The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-01-16
Compulsory Training

"A country shows, reports Leslie's Weekly that
the people tremendously in favor of the So
called Swiss system of universal training. The
Pacific Coast States and the South, supposed to
be opposed to preparedness or apathetic ON the
subject have given favorable votes rangingiffom
eighty to ninetynne per cent. The absolute failure
of the Hay scheme for federalizing the militia has
intensified the demand for compulsory military
training for all abe-bodied men as the only sou-
ton OF the national defense problem. There is
nothing more un-American," says Governor Whit
man of New York, than the theory that compul-
sorry military service is inconsistent with Ameri-
can tradition or American history" The Associ-
alton of Life Insurance Presidents pictures the av
erage American as good liver, weak muscled
and low-powered, and dying at forty-three. What
he needs is stiff course of military training in
early manhood that would make him fit for the in
tensity OF modern life in both peace and war.
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Now that we have heard the terms of the En-
tente and know for certainty that not Germany
nor Austria nor Turkey can afford to agree at this
stage to the least of them, will the President ex-
plain whether we continue to be in great danger
of being involved in the war, as he says we were
when he penned his note to the begerents? The
explanation OF the secretary of state was that we
ought to know on what terms the warning nations
would agree to quit, because knowing the terms
we would know what TO do ourselves if the scrap
pers kept on crowding Well, we know and
what are we going to do about it? Probably the
best thing will be to withdraw Pershng from Mex
leo That will double standing army at home
and make it plain to Germany or England or Bel
GUM or whoever we have it in for that we mean
business.
The opinion of the encouragement that the law
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with the government for the performance of work
done under an appropriation he has helped pass
may be good law in Hawaii but If the statute does
not forbid such contract, what in the name oil
commonsense does it do? If there be nothing in
our statute book to forbid senator or a represen-
tative from becoming the principal in a public
works contract the door is thrown wide open for
graft OF every description. However words do
not mean what they say in Hawaii They mean
only what the lawyers say they mean.
+ $3.50
The report from Washington is that there is no
intention of getting rid Of Governor Pnkham, des-
plte plenty of con6rmatory evidence the effectl
that the national administration is tired Of Our
Governor and his do-nothing policy as the Ter
ritory is. OF course, the department of the interior
is telling the newspaper correspondents just what
its intentions are That is the usual custom at
Washington.
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The difference between the Teutonc Allies and |
the Entente Powers in the matter Of ending the |
war is, writer in Golfers points out that the
Termanics want peace and the Entente wants
peace. The difference in sentence is little, only
one word of one letter. but the difference in the
meaning is ,tremendous. !
1888
What pity that mono-maniac Thaw was not
kept in Matteawan where he belonged Had he !
been the world would have been spared all the I
nasty details of all his recent nasty performances