TULV. 15:22. XXIV. No. 1. Cents a Copy. 41111111111111inta 11/ unummatommork mlluMatimmmummaleiniliiim sche MID-PACargv rAVONE and the BULLETIN OF THE PAN-PACIFIC UNION Cr; Wallace R. Farrington, Governor of Hawaii and President of the Pan-Pacific Union. accepting the flag of Japan sent to the Union by the late Premier Hara by Hon. C. Yada, the first Pan-Pacific Minister of Friendship. li err SIIHMIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIII103031111111111111110011111111111111111:1111111111110161111111111111MMUM11111111111MIIMMIH11111134 JAVA NITED STATES AUSTRALASIA HAWAII ORIENT Ara. News Co. Gordon & Goteb Pan-Pacific Union Kelly & Walsh Javasche Boekhandel t 1'1' t' 1' r 't' mtttstAtAghttaftta Pan-Parifir Tinian Central Offices, Honolulu, Hawaii, at the Ocean's Crossroads. PRESIDENT, HON. WALLACE R. FARRINGTON, Governor of Hawaii. ALEXANDER HUME FORD, Director. DR. FRANK F. BUNKER, Executive Secretary. The Pan-Pacific Union, representing the lands about the greatest of oceans, is supported by appropriations from Pacific governments. It works chiefly through the calling of conferences, for the greater advancement of, and cooperati.on among, all the races -and peoples of the Pacific. HONORARY PRESIDENTS Warren G. Harding President of the United States William M. Hughes Prime Minister of Australia W. F. Massey Prime Minister of New Zealand Hsu Shih-chang President of China Arthur Meighen Premier of Canada Prince I. Tokugawa President, House of Peers, Tokyo His Majesty, Rama VI King of Siam HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENTS Charles Evans Hughes Secretary of State, United States Woodrow Wilson Ex-President of the United States Dr. L. S. Rowe Director-General Pan-American Union Yeh Kung Cho Minister of Communications, China Leonard Wood The Governor-General of the Philippines The Premiers of Australian States and of British Columbia The Governor-General of Java. The Governor of Alaska. The Pan-Pacific Union is incorporated with an International Board of Trustees, representing every race and nation of the Pacific. The trustees may be added to or replaced by appointed representatives of the different countries cooperating in the Pan-Pacific Union. The following are the main objects set forth in the charter of the Pan-Pacific Union : 1. To call in conference delegates from all Pacific peoples for the purpose of discussing and furthering the interests common to Pacific nations. 2. To maintain in Hawaii and other Pacific lands bureaus of information and education concerning matters of interest to the people of the Pacific, and to disseminate to the world information of every kind of progress and opportunity in Pacific lands, and to promote the comfort and interests of all visitors. 3. To aid and assist those in all Pacific communities to better understand each other, and to work together for the furtherance of the best interests of the land of their adoption, and, through them, to spread abroad about the Pacific the friendly spirit of inter-racial cooperation. 4. To assist and to aid the different races in lands of the Pacific to cooperate in local affairs, to raise produce, and to create home manufactured goods. 5. To own real estate, erect buildings needed for housing exhibits; provided and maintained by the respective local committees. 6. To maintain a Pan-Pacific Commercial Museum, and Art Gallery. 7. To create dioramas, gather exhibits, books and other Pan-Pacific material of educational or instructive value. 8. To promote and conduct a Pan-Pacific Exposition of the handicrafts of the Pacific peoples, of their works of art, and scenic dioramas of the most beautiful bits of Pacific lands, or illustrating great Pacific industries. 9. To establish and maintain a permanent college and "clearing house" of in- formation (printed and otherwise) concerning the lands, commerce, peoples, and trade opportunities in countries of the Pacific, creating libraries of commercial knowledge, and training men in this commercial knowledge of Pacific lands. 1 0. To secure the cooperation and support of Federal and State governments, chambers of commerce, city governments, and of individuals. 1 1 . To enlist for this work of publicity in behalf of Alaska, the Territory of Hawaii, and the Philippines, Federal aid and financial support, as well as similar co- operation and support from all Pacific governments. 1 2. To bring all nations and peoples about the Pacific Ocean into closer friendly and commercial contact and relationship. 1 1 1 , 1 1, 1, 1 V'4r , "ii-liarifir ifiaga3tur CONDUCTED BY ALEXANDER HUME FORD Volume XXIV No. 1 CONTENTS FOR JULY, 1922 Art Section 2 Native Life of the Hawaiians 17 By Wm. A. Bryan The Chinese Drama 21 By Young Kzuang-Shen,; (of Tsing Hua College, Peking) Something About the Lau Islands 25 By Sir Bickland Escot, Ex-Governor of Eiji The New Zealand Immigrant 29 By Frank Parsons, Ph.D. Volcano Days 33 By C. T. Rodgers Life Worth Living in Manila 37 By Stanley P. Johnson Fortune Telling Among the Chinese in America - - - 43 By Stewart Clain Mexico of Today 49 By A. Meica Through Tasmania in an Auto 55 By E. T. Emmett, Director of the Tasmanian Government Tourist Bureau Japan in Korea 59 By K. K. Kawakami (of -Japan- staff) Touring Through the Australian Desert 63 By J. D. Fitzgerald Something About Mongolia 69 By Chang Ching-Yuch Why Visit Hawaii? 78 By George T. Armitage Notes on British Malaya 77 131 W. P. Sluyter The Bulletin of the Pan-Pacific Union 81 New Series No. 33. Mr PC th-Farifir fllagazing Published by ALEXANDER HUME FORD, Honolulu T. H. Printed by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Ltd. Yearly subscriptions in the United States and possessions, $2.50 in advance. Canada and Mexico, $2.75. For all foreign countries, $3.00. Single copies, 25c. Entered as second-class matter at the Honolulu Postoffice. Permission is given to republish articles from the Mid-Pacific Magazine. q' .... ~Q f:4 O < 42, =r,===:::QtFcrimum= fhe Hawaiians were ever musical; one of their native instruments eas the nose flute. However, no Hawaiian now plays this, the uku- etc having entirely superseded the old Hawaiian musical instrument. Preparing the daily meal of poi, in Old Hawaii. •• Native Life of the Hawaiians By WM. A. BRYAN HE Hawaiians at the time of It was formerly in general use through- their discovery by white men out the whole group, as it was through- T were still in the stone age. The out the most of Polynesia. In Hawaii absence of iron, copper or any of the adzes were made in various shapes, metals in a workable form was a seri- weights and sizes, for various purposes, ous handicap to their development. but the principle was the same in all Stone, bone and wood were the materi- and consisted in the securing of a cut- als at their disposal, and from them ting or bruising edge of stone that they were forced to construct such tools might be held in a convenient form for as they could devise. use as a hand tool. Of the simpler tools made use of by The hardest, most compact clink- the natives, none was of more value stone lava was selected for the bit by and importance than was the stone adz. the ancient adz maker. The rough 17 18 THE MID-PACIFIC stone was patiently worked into form commonly found in an artisan's kit. by chipping, splitting and grinding. The oo or digger, a long staff of hard When at last the proper shape was se- wood, was almost the only tool of cured, the bit was bound to the handle, husbandry, while in net manufacture (usually made from a branch of the the simple and widely used seine needle hau tree), by means of a cord of coco- and mesh gage were practically the nut or olona fiber. only tools employed. In certain cases, the bit was used As we think of the endless variety without the addition of a handle. For of tools necessary to perform even the heavy work, as the felling of trees, the most ordinary task in our own more complex civilization, it seems incredible shaping of canoes, or the framing of that the patient Hawaiian, with such the house timbers, large adzes were re- exceedingly simple tools at his com- quired, and there are some in. existence mand, could have utilized the materials that weigh several pounds. For more of his environment to such splendid exacting work, as in carving their purpose. The wonder of their achieve- hideous idols, or finishing and mending ment grows when we contemplate not the umekes, fine chisels were needed, only the variety and amount of their and examples are extant that are, in handicraft, but the neat and substantial effect, carving sets in which simple character of their work—a trait for forms of gouges, chisels, and the like which the ancient Hawaiians are justly can easily be recognized. Among their famed. implements they had sharpening stones made of hard phonolite, which were Ornaments wrought from the feath- used to give an edge to their tools, or ers of birds were among their most as polishing stones. Some of these valuable possessions. Among their were boulders and were permanently handicraft, especially such as had to located, while ethers were smaller and do with adornment, nothing made by could be taken about as required. The them surpassed in elegance their feather saw-like teeth of the shark were used capes, helmets, cloaks, leis, kahilis, and as tools in many ways, where cutting, feather pa'us or dresses. So handsome scraping, and sawing edges were re- were they that their possession was quired. One of the most curious of almost entirely limited to the alii or their tools was the rotary or pump drill. persons of rank, or those of special The staff, tipped with a slender piece distinction.