Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-12-20
regrets ALLIES
PAY NO HEED TO
PEACE PROPOSAL
Or. Charles F. Dole Says Any
Such Suggestion Demands
Hearing From BeIIigerents

at is a pity the Allies, for the sake
of humanity, did not take more seri-
ousIy than they apparently have the
Central Powers peace proposal. Il is
! high time such c disastrous, futile war
we're stopped" =.
This is one of several forceful e&-
prcssiCns to the Star Bulletin today
from Dr. Charles f. Dole. the distin-
guished author educator. who arrived
in the Wilhelmina with Mrs Dole TO
visit their son, James ID. Dole, here
AS a pacifist OF reHown the doctor
was deeply disappointed that England
and her allies have so completely dis
regarded Germany's S step as the press
dispatches of yesterday indicated.
The least the Allies might have
done" he says, would have been to
ask Germany what she had TO propose.
Instead, they apparently did not try to
make inquiries into the nature OF
peace arrangements" =:
Mr.. DoleS says further that the
slightest indication of peace. from no
matter what source or for wnat req
son, should command the earnest at
tention of all belligerents in such an
awful, impossible struggle.
Nearer the Middle
Final peace plans will probably be
nearer the middle with less adyan-
tages on either side than either one
cf the fighting factions are now will
ing to admit" was his opinion of final /
arrangements.
The doctor took polite knock at
the United States before leaving the
peace discussion by saying it was too
bad this country did not lead all other
neutrals in a demand for peace and
the encouragement of any proposals.
< 81 believe the whole world will now 1
think from our passiveness after Ger
manys proposals" he says, that the
United States is not at all anxious for
the war to stop We should correct !
that impression.
Directly in line with the peace ques-
tion the author flayed militarism, pre-
paredness and compulsory training for /
war He says there is nothing that |
incites the fear and suspicion of other |
countries more than a demonstration !
of that same fear and suspicion in this |
country.
If all men were like DR.. Dole there
would be absolutely no military |
but he admits that under T
existing conditions a certain amount |
is necessary, although the push and
trend should be against instead OF /
for it. He declares conscription is
the height of undemocracy.
Hughes Had Nothing to Say
=. There was a merry twinkle in DIR. /
Dole's eye when he stated that Mr.
Hughes might have done a little bet.
ter in the presidential campaign II he
had STAYED home and not gone about
irving to do the impossible, winning
votes without Cne real issue.
THE national election pointed out
one thing which has not been dis
he says, that ought. to De
to anyone, that Is, the emu
of partisan platforms and more OF the
man in the race
Certainly the people of the United
States did not want war; that's one
reason why they returned Mr.. Wilson
fo the presidency But then the ma
iority of people in any country do not I
want war; there is where the desplc,
3bleness of the whole war plan comes
in. The few control and ruin the mut
DR.. Dole is intensely Interested IN
the assimilation of the Oriental peo-
pie in Hawaii and may write some
thing about conditions among them,
although he came here with no inten-
ton of doing so. He says much OF his
writing has followed a suggestion or
a request rather than deliberate in.
tention on his part. ....