Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-11
ARMY POSTS STIRRED
BY ALLEGED ISLANDER
Enlisted Men Declare School
Principals Words at Biiou
Massmeeting Are Insult

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In defense OF their reputation and
the honor of the UNIFORM they wear
the soldiers of an entire army post
have risen, almost to a man, and are
demanding public retraction by Prin
cipal Perley Horne of Kamehameha
Schools, OF certain statements attack
ing the character of the enlisted men,
alleged TO have been made by him
Fort Shafter is up In arms, and with
the officers behind them, the men in.
tend TO press their case to the limit
possibly taking It into the courts in
the form of SANDER proceedings.
Enlisted men back of the protest
Efsert that they will fight to a fin
isiI I'm the courts and elsewhere un,
IA they get Professor Horne removed
from, his present position at the head
OF the Kamehameha Schools. and
some OF them talk Of even more sum.
mary action
Exception Is taken 10 scathing
denunciation OF the soldiery of Oahu,
made by Professor Horne during a
speech before the mass meeting OF
citizens held at the Bijou theater the
night of Sunday December 1, the
meeting being called TO discuss con.
ditions affecting girls and women in
Hawaii. Professor Horne is quoted
as saying that girls, dreaded to leave
school and 90 out INTO the world now
unless they are well provided for, be-
cause they were aware Of the soldiers
and adyenturers from the mainland
who considered Hawaiian, and part
Hawaiian girls their legitimate prey"
Soldiers Protest
The >men from Shafter. the army
post nearest 70 town, have rushed &c
the defense OF their uniform, and
have organized to secure either de
traction or substantiation from the
school principal II ID said that q
considerable fund has already been
raised 10 defray legal expenses, anG
that soldiers from the other posts on
the island are in fu:i sympathy with
the movement and are ready to dig
down for contributions.
Officers Take Stand
Captain Jameson, commanding Fort
Shafter, stated this morning through
his adjutant, Lieutenant Preston, that
he had taken no action in the matter
as vet, but might do so. The general
attitude OF. the officers is to stand
back Of the men in any action which
the latter may take, and several COM
missioned officers have expressed
their indignation at the tendency OF
some alleged reformers to make loose
and slanderoHs statements regarding
the army.
Sergeant NJ Dishler. of L company,
Second Infantry. has been acting fol
the men of Fort Shafter. and this
morning he applied to Lieutenant. Col
onel Campbell, adjutant general, fol
permission to call a massmeeting OF
soldiers to be held at some local the.
ater next Sunday, to pass resolutions
and launch campaign that will pro.
tect the soldiers from slanderous at
tacks ThiS-permission can come onl.
from the department commander, anC
Colonel Campbell promised to take
the matter up with Colonel McGun
negle, and give Sergeant Dishler ar
answer tomorrow morning. The ad.
iutant general is in sympathy witt
any dignified movement by the sol
diers that will put their attitude fair.
ly and squarely before the people o
Honolulu. .s- ..
Attorney Iorrin Andrews has beer
retained, according to Sergeant Dish
Ter, to attend to the legal end Of the
controversy. -
The Service, local weekly devoted
to army and navy matters, has al
ready taken Professor Horne to tasl
editorially for his alleged statements
and considerable publicity is likely K
be given to the controversy.
TIE Soldiers Side.
Explaining the position of the sol
iiers, Sergeant Dishler said:
I'VE, all know that the enlisted men
have a hard enough time on these is
lands, always going found in uniform
because civilian clothes are prohibit
eli. without being insulted but when
tfeIe men make false and misleading
statements TO the public. then it is
time for the army to wake up, every
soldier should take an interest in
clear his name.
Il have been stationed at Fort
Shafter since September. 1911, and to
my knowledge no case or rape or any
other case of mistreating young girls
either Hawaiian or other nationality
has been reported to the cmomanding
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