The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-03-01
Judge Whitney Leads Initial Con-
ference at Public Welfare
Exhibit.
THE TENEMENTS ARE SCORED
Discussion on Vital Topics Had
Large Audience-0thers
Are Coming.
(From Wednesday Advertiser.)

X ElgnI nu0uIeu anu lWtHby by-bhiOS y
x people visited the Public Welfare X
\; Exhibit last night and more than y
X thousand are expected tonight. \
X The entertainment program for y
X this evening will be furnished by
X the students of the Normal School X
X and tomorrow evening by the Ka- X
= mehameha and Kawaiahao Semi
X nary students. Last nights enter X
X tertainment was by the Kinder X
X garten children.
X The topic for the conference X
X this evening, which is to be lead \
X by p L. Horne of the Kamehame- X
X ha Schools, will be on "Vocation-
X al Training Professor Collais
X and Miss Pope will be the princi-
= mol sneal,ers X
= X
O** X X X X X x x X X X X X X X o
By no means taxed to its capacity,
the Palama Chapel last night held,
nevertheless, an unexpectedly large
crowd as an audience at the first socio-
logical conference to be held in Homo
lulu. With "The Juvenile as the sub
iect, Judge W. L. Whitney of the cir
cult and juvenile courts led the discus
sion, Senator A. F. Judd presiding.
Subjects vital to the social life of
the entire community were handled
without gloves by both the principal
speaker and those who discussed his
remarks. The success of the conference
was as marked as it was almost un-
expected. A live interest was exhibited
and the most possible attention given
to topics which, on an average, are
barred from conversation in most
homes three hundred and sixty-hve
days in the year. The claim made
for the conferences, that they will be
n turning point in the social thought
in Honolulu, is, so far as the first con-
ference is concerned, fulfilled. The
people present represented the intiu'
ences which move the city, gathered
together for almost the first time to
discuss what should have been discussed
two years ago.
Judge Whitney's paper was divided
under six heads in which he treated
of the problem of the parent; the prob.
lem of environment; the problem oil
physical condition; that of edueatloni
of the grade of the ofenses of JuVe'
niles; and Of the laws.
The Inevitable Tenement.
So far there has been only one lee
ture and one conference in connection
with the Public Welfare Exhibit, but
together with the exhibits they
emphasize a remarkable point that has
already been remarked, so apparent Is
II. That is the relation of the tene
ment TO Honolulu life. All that hat
been said for the past two years about
this institution in The Advertiser and
elsewhere, has never shown so plainly
as every discussion at the conference
how the tenement is at the root OF
every evil touched upon. In his ad
dress last night Judge Whitney said:
Judge on the Case.
HHave YOU ever seen the homes OF
the children who come before the juve
nile courts If you have, you viii
cease to wonder that we need juvenile
court in these islands of paradise; yo'
: will begin to wonder that we are no
overrun with vice, crime and miser,
such as we have never known. 1t is
travesty to call them homes. littl
room with a bare floor, without furni
ture, crowded with men and wome
with no thought or hope of privacy
room where vice and Immortality ar
present always, room that exhiblt
the drunken. the vicious, the crimina
in all his worst aspects, room wher
cleanliness is unknown, where filth an
disease are unnoticed.
1--WE have so long stultifed ou
sense by the cant phrase There IS
poverty in Hawaii that we are lot
to be fair with the evidence. Drasti
measures are necessary to improve col
ditions.
ftBut our efforts must not end her
There is but one force that will remoN
the tenement and its vile association
from us. That is, public opinion an
you and / are as responsible for th'
as are any others, and more so, Il
we know as others do not the awf
need the awful danger When II
owner of the tenement such as we hav
loses his place in society we shall To-
the tenement, and not before"
Laws and other Things.
Judge Whitney spoke at length I
such laws as we had and laws as a
needed. In the course of this he sal
"Not long since little girl W
brought by our woman probation OF
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