The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-05-07
Broad Hint Is Given
TO Enemy Alien
Company Executive,
Stockholders Express Belief That
Employees Ia Executive Capa-
cities Should Be Loyal Amsri-
can Citizens In All Instances

VI. . 80 ~ !.
Those who hold executive positions
in Lihue Plantation Company, waiahi
Electric Company and Pacific 9uano
4 Fertilizer Company who are not
I. loyal American citizens might do well
TO be looking about for new positions,
to judge by the expressions Of stock
holders at the adjourned meeting yes
terday when directors were elected.
, The prevailing sentiment was that a
man who has been long enough in the
country to secure citizenship and has
not done SO is not the proper man to
be an executive Of an American cor
poration when the country of his ma
tivity il at var with this country.
II is understood that this opinion
erystallized into resolutions that ex
pressed the sentiments Of the stock
holders to practically that effect. Such
an expression, thus put into the rec.
ords Of the meeting, may be taken as
a designation Of policy for the direc.
tors. 1T Is more than a hint for en-
/ envy alien employees Of the companies
that their services are not longer de
sired. They have the opportunity to
act upon the suggestion and to resign
/ before being told by the directors, az
might well be the, case, that they are
rot wanted.
Lihue Very German
Lime Playtstion. has long been rs
serted to be hot bed of Germanism
said one Of the directors, and there
was some warm discussions on the sub
| iect. Of the necessity of absolutely
known loyalty ut the meeting Of the
stock holders Of that company and il
subsidiary, the Waiahi Electric Com
pany. AT this meeting Ii was made
clear that the, stockholders who spoke
' generally felt that man. who has
been in the country for a long period
of years and had not secured citizen
ship, or taken steps 10 do so was moi
q suitable executive employee. Thii
discussion lar ely centered around thu
question of retaining the services Of
Er Weber as manager Of the Lihu'
Company What, II any, action thu
new direciors took, has not been told
but the Significance of the expression,
Of the stoekholders must be apparent
to Manager Weber and II was sug
Rested yesterday evening that his res
ignation. would likely result from thu
meeting.I ~ @.EE Z
Enemy Alien Managers
In the companies whose stock holder
met yesterday, there are two. enem,
alien managers. p. Weber of Lfhue ant
Albert Fake of tile fertilizer company
The question Of their non citizenship
1. was raised and discussed by the stock
holders. Whether or not their action
and words had expressed hack Of 10y
atty was held, by some Of the stock
holders to be immateriaL They hel,
THAT II was enough that they were en-
envy aliens and that a. such they wer
not proper men to be. employed i
managerial capacities.~ q. a.
New onicials Named
At the Lime and the Waiahi com
Ipany meetings the same board of d
rectors was elected for both and late
these directors elected the officers. Th
officers and directorS are: G, H. Cook,
: president; P. r, 1sepberg, first vics
pTesiSsnt; R. 4. Cooke, second vie,
president; r, H. Trent, treasurer;
1R G. Hagens, secretary; Charles A
Rice. and 9. p. Wilcox.
The officers and directors Of tn
: Pacific Guapo 4 Fertilizer Compan
are; g. N, Wilcox, president; J. n
Dowsett, first vice president; Georg
Sherman, second vice president; R. 7
Trent treasurer; J. +. c, Hagens, Sc,
rotary, G. Wilcox and J. W, Waldorf
Costs Are Doubled, IT,,
! IN the reports at the meeting Of II
latter company II developed that ii
costs of many things needed in III
j fertilizer, and freight was included, ha
doobled, This company has been, fu
nfshing bone charcoal for the re6nel
n on the bay and for the Honolulu; r.
fnery and the cost of bone has abo,
doubled.