Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 226, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 February 1929 — Page 14

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FILIPINOS FEAR MISTREATMENT RY CONGRESS U. S. Farmers Start Fight for Protection’Against Island Products. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Foreifn Editor, Seripps-Ho ward Newspapers WASHINGTON, Feb. B—ls the discriminatory legislation pending in congress against the Philippine Islands is pressed, the hottest light lor independence the Filipinos yet have staged will Lcome inevitable. First guns have been fired on the American side and the islanders are engaged in hauling out their, heavy artillery for a return salvo. American farm bureau representatives, appearing before the powerful ways and means commit--tee of the lower house, served notice that when the tariff revision comes yp, the agricultural interests of | this country will demand protection! against products from the Philip- ! pines, Porto Rico and other insular j possessions of the United States, as i well as from Cuba. J Although sugar came in for specific mention, the bureau’s spokesmen made it plain that protection all along the line would be asked when the time comes. Sees Economic Danger “America is beginning to realize that the Philippines constitute a .source of danger to her own eco- j nomic well-being,” says Vicente G.! Runuan, one of the leading mem- j hers of the official Filipino group here. Not only does free trade place Philippine products in .competition with American products, which several bills introduced in congress aim to prevent, but other measures tend to put the Filipino people at a disadvantage as a subject race. One of these would bar Filipinos from the United States, just as the Chinese and other orientals are barred, while another treats them as foreigners when employed as sailors aboard American ships. In some, sections of the United ! States the right of Filipinos to own land has been raised and, since the supreme court decision of 1925, they ar-~ held ineligible to American citizenship unless they have served three years in the navy. Furthermore, Filipinos say they may not serve in the United States army, but only in the Philippine scouts, where they can not rise above the rank of major as things now stand, whereas, under Spanish domination, they could hold the highest, rank and command Spanish troops. A Filipino even.has held the office of prime minister of Spain. Fear Other Discrimination These discriminations, Filipinos insist, naturally will be followed by ethers, as Filipino and American interests continue to clash. But, they adm;t, they do not blame the American farmers or anyone else for taking steps to protect themselves from what they consider a menace. What they do object to is to being treated as inhabitants of American soil when it

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RED AND BLACK SEAS NOT NAMED FOR COLORS Travelers Tales Can Be Doubted After Reading Scientific Data. Bu United Prexa PARIS. Feb. B.—Tourists who have returned with stories of how red was the Red sea and what a lovely coal color was the Black sea should listen to philologists and historians who have just discovered that the seas in question are neither red nor black. • It appears that the word for major in Turkish is the same word as black, according to Dr. Jean Brunhes, member of the institute. And that minor and red are also the same word. Furthermore, the maps that Marco Polo used were all marked Major sea and Minor instead u of Black sea and Red sea. Os course, there Is a certain specie of brilliant red fish which are netted daily in the Red sea and likewise there is in the water of the Black sea a carboniferous deposit which makes it look a little black.

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