The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-06-13
PRACTICAL PROGRESS UNION.
Officers Of Branch Association Rec
emily Formed at Lahaina
Communicated

The rea lers OF the ADVERTISER are
we'll aware that there is at present in
the United states great awakening
ia lines of reform. EndeaVors are be
ing made TO lessen the saloon evil; TO
remodel, cleanse, Ventilate and drain
tenement houses; to get honest and
efficient government in. cities, and =
hundred similar advances. But few
of them, perhaps, know that one OF
the great agencies ia this work has
been the Union for Practical Progress.
Organized at Baltimore in 1898 il has
spread to twenty six states, to Eng
land and to Canada. 1t counts among
its leaders such men and women as
Carroll u. Wright, Francis Willard,
CharlesJ Bouaparte, SamuelGompers,
J. X. Sovereign, Bishop Hendrix, Prof.
{. Il. Henderson and the presidents of
Bowdoin, William ; Tufts, Ohio State
University, Western Reserve Uuivers-
ity, Minnesota University and Leland
stanford, Jr., University.
There are two distinct branches of
the work, educational and active.
Once each month eachUnion discusses,
by debate or otherwise, the monthly
topic. All of the questions OF the day
are taken up in this way. Foriustauce,
the subject for March, 81, was The
Sweating System; May, The Saloon
Evil; July, Parks and Fairgrounds;
November, How 10 Combat Political
Corruption; February, 80, Gambling.
The subjects for the coming five
months are June, Public Sanitation;
July, kindergarten; August, Manual
Training; September, Capital Punish
ment; October, Women Wage Work
erS. Each Union Is supplied before
hand with u complete photography OF
the subject to be discussed, SO that
time is afforded the members to get
books and magazines on the subject
and post themselves thoroughly. The
value of this educational work is in
eStimable, because great numbers
studying the same subject at the same
time always awaken enthusiasm. The
Inter Collegiate Debating Union, also,
including societies at Harvard, Yale,
Princeton, Columbus, the University
of Pennsylvania aud others, assists in
the work by using the Union topic as !
the subject for debate once each |
month.
The active work Is carried ON by - /
central conference, 10 which all so /
cieties for advance, churches, tenn /
perance societies, labor organizations, /
good government clubs, etc, are in /
vited TO send representatives. What /
ever needs TO be done for the cOmmu- |
nity may be done by this conference. |
Libraries formed, university extension /
and correspondence clubs started; |
vicious legislation opposed, needed /
bills formulated and pushed, parks
and play grounds secured for children. |
EVERYTHING in short that looks to bet
teriug mankind may claim n share OF (
its attention and labor. Much has |
already been done. In Philadelphia /
the Union Is building model tene-
meut house. In Maryland several bills
have been pushed through the legis-
Iature-one on child labor. In San
Francisco the prisons have been i'm
proved, and people everywhere have
been awakened to their duties as
citizens.
Hawaii nei, never far behind the
van OF progress, has also local union.
The only surprising thing ABOUT 1t Is
that in this, as in the matter OF
teachers associations, It Is Lahalna
and not Honolulu that takes the lead.
On Tuesday evening, June 4th, the
denizens of the shove town met at the
of Principal Henry Dicken-
son and organized q Union, with
Henry Dickinson for president, Mrs.
Sarah DeCOra fer vice president, OSmer
secretary and treasurer; Miss
NJ. A HOrneT, Rev. VIM. Horsefau
and Henry Dickinson executive COM
nfttea The T.ahainasC MON Will meet
once each month for the discussion or
the monthly topic, ana hopes among
practical advances to organize a library
association for LahaIna the coming
autumn.