The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-07-13
'HONOLUEUW|LLBEfI
MECCA OF ISLANDS
Citizens Of Oahu Are Depended
Upon To Make Civic conven-
ton Complete Success

Honolulu is to be the Mecca OF Ha.
waii for several days in mid-September.
the occasion being the holding Of the
sixth annual civic convention. This
event follows Immediately after Re
gatta Day and IL is expected that most
of the visitors will arrive in time 60
take in both the boat races and khe
business and entertainments that will
go to make up the convention. AZ this
island furnishes the larger part of the
membership of the organizations which
60 20 make up the convention, Il lies
with the residents of Oahu 70 make the
sixth gathering the best that has vet
been held, and the publicity committee
Of the civic convention COMMITTEES Is
laying stress on the fact that civic
pride is called into action for this oc.
casion. | Nv @.r.t
Honolulans are used TO acting as
hosts 10 Mainland visitors, but il is
not often that such an opportunity
arises as this year when so many resi-.
dents of the sister islands can be met
and entertained at one time, the com
mittee urges. According as local PEG.
pie rise to this occasion will its success
he made or marred. ~ .sst
Boosters for Hawaii Mel 4.
M The civic convention Is an annual
gathering of all those who are inter.
ested in those things which pertain TO
the civic good of Hawaii mel, not Of
Oahu alone, but of Maui, Kauai, Ha!
wall, Molokai and the other islands of
the group. The organizations which 90
IN En ~ my n
Trade, Hamakua Civic Club, Kohala
Civic League, Kona Improvement Club,
all of Hawaii; Kauai Chamber of Com.
merce and Maui Chamber of Commerce
and the Honolulu Chamber of Com
merce; Commercial Club, Ad Club, Au.
tomobile Club, Rotary Club, Pan.Pacific
Club, Chinese Merchants Association
and Japanese Chamber of Commerce, all
of Honolulu. The total membership,
after subtracting duplicate names, is
about 1900, and of these about 1000 are
of Oahu. This leaves possible 500
visitors, besides their wives and fam.
lilies, who may be in Honolulu at the
time and of whom most are expected,
since the city is the metropolis of the
Islands and a point where other Island.
ers are always glad TO come.
Many Visitors Coming
The local chamber of commerce is the
Oldest of the organizations in the body
and the Hamakua Civic Club is the
youngest. To the Hilo Board of Trade
belongs the honor of initiating such
conventions. With twO-thirds of the
membership in Honolulu IL is naturally
expected by the other islands that Oahu
will furnish two-thirds or more of the
attendance, and this is what the com.
mittee is asking. 1t will seek a gen.
eral turn ont and will ask each and
every Honolulan, man and woman, to
be aswolpnteer entertainment commit
tee Of one to see that the reputation
for hospitality of the island of Oahu
shall not suffer on this occasion. ~.
Past conventions have accomplished
many good things for the Islands and
some of these the committee takes oc-
casion to point out at this time. 1t
enumerates the building of the con.
crete wharf at Kihei, rest house on the
rim of Haleakala, the good roads move
ment which brought more satisfactory
appropriations from the last legislar
ture, the Automobile Club 3 bill, anti
tuberculosis campaigns and increased
interest in homesteading
The coming convention will take up
the serious consideration of a number
of civic problems and cooperation, mu-
tual interests and good fellowship will
be the spirit of the entertainment end
of the program.
No objection can be raised to the
holding of the convention in war times,
since it is for civic uplift, and Presi.
dent Wilson has given his emphatic en-
dorsement to the holding of such gath
,erings, even during the stress of war,
and has said that he considers them
beneficial and desirable.