Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-04-09
Hands Around Pacific Dinner
Hears of industrial and
Social MingIing


bilities with China made by Fletcher
s Brockman at the Hands-Around
the-Pacifc gathering las; night at
the Outrigger Club.
Through the action of the Allies.
cur trade with Austria. Germany and
Turkey has been cut o." he said.
but that trade has ever been infini-
teSimal in comparison with what we
might have with China if We would
only reach cut and take it. Suppose
We should find manufacturers in
America who would make it their
business to put a 50-cent pocket knife
in the hands Of every man in China.
Why, the return would be Quadrupled
in dollars to anything We have re-
ceived from Austria during year.
Suppose our manufacturers of the
fountain pen would place one OF these
instruments in the hands OF every
Chinaman, the return would amount
to twice as much as the value Of our
annual total trade with Germany.
Presume that our manufacturers OF
lead pencils would sell a iVe-Cent
pencil TO each and every citizen of
China, the return would be more than
double the value of our last years
trade with Turkey. Our trade pos
sibiltieS with China are astounding.
could We sell to every Chinese
what We now sell to every Cuban.
America would draw an annual in
come from China of nearly $1l ,000,-
100000, or every year more than $3.50
in the pocket Of each man, woman
and child in the United States. Some
one said to me, Why, that's remote
and absolutely impossible Why, in
stead Of being remote, it doesn't even
begin to suggest the actual pOssibili.
ties, and China is urgently inviting
Americans to come over and inVeSti-
gate the dawning possibilities in a
land where half billion people are
emerging and bounding from an eco
nOmic and industrial suppression that
lasted fer four thousand years, and
has suddenly come to an end. China
is building great factories. She is
wonderfully developing and improv-
ing her silk industry; iron manufac-
turing plants are springinS up in a
number of the provinces. She has
coal and iron deposits that will last
the world for ten thousand years, and
these she is now ready to open and
develop and she asks the assistance
of Americans in doing this.
THE Hands Around the Pacific
work here in Hawaii can be made OF
the greatest importance to both China
and to America Sooner or later tho
great men of all Pacific lands pass
through Honolulu and meet your lead
ing men. They leave messages that
are delivered to others, and this
should be the clearinghouse and ed
vocational experimental station that
will make the people of the Pacific
understand each other and know what
each ether has to offer. The move
ment started here should grow in
wider and widening circles Already
in China we have taken an interest
in the Hands -the-Pacific work,
and it will have our hearty .co-opera-
ton. China has more to offer under
the new republic than has all the
other countries Of the Pacific. Send
this message forth around the Great
ocean,"
Mr. Brockman was the first of the
20 speakers from 20 different Pacific
countries who were the guests of the
Mid-Paciic Magazine. Jack London
followed the first speaker and said
feelingly that people here are making
no real effort in Hawaii to understand
each other, but like so many tribes.
studying each others tribal language.
which none of the others understood.
He advised getting together and
studying each others tribal language.
To illustrate what he meant by ''tri.
bal language" he told a story of his
own childhood
H. l.. Strange followed with a story
of his childhood, when he was at
school in France near the border of
Switzerland, Germany and Italy. This
was not long after the Prussian war.
He told how the French hated the
Germans, and how every year the
Germans, and the Swiss and the Ital-
ians would come to help the French
gather their crops. and the French
would go over the border line to help
their neighbors, the Germans, gather
their crops of grain. Il used to listen
to the French denouncing the Ger.
mans" he said. and telling how they
hated them, and then l would say.
But there is Swasburg, he comes
over and helps you every season and
you like him. and then there would
be a chorus of oh. if all the Ger
mans were like Swasburg we would
like the Germans And so each would
say of the German whom he knew
who had helped him, and they didn't
know that all the Germans were like
Swasburg. They hated the Germans
whom they had created in their own
minds-Germans that never did and
never will exist, but they loved the
Germans whom they did know, but
they had not gone far enough in the
study of the tribal language. that was
all"
l.. A. Thurston challenged any one
present to state that he knew five
Ct the leading Japanese business men
by sight and name. Lorrin Andrews
was the only one who accepted the
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