Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-09-26
EYES Of WORLD
ARE FOCUSED ON
THE SOUTH SEAS
Thousands Desire to Leave
Their UnromantiC Atmos-
phere and Locate in Land
of Flowers, Hawaii.
(py The AssocIated Press.l

Honolulu, T. H., Sept. 25.--The
romantic lure of the south seas ha:
become so potent throughout tbs
world that the Honolulu chamber
of commerce is faced with an in.
creasingly onerus and embarrassing
problem, its officials announced
here recently.
commercial world of the temperate
zone desire--and make their de-
sires known in pile of mail that
is increasing constantly with each
steamer-to leave their unromantic
atmosphere and come to Hawaii
the land of music and flowers,
where tradition has the golden
moon always full and where a per
sons life, according to popular be-
lief, consists of lolling on the
shaded beach at Waikiki, famed by
the cooling trade winds and reach
ing up occasionally to pluck enough
fruit from the overloaded boughs %
afford sustenance.
Want "Soft" Jobs.
The writers of the last steamers
mail ranged from stenographers,
educators, chiropodists, eX-Jockeys
to schoolboys and countless others.
All emphasized the great sacrifice
they would make in coming to the
Islands. The only condition they
impose about the positions they
hoped to obtain was that they be
soft" according to Mrs. E. K.
Stone, acting secretary of the cham
Der.
That's all they want" she add
ed. "The number of letters con-
tanning the same request is in
creasing with each steamer and
some drastic measures will have 70
be taken soon to cope with the sit
uation. 1t can't go on, or the cham
Der building will be inundated"
One graduate of four leading I'M
iversities, with a long string of de-
grees capped with "Ph.D.," de-
sired to come to some local cor
poration as an efficiency educa-
tor"
Another letter asked whether
hemstitching was popular in the
islands. If so, the woman desired
to transport her sewing to Homo
lulu. A young man in the back
woods of Maine offered to travel
5000 miles to Hawaii to instruct
the residents in higher education.
Under the Moons Spell.
A girl in California referred to
the spell that the Hawaiian moon
has cast over her and wondered
whether she couldn't help out some
business man by doing Just a lit
tie tipping"
Some of these letters show that
the writer's have at least little
about the islands," Mrs.
Stone SAID. "Others are just as
as that written recently
by man in a small Virginia town.
He wanted to know whether there
were any nice, warm tropical is
lands for sale in this vicinity.
answered that he could find, with
out any trouble, a real estate firm
that would sell him part of this
very island but doubted whether &c
could even obtain lease on all oil
it,"
Another incident illustrating the
lure of the tropics concerned let
ter that some friends of an army
enlisted man stationed here wrote
to a newspaper in Portsmouth,
England, signing the private's
name without his knowledge.
1000 Offers of Marriage.
This is more or less a lonely
life for a fellow in Honolulu, as
white women are scarce" the
Joking letter read.
More than one thousand women
1 England have written thus far,
offering to marry the man, he said
recently. The women range Din
age from IA to 40, but all have felt
the urge of the south seas. The
letters are so numerous that pos
tai authorities in san Francisco tie
them in bundles of fifty each. The
man said: THE truth of the mat
ter is that ! don't want a wife as
/ can't support one"
Meanwhile the letters continue
to pour in to this man at the rate
of at least 500 every steamer.