The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1913-09-30

them when we get them. What attention
we have given to the matter has been
mainly of getting them here, leaving
them to their devices when they got
here. The result too often has been that
they didn't know what to do with them
selves aud hung about Honolulu or went
to the volcano, then took the first steam
er home with the disgrumtled conviction
that Honolulu was dead slow place. We
must make it interesting for them" In
this line it was suggested that we ought
to have Hawaiian village in continual
activity where the tourist could see the
primitive Hawaiian conditions and in
dustries in actual operation. The pound
ing OF poi, the beating of tapas, the shap-
ing of canoes and calabashes with the
primitive Hawaiian tools; with real Ha-
waiian music and the real historic hula,
dignitied and decent-these are the things
which strangers want to see and cannot.
We need to improve our local means
of communication. We have things OF
great interest at our very doors within a
stones throw and we can't get at then,
have never soon them ourselves it may
be. These are valuable assets and we
ought to wake up to them.
Under the head of the promotion OF
good roads there was much commenda-
| ton OF what Kauai had done and many
| inquiries as to how we did it and why
the other islands couldn't do the same
Strong emphasis was laid on the care
| OF the roads. This has been the Waterloo
of the past. There has been no want o
knowing how to make good roads, and
no want of money TO make them witt
the trouble has been that having made
them they were shan efully and crimi
nally neglected so that in many cases be-
fore the road was even delivered over by
! the builder it had begun to go to pieces
There seemed to be always unlimited
money to build roads but none to take
care of them.
This is largely the out come of ON
political system. Each incumbent boarC
of supervisors wants TO make showing
and erect monument to its own eflici
ency so it bends all its energies and al
its resources to the building of its OWL
little bit of pet road complacently neg
lecting the similar bits built by its pre-
decessors,
This matter of the care and up keeI
of roads, has evidently got onto tho
nerves of most of the communities of the
| lsldluS. lIeft was an Irritable llllpalleDct
evident, and an emphatic disapproval o
any appropriation for road building
which didn't carry with it contingent
condition insuring the proper care O
such road when built.
A proposition to float a million dollar
bond issue to meet the needs of the
counties was discussed, but when it he
came evident that we now have a bond
ed Indebtedness Of nine million, and tha
the interest and sinking fund payment
on this account to $1,000 "a day, and thai
owing TO the shrinking in valuations W,
will have pretty well reached the lega
limit of our bonded debt it was consider
ed wise not to incur any more debt a
present
Under the 3rl head the promotion o
diversified agriculture attention was call
cd to our wasteful neglect of our own re-
sources. We have run fortunes to tho
sea and have left other fortunes staring
rs in the face utnpicked and are still do
ingso. We import lS0 600 lbs. of but
terra year every pound of which and bet
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