The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-03-16
MATIERSOF VITAL
IMPORT DISCUSSED
BYLEAGUEOE men
Proposed Social Legislation
y Holds Attention Of Central
Union Auxiliary Meeting
IOWA RED-liGHT LAW
= ','~ FAVORED UNANIMOUSLY
Judge W. l. Whitney,s Child
hood Measures, Including En-
ployment Advocated

.. PVJNtSuO HdNeSotON
Atatters Of vital interest to the com.
nanity we're discussed at the annual
meeting of the Mems League Of Cen.
trhi uaion Church last night, there be.
Ing discussion Of the Iowa Red. Light
Lii, which will be introduced into the
legislature; the several needs Of the
Juvenile court in the matter Of legis-
latlon; the necessity for childlabor
law before the employment of young,
children became a matter Of vested
right, and the question Of the medical
Inspection of school children. Ek3gg
The meeting was well attended, some
one hundred and fifty being present at
the social hour and the dinner that pre-
coded the business Of the evening. DR..
VIC. Hobby, president Of the league,
presided.
Abatement BY Injunction (
Former Governor Frear explained tho
a provisions Of the proposed Habatement
by injunction law, declared the most
satisfactory measure TO date for the
VI tHt bOCldA evil .QuCbtAOus
Mr.. Fear went into the matter fully,
describing briefly, by way Of preface,
TIE failures that had been registered
in attempts to mitigate the red-light
evil by RECOMMENDATION, medical inspec.
ton and license, laws justified by the
srlhment that the social evil was a
accessory evil and that the best that
could Be done was 20 restrict and re.
gulate II. 2, e., p4tA. &f, HnEt.
The Iowa Red,Light Law is now the
law in n number Of States and In the
District of Columbia. It strikes hard
est at the commercial side Of vice, per-
'thits action TO be instituted by any eitif
zen, brings the matter into civil
court where the evidence need not be
"beyonda reasonable doubt, - and pro-
vides that the penalty be against the
PROPERTY used for immoral purposes and
lot against the individual.
Conditions Are Peculiar - h r!
< aWhen you commence to touch q
mans property you are pretty sure 70
have something that win be eifectHal, =
said Mr.. Frear, after showing that tht
ettenset need not have to be committed
bring about remedy. ~ ast trk
here are peculiar, y said Governor Frear
III conclusion, . and i will admit tina,
our conditions are peculiar, but they are
TO more peculiar from some other place
than that place is from still another,
have noticed that human nature here Il
;,hout the same as elsewhere, and I dc
- rot coneede that Honolulu is wickedel
thanrRny other place on earth, nor thai
this problem is any harder TO deal with
lere than in any other place. - y +,
Following a statement from J.. A
Rath, who argued against the recoghi
tion of any restricted district, tn,
agne, by unanimous vote, went ON re
cord as favoring the enactment by tn
legislature of the bill. The motion 70
this was made by WI Castle and sec
onded by several. = -.
Needs OF tho Juveniles
Judge whitney Of the juvenile cour
outlined nine things which the eour
was asking OF the Legislature or j
a, or OF. These were a better adoptio
law, u charge of the desertion law ;
make it a criminal offense to deser
wife or child, an amendment to the Cul
fowIaw to include moving picture thes
tiers among the tabu places for childre
|nOl hCtVTHpdulbu ny u
adult the raising of theeare of majol
ity for girls to twenty from eighteel
a law TO prohibit unattended girls to b
out on the streets after curfew, tn
bsin ing Of the boys and girls industriI
schools under a commission and out {
tae control Of the department of edv
cation, appropriation for the care of il
tligent children and detention HON,
for boys and girls brought into II
juvenile court. ,t. ..r.... T.. .ss,. = g.s d.
DIR. Duremus Scudter advocated II
Ias Inn Of model child labor law
fore the use Of child labor became D
established thing. The only child
bor now, he said, is in the pineapple ca
neries and the canning industry is ii
only industry that would be affecte
and that only In limited way.
Doctor S1udder on Childhood ls
He said that the, question now
whether the interests Of the stockhol
crs In the pineapple eanneries and
the pineapple growers should be co
nidere 4. or whether the good of d
children should have the first consi
Grafton He advocated the law recol
meniied by the National Child's w
fare Committee. . "a.
" Representative Cooke stated that
ibid labor bill was now up for thi
Fiading in the house and he recommeI
81 that Representative Crockett, the
trolueer, be seen immediately a
rmenlments suggested, rather than
- through the whole. labor of init
,ucing any new measure. ,
Judge Weaver and w. o. Smith a.
sppfe on this subject.
Il. A. MottiSmith. former preside
If the board of health, dealt with I
merits Of the proposed medical exaI
alton OF school children law, un'
'hich detective children might be z
80 ''"'" ~'"""o to progress with 9th
normal children,
~. J., y, h, Pratt, president of
l,Go~,l o" he"lth, read an interesting
per on the physical defects found amo
Echool children. He cited the instal