The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-12-18
Eupenlcs, Saloon Regulation and
Kindred Social Measures Are
Being Threshed Out
fFrom Thnrsday Aavertlser.l

AuIc ~ THIS tltNsr t4 E.tt
This organization Is intended to In
cludc all the social workers Of Homo
mlu. n has no enrolled membership,
no charter or bylaws and those who
attend its meetings pay no dues The
legislative conference Is not, as has
been stated, connected in any way
with the associated charities or with
any other society but Is intended 10
serve as clearing house for the vary
ing opinions OF all who are interested
in the betterment Of the local social
conditions There are only two OH
GERS In this organization, the chairman
Judge Sanford p. Dole and W. =
Bowcn, secretary.
Girls Are Considered
The FIRST topic for discussion was q
paper by Mrs. r. l.. Weaver. This re-
port had been .read Tuesday at the
Women . meeting at Central Union
church and was presented before the
legislative conferences by request:
Mrs Weaver said.
g DO you remember that in her speech
Of two weeks ago today, Miss Sterriti
referred to her public appeal through
the press that some home be opened
20 shelter an Hawaiian girl who must
leave the Girls Industrial School. Ia
face hard fight against great odds II
fhe were to i've as good womanf
HonoluIu Did Not Answer
s.Thc morning Of its publication
the Industrial school entertained many
groups Of people in eager response
Christian women, Catholic sisters
Protestant deaconesses, Hawaiian Mis-.
sionary societies; II was their especial
province, they said, boards, guilds
ladies' aid societies, the clergy, one
and all, quick to answer in \ situation
essentially the same rs that Of tae
old time story, told on the slopes OF
the Mount OF Olives, in which occur
the well known lines, II was an hun.
gered and We gave me meat; a strang.
81 and ye took me in.
"Hardlv So that challenge to the
reality, Of its faith, Honolulu absolute
w turned down. refused to consider
BY our deeds we said, Every man foI
himself aud the devil take the HIM,
most, which advice in this case the
devil forthwith followed. We ai,
.hurches, clergy, laymen, were in tins
group. One Hawaiian woman, handi
capped by poverty, opened her heart
and home
In the light Of this incident on'
churches, our agencies of Christian
charity, take on a strange significance
What about the habit Of mind, for
instance that can consider with tender
solieitude the condition of child wild.
bws IN India, and with eomplaeeney
toss Our own weaklings to Iwilei
Some Of us since may have recalled
those singing words, never knew
Won. Depart from nee, w cursed,
Others have seen hut the working OF
on memorable law of selection which
throws human waste to the scrap heap
In one way we all agree, we are no:
proud of the incident; we shall no.
add II to the charming collection Of
tales Of Honolulu with which we enter
tain our eastern visitors.
Something ID Lacking
NsLet us analyze the situation. Put
aside for the moment the question 81
money obligation assumed in offering
home 70 one thus seeking to earn
her living, what are the other essen
tialsi First bodily protection, al
least to the extent of the oversight OF
responsible person. Second, mega
tive condition, the assumption Of thu.
new obligation must not put undue
strain upon ones power to discharg'
earlier and more fundamental obliga
tions, undue strain, for any obligation
means strain. and the degree of strain
allowable each must settle for himself
Americans Self sunicient
SIN Maehiavelli's The Prince, he
Gays that no institution, no state can
long endure that does not prepare
some orderly method of return to Its
fundamental, basic conception, In
monarchy tromsneasapt 70 King, anu
Fling to peasant there must run an IN
broken sense OF loyalty ana SUBMISSION
70 power MANIFESTED IN dlnerent RANKS
and degrees.
T" IN demo"racv the indlvlanal must
he able 70 pass freely from CLASS v
class, held TO one eohnitlon 9hy ~
bis own inherent limitations. ~ eit'l'
et case success hows from tne reeoS'
nition Of the same prineipie, return
20 the original concept
An American community Is soe y,
whole, The civic institutions Ahe she
tohX or eitizens are TWO Poies oi .h.,
same circuit The community; nnu,ns
~ lmpossipie 70 heai WIN lnpi ~
organizes certain hhFtiuniohs, the ~,
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