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THE GARDEN ISLAND, TUESDAY. JUNE 10, 1919
anTan" the garden ISLAND
A 1,1.. Kauai First, Last and all the time.
GOVERN MKNT ' TUESDAY
MKAsl UKS . KENNETH C. HOPPER, Managing Editor .
AT ALL 1 L III U E
TIMES. TUESDAY - .... JUNE 10, 1919 KAUAI
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The striking thing nbout tbe
two Filipino murder cases now be
fore" tlic rireuit Court for trial is
the ready facility and apparent
nonchalance with which the fatal
deed was wrought. Au act of
violence, wrought under extreme
provocation, or with a great surge
of passion that can be under
stood even though not excused.
Hut that, as the result of a trifling
altercation about the number of
rows of cane cut, or the division of
a load of firewood, the victim
should be shot down as casually as
though it were an everyday occur
rence. this seems inexplicable.
One wonders where they got this
easy familiarity with firearms and
shooting. Is that a heritage of
barbarism or is it the overlay of a
vicious civilization?
The ordinary woman of any
other class wouldn't have known
what to do with a revolver,
would have, been afraid of it.
wou'd have been shocked at the
very thought of using it. A broom
si ii k.. a rolling pin, a pan of hot
water, these would have been her
natural weapons. Whence comes
it that the Filipino woman shoots,
and shoots so quick? Where did
she get her training?
We . believe she got it at the
moving picture show, where she
has seen such things done night
after night, as one of the regular
diversions of lite. done with
great applause, and done without
any apparent inconvenience in the
way of punishment.
So she has come to look on this
tirearni facility as one of the at
tainments of civilization ;She has
revelled in it in the play, and has
gone home to duplicate it in real!
College of Hawaii
Interesting Experiments
Some very commendable work
is being done in connection with
the College of Hawaii by II. 1
Chung in the improvement of the
sweet potato. Some 2," different
varieties, each with some special
qualification to favor, were select
ed, and the effort is being made to
unite as many of these qualifica
tions as possible in one single
variety. Iy combining these l!o
in different ways, some loti differ
ent crosses have been secured, out
of which surely some interesting
and valuable results will be secur
ed. Similar beneficial experiments
are being carried on by the same
investigator in regard to the cul
ture of mullet.
The mullet it seems, while natu
rally a salt water fish, can be ac
climated to brackish, or even fresh
water, if the change is made when
the fish are small. Thus far the
experiments have been directed
mainly to the most suitable food
for the tisli ; and as the result of
trying various kinds, with a wide
raniii'. the best returns were se
cured from common duckweed
which grows naturally in the
ponds. It seems that the mullet
is an exceedingly shy and retiring
creature, and that any effort to
handle them, or get otherwise fa
miliar with them, results in driv
ing them so crazy that they race
themselves to deatli or tlail them
selves sore against the sides of the;
pond or tank.
This Is most excellent home I
service work which the College of
await is doing, which will com-
nicnd it to public interest and'
favor; everyone will await results
wiih sat isfait imi.
The t'ollcue f Hawaii, which
lias naturally more or less it-fiul-ized
on siiuar culture and uianu-
fact lire, will extend its courses
life.
The moral is: Hanish this sort
thing from the movie, lest we be
overwhelmed with it in real life.
WHAT WE MUST FACE
The advent of Woman's suffrage
is a foregone conclusion. Whether
we want it or not, it is coining!
Accordingly the thing to do is to
make the best of it, or the most
of it. Undoubtedly it is a con
summation devoutly to be wished,
which in the final issue will be a
great gain. but in the meantime
it will bring us some serious prob
lems with large possibilities of
evil as well as good.
The advent of woman's suffrage
will of course mean the admission
to full political privileges of all
women of whatever race or class
condition who shall be entitled
thereto. Very largely this will
depend on the citizenship of their
husbands. For instance, the mires
of the men, Filipinos and like, who
have recently been in service at
Scholield. will be eligible for citi
zenship. nay, will automatically
become citizens.
This will mean the admission of
a great many women who are, at
present anyway, very poorly quali
fied to exercise the privileges of
citizenship. It will mean, of
course the admission of many
most intelligent, capable and con
scientious women, whose advent
will be of the utmost value to the
commonwealth. These are the
women we think of mainly, per
baps, when we grow easily elo
quent over women's sutl'rage. Hut
unfortunately there are a great
many women who cannot be count
ed in this class, who will yet be
entitled to vote, and who will
more than outweigh, by their ig
and facilities, so that it may make
good its claim to be the best sugar
school in the world. Those spec
ializing on the agricultural side
will study in the field at the II. S.
1 A. experiment station, while
the factory demonstration will be
given at the Kahuka plantation.
This will be of the nature of a
short apprenticeship, for which
the student will be allowed 843
a month and traveling expenses.
The equipment and other ad
vantages of the College of Hawaii
for sugar education, are to be so
distinctly superior to anything of
the kind available elsewhere that
it will draw students from other
parts of the world.
The Fatherless
Children of France
The need for taking care of the
children is more pressing than during
the war.
The number of Frenchmen killed
isl. 400.000. Of these 1.100.000 lie bur
ied in Fraive. and the remaining 300.
000 are men whose bodies have never
been recovered, but who have been re
ported officially missing for so long a
time that there is no possibility of
their being alive.
How many of these men were fath
ers we do not know, but it is estimated
that fully 1.000.000 children in France
were made fatherless by the war. Mon
sieur Andre Tardieu stated that about
2.10.000 were left destitute.
The figures given above, of course,
take no cognizance of the number of
Frenchmen maimed or completely in
capacitated. The number h;'.s not. I
believe, been even estimated
The French Government has a de-
tUit of Fort-v Billion Dollars (J40.000.-
000.000) incurred by the war. This,
tip-nr.. i-j .Kiila frrmi Ih.i ,l-i,,,., .1..., '
th. v .,.. . , .,.
b the war. ou will see why the
French Government cannot make ade-
auate provision for the women who!
have been made widows and the child-1 mission appointed by tbe Italian Min
ren who have been made fatherless by ; istry of Agriculture reports that for
the war.
.Many or tne mothers during the war
worked in munition factories and
other war industries, and were able to
norance and indifference, the in
telligence and devotion of these
high minded women.
The men have received a certain
amount of political training, and
have developed a certain amount
of political intelligence, which
must put them to that extent
ahead of the women. If the women
are going to exert any consider
able influence at the polls, espec
ially a beneficial influence, they
must be educated to that degree
of intelligence which will enable
them to understand public issues,
to size up public characters and
to come to independent conclus
ions that will not fade in the
washing.
Intelligent voters are not made
overnight. An honest purpose to
do right is not of itself enough;
and even a woman's wonderful
natural instinct will not always
keep her from going seriously
astray in political matters. She
must be intelligent, she must be
able to inform herself, she must
be able to come to independent,
and fairly correct conclusions as
to men and things.
This means a campaign of edu
cation, of the most elementary ed
ucation perhaps, that these incom
ing voters may be able to read,
may be able to understand the is
sues, may be able to size up the
candidates, may in a word, know
what they are doing when they
vote.
We have a large enough body of
ignorant and indifferent voters at
present, among the men. We don't
want to double, or more than
double, that body by the addition
of the women. So we must set to
work, just as soon as possible, to
educate the coming women elec
torate, and rescue ourselves from
the worse conditions that may be.
to the better ones that must be.
earn a sufficient amount to make ends
meet. Now they are unable to obtain
employment of any kind. Their situ
ation is much more acute.
The Government pension Is not
enough. Employment is impossible.
Prices are, as you know, absurdly
high, with no prospect of their com
ing down. Discouragement is also
playing its part. To some homes
Frenchmen are returning, but to the
homes of our children no Frenchman
comes back.
Long, lonely years are ahead, requir
ing all the bravery that the mother,
can possiuiy summon, u win unaouoi-
euiy ue iwo or mree years oeiore me
French Government can make ade-f
quate provision.
Who knows when the German in
demnity moneys are going to be paid?
If. as has been suggested, we are to
wait for that, children may die, and
children will be separated from their
mothers, and mothers' hearts will
ache much more than if we have the
vision and the real love of those little
children, which will assure to them
friendship en J help until their own
Gov. nit.irnt can provide for them, or
they can provide for themselves.
The need for taking care of the
children is more pressing than during
the war.
TETRAPHOSPH ATE
Under this name, shortened for com
mercial purposes to "tetra," a new
fertilizer is now being manufactured
on a large scale in Italy and else
where. According to a publication of
the Canadian Department of Trade
and Commerce, it is made by roast
ing natural phosphate rock powder for
several hours in a specially construct
ed furnace at a temperature of 600 to
$00 degrees centrigrade-, together with
about ti per cent of powder containing
equal parts of calcium, sodium and
magnesium carbonate and a little
sodium sulphate. After leaving the
furnace the product is hydrated by
cold phosphoric acid, and for practi
cal use is mixed with sand or dry
obtained. "Tetra" was invented by
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and there are now eleven plants en-
gaged in its manufacture in Italy, be-
siites nnp in r-nt cni
: wheat, riee. potatoes, oats, beans and
clover, the new fertilizer is much
i cheaper ar.c". equal if not suDerlor to
I "suuer"
College of Hawaii Changes
In a small leaflet being issued by
the College of Hawaii some general
information in given about the work
of the college, its organization and
Its forthcoming transition to a univer
sity. Being the only institution of col
legiate grade in the Territory, the Col
lege of Hawaii is assuming a position
of more and more importance and use
fulness. It has been primarily a scien
tific institution but now is expanding
to include a wider range of courses
of study.
The personnel of the Faculty Is
somewhat changed, and Increased in
numbers. This year there are 23 per
sons on the Faculty, 14 of whom hold
the rank of professor. Next year
there will be several more. Professor
MacCaughey has left the College for
an important public office and Profes
sor Walker is now Superintendent of
Pioneer Mill. Professor Keller is
still in the U. S. Army service as Cap
tain in the engineering corps, but in
tends to return to the College. His
place is being ably filled by Acting
Professor W. C. Furer.
The German language is still left
out of the curriculum, in its place
Spanish being substituted for next
year. Commerce and Trade subjects
are offered next year as the beginning
of a department or a school of interna
tional commerce.
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LETERS FROM OVER THERE
The following letter was recently
received by J. A. De Spain, foreman of
the Lihue Ranch, from Robt. S. Yoder,
who was principal of Huleia school at
the time he was called to his home
town in Washington by the draft. In
this letter Yoder reveals the fact that
he was a member of the famous "Lost
Battalion."
Camp Mills, N. Y.,
May 14, 1919.
Friend De Spain It has been some
time since I wrote you a letter and
some longer in the measurement of
time since I heard from you. Now
that the smoke of battle has raised
and we have had time to roll over and
rub our eyes and scratch our head and
think a bit. I find myself in the good
old U. S. A. again and the least I can
say is that I am glad.
After going through the Argonne
woods with the Germans just ahead
of us, and sometimes not so far, pbur
ing the hottest lead and steel they had
back at us shooting gas and all do
ing anything in God's world to keep us
from advancing, I consider myself
one of the lucky devils when men
are shot down and blown to pieces
right aside of you it sort of makes a
man begin to wonder how it Comes
that he is spared. Well, you can won
der and rack your poor old head a
tkinkin' and the only conclusion that
you can come to that Is anyway satis'
factory is that it was not your time
to die so, consequently you are still
alive possibly to help pull the world
through a harder and bigger battle.
Here is hoping it is not going to be
fought with raachme guns gaa and
artillery
x don., rempmhoP whether T tnlH vn.i
what work I did on the front lines, so
I will just mention it in this letter.
I played the roll of stretcher bearer
from the battle line to the first aid
station, and believe me that was some
job. I was busy almost every day and
sometimes most of the night. Many
times I didn't get a chance to rest un
til two or three o'clock in the morn
ing. At the end of twenty days I was
all faged out completely all in. I
couldn't walk any more, so they con
eluded I was of no more use on the
front lines and sent me to a hospital
to sort of regain my health. Some
times it was two and three days be
fore we got anything to eat. You have
read, I suppoFe, about the Lost Bat
talionI belonged to that, and while
in bere we were receiving the artil
lery fire of both the American and
German guns. We were in that place
without food to eat or tobacco to
smoke for six uays and nights. Five
hundred and fifty men went in and
194 came out. The 356 dedicated their
lives to the srot. I tell you this war
was no boy's play it took nerve,
courage and grit but we were vic
torious, and no the Germans are get
ting just what they expected to mete
out to the world herself.
It is good that we went into the war,
for in a very few years we would have
had to fight a Germany that included
in territory and people all Europe.
For the Americans won the day for
the Allies. When we entered they ad
mitted that they were whipped but
now. both France and England talk
kind of funny about the Americans.
Anyway I am glad I was in the fight
the experience was worth the price
yet, I don't want to go through the
same thing again. Sherman was
right.
I expect to be hone within the next
j two weeks, with a pair of civvies oa,
enjoying the freedom of times before
the great world war.
) R. S. YODER
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