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reveal, are out-and-out frauds in that
they all but, if they do not actually,
claim the presence of oil and the
assured prospect of profits.
Appeals to the 'get-rick-quick' de-
sire of people have been made from
time immemorial with different lines
of enterprise. Now it is an invention
now a gold-or a copper-mine, now an
oil-well, now a boom town. Victims
of these schemes are found by tens
of thousands. Their promoters are
shrewd. They use sucker lists as
they are Familiarity known in stock
promotion circles, for the distribution
of their literature. They watch the
records of probate courts to know who
is getting inheritances. They tap
these sources of possible investment.
They seek the inexperienced and often
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-07-23
American Legion
Leads AmeriCaniSm
Fight Says Palmer

SAN FRANCISCO, July 21-Rev.
Albert w. Palmer, pastor of Central
Union Church, Honolulu, testifying be-
fore the Congressional committee in
vestigating Oriental immigration on
the Pacific Coast, told the members
yesterday that the Department of Ha-
waii of The American Legion is lead
ing the Americanization movement in
the Territory.
Several thousand young men of
japanese ancestry in Hawaii have al
ready renowned their allegiance to
Japan, the minister said, adding that
in his opinion the third generation, if
not the second, will be sufficiently
American.
Should Restrict BY Treaty
Palmer said that he believed the
restriction of immigration should
come by treaty and not by the appli-
cation of local laws.
Chester Rowell of Fresno testified
that federal legislation must be en-
acted to prevent the Japanese from
"Hawaiianizing California"
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-07-23
Big Gathering OF
Scientists To Be
Here Next Month

HONOLULU, July 21-Ninety-four
delegates have accepted the invita-
ton of the Pan-Paciic Union to at
tend the first Pan-Pacifc Scientific
Conference to be held in Honolulu
commencing August 2 and continuing
until August 20. Many different coun-
tries are to be represented and the
gathering is expected to be n of the
most important assemblages of lead
ing scientists yer held.
Practically all branches of the natur-
al sciences will be represented by
leaders in their special archaeology,
botany, ~ethnology, siesmography, geo
logy, anthropology, geography, etc.
The number of delegates from diff
ferent places thus far definitely as
sured are-Hawaii, 35; Washington.
D. c., 10; United States (societies,
museums and universities), %; Philip
pines. a; Samoa, 2; Canada, 8; Aus
tralia, 5; New Zealand, 8; Japan, 5;
Tahiti, l; Fiji, l.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-07-23
Maui Tax Receipts
Show Some nCreaSe
Collections For First Half Of Year
Pass Million Dollar Markedly
Half Of Years Assessment On
Realty And Personal Property In.

Tax collections of the Maui division,
which includes Molokai and Lanai as
well as Maui, for the six months peri
cd ending June 80, 1920, amounted to
$1,000. 31O.3O. This i. uore by more
than $150,000 han ever collected in
any similar period. To this amount
should also properly belong some $780,
900 in tax money paid in since July
l, which was delayed through ,,n-
tests of the assessment. The tot. =
collections for the 6 months ending
June 80, 1919, were $S47,578.16.
By districts the collections for this
year are as follow: Wailuku, s416,-
7O3.77; Makawao, 1886, 379.O5; Lahai-
ma, s2O2, 143.O6; Molokai, s~14,429.66
Hama, $8S, 653.S sc.
These collections include all of the
road, poll, automobile, and income
taxes for the year, but only approx
imately half of the realty and person
al property taxes, which is payable in
two equal instruments. The tax rate
this year is 2.11%6 while for last year
it was 1.74%.
Following is the more important
items of the collections for the 6
months period this year compared
with the same period of last year:
1920 1919
Dale. earn oI1 or QA1n 100 or
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-07-23

the needy with a little capital. They
are well versed in the psychology of
those who want to increase their in
come quickly.
"Of course, the best security against
these swindles is consultation and ad-
vice. If people would only stop and
ask the judgment of experienced
friends there would be fewer victims
of these fake enterprise promotions.
But with an adroitness worthy Of a
far better cause the promoters Of
these projects warn against delay and
hint at the danger of selfish interests
thwarting investment. The Govern
ment is now trying to check this evil
by barring from the mails these
swindling schemes and Furnishing
those who have been Unidentified as
advancing them"
1.-THE deceived investor, to sellers of
dubious securities, is usually looked
upon as a 'rube,' and if he utters a
Iyelp of agony he is reminded that n
CONTINUED on Page 4, Column ~
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Oil Promoters In Troubled Waters

The wrecking of homes and hopes
by thousands is revealed by the indict-
monts of four oil companies, ten
brokerage Ii uses, and %1fty-one indivi-
duals, in the Tnited States District
Court presided I 'er by Judge Hand,
of New York. The = gullible, or gull
ed, investors, rising n their might,
says the Literary d. Test, brought
about the exposure of i us and in
dividuals by appealing to l. 'pectors of
the Post-office Department, Who for
the past six months have been collect
ing evidence against dishonest brok-
ers and individuals who promised
large dividends and quick profits on
oil stocks. 1.-The frauds are said to
run into millions of dollars" declares
the New York Evening Post. Large
dividends which were promised stock
holter were paid out of money de-
rived from stock Sales" we are told
by The Sun and New York Herald.
One oil C, npany pictured the business
as highly 'osperous, paying as much
as twelve per 'ent.," yet it owned not
a single well, Nutinues this paper.
Another company said to have sold
a million shares at liar each, then,
by "pyramiding" its CAY. ii stock, TO
have sold twenty millions Vt worth
less paper. This company, asserts
The Sun, did not own a pint If oil
a foot of land, a lease, or even a nix
book" The president of this company
is said to have had himself photograph
er near a "gusher" of a legitimate oil
company, and to have represented the
photograph as one of his fictitious
company's wells in sales literature
which he sen broadcast. More in.
dictments are expected, including
those of men who have dealt in fictiti-
Gus mining stocks. There is to be a
cleaning up of what is nothing less
than a national scandal says the
Rochester Times-Union.
That the public might have beer
expected to be mulcted out of millions
after the era of prosperity due to the
war is the burden of many editorials.
The small investor seems to have
been hit hardest, yet widows and old
folks who had managed to save a few
hundreds against their old age were
also included in what the Washington
Star calls the oil-stock salesman's
sucker list" AS we read in The
Star:
Fraudulent oil concerns have al
ways followed genuine oil develop
ments. The profits in these enter
prises are so great, whenever oil is
actually struck, that the temptation to
the public to invest in any attractively
worded project is strong. In some
cases these schemes are of what is
known as the near variety. That is
to say, the location is neal a known
oil-well. 1t is the same with mines.
Where the project is frankly acknowl-
edged as a speculation there is no
fraud. There can be no comeback
on a scheme that is avowedly founded
upon the mere chance that oil may
be struck. But many of the oil
schemes that have been promoted, of
the kind that these indictments now
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-07-23

LOST-Gentleman's gray coat blown
from automobile between Lahaina
and Olowalu. Finder leave at Maui
News ONCE and receive reward.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-07-23
One Educator Finds
Pidgin English Good
Says Would Help Welfare Work On
Mainland -UrseS Effort To Teach
English To Foreign Born For Their
Good.

HONOLULU, July 20-"Pidgin Eng
lish" has been developed to a high
point of efficiency in Hawaii. If on
the mainland we possessed such Il
means of communication our work
with the aliens would be much easier.
This tribute to the mongrel tongue
of the territory, reaching it's zenith in
the valuable colloquialism no stop,
was paid yesterday morning by Miss
Shirley Leonard, Young Women's
Christian association secretary. in a
talk to the student-teachers of the
territorial summer school on the work
of the International Institute, conduct
ed by the Y. w. C. A.
I'VE lose out in social welfare work
on the mainland because we haven't
such a highly developed pidgin Eng
lish," said Miss Leonard in explaining
the work being done among the alien
mothers OF children born in Hawaii.
1T is of immense value here in the
institute work because it enables us
to make ourselves understood in our
preliminary efforts at interesting the
women in self improvement. When
we once get them interested it is easy
to help them"
Miss Leonard touched on the new
keynote of social welfare work in Am
erica.
1T is not only freedom hat we offer
to these people from over the sea-
she said, ut is also an opportunity for
a%ll-around development, education and
physical improvement"
In explaining the many difficulties
encountered in making the social well
fare institutions understood by the
aliens, Miss Leonard told the story
of the Hungarian women who had her
own ideas about diagnosing the ILL.,
ness of her baby.
This woman" explained Miss Leon
ard, filled a glass with water and set
it IN the child's head. Then she
dropped some solder into the water.
If it took the form of a tooth, her
child was ill because it was teething.
She told us hat after she had tried
her method of diagnosis she would
permit the child to be examined by
n of our nurses"
Miss Leonard outlined a few ideas
which she believed could be put into
practice by the public school teachers
in assisting the work of social serv-
ice throughout the territory.
I'm the first place." she said. Ina
gination is a good thing. Try to pic
ture yourself in China or Japan or
Korea and unable to speak the langu-
age and it will give you a good idea
Of the difficulties of the aliens here.
Urge the learning of English by
the adult aliens. not as a compulsory
measure, but because of the advan-
tages which will accrue to them.
Foster the community spirit, There
is nothing more valuable in this work
that 'get-togethers.'
do what you can to connect up the
aliens with the American institutions
which are conducted for their benefit,
the hospitals, the settlements, clinics,
Libraries. etc.
And, above all, do not consider that
there is any nationality above all
others, but remember that we have
much to learn as well as much to
teach"
Following her talk Miss Leonard
talked to a smaller group Of teachers
and outlined a course in international
social service work for the summer
school. This will begin this week.
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WANTED-Position, as stenographer
or secretary on Maui, by well edu-
Gated, competent, young white wo-
man, Address Secretary, p. O..
Box 1T, Waikiki, Maui.
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To Have New Work-In compliance
with cablegram from the Adjutant
General of the Army. dated IA July,
1920, Maj, H. Gooding Field, Quarter
master Corps, is relieved from further
duty as Department Real Estate
Officer and will report the acting De-
partment Quartermaster, for instruc-
lions.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-07-23
cANNERY EMPLOYEE INJURED

X. Ujiye, an employee of the Haiku
Fruit & Packing Co., had his left arm
caught in one of the machines, on
Thursday of last week and received
quite serious injuries. He will not
lose his arm.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-07-23

Hints for the Home-An outward
Ford body, bent to a new design and
covered with ~cretonne, makes a cute
umbrella-stand for the hall.-Detroit
Motor News.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-07-23
Makawao Union Church

Rev. E. T. Sherman will preach
Sunday morning. Mr.. Sherman is
associate pastor of Central Union
Church.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-07-23
kahuIui Union Church

Hugh V. White, Minister.
Sunday evening Rev. E. T. Sherman,
Of Central Union Church will preach.
A cordial welcome to all.
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICE

will be held in the Town Hall on High
street. at IL o'clock Sunday mornings.
Sunday School for children up to the
ings. Testimony meetings at s o'clock
age of twenty at 1915 Sunday morn
on Wednesday evenings.
The public is cordially invited.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-07-23
In The Churches

Church Of the Good Shepherd
July rs.
Holy Communion at 8 a. m.
Morning Prayer Sermon at IL a. m.
A cordial invitation extended to all,
Sunday school will not meet again
until the first Sunday in September.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-07-23
WANT d

OLD NEWSPAPERS for sale. Good
and cheap wrapping or packing for
use when moving or travelling. Three
cents a pound. MAUI NEWS
OFFICE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-31
LIBERTY BONDS.
Grain. Produce and Live Stock

| unchanged TO 1 down. with September
6S%a to 6SA.
Provisions were weak.
NEW YORK, July 31.-Flour-Weak:
| spring patents. 12.50a13.50; spring
| clears. 10.50a11.25; winter straightS,
! 11.25a11.50; Kansas straights, 12.00a
! 1915.
/ Other articles UNCHANGED
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CURB STOCKS.

Quotations furnished by W T. Hibbs & Co
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GOVERNMENT CALI.
For Cash PAYMENT
Banks Asked to Cash in 20
Per Cent of Certifi-
cate Funds.

EanNcTs have been notified that the
government wishes 20 per cent OF
the proceeds of the most recent issue
of Treasury certificates paid into the
Treasury not later than Tuesday next.
The manner IN which the credits
Of the government with hanks is
being drawn down suggests the prob
ability OF another issue of Treasury
certificates. probably about the 18th
Of August.
The call for funds Will have small
effect on the local monetary condi-
tons. as the banks of this city were
very moderate buyers OF the recent
b%4 per cent certificate issue.
Collateral Note Forms.
The Federal Reserve Bank Of Rich
moud has circuiarized its banking
clientele win document CT ''ca,lat-
crai note forms containing provisions
making them negotiable
u is pointed out that = note to be
eligible 70 rediscount, must conform
10 the following definition contained
in the regulations of the federal re-
serve board.
That IS "A pror- issary note. within
the meaning OF this regulation. is de-
fined as an unconditional promise in
Wr,tiCE. 10 pay in the United states.
IT = fixed o. deterninabic future time.
q certain sum il dollars TO order OF
70 bearer"
Within the meaning Of this act The
certain sum may include with inter
est. or be paid Fy sta ted installments
with default provision in payment
or Of default in mt rest. whole shall
become due. wiz eY rbange, at fixed
or current rate -itn -Csts Of Collsc-
ton or a. e. > frr. in the event
OF non-pa nent at -~aturity.
y PIE sion w-l-n contains q
~ % IN - 20.
The I1ayueLr of money is non-neyo-
tiGhle. But t,-se provisions do not
void the nego;iability. An authoriza-
ton of sale of collateral in the event
Of non payment at maturity; confess
sion Of judgement If not paid at
maturity or waiver of benefit of law
intended for the advantage or pro-
lection of the obIigoror gives the
holders to require something TO he
done in lieu of payment OF money
Any provision in a prOmissCry note
other than those expressly permitted
by the uniform neSotia BILE instrument
law redcrs the uegotiability of q note
doubtful.
1t is held that the following p-o-
visions render q note non-negotia
Bile, that the payee might declare il
Que before maturity, if he deems him
self insecure: that the note may be
declared due if the maker failed 10
CURED; that the note will become due
if judgment was entered against the
maker.
If a federal bank rediscourts for a
member bank Il non-negotiabie note
its claim upon the maker is subject
to all defenses and offsets which could
he used against a member bank. For
this reason the Richmond reserve
bank viii not accept any non-nego-
TABLE paper for rediscOunt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-31
N. Y. CENTRAL REVENUES.
Receipts for 1919 Reach S56, 1884,
41e, Against S5s, 633, 1o6 in 1915.

NEW YORK. July S1.-Net revenues
from railroad operations of the New
York Central Railroad Company lex
Guiding the Boston and Albany road
for 1913 amounted to $5S.694.419,
against SIS. 633.10S in 1918. according
TO the detailed annual report issued
here.
Percentage of expenses TO revenues
was 1871 per cent, against IS % per
cent in 1918. Gross income of S54,-
S95.160 represents decrease OF ST.
964 ,6SS, and net income OF sal ole, S01
shows decrease of S1,213.601.
The remarks Of President Alfred
II. Smith to the shareholder embrace
every phase OF the systems opera
lions during the year and emphasize
the release of the property from fed
eral control.
Included in the total of almost $50
coo, 0e0 of loans and bills payable of
the company outstanding at the end
of 1919 was s17.590,000 loaned by the
War Finance Corporation.
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TOBACCO RECEIPTS GROW.
American Company Sales Increase
ia Per Cent From 1919.

NEW YORK, July 31-Sales of the
American Tobacco Company increased
approximately ia per cent during the
period of 1912 to 1919. according to re-
port of the company's business for last
year, made public today. Sales in 1919
We're S146.023.730, compared with $67,-
950,257 in 1912, an increase of $78,-
073.473.
With the distribution of rs per
cent stock dividend in August, the total
capital, including the funded debt, will
have been increased to $164,O56,1OO. an
increase of 81 per cent over 1913
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-31
MONEY AND EXCHANGE.

NEW YORK, July 31.-Mercantile
paper, s.; exchange. firmer; sterling
sixty day bills. 1851; commercial
sixty-day bills on banks, 1851; com
mercial sixty-day bills, 3.67N; de-
mand. 3.72A; cables. 3.73s; francs,
demand, 7.6S; cables. 7.70; Belgian
francs. demand, SIS: cables, SIS;
guilders, demand 34.10; cables, 1920;
lire, demand, 5.36: cables. 5.3S; ma rl1s,
demand. 2.35; cables. 2.37. New York
exchange on Montreal, 10N per cent
discount Government bonds steady;
railroad bonds steady.
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NEW YORK BANK STATEMENT.

NEW YORK. July 31-The actual
condition of clearing house banks and
trust companies for the week shows
that the reserve held is s6.s06,520 be-
low legal requirements. This is de-
crease of $3.50. 900 from last week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-31
"CUKEs' GLUT IN DELAWARE.

Reports from points in Delaware say
that thousands of baskets of cucum-
bers have been dumped in hog lots in
the state because growers could not
find a market at any price. No more
will be shipped until prices improve.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-31
LONDON MONEY MARKET.

LONDON, July 31.-Bar silver, Sc sd
per ounce. Money, 5h per cent. Dis
count rateS-Short bills, Gas u per
cent: three-month bills, 6 11-16a6A
Der cent
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tnrNCH norRsn STEADY.

PARIS. July 31.-Prices were steady
IN the hOurse today. Three per cent
rentes. - francs. Exchange on Lon
dou, - francs - cenjimes. Five per
cent loan. SIS francs. The dollar was
quoted al Is francs 10 centimes-
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FINANCIAL.

MONEY TO LOAN
On D. c. Real Estate. Lowest Rates.
Jesse l.. HEISKELL,
1903 II ST. NV.
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QUOTATIONS FOR SILVER.

NEW YORK, July 31.-Bar silver do
nestle. 9912; foreign. $685. Mexican dol
lars, II.
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DAIRY MARKETS.

d J.
Arrivals by boat.-Live poultry
Chickens, springers. 114 pounds and
over, AS; do, springers, IA to 114
pounds. 4Sa44; do, spring. l to IA
pounds, 40a42: do. white Leghorns,
3Sa40; do. old ROSTERS. pound, %;
do. old hens, over pounds, 80; do.
small to medium. Sc: white Leghorn
hens, IS. Ducks-Spring. 3 pounds and
over. 3Sa40; do, smaller, 34a35
Pigeons-Old. pair. 35a40; young, pair,
30a35.
Eggs Qoss off)-Western Maryland,
Pennsylvania and nearby. dozen, 46;
eastern shore, Maryland and Virginia
dozen. 40; western, dozen, As; West
Virginia. dozen. As; southern, dozen,
A.
prints, 5sa6o; nearby creamery, extra,
SLABS; dairy prints, Maryland. Vir-
ginia and Pennsylvania, 42a43 store
packed, Al; Maryland and Pennsyl-
vania rolls. 44a45; do, West Virginia
rolls, Az; do. Ohio rolls, AZ; process
butter, 51a53.
NEW YORK. July s1.-Butter-
Weaker; receipts. 12.211 tubs Cream
cry, higher than extras, 55Ha56;
creamery, extras (92 score), So:
creamery, firsts (SS to 81 score), 81 ~
a54 Y; packing stock, current make,
No. /, a.
Eggs-Irregular: receipts, 1920
cases. Fresh gathered extra firsts
5las3; fresh gathered firsts, 47a6O;
state. Pennsylvania and nearby west
ern hennery whites, frsts to extras
, 60a10; state, Pennsylvania and nearby
western hennery browns, extras. 5Sa
81; state, Pennsylvania and nearby
gathered browns and mixed colors
first to extras. 4Sa55.
Cheese - Steady: receiDts 2T81
boxes. State, whole milk. flats. curre mt
make. white and colored. specials.l 81
as; do. average run, 25a2G15 state
whole milk, twins, current make
specials, 26Ea274 do, average run
25a2G.
/ Live poultry-Steady; prices I'M
changed Dressed poultry-Quiet
western broilers, fresh, 53a5S
Arizona republican., 1920-09-04

tongue. Whether we admit it or not
most of us care good deal about what
our neighbors think and say about US
and our relatives.
By vanishing for awhile, Jim would
defeat Katherine altogether. l wished
that I could as easily and completely
defeat her scheming.
She was winning that nights battle,
all right. Bob was gone a long time.
Perhaps he hadn't worried about me as
much as l had a right to expect.
I brushed my hair frantically. as I
wondered how much longer he was
going to stay out in the moonlight with
Katherine Miller
f'All the old-fashioned conventions l
ideas about marriage are best" said
myself to myself. This tangled
freedom is almost uncomfortable. +"
(TO be cOntiuued)
Arizona republican., 1920-09-04
MkhU
q
&c trfEessiotls ofaBridg
(coPeriqt 1920 bq The Nuspa Enterprise Associahon

Come quick before Bob sees me leav-
ing With you 1 commanded.
II don't understand, sis, but I'll do
Whatever YOU say. You've always
bossed me. you know" said my dear,
big brother -in-law. And he tucked
my hand on his arm, and we pro-
ceeded homeward down the box walled
path.
Il like Ann for telling you that aw-
full story the first half hour you two
were alone" l said before Jim left me
at my door. THAT kind of frank
ness promises we'll for your future hap
piness, Jimmy"
Il hope so. After the other horror
tonight, you know, l decided she and
had better take a little trip"
Grand idea" 1 agreed.
fAnn's never Travelled. you know
And I've been under orders so many
months I'd rather like the feeling OF
running myself for a while"
AS l went up to my room, l realized
that Jimmy had hit upon the one for
tunate solution of the embarrassing sit
uation created by Katherine Miller's