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The Calumet news., 1913-07-15
who first used the words "the United
States of American"

Who first used the words "the United
States Of America?"
Authorities differ. Some nscribe ira
INITIAL use to Thomas Paine. Others
give credit To Thomas Jefferson for
having named our country.
Please sive the native country ana
cate OF birth and death of each of the
to''ow'ng authors! Chaucer, Goethe,
omar khayyam, Sir Thomas Browne,
Cervantes, Moliere, vergiI. Samuel
Johnson Dante, Keats, Thomas Paine
and Heinrich Heine.
Geoifrey thauccr. England. 1893.
i+oo; Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Ger.
"''hy, l.4o- iSi2: Omar klmyyam. Per.
sh' lo2o-l 10; Sir Thomas browne.
England. lG05S2: Ceryantes spain
i1 'ldld; Moliere, France. 1G22-73:
'erSi'' italy. Iol9 B. C.: Dr. Samuel
'onilson' England I7Oo.S4; ,'Dante.
n"iy' lZoo- I32l; Keats. England. 1885,
io-I; THOMAS Paine, England. 1737.
iooo; Heinrich IIeinc. GERMANY 1900. IA
n...L ever an attempt to i'm
So, any president Of the United
',''es besides Andrew Johnson7
~ 1910 member of congress from
s'hia ofcred resolution for the
,"'le"chiient :" of President Tyler. for
e''s' "Suriation Of power, wicked
""u corrupt abuse of the power of AN
Pointnent and high crimes and ,nis,,.. 1
ea'o's' Dot the resolution was rs
'ee'ed-yeas, 80; nays, LIT. 20
The Calumet news., 1913-07-15

Kindly state why Charles the Great
70 called charieragne.
Charlemagne he Is called in English
after the French. which formed tbo,
name for him probably from the Latin
or 1t, Carolus Magnus. These two
ana Karl der Crosse. the German form
or the name. all mean Charles tbs
Great"
The Calumet news., 1913-07-15
WHAT OTHER
PEOPLE THINK

Subscribers Are Invited to Con.
tribute TO this Column. a
communication should be
signed BY the writer's own
name, nc; necessarily for pub.
iiestion, but as evidence OF
seos faith.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-29
JAPANESE LAND LAWS

Editor Honolulu Star-Bulletin,
Sir:-A dispatch from the capital
city of Japan was published through
out the country recently, in which
was quoted the japanese law in refer
ence to the ownership of land by for
eigners in that country.
The dispatch starts off with the
preamble that foreigners domiciled
or resident in Japan shall enjoy the
right of ownership in land" provided
that Japanese are extended the same
privilege in other foreign treaty
countries. This shows generosity on
the face of it, but wait for the expla-
nation that is included in the rest of
the law, if one but looks carefully.
In article of these Japanese land
laws will be found the foundation for
the little joker. Article 3 provides
that foreigners cannot enjoy the
ownership and right in land" in Yezo
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-29
EDITOR

words being picked up easily en- route at all the
intermediary offices mentioned
"The man who is responsible for this tri-
umph,' says the Montreal Witness in reporting
the event, lis John Gott chief electrician of the
Commercial Cable Company since its organize
ton in 1S4, and the rights to the invention have
been acquired by the Commercial Cable Com
pany, which has taken out patents all over the
world. This invention surpasses anything that
has been added to the submarine cables since Sir
William Thompson Lord Kelvin) and Crom-
well Marley first made the practical operation of
longdistance submarine cables possible fifty
five years ago.
1t is stated that even the great Edison failed
in an attempt to apply the land-wire system to
the cable. Some years ago he took an automatic
Morse arrangement to England and in the course
of his experiments tried to send the dot and dash
code through cable about 1000 miles long,
coiled in tank When he signalled dot it
came out on the tape at the far end in a mark
twenty-eight feet long. Mr.. Edison laughingly
confessed his failure saying, 81 thought that dot
was never going to end.
As the Commercial Pacific cable is a member
of the Mackay system along with the parent
Commercial owning this new invention, the
probability appears strong that Honolulu will
before long be in a position to be thrown into
direct wire communication with Washington, as
well as the great commercial centers of the
mainland. What this would mean in great
emergencies is something whose Importance can
only be imagined. Think of the commander of
the land forces here, or the admiral OF. the Pa
cific fleet, being in conversational touch by WIRE
without the delays of relaying messages, with
the supreme military and naval authority at the
capital.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-29
LETTERS ON IIMELY TOPICS

Formosa, Sakhalin and districts nee
essary for the national defense, the
latter districts to be designated by
imperial ordinance.
Now, then, Starr Bulletin readers,
get out your map of Japan and you
may be surprised to learn that the
islands that have been named above
include all of the large islands of the
Japan group except the main island
of Hondo and those smaller and so
close to it as to form part of 1t.
What the land law of Japan, as re-
CARDS foreigners holding land, is this:
Foreigners may enjoy the ownership
of land" on just one Japanese island
of Importance in the group, and on
that one island there may be exempt
ed from alien ownership districts for
national defense"
If there was ever a gold brick in a
land law that is to be handed to a
foreigner, 1t is in the land law of ia
pan.
If this island was to enact a land
law for foreigners that read as fol-
lows: Foreigners may own and en-
joy land on the island of Oahu except
east of Waikiki, north of Beretania
street and west of Nuuanu stream, .
and so much of this may 'be exempt
for national defenses' we would have
copy of the Japanese land laws.
Sauce for the goose Is sauce for the
gander. WHITMAN.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-29
CORQUERIEG THE FLOODS

Science, conqueror of many ills has been
called upon to conquer. the floods that have
racked Ohio, Indiana and several other states
recently.
The most substantial suggestion for prevent
ing repetition of the immensely costly and de
structive floods is that of national board of
public works, with cabinet officer at it's head.
The national drainage congress- which met two,
weeks ago in St Louis, threw aside all of it's pre-
vious plans of discussion to deal with the prob
lem of floods suddenly made vital and pressing,
and the suggestion for the public works depart
ment was the result. ExGov. David r. Francis
and Col George w. Goethals, the canal builder,
have each been mentioned as possible heads of
the department in the Wilson cabinet. Such a.
portfolio, of course, would have to be created by
act of congress.
Engineers have estimated that the Mississippi
river could be deepened and widened and its wa
tiers otherwise controlled SO as to be safe from
floods at an expense of $6O0OO,OOO, Property
worth two or three times that amount was de-
stroyed in the recent disaster, to say nothing Of
the lives lost. Experts agree almost unanimous
ly that several of the large valley waterways
should be deepened and the dykes strengthened,
but the work is beyond any state and there is no
national provision for it. The haphazard, pork
barrel scheme of river and hafbor legislation
furnishes no method of permanent relief, for it
is political, not scientific. Nor is the federal
governments regular engineering work of broad
enough scope to handle such comprehensive
improvement scheme. Not until the task is put
on a sound footing can effective preventive work
be planned and carried through.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-29
APRIL %, 1913
GOOD MEN At THE HELM,

General satisfaction will be felt with the
makeup of the public utilities commission as it
Is proposed. And particular satisfaction will be
felt that Secretary of the Territory Mott-Smith
has been chosen by Governor Frear to head the
commission. : s
This paper has had gratifying occasion sew
eral times in the past few months to call atten-
tion to Mr.. Mott-Smith's achievements in prog
ress work in this territory. The latest comment
Of this kind, if memory serves correctly, was
called forth by MottSmith's announcement of
his intention to retire from public office That,
at the solicitation of the governor and at the
dictates of his own strong public spirit, he has
rec0nsidered his determination, is distinctly to
the gain of the territory. He has been called
upon in several instances to take hold of and Or
ganize public departments and each time has
made good A good many years ago he took off
his coat and "sailed into' public work with an
energy and exuberance of spirit that brooked no
thought of defeat. And his strenuous efforts
have kept his coat off ever since.
N. s. Williams is a practical railroad man,
who recently gave up an important position be-
cause he felt that he had earned for himself a
vacation and the right to get away from the har-
ness for awhile. he is independent of means
and of character
Al j. Gignoux is a type of rising and pro-
eressiye young businessman, a former president
Of the Merchants Association and fairly fitted
70 speak for Hawaii's diversified business inter-
ests. Every one Of these men has essentially the
Viewpoint Of the average citizen, and that's a
good deal incidentally, Mr. Gignoux leavens
the commission with Democratic flavor.
The first two years OF the inequalities com.
mission viii be trying. They will be largely ex-
perimental. But the membership of this import
ant body should largely determine it's ultimate
success, and the makeup as is now proposed
will we believe, meet very general favor.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-29
CONCERT
PROGRAM READY

In preparing the program for the
violin recital he will give at the Young
Hotel on May 9Th. John Clifford. the
young violinist who has made name
for himself both in California and In
this city, chose the most popular scr
lections for that instrument and ones
that are familiar to lovers Of violin
music. One Of them, played by the
majority of violinists, is 'sThe Air for
the G String" by Bach. Another mel
ody, one that Is familiar to all musici-
ans is the Hungarian Rhapsody by
Hauser. The program also includes
sveraccini's Minuette. Sinding's "yog-
lein in Hahn and Reis's "Adagio" and
"Gondoliera."
Mrs. G. K Tackabury. well known
here, will sing an aria from La
Refine De Saba, by Gounod. 10!
IT'S the Hour" by Frederick Logan
and Godartl's "Berceause" (Jocelyn).
Mrs L. Tenney Peck will be at the
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-29
REVOLUTION IN CABLING METHOD

While steady advancement has been made
ia wireless telegraphy the march of invention
has not halted with regard to metallic circuit
IeIegraphy. just two weeks ago on Sunday last
q revolutionary achievement was accomplished
ii submarine and land telegraphy in conjunc-
ton. Up to that time cable messages were trans
lnitted by different method from that of land
telegraphing Instead of the Morse code being
licked off on a sounder, which the operator read
81 ear and which was recorded on the tape in
disconnected dots and dashes, the message was
raced in wayy line by siphon pen on the
tape, the joys in the line being translated into
dots and dashes by the receiving operator The
marking is like that seen in the instrument re-
/0rding the temperature in the weather bureaus
|;osk on Hotel street This is the system that
WAS in vogue when Honolulu first had cable
standardization, and is the system employed in
Il cables today. 1t is an improvement on the
original method of reading the messages in
flashes of light upon mirror in dark cham
Der.
The achievement above mentioned will prob
ably lead to a complete change in the mode of
submarine telegraphy, bringing it into direct
conjunction with land telegraphs. On Sunday,
April 13, a cable message was transmitted direct
from London to Montreal, where was taken off
the Morse sounder by the receiving operator. 1t
had to be transmitted by land line from London
- the cable station on the coast of England,
whence bv cable to Canso, n. s., and from thence
to the G. p. r. office in Montreal over about 900
miles OF land wire The land lines on either end
we're linked up with the cable and the message
MAS sent through on one electric circuit so per-
|ecflv as to draw from the assistant general
...6n,6er Of the c. p. r. telegraphs the remark !:
s.<rhv. II is as firm and strong as though the
..sb sending the message were only the other
.ide Of the road !"
This was not all After the new invention
y. "a l.oop tested thus far, Toronto several hum
,,sd les farther west, was added to the circuit,
fss victoria. b G., and finally the Pacific cable
+sf;op It Bamfield on the far side of Vancouver
"s,sna London talking clear through and its
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-29

Once more the wife Of General Dem
Tel f. Sickles. with whom he refuses
to become reconciled has made an
agreement with the bank officials
whereby the foreclosure sale Of hIs
Fifth avenue home has been post
poned.
The prelates who viii administer ex-
treme JUNCTION to the Pope In case he
can not rally from his critical condl-
ton are In readiness at the Vatican.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-29

1.-THE Star-BuIletin 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 IL the writer's 80
desire, but cannot give space to
anonymous communications
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-29
DON'T KILL THE FAIR BILL
Continued from page one)

Z 5 -.
been asked by either side. Members of the house
who insist on tying up the fair appropriation
bill in this manner are putting themselves in
position unfortunate for the entire territory,
sincere though the dissenters may be- We don't
want meddlesome legislation. We cannot afford
to have it We need CALIFORNIA; friendly assist
ance and cordial cooperation, now as never be-
fore. This territory stands to gain millions of
dollars in tourist trade and traffic from an ade-
quate exhibit at San Francisco in 1915. 1t,
would be business folly now to tie up the fair
appropriation on what the California legislature
may or may not do. There is no connection, SO
far as Hawaii is concerned, between the exposi-
ton and alien land legislation These two prop
ositions, so far as Hawaii is concerned, should
be emphatically and finally divorced.
And is the legislature are these few house
members, to force the Hawaii fair commission
in the embarrassing and untenable position it
will be forced into by the killing of the fair bill?
The commission has gone about its work
faithfully and WE'LL It has labored for nearly
two years, with the assurance that funds would
be provided at the session of the Legislature. 1t
has pledged its faith with the exposition officials
of California; it has pledged the faith of the
territory tolmake an exhibit in 1915. The legis-
lature cannot in justice cut off the appropria-
ton and leave the commission dangling in the
air. Such course would be worse than absurd
lit would be insulting
And from the standpoint of CALIFORNIA; expo
sition management?
The Panama Pacific fair officials have as
signed a site for Hawaiis building. Hawaii had
first choice Hawaii has been treated with every
courtesy, and the exposition has justifiably adj
yertised Hawaii's participation. For Hawaii to
withdraw now would be graeeless, inexcusable.
Today businessmen and fair-minded legisla-
tors are laboring to bring about new confer
ence between house and senate and are asking
the house conferees to recede from their unrea-
sonable position.
The situation simply is that Hawaii has every
reason to exhibit at San Francisco, that any
meddling on our part in the California alien
land situation is quite uncalledfor, and that this
territory cannot afford for its exposition bill to
be killed. Perhaps before this statement APP
pears, the way to agreement will have been
opened We hope so. Every fair-minded citizen
must earnestly hope to see house and senate
come together this afternoon or tomorrow and
pass the fair appropriation measure in reason
able, practicable form.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-29
soY SCOUT COUNCIL.

Meeting Tuesday evening. at 8 D.
m. adobe house, 4 Kawaiahao St.
May 5. 1913. Election Of Officers.
You are urgently requested to It.
tend. @. c.. POTTER.
Secretary.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-29

Miss Nell Grant, granddaughter of
Gen. u. S. Grant, has announced her
engagement to Lieut.. Comdr. William
Piggott Cronan, U. S. N -s~-....
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-29

Because his wife refused to forgive
him after quarrel, man of Han
ford, Cal, blew out his brains at her
bedside.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-29

This is the time of the session when lot of
the legislators announce their retirement from
public life. The voters reserve their opinion I'M
til election day.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-29

The first American submarines, having become
obsolete, are to be used as targets for the navy.
The aeroplanes never last long enough to become
obsolete
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-29

Has city beautiful planning come to stand
still? The kind of city planning that doesn't
succeed is the kind that gets no further than the
plans
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-29

1t is just possible that Secretary of State Bry-
troubled fires
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-29

Anyhow, the active harbor commissioners
will get money for the much needed wharf work
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-29
piano and will share honors with Gift
ford and Mrs. Tackabury.

ford and Mrs. Tackabnry.
Although 1t has not been decided
as yet there have been many re-
quests made that Clifford shall play
Beethoven's Minuet a. an encore.
When he rendered this selection IN Z
concert here some time ago he re-
ceived the praise of many local mu-
sicians. Seats for the recital are on
tale at the Hawaiian promotion com
lnittee rooms In the Young building
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-07
Not at the City's Expense.

If, as THE Evening Sun" reports, Fire Commits
soner Johnson is about to appear rs one of the
managers Of the Mccall campaign, his resignation
fought to be already written out and on the way
TO the Mayors office. The public can have no rea-
son TO complain if Mr.. Johnson wishes to give his
time and energy to political management. But it
would have every reason to complain If he should
try to tarry on the citys payroll while devoting
himself TO partisan activities.
Mr.. Adamson. when he accepted the management
of the fusion campaign, set the proper example by
resigning as secretary to the Mayor. He knew that
he could not earn his salary in office while working
at fusion headquarters Mr.. Johnson also ought
10 see that he cannot the city as head of the
Fire Department while laboring day and night to
make votes for Mr.. Mccall.
If Tammany acquires a campaign manager the
city is bound TO lose Fire Commissioner. Should
Mr.. Johnson not realize that fact Immediately
brief note from the Mayors office would probably
make him see great light.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-07
MRS. PANKHURST'S PROFITS
If Every One Who Pays to Hear Her
Is Satisfied, Who Can Criticise?

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Why all this talk in some news
papers about Mrs Pankhurst's taking so
much money from us? Doesn't every one
who goes 10 her lectures expect to get
more than he or she gives? None OF us ~
going 10 hear her because we want 20
give her our money. We are going TO
hear her FOR various reasons. but every
one Of those reasons is closely connected
with the idea that we are 10 get full value
FOR what We pay. and none OF them In
tho least benevolent on our part. Some OF
us are going because OF curiosity TO see
woman so much talked about; some be-
cause we admire her indomitable cour-
age; some because we expect TO be enter
tained: some because we expect to receive
valuable instruction and information;
some TO severely crltlcise; but each and
every one OF us because we expect to get
something for our money-and we will get
Il. full value. She takes all the risk of
losses and pays all expenses. We take no
risk. And II. by taking those risks, Mrs.
Pankhurst eventually reaps a profit for
the cause so dear 10 her heart, what have
we to crticise her for? That money she
takes with her-money we gave her for
something we received from her which
we could not receive from any one else
and which we would not give any one
clse-for nothing-it belongs legItlmately
and most honorably TO her and her cause,
for she has honestly and honorably
earned II. There is nothing the least bit
charitable I'm Americans paying money for
good lecturc-each one OF them will get
more than he gives. and. besides, no one
is Obliged to so to hear Mrs. Pankhurst,
not even sunragist. And II you don't
have to do thing, and even II you do
It you gain something instead OF losing.
what I'm the name of common sense have
you to find fault with?
And as TO our experimental and blum
dering Democratic administration at
Washington refusing her entrance to this
country. why, II they want TO add an
other colossal blunder TO the many they
have already made during the short time
they have been I'm power. 1t may be the
wsest thing for US not TO try 10 urge them
against II; and then, If Mrs. Pankhurst is
the means of our seeing the egregious
blunder we made last November, she Will
have added another to the long list Of
great things she has done for the worlds
progress The refusal TO allow Mrs. Pank-
hurst to enter this country, or, for petty
reasons, TO put her to a lot OF unnecessary
annoyance and discomfort, will give us
advertisement all over the world OF
nature we will ever after be ashamed to
remember, but which other countries will
never let us forget n. c.
New York, Oct. T. 1913.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-07
A Chinese President at Last.

The election of Yuan Shih-kai as President Of the
Chinese Republic has been generally expected out
will nevertheless be regarded with grateful relei'
So long as he was not actually elected there WAS
always danger of counter revolutions or other COM
plications which might prevent the complete estap-
lishment Of the republican system. Now that dan
ger is past The constitutional President is elected
and the new era is fully ushered in.
The world will applaud the choice as the best
that could have been made. There are other com
petent statesmen In China, but not one VINO on
the whole measures up to so high standard oil
fitness for the Presidency as Mr. Yuan. His qlail-
fcations have been much discussed and are wei
known TO the world. 1t needs only to be added
that during his provisional occupancy Of the ONCE
in circumstances Of more peculiar and Formidable
difficulty than he is likely hereafter to encounter
he has more than indicated the confidence when
has been reposed in him.
There has been talk of a general recognition OF
the new government of China by the other powers,
following the example of the United States imme-
diatey upon this election. That course ought GER
tainly to be pursued The republic deserves IT, ana
the giving of such recognition will be n powerful
aid to the new government.