The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-05-02
Victory Loan Drive
MakeSGOod OnMaui
Committees Find 1t Easy To Sell Bonds
To All Classes Whippet Tank
Parade A Big Hit-Rally At Court
house Fine Success

The Victory liberty loan is proving
popular on Maui. If the same spirit
prevails elsewhere in the territory
there will probably be a big over-sub-
scription of the Islands quota before
the campaign closes. The $3SO,OO0
allotted to Maui was virtually all sub
scribed several days ago, and sub
scriptions continue to come in from
all districts.
Those who felt that it would be a
difficult task to raise money on this
loan have been agreeably disappoint-
ed. In fact canvasers report it much
easier work this time than in previ-
ous campaigns.
On the Wailuku plantation, for
example, whole field gangs of from 40
20 so men subscribed 100 percent.
Nor were the subscriptions all for $50
bonds, a surprising number OF labor
ers asking for 500 bonds or of even
larger denominations. 1t seems clear
that there is a very general appreci-
alton of the investment value Of these
bonds.
Patriotism Also
But there does not seem to be any
lack of the patriotic spirit either. This
was indicated by a marked response
to the stimulus of the visit of the
whippet tank, which undoubtedly help
ed make up the minds of a large num-
Der persons
RaIIy A Big Success
A tremendous amount of interest
was shown in the visit to Maui of the
whippet tank, which arrived by the
Claudine on Tuesday morning from
Honolulu and returned on Wednesday
afternoon. The fighting machine was
in charge of Sergeant H. B. Paul and
Private w. G. Gill; both of whom
have seen service on the battle front
in France. The sergeant, in fact
wears two wound stripes, having been
wounded twice in action on the St.
Michel salient.
Island Boy Runs Tank
Young Gill, who feels that luck has
been. unkind to him in that he can
wear no wound chevrons, turns out
to be an Island boy, having been born
at Laupahoehoe, Hawaii some % or
% years ago. His family moved to
the mainland in 1911 and he enlisted
in California after the United States
companion are typical of the kind of
boys that made up our army in the
big scrap-intelligent, clean-cut and
self-respecting.
Sergeant Paul, on Wednesday, visit
ed the high school at HamakuapokO,
and gave an interesting talk to the
students and teachers on the con-
struction of tanks and their use on
the battle front
The tank was taken by rail to Hal
ku on Tuesday morning, stops being
made at Hamakuapoko, Paia and
Puunene, where large crowds gather
ed to see it. On Tuesday evening it
led parade of automobiles from Ka-
hului to Wailulu where a very large
crowd later gathered to hear speeches
on the loan. The parade was the
largest auto parade ever held on
Maui, there being some 80 machines
in line. Many of the automobiles
were handsomely decorated, some of
them elabOrately, A great quantity of
fire-crackers and bombs made the
procession a noisy one, especially as
Wailuku was reached.
TWO Good Speeches
j. J. Walsh made a stirring address
from the top of the tank, in which he
gave some interesting information
concerning the grim war engine. He
was roundly applauded many times.
w. F. Crocketts speech was an elo-
quent patriotic appeal to Maui people
to see the country through to the end
VI the big undertaking through which
" have come so gloriously. His tri-
Pc to the men who had sacrificed
or offered their lives to the cause was
a most stirring one. His address was
punctuated time and again by spont-
aneous applause of the crowd.
The various selections by the Maui
band added much to the meeting and
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