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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-19
FEBRUARY RAINFALL
FAR BEL OW NORMAL

PHOTOGRAPHER harrison. In his re-
port fer February, says that, except
for the period from the 10th to the
24th. the rainfall for the month was
far below normal and streams were
again nearing minimum flow at the
end of the month. The water in Wa
hiawa and the upper Nuuanu reser.
yoirs had reached q very low stage.
Under the head of investigations the
territorial photographer says:
Additional Investigations made in
the Punaluu valley on Oahu lead to
the conclusion that a minimum OF
about eight million gallons per day,
and an average of about ten million
gallons per day of excellent water
may be obtained at the S08-foot level
IN. that valley, and may be diverted
without interfering with existing diver
sions In the lower valley"
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-19
FOR FEMALE WORKERS.

Defects in the form of bill so important as
that affecting the hours of labor for women in
this territory should not be allowed to block all
legislation to safeguard female workers.
The senate tabled House Bill 90 yesterday
afternoon, apparently finding it full of flaws
Several members of the senate during the dis
cnssion showed that they believe in limiting
the hours of work for women and that they do
not favor the provision in the bill which would
allow female employees in the pineapple fac
tories to work long hours during the rush
season
There is very lively sentiment both in the
legislature and in the territory generally in
favor Of legislation safeguarding the health and
welfare Of women and child workers. If the
house has passed bill containing defects-a
point on which the house will probably imme-
diately differ with the senate that is no reason
for allowing the whole subject to be shelved.
Senators who believe in limiting the working
hours Of women viii be doing themselves and
their territory credit if they will take up the.
matter in a thorough- going way, hold public
hearings, get expert discussion from men and
women who know the facts of female labor in,
Hawaii, and thus secure Legislation which will
be reasonable based on actual conditions and
on a look toward the future and which will
hold water" if attacked in the courts
There is still plenty of time during this SEES
sion. Will the time be usefully employedi
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-19
LET'S HAVE aoaE LIGHT.

Editor Honolulu Star Bulletin.
Sir: From Kaimuk. WAIKIKI. to
within a few city blocks there Is no
light. What Is the trouble?
IL seems that on account OF the
shortage OF water up Nuuanu valley
the lights ar turned on at o'clock
in the morni lg.
We have now the finest lot OF men
for our SUPERVISOR Wake up at
O'Clock in the morning and see for
yourselves
What Is the use OF having police
mounted patrol and specials? They
could not see 10 feet away from them.
II crime was committed on the high
way the police would be compelled to
wait for daylight to find the evidence
or the culprit. For that matter any
other crime.
We pay our taxes to have light for
protection and to see those whom we
have to fear.
Wake up, some Of you supervisors,
and see whether this Is so or not II
1t Is so. then Il is about time for you
to make the next move.
CITY EMPLoYE.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-19
PESTS BARRED
FROM ENTRY
BY INSPECTORS

EntOmoIogist EhrhOrn reports the
inspection of 636 lots and 19,6O4 par.
cells, arriving IN February, Of which
81 were fumigated, 81 burned and 5
returned. Nothing was found wrong
with rice and bean imports from
Japan and China at either Honolulu
Or Hilo Regarding pests intercepted
the superintendent of entomology
says:
Twenty-three packages Of fruit and
five packages OF vegetables were TAX
en- from the baggage of passengers
and immigrants from foreign coun-
tries. all were destroyed by burning.
In one package Of Towering bulbs we
found many bulbs infested with the
bulb aphis (Pemphigus speciesl, and
fumfgated the package before deliv-
cry. A lot of onions and garlic takeL
from q Filipino was found infested
with the larvae of a Lepidopteron:
this illustrates how easy It would be
to introduce such pests All such food
stuffs are confiscated from these inn
migrants whether clean or infested,
but we make careful study of the
materials before burning same. A.
shipment Of eocoanuts from Tanning
island was fumigated before delivery
on account of being infested with
scale insects fHemichionaspis minor1
A caeao pod containing seeds and
consigned to the Hawaii Experiment
station arrived In a decayed condition.
The seeds were carefully removed and
the decayed pod was burned; no indi-
cations of insect infestation were
found. Two packages OF tree seeds,
one package of bulbs and one package
of plants arriving from foreign coun-
tries were returned by the postmaster
as unavailable under the ruling Of the
federal horticultural board.
Brother Newell at Hilo inspected
156 lots and 1886 parcels. Out of
these % sacks of potatoes had to be
overhauled for seab and dirt, seven
sacks being destroyed for diseased
condition. Inter-island inspection re-
suited in the passing Of 903 and the
refusal Of AZ packages.
Referring to the breeding of para
sites the entomologist SAYS that. ow-
ing to slight outbreak of the cottony
cushion scale, the staff was able To-
rear and distribute two strong colo
MES of the Australian ladybhg. Veda-
liza cardinals.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-19
tIIIIE1NIIlNGMq

REPRESENTATIVE WATKINS:
If all the appropriation bills that come
to the finance committee were approx
ed it would roll up a bin OF about
$5,O0O,000 for the territory to pay.
IT M. CHURCH: To my mind
the separation Of county and territorial
elections is the opening wedge in sep
arating city government from partisan
politics and putting iton business
basis.
wv. C. ACHI: City officials elect
ed for two years only give only one
year of real work to the city. The
first six months they are learning the
ropes. then they do aMearls work and
the last six months they are playing
politics to get reelected.
"A. L. C. ATKINSON: I am very
heartily in favor of bringing mainland
neWspapermen to Hawaii with the
congressional party. II every Wash
ington correspondent had an adequate
idea of these Islands it would be of
immense advantage to the territory.
SPEAKER HOLSTEIN: AS UNI
defstaId 1t, tie protest Of the Kula
Farmers Association against the drop
ping of the selling system built up
by the territorial market division was
based on 3 report, which has proved
inaccurate, that the house committee
on agriculture ordered the marketing
division not To handle these sales d.
rect to the farmers any longer. It will
all be Strengthened out.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-19
LETTERS

(Ths star-B0lletin invites me- and
hank discussion IN this column On aIl
Legitimate subjects Of current interest
Communication are constantly -.
ceived to which 20 signature b ~
taehed. This paper win treat - con.
fidential signatures to letters u the
writer's 90 desire. but cannot give
space for anonymous communities
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-19
$500 TO BE ASKED
FOR SCHOOL DESKS

A special appropriation Of $500 win
be asked of the supervisors tonight
for the installing of $50 desks in con-
gested schools. Fred Beckley, acting
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-19
EDITOR
LIQUOR ADVERTISING.

j Patrons of the Star Bulletin who know tina
this paper declines to accept liquor advertise
ments will be interested in the following com
ment from the Christian Science Monitor:
lover the veto of the states governor, the
Legislature of Alabama has made illegal the
publication in newspapers and magazines OF
advertisements placed to induce sales OF
liquors. The veto set forth amendments against
the constitutionality of such legislation. The
Legislature replied by action, which in turn will
lead to litigation and judicial decision ON the
issue of law involved, decision that will be as
eagerly awaited by the press. as by. the adver-
ltisers whose business announcements have been
made lawless and criminal under the new
statute Alabama, being high license state,
the logical argument that what state pro
|hibits cannot be advertised within it, can, it
would seem, hardly. be raised by champions
where prohibition prevails.
Viewed in its broader and less technical
aspects this new law is interesting because it
reflects rising popular interest in the relation
of the press to community welfare. When a
publisher of newspaper, conforming to his
own standard of right and of public response
bility or to the will Of an aroused and enlight-
ened local public opinion, or to law of this
prohibitory kind, ceases to mediate between
the vender and the consumer, he lessons the
of the trader to dispose of his
stock q
AT present the ethical renaissance among
professional advertising men, who act as mid
dlemen between byers and sellers, has not gone
against handling liquor business But indiyid-
uals among them, and some of them leaders in
the calling, are so casting their influence The
number of advertisers who decline to vend their
goods through publicity mediums in which,
such advertisements find place is increasing
steadily and rapidly So also is the number of
publishers and owners of periodicals that re-
fuse to accept what they believe is tainted
BUSINESS They discriminate, rs sbatWeeu adj
vertisements offered them, on the ground of
refusal to be party to- nything that is harmful
to their fellow men. lie such discrimination att
first means pecuniary loss they accept it as a
part of the cost of rectitude.
S If collective, state action of this discrimi-
mating kind penalizing publicity given to a
specific form Of business is upheld by theI
courts as well as by public opinion it will bel
apparently on the same ground that lotteries
fraudulent banking and mining schemes and
other forms Of business have been put under
The ban of law and press censorship and ex-
;lnsion from the mails during recent years.
The good of the greatest number will be set
above the cupidities and immortality, to put it |
no more strongly, of the few. Once the state
begins to deal witlfa business in regulativel
way it is bound to consider the modes Of that
trade for increasing its volume and makingl
tself known,
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-19

Toxic is perfectly willing for China to main
tain the Open Door so long as Japan occupies
the door.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-19
.eES1AdA
fIN0K4i0lb

C. r. FORBES, superintendent Of
public works. left yesterday for Hilo
to inspect the repair work IN progress
on the Kuhio Bay pier. ~. F
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-19

Gen. Villa is learning few things from the
Belgian situation. At Monterey he is putting a
.war-tax on foreigners
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-19

Fighting is reported around the Pyramids.
Tourists please take notice and come to
Hawaii.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-19

Negotiations between Japan and China are
progressing peacefully toward the stage of an
armed invasion.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-19

When. the Manchester Guardian stanch de
fender of British rights sees an alarming sit
uation,in the Orient the guess is not far wrong
that the British interests are imperilled
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-19

Would Germany Austria be classed as sscom-
bination in restraint of trade a., . ...5.s.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-19

REPRESENTATIVE J. X. KULA is
still absent from the house. He went
to Kauai last week on account OF Sc
rious illness In his family.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-19

As might have been expected, in the Sudan
the whirling dervishes have started few reyo-
lutions.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-19

Hawaii s building at the exposition continues
to. win golden praise. 1t seems to have been a
wise move not tolfill the building with indus
trial exhibits. The Hawaii structure is g DIFF
ferent, and in great exposition that diff
ferentn quality is something hard to achieve.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-19


published in Japan, the ADVERTISER, of Toxic
recently made this frank comment:
When the anal result Of negotiations made
public the Chinese viii doubtless learn with some
degree Of satisfaction that though Japan originally
presented q demands and requests, Yuan Shih-Kat
them to abandon eleven and accepted only tentof
the more harmless clauses. He will have saved
Fpkien provinces from encroachmenF which were
Xonetsze valley to the Han Yeh ping concern II
which Japan Is already heavily interested. confined
20 Nanchuria certain demands as to employment OF
advisors rights OF residence and transfer Of mining
rights which believed to extend to ali
china, and secured from Japan protection against
The aggression Of any third power which might
want 10 lease land on the coast Of China
The So-called stWenty-one demands there.
fore are to be viewed in the light of diplomacy,
particularly Of Oriental diplomacy. Japan GER
tainly cannot expect acceptance Of all of them.
Neither China nor the Powers more remote
from the Orient could see without protest the
Japanese acquiring long term territorial leases,
mining and commercial rights and the priv
leee Of naming Chinese foreign advisors.
That such rights and privileges would event
ualIy lead to the division of Manchuria between
Russia and Japan is boldly prophesied BY q
Well-known newspaperman now In Petrograd,
3. j. Harrison, correspondent Of the Japan Ad-
fertiser. Writing from the Russian capital IN
February, he said:
Japan has no intention Of encroaching upon
Russia>s sphere of influence, and this being SO,
any additional privileges which Japan may ex-
tort from China in South Manchuria or else
where will later stand Russia in good stead
when the war in Europe is over and she has
leisure to take stock of her holdings In the ex-
freme Orient. They viii, in fact, create valua-
ble precedents which new and elf-confdent
R,,ssia will know we'll how to press home. They
NAV indeed serve as the prelude to annexation
~ both Manehurias by Japan and Russia re
spectively =
observers of the recent developments in the
ar;ent also believe that Japan, by turning 50
mi, attention to the Chinese situation, gives
,;ytual notice that she has no intention of send
80 The military expedition to Europe. It is
t IS, s. : fact that her expulsion Of Germany
from the Orient ends her active participation
: fbe war. at lest unless there are very grave
.st7bs,.ks for the Allies in the European battle
zones.
i holy war by another name would De JUS
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-19
THE HELPFUL HEIR
IS AN ADVERTISER

! The Goldfish lays million eggs, :
: While the helpful hen lays one; !
! But the Goldfish does not caekle I
! To inform US what she's done; !
: And so we scorn the Goldfish coy, !
! But the helpful hen we prize: .
! Which indicates to thoughtful !
minds
1t pays to advertise. I
Exchange. ]
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-19

y. n NOh0ESs bdHcflHleuu6Ete y
public works. left yesterday for Hill
to inspect the repair work IN progress.
on the Kuhio Bay pier.
REPRESENTATIVE j. X. KULA is
still absent from the house. He went
to Kauai last week on account OF Sc
rious illness In his family.
CHARLES r. FORBES, superintend.
emit OF public works and chairman of
the harbor commission, was a passen.
ger to Hilo in the Wflhelmina yes
terday afternoon. -. :: r.=5 7.
GEORGE p. COOKE, member Of the
house OF representatives In the legfs-
latures Of 1911 and 1913, Is q visitor
in the city. He occupied a chair In
the house yesterday by invitation OF
Speaker Holstein. =. : ..~.-
DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY A. IL.
BROWN, accompanied by Mrs. Brown
and their children, expect TO leave in
the Mauna Kea next Wednesday for
Maui, where two weeks win be spent
on Mr.. Browns Valley Island ranch.
WALTER A. ENGLE, chief clerk in
the land commissioners office, return.
ed this morning from Vest Hawaii,
where he has been the last week.
checking the accounts of the substa-s
tons in the Kona and Kau districts.
JUDGE G. w. ASHFORD OF the
first circuit court left last evening for
Kauai for a few days rest and to point
out the scenic splendofs Of the Gar
den Island to his visiting friend, G..
G. Bartels, an attorney Of Denver,
Colo. s5...ss. S. 49,.
J.=E. DORT, a civil service employe
Of the U. s. geological survey, who has
served a two and one-half year assign.
ment to this territory, has been direct
ed TO report at San Francisco for fur.
her orders He is, succeeded by w.
v Hardy, formerly in charge of the
photographic work on Kauai.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-19

deputy building inspector, says only
$50 is left in the fund for school Ak.
lures, and the crowded conditions of
come schools demand immediate at.
tention.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-19

CHARLES R. FORBES, superintend
emit of public works and chairman Of
the harbor commission, was passen
ger to Hilo in the Wflhelmina yes
terday afternoon. -. :. TT. .'.'
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-19

i holy war by another name would De Just
The day book., 1915-11-06
-O-O-
1T ALL DEPENDS!

Look at your Tribune for today
and see how it stacks up against your
Tribune last Saturday. Today the
serious charges of Atty Donald Rich
berg against Judge Gibbons are
printed. Next to it Judge Gibbons is
given a whole column with nice head
lines to defend himself. A week ago,
however, the chief of police was al
lowed one page of the Tribune to
show that the garment strikers are
a Shiny, violent bunch of roWdies.
The day book., 1915-11-06

Did Sidney Hillman and the gar
ment strikers get the same chance
for reply which the Tribune today
gives Judge Gibbons? Well, hardly.
Did this labor group of thousands of
people get the same chance for reply
which today is accorded by the Trib
to one individual, judge whose de-
,cisions are alleged to prove him un-
fit to render more decisions touching
the Peoples Gas Co.? Look at the
two stories and see the difference
The day book., 1915-11-06
FRANK L. WRIGHT "TN AGAIN.
BRINGS UP OLD TALES

It must have been spring when
Miriam wrote those letters; spring
when the blood tingles at the touch
of love. The federal department of
justice has the letters now and is in
Vestigating to see how weighty they
are as evidence that Frank Lloyd
Wright violated the Mann white slave
act with Mrs. Maud Miriam Noel.
The letters, a dozen, were turned
over to federal authorities by Mrs.
Nellie Breen, dismissed housekeeper
of Wright. Mrs. Breen has told tales
of ''carryings-on" at Wright's bunga-
dow, Spring Green, Wis.
LET me hold your dear hands and
spread the soft wings of very tender
love over you. Is not my breast warm
and are not my hands cool?" read
one letter of Miriam.
All the letters are long, impassion-
ed, begging the man return to the
girl who seems to have let him reVel
for months in the quintessence of
love.
Wright admits Mrs. Noel is now a
resident of his villa at Spring Green,
which he rebuilt after a crazed negro
burned it when he murdered Mamah
Borthwick Cheney and her four chill
dren, following a great scandal talk
and the separation of Wright and his
wife.
1890
The day book., 1915-11-06

NSSINSlG U NONGO NJ lNN
OF DONALD RICHBERG
John Gibbons, circuit judge, is too
willing. He's so willing to hear the
big $1O,0OO,OOO gas case that he
ought to be taken off it and some
Judge put on who isn't so willing.
Such is the claim of Donald Rich
berg, counsel special gas committee
appointed by Mayor Thompson to at
tack Peoples Gas Co. in courts and
force return of $10,000,000 over
charge money. Richberg alleges
Gibbons, decisions arbitrary and
without authority of law or equity.
Judge Gibbons cannot and does
not hold an open and impartial mind
toward the issues of said cause"
heads the bill. 1t rec1tes his deci-
sions as having been about what the
gas trust wants.
Gibbons reply is that his record is
anti-monopoly and Richberg can't
show he's a gas Judge.
The gas litigation committee of the
city council approved Atty Donald
Richberg's action in asking for an
other judge on the gas litigation this
morning.
In response to Judge Gibbons
statement that he had lowered the
rates while the case has been pend
ing in his court the committee said
he was hardly accurate" Under
the protection of his court the gas
company has been permitted to col
lect more than $1O,OOO,0OO more than
the legal rate allows" says the reso-
luton which they passed endorsing
Richberg's action.
-O-O-
The day book., 1915-11-06

Bryan contempIates going to Nor
way. This seems to be against the
advice of political opponents who
would consign him to warmer ci-
mate.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-12-24

eluds the usual deficiency estimates in
1917. and these additions would make
a total deficit Of some S297, 100000 If
the present taxes should be continued
throughout this year and the next.
however. there would be balance tn
the treasury of some $7G,5OO.OOO at
the end of the present fiscal year and
deficit Mt the end of the next year Of
only some $5O.OO0.OOO. or. reckoning in
SG2,OOO,OOO for deficiency approprih-
tions and II safe treasury balance at
the end of the year. a total deficit Of
some $112.OO0.000. The obvious moral
Of the figures is that 1t Is plain couh
sci of prudence to continue all Of the
present taxes or their equivalents and
conf1ne ourselves to the problem of
providing S112,OOO,OO0 Of new revenue
rather than S297.OOO,OOO
How shall we obtain the new rev.
enue? We are frequently reminded
that there are many millions of bonds
which the treasury is authorized under
existing law to sell to reimburse the
sums paid out of current revenues for
the construction of the Panama canal
and it Is true that bonds for the
amount of S222432, ,OCO are now avail
able for that purpose. Prior to 1913
13S,OOO,OOO of these bonds had ac-
tually been sold to recoup the eXpendi-
lures ut the isthmus, and now con-
stitute considerable item of the pub
lie debt. But for one do not believe
that the people Of this country approve
OF postponing the paymht Of their
bills. Borrowing money is shortsight-
ed finance. 1t can be justified only
when permanent things are to be ac-
complished which many generations
will certainly benefit by and which 1t
seems hardly fair that single genera
ton should pay for The objects we
are now proposing 10 spend money for
cannot be so classified. except in the
sense that everything wisely done may
be said to be done in the interest of
posterity as well as in our own. 1t
seems to me clear dictate of pru-
dent craftsmanship and frank finance
that in what we are now, hope. about
to undertake we should pay as we 60
The people Of the country are entitled
to know just what burdens Of taxation
they are to carry and to know from the
outset now. The new bills should be
paid by internal taxation.