. Review of reviews and world's work. justas the Americans thetflselvesdemanded in the past thattheir own rights and privi-leges should be Americanismwould come to mean for theFilipinos the crucifixion oftheir longings for liberr\-, themutilation of their hopes andambitions to hold the key oftheir own conclusion, Seiior Palma emphasizes thefact that a prompt recognition of independ-ence would be the surest means of strengthen-ing the influence of the United States, sinceit would put an end to the doubt and distrustnow prevailing, and would make the nameAmerica
. Review of reviews and world's work. justas the Americans thetflselvesdemanded in the past thattheir own rights and privi-leges should be Americanismwould come to mean for theFilipinos the crucifixion oftheir longings for liberr\-, themutilation of their hopes andambitions to hold the key oftheir own conclusion, Seiior Palma emphasizes thefact that a prompt recognition of independ-ence would be the surest means of strengthen-ing the influence of the United States, sinceit would put an end to the doubt and distrustnow prevailing, and would make the nameAmerica synonymous with that of that has already been done wouldgain a new significance. The Americancapital that has been invested would nolonger be looked upon as a means of op-pressing the Filipinos, but as a powerful aux-iliary for the development of the American functionaries who wouldremain would not be considered parasitesliving upon the fat of the land, but wouldbe regarded as helpers in its ROAD WITH STANDARD CR0«1M AND DITCH. NOW COMMON IN THE PHILIPPINES LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MONTH 223 MENTAL AND PHYSICAL TESTS FOR THE fitness of a would-be aviator totake up a career in the flying corps ofan army depends peculiarly on the psycho-physiological aptitudes of the subjects. Ver}ingenious methods of determining these apti-tudes have recently been worked out by twoFrench physicians. Dr. Jean Camus and , at the instance of Dr. Marchoux,Medicin-Chef at Paris. The methods em-plojed by these learned bi-ologists and the results ob-tained are described byJacques Boyer in La Na-ture (Paris). MM. Camus and Nepperbegin by measuring the timeof psycho-motor reactions bymeans of the dArsonvalchronometer; in other words,by determining what fractionof a second is required forthe subject to react after hav-ing received a visual, tactile,or auditor}. impression. It iseasy to understand the prac-tical importance of these fac-tors in
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