Vol. XXXVIII. No. 4 25 Cents a Copy October, 1929 .76 MID-PACIFIC MAGAZINE oean ofzi4e ACIFIC UNION Some of the delegates to the Pan-Pacific Surgical Conference who were house guests at the Pan-Pacific Research Institution : Dr. W. A. Osborne and Dr. Robert Pulleine, of Australia ; the Director of the Pan-Pacific Union, Alex- ander Hume Ford ; Dr. Y. S. Lee and Dr. H. R. Kang, of Korea; Dr. F. C. Yen. Dr. Tsai Hung, and Dr. Wu Lien Teh, official delegates of the Nanking Government. Hon. Walter Francis Frear, Ex-Governor of Hawaii. and for ten years a President of the Pan-Pacific Union. He attends the Institute of Pacific Relations meeting in Kyoto this fall. ;..,„*frogot).240%iv---wecifrim- • rriiviti • warrtotryiwKwvoyiovesredy,f,m-a.c .. ,4, • • 1 r futo_parttir maga3tur E. 3 CONDUCTED BY ALEXANDER HUME FORD .3 *,.... Volume XXXVIII Number 4 1'1 1 :AD CONTENTS FOR OCTOBER, 1929 i .1 i •1 Eas Es 13 '4 Pan-Pacific Conferences of the Year 303 .1 Racial Differences in the Pacific—Assets or Liabilities? - 305 .1 By J. Merle Davis 01 IA Sister Pacific Organizations 313 By Hon. Kei(hi Yamasaki *1.3 Xa I ,..'- Report of Dr. Lawrence E. Griffin on the Pan-Pacific Food .1 Conservation Conference 317 =t Possibilities in Fruit Beverages 325 3 4.!. g By H. B. Farley, Fruit Products Laboratory of the University 1 0Y.. of California 4 The Forests of the Hawaiian Islands 333 • $ By Charles S. Jude! 4 Do We Need More Farm Land? 337 g Fil By 0. E. Baker, Senior ,laricultural Econom s University of .3 .>:..■i>11 Minnesota .:„...,.- g 61. Animal Industry and Forest Crops in Hawaii - - - - 353 r>3 • By Professor 1,. .4. Menke .3 1 ,):.=- What is Education? 361 il ,..- By Royer T. Tq..itchell E,a Journal of the Pan-Pacific Research Institution, No. 4, Volume IV. • t--, ■>_. Bulletin of the Pan-Pacific Union No. 116. .3 ■4.. .3 N ,,,...i.„,. • ,..->7. Tip fiatb-Parifir !I: agazitte Honolulu, T. H. Published monthly by ALEXANDER HUME FORD, Alexander Young Hotel Building, Canada and Yearly subscription in the United States and possessions, $3.00 in advance. Copies, 25c. .3 :)- Mexico, $3.25. For all foreign countries, $3.50. Single Entered as second-class matter at the Honolulu Postoffice. .2 ,-,-; ,._. Permission is given to publish articles from the Mid-Pacific Magazine. t 7III1 fl IL ThiRAitkiiiIVIIISA.k. VI V4J 41 il),AIIV■ ■%/11V4 //PO, / Printed by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Ltd. 302 THE MID-PACIFIC Mrs. and the Hon. Wallace R. Farrington, former Governor of Hawaii, and President of the Pan-Pacific Union, who will attend the Institute of Pacific Relations in Kyoto. THE MID-PACIFIC 303 1-111121MOKRUMIEUZUmmul , Pan-Pacific Conferences of 1929 •triNtrdtitte4,1N4ittelM • •1 • • • • ($ • altrilititiAltrisittaNtalVtrilts • • .1 • tram Some half a dozen offspringssprings of the its first President, now Vice-President, Pan-Pacific Union have held or are hold- Hon. Walter F. Frear. Dr. T. Har- ing international Conferences this year in ade, a Trustee of the Pan-Pacific some part of the world, but chiefly in the Union, is another delegate, as is Dr. K. Pacific area. F. Lam, one of the important workers The First Pan-Pacific Surgical Con- in the recent Pan-Pacific Surgical Con- ference has come to a close in Honolulu, gress. The fifth, Dr. Romanzo Adams, and is now an independent autonomous was one of those who was closely asso- body that will meet every three years in ciated with the Union in its early days Honolulu, under its own auspices. of its round table discussions when twelve men from each Pacific race in Hawaii The Fourth Pan-Pacific Science Con- met monthly at the invitation of the gress was recently held in Java, attended Union, to discuss matters on which they by several hundred scientists from every could not agree, and so the language- part of the Pacific. This first child of the press question, and the language school Pan-Pacific Union was born in Honolulu question reached satisfactory solutions a decade ago. and a start was made that ended Jap- In Java also was held the third Sugar anese-American dual citizenship ; locally Technologist Congress. This organization there seemed nothing left in which all came into being as a section of the First races could not agree to walk together Pan-Pacific Food Conservation Confer- in harmony. The Institute of Pacific Re- ence. lations has taken all this up on an inter- national scale, and with great success. The First Pan-Pacific Educational Con- ference met in Honolulu at the call of The Institute of Pacific Relations never the Union, and its second session, as the held a session under the auspices of the Pan-PaCific Section of the great educa- Union. While still a Pan-Pacific Y.M. tional meet in San Francisco, that has be- C.A. Conference project, by mutual agree- come the World Educational Conference, ment and friendly compact separation was meeting this year in Geneva, where dele- agreed upon and ever since maintained. gates from the Union are present to in- Racial differences in the Pacific are set vite the next World Conference to con- forth in the leading article of this num- vene in Hawaii. ber of the Mid-Pacific Magazine, by Mr. The third gathering of the Institute of Merle Davis, Secretary of the Institute Pacific Relations meets this October in of Pacific Relations, in an address at the Kyoto, Japan. Organized originally as a Pan-Pacific Research Institution, while Y.M.C.A. Conference by the Pan-Pacific other papers read at this organization on questions involving race and population Union, its leaders were men who had their problems and herewith published may be training with the Union, and it is pleasant of some informative value to the gather- to note that of the five delegates already ing of the Institute in Kyoto in October. pledged to go from Hawaii to the Kyoto In this hope the present number is pub- meet, three are high officers of the Pan- lished and sent with best wishes and Pacific Union, one its President, Ex- great Aloha to the members of the third Governor Wallace R. Farrington, another meet of the Institute of Pacific Relations. 304 THE MID-PACIFIC THE MID-PACIFIC 305 The American group at first gathering of the Institute of Pacific Relations in Honolulu in 1925. • • • atirairIWRIpfIpI •VW... 11'0%7:Yr • • •41 1.W,Mill, t. 00000 ,,M,j,,,A,W71 • IPJASII .1 5 .1 .-.‘R, Racial Differences in the 5 Pacific—Assets or Liabilities fl 5 t■ By MR. J. MERLE DAVIS 5 General Secretary, Institute of Pacific Relations, Given at the 5 1)Pan-Pacific Research Institution. 5. .1444■Taltreml • rlrirattillt• • atiril" 000 WA 7L -ii—i- aaaa ta recittiAtailtliriA •ltril My purpose in speaking tonight is to Malay,—those three racial groups are share with you some thoughts on the extremely distinct in their characteris- subject, "Racial Differences in t h e tics. Pacific, Assets or Liabilities?" In our Institute of Pacific Relations The fact of race difference is some- conferences we have noticed with inter- thing we do not need to emphasize here est some of the fundamental differences in Hawaii. There is a good deal of between the Japanese and the Chinese. variation between some of the branches It has been especially interesting because of the Anglo-Saxon race that super- they were picked people from those two ficially are considered to he very much great races. The ease with which the alike. When you come to the Orient you Chinese delegates participate as con- find there are tremendous differences trasted with the diffidence of the Japan- between the Oriental races. The Chi- ese is one of the striking features of nese, the Japanese, the Korean, and the these conferences. 306 THE MID-PACIFIC The Japanese in their way are among the most industrious people in -the world. Within a half century they have lifted themselves from near the bottom of the industrial ladder to an equality with the greatest nations in the world. THE MID-PACIFIC 307 When, however, you contrast the East come to the stage of exploitation, both with the West and study their differ- in the friendship between individuals and ences, the problem becomes an extremely between races. Each side wants to find interesting and complicated one. I think out how the other can be useful to him. it does no good whatever to either min- After you get through that stage you imize or exaggerate this great fact of begin to find the value of inter-depend- racial difference. It is just a fact like ence and of mutual cooperation. When any fact, that is there and must be rec- you reach that point you have the foun- ognized and dealt with. There are vari- dation for permanent, satisfactory rela- ous ways of dealing with it. You can tionships. take it as an abstract bit of data with no There is little opportunity of gaining reference to life or you can take it as a from racial contacts until you have foundation stone on which to build hu- passed the first two or three stages of man relationships. I think it is the latter this progressive acquaintanceship, and interpretation in which our Institute of probably we of the Pacific area are just Pacific Relations is interested. What is emerging from the third stage,—that of there in this fact of race difference upon mutual exploitation. The Orient has which we can constructively build ? been exploiting Western civilization and At our conference two years ago has extracted much benefit from it and someone said, "There are two kinds of appropriated it for themselves.