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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-24
NOT MERGING, BUT sIBHERGING

Expert investigation by the United States
government into the desirability of normal
school work as a function of agricultural col.
leges has brought the investigators to the con.
'clusion that such plan is not desirable
This bears directly on the proposal now be,
fore the legislature by which theterritorial Nor.
NAL School and the College of Hawaii will be
combined under an ARRANGEMENT whereby the
Normal School loses its identity and proper
Standing.
The committee on instruction in agriculture
OF the Association of American Agricultural Col
leges and Experiment Stations, carried on re-
Gently am extensive investigation of the subject.
The report was presented at the atlanta conven-
ton Of that association in November of last year
a. g. True, director of the office. of experiment
stations under the. department of agriculture,
heads the committee, which unanimously report
Cd in part as follows:
tfl-It is the proper function of the agricultural
colleges train teachers of agriculture for public
and private high Schools for technical agricultural
schools and for the agricultural and other colleges
(2)-The performance Of this function by the ag-
rcuural colleges will duplicate the work of the
state normal schools, which for the most part are
engaged in the training Of teachers for the eement
AIRY SCHOOLS. /.
tS)-Inasmuch the great majority of secondary s
schools giving courses in agriculture will have only
two teachers of agriculture. students in The
course In agricultural education should ordinarily
be well grounded In the general principles of the
various branches Of agriculture, and the colleges
flotld offer general courses in agriculture to- meet
tx requirements or snch students,
Here is the report Of unbiased and expert
judges They find unanimously the function Of
aericultnral colleges to train teachers of agri-
culture for secondary schools should not usurp
the function OF normal schools.
The original plan for cooperation between the
College of Hawaii and the territorial Normal
school is good plan. But the Legislators
.Iould think long, and Investigate fully, before
sobmerging the normal SCHOOLS peculiar and
PARTICULAR work in the organic structure of an
Educational institution whose activities lie along
INHERENT and irreconcfiable lines
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-24
A SUGGESTION TO THE LEoisLA-
TuRE.

Editor Honolulu Star-Rulletin,
Sir:-Appreciating the value of
your Letters column In catching
the eye, reaching the ear and holding
the attention of that profound organi-
zatioR, the legislature Of the Territory
Of Hawaii. viii take advantage of
it to bring up that which consider
"a matter OF Importance in these times
of high cost of existence.
/ refer, Mr.. Editor, to the mullet
clused-seasoh law passed by the last
legislature. which believe specified
three months or so during which the
catching, taking, selling, etc of this
fish was not to be done or consum-
mated whatsoever under such and
such penalty.
That law was about the best en-
forced, Mr.. Editor. of any law ever
placed upon the benign statute books
Of this tremendous territory. which
is creditable.
But, Mr. editor, i beg to submit
to the general public and the present
legislature contention that this law
ct present is incompetent, Inefficient
and unrefined. Instead >of merely pro-
iecting the fish for the present term
of three Of four months, this law
should be ammended to extend that
projection to ten or twelve months
per annum.
Mr. Editor, I. can plainly zee the
Legislators, their individual auricles
extended oracuiarly and the light of
determined justice shining in their
eyes, asking: WHY"
The answer lies In the fish-market.
where other things may be found
lying.
4 found the answer there last Sat
urday when,. after much haggling !
succeeded in buying two consumptiye-
looking mullets for so cents, which
two combined and included entrails
and scales" were found to weigh
one-half {h) a pound. A mere
.bagatelle of $1.00 per pound.
Indeed, Mr.. Editor, would urge
the. legislature to extend their bene-
fieent protection to this poor, abused
fish to twelve, months annually, be-
cause the present law is not only I'M
satisfactory but extremely tantalizing.
/ would further suggest that Hon.
Holstein leave the ladies' heads Alone
and rush to the assistance. of mems
ePIscAToRs
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-24
REDDLEsOnE and MIsCHIEFOUs

s Hawaii has no business lneddling with the
I'iI;fofnia alien-land controversy and the local
legislature has no business mixing this territory
into ii.
The measures now pending before the house,
one set of resolutions by DIR. Irwin protest
ing against the proposed legislation III Califor-
Ma, the other an amendment to the fair appro-
nriation bill by g. P. Cooke, to make the appro-
nriation void in case California passes the law,
ought to be killed with quickness and dis
patch. There is just one proper place for these
fragmentary and mischieyous measures to go,
and that place is the waste-basket.
Why should Hawaii NEEDLE in this question?
Why should this territory shove itself into a
fight that has no particular local concern? Why
<llould the legislature play with fire?
s. Action here ON this subject is not only map
brppriate and uncalfrd for it j.; dangerous; it
Is childishly intrusive.
Hawaii fortunately is on the most friendly
terms with California and wishes to remain so.
And Hawaii needs CALIFORNIA; help in preserv-
ing Industrial integrity against the present at
tacks of free-sugarI apostles in Depocratic
Congress. Whether that fight is won or lost,
Hawaii must remain on friendly terms with Cal
ifornia and CALIFORNIA; people And the great
majority of the citizens of Hawaii heartily de
sire that the friendly terms now existent be
maintained.
Into this entente cordidle-to borrow from
tie Balkans for a moment--there is thrust this
nfischievous demand that Hawaii NEEDLE over in
california. This territory is asked to take a
stand against a very strong public sentiment in
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-24
LETTERS ON TIMELY TOPICS

tThe star-BuIistin Invites free and
frank discussion in this column on all
legitimate subjects Of current interest
Communications are constantly rcceiv.
ed to which no signature is attached.
This paper will treat as confidential
signatures to letters If the writer's so
desire, but cannot give space to-
anonymous communications.l
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-24
HOW LoNea

Htiitor Honolulu Star bulletin s.
Sir:-Is there any possible way of
determining how much longer the peo-
pie of this city and county are going
tn stand for downright rotten road
work? Regarding all that has been
said and done, not only by the citizens
but by the supervisors as web, 1t
seems that in the road department
SOME PLACE there is a screw that
i. not only loose but ready to fall out.
1t would be of interest to the tax
payer of this city to know just about
how much the bill for road work came
to for the piece of road recently fin
ished on Beretania street from Alex
ander to Punahou street, in front of
the Dillingham; property. There is a
piece of road that has cost the tax
payers of this city and county many,
thousands of dollars, and although it
has not been in use by the public forty
days yet, it is going to the devil Tex
Cuse the mark, as there does not seem
to be any other word TO fit the easel
about as fast, If not a little faster,
than any other piece of misfit road
that the present road powers that be
have attempted to exhibit their road
building skill on.
Tbeway that piece Of road was con-
structed was an exhibition offignors
ance of road building that certainly
should be handed the PALM Placing a
couple of inches of crushed rock and
asphalt tarAon top of a soft dirt found.
alton is indisputably the limit.
If any passerby on the cars will take
the trouble to look at this particular
piece of laundering he will see that
the crust of the road has broken
in any number of places and is grind
ing away with the passing of every
wagon wheel, with soG;e of the spots
over four feet in diameter at present,
with the soft dirt foundation working
up through
1t is certainly. a beautiful piece OF
work, and whoever is responsible for
it should have a tin monument and
fire escape when he shHffes of this
mortal coil,
Again ask, how much longer. are
the taxpayers Ct this city and county
going to stand for such laundering
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-24

stated that he and Paris were pre-
pared to appear before the legislature
to ask for the pure food appropria-
ton and that they were only awaiting
the word before doing SO. u.
Federal Food Commissioner A. w.
Hansen echoed the statements made
by Smith and Paris in laying emphasis
upon the necessity OF keeping up the
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-24

Mr.. Smith emphasized tie fact that
he expressed himself not as private
citizen but as one representing the
views of the Chamber of Commerce.
He stated that he had had long talk
with E. H. Paris. the health represent.
alive OF the Merchants Association,
and that Paris agreed with him in
every particular. Mr. Smith further
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-24

Several blind masseurs are making
q great success IN Paris. Il is said
that the sense Of touch tis developed
so far beyond that Of the normal per-
son that their treatment is exception
ally beneficial. Also. they are neces-
sarily discreet.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-24

pure FOOD inspection alter the Iederal
authorities have withdrawn, .It
would be a great shame Hansen said
this morning. for the territory to fan
to make appropriation Tor carrying
on the work that has already been
begun in the analysing and inspecting
Of foods and drugs. If the pure food
commissioner is withdrawn, it will
take very short time indeed for con-
ditions to get back to the deplorahle
state in which they were before the
passage of the. pure food act | regret
very much that the federal authorities
have seen fit to withdraw at this criti-
cal time. When the new federal build
ing is constructed 1t is the purpose of
the department, am sure, to re.estab-
lish the Office Of federal food commits
sioner in the territory"
Laying stress upon the necessity OF
making other appropriations asked by
the board of health, George w. Smith
further said that the appropriation for
the rat and mospito Campaign should
be ample. The appropriation for the
rat campaign has already been cut to
$4,000 while SAG, 900 is the sum al
lowed for the war against the mosqui-
to.
With the opening of the Panama
canal" Mr.. Smith explained, "the ex.
termination of all disease breeding
mosquitoes is more important than
ever. We will then be in constant
communication with ports where yell
low fever is endemic present at all
times and the danger to this com!
munity will be great unless proper
measures are now taken to war
against the mosquito. Good work has
been done so far, but the appropria-
ton this year should be greater than
ever. 1t is folly to talk of decreasing
it. The rat campaign is also of great
Importance. Honolulu is constantly in
direct communication with ports
where the bubonic plague is epidemic
and we can not take too many pre-
cautions in eliminating the possibil-
ity of spread Of the disease.
In appearing before the finance
committee of the house, DR.. J. 8. B..
Pratt, president of the board of health,
stated that if the appropriation for
the rat and mosquito campaigns is
cut down any lower it will be almost
impossible to carry on the work to
any good effect whatever. s'. -
The definite word that the federal
pure food commissioner will be with.
drawn was received this morning by
Food Commissioner A. w. Hansen, in
the following cable message from the
secretary of agriculture: 'Impracti-
cable to continue office Dismantle
laboratory and ship San Francisco
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-24

In the advertising columns today will be
found published in full two very important laws
passed by the legislature Act 81, providing for
the opening and widening of streets, and Act SO,
the public utilities commission law. Both are
well worth careful study for both are construct
i've legislation of the permanent kind
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-24

The American mountain climber.
Mrs. Fanny Bullock Workman, has
gained the consent of King George to
name the cluster of peaks at the head
of Rose Glacier in the Himalayas the
king George v" group. She explored
the mountains in 1912.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-24

The announcement that the final plans for
with great sigh Of relief from public tired of
the incessant controversy. There have been
enough ''final plans for Patti farewell tour.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-24

If the house begins amending the Rapid Tran,
sit franchise, it will simply operate to kill the
bill. The people are we'll satisfied with the
franchise They will not welcome horde of
needless amendments endangering the perfection
of the measure
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-24

1t is difficult to understand how senators who
have taken the oath of office can reconcile them
selves to fighting the present reapportionment
bill, which seeks to carry ont the plain provisions
of the organic act. The bill should be passed
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-24

There are others besides Marston
Campbell who are 50 brilliant on road
work that one can see them shine.
TAXPAYER
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-24

That quake reported from San Francisco was
probably caused by the announcement that
Bryan was coming out to settle the Japanese
question.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-24

Some seem to think that Il California has her
way there will be no need of an exposition appro-
priation from Hawaii, anyway
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-24
APRIL "a, 1913

A mind not to be changed by place or time.
The mind is its o,on place, and in itself
J Can make a hedrcn of he'll, a he'll of hearcn.
Milton.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-24
PURE FOOD WORK.
CITIZENS CAMPAIGN

fContinued from page one)
~ prevention OF any epidemic than
= nav for fighting the disease when
- are face to face with it. !"
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-24

That new charter plan just simply faded
away.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-24

Bryan may yet be hailed as the great pacifi-
.atGr s> .2k1..-. '.-[
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-20

little doubt that this valley might re-
sumo its position as a livestock pro-
ducer to the profit of everyone if ad-
vantage were taken of the adaptable
ity of sweet clover to all soils, and
our lands at present unproductive
converted into sweet clover pastures
The U. S. Bureau of Plant Indus
try, Washington, d. c., has published
a 40-page bulletin on sweet clover,
and the Ohio Experiment Station.
Wooster, Ohio, has issued an even
more elaborate publication, and as
these sources of information are more
authoritative and complete than any
newspaper or magazine article can
well be, any one considering sowing
sweet clover should possess himself
of one or the other of these bulletins.
The more so as there are some spec
ial points to be given attention in
seeding and handling this crop
such as treatment of hard-shelled
non-germinable seed, proper prepara-
tion of the seed bed (too fine a seed
bed seems. to work against best re-
sults), curing the hay, reseeding, in
ducing stock to eat it, etc.
The statements herein are all made
either on authority of the bulletins
named above or on the writer's own
experience. If this latter stimulates
some interest in sweet clover to the
ultimate benefit of the live stock in
dustry in the Rogue River Valley it's
purpose will have been gained.
Yours truly,
RALPH w. ELDEN.
Green Acres" Central Point, Ore.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-20

the Utah Agricultural Experiment
Station sweet clover made more than
double the yield of any of the clovers
with which it was compared. (Farm-
ers' Bulletin 4S5.) At the Ontario
Experiment Station over 80 tons of
green feed per acre were obtained in
a single season. Farmers Bulletin
4S5.) 1t is not difficult to eradicate
from cultivated fields or meadows,
but thrives persistently in waste
places. 1t produces seed abundantly
and the seed has high value, being
quoted at from $40 to $2S per hun
dred, by reference to several seed
catalogues.
During the past year trials have
been made at "Green Acres to deter
mine the palatability of this plant
for all classes of stock Green sweet
clover on repeated occasions has been
cut and offered to horses and hogs
and invariably has been eaten with
apparent relish. Sweet clover cut for
has even when too mature to make
first-class haw yas relished by cattle
and sheep, all but the coarse stems
being consumed. This stock was all
fed regularly on alfalfa pasture or
alfalfa hay and no attempt was made
to "starve the stock to sweet clover" ;"
Mr.. D. w. Beebe of Central Point
told the writer that load of sweet
clover hay placed in the corral as
worthless came to be so much to the
liking of his COWS that they would
run to it when the corral gate was
opened
Mr.. NJ NJ. Tucker of Ashland sowed
two small experimental plats of sweet
clover on heavy upland soil last
March. One of these plats, about
one-eighth acre, supplied pasture for
seven lambs all summer. The other
plat was used for sheep pasture and
to some extent for milch COWS. Mr..
Tucker assured the writer that his
stock ate the sweet clover readily
though accustomed to alfalfa, and
that the cows really seemed to prefer
the sweet clover to alfalfa when Civ
en- their choice of pastures. No OBJ
iectionable flavor was noticed in the
milk. Mr.. Tucker is confident that
sweet clover is a valuable crop for
this country.
A good many farmers in the valley
will SOW sweet clover experimentally
next spring. At Green Acres" sweet
clover will be given thorough trial
to determine it's value as compared
with alfalfa. A few acres will be
sown on irrigated land formerly in
alfalfa and some will be sown on un-
irrigated upland for a comparison
with dry-land alfalfa. There seems
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-20

almost the same as alfalfa, and the
discovery that stock when once in
duced to partake of sweet clover soon
acquire a strong taste for it, has
finally resulted in complete reyers-
al of opinion in the middle west and
in sections where it was once legis-
lated against it is now recommended
by agricultural colleges and sown by
hard-headed, practical farmers.
Sweet clover is commonly sown in
the spring either with or without a
nurse crop. The biennial varieties
during their first season make a
growth of from IS to 80 inches and
in addition store up in very large
root reserve plant food for rapid
and vigorous growth early the follow
! ing spring. During the second sea-
son it makes rapid stalky growth,
attaining when uncut height of 5
to ~ feet and dying after it natures
seed. When cut for hay the number
of cuttings in the first and second
years depend so much on the soil
and moisture conditions that no adj
vance estimates of much value can
be made. 1t is certain, however, that
sweet clover is one of the most
drought resistant of plants and prob
ably would produce fair crops where
alfalfa would fail.
The wonderful adaptability of this
crop to various conditions gives prom
Use that it has great possibilities in
this valley on our rough hill lands
that are now nonproductive. 1t will
grow on almost any soil and make a
fair crop (the writer has seen plants
thriving, during the early part of the
season at least, in the mortar of a
brick wall several feet above the
ground). 1t can be sown with COM
paratively little preparation of the
soil. 1t is reported to reseed itself
readily. even though cut for hay by
missing part of every third swath and
allowing these plants to mature seed.
1t has a very high food value and
does not bloat sheep and cattle to
any extent like alfalfa. 1t will stand
pasturing and under favorable condi-
tions will cut heavy hay crops. Al
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-20
Vacuum Theology.

A colored Baptist was exhorting.
Now, breddern and sistern. come up
to de altar and hab yo' sins washed
away"
All came but one man.
why, Brudder Jones, don 'yo
want yo' sins washed away?"
Il done had my sins washed away"
"Yo' has! Where yo' had yo' sins
washed away?"
"Ober at de Methodist church"
"Ah, Brudder Jones, yo' amt been
washed; yo' jes' been dry cleaned. f"
-Lippincott's Magazine.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-20
PossibiIities Of sweet Glover.

To the Editor: Recently articles
have appeared in the papers of the
valley and in current magazines COM
menting on the possibilities of sweet
clover as forage and hay crop. The
writer believes that more attention
should be given this crop. Inasmuch
as most of the accounts so far print
ed have been based on experiments
and trials outside the state, some
statements of local trials of this crop
together with brief statement of
the habits and peculiarities of the
plant may be valuable.
Sweet clover is legume or nitro
gen gatherer closely akin to alfalfa.
In fact, it is the only legume that
cross-innoculates with alfalfa. Be-
ing a nitrogen gatherer, it enriches
the soil on which it grows in nitrogen
and humus, and its great root system
improves the soil by aerating and
subsoiling.
Three kinds of sweet clover are
common in this country: The ordi-
nary biennial white sweet clover,
which is usually meant when sweet
clover is mentioned; the biennial yell
low sweet clover, SIMILAR to the white
variety except in color of blossom;
and the annual yellow species, which
is not generally recommended for
forage purposes. The white sweet
clover is most common in the Rogue
River Valley, growing along Bear
creek and other streams, in public
roads, on the granite hills, on the
sticky soils, and in fact anywhere
that vegetation can make foothold.
The bitter taste or the foliage of
this plant and the tendency of it's
stems to become woody as the plaIt
natures have caused sweet clover to
be deemed of little value as anything
but bee plant, and this opinion has
been confirped apparently, by the
fact that stock do not eat it readily
when other and more familiar forage
is available. But the high protein
content of sweet clover (1S.3 per
cent for sweet clover hay, according
TO Henry's Feeds and Feeding"O
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-20
A Mere Film.

81 suppose you are mammals darl-
ing?"
mo, ma'am, am my mammals
moving picture"
Your mammals moving picture?"
"Yessum; she is always telling me
that should be seen and not heard"
Houston Post.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-20
Dependency Due to Indigestion.

1t is not at all surprising that per-
sons who have Indigestion become
discouraged and respondent. Here
are a few words of hope and cheer
for them by Mrs. Blanche Bowers,
Indiana, Pa: For years my diges-
tion was so poor that l could only
eat the lightest foods. l tried every
thing that l heard of to get relief,
but not until about year ago when
l saw Chamberlain's Tablets adver-
tised and got bottle of them, did
1 find the right treatment. soon
began to improve, and since taking a
few bottles of them my digestion is
fine" For sale by all dealers.