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THE GARDEN ISLAND, TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1921
THE
GARDEN
Issued Every Tuesday
KENNETH C. HOPPER
TMESDAY
T.IE PRESS COXFEREXCE
AX1) OUR LABOR SUPPLY
A groat ileal lins ltwn said about tlie coming
Press Conference as a means of advertising
H.nvaii as a tourist's tumuli sc. And this
point can not be emphasized too strongly, for
to;irists mean much to this Territory.
Hut the greatest good that should come from
this conference has been entirely overlooked.
Tl at is the importance of this conference as a
means of bringing labor to Hawaii. What we
need now is labor, more labor, most labor.
The need of lourists is insignificant in com
parison. As much as we should dislike to do
so, we could get along here without tourists.
l!nl where on earth, or otherwise, would we
be without laborers?
The hope of bringing in 2." or oO.OOO Chinese
laborers is very faint. We want them but we
probably can't get them. We can't get any
more Japanese laborers and the number that
can be brought from the Philippines or Porto
IJico is limited. Sugar planters in the Phil
ippine Islands are beginning to be hard pressed
for laborers themselves. And it is reasonable
to expect that their needs are going to be sup
plied, once they actually go after the labor, be
fore ours.
Leading editors from practically every coun
try in Europe are coming to Hawaii. These
editors are coming from countries where labor
is comparatively cheap and plentiful. Times
are hard there and many, many people are look
ing for a place to go. What a wonderful op
portunity for Hawaii!
If the Sugar Planters of Hawaii will get
si pi a rely back of this conference, if they will
take the trouble to show these editors that
there really is a need for labor from their
countries and that their laborers would be
given a fair deal here, more good can be ac
complished by this conference than a labor
c niiiiission kept in Washington all the time.
'employers of labor, here's your opportunity!
li' you don't make the best of it you are losing
your best chance to get good labor that has
been presented to yon in years, or that will be
given you for decades.
HIGH TAXES
In every section of the United States there
is a wail against tax burdens, but nowhere is
there a cry for a reduction of government ex
penditures. It costs money to run the government, and
money for that purpose must come from the
people in some form of taxation. If we are
heedless regarding the expenditure of money
for any government purpose whatever we
should not complain if our taxes are high,
whether that expenditure be made by the nat
ional government, the state or municipality in
which we live. The same principle applies in
every case. Government money is the peo
ples' money.
I Hiring the past live years there has been a
tremendous increase in taxes because of the
war. Much of the expenditure of the Federal
government has been needless, and much that
was spent upon the cost plus plan has been
criminal; but that in no way reduces the lia
bility of the tax-payer. He must settle for
all the wise and unwise expenditures of gov
ernment officials.
The high level of government war expend
itures still continues, and will continue until a
more economic system is adopted. The ships
that are rotting at their moorings, monumeuts
to the stupidity of ,the shipping hoard, repre
sent just so much of the people's money that is
going to waste. This is but one of the long
list of financial mismanagements on the part
of men who were entrusted with responsibility
far too great for their capacity.
We are living in perilous times. Graft
seems to be a leading passion, and the fifty
cent dollars of the American people, spent in
war time, will have to be redeemed by the tax
payer with dollars that are worth one hundred
cents, and consequently are twice as hard to
obtain.
Economy and common sense should be
among the qualifications of our state and nat
ional legislators; but that virtue is lost sight
of in the excitement of political ca'r.pa'gns,
and the man with the big noise is generally el
ected, regardless, and the people pay a high
pine for their rashness. If a good business
ii. mi is required to run a big corporation, how
if ch greater should be the qualifications of a
ii.'ii eligible for election to state or national
Cuiigrcss.
.
There was another earthquake in Los Ang
eles the other day but it did little damage.
Wi:h so many movie queens it takes more than
an earthquake to shock that town.
ISLAND
Managing Editor
MAY 17, 1921
BUY AT HOME
We cannot emphasize too strongly the fact
that Kauai people should, as far as possible,
buy their merchandise at home. Recently a
number of new enterprises have been started on
this island and if we want to keep them here,
if we want to encourage other enterprising
business men to start more of them, we have to
patronize them.
A new drug store and a new clothing store
have been started at Kapaa. Kauai needs
those stores badly. They are both good, up-to-date
stores and they carry a good line of fresh
'stock. They can keep on carrying fresh goods
only if they are patronized liberally by Kauai
people.
In the past most of us have bought a great
deal of our merchandise in Honolulu. Many
times it was necessary, for the gixls could not
be bought at home. But now that we have a
chance to get them here, let's do it. It is a
liig convenience to us to be able to buy at home
without waiting for a boat to bring our orders
to us. If we want to keep that convenience
before us all the time, we must make it possible
for them to exist by buying at home everything
that can reasonably be bought here.
HAXD IX JIAXD
Business success and advertising go hand in
hand. The best way to judge the business en
terprise of any community is by the size and
frequency of the ads in the home town paper.
All readers are strangers until they buy. The
business visitor is a stranger until he buys a
few meals; and the permanent resideut is very
much a stranger at the store he has never been
invited to patronize. The large display ad
attracts and holds attention and arouses re
spect and confidence. It cries out "low costs,
low overhead, low selling prices, quality
goods." It dominates the page, of course,
just as the mansion of many rooms looms up
larger than the shack. All ads are read big
or little. Everybody knows that, and the
statement calls for no argument. But the
merchant who is seeking real business success,
and who wants to advertise the best way and
to get the most for his money is the one who
realizes that the larger the ad the greater its
pulling power.
Millions of men have said: "It can't be
done;" yet it has been done and the world has
profited thereby. Men scoffed at the idea of
Jules Verne, who described the submarine and
its accomplishments in his submarine boat
that travelled "Twenty Thousand Leagues
under the sea." Men ridiculed the ideas of
men who attempted to fly through the air; yet
it has been done and the Atlantic ocean has
been crossed and the flying'' machine has be
come a commercial enterprise. Men doubted
the value of the telephone when it was intro
duced as a candidate to public favor and util
ity; yet the telephone has become a necessity.
Men laughed at the attempts of inventors who
produced the typewriter; yet today that ma
chine is an indispeusible utility in the office of
the business man. Men scoffed at every at
tempt to produce something different from the
old utilities and save time and labor; -et new
inventions are daily produced, many of which,
are of economic value. Do not say, "It can't
be done." It may be done, and whatever it
may be, done well. The inventive genius of
America surpasses that of any other country
of the world. Think of the telephone, which
today carries the human voice from New York
to San Francisco. Think of the wireless that
enables us to communicale with ships hund
reds of miles out upon the ocean, and which
binds the world together with its electric
waves. People said, "It can't be done", but
it is being done every day.
If you take the trouble to investigate the
business condition of the country you will
find that the exports dropped from $820,000,
000 in March 1020 to $.184,000,000 in March
1021, a drop of more than 50 per cent. If our
exports continue to decrease as in the past
few months it will mean closer business and a
further depreciation in prices, and a curtail
ment of production for the foreign market.
There cannot be much greater curtailment for
the domectic markets. There must be, in
fact, a speeding up of industry to meet the
needs of consumers, millions of whom are just
waiting for the slide to reach the bottom of
the decline, when they will draw their wallets
and buy what they need. Today they lack
confidence in the markets. They believe that
by waiting a few mouths longer they will he
able to buy cheaper, and doubtless they will;
but if all wait, the re-action will start prices
upon the up-grade when buying begins, and
begin it must at no very distant date.
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