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THE GARDEN ISLAND, TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1921 li n ii I t i ! ! THE GARDEN ISLAND Issued Every Tuesday KENNETH C. HOPPER Managing Editor TUESDAY JULY 5. 1921 JOIN THE AUTOMOBILE CLUB A month or ho ago a meeting of all Kauai automobile owners was called in Lihue. Men from all over the inland attended. At that time it was decided to form the Kauai Auto mobile Club. Officers and a board of gover nors were elected. These officers and directors from all over the island have been busy. They have got to gether and have drawn up all the rules and regulations of the club. And these rules if backed by the Kauai automobile owners and drivers will help to make and keep our roads sufe from road-hogs, speed fiends and all other varieties of "automobilic" maniacs. They will also help us to keep our roads in good con dition and to remove dangerous spots that now exist. It is going to cost you five dollars a year to join this club. And five dollars are pretty hard to get these days. But say, Mr. Auto mobile owner, what are five dollars to j'ou or any one else when they will help materially in making automobile driving safe? Wouldn't you pay that several times over to eliminate from our roads those thoughtless people who insist on taking all the road instead of their share of it only? Wouldn't you dig up that amount to keep people from whizzing around dangerous corners at a high rate of speed when you know that some time you are pretty apt to be at the wrong end of that corner? Within the next two weeks you should be come a member. A membership committee has been nominated and they will probably see you. But they may miss you. If they do, tell one of the committee that you are ready to join. Two dollars and a half will pay your dues for the rest of this year. We don't know of any better insurance that you can get for that amount. PROFITEERING JINGOES TALK WAR Remove from the world, the profiteering jingoes and international disarmament will be an easy matter to adjust. The American peo ple do not want war; neither do the Japanese. No nation of Europe wants war. They have had enough. The world wants peace; yet the "bloody shirt" is waved when the olive branch is most desired. The masses of the people of all nations want peace. The profiteers want war, and if there is any possible way to stir up strife the greedj", soulless Shylocks will lose no opportunity to do it. They have no regard for human life. Their god is gold, to possess which they will sacrifice the life-blood of the nation and bur den posterity with debts and taxes. The profit-seeking jingoes of all countries are organized for the purpose of creating fric tion and exciting agitation. There is every reason why the nations of the world should put away their arms and banish all thoughts of war. There is every reason why wholesale murder should be abol ished as well as the great incentive for gain connected therewith. It is dangerous to talk war, think of war, or to prepare for war. The nation that is fully prepared for war needs but little stimulus to go to war. The nation that has a great mili tary equipment naturally desires to experi ment with its outfit before its guns and its ships become obsolete; preferring death and disaster to the junking of its folly. Universal peace cannot be accomplished by preparations for war. The nations must get together and talk peace. They must agree upon a system of diplomacy for the settlement of their differences. They must play the game fair, place their cards upon the table, face up, and banish suspicion from their con ferences. Universal peace is in the hands of seven great nations of the world, and if they can agree upon some form of peaceful settle ment of the world's differences the rest is easy. Jail the jingoes and the profiteers, talk peace, write peace, pray for peace and peace will prevail. OUR POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS When the postal savings banks were estab lished in the United States, eleven years ago, the movement was branded as socialistic, and was frowned upon by private banking institu tions. Today the postal savings banks have on deposit f ir0,000,000, which is $1.00 for every $2i0 of the country's total bank depo sits. The postal savings banks have not in jured the private banks in any manner what soever; but, on the contrary, have been a pre paratory school of thrift, and it is no doubt a fact that there are more deposits in the bank ing institutions of the country today than there would have been if the postal savings banks had never been established. PLANT CANE NOW It is reported that a good many of the home steaders are not planting all the land to cane now that they had intended to plant. This is because sugar is so low now that they do not believe that it will pay them to raise it. It is an inexorable law of supply and de mand that when the supply is great the de mand becomes less and the resulting prices lower. When the supply is limited the demand for such an article as sugar becomes greater and the price climbs. In the beet sugar districts and in Cuba and 1'orto Rico eople are saying the same tiling, that is that it won't pay them to plant. And the supply in the next two years will in all probability be materially reduced. That means higher prices. .Last year when the price of sugar was sky high we could have understood it if a man had said that he was going to limit his planting. The prices were drawing many more people into the game. But now we believe that any one who has the least knowledge of economics will not decide to cut down his acreage. CHINA'S PROBLEM Famine in China would not be the dreaded thing that it is if there were better transpor tation facilities. Tortious of the country are exceedingly fertile, producing abundant crops, sufficient to feed all the people of China ; but the lack of means of transportation renders it next to impossible to give aid to less favored districts. Not all of China is fertile, however. In the interior there are vast deserts; one of which, the Gobi, is probably the largest, being not less in extent than the Mediterranean. It was once a great inland sea, but its waters have dried up, leawng hills and valleys of sand, which is blawn by the winds and furnishes a fertilizer for some of China's richest lands, settling upon them to a depth of one-tenth of an inch per year. The dust is composed of a fine clayey sand, alkali, and other mineral substances that promote vigorous vegetable growth. It is in these dust-covered lands that China's richest agricultural wealth is found, and if there were better railroad facil ities she could feed all her people, even under the most adverse circumstances. The Gobi dust fills the rivers and is often the cause of serious floods, as the sands are deposited in bars that check the flow of the waters, which in flood time spread over vast areas. JUNK Three hundred wooden ships built by the government during the war are to be sold as junk. All but about forty of these ships are rotting at anchor in the James River in Vir ginia. The forty are in a lake near Keattle, Washington. This will put an end to the "built-while-you-wait" emergency ships of the country. Old sea captains condemned thew ships from the very beginning. They predicted their use lessness and their fate. All along the Atlan tic const these products of inefficiency have been discussed by men who have spent their lives upon the seven seas, and not one of these hardy sea-dogs has spoken a word in favor of the ships the government now offers for sale, not as carrying ships, but as junk. There is a lesson in the fate of these vessels. It proves that it is folly to employ a carpenter to make a watch, a farmer to build a ship, or a boy to do a man's job. RED HAIR WHILE YOU WAIT Redhair is now very much the fashion. It may be obtained in several ways. The most common is the chemical; but the latest is by the stings of bees. The hair of a Marion county, Ohio, boy has turned red from the stings of bees. The process is not altogether delightful to the patient, and it is not warrant ed to be effective in every case. Those who care to take the treatment can get the job over very quickly and with less expense by visiting the apiary of any bee-keeper and stir ring up the bees. They will then do the job "while you wait." Arnieuia suffered at the hands of the Turks. Now she suffers because of the greed of the nations, that are more than eager for Armen ian oil than they are to save the lives of the Armenians. Iu fact they have put guns into Ihe hands of Armenia's enemies. What will be the verdict in the day of reckoning? Christianity, so far as it applies to Armenia, or any other weak nation, is figured in dol lars and cents. To the world Armenian oil is of more consequence than Armenian blood. JUS. F. MORGAN Company, Limited REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE 8TOCK8, BONDS, No. 125131 Merchant St P. O. Box No. 594 Honolulu 5 CALIFORNIA FEED CO. LIMITED Dealers In Hay, Grain and Chicken Supplies SOLE AGENT3 FOR International Stock, Poultry Food and other specialties Arabic for cooling Iron Roots. Petaluma In cubators and Brooders. King' .Special. Chick .Food P. O. Box 452 Honolulu I Honolulu Paper Co. 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