Evening star., 1925-05-25
WORLD PEACE is HOPE.
Welfare of All Peoples Is Goal of
Pan-Pacif1c Conference.
RY EDWARD PRICE RFJJ

Correspondence of The Star and the Chicago
Daily News
ON BOARD TAIYO MARU, in the
Pacific, May 1.-Conferences almost
without number have been held in
Honolulu. all predicated upon the
theory that as go pan-Pacific rela-
tions so will go the future of the
world. But this year the beautiful
capital of Hawaii is more than ever
before the center of pan-Pacific pre-
occupation. Mimic war, with the fate
of the Pacific basin the theoretic
stake, has encompassed Oahu Island.
Now approaches-July l to 15-an
interracial and international con-
ference. which is expected to examine
pan Pacific problems with a thor
ughness hitherto unknown.
I'VE all feel that affairs in this
great ocean cannot be allowed to
drift" said Frank c. Atherton, chair
man of the executive committee, in
whose hands are the arrangements
for the forthcoming conference. Mr..
Atherton is a leader of the Honolulu
community, prominent in business
and distinguished for his generosity
and public spirit. He continued:
There is too much misunderstanding
about. There are suspicious and irri-
tations that want dissipating. We
expect the July conference not only
to clear the air considerably, but to
put on it's feet a Pacific institute like
the Institute of Politics in Williams
town, Mass.
Hope for Universal Peace.
''Such an institute is needed, for no
single conference however representa-
tive or able, can solve the Pacific prob
lem in it's comprehensive sense. 1t
will require the study and the con-
structive labor of years. We think
the outlook promising. With all it's
complexities and difficulties, the Pa
cific is neither a warning nor a war
like ocean. It's traditions ara those
of forbearance and friendship. Euro
pean feuds are unknown here. In.
terracial contacts are continuous and
growing. Hawaii presents an almost
infinite intermiXture of bloodS along
with a high degree of economic pros
perity and social harmony. On the
comparatively clean historical scroll
Of the Pacific some of us dare hope
to write the opening chapters of uni
versal peace.
Our pan-Pacific conference, with
the permanent organizations we ex-
pect 1t to create, seeks accurate in
formation from Canada, Japan, China,
the Philippines, Australia, New Zea-
land, Mexico and the United States
concerning all matters that touch the
welfare of the Pacific peoples and
which are international in their
bearing.
conditions in all the Pacific coun-
tries will be studied. What peoples
feel and think and say will be
studied. Light will be sought also
on why peoples feel and think and
speak as they do. Each nation will
try to see itself as others see it. 1t
is hoped that many important things
things giving impetus to improve
ment of interracial and international
reIations-will be revealed in the
general illumination.
Atherton's Associates.
Associated with Mr.. Atherton in
his determined effort to have a mem
orable conference is a strong Hon
olulu committee, of which DIR. Arthur
l.. Dean, president of the University
of Hawaii, is vice chairman, and
Charles F. Loomis, territorial secre-
tary of the Y. NJ. c. A. There are
Japanese and Chinese members,
among them DR.. Tasuka Harada, pro-
fessor of japanese history and Ian
guage, and S. c. Lee, professor of
Chinese history and language, at
the University Of Hawaii, both men
of remarkable character and learn
ing Two other outstanding mem
bers Of the executive committee are
RomanZo Adams, professor of So
ciology and economics at the Uni
versity of Hawaii, and DR.. Herbert
Gregory of Yale, who spends six
months each year as director of the
Bishop Museum, in Honolulu.
Reports from the other Pacific States
indicate large and representative at
tendances. Canada and the Pacific
States of the United States will be
strongly represented. Japan and
China will send some of their greatest
scholars and internationalists. From
Australasia and the Philippines will
come anthropologists, sociologists.