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The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-03-20
NOW FOR THE CIVIC CENTER.

The Mahuka site for the proposed federal building
has been practically abandoned after fight
several years The condemnation awards unless upon
expire by limitation in weeks and the government will
left only the insufficient portion of the Site bounded the pn
cpa side by backdoos and outbudng Upon this site
will not erect its building From the
condemned by the architect who the
plans by the supervising architect in the treasury department by
the secretary of the treasury who studied the
by fvesevenths of the of Honolulu last
gle prevent the location of the building inadequate site and
the sacrificing of large of the business section of
Fort street has, apparently, been 49,.
Now with the question reopened the time
ryng of the plan first suggested by milford Robinson
since endorsed by organizations and the majority of the c
namely the utilization of the valuable opportunity that
exists of establishing in Honolulu Civic Center This includes the
purchase of the Irwin Palace Square between Richards
and Militant Streets the razng of the Opera House, the relocating
of the extension of Merchant and the building of the federal
building line with the Judiciary building The Irwin property
for sale and all the desired could be purchased what
sale of the present Mahuka site would realize. H
The authorities the treasury department and the architect
favorable to the Irwin site There deal ques
ton about it. Those Honouan who have studied the from
the viewpoint Of modern city building who have sufficient
nation appreciate what the Palace Square could
favor of it. 1t the logical site and the effort should be made
and the early of work the federal
building Honolulu has wasted number of trying to make
unsuitable site possible Let get together for that
IS possible and suitable. .
The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-03-20
HoME-BuY1NG AND PARCEL POST.

Home buying comparison with buying houses
live all United States The caaog
doing business Their and
creasing rapidly than any other strictly
line AS illustration the sales of Sears Roebuek
amounted $9 600 in 1918 against 100000
Their net profits for 1913 million dollars
stock after the per dividends preferred
been deducted The net profits sales amounted slightly
ten per cent. +.Ef, M s &gE4
Another concern, the F. W. Wooworh Company New York
sold of vecent and articles paid
cent dividend amounting million dollars common
stock.
The home buying campaign proved
sement for its chief competitor mutual
a advantages of the mail order the city
the country been emphasized never before
An increasingly large of failures
and small country orekeeper reported by
and BadsreetB considered this comparatively
and destructive form of competition country
es yehousand dollar stock of merchandise
sst net of from
tai stock The field Of the country merchant being
traffic staples only because his all
classes of merchandise and goods and agrcu
ural implements figure from the big catalogue
country merchant has charge forty per
against the department stores twelve twenty per
cost valuation that is higher than his big competitors
Then the post the express company
favor the big city merchant rather than
The
merchant Such profit
business exceedingly satisfactory small
chant ten cent margin does yield living profit
reasons the campaign applied small
communities is doomed to failure #t.a g.a, y, ~
The small merchant in the city particularly affected and
there indication that the of
little will increase during the decade Parcel post other
remedial legislation enacted for the purpose of aeorang
don of the farmer and reducing the high living promise
lead to far greater congestion Of city population thereby defeating
the very ends for which the reforms enacted.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-03-20

TO ourselves sometimes interesting and fire.
queny instructive Under existing circumstances while we arc
watching and waiting particularly interesting in what
light appear the Huera wing of the Mexican population
publication in the City Of Mexico which Mister
Lind affords opportunity to find out The first copy
Mister Lind appeared the streets Of the City Of Mexico
days after President Wilson had lifted the embargo
of to Northern Mexico The design Of the periodical
President Wilson ridden by Mexican
surcnge showing the Mexican coors and bearing
legend 100000 hombres In explaining its choice
itself Mister Lind" says by way Of sautatory,
The of Mister Lind is symbol; when it sounds in
the Of good Mexican seems as though sinister bird
passed serpent Kissed That personifes
erstwle hypocrital today ayowed whom
the other side of the Rio Bravo That syllable those
orops letters Lind would be for Biblical handwriting the
wall had not faith in generation which believe able
to put straitjacket on the unatc Of the White House.
We repeat Mister Lnd symbol the incarnation of the
hearess and shameless trakers who have been
polls Of that vile Of mercenares who traffic IN the blood
of the who have deserved well in the history
Heroism and Of Sacrifice.
To Mister Lind equivalent though referring
the armed in Vera Cruz evoking in
legion of blond Carthagnians whose eruption
not brighten us. 5ssi
For that is this paper called Mister Lind for is
be the clarion calling watch the White Pig
Woodrow Wilson the temporizer the metcuous
unbalanced who has traced line of policy shall these
the reflection of national sentiment boiling right
wrath against his criminal conduct which costing
dearly 100 $50
The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-03-20
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES.

Robert Earl esyng February 25 before the legislative graft
probe commission Albany hit the keynote of the of the ggan
tic scandals in New York when he said that what needed
charge Of great public works executive heads
other echncans Hawai experience leads the
cusiOn If the public business could be transacted the
private enterprise there would be saving the pub
lie funds lower and reduction of the ponderous machinery
Of government in all departments ".at- -4@
No enterprise could live continue
the theory that employment good
portance than the labor that those perform a#+
Government properly profession but there should be
training for that profession The head of private enterprise
expected to have Of branch of his business in all its
relationships Government the contrary, use For
mery said that if could make living at his trade
he could become farmer The day notion
eminent job Many citizens the community look
employment safe habor which they drop anchor
barnaces and be forever protected from the epeuous
of life Having attained anchorage they combat
the idea of again sailing the open #@%t Hsg 'r
If employ give full labor
they the purpose for which they have been selected
but unfortunately for the public is difficult keep such
public Men who high powered energetic efficient
usually bigger things private life in battling
winds matching the stauchness of their bes energy
their boiler capacity and coal consumption
of trade The rewards bigger for there
danger of being wrecked and losing all. a%t#E%,E
There too many anchored in Hawais
haven of rest great of them with mbers
tight and perfectly fit to be freight carriers producers Of wealth
Instead of ..4e.@.ras p -. - 2s
The employment Of superuous public graft
as allowing to have akof out of the public treasury
The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-03-20
Taking of Testimony IN Trial Of
Alleged White Shaver VIII
Begin This Morning.

1t required two days in the fed raj
court, Judge Charles F. Clemens pre-.
siding, to select jury for the second
trial of the case of the United States
against George A. (Bert) Bower, who is
charged with a statutory offense, The
Jury which was accepted at four O'Clock,
Yesterday afternoon is made up as fol;
lows: t.. w.. ..,,. tI It0-.|,
A. N, Otremba, ID. f. Thrum, s. t.
Carr, Albert +. Along, II. S. Gray,
Arthur IL. Rice, 0. G. Scott, James O..
Spencer, G.. j. Boisse, A. II. r. Vie'ra,
fustav HOfSaard and A. Wolf.
John :. Walker was excused for
cause, on his statement that he had
not been feeling well all day and that
he felt an attack Of gripp, or some
hing akin to it coming on. He thought
that the grippe would break on him in
a day or so and did not care to delay
the trial Of the case at bar. Judge
demons took a favorable view of the
matter and excusel Mr.. Walker.
During the two days spent in select.
ing the jury the prosecu ion exerc sed
only two peremptory challenges out Of
the six il was entitled to, those ex-
used be ng George II. CowlD and Carl
II. Nieper, while the defense exercised
nine out of the ten allowed it, W. l..
Hopper, John II. Soper, Ranney Scott,
). II, Atherton, d. w. Anderson, A.
Hooking, y. O.. White, James Steiner
and William Thompson being excused.
The taking of evidence in this case
will begin at ten clock this morning,
but the end of the trial is not expected
before the middle of next week. The
first trial Of this case resulted in
nung jury. the jury having been out
six hours in vain attempt TO arrive
at verdict District Attorney JET
McCarn, assisted by j. w. Thompson,
who Is TO become assistant district at
torney, win represent the government,
the defense being in the hands of At
torneys Il. A, Douthitt and Leon M.
Straus.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-03-20
THE PASSING HOUR.

The immigration inspectors the Coast be acting according
to law but it mighty that would allow the
the baseball team of Hawaii to be held San
by guards that probably speak less English and know
of the history and of country they
would keep out is equally law that made possible the
portaon from Seattle the wife of American phy
serving in the Orient because she had been before
Japanese subject The question is the wife of
McDiels surgeon board vessel Manila and
she her visit husbands relatives Independence
Oregon She educated cultured but that did
her from becoming victim of Camine Seattle
her from the ndgni Of being held in confinement finally
dped because she refused to make special appeal to Washington
". . + = Is /, 4 . I'D =
Honolulu splendid example other Irish
the Seventeenth when held celebration in the afternoon which
yellow es another celebration the evening
which the fashion and there
tween the orange and the green :. IL ,
Here politics for you The wife of the sheriff of San
county brought suit for divorce and
time that she will circulate recall petition against him Her
assumption is who is fit to be husband is fit
to be a public official. +|" 't..E @G H., "s..a. =.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-03-20
OLDEST WOMAN
! IN HONOLULU DEAD.
Mrs. Martha A. Hewett Nearing
Her Ninety-Afth Birthday
When End Came.

AS the result Of an accident some
months ago, from which extreme old
age prevented recovery, Mrs. Martha
A. Hewett, probably the oldest person
in Honolulu, died at her home yester-
day morning. Had she lived until the
seventh Of next month she would have
entered her ninety .ffthf year. For
twenty years she had been resident
Of Honolulu, living with her daughter,
Mrs. H. e. waity, Of Kaaihue lane,
of KeeaumolSu street, from which place
the funeral services will be held this
morning at ten o clock.
Mrs. Hewett was born April Z, 1920,
in Vermont, and when sixteen years
old travelled overland by wagon with
her parents to Illinois. Through the
pioneer days of that State she lived,
sharing the exciting times experienced
by the early settlers with prairie fires,
Indian foravs and like incidents. In
illinois she married, remaining in the
State until 1883. when she came west
to the State Of Washington. Six years
later she resolved 10 come still fcrther
west to Join her daughter here, the
only one Of her children living Friends
tried to persuade her against making
the long trip at her age, seventy-four,
while her physician told her she noed
not expect 10 reach Hawaii alive.
Praised Hawaiian Climate.
She was very feeble when first she
landed in Hawaii but soon grew strong,
and thereafter, almost until the. day Of
Ter death. she declared that the Ha.
waiian climate would permit her to
round out century Of life. II is not
improbable that she would have lived
% celebrate her one hundredth birth
lay had she'no fallen a short time
igo and fractured her chest. The old
lady, ALWAYS ambitious, had climbed
upon chair to arrange some curtains.
The chair tipped and she fell heavily,
hnt despite her serious injuries she
made no mention of the accident to her
daughter until the next day, when the
pain Of the broken bones forced her
TO give up. From the effects Of that
accident she never recovered.
An Advertiser Reader.
Practically mp to the last she main
tanned an Active interest in all that
vent on about her. She was constant
reader Of The Advertiser, and occasion
lilly sent communications to it on live
Deal topics. Up until the time Of her
accident she attended church regularly
md kept mp q voluminors correspond
enre with mainland relatives AMI
'riends, sometimes writing as many as
tx and seven letters a day. n
Besides her daughter, Mrs. Waity, she
caves seven grandchildren and mum.
er of greatgrandchildren.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-03-20
CUBA Is HAPPY, ANYWAY.

Naturally Cuban producers rejoicing the
sion Of the treasury department that Cuban will continue
enjoy twenty cent dferen American exports
day of free sugar arrives Fl Da of exuaon
this
yesterday cheering received Havana The
general of the United States decided of
reduction the duties that shortly be collected on
sugarsfis ~ go,
The simple The Reciprocity Treaty between this country
and the United States which the advantage of twenty
reduction of the duties collected
States has been abrogaed and the mood question
the above rebate would continue in force when the law reducing
duties by twenty-five per cent becomes effective.
The highest Representative of the law in the United States
said that does and the principal product Of Cuban industry will
from enjoy reduction of twenty-five plus twenty
from the duties that have hitherto been collected entering
the States This is important for and if confirmed
the unsatisfactory conditions among the producing
that have developed during the present crop.
Cuban struggling in the American market without ecpro
city would be sad and serious complement to the low
and prices that prevailing but reciprocity
will be defense against the low prices and will
furnish the factory and above ALL to the suffering coonos
the chance to hope for better days. ~
The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-03-20
THE BUNGALOW AS A CITY HALL.

Governor Pnkham suggestion that the Bungalow utilized by
the officials of the city and county municipal headquarters fol
the time being excellent little paint and remodel
ling would make of the Bungalow perfectly satisfactory city hall
until such time the necessity for strict economy in municipal
affairs less pressing Naturally the honorable mayor and the
pervisOrs want real city hail. with all the trimmings but there
at least hundred different things the city requires
than ornate structure which house the governing body BY
moving its Offices into the Bungalow the city will be able
good thousand dollars which would otherwise pay
We heartily second the Governors suggestion and the accept
ance Of it by the supervisors the interest of
The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-03-20
TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
TO HOLD MEETING

Prof, M. B. Bairos, president Of the
Territorial Teachers Association, has
called meeting of this organization
to be held at the Mckinley High School
at two O'Clock this afternoon.
, During the meeting DR., ]. +. Hing
worth of the College Of Hawaii and
Mrs. G.. l.. Bolton from Cambridge
University will deliver interesting and
instructive lectures on timely educa-
tional topics 5,ar.. TX IL
One other attraction at the meeting
This afternoon will be the performance
Of the Mckinley High School Glee
Club, which will render number of
songs for the entertainment of the
teachers and guests Of honor
The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-03-20

The return in the, divorce suit of
Sadie Thielen against George p, THE.
len was made yesterday in the Office of
the chief clerk of the first circuit court,
showing that service of the complaint
had been made on the libellee.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-03-20

They need like Keett at the Volcano JAIL ocia
reports from there showing the hanshed the jobs
do For instance Sheriff Pua reporting recent beating
OF prisoner tells of amateur effort follows:
On the Both day of July p 1919 Ara prisoner assault
ed and beaten by Oliver Akau. lie
Moved from his and mouth and both Of his backnd
and o nj
said Oliver Akau rushed
known to the luna Ozark Cell" kept
eight hours. ~. YET. 80 E1CEFf'tF
Now Kelett sugshot when he gets work picks
little Fpnos and Koreans upon whom proper
him smile fl'#"... 'I.,n.4. n. .G
The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-03-20

Americans in Mexico must be better hats We have
heard of single being murdered Ys for thrSI days
The Colorado statesman., 1914-05-30
Citizens Of Cincinnati Protest

A spectacular protest against
prohibition agitation was staged
in Cincinnati last Friday night
when ten thousand members of
various industrial and social organ
izations of the city marched to
Music Hall to hear facts concern
ing the dry" movement by repre-
sentative speakers.
AT 7:0C o'clock aerial bombs
were exploded in every district as
the signal of the beginning of the
most colossal demonstration
against prohibition in the history
of the city. Weeks had been de-
voted to planning details of the
affair, thousands of buttons and
flags we're distributed and emble-
matte banners with appropriate
legends were borne by thousands
of marchers.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-05-30
An Awakening In Turkey

A dispatch from Constantinople:
with view OF raising the
moral standard Of the Turkish
people and to break the opium
habit the Government has decided
to break from that part of the Mo-
faith which demands
of the manufacture
and consumption of alcoholic bev-
and to induce several Aus
trian and German brewers to es-
tablish plants in the Oeoman en-
pire is offering valuable conses-
ions"
Turkey at the present time is
the only prohibition country in the
world and probably the poorest,
while lis people are a race of drug
and cigarette fends.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-05-30

Charleston, w. Va, May 19,--
For the first time a colored man
was placed on a Kanawhe county
ticket when G. Fl. James was Sc
lected by the Progressive party il
convention here today as one of
its five candidates for the lower
house of the legislature, being
third in field of seven. Mr..
James, who is wholesale produce
and commission merchant, came
into political prominence two years
ago when as one of the two colored
delegates from this state to the
Progressive national convention,
he was referred to at some length
by Col. Roosevelt in speech be-
fore that body. There are $500
The Colorado statesman., 1914-05-30
What Reform Next?

Those of the American citizens
who delighted in Rooseyelt's vig-
orous denunciation of 'mollycod-
dies" should glance about them
and notice ''whither we are drift
ing" IN the current induced by
Prohibition agitation.
The agitators have declared war
not only upon the open saloon
but upon the private "snack" at
home or in tre retired precincts
of the social club Reports from
various meetings justify the pre-
diction that the next step will be
The Colorado statesman., 1914-05-30
DENVER COLORADO SATURDAY, MAY 80, 1914

resolve but it was their most-their
only means of protest. We, in our
deep distress, as we viewed it,
turned to England, the land of
Wilberforce, very much as the
earth. wearied think of heaven, a
possible haven, even if never at
tained. We cited England TO
shame our own.
All, of course, did not read the
ILLUSTRATED Times" consequently
the thought still obtained that
England was for the Negro race.
But slowly it becomes known that
the observer in that publication
was a prophet. He was even more
than a prophet if it were possible.
He had it that the industrial situa-
ton influenced by Negro workmen
would be the cue for the English
denouement. Negro workmen have
not caused it, nor the thought of
them. 1t makes for a condition
fairly unthinkable-but it is a
stern reality. Perhaps it is not the
proper thing to judge the island by
Battersea. We have more than
9attersea. We have watched the
pendulum swing as it concerned
the coming of the Hrize fighter
johnson. 1t accelerated. John
Bull grew red in the face and talk
ed of its South African provinces,
And we, III measure, agreed with
him But we can not take on this
Battersea business without show
of feeling. Only a few Negroes are
in that borough, perhaps not a
half dozen; perhaps Archer's fam
lily only. And yet we have this
demonstration. 1t is plain that
we have something to be thankful
in that our home is in blessed old
America.-The Freeman.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-05-30
COlored Mayor
OF BatterSea

So after all it turns out that the
white people of Battersea were not
in love with Mr.. Archer, although
some of them saw fit to choose
him as the head of the municipal
government. Our fear for the fate
of the Negro Mayor was not with
out some foundation. He suffered
from a new direction. Our own
country with all of its advertised
and real meanness has not gone
the way of this English borough.
Had he been elec,ed IN America
by white constituency he would
have been respected. Even in the
South where Negro opposition is
at its worst, when men are ap-
pointed to office they are respected.
Not until the time comes for a
possible change owing TO charge
of administration do we find white
citizens opposing them. When
the terms of Negro Office holders
are expiring every source of pres
sure is exhausted to have them 60.
But while in office they enjoy the
respect and consideration of all
men.
So Mr.. John Bull, who thought
to teach the Americans how to
emancipate the Negro, and in the
meanwhile, mind you, secretly
abetied the South, has exhibited a
bit of malignlty, of which, it was
not thought capable. The muni-
cipality of Battersea has tossed
Mr.. Archer, mayor, high up in the
air, as a sportsman does his clay
pigeons, in order to get a first
rate crack at him. We long since
have been suspicious of that coun-
try's fairness. Many years ago,
perhaps thirty, the London illus
trated Times had the observation
of an Englishman. He said in
effect that in America all men
were ''free" except about four mil
lion blacks. These were limited
in various ways. However, if the
conditions were the same here as
there, if we found black men jost-
ling English workmen out of their
jobs, we would have the same So
cial relation.
The impression of that observa-
ton was most profound. 1t was
in that impressionable period of
life when men hate best and love
best.
Our own county was being Bit
terly assailed by the Negroes, by
us, and with that zeal common to
all youth at oppre ssion, of its kind
at any rate, because of the treat
ment of the Negro. Lynching had
just begun, thing we got very
much used to in time. But at the
beginning the news of lynching
was the signal of assembling of
Negroes in every Northern city
where they were in considerable
numbers. They did nothing but
The Colorado statesman., 1914-05-30
PRESS LETTER
COLORADO BUSINESS MEMS
HOME RULE LEAGUE
Fighting Prohibition In Virginia

Two thousand citizens OF Rich
mond, embracing its foremost men
in commerce and in professions
assembled in the Academy of Mu-
sic one night last week, adopted as
their own platform formulated by
tha Virginia Association for Local
Self government, declaring the
Associations allegiance to the
principle of Local Self government
enunciated by jefferson and re-af-
firmed by Preident Wilson, and its
hostility to Statewide Prohibi-
ton, which threatens to nullify
that principle.
In many respects the mass meet
ing was the most remarkable ever
held in the city. On the stage,
vice. presidents and sponsors for
the giant gathering, sat one hum
dred citizens of Richmond who
have attained high standing in
the city's life, and crowding the
Academy of Music from the ground
floor tothe topmost gallery was an
assembly of citizens representing
practically every art and industry
that in aggregate make up the