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Tttfi GARDEN ISLAND TUESDAY, NOV. 21, 1922
THE GARDEN ISLAND
Istued Erery Tuesday
KENNETH C. HOITER Managing Editor
TUESDAY NOV. 21. VJ-22
THE TliAXKSaiVlSa DAY GAME
Thauksgiving Day will again Lave a real
tang to it as it is planned to have Kauai
High School and the Kauai Veterans again
present a game of American football for the
public.
It is hoped that this game will become
an annual affair so that the high school may
have some competition besides its inter
class games. With an annual game with the
Vets the school team has something to look
forward to and the outside competition helps
the students develop a pride in their school
ns well as foment that mysterious quality
called school spirit.
The game is important from another
standpoint, as it is the main financial sup
port of the school's athletic program. The
sum netted from the game is practically the
only income that the school has for the sup
port of athletics. It is hardly necessary to
say that the game deserves the support of
the entire public.
Much stress lias been laid upon the Am
ericanization of local born children of ori
ental parents ,aud it must be admitted that
one of the biggest factors in securing results
in this work is thru the teaching of Ameri
can ideas and ideals in athletics and as the
carrying on of this work in the school de
pends largely upon the support given them
in their annual game, it behooves the gener
al public to support the school to the limit
of its ability.
THE AMEEICAX APPLE
This has been a wonderful year for
t he apple. In all parts of the country the
crop is abundant and if the fruit lias been
gathered and distributed in a scientific way
the American people would have cheap ap
ples for months to come. Under present con
ditions a big percent of the crop is going to
be wasted. High freight rates and low prices
offered producers will have a good deal to
do with it.
According to the United States census,
13j,i500,000 bushels of apples were produced,
and 1)8,52,000 bushels sold in TJIU. This
year the crop is larger. The state of Wash
ington leads all others in production, her
crop being one-sixth of the crop harvested in
the entile country. New York ranks second
with over 11,000,000 bushels; California is
third, Oregon is fourth and Idaho is fifth
place.
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America leads the world in apples pro
duced, as well as in the number of apples
wasted. We price apples here in Lihue only
to find that the same conditions prevail as
on the mainland they are no cheaper because
the crop is larger. What this country needs
is a market system which will make it prof
itable to gather every apple produced and
make the fruit available for everybody at a
reasonable price. Waste deprives the nation
of wealth which should be ehjoyed and, if
there is any truth in the slogan that "an
apple a day keeps the doctor away," then
we would be a healthier as well as a wealth
ier people.
A REAL BE El' ACTOR
James Lewis Cowles died recently at
his home in Richmond, 'a. To residents of
Kauai this announcement means little, until
it is explained that Cowles was the mau who
first conceived the idea of parrels post sys
tem. Then everyone will know him as a great
public benefactor. He niel with opposition
but finally Uncle Sam decided to try out
the sclu inc. And now, w hen we reflect upon
the many advantages that have grown out
of its introduction juid development we are
immediately impressed with the fact that
not since tiie postoffice department was first
established has juiy man added to it a single
development as important or jis popular as
the parcels post. In fact, it has about reached
a stale where we doubt if the country could
get along without it. We build monuments to
and celebrate the birthdays of men who
haven't done one half as much for the com
munity as .James Cowles did when he thought
out our parcels post system.
The man who says he doesn't play sec
ond fiddle at his house is possibly a better
liar than he is a musician.
You often see two men calling each oth
er liars, and both of them may be telling the
truth.
Our advice to the Thanksgiving turkeys
of this country is to call a hunger strike.
TIMES UAYE V II AX G ED
Isn't it strange what great changes can
come within a little space of time. We were
talking with a man a few days ago and
something was said about the' many chang
es that have taken place since 1000, just 22
years ago. That isn't a very long time, yet
he was able to point out many things of in
terest that have come up in those 22 years,
things we knew nothing about before.
For instance, he pointed out that 22 years
ago we didn't know a thing about parcels
post, or radio, aud the air was not filled
with flying machines. Nobody wore a wrist
watch, or swatted the fly, or had appendicitis
ami farmers hail to come to town for their
mail. Twenty-two years ago there was no
such thing as a submarine boat, a hired
girl was perfectly satisfied to work for $l.o0
a week, the butcher threw in a chunk of
licr with the meat order and a merchant
made us a present of a pair of suspenders
when we bought a suit of clothes. There
wasn't any listening in on party line tele
phones, straw-slacks were generally burned
instead of baled, nobody ever heard of bol
shevisin, and we were still slashing our face
with an old fashioned, straight back razor.
Yes, sir; 22 years brings wonderful
changes, and we could have gone and enum
erated (hem column by column. We marvel
at the wonders that have' come in that short
space of time. And we can only register
amazement and agree that if we move as fast
in the next 22 years as we have in the past
22, then we will, as the small boy says, cer
tainly be "going some."
THAT IS OUT
It would be a good idea for the men
of Kauai to keep in mind the fact that all
good lookers are not good cookers.
Old Winter makes quite a few detours,
but he finally lands at the place he started
for. . ,
5y the time a man has saved enough
money to afford a wife, he's so old that no
body will have him.
More than one man will give three
cheers for something he wouldn't give any
thing else for. -
Many an automobile owner has discover
ed that painting a car never takes the knock
out of the engine.
One of the hardest things in the world
to do is to make a boy understand that
somebody has got the neck and the gizzard.
It now appears that family skeletons are
kept on -the front page of the daily papers
instead of in closets.
Some people contend that the worm is
sure to turn. What if it does, it's just the
same on both sides.
It has also been our observation that
a little loving now and then is relished by
the best of men.
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Investment Service
That Is Proven
itmnt hm. mm '
IT usually takes time to prove a ser
vice to the satisfaction of cli
ents, and the Investment service
of the Trent Trust Company's stocks
and bonds department was no ex
ception. But people have learned
that their orders are carried out
faithfully, that they are advised of
our action" immediately and that
they can depend upon our brokers
absolutely. You will find these
things to be true.
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So to serve that we may continue
to serve
H
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LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
PORTIA REPLIES
Editor, Garden Island: Thru the
columns in the last Issue of The
Garden Island, "A Spectator" offer
ed the thinking public a dish of
deep food for thought."
The question of married women
in the public schools is one which
Is open to argument and should be
given deep thought before the legis
lature Is called on to consider some
act restricting the right of families
to regulate their own domestic af
fairs, and hampering the school de
partment In its endeavor to supply
teachers of ability and experience
for our children. Neglect la indeed
reflected upon our future manhood"
and the school is important as well
as the home.
Is it not reasonable to suppose
that the woman with children of
her own would be more competent
to understand and teach other chil
dren? Who, then is competent to
say that such teachers are not
benefitting the community and the
nation to a greater degree by thus
broadening the sphere of their In
fluence? Is "A Spectator", or you or I
yes, or Is the legislature compet
ent to say that any one woman in
the community is doing less for the
welfare of the country, by teaching
or is thereby neglecting her own
children or her husband?. Then, how
in justice may we dictate to a class,
any member of which presents an
indvidual problem?
The question raised by A Specta
tor was a general one of whether
a married woman should engage in
business. He however leaves the
broad Issue to confine himself to
one item of teaching, and further
narrows the discussion to our own
little community and finally to the
infinite narrowness of an all-sufficient
salary of $125 and the attempt
to impute to the Mokihana Club the
ulterior motive of fearing to hurt
the feelings of "social climbers" by
a discussion of this so called "so
cial problem."
But, coming back to the question
in its application to the business of
teaching, there are several other
points to be considered problems
that do not require a highly math
ematical mind or a peculiar know
ledge either of grammar or of the
private affairs of one's neighbors
First, from an economical stand
point, married teachers living in
quarters other than those which
must be supplied at public expense,
offer a saving to the taxpayer.
Second, conditions might exist,
where the teacher is better qualified
for the business of teaching than
for that of housekeeping caring for
her own children or cooking her
husband's meals .The realization of
the inefficiency of misfits in all
classes of labor and business is be
ing brought more forcibly to our at
tention every day.
Third and last, and most import
ant of all, is our own inalienable
right to freedom which has later
been further guaranteed to women
by granting of suffrage the right
to vote and hold office.
What chance, now, dear Specta
tor, of taking away that which has
been theirs, when the right of self-
expression so long withheld has
now been granted, and teaching, the
oldest vocation open to women, will
in the future be . considered as only
one, and perhaps the easiest, of the
many lines of business which mar
ried women will follow.
Hoping that we may have other
expressions of opinion on this ques
tion, with the omission of the ani
mus of irrevelent, immaterial uad
inconsequential matters such as the
salary of one's husband or the fan
cied or real social aspirations of
one's dearest friend, I am,
Yours truly,
POnTIA.
KOKUAS SPECTATOR
Editor, Garden island: Will .you
kindly extend A Spectator my
heartiest kokua in his views on the
subject of married women teaching
in our public schools.
Our Department of Public Instruc
tion finds it all too easy to effect
a doubtful economy by putting off
until the last minute the employment
of competent, trained teachers, eith
er from our normal school or the
mainland and then scurrying around
and taking some young married wo
man from her household duties and
giving her the minimum salary to
fill such vacancies as most unac
countably exist a week before the
opening of school.
Women hitherto perfectly satis
fied with their business of making
homes for their husbands and guard
ing the physical and moral health
of their children, are thus led from
the path of duty and it follows that
teaching is not worthy even the
minimum salary.
How can a yourg married woman
justify herself in the simultaneous
acceptance of two contracts, the one
as a wife, the strict fulfillment of
whose duties would keep her at
home, and the other as a teacher
whose duties are far from home and
Incompatible with the essential re
quirements of a home in . the mak
ing? . .
Hoping that the voices of many
spectators will influence other wives
and mothers when this question
comes up for their decision, 1 am,
Yours truly,
A SECONn SPECTATOR.
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