The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-10

IN the Y. NJ. G. a. columns of the March
number of the Friend, is made
upon the lack of interest shown by very
many OF our young men and lads here i'll
the entertainments of a social and literary
kind provided for them. Reference is
made to the really excellent programmes
that have been put forth by the foreial
churches in their occasional lecture and
entertainment evenings of week days, as
well as the character of the lectures pro-
vided by the library and journal assOcia-
ton, and the question is asked, " what is
the remedy for this condition of affairs ?'
After giving u~tterance to the gentle plati-
tude that to give up the attempt and let
things take their own course would not
remedy the situation, the Y. NJ. G.. A.
writer in the Friend proposes that the field
be studied, the methods employed be modi-
fled, the engine altered, and the bait and
tactics changed.
We agree with the Y. NJ. G. writer. In
the first place let the field be studied and
in order to do so i~ntelligently, we are of the
opinion that those who undertake the task
must first fully realize the fact that. useful
even neceSsary-as it is, the Y. " G. a.
is not a popular organization among the
young men and lads whom the promotes of
these entertainments would like TO see
attend them. Very many of those who are
pr rticulariZed as being without comfOrta-
BILE homes, are very sensitive about being
"patronized," n whether they are right
or wrong in their cOnjectures, they nave a
lurking suspicion that VIXEN they are asked
to attend a lecture or entertainment given
under the auspices of the Y. NJ. G. a. they
are going to have more religion than
science dealt out to them, and-they don't
want to come. We would not have the Y.
NJ. c.. \. relax their efforts one jot on
this or any other account for all their
influence is for good and cannot be
spared), but we would suggest the eXer-
else of Just n little of the wisdom of
the serpent in the preparing of the bait.
Then comes up the question How shall the
bait be prepared? [Just here we would
remark that the piscatoriTl smile Is not
ours we are following out the line of
thought suggested by the article in the
Friend. Suppose that there is selected q
series of lectures on scientific subjects. In
the main these are dry. To be made at
tractive, they must be illustrated 10 illus
trate them, there must be at least q few
mechanical appliances, and with these u
most entertaining and, withal, instructive
lecture could be delivered, that we are con-
fident would be well attended If properly
announced. And this leads US to say q
word or two in relation to the management
Of the . business part OF these entertain
ments. The greatest possible publicity must
be given to the proposed entertainments
by means of hand-bills. 1t is the height of
folly to suppose that those who would be
the most benefited and entertained have
sufficient personal acquaintance with even
the most distinguished lecturers to induce
them to attend their lectures without being
reminded of when they are to take place.
Coming public events must be kept before
tire public, or they will not respond.
\ VERY wide difference of opinion seems
to exist in regard to the working of the
educational system in vogue in this King
dom. In one weekly paper is a most bitter
denunciation of the old Board of Education,
and hollow groans are emitted by the writer