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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-11-24
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daily rate of teamsters and OK drivers
in Louisiana was $1.45; in Cuba, $1.33 i;
in Hawaii, $115; and in Porto Rico, 70
cents. H.. "
Factory rates of wages, as a rule,
are highest in Louisiana, but factory
employment in that state is for a
shorter period each year than in the
other cane-sugar countries. The max
imum grinding period in Louisiana is
from so to 80 days each year; in Cuba
the maximum is six months, in Porto
Rico about 5 months, while, in Hawaii
the grinding period ranges from to
II months each year. The period for
cutting, loading and hauling the cane
in each country is the same as the
grinding period. In Cuba cultivation
employment is relatively less than in
Hawaii and Louisiana. The intensive
cultivation required in the latter two
countries is not necessary in Cuba,
where the cane is cut without replant-
ing for many years. In Hawaii cane
is seldom allowed to grow beyond the
second ration. In Louisiana and Porto
Rico plant and first ration cane are
cut each year. Harvesting requires
the greatest number of employees. In
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FILIPINO LABOR HAS PROVED VITAL
FACTOR In EfAlVglIAIRs BIG PROBLEM
Immigrants Become Efficient Wormen and Later Arrivals Are
LaWAbdng and Industrious Over First nconers
Solved as Experience improves Methods of Selection

Since the immigration of Filipinos
to Hawaii was started in 1909 about
23,625 Filipinos have arrived in the
territory. A very considerable mum
her have returned home; good many
have gone to the mainland Of the
United States and a great many have
entered into occupations other than on
Sugar plantations.
The Planters Association from the
beginning adopted the policy Of re-
turning home at its expense all aged
and incapacitated Filipinos, and no
Filipino out of employment who has
sought work upon the plantations is
refused employment. .-..
The plantations of the Hawaiian
Sugar Planters Association employ
now approximately 10000 Filipino lab
orers. The Independent sugar grow
ers, other plantations not members of
the association, the pineapple planters,
the army and navy, the stevedores
and other industries in the territory
employ great many.
Labor is Vital Factor
Since the Japanese immigration
ceased and the board of immigration
of the territory suspended the immi-
grafton of Portuguese and Spanish,
the Filipino immigration has been the
mainstay Of the plantations for the fill
ing of vacancies in the plantation lab
oring forces arising through natural
causes and a. gradual drifting away
of laborers from plantation work.
The first arrivals under any immi-
grafton scheme and from whatever
country have always been below the
general standard, physically and mo-
rail-, OF, the people of that country.
The Chinese and the japanese COM
prising the first lots brought to Ha-
waii were in many cases no credit to
their countries and created vast
amount of trouble for the government
OF Hawaii. In more recent years,
many Of the five thousand Porto
Ricans and the three thousand or
more Russians brought. to Honolulu
proved themselves extremely undesir-
able.
Early Years of immigration
The same situation developed with
the Filipinos brought during the first
yeaS or so of this emigration. In 1909
and 1910 the plantations were facing
extremely critical labor conditions, |
and every effort was made to secure
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as large a number Of Filipinos as
possible. While careful selection was
tried, without question great many
adventures and undesirables were re,
cruited. Hawaii was new country to
the Fflipinos and they were loath to
emigrate. Wild and exaggerated state
ments concerning Hawaii were made
in the press of the Philippine Islands.
The Filipinos were told for instance,
that they would starve to death, that
they would be enslaved and that the
wild animals of Hawaii, lions, tigers,
etc, would devour them. 1t is no won
der therefore that until the condi-
lions in Hawaii became more gen.
orally known to the Filipinos only the
most adventuresome or those who had
particular reason to leave the Philip
pines would brave the journey.
Improvement Is Marked " -.
Since 1913 there has been a, very
marked improvement in the class of
Filipinos who have come to Hawaii,
and a great many of them are the
equals of the best of the plantation
laborers, industrious and law-abiding.
One Of the very great difficulties con-
nected with the immigration of Fill
pinos has been the inability to secure
more families Efforts have been made
and are being continued to remedy this
situation. The lack of families and
more women has naturally created
conditions which are reflected in the
criminal records of the territory. In
this respect the Filipinos are no ex-
ception to any other race. 1t will be
we'll remembered that before the Japa-
neces picture bride movement grew
to its present proportions the news
papers were full of accounts Of crimes
committed by Japanese growing out
of their love affairs.
Later Arrivals Law-Abiding
The records of the Filipinos confin-
ed in the Oahu prison confirm the
statement that the recent arrivals are
Of higher standard than those who
first came, for of the 76 Filipinos re-
Gently confined in the Oahu prison,
only nine had arrived in Hawaii since
the year 1913. .... .,.
With greater knowledge of the bust
ness and more extended experience
the agents of the Hawaiian Sugar
Planters Association in the Philip
pines are able to make better selec-
ton of individuals and to improve
the standard constantly.
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High Cost of Living Has Been
Cause of 10 Per Cent
s.s. Decrease

The United States is the worlds
greatest consumer Of sugar, despite
the fact that the per capita consump'
ton has decreased about 10 per cent
as the results of the high prices. A
compilation by the National City
Bank of New York shows that the
consumption of sugar in the United
States for the fiscal year Of 1917 was
only eighty-two pounds per capita
against eighty-nine pounds in 1914
(the year preceding the war;. The
total quantity consumed in 1917 was
however, eight and -one-half billion
pounds, and we also exported one
and one-ouarter billion pounds, or
twenty-five times as much as in the
year before the war.
The banks compilation shows that
the worlds sugar production is
now about IL per cent below that of
the. year preceding the war. Beet
sugar production in Europe has fallen
43 per cent, but cane production in
the tropics has increased about 20
per cent. The beet sugar of Europe,
which was eighteen and one-half bill
lion pounds in the sugar year 1912
Is. was only ten and one-half billion
pounds in 1861, and the world cane
production, which was a little more
than twenty billion pounds in 1928
was more than twenty-five billion
pounds in 1861; world production
of cane and beet sugar in 1894 was
forty-two billion pounds. Beets pro-
duced one-haIf of the worlds sugar
prior to the war, but in 1867 sup
Piled only one-third of the worlds
total.
Increased Output In US. Possessions
In the United States and its island
possessions there has been rapid
increase in production. Il every one
of the sugar areas under the Ameri
can fItg-Porto Rico, Hawaii, the
Philippines and the cane and beet
fields of continental United States
there has peen 2 marked increase,
the aggregate production Of these
areas having grown from about. four
billion ponds in 1928 to virtually
five billion pounQs in 1867. The
share of our consumption drawn from
foreign countries has fallen from -
per cent in 1897 (twenty years ago.
to 4S per cent in 1917.
In consumption of sugar the Uni
ted States stands at the head of the
list of the world countries, our total
consumption being eight and one-half
billion pounds in the fiscal year 1917
against approximately five billions in
Germany, five billions in the United
Kingdom and two billions in France,
the figures for the European coun-
tries being those for normal years,
Our per capita consumption, how.
ever. is less than that of certain 9th,
or countries, Denmark's consumption
being ninety three pounds per capita.
England ninety, United States, eigh:
ty-two. Germany seyenty-five, Nor
wav and Sweden sixty. Netherlands
seyenty.three, France forty, Russia
thirty. Spain fifteen, and Italy ten,
Abnut, 25 per cent of our consump-.
t;nn IS drawn from our fields, q per
cent from our islands, and As per
cent from foreign countries, chiefly
rrba. The value of the sugar enter
no cantinental United States was, in
s IN, fiscal year 1914 $155, 900, 900, and
n IN, 1917 s34S,000.00O. the average inn
n - price per pound tincluding that
from tbe islands) having been, in
soIl &c. and in 1917 Acc.
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island 4
IODISTRIBUTE !
100000 BONUS
Continued from page 1s)
happen this month.

|
happen this month.
Inquiry at several Oriental stores In
Hilo elected the fact that the bonus Of
last year made great difference on
the right side of the ledgers Of their
businesses They rtated that cloth
ing, shoes and hats went like hot
cakes and added that the class OF
goods purchased were Of the best to
be obtained. These merchants. like
the others of the city, say that with .
bonus of 7s per cent coming to the
plantation laborers, the people win be
better OFF than ever and able to pur.
chase goods that should make them
very contented.
And so it goes right down the line.
Every business In the county bene-
fitted last year through the bonus, and
this year things look even brighter.
The plantation employees are in the
lucky class and they will be not only
able to buy the good things of life, but
will also be able TO lay some money
aside for the possible rainy day.
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HAWAIPS LABOR COMPAREDVITH
Observation-Disclosures COUNTRIES

addition to the wages bonus, based
upon the total earnings of the year
and the selling price of sugar, is paid
in Hawaii, the added amount ranging
from 5 to 20 per cent. -
Under these contrasting conditions
it may be noted that the plantation
and factory workers of Hawaii have
little or no unemployment, as the fac
tory workers at the end of the grind
ing season are furnished employment
in the fields. Table A that follow
serve in a general way to bring out
these contrasting conditions. j..
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while the payment Of the extra
compensation or bonus money adds
no wealth or capital to the territory.
il will stimulate business, especially
that Of the retailers. to great ex-
tent and exert an influence for months
to come in all lines of activity, com
merciaI and social, and add to- the
comfort and contentment OF very
many besides those for whose toll it
compensates,Y he says.
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BANK PRESIDENT POINTS
TO EFFECT OF BONUS

Good generally will come out of the
distribution of the bonus to plantation
IaDorers is the opinion of L. Tenney
Peck, president of the First National
bank. The retailers will profit and
the distribution will add to the COM
fort and eontentment of the plantation
laborer.
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Planting and cultivating, field hands. :.
Cutting, loading, and hauling harvest
3 ing hands, average. ~ -"
Manufacture of sugar, factory periods.
Normal hours of labor per day and per
week: -. a. H.
Cultivation of cane. .............
Cane cutting ................. 49,:
Sugar manufacture ..,,............
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FACTORY WORKERS.
mot INCLUDING BONUS PAID HAWAII, NOT ELsEWHERE)
Field employment:
Adult han
Adult
Adult
Factory employment: i
General Genera mi. min laborer 224 1o4 10
Sugar boiler 1471 70
Centrifugal tender 119 %
oHer mill 24s III
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TABLE WORKING PERIODS AND POSSIBLE YEARLY EARN
PLoYEs IN HAWAII, PORTO Rso, LOUISIANA AND CUBA
b. & MAXIMUM PERIODS or EAPL O.
(Note three wears auo Il
Hawaii holds good today) zs-[..s
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-05
HOLD BIRTHDAY PARTY

Mechanicsburg, Pa, Feb. 5. - To
celebrate her sixteenth birthday, Miss
Elizabeth Crawford, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. A. B. Crawford, gave a de-
lightful party on Saturday evening at
her home, All West Main street. The
guests included the Kittatinny Camp
Fire Girls, of which Miss Elizabeth is
a member, as follows: Misses Miriam
Zufall, Rachel Shelley, Mary Roller,
Marjorie Baum, Florence Orris, Eliza
beth Hurst, Miriam Orris, Ruth Miller
and Eta Miller. The young people en-
joyed music, games and camp fire
songs. Refreshments were served.
Other guests were Miss Blanche Raine,
Camp Fire girl, of Harrisburg; Miss
Margaret Blackburn. guardian of the
fire; Mrs. Mckinley, Mrs. Priscilla
Pyle, Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Crawford.
and Albert p. Crawford, Jr. On
Thursday, February Is, the Camp
Fire Girls will enjoy q valentine mas
querade party at the home of Miss
Mary Koller, 30S East Main street.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-05
NO IMMEDIATE
RISE IN PRICES
Severance of Relations Not
Likely to Send Up Cost of
Food StuffS

There will be no immediate rise
in the price of foodstuffs on acco int
of the severing of diplomatic rela-
tons with Germany, according to the
heads of several Harrisburg whole
sale houses this afternoon.
The supply of meat isn't large
enough now to cause any change in
prices" declared L. W. Covert, mana
ger of Swift 6 Comapny, in discussing
the situation. 'At any rate l see no
immediate effect on the market"
u. S. Manbeck, manager of the Har-
rlsourg Baking Company, said that he
was trying to figure out last night lust
what effect n declaration of war
would have ON the baking business.
| see no likelihood of rise in prices
Just now. said Mr.. Manbeck, "but II
is pretty hard to make ANYTHING like
an accurate forecast"
e. \. Hershey, of the Hershey
creamery Company, said: Large ex-
portation of condensed milk have kept
prices up and it would be reasonable
TO suppose that should exports he af-
tected prices would drop. | do not
look for any rise in the price of but
ter or milk"
At the office of Evans -Burtnett
Company. wholesale grocers il was
stated that prices would probably fluc.
tuate but that nothing definite could
be said with regard to price move
mcnts at this time.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-05
TWENTY-FIVE DOLLAR FALL

Theodore Marston was directing
Charlotte Walker in "Sloth," one OF
Mcclure Pictures Seven Deadly Sins
1t was a battle scene, and "stunt"
man had been engaged to be shot off
his horse in front of the camera.
The scene started. The rider dash
ed into the cameras range, threw up
his arms and slid from his horse.
mo good!' cried Mr.. Marston.
make it real one"
You said you wanted a ten dollar
fall" protested the stunt" man.
II want the best you have" said
Mr.. Marston. What are your rates ?''
Ten dollars if l fall on my feet,
s25 If throw the horse and fall on
my head.''
Give us the s25 kind" said Mr..
Marston.
The stunt man delivered a beau
tiful fall, landing on his head, unhurt.
Two weeks later, making a $40 fall
for another company, he broke one
of his legs.
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an unofficial and undertaking" cru
sade against them.
1t covered in detail the slaughter
houses of Robert Plaut & Sons and
S. & II. Plaut, whose proprietors six
years later, due to my unofficial
undertaking, were finally brought to
justice.
It's exposures of these shambles of
infamy were full and complete. Yet
no official Interference with them
followed.
The graft system which the slaugh-
terers had established and their as
sertions that they were able to COM
mand vast political influence kept
the hands of the honest" officials off,
OF all the influence, public or pri-
vate, that might have been asserted
in the interests of common health, a
single newspaper, unaided and in
spite of official opposition, asserted
itself and backed my impertinent and
onicious Interference with this hellish
situation.
Had it not been for this effort to
make neglected public affairs a per-
sonal concern, the records of the past
indicate that hundreds of officially
protected rascals would be still en-
gagged in their inhuman activities.
Unfortunately the results obtained
by private efforts are usually review
GU WIN uiSthsle pS puDllc oIIlclaISi as
q result of which human weakness
no organized public effort has been
made to apply the lessons learned
from my many unhdppy adventures
in the field of food corruption.
When / have succeeded in breaking
up a privileged industry in one spot
l have invariably learned that the
center of infection is soon scattered
to other districts and goes on as be-
fore.
Fosdick's report eloquently en-
phasized, in the face of the develop
ments that six years later followed it's
delivery to Mayor Gaynor, the dead
liness of that form of official sloth
growing out of petty graft and poll
tical pull.
His report contained these words:
Particular attention is called to
the slaughterhouse OF Robert Plant &.
Son, located at Johnson avenue
Brooklyn. Our inspectors found hang
ing in the cooler of this establishment
two dressed COW carcasses which had
been passed by the Health Depart
cause of the fact that the costal
pleura had been stripped from the
torequarters and tubercular LESSONS
were observed around the borders Of
the stripped areas, must have come
from cattle in an advanced stage of
luDGTculOSlS.
Tho absence of federal inspection
and the laXity of city inspection brings
TO this slaughterhouse class of cat
tic that cannot be handled through
federal inspected abattoirs.
In the plant of S. & II. Plant
Johnson avenue, rotten meat intend
ed for bologna was found. The stuff
had every evidence of having been
shovelled up from the floor into the
barrel, as the meat was well mixed
with such filth as is usually found on
the floor of slaughterhouse."
All the State health commissioners
all the State commissioners Of aeri'
culture, all the food and drug com
missioners of the. country, know we'll
the truth of the paragraph of Eos
dicks report as printed above in
black.
me reason that this truth is not
acted upon is due solely Ia nuhIic
ignorance and indifference
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-05
BOOZE AND KANSAS

Among the most earnest slanderers
of communities which have kicked
booze out is Senator Reed of Missouri.
The following statements were made
by lin on the floor of the Senate in
the course of the debate on prohibi-
ton for the District of Columbia:
II remember good many years ago
trying a case in a court which was
presided over by the Senator's dis
tinguished father, l think, in a small
town in Kansas. 1t seemed to me that
there was not a lawyer at the bar who
had prohibition there, but it did not
prohibit.
Il had a good deal of business for a
good many years in Kansas, and l say
now, without desiring to reflect upon
the Senator's State, that there were
more drunkards to the square acre in
Kansas than in any place l ever was,
and that too; under prohibitory
Senator Reeds statements, of course
are the kind of broad generalizations
which are not susceptible of disproof
by exact figures. Generally, all that
the kearer can do is to make mental
estimate Of the sort of man who utters
them. But Senator Curtis of Kansas
made a very effective reply when he
read the following statistics from
official reports for the year 1914:
Twenty eight counties ip Kansas
did not have a prisoner in jail during
all that year.
Forty EIGHT counties did not send
a prisoner to the penitentiary.
Twelve counties had not called a
jury for the trial of u criminal case
in a number of years.
Twenty counties did not have any
prisoner in tke State penitentiary."
From Golfers Weekly for February
3rd.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-05
CHAPTER III.

Copyright, 1916, Star Company
To say that I was nervous on the
morning on which 1 was to take my
position in the home of Mr.. Brewster
Norton is putting it mildly. Yet !
would not admit to myself that I was
frightened. To do so would have
been fatal to my self-confidence. l
had a sensation of burning my bridges
behind me as 1 packed my trunk and
gave it to the eXpressman to be de-
livered that afternoon.
Then, with my small bag in my
hand, and my heart in my throat, /
took the stage uptown to the cross
street just off of Riverside Drive,
where my new employer lived.
l mounted the low stone steps of
the large house and rang the bell.
The maid who admitted me smiled
pleasantly.
"You are Miss Dart, aren't you?"
she asked. Mrs. Gore said I was to
show you right up to her room as
soon as you came"
Thank you." I murmured, follow
ing her up the broad stairs.
At door of a room on the second
floor she stopped and knocked.
"Come in" I heard a woman call
The maid opened the door, stood
to one side to allow me to enter, an
nounced me as Miss Dart" then
withdrew.
The room into which 1 stepped was
flooded with sunshine. In a large
chair by one OF the windows sat a
delicate-looking woman of about fifty.
She rose as l came forward.
You are Miss Dart, l Think" she
observed in a languid voice.
AS she spoke, 1 remembered that
her brother-in-law had said that she
was "a widow and somewhat of an
invalid" She looked it, and yet she
did not move like an i'll person.
An Introduction
Yes" l told her; Il am the new
governess"
Il am Mrs. Gore,' she said. "I am
the aunt of your little charge - her
mothers sister,"
For moment I did not know what
TO say. II hope" l ventured, diff
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This is Grace" said the Aunt

IDENTIFY, that I will be able to dis
charge my duties satisfactorily"
The words sounded very stiff and
stillted, and l found myself suddenly
embarrassed. To explain my lack of
confidence, I added. This is the first
time l have ever been in anybody's
employ"
''I am glad" Her face lighted
with relief. II have dreaded putting
Grace into the hands of some world
has lived in schools and taught scores
of children. She is a sensitive little
creature, and l want her to have a
congenial companion"
rs she in now?" I inquired.
NO, / sent her out for a little
walk with my maid" Mrs. Gore said
This girl, who has been a maid to
me, and something like a nurse for
Grace. Is fond of the child and very
good to her. But Maggie is, after all,
only an uneducated girl, and Grace
needs other companionship. She is
a lonely little thing, for we have
no young life in the house when Tom,
the boy, is away. at school, and her
father does not want her to go to
kindergarten. Now. Miss Dart, you
will want to see your room. 1t is
floor. Shall I call some one to take
you up to it?"
NO, indeed" I said "I can find
my way up perfectly WELL"
Mrs. Cores was large square
chamber at the rear of the house
Mine was exactly like it in size and
shape, only a floor higher up. out
OF ii on the right opened a small
bathroom.
l closed my door behind me and
looked about me with a sigh of COM
fort. This was living!
\ Fine Room
Two great windows let in the sun
shine through dainty sash curtains
of net, while long curtains of Gre
tonne hung outside of these. The
hardwood floor had thick rug on it.
on one side of the room stood a
brass bed: on the other, a chest of
drawers and a couch. Between the
windows stood a dressing table: at
one side of one window was desk