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THE GAfcbfiN ISLANt),ttJfiSfAY. AUG. 6, 1919
THE GARDEN ISLAND
Issued Every Tuesday
KENNETH C. HOTTER
Managing Editor
TUESDAY
AUG. 5
XA IL1 WILI DREAKWA TER
We would call the attention of
our readers to Mr. McMlellan's
letter written to the Kauai Cham
ber of Commerce and published in
this issue of The Garden Island,
courerning the Xawiliwili Harbor
project. His contention that the
railroad must be actually com
pleted in toto before Congress will
make any final move toward ap
propriating money for the con
struction of the breakwater, is a
most vital one and fortunately is
easy of accomplishment.
Such rail connections on the
southern part of the Island, from
Kekaha to Kealia, practically ex
ist already. Harring a small
break at Waimea. the communica
tion is complete from Kekaha to
Koloa, while the Koloa road over
the Knudsen lands reaches a point
about a half mile short of the
Grove Farm and Lihue rails, that
would take no time to construct.
The other important gap, be
wteen Lihue and Kealia, would
have to be provided for. In other
words, some ten or a dozen miles
would have to be built.
The Garden Island of January
21st, says: to build and properly
equip this road will probably cost
not less than .$ 500,000; and this
undertaking will doubtless have to
be financed by the Lihue interests,
if it is to be done at all, and the
Xawiliwili deep-sea harbor is to
be secured.
The time has come however, for
Kauai to get busy and take the
important steps needed to satis
fy the Washington authorities of
our willingness to do our part to
ward the securing of the long de
layed Nawiliyili Harbor.
LOCAL PRICES AND
FOREIGN TRADE
Apropos of foreign trade, a
very interesting example of the
eagerness with which countries
across the sea are bidding for our
goods, came to the notice of a
Kauai resident visiting the metro
polis a few weeks ago. He made
first otf for the shoe store, as all
country folks do. Although he
knew the cost of living had gone
up by leaps and bounds, still he
was appalled at the price of a
good pair of shoes.
Just then the manager of the
establishment came up to him and
told of his recent trip East to
place a $25,000 order for shoes.
While in the act of making the
deal, along came a Frenchman and
placed a $:550,000 order to be sent
to Paris. And that was but a
single business house in only
one needy and battle torn country.
It made the local order look
like thirty cents. So you can cuss
Germany, who made the war, if
you are forced to pay $20 for a
pair of shoes that formerally cost
about 7.50
The famous Cartel system that
Germany adopted and used for
years, whereby she was enabled to
sell goods at far cheaper prices
abroad that at home, and which
has been in vogue somewhat in the
United States as well as in Eng
land, is now being used in a far
greater degree and bids fair to be
come a wide spread practice in
American business circles.
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WHAT'S THE MATTER WITII
THE TEACHER'S JOBt
The following is a quotation
from a late issue of the Independ
ent and we quote it, hoping that
some of our local Kauai Teachers
will be interested in readiug it,
perhaps even to the extent of an
swering the questions usked and
fowardiug their remarks to the
magazine :
"The Independent, along with
many others who are interested in
education, is convinced that there
is something the matter with the
teacher's job. We want to find
out, if we can, what is the matter,
and what can be done about it. We
are asking a large group of teach
ers in every state in the Union
what they can tell us.
Will von not be one of those to
give us the benefit of your experi
ence?
We submit below a number of
questions intended to serve as sug
gcstions and stimulants to your
thoughts. We want you to consider
these questions carefully, together
with any others that may occur to
you as properly belonging to the
subject, and write us a statement
not more than 1500 words in
length of your convictions as
drawn from your own experience,
Make your comment as concrete
definite and constructive as pos
sible. We hope to be able to pre
pare from the material which you
and your fellow teachers send in
a group of articles that will be il
lum mating, suggestive and valu
able.
Won't you think it over for a
day and theu sit down and write
your paper?
There must be something in
your experience that will be of
value to the great body of Ameri
can teachers, and to the American
public. Isn't it your duty, as it
should be your pleasure, to share
that experience with the rest of
us? We shall be glad to pay, at
our usual rates for any material
that we use.
If we print anything that you
send us, we will not use your
name or address or any details
that might reveal your identity.
But the material must not be an
onymous when it comes to us.
Address your material to The
Independent, Teachers' Depart
ment. 119 West Fortieth Street,
New York.
Here Are the Questions
Are teachers underpaid?
How much do you have left
after the bills are paid?
Why is a school board?
Should the principal select the
teachers, or the teachers the prin
cipal ?
Should school organizations be
democratic?
Are teachers Ishmaels in the
community?
Have teachers the right of free
speech ?
Does a school board ever ask a
t-acher's advice? Should it?
Is the teacher like the doctor
and the lawyer respected as
a member of a profession?
What can be done about it all?
Who can do it?
Where shall we begin?
No Joker But Fact
Claims McCIellan
Kauai must get busy and con
nect up railroads if she wants a
breakwater at Nawiliwili.
Hon. C.eo. Me K. McCIellan,
the Washington representative of
the Honolulu Chamber of Com
merce, sent the following perti
nent letter to the Kauai Chamber
of Commerce, dated June 30th,
1915).
"On December 20th last I wrote
your Chamber of the fact that we
had secured the promise of an ap
propriation for the beginning of
work on Nawiliwili Harbor and
told you something of the circum
stances leading up to that favor-
able outcome."
"The writer is now informed by
individuals in Honolulu that cer
tain people on Kauai were saying
that the provision requiring that
the Secretary of War shall have
assurance that railway connect
ions will be made between the
easterly and southern portions of
Kauai before he shall order the
water, Is described as a "joker;"
and further, that the insertion of
that "joker" is ascribed partly to
Walter Dillingham but chiefly to
myself.
"I want to say first of all that
the provision referred to is not a
"joker" but is what the govern
ment regards as absolutely neces
sary before proceeding with any
harbor improvement for the Is
land of Kauai.
"Reference to House Document
No. (.09, 2nd Session, G2nd Con
gress, shows that the government
authorities have held from the be
ginning that the original survey
ordered by Congress was for a
harbor which should serve all the
populous sections of Kauai.
"Reference to pages 4 and 5 of
that document show that the
Board of Engineers for Rivers and
Harbors recommended against im
proving any harbor on Kauai for
the sole reason that there was no
railway system which connected
the two main sections of the Is
land. They further recommended
that in the absence of such rail
way connection, Hanapepe would
be the best location for improving
a harbor.
"Although the Chief of Engi
neers did in 1912 make a qualified
recommendation for the improve
ment ofr Nawiliwiji, there has
been no time when the Committee
on Rivers and Harbors had the
slightest intention of making any
appropriation for that harbor un
less a provision were included for
connecting up the railway system
"When I went to General Tay
lor in December on this subject, he
had already dictated a paragraph
for insertion in the Rivers and
Harbors bill providing that not a
dollar of the money should be ex
pended until such railway con
nection was actually completed.
T insisted to Mr. Taylor that the
paragraph he had drafted was
practically prohibitive because it
would be impracticable to expect
the people of Kauai to connect
their railway systems five or si?
rears before the harbor work
could be far enough along to offer
any use for such railway exten
sions. Finding that it was im
possible to get any appropriation
for the harbor without some pro
vision for the railway connection,
I suggested to General Taylor
that he modify the paragraph
he had already drafted so as to
provide that the work could be
gin whenever the Secretary of
War was satisfied that the con
necting up of the railway systems
would be arranged within n
reasonable time.
"The provision as written into
the bill was the least stringent
that could possibly be gotten, and
the people of Kauai, instead of
charging that a "joker" was put
in the bill, should recognize that
they owe me a debt of apprecia
tion for having saved them from
an ironclad provision that would
have been practically prohibitory.
"It is the policy of Congress to
provide one harbor for each of the
larger Islands; but they insist
that such a harbor must serve the
chief tonnage of that Island. As
an example of this, you may re
call that the Hilo breakwater was
uot authorized by Congress until
we were able to assure them that
plans were complete for construct
ion of the Hamakua extension of
he Hilo railway.
"There is no "joker" about this
provision. It was absolutely nec
essary in order to secure any ap
propriation at all, and without
such a provision no appropriation
for Nawiliwili Harbor could have
been secured in the next twenty
years."
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