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THE MEANING OF
RIZAL DAY
Martyrdom Of Dr. Jose Rizal
Here There
and
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WAS NOT IN VAIN
(By JAMES J. HALSEMA)
NO MORE “MAJOREMES"
STANLEY
BALDWIN
ENGLISHMAN
REVEALED THROUGH HIS SPEECHES
Bagnio, Dec. Ban Though no new official State CARES MORE FOR DEMOCRACY THAN
HIS FELLOWS
(By Harold Starnard)
HIRTY-SEVEN speeches and for them.
Notice To Contributors. All communications intended for publication should be oddressed to the Editor, and be accompanied by As Rizal Day once more apment has been made recently, mem- Stock Exchange the Writer's Name and Address proaches with its parades, festivi bers of the not necessarily for insertion, but ties, and speeches, it would aligned themselves to the view de a guarantee of good faith.
most seem to be a day of celebrs that the old-time "Majorities" tion. Such is certainly not the gamble on the General Election origin of the holiday. Thirty could not be revived for the recent nine years ago a young doctor contest.
"addresses -by--Mr. Stanley. In discussing men, of gening, WO lauthor named Jose Rizal was con-
Baldain-are collected in a book pick out qualities with which we It was fun in 1981 up to 2/hich was published last month can sympathise, so that criticism fined under arrest in the dun- point One bought and sold, seons of Fort Santiago in Manila Majorities" just as one deals in Freedom" (Hodder and Stough-veals himself when he says of with the title, "This Torch of is self-revealing. Mr. Baldwin re- What had happened? For the other paper- Some people made Hong Kong, Honday, Jan. 6 1936 answer it is necessary to look handsome practs by buying when to 12.6d.). They are non-parti Wesley that his supreme legacy back in the history of the nine the market quoted fajorities, but by no means non-politi-was his conception of a practi- ties in the Philippines not the round 200. For every single "addi- cal
fcal religion for the ordinary man Opposition's Poor Case
*gay nineties" by any means, but tion to the National Government it works is the theme of a good he was both a Conservative and. Democracy, what it is and how and woman,” or of Gen. "Booth that years of struggle.
majority above that figure the Nothing, not: even
Because of lung denial of civil buyer was entitled to £1 or what many of them-of so many of a reformer." or of William Hor- Herbert Morrison's. hearty rights, high taxation, and-brutal ever unit he had dealt in.
them indeed, as to suggest that ris, whom he knews - ibanter of Mr. Baldwin
Mr. Baldwin is the first citizen of 333overnment afficials, the people But the Committee frowned on a democratic State just because ("Socialist," could disguise the of the Philippines revolted in Athese gambles and as far as their he thinks more and cares more Aimsiness of the Opposition at gust, 1896. Things had long been members were concerned there for, democracy than the mass of tack on the first debate of the disturbed and in the interval was no "bargain" The aid debt-his fellows. Session on December 9. The since the last resolution a secret of honour principle alone settled Socialist amendment to the society called the Katipunan had
That is not far from the truth. Address was defeated by a been formed for the express pur-
|but it is also true that Mr. Bald-i imajority of 242, despite the pose of working for the inde
Both in the Stock Exchange andƒwin, holds his remarkable place în most earnest efforts to pretend pendence of the archipelago. Ri-Lloyds the death-knell of this our public life because his fellow mon things and common men? It that Socialists alone had a careal had previously been exiled to gamble in any but the most private countrymen regard him as a typi-is rooted in faith. Evidently Mr. for peace, for the miners or for Dapitan, Zamboanga, for his no-way has bees sounded.
cal English democrat. He is not at Baldwin shares Lincoln's view the nation's economic employ-cial writings exposing conditions
all typical On the contrary, he that God must care greatly for ment. Such arguments refute
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must be a thoroughly-exceptional ordinary folk because he made so themselves, and it was scarcely
man. else he would not be where many of them. plausible for Mr. Attlee to sug-
de-lhe is. gest at a moment when the
Mr.
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"He took great joy in all the common things of life. Beer, to- "becca""." He thanked God for hav- ing made anything so, strong as He aked just the ordinary simple fun di TA Erest, Ciacious, jolly human, being.”
Countryside. And Sex - Whence comes this love of com-,
Breaking for once through his Close To Common Man:
freticences and giving expression This book resolves the enigma,thorised Version:
to his awe, he says of the Ag-
By the terms of a recent RIZAL DAY AT THE ree, military and naval ranks have been introduced in the So- PENINSULA viet forces...
The actual term "general" is resolves is in the only possible however, avoided. It has, for way, by showing how he uses his the Bolshevists, unpleasant asso-very considerable gifts not to draw away from the ordinary
Tiffin And Concert
FILIPINO COMMUNITY -
CELEBRATES
cistions.
Government was hopefully en gaged in consultations with, both sections of the mining in-
“No Eving man cần tell or know dustry that its only plan waS
how that Book in its journeyings "some
through the world has startisć-the- vague appeal to the
individual soul in ten thousand kindliness of employers." It
different places into a new life.” would be at least equally ap-
In the process of transforming common man, and especially from
In this spirit he tells a Baptist posite to accuse the Opposition
what began by being, in theory, that democratically important audience that their community of making "some vague appeal |
an equalitarian State into a petite species, the ordinary common Eng has stood from the earliest days to the hostility of employees."
bourgeois due, diffenifies of no-lishman, but to get closer to him for the completest independence Rizal Day, commemorating themenclature arise. It would never
It is the only possible way be the soul, and in this spirit, Mr. Thomas spoke the mind of death of Jose Rizal, the Filipino de, for instance, to have first and cause the average Englishman is though with pride replacing swe, the country when he denied patriot, was celebrated yesterday second classes on the railways in satisfied that Stanley Baldwin is he contemplates the English tra- that sympathy and humanity in by the local Filipino community society that purports to be in John Bull's principal alias, and is dition the problem of unemployment some 120 persons being present process of becoming Socialist and not prepared to consider it pos Our democracy derives from were the monopoly of any one at the luncheon which was held, classless.
sible that the country's most the soil, from the countryside party. The differences are upon in the Rose Room of the Penin- the remedy. and the Govern-sula Hotel.
At the same time, in the U. Strusted statesman is other than which Mr. Baldwin knows and ment remedy is to create the After reading a letter of regret uncomfortably and some comfort
S. R as elsewhere, some travel he seems..
loves. From the sea, too; and so Opinions differ, especially in this landsman. 5orn and bred 23 conditions of work. as it did in and good wishes from Mr. Charles ably. The two
ipalities, but there are no its last period of-power for a L. Hoover, the US. Consul, M. called hard and soft. This kind opinions about Mr. Baldwin His for any Englishman to be, ab-
categories adre
two far from the sea as it is possible million additional people.
Peralta, the Master of The report of the Ministry of monies, called upon Dr. V. M. than pretending that economic thought too direct to leave room our nation's history is embedded cere of hypocrisy is even more absurd language is too simple and his serves that "layer after layer of Labour published last month Atienza, the President, to speak and social inequality are part of shows, as it happens, that un-in a short and eloquent speech a divinely-ordained plan.
in the language of our sERTUCH employment in the coal industry Dr. Atienza recalled the life-
have a bite at the wheel"
Paint Emphasised decreased during October-work of Dr. Rizal and said that!
That's a bit tough, I should think," All this the machine threatens, November by over 29,000, and he had not died in vain.
said his listener.
and a matter very prominent in had decreased by more than 66,- Philippines had gained their in
Mr. Baldwin's mind is that while The Modern Child 1000 from the figures of Novem-dependence and he looked for-
"What a boy you are for asking it is a century since the machine ber, 1934 Cotton, iron and steel ward to a great future for the
man?**
questions,” said the father ~ "Pd like transformed industry, it is only engineering, shipbuilding and nation.
to know what would have happened if in our own time that it has trans- *Job* employment in the ports show-
I'd asked as many questions when I formed ordinary life. This is the After tifin there was a concertį: ed similar improvement.
was a boy.". Bad the contributors being the Or
A Bit Tough
point which he selects for em- weather, including floods, had chestra, conducted by Prof. F. said the bus driver, "so I generally answer some of mine.*
"I haven't much time for meals,” temporarily displaced an extra Gonzalez: songs by Gus d'Aquino: 17,000 in the building industry-guitar solos by Mr. Fred Carpio; But the total monthly figures songs by Mrs. F. Soreal, and show employment 45,000 up on selected songs by the Harmony October, and 315,000 on the year Boys, Professor F. Gonsalez, C. before. It would take a bold De La Cruz and M. Herrerz, and Socialist to argue in detail selected items by the Orchestra against these facts. The as- sumption that Socialism welding of the Philippine Islands
This was followed by the play- by sheer vague beneficence cure National Anthem, the Star Spang- unemployment was challenged led Banner and God Save the
The
by Sir Thomas Inskip's enquiry King, after which a most enjoy- how public ownership would af
fect the problem of the disable dance was held. tressed areas, Miss Ellen Wi- The officers of the day were as kinson complained that the follows:
situation in the Jarrow area had Executive Committee: DrAV N been made worse by ruthless Atienza (Chairman), V. G rationalisation," and "mono- Alberto (Vice Chairman), M polies." Are not ruthless ra- Andres, S. F. Angeles. 1 S.-Castro, tionalisation and monopolies L. R. Ildefonso, P. O. Mayrina, an essential element in Socialist "planning?"
The Mould Standard
G Peralta, W. Tobias, J. B J. B. Vargás, Concert Committee: H Dumatol, F. Gonzales, J. A} Silverio, MC, L. G. Peralta;
Hon. Treasurer, J. A Silveroi;
|Hon. Secretary: R. Basar
was
recently
For many centuries it has been a cause of pride to men to tame the dog and cat, the borse, the Eumanian music critic who ““mouldy.” Tastes difer, and the cow, the chicken and the parrot
More subtle ambitions
reported as for domestication were revealed hesitating over a Stilton for its last month at Manchester Uni-reen markings lacked the versity when the Food Group age of experience. Last of the Society of Chemical Inmonth's meeting, being held in dustry met to discuss those voted a period of reflective ab Manchester, might well have de- humbler creatures known to every housekeeper as "moulds Sorption to those neighbouring The mildewed wall-paper, the fall mould standard is less often Cheshire cheeses, in which the crumbling "dry rot in the floor reached, the true virtue of the board, the taint of meat, the cheese being so the Cheshire withering” “rust” on plants here is the work of members of the saltiness of Cheshire soil
Cheese Federation lately stated. the mould clan.
railed to remari (as Mr. A. E. Housman
The most exalted group of all socially must be the chees monids, whose beneficent ripe
cheese
"Salt does mort
To justify God.
it is perhaps be around Manch
welcome, though there comes point within the life time of somewhat
Camembert
friendly
been too ze
exercise
shire cheese
Your Daily Smile!
"Are you zooking for work, my
Not necessarily, but I'd like
+
"Perhaps, suggested the
young hopeful, you'd have been able to phasis in the introduction which
(Continued on Page 11).
“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
TPEROTION
ATE A BEAR
WITH THE
BEAR'S OWN TEETH!
NIMROD ROBERTSON-of the YUKON - LOST ALL DE HIS TEETH SO HE MADE PLATES WITH THE TEETH OF A
BEAR THAT HE HAD SHOT-
AND PROCEEDED TO EAT THE BEAR.
ENSES
·DAYE
WHYTE
ese so