Don

Salvador
Araneta
FOR GOD AND COUNTRY
 Who is
Don Salvador Araneta?
Don
Salvador
Araneta
He was a Filipino
nationalist, constitutionalist,
politician, civil servant,
lawyer, educator, economist,
businessman, industrialist,
environmentalist, and
philanthropist.
 Salvador Araneta was born in January 31,1902, in Manila, Philippines, to
Gregorio S. Araneta and Carmen R. Zaragosa

Gregorio Soriano Araneta (1869 - 1930), legal luminary, businessman,

nationalist and patriot, served the Philippines under three regimes

He had 13 siblings, among them Carmen, Jose, Consuelo Cuesta, Pacita
Obieta, Antonio, Rosa Alvarez, Ramon, Theresa Albert, Vicente, and
Carmelita who died at age 23.

HIS EARLY LIFE

 Like his father young Salvador became a lawyer. He received his bachelor of arts degree, magna
cum laude, from Ateneo de Manila in 1918. In 1922 he obtained a law degree (licenciado en derecho
meritissimus) from the University of Santo Tomas. In August 1922 he passed his bar examinations.
He pursued postgraduate studies in constitutional and commercial la at Harvard University

He married an equally like-minded and visionary person --Victoria Lopez

y Ledesma, a pioneering businesswoman, philanthropist and educator.

HIS EARLY LIFE

 He served as:
• Secretary of Economic Coordination under President Elpidio Quirino,
• Secretary of Agriculture under President Ramon Magsaysay, and
• member of the National Economic Council

 He founded:
•Gregorio Araneta University Foundation (now De La Salle Araneta University), the
first private agricultural school after World War II, endowed the university with one sixth of
his personal wealth and turned it into a foundation.
• FEATI University to train engineers and mechanics for Far Eastern Air Transportation,
Inc.,
• Far Eastern Air Transportation, Inc., the first airline that operated after the war serving
China and San Francisco.

HIS CONTRIBUTIONS
Don
Salvador
Araneta
His works and other
contributions
 He was the recipient of numerous awards for his work in economics, social science and education. He was
conferred a doctor of laws, honoris causa, by Fordham University in 1946 in recognition of his
achievements as a lawyer and as a government official. Active to his last days, he died on October 7, 1982.

 He pioneered in the:
• flour industry (RFM Corporation)
• in soy bean extraction (Republic Soya),
• in the manufacture of electric motors (Feati Industries),
• animal feeds (AIA Feed Mills),
• animal vaccines (AIA Biological Laboratories).

HIS WORKS AND OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS

 Araneta co-wrote with his prominent father several law book, including Insolvency Law (1927) and The Philippine
Administrative Code (1927). He also wrote Educational Philosophy of a University President; Education for National
Development; Economic Nationalism and Capitalism for All in a Directed Economy; and America’s Double Cross of the
Philippines: A Democratic Ally. In the last book, he argued that the US had twice double-crossed the country: the first time
when it reneged on its promises to help General Emilio Aguinaldo and the second time in 1946 when the US forced a newly
independent Philippines to accede to the military bases agreements, mutual defense pacts, and parity amendment to the
Philippine Constitution.

HIS WORKS AND OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS

 He was co-founder of:
• NEPA (National Economic Protectionism Association), To spearhead the Filipino First business policy in 1935
• PRRM (Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement), 1952
• White Cross Society, an orphanage, co-founded with his wife (Victoria Lopez y Ledesma)
• 1945 he founded both the Holy Rosary Crusade and Friends of the Lepers.
• Araneta remained a visionary to his last days and dedicated his life to uplift the values of Philippine society by seeking
property ownership and capitalism for all. These he embodied in a draft Bayanikasan Constitution, which was published in
1980.

HIS WORKS AND OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS

 He wrote “The Bayanikasan Constitution, The Bayanikasan Approach to a Cancerous Problem”

• was an article written by Araneta in reply to his detractors. One

detractor labeled his views as communistic, white the other one called
him a clerico-fascist.
• Bayanihan Federalism is so similar in name to the Bayanikasan
Constitution that Araneta presented in the 1971 Constitutional Convention
that we can easily confuse one with the other.

HIS WORKS AND OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS