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Evening star., 1917-03-18
PLEAT0 MEN ELIGIBLE
FOR MILITARY SERVICE
Grade Of Second Lieutenant in Re-
serve Corps to Civilians With
out Experience.

The grade of second lieutenant in the
Officers' Reserve Corps Of the army has
been thrown open by Secretary Baker
to men without any military expert
ence whatever. provided they are ply
sically and mentally adapted to mill
tary life. An urgent plea has been sent
out to men between twenty-one and
thirty-two years all over the. country
to send in applications for commits
sions with assurances that the army
will supply after enrolment the mill
duty.
Under the national defense act the
corps should be able to furnish officers
for force of 100000 volunteers in
war time and also serve as a reservoir
from which additional officers for the
regular army could be drawn at need.
Less than 1000 men have. been given
reserve commissions in the line, despite
the fact that the law has been in opera
tion for more than eight months. APP
plications are coming in slowly and
army officers are using every means in
their power to attract young men to
this service as a patriotic duty.
There appears to be no lack of men
desiring to serve in the Staff Corps Re-
serve. such as the Engineer Corps. the
Quartermaster division and the medical
service. Enough commissions in these
corps have been issued to provide the
special arms for 100000 troops 1t
is fighting men who are lacking. line
officers who may look for service at
the front in time of war Army officers
serve is due only to lack of informa-
tion as to the requirements. for it is
the fighting lines that are attractive to
young men in wartime.
Evening star., 1917-03-18
JESUS SAVES FROM SIN.
John. s.12. 31-37, 5S-5S.
A Temperance Lesson.
By William T. Ellis.

Enlightened selfishness may do much
for the race. China. as product of
Confucianism, is proof of this. But 1t
will not do enough; as China also has
demonstrated. Now that it has become
the fashion to put the temperance re-
form upon an economic basis. let us be
clear thinking enough to admit that
this is not sufficient foundation for
so great a cause. This present Sunday
school lesson opportunely links the
quarterly temperance lesson with GER
tain tremendous teachings Of Jesus.
How to vitalize the virtues. SO that
they will be warm, living. positive
things. attractive to all mankind. is
one of the problems of religion. A cold
morality repels. Even the artificial
glow and cheer of alcohol has been
more winsome in the eyes of the
thoughtless than the stern, gray,
repressive and apparently joyless
tion is not an academic one. 1t is
of first importance in many communi-
ties which have cast out the saloon
and have not yet found a substitute.
Negations get the world nowhere. No
people are to be saved. spiritually, So
cially. economically, by the things they
do without The devils like nothing
better than an empty room.
So we turn to the great affirmations
tho majestic, Incompatible utter
ances-of Jesus, in this passage which
has been assigned to us, to discover
what their bearing is upon temperance.
First Of them is the sweeping Hdeclara-
ton Of the Messiah. II am the Light Of
the world" Is it in following that
Light that society has come to the de-
cision that the traffic in strong drink
should be exterminated? The liquor
habit belongs to the darkness of the
world 1t comes from ignorance and
an inadequate appreciation of values.
No thoroughly wise man would tolerate
We are abolishing it because we have
advanced farther into the light Of
snirifnal va1uaa
Evening star., 1917-03-18
Urged to Apply Now.

The department has appealed to
young men who care to offer their serv-
ices to apply without delay to the COM
mander of the military department in
which they live for necessary papers
and information. Letters should be
addressed to the commanding general,
Eastern Department. Governors Island,
IN. Y. Central Department, Chicago,
ILL.,; Southern Department, San Antonio.
Tex. or Western Department. San
Francisco. Cal. They will receive
prompt attention and arrangements, for
the examination of an applicant will
be made to suit his convenience as
nearly as possible.
To those who receive commissions.
the summer training camps of the
army will be open and they will re-
ceive travel allowances and pay that
will more than Offset any expense to
which they may be. put Only a simple
field uniform is required for reserve
officers. involving little expense, and
the government assumes this cost also
eventually.
In wartime reserve officers would be
required to report for duty either in
person or by letter. as he may direct.
to the commanding general of the de-
partment in which they reside. They
will be assigned to regular or volun-
teer regiments, as the occasion war
| rants, and when called out will re-
ceive the full pay and allowances OF
their grades In the regular service.
Evening star., 1917-03-18
Expects 5000 Men a Year.

Eventually the Reserve Officers
Training Corps. composed of units at
universities. schools and colleges. will
provide more than 5000 men a year. it
Is estimated. for reserve commissions
The first fruits of this scheme for edu-
eating reserve officers. however, will not
come until 1918 and then not more than
5000 junior officers can be expected to
ability many of these will be required
for regular army commissions. reducing
the reserve strength by that much
The law prescribes that no man shall
be commissioned in the Reserve Corps
without having passed examination.
The War Department has realized that
lack of previous military experience of
any kind is probably preventing young
men past their college days from max
ing application. For that reason every
effort has been made to make it known
throughout the country that military
experience Is not required. Men will be
commissioned who have never worn a
uniform or faced a drill sergeant. The
army will gladly undertake to furnish
those who are otherwise suitable with
the necessary professional training aft
er they have entered the service.
This applies. however, only to the
grade of second lieutenant. First lieu
tenants, captains and majors must
show previous military experience to
earn their commissions. The heavy re-
sponsibilities for the care of troops
this restriction.
Applicants for second lieutenants'
commissions are being assured that
every opportunity will be given them
after enrolment in that grade to ad-
vance themselves to higher rank.
Evening star., 1917-03-18
Old Employe Gets Battered Eye.

case that attracted a score of wit
nesses was that of an old employe of
the Washington Railway and Electric
Company. Henry W. Linn, who has
been on the pay roll eighteen years.
He did not join the union, and the
gang lay in wait for him. Linn showed
UP in court with battered eye. He
said:
Il was on a car without my uniform,
just leaving the barn near 36th and
Prospect. 1 went out to help the mo-
saw me and yelled at me. Those three
men there Che pointed to three wit
nesses against him) knocked me down
and kicked me and hit me in the eye.
penknife and waved it % in front T of me- me,
sayin'. I will cut my way through this
crowd When this fight began the
policeman. O'Neil. was right by the
me to the mercy of the mob. And later,
after he had gone to his box and was
by himself. he arrested me for having
the knife"
in new spring clothes and shaved. pow
cred and smelling of BARRIERS lotions.
took the stand:
What were you doing?" asked the
Judge.
Blum posed dramatically and said In
loud voice:
II was doing what a union man
ehould-trying to keep people from
riding on scab cars"
Judge Pugh heard a dozen strike
sympathizers, but couldn't find wherein
Linn had been disorderly, and dismissed
the case.
Costs $40 to Yell Rat"
William P. Hall, striker. yelled
rat, rat" at a strikebreaker on a car
near 5th and G streets. and then had an
alteration with Policeman Pearson.
Judge Pugh fined the striker SO and
said:
1T is disorderly conduct to say any
thing, rat or 'scab' or anything of the
sort, when the utterance of such words
will lead to further disorder, and in
this case it certainly did lead to fur
ther disorder"
Several cases before Judge Mullowny.
wherein strikers were charged with
placing distractions on the tracks,
were continued.
Evening star., 1917-03-18
Says he Tried to Wreck Car.

a union man. all covered with badges
of his organization. declared that La
vine had tried to wreck the car the
company had given him, by doing
something vicious to "the overhead"
Nobody could get the witness to de-
scribe just what the overhead" is but
the testimony was that unless handled
properly the overhead will act with
almost human intelligence and break
all the windows in a car by itself La
vine said he had asked O'Neil to arrest
the man who added to the ventilation
facilities of the car by placing three
rocks through the windows. The po-
liceman said that some one in the
crowd yelled out:
He busted 'em all wild his elbow"
Whereupon Lavine gave utterance to
an expression which shocked the po-
liceman and caused the arrest. Lavine
said that was correct. He did say 1t,
but he wanted three warrants for those
"guys'-that's what he called them
who tossed rock t'roo de window"
Judge Pugh told Lavine he could get
warrants at another counter in the
same building.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-02-09
ISLAND ADS REACH /.
ALL over MAINLAND

Henry N. Clark, the Hawaiian singer,
who has endeavored in every possible
way to give Fasteners the real Island
version of Hawaiian songs as opposed
to the manufactured varieties "made
in New York. = has written the promo
ton committee that the Mid-Pacife
Carnival is being exceptionally well ad-
vertised all over the East. In his letter
to Secretary Taylor ne says:
Every little railroad station has
folders advertising various steamships
and particularly, the Great Northern
excursion to Honolulu. The Great Nor.
thern people are certainly doing plenty
of advertising. .|.a - r.. III.
~ am only letting You know what l
have seen with my own eyes when !
played up in Amsterdam IN. W, about
100 miles from Boston. / saw Carni.
val poster in the railroad station and
asked the agent If he had an extra
one. He said he. did not and woudn 4
part with the one he had, and that
every railroad station had only one
each. 8tt n1S3tH sSss ttE
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-02-09
MORTGAGE LOAN BANKS
PROVIDED BY PANAMA

PANAMA, February IA law TO
provide for mortgage loan banks in Pa.
mama has passed third reading before
the National Assembly and gone to the
President for signature. The law is de.
signed to facilitate and safeguard small
investments in the country, particularly
to assist small farmers in securing their
homesteads and equipment. Loans may
be made over long periods, from 10 to
so years, aud the annual rate of inter
est may not exceed eight per cent, plus
two per cent for administration, or q
total of 10 per cent. The current bank
rate is from l2 per cent up, and pri.
vate bankers charge as high as two per
cent month or more. Loans may not
be made on more than 30 per cent Of
the value Of the property by which Sc.
cured. The bill has been fathered by
Deputy Eusebio Morales, who preceded
DR.. Belisario Porras as ambassador to
the United States. .....,..fi... ~ .
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-02-09
THE ADVERTISERS SEMI-WEEKLY
"A Cus,ts Bell

T-HE unwarned attack yesterday upon the pas
i sengcr steamer California, off the Irish cost
may we'll furnish the casus belli for the United
States il the threats of our administration are to
be enforced by action. - <."'&
The furnishes parallel to that Of the Sus-
sex, concerning which Germany gave the most
solemn pledges to the United States and upon the
observance of which the President, in his state
ment to congress announcing the severance of d.
plomatic relations with Germany, declared he
would insist ..#
The administration has repeatedly demanded an
observance OF the right OF Americans to travel I'M
endangered any merchant ship afloat and in
sisted upon the immunity Of such ship from I'M
warned attack.
There has been justification repeatedly for war.
Now, with this positive proof before it of Ger
many's intention to violate every pledge given,
with fresh corpses of innocent babes sent down to
join the tide washed bones of the babes of the
Lustana, there will seem to many to be no fur
ther justification for America delaying her de-
claration Of war .......' ... ~.
1t is almost two years since the neutral world
shuddered at the Lusitana murders, which Ger
many now shows herself willing to repeat in cold
blood and in accordance with plans deliberated
over and calmly adopted. ...,. --
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-02-09
Greatest Year In Foreign
Trade
Trade

n MEXICAN exports for 1916 reached the I'M
Unprecedented total of $5,481 100000 According
to a statement issued today by the Bureau of For
eign and Domestic Commerce, of the Department
of Commerce, this exceeds the total for 1915 by
$l,926O0OOOO and the total for 1918 by $29o7 OOO
0O0 The exports for December are announced
as $52l 100000 which exceeds the previous high
monthly total by $5,0O0OO0 The December aver
age for the five years previous was $263OOO,OOO
Imports in 1916 aggregated 2, 1872 million dol
lars, also record total. For 1915 the total was
1879 million, and for 1912, the previous record
year 1918 million.a December imports were valued
at 2o5 million dollars, indicating continuation of
the recovery which Set in during September last
following the sharp decline from the large total
of 246 million for June. The December, 1915, to-
tai was 72 million and the December average
from 1911 to 1915, inclusive 153 million dollars.
The years export balance was 3089 million dol
lars as compared with l776 million for 1915 and
2456 for the five year period from 1910 to 1914,
inclusive The December favorable trade balance
was $40 million dollars, compared with 1877 million
for December, 1915, and 13l million for December
1914. ...#..
The net inward gold movement for the year was
''O inlllion uolldTs, also new record. 1t COM
pares with a net inward gold movement of AL
million in 1915 and net outward gold movement
of los million in 1914
Gold imports in 1916 aggregated go million
dollars, against 452 million in 1915 and 81 million
IN 1914 The corresponding gold exports were
80 million, 81 million and 223 million, respect
lively. December gold imports were the largest
tor any month of the year, being l58 million, as
against 45 million in December 1915 and million
in December, 1914. December gold exports
amounted to % million the high point for the year.
but comparing with II million for December, 1915,
and l3l thousand dollars for December. 1914.
OF the months imports 7l7l per cent entered
tree OF duty, thus maintaining the proportion
shown in the December imports of the previous
year. o.. :
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-02-09
Steel Pieces Weighing Up To Fiji
teen Tons Call For New
Methods Of Construction
TOO HEAVY FOR THE
ORDINARY CRANE
Pacific Engineering Company U.s.
ing cribWork To Hoist Beams
In Hotel Street Job

The largest steel Orders ever used in
construction work in Honolulu are now
being put in place for the new building
being erected by the Won Hamm- Young
Company, on Hotel Street, between the
Young Hotel and the Y. w. c. A. build.
ing. The structural steel work is be-
ing done by the Pacific Engineering
Company, contractors. ~
The Orders range in weight from ten
to fifteen tons, according to length.
The smaller ones were shipped here en-
tire, but the heavier girders were
shipped in parts and put together here.
The girders range from lfty.six to
eighty feet in length. The longest
ones are as long as the frontage Of the
lot on which the building is being
erected.N They are made Of steel, of
from three quarters to seven-eighths Of
an inch thick, and have beam one
foot in width. Each one stands four
feet nine inches high. + .t.s'
To move these immense masses of
steel, a method of construction work
new to Honolulu is being used. In
stead of using the usual tackle of tall
poles, cable and donkey engine, with,
which smaller steel Orders are easily
handled, the contractors are hosting
the Orders into place by cribs.
This consists of slowly jacking up the
girder and then gradually building up
piles of railroad ties beneath the If
teen tons of steel in several places.
Thus at all times, until 1t is moved
into position on the reinforced concrete
walls, 1.-THE girder is on firm foundation
and not liable to drop. -. w..
Seven Of the Orders are already in
place. 1t took less than,a month TO do
this much of the work by the crib
method, which is relatively slow but
inexpensive.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-02-09
mother OF HONOLULU
MAN KILLED BY AUTO
Report From Coast Tells Of Death
Of Mrs. Emma Mead

Mrs. Emma Mead, a widow. 74o Rrv.
ant Street, Palo Alto, the mother of
Wilbur Mead, Of Honolulu, was killed
instantly, and Miss N. II. Carpenter, 90
Sunset Trail, Berkeley, was injured
when horse Miss Carpenter was driy.
ing became frightened and backed into
a Pacific Gas and Electric Company
auto truck and trailer In San Francisco
last week, says an account in the San
Francisco Chronicle,
The accident occurred on the State
Highway, near the South San Fran.
cisco limits, the report continues.
1.-THE driver of the truck, believed TO
be II. Rfgby, Of San Mateo, was NOT "a
blame for the accident, according To
Miss Carpenter, who is a sister Of ].
Carpenter, a teacher in the Alameda
High School.
Miss Carpenter said that Riqby
stopped his truck and helped take her
to the South San Francisco Hosp;taI
Although the police were not able to
find Rigby last night, he was said TO
be willing to appear and tell of the
part he had in the accident.
"Mrs. Mead 3 skull was crushed
when the buggy was caught in the
wheels Of a trailer, the heavy auto
truck was pulling. Miss Carpenter in.
Cured a fracture of the right leg and
possible internal injuries.
MRS. Mead is survived by four sons
Frank T. Mead, of Los Angeles; vii.
bur Mead, Of Honolulu, and Roy and
George Mead, Of Idaho. She was sixty
years of age" 90
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-02-09
HarbOr Board, After Conference,
Decides To Adopt Suggestion
" Of Expert Committee
COMMISSIONER CHURCH
URGES IMMEDIATE ACTION
oaestion Of Deductions From ORR
ginaI Contract Are Discus
sed In Secret Session

q d Il d b.
The recommendation of the commit.
tee of engineers employed by the har.
Dor commission to investigate matters
in connection with the construction Of
Piers s, 9 and 10, that gravity sec.
ton wall be substituted on Pier 10 for
the curtain wall included in the plans
drawn by Charles r. Forbes, chairman
of the board and superintendent Of pub.
lie works. was adopted by the board
yesterday.
T Commissioner Mccarthy opposed TAX.
ing any action at this time, eontendino
that the matter of the piers should
be taken up as whole and not piece
meal. The other commissioners took
the ground, however, that the matter
of the wall stood by itself and could
not be in any way Influenced by what
might be done concerning the other rec.
concentrations Of the board.
1t was over this matter of what kind
of wall should be constructed that
Forbes and Ed Lord, the contractor,
had their verbal combat at meeting
of the board. Forbes insisted that his
plans were correct, while Lord contend.
ed that curtain wall would not do.
The committee of investigating enpi.
neers sided with Lord in the matter.
The resolution ordering construction
of gravity section wall, which was
intrDduced by Commissioner Church,
contained a direction that the acting
chairman of the board, Wilbur G.
Woodward, shall consult with the board
of engineers as to the letter to Con
tractor Lord instructing him to make
the change and proceed with the work.
The board decided not to take action
on the recommendation Of the engi,
neers concerning the system of anchor.
age of the walls recommended by them,
although Commissioner Church thought
action might just as we'll be taken at
once. . .tr III. p" "A
The matter of what deductions
should be made on the old contract
through the substitution of a gravity
section wall for the curtain wall, was
brought up, but It caused Acting Chair.
man Woodward and Commissioner Nc.
earthly to exhibit signs of extreme ner.
vousness. 1t was matter, they in.
sisted, that should not be discussed in
open meeting, 1t was at the suggestion
of Woodward that this course was TAX.
en- yesterday, Mccarthy heartily back,
ed up Woodward Is suggestion thu q
secret session be held. ~, .
The board received an opinion from
the attorney general regarding the mat.
ter of "extraV and I'addition" work
on the wharves. Attorney Z. c. Peters,
representing Ed. Lord, at recent
meeting contended that the two terms
meant different things that should be
charged for differently. The opinion
of the acknowledgement was opposed to
this, he holding that the two terms
within the meaning of the contract, are
practically identical.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-02-09
.CUNARD LINE IS
TO Invade PACIFIC

With aVowed intention of competing
with the Togo Kisen Kaisha line of the
Japanese and the Pacific Mail line of
the Americans, the British Cunard line
is now constructing two 1880 ton
steamers to ply between Vancouver and
Oriental ports. In the Orient it plans
to touch the same ports at which the
vessels of the other two lines call. This
is according to mainland papers, al.
though why the t. X. X. and the Pa
cific Mail should be announced as the
only services suffering competition
thereby is not stated. The o. s. X.
and other Japanese lines running out
of Seattle are also affected by any such
move. Norwegian interests are also
commencing a line between Seattle and
the Orient. "'
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-02-09
COLLECTOR IS HURT BY
PREACHERS AUTOMOBILE

E. J. Iskow, collector for the Star.
Bulletin, was painfully injured yester.
day afternoon when, while riding mo.
torcycle, he collided with an automo,
bile driven by Rev. William H. Fry.
Iskow was turning into Kewalo
Street from Lunalilo Street and, bearing
TO the left instead of to the right, came
into collision with the auto, which was
coming down Kewalo Street. The ac-
cident occurred about thirty.fve feet
from the corner.
When the ambulance arrived the mo.
toreycle was lying under the front
wheels Of the car. Iskow was fortu.
nate in escaping with no injury more
Berious than sprained wrist, a strained
tendon of the right leg and several
abrasiOns.
After receiving first aid at the emer.
Pency hospital, Iskow was removed ia
his home, 1880 Alakea Street.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-02-09
new BEACH HOTEL
PLANS REVIVED IN
COAST PUBLICATION

. The oft repeated report of plans for
another large hotel on the beach are
again revived. on the Coast. this time
the Matson Navigation Company being
credited with the intention of going
ahead with the undertaking. The re-
vival Of the report comes in the Pacific
Coast Hotel Gazette, which says: g.,
"Dame Rumor is on the job again
concerning the building of a large
tourist hotel in the Hawaiian Islands.
This time the rumor says that the
Matson company, owners of a large
fleet of steamers plying between San
Francisco and the Islands, is to be
the principal shareholder in the new
contemplated hotel.
"News has reached San Francisco
that the passenger congestion to Ha-
waii has caused a lack of hotel ac-
commodations. Announcement has been
made that it is impossible to secure
hotel reservations in Honolulu for the
month of February. This condition of
affairs is likely to be for some time.
The enlargement of the Moana Hotel
with smaller hotels and the Alexander
anu IhC L aANNOi
are unable to take care of the tourists
who have written for accommodations.
GAS the MatsOn company is interest
ed in the tourist traffic, those who are
in position to know, state that the
company is seriously considering the
erection of hotel at Waikiki.
"Some time ago James Woods, man
ager of the st. Francis Hotel, was in
conference with Honolulu capitalists re-
garding the erection of a hotel, ....