The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-11-23
MEMS LEAGUE
]. ELECT OFFICERS
Good Reports Of Past Years
Work and Promise Of Re-
neWed Efforts to Come.

The second annual dinner OF the
Mems League of Central Union church
was held last evening, following which
new officers for the season of 1909
1910 were elected as follows:
w, +. Dillingham;, president; P. L.
Horne, vice-chairman; I. H. Beadle,
secretary; r. r. Reidford, treasurer,
and councillors at large, Judge George
w. Woodruff, DIR. w. C. Hobby, J. p.
Cooke, s. DeFreest, w. J. Forbes and
Paul Super.
The supper was served in the parish
house and was largely attended The
supper was delightful introduction to
the more serious business of the even
ing. The large attendance attested to
the fact that the league is an institu-
ton that has come to stay. President
j. P. Cooke IS report for the first year
was full of statistics of the organiza.
ton of the league. He spoke partlc.
| ularly of the work of the sections
which direct the various activities of
/ the league, and referred in particular
to w. A. Bowen, leader of the friend
| ship section, who had achieved such
remarkable success through his genial
| manners. The civic section was also
| one which had achieved success! 1t
had brought matters before the legis-
| lature and made it's influence felt. OF
! the midweek section, the president
stated that the large attendance was
due to efforts of the leader, Ed Towse.
Mr.. Towse later spoke of the work
done for the midweek meetings. He
said there were two elements to con-
slider. The old conservative attend
| ants were of the old New England
| school, who desired only the old-fash-
Toned prayer meeting. There was the
younger element, which desired liter
airy program in addition to the prayer
meeting. Both elements, however, har-
monized, and the work of the section
was going ahead satisfactorily.
Mr.. Bowen, for the friendship league,
spoke of the methods used to attract
young men to the church, to make it
| their church home. He spoke of
thousand or more invitations which had
been sent out to new people. "A. L.
| Castle s report for the civic section had
the suggestion that for the new year
| the club should devote its energies to
subjects more national in scope, rather
than to confine itself to local subjects
altogether.
j. A. Wilder, of the Bible represen-
tation section. stated that for the new
year he had number of persons en-
listed and would probably give a rep.
resentation in December, the subject
being "Moses, the Liberator." Mr..
| Frazier, for the Bible class, and Will
Love, for the musical section, reported
that much progress had been made
during the season.
Doctor Hobby spoke on fighting the
white plague. He presented an array
of figures so convincing that the audi
ence was visibly moved by his pre-.
sentation of the subject which is at
| tracing more attention from govern
| ments as well as medical men. Doctor
| Hobby has an excellent delivery, pre-.
sents his subject clearly and concisely,
and in thoroughly interesting man.
ner. He said that the cause of one
seventh to one-tenth of all deaths was
tuberculosis. OF the 10O,00O,0OO of in
habitants in the United States to be
listed at the coming census 10,000,00
would die of tuberculosis. tuberculosis
| has been known from 1900 B. c., when
| Moses gave it as curse upon the peo-
| pie. Upon the cuneiform bricks of
| Chaldean cities are found inscriptions
telling of tuberculosis. One-third of all
| deaths between fifteen and forty-four
years of age are caused by consumption.
There is no race under the sun that
does not suffer from the disease. 1t is
| particularly true of the American In
dams, the negroes and unfortunately of
! the Hawaiian race. In the United
States it costs the government about
$25O,000,000 The United States has
| trained corps of men to fight the intro
| duction into the ports of yellow fever,
cholera, plague, smallpox, typhus and
| leprosy, but all of these combined never
made such ravages as tuberculosis.
EXpectoration on the streets is the
first cause of spreading the disease. 1t
is carried by dust to other victims. 1t
is not necessary, he said, to tell this
to an intelligent audience, but the first
duty is to go into the schools and begin
upon children and teach them not to
spit in public places. If man won t
stop splitting on the street he should be
made TO. If necessary the government
should be asked to pass an antispitting
law, but no doubt this would be object
ed to on the ground that it might be
unconstitutional, because it restricted
ones freedom. Doctor Hobby smiled
as he said this. A campaign of educa.
ton was necessary to obtain results.
Doctor Hobdy's address, delivered
without notes, but given with a start.
ling array of facts and figures, was
generously applauded.
Rev. ], w. Rath Of the Palama Mis-.
sion followed with an outline of the
plan of campaign to be followed in
fighting tuberculosis in Honolulu.