philippines with
the United States and the other
Pan American countries.
Hispanic influences
Your action in making the Phil
ippines part of your organization
has given further confirmation to
historical development which has
inexorably tied the Philippines
with the Pan American countries.
When in 1921, Magellans fleet cir
COMMUNICATED the world and there
by paved the way to further Span
ish conquests, he first brought his
torical notice to that string of 1000
islands across the Pacific which
were later named after Philip II
islands lie the hallowed remains of
Ferdinand Magellan, the first man
to forge the tie between the west
ern world and the Philippines. For
hundreds of years the fabulous
galleons further strengthened that
link between Acapulco and Manila
so that you could travel to the re-
hottest hooks of the Philippines
and see the same magnificent
monuments to Christian religion
and Hispanic influences which you
would notice if you travel south
along California's FL Canine Real
and along all the other highways
and byways of the Latin American
countries In other words, my
friends, it can be truly said that
in mind and soul and in tradition
the Philippines belongs to the Pan
American union.
Little America in the Orient
The Philippines represents hap
by mixture of the varied elements
which today are found only sep
arately in the different countries
of the Pan Americas. But the
Philippines also is as American 10
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1948-06-01
People Inquire on Who Is Who
In Philippine Consulate S+off
BY w. r.

Who that look at the Philippine Consulate? Who
small fellow of the desks? Who the with
big cigar and broad smile? Who is the Filipino consul
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1948-06-01
Close Understanding

The qualifications of the crisis
are beyond the province of my talk
this evening, but | believe II Is
pertinent for me to emphasize the
need for closer understanding and
closer union among the countries
whose common tradition, culture
and background, and whose demo
cratic way of life are confronted
with a common danger. Mantle
nance of a lasting peace should De
a matter of constant vigilance on
the part of each one of us, and
unless we exercise that vigilance
with high degree of Christian
charity, our generation and the
generations after us may live un-
der the constant threat of destrue-
ton in this atomic age,
Ladies and gentlemen, | wish to
compliment you for your timely
and energetic campaign to bring
together not only the countries and
peoples contiguous to the western
continents but also those of the
Philippines who are bound to you
by mutually of material, spiritual,
cultural and political interests and
ideals. | salute you, and offer you
the greetings of my people and
our pledge to make this Pan Amer
lean movement pay off in terms OF
better understanding among ma
tions and an enduring peace for us
and for the coming generation.
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1948-06-01

in this city Mr.. Romero is not well
known among the many Filipinos
in this city. He is a graduate of
Idaho University and has worked
in farms and canneries for a good
number of years until he was dis
covered by his friend Vice Consul
]. c. Dionisio and put on the tenn
porary Seattle Philippine Consulate
payroll before Mr.. Ramirez arrived
and opened the real Mccoy in
February last.
"New Look"
Now comes the new look" at
the consulate, Last but not least,
Miss Maria Luis Gomez, assistant.
She is the latest addition TO the
fast growing personnel of the
Philippine consulate. Young, sweet
and brilliant, Miss Gomez is law
graduate of the University of the
Philippines and member of the
Philippine Bar.
On my way out, l met Pete Fill
area, president of the Filipino
Community of Seattle, who &C
costed me with this question:
How do you like the new girl at
the consulate?" | answered back:
she is too good for me-"
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1948-06-01

the Filipino people have readily
adapted themselves to the many
American ways, and many of our
people have learned to speak and
write the English language, so that
today the Philippines is the third
largest English speaking country
in the world. Some travellers even
politically say that the Philippines
is Little America in the Orient. In
other words, my friends, where &c
tual union among the English
speaking American nations on the
one hand and the Spanish speak
ing Latin American countries on
the other still remains one of the
detectives of the Pan American
movement, it can be said cate
gorically that this factor toward
Pan American unity already exists
in the Philippines today.
Aside from the many links be-
tween your countries and mine is
still an all-important factor that
makes the membership of the
Philippines into the Pan American
Association one of truly great sig
nificance. | have reference to the
threatening clouds that seem to be
progressively darkening the inter
national horizon from day to day,
If we are to believe many analysts
and writer's of contemporary
events, we cannot but help being
disturbed by the thought of an
other impending conflict which
could very we'll be more dlsas-
trous than the last world war,
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1948-06-01

The Filipino Tennis Club rattle
held June at the Finnish Hall
was a huge success, according to
Juanita Garcia, secretary. The Car
cia sisters beverly and Juanita)
sold $500 worth of tickets.
Eloise Castro and Patricia Pars-
ton won the Miss Philippines"
and Miss America" honors re-
spectively at this years queen con-
test sponsored by the Filipino
Community of Bremerton. Both
will reign over the independence
Day celebration in the Navy Yard
town under the auspices of the
Filipino Community of Bremerton.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-05

strikes, both in intent and effect,
would be sabotage SO we
would have to prevent them"
More, the report says: Civil
rights of all kinds would take an
awful beating. of course. 49,"
WITH the bankers and gen.
erals running the government,
the answer of big business to an
inevitably sleeper initiation would,
of course, be directed against
workers pay envelopes. You
would have to chop directly into
income," Business Week fore
casts.
Another war now" big bust
ness says as it pushes us toward
another war, would add up TO d
police job" Ruling out premium
wages as rewards" for workers
in the planned war economy. the
report cody declares: This time
there would be nothing left but
the whip"
3 +
WILL American organized
workers accept that pattern? Big
business thinks it has the an
swers: use of the Hartley
law UP to the hilt; kill the 8-hour
day, 40-hour week and overtime
pay guaranteed in the Wage Hour
law, divide the workers and bust
their unions by building up the
red scare; brighten the people
and destroy free speech, free as
sembly, free press and free
thought by passage of laws like
the Mundt "subversivesactivities"
bill. Clubs, whips, chains, con-
centration camps-that's the pat
tern.
II happened in Germany. 1t
IS happening here. How do we
stop il? We stand united in our
unions. We support the Wallace
Taylor ticket and every candidate
pledged to peace. against repres-
sion.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-05
By Mr.. MUNDG

lister shall be known as the
Register of Communist Organ
iZations.' I"
Section 10 makes it "unlaw-
full for any individual to become
or remain member of any
organization if there is in
effect a final order of the At
torney General requiring such
organization to register under
Section 8 of this act as a Com
nntHnist political organization
= = =
Section IL makes it a crime
TO send through the mails "any
publication which is intended to
be, or which it is REASON
ABLE TO BELIEVE is intended
to be, circulated or disseminated
among two or more persons"
unless it is marked: Dissent
mated by. ......., a communist
organization" Radio broadcasts
must also be identified in the
same fashion.
Section IL denies deduction
for Federal income tax pur-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-05

|unist political organization,
|lowing that the organization
a communist political organ
|ation to make applica-
|on for a passport, or the re-
kwal of a passport. !. :"
Section 8 makes it necessary
nder the law for leach COM
unist political organization
I'D each communist-front or
Imitation" and "ANY ORGAN
kATION REQUIRED, BY THE
|INAL ORDER OF THE AT
|ORNEY GENERAL" to regis
|r with the Attorney General
ithin 100 days of the enact
lent of the Mundt Bill, the
hrne of the organization, the
hnes and addresses of its
|embers, and am accounting of
Il its financial resources.
= .
Section 8 gives powers to the
|ttorney General to keep and
|aintain in the Department of
Justice a register of all organ
Fations which are registered
|nder Section 8, and such reg
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-05
MILITARY HocwAsH abo,

a quick and "easy" air victory
with atom bombs over the Soviet
Union is brushed aside by the
big business magazine as pipe
dream. Such war, whatever it's
outcome, Business Week says,
would take years"
AT present prices this kind of
mobilization would require a
military budget of about $3.50
billion a year. making no allow
ances for the initiation that would
go along with the war program.
the report points out. 1t would
require tighter controls. regu-
lated by a military big business
government more powerful than
anything this country saw dur
ing the last war. First and fore
most 10 be tied in the strait
jacket of government controls
are workers and their unions.
THE report is very clear and
specific on this point: 'sWe
couldn't fight another war with
out debating to everyone where
to work, what to do, what to get
paid for it s. living standards
would have to go down, not up"
Big business plans Labor con-
troll pattern" with a national
service system" for both workers
and soldiers.
Here is the naked truth,
out ia1 the open, spoke
by big business itself in this re-
port; they say: Another thing
we'd have to do, that was not
done in World War II, is fatty to
outlaw strikes, treat Indictment
to strike as treason. -. Such
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-05

poses" and exemption from
Federal income tax" to any or
ganization registered under Sec
ton 8.
Section Is gives broad and
dictatorial powers to one man
the Attorney General of the
United States. Under this sec
ton the. Attorney General may
himself determine whether an
organization is communist or a
"communist-front." He is given
the power to "hold hearings,
administer oaths =. examine
witnesses may require by
subpoena the attendance and
testimony of witnesses In
case of disobedience to a sub
pena the Attorney General may
invoke the aid of any court of
the United States +. any fail
ure to obey such order of the
court may be punished by such
court as contempt thereof"
Section IL declares that the
courts shall have :. power to
affirm or set aside the order of
the Attorney General" in iden-
tifying organizations as COM
muniSt or "communist-fron
The section states that "the
findings off the Attorney Cen
eral as to the facts, if supported
by the preponderance of evil
dence, shall be conclusive"
Section Is is the clincher.
This section sets up "a fine of
not less than $4,000 and not
more than $4,000" for any per-
son failing to register under
Section 8 if the bill.
Officers of such organizations
are punishable by fine of not
less than $1,000 and not more
Than $4,000. or imprisonment
for not less than two years and
not more than five years. or
both such fine and inprison-
menf.
In other words, persons fail
ing to register are punishable
by fine and Imprisonment, but
persons who DO REGISTER are
admitting to membership in an
organization-by the bills def
nition-which is seeking to es-
tablish communist totalitarian
dictatorship" and are thus liable
30 $40, 1000 and 10 years in Jail.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-05

ear in this statement in Bust
ess Week:
An intensive armament pro-
tam would have much the same
feet on the domestic economy
a shooting war. It is the size
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-05

of The military budget and the
size of the army-not the shoot
ing-that puts the pressure on
the country's economic life"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-05
BOU T
World War III

~ tb
IS Week orticIe Economic
d World War;"
|mPensution." No lures"
the situation would leave
tion."
hove to shift Jobs, work
OF more poy for all This,
Ess."
q limited war :. q single
duce immediofe surrender
It's q sofe bet thot World
her war without dicsutina
at TO do, what 10 get poid
have to go down-not Up"
ave TO do, fhot wos not
wv strikes, treof Indictment
both in intent and effect,
E would hove TO prevent
DIS would take an owfvI
rs thof, just as in the case
innocent activities would
ven useful and weII-infen-
operations would be hard
oeifotion-ond so would
Id odd UP to q police Job.
ofhins left but the whip"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-05

Section IL denies deduction
for Federal income tax pur-
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Evening star., 1948-04-04
Photosculpture
Employs Film to
Make Exact Image

A radically different method OF
obtaining hree-dimensional like
nesses through the medium Of pho
Biography, described as photo
sculpture" has been announced by
S. T. Jeffreys Photo-Patents), Ltd.
London, England. The significant
aspect of the new process is that
an ordinary well-equipped photog-
rapher's studio can take pictures In
10 seconds that can be developed
into true-image sculptures Of the
sitter.
The new process consists Of two
stages, Photographic and sculptural
According to a recent article in the
Professional Photographer, the OBJ
ject or person to be reproduced Is
scanned by beam Of light much In
the manner of television scanning
The image Is broken down into It's
constituent contours on q film
During the second stage this record
is passed through a reproducing
machine which, following the pho
tographed contours, builds them up
again into three-dimensional OBJ
ject which is an exact image of the
original person or object,
Evening star., 1948-04-04
oto.Crafters Slate
Early Camera Stroll

An early Birds" camera stroll is
scheduled today by the Graft
Club Of the Twelfth street YMCA
Members meet on the front steps OF
the jefferson Memorial for a, tour OF
the tidal basin area under the lead
ership Of James r. Burress. club
president, who announces that
other informal camera strolls will
be featured by the group during the
spring and summer months.
The weekly session Of the club
will be held at $3.50 in the main
lounge Of the Y at 1916 Twelfth
street NV. Thursday. A studio
class In portraiture will be con-
Quoted and models will be provided
for beginner and Junior groups.
Evening star., 1948-04-04
Camera Angles
Purposes

/ this vsy, but there are drawbacks.
without excessive care the paste will
seep out from under the edges Of
the print when pressure Is applied,
and in some cases viii stain either
the print or the mount. And there
is always the danger that the edges
and corners Of the print viii finally
peel.
II YOU decide on paste, do the job
thoroughly and the prints will hold
up for q while. First, the prints
are thoroughly soaked in water,
after which they are laid on Q
smooth, fiat surface and "squeegeed"
TO remove excess water. Then an
even coat Of paste Is applied with a
fine brush, making certain that all
edges and corners are covered. After
pasting, the print is carefully turned
over to avoid loss OF paste and ap.
piled to the mount. A damp cloth
or sponge Is then used to press the
print firmly In position, working
from the center to the edges to pre-
vent wrinkling. At this point the
print should be wiped free of all
paste that may be on the face or
seeping from beneath the edges.
The print should then be placed
under weights to dry. It must be
remembered that when the print Is
moistened to receive the paste 1t ex.
pands and will contract again as it
dries. Therefore. enough weight
must be applied to the prints to pre-.
vent warping Of the mounts.
Glue or mucilage are only used In
print mounting when the upper
edge of the print is to be secured
to the mount. This is called 'tip-
ping" and is only satisfactory for
temporary jobs or when other pres.
sure means are used to hold the
print fiat against the mount. This
is commonly done when the mount
is in two parts, the print being
sandwiched in between the two sec
tions and viewed through an open.
ing in the top half of the mount.