General MacArthur assigned to the Commission for the southern trip the transport Sumner , which contained sufficient cabin space to accommodate in comfort a large party. Besides all the ladies in the civil government, the Commission had invited some newspaper men and a number of prominent Filipinos who were pledged to the restoration of peace under American control. Among them were representatives of all the peoples in the southern islands to be visited. Then, too, we all took our children. We had to; and it was fortunate for us that they were such experienced and adaptable little people else they might have proved a great nuisance in such a mixed party and on a trip where we were to stop at twenty-odd different towns and attend innumerable meetings, banquetes and bailes . But, as it was, they gave us little trouble. Mrs. Moses’ little daughter, who had just come out from San Francisco, my daughter Helen and my son Robert, Mr.