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f THIS GARDEN ISLAM), TUESDAY, ! FEB. 1, 1921 THE GARDEN ISLAND Utued Every Tuesday KEN XETH C. HOPPER Managing Editor TIE-DAY FEBRUARY 1, 1921 wueue praise is due Then? has been a very marked iuiprovetneut in the quality of the pictures shown of late ou our moving picture screens. As a rule there uie no longer auy serious infringements of uv.-t.ei.ty ami lutirality. As a rule, the moral puioe is good, and the teaehiug, so far as 14.C4-1 is auy, salutary, though uot always very .uciiig. The pictures are generally enter and interesting aud sometimes in uu. tive. All this is very commendable. l t.i iUermore, tinder the new Plantation Wei iare bureau management, we have the promise oi l '.'tier things still, in the elimination of suiiic minor evils, and the addition of more edu tiuuiil aud instructive material. We appre ciate these concessions to public taste and puou;.- moral sense, aud are very grateful for them. .... UXL FUXDAMEXTAL FAULT REMAINS The moving picture service, however ''falls down" fundamentally and all along the line, as we know it, by being untrue to life. It is uot that it is vicious, or immoral, in the ordinary sense, but that it is ulircal. What kind of an idea will the average Fili pino get from the movies of the life and civil ization of America? What inferences will he draw frmu the movies as to the widespread prevalence of lawlessness and crime there? To get out with a brace of revolvers, and shoot up the town before breakfast, simply as a matter of innocent recreation, this would seem to be the most common popular amuse ment, the one thing that gives zest and interest to life in America. But the worst of it is that there seems to be no hue in the Utopian laud of the movies. , Aftei his run of violence, this bragadocio hero goes home to breakfast with as little compunct ion. ; ml as little danger as though he had been -shoeing snipe. Xo officer of the law waits ou h'in with a warrant of arrest. No hand cuffs appear ou the scene, and no vision of a jail seutente disturbs him. lie is a hero, not a criminal. The inference is that shooting men in America is as harmless a sport as shoot ing mynah birds in llawaii. When, in the exigencies of the story, it be comes necessary to shoot a man, why don't they stick to the realities, see the thing through, and show what becomes of the murderer. That would be a mighty good gospel to proclaim right here where some classes of our popula tion are "fed" up"' ou the movie values of -human life. This is where the movies "fall down;" they are glaringly unreal, and false to the actual facts of life. Now this is particularly unfortunate for us, because we have a good many people in our midst who don't realize how false and absurd, this .ill is, and who are disposed to accept it ts g'-spel truth, more or less "to their own un doing, and to the detriment of public peace ULd veil being. Le- us have one more reform ; then the mov ies w 11 be all right. XAMEs FOR OURSTREETS Su.ely the time has come when Lihue should have jauii's for her streets. Kapaa and Ana ho'.a. and the new Wailua Homesteads have au ekibo.-ate street system, even though in some case they haven't got the actual stree.s .Lihue Las 1 ad the treets for half a century or so, and they are nameless. It is cumbersome and inconvenient to direct an inquirer to the Grove Farm side, makaitif the school' or to "the road that runs along by the smre over towards Hanamanlu." Uow much simpler it would be to say Main Street, or Cl-urch Street, or Merchant Street. Or. if these names are too hackneyed or too prosaic, let u : have simple Hawaiian names. Kukui, Kua. ila; i a. after our trees, or Kanoa, Kawelo, Mene uht. after historic or mythical character-. Whatever the names selected, it is time we had tiiem. We would recommend this matter to the attention of the Chamber of Commerce and t.ie lizard of Supervisors. is IHSAKUAMEXT POSSIBLE t As we begin i lie new year we would be glad to eliminate some of the perplexing problems that have heretofore baffled all attempts to harm .nize with the spirit of progress and in terna 'ioiial interest. Tlu great world war was fought for a prin ciple that seems to have vanished under the cloud of human depravity. A little more than two years ago the world was optoiuistie. It looked forward to a sjeedy settlement of international questions and'dis puts and the formation of an international alliance that would forever banish war and every form of militarism; but today there are wars and tumors of wars, propaganda for dis armament, urgent arguments for more effective armament, organizations for permanent peace, alliances tor mutual protection, aud various other features of world movements which show little else than that the world has been spilled upside down and international chaos prevails. Everywhere there is a spirit of mistrustfulness. Nations cannot agree, and instead of peace on earth we are preparing for war with greater energy. The United States is increasing her army and navy and thereby becoming an object of suspicion. Other nations must do the same, anyl thus, after au enormous sacrifice of huiuay energy aud an expenditure of treas ure that has bankrupted the world we find ourselves back at the starting point with our war spirit in the ascendency, armies and navies ou the increase and nothing in sight that looks like an early settlement of the great internat ional problems that have for their base the greed of human kind. There is unrest in the industrial world, agi tators are frantically urging for unions and the rights of labor, employers seeking to cut down the scales of wages, agriculturalists clamoring for living prices of raw materials, consumers sceptical iu regard to values, and everywhere a spirit of unrest and suspicion. We read in almost any paper the number of starving children that might be fed with the cost of the building of one battleship, and yet the battleship is built. , "So nation seems to want war. All are ex hausted and all are suspicious. The world has been an armed camp for so many centuries that it is hard to get away from existing con ditions. It. is hard to bring the world to gether upon a common basis to formulate plans for a common interest. Some nations are bloodthirsty, all are jealous. Some are fierce and others meek. It is the very meekness of the law-abiding Armenians that has made them an object of persecution by the bloody Turks. Lack of honor and lack of forbearance are other great obstacles to au agreement to dis arm. There is still among nations a burning desire to redress real or fancied wrongs by military force. Advocates of peace urge that the teachings of the Christian religion for nineteen huudred years are a failure if the teachings of Christ cannot now be applied in the settlement of the world's difficulties. The United States has with one hand shown the most practical demonstration of the teach ings of Jesus iu its works of mercy; in feeding the hungry of many lands; taking the bless ings of medical science to plague-stricken peoples ; relieving suffering from fire and fam ine, war aud pestilence; while with the other hand we are constructing a bigger navy and a bigger military institution. ' When a nation must carry Christian mercy in one hand and a sword of defense in the other, how will it be possible for the nations to disarm?. Disarmament cannot be successfully carried out with any degree of safety by any one nation. There must be a mutual agreement, and that mutual agreement cannot lie made or executed until there is a desire for peace and the establishment of confidence among nations. If the Christian religiou is good for men it is good for nations, and in it will be found the elements of an international peace and total disarmament. When shall we begin the millenium? CAN TUE HARD LUCK STORY Talk about hard times and you will think hard times. Talk about good times and you will improve conditions. Help to make lietter times and better times will come. You may not be able to get what you want, but do some thing until what you want can be had. We have much respect for the man who, failing to get his usual or desired employment, will take what he can get. until times improve and he is able to mak a choice. Quit your knocking and go to work. Drones never accomplish anything. If things are not going your way go the way things are moving and keep on going until you catch up with the procession, then climb upon the band-wagon and join in the music. If you can be heard above the others you will attract somebody's attention, and that means one of two things, success or jail. There is at least one time when a man agrees with his wife, and that's when she tells him he's the best fellow on earth. 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