The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-11-06
Tip For Everyone

TN view of the report that many Japanese were
l deferred from subscribing to the second Lib
erty Loan by the advice that TO do so would be to
admit that the Japanese of Hawaii have money
and would thus nullify the claim that Japanese
labor here is underpaid, the tip to Hawaiian
Japanese" published by Editor Okumura in the
current number of The Boy is timely.
1t is also applicable in than a few ways
to the resident OF Hawaii not of Japanese blood
and could be read by many food-slacker and
mental-objector to advantage.
In the recent issue of Yale Review, Simeon strunsky
gives very interesting and persuasive artice,-an
article which every thinking japanese in Hawaii ought
to read says The Boy He proves that the present
has passed beyond the captains and the kings"
THE in the final count - he says depends not
on the ability of the leaders to lead, much on
the capacity and willingness of the common man to be
led and organized, as the common mans capacity
and Willingness TO suffer and sacrifice.
"t is not so much question of what the common
man can be made or induced to do, but what he will
consent to do without He has been asked do without
his customary amount of leisure and recreation with
out his customary amount of bread and drink, without
the safeguard Of the labor union regulations which he
has built up for himself in the of years. with
the laws for the protection of in industry,
without schooling for his children who needed for
work in the fields
1--WE speak of national organization as If it meant
only the utilization of waste and avoidance of maad
justment. National organization in this has really
meant the abandonment by the common man of many
of fe's necessities and his subsection to maadjust
ment; other word viii correctly describe the
formation of a mother of children into a muniton-
worker. If the had been truly of
military leadership and preparedness in the old fashion
ed sense Russia should have been out of the two
years ago, the German at that time under the in
huepce of the old ideas expected her to be. .N..t
If the war had been of superior organization in the
older sense in the marshahg of normal national
sources usually understood Germany should have
long ago succeeded in crushing Russia into peace. But
since the struggle has resolved itself into of ee-
entary endurance Russia after three years is still
in the war. When II comes to living on half rations,
TO sweating in the fields to children doing the
work of men, Slav nferiorty disappears The mujik
sarve as we'll as the highly trained Prussian.
Is this not great fact WHICH every japanese in
Hawaii ought TO think of Why harangue much,
seeking only unselfsh and immediate happi.
nessi Are you so mean and low down to take al
vantage of your host struggling in their battle of life
deathf Is II not great patriotism to the country
in which you are merely guest TO sacrifice your
money, pleasure and leisure to help her win the war3
If you really man, il you truly and faithfully
following the codes of Bushdo you will do il. You
win help America by joining her Red Cross and by
investing in the Liberty Loan. DO il nowl-- Don't
heed the cries of the demagOgues labor agitaors!