Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-04
YAEDlCT0Rf OF
OLDBOARDGVEN
BY N. c. P'ACHECO
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one or two matters yet unfinished
| were disposed OF Then Retiring Me-
yor Fern called upon the various men
bers in turn for brief expressions o
opinion or sentiment appropriate
| the occasion.
Pacheco Speaks ForcefuIiy.
Pacheco proved the boards tru
minutes but his elOquenCe and force
! fuluess commanded the close atten
ton of. his audience
| Il suppose sWan-songs always ar
I'm order when public bodies 90 on
of office" he began. PERSONALLY
IShall not take much OF your time
however, Mr. Mayor and fellowmem
ters. wish TO state that during thu
Two years have been in office | hav'
Fried TO fulfil my duties TO the bes
of my ability; | have not at any tim
done other than my conscience dtctaf
ed in any matter. Conscience has die
tated my vCte-persOnal grudge, no
spite. nor revenge have ever control
Led my deliberation or action. whateve,
my enemies may have thought or saif
to the contrary
This board has accomplished Ger
| tain results, the effect of which car
| be seen only as time passes. The umt
will come when the people will real
lie, | believe, tina, the board Of 1913
1914 did its full duty toward the pub
| lie. The public does not realize it now
The peoples failure to return u
to office was not the fault of this boart
but of certain political combination:
working against us.
People Are Competent.
I've often asked myself if count:
| government as tried out here has prov
ed a success, and if the people of the
community are fit to govern them
selves AS | go out of office toda!
| | feel that the people are wholly fl,
and competent. Their action at the
| recent election is not to be taken as
I true criterion to judge of their fit
ness for self-government-rather it Is
| failure of the individual members o
| the board. The people want harmony
| Every other member except San,
Hardesty had a few words to say.
Mayor Ferns speech was somewhat
abbreviated by the sudden appearance
of the incoming supervisors. His erst,
while flueney of speech appeared Sc
riously impeded by frequent and TN
expected attacks of . throat trouble
which caused him to swallow deeply
and often. He managed to enunciate
the fact that he did not have much
| to say, however, and few of his
further remarks were drowned in the
lsudden sad notes of Aloha De, the
ttcnes of Bandmaster Berger's must
clans swelling upward from the hal!
| below in cadence and volume that took
the minds of his hearers entirely away
from what Fern had to say. At the
last he was heard distinctly to an,
incunce, however, that he handed his
resignation and those of his eonfreres
to Mayor Lane and the new supervis
ors,. and that he gave them his aloha
nui.
Mcclellan straightforward. 49,.
| William H. Mcclellan the oldest
member of the, old board in point OF
service and who has been chairman OF
the ways and means committee the
| last two years, said: r. 1929,
Il feel that I've done my part in
| trying to make our county govern
ment a success We <of course have
been subjected to criticism, buS every
man who takes public office must real
| ize at the outset that he will be sub
ject to that 49,.
The people must be made to under
stand more clearly one basic principle
of all government-and more particu'
| larly in county government because
that comes closer home to them-that
| is, that there is. always just certain
amount in their public treasury-no
more-and that with that money jus:
a certain amount of work can, be done
land ne more. No board can be ex
i pected to satisfy all demands, for nc
| county treasury ever will be big
enough for that. 1t is always a ques
ton of how best to use the money
available which projects are most
ineedful.
i Tin the six years / have been super
i visor / have never seen anything that
looked like public work that was no
done as it should be done, 9or money
Improperly and wastefully spent.
know every man on the county board
in those six years was giving the peo
pie his best thought and work.
T wish to congratulate the incom
ing board. and express the hope that
its members will make an enyiable
| record for themselves