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WiDEtl OF HONOLULU Pill UliillE
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RILEY H. ALLEN
EDITOR
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Give Home Products First Chance
Major I.in 'lri brif talk to th woin'-n of Mono
hi In at tin- Hijon ni;isMnftiii 'ntnla.v was right
to tin- point in '!iij!jaM7.u!!L' the for patronizing
home prow n products.
Here ih ;i iitil.- st.-ry of real life" that illustrates
bin armiiia-iji
An illuminating sidelight on the newspair en
Horshijt proposal is the frank admission on the floor
of the M-natc that monitors of 'engross consistently
- Hir in' -nnsistent 1 violate the supposed contidem-e
of exe utive sssicus ly afterw ard telling everything
that oc( urr-d.
IiiM-ently the senate debuted long ;uid solemnly
and seereth the meM:i, whether the espionagp
bill should contain the rensorshiu se tion. Next day
A week ago a hom.-Me.H.er from Maui lt,,I,IK' a)1 ni0 p.qM.rK toI(i wh:it ha(1 lian,,.,.fi. an) then i-e-into-fhe
Star Hulletin office with a small box of as, f,n, .;,, uu;,n in .,tn ux)Hinn as
reported by the Congressional Ilrord :
Mr. Thomas Mr. Prefldent. th senate yesterday
ppent about five hour in secret legislative session
ostensibly for the purpose of discussing subjects the
open discussion of whuh might be " leterious to the
public Interest. The morning Post contains three or
four columns in giving a substantially accurate ac
count of what occurred and the Ne v York papers are
quite as prolific in publishing similar information.
Mr. Myers May I ask the senator a question? The
senator says the Post pave an ace.) rate account, of
what occurred
Mr. Thomas I said a substantially accurate ac
count.
Mr. Myers Is not the senator dtsclosinp senatorial
secrets when he says the report is accurate? Is he
not verifying the newspaper report?
Mr. Thomas: My purpose in rising, is simply to re
fer to the fact that there are no such things as sen
atorial secrets. I have come to the conclusion that if
senators desire to occupy considerable space in the
columns of the press or if it is necessary to give the
public general information concerning matters of pub
lic concern, the best way to do so is to hold either an
executive session or a secret legislative session. The
extent to which information is afterwards given to
the public is so graphically illustrated by the publica
tion of the proceedings of yesterday that it seems to
me the sooner we abandon the farce of secret legisla
tive sessions the better it will be for us and for the
whole country.
fine onions as have apearel locally for a long time.
The reason wh he brought the onions along appear
ed present h when he said that he had Uvn advised
by the territorial marketing division not to send
onions to Honolulu lcauw1 there wan little demand
for the homegrown variety.
At this time there was a livelv demand for im-j
ported onions and shortly U-fore his visit a large
tih'ipinent had Uen brought here.
The Maui onions were good onions; they had a
pood flavor; and the difference between them and
the coast or Australian product is negligible.
This homesteader said that a great many more
onions are leing grow n on Maui and there will be a
considerable surplus over Ihe Maui consumption.
IMainly. unless there is a market in Honolulu, the
Maui growers face immediate loss a discourage
iuent instead of an incentive to "raise more food in
Hawaii."
Here is a concrete case where preference should
be given to the home product in order to save and
' to encourage a promising home industry. Experi
ence has sljown that good onions can be raised here
and gold at a cheaper price than the imported kind
and Honolulu can create a stable and economical
home onion market if the housewives consistently
give the preference to the home prodfjlft.
Here's another tory which went the rounds of
't the island press a year or so fg4 4ut may be for-
r- gotten.
v . Senator "Jack" Coney of Kauai raised some fine
) - onions and they were pially sold in Seattle. Not
long ago after he had occasion to visit a Kauai store
and there saw some boxes of onions, which, he was
told, were north west -grown, imported here because
; of their excellence.
rliv .The boxes looked familiar to Mr. Coney and when
he turned them over, he found his name still legible.
. V It appeared that his own onions had been shipped
to Seattle and back, to be sold as a choice variety
, v in his borne island !
, 'X And it's the consumer that pays the freight on
" ". imported products.
';An one branch of the splendid work ahead of the
proposad League for Women Service, let- u hope'
there will be established a Home Products Alliance,
the mcjnbcrs of which shall pledge themselves, tehen
. ordering at the market personally, by messenger or
-telephone, to ask first for home-grown foodstuffs and
V - give these preference.
. In the long run, this will benefit the dealer as
H much aa the producer, and it will immediately bene
j; . fit both producer and consumer.
Four Hundred Gather at Bijou and Hear Timely Talks By
Officials Need for Conserving Foodstuffs is Strongly tm
phasized
FUN AT VOtf HINDENBURG'S EXPENSE.
" - American newspaper wits are having a good deal
of fun these days with von Hindenburg and the sol
emn official assertions from Berlin that the German
i retreat on the west was a "master stroke to foil the
carefully laid plans of the Allies." Here are some
.of the samples of the paragrapher's art:
The timid pedestrian handed his pocket book to
the footpad. "This foils his carefully laid plans,"
he explained, "to take it away from me with a club."
' r-Bostbn Transcript
- How hurried the German retreat was is evidenced
by the faet that in some of the towns evacuated they
.did not hare time to even smash the dishes before
leaving. Kansas City Times.
: . Bj the brilliant strategy of retreating, the Ger
f man army is rendering futile the preparations of
" ihe Allies to drive it back. And to add to the dis
comfiture of the Allies, they are now left with a lot
of extra ammunition on their hands. Philadelphia
North American.
v-.,i uermans snouia consiaer tnat tne fal hnz back
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habit in a soldier tends to develop homesickness.
' J Boston Transcript.
The. destruction marking the German retirement
r would seem to indicate little hope of immediate re
covery. Newark News.
Germany might foil the carefully laid plans of
; the United States navy by withdrawing all her
if, U-boats. Philadelphia North American.
Try as bev ma-T' the Allies can't halt the German
.-retreat. The Kaiser's army sweeps victoriously on
-..Vis'. toward home. Philadelphia North American.
;;. A corset-manufacturer says that he invented the
jstraight-front. He should sue von Hindenburg for
infringement. New York Evening Journal.
- At all events, the Kaiser has been more successful
than Henry Ford in getting the boys out of the
.trenches. New York Tribune.
Two or three of the learned senators thereupon
suggested that newspapers which published reports
of executive sessions should le barred from the
mails. Apparently it never occurred to them that
the place to stop the "leak" was at the source the
senators themselves. It is a fact and every Wash
ington newspaperman knows it that congressmen
have little hesitation outside the closed doors to re
vealing what went on inside. If members of Con
gress who revealed senate or house secrets to news
papers should forfeit their seats, there would be a
great deal less published about the proceedings in
executive sesgion. A censorship on congressmen
might be considered.
William Howard Taft has gained immeasurably
as a public speaker since the days of his last poli
tical campaign. A friendly man always, who never
particularly enjoyed political limitations, he must
have fel at that time a division of sentiment when
ever he addressed an audience. And yet it was be
AnaA Mr Tnft wns Mich an admirable loser at that
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time tnat ne nas since come oack so iuny uno iue
public confidence. Being president of the United
States was the great event in his life, but it was not
his whole career by any means. He has gone for
ward another step in devoting his mature mental
resources to the international question now so large
ly occupying his attention and his efforts. The time
is likely to come when he will be found available to
represent the United States upon the commission
that considers the terms or world peace. Lowell
Courier-Citizen.
Nobody regrets the participation of the United
States in the war more than the multitude of Ger
mans, now stranded in enemy countries, who had
meant to head for America after the war to restore
their ruined fortunes. Many of them still want to
come, knowing that in Europe prejudice will be
slow to die out. Springfield Republican.
The secretary of war is known to le of pacifist
tendencies. The secretary of the navy is known to
be a pacifist in principle. With the two great war
arms of the nation under the control of men who do
not believe in war. is it reasonable to suppose that
the nation will have that sort of war efficiency
which is essential to success? Philadelphia Ledger.
It is a mistake to think that everything has gone
up on account of the war. Ostrich feathers, for in
stance, are lower than ever. This will be a message
of cheer to suffering millions. Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Paraphrasing one of lien Franklin's observations,
it will be better for the Russian Duma to hang to
gether than to dangle around in lonesome sections.
Washington Post.
Spain has abolished the press censorship. It went
vbut of fashion in Russia when the bureaucrats were
V-sent to the junk-heap. Yet some of the people at
ViVa8bJngton are convinced that unless they can
A muzzle the press, the country will be in danger
;; rand this before voluntary censorship has been given
a real trial. Up to date, the voluntary censorship
jplan has been merely a series of haphazard sngges
. tions, which the editors of the country have done
'A-'--- their best to interpret and carry out.
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' V Evidently the Democrats suspect the Republicans
of putting the bait in debate.
Newspaper censorship is having all the offs and
; f of t a modern Fhmegan,
n
Nothing seems to boost the price of wheat so much
as for a man who hasn't any to sell 10,000,000
bushels to a man who can't pay for it. Washington
Post.
By wav of a distinctive uniform for the home ear-
deners
, what'
timoreui
we mL
been cclir-
of red
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gram 1
oi i oil
terin h
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s the matter with a coat of tan? Bal-
ricau.
tisfied that the dyestuff shortage has
tllv overcome, if onlv from the amount
hat continues in evidence. Washing-
m . . . . . i i
fcisnou mat mere is a pro-nerman pro
advertising campaign of the Chamber
witJie constitutes Lxuibit A of ar tiys-
bef
w
or Charles of Austria has pledged support
mny with all the delighted readiness of a
r being dragged to the guillotine.
Pejflaps it is too :nuch to expect the party whose
embj Jy a donkey-to exhibit horse-sense.
Four hundred representative wome:.
of Honolulu, 9' per cent of them Cau
caeian, with a sprinkling of Haaiians,
Portuguese and other nationalities, at
tended Thursday afternoon's masa
meeting in the Bijou theater, held to
discus thp conservation and most
efficient utilization of foodstuffs? in
Hawa i nM fo.- the duration of tL"
war.
After listening to addresses made by
Chairman James D. Dole of the Terri
torial Food Commission. Governo"
Lucius E. Pinkham, Maj. Charles S.
Lincoln. Hawaiian Department: Dr.
Arthur L. Dean, executive officer of
the food ccmmiFsion. and Mrs. A. C
Alexander, the meeting voted by ac
clamation to nand over to the coin
mission the names of a numoer o'
women deeply interested in food
econo.ry, from whom the commission
shall appoint a subcommittee to tak?
charpe of a local branch of the Leagm
for Woman Service. The resolution
v.as offf-red by Mrs. Gerrit Wilder.
Commission to Name Committee
A motion was then introduced by
Mrs. W. U Whitney, that selection d'
the nines be loft t, chairmen of the
various women's organizations ot
Honolulu, each chairman to name four
or five women from her organization.
The commission v. ill choose, the sub
committee from the names submitted
This motion carried without debate,
the meeting adjourning immediately
Dole Is Chairman
Chairman Dole of the commissioa
acted most efficiently as chairman of
the meeting and his introductions o
speakers were happily worded and ef
fectlve. In his opening address h
said In part:
"Thare is no need for alarm here
but perhaps rather need for imagina
tion in order to see that every pound
of staple food that we can produce,
either for home use or export, in addi
tion to our present output of every
ounce of food that we can save from
waste, extravagance or unnecessarj
eating relieves the strain by just so
much, all along the line, surely fj
France and England, perhaps even t.i
Belgium.
Want Army of Food Savers
"The commission hss invited th
women of Honolulu here today, not
with :he idea of laying out a definite
program for them, but with the knowi
edge that every woman desires in thh
crisis to do her bit and with the hope
that the women of the territory may
enlist as soldiers of an army of food
conservationists and so far as posslbh
relieve the commission of that portion
of its work termed "Conservation of
food for human consumption." As
some one has said Bread Bullets aro
going to win the war and 'Every wo
man her own Food Dictator.'
"We shall not attempt to make star
vation popular but we believe that
strict economy cm be made popular,
patriotic and fashionable.
"We :ely largely upon you women
in this aiatter; o ir publicity man will
be at your service; we welcome sug
gestions and wish to cooperate in ev
ery way possible.
Quotes Hindu Poet
"We make no tpecific accusation of
extravagance against the housekeeper
of Hawaii, but as Tagore says 'Of all
the lands that I nave visited the Unit
ed States is the only one where a
person eats the inside of a slice of
bread and throws away the crust
Maui Corn Pleases Governor
Governor Lucius E. Pinkham, who
was the second speaker on the pro
gram, said that two things he had
learned in the last few days had
pleased him more than almost any
thing else could. These were that he
naa received a letter from U. S. Sen
ator Shafroth saying an additional
$10,000 Is to be placed by him at the
disposal of the U. S. Agricultural Ex
periment Station In this territory, and
that Harold W. Rice of Maui told the
executive he had 400 acres of corn
growing on that Island which will
yield from 50 to 55 bushels per acre.
Corn Meal Use Urged
The governor urged the larger use
of corn meal by the women of the
territory. He told how extensively it
is used In Iowa, and what fine boys
and girls are the result of a varied
diet of corn.
Goes Into Rice Production
Turning to the rice situation in the
islands, the governor declared that the
day when Hawaii ca compete with
Japanese labor in the Orient and ma
chinery in California, is past. He read
tables showing how male rice laborers
In Japan get 23 cents a day and
women 15 cents, and how in Califnr-
nla six men with modern rice planting,
ana cultivating machinery can grow as
much rice as 100 here by hand.
Governor Pinkham closed by urging
more action and less talk. He said
women of Hawaii can exercise the
greatest economy in foodstuffs.
Maj. Charles S. Lincoln of the Ha
waiian Department sounded a note of
warning to Honolulu housewives to
save food. He sid in part:
' One of the most important things
to do here in Hawaii is to encourage
home production. Join the society oi
those who favor the use of home
grown products only. We can help bv
feeding ourselves and in addition keep
ing up our export of sugar, pineapples
and so forth. Let the foodstuffs now
sent her be sent to Europe.
"I feel certain that the women of
Honolulu will do their bit
Simple Life Beneficial
"A return to the simple life will
probably be good for all of us.
in trying to show the necessity for
conservation of our foodstuffs we do
not consider ourselves alarmists nof
unduly excited over the question. It
is well known that the reserve sup
plies are practically exhausted and
that conditions are not bright for the
future supplies.
Asks Recognition of Need
' The Americin people have always
insisted upon being fully informed ol
all that is done, claiming that such
I J MMt TIT
Knowledge ieaas xo emciency. o
agree with this, and in bringing up the
matter of a shortage which is known
to exist, ask you to recognize it as .i
fact and do your bit toward improv
ing conditions.
"Your assistance will be of more
value If given because you recognize
the need of it than If given because
properly constituted authorities insis
upen it."
While the Territorial Food Commis
sion undoubtedly has authority to tell
Honolulu housewives what they must
or must not do, it has no such inten
tion now, was the gist of Dr. Dean's
talk. He said in summary:
"What the food commission wants
is cooperation. It undoubtedly has
the power to go into the kitchens and
tell the women what they must and
must not do. but it has no such Inten
tion now. What it wants is your as
sistance and cooperation to make the
efforts of the commission successful
and to get the best possible results.
"What we want you to do Is nothing
spectacular. We want you to help as
eliminate waste. There Is no profit In
weeping over the starving Belgians
and allowing the food that would feed
the starving Belgian to go into your
garbage pall.
Adapt Appetites To Tropics
"We should use the things we know
we can grow here In Hawaii. Most of
us come from the temperate zone and
we have the appetite, or the predelic
tion, for the foods of the temperate
zone. But we're living in a tropical
country and it is our duty to accus
tom ourselves to the things that will
grow here." Dr. Dean particularly
mentioned taro. which he said has
twice the nutritive value of the Irish
potato, and which, he said, Is going
begging at 50 cents a bag while pota
toes are scarce at 5 cents a pound.
"It's a question of doing the thing
that's before you, not the thing you
want to do."
The final speaker of the afternoon
was Mrs. A. C. Alexander, who toW
of the National League for Woman
Service and urged the formation of a
branch of it, or a similar body, in
Honolulu, to coordinate war work and
service among the women of Hawaii.
Set Example of Service
"To every woman, then." she said
in part, "relate yourself to some es
tablished organization; pledge your
self to set the example of right living.
If a thousand or more women of Ha
waii perform this duty, it will inspire
others to follow suit
"This Is the highest form of patri
otic service under present circum
stances." Estimates Attendance at 400
Manager John H. Magoon of the
Bijou today estimated the number of
women attending the meeting to have
been approximately 400. This is
about eight times the number present
at the first meeting of women's or
ganizations of this city with the food
commission.
Two women in a back row employ
ed the time by knitting something
yellow and silky. Trjeir needles
flashed while the speakers talked.
LITTLE INTERVIEWS
MARCUS H. SANDERS: You can
take it from me that the Phoenix
Club always has a good time at its
smokers.
JUDGE W. H. HEEN: Now that
I have qualified, I am going to see
how much work the third division of
circuit court can do during the next
few months.
FRED B. SMITH. Oahu Railway:
Other than a large delegation of sol
diers which we occasionally carry,
transportation business has reached
the easy season.
CAPT. CARL W. Wl CHERT,
A Nuuanu Valley
ffome
One of the prettiest! homes in the Valley is either
For Sale or Rent
Completely furnished throughout. For further par
ticulars apply
Women Watch
What the Merchants Have to Offer
True Paid Publicity
fj W o m e n Buyers
are the principal
buyers and they are
the most careful
readers of advertis
ing that has to do
with Home Problems.
THE CHEERFUL CHERUB
OK pi
Wck "toch-y
kere.
fly fount-! r per jvst
owe job
I i n i e uigeni mer- Mna snea
floppy
chants naturallv aim
to reach buyers and
render the best
service possible- to
aid in pro m o tins
e o n o m y w i t h
comfort in the home.
Kr7 i
flit is Their Business to dve the facts of their
merchandise that will help the buyers of the homes.
Paid Publicity n'ill Do It.
The net paid circulation of the O 1 y
IStar-Bulletin on April b was 0 1 I 1
master of S. S. Hamakua: We had
to take to the boats so suddenly that
I left most cf my clothes behind in mv
cabin. My master's license went down
with the boat, too.
. cleus around which an excellent new
I organization can be built.
CAPT. WILLIAM R. FOSTER,
harbormaster: The ewa berth at Pier
7 is free of ex-German refugee mer
chant steamers today for the first
time since the flock of 'em came here
in 1914. Now we'll have room for
some big boats there.
JAMES J. BANKS: Honolulu cer
tainly is on of the most.' beaui'ful
cities I have ever soeu. I took a ride
down the country the other afternoon,
and ! ciiiiot Uuder&tand ho all (hat
wonderful scenery was crowded tnto
this one little island.
CAPT. LAWRENCE C. CRAW
FORD, inspector-Instructor, N. G. H.:
There Is no reason why the few te
malning men In the coast artillery
corps company should not be a nu-
-JA.MES A. RATH. Palama Settle
ment: It is a most commendable
thing to remember the children of
France, but In the meantime we must
not forget our own unfortunate kid
die? right here at home. One of th
best ways of remembering them now
and helping them out is to encourmja
and assist the fresh air camp which
will open June 25 at Waialua.
All we ask ! that you gtt out and
vote next Tuesday Honolulu Automo
bile Club. Adv.
FEAR HE'LL SERVE NATION
TOO WELL. SAYS ROOSEVELT
OP HIS ARMY OPPONENT
NEW YORK. N. Y. "Those WktV
ington authorities who oppoae my
serving America on the European
battle front do so in the belief that I
will serve my country too well.
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