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THE MAUI NEWS, FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1016. THE MAUI NEWS Entered at the Post Office at Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii, as second-class matter. A Republican Paper Published in the Interest of the People Issued Every Friday. MAUI PUBLISHING COMPANY, LIMITED, Proprietor! and Publisher Subscription Rates, $2.50 per Year in Advance. KAHULUI RAILROAD GO'S erchandise Department WILL J. COOPER, I i : EDITOR AND MANAGER . . may 12, 1916 FRIDAY 2 GOOD ROADS It is only a question of time until Maui county must wake up to the fact that the ordinary macadam road is a mighty expensive as well as unsatisfactory one for our conditions. Also that this same macadam road, properly treated with oil or other asphaltun surface, has amply made good on Maui, even under severe conditions of travel and stress of weather. Plain macadam, well laid, is a good base for a substantial road, but it will not stand the unraveling action of frequent and torential rains, and the pull of automobile tires unless it is bound together with some elastic and waterproof material. During the past six months we have had excellent demonstration of the ability of various kinds of road to stand the washing of excessive rains. In every instance the plain madacam has suffered severely even more if possible than plain earth roads where ditching was ample while oiled roads in half a dozen places have had raging rivers turned onto them, and came out with scarce a sign of damage. Then again the cost of maintenance of an oil surfaced road is ex tremely light, though it must be admitted that some of our best roads have been sadly neglected. Just what the comparative cost of the two types of roads is on Maui, and also the maintenance cost, possibly has not been figured out. Enough is known however, to make engineers and practical roadbuilders unanimous in agreeing that the oil surfaced road, at whatever its cist, is the cheapest by far n the end. The county is building some good road in the Lahaina district. It has some good roads in central Maui, which are being allowed to go to ruin for want of a little inexpensive and timely attention ; and a lot of most expensive road tinkering is going on in various places on roads that never will be anything but an execration to the public and an ex pense to the county until they are fixed properly. It is to be hoped that the county supervisors will get their eyes open to these facts, and shape their course accordingly. If they do it will mean that they will take steps first of all to take care of the good roads we already have; and second, that they will build new roads only upon permanent lines, such as they are working out on the Lahaina side. n u u a a SHIELDING A TENDER CONSCIENCE A sensitive consciencs is about as annoying as a sensitive tooth. County Engineer Cox's conscience seems to be of this kind. It will not let him close his eyes to what he considers to be inefficiency ; and it makes him believe that he is responsible for a lot of things that the supervisors say is none of his business. In short Mr. Cox's ideas of an engineer's duties and responsibilities differ very radically from those of the average politician. As a result, another crisis impends. At present the board of supervisors is considering an ordinance designed to shield Mr. Cox's conscience by specifically stripping him of practic ally all the responsibilities which he now believes to be his. When this bill goes through the county engineer will be a sort of mechanical com puting machine. He will produce figures and specifications on demand but presumably he will not have to pass on the carrying out of these specifications, because that might not jibe with his conscience. The chairman and members of the board will attend to all such matters. They know how to do such things without friction, and are not handi capped by exposed consciences. As matters stand now, it is freely ad mitted that the county engineer is getting everybody in bad, politically .because of his own lack of political sense. He refuses to play the game. Complaints are coming in from all sides. He is too hard to please. And he actually acts as though he thought a dollar of the county's money should get a dollar's worth in results. n n n 8 It must be something of a jolt to the Navy League, and others who presume to have a monopoly on patriotism, and who would turn our country into an armed camp, if they had their way, to have Gener al Nelson A Miles tell a senate committee on January 31, last, that "The placing of an army on American soil is the last thing any European government would attempt; it could never be re-embarked. It would dissolve like snow beneath the midday sun. Whenever it has been attempted it has resulted in disaster;" or when he says "These overseas expeditions spring from the minds of men writing about preparedness who know less about preparedness than anything else. M X M ft K Publicity ! The Ad Club ought to take its hat off to the Governor and to General Johnson. It was a neat little trick, that of cabling the war department an offer of the services of the Hawaii National Guard for the Mexican border, and it was turned at the psychological moment too. The joke of the matter is that some people in Honolulu have grown almost hysterically indignant because they are too serious mind ed to see the point. Of course our militia is not ready for real service and just as certainly the federal government will decline the offer; but Hawaii gets the advertising just the same. 8 n u a Fresh hope for diversified agriculture for the islands is held out from the arrival this week of Entomogistl'ulloway from a bug collect ing trip to the Orient. Mr. Fulloway is supposed to have brought home among other insects, a parasite for the pink cotton boll worm. If this bug does the work it is expected, Hawaii may be expected to come to the front very quickly as a producer of fine cotton. It has been proven that cotton fiber equal to any in the world can be produced here, provid ed the boll worm can be controlled. 8 8 8 8 8 Next week is "Humane Week" on the mainland. The auto spec fiends, during the period, will probably all endeavor to inflict as little pain as possible to their victims. In Europe, we understand, all the latest inventions for rendering slaughter painless, will be brought into use, even if it should slightly reduce the elliciency of the engines of war, In Honolulu there will be but three humane days this year the 19th 20th, and 21st, and the pastors will on one day preach humane sermons 8 8 8 8 8 If Representative Mann, of Illinois, ever had a chance to win the seat m the White House, which he is believed to covet, he has certainly damned his chances by his petty and ignoble statement that "the President, as a political dodge, is trying to work up to a point where he can get into war with Germany during a presidential campaign. HI. n ft 8 tt- ON HAN Galvanized, Pittsburg Perfect Jumbo Special Electrically Welded H SPECIFICATION Height Length of Roll Weight of Roll Stays 26 Inches 20 Rods 226 lbs. 6 Inches Apart Stays and Strands of No. 9 Wire Number of Strands . 7 Strands Spaced, 3, 3X, 4, 4X, 5, and 5X Inches Apart. Price on Application Telephone No. 1062 Kaliului, Maui, T. H. 8- XI- 8 8 8 8 8 EH