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Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1951-07-01
INFORMATION
REQUESTED

The Philippine Consulate Cen
eral, 212 Stockton St., San Fran
cisco, Calf, would appreciate
information regarding the where
abouts and/or present addresses in
the United States of the following
Filipino nationals, whose relatives
and families in the Philippines are
anxious to hear from them:
Felipe DOrimen, of Moalboal,
Cebu
Fortunate S. Ferrer, of San Mic
olas, Pangasinan. Inquiry from
Marcos v. Ferrer, of San Nicolas,
Pangasinan.
Juan Dano, of Ozamis City, Mi
samis Occidental. Inquiry from
Antonio Dano, of Ozamis City, Mi
samiS Occidental.
Vicente LuspO and LiceriO LuspO.
Inquiry from Potenciano Luspo,
Manbajao, Misamis Oriental.
Henry Cruz. Last known resi-
dence was in California. Inquiry
from father, Arcadia Cruz, 1852
Laon Lam, Sampaloc, Manila.
Thomas Daligdig, also known as
DemetriO Daligdig. Last known
address, 155 Victoria St, San Fran
cisco. Inquiry from mother, An
tonina Lomingbang, Larena, Ne
gros Oriental.
Ramon G. Porte. Last known
addresses at 306 NV. Everett ST.,
Portland, Ore; PO. Box 1861,
Stockton, Calf; RID. Box 1886,
Niles, Calf; and Salinas or Oak
land, Calf.
MarcelO Trinidad, also known as
Mar. T. TestadO. Inquiry from Lib
erata Valera, Banquet, Abra.
Juan AneZ. Last known address,
Stockton, Calf.
PelegrinO S. Natividad. Last
known address, Denver, Colo. IN
quiry from brother, Felipe Nativi-
dad, 13 Piddig, Iloccos Norte.
Martin Agres DorO. Last known
address, 1913 Mason St., San Fran
cisco. Inquiry from daughter, Ala
dina Doro, 908-918 Arlegui, Quiapo,
Manila.
Nicolas Fernandez. Last known
address in San Francisco. Inquiry
from a relative, Teresa Siarez, 200
Libertad, Pasay City.
Juan Villanueva, formerly resid-
ing at BIT N. Figueroa ST., Los An
geles, Calf. Inquiry from wife,
Concejo B. Villanueva, Sta. Maria,
Ilocos Sur.
Romas A. Trias. Last known adj
dress, 418 Cabrillo St., San Diego,
Calf. Inquiry from Constancio
Trias, lib Int. A, Espana ST., Ma
Mia
Nicanor NacOrdia. Last known
address, San Francisco, Calf. In
quiry from Ben San, 9 Lincoln ST.,
Cebu City.
Antonio r. Baltazar and Jose r.
Baltazar. Last known addresses,
San Francisco and Alaska. Inquiry
from Alfonso Baltazar, La Trini-
dad, Benguet, Mt. Province.
FlOrentinO PolOtan, also known
as FlOrentinO RallOs or ROllOs. In
quiry from Victorino Polotan, asa
linus ST., Cebu City.
Mariana Lundan. Last known
address on the West Coast. Inquiry
from Victoria Lundan, 983, Pepin
Manila.
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1951-07-01


Leadership for Collective Welfare
Whether or not we like Pho De
Cano personally and privately is
beside the point. For Pho is human
and he has his faults, much as we
have our own = and what human
being has none?-but, rising above
his faults and dwarfing them into
inSignifcance are the many hui
manitarian achievements attrib-
uted to him, his interchangeable lead
ership for collective welfare among
his fellow men, his unselfish devo-
ton and loyalty to the country of
his birth.
A Credit to His Race
Pic cannot brag of any college
education or any academic degree.
But that, in the long run, stands
more to his credit, for without the
advantages of higher" education,
Pho has achieved for himself more
than an average college graduate
has ever accomplished. Financially,
he is credit to his race, for with
out academic diplomas that could
serve as passports to the society of
the intelligentsia, he had built up
in his heyday an empire" where
thousands of workers were his
loyal subjects for many, many
years. He succeeded in becoming
the leading Filipino contractor be-
fore the cannery workers were
unionized, that his name was
household word from the ice-cold
cities of Alaska to the burning
farms of Southern California. Then,
the name Pho De CanO was a Syno-
nym of power, of business ingenu-
ity and acumen, of employment
prospects, of humanitarian and
charitable purposes.
Cannery Contractor
Pho is one of the early Filipino
emigrants to Seattle and the Pacific
Northwest. By sheer personal eff
forts, he rose to leadership and
distinction in the business world
by organizing the Manila Corpora
ton, later the Pic De Cano Co.,
which dealt in Alaska cannery
contracting of huge proportions.
By the early '30's Pho was one of
the leading cannery contractors in
the Northwest (Which also in
cluded many Chinese and Japanese
contradictory In his fraternal group
he also rose to the highest rank
that his local lodge could bestow
upon him. In humanitarian actiVi-
ties, Pho has always been promi-.
nent as big contributor 10 the Red
Cross and the Anti-T B. campaigns,
both here and in the Philippines,
as well as to the local Community
Chest. He sent brothers and sisters
and other relatives to college. He
established scholarships" for Fill
pino students at the University of
Washington.
Influence with Packers
Ask the next cannery foreman
in Alaska how he got his job, and
he will tell you if it were not for
Pic he would not be where he is
now. AS a former cannery con-
tractor, De Cano developed influ-
ence with the cannery owners.
After the contracting" business
slumped, Pho still retained the
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1951-07-01
Pic De Cuno A Landmark and An
Institution in the Pacific Northwest
BY VICTORIO A. VELASCO
Editor and Publisher, FILIPINO FORUM

In the history of nation any organization of men,
there always high and above the others certain figures
stand prominence and distinction either through their
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1951-07-01

unique leadership OF through their
contributions to the social progress
of their fellow men.
Among the Filipinos in the Pa
cific Northwest, Pho De Cano is
Evening star., 1951-01-04
Senator Flanders Letter

Recently you published four letters
criticizing Senator Flanders, who had
previously commented on the tense in
ternational situation. These. were some
of the comments: LET Mr.. Flanders
wrap his cloak of goodwill to all men
around himself and see if it will keep
out the 26-degree- -below-zero cold
christianity does not reason with a
machine gun"-"Changin sour thoughts
to sweet by transoceanic education Of
foreigners or by gifts to foreigners is
not one of the working principles which
create a nation"-"What do they expect
to get by Offering the other cheek?"
Seldom has such concentration OF
pure emotion and simple hatred been
spilled across the columns of Letters to
The Star" And only five days after
Christmas!
This writer is reminded of true story
told by one who had been in India not
so many years ago. The British in at
tempting to suppress the nationalist
movement in India had decreed martial
law in one area. A group of students
decided to conduct a parade down the
main street in protest, and they assem-
bled at one end of the town with their
crude flags. A contingent of British
soldiers had taken up positions a short
distance away. Their officer told the
students that his orders were to stop all
Evening star., 1951-01-04

national eninence. He was one Of the signers
Of the treaty which reduced Austria to the status
OF province. So pathetic was the plight Of
the remnant of the Dual-Monarchy that he
advocated Anchluss with what was left of
Germany The Dollfuss movement pushed him
aside, jailed him for few months and paved
the way for Austria's identification with the
Nazi Reich under schuschnigg Destruction of
his country's nationhood had Dr. Renners con-
sent under coercion If not actually under COM
pulsion. Then followed World War II and the
collapse of Hitler's house of cards with the
Austrans included in the debacle. The Red
Army arrived in Vienna in April, 1945, and Mos
cow announced the formation of coalition
government under the leadership of DR.. Renner
Thus for the second time the erstwhile librarian
archivist was President of an Austrian Republic
in process of dsintegration.
But DR.. Renner was no mere tool of the
Kremlin He turned to the United Nations for
support and avoided commitments to Moscow.
His powers were limited drastically by the new
national constitution, based on that of 1929,
yet he managed to govern with more success
than he himself might have expected. The Allies
trusted him as they trusted no other Austrian
politician. Coming at this moment, his death
brings to the fore the question of who can sue
ceed him and what the eventual fate of Austria
is to be.
Evening star., 1951-01-04
This and That.

This should be kept not too warm and
without much sun on it.
X
Feeding is difficult.
This creature, even in it's young state,
is cannibalistic.
1t would eat it's grandmother, if it were
large enough and could get hold of her.
In the adult size the mantis thinks
nothing at all of eating its mate Usually
this is the female, since she is the
larger.
The smaller ones eat each other in
captivity, mostly because there is moth
ing else to eat.
If small bits of fresh liver are offered
at four-hour intervals during daylight
hours, they may be saved from consum-
ing their brothers and sisters.
1t is good plan to carpet the floor
of the aquarium with white sand and to
heap it up in the center, so that a small
section of branch may be placed there.
The liver bits are placed on the
branches, so that the nantes may find
them there. If this does not work, try
offering the liver on the end of tooth
pick. This may intrigue the insects.
making them think their food is alive.
The contents Of multivitamin capsules
may be offered In the same manner.
Those in jelly form are best. and II
they contain some form Of liver. either
whole or In fraction. % much the better.
Evening star., 1951-01-04
Letters to The Star
Pen-71anaes may be used If letters carry
aUriters' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.

demonstrations. by force II necessary.
The students were without weapons.
The observer related how he watched
the men with rifles in their hands fac
ing the group Of students. The faces of
the soldiers were white and their hands
shook as they waited for the command
to fire on the demonstrators. Why were
the soldiers afraid? They possessed
overwhelming force; the students had
nothing but faith and a belief in JUS
tice. The soldiers won that battle, but
today the British are no longer in India
Military force may win a battle but it
can never permanently decide basic
issues.
The great nations Of past centuries
who engaged in wars are no longer with
us. Yet Christianity and like movements
have lived 1000 years. Forces beyond
the control of the average citizen in
all countries are bringing the world close
to war. At this time, when it is easy to
harbor hatred toward other men and
when emotion overrules reason, it Is
good to know that there are men such
as Senator Flanders. who do not sug-
gest that a mad rush to war is the
solution to all our international prob
lens. Armed with hatred and machine
guns, we can accomplish nothing If the
weapons of war destroy our civilization.
1t matters little who pulled the trigger.
r. A. s.
Evening star., 1951-01-04
Golden Opportunity
HI. Blakely Harvey, Jr.

Strange that most Americans find 1t
difficult to conceive of the capital city
OF the United States being anywhere
but in Washington. D. c. Now. during
this state Of emergency when an atomic
war threatens, our leaders are bypassing
a golden opportunity to relocate the
capital permanently, while they plan to
spend millions of dollars of the taxpay-
ers' money for the erection Of new Gov
ernment buildings within 20 to so miles
of Washington!
geographically advisable to transplant
our capital city, since there are 48
States instead of the original 13, and
the present center of population Is IN
the Midwest. When but at the present
time will a more favorable opportunity
occur for a permanent relocation of the
Nations capital?
Very few localities in the United
States equal or surpass the outstand-
ingly healthful climate and scenic
beauty Of the Denver area. And, Incl
denta1ly, recent statistics indicate that
Westerners have longer life span than
Fasteners.
Yes, now is the time, if ever. for the
proper officials to reconsider their pres
ent dispersal plans for the city and to
evaluate seriously the relative advan-
tages of a permanent relocation of the,
seat of government to the vicinity of
Denver.
Robert L. Burch
Evening star., 1951-01-04
BY Charles E. 7roceweN

It is now known that the insoluble
fraction Of liver contains the famous
vitamin Biz.
Whether the praying mantis needs
this vitamin Is not known.
In nature he gets "fresh" food, in the
form Of other and smaller insects; no
doubt they contain all the food elements
he needs, for he Is fresh, clean-looking
fellow, without doubt one OF the best
looking of all.
Often he is mistaken for a grasshop-
per. usually is called shat large grass
hopper" but he belongs to the cock
roach family.
The average person will be fortunate
to bring half dozen into the outdoors
in the spring.
Unless really interested in insect life
he will not find the creatures worth the
trouble they cause in trying to keep them
alive.
IT really interested, he will discover
many rewarding moments, since this Is
an insect with will Of It's own and
two eyes scarcely equaled among its kind
The mantis eye is clear, cold, but with
q way Of looking directly at one. The
amazing thing Is that human being,
looking into the small eyes of his mantis
friend, will come to believe that the
insect knows him and appreciates him.
H y strange thing, but true.
Evening star., 1951-01-04
NutionoIism Needed?

A calculating foreign power Is threat
ening the even tenor Of our ways, as such
ambitious forces always threatened SINH
lar civilizations In the past. We are dis
turbed by the need to re-evaluate the
circumstances, to examine the state of
our morale, and perhaps to find new
weapon to use against relentless foe.
The greatest weapon a nation can
have is valid philosophy, consistent
with its position in the scheme of things.
This scheme of things" is world that
revolves for the most part around two
great national powers, each determined
to assure itself dominant role. A
philosophy consistent with that posi-
ton would logically be a nationalist
philosophy.
If we assume for the sake of argument
that democracy is universal and abso-
lutte quantity and that all peoples have
an equal right to it, then how can we
best make that ideal practical? Can the
United States bring democracy to Korea
and to Germany, ETC., as missionaries
have tried to bring Christianity to the
Hottentots?
II democracy is going to survive in
the world 1t will be only as by-product
Va NAA4Vys dA1u u1AAty 40 lOU dC11lCNCO Ny
words alone. Our way of life is threat
ened simply because we have a divided
world. and we might as well face the
fact that to obtain and maintain united
world, force Is absolutely essential-just
as it was essential in the War Between
the States.
To maintain the survival and security
of this country. we will have to forego
some of our lotus eating habits and the
philosophy that goes along with it.
Eisenhower aptly bemoaned our loss of
a toughness of spirit and fascination
for the easy life. If we do not develop
a more profound approach to the prob
lens of the age, We can very we'll dis
integrate as great power. 1t wouldn't
be the first time it happened in history.
We are losing the rugged pioneer spirit
that conquers geo-political obstacles, be-
cause we are unable to grasp the sig
nificance of the new frontier. A defen-
Evening star., 1951-01-04
Dr.. Karl Renner

The tragedy of DR.. Karl Renner was the
same as that of other moderates of his time.
He tried in vain to reconcile conservatism and
radicalism in terms of helpful service to his
country and to the world at large. Like Bernard
Shaw in England, George w. Russell a. e. in
Ireland and Max Eastman and Charles Edward
Russell in the United States, he sought to make
the spirit of socialism an effective instrument
for reform, only to learn in the end that the
rigid dogmas of the Marxist philosophy are anti
social when put into practice. The man destined
to preside over the liquidation of the Hapsburg
empire began his career as a librarian and
archivist. He got into politics through his in
terest in cultural progress Because he was
intelligent and eloquent and had no personal
enemies of consequence, he gradually became an
important figure among non-conformists in
Vienna
World War brought Dr. Renner into inter-
Evening star., 1951-01-04
Dear Sir:

Dear Sir:
II foolishly carried into the house not
long ago gray sort of cocoon, or that
was what thought 1t was, and one night
the thing split open and out came about
so Of those mantises, or whatever you
call them.
There are still two dozen or more
left, the rest were walked on or have
eaten each other, am not sure which.
"They are all over the dining room
table, but we hate to make them leave
until we find out what to feed them.
Is there anything we can give them?
'Let me know, as do not want to be
responsible for wholesale murder, even
among insects.
yours truly, E. D. c."
The. praying mantis (plural, mantes)
is strange and interesting creature.
The egg case is hung by the female
to a shrub in the fall.
Normally the eggs do not hatch out
until spring.
If an egg case is carried indoors, how
ever, the warmth will bring them out,
as our correspondent has discovered.
The best way to raise them is to put
them in an old aquarium. but without
water, Of course. and place screen over
tho top.
Evening star., 1951-01-04
Healthier Woshinoton

DR.. Daniel L. Seckinger director of public
health, has reported great improvement in the
well-being of the people of the District of Colum-
bia for the first half of the twentieth century
In 1850 the death rate in Washington was 113
per 1000 as against 21.4 in 1900. The infant
mortality figure fell from 2819 per 1000 live
births to only 1852 in the same period With
regard to maternal mortality, the rate was 1915
per 1000 births in 1900 and only O4 in 1885,
Many of the contagious diseases which killed
scores when Grandpa was boy have declined
in incidence to the vanishing point. Among
these are typhoid fever, dphtheria, scarlet fever
and smallpox.
Now, if the prevailing trend were to run un-
impeded for another so years, 1t would seem
that the death rate practically would reach
zero. Heart disease, cancer and tuberculosis,
however, still remain what DR.. Seckinger de-
scribes as important perennial killers" Tuber-
culosis has decreased 84.6 per cent in the five
decades under review, but it has not been con-
quered completely Meanwhile, cancer and heart
disease continue to constitute major problems"
Both are more prevalent due to the rising dura-
tion of life of the entire population People are
living longer-and dying of ailments charac-
teristc of old age They also are living faster
under heavier tension and more exhausting
strain than ever was the lot of their ancestors
in less hectic eras of history. And the accident
toll represents an especially tragic ISSUE Too
many relatively young persons are being killed
in street and road crashes, household mishaps,
falls, fires misadventures on or in water, and
explosions.
DR.. Seckinger stresses the advisability of
checkups for the early detection of tuberculosis
and cancer. The same caution applies to dia-
betes. Intelligence devoted to any such problem
or all such problems is well worth the bother
It often has been remarked that any community
within reasonable limits can determine its own
death rate-which just as definitely means it's
own life rate not only in longevity but in the
actual joy of living. If Washington is to con-
tinue to improve in health between now and
1000 A. D., there must be full cooperation
between the residents of the city and the
agencies of health, the doctors and the nurses
The progress OF the past half century has not
happened by chance. It has resulted from
processes and techniques which systematically
have been improved.
Evening star., 1951-01-04
Red China and the u. N.

It is difficult to understand why the United
Nations continues to handle the Chinese Com
munists with kid gloves and more or less timid
circumlocutions. These people are guilty OF
criminal intervention and aggression in Korea.
They are guilty of waging war against the world
peace organization Yet through the General
Assemblys Political Committee-one of its chief
organs-the U. N. still hens and haws and takes
time out rather than deal with the issue firmly
and without equivocation.
At this very moment, the Chinese Commu-
niSts are hammering their way into the out
skirts of Seoul, and the Peiping propaganda ma
chine keeps on emphasizing that their objective
is to overrun the whole of Korea and drive our
American and allied u. N. forces into the sea.
Coupled with yesterdays bleak report of the
Assemblys three-man cease-fre committee this
massive and relentless military action speaks
volumes against any wishful thinking about the
possibility that diplomacy may somehow be able
to call halt to the hostilities and work out a
peaceful and honorable settlement.
If Red China together with its Soviet men
tors, were interested in such settlement, it
would have accepted the U. N. proposal for
cease-dre arrangement under which all forces
involved, including the Chinese Communists,
would have silenced their guns Immediately and
established demilitarized zone just north of the
ooeA1 d14c1 ouG ICip11lS dIloWcI W IIllS
been an emphatic and contemptuous rejection
backed up by a new all-out offensive. The
Communist choice, In short, has been for con-
tinued war, not peace, unless the United Nations
reverses itself and sanctions the crime in Korea
by bowling abjectly to the aggressors terms.
Those terms-which Soviet Delegate Malk
has just reafirmed before the Assemblys Po-
litical Committee-call ID for the evacuation
of all foreign troops from Korea, excepting the
Chinese Communists, (2) for the withdrawal of
the United States from Formosa, and (3) for
Red China's admission into U. N. membership.
In other words, they call for complete sur
render of principle by the United Nations-a
surrender that would violently mock everything
that the Charter stands for and give hand
some reward to Peiping for it's aggression and
its brazen effort to shoot It's way into the world
peace organization.
How much longer is nothing to be done
about this challenge? A fact is a fact, q
reality is reality, and not all the diplomatic
language in the world, not all the caution of
statesmen, can disguise the fact and the
reality that the Chinese Communists are
criminal aggressors warning against the United
Nations The United Nations ought to brand
them accordingly and take whatever other
measures may be possible or feasible against
them. Action along that line might fall far
short of being enough to stop them in Korea,
but at least it would keep the historical record
straight and uphold the moral integrity of the
U. N.