Show I Vivid Adventures of Philippine Isles Uncovered red in Book Bullets and Bolos Reveals Reveals Re Re- New Insight to tox x Island Pe People c I IBy By FRANK A. A HUNT 0 Writers 1 of adventure stories and Ind novelists in general have long neglected nei- nei neg- neg a wonderful field the field the Philippine Philippine Phil Phil- Phi Phi- Islands Perhaps j it i is is because because be be- cause cuse they know so 80 little lUe about them and the neighboring gems of the tho Pacific Bullets and Bolos by Colonel John R. R White retired from the Philippine constabulary is not fiction fic lie ton tion the critic can n guarantee g that tat but the book serves to recall real to memory a untouched wealth of fiction material Whites White's account gives s a new In Insight insight insight in- in sight into the constructive construct work of Un Uncle le Sam Sm as ac a colonizer as ac well ell ella as a revealing many of our mistakes The author gives a vivid picture of ofa ofa ofa a a period of ot his own adventurous life Ue White Whito went ent to the tho Islands as as a soldier fought through tho rebellion rebellion rebel rebel- lion lon and then step b by step advanced advanced ad ad- d- d in rank 1 in th constabulary though It i was sas not without paying the price In health and the prie sacrifice sac sac- sa- sa of the companionship of his kind PAYS TROOPS TRIBUTE He Ho pays tribute to the tho and More Mor troops whom he commanded in many a a jungle battle batte or brush with wih ladrones la Ia drones long long- after the rebellion was supposed suppose to have been suppressed White was as wounded tIce nearly nealy lost his leg legs and was awarded the te medal of valor alor White Yie is i sufficiently modest moest Any man who can n take a bunch of fa fanatical fanatical fa- fa Moros or stupid or lazy ans and make them the not only into into good s soldiers but Into heroes willing to die f fighting the tho renegades of their own tribes Is not only a shining patriot with faith In his mission but an inspired genius I have told something about the te Philippines and the I Filipinos says the author and perhaps I have have- achieved the tho distinction of writing about the Philippines without expressing ex ex- pressing an opinion on their InhabItants InhabItants' Inhabitants Inhabitants' ants It-ants' fitness or unfitness for fo In Independence independence In- In dependence The confidence with Ul which the casual cual visitor expresses his opinion in ih several hundred pages astonishes astonishes astonishes aston aston- us who have spent years ears among the Filipinos and Moros And Andye Andye ye wo usually note how the slightly Informed author on Philippine su subjects subjects sub sub- confuses his Ills facts with the theory theor which he desires to expound RECALLS MEMORIES What memories of tropic nights Whites White's book serves to recall to those of us who crossed his trail I crosse trai many times the fireflies sparkling in the trees the weird and plaintive calls cals from the encroaching Jungle the crescent cresent moon the native music music music mu mu- sic coming from some stilted hut where a bane balle was In progress Or the ca days s of ot heat weariness and nostalgia when len one sickened of or orthe the smell of the east and the present ever sight of disease and death Oh yes Jes there were compensations there there always are ac for tor youth and though the call cal to adventure and to sultry romance grows fainter faint faint- er with each year still it would be great grat to go o back for Cor a a. while while and and study from Crom the same sort sr of dictionary dic die from which EO so s man many of ofus ofus ofus us learned Espanol The Century Co |