The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-01-21
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TOPICS IN BRIEF.

London chemists have concocted new
compound which they call carbonylthi-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES enzylthiocarbamid
| 1t sounds like Dutch for automobile,
| and may in fact be almost as deadly
| Chicago Record Herald.
British statesmen speak of the shirt
| sleeves diplomacy of the United
| States, but recent events would indi-
| cate that this kind of diplomacy is bet
| ter than the shirt waist diplomacy of
the old world.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
The recommendation of the health
officer that the city attend to all cases
| of disinfecting is an excellent one and
the estimated cost is small. Even those
| householders who are willing and anX-
| ious to disinfect their premises after
case of illness are not always sure
| just what they should do.-Buffalo Elk
| press.
Every engaged girl owes it to her
self to take proper precautions by re-
curing the young man to wash his
| mustache in lemon juice at least once
a day.-Chicago Record Herald.
1t is a good thing that college presi-
dents, college professors and school
masters in general should dine and
make speeches every now and then.
1t gives them the opportunity to show
that they have real blood in their veins,
and are not stuffed with saWdust, as
we might imagine them to be from
many of the things they do in the
course of business.-NeW Yark Even
ing Sun.
Superstition never dies, and much
might be said for the theory that it is
constant quantity in spite of all the
modern improvements. Still, it seems
little queer to read that a Pennsyl-
vania woman, convicted of witchcraft
in the Cumberland county court, has
just been released from Jail after an
Imprisonment of three months.-New
, York Sun.
SO long as the government of the
United States keeps out of European
quarrels the people of the United States
will be consistent in maintaining the
| Monroe doctrine. Meanwhile it would
be well for the bloviating German pub
licist to investigate the physical condi-
| tons which now invest any attempt by
the German or any other navy to Vio-
late the Monroe doctrine. An essen
tial question which such an investiga-
ton comprehends would be ascertain
ment of the coal supply of a navy en-
gagged in such an enterprise.-ChicagO
Chronicle.
commissioner Carroll ID. Wright s
tribute to the mortgage as a token Of
business activity, enterprise and pros
perity helps to dispel another popular
| delusion. He might have gone further
and said the same thing of most evil
dences of debt. 1t is only another way
of saying that business is to a large
extent based on credit.-Buffalo Ex-
| press.
Obviously the infrmities of human
nature lie at the root of the labor
problem" and since you cannot expeI
nature with fork, you cannot settle
the problem by any formula whatever.
We cannot go back far enough in the
history of free peoples to find a time
or place where the labor problem was
not rife and veXing. Only in slave
holding times and countries has the
problem been wanting but there it's
place has been filled by injustice and
cruelty at which civilization shudders.
Shall we never have the labor problem
settled, then? No; we shall never see
time when men win not have dis
putes with each other about the divis-