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Vol. XLI. No. 5 25 Cent s a Copy May, 1931 MID-PACIFIC MAGAZINE, lion. Dn.ight F. Davis, Governor-General of the Philippines. ggyeoac -4.- -fa;I niirauconT a nom-, Arni yuyulcvlii----vii---vrT-iirnfi , • • •Vestrirm •• 1 • • •• 4. I 1 Tlirr filth -tlarttir Maga3ittr CONDUCTED BY ALEXANDER HUME FORD I Volume XLI Number 5 • CONTENTS FOR MAY, 1931 • Art Section—Food Crops in Pacific Lands r■ 402 4, Hon. Dwight F. Davis, Governor-General of the 4,. Philippine Islands 417 i By Cayetano Ligot • Development of Travel on the Pacific 418 • By James King Steele 1 Hawaii as It Relates to the Travel Industry - - - 421 I i By Harry N. Burhans VI Russia and Beyond 423 By Hireschi Saito The Director of the Pan-Pacific Union Visits Tokyo - - 427 Fire Walkers in Fiji 429 1. By Keith E. Cullum 4 • iT Thhe Story of Port Arthur 431 By Clive Lord • The Turkestan-Siberian Railroad 434 1! . I Wonders of the Forbidden City 437 • f., By Hon. Wallace R. Farrington • 1 Modern Transportation in the Netherlands East Indies - - 440 . In Modern Korea 447 1 By Mary Dillingham Frear 4' Some Colonization Problems: A Canadian View - - - 451 • By Major E. J. Ashton .1 .1 The Development of Radio in Australia 457 .1 By E. T. Fisk t 4 The Canterbury Pilgrims in New Zealand 461 .1 42 By N. E. Goad • i In Japanese Toyland 465 • • By Alexander Hume Ford . A Bit About Siam 469 4 Celebes, the Vast and Little Known 475 P t By Marc T. Greene • • • General Economic Data on Mexico 479 -, P. la .4 Bulletin of the Pan-Pacific Union, New Series, No. 135 - - 481 . 011t P: ib-Parifir n agazint . 4 Published monthly by ALEXANDER HUME FORD, Alexander Young Hotel Building, Honolulu, T. H. €, Yearly subscription in the United States and possessions, $3.00 in advance. Canada and go Mexico, $3.25. For all foreign countries, $3.50. Single Copies, 25c. ■ i Entered as second-class matter at the Honolulu Postoffice. S rt; Permission is given to reprint any article from the Mid-Pacific Magazine. • ,-,:immiont,tvp ot• • • • • ip.tw • Ar i • • • • • • .• 0 • • VI • • 11 IPI I • iC7iPUOUNVITC7i • •,1",<VM ,, Printed by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Ltd. 402 THE MID-PACIFIC Despite the fact that the water buffalo breeds in Hawaii, is immune from tuberculosis, and gives the richest and best milk in the world, these animals are used only in the rice fields. THE MID-PACIFIC 403 404 THE MID-PACIFIC F.> L O 0 THE MID-PACIFIC 405 406 THE MID-PACIFIC •t' ••••■ .•••• ••-• O •••••., •••, •■ ••.'• "et •••te fi •-•;*. • •t 9" •Z.; tt • eet •••-•• O •••, fi • fi »zt to't O -o O •-o •••••• 6. Oa fi 'Z1 **-• fi ,:; tt, • -et •••., fi •••• O •s:f, •o 1,•; "4-•'• 7-1 fi O -o•••••. ‹•••._ O O ti fi O fi THE MID-PACIFIC 407 O • 3 408 THE MID-PACIFIC Oi •`?, O O 6. 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Davis, Governor- General of the Philippine Islands By CAYETANO ucur Filipino Labor Commissioner in the Hawaiian Islands i • •Ira'dn' i • • inunnianannuni , LCALC2a • • Tli TS- -14 - • • • 451X-Pi 1 • 1 • triatintlirreS/ Studying carefully the various phases cerned, but instead advises a careful of activities of the Governor-General of survey of the natural resources of Min- the Philippine Islands, Hon. Dwight F. danao and neighboring islands. Davis, it appears very clearly that his Before leaving the Islands for a good- efforts are principally devoted to the will tour in the other oriental countries, development of the natural resources of Governor Davis recommended that a the Islands, particularly products that committee composed of his technical ad- are derived from the soil. This does not visers and three directors of bureaus mean that he is neglecting the other should be organized, the work of which branches of his work for the general is to survey the natural resources of welfare of the Filipino people. Mindanao that will be taken up in One of the characteristics of the Gov- the near future. This committee was ernor of the Philippines is carefulness organized and is composed of H. T. in determining any kind of endeavor Edwards, the chief executive's adviser that is to be taken up by the Govern- on economic matters ; Director Stanton ment. This fact can be proven by his Youngberg of the Bureau of Animal action towards Mindanao Island. Re- Husbandry ; Director Manuel Roxas of cently he visited Mindanao and some of the Bureau of Plant Industry ; and the adjacent islands. With his personal Director Arthur Fischer of the Bureau knowledge and with information that of Forestry. These officers are now he could gather among the leading peo- studying the potential wealth of Min- ple in these islands, he knows that Min- danao. danao is an island that holds great The leading Filipinos in the Hawai- potential wealth, sufficiently adequate to ian Islands appreciate very much the be developed by the Government. Not- great interest of Governor Davis in the withstanding this he does not make development of the natural resources of recommendations to the bureaus con- the Philippine Islands. 418 THE MID-PACIFIC Riminu urro7n-vrt • • . *** v...y.g.$02. ,• 'vivo' •13.43miv.v.)40A,.! Development of Travel on the Pacific By JAMES KING STEELE Executive Secretary, Philippine Tourist Association Before the Pan-Pacific Club of Honolulu _IMMI''icaiLlini.=Micenuiancaicincona1'" • • • a • hattpliathaupi The advertising of communities is not say, by reason of the great development a new thing, while the advertising by com- in facilities for crossing it, the vast im- munities for the purpose of increasing provement in shipping, brought about an their business in tourists, in industries and era of eastward movement which has re- in other forms of material development, sulted, particularly since the war, in the is comparatively recent. era of "Europe for the tourist." In the earliest days, the advertising of We have heard a great deal about the communities came from the reputation of coining era of the Pacific but this can no those high in authority. Thus we have longer be classed as coming, because the countries of history coming into prom- era of the Pacific is already here. It be- inence largely because of the outstanding gan far back in those days when Balboa figures of the times. For example, India stood on the heights and looked across was known through the doings of Bud- over the vast tumbling waters which he dha, although Buddha, with his self-effac- designated "Pacific," because of the ing doctrine possibly had no idea that he smooth and sunlit character on that par- would ever be an advertising man for the ticular day. great country of India. In the Bible times Following this came Magellan, with his Joseph, the Prime Minister of Egypt, did wonderful cruise in 1521, around the a lot of advertising for his country, when, southern end of the continent through after the seven full years of abundant the Straits that bear his name and across crops, there came the famine and he let the Pacific to the Philippines. These were it be known to all the world that Egypt westward passages, but there is another had the goods, and wanted to sell them. route, not so well known in history, of Still later came Solomon, who did more the first eastbound passage in this won- to put his country on the map in those derful era of the Pacific. early days than any other man. In the This, strange to say, was made by a earliest recorded instance of his fame he Japanese who started from Japan two attracted the Queen of Sheba, who came years before the English settled in James- from afar to see the glory that was his. town, and a full fifteen years before the His personality reflected on his country, Pilgrim fathers landed at Plymouth. It and the building of the great temple was was in 1605 that Hasekura Rokuemon heralded throughout the entire east. was sent from Japan by his overlord to We have heard of the various ages, or learn about the countries of Europe, of eras, connected with the seas. The era of which so much had been told by the Jes- the Mediterranean was that time during uit fathers who had been in Japan as which the arts and culture of Greece and missionaries.