The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-10-22
BY S. CHlLDS
Headworker Alexander House Settle.
ment

AAAACA lANlN q . HILL " III ID
the Oldest Inhabitant, and who
thought of the days of his youth as the
good old days when everything was
right and when there were no such
things as social problems play
grounds for children, probation ofic-
ers, and welfare workers.
1t happened M year that some of
the Oldest Inhabitants younger fellow
citizens were trying TO get an appro-
prl2tion through the town council to
purchase q piece of land for a town
playground, and since tits man was n
member of the council, as well as the
Oldest Inhabitant, he rose up in his
seat and said, I'VE don't need any
playground in this town. Why, when
| was a boy we played One Old Cat
and ball in McGilligan's pasture and
we grew up healthy, strong boys. And
McGilligan's pasture is still there Just
down the street a ways" And he sat
down But someone suggested that
they go look at McGilligan's pasture
rand when the council got there they
found three-fourths of it had been
built upon n a high board fence top
ped with barbed wire had been built
ar pund the rest and there wasn't a
boy or girl playing in it. And the ap-
preparation for the playground was
passed.
New Order Is Here
This is a true story and it illustrates
what is happening or Maui and on the
other Islands today. Times have
changed; the population is growing
rapidly; conditions have become more
complex and the pressure of a grow
ing population, much of it of foreign
habits and thoughts but the same gen.
eral makeup as ourselves together
with u own greater understanding,
has made things stick out like sore
thumbs which before we never
thought about at all.
Some on Maui have lad insight into
these things and the desire and vision
20 set to work to try and solve the pro-
lens. All of us want them solved
hen we know of them, for we were
born naturally sympathetic and
h aloha to our fellow beings. Out
our understanding there has come
eeking for channels through which
work. Sometimes we have found
1t channel within the usual course
life on Maui; sometimes we have
az to start new organizations and
lew institutions or revamp the old
les. and to seek the assistance of
ers who have been especially fitted
rained along the necessary lines.
so welfare work" or social serv-
or industrial service work. grew
mong us and today has become a
| issue with the Community.
he purpose of this article is to
lad out before us the means and
hods and directions which this
* of new importance has taken, |
how much is being done. Many OF
csc things have been done for a long
me on Maui in n way or another. |
tut never so much as o have they |
cen organized and directed and as |
AIMED such Importance. Those inter |
sted in the work feel sure that if the |
Jeople of Maui and of the other Is |
lands see these things clearly and I'M |
derstand what we are trying to accom-
plish we shall get on much faster.
Maui Organizations
There are ten organizations on
Maui that are doing the kind of things |
that are generally associated in the |
public's mind with welfare work, and |
three others not so generally associat- |
ed. This distinction is necessary be-
cause these three organizations are
very decidedly working, as a main OBJ
ject, for the welfare of the community |
and yet are not generally thought of |
as welfare" organizations. This is
due to the background of welfare
work" or social service work. which /
has so largely connected it with char
ity n the ameliorative side of the |
work. But amelioration and charity
are only one side; probably the side |
with the most sentiment in it but far
from being the most important side.
The other side is that concerned with
the constructive and preventive ele-
ments, and in the long run should per
haps be given the place of most i'm
%portance.
The ten organizations are:
The Territorial Board of Child Wei
fare; The Red Cross; The Maui Aid
Association; The Board of Health, |
Kula Sanitarium; The Fred Baldwin
Memorial Home; The Baldwin House;
The Maui Council of Boy Scouts of
America; The Alexander House Settle
ment.
To these, in the public mind no
doubt, should be added the Industrial
Service ("Welfare") Department of
the Maui Agricultural Company and
the Pioneer Mill Company, and also
SIMILAR departments WHICH VIII SOOu
be organized by the Hawaiian Com
percial & Sugar Company and the
Waikiki Sugar Company, as well as
the district or visiting nurses of all
plantations.
The other three organizations are:
The Woman's Club; The Outdoor
|Circle; The Maui County Fair & Rae
fling Association.
n 1t is not meant to convey the i'm
Sression that these three are the only
ones working along constructive and
preventive s&nes. Nothing could be
farther from the truth. All of the 9th
er ten are so working and some of
them are doing very extensive work
in these directions. But the three or
CARNATIONS mentioned above are not
working along ameliorative lines, and
so have not generally been classed as
welfare" organizations.
Primary Purposes Shown
To tho pnfpt of uiaU nf HUalfar a |