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THE HAWAIIAN STAR, KRIDA'Y, NOVl&MiBItR 10 ,1011.
THE HAWAIIAN STAR!
Published eeiy afternoon (except
Newspaper Association, Ltd., McCandlesa
'WilTCn fi SMITH
FRIDAY
STRAINING
If the banana stalk produced all the mosquitoes we have in town
lltere would, not be any mosquito curse here. A mosquito would then
be a rarity, a curio, just as it is in the Panama zone, where bananas
are let alone.
We get our plague of mosquitoes from swampy places maintained
for agriculture within city 'limits, from unscreened cesspools and unoiled
Slorm-sewer openings, from water left carelessly around or gathered in
tin cans like those which, for two weeks, have been exhibited in a
sunken yard on Hotel street next to M. Ohta's mill. What mosquitoes
VC get from bananas could not survive the attending dragon ilies.
Swamp agriculture away up the valleys is a source of great sup
ply. Professor Brigham shows that the insects arc borne from there
On the wind into the city proper. Canefields swarm witli mosquitoes.
Overgrown ditches like one partly and fragrantly opened up on the
Palolo road a day or two ago. also furnish them. Of all the known
sources of mosquito life the banana stalk seems to be the least
important.
If this crusade were against the real evils the Star would lie ex
ceedingly glad of it. We have not said a word against the gutter
destroying policy. We believe in it. If the scheme was to get rid of
the gutters, not only, but to screen every cesspool, the Star would stand
'in, But our renovators "strain at a banana and swallow a cesspool."
If the owners of swamps were compelled to fill them up, the public
satisfaction over it would be shared by this journal. But to put all the
energies of official Honolulu and some of those of the military into
the destruction of bananas, practically doing nothing against the great
breeding farms depriving poor people of almost the only food that
-keens their children from actual .hunger all this strikes the Star as a
"most inexcusable misuse of power.
j large imrt ot tne intelligent iaw-aitiung population.
h THE FEDERAL DOCTORS.
Pl "Was not tho yellow fovor at all," says an afternoon paper In big ,
i - black type yesterday, giving the llo direct to the federal doctors hero,
s the doctors whom it has been advocating for months in the most ng-
1 . grcssivo iimiiiiur us uiu unus iu uine iuu i;uuifcc ui iuwm ,iun..
ami sanitary conditions. Advertiser.
The Advertiser is aware that the headline referred to the finding
'. of the Yokohama port physicians and, as such, was an accurate state
IlllUll Ul lllf lilLl. 11 IS UlSU UWlll UUll IIIU OUli 3 M It, VI ivw i,-m -I tunui
control of Hawaiian .sanitation, which continues, is a matter of eco
nomics and non-partisan service and not a matter of diagnosis. This
journal, with its acute memory of the time when Federal Doctor Car
illichacl diagnosed a-case of smallpox as chickenpox and sent it to the
Queen's Hospital, has abstained from urging Federal control on the
ground that a doctor in uniform is wiser and more experienced in his
profession than a doctor in plain clothes. Our plea has quite another
basis.
The Federal government could save this Territory $300,000 a year
on the average, if it had control of Hawaiian sanitation and it would
not let politics interfere with its work. Therefore, it would be a better
System than we have. 1 his states the
it, and the conclusion is not affected
1 1 it? t ii il it 1 1 m 1 1 lit. v iidVL' uiiiuir in li m.
rertiser misrepresentation.
BACK FROM
It will be like old times to sec Bishop Willis again for he is coming
here to the Angelican Church jubilee. For a long period he was one of
Honolulu's most eccentric men, coinliative and unyielding to the last
UCgrce and at the same time one of its most scholarly and devoted shep
herds. Differences aroc between him and the Anglican body which
led to its leaving his services and holding its own after he bad occupied
the morning hour at the Cathedral. There were rarely any white people
to hear him. The white congregation waited for the Bishop to get
through and go. after which it thronged into the Cathedral to worship
under Rector Mackintosh. But the old churchman held his ground un
falteringly for half an average lifetime and. but for annexation, might
have been standing fast yet. Bishop Willis fought annexation as (lid
few royalist politicians, but lie was fighting the stars in their courses
and had to go at last. From here he went to Tonga where he has been
a working bishop ever since, an idol of the natives who had not become
Wesleyans.
"Alfred Honolulu," as he was wont to sign himself, will find things
V.flllvV V-l Itll I jV l 111 llir Will 1 111 ll Willi." 111, 114.111 CU'VUb , v J I 1 1 1 l.
ing the cathedral and largly extending the Episcopal work have come
,to pass under his successor. Bishop Rcstarick. The city, like the church,
lias had a new birth of material blessings. He will find that annexation
lias done for Honolulu all that its proponents said it would. As an
early-Victorian by nature he may not altogether enjoy the changes, but
he will find that his old foes carry no animosity and respect him for the
Staunch old Bishop-militant he was.
Heresy has arisen in the Mormon church. Three professors of
Brigham Yount' L'niversitv at Provo, which is the stroimhold of Mor-
mon theology, have declared that
from the Book of Mormon ; that
4 regarding the revelation-, ot rrophet Joseph bmith, including his
alleged discovery of the golden plates on which the book was written,
and that the Mormon church should lose no time in facinsi about in cer-
',iaiii tteiinuc nanicuiars. .-m coiner
accept, they reject the story of Jonah and the whale. It is sunnosed
iiuai iiiL-ic win ue vuumacie mine
The Advertiser could not hide
minimize the ukohama cablegram,
"V ' IV -'' ivuuum iv nun
w i j iiiiuiMtvvu vi luvi.nii
PpaVe its face and justify its pet banana crusade. A real epidemic of
pyellow fever might fill it with unholy glee.
KL. Ti 1 ..t .'
" " " 1 I V ' " .. iiiv (.illl Ul HIV liu-
Jonic plague. There is a no more scientific corps of physicians and sur
geons than the modern medical men of the Japanese empire. The most
Nagasaki, Hakodate and Kobe are
iurfMifi r i Tiir miir nrnivn iiiimi iu :iw
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2Some dreadful dav it will wake un
Ihiimn'ttrie have been concealijicr iiiosimilocs in their nnrps
It is to he hoped that the curator of the Bishop museum will tret
m hi of one of those lanana-born niosmtitocs and stuff it.
J t - - - - -
1'Tapnily we stopped 'cm from
Sunday) by Tho Hawaiian Star1
Building, Bethel Street, Honolulu.1
EDITOR
NOVEMBER 10, 19' 1
AT THE BANANA.
And that is the way it strikes a very
case as the .star lias always stated
by any blunder which the quaran-
liuut: imjiil: iuu it ctinwo ui u v i
THE PAST.
the foundations of the faith are no
doubt might properly he entertained
into t nc Lib e. w nc l , ornions also
soon in ine 1 rovo iacillcv.
its chairrin this mornine lest tl
just as those who trot it tried to
liu li.-IV. 1 k)L(Ll r nillllllliLl V Ul
iu .ipoji, will llWlllll UIWL: WUlllL'Jll-
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experts. To sneer at the com-
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without a net and find tlmt tlmsf.
- - - - - - ' - .... VIMMIMVU 1WL
cutting doyn all the trees to tret rid
Uncle Walt
The Poet Philosopher
For years I talked, day out, day in,, of tiiumphs that I planned to
win. 1 hung about the market place and pour.( through my elastic face
i Hood of visionary
TALKING
AND DOING
house dreams. I d win distinction as a cook ; J d
write an epoch making book, I'd twang a lyre in no
ble r.-me: I'd iro and elevate the statre. A hundred
schemes did 1 invent, and now 1 sit, without a cent, as gloomy as an
itchy owl, while wolves around my doorway howl. And friends of mine
who talked much less have hewn a pathwaj to success; I see them in
their motor cars, with fuzzy hats and real cigars. Their wives are wear
ing gems and furs, while mine is wearing cockleburs. Too late 1 see
where 1 was wrong; when I was young and brisk and strong, I should
have had for work desire dreams arc for old men by the lire.
CopyrlKht, 1910. Dy Oeo. Marttiew Adama. WALT MASON.
1 1 1 . '
No;iiew fever easel If you find one notify the Advertiser at once
and cheer it up.
Has anybody found the larvae of the daylight mosquito in banana
stalks ? '
'Tile "opposition petered out" In
Fullaway hasn't found any yet.
1 LITTLE INTERVIEWS 1
ru
JUDGE HATCH The East Is re
covering from Its Insurgent fever.
Tho coast has caught It badly.
CHARLES STANTON A day mos
quito would be as lonesome at Kal
mukl as I would at a sewing bee.
A. H. FORD There will be another
club started soon, and it may bo
called tho Stars Around the World
Club.
L. M. W1I1TBHOUSE No Hoard
of Health Inspector Is cutting down
nny banana treo on my premises. I
haven't any bananas.
COLLECTOR COTTRILL I had a
flno lot of bananas coming along last
week, but now well, it does not nut
tor; let it go nt that.
E. D. TENNEY Every Chamber of
Commerce in the country, from New
York down, is in favor of free canal
tolls ,for American ships.
DR. CURRIE I am sorry to leave
Hawaii, where I have made many
friends. However, after 11 vo years
without a trip away, a man appre
ciates a change.
FRED W. MACKARLANK Mosqui
toes wcro thick at Waikiki last night.
They, we're probably compelled to
seek shelter in tho houses since tho
banana trees were cut down.
E. M. CHEATHAM I cannot act as
a volunteer health Inspector for tho
Central Improvement Committee in
tho yellow fever campaign there is
no emorcencv renuirinc snmo. ,
HARRY 11. CHILTON In my work
in connection with the telephone
Vnilinn,v I lini'n in nllml, mnnr rtnr.n i
nut trees, and I very frequently find
pools of water at the base of the
branches full of wrigglers.
JOHN A. McCANDLESS I have
junt 'been down to Oahu plantation
and I wish to say that r commend
the Eva road overseer's work. Ho
has iliado one of the best little pieces
of road I havo seen in a long while.
WM. R. CASTLE Under that words, they are straining at a mos
Board of Health regulation you aro qulto and swallowing an open cess
liable If you havo a glass of water pool. Tho people won't stand for the
standing on your table. "Any recep-1 ruthles destruction of their prop
taclo containing water in which mos- j erty much longer. Already there Is
qulto larvae aro Hablo to breed," Is talk of organized Veslstance and a
the part I refer to. mass meeting to consider the matter
LINK McCANDLESS Tho blame may shortly be called.
nnnnnr i r-i r-i r-i rri r-3 r-i crrl ri r-ri
"Under The
By H.
They can't cut this cocoanut tree
down, anyway.
Tho picture of tho S. S. Hongkong
Marti a pest ship wallowing unman
ned In the trough of the blue. Pacific
was, a trillo overdrawn to say tho
least,
It's a matter for congratulation
among readers that this .column
wasij't culled "Under the Hanaiia
Tree."
Wu .Ting appears to havo got his
fang In another good job.
Supposing all this had happoned a
year from now!, .. ....
0
Thoro's stich a thing as a fellow
being too much of a good thing. ,
"
A
Rose by any other namo would j
kick as hard
Somo thero bo who appear to con
sider that they havo a right to. call
tholr souls tholr own. They certainly
wouldn't bo allowed to do so 'ns things
aro at present in Honolulu If tholr
souls wero thought to harbor niosqul
toes. What a magnificent and enlightened
schemes and futile plans and bug
the form of an injunction.
for the scare shouldn't rest on Ahu
poko, but on the federal authorities
who permitted him to leave tho S. S.
Hongkong Mnru. They aro vastly
more to blame than the poor lln
.wallan, because they knew.
JUDGE MONSaURAT It seemed
ridiculous to me that a guard should
bo allowed aboard a fever ship.
Where quarantine is carried out un-1
der the supervision of Ilrltish author-,
Itles tho guards aro stationed on a
guard boat. If, for any reason what-1 Dear Sir As a citizen of tho stable after tho horse has run away
over, an Individual has business United States and a resident and tax- j this cutting down the banana before
aboard tho vessel under suspicion, bo I payer of Honolulu, I most earnestly ! giving anybody a cbanco of saving
Is not allowed-to leavo again till iho ' protest against yesterday's order of i them. The Hoard of Health will nat
period of quarantine has expired. j the Hoard of Health in regard to cut-1 urally say wc did not think ot it be-
WALTER THURTELL God Is 1 "nK down banana plants. fore but now It is too late, wo must
looking after the health of tho people I '0lll'self and to those similarly wipe out bananas at any cost. Could
of Honolulu by sending his life-giving situatc1, tI,u sacrIflce of a few ba- they not have got from the Expert
ocean breezes sweeninir over and I naila l)lants means littlo; to hundreds ment station something that, if spray
through tho city every day Hut what f others it means much; and to some I cd on the bananas, would kill mos
would become ot us irwchad to de-! U liS 8,v,nS tIlel1, 1,1 m' ox-, qulto larvae but not injure the ba-
pond on the members
of a Hoard of
Health whose banana order Is1 proof
In black and white that they ought to
be confined in nn asylum for tho in
sane. CHIEF McDUFFIE Complaints
have been made to the police of an
alleged disorderly house near the
Hawaiian Hotel by the Hawaiian
Hotel management. I have person
ally investigated the matter ami
have passed by the place at all hours
of the night, but havo never heard
loud and disturbing noises such as j
wo"'(1 warrant n prosecution. It is j
vei J llanl to sccu,e evidence in these
but if my attention Is called j
to a direct and specific violation of
tho law 1 will take immediate action. helpless, Chinese, Japanese, Porto- their families go hungry for the want AT KAIMUKI, A 9-ROOM COTTAGE,
W. H. M. AYRES Tho mosquito Buoso and Hawaiians. , of a banana or two? j BEAUTIFULLY SITUATED, COM-
crusaders are beginning at the wrong No one, not even tho United States -vhat would it cost tho Hoard of MAN DING A VIEW OF THE HAR
end. Instead of concentrating their government, has any right to take Health for fifty sprayers and tho form- B0R. ail mohprm mMi
of concentrating their
conditions which n-y !
energies on
aloud for redress they aro squander
ing their fund' by actions as imperii-1
nent as they are Impotent. In other
rri rrl rri n r-, rri r-7 r-i i 1 1 i
jil
Coconut Tree"
M. Ayres.
typo of journalism Is that which re
pudiates its own communications.
When in doubt, turn on tho hose.
Goodbye! Curr e. The outlook's
Who, but tho Star is shining.
Wonder If It was chlcken-p'o." they
had aboard tho S. S Hongkong Main
or only a had bilious attack.
As Tom McGiiren says, let us spray.
Tho Hoard of Health, through re
ccntly received roports, has the Kai
muki to tho sanitation probloin in Moi
IUU 1
Captain E. Ii. Cooke, who found
one-half of his carriage gate gracing
tho upper portion of a telephone pole
and tho othor half roposlng In a cul ,
vort. and In ennRoniinnon started to
pvosjCCllt0i muBt bo absolutely barren
of tho saving graco of humor. Some
peoplo can never seo a Joke.
They'll bo saying that mosquitoes ,
breo'd in vcrbuin sap, next.
Slock In banana plantations will
now bo considered a gllt-edgo secur
ity, j
j
Did we hear someono whisper: '
WhHl does a .laimnoso physician
know about yellow fever, anyway?"
One would havo thouiflit that Cur
.rlo would have paid particular atten
tion to the rlce-flelds.
Thero's something In the air, ns the
man said when the flying machine
passed oyer,
0
They'll be cutting down the bed
postB next becan'so of their proximity
to mosquito-nets.
Q
Advice to tho lovelorn, by Miss But
thin Kullatax.
(Miss Fullatax answers correspond
ence, giving free advice to Star lead
ers on matrimonial and other sub
jects.) Mr. Dear Miss Fullatax;
1 am 'deeply In lovo with a young
man -of 2(5, and my love 1h fully recip
rocated. The only obstacle to our
speedy marriage is my folks' objec
tion to the young man's character.
My folks, who are missionaries, claim
that tho young gentleman Is not a
Christian, for ho smokes, drinks in
public, and has even been known to
gamble. However, with all his faults.
I lovo him still. I have not spoken .bands, however,
to him in regard to tho matter yet, I
but thought I would wait till I hud "Clilckon-Ralslng for Profit." is tho
sought your able advice. Could you title of a new work from tho pen of
tell ine, dear Miss Fullatax, how this ,JI. E. N. Snatcher, the well-known
young man could be reformed, nnd.Magoon block author. Mr. Snatcher
made as good a Christian as there is .handles his subject as he does his
in Honolulu. Yours in grief, jchlckens, with a firm hand, and the
ELIZABETH O. ibook bids fair to be one of the
Answer; Tell him to do like some month's "six best sellers."
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
'S
ESHFHSaSHSaSHSaSSSHSaSH5aSHSHSSS'ESS5aSE5HSa5?c
PROTEST TO GOVERNOR.
Hon. Walter F. Frear, Governor of
Hawaii:
! l)erleuce banana Is almost tne
only nourisning rood unit can lie eas -
lily grown here. Cutting down tho bn-
nana plants means that many llttlp - they think the sprayed liquid would
children who are now often hungry run away leaving the water and the
will havo still loss to eat. mosquito eggs still there? Shame!
And will it do any good? To the ' They claim the rich and the poor suf
best of my knowledge not a single fer tho same. No statement was over
mosquito has ever been bred about sti falsely made. Take for instanco
one of my banana plants, and no care the poor Portuguese, Chinese, Japa
fill observer will believe that one in 'nose or native Hawaiian who earns
ten thousand of Honolulu's mosq'.i from $1 to $1.50 a day, having a wife
toes comes from bananas.
The Hoard of Health's senseless or-
der is several degrees worse than
highway robbery, and equally unjus-
(tillable. They say that it treats every
one alike, which Is not true.
TIip
great burden falls on tho poor and
government, has any right to take
Private property without paying its
iuu vaiuo. ir we, tne peoplo or Mono-
lulu- arc not a B"" of n,ost colllcm'
tiblo robbers, we will pay these poor
peoplo for the plants destroyed.
As a means of doing so, let me sug-
gest that we again treat overybody
alike and confiscate all the diamonds
In the city to pay for tho banana
plants destroyed.
, There would bo fully as much jus
tification for it "everyone would b
j treated alike," and no one would have
riKIU lO COIH liaill aim II WUUIU i
not ue so utterly coutemptiuio as
take from tho noor tho little which
they have. !
Tbo owners of the diamonds would
not starve. Respectfully yours, I
WALTER THURTELL.
Silva's Toggery, Limited
King Near Fort
'other good .Christians In town: smoku,
drink and gamble In seorot.
Notes of tho Hanaiia Art League:
Mrs. Susan Humble wlshos It an
nounced in these .columns that her
school for tatting will reopen on the
tilth liiBt. All persons of good moral
character are cllglblo for member
ship and to compote for tho hand
soiuo hand-palnlcd diplomas which
are distributed at tho end of every
torm.
'
It Is stated on good authority that
tho shocking fall down of tho band
wlillo playing a selection at tho de
parture of a recent steamer was duo
to tho dropping of a dead rat from a
rafter of the wharf Bhed Into the bar
rel of the trombone. Tho contre
temps so disconcerted tho band boys
that they went all to pieces. One
player, who is a che-fa enthusiast,
thought that tho rat was surely a
sign that "lole," which Is Hawaiian
for rat, would come out in the day's
drawing, and dropping his Instrument
in tho middle of tho selection, made
tracks for tho nearest che-fa bank,
despite frantic efforts on the part
of tho Kappelmelster to stop him.
Accidents will occur In tho best
SPRAY
VS. AXE.
, Editor Star: It seems to mo this
i In nnntlinr rnsn of lnpltlno- mi Mini
nana plants. ine mosquito only
, nreeus in tne crotcu oi tne leaves
when the water lies in the plant. Do
and family with an average of five
children, Who for breakfast gives tho
children mush or rice and a couple
of bananas, for lunch going to school,
a couple of pieces of bread and butter
and a few bananas, will not these
suffer? How about the rich? Will
Health for fifty sprayers and tho form-j
uja t0 soa mound among the poorj
owners of banana patches? Certainly
I . .....
not a traction or wnat is Doing cx-
ponded to have the trees cut down.
f there Is nothing that will kill the
0ggs of mosquitoes in trees but cut-
ting them down I linve no more to
say, nut i sun uonevo it is a crying
shame.
S. H. WEBU.
THE WEEK AT HALEIWA.
This Is to be the finest week In tho
month as far as moonlight is con-
If you enjoy good meals,
-w
comfort in rooms and good bathing
'ou w111 S t0 Haloiwa somo ufter-
" this week and remain over night,
Tho ride back on tho train in tho
moonlight Is one of tho pleasantest
50c to $2.00
New assortment
Beauties
oxporloncos In tho visit of a, tourlH
to Hawaii. Whotlior you arc a stran
gor or kamaalna go down this week.
Train takes you to ho lawn.
Flno Job Printing, Star Offlco.
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A commodious guest-cottage
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Adjoining this thero is anothor
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there is also a water lot 209x400 feet
which assures a permanent access to
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The East Loch hns recently been
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