Honolulu Record, September 2, 1948, vol. 1 no. 5, p. 8
DEAR SIR—
Past experience has shown that this Territory has a tendency to hunt for talent on the Mainland whenever an important post is to be filled here. Sometimes we do get good men and women, but more often we draw lemons. Then we are stuck with them or, at best, have to pay their transportation back. Every once in a while we even have to bring them back once more to be tried or something. And all this Mainland talent-scouting, which seems to stem from a territorial inferiority complex, goes on while the finest material is right here in Hawaii passed up, overlooked, unused! Yes, we have men and women here who are the equals of the Mainland's finest products. And they have something more that no Mainlander, freshly imported, can possess: Love and understanding of our people.
What better head of Kawailoa School for Girls, for instance, could we find than Trude Akau? Not only has she all the social, educational and tempera mental qualifications for the job, but she has already proven her worth as an educator of problem children when over a period of two or three years, she was one of the most successful instructors at Kawailoa.
Ask the many happy "and healthy wives arid mothers, former Kawailoa School girls, in whose lives Trude Akau was the turning point! Ask them which of their substitute mothers at Kawailoa they loved and, therefore, emulated the most!
And then, and only then, let our Director of Institutions, who is charged with the awful responsibility of either making or breaking our future citizens at Kawailoa, choose the school's next superintendent! If he believes in the age-old wisdom that "by their fruits ye shall know them" he will appoint Trude Akau, and through her, do his bit to make this a better Hawaii!
Respectfully, GOTTFRIED SEITZ, 3816 Kaimuki Ave. August 22, 1948