Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-13
Due to Financial Irregularity.
Says One Side; Pastor Parker
Gives a Different View

GlpeS q UH1efenl view
/ The factional differences in historic
/ KaWaiahaO church. reaching climax
/ last Sunday night, bark back to charg,
es OF financial irregularity in the
Christian EndeaVor Society four
months ago. according to statement
/ TO the Star-Bulletin today by Mrs.
Alice Kahokuoluna, one OF the storm
centers in the scene Sunday night
! This venerable church. long the bull
wark for Christian work among the
Hawaiians and with many traditions
i about its famous edifice with a pastor
who has seen more than half a cen
| fury of devoted service, is now in tn
mutt with charges and counter-charg-
es One of these charges. strange to
| the ears of the visitor but familiar to
those living in Hawaii, has to do with
| alleged consultation of "kahunas" by
| one of the members 'Kahunaism" is
outlawed in Hawaii, placed on plane
with 'witch-doctoring" and voodooism
as a resort to superstition and to the
ancient practise of consulting medi-
cine-men and soothsayers. -"
Mrs Kahokuoluna presided at the
Christian Endeavor meeting which
Rev. H. H. Parker. pastor of the
church, tried to disband. She and
her husband claim that the whole row
is due to the fact that the pastor has
taken sides with Mrs. Julia Bowers,
former president of the Endeavor So
ciety, after Mrs Bowers was suspend
ad nv al hn
coyery that she had wrongfully used
Endeayor funds; borrowed from the
treasurer. John Kea.
Mr. and Mrs. Kahokualuna visited
the Star-Bulletin early this morning
to put their side of the case before
the public. ~. ..... -.
The whole trouble arises from our
difficulty with, Mrs. Bowers and Mr.
John Kea," says Mrs. Kahokuoluna,
land this dates back about four
months ago. We were going to have
an Endeavor convention at Waianae
and raised about 1920 for the expenses
Mrs. Bowers had been the president.
but she did not run for reelection,
and little later on We found out why.
David P. Kahaulelio, our new presi-
dent, was to 60 to Waianae but when
the time came he found that Treasur-
er Kea had only about $40. of the
money. Then it came out that Mrs.
Bowers had borrowed the rest and
spent it, SF@ =. Ill.,
Investigation Is Held . T.. 49,. I'LL
Mrs. Kahokuoluna tells long story
here of the investigation of this alleg-
ed irregularity by the society, and the
suspension of Mrs. Bowers and Treas
urer Kea. Mrs. Bowers finally made
restitution of most of the money, but
she says that the society refused to
take Mrs. Bowers back until the latter
had made public apology. ....-...
Mrs. Bowers went to Pastor Parker
and worked on his sympathies," the
story goes on, and he sided with her
and ordered our Christian Endeavor
Society to disband. We refused and
this was the real reason for his oppo-
sition to our president, David Kahau-
lelio, which resulted in the scene Sun
day night" ~. .'-S-' IL.
Mrs. Kahokuoluna says that the
society consulted Rev. Akaiko Akana,
another Hawaiian pastor, and was ad-
yised not to disband, but to stand by
its guns, and this, she says, it has
been doing, and was doing on Sunday
night when she, as leader of the meet
ing, was ordered by Mr.. Parker to
leave the chair She refused and then
came the sceen when Pastor Parker
ordered G. Naukana, who has spe-
cial policeman's commission, to take
the woman away. He also ordered the
janitor to turn out the lights She
says he also appealed to the board of
deacons to drag me out of the chair,
but they declined to do So. The meet
ing later was brought to an abrupt
and excited close. g..
Says Members Stood by Her Action
Mrs. Kahokuoluna says that she
asked the society if it wished to stand
by her or the pastor on Sunday night,
and that virtually the entire member
ship stood by her, and thus by David
Kahaulelio, president. She insists
also that Pastor Parker was offered
Is minutes to state his case before
the society and declined to do so, in
stead ordering the meeting to dis
band. >-.....
Both she and-her husband say that
when the society suspended Mrs.
Bowers, the pastor ordered the so
ciety to disband. This was about
three months ago. The society re-
fused and sent a written protest,
which, they say, the pastor threw in
the face of the committee carrying it
to him in his study D.. T. <"~....<.
The charges of Pastor Parker
against Kahaulelio, they maintain,
were never properly preferred, nor
was the Endeavor president allowed
to appear on his own behalf before
the board of deaeons, which suspended
him. They say also that though he