Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-09-10
HAWARS GLORY
SHE SUCCEEDSN
BLENDING RACES
Rei1sch Tells Pan-Pacific Club
That China Today Stands In
Need of Worlds Help


Beautiful things 10 look upon arc
what Iirst I'll ones attention when ar
irving In Hawaii" said DR.. Paul s.
Retnsch, American ambassador to Chi.
fna, speaking today before scores OF
Honolulus most prominent business
and professional men at the Pan-Pa.
fcthc luncheon at the local Y. NJ. C. A.,
but before one has been here long
ne perceises things Of deeper signif-
canoe. ....N -, s.,
When ] look around this room and
zee the many faces Of the many ma
items feel that these islands make the
point Of conveyance for the East and
the West This Is the assembling place
of the nations. And il Is here that
one can learn that great lesson that
competition Ii the life OF the world
that what the nations OF the world
need Is 10 rub against each other,
not In conflict as the European world
= now meeting, but in the amicable
competition Of the business and intel
1ectHaI world.
Separated by vast distances, the
stations which border upon the Pacific
find one common meeting place -Ha.
wall, and ii is TO Hawaii that the
Important duty Is left or making these
different elements blend for their ilin-
tutal advantage. Let it be her glory
that she is succeeding, and that she
Is succeeding such an assemblage as
this proves.
China III Need Of Help. 81 s
China today Is in an important pc
Rod Of change She needs the help
Of the world She needs to learn the
lessons which she can learn In other
places and learn here, and she Is will.
ing to learn. Tine was In China when
the individual and the problems of the
individual were the center of the ma
tional life, but now she has awakened
20 the fact that through corporate life
only can q macon most fully realize
itself.
sChina has resources enornlous and
untouched. She is in the condition Of
the United States in the period after
the Civil War, preparing for great
time OF intellectual and commercial
expansion. The gates are down, the
way IL open 10 the thought and the
commerce Of the world. How will the
world respond?"
Here In Hawaii is the place where
the Orient and China may come to
study the Occi0ent. and this Is the
Mace where the Occident may study
the Orient Here may China learn the
great lesson or competitive life, the
life which b above the dusty level Of
International hatreds and bitter feel
ing and opposition Of ideals.
Hawaii IN one word stands for the
great lesson Of cooperation. and that
Is the lesson which am going to try
to take back to China with me.
DR.. Reinsch sat down amid
hearty applause and A. H Ford in
PRODUCED President s. Asano of the
4. XXX.
"Twenty-one years ago when ffstI
passed Hawaii there were no trans
portation facilities on the Pacific"
said Mr.. Asano. .sWhen went home |
began to study conditions upon the
Pacific, and IL became the purpose of /
my life to bring great ships to saii
upon those waters under the nag Of |
Japan. ] have seen that commerce. /
prosper have seen great ocean
greyhounds ploughing the waves, and
i have seen at the same time that the
great work OF bringing the Occidentl
and the Orient together Is progress
ing.
s'The sad war in Europe is inter
rupting this work. The ships Of the
Pacific are being taken to the Allan.
tic sea coasts. This cannot be helped.
II Is the natural result or a great de-
mand for freighters there But when
! heard that the Pacific Mail steam
ship line was going out of business i
felt keen regret. They had indeed
been my competitors, but still / knew
that while they we're plying across
the seas they were acting IN the good
cause OF bringing the Orient and the
Occident, and the minds and ideals
or the two halves OF the world, into
closer relations. Therefore ] was sim
cefely sorry when heard of their
withdrawal and went at once to
San Francisco TO see what could do ii
to keep them afioat. But when found
that IL was to no purpose, bought
two of their ships, and made what ar
Fangements Itcould to sustain the
transportation facilities upon the Pa.
cifie r. + r"
This is my life work. l see that
!
shall continue to work as hard as / /;
can to keep the lines of commerce !,
open. Commerce means civilization,
and IL is for civilization that I am
now working. |,
Hawaii IS the meeting place of the
two civilizations. It is upon Hawaii
that the commerce Of the Pacific finds
. home and resting place. II is the
great inn, the half way house for two
worlds. Then help me in my work,
for my work is your life. Help me to (
bridge the Pacific, for you can" II
s. Tamura, a member Of the Japa- I
nese house OF Representatives, spoke !
next, and began by lamenting the fact
that he had learned the English Ian
guage well enough to pretend to! I
speak IT. II
otherwise might have had the
good fortune to have q clever inter |
preter,a he said, referring to the fact
that Editor s: Sheba had translated I