Show Letter From Alma Beck The following letter has been received re-ceived from Alma Beck a Spanish Fork young man who is now in the Philippines The lettcris just our size exactly right for publication but 0 dear if some of those 90 per cent hot air artists had written it there would have been about 2000 words and if our support would not justify us in paying 500 to set it in type some fellow might have threatened to stop hit paper Alma old boy you have the right idea I down to a gnats heel always be brief but positive and no man can go wrong Here is the letter Masbatc Sorsogan P1 Aug 708 I Denr Mr Jensen After having a most pleasant trip from Spanish Fork to the Philippine Islands and being assigned to Masbate in the province of Sorsogan I now find myself enjoying the climate and the conditions in the tropics We find these natives suffering greatly from their laziness when in the school room where they have to do what we tell them But they all want to be educated for clerks or bookkeepers so that they can sit in an office in their Sunday clothesall the time This rule has a few exceptions and these want lots of work and lots of servants to do it They are very easy going and think nothing about tomorrow and very little about today Within twenty rods of my house there are eight teendas or native stores and one could buy them all for 10 and still they all make living from them I am getting along very well and like my position and the conditions O K Respectfully Alma Beck |