Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-09-27
SHEBA'S VISION OF BROTHERHOOD
OF RACES FEATURE OF BANQUET
Nations Bordering on Pacific
Represented at Pan-Pacific
Dinner Saturday Night

uFQay night, the AFFAIR nAQ Deen "ndt
is termed successful" from the mo-
ment the crowd poured into the big
games hall Of the Y. NJ. c. A. and sat
| down to the loaded tables from the
moment the sweet and effortless sing
ing of Mrs. Alapai ceased until s.
Sheba, editor of the Hawaii Shinpo
! rose to present, the flag OF japan, ii
had been a successful affair" but the
moment he was on his feet, his electric
presence, the powerful shoulders, ner.
| vous hands and eager confidence in
his eyes carried his audience away
with hint became great occasion,
e Il am sorry that my speech comes
so late on the program" began. Sheba,
speaking slowly and distinctly, and
walking up and down with q manifest
impotence as his pronunciation grew
at times a little indistinct. 81 have
been impatient, sitting listening, while
these others have spoken" 1Sheba
was number - ''and have by degrees
discovered that they have stolen all
the first part OF my speech" (The
audience burst into the first real laugh
OF the evening at this point. They
have stolen 1t to give Il such fire Of
eIoquence," continued Sheba, that |
have decided it win be better for me
to leave the rest Of my speech to
those who follow me. ..E#. a".
what / say, therefore, is not said
as speech in praise OF the Japanese
flag nor in praise OF the Japanese peo-
pie, but in praise Of all the people of
the world. First ! must single out
Mr.. Alexander Hume Ford for touch
of praise, Mr.. Ford has already
spoken this evening, stating that he
proclaimed this date, September Is,
the day on which Balboa discovered
the Pacific Ocean to be Pan.Pacific
Day. But, gentlemen and ladies, /
wish you to note how history repeats
itself. On September Is, 1913, Balboa
discovered the Pacific; on September
Is. 1915, just 402 years afterwards
Alexander Hume Ford discovered the
peoples lying about the Pacific"
Taking ap o more serious strain and
speaking with an almost muscular
earnestness, Sheba went on: {. p. 80
Symbols Of Differences. s9. 8 T.. I
Here are representatives of many
nations gathered. and upon the walls
hang the hymbols of their differences
their flags. Looking upon the Union.
Jack the Englishman remembers Eng.
land and is glad because he is an
Englishman, or the Frenchman sees
the tficolor and remembers Napoleon
and is glad and II is well for man
to love his sfatherland; it Is well for
him to love, but 1t Is "a lesser lore.
There is a greater one which viii fol-
low upon Ii, and towards which earn
estly believe that.ihe world is moving.
In this room where so many peoples
are gathered under flags which they
love, but which AZ the same time in
dictate their differences from other
nations, differences in whose defense
they would all die, in this room there
is a foreshadowing If the newer and
the greater love. 4hs5 BIZ 4
The nations here render up their
flags to this club They are sufren-
dering, at least for the moment, their
nationalities and becoming for the
moment men! 1t is glorious thing
to be just a man! And II is a very
strange and q very wonderful thing to
watch the progress and the slow com
ing of this love which is greater than
the love Of man for man, or of man,
for his nation, or of mother for her
child, or than the love between man
and woman, for this new love trans
cends the earth and gathers the peo-
pies OF the earth into one glorious
forward marching fraternity of men
feHnaed On the fatherhood of God and
the hrpthsrhoOds Of man. sas.gs4,,,ss,5t,s
Though Sheba's talk formed the high
point Of the banquet from which all 9TH
or features sloped into a background,
still there were other talks which
would have distinguished ordinary &C.
casions. All breathed the same spirit.
All had the same message in varying
words. & ~ 49, u -
Repeat Dinner Every Year.
Perhaps some day we shall have
not only a Pan.Pacific flag but a
Pan-Pacific patriotism said A. H. |
Ford in the opening speech of the
banquet. I'm every land about the
Pacific now are spriRging up such or
CARNATIONS as this, where men Of all
races of the Pacific meet together for
the betterment Of the community in
which they live, and proclamation is
hereby made that on September Is in
each year, everywhere about the Paci-
fic we shall sit down and do honor
to each others flags as we shall honor
each other tonight"
Aloha should be our motto" said
Lorrin Andrews in the second speech
of the evening. THAT word which |
is the word of greeting and of fare !
well should be our watchword. We !
are here in an ideal place for such a |
spirit of world welcome to grow up. |
From the Hawaiians we can learn the |
lesson of trust and friendship. They
have made friendship their religion |
and to all the peoples of the world
extend the hand of Fellowship In |
the same spirit we will go forward
in this work"
Many clever talks were made by !