The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1911-07-01
Honolulu
Newsletter
Racy Paragraphs From the Capitol On
Current Topics.
(By Oscar Brenton. }
o, it was pitiful
In a whole cityful
Dirt there was some.

That starts off something like the
Song of the Shirt and the words
come to me as / ponder over the
work of the cleanup committee last
Saturday. Why, in little places
where one would not believe barrel
of muck could find Judgement, load
after load of filth was removed.
From little employment office on
Emma Street above Beretania the
amount removed required q four
horse team to carry away. China
town had its quota and it measured
up well with that taken from the
Japan Sea. And now that cleaning
day is simply matter of history
what are the people to look forward
to? The legal holiday part of it was
a farce. The fact that the public was
called upon to turn out and do what
the Board of Health inspectors are
paid for doing is enough to condem
those men and cause a change to be
made. Business men have no time
to devote to the duties of men whom
they pay through taxation for doing
certain work and / do not believe
the occasion should recur when they
may be called again. Keep the men
at work. Give them authority, it
they do not now have it, to take
violators of any sanitary law or re-
gulation and make them pay for
their carelessness. Honolulu is clean
er than it has been since the mis-
sionaries came here and by the
Lord Harry it should be kept so.
The drowning of young Eddie
Scheib is regretted by large list
of acquaintances and friends and
up to this writing his body has not
been recovered. | am unalterably
opposed to boys going on these
yachts even though the sailing may
be done only in the harbor. They
start out in the most innocent man.
ner and then drift along past the
bar. leave you to guess what |
mean. After passing the bar Nam
mas Boys are joshed to point
where they forget the iniunctions
their mothers have put upon them
and they cease from the moment to
be Mammals Boys 1t is there
that in several instances young
boys have learned to like the taste
of beer and harder stuff. 1t is there
they begin in the hoodlum class and
and it is in that class they remain
for a period, at least, and some
times it is long one. | know young
lads here in Honolulu who have
gone off on those excursions and in
dulged in liquor until they were in
capacitated and kept outside long
enough to sober up. Not good
thing to think of, is it? But it is as
true as gospel. Scheible was one of
the exceptions; he never drank.
| l see the Hilo policeman, the
"Get-rich-quick" copper, has been
held by Commissioner Davis for
trial by the federal jury. This hits
me on the funnybone for the man
who brought the dope into the
country seems not to have been
considered in the light of violator
of the law of the land. Engineer
Barker, if all that has been sworn
to is true, should be signed bit
rather than throw all of the blame
on the Hawaiian. Do not under
stand me as defending the police
man; he should get all that is com
ing to him. And there may be
others. | suppose that until the
recent upheaval tons of the stuff
ihave been brought in and sold,
am of the opinion that there are