Show APPY FACES BEAM ON ISLE OF HORRORS Eternal Hope Cherished By Leper Residents of lOf SOLACED BY MUSIC New Oil Specific Checks Ravages of Oldest Disease KAL KALAUPAPA Islan Island of ot al at happiness T H IL May 12 A A spirit of hap hap- hap hal almost Inconceivable anda anda and a peace that passes the bounds Of o human understanding walk Ith tragedy through the tile Isolated cliff cliff- guarded cliff guarded strip Of ol short that has hns 1 then given en titi this portion ot or tile the HawaIIan archipelago the tho namo name of tho the lonely leper Isle Islo of ot The Tho Associated Press dent correspondent found when ho accompanied tho the territorial t legislature on oil a trIp tripo to o the tho settlement recently A visitor to the colony tore fore forewarned warned of the horror It holds bolds finds all of that and more mora that cannot connol be But be flail also aiso that heavy Y tog fog of gloom Bloom which once enveloped the tragic narrow stretch between the sea and the towering dissipated cliffs has hils been ed by a ray of light arising from the favorable results l that hove have at- at at attended tended the use of ot the Dean Deon chaulmoogra chaulmoogra oil specific during the past two years In checking tho the ravages ot of the oldest disease In the world The tl 4 1 hope that springs eternal In V u S u 45 ever pre present eu now nosy at even in the most advanced cases The TIle visitor finds faces smiling nith Ith a cheerfulness that has hag con con- conquered i cou-i AttA ll- ll llva i va J-f J k affliction He Is greeted everywhere e by a hearty joyful Aloha loha the embracing all Hawaii Hawaii- Hawaiian wall lan an term of salutation welcome an and 1 wishing well wishing well The eagerness with which the tho Inmates talk to a 1 visitor and look for long hours upon aa 11 unmarred strange face from the outside Is la pathetic as aa Is III their naive almost like child questioning questioning- ns as to whether the tha visitor may know friends of o theirs on the outside outside- outside In Honolulu Wailuku La- La La La halna halna Krs KrIPS BACK Many of the patients have taken talen refuge In the music great solace of the Hawaiian race They base ha organized a band and several sing sing- singing ing log clubs which vie with each ether oth rat at song tests The performance ot of otone otone one of these clubs a clubs a patients supplied octet supplied a bit of pathos th t crops up frequently h the aura of peace Tho The patients wefa we e singing gaily a a 0 cheerful HawaIIan song of welcome nelcome to the legislators They were succeeding admiral Suddenly a a mandolin pla pIa young or-young and apparently a newcomer to the tho who colony who had been gazing nith Ith longIng Into the unscarred faces of the began visitors began weeping steeping Despite De- De Despite spite the tears that streamed d l do down n his ills cheeks checks he continued with lorn braseny Cry as ns fine tine as ever seen on any battlefield battlefield to sing tho the cheerful words of the song did his best tu to simulate Joy and keep the tears out of his voice olce A man of wealth of ot power an of In throughout the terri tern territory territory tory accompanied the legislators to the Island He made directly tO Co the hospital as soon as he lie land landel I from Crom the tho vessels vessel's small boat Whim the main maln body of o the visitors reach reach- reached ed cd the hospital he was sitting be- be beIde beside be beside side Ide one of the beds weeping Tn b form feral upon the bed was waa his son n B B But all Is ts not sorrow at the sad sad- saddest saddest sad saddest dest spot on earth Some distance from the hospital Is a nursery On the day of the legislators visit It contained ten unusually healthy looking babies ranging rl from two I necks eels to five months In age They gurgled smiled and laughed an l shook tiny chubby fists at lit the vis- vis visItors vis visitors hors Although one or both ot of their parents are afflicted with lep- lep leprosy lep leprosy rosy tho most searching tion tion possible has lies failed to show a trace of the disease In anyone any one of the children or to scores of oC others 11 I 5 ho hi ha hie e 0 born to patients f J JUle the Ule settlement The children al aleare eare- eare cared for tor by the territory They ar kept at the settlement until the reach the tho age of ot sl sic Bit months when hen they are aro taken to Honolulu antI and placed placed In a home maintained by hi tile UIO 10 government No man who ho has seen Been what w was s sonco once called the borne home of ot the death Is quite the tho same man thereafter fter |