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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-13
EXPERIMENT STATION
WORK OF PAST YEAR REPORTED

new lines of work have been begun.
The work with cotton continues to
attract favorable attention, and it
would seem that the profitableness of
this new agricultural industry has
been demonstrated The Japanese
rices imported by the station have
been successfully grown, and samples
submitted to rice consumers have
been pronounced equal in quality to
the imported japanese rice The i'm
portance of this fact is apparent when
it is known that one-half of one cent
per pound more is paid for Japanese
than for other rice. Fertilizer expert
ments with rice and taro have given
results which show how important i'm
proyements may be made in the meth
DDS of fertiliZing these crops. In con.
tinuation of the work with pineapples,
it has been shown that the chief
difficulties with this crop are due
to a lack of drainage and in
certain restricted localities to too
much manganese in the soils It has
also been found that pineapples can
he protitably grown in Hawaii with
less rainfall than has hitherto been
thought necessary. Experiments with
broom corn We're so successful that
this crop is being planted to some eX-
tent and a broom factory has been es-
tablished in Honolulu. The station
has carried on a number of expert
ments with various tropical fruits, and
among other things has worked out
very successful budding method for
avocados, has demonstrated the posi-
bility Of the orchard production of the
papaia, and has aroused interest in
improved methods of banana culture.
In view of the shortage Of forage in
the islands the station is encouraging
the culture of forage plants, especially
with reference to ranch conditions.
During the year the station estab-
lished with Territorial funds three
demonstration farms-one on Kauai
and two on Hawaii, Similar farms
are to be established elsewhere"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-13
TIME NOT ARRIVED TO LEAVE
HAWAII WITHOUT DEFENSES

San Francisco Call, December o.
Returns of Hawaiian commerce as set
forth in Governor Frear's report have
special interest for San Francisco, as
this city is the chief continental entire
pot for the trade of the islands and
indeed the most profitable industries
of the archipelago are financied and
owned here.
The report furnishes a tale of re-
markable growth since the territory
was annexed to the United States
eleven years ago. The effect of free
trade between the islands and the
States appears from the fact that
since annexation the imports and eN-
ports of Hawaii have grown l25 per
cent to a present aggregate Of nearly
$7O.OOO,OOO. The Hawaiian imports
from the mainland of the United
States have doubled in the last seven
years and the trade both ways is near
ly all carried in American bottoms.
These facts lend significance to GER
tain deliberations Of the recent history
conference al Clark university, Mas
sachusetts, which was chiefly devoted
to talk about Japan and the Japanese,
and among other matters Theodore
Richards of Honolulu is quoted,
THE immense sums of money that
the United States is spending in Ha
wall for defense can not have any hut
unpleasant effects upon the Japont Sc
population in Hawaii as well us in
Japan. The menace of this fo.tiiica-
ton, contemplating in shodowy way
European aggression, as well as that
of Asia, is clearly addressed toward
Japan, and, apart from the sentiment
of the situation it would appear 70
the clay" mind as though the eXpendi-
ture was an enormous national waste
In part support Of this fact it should
be said that this expensive outlay is
made on territory where there are an
overwhelming greater number Of ia
panese aliens than Of United States
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-13

and logged fighter who told them
their case was hopeless 1t is not to
be thought for one moment that this
man, skilled in all the intricacies of
the law, victor in many a drawn out
battle, would lay down just to end It
all. He says he did it to save his
clients lives. He was beholden to
them alone, not to Labor, though La
Dor was providing the money to fight
the battle. In the final analysis labor
must have hired barrow to do the
best he could for the Mcnamara boys
Well, he said he did it, but never in
the way labor thought he would He
saw before the trial was well under
way what the result would be; he
says he had known for months that
his clients were guilty of dynamiting
the Times building and the Llewellyn
Iron Works; he realized that the
prosecution was in position to prove
it, and he knew the penalty was
htdNl. III SIlllt VI SOlllt NlllllCdIlOl
at the hands of labor leaders for doing
what he did, barrow has not lost
heart. He is weary almost broken
down, yet he only says of the leaders
of the cause he has defended these
many years: III they misunderstood
me | do not misunderstood myself, I
can bear it to stand alone"
! It seems almost that the real great
ness OF this man in acting as he has
will not be fully realized until the
poignant circumstances of the i'm
mediate trial are forgotten. You who
choose to feel, and many do, that Oar
ROW did wrong in giving up so early
consider the probabilities. Knowing
positively that his clients were guilty,
,realizing that they must IN the end
Ibe convicted and probably put to
death, what would have been the re
Isult? Thousands of people sincerely
! CONTINUED on page twelveJ
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-13
EDUCATION A CONDITION
OF PAROLE FOR CONvICTS

plOyment in restaurants or in private
families.
These branches will be supplement
ed by the three RS and will go along
with English, literature and the vart
Gus common school branches of which
many of the convicts may have been
deprived in their earlier years.
The instruction will be through
volunteers and an urgent call has gone
forth from the committee for voluE,
teer teachers from Salem to spend a
certain length of time each week at
this work.
ife-Termers May Choose Course.
Two periods in the afternoon and
two in the evening will be given and a
comprehensive common school educa-
ton is planned for those who have had
no advantages, and those who have
had the common school advantages
may elect some practical courses
which will aid them to be self-support-
ing on their release from the prison.
Life termers and old-time prisoners
may elect to study they choose. But
before a man secures a parole or is
given executive clemency he must
show his desire to improve in a con.
crete form by taking a course and
passing the examinations required
American literature will be in charge
of Miss Cornelia Marvin, State Ii
brarian. Branches in arithmetic will
include practical and commercial. All
kinds of spelling VIII be taught Otner
branches will include United States
history, civil government, geography
English literature, writing, reading
physics, Shakespeare, hygiene, agricul-
.ture, poultry, civtcs, including study
of the Oregon Blue Book; mechanical
drawing, bookbinding, cookery, music,
free-hand drawing primary arithmetic
and primary reading.
Professor Staley, of this city will in
struct in writing; Miss Marvin, in
bookbinding, and w. F. Fargo, of the
high school in this city, in physics.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-13
BEST SCHOOLING
FOR THE GIRLS

NEW YORK, Nov. School girls
who must later go into the world 70
earn their own livings should not be
piled with higher mathematics, Latin
or Greek, in the opinion of Miss Hen
rietta Rodman, of Wadleigh High
School. And-this will sound best of
all to some young persons in high
school-Miss 'Rodman believes that
classes of the middle classes, so 70
speak, should read popular fiction as
well as the classics. She would bring
the six best sellers" into the school
room.
Miss Rodman is an ardent advocate
of vocational training, which she eX-
planned to New York people is a lect-
ure at the Berkeley Lyceum. Vocation
al training beside preparing the young
person for the battle for bread and
butter, makes the habits of pupils a
subject of special inquiry.
In explaining this feature of the
training plan in her lecture, Miss
Rodman declared that the girl of the
high school age whose mother was
obliged to call her many times before
she could find it convenient to get out
of bed in the morning would never
amount to much She said the same
thing of the girl who fingered toe
long over dressing and furbelowing
herself for the day.
In mathematics Miss ROdman';
course includes problems likely to con
front the school girl when she has
become a wage-earner. She is taught
to figure up the cost of living instead
of brain-racling mathematics.
Miss Rodman is very earnest about
vocational training, which she also
calls Know Thyself." She says mod
ern education intended to fit girls fol
society is the same that was used tC
equip boys for the priesthood in the
middle ages,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-13
HAWAII FURNISHED ONE-HALF
ISTHMIAN EASTBOUND FREIGHT

across the isthmuses, aggregating
S62 100000 in value, S4,OOO,OO0 worth
went to Hawaii via Tehuantepec,
.S4S,5O0,OOO went to Pacific coast
cities, Si1,OOO,OOO worth being ship
ped by way of Tehuantepec and
SS.5OO,OOO worth by way Of Panama;
and little over SS,5OO.OOO worth went
to foreign countries, of which all but
100000 worth was by way of Pa
mama These west-bound shipments
left the Atlantic seaboard at New
York and Philadelphia, the latters
share being less than Sl.000,00O value
and that Of New York, SCI 10000
The westward movement included a
total of $32,5OO,OOO value to San Fran
cisco, $lO,5OO,O0O to San Diego, $4,50O,-
600 to Seattle, nearly S1,OOO,OOO to Los
Angeles, about a half million dollars
each to Tacoma and Portland, and
smaller amounts to Oakland and other
Pacific coast points. About so per
cent of this traffic was moved via the
Isthmus of Tehuantepec. To foreign
countries the shipment from the At
lantic coast cities, aggregating $S,5OO,-
600 in 1911 as against $5,75O,000 a
year earlier, were distributed to Peru,
$2,000,000; to Colombia, $t,j00,0 900;
Ecuador and Chile, each about ST.
100000; to Central America, over
100000, and to Canada, about
100000
Hawaiian sugar supplies more than
half of the east-bound traffic to cities
on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the
United States. The total eastward
movement last year represented
S37, 900, 600, of which SlS,OOOOOO was
sugar shipped direct from Hawaii via
Tehuantepec to Delaware Breakwater
for orders. In addition to this $l6,-
100000 worth of miscellaneous mer-
Continued on page twelve)
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-13
BANDYING TEXTS
OF SCRIPTURE

NEW YORK, NovembeC 15.-It is
charged in the Postal Telegraph, the
official organ of the Postal Telegraph
Company, that the company's great
rivals, the Western Union Telegraph
Company and the Bell Telegraph
Company, have effected a combina-
ton. The paper begins by declaring
that the telephone and telegraph are
natural competitors"
The article is written mainly in a
serious vein, but it begins by quoting
from the Bell Telephone News the
following texts, printed in previous
issue: Wherefore kick YEP" Sam,
1873; "All have no might against this
great company" II Chron, KIP, and
Now shall this company lick up all
that are around u.s. Nun. NXii-4.
To which the organ Of the telegraph
concern adds this comment Of its
own:
THAT is all very well, neighbo7,
but before you get through you will
find that the licking will not be all on
one side"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-13
INSIDE HISTORY
OF SURRENDER
OF DYNAMITERS
Scenes Los Angeles When the McNamaras Were Sentenced
Mediation of acknowledgements by Judge BordweI,
District Attorney FrederCkS and Attorney DanOw

What next? That is the question
on everyone's tongue-labor as well
as capital Such are the ramifications
of the trial. of the whole situation
that not only one ask what next?"
but almost Which next?' Is labor
licked as some declare? viii capital
press home the advantage she has
undeniably gained! Or will capital
follow the pleas of such men as Lin
coin Steffens and play the Christian
spirit, live up to the Golden Rule?
1t is because of the problems not yet
solved, of the dramatic situations
which may yet come, that | make the
various situations and angles of this
remarkable trial, and set them down
here for you to ponder on. Such IS
the situation that one distant, away
from the sharp personalities, out of
the arena as it were, may have the
opportunity to draw a pen picture OF
the Two SlueS TO lue QueSIOu--lOl
there are two sides, two big sides to
the whole affair, and one may not be
set right by reading one paper, or two
papers, or listening to one group or
another group discuss the alignment
of capital and labor.
Take if you will the side of the
District Attorney of Los Angeles He
has won a remarkable legal victory
undoubtedly. It would sem that h.
had broken down the defense before
the real battle had begun, that he
and his assistants had so carefully
gathered the evidence that the bril-
liant lawyers arrayed on the side OF
labor knew for a certainty that then
clients would preserve their lives only
so long as legal byplay Gould EGer
them in court 1t wasn't the McNa
maras who first wanted to plead
guilty. 1t was Clarence barrow
veteran of tremendous legal battles
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-13
THE WISE MOTHER.

The most prominent physician in the
country can not produce better results
in the treatment OF coughs, colds,
Group and whooping cough than the
wise mother with a bottle of Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy. She always
keeps in a handy place and knows
where to lay her hands upon it. With
a few doses Of this remedy she gets
the cold under control at its begin
ming and avoids all danger of serious
results. 1t contains absolutely nothing
injurious and is the mothers favorite
all over the world. For sale by all
dealers. Benson, Smith G. Co., agents
for Hawaii.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-13
BY ERNEST N. SMITH.

Especial Correspondence to the Starr
SAN FRANCISCO, December C.
While the whole United States waited
yesterday for the words of Los An
geles judge to end what promised 20
be one of the greatest trials held in
this country, the situation in Los
Angeles, so tense during the last few
months, was being rapidly cleared up.
While fifteen thousand people jam
med the streets outside the court
house where the McNamaras were be.
ing sentenced, baliffs and police
fought with the crowd inside until the
loud cries of Hear Ye, Hear Ye," by
the baliff caused the doors to be
closed Judge Bordwell had slipped
into his seat, the two McNamaras had
been brought in and seated Just under
the big dome around which were the
words, Law, peace, justice, govern
ment, truth" BY a coincidence or
otherwise the McNamaras were seated
just beneath the word Law"
AS the hum Of excited voices died
away to an eXpectant silence District
Attorney Fredericks suddenly arose
from the counseIs table, and standing
a half head taller than anyone else
in the room gazed across the crowl
There is nothing to gloat about IN
this he said simply, 81 shall have
nothing to say beyond what | have
already said in court"
In the next few minutes Judge Bord
well had called the prisoners before
him, in a few crisp sentences scored
them numerically for the deeds for
which they were convicted upon their
confession, and sentenced James Nc
Namara to life Imprisonment, and his
brother John to fifteen years in Jail
After which the prisoners were whisk
ed away to the city Jail, the crowd
surged out-and the trial was over.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-13

Practically 100 million dollars worth
of domestic merchandise from the
United States was transported across
the .lsthmuses Of Panama and Tc-
huantepec in the fiscal year 1871 via
the two railway lines connecting. in
the one case, Panama on the Pacific
with Colon on the Atlantic and, in the
other, Salina Cruz. the Pacific term
inal, and Tehuantepec with Puerto
Mexico on the Atlantic
Trans-isthmian traffic between the
eastern and western coasts of the
United States and between the east
ern ports of our country and Pacific
coast points in Central and South
America has greatly increased in re-
cent years In 1906, when the Pan
anna railway offered the only rail con.
nection via the isthmus between the
Atlantic and the Pacific coasts, the
total traffic amounted to about six
million dollars. In 1907, on January
/ of which year the Tehuantepec rail
way became available, the total was
$21 ,OOOOOe: in 1908, $42,OOO,OOO; in
1909, s6s,60O, 300; in 1910, $50, 600;
and in 1911, $99,OOO,OOO, exclusive Of
more than three quarters of a million
dollars worth of foreign merchandise.
The growth in traffic by the respec-
tive routes has been, according TO
figures compiled by the Bureau of
Department of Commerce
and Labor: via the Panama railway,
from $1O,OOOOOO in 1907 to $26 5000, 900
in 1915 and via the Tehuantepec rail
way, from $l1,5OO,OOO in 1907 to $73,.
10000 in 1911. In 1907 the traffic
was almost equally divided between
the two routes, while last year about
of the total was moved
across the isthmus of Tehautepec.
or the merchandise passing from
the Atlantic coast ports westward
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-13

SALEM Or, Nov. 15.-"NO educa-
ton, no parole" will be the dictum If
the State Parole Board f it follows
the recommendation of a committee
consisting of superintendent of Public
instruction Alderman. Superintendent
James, of the State Penitentiary; Rev.
p. r. Bauer, State Parole Officer, and
Father Moore, pastor of st. Josephs
Church, of this city, and one of the
chaplains of the Penitentiary This
committee met today in the Office Of
Mr.. Alderman and formulated a course
of study for the convicts at the prison.
This course of study is wide in its
range and while giving some branches
which will tend toward developing a
patriotic spirit, such as American his
tory, it largely leans toward the prac-
tical.
The recommendation which will be
made to the Parole Board, and which
undoubtedly will be acted upon by that
Board, will be compulsory course
along educational lines of the conyicts
who are serving under the indeter-
inmate sentence law, and unless these
convicts pass in their examinations
their applications for parole will be
rejected until such time as they show
themselves properly prepared to leave
the prison,
Education to Be Practical.
Especial stress will be laid on
branches in cookery, agriculture, hor-
ticulture, poultry raising and the use
of gas and gasoline engines. All of
these courses will be for the purpose
of furnishing the convicts with a prac,
ticaI education which will be beneficial
to them when they leave the prison
Those who are allowed to eat at the
first table" or, that is, those con,
victs who have evinced a desire to
learn good table manners, will be in
structed in cookery and the course
will be one tending to place them in a
position so that they will prove com,
petent chefs and be able to secure EN-
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-13
JUST A LITTLE EARLY

To talk about Christmas out of town
is a little premature, but it is well to
keep Haleiwa in mind. Unusual prep
arations are being made TO entertain
those who prefer a day away from
home to the bother of planning a din
ner and to entertain company. It's
rather difficult, too, to manage a golf
links in the average yard of a city
residence. Haleiwa affords the best
there is and a tennis court that is all
that could be desired by the most en-
thusiastic wielder of the racquet.
Keep Haleiwa in mind If on are plan
ming to leave town
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-13

citizens. Extensive systems of forts
and mines against Japan would be far
more effectually replaced by a friend
ly appeal to them on educational and
social lines"
In other words, the United States
ought to leave this immensely valuable
territory at the mercy of Japan. The
same argument would leave the coun,
try without a navy of any sort, That
condition may come when the world 5
peace is put on as assured basis, but
however desirable that contamination
may be we shall have to wait a while.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-13
BY J. A. BREcKoNs.

Especial Correspondence of The Starr
WASHINGTON. December THE
annual report of the secretary of agri-
culture, made public today, contains
the following concerning the Hawaii
Experiment Station:
AT the Hawaii Station the investi-
cations outlined in previous reports
have been continued and a number of
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-13
Testimony Refuted.

Mr.. Dearborn has made public let
ter which his company, through him,
had addressed to Senator Clapp as
chairman of the senate Commerce
committee, refuting testimony recently
given before that committee to the ef
feet that in event of the failure of the
proposed Baker steamship project
there would be no Independent service
through the canal In this letter Mr.
Dearborn pointed out that the AmeTi-
can-Hawaiian company had been in
operation since 1900, that its eighteen
steamers with an average capacity of
10000 tons had all been built in Amer
lean yards and that the 100000 tons
of freight carried annually had been
diverted from these transcontinenral
roads entirely through competitive
freight rates. The company, he added
was independent in every sense Of
the word.
1T may he added" said the letter 10
Chairman Clapp. that the American
Hawaiian Steamship Company has
plans under consideration for building
more steamers. The plans for the de
velopment of other steamship compan-
les which will compete with this cont
pany for business through the canal,
must be adversely affected by the
menace of government owned lines,
with which no private concern can sue
cessfully compete"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-13

Fine Job Printin., Star Office.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-13
AMERICAN-HAWAIIAN MAKES
SOLE BID FOR CARRYING
MAIL THROUGH THE CANAL

his offer he said it would cost about
$4,000 year to carry the mails against
the $75O.OOO the Government was to
have paid under it's subsidy offer. 1T
means absolutely nothing to us, you
can see," he added, whether We carry
the mails or not. But why pay $780,
600 a year for it? The mystery is,
why did the Government ever make
such an offer?"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-13
Doubt Subsidy Legality.

Mr.. Dearborn said that he in COM
mon with others who had studied the
matter, doubted the legality of the
subsidy offer. There was only the
opinion OF the Acknowledgement to-
back it up" he said, "and | for one
deemed that hardly sufficient" Under,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-16

Between meals, children ike TO eat tne
pulled grains dry, sprinkled with NIUE
salt. Boys like to have a pockctiu. az pay
The pulled grains are ideal for hetween,'
meal foods, for nothing else so easily u
geSts.
These two distinct foods, served III
these many ways, offer a wide varie'I,
Telephone your grocer for a package OF e"'"
and try some of these suggestions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-16
Seven Ways to Serve

crackers in a bowl of milk. The pulled
grains are crisper than crackers, and four
times as porous as bread. They are whole
grain foods.
For dinner, use Pulled Rice as a garniSh
to ice cream. Twill suggest to YOU toasted
nuts.
Use Pulled Rice in candy making-just
as you might use nuts. Directions on the
package.