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Mr.. and Mrs. "A. A. Hart, two prom.
inent Australians who have been at
the Moana hotel, have gone to San
Francisco for visit.
Capt. S. B. Baldwin, o. 8. A., and
Mrs. Baldwin, who arrived on the
transport, are making their home at
the Pleasanton hotel.
Miss H. C. Stevenson, a hotel pro-
prietor Of Australia, has left for home
after a three weeks visit in Honolulu
at the Pleasanton hotel.
Mrs. H. J. Crosse Of Reno, Nevada,
accompanied by Miss Eva Brinkman,
arrived on the Sonoma and has reg.
istered at the Pleasanton hotel.
After several weeks spent here on a
health jaunt, Max Miller, a guest at
the Pleasapton hotel, left on the Maui
for his home in Homestead, Penn.
Mrs. J. W. Lewis and Miss Florence
Music, who have ben at the Younc
hotel for some time, have moved to
the Moana. They are from Stockton,
California.
A prominent business man Of sgd
ney, Australia, who spent several
days here on his way home from Lon.
don, New York and. San Francisco,
was w. C. Jenkins. He left this week.
A popular couple Of prominent
globe trotters in Honolulu are Mr. and
Mrs. H. F. Edsall, who are at the Mo
ana hotel for an indefinite visit. The
visitors have been q year in the
Orient and were here for several
months prior to that time.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-15

Mr.. and Mrs. "A. A. Hart, two prom
inent Australians who have been at
the Moana hotel, have gone to San
Francisco for a visit.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-15

Capt. s. B. Baldwin, u 8. A., and
Mrs. Baldwin, who arrived on the
transport, are making their homo al
the Pleasanton hotel.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-15

Miss H. C. Stevenson, a hotel pro
prietor Of Australia, has left for home
after a three weeks visit in Honolulu
at the Pleasanton hotel.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-15

Mrs. H. J. Crosse Of Reno, Nevada,
accompanied by Miss Eva Brinkman,
arrived on the Sonoma and has reg
istered at the Pleasanton hotel.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-15

After several weeks spent here on {
health jaunt, Max Miller, guest a
the Pleasapton hotel, left on the Mau
for his home in Homestead, Penn.
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about my wife and kids. home on the
farm. or else I sleep. That can't be
wrong" The priest said: mo, that
can't be wrong" and gave him absolu-
ton. as they walked.
Nights Of sleeplessness in the trenches
according to Adolphe). when the
priest of Quimper" and two friends re-
cited the rosary aloud the entire trench
giving the short responses.
THE priest of Quimper used to hear
confessions all night long, says
Adolphe. He would start at one end
Of the trench. and-forward, march
he'd clean 'em all up"
And this is Adolphe!
For more technical exactitude, I
quote the Able Joseph D of Blois,
a sublieutenant.
above all. in war he says, the
priest is the minister of the sacraments
of penance and communion; penitence,
which reconciles the soul with God. and
communion, which makes heaven en-
tire descend into the soul and permits
a man to look death in the face. That
is why they want US here. The priest
soldier is the religious security of the
battalion"
To apply this Gas to couragel I must
point out that the men are not all the
time thinking each of his own per-
sonal religious state. but all gain con-
fdence from what they see of these
things, also. in others-in particular.
their officers.
The day we quit the second line our
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mostly through German territory. It's
mouth is at Rotterdam, and all com
merce over it must flow in ana out
through Holland. Similarly, the same
course must be taken for the German
traffic which is borne by the scheldt to
and from Antwerp.
International rights on rivers orisi /
mating in one country and having their
mouths in another country are TOO
familiar subjects of diplomatic history
to REQUIRE review. Free navigation al
ways is insisted on by the interior
countries Belgium and Holland never
have sought to deny free navigation
of the Scheldt and the Rhine. but II
has been thought wise by various Euro
pean conferences of the powers to de-
fine their status.
The free navigation of the Plate also
is taken as right in South America
and Uruguay never has sought to I'M :
pede it. vet sometimes the belief spreads
that the two big countries adjoining
might want to change the polcy, or
that Argentina at least might feel I'M
PEELED to- have an ocean front OF her
own at the mouth of the Plate. rms
situation must be understood in any
discussion of Uruguay's attitude In re,
gard to South America and Europe and
the United States.
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Painters put it in a single word in
letter to my next-door neighbors:
You heard that | had been appointed
officer adioint to the colonel. AS such,
Inevitably | would have no freedom.
the colonel. The able belongs to US.
they said. We want him to be with
US under fire, to risk our lives gayly
in all security, because we know that
a priest is beside US, ready at first
call ."
The military service law for priests.
of course, was not passed Gin 1900
with any such object. but purely in the
name of equality of all citizens, and
Deputy Groussau. in parliament, has
just disclosed, in this sense, that of
25 900 priests who have been fighting
$500 have been killed. while of 500
Jesuits who returned to France from
practical exile to take their places in
the army t20 have fallen, and so on,
for Christian brothers and other sup
pressed communities. But this other
secondary result. which is so striking,
comes you might say. unexpectedly. You
take a man of God and put gun into
serter and is treated as such. Their
bishops told them to obey the law of
equality. In return. their companions.
the poiius. began to obey another law
the law of human nature.
In his section. from the start. the
priest soldier came to be the soul of the
group. The chiefs noticed more con-
tidence and go" in companies where
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~ UMING about the unpreparedness
of the country for war does no
lH good and is really unnecessary.
< for the country is far better
prepared than the army is, and the
preparation for that is well under way.
through the efforts of the council of
national defense as well as the war
and the Navy departments. The efforts
of the departments have heretofore
been limited by legislation and the size
of appropriations.
The defense council. not imm ediately
concerned about the army itself. has
devoted its energies to marshaling the
industrial resources of RI. country, SO
that when Congress said Raise new
army the equipment and supplies for
il began to pour f,om all parts of the
nation
Manufacture business, labor. science,
TRANSFORMATION, all the industrial re-
sources of the nation, Fave made noble
response to the calls made By the coun-
ell for organized effort for proposed
preparedness measures.
The need was great. The mobilization
OI
undisguised blessing. 1t proved that
many things had % he changed. and
at the same time it laid a Foundation
for force of 10000 men ready for
training. However, it used up lot
of equipment which the War Depart
ment has not been authorized to re-
place.
The army has been unable to accu-
mulate reserves of uniforms, belts and
packs for any of the troops. 1t has
neither sabers nor saddles, pistols nor
boots for the cavalry It cannot fur
nish heavy artillery for the regular
army, to say nothing of the militia and
the new army.
The shortage of machine guns of the
heavy or Vickers type and the lighter
Lewis automatics is a well known fact
The need of an enormous fleet of air.
planes is also apparent. But there is
no need to worry. The danger of an in
vasion is almost negligible, for aside
from the United States navy. fleets of
the allies control the seas. Internal
disturbances may arise, but cannot be
sufficiently violent to cause fear. Ex-
plosions, fires and the sinking of YES
sells may cause anxiety and dread, but
they cannot endanger the nation. The
many munition plants erected through
out the country since August, 1914, to
furnish in the great emergency sup
plies for the allies seem almost pro.i-
dentially now to be ready to make the
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,nch Priests Serve Country AS Common Soldiers

irresistible German advance which pre-
ceded their retreat of the Marine, sew
enty priests, in their soldier clothes,
stood or sat on the floor, hearing con-
LESSONS of endless lines of soldiers all
night long, preparing for battle.
The latest word of il is found in tho
blood stained diary of Nine. Cheron's
grandson, who was not out of the semi
nary during the battle of the Marine.
who went to the front with the class
of 1917, still a student for the priest
hood (slender, timid youth. we all knew
welD and was killed March of this
year.
Picking up wounded within sixty
yards of German trenches" runs the
last entry Blood and groans! How
shall we have force to drag them all so
far? Mysterious grace of God which
surrounds me. The trips are long. In
stops to rest ] pull out my crucifix; they
want to kiss il. They squeeze my arm
with their bloody hands. One boy is
murmuring continually: Mamma.
mamma stupidity ] sobbed along
the road. 4 priest hurried up. the Able
C of Anglers. You are carrying my
brother he said. When we stopped in
the woods the brothers talked. 'Adieu.
the wounded one was saying. you will
tell them When ne died the Able
c. continued giving absolutions.
went with his brothers body"
You wanted the soul Of France.
You've got it.
1917. STERLING HEII-1G.
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raised to the highest moral level which
they could attain united by their humble
resignation to the divine sacrifice.
would support the worst of miseries
to always feel this thing.
Now you begin to perceive what came.
YOU might say. almost as a revelation
to the French-the military Importance
of 10000 or 10000 young priests, broth
ers. etc, amid the troops. dressed and
armed exactly like themselves and hav
ing legally but simple soldiers situa-
ton while retaining in fact (and known
to alb their priestly powers and ardor.
At the Grand Cafe the waiter.
Adolphe came back on a weeks permits
sion from the front. changed man.
bronzed, trained down. hard calm.
poised. sober, CHEEKY, but thoughtful.
straight-eyed a strong man who knows
his worth. He used to be the joker of
the Grand Cafe and up to every trick.
He told quite simply how he won his
cross of war.
I'VE were eleven in the trench said
killed except the sergeant. who was a
priest, and we were waiting for the
signal to leap over and charge. The
sergeant said: Now. boys. you know I
am a priest. Say your act of contri-
ton, and I will give you dissolution
and we all jumped out together We
went eleven and came back four, and
the priest was not among us"
l want not to expound, but merely>to
quote.
The priest chases fear of death by
his example and the dissolution he can
give" the boy from Painters puts it.
"And forward the music, the heart is
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captain went to communion" says
Adolphe, land one who was a kind of
leader inf the bunch. not a hard char
acter. you know. but, all the same. he
was a butcher out at La Nillette before
the war. said, and we most of us agreed
and no man called him down-he said:
I'm not afraid to go under fire with a
captain who went to communion the
same morning"
All of which. of course, is fully real
ICED by the chiefs.
AS you can imagine, the priest-sol-
dier's first idea is always to improvise
a church somewhere. Now, it is the
habitual thing, when other facilities
lack, for captains to offer their per-
sonal cave-dugouts for the purpose.
And I know of communion masses. or
requiem masses for dead soldiers, held
in great half-ruined churches, where
two generals and $50 officers of all
grades sat in chairs of the principal
nave, while 1000 men crowded stand
ing, in the laterals, under the organs,
behind the altar, everywhere
1T is no new thing.
1t began with the German invasion.
My neXt-door neighbor, D, not
noted for piety before the war. told me
as his first story, how, in the Cathedral
of Rheims, during the night before the
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Overcertainty.

a SENATOR said at luncheon:
~ He laughs best who laughs last.
My enemies are. so sure of my political
ruin that they remind me of the editor
OF the Cinnaminson Scimitar.
"A leading citizen Of Cinnaminson
was taken down with appendicitis.
They rushed him off to ST. Timothy's
Hospital to be operated on, and the
editor. hearing the grave news crowd
ed into his last edition a note that said !:
"'Our esteemed fellow townsman, j.
Smith Carberry, will be operated upon
tomorrow at st. Timothy's by Surgeon
Cutter for very dangerous attack OF
appendicitis. He will leave a wife and
five children"
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at peace. Rare are those who die with
out dissolution. If not individual, at
least collective, given to them all to-
gether. in common, before the combat"
In danger of death, you understand?
So for communion. In spite of the
strict rule of fasting, soldiers are al
lowed to receive it after they have
eaten. Before combat, in hesitation. this
one detail of opportunity decides many.
Danger of death. danger of death.
If all this clashes with your previous
ideas of Frenchmen, or men in general.
or other matters, remember that war
is great DISCOVER, human nature
big thing No back-stairs entrance to
eternal life is being preached. Who
wants to sin in face of hourly death?
The boy from Painters was marching
with his section to the trenches. A SOL
der. peasant. edged in and marched
beside him. saying: Il would like to
take communion tomorrow morning.
One never knows what will happen
here. Can't 1 make my confession
now" The priest said: 60 ahead"
They walked together; the man. walk
ing. said his prayers. and then. Tor ms
confession. just pronounced three let
tiers. 'R. A. S. which is the telephone
and wireless formula. in war. for rien
a signaler, or nothing in particular to
report" What" said the priest, you
mean that you've done nothing wrong,
have nothing on your conscience"
What could I do wrong here?". asked
the soldier of France (who. remember.
is nj his own country. fighting off the
invader.) Il am too dog tired, with
marching. grobbing and battle. When
I get a time to. rest. l sit and think
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The Second.

TIT ELLSWORTH PERRIN. poet and
III critic, tossed aside resume OF
Austria's position on the submarine ques-
ton
Austria" he said. would like to re-
pudiate her ally's murderous submarine
policy. but her position in the alliance
is like the henpecked husbands in the
home.
This husband coughed and said timidly
to the parlor maid:
rs my wife. going out this evening.
Mary
yes, sir: / believe So sir
"sAnd-er-Mary, am ! going with
her,"
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Uruguay, geographically and POLITICAL
", occupies a somewhat peculiar posi-
ton as to the policies of its neighbors.
Its Observation-Disclosures makes it con
stantly watchful of Brazil and the Ar
gentine Republic. There have been
boundary disputes in the past and
other causes of friction. Many Uru-
guayans insist on believing that either
of the country's big neighbors would be
ready to absorb its territory or parti-
tion it between themselves This. not
withstanding the fact that both Brazil
and Argentina have about all the terri
tory they want, and never have shown
4 disposition to aggrandiZe themselves
at the expense of their neighbor Uru-
quay is small simply IN comparison
with them.
The situation of Uruguay is peculiar
in that through its ocean frontage and
River Plate. both Brazil and Argentina
are dependent on it for entrance to
their interior country. Argentina has
only one port of consequence on the
has Puerto Allegro. in the south, but
these do not have water communica-
tion with the great interior region
known as Matte Crosse
The Parana. which empties into the
Plate. is the fiuvial highway for this
region. and Brazilian communication
with it must be through the Plate and
up the Parana. or else across a great
unsettled country which has no facili-
ties of land communication Railway
lines in time will join the existing Bra
lillian systems with this interior re-
gion. but the time is not near. and in
the meantime the Parana will be the
source of communication.
lTruRuay. on its part, has no Obiec-
ton to improving the railway commu
nication with Brazil The Uruguayan
lines have been joined up with the
system that has been extended to the
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in the Protestant Church which was es-
tablished in Montevideo.
Generally speaking, it may be said
that the population of Uruguay is a
homogeneous one. and the country
shows little evidence of leaning to any
of the European sources from which
the native stock came
Uruguays official attitude in regard
TO the great war has many aspects. The
country like several others of the
South American republics. has shown a
disposition to resent the right of the
A. B. CAalliance to speak for it. 1t has
its own ideas and has preferred to voice
them though not Directing to cooper
ating with the bigger countries. This
feeling is very strong, and no admins
tration in power in Uruguay could
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Uruguays Attitude Toward United States and War


border. and it is now possible to travel
by rail from Montevideo to San Paulo
and Rio de Janeiro.
Argentina's situation as to ocean out
let is much more acute than that oil
Brazil. since SO much of the country Is
dependent on the Plate. The great
city of Buenos Aires, whose shipping
makes it one of the leading ports OF
the world. is a river port. Entrance
to it is through Montevideo, and then
more than a hundred miles up the
Plate. The Argentine government has
spent enormous sums dredging the
Plate and keeping it open for large sea-
going vessels.
The international situation is like
that in Europe in regard to the Scheidt
and the Rhine. Though the Rhine runs
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when rho tendency to turn the country
into a complete socialistic experiment
became too pronounced there was re-
action.
Business men took the reins in their
own hands They pointed out the finan-
cial chaos which was likely TO re-
suit from the measures under consider
alton and which would be followed by
Industrial and commercial distress,
while Uruguay's credit abroad would be
greatly impaired. In consequence of
the vigorous opposition which suddenly
sprung up. the radical policy was al
tered almost overnight. Changes in the
cabinet were made and a more conserv-
alive policy was adopted. Since then
Uruguay has gone steadily forward,
with no hints of disturbances.
There are two leading political parties
in the country. known as the colorados
and the blancos-the reds and the
whites. They have very violent cam
paigns and abuse one another as saw
agely as do politicians in the United
States. At times partisan feeling runs
high, but il, manages to find vent
through the press and through public
meetings and manifestoes in the form
OF posters. Then the country settles
back about as the United States does in
the intervals between campaigns.
There are not a larger number of
foreigners in Uruguay in proportion to
the whole population. The immigration
has been chiefly from Spain. although
there are some Italians and natives of
other countries. including Germany.
There is a British colony, but IT is not
numerous, although influential in bust
ness and finance.
An American colony, which originated
in New England. has been identified
with the wool trade for three-quarters
of a century. There are not many of
these Americans, yet there are enough
of them to get together and form a
club and celebrate Thanksgiving and
the Fourth of July. Years back there
were enough of them to be interested
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1t Sounds Ridiculous.
Joseph H. cHoATE said. at luncl

NoSEPH II. CHoATE said, at a lunchs
~ con In New York:
when the Germans talk about protect
ing little nations. freeing the seas and
ch.impioning international law. II sounds
SO ridiculous that ii reminds me of the
tramp,
"lady.' said tramp TO farmers
wife. could ,ou ohiige me with the loan
OF cake ef soap
"rhe farmers wtte threw up her hands.
SOAP Ahe SAID TO YOU mean TO
tell the yen desire soap
"'Naa'm' ~aid tho tramp. Me part
nora set the hgeeaaghs and want to
seare him'"
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finance iteIf under ordinary conditions.
The country's credit always has been
high, Within the last two years New
York financiers have taken one loan of
a temporary character. the proceeds of
which were partly for refunding pur-
poses. The bulk of the funds has been
employed in port works and other pub
lie improvements, including railway
construction.
tion which was in control for several
years. was headed strongly toward
state socialism. The Swiss confedera-
tion was the model which il was sought
TO apply in this South American coun-
try, but there were numerous modifica-
tionS and additions. Some excellent
welfare legislation was enacted, but
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PARIS. April II, 1917.

IAklS, April II, l9l,
n WE'LL known managing editor
A = ::. 4: :; Ct: , '':
France make a very strong appeal TO
American readers" So here goes:
Many have marveled at the heroic
courage of French soldiers. There may
be several explanations. but principal
one is certainly as follows: The French
republic put a gun in the hands of
every young priest. brother and church
student. Between 10000 and 10000 are
at the war They are not chaplains.
They are simple soldiers. by universal
military service law, without choice, in
the name of equality. They look like SOL
diers, they are soldiers. form crawls
amoung the wounded on the battlefield
at dusk and murmurs. II am Il priest
Receive absolution. Be at peace" And
there you are.
Men feel differently about these mat
tiers in bloody war \ young mission
airy called back to the army from
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wheels spin to turn out by the millions
equipment and supplies for the new
army.
The council of defense has been as
certaining the resources of all these
new plants and of the industrial re-
sources of the entire nation. and now
it knows what the nation militant can
supply, where the government can OBJ
tain everything it needs and also, what
will be needed. What these resources
and how they will be mobilized is OF
so grave interest to the nation that
Walter S. Clifford, director of the coun-
Gil, certainly one of the busiest men in
the United States, took a few minutes