Here’s what parking lot proposal would chop from Aala park

The black dotted line in this panoramic picture shows approximately how much of Aala Park will be taken for a C-C parking lot if a proposal now being made at City Hall is approved by the parks board and the board of supervisors. Even this picture does not show all the important centers of this traditional meeting place and recreational area of many people of this part of the city. To the right out of the picture are a number of shade trees under which elderly people love to sit and chat on hot days. A little farther is the corner where heated, but friendly checker games take place daily and where, on Sundays, lay preachers often deliver their messages to those who care to listen. For the comments of people near Aala Park on the proposal and for the thinking of Sup. Fujishige, a power behind the proposal, see stories elsewhere in this paper. For editorial comment, see "Warning For Fujishige," in the editorial column page eight.

Because of protest by Waipahu residents against the cutting of public library service, Gov. Sam King yesterday announced that he will not close the Waipahu library but will keep it open three days a week. He also said he will not cut the library appropriation by 10 per cent if this would result in the closing of the Waipahu library.

The following interview with Mrs. Mabel Jackson, librarian at the Library of Hawaii, took place last Friday and the story was written immediately thereafter.

If the Library of Hawaii with its many branches is forced to cut back 10 per cent from the in-adequate legislative appropriation of $785,563, under the governor's economy program:

• The Waipahu branch library will be closed down.

• Library hours will be cut at all branches and at the main library. "We are hoping to persuade the budget director not to cut our appropriation," Mrs. Mabel Jackson, librarian, explained.

Cuts before pending slash

Already before this pending cut, the library has been forced to curtail some services, but the staff is trying to give maximum service with funds available. Mrs. Jackson, who heads a staff of about 110 regular and part-time employes, frequently spends half of her time at the reference desk in assisting the overloaded and short staff. This means that she has to catch up with her administrative work at home.

But personal sacrifices and efficiency of the staff cannot overcome major budgetary problems.

Even before the pending 10 per cent cutback, last Thursday the library was forced to discontinue its hearing facilities where patrons drew out recordings and listened to them with earphones. This service was not only used by local people but was in popular demand by servicemen who visited the library to enjoy music.

The library has discontinued loan of books to teachers for six weeks. They can borrow books for four weeks like anyone else. Books will be renewed as in the past.

Mrs. Jackson explained that she feels "It is sometimes very important for them (borrowers) to keep the books longer."

Wage Raise Hits 2

Two employes have been dropped from the 20 part and fulltime personnel who are paid out of fine money. This resulted from the raise of minimum wages from 65 to 75 cents an hour.

"The personnel was worth it. But we can't pay them," she said. The last time the minimum wage went up from 50 to 65 cents through action of the 1953 legislature, the book fine was increased from two to three cents. But the fine cannot be raised beyond three cents, the librarian said, so the staff had to be cut.

Need More Positions

The library pays employes out of fine money because the legislatures have not given it enough positions. There are 95 fulltime positions under civil service but during the past biennium the library ran with 90-91 positions filled most of the time because of insufficient funds.

Mrs. Jackson said that those who do not come under civil service but are paid with fine money receive considerably less. Those paid with fine money receive $130 a month, compared to 5170 for low classification civil service employes.

While the library is forced to economize sharply, it is being used by more and more people. Circulation increased from 1,258,470 during the year ending June 30, 1954 to 1,325,257 for the year ending June 30 this year, but the number of books has increased by only 12,271, of which 5,500 were gifts to the library.

Thousands wear out the number of books on June 30, 1954 was 245,612 and on June 30 this year, 257,883. During these 12 months, the library withdrew 11,649 books which were worn out beyond repair.

About 5,000 books for rebinding have accumulated over a period of years and have not been sent away because of lack of funds. Rebinding costs $2 apiece and because of no binding facilities here, the books are sent away for the job.

About 1,500 books for rebinding accumulate over a 12-month period, therefore, by July 1957, end of the biennium, there will be about 8,000 books not used waiting to be rebound.

• During the last biennium the library purchased 32,236 books as compared to 39,783 books purchased in the prior 1951-1953 biennium. Books cost more now and average per copy for the main adult side is $3 and average overall price for adults' and children's books is $2.48.

While the library bought 32,236 books in the last biennium, it withdrew about 23,000 worn-out books.

• In the main children's room, there were 22,187 books on July 1, 1954. Because 3,200 books wore out and had to be discarded, one year after, on June 30, 1955, there were 20,966 books.

"Youngsters need the library," Mrs. Jackson declared. "The school population is growing."

Youth Seek Information

She explained that the new generations read more then the older group because of further education. With advances in the sciences and wider fields open to youths, they seek information in the library.

"When they want to help them-selves so much, it's a shame, it's terrible to have to curtail our services," the librarian said.

Now is the time, when they are young and eager to learn, to pro-vide them with information and educational material, she added.

The legislature appropriated $607,563 for personal services for the present biennium. This com-pares with $572,546.61 with which the library operated in the last biennium.

Equipment Overused

But the small increase must take care of the automatic wage increase to the staff, therefore the library will not be able to pay for its full positions. Now the governor wants a 10 per cent cut from the library appropriation.

For current expenses the legislature appropriated $98,000, which compares with $101,057.16 "for the past biennium.

For equipment the legislature appropriated $80,000, compared with $78,181 for the last biennium. Books are purchased out of this fund.

The $2,000 increase will not give additional facilities or services. For one thing, books cost more now than a couple of years ago. Furthermore the library had to buy a station wagon costing $2,200 because the lone vehicle used for seven years for delivery to branch libraries, for gift pickup, by janitors, etc., broke down. The mimeo machine broke down also, and the library decided to buy a Multilith for $1,200. The much used bookmobile had to be overhauled and repainted for $1,000. This means $4,400 less for books.

The librarian has submitted the plan to cut $78,556 from the appropriation and the cutback, if put into effect for the library, will take:

1) $31,428 from personal services
2) $18,000 from current expenses
3) $29,128 from books and equipment

If this cut is effected, which the librarian hopes will not take place, the Waipahu branch, which is not used as much as others, will be closed. City branch libraries will be open two nights instead of four, and half a day Saturday instead of a full day. The main library will be closed all day Saturday and Sun-day and opened only three nights a week.

Books to be Rented

"I'm afraid it won't be a free public library any more. We will buy very few books and put them on rental basis," she said.

"But, of course, children's books can't be put on rental basis," she added.

In looking over the circulation figures, the librarian said it would have gone up much more if "we had the books and could give the service."

Avoid Business Failures

If the budget director can be persuaded not to cut the appropriation, then the library can operate on the legislative appropriation by making minor economies and less cutting, she said.

The librarian commented on the great demand for information ask-ed of the reference department, with small businessmen, and others too busy to leave their work calling in for information.

To impress her point on the value of libraries, she opened a notebook in which she had copied a statement Donald P. Burgess of the Dept, of Commerce had made: "... 350,000-400,000 business failures in one year could have been avoided if these businesses had simple information libraries have on their shelves."

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The Friends of the Library will hold a book sale in the last week of September. Prior to the sale the library gets the first choice of books. Last year the Friends of the Library donated $1,000 to the library.

Ten local mechanics hired locally by a recruiter from Guam refused to work upon arrival in Agana because of breach of con-tract and they were forced to work to earn their fare back.

They had no U.S. government officials to turn to, they say. They phoned and wired the territorial labor department for help but did not get any.

Three and a half months later most of them are back. One came back two or three days after arrival there. Three will still be on Guam at the end of the month, but one of them is uncertain about staying there.

"It made me burn when I found out that R. J. Bennett wasn't licensed to hire us. So he wasn't bonded and we weren't protected as the law says we should be," Grosvenor H. Tavares, a mechanic who left a high-paying job at Lippy's used car service to go to Guam, said this week.

At the territorial department of labor and industrial relations there was a strong reluctance of staff members to discuss the case of the 10 mechanics. Department heads referred the writer to E. B. Peterson, director of the agency, but he was not available for comment yesterday afternoon.

The shocking part of the whole deal is that Peterson's department let Bennett of Atkins & Kroll, Ltd., a big Mainland outfit operating in Guam, recruit the men without a license when Act 106 of the 1951 legislature was passed to avoid abuses of local labor by outside recruiters. This law was passed after California farm recruiters did not live up to their contracts with local workers.

One of the conditions of license says:

"Each applicant (for license to recruit local labor) shall file bond in the amount of five thousand dollars, running to the director and his successors in office conditioned that applicant will in all respects comply with the pro-visions of this chapter. . . and in case final judgment is rendered against applicant in any suit upon such bond, will pay the costs of court and reasonable attorney fees to the successful claimants."

At least one of the mechanics, the RECORD learned, has gone to an attorney to determine whether he has a suit or not, and whether the failure of the recruiter to post a bond will make it difficult or impossible for him to collect, if he wins his case.

Verbal Promises

The men were hired through the territorial labor department with an ad or ads placed in local dallies. Bennett interviewed the mechanics at the employment service office, and verbally he made these promises:

• $150 a week and time and a half overtime after 40 hours.

• Laundry cost on Guam $3 a week and board, $1.50 for three meals.

• 9 Adequate and clean quarters with two men assigned to a room.

Bennett was to talk to the mechanics on a Friday after they had taken their physical examination but at the appointed time, they found out that he had left the Territory. Subsequently a contract was mailed to each of them from Guam.

"This wasn't following the agreement," said Tavares, a former ILWU officer of pineapple workers' unit on Molokai, "since we were supposed to go over the contract with the labor department people and Bennett. We signed the contract because we had to go to work and after we got our Naval clearance we went to Guam."

Some of the mechanics were out of a job almost a month because Bennett told them to ship their tools immediately. They took their tools to City Transfer and could not keep their jobs locally in cases where they used personal tools on the job.

Cost of Living High

But since Bennett did not pay City Transfer, the shipment of tools was delayed and the men got their tools on Guam one month after their arrival there.

The men were paid $2.10 an hour and $97 take home pay was the most they earned. The company took $25 deduction every payday for their plane fare to Guam, which came to $100. It cost about $6 a day for food. Laundry went as high as $50 a month and most of the mechanics did their own washing.

On the night of their arrival at Guam in latter April, the men were quartered in a small room with 6 Filipino workers. The conditions were so bad that they pro-tested the next day and refused to punch in at the time clock until they were giving adequate and sanitary living quarters and other conditions promised by Bennett.

Pay Fluctuated

On the third day the men went to work and their first two weeks' pay came to a little over $60 a week. They complained and the pay went up to about a week but this dropped a month later, when home men were laid off because of lack of business.

"When we went there business for Bennett boomed," Tavares said.

Atkins & Kroll are Chevrolet agents there. According to Tavares the Filipino mechanics are paid $1 an hour and the company charges customers $4 to $5 an hour for their services. The Filipinos are not journeymen mechanics, therefore they take from three hours to half a day to tune up a motor or clean a carburetor. A tune-up job costs from $20 to $30.

"Come On" Sign
When the Hawaiian mechanics began working for Bennett, they did the same job in less than an hour and the foreman doubted that a satisfactory job had been done. The local mechanics asked the foreman to try out the cars and the cars worked better.

 Atkins & Kroll then put up a big sign with price of motor tune-up, etc. Motor tuneup went down to $8.50 and the price for cleaning a carburetor, $12.50. Cars flooded the garage but overall, prices were high and Tavares says lower prices on some job were a "come on."

Because of high charges Atkins and Kroll lost customers and were forced to lay off some of the Hawaiian mechanics.

The Filipino workers are exploited, Tavares says. They start working for Atkins & Kroll at about 5 a.m. or shortly thereafter, punch their time at 8 a.m. In the evening they continue to work after punching out their time.

Looking For Jobs

As for the Hawaii mechanics they began to cook their meals. The store was about two miles away and they had difficulty borrowing the company's car to do their shopping, which was entirely a different treatment from what Bennett had promised.

The mechanics are now looking for jobs in Honolulu. Kenneth Kiyan of Wahiawa who returned about a month ago is planning to go to Okinawa or to the Mainland for a job. He was a foreman at Lippy's before he left for Guam. He took about $1,500 worth of tools and Tavares, about $3,000 worth of personal tools. 

"We bought in addition about $700 worth of tools, so that we can do the job right," Tavares said. "We went there to work but we got a raw deal all around."

It's reported the labor department hereafter will be strict about license.

Hung Wo Ching, who is launching with other businessmen a mutual fund investment company with a goal of $20,000,000 in 10 years, answered questions on the new venture submitted by the RECORD to him.

1. What is the new feature or features, if any, of the investment and finance program you are interested in promoting in Hawaii?

The problem facing all of us today, especially the average wage earner, is the constant decline in the buying power of money.

Compared to a 1947-1949 dollar, the same dollar today is worth only 87 cents. This is a loss of two per cent (2%) per year over this short period of time.

Since 1900, the dollar has declined about three per cent (3%) per year. Therefore, a person must earn an average of three per cent on his savings just to offset his yearly loss in terms of real dollar value.

The Pacific Investment Fund is a mutual investment service de-signed to help both large and small investors overcome this problem. The company is a voluntary association of investors who desire to pool their funds to hire expert management. We are voluntarily registering our Fund with the Securities and Exchange Commission and will operate under its rules and regulations.

The directors of the Fund are responsible for an investment policy which the management is to follow. The job of management is to invest in the best managed companies in selected industries and to supervise these investments constantly.

Our Fund will be invested especially for regular and steady Income. The second objective is an increase in the valuation of our investments. It is not our policy or intention to speculate or finance new businesses.

Although there will be some financial .risks involved, the Fund aims to reduce such risks by careful selection of investments, wide diversification in selected industries, and expert and constant supervision of all investments.

An Investor in our Fund can participate or withdraw at any time. When he withdraws, he will be paid his proportionate share of the value of the securities in the Fund at the day of withdrawal.

However, because of the initial service charge, an investor is encouraged to invest on a long-term basis. * *

2. What are the differences between this program and that offered by existing trust companies like Bishop Trust, Cooke Trust, and Hawaiian Trust? Trust companies handle their clients' funds either as separate accounts or in a common fund. This function is usually handled on a departmental basis. Accounts differ in objectives and must be administered accordingly.

Our Fund will be administered as a common investment fund on a specialized basis. Our objectives are the same for all investors: regular income and capital appreciation.

3. Who will be your major clients? Are you seeking new investors? Or will you be providing services to big investors?

Everyone is our potential client. Since ours will be an "open-end" investment service, an investor can participate at any time. The cost per share at the time of joining will depend upon the investment value of our securities at the time of joining plus a sales commission.

A person can join with an initial investment of as low as $200. He can thereafter invest as low as $25 per month, per quarter, and per year. There is no penalty in case of non-payments. * *

4. What types of services and specialized advice will your program give them?

One purpose of our Fund is to eliminate the need of an investor to speculate in securities with-out full knowledge of the companies In which investment are made. Such a potential investor need not look at the daily stock market quotations but need to check only the daily quotations of our investment fund. The management will undertake the necessary investments of funds in various companies of selected industries. The policy for such investments, however, is set by the Board of Directors of the Fund.

The management of the Fund is negotiating a consultation contract with Wood, Struthers and Company of New York on investments. Wood, Struthers has offered investment consultation services for about 100 years and is highly qualified it its business. * *

5. How is such a program making out on the Mainland?

Open-end mutual funds nave been outstandingly successful in America. They have increased in value from $500 million in 1940 to $9 billion in 1955. These open-end investment companies are registered with and supervised by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

6. Do you have an educational program in mind to popularize your program?

We do have an educational program which is now being tested. It aims to tell an objective story to interested people. We wish to emphasize to these people the need to protect the buying power of their surplus money as well as the reward for regular saving habits.

7. What will be the area of investment your program will encourage— types of business enterprise which will bring favorable return for investors?

We aim to invest about 10 per cent of our foods in real estate — on a purchase and lease-back basis with well-established companies. We also plan to invest not more than 10 per cent of our funds in Hawaiian securities with long records of steady dividend payments. The balance of our funds will be invested in American industries which show the most promise of financial success.

* * 8. What fields of investment ore open in the Territory? This will be the job of our investment experts, who will study the various fields and make recommendations.

* * 9. Will there be opportunities in investing in Big Five firms to the extent that favorable returns will be realized? We plan to invest on a long-term basis for capital growth and income. Local as well as mainland companies which meet our standards of favorable returns in the form of dividends and investment appreciation as well as safety of capital will receive our serious consideration.

* * 10. Will your investment program promote the building of local industries? Also, will it help develop new industries? Already answered heretofore.

11. Wouldn't investment abroad — on the Mainland and elsewhere — mean exporting of capital, resulting in reduction of capital available locally for developing new business ventures?

The investment policy of our company is the investment in proven business or industry to secure the objective of dependable income and capital appreciation. Our Fund, therefore, would not be termed "venture capital" or of the type used in developing new ventures which ordinarily possess greater risk along with possibility of greater return. The capital attracted to our investment program is capital seeking the same objective, and not what is generally termed "venture capital."

The investors' objective can only be best served by broad diversification of Investments with no connection in any particular industry or geographical locations.

* * 12. In your investment program, does real estate ownership and development locally considered an important area of investment? This, in view of changing land ownership.

Our real estate investments are not intended for Hawaii alone. We will invest wherever the investment opportunities are most attractive. We intend to invest in such long-term propositions only with well-established companies on a lease-back basis.

A. A. Rutledge, porky boss of the AFL hotel and restaurant workers union, followed up a grudge against a worker last week and, in doing so, tipped his hand to what may be another backdoor deal to get a group of workers into his union by mutual consent — consent, in this case, of the hotel boss. Rutledge appears to have got a hotel to refuse employment to a worker he doesn't like. The worker in this case was a nervy little bellhop at the Biltmore who wouldn't stand for being pushed around by Art Rutledge. He was a small, bespectacled young man of meek appearance named Toshlo Soeda, originally from Waipahu, and last March when Rutledge allegedly struck him in the chest, he found he'd hit the wrong man. '

Rutledge may frighten the likes of the Biltmore's owners, the Greenbachs, and Henry J. Kaiser, but he didn't scare Soeda a bit. Back in, March when he approached Soeda at work and tried to pressure him into paying a $25 "initiation fee," the little bellhop refused. The beefy Rutledge then allegedly made his threat physical with a blow on Soeda's chest. Bellhop Punched Back Still the small bellhop didn't scare. To the contrary, he started swinging at the union boss and Rutledge dodged and broke ground with considerable agility for so large a man. Soeda then took off his glasses, according to report the RECORD received at the time, and offered to go down to the basement with the much larger man and "have it out."

Rutledge refused and then took a step hardly expected of a union leader who has the confidence of his own members. Reportedly threatening Soeda with, "I'm going to see Greenbach," Rutledge headed for the manager's office.

Soeda filed assault and battery charges against Rutledge, and the union boss asked for a jury trial. The case is still pending. For some days, Rutledge's subordinates would approach Soeda to try to get him to drop the charge, but the nervy little bellhop refused. He was going to teach Rutledge, he said, not to try shoving people around just because they are small.

Soeda Lost Job

The upshot of the whole thing was that Soeda lost his job a week, or so later, though the management had often complimented him on his industry and his popularity with the guests.

Last week, the beefy union boss got his revenge.

What with Kaiser's Hawaiian Village opening shortly, Soeda applied for a bellhop's job. He was told the bell captains would be allowed to do the hiring without interference. And a bell captain told him he was hired.

But some days later the manager passed the word back to the bell captain that Soeda wouldn't be "acceptable to the union."

So Toshio Soeda is still out of a job, and he says the reason is plain as day. If he hadn't objected that workers in the AFL union should have a voice about whether they pay "initiation fees," and if he hadn't hit back when Rutledge struck him, but taken it and acted scared, Soeda says, "I'd be working today."

And if Rutledge hasn't made another backdoor deal with the Kaiser management, why should any union object about Soeda to the management?

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Rutledge’s zeal in trying to get some property really cheap may eventually cost his union members a good bit of dough.

Adjoining the Waikiki property now owned by Unity House is a strip of 32,000 sq. ft. which Rutledge has felt he must acquire. First he offered the owner $2 a foot and got nowhere. Finally he raised the ante to $2.50 a foot but still got nowhere. Then he got the owner to agree to lease the property to him for $200 a month, but he didn't carry out the terms of the agreement. Instead, the owner heard that Rutledge was boasting he'd eventually get the lease for "half of that." The owner decided he didn't want to lease at $200 a month after all.

So now the owner has upped the price to $4 a foot and is ready to close a lease for $500 a month. And this week he heard from a realtor that even that price is too little--that maybe he should be demanding a minimum of $5 a foot if selling, and that perhaps he should be leasing for something closer $700 or $800 a month.

"Rutledge told me if he couldn't buy my piece, he'd sell out and move," says the owner, "though I don't know why he thinks that should matter to me."

The next move, it seems, is up to Art.

The price of a haircut is up from $1 to $1.25, even in Hotel St. shops that formerly exhibited $1 signs, but some of the barbers aren't sure they like the way it was accomplished.

A second item of interest in the barbershops is the beginning of a move by the AFL Central Labor Council to organize barbers, form a unit and get a charter.

But the lady barbers of Hotel St., most of them of AJA extrac-St., feel they were pressured by Anthony Faria, proprietor of the Silent Barbershop, and chairman of the territorial barber board, appointed by Gov. King.

Following the first move by Faria, the Honolulu Master Barbers Assn. and others (reported in the RECORD July 21) to raise the price to $1.25, the lady barbers of Hotel St. had put up signs proclaiming that haircuts were still $1. This week the story was changed and the price up to $1.25 in the same shops.

A lady barber told the RECORD why.

"Faria told us he would put a picket line out in front and we were ashamed," she said.

Talked To Sylva

It wasn't quite as simple as that, though. At first, the ladies consulted the C-C attorney's office and finally Attorney General Ed-ward Sylva to see what they could do about a picket line. When they found they couldn't do anything except call the police in the event the pickets actually disturbed the peace, or molested someone, they gave in.

But they still think it isn't proper for a man holding an official territorial position to be out threatening them, even if the cause is good. Besides, they claim Faria has got extra officious since he's been appointed.

"He's always coming in here telling us to put more light here, do this, do that," said the aforementioned lady barber. "I think we can run our business the way we want to."

The ladies put a few extra queries to Attorney General Sylva and found that, if enough of them find Faria unsatisfactory in his present office, they can take their complaints to the governor and, possibly, have him removed. They haven't forgotten that, but they're not too sanguine about the possibility.

"Maybe he has too much political influence with Sam King, no?" asks one.

Holdout On Nuuanu

The $1.25 fee isn't 100 per cent yet, though. One of the strongest holdouts is a Nuuanu St. barbershop whose proprietor cuts hair for 50 cents and who's getting irritated about the pressure thrown his way.

"If they keep on," he told an acquaintance this week, "I'll get mad and drop the price to 40 cents. I cut the hair of poor people."

Reason for the increase, cited by barbers in favor of it and reported in the RECORD July 21 is the rising costs of living and equipment. The barbers also pointed out that, as in many other types of work, barbers here are grossly underpaid as compared with the Mainland. They say the price in Chicago is $2, in San Francisco and elsewhere on the West Coast $1.50 with an additional quarter on Saturday nights. And in Alaska, the local barbers say, haircuts have been costing $2 for a long time.

While many barbers employed in the shops get 60 per cent of the price, most of the women get only 50 per cent, though in residential districts, some women barbers get 60 per cent, too.

Take-Home Pay Varies

The actual take-home pay under this fee-splitting arrangement varies, of course, with the location of the shop and the popularity of the barber. The RECORD has interviewed some who say they're lucky to get $40 a week, others who say they average $100.

The AFL drive to organize is reliably reported as being entirely unrelated to the question of prices, that of fee-splitting percentages, or to Anthony Faria, who tried to get a charter for a union some years back. But an organizer from the AFL has visited a number of barbers to tell them the advantages of unionism, urged them to sign up, and spoken of applying for a charter.

No one is able to report the degree of success met thus far by these efforts.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky—The conviction of Carl Braden on a charge of advocating sedition was assailed by Dr. M. M. D. Perdue in one of the main addresses at the annual convention of the General Association of Kentucky Baptists.

Many delegates voiced approval as Dr. Perdue attacked the 15-year sentence and $5,000 fine imposed on Braden, a white man, after he helped a Negro family obtain a new home in a so-called white neighborhood.

Negro-White Unity Grows

Dr. Perdue, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church here, launched his attack during an address on the state of race relations in the nation. He declared that the Ku Klux Klan is now operating under new guises, such as luncheon clubs and fraternal organizations.

He also noted a growing unity between poor white people and the Negro people. He declared that poor white people are realizing more and more that the aristocrats care no more about them than they do about the Negro.

"The poor whites and the Negroes see that there is no salvation for them unless they are united," he said.

"If That Be Sedition"

Dr. Perdue declared that he will continue to resist Klan elements who are trying to stop desegregation and who are punishing white people who work with Negroes to improve conditions. "If that be sedition, make the most of it!" he shouted.

Delegates crowded around Dr. Perdue and Braden after the minister's address and pledged continued support in fighting the conviction of Braden. Some said they had protested or would protest to Governor Lawrence Whetherby and Senator Alben W. Barkley.

Braden, his wife, and five other white persons were indicted for white persons were indicted for sedition after the Bradens bought a home in suburban Shively and transferred it to Mr. and Mrs. An-drew Wade IV. Braden was freed from LaGrange Prison July 12 after serving 8 months in jail and prison as a result of the house purchase. He was released under $40,000 bail pending action on his appeal by the Kentucky Court of Appeals this fall. Trial of the others has been postponed.

Braden is a newspaperman, formerly with The Louisville Courier-Journal and The Cincinnati Enquirer. His wife Anne and he have long been active in labor and interracial affairs in this area. Dr. Perdue, a leading Negro Baptist, is a trustee of Simmons University here. He is also on the board of the Southern Conference Educational Fund, which is devoted to ending segregation in the South.

A Japanese stripper was deported from the Philippines on charges of indecency and four others were charged by the police for indecent exposure.

"Burlesque dancers are held in bad taste here," wrote Tamotsu Murayama to the Pacific Citizen when he visited the Philippines a few months ago. "The Japanese government could have sanctioned the visit of a better group of per-formers—instead, they allowed low-grade burlesque dancers and the incident resulted sadly in deportation."

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The ILWU was chosen as the bargaining agent for sugar plantation employes of Waimea Sugar Mill Co., Ltd., Kauai, by a 37-21 vote last week. .

The territorial department of labor and industrial relations supervised the election. Dairy employes of the company voted 18-6 against union representation as bargaining agent.

With the organizing of Waimea Sugar, the ILWU represents 27 of the 28 sugar plantations. The Gay and Robinson plantation at Pakala is the only plantation un-organized.

These companies have attempt-ed to offer conditions comparable to those won by the ILWU on the 26 plantations but they have been unable to keep up with improvements, such as pension, retirement settlement and others, in recent contracts.

The union has asked the company for a meeting to discuss contract proposals.

Victor L. Jarrett, who campaigned for more representation on the HGEA board for lower classified employes, was himself elected to the board running fourth among the first 12 positions.

But the remainder of his slate for the board didn't fare so well, only one other candidate being elected. That one was Eugene Duvauchelle, Hawaiian Homes Commission employe, who ran second.

Two other candidates on Jarrett's slate were elected, however. They were Sterling Mossman, incumbent president running for reelection, and Alfred Y. K. Au. formerly treasurer, running for vice-president.

Jarrett is, himself, a GS-2, employed at the University of Hawaii aquarium.

Anita K. Moepono was elected secretary over Bernice Jarrett, wife of Victor Jarrett.

Other board members elected included: John Miki, who ran first, Daniel Aoki, third, James Murakami, fourth, and following him Hung Bung Lum, Francis Kwock, Andrew I. Bright, William Sing, Wadsworth Yee, Arthur P. Louis and Paul Breese.

The eighth annual convention of the United Public Workers, expected to be by far the largest in the history of the union, will be held in Wailuku, Maui, Sept. 23, 24 and 25th.

Location of the convention will be the new ILWU Memorial Assn. Bldg. in Wailuku.

The following items comprise the general agenda:

1. Reports from territorial officers and from the territorial director.

2. Election of territorial officers and director.

3. Setting of new organizing goals.

4. Chart future of the union for the coming two years.

5. Adopt a budget for the next two years.

Annual conventions of the union are rotated among the islands, with every alternate one being to Oahu.

E. E. Black in submitting "under protest" to the order of the city and county to put in an extra thickness of concrete lining in the disaster area of the Wilson tunnel apparently is reserving the privilege of suing the city for additional cost, informed sources say.

A city official who asked not to be quoted said the contract says Black must complete the tunnel.

He also said Black has good grounds to sue but whether he'll be able to collect is another story. Black has a contract to fulfill, he said, and the "fine print" says he'll have to do this.

From the city's standpoint, he explained, the situation looks good.

Some familiar with the contracting business say that in any contract, anything "extra" a contractor is required to put in is generally paid for by the government.

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Waipahu — Outstanding one-hit pitching of Mitsuo Masuda, scintillating playing afield by Koso Furukawa and an offensive at-tack at the plate led by Itsuto Furukawa helped annex the ILWU Unit 52 intra-department league softball championship for the Garage department over Tractors 11-0.

After finishing the regular season with six wins and two losses, Garage and Tractors played off for the championship Aug. 20 at Hans L'Orange park.

Masuda went great guns in the mound for the Garage and had a no-hit game going into the last inning when with two gone, Yasu Watanabe hit a single.

For the losers, Toru Namba, Steve Gonsalves and Tome Hasegawa played fine, inspring ball.

The Garage and Runnerup teams, champions and runnerup, were presented trophies by Waipahu Florist and Unit 52,, respectively.

The Most Valuable Player trophy donated by Tedicks Jewelers was awarded to Paul Yaro (Gar-age) ; Batting Champ trophy from Ped's Barbershop went to Kenji Yahiro (Weed Control); Runs Batted In (RBI) trophy from Kimura Liquors was awarded Avelino Sabog (Harvesters); Most Runs Scored trophy from Shige Tailor went to Toru Namba (Tractor); Sportsmanships trophy from Rural Auto Sales went to Jose Pagente (Weed Control) and Inspirational Player trophy from Country Inn sent to Matsui Bentosino (Weed Control).

The Oahu Sugar Co. management will donate jackets to players of the championship team.

The softball league was a new venture for the recreation committee of the Waipahu ILWU unit. Formerly the plantation ran the softball league which was discontinued. The union revived the league this year and members responded enthusiastically. The recreation committee members said recently that friendly competition brought better teamwork in the union.

When passers of faked American dollars were at the point of delivering $50,000 worth of counterfeit money, disguised Philippines government agents arrested them recently.

Engraved plates for $100 bills and other equipment were seized in a printshop at Caloocan, Rizal.

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FROZEN JAPANESE FOOD is advertised by the new Frosted Food of Hawaii, but as one reader of both the RECORD and the advertisements in the dailies points out, the list of foods mentioned contain one spectacularly "un-Japanese." It's shrimp curry and even Fred Strombeck says our reader, must know curry comes from India.

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NOLLE SMITH appears to have made news on a national level, though whether or not he's happy about it is another question. Last week Drew Pearson told the story behind the resignation of Virgin Islands governor, Archie A. Alexander, and mentioned that Alexander had helped an old crony, Nolle Smith, into a permanent job there. But there was some hassle with the Department of Interior, it seemed, over Smith's fare from Honolulu. The government didn't think it should be stuck for the fare. That, however, was a small part of the story of Alexander's resignation.

Alexander is the second Negro in the history of U. S. tenure of the islands to serve as governor. The first, appointed by President Truman, was William Hastie. For many years, people of the islands, predominantly Negro, had urged the appointment of a Negro governor. Alexander gave ill health as the reason for his resignation, but his administration has been the target of much criticism in the islands and Pearson suggested there might have been additional reasons.

Mrs. Nolle Smith told the dailies last week she does not know whether or not her husband will also resign.

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ANOTHER "WARFORD CASE" is in the cards locally, this time in the territorial government. If suspicions held in official circles at present are verified, one highly-placed employe in an important territorial department will be revealed as an imposter. The title "Warford Case," rises, of course, from the case of a C-C engineer in the bureau of plans who was proved to be no engineer at all, and in fact nothing much but an artist with the snow-jobs. His name was K. C. Warford and he has long ago departed for the Mainland after a grand jury failed to indict him for perjury. The failure didn't come from any proof of truth on Warford's part, but from the difficulty in showing he had lied under oath. Warford was exposed by the late Robert Miller, architect, then serving as temporary appointee on the civil service commission.

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IF LOCAL TRACK coaches are looking for female talent, let them shop around Dairymen's milk bar at the corner of Beretania and Keeaumoku Sts. Sunday morning. There's a small waitress there (quite young and pretty, too) who dashes about filling orders with speed that should make her a winner in some event or other. If they ever stage a waiters' derby around here, with participants doing a course with loaded tray, around tables, etc., our money is on that waitress. Come to think of it, maybe she'd be a candidate for the ballet, too. She executes all those surprising, speedy moves with considerable grace.

The employes of Hawaii Builders Supply Co., Ltd., will vote in a runoff election today to decide whether they want to be represented by the ILWU.

In an NLRB election held Aug. 11, 43 voted for the ILWU, 41 voted for no union and 2 voted for the AFL Teamsters. There was no majority, thus necessitating to-day's election.

The Teamsters in a leaflet distributed to Hawaii Builders' employes prior to the Aug. 11 election indicated confidence that they will be in the runoff election, if they do not win the election out-right.

The leaflet said: "The Teamsters Union wants to impress upon you that even if we do not win a clear majority Thursday, there will be a run-off election between the Company and the Teamsters."

By Wilfred Oka

The International Boxing Club, the octopus of American boxing, was charged by the Justice Department in March 1952 with monopolizing the promotion, exhibition, broadcasting, telecasting and motion picture production of professional championship bouts in the U.S.

Mainland papers earlier this week carried stories of an out-of-court settlement deal offered by the IBC although Justice Department officials would not make any comment on the IBC offer. The comment the department attorneys make is that they are prepared to go to trial, which means that if any offer was ever made nothing special came out of it. However, it didn't need any legal braintrust to see the operations of the IBC throughout the country or to see its tentacles throughout other foreign countries where boxing is also a business. Our own local fighters from Hawaii had to be tied with an approved list of managers before any one of them could get ahead in the game. It is well-known fact that all world championship bouts held in the US were promoted by the IBC or by the IBC in partnership with promoters in other cities. This fact has consistently been announced on all major TV bouts.

If the matter goes to trial it was because the US District Court held last February that boxing, unlike baseball, is subject to Federal anti-trust laws. And in spite of the tremendous influence of the IBC, the action of the National Boxing Association a fortnight ago in unanimously passing a resolution calling for a Federal probe of racketeering in boxing shows a certain kind of trend. The probes of boxing in California, New York and Pennsylvania also added to the fuel of a public clamor for boxing to be cleaned up. The IBC only looks as good as boxing throughout the country looks. And the picture isn't too pretty. * *

THE CHALLENGE ROUND for the Davis Cup between the US and Australia takes place at Forest Hills, Long Island, this weekend. The US Davis Cup selection committee last week selected Tony Trabert, Vic Seixas, Ham Richardson, and Gil Shea as the team that is to represent the US. Harry Hopman, non-playing captain of the Australian team, named Ken Rosewall, Lew Hoad, Rex Hartwig, and Neal Fraser as Australia's contingent against the Americans. The US won the last time around and a repeat is in order if the doubles teams can coordinate as well as they did in Australia.

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BECAUSE OF THE SUCCESS of the Ewa smoker held last week the OABA is presenting its second rural Oahu smoker on Friday, September 2 at Waialua's Atherton Gym. A capacity crowd packed the Ewa gym to give the newly organized Ewa boxers a rousing send-off. With the people of Ewa backing the fighters like they did last week, boxing will have a terrific revival in that area.

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WE HAVE BEEN pushing for the construction of swimming pools throughout the Territory, especially in areas where beaches are not too accessible to the public. And so we read with a great deal of pleasure that the Waimea War Memorial Pool in Waimea, Kauai is nearing completion and will be dedicated come September 9. At that time the pool will be turned over to Kauai County. We don't know of a better War Memorial than a gym or a pool for youngsters. The Rev. Hiro Higuchi spearheaded most of the organizational work, with the people of Waimea as well as people in Kauai going all out in this community project. The recreation to be enjoyed by youngsters as well as adults alike should give other areas something to think about in future programming of their recreational needs!

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CHUCK DAVEY, who came out of a 15 month retirement, won a split decision over little known Pat Manzi of Syracuse, New York, in a ten-rounder in Saginaw, Michigan. Davey, from most reports, wasn't too impressive in his comeback bout. Davey was prompted to make the comeback because of the recent success of Carmen Basilio in winning the championship in the welter division. Davey had an excellent record against Basilio, but if what we saw of Davey in his last three fights on TV is a measure of his present ability he should stay retired.

BOBO OLSON gets another tune-up fight against Joey Giambra in San Francisco this Friday night. There are no Giambra backers, at least with hard cash. So the word must have filtered down here that Olson will enjoy a nice sparring session with nothing at stake.

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THE NIPPON THEATRE last week had some excellent shots of the US-Japan swimming meet in their newsreel. From what we saw the meet was strictly swimming with no hula dancers, coronation ceremonies, etc., and yet drew tremendous crowds. Along with the news-reel was a special reel of a so-called Pacific area team rassling championship in which Riki Dozan and another Japanese rassler named Endo teamed up to tackle an American team of Newman and Schnable. Harold Toki, local man-about-town, is also seen in the production as referee. Toki. also a bit player in Nippon movies, looks like a good third man in the ring what with his acting experience. However, we felt that more of the swimming meet should have been shown instead of the 15 minutes or so of pro rassling.

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JR. SAMMY LEE, two time Olympic platform diving champ, and his wife are principals in their efforts to purchase a home in California. Dr. Lee only recently completed a good will exhibition tour and so it is a sad commentary on American racism to meet up with the vicious-ness of the "protective covenant" in his efforts to settle down in California. A realtor was quoted as saying that Dr. Lee may be all right but it's "the rest" who may smell up the place. Who "the rest" of the people are is not necessary for us to draw with pencil and paper. * *

IT IS WELCOME NEWS to read that two top amateur boxers from the Veterans' AC coached by Henry Oshiro, Bobby Kishimoto and Nick Akana, are enrolling at San Mateo JC to eventually get into San Jose State. San Jose State is a power in national college Boxing circles.

WE SEE WHERE Takeshi Yamaguchi, Nipponese flyweight, who had a rather dismal record fighting here in Honolulu, was supposed to make his mainland debut against Memo Diez of Mexico at San Jose this week. The praise agents have him billed as the "Orient's ranking flyweight," whatever it means!

When the Hawaiian Pineapple Co. gives service pins to veteran employes, it gives them for keeps, but not so Libby McNeill and Libby, according to pineapple workers.

Libby presents pins to employes with long service and asks them to return the pins to the company.

What's the use of getting the pins when you can't keep them? You only get the pins to hold on for a while and before your turn came, someone else went through the same experience with the same pins, a worker said. By circulating a few pins the big company wants to make many people happy and the workers say the whole effort is ridiculous.

Some workers say they actually wonder whether the company appreciates the long service of employes.

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Jim Crow becomes Diplomatic Incident

India's Ambassador to the U. S. Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta and his secretary, B. A. Rajagopalan, were asked to leave a dining room where white people were dining.

WHITE DINERS at the swanky Horizon House restaurant saw this incident and from news reports, questioned the propriety of the treatment of the foreign guests.

The Indian ambassador later said he complied without knowing the reason for changing rooms, from a room where white people were being served to a small private dining room. He said he thought he was getting a VIP treatment, not racial discrimination. Perhaps he was being diplomatic, for when he was asked to leave, he and his secretary looked at each other, smiled and left their table. Jimcrow in the south is so well known the world over that it was assumed by many that the Indians knew the color line was being drawn against them.

MRS. MARY ALLEY, the supervisor at the restaurant, explained later that she thought they were Negroes and "The law's the law."

For the colored people the world over, her explanation was insulting, too.

N. Africa, Beginning Like Indo-China

In Algeria and Morocco nationalists struggling for independence resisted French troops that had launched a major offensive against them.

"IT'S BEGINNING exactly as in Indo-China," a French sergeant told Newsweek recently.

The present battle began Nov. 1 last year with French troops killing hundreds of nationalists, razing villages and jailing thousands in attempting to suppress independence movements.

While warfare went on, in the French resort town of Aix-les-Bains, France, Premier Edgar Faure and his top ministers met with Moroccan representatives for a compromise. France wants to retain its North African holdings by giving in some what in hopes of appeasing the nationalists.

BUT APPEASEMENT would not succeed for it is French exploitation of the people and their resources that is the cause of guerrilla warfare and independence movements. In Algeria, for instance, French settlers who are government supported own the best lands and rake in an average $15,000 income a year. The average African farmer earns $150 a year and the average African worker earns about $2 a week. They go without shoes and other necessities and trie French say they don't care for them.

France has been at war with the Moroccans ever since she banished to Madagascar popular, nationalist-sympathizer Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef two years ago. French terrorists have taken the law into their hands in Casablanca, Rabat and other cities where Africans are killed on the street with police encouragement.

Dead Mother-in-law Taints GI's Loyalty

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Not only a boy's mother but his dead-mother-in-law turns out to be his warst enemy, according to a little-publicized survey on "The Draftee and Internal Security."

IN THE MILITARY mind at work in the screening program, momism is not the only menace. Aa dead mother-in-law tainted a soldier's loyalty in one case. The young serviceman was charged with having a mother-in-law who was reported to have been "lying low" as a Communist for a long time and was supposed to have become active in the peace movement again.

The report discloses that the mother-in-law was "lying low," several feet under the ground, for she had died in 1940. But the army intelligence did not include this easily verifiable information. Actually the Inductee was 10 years old when the woman died and he met the dead woman's daughter 10 years later. This report is a companion study to the highly publicized Yarmolinsky report on the government's employe security program. The study of military screening methods was presented to the Pentagon jointly by Norman Thomas and Kenneth M. Birkhead. The latter is national director of the American Veterans Committee.

The author of the report is Baltimore attorney Rowland Watts, national secretary of the Workers' Defense League, which represents socialists, non-communist and anti-communist left wing organizations. The study, like the Yarmolinsky report, was financed by the Fund for the Republic. This is a Ford Foundation endowed fund.

The cases show that fathers, grandparents, brothers and sisters, in-laws, childhood associates and books read in school have all been used to stigmatize a soldier under scrutiny.

The report declares: "A careful study of the Army Military Personnel Security, program makes it difficult to avoid the conclusion that the ideal draftee is an only child of spontaneous generation who, despite a hermit childhood, has miraculously acquired the ability to read and write English but has never made use of these skills."

 "Guilt By Heredity Or Something . . ."

Another cadet's naval career was being jeopardized in Washington last week on guilt by association with his mother.

THE COAST GUARD confirmed information that it is holding up a reserve commission for N. Pierre Gaston, a high-ranking student of its officer training school at New London, Conn.

Mrs. Jean Grisez of San Francisco, Gaston's mother, has been charged with past membership in allegedly subversive organizations. SAID SHE TO THE press, "Even if I were guilty — and I'm not — it shouldn't reflect on the boy. That's guilt by heredity, or something." Gaston's case parallels that of Eugene Landy, honor graduate of the Merchant Marine Academy who was denied a commission because his mother had allegedly been a Communist at one time.

Dr. Sammy Lee and White Supremacy

In the hub of the "Free World" white supremacy was counter-punched and it went into a clinch.

In Lush, exclusive Orange County white supremacists knocked over two deals as Dr. Sammy Lee, an Army major of Korean ancestry, tried to buy a home.

But because he is a two-time Olympic diving champion, his latest rebuff received publicity and decent Americans, an over-whelming majority of Americans, became angry and many rallied support behind him and his family.

The conspiracy of racists was blown open by publicity and public officials and others denied their part in maintaining restrictive covenants and tried to crawl away from the spotlight.

A real estate dealer repeated the same tripe mouthed elsewhere by racists, including owners of exclusive areas in Honolulu. He said property owners feared land values would depreciate if an Oriental bought into the area.

Decent people came to the fore as the great shame daily perpetrated in various parts of the U. S. by the minority of white supremacists became sharply exposed in the Lee case. Garden Grove doctors got together unofficially to support Lee and the Orange County Medical Assn. declared it knew of no reason why Lee could not be admitted immediately to membership. Major Lee will be separated from the army this fall.

Dr. Lee declared that he would not go to Orange County as a "standard bearer" against racial prejudice. He said he wanted to live there for professional reasons.

James F. Collins of Honolulu offered to sell a house to Dr. Lee in an exclusive district of Long Beach.

In other parts of California, but not too many, Orientals were barred by conspiracy of racists. But more and more Orientals were breaking through the racist wall. In a few places it still is not safe for the Nisei.

In Chicago, in the Trumbull Park housing project, racial disturbances and violence caused by white supremacists were getting much less. But aerial bombs still exploded at nights, reminding its Negro tenants that they are unwelcome to the whites—the minority of racists.

"To me this is like just like living in any other neighborhood—until night comes," a young mother, Mrs. Dora Gully, told Robert Gruenberg, Chicago Daily News reporter, recently.

But not too long ago days were like nights for the Negro families who courageously lived through hell in the 462-unit development. There are 30 Negro families living there today.

The 26-year-old Negro mother with two children told the Daily News, "The neighbors in the project are friendly now ... I feel that the people in this community had only read or heard things about Negroes. Now that we are living among them they found out we are just like other people."

The first three months were the most hectic. That was when racists raised plenty of hell. Mrs. Gully's next door neighbor talked to her after three months and a whole year went by before she was invited into another neighbor's home across from her apartment.

The fear of the people, just like that in the nation's political environment, was de-scribed by Mrs. Gully.

"There are many in the project," she said, "who are our friends—but they can't afford to express their opinions. Outside the project they are still as hostile as ever."

When the Gully’s moved into the project, she never went outside, excepting to the store two blocks away.

"Then we began to fight for walking distance. Now we can walk to places within a one-mile radius," she said, although the police warn them against it.

"But I feel that if I don't walk alone I'll be here (in the small four-room apart-ment) for the next 20 years. The sooner I walk alone, the sooner I'll do it in peace."

Decent Americans were fighting racism in various ways.

In Kentucky Carl Braden, a newspaperman, was taken out of such struggle when he was convicted under an old state sedition law and jailed for 15 years—because he bought a home and sold it to a Negro family. The tearing down of the color bar caused racists to instigate violence and to burn down the home. Braden and others were framed up but people have rallied to support them.

SAN FRANCISCO-(FP) - The State Bar of California has passed a resolution reaffirming "a lawyer's right to undertake the defense of unpopular causes," and defending the right of an attorney to represent any client without fear of economic consequences and personal stigma.'"

At the same, Augustin Donovan, well-known Oakland attorney and vice-president of the State Bar, announced that he is representing without pay two of the defendants appealing convictions under the Smith act. The two are Al Richmond, editor of the west coast Daily People's World, and Philip M. Connelly, Los Angeles editor.

Donovan said he undertook the appeal "to implement the State Bar's resolution and because of the critical importance of the case to preservation of the guarantees of the first (free speech) amendment."

"What do you think of female chastity?"

Are you interested in dianoetics, which is defined by the dictionary as pertaining to "discursive reasoning."

These were among the questions asked in the government's elaborate employe security program and the behind-the-scenes workings were exposed to public view in a study of 50 cases published by the Fund for the Republic.

Frivolous to Fantastic

Charges against individuals, the study shows, range from the frivolous to the fantastic. Accused employes are denied elementary rights accorded in court procedures.

Among the charges against one employe was that "Communist art" hung on the walls of his home. This art, it turned out, consisted of works by Picasso, Matisse, Renoir and other masters.

In another case, where a man and wife are jointly charged, the principal accusation against the wife was that she had "continued a sympathetic association with your husband." The wife replied that she had loved her husband for 30 years, and demanded whether the security officer was suggesting that she get a divorce.

This case resulted in tragedy for the couple, it was disclosed. Shaken by the accusations, the husband entered a mental hospital 10 days after he resigned his government job.

Ford Foundation Endowed

The study is still in progress and will cover a total of 350 cases. It was conducted under the direction of Adam Yarmolinsky, Washington lawyer, and financed by a $60,000 grant. The Fund, an independent nonprofit corporation concerned with civil rights, is endowed by the Ford Foundation. The cases are presented in documentary form and the report makes no evaluation or recommendations.

The cases comprise a sampling from 14 cities, and were documented with the cooperation of over a hundred lawyers who handled them. With names deleted, the material was made available with the permission of their clients.

Not only federal employes, but five other categories of jobholders also covered by security screening programs are represented in the study. In these categories are 3 million employes in private industry whose work involves classified information; 500,000 merchant seamen and port workers; 100,000 who work directly or indirectly for the Atomic Energy Commission; 3.5 million members of the armed forces, and a small group of international agency employes. With some 2.5 million civilian government employes also affected, about 10 million Americans live in the shadow of the official inquisition.

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Two letters appeared in the Star-Bulletin Tuesday, one sharply critical of the paper and the other commending the daily for giving front page play to the arrest of five California school teachers who were disturbing the peace at Waikiki.

The letter signed C. R. Mathewson, in straightforward manner, tells how the daily handles its news about the boss-haole class.

"For what purpose did you besmirch the names of the young people involved by giving a detailed account of such a minor affair?" it complains.

"I'm certain that if the young people bad been from local reputable families your newspaper wouldn't have gone into such detail as to name the persons involved."

C. R. Mathewson could have gone further to declare—but didn't—that the dailies go for broke when giving bad publicity to local non-haoles and they plaster their names and pictures on the front page.

The publicity the California teachers received angered some haoles. Mathewson says it was "in extremely poor taste" to carry the story about the Mainlanders, who were arrested for disturbing the peace.

The other letter which praises the Star-Bull for publishing the story reveals an interesting point. Because big shot local haoles and Mainland haoles are treated with the greatest courtesy at all times, the publication Of the story by the daily brought praise from "Concerned Citizen." The unusual merited praise.

Warning For Fujishige

C-C Supervisor Mitsuo Fujishige is a freshman at City Hall who has shown ability and sincere desire to serve the people who elected him. But he now stands on the brink of what can be his first spectacular error.

He is the spark-plug behind the move to chop off a sizable hunk of Aala Park for a parking lot. It will, as he says, benefit the merchants. To build over Nuuanu Stream and leave the park untouched would be too costly, Fujishige believes.

But the supervisor, by comparison, lays the price too low on meeting grounds of the people. Spots where the people meet, to argue, to celebrate triumphs, to discuss problems in critical times, to play at sports and games, to hold religious meetings— such places are valuable to the people almost beyond price. Perhaps they are not sacred, but they are often dearer to the people than spots considered sacred. Over a period of years, such spots became the home of the people and they are not for sale. Who wants to sell his home? And if such a sale is forced, who remembers the auctioneer as a benefactor?

Supervisor Fujishige should turn the problem over in his mind again and again. Perhaps he may find the cost of building a parking lot over Nuuanu Stream comparatively cheap.

Perhaps the other Democrats on the

board should consider, too. Do they want to be remembered as the party that began the destruction of a spot dear to the hearts of thousands of working people?

Does Supervisor Fujishige want to be known as "the man who chopped up Aala Park?"

It would be a sad blight on the beginning of what has promised to be a bright political career.

One of the RECORD'S staff members on a Halloween eve saw a four year old boy sitting on his front porch playing with a pumpkin jack-o'-lantern.

"Do you go around and scare the other kids?"

The kid smiled a particularly cherubic smile as he shook his head. "I scare myself."

By Frank Marshall Davis

Bigotry vs. Democracy

Two recent happenings merit comment in this space. I refer to the Joe Rose mob incitement against Paul Robeson, mentioned in last week's Gadabout column, and the effort of James F. Collins to counteract bigotry in California by offering to sell his home to Dr. Sammy Lee.

Those who have listened to the Rose recreated baseball games have long been aware of his color bias. Quite often he will point out that a certain player is "a Negro boy" and comes from a Southern state adding "you all." Rose, being from the Mainland and therefore thoroughly versed in Mainland racist attitudes, in fully aware that this is offensive to Negroes or to any other group which knows the score.

I know of at least two Negroes in Honolulu who have telephoned Joe Rose in disgust to lodge protests. In each instance, the announcer has claimed that he "meant no harm" and has assured the protesting listeners that he "has no prejudice." Then he has gone on stating Chat such-and-such a player was "from Alabama, you-all."

His lynching remarks concerning Paul Robeson came as no surprise to me or to anybody else acquainted with his earlier comments. When he said over the air: "Give him a nice strong rope. Show him where the nearest tree is," he merely voiced the attitude of the white supremacist who will tolerate Negroes or any other non-white persons so long as they "stay in their place:" that is, accept the status of inferiors. But when a non-white dares fight to break the chains of racism, that person is dangerous and should be eliminated.

Use Boycott as Weapon Against Racism

For decades down in Dixie, the safe and sure method of elimination has been by means of a strong rope and a tree. That is the Southern pastime known as lynching. In recent years the lynchers have become less active. This change has taken place since Joe Rose came to Hawaii, so evidently he has not had a chance to keep pace with changing sentiment.

To be perfectly frank, Joe Rose could not get by with his public racist utterances on the radio to any part of the Mainland today, including deepest Dixie to which he is spiritually wed. Not only Negro organizations but strong white groups are now fighting bitterly against lynch spirit utterances. Even in the South, Negroes are beginning to wield political power and to use their economic strength to boycott any sponsor who would allow an announcer to ridicule or try to incite mob violence against them.

It is ironic that today Joe Rose can get by with it here because the Negro population of the Territory is so small it cannot make its economic weight felt with his sponsors. And that is the only way of dealing with racists of this type since they are devoid of a sense of either fair play or democracy.

Collins' Stand Refreshing

As for Robeson himself, he needs no defense from the little yapping dogs barking around his feet. He stands tall in black America and, for that matter, throughout the world as a leader in the fight to bring equality to all humanity. Over-flow crowds constantly greet him at public appearances wherever he goes and the plain people aren't buying any of the effort to discredit him. This, naturally, makes the white supremacists go crazy—although I have never before heard of one suggesting on the ether waves that he be lynched.

It was refreshing, therefore, to read about James F. Collins and his stand against white supremacy in the case of the doctor of Korean ancestry, Dr. Sammy Lee, banned from a Garden Grove, Cal., housing tract because he is an Oriental. Collins expressed himself as willing to go to court to fight the same kind of bigotry that Joe Rose is trying so hard to uphold.

Speaking of residential restrictive covenants, which were declared illegal some seven years or so ago after a Chicago Negro fought the matter up to the U.S. Supreme Court, Mr. Collins said: "It's been ruled unconstitutional to restrict the sale of homes in such a manner and I'm sick and tired of seeing such bigotry practiced.

"I moved to Hawaii five years ago and I'm staying here because I'm so ashamed of such goings-on on the Mainland."

In all fairness I might add that certain residential sections of Oahu are as viciously anti-Oriental as Garden Grove, Cal. I hope that somebody will make a case in the local courts.

The plain truth is that bigotry and racism have no place in America or for that matter, anywhere in the world of 1955. The mob-minded and the white supremacist should be buried with the dead past so that mankind can devote all its efforts to making the world a better place for everybody.