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THE GARDEN ISLAND TUESDAY, OCT. 2, 1917.
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Tlio, marvelous wear-qnality of
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comes from years and years
of experience, an ability to
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market in quantities that in
sure the lowest price, the
economy of making shoes on
a large scale, and most im
portant of all the ideal of
qualilty that will not allow
anything inferior to enter in
to the making.
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HONOLULU
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JEWELERS
everything in the
Silver and Gold Line,
Rich Cut Glass and
Art Goods.
Merchandise of the
Best Quality Only.
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Leading Jewelers.
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SERVICES OF THE
MARKETING
son
The Marketing Division in Hono
lulu undertakes fo dispose of local
produce on a commission basis. It
is interesting to note that for the
month of July, the last month for
which we have the figures, the
consignment sales were $12,352.
There were 174 consignments, of
35 different kinds of produce, from
90 different consignors, 52 from
Oahu, 13 from Hawaii, 10 from
Maui, 12 from Molokai and 3 from
Kauai. .
Evidently Kauai doesn't take to
it and Molokai does. We trust this
is. not a reliable indication of agri
cultural activity.
Among the goods received were
dressed beef, veal and pork, live
cattle and hogs, potatoes, beans,
grapes, bananas, onions, poultry,
eggs, pohas, and cabbage.
Wants A Sguare Deal
Editor of the Garden Island:
I never had education enough to
write for the papers, not even for
the Garden Island ; but all the same
I have something that I want to
say; so if you don't mind will you
let me put it in your paper.
I want to tell you that I don't
think its' fair the way a man with a
good trade doesn't get a fair show
and doesn't get the pay he ought to
in these Islands. The doctor or the
dentist, he gets a great big fee for
some job that took him only a few
minutes perhaps. And when you
shake your head at the size of the
bill he says that its not for just do
irig the job, but for knowing how to
do it.
Now I want to know if the same
thing isn't true about the carpenter,
or the blacksmiih, or the machinist.
The ordinary man, he can't make a
good joint, or a good weld, no mat
ter how smart he may be, because
he don't know how. It takes years
of training to make that joint, or
that weld, and the man who can do
it ought to be paid not only for do
ing it but for knowing how to do it.
Here in Hawaii we hear a great
deal about the importance of field
labor, and how v e couldn't run our
plantations without it, and so we
give this common field labor all
kinds of pay, and all kinds of bonus
besides But what could you do
with this field labor if you didn't
have the carpenter and the black
smith and the engineer to keep up
the flumes, and the bridges, and the
cars and the mill? Almpst any
body can do the common field labor
if he has the least little bit of com
mon horse sense; but to do the work
of a mechanic, that means that
you've got to know how and that
don't come right off the bat when
you whistle for it.
Now I don't mean the rough
mechanic who has picked up his
trade kind of off the ground, and
never served, bis time; he gets all he
is worth and perhaps more; he
wastes good material and turns out
a poor job ; I mean a competent
man who learns his trade properly;
he has had to spend three, or four,
or five years learning that trade and
getting so that he can do that job,
and he ought to be paid for that
time. Of course I wouldn't think
of being paid like a doctor or a den
tist, my conscience wouldn't stand
for that ; but surely considering what
it costs to learn a trade, and how
necessary a service it is to the com
munity, it ought, to be worth more
than $3.00 or 83.50 or 84.00 a day.
Just one thing more, Mr. Garden
Island, and than I am pau. And
that is the snobbish way that a
whole lot of people treat a decent
honest mechanic. If a man can sit
up on a stool, at a desk with a pen
behind his ear, and not fall off, he's
a gentleman ; if he can make eyes
at the girls and take ,em joy riding
in a not-paid-for automobile, why
he's a gentleman. But the honest
mechanic, the man who can do
wjinething in the world, something
, useful, something helpful for tho
community, he doom t count for
anything, he's only a working man ;
und there's a whole lot of people
that's blinder than bats about see
ing him and would hardly touch
him socially with a ten foot pole.
Well now, Mr. Garden Island, I
don't want to rly clean off the han
dle about these things, but I tell
you some of us is human the same as
the rest of you, and we want a square
deal in the matter of a living and of
human treatment; and the days are
coming when the common people
ure going to be "it" and I hope it
will be soon, and it can't be too soon
for me.
A Square Deal.
Miss Cutler spent the week end at
Koloa as the guest of Mr. and Mrs.
J. K. Farley. Mrs. Farley is an
old friend of Miss Cutler.
HAWAII LEADS IN THE I "
SUGAR
BUSINESS
The following interesting com
parisons are taken irom the new
book The Cane Sugar Industry re
viewed in another column. This
passage forms in part a brief re
sume of the conclusions of the book,
showing how at almost every point of
comparison Hawaii is in the lebd
in the sugar business bo far as in
telligence, skill, ingenuity and effi
ciency are concerned:
In the islands of Hawaii the
most scientific and intensive system
of cultivation is practiced in con
tradistinction to the extensive sys
tem generally pursued in Cuba.
The cane cutting, loading, and
transportation methods of Hawaii
are in striking contrast to those of
Cuba; the rushing of the cane by
fluming from ,the. harvest field to
the factory and the bringing, of the
railway track and car upon the
heels of the cane cutters in all parts
of the fields in Hawaii, oompare in
terestingly with the laborious and
precise adjustment of each "stalk in
the oxcart and the slow hauling of
the cane by ox teams to the rail
road to be reloaded and hauled to
the mill in Cuba.
i In the extraction of the juice
from the cane in Hawaiian factories
and in other milling and scientific
processes: the results attained are
the best of all sugar cane countries.
So, as Hawaii represents the best
efforts of the United States and its
insular possessions in the cultiva
tion of the sugar cane and in the
manufacture of eugar, comparisons
in this report are made for. the
most part between Hawaiian results
and conditions and those of its prin
cipal foreign competitor and the
main source of our foreign sugar
supply, the island of Cuba.
In Hawaii the average cane pro
duction per acre harvested for mill
was 43.92 tons; in Porto Rico,
20.45 tons; in Louisiana, 18.29
tons; and in Cuba, 21 32 tons.
Hawaii obtained from every acre
an average of hVi tons. Porto Rico,
2 tons. Louisiana 1 ton and Cuba
2Yz tons The beet crops give about
2 tons to the acre.
In Hawaii the average cost of the
cane used to make 1, ton of sugar
was 837.95; in Porto Rico, 841.68;
in Louisiana, $60.18;-and in Cuba,
820.56
In Hawaii the average cost of
production f. o b. factory per ton
of sugar was $44.59, with a mini
mum cost of $34.26 and. a maxi
mum of 868.26. Porto Rico had
an average cost of 852.29, with a
minimum of 844.02 and a maxi
mum of 867.02. Louisiana had an
average cost of 879.50 with a mini
mum of $53.95 and a maximum of
899.28. Cuba had an average cost
of 828.92,. with a minimum of
822.35 and a maximum of 843.77.
For Hawaii the average market
ing cost from the factory to delivery
in the United States was 89.34, for
Porto Rico, 84.27, and for Cuba
85t46 per ton of sugar..
. Fertilizing of cane in Hawaii on
all plantations cost an average of
$42.02 per acre and 95 cent per
ton of cane. In Porto Rico the
average cost was $8.28 per acre and
35 cents per ton of cane In Cuba
the average cost was 82.43 per acre
and 12 cents per ton of cane.
Irrigating cane in Hawaii for all
the plantations requiring it cost an
average of 467.91 per acre and 81 42
per ton of cane. In Porto Rico
irrigatiaiion cost an averrge of
815.76 per acre and 63 cents. per
ton of cane for plantations using it.
In Cuba irrigation upon the small
number of plantations using it cost
82.18 per acre and 8 cents per ton
of cane.
Cultivating cane in Hawaii cost
an average of 830.09 per acre and
67 cents per ton of cane. In Porto
Rico it cost an average of 813.82
per acre and 59 cents per ton of
cane. In Cuba it cost an average
of 87.85 per acre and 36 cents per
ton of cane.
Jn Hawaii cultivation labor was
paid an average of 97 cents a dav
exclusive of bonus. In Louisiana
the same labor was paid 78 cents a
day. In Porto Rico 63 cents and
in Cuba 81.26.
Do You know Them?
We venture to assert that very
few of our readers, even of the old
residents can tell where these is
lands of the Hawaiian group are,
viz: Moku Manu, Moku Lua, Ma
nana, Kaohi-kaipu, Moku Hooniki,
and Kapapu. We understand that
they are small outlying islands, off
the coast of Oahu, all but the last,
which is off the east end of Molokai.
Their present claim to interest
is that they have beeu made strict
game and bird reservations by of
ficial proclamation. When you go
there next time leave vou hunting
' kit at home.
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Dry Goods of all Descriptions.
General Plantation
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Souvenirs
We neatly puck and mail
Hawaiian Souvenirs.
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Co.
HONOLULU.
Be Thrifty
in these days of uncer
tainty. Stait an account
at this bank with a part
of your next week's
salary. dd to th; nest
egg every pay day.
Watch the returns grow
in a safe place, and be
able to face the future
courageously and inde
pendently. We pay 4 on time
deposits.
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