PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



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PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



soldiers began the work of educating the na- 

 tive children. Of course mistakes were made. 

 Perhaps the most laughable was the purchase 

 of thousands of American school books trans- 

 lated into Spanish, before the discovery that 

 ule of Manila and a few other places Span- 

 ish was as strange as Greek. It was soon found, 

 too, that education meant to a Filipino the 

 right to cease work fore\< r. and to combat this. 

 instruction in carpentry, masonry, blacksmith- 

 ing, printing, gardening, lace-making, basketry 

 ami ncal subjects was substituted for 



all branches of learning but the necessary three 

 rs proving by their own example 

 that hand labor was not degrading. 



the first the cost of the school system 



has been met by the Philippine people them- 



B, For this reason there are not yet suf- 



:it accommodations to make compulsory 



education practical, but there are over 600,000 



enroled pupils, more than one-third as many 



as there would be among an equal number of 



people in Canada and the United States. Nine 



thousand natives have been trained to become 



here, and as this number increases more 



ols are organized. For advanced students 



I nivereity of the Philippines is maintained 



at Manila, with an attendance of 2,000, to 



\\hom instruction is given in any subject or 



profession from the fine arts to agriculture. 



.''Ming surely describes the work of 



th Americans in their Far Eastern colony. 



:-y act of the civil authorities has had in 



the lifting of the native to intelligent 



a- hi p. Nowhere has the effect of moun- 



A PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT r.riu -IN ; 

 of building noon to be een In each of the 



;pon history been more strikingly illus- 



i'hilippines. Many tribes 



.1 ho-nlitv tii thfir neighbors 



because there was no easy means of rommuni- 



! because each had its 

 and couM < <>m ersc with outsiders only in signs. 



Acting on the principle that acquaintance pro- 

 motes friendship, the Americans have pene- 

 trated where even the most peaceful friars 

 failed, have built roads, trails and bridges, have 

 made the natives able to talk to each other in 

 English and have substituted inter-village con- 

 tests in athletics for head-hunt ing rivalry. None 

 of this work has been done for purely military 

 reasons, as in so many colonies. All the cost 

 has been borne by the natives, and they have 



AT BAGUIO 



The summer capital of the islands, the seat of 

 government during the heated period of the > 

 A wonderfully-perfect road has been built from 

 Manila to this spot In the mountains. 



been taught to build their own roads and to 

 quarry, cut and lay the stone for their school- 

 houses 'and provincial buildings. 



The chief task with the Filipinos has been to 

 inspire them with ideas of industry. Some of 

 the most earnest work has been done in the 



us. whore inmates' were often habitual 

 petty criminals, and so successful has it I 

 that workmen sometimes give as a reeommen- 

 1 at ion that they have served a term in Bilibid. 

 As fast as the lesson of labor is learned it i- 

 necessary to provide a means of disposing of 

 its products. Many of the girls and boys k 

 how to make embroidery which is consi : 

 the most beautiful in the world, but they pro- 

 duced it formerly only for gilts to the Church. 

 They had no merehan 1 all the com- 



merce of Manila ire of that of 



;-I:mds is in the hands of the Chinese, and 

 there is DO such thing as a Filipino banker. So 

 tin tit has established a sales agency. 



a CO' -utinn which Mipphes i 



rials and designs at cost and purchases finish- -I 



roidery, straw hats, baskets and other prod- 

 ucts at the proper prices. 

 Sanitation. As in all tr 



t'nited States has entered, a wonderful task 

 has been . cleanliness. 



Plagues of all sorts have been eradicated, and 

 the physical standard of the people 

 raised. Doctor Victor Heiser accomplished for 



