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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE PAN-PACIFIC UNION 11}PACIfIC ifraga,Azwe The Peopling of the Pacific By DR. J. McMILLAN BROWN The Pan-Pacific Racial Problem By GEO. BRONSON REA The Monroe Doctrine of Asia By TAIZAN TSUJI, Ph. D. Illustrated Articles From All Pacific Lands .H114LTN CLOSED DU 620 .M5 4. 1/E. filiii.parifir V magaztttr CONDUCTED BY ALEXANDER HUME FORD Vol. XVII. No. 2. CONTENTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1919. Our Art Section—The American Asiatic Asso. and "Asia" 102 The Red Cross in Japan 107 The Y. M. C. A. Pan-Pacific Conference 117 Rotarians and Pan-Pacific Work 125 By L. Tenney Peck. Hawaiian Editors in the Orient - - - - 128 The Honolulu Ad Club 129 By W. R. Farrington. The Peopling of the Pacific 133 By Dr. J. McMillan Brown. The Pan-Pacific Racial Problem 139 By George Bronson Rea. The Monroe Doctrine of Asia 145 The Other Side of Molokai 149 By. Dr. E. S. Goodhue. Sydney's Botanical Garden 153 A Little Trip to Haight's Place 157 By 4. Dale Riley. "Shanghaied" and Some Impressions Gained - - - - 161 By J. W. Allen. New Zealand's Grand Motor Tour 165 By Elsie K. Morton. The Devil Dances of Manchuria 169 By Leon Waddell. An Hawaiian Night's Entertainment 173 By Frank P. White Australia's Great River 177 By R. 7'. McKay. The Largest Telescope in the World 181 By 7'. S. Schearmer. Rubber Cultivation in Malaya 185 By N. A. Banks. Kauai and Her Palis 189 By Vaughan MacCaughey. Bolivia the Land of Plenty 193 By Gornault Agassiz. MR P. th-ilarifir Magazine HUMS itD Honolulu,ine T H Printed by the HonolulPuubSt3rh-eLlyetiAnL, ELtd.NDYEeaRrliTy the United. States and possessions, $2.00 in advance. Canada and Mexico, $2.50. For all foreign countries, $3.00. Single copies, 25c. Entered as second-class matter at the Honolulu Postoflice. Permission is given to republish articles from the Mid-Pacific Magazine. I Major Lloyd Carpenter Griscom is president of the American Asiatic Association which publishes the remarkable magazine "Asia." In 1893 he was secretary to Ambassador Bayard, then deputy attorney of New York City, an officer in the Spanish American war, Charge de Affaires at Constantinople, Envoy Extraordinary to Persia and to Japan, Ambassador to Brazil and to Italy. He is now an officer in the army. His Imperial Majesty Yoshihito, Emperor of Japan, friendly to the objects of both the American Asiatic Association and the Pan Pacific Union, is the 122nd emperor in lineal descent from Jimmu Tenno, who founded the empire in 650 B. C. He appoints the higher officers of the Red Cross Society in Japan, of which he is honorary head. He calls himself the father of his people. The American Asiatic Association and "Asia" T the head of the American "Mid-Pacific Magazine" wish to bring Asiatic Association is Lloyd C. the work of the American-Asiatic Asso- A Griscom (former Minister of ciation before the friends of the great Japan) ; its organ "Asia" is today the movement for friendly co-operative ef- most highly illustrated and instructive fort among Pacific people. magazine on Asia published anywhere The American Asiatic Association had in the world, John Foord, Secretary of its origin in a conference of merchants the Association, being the editor. and others interested in the defense and The objects of the American-Asiatic maintenance of the commercial rights Association are to foster and safeguard and privileges possessed by the United trade and commercial interests of the States in China, the conference was held citizens of the United States with Asiatic in New York city in January, 1898, and countries. Its head offices are in New the Chamber of Commerce at once came York City. forward with its hearty co-operation and The objects of the Pan-Pacific Union, support. with headquarters at the cross roads of Frequent occasions have been found the ocean, are to bring about co-opera- by the American Asiatic Association to tion among all Pacific lands, without spe- address the President of the United cial reference to any one country of the States and the Secretary of State, and Pacific, so that the aims of the two or- the advice has always met with co-op- ganizations splendidly dovetail, as they erative welcome. both fit in with the work of the Pan- In 1917 the Journal of the Association American Union ; perhaps in time they was enlarged and became "Asia" the will all be drawn together. official organ, sent to all members of the The American Asiatic Association Association. The membership takes aims to contribute to a satisfactory ad- women in its fold and the dues are justment of the relations between the merely nominal. It is the aim of "Asia" Asiatic countries and the rest of the to tell facts concerning more than half world by removal of sources of misun- the population of the globe who live with- derstanding and the dissipation of igno- in the 17,213,000 square miles of Asia, rant prejudices, and this it is doing to tell of the aspirations of contemporary splendidly through its official organ, Japan. and modern China, to expound "Asia." Further, the Association is what appears to be the dominant im- pledged to co-operate with all other pulses of both, and to furnish trustworthy agencies to remove existing obstacles to information in regard to commercial, in- peaceful progress and well-being of peo- dustrial and financial developments. The ples of Asiatic countries, and here again policy of the Journal of the Association, it has shown its earnestness in co-operat- as of the Association itself, rests on the ing with the work of the Pan-Pacific confident belief that American sentiment Union. There is a great work before the is friendly to both China and Japan, and two organizations, and the success of the that the controlling American aim is the Pan-American Union only demonstrates creation of better and more intimate re- that the desire for a friendly co-opera- lations with both, and the extending of tion of all Pacific lands is no idle dream, such help as is possible toward bringing but one that can be made a reality per- each into better relations with the other. haps through the endeavors of the or- The American Asiatic Association it is ganizations now seeking to bring this hoped will play a prominent part in the about. Pan Pacific Conference of 1920 at the Both the Pan-Pacific Union and the cross roads of the Pacific, Honolulu. The Red Cross in Japan By a Field Officer to the Orient of the American Red Cross FTER working in the Red Cross headquarters in Washington it is A something of a change to find yourself in Tokyo entering a great dig- nified brick structure which is the home of the Japanese Red Cross. With them it is as if the establishment were fully completed, with smooth-running ma- chinery ; while we have been setting up the plant, building a great organization, and doing a business of gigantic pro- portions—all at the same time and with almost incredible results. In Japan everything is stately ; the building has great rooms for receptions, for dinners, for meetings, apartments for officials ; and the business seems to go as quietly as if it had been running forever. Even the attendant at the door receives you with a quiet and respectful demeanor which makes you realize that you are in an Oriental country ; and as you go up the great steps to meet the officials, you are impressed with the fact that such an organization as this has been gradually attaining its present efficiency through the efforts of years and years. If you are so fortunate—as I was—to be invited to meet the President, Baron Ishiguro; the Vice-President, Mr. Hira- yama ; and the Secretary, Mr. Togo, as a representative of a sister society eight or ten thousand miles away, you will be received with great cordiality. Mr. To- Baron Ishiguro is president of the Japanese go, the Secretary, will talk to you in Red Cross society. He is a retired sur- perfect English. and act as interpreter geon-general of the army, he understands for the other members of the Board. spoken English and is an accomplished French scholar. All, or nearly all of them have visited in the United States, and they know 1885 ; and describe the building up of much more about the American Red the idea, through the war with Russia Cross than we know about the Japanese and the war with China ; of the relations Red Cross. Again, you are impressed with the United States and the American with the quiet orderliness as compared nurses who went to help out in those with the hurly-burly of the scores of times of misery in Japan and Russia, as offices at home, with a telephone ring- they have gone to help in Belgium and ing at every desk, employees running in France. These nurses were offered pay- and out, and hosts of visitors. ment for their services by the war de- If, on the other hand, you should ar- partment, which one is proud to see was rive on a meeting day, we will say, of the returned to Japan, with the explanation committee of ladies of the Society, you that they had come to help without pay. may have the pleasant experience of at- You find here the record of the begin- tending a Japanese affair which has all ning of the plan to stamp out tuberculo- the charm of a children's party as well sis, the relief of prisoners, and all the as an official function.