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HONOLULU
San Francisco: Carter Glass,
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the new Secretary of l!ie Treasury
in a telegram 1o Governor .lames
K. Lynch oT the Twelfth Federal
Reserve District, announces lliat
expenditures of the government
during tin? fiscal year beginning
July 1, 10l!S, mid including Dec.
1018, exceeded nine billion
six hundred million dollars and
that expenditures in tlie month of
November were nearly S2 .000,000,-'
000. In the current mouth of
December up 1o and including
December 10, expenditures exceed
ed .? 1,000,000,000. It is estimated
that the total expenditures of the
fiscal year will be 18,000,000,000.
Secretary Glass favors short
maturities for Ihe Fifth Liberty
Loan uml announces that the
Treasury Department will contin
ue the sale of War Savings
Stamps and Certificates in a most
energetic manner.
The complete telegram to Gov
ernor Lynch follows:
"Iu assuming the edict of Sec
retary of the Treasury, I desire
to say n few words to the Ameri
can people, and particularly to
the splendid organization of men
and women, whose unselfish
labors, under the leadership of my
preat predecessor, have made the
story of our war finance one of
the most glorious chapters in the
history of America's part in the
war.
"Millions of Americans have
contributed iu the most vital.
tangible and necessary way to the
winning of the war. Thv.v have
loaned their dollars to their coun
try with no small sacrilice of
personal comfort and enjoyment
and have given largely of personal
effort and service. For all time
we have disproved the slander
that Americans are a money-lov
ing people, incapable tit rising
above materialistic things. In
the eighteen short months of the
war American people subscribed
for eighteen billion dollars of
Liberty Bonds and War Savings
Certificates.
"The banking institutions and
the people of the country financed
t lie requirements ol t he war in
anticipation of the Liberty Loans
and of the taxes for the fiscal year
ending .luue :'.0, P.tlX ly the pur
chase of a total of tflL'.noo.OOO.OOO
of Treasury Certificates of Indebt
edness, all of which has been re
tired or provided for out of taxes
or bond issues at the time the
armistice was signed.
"The expenditures of the gov
ernment, excluding transactions
iu the public debt, during the cur
rent fiscal year beginning .July 1,
1018, to and including December
1(5, 101 S, exceeded s!l,(i()0,0()(.000.
Expenditures iu the month of
November nearly equalled 2,000,
000,000,000 ami in the current
month of December, to and includ
ing December 10, exceeded one
billion dollars.
"The proceeds of the Fourth
Liberty Loan so far received have
all been spent, and the remaining
installments payable on subscrip
tions to that Loan will be needed
to meet mat wring Treasury Certi
ficates of Indebtedness issued in
anticipation of that Loan, and as
yet unpaid. Since 4 lie armistice
was signed. Secretary McAdoo
has estimated that the cash outgo
from the Treasury during the cur
rent fiscal year ending . I line ."tl.
1010. will amount to sis.011u.000,
000 and much more than half that
amount has already been expend
ed in the live and one half months
which have elapsed. The Ireaty
of peace has not yet been signed
and our army has just started to
demobilize. Production of war
materials and supplies had rcach-
slice was signed and the bills in
curred dining that period of max
imum production must be paid.
The-Treasury must issue an
other large loan before Ihe end of
the fiscal year and I am entirely
in accord with the policy already
outlined that this loan should
take the form of bonds of short
maturities.
It is vit.'illy important that Ihe
Treasury' should continue iu a
mo.-t energetic way the sal of
War Savings Stamps and Certi
ficates. Among the valuable and
much needed lessons we have
partly learned dl'rotn the war, is
that of thrift and intelligent expenditure.
"Thrift helped to win the war
mil will help us to take full 'ad
vantage of a victorious peace. It
is therefore imperative that we do
not relax into the old habits of
wasteful expenditure and impera
tive that the habit of reasonable
living (on the part of those of
both large and small means) so
isily acquired during the war
period be continued.
Millions of our people have be
come Holders or oomis of tneir
Government, but. some of them
seem to feel that they are under
no further obligation to retain
these bonds and they are selling
them ami using the money for un
necessary purposes or exchanging
them for other securities of doubt
ful value. So long as the United
Slates needs to sell bonds, those
who hold the present issues
should not d is iose of them except
under the spur of urgent neces
sity. They have invested in the
best security in the world and it
is both to their own interest and
to that of their government that
these securities be retained.
''Organizations of patriot ie men
and women numbering probably
well over two millions have been
created and have given their time
and services to the sale of liberty
bonds and War Savings Certifi
cates. These great bodies of earn
est and patriotic people, called
together almost at the outset of
the war and augmented continual
ly by new recruits, have accomp
lished a task which seoms almost
superhuman. My admiration is
great not only for the work ac
complished, but for the spirit in
which it was accomplished. It is
my earnest wish to retain and con
tinue these great organizations
until the work has been complet
ed. We face this work at a time
when we are handicapped iu many
ways.
"There is no doubt that there
is throughout the country a feel
ing of relaxation a feeling of
self satisfaction at the work al
ready performed ami a strong and
not unreasonable call to take up
once more individual and business
interest ami activities. . 1 lie or
ganizations were prepared for the
task which would have confronted
them had the war continued
throughout the year 1010, or long
er, and I am confident that de
spite these handicaps they will
not now relax their efforts ami
leave the task unfinished.
"Victory has come to us earlier
than we might reasonably have
expected, but victory will not
cause us to neglect the completion
of that work which made victory
possible. .
"( hir men on the other side still
have their work before them and
so have we. Thev will not leave
until the task is fully acconi
pushed, nor shall we. I am sure
then that the Treasury Depart
meut can, with confidence, oll'er
another liberty loan and continue
the sale of War Savings Cert id
eates knowing that the organiza
tions will respond once more to
the call for service and will at
once prepare the ground and sow
the seed so that the harvest mav
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Tip Top Theathre J
Tuesday, Jan. 14
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DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS
Saq!5ung R-llow"
A.ACTCQAFTAcNn.
A HAIR RRUSIl MAY NOT BE APPETIZING, BUT THIS
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AND THERE ARE MORE THRILLS THAN EVER.
PATHE WEEKLY THE WORLD AT A GLANCE
Thursday, Jan. 16
ELSIE FERGUSON
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A DOLUS HOUSE
"BATTLE ROYAL" MACK SENNETT COMEDY.
PATHE WEEKLY- THE WORLD AT A GLANCE.
Seventh Chapter of the "BULL'S EYE."
Saturday, Jan. 18
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FOR TWO LITTLE TOTS, FAR FROM HOME AND
FRIENDS. THEY'LL APPEAL TO YOU, THESE FOR
SAKEN, BLACK-EYED KIDDIES FROM THE LAND OF
THE RISING Sl'N, .IUST AS THEY APPEALED TO "TA
Ml'RA" THEIR "SELF-APPOINTED" FATHER.
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The Passing of
Lahaina Cane
It has long been a matter of
common knowledge that the days
of Lahaina cane were numbered.
Twenty-five or thirty years ago
it began to show signs of weaken
ing and from that time on it be
gan to surrender its almost uni
versal control of these islands. At
first it retreated only from ihe
more exposed and less fertile
legions on the windward sides of
the island' such as the llamakua
Coast, on Hawaii, and Kilauea,
on this island. But gradually
even such favored localities as
Kekaha ami Makaweli are giving
it up, ami putting something else
in its place.
It has been a better cane
iu its prime than any one of. its
successors, rich in sucrose, high
iu iiuritv. easily cultivated and
readily manufactured, so that
those who could, clung to it as
loiig as possible, and surrendered
it very reluctantly. But gradu
ally they have had to do it.
The Lahaina cane is really a
Tahiti cane. From whence it was
imported along in the lS."0s. Mr
C. Titcomb was raising sugar iu
Hanalei, and arranged with a
whaler, going to the South Seas,
to bring him back samples of Ihe
most promising canes he might
find there. This he did; but find
iug it inconvenient to touch at
Hanalei he landed them at La
haina; whence came the nauic
Lahaina cane.
step farther back. Why does
black alkali illicit Lahaina so
seriously ami not Yellow Cale
donia or anv other caiie? Another
theory attributes its failure to the
presence of Nematodes, which
form nodules on the roots of the
cane, and which are found iu
many cases on the roots of sickly
Lahaina cane, but not on other
ami more vigorous canes. Hence
it is inferred that these nematodes
are the cause. of the failure. But
this again only moves the trouble
back. Why does Lahaina fall an
easy prev to tins enemy when the
other canes do not ?
It would seem as though Lahai
na had reached the point of ex
treme senility, and had hopelessly
"lost its grip-" so that there is no
use trying to recover its lost
youth, or revive its lost vitality.
Accordingly even those places
that for years back have stuck to
Lahaina, in spite of all premoni
tions, are abandoning it now. For
the 10 H crop there was 40,000
acres of Lahaina, whereas for the
1020. crop there is only 24,000
acres.
What is taking its place? For
some 20 years or more Yellow
Caledonia has been gradually sup
planting it, and there is now an
area of 10S.000 acres of this cane,
which makes it the dominant cane
of the Islands. It has the import
ant advantage of being a verv
hardy cane, sturdy iu the resist
ance of disease, ami requiring less
water. It will probably hold its
own for years to come as the dom
inant cane of the Islands. But
its supremacy is by no means as
Dray-Ma Up-to-Dale
The villyau's plot had succeed
ed. Bound hand ami foot, the
fair maiden was squeezed into a
sack, unable to move or scream.
She felt herself being carried
down a flight of stairs, plumped
into a vehicle and then driven
away. She struggled vainly to re
lease herself, but the villyan had
done his work too well.
Suddenly the conveyance stop
ped. Again she was lifted and
carried into a building, weak and
gasping for breath. The sack was
cut loose the gag removed. The
villyan, still masked, his eyes
gleaming like coals of fire, seized
her wrists, and said, through his
tightly clenched teeth :
"There, my pretty bird, screem
as loud as you like; no human will
ever hear you. You are totally
within my power."
"Where am 1 she gasped.
"In Hit shop of a man who
never advertises," was the cruel
and hissing reply.
"Alas" she moaned. "No power
on earth can save me. No one
will find me here." And the poor
girl fainted. Vim.
ed the peak at the time the armi-1 be abundantly fruitful."
This is a question which it is not
easy to answer. The current
theory for some time back, has
been that it has fallen a vic
tim to black alkali, which is fre
quently found iu the soils which
Why the failure of LahainaVi sured. There are several appli
cants for the position. One of the
most promising is II. 100 (newly
developed cane goes by number.
This is Honolulu 100 i. This new
cane is coming to the front very
rapidly. In 1014 there were only
will no longer raise Lahaina. But ji; acres,
this only removes the problem one acres. It
Now there are 12.000
is a lineal descendant
of Lahaina, with some of its fine
qualities, ami it bids fair to prove
worthy of its noble lineage, ami
may recover the family prestige.
Another promising candidate,
that has been making good for
some years is Demarara ll.'.". In
the last two years it has increased
in acreage from 12,000 to is.ooo.
And iu certain sections it has
been the favorite, even the exclu
sive choice for many years.
Still other candidates are
striped Mexican- Yellow Tip and
H. 140, but these are as yet far be
hind in the running.