Show National Men and Affairs A Visit to Honolulu With Some News About Hawaii Together Witha With a Lesson or So On the Musical Language of the Natives Ma Fergusons Ferguson's Par Par-do Par Par- Pardoned Prisoners Back in Jail B BROBERT By ROBERT T SMALL I Special Corre Correspondent of The Standard Examiner Copyright 1927 1921 Consolidated Press Association NE has to go to Honolulu to ta ONE O learn that the Prince ot of o Wales luring two visits to the Hawaiian Islands discovered something en en- entirely entirely ne new to fall fail off oft This Is no disparagement to H R It H for tor his experience was no different from that of o every novice who tries to ride a surf board on the face of a breaker rolling into the beach at lit Waikiki The reason the prince falls off ott so many things is that he tries them all ali Colonel Matt Wynn the em cm- embodiment ot of the spirit ot of racing in Kentucky once made the sage remark that you co rule a man off the turf for tor try try- trying tryIng trying ing and that goes tor for the little prInce He He lie could lead the soft soft- softest softest est of ot lives If It he wished but lie he heIs lieIs heis Is ready for tor anything at any time The childhood joy ot of o follow my l leader ader has never left len him This Is of o course it little princes ever are allowed ed to such p I i games The Prince of ot Wales first vis via Hed Honolulu In 1920 on his way to the Antipodes He lie was fas- fas fascinated fascinated by the attractions ot of the surf and the many water sports When he saw the native boys standing w on the surf boards and riding the breakers with the grace and skill of ot skimming gulls naturally he be had to have bave a go at atthe atthe the game Also naturally he went head over heels into the grinding waters not once but several times for tor it takes long practice to make perfect In this thrilling sport The prince was told he ho could ride the breakers rigger canoe with natives steer steer- steering steering Ing with never a a care or a work Wor worry ry but he preferred the big board and the big tumble The prince princ was as so fascinated that he lie changed his return plans and visited Ha Ha- Ha wait wail again on the way home bome The princes prince's more recent ex ex- ex r-loit r of o getting tangled up with hIs sword royal robes and tripping over his sword is not to be wondered at No one dislikes form and an ceremony more than he And dur duro Ing big the world orld war there were no such things as swords in the I field The prince served as a astaff staff captain on the western westen front in France during a great part lIart of ot the world war The Brit Ish did not exploit him however as the Germans did the crown prince When he was at the front the the Prince of of Wales Vales was wa just a staff captain a brass bras hat If K you please and he want want- wanted wanted ed to do that bit as well as ashe ashe a he could For some unknown reason the th people of the mainland of ot th the United States appear to believe bellev that Hawaii should te be be pron unc ed ed you How They are arc about as wrong as possible In Inthe Inthe Ir the lIu land d of o the liquid vowels they tail can it Hah Wy It is a mat mat- matter matter ter of o deep regret to the old Islanders that the native Hawal Hawai- Ion language is all too fast dis- dis disappearing appearing before the onrush ot of ol the practical and commercial It if n not t always euphonious English Efforts are being made to adopt many Hawaiian words words into th the tho English language and this cus- cus I torn tom prevails to a large extent among the American born and English residents Missionaries from New England gave gaio HawaIIans their first tint writ wrIt- wrItten written written as ten language as well as their and and and business social customs IThe missionaries landed in 1820 They studied the sign and spoken language and discovered some picture writing on rocks The latter was virtually undecipherable able But from the native tongues the New Englanders caught the soft vowels which today lend themselves so harmoniously to HawaIIan music music- and and the Imitations Imitations of ot it which have crept Into the dance halls hails of o the United States The missionaries found to their amazement that only twelve let letters were necessary for tor the Ha- Ha HawaIIan Ha Hawaiian alphabet The emphasis Is always on the vowels and In addition to these the only let let- letters let letters employed are H K IC L M MN N P and nod W The result Is somo rather weird looking corn corn com in print but some very beautiful rippling words when spoken by the native There Is Waikiki for Instance pronounced keo kee Wy-kee-kee Wy and other geographical geographical cal names such as and which seem strange to the l or newcomer but butare butare butare are as common as Broadway or State street to the or old timer old timer The average American landing landingIn landingIn Jn In Hawaii Haw il knows about three na native as- as tire tive words words Hula anti Waikiki He should learn at least leasta a few more It If In the romantic lure ot of o the tropic Island he be wants to make love should by the light ot of the moon he should know that the I moon Is Mahina and the tha girl girlfriend girlfriend friend Is whether he would have It so or not La LaIe It is the sun as aswell well wen as the day and anda ana n a cup ot of kope is the otherwise well known Java It If you are angry In Hawaii you are which Is not so 80 bad and might well take the place ot of familiar our cuckoo And also in Sn Hawaii you must al always ways be on your guard against boo hoo mall malimali mall which to be somewhat literary and highbrow means to gain ones one's favor by b byI false flattery sometimes known as handing out the honey The natives are adept at the art I A lot ot of Ma lira Fergusons Ferguson's par par- tinned prisoners In Texas already alread are back In the tolls toils of o the law lawOne One paroled person has been con con- convicted convicted of o stealing turkeys and will get ten or twelve years for forthe forthe the trick Turkey stealing In Texas is no longer a misdemeanor It has been made a felony stealing stealing horse was In the olden olden days Texas Is proud of ot her tur tur- turley key ley crop anti and it If the vigilance corn com commIttee still were in existence tur- tur turkey turkey turkey key thieves might find their fate at the end of o a dangling rope The situation Justifies the re- re recent re- re recent recent cent remark of ot an old Texas rang ranger er to the writer I guess these pardons aint to do so much harm hann in the long run he og drawled because the folks that i are deserving to be out stay out and those that ought never to t have been let out will soon be beback beback e back Just makes a little more w work rk for us peace officers that's all |