Filipinos Here Deprived Of Dependency Aids Due   [print]

Discriminatory Law Voids Benefits Promised Earlier

Do the children of an alien get as hungry as those of an American citizen? Under the present Workmen's Compensation Law, Territorial courts are forced to rule that, hungry or not, the children of an alien may not receive the death benefits that otherwise might be awarded because of the death of their father, unless they live in the United States.

Among certain groups of Filipino workers in Hawaii, the provision, stated in Sec. 442 of the law, works a much greater discriminatory hardship than appears at first glance.

Thousands of Filipino men left their families behind to come to Hawaii after 1944 when the wartime manpower shortage had made plantation owners frantic in their search for labor to cultivate and harvest their crops.

Nationals Now Allens

These Filipinos were promised verbally, if not by written contract, that their dependents at home would receive full benefits of the Workmen's Compensation Law.

At that time these workers and their dependents were held by the U. S. Government to be "Nationals," and thus legally entitled to such benefits, but on July 4, 1946, when the Phillippines [sic] Republic was declared, both workers and their dependents became aliens and outside the benefits of the law. Now, these men work in Hawaiian sugar and pineapple plantations at the risk of leaving their families at home in conditions of extreme privation.

The only beneficiaries of this situation are, of course, the plan­tation owners who would normally be liable under the law, which reads in part: "An alien shall not be considered a dependent within the meaning of this chapter unless actually residing within the United States, and any alien dependent leaving the United States shall thereupon lose all right to any benefits under this chapter."

Japanese Too

A pertinent notation in smaller type follows: "Alien Japanese dependent upon leaving the United States loses all rights to benefits; 'leaving the United States' construed; an alien widow leaving the United States ceases to be a 'dependent.'"

Still another provision of the law which is felt to be inequitable by many workers is that stipulating: "In case death occurs after a period of disability, either total or partial, the total compensation paid shall not exceed seventy-five hundred dollars."

Appeal Limited

Dependents of a dead worker may of course, ignore the Workmen's Compensation Law and seek higher damages in a civil suit, but according to Hawaiian practice, if they fail to gain judgment, they cannot

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Hitler Invasion Of USSR

As the Reinecke hearing dragged into its 30th day Deputy Attorney General William Blatt was apparently attempting to show, among other things, that Dr. John Reinecke had, first, changed his mind abruptly on June 22, 1941, about whether the U. S. should enter the war against Hitler, and second, that Dr. Reinecke had been a writer for Communist publications. In neither effort was he especially successful.

Dr. Reinecke said that during the period of the "phony war," he had opposed U. S. aid to Britain, but that he had "changed his mind gradually" until he had come to favor U. S. action against Germany some months before the Nazi invasion of the USSR.

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Answering Blatt's queries as to his ever having written for the magazines, Political Affairs and New Masses, Dr. Reinecke said, "You flatter, me. I have, not."

Earlier in the hearing, a procedure being carried out by the Department of Public Instruction with the avowed purpose of determining whether or not Mr. and Mrs. Reinecke are "possessed of democratic ideals," Dr. Reinecke refused to affirm or deny that he was a Communist because, he said, the question invaded his right as implied by the secret ballot.

He refused to name any Communists, with the exception of Ichiro Izuka, for the same reason. He made the exception because Izuka has alleged that he was once a Communist.

In answering questions about whether or not he is a Communist, Dr. Reinecke said he felt the question of Communist Party membership is not relevant to the question of whether or not he is loyal to the U. S. and possessed of the ideals of democracy.

"The board has no right to in­quire into my political beliefs," he said.

"We were deceived," says Solomon Aki, business manager of the Electrical Workers, Local 1357. "We were deceived by the 'Big Happy Family' attitude of the company for years."

It was that deception by the Mutual Telephone Co., Aki says, which confused some rank-and-filers into accepting a contract that did not guarantee the traditional work week. Now with both take-home-pay and working conditions threatened by the company's new schedules, Aki says the union has voted strike action, 3 to 1, to preserve its position

The dispute, which has been pre­sented as an unfair labor charge to the NLRB by the union, arises from two situations upon which the union and the company have been unable to agree.

First, the union charges contract violation by the company in that switchmen in the outer islands have been cut to 40-hour weeks, thus allowing less opportunity for overtime, instead of being kept at a 43-hour week the union says the company agreed upon.

Second, the union charges that traditional working conditions are violated by the company's rearrangements of working schedules.

Some high school student will win $30 for his theme about "What Impressed Me Most About the Sanitation Exhibits." That is the amount of the top prize offered through the Sanitation Week planning committee, headed by Finlay Ross, in a contest set up in three groups. Other prizes range downward to $6.

The observance of "Sanitation Week," which will end Sunday, Sept. 19, began last Monday. Honolulans were invited to inspect various public works, such as the Beretania Street plant of the board of water supply. The steam pumping station which distributes water through the city's mains was also open for inspection.

On Thursday a group of restaurants and hotels held open house, inviting their customers to inspect their kitchens and sanitary disposal systems, while Friday the department of health and the Kill 'Em Chemical Co., were open to the public.

Since 6,000 tons or cargo space have been available for food shipments to Honolulu from Vancouver, the gulf ports and east coast ports, most of the anxiety over possible food shortages in the territory has disappeared. The quantity of food scheduled should be enough for a month's supply for the islands.

Although no further offers of vessels for Hawaii-bound cargoes were reported, shipping circles did not view the situation with concern. The business of supplying the islands from strike-free ports had taken on almost the appearance of normal commercial activity.

Hawaiians who have attended the California Labor School of San Francisco will be interested to learn that Director Dave Jenkins has filed suit against Attorney General Tom Clark for the latter's listing of the school as "subversive."

Jenkins said the action speaks "for all those in the academic world who refuse to be thought-controlled and silenced by this campaign of intimidation."

As THE RECORD grows, it's [sic] staff must grow, too. The latest addition is Edward Rohrbough, who arrived from the Mainland last week and whose interview with Mrs. Lorenzo appears in this issue.

Mr. Rohrbough is an experienced newspaperman. In the past 10 years he has been on the staffs of the Toronto Star, Newsweek and the China Weekly Review, and his writings have appeared in the New York Herald-Tribune, the New York Daily News and PM, and in national magazines such as Collier's and Salute.

Prior to this he taught English at the University of Texas, and still earlier, he attended Glenville State College (W. Va.), the University of Virginia, the National University of Mexico and the University of Texas.

Mr. Rohrbough's war record is unique in that he was a soldier in one army and was, at various times, attached to three others. In 1940, before the U. S. went to war, Mr. Rohrbough enlisted in the Canadian army and was discharged in 1941 after suffering an eye injury. In 1944, he went to China for the OWI and in that capacity was attached to the U. S. army and the army of the Chinese National Government. After V-J Day, he resigned from the OWI and covered the Chinese civil war for six months as a correspondent for the United Press, during which time he was attached to the Chinese Communist New 4th Army.

Since his return to the U. S., Mr. Rohrbough has lived in New York where he wrote freelance articles and fiction. Originally from West Virginia, he is the son of Rep. E. G. Rohrbough (W. Va., Republican) who visited the Territory last fall as a member of a congressional committee.

An Un-Filipino Committee, according to a story from Manila, will be set up shortly with an authorized expenses amount of 50,000 pesos. Speaker of the Filipino House of Representatives, Eugenio Perez has announced that Rep. Ramon Magsaysay, now in Washington, is gathering information on the workings of the Un-American Committee there.

There was 110 comment as to whether or not the Committee would investigate the activities of many ex-puppets of the Japanese who escaped punishment in the courts. Neither did the Speaker's Statement indicate that there is any relationship between the Un-Filipino Committee and the Un-Chinese Committee that has been proposed in Nanking by the Chiang Kai-shek government.

"The balance of power was always with management and the Taft-Hartley Act has only insured the maintenance of the power."

That's no labor leader behind those lines. That's the Most Reverand [sic] Bernard J. Sheil, auxiliary bishop of Chicago.

Speaking before the convention of United Packinghouse Workers, he said of the Taft-Hartley Act: "It is claimed that the act is good because it equalizes the power of unions and management. This is a bitter joke."

Bishop Sheil has been very prominent in the Catholic Youth Organization.

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Mystery Death?

Hawaii's "mystery deaths" got an explanation but it seemed unscientific and not good enough to local physicians who have been closest to the scene and working hard to solve the unexplained deaths.

Dr. C. Manalang of the Philippine department of health, who studied the "mystery deaths" here, gave full meals before bedtime and nightmare as causes of death.

"Psychological or functional lung hemorrhage due to a nightmare, sets off a chain of internal reactions which kill the sleeper," he said.

Honolulu doctors who recently met with Dr. Manalang, voiced disagreement. Some said much more study is necessary before the actual cause of death is discovered. Another said: "My understanding at the close of the meeting was that we had not yet determined the cause of death."

Fear was a contributing factor, it was explained. All told, 84 Filipino deaths in Hawaii since 1937 have been classified as "mystery deaths." Victims, most of them, husky , young males. No women, children or old people were among them

Malayan Parasites

During the war sappers detected land mines. Now we discover that Malayan parasites have been sappers, probably even before human beings found this task necessary.

The imported insect sappers are taking part in the territorial board of forestry and agriculture's campaign against the Oriental fruit fly. With long, sword-like egg-depositories trailing behind them, the parasites are warned by their sounding tails when they run over an infected spot of a fruit with fly larva under the skin. There the parasite jabs its tail and lays its egg. The parasite eggs feed on the fly larva.

Campaign Speeches

The Democratic candidates started their pre-primary campaigning on Sunday at two places — Kailua and Waimanalo. Twenty-four candidates participated with one, Mrs. Victoria K. Holt, candidate for delegate to Congress, blasting her party with charges of its being run by the Communists. She did not shake up the candidates with her Red-baiting. Men like Mayor John H. Wilson stood firm and spoke on issues, ignoring the red herring which could nibble away at party solidarity.

While the Democrats began moving with an early start, the Republicans on Oahu tentatively agreed upon a near-40-rally schedule for the primary. They were working at a disadvantage because of a late start. They would have to check dates and places so that they would not accidentally show up at the same time with the Democrats. After doing this, they were to announce their final schedule.

Babies

A record birth of 14,552 babies during the last fiscal year topped the previous year by 502 and 1941 by 4,949. Honolulu and rural Oahu accounted for the biggest increases, according to the territorial birth statistics. While births have been on the upgrade, infant deaths have remained constant around 400 a year. With increase in births expected to continue, the kindergarten situation already overcrowded, as a problem that must be tackled soon and expeditiously.

Wallace Welcomed

At the Yankee Stadium, 48,000 roared a welcome to Henry Wallace, back from his tour of the South. Before a crowd which the Independent Progressive Party called the largest paid admission political meeting in the history of the U. S., Wallace said he condoned "neither the German stoning, nor the Russian shooting" that occurred in the rioting at Berlin, and he said it would be better for all Americans if the U. S. became a "peacemonger, not warmonger."

Speaking of his tour, Wallace called the hoodlumism he suffered less important than the "two dozen completely unsegregated peaceful meetings we were able to hold."

Truman Snubbed

Louisiana's 10 electoral votes were added last week to those of Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina in the bloc which is pledged to support the States' Rights candidate, Gov. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. 

The action, taken by unanimous vote of the Louisiana Democratic state central committee, is one that will keep Presi­dent Truman's name off the ballot. The Dixiecrats, according to their spokesman in Washington, W. Austin Seay, have also qualified for the ballot in Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina and Texas. As the Dixiecrat movement grew, President Truman decided to abandon his plans for a long tour through the South and it was indicated that he would confine himself to a few speeches in strategic Southern cities.

Army Strikebreakers?

Army Secretary Kenneth Royall announced that in spite of the ILWU maritime strike on the West Coast, the Army would hire its own longshoremen to load some 50,000 tons of cargo vitally needed for Army operations in the Far East. The Army decision came, not as a result of any refusal of the ILWU to load cargo, but because the Waterfront Employers' Association refused to negotiate any proposal that would allow ILWU to load Army cargo. Harry Bridges had previously made it clear that union longshoremen would load the vital cargo at pre-strike wages, under pre-strike conditions, but it was the WEA that balked.

Nevertheless, it was the ILWU that got the punishment. The Navy was in no mood to respect picket lines, either. At Port Hueneme, Calif., President Clyde Dorsey of the ILWU Local 46 protested the use of Navy enlisted personnel to unload the U. S. Leo (AKA 60) instead of using union longshoremen who had been standing by ready to unload the cargo. In a letter to Defense Secretary Forrestal, Dorsey pointed out that such use of Navy personnel is strike-breaking and as distasteful to the sailors employed as to the idle longshoremen.

No one has yet suggested replacing the balking employers with either Army or Navy personnel.

Hood River Learns

At Hood River, Ore., they once struck the names of Nisei from an honor roll by action of the American Legion. Last week, under the sponsorship of the Veterans Council, the town turned out to honor Frank Hachiya, killed on Leyte, in solemn funeral services. Among the honorary pall-bearers was the Rev. W. Sherman Burgoyne, whose defense of Hood River Nisei won him a Thomas Jefferson award for the advancement of democracy.

Nehru's War

The eyes of India's millions are on Hyderabad where four columns of the Indian army have invaded the independent state up to 30 miles and were reported nearing the approaches to Hyderabad city. The invasion came after Premier Nehru announced that he would send troops into Hyderabad to quell "a mounting wave of disorders." The real dispute is between Nehru and the Moslem ruler of Hyderabad, Prince Nazim, who has refused to recognize Indian sovereignty over his state.

Nazim's troops were reported opposing the invasion vigorously, but they were forced to fall back before superior numbers of the invaders.

A New Pitch

General Charles De Gaulle, who once headed the Croix de Feu, a pre-war party with an openly fascist platform, opened his campaign to return to power. Speaking to supporters at Nice, De Gaulle promised a government that sounded almost ether­eal in that it would be "above and out­side" politics, religion, business and trade unions. Using the Cross of Lorraine as a sym­bol, in much the same manner he once used the "Cross of Fire," De Gaulle in­cited his followers to roars of "De Gaulle to power!"

"To power!" the string-bean general replied. "We are going there!"

But French voters, so few years after brutal occupation, are almost certain to see the parallel between De Gaulle's "above and outside" talk and that of another leader who governed by "inspiration." Nor will the De Gaulle use of symbolism be lost on former inmates of concentration camps who used to see another sort of cross, a squirmy one with dog-eared extensions, on the arms of their guards.

Risky Business

While the western powers prepared to deliver some kind of tough-sounding ultimatum to the Soviet Union on the subject of the Berlin situation, U. S. Army  pilots accuse Russian military pilots of endangering the airlift supply-line by holding anti-aircraft practice too near the airlanes being used for the ferry job. The Russians had advised the western powers earlier that such exercises would be a part of large-scale air maneuvers which would begin Sept. 6 and end Sept. 15. Lt. Gen. Curtis E. Lemay, U. S. air commander in Europe, said: "The Russians always told us in advance what they were going to do. And we always tell them we're going to fly anyway." At the same time, the Soviet-licensed news agency said the Russians have smashed a spy-ring in eastern Germany, arresting 15 persons, one of whom was described as an agent "for two foreign intelligence services."

Asked To Leave

A demand that both Soviet and American troops be withdrawn from all Korea came in a letter from the North Korean People's Council over the Pyongyang radio, to the U. S. radio broadcast. The Russians, who proposed in autumn of 1947 that both forces withdraw, notified the North Korean government last May that they were ready to leave whenever the Americans were.

The U. S. and the Southern Republic of Korea, the government established and sponsored by the U. S. Army, have agreed that the withdrawal of American troops will be made gradually as the Republic increases the strength of its army. This is the army which U. S. Army officers began to organize, train and arm shortly after V. J. Day, when there was still no Korean government. Critics of U. S. policy have pointed out that many of the officers and men of that army were also puppet-soldiers of the Japanese.

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Public Asks Arbitration

Growing public pressure for arbitration of the two-week-old strike of the Transit Workers Union (Ind.) against the Honolulu Rapid Transit Co., was reported this week by union headquarters with the announcement that over 10,000 persons have signed the petitions calling for arbitration.

This pressure has risen following the rejection by the company of the union's proposal for the conversion of the governor's last board of mediation into a fact finding board to conduct formal public hearings and to make recommendations previously agreed to by both parties as binding.

Meanwhile, the union has thrown out another proposal—in answer to the company's request for continuous negotiations on its June 2 proposals—that the company consider the union's proposals of August 13 which call for a five cents wage increase retroactive to June 1, 1947, and another 15 cents increase retroactive to June 1, 1948.

The governor has also entered the picture—having conferred with Arthur Rutledge, business representative of the union—for about an hour on September 13.

However, after the conference the union's representative indicated that the chief executive could not do more than hope for an immediate settlement through the exploration of all means of settlement.

Coca-Cola Stalemate

The situation at the Coca-Cola plant remains the same, with a settlement nowhere in sight.

Attempts of the union and the company to settle the dispute through further meetings were unsuccessful.

In the meantime, coke machines throughout the city were practically empty, back stock having been used up by this time.

Love’s Stand Pat

"On the CIO front, ILWU Local 150 reports still no settlement of the dispute between it and Love's Bakery.

The report comes in light of the threatening flour shortage because of the west coast tie-up.

Ernest Arena, union president, reported that the company has made no serious move to consider the union's proposals for a wage increase or a revised job classification system.

At the same time, he said, the company has mechanized its operations to such an extent (installation of new ovens) that only 16 of 48 workers now remain in the Kapahulu plant.

Sugar Negotiations

Negotiations between the ILWU Local 142 and the Olaa Sugar Co., only plantation not a party to the recently negotiated agreement, have been postponed until September 24, it was reported today by union headquarters.

Negotiations, when resumed, will take place on the Big Island.

At the time of the last meeting, the union had turned down the company demand for a 17.5% cut in wages with the company doing like­wise to the union offer of a five cents cut in wages. However, extension of the agreement to September 30 was agreed upon by both parties.

This scene and others showing American troops and Sherman tanks helping Japanese police break a strike of movie workers at the Toho film studio were ordered deleted from Japanese newsreels by Gen. Douglas MacArthur's censors. Last month the general's censors barred publication of a column by Harold Ickes, former U. S. secretary of the interior, calling for the general's removal. The column ' described MacArthur as "conducting himself like an emperor" and ridiculed the "endeavors of our number one military-missionary to lead the benighted Japanese into the green pastures of democracy." Mr. Ickes strongly criticized the general's edict banning strikes in Japan.

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.