Review of Ecviews, 1/12/13. 



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THE HANDS - AROUND - THE - PACIFIC 



MOVEMENT. 



The idea of a club, whose object 

 slioulcl be the fostering of a feeling 

 of fellowship amongst the dwellers in 

 the various lands and islands of the 

 Pacific, originated in Sydne\'. The or- 

 ganisation was actually launched at the 

 University Club Building in Honolulu 

 on November 8, 191 1. Its moving spirit 

 was Alexander Hume Ford, editor of 

 the " Mid-Pacific Magazine," and the 

 occasion was a dinner given to Percy 

 Hunter, the director of the New South 

 Wales Tourist Bureau. At that dinner 

 several hundred people from every part 

 of the Pacific gathered together, and 

 pledged themselves to carry out by 

 e\ ery means in their power a move- 

 ment for better understanding and 

 closer relations between the Pacific 

 peoples. The following prospectus was 

 outlined : — - 



Membership in the Club is open to 

 an\' person who is or has been a resi- 

 dent in any Pacific land or Island, who 

 pays one dollar a year dues, and sub- 

 scribes to the following objects : 



To promote in all Pacific lands a 

 friendly feeling among those resident 

 there who are from various Pacific lands 

 or Islands, or who have visited them. 



To spread abroad around the Pacific 

 a knowledge of all Pacific communities, 

 and to secure from each other, and 

 around the Pacific, a better knowledge 

 of the lands in and about the Great 

 Ocean, and the objects, aims and ambi- 

 tions of their respective people. 



To aid in securing co-operation on 

 the part of the many Pacific govern- 

 ni.ents in worthy objects, looking toward 

 the attraction from Euroiie and 

 America of tourists, immigrants, and 

 business men, and all whose presence 

 in Pacific lands will be a distinct gain 

 to the common interests of all who live 

 about the Pacific. 



To take an active part in any move- 

 ment directed toward the betterment of 

 his own and each of the other Pacific 

 communities as a place of residence or 

 a land to visit. 



To keep alive a pride in the land in 

 which we live as well as the land from 

 which we came, and to do all we can to 

 make both more worthy of that pride. 



Although started in Honolulu, the 

 Hands-around-the-Pa:cific movement is 

 by no means a Hawaiian organisation. 

 The Islands form an ideal headquarters 

 for they are at the cross roads of the 

 Pacific, but branches of the club are to 

 be found in Sydney, Chicago, San Fran- 

 cisco and m London, where Sir George 

 Reid is president. The Hon. Walter F. 

 Frear, Governor of Hawaii, is president 

 of the general movement. 



The movement, however, is not con- 

 fined to Anglo-Saxons, for among the 

 officers are the president of Peru, a 

 leader of the Chinese Revolution, a pro- 

 minent gentleman of Japan, and other 

 men of earnestness about the Pacific. 



At the first banquet in Honolulu bril- 

 liant addresses were made by Koreans, 

 Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Austra- 

 lasians, Latin-Americans, and South Sea 

 Islanders, California and the Pacific 

 Coast representatives ; each along the 

 line of getting all Pacific countries to 

 work together for the advancement of 

 the Pacific. 



The value of good understanding be- 

 tween Australia, the LTnited States, 

 China and Japan is obvious. Good fel- 

 lowship is a far better protection than 

 battleshi]Ts and armies. W'e are spend- 

 ing iJ^6, 000,000 this year on preparations 

 for possible friction with our neighbours. 

 We are not spending a thousand pounds 

 on promoting friendl)' relations, the 

 grease which prevents all friction in the 

 diplomatic machine. 



No more striking example of the ad- 

 vantage of friendly arrangement over 

 rough-shod methods can be found than 

 the difference in the present relations 

 between Japan and Hawaii, and Japan 

 and California. There is no law^ to pre- 

 vent Japanese flocking to Hawaii, but 

 when it was intimated to Japan that it 

 was desirable that no more of her citi- 

 zens come to Hawaii, Japan at once re- 



