Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-08-22
WICHITA LAWYER
LAUDSHAVAn IN
ALOHA tP6TLE
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mountain. valley and sea-precipice,
canyon and plantation, harbor and
city, going TO or from Haleiwa with a
rainbow crowning Round Top and
Tantalus, a rivalry between the hues
of the earth and the tints of the sky,
is mind photo never to be forgot
ten
The commerce of the Islands stag
gers the belief of the stranger in its
shipping, banking, sugar and pineap-
pies, and yet the chief asset of Ha-
wall is the fact that as a United
States Territory it will some day as
the tropical sister OF the States send
its Senators to Congress and by its
position as a Sovereign State stand
upon a vantage ground not now pos
sessed and obtain as a member or
the family not bound child serving
apprenticeship recognition and
eventually become the PLAYGROUND
of the Nation. and the thousands that
spend a winter vacation at Palm
Beach, Havana or California or sum-
mer at Atlantic City and Atlantic or
mountain resorts, will become famil-
.verdure, mountains, valley and beach
es and visit Honolulu not as once
in lifetime visit but as a regular
vacation or winter resort-become in
terested in its business, and when
ready to retire from business instead
sof going to Pasadena to end their
days they will take boat and land
in Honolulu harbor refreshed by the
voyage and find everything they saw
in California and find II in much
greater abundance.
!. have no criticism, but suggest
the Mainland does not know HOMO
LULU, save in a general way. OF
the Mainlands many millions, only a
very few thousands have any con.
crete idea ofsiits beauty, advantages
and possibilities.
The Mainland folks know Homo
lulu is on an Island belonging to the
United States, that raises some pine
apples and produces sugar-that it
is one of a group discovered by Capt.
Cooke, who was killed with club
that it had an Insurrection, and was
annexed to the United States; that |
some soldiers are quartered on the
Islands, and there is an idea that
Japan wants the Islands for its grow
ing population-andE commerce That |
is the substance of mainland inf0rma-
ton. In the Mainland Honolulu is all |
that is mentioned in general CONVEX
sation. e. ,s...
WHOSE FAULT is 1T THAT THE |
MAINLAND is IGNORANT OF HA- |
WAITS ADVANTAGES?
The writer is a general reader but |
has read more of Hawaii in the last |
ten days than in the preceding gen. |
Grafton of life; hence the writer has |
an opinion that the advantages of |
Honolulu with a good setting in wide
ly read Mainland magazines and peri /
odicals will bear fruit-and yield an
fold even as the seed that I
fell on good ground" some seed will /
fall and not terminate; some will fall I
and spring up and die BUT the net
result will pay for the effort Most
every successful businessman has
lost some dollars in investment-but
this loss has not caused him to quit
business. r..
HONOLULU is A BUSINESS
PhOPOS1IlON, as 10 enIlclng the
wealthy and leisure classes to come
and see 1.-THE general and indirect
benefit to be derived by all classes
of its peohple should be the result to
be hoped for. Not the immediate
and selfish benefit-to the promoter.
The man that looks to cash profit
for himself in advertising and pro-
noting Honolulu is not truly good
citizen This is written from the view
point of one who mas lived forty
three years in a town located on a
prairie-a hundred miles from rail
road-two hundred and twenty miles
from a wholesale point and from this
location ragged
cowboy town" has become the COM