Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-12
Keep Your Eye On Victory.

This is done on the same theory that children are
scbooed in the Biblical knowledge by repeating
their caechism and Sunday school texts
The same methods that used to establish the
rules of right living and the principles OF justice 10
all mankind adopted to scar the minds OF emil
dren with the LESSONS Of hate.
And while this campaign of hate is being carried
on bv the enemy of our liberties, it is not only prop
or but vital to our cause that should heed the
counsel OF our leaders that minds and result
ing action shall hold the vital essentials OF the
great struggle.
One of the best texts for Otfsettng the hate pro
paganda of the kaiser is found in recent speech OF
Lloyd George in which he said, Let us keep our
eyes steadily on the winning of the war.
EngIand's premier in this particular speech pre-
sented to the army Of democracy some wholesome
truths that may with profit be read, and read again
4 by every man, woman and child in that army. His
remarks that follow are especially commended 1or
reading and repetition:
awhile the army is fighting valiantly let the
nation behind it be patient, be strong and, above
ALL united.
"The strain is great nations and on indivI-
duals and when men get over-strained tempers get
ragged and small grievances are exaggerated, and
small misunderstanding and mistakes swell into
mountains.
"Long wars, like long voyages and long Journeys,
are very trying to the temper, and wise men keep
watch on it and make allowances for it.
s'There are some who are more concerned about
ending the war than about winning it, and plans
which lead to victory, if they prolong the conflict
have their disapprova and the people who res
ponsibe for such plans have their condemnation.
..Let us keep our eye steadily on the winning of
the war.
MAY say let us keep both eyes? Some have
cast in their eye and while one eye is fixed truly
on victory the other is wandering around to other
issues staring stonily at some pet or partizan
project Of their own. Beware of becoming cross
eyed. j. = -"..
sKeep both eyes on victory Look neither to the
right nor to the left. That is the way will win.
sIf anyone promotes national distrust or dis
pnion at this hour he is helping the enemy and hurt
ing his native land. And it makes no difference
whether he is for against the As matter
Of fact the hurt is deeper if he is for the war. be
cause whatever the pure pacifst saws is discounted
aud, as far as the war is concerned, discredted.
sLet there be one thought in every head.
eff you SOW distrust, discomfort, disunion in the
nation shall reap defeat. If, on the other hand,
NE SOW the seeds of patience, confidence and unity,
We shall garner in victory and its fruits
"The last ridges of climb always the most
irving to the and to the heart but the real
test of great endurance and courage are the last
few hundreds or scores of feet in climb upwards
The climber who turns back when he is almost there
never becomes great mountaineer, and the nation
that turns back and faers before it reaches its pur
pose never becomes great people.
ssYou have all had experience in climbing. no
doubt-perhaps in Wales. Any mountaneer can
start any sort of mountaineer can go part of the
way; and very often the poorer the mountaineet is
the greater is his ardor when he does start; but
fatigue and danger wear out all but the stoutest
hearts and even the most stout hearted sometimes
fail when they to the last slippery precipice
But il they do turn back and afterwards look up
and see how near they had got to the top how they
curse the faintheartedness which babe them give
np when they were near the goal.
.sNo one has any idea in Britain, France,
Italy or Russia, nor in Germany; nor in Austria,
how near the top We may be- mere era. may
hide it from our view. And there accidents.
russia may have staggered for moment but she
is still on the rope; she in due time will be ND again
climbing strong limbed and firm Of purpose, and
fogether we shall reach the summit of our hopes >
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Attention has been called by the department of
commerce to the excellent qualities of New South
wales hardwoods for shipbuilding purposes Some
Of the most successful additions to Hawaiian for
estry have been hardwoods from that country AS
frees grow with amazing rapidity in Hawaii there
Il no reason why the raising of valuable timber
should not become great source of public revenue
and private wealth here 81.
Dismissal from the civil governorship of Belgium
,f sstha only, German who has ever evidenced any
h,,manitv toward the Belgians" is what might have
lon arnected from the dispenser of "frightfulness