Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-07-08
ISLANDS DOOMED
BY THOSE TAKING
VACATION TRIPS
Local Educators and Others
Are Now Lecturing on
Mainland

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Hawaii educators and religious
workers are spreading the fame of the
Islands far and wide this summer,
many being away from the territory
on vacations and taking the oppor-
tlInity to deliver lectures in various
paFts OF the United States.
Following Is news of three men now
On various tours:
SEATTLE, wash education in
schools and colleges and by no other
method viii the complete Americana
zation OF the Hawaiian Islands be ac-
complished, says Prof Andrews, head
of the department OF English in the
College OF Hawaii, who Is in Seattle.
DIR. Andrews, with Mrs. Andrews, is
en- route to his former home In Ithaca,
n. Y. on q nine months leave OF
absence. He has been with the col
ltge for the last six years without
leaving the islands and says that COM
ing back to. the United States is like
visiting foreign country.
Education win accomplish more
toward Americanization OF the differ
ent foreign elements found in the
islands than any other thing" he said
yesterday at the Arlington "The re-
suits are now apparent, for the salute
to the flag in the grade schools Is
gone into with as much enthusiasm by
Japanese, Korean and Chinese chill
dren as, by the American-born them
selves
BELLINGHAM, Wash. Uncle SANG
brown inhabitants of Hawaii, home OF
the industrious Polynesian OF ancient
days, is making excellent progress In
an educational way and shows special
aptitude 10 Industrial subjects, Thus
says Vaughan Mace apghey, professor
of botany in the College of Hawaii,
who is In Bellingham today to give q
series Of lectures atthe State Normal
school. 49,
The modern Hawaiian, declares Pro
lessor MacCaughey, has every facility
for mental DEVELOPMENT, for schools
are. scattered throughout the group
and altogether there are about 700
teachers, many OF them Polynesians,
ID the common schools. In addition
there is the college which he, repre-
SCENTS and Oahu College. which was
established by early missionaries from
New England. Apropes OF the latter.
Mr.. MacCaughey states that this insti.
tuition is this month celebrating its
seventy-fifth anniversary.
Hawaii's educatiorai history is more
cfeditabie than most persons probably
imagine From the first days of ciyi.
Iiz4tionH footing Ia the Hands the
natives have been under the influence
Of an educational system which, as or.
ganized and developed by the highly
educated missionaries. was so thor.
ough that for long time California
sent many Of its young men and young
women to be educated at Oahu Col
lege. This Is stu a great institution.
there being now an enrolment of APP
Fortunately 500 students, about Is per
cent of whom are natives.
SEATTLE, Wash.-rSo prosperous
are conditions in the Hawaiian
islands that the Congregational mis-.
sionary board has found 1t possible to
increase this years budget BY SIS ,000
over the last year. reports Rev. A S.
Baker. missionary in the islands for
II years and on six months leave
Of absence. y 81.
There's such thing as prosperity
IN the church, as everywhere else, ,
explained Mr.. Baker at the Seattle
Hotel yesterday. THE sugar industry
Is the mainstay of the Hawaiian ter
ritpry, and prosperity depends on it.
The war has brought out an unprece-
ldented demand for the cane sugar that
is grown IN, such large quantities all
oyer the islands. The highest prices
prevail. Foreign governments, how.
eyer. are obtaining the largest orders
by paying fabulous prices, so the sugar
shortage in the United States is not
relieved by the situation War prices
and demands have meant everything
to the small plantations. Everyone is
sharing In the good fortune.
In Hawaii there is a big demand for,
the fir timber grown in the Pacific