Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-09-22

joyous recollectionS OF my youth, cen
tiers around that pillar Of state,
church, business and society-the
Honorable Peter Cushman Jones, in
q 4th of July Parade of the Antiques
and HorTibles, gotten up in brown
tights In the most realistic semblance
of guerilla monkey Well do re.
member the spasms of joy which con-
vulsed all beholders, as he would
spring on and on of a wagon, dash
through crowd Of shrieking chill
Edren, and bound to the top of fence,
and there give likelike representa-
tions Of the domestic economy Of his
great prehistoric ancestor. / ask you
gentleman, did that performance In
dictate that our esteemed friend had
gone bughouse"? Or did it rather
demonstrate the human interest ele-
ment in his makeup which has since
made a success OF everything else
which he has undertaken?
AS | was saying, this philosophy Of
life is not new in Hawaii. but In the
past two score or more Of years, rap
Id and radical political changes and
a strenuous struggle for wealth and
power have bred animosities and ten
dencies which should be alien to this
gentle climate and these scenes of
beauty, and we have been inclined to
overlook and minimize the virtues of
those who did look through the same
spectacles that we did. Why, Il is
within the year past that | heard a
man say:
Hatchet Now Buried
What Is the AID Club, anyway"
: And the editor Of the Advertiser
replied: "As near as can make out,
II Is the Bulletin tail to Charlie Fra
ziers billboard kite
That was less than year ago. II
any proof Is required that friendIier
spirit of mutual understanding, toll
erance and assistance is towering
over this territory. it Is afforded by
the spectacle which greeted the eyes
of the HilO delegation last Saturday
morning, when on the deck Of the
AID Club pirate snip Keokuk, we saw
Matheson, Harrington and Frazier
literally yelling like piratess with
faces painted out of the same grease
pot, and, for all know, sucking the
milk Of human kindness out of the
same bottle.
Without undertaking to analyze
the origin and pedigree of the Homo
lulu Ad Club, / think express the
unanimous sentiment of Hilo, when
say that like the pillar of cloud by
day and OF fire by night, which guild
ed the children of Israel out of bon
dage. It has blazed the way toward
the promotion of mutual friendlier
feeling. as a spirit Of personal service
and Of progress among the people of
this territory.
The keynote word Of this conven-
ton is promotion" Promotion of
good roads, promotion Of MISUNDERSTANDING
and home industrines; promotion of
tourist travel aud care; promotion of
the liye-and.let-liye. get-together spir-
It.
There IL no more interesting and
pleasurable work than that of the
creation and care. of good roads
! have no ambition for any, other
political Office, but II ever can az
ford It, ! am going to volunteer my
services as road supervisor, for the
sheer pleasure Incidental to the
work Of making and preserving good
roads.
Tourists Affect Everyone
There is nothing that can be done
in this territory more vital TO its
upbuilding and future welfare, than
the establishment of landowning,
Selfsupporting fitiznnship, carrying
on home industries. It has been ac-
complished elsewhere, under mere adj
verse circumstances; 1t can be done
here by pursuing the methods which
have proved successful elsewhere.
The discussion of these two sub
sections Of our promotion program
has been assigned to others To me
has been assigned the pleasurable
ONCE Of discussing the means of pro-
noting tourist travel to the territory,
and their entertainment and care af-
ter arrival here.
Too many people in this commun-
ity think of tourist travel as some
thing that does not directly interest
them. They think Of it only as a part
OF the business of the steamships, the
railroads and the automobile compan.
les. and the hotel owners, and they
relegate any further thought or action
concerning the subject to the PRO
motion Committee" whom they
think of as having a soft
snap, with lot of money to spend
and nothing much to do but hand out
descriptive literature to enquiring
strangers.
AS matter of fact, tourist travel
to and through the territory presents
q most hopeful rift in a somewhat
lowering financial sky.
It is true that the transportation
and the hotels are the di-
rect mediums of disseminating the
cash which the tourist dispenses; but
these concerns are only the conduit
pipes through which q golden flood
pours out over the lend, freshening
and quickening every industry
Every man in Hawaii who has any
thing to sell, or who works for any
one who has anything to sell. is d.
rectly interested in and benefited by
the tourist business. This is, as a