The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-11-05

I they are made clean and kept in good
and sanitary condition. The Pound
master looks after and receives all ar
their owners.
| The work of the sanitary inspectors
| has been so effective that the school
! grounds are kept in better condition
! than ever before. There is a growing
appreciation of the appropriateness of
! well kept grounds. That is the object.
The work that is done in keeping the
the exercise of the work. nor even to
| teach the dignity of labor, but as
! Principal Davis expresses it, ''for the
educative effect; to accustom them to
recognize that tidy, sanitary, well-kept
buildings and grounds are the natural
things, and the habit thus acquired
will be carried into the home, and in
to the business of life hereafter
Where there are duties and obliga-
tiors and only human beings to bear
and perform them, there is pretty GER
tain TO be some duties shirked. some
obligations violated. This calls for
courts TO hear and punish, and the
school city has its police court with
a session every day at 1890 O'Clock
The constitution declares that there
shall be but one law in the Royal
school City. and that law shall be
Do Right This shall mean that each
citizen shall do unto every other citi-
zen as he would have every other citi-
zen do to him. When there is any
doubt about what is right or wrong
the Principal shall be the judge in
the matter. All punishments for vio-
lations of the law shall consist of the
loss of some privilege, or the doing of
some, extra task.
The Board of Supervisors meets once
a week The election will come just
as soon as the pupils become suffi-
GENTLY interested and informed. This
is what Principal Davis says of the
workings of the experiment:
Thus far the experiment has been
fairly successful. This is shown in the
earnest manner in which both officers
and citizens have taken hold; it also
er halls, better kept school grounds
and in gentler manners throughout the
whole city. Just how much of this is
due to the novelty of the thing can
not. at this time, be estimated; but if
such is the case to any considerable
degree it becomes the task of the
teachers to devise ways and means of
sustaining the interest
This improved care of the buildings
and grounds is accomplished by the
pupils themselves. Each pupil devotes
one hour a week to the manual labor
assigned him under the law of the
city" AS was said, the object of this
labor is not primarily to care for the
buildings and grounds nor to teach the
dignity of labor but for its educative
influence. The kind of work done will
be seen from the report of the Chief
Sanitary Inspector, the Superintendent
of Public Works. and the Road Super
visor specimen reports of which and
other officers are given in this article.
The officers of the Royal School City
are as follows:
Mayor-Alex. Asam.
Board of Supervisors-Abbie Oni,
Jennie Wong, Kappa All Lo, Miriam
Fern, Frank Rodrigues, Henry All
Young. Robert All Wal.
Clerk-George Nunes-
Judg@Toyoichi Nakamura-
Police Clerk-Stanley Shaw.
Sheriff-Henry Nakaiawalu Aki.
Deputy Sheriff-Peter Kinolau Ka-
hele
Superintendent of Public Works
Manuel Miguel.
Poad Sr1pervisor-NaOFe Hama g11chi
Chief Sanitary nspector-Masaatsu
Shibata
Attorney=Sam Smith.
Truant Ofhcer-Benjamin Nakila.
ndmaster-Charlie Spencer.
Librarian-Rebecca Koo.
Besides these there are twenty po-
licemen and twelve sanitary inspectors.
IN the police court a very simple
procedure is followed. Pupils arrested
by the police for violations of the laws
of the City are brought into court by
the sheriff. There is a hearing both
against the accused and in his behalf,
and sentence to an extra half hours
work or more or less according to the
gravity of the offence, or of denial of
some accustomed privileges for a linn
tied time.
The Board of Supervisors conducts
its proceedings in a simple but parlia-
mentary fashion, and reports of all
executive officers are made to the
board, acted on by the board, and are
filed away by the clerk.
The school exercises begin in the