Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-04-03

Under the title III. p Wood and
the Mud Singers" the Maui News,
edited BY viii J. Cooper. in it's Issue
today declares that the attack on the
yecretar~ of the Hawaii FIODOtiOn
1mr.irtte is a nasty and undeiirn
Tiece OF business.
Cooper for several wears worked
side by side with Wood and knows
him and his methods we'll. Cooper
also. as editor OF the Maui News, has
been one OF the strongest supporters
in the territory for home promotion
work.
He is in Honolulu today on a brief
business trip. When asked as to the
charge made in the Promotion Com
mittee that Wood was not in sympathy
with this home promotion work,
Cooper said To the Star-Bulletin:
o. That is not true. Mr. Wood was
always in favor of the home work
but he never had sufficient funds. He
felt" that to get the best use out of
the funds he must use as mach as
possible for advertising Hawaii away
from here"
The Maui News editorially says:
on H. p. Wood, secretary of the Ha-
wall Promotion Committee, and chair
man Of the Hawaii commission to the
san Francisco exposition, is one OF the
most unpleasant things that has come
out of Honolulu for some time. Mr.
Wood is in San Francisco as resident
commissioner to the fair and Is not in
position TO promptly refute the
charges, or rather innuendos, that are
being made concerning him, It seems
to be a favorite way in Honolulu to
wait until a man gets out Of the ter
rftory and then to strike him.
The Promotion Committee has al
ways been and doubtless always will
be a conspicuous object of criticism.
IL comes so directly in contact with
the people, and opinions on promotion
and publicity differ SO widely. But
there is difference between criticism
and some Of the disguised personal at
lacks TO which Mr.. Wood, as director
or the bureau. has been subjected. Per
s0nai enn1ity to Mr.. Wood and per-
soTial ambitions have been responsible
for some exceedingly nasty work in
connection with both the. Promotion
committee ana the fair commission.
what n. p. Wood has done for Ha-
wafi few people PROBABLY realize. He
virtually started the Promotion Com.
mittee for the old chamber of COM
merce and merchants association
some ten years ago, after number of
sporadic and expensive experiments
had been made. And but for his ge-
Mus and indefatigable work, the COM
mittee would have been allowed to die
half q dozen times during its first few
years. Largely through his personal
efforts also was the Washington
birthday floral parade kept alive until
Il became an Institution nsthe islands.
aTo H. P. Wood and the unswerv-
ing backing he received from the late
Jas. F. Morgan, then president of the
Honolulu Chamber of Commerce, is
due the chief credit for the splendid
showing that Hawaiimade at the Seat.
tie exposition in 1909, though he was
not officialIy known in this enterprise.
And in the present exposition at San
Francisco, the essential idea of Ha-
waits building is his; and although he
has been abused numerically by his
detractors In connection with this, the
results already have in large meas.
ure justified his faith and silenced his
critics.
N. p. Wood is a specialist in his
lire. His critics and opponents are
yeriest amateurs Many Of the most
progressive things that Honolulu has
done in recent years were first advo-
S.Sfod NV him q Cnn aFIiriio,sa a5l10nc
these was the greater chamber of com
MERGE idea, and the Incorporation of
the Carnival Association. A few Ho-
nolulans know something OF the per.
sonai satisfaction he felt in these re
aiizations OF his dreams, ,but others
have taken The credit for these things
There are few men in Hawaii today