The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-11-02
.pAPA|KOU SCHOOL
IS BUSY Center
Weekly Publication Teaching
Many Worthy and Helpful ~
War Lessons \.

The following are some entertaining
notes from the second number of the
Papaikou News Weekly Of last Mon
day. Teachers and pupils of other
schools will be interested 10 know what
they are doing pt, Papaikou. Should
these desire TO have Papaikou know
what they are doing they may send
their school notes to The Advertiser
for the School Page, which is pub.
ished every Wednesday morning: \,
This school has received two posters
which have been placed where. every
one ian read them They are the Pres
ident' Message D Congress on April
2, l9l7, and the other Is his Appeal TO
the American People. The latter tells
how each and every one Of us may help
our country to win this war, Soldiers
are needed, not only in the trenches
and the battlefelds, but in the shops,
factories, Kitchens gardens and fields
Every boy and girl should read at least
the last paragraph of this Appeal Let
our motto be fSoldiers. All't.
In our last issue we said that the
sewing classes were busy working at
Red Cross Relief Work Interest is
on the increase, and the next step that
is being considered by us is the organi,
zation Of 'Junior Red Cross Auxil'
iary.'' We now await permission from
the department Of public instruction to.
organize, and, when that is obtained,
just watch what boys and girls can do.
Necessity Is the mother Of inven1
tom. We have had difficulty in OBJ
tanning knitting needles, But that
does not stop us from knitting. We
have taken the solid ribs of old UNI
brellas, cut them into the desired
lengths, pointed them, and perfectly
good knitting needles are the result.
The News, wants Thanksgiving
stories to publish in its Thanksgiving
number. We want every one in the
upper grades to try. ..........s
just as we were beginning to think
that IL bad forgotten how to rain, the
welcome showers came. Our garden al
ready shows Improvement and every
thing is growing like weeds.
Speaking Of Train and garden
reminds us that this is just the time to
begin planting. The school and the,
home garden contest so successfully car
ried on last year win be continued this
school year. 1t would be good idea
to plan the gardens, decide on the
crops, and begin work now. Be a .tgars
den-seldier" for Uncle Sam.
In his Appeal To the American Peo-
pie, President Wilson says that the
time has come for America to put an
end to extravaganza. This means that
we must not waste. Not one Of us
would take away piece of bread from
starving child, yet everyone that
throws away the tiniest piece is taking
Just so much from some hungry per-
son. OF course, this does not mean,
that we should 90 hungry ourselves,
but il does mean that nothing should
be put in a garbage tin which is Of
any use to some one. Saving q bit of
food that would otherwise be wasted
is helping to keep some child, soldier
or sailor alive. Wasting that same
bit of food is like fighting on the side
of Germany. Surely, there is no one
in this school who would do the latter.
On the bulletin board is posted a
record shelving the weekly attendance
results Of each grade. A number had
perfect record the first week OF
school--the eighth grade has obtained
that mark seven times since, Help to
make yours a "100% ROOM. Watch
the record for your room 5 attendance
and see how it compares with others.
October "a was Liberty Day.. Part
of this day was declared "a holiday to
give every one a chance to buy Lib
erty bond. The government borrows
this money, pays yearly interest Of
four percent, and promises to return
the borrowed money in l942. The
money is to be used to buy the neces,
sary war snnnlies for the armies.