Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-11-21
CONTROL
MORALE Of men,
SAYSEVANGELISI
Kaiser Living Insult to Purity
of Womanhood, Declares
Fred B. Smith

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Holding that the success OF Amerl-
can arms in the war depends upon the
morale of the men at the front, and
that this morale will be established
or disintegrated by the standards and
ideals maintained by the girls and
women at home, Fred B. Smith made
an impassioned plea for modesty and
for the high ideals of all that is best
in womanhood last night to as many
women as could crowd into Mission
Memorial hall. IT,. ...>@l.~..-... III
THE most serious peril of this ma
ton in the war is not the peril OF the
kaiser's guns, his airships, his sub
marines, nor any other agencies OF
the devil which he may employ" said
Mr. Smith. "Our men can shoot as
straight as the kaisers men and they
are not the kind who are ever afraid
And it will not be due to whisky. We
are overcoming that evtl-haVe
squelched it, so far as the men at the
front are concerned. The breakdown
of our army, if it should come, will
come through the weakening OF the
standards of social purity formerly up
held by the women of the nation-and
if it should come it will be due to the
women OF today, not to the men OF, the
country ~ F.. ..-.--. 49,. -.
After summing up of all the, indig-
mites and insults heaped upon women
by the kaiser, the speaker said:
IF there are any women among
you who still have any tears to shed
for the kaiser, who can find any word
to say on his behalf, God pity you for
shallow-souled, brainless creatures,
despicable and damnable in youl
blindness. The kaiser is a living in
suit to all that is good and pure and
holy in womanhood." -
Mr.. Smith said that he had found,
since leaving his home, that as the
distance from the Atlantic increased,
the tenseness of feeling about the war
decreased. Here in Honolulu it ceem-
ed to him we were not even ineonVen
fenced about the war-except in iso.
lated cases, we had not felt it at ALL
But in all that he said he went back
always to the theme of his discourse
that somewhere, somehow, the des.
tiny of every man on Gods earth was
controlled by some woman And be-
cause Of this the speaker maintained
that upon the women of the land, and
the standards Of morality and religion
held by them, depended the sue
cess of our men at the front.
Miss Martha Chiekering, Y. w. c.
A. field secretary of the Pacific coast
division, made a brief talk preceding
Mr.. Smiths address, in which she
promised a message of much import
ance to every woman in Honolulu,
which message will be delivered, as
announced by Mrs. Arthur G. Smith,
who made the introductions for the
evening, next Sunday night at the
Methodist church.
The musical program was all ar
ranged by Mrs. Montague Cooke, who
chose as leader Of the several hymns
that were sung, Mrs. Elizabeth Mack
all, with Mrs. L. F. Folsom as accom-
PIANIST.
/. Max Selinsky, the Russian violinist
choosing for his first number one Of
Kreisler's brilliant inspirations, en-.
titled the "Variationem," which was
INN diately followed by the liquid
beautiful notes Of Schubert's Ave
Maria" In this selection Mr.. Selingky
was said by those who heard him to
have excelled his performance of the
night before, in the same hall. This
may have been due in part to the
greater inspiration of larger audi
ence, and also possibly 20 the fact
that he had different violin, which,
while not so lovely to look upon a.
the instrument used on Monday eve
ming, possessed a velyety beauty Of
tone that could hardly be excelled by
any violin. The last of the three num-
bers played was "Schon Rosmarin,"
another composition of Kreisler's.
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