The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-05-01

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TUESDAY MORNING,

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III AWAIIi is preparing to grapple .man.fashion
4 ! with the food problem and the interests
are coming to the fore. as they always do, in this
time Of real crisis But il is not the man down
town, nor the Boy Scout nor the mems clubs that
have the final solution Of Hawaii's share in the
national food shortage to determine. That rests
in the hands OF the women OF the Islands The
hand that rocks the cradle also pays the house
hold bills and apportions the foodstuff in the kit
chen. aS,s
The women Of Hawhii. except il extraordinary
cases, will not have to help the nation BY working
in manufactures or by replacing men in industry
In only few cases will the women OF Hawaii
have to take any part in the tling Of the soil for
the cultivation Of foodstuffs. Her big place in
the days Of enforced economies now before us will
belto act as the brake on consumption, and in no
way can this brake be better applied than in the
illumination Of waste
The time has already come when there Is not
enough food in the world today to 90 around Mil
lions in Europe are suffering; hundreds Of thou
sands are starving. Even in the United States
food is 50 in places that its price has gone
beyond what many can pay. In these Islands ;
for many people, the food question is very real
and a very vital one, aud. unless we are able to
bring the demand down to the supply, there will
be real suffering here also.
Food is not the only thing we waste by any
manner Of means Waste says Secretary Of War
Baker, is Americas characteristic SIM We have
been able to live prodigally, but. unless we desire
to fall back upon the husks in the not too distant
future, we must commence to reform In a recent
address to the officers OF the National Women's
Suffrage Association, in Washington Secretary
Baker, pointing out the share women may bear in
the prosecution Of our war, said, in part;
One phrase in your note especially challenged my
attention-the elimination Of waste. anxious
that out of this great uprising Of emotion and sent
ment, there should come something permanent, My
old professor in college said that when to the
theater and stirred up to tumult Of benevolent
interest by the play, and almost wanted to jump
the footlights to help the injured heroine and then
noble sentiments die down without leading any
crete result, i had q degenerating effect upon US
America is all stirred up At present, and want that
somethirg very good and concrete should come out
You are pedpine Yourselves IL stop waste. i am
told America could the cost Of any war she might
wage, merely by saving the waste that goes on.
outcome Of modern civilization. When it took days
to make pair Of shoes, the buyer had respect fog
those shoes, and didn't waste them. Now when shoes
are turned out in thousands by machinery, have
lost all of workmanship and value. We have
lived on this new continent like unframed children in
rich garden, tramping down the flowers Look at
the waste of our tables, of cothesi speak in
Puritan spirit believe in amusement and recreation
which refreshes and rebuilds but not in waste
The need of eliminating waste is being brought
home TO every other nation, under the iron heel Of
necessity James Russell Lowell says that electricity
has given the world system. We
have more In common than that When this great
struggle is over Europe win be populated with inhabi
tants who have learned not to waste, and they will
be more formidable competitors in business on that
account Your great organization should help stop
the waste which is America Characteristic sim il one
may be picked out above the Others
War is an incident, but struggle is always with US.
One bad thing about war s that Il diyerts atten
tion from that other struggle, hals Ee4 n
After this going to have greater interest IN
each otherto feel that the welfare Of the least and
lowest person is Of value all As an outcome Of
this union Of spirit there will come hope new at
titude toward own problems We shall plant
process Of economic justice and the basis that
we shall take place in concert of nations with
the right to help establish International justice because
we practise justice at home, ~
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