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The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1916-04-11

fore the Chamber of Commerce at
1 O'Clock this afternoon and deliver
ed the following address:
Memebers of the Kauai Cham
Der Of Commerce:
1t is a qualification to me to meet
you and briefly express my views
and review my actions in matters
that concern your island. l am
not a stranger to your needs, one
of the greatest of which l have
considered to be safe protected
harbor and the direct landing and
embarking of passengers and of
handling of freight.
Nawiliwili seems to be the most
central and available port and so
considered by Uniled States en-
gineers.
Unless you can show all ade-
quate amount OF business to justi-
fy the necessary expenditure, /
doubt if the Congress of the Unit
ed States will ever vote the sum
required, no matter how much YOU
press it with petitions.
During the past two years |
have tried to secure harmony and
cooperation of every interest on
this side of the island to combine
all existing patronage and increase
to the greatest possible extent, flu
ture business for port at Nawili-
will.
y NV administration has taken
great interest in this project. 1t
can do little more until YOU make
it possible by complete coopera-
. ton among yourselves for the gov
ernment to present indisputable
economic facts to congress.
The problem of homesteading
government lands or Kauai has
been a perplexing one to every ad-
ministration that has had to do
with it.
All the large interests in the
Territory have been built up on
an unparalleled paternalism, and
have insisted upon it as a right.
The smaller interests are now
insisting on certain inalienable
rights and paternalism. There is
a conflict between uneXpired pri-
vileges granted heretofore on long
terms by the government to large
interests and the needs of the
homesteader who is, and is becom-
ing, but the mandates of the Or
eantic Act, which cannot be set
aside, the owner of the public
lands. He is coming into posses
sion of valuable lands and inn
provements not altogether on a
business and economic basis but
on citizenship theory. He is not
altogether carving out an agricul-
tural home and business; he is ap-
propriating what has reverted to
the government. This does not
satisfy him because his needs go
beyond what the government pos
sesses, or has the means to supply.
He is impatient. Larger interests,
some of them, are reluctant to sur
render all or part of their we'll
development successful enterprises
and part with the factors essen
tial to their business and profit.
The government has perplexing
duty to perform.
Nearly two years ago Land Com
missioner J. d. Tucker, who has
been quite and at times danger
ously ill, during the past year,
Mr.. Albert Horner and myself,
visited the lands of Kapaa, Kealia,
Olehina, Waipouli, Anahola, etc,
and were most courteously enter
tanned for two days by Col. 4. S.
Spalding, and every facility neces-
sary for us to comprehend the
situation in these localities was
kindly and gratuitously supplied, !
tHIn naaGc of the n1incanf hnt,n
The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1916-04-11
TODAY'S AND LATEST
NEWS BY WIRELESS


Honoulu-Mail campaign will be the plan o McCandless.
Faithful Bourbons complain because turn ras
Gals of office when he
Governor is accused of taking bread and
waians and destroying votes
Continued page 81
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-13
CAN DEPEND ON HUGHES.

Among the many persons pronli- neptiy identified with the third party who have como out in support of Charles E. Hughes and gone into statement of the reasons for reaching such decision is Clifford Pinchot He was not making Q campaign speech but he nevertheless struck out straight Eron the shoulder and hit the mark lyery time in his criticism of the present administration.
 In the course of his explanation which doesn't mince matters he point 5dly says:
 Tn the end I came to see that Pres ldent Wilson has a greater power than any other man in public life to say one thing but do another, and get away with it.
 With war on every side of us we ku heard him solemnly assure he country that we had not been neg dgcnt oS national defense. It was not irua
 We have all heard him ridicule the idea Of a greater navy. then declare lor the greatest navy in the world and hen go back on that.
 We have seen him elected on plat prm which pledged him to a single larIn. as president and then become a candidate for another term.
 What Mir. Wilson says is no. sign of Ftat he has done or of what he will b. Tho one thing his record shows A that what he stands for now he is eot likely to stand for long.
 F q cannot vote for Wilson because 2 I saauct tr11et him. He does not do Khzk he says. Hughes does.
 Thaf there are Q great many others slto have reached the same decision 1@ i1ipe reasons cannot be doubted, He6 though they are not the sonly 6ea about which the people of the &uhfry. whatever tl1eir. political j1ssnrnent. have been thinking during, hA past three years and g half. Mir. Fifsan has been steadily making gsvotes htr. H,fehes.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-13

an outlay that might just as well have been delayed until such a time as the funds available would warrant it, but 1t Is to be remembered in this con- nection that this in reality Is but a reappropriatfon of that portion of the original amount which was designated for that purpose back in 1911.
 Those who had the spending of the S11, 100000 appropriated under the Weeks act found it fnadvisable to use but $S,000,0o0 during the life of the appropriation and it is that S3,000,000 remaining in the treasury which is now released for use in the direction that it was first intended. This will be used In extending the work already begun in New England and the Ap- palachians, where nearly 11,500 square miles of forest land have been pur- chased by the government for the pur- pose of preserving tke forests and thereby giving protection to the sources of many streams and taking important steps towards the preven- ton of floods.
 That there is much more which can be done under the reappropriated sum can be appreciated but there is an excellent opportunity nevertheless for not a few of the states to become interested in this very work which means so much to them individually.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-13
The President and His Party.

After an analysis of the respective merits of the presidential candidates a local contemporary finds it difficult to choose between them. We recom- mend a little further consideration. If it were conceded that there are not ample reasons for replacing MT. Will son as an executive in the White House, which we arc unable to con- cede there ought to apear sufficient reasons for removing him as the lead- CT of the Democratic organization. The reelection of MT. Wilson does not necessarily involve the retention in control over legislation of MT Champ Clark, MT. Claude Kitchin, and their associates, but would very likely be attended by that expensive result. The election of November involves not merely the selection of a chief eXecu- tive but the choice of a government and The Tribune believes that even admirers of MT. Wilson and even northern Democrats might well hesi- tate to assist the continuation in power of an organization dominated by the parOchialism. the backward po- litical and economic conceptions, and the want of grasp of the IargeE prob lems Of America constantly displayed by the men with whom MT. Wilson shares his power and must shape the governments course through a crit icaI period.
 MT Wilson's reelection, without the return of a Democratic majority would be, in our opinion, a national misfortune, but that misfortune would be the greater if back of him stood the leaders of Democracy, chiefly from the south, who have held forth in the present blundering session. Chicago r7ribUne-
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-13
PROTECTING THE BIRDS

The protection of the migratory birds is duty which was long ago recognized by the congress of this country. It was fully understood that it was necessary to prevent the whole sale killing of the feathered songsters as they move about the country with the change of seasons, if their de- Hghtful presence is to be assuBed and their services obtained in destroying g the myriads of insects which tackle all kinds of vegetation.
 The federal law upon this matter is serving the purpose for which it was intended and it eliminates the possi- bility of certain kinds of birds, either game or insect eating, becoming OK tinct through the activity of those who have been in the habit of shoot ing them solely for the pleasure gained in the display of craftsmanship.
 The importance of extending such a regulation so that it would include the migratory birds of North America, north of Mexico, becoming recognized efforts were at once started to bring about an agreement between this country and Canada to such an end and it is gratifying that the desired agreement has been arranged. The bird lovers of Connecticut have rea- son to rejoice over the ratification of the treaty not solely for the addi- tional protection which is thereby given to bird life, but because Sena- tor Mclean instigated it and was g. strong factor in it's accomplishment He has been a hard and consistent worker in this commendable cause for several years and the results obtained are greatly to his credit
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-13
STORIES OF THE WAR
Escapina From Prison.

By burrowing for forty feet through rock sandstone and soil, seven men es- capped from Sing Sing" at the German concentration camp at HoIdWorthy' Australia, on the night of July 29. Sing Sing is one of the compounds in which bad characters among Ahe Germans who are interned in this state are confined.
 Their absence was not discovered by the guards until the following morn ing, but all but one of them were re- captured within 8 few days. The names of the seven were: Frederick F. Gross, Frederick Reidel, Wenzel Finghoust, Nicholas de Orloff, Hans R- von DehIer. George Schmidt, and Fritz Georgi. Georgi is the only one now at large.
 For some time prior to the escape the inmates of Sing Sing had been passing their time constructing large garden plot within the barbed-w1re in closure As the work was being done on sloping ground, the ends of the fiowerbed required raising, and 1t was by means of this grading that the surplus dirt from the tunnel was con- cealed. The earth was spread about at the end of the garden, some Of it having been put into ration bags, and with every days output the stne of the plot grew-but not suspicrousIy so.
 Inside one of the tents used by the prisoners as a living room the wooden flooring was lifted and a hole about four feet deep was dug. From here 9 tunnel was started toward the rear of the camp, the idea apparently being that although sentries closely watched the inside of Sing Sing" not much attention was paid to the outside. The tunnel was not quite two feet in height, and it was IS inches broad The men cut through rock strata, when they encountered them with knives. When they had penetrated some yards outside the lines Of barb wire an egress was made. Before escaping the men seemingly stole the clothes of fel- low prisoners.
 When the escape became known to the authorities the police at Liverpool were notified and those of all the other railway stations from there to Sydney On the following morning a plainclothes man noticed two respect ably dressed men at the station at Cabramatta and asked them several questions. They did not reply, and when he asked them what they were doing there one of them, who turned out to be Schmidt, demanded the req sons for the officers interrogations At the same moment the other sus- pect, de OrIoff, tried to kick the po- liceman The policeman whipped out his revolver, covered the pair, and with the help of bystanders, arrested them.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-13
NEW BOOKS

How Money is Made in Security h.
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 This is an entirely new, thoroughly revised, rearran@ed and greatly ex- banded edition of an important etand- ard work Whih has proved of distinct value to private owners of securities in he United States. Owing to the introduction of G large amount of new matter, not contained in previous edi- tions, this is almost an entirely new publication.
 Much attention is @iven to the sub Fundamental EcCnCmic Factors: Rooms Crises and Depressions; and the remarkable changes in market value of securities in response to basic influences. A chapter is devoted to Government Ownership. The contents are in great variety; cover every branch of the subject of security in vestments; and are illustrated by many charts ana diagrams.
 Young men will find the book of :nestinable value to them, on account of it's explanations of the sources Of great fortunes in the United States, and Of the manner in which savings can be so efficiently employed, as to amount to q competence by middle age, if not to 9 fortune. It is. how ever, text book for men of all ages and occupations.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-13
POLITICAL.
Part of Political spoiIs,

Mir Wilson is the only President that this country has had for a gen. eration who has looked upon judicial positions as part of the political spells of office and who has degraded the bench by making appointments to it as rewards for political activity or to further a partisan purpose. Passing over the case of Brandeis and turning to more recent ones, there is the ap- pointment of Representative Hay of Virginia to a position on the federal bench. The obvious purpose of this appointment was to get rid of a mar row, provincial, country statesman who was embarrassing the admins tration and the country through held ing, by virtue of seniority, the place of chairman of the House Committee on Military Affairs, and who as such was doing his worst to prevent the passage Of needed measures for the reorganization and equipment of the arnly---Seattle Post Intelltgencer.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-13
The We'll Fooled Public.

The dear public is always the goat It vii find the cost of sixty to a hun- dred million dollars tackled onto it's cost of Iiving-after election.
 Meanwhile the dear public can re- fleet on another matter. It has been bamboozIed once more, this time about the eight-hour principle There isn't the least intention anywhere Of in- stituting eight-hour shifts on the rail- roads. Some railroad trainmen work ten hours d day now; they will work ten hours hereafter. Some work more than ten hours day; they will work more than ten hours hereafter. But their pay will begin to draw overtime at the end of eight hours-that's the difference.
 And some of the trainnen don't work eight hours. the crews of the fast passenger trains, for instance. Crews on the best trains from De- troit to Buffalo and from Detroit to Chicago make the run in about six hours, but their wages are recI1onad on the basis of mile runs and they draw two and 9 half days pay for less than eight hours work.
 The public, the dear public; how beautifully it does get fooled in these matters!-Detroit Free Press.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-13
Stick to Traffic Laws.

MT. Editor: It is not the traffic laws that prevent Norwich from pros pering, but the class of people that will not concede one thing they have only as it benefits themselves direct ly, and when the matter of city i'm proVements. such as strengthening our street lines comes up we are not able to do so on account of the rapid ad- vance in the price of real estate need ed for the improvement. It has ever heen thus. Norwich has had pub lie spirited citizens and one especially who did a. great deal for his native city until driven out of town by the same class of howlers that put the post office where it is. And now that our city government is trying to place Norwich on a par with other up-to- date cities the same class of howlers come to the front and want a life lease of our public streets for a garage.
 Bill your figures of the people who ride in automobiles and the people that have to walk are correct. It is you and l and the likes of us that keep the town going, and not the au- tomobile owners who can go to any old town and buy what they want and obey the traffic laws that want the privilege Of leaving their cars along the streets of their own town as long as they like. Bill, stick to your text you are right. If the car conductors could be made to take the numbers of the automobile owners that go by standing trolley cars, you would find that nine-tenthS of the ones pay no attention to the law in that respect are the calamity howlers about the traffic laws. To repeat Bill. our city fathers are all right, and don't need a conservator, and MT Editor, when the stranger comes to town and looks about our city he must think we are long on bay windows distributed here and there on our business streets, and no doubt he is thankful that the traf- f1c law provides him space enough to stoy along side of the street for even fifteen minutes that with out the law would be occupied by native automo- piles forever MT. Mayor and City Fathers, stick to the traffic laws. There is only a very few of the calamity howlers. You are making a palace out of hovel and are being blessed every day by the common peo- ry accident insurance and when you come down to brass tacks the com mon people are the back bone of the universe and when they stop it is good night.
 BILL THE SECOND. N. B.-For the past four years about once month our late lamented city government howled about the conditions of our sidewalks. They remained the same, nothing but hot air to slack the lime for light. After two months of service of a non-po- iitical mayor and court of common council, we are going to have side walks that the common people and the very common people can trave ' over without stubbing their toe on g
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-13
MAINE lPRoeREsslVEs.

, The unknown quantity in the Maine election was the progressives. It was pretty certain that as the result of the Wilson administration that they would be found supporting the repub- 1ican candidates. and now that the election is over there is no question about it. The vote shows that they are no longer serving as a democratic aid society but are backing the party whose principles mean so much for the future welfare of the country.
 With the clean sweep which has been made in the Pine Tree state by the republicans, by majorities which are steadily increa asing as the returns continue to come in. it is impossible to gather any satisfaction over the democratic outlook nationally. Sena- tor Johnson and Governor Curtis, both of whom have laid. great stress upon the work of the administration during their campaigns, have failed to ap- peal to the people of that state, and sven Representative McGiIlicuddy in a strong democratic district went down To defeat
 The election brought out a much larger vote than the contest of two years ago which makes it evident that the Independents or the stay at homes realize that it is a time to do their part In restoring sound principles and Industrial conditions, and that they recognize the important fact that the way to do it is to place republicans in charge of the affairs at Washing ton. Maine has repudiated the ad- ministration, the progressiVes played an important part in it, and it is strong indication of what majority Of the remaining states going to do Inter on.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-13
GOLD MINING IN ALASKA.
Willow Creek District Reported on By
 United States Geological Survey.

Gold mining in the Willow Creek district, Alaska, is the subject of a re- port by S. R. Capps, recently issued by the United States Geological Sur vey, Department of the Interior, as Bulletin 642-F. The region has recent Iy been the scene of active prospect ing, and plans are under way for min ing on several properties as the result of the beginning of the construction Of the Government railroad, which will pass along the border of this district.
 For several years gold has been pro- duced from lode mines in this region, amounted to nearly $25O,0O0. The ob- servations made by the government geologist at several of the more de- veloped properttes indicate that the lodes persist to considerable depth and that the ore from the deeper levels will probably be free milling.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-13
BULGARIA'S UNENVlABLE POSl-
 TON,

Bulgaria appears to be in a position which means attacks from opposite directions either one of which ought to develop strength enough to keep it busy were they to be made separately.
 The British offensive from Greece may or may not mean the opening of the drive which has been expected from that direction for a number of months, but from the conditions as they prevail in Greece today, with the probability that the Greeks will enter the war actively on the side of the en- tente allies within a brief time, as forecasted by a prominent leader in that country, it can be anticipated that it will not be much longer de- layed. The uncertainty of Greece has been causing the allies much anxiety. They have been ready to move ahead but they have recognized the danger in such move of having @ hostile force appear at their rear in the shape of the Greek army. But with Greece taking part that menace will be over come and the army under General Sarrail can move forward.
 The move against Bulgaria from that direction promises to be q formidable one, but no more so than that which can be anticipated as the result of the combined forces of the Rumanians and Russians from the north. Caught between two such armies the posi- ton of Bulgaria is not an enviable one. It is destined to experience so-ne cf the hardest fighting in it's history and the Balkans can yet be expected to be one of the important theaters of the war. A hole through Bulgaria which would give Russia entry to the Mediterranean would be a most !n1- portant accomplishment for the en- tente powera