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THE OARpEtf TSLAND, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1920. THE GARDEN Issued Every Tuesday S LA N D KENNETH C. HOPPER Managing Editor TUESDAY JULY 20, 1920 VR0H1BITI0S,TI1E DUTY OF THE COURT Manifestly the aim and jutt-posc of prohibi tion ia to prohibit, not to regulate or restrain the manufacture and sale of liquor, but, to pre vent the same. To this end the law provides such penalties as are supposed to be prohibi tive, leaving however to the court a liberal range of discretion in the imposition of them. The law provides that any person who manufactures or sells liquor in violation of the law shall be subject to a fine of not more than .? 1.000, or imprisonment not to exceed six mouths. Very much depends on the attitude and outlook of the court as to what the punish ment shall be. It may bi merely nominal in which case the moonshiner pays the fine, ac cepts it is a legitimate expense of the business raises his price perhaps, and goes ahead again, not taxed or discouraged in the least, but harder to catch the next time. Manifestly that kind of enforcement of the law defeats the very, purpose of it. We want prohibt ion. We want to stop the manufacture and sale of liquor, not to raise the price, or in crease the risks, but kill the business. The effective way, manifestly, is to give the moonshiner so strong a dose of the law that he will never want another. For these disloyal and criminal gentry we dout want a course of treatment so gentle and considerate that it will act as an appetizer or tonic, to stimulate to fresh and larger violations of the law. We want them to understand that the law means business and that it is a "knock out" policy from the word go. (Jive them all the law will stand, for each and every offense, and don't limit it to a fine which can be paid out of the profits, but give t hem a salutary dose of imprisonment. We look to the courts for effective aid in enforcing this very important law. THE AXTISAU)() LEAGUE AGA1X We note with satisfaction that the Anti Saloon League has come to life again, with fresh vitality and vigor, and will leave no stone unturned to check the ilagrant violation of the l'rohibition Law. Ths is the line of success. The law will rive opposition to it on the part of lawless and unscrupulous interests and a good deal of in not enforce itself. There is a good deal of ac difference on the part of a great many more who don't much care whether the law is en forced or not. Keally loyal citizens, who be lieve that laws are made to be enforced, and who believe further that .litis is a very neces sary and salutary law, must make a stand against these lawless agencies of destruction and disgrace. Our emphatic approval and our best hopes for elliciency and success go with the Anti Saloon League of Hawaii. Si-ores of passengers were kept waiting from three o'clock to five o'alock on the wharf at Nawiliwili landing Friday morning before the last of the hand baggage was brought ashore. If the powers that be of the Inter Island Steamship Compny had been present they would have heard numerous uncompli mentary remarks concerning themselves and their service. When, oh, hen are we going to get a boat that is suited to the demands ,f Kauai's travel ing public. For months past the Kinau has been overcrowded, both going and coming, with first cabin passengers, who pay !t.72 for the trip, sleeping on mattresses on deck. (ierniany loses no opportunity to demand thai her burdens be lightened. First one thing and then another is brought forward by her as a basis for a demand for leniency or considera tion upon which to base a claim for the reduc tion of her indemnity or evasion of the terms of the treaty. Now she wants a rebate of 21 5.000, 000 marks from the 7,000.000.000 marks to he paid France, as her share of the indemnity, fixed by the treaty, on account of improvements on the French roads made by German prisoners of war. It would appear that Germany had an idea ihiit she won the war and was dictat ing terms to the allies. Maine is celebrating her 100th Birthday. The festivities began on Monday and are to con tinue for a week, in the city of Portland. In other towns there will be interesting events a'i through the summer. On March l.'ith, lOL'O. Maine was oilicially set off from Massachusetts and became a separate State. Kvery citizen of the grand old State is invited to return to the home of his youth and receive a welcome, such a. only the down east Yankees know how to give. EUh'OPjJAX JiECOXSTltUCTWX Europe has returned to work, while I'tuted States is talking politics and reveling in pro fiteering. The pro ti leers will never be satis fied until they have closed their tisls upon the very last dollar of surplus money the late war let loose among the people. Over in Europe people are busy, and the busier they become the less time they have to think about bolshevism ; hence, except in dis tricts where they are actively engaged in kill ing each other, that wave of insanity is recced ing, even in Kussia, and will ultimately die a natural death. France, Italy, Holland, Bel gium, Spain, Germany and Czecho slovakia have laid aside war for the labors of Peace, and they are making good. They are producing abundant crops, and within three nuniths will have driven even the shadows of the wolf from the door. Italy has made a remarkable recovery, es pecially in the l'iave district, where 5,000 square miles of territory were devastated and :50 towns destroyed. Signa Nova, Minister of State for the Liberated Provinces, reports that: "A house has been built for every one destroy ed in the rural districts. Many towns have been re built and the railroads and public utili ties restored." Kussia blindly pursues her course, under the whip of the national ring-master Lenine; but the Utopian dream has become a nightmare of horror, and the elysian lields pastures of dis content, and the time is not far distant when there will be an awakening that will put an end to the hallucinathui, which is today compelling rather than enticing. The iron hand of Lenine and the work of his proselyting emissaries are alone spreading bolshevism among iguorunt people, while those sections of Kussia, where the ruin has been greatest, and where the re sources have been exhausted, are awakening to their folly, and would get out from under the yoke of the despotic dictator at the first opportunity. The' Czar of Kussia was a despot, who never reached his people to realize their true condition. His mind was cramped and warped by his autocratic courtiers, his wife and favor ites, and prejudiced by designing public ser vants, who amassed wealth through criminal practices that awakened the minds of the op pressed people to a hatred for the royal aris tocracy, that lived in luxury at the expense of the ignorant and improverished people. The Kussian government was bureaucratic, impenetrable to the common people, and fraught with a system of extortion that made the lives of the Kussian people miserable; but their misery, under the rule of the Czar, never reached the desperate character of the present condition, and the people, though ignorant, possess suflicieut intelligence to understand that the communist government, as administer ed by Lenine and Trotsky, is anything but the beautiful dream that it was represented to be. Even Emma Goldman writes to her friends in America that she is "homesick" and disgust ed with the whole Kussian problem. Poland, which for more than 100 years bowed in submission to her opressors, is a com ing power, although she is now engaged in a senseless and bloody war with the bolshevists of Kussia. Her people are industrious, patrio tic and thrifty, and will yet discharge their obligations to the world with credit to them selves and honor to the nations that have been instrumental in gaining their freedom and in guaranteeing its permanency. Another case of destructive and demorali zing influences is to be found in the condition of Austria and Hungary, and while they will have abundant crops, they are sowing the seeds of discord and civil strife. Jingo Slavia, ami especially that portion of it that was formerly Serbia, and which suffer ed most from the war. is an example of fruga lity and thrift. This season's crops will put them outside the pale of distress, and start them on the road to national prosperity. In truth, many (tarts of Europe are laying aside the uniforms and the engines of destruc tion to take in hand the implements of peaceful indusl rv. The report that 1,000 Turks were killed in a bombardment of Ismid by British ships lying at anchor in ihe harbor, before the town, indi cates that the war in the near East is not yet over; and the manner in which the Greek troops are wiping up the country in the Smyr na district indicates that it may be some time yet before peace will be restored. In any event the job should be so thoroughly lone that the Turks will he smislied thai further resis tance will be fuiile. and that her policy of mur der, outrage and brutality must cease. Bank of Kauai Offers New Service By arrangements with Its brokers, Williamson and Buttolph ot Honolulu, the new Dank of Kauai will be furnish ed with daily utock quotations of the Honolulu Stock and Bond Exchange. This is one of the new public service j features ot the new institution and is ' available to everyone interested on the Island. For the prenetit these quotations can ho had by calling the bank office at Kapaa but later arrangements will be made to have stock sheets posted at different centers around the island. I Tkt. 1 ...til I n ,.1 .1 a waaV. ' 1 11 If, I1CW DCl T1VC Will II1L1UUC a v. i. ly market letter which will give a re sume of the week's business and the official sales sheet ot the exchange. Local orders will be executed by wire less and special quotations will be secured at any time upon request. Several commercial magazines and papers including the following, Facts About Sugar, Wall Street Journal. Coast Hr.nker and Bankers Monthly will be kept on file for public use. :0: LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE Editor Garden Island: "Resident's" letter in your last issue anent the pro posed switching of Makahuena and Nawiliwili lights has come to my no tice and I Just wonder, if "Resident" knows, what he is talking about. The white light placed on Kukli point some years ago has always been considered as a nuisance by seafaring men; it is too bright and glaring and interferes with proper navigation. A small red light, as asked for by Capt. Gregory in the first instance, would be sufficient to guide a steam er to its anchorage. The light was placed there as a guide and not to illu minate the sea and the workings of a steamers boats and when the light is confusing and interferes, Its useful ness is at an end. It is most likely the proposed change is the answer of the Lighthouse In spector to sincere prayers by seafar ing men. I do not believe, as insinuated, the Inspector or any other official would favor any locality; their actions are guided by expediency and not whims. Thanking you for space allotted, SAILOR. (EXPALNATION OF RULING UPON WHICH McBRYDE BASES ITS PROTEST) i' CHILD'S When in Honolulu Xew, modern, high class restaurant, centrallv located. Cool and comfort able; best food and service. European plan. Operated in connection with the Blaisdell Hotel .I.E. CIIILH, Proprietor. Editor Garden Island: McBryde's protest is based on the explanatory notes of Section 6 of Rule 56 by the editor of "Spalding's Official Baseball Guide" 1920, which permits a batter, after making a long hit or a home run, to sit on the tench and then resume his journey to first without liabilty of being put out if the ball in play has not been held on first before ho reach' es it. The play in dispute on Sunday Jiowever, was totally different, as no hit was made and the catcher had the ball ready to throw to first after he had dropped the third strike, but Ishimura made no attempt to go to first and wal':ed back to the bench when Captain Henderson stopped him halfway and made him go to first after the umpire had yelled "batter's out.1 The rule cited above only applies when no play is possible on the base- runner, as the ball is being chased by the outfielders, while the runner is sitting on the bench before going to first, but common sense would indi cate thRt the runner in Sunday's game at Eli ele had no chance whatsoever to reach first before the ball. FAN. HONORS FOR LIHUE BOY ' In rifle practice in the gallery range it Ci.mp Kearney whore some 1500 cadets were competing, Homer Lyd g:te of Punphou made the second place, and of the eleven best scores fired at 200 yards in the qualification test for the national match course ten were island boys. It is on the strength of the good showing that Homer goes to Camp Perry in Ohio where he will report, with others July 30. (By The Associated Press.) HONOLULU, July 15. It was es timated today that the bonus paid sugir plantation workers for the first six months of 1920 totals $15,000,000. Up to June 30, the average rate of bonus was placed at 279 per cent. I : : ! Kiigineer liartman of the Hawaiian' Dredging t'o. in the employ of the ! American Factors, has been making a ; careful examination of the mouth of the Wailua River with a view to a rail way 'bridge there for the AhuUini Kea iia railway. By means of pipe sound !iks just makai of the county bridge, lie finili; that down to a depth of S5ft. the bottom consists of sand and mud. 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