as these pupils, children representing the great 
and little peoples of both the Old World and the 
New World, harmoniously absorb the civic ideals 
and other teachings of modern development, their 
elders agreeably associate in business, politics, 
sports, public welfare, private enterprise, culture, 
and patriotic endeavor. 
Hawaii’s world point of view 
Hawaii’s point of view is a world point of view. 
One is not long in Honolulu, where the world is 
set forth in miniature, and where leaders and 
thinkers of the five continents, and erudite travelers 
of the seven seas, are forever passing to and fro, 
before he thinks in world terms. 
It is as if he were on a great height, in a sort of 
magic atmosphere that magnifies distant objects so 
that they appear to be very near and plainly under¬ 
stood. The world appears as something ever so 
much smaller than he had supposed; for before 
him are the peoples of the earth. 
Tie sees that they are all men and women not a 
great deal unlike himself, though some may be 
garmented differently, and some may be speaking 
with less facility than he; though their happy 
faces and busy hands reveal skins of white, brown, 
yellow, olive, or copper-color, with perhaps here 
and there a complexion of red or black. He senses 
the merely incidental importance of tribal peculiar¬ 
ities where tolerance of one another’s minor charac¬ 
teristics so clearly distinguishes the conduct of dis¬ 
tinct races in process of assimilation. 
AN EXAMPLE TO THE NATIONS 
In this common tolerance, and in the extent to 
which assimilation obtains, together with the coop¬ 
eration of the various elements for all common in¬ 
terests, he beholds a community such as all nations 
might well look to as a model. Indeed, he sees an 
example which the whole world of nations might 
well imitate; for, it occurs to him, if Hawaii, on 
a small scale, can make such a success of harmon¬ 
izing widely differing peoples, why cannot the 
various governments and peoples of the earth, 
whose noblest ideals and principles are identical, 
sink their ancient but superficial differences for 
the sake of a peaceful community of the whole 
world. 
Many eloquent but truthfully descriptive titles 
have been given to the Hawaiian Islands—more 
particularly to Honolulu, as the capital city, 
largest town, and chief port, where are the head¬ 
quarters of federal and territorial governments, 
and where United States army and navy forces and 
armaments are established. 
Mark Twain referred to the archipelago as 
“the loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in 
any ocean.” American missionaries, a century 
ago, found Captain Cook’s Sandwich Islands a 
veritable “Paradise of the Pacific,” a chain of 
gardens where the seed of Christianity found good 
soil. Steam and electricity, with their ocean liners 
and submarine cables and rvireless communication, 
have emphasized Honolulu as “The Crossroads of 
the Pacific,” a term more generally accepted since 
the opening of the Panama canal. 
“pulpit of the pacific” 
Since the Pan-Pacific Union has brought rep¬ 
resentatives from many countries to scientific and 
educational congresses, Honolulu has been honored 
with a new name—-“The Pulpit of the Pacific.” 
Who, a few years ago, would have thought of this 
mid-sea island metropolis as a “convention city 2” 
And yet such is it coming to be, and in even more 
than a Pan-Pacific sense. As the assembly place 
of the Press Congress of the World, it is blessed 
with greater potentiality. Human thought, energy, 
and accomplishment in due time come to recognize 
a natural center of exchange, and Honolulu is so 
situated geographically that her strategical, com¬ 
mercial and social importance increases as world 
affairs inevitably bring Occident and Orient closer 
together in business and friendship. 
America’s Territory of Hawaii lies in the 
North Pacific, between 18-51 and 22-11 north 
latitude, and 154-48 and 160-13 west longitude, a 
little over 2000 miles southwest of San Francisco, 
more than 4600 miles from Panama, nearly 3500 
miles from Yokohama, and over 4400 miles from 
Sydney, reckoning from Honolulu. 
Whether considered from a business or senti¬ 
mental point of view, Honolulu is the Hub or the 
Heart of the Pacific, or both. Many great steam¬ 
ship lines make Hawaii’s capital a port of call, 
and their number is increasing. Larger vessels 
are added to the trans-oceanic and round-the-world 
traffic as the growing needs of commerce and travel 
require. Atlantic and Gulf ports of the United 
States, and maritime cities of the Old World, are 
in touch with these Islands by way of the Panama 
canal. Geographically distant from the great 
centers of population and trade, Honolulu is 
brought close to earth’s principal communities by 
swift liners and by lightning communication af¬ 
forded by electrical science. At the junction of 
numerous paths of world-transportation, both 
freight and passenger, Honolulu marks the spot 
where East meets West, and where. North and 
South find interests in common. 
Steamships connect Honolulu with New York, 
Baltimore, Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco, Los 
Angeles, Panama, Central and South American 
Pacific ports, the Philippine Islands, Chinese, 
Japanese, Siberian, Javanese, and Indian ports, 
and ports of Australia and New Zealand, and the 
islands of the South Seas. 
HONOLULU-SAN FRANCISCO 
Between San Francisco and Honolulu steamers 
are passing in either direction two or three times 
a week, occupying five or six days. These latter 
boats, or most of them, are operated by the Matson 
Navigation Company, the China Mail Steam- 
STEAMSHIP CONNECTIONS 
