Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-10-07
Books, Bookish People and Things
We get no good by being ungenerous to book.
E. B. Browning

"A Circular OF Information" No. /.
BY Jacob Kotinsky. Division OF
Entomology. Board OF Commits
sioners of Agriculture and Fores-
try. Honolulu.
The Division OF Entomology OF which
Alexander Craw is superintendent and
Mr.. Kotinsky assistant entomologist,
issues this circular which deserves
careful reading by all Hawaiians inter-
ested in agriculture. MIR. Kotinsky says
that nearly every one. whether he
lives in the city or country. is in one
way or another interested In plant
growth. Very many of the inhabitants
devote much time and attention to the
cultivation OF various fruit trees. some
for private use only, others on COM
mercial sale. Vegetation on these is
lands Is now beset with ills. not the
least among them which is injury by
insects. Numerous species of scale in
sects, cut worms. the japanese beetle
the Olinda beetle, and many other in
sect pests, too numerous TO mention
in a circular, have to come to stay
with us
Mr.. Kotinsky says a great deal more
to the point The services Of Mr.. Koe-
bele were twelve years ago secured and
the war of determination" was begun.
There are now four members OF the
fighting STAFF and their duties are:
1. Inspection and quarantine.
2. Search for and distribution OF
beneficial insects.
3. Breeding and distribution Of be-
nefcial insects.
4. Study of injurious insects and
methods of controlling them.
Mr.. Kotinsky asks the cooperation
Of farmers. II is a righteous appeal.
Here Is a scientifically organized stan
waiting night and day for chance TO
fight bugs OF all sorts, and no one can
help the staff more than those who
suffer from the depredations Of insects
and blights.
Also, could this phase OF combative-
ness not be used to advantage In get
neighbors? While some Of our neigh
bors are no doubt in our way they
have n right to be here which the
insects have not: and the law will pro-
tect them-the neighbors-if we should
try to punch them in the ribs! But
as for the bugs. why any one who
wants to fight may mash bugs with his
fists from morning till night and only
be assisting our scientific staff!
His time spent mostly In the field
the farmer has abundant opportunity
for making observations. which may
be brought to our attention only
through him. Farmers should write
u.s."
THE Personality OF God" BY Lyman
Abbott. DID. 30 Thomas Y. Grow.
ell & Co, New York. 35 cents
postpaid.
This neat little book is one Of a unit
pany and called What Is Worth While
Series" The subjects are all good.
and are helpfully discussed by able
men like Abbott, Farrar, Choate and
Van Dyke.
This particular number needs no
special reviewing. 1t contains Or. Alb
bolts much talked about sermon de-
livered in Appleton Chapel, Harvard
University, last December. and while
It voices no new or startling express
sion Of religious belief, II may be new
to many who have not followed DR..
Abbott closely since he became pastor
In Plymouth Church.
DR.. Abbott has received many hun
dreds OF letters from all parts Of the
country about the sermon, salthough
be preached much the same sort OF a
sermon in Des Moines in 1904. Many
Of these letters were far from charita-
ble-some were denunciatory and
charged DR.. Abbott (than whom there
Is not more conscientious man In the
country with all kinds Of hypocrisy.
But DR.. Abbott has been preaching
this doctrine for years, first in the
pulpit and after that in his paper and
lectures; and indeed. It is the belief
Of all really intellectual men today.
Not because they wish 1t to be So;
they would much prefer to remain
with old friends and associations, but
1t is an inevitable result of growth.
And the man who does not grow had
better be buried to fertilze the useful
trees.
Little by little the Protestant faith
that the Bible is the supreme and final
authority was weakened, and for some
destroyed. Whether we like 1t or not,
that lessening OF the authority OF the
Bible must be recognized. We have
only to compare the sermons of the
great orthodox preachers of the past
and the present to see the difference OF
appeal.
THAT notion of an absentee God
an imperial Caesar sitting in the GEN.
ter OF the universe ruling things-that
Is gone or going-not merely the final
authority OF the church is undermined
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