Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-21

BEFORE telling YOU something OF my
! experiences in boosting the AID Cut
| around the Pacific, as necessary ad
junct of our Hald5.rOund-the-Pa
movement, permit NE TO say. tEat
when we organized tho City Club in
| Manila ! got the AID Club meE
there together ami formed an AID Club
chapter OF the NaniIa organization
and believe that this could be well
! done in all Of GU: great luncheon or
ganizatiOns around the Pacific, ! do
not believe that The people CT tn
! Pacific would take 10 and support an
! I'D Club pure and simple. but | be
! lieve that We can secure an affiiiatiOn
Of all of these organizations with cen,
trail headquarters here in Honolulu
! which would be Of wonderful service
! to us in these islands. for Il will rake
! Us splendidly acquainted with the pro
| gressiVe work going on around the Pa.
cific, and will necessarily make the
whole Pacific acquainted with GU!
work
How Others Do II.
In Sydney it Is the Luncheon Club
: that finances the bringing of i'm
| migrant servant gins 10 New South
Wales, and IT does this through the
| Government Tourist Bureau. In the
! Philippines it might be stated that ii
was the weekly luncheon cub that
secured the promise from the Filipi.
| no legislature of an appropriation OF
| $4,000 a year to establish and main.
| tain a tourist bureau Tor the Philip
| pines-a tourist bureau that will take
care of the tourist. cut trails and
| build rest houses for his delectation,
and establish auto-bus runs and a Sc.
ries of guides. In Peking the Presi.
dent of China himself is aiding in the
! promotion OF weekly luncheon club,
the president of which is the head of
the Imperial Railways, and the raison
d'etre of this organization is to assist
! first in creating an official intelli-
gence bureau. along the lines CT our
own Promotion Committee here, and
later to bring about the organization
of tourist bureau, such as they have
/ in Australia and elsewhere for the
! taking care of tourists after they ar
rive, establishing or substituting auto
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surrounding resorts, and the raising
of funds to build rest houses or small
hotels for tourists and the people of
the country. This is the field that
1 has been so neglected always in Ha-
! waii. and which believe this Ad Cub
should take up and carry through to
I success.
| | have been telling the rest of the
world what the AID Club of Honolulu
has been doing to create get-together
spirit in the center of the Pacific. and
now this great feeling has radisted
cut to every part of the great ocean
from Honolulu, now that you have
spread the contagion everywhere about
the Pacific let me tell you what ether
Pacific cities have done duri-g the past
1 year in emulation of your example, and
already some of them have surpassed
you, we have got to catch up.
! Big Booster to Visit. ...>
| 1t was the Millions Club of New
South Wales that at the request of
the New Zealand Club called in Syd-
ney the convention last January of all
of those in Australasia interested in
Observation-Disclosures work, that
resulted in the promise from the trans
portation companies of $5-a-day rate
around the Pacific, and | expect this
organization to take part in our great
pan-Pacifc convention to be held here
in Honolulu next January, when the
plans to put these rates into actual
effect will be perfected -
Tomorrow there arrives in this city
the visitor who made the first address
before the City Club in Manila, an
other sister organization of the AID
Club and part of the Hands-Arouad-
the-Pacific movement which your
delegate had the honor of organizing.
| Now let me tel you a home fact
that you can't get away from, and
! don't. try to dodge it. In every place
around the Pacific that has made any
success of real tourist work. it has
been the question of getting the right
nan. The Promotion Committee has
secured the right man here for send
ing out the literature of these islands.
Now it is up to us to secure the right
men to create the things in these ISL
ands that will make the tourist salts,
fed to remain after he gets here, and
go away boosting as enthusiastically
| for us as We do ourselves. Now this
is the kind of man that have already
put it up u the Promotion Committee
to ask us to get to do this line of
work.
In every country about the Pacific.
and in fact throughout the world, l
have observed that the ideal and sue
cessful promotion tourist man is in
, variably what is termed a prince of
mixers" He may never touch a drop
of liquor, but he has the ability t.
make a friend. comrade, and a CO.
worker of every man in every walk Of
life. He is essentially IN outdoor man.
with an iron constitution that can
stand lunching with and enthusing a
body of commercial men at lunch, lead
ing a golfing tournament in the after
neon, pink-teaing with the ladies la
ter. and securing their influence. then
dining with mixed set and breed of
men, and leading them on to agree in
the promotion of some great sporting