Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-01-27

AS FIRST CLAIM
Civic Section of Mems League
Supports Attitude of
Commission.
NEEDS OF TERRITORY
MUST BE SUPPLIED
w. R, Harrington, Member Of
Commission, Delivers Adj
dress of the Evening,

The educational needs Of the Ter
ritory and the results of months of
work on the part of the school fund
commission to draft plan to fill
those needs, were presented last
night to members of the civic section
of the Mems League in an address
by w. r. Harrington, member of the
commission.
Mr.. harrington went somewhat in
to detail in a discussion of the most
pressing needs of the Territorial edu-
cational system and facilities, as well
as presenting in outline the commits
sion's plan for remedial legislation.
The questions are approached not on
~ from an educational but from q
business standpoint, and the failure
of the Territory in the past to make
ample provisions for schools is ar
raigned as a positive disgrace from
both standpoints.
The keynote of the address is the
argument that schools should have
first claim on the revenues of the
Territory and Mr.. Farringtons at
titude in this found unanimous sup
port among the members of the Men
League in the resulting discussion
Judge W. l.. Whitney, chairman OF
the civic section presided
The address in part is as follows;
Naming the policy is easy. Working
it ont is where the difficulty comes
and | can assure you that talk GOV
ering the different views met with by
the public school fund commission
would occupy the whole night, ant
then the average person would s.
home wondering how on earth any
thing practical can be worked out o
such tangled mass of earnest, hon
est and really good ideas,
| assume. that what is wanted of nj
| tonight is to sketch how the publi
school fund commission has solve
| the problem of public school polio
/ for the Territory of Hawaii. Tha
| can be briefly summed up in the state
ment Of fact that the commission ha
| been going forward making comprom
Use with everyone but the devil.
! its first session the three member
began to cast up their general idea
| to discover where they were in agree
ment. On one point they were a
schools must be met by specific ia,
weeks he could not have Matched II
In the bill as finally drawn up 70
| submission to the legislature, ther
is not word said of a sufficient d
rect tax to meet the needs of the pull
lie schools.
Ample Funds Not Supplied.
1 Another point on which the con
mission was unanimous was that tn
failure of the Territory of Hawaii
supply ample funds to meet the grow
ing demands for the education of tn
youth was, and is, a shameful di
grace.
We have a cosmopolitan populatio
whose children we have to educate {
good Americans. Did you ever stop
think what variety of positive opil
, ions must come from a populate
whose citizens we're born and reare
under such widely divergent educ
ional systems? 1t is with educate
as with pie, none is quite so good :
that which mother used to make.
Educational Enthusiasts.
One of the best examples of tn
idea came to the table of the commi
sion early in its sessions gentl
man who is a good citizen and hol
estly interested in the schools and
its people along traditional America
lines wrote the commission as fC
lows: "As the tax would be east
imposed and collected the tendent
would be towards extravaganza
building equipment and running e
ncnse. since it must not be forgottt
that the biennial estimates would
made for each period by education
enthusiasts, whose tendency for ag
has been to lose sight of the practic
in the dream of the theoretical"
i. Did you catch that phrase, educ
tonal enthusiasts"
: If that gentleman had tried +
week he could not have Matched
| a combination of words better el
tomizing the blockades in the pat
way of progress for education,
| This gentleman like many anoth
| of this kind would not think of pr
| ting his machinery or his landed pr
| perty in the hands of anything but
| mechanical enthusiast or an agricl
| tural enthusiast, whose enthusias
| makes him worth what our friei
| pays him and causes the enterpri
| to turn out dividends. Where won
| the sugar industry Of Hawaii ha
| been today had it not been for t
money spent in backing up the pr
/ positions of the enthusiasts?
Need for Expert Teachers.
i You want expert information
your business and are willing to p
for It. 1t pays. Then why should y
~ object to the educational enthusias