Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-07
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT
IT. is LEVELED AT MEMS LEAGUE

More assistants for the truant Off,
f Ger. "
: Protection for girls sent from other
I islands 10 the girls Industrial school.
/ Legislation with regard to delin-
pIent parents. 's-. r..
The changing Of the majority of
girls from Is to 20 years, which would
enable them to be kept longer in the
Industrial school. :. ..~
Also akin to this was Prof. A. l..
+ Andrews talk on needed care for the
. IcebLs-minded Coming fresh from
mainland study, he told Of progressive
legislation elsewhere and pointed out
particularly the dangers of allowing
the feeble-minded to propagate their
kind. He felt that systematic inves,
tigatlon Of conditions here should be
made .s .~...
Vice Abatement Plans
Former Governor Frear clearly and
| f0rcefully outlined the ''redIight abate-
ment" law and told briefly why it
had not been put through the last two
sessions Of the Hawaii legislature. He
pointed out that it is needed now
more than ever and expressed the
belief that if the citizens of the com
munity do their share ii will pass
ct the coming session. He told of the
objections raised to it and answered
these quite convincingly. He called
the grand jury which closed Iwilei
fearless and progressive" and praised
It's report.
Wallace r. Harrington followed this
with another phase of the same
theme--the helplessness of any man
or set of men to effect clean-ups with
out the assistance of the businessmen
OF the community, large and small.
He told Of the work of the Cham
Der OF Commerce vice committee, and
said that the chamber, though receiy-,
ing majority and a minority report,
presenting the handling of vice in two
absolutely irreconcilable aspects, had
taken no clean-cut position on the
subject. II had received the reports
and placed them on file.
"This IS not complaint and it is not
criticism" said the speaker, but it is
statement of fact"
He went on with other statements
of fact leveled directly at the men
sitting around him. He called for a
show of hands on the question how
many of those present had read the
majority report Of the committee. pub
lished in full in both papers. About
10 per cent of those present had read
il.
Action by individuals Needed
He pointed to this as one of the
conditions in Honolulu constantly
faced by those who for more than a
year have been working on the prob
lem of law and order and abatement
Of vice.
Passing resolutions is all right and
moral support is all right, but there
has got to be action too, and you men
have got to be among those who act,
he said. I'VE won't get a cleaner city
unless we work for it. 1t has been
conclusiyely shown that the organizas
ton of our city is not doing the work
we have a right to expect of 1.-THE
machinery is shaky. Whose fault is
il? II is the fault of every man who
doesn't come to the front with action
when the time comes for real, hard
work. If we want city that is. aver
agely clean, one that the average man
may be proud of as his city, we have
got to do something for ourselves.
Talking won't do it. The forces
against decency are organized. The
forces on the other side are not. We
have got to organize and organize
not for child.s play but for scrinn.
mage--and stay with it"
The league passed a vote of thanks
to the Women's Society, which served
supper, and to the Kamehameha
school boys, who waited on tables and
rendered several vocal selections.