Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-12-20


their own country. but even three
summers at home, so to speak, have
not enabled the world of fashion in
the great urban centers to know the
t5eth about our one hundred million
Inhabitants, or to understand sympa-
thetically the people OF smaller cities
and villages. Thousands Of native
Americans, born Of the earliest and
soundest stock. have SKINNED the con.
tinent in swift express trains, north,
south. east and west, without suspect.
ing the interest, the charm, the sweet
ness and the soundness that lie be-
tween the expensive hotels Of a few
great and widely sundered cities
Even the motor car has not sufficed
IN promote true intimacy between the
various parts of a vast population. The
tourist has stared with a somewhat
langlid interest at a few extreme
types and has remained blind to the
distinctive.y local human character
iBt.CS
How many visitors TO Maine have
discovered the 'IiiCneer traits suryiy-
inc among its inhabitants? What
summer girl or man from California.
New York or Georgia knows that New
Hampshire still shelters rural famf
lies who live upon paternal acres that
have been inherited in an unbroken
line for two centuries? The Gulf
states, the Middle West. the Lower
Mississippi valley have constituted q
terra incognita to most OF US, an I'M
discovered country to which only
few daring explorers made expedi-
tions. 1t is a revelation to the north
erner when he encounters the hover
ing tenderness of the negro waiter
in the Chesapeake region, a servant
yetA unspoiled by the extrayagant tips
sH. hequa]ly extravagant demands OF
slrsnzers with money to burn and
time to kill. These dusky ministering
angels, soft-voiced, magically antici-
lato,y, deft of hand, and silent Of
sten. sem to exist solely for the COM
foit OF those they serve. and to be
fore ;es enthusiastically bent upon inter
losing air cushions between the trav-
eler and every rude jolt. Nor is there
cue northerner in hundred thousand
who suspects the amazing dignity and
courtesy OF those unpFetentious whites
OF the same region, descended may
hap for 10 generations from simple
fisher, folk.
II the travelling American could be
persuaded to abandon now and then
for The local accommodation" his
luxurious express train, which makes
a blur of the landscape between
Maine and Florida, he might discover
his unknown fellow citizens. The
enforced residence on this side of the
Atlantic gives the genuine Americans
of all regions a chance to further their
native unity by becoming better &C
We have need enough Of
such reinforced solidarity, and, both
ss a nation and as individuals, we
shall be the better, the wiser, the
happier and the safer for closer &C
Qusintance.
The pilgrimage to Concord with its
memories and its Sleepy
Hollow OF Emerson and Thoreau, stirs
the heart of the visitor from the, South
or the Middle West. or the northern
neck OF Virginia; while the birthplace
of Washington and OF many another
distinguished leader of the old domin-
ion holds for the New Englander and
for all OF Us, gnsuspected emotions
of poignant patriotism. In the pres
ence of the memorials cherished By
the original 13 states, Americans can
forget that the hyphen has ever had a
place of honor in our national nomen-
clature. We have no Westminster to
make us one, but the SCARED Nelson
HG1e, Yorktown, the seemly brick
fr9t Of independence Hall, the home
lyosellow gable Of Faneuil Hail.. the
ye4Set lawns Of Mount Vernon, and
the charming old colonial homes OF
Annapolis cry aloud against whatever
would divide US into semi-alien groups.
To know these places and their ma
tive inhabitants is to be an American
without any sor. of modifying quail
tication, or apology, an American in
the absolute.
THE J. r. WA3RENS TO RETURN
SOON
Mrs. John Trenholm Warren and lit
tie daughters, Katharine and Marion,
VINO ieIl iOf Tie Quasi carry III AueuS1
will return home on the Great North
ern a few days before Christmas, sail
ing December 16 from San Pedro. Mr..
Warren returned on the last voyage of
the boat.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren motored from
Victoria and Vancouver to San Diego
in their car, and also made several
side trips, visiting the Camp of the
Clouds IN the shadow of Mt. Rainier,
Crater lake and other fascinating
places on the West coast, making $500
miles OF driving. Mrs. Warren also
Mr.. Warren East on a
brief business trip. two weeks being
spent in Chicago and the remainder or
the time in short stops in Cleveland.
New York city, Boston, |
providence, Philadelphia, Washington, /;
n C.. and New Orleans. In Washing |
ton a day was spent with Mr.. Warren's
only sister, Mrs. frank Leighton Glib
son. and Mr.. Gibson. who were former
ly stationed on Molokai in the public
baaIfi service The evening was spent 4