The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-01-09
Mission Centennial
To Be Biggest Event
Program For Weeks Celebration In
April COmpleted-Luau For 5000
To Be One OF Features

The most ambitious celebration ever
held in the Hawaiian Islands, excell-
ing in brilliancy of pageantry anything
staged during the former monarchy
days will be the Hawaiian Missions
Centennial from April II to Is, 1920, to
commemorate the hundredth anniver-
sary of the arrival in Hawaii of the
first band of missionaries from New
England, who landed first at Kailua,
Hawaii, April II, and at Honolulu
April IS, 1920.
Descendants of the missionaries and
those affiliated with the Hawaiian
Board of Missions at Honolulu, plan
to develop the celebration into some
thing that will not only record the
great work done during the past 100
years upon the civilizing foundations
laid by the missionaries, but to send
a message to the world of what the
spirit of the melting pot" has accom-
plished for the varied na~tionalities
dwelling in Hawaii.
The Centennial committee of the
Hawaiian Board of Missions includes
w. r. Castle, chairman; George P.
| Cooke, Mary d. Frear, D.. Howard
Hitchcock, Henry p. Judd, F. d. Low
rey, George Warehouse, Mary P.
Whine, c. A. Rice, Mrs. A. S. Baker,
Mrs. R. L. Hughes, Mrs. N. B. Hair.
The Mission C%hildren's Society in
| cludes Joseph S. Emerson, Kate w.
Forbes, and Mary A. Richards. DR..
Doremus Scudder, is executive secret
airy.
The whole week will be spent in
the celebration, the tentative program
decided upon on New Years Day, is
as follows:
sunday, April 1.-THE Heritage of
the Past" services in various
churches, with mainland speakers.
Monday, April 12-Day of Reunions;
anniversary of the landing at Kailua.
Mission Children's Society and recep-
ton.
Tuesday, April 13-Day of the Pa
geant. 8 a. m, Conference on Ameri-
canization: Address by President
Henry Suzzallo, University of Wash
ington, Seattle. Open forum. p. M
Pageant "A Century of Christian Liv-
ing in Hawaii" Night, Oriental drama
"a Thousand Years Ago"
Wednesday, April 1880 p. M,
Conference of all interested in educa-
ton. Address, what shall our
schools teach?" by H. B. Wilson, SUI
perintendent of schools, Berkeley, Cal.
~ifornia. Address,: "The school a com
munity CENTER" by President Aurelia
H. Reinhardt, Mills College, Oakland.
8 p. m, Citizens meeting in Kawaia-
hao Church. Address: How to make
Americans" by President Henry
Suzzallo, University of Washington.
Thursday, April 15-Civic and In
dustrial Day. 8 a. m, Mass meeting
of women in Kawaiahao church. AID
dress: THE call of civics to the Am
erican woman" by President Mary E.
Woolley, Mount Holyoke College,
South Hadley, Mass. $3.50 p. m. Indus
trial parade. s p. m, Citizens Rally
in Kawaiahao church. address:
'Tomorrow's word to today in civic
life" by Henry Van Dyke, D. d., L. L..
d., Princeton College.
Friday, April 16-9 a. m, Parade of
Sunday School Children. ~ noon.
Luau at Waikiki. Afternoon, water
sports. 8 p. m, Hawaiian song con-
test between teams from the five large
Islands-Hawaii, Maui, Molokai, Oahu
and Kauai.
Saturday, April 17-Recreation Day,
10 a. m, Hoike, Hawaiian Religious
Dramatics. Afternoon - Swimming
meet. 7 p. m. Banquet at Armory un-
der auspices Honolulu Chamber of
Commerce. After-dinner speaking by
mainland industrial and commercial
leaders.
Sunday, April 1S-Religion's Sum-
mons to High Adventure. Services in
the churches with mainland speakers.
Interest in the song contest is eX-
ceptional and teams in the various is
lands, especially those on Molokai, are
reported by the Hawaiian Board to be
preparing as never before to capture
the prize and be acclaimed the best
singers in all Hawaii.
The luau is expected to be big
enough to accommodate 5000 people.
The swimming contests will include
Duke Kahanamoku, Norman Ross,