Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-05-02
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HAWAII TOWN
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Who Mil Visit Islands
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-HILO, May '2-Hilosis missing much
in her failure to detain, entertain and
get ideas from the distinguished men
and women who come here every
month-in fact almost every week
to visit the volcano. This weakness
has been recognized by the Rev.
George Laughton, pastor Of the
First Foreign church, who himself is
a malihini from San Francisco and
Europe, but who would be known to
the AID club over in Honolulu as a
live wire
In the following communication the
Rev. Laughton proposes, not to await
the stately elaboration of the Board
of Trade or any other public or civic
body, but to start the ball rolling"
by taking the initiative. catching one
of these transient guests of world
wide fame and presenting him to the
people of Hilo. His letter follows:
"To the Editor: -
MY Dear sSir-Since coming to
Hilo have been amazed at the num-
Der of great men who halt on their
journey around the world to pay a
visit to the volcano. And have
greatly wondered that some effort
was not made to secure their stop
over in this city. Within the last
three weeks two men, each among
the greatest in his line of work, have
been with US. One was DR.. j. NJ Tay-
Tor, who for twenty years was presi-
dent of Vassar college. The other
was Dr. James Whiteomb Brougher,
pastor of the Temple at Los Angeles.
One has visions Of the Inspiring
message both OF these men would
have given our people had we taken
the trouble to interview them. 1t is
| for this reason that have written
to San Francisco and Honolulu, urg-
ing men there to keep me Informed
Here is the first result. There is
coming to TIilo a man, whom Mr..
Lloyd George declared to be the
greatest man in the British empire,
who DR.. Elliot of Harvard declared to
be the greatest living Scotchman. /
refer to Dan Bradley. Doubtless some
will ask, who is Dan Bradley Let
DR.. Aked answer. Writing to the San
AHAoAAALCI1 tlc Says
Twenty-three years has this man
spent in savage Africa. Twenty.
three years without a break, without
| q furlough, and without any visible
means of support He has been where
Livingstone lOnged to go and never
went. He has been where white man
never went before. He has seen the
most .lOathsame and revolving .canni.
balism which white man ever saw and
described it with a realistic horror
which one hopes no white man will
ever need to experience again. He
has seen our human natures at the
ilowest levels on which it can abide.
And he has seen amid disease
annimalism, and the red sunsets OF
ritual murder, the heights which II
lis yet capable of attaining. His wife
is physician of more than ordinary
lshiH. But he had seen in Africa ten
Years before she joined him. And
how he persuaded her to go, and how
she found her way there, are cues
lions more than little puzzling.
And his wife's record is written in
many an African village, which the
physician, the surgeon, the apostle oil
sanitary science has converted to de
Eeeney and baptised into, health -
! And this man is coming to Hilo
He isone of the most wonderful cha