The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-01
HA " All All M s TO DOMINATE
 PACIFIC
Press Congress of the World to Convene in Honolulu In October Will Discuss
 Pacific Problems.

Honolulu, Hawaii, July 1.-Invita- tions have been issued to publishers, editors and newspaper men in all parts of the world to attend the First is to be part of the Press Congress of the world, to meet here next Octo- Der. The outstanding purpose of the conference is to accomplish the per manent organization of newspaper men scattered throughout the lands bordering On the Pacific Ocean.
 "Is it not possible" the invitation inquires, that we here at the Cross roads of the Pacific may be of service drop-of station and distributing center of news information? There ject, and it might we'll be taken up at the Press Conference.
 "Dr. Walter Williams, president of the Press Congress of the World, has Congress, and the Hon. Charles J. Mccarthy, Governor of Hawaii and president of the Pan-Pacific Union. | joins in this invitation"
 The invitation is issued by the Pan Pacific union, with headquarters at Honolulu. Alexander Hume Ford, sec retary-director of the union, is now | on the mainland and will confer with Dr. Williams and other officers of the Congress with regard to plans for Pan-Pacific day.
 | Because of the many races which | dwell in the islands, newspapers and
  | fish, Hawaiian, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Filipino, and ! the editors of these publications are taking an active interest in the plans for the conference and look forward | to a large gathering of newspaper | men, not only from Pacific lands but from other countries of the world. To Discuss Pacific Issues. Following the close of the Congress | next October, Hawaii will loom up as the logical center for the discussion | of all questions and problems arising in the Pacific, in the opinion of those who are in charge of the Congress | arrangem entS here.
 Leading men Of the Oriental races in the Hawaiian islands are looking forward to the Congress as Q vehicle | for the furtherance of a complete un- 1 derstanding on problems and ques- | tions that have long been peTplex- | ing, and which at times have been gravely misrepresented in other coun- l tries.
 | It is probable that some of these | questions, which with the world is
 which will be set aside for the hold l ing of a Pan-Pacific Peace Confer
 ence as a part of the general Congress | sessions While this conference will
 be taken part in largely by editors, publishers and newSpapermen from | Pacific lands, it will be open to all Congress delegates and members rwhose opinions will be invited. | III ISDWS1ll lIe 11IoD1SH1 OI the meet | ing of the East and West has been | solved very successfully, and more 1 than a score of races and mixtures l of races dwell contentedly together without racial friction. The people
 of the Oriental and other races are
 taking a keen interest in the forth
 coming Congress and are doing theil
 share in the Derfecting of the ar engagements
 The ancient Hawaiian sport of SUIT
 riding, both with the native sur
 boats and outrigger canoes, is to be a feature of the programme of en.
 tertainment that is being arranged here for the Press Congress.
 Il A ride for distance of a mile or more, at express-train speed, on the crest of a great confber off Waikik beach, either in an outrigger canoe
 or on a board, is an experience that will be offered delegates. Duke P
 Kahanamoku- world champion shor1 | distance swimmer. and other we'll known Hawaiian aquatic stars, will as | sist in the entertainment of the del l egates to the Press Congress. and, | under present plans, a swimming l meet will be arranged at which the l island champions, both men and wo-
 men, will demonstrate their prowess