HAWAII AND THE WAR.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14608, 18 May 1918, Page 8

HAWAII AND THE WAR.

WONDERFUL TRANSFORMATION. SYDNEY, May 9. . 'Tis true; 'tis pity ; and pity 'Us 'tis ttue, but the dusky maidens on the beach at Waikiki these days find sterner iises for their tremulous fingers tliantlie tickling^ of ukuleles. The hula hula 'lias suffered a war 'change; The staying bodies now suggest a nob ( ler th^me; ' The' bird v of' paradise emulates the eagle. • .■■.•,.•"'* All this is bonie out by those w,lip ; returned to Sydney yesterday by tHw Sonoma from 'their various purposes m the Pacific. ; . "W© went. to Honolulu for rest, and they gave us' ; work!"\is the burden of their song. "It was ftiie.;though," they continue; "a. Wonderful lesson m taking the war seriously.'' ' ;. '.i "They're working their eyeballs out,'? was the niahner.in' which Mr. J- P» McEvoy, of Clarence stre'etj put it. "I simply can't iriditate exactly the extent to. which every soul m the place has thrown himself (or herself) into the: struggle. They may' be thousands of niiles away frorii the actual fighting, but to look at them is to. feel that they could !not be mbf<* iiitvmattjly coiicerned m the contest if the vims were at , their very harbor riiotlth. " There's' rtot " one individual of any class 'whatever who is not as busy as 6an be with Red Cross work. '"■''. "The women,? Oh my, they're at ]t like. TrojanS the whole day through. They. 1 spirit is immense. " l^hey feel that they re m it as much as the. men," and they're proving it by their; deeds. Not a minute of the day" passes but there is something being done towards the prosecution of the war. „ "One thing struck me as being a great idea. I felt that it might be tsiken up here. At every picture show m Honor lulu they have men to talk oh some war subject for just three or four minutes at a time. They get their facts before- their audience, and drive homo th,e lesson to be taught m a perfectly wonderful manner. To ' this practice alone.l attribute the solid universal support that is being accorded the United States Government m its tromendous^ endeavor. For one' thing these speeches; have had an extraordinary stimulating effect as regards subscriptions to the third Liberty Loan. i "All that has been said as to the oneness of purpose of the people iii* America proper applies with equal fbrce to the colony of Honolulu. They ob-sai-ve their meatless, their wheatless, and their porkless days as they do on the continent. The 1 gospel of .economy is as observed as it is certainly well arid enthusiastically preached. The war touch is added by the presence of large numbers of the Sammies themselves. There is an aviation school on the island and an encampment 911 the lines of our own at Liverpool."