Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-06-10

DR.. George G. Averill gave very
interesting address yesterday noon
at the regular weekly luncheon of
the Waterville Rotary Club, when
he told of his trip to California and
the Hawaiian Islands last winter.
The address was highly entertaining
and proved great treat for the
club membersS many of them COM
plimenting DIR. Averill on the talk
after the meeting. In part he spoke
as follows:
mo one can possibly realize more
fully that I do the limitations of an
entertainer. but President Tom has
asked me to tell this club some of
my experiences while away from
Waterville.
II attended the regular lunch of
this club on January Sth. leaving
ton, January TO- arriving in Los An
geIes and San Pedro the following
Wednesday. For fear that there is
someone here who has never had
five minutes conversation with a
real Californian l will tell you that
San Pedro. Los Angeles harbor, is
the most wonderful harbor in the
world. You will really believe this
IL you do not see the harbor, but
it is true that San Pedro, the harbor
town, really Is a part of the city of
Los Angeles, as Is everything within
an area extending SO miles in one
direction and in some places the city
Is 70 miles wide.
California, especially southern
California, Is really wonderful
country. 1t has very rapid
growth and has enjoyed great pros
perity but to me it lacks stability.
1t is a country without past. They
have no tradition. They talk only
of the present and the future and
they certainly do make strong talk
along these lines. Just now things
have slowed up quite a bit and in
the case of over inflated hot air
artists, they have come to a full
stop. but they are still talking, tell
ing each other that 1t Is all due to
the hoof and mouth disease.
ION March 21st journeyed north
to San Francisco. San Francisco is
a rather more solid and dependable
sort of town. 1t has not Los An
geles' beautiful climate nor Is IL
growing as rapidly as is Los Angeles
but 1t Is older and more like the
cities of the east or midwest.
II attended Rotary lunch here or
| March Goth and the following day
! the 18th, we sailed for Honolulu. II
| is a distance of more than 1000 miles
from San Francisco to this port and
it took the Manoa, our boat, sever
days to reach there, arriving the
following Wednesday, Apr. End
There Is very nice Rotary club
at Honolulu but it holds its meet
ings every Tuesday, so that week
missed attending Rotary lunch
the first and only time during my
entire absence of four months and
$4,000 miles of travel.
1.-THE schools in Hawaii are of the
very best. There is much wealth ir
! the country and 1t Is spent very lib
| orally for the benefit of that country
| There are two universities, one the
University of Hawaii. is presided
over by DR.. Dean, a former Coco
Will boy. later a graduate Of Yale
| and recently made world famous be-
cause Of his discovery of a cure fol
! leprosy. On one part of the islant
| Of Chau there has always been main
| tanned a large colony of lepers
Many of these poor unfortunates, be
cause of DIR. Deans discovery, will
| be restored to health. DR.. Dear
spoke very felingly of his early con-
! nection with Good Will, ending witt
a statement, "Those were the very
happiest two years Of my whole
life."
The above Is but short abstrac
OF DIR. Averill's address. He dwell
| largely on the history of the islands
| and the government. He also tolt
about some of the many Rotar,
clubs which he attended and de-
scribed the manner in which visitors
were welcomed.