The Hawaiian star. [volume], August 16, 1911, SECOND EDITION, Page FOUR, Image 4

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rilB) HAWAIIAN STAR, 'flDjflitDAT, AUGUST 1C, 1H
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THE HAWAIIAN STAR
Published overy afternoon (weoept Sunday) by tho Hawaiian Star
Newspaper Association, Ltd.. McCandlew Building, Bethel street, Honolulu.
EDITOR
"l6, 1911.
WALTER Q. SMITH
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
Uncle - Walt
The Poet Philosopher.
THE MOTT-SM1TII RECORD OK SWIFT PERFORMANCE.
The annual reiort of President Mott-Smith of the Hoard of Health
litis lieen received by the Governor and ought to afford him some data
with which to interest the people at Washington tuid the readers of the
mainland press. An idea may now prevail there that life ill the tropics
is slow. There may he capricious spirits at Washington and elsewhere
ivlir. UpIipvp tlmi in the warm countries, iconic wail for the morrow and
do not actiuire nrieklv-heat by undue celerity. Hut Mr. Mott-Sniith's,:
report is calculated to undo that false impression and show that here
in Hawaii is the one great focus of administrative speed, and so we
trust when the Governor makes his own report to the Secrelary of the
Interior, he will not fail to incorporate the remarkable showing of his
most valued subordinate. Mr. Mott-Smith. the modern Mercury, does
not ask the public to take him for granted, lie backs bis statement
nbout the work of sanitation here with full data, lie says that "in 1910.
the health department made 510.767 inspections in Honolulu alone.
This included the installation of 2381 sanitary fixtures, the abolition of
4256 insanitary fixtures. 15.720 rooms scrubbed. 26.472 minor nuisances
abated, 424 cesspools or vaults pumped, 35rt dug. 265 repaired, 284
abolished, 144 buildings connected with sewers 430J4 days special work,
besides a number of other matters, This work was done by six terri
torial and two citv inspectors under the efficient management of Mr.
Charlock, assisted by, F. H. Cook."
Much of this work, Mr. Mott-Smith tells us, is not of the show
kind and much of it has been necessary because of the laxity and easy
going characteristics of the public. Hut whatever may be true of the
people, there was no laxity among the employees of the'Board itself, as
analysis of Mr. Mott-Smi'th's figures about over half a million inspec
tions in one working year, will clearly show.
There are 313 working days in the year to say nothing of the
special holidays. These days arc eight hours in length and there are
eight sanitarv inspectors in all. Now if in 1910 there were 510.767
inspections, there must, have been in round numbers 1630 inspections
per day, which was 203 apiece, done at a rate of twenty-five inspections
an hour, or one inspection every two and a fraction minutes.
We suppose that this is the record of such inspection for the
United States or even the world. Honolulu is not a city of compact
blocks, most of the houses have yards around them, and it would take
a couple of minutes at least to find out what nuisances might obtain in
each one. But it appears from Mr. Mott-Smith's report, that the in
spectors managed at their rate of twenty-five inspections an hour, not
only to look thines over but to obtain the installation of 2381 sanitary
fixtures, to abolish 2456 insanitary fixtures and to observe the scrubbing
of 15,720 rooms. Aside from all this 26.42 minor nuisances were
abated: 424 vaults were pumped and 356 dug; 144 buildings were con
nected with sewers. All this counted in with the inspection suggested
an electric energy and a system of high power machinery in the sani
tary staff, which the world ought to know about.
The work of the mosquito inspectors was even more expeditious.
We do not know how large the force is for the report as published in
Hie morning paper does not say. At last official accounts it included
two men, a wagon and a mule. The President's review of the work-,
however, shows that "sufficient sanitarv progress has been hampered
by lack of men. power and appropriation." Nevertheless there were
more inspections by the mosquito staff than the whole force of the sani
tation department was able to make that is to say. 573,652, a rate per
man and per minute which must have kept the employees on a keen
run for eight hours every day without leaving them any time for meals.
Think of the intensity of this labor at a rate of inspection of consider
ably more than thirty cases an hour. The mosquito men compelled the
drainage of 1612 places of standing water, and oiled 1052 cesspools and
9722 vaults. They overturned more than 100,000 containers, distrib
uted mosquito fish in 1316 places, and used over 15.Q00 gallons of oil.
No such activity as this has occurred before in official circles anywhere
in the world since the building of the tower of Babel.
The summer's swiftly gliding by. it couldn't well be fleeter; and
soon we'll cease to curse the fly. anil howl at the moskectcr. A few
more busy, hustling weeks, and summer will be over !
THE FLIGHT The frost will sparkle on the leeks, the sandbars and
OF TIME the clover! The sun behind the wintry clouds will
sulk, its task forgetting; and we no more in wiltftl
crowds will tell' how hard we're sweating. And when the snow has
hid the flowers, which now the fields arc thronging, we'll talk of golden
summer hours with tears of idle longing. And that's the way we all
arc built ; our heads are made of leather ; in summer, when our collars
will, we long forvintry weather. And when the fires of winter burn,
when come the snow and blizzard, we wish that summer would return,
to thaw our frozen gizzard. I sometimes think that when wc leave this
world of sin and sorrow, where people sit around and grieve, and woe
and anguish borrow, we'll weary of the harp and crown and of the
snowy pinions, and seek a chance to amble down to these profane
dominions.
Copyright. 1910. oy Oeu. Martnew Ad&ma WALT MASON.
danger to the costly governments of kings and emperors of popular
uprisings for which socialism and anarchy arc preparing the way.
There is but one choice to make. Before lontr the buildim? of dread
noughts, the enlargement of armies and the manufacture of munitions
of war must as surely give way before the protest of the bondholders
as a private riot of profligacy would go down before the interfering
hand of the mortgagor.
Talk about a bunco 'game! Was there ever one to beat the scheme
of the health inspectors to make the keeper of the payroll believe they
had made over a half a million inspections in one year?
You can prove the enormous totals of work done by the sanitary
inspectors by the reports they spent so much time out of every day in
writing.
" Under The Coconut Tree"
By H. M. Ayres.
In the matter of revolutions Mexico may be trying to catch up to
her Central American neighbors.
The men once higher up in San Francisco may now come home
from Europe. The prosecutions have been dropped.
1 LITTLE INTERVIEWS
Why did the rosomnry? Becauso ol
tulips.
Tho screening onllnnnco lins boon a
mighty Rood thing for tho scroon
makers. Tho arrival ot thoso 1509 IndyblrdB
at Cinnni should bo quite an occasion
and wo wouldn't bo a bit surprised to
hear that tho governor had declared
a holiday in honor ot tho event.
W
Many n good thing Is got off In the
local police court We don't mean
"got off" in tho sonso of dismissal,
but perpetrated in the way of re
partee or bon mot. Judge Andrado
put o pretty witticism over occasion
ally, and his successor, Judge Monsur-
rat, Is beginning to cultlvnto a sense
of humor which gives promise of
something special in tho way of ju
dicial quip and quirk before many
more cases have been tried. They
must all take their hats off to Judge
Luther. Wilcox, however, for ho was
tho champion humorist of them all.
, On one occasion, along about 1900,
a man charged with disorderly con
duet was brought before Judgo Wil
cox. Ho had been arrested by a po
lice officer named Queen.
"What's your name?" asked the
court.
"Thomas King," was tho answer.
"Ah," said the magistrate, "a queen
captures a king."
"Yes, but it wasn't a straight deal,"
retorted King.
"Sure It was," interrupted Queen.
"This man is a four-fluoher."
"What's your business," asked the
court.
"I dig for a living," answered King.
TESTING BUSINESS METHODS.
"Mr. Einil Berndt makes the fertile suggestion that the supervisors
permit a test to be made of whether the business intrusted to them can
-be done more economically than it is now. Mr. Berndt would have
them all resign six months before the expiration of their term, the com
mercial bodies to compensate them for the loss of salary. The idea of
resignation is to enable the Governor to appoint a full board to serve
the last six months, making it up of the soundest business men of the
community. In this way the supervisors could cither make good before
the public by having it proved that they arc really carrying out their
work in a businesslike manner or they could ascertain from the example
of the new board where they arc lacking. In the meantime, as Mr.'
Berndt points out, they would have six mouths in which to do their
politics and make the most of any advantages they might gain from the
example set by the business men.
Such an arrangement would be most equitable, though we cannot
say that we expect the supervisors to support.it on that ground. But
We are very sure that the oublic, excepting those who live by politics,
..WWlli'i m l)i jnUQYatioi) witil deligm. .Aernaj)S it may miiuence the
supervisors to understand that even if the business bard make good
to the extent of our most sanguine hones, the result to thetli .would be
no worse than that which they are bringing upon themselves now. In
everything they undertake, they violate what the taxpayers call "busi
ness principles. Wc have shown that lately in the exposure of their
relations to the work of their supposed subordinate, Mr. Wilson. Their
idea of letting out short Belt Road contracts instead of a single one.
is also in point. They are bound to make themselves politically dead
by the course they are taking but, if they make room now for such a
board as the Governor would appoint, they would at least go out of
their political life with some credit for discretion and in time, perhaps,
outlive the public disrespect with which they are now officially held.
In a word, the majority of the supervisors would be better off out
than in.
M. T. SIMONTON Wo used to have
no mosquitoes In Knimuki. Now they
even get through the mosquito nets.
DAN LOGAN Strange, Isn't It, that
a man should go to a peace meeting
and get Into a light and land In the
hospital?
D. WM. DOUTHITT I hope to ar
range to bring Ferris Hariman and Ills
opera company liens for a season
the opera house.
DR. HUTCI1I SOX -There- are no
mosquitoes in Kaimuki when the wina
hopes to spend some lme here In the
future, studying fish of Hawaiian
vuters.
G. G. SCHWIZEIt Why don't the
onicials get husy on the matter ot
short-weight tinned goods brought
Inlo tho Territory? There is a
tremendous amount of such products
being packed especially for Hawaii
and other export trade which is very
at much below the supposed weight or
- measure. For Instance, 2.pound
dans, of fruit and meats generally
contain nearer two pounds. The worst
"So you aro tho king of spados, '
facotiously obsorved his honor,
"Yoa but boaton by a club," an
sworod King.
"Can you come norosa with $2?"
queried the Judge.
"A douce of a fine," spoko up King,
"but 111 seo you."
He handed over tho monoy and
Clerk Zablan roked in tho pot.
"I see a Joker's no good In this
game," remarked King as ho left tho
court.
"Scientists hnvo discovered that
lobsters can be hypnotized" (recent
(Continued on paga eight)
FIRE
is south, mat is because they come offenders are the meat packers. A
from Palolo and it takes a trade wind, five-pound can of lard will not weigh
to blow them our way. five pounds, can included. The stulf
A. LEWIS, Jr., Dr. Jordan is a is billed to mo by local dealers as
world's authority on ichthyology. He being of the usual Btandard weight.
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lie is alleged also to have made her
dependent upon the charity ot-relatlvos
for support, clothing and shelter. More
over, sho accuses her husband of hav
ing for eight months been holding
criminal relations! with one Louisa
Al;ui. They have four children rang
ing In age from fourteen years to
ttireo months, whose custody sho de
sires to have decreed to her..
In the police-court tills morning
Yamada charged with embezzlement
asr fined $50 and costs on one count
ond committed for trial on another.
Furuta, charged with leaving a dray
standing without proper lights was
fined $5 and costs.
Warawara Bclushkin, a Russian Qovernor Frear by yosterday.B
.woman charged with Belling liquor ma received a coy ot tho CanadIan
vithout a license, was sentenced to rccil)rocIty bni, recentiy enacted into
Jail for thirty days. law by the congress, conditionally
Naihe Kikaha and W. Kapele, drunk, unoll the passago of a similar bill by
J were fined ?3 and costs. tho Canadian Rovernmont.
Tliis morning J. Ploper was arrested
foi assault and battery on his wife, '
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and an unidentified purson was jugged
for a Jag.
CRUELTY AND CRIME
ALLEGED OF
FINANCE AGAINST WAR.
HUSBAND, i
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Meieapa Juiuieloa brings a uivorco
suit to free herself from what the libel
represents as most cruel marital thral
dom to Albert Kaloeloa. She charges
him with striking and beating her, al
leging that his acts of ill treatment
havo been continuous and constant.
The most impressive part of Dr. Jordan's address last night was
its reference to the monetary cost of war. The argument that war
kills off the best men of the nation, is a more familiar one and might
have been illustrated if the speaker had wished, by the statistics of the
physical decay of tlie I'rench nation since the tune of Napoleon. But
Dr. Jordan's argument about the, influence of the invisible empire of
finance upon future wars seemed fresh and new to the audience, and
sent it home in a mood of conviction.
The debt of Europe cannot be paid. There is neither money enough
or credit enough, and the bonds of all but the small nations show a
sinking tendency. Headed by the house of Rothschild about seventeen
firms own this enormous debt and to them the nations of Europe are
paying interest. They cannot pay a great deal more; the time is not
far away when their bankers will refuse to supply the money for them
to destroy parts of the collateral security upon which the loans are
based, and deprive the nations of their best workers in the field and
factories. Indeed Europe is becoming debtor to a small group of men.
These men must be consulted whenever a war is proposed, and the ease
with which the great war scares pass shows that the masters of the in
visible empire have been exercising their veto power upon the preju
dices and the ambitions of kings and emperors.
Here, as Ur. Ionian points out, is the surest guarantee of the
, world's peace. The issue lies between quiet and undisturbed industry
Band bankruptcy or repudiation. The formor means some centuries o'f
pence, and a sjop to war expenditure. Bankruptcy would mean the
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