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TUB IIAWAIIAN STAB, FRIDAY, JUNE 9 19111
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THE HAWAIIAN STAR
Published every afternoon (except Sunday) by the Hawaiian Star
Newspaper Association, Ltd., McCandloss Building, Bethel street, Honolulu.
WALTER Q. SMITH EDITOR
FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1911.
BEAUTY AND
If the civic center idea .rests upon considerations of beauty it should
be worked out at Union Square by the use of but one or two decora
tive buildings and ample parkage say a city hall conforming to the
surrounding public structures and the proposed Carnegie library, with
all the arboreal adjuncts there is room to set about. Beauty wbuld as
suredly result. But we cannot think of anything uglier to be had for
much money, than massed architecture on the little square, leaving
scanty room for grass and trees, especially if one of the buildings should
have the warehouse lines common to Federal structures outside of
Washington. Nor would it help to extend such public edifices to sites
bordering on the narrow highways that enter Union Square. A really
beautiful civic center in Honolulu docs not call for all the public struc
tures we may need ; crowding it would utterly defeat the ends in view.
If a civic center means or is to serve utility, then the one we have
is no place for a structure covering the postoffice and the custom house.
The most convenient corner for many years to come to people having
postoffice or customs business, is that at Fort and King. The street
railroad system is adapted to that junction as it is not to the civic cen
ter. Cars run there from every part of the town Kalihi. Palama, the
upper Liliha street district, the waterfront, the Nuuanu Valley, Puna
hou, Makiki, the plains, Waikiki, Kaimuki, Punchbowl. Except from
College Hills no transfers are needed. The whole service is convenient
to the business center, while only one branch of it goes through Union
Square.
But what about the future? We must build for that. Towns grow
to cities and business centers change. But civic history shows that the
centers arc never flighty about changing and that when they make radi
cal moves the public buildings they leave are generally out of date, so
that appropriations are practicable fcr' new ones on sites proportioned
to a bigger town. Then, again, a business cjcnter which includes one
of only two wide thoroughfares in town is not easily disturbed. It has
the qualities that keep it useful. Grow as Honolulu may towards Koko
Head, King and Fort streets may no more be put out of the question
for business than the junction of Kearney, Geary and Market streets
in San Francisco has been by the extension of the city residence dis
trict to the sea.
So the Mahuka site is safe enough on the score of utility, and the
building designed for it would harm rather than enhance the charm of
the civic center if it were to be put there. By all means build city
hall and library on the civic center site; get thc opera house to one side
among the trees-if you can and ornament it, but for art's sake let the
severe lines of the postoffice and custom house be kept in the business
district where it would harmonize with other construction as well as
best serve public convenience.
THE RECLAMATION PROBLEM.
General Macomb's idea that the swamp and tidelands along the
Ala Moana road should be reclaimed and turned into a park suitable
for drill purposes, gives Hawaii something to work for at Washington.
The main objects being military, sanitation included, the burden of
expense should fall on Congress. Indeed, the Star has frequently said
that the filling of the swamps between King street and the sea, consid
ered as a hygienic measure to protect the Federal garrison, would be
as proper a charge against the United States as were the sanitary pro
jects which General Macoiiib speaks of as having been successfully
undertaken by the army elsewhere. For Hawaii or Honolulu to assume
the task alone would be tod great a burden, especially since the major
revenues enjoyed by the old government .from customs, postal and in
ternal revenues have been absorbed by the United States.
The United States needs a big drillground near the waterfront
barracks where so large a force is to be housed, and we know' of no
better one than that, suggested by 'General Macomb. Where, indeed,
could any other be found? Where is there a level tract in or near town,
unless it be the Moanalua polo fields, or the greater portion of Kapio
lani Park which is not used for residence purposes? To take either
would not be thought practicable. Far better for drill and sanitation
would it be to start the reclamation of the great marshes and do it in
the way proposed.
If the land is Territdrial public domain, as we understand, the
United States could easily get told of it and welcome. What would
be left could, in course of time, be reclaimed by a union of public and
private enterprise. Its growing value for building sites, especially if
swamp agriculture were legislated against as a public nuisance, would
imnel commercial reclamation on a large scale, such as P. M. Pond has
Intelv started makai of Kalakaua avenue on a small one. We shall get
qut of the whole trouble in due time
'reduce the acreage item of the local
HAWAIIANS FOR
While one cannot say what the Hawaiian, who never- fought for
his own government on occasion, would do in the army under orders
to fight for the government of the lUnite'd States, those who know him
best do not doubt that he might be of some value as a home scout in
case an enemy got lodgement in the high ranges. He knows the trails
"and by-ways and can see as far as anybody. As a bearer of information
in war times to headquarters in the rear, he would be a wonder. But
however the question of eact efficiency Tnight work out from the view
point of the army, there could be. no()doubt of the value of the army
service to the Hawaiian himself. He needs it. The young native is
now growing up with A.aste fOr'leis and guitars and a fond hope qf
living off the taxpayers in some; political way. He is not learning a
trade or taking to; commerce and ha$v been completely outdistanced by
his Chinese and Tapanese competitors, In fact, he is, pretty nearly necr-
ligible in all the better pursuits of life, even those in which his fore
bears once made the best showing. For him, therefore, three- years in
the army would be a godsend. The youth would learn discipline, he
would get regular exercise, he would' have the virtues of sobriety and
obedience drummed into him, he would be taught self-reliance, learn
to practice self-denial, and he would have nb time left to cultivate the
lazy-bug. By the assidous attentions of a drill sergeant, the native
youth of these islands might one day line up with the Portuguese in
industry and not be a bad third in
from Cathay. He really ought to
eral Macomb.
The Democrats haven't fixed
shown what they would do if they
If China should send a squadron to enforce her indemnity claim
what could unfortified Mexico do
The Reyes movement in Mexico,
klUI US UUJVIAIVC.
n a it. r. ,ii 1 :..
ic muse uwe lime Jumna in
yon account of rats?
Stowaway vigilance on the steamships'.'Would keep the opiumgput
1 lie Ala Moana park would snow up better than any other m tc
The Dick v Ferris republic hasn't
UTILITY.
if Congress will make a start and
problem.
SCOUT DUTY.
other civic virtues to the denizens
try it on the plan suggested by Uen
any wool tariff,
could. '
They have simply
about it?
would probably have the. treasury
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wic ;iwui.u yum jjuuiy ij jjiu nit
ivn
sold any bonds yet:
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Uncle Wait
The Poet Philosopher
Another hope got out of place when lyuifFman mixed things up
with Flynn. The latter smote pale Albert's face and tried his best to
break it in. Another hope is busted flat, that buoyed
ANOTHER our spirits up a While, and Johnsing loafs and waxes
HOPE GONE fat, and -wears a wide, seraphic smile 1 Dark days,
that chill the soul and mind, have fallen on the white
man's camp; we dig up hopes and then we find they cannot lick a
postage stamp. But let us not search through the streets for joints in
which our hopes to pawn; for history this fact repeats: The darkest
hour's before the dawn, i doubt not that some quiet vale is holding, as
we go to press, some mail who'll make the world grow pale(and cause
dark Ethiope distress. Perchance' some elocution school is training up
some youttli of might who'll make L'il A'thuh seem a fool, and bring
the laurel to the white. 1
Copyright, 1910, oy Geo. MottUew Adam. WALT MASON.
LITTLE INTERVIEWS
C. BAIlttON The real marathon a
cross-country race? Not at all. The
real marathon is the box office re
ceipts. CHARLEY WILSON Those fig
ures comparing the cost of- work on
Fort street and on Bethel street are
wrong as far as the county work Is
concerned.
U. -S. ATTORNEY DRECKONS
Yes, I have sent the local press re
ports and comments on the rise in
lumber prices hero to the Depart
ment of Justice.
E. L. MARSHALL My chickens
are all suffering from tiny worms in
the eyes and are dying off fast, I can
(Continued from page one.)'
of military considerations. The people
In control demand that there must bo
in Hawaii a mutual population. it
would be regarded as poor economy
to build up vast military fortifications
here and at the same time develop a
population of people who are passive
C not hostile to American Interests,
nd who, in case of war, would be
come a dead weight upon the nation.
Laborers Can Leave Here.
Another fact that wo may as well
face ,1s that we cannot expect to con
trol the movement of immigrants, from
Hawaii to tho Coast. The Supreme
Court practically decided that.. Con
gress cannot limit the free movement
of residents from one portion d'f" Uni
ted States territory to another. 'Such'
movement is at the present time be
ing prevented. But as soon as any
one cares to pu the matter to the
test it will be found that all such ef
forts are unconstitutional.
Sentiment Against Immigration.
A number of elements enter into
the growing sentiment In the S.tates
against Immigration, One of the most
otent Is the factor of organized labor,
which has more to say than It ever
had in the matter of national legisla
tion, not only (because lit Is more
powerful but because It is much move
intelligently represented in Washing
ton than ever before. Tho word of
these great labor organizations goes
much farther than tho general public
realizes.
Another potent influence which Is
more than ever affecting .immigration
legislation is ths larger attention given
to the subject by our leading students
of sociology. Largely through the- In
fluence of this class of people, our.
country Is paying more and more at
tention to the matter of a better dis
tribution of immigrants upon their ar
rival in America.
There is a growing opposition
against the bringing in of foreigners,
both in the Southland, where the col
ored race resents being misplaced by
people from Southern Europe on the
great plantations, and in .the West, be
cause the present-day immigrants are
no longer of kindred blood to those
who came to America earlier and make
up very largely the tenant farmers of
tha West.
As a result of all these influences
various restrictive measures are being
formulated. Some would requiro a lit
eracy test, others have proposed shut
ting out all slngb men immigrants.
The most radical bill presented before
tho present Congress demands that
overy immigrant must bo registered.
Europe Stopping Exodus.
At tho same time that there Is this
growing opposition to Immigration in
the homeland, tho European countries
from which the bulk of immigrants to
America have beeri coming are one
after the other passing laws to check
immigration. Italy now requires that
all assisted emigrants must bo re
turned at the expense of the company
soliciting If tho contracts are not car
ried out with tho laborers as agreed.
Hungary prohibits all assisted immi
gration, whlo Spain absolutely vo-
SOME
EW FACTS
do nothing to check the disease.
PRESIDENT MO'fT-SMITH Or
ders to abate nuisances are not issued
for fun and those who fall to comply
With them won't And the result of
their failure a bit funny. ThlB is a
serious matter and should be so
treated.
WM. S. FLEMING Things are not
booming In Shanghai Just now; in
fact they are quiet, and I think they
will be for some time, as the city has
not yet recovered from the disastrous
end of the rubber boom. Honolulu
knows no heat like a Shanghai sum
mer. I am glad I am missing this
one.
hiblts all solicitation for immigrants.
The Spaniards which have in recent
years como to Hawaii were secured in
Gibraltar. Portugal as yet has tmsse'd
no restrictive laws, but at the time of I
tn3 departure or the "Orterlc" re
i danqrtur. nf tha "n.ntn" -
cently, the Lisbon papers were quite
i insistent that some such legislation
should be passed.
Brighter Prospects.
All that has been said thus far em
phaslzes the difficulties which we here
in Hawaii face as we think of secur
ing desirable immigrants. There are,
on he other hand, some brighter pros
pects ahead. With the opening of the
Panama Canal there undoubtedly will
be put on direct lines of steamers irom
Southern Europe to the Pacific Coast
of the United States, which will mean
a large inflow of Immigrants into the
Pacific' Coasjt country. It should be
comparatively easy then to divert to
Hawaii a part of these immigrants.
It does not necessarily follow that
in order to secure Its share of this
movement of European immigration
that Hawaii will necessarily have to
pay as high wages as the Coast states,
for there are other factors that enter
into the procuring and holding ot
labor which are quite as potent as tho
factor of wages. The assurance of
p-rmanent employment and of the pos
sibility of having comfortable homes
is quite as potent In securing a hold
ing to the laboring class.
Attach People to the Soil.
There Is one policy which Hawaii
would do well to put in force at once
and which would do more perhaps
than anything else, to hold tho p?ople
here whom wo do succeed in getting
to come. It is perhaps not generally
known, but at tho .present, out of every
1000 Immigrants brought In, 700 event
ually drift away to tha Coast and else
where. The policy referred to is that
;of attaching tho people to the soil by
a method of homesteadlng In which
each family or a group of families-may
cultivate a tract of land and dispose
of the product to the larger corpora
tion who will market it for them. A
system might even be developed by
which sugar cane could be more
largoly prqduced In this way. Such
an arrangement would not only give
a more settled citizen class of people,
but would become one of tho strongest
Inducements to securo tho Tight kind
of immigrants to como here.
Races Harmonize.
One other change is taking placo in
Hawaii which makes the outlook more
hopeful. The longer that tho races
which are now here remain, tho less
marked will be the element of rspul
sion which is always tho fundamental
difficulty In Introducing new peoplo
Into any territory. As the different
European nationalities become repr
sented in our population and learn' to
live peaceably and happily with tho
other races here, It will become moro
and moro easy to induce others of
these same nationalities to come,
Col. Jones, of the National Guard,
has taken up tho suggestion put for
ward by Goneral Macomb yesterday
that a corps of Hawallau scouts be
formed. He will correspond wi'h
Washington regarding the chancj for
enlisting at least a company of Ha
wailan Scouts for orvlco within the
Territory of Hawaii,
TEACHERS
ARE PLACED
The following list gives th0 ap
pointments of teachers for the
Island of Maui made by tho Board
of Public Instruction, with numbers
of pupilsln tho schools:
Olawalu, SO pupils Mrs. Willie K.
Hoopil, Mr. Frank Hoopll.
Lahaina, 225 pupils Mrs. Nora
Gannon, Mrs. Isabel Durnham, Mm.
Lucy Furtado, Miss Adeline Hoss,
Miss Georgia Field, Miss Tsulan
Choy, Miss Emma Goo, Mrs. Marv
A. Lee, Miss Sarah White.
Honokowai, 85 pupils Mrs. Row
ena K. Hose, Mr. Hose.
Honokahau, 25 pupils Mr. Ernest
G. Cockett.
Kahakuloa, 29 pupils Air. Benja.
mln Brlghtwcll.
Lanla Kal, Mr. Alfred Mai.
Lanla Ukl Miss Amelia K. Gay.
Walhee, 1G5 pupils Mrs. Ella L.
Austin, Mr. John Brown, Miss Achov
Ahu, Miss Hattlo Marie.
Walluku, 261 pupils Miss L.
Crickard, Mrs. Kate McKay, Miss C.
E. Short. Miss Carolyn Scholtz. Miss
Hannah Cummlngs, Miss Eleanor K.
Wilcox, Mr. Manuel V. Ferrelra.
Walkapu, 41 pupils Miss Zello
Rogers.
Kahulul, GO pupils Mr. Moses
Kauhimahu.
Puunene, 133 pupils Miss Wyman,
Miss M. C. Luiz, Miss Nora Stewart.
Miss Lizle Kallno.
Spreckelsvllle, 170 pupils Mrs.
Laura Sahey, Mrs. A. V. Crockett.
Mrs. M. Medoiras, Miss G. Sahey.
Makena, 26 pupils Mr. O. HenniJ.
Ulupalaku, 31 pupils Mr. R. L.
Oglvle.
1 Klhel, 60 pupils Mr. J. P. Cock
ett, Mrs. J. P. Cockett.
Keahua, 45 pupils Mrs. M. Simp
son.
Paia, 222 pupils Mr. W. C. Crook,
'TIT A ntnAK IT! TT 1 ti.ji
... j. mjiti, jmxbu nuruim ruiier-.
son, Miss Emma Barnard, Miss Mary
Mitchell, Mr. M. J. Anjo.
Hamakuapapo, 149 ' pupils Miss
Mary Fleming, Mr. Walter E. Cooper.
Miss C. DeLlma, Miss Virginia Hau
nested. Haiku Mr. T. R. Hlnkley.
Keokea, 161 pupils Mr. D. Kapo
hakimohowa, Mrs. D. Kapohaklmo
hewa, Mr. Manuel Cravalho, Miss L.
Burns.
Kealahau Mr.' J. Vincent, Mrs. J.
Vincent, Miss Ellen Copp. t
Makawao, 129 pupils Mr. F. W.
Hardy, Miss Rose E. Crok, Miss Mao
Alana, Miss E:. Tam Yan.
Kaupakahla, 102 pupils Mr. W. I.
Wells, Mr. A. S. Medelras, Rose Tam
Yan.
Huelo, 37 pupils Mr. Edward J.
Smith.
Halehaku, 53 pupils Miss Rachael
Kiakona.
- Keanae, 83 pupils Mr. Sam Ka
walaea, Mrs. Wm. Keawe.
Nahlku, 24 pupils Mr. James 8.
Achong.
Hana, 131 pupils Mrs. Louisa C.
Fraln, Miss Augusta WIttrock, Miss
K. Case, Miss Edith Turner.
Hau, 60 pulpls Mr. John Medelras.
Mrs. J. Medelras.
K)pahu!u, 100 pupils Mrs. W. W.
Taylor.
Kuupo, 85 pupils Mrs. L. A. Mar
clel. Kalae, 19 pupils Mrs. Berger.
Kaunakakai. 24 Dupils Mr. David
Kaal.
Kauluaaha, 34 pupils Mrs. Wm.
Anahu.
T'-ivnr.Jo. 20 p'.irl's Mrs. Lucy Du-
''..:. 3 pupils Mr. Abel
llalawa, SS pupils Mr. David Ka-
laau.
Wallau, 10 pupils Mr. L. K. Kaa-
louahl.
Pelekunu, 10 pupils Mrs. Nellie
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LOCAL AUTHORS
COMPOSERS
Tho Literary Circle of tho Kilohana
Art League has arranged a highly in
teresting, program under the -title of
"At Home; .Lpcal Authors" hifd jCoin
posers" for next Thursday evening.
Th0 program la as follows:
1. MUSIC .
Hawaii's' Child
Words by Mr. Philip Dodge.
Music by Mrs. A. B. Tucker.
(a) Lullaby
(b) Play Song
Words and Music by Edith Eldridgo
Poun.
(a) The Mango Tree
(b) Tho Taro
(c) The Dragon Fly
(d) The Papaia
(e) Cocoanuts
IWflrds and Musjc by Mrs. A. Bi
Tucker.
Sung by students froni tho Normal
School. Accompanist, Miss
Margaret Cooke.
2. VIOLIN SOLOS
(a) Air for the O String
(b) A melody
Composed by Mrs. A. B. Ingalls. .
3. WORD PICTURES
(a) In Hawaii
(b)
(c)
(a)
(b)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(a)
Evolution ,
A Valentine to ?
Mary DilllnEham Frear.
A Vision
O Surf Rider
Ethelinda S. Castle. f
Old Times and Now
Twilight by the Sea '
The Fleets
' Anna M. Paris. j
My Love and I t .
(b) Sunset from Haleakala
(c) Waikiki
(d) The Law of Life
Anna B. Tucker.
Interpreted by Miss Mac Dougal.
4. MUSIC
la) The Land Shells
(b) I Saw th Sunbeams Drinking
(c) Time
Mary Dillingham Frear.
Sung by Mrs. Itanney Scott. Accom
panist, Mrs. D. Howard Hitchcock.
5 ORIGINAL MONOLOGUES
By Miss Frances Dillingham.
6. SELECTIONS From "Betty" or
"The Maid of the Mariner" opera
in Three Acts. By Edgar A. P.
Newcomb.
(a) The North Stai-Solo Act III
Mrs. Bruce McV. Mackall.
(b) Aubade Solo Act 11
Mr'. Arthur Wall. Accompanist, Mrs.
D. Howard Hitchcock.'
(c) Sextette Act II '" ' "
Miss Edith Roslin Coilais.
Mrs. Chas. S. Weight.
Mrs. Chester J. Hunn,
Mr. Arthur Wall,
Mr. Geo. A. Brown.
Mr. Chester Livingston.
Under the direction of Mr. A. B.
Incalls.
JUST WHAT ITS NAME IMPLIES.
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy is all that its name
implies. There has never been a caso
reported of cramp colic, cholera mor
bus or dysentery where this remedy
was used that it did not give prompt
relief. It Is as good for the child as.
for the adult and all danger from chol
era infantum will be avoided if this
medicine is .promptly administered.
Tor sale by all dealers, Benson, Smith
& Co., agents for Hawaii.
Malina.
Kalaupapa, 7 pupils Mr. A. J.
Kauhalhao. ,
Lahalnaluna, 113 pupils Mr. C. A.
MacDonald, Mrs. Margaret MacDon
ald, Mr. Harlan Roberts, Mr. J. A.
Wilson, Mr. Bowman, Mr, Samuel
Mooklni, Mr. Abel Kauhaifiao, Re7.
Samupel Kapu, William Makaena.
Trent Trust Co., m;
HOUSES FOR .RENT.
Furnished.
Walkane, 3, B. R $ 30.00
Peninsula, 4, B. R 100.00
Cor. Wilder and Maklkl
Sts. 2, B. R 25.00
Palolo Rd, 2 B. R 25.00
Nuuanu Street G B. R. . 75.00
H'asslnger St. 3 B. R.... 75.00
Young St. 2 B. R...'... 50,00
Young St. 3 B. R 35. 00
Unfurnished.
Aiea, 3 B. R E0.00
Kam. IV Rd. 3 B. R. . . , 25.00
Waiplo, 3 B. R 12.OO
Wahlawa, 2 B. R 30.00
Pac. Heights Rd. 2 B. R 22.00
Lunalllo St. 2 B. R 18.00
Lunalllo St. 2 B. R. ... 30.00
Wilder Ave. 4 B. R 35.00
Boretanln St. 3 B. R.... 20.00
Thurston Ave. 2 R. B. , . . 37. 50
Liliha St. 2 B. R 18.00
Karatti Lane, 4 B. R. . 35.00
Palolo Rd. 2 B. R 18.00
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