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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-09

FOREMAN. Machine shop, Eva Mill.
Honolulu, T. H., Feb. s, 1917.
Editor Honolulu Star-Bulletin. :
Sir. And do solemnly
! swear that will bear true faith and
allegiance to the United States Of Am
erica; that ! will serve them honest
~ and faithfully against all their enc
mics whomscever; and that ! will
! obey the orders Of the President Of the
United States, and the orders Of the
officers appointed over me, according
, to the Rules and Articles OF War"
The preceding is portion OF the
Oath Of Allegiance administered to
persons entering the Army of the
the United States, likewise also when
joining the Navy Of the United States.
presume the 0aths of Allegiance taFI
en- by aliens are somewhat similar to
, the foregoing oath. The above oath
enlisted men of the United States
! Army and Navy. The same oath is
! administered to the National Guard of
the United States as much so as to
the regular establishment.
This morning when read of the
action OF the National German Ameri
can Alliance" and learned that an
officer who had taken the above oath
Of allegiance had headed that crgani-
zation with view to creating civil
strife within the bounds of the ceun-
try. constitutional and democratic
republic, ! wondered whether there
we're any honorable Germans. 1t APP
PEARS that any agreement to which
their names may be subscribed be-
comes merely scrap OF paper If it
fails to meet their end and ideal.
What does the aforenamed organi-
zation want America to do? Do they
want Us to continue 20 submit to their
outrages and insults? Do they want
US to continue to stand by and watch
them murder our fellow citizens, our
mothers, our fathers, our brothers and
our sisters? Because we have grown
tired of such and because we have
grown tired of their attacks, unwar.
ranted, they threaten to tear us asun-
der. Yes. they want America to stand
for any old treatment they may see
fit or feel to accord her.
| The lieutenant colonel In question
need net feel too sure that he is able
to disturb the quietude of the United
States nor neither must he think the
United States will suffer because the
German-Americans decide to go back
on their sacred oaths. We have been
expecting such foE the last two and
sone-hah years. We, are not surprised
ut the action of said organization.
4 wonder whether or not the action
taken by the National German Ameri
can Alliance. comes within the scope
of high treason? II 1t does all of that
bunch should be arrested and eonfin-
ed. They are nothing more than SER
penis waiting to sting us after having
been taken in and placed by the fire,
thus saving their lives. If they feel
SO desperate toward America allow
them the privilege of returning to
their native country. the land of their
choice and birth. We Americans can
spare them. We viii not grow lone
some for their company Their room
will suit us better.
SUBSCRIBER AND FULLFLEDG-
ED AMERICAN.
p S.--Please publish in your col
umns. We Americans will stand by
and uphold the action of President
Wilson.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-09

dunn. The director of the census at the end of the
fifteenth day closes the referendum and has then
ten days in which TO make the count and report to
Congress. After this all ballots must be sent TO
Washington and made available for inspection by
congressman. s.-
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-09
PERSONALITIES

THOMAS ]. FLAvIN. poetofficc IN
spector in the Hawaiian Islands, with
headquarters at Honolulu. who has
been q guest at the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. S. NJ. Pye. 611s Carlos avenue,
left Tuesday morning for Santa Bar
bara. He was recently assigned %
duty in that district Mr.. Flavfn and
Mrs. Pye were b0yhood friends IN
North Dakota and this visit has been
a source OF much pleasure In the re-
newing OF that friendship. Holly.
wood (Cal.) Sentinel. January Is.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-09
I70LITIcIANs REACHING FOR THE JUDI
CIARY

~ proposal is made among Maui Republicans that
district magistrates On the Valley Island be appoint
ed iy the board Of supervisors instead of the GOV;
efh6r of the territory. similar proposal is made
in the charter conventions draft of new charter
fof Honolulu. The charter convention was con-
fr0iled by politicians seeking to devise new means
Of raising patronage. and of the means devised
was to have the mayor appoint the district magis-
trates which would Immediately plunge the basic
judiciary into Partisan politics
A few years ago district magistrates were ap-
pointed by the chief justice of the supreme court.
Prior to the last legislature, it appeared that JUS
tire Robertson might not be retained and that a
observing Democrat might be named chief Justice.
take this appointing power from the chief justice
was the legislatures way of expressing its lack of
confidence in the man reported to be in line TO sue
eeed Judge Robertson-a lack of confidence appar-
p,flv shared by the lawyers since they did not pro
tcsf when the legislature put the appointments in
tl,eehands of the governor.
The suggestion TO change the method of appoint
eft has no merit outside political expediency and
o,.ht TO be fought 10 a finish. On Maui there ap-
srs to he as little for placing these appoint
n,ents in the hands Of the supervisors there is
t1,a for placing Them in the hands of the mayor.
~ x-;scount will never he dubbed Peace AZ !; n7
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-09

4
court
LIEUT.. -coMDR. VICTOR S.
HOUSTON Sorry cannot help you
newspapermen any. but for me TO
make any statement at this time con-
corning the future movements of the
ST Louis would be giving out infor.
nation
-RAYMER SHARP. acting collec,
tor of the port: Wen. have been
working pretty hard since last Satur-
day but nexr week should be easier.
because Collector Franklin win arrive
on the wiIhelmina next Tuesday AT
least he is booked to come
ROGER ]. TAYLOR, deputy col.
lector OF customs. This German
refugee merchantmen rumpus has GER
tainly been giving the customs boys
two jobs for the price Of one We
hope next Sunday win not be like the
last one. That sure was busy day.
THOMAS ]. HEENEY, U. S. in.
spector of boilerss l have ruined a
pair of shoes, an outside shirt and
various other articles of clothing on
account of the hurry calls 10 inspect
the refugee German merchantmen, not
to mention several dollars in taxi
fares.
CAPT. WILLIAM r. FOSTER, har-
bormaster: l wish the German who
smashed that telescope and threw it
overheard had not busted 1t against
the rail before he hurled II into the
water. II was a magnificent instru-
ment before the fellow smashed it. and
must have cost 500 or more when new.
Il have il In my office now but only
the evepiece is intact. The rest is
only Junk. II is SO dented and bat
tered.
DR.. F. E. TRoTTER, chief quar-.
sntine officer: The Matson Naviga.
ton Company is to be commended on
the way it handled the Matsonia crowd
Wednesday. The steamers departure
vas the most orderly one have ever
seen. as a result of allowing no visitors
on beard. Passengers we're not tram
pied on, had a chance to get their deck
chairs and went out in comfort. hope
the rev system Is continued perman-
emily. 1t would be great relief to
passengers.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-09
H. PEARL JosEPHsoN.
Hiah Commissioner's office,

Strand. London. Nov. 90. 1916.
To Miss Pearl Josephon.
Dear Madame: The high commits
sioner much appreciates your kind
ness in despatching Christmas pres
ents and he would Ike to kindly con,
vey to the British In Honolulu his
heaTtiest thanks Tor their generous
gift to the New Zealand troops.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-09
Eva Plantation. Feb. 5. 1917.

Mr.. Riley Fl. Allen,
Editor Honolulu r-Bulletin. f.
Sly dear Mr.. Allen: Please accept
my sincere thanks for your editorial
in today.s Star-Bulletin. had almost
arrived at the conclusion that real red
American blood had ceased to flow in
cur ve!ns-ard am heartily glad you
have sounded the keynote of true Am
erican;sm. s,s-s. s.
! am with you. heart and soul
Should you need artillery" to back
up your brand OF Americanism, call
On yours truly. :.
FRANK A. GOBLE.
Foreman. Machine Shop. Eva Min.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-09

SHERIFF CHARLES II. ROSE:
II you reporters don't quit bothering
me with these rnmor reports I'll have
to start a few myself
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-09
LITTLE INTERVIEWS

DIR. r. G.. AVER, police surgeon:
Have anything to say? Yes. Let's
forget 1t"
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-09

-. H. MACDONALD, boatswain ma
val station: There has certainly been
a choice and assorted collection Of
wild-eyed rumors floating around the
city ever since last Sunday.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-09

VALENTINO MORoNI, Moana
hotel manager: And don't forget the
benefit concert Saturday night. 1t Is
going to be a most enjoyable affair.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-09

FRANK T. SULLIVAN, superin-
tendent of mails: Those rumors that
a censorship was to be established
on outgoing mails from the Honolulu
postoffice haven't materialized.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-09

Germany lays great stress on treaty back in
1Ia9-and breaks the international law of 1917.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-09

lice court for driving without q Il
eense. He had been warned repeated.
" and has no kick coming Incident
ally he went before Judge Whitney
and was referred back TO the police
court
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-09

bob LILLIS, chauffeur exam
iner: A fellow was fined SIS in po
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-09
For Unadulterated Americanism

is up. The battle OF New Orleans
was fought some time after peace had
been declared. Now the balance is
the other way. and IL Columbia don't
mind she will wake up To find her
wireless regulations" working back
wards and reporting a battle before
war has been declared
@.>, ELIGE l.. KIRK.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-09

ahe yiscount will never be dubbed Peace at .,nv
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-09

II ItkiANIN ~ pOA1A4Asr
Foreman. Machine Shop. Eva Mill
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-08-03

ers cannot concentrate their efforts
upon this equitable method of bring
ing back to the people the common
right of the people, the use of the
land. We have enough members
in Parliament aided by few sin
cere land reformers among the Lii
erals, to force this issue now, and
secure just measure of land taxa
ton. But our members are con-
scious of the inactivity of the rank
and file and share it. We need
"gingering up" and here is line
help" Il. L. P.-Independent Labo'
Party.)
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-08-03
STRONG PLEA FOR GOVERNMENT
OWNERSHIP OF ALL RAILROADS

8 per cent a year. Under the plan
proposed the hundreds of millions
annually added to railway values
would be saved to the community.
Rebates, determinations and priv
ileges would be ended; the political
activities of the railroads would be
at an end; coal mines, great
stretches of land, over 1O0,000,000
acres of timber property, and oil
land would Immediately pass to the
government.
"The identity of the railroads with
great trusts, monopolies and privileg-
ed interests would be ended Most
of these are now owned or con-
trolled by the same interests that
own or control the railroads, as in
dicated by the report of the Pujo
investigating committee.
The United States is today the
only important country that does not
own and operate it's railways.
The Joseph Fels International
Commission, through which the
campaign for the bill is being con-
Quoted, appeals to all who approve
the proposal to write their Congress
men and otherwise aid in the pass
age of the bill.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-08-03

Gently held at Leeds, England, and
attended chiefly by delegates repre-
senting organized labor in the great
Yorkshire manufacturing district, the
Leeds Weekly Citizen" labor
journal, said:
at is hight time we of the Labor
party got a clearer vision, and rec
ognized the fact that we do not
know all there is to know about the
solution of the social miasma. AS a
collective party we had almost ceas-
ed to learn anything new for the
last twenty years.
eve place in the forefront of
our programme the state ownership
and control of land, mines, railways
and every means of production and
exchange. A capital aim to which
all Of us can subscribe, but how shall
we get there? By buying out the
landlords, the monopolists and tho
great industrial controllers?
"God forbid that we should ever
think of saddling the state with such
an enormous subsidy to idleness and
profiteering. Land taxation offers
a beginning on practical and very
effective lines. 1t has been approved
by the l. l.. P. and indorsed by the
Labor Party, and then the party
seems content. What a great mis-
fortune it is that all land reform
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-08-03

Emphasis is here given to the pa
triotism' angle of the Omaha situa
tion because it was a striking in
stance of employers taking the of
fensive and publicly proclaiming their
own hands to be clean and those Of
labor to be soiled with treason ar
with disloyal motives. The shrewd
copy writer's of the Business Mems
Association knew that the war is the
big thing in everybody's mind.
"The hour of the nations dire
need is not the time to provoke dis
putes between different groups of its
citizens" began one advertisement.
Thousands of dollars were spent for
page and half page advertisements.
The need for publicity was so urgent
on the organized employers of Oma-
ha that they poured out money in a
lavish local advertising campaign.
Later when they had chance for
still more publicity through appear
ing before the Nebraska mediation
board and stating all their griev-
ances, they refused to testify even
though Governor Keith Neville, as
chief executive of the state of Ne
braska and chairman of the state
council of defense, had specifically
requested that all the facts of the
industrial war in Omaha be brought
to light.
In advertisements and interviews
the employers emphasized their pa
triotism and deplored the "disloyalty"
of Omaha labor, while the trades
union spokesmen in June sent dele
cation to the state capitol at Lincoln
and asked Gov. Neville to throw
searchlight into the whole works
Of all the fourteen crafts that stop
ped work in April and May, only
one, the teamsters, went on strike,
declared a printed statement. signed
by the Building Trades League and
presented to the governor.
The 'teamsters' went out because
their president was peremptorily dis
charged by the C. w. Hull Co., May
II. Though Omaha's interstate ad-
vertising boasts that the city has "no
slums," the following paragraph ap-
pears in the Omaha Building Trades
League statement to the state coun-
Gil of defense:
"Teamsters will return to work
for the following minimum wage
scale: $14 per week, one-horse wag-
on; SIC per week, two-horse light
freight and delivery wagons; SIS
per week, two-horse coal and build
ing material wagons. They ask that
at least the employers agree to give
union men preference when hiring
teamsters, but do not insist that the
closed shop prevail. The increase
in wages asked is slight, as most of
the material men were working on
commission previous to the difficulty
and almost averaged the minimum
wages now asked"
1t was in this situation where
teamsters had almost averaged" $14
a week on one-horse wagons that
Judge Charles Leslie issued "a blan-
ket injunction ordering fourteen
crafts to keep away from all struck
shop premises or be liable to the
customary Jail sentences for con-
tempt of court. Note the distinc-
tion drawn by Judge Leslie between
property rights and human rights.
If the big, main consideration We're
property rights, the judge said he
would have asked for more evidence
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-08-03
EXECUTIVE ORDER

| hereby create a Committee on
Public Information, to be com
posed of the Secretary of State,
the Secretary of War, the Secre-
tary of the Navy, and a civilian
who shall be charged with the
the executive direction of the
committee.
As civilian chairman of the
committee l appoint Mr.. George
Creel.
The Secretary of State, the
Secretary of War, and the Sec
retary of the Navy are authorized
each to detail an officer or Of
ficers to the work of the COM
mittee.
WOODROW WILSON.
April IA, 1917.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-08-03
OMAHA HAS BECOME UNFAIR TO
LABOR AND SSUFFERING FOR 1T

Having organized to strangle la
Dor the Business Mems Association
gagged its own members to prevent
them from giving testimony before
the Nebraska Mediation Board and
employed an attorney to see that
they didn't. Financial ruin is the
penalty for refusing to aid in
strangling labor. Oh, Omaha is a
fine city, and one would imagine
that Everett mill men and CONNER
cial Club were managing her affairs.
Read the story:
(The following is issued by The
National Labor Defense Council as a
dispassionate review of industrial
conditions in Omaha, Neb., revealed
through ten days investigation by
Carl Sandburg of the Editorial Staff
of the Council.)
By CARL SANDBURG
With it's right hand the Business
Mems Association of Omaha is wav-
ing the American flag; with it's left
hand it is trying to strangle or
ganized labor. We make the charge
that if there is disloyalty and trea-
son those guilty are the employers
of Omaha"
So speaks Thomas Reynolds, pres
ident of the Nebraska Federation of
Labor, a member of the Nebraska
State Council of Defense and of the
Nebraska State Board of Mediation.
For three weeks ending July ID the
mediation board heard witnesses.
Not one business man would testify.
81 refuse to answer on advice of
COUNSEL" was the invariable reply
of business men called. While the
employers did their best to throw
secrecy and darkness about the facts
of the ten-week lockout of building
trades and the strike of the team
sters, one witness after another
from fourteen trades unions took the
stand and answered promptly all
questions asked.
"Where is the treason and who are
the traitors?" asks Reynolds, "Sworn
testimony indicates a $1,000,000 fund
has been raised by organized employ
ers to make Omaha a non-union
town. Their published advertise
ments say they wish to model Oma-
ha after Los Angeles rather than
Pittsburgh, Chicago and San Fran
cisco. They have chosen a time
when the nation is at war for launch
ing their fight to destroy the unions.
One of their advertisements says
labor strikes are unpatriotic' and
another asks in a big headline, IS
it patriotism in a year of war for
labor unions to try to enforce new
conditions and aggressive demands p
1t would seem to be situation
where the employers paying big sums
to advertise conditions would be glad
to testify as to the. facts at pub
lie hearing. Yet the truth is that
not one employer called on would
tell his story and the mediation
boards record consists mostly of
what labor men said. This sort of
secrecy is so near to disloyalty and
treason that in my reports as a
member of the State Council of De-
fense and as a member of the
State Mediation Board, l shall say
that the employers of Omaha, who
through subterfuges are prolonging
the industrial war in Omaha, are at
the same time lending aid and COM
fort to the enemy nation with which
the United States is at war"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-08-03
KEEP RENTS DOWN
DURING THIS WAR

NEW YORK, July 2o.-Ihe JO-
seph Fels International Commission
issues the following statement:
President Wilson's plea for low
prices during the war will lose its
effect unless it is taken to heart
by landlords in fixing the price at
which persons engaged in industrial
and commercial enterprises will be
permitted the use of the necessary
land.
Without a check to the upward
trend of rents, all the saving due
to low prices will be absorbed by
the landowners. This. is the only
conclusion possible to those who
have studied the effect on real es-
tate values and rents of such con
cessions in price as lowered car
fares, or concessions of higher wages
which, like lower prices, mean in
creased buying power.
In Cleveland, cent fares merely
increased the values and rents Of out
lying residence property. In Law
renee, Mass, the wage increases that
followed the great strike of 1912
were entirely absorbed by the land
lords, who raised the rent to the
employees of the woolen mills.
Already rents more than any other
factor are responsible for the high
cost of living and the consequent
oppression of the great majority of
working people. In New York City,
for instance, Commissioner Dillon of
the State Department Of Foods and
Markets points to the high rentals
for places used in wholesale and re-
tail food distribution as the key to
situation in which the people are
charged prohibitive prices for food
that hardly pays the farmer to
raise.
Food prices and prices for every
commodity can be brought down au-
tomatically by reduction in rents.
This will not only lower the fixed
charges on every pound or article of
food and clothing, but it will break
the privileged monopoly hold on the
supply of the comparatively few IA
vored dealers who can afford the
prevailing high rents and prefer to
pay them rather than see free COM
petition.
No other method of lowering prices
will accomplish the desired result,
for the saving will be appropriated
in higher rents.
Mr.. Hoover could do nothing better
in his campaign for economy in food
than appeal to the owners of prop
erty used in food distribution and
handling to KEEP RENTS DOWN.
Patriotic appeals will be listened
to at this time. But adequate treat
ment of the high cost of living ques-
tion requires something more. 1t
requires change in our method of
taxation by which industry and en-
terprise will be released from taxa
tion and public revenues secured from
taxes on the rental value of land,
this value to be based on the po-
tential value of each piece of land.
Only by taking this step can we
put the Stacker acres and the slack
er lots to work and break the pow
er of the landowner to tax us at
every turn.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-08-03
TWO WEEKS MORE WAR

A prominent citizen entered the
barber shop of Rallston and Altman
Saturday and cheered Tom Altman
with the prediction that the war
would end in two weeks.
upon what do you base your pre-
diction?" asked Tom.
Prom. Cit.-"My brother enlisted
today to serve during the war, and
| never knew him to hold job more
than two weeks"