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The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-07
JUST AMERICANS

A Portuguese language newspaper of Honolulu, the O Luso, sew
erey criticizes four members of the House of Representatives who
happen to be of Portuguese descent, because they failed to support
Representative Frank Andrade in his race for the speakership. The
paper refers to the matter as IAN opportunity lost, and calls the action
of the members in question IAN objectionable misstep". The paper
threatens political vengeance, promising that the Luso-AmeriCan part
of the electorate will remember when election time comes around again.
The representatives thus attacked are angry, and with justification.
The editor of the paper in question is supposed to be an American
citizen, though he doesn't show it.
Perhaps of all the races in Hawaii the Portuguese have the least
cause to consider themselves anything except Americans. They are
permanently established as residents and for this very reason can ill
afford to set themselves apart as something else than Americans.
The events of the last few years has not done anything to make
the hyphen popular in the United States, and the maj who breaches
this sort of doctrine is sure to share this unpopuarity.
1t is gratifying to note that the people of Portuguese antecedents
appear generally to resent this misrepresentation of their feelings, as
an attempt to place them in a false light before the rest of the COM
munty.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-07
LEGISLATION THAT MAU SHOULD SUPPORT

The chamber of commerce will hold a meeting next Thursday for
the purpose of considering matters of legislation. Here are some of
the things that Maui should ask for or could we'll afford to support:
Territorial wharf and harbor improvements adequate to accommo-
date the coming commerce of the Pacific.
Free ports to encourage commerce.
A blueSky law to bar from the Islands fake stock selling and
promotion schemes.
A primary law amendment to prevent interference of one party
with the nominations of another.
A fish hatchery for propagation of food fishes in Island waters.
A continuous term OF court for Maui.
A public library for Maui.
A territorial insurance fund to insure employers under the work
mems compensation law.
Bonding drivers of automobiles to protect the public on account
of accidents.
A new electric public utilities franchise for central Maui.
More district nurses.
Adequate facilities to combat tuberculosis on Maui.
Free school books.
An appropriation from the Territory for the Maui County Fair.
Appropriation for a territorial building on the Maui County Fair
grounds.
Refund of Maui money used for teachers salaries in other
counties.
A system of pensions for territorial employees.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-07
THE OLD MOLOKAI VISIT BUNKUM

There is just one reason of any weight why the whole Hawaiian
legislature of 80 representatives and Is senators, with various and
divers hangers-on, should visit the leper settlement. That reason is
the inmates of the settlement enjoy it. 1t is like a show of some
kind to these unforunates. 1t breaks the mOnotony of life for them.
Aside from this, the usual resolution, introduced this session by
Paschoal, a Maui representve, has no leg to stand upon.
If the legislature wishes information, a committee of from 3 to 5
members can get it infinitely better than the whole legislature.
Let the members of the legislature be honest. Cut out the poor
bluff. Adopt a resolution stating that the legislators themselves want
a trip to Mookai at public expense, for their own pleasure and for the
entertainment it will afford the lepers. Their constituents will think
none the less of them-peThaps even more on account of their frank
ness. They fool nobody by the old, WORKOUT style of bunk.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-07

A fveroom school in Honolulu was recently found to be using
common drinking cups, the children dipping these cups into the water
coolers, and occasionally putting their hands into the water from which
they and other children drank,
The teachers in that school are still holding their jobs, so far as
we are told, though they should have been fired on the spot.
A school teacher who knows or cares so little about health rules
has no business to be in a school room. 1t would be interesting to
know how Maui teachers stack up in this regard.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-07

This has been HawaiIs hcky week: Witness-The President
signed repeal of travel restrictions to the Islands; announcement is
made of the restoration of the Nanoa and LurEne to the local service
and the coming of DIR. Mather, director of the national parks bureau
to consider development of the Volcano National Park, is heralded.
The stars must be working right for Hawaii.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-07

The grand jury in Honolulu, after investigating the Shriners an
Elks' "HaPpyland" amusement features, makes a report in which
refers repeatedly to what i. found as illegal practices" Yet it brougf
in no indictments. We were under the impression that grand jury
men took an oath to bring law vioators to trial.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-07

Had the solons who were after Superintendent Kinneys scalp but
known it they might have saved themselves the trouble OF planning and
drafting a bill which would throw him out OF a job through lnelglblhy,
Tor he had made his plans to quit some time ago. The job will soon
he open for some other good man who is willing to be the goat.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-07

If, as Superintendent Kinney says, there are teachers in the public
schools who can't be trusted to handle other peoples money, why are
they employed? Would a bank continue to hire a clerk it couldn't trust!
Would any other business concern Advertiser.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-07

In reply to many inquiries we are greved to confess that the ranch
men of Maui have thus far failed to take advantage of the Maui News
generous offer of free space to tell why the price of meat has gone up,
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-07

The demand of the Honolulu chamber of commerce for relief from
the burden Of the unfair and needless travel permit regulation may hav
been only a joke, as Kuhio said, but the joke seems to be on Kuhio.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-07

The grand jury, which meets on the 10Th, will probably hear much
about gambling on Maui. There is likewise much on the same subject
that it probably will not hear anything about.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-07

1t shouldn't be a question of womans wanting the ballot. She
should have it whether she wants it or not and be expected to make
use of it on pain of being a Stacker if she doesn't
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-07

Anybody who believes the women OF Hawaii are without influence
should see what happened to the territorial senate.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-31

E1RESTONE has done tn.
Il thing that must change tire buy
ing habits more than any othe
move ever made in the tire business
A standard brand 3z-inch tir,
at low price;
A quality that beats any forme
tire of any brand;
A 5000 mile basis from people
who mean it;
A tire that goes on and on, with
out regard to its adjustment basis
That's what Firestone now offer
to that great majority of car owner
who use 31z-inch tires.
Buying habits are sure to change
Who will now want to pay more
Who will want to accept less?
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-13

two kneeling angels, the first in light blue,
the second covered with brocade mantle
trimmed with red. Three shepherds are
seen at the left farther back; two are COM
ing down some steps; the third looks in
the window and plays flute. Through
the centre window q hilly landscape with
lake in the foreground Is visible.
"The picture is incomplete, and panel,
three inches wide, with the Virgin and two
figures in the back, has been added to the
right side. Size eA by inches.
1.-THE correct attribution first made by
e. Bodenhausen. The composition has
been adopted by Gerard David and other
artists influenced by Dirk Bouts"
Only the left two-thirds Of the panel, as
reproduced in the photograph on this page,
is reproduced in the Johnson catalogue
After the fake had been discovered by
Farina it was removed from the panel by
Mr.. Johnson. who preferred having an in.
complete but genuine whole to complete
mixture of true and false
"The work in both these instances" says
Professor Farina, "was done by clever
Copyright. 1919. BY Star Company.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-13

One favorite way of planting a fake
Custom House put the seal Of authenticity
on it with a great deal of publicity. For
instance, an imported picture was sub
mitted to the Custom House as work
by Goya, the modern Spanish painter.
Anybody could see it was poor daub, and
Custom House expert thought he saw
an older picture beneath it.
He discovered under the fake Goya what
he believed to be genuine velasquez, and
the picture was valued as such. In fact,
the Velasquez was fake, but some trust.
Ing millionaire snapped it up.
Mr.. Ronald Graham, the English art
critic, has published the confession of a
very efficient French artist, who uncon.
sciously became engaged in taking Old
Masters. He had not been able to sell any
original paintings and he was forced to
copying Old Masters in the museums.
which he sold to tourists for fifteen francs
or less.
One day friendly stranger came along
and contracted to take all his works at the
prfncely rate Of fifty francs apiece. But
the stranger required him to paint in an
odd wayne wanted some figures from
Tintoretto fitted to faces of Murillo, with
foreground from Leonardo da Vinci. q
background from Correggio and some &C.
cessories by Titan.
The composite produced in this way
would be subsequently, marketed as a
newly discovered Old Master by one OF the
artists mentioned.
The canvas was submitted to a lengthy
aging process, mounted on wormeaten
wood and launched with the proper pub.
licity. The cost of producing It was con.
siderable. but as there was a possibility
OF selling it for 100000 to 5000, 900 the
investment was worth while.
For some years the business of selling
fakes to the late Pierpont Morgan was
carried on very successfully. A remark.
able instance was the supposed tenth cen.
fury bust Of ST. Martin. which was really
hammered out OF an old copper kettle and
decorated with mixture of crystals from
the original and some new ones.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-13

1mitator Of the manner and style OF the
period and school, But when the panels
were cleaned Of the dirt and varnish with
which they had been thickly covered by
the swindlers an expert could discern the
absence in the fake section Of the special
artistic characteristics OF the author of tho
original. The imitator was able to pro.
duce similarity Of those characteristics
which fooled experts while the whole was
thickly encrusted with q dark varnsh put
on to simulate the patina of great age.
without however, succeeding in giving to
them the exact resemblance and perfec.
tion Of stroke in delicate details that
marked the work of the master
"After such forgery had been made the
custom was to apply heat, either by cleo.
tricty or some other means This had the
effect of contracting the filler under the
paint and causing cracks to appear in the
paint. Examination OF these cracks, how.
ever. shows that their edges turn inward
on the fake and are sharp on the original,
which Is always the case when the cracks
are caused by time"
Great Britain Rights Reserved
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The Ingenious Trick
Whereby Genuine
Masterpieces Are Cut
In Two, Carpentered
Together, Their
Missing Parts Copied,
and Are Then Foisted
Upon Eager and
Millionaire Collectors

WYE all know that by planting 1t is
N< perfectly possible TO make two
w blades OF wheat grow where but
one grew before. But how Is 1T possible
to make one "Old Master" one rare and
priceless masterpiece Of art. develop into
two?
From time to time this magazine has
revealed the ingenious ways by which
swindlers separate from millionaire art
collectors their good dollars, leaving in
their places spurious paintings. clever but
worthless limitations Of what they purport
to be- Professor Pasquale Farina the in
ternationally distinguished art expert and
painter, who was commissioned by the late
John G. Johnson, Of Philadelphia. one of
the most famous OF American collectors. to
80 over his 100000 collection to pick
out the true from the false, has just dis
covered ''the two old masters from one"
device. The method Is unique and some.
what thoughtful of the swindlers; that is.
by 1t the victim is not wholly cheated on
the picture. He is half stung, or third
stung, or stung in whatever proportion the
scheme OF multiplication may involve him.
came to be discovered: Mr.. Johnson
bought for price we'll up among the
thousands painting called "The Cruel
f1ion." He purchased 1t as the work OF
pupil OF Gerard David, famous sixteenth
century Flemish master. 1t is numbered
S56 in the Johnson catalogue, which con-
tains the following description by Bern
hard Berens, world famous art critic:
1.-THE crucifx stands in blue.green
landscape against a deep-blue sky. Mary
Magdalen. robed in brownish-green, kneels
at the foot OF the cross wringing her hands
st. John, IN dark-red mantle, stands on
the right holding handkerchief to his
eyes. On the left the Virgin, robed in
dark blue, with folded hands. Panel, 1875
by 141s inches.
"This composition is very near to Rem
artists usually softer manner, standing
nearer to the works from Gerard Davids
atelier."
Now note the line on the photograph.
It shows how the trick was done. When
Professor Farina was called upon to re-
store the painting he came across crack
stretching down It, Chemical and other
analysis of the pigments on each side Of
the crack revealed an enigma. On enc side
the painting was genuine. On the other
It wasn't The panel was really two pan.
els, but the parts had been so cleverly
Joined that the greatest experts had been
fooled.
What Mr.. Johnson had was hybrid, Of
which one part was old master and the
other was imitation. Somewhere or other
there was an identical painting Of which
the part corresponding to Mr.. Johnson's
actual old master was false, while the part
that corresponded to the false in John
sons was actual
But why should any one split up paint.
ing in this way? The answer was not long
in forthcoming.
In some countries-Italy, for instance
khe Government will not allow master.
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6-The Poor but Proud Owner
Can Then Continue Exhibiting
His Treasure Without Any
Danger of Arousing Suspicion

In relation to this matter of
differentlating the true from the
bogus by what the detectives call
internal evidence, Professor Far
Ina tells how to spot fake worm
holes In antiques from the real
thing. Among the treasures of
one Philadelphia millionaire was
a triptych and on It's three panels
a wonderful painting by Perugino.
To prove how old 1t really was
the swindlers, as Is the custom,
determined to endow 1t with an
abundance of worm holes by buck
shot route. So after the panels
were properly blackened and OBJ
scured they stood off with a shot
gun and sent q charge Of shot of
assorted sizes through 1t. The
millionaire was delighted with the
almost spendthrift proofs of age
and paid round sum for 1t. He
was not 30 delighted when Pro-
lessor Farina proved to him that
the wood worms inha bitating an
cient portrait panels always chew
from the sides or rear and never
go through the pigment. Occa.
sionally one will eat It's way to
the base of the paint and cause a
blister. but they never get clean
through!
The world has been flooded
with spurious "Old Masters" for
so many years that it has become
q most difficult task-eyen an i'm
possible task. according to many
persons-to detect them.
The British NATIONAL Gallery ex-
hibited for years the so.called
"Rokeby Venus" as an authentic
work by Velasquez, when the ma
jority Of competent critics de-
clared that 1t was certainly not
by the master. But 1t was admit.
teddy an ancient picture, and this
calls attention to the fact that
there Is an almost Infinite variety
Of fakes.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-13

When the Interesting and Hitherto Unknown swndle Wa.
Discovers E the Experts Looked for Others. And Sure
Child" The Left Twothirds Are Genuine: All
to Right of the Crack Modern Forgery
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-13


other art to be taken out
of the country. Other coun.
tires - Spain and France
particularly-it Is a mat.
ter of the keenest family
pride not to part with
these heirlooms. For
friends to find out that
the Botticelli. the Rem.
brandt, ETC., etc.. which
hung on the wall had been
sold would be a confession
that the fortunes OF the
family were in total
eclipse, the family honor
bankrupt. Now to the i'm
pecunious noble yearning
to cash in on his old mas
tiers comes "a tempter.
why, It's easy" says
he. Il have a man who
can initiate the artist per-
fectly. We will cut your
panel into two pieces.
We will join up to these
two pieces other two
pieces. Then upon the
plank parts Of each will
be painted a copy of what
is on that which was cut
off. You can hang up
your picture again and
keep on pointing to it with
pride. And we will sell
the other for ssome one
else to point to with pride!
1t will be easy"
And it was. The meth
cd also had a very great
and additional advantage.
The methods Of testing
masterpieces Of their au-
thenticity have progressed
with science. The exact
ingredients Of the pig
ments used by the great
old painter are well
known. A fake Of the an
cient pigment will yield
up to chemistry proof OF it
The fake will in a test tube
fession OF its falseness. Nj
keting a production partly 6
the easiest matter for the
to see that the tests were n
ment taken from the genui
that Is just what was done.
Professor Farina's intere
This was n new trick to h
around looking for possible
sure enough, in another OF
treasures ne found one. TT
tremely costly painting Gale
ton Of the Child" and was
the late John G. Johnson a.
Dirk Bouts, born In Holland
and founder of the Dutch
numbered $40 in the johnson
logue. Valentiner, famous
thority, who wrote a voluml
the following to say OF the I
catalogue:
"In a building, with wiz
rear, the nude child lies in t
Joseph Is seen with folde
wears O light red costume.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-13

You can buy an Old Master
entirely faxed In modern times:
you can buy an Old Master
with an authentic inch or two
of ancient paint; you can buy
an Old Master painted by q
genuine old-timer who was far
from being a master, and SO
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-13

H0ID the Trick Is Worked.
I Tho Poor but Proud Owner
of the "Old Master" Is Per-
suaded by the Swindler and
His Artist to Let Them 'Man-
ipulate" His Masterpiece.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-05-02

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company. santtUy detachment and de-
lachuent Of company M se5th Infantry.
SIND division; four casuL companies and
'dctachments Of companies A and X.
15Sth Infantry. 10th division.
The Edgar Luckenbach. due at Phila-
del ptta, May Il, has on board headQuar-
tiers. medical detachment. machine gun
and headquarters companies and COM
panies A to Z inclusive Of the 10th in
fantry. 18th division. and company n.
Tooth infantry. also OF the 28th.
The Santa Olivia win zrrive at Ph1la-
delphia, about May 12- with hnadQuar-
tiers and medical detachment OF Second
and Third batelllons companies +. TO
M. inclusive, 11ath infantry, and de-
tachment OF the 118th machine gun bat
ta.lion of the 5Sth Division