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...Filipino citizen is complex. He is an islander but not a seafarer. He is loyal, excitable, bright, fiercely jealous and brave. Eighty percent of him live in raised, thatched, nipa-palm huts. He rises each damp dawn to blow his breakfast fire to life and smoke a rolled "toosh-toosh" (homemade cigar). Every day he faces hours of weary plowing behind his lazy carabao (water buffalo). He beefs about the land still held by the Catholic Church, his taxes, the reformed constabulary, the Chinese who are his shopkeepers, and about his fortunes-which he often hocks for a sensational funeral...
...most heavily rated outfits in the Army, as well as one of the best military bands in the country, it consists of 115 enlisted men, all of whom, under their new table of organization are buck sergeants and up. Seventy-five percent of the men are in the regular army, and it is expected that almost all of them will be shortly...
Eighty-five percent of the voters, polled by the Student Council Food Relief Committee in House and Union dining halls, favored retention of the present bread, cake, and wheat cereals rationing; 14 percent disapproved, and one percent expressed no choice. The money pledge proposal was rejected by 68 percent of, the voters and approved by 23 percent, with nine percent silent...
...Percent For More Cuts...
Reaction to a third proposal which would extend rationing to other food items agreed to by the Administration was almost evenly split. Forty-eight percent were pro, 41 percent con and 10 percent undecided...