The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-01-31


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Practical advicn based upon the ex-
perience of busy man in the mercan.
tile world of the city by the Golden
Gate, whose activitieSin the establish
ment of organizations for the advance.
ment of civic pride and development o.
mercantile interests has been great,
was that given to representatives of the
commercial organizations of Honolulu
yesterday, at the Commercial Club
luncheon, by +. Dohrmann, of San
Francisco, who was the honored guest
and speaker.
MIR. Dohrmann, who IS equally a.
home in San Francisco and Honolulu.
having business interests in both cities,
gave the history of the movement Of
the San Francisco retail merchants TO
organize for their own benefit Mt the
time when the old Mid-Winter Fair was
proposed about twenty years ago. He
was then an advocate for separate or
ganization from the chamber of com.
II cree, just as he is now for the conscli
dated organization recently established
in the Worlds Fair city, and he ex
pressed the opinion that possibly the
proposed consolidated commercial or.
gatization here would be best Cor al
interests.
His address breathed the spirit OF
united civic pride. In his concluding
remarks he referred to visit to the
old city of Rothenburg, where the old
buildings, the old landmarks, the old
churches and even the people seemed to
be of the life of four or five centuries
ago. In the city hall hangs the por.
trait of the burgomaster who yielded to
the attacking army of Tilley. Beneath
his portrait is the sentence which
places him among the immortals:
''The Honor of My City is Mine. {"
Honor OF Our City.
In the opinion of Mr., Dohrmann, nc
stronger or more significant slogan
could be adopted for Honolulu in its
new and united commercial life than
cine Honor of Our City Is Ours"
The suggestion was apt and the
room rang with applause. A member
of the club said later on that the slogan
would be an appropriate inscription t.
place upon Honolulu Is scity hall
whenever it should be built.
Mr.. Dohrmann is strong advocate
of attracting tourist travel and is G
booster for Hawaii in his own State
More tourists meant increased travel
and increased business. In Los Angelo,
he had seen the marvels OF what h,
calls the "volunteer CROP tourists
All that is needed to make it grow II
to irrigate and lubricate it to get
better crop.
81 hope you will keep on doing thi
and getting larger crop" said tn,
speaker. CIT is a very valuable one
There is no better place in which Il
spend blissful and quiet period thar
Honolulu. Mr.. Dohrmann quoted from
verse he had written and Given be
fore meeting in California, which h,
considered applicable to Hawaii 1t fol
lows
with backward look on seventy year
OF effort and of stress,
We hopefully look forward still
TO some of blissful rest.
Content we wait the final call,
Which soon must surely come:
Until it comes, rs heretofore,
In joy and sorrow one"
organization Makes GOOD. "
Mr. Dohrmann then went into tn,
history of the organization of San Fran
cisco Merchants Association. TIL,
Mid Winter Fair started it. Some O.
the business interests were opposed Il
the fair project. Retail men favored
it. Some of the newspapers were il
favor and Others opposed.
A meeting was held. Some tried I,
walk out, butt Mr.. Dohrmann was frs
to the door and locked it and then pro
posed that after getting so many mer
chants together in the same room a
the same time, it would be worth whil
to perpetuate the occasion by organ
izing a merchants association. Thi
was finally done, but it was not il
politics and was organized largely TO
civic pride sake. Mr.. Dohrmann wa
made chairman, and afterwards servct
as president for ten years.
The organization tackled big ques
tiOns. The association had a new char
ter passed, cleaned up the city an,
did much to help the entire community
If the members had only had the cour
age to go into politics, the San Fran
ciscans would have avoided all tn
trouble which came out of two admin
istrations which, he said, he preferre,
not to discuss. Then the organization
went in to clean up the city and tn
present administration is one of whiei
they were all proud.
Basis Of Common Good
When there were two organization
they sometimes Tapped over in their dis
cusson Of large affairs, one voting on
way and the other organization op
posed. Even Hawaii suffered one
when the two organizations were di
yided over a question which related /,
the Islands. The common good WIS th
basis Of the consolidation.
1.-THE question of whether that is 90
ing TO work out successfully" said Nj
Dohrmann, sin my opinion, viii Deepen,
first upon whether the spirit Of cooper
alton Is civic pride. u IL also ques
ton Of leadership, tact and dipomae!
and hard work on tho part Of commit
tees aud members
"k0W, as 30 advising you as 4
whether you should consolidate here I
presumption on my part You must b
your own judges. ThoTg must be th
spirit ~ give and inkf,H
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