Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-04-24
Organize HaWdii's Food Production
and Marketing


nent for organized effort 10 increase food crops is
plain il consists in immediate and systematic
work at home To develop truck gardening, general
agriculture dairying. pig and cattle-raisng. and
methods Of quick and economical marketing.
Ilawaiis problem cannot be settled in Washing
ton or New York or Chicago or San Francisco. 1t
must bc SETTLED here.
AS the Star,Bulletin has repeatedly stated in the
past three weeks, the people of this territory, public
officials and private business leaders, have got To
come together on common basis for action. They
have got TO organize the countless efforts that
now developing all over Observation-Disclosures efforts
lin gardening and marketing. F.. .:... .-"..
Organization of the nations resources is the
watchword of the hour. President Wilson's magni.
fcently stirring message TO the American people
printed in full on page today, calls upon his
fellow-countrymen for unity in planting and har.
yesting as well as for unity in shouldering gums,
building submarines and protecting American lives
and property at sea. s441=..
Secretary of Agriculture Houston is making a
! tremendous and effective campaign to awaken the
country TO the need for stimulating agricultural
output. < - +. --.a
Theodore Roosevelt and ether eminent Americans
rare sounding the note of warning against national
demanding closeknt organization to han.
die Americas abundant resources efficiently and
well.
j. Ogden Armour, the Chicago capitalist. has
come out for government regulation of meat prices
and regulation and guarantees for returns to far.
mers. ~ + 4
And. thus, all over the broad, fruitful American
states goes the movement for organization of in
dustry.
In Hawaii 1t is NOT only patriotic duty but a
vital necessity that unity of action shall prevail
We have thousands upon thousands of men, women
boys girls anxious to plant vegetables, anxious to
market. We have, as the StarBulletin showed on
Saturday, more than dozen separate agencies each
working on its own line. And the food is going TO
: be needed.-e4,is- -. 49,
Now comes the insstent demand for central
forcefu authoritative organization
Upon it should be represented the federal terri.1
toriai and county governments the military, the
College of Hawaii the schools, the Boy Scouts the
U. s Experiment Station, the Territorial Market |
inc Division and all the other fine and useful bodies
which now are going each on it's own way The press
should be represented on such a committee, for the
work needs thorough and continued publicity and
the press should be- kept informed of the commit i
tees plans that it may Inform the territory
The logical body which should take the lead in
building up this organisation is the Honolulu
Chamber of Commerce. supported by the CONNER
cial bodies of the various islands Don't forget them
for already most of them are actively, alertly at
work
With everything the Advertiser urges in its lead,
ing editorial today the StarBulletin heartily joins
except the suggestion that the territorial market
ing division is the organization to take up the work
The division has its own particular field very i'm.
portant feld-One important that ii requires all
the time of the staff, all of the funds the legislature
will appropriate, upon its own work. To giye this
division the tremendous burden of territory wide
organization of production and consumption is too
much,
central committee or commission, wellbuilti
welilnanned with subordinate committees in charge
OF individual subjects is the efficient plan.
Ii should be emphasized that already the founda
ton for such q commission is laid in the various i
factors now at work. Each could become a com
mittee or division of the larger organization
The Chamber Of Commerce has called meeting !
OF the agriculture committee for next Thursday
morning and has invited some of the leaders of the
various individual movements. This forecasts thet
creation Of the general body 1t should be and can
be created without red tape It's main usefulness
will be to thst every unit is enlisted in nteli
genty:plapned work, that production is turned to
certain staples which necessary for rations and
that there is no conflict through overlapping. no
shortage through failure to handle certain lines
aud no waste and misdirected effort from a large
number OF producers going into lines which are ri
vial and unnecessary.
1t is op plain principle that the house finance
committee recommended tabling the bill exempting
army officers aItos from taxaion There Is neither