Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-10-31
WOMEN TAKING "
|. MEMS PLACES in
]. S. WAR WORK
Rev. ]. E. CoWan Declares They
Are Accepting Wars Hard
ships Cheerfully

Rev. John T. Cowan, pastor KOhala
Union church and editor and owner Of
fthe Kohala Midget, who returned last
week on the Maui from six months
trip 10 the mainland, left yesterday
afternoon for Kauai. Dr. Cowan's visit,
made partly for his health and partly
TO study conditions in regard to social
betterment, too in Is states and the
District OF Columbia. Seen before he
left DIR. cowan said: ..':
What most impressed ne every
where in the states was the cheerful
and courageous acceptance OF the war
and all the hardships and sorrows it
entails. This was particularly SO OF
the women. | saw them everywhere
giving up their sons, their brothers.
their sweethearts, and many times
their husbands-and always without
any outward signs of regret, Perhaps
there might be furtive tear here anC
there. as the trains would pull away
from the station, but always the faces
turned to the departing loved one bore
smile. a.......
Il saw women working in Red Cross
headquarters all over the land-yOung
girls, mothers whose first-born had
just reached the draft age, and grey
haired old ladies, all working cheer
fully away as if all their lives they
had been expecting to do just this
work 4...
I'm the West l saw women driving
moving machines, women blowing,
women busy with the hoe and rake.
In Baltimore ! saw women in baggage
rooms checking baggage and lifting
heavy trunks, and at Grafton, w. Va,
and Binghamton, N. Y, saw women
cleaning cars and engines. These
women in the East wore blue denim
oYeralls, jumpers and caps.
Il found everywhere most enthusi-
astic interest in Hawaii, and in things
Hawaiian. / spoke in twenty different
cities on Hawaii, and every time was
called upon to tell more. People
seemed particularly interested to know
how we are handling our race prob
lens here. / told them we had no race
problem. In Boston, at the laying OF
the cornerstone for the International
headquarters of the Christian Endeay.l
or. ItoId the people about our national
guard. made up of Filipinos, Chinese
Japanese, Hawaiians and a few AM
orleans. When spoke of the guard s.
readiness to fight to the death for
America. the statement was applauded
to the echo. The papers made a lot
OF il, playing up the patriotism of our
people, and of those who have been
drawn from so many quarters of the
earth to Hawaii, where they have be-
come good Americans,
Speaking of the drought in Hawaii,
DR.. Cowan said that it was light com.
pared with the drought in Montana.
"In Montana" he said, the farmers
did not even get their seed back. II
know one man, an excellent farmer,
who planted six bags of seed potatoes
and got only one bag. Iknow of many,
many instances where the grain plant
ed never came up at all.
DIR. aCowan Is pfinning for a new
building for the Midget This building
viii have in it a complete ronworking
and Woodworking plant, which is to-
be used to teach the boys of Kohala
some useful trade.
Dir. Cowan will ret.rn to Honolulu
for a few days after he has visited
Kauai before goinS to his home in
Kohala.