OutMother and Child Jailed ; In Old $7.50 Debt Dispute; W. K. Richardson Involved   [print]

In Case Of Mrs. Lorenzo

Though debtor's prison is supposedly only a bad memory of the semi-feudalistic past, a Honolulu woman recently went to jail with her 1-month-old baby as a result of $7.50 debt allegedly contracted by her dead husband. The woman is Mrs. Lydia Lorenzo, 1340 Linapuni St., the mother of 10 children. Here is what happened: W. K. Richardson, a bill collector, of 900 Nuuanu Avenue, sued Mrs. Lorenzo for $7.50. It was a bill, assumed at the time by her husband, for the ambulance which took Mrs. Lorenzo (then Mrs. Somera) to the hospital at the birth of one of her children. Mr. Somera died more than a year ago.

Richardson filed suit, against Mrs. Lorenzo and she appeared in court to explain that her husband was dead and that she had no money.

Nevertheless, the court entered judgment against her for the $7.50 plus court-costs and interests, ma­king the total $10.50.

The Richardson Agency next got an order from the court for the examination of Mrs. Lorenzo as a judgment debtor. But Mrs. Lorenzo could not appear in court at the appointed time because she was in the hospital having another baby, so the Richardson Agency then swore out contempt proceedings against her.

It was as a result of the contempt proceedings that Mrs. Lorenzo was arrested and jailed until a neighbor could be found who put up $10.00 bail for her.

The validity of the Richardson claim against Mrs. Lorenzo was quickly disposed of August 30 when Harriet Bouslog, attorney, of Bouslog and Symonds, appeared, and got the case dismissed.

Although Mrs. Lorenzo and her children have been relieved of the threat of jail, she still has plenty of troubles. With the size of her family I making it impossible for her to take an outside job, she must feed and clothe her children on the wages of her present husband, a longshoreman, and her circumstances are submarginal.

Wake up, sugar, your lazy days are over! Nope, we're not addressing a slatternly sweatheart [sic]. It's just that the scientists of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters have discovered sugar cane is loafing on the job, and they're going to do something about it. Sugar cane, believe it or not, has been wasting time growing tassels when it should be growing sugar. Furthermore, it's been carrying on this activity at night in a sort of subversive way.

So the scientists, according to a local report, have set up experiment stations at Makiki and on Kauai where they turn artificial light on sugar cane from 10 to 12 p. m. every night and catch the cane right in the act. So the cane must turn to, self-consciously no doubt, and get back to growing the way sugar men want it to.

The tassels are used in cross­breeding, but they retard growth in a way sugar men feel also retards profits. And anyhow, what's sex to a bunch of sugar cane?

So the end of such loafing and tassel-orgies for the sugar cane may be in sight. All we can say is—don't be surprised if that sugar turns out to be not quite so sweet as before.

TOKYO—The British Common­wealth and Chinese members of the Allied Council for Japan joined the Soviet Union in attacking Gen. Douglas MacArthur's July directive to the Japanese government to ban strikes by government employes.

The criticism came at a special council meeting where U. S. delegate William J. Sebald sought to answer charges by Soviet member Maj. Gen. A. P. Kislenko that the Mac­Arthur order violated the. Far Eastern Commission principles on labor unions and contradicted the terms of the Truman-Stalin-Attlee Potsdam declaration: Kislenko's objections were
announced Aug. 11. Both British and Chinese delegates hit the Japanese government's order depriving government workers of collective bargaining and strike rights.

The ban has also brought sharp repercussions inside the labor movement. A number of unions have struck in protest and MacArthur's chief labor advisor, James S. Killen, an AFL-official, handed in his resignation. 

Retail food prices in Honolulu hit another all-time high mark in August, according to a territorial labor department report. 

The August food index stood 1.4 per cent above the July index.

The present index is 49.2 per cent above the March 1943 base and 5.7 per cent above that of a year ago. The following increases were noted among the nine food groups that make up the index:

Meat, poultry and fish, 2.5 per cent; dairy products, 5 per cent; eggs, 9.4 per cent; beverages, 1 per cent; fats and oils, .3 per cent; sugar and sweets, .8 per cent.

Citing premature birth as the leading cause of infant death, Dr. Barbara Hewell, chief of the bureau of maternal and child health and crippled children, reported that this cause is responsible for 36.4 per cent of all infant deaths in the Territory. Other causes are cardiac conditions, cancer and tuberculosis.

In her annual report, Dr. Hewell told of 36 conferences on maternal health held in the Territory during the year, which were attended by a total of 1,440 women. There were 14,522 births, an increase of 472 over 1947.

The mortality rate of 29.1 for each 1,000 live births is less than the national infant mortality rate, Dr. Hewell reported, but somewhat above the figure for certain states.

In preparation for the November campaign, Marmion M. Magoon was chosen Democratic campaign manager at a meeting of Democratic candidates for county and territorial offices on Oahu. Though no definite campaign plans were discussed, it was announced that the offices of Senator Ernest N. Heen will be temporary campaign headquarters until the party can find a suitable location.

During several hours of cross-examination of Celeste Strack, Educational Director of the California Communist Party and defense witness in the Reinecke hearings, Deputy Attorney-General William Blatt established two outstanding facts Tuesday. They were:

1. That the Daily Worker is not an official organ of the Communist Party.

2. That Miss Strack became a Communist while a student at UCLA.

Smear Attempt

Wednesday's session produced nothing more illuminating, but it did produce considerable wrangling among the attorneys over terms, and it produced what seemed a rather blatant attempt of Mr. Blatt to smear Jack Hall and the ILWU. . At one point, Mr. Blatt said to Miss Strack, "Assume that Jack Hall is a Communist."

"Why not assume that Mr. Owens (member of the School Commission) is a Communist?" snapped Mr. Symonds.

"All right," Mr. Blatt said, "suppose Mr. Owens is a Communist and employed by the ILWU."

"That's supposing too much," answered the defense attorney while Mr. Owens reddened.

Gives Communist Stand

Earlier in the week, Miss Strack, who called by defense attorneys to refute statements of Louis Budenz, territory's witness, testified that the Communist Party does not seek to overthrow the U.S. Government by force and violence, and that the sole allegiance of American Communists is to the American people. Describing Communist activity, Miss Strack described typical campaigns and introduced as evidence samples of Communist literature including copies of the party's platform adopted at the August convention. Efforts, of the Communist Party to buy radio time and advertising space in Hawaii have been unsuccessful, she said.

Miss Strack outlined her party's program in the following five points:

1. To get Communists elected to office by open and peaceful methods.

2. To support candidates of other parties when their programs are in accord with those of the Communist Party.

3. To influence the passage of laws through education programs.

4. To held victims of radical discrimination, injustice, and suppression.

5. To serve the day-to-day needs of people for good housing, and food at prices they can pay.

Tuesday there was no shortage of rice. But on Wednesday scare headlines of the Advertiser announced a shortage, and a story told of rice selling at $25.00 a bag. So today, there is a shortage, with small merchants holding back their supply in anticipation of rises in price.

Texas rice, refused by buyers at the ILWU hall for months at S10 a bag, and refused as late as Tuesday, was much in demand on Wednesday.

If the small merchants continued to withhold their supplies, it was obvious that there might actually be some kind of panic-inspired shortage.

The Advertiser admitted in its story that "wholesalers declare they have not raised their prices from the quoted $13.25 per bag." So why the headlines, and why the story? Could it be that the Advertiser wanted a shortage?

Parades, celebrations, and speeches warning labor of the danger of disunity were features of Labor Day events in the territory.

In Honolulu, where CIO and AFL unions held separate celebrations, Mayor John H. Wilson told the AFL group at Thomas Square that labor must "put all its eggs in one basket" to survive.

Speaking to the CIO group on the steps of Iolani Palace later, Mayor Wilson told his listeners "you will find that this complete union is necessary to withstand the assaults of those who would weaken you and ultimately destroy your power if they could."

Political Action Urged

President Jack Kawano of the ILWU Local 136 advocated an active campaign by labor in behalf of the Democratic Party and said, "We must dump every Republican politician running for office."

Marshall McEuen, ILWU educational director, warned of the dangers ahead when he said, "I'm telling you: look forward to World War III. If we allow militant labor leaders to he ousted from their positions, you'll get either depression or a war. And it will be a 'nice depression' that will make the last one look like nothing." . Antonio Rania spoke briefly of the Olaa Plantation where, he said, "a crisis has been forced on 7,000 people dependant upon this plantation for their livelihood because

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"Adopted Country"

Timed for the V-J Day program, remains of 78 Hawaii war dead arrived from San Francisco on the Dalton Victory. Of this number 62 were AJA soldiers who had given their lives on European battlefronts.

Speaking at the memorial service, James P. O'Neil, national commander of the American Legion who was attending the 29th annual department convention of his organization at Maluhia, said the AJA soldiers had died for their "adopted country."

For stupidity and narrowness in the interpretation of Americanism this statement took the cake. The AJA war dead were born in the USA, which was their one and only country. The use of such a term by Commander O'Neil showed prejudice also.

Expression of this sort was no accident but it stemmed from decades of the Legion's super-patriotism, chauvinism and discrimination against people of non-caucasian descent. But at the Maluhia convention the Legion members discussed "Americanism." Boiled down, their Americanism discussion went along the lines of witch-hunting.

$100,000 Damages

Shortly before his departure for the Mainland, Territorial Tax Commissioner William Borthwick allegedly slandered a civilian employee of the Hickam air force base. A $100,000 slander suit has been brought against Mr. Borthwick by Victor J. Veatch. In the complaint Mr. Veatch stated Mr. Borthwick intimidated him, trying to force him to drop his suit that attacked the validity of the territorial two per cent tax.

Mr. Borthwick is charged with saying: "Veatch, I don't mind telling you to your face that you are nothing but a crook and a trouble maker,[sic] You are making a good shakedown on the people who are fighting the tax. You would not be fighting the tax if you were not getting a rake-off." The complaint, includes $50,000 general damages for alleged "ridicule and contempt" and $50,000 punitive damages for alleged intimidation.

When the Tax Commissioner was informed of this, it was evident that his vacation was not the same any more.

Off Base

Using a national survey of some sort as basis for his column, Ray Coll, . Jr., wrote in the Advertiser: 

"Right now it's the big income group that is saving and the little fellow who is running behind. The latter has been spending his money for some cars, furniture and expensive appliances. Tighter credits may brake this tendency." On the same day the Star-Bulletin reported that the number of people receiving financial aid from the welfare department has exceeded 10,000 since April. Welfare Director Newton R. Holcomb listed growing unemployment, high living cost, unstable sugar economy and the increased mechanization as factors increasing relief cases.

And Carl I. Flath, Queen's Hospital administrator, reported a progressive decrease in hospitalization during the past 18 months in the city. He felt this was partially due to tightening of employment and the economic situation.

Instead of "cars, furniture and expensive appliances," Hawaii's "little fellow" was asking for better wages to meet high cost of living, protesting high prices and buying the barest necessities.

Hollywood

In a move to keep up employment in the tightening labor market, the Hollywood AFL Film Council has launched a drive to get workers throughout the U.S. to see more movies. Comprising 22 unions and guilds in the motion picture industry, the Council appealed by letter to over 5,000 APL locals.

The letter stated in part, " . . . every picture made in Hollywood is produced under APL union shop conditions and contracts." It urged members to go to see "fine American motion pictures made in Hollywood."

Publicity conscious Hollywood, which does movie advertising expertly and abundantly was not doing enough to satisfy the AFL craftsmen who are threatened by layoffs.

While this was going on, members of carpenters', painters', machinists' and set designers' locals, locked out since Sept. 26, 1946, were urging a "Do not patronize the movies while they are keeping us from our jobs" campaign.

Marijuana Party

Film hero Robert Mitchum, who hit top star class last year, was caught in a marijuana party at a blonde bit player's hilltop home, with a lighted "reefer" in his hand. Freed from jail after being booked on suspicion of violating the state narcotics law, Mitchum said: "Well, this is the bitter end of everything — my career, my home, my marriage."

His wife, who had left him a few months ago, was returning with their two children for a reconciliation.

Commented Mitchum: "The stage was all set for a big, fat reconciliation. Huh! With that temper of hers she'll turn the car around and head back east. I can just see her face when she hears the news on the radio or reads it in the papers."

The morning after the arrest, Mitchum was booked to speak on juvenile delinquency from the city hall steps in a National Youth Month program. The date was cancelled.

Washington Atmosphere

Three minor State Department officials stuck their necks far out, feeling secure that they would not be lopped off.

They strove to swim in the stream of the national witch hunt. The scene was Washington, the center of this movement.

The minor officials went, before a Senate judiciary subcommittee with wild charges that hundreds of UN representatives were really hostile foreign agents circulating freely in the U. S. The three officials who received publicity, if that was what they wanted, told their story to committee staff members wity no senators present. Secretary of State Marshall immediately disclaimed knowledge of the charge. In spite of this, Republican senators clamored for an investigation of the charges.

Secretary Marshall then appointed a threeman investigating committee.

The investigators reported that the headlined statements “produced serious repercussions on the foreign policy of the U.S. and (were) responsible in their lack of factual support."

Lesson for Americans

Fourteen Chinese college students walked out of their jobs at the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., at New Haven, Conn.

Working at summer jobs thousands of miles from their war-ravaged homeland in order to go back to school in the fall, the students became anxious, for their people back home when they found that the 50-caliber bullets on which they worked were being sent to the Kuomintang (Chiang Kai-shek ) government of China. They were working under a plan sponsored by U. S. Christian student service organizations. 

In their protest to Christian groups and major newspapers, the students said they cannot continue to work in a factory that manufactures ammunition "which eventually killed Chinese people."

Said the students: "The struggle in China does not lie between two political parties but is a struggle of the people for freedom and democracy. In China, any demonstration by students, small merchants, workers or small industrialists is branded as communistic . . . The situation in China is really a struggle between the people and the corrupt and reactionary elements. . . U. S. military aid to China does not help spread democracy but helps in keeping a fascist-like dictatorship in power, which injures the friendship between the two peoples."

Treason Trials

Tomoya Kawakita, stocky, bespectacled California-born Nisei, showed no emotion as the verdict of guilty was read, convicting him of treason. A federal court jury of nine women and three men deliberated eight days, after listening to 11 weeks of testimony, before they returned with the verdict. The California Nisei was charged with atrocities and brutalities committed against American war prisoners while he served as interpreter at the Oeyama prison camp.

His defense held that he was a Japanese national while he was an interpreter, having renounced his American citizenship. As the Kawakita case wound up and his attorney was planning an appeal, news from Japan stated that one of the "Tokyo Rose" broadcasters was being shipped back to California. Mrs. Iva d'Aquino, also a California-born Nisei, will face treason trial in a federal court in California. It is alleged that during the war she was a "Tokyo Rose" who broadcast over the radio to American soldiers in the Pacific.

Schacht Freed

Hjalmar Schacht, Hitler's finance minister, left the Ludwigsbury internment camp a free man. In a strange ruling, incomprehensible if made three years ago, the German war financier, was exonerated by a German de-Nazification appeal court.

Strangely, the court found that Schacht did not participate in the Nazi war effort beyond assisting in the national defense. His speeches that helped the Nazi war machine were not considered by the court which stated they were necessary for Schacht to keep his job.

Earlier, Schacht, former president of the Reichsbank, was acquitted by the Nuernberg [sic] war crimes tribunal. The Germans, however, arrested him and sentenced him to eight years in prison as a major Nazi war criminal. Schacht appealed his case. In granting him freedom the German de-Nazification appeal courts showed how de-Nazified it was.

Wilhelmina

In this changing world the abdication of a throne by a queen in favor of her daughter did not make headlines as such an event would have done a decade or so ago. Queen Wilhelmina, after 50 years of rule, stepped down from her throne in this time of colonial revolt against the Dutch Empire. Her daughter, Juliana, 39, mother of four daughters, replaced her. Once a powerful empire, today The Netherlands is one of the few remaining archaic monarchies in this world. During the war Wilhelmina lived in Britain.

After the war she returned sheepishly and took her place on the throne. Newspapers reported that the crowd cheered heartily, shouting "Orange forever" at the abdicating ceremony. 

But the rumblings in Indonesia and other Dutch colonies that echoed the people's cry for freedom forbode the coming end to the Dutch empire.

Hukbalahap

The barking of guns shot by Philippine constabulary against the Huks shattered efforts for peace in the islands. Not long ago Huk leader Luis Taruc came out of guerrilla territory to negotiate settlement with President Elpidio Quirino's administration. A 50-day amnesty was extended the Huks. Two weeks ago, when the amnesty period expired, Taruc disappeared into Central Luzon. He charged the government with having reneged on its commitments to the peasant guerrilla forces.

Chief aim of the government was to disarm the Huks peacefully during the period of amnesty. Taruc expected repression would follow to crush his units if constitutional and other safeguards were not established, before arms were given up. He bargained firmly and when negotiations failed, he still had his forces intact.

Now from his guerrilla areas he sent a message to workers in Manila, indicating that armed conflict may continue. He wrote: "Legal constitutional and parliamentary methods of struggle alone cannot achieve democratic peace."

MacArthur

In his V-J Day message, General MacArthur said Japan is now equipped with the "practical weapons" of democracy. By weapons of democracy he meant "liberty, dignity and opportunity" which he said are instruments to "repel the totalitarian advance."

As he spoke, Japanese industrialists were trying to shove the burden of 15 billion yen they borrowed from the government during the last, fiscal year upon the people's backs. What they want is to cancel the debts by turning the loans into subsidies.

The coal industry received the largest loan. And it's no secret that the coal operators used this money to wage a costly lobbying campaign to defeat the coal mine nationalization bill. The coal operators also forced the Diet to make the government appoint the managers for private coal operators to government agencies administering the coal industry. In this capacity the managers are preventing the development of new veins which the private operators hope to exploit when the mines are returned to them.

What did MacArthur mean by "repel the totalitarian advance?" the Japanese laborers questioned. As they struggled for living wages and in places were forced to strike, MacArthur moved in U. S. troops and tanks to destroy the labor unions.

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"The Threat to Civil Liberties" was the topic 350 people heard discussed Tuesday night by five speakers who appeared before a meeting held at the Central Intermediate School and sponsored by the Hawaii Civil Liberties Committee.

Guest speaker was Miss Celeste Strack, Educational Director of the California Communist Party and the first representative of the Communist Party to take the public platform in the Territory. Other speakers were: Antonio Rania, president of a sugar workers' local: Mrs. Harriet Bouslog, attorney for the Reineckes; Robert Greene, Civil Liberties Committee, andd [sic] the Rev. Mineo Katagiri, pastor of the Iao Congressional Church.

The Rev. Katagiri expressed what might have been the keynote of the meeting when he said: "Democracy is in need of being defended from attack by fearful men who act hysterically."

The Iao pastor, who flew to Honolulu to attend the meeting, condemned, the "ignorant and fearful men" who attempt to restrict the civil liberties of the people—under the guise of defending those same liberties, and he characterized them as having no real faith in Democracy.

Antonio Rania related his long history as a sugar worker and pointed out the important lesson he had learned — that workers can retain their rights in the face of employer repression only through organized strength. Mrs. Bouslog used legal texts to draw parallels between the Reinecke hearing and early American witch-hunts, the chief difference being, she said, that the victims were called witches in former times.

Miss Strack, guest speaker at the meeting, categorically denied that the Communist Party is guilty of the offenses of which [sic] it is currently accused in a number of trials and investigatory hearings. Communists, she said, are the chief target of the attack of "economic royalists on civil liberties, and she cited especially the charge of conspiracy pending against 12 members of the National Committee of the Communist Party.

These same "economic royalists" are, themselves, guilty of conspiracy to dominate the world by force and violence as evidenced by their acts in China, Greece and elsewhere, she said.

By contrast, the Communist Party is "loyal to the sovereign rights of the American people," though not to the capitalist system of economy which it hopes to abolish when a majority of the American people favor the change, she continued.

The speeches were followed by a collection and a question period.

New York (FP)—A group of 63 prominent writers and publishers called on the New York board of education to hold a public hearing on the banning of The Nation, liberal weekly magazine, from the city schools. The group, which includes Sinclair Lewis, Oscar Hammerstein II and the publishing firms of Alfred A. Knopf and Harper's, charged that the ban implies "censorship powers which place in jeopardy publishing, education, the press and, indeed, all freedom of thought."

London — More democracy is needed in the factory.

This was the not surprising conclusion of 2,000 psychiatrists and social scientists attending the International Congress of Mental Health here. The experts pointed out that much emotional instability, family and social tensions are caused by the paradox whereby men and women brought up to believe in democratic institutions, find themselves working under dictatorial bosses.

"Most current difficulties in industrial human relations are caused by the fact that the industrial social structure has not kept pace with a rapidly changing society," Dr. J. Koekebaker, Dutch psychiatrist, said. "Industry should be made more democratic. The industrial worker living in his democratic society where he may vote and where he has a responsible role in groups outside industry, gets embarrassed about the situation in his plant, where he has hardly any responsible share in the organization."

The best way to erase workers' emotional problems is to pay fair wages, have decent working conditions and give labor a share in responsible decisions, the scientists declared. Labor unions have forced industrial giants to modify many past dictatorial practices but much still remains to be done.

Rapid Transit

While about 675 workers finished their first week of the strike at HRT, the Transit Workers' Union (Independent) began circulating petitions calling for the arbitration of the dispute and immediate return of the men to work.

This move follows closely on the heels of another union proposal to resolve the difficulty through fact-finding and operation of the transit line by the city and county government.

The union's five-point proposal calls for the constitution of the present governor's board (Fred Ohrt, E. B. Peterson and Newton R. Holcomb) as the fact-finding board, formal public hearings on the merits of the dispute, a public record of the hearings with the recommendations to be issued not more than 10 days after the last day of the formal hearings, agreement in advance By the company and the union to the recommendations [sic] of the board as a basis for settlement [sic] and immediate return of the men to work pending the formal hearings and issuance of the recommendations of the board.

The proposal for government operation was made by A. A. Rutledge, business representative of the union at a Labor Day rally, and this is being studied by the governor.

Two ways seem open to the government for this taking over eminent domain or condemnation proceedings in court and "state of emergency" powers.

In the meantime, schools, both public and private, note some falling off in attendance, while the police department works hard at clearing traffic through the crowded streets.

Coca-Cola

Other attempts at settling the four-week old Coca-Cola strike were in progress this week with meetings of the mediation board with both company and union representatives.

It is felt that the continuance of such meetings indicates that a settlement might be near.

While the APL and Independent camps of labor were continuing with their disputes the CIO managed to settle its disputes, at least temporarily.

Sugar Negotiations

ILWU negotiations with the Olaa Sugar Co. are in abeyance until September 15, both parties having called a halt to allow time for explanations to the workers involved.

At the same time, the same union signed a 90-day extension with the California and Hawaiian Sugar Refining Co. calling for the maintenance of the present agreement, with no reduction in wages despite any down-grading of employees.

Public Workers

Henry Epstein, representative of the United Public Workers, CIO, announced today the holding of an island-wide conference of union delegates in Hilo on Sept. 18 and 19 to lay plans for an island-wide election of officers of the consolidated union and to vote on the new by-laws, of the union.

The conference will also consider replies of the various candidates in the coming legislation to matters concerning government workers.

Mr. Epstein also announced that the board of supervisors of the county of Maui will" consider overtime pay for about 350 county employees the middle of this month.

Consideration will be made after the supervisors have received word from the payroll department with regard to the legality of the move and the total cost of such overtime to the county.

Muskegon, Mich. (FP) — By a three-fourths majority Continental Motors Local 113 (AW-CIO) voted to apply a refund of $15,000 on a site and building for Muskegon's first cooperative warehouse and store. APL and CIO union members have been buying shares in the co-op since early this year.

Local 113's refund constituted its share of the UAW western Michigan strike fund, which was returned to the various contributing locals recently. The local will lease the building to the co-op. Plans for the structure and search for a site are now in progress. The building will be designed in line with co-op needs and experience, Local President Vic Scott announced.

Pontiac, Detroit, Lansing and some smaller towns in Michigan have co-op stores doing a good business. Flint expects to open one within a month. Though every customer is welcomed as a potential shareholder, most of the shares in each project have been bought by union families.

By William Stone

The Bus Tie-Up

HRT and the Hawaii Employers' Council are plenty huhu over the petition for arbitration now being signed by thousands of Honolulu residents . . . Reason for their concern is that public pressure may force Hawaiian employers to accept the principle of arbitration.

A recent "top secret" memo sent to members of the Employers' Council states that 80 per cent of Hawaii's population thinks "arbitration is a good word." It is a case of "everybody being out of step but me."

Political Tidbits

Old guard GOP strategists would have run a candidate against Kauai's maverick senator, Clem Gomes, but fear that Gomes would run as a Demo held them in check.

"Doc" Hill was so jubilant when told that Walter Dillingham was running against Delegate Joseph Farrington that he almost did a cartwheel in the Hilo county building a few minutes before the filing deadline. "Anybody but Farrington" has been Doc's slogan for the past three years.

Shortly after "The Hat" (Montie Richards; was "drafted" as GOP candidate for mayor, campaign pencils reading: "Write Your Own Ticket; Montie for Mayor," appeared on the streets. How long does it take to get campaign pencils these days? It used to take at least two months.

Could Be

A certain wealthy businessman is said to have gone to the Main­land where he will meet and remarry his ex-spouse. Reason? A wife cannot testify against her husband!

Some members of the Honolulu Bar Association are furious over the circulation of a scurrilous book slandering the Territory's judiciary. If the people who are passing the book (Hula Aina) around don't cease and desist, criminal and civil libel action will probably result.

Overheard

Associated Press will not mention names of persons listed in the Reinecke hearings as Communists. Reason? AP legal staff is of the opinion hearings are not in line with the law.

Arthur G. Smith, attorney for AMFAC, is plenty sore because "ex-Communist" Izuka confessed under cross-examination that he (Smith) gave Izuka $1,490 for the Filipino edition of "The Truth About Comunism in Hawaii."

If Chief Dan Liu allows his vice squad to continue raiding penny ante crap games of workers during lunch hours and ignores the gambling at the Pacific, Commercial and Elks clubs, he is due for some trouble very soon. By the way, how is it that certain judges who won or lost plenty playing poker at the last Bar Association outing have the gall to convict others of the same affense [sic]?

Tips

The bottle clubs had better make hay while the sun shines. Comes the next session of the legislature, they will be put out of business legal-like—bar hours will be extended.

Don't ask for one of those expensive leases at Dillingham's Wailupe Peninsula if your skin is not lily-white. They are restricted! Who says: the Territory does not need a civil rights law? Probably the same blind folks who'll loudly declaim — in public — that there is no racial discrimination in the Islands!

Joe Farrington: "The best way to prove Hawaii is not dominated by Communists and therefore entitled to statehood, is to elect a Republican majority in the territorial legislature."

Winston-Salem, N. C. (FP) — In the first 48 hours of his southern campaign Henry A. Wallace got bombardments of eggs and tomatoes from small groups of young Dixiecrats and cheers and applause from thousands of other southerners at a series of meetings in North Carolina towns.

The violence which erupted at stopovers all along the Wallace route got the Progressive party presidential candidate page one headlines throughout the country and brought a statement from President Truman, describing the egg-throwing as highly "un-American" and in violation of the "American concept of fair play." Maintains Good Humor

His shirt and hair stained with the eggs, Wallace remained in good humor throughout the day, August 30, as he faced the hostile groups, composed mostly of youngsters who shouted: "Hey, Communist" and "Hey, nigger-lover" at him. In Greensboro he requested police to release one egg-throwing boy because "he really didn't know what he was doing."

At one point Wallace shouted back to a jeering crowd: "I don't mind a little good-natured throwing of eggs and tomatoes, but I'd much rather see that food being fed to children."

Although most of the violence was confined to vegetable-throwing, a 20-year-old University of North Carolina student, James Harris, was stabbed in the back six times while" serving as a bodyguard at the Wallace rally in Durham the previous night.

Wallace told press conference he had received word that Durham police refused to arrest Harris' assailant and "even threatened to lock up Harris."

A Different South

"That situation represents the totalitarianism based on violence and with the police eagerness to see it go on," Wallace said angrily. "That sort of thing isn't the U. S. I cant believe it is the south, certainly not the south I have known." At Durham, where he addressed a crowd of 1,500 in the Municipal Armory, Wallace was escorted to the platform with a National Guard contingent, carrying drawn pistols, after a group of about 100 adolescents invaded the hall and tried to break up the meeting.

The most violent episode occurred in Burlington, where only four policemen were on hand while a crowd of several hundred people surged about the cars in the Wallace caravan and prevented the presidential candidate from speaking.

His friendliest reception came in the strong union town of Winston-Salem, where a mixed crowd of several thousand Negroes and  whites easily outshouted a small group of hecklers. Wallace's policy of speaking only to non-segregated audiences was apparently one of the major grievances of the hecklers, who also directed disparaging remarks at Negro members of his entourage.

Tax the Rich 

The Wallace party, whose tour of the south was scheduled to last seven days, received accommodations at private homes along their route rather than stay at hotels which discriminated against Negroes.

In his major speech at Durham, Wallace outlined a plan under which the government would give the south $1 billion a year for four years to aid its industry, agriculture and education.

Proposing that the money be used to build up industry in the south and help small farmers, Wallace said: "Each year billions, literally billions of dollars of profits are drained from southern labor in field and factory by large corporations owned by wealthy and powerful men who reside elsewhere.

"We Progressives propose only: that the federal government, through taxation of these riches, return to the people of the south a part of the stolen fruits of their toil and sweat."

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By Tiny Todd

Special to The Record

Washington—The bears in the zoo on Connecticut Avenue here are pretty corrupt, like a lot of the people, and they stand and beg you to throw them peanuts. Just the same, they're a pleasant relief from the doings on Capitol Hill, and I was wandering down toward the bear cage, both pockets filled with peanuts, when a strong hand clasped my, arm.

"Have a seegar," came a familiar voice. "I want to talk to you, boy." It was my old acquaintance, The Senator. "You're an average man, my boy," he said, "and I want to get your reaction to a couple of things. Our survey shows the average man isn't responding to the issues in this campaign the way he ought. We've got to find out why."

I fumbled for an excuse and finally gave up with: "Okay, Senator, shoot. But first, tell me when you're going to give us vets a little action on government housing."

A "Powerful" Argument

The Senator slapped one palm on the other loudly and said: "Just, what I hoped you'd mention, boy. We'd like to do it the worst way —what I mean, the worst way, but it would be communistic. We went into that and the building companies showed us how communistic it would be. So we'll have to leave it up to them." ''All right," I said, "when are you going to stop this inflation?

A man can't buy anything any more."

The Senator puffed his cheeks and said: "Now we've got to rely on natural laws of. supply and demand. Otherwise, we'll have a police state, and you wouldn't want that, would you?"

I sighed and began to hum and the Senator said: ""Don't you be impatient, boy. Even the great flood leveled off and left Noah's Ark resting on Mt. Arrarat [sic]. That's history." 

"Yeah, and it left a lot of stiffs," I commented. "Competition, boy, competition," replied the Senator airly [sic]. "Dog-eat-dog. You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs. The American Way."

Hawaii's Minorities

"Um," I said and began humming again. "By the way," I asked in a moment, "When are you going to make Hawaii the 49th State?" The Senator looked thoughtful, shook his head sagely, and an­swered: "That's something we can't rush into, boy. We've got to think of minorities. It ain't democratic not to take heed of the minorities." "What minorities?" I asked, surprised. "I thought the minorities in Hawaii all want the Islands to be a State." The Senator prodded me in the chest with his finger and said wisely: "That's where you're wrong. The real minority of Hawaii don't want to be a state." Which minority is that?"

"Why the men that own the Islands," said the Senator. "There's fewer of them than anybody else."

I hummed for a moment and asked: "Well, when are you going to quit horsing around in Berlin and make peace with the Russians?" The Senator straightened up into full platform posture and began "The Russians are Communists and I stand four-square behind a program of opposing Communism everywhere."

I moved a peanut surreptitiously to my mouth and the Senator thought I was applauding, so he bowed twice before he remembered himself. "While we're at it, boy," he asked what is that song you keep humming? 

Seems to me I've heard it somewhere." "Song I heard in Philadelphia a couple of weeks ago," I said, and then I gave him the words, "It's the same old merry-go-round; which one will you ride this year?" The Senator eyed me with cold suspicion and finally said: "You know, boy, you sound downright un-American." 

No Vote, No Peanuts

"Hell," I complained, "a minute ago you told me I was the average man."

"That's just the trouble," the Senator agreed. "The average man is un-American." "Forget it," I told him. "Let's feed the bears and have some fun." The Senator bugged his eyes at me and exclaimed: "Bears! Are you crazy, boy? Them bears can't vote!"

Detriot—(FP)—Certain forms of American Communism are okay and will not be rooted up by the Republican party in accordance with its Philadelphia platform, Norman Walker, GOP representative at a 3-cornered political debate before United Office and Professional Workers' Local 26 CIO, declared.

A union member had read the GOP plank about rooting up communism wherever found in this country and Walker stated his agreement.

"That's tough," commented the Progressive Party representative supporting Henry A. Wallace for President. "It's tough because there is lots of communism in America that ought not to be rooted up. All the federal and state highways and bridges, all the county roads and city and village streets are communism in practice. They are not run for profit and you don't have to pay for their use. The same with the public libraries. Are the

Republicans going to set up toll gates and collect a rental for library books?" "And the public school system is communism in practice, to [sic]," chimed in the representative of the Democratic party, a Wayne University professor. The Republican swallowed a moment but made a quick comeback. "We will root out only those forme [sic] of communism that are directed from abroad," Walker replied. "We do not intend to disturb the highways, libraries or schools." 

Eight cents of the dime you pay for coffee at a drive-in movie is clear-profit, says Joseph W. Taylor in the Wall Street Journal. The profit on food is six cents out of every dime the customer spends, he adds.

By Art Loring

Shanghai, China--You are in a Shanghai slum. All about are straw huts housing families of six or more naked babies, foraging chickens, ragged men whose income is a dime a day.

You round a miserable hovel and are surprised to find a tiny clearing. In it are four rows of low, wooden benches on which are perched 23 tattered but highly scrubbed 7-year-olds. 

They repeat in unison, in the singsong of school children everywhere the Chinese equivalent of "C-A-T spells cat, D-O-G spells dog." These youngsters are students at one of the literacy classes of the China Welfare Fund. This is the only chance for the children of the poor to learn to read and write. There are no free tax-supported public schools for them here. 

Parents hover about the rear of the open-air classroom, watching proudly. One mother has her blouse pulled up just enough so that she can nurse her baby. Another pokes her head from an adjacent shack to hear her son recite. But there is one other difference between this and the little red school house in the valley: The teacher is only 14 years old.

The late Dr. H. C. Tao, philosopher and educator, conceived the "little teacher" plan. Under it the China Welfare Fund, headed by the founder of the Chinese republic and one of China's greatest democratic leaders, teaches the most talented children to read and write, but only on condition that they, in turn, will teach others. In an 80 per cent to 90 per cent illiterate country, education is too precious to be the sole possession of one person. Although the plan has been in operation only one year, 130 "little teachers" have been trained.

Henry A. Wallace and Sen; Glen Taylor, Progressive Party presidential and vice presidential candidates, and 52 outstanding Americans from 23 states are among the first signatories on a Greetings Scroll to the Chinese people, pledging to "stand firm with you against those who provide and use American dollars and guns to hinder your advance." The Greetings, which thousands of Americans are signing, will be sent to Madame Sun Yat-sen, widow of China's great revolutionary leader, for the 37th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Republic. The signature campaign is being conducted by the Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy, 111 W. 42nd St., New York City, to give expression to widespread American dissatisfaction with the Truman-Dewey programs of intervention in China, and their pledges for the continued propping up of the discredited Chiang Kai-shek regime.

Among other Progressive Party leaders who helped to open the campaign with their signatures were:

C. B. Baldwin, Jo Davidson, Hugh Delacy, Elinor Gimbel, Rep. Lee Isacson, Rep. Vito Marcantonio, Paul Robeson, Harry Bridges, presi­dent International Longshoremen and Warehouse Workers' Union, CIO; Hugh Bryson, president National Union of Marine Cooks and Stewards, CIO; Eugene Connolly, New York City Councilman, and Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, Research Director. The signers of the Greetings to the Chinese People "pledge intensified efforts here at home against reaction, and look forward, with you, to the day when all the free peoples of the world will live together in friendship and peace." The message salutes the heroic students, professors and intellectuals, who, resisting the establishment of thought control, face death without fear," the "professional men and women, who prefer persecution, imprisonment or exile to treason" and the "magnificent workers and peasants, vast majority of the Chinese people, fighting for a new and better life."

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By Allan Beekman

His Excellency, the Honorable Ingram M. Stainback, that "dauntless defender of democracy and staunch champion of civil rights," reaffirmed his views before the 15th

Territorial convention of the Young Buddhists Association in Hilo.

With that tact and delicacy of feeling for which he is noted, the governor thought it proper to start off his speech by reciting the Buddhist "seven jewels of law."

Setting Moral Atmosphere "Happy are they that reject evil for they shall obtain purity," in­toned the governor. "Happy are they that promote peace for they shall attain felicity."

By uttering these ennobling sentiments the governor evidently wished to establish a proper moral atmosphere for the edifying sentiments that were to follow. The governor then turned to the work at hand. His audience, he advised, must beware of being mis­led by smooth-talking Mainland haoles. In shocked tones he revealed the startling fact that 50 per cent of the Communists in the Territory are of the "Japanese race."

No Deadly Parallel

Not stopping to define what he meant by the cryptic term "Japanese race," he continued, "An honest and thoughtful consideration of this situation will make it clear to every Japan-born resident of Hawaii and to every American of Japanese ancestry that the preservation of American democracy is not only a duty but a personal advantage that cannot be ignored." He unconsciously drew a parallel between the experience of his own family and that of his listeners.

"You who were born in Japan, if any are present, came to this American territory to better your condition in life . . . You have enjoyed every American freedom, every American privilege except," he added lamely, "that of naturalization." Not pausing to reflect that the privilege withheld — one which his listeners might, as a matter of simple right and justice, have expected to be extended to them — outweighed all the privileges granted, he went on complacently. 

"Smooth-Talk" Argument 

"You who were born of alien parentage became American citizens at birth, equal in all respects to every other American citizen."

With what awe and wonder he must have uttered these words . . . These children of alien parents being born to the same rights as Ingram M. Stainback!

"Do not allow smooth talk against American democracy confuse you with half-truths. Look around you and recognize the blessings that are yours in this free land. Steadfastly refuse to, trade away those bounties for anything else." Thus ended the address of Ingram M. Stainback, governor of Hawaii, the man who by sedulously casting suspicion on the loyalty and patriotism of his people --- and by failing to consistently endorse statehood — has confirmed us in our status of second-class citizens, with no right to elect our governor, no right to have a voice in Congress, nor to vote in a presidential election; the man who has prosti­tuted his high office to a medium for venting his spleen on those who oppose him; the man who is spending the taxpayers' money to perse­cute people for their political views.

People Value Democracy

In spite of his protestation the goovernor [sic] seems really concerned because the people show exactly the evidence of repugnance of subversive influence in the government that he says they should feel, he is alarmed because they show evidence of genuinely liking democracy and valuing human liberties, and because they show a disinclination to have their rights abridged. He is alarmed because, in a word, they do not show much evidence of being misled by the smooth talk of a Mainland haole named Ingram M. Stainback.

By Homer Ayers  (Federated Press) 

The fate of unborn generations hangs in the balance in the 1948 elections. And I am not referring to the possibility of atomic warfare. I am talking about the facts of erosion and waste. This is a political problem which Democratic and Republican leaders alike have largely ignored.

If we suddenly lost all the top-soil in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri in some catastrophe there would be a hysterical state of emergency declared. Well, we have already lost that much of once cultivated areas due to topsoil loss.

The Great Impoverishment

On the one hand, we have today a tremendous growth in the population — and on the other hand, wind and water erosion of the soil which ruins 500,000 acres annually. 

This loss is equal to 2,500 farms of 200 fertile acres each! The Mississippi alone, at flood stage, carries a 40-acre tract of topsoil, seven inches deep down the river, every minute. It is therefore a fact that de spite the seeming superabundance of food which the U. S. can produce, we face literal starvation in a few generations. Within the next 100 years -- meaning within the lives of our grandchildren — the question of food will become problem number one. 

This is the price of a profit-mad economy mistakenly labeled "the American way."

Most people have the false idea that our resources, especially from the soil, are limitless. Few indeed think, for instance, of milk as com­ing from grain, hay and forage all growing on the land. Milk to most merely comes in bottles, with a quart now priced what a gallon used to be. The misuse of our land — and we have been the most profligate nation on earth in this respect—flows mainly from the ideas generated by the plunderers of the rest of our national resources, those who skimmed the rich financial cream from our for­ests, coal and metal mines, oil reserves and so on.

Plunderers — Not Heroes

We made heroes out of the early fur traders who depleted enormous reserves of fur-bearing animals.

We placed men like Buffalo Bill on pedestals. His main claim to fame was the killing, often needlessly, of countless thousands of bison, along with the crews who slaughtered most of nature's meat supply simply for the hides, leaving carcasses to rot on the prairies. 

And, when an occasional conservationist raised a weak voice in behalf of unborn generations, the lumber kinds and coal barons roared back: "What has posterity ever done for me?" Fairfield Osborn, eminent president of the New York Zoological Society, has recently published a long overdue work on this problem of politics entitled, Our Plundered Planet. Not an alarmist, certainly not a candidate for the smears of the inquisition committees of Congress, Osborn points out that a turning point of recovery and reclamation has not been reached either in this country or elsewhere, although he labels Russia's scientific efforts to harness the Volga as "'perhaps the most extraordinary effort of its kind ever made by man."

Planning Needed

Osborn tells us, we must halt the devastation of our natural resources through world-wide planning, and then start back on the long slow road of reclamation. 

An understanding of the critical problem is first necessary, and I unhesitatingly recommend his book, published by Little, Brown & Co., as well as the Book Find Club. Not only do wars speed up the devastation of minerals, timber and other resources--all for profit— they hasten the day when the very foundation of human life washes into the sea. And, further, as in Greece, arms offer no solution when a land has been rendered incapable of feeding its people. World recovery, Osborn notes, must have conservation as its backbone. 

Obviously, supporting tottering dynasties with weapons and money is no solution at all. And in the U. S., where the most terrible waste has taken place, the old line politicians who speak only for profit-hungry corporation are, at this writing, blocking every effort to harness river systems, provide irrigation for waste areas, prevent dust bowls, and otherwise assure the food of tomorrow. It will take some deep, grassroots change in the thinking of the people to alter the picture.

Jefferson City, MO., School districts which pay Negro teachers less than white teachers may lose state aid. This was the ruling of State Attorney General J. E. Taylor, who cited a provision of the 1945 constitution to back his stand. Taylor said the constitution is self-enforcing and no special statute is necessary.

Two thousand Japanese sitdown strikers, employes of the Toho movie studio, were forced off the lot by U. S. tanks, armored cars and armed GIs sent in to back up Japanese police. Member of the Motion Picture & Theatrical Union walked out of other movie studios in protest against the government strikebreaking. The Toho strike began March 31 after the firing of 300 workers.

Tanks, teargas bombs, bayonets and machine guns were moved in last month against striking workers picketing the Univis Lens Co., in Dayton, O., as the strike-breaking effort took on the character of a military cam­paign. Sherman tank (left foreground) breaks through the picket line. The strikers are members of the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers (CIO).

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By Richard Brown (Special to The Record)

Wahington D. C.—A little more than a month ago they packed the park here to see Satchel Paige win his first major league start for the Cleveland Indians. They came to see Satchel not the Senators—make no mistake about that. Today the Senators currently staggering between sixth and seventh place played Joe DiMaggio and the Yankees and you Could have accommodated the crowd in the Surf Room of the Royal Hawaiian, or maybe m the No 4 and 5 holds of a Liberty ship. In fact, either locale might have been welcomed by the spectators

The Senators are a sad lot—and I'm talking about the ball club this time. To play around with Mike Gonzales' famous critique of 'Good field no hit,' the Senators are "No hit, no field, no pitch no run no crowd." They have a centerfielder named Stewart who can go back and pick them off the wall, and they have Mickey Vernon, who takes a nice cut and who got two of the Senators three hits today. When you've said that you've said it all.

The Washington fans say a great deal more but it's not nice and in fact, not much of it is fit for a family newspaper. The Faithful who really deserve the title in this town apparently come out to cheer the opposition and boo the Senators. That's what they did today. The cheers were for DiMaggio and Berra and Allie Reynolds. The boos were for Early Wynn, who labored long and unavailingly on the mound for Washington, and for a rightfielder named Robertson, who ought to get himself a nice job in a shoe store before he gets killed by one of those fly balls.

But baseball fans are hardy creatures. Come the seventh inning, the handful in Griffith Stadium today got up on its hind legs to give its moral support to the home boys. As a spectacle, it was interesting, but it was hardly the help the Senators needed. Only a Jackie Robinson, a Larry Doby, a Don Newcombe, a Campanella or a Satchel Paige could give that.

Which brings up the real point of this essay Washington has a Negro population proportionately larger than most major league cities More, Griffith Stadium is in the middle of the section, to which Washington realtors have restricted that Negro population. You can be sure that the Negro portion of the capacity crowd that came out to see Paige was high. The Senators have a ball club that would fit better onto the American Legion Youth playoffs than in the major leagues, yet they wont hire a Negro ballplayer.

So Negro fans stay away in droves except when the game promises some unusual feature like Old Satch. Clark Griffith, the "Old Fox," who was honored publicly by President Truman the other night as "one of Washington's leading citizens," is still not foxy enough, or courageous enough to take another step toward kicking Jim Crow out of baseball, even though it would be to his financial gain to do so In Griffith Stadium as elsewhere in this capital city of Democracy's citadel, some Americans are second-class citizens because of the color of their skins.

The "Old Fox"? Just how smart is a fox, anyhow? The score, by the way, was 8-1, Yankees 

Hilo grid Opener

A benefit game for the University scholarship fund will be played in Hilo on September 19, Sunday. The University of Hawaii Frosh will be pitted against the Waiakea Pirates, 1946-47 titlists of the Hilo football circuit. It will mark Hilo's initial grid game for this year.

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Baseball Champions

The Rural Red Sox copped the recently concluded Hawaii Base­ball League title for 1948. The Braves, managed by Bill Whaley, were crowned champions of the Cartwright series Other teams par­ticipating in the annual series were the Athletics, Red Sox and Tigers.

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Cardinals vs. Islanders 

Honolulu's football season for 1948 got underway on Sept 1, with the Moiliili Cardinals bumping off the Islanders by a 21-7 count, in a game played under the Stadium kleigs. It marked the season's official inaugural and the first game in the Honolulu senior circuit.

About 5,000 fans witnessed the fray, which was a benefit for the Democratic Party of Hawaii.

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Warriors vs. Rams

Honolulu's first big-time professional grid tilt of the season saw the power-laden Los Angeles Rams of the National pro loop, defeat the local Hawaiian Warriors by a 41-20 score, in a Labor Day game played at the Stadium A crowd of 21,000 fans saw the game.

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Barefoot Games

The popular 130-pound barefoot  city grid loop blew the lid off the  new season with four games played 1 on four fronts, witnessed by about 10,000 fans in all. The day's main  feature saw the rampaging Kalihi Valley AC, four-time champs and gunning for its fifth straight title, rout the Kakaako Sons, 25-0.

Interscholastic Conference

The Interscholastic conference which always attracts the most attention of all island grid fanatics, goes to the post on Sept 24, with McKinley High as defending champions. Punahou and Kaimuki High are slated to tangle in the seasons lid-lifter.

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Kauai Grid Loop

The Kauai Athletic Union's annual 135-pound barefoot grid circuit will get underway on Sunday afternoon, Sept 19 Koloa, Kalawai and Kekaha, who shared the league title in 1947, top the list of entrants in the league.

Other teams in the pennant chase are Pono, McBryde, Hanapepe, Lihue Plantation AA, Pakala, and Waimea. Olokele withdrew but their players will show under Pakala colors.

The Kauai Broncos, associate members of the Honolulu senior grid loop, who played the University of Hawaii Rainbows on Labor Day at Lihue, have a full schedule of eight games on their 1948 slate. They will play one game at the Honolulu Stadium, that against the Leilehua Alums on Sept 29. The Broncos will also play the Islanders, Olympics, Cardinals and and [sic] Army and Navy team.

The National Association of Shirt and Pajama Manufacturers, New York, offers a prize for the best adjective to describe shuts worn for dress wear and business There are work shirts and sports shirts, they point out—but what should they call the other shirts.

"That is no problem here in Hawaii. Our dress and business shirt, except to weddings—and funerals, is simply a less glamorous edition of the same old aloha shirt— with a coat on over it, if it's that kind of a snooty place — and they're getting fewer every day. One even sees 'em in the cocktail lounges of the better hotels — and also in the mayor's office," says the kamaaina.

To help 60,000 aliens in the Territory now eligible for citizenship win this status, the adult education division of the Department of Public Instruction will re-open classes on the Constitution and the basic principles and workings of the U. S. government. Between 70 and 75 aliens are taking out citizenship papers every month on Oahu, according to Edith Noffsinger, supervisor in charge of citizenship and elementary education. Of this number a great majority are Filipinos. Prior to the time Filipinos became eligible for citizenship the number ranged around 10 or 12, she said.

The Farrington Community School will open on Sept 14, and it will be followed by classes starting at Kaimuki, Aiea, Waipahu Wahiawa and Waialua Community schools on Sept 20 A fundamental course in adult education is English which masses are conducted from the first grade through high school.

Besides the special citizenship classes, a wide range of course's is offered at the Community schools Registration is now being accepted at Farrington High School between the hours of 8 a. m. and 6 p. m. on week days nad [sic] until noon on Saturdays.

San Francisco, Sept 7— The citizens of this city saw the faces of one element of the maritime strike on Market Street yesterday when more than 8,000 white-capped, white-shirted longshoremen marched in the Labor Day parade.

For the longshoremen, and for the other striking maritime unions— Marine Cooks and Stewards, Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, independent firemen (MFOWW) and American Radio Operators—Labor Day was more than a celebration It was an expression of unity against the efforts of the big shipowners to set maritime labor back to a 1934 basis.

Perhaps the citizens saw the collective face of the ILWU most clearly in the single banner that headed the column of grim-visaged workers. The banner read "An Injury to One is an Injury to All." There was no better interpretation of the attitude of the marching longshoremen

The parade was really only a pause m strike developments. On Wednesday the striking unions would take further action at a joint mass-meeting.

It was expected that this action might be to reject the offers the shipowners have made and withdrawn and to reaffirm faith in the course of the union leaders

The face of the shipowners not so obvious was yet discernible in a story printed by the San Francisco Chronical, Monday. The Chronicle quoted a shipowners' spokesman as admitting that the strike might force a number of small lines out of business.

Thirty-five dollars a head was paid for transportation of 22[text missing] Negro agricultural workers who were shipped in closed vans from Savannah Ga., to Bay City, Mich. — over 50 in each truck for the three-day journey. Canning company which hired them to pick cucumbers, provided housing in pig-styes (shared with pigs) and 22 cents a day. Above, a group of workers who fled from these conditions is sheltered in a church basement.

Vienna—Doused by the Marshall plan the lights in many Austrian match factories are going out.

This charge was made by work­ers here who pointed out that shipment of American matches under the Marshall plan has resulted in the closing of a number of match factories.

Sports fans in the Territory will be interested to know that Paul Robeson's son, Paul Robeson, Jr., will be one of the main cogs on the Cornell University football team this year.

The senior Robeson is well remembered in the islands for the concert tour of the Territory he made in March of this year for the benefit of the ILWU. The world-famous Negro baritone artist made a big hit wherever he performed

Robeson, Sr., was an All-American end at Rutgers University in his heyday. He was good enough to be picked by the immortal Walter Camp for All-American honors in 1918, his senior year. He played end. A versatile athlete, Robeson was a four-letter man, being out­standing in baseball, basketball and track, as well as football.

The younger Robeson is a strapping lad tipping the beams at 195 pounds, and standing an even six feet. It will be his final year for the Big Red.

Paul, Jr., is majoring in electrical engineering and is an honor student.

He is also a high jumper of note dealing better than six feet, one inch.

In the field of politics young Robeson is active in the Wallace-for-President movement.

By Betty Eshelman

Kaimalino, Kona—Miss Lillian Endo was presented m a special Homecoming recital at the Central Kona Congregational Church on August 27. A brilliant pianist, Miss Endo has just returned from Interlochen, Michigan, where she attended the Interlochen Summer Music Camp from June 27 to August 23.

The young musician was born on Kauai, lived for a while on Maui and is now in Kealakekua where her father, the Rev F. K. Endo, is pastor of the Central Kona Congregational Church.

This fall Miss Endo, only 15, will enter Mid-Pacific Institute in Ho­nolulu as a sophomore. She hopes to become a public school music teacher.

Mr. George Kubota, Miss Endo's instructor, and Mrs. Anita Miller, presented several young students at the recital also. They were Lois Endo, Sachio Tanigumi, Nancy Yoshimara, Lorraine Tanimoto, Jean Koshi, Granville Yoshino, Ray Jyo and Richard Ishida.

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New York (FP)—Radio listeners who heard Al Capp, creator of the Li'1 Abner comic strip, substitute for vacationing vacationing columnist Drew Pearson on his weekly broadcast Aug. 15, welcomed the clever Capp's hard-hitting comments on the current economic scene.

Capp rapped high prices, talked about the housing shortage and said many things that radio commentators don't say anymore these days if they expect to stay on the air.

Gives In To Pressure

On Capp's second program, however, there was absolutely no mention of prices, housing or high profits. Instead, listeners heard Capp talk about his adventures as a teenage lover.

Union Voice, newspaper of eight locals of the Retail, Wholesale & Department Store Union (CIO), tells why Capp kept off politics in an exclusive story in its August 29 issue.

After his August 22 broadcast, reporters Marty Solow and Bernie Stephens were told by Capp that "he preferred not to talk about it." But sources close to the American Broadcasting Co. informed them that Capp had been summoned to a conference by representatives of ABC and the sponsor, Lee Hats, and told "smoothly but firmly that he wasn't a news analyst and that perhaps it would be better all around if he would stick to funnyman stuff and leave politics to other people."

Public Was For Him

Capp did tell Union Voice that his Aug. 15 broadcast was "the kind of radio I like to do." During his Aug. 22 pre-broadcast warmup he gave a tipoff on what had happened at the conference with studio and company officials. Capp, a big, broad-shouldered guy with a shock of black hair like Li'l Abner's, sat at a table before the studio audience taking sips of water liberally spiked with Alka-Seltzer, Union Voice reports.

He offered to share the bicarbonate with the audience, warning that they might need it after the program. Jesting along, he remarked that he had just had a pretty tough week. There had been some objections to his news analysis, he said, adding for emphasis, "The roof really fell on me." After the broadcast Capp told Union Voice that mail had run 12 to 1 in favor of his initial newscast.

Just before he went on the air, Capp told the studio audience with a wry smile: "This broadcast marks farewell to Al Capp, news analyst, and hail to Al Capp, weaver of dreams."

Asked for advice to give to any budding news commentators, Capp, who now should know, said. "Marry a vice president's daughter; that's the only way."

By W. K. Bassett

These Anonymous "Letters From the People"

In Rhode Island a bill has been framed for presentation to its next legislature which prohibits the publication in any newspaper of letters, purportedly from readers, which contain or criticize any person in public or private life, unless the names of the writers of the letters are printed with the communications. It remains to be seen whether the legislature of Rhode Island will have the independence and, yes, the decency to make that bill into law.

There are two good reasons why letters signed by pseudonyms should not be printed in newspapers. One is that any self-respecting newspaper should demand that anyone criticizing and, as so often happens, villifying another, should have the courage of his or her own convictions. It is altogether too easy to make charges based merely on hearsay. It is altogether too easy to make im­plications based on false premises. It is altogether too easy to do this and hide behind ano­nymity while shooting the poison dart.

Another good reason for the passage of such a law, right here in Hawaii, is that newspapers can, and they do, use their "Letters from the Readers" column to put over their own jabs. Too often these letters emanate not from readers, but from the editorial staff of the paper itself. And often, too, this inside-composed criticism is used as a basis for editorial comments in the same paper.

I doubt that in any city on the Mainland is this highly unethical practice more used than it is right here.

I have been told that such a proposed law may be introduced in the next legislature of Hawaii. I hope it is. The practice will stop many cowards from using their pens and their typewriters.

* * * *

This Awful Japanese Language

For those whose blood pressure rises to a precarious height whenever they contemplate the wide use of the Japanese language in this, frontier colony of the United States, I would offer the following letter from Bennett Cerf's column in the Saturday Review of Literature:

"In a recent TRADE WINDS column you stated, Louisiana is the one state in the Union where election returns are announced in two languages—English and French.' I take it you are not familiar with practices in New Mexico, where, after this area has been a part of the United States for a hundred years and a state since 1912, the Spanish and English languages are still widely used. Until recently, our legislature regularly employed interpreters; they are still frequently required in our courts. Ballots are printed in the two languages regularly, notices of election and constitutional amendments are printed and published in both languages, political campaigns are made in both languages, and some of the schools are conducted in Spanish."

I might add that in San Francisco, radio programs completely in the Italian language are not uncommon. 

* * * * *

Another "Smoke-Screen"

I note that another book club is started on the Mainland called "Poor Richard's Book-of-America Club." It characterizes itself as staunchly "anti-Communist and defender of American institutions." This book club is a good example of that class of so-called Americans who call themselves anti-Communists to cover up the fact that they are anti-democratic.

Passages in the initial selection of the book club contain such fine fascist examples as these: "... that which a nation needs quite as badly as a healthy race is the existence of an elite to lead it."

"Germany had its officer corps which unwaveringly upheld its ethics and made good in the darkest days of Germany."

The book club committee includes:

G. Seals Aiken, Georgia attorney, who urges that Negroes be denied citizenship and the right to vote.

Austin J. App, Texan, who says the "German armies were the most decent armies of the war."

Lawrence Denis, Massachusetts author, who has written: "Let me say categorically that I do not believe in democracy or the intelligence of the masses."

Frank A. Parker, New York pamphleteer, who recently distributed a leaflet called "Has Congress Abdicated to International Jewry?"

The point is that we mustn't let people who oppose our democratic way of life delude us by protestations of being anti-Communistic.

By W. K. Bassett

These Anonymous "Letters From the People"

In Rhode Island a bill has been framed for presentation to its next legislature which prohibits the publication in any newspaper of letters, purportedly from readers, which contain or criticize any person in public or private life, unless the names of the writers of the letters are printed with the communications. It remains to be seen whether the legislature of Rhode Island will have the independence and, yes, the decency to make that bill into law.

There are two good reasons why letters signed by pseudonyms should not be printed in newspapers. One is that any self-respecting newspaper should demand that anyone criticizing and, as so often happens, villifying another, should have the courage of his or her own convictions. It is altogether too easy to make charges based merely on hearsay. It is altogether too easy to make im­plications based on false premises. It is altogether too easy to do this and hide behind ano­nymity while shooting the poison dart.

Another good reason for the passage of such a law, right here in Hawaii, is that newspapers can, and they do, use their "Letters from the Readers" column to put over their own jabs. Too often these letters emanate not from readers, but from the editorial staff of the paper itself. And often, too, this inside-composed criticism is used as a basis for editorial comments in the same paper.

I doubt that in any city on the Mainland is this highly unethical practice more used than it is right here.

I have been told that such a proposed law may be introduced in the next legislature of Hawaii. I hope it is. The practice will stop many cowards from using their pens and their typewriters.

* * * *

This Awful Japanese Language

For those whose blood pressure rises to a precarious height whenever they contemplate the wide use of the Japanese language in this, frontier colony of the United States, I would offer the following letter from Bennett Cerf's column in the Saturday Review of Literature:

"In a recent TRADE WINDS column you stated, Louisiana is the one state in the Union where election returns are announced in two languages—English and French.' I take it you are not familiar with practices in New Mexico, where, after this area has been a part of the United States for a hundred years and a state since 1912, the Spanish and English languages are still widely used. Until recently, our legislature regularly employed interpreters; they are still frequently required in our courts. Ballots are printed in the two languages regularly, notices of election and constitutional amendments are printed and published in both languages, political campaigns are made in both languages, and some of the schools are conducted in Spanish."

I might add that in San Francisco, radio programs completely in the Italian language are not uncommon. 

* * * * *

Another "Smoke-Screen"

I note that another book club is started on the Mainland called "Poor Richard's Book-of-America Club." It characterizes itself as staunchly "anti-Communist and defender of American institutions." This book club is a good example of that class of so-called Americans who call themselves anti-Communists to cover up the fact that they are anti-democratic.

Passages in the initial selection of the book club contain such fine fascist examples as these: "... that which a nation needs quite as badly as a healthy race is the existence of an elite to lead it."

"Germany had its officer corps which unwaveringly upheld its ethics and made good in the darkest days of Germany."

The book club committee includes:

G. Seals Aiken, Georgia attorney, who urges that Negroes be denied citizenship and the right to vote.

Austin J. App, Texan, who says the "German armies were the most decent armies of the war."

Lawrence Denis, Massachusetts author, who has written: "Let me say categorically that I do not believe in democracy or the intelligence of the masses."

Frank A. Parker, New York pamphleteer, who recently distributed a leaflet called "Has Congress Abdicated to International Jewry?"

The point is that we mustn't let people who oppose our democratic way of life delude us by protestations of being anti-Communistic.

By W. K. Bassett

These Anonymous "Letters From the People"

In Rhode Island a bill has been framed for presentation to its next legislature which prohibits the publication in any newspaper of letters, purportedly from readers, which contain or criticize any person in public or private life, unless the names of the writers of the letters are printed with the communications. It remains to be seen whether the legislature of Rhode Island will have the independence and, yes, the decency to make that bill into law.

There are two good reasons why letters signed by pseudonyms should not be printed in newspapers. One is that any self-respecting newspaper should demand that anyone criticizing and, as so often happens, villifying another, should have the courage of his or her own convictions. It is altogether too easy to make charges based merely on hearsay. It is altogether too easy to make im­plications based on false premises. It is altogether too easy to do this and hide behind ano­nymity while shooting the poison dart.

Another good reason for the passage of such a law, right here in Hawaii, is that newspapers can, and they do, use their "Letters from the Readers" column to put over their own jabs. Too often these letters emanate not from readers, but from the editorial staff of the paper itself. And often, too, this inside-composed criticism is used as a basis for editorial comments in the same paper.

I doubt that in any city on the Mainland is this highly unethical practice more used than it is right here.

I have been told that such a proposed law may be introduced in the next legislature of Hawaii. I hope it is. The practice will stop many cowards from using their pens and their typewriters.

* * * *

This Awful Japanese Language

For those whose blood pressure rises to a precarious height whenever they contemplate the wide use of the Japanese language in this, frontier colony of the United States, I would offer the following letter from Bennett Cerf's column in the Saturday Review of Literature:

"In a recent TRADE WINDS column you stated, Louisiana is the one state in the Union where election returns are announced in two languages—English and French.' I take it you are not familiar with practices in New Mexico, where, after this area has been a part of the United States for a hundred years and a state since 1912, the Spanish and English languages are still widely used. Until recently, our legislature regularly employed interpreters; they are still frequently required in our courts. Ballots are printed in the two languages regularly, notices of election and constitutional amendments are printed and published in both languages, political campaigns are made in both languages, and some of the schools are conducted in Spanish."

I might add that in San Francisco, radio programs completely in the Italian language are not uncommon. 

* * * * *

Another "Smoke-Screen"

I note that another book club is started on the Mainland called "Poor Richard's Book-of-America Club." It characterizes itself as staunchly "anti-Communist and defender of American institutions." This book club is a good example of that class of so-called Americans who call themselves anti-Communists to cover up the fact that they are anti-democratic.

Passages in the initial selection of the book club contain such fine fascist examples as these: "... that which a nation needs quite as badly as a healthy race is the existence of an elite to lead it."

"Germany had its officer corps which unwaveringly upheld its ethics and made good in the darkest days of Germany."

The book club committee includes:

G. Seals Aiken, Georgia attorney, who urges that Negroes be denied citizenship and the right to vote.

Austin J. App, Texan, who says the "German armies were the most decent armies of the war."

Lawrence Denis, Massachusetts author, who has written: "Let me say categorically that I do not believe in democracy or the intelligence of the masses."

Frank A. Parker, New York pamphleteer, who recently distributed a leaflet called "Has Congress Abdicated to International Jewry?"

The point is that we mustn't let people who oppose our democratic way of life delude us by protestations of being anti-Communistic.

By W. K. Bassett

These Anonymous "Letters From the People"

In Rhode Island a bill has been framed for presentation to its next legislature which prohibits the publication in any newspaper of letters, purportedly from readers, which contain or criticize any person in public or private life, unless the names of the writers of the letters are printed with the communications. It remains to be seen whether the legislature of Rhode Island will have the independence and, yes, the decency to make that bill into law.

There are two good reasons why letters signed by pseudonyms should not be printed in newspapers. One is that any self-respecting newspaper should demand that anyone criticizing and, as so often happens, villifying another, should have the courage of his or her own convictions. It is altogether too easy to make charges based merely on hearsay. It is altogether too easy to make im­plications based on false premises. It is altogether too easy to do this and hide behind ano­nymity while shooting the poison dart.

Another good reason for the passage of such a law, right here in Hawaii, is that newspapers can, and they do, use their "Letters from the Readers" column to put over their own jabs. Too often these letters emanate not from readers, but from the editorial staff of the paper itself. And often, too, this inside-composed criticism is used as a basis for editorial comments in the same paper.

I doubt that in any city on the Mainland is this highly unethical practice more used than it is right here.

I have been told that such a proposed law may be introduced in the next legislature of Hawaii. I hope it is. The practice will stop many cowards from using their pens and their typewriters.

* * * *

This Awful Japanese Language

For those whose blood pressure rises to a precarious height whenever they contemplate the wide use of the Japanese language in this, frontier colony of the United States, I would offer the following letter from Bennett Cerf's column in the Saturday Review of Literature:

"In a recent TRADE WINDS column you stated, Louisiana is the one state in the Union where election returns are announced in two languages—English and French.' I take it you are not familiar with practices in New Mexico, where, after this area has been a part of the United States for a hundred years and a state since 1912, the Spanish and English languages are still widely used. Until recently, our legislature regularly employed interpreters; they are still frequently required in our courts. Ballots are printed in the two languages regularly, notices of election and constitutional amendments are printed and published in both languages, political campaigns are made in both languages, and some of the schools are conducted in Spanish."

I might add that in San Francisco, radio programs completely in the Italian language are not uncommon. 

* * * * *

Another "Smoke-Screen"

I note that another book club is started on the Mainland called "Poor Richard's Book-of-America Club." It characterizes itself as staunchly "anti-Communist and defender of American institutions." This book club is a good example of that class of so-called Americans who call themselves anti-Communists to cover up the fact that they are anti-democratic.

Passages in the initial selection of the book club contain such fine fascist examples as these: "... that which a nation needs quite as badly as a healthy race is the existence of an elite to lead it."

"Germany had its officer corps which unwaveringly upheld its ethics and made good in the darkest days of Germany."

The book club committee includes:

G. Seals Aiken, Georgia attorney, who urges that Negroes be denied citizenship and the right to vote.

Austin J. App, Texan, who says the "German armies were the most decent armies of the war."

Lawrence Denis, Massachusetts author, who has written: "Let me say categorically that I do not believe in democracy or the intelligence of the masses."

Frank A. Parker, New York pamphleteer, who recently distributed a leaflet called "Has Congress Abdicated to International Jewry?"

The point is that we mustn't let people who oppose our democratic way of life delude us by protestations of being anti-Communistic.