The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-08-31
War Departments Definition Of
Term Military Camp" Saves
Local Liquor Business
INTERPRETATION HAS 81. .
! BEEN EAGERLY AWAITED
Booze Dealers Of City Feared
They Would Be Wiped Out But
They Are Safe For the Present

The saloons in the city of Honolulu
are not in any degree affected by the
recent executive order of the President,
issued under the authority of the selec.
tive Draft Act, prohibiting the sale Of
liquor within Eve miles of military
camps or half a mile in the case Of an
incorporated city. o..
This statement, which will come as o
great relief to the anxious liquor deal
ers of Honolulu, may be made upon the
authority Of the war department . def
inition Of the term military camp, y
n copy of which was received by The
Advertiser yesterday.
Since announcement was made sew
eral weeks ago that the President had
issued an executive order prohibiting
the sale or possession of liquor within
the distances above mentioned from
any military camp, the liquor dealers
of Honolulu have been on the anxious
seat. They did not know what consti.
tuted military camp, and neither did
anybody else in Hawaii, including the
federal end army authorities. Conse!
quently all concerned have been anxi,
ously awaiting an official definition.
Those opposed to the sale of liquor
hoped the order would put O stop to
the traffic on Oahu; those engaged in
the business hoped almost against hope
that they were not to be put out Of
business.
Only One Camp ......
The war department now makes 1t
clear that the regulations established
by the President were not intended to
all small or temporary camps that
have been or may be established from
time to time throughout the United
States. Under its definition of what
constitutes q military camp within the
intent Of the regulations, there is only
one such camp on the Island Of Oahu,
and that is the reserve officers training
camp at Schofeld Barracks. No liquor
may be sold within Ave miles of that
camp, but the saloons of the city OF
Honolulu are in no wise affected,
The statement of the war department
is as follows:
official Statement
1.-THE President directs that the term
military camps employed in the regu
lations established by the President
and published in paragraph Of Bull
letin IS, War Department, dated July
%, 1917, shall he construed to refer
only to environments or camps establish
ed for the mobilization or training OF
divisions of the National Army, or di
visions composed of members of thu
national guard drafted into the service
of the United States; TO training camps
established under authority of Section
81 of the National Defense Act, ap
proved June 3, 1915; to camps at port
of embarkation; to other camps desig
mated as embarkation camps; to camp
designated as ambulance camps; and t.
camps designated as aviation camps. ,
Had the order been defined to in
clude garrison camps or barracks, un
der the clause of the order prohibiting
the sale of liquor within half a mill
of "miIitary camp" within the con
fines Of an Incorporated city, the beacl
resorts which are within half a mile O.
Fort De Russy would have been pu
out of business, as far as the selling
of liquor is concerned. F-..