The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-07-24
HOME PROMOTION
AND BOOKKEEPING
Ad Club Hears Good Address
and Names Committee to
Boost Audit.
(FrOm Wednesday Adyertiser.l

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Pointed suggestions on what the Adj
Club may DO towards promoting ia
waii at home and what the club may
do towards promoting better system
Of public accounting in municipal and
territorial Offices were made at yestor.
day 3 meeting of the club. Alexander
Hume Ford was the main speaker Of
the noon hour, giving most interest.
ing account Of what he had found or.
carnations similar to tho Ad Club do.
ing around the Pacific during his re.
cent tour.
Mr.. Ford stated that he undertook
to exaggerate. concerning the work Of
the AID Club, only to find that the
most glittering lies he could invent
fell short Of the press accounts Of
what the club was actually doing. He
finally adopted the acme Of praise and
stuck to that, explaining 20 Colonial
Inquiries that the Ad Club was the Ia.
waiian end Of the Hands-Around-the
Pacific Movement.
At the conclusion of his address,
which was an argument why tho Adj
Club should take n more active part
in promotion work in and for Hawaii,
Mr.. Ford said;
Collect Enough.
"May I suggest that we instruct
our committee on raising funds for
promotion work to go further, and do
tho thing thoroughly Raise enough
to provide the promotion committee as
N ~ inf
600 needed yearly for sending ont
literature of Hawaii, and then 10 ret
busy on the real work OF raising suf.
fcient funds TO begin the erection Of
tourist rest houses where needed on
all Of these Islands that viii be of
equal benefit and service TO ourselves,
beginning and maintaining proper
transportation to these rest houses, and
in every way promoting and bringing
about the effective home construction
work that will keep the tourist in
definitely, and send him away lon4ing
to return, while our own people would
soon realize that these Islands contain
more that is wonderful and Interesting
than does any other country In the
world. If the AID Club can start and
maintain this work, we ourselves will
DC astonishcd at the great benefit we
WI receive, regardless of what we do
along these lines for the tourist.
Before our committee begins its
work Of raising funds, might IL not be
well 10 have a meeting Of the Ad Club
in which is discussed fully Just what
this money, is needed for, how much,
and how. II is to be expended, with
perhaps committee from the chamber
of commerce 70 take up with us the
matter Of perfecting an organization
that will go into the constructive home
promotion work SO needed In these
Islands7D
Better System Needed.
The matter Of public moneys and
their handling was taken up in res.
olutiom presented by J. Morton Riggs
and unanimously passed. This resolu-
ton was: IN.
Whereas, The recent disclosures
in the methods of handling our public
finances, which have been so foreibly
brought home TO our citizens, show
deplorable lack Of accounting control
and supervision over these funds.
And Whereas, Our public account.
ing system is known to be obsolete,
having long since been abandoned by
the California counties, after which ii
was modelled in 1905, on account Of
inadequate control over revenues and
expenditures; and also in view of the
urgent necessity for economy and
efficiency in our governmental affairs,
which can only be made possible by
modern and scientific accounting meth,
DDS such as are now in use in all I'll q
progressive municipalities and coun-
ties on the mainland and Canada.
"Be II Resolved, That committee
of three members of the Adj Club be
appointed by the President, with pow
or to add TO their number as they see
fit, to formulate a plan whereby the
members Of the Club can meet and dis
cuss this subject Of such vital import
ance TO all our people, with the OBJ
ject of urging Immediate remedial
action by the proper authorities. /"
4 The committee named consists of the
introdueer of the resolution, II. Gooding
Field and Il, n. Wall.