Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-19
''HOlNOLULU, AS IS
An Address by Senator A. F. Judd Before the Social Sci
ence Association on Monday Evening, Oct. Ia

time the danger to young womanhood
continues.
AIoofness Toward the Army.
There appears to be too much oil
an aloc1ness on the part of our civil
ian population toward the army off
Ger or rather perhaps not enough oil
the feeling exists that we are ali
Americans working for the common
good Of our country in this outpost
in the Pacifit> There should be more
Of the delightful and improving in,
tercourse which exists in the Univer.
sity Club between officer and civil,
ian. -
Henolulu's state of society has al.
ways been rural, not urban. Thirty
years ago the valley boys were
sorry for the boys who We're unfor.
tunate enough to reside on the
plains" This feeling, it is needless
to say. was reeiprocated. This feel
ing of neigliborhood pride has not
only not died out, but seems to have
increased.
kaimuki has its champions, College
Hills talks of separate municipal
ity. Prospect Street must have $4,000
spent ON it. The Improvement Club
idea has fostered a>certain feeling OF
competition between parts or town.
In politics, at least In the Republican
party, this feeling has been accentu.
ated. No precinct can put up for
public office more than one or two
men. although there may. be half a
dozen capable men available, resi-
dents of that precinct, without being
accused Of trying TO hog It ALL"
Two precincts learned this to their
cost in the last. Republican county
convention. The unit of community
feeling is still the neighborhood dis
trfct.
Too Much Catering to Precincts.
Under the monarchy we brought
forward for the legislature the best
men wherever we could find them
We do not do SO today. The repre-
sentation by precincts has gone too
far. / assert that we should re-read
the minutes of our former meetings,
although Secretary Fisher thinks We
do this too often; we should profit
by the experience gained in the past
rather than try something new which
may not work so we'll.
The love for Hawaii lnei exists still
among the kamaainas and is readily
caught and assimi1ated by the mali
hini. But there Is no such love for
Honolulu as such. No one takes
pride in being resident of Honolulu
and "a citizen of no mean city"
During the session of the Legislatures
of 1911, the men from Kauai and the
men from Maui exhibited over ana
over again commendable pride In
their baliwicks, while the Oahu sen
atofs and Representatives did their
work as though they had not been
citizens of the same municipality.
Honolulu certainly Is q munieipaE
lty of magnificent distances. Our gov
ernmert is spread over the whole isl
and, and the city part Of it extends
from Fort Shafter to Waialae, and
up into the valleys ifiadeqdately pro
vided with the facilities Of modern
city life, clean water, sewerage and
garbage service and proper streets
Honolulu Is really collection of
little villages separated by areas uR,
ier water or under cultivation or
both, and connected by Inadequate
and an automatic telephone
but demanding for each vii.
lage all the facilities Of city.
The best developed villages on Ho-
colulu are those wherein reside men
and women who know what their civic
when and how often to make those
wants known. The wage.earner. the
,oola and the Asiatic, gets along as
best he may without cement cutters,
sdewalks or oiled streets and is con.
.eat with the crooked lane without
ie hts, often times muddy and some
lines fanked by an open auwai
Let any thinking man view Homo |
lulu from the top Of Tantalus or |
Punch bowI or study a modern map Of |
he city with these thoughts IN mind
md, believe he will not dispute these
sscts.
Crisis Ably Met.
Previous to annexation this commu-
atty, then much smaller than, it now
=, had to get together refer to
he whites to whom Hawaii was |
home" They had to stand or fall
.Ggether. It was the instinct of self
Impressive indeed is |
mere list of the crisis through which
hey passed; The Revolution of 1887,
ne Instruction of 'S9, the Revolution |
If '93, the Insurrection Of 'S5, the
cholera of the summer Of that same |
Tear and the plague of 1900. The vel
ow fever situation a year ago brought
he community together for a time as |
nothing else has, since 1900, unless |
perhaps the Democratic Anti-Immigra-
ion plank in the fall Of 1910. Without |
/ common danger threatening each |
ices his own way.
I think I have not diversified the |
present condition of things.
Many of our troubles are really |
growing pains. We are passing |
through a phase in our evolution into |