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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09
VALUABLE DATA
WILL BE RESULT
OF MORTAR FIRE

The extensive tests in mortar firing
now being made At Forts Ruger and
kamehameha We're continued today.
data of great interest to the service
being deduced by the trial shots hred
from one mortar at each fort. q
II is believed that very valuable
data as TO the effect OF air currents on
the flight OF mortar projectiles at
high attitudes will be collected and
that the knowledge thus gained will
improve the accuracy of mortar worA
throughout the service
The most minute and careful obser.
yations are being made and when the
mass of record Is complete the proper
deductions can be made The allow.
ance Of service ammunition made by
the war department. for this work Is
considered sufficient year ago an
attempt was made to make the tests
but the department was so niggardly
with its ammunition appropriation
that results were almost negligible.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09
Furnishing The NoN-coMsAT.
ANTS. ".....:.=-.

Editor Honolulu Star Bulletin.
Sir: notice among the exchanges
that come TO the public library a "a
madam newspaper that fairly bristles
with iabs az the Germans nos in tht
Canadian provinces. and calls ca al
the Canadian-English to boycott tht
Germans now there to the last ditch
and would welcome session of anti
German rioting such as has been or
tap in England. ~ - y.
This phase of the situation in Cana
da Is as vicious and uncalled for as wa:
the sinking of the Lusitania which
has inspired IT, The Germans now
domiciled throughout the Canadian
provinces were in no wise responsible
for the Lusitania outrage. They die
not plan II and could not have prevent
ed It. They are simply in the unfor
tunate position of being subjects of q
country whose government has seer
lit to transgress the rules of civilized
warfare and seemingly the laws Of
humanity.
1t is not the German subject In an
alien land who is to be held to account
and punished for the misdeeds of the
German naval and military authorities
but the government itself which plans
the outrages and forces the military
and naval forces. to carry them out
Because the home government oil
the Germans has seen Fit to perpe,
trate outrages on innocent non-com,
batants under the guise of war; which
caused the civilized world to cry out
in horror, does not give license for
rioting and attacks on German resi-
dents In foreign lands, even in the
lands that are opposing Germany. Two
wrongs never make right, and they
will not In this case
AN AMERICAN.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09

tshlss and the refrigerator. were fahr
Hawaiian boys. The oldest was about
II years OF age, the youngest about ,
years old.
All were smoking cigarettes and in.
haling. too. according to Anderson.
Now. 1t isn't q crime 70 smoke 4
cigarette, but Anderson says he be-
lieves II Is bad for the lungs. and es-
pecially the lungs Of youngsters about
8 or IL years old "a
So Anderson "pinched" the entire
quartet. he took them down to his
office in the judiciary building and
secured their names and addresses.
He says he will make an example Of
them. They viii have to report to
him several times week. He de-
clares the kids" have '.got to quit hit
ting the pill"
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09

r MORRIS OF Denver, who gained
so favorable an impression of game
fishing In Hawaiian waters. has re-
Gently returned to Honolulu and q
now having large saInpan built 81
the special purpose OF indulging his
desires in the piscatorial art. Mr..
Morris IL expecting an engine soon
from the coast which win deyelopa
speed of Is to IA knots an hour for
his new boat He regards the Jap.
anese saInpah as the most seiworthy
Of small ocean-going craft ~
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09
A GENTLE HINT.

Fears that Japan S recent moves in the
Orient are directed toward softly but firmly
closing the supposedly ssopen door, are ap-
parently behind the state Department. recent
act in sending identical notes to Toxic and
peking on Nav Is. IT was not until late in
June that the news of these notes became pub
lie. This was week after China had been
forced finally to accept the modified Japanese
demands
That these demands endanger American
treaty rights in the Orient is more than sus-
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09
EXPLAIN TIE cHARTER PLANS.

There is no royal road, no short and easy
path, to a model charter for Honolulu.
No set Of men, however intelligent and earn
est they may be, can put through a model
charter without campaign of education
among the voters.
They will have to campaign in the precincts
with patient application and untiring industry
Ito sit close and stay long
1t has taken years of propaganda work to
bring Honolulu to the point where recognition
is given the local assessment plan of street and
highway Improvement. 1t may take other
years to secure the more radical departure of
short ballot system of municipal govern
ment
Oakland, city which has the advantage OF
Honolulu in possessing an electorate largely
familiar by personal experience with modern
charters, has found it necessary to educate the
voters in the necessity for change. A Homo
lulan now visiting on the Coast sends to the
Star Bulletin copy of the San Francisco Call
in which is set forth at some length the plan
of an educational campaign proposed in the
trans-bay cities. An extract reads as follows:
Members Of the Alameda County TAX Association
today preparing for campaign 20 acquaint the
citizens OF Oakland with the prossions 81 fdbosed
amendments to the city charter The draft ;tfkse
changes Is to be read at q meeting Monday night
The amendments will then be referred 20 q commit
tee OF from 200 to 400 members composed OF dele
gates from the Improvement clubs ana civic '6rgAni
nations passed upon BY that COMMITTEES smd REFERRED
by Il committee of 1000 Representative et1ens
before II Is placed before the people on 4 ballot
In submitting the proposed Changes IN the Char
ter Of the City and Oakland the cbn1mttee believes
that the majority Of the people Of the city want
democracy business system Of government and
efficiency combined, system that will make the
tax dollar efficient dollar. going much further
than II does at present. ana rendering back one nun
dred cents IN value to the taxpayers
The amendments give the voters full control over
the policies Of the municipality, and the opportunity.
II these policies not properly carried out to hx
the responsibility therefor, and to demand and make
the necessary change.
This is perfectly applicable to Honolulu. 1t
is noticeable that the city manager plan is
proposed, that the Offices Of mayor, councilmen,
commissioners and school directors are elective
and the incumbents serve without salary
Other provisions are that all chief officials
except the city manager, in fact al officials
except the policy making bodies, shall be under
civil service; the committee believing that
there is no reason why trained head of a de-
partment should be removed upon change of
administrations any more than the incoming
council should be given new city hall in which
to do its work.
The amendments provide for the rule of
one compelling the appointing power to select
the highest on the list
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09
LETTERS

tThe stAr-BalIetia invites free ano
frank disenssion In this column on N
legitimate subjects OF current interest
Communications are constantly re
ceived 70 which no signature b a.
tached This paper VIII treat a con.
ddential signatures TO letters II the
writer's 90 desire. but cannot give
space for anonymous communics.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09
NABS
YOUNGSTERS in .
ACT OF SMOKING

"Of course you're only dreaming.
blow the smoke away"
Johnny Anderson, probation off
Ger, dropped off q King street ear at
Aafa park early this morning and,
after circling about bit. entered a
Chinese store through rear door.
In the front of the store. seated on
boxes and with their feet resting on
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09
BEGINNING TO WORK.

The public utilities commission is beginning
Ito do the work it was intended to do begin
ming after nearly two years of virtual mac
tivity.
It has been passive instead of an active
body, receptive instead of aggressive. Instead
Of making itself definitely valuable to the ter
ritory it has been almost as useless as an APP
pendix, and almost as costly The fault has
not been with the commissioners themselves
For most Of its existence the commission has
had no chairman and was seldom able to mus.
ter more than two out of three members. Under
the circumstances it could do little but receive
statistics and in rather perfunctory way ex-
anime now and again some public service cor
poration matters.
The commission was created by the legisla-
ture because of quite natural feeling through
the territory that there should be some public
body to represent the people in dealing with
the service corporations. In the comparatively
few instances where the commission might
have done some constructive investigating, it
was disorganized and lacked driving power.
The number of postponed meetings and de-
layed actions is by far too large. The com
mission has been in danger of being regarded
as an amiable joke and may still be-
"A /. 4 Il
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09

Yes, the new traffic ordinance is being en-
forced, we have no doubt, but there is no no
ticeable diminution in the number Of chauffeurs
who whiz past street-cars taking on or dis
charging passengers.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09

Rumania and Bulgaria are having mighty
hard time trying to pick the under dog.
War consists largely of charges and over
head charges at that
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09
EIIIIEfHIIIYIEMl

LIEUT. COL. E. v. SMITH (by
letter.: / would be willing to trade
the whole state of Texas for portion
of Oahu. 20
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09

No more sincere compliment has been paid
our Duke than by the eastern clubs which
modestly decided not to try to beat him at the
exposition swimming tournament.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09

Jove and his thunder bolts are sadly out of
date around the Trojan plain since the Queen
Elizabeth began to LET loose some of her big
guns
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09

r-H. STUART JOHNSON: Manoa
citizens are naturally much pleased
with the early. prospect OF good roads
in the valley.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09

The Russians are making brave stand now,
feeling themselves on familiar soil-at the
river Bug.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09

British ships in the war-zone face something
of dilemma. If they stop, they are sunk by
a submarine If they try to escape, said sub
marine shells them.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09

MISS LEoNoRA ANDERSON.
physical director OF the Y. w. C. A.:
The summer camp at Haloipua on
the Peninsula is being much enjoyed
by the girls there Several registra-
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09

HARRY NEwCoMB: l find that
conditions are materially improving
in Honolulu real estate business,
There is far more demand for real
estate now than month ago, and
think the credit Is largely due to the
fact that so many civic improvements
are being contemplated for the near
future.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09

]. L. CURTIS, who has been identi,
fled with the International Banking
Corporation at Panama, is a passenger
in the steamer Korea to Yokohama.
He has been appointed manager OF
an important branch of the institution
in Japan.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09

An item this morning says that the police
yesterday freed d Chinese who was suspected
of being insane, on the promise of d fellow
countryman to look after him. Soon after the
police were called to quelI the deeInented man,
who was chasing woman and had frightened
the neighborhood. The police might well be
asked if it is their idea Of administration to
release persons suspected Of insanity Why
not have them examined by competent au-
thorityi
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09

C. H. MERRIAM, registrar in the
bureau of conyeyances, has been APP
pointed by Circuit Judge Ashford as
registrar for the territorial land court.
The land court work was transferred
to Judge Ashford upon the departure
of Circuit Judge Whitney for the main
land.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09

Manoa citizens, it seems, are tired of paving
with good intentions.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09

items have already been made for the
latter part Of the month, and the camp
gives promise of being very popular
place for weekend and longer yaca-
ton triDs. ~ $50
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09

IL D. LEvENsoN:, That "'Ad
Mans, talk" in last nights Star-Bul-
letin was fine business talk. That's
the Kind OF stun that real business
men WOULD De- Vel to watch for and
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09

FISHER H. NESBETT, a well
known mining man from New York, is
q through passenger in the Korea to
the Philippines, where he will inves-
tigate the industry now under deval-
opment in Mindanao and the south
western islands.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09

C. E. FULLER, general superinten-
dent of motive power of the Union
Pacific Railway, and Mrs. Fuller were
numbered with the tourists brought to
Honolulu today in the Pacific Mail
steamer Korea 8
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09

RAYMOND C. BROWN: The
Chamber OF Commerce mail, these
days, is full of applications for posi-
lions from mainland people who are
eager to come to Hawaii to reside.
Evidently Hawaii is not only known,
but favorably known on the conti-
nent.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09
q ~

CQL,e CAMPBELL. The Honolulu
service golfers may not win from the
Schofieid players in the. team match
tomorrow and Sunday, but they will
at least make the Leilehpa men know
that they have been playing the game.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09

JUDGE JESSE GEORGE, for more
than 10 years identified with the
bench in the Philippines, is returning
to Manila from vacation spent at
his home on the banks of the Missouri
river.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09

AUSTIN JENISON is a through pas.
senger in the Pacific Mail steamer Ko.
rea, who is in charge Of a tourine
party numbering 20, who viii visit
Japan and Korea. The travellers were
met at the pier by Acting Secretary
Taylor of the Hawaii Promotion Com
mittee this morning.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09

GEORGE F. WRIGHT. surveyor of
the territorial land court. has re-
signed.
ARNOLD ALDRICH, of the Para.
disc Tours Company. returned from
the coast today IN the Korea.
NJ. F. PROSSER. an attorney OF
Honolulu, returned from a mainland
vacation today with the arrival of the
Korea
MISS MARTHA BERGERSoN viii
leave Honolulu on the 2Sth OF this
month for years work in oberi.l
College
]. NJ. CAMARA, captain in the
Natienal Guard. has been granted a
license to practise law In the district
courts of the territory,
KARSTEN THoT, manager OF the
Hawaii Preserving Company, has
opened a butcher shop at Cashier
Station, near Schofield Barracks.
B. L. COOLEY, a graduate of Yale.
will spend a portion of a 'vacation in
the islands. He was a passenger in
the steamer Korea this morning.
MRS. A.. JAMESON DONNELL.
prominently identified with Coronado
society, Is a visitor to Honolulu by the
Pacific Mail liner Korea.
WILLIAM ]. COELHO has taken a
desk in the office of the department
of public lands. He is substituting
for Samuel K Kamaiopili, who is at
tending the national convention of the
Anti-Saloon League in Atlantic City.
MRS. MARY GUM, supervising
school principal for Oahu, who now.
is in San Francisco, is very much i'm.
proved in health, according to infof-
NATION received by the department of
public instruction She will return to
Honolulu about August /.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09

SHERIFF ROSE: have instruct,
ed police officers to keep a sharp
watch for automobiles and trucks
which do not bear numbers issued by
the department The owners will be
arrested and fined.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09

CHARLES F. CHILLINGWoRTH
/ certainly do not favor long and fire
quent continuances at the district
court. intend to do all that can to
prevent a congestion of cases on the
lower court calendar.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09

urD. H. GILMORE: There is nc
reason to believe the Oceanic steam
err Sierra will arrive at THE Coast
much later than Sunday. 7
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09

-HARBoRMASTER FOSTER:
am still awaiting adyices from the
tarbor commission regarding the dis
posal of the German warbound yes
sells now occupying berths at terri
torial wharves.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09

o. T. BOARDMAN, for many years
principal of the sKamehameha III
school at Lahaina, Maui, has rendered
his resign ,tion to the department Of
public instruction. Mr.. Boardman is
man of advanced years. and. In a
letter to the department.; stated that
he was Voluntarily stepping aside to
give place to younger blood. W.
VIM. A. ALDRfcH, president of the
Paradise Tours Company, was re-
turning passenger in the Korea this
morning. Mr.. Aldrich comes on a
hurried business mission and will re-
turn to San Francisco in the Wilhef-
mino. next Wednesday. He reports
things as booming in the Exposition
City. He further states that the tour
list business is offering wonderful op-
portunities at the present and that his
company is doing a great deal of live
advertising for the benefit of the Ha
waiian islands through the San Fran
cisco office of the concern.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-09

GEORGE F. WRIGHT, surveyor of
the territorial land court. has re
signed.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-08-27
OId-Fashioned Harpoon Has Been Die
carded for the Most Modern Of
Deadly Weapons.

In early days the wooden sailing
ships engaged in the whaling indus
try in southern seas pursued only
right whales and sperm whales, or
cachalots. The so-called "finners,'
| such as the blue whale, the largest
animal in the world; the finer whale;
the small fish whale; and the hump
back, were all too active, and sank too
quickly when killed. But their turn
has now come, for the modern whale
gun is finely fashioned cannon, the
harpoon carries shell, and the body
of the whale is kept afloat by initiating
it with air through pipes from the
engine room of the whaler. The rem
dering is now done in factory on
shore, or in a special large vessel
moored in the harbor. Besides the
whalebone which no longer pays we'll
or at all, and the oil, which is graded
into qualities as It comes from the
blubber, the fat Of the tongue and kid.
neys, the flesh and bones and the
refuse, there remain the dried flesh
| and bones, which are now also put to
commercial use. The absolutely fresh
flesh Is used to make whale.meat meat,
a nutritious and wholesome foodstun
that is largely fed to cattle. From
the remaining flesh and about third
of the bones whale guano Is made. and
from the bones alone bone meal. The
largest whaling business in the world
is now conducted in the Falkland is
lands and their dependencies. Tho
season begins in November, and lasts
until the end Of April, and the aver
age production Of oil is nearly half .
million barrels; Of guano, 1875 tons.
The industry gives employment to
about $500 men.-Youth's Companion.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-08-27
Modern Greek,

In ancient times, before the con.
quest of Alexander the Great, there
were many differences in the dialects
spoken in different parts Of Greece.
About $50 B. C.. common dialect,
sometimes called Hellenistic Greek,
arose. This is tho Greek of the New
Testament.
BY 800 A. D. the differences be-
tween the spoken and written Ian.
guage had become so great that the
literary language was supplanted by
the spoken. From this time the lam
guage has been further changed in
grammar, infection, and by the intro
duction Of loan words from other Ian
guages, notably from the Italian and
Turkish.
Since the Greek kingdom was es.
tablished in 1880 there has been a
movement toward the ancient idiom.
This has resulted again in a gap be-
tween spoken and written Greek. The
new movement has made such prog
ress, however, that it is not too much
to say that modern newspaper would
be now Ineligible to Plato.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-08-27
EoSsiIized Bacteria,

Marvellous as were the discoveries
of such prehistoric monsters as the
mammoth, the mastodon and the stego-
saurus, they are now eclipsed by re-
cent investigations which show the
most minute microbes and bacteria
in fossil form. The ancestors of our
modern infectious disease germs and
microbes have been found in fossils
Of the earliest life on earth Fossil
bacteria have been discovered in very
ancient limestones collected by DR..
Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the
Smithsonian institution, in Gallatin
county, Montana. The bacteria con-
sist of individual cells and apparent
chains of cells which correspond in
their physical appearance with the
cells of micrococci, form of bacte-
ria of today. The world has believed
that bacteria were modern forms Of
life, but now we are made TO realize
that they existed in the dawn of world
history, many million years ago
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-08-27
INCOME OF A STREET BEGGAR
Curious Resident on Opposite Side of
Thoroughfare Places Contrbu-
tons at $1,000 Yearly.

There was a certain Bartimeus who
was wont to take his seat at the side
Of crowded city street. with we'll
fed dog at the side sitting on mat
provided by his master, to protect his
Undergraduates from the cold stone.
The dog held tin money box attached
to his collar The man had few lead
pencils which he pretended were for
sale
The man simply sat, and the money
rolled in. A curious resident on the
opposite side Of the street took lengthy
observations, and then drew up a cal
culation based on the assumption that
one cent was given every time con-
tribution was made, though frequently
silver and sometimes quarter was
seen to descend into the tin, and TAX
ing into confederation the average
number OF absences in given time
due to inclement weather, the proba-
BILE income amounted to about $1,000
year.
The estimate may not be very ex-
act, but it is nearer the truth than
the ordinary passerby thinks, or the
stream of coin would not be so copi-
Gus. AS he is no longer at the receipt
of custom, the inference is that he
has retired to live in the country on
the proceeds.