The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-12-25
MOBILIZATION OF
l HAWAII NATIONAL
|. GUARD PROTECTED
That Was Understanding In
Washington Recently, Says
W. R. Castle on Return
WHAT EFFECT CAMP D..
RUMPUS HAD UNKNOWN
Capitol Is In Turmoil Attorney
Asserts-Every Department
Is Crowded To Limit

/ my understanding while in Wash
ingtpn was that the Hawaiian National
Guard was to be modified for duty in
the Islands to replace the regular army
organizations that would undoubtedly
be ordered to France for active serv.
iee,p said w. r. Castle yesterday. Mr..
Castle, accompanied by Mrs. Castle and
Miss Beatrice Castle, is back from
three mouths sbsence on the mainland,
spent mostly at the national capital. ..
"of course left Washington just
before the guard rumpus came to head
in Honolulu, and whether that has had
any effect upon this movement do not
know, but at that time it was being
very seriously considered, " added Mr..
Castle. ,wr'. j..
| Mr.. Castle visited his son in Wash.
ington, W. r. Castle, Jr., who is in
charge Of bureau Of the Red Cross for
{, the listing of casualty records Of Amer
lean soldiers across the water, and who
vents 10 France recently for the pur.
pose of establishing branch bureaus.
Gregory Folded Upv .,E .
i He also saw the attorney general of
the United States to pay his compli-
ments, but when the official learned he
was from Honolulu he rather "folded
up, - the presumption being that he did
not wish to hear at first hand any eriti-
cisms of office holders among the jur.
lists on the Hawaiian bench. -.
/ Washington is in turmoil" said
Mr.. Castle. 1.-THE vast amount of work
for the army and navy is crowding
every department to the limit, and be.
yond their limits, too. Work that was
formerly done by the Red Cross is be-
ing done by the war department, and
possibly SHOULD not be done by the gov
eminent, with the result that much of
this work is falling behind. The mat.
ter of expenditures, too, is coming in
for comment, and probably may be the
Z motive for congressional inquiry.
'ls"I saw the shipping board, and found
that it, too, was up to its ears in work.
The railroads all over the country are
in turmoil and every train is late. The
railroad companies have, taken of the
observation and smoker cars, running
only sleepers. This lightens trains,
i cuts down expenses and relieves the sit.
Euation a little. They are crowded to
the utmost to move freights. n. b.
~ hud my reservations from Wash.
ington to San Francisco via New Or.
leans made out two months in advance
That is absolutely necessary, but even
then I did not get the accommodations
contracted for. .t& ,H
4 "The shipping board wired to San
Francisco for me in regard TO sailings
and found that the vessel 1 have ar,
rived home in was available, while one
. of the Matson boat sailings was in,
: definite, so / took the other. 1t is q
very nice vessel and our American
boats could pattern some of its interior
arrangements after it. The service is
fine.
Honolulu Avtators
"While in Pensacola we saw Alan
Lowrey and Stanley Kennedy, both OF
whom are attached to the aviation, sec
ton. They were to have made flight
the day after we arrived, but a terrific
thunderstorm came up and we were dis
appointed not to see our Honolulu boys
up in the air. ... j.
made an early flight that day, before
the storm, and they had one of those
peculiar residents which aViators often
meet with. $3.50 {,
"When they got up very high they
were above the clouds. The clouds
swirled around them and suddenly they
wero eIgulfed in the fog. Then sud
denly there was an open pocket in the
air, and they dropped. Kennedy, after
wards talking of it, said he commented
to the instructor in his machine just
after they dropped for some distance
4" We must have dropped about fifty
feet, didn't wefn ~
GETTY feetl We dropped about
three hundred feet, and it's a wonder
we didn't drop fuftherT MS ...
These young men are getting along
: famously. Lowrey has been advanced
| rapidly and is now in charge Of the en-
| tire studeut section. - ,4ss
~ did not hear of Judge Robertson I
, resignation as chief justice of the Ha
'waiian supreme bench, and regret that
he has deemed it necessary to do so. :
Extrayagance N East 49, -.
"The Red Cross work all over tht
country is splendid. The people OF
Washington see that there are mighty
things to do to start in this war, but
J the women of the eastern section OF
the country do not yet seem 10 hav,
, awakened to the true seriousness of il
J all. The extravaganza of women il
/ New York, particularly, is really fright
} full. The very gamut of extravaganza
, is run, ...,
! con the vessel coming to HonOlult
i was Mr.. F. N. Doubleday, the publisher
, of New York. He is making trip II
, the Far East, stopping Off for shor
l time in the interest of the Red Cros,
! Magazine, which the Red Cross and the
government have turned over to him
and he is making it pay well. He spok,
about not getting all the news in the
newspapers on his way West, and told
, him to wait until he got to Honolulu
ana read the Pacific Commercial AZ
vertiser, and he would saw IL WAS al