The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-06-26
TOWN TALK
~ EzH NAN ARoU1 roW1L

Professor T. j. See, astronomer,
according to a cable dispatch publish
ed this morning, states that he has
mathematically proved that the moon
is planet captured by the earth from
space and not some former portion of
this earth detached the other day by a
considerable convulsion of this ball Of
a world.
This is important if true.
However inasmuch as the moon, for
some time, by reliable authority, was
supposed to have been Clipped off
great continent of which Hawaii is
now about all that is left and, there
fore, should still be considered por-
ton of the City and County of Homo
lulu, or at least of the Territory of
Hawaii, patriotism stirs me to con-
test this impertinent claim of the Pro
lessor who has to hide in San Fran
cisco to make an assertion which ought
to- arouse the ire of every good citizen
of Hawaii. Tell me, why didn't Pro-
fessor See come out like a man right
here in Honolulu and declare that
the moon does not belong to us and
never did belong to us? Why didn't
| he? Because he did not dare. He
could never have looked us in the eye
and made any such burglarious claim.
He would have had to answer to the
Board of Supervisors.
| Without fear of successful contradic-
ton I raise the voice of protest and
confidently assert that the moon is ours
by every right of nature and sympathy.
| Let us summon Professor See and
make him answer to an indictment for
burglarlously entering the Paradise of
the Pacific and stealing, taking and
carrying away our moon. Why, in the
face of such an outrage, the questions
of the Mayors automobile, and the
plantation strikes, and the matter OF
drinking on Sundays pale into inno-
cuous insignificance.
If the Mayor will just pause minute
before getting into his $4,000 gasoline
lgyroscope, if the planters and the strik-
ers will kindly suspend their respective
policies of sulky suence, and If the
LIQUOR Commissioners will dry up for
a second, we will settle this moon
question right here and now. Pro-
fessor See seems to have an ocean that
he can swipe our moon without an
swering for it, But Wen show him
the shameless moon-stealer!
1t is, first of ALL very clear that the
Man in the Moon is a Hawaiian and
there are still lots of moonfolk in
Hawaii 1t is so clear that 1t needs
no further demonstration. The moon
is clear on the face of it. Only
lunatic would try to steal our moon
Wait till we get airships, then well
get our moon to speak for herself.
I'm sure she'll be glad to, return and
stay with us always. AS it is, she
frequently comes and spend the right
with us hanging her rainbows in oul
valleys as symbols of kinship, tlingint
her silvery mantle carelessly on oul
J ocean, enhalong on fronded palms anC
p hilltops, and stirring up emotions IL
our hearts that cry for the beach, thu
: air, and the moonlight, and someone
to say nice things to.
Why, all the promotion literature
, since Captain Cook to H. p Wood il
, full of the moon and Hawaii, ant
every lover that ever had an itch il
the heart that couldn't be scratched
except by wireless will admit that no
where is the moon so effective as il
Hawaii, because she is or was par
of Hawaii.
Why there was a time when tn
l Cheese Trust claimed the mOon sayini
it was made of green cheese evolve,
from the eternal hula of the Milk
Way.
The moon, 1 say, was in reality
portion of the earth and was broker