The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-06-03
POLICE, POLITICS
AND LIQUOR


CONTINUED from rage One.l
There was considerable talk along
the line of getting at the bottom of
the business by seeking out the money
power, the higherups, the owners of the
properties where these places are being
conducted, or on whoever the financial
shoe might pinch, and 4coercing them
into shutting down on the practises.
Where Girls Get Liquor.
The Judge mentioned several resorts
where, he said, he had seen girls be-
tween the ages of fourteen and seven
teen under the influence of liquor,
dancing with young men, and he told
about visiting steamers in the harbor
at night on several different occasions
and found that great many young
girls went aboard, some voluntarily and
some being taken into the forecastles
by sailors.
Booze was generally served and a
regular jollifcation was the program
of the evening.
Numbers of young girls who find
themselves about to become mothers,
it was said, appeal for aid and great
many of them are taken care of by
the Salvation Army there being no
regular maternity home for such cases,
while those who were not so fortunate
or rather who are more unfortunate,
were never reached.
1t was explained that there was no
| law in these Islands to compel an I'M
married man to look after his child
and this was put forth as another
source of evil. Judge Whitney said,
under the segregation policy, conditions
were better than at present. AS the
situation is now, he said, soliciting
| goes on about the streets, questionable
resorts are in operation all over the
city and the town is wide open. With
such a state of affairs, he explained,
young girls were constantly thrown in
with evil influences and it was next to
impossible to segregate them The
course that Sheriff Hendry adopted the
Judge stated created sentiment
against him because it caused a stir and
the public did not look deep enough
to see that he was combining an evil
in way that it could be controlled.
The present sheriff, he said, refuses to
create a stir and as long as everything
looks quiet on the surface the public
is satisfied.
AS regards the liquor phase of the
Iproblems, 1t was suggested that prohibi-
l
this would settle the difficulty, where
upon Bishop Restarick promptly re-
spOnded, "If you don Il have saloons
you III have Illicit stills as long as the
police department is in politics."
Judge Whitney stated that 400 juve-
nile cases came before his court last
year. OF this number S3 per cent were
boys and II per cent were girls. In
race the Hawaiians led, the percentage
being 40; the Portuguese were next
with 81 per cent, and all others came to
IA per cent. The principal crimes were
larceny, which constituted 80 per cent
next came idleness, 81 per cent; truancy,
Is per cent; gambling, 16; disobedience,
A. assault and battery, 3; malicious mis-
chief, 8, and all others, per cent.
The present juvenile act, which was
passed in 1909, the Judge declared for
bid the hiring Of any probation officers.
Philanthropically disposed persons
sent in their names to the court, and
when a boy was in need of some one
to look after him he was put in charge
of one of these persons. They were
mot even allowed expenses which they
might incur in the performance of their
duty as probation officer, and it was not
right to expect them to devote their
whole lime ana aUtentlOn TO unruly
boys. If, however, he had at least one
paid officer to take charge of this work
and direct the others, it would be a
great benefit, he thought, TO the boys
and also to the girls.
Miss May Wilcox he praised very
highly for the work she has done for
Hawaiian girls particularly, being able
to speak the native tongue. This lat.
ter qualification, he said, was quite es-
sential to do very effective work. An.
other thing the judge said was that
Miss Wilcox visited all these dance
halls and many questionable resorts in
was hard to find woman probation
officer willing to do such necessary
work.