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THE GARDEN ISLAND, TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1922
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AMERICAN LEGION SECTION
Americanization Talk No. 3
WATCH YOUR STEP
In ft territory, such as this, where !
there is both a mixture and a blend-
ing of many races and creeds on the j
roster of citizens, where the dutle'to j
ol citizenship are imposed, and the
privileges of citizenship are enjov
td by men and women of practical
ail racial pretitagos, it should be
the corstant endeavor of thos-3 citi
zens to be worthy of these duties
a.-.c'. privileges. In other words, they
should endeavor to be good Ameri
cans by embodying in their Jailv
life and behavior those qualit ies
;hat are characteristically American
i.nd that ave tniu'rent In the best
bred stock of American history. ?he
' 01 die pioneer stock.
" c onumera'.a these churaeUi t. t o
American quu'ities It is not necessa- y
to list the qua' in. 3 that go to i!akr
ep a good man, for a good man is
u good mat; no matter from v hat
stock he coir.e. but it Is ?.n:.reiv
possible for a man of the highest
moral qualifier Hons to be st:ll '.j'cU
i:g in fundame-.'.tai'y American. iu:v
lities. When ;h' ntted Ktules was a vil
(Alness of : i s . c.rert and plains.,
certain hardy iac!i "ini.ls of the N'oi
dic stock of Kurope came to North
America. These included among lbs
others the early English, Hugenot
of the Dutch settlor.,, l.i
and some
coming to North America the-' cut
themselves off from all accustomed
sources of protection and foo.l sup
ply, and placed themselves '.i.io
ih-eir life depended upon their owu
efforts without assistance from an:
stronger group of people. Their mo
tive in doing this was their -termination
to have individual and
group freedom of action within rr;;
vlatlons and laws of their own le
v.sing. From the recorded accomplish
ments of these first groups of pio
neers, and of , the pioneers' who de
veloped all of the broad expanse of
the United States two traditional
and fundamental qualities of good
American citizenship have arisen:
self reliance, and the ability to pos
sess individual liberty of thot and
action within the law.
Let the citizen of alien parentage
and other citizens as well realize
that here In Hawaii life is easy
and conditions are safe as compar
ed to those of the pioneer days and
that they are enjoying their advant
ages in great measure due to the
work of these pioneers. Let them
put this question to themselves: "I
wisli to be a good citizen. Have 1
ihe energy and, self reliance under
tiic-be easy conditions to put thru
my own enterprise, with my own
efforts alone of necessary, without
Eoa.'ching for outside assistance .'''
From the conditions demanding
self reliance and self sufficiency
that the pioneers had to undergo has
developed among the American peo
ple an admiration for these Quali
ties that shows itself nowadays in
their conception of "sportsmanship."
Let us illustrate this.
Should the skill of a team of In
dividuals to win in any sport be
assisted by outside help or an un
fortunate, accident to the opponnil
the entire self sufficiency and merit
of the team in winning is gone, for
a victory now means that that vic
tory has not been achieved thru
merit alone, but thru ability plus
factors lessening the opponent's
chance of winning. Ti.is takes away
most of the satisfaction of winning
to a victor who has the true ideal
of sportsmanship, and be is sorry
first that he has to play at all, and
second that his opponent had to lose
under such a handicap. Now consid
er what this means.
Should a team have some players
temporarily disabled, or should an
individual be temporarily injured be
fore a match, it is good sportsman
ship to accede to a request for a
postponement if possible. It Is good
sportsmanship to cheer one's own
players and poor sportsmanship to
place one's opponents under a handi
cap and jeering at them, and ap
plauding their errors. It is the poor
est of sportsmanship and absolutely
un-American not to play the game
according to the rules and laws,
whether it be an athletic contest,
fishing, hunting, business or an in
door sport.
Now conies the most general of
the qualifications of a good Ameri
can citizen. It is the correct per
formance of his duties as a citi
zen, and embrace his duty to his
country, his duty to his neighbors,
und his duty to his family.
One's duty to one's family is the
easiest and most instinctive of all quately c aring for its disabled," Mr.
the obligations that a man tukes i AIucNUU-r declared. "The armistice
upon himself. In this he is guided I was hardly signed before It became
by affection, natural Instinct, und apparent that the machinery of ra
the feur of approbrium of his neigh- i habllitation was clumsy. There were
bors. Nevertheless, we have heard I three separate bureaus with which
of automobile owning parents of un-1 the disabled veteran had to deal
der-nourished children on Kauai. one for payment of compensation.
1
The underlying principle guiding
one's duty to one's neighbors is the
lotig-t'amiliar Golden Rule of "Do
unto others as you would they should
do unfo you." In practice it means
to guard your actions and speech
so that neither can harmfully af
fect anyone In your community or
elsewhere, to co-operate with your
neighbors for the common welfare,
and to obey the law. Such' practices
ns reckless driving, turning stock
out where life and property may be
Injured, cruelly to animals, gossip,
etc., all come under this category
locally
One's duty to one's country on the
part of all citizens is to take an in
telligent part in its government, and,
should it be in danger to gladly do
one's part in its defense, even though
it should mean the ultimate sacri
fice. It means votirg at every elec
tion, voting for the best man after
a careful study of his qualifications
for office, and supporting this man
after election.
The American Legion, public ser
vants or officers, and citizens of
American parentage, have a position
and influence In this community that
is potentially great. It Is to these
people that the new American citi
zen must look for guidance and ex
ample, and an un-American action
on the part of any of these may be
copied and imitated by citizens of
foreign parentage and training as
being the ideal of good American
ism. It is much harder to correct
a mistaken ideal than to instill the
right one.
So, . good Americans all WATCH
YOUR STEP!
A. J. HORNER.
Indianapolis, Ind., May 15. Efforts
to speed the construction of hospit
als where young American service
men, insane from their war experi
ences, may be treated, are being di
rected from national headquarters
of the American Legion here.
C. J. Harris, head of the Legion's
service division, reports an alarming
condition do to the lack of proper
facilities for quartering and treat
ing the demented veterans. More
than 9,000 young men, who afflic
tions range from harmless mental
disorders and high nervous tension
to raving insanity, are confined in
Veterans' bureau hospitals alone, while
at leaht 3000 more are held in con
tract institutions, state and county
insane asylums, Jails and private
hospitals.
In a city near Indianapolis, Mr. Har
ris reports, a service man, shell
shocked in military service, became
slightly mentally unbalanced and be
gan "acting queer," according to his
family. The case was reported to the
Veterans' Bureau, but instead of al
lowing the bureau time enough to
find a place for the patient, the par
ents took him to an insane asylum
for observation. While being observ
ed however, a document legally com
miting the man to the insane asy
lum was read to him. The commit
ment for insanity so preyed upon
tbe shell-shocked young man, Mr,
Harris declares, that shortly he be
came a raving maniac, confined In
a padded cell. .
The Langley bill, recently passed
provides for the construction of one
neuropsychic hospital in each of the
Veterans' Buearu's 14 districts.
Trained personnel for treatment of
the demented veterans is sadly lack
ing however, and the national reha
bilitation committee of the Legion,
making a study of the problem, ha3
recommended that a training center
be established without delay.
The Legion has noted an increase
of one per cent each month in the
number of insane veterans, national
headquarters reports.
Indianapolis, Ind., May 15. Colo
nel Charles It. Follies, director of
the Veterans' Bureau, now is the
one man in the United States' di
rectly responsible for the proper
care of sick and wounded veterans
of the world war, according to Na-'
tional Commander Hanford MacNider
of the American Legion.
Passage of the Langley bill ap
propriating $17,000,000 to complete
building of permanent hospials und
er Mr. Forbes' direction and the an
nouncement that Public Service hos
pitals in which the service men are
patients will be transferred to the
control of Mr. Forbes, centralizes
completely responsibility for care of
the war's disabled in the hands of
one man.
"This means thut the Legion's
three va legislative fight is won,
but it also means that the country
Is just three years too late in ado-
another for hospital and medical
care and another for vocational
training. Responsibility was divided
in three ways.
"The American Legion drew up a
plan to remedy this condition and
obtained the backing of the country.
Hut by this time 150,000 pending
claims for compensation had been
amassed and 300,000 unanswered
letters. Departments passed cases
back and forth between while men
died in want.
"Finally now the machine la in
order. One man, the head of the Vet
terans' Bureau, controls insurance,
compensation, vocational training
and hospital and medical care. Fur
thermore, the power to make deci
sions and awards has now been al
lotted to districts so that there is
personal contact with claimants."
OUR JOKE-FEST
A Modest Man
Scene Ladies' cloak room on Ka
uai.
Time After a party.
Mabel Did you ever see such a
man as Jim?
Helen Meaning what?
Mabel He kept staring at the
ceiling all evening.
Helen He's modest.
Mabel Modest? Why modest men
usually look down.
Helen Not in this day of short
skirts and rolled hose.
I gave her a box of rouge for
Christmas.
Gee, but that was a pretty flossy
present, wasn't it?
Yes, but I got it all back when
she thanked me for It. Milton Col
lege Review.
Are the farmers allowed to make
cider since prohibition went into
effect?
Surely. Haven't you heard of the
freedom of tin press? Punch iowI.
She I wonder why Adam ever
called her Eve?
He Oh, I suppose he saw his day
ot happiness ending when she came
around. Voodoo.
She Weren't .vox angry with him
v sen he klssc! youT
He Yes. Everv time. Chapafn!.
Male patron in a butcheishop
Have you any tender steak?
Butcher I have a steak as ten
der as a woman s heart.
M. P. Then give me some tripe.
Porter Carry yo bag, Boss? Never
bus' a bottle yet. Gargoyle.
What sort of a part does Bill cake
In the play?
A very emotional part. In the last
act he has to refuse to drink. Friv
ol. He You're charming: do you
know It?
She I'm sorry I can't say the
same of you.
He Oh, that's all right. One ot
us may as well be truthful. Punch
Bowl.
S P O R T 8
What? Never seen a ball game?
And you an American- I'm surpris
ed that you even make the admis
sion. The above was directed toward
me. You can see the stigma thut is
upon me. I've kept It from the world
all these years only by skillfully
changing the subject whenever base
ball is mentioned. But now that it
Is out, even if only one man knew
about, it was upon me to see a game
so that I might throw out a few wise
remarks about the great American
mania and thereby save my face.
I am now able to say that I have
seen a game and the following Is a
true report of the same:
The girl who goes to movies with
me sometimes and I, were park
ed in her car (I said I was going
to be truthful) in the Lihue baseball
grounds a few Sundays ago. " She
was keen enough to see thatl did
n't know much about the game and
she took it upon herself to explain
it to me.
Oh, I get such a trill out of base
ballI'd never miss a game if it
wasn't so hot or there is a picnic
on Sunday or something now let
me tell you about It you see that
fellow over there with his hands
behind his back, well he's the catch
er and that fellow that is waving
his arms around in the air is the
pitcher you see he is throwing the
ball to the no I was wrong he is
not the catcher that fellow that I
first pointed out to you Is not the
catcher no, he's the umpire he
always holds his hands behind his
back so he wou't catch any of the
balls you see the pitcher throws the
ball to the catcher and the man
with say, I wish they wouldn't let
those people drive across the park
when they are playing gee, that's
a pretty car, I wonder who it's Ma
bie I like her nerve she Just drove
across there so everybody would
see that she had a new car and
look at the color of it red, I think
that Is mighty poor taste colors are
not being used on motor cars thU
year but then you couldn't expect
r.nythlng better of her Bhe always
wants to attract attention a flivver
U the only thing she should own
with her husband getting that small
talary 1 think It Is simply outra
geous for a woman to spend all her
husband's salary on a car and then
to get such a gaudy color so that
everybody will look at it you'd
think she'd oh, look that's a home
lun it's our team, too I can tell
by the kind of stockings he is wear
ing look he's around to third now
there he goes he's in safe 1
wonder what all those Kapna peo
ple are cheering about why I be
lieve that was a Kapaa man who
made that run I do wish that they
would have a different kind of suit
for each team I can't tell who is
rt the bat the last time I was here
our team some of them had stock
ings on Just like that fellow who
made that run why can't they all
l.et new suits and have them washed
every week will you look at Ma
bel she is getting out of her to
walk over to see Helen she doesn't
like Helen she says the cattlest
things about her she just had to
get out of her car to show off her
new dress that's all she did it for
will you look at that dress just
imagine a woman buying a dress
like that and her husband getting
such a small salary buying such
r,n expensive dress and it is rot
becoming she has such poor taste
she couldn't look well no matter
what she paid for her clothes not
If she had a million dollars a year
to buy her clothes with and look
how short it is cut I'll bet she
can't sit down without showing the
toll of her stockings a woman of
her height shouldn't wear such short
dresses and no married woman
should roll their stockings of course
it's all right for us single girls but
never for a married woman look,
all the bases are full which team
is in I do wish they would have
different suits for each team or at
leu st different kinds of stockings
color I mean I don't see how any
body can keep track of the game
oh, look at that fielder catch the
ball he rolled right over on his
back and held his hands up in the
air that's so everybody could see
that he wasn't ceating and picked
up the ball without catching it do
you know that Bill hasn't been ar
oud to see me for eight weeks yes,
I marked it down on the calendar
not that I care if he doesn't some
round but it's so rude he might
have phoned or something yes, he
cume up three nights and always on
EE
Save
Comity F
Lihue County Lot
and Armory
10 A. M. to 12 Midnight
Information regarding Concessions and Exhibits
may be secured from Sheriff Rice
i
Admission: Children 15c
Thursday night and ho knows I take
my singing lessons on Thursday
night mind you, I don't care If 1
ever see him again, but you'd thin
he wouldn't be so rude and he was
up lust Tuesday night and he knew
I had to go to the Mikado practice
I don't see how men can be so
rude I wouldn't walk across the
street to speak to him men can
be so rude down here I'm never
going to speak to him as long as I
live why I wouldn't answer him If
he spoke to me look there goes' a
home run look how the fellow is
running what is he stopping for
oh, it was a foul say I do believe
Mabel Is coming over here of all
the nerve after Baying the cattlest
things about me why I'd cut her
ddad if it wasn't such a small place
one has to stand for these things
down in a small place like this why
hello Mabel, we were admiring your
car when you came in I was Just
telling Joe what a swell color it
It red is all the rage for cars' now
it's so sensible for you to buy a
good car instead of a cheap one
what a beautiful dress you have on
you always show such good taste
you did right to have it cut short
like that they say styles are for
shorter dresses this year say M&
bel look at poor old Bill over there
all by his lonesome in his car
let's go over and cheer him up we
'11 be back soon, Joe say Joe, if I
don't come back before the game is
over you take my car home, eh?
Yes, baseball Is a wonderful game
Moonshine Visibility Test
One moor. pretty good; two moons
the real stuff; no moon wood al
cohol. Life.
GOOD
MEALS III HONOLULU
Await you at Child's
New, modern, high class restaurant, cen
trally located. Cool and comfortable.
Intelligent, courteous service. European
plan. Operated in connection with the
Blaisdell Hotel
J.P. CHILD, Proprietor.
MAY 27th for
The
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AMERICAN LEGION
USING RADIOPHONE
Legion posts on tbe mainland are
being bitten by the radio bug and
are Installing radiophone receiving
sets so they can listen In and get
reports from department headquar
ters.
Nebraska Is the first ftate to use
the radiophone. The plan is as fol
lows: Department headquarters of the
Legion in each state will Install
radiophone receiving sets and lis
ten in at specified times and dates
for the broadcast from headquar
ters. Each state department head
quarters being equipped with a ra
diophone could hold conversation
with other state headquarters and
In all probability a powerful radio
phono station will be installed at
national headquarters of the Ameri
can Legion and in this way national
headquarters would be In touch with
each department either direct -or
via closer stations. It Is only a mat
ter of a short time when all the
Hawaiian Islands will be linked with
radiophone and talking with a party
on the other islands will bd an ev
eryady occurance.
Prominent people, celebrated art
ists, who come to Honolulu and
either do not have the time or
plans to, visit each island will be
able to tentertain the whole terri
tory with speeches, lectures and
concerts with the aid of the radio
phone. Radio is neither a craze nor a
toy. It is a very serious and import
ant public utility which' will gain
magnitude and value every day.
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