The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-04-30
PATRIOTIC CROWDS
STAY ON AND ASK
LONGER PROGRAM
Rousinu Meeting AT Bishop Park
Celebrates Success OF Isl
~. ! and Liberty Loan Drive
STIRRING SPEECHES /;
y ~s' BRING ENTHUSIASM
Music Of Great Chorus Adds To
Spirit Of True Americanism ,.
., Shown BY Crowds

Honolulu 3 patriotic heart was stir
red and the voices of thousands were
raised in cheers and song yesterday at
the rousing Liberty Day celebration
carried out with a program OF music
and addresses at Bishop Park, Though
it, had been planned to continue the
meeting for an hour only, the throngh,
carried away by their fervor, stayed on
and on after the announced numbers
of the program had been given and
continued to call for more songs and
more music. e. ~
Sgt. Glenn L. Hoover, who had had
has stripes only few days, as he catne
to the Islands private in the ranks,
and who is former Seattle Newspaper.
man, delivered-a ringing address from
the turret of the "tank'' The quail
ity of his eloquence which, held every
nearer spellbopnd illustrates the type
of men "ho are leaving all behind to,
give themselves to the Nation.
Trained Chorus 8.
By, one o'clock in the afternoon
Bishop Street from King to Hotel
Streets was close packed with q mass
Of humanity gathered to celebrate the
fact that Hawaii has passed its quota
in subscribing for the third Liberty
Loan. One tier Of bleachers erected IN
the park were filled with men in khaki
of the Second Infantry, trained
chorus of six hundred, and adjoining
them were the Kawaiahao Seminary
girls, the Kamehameha cadets, and the
Kapehameha, girls. In the seats in.
the center bleachers were ranged the
MasOns in full regalia, the ,Ad,s Club
and Apollo Club. In q box below the
blcachers sat, Governor Pinkham, Gov.
Crnor-to-be Charles J. Mccarthy, Lieut..
w. II. STROUD representing the navy;
Col. Robert R. Raymond representing
the army, and members of the execu-
tive committee Of the third Liberty
Loan as follows: l.. Tenney Peek,
A. Lewis Jr., Guy II. Buttolph, /. Il.
Spalding, J. l.. Coekburn, together with
members of the sales committee In
Guiding Mrs. H. P. Agee, Mrs i. Ten
ncy Peck, Mrs. 1. Stubs. d. E. Mooney
and Malcolm Mac Intyre. al .iA,.. ono "
! visitor Honored % " 60, -
William Rhodes Hervey, grand mas
ter of the Masons of California, who is
visiting the Honolulu lodge, and who
was one of the speakers, was escorted
to the square by the lodge in full re.
gala headed by the Hawaiian Band.
The meeting was opened with the sing
ing of Hail, Hail, the Gangs All
Tier" -, directed by George Andrus and
led by the whole gathering. The mob
singing that was done through the af.
teEnoon ms program was directed by.
Chaplain Joseph Loughran Of the,
Fourth Cavalry. ,,.:- ~.
Guy H. Buttolph delivered the opcu+
ing address from the turrct Of tho.
tank. ,
Reminding his hearers that the great
gathering had como together to cele-
hrate Liberty Day, the speaker said he.
did not believe any person present,
fully appreciated the full mea ming Of
our Liberty. 1t is thing born with,
MS he said, II thing We have always had,
any loss of which We had never been,
called upon to feel.
Tolls Meaning
The speaker said he would under
tnko to give some idea of the real
meaning of Liberty by sketching the
other side. He said that if we lose in
the present struggle we might hear
around the corner the tramp of march
ing feet of brutes who have trampled
over humanity wherever their way-has
led. Picturing what would happen,
should their progress be opposed, he.
said the man who ventured to make
such attempt would be crucifed and
should a protest arise from his wife She
would be struck down into the gutter.
Should his child cry out, a soldier Of
the kaiser would not hesitate. The
child he said would be impaled on -
hnyOnct with which the soldier would
march on unmoved.L
II Is to fight for the Liberty we have
always had, he went on, that the Nation,
is engaged in the present, struggle and
the great gathering Of citizens, he said,
was to cheer the wonderful Flag and
the honor flag that had been sent ON
from Washington. AT the close of has
address the Stars and Stripes and the
honor flag were raised on the flag pole
by Mrs. T. Stubbs. Mrs. II, Page and
Mrs. Ten"ey Peck? Sergeant Hoover's
ringing address followed: z
Meaning Of War
II Is hard to realize the read mean
ing Of the war, the soldier speaker told
mis- hearers: even in England the ftlJ
meaning Of the conflict had been hard
to realize. He went back to the early.
days ot1ther war when he said in Eng
nd and America the word business
It's usual' was the slogan that went
ont. They had come to realize quick
~ that while the war was on business
could not be as usual. Nothing cOubl
be Us, usual 4 chqngc'Rad come about
nrd t1Iis meant that people had had
forced on them the cold fact that the
winning of the war was the one, Job
before them and that all else could be
regarded only us chores. ..,
Two years ago when he was in Cana
du. the speaker said, he had seen q
'"'iou awaken TO the real meaning Of
the war when one got up In the mora
ing to search through the lOngalis Of
u"nrrs for the local dead. Those col.
''' ~ o. ras"eltv lists bronght home
to Hnnada what the war really meant
l." ""id Canada became o nation uni.
ted in working for a single common