Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-05-04
MERLE'S MUSINGS ON |
THE c0NGRESSMEN |

+ THE c0NGRESSMEN
We hope that by this time our dis
tinguished visitors have had the fact
fully brought home to them that we
don't have to go poking around to
find an indian and borrow his sum
mer II he h nor using It.
Be pleasant With the congressman
and senators while they are here.
There Is not the slightest chance that
you viii. Be charged with being an in /
sidious lobby II you are caught talk
ing to one Of them
1 We honestly. hope that somebody
VIII constitute himself committee
OF enc ana ascertain If there are any
real good road builders among the
Visitors from Washington, D. c. I'VE
don't mean steam roller operators.) |
McGrath got out and the congress
men got in, but don't ltt that worry
anybody. and letH all DO the best we
can in the premises Trot out the
tdlngs we haFet0 shows We have
lots OF things 70 swell up over. and
enc Of them is that few police forces
are ..bdnIedy ottenerssthan that of
Honolulu. -
What we need here most is safe J
and sane entertainment fund.
Don't be discouraged. dear con-
gressmen. After you have been here
a short time eur people win love you
Just as well as they do Ty. Cobb. Ed
Walsh or Heinie Zimmerman.
Don't waste our visitors time ask
ing what they think Of Col. Roose-
Yelts prospects. When the Colonel
gets ready to quit he will quit. It's
the ColoneIs party. isn't it?
On Monday one might have OBJ
served. II he was OF the observing
kind, how congressman can go from
one extreme to the other. The day
was quite warm but some visitors
chung 70 their oyercoats with a path
etic anxiety until they brought up at
the bathing beaches where they &C
tually became foolhardy and reckless.
We would like to state that we did |
not observe anybody hand the key OF |
the city to the congressmen on their
arrival, but we certainly intend that
they shall have the key to the tHa-
vail situation on their keyrings
when they depart, and at the same
time we would also let 1t be known
that we all belong to that great swat 1
the fiy'. armyi and regardless of the
fact that DR.. Page Of Boston has
rallied to the defense of the fly on the
ground that she Tor she) is a sanitari- (
ian. we; allow every freedom to swat.
ting the fly. Why dear congressman. !
we would swat even a sanitary en- !
gineer that, insisted on crawling on !
our nose.
II Is Just possible that II our local
policemen we're dressed in a cool, !
comfortable khaki suit, the forbidding
look ON their faces might fade away |
and tourists spunk up courage to ask |
Few questions.
Is there more opportune time to
have somebody get chnmmy with the
right congressman and offer the sug-
gestion that the minimum legal wage
of women be made sufficient to sup
port a husband IN the style to which
he is accustomed.
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Somebody might also speak to the
congressman, very gently, of course.
in regard to the resumption of hand.
ing out garden seeds We will have to
buy food for the canaries IL they
don't
We acknowledge the corn, dear /
Congress, that there Is no question
ing the fact that the prohibition OF
smoking on the street cars of Homo
lulu is an interference with personal !,
liberty, but whether with the smok. |
er's or the non-smoker,s we are un.
able TO decide.
MERLE.
II You Are Nervous
and are losing weight, we recommend
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