The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-12-05
Maui Leads Islands
In Welfare Efforts
DR.. Bunker Expresses Pleasure At
Earnest And Far Sighted Work
Going On Here Occasion Was
Dinner Of Citizenship Committee

ileHl VI DeIJeT citizenship, MAUI leduS
all the rest of the territory.
This is virtually the conclusion
reached by DR.. Frank F. Bunkerrhead
of the federal educational survey
party which is at present conducting
a survey of the territorial schools for
the U. S. bureau of education at the
behest of the territory.
DR.. Bunker stated his opinions
along this line in a short address
which he gave last Friday evening at
a dinner given to the teachers of the
American Citizenship committee, at
the Maui Hotel.
While in no sense fulsome in his
statements, the speaker paid frank
acknowledgement to what Maui mas
done and is doing in civic welfare
work and along educational lines. 1t
was not simply that Maui men and
women have spent much money on
these various efforts, hut he Indicated
his full appreciation that they have
spent much more than that-that they
have devoted much thought and study
to the problems hat confront the
whole territory.
DR.. Bunker, who has recently COM
pleted a state survey Of the schools
of one of the southern states, and who
knows from intimate inquiry the con
ditions in the south, gave his hearers
the impression that the educational
and uplift work of the Islands is be-
ing much more intelligently and efici-
emily applied than in some of these
other places. He was careful, how
ever, to explain that comparisons of
different communities is impossible
and unfair. Every community must
be studied by itself, he pointed out,
and account taken of its full history
in order to determine what progress
it has or has not made.
DR.. Bunker's address was the feat
ure of the evening and was listened
to with the keenest interest. He has
already visited each of the other is
lands and was therefore in position
to compare Maui with the rest of the
territory. 1t was patent hat he has
already attained a very clear and ac-
curate insight into Island problems.
Worth While Occasion
In every way the dinner Friday
night may be considered one of the
most inspiring occasions of the year
on Maui. There were some As men
and women present, all in one way Or
another interested in citizenship or
welfare work.
Besides the teachers of the commit
tee, who number 81 at present,
there were present also the officers
of the organization and a number of
invited guests, including-Rev. E. E.
Pleasant, chairman; Rev. and Mrs. A.
C. Bowdish, DR.. f. E. Bunker, H. B.
Penhallow, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Bald
win, S. A. Baldwin, and Robert Judd,
director Of the citizenship work on
Maui.
Following the dinner, short address
es were made by various persons, in
which something of what the under
taking has accomplished was brought
out.
Mr.. Pleasant, acting as toast master
told briefly of the work of the organi
cation, and introduced Mrs. Bowdish
who has been one of the active work
ers since the inception of the work il
June 1916.
The first schools were opened Janu
airy 1917. Today they are pretty wei
distributed through Maui, q teachers
being engaged, in ~instructing in nigh
classes, about $50 pupils. Most Of
these teachers are public school teach
ers who have offered their services
for additional work.
School Department May Take Charge
The fact that the school department
is planning to take over the work in
augurated by the Maui Aid Commit
tee, and to conduct it as a regular
part of the school work, and as a feat
4 VI llIC COMMUNICATION oNAlOOl oNAlN
= ties being planned, was perhaps tn,
most convincing proof that the enter
prise of earnest Maui men and wome
has been along right lines.
b. O.Wist, of Lahaina, offered som.
apparently excellent suggestions 70
future conduc. of the citizenship work
proposing the establishment of tn
Gary plan" Of part time work in tn
fields and part time school study.
Language School Question
. Rev. S. Kanda, who has gained nor
than local prominence through nj
work in France for the Red Cross, col
WINGED everybody of his loyalty to tn
United States and his fervent desir
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