Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-02-17
Andrew Adams Speaks From
Practical Point of
View.

ton with n concrete idea OF HAWAII
needs, Andrew Adams, manager OF
Kahuku plantation, made notable
address recently to the Territorial
Teachers Association, Mr.. Adams
was speaking on the plans for the sec
Ondary agricultural school a. Kahuku,
and made forceful plea for q real
trial of its merits. lie said:
Mr.. Adams paper follows:
TIE Members of the Ten torial Tea
chers' Association. La;ies and Cen
tlcmcn:
You have kindly permitted me to
present to you the Planters point of
view of the proposed establishment in
Hawaii of q Secondary Agricultural
School. am creditably informed that
Hawaiian Planters are reputed to
have evolved into autocrats of a sort.
If this be SO then II Is possible that
some of them, or of us rather, might
be unwilling to delegate to me the an-
thority to present the views of all.
To avoid possible trouble therefore,
permit me to slightly alter the title
of my paper so as to limit my respon-
siblity to presenting one planters
point of view.
II Is entirely possible that some OF
the views which | shall present to you
will be repetition of the views Of
the other speakers of the afternoon,
with mere changes In the phraseology
of expression. Such repetition will
but serve to emphasize the fact that
the interests of the teacher and the
agriculturist are not incompatible, but
broadly speaking, are identical. In
trusted to each are natural forces sus-
ceptible of development into great
productivity, always provided there is
present In the mind and soul of the
pupil and In the soil OF the field that
so necessary to development
The "oId-Style."
Familiar to us all Is the picture OF
the old time pedagogue who expressed
himself best in what Shakespeare
called "three-piled hyperboles, spruce
affectation, figures pedantical" Per-
haps more familiar to us here Is the
sight of the old style plantation over
seer who happened along from the
ships In the harbor to try his hand
at cane cultivation. am speaking Of
classes, not of individuals. The COM
munity has come TO insist that only
such as have natural inclination and
particular qualifications for the work
shall preside at the teachers desk IN
the class room. In the final analysis
there Is no real place in the fields for
the individual who has no real love of
II. He Is deficient In the larger view.
What has this to do with the estab-
llshment in Hawaii OF Secondary
Agricultural School? You are teach
ers and understand the meaning of
and appreciate the necessity for the
larger view. For In your work and
mine, inspiring us to sustained effort
for Its accomplishment, Is the knowl-
edge of that insistent human need of
intelligent, sympathetic guidance to-
wards ultimate happiness and the
common we'll. Does happiness, then,
exist on the sugar plantations of Ha-
wall? Not necessarily nor solely.
Neither Is 1t distinctively urban. There
are, however, greater possibilities of
its attainment by the large majority In
the field than In the office or the
workshop. for the very simple reason
that, generally speaking. life is more
natural In the field than elsewhere.
Yet for several generations the DRIFT
of population has been citywards.
Figures to Prove.
! quote from figures compiled by
Mr.. William II. Rossit. The popula-
lion of the world Increased from ap.
proXimately one billion In 1900 20
abous one billion and a half In 1900.
In France, In that hundred years, u
group OF specified cities increased In
population four hundred per cent
while the rest OF the nation, eXclu-
siye OF these cities. increased little
more than 20 FER cent. In England
The population of the cities in 1901
was 20 per cent of the whole, while
In 1900 II was more than so per cenC
Of the whole. In the United States
the population in the cities increased
100 times during the century while
the remainder of the country increas-
ed only eleven times.
These figures are of great slgnih-
canoe. ] am not certain that the
cause underlying this drift citywards
Is so much desire for urban residence
through the belief that 1t is more
advantageous, as It is the failure OF
the country to meet the needs of its
population. Another significant fact
mas been revealed by statistical re-
search, A large percentage of urban
residents are temperamentally unfit
Tor city life. Education Is not res
ponsible for this unfitness, although
we hear much In these days of the
tendency of modern systems to edu-
cate the people away from the soil
l.aaaI ILL.,