Vol. XL. No. 6 25 Cents a Copy December, 1930 MID-PACIFIC MAGAZINE, A JAPAN PAN-PACIFIC CLUB NUMBER IN HONOR OF PRINCE TOKUGAWA'S VISIT TO THE PAN-PACIFIC CLUB OF HONOLULU His Majesty Hirohito, the Emperor of Japan. When the Pan-Pacific Association of Japan was formed, a decade ago, Prince Iyesato Tokugawa as its first (and present) president, sent by Consul General Yada a silken Japanese flag, which was presented on the capitol steps in Honolulu to the then Governor Wallace R. Farrington, President of the Pan-Pacific Union. g 1 OOL'Mnflinatt,ColatiathaOn AA ''''''M: 11 4. f. 11 4.• h 11 1; TI-Ir artur aga3tur . CONDUCTED BY ALEXANDER HUME FORD . Volume XL . N umber 6 . • CONTENTS FOR DECEMBER, 1930 • . • Proceedings of the Pan-Pacific Club of Tokyo: .9 q Meet the American Ambassador and Old Friends at the • Pan-Pacific Club of Tokyo 503 • Friends in China 509 • By Gilbert Bowles • • • Australia and Her Workers 513 By Arthur Garrels, U. S. Consul General . • • 41 New Conditions in China 517 4. • By George Bronson Rea ez President Viscount Inouye Goes Abroad and Mr. F. H. • Brown Talks on "Athletics in Japan" - - - - 523 . Research in English Literature 529 -4 By Professor P. Huntley . • Japanese in North America 532 . 1 By Professor Shimji Yonemoto • 4 Dr. Sherwood Eddy Talks on "India" and Dr. Kirby Page • on the "Pact of Paris" 537 • . The Interdependence of Nations 543 . 2 Sir John Tilley,By British Ambassador to Japan 4 • „ Rejuvenation Reaches Japan 547 .• -.. By Professor Serge Voronoff • ED Japan's Mission of Gratitude 551 . New Zealand and Japan 555 • By Miss Crighton Imrie An Ambassador of Friendship from Canada - - - - 559 . The Pan-Pacific Club of Osaka 563 An Address by H. E. Prince Iyesato Tokugawa Japanese Relations 565 . iEs-• • By The Honorable William Castle, Jr., American Ambassador • • Japan apan • . Japan, Our Friend 573 g • By J. J. Donovan • Index to Volume XL (July to December, 1930, inclusive) - 579 • Bulletin of the Pan-Pacific Union 581 New Series, No. 130 . alle illth-rarifir Magazine . 1 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 • 1. Mexico, $3.25. For all foreign countries, $3.50. Single Copies, 25c. ■ Entered as second-class matter at the Honolulu Postoffice. a or Permission is given to reprint any article from the Mid-Pacific Magazine. rutruntiFICNICTIMIT.MPUTIVIIVITNITYITYrIUM1770.711K7nUIPUIWITIIIPUnC111C7I • • • • ICJIIIVI • • Printed by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Ltd. 502 THE MID-PACIFIC Prince Iyesato Tokugawa, President of the Imperial Diet in Japan, trustee of the Pan-Pacific Union, honorary head of the Pan-Pacific Club in Tokyo, and head of the entire Pan-Pacific Association in Japan. THE MID-PACIFIC 503 United States Ambassador William Cameron Forbes addressing the Pan-Pacific Club in Tokyo 14 i 1C711L71,IGTIC7IIVIPUTIK7rIvtil.711VrIC711C/P7M:01711C7rIMU71CMurlipuur • • • • Proceedings of the Pan-Pacific . N . Club of Tokyo E. • 4 *_12,2dhaircainut2ocennninunnTrunintichathaticriattanunnuramaunthauca e • • • • The Pan-Pacific Club of Tokyo was organized by the Pan-Pacific Union a decade ago, with Viscount T. Inouye as President, and Prince I. Tokugawa, Hon- orary President. The club has held its weekly luncheons at the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, and here, the leading men of the world in general, and Japan in particular, have voiced their views before the outstanding men of all races residing in the Jap- anese capital. Herewith are presented, (not in consecutive order) the steno- graphic minutes of a number of recent Pan-Pacific Club meetings in Tokyo. CHAIRMAN : Marquis Hachizuka. sador has, I understand, been in the Phil- SPEAKERS : William Cameron F o r b e s, ippines for many years, so that he knows American Ambassador, Everett Wells the Far East thoroughly. We are very Frazar, Daniel Henry Blake. glad to receive him and welcome him, and Marquis Hachizuka: I have pleasure in no doubt through his personality the cor- announcing three distinguished guests to- diality of two nations will be furthered. day: His Excellency William Cameron His Excellency William Cameron Forbes, the American Ambassador, Mr. Forbes: I have a kind of hereditary in- Frazar and Mr. Blake. terest in the Pacific Ocean and in the Far His Excellency the American Ambas- East, and so I have a sort of feeling, in 504 THE MID-PACIFIC Hon. William Cameron Forbes as he was when, in the Philippines, he first took an interest in the Pan-Pacific Union some two decades ago; he has been a friend of the Union for nearly a generation. THE MID-PACIFIC 505 coming out here, as if I were in a sense them, and that is coming more rapidly, I coming home. My paternal grandfather believe, than any of us think. Every year was a clerk in the banking house of Rus- there are bigger, better and faster steam- sell & Company in China ; he came out ers being built, and it is not too much to before he was twenty years of age and by predict that it will not be long before the the time he was twenty-one he found him- improved quality and size and rapidity of self at the head of the house. He lived in steamship lines span the Pacific as they Canton, and was the confidential agent of now do the Atlantic, so that not only the great Chinese merchant, Han Kwa, Japan and the United States, but China, who always thought of him in the high- Australia, South America and all coun- est terms. I have recently discovered a tries bordering on the Pacific will be cheque signed by Han Kwa for $300,000 much nearer. Perhaps the time is not so which he sent my grandfather to invest far distant when we will be united still for him in the United States, and a power more closely by air service, because the of attorney as representative in his busi- rapidity with which improvements are ness. My grandfather on the other side now being made makes it possible that the was a student of oriental thought and was time required to travel between the con- greatly influenced by religious and philo- tinents of America and Asia will be re- sophical studies of the East, so that he duced to a fraction of what it is now. also had an oriental tinge in his life. But Just think what we have seen in the it is more as a merchant than as a philos- lifetime of everybody in this room, in re- opher that I come because I have my line gard to improvement in means of com- in material affairs, and when I am asked munication, in radio. You can sit in Japan what my business is I always write my- and listen to music in the United States. self down as a merchant. In the same way a speech made by some With this background I went first to great orator in almost any part of the the Philippine Islands, passing on my world can be listened to in the humblest journey to and from there by way of Jap- home, all over the world, in every con- an. This is now my eleventh visit to this tinent. This is an amazing development. country. I came first in 1904, and I can When we think of the developments that see many changes have taken place. I can- have been made, we wonder what new de- not help marveling at the great progress gree of nearness may come, what new dis- which Japan makes and has made in spite covery may be at the threshold. I know, of all kinds of obstacles, particularly the for instance, that they are considering the calamity of the earthquake which de- establishment of a wireless connection stroyed so much valuable property. And between the telephone systems of Japan yet all these calamities have their advan- and the United States, so that you will be tages. I doubt very much if, in a hundred able to sit in your room in the Imperial years, people perhaps will not think that Hotel, if you are lucky enough to have the earthquake was an advantage, because one, and talk to some friend in Wiscon- it made possible this wonderful modern sin. city of Tokyo with its wide streets and I would like to say thati do not think great open spaces which before you were unable to have. the idea of a Pan-Pacific Union of inter- This Pan-Pacific Club is to my mind est only as a dream. I think we are on something of great importance. I like to the threshold of it. think of a Pan-Pacific Union. I like to Marquis Hachizuka: I thank His Ex- think of the Pacific Ocean, instead of sep- cellency for his very interesting address. arating the countries that border on it, We all still remember the relief given to being looked upon as a device for uniting us years ago at the time of the earth- 506 THE MID -PACIFIC quake, and are full of gratitude for what body. He will tell you many interesting America did to help us then. things that occurred there. There are two other guests today, Mr. I am also delighted to greet our new Frazar and Mr. Blake, but they are so Ambassador. It has been my privilege in well known in Japan that I do not think New York, Washington, and San Fran- they need any introduction from me. cisco, to attend luncheons given to him, Mr. Everett Wells Frazar: It is with and I know that we are fortunate in hav- particular feelings of pleasure that I am ing as our ambassador one who claims to here today, first to thank you for your be a merchant, for it is the merchant who cordial welcome, and the honor extended has to do the real hard work here.