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For rome years now, her tele- phone vetem, and her policy in
THE BULL AND THE WOLF.
AN ALLEGORY, WITH A PRESENT DAY MORAL.
Translated from A Chincaa Stary.
[Contributed 1
A Bull, lying stek in a farm-yard,j was one day suddenly attacked by a
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1932.
THE REAL TROUBLE AT HONOLULU
"DO NOT BLAME THE OLD NATIVE-HE WOULD NOT HARM A FLY.”.
By Eric Rogers.
similar insults.
wolf, which,, though small; succeed- A shocking crime in Honolulu and with the haole! (or white)" and cd in breaking into the north-eastern its startling sequel has directed the
All the people who live in this corner of a farm-yard. The Wolf's world's attention to the little island
festering place (with perhaps the plea was that his den was too small in mid-Pacific and its "natives." and too poor to satisfy his needs. It is just as well to point out that exception of the Chinese) are im-
Their code is their own. Before long, the farm-yard was the real native Hawaiians are few moral. in a miserable condition. Every-in numbers, that they do not live in The real old native Hawaiians do thing melted away before the Wolf's the cities, and that to throw all not come into this quarter. They fiery attacks. Even the farm-gate blame on them is not quite fair, says are, content to live on a small home- stead, or even a grass cottage, In would have been levelled to the Mr. Rogers in the Daily Telegraph.
The
population
a banana patch. non-white
at the middle of ground, if the Bull had not been roused to action by the near pros-Honolula is a mixture of many Their lives are very simple; poi and pect of being starved to death, or races, in which the real island stock fish are their chief food. They are cut off from all communication with is submerged. In numbers, the hospitable (in their own manner), the outside world. The Bull was Japanese come first,, constituting and are as harmless individuals ng Indeed too sick to face his deadly one-third of the island's population. one could wish to meet,
enemy, or to meet this startling case, They were "cheap labour" when for he could scarcely more his limbs. brought over by the sugar plants. Infringing Territorial Rights. tion owners, and worked for a more During all this time, the Wolf's pittance. Some fifteen years ago action and steps were carefully watched by the other animals, the Lion, the Tiger, and the Leopard, but strange to say, these animals stood at a respectful distance, and none of them dared to cross the path of the ferocious, greedy, bloody) wolf, either because they were afraid of his fierceness, or because they had their own difficulties to face.
the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Assa- Meanwhile the sickly Bull ques-ciation found that Philippinos would tioned the Wolf in a feable voice as,
Young Hawaiians. However, the younger generation, in whose blood may be the mixture of any half-dozen different races,
The writer of this article is an English journalist who has lived many years at Honolulu, and is thoroughly conversant with the natives and with "Hell's Half-Acre," the city's under- world. He reveals that the rent trouble is with the debased mixed races and the bad influence of the Philippinos.
The Underworld. it why he had been so regardless work for still lower pay.
of all laws, sacred and maral, as to
So men were signed on in the his territorial infringe
rights.
are entirely different. They live in the city, dress in American clothes (with silk shirt, if possible), and stroll around as if they own the islands. Once their forefathers did the islands 100 years
ago.
Whereupon the Wolf replied, "My Philippines on a three-year contract, own young ones are in danger of being at the end of which they were to be Now sugar and pineapple interests destroyed by you, Mr. Bull. 1.come returned home, passage-paid. They claim practically the whole of the therefore to ensure their safety." were sent over to Honolulu-in bulk.cultivated land. Fortunes have been London, in her time, has been "You forget. Mr. Wolf," the Ball Several hundred would arrive on one made by descendants of some of the Now hardly 10 per cent. of the variously but always aptly, describ-retorted, that though you may boat. These men, not speaking one early settlers.
have young ones here, it is 1, who, word of English, were then dis-
tributed amongst the plantations. "real" native population are in
of
land. The ed as many thing. Pre-eminently attacked by internal troubles, is to
A certain percentage stayed on the possession
does rising generation young bloody, she is, of course, the "Heart of the suffer from these
Island of Oahu (of which Honolulu Hawaiian Are there any Empire." She is the recognised revengeful animals.
is the capital), but a very large pro- not consider whether or not a good weak creatures who have been centre of the World," the first to launch an attack against portion are ranged over the island bargain was made at the sale. All
J
ed to pieces caused considerable Hilo eventually raise enough money
to get boat fare to injury to the Wolf's claws.
overnight journey.
Aiming at Aggrandisement.
any
that the young man Bees is that other people are making profits out of the land which was formerly in his family.
"financial
strong -without sufficient of Maui, Hawaii, and Kaual. even to-day, when the vaults of, the
A great cause of trouble in Certainly not. Suffer- France and the United States bulge prounds? with gold, while her's are compara-
ing is the badge of the weak only. Honolulu, and of the establishment
This rising (part Hawaiian) gen- It is not my part to do violence. of "Hell's Half-Acre"-the dreaded tively empty. She is the City of the your young ones are so Beet-foot- underworld-is that only a few of World, the City upon which eyes ed that I can scarcely rise before these Philippinos work out their eration of the city is now living
they are Now she is, all
safe in your den to three-year contract where sent. By with the mixed element. The man are ever fastening.
in the aid of an army of leaving their plantation they lose learns all of their unspeakable in addition to all these, and much wolves. Under no circumstances, their free passage home. They have habits and eventually adopts their more, the "Telephone Switchboard shall I court my own ruin, except learned a little pidgin English, and ideas. He listens to the Philippino, Porto Rican, of the World." Indeed, she is the when my life is at stake, and be-want to visit the "bright lights" of he is imbued with the "behind the
Your pay to-day is one dollar 8 cents (43. and is becoming a gangster.
Night Perils. | stand QIY the defensive. the Greetion of telephone facil-"Nerve Centre of the World." And lieve me, Mr. Wolf, I can but the city. Although their rate of back" tricks of the
These are the people who causa ties and enveniences, have been when London, synonymous with complaint is as ridiculous as say-6d. at par) per day, it is a fortune adversely criticised; and only
Britain and the British Empire, ing that the Chinese may endan to these uneducated, morose beings.
They have two towns from which the trouble. In the daytime every- ger the lives of other nationals." very recently scathing attacks
moves-she moves.
In spite of this protest, the Wolf to choose--Hilo, on the island of thing in "Hell's Half-Acre" seems were lamehed against the ad-
rained a shower of blows on the Hawaii, and Honolulu, on the island quiet. Whites will go into the The men who move to main streets to purchase souvenirs ministration of the telephone de-
farm-gate, which, though shatter-of Oahu. News in Brief.
at the little shops kept by Chinese Honolulu-an and Koreans, but no one who knows partment of the Post Office
Honolulu ventures into the Althy, Ministry.
Lowest onen air temperature
On arrival they make direct for dissolute alleyways; and at night An! now, as if to rebut all ac-yesterday was 48. Humidity at 10 In his misery, therefore the Bull cusations of inefficiency and of a am. was 63, and at 4 p.m. 72. !uttered a groan, appealing to the the squalid section of the city the white gives the whole quarter & other animals for help. However, lying west of the river. Here, with wide berth. When potent quor shortsighted policy, Sir Kings-
Quarantine restrictions Imposed
prospects of getting white!" Woe to him if he is caught ley Wood Postmaster-General
against arrivals from Sourabaya chose to see the result of the little if any money, without work, has had its effect he is "the dirty
coming combat between the two, and with no
The simple-minded hall-white, -discloses what his department on account of plague, have been rather than to involve themselves any, they mingle with the motley there alone.
[in a war," in which they could crow of Chinese, Koreans, Portu- has in store for the public, which removed.
half-castes, Porto Ricans, through his contact with the Philip- Iroup but little" profit. Being dis-guese has administered to him so severe
Lammert Bros.' sale of furniture appointed at the lack of support, half-whites, and others, who freely, pines, soon begins to follow their a castigation.
at No. 1 Felix Villa, advertised to and thrown on his own resources, intermix, and have made "Hell's manner of living. The lingering surface. As he a half-white At the ceremony, associated take place on February 16, has the Bull hesitatingly advanced to Half-Acre" one of the most pestilerit | hatred of the white race rises to the
,the gate and exclaimed "Mr. Wolf, spota on earth.
himself, and perhaps an outcast, he, Hatred of Whites. with the laying of the founda- been postponed to a later date.
throw away your mask.
Their wants are small and their with his childlike mind, declares tion stone of London's new Tele-
The Empress of Britain will admit that you are aiming at ag-
white women. If he ever phone Home, Sir Kingsley Wood leave here for New York via Chin-grandisement. Perhaps after sec- living conditions terrible. They war on revealed certain interesting facts, wang tao, Japan ports, Honolulu, ing the peaceful policy I adopted, exist as best they can; a dollar made gets an opportunity, the worst will
San Francisco and Panama, at you think that A can be driven here and a few dollars there, earned happen.
Imported labour has changed, a relative to what his department noon on Monday, February 15. away like chaff before the wind. perhaps at a pineapple factory. If had already done and had de
But sick as I am, fou shall find they have $5 (41) they more than land of peace and plenty into a hot- A-Chinese who committed day what is the spirit of a Bull when likely will wager the greater part of bed of white hatred. Businesses cided upon doing in the future
light burglary, at 817B, Hennessy brought to bay, and that my horns it on a cock-fight. This mixture of must run. Someone had to till the the immediate future, as in con- Road, yesterday, by bending iroff are not so useless as you think in men and women hate the whites. soil that is to produce for Hawait They show it, if a well-dressed man its export trade of £25,000,000 a trast with that indefinite future, bars at the door, and stealing the fight for life and death." to which Government servants money and clothing. was, on hi At the conclusion of thik speech, or woman gets. (by mistake, I hope) year.
appearance before Mr. W. Scho the Wolf and the Bull plunged into into their quarters of the town. All so frequently delight to refer.
Beid, this morning, sentenced to battle with such fierceness that breeds will unite in the cry, "To hell What; according to the Post four months, hard labour. The the earth trembled at the noise master-General, has been accom- stolen property was falued at $75 and din Indeed, the battle gave plished? Britain's telephone ser- and all of it was removered... více had been extended to twenty-four different countries
Kowloon,
of the
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Personal Par
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ne peace to the animal world. It raged terribly, for, while the Wolft was anxious to preserve its prestige, the Bull was forced to
a ruined man, "tit,
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TERRIBLE PLIGHT OF··
MUSICIANS
£50,000 Fund Appeal.
on the Continent of Europe, and The forthcoming marriage is an-/fight with the desperate resistance)
Lord Blanesburgh, chairman of the executive committee of the the whole of the North American bounced of Reginald Wilfred Sap- of Continent had been brought into bed, living at the YMCA, Kow-
Musicians' Federation Fund. has and Allsa Mary Edith
informed the Daily Telegraph that radio-telephonic communication loon,
Three stewards in the German a movement has been "inaugurated with her. This meant, that well Cameron, of 7, Humphreys Building,
liner Bremen which holds the At- to acquire Great Billing. Hall, over ninety per cent.
lantic speed record, were given Northamptonshire, as a convales world's telephones could be call- YOUNG GALLANT IN TROUBLE. terms of imprisonment ranging cent. home for musicians,
The building was the home of from two to ten months for aid- ed up by British subscribers. That is something the public in Sentence of one month's hard ing stowaways at Bremen recent the Elwes family for generations, including Mr. Gervase Elwes, in Satén apuse labour, the term of imprisonment 1. Britain have to bear in mind toto dats, from January-19, was Im- A comfortable "cabin" had been whose memory the fund was start- 12 cents 60 cents day, when it converts the Post posed bn Young Lal, who was fitted in ong of the wall of the ad. It is proposed that the old Office into an Aunt Sally, charged before Mr. J. A. Fraser at ship's library, and the stowaways hall should serve as a memorial
In the course of his speech, Sir the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday concealed in it. The stewards did to him.
afternoon, with causing grievous everything for their comfort, and The sum of 250,000 to required, Kingsley Wood, not inaptly, and bodily harm to Hul Wan with a gave them meals at regular inter and the Earl of Shaftesbury has hot without reason, bestowed yet chopper at Sha Po Road, Kowloon vals.. another cognomen on Britain's Cliy, on January 17, | Ideal,
The real Capital City "London," he said, The quatre is alleged to have
been caused by certain domestic that it can events, whilst complainant was not a recr
Collins. courting, defendant's daughter.
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consented to act as hon. treanur er of a national appeal for that with exercise is amount Subscriptions should be glon, and forwarded to him at 16 John Norman R. Street, Bedford Row "W.C.1.
It is pointed out that musicians
is
Don't blame the old native. He would not harm a fly..
especially the sick and aged, are in a terrible plight. There are about 12,000 out of employment, 50 per cent owing to the intro.. duction of "talkies."
To-day's Thought."
Often the fellow hardest to catch is the one who holds his ground.
Ten Years Ago."
[From the China 'Ms!" of February 12, 1922.)
To-day's dollar is worth 2/5%.
The following.. forthcoming weddings are announced: Mr. H; L., Dennys, solicitor, to Miss Sybil Mary Clarke, at St. John's Cathedral. on February 24. Mr. J G Charl ton engineer) of the Indo-China B, N. Co to Mia Lilian Murray; enf route from England by the a... Kat