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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-17
WAIAHOLE GETS
FERTILE GROWTH

Waiahole School, Oahu, Feb. 8. 1917.
Editor Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Sir: We are sending you another
report of our garden work. The plants
are growing well now that the cold
rains are over. The garden judges
visited us week ago. There we're
no sweet vegetables to offer them
then.
We have worked hard in the garden
this week, digging, planting, wedding
and watering. We can see the results
of our work.
Kan Fat took some pictures of our
garden We are going to send you
the films II they print well we hope
you will put the picture in the Star
Bulletin.
Yours respectfully,
HOON SEU YUNG.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-17
AHUALOA Wants
BEAUTY ASWELL
AS USEFULNESS
Honokaa. Hawaii. Feb. 8, 1917
Editor Honolulu Star-Bulletin,

Honokaa, Hawaii. Feb. 3, 1917.
Editor Honolulu Star-Bulletin,
Honolulu, T. H.
Sir: Thinking that many letters will
be too troublesome Ito you'll our
teacher has arranged SO that now only
one letter q week will be sent to you
II will not always. be the same boy
that will write. but shall be alter
nately.
We are having very. hard time In
softening the soil OF our school farm.
We are arranging the whole farm into
beds of about so feet by 20 feet.
We have plenty of wood ashes and
will enrich the soil with 1t.
We are going TO make bitches in
different parts of the farm so as to
drain the water In very rainy days. II
we don't do this our beds will surely
be flooded some day.
We dig the soil deep so as to allow
easy extension TO the tender roots OF
the vegetables. We are taking every
precaution with our school farm
Soon we shall be ready 70 plant and
Mr.. Rain has not been polite enough
to water the beds. We are planning,
sort OF flume to bring water from
the school tanks to the farm.
We ordered our seeds from Philadel-
phia. We expect them a few weeks
from now. Among the lot we have
some flower seeds. You may wonder
why we want them. We want to have
flowers In our farm so as to make it
beautiful and attract people.
We have learned what vegetables
have easy sale and bring the most
profit, and these We have ordered for.
We have poor tools, but We are max
ing the best we can with them until
the new tools arrive.
We are keeping an account OF all
expenses and later on of all sales.
We wish to know our loss or. gain on
our farm.
By next time think I'll have more
to say about our school farm.
Yours truly.
CHARLES DE MELLO,
Grade vi, Ahualoa School.
4 ? s. i
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-17

every home garden. but now feel by
electing captains can keep in touch
with these. besides 1t would be Inn
possible for me to see each garden as
often as these captains can.
feel that am learning more than
any of the children in this work.
Besides the experience am getting
from the garden and the suggestions
and helps from the many bulletins, 1
am also taking q course in Vegetable
Gardening by correspondence from
the University of California Such as
I can pass on to the children that will
be of benefit do. l feel that the
best I can give these children in this
line is none too good.
believe the Emergency Garden
Association" can furnish q new inn
petus to this work. besides. as Mr..
Westgate suggests. "incidently de-
yeiop patriotism"
Thanking you and all who are in
terested in this work,
am sincerely yours.
CARRIE ALICE THOMPSON.
Principal Kaneohe School
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-17
Even THE BABY
CLASS CAN help

Keahua School, Iiaui, T. H., Feb. 8,
1917.
Editor Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
Sir: | am gong to write you about
the gardens. Our gardens are very
pretty. / have made a big garden,
which divided into three parts be-
cause it would be hard to irrigate. All
the bigger boys dig the ground while
the baby class weeds. All the school
boys are interested with their garden.
ing. Since / wrote you last the vege.
tables have grown about six inches
long. The corn is growing beautifully
and the beans are growing nicely, too.
Our gardening work looks pretty. But
the chickens come inside and scratch
all the corn up, and they even bite
the beans The cabbage cannot grow
very wen because there are 50 many
little insects that eat the tender
leaves. We picked Japanese cabbage
and lettuce which We gave to our
teacher. / cannot think of mere today.
Yours very truly,
RAPHEAL MOLINA,
Grade "
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-17
THE PRIZES


y The following prizes are Of 4
= fered by the Star. Bulletin and :
= Mr.. Frank c. Atherton::
= OAHU 4
y School gardens-First prize, 4
= s25; second prize, SIS; third :
\ prize, SO. \
= Home eardens-First prize,
= SIS; second prize, SIS; third, 4
= prize, $40. 4
y School sardens-First prize, =
= s25; second prize, SIS; third, =
\ prize, SO.
y Home sardens-First prize, \
= SIS; second prize, SIS; third =
= prize, SO. \
= School gardens-First prize,
: $25; second prize, SIS; third =
= prize, SO.
= Home aardens-First prize, 4
= $25; second prize, SIS; third =
\ prize, $40. \
y MOL oKAi AND LANAI =
= School gardens-First prize, =
= SIS; second prize, IS. 4
4 Home gardens-First prize, =
= SIS; second prize, S..
\ EAST HAWAII 4
= School oardens-Eirst prize, =
= SIS; second prize, SIS; third, =
= prize, $40. =
y Home pardens-First prize, =
= SIS; second prize, SIS; third =
4 prize. SO. 4
WEST HAWAII
School gardens First prize, :
4 12s second prize, SIS; third, =
\ prize, $40. =
= Home oardens-First prize, =
: SIS; second prize, SIS; third \
= prize, SO. =
q = = 4 \ ! q = . = = 4 = = = =
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-17
CONTEST NOTES

Pupils of Eieele school, Kauai,
write that their vegetables are ready
to sell. Letters we're received this
week from Minoru Morioka, Wong
Bung, Kuni Mort and Yoshi Yama-
moto. =
Writing from Hanapepe, Kauai,
All Lup Yuen and Joe Comes talk
Interestingly about their gardens,
which they are tending faithfully
kazuto lkeda, Kaumana school, Hilo,
tells how the pupils Of his school made
sprinkler out Of an empty tomato
can. This shows enterprise and in.
genuity.
Masaru Teshima and Isami Beppu
are among the Kihei pupils who wfcte
from Maui this week. The Kihei
school farm is doing nicely. Other
Kihei letters are from Kujo Watanabe
AMI Hatsuko. "
Yam Cheong wrote from Hauuka,
Oahu, about the lack of rain, on Feb
CONTINUED on page two)
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-17
MORE SCHOOLS ENTER FARM CON7E RIVALRY FOR PRIZES GROWS KER
Miss Rain" Was
AT Ookala Once
But Has Vanished
ookaIa. Hawaii. Feb. 5. 1917

ookaIa. Hawaii. Feb. s. 1917.
Editor Honolulu Star-Bulietin.
Dear Sir: Two weeks ago Miss
Rain was here. but after that time.
! never saw her again. She forgot to
send some of her rain drops to 90.
kala
The young plants in our garden are
not growing well nov because the
weather conditions are unfavorable.
However, the boys are watering them
daily. The heat of the sun has killed
some of the plants.
The pupils of my school are pleased
with their new automatic school
desks. The desks were shipped in
December, 1916. / hope our new
school will be built soon.
! beg to remain,
Yours respectfully,
MASA0 MINRA,
Reporter, Ookala School
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-17
Farming Learned
By Kahuku Boys
Who Are on Alert

\ Kahuku, Oahu, Jan. ~, 1917 !
= Editor Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
\ Sir: The plants are growing
\ well in our school garden with :
4 the exception of the Spinach, :
\ Kohl Rabi and Chinese Celery
4. Cabbage. The seeds could not !
\ have been fresh as hardly any of
\ them grew. We have bought
\ some more seeds Of the same
\ kind and will give them another !
= trial.
\ Before we started out in this :
\ contest six of us went out visit :
\. Ing different farms in the neigh :
y borhood and even as far as Wal
= alu to see how work is carried I
y on and the methods of laying I
\ out gardens by some Of the ex- :
\ perienced farmers. We learned :
4 that we were on the right path I
\ and also found that our last I
4 terms garden compared favor I
\ ably with some of them. We are !
4 now adopting some of the sug- I
\ gestions we got from them and :
\ hope to become good farmers. :
Yours truly,
= HIDEMICHI TOK1NfASA. :
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-17
NOW FORMS
SCHOOL Club AND
PROGRESSES We'll
Paia. Maui. Feb. u. 1917.

Paia, Maui, Feb. II, 1917.
Editor Honolulu Star-BulIet:n.
Sir: The continual work on the
Paia school gardens is progressing
spsendidly. With the aid of Mr..
Wells and Mr. Pereira, many boys
have planted their gardens. Every
boys garden is an experimental one.
Every boy keeps a record Of his gar
den. Beans and other vegetables
are sometimes planted with fertilizer
end sometimes without.
Our vocational work instructor,
Mr.. A. Pereira, has gotten all the boys
together and formed what is called
the Paia School Farm Club.
elected president, a vice-president,
= secretary and "a treasurer. There
are over IS boys in this club. Meet.
ings will be called as frequently as
possible to discuss matters of diff
Guilty which may confront the mem
bers of this club.
Very soon Paia school gardens viii
be Garden of Paradise -
Respectfully yours,
MANUEL SILVA,
Grade VIII, Paia School.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-17
GIRLS OF KlHEI MAKE
GARDENS TO BLOSSOM

Kihei, Maui, T. H., Feb. 9, 1917.
Editor Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
Dear Sir: / am going to tell you
about school farming in Kihei. Every
day the boys work very hard. They
are growing very well. The boys we're
digging out the stones to make new
beds. We have planted ,marigold along
the fence. They are growing very well.
We made little beds along the fence
and planted flower seeds in them.
They have not grown yet.
Yours truly.
ATOKU TAKAYAMA.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-17
WAIMEA SPRAYS
TO CHECK PESTS
waimea, Kauai, Feb. 5, 1917.

waimea, Kauai Feb. s, 1917.
Editor Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
Sir: The Waimea school gardens
are getting on nicely. The boys have
been planting potatoes, lettuce and
other vegetables.
Our class is particularly interested
In sweet potatoes.
The vines of the potatoes are two
feet and eight inches long now. Every
day we go to our gardens to see II
there is something new to surprise us.
The rain in December helped to
water the plants and to make them
sprout
The leaves are beginning to have
insects on them and today we sprayed
them with solution of 10th pound
Of arsenate OF lead to one gallon Of
water.
Yours truly,
ANDREW IONA.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-17
AIEA LAD GETTING HIS
HOME GARDEN IN SHAPE

Aiea School, Oahu, Feb. Is, 1917.
Editor Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
Sir: / am beginning to get my home
garden in shape
/ couldn't get l. ready at a. earlier
date on account Of the wet gr,Jnd, /
think by next week I'll be able to SOW
ny seeds.
Yours truly,
Dear Sir: Rain! Raini! Rain!!!
Graz ~.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-17
WE BELIEVE IN
PREPAREDNESS
MAKAP A'SIDEA
Kohala. Hawaii, Feb. 5, 1917.

Kohala, Hawaii, Feb. 5, 1917.
editor Honolulu Start Bulletin.
Sir: This letter to you is an an
nouncement that eur school is to en-
ter your agricultural contest.
We have obtained permission from
Manager Hall of tle Multi Plantation
for the use of some land adjoining the
school grounds for garden purposes.
We have. weeded the place and now
are fencing II. with old fence material
and hau sticks.
We believe in preparedness. There
is no sense in trying to raise plants
# you are not go5ng toSprotect them
from horses, mules, cows, chickens
and ducks.
You will hear from US again.
I remain yours truly,
VIOLET SOLOMON,
For Makapala School.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-17
Talks With The Editor On.
The Progress Of The Contest

many schools have shown their enter.
prise by arranging to sell their vege-
tables.
In the home garden contest the re-
suits up to date are very encouraging.
In fact, the spirit of energy, perse-
verance and care is permeating all
the schools and the pupils and the
whole territory is alive with the pro-
gress toward marked improvements.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-17
Keahua, Maui. Feb. 9. 1s17.

Editor Honolulu Star-BulIetin.
Sir: | am going to write you little
letter to tell you about our garden. /
planted radishes and they grew up all
right. No insects harmed the plants
so | am pleased about it. In another
garden / planted carrots and beans
and I picked it several times. I have
a home garden too. I planted onions
and papaia. 1t bore green and small
ones. The onions are green and well.
Some of the school boys are doing well
too. And want my garden to be the
best So / am trying hard. | don't
want my garden to be the worst OF all.
Do you?
Yours sincerely,
YoSHIHARU ITO.
Grade V.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-17


neohe In remarkably interesting letters from the pupils and
evident
Principal Thompson takes deep and sent interest the
value for the territory this
eehonll cnnnA iinaA
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-17
Hilo Union Will
Haze Illustrated
Article in Later

= Girls of Hilo Union school this 4
y week sent down some very inter
4 esting letters On domestic sci 4
\ ence work, with photographs by 4
\ Charlotte Hapai of the eighth :
\ grade. There was not space for 4
\ the contributions this Saturday 4
y but they will be published IN a !
= later Issue. Hilo Union is evil I
= IDENTIFY up and doing in practical 4
4 work. ~. -. T:.-
= I
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-17
PAIA SCHOOL ARTICLE
AND>PicTuRE LATER

Manuel Silva sends from Paia,
; Maui. a letter and photographs
Of garden class end stones tax
en- from the cultivated ground.
; These will be published later.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-17
GOOD GROWTH REPORTED
BY BOYS OF PUUNENE

Puunune, Maui. T. III. Feb. 10, 1917.
Editor Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
Dear Sir: I have a home garden
and am trying to win the first
prize. My garden Is near the cane
field. My partner, Mlnoru Fukuda.
and I are working very hard.
The garden Is about ten feet
square. We had hard time TO make
the ground soft and clean Of stones
and grass.
Friday. Feb. 9, we planted lettuce.
radfsh, beet and Chinese cabbaeo
seeds. hope that we can see plants
growing next MONDAY Before We
planted the seed We irrigated the
ground so it would be wet for them.
Yours truly.
IWA0 FURUKAWA.
Fifth Grade.
Dear Sir: planted my seeds Wed
nesday and Thursday. We irrigated
the ground before we planted the
seeds. In some places the water was
so swift that it broke the walls Of
the garden. II rushed In and spoiled
some gardens. NY garden was not
hurt by, the water.
I have planted daikon. beets. and
Chinese cabbage.
Yours respectfully.
KENIcHI INoBE.
Fifth Grade.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-17

Ouly the actions Of the just
Smell sweet. and blossoms in the dust. Shirley.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-11-23
TO FREE ARMY "NERVES"
New Branch of Military Inspection
Headed by Ten of Leading Psyche
Patholoeists of Country.

American soldiers who 20 to France
must be not only physically fit, but
also nervously and mentally fit.
A new branch of military inspection,
headed by ten of the leading psyche
Psychologists of the country. has been
established to safeguard the army
against the weak-mind and the imbe-
Gle, to weed out the men whose nerv-
Gus systems are broken down, to make
sure that the fighting forces mt the
front are not handicapped by "the man
with nerves."
Examinations to be given by the
neurologists will not only eliminate the
unfit, but will prevent the would-be
slackers from feigning nervousness or
mental sickness.
Five clinics have been established
where doctors may prepare for this
service, the clinics being located as
follows: The Psychopathic hospital,
Boston; the Phipps Psychiatric clinic,
Baltimore; the Michigan Psychopathic
hospital, Ann Arbor; the Neurological
institute, New York, and the Psychla-
trio institute, Wards island, New York.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-11-23
FINAN CiAl NOTES.

The Bankers Trust Co. of Tacoma
has been absorbed by the Scandina,
vian-American Bank of Tacoma and
Seattle.
Articles of incorporation for the Kla-
math State Bank. of Klamath Falls,
Ore, have been filed and a capital
stock of $4,000 already has been sub.
scribed.
The new ban king code for the state
of Washington contains a number OF
provisions of d most drastic nature
Among them are the following The
making of any false statement to the
bank examiner is perjury and punish
able by impliso nments. 1t is felony
to permit any officer or employee to be-
come indebted to it out of its trus
funds, in case the corporation does a
trust business. 1t is felony to con-
ceal any fact or suppress any evidence
or tamper with the banks records 1t
is against the law TO permit any direc-
tor, officer or employe to borrow the
banks funds in an excessive amount,
and every officer or director who con-
sents to such excessive or unauthor-
lied loan shall be personally liable for
any loss.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-11-23
NO PEACE BEFORE 1919, VIEW
OF MEDILL MCCORMICK
$4,000 Heavy C annon Greatest Aid U.
s. Can Give -Russia's Collapse,
Our Unreadiness Hinder.

Chicago.-Russia's collapse and the
unreadiness of the United States make
hopeless any thoughts of peace before
1919, in the opinion of Medill McCor-
mick, congressman at large of Illinois,
who has just returned from a visit to
most of the important fronts of the
European battle line.
he gives his views on methods nee
essary to win the war
Shipping, to be sure, is necessary.
before anything else" he observes,
because vessels must carry to France
the engines of destruction, btu above
all, heavy guns are necessary-heavy
guns, with their obvious compliments
OF aircraft and rail transportation, but
heavy guns and tsill more heavy guns,
10000 cannon to be made in American
factories and shipped to France before
March l, 1919"
The blight light forces returned with
out losses, with but little damage to
the ships and slight casualties among
the personnel.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-11-23
WE MUST ElP ENIANS.
Duty Of Every Person in This Coun
try to Aid poor People.

In addition to IT,. many calls fol
material aid In national and worlc
Undertakings, tp which people of the
Inland Empire are responding, they
are being stirred by the hunger cry
OF the thousands of helpless women
and children of Armenia, driven from
comfortable homes by the cruel Turk
and who are now looking to America
for the charity to keep them alive
during the winter, and possibly un
til after the war.
Several towns have organized strong
committees and are sending substan
tial contributions to the relief fund
headquarters in Spokane, at SAT Pey
ton block, through which the money
is forwarded TO New York. Many
churches and Sunday schools in the
cities and towns are making regular
contributions to- the relief fund. There
are over 100000 of the destitute PEG
pie, and in addition to food, more
clothing is needed as the rigors of ar
eastern winter approaches, but mon
ey only can be used by the commit
tee as clothing and supplies can not
be accepted, owing to the difficulty
of ocean transportation.
Every dime and every dollar con
tributed. goes direct to the refugees
all expenses of maintaining local of
flee and executive staff being met by
a New York philanthropist.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-11-23
Farmers Want Screenings.

Pullman, Wash.-What becomes of
the screenings from wheat, on which
Inland Empire farmers have this year
been locked from / to 6 per cent was
discussed at the meeting of Whitman
county Pomona grange No 2 recently.
Cimplaint was made that while all
wheat is inspected by the government
on federal grades the farmers so far
have received no return from the
screenings, for which full dockage has
been made at the mills. If these
screenings are kept by the mills the
farmers maintained that they should
either be reimbursed to the extent of
the value of the screenings for chicken
feed or the dockage reduced in proper
ton to the value Of the screenings.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-11-23
General I Trade Conditions.

Bradstreet's says: Most reports in
dlcate that a large volume of business
is passing, while at the same time in
dustry is active and collections ar:
prompt, but withal sentiment is har
ried by adverse developments over
seas, by drastic liquidation of securi
ties and by the fact that various prop
uganda to restrict consumption of fool
stuffs as well as buying of non-esse 4
tials unfavorably affects distribution
by retail traders.
However, the main propelling infll
ence, as for some time past. is GOV.
ermental buying, supplemented, Of
course by large civilian demand, es
pecially in soll-sustained zones, in
which regions neither world politics
nor depreciation in securities deter
rat1vely free buying of essential ar
tlcles. Indeed, merchants in some sec
tons OF the country, particularly in
the west and southwest, are not only
back logs to trade being furnished by
realized good crops in the west and 29
anticipating spring requirements, but
are bordering to fill broken stocks
cent cotton in the south.
Buying for the holidays is in eyi
dence and in general way retail
trade has improved, but in this respect
reports tend to present indications OF
conservative buying, probably because
OF inordinately high prices for the
goods purveyed, increased taxes and
higher rents. Capacity operations con
tinue to characterize industrial move
swinging from the production of non
essentials to the more urgently needed
articles of war
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