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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-04-12
ADMINISTRATION IS LIKELY TO
ALLOW p|GHER PRICE FOR RAW SUGARS

argued by the sugar men that margin
of profit 81 cent pound is as small
as they can operate on and continue to
earn any sort Of satisfactory return on
heir investment. AT the existing price
level Of 7.45 cents, according to those
who have followed this situation close.
", the largest and best located com
panies will have less than half this mar
gin during the coming season, while
some Of the weaker companies win be
compelled to 90 out of business or to
appeal to the government TO take over
their plants. The high prices Of beets,
labor and materials of all kinds have
made IL impossible to continue the pres
ent basis, they assert.
Justice Recognized
While the food administration is nat
urally aVerse to increasing prices at this
time, when the cost Of living is stead
lily mounting, IL is realized that there is
justice in the contentious of the sugar
producers!s 1t is believed that the food
administrator will be inclined to agree
10 some measure Of relief if it can be
worked out in such q way as not to in,
terfere with the present balance of
prices. 1t is realized that sugar has
not shared to any considerable extent
in the general rapid advance of food
commodity prices and that a moderate
increase would not be burdensOme to
consumers. 1t might have a salutary
effect in helping to restrain cOnsump-
ton, an important consideration in view
Of the continuing scarcity resulting
from the slow progress of distribution.
1t Is pointed out, moreover, that the
objection which might ordinarily apply
to an adjustment of prices based on
the cost of production of less advan-
tageously located companies, namely,
that it would permit n few companies
enjoying exceptionally favorable stu
atoms to make large profits, Is without
effect now, as under existing tax laws
a large part of such profits as might be
realized in a few exceptional cases
would inure to the benefit of the gov
eminent.
| Another important conference will he
held in New Orleans on April 5 when
Mr.. Rolph will meet State Food Admin
istrator Parker and the members of
the newly appointed Louisiana board
of sugar control. The purpose of this
meeting is to bring about an agreement
Ion the matter of standards to govern
4 the various grades of Louisiana sugar
/ and the differentials that are to prevail
an TO these, grades. This is a matter
that led during the past season to con
siderable confusion and disturbance,
! which it is hoped to avoid during the
coming year.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-04-12
Prospects Bright
|hLl: Louisiana
For Splendid Yield

NEW ORLEANS, March 23-The
weather continues to be just as good as
anybody could want and fine reports
as to the conditions of the cane and
other sugar district crops are being re-
ceived from practically every sugar
producing section Of the State. Plant
ers report that they are way ahead of
the season in planting corn and cane.
The prospects for fine yields of cane
in 1918 are bright. A little rain, how
ever, would not hurt, although there
is no present pressing need for mOis-'
ture. If rain were had il would mean
that the crops would be q little far
ther ahead of normal than they al.
ready are. Nothing but optimism pre-
walls now throughout the sugar belt
II remains to be seen what the late
spring and summer will bring to Louis,
lana s sugar parishes to help or to hin
der the presently wonderful crop Of
sugar now in the ground. Napoleonvillt
reports showers there this week, which
greatly benefited the growing crop af
| ter the cool spell Of last week. The
Assumption acreage in corn has beer
greatly increased and prospects poipi
| to bumper crops Of all kinds.
| While talk Of white sugar manufae
! ture, or, rather, the manufacture OF
prantation white grsnulated sugar con
tinues to be one Of the principal topicI
in the sugar district Of Louisiana a
this time there have been no new re
eruits to that list within the past few
weeks. White sugar machinery inter
ests report, however, that the inquir!
is active for such equipment and tina
at least six of the largest houses il
Louisiana are on. the verge Of signinI
contracts for such machinery.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-04-12
INHERITANCE TAX On
MAIS0N ESTATE IS
At LEAST $1SSIOOQ

SAN FRANCISCO, April An in
heritance tax of $lSS,OOO must be paid
by the estate Of Captain William Mat
son, TSFfIeT or not fRe State Inherit
anee Department allows a tax exemp,,
ton Of S2l2, 900, claimed OH the ground
that the portion of the estate Of 3d.
ESQ 900 left TO the widow, Mrs. Line
B. Matson, was community property.
William A. Sullivan attorney for the
department, yesterday announced that
the portion Of the estate which attor-
news for the estate admit to be taxable
has been assessed at a figure which
will bring SlSs,OOO to the State. Sui,
liyan said he expects that portion Of
the tax to be paid before April IL in
order to win the rebate Of percent
allowed if the tax is paid within six
months after death.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-04-12
PIONEER EMPLOYEES
SUBSCRIBE FOR BONDS

Pioneer Mill Co. employees in the first
two days of the third Liberty Loan
campaign have subscribed to $3.50
worth Of bonds. The sum is expected to
be augmented considerably before the
ramDaign closes. Reports received at
Hackfeld 4 Co. today show that the La,
haina district contributed $500 and
Kaanapali 1880.
Among the leading subscriptions are
those Of Ernest Brecht and II. KubO,
japanese, for $1,000 each, Frank Stark,
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-04-12
Pc RUvlAN SUGAR

Peru reports that ~ tons Of suga!
were raised from one acre Of cane and
that 276,000 metric tons are TO the
credit Of the republic for the year 1915
while in 1915 II was only 262,940 tops
The average polarization of white sugar
was 991 percent, granulated COS per
cent, and museOvadO SO percent. The
amount Of sugar consumed Ut home was
$1,000 tons and the exports were $50,
0l0 tons in 1915. In 1915 the exports
amounted 10 geo, 1857 tons! = ~
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-04-12

FidltS TW UdtulUW NtAt ~ w
Already In Making and Justice
OF Growers Claims Is Winning
Recognition Avefse As rs the
Administration To Increasing
Cost Of Living
NEW YORK, March 23--With the
conclusion Of arrangements governing
the purchase and distribution of the
current sugar crop Il is evident that
the members. of the sugar division of
the food administration feel that the
most important part Of their task In re-
latiOn to the 19l7.l9l8s sugar season
has been completed, said o special des-
;Natch to Facts About Sugar received
from Washington yesterday. There are
nIenty of mattsrs to keep the staff
fully occupied still, but they are mainly
of a routine administrative nature
Attention Turned 70 Future
Attention is now being directed to
the completion Of arrangements for
,lealing with the sugar situation during
the coming year, as il is realized that
with the prolongation Of the war the
HcCoSblby INC PilSD luip
movement Of sugar will continue. Two
important conferences bearing upon this
matter are to be held within the next
two weeks.
The first of these is the annual meet
ing of the United States Sugar Mann.
facturers' Association which is TO be
| held at the Congress Hotel, Chicago, on
March 20, 20 and 80. II is understood
that George NJ. Folph, chief of the
sugar division of the food administra-
ton, will return from California in time
to attend this meeting and that the mat
ter of an agreement as TO the price at
which beet sugar Is to be sold during
the coming year will be taken under
| consideration.
Action May Be Deferred
1t is not at all certain that any defn-
lite agreement covering this matter will
| be reached at this time. There Is a
very general feeling among the beet
: sugar producers that the agreement en-
tered into last September has not work
ed equitably in all respects and that
certain changes and, notifications in
its provisions governing distribution
are necessary. On the Question Of price
it is generally recognized that the very
rapid advance in cost of production
has become a controlling factor In the
situation and that q readjustment OF
the price basis win be necessary IL Q
serious decline in the domestic produe
ton of sugar is to be avoided. II !,
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-04-12
COLDS CAUSE HEllIcHES

LAxATIVE BRoMo aUININE re-
moves the cause. Used the world over
to cure a cold In one day. The sigma
ture Of E. W. GROVE 10 on each box.
Manufactured by the FARIS MRDI'
CINR CO.. 81. Louis, U. s. 4.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-04-12
POISON IN CANDY

Poison has been appearing IN some
candies handled in Utah and samples
have been sent up for analysis. One
sample had enough poison to kill two
people. The authorities say that the
aim Of the poison is to arouse hysteria
more than death aud that it is a part
Of the German system Of undermining
the national morale of the people.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-04-12
MEXICO WANTS SUGAR

Mexico asks for 10000 tons Of sugar
from the outside world. Vera Cruz IL
expected to produce 10000. Mexico Is
still unsettled, the grounds of revolu
ton have not yet settled and in the
meanwhile the sugar situation is still
stirred up by the centrifugal forces
that separate and destroy
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-04-12
NEW SUGAR FACTORY

The cornerstone of the Toppenish
sugar factory has been laid In Wash
ington and that great state may yet
become the cornerstone state for sugar
production if all indications will come
TO a succ essful issue.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-04-12
PILE DRIVER IS BLOWN
OVER BY HIGH WINDS

AS result of the terrific pounding
of the wind which blew over the city
the past few days, the eighty foot pile
driver on Quarantine Island, next to
the Inter Island comPany's coal con
yey0r, fell to the ground Tuesday
night. just missing touring down the
transformer wires which run to the
coal cOnVeyOr, thus saving the eonEeyoT
from being temporarily out of commits
sion.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-04-12
SERVES THE WHOLE FAMILY.

The fame of Chamberlain Cough
Remedy is world wide. 1t is good for
the deep seated cough of the adult or
the Group and whooping cough Of tn"
children. The same bottle serves the
whole family. For sale by all dealers.
Benson, Smith 4 Co., agents fp- Fl.
waii.-Adyt.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-04-12
BARGES FOR SUGAR

Snake River in Utah win see barges
for sugar beets this summer TO assist
IN transportation. This will be like
in Holland where large percentage of
the beets are always hauled this way.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-04-12
EXTENSIVE DEVELOPMENT
OF SUGAR LAND PLANNED

HOUSTON, Pexas, March is---An ek-
tcnsive immigration and development
campaign is being planned at Sugar
Land, according to President W. T
Eldridge, of the Sugar Land COMPANY
As a first step the company has secured
the services of Harry Redan, for the
past fourteen years associated with the
Southern Pacific Railroad, as industrial
and development agent. Mr.. Redan as
sumed his new duties March -.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-04-12

acting manager, took $500 worth and
Mrs. Kayagawa $500. ,pagInar zedt,
WITT, alien enemy, subscribed for $50,
while Max Weber, another German who
was under FIRE last fall at HilO, sub
scribed 500.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-04-12
HAWAIIAN GAZETTE FRIDAY APRIL H. -sEMI,yEEKI9.

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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-04-07
By Winifred BIa c k

stranger on q sleeping car once.
The stranger was good looking,
comparatively young, and, dear
me, he wore such stunning clothes
and had such perfectly sweet man
ners!
He was very attentive about the
window and getting the porter and
finding q newsboy, and knowing
when the dining car was open, and
how long we were going TO stop at
stations, and when II would be
safe to get a breath Of fresh air,
and l thought what a stupid Id be
to miss all kinds Of fun by refus-
ing to talk to him.
But afterward, when I saw his
picture in the paper and recognized
Slim Jim, the pickpocket. as my
agreeable travelling companion, l
began to think that Aunt Julia
wasn't always quite so stupid after
all.
heard two girls talking about
a man the other day. One OF them
said to the other that any man
who would borrow money from a
woman wasn't worth much. and the
other was cross, and said that the
one was Victorian, and the
one seemed awfully overcome by
this accusation.
I'd like to see the other about
q year from now, when she thinks
OF all the nice things she might
hate had, or OF all the good things
she could have done for other peo-
pie II she had kept that money.
Return it-oh, we'll. OF course
this man may be the exception.
like the sweet lemon or the white
blackberry. but il he follows the
rule he'll never even think OF pay
ing that money back.
If he was the sort of man who
paid his debts he wouldn't have
to borrow money from a woman.
/ never hear people talking
about the conventions" and wish
ing there weren't any but | think
of the time / opened the gate
and let the goat who was out in
the street come in to eat some OF
the nice, green grass, and play.
It wasn't very long before l
was on the other side Of the fence
and wondering how / ever thought
that fences were a nuisance.
That's what they are, the con-
ventions-fences. Once in a while
they keep something in that
ought to be out, but it seems to
me that, as a general rule, they
keep out a great many things
that ought not, on any account, to
get in.
The girl who listens to a man
when he talks about free love
would hear the crack of the bit
terest whip in the world-if she
would only listen a little harder.
Copyright 1918. by Newspaper Feature Sci
vice, Inc. Great Britain Rights Reserved.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-04-07
Fence utScientific Zero ISWhere No
Troubles For Us Heat Exists
By Garrett P. Serviss

the fact that gas changes its
volume by 1-273d part of its amount
for every change Of one degree
Centigrade in its temperature.
If, then. the temperature should
fall to 273 degrees below zero
Centigrade, the gas would, in the
words of Prof. ID. w. Herring,
shrink to nothing" theoretically
at least. On the other hand, if
while the temperature is lowered
the volume were kept unchanged
the pressure of the gas would
diminish, until at 273 degrees be-
low zero Centigrade, there would
be no pressure at all. But a gas
without pressure would be with
out temperature, since gaseous
pressure is due to agitation of the
molecules and agitation of the
molecules is the cause of heat. So
by going down mathematically 273
degrees below zero Centigrade we
have reached a point where there
is no heat, no pressure, and no
activity, and, indeed, as some have
Enthusiastically suggested, nothing
whatever!
400 in the Shade"
That point itself has never yet
been attained in any experiment,
but it has been approached within
3 degrees, or less, by means If the
processes employed in liquefying
and solidifying gases. Liquid air
is still SO degrees above absolute
zero, though $50 degrees below
Centigrade zero. Liquid helium
has a boiling point only 5 degrees
above absolute zero, and has been
cooled TO an estimated tempera-
ture of only 2 degrees. without yet
showing signs of qualification.
What would really happen, as
judged by our senses, to a sub
stance cooled to absolute zero, or
what would happen to the whole
universe If thus deprived of all
molecular energy. is a speculative
question toward the solution of
which science cannot go very far.
For many purposes it is both in
tereSIinG and important TO measure
temperatures from absolute zeru
instead of from our conventional
thermometer ZerOS. To turn Cen
Upgrade temperature into a Kelvin,
or absolute temperature, it is only
necessary To add. alphabetically,
2I3 to the number of Centigrade
degrees absolute zero is about 400
Centigrade correspond to 293 de-
grees absolute, and minus 20 de-
grees Centigrade TO 253 degrees
absolute. Measured in Fahrenheit
degrees absolute zero is about 40
degrees below the thermometer
zero. and 46O is the number to he
added Thus '9n In the shade
corresponds 10 $50 degrees abso-
lutte zero.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-04-07

7 7 Els married, the great
n apostle of free love. Mar
i i ried by book, bell and
candle, license, priest. brides
maids, matron Of honor, best man,
wedding journey, old shoes, rice
and all.
And just one little year ago he
was standing up on platforms
telling people that marriage was
the only real slavery left on
earth, and that the only way to
freedom was through the gate of
free love.
He made beautiful speeches
about free love, and terrible ones
about marriage.
He said the finest man and the
most beautiful woman in the
world were sure to get tired of
each other if they tied them
selves together with a marriage
ceremony. He said that a we'd
ding ring was a great deal worse
than any handcuff that ever was
invented, ard he declared that if
he had to take a chance between
a matrimonial moose and a hang
mans rope, he'd choose the hang
mans rope; because IL was SOON
er over and done with than the
other moose.
He was really quite discourage
ing about matrimony.
Love was a fine thing, he said
when it was free love.
1t was uplifting and ennobling,
and glorious and beautiful and
enlightening and everything else
that was fine and courageous, and
beautiful and free-oh, it must be
free; there must be no mistake
about that, He said 1t was ignoble
and brutal, and narrow and Sis
picious, 10 want to tie the people
down to a vow and the keeping OF
il. And now he's gone and tied
himself and his brand new wife
with the plain, old-fashioned, out
rageous, ridiculous knot Of matri-
mony.
What About These!
He says it's all because he never
met the right woman before. Isn't
that interesting?
! wonder how some OF the wrong
women that he did meet before feel
about it.
What an old, old story It is, and
how many different ways here are
to tell II; but they all end alike,
and in the ending there is always
the perfume Of orange blossoms
and the sound OF wedding bells.
How strange It is that we never
learn the truth about the conven-
lions until we try TO get along
without them.
| remember thinking that GER
tain maiden aunt of mine was
dreadfully narrow minded because
she scolded me for talking with a
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-04-07

TT Is better to speak of abso-
lutte zero without reference to
space, for perhaps there is no
absolute zero in space; j. E., in the
apparently open expanse that sur.
rounds and contains the earth and
all the heavenly bodies, somewhat
as a roomful of air surrounds and
contains all the things that float
and circulate in it.
1t is true, however, that the as
sumption is generally made that
absolute zero prevails in inter
planetary and interstellar space,
and whether it does or no, there
can be little doubt that we should
promptly be frozen stiff if we got
outside the atmospheric blanket
of the earth.
Absolute Zero.
Absolute zero is n mathematical
point which lies Just behind the
edge of the scientific horizon and
which has never been reached by
man, although its existence and
location are known, like those of
the sunken sun, by sensible con-
vergent lines, of which it must
evidently be the focus. 1t is the
point at which all temperature
vanishes and where, consequently,
there is no such thing as heat.
The zero of our ordinary Their
mometers Is not a real zero, but 4
conventional one. 1t is a conven-
lent stopping point on a ladder,
whose rungs, or degrees, continue
on, in regular order, below as well
as above; the only difference being
that We call those above plus and
those below minus. On the Fahren-
heit thermometer, the one usually
employed in the affairs OF daily life
In English-speaking countries, zero
marks the temperature of a freez-
ing mixture of ice and salt, which
is 50 degrees (FAhrenheiD below
the temperature OF melting ice. On
the Centigrade thermometer, en-
ployed for most scientific purposes,
zero corresponds with the tempera-
ture OF melting Ice.
Absolute zero is not, like these
other zeroes, an arbitrarily chosen
point on the scale Of temperatures.
above which every degree is called
plus. while below all are called
minus, without any corresponding
difference in their nature or quail
ty, but II is the absolute bottom Of
the scale, so that in the absolute
measurement of temperature there
is no minus. but every degree Is
plus. This is often called the Kel-
vim system OF temperature meas
urement, because Lord Kelvin first
proposed its use. II is based upon
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-04-07

Where is our old friend the Fine
Arts Commission? We haven't
heard from them yet about the loop
for the w. B. & A. They used to
worry considerable about the dis
fgurement of the Capital.
ALBERT LYNN, sanitary officer Of
the Police Department, has enlisted
In the navy.
Wonder when the Chesapeake
Beach Railway win ask to park its
cars in the White House grounds?
Speaking Of the White House, the
street between the car tracks In
that block is In very poor condition.
JOSEPH HURNEY, the portly
young man who answers questions at
the Union Station. Is said 10 know
the time Of arrival and departure Of
every train on this continent.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-04-07
ACCIDENT AT ROCKVILLE.

Well-known Resident Of D. c. Opens
Spring Drive Through Prom
inent Plate Glass Window.
By HENRY HANFORD.
While travelling through Rockville
recently in a brand new Ford, GUY
COLLINS, Of Georgetown. rode
through plate glass window here,
occasioning great excitement. Col
Inns had been touring across coun-
try from Pittsburgh, where he had
purchased the jitney. He could. give
no satisfactory explanation OF why
he chose the window route instead
Of the macadam, and the enraged
Rockvillains were about to make It
hard for Guy when he was rescued
telephonically by CY CUMMINGS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-04-07

In transferring from the
Georgetown to the Fourteenth
street cars, daily. I have wit
messed many narrow escapes Of
pedestrians crossing to and
from the cars mentioned Il
seems to me that there should
be constructed q bridge or some
sort Of elevated platform on
which pedestrians could cross,
and under which vehicles and
street cars could pass, thus
eliminating all danger at this
junction and obviating the ne
cessity even for q crossing
policeman In a Tub
GOLDSMITH SIGMUND,
1876 7th st. n. W.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-04-07

Say, about that Thingamajig. How's
this from an employee Of the Agri-
cultural Department: "Turn-up-Top,"
or, worse yet. "Toadstool." Il am
not a motorist and therefore no re-
Election upon the occupant is intend
ed in the latter suggestion.)
ED. c.
Personal to ED CT have sent
your letter to MORRIS HACKER
! Building Inspector.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-04-07

Food win win the war.
Soap will win the war.
Mucilage will win the war.
Collar buttons will win the war.
But there is one thing certain:
SLOGANS WILL NOT WIN THE
WAR;
From Ohjustsomeoneinwa Washington.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-04-07

Would you call the creation" at
Fifteenth street and New York ave
nue. 1.-THE Roundelay?"
Is the term too poetic for such a
prosaic object?
Wishing you all success in your
effort to find suitable name / beg
to remain,
EDWARD P. DONOVAN,
10S Eye St N. W.