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CENTS A COPY. NOTICE TO READER: When you finish reading this magaz'ne place a I cent stamp on this notice, hand same to any postal employee and it will be placed in the hands of our soldiers or ptember. 1918. Vol. XVI. No. 3 sailors at the front. No wrapping—no address. A. S. BURLESON, Postmaster-General. ,76e MID-PACIFIC MAGAZINE official of* offfirs F HAWAR A Pan-Paeifie Union celebration. Rending the Declaration of Independence on the Fourth of July In Honolulu ION the leaderst of the Pacific racer there. HML TN CLOSED ICU 620 .M5 UNITED STATES AUSTRALASIA HAWAII ORIENT 'Am. News. Co. Gordon & Gotch Pan-Pacific Union Kelly & Walsh [Destined to be an Historic Program] Saturday Afternoon, June 22, 1918, at the Mid-Pacific Institute, Honolulu, Hawaii The Pan-Pacific Union (An organization having for its aim the advancement of the interests of all Pacific communities) HONORARY PRESIDENTS: Ex-Governor Walter F. Frear of Hawaii; Governor C. J. McCarthy of Hawaii; Prime Minister Wm. M. Hughes of Australia; Premier W. S. Massey, of New Zealand; Hon. Wm. Cameron Forbes, Ex-Governor of the Philippines. With the The Pan-Pacific Association ENTERTAINS The Secretary of the Interior of the United States of America, Hon. Franklin Knight Lane Informal Reception at 5:00 p. m. of the Pan-Pacific Races. Music by the Royal Hawaiian Band, and Filipino Orchestra. At 5:30 p.m. The presentation of the Pan-Pacific Flags, Mr. Lane receiving these for trans- mission to the President of the United States as a token of the loyalty of all Pacific peoples to the doctrine of international co-operation; and sent with a desire that Mr. Wilson accept an honorary presidency in the PAN-PACIFIC UNION. (National airs of Pacific nations by Royal Hawaiian Band) IN MILLS BANQUET HALL At 6:00 p. m. March into the hall, where tables are reserved for representatives of each Pacific race and for delegates from each club and association in Honolulu. (Music by Portuguese ukulele artists) At 6:30 p. m. During the banquet, motion pictures will be shown of previous Pan-Pacific Pageants, as well as films of Kilauea National Park and the Volcano. (Music by Korean Children's Orchestra) BRIEF PAN-PACIFIC ADDRESSES (Limited to seven minutes each, and each speaker introducing his successor) Hon. Walter F. Frear will pass the president's gavel to the Governor of Hawaii, Hon. C. J. McCarthy, who will introduce the Hon. Sanford B. Dole, Ex-President of the Republic of Hawaii, and representing Hawaiian-Americans Hon. Hugh D. McIntosh (Vice-President Pan-Pacific Club, Sydney) Australia Captain Peguenat Canada Dr. Dai Yen Chang The Chinese Rev. Akaiko Akana The Hawaiians Dr. Iga Mori The Japanese in Hawaii Prince Yoshihisa Tokugawa The Spirit of Japan Dr. Syngman Rhee The Koreans Rev. N. C. Dizon The Filipinos Sen. M. C. Pacheco The Portuguese The Hon. W. R. Castle Vice-President of the Pan-Pacific Union Nominating the President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, as Honorary President of the Pan-Pacific Union and the Hon. Franklin K. Lane as Honorary President of the Pan-Pacific Association. HON. FRANKLIN K. LANE America and the Pan-Pacific Movement The National Anthem. f, glizi,./ittrifir magazittr CONDUCTED BY ALEXANDER HUME FORD Vol. XVI. Number 3. CONTENTS FOR SEPTEMBER, 1918. Our Art Section—The Mid-Pacific Institute - - - - 202 The Pan Pacific Union—Election of Woodrow Wilson to Honorary Presidency 217 Presentation of the Pan Pacific Flags 222 Some Pan Pacific Speeches- 225 Magazine Men of the Pacific 233 The Pan Pacific Questionnaire 237 The Chinese Red Cross 241 By Tszang Woohuan, The Story of the Philippines 245 By Frank C. Atherton Feather Work of the Ancient Hawaiians - - - - - 251 By Wm. T. Brigham, A.M.Sc.D. Japan and the Pacific 255 By Henry Staed Something of Sydney 259 By H. A. Parmalee The Javanese Mind 263 By Albert Dauer In and Around Honolulu 267 By Thomas Thrum Snake Worship in New Guinea 271 By Francis Ahearn, Milford the Marvelous Sound - - - - - - - - 275 By 7'. W. Whitson Vladivostok, the Far North City 279 California's New Trade With the East Indies - - - - 283 By John H. Gerrie The Ancient Hawaiian 287 By Professor Vaughan Maccaughey The World's Southernmost City 291 By Edward Albes Editorials 296 O'ne Mib-ilarifir Magazine Published by ALEXANDER HUME FORD, Honolulu, T. H. Printed by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Ltd. Yearly subscriptions in 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 Postalice. Permission is given to republish articles from the Mid-Pacific Magazine. a lmost every race about the great -es sp en d t heir • . $4;4 pi 400 ',,‘+..e,;• , l'il4- M.-. .,. In 11C17,01/1 are men and youths zeho hold worlds records in athletics, many of these are today foremost in energetic preparation for duty at the front, leaving service stars be- hind as they depart. The Mountains of Hawaii have aided much in the training of lice sons for work at the front,. negotiating perilous passes makes tooth daring for the great adventure, and Hawaii is mostly mountains. A few of the young girl students at Mid-Pacific Institute, where all races of the ocean are taught co- operation and a patriotism of the Pacific. A dramatic entertainment at the Mid-Pacific Institute, be it Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Hawaiian the characters, costumes and tongues are reads, for the task. 3 1.113 , O • to p resentto fRagazittr CONDUCTED BY ALEXANDER HUME FORD Volume XVI. SEPTEMBER, 1918. No. 3. Miss Lane and Secretary of Interior Franklin K. Lane ready to receive for President Woodrow Wilson the flags of the Pacific Nations from the Pan-Pacific Union. The Pan-Pacific Union Elects Woodrow Wilson as its Honorary President Secretary Franklin K. Lane bears the Message 6/9 3) (e_ (In Honolulu, the cross roads of the Pacific, at the Mid Pacific Institute on June 22nd, 1918, Secretary Franklin K. Lane was elected president of the Pan Pacific Association and 'undertook to bear to President Wilson the flags of all Pacific nations, with the request that he act as Honorary President of the Pan Pacific Union. He spoke to some 700 men of all Pacific races in the banquet hall of the Mid Pacific Institute after receiving the flags and listening to short speeches from the leader of each Pacific race in Hawaii. Secretary Lane's remarks are printed here.) I.adies' and : the prime quality in man upon which all HIS has been an afternoon and civilization is based—the desire for an evening of great inspiration greater knowledge. I have attended T to me ; and of great enlighten- many dinners where speeches were ment; and an evening that has raised made upon questions, social, religious 218 T H E MID-PACIFIC and political, but I have never attended side and not regard each other as eter- such a dinner as this ; where men born nally born to fight each other. to speak other tongues than my own. Do you realize that there is not a man and of far different tendencies, tradition, who has spoken, representing the Pacific and spirit, speak my tongue not only countries, who does not represent men with fluency, but speak it in the spirit of at the Front ? Do you realize this sig- the highest American Christian civiliza- nificant thing? If there are any who tion. have wondered why our United States There has been no , word said that in- is at war, why is it that from Australia dicated in the slightest that this world and the South, clear around this great was made the foundation for an eternal ocean, seven thousand miles across, not contest between man and man. This is one single nation is at war on the side now the philosophy that governs in the of Germany. Every nation, from the German, if you will search deeply into United States north to the Arctic, down the causes of this war. You will find again to the South Pole, is allied with that every man who has spoken here has the United States, England, France, Por- spoken in antagonism to the German tugal and Italy. spirit; that the war itself is the out- You spoke of there being twenty or growth of a desire on the part of a few thirty races or nationalities represented men to master many men—a desire to here tonight. It is an astonishing exercise power over those who do not thing. I presume that there is but one desire that power to be exercised over other place where such a gathering them. They believe that this round could be held—not in any great city, not globe is covered with people of different in our national capital, but on the line races who must inevitably fight as ani- that faces Germany, in Prance ! There mals—fight as men long ago fought—to are the Canadian forces-500,000 of the destruction of their enemies ; that the them have gone across—and Japanese world is to be dominated by one race : sail these seas for the protection of the that there is such a thing as the "sur- Hawaiian Islands and the United States ; vival of the fittest" among men as well my visit to you certainly is made possi- as among animals, and therefore they ble by the fact that Japan has a ship in demand their place in the sun—which is this harbor, and others up her commo- dious sleeves ! China has 200,000 men power above all others ; they supreme, others dependent.