M16-PAGFIC MAGAZINE January-March, 1936 CONTENTS THE PHILIPPINES: 13 articles with 40 illustrations Philippine Commonwealth University of Washington Filipino Inauguration Alumni ILDEPONZO REDADTRINI, Filipino drama- Outlined from material received from the tist Pan-Pacific Association of the Philippines Filipinos in the Territory of Hawaii Business Conditions in the Philippines CAYETANO LIGOT, former Labor Com- LEOPOLDO R. AGUINALDO, President, missioner Chamber of Commerce English Language in the Philippines Economic Outlook in the Philippines KILMER 0. MOE, formerly with the Philip- pines Bureau of Education DON GONZALO PUYAT, President and General Manager Gonzalo Puyat & Sons, Personal Impressions of the Philippines Inc. EARL CARROLL, Manager, Hawaiian Agency, Insular Life Assurance Co. of The Philippines of Today Manila GREGOR 10 N I EVA, Secretary, Pan-Pacific Association of the Philippines Kapuripuri (Filipinos in Hawaii) ROMAN R. CARIAGA, Research Fellow of Who Are the Filipinos? Anthropology, University of Hawaii FELIX M. KEESING, Anthropologist, Uni- Some Sources of Philippine Culture versity of Hawaii ALBERT W. HERRE, Stanford University, The Philippines for the Filipinos California MABLE LANE MOE, formerly with the Native Filipino Sports and Games Philippines Bureau of Education MAZIMINO VELASCO, Amateur Sportsman OTHER FEATURES: Up the Sigatoka River of Fiji (illustrated); Fishes of the Pacific Northwest scientific catalogue-- second installments, PROF. LEONARD P. SCHULTZ and PROF. ALLAN C. DeLACY; Reports of Pan-Pacific Union Meetings in Honolulu illustrated); Pan-Pacific Meetings in China I illustrated ) ; Pan-Pacific Meetings in Japan illustrated i ; Second Pan-Pacific Surgical Conference to meet in Honolulu; Golden Jubilee to be held at Vancouver, B. C.; Your Magazine's Quarter-Century Mark and change of format. 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XL I X JANUARY-MARCH, 1936 NUMBER 1 Philippine Commonwealth Inauguration Outlined from data and photographs received from the Pan-Pacific Association of the Philippines OVEMBER 15, 1935, marked Upon a tribal civilization Ameri- the latest and greatest step can instructors have built a modern taken by the United States of democratic system of government mod- N of America toward eventual eled after that of the United States freedom for the Philippines which was with results considered worthy of prac- promised in 1898, and which establishes tical trial for the next ten years. the autonomous Commonwealth under Ably, splendidly and sincerely have Filipino control of local affairs for ten the people of the Philippines expressed years as further preparation for inde- their appreciation of American guid- pendent nationhood, scheduled for July ance toward complete political control 4, 1946. of their own country. So far, through It is not necessary here to recall de- intelligent cooperation, two peoples tails of history connected with transfer with a single ideal have achieved re- of the Philippines from Spanish to sults without parallel in all history. American ownership further than to re- Eventual freedom for the Philippines member that Spain was paid 20-million is not an afterthought prompted by gold dollars for them, with Puerto Rico events. It was planned from the start. and Guam, under the treaty of Decem- It is, therefore, safe to say that the ber 10, 1898, and later an additional American people will be satisfied with a $100,000 for certain small islands of the return on the investment in the form of Philippine group not covered by the a consummation devoutly wished r a treaty. nation full-fledged and sturdy. Simple bookkeeping shows that the Under the new Commonwealth the people of America made an investment Filipinos have their own chief executive, in a political ideal the first cost of which a unicameral National Assembly of 98 was destined to appear as a drop in the members representing every district, bucket measured by subsequent costs in and complete control of their judiciary. cash, to say nothing of human energy Foreign affairs, national defense and and devotion put forth by thousands general responsibility for stability re- of Americans who have labored for main in the hands of the United States. more than 30 years in this field 6,000 To discharge that responsibility the miles from the western rim of their homeland.