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Show Tree Doth Good and Evil The nipa palm, which Col. Carml Thompson, President Coolidge's emissary emis-sary in the Philippine islands, recently recent-ly learned may become nn important source of sugar, has long been an important im-portant factor In the economic life of the people of the islands, says the Minneapolis Journal. It supplies shelter shel-ter and food, but it also furnishes the basis of "vino," one of the most brain-corroding brain-corroding liquids produced by the tal- ented amateur distillers of the Orient. ' It is thus n tree of both good and evil fruit. |