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RILEY H. ALLEN
EDITOR
TUESDAY ....JULY 24, 1917.
Promotion Committee Business
Chairman Berndt is right The Hawaii Promo
tion Committee ought to be more intimately con
nected with the organization of the Chamber of
Commerce. The secretary of the Chamber of Com
merce is the logical business manager of the Pro
motion Committee, having under his direction a
staff made up of individuals who can specialize in
various activities for die development of tourist
service,
To carry out this logical program, other logical
details should be included.
' The Chamber of Commerce rooms and the Pro
, motion Committee headquarters should be under the
same roof. Those headquarters should be located
in ff cen trail v located.
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Honolulu as a city bidding for the tourist busi
ness of the world should have its active agents of
general tourist promotion housed in one of the most
..modern buildings of the city. If a city does not
think well of and dicnifv its own business, no one
else will.
x The same principle should apply to the Promo
tion Committee that has been the guiding force be
hind the improvements in the office buildings, the
banks, the present renovation of the mercantile cen
am An Vskf ano iho rhanciM An Xnnflun street
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and the tjpe of new buildings on Torth King street
The reason for these changes is that it ir. good bus!
Less xo lire ana uo your uuhiiwbb um wciwmc jwua
-MimAM In ilMn mpm vpll Mininnd. snacions
quariert. . .
'. Some' day the Chamber of Commerce will actu
ally emerge from iti shell and then, besides talking
about ideal! and possibilities, it will in fact be the
. m 4 r I s M Z . bi m nAvi
ter of developing business that a horoscope of its
mission in life should show.
These thlnn cannot be accomplished in a day
but every move toward the completion of such a
program is another point gained for Honolulu as
a :city of business prospcrityr comiortable homes
contented neonle and splendid ideals come true.
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That sort of work is worth the while of any man
who can find in his system a spark of loyalty for
his city.
- . TO SAVE USEFULLY.
How to sate usefully and how to buy wisely are
tho great problems of the hour. Yon can get all
1 a (!- ..11 L.1 J MA t Vi
Cal thow down yon must aeciae xor yourself.
In line -with lidplfij-you raach -the decision, a
writer in a recent number of theBatnrday Evening
Post gives a lift that may be timely to anyone not
absolutely sure of his own mind. This writer says:
One of my friends was the secretary of the treat
nry in a panic year. He managed the government
finances admirably and rendered great help to bus!
tcss in its time of need. He was overwhelmed with
congratulations after the crisis had passed. I ven
turcd io add tmine to the floodV and, at the same
time, tctok advantage of our relations to ask him
frankly where he. had acquired "the skill and the
knowledge of finance he had so abundantly dis
played. : Prior to coming the treasury he had
had no financial experience. Bald he:
"It requires no more skill and no more sense to
expend two hundred million dollars prudently and
wisely than it does to expend two dollars, once you
have clearly grasped the principle on which the ex
penditure is based. I hare, lived and maintained
ny family all my working life on a salary usually
a small one. . My, wife and I have had. to count our
pennies. In the school of experience I learned to
epportion my small income to the best advantage
cn d with the smallest waste.
"The problem I faced when this panic came upon
us was the same problem I had faced every month
cf my married life, when I sat down witbTmy wife
to go pyer our domestic accounts and determine
Low much of my, salary, could be Jeroted-td house
hold expenses, howmuch' to the education of our
children, how much to the entertainments I was re
quired to. give, and. how- much to saving. I never
had enough to allow any for frivolity and waste.
"During these months of panic I. have conducted
the treasury, finances on the same principle; and I
have proved what I knew that there is no essen
tial difference between spending a hundred million
Collars and a dollar. 1
That, I think, is the lesson businessmen seek to
make clear, to all of us at this juncture. To be
economical is good economics.
; George1 Carter is home again with his safety valve
chained down and the whole works going ahead un
der full: head of steam". That is absolutely fine be
cause there is work here to do; work for men like
Ilr. Carter and for all men with a reserve of good
nature-to carry over the rough spots when every
one is jon. edge.. V
What is called the "Noah's ark bilP is a proposed
incasureof relief to the poor farmers of Mexico. It
provides for giving them a start with the gift of ani
dais and fowls in pairs. Unless Mexico changes
otherwise, the increase from the "ark" will be a
Cne thing for the commissariats of such fellows as
Villa. '
Queen's Hospital Troubles
With a regularity almost equal to the certainty
of spells of measles and mumps running through
the community, the Queen's Hospital affairs come
before the people for an airing. .
The Star-Bulletin is not acquainted with the
facts in the particular incident now subject to spe
cial investigation. It voices at this time only a feel
ing of regret, which is believed to be general, that
this institution of such value and such broad oppor
tunity for service is unable to avoid catawall up
heavals.
Speaking generally, the Queen's Hospital is not
np to the standard that should characterize a gen
eral hospital in a city of the size and wealth of
Honolulu. Also the Queen's Hospital does more
with less money than any similar institution of
which records are given.
Those who wondered that Honolulu could exist
so long without an ambulance and an emergency
hospital are equally surprised when they learn that
the Queen's Hospital is forced to worry along from
j year to year with hardly enough funds to carry it
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mrvugn. aqq io ims me oia ouiiaings ana pnysicai
arrangement typical of the old Honolulu houses
that grew through the addition of a ianai here and
another there, and you have some idea of the handi
caps under which the hospital has struggled in
maintaining its excellent record for the care and
cure of patients. "
Judging from the record the Queen's Hospital
appears to be all right. The trouble is with the
community that does not rally valiantly in provid
ing that which is required for proper development
Perhaps the Queen's Hospital needs more or oth
er men to run it That may be left to the trustees
to determine. Of one fact you may rest assured)
the hospital needs more money to enable it to fill
the natural field of a general hospital in the city
or Honolulu.
NATIONAL GUABD DUTY.
One truth is accepted as self-evident in all mat
ters having to do with the relation of an American
citizen to his country he wishes to be assigned to
the place and the work where he can do the createst
good.
The judge of a man's value must be the officials
in control ; the managers of the task immediately
in hand.
Whether it is pleasant or not the oath of Datri
otism may lead to a Deriod of inactivity if a. the
duty of the individual is just as definite is It would
oe lr ne were summoned to lead a charge and die
ganantiy on the field of battle.
These sentiments are wholesome truths that need
be considered in the days we are now living through.
They are brought especially to mind bv the charac
ter of the appeals sent by the National Guard of
Hawaii to the authorities in Washington askins
tnat our organization be called immediately into
active service.
The spirit of readiness for anv dutv evidenced
by an expressed desire to move to the front is
worthy of all commendation. One can forgive the
restless chafing at restraint.
But suppose yon can best perform a service for
the country by remaining just as you are, always
alert always ready, always prepared and always
preparing?
Isn't that the thing for vou to do? And while
doing it work hard and keep quiet?
The question answers itself. There is work for
the National Guard of Hawaii to do. Lots of it.
The citizen soldiers must not think that failure to
call them immediately into intensive service is the
a . . .
signal to sit on the fence and do nothincr till the
call is sounded. In a few weeks the guard in Ha
waii may be the only guard unit not in the federal
service. If this proves true the duty of the officers
and the rank and file of the guard is to enter with
renewed vigor into the work of perfecting every
single detail of the personnel, equipment, individual
and collective efficiency.
That is the job on hand for the National Guard.
Just plain drilling, day and night drilling; the old
time routine intensified at every point where inten
sification will put officers and men in better condi
tion to fall into ne at a moment's notice. .
It may be tiresome. It may be unromantic. It
may be drudgery and seem foolish to the guards
man wno wants to do something. But this is duty.
Where is the American not ready to do his duty?
ir, after ail this work the guardsmen are not call
ed upon to go to France or to be numbered as reg
ulars at any stage of the game, thev still have the
greatest satisfaction that can be enjoyed by any
American the knowledge and the record that they
were ready for any service and they did the work
laid out for them by the officers of their govern
mentand did it willingly.
So let s not indulge in any hysteria about not he-
ing appreciated but settle down vigorously to fol
lowing orders.
Officers of the . United 'rm. swornnt when'
framing their buildiu" TlanH for 'h fviurn rk
from the base that there is big work to do here and
il 3 whole scheme must be laid out on broad lines.
With such a certainty in prospect, can the people
of the city ' and .county, of Honolulu do less than
fellow the "big 'leadf; ---i -fp;. ZBm t.
Those orders to the enlisted men of the national
guard to show up regularly for drill or be court
martialed would be received better If the government
had lived up to 1U obligatioi towards the guardsmen.
The way the local militia has been used would be
scandalous even in Russia of the old regime. So far
the men of the local regiments have not received a
ceot of their 1916 nav. to sav nothftir nf anvtMn
they may have coming for the first six months of the
present year. Advertiser.
This does seem rather tough. It calls so vividly
to mind .the close relation between the hardships of
the followers of Washington at Valley Forge and
the horrors of having to turn ont regu'arly for drill
in Honolulu.
"KEEP ALIVE PROMOTION BODY"
"By all mean keep alive the posi
tion of secretary M the Hawaii Pro
motion committee, declared Albert
P. Taylor, secretary of the commit
tee who has tendered his resignation
to take effect in Se"plemfcer, tnJ an
interview with the 8tar-Balletin to
day.
To do away with that position now,
declares Mr. Taylor, wouTd be virtual
ly the undoing of a work that it has
taken years to build up; a work that
was given Its first real impetus by
the late H. P. Wood, wno was secre
tary of the committee for many years
prior to his deaflh, and which has been
carried forward to the extent where
Hawaii Is now known In every large
etty ta the United States.
'It has taken years," says Mr. Tay
lor, "to make people believe that the
Promotion committee is not an or
ganization promoting some sort of a
deal; that it is a bureau of informa
tion for the Hawaiian islands, and
purely an organization which works
to aid the tourist and the prospective
visitor to these islands.
But this incorrect impression has
been gradually wiped out, he says,
and today the Hawaii Promotion com
mittee Is the first plact looked to
hen information regarding the ter
titory is wanted.
"I think it would be a grave mis
take to do away with the position of
ecretary of the committee," Ivfr. Tay
lor adds. "Someone is needed to di
rect the great work of publicity and
information dissemination that has
been built up."
The flower is unusually large and
beautiful and blooms only at night.
It la yellow in the center and its
leaves turn almost to white, to it is
plainly visible la the dark. The plant
that it grows on is a creeping cactus
and covers the rough stone wall
around the campus.
TURTLE SOUP A LA DOYLE
"Turtle Soup, Cheater Doyle J5."
- Thus reads an item on the luncheon
menu of the SL Francis hotel, Sau
Francisco, for July 10, and apparently
Chester A. Doyle, proprietor of the
famous Nikko in Young street, racon
tear and Japanese Interpreter in cir
cult court, is spending his two-ninths'
vacation at the big coast city hostelry.
If mainland newspaper reports are
correct, July 10 followed the da
when "Chet," garbed in frock coat
and high silk hat, led a Hawaiian tur
tle through the lobby of the SL Fran
cis, presented it to the manager for
! the making of soup, the recipe for
which is under lock and key at Nikko,
and incidentally furnished a column
or so of "live stuff for each of the
San Francisco newspapers.
"Major-General" Doyle expects to
return to Honolulu this month. Writ
ing to friends here recently, he is re
, ported to hae said :
! "Please scout all rumors that I
contemplate matrimony before return
ing to Honolulu. I prefer a bachelor s
life at Nikko, where Stella, the mon
key, waves . her Irish flag and
screeches for the Allies."
License Inspector "Pop" Hutton is
a walking and working illustration
of the statement that "as the twig
is bent so It will grow." He had 'a
bent" for detective work and has be
came a fair master of the profession,
in spite of the fact that his first oc
cupation as a boy was that of an
architect's draughtsman.
The license Inspector was reminded
of this jthe other day while gazing
at a drawing of a future skyscrapper
for Honolulu. The architect had. in
cluded an imposing chimney from
which smoke was pouring In great
volume. "That's what I did the first
time I ever drew plans for a house,"
the license inspector said. "Natural
ly," he added, "my smokestack and
its smoke didn't Jibe with the rest
of the drawing and I got called Into
the boss' room for a lecture, phrased
in three syllable words," It wasn't
long afterward that he decided he
was cut out for a detective and not an
architect.
"But I never forgot that lecture.
On my first visit to Honolulu I went
up Manca valley for a look around.
All ' the time I was there something
seemed to be wrong with all the
houses. On my way back I saw one
lone house with a chimney. Then 1
knew It was the absence of ( chimneys
on the other houses ..wllh jnade them
appear strange to my malihinl eyes,"
Pop says.
A simple matter that, but rather
good proof that the license inspector
does possess deductive powers.
WAS PLANNING PUBLIC LUAU
F. J. Green, executive officer of the
central board of registration, has dis
covered the most generous woman in
Honolulu. She " was laying plans to
feed every person who registered b
her precinct, and vthe precinct was a
large one.
When the word came out that Red
i Cross workers were to furnish meals
to the clerksaad registrars on July
31, this woman gained the idea that
all the registrants as well were to be
fed, and was getting ready for the day
accordingly.
j Luckily the woman learned the true
extent Of the Red Cross offer and is
I now measuring her larder according-
ly. Anyway, says Officer Green, i.
shows the spirit of Honolulu women
and I have no doubt if the caU had
, come they would have been capable
of the herculean task this lady wa
planning for.
OVER 2,000 fit'
Have Been Added to Oahu's Population
Roachod By Publicity,
f These New Men in
the army came from
townsr where they
look to Paid Publicity
for store news.
ff College Men, boys
from the stores and
the trades are in the
ranks of these new
comers.
IT They Are Here for
the business of the
army, but they are
also interested in the
business of the town.
THt CHEERFUL CHERUB
Tke, nitfKt is fvll or
mystic 3Qvrdft,
3tr-tjro;e voice
I know rot wVvtncfc.
Yd like to b& bicj
And prowl
taonij ki$k
bo.rd fence,.
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They Have Needs and are naturally interested in
knowing where to get what they want.
Merchants can meet the demands and perform
service in doing it
Paid Publicity Will Do It.
PERSONALITIES
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MRS. NEWBERGER, owner of the
Boston Store in Chicago, is visiting at
! the volcano this week.
Sheriff William Rice, who was In
town this week on registration work,
tells a story on Chris Holt, his clerk
at the Lihue office.
Rice was met the other day by a
tearful old Portuguese man who
walled that his young son was lost.
probably drowned in the treacherous
waters of a Lihue creek. The lad had
been climbing for mangoes in trees
that overhung the stream and had
failed to come home at the appointed
hour.
The sheriff immediately summoned
Clerk Holt and tola him of the old
man's pilikia, and the two decided the
waters of that stream had better be
Inspected. Holt went down to the
stream, disrobed bimselT and began
diving. Rice gave instructions from
the bank above.
After Holt had teenon his search
so long that he was beginning to feel
like a water-logged U-boat, a crack
ling in the hushes was heard and a
small Portuguese lad made his appear
ance with a string of fish.
"What y'doin down there?" said the
lad.
"I'm hunting for you,' said TTolt,
and from the glint in the clerk's eyes
the lad decided he'd better be getting
home.
They call Chris the "diver now at
Uhue.
MISS JESSIE KENNEDY returned
to Honolulu this morning with her
lauer, j. a. &enneay.
E. E. BO YUM of Haiku. Maul, is
visiting with Mrs. Be yum, who is
spending the summer In Honolulu.
A. L. CASTLE, of the law firm of
Castle & Withlngton, has gone to
the Big Island to spend a brief va
cation.
FREP L. WALDRON writes from
Alaskan waters: "Nearlng 8kagway
Will turn soon to avoid hltflng the
North Pole."
MR. AND MRS. P. T. CUMBER
SON. Miss Betty and William Cum
berson were Incoming passengers on
the Wilheimina this morning,
i .
A. M. BROWN, city and county at
torney, returned Saturday from
Hawaii where he had been for the
past 10 days.
MRS. DUNLEIGH COREY, wife of
a naval officer stationed on this is
land, was an arrival in Honolulu yes
terday morning by an Oceanic liner
F. E. BLAKE, manager of the Ha
waiian Electric Co has gone to Ha
waii to spend a few days with his
family at the Volcano house.
The night blooming cereus hedge
running around the Punahou campus
bHI be in bloom again within the
next two or inree days, me Duas
have reached a considerable size and
will be cut shortly.
That this is the largest night bloom
ing cereus hedge In the world. Is the
boast that the school has made for
long time. It extends between
three and four hundred - yards along
the wall on Punahou street and about
200 yards along Wilder avenue on
the south side of the camnus.
FRANK BALDWIN and party of
Maui, who spent 10 days at Kflanea
Volcano, returned to te Valley Is
land last night on the Maun i Kea
from Hllo.
ROBERT C. LYDECKER, librarian
of the public archives, will leave on
the Wilheimina July 31 for the main
land. He plans a vacation trip to
New York.
JOHN NEILL sends a card from
Colorado Springs: "Went through
Garden of the Gods. Beautiful sight
Feeling fine. Best regards to all. Be
home in September."
JOHN EFFINGER will leave on the
Matsonia tomorrow on a business trip
to San Francisco. He will visit his
family in Berkeley and return about
the end of Aurust.
Nuuanu Valley Bungalow
A two bedroom cottage in the Bates Street Tract.
Grounds improved with fruit trees. Area 4986 square
feet.
PRICE $2300
Kewalo Street House
A large house and lot on Kewalo Street for sale. Suit
able for bonvJiri2: house, home, etc.
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Star-Bulletin on July 18 wasVUTI
MRS. R. H. ANDERSON and daugh
ter. Miss Catherine Anderson, were
arriving passengers by an Oceanic
liner yesterday. Mrs. Anderson is
the wife of an army officer stationed
on OahtL.
MRS. JACOB ORDENSTEIN is
sailing on the Mntaonia tomor-ow for
San Francisco. While away she will
visit Mr. and Mrs. M h. dllva of this
city, who are maVjg sn extended stay
at Alameda. Cal.
has been commtjsionea an a Jietician.
MRS. H. S. CRANE and her two
children, Mary and Harry, returned to
Honolulu this morning on the Wil
heimina, after having spent the past
eight months on the mainland. They
were met at the boat by Mr. Crane.
DR. DONALD H. CURRIE, surgeon
and director of the U. S. Leprosy
Investigation station here and on Mo
lokal for several years, leaves tomor
row for Boston, to become head of the
U. S. Public Health service In that
port.
MISS MONICA C LARKY a Ban
Francisco girl, who has fetes visiting
relatives In Honolalv. sails tomorrow
on the Matsonia to Join a California
unit of the American. Ret Cross which
Is going to Frauce for service She
DR. R. W. ANDERSON, accompan
ied by Mrs. Anderson and their daugh
ter, Ruth, leave for the mainland on
Wednesday and will go to Ithaca,
N. Y., where he will visit his son
Alexander Anderson, who Is in train
ing for military service.
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Miss Blodwyn Forbes, arrived on the
Mauna Kea this morning from Hllo
and will sail on the Matsonia for San
Francisco, where Miss Forbes will
enter a training class , in one of the
big hospitals, with the intention of
becoming a trained nurse. They are
the wife and daughter of Manager
Forbes of the Walakea plantation, on
the Big Island.
MR. and MRS. J. E. BOYLE, put
lished of the Paradise of the Pacific,
nlcraed from a pleasure and business
trip to California by an Oceanic liner
yesterday. iThey enjoyed an May;
motor trip in Southern California by
the coast route, returning by the- In
land route with a side trip to Yasenv
ie valley. Mrs- Berkjord, - ,wlf a cf a
construction 'engineer with' the Call
fornia highway commiss.cn returned
with them as their guest for a visit,
to the islands.
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Nice building lots
in Manoa
On Improved street, Vancouver Highway, near cor
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Algaroba trees. Good neighborhood.
100x150 feet
$1700
bicxaxd b. tbsst, rxxa.
nixa.
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FOR SALE
We offer a bargain at Halelena Park, Manoa
Valley. New two-bedroom bungalow on lot con
taining 12,600 sqnare feet. This tract has all ,
modern conveniences, including paved streets. -
No street assessments to pay.
Price $5,000
Particulars at our office.
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