Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-10-24
Anna C. Dole Reviews Many
Successes of Organization
at Annual Meeting


address OF Anna C. Dole, president
OF the Hawaiian Humane Society. al
the annual meeting, October 81. 1910
As we look back over the year 70
see what we have accomplished, the
first thing that looms up Is cur auto
which We contemplate with the great
est satisfaction aud Of which we are
very proud II would have been i'm
possible to accomplish oIe-hah of what
we have done without our auto. BY
means Of II much distress has been
relieved and many burdens eased. And
wish TO give the heartfelt thanks
OF the society TO Mrs. Victoria Ward
for ner great kindness In giving MS
the use or her own automobile for
some time before we we're able to pur.
chase one. 1t was often at great in.
convenience to herself and family. We
appreciate this kindness very deeply.
The year has been very quiet one,
marked only by hard and faithful
work ON the part OF our officers. We
have tried to hold fast to our motto
"The union OF all who live for the
service of all who suffer"
| Miss Lucy Ward, our humane Off.
Ger, Of whose faithful and energetic
work ! cannot speak too highly-her
report for the year speaks for ITSELF
has, among other things, called the
attention of the government to the IN.
excusable oyercrowding of our schools.
1t is both inhnmaIle and insanitary.
Is 1t not also inhumane to rattle a
sick man over five miles or more of
our execrable roads to the Leahi
Home? We make the suggestion that
the roads to the hospitals shall be the
first to be attended to.
The children's welfare committee
have furnished cottage at the Saliva.
ton army home for the little ones.
many things having been contributed
for this through the kindness and gen.
crosby Of the merchants. About 20
children have been received this year
into the Salvation Army home from
the Humane Society. What we should
have done all these years without this
Institution do no: know. have not
yet given up our petition to the leeis;
lature for a shelter home for the home.
less children Of Hawaii. Let us renew
1t this year. II the government can,
not take care Of It's little children, II
seems to me It would be better to say
80, and not shift the responsibility on
to that splendid, long-suffering insti.
tuition, the Salvation Army home,
whose self-sacrificing helpers, / know,
deny themselves much-needed food for
the sake OF others.
The society wishes to thank the pub
| lie for its sympathy with our work,
and for the generous contributions
which show it.
II seems to me that one Of the most
important things to be attended TO IN
our society. after the cases OF cruelty
TO children and animals, is the humane
education Of the young. / will quote
q letter from Ralph Waldo Urine, who
expresses the thought so simply and
clearly. He says
'The first principles of conduct In
stilled into the chiid's mind take root
and grow, and as he grows from child
hood to youth and from youth to man.
hood these principles become fixed
Scarcely any power In existence can
change them. They decide his des-
tiny. How important, then. that these
first principles be lessons of gentle
ness, kindness, mercy. love and ilu.
mainly, and not lessons of hatred.
envy, selfishness and malice. The for
mer make ultimately Aour iaw-abiding
citizens; the latter. law-breakers and
criminals. Upon the training of the