The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-07-13
GREAT CONGRESS
OF PACIFIC WILL i
INCLUDE HAWAII
n. p. Wood To Be Delegate and
w. R. Castle viii Deliver
Address
SESSIONS TO BE HELD.
BEGINNING ON MONDAY
Panama-Pa Conference Sue
cessor Of Mid.Pacific Con-
gress HonoIuIan Proposed

An unacknowiedged child of the first
Pan.Paciic Congress, held in Honolulu
four years ago, the "first" Pacific Con
ference of the Asiatic Institute is, to
be held in San Francisco, July 1873.
in cooperation with the American His
torical Association in the Panama Pa.
eifc Historical Congress. Among the
many distinguished speakers is to be
w. II. Castle of Honolulu.
Invitations are extended to "all those
interested in the affairs Of the Pacific
Basin and the relations Of the two
civilizations there" and the object of
the conference is defined as a purpose
to determine the basis for a proposed
Congress Of the Pacifc.p
The official prospectus continues with
an explanation that "the idea back Of
the conference is whether history is to
see repeated in the Pacific, evils such
as make up q large part Of the records
OF man in the Atlantic. II will deal
with the history of Pacific affairs that
claim present attention, aiming at broad
Interpretation of the subjects discussed
and, in the main, following the line
along which understandings and cooper.
alton between the countries of the two
civilizations in the Pacific may be ar.
rived at" ,-.
Wood To Represent Hawaii
II. p. Wood, chairman of the Hawaii
Exposition Commission, will represent
Hawaii at the conference. His appoint.
ment was made yesterday by Chairman
Emil A. Berndt of the promotion com
mittee and mailed to him in time TO
reach him on the day Of the opening
session.
At the same time, A. P. Taylor, acting
director of the committee, wrote him
as follows:
"lnasmuch as you were the first to
propose a Pacific Congress, under the
title of the Pan-Pacifc Congress, the
committee suggests that you personally
attend the conference, particularly in
view of the grasp you have of the sub
jects that will come up for discussion,
being largely the same which you pro
posed for the Pan,Pacifc Congress. 1t
looks as though this Panama Pacific
Congress is the successor of the Mid
Pacific Congress and wish you would
straighten them out bit, so that the
honor will rest with Hawaii"
Memorial To Rockhil
The second session of the conference,
TO be held July 20, will be a memorial
&c William WoOdville Rockhill, the dis
tinguished American diplomat, who died
here last year, while on his way to the
Orient, and the general subject under
discussion that day will he 1.-THE Pa,
riic as the Thcater Of the World s Great
Ncreafter.'
The President of the Asiatic Institute
is William Howard Taft, former presi-
dent of the United States. On the hon
o"ary committee are such distinguished
mon as Charles w. Eliot, president emer-
titus of Harvard University; Benjamin
lie Wheeler, president of the Univer-
stv of California; DR.. Lyman Abbott,
editor Of the Outlook; Albert Bushnell
Hart and Archibald Cary Coolidge, pro,
f"SsOrs of history at Harvard David
Starr Jordan, chancellor of Stanford
University; George Foster Peabody and
Jacob Schiff, the New York bankers
and Philanthropists; and George W.
Wi"kersham, formerly attorney general
of the United States.
Some Noted Speakers
Among the speakers will be President
Eliot, Horace n. Allen, former United
States minister to Korea; Jerome
Greene Of the Rockefeller Foundation;
David Starr Jordan; John Barrett, di
rector general of the an-American I'm
ion; Prof. David p. BarrOws of the
University of California; Sidney L. Gu
lick Of the Federal Council Of Churches,
well known in Honolulu; and Thomas
J, O'Brien, former United States min
lister to Japan.