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'THE MAUI NEWS, FRIDAY, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1916.
OUR ISLAND CONTEMPORARIES
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PROVIDE OUR OWN SHIPS
Advices Indicate that they are hav
ing even a harder experience on the
east coast of South Amerlci on ac
count of the scarcity of merchant ves
sels than we In Hawaii and this ocean.
It is related, for instance, that coffee Is
selling in Brazil at $1 the bag, but it
coasts $2 a bag to get it to New York.
Scores of German ships are interned
In the ports bf Rio de Janeiro, Buenos
Aires and other havens, where they
must remain until the war is over.
Meanwhile, the only vessels in com
mission and available for earring
freight are a few British boats, the
charters upon which are enormous.
Therefore, the need of a protected
American merchant marine was never tempered
more apparent than at the present
time. The rub will come to us in
these Island when the present contract
for hauling sugar to the eastern re
finers expires. All of the signs of the
times point to the conclusion that
there will be extreme difficulty in ne
gotiating any contract at all, and if a
workable arrangement is 'successfully
made the freight tariff rate will be so
h'gh as to greatly reduce the profit to
be expected from sugar.
It seems to us that the great plan-
tations of Hawaii should make them
selves independent of such conditions
by providing their own shipping facili
ties. They now have an aggregate
of many millions of surplus enough
to purchase or build steamers to handle
the entire business of these Islands
for many years. It would not be an
expenditure it would be an invest
ment, Just as are plantation railroads
and sugar mills, the difference being
in favor of the steamers, for they
woufd show realizations on return
cargoes. The same end might be
reached by a combination with the
Matson company which would bring
about a very great enlargement of
their fleet, and a control of the same
in Hawaii.
Conditions are becoming worse ev
ery day. Few ships are building comp
ared to the number being destroyed in
war, and in less than two years there
will be a shipping crisis such as the
world has never before known. The
time to prepare for the certain scarci
ty of ships and the enormous cost of
moving cargoes is right now when the
Islands are able to' do it !and the op
portunity is still ours. Garden Island.
CABLE VS. WIRELESS
threatening writer-up of Hawaii for
a surprising number of travelers ar
riving on a boat in the morning, leav
ing Honolulu on the same boat on the
same day, feel called upon to ac
quaint the world with how they dis
covered Hawaii. Some of the "Don'ts"
should be:
Don't try Bell Promotion Committee
literature to a magazine as your ori
ginal article.
Don't refer to the hula as the nat
ional dance. The majority of people
in Hawaii have probably never seen
it.
Don't create the impression that
the stranger Is received with open
arms wherever he happens to go.
While the Hawailans are naturally
hospitable, their hospitality has been
with discretion in the
course of many years of abuse.
Don't make palm trees grow on the
mountain tops. It isn't done, you
know!
Dnn't dwell too much on the "grass
huts" of the natives. They are to be
found only (n the fartherest nooks.
In the towns the poor live in tene
ments, Just as they do in all civilized
cities.
Don't let a grouch fill you with the
pessimism of a lost political cause;
nor, for that matter, permit a subsidi
zed booster to pack your mind with
the perfection of his own politics.
Neither reflects the temperament of
the people, which is sane, kindly, un
worrinx, optimist'c and reasonably
content.
When referring Hawaii as "the
me'tine-pot of the Pacific," don't treat
It as the only crucible in the world.
There are others of greater magni
tude New York, for example.
In bringing fn the expression "lazy
latitudes," don't force it fer the sake
of phrasey platitudes. Hawaii is on
the northernmost rim of the aforesaid
lazy lats.
Bo areful how you dwell on Kame
hameha, he who conquered the. islands
to make one government, as "the Na
po'eon of the Pacific," for Kamehame
ha was never conquered, as was Na
poleon, nor was he ever imprisoned
on an 'sle to meditate his sins.
If you must write of Hawaii, after
hut a few hours' acquaintance with
Honolulu, take the dear reader into
your confidence and confess that you
were here only while the steamer
touched on a transpacific voyage.
Paradise of Pacific.
INADEQUATE
It would seem to be a good thing for
the cable companies that the great
war is on at present The cables can
never be supplanted altogether by the
wireless service as, when absolutely
confidential messages are to be sent
anywhere, the ' cable has other lines
backed off the boards. There is no
guarantee when a wireless message is
sent out that all sorts and conditions
of men in all orts of unsuspected
localities do not receive the message
that was intended for one particular
man or group of men.
Wireless tolls have already eaten
tremendously into the profits of the
cable companies and they are not
earning anything like what they used
to before Wizard Marconi invented the
ether wave method of sending mes
sages. Of course the advent of the wireless
has cheapened communication with all
parts of the globe and that is a great
consideration. The operation of a
wireless plant Is much cheaper than
that of a cable company which has to
go to enormeus expense in order to
lay Its communicating links with dist
ant lands. For messages that can do
no harm, even if overheard by "list
eners in." the wireless is a great boon,
and all mankind should be proud of
the wonderful invention. But for con
fldential messages the wireless is as
about as secret as a country "party
lino" telephone. Hawaii Herald.
WRITING UP HAWAI
Someday it may occur to the
Hawaiian Legislature to publish a
book on Hawaii, a book containing
authoritative information relative to
industr'es. available land (if any)
population, history, cost of living and
general information anent climate
and other advantages. Many govern
ments issue such books. Reliable
persons may secure them, in some
cases, without cost. Sometimes r
iin"iin;il charge '.s made.
There Is a great deal of literature
concering the Hawaiian Islands, and
much of it is reliable, though little is
as comprehensive as is required.
An authoritative publication would
be of value to prospective authors
visiting these Islands. It would set
them right on a number of points
Indeed, a page might be devoted to
"Don'ts" for the special beniflt of
John Ginza, the Japanese who mur
dered George O. Cooper of Hana,
Maul, was allowed to enter a plea of
guilty to murder in second degree
and was thereupon given a sentence
of life imprisonment.
The crime was as cold-blooded
and crafty as any in the police annals
of the Valley Island, probably as any
In the territory of these island. For
five years this Japanese had carried
in his revengeful brain the project
of some day "getting" the plantation
man with whom he had had a trivial
dispute. For months he plotted ac
tively to carry out his design of mur
der. When he finally came upon his
victim, alone, he shot him from his
horse and then finished the Woody
deed, after which he fled. But for
one or two slips in his carefully-laid
scheme the kind of slips which often
leave clues to violent crime Ginza
might never have been hunted down.
The Jananese was allowed by the
Maul authorities to enter a plea of
guilty to second-degree murder be
cause they did not believe there was
enough evidence to convict him on a
first-degree charge. The main evi
dence against him was his confes
sion, which he could have repudiated
on the stand. The rest was circum
stantial. It is, of course, best known to the
Maul prosecuting attorney what he
could have done had he fought
to get a conviction on a first-degree
charge. Probably he had good reason
to believe there was no chance of a
conviction. The fact that Ginza es
caped the hangman's noose shows the
difficulty in Hawaii of securing the
extreme penalty for a crime which
is a clear case of damnable murder.
From all reports politics on Maui !
this year has assumed something like i
Uhe old-time vigor. The fight between
George P. Cooke and Dr. J. H. Ray-
mond for the senate is close and hot. i
The political luau, almost forgotten
in the 1914 campaign, has been reviv
ed and the candidates are kept busy
making speeches and paying for pig
and poi. The Republicans have called
into service such warhorses as R. W.
Breckons, W. O. Smith and John
Wise, while the Democrats are point
ing with pride to the fact that Dr.
Raymond stands for an increase in
wages to the honest laborer in county
employ. Star-Bulletin. I
NO TOOL IS GOOD ENOUGH, UNLESS IT MAY BE
DEPENDED UPON FOR ACCURACY AND FOR WITH
STANDING THE STRAINS OF UNUSUALLY HARD
WORK.
MACHANICS KNOW OUR TOOLS
TO BE ABSOLUTELY DEPENDABLE
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