Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-09-23
cAAaTER' REVISION.

| a.. .chAaTER REVISION. p.
Editor Honolulu Star-Bulletin: = :.
SIR: Mr.. Green. in the charter, con.
Eention, does not promote any cause
The may be championing by repeating
stale fictions from the Field report.
BY exaggeration he makes q libel
worse. 4 Mr.. Fled said 1t took 40 cents
to expend 80 cents on roads. Mr.
Green goes one better by making it
1920 cents. The original untruth was
effectmalIy ccntradicfed by Civil EngE
tneer Gere at q public meeting about
| two years ago, As a matter Of fact
the municipality has often done road
work cheaper than Il could have had
&c done BY contract L has also done
skilled mecha1icaf work by days labor
at q saving to the taxpayer where
bids f1yited have been above the 1g-
ufe Appropriated BY the legislature for
school buildings. -
Delegate raiIies would appear, judg.
| f1g by his reference To roads, to be
peeyed at the move of the supervisors
| to give Wahiaws his home village,
q $4,000 road conn ting with the belt
highway His talk about school build
ings betrays ignorance of worse. as
does his reference to sanitation. Ey-
Esef9 NelIinf6fn1ed citizen ought to-
know that the reform In building ana
maintenance 81 schools. since the city
and county took those things over, has
been revolutionary, while every kin.
dergarten child probably knows that
the board Of health. and pot the city
and county has cha rec 1of general SAM
itati0n. II the few niattefs under
this head shared by the muhicipAlity
/ Il is making 4 creditable record
What good purpose Is to be served
In the convention by slamming those
to whom the city government has been
committed BY the people under the
present charter Is hard to conceive:
IIlaye given frequent study to a book.
relating the rise and growth Of the
commission and missi6n-hlzhager
plans, written by an eastern professor,
also have perused SOME Of the new
charters and reports of cities governed
thefeunder besides eagerly reading al
Of the letters. from mayors and other
cfficials of such cities secured ana
published % yourself ana notmg
peMspaper accounts q the Worklnss
OF the new systems picked up py
myself. Thus Iar I nave tailed 70 Hne,
even among the things you have END.
phasizeds In black type. fly beneficial
results from the new plans which can
not be duplicated by the record Of
Honolulu under lts present mucn-De-
lifted chaTter-tnat Is, so Tar as 5. y! 3
powers extend IN some respects, TINS ~
municipality! with topog rapnicaI anc
dimentlonaf' disadE antages present z
rev u any pI ines q alniHnqE CUES y.
question, has surpa ssed tne records g
several OF the most successInL exam s
PICS q commission goverhmsnl On tHe
Hlainian WIZ ~. WISHES 81. Sall
have the proof Of these assertions on
demand Il 49, !
Inc commission IorIn IeenLoI Ss y. ~
distinct improvements, Is practicaily
being carried out mere nnder lpe pres.
eHt charter, winch, I Tsspeetlully con-
tena, Y inmea 3, e Ply Fysn
witiout any an1enqm 81 % elIner OF
the two drafts q new ciarter thus
Tar slpnittted TO the con- eltion. mere
might pc shorter pSisot peInaps,
BY, while there are some IN 1000 ,Tea-
sons Tor efecting oniy the leglsiatlys
unctlonarles, there are sIounus q
serious apprehension tnat, the senange
in question would merely, 70 g new
FORM revive the dlsreputa sr az
Of the old NOM ma mating conye ~ IN
other words, 9, canpiu'a1e TOT superVl-
snl,itef RI holduns byt the hackers of
Aces with municipal separated