The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-09-19
o ANGELENOS

Ever ready with a welcome for visitors the one which Maui ex-
tends to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce EXcursionhs to
day is warmer and more than ordinarily cordial since more than
ordinary significance attaches TO the visit.
This morning there steamed into Kahului harbor a fine and state
y steamer bringing to the Valley Isle more than 800 guests for the
day and inaugurating a new transportation service which is to link
up Southern California with the Isles of Hawaii, to bind them to-
gether with ties of business and commerce and bring about an in
timacy of acquaintance between their peoples.
The advent of 300 guests on one steamer is memorable, the fact
that those guests are largely members Of one of the greatest and most
successful civic organizations in the world IS momentouS; the maugu,
ration of the steamship service with its Significance as to tourist travel
is epoch making.
Los Angeles is the greatest center of tourist travel in the United
States. Its Chamber of Commerce is the organization which made
it so and built the city up from a little town into a great metropolis
of the Western Coast. The Chamber of Commerce party comes offer
ing to share with Hawaii Southern California; great source of
wealth, tourist travel, makes a neghbOry call and brings with it
ON that call rich gifts. Thus it is that the sentiments of hospitality
and of gratitude mingle in the welcome that is being extended.
From the social aspect, todays visit is pleasuable for the guests
are nearest neighbors in point Of distance though only by means
of the new steamship line have they been brought into a contact
similar to that which has existed between Hawaii and San Francisco.
1t marks the beginning of an acquaintance destined, it is hoped, to
ripen into close, warm friendship. 1t is the step to business associa-
tions and commercial understandings between Los Angeles and Ha-
waii which will carry to the CaGfornians a knowledge of the needs
as well as the resources of Hawaii with resulting cooperation in
matters mutually beneficial.
This morning on shipboard words of welcome were spoken by
Judge Z. H. Case and the sentiments and expressions he voiced were
those of the whole Maui community. This morning the visitors were
taken on sight seeing trips and this afternoon those trips will be
continued with Maui residents as personal guides and conductors
to tell the honOred guests of what they are seeing. But the time is
all too short. The visitors can have only a superficial glance at the
two great industries, sugar production and pineapple canning. They
can see only the most accessible scenery.
Maui would like to have her guests with her long enough to tell
them the details of her industrial methods, to show irrigation and
other projects, to give them an insight on her methods of handling
racial problems, to show what she does in social welfare work and
for the comfort of the great mass of workers. She would like to
take them q the summit of Haleakala whence thew might look down
upon the world from the height of more than 10000 feet and gaze
upon the marvellous and ever changing scenery of the great, dead
volcanic pit. She would like to take them over the Ditch Trail with
all its charm and wonderous scenic beauty.
There are many things Maui would like to do, but lack of time
forbids and so, today, she can only express the sincere hope that her
guests will come again to the shores of the Valley Isle and remain
long enough on future occasions to receive in full the hospitality OF
which that extended today is only a taste.