The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-05-21

= For the second time since the omen.
ing Of the special session of the Iegis-
latnra, the Governor appeared yester.
dav. before a Joint session of both
houses and delivered an address Of
formidable length and n bewildering
disarray of words.
The, address was under two general
headings, the food commission and the
national guard, but in its wandering
course 1t ambled from Hawaii to Rus
STA and back again and touched on ev-
erything in the encyclopedia, from the
planetary system to the psychology of
war and from the Whyness of the
WherefOr to. the high price of poi.
ID The members Of senate and house sat
stunned under the deluge of words.
Some Of them were so dazed, indeed,
that they lost consciousness and almost
disgraced themselves by snoring. So
far as could be learned from their ex-
pressions after the ordeal was over,
none of them, had his knowledge per
ceptibly increased as regards either the
food commission or the national guard.
The message devoted to the food com
mission was the special message the
executive said he would deliver on
the occasion of his first appearance
before the legislature. The address on
the national guard was given in CON
nection with q report on affairs Of the
guard called for in q resolution that
the house adopted at its first session
and follows and supplements a similar
report presented several days ago by
the acting adjutant general of the
guard, viii Wayne.
Hits Food Boards
According to the Governor the com
mission he named to conserve food prod.
uets and Increase production became
inert August 10, 1917 after holding a
series of sessions and did not hold n
meeting after that date for period
Of seVenty-seven days or until October
90 and after October 20 held only three
unimportant sessions up to January o
In the course Of his address the Gov
ernor reviewed the appointments he
had made TO the board of food commits
sioners and advanced excuses Of vari
GUS kinds covering the individual cases
Phe executive said he had regarded
James D. Dole, chairman of the com
mission as one of the brilliant and rs
ing young business. men of the Terri
tory.
John Waterhouse, he said he thought
had high commercial qualifications for
the. duties that confronted the food
board
c, G. Bockus he had regarded rs n
sort of an independent spirit, a free
lance, whose qualities would be of
value.
The Governor referred to other mem
bers in varying terms and mentioned
particularly his appointment Of Com
missioner William Hoo"s to "instiIl
life into the organization. The Gov
ernor said Commissioner HooCs did this
" in his own way almost above crit.
cism."
Refers To Child
Some part of the address was devoted
to the contention that the food commits.
sion put in its oar at the wrong time
when it took . hand in national guard
affairs by objecting to the mobilization
Of the guard. He also referred to Fed
eral Food Administrators Child, saying
the federal officer had not seen fit
to supply facts when they were within
reach. He said also that the federal
officer in carrying out his duties did
not rise to needs that are peculiar in
the Territory in the matter of conserv-
ing and producing food.
The meat situation as set forth in
reports in the possession of the food
came in for comment and
the speaker urged the increase of Isl |
and beef production and also that of
corn to be used as a substitute for
wheat. The importation Of wheat from
Australia also was thing urged strong
y, although IL has been demonstrated +
% be an impossibility.
Pot Shortage
1t was charged that "Chnesc auto. !
rat of poi" arbitrarily had ordered /
lint no quantities of poi less than fifty !
'ents' worth be sold and that this had
worked ont as severe hardship on .
many poor people. If the food com.
mission were up to its duties. the Gov
.rnor said, that Chinaman would be
not to the detriment of his
business, but to the regulation of his /
yreed."
The food commission was advised in
he address to defer its publicity work,
ct the military alone, quit camouflage
md give the Governor, treasurer and
auditor control of food financing.
hough no suggestion Of how this might
'e achieved was advanced.
Accompanying the typewrtten al,