The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-10-14
PRESS CONGRESS VISITORS.

Keen satisfaction that the delegates to the Worlds Press Con-
gress are to be on Maui Saturday and Sunday cannot but be min
ged with sincere regret that their stay is so limited, that they will
be unable to see all of the Scenic Wonders and beauties the Valley
Isle has to offer, to tarry long enough to become thoroughly familiar
with her resouces, her problems, her hopes and her needs Mauntes
would like to take all of them to the summit of IIaleakala. ''Tbe Be
loved Mountain, to escort every member over the Ditch Trail
around West Maui via Kahakuloa, up lao and Waihee valleys, to
make inspections OF its sugar mills and plantation camps, to look
over the modern labor camps provided for the cane field and pine
company workers.
On the eve of the coming of the writer's and publishers of the
world this paper takes the opportunity to extend to them. one and
ALL the old time Hawaiian greeting, Aloha, on behalf of All Maui and
her people, Aloha, with all the welcoming significance the word i'm
piled in the old days and has carried down with it to present times
1t may seem to Mauis guests that they have arrived at a busy
perhaps an moppOrtune time, while the county fair is in progress
but that fair war deliberately staged to be simultaneous with their
visit. Maui recognizes that the first instinct of the newspaper man
or magazine writer is "o want to know" and so the Fair was put on
that the visitors would have the opportunity to know at first hand
what are the resources of Maui and Hawaii. It could not have been
done more comprehensively nor more quickly than thus in a single
day. Hence to the visitors Mauis Fair is more than an ordinary
County Fair, o rat least it is so intended.
On Sunday Mauis welcome guests will be taken on a sightseeing
trip. Rare scenic beauties will be presented to their eyes as will
also points of interest, til S the day when MauHtes will seek to extend
hospitality and to form acquaintance which would certainly ripen
of such friendship.
The mind of the newspaper man and publicist is trained to get
to the bottom OF things, to find the underlying reasons and so
it would be idle to say that Mauis welcome to the Press Congress
OF the World is a spontaneous outspringng of disinterestedness, it
would deceive no one. Maui hopes for returns from the entertain
ment 1t shows its guests, but Maui is not looking for columns upon
columns OF free advertising of its beauties and attractions to tour
lists Her people seek to set this part of the Territory with all other
parts of the Territory right with the world, to make both understood
through the first hand information the publicHts will gather IS TO
conditions here and Island problems. INSTRUMENTATION is often &C
costly as deliberate Justification and Maui hopes of returns lie in
the fund of information secured and the use to which it is put by
her Press Congress visitors. They can do much for this island and
her sisters of the group, if they will, and Maui News is ure that
the wal lis there, and at the same time they will be carrying out the
greatest privilege that comes to the journalistic profession, they
will aid in the progress of the world and of humanity.
The Territory of Hawaii has a self reliant population, one ever
ready to help itself and equally ready to hold out the helping hand
to Others but the sterling chizenry of the Islands will welcome the
more gladly the helping hands that may be extended to it in its
struggle.