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HONOLTJLTJ STAB-BULLETIN. THURSDAY, AUGUST 16. 1917:
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THURSDAY.
.AUGUST 16, 1917
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Wake Up Americans-Means You
Americans ninut wak up.
This is the uiesnapi that comes to Hojiolulu from
fellow citizens who have had an opportunity to get
a taste of the enthnsiaxm and patriotism of the east
ern state. It is also the message brought to the
people of the Atlantic waboard by fellow citizens
returning from the war zone.
All along the line there develops the feeling that
the average citizen does not fully r.-alize what a
serious part he has to play and how vital to his
personal right-at-home interests is the prompt and
aggressive mobilization of all the roan, money.
munitions and manufacturer power of the country
It is timely on every occasion to recall the solemn
admonition of Secretary Root on his leturn from
the Russian mission. When he talked of the trou
bles of Russia it was of a matter a long way off
Then he brought it all right home to the people of
'America when he said :
"Don't argue about why we are in the war, but
realize that the time has now come when American
liberty, American justice, American independence
and freedom is the stake for which we must fight.
There was no difference of opinion among the
members of that commission, whose members saw
first hand the struggle of the new Russian republic
and could realize through personal contact what
the success of Prussia must mean.
Charles Edward Russell, who wouP be one of the
first to cry out against a useless sacrifice of me- in
any war of aggression or capitalistic greed, said of
the task of America:
"If a man now says, 'My wages before my coun
try or 'My balance sheet before my country or
'My class or creed before my country, he is not an
'American. America is in peril ; the flag we love is
in danger. No question is worthy of consideration
until we settle the question of whether democracy
shall lire. Democracy hangs by a thread. Its ex
lstence depends on the union and the utmost deter
mination of the United States of America,"
Again, James Duncan, vice-president of the
'American Federation of Labor, voices the warning:
"This is no time, to squabble over incidentals. The
; workingmen of America are back of the president
and' the government The fight now is between auto
cracy and democracy."
TJiese are not the remarks of men carried off their
; feet by a passing enthusiasm. They come from the
lips of men, who have seen the fight at the very heart
of things. . They are deeply moved and ; their first
thought is for their nation. They know that their
fellow countrymen are fighters at heart, but they
fear that the seriousness of situation as it should
come home to all the nation is not realized.
: , In, the immediate business of war, the marshal
lng of the men and the money, the response has teen
wonderful : But this line of men at the front must
have a support from the forces at home, that is Just
as alert, just as intensive, just as efficient as that
TThich marks the daily life of those in positions of
. danger who may pay for a misstep with their own
. lives. v;:;;.-f- . . ,. . : - :.
Still, another warning comes from a correspon
dent of the Denver Post just returned from Europe,
lie finds New York and the eastern centers much
the same as before except for the soldiers, and he is
Jed to remark that' "neither the laws, nor a big
army, nor the greatest, navy can obt-in the sought
. for result quickly and surely without the whole
hearted'aupport and, sympathy of everr citizen.
"On the eve f the great supreme tacrifice, Amer
icans 6hould do -as the French have done restrict
expenses, reduce the superfluous. This dignified at
titude will go far to hasten the end of the war. It
will impress Germany far more than nj official
measures and the day when the Germans feel sure
that the whole of the American nation has reason
ed as one manthat day will see the dawn of
peace.77 , -
r Americans must, wake up. And that means you.
y.y, . , ;.'w" f ' i ji.,jn
Peace terms being considered I What kind of
peace evi a Hohcnro'iern offer? Tracing the farath
history back for tw? hundred years and more, there
ib disoivered nothing but repeated attempts to
throttle Europe. Borne of its victims arc Austria.
France. Denmark, Poland, Belgium. The Hohen
follernt must be eliminated from th face of the
earth before peace cua be seated on her throne.
When Washington gets war weary, it watches
what Brisbane has to say, and this is one of his lat
est, "Roosevelt wouldn't work on the New York
food commission. Why not? Not big enough. Can
dle light instead of lime light" Just a quiet, good
natured slam.
Picking The Engineer
John Hnghes suggests that the board of snpervis
ors appropriate a six thousand dollar salary for the
city engineer and invite Engineer Moragne of Kauai
!to take hold of the local situation.
j The main thought of Mr. Ilughes will be heartily
, indorsed by all citizens with an ounce of business
judgment, namely, that the city secure a high
grade man for the position and pay him well.
This paper has not suggested any particular can
didate for the office of engineer. The supervisors
ought to have the knowledge of men available to
enable them to make the best selection. Mr. Moragne
has made a complete success of the road building
business of Kauai, but he has had a much different
problem from that presented on Oahu. Kauai has
many dirt roads, and its macadam roads do not
carry the traffic of any of the main avenues of this
island. Another island engineer who has made a
success of road construction is Hugh Howell of
Maui. Mr. Howell is one of the few engineers who,
with the late Guy Gere, has been willing to admit
that he has made mistakes in road construction and
trained knowledge while in the public service. The
average road engineer of Hawaii has maintained
that he knew it all, and is therefore, very reluc tant to
admit what a large part of his education has been
secured at government expense.
These men mentioned have had experience, they
study their problems, they have had technical train
ing, they know how to handle men. they keep pace
with modern methods in highway construction;
they are of the type that Honolulu requires. To
employ this class of engineer is an investment ; to
employ a political, road patching dummy, is delib
erate, and in these times of war, criminal waste.
The supervisors are right in standing by their
purpose to place the million-dollar road program in
the hands of an engineer who sizes up to the job.
They should have all the moral and personal sup
port possible to give. Every dollar expended this
year must be a dollar that secures full value.
"KILL THIS SOCIALIST SNAKE."
At the adjournment of the Wednesdav meeting,
the Chamber of Commerce of Honolulu should have
all joined in singing the phonograph song, "Oh-h,
It's Nice to Get Up In the Mornin', But It's Better
'to Lay In Bed."
".' The large number of people from the eastern
VateSjSvbo have been charmed with the climate of
Hawaii, should be able to give some "safety first"
" pointers to the stay-at-homes. In Hawaii they can
' escape the fatal "dog days."
"V Kipling's advice that British boys learn German,
p because they may be called upon to rule over Ger-
icany, is carrying the "prepare for the future"
....
r jaunt lairiy we
- - Throughout the other islands businessmen are
S C preparing for the Civic Convention in Honolulu
l next month. Just to get into practise, the men of
Honolulu should start getting together. ,
At no time within the memory of active men and
women has that freedom of speech which also
pells license, been so vital and at the same time so
perilous a subject as at present. Very nearly every
socialist publication in the United States has been
barred from the United States mails because of the
objectionable manner in which they have handled
the fact of our participation in the war. Mere crit
icism mere differences of opinion in regard to the
manner in which this war shall be conducted have
at no time been interfered with, but socialists and
their kind have not hesitated to stoop to what in
Germany has been considered treason and punish
ed as such.
They have made sneering references to the part
panic-stricken American bankers have taken to pro
tect their loans to the tottering Allies. There have
been open charges that American manufacturers
have caused an upheaval to take advantage of in
dustrial conditions, but at no time has there been
a word of condemnation of the part that Germany
and her henchmen have played in this conflict.
It is no wonder that John Spargo, formerly one
of their number, has said that the American social
ists are fighting the Hun's game.
Our government does not object to intelligent
criticism of its policies; indeed it is the privilege
of an American to voice them even in times of war,
but to deliberately misrepresent conditions, such as
calling this a "capitalists' " war, in the face of all
the United States has suffered from the German
government is not to be countenanced.
Deliberate misrepresentation from our enemies
we cannot help, but it is intolerable that such things
should be permitted within the bounds of the Unit
ed States. Eitlieu it is the work of traitors or that
ofiIe poisoned malcontents who will hesitate at
nothing to embarrass the government with which
they disagree. In either case the government should
not 6top at closing the mails to each issue of their
publications as they come from the press, but
bhould prevent them from printing, at least until
the war is over.
When Delegate Kuhio is called upon to report
for Hawaii on the daylight saving movement, he
can safely notify his fellow congressmen that Ha
waii is asleep at the switch and seeks to be not dis
turbed. It really would not cost a great amount of money
to make the approach to the Queen's hospital pass
ably comfortable, while the frontage tax is taking
its course.
Ad Club talks these days are of the patriotic
tenor that furnishes n inspiration and foundation
for men desirous of 'going forth on their nation's
business.
Uncle Joe's tone of injured innocence is contem
plated to melt those hearts of stone that are begin
ning to harden because the price of bread has not
gone down as promised.
The United States has never yet bowed down be
fore the god of misapplied efficiency, and, by heck,
she won't have to now, if the registration through
out the states can stack up with Hawaii's.
Mayor Fern's remarks on the citv engineer and
appointments leads one to suggest to the old man
that he turn over and stop snoring in his sleep.
Every man who returns from Europe is impress
ed with the fact that Americans must wake up.
What have you done towards waking up?
MID-PACIFIC FOR
SEPTEMBER FULL
OF FINE MATERIAL
Replete with half tone illustrations
of subject bearing on many different
parts of the Pacific, the Mid-Pacific
Magazine for September has been is
sued from the press of the Honolulu
Star-Bulletin. In the absence of Alex
ander .Hume Ford, the majrazine is
being conducted by Joseph Stickney.
To the Pan-Pacific Union, its pur
poses and activities the mazasrine de
votes the greater part of it9 full pa?e
illustrations as well as a fully illu
strated leading article. Here the new
Pan-Pacific bulling is fully described.
Percy Hunter again contributes an
article' which this time is entitled
"Just What Australia Is," and bears
upon the size and population of the
different parts of the country. Other
articles are contributed by R. W. Poin
dexter, on "Pour Mexican Volcanoes;"
E. V. Wilcox on "The Palms of Ha
waii;" E. J. Fitzpatrick on "The Phil
ippines:" James Izett. who translates
"The Story of Mani-Mua and Hina;"
E. S Goodhue. M. D. on "Poniwali's
Petrified Pudding;" E. C. Throckmor
ton on "How Shanghai Amuses Her
self;" C. F. Merrill on "Feathered
Migrants;" Vaughan McCaughey on
"American Explorers in Hawaii;" and
Tomitaro Suzuki on "I-ake Tazawa in
Japan."
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MACHINE GUN COMPANY
TO HOLD SUNDAY DRILLS
Capt. Lawrence M. Judd, macmne
gun company, 1st Hawaiian Infantry,
hag announced to company members
that one extra drill will be held each
week until further notice. The hour
set for thi3 is Sunday morning at 9
o'clock.
The first extra drill will be held
next Sunday morning. The organiza
tion is now the only white company
in the regiment as Co. D and the 1st
Co., Hawaiian Coast Artillery, have
been transferred to It.
LETTERS
READING THE SIGNS.
WOMAN'S AUXILIARY
DONATES $300 FOR
BUILDING OF RAFT
Evidence of a new spirit of co
operation which U arisinx between
the men's department and the wo
men's auxiliary of the Outrigger Club
comes in the announcement that the
women have appropriated $300 to con
struct a second raft, to be placed
half way out to the diving stand along
the life rope. This appropriation was
made following the campaign started
among the men of the club to build
the other raft beyond the diving
stand.
That this act of the women's auxi
liary marks the beginning of a new
cooperation between the two depart
ments of the club is the belief oi
many members of the club. In express
in? his appreciation for the act of
toe women of the club, riarry B.
Campbell, president of the Outrigger
Club, said yesterday that he looked
for an end of past differences in a
very short time.
KAPAA LAND CASE IS
CONTINUED TO ALLOW
SIDES TO FILE BRIEFS
Fditor Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
Sir: Being a stranger in your beau
tiful, and desirous of seeing all there
is to be seen, and of learning all there
is to learn, as far as my ability to
absorb the same will make good, I
would like to ask if the language
known as volapuk is being introduc
ed here, or is it some new-born phone
tic dialect? I am inclined to ask these
questions after reading many of those
"black and white" interchangeable let
ter window signs that appear in all
parts of the city. I have taken parti
cular notice that some of them have
such words as "harnesss," "carefuly,"
"eekw," Tusday, "clerance, "frammed,"
etc. I suppose there are a lot that I
have not seen, but I am Interested im
mensely in the ones that I have been
studying. It is certainly wonderful.
The only drawback is that good spell
ers must learn all over again.
BOOSTER.
Honolulu, Aug. 14, 1917.
JOHN HUGHES' SUGGESTION.
Editor Star-Bulletin:
Sir: The hiatus in the board of
supervisors over the appointment of
a city engineer, and the feverish haste
of some to have Mr. Collins, a retir
ing official, handicap his successor by
appointing his assistant, is, notwith
standing the parrot talk of efficiency
and economy, moves and counter
moves for political prestige and
power.
If our city fathers really mean
business, they would appoint; say the
city engineer of Kauai, he has every
requisite called for by Mr. Collins,
give him a salary of $6000 per year,
turn over to him our public utilities
unhampered by a "Road Committee,"
for the toad committee generally
a plum for the most adroit politician
on the board is the "fly in the amber"
of every eity government we have
had. It ought to be reconstructed out
of existence.
JOHN A. HUGHES.
Honolulu, Aug. 15, 1917.
THINK IT OVER
After one afternoon had been de-
vntpH tn nmlimlnarv areument nlain-
' tiff and defendant in the case of Mrs.
! Julia Loane against Walter A. Engle,
' chief clerk in the land office, a peti
tion for mandamus, yesterday re
quested Circuit Judge Kojp to allow
them time for the filing of briefs. The
motion was granted. It will be about
15 days before the argument is re
sumed. Mrs. Loane is seeking to have the
court compel Engle to reinstate her
name among those of the persons who
1 are entitled to lots in the Kapaa, Kau
ai, homestead tract. She was one of
those who drew lots but her name was
rejected because her husband had al
. so filed an application.
REPORT ON PROMOTION
OF COLONEL HERO NOT
OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED
Col. Andrew Hero, Jr., commander
of Fort Ruger, yesterday received a
cable message from a friend on the
mainland offering congratulations on
his appointment as brigadier-general.
No official word has been received
by the general ag to the promotion,
but it seems practically sure that the
news Is correct and was probably seen
in some of the Chicago papers from
which the message was sent.
If the officer has been thus ap
pointed it seems quite likely that he
may be named to succeed Brig.-Gen.
Charles O. Treat, who haa been or
dered to the mainland.
TARN M'GREW WITH
TROOPS IN FRANCE
J. Tarn McGrew has become an
attache of the American forces in
France in the capacity of official In
terpreter. This news came recently
in a letter to Mr. McGrew's sister,
Mrs. C. B. Cooper. Mr. McGrew hat
made bis home in Pans for a number
of years. Beyond" the flghttws agr
limit he found no opportunity fot
action till the American forces ar
rived, when his special ability as a
linguist made his service of mors
than ordinary value.
CARTER IN HOSPITAL
To love the world, is to live
To do so you must be able to give
Your worries like your hat you must
doff
With peae and contentment like a
dove.
For be your life ever so humble
It is not for you to grumble
Just accept all the joys of lift?
And laugh to the tune of a fife.
For if you brood over your sorrows
What pleasures will you, tomorrow;
So take another hitch in your belt
And just punch the world another
welt.
Just to live and to die
Is not meant for you and I
But to take a hold on this world
And meet the end in a whirl.
H. J. N.
A. B. (Buster) Carter has been con
fined to Queen's hospital for the last
few days due to an operation perform
ed on his ears. The Injury was caused
by getting water on his ear drums
while entered in the back stroke
swimming contest at the recent Y. M.
C. A. meet in which he finished sec
ond. He is particularly anxious to get
out of the hospital as soon as pos
sible as he hopes to be one of the 100
named for attendance at the officers'
training camp at Schofield Barracks.
A A LA 8 BEAT COMPANY E
The Asia Athletic Club baseball
team aefeated the Co. E team of Fort
Shatter by a score of 4 to 2 in a re
cent game at Aala park. The lineup
of the winners was as follows: Wa
Chong, 3b; Albert Sin, rf; Daniel, c;
Koos Yee, ss; Amana, p; Loo Chow,
lb; Chun Wo, cf; Hu Tung, if; Sam,
2b. Fort Shatter Johnson, 2b; Burns,
ss; Bryant, lb; Lance, 3b; Anders, rf;
Sutter, cf; Fargarty. if; Boehm, c;
Simmons, p.
Miss Elizabeth Dutot of Honolulu
was appointed yesterday a member of
the territorial board of registration ot
nurses. The other members of the
board are Dr. Grover A. Batten, Dr.
James R. Judd, Miss Mary Johnson
and Miss Janet Dewar.
Dr. H. P. Nottage, eye, ear, nose
and throat specialist, formerly ol
Honolulu, now in Alameda, has been
commissioned first lieutenant in the
medical section of the Officers' Re
serve Corps. By advice of the Council
of National Defense he has registered
with the oto-larzngologists.
MAKIK1 HOME
On Keeaumoku Street
Within easy walking- distance of Punahou Academy.
One of the choicest locations in the Makiki district.
Charming, large, roomy, two-story home with two large
bedrooms. A cottage in the yard. Also garage and ser
vants' rooms. Corner lot of 21,800 square feet.
PRICE $10,000.00
Guardian Trust Co., Ltd.
REAL ESTATE DEPT.
TeL 3688 Stangenwald Bldg.
FOR FLOATING LOANS
Guy Emerson, vice president of the Na
tional Bank of Commerce of New York
City, believes in the use of paid newspaper
advertising in the flotation of government
bonds. Mr. Emerson, who was secretary
of the Liberty Loan Committee for the
Second Reserve District of New York, is a
believer in advertising and its efficacy.
JJ He believes that advertising is a com
modity, and should be sold as such.
He did not. as secretary of the New York
committee, ask a newspaper to contribute
a single line of advertising.
He was of the opinion that he had no
more right to ask that a newspaper give
away its advertising space than he had to
ask any manufacturer to donate the pro
ducts of his factory.
Jf In his report to Frank A. Yanderlip, the
chairman of the committee for this district,
Mr. Emerson said:
f"A very pertinent question has arisen
with regard to paid advertising.
fl"ve took the stand in the last cam
paign that we should not ask the news
papers to contribute free advertising space.
IJ"The fundamental principle seems ab
solutely clear, that advertising is a com
modity and that the government should
pay newspapers to carry government ad
vertising, just as it pays railroads to carry
government freight."
Paid Publicity Will Do It.
The general circulation of the J771
Star-Bulletin on August 7 was V f 1
do-- a
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22.
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3 INCOME
from moderate capital.
THERE are many people who, after
-getting-together 30 or 40 thou
sand dollars, would be content to re
tire from active business life, could
they only be sure that they would
never lose what they have worked so
hard to get together.
To them we extend our services.
We will take the capital as a trust
and so manage it that there will be in
come derived from it sufficient to pro
vide necessities and comforts for the
balance of the owner's life and then to
so administer the capital for his heirs
that it will increase, rather than be
dissipated through inexperience.
If yon are such a person, we invite
yon to consult with Mr. Trent, who
has personal charge over such matters.
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time might come when he will ask you to re
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Let us sign your bond. Reasonable rates, prompt
service.
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