Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-30
TEE oB5Eef LEssos soF cRocKETT.

TO many OF the big audience in the Opera House
last night the most significant feature of Mr. George
~ Tolph's lecture was the emphasis placed, in his
talk and in the moving pictures, upon the community
Welfare work done at Crockett the home Of the great
California and Hawaiian Sugar Refining Company.
The handling OF huge cargoes Of raw sugar from
ship to shore and OF refined sugar from shore to
ship; the washing, boiling sacking and the innum-
erdbIe other processes OF refining the great size OF
tie big Crockett plant the aborsaying devices and
c1iency methods all these were of deep interest,
and we're ably portrayed. But not less interesting
were the features Of community life in Crockett led
b. the refining company--the fine schools built in
ne town; the pretty homes of employees, and parti
tularIy tllef facilities for wholesome sport and
Ie<reation.
The re6pery, working on a eight-hour day basis,
labmote not only the efficiency OF the employees at
their daily tasks, but their pleasures when the days
work il over GlmpRsof c1ubhouses gyinnasiuIns,
rN1ihmingpools, baseball fields; Of childrens play
1bundk Of festival occasions Of patriotic celebra-
tons ali these show that this great corporation
,ptnizes the vaiuc Of good community spirit These
,le,ration features are systeinatized under a
IIIettor.
The nne facilities for sport and exercise and sim
||< wholesome amusement probably go far to ex-
I'IIn Mr. Rolph's remark that though fhe town. Of
40 I6s 80 saloons rarely is man seen drunk.
6l6&n provides facilities for men to meet in social
|.|I11aion other than the saloon and under such
conditions the saloon loses much Of its garsh attrac
E<Ictai Hawaiian plantations could show long
.|Iidcs toward the degree Of community welfare
|<It which Crockett has attained. In the islands
0ICA tes been done, notably ON Maui Much re
1|ns to be DONE but the Of the experiments
IS MI made are powerful object lessons. Those
|6hfers who have devoted time and effort to giving
kIr employees special facilities for recreation are
he managers most emphatic in their statements
||t the time and effort are wen repaid in the sat,
'.cfion OF labor and the increased efficiency and
.|II<<t Of The working community. -
b. Rolph,s illustrated lecture was highly inter
'If and Il Is not at all deiogatory to say that a
.1i|6r portrayal Of raw sugar productonin Hawaii
|0|Id be made perhaps even more Interesting For
10 fhis could be shown the industry literally "from
I ground up land there Is much that is pictures
.e much that Is extremely beautiful, in the plant
~ Of the cane tie Sifas ~ great swelling green
lids stretching flDm - coast TO distant hillside;
Is the harvesting in the milling, in the handling Of
I careoes to the big freghters at island ports 1t
|6old be well worth the efforts of the Sugar Plan
lIs Association to produce such film and have II
.IoWn with competent lecturer. Such lecture
would dispel many Of the grotesquey false ideas on
he mainland concerning the production Of sugar in
Hawaii ideas that in the past have bred hostile
legislation and may do so again.