The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-04-29

and the addresses of Secretaries
Hughes and Hoover, | am confident
that the policy of the administra-
ton will ultimately be in favor of
some form of internationalism and the
of our relations with other ma
tons on the lines of the fourth policy
mentioned.
Disarmament Problem
II. Closely connected with the peace
problem is the problem of disarma-
ment. All sane persons are convinced
that the present competition among
the nations in ornaments is suicidal
and can only issue in further wal I'M
less some means are taken to stop it.
Ii is highly desirable that America un-
der the leadership of the President
should take steps toward reaching
some agreement among the nations
for the curtailment of ornaments for
on the attitude the United States
takes and the expenditures it makes,
depends the military and normal pro-
gram of other leading nations. Let
us work toward some disarmament
agreement at once.
III. Another important question con
Germs the relations between Capital
and Labor. For some months past
there has been a certain r~eactionary
capitalistie element, notably in the
steel industry that has been trying
to take advantage of the present IN
employment situation to arrange labor
condition and wages TO suit itself just
as labor tried TO do during the war.
| am glad to say, that the great ma
joiity of capitalists and the Presi-
dents Of the various American socie-
ties of engineers have stood for a
more liberal policy. AS a result even
the steel trust, that great anachron-
ism in American industrial life, is
seeing the light and has announced
adjustments that will conform more
adequately to modern industrial
ideals.
That our Industrial problems car be
settled amicably when approached in
a cooperative and human spirit is
being manifested all along the line
Reductions in wages in many case
from Is percent to 30 percent are now
being accepted by labor when reason
able proof has been given of sucl
necessity. Likewise the success at
tending the secretary of labor in his
effort to arrest a packers strike is 9
good omen for the future.
Tariff Question Looms
". There is again the tariff prob
lem. The tariff like the marriage re
lation is a two sided question. Il
works not only for but against {
country. Most of the experts seen
to agree that the less in tinker will
the tariff the better, since under pres
ent world conditions the theories tina.
have obtained in the past do not nov
hold good.
/ have mentioned these problem
| especially because they stand out il
the forefront. But these are numer
Gus other problems OF more OF les
compleXisty that must be faced-th,
enforcement Of prohibition problem
the agricultural problem, the need o
getting people to settle on the lant
and their getting a living when the.
have settled on it, the Japanese prob
Tem, the Russian problem, the educa
tional problem, the merchant marine
problem, the cost of living problem
etc.
IiANbS AiiS - ~ vi IN PA 20
ent difficulties which in as a natiol
are called upon to face. Teh task i
not the Presidents alone, it belong
to every n of us. Shame on tn,
man who makes the task harder b,
a selfish regard for his own persona
and private interest. Shame on tn
man who is more concerned wit
%furtheTing his own purposes than il
the bringing about of full relation
among his fellowmen. Shame IN al
those who glibly defend their hypC
crisy and lack of patriotism by say
ing, IT'S up to the government"
Democracy is still on trial befor
the world and only a nation united il
aim and lofty in purpose can carry
forward and onward to success 9TH
criticism, OF the next generation upo
this" says an American publicisr
will be, how plainly they saw thei
problems, how ineffective they were il
solving them" Vision in their works
like faith, is dead, being alone. 81
there be no honest effort, says Dea,
Brown, to translate visions into deeds
it were better not TO have seen tn
visions. Seeing which is not follow
ed by doing becomes a kind of mem
al and spiritual dissipation, not on
whit more honorable than physics
dissipation by the use of stimulant
or opiates. The great truth yields it
iull value only as we undertake t
express it in terms of life"
1t is to the President we look fo
such Il leadership as will embody
the finest way the hunger and hope
Of humanity for truth and right, a
will bring TO fruitage the best in GU
national genius, spirit, and ideals
May God bless and guide both Pres
ident and people toward this grea
end.
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