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The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-09-06
MODERN press GANG" GATHERS UP SAILORS

ties From Inland Cities to the Sea-
q in Merch ant Marine
want to try a seafaring life. Only
those who know their own minds are
accepted.
A prerequisite to acceptance is q
favorable medical examination Minors
are required to have the written con-
sent of their parents before they can
join the party.
When party reaches the limit set
for it, it departs under escort of an
official. for the nearest seaport at
which the Shipping Board has a mer-
chant marine training station, the
fare of each man in the party being
paid by the government.
Arriving at a training station Of
the Shipping Board, the young re-
cruits are placed on board a training
ship; their names are put on the ships
payroll, and they are given blue uni.
form.
On finishing two months of intensive
training as apprentice seaman, fire
men or stewards, these young Mer.
chant Mar liners are next shipped on
board merchant vessels for deep-sea
voyages at full pay for the rating fer
Which they have been trained; namely,
S65 a month for seaman, $75 a month
for stewards and 800 a month for fire
men. Board and lodging are free.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-09-06

This country is witnessing q PIC
turesque development of recruiting
methods by which the new Merchant
ships butt by the government are be.
ing manned with American crews.
Officially conducted parties of lads
anxious to go to sea are being sent at
frequent intervals by the U. S. Ship
ping Board from inland cities to sea
board places where training ships are
maintained for their reception.
The making up of these parties of
American boys who want to try the
adventurous life OF a seaman suggests
by contrast the old days Of the "press
gang Of unsavory memory by which
the British filed the crews Of their
ships century ago. The wishes of
the boys taken by the press
gang were never consulted, and
the pressing Of American seamen by
the British led to the war of 1924
The successor of the press gang
which is now filling the crews OF
American ships with bright and am.
bilious American boys, does business
in a manner in keeping with the
spirit Of the times.
Representatives of the United States
Shipping Board go from city to city
to make UP parties Of young men who
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-09-06

CARGO CRUISER" FOR TRAINING
ship she is fitted to carry a Grew
of between 28O and 300 active and
eager young Americans bent On seeing
the world and finding out what career
there is for them in the Merchant
Marine.
Four other similar ships have been
fitted for the same service as the Ala
bat, and will make their maiden voy-
ages as commerce cruisers in the near
future.
Ships Especially Equipped
There are the Sturgeon Bay, now at
Boston, where the 'Alabat was fitted
out, the Utoka and the Newton, fit
ing out at Portland, Me-, and the
Brookdale at Seattle.
These vessels are fitted with spec
ia1 living quarters for the apprentices,
and are equipped in every way as
model school ships. No other nation
has anything like them in the way of
training equipment for merchant ma
riners.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-09-06

MARINE APPRENTICES
Whichever way in life the Merchant
Marine apprentice aims to take, the
U. S. Shipping Board is prepared to
help him in his next step upward.
The initial course of training, OBJ
tanned ON the commerce cruisers, is
approximately two months-long
enough for two voyages to the West
Indies, for example-after which the
boys are shipped in regular merchant
crews, for more extended voyaging, as
regular seamen, or as fremen or
stewards.
Those who intend to make seagoing
their business are encouraged to look
toward an officers berth High
school graduates are eligible for
third mates license after one year
at sea- Firemen may become oilers
by promotion, and after two years in
that position may become engineers.
School for Officers.
. The Shipping Board maintains at
principal ports free technical schools
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-09-06
SEES BIG TASKS
IN PEACE PLANS
OF RED CROSS
Ethan Alien, Division Manager,
Returning From Europe, De-
scribes Future Work.

. ANY impression that the American
Red Cross, having finished it's war
task, is going back to the status it
occupied before the war is dissipated
by the announcement by Ethan Allen,
manager Of the Atlantic Division of
the Red Cross, that the organization is
buckling down to a most strenuous
peace program of permanent activities
at home.
Mr.. Allen has just returned from a
trip to England and France, and brings
back with him first hand information
about the work of the American Red
Cross in the field and the plans of the
League of Red Cross Societies for the
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-09-06

development and coordination of hu-
manftarian effort throughout the world.
"a most strenuous task is ahead for
the Red Cross in America" said Mr..
Allen. "In community work, in recre-
ational activities, in the hospitals oper-
ated by the United States Public
Health Service, in home service work
for the benefit of needy and suffering
civilian families, in nursing and in
Junior Red Cross work in the schools,
the American Red Cross will yield the
best that it can offer.
'The health work. alone Is an i'm
mense undertaking. An enormous toll
is claimed each year by preventable
diseases. Each year, in giving birth
to babies, 10000 mothers die. Then,
there are the diseases which work
havoc among children and there is the
lack Of proper care which results in
undernourishment and underdevelop-
ment. The work of the Red Cross not
only will contribute to building up the
lives Of these children and safeguard
ing the health and strength of Amer
lean mothers, but it also will do much
toward the happiness Of American
homes.
Home Service Comprehensive.
"From platforms of Chautauqua cir
cults, Red Cross nurses now are urging
communities to take up public health
work in order that these communities
may be equipped to combat diseases
and epidemics such as the ''FIu," and
that they may be able to enforce every
precautiOn particularly In cases Of con-
tagious diseases. The Importance of
this can easily be seen when it is
known that diphtheria alone killed 49,
600 children in 1918 .~
''The home service plans of the Red
Cross are especially comprehensive. 1t
has been decided not only fully to dis
charge the pledges of the Red Cross
to dependent families of soldiers and
sailors who served in the war, but to
extend this helpful agency to COM
munfties which are not yet awake to
their social needs and social obliga
lions. Part of Red Cross Chapter
funds will be available for assisting
families who are finding the burden of
living too heavy for them to carry IN
assisted.
period children in American schools
will take up Red Cross activities with
redoubled energy. These children are
to raise a national fund of $1,000
sixty per cent of which will be used
in helping destitute children abroad.
The remainder of the fund will support
the Red Cross activities in the schools
here. There will be work on garment
production, first aid classes, manufac-
turing canes for war cripples and ma
teria1s for hospitals, knitting and cook
ing. In addition, every effort will be
made to inculcate health habits in the
children"
Spirit of UnseIflshness
Mr.. Allen spoke Of the great impor-
lance to the world of the formation Of
the League of Red Cross Societies
which was completed while he was
abroad
"In my talks with the men who
played a leading part in the establish
ment of this league, J. noted, above all,
a spirit of unself1sh devotion to the
cause of humanity" he said.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-09-06


The Shipping Board, which during
the war trained as many as 5000
merchant marine apprentices at one
time on chartered passenger ships,
gave orders to create it's peace feet
of cargo cruisers soon after the armis-
tice was signed. When all five ships
in the new training fleet are in com
mission, approximately 1900 boys will
be given training at one time.
The training, like the ships, is
unique. Each vessel will make reg
ular trips, like commercial vessel,
carrying between 1000 and 1890 tons
of cargo, to domestic or tropic ports.
The purpose underlying these voy-
ages is to train the apprentices not
only in seagoing, but in the art of
caring for cargo, protecting it from
weather and the sea, slowing it
aboard ship, transferring it to or from
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-09-06


in navigation and marine engineering
where the young man who has COM
pleted his preliminary sea service as
described may fit himself for an Off
GERS license.
Boys preferring to follow the ship
ping business are encouraged to take
a special school course in sea trade
after which he will be in line for a
position in an exporting or shipping
house.
The recruiting service of the United
States Shipping Board, which has
charge of the cargo cruisers, has
already trained more than rs, 600 boys
It's training work began in January
1918. It's headquarters are at the
Custom House, Boston, where boys
who wish to enter the Merchant Ma
rine may make application, by letter
or in person.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-09-06

The first of feet of novel school
ships for Merchant Marine appren-
tees, fitted out by the U. S. Shipping
Board since the end Of the war, is now
On her initial voyage.
The vessel, named the Alabat, is
known as a cargo cruiser. She is one
of the much discussed wooden feet
with which America started to break
the submarine reign of terror against
the worlds shipping. AS a school
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-09-06

lighters or barges, and inspecting the
process of stevedoring and slowing
goods in warehouses.
Shipping Board Helps Boys.
This practical work is expected to
appeal not only to boys who want to
become able seamen, or officers on
American merchant vessels, but also
to those who expect to make knowl-
edge of sea trade a stepping stone to
q career in the shipping business.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-14
Suave Stranger Gets Away From HO-
nolulu And IIilo Officers, Gives Maui
Force Exciting Run Before Caught
MADE BLUFF AT SUICIDE IN JAIL
Hid In Cottage On Camp l Beach
Excites Suspicion OF Boys Who
Report Matter And Help Police
Make Capture

A man-hunt on Maui all day Satdr-
day and Sunday created lots of excite
ment for the police force and for
various citizens more or less directly
interested. 1t ended Sunday after
noon when the slippery visitor was
rounded up by the police among the
sand dunes below Camp /, and safely
lodged in Jail.
The object of all this excitement
was young stranger who arrived
from Seattle by the Makura two
weeks ago, and within few days af-
ter his arrival was being looked for
on charge of passing bogus checks
amounting to about $500. The grand
jury has since found an indictment
against him.
His excapades on Maui include a
trail Maui in two days time, during
which he made a favorable impress
ion on quite a number of Maui citi-
zens; his return from Hilo last Fri
day night, by escaping from a police
officer who had him in charge on
board the Mauna Kea enroute to Ho-
nolulu; a sensational dash from La
haina; his arrest by the Wailuku
police and his almost immediate es-
cape from them through slick ruse;
his re-arrest on Sunday; an attempt
(?) to commit suicide in the Wal
luku Jail on Sunday night; and final
ly his being turned over the Detective
Arthur McDuffie who came from Ho.
nolulu Monday night to get his man
and returned with him the same night
on the steamer Mauna Kea.
A Man OF Many Aliases
Just what the young strangers real
name is is hard to say. He has gone
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-14
Chamber Of Commerce Will Have 1t
At Same Time As County Fair
Committee To Be Named
DEMANDAC
Committee AppOintedTO Push ApprO-
priatiOn And To Decide On LOca-
tiOn, And Get Some Real Action
For A Real Wharf

The second Maui County Fair will
be held on the new grounds at Kahu-
lui on Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day, October 8, 10, and IL. This de-
cision was reported to the chamber Of
commerce by the committee of the
Maui County Fair and Racing Associ-
alton, at the chamber meeting held
yesterday afternoon.
After some discussion, the chamber
decided to fix the. date of the Civic
Convention, to be held on Maui this
year, for the same time, and the Sc
cretary was instructed to notify the
various commercial bodies forming
the convention of this decision. The
Civic Convention is to occupy two
days time, however, and these will be
the first two days Of the fair-Octo-
Der 8 and 10.
A committee to make plans for the
Civic Convention, and to have charge
of the affair in all its details was au-
thorized to be appointed It is to con-
sist of six members with the presi-
dent of the chamber as eX-oficio mem
Der. The personnel of this commit
tee will be decided upon and announc-
ed later
1t was reported that a survey is
CONTINUED on Page Ten.)
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-14
New Organization Formed At Plea
SAINT Dinner Given Last Night By
Chairman WadswOrth At The
Grand Hotel
TO ODEBATE ON LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Seventeen Men OF Maui Recognized
For Work In War Get Certificates
Interesting Discussion On Live
Topics

The organization of Four-Minute
Men, on Maui is to be perpetuated in
permanent society. incidentally, as
a result of this organization, the peo-
pie of Maui are to be given an op-
portunity to hear a debate on the pro-
posed League of Nations in the near
future.
All this was decided upon at very
pleasant dinner gathering of the men
who spoke in Maui theaters during
the past year as part of the organ
ization of $4,000 men enlisted under
the title of Four-Minute Men by the
United States Committee of Informa-
ton. The dinner was given at the
Grand Hotel by R. A. Wadsworth,
district director.
The organization of speakers, as it
existed throughout the United States
during the war, was recently disband-
ed and the members honorably dis
charged, and at the dinner last night
Mr.. Wadsworth distributed handsome
ly engrossed souvenir certificates to
the Maui men, bearing the facsimile
signature of William H. Ingersoll,
national director; George Creel, di-
rector of the committee of lnforma-
tion and his own signature as local
CONTINUED on Page Ten.)
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-14
Rev. E. E. Pleasant
ToManage MauiAid
Kahului Pastor TO Take This Work
After Vacation - New Pastor
For Wailuku Church Tentatively
Named To Succeed Rev. r. B. Dodge

At a recent meeting of the Maui
Aid Association the Rev Rs Z. Pleas
ant, pastor OF the Kahului Union
Church, was appointed to the posi-
ton of secretary and treasurer of the
organization to succeed the Rev. R.
B. Dodge, whose resignation will take
effect the middle of August when he
leaves the Islands with his family to
make his home on the mainland. Mr..
Pleasant plans to leave tomorrow
with his wife for a four-months vaca-
ton which he will spend in the west
and middle western states where he
formerly resided. He will be back in
time to take over the work at the
time Mr. Dodge lays it down.
The recommendation of Mr.. Dodge,
that the work of the Maui Aid Asso-
citation and of the Hawaiian Board on
Maui be divorced from the pastorate
of the Wailuku Union Church has
been adopted and Mr.. Pleasant will
not hold a regular pastorate upon
his return. 1t has been arranged that
he is to occupy the William and Mary
Alexander parsonage, now occupied
by Mr.. Dodge.
At a meeting of the directorate of
the Wailuku Union Church, this week
it was decided to secure a pastor to
fill Mr. Dodge's place as soon as
practicable. The name of a Rev. Mr..
Carpenter, of Virginia, who visited
the Islands some years ago with his
wife, and who at the time expressed
a wish to locate in the Territory, was
mentioned, and Mr.. Dodge was au-
thorized to communicate with this
gentleman on the subject
The Wailuku church also plans to
purchase the property now owned and
occupied by Robert Judd and his sis
ter, Miss Gertrude judd who are
planning to leave the Islands short
ly. for the use as parsonage.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-14
Some Oahu Members Can't Stand
Raw Deal And Oppose Suffrage
Bill May Pass But Has A Fight
Ahead
ELECTRIC CHARTER FOR MAKAWAO
Similar Franchise Asked Fer Hama
Would Loan Money From Leases
To Homesteaders For Hama
Lahaina Wharf Bill In
By HOWARD D. CASE

Especial Correspondent Maui News
HONOLULU, March 12-Reappor-
tionment went down TO defeat for the
second time Friday when Speaker II.
l.. Holstein's motion to pass the
measure on third reading was lost by
vote of 1S to II. Holstein had
succeeded in having the bill brought
up for reconsideration and there fol.
lowed an hour and a half Of bitter de-
bate. After it was all over, and after
the second attempt to get the meas.
ure through ~ house ard into the
senate 1Ad p'":ed unsuccessful. Rep.
resentative A. F. Tavares moved that
further reconsideration of the bill be
postponed indefinitely. This motion
was lost. The bill comes up again ON
March 81.
The fight on the floor of the house
started when Holstein presented an
amendment to the original bill to re-
duce Maui's representatives from FIVE
to four, and increase the number OF
Kauai's representatives from three to
four. Members of the Oahu delega.
ton declared they were unable to see
how this could be done, since the
figures on apportionment in the orr
ginal bill were based on the census of
1910. A. Lewis. Jr., chairman Of the
finance committee, vigorously opposed
the amendment. This is no question
Of barter or trade" he asserted, land
will not submit to a proposal to
trade by islands in conflict with the
mandates of the Organic Act" 1t
was plain that the representatives
from the 4th district (Oahu) wanted
CONTINUED on Page Eighty
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-14
Defendant Wins Case
BOteilhO VS.. BevinS
Suit Growing Out OF Famous BOteilho-
Brown Land Deal Tried In MagiS-
trate's COurt-Case To Be Ap-
pealed To The Circuit Court

In the case of Manuel Boteilho vs.
e. X. Bevins, in assumpsit, tried in
the Wailuku district court, on Mon
day, Judge Mckay returned a verdict
for the defendant The case. it is un.
derstood, is to be appealed.
The case, which attracted consider
able interest, and consumed practi-
cally all of one day, was brought to re-
cover the sum of 800 said to have
been paid to Bevins as attorneys fee
in a suit brought by the plaintiff
against Tom Brown for the recovery
of $3.50 paid for a piece of land which
it is now claimed the seller did not
own. The plaintiff attempted to es-
tablish that Bevins had not been
warranted in bringing this suit for
the reason that it should have been
handled as a criminal matter and
prosecuted as such by the county.
Boteilho was represented in the
court by Attorney Enos
Vincent, while W. F. Crockett appear
ed as attorney for the defendant.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-14
Strong Junior Teams
For Coming Season
Lack Of Material Makes Outlook For
Senior League Rather Poor
Athletic Committee Meets And
Goes Over The Situation

Maui will have some baseball this
coming season, but whether there will
be senior league in the field seems
somewhat doubtful. This is because
of lack of material for teams outside
of Wailuku.
At the meeting of the Athletic Com
mittee of the Maui County Fair &.
Racing Association held last Monday
night, Waikiki entered a senior team,
but this was the only one w. E..
Cockett made this entry
Three junior teams, however, were
entered from Wailuku, however, and
it is expected that a team will be ell
tered for this league from both Paia
and Kahulri.
The meeting on Monday night was
the preliminary one of the season.
Another is to be held next Monday
night to consider further details for
the coming ball season.
Last Mondays meeting, held in the
Maui chamber of commerce rooms,
was well attended by ball players and
fans. In the reorganization for year
r. A. Wadsworth, as appointee of the
parent body, continues as chairman,
while George H. Cummings was elect
ed vice-chairman to have charge of
the active management of the COM
mittee. j. Garcia was appointed Sc.
cretary.
Other members of the committee
are j. Meilecke, aid J. I. Fahtom.
Another member is to be appointed to
represent Kahului, and the names of
John Makahio and Joe Holland were
mentioned. One of these will prob
ably be named by the chairman.
The junior teams announced are
Chinese Juniors, Ho Sing, manager;
All-Stars, Ed. ]. Rodrigues, manager;
and Japanese Juniors, Matsunaga,
1t is said that there is some excel
lent material in these younger teams
and some good base ball is promised
for the coming season.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-14
District Nurse Named
For Alexander House

Miss Marjorie Darbie was this week
named as district nurse of the Alex
ander House Settlement. She is ex-
pected to arrive tomorrow from Homo
lulu to take up her new duties.
Miss Darbie has been engaged IN
institutional and private nursing in
Honolulu for several years and has
high recommendations. She came to
Maui some weeks ago to help combat
the influenza epidemic. being station
ed at Lahaina until a few days ago.
Her appointment is in line with the
resolution adopted some weeks ago by
the Alexander House trustees to en-
ploy nurse to look after the vel
fare of particularly the children, OF
Wailuku and vicinity.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-14
Foreign School Bill
introduced In House
Measure Provides For Regulation And
Inspection Of Schools Conducted
In Foreign Tongues To Insure
Their American Ideals

Especial Correspondent Maui News.)
HONOLULU, March 12-The long
expected bill to regulate foreign lam
guage schools in the territory, and
place them under the exclusive juris-
instruction, was introduced in the
house on Tuesday by Representative
Lorrin Andrews. In way the meas
ure Is drastic one. and some heads
OF foreign language schools have as
serted that, II the measure passes,
their institutions cannot exist. Little
or no weight is attached to this pro-
test by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin In
editorial comment yesterday.
In full, the measure reads as fol.
lows:
Section 1. The term Foreign
Language School as used In this act,
shall be construed to mean any school
academy or institution which is con-
Quoted in any language alien to the
English or Hawaiian languages.
Section 2. That it shall be unlaw-
full for any person. association or In
stitution to conduct any foreign Ian
guage school in the territory Of Ha-
waii unless a license so to do shall
first been obtained from the depart
n ut of public instruction of the Ter
.sriI ry of Hawaii, and no such license
snail be issued except as hereinafter
}tr- ,ded.
"Section 8. The department of
M ! instruction before issuing such
~ e. Sc shall first ascertain that such
Continued on Page Three)
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-14
MISS WADSWoRTH'S AUTO
STRIKES CHILD ACCI-
DENT WAS UNAVOIDABLE

Jumping from the sidewalk directly
in the path of an automobile driven
by Miss Winifred Wadsworth, on
Monday, little Japanese boy was
struck but not seriously injured. The
accident happened just below the
Bank of Maui, where Miss Wads-
worth was about to stop, and the c,,c
was running slowly ami On the up
grade. Those who Witnessed the ac-
cident state that it was unavoidable.
The child was carried to Dr.
Osmer's office where an examination
was made and various slight cuts and
bruises treated.