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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-10

1t appears that tourists here are more concerned
the prospect of war than those on the mainland
Steamers coming down are booked full of travellers
who expect to stay for weeks or months.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-10

Perhaps Germany doesn't want 10 swap Gerard
for Bernstorf. If that's the case, don't blame
berlin for holding the American
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-10

Coco Solo is not the name of a soda-fountain con-
coction. It's new submarine base.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-10
EDITOR
WHY DISCARD 1T?

! Discard the direct primary is popular cry
now among Republicans in active politics.
There is no need to discard the law because it has
moi proved an unqualified and shining success at its
very first trials. "--.. +"
! The law was passed 10 correct grave eyils-evils
which apparently many of our leading Republicans
who are also substantial men did not realize Boss
controlled conventions were getting rather too
mon. and whether the boss shrewd politician
or big businessman didn't make much, difference
to the "little fellow" who resented having to vote
for candidates he had not helped to pick.
The law did away with some evils and brought
on others. The double campaign" is admittedly
burdensomc both to the poor man-on account of
the expense and the well-to-do man-on account of
The time he must take from his business.
This be corrected and it was largely corrected
last fall The primary campaign need be neither long
enough nor expensive enough to be burden. Those
who cannot give the time to going through short
campaign are not likely to have the necessary time
for running their public Office properly later on.
Another evil complained of is that under the pres
ent system there is no clean-cut alignment of par
ties; that in the primary party may throw its
weight to the weakest candidates of the other party
and thus weaken the other partys ticket for the gen
eral election There is something in this and states
have found the same difficulty They have also
solved it by requiring voters at the primary to call
for party ballot, and conducting the primary by
separate party tickets. .--
What the territory is going through now is what
many states have gone througll-a period of expert
nlenting with new law. To discard the law before
it has been given chance is a confession of weak
ness in applying method which states have applied
successfully. ....>-
/ Tie average manthat is, he who constitutes the
great bulk of the voters-is not making any percep
tible kick. But he will make a kick if there is
proposal to revert to the old convention system.
Candidates for any local Office have to work hard
or TO land it than under the old system, but why
shouldn't they? No man is above getting out and
mixing with the voters, getting in touch with their
opinions their wishes, their needs. The convention
system. which passed out nominations for which
men had done no actual work with the voters had
its merits oftentimes in securing good men for Of
fee butts permanent system it did not make for
general progress in the electorate, And it was too
much OF happy hunting ground for the BOSSES
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-10

Queenstown is rapidly getting to be the clearing
house for submarine news.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-10

We presume il is the international situation which
Is responsible now for more delay on the Waikiki
reclamation scheme.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-10

GEORGE ROENITZ, chief clerk at
the commandments office, Pearl Har-
Dor, who has been visiting the main
land during the past month, will re-
turn. in the transport Logan, which
is due to arrive Tuesday.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-10

..Ranid Transit Now Ready for Kalak,ua Avenue
.avs 4 headline. So are the rest of us.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-10

Uncle Sans forbearance during this international
crisis ought to suit even the most pronounced pac
fist The detention of Ambassador Gerard and the
American consus in Germany is an insult and Ger
many s excuse for it is a second insult That the
United States government is OBTAINING Ambassador
Won Bernstorf-as Berlin alleges-is a falsehoOd
which deserves the shorter and uglier name, and in
uttering 1t as well as in her treatment of Gerard
Germany is making an International spectacle OF
herself However, the United States is not going
TO war because Germany insists on making herself
more ridiculous. It is not probable that Gerard
and the consular officials will be long kept from sail
ing, for Germany has not vestige of right to hold
them Germanys action is that of the bad little
boy in fit of temper.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-10

Germany has no hesitation In performing "syert
acts against Norway ~
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-10
DIscR leEFuLLy DIRTY.

Ai'lcahup Week begins Monday
II canhot begin a moment too soon. Seldom II
ever in the past i've years have Honolulus streets
and alleys been dirty as today. This applies not
only to destreets una back alleys bnt to such main
Travelled. thorooghfafrs as King, Hotel, Beretana
and Nunanu Streets
Has the stree tleaning department gone on strike
on merely taken vacation? The prevalence OF
dust. inches deep. is absolutely disgracefu just
how farone may hold the dust nuisance responsible
fof the prevailing pol uarity Of catarrhal colds il
nnknowh, but there is question that the nuisance
Is not only a discomfort, but menace.
Dusty weed-choked cutters. filth beaten into pow
er stirred up by passing wheels and hanging in The
air; rubbish and garbage on main Streets mud when
ever the rains come all Of this has no place in the
moderrScity Honolulu aspires to be.
We have the essentials for as beautiful, as pleas
ing '*potless Town" as any on earth. And yet
the citygovernment racks along like brokendown
vehicle aud streets outside of very few blocks
look likk those Of little old counrytown dead
fc ciyicpridc and ambition.
is IL hack Of money? Is ii lack of efficiency? Il
II lack Sf enterprise? Is itlack of little 'sstcam
IN the Etreetcleaning service?
What is the matter? Will some city offcialst tell
rs and Say exactly where the responsibility lies?
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-10

The ease Of Col. Ziegler of the National Guard
who presided at the German American Alliance
meeting Wednesday night, is now understood to be
under inquiry by territorial and army authorities
and the correct course, if any, viii doubtless be
taken. As to the sentiment of the community,
there il no question about that 1t is that Col
zieglerf participation in meeting which advocated
action contrary to that marked by the government
Of the United States was improper, and that as
national guard officer he should steer entirely clear
Of an organization which, to date, has failed to
stand for unadultefated Americanism. If Col. Zieg
Ter is unable to see the impropriety of his action
and if other Communications are unable to see
the mproprety Of the action their organization here
took they have no right to object if the public ex
presses itself sharply and fcrcefully.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-10
PERSONALITIES

DIR. st. d. G. WALTERS is one
of the returning passengers on the
S. s. Wilhelmina, due Tuesday morn
ing, .,r... w..
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-10

WILLIAM C. PETERSEN, acting
postmaster, and Mrs. Petersen were
due to leave for Hilo on the Mauna
Kea this afternoon to see the Volcano.
They will return on the steamer Tues.
day morning.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-29
The Solitary Breakfast

At first blush breakfast seems a
sociable meal; at that hour man
is best satisfied, or least discomfort
ed, with himself, and in mood to
make the most of the world. HUI
man vitality is at it's maximum,
mere existence lugs exhilaration
along with it; good humor mantles
everything. But there is an uncer-
tainty in company. even when you
may choose it; for temperament is
never to be wholly trusted (artists
are dangerous people to meet at
breakfast), and there are a thou
sand appenings-troubled sleep,
early awakening, mosquitoes, sur
missed mouse, no hot water, button~
ed boots, putting studs in a shirt
that may occur between going to
bed at night and coming down to
breakfast in the morning. and i'll ad-
justed feelings in even one member
of the company may dampen the
spirits of all. Company is no doubt
the better state, and brings out the
full capacities for pleasure that lie
in breakfast, but a solitary break
fast is safer; solitary, pleasantness
is more tempered but 1t is more cer-
taln.-Henry Dwight Sedgwick in
the Yale Review.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-29

Nearly everything except railroad
transportation has doubled in price.
The railroad is still carrying freight
and passengers at the old rates but
1T is paying twice as much for every
thing ii buys. That is the essence of
another phase of the railroad prob
lem. Still other questions concern
wages, car shortage, and the valu-
alton of railroad property.
All these problems are handicaps
to the transportation system. The
Guaranty Trust Companys booklet
points out that these quotations de-
mand the attention and understand
ing of the public so that the rail-
roads of this country may be brought
to the point of highest usefulness
and service to the nation.
Despite the most eXacting and en-
barrassing conditions, the railroads
of this country have accomplished
surprising results. American rail-
road freight charges are the lowest
in the world; the wages paid are the
highest, and the operating efficiency
is the greatest.
Constructive suggestions which
may be offered to relieve the rail-
road situation Immediately, and
which, if adopted, promise better
day for the railroads than they have
seen within a decade, are thus briefly
summed up in this booklet: In
creased rates. The Federal regula-
ton of rates and security issues. A
larger Interstate Commerce Com
mission with regional and functional
divisions. Cooperation on the part
OF legislative, regulating and ship
ping interests to protect railroad
credit and to further railroad eX-
pansion. The cooperation of invest
ors to protect and maintain railroad
credit. The recognition of our ma
tional unity of interest in a funda-
mental economic problem"
All these suggestions are obviously
practicable. If they were carried
out, great impetus would be given
not only to railroads but to business
generally.
THE keynote of the hour is ma
tional unity" says the concluding
paragraph in this booklet. 'In unity
of interest and spirit the railroad
situation must be approached by
representatives of all classes and sec
tions in order that this fundamental
economic problem, in which the
prosperity of all is involved, may be
solved along right lines. in fairness
to all, for the common good"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-29
Thousand Years Hence
By BRIGGS

I who am dead a thousand years,
And wrote this sweet archaic song,
Send you my words for messengers
The way I shall not pass along.
I care not if you bridge the seas,
Or ride secure the cruel sky,
Or build consummate palaces
OF metal or of masonry.
But have you wine and music still
And statues and a bright-eyed
love,
And foolish thoughts Of good and i'll,
And prayers to them that sit
above?
How shall we conquer? Like wind
That falls at eve our fancies blow,
And old Maeonides the blind
Said it three thousand years ago.
o friend unseen. unborn, unknown.
Student of our sweet English
tongue,
Read out my words at night, alone ;
l was a poet, 1 was young.
Since I can never see your face,
And never shake you by the hand,
send my soul through time and
space
To greet you. You will understand.
james Elroy Flecker, Collected
Poems" Doubleday Page & Coz
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-29
PROVIDE THE MONEY

NONGRESS should back President
Wilson to the limit in his pro-
posal to put $4,000 battle air.
planes along the French front by
July l of next year. He will need
s6Oo,000,0oo for this purpose. It
should be forthcoming at once.
Probably Germany will try to
combat this force. Already, we are
told, the Central Powers have deter
mined to launch $500 planes addi-
tional next Spring, but it will be i'm
possible for them to compete with
the Allies combined, or even with
the United States alone, in this
branch of warfare. Our automobile
factories, typewriter works and sew
ingmachine plants can be turned in
week or two to the making of all
the standardized parts for these
planes. The Ford or the WHY'S
| Overland factories alone could do the
trick were they put to It, and in this
| fact we see the value to the nation
at large in case of emergency like
that of the present, of these vast
and highly organized manufactures.
the virtue of which only a few years
ago many of US were in grave doubt,
The whole nation thrills with the
thought of $4,000 battle planes mass
ed along the western front to beat
to earth the 'eyes of the enemy" to
raid the supply bases and harass the
German armies night and day for
fifty miles back of the front. There
arises also in the mind the possibil-
ity of spectacular air attacks or
Krupps, on Bruges and other places
where lie the powers that have made
the Central Empires mighty on land
and sea. What a magnificent thing
IL in a few months the dash and
spirit of America should do in
France what the courage and enter
prise of the men who made and
fought the Monitor did in the dark
days OF the Civil War.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-29
America Evens Score

TTrom the New York Evening PostI
Time always brings its own re-
venge. Now it is Pershing which
evens up the score in our favor. For
almost three years the inelastc
American tongue has been strug-
Cling with impossible European
names. Reims, Lvov, that bagtul OF
baleful consonants, Przemysl, Brzez'
any, and a host of other insuperable
combinations, have been breaking up
families and widening riffs in the
lutte of friendship.
We have not the easy, masterful
way of the English with strange
nomenclature. They reduce Ypres
to Wipers. Foch to Fush, and ap-
proximate Sarrail to Cyril. Being a
younger and more modest people,
we assume a rather defensive atti-
tude.
Only recently our enthusiasm was
struggling with Joffre, whereas the
English long ago made the victor of
the Marne a British citizen under
the name of Joffer.
Now, however, Pershing has gone
across the sea to give up our in
nings. The French are already rent
by strife between the parties who
wish to rhyme our commander
name respectively with marine and
meringue. 1t will be useless to eX-
plain that Frenchmen can never
hope to pronounce his name. If we
once start to explaining, where can
we ever stop?
There are Sims, and Hoover, and
Houston-upon this last even aver
age Americaps can't agree-and
finally there is Woodrow Wilson
which the French will never pro-
a - Il 4. II. Ea.t1
urc will not be for want of prac-
tice
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-29
THE RAILROAD SITUATION

TRANSPORTATION enters into
the life of all. The railroads
enable the wheat fields of the
Far West to answer the daily prayer
for bread of the cities of the East.
Fully half the people of the Unit
ed States are directly interested in
the prosperity of the railroads. They
furnish a livelihood for one person
out of every ten. Industries depend
ent upon railroad business employ
one person out of every twenty. Ev-
cry phase of our national life is de-
pendent in some degree upon the
railroads. Their value and impor-
tance to the entire country, in war
or peace, make their welfare at all
times a matter of the greatest neces-
sity.
Each era in the development of
the American railroads has been
marked by problems that were pc
culiar to the period. The first was
construction. Next, after a period of
railway expansion such as the world
had never seen before, came the
problem of competition. In more
recent years it has been regulation.
This is one of the problems not yet
solved, for regulation has thus far
failed to protect equally the inter-
ests of the investor, of the shipper.
and of the public. A new era for rail-
roads, however. seems to be at hand.
IC is a period of cooperation and
coordination in which the interests
of all will be considered.
The establishment of a better un-
derstanding and a spirit of helpful
cooperation among all the interests
involved is a long step toward the
solution of any big problem. In this
belief the Guaranty Trust Company,
of New York, has just issued a book
let, THE Railroad Situation" which
presents the facts, states with un-
usual clearness the problems which
now confront the railroads, and sug-
gests how they may he solved.
American railroads to-day serve
ninety-five different masters. These
are the ninety-fve Independent un-
co-ordinated legislative and regulat-
ing bodies, representing the Federal
government and the forty EIGHT
States. They are attempting to reg
ulate the railroads down to the
minutest details of their operation.
The general effect is to increase the
railroads burdens and expenses,
without providing means to meet
them. This, briefly, is the problem
OF regulation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-29
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

-Ex-Auditor General w. P. Sny>
der is spending his time farming in
Chester county.
Judge ]. n. Langham, of India
ma county, who was here yesterday,
used to be corporation clerk in the
Auditor Generals Department.
B. NJ. Clark, Jefferson county
lawyer here yesterday, says that the
close of the session was one of the
most unusual he had ever witnessed
General w. G. Price, commander
of the State artillery brigade. has
long been a student of that arm of
the service, although commanding
infantry.
e Chairman w. D. B. Ainey, of
the Public Service Commission, serv-
ed for years in the National Guard.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-29
Driving a Car in France

knows the risks we run,
cares a damn!
We might as we'll be at home (but
we ain'D
a blooming pram.
Then hold on tight when the old
"bus" jibs,
And gives 'er plenty of cad
When she tries to taxi across the
field
With half of the blinking shed.
Nobody knows the stuff we eat,
Nobody'd like to know,
But it's nothing as bad as the ra-
tions at home,
And the stuff they're trying to grow.
So keep 'er well-oiled and old your
tongue
When she fetches you one on the
cad,
And think of the risks they are run
ming at 'ome
A-having to eat war-bread!
IN. Mardel. in Westminster Ga
zette. London.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-29
RARTCH AGAIN
TrulY Yours
MRS. JOHN E. FOX,
Sec. Pure Milk Society.

THE President seems determined
to lodge the centralized pur-
chasing power of a wartime
government in the hands of Bar
ney" Baruch.
1t will require Congressional ac-
ton, in the first place, to create the
office of purchasing agent, and then
to define the duties of the position
before Mr.. Baruch can be named;
and the chances are that the inter-
vening debate will be interesting. Mr..
Baruch first came into national no.
tice at the time of the leak" last
December. He testified before the
Congressional committee of inves-
tigation with cynical frankness and
his disclosures showed that he made
going short of the market just
prior to the Presidents appearance
before Congress to appeal far peace
in Europe. Mr.. Baruch testified
that his gains were the result solely
of his own acumen in deducing ap-
preaching facts from a nebulous sit
uation in national and international
affairs. If he could apply this wiz
ardy of intellectual process to the
purchase OF commodities for the ma
ton. he would, of course, be the
one man in all the world for the
place which the President has in
mind for him.
1t remains TO be stated, however,
that Mr.. Baruch's whole career has
not been in the line of constructive
endeavor. The great bear" in Wall
Street operations, the tendency of
his efforts has been toward the de-
structive rather than the creative
agencies of modern financial opera
tions, and despite his great wealth
and his tremendous energy and his
undoubted acumen, he has never
been asked to associate himself with
any Of the great commercial and in
dustrial enterprises OF the age. This
affords no testimonial to his ability
as an organizer and causes some
skepticism regarding the wisdom of
choosing him for the post of CEN
trail purchasing agent for all the
allied world.
Mr.. Wilson's Judgment of men has
not always been of the best-as the
personnel of his Cabinet has con-
stantly evidenced and never more so
than to-day. Consequently, his pen
chant for Mr.. Baruch causes no par
ticular wonderment, especially when
it is recalled that the Wilson cam
paign fund has been a large bene-
ficiary of Mr.. Baruch's generosity,
not only from his own purse but
from the Golfers of those whom Mr..
Baruch's persuasiveness has been
able to affect.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-29
"Skidding Jane"
IFrom the Lon,

[From the London Chronicle1
a certain distinguished and noble
mcmber of the cabinet applied for
the use of a government motor car
the other day to use on business of
national importance" as the phrase
goes. He was sent a car driven by
u very smart and attractive looking
chauffeuse. About four or five hours
later his lordship appeared in a
towering rage and asked what they
meant by sending him a woman
who drove in a most reckless man
ner, endangering his life from the
moment he got into the car.
'Oh, they must have sent you
'Skidding Jane. said the officer in
charge, nonchalantly.