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The nations most
are the United States,
Japan and Australia, with France
not averse to picking up a few for
seeking possible landing places for
planes.
Hawaii has been considered
crossroads of the Pacific. It was a
stopping place for the American
clipper ships from Boston around
the Horn and on to China and re-
turn. It was the refitting place for
American whalers and traders in
the early years of the last century.
As the commerce of the Pacific
increased, Honolulu grew in
portance as a port of call,
harbor each year. Great Pacific
liners from San Francisco and Los
Zealand and other South Sea is-
lands, as do others from California
around the world. Ships from Eu-
rope and eastern American points,
bound for the Far East through the
Panama Canal, stop at Honolulu.
The islands have been, and are,
the crossroads of the Pacific so far
Punch Bowl in Honolulu and follow
the directions of the arrows point.
ing to the far cities of the nations,
north, south, east and west, border-
ing this greatest of oceans.
And now to ships there has been
added airplanes, the clipper ships
of the air, with Hawaii at the cross-
roads of the air lines.
Race for Bases Starts
Because the American flag flew
over two small islands, Midway and
Wake, west of Hawaii an American
air line to the Far East, to the Phil
ippines and China, was made pos-
sible.
Last year Japan established an
air service between its mandated
islands in the Pacific, and is seek-
ing bases that will make possible a
line between Tokyo and South
America, a line neither England
nor America would wish to see es-
tablished.
Within the past few months the
Japs made an effort to secure King-
man Reef, a coral atoll with a har-
bor formed by a coral reef, situated
about 900 miles south of the Ha-
wailan Islands. It is American
owned, included within the munici-
pal boundaries of Honolulu, and the
American owner, a resident of Ho-
nolulu, did not sell.
In this race for islands the latest
American pioneers are a group of
Hawaiian school boys led by Dr.
Dana Coman, who colonized Jar-
vis, Baker and Howland Islands
and so established American sov-
ereignty, which has now been rec-
ognized by England.
Establish New Air Line
The purpose of it all was the es-
tablishment of another American
air line from San Francisco to New
Zealand, with Honolulu as the first
port out of San Francisco. That
new line, a contract for which has
been signed between Pan-American
Airways and the government of
New Zealand, is to be in operation
by the end of this year. The route
is from San Francisco to Honolulu,
then to Kingman Reef, which the
Japs did not get, to Pago Pago, the
American island of the Samoas,
and to Auckland. American Sikor-
sky clipper ships will be used, and
a maximum requirement is for two
ships each way each week.
Other American air routes in the
South Pacific are being considered,
If it is possible to secure landing
privileges for American planes in
Australia, a line will be established
between Honolulu and Sydney,
using as bases the islands of Jar-
vis, Baker or Howland. Jarvis Is-
land is on the equator and is the
geographical center of the Pacific.
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vided a stopping place between
Midway and Guam.
It long has been a recognized
5 miles north and south. It dries
at low water on its northeastern,
eastern and southeastern edges; at
the western extreme there is a
patch of 4 fathoms, and possibly less,
on which the sea breaks occasion-
ally. The remainder is encircled by
a ridge with depths of 4 to 10 fath-
oms, between which are soundings
of 14 to 45 fathoms. Outside this
ridge the bank falls suddenly to
depths of 300 to 400 fathoms.
Jarvis Island
Approximately on the equator
and the 160th meridian; 1,375 sea
miles, 1,575 land miles, slightly,
United States has laid claim
up in
United States
1922,
department
Washington in
War
and marked them as being claimed
by both Britain and the United
Statess The Department of Com-
flat” of coral formation, 1.7 square
miles in area.
The island was supposed to have
the English ship Eliza Francis,
1821. Surveyed by officers of
S. S. St. Mary's, 1857. Annexed
Britain, 1889. Leased to
Pacific Phosphate Company of Lon-
by U. S. colonists from Honolulu,
question of American ownership,
who were in the guano business. If
ment
claim.
is expected to establish its
Visits Jarvis Island
William T. Miller, Superintendent
acknowledged.
Howland Island
Latitude 0:49 north; longitude
176: 43-west; 36 sea miles (approxi-
mately 40 land miles) north of
and 1620 sea miles
(approximately 1,860 land miles)
southwest of Honolulu. About two
mile wide; from 18 to 20 feet high:
of coral formation, with a fringing
Commerce, recently visited these
islands. He reports that Jarvis Is-
land, 1,500 miles due south from
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The island appears to have been
first reported by Capt. George E.
Netcher, of New Bedford, as dis-
Hawaii—which U. 8. outpost must
be the primary base of all air routes
in the Pacific—is suitable as an all
way landing field for land planes or
amphibians. A safe seaplane an-
chorage can be made on the lee of
the island. Two areas on Howland
and others on Baker, which are
1,700 miles southwest of Honolulu,
can be made usable through the
expenditure of small sums
money.
These islands offer alternate
routes to the South Pacific. Jarvis
is more directly on the route from
Hawaii to New Zealand, while Ba-
ker and Howland point straight to-
ward Australia.
As Honolulu is today the princi-
pal port in the long flight from San
Francisco to Manila, so Pago Pago,
the beautiful Samoan island and
harbor belonging to America, will
be the principal port on the long
flight from Honolulu to Auckland.
Its landlocked and commodious
harbor affords an ideal landing
place for the ships of the air, as it
has for the ships of the water.
When within a few months the
new clipper ships of the air begin
their flights, made possible to a
large extent by the pioneering of a
group of Hawaiian school boys,
they will bring us within hailing
distance of the beauty, the ro
mance, the adventure of our
dreams-the South Seas.
A brief description of these new
island outposts for American air-
planes follows:
Kingman Reef
Latitude 6:25 north, longitude
162:, approximately 922 miles south
of Honolulu. It is of atoll character,
covered September 9, 1842. Alfred
G. Benson, American Guano Com-
pany of New York and Charles H.
Judd of Honolulu took possession
February 5, 1857 “by erecting a
house and pole, putting up Ameri-
can flag and leaving various im-
plements of business.”
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Pacific Islands Company at one
was established in 1935,
Baker Island
176:33 west, about 1,650 sea miles,
approximately 1,805 land miles,
southwest of Honolulu. Of coral for-
most bare of vegetation,
patches of grass. About one mile
long east and west, 1500 yards wide,
surrounded by a reef 200 to 400 feet
wide, awash at low water. There is
no fresh water on the island.
The island was discovered by
Captain H. Foster, barque Jamaica.
Taken by U. 8S. 1857. Capt. John
Paty, Hawaiian schooner Liholiho,
reported to R. C. Wyllie, minister
of interior, Hawaiian kingdom, vi.
siting island February 12, 1857, and
that it had been *‘taken possession
of under American flag by A. Ben-
son, agent of American Guano
Company." David L. Gregg, U. 8.
commissioner to Hawaii, reported
to state department, 1857, that Al
fred J. Benson of American Guano
Lompatly of New York, and Charles
H. J of Honolulu sailed with
Capt. Fy in than year and that
formal notice possession was
left at Jarvis, Howland and Baker
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JOHN BLAKE
€ Bell Syndicate, —~WNU Service.
The films of travel, which cgr-
and back again
have vastly
broadened the
horizons of nil
Eyes Around
the World
spect have proved to be of high
value.
The opportunities of most peo-
limited. : |
The average person in small |
towns and country places has a
very dim idea of the length and
breadth of the world, or of the
people who live in places remote
from him.
Today almost every boy and
girl can tell you of the Taj Ma- |
hal, or of the Desert of Sahara, |
or the peaks of the Andes, or of |
life in remote cities like London, |
Paris and Constantinople. i
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Mr. Shakespeare informs us
that *“home-keeping youth have
ever homely wits.”
But “homely wits’ hardly ex-|
A Veiled Figure
HE heart of man resem-
bles a secret chamber
wherein stands—like the block
of white unhewn marble set
in the studio of a sculptor—a
veiled figure. Though the man
may not so much as lift the
corner of the veil, yet Le for-
ever and in secret works to
fashion and form the figure
that lies beneath.
And the figure is the Soul of
the man, and the unveiling
thereof is called death: and
until the figure be unveiled,
the man scarce knoweth what
manner of man he is.—Coulson
Kernahan.
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ist when practically all the peo-
ple of all the civilized countries
of the world can, by paying a
small price for a seat in a cine-
ma theater look
world and back again.”
The camera man has complete-
ly replaced the men who used to |
gc forth and view the world and |
bring home pictures of it to be |
thrown on a still screen. |
From your seat in a theater you
can view the Eskimo catching a|
seal which will provide him with |
his supper and an overcoat, with |
a good clear glance at the peaks |
of the Alps or the Andes, or at!
mah. |
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Minds feed on what the eyes |
see.
Wherever there is anything |
Loving their work, and eager |
to bring home pictures of all the |
known world, these daredevils of |
the films are never daunted by |
obstacles, or by dangers.
To me it has always been
astonishing that every school |
room in every city and village |
and town has not long age been
provided with cameras and
screens to aid the children in
their work.
Not only would they vastly
tions of the world, but they
could, I should think, be tremen
dously useful in teachin, such
subjects as biology and zoology.
An intelligent teacher provided |
with a moving picture projector
and a stock of films would never |
lack the earnest attention of her
pupils. i
Even pictures which only in-
cidentally show the streets of!
foreign cities would be valuable. |
What they would do if wisely used
would prove a marvel.
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Aurea mediocritas.
golden mean.
Bas bleu. (F.) A bluestocking.
Beaux yeux de sa cassette. (F.)
Her money is her attraction.
Cher ami (masc.) Chere amie
(ferm.) (F.) Dear friend.
(L.) The
The
characters of a play,
Douceur. (F.)
bribe; a fee.
Faire bonne mine. (F.) To put
a good face on a thing.
E pluribus unum. (L.) Out of
many, one. (Motto of the United
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