Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-04
Showing Congress the
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By Frederic J. HaSkin
wy ASHINGTON, April 2S.-"Tour
NJ the Orient in style for $1.25
w a day." is the alluring invt-

wy AsHINGTON, April 2S.-"Tour
W. the Orient in style for $1.25
w a day." is the alluring invt-
tation presented to congress
by the Pan-Pacifc Union. Congress
has not been at all backward in ac-
cepting the proffered hospitality.
You plan the trip, and we will take
1t" 1876 representatives and senators
promised.
So the Pan-Pacific Union asked
the war department for transport
to carry the party, and wired the
Oriental governments to dust off
their temples and prepare for com
pany. The governments responded
that their desolate shores would be
honored by the radiant presence of
the Americans, and they would gladly
furnish free rides on their best rail-
roads and banquets with speeches in
the town halls.
With this summer vacation in pros
pect 1856 congressman are settling
down to hard work so as to finish
| their chores in time to catch the
! boat at San Francisco on July 8.
Congress has always gone off on
so-called "junketing trips" with an
| apologize eye toward the public, for
the people who vote have occasional
ly piped up to ask, who pays the
bills when congress travels?" This
disconcerting question has been
brought up in connection with the
proposed trip. But this time, it
seems, congress has an almost COM
plete alibi, so far as expense to this
government is concerned.
The distinguished party is going to
pay it's own way to San Francisco.
A good many of the members were
going there anyway for the Demo-
cratic convention. AS soon as the
| convention is over, the yacation1sts
will go aboard the Great Northern,
which will be waiting in the San
| Francisco harbor.
COST OF EDUCATING CONGRESS-
MEN
| The ocean trip is the one weak spot
in the junketer's armor, for. that it
where the public pays. To be sure,
! each traveller must hand over $1.25
| a day for his meals, and at least two
! of the prospective party nave declo-
| ed that they are not going to ea{
| anything over that amount aboard
| ship so as to be as little trouble to
| the nation as possible. But for fuel,
| running expenses, and wear and tear
! on the transport, the government, OF
course, pays. But this does not cost
| each of us more than fraction OF
| a cent, and most people are WSillng
! to contribute to this extent IN order
| to have congress acquire culture by
| foreign travel.
When the party touches foreign
| shores, the problem of feeding ana
amusing it is UP to the government
there. From plans already MADE, the
travelling congressman will haVe
sumptuous time.
| Mr.. Alexander H. Ford, secretary
! of the Pan-Pacific Union, IS RESPONSE
| BILE for the idea of taking congress
! to the Orient. Mr.. Ford, who has
for years been in close touch with
| conditions in the east, is firmly con-
| WINGED of the Importance of a broth
| efly feeling between nations border
! ing on the Pacific. With the 1dea 7oI
| promoting good fellowship, he talked
| to members of congress one night
and showed pictures of the Far East.
| He wound up a vivid and enuclng
| account by inviting congress to come
| and see for itself. Some of his
listeners accepted then and there.
"And then" says MI. Ford, II
had to go out and make good my
| promises"
The result OF several weeks OF
! strenuous prepare ton is a trip when
might make even the anti-JunketAias
| forces in congress WaVer In tnelr IL
| deity to economy.
Mr.. Ford says his party Will hrst
sail for Hawaii, and spenq seHe1al
Hawaii aS is not fustered over this
honor, as every two or three years
| she appropriates 100000 to entertain
a group of congressman Tor TWO
| weeks.
Congressmen Like Local Color
In these past visits she mas prev
ty we'll gagged congressional char'
acter. She has found that the Amer,
leans have definite, preconcelVeo
Ideas of what Hawaii should be ike
and that while they like to be sur
prised, they don't want their lll4 US
them to see the picturesque, fantas-
tic side of tropical life, gives them
broken doses Of native cooking, ant
by way of the surprise ,efemeht
calls their attention to the thorousn,
lly up-to-date business district OF
Honolulu, which might be a part OF
ANY progressive city in the United
States,
There will be pageant in Homo
lulu, with people from every country
of the Pacific in native dress anc
carrying. the flags of their nat nat ms
der the trees. Each congressman is
Ito be at a table with three other
guests, and each guest will be Oh
different race. The courses will IN
clude dishes of the different PACING
countries, with a Hawaiian pig bak
ed in the ground specially featured
This Hawaiian dish is prepared oS
digging a hole three feet deep anc
putting the pig, stuffed with sWee
potatoes, in it. Round stones, rec
hot. are placed around the pig, anc
two, it is dug up and carried d1rec
to the table on the shoulders OF ma
tive servants. This is a favor1tt
Hawaiian delicacy.
ohio Pie
Another kind of He waiiah cooklne
will ha offered when the party visits
the volcano of Kileauea. Ohio Der
ries, sacred to Pele, the goddess o.
the volcano, grow only in this re
gion. 1t is customary to toss few
of these sacred berries into the era
ter to propitiate the goddess. Bu
the natives will risk offending Pele
and make some ohio berry pies
which are supposed to be the mos
delicious pies ever eaten, -,
The meal at Ki1eauea will be made
still more interesting by co9klng i
3. letting the pots down by steel. cords
Into cracks near the crater's edge.
From Hawaii, the transport vii
sail to the Philippines, stopping or
at Guam for the delegation to v1s1
the Notifications there.
will be divided. Commercial organ
izations at Manila will take charg'
Iof members of the foreign relations
committee to show them Philippine
trade and industrial conditions
Members of the military affairs com
mittee will be carried off to look a
forts, while the rest of the. party
will probably be sent up. to the big
health resort at Bagio to cool off.
From the Philippines the delega
ton will go on to spend week IL
China and another in Japan. China
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