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FOUR THE MAUI NEWS, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1918. .V- . f I THE MAUI NEWS Entered at the Post Office at Walluku, Maui, Hawaii, as second-class matter. A Republican Paper Published in the Interest of the People Issued Every Friday. MAUI PUBLISHING COMPANY, LIMITED, Proprietors and Publishers Subscription Rates, $2.50 per Year in Advance. WILL. J. COOPER : : EDITOR AND MANAGER FRIDAY : : : JULY 19, 1918. MR. HEARST AND HIS PUBLICATIONS Mr. Hearst, as everyone knows, owns ten or more newspapers in the larger American cities. He also controls the International News Service which supplies news to several hundred papers, lie likewise i ontrols a special feature service which sells its products to many papers. Besides these enterprises in the newspaper field, Air. Hearst owns the i osmopolitan, Good lloousekeeping, Harper's Bazar, Motor, Motor Boating, Puck, and Hearst's Magazine. Altogether his reading matter reaches a good many million Ameri cans. The British and the French governments barred the International News Service from their countries because it cabled 1 The Inde pendent more than a year ago exposed Hearst's habil f pi lining so caiied cables from correspondents he did not have, and from places v, here there were no correspondents. Moreover, the Associated Press is suing Hearst's International News Service for stealing news. This Mr. Hearst's organization admits, but argues that stealing news is all right because' it is not property. Curiously enough the Hearst attorneys in this case arc Mr. Unter ineyer, who is closely connected with the Government, and Mr. Johnson, who is United Stales Senator from California. As a news gatherer Mr. Hearst's agency is enterprising and un 'l list worthy, as The Independent proved, and unscrupulous by its own admission. Colonel Roosevelt in his argument with the Postmaster-General produced an array of Hearst editorials which is evidence enough for any thinking man that the influence of the Hearst papers has been against the cause for which this country is waging war. There are a number of authors who have refused to write for Hearst's magazines at any price or on any consideration although certain members of the Cabinet are not among these. There are a number of towns in which citizens have publicly burn ed his papers and still others where the newsdealers refuse to handle them. The Government has decided that Mr. Hearst's organizations have done no disloyal act for which any of the publications should be suppressed. That is a legal question. But any business that deals with the public is the public's business and the public can apply its own icmcdy. Any man who is convinced that Hearst's influence is de trimental to the United Stales owes it to his country to cease to buy, read, or advertise in the Hearst publications. World's Work. DON'T EXPECT THE CHILDREN TO DO IT ALL Owing no doubt to the good work of those hustling, keen young leys and girls who have so generously given of thtir time and their pennies to the thrift campaign, the impression has been created in the m'nds of many that War Savings Stamps are for children only. Let us stop to consider the matter for a moment. The Congress authorized an issue of $2,000,000,000 W. S. S. to Jo sold in 1918. The purpose of the Stamps was twofold: (1) To g.t money for the Government for war needs; (2) to instill the habit of thrift in the American people and by the practice of thrift save labor and materials for the Government. Can we expect the children, splendid workers that they arc, to i'.-eount for $2,000,000,000 of Stamps? Do we consider that the children alone of all our population need to be inculcated with the thrift idea? Are they the only spendthrifts? Centainly not. War Savings Stamps are for everyone. No one, be he a million aire or be he the humblest laborer, can say truthfully that he is not interested in W. S. S. and the saving program that they stand for. There are, indeed, few men and women in the land unable to save and economize more than they do now. If they want to be listed among the patriotic people of the land they must save and economize more than they do now. The winning of the war with the least pos sible sacrifice demands this, for there are not enough labor and ma terials for the Government's war needs and for the use of all spend thrifts.; Cut those useless expenditures. All of us have them. Remem ber that our boys in the Army and Navy do not expect luxuries and do not grumble even if they do not get all the comforts that they are supposed to get. On or before June 28 show the children that you, too, are enlist ed in the War Saving Army. National War Savings Committee. o NO LET-UP ON WHEAT-SAVING The long, hard pull of the war is before us now. Our duty is clearly defined ; we realize that the Allies must have wheat at any cost. No matter what we have done already, our service from now on must be' steadied and intensified. We must work harder, raise more food and save more food than ever before. Even if we have a bumper crop this year, we must remember that we have to store up reserves against the future. America must provision the world until the war is over, and through the period of reconstruction. Our fighting men and the Allies must have food for immediate use and for a safe reserve. The war comes first. Ict us put our wheat-saving on a business basis. There are plenty of other things we can cat. If we keep our gardens going and conserve every ounce of food they produce we will be independent of the food market, so that, after the next crop comes :n, we can continue our wheat-saving schedule to build up a reserve for the Allies. We are not in this war for a month, or for a year we are in the war to the finish. The most effective help we can give our Government is to strip our decks for effective battle cast off all non-essentials, cut out all useless activities, reduce all our processes of life to the simplest possible 'tetnis in order that every thought, every action and every talent may bo enlisted to beat Germany! o KNITTING VS. CHECKERS In these days when there is mighty little loafing in private life; x when men in every line of industry from heads of big business enter prises down to day laborers are working over time to try to make up for the men we have gladly sent to answer the call of our country; when women are doing men's work and even the children are giving meir sirengui to me cause oi tnc nation, it sort ot galls the average ciltzen to note the number of county employees whose most apparent occupation is to play checkers and swap yarns with each other. There are some county officials and employees who are always busy, a few, indeed, who have given a great deal of their own time in the past year to patriotic service for which they can hope for no reward. But there are others who apparently have much more time than they know what to do with. It isn't so much a question of money, it's a question of nan power being wasted which is all too scarce. The men of the fire department in Honolulu are spending their spare time knitting for our boys in khaki. It beats playing checkers. UNCLE SAM, WASTER In another column of this issue is printed a letter from Food Ad ministrator Child to the newspapers of the territory which should be of such general interest to everybody that it is reproduced in full. Mr. Child admits that the newspapers have been quite a help, and he asks them to keep on with the good work. There is no doubt that they will, each to the best of its ability. But-the food board's letter is but a sample of the letters that arc flooding every newspaper, big and little, throughout the United States today. Practically every department and branch of the government that directly touches the people is asking of the newspapers the same help that Mr. Child asks. And they are every one getting this help in fullest measure that the newspapers can give. Yet while the government is urging conservation of every kind, it is itself, through lack of proper co-ordination and organization per mitting an enormous waste in its own multiplicity of publicity effort. No newspaper in the country could possible use one tenth part of the matter that is submitted to it from food commissions, War Savings .'.amps committees, Liberty Bond departments, forest bureau, Red Cross, Y.M.C.A., Boy Scouts, and dozens of other bureaus big and little, each with its paid corps of newspaper writers. The amount paid for viiting, printing and mailing these publicity sheets that cannot be used, and the cost of transporting them through the mails in hundreds of tons, must aggregate an immense figure. And it is waste. Not of money alone, but of the brains and hands of hundreds of workers. Moreover while the government expects (and. gets) the best the newspapers have to give in way of space and service without any cost to it, it is spending huge sums on artists, lithographers and printers for posters as a matter of course. And many of these posters are distri buted in most wasteful manner also, as for instance, when Hawaii is flooded with a ton or two of costly art pictures urging us to lay in our oal supply early ! It cannot be expected that 'a big job such as we have on hand with the war can be carried on without any loose ends, but we should not ex pect them to continue faster than they are discovered. And this mat ter of publicity waste in one that is most patently in need of attention. o CONSIDER THE COST Hawaii was probably never before so hard-pressed for labor to keep the industries of the Islands going as at present. Nor does there si em much chance of relieving this need. But it should be remembered it at Hawaii is not the only place that is short of man-power. The trouble is chronic all over the mainland as well. Suggestions of letting down the bars to further influx of laborers "rom the Orient are heard. The abrogation of the Chinese exclusion act as a war measure is advocated not only for the relief of Hawaii but for the mainland. Also the Japanese are suggesting the calling oif i'' the "gentleman's agreement" which at present acts to keep Japanese laborers from coming here. It seems improbable that the restrictions will be withdrawn in so :ar as the mainland is concerned, though that might be done with little clanger. But it is open to serious question if it should be considered for the Islands. Unless we be willing to frankly give up all idea of making this territory really American it should not be considered for a moment. With a large preponderance of our population of a foreign i ace, living here much as in their own country, having their own schools to keep alive the language, traditions and habits of their home land, the task of the melting-pot seems sufficiently formidable. But it is not hopeless. Moreover the war is going to be a big help in bringing the people of all races closer together. Those who think only of present needs, of the loss in money or material sacrifices that must be suffered unless more labor is secured, should try to look into the future and picture the ultimate cost of a s' ep that once taken can never be retraced. o THE CIVIC CONVENTION The action of the chamber of, commerce in referring the matter of holding or postponing the Civic Convention this year to the various member bodies was the only proper course. The fact that it is Maui's tuin to entertain the' convention has nothing to do with the case. The Honolulu chamber of commerce has voted to endorse the holding of tl-t convention, and. unless the Hilo board of trade and other bodies belonging to the organization outvote Honolulu on the matter, the gath ering will be held. In truth there are a number of strong reasons for holding the meet ing this year and only one against holding it. That one is a question of time in face of the increased burden of work which the war has entailed on everybody. The business men of Honolulu have decided that this consideration does not outweigh the importance of getting the 'slands together for serious consideration of problems which affect us all. Maui appreciates these facts fully and will do her part to the best of her ability. Honolulu's vote on the matter carries with it the im plied assurance that she will also do her part in sending a represent ative delegation and in holding up her end of the program. o MORE SUSPICIOUS PUBLICITY WORK Almost coincident with the cabled reports last week telling of the disclosure of large quantities of German war bonds purchased by the Uusch family, ot St. l,ouis brewery notoriety, this territory was noou- ed with reprinted clippings from St. Louis newspapers telling of the activity of the big Anheuser-Busch brewing plant in matter of Red Cross subscriptions. One of the reproductions is a big 7-column cut showing the employees of the brewery gathered in the brewery yarct listening to Red Cross lecturers. The matter of Liberty Bonds is only mentioned in the propaganda which, somehow as a whole does not have the ring of sincerity from an American standpoint. The reprints in question were put in the mails in Honolulu in plain envelopes, without clue as to their origin. o At a time when every indication points to a heretofore undreamed of trade development on the Pacific following the great war, the ap pearance of the "Pan-Pacific, a Magazine of International Commerce," a publication launched a month ago in San Francisco, is most timely. The second number (June) has just reached the Islands. Like its initial number it is attractive in every way to anyone interested in the present and future of the countries of the Pacific. Apparently business men of the Pacific Coast have found it so, and are quickly coming to its support. For a new magazine it is one of the best written, best print ed and apparently best founded in its field of any we have seen. In .ew of Hawaii's prominent place in Pacific affairs the magazine should prove of much value to business men and others of the Islands. o Clement Crovvell deserves the thanks of the community for the year of hard work he has given in connection with the registration and induction of men under the selective draft. lie has been compelled to res:gn in justice to his other work. W. H. Field, who has been appoint- d to succeed Sheriff Crowell as chairman of the local board, is taking t p a patriotic work of much importance and responsibility and as one of the government's "$1 a year" men should have the backing of every body. o Kona, Hawaii, held a community fair on the 4th of July. She probably copied the idea from the Haiku fair, but anyhow she made a b'g success of it. The exhibits were contributed by people of all na tionalities of the district, and after they had served their purpose as exhibits were sold back to the comunity for the Red Cross. In this way Kona raised $1983. Kona's all right! An oil tank steamer, after delivering a consignment of oil to a rival company's tanks in Honolulu, last week, cleaned out her tanks and took on a return cargo of molasses at Kahului. This is the way i lungs are done when Uncle Sam is acting as general manager. 3 Gasoline zOiifx cl Continuous: CAain or "Boiling Toirds Only a straight-distilled, all-refinery gasoline cart have the continuous, uniform chain of boiling points necessary to give easy starting, quick and smooth acceleration, steady, dependable power and long mileage. Combustion starts with the lowest boiling points and flashes instantaneously through the medium to the highest. In Red Crown, the Gasoline of Quality, the full and complete chain is there; in "mixtures" some link is always missing. Look for the Red Crown sign before you fill. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (California) OLD Clothes Dyed W'F, DO AS GOOD WORK AS ANY MAINLAND ESTABLISHMENT FRENCH LAUNDRY J. ABADIE, Proprietor. Jno. D. Souza, Paia Agent M. 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