The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-02-15
Whatever Has Been Or viii Be
! Done In Guard Square and
! Above-B0ard
IMMIGRATION FUND HELPS
MILITIAMEN OUT OF WORK
Men Who Are Fed Do Work For
Government Till Jobs Are
Found For Them

Whatever may be the effect generally
OF the announcement by J dye A. A.
Wilder that he is going to bring to the
attention of the territorial grand Jury
the fact that territorial funds are be.
ing spent on free meals for certain of
The enlisted men Of the National Guard,
the news failed to make any appreei-
able ripple around the guard headquar-
ters yesterday. BTig.-Gen Samuel
johnson, adJutant general, who Is men
TONED by Judge Wilder as the dispenser
OF the alleged government bounty, was
seen yesterday by The Advertiser. He
was on the floor Of the armory, with
three companies before him, aggrepat-
ing some two hundred men, whom he
was busily drilling yesterday morning.
No Underhand Methods =.
I'm too busy getting the men into
shape for inspection 10 70 into any de-
tails Of the guard mess arrangements
he said, keeping the reporter on the
double quick TO keep up with him
Whatever has been done or will be
done in the guard is and win be square
and above board, and will accept any
responsibility that go with il, !" he said.
Like everyone else, / have heard the
talk about how the government Is sup
posed to be supporting lot Of Filipino
guardsmen, but have not thought Il
worth while answering, as any company
commander of the guard could explain
that II is not so, II is one Of those re.
r'orts that has just enough truth in it
to make 1t the worst kind of false.
hood. '!@ ~, ". T6A
immigration Fund Pays o..
Each company commander has had
FOR some time an Official notification
hat should any man in their company
90 actually in want for food, he. the
aptaln, could get from the adjutant
general 3 Office one OF more meal tick.
,lta. +Ihese ticketS are charged against
Z fund which the Governor has secured
from the immigration board, the details
OF which must be got from the Cover
nor The meals served o.. these tickets
are supplied under the contract the
board of Immigration has with a pur-
yeyor, and the cost to the government
rs seventeen cents each. fi
q ''No nationality is favored In this
matter, as the authority is given to
each eaptain and the companies are Of
all natiOnAlities. The greatest need has
been found in the Filipino company.
but the largest number of men from
this company being helped al any time
was not, / believe, over thirty, out Of
more than two hundred Filipinos IN tho
guard, and next week, If the iobs.we
have in sight for the men materialize.
there will not be left a half n dozen
needy men in the whole regiment.
Jobless Guardsmen Worked i},4I
I'VE do not keep these men Ioatinv
around. We get work for them and we
have placed scores of our men with pnb-
lie works Contractors, with the fertili
ger works, with the Rapid Transit and
with the federal government. The hello
we give is part of our general plan 10
relp the guardsmen to get steady work
md to show the men that we have nm
interest in them which is wider than
ust the desire to get yhem out TO dril.
The guardsmen, il should be remem-
cred, get nothing for joining the
suard and turning out from one to three
lines a week for instruction. If wa
urnish fraction of them with n free
neal once in q while it is a very small
oturn for what they are doing.
Public Should Appreciate ,..,. ,q..se- g
IT seems TO me that the general pub.
nc should show M re Of an appreciation
u the demonstrated desire Of the men
the guard to prepare TO do their full
tuty for the country than to object to
What few free meals have been given
% men who actually need food and who
are unfortunate enough 10 be out Of
job: We feed no men who have either
money or work, and we get work for
we Idle M fast as we can. II is very
well known to the men, too, that IL they
lose the job we get them through any
fauit Of their own, their place In the
guard h vacant. We encourage no law
Aofr worthless men. II they cannot
work when there is work for them, they
'ertainly are not wanted in the rePi.
neHt: The national guard is rot made
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