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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-09-29

looks forward hopefully to the fu-
ture. But the people of the South
should not deceive themselves.
The real conditions in the South
have not changed. The war is still
going on, and may 60 on for another
year or two. Vast amounts of mu-
nitions of war have been purchased
in this country, which accounts for
The plentiful supply of money in the
money markets. The panic caused
by the outbreak of the war, which
was everywhere prevalent last fall,
is not with us now, and this, to some
extent, helps.
But the real good feeling in the
South cannot be accounted for on
these grounds. We have sold no
munitions of war, and the purchase
price of these things has brought no
prosperity to the South.
Our prosperity is brought about by
the high price of cotton and must be
accounted for on other grounds. And
the real ground is the Investigation
Of crops. The people of the South
in the early part of the year aban-
Goned the one crop idea to a very
considerable extent, and planted food
stuffs, and commenced to raise meat
and bread at home. The result is
that the cotton crop is short, and the
rrice is good. If we had p crop as
large as that of last year, we would
be receiving little more for it than
we did last year. The great appar-
cnt surplus would so weigh down the
market that prospective purchasers
could afford to wait and take their
chances for a lower market. As it
is, people who must have cotton, real
ize that if they get it at all, it must
be gotten at once. And the result is
that all cotton offered is in demand,
and the prices offered in all markets
are good.
So let no farmer deceive himself
or be deceived. There are no nos
trums for a surplus crop, nothing that
will cure the situation. 1t is true
that a surplus crop need not be sacri-
feed, if the people are able to ware
house the cotton and wait. But the
greater part of those people who act
ually raise the cotton cannot hold on
to it indefinitely. The larger far
mer and the weather. merchant may
do so, but when a small farmer and
a one-horse merchant tries to borrow
money in the spring of the year to
run a crop, still owing the hank for
last years advances, he will find a
little difficulty in his way.
The only real and efficient remedy
is the inc Of prevention. The
small farmer should raise his meat,
his flour, his corr and all food stufs,
both for himself and his stock on the
farm. The balance of his land he
can plant in cotton, and look forward
with some degree of confidence to
a good price for that commodity in
the fall; but when everybody goes
back to nothing but cotton, there is
no hope for the small farmer of the
South. An object lesson has been
shown to our people. Let US hope
that they will be benefited and
by it..
Therefore, we advise the farmers
of the county to SOW oats and wheat
during the fall, and to prepare to
Plant corn in the spring.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-09-29

ZenS In their various duties as Such.
The consequence is that the stand
ards and methods of our political and
organized life are lower than those
Of our private life. There is perfect
consistency between the ideals Of
those who glorify peace, and the aims
of those who would train every Am
erican boy to be ready to help main
tain peace in any time of emergency
or danger. We are not getting any,
thing like the social and public val
ues that we ought to be reaping from
Cur investment in schools and edu-
cation. Scholarship is not popular
in our universities and colleges. Ath-
letic life furnishes no proper outlet,
because it is vicarious and quasi-pro-
f%cssional. A few young gladiators
monopolize the athletic activity Of
cur institutions, and the vast MAORI
ty are taught to look on and yell for
the maintenance of college or school
spirit.
Thus our great institutions, though
more and more costly in their ap-
pointments and maintenance, r
painfully aware that they are not pro-
ducing the results that ought to be
manifest. Many of their students-a
possible majority-cannot write a
well phrased or correctly spelled let
ter. They do not know Bible, or
Shakespeare, or Charles Dickens.
They are not capable Of reading the
editorial page of a good newspaper.
This criticism does not apply to all,
but to what in at least a good many
large institutions must include fully
half of the undergraduates. 1t would
be unjust to locate blame in any spe-
cifc quarter. The faults lie deep in
our current life, and are widespread.
There r great resources of worth
and of power latent in those very
youths who do not find themselves
absorbed in the study of textbooks, or
Held to discipline by the sternness of
the football coach. But there is a
gospel of social and public duty, &C.
companied by certain practical appli-
cations, that might be used to bring
out the earnestness and personal
worth of thousands of these young
men. They should be strongly i'm
pressed with the gravity of the is
sues of this momentous time in which
We live. Without much if any addi-
tional burden to the taxpayers, every
one of these students of high schools,
normal schools, colleges, and univer-
sites could be 70 taught and trained
as to be we'll prepared to exercise
many of the usual, and some of the
unusual, duties Of citizenship. Such
training would benefit students in
their health and morals, would give
tFem a finer sense of private as well
as public duty, and would furnish
them with various kinds of practical
experience and knowledge that would
rebound to the welfare of our politi-
cal and governmental life.-Review
of Reviews for September.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-09-29
THE PRICE OF COTTON.

The price which cotton is now
bringing has made hard times a re-
collection of the past. The South
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-04
EDITOR
THE LONGEST BATTLE.

The battle of the Aisne is the longest fight
in the worlds history Next to it is the Rus
sian border fight. While in both these there
have been lulls and clmaxes, in each the pres
sure of hoStiIities has never ceased for more
than a month. The battle of Aisne is now
nearly two months old.
Most of the famous engagements have lasted
less than a day. Here are the principal ones
1S13-Leipzig. Lasted three days, French
beaten by Russian, Austrian and PrusSian
armies.
+ 18lj-WatcrIoo. Lasted eighteen hours.
Napoleon finally beaten by British and Prus-
slams.
1S54-Alma. Lasted three and half hours
British and French beat Russians.
1863-Gettysbu Lasted three days.
American civil war Indecisive battle.
l866-Sadowa. Lasted eight hours. Pr1ls-
slams beat Austrians
1S70-Sedan. Big fighting lasted twelve and
ore half hours. Prussians beat the French
lS70-Gravelotte Lasted nine hours. Prls
slams beat French. .."
d 1905-Mukden Lasted eighteen days. Jap
anese beat Russians
1912-Lule Burgas Lasted four days. Bal
kan Allies beat Turks.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-04
REHEARSALS
Of CHILDRENFOR
Carnival CHORUS

Miss Jane Winnie, who conducted
the Christmas carol singing in Homo
lulu year ago, today started to
make plans fer the rehearsing of 1000
children who are to sing patriotic and
popular airs from the steps Of the
capitol in connection with the. Mid-Pa-
cific Carnival next month. This is
expected to be one Of the NEST popu-
lar features Of the Carnival program.
Five thousand copies Of patriotic
and popular songs now are being print
ed by the Star-Rulletin for the Carni-
val Company. and us socn as this work
is completed the rehearsing will be
begun The music being printed in
cludes Sail On, o Ship" 900 copies;
PROFESSIONAL" 1000 copies; Dixie"
500 copies; Hawaii Ponoi," 600
copies; ''Star-Spangled Banner" 500
cCDies; The Dancers" 700 copies, and
The Sandman 700 copies. The chill
dre!r will sing to the accompaniment
of the Hawaiian Band and during in
termissions the folk dances of various
nations will be portrayed. H..
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-04
GIVE 1T A FAIR HEARING.

For any conclusive discussion of the plan
for an amusement pier at Waikiki beach, it is
necessary to know what that plan is. 1t is
necessary to know where the pier is to be
started from the shore and it's route to the reef
whether it will be an undesirable addition to
the beach in the matter of the patronage it
attracts as well as in its physical character
istics .
Offhand to condemn the amusement pier idea
is neither fair nor logical. There are places
on the beach where it will interfere with bath
ing and surfing; there are other places where
it may not And it may prove to be an excel
lent addition to HonolUu's amusements; it
may prove an asset in the business of enter
tanning visitors
If an amusement pier can be so constructed
and operated that it will give additional ia
cilities for the people of Honolulu and the
people visiting Honolulu to go to the beach and
get wholesome recreation there, is it to be con
demned? If it will take more people to the
beach, is it to be- condemned! There are few
enough places now of public access to Waikiki $
splendid bathing. Why shut off the possibil-
ity of the pier without hearing anything about
it but the name! ".'
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-04

give the Teutons their due for the re-
souFcefulness. skill. tenacity and bras-
cry that the men of the German army
have thus far displayed. and il is TO
be seen that these qualities range
right through from general down and
ON u the last man in the rank and file
D0f that great hast Cf fighters.
We must base war opinions on the
cable reports that are received here
daily, and whether good or bad there
has been something glorious in the
Ieyer-say- die. bulldog tenacity with
ghich the kaiser's men have many
times turned seeming defeat into vic
tory, .--. -
There is no question but that the
German nation has kept very close to
the wheels of world advancement, and
the achievement Of the German army
thus far gives an inkling of the great
strides that country has made. and
this in the face of seemingly insur-
mountable obstacles. And when this
war is ended the same tenacity of puF-
pose and perseverance as have been
displayed in the greatest war the world
has ever seen, will be continued by
the German nation along peaceful and
civiliZing channels to again build up
Germany and give assistance to the
rest of Europe.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-04
NORDICA Will
CASE TO Bring
PROBERS HERE

| The death of Nine. Lillian Nordica,
famous singer, in the South Seas, will
bring through Honolulu a commission
appointed to go to Thursday sand for
some investigations in the will contest
case.
! When the contest over the will of
Nine Nordica came before the New
! York courts counsel moved fer the ap-
pcintment of a commission to go to
Thursday Island, in the South Seas, to
take the testimony of witnesses to
the will. @ltf ~. -;
: Bfore Vice-ChaEcellOr Stevens at
Newark, William II. Osborne and
;ATiel Dreyfuss, counsel for Robert S.
Baldwin. enc Of the executors of the
win offered for probate in New York
applied for an injunction to restrain
the Monmouth County Surrogate from
Eprobating a Nordica will offered there
The svice-ehaneellor ordered counsel to
file briefs. but said he believed that
he was without jurisdiction to restrain
ithe Surrogate, .,a.t r. -
!. The issue in the will contest lies be-
tween the singers husband. George w.
Young and ahar three. sisters IN a
will executed by her in 1910, Ahe made
her husband the 6hiefnbeneficiary OF
her estate, and She called New Jersey
her home In a will made on Thurs.
day Island, shortly before she, died
last May at Batavia on the. Island of
Java, she made her sisters the princi-
pal beneficiaries and called New York
her home. In explanation of the MAX
ing. of the later VIII Mr.. Osborne said
that before her death Nine. Nordica
turned over $400,D90 to her husband.
. The 1914 will was offered for pro-
bate in New York county and follow.
ing these proceedings the husband Of
fered in Monmouth the 1910 will, with
a copy of the later Testament attach
ed. Mr.. Osborne said that it has been
impossible to get service upon Mr..
Young in the New York proceedings.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-04

! Arthur G. SMITH, deputy attorney
general, is in Hawaii on official bust,
ness ..
w. J. ROBINSON, former circuit
judge, sails for San Francisco tomor.
row on the Sierra. ."-
ANDRED ANDERSEN, paying tel
Ter in the Waikiki bank, has resigned
his position and will leave within a
few weeks for Honolulu, where he will
accept similar place in the Bank of
Hawaii. Mr.. and Mrs. Andersen have
discontinued housekeeping and will
live at the Wailuku hotel until they
leave for their new home.-haui
News.
MISS RUTH LONDAHL, daughter
of Chaplain Londahl, U. S. A., and
Lieut. William Hooper Jouett, Coast
Artillery Corps, both of whom are well
known here, were married a week ago
in San Francisco. The ceremony took
place on short notice and was attend
ed only by. few relatives The cou-
pie is spending the honeymoon in Palo
Alto, Cal. .
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-04
GIVE GERMANY HER DUE.

Editor Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
Sir:--lt has been voiced many times
since the opening OF the conflict now
going on in Europe that Germany is
not upholdinS this terrible struggle
through claim 10 righteousness. That
question is open to debate for and
against. and particular SO to the PEG,
pie OF this territory, so far removed
from the scene Of conflict that they
should not hurriedly decide one way
or the other. We should not discuss
the responsibility for the GREAT human
killing that is going on daily to de-
termine who is right and who is
wrong, but We can discuss the ralOr
and courage that are being shown by
these ip the fighting lines of the coup
tries at war.
Right or wrong it is only fair to
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-04
OPPORTUNITY.

The new municipal administration begins
its two-year term today under auspices that
are particularly bright. 1t does not have to
make an extraordinary record to surpass that
of recent. administrations and, to satisfy the
people generally. What Honolulu wants is an
administration that does its best, its public
spirited, unselfsh, energetic and persistent
best, to. run the city decently and properly.
What Honolulu wants is the emphasis placed
first on efficiency and next on politics, instead
of the reverse
g There has never been time when cOopera-
ton between the city officials and the people
generally was sq-easy to secure as it is today.
Good faith and mutual respect on each side
will assure that cooperation. +
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-04

Mayor Lanes inaugural message is progress
sive in tone and clear in statement With GER
tain of his recommendations there will be some
difference of opinion but with most there will
be unanimity.
He urges equitable enforcement of.the local
improvement or frontage-tax law as neces-
sary feature of the good-roads campaign;
steps toward a municipal hospital; city hall
liberal city appropriations for the Promotion
Committee; the extension and development of
public parks and Fairgrounds; and in general
close attention on the part of all branches Of
the municipal government to prudence and
economy in office.
Individual recommendations which will
probably be objected to are those for separate
bureaus for the waterworks and sewers and
for road construction. The plan for a separate
WateuWorks and sewers bureau has been voted
downonce in caucus. As the idea reappears in
the mayors message, it is rather different from
the form in which it went before the caucus of
supervisors elect. The mayor recommends that
the head of one of the three departments
waterwerks and sewers, engineering and road
three. As matter of fact, Mayor Lanes
recommendation as it is contained in his mes
sage is in line with what public opinion has
recently expressed--that the city engineer
should be the active head of all the bureaus,
though these bureaus might need superin-
tending official in addition to the office staff.
The plan can be carried out without adding
expensive salaried offices, for there are men
in the bureaus now, with the possible exception
OF the road department, capable of taking the
Jobs.
The mayors recommendation for dairy and
meat inspections will probably cause the
strongest objections 1t appears that he is in
favor of building up an extensive city inspec
ton system. That is needless at this time and
particularly unwise because OF the city's finan
cial condition The territorial board of health
is equipped to do most of the sanitary inspec-
ton and is doing most of it. For instance,
though the city has milk inspector, he is as
useless as an appendix. The territorial board
does all the real work BY giving the terri
toriaI boards milk inspector a city and county
commission, and paying small part OF his,
salary. the city can get for so a month in
spection which will cost at least $40 If the !
municipality tries to do it properly.
This matter of sanitary inspection should be
given much thought Tie tendency seems to
6estoward increasing the power of the terri
toriaI board rather than decreasing it; toward
city support for the territorial organization !
rather than development of a separate and !,
often conflicting city Organization.
The Star Bulletin expects Mayor Lane to be
mite ready to discuss the merits or flaws in
l,;s own recommendations. In general, his mes
saue IS satisfactory, and if the spirit is OBJ
sessxea by the new administrations it should
80 . satisfactory account of itself to the
- Who cast their ballot for an efficient
.o,,duct of Honoulu's affairs
$50 nrosnects in Colorado are now fairly
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-04
NO REQU1EMs.

! Mayor Fern leaves office with a personal
record that is clean. Whatever may be said OF
his picturesque characteristics and his official
caliber, his honest conduct of office has not
been questioned There are few men in Homo
lulu or anywhere else on the islands with more
personal friends than "Joe" He has many
qualities to command respect and many friends
to wish him well. And, by the way, this is no
official requiem for Joe Fern. In 1916 he prob
ably will be found fighting for the mayoralty
with all of his undoubted shrewdness, and if
Mayor Lane does not make good, Joe will very
likely step back into the shoes he vacated at
noon today. ; -.s....-
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-04
WOOD SAILS NEXT WEEK
TO REPRESENT HAWAII AT
PANAMA-PACIFIC FAIR

To take charge of the Hawaiian
building at the Panama-Paciic Expo
siticn in the capacity of resident COM
missioner and representative of the
Promotion Committee, H. p. Wood
will leave for San Francisco in the
steamer Matsonia Jan. Is: Mr. Wood
was at his Office this morning. he
said that he is rapidly recovering from
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-04
Lye9t(k FINELY Iollgp

(The Star-Bullettn invites free and
frank discussion lIf this column on ali
LIGHTING te subjects a current interest
Communications sare, constantly re
ceived to which no signature is at
tached. This paper will treat as con
fidential signatures 10 letters il the
writer's so desire. but cannot give
space for anonymous communicS-
tions)
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-04

his recent operation From now until
the Matsonia sails he will be busy
settling up the affairs of the local Of
flee Of the Promotion Committee. AIR.
Wood intends to remain in San Fran.
cisco until the close OF the exposition.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-04

peace prospects in Colorado are now fairly
We do not notice. however, that any
,,o5y has been punished for the killings in this
BIT Of civil war. =--:-.--
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-04

Secretary Bryan is Mortified at the new
dances That old Chatauqua hot-foot is good
enough for him.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-04

The business section Of the village
of Benton Ridge, o.. was wiped out
by fire. s.....s .,..s 49,:
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-04

When Mr. Taft said immediate independence
for the Philippines would make the islands as
bad as Mexico, he gave the Jones bill solar
plexus blow. H.. =. r.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-04

.s, What has become of the old-fashioned man
who predicted the Bull Moose would swallow
the Republican psrtyf 1
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-04
tIIuLNIElNlE:WiQ

w. T. RAWLINS: The Hawaii
swimmers are being treated spiendidly
in Australia. Their arrival in Sydney
was a big social event ="
&C. G. BOCKUS: Our idea Of an
amusement pier is one that will en-
courage and stimulate surfing and
bathing instead of putting obstacles in
the way. .".
HARRY MURRAY: If the front
age-taX law is generally applied, the
city engineering department will have
to be greatly enlarged because of the
many grades to be run and large
amount of statistical work to be ac-
complished. However, the law should
be applied and | heartily favor it.
A. L. C. ATKINSON: The build
ing Of any private pier at Waikiki out
to the reef is illegal and If it goes out
where / understand one is now pro-
jected, it will hurt the beach. My sug-
gestion is that the pier be run parallel
with the present concrete bridge over
the stream, which faces the sea. This
would be a great attraction. ~
E. H. F.. WOLTER: Honolulu and
all Oahu needs truck farmers just
about as bad as the islands need more
tourists. There should be some move
ment towards this end. Every patch
of vacant proper, y in Oahu should be
put under cultivation. That is a new
industry which should receive careful
consider ton and which heretofore has
received little or none
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-04

Crossing the Rubicon was mere child's play
compared to the navigation of the Wsyzlacw-
leswicilz
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-04

One of the benefits of the efficiency system
in modern warfare is being illustrated along
the Aisne where the trench-fghters dig their
own graves. 49,. -
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-04

Henry Siegel has agreed that de-
positors in his failed bank In Boston
shall share equally with New York
depositGrs in any PAYMENTS 10 be
made.
The police OF IIoboken. are search
ing for Otto Van Wagner OF Chicago
who had married, robbed and deserted
twenty women in different parts of the
country. ~.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-04

Oar character is bm III" stamp On on" souls Of Nh"
f,ee choice of good and criI IRE hare made through
Hte.-Gickic.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-04

Welcome, Mayor Lane!