The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-04-04

youths in some comfortable place
where they will 1T least not be dissuad
ed from clean living, where liquor il
neither served nor sold, and where TIT
Y. VI. C.. A. may extend. without tai
, or hindrance, such moral home inhu
ences as can be impaired to dormitor!
. life. In a word, we are considering TIT
establishment of a Christian hotel FOL
a special class of patrons.
The thing has been done successfully
elsewhere, notably in Brooklyn, where
association work is very wholesome
and the facilities for it are up to date
Undoubtedly it could be carried out
with equal success here. And in speak
ing of success We mean in a material as
well as a moral way. A Y. NJ. c. A.
dormitory, whether built in town or on
the Waikiki beach, ought to be able to
give it's patrons precisely what they
| need and what the association wants to
give, to maintain at the same time a
reasonable scale of prices and earn a
fair interest on the investment. Touch
| ing the latter point, the most practi-
cable philanthropy is that which pays
| its way and earns something to the
good Enterprises of an institutional
sort which have regular deficits TO
make up, rarely last long; it is those
which return a fair interest that sur
vive. The success of the philanthropic
| l., h.
men Tin New York; is due to the GER
| tainty of three per cent. We see no
reason why six per cent should not be
returned by Y. NJ. c. A. dormitory
here. The way to get it, in our opin-
ion, is to demonstrate the pecuniary ad-
vantages of the plan and issue bonds
| for the amount needed. No doubt the
| bonds would be taken up and many of
them, in the long run, returned as gifts
to the Y. VI. c. A.
Touching the moral advantages of a
place where young men may be kept
under Y. VI. G. A. influences, a hint or
TWO to Honolulu business men-the
employers of youth-may be found in
the following extract from an address
by Hon James II. EckeIs, ex-Comptrol-
| Ter of the Currency, before the Chicago
Associations:
know something of the needs of the
public service, and / know something
Of the needs of the world of business
affairs. The quality of manhood de-
manded for both is essentially the
same. In a country wholly democratic
in every feature, men of integrity of
character. sincerity Of purpose and pur
ity of individual lives are a prerequisite
TO stability in government and COM
MERGE. There cannot be anywhere good
government without good men; neither
can there be honesty in business un-
dertakings without honest men. The
criticism which can justly be passed
upon our men OF affairs Is a too fire.
quent Indifference on their part to the
fact that good and honest men do not
come into such an estate without being
in earlier life surrounded. guarded and
drilled in the things which are needful
to goodness and honesty. / believe in
The doctrine rightly interpreted and
understood that each man Is his
brothers keeper" / would apply 1t
with especial force to every employer
of men in a city wherein are gathered
the forces OF evil, making the first
temptation as attractive as the last Is
repulsive. He is his brothers keeper"
and the denial of the fact finds in
more than one instance fruition in dis
aster to the employer and disgrace to
The employee. The keenest business
sense recognizes such conditions. and
when conversant with the objects of
such an organization as the Young
Mems Christian Association grants to
1t, upon the theory of self-protection in
many instances. II you please, a gener-
Gus support.
The greatest business houses, the
largest employers of labor, the best
systematized railway corporations have
seen the direct benefits of interesting
themselves in the things which affect
their men outside their hours of labor
They know that 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr..
Hyde" character in any employe Is not
compatible with good service; that a
night OF debauchery and lowered self
respect does not yield a day of faithful
employment and high-minded ambi-
lions, and knowing this it would be "a
Dlunder worse than a crime" to deny
aid TO those who are willing to do the
work of lessening the city's evils by
providing places of clean resort and
environments which bespeak Christian
virtues and manly sentiments. They
must be interested In their employees
beyond the mere service of them to
themselves or that service will be
faulty and unfair.
The appeal which the Young Mems
Christian Association from time to time
makes to the business men of Chicago
is not and ought not to be regarded as
an appeal for charity. 1t is instead the
asking for an expenditure on the part
Of those to whom the request is ad-
dressed as legitimate to the furtherance
Of their business enterprises as that
which is incurred for police and fire
insurance or any other outlay which
has regard for the protection and pres
ervation OF their property interests. II
IS as essentially legitimate and yields
as much return as the very money paid
to the employe himself. OF necessity 1t
must be made to make of best effect
such payment. In short, it is sum
which ought to be set apart each year