Where Hawaii is Not
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From Our Own Correspondent
1 Papeete, Nov. 29.
LISTENED to a speech by the Austra lian Minister to the United States Perhaps you heard it! He cited Hawaii as the model for the “develop ment” of the islands throughout the Pacific.
So that festering Pompeii, which is Honolulu, is destined to be the glittering capital of our island world! The Cham ber of Commerce, the Booster Club, the Tourist Bureau, Rotary, the Big Five have performed the mystic rites. Kim mel and Short are to be “whitewashed”; the true cause of the Pearl Harbour dis aster is to be buried in echo-less caverns of oblivion: the high-priests of the dark arcana will congratulate each other over
foaming beakers.
The old formulae—disguised by the splendpur of regal trappings of sweetness and light—will, the more speedily, des patch the pitiful remnant of island life to the realm of shadows. The children of the gods must make way for the thunderous progress of the sons and daughters of the Barbary Ape.