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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-13
PAYING FOR PROPERTY BENEFITS

A correspondent in this paper yesterday
brought up the question of the wisdom of re-
cently-enaeted law providing for the opening or
widening of public roads by the .'local improve
ment'' or Acknowledgements plan.
The correspondent argues that most of the roads
to be thus opened will be suburban roads and
comparatively little used for traffic by the prop
erty-owners who must pay the expense of open
ing Them He concludes from this that the law
is inequitable.
The Star Bulletin does not at all agree with
him, and it is easy to point out the reasons why.
If the majority of property-owners in any Sec
ton do not feel like standing the expense of hay-
ing roads opened or improved, they may effect
ually prevent it under the new law, for an adj
verse petition, signed by So per cent Of the af-
fected property -owners, blocks the proposed inn
proyement. Sixty per cent of the affected own
ers must sign petition in favor of the improve
ment to cause its adoption.
Another safeguard against inequitable opera
ton of the law is provided in section which al
lows the city and county to stand any part of
the expense of the improvement. Propertyown-
ers who feel themselves unable to1stand or nn.
warranted in standing the total burden of ex-
penSe may ask the CITY ana county I'd dSSisL
them, and if the plea is good one, a fair board
of supervisors ought to allow it.
We grant that suburban residents use the
roads for comparatively little traffic, and that
principally foottraffic, but this is a small part
Of the benefits new roads will bring to them.
The roads will increase property values general
"; will make their homes more accessible to the
butchers wagon, or the iceman's cart; will aid
in developing that American convenience, the
corner gr6cery, and after good roads will come
street-cars. All of this is direct benefit to the
suburbanite, and he pays for it when be meets
his road assessment.
In practical operation, section that does not
want new road does not have to have it. A
section that wants it, can get it the principle
Of the initiative.
This plan is the fairest that has yet been de-
vised for American municipalities. The chief
expense of improvement falls on the people
chiefly benefited, and if they do not consider
themselves guaranteed sufficient benefit the i'm
provement cannot be forced upon them.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-13
WHY GASOLINE GOES UP.

At last petroleum and its products
have joined the army OF advancing
prices. For ten years prior to 1911 a
steady increase in the cost Of the
necessities of life was shown. while
petroleum and its products continued
at a. low level Now the latter are
advancing. The cause is the steadily
diminishing production of the finer
qualities Of crude oil from which gaso-
line is derived and diminution OF the
surplus stocks on hand. Not only
have gasoline and other petroleum
products advanced, but crude oil has
shown an increase ranging from s per
cent for the heavy fuel oil Of Califor-
mia and Texas to from 81 to 40 per
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-13
tunity to save the department million

tunity to save the department millions
of dollars a year.
The question very naturally may
present itself as to why the present
officers of the department, instead of
consuming all this time IN an endeavor
to discredit the good work of the men
they succeeded are not devoting them
selves more attentiyely to the service
even if they are thus far unable in
their inexperience to map out and exc
cute constructive postal program so
as to broaden still further the useful
ness of the postoffiee. They doubtless
will find it a considerable task TO
maintain throughout our vast country
the efficiency of the postal service as
developed and extended by their pred
ecessors and particularly of those
great branches of the service recently
established for the benefit of the peo-
pie by Republican administration,
the postal savings bank and the par
GELS post"
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-13
HITCHCOCK SAYS
CHARGES FALSE
Brands. the Report Compiled
Against His Work as ANA
flourish and Not by
Postal Authorities
.[By Latest NALL

+ SILVER CITY. N. Mon arriving
at Silver City from the MogolIon
mountains, where he has been spend
ling some weeks, former Postmaster
general Frank H.. Hitchcock was
shown for the first time the statement
issued few days ago by Postmaster
general Burleson, attacking his adj
Iministration of the postoffice depart
iment. After reading the charges, Mr..
Hitchcock issued the following state
lment:
"a committee composed in the main
of newly appointed assistants having
less than three months experience in
postoffice business attempts in re-
port to the present head of the de-
partment to discredit the financial
showing made by the postal service
under President Taft's administration.
After reporting alleged discrepancies
that are insignificant when compared
with the great sums known to have
been saved by their predecessors this
committee of novitiates proceeds in
this published statement to enlighten
the American people as to the charac-
ter of the post service they have been
receiving.
Calls Report Inaccurate
Their statement is as inaccurate as
lit Is gratuitous, for the public we'll
knows that never was the postal SER
vice conducted more efficiently, or
mail handled with greater precision
and dispatch than in the closing years
LOT the Taft administration. In that
administration nearly 5000 new post
offices were established, delivery let
ter carriers were supplied in about
300 additional cities, and over 5000
new rural routes, aggregating about
rs 900 miles, were authorized.
Notwithstanding these great extern
lin expenditures they required, the
postoffice department was placed on
la self-sustaining basis, and that was
Its condition when, on the 4th of
March, it passed intoI the hands of
newly appointed officers, who seem
thus far to have been exhausting their
time and their energy in vain at
tempt to detract from the record made
by the devoted public servants who
preceded them.
"The postal committee of a Demo
cratic house of congress endeavored
last year in a similar manner to at
tack the audited accounts of the postal
service, but after Investigation that
committee was fair enough to admit
that the department had become sub
stantially self-sustainfng. The re-
turns as to surplus or deficit are made
up not by the postoffice department,
but by the treasury department, where
all postal income is received and all
postal accounts finally audited.
Deficit Wiped Out.
"The secretary Of the treasury re-
ported the wiping out Of the postal
deficit and the record thus certified to
in his fiscal report is likely to stand
In history If the postofice depart
ment could have received proper al
lowance for the cost of carrying
franked mail, the postal surplus would
have been much larger than that rec
orded.
I'm the last administration we ap-
pealed in vain to a Democratic house
for Democratic legislation abolishing
the ranking abuse 1t is a subject
that the postal management might
well consider. for it affords an oppor-
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-13
EDITOR

records that will be rejected ON the mainland
And when, in the interests of accuracy and
fair play, attention is called to an unfortunate
blunder, the morning paper begins to cry
'sKnocker"
Is HOnolulu's sense of clean sportsmanship SO
far lost that we wish to claim what is not fairly
ours? Isn't there honor and square dealing IN
this great amateur spot? OF course there is, and
we do not believe there are half dozen people
in Hawaii who desire TO claim for Duke records
that he has not made.
Hawaii is proud of her champion swimmer.
We don't doubt for an instant that he can shat
ter any shortdistance swimming record he may
go after He started Wednesday by smashing a
local record in the 440-yard swim, and after this
long and firing performance, he showed his won
derful strength, endurance and speed by break
ing the worlds record in the 100yard dash, and
the A. A. q. or American amateur records in the
80, and 22O,yard dashes.
The evil in claiming false records is that they
throw doubt ON the true: that athletic authori-
ties will see at once that false claims are being
set up and discredit will be cast on amateur
sport in Hawaii. Hawaii has won athletic hon
0rs by clean and hard endeayor. Let's keep the
slate clean and the 'scutcheon untarnished.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-13

THE rBulletin, invites free and
frank discussion in this column on all
legitimate subjects of current interest.
Communications are constantly receiv-
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
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-13
LIIIIEiNTII0IIWQ

JAKE wESSLER = Doesn't it hit
you as little strange that Tuneichi
Tonako, after fighting deportation
through all kinds of strenuous stunts.
and lost out. has at last been granted
a<re-opening of his case so that he
can present birth certificate show
ing that he is a native of the Hawaii
an tsIanda9
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-13

The London Times is using the billboards to-
announce its reduction in price to twopence.
This is said to be the first occasion which the
Times has used the posters, and it is now to-
be expected that local antibillboard campaign
ers will start fracas with the sThunderer'.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-13

The Healan Yacht and Boat Club is showing
splendid spirit in sending two of its swimmers to
compete in San Franciscan George Cunha ran
so close to Duke in the recent meet that another
worlds champion for Honolulu may be prophe-
sled, and his brother is a speedy athlete who I'M
fortunately has been ill and unable to compete
lately. The club is encouraging members not be-
cause they take first places but because they are
hard workers and good performers as we'll.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-13
It was recently said of President wilson:

He has been little than two months in
the White House. and during that time he has
scored two long credit marks:
HE has not uttered'a complaint about any
thing anybody
2-He has not spoken word.
That was before the "insidious lobbyists" got
busy.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-13

The Union Pacific has proposed something
like thirtyseven dissolution plans, none of which
suit Uncle Sam. Pretty soon o. P. will run out
of niggers for its woodpile.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-13

Russia Is considering the proposi-
ton to limit Chinese labor on steam,
ers in the Amur basin to not more
than Is per cent Of the crews.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-13

Now doth the busy little moth Inn
prove each shining hour since that fair
day in early May when you packed
your winter things away and left them
in his power.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-13

The right of free speech not only exists now,
when Hawaii is protesting to congress, but will
exist two years from now and four years from
now, when the country goes to the polls
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-13

The tumult and the shouting dies; the candi-
dates for home depart; and Mr.. Wilson plays
the sphinx, with stony mien and marble heart.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-13

Now that Wilson has broken his engagement
with ex-Gov Carter, we may look for a real
breach-of-promise suit.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-13

The lobby probe committee roared when Wal
ter G. Smith said he was getting $625 a month
for lecturing. Now why?
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-13

Next thing Wilson will holler for an investi
CATION of the hotel lobbies.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-13

The western banker who eloped and
says he did it to avoid publicity did
not know that elopement is one of the
most familiar routes to the limelight.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-13

Duke is in the same class with Wilson.
likes to smash precedents.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-13

According to the new attorney general, his
predecessors have done considerably more trust.
ing than busting.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-13

Those suffragettes who have taken to flour
bomb throwing can't care a bit for the high cost
of living
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-13

California seems quite able to bear up under
a burden of criticism, thank you.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-13

There's nothing miserly about Hawaiian SUI
gar Planters Association salaries.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-13

schoolmaster Wilson and his Big Switch.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-13

The governorship candidates are on the back
trail
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-13

scored two long credit marks:
HE has not uttered'a Complaint about any
thing anybody
Pie has not spoken cross word.
That was before the Ssinsidious lobbyists got
busy.
The London Times is using the billb0ards to
announce its reduction in price to twopence.
This is said to be the first occasion on which the
Times has used the posters, and it is now to
be expected that local anti-billboard campaign
ers will start fracas with the s'Thunderer'.
The right of free speech not only exists now,
when Hawaii is protesting to congress, but will
exist two years from now and four years from
now, when the country goes to the polls.
-
The Union Pacific has proposed something
like thirty-seyen dissolution plans, none of which
suit Uncle Sam. Pretty soon o. p will run out
of niggers for its woodpile.
The tumult and the shouting dies; the candi-
dates for home depart; and Mr.. Wilson plays
the sphinx, with stony mien and marble heart
The lobby probe committee roared when Wal
ter G. Smith said he was getting $625 month
for lecturing Now why?
Now that Wilson has broken his engagement
with exGoy Carter, we may look for real
breach-ofpromise suit
According to the new attorney general, his
predecessors have done considerably more trust
ing than busting.
Those suffragettes who have taken to flour
bomb throwing can't care bit for the high cost
of living.
There's nothing miserly about Hawaiian SUI
gar Planters Association salaries.
---
California seems quite able to bear up under
"a burden of criticism, thank you.
Next thing Wilson will holler for an inVest-
CATION of the hotel lobbies
Duke is in the same class with Wilson. He
likes to smash precedents.
The governorship candidates are on the back
trail
Schoolmaster Wilson and his Big Switch
Congress knows Hawaii is on the map.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1913-05-29
Leonard, Texas

Please allow me space n your
good paper to thank my many
friends for the beautiful birth
day cards l received on March
25. l will send cards to all who
ask for hem. They all wished
me a happy birthday, but it was
the saddest one that ever came
ing me of my poor brothers
to me so many of my cards tell
death. 1t seemed it was more
than | could bear, but he is at
rest, while | am in sickness and
sorrow. But God knows what is
best. 1t won't be long until l
see my dear brothers who have
been called home an dleft their
dear children, but God will take
care of them.
l have so little chickens and
26 little turkeys, short bunch.
r. j. Jackson.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1913-05-29
Piedmont, NO.. r. 1

/ live in Missouri on a farm on
Big Lake creek. in Wayne coun-
ty. Wayne county consists of
low rocky ridges and many
creeks and valleys. The val
leys furnish farming land, and
there are lots of fine farms on
Big Lake; also much fertile
land in Wayne county. We can
raise corn, wheat, potatoes, rye
oats and many other products.
People have reasonably good
health here. The game is very
scarce in this county.
Burroughs Smiths folks at
tended church at New Liberty
last Sunday.
Mrs. Ballard is visiting us to-
day. Dezzie Smith.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1913-05-29
Marshall, Arkansas

AS we have been in Arkansas
for some time will write a few
lines to let our friends know
how we are getting along. /
like Arkansas fine, but it is not
like our dear old Tennessee.
Marshall is not a large place
(about 1,O00) but it seems to be
a very busy little town.
Sister Dahuff l missed your
letter last week but found it this
week. Is Sister Hall still in
Nashville? Tell her hello for
me and give her my love. Will
you please tell me her address,
as l have forgotten what it is.
Have you seen Mrs. Beecher
since she moved back to Nash
Vile?
l had to go to court all day last
Thursday and Friday and guess
I will have to go go this week.
l did not have to go on the wit
ness stand but am afraid l will
this time.
Mrs. Thos. Millard, who has
been sick for some time, is up
again. Essie Welch.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1913-05-29
LewistOWn, Montana

Dear Editor: AS we like your
good little paper and like to
read the letters from home, l
am sending a subscription for
the best paper that is printed.
He came here two years ago,
and like it just fine. We have
lots of relatives and friends in
dear old Tennessee, but we like
the west better and expect to
make it our home. We are hav-
ing some rain here today, and
may hvae snow by tomorrow,
as it SHOWS here any old time,
but there is no place like Lewis
town.
| am little boy II years old
and this is the first letter l ever
wrote to any paper. I have a
dear grandpa and grandma in
CoOkeville, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Haynes, and would like to see
and all the kinspeople.
We have good schools here.
They will close in two weeks. I
like to go to school and will be
sorry when it closes.
Robert Tumlin.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1913-05-29
~ - ~

Mt. View Lodge, No. 179, l. o.
o. F., held a splendid meeting
May oath, 1918, Chas. r. Coun-
tiss, N. G., presiding. Quite a lot
of routine business was dispoe-
ed of.
Bro. Geo. w. Slagle was re-
ported as ailing though not Sc
riously. Bro. j. M. Brown rs
considered convalescent. Bro.
r. F. Pippin was reported seri-
ously and critically bad off. Bro.
Dank Garrison was reported as
still growing worse. Bro. e. D.
Staley was reported about as
last week. Bro. L. A. Copeland
is up and out again after three
weeks of measles.
| The new bylaws have been
corrected and approved by the
Deputy Grand Master and will
be placed in the hands of the
printer shortly. The Is years
exemption was stricken out and
all members regardless of age
or condition will be required to
pay dues after July 1, 1918, as
this lodge has no non-benefi-
cial members.
The election of officers will
be the first meeting in June and
the installation of lodge officers
will be the first meeting in July,
at which time the election of
Representative to the Grand
Lodge takes place.
The Secretary has raised a
clpb of subscribers to the Sow
ereing Odd Fellow, paper in
the interest of I. O. O. F., pub
lished at Gravette, Ark. All
l. o. o. F. members should take
and read a good fraternal paper
and try to know more of this
grand order.
The graves of Bros. J.J. Mills
and Taylor Moore at Salem
were decorated on May 25th,
1913, in the forenoon, and those
buried in COokeville Cemetery
in the afternoon, same date.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1913-05-29

rooms should be we'll ventilated
Each pupil should have a pri-
vate drinking cup and should
use it. The schoolroOm should
be kept as clean as possible and
I the floors should be washed oc-
casionally.
In recent years the preven-
ton of contagious diseases, in
a large measure has been
taught, discussed and enforced
in many schools of the state.
Several of these schools have
been vaccinated for typhoid fe-
yer and smallpox. This is a
simple and safe way of render
ing a person immune from these
deadly diseases. The vaccine
virus is inoculated in the arm
of the person, slight and usu-
ally unimportant illness fol-
lows and the arm is sore for a
time, but deaths due to mere
vaccination rarely, if ever, &C.
cur.
The Cookeville High School
is second to the leading school
of this state in these matters.
This has been accomplished
largely through the efforts of
DR.. WIS. Farmer, who is a men,
ber of the school board and an
uniring worker along this line.
He has perhaps done more for
the sanitary condition of the
school in this one year than has
been accomplished in themany
preceding ones. Also through
he efforts and inteaest of DR..
Olin West of Nashville. The
Cookeville High School is per-
haps the leading school in the
state in the interest it has TAX
en- in the prevention and cure
of hookworm.
So you see if one would be
physically perfect, mentally
awake and live his life in the
most enjoyable and beneficial
way possible, he cannot give
too much attention to the de-
mands of hygiene and santa
tion.
THE above paper was given
a prize of ten dollars as being
the best written by a boy stu-
dent of the city high school.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1913-05-29

Never can tell when you'll
mash a finger or suffer a cut,
bruise, scald or burn. Be pre-
pared. Thousands rely on DR..
Thomas Eclectic Oil. Your
druggist sells it. 25c and soc.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1913-05-29

Had dyspepsia or indigestion
for years. No appetite, and what
I did eat distressed me terribly.
Burdock Blood Bitters reached
the cause. y. H. Walker, Sun
bury, Ohio.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1913-05-29

Oh, you calomel, get out of the
way and let LIV-VER-LAX do
the work; purely vegetable;
ask z. T. Kinds.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1913-05-29

You will always findLIV-VER.
LAX in the best drug stores
ask z. T. Kinds.
The daily Alaskan., 1913-03-22
slOOOO REWARD slGOOl

The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there Is at least one dreadful diseaEe that scienc has been able to cure in all it's stages and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Ca taETh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment Halle Catarrh Cure Is taken intern ally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces Of the system, thereby destroying the foundation Of the disease. and giving the patient strength by building up the eonsd- tution and assisting nature il doing it's work The prOprietors have so much faith ia Is curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. seud for the Hst of testimonials.