Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-15
AGREES WITH FIELD.

Editor Honolulu Star-Bunetin.
Sir: 1t is certainly too bad that
the whole city could not have heard
what H. Gooding Field had to say
yesterday at the AID Club lunch. But
possibly it would not have made any
difference in the usual old swing of
things in this city While Mr.. Field
cHme Gut f1at-footed in what he had
to say regarding the wanton extra
vagance, (which is mighty mild wy
of putting it, Of the money wasted
by the city government in salaries,
he said nothing more than what ever
individual taxpayer of this city has
been saying .. stage whisper fer
the last several yearS.
He said further, We are running
our local government on the hit-or-
miss plan, with the misses far out
NUMBERING the hits" Not so. Mr..
Field. WE are not running our 10.
cal government by jugful. If YOU
or anybody else thinks that way, Just
step into that tax Office, you mention
ed yesterday, where sixteen or more
clerks are ehating themselves trying
to do the work of three clerks. and
after you have waited about fifteen
minutes for one Of those same SIX.
teen clerks to finish his cigarette CT
get through fGddling with curtain to
wait on you, just exercise your great
big enlightened American right BY
growing at the delay and you will
find out Just how mucfH you have to
do with running this lBlocal ggvern-
mentEz' tss=A anE Il. ..1i,.. :.
The people OF this city have been
repeatedly told that the city Is clerk.
ridden. and It certainly. is, When it
comes to fat, patronage Jobs there are
lot more "hits" than misses. -.
The tax Office is not an exception;
the same don't-care-a-cnss-wh ether-we.
wait-on-you-or-not atmosphere is, as
far as the writer's experience goes,
to be found in most Of the city Offices
The clerks wait on one when they get
good and ready, ZH..... !
Yet, what are we going to do about
it? The legislature gave the power
to the heads Of departments to annex
any and all clerks that were needed
While there IL some sentiment ION.
nected with the band, the expenditure
on the upkeap of 1t is far and away
beyond what we can stand. The small
number CT people that attend the con.
certs given in the local parks during
certain evenings of each week clearly
shows that there Is little interest be-
ing taken now. Better let the CRYING
need of the city and county DIETER
roads, take the place of sentiment
and put the $4,000 or more where 1t
will make showing. Honolulu has
arrived at that point where she must
choose between melody and mud. Be-
sides, If we eliminate the band there
mieht be a few more clerks taken
on
Bring the "office help" of the city
and county Offices down to business
house basis and the bad roads will
soon right themselves on the savings
from salaries that are given away at
present And all this notwithstanding
the "fuddling" in road work of which
we had an example some time ago
when that strip of road in front of
the Dillingham; place on Beretania
street was repaired when the men,
road rollers, ETC., were so long on the
job that they became the subject for
laugh from those who had occasion
to pass the spot daily.
Mr.. Field has started the ball going
for the second time, and if we, the
people of this city and county, can