Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-12
INTERVENTION.

careful S'udy OF the dlSpatcneS
from Washington makes it clear that
at the capital the belief is firm that
intervention by the United States is
inevitable. but that great uncertainty
exists as to just where the United
States ought to intervene. Last week
Mexico seemed as good a field as any
for rushing American troops into.
The day before yesterday the claims
OF Santo Domingo came in for respect
full consideration. Today Cuba has
forged to the front. Tomorrow the
question of sending reinforcements to
Nicaragua may help to pass pleas
ant afternoon for the young men who
are now directing the destinies of the
nation at Washington. The interest
ing fact must have occurred to a
great many people that the issues OF
peace and war are being debated at
Washington while the president of the
United States is at Beverly, the Secre-
tary of State is in Japan, and the
Secretary of War Is somewhere in
California. The young men left in
charge recognize that the opportunity
is theirs, but, unlike Horace Greeley's
young man, they ares apparently per-.
picked as to whether they ought to go
West, South, East, or North. - New
York Evening Post. I
* "S-O-S"-SAvE OUR STREETS.
There are SO many new reforms"
about one minute, like the boats
at Detroit-that the average citizen
d1dr1. ~ @ho ,,,a,> 4S,,oUoofioY, ~ on.
other. But here is one that is prac-
teal, and should sound good to own
ers of propertY on paved streets. In
most American titles the completion
Of new pavement seems to be the
moment for some gas or
electric company to discover that it
needs new or additional mains, and
up comes long stretch of the new
street To be sure, the ditch is filled
and the surface replaced in more
or less careless fashion, but we all
know that that particular portion of
the street is never the same again.
Or 1t may be the property owner
who usually lives on the opposite side
of the street--who wants connection,
and so in goes another ditch, this time
at right angles. The contractor makes
q bluff at replacing the paving, but
for years to come there remains a !
ridge or a hollow to mark the spot. |
For some reason everybody, including
even the abutting property owner,
seems to regard the, street surface
with utter Indifference. Some pillage
1t like Goth, while others consider
the proposition with the hopeless de- |
spair OF polar bear in cage.
Isn't 1t about time we learned some
thing from the other side? For years |
the highway" has been thing sa-
cred to the people. Even SO long ago
rs the building Of the first tramway
In London, George Francis Train, an
was put in jail for tearing !
up the Kings highway" because he
had dug up a block or so beyond his
permit In many European cities the
problem has been solved, and there |
seems no good reason why it can not |
be solved here in the same way. No
Individual nor company is allowed to
break the surface of street or exca-
Vate the street. When either course
Is necessary, the city makes the open !
ng and, after pipes or wires are laid,
restores, the paving In the best posi-
Bile manner. And the city charges |
only actual cost, but collects enough |
% insure the best possible job that |
ian be done. In this way the tempta- |
ion to hurried, neglectful, Indifferent |
work is avoided; the public are in
Sured a minimum of annoyance while |
he work is being done and a maxi |
mum of excellence when completed.
What we need in many of our city |
administrations is someone big enough |
10 send out the call for help and get |
he right answer; the sos" in this |
sase meaning Save Our Streets. -
Popular Mechanics Magazine.