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THE GARDEN ISLAND, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1922 At Christmas : Time Solve your gift problems with Photographs Make an appointment to day. It's none too early Kodak Film Finishing Framing OTO&BAPHiRj UHUfi. KAUAI THIS IS THE LAST MONTH If you have not formed the habit of keeping a few bottles of LIHUE SODA in your ice box, for the unexpected caller, you should not let the year end without doing so. It solves the question of "What can I offer Ihem for refreshment?" Phone 44 1 L or "112-W Lihue Ice & Electric Power Co., Ltd. Kapaia Garage Go. KAPAIA, KAUAI General Automobile Repairing and Machine Work BATTERY WORK A SPECIALTY AGENTS FOR U. S. TIRES EXIDE BATTERIES Tel. 288 L P. O. Box 236, Lihue SCHOOL NOTES be KAPAA 8CHOOL Our Christmas exercises will held on Thursday, December 14. Senator John Kealoha and Representative-elect S. W. Meheula paid us a visit lust week. Rev. Iniui of Tokio, on his way to the United States, was a visitor last Tuesday. Next week will be vacation time and a number of our teachers are planning to go to Honolulu to spend It. Miss Johnson has been selected as one of the four delegates from Kauai to the meeting of the Hawaii Education Association to be held at Kahului, Maul, December 28 to 30th. The shop boys mado a variety of toys for Christmas. Planting In the school . garden has already started. LIHUE GRAMMAR SCHOOL Three of our new school units aro complete and the teachers and pupils who are now occupying the Japanese language school, will move In as soon as the new desks are Installed. The remaining five units aro now being painted and Mr. Wise, the con tractor, say's that they will ho ready by January 1. How glad we will be to get out of these Imperfectly lighted and leaky old buildings. The shop boys are very much Inter ested In our work this year and hope to turn . out some good work for the school fair. Our garden is doing fine this year. We have quite a lot of vegetables. This has been quite a good year for gardens. The rains bave come just about right. Our boys, have organized a football team and like the game very much. Miss Halite Davis, one of our sixth grade teachers, who has been sick in the Lihue hospital for the past six weeks, is reported to be much bettor. We will have our Christmas exer cises on Friday morning at 8 o'clock. The special singers will give us some pretty Christmas carols before the presents are distributed. ' X)ur examinations were all finished last week and we are anxiously wait ing for our marks to see whether wo passed or not. Kiyoml Hashimoto, now of Kauai high school, wrote a nice letter to Mr. Simpson last week telling of the work of the former grammar school stu dents there. He reports that all are happy and doing their best. The teachers of Lihue grammar school are one hundred per cent in their membership in the Kauai Edu cation -Association, the Hawaii Educa tion Association and the National Ed ucation Association for the school year 1922-23. Mr. and Mrs. Simpson were guests at a poi luncheon given last Sunday by Mr. and Mrs. Henry WiBe, at their home in Waimea. The Girl Reserves of Lihue gram mar school held their Christmas par ty on Monday afternoon. They gaVe a play called "Christmas Light." Af ter playing games, refreshments were served. WAIMEA JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL The honor students for the mid semester , are -Eddie Pupuhi, Ah Pau Chlng, August Perry, Masao Seto, Tsin 01 Ching, Edward Cabsenha, and Kenso Kinoshlta. WAIMEA SCHOOL Mrs. Lucy Wright and Mrs. Nora Chang represented the school at the special meeting of the Kauai Education at Lihue, on Dec. 9. Practically every child In the school has a copy of "101 Best Songs," a cheap collection of the oldest and most familiar American songs. With each child having his own copy the school music Is an easier matter to handle and a great deal more work can be done. Fred Aaser, of Kekaha, has given the school garden four dozen 2 months old sweet pepper plants They are perrenials and hardy plants. More chickens continue to arrive at the school. Four last week was recorded. The week before there were three. The coop Is almost full. With the purchase of a pig the school barnyard deluxe will be com plete. The rains of the last week has greatly helped the grass in the school yard, also weeds. A neat diploma or certificate from the headquarters of the National Education Association has been re ceived and framed. It hangs beside the one of last year. Monday Is vis itors' day at the school and it is hoped htat all parents who have children In school will make it a point to visit the school and see the work that is being done here. Invitations have been made thru the children and in other ways which will encourage more visitors from the ranks 'of the parents of school children. The enrollment this week Is 576. "Practice continues for tho show of the ages, which will be given at Waimea Hall on December 9. It will be a juvenile mlrthquako, posi tively the last show to be given by the school this year, and the last one of its kind ever shown in the district. The proceeds will be spent on the Christmas celebration at the school, December 14. A BIT OF ANCIENT HISTORY Thirty years ago a school agent was appointed by the board of education for each district. The teachers received their supplies from the school agent and the teach ers' warrants also came thru the school agent. Some of the teachers were ap pointed thru the recommendation of a school agent and sometimes a school agent did not have a pleas ant time with the people of bis district. At one time a very interesting petition was received by a school agent which read something like this: To the honorable board of education, To the school agent of the district of Loves to you We aro the mothers and fathers of. the childrens staying at We ask you very much to put Mr. to be the teacher of our childrens, we will obeys him and our childrens too.' He Is smart in the Britania language. Please give him good pay .Goodbye to you, and thank you. Yours truly, Here are our names: Mr. John . Mr. Hanale . Etc. The petition was handed to SHOT'S V IjV isi V 1 ill Sl r ' v s Your Estate Problems should be handled by an experienced Trust Company. There are many questions involving Federal Income Tax, Federal Estate Tax, Territorial Inheritance Tax, Family Allowance during probate of the Estate and many other intricate problems. Our officers are Specialists in Estate Management. IlifP li tie p IS III 111 mli ml I 111 Bishop Trust Company, Ltd. 924 Bethel St. Honolulu Telephone 6177 IIS mm mmm 'Bn',! PIPTFFM VFAR? FYPFRIFWPF IM CFTTI IKin AKJH MAMArtlrslf F?TATF9 fV Resume of Special Business Meeting of K. E. A. Dec. 9th To establish a department of pri mary education ns a branch of the Hawaii Education Association. Carried. To request legislature for appropri ations for speakers from mainland to conventions. Not carried. Paid executive secretary for tha H. E. A. Not carried. Board of Education to fix salary schedule and not legislature as at present. Not carried. It was recommended that principals report to supervising principal as to new buildings needed. To have on each Island a teachers' library of special texts on pedagogy. Books to be carried by local library. Carried. - Supplementary readers and equip ment for elementary and high srhools. To support request of department. Car ried. Local library to have charge of sup plementary books in the future if it be possible for the library to handle these books. Carried. Americanization; report of commit tee adopted. Will be published. Standards fof teachers' certificates. Further time given committer To submit report to delegates to Maui convention. Proposal that a superintendent of public instruction be selected and ap pointed by the commission board and not by the governor and senate as at present. Voted to make no changes in the present manner of appointment. Report of committee on industrial education to further the work, partic ularly In agriculture. Carried. Proposed legislation as to medical and dental supervision. Resolutions adopted at convention November 3rd to support request of board of health. To hold a school fair at Lihue (gram mar school buildings) Way 20th, 1923. Carried. Voted to appropriate $.10 for awards. Committee on publicity reported on manner and methods of work. One kindergarten for every 1000 pu pils enrolled six for Kauai. Carried. Supervisor of primary work on Ka uai. Not carried. Delegates elected to Maui conven tion of H. E. A.: Miss C. A. Thomp son, Makaweli; Miss M. Louise John son, Kapaa; Mrs. Charles Fern, Lihue; Miss P. Osborn, Koloa. Nominated us delegates to N. E. . A. convention at San Francisco, July, 1923: Miss B. E. L. Hundley, Mr..Dollinger, G. S. Raymond. Dr. Emerson Speaks at Teachers Meeting The Kauai Education Association held a special meeting at the Kauai high school last Saturday. It was ex tremely fortuiate that Dr. Emerson was on the Inland and kindly consent ed to speak at this meeting. He had a message for teachers in reRurtl to the general school problem of under nourished children. He spoke of con ditions in schools and came nearer to one of the vital problems of the classroom than has any other lectur er to teachers In Hawaii In many years. It Is really regretful that all local teachers did not hear Dr. Em erson who Is undoubtely the interna tional authority of child welfare. There has been for some timo con siderable argument concerning langu age schools und that attending them retards the pupils who also attend the public schools. The retardation of the children caused by malnutrition in Ha waii far exceeds that caused by at tendance at foreign language schools. In fact, we have in the islands a truly serious problem of over-worked and under-fed-children. They, in many cas es, will in later years, be a burden in public sanatoria to tax payers. This alone is sufficient reason why the public should be concerned.. Dr. Emerson's remarks anent the school not being humane enough is a cardinal point for every teacher daily to realize. Health of the school pupil is far more important than is scholas tic records. It seems improbable, thought, that all teachers will immed iately comprehend the importance of this fact. Perhaps it Is due to an over emphasis of subject matter and the insatiate desire to drive the child thru school. Then, too, parents are too of ten unduly ambitious to have the child promoted at any expense of good health. Finally, also, are the ever present conditions of poverty. Much of the so-called welfare work in the islands is only a tardy attempt to patch up social distress rather than ' seek and destroy the causes. Weigh ing and measuring children is worth while when the reasons for the lack of proper growth are discovered. To aid and help the child in normal de velopment Is the great need. Dr. Em erson knows the methods and It is hoped that he will Bhow many in Ha waii how to carry on his wonderful work. Give your friend a nice magazine for Christmas. Send your order to the K. C. Hopper News Agency, Li hue. Phone , 22 L Ad. the school agent by the teacher-to-be. After reading the petition the school agent put it aside. A few days later a teacher was appointed contrary to the wish of the parents. There was a howl and a demand was made why the petition was not granted. Committee after committee was sent to the agent. It took weeks and months before the parents for got about the doings of the school agent. It is a different thing today. The petition goes to the Board of Education direct and the teacher is appointed according to his efficiency. Hanapepe Chop Sui House and Bakery Chop Sui Served Daily Special Chop Sui Dinners Prepared to Order HONOLULU ICE CREAM IN TiAKEKY Mr. and Mrs. Ma Lum, Props. Telephone 2.W-W DTanapepe P. O. Rox 104 Waimea Stables, Ltd. AT WAIMEA and NAWIL1WILI The Most Famous Garages on Kauai. The place to get transportation to The Barking Sands, Olokele Canyon Waimea Canyon, Kokee Camps Kukuiolono Park, Wailua Falls Hanalei and Haena Caves Our automobiles are comfortable, our drivers are re liable and have been with us for many years, and know every Inch of the country. We Rent Ford Cars Without Drivers Ws run the stage I'ne between Lihue and Kekaha three round trips per week We do draylng and hauling by trucks all over the Island. A. GOMEZ. Mgr. WAIMEA BRANCH Tel. 43 W CLEM GOMES. Mgr. NAWILIW1LI BRANCH Tel. 492-L READ THE GARDEN ISLAND I II lkBhl hSU X I L. Ill Wfcs I I UN U V If M VVII ' V - '