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THE GARDEN ISLAND. TUESDAY, FEB. 18. 1919
SUPPORTS
ANY AND
AhL
GOVERNMENT
MEASURES
AT ALL
TIMES.
KENNETH
TUESDAY
PUT THROUGH THE
HUMMER CAMP
The proposition to erect and
equip a permanent summer camp
at Kaaua in the upland region
back of Kekaha is one which
ought to iuterest everyone on this
island who enjoys an outing, and
appreciates the value of an oc
casional change of climate. Or
dinarily we can get such an out
ing only by going to the Coast, at
a great sacrifice of time and
money. Here is a chance for the
same thing right at our very
doors, at a nominal expense.
Some of our readers, people of
means, may be able to have their
own luxurious camps in the moun
tains, where they can spend weeks
in the summer. Many of our
readers can't afford this luxury,
and yet would like to spend a
week end occasionally in that
glorious upland country.
This summer camp scheme will
give them the chance. Any after
noon when the fancy takes you.
it will be possible to pick up and
leave say farewell to the debili
ties of climate, and the worries
of work, and find at this summer
camp a cordial welcome, the
simple comforts of a pioneer home
and the stimulating joys and
beauties of God's great out-of-doors.
Of course it will cost a little
KAUAI AT THE FRONT
Most of our Kauai enlisted men
never got. any farther than Hono
lulu. Of the few who got clear
through to the front and saw
actual service there, only one,
thus far has come back to tell the
tale. Joseph Scharsh, of Kapaa.
Seen by a representative of the
Garden Island the other day, he
told substantially the following
story :
"I don't count among the re
cruits from Hawaii because I en
listed over at the Coast. It was
along about the middle of last
year that I signed up. They sent
me right away to Camp Lewis, up
in Washington. You know the
place, do you? Fourfcen or fifteen
miles out from Tacoma, at Ameri
can Lake. Yes, it is a fine plate
in summer, but rains an awful lot
in winter. It is a big place. There
were S0.000 men there when I was
there, and its full rapacity runs
to 1 10.000. I was their only three
weeks; it is a sort of receiving
station; men were taken in and
outfitted, and inoculated, and
sort of sized up I suppose, and
then liioved on to some other
place.
Much Moved About
"From there I went to Fort
Harrison, Indiana, where I put in
six weeks of training, partly prac
tical and partly theoretical, in
engineering and construction. I
had a fancy for engineering
through having worked in the Ha
waiian Electric in Honolulu.
From there I was transferred to
Camp Mills, Long Island, but only
staid there 10 days. No I don't
know why they shifted us round
so much. I don't believe thev
knew themselves, but every place
you went you had to be inoculat
ed. I was inoculated four times
in as many weeks. I don't believe
there is any disease going that I
could take of course J don't
know anything about the Spanish
Influenza.
Off for Prance
"Finally we got started for the
other side. We sailed from Ho
boken, Sept. 4, 1!)1S, in the trans
port Caledonia 11,000 of us. We
were eleven days on the trip had
to run away out of our course for
THE GARDEN ISLAND
Kauai First, Lpt and all the time.
C. HOPPER,
Managing Editor
FEBRUARY 18, 1919
money to get the camp into run
ning order, but in view of the
immense benefit it will be to the
whole Island, and for that matter,
to the other islands too, that
should not stand in the way of its
inauguration. We have been' pour
ing out money for huts, and rest
houses, and all kinds of equip
ment for enterprises far over seas.
Now here is an enterprise at
home, for our own local benefit,
that calls for only the merest Ilea
bite of expenditure, for an enter
prise that means renewed vigor,
vitality and elliciency to the tired
business man, to the nervous
house-mother, and to the anemic
growing children; shall such an
enterprise be halted, and the
whole island be disappointed, for
the lack of :$.000 or $4,000?
If we all chip in, and do our bit,
the thing will go through with a
rush, and it will be, for all who
take advantage of it, one of the
very best investments that any
man can make.
A MOMEXTOUS ISSUE
Under the above title the
Outlook comments, in its editorial
section, on the Ozawa case. It
will be remembered that Mr. Ta
kao Ozawa, a graduate of Stan
ford University, and a man of
ability and integrity, applied in
Honolulu for adinissiou to citizen
fear of submarines; and some of
the time it was rough, mighty
rough; and we were crowded in
like sardines, but anyhow we got
there finally. Stopped at South
ampton for a day, and then went
on to Marseilles. '
Located at St. Argon tie
"From there we went by stages,
by rail to the mountain region to
the St. Argonne, where the Ameri
cans were located, and where
there was plenty of engineering
and const ructioil work to be done;
roads, railroads, bridges, trenches,
tunnels, etc. There was a battal
ion of us, 1,000 of the engineering
coips. We were undar Captain
G rover O. Wellnian, and we had
to do just what we were told, and
go just where we were sent, and
live just how we could. We had
little tents for two men, about
5 x (!, which of course we had to
pack, together with our blankets
iiiid our supplies. It made a load
of about S3 pounds. Eighty-live
pounds doesn't seem much for the
first ten minutes or so, but when
you come to jinck it all day it gets
mighty heavy.
Hand to Mouth Living
"Yes, we had company cooks,
ami kitchen and commissariat,
and all that sort of thing, but
half the time you were too far
away for them to do you any good.
You just had to take care of your
self and live just how you could.
Perhaps 100 men would be detail
ed to build a luidge, or repair
one, six or seven miles away, and
you just hal to stay there till the
job was done.
The Job You (let
"They soon found out what
kind of a job you knew most
about and could do best at, and
naturally that fell to your lot
every time. My job was concrete
they kept me mixing concrete
all through the war. Yes. I sup
pose you do get a lot of experience.
I have certainly mixed up a lot of
concrete their in France.
o Money to Mow In
"We saw mighty little money
while we weir there. We were
supposed to lie able to draw down
-0 per cent of our wages, and the
SO per cent balance was credited
to us to be paid on our return to
1 New York, but we had to pay our
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ship, and was refused by the Fed
eral Court, on the ground that he
was not white. The court took the
ground that he , was Mongolian,
and "Mongolians are not white."
The Outlook calls attention to the
fact that when they enter at New
York, or elsewhere on the Atlantic
coast, Finns and Hungarians
Magyars are naturalized without
question, and they are purely
Mongolian, and no whiter than
Japanese. Furthermore a con
siderable number of Japanese
have been admitted to citizenship,
notwithstanding the fact that
they are "Mongolian and not
white."
The Ozawa case has been car
ried to the United States Su
preme Court at Washington,
where it now awaits decision.
The Outlook contends that one
of two things ought to be done.
Provision ought to be made for
the naturalization of such Jap
anese as are suitable and desir
able, or provision ought to be
made for their exclusion from the
country.
We may well raise the stand
ards for naturalization, and ex
clude from permanent residence
all aliens who do not come up to
that standard, but we ought not
to exclude from either privilege
any who do come up to that stand
ard. insurance premium and other
charges which pretty well got
away with anything that was com
ing to us. I think I got about a
dollar a week. However, we didn't
have much chance to sjiend money,
nor very much time. We were
too busy all the time.
"I took out a $10,000 army in
surance and my dues were $7.50 a
month on that. Yes, that is good,
I understand, as long as you keep
up the dues. That is what I am
going to do.
Shell Shock and How
It Works
"The roar and racket of the con
tinual gun fire is something that
no one can imagine. It went on
all the time, sometimes worse, but
all the time. You couldn't make
anyone hear without getting up'
close to him and shouting in his
ear. That's what gave men shell
shock, that continual pound on
the brain, it set a man's nerves
all on edge, and got a man into a
state of nervous tension, so that
the least little thing would throw
him off. Come up to a man sud
denly and call to him, or slap
him on the shoulder, and he would
eollapse go all to pieces, break
down and cry, shiver all over, fall
down, and be in a daze. That
condition would last for five min
utes perhaps, then he would pull
himself together and be fairly
normal till the next start struck
him.
Bad for Xervous
Tern per nunt
"Of course it was only some
men who were affected that way.
The nervous tenipennent, I sup
pose. It never bothered me at all,
that way. The terrible pound of
the big guns made me kind of
deaf for a while, but that has
passed away now and I am all
right. "The big guns are set off by an
automatic firing apparatus which
gives the gun gang about half u
minute of time to get away a lit
tle distance for safety, and they
wear u rubber band round their
heads to hold cotton padding in
their ears to protect them from
the terrible concussion.
1'alatial Trenches
The trenches were generally
from S to 15 feet wide and about
20 feet dtrp, and were often con
SOT TO OP EX UP
With commendable regard for
public well-being the Tip Top
management have decided not to
open .the theatre for public enter
tainments, in spite of the removal
of the embargo by the Hoard of
Health Authorities in Honolulu.
We would commend 'the Tip
Top as being wiser than the Board
of Health.
creted up; in other places timber
ed.' Yery often there was a nar
row gauge track in the bottom on
which car loads of ammunition
and other supplies were trans
ported by man power, or even by
small engines.
"In places along these trenches
there were great dugouts, finished
in reinforced concrete, all arched
over, bigger than any church,
large enough, some of them to
accommodate a battalion of 1000
men.
Furloughs and Court
Martials
"If yon were steady and well
behaved you got a furlough twice
a month for two days, or even
three days, which was your own
time. You could go where yon
liked, and do what you liked, but
at the end of the time you had to
be on hand on the dot. If you
acted up anyway you got docked
on your furlough. And that was
not the whole of it by any means.
You got courtniartialed and pun
ished. The worst crime, for winch
you got the worst punishment was
to sp'ep .hi duty. There are se i
tries, night and day, and it i
their duty to watch against any
kind of surprise, especially ' n
gainst gait.. The rent of us would
be working down below in the
trenches, and it was up to them to
give the alarm when a gas attack
was on. so that we could all clap
on our masks. Any neglect on the
part of these sentries was apt to
be followed by very serious re
sults. If there was anything left
of them they were apt to be shot.
This gas generally came from
gas bombs that exploded some
where near, and the gas found
you wherever you were. It was
heavier than air and came down
into the trenches right away.
There were three or four different
kinds but thev were all bad. The
gas was the worst thing we had
to contend with.
The Worst Pilikia
Was Gas
"No, I never suffered from gas.
though I was very often exposed
to it, I always had my mask with
me. But I know what its like,
for before we left America, when
we were being trained for gas
work they gave us a whiff of it
just to taste it. Yery much dilut
ed down, but it was enough to lay
out a lot of the men.
When the Armistice Came
"When the news of the armi
stice came we were working on a
bridge in the Argonne region; it
was at 2:12 p. m. We noticed a
slacking up of the tiring, a falling
off in the roar of the big guns.
At first we didn't think much
about it, but it grew more and
more impressive not in the sil
ence it didn't come to that, but
we missed the talk of those big
guns and the bark and chatter of
the little ones and the word
reached us that the armistice was
signed. We cheered and threw
up our hats, and hurrahed for
half an hour or so, and then we
went back to work again.
"The French were the most
hysterically jubilant, but a good
many of our boys were kind of
sorry it was over."
Editor, Garden Inland Instructed
by the Hongwanjl Miuslon of Hono
lulu, the Kapaia Japanese Church la
going to makli another drive this week
to help the suffering people in Ar
menia. There are 400,000 destitute people,
foodless, homeless, in rags and with
out means of support.
We know America will meet the
need and we want to help America.
The Kapaia Japanese Church wish
es to ask the help of all again.
TO IMPROVE OUR
IMMtGRATIOX STATUS
We are in receipt of literature
issued by the Constructive Immi
gration League, which proposes
definite constructive measures for
obviating the dangers and in
justices of our present loose and
conflicting system of immigration.
Ynst masses of aliens in our
midst are not Americanized, ami
there is no adequate provision for
their naturalization. We should
make such provision, and see to it
they become Americans.
We give thein citizenship with
very inadequate preparation for it
and on the basis of very low
standards. We should raise the
t
requirements, ami make them uni
form all around.
We have allowed serious con
gestion of race groups so that
American civilization has been
almost submerged in large sec
tions of the United States.
A patchwork and conflicting
legislation works unfair hard
ships, and creates irritation and
bad feeling. The laws should be
made fair and uniform. Accord
ingly the purpose of this league,
and the education campaign that
it will conduct, will be to accom
plish the following reforms:
1. The regulation of immigra
tion. 2. The registration of Aliens.
.'!. The distribution of immi
grants. 4. The education of Aliens for
American life.
5. The naturalization of Aliens.
The most important of these
purposes, at least on the face of
things, seems to be the first. It
is proposed, tentatively of course,
to limit the animal immigration
of any race into the United States
to 5 per cent of the registered
citizenship of that race at the
time. The idea seems to be that
per cent immigration of those
already naturalized is about all
that can be assimilated, and the
plan is thus to prevent large
masses of undigested foreign ma
terial. A suggestive immigration table
is annexed showing the racial
origin and numbers of immi
grants during the five years 1011
-1915. Some of the principal ones
are as follows:
Annual Average: Italians, 100,
000; Polish, .X2.000; Hebrew, 07,
000; German, 52,000; Russian.
27.000: Einrlish. 42.000.
tV; application of the 5 per
cent rule would' reduce some of
these figures very materially, viz:
Italian, 40,000; Poles, 40.000;
Hebrew, :!7,000: Russian, 2,000. It
would seem in some of these cases
as though even 5 per cent was
too much.
This 5 per cent rule would al
low of the annual immigration of
1,200 Japanese, and 1,100 Chinese.
On the whole it would seem that
this league as it sets forth its
purposes, is a very commendable
one, and deserves a generous sup
port in its efforts.
Hand to Mouth Infection
With Spanish influenza in
creasingly prevalent all about us
it is very important to guard
against infection in every way
possible.
At a meeting of the American
Public Health Association recent
ly in Chicago, much emphasis was
placed on the danger of infection
through unclean hands. Hand to
mouth infection, it was declared,
is one of the commonest ways of
spreading (he disease.
Clean hands, ami properly steri
lized dishes, glasses, cups, forks,
spoons, etc., especially in public
eating places, these are very im
portant factors in checking the
spread of the disease.
Never eat anything with un
washed hands at least invt mm-
while the influenza bad angel
I lurks about !
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