Mr. Nicholas Roosevelt's Belief) in Islands' Possibilities for All U. S. Needs Dibber in sufficient quantity: to] meet a major share of the needs of the American market can be produced in the Philippine Islands.
This is the conclusion reached by Mr. Nicholas Roostvelt, a member of the editorial staff of the "New York Times," as a result of an investigation" into the—potential capacity of the Philppines for rubber production, Mr. Roosevelt, whose father was a cousin of the late President, arrived in Shanghai from Hongkong on Sunday.
"I was tremendously impressed with the possibilities for agriculture al development in the Philippiness," Mr. Roosevelt said. "According to estimates of the Philippines Department of Agriculture, only 37 per cent. of the arable land in the Tands has go far been cultivated. In the southern istands of the group, particularly Mindanao, the percentage of cultivation is far less, and there is an almost inestimable latent wealth here.
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