The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-12-18
WELFARE WORKERS DISCUSS
PROPOSED LEGISLATIVE ACTS
Participants In important Con-
ference Attempt To Solve
AII-Important Issues

any FORM OF chlid Weitare, ~ pOssN
Bile unit Let this organisation have
a child welfare committee. The Guild
at st. Andrew s, the societies at Cen.
trail Union Church and doubtless many
another IS already 80 organized; there
are many committees in deed, II not
in exact wording, Of this character
"The group Of women backing tho
public school At Kaimuli, the college
club and many others are quickly
brought to mind. Each Is already a
well defined social INIT, able 10 organ.
i've It's affairs and handle its finances.
Each such group sends its char,
man Of the child welfare committee 10
meet with similar officers from SIM,
lar groups. This meeting Of chairme
forms the connective element On the
one side are the clubs, already rooted
in the common life. On the other arc
the civic institutions, the Jayeniie
Court, with its probation officer, titc
Boys and the Girls Industrial schools,
the public school, the district nurse,
medical Inspector, market inspector
and many another. Then experts,
like Miss Sterritt or Judge Whitney,
when they have work they need help
lin, win have some aelnite place TO 20,
sure Of careful and earnest hearing,
willingness 10 watch over the pro
cess Of re,entering the institutional
graduate into the common life
Ask the city Mothers
1.-THE ninrSet inspector will have q
chance TO tell his tale Of woe not 70
city fathers but to city mothers, who
know what smelly markets mean IN
relation 70 the dinner table. The
women Of this central, this advisors
committee, promise nothing but will.
ingness to consider. They may fail
absolutely 70 solve the problem. One
only thing they win not do and thai
Is, side-step.
f"Such advisory committed is capable
OF regulating its own ways absolutely
free from seetarian or ecclesiastical
ties. Ii should be absolutely democrh,
tic as to race and color. II would seem
wiee for il to have no relation to the
finances OF the various organizations
represented. 1t. should have no bind.
ing powers whatever. Any organiza-
tion caring to come in, or TO withdraw,
should be free to do so, the only bind
ing force being the desire to work.
Mobility Required
tone value in such an arrangement
would be the quick mobilization Of sen.
timent and Of workers IN any einer.
aency ease. Another, the fact that any
individual society having assumed some
definite piece Of work, but finding It
too heavy, could easily, get help from
Others interested in similar efforts.
There would be no limit 10 the eivle
values conserved, except such as the
time, the initiative and the sound jNdg-
ment of the advisory committee set.
psOriental women do not organize
Freely as do Hawaiians and Caucasians,
vet we would be crippled In this coml
Ifnhhity without the help Of theebrainy
executive, foreeful leaders they often
furnish. Therefore the advisory com,
mittee should have the power TO add
to itself individual members. These
Oriental women solve so well the pro-
blems Of governance Of their young peo-
| pie, that, as Judge whitney says, the
Chinese and the Japanese are no appre.
ciable expense TO the Territory in the
matter Of delinquent and dependant
children. Maybe they could teach us
thing Or two. In labor legislation
their young people are directly affected.
"This Is the essential plan. The
rest Is but matter Of detail.
Thompson on Eugenics
After the reading Of Mrs. Weaver :
paper the conference listened to TO.
marks by Prof. Y. Thompson Of Kane
hameha schools on the subject of per
Al r. AL nj koN n
c0nfrence recommend the enactment Of
|, the following bill:
House Bill No. lSl.--7An act to pre-.
vent the transmission OF ysnereal
diseases through the marriage Of per
aonG afflicted with such diseases, adj
ding new section to the revised laws
BE II enacted by the Legislature of the
Territory Of Hawaii. Section ]. A
new section Is hereby added to the re-
vised laws Of Hawaii to read as fol
lows:
.'scction 22llA, No agent or officer
authorized to grant marriage licenses
shall grant license for the marriage Of
any person unless there shall first have
been fled with such agent or officer a
sworn written certificate Of a licensed
physician showing that such person Is
free from all yenereal diseases. Any
person who violates this section shall,
upon conviction, be punished by a fine
of not more than one hundred dollars
or by imprisonment for not more thai,
six months or by both such fine and im-
priaonment, and by the forfeitureo Of ihs
authority to grant marriage licenses y
This proposal ELECTED very hot cdis-
cushion by all who were present at the
meeting.
Rev. w. p. Ferguson, secretary Of the
antisaloon league then presented the
draft Of FIVE bills which il passed by
the legislature Of 1919 will materially
curtail saloon privileges. These were
MS follows--t0 limit the area within
which saloon licenses may be granted
in this city TO the district bounded BY
Deretanin, Alakea, Queen and Smith
Gtreets;
TO forbid the use Of frosted or any
other opaque glass In saloon windows
and doors;
forbiddine the consumption Of
li0uor in hotels, restaurants and other
public resorts not holding liquor sell
ing privileges; te
-forbidding treating in q saloon; !
ant, providing that all saloons shall
remain closed from six o'clock Satur-
day evening until six o'clock Monday
morning. 4