Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-02-23
MONDAY ............ FEBRUARY %. 1914
CONE IGAIK..IED OFTEN !

Honolulu and thousands of visitors TO Homo
lulu saw military parade this morning that
exemplified faultless discipline and emphasized
the splendid type of men sent TO these islands by
Uncle Sam in the great program of military pre-
paredness
That programme which Hawaii largely owes
its integrity as territory of the United States
and its freedom from any menace of foreign foe
has brought to Oahu thousands upon thou
sands Of men in the space of very few years.
Into community long developing internally
through its isolated position and its rapidly-in-
ereasing industrial activity, there has suddenly
come an influx Of population from the states
very different from the only other real influx
that Honolulu has known, that from the Orient
Ii not to be wondered, in the process of adjust
nent, that there have been some phases working
out more slowly than others. One Of them is the
relations, man to man, of the military and the
civilian
During the past few days something like
1000 men have come to the city from the posts
come for the Mid-Paeific Carnival whey have
been given almost entire freedom from military
control. In the majority of the camps, the men
are required only to report each morning The
city is en- fete, the carnival spirit is abroad.
There is every opportunity, Niti restraint re-
laxed, for disorder we're the soldiers so inclin-
ed. But they aren't. As was stated in these
columns last Friday, the soldiers have given a
remarkably fine example Of order, of courtesy,
Of the merrymaking spirit without exceeding the
bounds Of pfopriety. We feel the greatest con-
f'dence iIIsaying that if any other body Of 1000
men was suddenly given the freedom of Homo
lulu. after weeks and nQ1thssof the rie orous
routine Of post life, the result would not nearly
approach che splendid demeanor of the men in
khaki during this past week. What would hap
pen, for instance, with 1000 college boys let
loose in this city? One shudders to think of it.
They'd steal Kamehamehas statue and move the
capitol to the Mahuka site They'd probably
'errorize the police force and certainly would
take command Of everything in sight
The soldiers have not been under any duress
70 maintain their strikipgly good behavior
Ninety-nine per cent Of them, YES, even larger
per cent, are good citizens, good Americans, good
men, through and through their vigorous bone
and sinew and fibre Of makeup And it is only
because there are always few littlesouIed /, iv-
i|ians here, as elsewhere, who sneer at the army
that the Star Bulletin takes this occasion to
comment at some length on the military events
Of the Carnival. For the great majority of big
fair-minded, patriotic, red-blooded Americans il
is not necessary to praise the army, the navy the
marine corps
Honolulu is adjusting itself to the situation
There has never been time since the military
occupancy of these islands by Uncle Sam be
came permanent that the soldiers and sailors
officers and enlisted men, were more popular
than today
That popularity has been vastly increased by
the strikingly good behavior of these thousands
Of men during Carnival Week. The parade this
morning, the beautiful precision of movement
the outstanding physical types of young Ameri.
cans, the dashing military tournament this aft
ernoon-all help to cement the pleasant relations
between military and civilian in Honolulu
It's bully.