The Honolulu Advertiser from Honolulu, Hawaii • 16

I. Ht lit mm WEDNESDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 18, 1910 EDITORIAL PAGE Hawaii's Territorial Newspaper Letters From The People History From Our Files Some Elements Of Rearmament By PERDIX Tn the absence of available guns, units of the U. S. Army in The Honolulu Advertiser 84 Tears Your Morning Newspaper Established July 2, 1856 Printed and published by Advertiser Publishing Company. Ltd- Honolulu.

T. EL Advertiser Square. Eapiolani Blvd. and fcoutn St. and General Manager recent maneuvers had to train with gas and stove pipes, hay rakes etc.

Yet those in a position to know say that every third to fourth British soldier is equipped with an American rifle, and William Allen White's Committee boasts through its English propaganda chief that supplies sent from the United States to LORRLN P. THURSTON. RAYMOND BAY COLL, JAN JABCLKA News Editor Manager Great Britain since tne aeoacie in riianaers consul uj. eigw thousand Hotchkiss and Lewis machine guns, about seven hundred fifty 75 mm. guns, five hundred thousand Lee-Enfield rifles The Advertiser will not be responsible for letter manuscripts, or Pj101.0"0 Toluntarily submitted to this office, unless accompanied by self-addressed nTelopa and stamps to cover postage for return mailing.

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San Franclsce. and huge quantities of shells ana rounas of oiner ammunition. In that light the question of the fifty destroyers appears like a trifle. Seventy.Yearf Ago 1870 The Hawaiian Times, successor to Bennett's Own, makes its first appearance. It is published by Shaw Co.

and is vastly superior to its predecessor. We heartily wish the enterprise every success. We notice 'he paper is to be a semi-weekly, published on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Editorial paragraph. We have frequently urged upon our readers the necessity of inducing the people to enlarge the variety of the products of the soil.

Schooner John Young sails for Kauai. Hip. Waimalu, sails for Pearl River. Althoueh investigators who have looked into those recent deals claim that all purchases were made under strict observance of the Neutrality Act, the average American is completely in the dark concerning how far all of us have already been committed in this war by the present Administration and its MAINLAND AND LOCAL WEATHER REPORTS (Supplied by United States Weather Bureau) HONOIXLTJ 1 Sept. 17 KainfaU for the past 24 hours ending at 8 p.m.: Nne.

Temperature: Minimum, 74; maximum, 83. wtnfr 8 p.m.: Cloudy, bea level pressure at 8 p.m.: 29.88 inches. Forecast for the Hawaiian Islands and vicinity: Wednesday, probably unsettled weather with showers. Gentle to moderate changeable winds. followers without popular mandate.

Secondly, how far these shipments have denuded American arsenals lor our own proposed army of conscripts and the job of home defense. From all indications there is a growing demand that these questions receive a thorough airing by a Senate committee. High Low IUgn WW Mon. Tues. Mob.

Tues. High Low Hon. Toes. Experts claim that the time required for the building up of San Antonio 96 76 San Diego San Francisco 74 an adequate defense likewise needs to be publicized. This being an election year.

New Deal politicians have endeavord to answer popular impatience over the slow progress made so far 76 Seattle by police agreement mae with them by High Sheriff Brown. The Island of Niihau is still without teacher. James Mo Gill, the young man who Bp-plied for the position, decided at the last moment he did not care to take it; Heretofore Xii-hau has had a school taught in the native tongue. The Board decided to discontinue the native school, the. las one on the Islands.

But no one wants to take the position after lookm the ground over. Thirty Years Ago 1910 Secretary Mott-Smith sub-mits report to Governor Frear. The report which takes up many large pages, consisting chiefly of statistics, estimates and other kinds of figures is flamboyantly tied with red ribbon. E. M.

Boyd, formerly of Ho. nolulu, now of Yucaipa, California, launches the Yucaipa Recod, in capacity of editor, Twenty Years Ago 4920 Editorial paragraph: There are still some old fashioned people who say the newspapers don't tell the truth. they don't; not all of it. Just, suppose they did? P. Low is selected as the representative of the local board of supervisors to the Civic Convention which is to be held at "lilo the latter part, of this month.

Chester A. Doyle, recently8 returned glob e-trotter, ad- dresses Hawaiian Civic Club at its luncheon in Cooke YMCA giving vivid account of 68 65 64 52 70 57 53 56 SI 80 79 89 S3 77 SS 73 75 69 76 Kansas City Los Angeles Memphis Miami Minneapolis New Orleans New York Portland Reno St. Lonis Honolulu 84 74 Wheeler Field 82 9 Hilo 90 71 Atlanta S7 60 Boston 64 59 Buffalo 69 48 Chicaco 69 53 Cleveland 71 46 Denver 82 52 Dee Moines ..81 59 68 68 61 77 60 69 57 5S 46 1 58 87 69 61 76 .102 with vague references to vast quantities of materials "on order," huge air armadas to be built and conscription of the country's Tampa Vancouver Victoria Washington Yuma entire man power. Cold fact is that, up to the present time, we have spent just about $50,000,000 more for national defense than last year. There is no doubt that next year by this time 78 Salt Lake City (The views and opinions expressed in letters in this column art not to be accepted as reflecting the policy or opinion of The Advertiser.

The editor reserves the right to reject letters or to make deletions in his judgment advisable. To guard against errors letters should be typewritten. Name and address of viriler should accompany each letter, not for publication unless desired, but as an evidence of good faith.) VOCATIONAL SCHOOL TRAINING Editor The Advertiser: I followed with interest the reports of the two conferences on education held by the Chamber of Commerce's educational committee and was eagerly awaiting the open meeting of August This meeting did not materialize. In the meantime the Federal Government has stepped in and some odd two or three hundred students will be given vocational training and the rest of us will get along with chronological promotion as before. I believe now as never before is the time to solve this problem.

Business is clamoring for skilled labor, yet because the skilled laborer is performing the work of the unskilled, he cannot be released to do that which he ought to do and for which he is needed. This is true in all the trades: cooks, bakers, mechanics, carpenters, painters or any others you might think of. As far as our schools are concerned there is no reason why a Junior or Senior high school student isn't working 4 hours a day on one of these jobs, doing the work of an unskilled laborer, thus releasing the skilled laborer for other jobs. Each skilled laborer can use two or three unskilled men. In this way there would be two men trained vicariously by each skilled laborer, at the same time releasing a skilled worker for another job.

The student would still go to school four hours a day. He should be given credit for his trade work as well as his school work. In the end the student will have both a trade and an academic education that would permit him to go on to college or a technical school. Of course, the student would have little time for athletics, getting into trouble, going to the movies or what have you, and that would be bad maybe! It would be up to industry to be willing to cooperate with the schools and it would be up to the schools to arrange their program to fit this schedule for industry. Naturally the skilled worker will need a worker for full eight hours.

This is met by Having one boy work in the morning and the other in the afternoon. This will give steady part-time employment at the same time reduce labor costs and provide at once skilled laborers and provide a steady flow of skilled laborers. Sept. 17. AL SENBERT, A.B., E.F.G.

CALIFORNIA DEMOCRAT DISAGREES Editor The Advertiser: During the past three months of my sojourn here, I have been impressed with the fairness of your editorials, but I want to protest against the one in which you took up Willkie's attack on President Roosevelt for stirring up "class consciousness." Mr. Willkie has been indulging in a lot of 'mud slinging hoping the President would "sling" some back, but there is one of the most essential differences between the two men. Mr. Roosevelt has never indulged in those tactics in any of his campaigns and has never appealed to class El Paso 94 70 cnrvt it -Ratufnti for thp nnst 24 honrs ending at 7 p.m.: 0.33 inch. Temperature: Minimum, 71; maximum, 90.

Weather. Uvercast Barometer, 29.93 inches. Wind, west, northwest, 6 miles. additional spending by $500,000,000 may be shown. But conservatively estimated it will take years before the entire program can be completed.

Sixty Years Ago 1880 The great success of Mr. Marques' artesian well gave an impetus to the business of well boring in this county, which was dampened by subsequent lack of success. But encouragement came last week from the success of Judge McCully's well. It is now down about 300 feet, and for some time has been in the heart of a tensely hard and tough rock, but as the boring continues the flow increases, so that now it is not far from 2,000 gallons an hour. Mr.

James Campbell has two flowing wells at Honouliuli, i Tupply his present needs very well. There seems to be no reason why many of these wells should not succeed. Those who make it their business, as a matter of banking information, to study current proposals are completely baffled by the continual changes in plans. The Army originally proposed a billion-dollar plant extension schedule for industry, including $300,000,000 for airplane factories. The latest whisperings are that at least $2,000,000,000 will be required for the same purpose.

Simultaneously, of course, there is bitter disagreement as to whether a fleet of 50,000 planes ought to or should not be constructed. Some of the ablest officers of the Army and Navy hope to see a more realistic program adopted that will keep production geared to the number of pilots who can be trained effectively. They deplore a sudden increase of available flying equipment which may be obsolescent by the time we have an adequately-trained personnel. Practical industrialists like Mr. Knudsen sav Drivatelv that his 65,100 mile trip around tht world, representing the "Perching Square Hotels." it will take industry at least two years before twenty-five thou Fifty Years Ago 1890 In the Legislature.

Rep. Rice gives notice of an Act to prohibit the sale of tobacco to children under 16. Noble Bu-chardt gives notice of an Act providing sanitary regulations for the sale of milk. Capt. Nielson has assumed command of the bark Forest Queen, vice Capt.

Molle. About three hundred and fifty pupils are in attendance at the Royal School. sand planes can be delivered and that all talk of fifty thousand aircraft in one year is just political hot air. Packard plants cannot complete tooling for the nine thousand engines they are supposed to make in less than nine months. Westinghouse will require two full years before the wholesale manufacture of shells can even be commenced.

Special equipment for antiaircraft artillery, already ordered, cannot be delivered prior to the spring of 1943. That's the real lowdown on some phases of our rearmament program. The Air Siege Of London Casualty figures show that the civilian is bearing the brunt of the var in the stage it entered after the evacuation of Dunkirk. Prime Minister Winston Churchill's latest report shows there have been 1 0,000 civilian casualties in England in the first two weeks of September as against 250 casualties in Britain's fighting forces. Two thousand have been killed, the majority of which were in London.

Although apparently neither accurate or timely reports are given by the Nazis, it must be true that German civilian casualties far exceed those among the military. What havoc the RAF is raising in Berlin must for the time be left to the imagination. Raids lasting eight to nine hours are continuing relentlessly each night upon Londoners. Around 8 p. the sirens sound and he crawls into an air raid shelter, and about 3 or 5 a.

he crawls out red-eyed and angry. Perhaps even before he is home and asleep, he must again seek shelter. Daily, he sees sections of the world's largest city in new shambles as he trudges back to work, somewhat hollow-eyed. Will England crack under the strain? Not if the Spanish civil war is any guide. In Madrid Loyalists learned to sleep underground while death rained from the skies.

Moreover, there are experiments made in laboratories. Dr. N. Kleitman of the University of Chicago deliberately kept himself awake for 1 00 consecutive hours and found himself little the worse for the experience. Students have passed examinations with credit though experimental psychologists prevented them from sleeping for a whole night.

Fatigue, of course, must set in eventually. The prime minister recognized this when he said Britain planned to use the siren as an alert, not an alarm. The alarm would be given only when lookouts see immediate danger. It is apparent that this system would prevent the useless loss of rest and the stoppage of factory production even at the expense of tome risk of safety. Ten Years Ago 1SS8 Crozier Campbell, seeking seat on board of supervisors on Republican ticket, would, "be on job" every day cf terra as board member.

Mr. Crozier, island born business man, is member of "Young Slate. Sport Flashes, by WilliamJ Peet: According to J. Ashman Beaven, manager of the Honolulu Stadium, who has just returned from a trip to the Pa-' cific Coast, the boys over there really know very little about our sports over here and could hardly believe that we were, really so up to date ar.d carried on in such a big wy with football. Forty Years Ago 1900 Robert W.

Wilcox, who has been touring in the Islands of Hawaii and Maui for a month, returns by the Claudine, accompanied by his wife and daughter. He says, "We found all the Hawaiians are Independents." The leading cafes, ice cream parlors and bakeries were privileged yesterday (Sunday) to sell their wares unhindered American Brewsters Over London consciousness, because one cf his kind does not possess it In the speech referred to, before the convention of Teamsters Unions, he spoke of the economic improvement of those who labor, which has been accomplished in the last seven years, but Mr. Willkie who says the President knows nothing of economics, confuses that with "class." Mr. Willkie is of the type to whom class consciousness is very vital; one who has risen from a farm boy to a big business position by serving well the economic royalists who run it, but is seldom admitted to their social life. A certain Adolf Hitler, who once had another name, is extremely class conscious since he rose from a paper hanger in Austria to the leader of the German Reich and a menace to democracy, so also is Benito Mussolini and Stalin.

They appeal to it all the time in the name of their political philosophy. So also Mr. Willkie, whose parents spelled it "Woelke." But it is three centuries and not three generations since the descendants of Claus Marteens van Rosenvelt Dutch burger who came to New Amsterdam from Holland, are the Roosevelts of New York and class consciousness, for one who has democratic ideals in the family that long, does not exist And what an indictment on the judgment of the big majority of our voters for the past eight years to choose a man who knows "nothing "of economic problems" as Mr. Willkie charges, or foreign relations! During the long years of his invalidism when he fought to recover from paralysis, Franklin D. Roosevelt studied and read books on economics and has been a student at close range of foreign relations, being a linguist, a world traveler and having occupied an important position in the cabinet during the last war.

If Mr. Willkie continues his campaign of vituperation and his voice holds out his thinking backers will turn away from a man who handles evident truth so carelessly. His very accusing Roosevelt of appealing to class consciousness exposes his own feeling in that direction and thus he makes his appeal to it And in harping on the so-called Democratic machines in Chicago and New Jersey with the help of Westbrook Pegler he utterly ignores the support of the most corrupt machine in the country, the Republican controlled one in Philadelphia which is working for him and the "Ohio gang," which still exists. A DEMOCRAT FROM CALIFORNIA. So far as the Navy is concerned, the picture is even more complex.

The replacement for the fifty destroyers which are to be sold to Great Britain would be difficult to estimate. Ordinarily two years are required to build a modern destroyer and to build fifty, simultaneously might preclude the construction of other necessary craft. A battleship is a four-year job from the laying of the keel to the trial run. Armor plate manufacture, also, cannot be expanded in a hurry. New plants will have to be erected, mechanics trained, help organized with the proper coordination of all correlated factors.

The manufacture of artillery is also a difficult problem. A sixteen-inch coast artillery gun takes two and a half years to complete under ordinary conditions and very few factories are equipped to make them. Army men say the replacement of seven hundred fifty 75 mm. guns is no sparetime matter either. There are gun mounts to be considered, fuses, timers, and an untold number of auxiliary items in a modern mechanized Army and Navy.

Therefore, it is the well-considered opinion of financial experts, that all current emotional proposals of sharing our meager defense equipment with the British or perhaps hemisphere nations should be judged from a cold-blooded business standpoint. Political hot air, particularly in an election year, is likely to distort the true elements involved, the time it will take to replace all these humanitarian 'sales" if they are that also the money and efforts. Moreover, a change in the war picture may alter our requirements radically overnight. We may spend billions without getting what we shall most need. Once Used Stamps As Coins News that Italy has begun encasing postage stamps in cellophane and using them as a medium of exchange in order to conserve metal coins for war purposes, recalls that this has been done before, and that the United States probably was the first nation to take this unorthodox monetary step, the Ohio State Journal says.

During the days of the Civil war in 1862, to be exact currency was withdrawn from circulation by our government for a period, and the country immediately began using for money the postage stamps that had been issued in 1861. This was not entirely satisfactory, so due bills, tokens and tickets were added. However, during the period when we used stamps as cash, there was a big turnover in the denominations ranging from 1 cent to 90 cents. In the end, the experiment was a failure because of the highly destructible character of the adhesives. A gift of a tail of a horse shot in the Crimean War has been sent anonymously to the Lqndon Red Cross.

The donor wrote: "I have had it many a year and think someone may like to buy A political rally crowd at Azle, laughed at this remark by a candidate for constable: "If you elect me, I won't embarrass you good people by law enforcement." Crack American Brewster single seat fighter planes and Douglas -v. twin-engined light bombers are now in service with the Royal air 1 force, the air ministry disclosed recently. "His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent who is serving as a group captain in the Royal air force, visited a Royal air force station and examined two types of American aircraft which are now being delivered in quantity to the Royal air force," it was announced. "The types are the Brewster single seat fighter and the Douglas light bomber. They will be known as the Buffalo and the Eoston." "Hitherto the Royal air force has had only two types of Anerican planes, Lockheed-Hudson reconnaissance bombers and Harvard trainers.

The Brewster was originally developed for the American na7 for use on aircraft carriers but the Royal air force uses it as a land fighter. It is a mid-wing monoplane with a short deep fuselage, retractable undercarriage and Wright cyclone 9-cylinder engine In size it is similar to a Spitfire. The Douglas is a monoplane with tricycle undercarriage and two Wright cyclone 9-cylinder engines. When Mrs. Sarah Bryant, Anniston, died recently at the age of 92, it marked the end of a life spent within three miles of her birthplace.

Mrs. Bryant who had never ridden more than 10 miles on a train and had never tasted a soft drink, lived to see five generations and left 90 descendants. Allowed to choose between a 20-minute pause for reflection or go to police court, most speeding motorists take the pause. Police Chief Floyd Gray, Anna, 111., started the practice of requesting fast drivers to stop, near how fast they were going, and then sit for 20 minutes to contemplate the hazards of fast driving or appear in court. The Sydney University Medical Journal of Australia is making much ado about a boy of 14 who has the gout.

None of his relatives ever had the gout, and his parents as well as himself have always been total abstainers. The Journal states that gout in children is exceedingly rare. Swatting The Taxpayer Several weeks ago the Citizens Committee on Public Finance, a Representative group of leading business men who are major taxpayers, urged Mayor Crane and the board of supervisors by letter to postpone action on the new classification and salary schedule recommended by the municipal civil service commission. That the old classification was faulty and needs correction is agreed, but likewise it is agreed that this is no time for an increase of $90,000 in the city-county budget. One important factor is that it will put city-county pay above the territorial levels and ultimately cause dissatisfaction unless the inequality is corrected by a similar increase in the territorial budget.

The request of the Citizens Committee was not unreasonable. It merely asked restraint until a federal classification expert brought here by the Territory produces some findings. Yet the board of supervisors is rushing ahead willy nilly, probably because an election is approaching. Mayor Crane still has his say, of course, but it puts him in a bad spot at a bad time. The stubbornness of the board should and will be kept in mind.

dUlLmU ana Si-lvi BIGGER AND BETTER IN 1941 Editor The Advertiser: The 11th Annual Hawaiian Products Show held recently at Ka-piolani Park is considered a success by all participants. Although the total attendance was smaller than had been anticipated, exhibitors were unanimous in their praise for the class of people attending and the general scope of the show. The Honolulu Junior Chamber of Commerce feels that this year's show is in a transition stage. It is bur plan that the 1941 show will be enlarged to the point that it will actually be an Oahu Fair. The support of your paper in publicizing this community event had much to do with the enthusiastic reception given the show and the various entertainment events.

Your cooperation was greatly appreciated. HONOLULU JUNIOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. R. ALLEN WATKINS, Director, Sept 16. 11th Annual Hawaiian Products Show.

TIME TO BE ALERT BUT FAIR Editor The Advertiser: The times we feel the need most for a bicarb of soda are those when we hear the guff so many of us swallowed back in the middle teens being coughed up. In those days, the propaganda chutes in America and on the other side of the Atlantic spewed out a quality brand of hate which later we found had been hardly born of fact. The appeal was to our emotions, and what we did was perhaps more of an emotional expression than the sane, careful handling of a situation. Before the serious import of our act had filtered throughout the masses, American blood was being spilled in Europe. We jog your memory on this not so mauve chapter in our history because of bits of conversation and opinions that have drifted our way in recent days.

To illustrate, a woman in a trolley bus, loud enough for all to hear, remarked to a companion, "If those damn Germans invade England, I know what I'M going to do. I know at least four German women in Honolulu, and I'M going to walk up and slap their faces. I don't care if they have lived in this country all their lives." We heard several persons give heated approval to any barbaric acts which Germany's enemies might perpetrate upon the German civilian population. At the same time, reported German barbarism met with furious condemnation. Another in a theater crowd blurted out that, by gad, he was for wiping out the Huns right now.

These are not altogether isolated cases. Many a high-blood pressure is run on the subject There is in stirring times a tendency towards soap-box oration, to go beserk with emotion, to run with the yelping pack of hounds, to join the mob in an orgy of hysteria. Such demonstrations, however, are not patriotic. It muddles the sane management of a nation, it bogs us down into the confused morass of the last war. The policies of the present German government, under the heel of Herr Adolf Hitler and his Nazi satraps, must be viewed by all Americans as a live menace to America, the Democracies and the Western Hemisphere.

This menace, however, must be met with alertness, intelligence and understanding. Sept 17. FAIR MINDED Mr. Ilemenway's Retirement The University of Hawaii and the people of this Territory can ill afford the loss of the institution's Chief Pilot, Charles R. Hemenway, Regent since 1910 and chairman of the Board of Regents since 1915, it may be that he finds the calls upon his time and energies too great, nevertheless the friends of education regret that he feels that he cannot continue.

The University as it is today is his perhaps more than any other one man's creation. Mr. Hemenway brought to his unpaid task of guidance the enthusiasms of a teacher who became a lawyer and then a financier. Packed in his green bag and portfolio have been a complement of New England sturdiness of character, common sense, homely humor and almost apologetic but sincere patriotism, teaching loyalty by example. Character building among the young people who pass through the mill of higher learning in ever-increasing grists has been his ideal.

He has faith in Youth. --fiPi Building a home is sav- Jg mg money puffing the MS I usual monthly rent right Building a home is saving money puffing the usual monthly rent right a resident of the Territory for 27 years. Third, it is entirely non-political. And fourth, Mr. Balch is of conservative nature.

He will weigh carefully every public works problem of the Territory, and that is an attitude that will be highly valuable in government under prevailing conditions. Slandering The Newly-Weds It seems as if a young man can't pop the question any longer without an element in Honolulu seeing in it an ulterior A total of 423 young men are given marriage licenses in August on Oahu a good healthy sign but before they have had time to dust off the rice, the hypochondriacs were making "slacker marriages" out of every trip to the altar. That's the kind of stuff we like to pooh-pooh. Just like that mawkish spectacle in Los Angeles where a "bride and bridegroom" and their "mourning mothers" picketed the marriage license bureau against the draft. Surplus Food For Hawaii If the skies are raining soup why not hold out your bowl? Hawaii Territory pays more federal taxes than fourteen of the sovereign states.

Presumably we have paid for a lot of nourishing soup that is being absorbed elsewhere. Twas our own money originally. With that as a premise, Hawaii ought to get a share of the hand-outs dispensed by the Federal Surplus Commodities for relief. Just what these would be nobody knows. It might be grapefruit, small prunes, ancient raisins, corn starch, pork chops or cotton cloth.

It might be sugar, if the FSCC absorbs the half-million tons "surplus," as has been talked. Those on relief have to take what they get and like it back into your pocket This bank will help you finance the building of your home. Ask about our Mortgage Loan Plan. Good Choice Daniel F. Balch, newly appointed Superintendent of public works for the Territory, has a record of nearly 15 years of public service in Hawaii.

That service has been mart The Poet a studious and diligent devotion to the intricate details of many engineering problems. He has earned the reputation of being a thoughtful, careful worker. Mr. Balch's appointment bv Governor Truth, beauty, love The poet springs From these of each he is a part; The measure of his flame-wrought art They make and each its portion brings. The inner hidden soul of things.

The harmony of Nature's art. The knowledge of one woman's heart lis of the three he ever sings Truth beauty love! d. a. c. BANK of HAWAII commendable for several reasons.

First, it is a promotion based on a record of merit Second; the appointee has been i.