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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-19
EXPERIMENTS INDICATE THAT RICE
CROWS WELL IN CALIFORNIA

suits, and this year rice was planted
on nine farms, the total acreage be-
ing 175 acres. Seven tracts are in
the Sacramento valley and two in the
San Joaquin. There is every indica-
ton that the yield will be heavy, as
usual. The harvest is now on.
81 am confident that rice culture
will become one of the biggest indus
tries in the state. Land which can
not be used for any other crop will
grow rice, and it can be grown at
greater profit than any other cereal,
the yield being nearly nine times
greater per acre than that of wheat.
Kind of Soil Required.
There are probably 100000 acres
in the state which can be used for
rice growing. The soil must be thin
and underlaid with an impervious
subsoil, owing to the fact that the rice
fields must be submerged in several
inches of water during the last sixty
FIVE or seventy-five days of its
growth. Irrigation facilities in the
valleys seem to be sufficient"
Last years crop of rice in Califor'
MIA was milled and consumed in this
state 1t was contracted for by a
San Francisco firm and met with an
excellent reception on the market.
Chambliss says that the govern
ment's work will be enlarged neX'
year and that a base of operations
may be established here. The De
partment of Agriculture receives
many inquiries from California farm
ers concerning the Investigations and
solicits more OF them.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-19

subject, and have dug up lot of very
useful information; and l take it that
some of that information will be just
as valuable to you people of Oregon
as it is to us in Minnesota.
Flocking to Cities.
The thing that bothered us first,
and that has bothered us a good deal
more or less since the census Stats
tics have been returned, was the
trend of,the boy and the girl from the
country to the city-the large in
crease in the population of our cities
and the falling off of the rural popula-
ton; the falling off in the producing
centers of the country and the in
crease in population in the eastern
cities. The conditions prevailing in
those cities would make a white man
blush to think of them Our boys and
girls from the country were focking
to the cities and we wanted to know
the reason for that. We found it he
for this: that for a hundred years in
this country the schools and the col
leges have been educating the boys
and the girls from the farms to the
cities. In other words, in the coun-
try, whose greatest assets are the
land and it's agricultural industry, our
entire educational system has been
centered on the intellectual; and the
practical has had absolutely no place
in education until the past few years.
Is it any wonder that the ideal held
up to the boy and the girl from the
country that the only place where
men and women can become success
full is in the city? When they con-
slider the drudgery there in the cour-
try, and the lack of personal COM
forts in the country, is it any wonder
that the boys and the girls turn to-
ward the city? What is the result
OF that? In Seattle yesterday l clipped
this from a paper:
Chicago, June 6.-The premature
summer in Chicago has found twenty
thousand homeless men, mostly young
men from the country who have failed
to find city job and who live in
cheap lodging-houses, which a recent
investigation shows to be fire-traps,
pest houses, many being doomed to
cellars. Their sleeping accommoda-
lions are bare boards. They are COM
PEELED to sleep on the wharves along
the river, and in the parks, since the
warm weather came, lying on news
papers" etc.
Make Country Life Attractive.
Our big cities are full of boys who
Continued on page eleven)
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-19
NOTABLE ADDRESS BY A BANKER
ON THE ENCOURAGEMENT Of THE
BACK TO THE FARM" MOVEMENT

A paper on "a Business Mans In
terest in Education" read at the Ore
gon bankers convention.
BY JOSEPH CHAPMAN, Jr.
Vice-President Northwestern National
Bank Minneapolis, MINI.
Mr.. President and Ladies and Gen
tlemen
have very pleasant recollections of
a similar visit here five years ago
When you had your convention then l
made a similar little talk on some
matter | don't recall just now what
it was. One of the things that made
a lasting impression upon me on that
occasion was your splendid banquet
in the evening, and l express my re-
grets now in being unable to be with
you at the dinner tomorrow night.
One of the bright incidents of my rec
objections of this western country is
that banquet of five years ago, par
ticularly the speeches and the funny
stories told.
The subject l am to talk on this aft
ernoon for few moments is "A Bus
mess Mans Interest in Education"
In the first place, is the business man
interested at all in education? AS a
matter of fact he is not. AS a MAJ
ter of fact he should be, because there
is no possible question before the
American people today-the currency
question, the tariff bill, or any other
question,-that will anywhere touch
the future welfare of the people of
this country as will the subject of
education; and the reason for it is
that the business men for hundred
years have paid absolutely no atteu-
ton to the question of education.
How Minnesota Bankers Began.
Some three years ago when bresi-
dent of the Minnesota Bankers Asso.
citation, as the result of attending n
group of meetings in Minnesota for
a few years q was secretary of that
association seven years)-as the re-
suit of the heart to heart talks with
the bankers when they met in groups
of fifty to a hundred, regarding con-
ditiOns in Minnesota, we bewailed the
fact that the agricultural sections of
our state were not growing. There
were then some bankrupt farms in
southwestern Minnesota. | recon-
mended to the Bankers Association
that they appoint committee of five
to look into the subject of agricul-
tural development as pertains to
Minnesota. Unfortunately for me,
was appointed chairman of that CON-
tee, and for three years now we have
worked more or less earnestly on this
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-19
.LEPROSY AND FISH EATING

smoked and sailed fish sold in shops.
One man could do the work. The ex-
act relation of fish diseases to the dis
eases of man was little understood,
but with proper cooking there was
nothing to fear, even when the fish
mad internal parasites.
Some time ago." Mr. Stead went
on, 1T was alleged in some American
newspapers that thyroid carcinoma
(Which had been found among certain
trout, and proved fearfully infectious
among them) was communicable to
man. This created a small scare, and
it travelled around the world through
the newspapers. The possibility Of
the communication of this disease to
man has never been demonstrated. On
the contrary, men have handled fish
so affected with impunity; in no in
stance were they infected.
"A connection has been alleged to
exist between leprosy and fisheating
l want emphatically to state here that,
whatever there may be in such a suG-
gestion, it has never been alleged that
leprosy was connected in any wav
with the eating of fresh fish, or Of
properly sailed and smoked fish, or Of
fish prepared by any method what
ever provided it was reasonably
fresh when it was treated.
what has been claimed by some
was that leprosy appeared to be in
duced by the constant eating of putrd
fish, or of unsound sailed fish; or that
the disease was most apparent in com
munites or among PERSONS who large
ly consumed such fish"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-19

experiments.
Stages Of Development.
He said: ut has taken me, indeed,
but a few years to pass through the
stages where an investigator is told
that his alleged observation was a
mistake; when he is told that if It
were true, it would be useless, and
when he is told that it is undoubtedly
true, but that it has always been
known"
The volume deals with the princi-
pies on which mechanical flight was
founded, principles that were regarded
as fantastic speculation at the time,
but that have since been accepted as
truisms Having secured a grasp of
these elements, Prof. Langley then
started in to build a heavier-than-air
flying machine, the first that had ever
been built anywhere. Up to that time
the nearest approach to a flying ma.
chine was the ingenious paper toy of
Penaud, the French experimental. and
this driven as it was by rubber bands
would support itself in the air tor less
than ten seconds.
Prof. Langley undertook to build a
larger machine, not for the ostenta-
tious satisfaction of proving the the
cries on which he had been working,
but because he said it was impossible
to learn more about the principles of
fight without studying fight itself,
And, he added, it was almost impossi-
BILE to get fight without knowing more
about the principle, so he felt confined
in vicious circle" from which there
was little hope of escape.
Built Remarkable Engine.
However, he started in 1892 building
the first of his steam-driven machines.
He did it. But those three little words
encompass the history of four years of
heartbreaking work. The problem was
difficult and discouaging in more than
one way. He was an old man at the
time and had no more than a casual
knowledge of steam engineering.
There was literature in plenty, but
there might almost as well have been
none for all the help it was. Steam
engines then were rated fairly light
at 500 pounds to the horsepower. But
he wanted one just about one-hun-
dredth Of the weight, He aimed to
build such an engine as had never
been built before and practical en-
gineers told him it was impossible.
Continued on page eleven.)
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Sydney Telegraph: After describing
some of the diseases to which our fish
are liable, Mr.. D. G.. Stead, naturalist
Fisheries Department, spoke to the
Food Supply Commission yesterday
about scare over the reported find
ing of thyroid carcinoma in trout, and
over the connection between leprosy
and fish-eating. At any rate, he says
it has never been claimed that there
is any danger whatever way the fish
may be treated, so long as it is rea'
sonably fresh.
Fishes, said Mr.. Stead, were liable
to parasitic and bacterial diseases, and
to fungus growths. Actually diseased
fishes were seldom, in his experience
found in the Sydney fish markets, but
cases of parasitism were quite com
mon. Ulcers were sometimes seen
chiefly in fishes which had been pad
locked" too long, or caused by in
jury. Many forms OF crustacean para
sites were found in our fishes; they
were generally called "fish-lice.' But
they were founG on healthy fish, and
need cause no anxiety. Such carniv
orous fish sa barracuda and pike
were particularly liable TO infestatiof
by worms, Quite apart from any ques
ton Of danger to the public, fishes
with questionable swellings or ulcers
or worms or which looked KNOCKED
about, should be rigidly condemned
He had often seen heavily-salted ant
smoked barracuda and other fish SOLE
which was manifestly unsound. Their
should be a system of inspection o
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-19
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ISSUES
BULLETIN GIVING LATE PROF.
LANGLEY CREDIT FOR AVIATION

WASHINGTON, August 29.-After a
delay of more than five years since
his death, February q, 1906, the
Smithsonian Institution has issued the
Memoir on Mechanical Flight" de
failing the years of labor and expert
ment whereby Prof. S. p. Langley, late
| secretary of the institution, flew the
first heavier-than-air machine, and
opened the door to the present devel
opment of human flight.
! The memoir is in two volumes, the
! first by Prof. Langley himself, detail
ing the work up to the close of the
experimental period when the first
steam-driven model was down. This
was May 6, 1896. The second volume
! is the work of Charles Manley, Prof.
Langley's chief assistant, who design.
ed and in a large part built the re-
markable gasoline engine that was to
have driven the man-carrying machine
built for the war department. Both
sections of the work are rather tech.
nical, and while of great interest to
the modern aviator and the follower
of aerial development, they do not pre-
tend to give any of the human inter-
est features that make the story so
intensely dramatic.
Won Little Recognition.
Readers of the books are comment
ing that it is really remarkable that
Prof. Langley, being the pioneer in
human flight, has received so little
recognition for his labors. After the
first of his steam-driven models was
flown a popular magazine secured
from him a story of that part of his
work. This was the only printed ac-
count of the work published till after
his death, with the single exception
of an authoritative account of the ma
chimes performance written under
Prof. Langley's guidance and publish.
ed in The Star December Il, 1896.
What is regarded as an equally re-
markable fact is that the development
of mechanical flight after proceeding
so far was laid aside after Prof. Lang
ley's model was flown, AMI nothing
more was done till the flights of the
Wright brothers, in 10000, attracted
the attention of the world.
The memoir deals in large part with
and their results that are
now accepted as matter-0f-course
facts. At the time they were made,
however, they were the first steps OF
a great scientist cropping Dlindly in
the dark They illustrate to a nicely
the cynical reference that Prof. Lang
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-19
HEAD Of SECRET SERVICE DROPS
INTO FRISCO UNEXPECTEDLY

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. with
the characteristic caution of the
trained detective, John e. Wilkie, chief
of the secret service of the Treasury
Department, dropped into the Office Of
the special treasury agents in the new
customs house yesterday afternoon,
without having heralded his coming in
any way.
He arrived from Portland, Ore, on
the previous evening and went quietly
to bed in the Palace Hotel Chief
Mohitt of the secret service depart
ment of the postofIice and his assist.
ant, Joseph Stratter, were over in Oak
land winding up a three weeks pur-
suit after a gang of counterfeiters who
had been scattering bogus s. pieces
all over Santa Cruz and Monterey
counties, and as they did not return to
this city until after l a. m, they were
blissfully unaware that their chief was
in town.
When Wilkie entered the Office Of
the special agents in the custom house
no one was in the office but Clerk At,
kinson, who extended the hospitali-
ties of the season. Agent Bean was
in Seattle assisting Agent Claiming in
inspecting that customs district, and
Agent Tidwell had gone to the water
front to superintend the search for
Struggled and contrabrand goods on
the steamer Persia, General r. G.,
Vernon, the diamond expert, was also
on the Persia, and the surprise party
was complete.
Chief Wilkie then called upon Act
ing Collector William B. Hamilton and
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-19
SOUTH AMERICAN REPUBLIC HAS
THE WORLDS LARGEST BAT7LESHIP
CHARLES G. GATES,

QUINCY, Aug. 26.-Amid cheers
from a thousand throats. in which
English and Spanish phrases joined in
one great expression of pride and joy,
the worlds largest tatt,esh z was sue
cessfully launched today. Al the YES
sci slid off the ways Senoya De Naon.
wife of the Argentine minister to the
United States, broke a r;bbon-encased
bottle of champagne over the bow of
the monster sea fighter and Christened
her the RIvadavia.
She is built for the Argentine gov
eminent
1t was just 1853 O'Clock when the
massive hull started slowly down the
incline and a few moments later it
was floating gracefully in the water
of the Fore river.
The launching had been set for 1880
o'clock. The delay Of an hour and
half was due to the fact that much
more and heavier blocking had heon
built around the massive hull than
around any vessel previously launched
at the Fore River yards, and the build
ers failed to realize how .ous L would
take to remove it. The work wJs be-
gun an hour earlier than has beeu Gus
tomary, but this did nuJ allow SUI
ficient extra time to enable the carry
ing out of the schedule.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-19

The ceremonies attending the actual
launching of the battleship were sim
pie. Half an hour before the time set
for the affair the big launching stand
built about the vessel and restooned
with the blue and white, the national
colCrs of Argentine republic, was
crowded with guests, and as the crack
ing Of the supporting timbers gave in
dication that the huge craft WAS near
ly ready, Sonora De Naon, bottle in
hand, took her place by the bow. Her
few words as she christened the first
vessel of her nations fleet and the
cheering of the crowd composed that
part of the program.
In christening the battleship, Sonora
De Naon acted as the special repre-
sentative of Sonora Rosa Saenz, wife
of the president of the Argentine Re
public. Gathered about her as she per-
formed the act assigned to her were a
score of Representatives of the Repub-
lie Of Argentine, as well as representa-
tive men of the United States.
Ambassador De Naon was the spe-
cial envoy of Argentine and in addi-
ton there were present many other
prominent officials from that country.
The United States government had
Continued on page twelve.)
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Chief Boarding officer Charles II.
Stephens and accompanied them to the
steamer, where the famous govern
ment detective displayed great interest
in the operations of the searching
squad, which was going over the YES
sci with a fine comb in search of
opium
Investigating Complaints.
Wilkie would not admit that he had
a special reason for his visit other
than he was making one of the regu-
lar administrative trips to this Coast,
and to the gulf stations for the pur-
pose of making himself acquainted
with the special agents and their meth
DDS.
Before Wilkie started from Wash
ington he had received many letters
from officials in the San Francisco
custom house complaining of the man
ner in which the agents were inspect,
ing that department and disappearing
of the recommendations made by the
agents to the secretary of the treas
ury respecting certain desired changes
in the methods pursued in the custom
house. Many of these recommended
tons were approved and put into force
by order Of the secretary, and the of.
ficials interested chafed and fretted,
and exhibited an antagonsm to the
agents that made the atmosphere Of
the custom house decidedly chilly.
"No one need have any idea that
there will be an upheaval as the re-
suit of my visit, said Wilkie What
Continued on page twelve)
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-19

SAN FRANCISCO, September 81
Experiments in rice culture conduct
ed by the United States Department
of Agriculture in the Sacramento and
San Joaquin valleys during the past
three years indicate that the growing
of rice may become one of Calico
MAS premier agricultural industries.
Soil and climate conditions have been
found to be favorable, and astonish-
ingly large yields have been obtained.
The governments work in this
state is in charge of Charles E. Cham
bliss of the Department of Agricul-
ture. He is in San Francisco on his
way to the rice experimental fields
in the Sacramento and San Joaquin
valleys, after which he will report
his findings to the department. Cham
bliss was put in charge of the rice
investigations in this state three
years ago in response to numerous IN
quiries from California farmers as TO
the possibility of raising that cerea'
here.
Yield Was Phenomenal.
"The first year." said Chambliss
last evening at the Stewart Hotel
Eve planted 965 varieties of rice IN
the San Joaquin and Sacramento val
leys. The crop was put in the ground
after the last of the spring rains ana
was harvested before the first OF the
fall rains. Nevertheless, the yield
was phenomenal, doubling the yield
obtained in Louisiana and Texas ana
fully equaling it in quality.
1.-THE next year we increased the
paintings with equally gratifying re-
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-19

Continued on page twelve.)
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PAGES 9 TO IL
Stages Of Development.

a ley afterward made to this stage Of his
e experiments.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-19

A paper on "a Business Mans In
terest in Education" read at the Ore
gon bankers convention.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-04-27
Snrnrlse for Champs.

Portsmouth, O., April 27-PerIect
weather and fine spirit shown by ev-
eryboidy made the opening game of
tho champs season on their home
grounds a huge success. The crowd
was the largest week day attendance
in the clty's history. Three bands
took part in the big parade and Mayor
Searcy formally opened the season.
The management has set May u as
pennant raising day when President
Read and other baseball dignitaries
can be present. Newark showed sur
prisingly good form and by better
fielding and punching their hits took
the opening game. Score:
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-04-27
Lima Loses opncr.

Lima Ohio, April 27-Casas wa
wild today, walking the first tive
men that faced him. A triple d
double and a single followed and ht
was removed from the scenery. Don
aids was unable to hold the Me
chanics and he was succeeded By
schanze. who pitched great ball fol
six innings but Hamilton had al
ready won s to 2. A big street parade
in which two brass bands and ovei
100 automobiles participated, featured
the opening.
Score:
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-04-27

Two-base hits-Eppler. Riehl. Sacrl
flee hits Wrigley. IL. Cain. Stolen
bases-Anderson Double plays-E'
Cain and Riehl. Wolfe and kaVat-
sack, Franken and Rlehl Wrlgley
Lake and Kavatsack. Struck OUT
by Handley 8, by Curry Aliases OH
balls-On Handley 2, off Curry o
Hit by pitcher-Wilkie, Passed balls
Anderson /, Lake !. Time--l;5O. Uu'
pire-Goehler.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-04-27
" FINE CUT FOR FANS : :.
II \ X X X y y

ed Ruelbach gave nihe pases y"
balls in five innings, when falieu 10,
tho derrick. He expects TO iet tu"'o"
down by September l.
Every Quaker got one or Horo nlu'
on tho Brooklyn fingers ald every y
one except Doolan one or npro runs
II is up to the cubs nof 10 So So
whether they can win WI Pou. e''o
dashing leadership Of Manage Chanoo
who is out of the game win : 'p'"'''
ed ankle.
,.,o,,cs' elevator going
Ihe Ht. cnnnto Mack smiles once IN
a while again,
voune Ganor had his be9 day az
ouns Dotroit with three singles In
three times up.
"Rugs" Raymond's mos1 coVereu go
,,.,ot diet turned in another Nic'o'S
for the Giants,
rho 81 Louis Browns nave los
,no of their last ten games bei,'
,n eighth place, they are not eNpe''
cd 10 go any lower
With round dozen NrlNeo"ceSn cnio
| arndit against the Senator's Chle
render holds the palm 10 ua'o'
Manager Bresnahan Is rehapS ai ~
norted to be nearing the padded m eo
state as a result of having 10 tra
even the humble Doves in the Ma
tional league race
Yesterdays major league game
| furnished by long odds the heaViol
hating of the season. Eight team
hotted into double llgures.
| II Zimmerman keeps up his 900
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-04-27

Two-base hit--Harold. Three-basC
hit-~Conwell Sacrifice hits-Foster
Platter. Sacrifice fly-Foster Stolen
bases-Jones, 3; Edwards, Calls
Boggan, 2. Bases on balls-On Platter
3; off Harter, 4. Hit by pitcher
Newman and Weinberg. struck oui
by Platter, A; by Harter, 4. Dou
bile play-Prysock to Newman tt
Foster. Time-2;15. Umpire-Rap
hun.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-04-27
Mltrlcn MnI Lcctnrc.

Now York April 27.-It was an
nounced that John Mitchell, formerly
president of the Mine Workers of
America, who was compelled to give
up his position with the National Civic
Federation by his union viii go on
the lecture platform His subjects
will be: The Philosophy, Purposes
and Ideals Of the Trade Union Move
ment and Industrial Accidents and
Compensation to Workingmen for
Losses Caused by Them.