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


work at home TO develop truck gardening, general
agriculture. dairying pig and cattlerasing and
methods OF quick and economical marketing
Z Hawaiis prolIem cannot I've settled in Washing
ton or New York or Chicago San Francisco. III
must br settled here.
T As the Star Bulletin has repeatedly stated in the
pas three weeks the people of this territory, public
officials and private business leaders, have got to,
cone together a common basis for action. They
have got to organize the countless efforts that are
now developing all over Observation-Disclosures efforts
in gardening and marketing.
Organization Of the nations resources is the
watchword of the hour. President Wilson's magni.
~ffrrhty stirring message To the American people
printed in full on page Q today, calls upon his
ffeilow-countrymen for unity in planting and har-
vesting as well as for unity in shouldering guns,
building submarines and protecting American lives
and property at sea.
secretary of Agriculture Houston is making
tremendous and effective campaign TO awaken the
country to the need for stimulating agricultural
output. -. ...'....
Theodore Roosevelt and other eminent Americans
are sounding the note OF warning against national
waste dfmahding closeknit organization to han
die Americas abundant resources efficiently and
we'll
j. Ogden Armour, the Chicago capitalist, has
come out for government regulation of meat prices
and regulation and guarantees for returns to far
mers.
And thus all over the broad fruitful American
states goes the movement for organization of in
dustry. r.
In Hawaii it is not only patriotic duty but
vital necessity that unity of action shall prevail
We have thousands upon thousands of men, women,
boys girls anxious to plant vegetables, anxious to
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SATURDAY, more than dozen separate agencies each
working on its own line. And the food is going TO
be needed
Now comes the insistent demand for central,
forceful authoritative organization.
Upon il should be represented the federal, terri
toria and county governments, the military, the
College of Hawaii the schools, the Boy Scouts the
q. :. Experiment Station, the Territorial Market
ing Division and all the other fine and useful bodies
which now are going each on its own way. The press
should be represented on such committee, for the
work needs thorough and continued publicity and
the press should be kept informed of the commit
tees'plans that it may inform the territory.
The logical body which should take the lead in
building up this organization 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, aertly att
work.
With everything the Advertiser urges in its lead
ing editorial today the Star Bulletin heartily joins,
except the suggestion that the territorial market.
ing division Is the organization to take MP the work
The diysionhas its own particular field, very inn
pOrtant feld-0ne SO Important that it requires all
the time of the staff all of the funds the legislature
will appropriate upon its own work. To give this
division the tremendous burden of Territory. wide
organization of production and consumption is TOO
much.
A central committee or commission, welLbult,
welmanned, with subordinate committees in charge
OF Individual subjects, is the effeient plan.
Itshould be emphasized that already the fouhdil-l
ton for such commission is laid, in the various
factors now at work. Each could become a com
mittee or a division OF the larger organization
The Chamber OF Commerce has called meeting
of the agriculture committee for next Thursday
morning and has invited OF the leaders of the
various individual movements. This forecasts the
creation of the general body. 1t should be and can
be rreated without red tape. It's main usefulness
will beto see that every unit is enlisted in intelli
gently planned 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
and no waste and insdirected effort from 4 large
number OF producers going into lines which are tr
vial and unnecessary.
II Is ON 4 plain principle that the house finance
committee recommended tabling the bill exemptng
or,nv officers autos from taxation There is neither
a.