The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-07-28

lands have in the public mine been connected with GREAT ma.
attention in the publicity campaigns. This paper is not criticising
the policy in the publicity work that has been done for, it recognizes
that the Volcano has been the "headliner'' and has, as such, been
worked for all it was worth. Other scenic wonders and beauties are
mere incidents to the trip. Honolulu, as the first port in the Is
lands has come to be regarded as synonymous with Hawaii and, as
was perfectly proper, everything that Honolulu has to offer is set
forth as glowingly as possible.
Except through its share of the territorial funds appropriated
for the bureau, Maui does not contribute to the support of the Is
lands, great publicity organization and yet, during the service of
Secretary Armitage and his assistant Mr.. Yost, this Island has re-
celved through them a considerable amount of highly desirable pub
LEFTY in the form of newspaper and magazine articles dealing with
IIaleakala, the Ditch Trail and lao Valley. Such work for Maui
has been voluntary on their part and Maui itself has done practical
~ nothing but to take such crumbs as might fall from the table
Hawaii maintains an office for promotion work in Honolulu in addi-
ton to the services it gets from the territorial bureau. So if Maui
has not had nearly so many tourist visitors as it has desired the
fault, If any, lies at home and not in Honolulu. It's member on the
promotion committee and on the tourist bureau, Worth O. Aiken,
has had to work almost single handed though an enthusiast for seek
ing tourist trade for many long years past. No criticism lies against
him if the great majority of tourists passed Maui by.
Maui is prepared to entertain visitors in much larger numbers
than they generally come and can get more of them if she goes
after them in the way she goes and gets what she really wants but
so far she has made nothing more than a very few faint hearted
moves. However, before, entering into the proposed advertising
campaign II is quite proper to- inquire whether she would get her
moneys worth from the advertising.
In the future as i'll the past Honolulu will get all of the tourists
as their port of entry and Hawaii will get a very large part of them
because OF the publicity that has been and will be given to the tame
volcano and also because Hawaii tries to get them and spends
money IN its own behalf for promotion. Maui has always been a
side trip" usually a possible stop over which had to be made by
deoarklns IN ships boats and she will remain very much in the
same status unless the lnttrIsland shall use Mala wharf for land
ing passengers from its new steamer when put on the run from Ho-
nOlulu to HilO.
Without doubt Maui will get more visitors as a result of the
advertising even if it get no larger proportion of the number who
come to the Islands than now. If however, it is to increase that
proportion 1t Will have to pursue a different policy from the past,
to go after business through the tourists bureau before they come
to Hawaii and keep on rustling and hustlng to get Maui, Haleakala
and the Ditch Trail before them and keep them before the sight
GERS aller they have left the steamer in Honolulu, Whether Maui
Is ready to undertake anything of that kind remains to be deter
MINDED and can only come with an arOusing of sentiment for it.
New Freedom opposes the proposal to amend the primary cleo
o law. 1t would be expected that publication would object to
anything that might curtail the opportunity of Democrats to weaken