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

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Protection for girls sent from other
| islands TO the girls Industrial school.
| Legislation with regard 70 deIin-
qEent parents. r.. ...-
The changing Of the majority of
I girls from Is TO 90 years, which would
enable them to be kept longer in the
industrial school. g..
Also akin TO this was Prof. A. L.
Andrews talk on needed care for the
fee5le-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 inyes.
tigation Of conditions Eere should be
made r.. =.
Vice Abatement Plans ..-..
Former Governor Frear clearly and
forcefully outlined the "red-light 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 il is needed now
more than ever and expressed the
belief that If the citizens of the com
munity do their share it will pass
at 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
its report. n" H."
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,
the handling Of vice In two
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 |
said the speaker, but it is |
a 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 |
t.
Action by individuals Needed
He pointed to this as one of the
conditions in Honolulu constantly |
laced by those who for more than a
year have been working on the prob
EN- of law and order and abatement
0f vice.
Passing resolutions is all right and
moral support is all right, but there
las got to be action too, and you men
rave got TO be. among those who act,
he said. I'VE, won't get 4 cleaner city1
inless we work for it. 1t has been
shown that the organiza.
ion of our city is not doing the work
We have right to expect of 1.-THE
is shaky. Whose fault is
tg II is the fault of every man who |
Doesn't come to the front with action
when the time comes for real, hard
work. II we want city that is aver
lgely clean. one that the average man
nay be proud of as his city, we have
rot to do something for ourselves. i
ralking won't do it. The forces
against decency are organized. The II
orces on the other side are not We
lave got to organize and organize |
lot for childs play but for a scrim-
nage-and stay with It."
The league passed vote OF thanks
o the Womens Society. which served
upper, and to the Kamehameha
chool boys, who waited on tables and |
endered several vocal selections.