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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-04
PRODUCTION Of
irish POTATOES
IS ADVOCATED

The food commission issues a warn
ing TO all gardeners, large and small,
against the planting OF large areas To
sweet potatoes for the public market,
unless they are fairly well advised as
to whether the island market is ready
to absorb thei- product. In other
wordB, they should grow little more
than enough for their own consunp-
ton and that Of their neighbors.
This IS because, In event Hawaii
grows more than the residents of the
territory can use of the sweet tuber,
the excess cannot be exported TO the
coast And the reason sweet potatoes
cannot be exported is that California
maintains a str!%t quarantine against
this HaWaiigrown vegetable.
II seems tic California plant in
spectorB have found that q certain
quantity OF island sweet potatoes are
infected b. the potato tuber moth, an
insect scientifically named Omphisa
Anastomosal!s, which cot found In
California, and they fear that II Ka
waiial sweet potatoes we're imported
this insect might spread among the
mainland fields.
The promotion does not extend 10
Irish potatoes, however In fact, island
gardeners are urged to develop the lat
ter crop intensively, for the Honolulu
market is enormous; the food commits
sioners doubt whether Hawaiian gar
Geners will be able to meet the mar
ket's demand this year. Much OF the
markets strength is due to the army,
which consumes a vast amount of
Irish potatoes and is certain to want
a great deal more in the months to
come.
Given the proper soil, water supply
and cultivation facilities, growers of
the Irish tuber have only one thing to
fear-the blight-and this will not
prove troublesome II the gardeners
make use OF the bordeaux mixture.
The mixture is easily obtained and not
difficult to apply to the plants. But it
Is almost vitality necessary In nearly
every instance, however, II the planter
desires to harvest the proper reward
for his labor.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-04
SOLDIER GARDENS PRODUCTIVE

During the month of May the gar
dens Of five companies of the 1st In
fantry, Scho1eld Barracks, produced
more than 5000 pounds of vegetables,
according to reports submitted to the
regimental commander.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-04
DAILY REMINDERS

II it's still a good car you can sell
II for q good price-through the Star
Bulletin classified ads. Try it.
Wanted-Two more passengers for
motor party around island, 81 each
Lewis Garage, phone 2141-Adv.
: For Distilled Water, Hires Root
Beer and all other Popular Drinks
try the Con. Soda Water Works Co.
ADV.
The housewives of this city read the
store ads in this newspaper with in
creasing interest-for the stores are
getting bigger and better all the time,
and their ads help solve the buying
problems In the city's homes.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-04
(NADG HVElk[

Hawaiian Lodge No. 81. F. & A. II -,
meets this evening for regular ous!'
ness.
At its regular meeting Saturday
night Aloha Temple voted $500 20 lie
invested n the Liberty Loan.
For the purpose Of hearing election
returns the Commercial Club will hold
open house Tuesday evening.
All territorial offices will be closed
tomorrow, it being election day and
LEGAL holiday throughout the territory.
The Hospital Flower society wiz
hold its regular meeting tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock at the Library
ct Hawaii.
The monthly meeting Of the Wom'
ans guild of ST. Clemonts church Will
be held tomorrow at 3 p. m. In the
Parish house.
The regular monthly meeting OF the
Graduate Nurses Club OF Hawaii vii,
be held at the Library Of Hawaii, TO-
night, at p. m.
The intensive gardening class will
meet at the federal experiment sta
ton, Makiki, tomorrow instead OF at
the College of HIwaii.
At the public auction on the Manu-
ka site Saturday about so horses, Con-
demned by the government, were sold
at an average price OF $50,
Funeral services for Airs. Lena {.
Wells were held yesterday morning
at Silva's undertaking parlors. Buriat
will be at Schofield Barracks.
The band will give two concerts to-
day. The first will be at the College
OF Hawaii ut o'clock and the OTHER
at Aala Park al p. N. for the rally.
Lee Nun Ching, q we'll known Ller-
chant of Fort street, near huakl9i
street, died Saturday and was buried
in the Manoa Chinese cemetery. He
was born in China q year ago,
In the case of Tokino Yoshiura
against NJ. saranaka, an action on
promissory note. the supreme cours
has reversed Circuit Judge Ashford
decision, remanding the case back to
the lower court and granting the de-
PENDANT new trial.
The funeral of John N. Martin. VINO
died yesterday, is to be at 4:30 this
afternoon from Williams undertak-
ing parlor with burial in the Catholic
cemetery on King street. The de-
ceased was % years old and Is surYtv-
ed by his wife and two small daugh'
tiers, who live on Alapai street.
Sgt. Reed and R. Cape Of the Quar-
Corps, Fort Shafter, riding
a motorcycle, were slightly injured
Sunday afternoon, according to a re-
port made by Motorcycle Policemen
NJ. J. Morse and W. B. Ferry. The
soldiers when they turned out of the
car tracks on King street near Alapai
street to avoid running into street
car, slipped and skidded about IS feet.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-04

The German government now pays
from $243,3oO to $43S,000 for Zeppe-
lin dirigible, while the average price
paid D few years ago was only $751;
700.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-04

For the purpose of hearing election
returns the Commercial Club will hold
open house Tuesday evening,
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-04

At its regular meeting Saturday
night Aloha Temple voted $500 20 lie
invested n the Liberty Loan.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-04

Hawaiian Lodge No. 81. F.. & A. NJ,
meets this evening for regular ousi
ness.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-04

All territorial offices will be closed
tomorrow, it being election day and 4
legal holiday throughout the territory.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-04

The Hospital Flower society Wiz
hold its regular meeting tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock at the Library
CE Hawaii
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-04

Between Boards: Sales: 1865, 10, Is
olaa, II; Is, 10 20 Mesryde, 1880.
~ Tomorrow detection day. being a
legal holiday there will be no session
Of the exchange.
Latest sugar quotation: 90 deg. test,
5.ss eents, or $tts.6o per ton.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-08

die it must, it will die with its boots on
as the heroes of its printed pages die, as
its compatriot of other days, the melo-
drama, passed out-unafraid into the
wings of kingdom come.
1t may seem odd. Those lion-hearted
ones of yore who stepped forth so lightly
TO challenge the concealed terrors which
lurked in every treacherous paragraph
fought their losing fight against leag-
uing odds up to the final chapter, when
by a shining coup they emerged the
smiling victors; those supermen. Injured
TO every trial Of strength and cunning,
have been unable to stand against the
subtle celluoid peril of these pulseless
latter days. Passing strange, YOU say &.
Reflect Here is an old editors eXplanar
ton of why the cinema virtually has
exterminated the city readers of the old
style up-boys-and-at- EN- fiction.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-08
DOING $4,000 Words in Three
Nights, After Office Hours

But that is nothing. The dead re-
turn to life, and the boy bandits sip the
elixir which keeps them boys forever
in the paper-backs.
The quickest work | ever did was
$4,000 words in three nights, after
working daytimes at my regular Job.
Last spring | was going on long trip.
Three days before | was to leave an
emergency obliged me to tap my travel
fund for S75 had been planning that
trip for year and meant to carry it out
according to schedule. So | went TO
work and drummed out what developed
to be one of the smoothest running
stories have ever written, and took it
down q was in Chicago them to the
editor on my way to the train.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-08
The Movies Have Won the Cities,
but the Provinces Hold Firm

All, there is some balm in Gilead, after
all, Yes, down yonder and out there
they still read our stuff and thrill to the
news that jim Darling has eluded his
pursuers at last, and with siX-shooter
in each hand and a knife between his
teeth gallops on and away to deliver the
captive Claribel from the hands of the
vilanous crew which holds her prisoner.
The movies have won the cities, but
the dime novel has retired in fair order
into the rural Businesses of the South
and West. The movie is an urban in
stitution, while literature - literature
has silent partner in the r. F. d. 1t
is along the rural routes" that my more
than million regular readers live.
Standing side by side they would reach
from the Battery to Buffalo and thence
back to the Bronx and over to New RO-
chele. And placed end to end-but |
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-08

the time the evening train finally came
visiting along to the rescue and bore US
down toward Cairo. Back in st. Louis
! rented a typewriter and pursued my
task tooth and nail. At the end of
week | was amazed to discover | had
written more than 10000 words. But
/ was freed. Our hero had just been
shipwrecked on an uncharted island III
the South Seas, and his future looked
black-so black, in fact, that after sew
eral attempts to relieve matters | lost
interest, gave it up and paid my bet.
A year later | came across my manu-
script. AS | read it over | was pleas
antly surprised at the professional
swing of my phrases. Suddenly | dis
covered that by altering situation in
the foregoing chapter | could provide a
plausible escape from the island for my
hero. In new frenzy | recommended
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-08

shall do nothing of the sort. Your idle
curiosity be hanged. 1t would be moth
ing short of a misdemeanor to drag
these simple folk from their honest
humble homes, where the paper back
and the mail order fiction weekly from
Chicago, or Augusta, Me-, keep company
on the family reading table with Hos
letters Reliable Almanac. The back
woods farmers of the North and the
tenant farmers of the South (half of
them white, | assure you, sir are all
that save me from the employment OF
that cordial obituary style of which Miss
Ernestine Evans so sprightly writes,
when | would narrate my career at au-
thorship. Otherwise the chances are
my ambitions would have died a-bOrn-
ing.
Ambition-but he vaulted in later.
Many are called, but few are chosen,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-08

in year, he said had story gone 50
big. 1t was something different from
the usual run. | think | already have
said | had never read a dime novel be-
lore | started to write one. | haven't
read one yet-excepting my own stuff.
Oh yes; we have fine lot of CORE
spondents among our clientele. Con-
slant Reader and Old Subscriber Of the
newspaper editorial pages would have
been in their graves of writer's cramp
long ago if pitted against real chum.
my dime novel fan. | seldom read my
letters now-alack, how blasel For the
most part they aren't worth the time.
Stupid, indeed, though once in great
while some chap will come through with
a real idea. We sometimes milf our
readers, and they are only too quick to
remind us. Once | wrote a story about
a girl detective, and had her marry III
the end. That riled lot of them, who
wanted to see her solve a bunch of
crimes before she settled down to quiet
family life. SO she ditched hubby,
pocketed her trusty automatic and went
cut again and faced the world.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-08

saws the cOpybook sage | don't know
what that means, but it sounds well.
What | am trying to get at is that, as
much as | hate to brag about my luck,
the truth is that Authorship accosted
ne accidentally, probably mistaking me
for somebody else.
The other party must have lost his
way. SO had we-myself and companion
from St. Louis. The place is not on the
map. 1t is a railroad junction in South
ern Illinois. down in Egypt which to
one who has been there tells everything.
The population is a station agent and
mule. He-the agent-gave us copy
of a yellow backed fiction weekly pub
lished in Chicago. Here pause to con-
tess a wasted youth. | had never read
q dime novel in my life. The effect was
weird. Before had finished the second
chapter had wagered my friend | could
write one myself and sell it.
started in at once. With no plot, no
outline, nothing except title designed
tc discourage the reader from attempt
ing to comb his hair for a week,
plunged to IT, And just like that |
mastered the first great principle Of
dime novelling, which is: start your
yarn and let it tell itself.
| had written nearly 1000 words by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-08
Why Read, When You Can Gef The
Same Thrill Without Effort?

Human nature he said, lis always
pretty much the same. We are prone to
do the easiest thing. When one can get
two shocks and gasp minute IN eA-
change for no more eXertiOn than keep
;ng from falling out of a chair and hold
ing his eyes open he's going to strike
bargain with the institution that has
those inducements to offer and imme-
diately lose his taste for reading. The
movies eliminate the mental effort.
Oh. the movies are a sore subject with
the professional dime novelist. He cam
not but view with alarm the trend of
the times, and he is snOwbound in the
winter of his discomfort.
The pastime of gloating over such sor-
did spectacles as the perils which dog
the steps of our girl reporters-to say
nothing of the reprehensible practice Of
exposing valuable journalistic trade sec
rets-has supplanted the helpful and in
spring study of the lives of such red
blooded heroes as Nicholas Carter, Old
King Brady, Old Sleuth, Kit Carson and
Fred Fearnot Reading, the respondent
author will point out-reading, the fore
most of the intellectual exercises, has
gone into a decline; and he will predict
night off a decrease in the sales Of
Shakespeare and H. G.. Wells
That is, unless the cotton and the corn
belts hasten to the rescue.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-08
Getting Acquainted with Alaska
from a Three=InCh Map

The plot was laid in Alaska, and the
most serious criticism came from an old
Sourdough, who remarked disparaging-
" that | must have obtained my I'M
pressions of the north country on one
of those three-weeks' summer tours.
Flattering. | hope to take one OF those
tours some time. The fact is, got my
locations from a three-inch-square map
in pocket memorandum book | was
carrying at the time. And yet poor
little Louise Sachen couldn't get across
with the unspoied child stuff after she
had dealt 'em off the arm in Dawson
beanery for two years,
Ny slowest work was four months on
a book-length story-fOur months of
actual and serious labor am not
ashamed Of it. After had sold cou-
pie of cheap stories | became conscious
as literary man that gaping hiatus
exists in American letters-the embar-
raising void where the Great American
Novel ought to be. That was deplor-
able, | thought, and set about in great
earnestness to remedy the situation.
In the fulness of time | deemed that
q sweet Southern romance would be
about the proper caper. | sketched the
plot and outlined the thing, chapter by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-08
A Sacred Compact Between The
Author and His Reader

The dime novel is somewhat like Ar
kansas and Captain Kidd-the victim eff
undeserved reputation. AS matter
of history, Captain Kidd never COM
mitted an act of piracy in his life, and
Arkansas is a year-round garden. The
dime novel is the goat of all literature.
For years it was credited with filling
the jails and penitentiaries and making
the Sheriffs earn their keep. The truth
is, old-style thriller morals are Puritan
and always were. The hero is spotless;
the villain without a redeeming spark,
barring possibly his ability to wear
dress suit and seem to enjoy it. Virtue
always triumphs, and the party that's
not on the level gets his'n. A sacred
compact between author and reader de-
mands it. fail to see where any
body's morals are going to be impaired
by reading a good, wholesome, rip-roar-
ing dime novel.
hHOW VI Ielillcu HIGH anu ""'i'''
persons of affairs, who read them for
recreation because they cannot stard
the moral tone of modern light litera-
ture. President Wilson reads detective
stories, they say.
And. speaking of Fame, sometimes
secretly wonder if he ever read any OF
mine.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-08
If the Dime Novel Must Die IL VIII
Die with lis Boots On

The dime novel may be vanquished IN
the end. for a powerful conspiracy of
forces is at work to destroy it, and the
tide of battle has been adverse-but Il
will pass out game. 1t will never COM
promise, never weaken, never forsake
the heroic tenetS of its creed TO- reap
pear in some emasculated guise, to mock
the glories of its great yesterdays. II
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-08

the story and completed it in two
weeks. It ran $4,000 words | posted
it off to the Chicago publisher respon-
sible for the periodical which inspired
it. A month later came back that great
word:
ACCEPTED"
Would | take one hundred dollars for
the story? Would /?
have since sold a few stories. at a
rate much higher. One-third of cent
is the flat price | get for first rights on
most of my stuff My yarn was pub
lished two months after it was accept
ed. had second story of 10000
words ready and waiting, and shot It
into Chicago.
A week later came bulky envelope
from the editor Ny heart missed
beat. Rejected, But the reader knows
different No, the editor was only
sending me about a hundred of the let
tiers that had poured in from enthusi
astic readers from the Lakes to the
Gulf acclaiming my story as "the yarn
I've waited years for" lone that kept
me sitting up all night and "a pose!
up to the last chapter. | hereby renew
my subscription" Enclosed was a note
of congratulation from the editor. Not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-08
Action, Punch, Something Start
Iing-ThafS What They Want

But at independence Square, Phila-
delphia, it didn't get past the rejection
slip clerk. "Munsey's" returned it, but
not without personal letter from Rob-
ert H. Davis, the editor. He said the
story had good mystery and other
worthy points and that the description
was good, but didn't | know descriptive
writing was out of fashion and a waste
of time? For local color railroad
folder often will do. Action, punch,
something startling-that's what they
want to-day. 1t was fine, frank,
helpful letter, but I'll confess my faith
isn't what it was.
kept that story around for neaily
three years, expecting maybe to fix 1t
up some day. But last fall came to
New York, and got hard up, and after
applying meat axe TO that fine de-
scription sold the whole yarn, hopes and
all. for less than third of cent a
word. 1t wasn't even a good thriller.
Ambition. I'm off that bird
I'm still batting out three or four
serials a year for my ever-narrowing
circle of readers. And | will stake the
dime novel any day against the sleazy.
free-and-easy type of fiction which has
sprung up of recent years, particularly
in New York
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-08
Name May Be Household Word
YET You Never Heard OF Him

Please keep right on reading where
YOU left off before you glanced up to
search the top of this page for name.
The "bv line" isn't there. 1t wasn't
supposed to be. Old A. Non has certain
distinct advantages over all other con-
tributors. benefits which have tempted
the most famous of scribes. And. be-
sides. my name or nom de plume would
serve only the purpose of confusion and
perhaps tend to cast discredit upon the
verify of this account Here | think 1t
Is worth while to interpOlate that The
Tribune matchmaking money back
guarantec-appHes also to the maya
zine.
"Why." you'd say-reverting to the
Question of identity-"whY, ! never
heard of him. And though my name
NAV be a household word in 100000
American homes your memory would
not be at fault. The Tribune Magazine
does not duplicate the circulation of my
literary product. | write dime novels,
the paper back hair-raisers of the Ole
virile. vanishing school, which is disput-
ING TO the last ditch the motion pictures
conquest of the land of thrills.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-08
That QuOh The AnOny-
nous Author, Is the Posi-
hon of Himself and His
Felloag Thr1llmen in the
Face of the 4d00ncins
Movie. Reading, Verify
Is a Fad Played Ont

AM AN author. (Quiet, there. in
the wings) A successful author.
n (Quick. boy. the spot,D | have
written about fifteen novels. and not
failure among them. Nearly all now
since YOU ask me, were best sellers. SeN-
eral have circulated up into the millions
Of copies. and one was syndicated ser
iallv and introduced into the movies
one of the poignant regrets Of my lite.
Everything l have ever written has
been sold. had little more trouble sell
ing my first story than | had my last
which was sold before it was written.
There are no returned manuscripts IN
nv desk. and when this is finished there
will be no skeletons in my literary closet.
] am firmly resolved to Tell ALL
Isuppose my experiences IN the hctloh
field have been rather unusual, at least
iudging from the hard luck tales OF
struggling authors that hear and read.
have had only one story rejected. The
Saturday Evening Post and Munsey S
Magazine turned it down, but the third
editor sent it to bought it right off the
reel. Some say l am fool for luck
Others allow l am running some really
good plots. But most of this friendly
comment and counsel goes over my head
| reckon. for | am not fiction writing
man by trade have a regular Job and
intend to stick to it. ] have been writ
ing as a sidelinc about four years.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-08

DO Not Rejoice at the
Wane of the Dime Novel,;
1t Is the Victim of Unde.
served Reputation. This,
on the authority of One
Who Has Read No Dime
Novels Save His Own

chapter, in a conscientious endeavor to
distribute favors equally among the At
tractive cardinals of romance, intrigue
and adventure. These cup-bearers
moved about in Louisiana atmosphere
so thick you couldn't see across the
loom. But when | got to work | dis
covered my real forte as a writer lay
in description and character portrayal,
STYLES little used in the dime novel. All,
| had found myself. | was great de-
scriptive writer! have often been
willing to give a good deal for the buoy
ancy which carried me through the com.
position Of that story.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-02-10
Bargains in Land and
City Property

200 acres smooth upland near Amber
Four room house. 100 acres In culti-
walton; balance meadow and good pas
ture Has loan Of $4,000 due in four
years at G per cent Immediate pos
session II sold by the 18th. Price
$500; $3.50 cash; balance on easy
terms.
so acres Of fine Bitter creek bottom.
Good five room frame house; barn and
out buildings 20 acres in alfalfa /;
fenced hog tight. Possession if sold
this week Price $4,000.
100 acres smooth Washita bottom
land; located one mile from Alex.
Good improvements. This is one of
the best quarter sections in Grady
county Price SS5 per acre.
CITY PROPERTY
Five room modern house well locat-
ed on Sixth street, near Carnegie IL
brary. Lot 5Oxl65 feet, east front.
Price si7oO; $3.50 cash and $25 per
month.
Six room modern home, fine location