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HONOLULU STAB-BULLETIN TUESDAY,' JULY 17, 1917.
RILEY H. ALLEN
EDITOR
Tl'ESIUY JULY 17, 1917.
Hollweg, The Sacrifice
German y' press, Under the hand of the military
masters and the ere of the military censors, has
repudiated von Bethmann-Hollweg.
Under orders to explain to the people his dismis
sal from office, and to give the appearance of there-
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bitterly attacking the late chancellor. They are
blaming on him Germany's military reverses, poli
tical misfortunes and economic burdens.
; What grim commentary it is on Germany's plight
that the papers now call Hollweg to account for the
war with the United States !
The Vossiche Zeitung declares that the chancel
lor "played & double game with the United States
During the months when the United States strove
by every honorable means to avert a break with Ger
many: tolerated deniance of international law; suf
fered insult; bore malicious plotting and dangerous
' t-.!. fhu ima ihtk Herman nress had
no praise too high for the chancellor and his conduct
vf rfininmflW exchanges with America, Then all
the blame was America's. Then all the flouwe game
i t nri.A- il Ka vavwmftkintr trSR AmeT-
WBa AluCtlva S iucu m mw -p
Sea's. The Vossiche Zeitung and the other organs
of Kultur accused President Wilson of duplicity;
f "nlnrinff taut and loose with the destinies of great
i n rrhMr nnhM iho1t onvwraraent and their
JIWJIiCB. A O-'
!1a now. because Hollweg carried out German
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w w m a Jtw-eaiww it n rn 1 wrt in. " " -
policies ana sougui tu wiui; r-'--
fixt v t. (,Mt.n fiA wheel of war and Inter
im Win. UB IB iltUUU . - -
. ' a J L! bAWML
national politics, "tfone so poor xo ao uuu
ence." . -
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v Faint Eiimme rings i encuuragucMv
, lies may oe seen in uw wawtwi
Hollweg. The keynote of this attack is that Holl
weg prevented Germany from advancing toward
neace. Terhaps the government knowi that peace
Af'nMmn.n vieorr it Inevitable and Is prepar
ing for early -concessions; by dismissing, Hollweg
-and thus : offering the piauswie cxpum-uwp u
Uollweg has stood in the way of peace.
: " AtL OAHU SHOULD" BE "DRY."
' "Bootlegging" and operation of fbliftd pign will
nn K ifftnned until all Oahu is "dry."
The quickest way to make , Oahu dry is . to. pro
claim it' a military area within which ' Uquor and
vice must not berate and. the president Is am
pijjustifledl'n anx BicCt(?P "may take by the
plain; uexaggeratef acts that somewhere'ome
Low, ioldiera '"on OihUare beiiigupplicd ivitji Uqupr
in large quantitieaV , ) ;
The civilians, engaged in the dirty and illegal traf
fic with the men in uniform are more to blame than
those in Uncle SamV service Salobnmen ofthe be
tcr clas , those whbberve ' thi stringent rules of
the license commission,, know that the bootlegging
and blindpigging, is a - ceaseless menace to their
bTisiness.f The law-breakers are making it Impossi
bio for the law-observers, long to continue selling
liquor. ' : J , , v , ' - : : - ..
; So Honolulu citiren can walk about the streets
at night on upper Fort street, Vineyard, Eukui,
School, King street west of the ;Nuuanu stream,
Dowsett lane, and other such-sections without soon
rceing that somewhere, somehow liquor '; is being
E'jtinlied the soldiers in suQcient quantities to pro
duce welWefined ags In, other. words, the order
against selling liquor :;to men fin Uncl6 SamV uni
form" is not effective in preventing them from get
ting "booze.- v ' ; . ' . . : '7
There are tw6 good reasbnsrwhyall Dahu should
be maderdry One Is that the community cannot
exist lawfully half-wet .and half-dry.: In a small,
self-centered community such as 'Honolulu, it is dis
criminatory, it is unjust, that civilians may go
frejely, boisterously and often drunkenly in and out
of saloons while thesbldler must stay outside,' The
second reason is that the uresent svstem is abso
lutely ineffective. Its i not accomplishing the pro-
tective purposes lor wnica it was aesigneo.
GETTING AT THE SPIES.
Lord Xorthcliffe has with accustomed aruteness
put his finper on one weakness in democratic gov
ernment concerning its effort to keep military news
from Germany the private cable message.
What i printed in the newspapers rarely if ever
nowadays affords any real information to the
enemy, though such information may irritate the
encrusted old bureaucrat, Northcliffe points out,
in effect. Xorthcliffe said in a recent interview :
"The cable censorship of private and commercial
messages presents the greatest difficulty.
"It would be easy for a well-informed spy to cable to
a neutral country a few domestic or business phrases
conveying news of priceless value to the enemy. Spies
who have been caught, tried and shot In England hare
usually been found In possession of what appear to be
business codes.
"People are much too prone to consider the news
paper leak, which is open to all eyes, and not to con
sider the private cable leak, which Is the really deadly
one.
"Power to open overseas mail, such as is possessed
by the British government. Is also essential.
"Newspaper censorship Is a comparatively simple
matter, helped as It is by the good win of the news
papermen themselves, who in Great Britain frequent
ly help the censor.
"Newspaper censorship In England Is effected
through the channel of an institution known as the
Press Bureau. The story of Its early eccentricities is
best forgotten. It has now, as one of Its heads, Sir
E. T. Cook, formerly one of our leading newspaper
editors. All war news passed through this central es
tablishment Technical army and navy matters are
referred by the press bureau to experts. Delays oc
cur, but delays are part of the war. The commander-in-chief
In the field. Sir Douglas Halg, has supreme
control of all news sent out by the correspondents .
with his armies. There you have censorship at a
glance.
"Democracies are entitled to the fullest news of their
soldiers and sailors. The war correspondent is no
longer regarded as a nuisance, as in the early days
of the struggle. He Is looked upon as a valuable ally,
tad Is so treated by the British and French armies.
"We have found that the more news, the fewer ugly
rumors. Press comment is invaluable to democratic
government. The newspaper focuses the ideas and
5 suggestions of millions of watchful minds. It of en
affords valuable pointers to government departments.
Its criticisms suggest and stimulate. The recent strug
gle for the reeetablishment of a free press in Great
Britain has restored liberty of expression to patriotic
writers.
Th systematic publication of the news, good and
bad. is a means of giving confidence to the govern
ments of democracies."
The English publisher told of the casa of a Ger
man spy and his accomplice posing as traveling
salesmen for Hutch cigars, various brands of cigars
representing various kinds of ships. This recalls
the local instance of the German named Wehde,
wno passed in Honolulu as a businessman rjarticn-
larly interested in flowers who had Dursued
his harmless hobbies in the Orient. He was arrested
here charged with complicity in the India Dicta and
fihicago for indictment That his sudtjos-
eq interest in natural history masked his intrigues
is tne accusation.
Press reports say former Queen Sophia of Greece
was seasick on the journey into exile. This is puz
sling , when the fact is recalled that she" has been
rocking the boat of state in the near 'east for many
months. New York World.
The government hasn't figured out yet how much
the first Liberty Loan was oversubscribed; but, of
course, time must be taken out now and then to
let, the treasury department adding machines cool
off. Indianapolis Kews.
THE VOLCANO MARATHON.
Latest among the sports . features which will
bring fame and valuable advertising to Hawaii is
K "VftlMnn Marathon Thia nroW ha nlrpftdv
been recve with Wd CTppori in Hiio and has
attracted the favorable' attention of the Hawaii Pro
motion Committee, to the extent that the committee
1$ giving the Volcano Marathon plenty of space in
its publicity articles sent to the mainland.
' Originated by Owen Merrick, sporting editor of
the tarBulletin , the idea has a much wider appli
cation than merely in the field of sports. It has the
avor;of international appear ;suchas tstt of the
Olympic games marathon. A decade and a half ago
the revival of the Olympic games modified to suit
twentieth century track and field athletics started
a great series of International, contests. Duke Ka
hmarnoku at Stockholm put Hawaii on the inter
national sporting map, with; his : victories I in the
trimming events. Now Hawaii is to be further ad
vertised by the relay races from Hilo to the very rim
of the fiery. pit ; The thirty niiles will.be covered
in relays, and every island 'sto, be represented by
teams. Furthermore, it is the hope to bring main
land runners here to compete with the island-bred
athletes. ;, ...
.The Volcanoes HawaU'agreatest ;single, tourist
attraction and the project or a race from the ocean
t o the pit of everlasting fire is bound to attract very
r ttrntion and to be' a stimulus1 not only to
Germany has quit buildinir SZeprjelins. savs news
from Switzerland. This'is stranee indeed, in view
or the great military success they accomplished.
bcarcely a Zep raid on Eneland but iailed to kill
at least half a dozen women and a dozen children.
v. China doesn't know what to do with Gen. Chang,
who convinced himself for about a minute that he
was going to restore the monarchy. As a sugges
tion, send him to that Swiss health resort to join
Constantine and wait for Wilhelm.
The Outlook has this striking sentence in com
ment on America's long-suffering course with Ger
many: "It is a record of continued willingness to
believe the incredible ; to trust the perfidious, and
to hope for the impossible."
American sailors are making a wonderful record
at hitting German submarines. Since the U-boats
have been sunk with startling rapidity, less is heard
In criticism of the "inefficient American navy."
L. L. McCandle&s and a Chinese were the two
property-owners delinquent yesterday in the Bere-
tania street assessments. We don't know what's the
matter with the Chinese.
As the fighting works up into Belgium and down
into Galicia, the local strategists are having a
greater and greater struggle with orthography.
The man who has been eating pie with a knife
for nigh onto forty year and hasn't cut himself jet
may be called an expert in food-control.
Booze has not a friend in the senate. avs Wash
ington correspondence. Nobody in the upper house
is willing to defend the criminal.
Four German submarines sunk by
destroyers. That's getting even with
U-boats.
American
the I. O.
Just to be fair, someone ought to mention von
Tirpitz to succeed the kaiser.
Evidently Austria doesn't, like Germany's present
place in the sun.
v The prize joke of the season ii on Germany'. Bus-
AD CLUB TO GIVE
EMBRYO OFFICERS
ROUSING SENDOFF
To give a real Ad Club send-off to
Its members who will leave within a
short time for the mainland to go into
training at the Presidio training
camp for reserve corps officers, ths
Honolulu Ad Club will make its noon
day luncheon tomorrow the occasion
for an "Army and Navy Aloha." as a
godspeed for local boys of the club
who will take up their duties as
real American citizens and ratriots.
by becoming officers in Uncle Sam's
bit new army.
Those who do not know the "Ad
Club boys" who are leaving are invitcl
to attend and get acquainted. The
"boyg" include A. L. C. Atkinson ("Our
Jack'); M. O. Maury, city editor of
the Advertiser; Edward D. Jackson,
a local broker; Vv. J. Hampton ("Our
Bill"); Allen J. Lowry (you all know
him), and Philip Conniston, military
instructor of Kamehameha school.
The speaker of the occasion will be
James Wakefield, chairman of the Y.
M. C. A. Army and Navy Club of Hono
lulu, who will tell how Honolulu star
tled New York with Its plan for a
1250,000 Army and Navy Y. M. C. A.
building for Oahu's soldiers and
sailors.
Governor Lucius E. Plnkham has
been Invited to attend. Music will be
furnished by Prof. Peter Kalanl's quar
tet, there will be reports on the com
lng civic convention to be held here
In the Bijou theater September 17, and
on Registration Day, July 31.
The luncheon will be held at the
Young hotel, sixth floor, from 12 to 1
o'clock.
WORK STARTS ON
BREAKWATER FOR
KAHULUI HARBOR
DAYLIGHT SAVING
GAINS RECRUITS
The daylight saying plan in Hono
lulu is fast gaining followers and an
other step towards putting It into
operation was taken Monday after
noon by the trades, commercial and
industrial development committee of
the chamber of commerce when It re
ferred the matter to the members of
the chamber for a general discussion
at the August meeting.
It is felt by the members of the
committee that if the local chamber
can be prevailed upon to go on record
as favoring daylight saving, the ques
tion can then be taken up with the
civic bodies of the other islands and
eventually the clock advanced one
hour throughout the territory.
The question has been under dis
cussion by the chamber for nearly two
years, but because so many were op
posed to the idea the intervening time
has 4een. spent in gaining converts.
Recently the Rotary Club took up the
question and referred It to the cham
ber which placed it In the hands of
the trades, commercial and industrial
development committee for action.
The committee at the meeting yes
terday voted to send letters to all
of the members setting forth the sali
ent reasons why daylight saving
should be pot into operation in Hono
lulu. With a bill establishing the system
for continental United States having
already passed the Senate and now
before the House of Representatives
at Washington Its backers here be
lieve that the time has come when
concerted action should be taken.
Because daylight saving, before it
Is put Into operation, must be backed
by the entire community the commit
tee, to ascertain the feeling of the
people, Is sending letters to the man
agers of Honolulu Rapid Transit &
Land Company, Oahu Railway ft Land
Company, Honolulu Iron Works and
Ofitton-Neill asking them to obtain
opinions on the question from their
employes. -
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LETTERS
i
THE OUTRIGGER CLUB ELECTION.
Editor, Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
Dear Sir: In the absence of Mr.
Alexander Hume Ford, whose power-of-attorney
I hold, I wish to state that
in the matter of the pending Outrig
ger Club elections, he is fully in ac
cord with the "Harmony" ticket, head
ed by H. B. Campbell.
Monday's Star-Bulletin states: "Two
opposing slates are said to be in the
field, one drawn up by Alexander
Hume Ford and his supporters, and
the other by J. Ashman Beaven and
his friends "
Not only was Mr. Ford NOT op
posed to the regularly nominated .
ticket, but he worked hard getting !
proxies for it, as about three hundred !
members whom he saw before he left
for the Coast can be witness to. j
Yours very respectfully,
JOSEPH STICKNEY.
WAILUKU. Maul. July 16 Work
has started on the $250,000 West
hralr-ntfr nrolect for KshulUi har
bor. The bir cranes of the Kauai ui
Railroad Company, which has tiie
contract for the job, was moved across
the county road, and rock nas oegun
to drop into the bay. By next week
the rock trains will be running on
schedule and the second great wai
will be well under way. The Job wli
require from 18 monthj to to years
to complete. When it is done, Kthu
lui will have as safe a harbor a there
is in the territory, and ono capable
of almost aa great develjpmeut as
that of Honoluli.
The start of operations at the con?
oanv's bit: auarry mauka of Camp 3
was the occasion of some little cere
mony last Monday afternoon, when
the first bie blast was fired and nun
dreds of tons of trap rock which will
go into the breakwater toppled down
beside the tracks.
Sunerlntendent William Walsh had
had the shot prepared with unusual
care. The great face or the quarry
had been undermined by tunneling.
and under it was t am pea nearly ton
of dynamite, besides several hundred
pounds of black powder. Electric
wires to exDiode the charxe had been
laid well back on the bluff above the
quarry.
It had been Mr. Walsh's intention
to have the blast fired by Frank F.
Baldwin, president of the rauroaa
company, but Mr. Baldwin delegated
this honor to A. B. Babcock ot Chi
cago, his guest.
The . federal government is repre
sented on the oreakwater Job by A.
Kauka, who arrived on Maui last
week as Inspector.
1788 YIELDED BY
lllll'S COURT
IN SINGLE DAY
Disposition of 56 cases in less than
an hour, with $788.75 in receipts in
fines, ball forfeitures and gambling
evidence money was the record es
tablished by Judge Harry Irwin in the
Honolulu district court yesterday
morning. The police court calendar
was disposed of in such a short time
that it received the favorable com
ment of all the police and detective
attaches of the court Only two or
three cases on the calendar were post
poned for hearing;
Many of the police court defendants'
were charged with gambling, the po
lice having made four successful raids
in which 38 woers of chance were ar
rested. Most of them were fined or
forfeited ball of $10 and $25. In one
raid the detectives managed to get
evidence money amounting to $75,
although the gamblers themselves
grabbed about $50 from the table.
PERSONALITIES j
MISS ADELE WICKE, stenographer
in the department of public works, la
booked to return on the Matsonia.
Miss Wlcke has been spending a
month's vacation In California.
BERTRAM O. RTVENBUROH, com
missloner of public lands, and Mrs
Rlvenburgh are expected to return to
morrow on the Matsonia, having spent
several weeks on the mainland.
RAYMER SHARP, special deputy
collector of customs, Is back at work
today, following a vacation on Ha
waii with his family. He reports
Kilauea Volcano to be very active.
POSTMASTER D;' H. MACADAM
Is putting in this week enjoying a
vacation on the Big Island. He Is
touring Hawaii and observing postof
flces and scenery with great impar
tiality. J. D. M'VEIQH, superintendent of
Kalaupapa settlement, is in Che city
od a business trip. McVeigh says
the scarcity of rain on Molokai Is
greater than for several years, and
that vegetation is drying as a consequence.
DR. J. S. B. PRATT, president of
the territorial beard "of health, will
probably return tomorrow from the
mainland. Dr. Pratt left the latter
part of April to attend a conference
of the national board of health and
was elected president of the organiza
tion.
ALBERT MADSEN, son of Capt.
M. A. Madsen. territorial pilot, will
Alewa Heights
Property
Mr. John Whitmore's property is for sale.
A beautiful lot of over three-quarters of an acre. Su
perb, comprehensive view ofHonolulu and the harbor.
Comfortable three-bedroom house, concrete basement
with. tubs; garage, and servants' quarters.
Guardian Trust Co., Ltd.
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ff Feels the
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THLCHEERFVL Clf M
I bvrnt my firmer
Buying And thr sX dovr
Bvt now trvwfc it
stopped )wrtirg m
I vbk Id beer more.
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The general circulation of the?CQf
Star-Bulletin on July 10 vasvWU
return on the WUhelnuna July zt.
The young man went up to the coast
as a meaner 01 ine crew 01 i
Staatssekretar Kraetke, now receiv
ing minor repairs at the Mare island
navy yard.
WORTH O. AIKEN, Maui member
of the Hawaii Promotion Committee,
arrived on the Manna Kea this morn
ing to attend a meeting of the com
mittee. He is so busy at waiiuku;
andPaia that he will return on the!
same steamer to the valley Island
tomorrow morning.
Francis M. Brooks, a former resi
dent of Honolulu and lately a resi
dent of Bangkok. Slam, was the guest'
of honor at a dinner given at the'
Moana hotel last night by Lorrin An
drews, who was formerly llr. Brook's
law partner. Those present were
Lorrin Andrews, Francis M. Brooks,
Fred Milverton, W. B. Pitman, J.
Ashman Beavens, Judge William H.
Heen, H. W. Laws, C. T. Wilmarth,
Mark Hanna, Valentino Moroni, and
P. B. Daaky. . "
The Washoe Smelter was compelled
to close by a strike in the Butte mines.
according to a statement made by
Anaconda officials. .
raBsmer-esgssaaascsaMaEaKBcsBsei
LITTLE INTERVIEWS
GEORGE R. CLARK: Work oa
the senate document of the last sea
sion is now drawing to a close.
around the capltol if the building
doesnt took better for the cleaning
and the coat of paint we have just
given the ceiling of the makal corn
dor. - '
MANLEY HOPKINS: Ihappenei
along past the city automobile that
burned last Sunday, shortly after the
blaze, and I was directly Impressed
with the advisability of carrying some
sort ot a fire extinguisher on everj
such machine.
The mate of the Danish steams
fUM.a tiaa mail. A uiUmHmi mi.
Copenhagen to the effect that the shlj
was fired upon by German subma
rine, though no resistance was made;
and that two seamen were killed. At
the crew- were leaving the steamer
British r seaplane appeared "and the
submarine ' dived. The crew were
later on saved by a British patrol shlp
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HONOLULU REAL ESTATE
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in
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Owner has received word that he is to go to the
front and wishes to sell at once. : House ! Is new. with
all modern ' improvements and . fcronza - screens
throughout 2 fins sleeping lanais nake the equiva
lent of 8 rooms. Lot 75 by -150. (Nice garage and
concrete driveway. Tossession given at once.
Price, $3800
With Pnrniture, $4400:
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