Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-03-15
ROW WITH BOARD
STARTED WILSON
FOR PRESIDENCY
Man Who Trained Him as Boy
OF N Tells Ad Club Men some
Secrets; Curtis. Speaks

A Gurprise was sprung on the Ad
Club today at its regular weekly
luncheon when Mr., GoIdie OF Prince
ton University was called upon TO
speak. Mr. Goldie was physical di-
rector Of the university when Presi-
dent Wilson was boy of Il. He re.
members the president as very ear
nest college youth, who early became
4 master in the use Of pure English in
all his conversations
That slight misunderstanding be.
tween woodrow Wilson while presi.
dent OF Princeton, after 10 years ten.
ure OF that office, and the board OF
trustees, caused him to aspire to the
guberEaterial office in the state Of
New Jersey, came as big surprise to
all present. j..
Mr.. Goldie said that though he him
self Is a Republican, acquaintance
with. the president all these years as
college youth, professor, and then
president of the university, led him to
hope that the people Of the United
States would return him to the, White
House for another term of four years.
Renews Invitation. .e.-e
lnterspersing his remarks with a
number of stories that suggested the
belief that. the veteran publisher of
the Saturday Evening Post and La
dies Home Journal is himself the
chief contributor, or else the most
studious reader of the THAT Reminds
Me" column in the Journal, Cyrus HI.
X. Curtis renewed his invitation for
Honomluans to visit Philadelphia.
Mr.. Curtis, after saying that he con.
siders that the climate and the seen
cry of Honolulu and its environs make
this the most beautiful place in the
world to live in. appealed to Hawaiis
inherent hospitality on behalf of tour
. ista who. are headed this way in ever
increasing numbers. You want at
E3east couple more first-olass hotels,
and then advertise. them In my pa
pers. II you do. the hotels will pay
well and you'll all make profit Of
the venture"
Honolulu in its present hotel situa
ton reminds me of city in the West
which had always managed to care
for all Corners until certain conyen.
ton occurred. Two commercial trav
elers who made frequent stops there
were unable to get accommodations
All the billiard tables, bowling alleys
and such places were occupied, and
finally the hotel keeper bethought
for which he held the keys. Urging his
friends 70 keep the matter secret, he
was startled few minutes later to
hear the church bell tolIing. What
do you want, he asked them. as soon
as he could reach the church. Ser
vice, they replied. Send two dry
martins to pew 2i3'.
Mr. Wells OF New York was next
celled upon. Mr.. Wells visited Homo
lulu for several months about 40 years
ago His remarks were full of com,
parisOns between the charming, easy.
Boins. picturesque Honolulu OF that
day without sidewalks or paved streets,
twith the busting cosmopolitan city of
today
MIR. Merriam Of Fitchburg, Massa-
chusetts, told the members OF. the Ad
club that Honolulu was indebted to
Fitchburg. Mass, for its AID Club pre-,
sident, who got his early newspaper
training in that city. w. r. Earring.
ton responded that he was indebted
to Fitchburg not only for his early
newspaper training but for the fact
that attendance at meetings of the
Merchants Association of Fitchburg
gave birth in him to the ideals of
civic and commercial righteousness
that enabled him to organize the old
Merchants Association in Honolulu
and later the AID Club.
A birthday ovation was given Mr..
Robert .ewers, today being his eight
ieth birthday. and additional lease of
20 years life was voted him by the
club.
Charles r. Frazier was appointed
chairman of the "On to Philadelphia"
committee to attend the annual cor
yention of the Associated Advertising
Clubs of the world in that city June
Of this year
The Kamehameha Girls school oo-
tette led by Miss Nolles, musical in.
structor Of the school, sang several
/ selections in Hawaiian and English.