Word: southern
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Among other things he spoke of the general culture of the people in the Southern nations, Latin America is too unjustly thought of by the rest of the world, and does not deserve the ridicule which is often heaped upon it. Contrary to popular belief, its inhabitants are not mentally inert, and stagnant in action. Those who travel there are surprised at the intellectual vigor displayed in matters of science, literature, and judicial culture. It is true that this activity has as yet no solid foundation, and that the masses need to be further educated. But this end is being...
Major J. P. Finley, U. S. A., speaking in the Living Room of the Union last night on "Moro Problems in the Southern Philippines, and the American Method of Solution," compared the inefficient rule of the Spaniards from 1580 to 1898, with that of the United States army during the last fifteen years in which remarkable industrial and educational development has taken place. The army, in fact, has done a greater work of civilization than all the other forces which have been working in the Islands for the last 350 years combined...
Major J. P. Finley, U. S. A., will speak in the Living Room this evening at 8.15 o'clock on "Moro Problems in the Southern Philippines, and the American Method of Solution." Major Finley, during a term as governor of Zamboanga, a city in Mindanao, one of the islands of the Philippine group, has succeeded in conducting a social transformation among ignorant, superstitions, and warlike Moros by the application of practical business ideas. By means of public gatherings at which the rudimentary principles of government and economics were explained to the natives, and by the establishment of a Moro exchange...
...fall program of the Musical Clubs up to the time of the Christmas southern trip is as follows...
...evening Major John P. Finley, U. S. A., will speak in the Living Room on "Moro Problems in the Southern Philippines, and the American Method of Solution." During a term of several years as governor of one of the Moro provinces, Major Finley made a comprehensive study of the aborigines and the problems involved in their government. All interested in the problems of our territorial possessions should attend...