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MANILA DAILY BULLETIN 



AMERICAN AND FILIPINO WOMEN IN THE FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN PARADE, MANILA 



PUBLIC SCHOOLS 



In Red Cross work, Liberty Loan cam- 

 paigns and food production campaigns the 

 results accomplished through the medium 

 of the public schools of the Philippine Is- 

 lands cannot be over-estimated. Working 

 on the theory that thousands of homes which 

 it would be difficult to reach in any other 

 way could be appealed to directly through 

 the children of the family attending the 

 public schools, Dr. VV. W. Marquardt, 

 Director of the Bureau of Education, placed 

 at the disposal of the Council of National 

 Defense, Red Cross officials, and the loan 

 campaign committees the facilities which 

 the school system offered for propaganda 

 work in all parts of the islands. 



While most noticeable results were ob- 

 tained in the organization of the Junior Red 

 Cross and in the impetus given the food pro- 

 duction and conservation campaign through 

 school and home gardens and special courses 

 in the domestic science classes, there can be 

 no question that the success of the Liberty 

 Loan drives in the provinces was due in a 



very great, if not the greatest, measure to 

 the excellent work of the school teachers 

 and their pupils. 



CHEMICAL WARFARE SERVICE 



When it became necessary for the Ameri- 

 can Army authorities to develop gas masks 

 which would proved effective in protecting 

 the American troops against the poisonous 

 gas used by the German, experiments re- 

 vealed the fact that charcoal made from 

 the shells of the coconut possessed absorbent 

 qualities which made it the best material 

 for use. Representatives of the federal 

 chemical warfare service made America's 

 needs known in the Philippines. And once 

 again the Islands made immediate response. 

 Tons of coconut shells were converted into 

 charcoal, turned over to the military au- 

 thorities and shipped to the United States 

 for use in the manufacture of gas masks. 



ONE OF THE THOUSANDS OF HOME GARDENS TENDED BY HOY MEMBERS OF ACKIC TI.TI KAI. ( ] I I1-, 



It has been impossible in an article of this 

 length to attempt any detailed account of 

 the war efforts of the Philippine Islands, 

 but if the reader is able to realize that in 

 spite of numerous difficulties and the great 

 distance which separates the Islands from 

 the United States and the seat of war, the 

 Philippines and their people put forth a 

 united and decided effort to demonstrate 

 their loyalty to the United States, and the 

 cause of the allies, its purpose will have been 

 accomplished. 



SOME OF THE FIVE THOUSAND FILIPINO STUDENTS WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN 



PARADE, MANILA 



