Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-05-25

child's job 1t is all we'll enough to
teach the children and encourage the
children but simply as an accessory,
and should not be made the most
prominent in our efforts, because chill
dren cannot stand the pressure. The
moderate family efforts made to assist
by Independent productions, independ
ent affiliations and conservations
should be known and obvious to every
family In these later times we have
forgotten a good deal about that.
There was a time when every family
Of moderate means, whether they had
land or not, conserved all their waste
in various forms-had various animals
food animals-to whom they fed
their excess. Children we're expected
after school to pull some pigweed and
throw it in the pig pen, and in many
ways they provided themselves large.
ly with their winter supply Of food
without any urging, without any pres
sure, because each and every family
realized what they must do to exc out
their income or enable them to make
some savings from their income, by
being able to provide certain food
without the expense of purchasing.
To me the one fact, the one motive
power, the one reliance here must be
business in raising what we need, and
not trying to slide It eff on someone
else. The people who have the capital
and who have more or less of the lands
should extend their production, should
realize their responsibility, that their
responsibility Is not altogether in
sugar, although that Is a food and a
much-needed food.
| Situated as we are, we are presumed
to be safe. Well, doubt If anyone
| knows, in the mixup the world has
got in, where the reliable factor Of
| safety lies, and you only need to look
at the world map behind you to see
where Hawaii is placed. A powerful
fleet could make lots of trouble for
Hawaii A big strike, such as was re-
Gently overcome in the United States,
could have made the greatest trouble
| for Hawaii, because as nearly as
could find out, when the strike was
threatened, there was not two weeks
supply of flour in these islands. That
was coming pretty close to the realiZa-
ton Of our worst fears in case trans
portation had been stopped on the
mainland, because the supplies would
not have been available for US here
Unquestionably the ladies can have
large influence in solving the use Of
what is produced rather than the pro-
duction. OF course, there is a certain
amount of vegetables-more particu.
larly perishable vegetables that last
but few days-that they can encour-
/ age the growing of. The trouble Is.
the complaint comes that if we over.
grow, what shall we do with the sur
| plus? That complaint Is forcibly on
US, and the suggestions are made that
the government guarantee the prices
and guarantee the market, and this
! the government cannot do. The people
who produce must look to legitimate
market, and what they cannot market
! they must look to a reasonable utiliZ-
alton by themselves in turning it into
animal food that can be preserved by
the life of the animal until the food
that enters into their composition can
be used by the public
l feel an intense interest in this
problem. 1t is not new to me, and l
have endeavored during the past three
years to put the facts IN shape so the
public of Hawaii could absorb them.
believe our own situation is suffi-
GENTLY clear and that we should give
our best efforts and best wisdom to
solving our own problem, and then