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The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-12-05

because, first one clause of the bill
prevents telephone or cable companies
from operating wireless plants; and
second, because the navy can operate
at cost, and need pay no taxes.
Unsupported by the second count
we think the first fallacious, because
by the simple process of forming a
subsidiary corporation to deal with
the wireless, the Mutual Company
would still be at liberty to stay in
business as long as it liked. 1t then
remains only to determine whether
the second contention is a valid rea-
son for defeating the pending bill.
Reduced to it's lowest terms, the
statement of the company is that the
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-12-05

CURED TO give over this traffic, would
not be unreasonable.
Again, if the control of wireless is
vested in the navy, it is likely that
messages will come directly to Hilo.
This is perhaps a selfish reason, but
we think it so advantageous to this
city, that we would be glad to see it
come.
On the whole, though service and
control of the company has, We think,
been highly creditable we believe that
upon the showing made by the COM
pay itself, it is to the advantage of
the public that the navy shall retain
control of the wireless, even if such
control means that the local company
~withdraws from this phase of activity.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-12-05
FOR 4 MAUI

Maui is perhaps cleaner Just now than she has been for a long time.
Food Inspector Baros has Just Finished a Today search for hlth-and
he found it. Thanks to his vigorous mandates a big improvement has
resulted. Dirty stores, eating houses, bake shops, and other places
where food is prepared or handled for the public have been put into
something like the condition they should always be.
But they will not remain sanitary unless the work is kept up. Soon
er or later it is almost certain that the old conditions will again prevail
unless there is a constant proddng of the ignorant, careless or wituly
dirty.
Maui has a sanitary Inspector and it is reasonable to expect that he
will do much towards preventing a recurrence of the dangerous and dis
gushing conditions. But he has many other duties than visiting restau-
rant and food stores.
And 50 the public should help him out. If every housewife, if
every patron of every restaurant Or store would take the trouble TO
protest to the proprietor when dirty conditions are noted, and would
back it up by reporting the matter to the health Inspector by telephone,
letter, or in person; and perhaps more potent still would cease to trade
with dirty merchants, it would 60 a long way towards improving con-
diions.
Cleanliness has been said to be next to godlness 1t is certainly
next door to good health. Filth and disease 90 hand in hand.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-12-05

navy, because it needs pay neither
dividends o taxes, can deliver serv-
ice less extensively than can any com
mercial company. II this be true
and since it is advanced by the cor
poration itself, we may deem it to be
so-we think the company has ad-
vanced a compelling reason why the
navy should be permitted to enter this
why wireless either from ship to
shore or over any other route should
be confided to private corporations.
Neither has any private corporation
any vested right to engage in this
business. In either case, the public
pays the bill. The public is interested
in seeing that this bill is as small as
possible. Therefore if, predicated
upon a fixed standard of efficiency, the
navy can deliver less expensive serv-
ice than a a corporation, the pub
lie is interested in seeing that this
comes about.
One other factor deserves considera-
ton. The Mutual Telephone Company
has spent considerable money to make
it possible to handle the service in
question, and it is not fair or proper
that the company should be put out
of business without some sort of COM
%pensation. In the exposition of the
then pending bill given by a radio
officer of this naval district who was
in Hilo some time ago, we were given
to understand that the bill provided
for compensation by the government
to private owners of plants put out
OF business by the proposed legisla-
ton. From the same source, We I'M
derstand that the present plant of the
Mutual company is long out of date,
and would require considerable addi-
lions and engagements to permit it
to handle inter-island and ship traffic
properly. Thus it would seem hat the
loss of the company, should it be re-
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-12-05
Raising The Rates
Garden Island)

Increased rates, both passenger and
freight, have just gone into effect on
the Inter-Island system, and now we
will have to pay ten percent more on
our fares and twenty-five percent more
on our freights.
If the Inter-Island was a losing pro-
position like the Hawaii Railroad, and
was barely able to keep its nose above
water, there might be some justifica-
ton for another raise, but for a cor
poration that has hard work to spend
its income and keep it's dividends
down to a reasonable limit, it looks
like a wholly unnecessary Fleeing of
the de~fenseless public to raise the
rates again.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-12-05
Our Contemporaries
Wireless Control
(Hilo Post-Herald)

In a protest filed with the senate
commerce committee, which went for
ward to Washington through the pub
lie utilities commission, and Delegate
Kalanianaole, the Mutual Telephone
Company complains that if the COM
promise wireless legislation which
permits the navy to operate short
wave stations, is passed, its plant
must go out of business.
The company asserts that this is so
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-12-05

If u. S. District Attorney Huber can curb the fish prohteers on
Oahu it would seem that he should be able to perform a like service
for Maui.
In the past six months or 81 Maui consumers have been and still
are as deeply gouged as Honolulu ever was. 1t used to be that Wal
tuku and central Maui suffered from excessive prices for fish, while
people in the Iahaina district obtained their fish at a comparatively
reasonable rate. But some kind of a combination seems to have been
formed so that now fish is about the same price all over the Island.
The price of sea food should naturally be less on Maui than in
Honolulu, since the best fishing grounds are nearer and the cost Of
catching and marketing must be materially less. 1t is certainly up to
some one to start an investigation.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-12-05
GREASING THE WAYS FOR COMPETITION

Hawaii has accepted the raise of rates by the InterIsland Steam
Navigation company because it is about all that can be done under the
circumstances. But it isn't popular nevertheless.
The Inter-lsland is a monopoly. The people whose money has
enabled the company to pay fat dividends, double up its capital from
earnings occasionally, and still lay by a healthy surplus regularly, have
nothing to say about the matter.
But this may not always be so, In fact if the Islands develop as
there is every indication that they will in the next decade, it will be
passing strange if a rival company does not nose into the field. And
when such a project is launched the past attitude of the InterIsland
will be a mighty asset to the new enterprise.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-12-05
HAWAH "OVERLOOKED" AGAIN

A press dispatch says that Arizona has just received 100000
worth Of tractors, trucks, cranes, steam shovels, and tons of explosives
from the federal government to be used for road construction work.
It is all war materials. Other states are getting their share also, t is
reported.
But once more we are called upon to chronicle the melancholy fact
that Hawaii has been overlooked. No one ever seems to be on the
Job for Hawaii when the plums are being distributed, though we are
never overlooked when some kind of drive for money is on.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-12-05
STRAINING At Il

Because a few of HOnouus citizens have been seen to walk up
a ships gangplank in perfectly upright manner, and later come down
the same gangPank in what might be described as a downright manner,
the =. ). district attorney has been seriously annoyed to say the least.
Some one has presumed to fout the majesty of the law.
And yet this same district attorney has never raised his hand so
far at least as anyone on Maui knows, to stop the most fragrant defiance
OF law, IN the making transporting and selling of liquor all over these is
lands.
And the pity of it is that law-breakers are being created of mn
who scarcely know they are criminals, because of the almost utter lack,
of any attempt to uphold the law.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-12-05
LUNAS is TEACHERS

The Maui teachers association last week adopted a resolution de.
handing better supervision of children employed on plantations during
the summer under what is known Is the boys and girls working re
serve system. The resolution is as follows:
Whereas Maui Teachers favor the working Re
serve movement and support it, and whereas it has
been the observation OF teachers that children are
often made to work in gangs under such inferior
lunas that the latter cannot command the respect of
the former-Be it therefore resolved: That the Maui
Teachers Association go on record as favOring bet
ter and more intelligent Iunas for children, and that
copies of this resolution be sent to the managers Of
all the plantations on the island of Maui where
children are employed"
The teachers have taken the right stand on this matter and have
done well to call attention to it at this time. 1t were a shortsighted
policy indeed that would place sugar cane ahead of the children them
selves in Importance, and we do not believe there is a plantation manage
nent on Maui that takes such a view. But it is quite possible that
enough attention has not been given in the past to the proper supervi-
sion OF children when working i'll vacation time.
The education of children does not take place only in the school
room. 1t is going on every waking hour of the day, and the work on
the plantations should be considered a very important part of the eduCa-
tonal system. The future of Hawaii depends today, rs perhaps it
never did before, upon what we are able to make OF our children. The
best instructors, whether they be in the school rooms as teachers, or
in the fields as lunas, are none too good if we have the best interests
of the Islands at heart.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-12-05
SOUTH DAKOTA RATlFIES
WOMAN SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT

PIERRE, S. d. Dec. 4-The state of
South Dakota has ratified the IN
suffrage amendment with the passage
of the measure by the state senate
today. This is the 21st state to ratify.
Thirty-siX are required.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-12-05
THE WAGES OF SINFUL WASTE

Under this title the Ho Tribune recently said in part as follows:
For some ineXphcable reason those in charge of
of our County roads consider maintenance unneces-
sary, We build a road and forget it. Gradually at
first it begins to go to pieces, then rapidly, until it be-
comes impossible. Repeated expensive lessons in this
seem to have had little or no effect. We have four
miles of concrete on the Volcano Road. 1t is at
present the finest section of highway in the Territory.
So far as we know, or appears evident, there hasn't
been a tap of maintenance work put into it since it was
opened. Already the jungle is attacking its edges
and II something is not done burrowing roots will
have shattered and distorted the pavement on either
side.
"At the next meeting of your supervisors you
should tell them exactly what you want them to do
about this, and in no uncertain tones"
The Elo editor was thinking especially OF one road-a concrete
he wrote. But we might apply it with equal force to any
road on Maui. To spend thousands of dollars to build fine roads and
hen to let the surface break and the substructure unravel until the road
S Wel-n1ght ruined, as we make a practice of doing, is certainly moth
ng less than a sin. That other counties do the same thing does not
excuse Maui, which heretofore has been looked to to set the example
10 the others in all road matters.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-12-05

The public utilities commission has decided to inspect gas meters.
We haven't any gas meters, but we have an Island Electric Junk pile
that hasn't been inspected for two or three weeks.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-12-05

The people Of HHo are horribly sensitive whenever bubonc plague
is mentoned-at least some of them are. If the Big Island were the
only place that ever had such a disease the attitude might be excused,
but when San Francisco, New Orleans, New York-in fact practically
every seaport city and many other places as well from time to time have
sporadic plague cases, there should be no call for so much excitement
when the matter is mentioned. Besides such an attitude has always
done more harm than good, a fact that is now appreciated in all upto-
date communities.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-12-05

DIR. Bunker has not been mentioned, that we have heard, as
humoist. But when he asked a gathering of Is women not to repeat
his remarks he convicted himself beyond hope of refutation. He's
humorist all right.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-12-05

1t is not clear why Honolulu should have a monopoly upon the
surplus army food supply which has been shipped to the Islands for
sale at about half the cost that the retail stores charge. Throughout
the mainland these supplies are being distributed through the postofices
and orders filled by parcel post.
Honolulu people are not the only ones in the territory that are up
against old H. c. of L. Why can't our postmaster help us to get in
on a little of the good things that Uncle Sam is passing around?
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1919-10-18
Of C. Install Officers.

Fifty enthusiastic members Of AS
cension Council No. 1887, attended
the installation Of the recently elected
officers of the council and the Column
bus Day celebration, which took place
lat the regular monthly meeting at the
Catholic Hall last Sunday. The in
[stallation ceremonies were beautiful
and impressive and were conducted by
Judge Paul Leche, a past grand knight
of the order, who was assigned
to act by District Deputy Francis
Knobloch. After the installation, a
sumptious dinner prepared BIB Pros
per J. Camel, the well-knoWn epicure,
was dainty served by Mrs. L. B. Ma,
Ftingly, assisted by Mrs. j. A. Mollere
and Misses Gaudin, Melancon, Mat
.tingly, Stakelum and Constock. Shof,ss
and interesting talks were made by
Judge Paul Leche, Grand Knight P. IT.
Thibodaux, Prof. H. P. Broussard and
Rev. c. NJ. Chambon Robert R. Hig-
gason, retiring grand knight, was pre-
sented with a beautiful gold charm
,emblematic, of the order, a gift of the
officers Of the council. The presenGa-s
ton was made by Judge Leche. Mr..
Higgason accepted the gift in Few
well chosen words. Twelve new ap-
plications for membership were re-
ceiyed.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1919-10-18
Fine Lands for Sale.

Charles Il Thibpdaux announces
for sale in a display ad which appears
elsewhere ii the Chief, the Belle
Alliance group Of plantations sisu-
-ated in the parish Of Assumption, on
Bayou Lafourche, five miles below
Donaldsonville. The properties COM
prise $500 acres of open and HOO
acres of woodland and are offered
for sale either as whole or in
tracts on favorable terms. None of
the lands are for rent. These lands
are suitable for sugar-cane, corn OF
rice culture: They are most desirably
situated on Bayou Lafourche and
are traversed by the Thibodaux
branch of the Texas and Pacific rail-
road. This is.a splendid opportunity
for enterprising farmers or planters
to secure first-class land in an ex-
ceptionally good locality at most
reasonable prices. Those interested
should see Mr.. Thibodaux at once.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1919-10-18
New Officer Appointed.

In pursuance of the authority vest
ed IN him by an ordinance adopted by
the Council at its last meeting, which
said ordinance was adopted upon tie
petition of a number Of business ner
ct this city, Mayor f.. K. Sims last
Saturday appointed Sidney Acosta.
son Of Tailor Acosta, member IT tne
police force of this city. About two
weeks ago, while detailed on special
police duty during the South Louis
lana Fair. Acosta. with Officer Law
less, took part IN the gun duel swifl,
the two negro thieves who were en-
countered in Railroad avenue shortly
after robbing David Israel,s store
The two negroes were wounded: one
N the leg and the other in the back.
The latter died from the effects Sc
his wounds in the Charity Hospital
n New Orleans. while the other is
beng treated at the same institution.
and will be brought here as soon as
his condition permits and placed in
jail to await trial at Ihe next criminal
term of court. Young Accsta and
Mr.. LaWless have been assigned to
night duty. With these two vigiIant,
and crack marksmen patroling the
streets of the city at night. there Is
every reason to believe that the bur-
glaries which have been committed
here during the past year will come
to an end.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1919-10-18
TRACKS IN POOR CONDITION.
Texas and Pacific Roailroad Badly in
Need of Repairs.

The following is taken from re-
cent issue of the Comm ournal,
published at Thibodaux
The travelling public has been
greatly inconvenienced by the poor
condition of the Texas and Pacific
Railways tracks and roadbed from
Thibodaux to DonaldsonvilIe. Late
trains, poor connections and spilled
coaches, we are told have lately been
common occurrences. There is no
denying or hiding the fact that the
roadbed needs attention and needs
it badly. The best right Of way or
track on earth is always requiring
attention and can not be maintained
without spending money for It's up
keep. Rails, bedding and tires need
changing and bracing. The condition
of the track is fierce and it is a won
der that some fearful accident oc-
easioning loss Of life has not already
resulted. The public, those interest
ed, should look into the matter and
call the attention of the State Rail
road Commission to this public dam
ger to life and limb. The neon
venience Of not selling tickets at this
point is also another matter that re-
quires attention and we understand
will be remedied. Even if Uncle
Sam is in charge the tracks need at
tention and delaying repairs is ex-
remedy hazardous to say the least"
Judging from the MANY complaints
which have been heard here, the
tracks and foadbed of the company
are in a most deplorable condition
along it's main line in this section as
well as on the branch line complained
Of by the Thibodaux paper, and
should be given immediate attention.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1919-10-18
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.
Burnside.

- Is
Mrs. IL. Clay Braud left Thursday
for New Orleans where she goes to
visit her relatives.
]. Dudley Stephenson is with his
parents on Orange Grove, enjoying
a well earned vacation before going
to Cuba, where he will be engaged as
sugar chemist.
DR.. VIM. Porcher Miles enjoyed
three days delightfully."- this week at
his country home, .The Hounas.''
The steamer Virgie has new clerk
in the person Of E. +. zDugas, mem
Der of that good old creole family of
Smoke Bend.
Bertil Schexnaydre of Cinclare,
West. Baton Rouge parish, was a well
come visitor to friends here last Sun
day.
~ our correspondent is Informed
by Contractor S. A. Gano, that the
state highway engineer, Duncan Buie,
is willing to have the jefferson high
way absolutely completed through the
limits of Ascension parish by furnish
ing the travelling of the missing link,
1890 feet. fronting Marchand settle
ment and Riverton plantation. sug-
gest that pending the organization of
the police jury by the election Of a
president, that the body meet IS a
whole and enter into negotiations
with Messrs. Buie and Gano and ar
range to finish the job. It can be
done, all of which will be pro bono
publico.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1919-10-18
Lawes.-Landry.

An event Of much interest in
Assumption parish social circles,
will be the marriage nexts Wednes-
|day forenoon of w. W. LaWes to
Miss Jeanne Landry. The ceremony
will take place at st. Elizabeth Cath
ole church, Paincourtville. the
prospective groom is popular ana
prominent young business man OF
Paincourtyille, and son of the
Chiefs esteemed friend, w. 4.
Lawes, who is also engaged IN bust
ness in the same town. The BRIDE
to-be is one Of Assumptions most
charming and lovely debutantes and
is daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Gus
tave Landry, highly respected citi-
zens Of the same parish.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1919-10-18
REGISTRATION NOTICE

DY VIRTUE of the requirements of Ac
ID no. 195 of 1916. I will keep nv Office
open daily for the purpose of making {
complete registration Of the legal voters 81
the parish Of Ascension at the following
places and dates, to-wit
FIRST WARD.
First precinct-EmiIe Dominiuue's store
Monday. Oct. 20.
Second precinct ascension store, Tues.
day. Oct. 21.
j. Third precinct Dugas' store, Wednesday
Oct. %.
SECOND WARD. s..#
Sassard's store, Thursday. Oct. 20.
FOURTH WARD.
Landry's store. Friday, Oct. "A.
FIFTH WARD
First precinct Houmas store, Burnside
NJ onday, Oct. ~.
Second pre,inctAr mitage's store, Oar
row. Tuesday, Oct. 49,
Third precinct-Br ewerton's warehouse,
', IS SIXTH WARD.
First precinct c. Klos' store. Belle
Hclene, Thursday. Oct. 30.
Second precinct-Magnolia Hotel, Geis
mar. Friday. Oct.
SEVENTH WARD.
First precinct-Union store, Gonzales.
Second precinct--Be rteau's store, St.
Amant, Tuesday, Nov.
Third precinct. Gravois store. sor-
-ento. Wednesday. Nov.
First precinct-Mrs l.. Landry's store,
Thursday, Nov. s.
Second precinct-Rub Dixon's store.
Ga1vez, Friday, Nov. Z.
JAS. S. BARMAN.
Clerk of Court and Exc fficio Registrar OF
Voters. Parish of Ascension. La.
Donaldsonville, La. OCT z, 1919.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1919-10-18
District Agent for the Prudential

!. A. d. st. Amant, who for the past
lew months has. represented the JEFF
ferson Standard Life Insurance Co.
as agent at this place, has been ap-
pointed district manager for central
Louisiana of the Prudential Life In
surance Co. of Newark, N. j., and
pans are now under way for the o.
gganlzatlon of the new territory. Mr..
ST. Amant will make his headanar-
ters IN Donaldsonville, and shis dis
tf1ct VIII include Baton Rouge and
other cities. The Chief congratulates
MI. st. Amant upon his appointment,
and has no doubt that he will justify
the confidence placed in him by his
new employers.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1919-10-18
Gonzales.

The Catholic church fair held here
last Saturday and Sunday was a grand
success. and Melted the sum of S 1000.
Miss He tie Arceneaux won the popu-
larity contest Addresses were deIiv-.
cred on Sunday afternoon by George
X. Favrot of Baton Rouge, in behalf
of Col. r P. Stubs for governor and
Percy Saint for ohm NJ Parker. JOS.
Gonzales presided over the meeting
& Rev. Ed. Miller, A. v. Osterberg-
er, we Landry and Trasimond Ber-
teau Of Prarieville, were visitors here
last Monday.