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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-13

school children Most high schools
are, like the FTilo High School, able
to offer as yet, only two courses Of
study, the college preparatory and the
commercial course. Most OF the stu
dents who complete these four-year
courses are a credit to the high
school. The high school, however,
may Justly be expected to do more
than merely fit for college entrance
examinations or for clerkships. BE.
sides these things there may be men.
toned at least four other contribu.
tions the high school should make 10
the students preparation for life
First, it should teach them 70
write and speak English with facility
and correctness. More emphasis than
formerly should be placed on ability
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-13

The Hilo High School enjoys the
distinction of being the most advanc-
cd school on tn island of Hawaii.
II view of the size, population and
resources of the Big Island" it
would seem desirable that the one
school Of this & ade be maintained
on a liberal and progressive basis, to
afford the largest opportunity vi in
struction to the increasing number Of
bright youth, who are unable to 60
abroad for their education The pre-
sent outside aims to show what i'm
spiration and opportunity for mod
ern high school education the r1
High School offers at the present
time.
This school was opened in Sept
1905, with an enrolment Of twent
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-13
JAPANESE IDEAS ON WHAT IS
THE MATTER WITH THE CHINESE

LONDON, March 24.-The Tokyo
correspondent of the Times makes
some interesting observation on the
demeanor of thse Japanese nation in
the face of the fall of the Manchu
dynasty. 1t is noted that during the
4117 years of Chinas written history
nearly all the twenty-five dynasties
which have ruled her rose or fell amid
blOOdshed. The peaceful and volun-
tary surrender of the last dynasty
will stand, in Japanese opinion, TO
China's credit for all time.
But what most astonishes the Jap.
anese and provokes their censure,"
says the correspondent, lis the fact
that among the hundreds of millions
of Chinese people not one was found
to show any heroic devotion in sup
port of the Using dynasty. From the
point of view of a pure blooded son
of Han the Manchus were alien usurp-
ers. But they had produced such i'm
mortally great rulers as Kang-hsi and
Chien-lung, rulers who carried their
country to a high pinnacle of prestige
and prosperity
China owes them much. Moreover,
multitudes of Chinese must have re-
oeived from them benefits deserving
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-13

WASHINGTON, March 29.-Stirred
to action by a simple little postcard
cartoon, ridiculing the recall Of
judges, Senator Dixon, who is manag-
ing the Roosevelt campaign, has writ
ten to Ohpa Moore, secretary of the
Ohio Manufacturers association, a
letter which Moore describes as saw
oring of an "offense known as soil
citing a bribe."
The last paragraph of your let
ter said Moore in his letter of re-
ply to Senator Dixon, lis not credit
able to a United States senator en-
gagged in managing the campaign for
a former president for a third non.
consecutive term. In the first place.
it is threatening. 1t violates the spi-
rit of certain federal laws against
the sending of threatening letters
through the mail II does not look
well coming from a lawyer. In the
second place, it seems to SAVIOR of an
offense known as soliciting a bride
Fears Threat Is Yelled
you indicate that you have in
yonr power the making of tariff bills,
If the Ohio Manufacturers assocla.
ton lines up for your policies, it viii
set projections if it does not do Just
as you think it ought to do, you will
pass tariff law that will put us out
Of business. / am wondering if your
ideas of right and wrong can lie warp
ed thus by a crude postcard
by the way, this association has
made a speciality of bribe soliciting
law makers, several Of whom are
now on their way to our we'll equip.
ped penitentary The 'searchlignt of
publicity business is one of the best
things we do.
ALLOW me to repeat that this post,
card has not the slightest reference
to Colonel Roosevelt, but if YOU wish
to line up the business interests OF
Ohio against you and your candidate,
you can do it in "a hours by repeat,
ing the threatening position Of your
letter in reply to this"
The brisk correspondence between
Senator Dixon and the Ohio Manulac
turers association, which instituted
the prosecution against the bride TAX
ers in the Ohio legislature was Caus
J ed by a cartoon postcard represent
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-13

perpetual gratitude Yet among all
these benehciaries not one was found
to lay down his life for his sovereign
at the supreme moment. No record
could be stranger or more revolving
in Japanese eyes.
Only one explanation has been Of
fered 1t is that the study of classical
literature and the undue importance
attached to it have exercised an en-
evating effect on the upper classes
in China and have untitled them for
self-sacrifice in time of crisis.
TT is a melancholy picture in Jap.
anese eyes-a lady and her infant son
driven from a throne which their an
cestors had occupied during nearly
three centuries while 4OOOOO,OOO of
Chinese onlookers shrink from any
exercise of loyal chivalry in behalf
of the sufferers"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-13
FUN POKED At THE RECALL
STIRS WRATH OF DIXON

ing a matronly female, who asks of
her husband:
Henry, what is the recall?" and
Henry replies, why it's a movement
tc remove the umpire every time he
delivers a decision against the home
team"
Dixon Grows Wrathy.
The postcard aroused the ire OF Sc
nator Dixon, who, in a letter dated
March 81, called Moores attention
to the fact that the postcard, being
circulated by the Ohio Manufacture
ers' association evidently was intend
ed in some way to reflect on Colonel
Roosevelt The Roosevelt manager
asserted that no one could be more
interested in republican success than
the manufacturers of Ohio, adding.
Il have been laborng under the
impression that the Ohio Manufacture
ers' association was not an organ'za-
ton that was officially taking part IN
the contest between two republicans
for the nomination for the presiden-
cy. If this letter signed by you "a
letter urging the circulation Of the
postcards), is to be taken as the Off
cial action of the Ohio Manufacture
ers' association, ! think republican
senators and congressman who sin
cerely believe that RooseyClt's nom
ination alone can save the republican
party in the fall election, bad better
have an understanding about your
attitude now.
1T may be that the searchligLt of
publicity ought TO be turned ON this
action of the Ohio Manufacturers as
ISOLATION for the general benefit Of
the republican voters at large and for
the especial benefit OF the republican
senators and congressman who sup
ported the tariff bill of 1909, of whom
/ I was one, and who are for Roosevelt
but who have to deal with tariff bills
at the present and future sessions OF
congress-
/ 1t was in the last paragrarh that
/ the secretary of the Ohio Manufac-
turers association read the threat
that if the association lines up for
your policies it will get protection
II it does not do Just as you think
It ought to do, you will pass tarin
bill that will put us out of business
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-13

IN tie Use @. o.ai Lu-liea and uore
opportunity should be given the stu
dents to make use of their powers of
speech in various original ways. This
is particularly desirable in a land like
Hawaii, where students from non
English speaking families depend
largely on the school for the acqusi-
ton Of a practical vocabulary for the
needs OF daily life.
"Our high school graduates should
also so out into the world with at east
dash of culture in their makeup.
Matthew Arnold defined culture as
the knowledge of and love for the
| best that has been said and done IN
the world. A knowledge and appre-
citation of the great names and pro-
auctions in literature, art, invention
and craftsmanship, a taste for good
reading, love for the higher life, are
Of inestimable worth in the monoton-
Gus grind and often debasing vulgar
ity of practical life. These things do
not alays contribute directly to maxi
ing a living, but they help nightly
in extracting happiness from life
The high school of today should
also equip the student with a certain
social training of value. The social
activities of high schools have vastly
increased in the last decade or two.
The social side of athletics, dramatics
and the great variety of school func.
tons which prevail, whip many an
awkward youth into form that gives
him ease and grace among his fell
lows that enables him to get far
more out of life, to move in better
'r'rcles of society, and is frequently
of great advantage to him in a bust
ness or social career The world of
the influential is vastly more refined
than formely, Our young people
should get from the high school an
enlarged capacity for social success.
All progressive teachers know that
these factors of present day high
school life awaken ambition, stimu-
late latent energies, give scope for
individual initiative, and in other
ways enrich youth,
FINALLY, the high school should
give its graduates a good foundation
OF moral principles 1t cannot usurp
the function of the church and the
home, nor impart moral instruction in
/ precisely the same way. We have
practically eliminated religious in
struction and exercises from the pub,
lie school We do not preach NOR
atty verbally to students so much rs
formerly But the influence of the
modern high school makes indirectly
in various ways for the best sort of
Continued on Page 16)
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-13

Following are the concluding por.
tons Of the argumentative contents
Of II, Gooding Fields report to the
chamber of commerce on the admins
tration of Honoluu's municipal affairs.
These extracts deal with care Of parks
and school grounds, city and county
attorney, Hawaiian Band, Kapiolani
Park and the authors graphic charts
and statistical tables.
Care Of Parks and School Grounds. I
Eight men are now employed as
caretakers of the city parks who are
engaged as follows
Ala Park, two men at $40 per
month each, $50; Thomas Square two
ment at $40 per month each, $50;
Emma Square, one man at 40; Atkiu-
son Park, one man at $40; Kalihi Park
one man at sac; Kaiulani Park, one
man at $25. Total $3O5; also three
prison lunas at SIS per month each
$225; making a grand total of $500
There are three games Of county
prisoners, usually of eighteen men
each, who are engaged in cleaning the
parks and school grounds at regular
intervals, in charge of the prison
lunas, as above.
Allowing that one-half of the time Of
the prisoners is employed on the park
work, and the other half on the school
grounds, it now costs the city and
county over $40 per month to main
tain six small parks.
There IS little, if any, work for the
regular caretakers to do, after the
prisoners have done their work, cs-
peoialy as there are no public sta
tions at any of the parks 1t has been
observed that the sole occupation, Gp-
parently, of the regular paid attend
ants is the adjusting of water sprnk-
ers. Their number could reasonably
be reduced to four for the entire park
system without impairing efficiency,
thereby effecting an economy of $500
a year to the city and county.
City and counsy Attorney.
The estimated cost of maintenance
Of the attorneys Office for the city and
county of Honolulu for 1912 is $4,000
as against $4,000 for the office of
county attorney of Shelby county, Ten
nessee.
The county of Shelby, Tennessee, in
Guiding the city of Memphis with a
population of 100000, he's total
population of 100000 inhabitants, and
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-13

pupils. 1t has graduated thirteen
students, and the present senior class
numbers five. 1t is attended at pres.
ent by 147 pupils, of whom o. are iu
the sixth, seventh and eighth grades
and So in the high school proper.
In 1907 a modern ana commodiou5
building was erected at cost OF $40,
600, which compares fayoIaLly wit
similar buildings in towns of Xix
size on the mainland 1t contains
ten class rooms, including a fairly
well equipped chemical and physlcll
laboratory, an assembly hall, and is
situated in the center of spacious and
beautiful grounds in a healthful and
slightly position.
Many Nationalities.
The work of maintaining American
high school standards with a body of
students of such varied nationality
and degrees of social culture is an
arduous task but has proved to be
possible. Ten nationalities are lvpre-
scented on the roll of the Hilo High
School.
Of the fifty-five in the high school
proper, are Hawaiians, II part Ha-
waiians, - Americans, Portuguese,
Il japanese, 4 Chinese, besideN one
Korean and one Pole. Thus, only
about 60 per cent have English as the
native language of one or both par
ents.
Experience shows, however, that in
SPITE of this handicap the students
from non-English speaking families
average quite as high in their rec
ords as those whose native language
is English. The student with the
highest record this year is a Hawaii
an born Japanese.
The teaching force OF the Hilo
High School consists OF p F, Jorne-
gan, principal; Miss Anna b. Nelson
mathematics; Miss D. f. Shirley, sci
ences; Mr.. d. L. Miller, commercial
branches; Miss NJ, Louise Deyo, eighth
grade; Miss Esther Pomeroy seventh
grade; Miss Helen Severance, sixth
grade, The last three teachers named
have been teaching in the Hilo High
School since 1907, and are well known
fol their conscientious and efficient
work.
The four teachers or the higher
grades entered the school in Septem-
her, 1911. Mr., Jernegan came to Hilo
from the San Jose, Cal, high school,
and was previously engaged for nine
years in the Philippine educational
service, principally in the Philippine
Normal School and the Junior College
of Liberal Arts He is the author OF
several textbooks on the history gov
eminent, and geography Of the Phi.
ippines, and is well known as a lee,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-13
The Onlooker.
By the Man
- at the -
Tailor Shop

Z AA1C O111OOhGI Tailor Io 's Shop (
Poor Leonardo He has but
for friends he might have been another charge
young child
means of support Why he He had good
job after FORGETTING over and over again and his friends had immersed
him in gold drink
and in it he found stimulus The
help for it
The local cIergymen have done their
ab 80 ,or r, I s a ~. t TL i pt h baS
ahike by the first There iron in it's nature
Speaking Of the other advertise talk of that got
nothing it did for
of thousands tourists This Diego.
penned this little item Very likely it freak of imagination but no
matter.
That item was copied far and wide and met the eye stong rich
man an Invalid VINO was looking for life IN the open ar with ponDe
shotgun nude His Elisha Babcoc He fell to the bait
and San Diego is the better
better? Bboock redeemed
tanned big water supply unoded his debts outsider who took hold
has been building the since.
Diego shows small humanInees
in 9S and later
n
ask Charles Dudley Warner out spend the winter the big hotel
form did pogous Southern California boom
reputation
originally from the book Charles Nhof forty
California Benjamin
Taylor beautiful which charmed
Take the single little village of what
did all the village
California aterward found that three
the thousands
his sunshine
We four were but little squads of great army.
southeastwad
would That Greater Honolulu
with the MAN, broad business district there
the side Merchant Bethel Fort Bishop
Aaea
big retail with wholesale
hundred substantial business
addition the number included the
without
that the with
the badge The idea
Hawaii with the republic which succeeded the
white
determined the constitution This
t difficult
attention of the police.
double
double Hawaiian and Porto Rcans become citizens
IN
would
particular occasions.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-13
Annual Salary
$4,000
Four Employees

Four Employees S9SOO
+ No fund allowed for inc.denta's.
In other words, to safeguard the
legal interests of the City and County
of Honolulu, it now costs $3.50 more
a year to handle and two tifths times
less public legal business than is the
case in one of a number of progressive
communities on the mainland
A comparison OF the actual public
legal business transacted at Honolulu
and Memphis, respectively, is as fol-
lows.
For one year ending December 81,
1910:
City and County of Honolulu: 497
cases disposed of Cncluding prosecu-
tions for violation of liquor law, etc).
Including eight murder cases.
County of Shelby, Tennessee Getty
Of Memphis)
+ 21S7 cases disposed OF exclusive
Of 600 prosecutions for violation of
liquor law.
I Including sixty-eight murder
cases.
Hawaiian Band.
! This organization consisting at pres
CONTINUED on Page 16)
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-13
HiIo High School
Showing Up Well

turer. Miss Nelson and Miss Shirley
are recent graduates Of the Univer.
sity of California and are teachers Of
some years experience. Mr. Miller is
graduate of an Indiana buiness
college.
High Standard.
The standard set and maintained in
the Hilo High School is, considering
differences of environment the same
as the average American high school
The average attendance Is 9bout gS
err cent and in the term eXamiua-
tons the high school students reach
an average of nearly So pc. cent.
About 90 per cent Of the students av-
erage over 80 per cent on their term
examinations. Only one student haa
made a general failure in scholarship
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-13
SACRAMENTO DRUGGIST
ACCUSED AS 8lGAMlST

SACRAMENTO, April 2. Lloyd
Gillett, a local druggist, was arrested
here today on a charge of b,gGmy pre-
ferred by J, W. Abram, father of Gil
let's first wife, who is living. Gillett
married Mrs. Bertha Stahl of Chico
in that city Sunday.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-13
AthIetics.

Athletics receives a due share q, at
tention The baseball team has met
with but one defeat this season. A
new tennis association has been form.
ed, and half of the students ere pay
ing members. A considerable sum
was raised by subscription for the
repair of the tennis court FWthar
sums were raised for the purchase Of
footballs and boxing gloves.
From time to time the schooi holds
picnic and at one recently given
at Cocoanut Island several prizes
were given to contestants in swim.
ming.
The relations between students and
teachers and the school and the
community in general have been most
happy during the present school year,
The school draws a number of its
students from towns along the rail,
road line and, as the railroad is eX-
tended, attendance from this s0urca
will increase. Within a few years
the attendance should be much en-
larged
Principals Address.
Perhaps the spirit and aims which
pervade the school may be best ex-
pressed by the following extracts
from recent speech of the princi.
pal before the parents of the high
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-13
Annual Salary.

r Attached to this office, but whose
slary Of $500 a year is charged to the
police pay roll
County of Shelby Tennessee (Popu-
laton, 100000:
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-13

during the present school year The
passing mark is 65 PER cent ana III
the opinion of the writer the scale Of
marking is quite as rigid as in most
mainland high schools.
Social Aspects.
Marks alone are, of course, an IN.
adequate indication OF the effective,
ness of the wo.k of school. The
IIilo High School stands also for SO
cial and mental stimulus to the lite
Of it's students. Each term there is
a parents reception at which "a PRO
gram is presented by the students
and the parents learn something OF
the needs and work of the school.
During a large part of the pILSent
school year the several classes have
taken in charge in turn the weekly
Rhetorical programs. Debates. decl1m-
atons, playlets, music, and other eA-
ercises have been enthusiastical'y PRE-.
scented with a healthful spirit of class
rivalry. or late the entire school has
been organized into two literary so.
cieties, known respectively as the Lei
Hawaii and the Lei Mamo. Each So
ciety takes charge of a literary pro.
gram presented before the entire
school on alternate weeks. On acca-
sion the societies give a joint pro
gram, thus cultiyating in turn spi-
rit of competition and of coopera,
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-16
LYNCH WINS THEM OVER
Head of 1. II. U. Defeats Plans of the
ProgreSsives.

Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 16.-A bold at
tack was made by the 'progressives" III
the International Typographical unions
convention upon the alleged autocracy
of the administra ton, but the attack
failed. ----t---
President James NJ. Lynch himself
took the floor in opposition to the ''pro-
gressives' " proposal to appoint board
of IS directors who would be given
much of the power now welded by the
president and the executive council of
three Turning the gavel over TO Vice
President George A. Tracy, Lynch in a
fiery speech condemned the anti-admin-
istrationists as theorists quack reme-
les for imagined ills of the organiza-
ton. He declared that every so-called
progressive measure that has yet been
offered would, if adopted, mean $50, 900
or $50, 900 a year greater expense. AL
though the proposed legislation con-
templates the elimination of autoeracy,
Lynch said that if it were passed and
he could not build up the most COM
plete autocracy in existence" he would
reI.ounee all claims to ability.