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The Mena weekly star., 1917-06-28
ACT NO. POT.

AppFONed MATCH ', IglT.
 An Act to appropriate money to pay noldover members and employees of the House of Representatives and Senate or the Forty-first Gneeral Assembly. e
 Proyides that officers and clerks named in Act shall be paid for their services up to April ', 1917.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-06-28

tures Act fixes penalty for failure to yvmpIy with any of provisions of this Act.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-06-28
xcT NO. M Mss.

Approved March s ls' ,or .s'Ja pfa
 An Act to proyidss, dss,,svsus sr sale of Arkansas ports. - ,be corirls lei public contracts a'rGEspsil 'G volumes Of tne cr shoftH Court reports now -oon1rIatss o1 of print. Act appIupr,e ne. sao ooo to pay for san''
The Mena weekly star., 1917-06-28
ACT NO. les.

AppToVeu MATCH Q, IsII. deficiencies for the various State De- partments during the biennial period ending March 5l. 1917.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-06-28
ACT NO. E0.

Approved March s. 1sl9. An Act acknowledging a just debt 10
The Mena weekly star., 1917-06-28
ACT Nh ooa

~&SpFoFed March 3, fefT. by's Digest.
 Act nravisies that when affidavit fited
The Mena weekly star., 1917-06-28
.cT NO. @

Approved March ls, lsss,etiSn toni
 An Act to amend of Acts of 1sly. sadlng if'|
 Act amends ey eyrton. Ps
 counties: washlnsssbvs Bsa7 son Franklin. Desn'' doiph and ConWaS
The Mena weekly star., 1917-06-28
ACT Ho. sss ;;i;. roved March, c,,is x ths Act to abolish sn~ovids

Approved Marcn, rc,,ab lb' ths !
 An Act to aboaspn T ,a spnroslds k eoualization and to o,npatIcr .a seessment se and v.ass' and { property in the s's .1 Dussess5; zss sprovidss tn that rsSst,,| 'ss shall appoint two wo,.tIcss who who shall be n sscb 7 when practicapie, 'I Iiogeihs tlre county. who, sor shss county tax essesssg'o, ,ls of ssi inc township boaIsua oasa ' tos5 valuation for sa,S sse prcl board shall assess sas, s and ps township, both req At fair ia market value; value, shsll ,1 tns hasra sIin'i in it's resgees,qlsss qs' s'' E shall. with said lnosTnshias noT'
 essv jn the foWrs - rs> < Non residents au E
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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-18
A Sound Case, Ably Handled

Success in the budget campaign of the Y. W. c. \.
was triumph for a sound, worthy cause set before
the public through the medium of intelgentIy-
handled publicity.
A year ago when Honolulu was hearing far fewer
calls for public contributions than today the V W.
c. A. asked $4,000. That was considered a large
budget. The women concerned with the campaign
decided after some consideration to employ the
medium of organized paid,publicity to set their
case before the public, this, of course to be supple
mented by an intensive canvass of the city, The
campaign was so successful that the budget was
over-subscribed
This year there was no question to the value Of
the paid publicity in driving home to the community
the facts in the form which the wv. c. 4. wanted
The paid advertisements in the daily paper, run
simultaneously with news articles. centered atten-
ton on the Y. W. c. A appeal to the public and
once that attention was conferred. it was rivcted
home by the proved facts of Y. W. G. \. worth to
the city and territory. Y. ". c. A. war needs and
war plans, and Y. W. C. 4. efficiency in handling
it's previous funds.
And $4,000 was the goal.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-18
EDITOR
The Day of Disgrace Is Coming

The duty Of exposing III" third part, in thr aIIpC
cd abort ion for which DR.. Hayes is under in
dictmcnt is all the more impcrHtN" because Of the
many and persistent rumNrS I1oat in H"n"luIu.
These rumors are beginning to b" rather rirrum
stantia They will doubtless grow more rir"um-
stanta still. If they absolutely untrue. it is
outrageous that the case is not fully ventilated
enough to end an injustice. If they true. it il
outrageous that proper action b" not taken +"
punish adequately the man at least equally with the
grl-thp man who is able hide his dirty
part under exterior Of assumed responsibility
and walk the streets among other men.
The storm of ind gnaton over III" Berg case has
not VET suhsided. In that case the man escaped
detect ion and prosecution. Is another cheap and
cOWardly hPrayer of women to 90 Scot-frep while
the girl suffers and a physician is placed on trial
charged with serious offense? No. he will not
90 free There are circumstances in the present
scandal which give good ground for belief that pub
lie exposure will place on the third party finger of
whitening scorn and utter contempt that will he
more terrible for him than exposure now. His day
Of disgrace is coming.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-18
Germany Must Answer

Germany must answer to the United States for
sinking the Lusitania and the murder of innocent
Americans and little children; for the sinking of
the Ancona, and the taking of more human lives
for the sinking of the Arabic, and the torpedoing
of the Sussex; for promising to warn all merchant
ships before launching their torpedoes and then for
getting all about the PROMISE for planting the seed
of hate in the minds and hearts of the rising Ger
man generation for all Americans; for plotting
against American factories; for attempting to in
stigate revolt in Mexico for attempting to des-
troy American ammunition factories; for financing
and encouraging German-Americans to become
traitors in the United States for discriminating
against and blacklisting American firms doing bust
ness in Germany; for insulting American women,
even the wives of American consular officials bv un
warranted and uncalledfor search of their persons
when crossing the German border These are, but
few of the atrocities that Germany must answer for
to us.
Germany is an outcast from the society of ma
tions; nation apart. to be despised and scorned
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-18
The Lduterbach Incident
And $4,000 was the goal.

From the Advertiser. December IS. 1917:
Honolulu unknowingly entertained the Baron Mum
chausen Of the German navy in Aug 1915 in the per-
son Of Capt Lauterbach Of the pirates the Ger
man rading cruiser Emden. which was destroyed at
Cocos Island by the Australian cruiser Sydney. The
German passed through here under the assumed name
Of johnson, according to a paragraph found in the
diary Of Captain Grasshof commander of the former
German cruiser Geer, which was nterned at Homo
lulu until April Of this year.
From the StarBulletn August 10, 1915
Travelling under assumed name believed to be
III. w. Johnson" Leut-Comdr Lauterbach of the Ger
man battle-cruiser Emden, which was sunk several
months ago off Cocos Keeling Island in sea-fisht
with the British bateship Sydney, is in Honolulu to-
day en- route to San Francisco and Germany, after
escaping from the British authorities in Singapore
More than two years ago the Star Bulletin pub
ished the Lauterbach story on the first page-ol
he day the German was here as passenger ON thu
Pacific Mail liner Mongolia.
Under the circumstances it can hardly bc sac
hat Honolulu entertained Lautcrbarh 'unknow
ngly.' The Grasshof diary is confirmed bv TIT
Star Bulletins story. and one more proof is addet
o the many that the Grasshof diary is no figmen
If the imagination but evidence damnng to Ger
nansm in Honolulu.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-18
Your Dollar will look big to them.

I reason why said what / did, and why
! shall say more.
If Reader thinks that because its
Central Union church, the chamber ii
commerce, the University Club, OF
any other influential organization, NJ
one has a right to criticize it, he is
pretty much Of fool.
A few Central UnioniteS like Read
Fer have for several years made
! things hot for any pastor who tried to
! indicate for the church a broader
path.
Some of the strongest and best OF
| the missionary descendants here are
not in sympathy with Central Uniou
/ because it is theoIogiCaIly narrow. q
will qualify my statement by saying
! has BEEN
In several instances not out of my
memory, the send off" the minority
gave their departing minister was as
uncharitable and unjust as Read
er's' criticism of my letter.
Central Union as body is fine, but
it isn't perfect. 1t isn't God. 1t ism /
even as good as it might be
1t still has n it members who. like
| Reader" are narrow and bad-temper
ed.
And if it is above criticism, why
wasn't the church more than half fill
ed last night to hear a rafting good
talk by a young man who has some
life in him?
There's lot of dead timber in the
church. This young man Is going to
discover and hew it into chips for
fire. II he doesn't, I'm nightly mis-
taken in him.
And the old fossilized, orthodox.
immovable, paralyzed portions of Cen
trail Union which have kept it from
being the power in the community
that it ought to be, are going to be
galvanized into life, or the whole
church will become what SO many
churches are-mere organized masses
of inertia
Such criticisms Of the church, all
the churches, come from men like
Bishop Williams of Michigan, Wash
ington GLADDEN., Hills, Holmes, our
d. c. Peters, and many others
In what sense is my criticism more
"eXeCrable because 1t is made in the
newspaper rather than from the pu!
pit? My column is my pulpit. and j
mean to preach truth as ! see it, now
and on.
And about Central Union. | am not
alone in saying this. It's what some
Of Central Unions most efficient and
effective workers say. It's what mang
who, have gone out of Central tniCn
have said It's what more will say If
the bright young minister takes the
stand pat" attitude Of Reader"
If Reader" had given his name
should have thought that he felt real
IH aggrieved over my reference to
Central Union. and was not only vent
ing his animus and spleen upon me
for some of my other numerous pub
lie Offenses.
F. S. GOODHCE.
December Is. 1917
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-18
LETTERS
SPLENDID, BUT NOT PERFECT

Editor Honolulu Star-Bulletn.
| Sir: The letter in your issue of yes
terday by Reader" would have been
in better taste, think, if it had been
signed by the writer
But his name no matter how high
sounding it is, cannot justify the nasty
spirit of his communication. 1t is
downright contemplate. His is tho
execrable taste, and will be so consid
cred by every fair minded person.
Read my criticism, if even it may be
called that, and see what | did say.
| That the atmosphere of Central
Union church was different from that
of the Methodist. (Which is trueD
That possibly there was more evi
| dence of wealth and intelligence III
| Central Union. (Here is a criticism OF
the Methodist church which no one
resents)
That there Is a more "hOmey' feel
| ing in the Methodist church. This, ]
| think, is characteristic Of the denomi
nation. Id like to say it of the Unitar
ian church, but | cant. Neither can |
Of the Congregationalist church. Yet,
where's the Offense?)
That the preaching is better in the
Methodist church. CThis refers to the
old order and not to the present in,
cumbent, who is young as he ought to
be for a live church, and apparently
up to the needs Of its membership.
If I'm not mistaken he'll get down
to Readers sleepy case before he is
through.
That the preaching in Central
Union church is twas very orthodox
and very slow. (WhO will deny this.
A Congregationalist minister from an
other island called my attention to it
several times)
That | came away dissatisfied
with the orthodoxy and the LONE
prayers. | have a right to feel so and
to say feel so without offending sen.
sible Central Unionites.")
Now like Central Union church as
we'll as anybody. go there quite Of
ten, possibly with as reverent a spirit
as Reader" does. | like the music
The church is beautiful, and the at
mosphere delightful.
I've heard good preaching there.
I've heard preaching there which
was not orthodox and prayers that
were not overlOng.
1t still has a splendid big lot OF
members in it who like neither ortho
doxy. slow preaching or long prayers
They have as much right to their
preferences as the controlling minor.
ity.
And so long as rigid orthodoxy is
preached there, so long Will the
church fail to hold the young. or come
up to the full STANDARDS of its useful.
ness.
It's grand body In proud of it il
don't belong to it, And because I'm
interested in it and its work, is one
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-18
IN CALIFORNIA

This is what has happened in California accord
ing to the San Francisco newspapers
The milk producers decided they would raise the
price of milk Food Commissioner Merritt decided
they wouldn't at least until they could prove that
If was necessary in order to keep business alive He
did not allow the attitude to be taken that the food
ofscials must prove the new price unreasonable. He
made the milk producers prove the new price rea
sonable.
Milk has not gone up.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-18
Milk has not gone up.

There are good many things much more to the
point that continuing the controversy or last sum
mer about the mobilization OF inc guard. what
IIa.a;; :; intorasted in now is Lot nOnaction in the
past but action in the future.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-18

We don't wish to cast undeServcd suspicious on
the Colonel" which is pretixed to our new collector
of revenue, Mr.. Hathaway of Everett. Wash but
we cannot help remembering "General" Jeff Nc,
earn. also from the Sunny South.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-18

May Cut Salaries of All congressman" SAYS
headline. This move of the misguided Kenyon is
going to hurt lot of patriots where the hurting is
worst.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-18

is, which will deal with the amelIora.
ton of the lot Of prisoners OF war on
the lines of the recent Anglo-German
Red Cross conference at The hague.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-18

Have YOU joined the Red Cross yet? If not. why
not? Not under all the shining heavens is there a
better opportunity for practical patriotism.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-18

Possibly there is perfectly good explanation of
the Grasshof diary disclosures by the H"nouans
who figured in it-possibly.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-18

Delegates of the Russian Red Cross
have left for Copenhagen for the
Russo Austrian-Germ Red Cross
conference, to be opened on October
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-18

Gen. Cocktails is back the job. which will be
satisfactory to the country. for most people have
figured that his ability and energy are too valuable
to be lost by disuSe
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-18

The Bar Association hasn't recommended any
one for the chief justceship. the contest is not
vet a handicap affair
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-18

1t is stated that the food conservation program
is waitng-for various reasons Why should it
waltz
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-18

The king business is getting worse and worse
Now there is talk about demoting Alfonso of Spain.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-18

The queen can do no wrong, and why not extend
.b;s convenient tradition to a "princess!
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-02-03
LET THE CONSTITUTION ALONE

LET THE CONSTITUTION ALONE.
Wind TANNER Bryan, elated with
the undeserved success of the Demo
Gratis in the recent national election.
IS asking a little too much of his party.
IN speech at a dinner, recently given
IN his honor at Washington he urged
the adoption of nationwide prohibit
ton and woman suffrage which is a
little more than the average Democrat
can stand for. He also advocated
the passage Of an amendment for the
election of the President by direct
popular vote and to amend the. con-
stltut1on so as to make that instru.
ment more easily amendable. This
latter suggestion. would undoubtedly
meet their hearty approval as the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments
to the constitution have been worm
wood and gall that they would like
very much to get rid Of and in their
place put something that would further
outrage and crush the colored people,
We have got to stand the Democratic
administration for the next four years
but we most sincerely hope that after
that this beautiful land OF. ours will
not be cursed by their domination any
longer. ..>
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-02-03
AS OTHERS SEE US.

20, Wad some power the giftie gle us,
To Sc ourseP as ithers see u.s."
4 Bobby Burns was, what we would
call nowadays, wise guy
We Americans think we are the
whole show" but are we? !.
Sir Rabindranath Tagore, the. "a
nous East Indian poet, winner Of the
Nobel Prize for literature, doesn't
think we are, and recently criticized us
most unmercifully He. said we are
building ugly cities, are too self
assured, are nationally conreited and
are forgetting the fine simplicity Of
life in our mad rush for money, and
we must admit that he is about right.
He says, there is more to life than
Just making money. Life calls for
leisure not machine-made days Of
money-mad activities. ''You hurry SO
you forget that, life at its best is just
simplicity, taking time to get the
things that money can never buy.
Like q popcorn wagon are your
modern ideas Of life Everything is
popping and bursting in different di-
rections, no peace, no poise any
where s's sSS's' n &;
ri. Il. : 80 =
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-02-03
TuIs''k''.lEIGEE ON LslNc CHING.

s number Of Northern newspapers
are publishing Tuskegees reports Of
the lyn1uching Of 81 American citizens
y 1916, commenting thereon, and CON
! !. graduating the country that there
We're fewer cases than in 1915.
Tuskegee has for several years re-
ported a smaller number Of lynchings
than other observers have been able
to record. 5s 3
Reliable and accurate reports show
that so colored people alone and a
few whites were mob-murdered in
1916. Five Of the .colored people, were
women and one was a child. Another
helllsh fact was the roasting to death
o. I'VE colored persons. ss Y ].
The Tuskegee reports are in line
with the Tuskegee policy of MINING
ing the injustices, outrages and
crimes of the Caucasians Of the South
against the colored people.
lnac curateS reports do more harm
than good and the Tuskegee people
ought to present accurate data or cut
out their lynching bulletins.
~ = b -
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-02-03

to be actuated by a desire to correct
q condition Incompatible with prog
-ess and democratic society. And
IN the same editorial it throws off its
'nask and says:
An intelligent majority Of the north
can We relied upon to defend the south
from colored domination. There ought
to- be more energetic cooperation
to try to work out for the colored
American special status in which,
at least during what may be called
his political and social minority, he
could be protected in his civil rights
and assured conditions of develops
ment, though not granted the politi-
cal privilege which would make him
in his present condition a weight upon
southern progress and a cause OF
anxiety or race feeling. The political
genius of America ought to be able
to work out such compromise"
The Tribune's words are so Gin
compatible" with the genius of de-
mocracy that they answer themselves.
Think of the Tribune proposing a
special status" for the colored Ameri-
can, after the Supreme Court Of the
United States, headed by Southern
Chief Justice, has thrown the grand.
father clause and other Southern
political schemes into the scrap heap!
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-02-03
SOUTHERN REPRESENTATION.

The Chicago Tribune, which was a
copperhead sheet during the Slave
holders Rebellion and has since been
"a persistent enemy of the colored
people has started a little movement
to cut Southern Representation in
Congress.
We quote some of it's editorial slush,
which if carefully read, will be found
to contain in itself sufficient answer
to the Tribune's punk, ideas of politi-
cal morality.
Nevertheless it is the duty of every
American, regardless of party, to at
tack a condition which not only runs
counter to the principles of represen-
tative government, but also is demon
alizing to our political morality and
the right development of our national
policies
Doctrinaires and sentimentalists in
the north demand the enforcement Of
the right of franchise of the Negro in
the south. There is no such demand
in the north generally, for it is recog-
nized that political domination by the
Negro is not desirable. It is realized
that the premature Acknowledgement
of the slave was misfortune to all
concerned, however justifiable as a
war measure. Intelligent opinion in
the north is in harmony with intelli-
gent opinion in the south in, desiring
for colored people defense from ex-
ploitation and conditions of orderly
progress. Thinking men and women
in both sections realize that these
desiderata are retarded, not advanced,
by pressure for full political privileges
and the fear it keeps alive among
southern white men. I
"But if we do not adhere to dog
mas, which, by the way, is one, Of the
weaknesses of the Jeffersonian Democ-
,racy the south helps to perpetuate, il
we sympathize and support the south's
determination to deal with its prob.
lens as conditions, we do not waive
our right to protest and II possible
prevent the south from making it's
necessity cover for unfair political
profit" E- ". !.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-02-03
Mulz!'iz.,LING THE PRESS.

+ sr1,Es : -, ~ &C.
mere IS a bill before Congress that
has Tor it's object the exclusion from
the United States mails of newspapers
OF any sort Of printed matter adver-
Using liquors Of any kind. This GER
tainly is a step toward the muzzling
OF the press to which we very much
object. 1t affects the rights and liber-
ties of the newspapers fully as much
as It does those who deal in liquors.
II does not apply solely to dry states
or dry territory but is general. It
seems to us that the passage Of the
Dill in question would work to, the
detriment Of "the freedom Of the
press" which is generally conceded to
be very desirable. The bill should not
pass. s3,@ "A.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-02-03

rageously high prices that have been
and now are being charged for meats,
are thus shown to be little short of
wholesale robbery. When people are
compelled to pay, in many instances,
three times as much as they formerly
paid for the same meats, does this
not show conclusively that such con.
Germs as Armour & Co. are largely
responsible for the high cost of liv.
ing that is driving people to suicide.
There should be some plan by which
such concerns should be prevented
from lining their Golfers by imposing
their unfair and uncalled for prices
on the public, for the necessaries OF
life.