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The study is based on 22 long-record stations on Oahu. Observations from several stations in the Honolulu city area were combined by regression methods into a homogeneous record covering the years 1874-1945.

Most of you, no doubt, have considered from time to time what a fine world this would be if human nature was just a little different than it is and all we mortals followed what was laid down for us many years ago as the second great commandment—“Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” What a difference it would make in the pattern of our everyday lives! Each of us, for example, when we got into our automobile would drive it always at a safe speed with due courtesy to our fellow drivers and the pedestrians on the streets. Murder, robbery and rape would be unknown words; what few policemen we needed would have little to do except assist old ladies up and down the curbs and give directions to the strangers within our gates.