HONOLULU 



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HONOR 



HONOLULU , ho no loo ' loo, capital of the 

 Hawaiian Islands, politically known as the 

 United States Territory of Hawaii. It is situ- 

 ated on a good harbor in the south 8f the 

 island of Oahu (oah'oo), 2,089 miles south- 

 west of San Francisco. From the position of 

 the capital of an uncivilized kingdom of black 

 people, Honolulu has risen in comparatively 

 few years into great importance as a meeting 

 point of commercial routes in the Pacific Ocean 

 and as the most important distant naval station 

 of the United States. The opening of the 

 Panama Canal greatly added to its commer- 

 cial and strategic value. (See chart, with 

 article UNITED STATES, entitled Pacific Areas of 

 Control.) 



The harbor of Honolulu, with volcanic peaks 

 rising high behind the town, is very picturesque. 

 Passenger boats on arriving are immediately 

 surrounded by a throng of natives who beg 

 for dimes, for which they dive with great skill. 



LOCATION OF HONOLULU 

 In the larger map the black area indicates the 

 form of the city. The star in the corner map 

 shows the location of the city in the Hawaiian 

 group. 



The docks and wharves are modern and excel- 

 lently equipped, electric cars are of most mod- 

 ern design, and there is a modern railroad depot. 

 The East and the West meet in Honolulu. Cos- 

 tumes of latest fashion are seen in the streets, 

 mingling with the holoku worn by the native 

 girls. The holoku is a very ill-fitting garment 

 resembling the nightgown, the first costume 

 prescribed for the natives by missionaries in 

 the days when dress of any kind was con- 

 sidered unnecessary. Wooden houses still 

 stand side by side with brick and stone build- 

 ings six stories in height, but there is practi- 

 cally no poverty in the city. There are hospi- 

 tals, a public library and a college with over 

 700 students. 



The chief industries are the manufacture of 

 machinery, especially that used in sugar refin- 

 ing, rice milling and shipbuilding. The gov- 

 ernment buildings are large and handsome ; the 



governor of the territory occupies the palace 

 of the former Hawaiian ruler. King Kame- 

 hameha caused the United States flag to float 

 over his palace more than ninety years before 

 Hawaii became American territery; he adopted 

 it as his own national flag because it was 

 pretty. For more detailed information relating 

 to the surroundings of Honolulu, see Hawaii. 

 Population in 1910, 52,183. 



HONOR, or HONOUR, on' er. A funda- 

 mental principle of an upright character is that 

 composite virtue we call honor a virtue that 

 implies loyalty and courage, truthfulness and 

 honesty, trustworthiness and self-respect, jus- 

 tice, generosity. No wonder it has been said 

 that "Honor guards the way of life from all 

 offense, suffered or done." 



The man of honor keeps faith, not only with 

 others, but with his own best self, recognizing 

 what is right and due, and "daring to be true" to 

 that ideal, both in word and action. He scorns 

 cheating, lying, thievery, bribery dishonesty 

 in all its disguises. He is scrupulous in living 

 up to his promises, whether written or oral, so 

 that men say of him that "his word is as 

 good as his bond." He is prompt and direct 

 in the discharge of duty. If his work makes 

 him a servant of the public soldier, doctor, 

 captain, engineer, switchman, telegraph opera- 

 tor he is faithful in the performance of his 

 task, even at the risk of his own life. "The 

 post of honor," says Carlyle, "is the post of 

 difficulty, the post of danger of death, if diffi- 

 culty be not overcome;" and the honorable 

 man, sooner than desert that post, is ready to 

 say, with Addison, "Better to die ten thousand 

 deaths than wound my honor." 



A high conception of honor makes a man 

 do more than the careless world expects of 

 him. It makes a Walter Scott or a Mark Twain, 

 for instance, labor loyally for years to dis- 

 charge the claims of creditors when a business 

 venture meets with disaster. It enables a man 

 to resist the temptation to accumulate money 

 by dishonest methods, or secure an advantage 

 of any kind through means which conflict with 

 his ideas of what is honorable. 



It is a keen sense of honor that makes people 

 tell the truth when a falsehood would save them 

 from a disagreeable situation; that keeps them 

 faithful to their work when there is no one near 

 to watch, or when their neglect would never 

 be discovered. The honor strong enough to 

 withstand a temptation that whispers "No one 

 will ever be the wiser," is an honor which has 

 been put to the supreme test. Says a poet : 



