Another grievance that the importers have against the tax is that the new law provides that they must pay on all films whether imported before the first of the year or after. If they object to paying, then they must retire the films and have them sealed up. will be seen, this creates two great disadvantages. To exhibit films to} prospective customers, the importers must pay, regardless of whether the customer buys or not. If the importer does not pay the tax, then he must submit to having his film sealed up and thus jeopardized in a climate in which it deteriorates very rapidly. Consequently, the importer must pay the tax whether the film is used or not used, and as the tax applies to all film on hand, it works out that each of the seven Manila importers must pay from 10,000 to 40,000 pesos into the Insular treasury at once, or else have his film sealed up and withheld from the cinematograph trade until the tax is paid.
The outlook for the cinema industry in the Philippines thus becomes exceedingly gloomy. One man is seriously considering packing up his cinematograph apparatus and his personal belongings and moving to another country where the government treasury rapacious; figuring on each of the 35 theatres on his exchange list as using 2,000 metres a programme and ten programmes a month, he calculates that his total monthly tax would reach the crushing amount of 21,000 pesos. As he Henry S. Hessel, salvage contract Government Board of Public Wel-for, and his crew of twenty men fare and is the result of a "Better who were salvaging the British Babies" contest that was held here steamer Bengloe, he found the last month when valuable money ship split in two pieces and under! prizes were awarded to the mothers water, only the stern of the vessel! of those babies who came out with being in sight; and that Captain the highest number of marks that Hessel and his entire crew were were allotted by the judges, the ma-missing. jority of whom were medical men, Captain Hessel wi salvage ex-In that competition, the mother pert with a splendid reputation in of the baby who received the grand these parts and held the re-prize of 200 pesos was so poor that cord of never having failed in a she had to borrow the money to wrecking operation. He left Manila reach the scene of the contest; but on November 16 last with a crew the child received a rating of 99 of twenty men to salve the Bengl per cent, according to the standard fter several previous attempts to adopted in the United States, and salve her had failed, the hope beshowed what could be done if the ing entertained that with the pro-mothers were only educated in child per machinery, the stranded vessel rearing and encouraged. could be lifted off the shoal on At the meeting held by the Wel-which she was securely fixed. The fare Board at the office of vice captain had a great' number of Governor Henderson 8. Martin, it friends here and all are deeply was decided to make this feature grieved to learn of the news. one of the immediate activities of the Organization, while the comin his death, unless he and his committee was authorized to organize panions have been stranded on prize baby contests throughout the some lone island among the many provinces and to establish social in the vicinity and have been un-centres for community purposes able to get into communication wherever there are concrete school with the rest of the world. A buildings. Special tuition by train-vigorous search will be made by nurses and doctors will be given at the authorities, these centres and simple but ade-It may be of interest to mention quate rules will be taught con that the Bengloe went ashore on an cerning hygiene and other necessary uncharted reef on the Moyune shoal things relating fo the upbringing of as far back as November, 1914. She the little ones. Such information, was owned by W. Thomson and reaching the mothers direct, will, Company, of England, and was of it is felt certain, prove of in-3,006 tons gross. She left Manila in calculable assistance in reducing August, 1914, with a cargo of hemp ing infant mortality for New York, vid Cebu and Iloilo, prevailing in these islands. It is completing her loading at the two latter parts, and left there on her voyage to New York with the largest hemp cargo since the outbreak of the war up to that time, the cargo being valued approximately at 300,000 pesos. Salvage operations hi been going on continuously since then and some of the cargo has been saved, but it had been found impossible to hot water, lemon, and move the vessel from off the reef. sugar, and a wineglassful grimly says, "he is not in the It is the opinion that her final of Wolfe's Schnapps.
is he a philanthropist struggling to of the very recent typhoons. It was bolster up a depleted—national Philippines for his health; neither breaking up took place during one ig owing to the fact that nothing had aw
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