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THE GARDEN ISLAND, TUESDAY. DEC. 17, 1918
Y MOVIES
by L. A. Walworth, Secretary
Filipino Work of Kauai Y.M.C.A.
About throe months ago Mrs.
Dora Isenberg volunteered to fur
nish the funds, necessary to equip
one of the Kauai Y. M. C. A. Ford
automobiles with a generating
plant that would furnish electric
current for the Y moving picture
machine, and also light club
houses where no electricity is
available. After several unavoid
able delays due to war conditions
the Ford driven by secretary Wal
worth has been rebuilt and the
generator installed.
The Y. M. V. A. is not going
into a competitive "movie" busi
ness with the others operating on
Kauai, but gives educational and
helpful films and stereoptican
slides to help the labor come into
larger usefulness for his employ
er and to the community in which
he lives. The new equipment
makes it possible to reach from
four to six times as many camps
with this type of work, compared
with the former method of carry
ing on this part of the Y program.
All the films shown in the labor
ers' camps will be given free, but
it is planned to give two or three
benefit entertainments of about
six reels in the larger centers in
the near future, to provide for the
deficit incurred in a few of the
night schools where the income
from the pupils is not sufficient to
pay the instructor's pay.
The new equipment has been
used in two large camps near
Wainiea during the past week and
has demonstrated that it is a
great success. About two hun
dred people attended each enter
tainment. The "movie" has many advant
ages for the secretary, working
with several Oriental races and
unable to speak any of these lan
guages, in that it is self explani-
tory and does not need to be in
terpreted to the audiences.
The program for this week is
as follows:
Tuesday, Dec. 17, Maua labor
ers camp and community, nt 7
o'clock, p. m.
Wednesday, Dee. IS, Kalaheo
School Auditorium, at (i::!0 p. m.
Thursday, Dec. 1!), drove Farm,
(New Camp, promptly at (JiIU)
p. m., and Malumalu Filipino
camp, at 8:00 p. in.
Friday, Dec. 20, Li hue l!anch
and Grove Farm at lluleia, (:.'!()
p. in.; Koloa Filipino Club, 8:00
Saturday, Dec 21, regular club
meeting at Hanamaulu and Lihue
without movies as they have al
ready had their lecture.
Everybody welcome; admission
free.
ine program tor the coining
month will embrace about twenty
five of the plantation laborers
camps in addition to the regular
program of athletics, social, re
ligious, educational and holiday
work.
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Marvels of Engineering
It is not surprising that the
(iermans scoll'ed at Secretary
Baker's announcement that there
were a million American soldiers
in France. A few months ago
most Americans would have be
lieved such an achievement im
possible. The creating of an
army of a million men and its
transportation across three thou
sand miles of- sea within little
more than a year was a stupendu
ous feat. That it was done when
the shipping world was so much
reduced bv the submarine, war,
and when the strain upon it for
other purposes was so much
greater than ever before in the
history of the world, is almost a
miracle. It was accomplished
only by the most extraordinary
organization and the most loyal
co-operation on the part of our
I'rilish allies, whose ships have
carried at least half our soldiers
overseas.- lint putting an "Ameri
can army into France meant
much more than creating it and
shipping it. America had to
make arrangements lo receive it
over there, to supply it, to house
it and to distribute it; ami for
the vast constructive labor that
these operations entailed Ameri
ca had to employ thousands of
men of all types and nationalities
from Chinese coolies to German
prisoners of war.
The ports of France were nei
ther large enough nor numerous
enough to receive the stream of
shipping that had to How in.
American engineers converted the
waste lands adjacent to old ports
into great systems of docks. The
French railways were inadequate
to the task of transporting into
the interior the men and supplies
that were unloaded on the docks.
American engineers constructed
a great system of railways. All
steel cars were sent over from
America in sections and assem
bled at the rate of a train a day;
freight sheds, repair shops, rail
way yards with trackage of two
hundred miles, steel warehouses,
refrigerating plants, gas plants,
oil-storage plants, grain elevators
were built with astonishing speed.
Woodland was turned into farm
ing land, swamps were reclaimed
by drainage, hospitals one of
them with twenty thousand beds
were completed in little more
than a month's time. Altogether,
the American engineers in France
have put through with marvelous
efficiency the biggest "rush job"
that has ever been done on earth.
Youth's ompanion.
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Dr. W. I. Seymour, ot the Stand
ard Optical Co., of Honolulu, is taking
his vacation at the Kapaa Home
steads and will make a business trip
around the Island before his return
to Honolulu. Those wishing to see
him in regard to eye-glasses can ar
range to do so by dropping 'him a
line at Kealia before the 20th of
this month. Advt.
What an Aeroplane
Must Stand
The propellers of an aeroplane
must possess extrordinary
strength, for their very speed
tends to disrupt them. In a test
run, says a writer in the Ameri
can Forestry Magazine, with
propellers made of wood, which
had been dried to the lowest pos
sible moisture content, or "bone
dry," as they say at the Forest
Product Laboratory, the ends of
the blades actually exuded sap,
forced out by centrifugal action.
Some air-machine engines run
at seventeen hundred revolutions
a minute. An engine of that
power should use a nine-foot six-inch
propeller, and the speed of the blade
ends would be in the neighborhood
of six thousand miles an hour.
A good many thousands of pounds
of pressure per square Inch are gene
rated by such speed, and propellers
have boon known to split at the cen
lack of balance between the two
blades is a very serious matter, since
the pull of one must counterbalance
that of the other. In addition, there
is the gyroscopic force that tends to
keep the blades rotating in the same
plane a force that is not easily over
come when the aeroplane is moving
at high speed. The cross strain that
it introduces when there Is a change
of direction, either up or down or
sidewiso, is enormous. Yet in condi-
tions of modern warefare, where the
aviator has to "loop the loop," or
plunge, or ascend sharply in manoeuvr
ing, the machine has to meet and
withstand these severe tests..
Wood for aeroplane manufacture
must be one hundred per cent per
fect. The safety of the aviator do
mands that there shall not be a single
flaw. Youths Companion.
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William Wolters is home from Pun
ahou for the Holiday season. He is
quite himself again.
Longer Life
for delicate hangings is given by the use of
Crystal White
Soap
This pure, white, vegetable oil soap cleanses
curtains, dainty laces, drapes and hangings
quickly and without injury to fabrics or hands.
It's the preferred household
soap in Hawaii. Order fawn
your dealer.
American Factors, Ltd,
Wholesale Distributors for Hawaii
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