The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-06-23
THE OPTIMISTIC PESSIMIST

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Really the United Confederate War Veterans are not to be severely
blamed for their expressions in blaming Lincoln for forcing the ar on
the Southern States" The very old live in the memories of their youth
and their bitterness revives with advanced age. What they say in their
resolutions reflects the feeling of so years ago not that of the South of today.
There is some compensation i in n not being a Babe Ruth. A chap can tell
the umpire his personal views, be suspended therefor and not lose 500 a
day or anything like that amount for his tmerty.
Big Island folk are doing ali in their power to make good with the
shrners o their coming visit to Klauea+ They are eve working the
power of suggestion" o P@e in an effort to get her to display her activities
on Mauna Loa.
The old saying about still waters running deep is modernized into Still
running comes steep"
1t is asserted that a smaller average o Of persons pr machine is killed
by aiphnes than by automobiles. That's as it should be for it doesn't hurt
a bit to have a plane fly over n and being run by a motor is
ofen fatal
No one has yet pictured the dove o. + peace "a with a shamrock in its bill.
There are said to be 100000 government employees in Russia. If half
those who seek political jobs in good old U. s A. got them the Russian
would look small in comparison to Americas.
Iii quite proper to say that a lover folded her in his arms fol unless
the folding a veryg gentle she must be all rumpled.
Russia is quite willing to have a receiver appointed provided Russia be
appointed the receiver.
Dempsey is willing to fight Wills provided the public demands it and
the purse is satisfactory" And Dempsey is the judge of the satiaaaoriness
of the purse. So easy to be obrgng.
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It is not nearly s. important to get the factions of ireland together as
it is to keep them apart so they can get together
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If Lady Macbeth were living o she would be begging TO the ghost
to walk, not to down. The cost of living "a lower in her time.
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The old head line Babe hits another" doesn't go any more for n has
to read the story to know whether it was a homer n the jumps.
serving and in the fall, when the schools open again, there will be
about a dozen more served than now and there will be more nearly
an adequate supply of juvenile works to go to them, for there have
not been nearly so many volumes available for school libraries as
were asked this year.
The county has supplied the building in which the library is
housed and functions and is lending such financial support as it can
under present financial conditions. The home is adequate for pres
ent needs and furnishes a comfortable and pleasant reading room.
The Territory is supplying $4,000 for the biennial period. The
growth of the library has been healthy and steady, it has made a
long step toward meeting the needs in the county and its progress
another year will be more rapid, its service more satisfying and it's
usefulness larger than it has been thus far.
School is pau and the annual fitting of the teachers is started.
To some of them the days of waiting to take a steamer eastward
bound have seemed long and weary.
1t is not evident that any faction of Ireland has a clear MAORI
to have but to use it one has to form a combination with another in
the minority.
These are the days of Make Ready. Those of Make Happy will
follow on their heels.
Sun Vat Sen should have been more careful in his craftsmanship.
Uncle Sam would be very sorry to have to slap him on the wrist.
Living costs are said to be only rs percent above pre-war figures
but that does not include taxes.
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