Louis: “There was no important failure to provide
for those in real need." Human memory is indeed short
but the sickening scenes enacted all over America be
fore the Federal Government established relief admin
istration have not been entirely forgotten. So it de
pends upon whether Mr. Hoover would call a complete
failure an "important" failure and how he would clas
sify "real" need as applied to a human being instead
of a railroad or holding company.
GOLD IN THE PHILIPPINES
Tn this, the eighth of a series Mr. Hurja
prepared for The Empire while on the trip to
the Philippine inaugural, the writer, a former
Alaska newspaper man. tells of former Alas
kans in the Islands, Bagley of the old Tread
well and others.
By EMIL III ftJ A
BAGUIO. Philippine Islands.—Here in a veritable
mountain paradise, amid towering pine trees, rolling
hills covered with verdure, we have come upon prob
ably one of the most unique places in the Orient.
Stifling hot in Manila, we motored through a flat,
lowland country, a distance of about 150 miles to the
beginning of a mountain pass, then to drive twenty
two miles up a steep, winding, picturesque mountain
roadway to Baguio, summer capital of the Philippines.
If climate were food, this would be ambrosia—tor
It’s weather fit for the gods. With a monthly maximum
temperature from 75 to 76 degrees: a monthly mini
mum from 49 to 52 degrees, tilts place has perhaps as
little variation in temperature as any in the world.
