The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-07-16
WHILE WAGING WAR NATION
LOOKS TO TASKS OF PEACE
Two Great Plans Preparation Is Retaining of Arid Lands
To Provide Work and Homes For Couns Soldiers Other Is
Enormous Development OF Water Power Throughout All Sec
tons; Reconstruction Problems Occupy Minds Even OF
i Politicians

dent There may still be lot OF
partisan hatred in his heart but, at n
minimum, he must perform lip service
He may Jab and gouge, with partisan
intensity, every now and then; glihlN
tell how something should have been
done differently; undertake to drive
the government to doing more than il
+ actually is doing, however impracti
cal or inevpcdient such an excessive
undertaking might be, but in the finish
our politician must be able to pro
claim with show of pride that he has
, stood for vigorous prosecution of the
war
And it is with some relief on the
part of minority senator or repre-
sentative that he turns sincere or in
sincere student of reconstruction. The
word has a wholesome sound in Amer
ca. After the Revolution, after the
. War of 1912, especially after the Civil
War, and after the Spanish War, there
were enormous demands for brains and
for energy in making the inevitable
readjustments. These read justments
are larger after victory than after dc
feat. The United States has ncvc,
waged losing war and supreme as
surance, born of the unyielding deter
mination to chastise the Hun, that tn,
war will be won, emphasizes to far
ready for peace.
The Tasks of Peace
II was two years from the time Of
Germany's initial aggressions befor,
the United States had nearly a milIior
men IN France and was ready to give
and take on its own account. There
had to be long period of agitation
and discussion. 1t required many
months even for all the people to ge,
really angry. But even as the people
have awakened gradually to a realizu
ton of the war and aroused themse Ives
to make war to the very limit of theil
men and resources, just when they ar,
beginning to be able to look back over
stupendous war tasks remarkably per
formed, they are beginning to see that
/ war preparations and front line sac
rifices entail even greater peace tasks
! Perhaps a dawning realization of what
| reconstruction must be in a harbinge1
of peace before many months in thai
eternal procedure by which so mucl
that is carefully throughout and exc
! cuted fits into what will come after
but the subject is being pursued a
Washington in no such spirit.
Washington has almost stopped
! thinking about when the war will end
That was a favorite pastime for a Ions
season and prophets were upon every
/ street corner. They have disappeared
| Prophecy now is more in the line o.
! plans for cooperating with the Allie
to the utmost. This habit of cOoperat
ing with Britain, France and Italy il
war will not be forgotten in peace
! Possibly stronger even than this senti
ment is the determination to prOscrib,
Germany. 1t will be long before Ger
many can gain any respect upon thu
sea. Great fleets of American mer
chant ships will cross the Atlanti,
long after the war is over. The HoI
Island yard, along, near Philadelphia
with its fifty modern ways now com
| pleted, has a building potentially o
| 400 ships a year. Germany's trans
Atlantic carrying trade is gone an
neither the huge British merchan
fleets nor the huge American merchan
fleets win allow the restoration of thi
German carrying trade to be mai
easy. The government 5 seizure Of th
docks and piers at New York of tw
powerful German ship concerns tn
other day stands as an Indication o
what is to be.