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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-05
COUNTESS SOUNDS
END OF FEUDALTSM
Lady Warwick Warns England Vast
Estates Must Be Surrendered.

LONDON, June 5.-The Countess of
Warwick. owner Of 1900 acrea. has is
sued a stirring appeal to the landed
aristocracy OF Great Britain to follow
the example OF the Russian Grand Dukes
and turn over all their feudal properties
to the State.
tocracy OF England. in its position OF
hereditary landowners. must go. The
country rings with suggestions for the
betterment Of the conditions under which
land Is cultivated, but as see things.
the suggestions are in no instance drAs-
tic enough.
The only cure for the present evils
seems to me to be State ownership. the
abolition Of all private property in the
earth that was given to all of US IN
common. There are two classes OF large
landowners in England! the arlstocracy
and the plutocracy.
As class. the aristocracy have been
good landlords within limits. but the
limits are very marked. because they
have always been a narrow minded
body. The average chatelaine who plays
the part of Lady Bountiful is to me an
abomination. because her philanthropy
Is so closely associated with dogmatic
religion. personal pride and party poll
tics.
Non-ConformIsts Prosecuted.
Il have known estates where the
tenants are expected to belong to the
Church of England. and non-conform-
lists are barred or prosecuted. Radl-
calism Is likewise suspect Farmers,
laborers. and small village tradesmen
have been ruined or exiled from the
place of their birth because their opin-
ions are contrary to those of their
landlord. Men and women on such
estates must rule their lives to order.
think as they are told to think. II our
aristocracy possessed the oVerwhelm-
ing wisdom necessary to their role as
supreme dlctators all would be well.
but / cannot reckon in their ranks
more than six whose claims would
bear momentary consideration.
AS for the plutocrats. the men who
have bought lands and titles in the
open market-and the one Is nearly as
readily purchased as the other-they
have not the old feudaI tradition of
the aristocracy. They have been ac-
customed to make business ventures
pay: they demand per cent on their
outlay and employ an agent who will
see that they get II. The landlord Of
this class Is a bad landlord.
Supreme Sacrifice Required.
For the betterment OF social con
ditions in England a supreme sacrifice
Is required. II Is no more than jus
tice that the men who have offered
their lives in this war for Britain
should have the freedom OF Britain
for their reward. II Is no justice that
calls men to tight for the land and
leaves II in the hands of a fraction
OF those who fought. To me IL is
impossible that in the future his
grace or my lord should own square
miles of the mother earth for which
Tom died and Dick was sore wound
ed. and Harry fought unscathed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-05

HAS TEN GRANDPARENTS.
ST. LOUIS. Mo-. June 5.1The rela-
tives OF Edwin Charles Staffelbach,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-05
Girls Of England Snub Slackers
Hold Strikers From Military Duty in Contempt
Thousands of Men From Forty-one to
Fifty Offering Services.

LONDON, June with 100000 reported
serving in the military establishment and about half million
the Great Britain is already casting about for
of power. Never the vora
cious in its demands for fodder General Robertson
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-01-26
RICE NOW MEMBER
OF THE LAND BOARD

Charles A, Rice. of Kauai. was ap.
pointed by the Governor yesterday to
be a member of the territorial land
commission, taking the place left va.
cant by the resignation some time ago
Of DIR. j. H. Raymond, Of Maui.
Rice was formerly senator from
Kauai and two years ago was an un-
successful candidate for the delegate
ship against Kuhio. He is regarded as
being independent, and it Is known
that he is well acquainted with govern.
ment land conditions, especially on
Kauai, where there is more good gov.
ernrnent land than on any of the other
islands. AM.
Pinkham's failure to re-appoint Doc.
tor Raymond to the land board, follow
ing the latter 3 defeat in his race for
the senate, was one of the causes that
led up to the recent sensational break
between Raymond and the Governor.
Raymond was one of the few firm SUP.
porters Governor Pinkham had in Ha-
waii, and took it in bad part when the
Governor ignored his services and, in
his opinion, insulted him by refusing to
see him one day when he called at the
Solid Ivory chamber. ,- ~. ,..g n
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-01-26
PERSONALS
From Thursday AdvertIsey,

Mr.. and Mrs. Manuel da Costa Rita
of Emmeluth Lane, welcomed az thei,
home last Friday the arrival Of a son
George Roenitz, chief clerk Of tbs
commandant' Office ne United state,
naval station is spending his vacation
in San Francisco. 80
Jose @. Serrao, prominent HiIo mer.
chant, is visiting in the city. Mr.. Ser.
rao will leave in the Claudine tomor.
row afternoon for Maui and win catcb
the Mauna Kea Saturday evening A.
Lahaina for his Big Island home
Miss Louise Barker, daughter Of
Hon. and Mrs. Charles @. Barker az
Los Angeles, was the guest OF Miss
Frances M. Goold at the Castle Home
on Tuesday during her short stay In
the city, continuing in the Siberia on
her way to the Orient. Miss Barker
is the bride-elect Of Mr.. Gauss. the
American consul at Annoy, China, who
will meet her on the arrival OF the
Siberia at Yokohama, when they will
be married. After a honeymoon trip
through Japan, the couple win 20 70
Annoy, where the consular residence
has been remodeled for the couple,
. From Friday Adyertiser)
A daughter, who has been named
Henrietta, was born yesterday to Mr..
and Mrs. Joaquin Quintal, Of Kama.
mslu Street, Auwaiolimu.
Mr.. and Mrs. Erman verbanks Bunt.
of 1879 Liholiho Street, Makiki, wei.
coined at the Kapiolani Maternity
Home on Friday Of last week the ar.
rival of son. tf
John F. Bobrowski and Miss Frieda
Battige, formerly Of Waikiki, Maui.
were married on Tuesday by Rev. ID. @.
Peters of the Christian Church, the wit.
nesses being Miss v. Mendonca and
Lew Wallace. s.
With Rev, Father G. M. Limburg OF.
floating, Alexander Lau Apana and
Miss Alexandrina Besenta Ching we're
married on Wednesday at the Catholic
Mission. The witnesses were Oscar
Apana and Julia Kaiuaola.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-01-26
'EDENLOW Kicks
TO HARBOR BOARD
Objects To Paying More Wharf.
age Than the Refugee Ger \
man Steamers

Eben Low, superintendent Of the
Oahu shipping Company, can I see any
good reason why his vessels, which are
in active trade in Hawaii, should be
required to pay higher wharfage eharg
es than are paid by. the German in.
termed ships in this port. He said SC
in o letter to the board Of harbor com.
nifssioners which was read at their
meeting yesterday. n
Low pointed out that when his YES.
sells lie alongside one another, they pay
half the regular wharfage fees, which
is very much more than Is paid by the
interned German vessels Pommern and
Setas. He suggested that il ought 10
be Just the other way around, and
asked the harbor board to grant him
some relief.
The board was not inclined TO act
on the request without further consid.
Grafton. Church said il was certainly
food for thought. The matter was
finally postponed until a future meet.
ing.
Low was granted permission by the
board to install a gasoline tank ON rail.
road land beyond the outer end of Pier
Is and to run pipeline and set up
a pump under the wharf, from which
to load gasoline for his motor vessels.
Low had complained at former meet.
ing of the board that the new harbor
regulations which prevent his loading
gasoline from drums after four o clock
in the afternoon was great hardship
and would be liable to put him out
of business.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-01-26
TWO AUTOS STOLEN

An epidemic of automobile stealing
appears to be rife in Honolulu. Two
cars have already been stolen and re
covered this week, and last night o
third, was taken from outside the fish
market on King Street. The machine
stolen last night; about eight O'Clock
was No. 1898, Ford -runabout, regis
tered in the name of George p. Russell
Information Of the loss of the car was
given the police by Ishizaki, a Japan,
ese chauffeur. Up to midnight nothing
had been heard of the missing ear
though every officer on the force was
notified to be on the lookout.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-01-26
THE ADVERTISERS saM.WEEKLY
The Cup of Shame

nESPATCHES from Juarez announce tina
II Pershing and his men are already moving
north, withdrawing from Meico after a fruites
expedition the only outstanding feature of which
is that our men were attacked and beaten by tn,
very men they went into Mexico to aid Up t.
yesterday afternoon Washington refused informa
ton OF its plans regarding the Pershing expedi
ton, and it can hardly be wondered at that tn,
administration attempted to conceal its shame t.
the very last. efs,ss s','arf' =. 4, . .'A
We are coming out of Chihuahua with as little
credit as we Withdrew from Vera Cruz with
less credit as matter of fact, because Genera
Pershing was sent across the border with definite
Instructions to bring about certain accomplish
ment, the capture or determination of Villa. We
failed wholly and utterly, and we not only failed
but we are retreatng in the face of the renewal
of Villas strength and with his bandits ready tc
move into the section we have held with an
intention to punish those Mexicans who evinced
a degree OF friendship for us We are leaving the
only friends we have in Mexico to face the raw
ages Of ruthless desperate, who burns and cru,
cities and deAowers.
And this retreat is in the face of the brave words
with which we launched the affair, in contradict
ion to all the braggadacio with which we attempt
ed up to within few days ago to bluff Carranza.
We march north to the border with the blood
OF our SOlQlerS Gaining IIOm Lne ground INTO winch
it was spilled. We retreat with the dead of the
Columbus raid unavenged We trail the Stars
and Stripes before the gibes of Carranza and his
staggering crew Of cutthroats. We bring back
neither victory nor the satisfaction of task fairly
attempted. w
We have been outmaneuvered automatically
by Carranza and checked in military way by his
draggletail armies. We have been betrayed both
in the City of Mexico and in the City Of Washing
ton. s.. r. .""-'.
Our state department has been out-argued by
Carranza at every point. He argued us out Of
Vera Cruz He argued us into recognition. He
argued us into an admission that our punitive
expedition was despatched into Mexico illegally,
because started without his consent. He argued
US into accepting an excuse for apology for
the treachery of Carfizal. He argued us out Of
the protocol upon which we had insisted with loud
words,
On every point he defeated us and on every
point we had the right Of it. Now, with Pershing
marching north, we acknowledge that we have no
right to use our own troops to protect Our own
borders from invasion. .. .., ...
And Wilson visits the senate to talk about our
share in a worlds league to enforce peace! This
It time when, according to our own self-huniili-
alton, we cannot keep peace within our own bor-
iers!
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-01-26
w dikiki For the People

HOMMISSIONER WAKEFIELD of the har-
~ Dor board has reduced his plan for the re-
clamation Of Waikiki for the use Of the general
public down to practical, working basis, worthy
of consideration and support by the community.
His plan is to give back to the public what it has
always theoretically enjoyed, an unimpeded right
of-way along the beach, between high and low
water mark. The gradual Entertainments Of prop
ertyowners along the beach have resulted in the
public being debarred from its own property. Mr..
Wakefield proposes to remedy this state of affairs
by having built concrete sidewalk over this pub
lie right-of-way from Fort De Russy to the Pub
lie Baths, distance of approximately three-quar-
tiers of mile. Here, safe from wheeled traffic,
promenaders may enjoy the sea, the sands, the
ocean breezes and the sunsets Whatever are
the glories OF the beach walks at Atlantic City,
Brighton and other famous ocean promenades
will be had at Waikiki, with all the extra gories
that Waikiki Bay has over the cold gray waters Of
the North Atlantic. :. a#"@.r
AS the attractions of Honolulu as tourist city
are being more and more widely spread and as
each month sees the volume OF tourist travel in
creasing, the necessity of making Waikiki as cas-
lily available and open and free to visitors and
townsfolk as possible becomes more pressing. We
cannot expect to restrict the approaches to Wal
kii beach to one orAtwo hidden lanes, nor expect
to be able to continue the ppactlse IN barring the
public by means Of Walls, fences and tabu signs
from free passage along the beach Honoluans
might stand for it, but visitors who come at our
solicitation will not and should not be expected to-
The Wakefield plan, if carried out, will be
worth great deal to Honolulu,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-01-26

The announcement from Washington that the
house committee on Territories had decided to re-
port the Hawaii-Alaska Prohibition Bill favorably
is satisfactory, but by no means unexpected. The
subcommittee, which had the bill in substance in
hand decided in its favor during the last session
but the absence of the chairman of the main com
mittee made action in the closing days of the ses-
sion impossible, 1t was certainty that the bill
would be favoraby reported at this session. How
ever favorable report from the committee still
leaves prohibition for Hawaii an appreciable ways
off. 1t is doubtful if the bill will reach hearing
this session, with SO much of importance to be set
tied but the prospects for some measure towards
prohibition in the next session are growing
brighter -
The idea that the chamber of commerce should
not concern itself with the moral condition of the
city was advanced at meeting of the chamber
yesterday. 1t is an outcropping of the old idea
that whatever may be twisted sufficiently to Just
ify calling it politics" should not be taken up by
the organization. Some day the fact that business
and commerce are terms embracing more than
dollars and cents and profit and loss will be so evil
dent that any suggestion that morals and politics
be debarred from the consideration of business
men will only be laughed att, 81
.- 90. H." *****
This senie dementia in administration circles
appears to be catching. The industrial accident
board on Monday night considered legislative sug-
gestions in secret and yesterday the public utili-
ties commission met behind closed DOORS
g"' \ y NJ
The Austrian proposal that fourth of all real
and personal property be taken by the state to
keep the government going ought to suggest some
thing to those Democratic financiers at Washing
ton ~ut.. l.'' =.
\ + 4
The speed with which the senate is confirming
the nomination of Colonel Iaukea as Secretary Of
the Territory indicates that Kuho is "on the lob. "|
4 49, Il
Supervisor Homer complains at being made the
target for "cheap abuse" but what does he ex-
pect? He ought to be glad to be noticed at all
y ~
The beauty about these naval engagements in
the North Sea is that both sides can celebrate.
We wonder they don't have them oftener.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-01-26
TWO HAoLES HELD ON
CITY ATTORNEYS ORDERS

F. J. Cation and s. E. Andrews were
arrested yesterday on orders of the
city attorneys Office and held some
hours pending investigation. They
were released late in the day. The
men were held in detention separately
and not allowed to talk to each other
while in the hands of the police. =
Captain McDufie declined last night
to give any information as to the sns.
picions held against the two men, stat.
ing that the case was one of CITY
Attorney Brown 8, regarding which he
was not at liberty to talk ~ ,TTNt'N.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-01-26
i. PANHANDLER JAILED

Z John Perez was arrested as a sup.
posedly insane person yesterday. l..
kApiioho and Willie Mauna were ar
rested yesterday and charged with
shooting the festive craps. M. YAM.
GaLara was in the same game. Andy
Graham, a panhandler of parts, was ar.
rested and charged with vagrancy. He
has been in the habit of begging aims
about the abodes of wealth in Honolulu.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-01-26
SOMETHING TO REMEMRER.

In buying a cough medicine for chill.
drep, bear in mind that Chamberlain Is
Cough Remedy is the best for colds,
Group and whooping cough, and that IL
contains no harmful drug, For sale by
MI dealers, Benson, STith & Co, agents
for Hawaii.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-01-26

With J. Wesley Thompson on the territorial
bench at Kailua and Samuel B. Kemp in line for
the territorial bench at Honolulu, the Office of the
United States district attorney is in danger of
becoming the loophole through the Organic Act
provision that circuit court judges must be APP
pointed from among residents Of the Territory,
The Washington herald., 1917-09-03
A WORKINGMAN'S SOLILOQUI
By CLINTON BANCROFT.

I am the giant
a incomprehensibIe the universe.
the pIow.
My hands fashioned wood and with turned the soil
raise the that feeds the armies of the world
I land seeking a
Mase rubs the Lamp
build factories mills palaces for him.
My children toll and sweat in his servce live in hut
iron that give
dominion
O.
that divide the mountains
with meeky lay the Masters
Without loyalty Msrshp vanish
from the earth
nd 1 he
needs beneath
1 battles of the
and my
pathway
skies
my cara he The storm.
thunderbots and fire
children of the land-for hire
Then earth, crawling
By dyke and trench, a thing of filth and slime,
wait the dreaded hour sally forth and kill
sated with uring the tdrmsnts
the feon his life and death.
a creature who feels
Upon neck the of iron heels
lightning
continents with
Listen! a fellow workingman!
Thy brothers blood me ground
Listen! to rulers of the world!
Thou shalt not kill"
And he ring of and
hear saying Peace,b e
'Tis the weeping of the Mothers the children;
'ris the broken-hearted sisters crying
But when word,
The scales falling
n think see light arise. s5-SiiS41-s
The Washington herald., 1917-09-03
HOLLAND LETTER
The Biggest Daily
Financial News Feature of
the County's Best Newspapers

The latest available figures that re-
port the ton mileage of the railroads
in Great Britain, France, Russia,
Austria and Germany at the begin
ming of the European war fix the
amount at 120, 0,265,OO0. In 1914 the ton
mileage in the United States was al
most exactly 27i,OOO,OO0. In 1915 it in
creased slightly but in 1916 the ton
mileage in the United States was 339.-
So, 900. This is an increase over the
mileage of 1915 of 81 per cent. Large
as this increase is the Railroad War
board at Washington is able to con-
template now an increase of ton
mileage in 1917 at the rate of A per
cent over the mileage of 1915. This
increase will be better understood
when it is said that it will be at the
rate of 120, SO, 600 ton miles, or some
what in excess of the total ton mile
age in the European countries before
the war began. As there has been
no increase in railway construction
in Great Britain or upon the con-
tinent of Europe since 1914 1t can be
reasonably assumed that the total
now stands at 100 600, COO which is about
800 600 less than the rate of increase
in ton mileage in the United States
for the single year 1917.
These statistics contain the best
possible evidence of the efficiency
made possible through the co-ordina-
ton and Co-opera tion of the railroads
Of the United States under the di-
rection of an executive committee of
which Fairfax Harrison is chairman
and Howard Elliott, Hale Holden,
Julius Kruttschnitt and Samuel Rea
are associate members and Daniel
Willard is eXofficio a member. When
it is borne in mind that the Railway
War board was established early in
the spring and that while It has no
mandatory authority, nevertheless Il
has the support of the Federal gov
ernment, then an excellent idea can
be obtained of what coordination
and unification for certain purposes
of the railway systems of the United
States can accomplish. The Railway
War board has been able to achieve
this extraordinary success because it
has had a free hand and has per-
fected simple propositions without
any legislative or governmental in
reference.
Some of the members of the Rail-
way War Board in private or in
formal conversation with their friends
have said that the increase in capacity
(of which increase an additional ton
mileage for 1917 over the previous
year representing the aggregate ton
mileage of Great Britain and the
European countries is perhaps the
best evidence), is the result of per-
mitting the owners of the railroads
and their managers to go ahead with
all their energy, without being di-
verted as they have been in the past
by embarrassments occasioned by
certain State and Federal regulation.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-03
Defective Ammunition Again.

obviously, when one-third of the am
munition furnished a small expedI-
tionary force is defective, criticism,
and Just criticism. is going to be lew
eled at the War Department.
Obviously, when the Committee on
Public Information-whose duty IL is
to keep the public informed on such
important developments as this-per-
mits itself to be "scooped" by a
newspaper correspondent on the item,
and then sheepishly admits the ac-
curacy of the story, there is room for
even more criticism from the news
paper point Of view.
The public will be mainly concerned
to know how it is that American army
ammunition is "doped;" whether II is
true that enemy agents are working
in American arsenals. as charged;
whether the powers that be in the
War Department are attempting to
evade this issue Of disloyalty among
its employees and its personnel.
The chemical industry of the coun-
try is still to a very largo extent
in the hands of enemy aliens" says
the New York Tribune. Evidently.
When fully one-third Of the small rife
ammunition furnished Pershing's men
proved to be worthless, It is quite evil
dent that enemy aliens" CT some-
body equally bad is on the job.
This alarming exposure will be con-
doned, because it will have to be con-
doned; the public has no choice in
the matter. storm and protest as it
will. But the essential question is:
Is it going to recur in the future? I?
Is our big army of next summer going
to be plentifully supplied with this
sort Of ''doped" stuff? Il is up to
Secretary Of War Baker 10 fnd cut,
as he is responsible to the public. He
should spare nobody, not even army
officers whom he lszes.
Both the army and navy have had