Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-18
LETTER FROM FORD.

Following Former Governor Carter s
Red Cross plea L. W. De Vis-Norton
announced that as Alexander Hume
Ford, who vas on the program for an
address on ''Pan-Pacific Union-Aims
and Accomplishments was on the
mainland, he had not been able to
prepare a paper on the subject, but
had sent a short greeting to the dele
gates to the convention.
Discuss Promotion
Promotion was the subject Of Emil
Berndt at this mornings session of
the Civic Convention. Optimistic
were his predictions for travel this
winter, if all the big passenger yes
sells are not Communicated. He laid
particular stress upon now the Civic
Convention idea had aided in broad
ening the scope of the promotion .om-
mittee work by the appointment of
representatives from the other islands
to the committee.
In part, Mr.. Berndt said:
For Is years the Hawaii Promo
ton Committee has worked consist
emily and persistently in a Jealous eff.
fort to make Hawaii better and better
known and to seucre the cooperation
of transportation interests, without
which the committees efforts was al
most hopeless. Obstacles of indif.
ference on the port Of transportation
companies upon the mainland have
been overcome, and their friendly CO.
operation secured. Without this
| friendly aid tourist travel to the Ha-
waiian Islands might still be a negli-
gible quantity. although a general de-
velopment of the tourist business
would no doubt have resulted natu.
| rally.
Throughout all these years of Ia
| Dor, in the endeavor to retain the
friendly interests OF those who have
become friends, the very fact that Ha.
waii has been considered by the traY.
Ell world as part Of remoter areas
in the Pacific, accounts in a measure
for much of it's popularity, for, de-
| tached as the Hawaiian Islands are
from the mainland, travellers yearn
to visit the group. There is a dis
| appointment among some that there
is. so much uptodateness in the life
of the islands, but the one charming
| memory, aside from the beautiful
foliage, the wonderful shore and
mountain scenery, the great active
and extinct volcanoes is the superb
| all-year-round climate.
The Hawaii Promotion Committee
has been helpful factor in the de-
! velopment of Civic Convention ideas
IN the same way, the Civic Convention
has been a helpful factor In the devel-
| opment Of promotion work and in
bringing the people of all the islands
| into better understanding of the
| aims and objects Of the Promotion
Committee, partly resulting in the ex-
pansion Of the committee, so that it
now has members from each of the
outer islands, instead of being en-
| tirely one Of the II standing COM
mittees of the Chamber of Commerce
of Honolulu.
One of the browning efforts, not
| only of the Promotion Committee but
of the Civic Convention in joint &C.
tivity, has been the creation of the Ha-
waii national park by the congress
| of the United States, incorporating
kilauea on the Island of Hawaii and
Haleakala on Maui. Following the
creation OF this park, the Promotion
Committee was active in securing the
direct publicity cooperation of the bu-
reau of national parks at Washing.
ton. and had the pleasure of this sum-
mer. entertaining an official represen-
| tatiye of this bureau to investigate
both national park areas for the bu.
reau, which this winter will issue its
| first publicity booklets on behalf oil
! the new Hawaii park.
| 'Inter-Island travel as promoted by
| the committee has resulted in in.
creased communication and better IA
cilities. All points of interest through.
| out the group can be expeditiously
reached and in consequence are more
attractive. During 1915, Hawaii, Maui
and Kauai numbered more visitors
than ever before recorded. and 1917
the total will top these high water
marks notwithstanding some adverse
| conditions. The immutable order OF
| things has rushed Hawaii into the
maelstrom of progress. and when we
next raise our head above the turbu.
| lent waters we will have made strides
in additional hotel accommodations
and better exploitation Of scenic AMI
| climate assets that will be a surprise.