The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-11-29
PACIFIC PEOPLES
According to Their Union Conference,
Can be Allied Only By
Education
tAssociated Press)


San Francisco. Nov. Education
alone will bind together the peoples
of the Pacific, it was decided at a
series of conferences held recently
under the auspices of the Pan Pacific
Union in Honolulu, the cross roads
Of the Pacific, according to Alexander
Hume Ford. secretary-director of the
union. Leading scientists, educators
and editors of Pacific lands attended
the meetings.
Summing up the work of the con-
ference, Mr.. Ford. while here recent
ly, said it was decided that the press
was the surest medium of educating
the peoples of the Pacific as to each
others true aims and ambitions and
in bringing them into better under
standing.
Through the Pan Pacific Union,
which is now supported by all the
governments about the greatest of
oceans, the scientists are arranging
to study the scientific problems of
the Pacific and to seek their proper
solutions" Mr. Ford said. ALREADY
they have found the remedy for Iep-
rosy, which is now being wiped out.
They are taking up the study of fish
food supply of the Pacific with the
assurance that with scientific propa-
cation and protection of fish in Pa
cific waters the Pacific ocean will
supply sufficient fish food, preserved,
to feed the world The problem Of
saturation, or the knowledge of just
how many people a country may nat
urally support. is to be taken up by
the Pan Pacific Union and a confer
ence will be called to discuss the sub
ject. Two-thirds of the worlds pop
ulation live adjacent to Pacific lands
and the immigration problem has be-
come an acute. one Japan allows
but 1900 Chinese to migrate to her
shores annually and California does
not wish this many japanese, while
Hawaii cries for thousands more
Oriental laborers for her sugar cane
fields.
at has been pointed out by some
Pacific scientists that the United
States cannot support population of
more than a quarter of billion living
according to the standard of the
Anglo Saxon, while she might easily
support billion population living ac-
cording to the standard of the Japa-
nese and twice as many if the Chi
nese standard of living is adopted.
Science steps in and says that per-
haps means may be found to make
the soil twice as productive as it is at
present, which would, of course, solve.
the Japanese immigration problem
for another generation and Danish
famine and starvation from China for
some time to come. They point out
that Java, with a population of six
millions a century ago, suffered from
famine and over-population- The
Dutch stepped in with scientific meth
DDS of agriculture, with the result
that today Java, with population Of
thirty-six millions, is threatened with
a serious shortage Of labor.
'These are some of the problems
discussed at the Pan Pacific Union
conferences. The heads of all Paci-
fc countries are officers Of the union
and it is even hoped that next sum-
mer conference may be held IN
Honolulu of the presidents and pre-
rliers of Pacific lands.
"A Pan Pacific school of journalism,
? located at the oceans cross roads, Is
d one of the recommendations of the
: press congress and this may be es-
e tablished to train men Of all langu-
5 ages of the ocean in modern newspa-