The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-06-01

Machinery Is Being Put INTO Mo-
lion For Equlpplhb and
Training Large Force

WAbHINdTON. Nav g0,Ths aver.
age PERSONS mind In the United states
Il still rather far from A vivid reaiiza.
ton that war with Gefmai,v "A ON.
Away from Washington and n few Of
the centers, there is very little 10 visn.
Allie the fact Of the war. or course
the newspapers daily carry the fidings,
not only Of the great strnorle between
iks armies 81 tke WeSttrk fro XIX and
likewise OF The greet and almost mar,
yelohs activities at the White House,
IN the executive dbphftmeifs ana in
congress- Recruiting dfieers have
been. bnsy. no and down the country
but this has been On DIV q little
larger scale than IN peace times when
periodically there have been efforts to
enlarge the numbers Of the regular
army establishment.
There have been none Of the hard.
ships Of war yet to hronse the Ameri-
can people. A goodly number Of young
men are Just going into the training
camps to earn seommissi6hs n he Biz
eonscript army. There has been much
zeal for these places and many more
young men have COME forward 10 grasp
the opportunities than tho koyernlhent
could accommodate. Many Of these
volunteers have been highly stationed
in civil life, not few Of them having
held important positions III the public
service aud in private business. But,
Of course, there have Been no casualty
lists Of soldiers, which tell so yivitily
Of actual warfare. IN every town and
village Of the land there are 10 fhis
day many Who remember the news from
the front in Civil War times. And In
every. village and town there has grown
pp tie Impression that these letters and
dispatches about The fallen attend only
Patriotism Dominant
But In spite Of all these things, an
intense patriotism Is dominant through.
out the United States ii has Jared
forth tremendously in some sections.
particularly IN the East New England
and the Atlantic seaboard il mtch
nearer Europe, on the whole Is much
more in sympathy with Europe and hpt
TO take notice much more quickly az
whatever may BE Transporting there.
New England, FOR Instance, has been
burning with patriotic ardoF ever since
declared. The little state 81 Maine,
having less than 100000 people, the
northeasternmos State IN the uriion
and also the State of the forty.eiRht
in the union nearest to Europe, long
ago voted $l,OOO0O0 for war pfepara-
tons Gbyorner Milliken, the Young
executive Of this State, has been down
TO Washington again pnd again con
to what his people could do towhrd
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aggression in the war.
Massachusetts, Connecticut and New
York, whose peoples are IN very touch
commercially and socially with London
sand Paris have been vigorously fBrpui
lating plans for cooperati5h. Under
the dual form Of government, which the
American people have, the States can
always do much Id time Of cfisis, at
STRENGTHENING the hedds of the authbri-
I, ties at Washington. Thus II was back
in the Civil War. Nearly al Northern
States expended large SIMS FOR that
time In ofganizing and eduipping troops
before the federal goyerhment had lac.
cepted these troops.
Some Sections Apathetic
The militant war sentiment has not
quickened MANY of the Southern and
Middle Western States materially thus
| far, but II IS due to no lack OF patriot.
ism, The southern and middle westerh
| people are out Of touch with European
affairs, are busy with their own Under
takings and have not had the serious
aspects Of the war brought home to
them yet, After all public sentiment
y aroused very slowly and only when
proofs are actually adduced at IT. very
doors. There are fewer larger cities
in the South and ID the Middle West
and the rural people there, while they
] read the daily papers assiduously, and
discuss the features of the world strug,
gle IN their daily CONVERSATIONS, have
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