The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1921-07-19
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Honolulu, July 12-Tentativc plans
for the permanent organization of
newspaper and magazine men in
Pacific lands are being drawn up at
Columbia, Mo-, by DR.. Walter Will
Jams, president of the Press Congress
of the World and dean of the School
of Journalism of the University of
Missouri, and will be submitted soon
to DR.. Walter B. Pitkin, head of Col
umbia University, New York, and
author of the much.discussed book
Must We Fight Japan?" and to
Henry Stead of Holborne, Victoria.
and other journalistic leaders in
Pacific lands.
These tentative plans, according to
Alexander Hume Ford, secretary-di-
rector of the Pan-Pacific Union, con.
template biennial Pan-Pacific press
gathering in Hawaii and in the work
ing out of the project Doctor WIN.
Jams will have the cooperation of
many of the leaders in Pacific news
Doctor Williams has written to
each of the Pacific countries request
ing that paper be prepared ON Jour
nalism in the individual countries for
presentation at the Pan-Pacific Press
Conference, which will be made
part of the Press Congress of the
World which will hold its sessions at
Honolulu in October. He has desig-
mated the last day of the Press Cong.
ress as Pan-Pacific Day, and Will
open the session. All del
egates will be invited to the morning
session, when the papers will be
read. In the afternoon, says MIR.
Ford, those organizing the perman-
ent Pan-Pacific Press Conference, or
will meet for open discuss.
ion, and it may be that an evening
session will be necessary in order 10
and perfect the permanent
Doctor Williams feels, writes Mr..
Ford, who is on the mainland in the
interest of the Press Congress and
The proposed series of Pan-Pacific
conferences At Honolulu, that the
great legacy of the Press Congress OF
The World will be the formation of a
permanent Pan-Pacific Press Cong
ress. Walter L. Pitkin of Columbia
University, Henry Stead of Stead's
Review, b. f. Fleisher, publisher of
he Japan Advertiser and Trans-Pac-
fic Magazine, and Walter s. Rogers ,
)f the state department and the inter-
national communications committee,
are among those preparing papers on
his subject, while Latin America,
china, Japan, the Philippines, New
Zealand and Canada have each been
'equested to name delegates to the
Press Conference, these
delegates to present papers"
Doctor Williams, Mr.. Ford contin-
les, will visit either Australasia or
he Orient at the close of the Cong
'ess sessions at Honolulu. He will
'emain in Hawaii long enough, how
ever, to aid in organizing the work of
he central committee that will carry
IN at Honolulu toward the perfection
If a permanent Pan-Pacific Press
Congress.
Mr.. Ford adds that the further
,lans Of Doctor Williams and his
assistants for cooperating with the
'an-Pacific Union toward making
Hawaii a useful central service sta
ion to the press Of the world, will
,e announced when the Congress
meets.
The Inauguration of the plans, says
Ir. Ford, is scheduled for the sum-
ner of 1922, when it is expected that
President Harding and the premiers
# Pacific countries will meet in Ha-
vail as high officials of the Pan
'acific Union, to voice their approval
nd lend their cooperation.