The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-14
Berger on Men
and Things

"Ah, the Hilo Band. It is a good
band, yes. But it has had it's many
difficulties. It has had no money,
there is nothing to encourage the boys
to stay. If you have no money you
can not buy the music. If you have
not the boys you can not blow it off
1t has been hard work here and they
do we'll I will see tonight Yes, I will
go and listen. Conduct the band? No,
my friend, I am on vacation. I am a
listener only.
August Dreier, he is a good man.
He has given the st. Louis College
band a complete set of new instru-
ments. That is the way to encourage
the music. The Hawaiians are good
musicians. They are born with the
music in them. But they forget; yes,
sometimes they forget. The singing is
good. oh yes, the people like it. But
did you ever hear the japanese children
sing in schools? They are the marvel.
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"And Professor Scott! He is the
great man. What a lot of good he has
thinker And he can teach. He can
He trains the mind. 1t may be that
he teach them some things they do
not want, but he train the mind to
think not TO forget. He expand the
brain, SO you understand? Yes.
a<fs~ ~ - - @TS
'The Japanesel What many thou
sands of them there are in the schools
and how much they cost. But they
are imitators, the japanese. They do
not invent for themselves, they are
not what you may call leaders. They
initiate the white mechanics, they ini-
tate everything. But you can not help |
them for their work, the way
they work to learn. How they work! |
And the little children too. They go
to our schools, then they go to their |
schools. You can not blame them, no, |
for sending them to their own schools |
to learn their own language and |
things. They do work, yes.
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1.-The American, all, yes, there is |
the difference between the American |
and the European. The American is |
the brighter he is for the day, for the
instant. Can you understand me? |
But does he endure? Perhaps I should |
not say, but the European he is the |
more permanent, not so brilliant but |
he last the longer. Yes. The Ameri-
can, he can think, he can plan, he can
inish, get the result quicker.
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There is the difference. I once tell
Governor Carter and try to make INN
1 talk to him just what
think as I say to you. We have an
civilization but no culture.
This was when he want to cut out the
band and give it no money, no ap-
I plead with him for Gull
ure. He say we want roads, we want
yharves. Yes. I say, ah, there you
ire, that is civilization. That is what
you want, what the world want be-
ause it become civilized. But that is
lot the culture. Music is the culture.
Art is the culture, but you do not
want that, you have no money for
hat you want the roads, the wnarves,
he civilization.
HOW long L pledu VIII niI1 LOT the
to keep the band for the cul-
ure of the lower 90 while he have
he roads, the wharves for the upper
0. He ask me the difference and we
ak long time, and I tell him just
S / tell you. He tell me I am what
ou call it an idealist, but I can not
move him. I say yes. but you can not
make music, music is born, it is of
he soul. But the roads, the bridges
hey get the money, the appropria-
ion. Yes. 1 like Governor Carter, but
e does not understand the music,
THAT it does. He is not for culture,
e does not understand. He is for
Utilization. And Alfonzo Harrington,
call him Alfonzo of the Bulletin. He
not for culture He is for the dol ,
ar"-Hawaii Herald.