The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1921-11-08
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BANQUET TOGETHER

The Kauai YM.C.A. gave one Of
the finest banquets at the Lihue
high school last Friday night that
Lihue men and boys have had the
opportunity of attending for a long
time. There were 92 paid admissions
-46 sons, 46 dads.
1t was wonderful to see the fam.
lily combinations that were gather.
ed together that night. Men who did
not have sons to bring brought
somebody else's sons. Haole dads
had Chinese Hawaiian and Jap
anese boys. Japanese, Chinese and
Hawaiian dads had haole, japanese.
Chinese or Hawaiian sons. Regard.
less of nationality, race or previous
condition Of servitude, every dad
was proud of his son. Every son
found out that dad was pretty
good sport after all.
Good Eats.
The first half of the program con
sisted of fruit salads, meat ,oaves
tomato sauce, mashed sweet pota
toes, parkerhouse rolls, caramel ice
cream. cake and coffee 1t was the
first EalI that gave the sons AND
dads the strength and patience tc
stand tie terrible ordeal of the sec
cnd falf, when the mass Of The
insisted on doing all the talking. The
tdILers affirmed that what ;hey
said were toasts. That was pro, lhl,
hecause the speeches were so dly
Bay Less, Sing More
After the last of the coffee hat
left the cups, Dad Bayless g. NJ
and led {. rip-roariny bunch of Soac :
The key and pitch were disregarde.
Da that had forgotten they hat
vocal cords warmed up and M l,
some awful noises They called
singing The sons knew better bu
4 ttty uluh odl y soy d. hCy Jciil''
| in and tiled to drown out the dad,
.he results led to joyful cons,rr,
GRAFTON of sounds that everybody Il
side ca led good. Passersby though
otherwise.
Hun.al endurance can stanu jas
so much. AS pleasing as the nois'
t, hn ci ~ thnrn 90, n fI,n
when they could sing no more. The
were simply tagged out. Then job
Midkiff took an unfair advantage &
the bunch and made a few rema K
when they were too worn out
stop him. The best part If hi
speech was the b. witty of it lie il
troduced Philip Rice as toastmaste
Rice Is "roaster"
Philip Rice was listed on the prt
gram as the "t0aster." Th@- IL
considerable doubt as to what he il
tended to do to his audience. But n
was easy on them. He told thnl
a few snappy sto"ies and then .
iroduced Richard Rice, his dir!n1
i've nephew, who was down ior
re aiding.
Dick is a real orator. He hits th
gh spots ard til" Il W one too. wit
ease. He got a good hand frol
his appreciative audience
Locke and SloJaett Speak
Neil Locke, KauAi's new Y.M. G.,
secretary, was then called upon. NJ
) IL cke gave a mighty good talk ~
boy Values" was his subject. n
) father could hear nat speech an
rot be more considel",te of his 90
) Make a pal Of YOU son; talk i
tffairs over with him sympathet Ill
ttat him so that v)u will he H.
'Ist one he will want to tell of h
Victories or come to ii he is in u y
lie. You could MAKE no investmei
that would pay you such big div
dends in satisfaction as that wor
would" Mr.. Locke said.
Toastmaster Rice then gave II.
Sloggett the floor. Mr., Sloggett toI
his hearers that he wasn't an a
ter-dinner speaker and then wei
on and proved to them that he WI
) AS he described the kind of boy thi
dad is proud to own, you cou
; see the sons straighten up and me
tally resolve, That's the kind
boy I'm going to be-
Kenneth Hopper Spiels
Kenneth Hopper then told the daC
when a Feller Needs a Friend
Kenneth illustrated his point tellir
of a boy who swallowed an egg. T
was afraid to jump around becau
he thought he would break it al
then he would get a scratch With
He was afraid not to break it
cause he thought it might hat'
otherwise. Clearly that feller need'
friend. And Kenneth proved to da,
! that in everyday life there are MAJ
, times when the fellers need frien
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