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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-18
RcauisitIon Issnca.

"a requistion tho Governor OF North
Carolina was issued yesterday by Governor
Mann for Thomas Mason. alias Thomas Mar
tin, wanted In Roanoke the charge OF
breaking into tho Jefferson Theatre and
stealing therefrom seven electric fans VAL
ued Mt $40 each, and two chairs. valued Mt
$3.50 each. making total value OF sii5
Mason is under arrest In Greensboro, y. C.
IL. 8. Anderson, OF Roanoke, was sent for tho
prisoner, e
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-18
Assaults Cost Sc3 Each

William Neblett, colored was fined SIS and
coats yesterday morning In Police Court for
Kidd.
Nathaniel Hawkins. coiored. was fined so5
for hitting Sandy Graham with n bottle
A similar fine imposed upon Mary
Carter for stabbinG Mary Brown
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-18
Two Chur,cs ~ Th.,

lohn Brooks, colorcd. was arrested yost.r-
any Us Detective Screeants Wiley and kcl-
i!iA on the charge OF stealing a watch ana
other articles OF i.wclry, valued AT nenrIy
10, from Alexander Holmes. and - small
Quantity Of merchandise from the Cohen
Company nnc.).
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-18
Fire In Kitchen

Fire. which originated from sparks in a
chimney, yesterday afternoon . 30 o'cioci.
did So damage to tho Kitchen OK n dwell
ing occupied 10y Ben Smith. colore9. in Tho
rear of 10 South First street
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-09
A WORD FOR fEARLESsNESS

An extremely unpleasant and perhaps bitter
fight in the DE mUCrHtic party Of Oahu seems GER
tain 10 result from the in>Stcncr Of the county
committee that all Republicans bc ouStcd from
municipal offices and replaced by Democrats.
Tho action Of the Democratic cGuntv committee
last night in naming a special committee t" con-
vcy this declaration to the supervisors shows
What pressure the party machinery will exert
upon the board. And the ma Vrity Of the super
visUrS stand just firm against turning over
the fire department to epatronagr-hunterS and
0ustng the city engineer, building inspector and
city electrician because they happen to be DEM
Ocrats
The screws Of party power will be put on the
supervisors and their path is not going to he a
pleasant one for SO long as the fight is on.
Petrie, Mcclellan, Markham and Hardcsty,
Democrats, and Cox, Republican, ought to get
the hearty commentator of the community at
large Here is time when little praise will
give the supervisors encouragement TO continue
their fight for efficiency in public office and
against the extreme abuse of the spOils system of
partisan politics
-" Mr.. Voter, Mr.. Citizen, if you believe that
these four supervisors are doing the right thing
in standing between the job-hunters and munic-
ipal office, and in retaining such men as Chief
Thurston, Engineer WhitehOuse, Electrician
Frazee and Inspector Miehlstein, why not let the
supervisors know that yOu>are with them? Give
them moral support. Fearlessness in doing pub
lie duty in the face of bitter opposition is GER
tainly worth the trouble of a letter or word of
commentator.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-09
LITTLE INTERVIEWS

\. +. I.ARIMER-Joino on the tenth
J. W. PRATT-My figure for the
Hall property was $23l.625, not SELL
g. as printed
PAUL SUPER - Ginger That's
what makes things 20. We try TO
make the y. NJ. c. A. $50 days a
year" demonstration OF it.
ED TOWSE-Why be operated upon
for appendicitis when you can enjoy
all the privileges of the y. NJ. G. 4.
for twenty cents a week? Why?
CHARLES r. FRAZIER-The y. NJ
c. \. is doing the young men AMI boys
Of Honolulu a favor when ii invited
them to Join the Y. NJ. G. A. tomorrow.
The fellow who stays out is missing
one of the best things in the city.
DR.. VICTOR S. CLARk-Some say
| am fatter and some say am thinner
than When | went away. 1t is prob
ably the way they look at me. in front
or in profile. saw 5000 Bulgarians
passing through Vienna on their way
home to the war-at least the papers
said 5000
VIM BUSH-Take it from me, Ma
jor Undertake is a brick. If he were
only a civilian we'd have to try to
boost him for political hocors. He is
to helping out our Improvement club,
and that's something that cannot be
said sometimes of lifelong residents.
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CONTINUED from Page y
features of the so-called Des MOineS
system, though varying in many minor
details. 1t provides for a council Of
five commissioners, one Of whom
should serve as mayor eXOtficiO; with
holds the veto power from the mayor;
provides for the Initiative. referendum
and recall; the division Of the city
government into five departments, OF
which each commissioner shall be the
head of one; and finally, but by no
means the least important. would re-
move from the territorial superin-
lendent Of public works practically all
power in the handling Of public works
in the city and county OF honolulu,
placing it in the hands OF the various
departmental heads of the city.
Accompanying his skeletonized draft
of the charter will be a tabulated
digest of the elective commission syS,
tenn as employed in eighty-one cities
in the States. This digest, prepared
by Territorial Secretary MOtt-Smith,
has been used largely as a basis in
preparing the rough draft OF the pro-
posed measure which Whitney sub
mits.
A number of suggestions made in
Judge Whitney's draft undoubtedly
will not be approved by the sub-com-
mittee: in fact, the author admits
some doubts himself as to the prac-
ticability of one or two of them, as
for instance, tho percentage of voters
whose signatures should be required
on recall petitions to make them ef-
fective.
Whitney. with infinite tell. deduced
an average percentage from the wide
~ varying Geures used on recall petit
tinns in the "Ighty-One cities on the
mainland. The result is twenty per
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-09

cent. The highest percentage of sign
ers required to make a recall petit
ton effective is seventy-five. demand
ed by state statute in Illinois. Mo-
desto, California, has the distinction
Of requiring the smallest number Of
signers, demanding only five per cent.
Sacramento requires only ten per
cent, as do a considerable number of
other municipalities where the new
form of government is in use.
Judge Whitney's measure would
permit a public official to be recalled
after three months service.
He would divide the city govern
ment into departments as follows:
Public affairs, which, with the ma
yor as its head, would have charge.
among other things, of the fire and
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-09

itUrv equal in size to the whole United State
lis bill provides an appropriation Of S3,OON.O0
q b" extended over Il period Of ten years.
agriculture is this Ea1ioL's greatest asset" Mr..
Lever said the agricultural produces being wo.tI
approximately 81 0OO,OOO,Vc0, or Practically four
times much the capitalization of the nations
railroads, and probabl! four times much the
total Capitalization of its national banks
Should the farmers Of the country determine to
20 upon a strike for twelve months every bank in
TIE nation would he compelled within few brief
months to close its doors; railroad would be
able wheel and every city in the land would
h., within six months. upon the verge of starvation.
This problem Of agriculture" he continued,
(which many of the unthinking are inclined to laugh
and sheer at is the important up for solution
at the hands of the American people. The high cost
OF living is vital question for the people of the city
1t will be solved until have solved the
problem of production of food and raiment, and
reached direct route for the passage of these
products from the man who produces them to him
who consumes.
How many of you bankers aware that within
radius OF 500 miles of the national capital there
living A20OOO0 peopie-4S per cent of the countrys
population? More than IS per cent of this num-
Der are non-producers of food and raiment. You
bankers the Intermediates by which the pro-
d. GERS made to produce. and the consumer to
cure his necessities at prices within his reach.
I'm 1880 more than 70 per cent of the nations
but SO per cent of the population is rural In other
words nearly half of the population is producing
food and clothing The farmer struggles to educate
his boys and girls and they, in go to the city
Our political doctors are telling these young people
to go back to the farms. l do not agree uIiess you
going to guarantee that farm conditions 60
ing to be just as good just as wholesome and just
attractive the conditions which maintain in the
cities.
I'VE sent out bulletins to teach the farmer but
about SO per cent of them thrown away, used
t. kndle the fire cold mornings. We then sent
out speakers to explain. The farmers did not in
many take the advice offered. 1t is not that
the farmer is fool but that he has been the worst
Eumbugged in the land. Now to convince the
farmer you must demonstrate to him right the
farm. That is what mean by extensive teaching,
talking, writing and demonstrating
Mr.. Lever said that recently in Madison Square, in
New York. he found morning probably 900 men
asleep on the benches. The men, he was told, would
not work
Il could in those idle the greatest men
to the safety of the country declared the speak
When the red flag of anarchy goes up, and the
rumble of revolution resounds it will not be the cit
es but the hills and valleys, the home of
tism that will supply the defense for the nation"
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-09
EXPERT HELP FOR HAVAIpS FARMERS

Hawaii has more than passing interest in the
Lever agricultural bin now almost through Con-
gress This bill, introduced by Representative
Asbury F. Lever of South Carolina, and already
past the House, aims to furnish agricultural ex-
perts who shall be to the farmer what the physi-
clan is to the family.
The detailed provisions of the bill are too long
for publication here, but in brief the measure
i provides for skilled demonstration for every az
. ricultural county in the land. Equal federal and
state support are required and the supervision
and conduct of the work placed under the
state colleges of agriculture. AS the acceptance
of the provisions of the act rests with legisla
lures, Hawaii can take advantage of it's oppor
tunites if the territorial Legislature votes funds
to an amount equal to, the federal appropriation
That amount, of course, is dependent upon the
number of experts needed.
The territory already has the services of an
expert along diversified farming lines, Superin
tendent Starrett of the division of marketing
Under the Lever bill, however, the federal gov
eminent would assume half of the expense of
corps of experts The territorial marketing di
vision has considerably more on it's hands thai
the teaching of farmers. Mr.. Starrett and his
the shipping and sale of farm products where
their services are wished. They act as commits
sion men, Consequently comparatively little of
Mr.. Starretts time can be spent in instruction
of farmers.
With the extension of demonstrating in the
past few years and the practical certainty that
demonstrating will be much more rapidly extend
cd in the next few wears Hawaii has prOblcm
on her hands of getting the most out of the soil.
The value of economic, intelligent farming is not
alone to the farmer the immediate conSumer.I
1t affects the whole community The Lever bill
has been taken up and after thorough cNamina-
ton Endorsed by many banking and general bus
mess associations of the country The Banking|
Association of the District of Columbia adNptrdj
a resolution declaring that the Who'll" country
will benefit from the operation of the Lever bill
and urging the senate to assure its becoming law
by early passage of the bill.
Representative Lever, himself an authority on
farming. declares that with the skilled advic" Of
scientists. the intensive cultivation Of the soil
will shortly double or triple the crops OF thu
United States This, he said, would be "QHiva-
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-09
PERSONALITIES

ARTHUR WALL was a passenger
for the Coast yesterday. He goes on
a business trip for his store
MANAGER COLBURN of the Kapi-
olani estate departed on the Man
churia yesterday for the Coast.
MRS. MILDRED GEAR, who sailed
for the Coast yesterday in the Man
churia, will make her home in San
Francisco.
CARL S. CARLSMITH, the Hilo at
torney, was down town attending to
business this morning, after his Sc
we're illness in the Queens hospital.
PRINCESS KALANIANAOLE left
yesterday in the Manchuria en- route
to the mainland TO meet Prince
Kuhio, whom it is reported, is i'll and
on his way to Hawaii.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-09

Judge Alex. Lindsay formally cele-
brated his return to private life and
law practice yesterday by removing
the remainder of his law books and
Office supplies from the attorney gen.
erals Office to his own office, adjoln-
ing that Of Mott-Smith In the Judd
building.
George Davis, who has been serv.
ing a years sentence for receiving
struggled goods, and Seiki. Japan
anese serving sixty days for selling
liquor without a license were dis.
charged this morning, after taking
the poor eonvict's oath"
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Total

Number of men employed in the factories $500
1t is not generally known that Colorado stands
first in the states of the union in the production of
beet sugar. 1t produces almost much California
and Michigan combined the states that stand second
and third-and even with the present protection af
forded this industry, a whole, taking all the
plants together, has made only fair profit the
investment. There a number of beet sugar
plants that Aave been operating for six or seven
years that have never paid single dividend
single penny hihterest, direct indirectly, the
investment. Thus showing that in the beet business
in every other business, All that glitters is
gold"
The beet sugar interests of Colorado were 1evel-
oped closely after the destruction of silver in
terests here and in measure have made up largely
the loss suffered from the demonstration of sill
But it is proposed by Democratic
friends to put sugar the free list-and careful
investigation of the beet sugar interest proves that
this would be its absolute destruction. If his is
done there will not be beet sugar plant in Colo
RADIO that will operate next year This is idle talk
it is plain, cold statement of fact. And before
the inevitable destruction OF this great Colorado in
terest has been Consummated, the Post wants to 90
OH record and wants to put our senatOrs-c,eCt on
record Shafroth and Thomas, and wants to pat the
people record, that if all go and DELHI
erately murder this most important of Coorados in
dustries may take medicine without complain
ing after the destruction has been accomplished
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police departments; finance and sup.
plies; highways; health; water and
sewers.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-09
COLORADO's fight FOR SUGAR

The Denver Post of Il recent issue indicates
the Importance of a fight by the state against
sugar tariff-cutting in the following comment
One of the most important industries in Colorado
is the beet sugar interest The Colorado sugar
panies the past put in circulation the follow
ing of money:
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TIL" Flcral Parad" is ""r }mJ"dc
r" going to do to make it a success?
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TO ASK voters

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W hat are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-25

into one business. 1t is said the late
DR.. Bromwell some fifteen years ago paid
5000 and now it brings more than dOu-
BILE that sum- In the meantime, year after
year, Odd structures have been removed
and new ones erected, so that at the
present time there is not on the west
side of Connecticut avenue from M street
to X street a single building used eX-
clusively for residence purposes.
Also True of East Side.
The same can be said. practically, of
the east side of Connecticut avenue,
which. however, is taken up with larger
holdings than the opposite side. In the
block where 1147 stands are to be found
the only residences used entirely for that
purpose and there are now three left
occupying the frontage between Demo-
nets establishment and the Grafton
Hotel
But few houses used for family living
are now to be found on the east side of
the avenue between M and N streets,
while on the west side a triangular park
separates the line of the avenue from
that OF 18th street, where the houses re-
main, except at the corner OF Jefferson
place. The block between N street and
Dupont Circle, with the English embassy
at the south corner and the Edison
Bradley house at the north corner, has
not as yet been invaded by business with
the exception of the corner house on the
east side at Dupont Circle, which has
been removed. and there is now being
erected there three-story building.
which is to be one of the branches of the
United St~teE Trust Company.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-25
STONE OF THE PYRAMIDS.
Structure of the Monuments of
Cheops and Chephren.

Letter 10 The New York Sun.
In answer to "W. II. W. NJ" l will say
that about all writer's on the Pyramids
agree that the stone used was limestone.
Some believe that the Pyramid of Cheops
and also the other Pyramids had smooth
sloping sides. Some believe that the out
name granite, but speak Of the triangular
pieces necessary as being polished stone.
AS to the last, no stone except granite
will retain its polish for more than a
few years. a fact that would seem to
argue that the material which formed
the outer coating was of granite. But 1
found not even chip of granite on or
around the Pyramid of Cheops.
The Pyramid of Chephren, second in
size to that of Cheops. has from its apex
down for about fifty feet four clearly de-
fined corners. Below that the sides ap-
pear much the same as the sides of Che
ops-Stepped. Viewed through field
glasses the material of the outer coating
of the upper part does not look like gran
lite. nor is any polish to be seen. So my
belief is that if the Pyramid of Cheops
had ever had smooth sides the triangular
blocks forming the outer surface were of
limestone.
No granite. so far as / have seen, has
been used in the construction Of any
building in Cairo, the only city within a
hundred miles of the Pyramids The
limestone of Mokattam was more easily
worked than granite and nearer Cairo
than the Pyramids. the Transportation
shorter and no ferriage across the Nile.
Triangular granite blocks are never used
in building construction, except i'm some
special way. usually for ornament and
above ground. where they could be seen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-25
Roadside Orchards.
From the Toledo Blade.


One of the rural periodicals meeting
the demands of city dwellers has had
two or three interesting articles about
roadside fruit-growing
A German principally has planted
miles and miles of fruit-producing trees
along the highways. deriving therefrom
revenue that serves appreciably to
Tighten the burden of taxation This
strikes our American observer writing
for the periodical aforementioned as a
very practical bit of public work and
he can see only waste in the long
in this country and scarcely a grain of
utility in the elm-shaded sides of other
pixies and lanes.
The idea would be a good one i'm the
United States, without doubt il III did
not come into contact with a tirne-hon-
ored American tradition. In this coun-
try of the free, any property in the
rural districts is the property of any
one SO long as the farmer is not i'm
sight, and sometimes not even then un-
less he has gun in the crook of his
arm. 1t is a crime to steal apples from
the grocer. But il is a smart trick to
steal apples from the farmer IL a man
across a flower bed he'd be before the
Judge in an hour But i'm the country
a field of growing grain is your path
way il you prefer il to the dusty road
What would be the value of fifty
miles of fruit tees along an American
roadside? You couldn't measure il i'm
revenue to the state, because there
came into bearing, pedestrians would
all be expert climbers. and the equip
ment OF every automobile would be in
creased by at least one bushel basket.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-25
CONNECTICUT AVENUE
BUSINESS EXPANSION
Residence at 1147 Brings
Twice the Sum Paid for It
as a Home.

The change in the ownership of the
residence at 1147 Connecticut avenue,
which occurred last week, is followed
by the announcement by Randall II.
Hagner, real estate broker. that the
property will be adapted for business
purposes. The latter was expected as
being in line with what has been going
on in that section Of Connecticut avenue
for some time past. The number of
residences now along that thOroughfare
between Farragut Square or X street and
N street has been growing steadily less,
as the advance of business has changed
the uses of the buildings or brought
about the erection of new ones.
The price paid for the property re-
ferred to also registers the progress
made in turning a residence locality
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-25

ally 1t was decided that for each year
one writer OF eminence should he chosen
with absolute power to make the award
Tor the year. This Is a noteworthy de-
ployed by the Goncourts Academy.
The decision was due entirely to the elo.
quent and convincing speech OF Richard
Dehmel: the German lyric poet 'aThe
kleist foundation" he said. was insti-
tuted for the announcement az new and
extraordinary talents. An extraordinary
thing cannot command the support Of 3
majority, whose love is always Tor the
golden mean. The individual alone car
. responsibility which ne must i,istify fo
future generations The COMMITTEES wa
convinced and the selection Of the work
for the award has been intrusted to Rich
ara Dehmel himself for the coming year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-25
AWARDS FOR YOUNG WRITERS.
German Foundation for Encouraging
Literary Achievements.
From the Westminster Gazette

From the Westmnster Gazette.
1t would very probably be an excellent
stimulus to sincere literary achievement
were we to have a foundation correspond
ing TO the Academic des Goncourts The
prize OF the forty-five'' has helped to
keep the standard OF young French writ
ers high. Now Germany has followed the
French example, and there is a report
to hand of the first meeting OF the Kieist
foundation in Berlin, whose executive
committee consists of the foremost Ger
man writer's and artists.
The meeting was of unusual interest
because of the nature Of the subject under
discussion, the method Of choice to be
adopted In awarding the prize. Eventu-