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rouB HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN, MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1013. wmm 11 li ri,f - --ii'ii-' , mtf mm iilir ' lin ,r . 1ILEY H. ALLEN EDITOR MONDAY Temperance and labor are the ttco best phyti ciajis of man.lcousseau. - !- " A CITY ECCKOaf IEA00E Taxpayers alarmed at the terrific cost of do in municipal lrtisines -iind there arc many of them will :he interested in New York City's new plan for curbing waste. The City Economy league;' recently, .fanned, is now beginning to take an active part in New Y'ork affairs, not delving into polities except as political parties promise to economize and offer a definite pro gram for w doing ? : n : The Christian Science ' Monitor, commentipg on the league, says : : , : : . ; "The very fact that such a league is farming . ill have a wholesome result How can city of ficials know what the rank and file think, un- VUGUST 23, 1913 sufficient answer to the flagrantly unfair at tempt to make Ithose unfamiliar with the cir K 'iimstiinrps lwlipve thai "Mr Pmchflm did not have the confidence of the business community when he was In. public office here. Most of the men who indorsed Pinkham in April, 190$, are still leaders of the business community IicreT He was not reappointed to the presidency of the board of health, but Governor Fxear's ap pointment of Dr. lu E. Cofer did not detract one whit from the significant testimonial of the bus inessmen to Pinkham's ability, integrity, energy and independence of character. - - U'BLYKQLOS: Attorney-general McReynoIds is beginning to weigh around the present administration's neck as Ballinger did around the neck of Taft Bal linger was about as grossly misrepresented as any man in public life, and'possibiy McReynoIds .s the latter become vocal?,, Once .organized;8 also misrepresented. Certainly the attorney i W 4, V khMUAMVU ....... w - ml active such a league will find it to its inter-' general has been in hot water ever since he bios t to form an alliance with such an airency as!somed out 03 a cabinet-member. , '.o, bureau of municipal research, which, at reg- Mclteynolds gave a good deal of publicity tp Tar intervals, furnishes officials and citizens a. "plan 'for a , graduated tobaW lih evidence drawn from the records showin curred Wilson's "open displeasure; McReynoIds t - . ' ' ' I 1 1 - 11 . I 1 l 1 FT ( re and Iiow and to what rrtent, fnruls rn!sp.ueciarea mat oianaara un ana American 10- bacco dissolutions were farcical and got his department . by! the ears; '. McReynoIds allowed the Di:rra-Caminetti trials to be postponed and taxation are wasted under present methods f administration. . ''Of course such a lea die 'must nlso mmip tn . loudly terms with persons "and with other civic! birred up an ugly and a nasty scandal; McRey- The Star-Bulletin frank discussion In this column on all legitimate subjects of current interest. Communications are constantly i re ceived to which -no signature is at tached. This paper will treat as con f Idential signatures to letters if the writers so desire, but cannot giro space to anonymous communications. A SMASH FROM THE ICONOCLAST. c-ieties that arc endeavoring to shift the inci :;ee of taxation so that it will bear more equi- -ly upon all classes of the community. Were methods of taxation reformed and were the !y in receipt of revenue from'sources that are nolds charged that leading New York bankers were deliberately selling 2 per cent government bonds to depress the price and throw discredit on the administration's currency reform plans and was rebuked even by the Democratic press. ially erealeil, the present necessity for bor- That s a Pret-.? record of; trouble for ; five . ing would diminish much. A great deaHhat mo offfe-hoWing.--; ; - Xiiiner JicieyiMius is iue vicum ui a wou derfuilyorganized campaign .to drive him from office, or4he is a vt-ry' clumsy bull in a very small china-shop. ?A possible explanation is' that he is trying to wrest publicity honors from William Bryap Editor Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Sir: Being a atrangerln these isl ands, ' now on my way around this gcod old sphere of ours, also dabbling in science and otner things for self amusement, and also ' exploiting - the : marvelous,w . I have spent tne past several years in running down .elus ive", stories on fislw. fcrabs, jetc that Lave crept into the papers, and -1 Imay say that there Is generally some thing to do In. that line. . I was just settling down to the fact that I had at last found a place where my services along the above '.lines were not wanted, and I had begun to take on that feverish feeling that I must "move on," when ajeng comes this story from the south seas, about the crabs that hang around in the shade of the cocoanut trees and wait for the nuts to drop, when they crack them of en with whacks by their pow erful jaws. ,Now. . mind. I am not doubting the story told by these ro vers of the south seas,1)ut I find It the hardest kind of work to uncover anything definite in regard to these vague rumors. . . ; . kirery little while there appear clip pings in the daily papers purporting to give accounts of: flying pigs, tree chmbing crabs, etc, always said to be in socze place that' .is at a distance form the p!ace ' hereV the articles are printed, poss bly in Arizona, Brit ish, East India or ' Palmyra, for in stance. The. encyclopedias don't help me a bit in my "running down" pro cess.' ' They : allege thaC'Botskli is ::ow iKing laid as a burden upon posterity :!1 be' derived from current income.' ; " "Nor will any local economy league fail to its support to official and non-official ef : s to introluce order where chaos reigns, and il stitute a budget system of appropriations tire pnvent lax hit-or-irJ method. .Econr ; and Kound ethics walk hand in hand' along l-r.dget'.road. The experience. of the ages II on the side of the individual or comtnunify t cuts the garment according to the cloth' in :::a:i;2 cf a:;c!e;;t n:;::A!:: cistchy ; Knemies of L. E. rinkham' continue.'to harp i the fact that he left Hawaii some five years ) on a business trip, and also that he was not : ;cinted as president of the board of.health. o same enemies are strung Jy silent as to the " indorsement that 'the business community ve Pinkham for reappointinent to this posi :i. His indorsement did not come from the I ulilican committee alone; it came from the :.;:ml)cr of Commerce and the Merchants' Asso- cwspape files of April, 1908, show the re rd in which the business community held Mr. :'i::!;ham. On April 7 of that year he directors f the Merchants' Association aud the Chamber f Commerce held a joint meeting tb'discuss the -Mppointment. , Here are a few' expressions from ' ading businessmen,' as reported at the time: George W. Smith: He has been'an hone'st and ef ficient officer, he has been, sacrificing fn many par ticulars, and has always done his' best J. P.'Cooke: I believe we shouldl give Mr. Pink ham a hearty indorsement. E. I. Spalding: I concur entirely, with Mr. CJooke'a remarks. Mr. Pinkham has mada minor ' mistakes, as we all do. but he has always worked for an open port. ' and a clean city. Mr. pinkham has been a capable ; and efficient officer.; The attacks, on iMr., Pinkham-. are rotten and scurrilous. - -. ' :;. Fred. Macfarlane: Mr. Pinkham is" the righrmari in the right place. '.. ' 'lU : -: " "' - .' E. D. Tenney (speaking of Mr.. PlnkhanVs Mhon- -csty and Jntegrity!') : When you have a good man in office, you would be extremely foolish to drop him for a "dark horse." 1 . ' AX-"- v'V.: Robert Catton: We should indorse hiin simply be cause the Advertiser Is so terribly down on him if lor no other reason. ,. . ": .': ' -':y:. - J. A. Kennedy; Mr. Pinkham Is tod efficient He makes steamship companies fumigate! , George H. Robertson: 1 hope he Will be indorsed. The report of the meeting also shows that B. F. Dillingham "stated that he f had known Mr, Pinkham for many years, and though he did not aree with him in many matters, he believed him to be the ablest man ever in that position." - The report also shows that AV. M. Giffard, Jennings if- i " i'V tmKT. CHANGE ACT W -i .V...' ' - V,. The sooner ,the people! who are ; protesting against the confirmation di" Pinkham get wise to the fact that there is grave danger of the organic act being changed to allow of a real outsider be ing appointed governor, the better pleased some people will be, ' Not that everybody is infatuated with the "idea pf Pinkham being governor but because it is thought that he would be more ac ceptable than a rank outsider who would " soon begin to tread on everybody's toes. Maui News. I Nobody but the morning paper "fellfor! the story that DrJ J. B. Buffo ;was engaged to be married to a Castilian heiress. That piece of pleasant fiction was written in the Advertiser I office, according to Dr. Buffo himself, who told the Star-Bulletin that the story was so exagger ated ai to be practically untrue. It' furnished a choice brand of light summer reading particu larly in the paper that boasted a short time ago that it is even ahead of the news ! - v . u; ' One is pleased to note that the first move is being made along the line of preparedness for the part that Honolulu is going to play when the big canal has been opened. Reference is made to the boring of a hole in the waters of the har bor just off the end of Alakea whart 1 invites free and reported to ' have seen such a " or "Malskey is authority for but that I as far as it takes me. I was wondering If this story from Palmyra, regarding the Can and cocoanut-smash-ing crabs, was another that scientists are fond of putting over on a unsus pecting and confiduig public. ' No one has made a call for proof in the pres ent instance, .possibly because they have grown wary of ' becoming en tangled with such "marvelous things1 at do not bring alcng the proof. : There may be cocoanut-smashing crabs on Palmyra for all I know. You will notice that in the story printed in the Star-Bulletin Saturday, the par ticular part that touches on , these crabs start this way: "Stories have been told the writer" etc, and there ycu are as I said before. What we want is proof of all these things in nature that are discovered, but re main proofless, generally for all time. . If explorers who make these discov eries of the' "marvelous do not prove up on wese things, how are we ever going to believe that the coal supply will be exhausted in a million years, or that this solar system is rushing toward Arcturus, where it will be consumed as soon as it arrives? For a stretch of over seventeen years I sat up nights waiting for the crash that would surely follow when : Arc turns and this bunch of planets came together.' and by that time theastron oraer that, hatched the little seance claimed that the event had been post poned a few million years, and there you are': again. ' Although I had to take the astronomer's word for it my confidence- was shaken, and: until these Palmyra explorers can show me a crab banging the shell from a co coanut with his claws, I Khali con tinue to be a skeptic and a mocker. Apropos cf the use to 'which 'the aimyra islands . are to be put that cf producing copra, wouldn't it be a grand idea to supply those crabs with little hammers; and it is certain that tiey could do better work. : . . . EASY BOB. i MISS THOMPSON, head nurse at Queen's hospital, leaves on the Man churia for a vacation on the mainland. CHARLES A. RICE, of - Kauai ac companied by his wife, is a guest in the city. He came 6vr lor the polo andjwlll return tomorrow. 'SLAVE UK OFtHEISLANDS ARE DEPLORED (Continued from page one) . r 766VERJR ...FRELR ', is ',, absent from : the execu'tive , chamber, today, on. an. automobile,, loiir,, around -the Island. ". : . DR. DOREMUS SCUDDER pastor of Central Union Church, in company with Mrs. Scudder, is' spending the summer months at Kulamanu, Maul, as the guest of Rev. and Mrs. R. B. Dodge. " ; .'. '-' : :V ' B. F. BRADLEY an engineer at Waiahole, who for the - past several weeks has been sufferings from pto maine poisoning, is reported to be en tirely : recovered. He will resume work at Waiahole the latter part of this week. : - . '..'.;-"..'. -V-' ' DR. JOHN W. ROSS, VC S. N., re tired, and Mrs. Ross will leave tomor row on the Manchuria for a visit to California. . They hope to . return to Honolulu and make their permanent home here. ;: Dr. Ross is much jinter ested in local sanitation problems. MISS ETHEL HARBIGHORST of Portland Oregon, who has been visit ing in Honolulu for 'the past month, will return. to her home tomorrow in the Manchuria. She wlU be accom panied by Miss M Shlnn, also of the Oregon city. ;.. a ; v . . OWEN WILLIAHIS, , head of the Wells, Fargo agency in the Hawaiian Islands, has returned to this city after a tour of inspection in Hilo. He re ports a marked increase in the busi ness of the Crescent City branch, which has been established a year. :" . -; . l- ' -. x ;.,; . :-: r, v: PAUL K. TALLET of Honolulu, and Miss Maria de Sousa of Hawaii, were married at Honomu, Hawaii, a week ago yesterday and will make their fu- This report flattered the planters and the 'Hawaii sugir plantations by "tes timony - brought ,uut hy the senate lobby investigation,, according to a re port from' Washington D;'C.'-'' ' ; ; ,The vry crovl of men whoao legis lative "H actlvltiaa .in-.. NVashirigton brought forth th recent lqbby accu sation from President. Wilson are the representatives t rich planters whose cruel exploitation, of their wage slaves has 'no . counterpart ' under the . Stars and Stripes.- x, ;:. " ..These ugar growers, earning pro fits of ,50 to 90 p;r cent, and asking for the continuance of the tax of more than $100,000,000; annually on the American people, thiit the planters may continue to reap their golden re wards, are coming before congress in the name of "protection against the pauper labor of Europe," all the while maintaining a labor standi rd that is a blot on American civilization.. . So terrible are working conditions In Hawaii that European and Asiatic laborers, deceived Into coming to the Islands, literally starve themselves in crder to save up passage money and escape the trap into which; they have teen.- inveigled. . A horde of these pau per laborers are beginning to arrive in California, their, extremity making them willing to work for any price, thus depressing wages of 'Americans on the Pacific Coast. ; Incidentally, Senator Reed of MIs sCyri, a member of the lobby commit tee, showed that, a report exposing this condition was written by Daniel F. Keefe, former commissioner of im migration, who went to Hawaii at the request of Samuel Gompers, president of the American' Federation of Labor, to study the Industrial conditions. The report, however,, was never published. It ;was suppressed by the administra tion then , in power. The bureau of labor sent a man to Hawaii to get but another report on labor conditions. in ; Honolulu and is the leader of the Bijou theatre orchestra. Pmm U war rifmiifv Oitv Mtnrnnv Wpnrnr a5 yesieraay ana win mate tneir ru- inis report na brow the aj Deputy city. Attorney weaver ture nome ln this city.. Mr. Taiiet is was published. uaauiia iuc olui t uiuului uul& iiuui: .ulvau i.aui, uu"u by that party of "daring explorers?, Honolulii is going to have a nice little Dr. Cook-and-Peary episode of its own! ' J.V .;. : r - Tho ; government investigator - who wrote the whitewashing report was shortly thereafter given a .good job with '. the Hawaiian territorial govern ment,; while former Secretary Nagel later busied himself preparing charges looking to the removal of Keefe. . Senator Reed, however, resurrected report and brought it committee. The I palgn torfurther the interests of the i planters have been proudly proclaim- ' tag the fact that no peonage exists in REV. J. M. LYDGATE, pastor of the Foreign Church at Lihue, .. Kauai, is spending a few days in Honolulu. lie is enthusiastic over the recent organi zation of the Kauai chamber of com- The supervisors, W'ith the help of V Superin-.merce, and says that the - business ! the suppressed rep fnnrlPTif 7?ivnn!nirfrh nrvw linvp nn nnnnrtiinitv men of Kauai will institute a cam- before the lobby tenaent Knenuurgn, now nave an opportunity. . tnnrthr th interpsts of the.niantA have been to Drove that a Dark cati crow something besides Garden island. 1,1 111! II i"- r " .... V ." j One advantage of the aeroplane is that mere pedestrians don't have to rush to the sidewalks for their lives when it passes by. Desirable Residence v For Sale tHiM .. V. -w. , .., -.- .. .... , ; If Hawaii could only get a governor as easily J0a makai sWe ol East JIanoa. Bond; lot approximately 10x150. low, , , - . , . . er floor of house contains parlor, dining-room, den, bedroom, laratory, and as. Amuassaaor : v iisoi got ui rraiguunou, an closet adjoining bedroom, pantry, kitchen, dish closets large back porch, sec would be serene. ,1 The little old IL S. A. may look better than ond story contains 4wo bedrooms, bath, (linen drawers In hall), three large clothes closets. In basement is cemented laundry, servants room, bath and store room. lVith the boose Is included gas stoTe, water heater, stair car pet, curtain rods, statne on newel post and suntfs-y electric lights. There Is a garage In tne vara witn cemented noor ana serrnnis' room; runs. imcKcns ana rj i r rv I -. " . f i ' There Is a garage In tne yard witn cemented noor Fred Waldron, . rfotenUauer, u Icnney ever now to Cipnano Castro, formerly of ene- aiSo a large fern honse, chicken and pigeon houses with tw.1t and II Is. Wood spoke for au indorsement zUta. - . ,' U - 'v 1 - choice pigeons will be included in tte sale. - - iiuiuuu.i.,' ( i ,r"ua ;, - - i ., . .-.. ... . This Is splendid opportunity to secare a well const of Pinkham. A wireless message was received t: . ; c condition and in an excellent locality. from Hilo announcing that the Hilo Board of Kealoha refuses to live up to his name to the Trade and Shippers' AVhatf Committee indorsed extent of bidding public office farewell. rinkham. constructed house In good This is all ancient history, of course, but it is -Kather rough on Kuffoly , Fairfax Silver 4 " i ."Everything of class, of elegance of character, is exemplified In Fairfax '. Silver" - ; : - t- HawaiL After reading the report, one is almost convinced it would be bet ter for the wretched plantation and sugar mill laborers If they were peons or actual slaves. They would be bet ter treated by their owners. Wages run from $ per month (for children) up to $26 (for white adult men). Hours are 10 to 12 a day. The employees live : in miserable shacks provided by the companies. The men buy food from company stores, where prices range from 10 to 70 per cent higher than average food prices in New York, Washington, Chicago and San Francisco. The food Is Bold to the ' plantation stores by Honolulu wholesale houses owned for the most part by the plantation owners.' - Doctors employed by the companies have gone to visit the sick laborers 24 and 48 hours after being called, sometimes finding corpses Instead of patients. Laborers are called suit ing names and treated like dogs by field bosses. In a desperate effort to keep down the wage rate of all em ployees, the planters are' spending huge sums Importing Filipinos for lab orers. These workmen are the dregs of the Philippine population, gathered from almshouses the very; young and the very old, weak and racked with disease. ' . ' . . ; CIVILIAN CLOTHES FOR CLASS A MEW, SUGGESTS FUNST0N V ' (Continued from page one) sentiment of the better class of en listed men.v They are proud of the uniform, hut they feel that It Is not sui table to al I occas ions , and th e y will welcome a chance to lay It aside for less conspicuous civilian dress on occasions. ,' ..:-.-;,.'-" According to General Funston's plan, it will be necessary for a Class A man ; to obtain special permission from his organization commander to appear out of uniform. The mere hold ing of a special privilege card would , not entitle him to slip Into citizen dress at any time, but it is . practi cally certain that men In good stand ing could obtain the permission when they desired to attend some meeting or function in the city. Many of the special privilege cards have already been Issued, and tho work of classifying the army men Into three divisions is well under- way. Class A can leave the post at any time without pass, and is excused from certain calls: Class B can leave only on pass, and Class C men are confined to the limits of their posts. JOHN SMITH: Surely the Na tional Guard of . Hawaii has received knocks aplenty at home without hav ing to receive a Dump from the war department. JIM DLUFKIN:- Has the Promo tion Committee considered any plan t r. suspending interstate extradition in connection with its cmnlbu3 invita tion to bank cashiers! --SENATOR JAME3 L. COKE: There - Is a distinct feelins among' many Democrat here that President Wilson should be backed up in his ac tions, i DIt. IjOIIN W; HOS3: Honolulu ought to keep up the fight , asiinst mosqulto33. . It makes the port not only a pleasant but a safo'one and the city a healthful place In whlcn to live. W. a letter plains J. D. Dougherty i3 to be general com missioner for the islands an3 my ap pointment U as athletic commissioner. Wa are going to try to show the coast as good a gunch of swimmers as we took up there last month. bealtnrul place in wmcn io live. !. T. RAWLINS: I h.ive ieccived er from San Frar : -o Ahat ex i the Portola appclatic.ts. ' Mr. i. That expression, vwhrch occurs so frequently In 5 many business documents of our day, represents a form of Safety that you should , be very much interested in if you own property and have a family. For yodr family's sake, ask us about the details. --.Trent Truct : Cosnpan'y, lzl. VIEIRA JEWELRY CO.. LTD , iZlZZt FOR UNEXCELLED BREAD AND CRACKERS. Waterhouso Trust Co., Limited, leal Estate One and one ha!f acres in Nuuanu ralley $5,000 Modern House and half an acre of land In Mak'.kl . district i - 5, 500 Choice lot In Nuuanu valley", 24,000 sq. ft. i .'.'. 3,400 " '-.-'- v -. . ' .' .. ' '" Two lots at Kalmuki one block from car line.' . . 100 For Rent Unfurnished. King Street, Pawaa . . . . . . . . ;. . .$32.50 Beretania Street. , . .... . . . . , .. .. . . .1 Z0.00 Upper Fort Street. ; . ... . ..... . . . .... .V. ... - 15.00 Kaiibl .... ........ ..... ...C. 00 Henry Waterhouse Trust Co, Lisiitcd, " CORNER PORT AND MERCHANT CTRZtTl ' 4- A v 1