Center for Labor Education & Research, University of Hawaii - West Oahu: Honolulu Record Digitization Project

Honolulu Record, Volume 9 No. 16, Thursday, November 15, 1956 p. 4

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James O. Eastland On Some Local Figures

Judge Delbert E. Metzger:

"... a high-ranking Democrat, one of the most powerful politicians in the islands, and a former judge—and he was too chummy with the Communists when he was judge ..." "... an outspoken captive of communism."

Mayor John H. Wilson: "The present mayor of Honolulu is a Democrat, and is the most powerful man in the islands, next to Jack Hall; but he has been a witness for and a stooge of the Communists."

Kauai representatives (1954): "They are Toshiharu Yama, Toshio Serizawa, William Fernandes, and Manuel Henriques, . . . and all four are proud to align themselves with Communist traitors."

Delegate Joseph Farrington: a "good and able man," but had to accept ILWU support in 1946.

Sen. Welker's "Ethics"

Sen. Herman Welker of Idaho, Joe McCarthy's most outspoken defender, made use of the Internal Security subcommittee for a particularly dirty piece of politicking during the 1954 elections.

Running for reelection to Idaho's other senatorial seat was Glen Taylor, who had been vice-presidential candidate in 1948 on the Progressive Party ticket. Welker called in those old wheel-horse witnesses Matthew Cvetic and John Lautner to testify that Henry Wallace and Glen Taylor headed the Progressive ticket knowing that the party was Communist-controlled.

Then the committee's counsel added this clincher:

"Mr. ARENS. Is the Communist Party still working on behalf of candidates who they feel they could control or influence?

"Mr. CVETIC. Very much so."

Sen. Taylor was defeated.

That's McCarthyite politics.

Another member of the subcommittee, John M. Butler of Md., owes his election six years ago to a doctored photograph, circulated by the McCarthyite gang, showing his opponent talking to Communist Earl Browder.

"Senator EASTLAND. Have you any children?

"Mrs. ABERNETHY. Yes, sir.

"Senator EASTLAND. How many?
"Mrs. ABERNETHY. Two.

"Senator EASTLAND. How old are they?

"Mrs. ABERNETHY. One is approaching 15 and one is two and one-half.

"Senator EASTLAND. You don't want us to cite you for contempt of the Senate, do you?

"Mrs. ABERNETHY. No, sir.

"Senator EASTLAND. Why don't you testify now? Your refusals do not come within a mile of letting you out if we were to cite you, regardless of what your lawyer says." (From transcript of hearing, March 6. 1953.)

"Mr. ARENS (counsel to the Eastland committee): Did you ever participate in a movement in North Carolina, advocating that the University of' North Carolina should accept Negro students? .... Have you done anything at any time to advocate the acceptance by the University of North Carolina of Negro students?" (From hearing of March 6, 1953.)

"The Senator from Mississippi (Mr. EASTLAND) has said on the floor of the Senate:
We will protect and maintain white supremacy throughout eternity.

"He has said on the floor of the Senate:

The Negro race is an inferior race.

"He has said on the floor of the Senate:
Let me say frankly that in my Judgment the CIO and the PAC are Communist organizations.

"He has said on the floor of the Senate:

New York, for all practical purposes, ,1s a Communist state." (Sen. Herbert Lehman, D. N.Y., March 2, 1956.)

p /> I do not say that at odd hours a patient must be given the regular hot dinner or supper. Few people would expect this.
 
But what is so complicated about opening and heating a can of soup, making some toast, or preparing instant coffee or tea? Why cannot a night nurse do these simple things after the kitchen to closed? Is it just too much trouble?

It is only common humanity to feed the hungry. If our hospitals are too big, too complex, too impersonal to do these small kindnesses for the sick, something is very wrong.