The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-09-03
CONFERENCE WEEK !.
AASFGL PROGRAM
Keynote win Be Service, Show
i1g What Hawaii, May Do For
HerseIttand the World AT LARGE

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herseltrand the World AT LARGE
| q The week. of September 16, will, in
Honolulu at least, be given over TO the
| deliberations and discussions of the
PanPacifc Conference, and it's one
| keynote will be Service THE serv.
ice that Hawaii may he to herself, the
! Pacific, and the world at large and
IT'S war FOR democracy.
1t win be an Inter Island get TO,
| gether conference, for every CONNER.
cial Union, and the out of town or.
CARNATIONS are now being invited to
come in, Regardless OF object, race or
creed.
| q Several of the regularly held club
luncheons during the Pan Pacific week
will become part of the Pan Pacific
conferences in fact entirely around the
Pacific on Balboa Day, the seventeenth,
ct least, there will be held lunc hes and
dinners similar to those in Honolulu,
which is recognized now rs the hub of
the Hands Around the Pacific move
Tnent that has spread in the ten years
of propaganda from Honolulu to the
uttermost parts of the ocean.
In Honolulu, Pan Pacific Service
week will begin with the service flag
Sunday ceremonies on the Palace
grounds on, the afternoon of the IF.
teenth. G. X. Al, one of the directors
of the Pan-Pacifc Union, and DR.. l..
l.. Loofbourow, of the Pan Pacific As
sociation, will have charge of this
opening affair and committee is being
organized that will number men of
every creed and race of the Pacific,
for the cooperation is asked of any
and every organization, religious or
otherwise, that boasts service flag.
= Service to the country will be the
4 theme of the discourses, and every firm
or organization with service flag is,
asked to have it present with dele
| gate at the service flag service. A
committee is being organized to gath
er the larger service flags with a view
4 of hanging these from the upper bal
1 comics of the Palace. 1t has already
been suggested that from the makai
4 balcony service talks be given in Eng
4 fish, while from the mauka balcony
the speeches be made in Japanese,
4 from the Eva balcony in HawaiianI
and from the Waikiki balcony in Chi
'hese, that al races in Hawaii may un-
derstahd first hand the message of serv.
ice.
J Interesting flag Ceremony
Displayed about the Palace grounds
will be Teplcas of the fifty silken Pan
Pacific flags that are to be presented
to President Wilson on Balboa Day by
4 Secretary Lane with the request that
he accept the honorary head of the
Pan Pacific Union. Mrs. Walter +.
i Frear is the chairman of the commit
tee that is to present these emblems to
the Pan.Pacific Union on Service Sun
daFt and, dopbtless3 through the cooper.
alton of The Boy and Girl Scouts Of
the different races, a most interesting
flag ceremony will be incorporated in
the Service Sunday program.
II has been the custom annually to
hold a Pan Pacific service in one of
the Honolulu churches on the Sunday
preceding Balboa Day; on this occasion
it is expected that all denominations
will take pert in the patriotic services
that inaueurate the week of Inter Is
land conferences.
On Monday, the sixteenth, it is ex
pected that the first regular business
session of the Inter; Island Pan Pacific
conference will be begun during the
lunch hour at the Commercial Club,
when Governor Mccarthy, president of
the Pan Pacific Union, will drop the
gavel and director George Denison will
take the chair and read a letter from
John H. Rosseter outlining the desire
of the shipping board with regard to
the part Hawaii must play in prepar-
ing the Cross Roads of the Pacific TO
be of after war service to the lands
that surround and house more than
half the population of the globe.
Representatives of the steamship
companies will address this session,
taking lead in the discussion as to the
part Hawaii is to play in after war
commerce. The session will also in
clude papers giving reasons for and
against making a free port of HOMO
lulu. The delegates from the other
islands will take part in the discus
| sion.
If it is possible to obtain the neccs
sary permits, those interested in har
Dor ENGAGEMENTS, will be taken in
launches during the afternoon on
tour of Honolulu and Kalihi basins.
Monday evening at dinner, the in.
terracial delegates from the Y. NJ. c.
A. 5 of the different islands will meet
for their session at the Pan Pacific, or
Nuuanu Y. NJ. c. A. building on Fort
street, where about 200 guests will be
entertained and instructed.
Balboa Day
Tuesday, September II, is Balboa
Day, observed this year by Pan Pacific
gatherings in cities entirely around the
ocean ana even in Washington, Dis.
trict of Columbia.
Following PRECEDENT the Pan-Paeifc
Union will SENT itS speakers of all races
to the public schools in the morning
to explain to the pupils just who Bal
boa was and why his birthday is hon,
ored around the ocean as Pan-Pacific
lay.
The big Pan Pacific event of the
day will be the Balboa luncheon on
the roof garden, when it is expected
that remarks will be made by the
secretaries of the Inter-1sIand cham
bers of commerce, OF every race, out
lining iuSt what each Organization
stands for and how It is of servide
to Hawaii and 10 the winning of the