Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-19
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WELL SATISFIED
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oIuIu'S Entertainment: Maui
Promises 1918 Fun

| Expressing satisfaction at the re-
suits accomplished, and utterinS final
convention wells, the Maui and HG-
wall delegations to til" sixth Civic
| Convention. departed iOT 1ne!r homes
this morning on the MaUna kea. The
| kauai delegates left on the hlnau at
Il O'Clock last night.
| Tie convention sessions closed yes
/ terday afternoon, after Maui was Sc
.ected as the meeting place for the
Ii9!S convention, but the final eveAt
did not occur Hntil the banquet at the
| NOanl hotel and the JOllitication and
dance at the Young were ended.
While the work OF the Civic Con.
Yention is entirely suggestive action,
and not mandatory, its deliberations
are yearly considered more import
ant 10 the law making and law en-
forcing bodies OF the territory. AS
remarked by Judge Delbert Metzger
OF Hilo at tle opening session: The
stamp OF approval or disapproval OF
the Civic Convention is becoming
more important at each ANIMAL meet
Ing"
Aside from the patriotic trend Of
all the discussions at this convention
much de!iberatiOn was given to the
territorial road problems, and food
conservation and food production.
One of the final acts Of the conven-
ton was the passage of a resolution
strongly indorsing and supporting the
action of President Wilson in declar
ing and pressing the war against Ger.
many. This resolution was intro,
duced by w. o. Smith.
Five papers were read during the
afternoon, in addition to the resolu-
tons presented and the reports of
committees submitted. The resolu-
tons committee, through DR.. H. B.
Elliot, its chairman. reported favor
ably On a number of resolutions n
the afternoon. All those recommend.
eG were rassed by the convention
They included a resolution recon.
mending the appointment of a com
mittee of five by the convention to
work toward the establishment OF
federal PARK in Hawaii.
After the speaking J. A. Beaver pre-
sented a resolution asking the mem
bers to take a food conservation
was ull1SISuCS Vi
opinion as to the taking Of the pledge.
as some of the men wanted the FIN.
mime half Of the family to attend
20 that part of the war duties, out at
the end the resolution was raised,
with a few dissenting votes.
w. o. Aiken moved that the thanks
Of the convention be extended to ,he
owners Of Laniakea for the uss OF the
theater for the meetings. The Ll0tion
passed unanimously.
A vote of thanks to J. i. c.. Hageus
who had acted as president Of the con.
Vention meetings, and to Raymond C.
Brown, the secretary, was called fol
by DR.. Elliot and passed unanimously
DR.. Elliot also included the hCHolulu
hosts who had entertained tie con.
vention so royalty and spiendidly and
presented such an excellent program
for their consideration" IN tie vote
of thanks.
Not least in interest at the final
session was paper presented by Dr.
l.. n. Case on the breeding and raising
Of stock in these islands. Beef, pork
and mutton raised for food purposes
"SlC W 1OSlOI NdSSy dS wen
as the breeding and raising of horses
for work, army use, polo and racing
Doctor Cases report follows in part:
Live stock breeders in this terri
tory have awakened to the fact that
it is much more profitable to breed
high class animals than scrubs and so
they are every year importing the very
best type of pure bred stock in ever
increasing numbers.
THE importation of this class OF
breeding stock and the raising Of pure
bred and high grade animals is the
one and only solution of the problem
confronting us, j. e., whether or not
this territory can become self support
ing in so far as animal products are
concerned
LAS far as meat Is concerned, the
territory has gone far toward supply
ing it's demand; especially is this true
Of beef and pork. The great advance
which has been made during the past
ten or twelve years in the production
of high class beef, mutton and pork is
not generally realized by the public.
Pork Production
The production Of pork would seem
to be very attractive field especially
so now as the prices are the highest
ever paid, producers getting from 10
to 90 cents a pound live weight COM
pared to 10 and II cents before the
war.
THE dairy industry has not kept
pace with the improvement noted in
other lines of animal husbandry. The
scrub dairy COW is still much in evil
dence and will probably so remain I'M
til the general run of dairymen are
educated up to the fact that it costs
no more to keep a we'll bred highly
productive animal as it does a scrub
besides being vastly more profitable.
When this point is reached there will
he A considerable demand for the bes:
type Of dairy animal which demand
should be net by the breeders in these
islands. Some of the ranchers are al
ready taking M the breeding of blood
ed dairy stock and will soon be in