Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-21
$4,000 IS VOTED
TOCARRY WORK
OF PROMOTION
Chamber of Commerce Adopts
Budget After Spirited Dis
CuSSion of Methods

/ pSHuSu -uuIlHS 1919 DA IIe f1d"dll
J Promotion Committee 20 bring. tour
| lists to the islands. The budget. as
prepared by the committee, was
adopted by the Chamber of Commerce
at a meeting yesterday by unanimous
| vote
Every phase of the tourist trade
1 was discussed and it was Dot until
the discussion had lasted two hours
that the budget was adopted. The
total requirements for the year, ac-
eording to the budget, will he S31, $780,
IS. The estimated income is $50, 600,
leaving q difference of $1636.lS short.
Chairman Berndt submitted the
statements for the past year and told
of the plans of the committee for the
coming IL months. Acting Secretary
of the Committee A. P. Taylor also
discussed the tourist business from a
mainland viewpoint. H. L. Strange
was the only member to oppose the
budget. He favored expanding $15,-
900 in the islands for entertaining the
tourists after they get here. -. ~.
Wants Outdoor Funds. ~. 4. ~
Il think that $4,000 expended in
the islands in satisfying tourists will
do more good than three times that
amount spent on folders and the like, :"
he declared. 81 most emphatcally OBJ
ject to that budget going through"
Chairman Berndt took exception to
Mr.. Strange's remarks Il.
Again We are getting the ham
mer,'" he said, "and as a member of
the committee won't stand for it.
Strange objected to the $100 appro-
priation for outdoor work, declaring
that it ought to be many times that
sum-, and Berndt explained that tbs
outdoor work had just been started
and that the appropriation TO 500 was
only tentative.
Ed Towse reviewed the work of the
past year. He said that the traffic
experts, as well as the promotion CON-,
mittee had been fooled at the out
break of the war in predicting an in
crease in tourist travel to Hawaii He
declared that it was because of the un-
certain conditions due to the war that
people were obliged to remain at home
to watch their business and that 9TH
eFs we're afraid to travel during war
times. This, he explained, has caused
a falling-off instead of an increase in
the travel to the islands.
TWeedie and the Potatoes.
T. Daniel TWeedie, who has been a.
visitor to the islands for the past.
nine years, declared that Honolulu
was badly in need of better res
taurant service To support his as
sertion he exhibited two worm-eaten,
potatoes which he said were served
to him Yesterday at lunch. He urged;
q pure food committee and regulation
OF the post card system of advertis-
ing the islands.
why" he said, when was return
ing from Hawaii last spring, passed
through Nevada and called upon a
friend there. He asked me If I'd come
from the islands. ] said yes. Then
he reached into the waste basket and
brought out a post card showing a
half-naked Hawaiian girl: Is this
where you were?' he asked me-"
A saving of $500 year will be
made by the Promotion Committee as
q result of a cablegram sent to II. P.
Wood, secretary of the committee,
who is at San Francisco, ordering himl
to close up the downtown office OF;
the committee. The office will re-
main closed during the fair. The
office has been costing s125 monthly.
The budget as adopted is as follows:
Monthly Salary Account
i(Authorized)
II p Wood director and .