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Show OFFICE-SEEKING BECOMES VOCATION IN PHILIPPINES Washington. May 13. Office-seeking and office-holding by professional politicians is becoming a vocation in the Philippines, according to the annual an-nual report of Acting Director Har-bord Har-bord of the Philippine constabulary. So many bright young Phlllplnos are attracted from better things, reports Director Harbord to an extent which causes sincere regret to friends of the race. ." "The froth and effervescence of office-seeking and of radical newspapers newspa-pers In Manila," says the director, "are not to be found as indicative of the sentiment of the mass of Phllipino'!, who, above 'all things, desire .peace and a return of economic prosperity. Differences of religion seem to be losing los-ing their, political importance. There " are indications of the waning of the Aglipay cult Bnd a return of its adherence ad-herence to the old-time faith. Prot-fstant Prot-fstant missionaries, In nearly all provinces pro-vinces have gathered little flocks, actuated act-uated by one motive or another, but nhow no material Increase. The Col-orum, Col-orum, Guarda do Honore and Santa Iglesla, If these may be' mentioned among religious faiths, show no material mater-ial change. Their membership . is all fanatical, ready to follow or forsake them under the leadership of plausible plaus-ible but unscrupulous scoundrels who exploit the poor, ignorant and, superstitious su-perstitious for pleasure or commercial profit," |