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Vol. 1, No. 27 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY February 3, 1949 From The Manila Times A. Hernandez Searched At MARSDEN IS ROUTED Philippine A Had Mysterious Ed. Note: Amado V: Hernandez’ letter to the RECORD Sugar Industry Men On 1 rial is printed below. The RECORD, January 27, interviewed Mr. Hernandez as he was passing- through Honolulu on Is Dominated MustKnowAll Sponsor Who his return to the Philippines after an extensive tour of Europe and the U. S. At that time Mr. Hernandez spoke Made Contacts of the desires of the Asian people for freedom, peace and By Wall Street Moore Learns independence. Fred C. Marsden, associate edi­ Rockefeller and-Morgan interests Hardly a week passes that some tor of National Republic, got inter­ dominate the 'sugar- refineries. The old Territorial legal practice isn’t views with government officials Letter From Manila: three banks which have been chief­ exposed as being inequitable, to the and businessmen here because a ly concerned with financing the disadvantage of working people or “very prominent” and "highly sugar operations are the Chase national minorities. Like the late respectable” local figure opened "I am back in Manila after a National Bank (Rockefeller), Fiorello LaGuardia, when Terri­ the way for him by introductions pleasant air trip from Hawaii. Schroder Bank Corp. (Rockefeller), torial Law makes a mistake, it’s a by letter, or telephone. . . . . But it was not pleasant at all when and National City Bank of N. Y. lulu. This fact was revealed to the I landed here. Read the news­ (Morgan). Last week’s lulu came in the RECORD by sources high in the paper report and answer for your­ In showing how this Rockefeller- trial of seven ILWU workers ac­ Territorial government. Ail im­ self if tills is the way a free man Morgan sugar trust operates, Facts cused of violating an anti-picket- plications are that the unidenti­ is welcomed in a free country. For Farmers, a monthly publica­ ing injunction at Wahiawa during fied man is "very prominent in the 1947 strike. The seven, of “A thousand members of the tion of Farm Research, New York,, business.” in its December issue names the -Filipino extraction, do not under­ CLO, friends, and a brass band Big Four in sugar: stand English, but when the ILWU Two weeks after announcing were impatiently waiting outside attorney, Myer C. Symonds, asked that he would be in Hawaii for of the customs room while my • American Sugar Refining Co., two years to “bj-eed good Amer­ largest in the industry, is Rocke­ for an interpreter to translate the things were minutely Inspected by testimony to the defendants as icanism,’’ Marsden checked out of government agents. feller-dominated. Its sales consti­ the Ala Wai Terrace Apartments “It is still very dark out here tute .about one-fourth of all re­ the case proceeded ' Circuit Judge and departed for his Mainland fined sugar,. cane and beet, con­ Willson C. Moore was surprised and we have to struggle long in and not inclined to accede. headquarters to "gather more in-, the night before the common man sumed in the U. S. formation.” Asks For Interpreter is blessed with the light of a new • National Sugar Refining Co., Sudden Departure day . . .” second largest, is in the Morgan The dialogue from the court transcript shows something of Two days before his departure, AMADO HERNANDEZ ' finance family. he had announced that he would __ ® California & Hawaiian Sugar Judge Moore’s bewilderment at the _stay in spite of local attacks on Refining Corp., third largest, is demand that the defendants be insured understanding of what was his magazine as being a jingoistic- (From the Manila Times) owned by 30 Hawaiian sugar plan- fascist publication with strong rac­ . tations who boast of having a “net being said at their trial. The Hawaii incident in which Mr. Symonds asked: “Do I un­ ist overtones. the personal belongings of Ama­ woith of more than $120,000,000.” There is still nothing tangible do V. Hernandez, member of the derstand it to be Your Honor’s MR. HERNANDEZ “Pseudo-Cooperative” ruling that in a criminal case, the to show who invited Marsden here municipal board of Manila and Details of C & H operations are to peddle his magazine, and its president of the Philippine Con­ not made public, Facts, For Farm­ (more on page 7) ideas, but there are clues that may gress of Labor Organizations Alien Seaman ers says. The refinery is a “pseudo­ lead to the discovery yet. (CLO), were searched for inflam­ cooperative, operates a Cane sugar NAACP ELECTION Perhaps .the reasons for Mars­ matory literature by immigration refinery, largest in the world, at den’s sudden change of plans were inspectors (RECORD, Oct. 7), was Must Stay Here Crocket, Calif., and accounts for repeated yesterday at the Manila FOR CHAIRMAN to be found in the statement of International Airport when arrhy (more on page 3) FRIDAY AT CHA-3 Donald Billam-Walker, director of G-2 agents held the councilor’s In Joyce Killing the Better Business Bureau, who baggage for more than an hour, The chairmanship of the Hono­ said: examining every piece of paper ' There is a sidelight of the tragic lulu chapter of the National As­ “He told me he would set up and document contained in his death, of .Immigration Guard Quirino Visit sociation for the Advancement of for business here if he got the luggage. George Joyce which carries pathos Colored People will be decided Fri- support of the businessmen. He Hernandez protested the search, of its own—nothing to compare -day night, Feb. 4, at the New Era took one of our registration saying he is a duly elected repre­ with the situation^ of Guy Boen Church, it the corner of Bar­ forms, but he has never filled Here Is Likely racks Ave. and 15th St., CHA-3. sentative of the ■ people. The Gee, ’ who allegedly killed Joyce (more on page 3) agents explained their action, add­ -because he believed a joke the Friday’’.. election is expected by ing they were only following, or­ guard had made about electrocu­ The Philippine Consulate has the incumbent chairman, James ders from above. tion. received no official word, but for Neal, to resolve the. tie vote of Legislative Action Bone of contention was a note The sidelight comes from ithe some time Manila newspapers have Dec. 15 when Alfred P. Stacy and case of a material witness to the carried stories of a trip President Luther Wideman each received 31 Will Be HCLC Topic (more on page 4) Joyce-Gee incident, an Egyptian Elpidio Quirino will make to the votes in a stormy session that saw United States in mld-t’ebruary. A the chair change occupants during Members of the Hawaii Civil alien seaman who can’t ship out Liberties Committee will get prac­ dr leave Honolulu because au­ Honolulu stopover is Indicated, in the proceedings. GOVERNOR’S CHOICE (No. 2) the event the trip is made. Other officers, elected at the tical education in legislative pro­ thorities require his testimony in cedure at the regular membership Gee’s trial. Filipino sources here say that Dec. 15 meeting, will be installed A secretary of a local law such a trip will probably be made Friday night. They are: Mi’s. meeting Monday night, Feb. 7 at firm was arranging the details Warned by itnmigration author­ 7:30, at the YWCA. Among the of procedure for a . man who ities "not to- talk,” All Mohammed, and that Quirino’s object will be Catherine Christopher, vice chair­ the seaman, will say nothing to re­ to seek U. S. financial and per­ man; Mrs. Arthur Gilliam, treas­ scheduled speakersVare Rep. Mitsu­ wished to change his legal name. haps military aid. Sources here urer; Mrs. Thelma Stacy and Mrs. yuki Kido, John Reinecke and ■She called the governor’s office porters'. But union men at Pier Henry Epstein, business agent of 11 have heard much of his story. believe that Quirino will, attempt Thelma Davis, secretaries. to find out about the business to use the collapse .of the Chinese The meeting is being held in the United Public Workers of of publishing the legal notice Here By Accident Kuomintang government before CHA-3 this time, Chairman Neal America. which makes the change official. A National Maritime Union man, Rep. Kido will speak on . “What “Does it make any difference the Egyptian missed his ship here the Chinese Communists as a lever says, because a number Of mem­ which paper it’s published in?" when she cast off Dec. 1 for the to pry aid out of the Truman ad­ bers feel it is more convenient and Happens To a Bill When It Is In­ asked the secretary. ministration. Quirino is expected also, because, like the last election troduced Into the Legislature.”. East Coast according to informa­ to present a picture of “Commu- _ meeting, this one might rah past Reinecke's topic is: "How the Fair “We prefer the Honolulu Ad- tion. Because few NMU ships slop Employment Practices Bill Was vu tiser,” answered the voice in Honolulu, Mohammed had a nist menace” to the Philippines. the closing time at the YWCA. from Governor Stainback’s of­ long wait before he could get an­ In the summer of 1947, the late Neal says he expects the new offi­ Killed in 1947.” Epstein will de­ fice. President Roxas made an appeal cers will follow the old practice of scribe ways in which gyoup action other ship: .Jie was almost des- for substantial loans on largely the holding future meetings at the may be taken most effectively to (more on page 3) same grounds. YWCA. aid passage of desired legislation. Page Two HONOLULU RECORD Thursday; Feb. 3. 1949

Tulsa Plan ; of the ninth U. S.'circuit court of appeals "Those who do need hoinra'sshould show National Sti^mayy iit San Francisco. some initiative and go out and bmfrWiwrh Back in the spring of 1942, a few months like the pioneers," said William Schmidt, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, sode and that the government can’t do president of the Chicago chapter of the ing evidence that “drugged cigarets, rub­ these Americans, their alien parents and anything to help tenants. Property Owners’ League. ber hoses, fists and kicks” were the instru­ friends were uprooted from their West But this is the last tiring Schmidt and Labor organizations protested strongly ments used to "extort the confessions.” Coast homes, reportedly for national se- his property-owning colleagues want to see and Woods’ ears burned from angry mes­ Rogge vigorously denounced prosecution ■curity. But before evacuation became an sages. Then he answered: “I shall use tactics in seeking to get the murdered issue, racists and economic interests that hatch as a result of their rent-gouging plot. every authority at my command to prevent They were, however, cocky because most mass evictions of tenants by landlords . . man’s wife to identify the defendants. wanted the land and produce trade which U. S. tenants do not have the cold cash In Chicago, a veteran warned: "I want Normally the prosecutors show a great the Japanese immigrants had developed, to buy high-priced property and build many pictures to witnesses, but in this case, agitated for the expulsion of 110,000 people houses at prohibitive cost. to give you (landlords) warning that if veterans are put out in the street, we’ll put Mrs. Horner was shown the photographs of of Japanese ancestry. And this on the ar­ Actually, what the landlords wanted was them back in again. We didn’t fight for the six condemned men only. And even gument of security. high rent, and they were revolting in nu­ this sort of thing.” merous XT. S. cities against two bills intro­ these she could not identify positively. Significantly, the then Senator "Happy” duced in the House and Senate to extend The alibis of the defendants “were par­ Chandler of Kentucky and Representative Signed Confessions Rankin of Mississippi and their like, open­ the present mild rent control law, with ticularly strong and were corroborated very little tightening, for two more years. To six Trenton, N. J., Negroes who are ly called for a “racial alliance” of the anti­ fully,” said Rogge. One of them produced All this started in Tulsa, Okla., when condemned to death for allegedly murder­ Negro south and the anti-Oriental west. Subsequently, citizens and their alien the Rev. Wallace M. Murphey, a retired ing a white man, the words of stern-look­ a work-sheet from his employer which Baptist minister who is executive secre-- ing, tall and lanky -O. John Rogge, former showed that at the time of the crime he parents lost property and savings in the tary of the Tulsa Property Owners Associa­ assistant attorney general, were encourag­ could not have been at the murder scene as forced migration. They were torn away tion and an honorary president of the ing. alleged. from their homes. They were taken to American Property Owmers Association, "I am in the case of the Trenton Six As Rogge, the. civil rights defender, was camps of varying sizes, some a mile square announced last week that his organization because I regard it as the northern Scotts­ taking up the Trenton Six case, in the for 10,000 people, surrounded by barbed was withdrawing its property from the boro case," said Rogge. U. S. Congress Senator Richard B. Rus­ ‘ wire and watch towers from where armed housing rental market. Reason—protest Tills case which Rogge sees as a frameup sell, Jr. (D., Ga.) proposed a multi-billion- sentries turned on searchlights to probe against ■ the rent control bills. began a year ago when second-hand furni­ dollar program to move as many as 1,500,- T;he darkness of the -“prison” camps at- As honorary president of the national ture dealer William Horner was attacked 000 Negro families from the south to the night. property owners association his words car­ in his store and died next day without re­ north. The program would pave the way Some citizens became bitter day by day. ried the impact of a directive. Said the gaining consciousness. His wife told po­ for northern whites to move south in filling Some aliens also beq^me bitter toward retired minister, who is himself an exten­ lice and reporters that three white men the- gap, he said. their country of adoption which denied sive property holder and founder of a mis­ or light-complexioned Negroes committed ’ White supremacy largely, motivated this constitutional rights to their American- sion: Six hundred eviction notices have the murder. congressional bill, and some commented born children. When the U. S. govern- been mailed out by his organization to Trenton police, with "color” as the only that only cruel white supremacists could ment'gave them a choice of remaining or tenants. Murphey also said he believed clue, invaded the Negro districts and round­ imagine that millions of Negroes do not going to J a p a n, . several thousand de­ property owners would take the same ac­ ed up scores of Negroes and finally an­ have deep roots, that they do not belong cided to leave. Thus the American-bom tion in other cities, including Chicago, nounced that six Negroes hud been ar­ to the land which they have developed and lost their citizenship. Houston, Kansas City, St. Louis, etc. rested and five had signed confessions ad- . made productive. The American Civil Liberties Committee And the landlords, as though they had mitting the murder. which has filed a test case for the 5,000 been eagerly waiting for the cue in a Then a trial followed, before an all- Racial Alliance claims that the group renounced citizenship well-thought-out plan, sprang into action white jury. The six were convicted on the Five thousand Americans of Japanese under government coercion and in protest in various cities. Rent Director Tigtie E. strength of the signed confessions. ancestry want then- citizenship restored against the internment of citizens during Woods said ho was “shocked" by the epj- Now, Rogge charges there is overwhelm­ and their status depends upon the decision wartime.

World Denazification feat fascism and nazism and prevent future The word "denazification" sounds good, aggression by Germany. and leaves the Impression that in one way World Summary • Then, in a scoop that seldom comes to or another the allied war aims are being a newspaperman, Premier Josef Stalin's executed. But this is far from the truth said complacently that he “knew' nothing anti-Communist bloc with Chiang exclud­ views were given to Correspondent Kings­ today, for the German denazification cou^t about the matter” and admitted the Nazis. ed, declared that he would fight on in the bury Smith of the INS, in a four-point has freed murderess Use Koch and numer­ Yet only a few weeks ago the Australian answer to the latter’s queries. ous others, and now Franz von Papen. four- southern provinces of Kwangtung, Hu­ government stated that Eurasian children Said Stalin: * The Soviet government Von Papen, World War I German spy in nan, Fukien and Kwangsi, regardless of and Oriental wives of Australian soldiers is prepared to issue a joint declaration with the U. S., vice premier of Germany under Acting President Li Tsung-jen’s peace plans. would not be admitted to the “lily white” the U. S. asserting that the respective gov­ Hitler and later his representative in Aus­ But as Hsueh talked tough, workers of continent. ernments have no intention of resorting to tria and Turkey, seemed all of a sudden to the Hankow-Canton-Hong Kong line, along war against one another. be a near-angel. The court could not find Kuomintang’s Thin Hope which the government hopes to evacuate its evidence that von Papen was a "first class" remaining troops and wealth, struck for * That the USSR could cooperate with Nazi criminal. With Canton chosen as the next site higher pay from early to mid-January. the U. S. to implement this pact of peace And the court reversed a previous eight­ for the Kuomintang government's head­ Workers on other main, South China lines, and lead to gradual disarmament. quarters, Nanking’s authorities and func­ such as the Junan-Kwangsi line, struck in * That if the U. S., Britain and France year sentence against von Papen and gave tionaries rushed southward. The Kuomin­ sympathy. agree to postpone the establishment of a him back his personal fortune, confiscated tang military forces seemed beyond re­ under the first sentence. All of which More strikes, both' economic and politi­ separate west German .state, pending a demption as the Communist-led troops cal, were expected and this contributed to meeting of the (Big Four) foieign» minis­ showed that it pays to have been a leading speedily consolidated. North China and be­ Nazi, that is, if one lives in western' zones wearing down the already thin hope of the ters to consider the problem of Germany gan doing the same in Central China. The Kuomintang of retaining a/base in South as a whole, the Soviet government sees no of Germany today. Industries in western ' offensive against big cities was begun. China with U. S. aicL^F^ Germany are being restored and the occu­ obstacles to lifting transport restrictions, pation authorities are saying they want In Washington, Rep. Sol Bloom (D., provided that transport and trade restric­ “people with managerial experience," which N. Y.), chairman of the House foreign af­ Peace Offensive tions by the three powers be lifted simul­ means the Nazis. fairs committee, said the Kuomintang can As the five western European powers— taneously. be saved. This came when the administra­ Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands 4 That Stalin has no objection to meeting Von Papen had a character witness in tion was reported to have been consider­ George H. Earle, former governor of Penn­ and Luxembourg—concluded plans for a President Truman at a mutually suitable ing a $750,000,000 economic-military aid pro­ political and military bloc, the Soviet Union place to discuss the possibility of conclud­ sylvania', -a strong advocate of immediate gram to "block” Communist advances in atomic war against Russia. Earle, talking warned that such a step as this was “high­ ing such a peace pact. Asia. The way Rep. Bloom phrased it was ly dangerous.” A UP dispatch from Washington said through his hat, said von Papen, as German interesting: “China is not lost yet.” envoy to Turkey, had "made strong efforts" The blueprint of the western European the White House and the State Depart­ to secure that country's neutrality during The China of which Rep. Blc/om spoke union, drawn up by the five nations, in­ ment “reacted coldly” to Premier' Stalin’s World War H. was the corrupt regime dominated by the cluded the combining of the military forces statement which official circles and the The Turkish consulate in Frankfurt de­ four families of the Chiangs, Soongs, Kungs into a single, mobile force—armed by the press called a “peace offensive.” One high nied this, saying that Turkey had been and Chens, who have $20 billion invested U. S. and commanded by British Field foreign policy •official was reported to have “non-belligerent but not neutral" in ‘the abroad. Marshal Viscount Montgomery. This union said the Soviet Union had made peace war (he did not specify on which side). And making their way to the north, Chi­ of nations was to negotiate with the United overtures in the past and that the U. S. had As this sort of "denazification" went on nese liberals, whpm ex-Secretary Marshall States and Canada in order to align them­ sharply reminded the Kremlin that “actions in Europe, the Dutch liner. Volendam once said Were the hope of Democratic Chi­ selves with the formative North Atlantic speak louder than words.” docked in Sydney, Australia, with 12 former na. were working out programs for a coali­ Pact between the latter two nations. The week's development on the interna­ Nazi SS men. The SS men were in the tion government with the Communists. The Soviet Union, through its official tional scene, however, showed the western guise of "displaced persons." They 'blasted Chiang, his regime and news agency, Tass, charged that this move bloc in an aggressive light of intensifying Dutch passengers who had identified “American imperialism" for being responsi­ is aimed at Russia. And the Soviet for­ >^get-tough-with-Russia”’ policy, which the Nazis on board the Volendam, informed ble for the civil war and suffering in China. eign ministry statement referred to war/ could easily lead to war. This was the ac­ an Australian immigration official, who General Hsueh Yueh, who is forming an time alliances between the nations to del tion the world was watching with anxiety. HONOLULU RECORD Page Three Thursday, Feb. 3, 1949 Sugar Industry Alien Seaman Newsmen Slap Must Stay Here Cop Gag Rule is Dominated In Joyce Killing By CARL HAESSLER By Wall Street (from page 1) Federated Press titute, because all Iris gear and DETROIT — Working newsmen (from page 1) most of his money had been on here lashed out sharply Jan. 24 at 11 per cent of all refined sugar the ship he missed. He got board Police Commissioner Harry S. Toy’s sales. and room through the city and ruling that reporters must file loy­ National Sugar, the above- county welfare but before long im­ alty certificates to qualify for po­ named Morgan controlled re­ migration authorities were warn­ lice press cards. finery, claims that “it has a ing him he’d have to get out of By unanimous vote, a, general contract with C & H whereby the country, for .he was an alien. membership meeting of the Detroit surplus Hawaiian sugar is re­ When the Gee-Joyce incident unit of the American Newspaper fined at National refineries for took place, Mohammed happened Guild (OIO) censured the “action eastern markets.” to be standing nearby and was and policy of the police commis­ • Great Western Sugar Co., immediately picked up as a ma­ sioner on this matter” and stated largest beet refiner and fourth in terial witness and warned that that “it does not consider police the industry, is closely linked with if he attempted to leave Hono­ press cards a prerequisite to re­ the National Sugar Refining Co. lulu, he’d be thrown in jail. porting or news gathering.” In pointing out the inter-locking The authorities who had threat­ Criticize Publishers ties, the magazine -says, "The ened him with jail and deportation The guildsmen also severely . Rockefeller-Morgan pattern is if he didn’t leave were now exact­ criticized publishers of two lead­ plainly indicated by the composi­ ly reversing their stand and threat­ ing Detroit papers for taking the tion of directors sitting on the ening him with jail if he tried to police order lying down instead of boards of. the major sugar com­ go. But noi one questions that the jumping to the defense of freedom panies.” law requires exactly that. of the press. Organized into a trust, the sugar Still, he had no money and no The meeting set up a committee refineries wrote its legislation, the clothes except those he had on the of three “to call on all Detroit A STUDY IN HYPOCRISY—Wearing their r--o-b--e-s- -a--n--d- -m---a-s-k--s., members Sugar Act of 1948, which, Facts night his ship sailed. publishers who are on record for of the Ku Klux Klan in Atlanta, Ga., file into church for special , For Farmers reports, gives price- Missed Job Saturday freedom of the press to stand with ceremony. ' rigging and other monopoly poli- the Guild in fighting the commis­ . cies the full protection of the Last Saturday an NMU ship sioner’s unconstitutional order.” called on Marine Cooks & Stew­ Spokesmen for Hearst’s Times MARSDEN 1IS ROUTED government. ards, their affiliates here, to sup­ said, "Mr. Marsden's -statement Robert H. Shields, an official of and the Scripps-Howard News (from page 1) ply a man. The local union in­ raised no objections to the police that I was ‘very favorable’ to his the U. S. Department of Agricul­ quired of U. S. government au­ it and returned it. I haven’t campaign was a slight over­ ture was named on the floor of order. The Free Press announced seen hide nor hair of him since.” thorities as to whethei’ or not they it would leave the fighting to the statement to say the least.” • the House by Rep. Flannagan as could ship Mohammed. They were Shady business practice by a “Very Good Riddance1’ the man who wrote the Sugai’ Act. “conscience of the individual re­ representative of National Repub­ Shields soon resigned from the .told that if Mohammed shipped, porter.” But Free Press columnist lic in Kansas City, Mo. in 1942, Leaders of unions, which had a Coast Guard plane would inter­ Mark Beltaire in an open letter protested Marsden’s proposal to Agriculture Department to take a cept the ship and take him off to was exposed by the Better Busi­ "spread Americanism” in the pub­ high-paying job as lobbyist for to Toy, has been permitted to call ness Bureau of that city. the U. S. Beet Sugar Association. return him to Honolulu. him “Headline Harry,” while add­ lic schools, were outspoken in their Marine Cooks

By TINY TODD was walk back and forth in front So when I saw this fat charac­ of my apartment house—my own WCT£ IHPIRECT ter running toward me all wild- aPartSient house—yelling what the TAXES OH eyed and panting and waving a? sign, it excited me considerably, sign says." but when I saw the crowd of I asked: “Then those people are yelling people behind him. I de­ your Tenants?” cided the revolution was here for “Yes." said the fat guy, with a sure. The guy was waving a sign sob in his voice. "They're my that began "Down With -’’ and I tenants. Oppressors!" 10? couldn't make out the rest. PIRKT^WWCT Go$TS CORPORATE. I started for the door and the I started to get out of the way, fat guy called: "Say, you're not of COLD WATS. TAXES \ TAXES but the fat guy grabbed me by going to leave me?” the shirt and said: "Hide me! “Yeah." I told him. “Some of PouStHq Hide me! If they catch me they'll those people are going to figure kill me.” out how you gave them the slip QerucatioH Well, I am no believer in mob and they'll be back here before violence and lynch jaw. a id this '.mg. I don't want to be here guy looked plenty firm i □ I ■rm r re"oenized as the guy who 13? m WEALTH^ shunted him throw: u a dom' and OTHER qovTi soc iau f.ue them a bum sreer. And if IS? INTEREST OH rUjM« WELF-ARE. stood in front of it. you taxe my advice, you’ll start EXPENDITURES NWtNAUwr Gives Bum Steer for Tulsa. Oklahoma.” vEjtexrtp Br the t'me the mo' rot abreast PRYS? of me I w.i- ahewiv rw.i: i:g and ^EHEBTS veiling: "He wen: rhatava1- ■ Hernandez Searched So when they'd all disanneared At Philippine Airport VW BUDGET DOLLAR QOES- down the niw I wen; irnioe th: i (from page 1) wared' ': - and fi"“ ' iound the fat r'l'-' num'- be-.:., a : H‘"ninde7 c"-rib"d on a -piece of case He n.i.' :m :: : a 1 ' iu - Cl ij .... i And" .. ■1 - , li " ane. Wages and Profits of the stgn nr,ci w- .mimmy n d h-- a . ' Wom-i'a । : . b .’ me Career Of UP Executive By the end of 1948, great num­ in his mouth. note. 1 hi- r c ■ '.mua.:'Ou a it ef bers of the American people were He looked up anil said: "If they discourse on ".unnesiy and UuiU." facing real hardships. Roughly, ever find me with this sign on Hernandez, was met by a big Mirrored Our Free Press 50 per cent of the nation’s fami­ me, it’ll be all up with me." delegation Ironi l.ioor unions. lies had less than $200 in savings, “Relax."'I told him "They've all Events in China he said should By EDWARD ROHRBOUGII from Tokyo was when he disclosed, and if reports of layoffs and pro­ gone now. What was the trouble?" be a stern vaimng to. the leaders Miles M. Vaughn, United Press only a few months ago, that the duction cutbacks gain in promi­ Chinese government hoped an The fat guy was still panting, of the government. The Chinese -vice president and general man­ nence, the absence of savings will revolution, he said, is a move­ ager for Asia, who drowned in American general would take over bring many families close to a but he managed to say: "I thought Tokyo bay last week, had an un­ their military operation as “su­ there was some freedom of speech. ment of the people against leud- crisis point. Now let us look at alistic landloidism, wholesale cor­ usual career. During the post­ preme commander.” Some ob­ the other side of the picture . . . You see, I’m one of the under­ war years, most of which he spent servers felt that Vaughn’s proxim­ privileged.” ruption'by the privileged few, and Industry has just concluded the- foreign exploitation. in Tokyo writing dispatches that ity to Gen. MacArthur may have most successful year in its his­ “Yes,” I said, nodding sympa­ were more than favorable to Gen­ had something to do with that par­ tory, with an all-time profit peak thetically. He added: "The victory of the progressives in China ’ and else­ eral MacArthur, Mr. Vaughn ticular telepathic miracle. of $21.7 billion after payment of “I am discriminated against by where will prevent the Third scored a number of “beats” that I once had the good fortune taxes . . . For every dollar the the government." World War." were excellent examples of the to be one of the great man's companies paid out in wages in “Um.” technique that helped him to rise subordinates and to see how the 1945 they made 33.7 cents profits. “I am deprived of my natural Campaigned for Full Independence to one of the news agency's top editorial mind of one of American By 1948 the take had increased to rights.” Reporting on his observations of positions. journalism’s “greats” functioned. 42.2 cents. The crazy wage-price- “Yes, I know. But how?" labor conditions abroad he said: From Tokyo, Mr. Vaughn first My contact with Vaughn came profit picture can be seen from "Our Inbo'.ets are the most ex­ told the world how the USSR after I had returned from a five- these figures.—The Flint (Mich.)' Opposes Rent Control ploited." "I am a landlord," said the fat supplied the Chinese Commu­ month trip into the Liberated Labor News (AFL). He dlKelnsod 1 ha I while In the nists witli arms. Tins feat was Areas covering the civil war for guy, "and I read about how the UllU"d S':i'- ‘ be i ■' ’ 11 . >. I '11 e ■ | for landlords In Tulsa, Oklahoma, re­ remarkable not oply because UP. I met Mr. Vaughn in Shang­ ride around in big cars," he said, volted when they were deprived the re I >e.r i.t ill" it II .1 ' i d Ilie Mr. Vaughn discovered in Tokyo hai where he had Just arrived a fin 1111 -1 ri nl < x: i .i ’' i . . : । .i I : n:lit '■ something oilier reporters had fresh from an interview with giving me a clue. “They even of their natural rights of charg­ lor the Amn irnns. want to buy my news, service.1" ing as much rent as I he traffic not been able to discover in Chi­ Chiang Kai-shek. I was ready to At last I began to catch on. would bear. I thought if they He said that Um "mil people" na, but also something General answer any questions, but he had "You mean ‘Moscow gold’?” could revolt, so could I." of Amri. 'i nr io n - ■" u 11 h Marshall denied in Honolulu on only one. I asked. This was all sounding pretty the Kt"'::i' ■ ' - 'I I 'I I". - his wav hack from China, after Vaughn Questions Writer i ion ■ o’ Hr b' ।, । • n - . | pm-. “Yes,” he said, nodding eager­ wacky to me and I looked at the his investigators in Manchuria "Where do the Communists get ly. sign again. Fatty hadn't eaten dt-mn Wo S’' ■ ■ n i ti inill- cmiid find no confirming evi­ their money?” he asked: “I'm sorry,” I told him. “There any of the words—yet. The sign tari.-:. , m \\ a.-;m._L.ei dence. I was a little surprised, for I isn't any. If there were, there’d said: “Down With Rent Control!” Of eonree the fine sheen of that had described their tax system in be some sign, but there isn't. He went on talking. "I told my Demand fn" ’uml’°" is droppine, aw'iirniimment was somewlw my news stories in some detail. Anyhow, there isn’t any need tenants I was going to evict them the W' C ■ i ” T" As- marns: la'er b" Christopher Hand "Vveli. the same place any other for any.” and refuse to rent to anyone, and ct ihe New York Herald Tribune, government nets it.” I told him. The talk changed, but I could you see what happened. All I did who mmi" thorough investigations "They have taxes, you know.” see that I had failed to meet what in Man Jiuna and found the only “Yes. but they have big money,” was expected of me by the man cvidenre hi the talk o! some Kuu- Mr. Vaughn insisted, shaking his Hugh Baillie, UP president in n: uh - : commanders. It was head and popping his eyes a little. New York, calls "one of journal­ marred further by Anna Louise It was a gesture I imagine he ism’s stalwarts.” Slrmvr uho. in her recent book, found very effective with subor­ Not Vaughn Man "Tomorrow's China." presents def­ dinates who were really dependent Dr. JACK OTA inite evidence that no such thing on their jobs. I had hoped to get Mr. Vaughn ever happened. "Their representatives in Nan­ to send me to Manchuria to write (Optometrist) Anol,Iter of Vaughn's, revelations of the Chinese Communists there, king wear good clothes and they but after my answer I could see he felt I wasn’t the man for the job. I obviously didn't know a ANNOUNCES story when they saw one. “We've sent a couple of fel­ lows into the Communist area,” the he told me dispiritedly, “but it’s no use. They always bring back Thanks/ the same story.” OPENING I think, as Hugh Baillie says, Vaughn’s "reputation is his ever­ of his lasting memorial.” To allourrriends But I can’t' go along with Gen. MacArthur's description: “The PRACTICE for their kind support given us best in American journalism—■ * fearless in his reporting, objective in in his vision, brilliant in his rhe­ during the recent lockout. toric arid unfailing in his support of American principles and ideals." , ■ However, I do think any honest Analytical Refraction newspaperman who knew Mr. oOo Vaughn, even though slightly, will, Visual Training /’ remember him for a long, long time. Contact Lens UNITED SUGAR WORKERS OFFICES If You Are Interested— Will Be Located in ROOM 5, CANARIO BUILDING in decent wages and decent living ILWU Local 142, Unit 3 conditions—In equal rights for all, Above Standard- Drug Co. regardless of race, religion or po­ Hilo, Hawaii Olaa, Hawaii litical beliefs—In peace in our time and for all time, READ THE RECORD! Thursday, Feb. 3, 1949 HONOLULU RECORD Page Five Seitz’s Subjects Are Palolo Children

Some of the best pictures of Ha-' wail and. her1 people are taken by a Territorial probation officer, Gottfried Seitz, who has.beem^jpZ? his time, a teacher, cannery work­ er, tourist guide, proofreader, ad­ vertising copy-writer, and once, acting superintendent of the Waia- lee Training School. Born in Nuremberg, Germany, Mr. Seitz was traveling in Egypt when World War 1 broke out, and the. British government interned him on Malta for five years. Later he came to America and became a U. S. citizen in 1932. Came During the Depression Mr. Seitz came to Hawaii during the depression because, he says, “I had heard it was a climate that required few clothes, and if the worst came to the worst. I could catch fish and feed myself.” Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Seitz’s pictures at­ tracted considerable attention from the military, who inspected them carefully and sent some to Washington. Mr. Seitz was ar­ rested and held incommunicado for five days, presumably because of his German birth. After investigation that lasted for more than a year, Seitz says, he was given a clean bill of health KUI LEE OF PALOLO spoonfeeds his baby-sister Cherie at lunchtime and his name was replaced in its on one of the Seitz-sponsored excursions, this time to Waimea Falls. former position on the Civil Serv­ ice .list of ratings. Has Two Hobbles CHAMP AT SEVERAL WEIGHTS at Palolo Housing, Kamaka von Oel- Photography is Seitz's second hoffen, 10, convinces a playmate that "weaker” is hardly the word for hobby. His first is children and her sex. Mr. Seitz poses his friends for some pictures, also gets many young people, and he spends most week-ends taking children from unposed shots like this. Honolulu Palolo Housing and elsewhere on • swimming trips and beach picnics. bation officer, sometimes through liceman, and he frowns upon the The number of participants Is legal difficulties in which they or term "cop,”- especially when ap­ limited usually by the capacity of their parents were Involved. plied to him. his old Dodge touring car. Though his office gives him some “A cop," he says, “is someone Seitz has met many of the chil­ police powers, Mr. Seitz, does not who puts people in jail. My job Tailoring dren through his duties as a pro- like to think of himself as a po­ Is to keep them out.” School

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CONVENIENCE 6 P.M. to 9 P.M. income—wages- . gnd salaries—for transform booms to busts by un­ Sees Drive Toward every"ejxijlove dollar earned in. dermining the basis of full produc­ Monopoly, Depression 194^/^No matter what kind of tion and full employment.” It "clmlar you are measuring with, the said that production cutbacks and Competent and Experienced- Instructors WASHINGTON IFF)—Big cor­ answer comes out the same." layoffs which have taken place in Attendance porations which are making record The bulletin said government make “the folly of our postwar profits are driving for monopoly must step in at once "to investirmte uncontrolled price and profit in­ A COMPLETE COURSE IN FINE TAILORING and rectify business policies which flation clear for all to sec.” control of the American economy MADE EASY BY OUR MODERN METHODS and are also driving the nation toward depression, the CIO warned Jan. 17 in its monthly research K. Yamamoto, Director bulletin, Economic Outlook. At the same time, as prices have PRINTING been pushed upward by the cor­ ® Business Cards b Letterheads porations, who have resisted con­ trols or taxes on their profits, thb © Billheads • Announcements HONOLULU TAILORING SCHOOL consumers paying those prices have © Tickets • Labels PHONE 52G13 paid for plant expansion by indus­ • Envelopes, etc. try. And wages have by no means 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. kept up with prices, the bulletin HONOLULU RECORD PUBLISHING CO., LTD. said, giving these facts: 811 Sheridan Street Corporate Profits Zooming Honolulu 46, T. H. 1183 Bishop St. 3rd Floor Weiller's Bldg. Bishop Near Berctania "Today there is $2.35 of corporate net profit for every profit dollar Tel. 96445 earned by corporations in 1945. But there is only $1.11 of employe ------Page Six THE HONOLULU RECORD Thursday, Feb. 3, 1949 Pro And Con On Health Insurance LABOR ROUNDUP Federated Press The opponents of national health Postpone Longshore Negotiations insurance rely on several main Postponement of longshore negotiations until February 24 at the arguments, used over and over request of the employers was agreed upon on Tuesday, February 1, the again. Now, with the new Con­ initial meeting of the employers with the union. gress beginning its session, is a At the brief session, the'union presented a demand for a 32 cents good time to go over these argu­ an hour increase over present wages of $1.40 through spokesmen Jack Ka­ ments and see what they really wano, president of the local, and Jack W. Hall, ILWU regional director. Employer representatives headed by Philip Maxwell of the Hawaii mean. Employers Council indicated that talks on a wage increase would be Argument No. 1 is that national difficult in light of the recent legal complications involving the over­ health insurance is socialized medi­ time interpretation of the Fair Labor Standards ’Act. cine. This argument has many However, union representatives argued that wage increases could variations. Health insurance lias be discussed aside from any remedial legislation which may be in the been called socialistic, commu­ offing. nistic, a Moscow plot and so forth. The union committee is headed by Fred Low, Jr.,' of Hawaii as The general idea is to discredit chairman, Mamoru Yamasaki of Maui as secretary, Levi Kealoha, Fred health insurance' by labeling it as Kamahoahoa and Calixto Damaso of Oahu, Harry Kamoku of Hawaii, a radical idea. Premitivo Queja and Robert Relacion of Kauai and Robert Cordeiro Many friends of national health of Maui. Other members are Jack W. Hall, Jack Kawano and Yukio Abe. insurance also call it socialized the latter being the secretary-treasurer of the longshore local. medicine. But this is a mistake. SETSUZO OTA, the top-ranking judo artist in America, and * * * * Actually health insurance is quite Meeting of ILWU Leaders Soon “Rubberman” Higami, wrestler and judo expert, will be instructors different from socialized medicine. on the Young Buddhist Association's judo program. Ota will be A meeting of top officers of the four ILWU locals has been head instructor of the program while Higami will be director of Role Doctors Play scheduled on February 27 to discuss legislative and other matters per­ the YBA program in this area. Under health insurance your taining to the program of the ILWU in the islands. doctor is not a civil servant.. He Union headquarters announced that the meeting will follow the ' is not a government employe like general executive board meeting of the sugar local scheduled for Febru­ a teacher, a policeman or a fire­ ary 25 and 26 and the general council meeting of the pineapple local Setsuzo Ota, Top Judo Man, man. He is not employed on a scheduled for' the same time. salary. The sugar local will discuss the wage reopening provided for in On the contrary, your doctor April, 1949, plans for sending delegates to the international convention Explains Mysteries Of Art under health insurance enters and other policy matters concerning the sugar local. into a contract with the govern­ The annual general council meeting of the pineapple union will By ALLAN BEEKMAN iris own .-ideas to the original. He ment to provide medical service. also consider internal policies of the local. “Gentleness triumphs over force.” included spiritual training and He is free to participate in the At present two committees on the constitution and resolutions, stressed defense. This is judo. program or to stay out of it, as headed by Kiyoshi Fukushima of Maul and Kano Sato of Oahu, respec­ The authority for this seemingly "Many persons have the mis­ he wishes. He negotiates with tively, are working on details of the meeting. timorous statement is Setsuzo Ota, conception that judo is for fight­ the government about how he * * * * the highest ranking judo expert ing and for militaristic purposes. will be paid for his services and New AFL House Organ ever to visit America. Mr. Ota This is not correct. It Is prac­ in what amounts. The Hawaii Teamster, house organ for the Joint Council of Team­ was attempting to explain the ticed for self-defense and for etymology of the term "judo.” Under socialized medicine all sters, The Transit Workers of Hawaii and the Hotel Workers, will make physical, mental and spiritual hospitals would be government its debut- among AFL labor circles .very soon," it was announced by “The term 'judo,' ” he explained improvement.” hospitals. But under health in­ Arthur A. Rutledge, executive secretary of the teamster council. in Japanese, "literally means the Beginners in the art start in the surance all kinds' of hospitals, pub­ The paper will have! a limited circulation and will carry news and ‘soft way,’ or- the 'soft art.’ sixth class (kyu) and work towards lic and private, negotiate agree­ comments of the council and other sponsoring unions. "A literal Interpretation, how­ the first. Graduates of the first ments with the government to pulsory. This argument has been ever, is misleading. Judo is not class receive the black belt and provide Service on a cost basis. that they are now demanding a soft or gentle art. But since the used very effectively by the op­ are thereupon of the first rank The private hospitals remain pri­ ponents of health insurance. No­ more adequate benefits and exten­ opponent’s strength is diverted (sho-dan). vate hospitals. ■ sion to more sections of the popu­ against him, the phrase 'gentle­ body likes to be forced to do any­ ness triumphs over force’ (ju yoku Holds High Rank Not Compulsory for Doctors thing. The word compulsion scares lation. Apparently they are not Argument No. 2 is that national a lot of people, particularly when particularly worried about . the go wo scisu) comes near to tho Some students attain the black health Insurance would be com- meaning of tho word.” belt within a year. Some fail to it is hitched to another red-letter compulsory nature of the con­ I talked to Mr. Ota at tho gpt it after. 10 years of effort. The The meeting was propitious. word in the oft-repeated AMA tributions. Young Buddhist Association on amount of time and effort depends Friendship developed smoothly. slogan: Compulsion Is the Key to It is peculiar that the doc­ Fort St. He Is currently teach­ upon tho talent, physical condition “She proposed," he said, "and I Collectivism. tors, for whom participation in ing judo there in tho classes and attitude of the student. The accepted.” Actually the compulsory fea­ the national lualth instjrance directed by Tetsuo "Rubberman’’ average student, if he practices For three years they honey­ tures of government health in­ system will not be compulsory, Higami. I had been informed regularly, will receive tiie black mooned in China, Japan and Eu­ surance have been highly over­ are the ones who raise the bogey that Mr. Ota is not fluent in belt in two years. rope. His American wife died m rated. As far as the doctors of compulsion. The people, who English. Since I had anticipated Mr. Ota holds the seventh rank. Italy. are concerned, there is nothing will have to pay the insurance I some difficulty with technical There are only 80 or 90 persons He returned to America to compulsory about it. They don’t premiums, want it. They not Japanese words, my wife accom­ in Japan who hold so high a teach and practice judo. He has have to participate in the pro­ only favor compulsory health in­ panied me as interpreter. rank. There is no other, than taught such celebrities as Jack gram if they don’t want to. surance, but they are demanding He is an affable, small but a Mr. Ota, outside of Japan. Dempsey and Douglas Fairbanks, National health insurance can be that the present Congress pro­ strongly-built man. His hair is compulsory in- only one way—the ceed at once to enact a national Bom in Akita Prefecture, Japan, Sr‘ . health insurance law. thinning and graying. His right the son of an amateur Judo man, "I like the Americans,” hq said. same way that unemployment in_- ear is cauliflowered, a badge of the he began the study of judo at the “I admire the freedom, frankness surance and old age insurance are professional, wrestler. a trebly 12. He thinks 10 is the and broadmindedness of the Amer- compulsory. ■ The people’s elected Explains Jiujitsu proper age to start. He is a grad­ .ican women.” representatives in Congress decide “ 'Jiujitsu' is the ancient name He explains his difficulty with to collect small regular insurance uate of Chuo Daigaku (Central premiums from individuals and of the art,” he said, smilingly re­ University), Tokyo. English, which . he understands garding us above the wreath o' quite well but does not speak their employers. In return these smoke from his cigarette. “It Accepted Proposal fluently, by saying: "I have a individuals are entitled to receive means the art of fighting, either Performing in the Olympic Sta­ head only for sports. I studied medical sei-vices. for defense or attack. It had many dium, Los Angeles, 23 years ago, English. But I was too pre-occu­ Such "compulsory” insurance is schools or branches. he attracted the personal interest pied with sport to learn it. well.” well established for unemployment “In modern times Professor Ka­ of a wealthy American lady in the He does not know how long he and old age. The people appre­ no combined the desirable char­ audience. She sent her Japanese will stay in Hawaii. Then he add­ ciate social security, so much so acteristics of these various schools butler, with a letter, inviting the ed, "I want to stay long enough to into one system. He also added judo expert to dinner. get a good tan." Florida Governor To Seek KKK Ban YOUNG BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION MIAMI. BEACH, Fla. (FP)—T he Ku Klux Klan will not be toler­ ated in ■ jFlorida, labor-supported Gov. Fuller Warren announced JUDO-WRESTLING courses here. The day after a motorcade of the founding klansmen had FIVE MONTHS'COURSE paraded through the city in a February 1, 1949—June 30, 1949 nighttime celebration of the found­ ing of a Tallahassee Klavem, War­ REGISTRATION NOW OPEN ren said; "These hooded hoodlums and Regular Classes jerks who paraded the streets of. Classes ’ Dates Age Group Time Tallahassee last night made a dis-, Midgets Mon. & Thurs.; Tues. & Fri. 9-12 3-4 P.M. gusting and alarming spectacle. Junior Mon. & Thurs.; Tues. & Fri. 13-14 4-5 P.M. These covered cowards who call Senior Mon. & Thurs.; Tues. & Fri. 14-and up £ 7-9 P.M. themselves klansmen quite ob­ viously are seeking to violate the Special Classes Constitution of the U. S.” Classes Dates Age Group Time American Wrestling Wed, & Sat. All Ages 5-9 P.M. ■KmvanNMMBBsntfWBunMi Private Judo Lessons Mon. & Thurs. Men Only 10-12 A.M. For a Newspaper Private Judo Lesson's Tues. & Fri. Men Only 1-3 p.m: Private Judo Lessons Wed. & Sat. Women Only 1-5 P.M. Fighting Against . . . The power of privilege, racial Instructors: Mr. Tetsuo "Rubberman" Higami (4th Rank), Director. discrimination, wherever it is; FLORIDA FLOWER — While Mi'. Setsuzo Ota (7 th Rank), Head Instructor. those who distort truth for profits, freakish freezing spells blight | Y. B. A. Administration Building, 1710 Fort St. Phone 55082 READ THE RECORD southern California, oranges and ‘i bathing beauties blossom in sunny I Florida. I Thursday, Feb. 3, 1949 HONOLULU RECORD Page Seven

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This is a trial.” cratic Far Eastern Policy, 111 W. curtain, it was one made of Kuo­ IN WAHIAWA: every lawyer is automatically a 42nd St., New York City, N. Y. mintang obstacles and the desire BELL’S FOUNTAIN & SERVICE Judge Moore replied: “Well, Mr. liberal and a fair-minded citizen. • of American news agencies to co­ 533 California Ave. Symonds, I don’t know what your The House un-American Activ­ operate with a foreign policy made experience is, but I have seen ities Committee is going through "The birth of the atom bomb,” in Wall Street and Washington, CONSUMERS’ MARKET Chinese, Filipinos, Japanese, Ha- Mao Tsc-tung told Anna Louise a face-lifting. The committee and never submitted to any vote wnlians, Italians, Spaniards, and rules aro likely to be changed. Strong, “was the beginning of IN WAIPAHU: Frenchmen being tried here in the I lie death of American Imperial­ of the people. KATO SAIMIN SHOP And the Democratic majority of Had there been honest coverage Territory and some in courts on five on the committee is to con­ ists. For they began to count the Mainland. There is an inter­ on the bomb and not on the or a free press, the American peo­ sist solely of lawyers. ple might have found the answers preter used to translate their tes­ people. In the end the bomb and then in firmer tones, the Chi­ timony into the English tongue, Changing the rules might help will not destroy the people. The to their questions, similar to those nese press, even in Kuomintang a little. Tire only thing that would gathered by Miss Strong. but I have never seen an inter­ people will destroy the bomb.” areas,- began to analyze the Mar­ preter who translates the testimony help a lot would be to kill the When Mao, chairman of the Questions and Answers shall tactics. 'When the Kuo­ as given to the defendant or de­ committee and bury it 10 or 20 Chinese Communist Party said Here are some of the questions mintang fares well, the Americans fendants ...” feet under. As for adding law­ that, Chiang Kai-shek's troops, on China asked most frequently let the fighting proceed*' com­ Judge Moore went on to say yers to the committee, I fail to armed and trained by the U. S., and the answers as they are to mented the Shanghai newspaper, that perhaps if the defendants see what that has to do with any­ were pushing deep into the areas bt^jpund in "Tomorrow’s China”: Chou Pao . . . ‘When Marshall re­ were conducting their own cases, thing. the Communist-led forces had al­ 1. Have the Russians helped turned from America, he merely they might be furnished inter­ The assumption seems to be that ready liberated from Imperial Ja­ the Chinese Communists? looked at the fighting in Man­ preters. the un-American committee lacked pan. Chiang had already taken (pps. 87-88): “When the Rus- churia. He only became energetic Some Practices Need Correction dignity. That is true. It also Kalgan, and he would take Yenan, sians pulled out, they closed the when the 148th Kuomintang divi­ Mr. Symonds then said: “The seems to be assumed that the the Communist capital, within the border. They could have used sion revolted, stopping Chiang’s special three-judge court that sat committee flouted judicial proce­ following month. that Manchurian food surplus for advance towards Harbin.’ ” down here found out that there are dure. That is also true. Yet Mao and other top strate­ their own Far East or for their 4. What about this business of some practices that have endured Still a Disgrace gists of the Democratic Army were zone of North Korea, both of which controlled capitalism? .Isn’t that for many years that should be Lawyers may be more dignified calm in their confidence that were short of food. But they a fairy tale? corrected.” than most people. They ought to Chiang would collapse in spite of closed the border tightly on the (p. 63): Governor Sung at Kal­ Mr. Sylva, special deputy attor­ know more about judicial practice all the military help he got. theory that if they let even a bolt gan: "What is the matter with ney general prosecuting the case, than' the rest of us. Wastes Real Values of cotton goods across it, they your American businessmen? . . . then commented: “I have the de­ But—the committee could be as “If Chiang takes Yenan it be­ would be mixing in China's civil Our Liberated Areos are their nat­ cision of the 3-judge court and I dignified and judicious as the Su­ gins his downfall,” said Peng Teh- war. ural market. Farmers, owning am still hi a maze as to the il­ hui, deputy commander-in-chief. preme Court and it woUlft still tie " 'They would say we helped the their own land, produce surplus logicality (sic) of it." a national disgrace. “He ties up men and munitions in .Communists,' /explained thp So- Judge Finds Precedent and are eager for goods." The un-American committee a poor and distant place that viet consul W me in Harbin. Book Was Rejected The judge then opined that he yields him nothing, neither food, " ‘They say it anyway,’ I retort­ had never seen anything like in­ holds the patent for our times nor wealth, nor strategic valuer ed hptljrL . . . To this reviewer’s knowledge, terpreters for the whole proceed­ on the big smear. Other com­ but only prestige. If he wastes -^Of course they lie about us,' Miss Strong’s usual publishers, ings in his many years of practice mittees have borrowed smear real values for prestige, he is fin­ he said rather precisely, 'but they Little, Brown & Co., refused to and he would call a recess while he tactics, but the un-Americans ished.” know they lie and their lies can publish this book. So did oth­ could hunt for a precedent. After are the masters of the art. Anna Louise Strong has done be disproved.’ ” er American commercial firms, al­ the recess,' Judge Moore an­ Whether under Martin Dies, her usual energetic and accurate 2. But didn’t the Russians turn though an Indian concern accept­ nounced that the attorney general John Wood, Parnell Thomas or job of reporting the things she over huge stocks of captured ed and published the book at the had produced the precedent and Wood again, it makes no differ­ saw and ‘heard while travelling Japanese arms to the Commu­ first reading. "Tomorrow’s China” the proceedings could bb inter­ ence. The un-American activi­ across aA -much of China as she nists? is scheduled to be published in preted. ties committee has devoted it­ could during one of the most fp. 86): Lin Piao, Communist several European countries. Then it was discovered that six self steadfastly to the propo­ important -years of that country’s commander ' in Manchuria, told Perhaps the sayings of Mao Tse- of the defendants understood the sitions that independent thought history, July 1946 to July 1947. Miss Strong: "No troops, no wea­ tung, which are scattered liberally Uocano dialect, but the other un­ is dangerous and that ideas can Because the United States pons, no advisers, nothing! What­ throughout .the book, scared the derstood Visayan. He, however, be hidden with a tar brush. government must accept large ever men and arms came with the American publishers and those who agreed to waive an extra inter­ Some of the un-American com­ responsibility for a war that Red Army into Manchuria, went control and motivate' them. preter. mittee smears are widely known. killed millions, it was an im­ back when the Red Army went. Here's one such thought that And the principle was estab­ IL is general knowledge, for exam­ portant year for Americans, too. Whatever store of arms the Rus­ all Americans should read: lished. if it needed to be, that a ple, 'that Dr. Edward U. Condon It is only fair to say that the sians took from the Japs in Man­ "Why do the imperialists help man being tried must be given a was savagely, attacked by the com­ American people have far less churia, they either took with them Chiang so enthusiastically? Not chance to understand what is be­ mittee and was never given a responsibility for that war than back to Russia or destroyed on the because he is strong, but because ing said about him by his accusers. chance to speak in his own de­ I heir government. Had their news­ spot." " lie is weak. It is the same in fense. . papers allowed correspondents to And Miss Strong adds: “Sur­ Japan, in Greece, in Italy. Every­ Productivity of railroad work­ cover China as freely arid as hon­ prisingly enough the Manchurians where the reactionaries are in ers is 33.9 per cent higher than in In five years, from 1943 to 1948, estly as Miss Strong did, the Amer­ I met took it for.granted that the danger. That is why the imper­ 1939, net corporation profits jumped ican people would certainly have Russians helped .Chiang Kai-shek ialists rush to help. It is only from 6.2 per cent of the national protested our policy in China much and not the Communists.” now that so many reactionaries in will prove to be only paper tigers. income to 9.1 per cent. more strongly than they did. 3. But why couldn’t General the world are in mortal Illness . . . It is the American people who No Honest Courage Marshall make peace? “Like all reactionaries in his­ are strongs who have lasting The U. S. is selling a third less There was nd curtain of any (p. 59 >: "Tentatively at first tory, the American reactionaries poWer?—E. R. goods abroad than In 1947. THE HONOLULU RECORD Koji Ariyoshi . . . Editor ► a point of view Published every Thursday at 811 Sheridan St.j..-Honolulu By W. K. BASSETT Phone 96445 Pity the Poor Businessman “Hawaii Business in 1948 Up $45 Million Over SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ■ 1947.” 1 year (Oahu) ...... $5.00 This- was the front-page banner headline in 1 year (Other Islands) ______$6.00 The, Advertiser last Saturday morning. The first paragraph beneath it said: —Inoludes Airmailing— "Volume of business of all kinds transacted 1 year (Mainland) ...... $5.00 in Hawaii in 1948, ranging from retailing and amusements to sugar BESS processing and rentals to- 1 taled $1,246,884,485.21, a gain of $45,800,766.76 or SHAKEUP URGENT 3.91 per cent over the Money is an essential factor in rehabili­ $1,201,083,718.45 reported tating the inmates of the Waialee Training in 1947.” Naively the Advertiser School for Boys, but it is only a factor. some few days before Thomas B. Vance, director of institu­ showed the total of cor­ tions, last week said inadequate financing poration incomes in Ha­ made it impossible to get properly trained waii and, quoting the much larger total payroll personnel at the boys’ school to conduct an of workers, implied that up-to-date training program. the man down below was No one will quarrel over the need for a getting all. the cream. The only trouble with staff of trained personnel. The record this comparison is that shows, although Mr. Vanee does not give the net income of the corporations went to a hand­ this matter publicity, that the present staff ful of persons in comparison to the thin spread of is incompetent to remold and develop ------the payroll total. warped youngsters in the right direction. Natch! It’s shocking to learn that almost every Jl&tteAA. Om Reader Amusing adolescent who enters Waialeo at the age This man Marsden who came down here, he of 12 winds up at the Oahu Prison. One Editor, The Honolulu RECORD: ciety which have their roots in the says, to teach Americanism to our school chil­ plantation system. Double-stand­ dren had better not talk too much io them about wonders where the word “training” comes I wish to take issue with Frank the Americanism of the organizations which, he in? And training for what? Marshall Davis’ article and your ard pay, racial ceilings on pro­ says, give him their financial aid and moral sup­ Conditions are really fouled up at Waia­ heading for it TYPICAL HAOLE motion, residential segregation— port. ■ : - lee. What is the present staff, headed by WAYS NEGATE DEMOCRACY. these things were here long before For instance, let’s take the Daughters of Mainlanders formed an appreciable the American Revolution. It would be inter­ Superintendent William Among, doing (Typical Mainland haole ways, Mr. esting for him to give a three-minute talk on anyhow? What are their shortcomings that Davis explains in the article). part of our population. Anti- the democracy of this organization that dictated Semitism and anti-Negroism are contribute to making hardened criminals The dangerous thing about the the refusal to permit Marian Anderson, a vocal of youngsters? nasty things, and they are trace­ artist whose skin happens to be dark, to sing in headline' and the thinking back able to recent Mainland influence, the Daughters of the American Revolution au­ Former inmates will give interested per­ of it is the throwing together of ditorium in our national capital. sons part of the answer—their side of the but anti-Filipinoism is just as nas­ And if he wants to display a sense of humor the two words “typical” and ty, and I have seen it in Orientals tory, which is not to be ignored. On Bethel “haole.” One of the best ways to he might call "attention" to The Tact that thege Street where many former Waialee stu- who never had an iota of Mainland ladies, claim as their ancestors a group of patriots develop race prejudice is to see influence. who overthrew a constituted government by force .ents hang out, one will hear this litany: other people in terms of the “typi­ and violence. “Bill Among is scared to walk around cal.” Islanders going to the Main­ As Mr. Davis says, “it is no se­ iere. We’ll bust him up just like he gave land learn that the “typical Ne­ cret” that haole men have mar­ That Man Butler s the works at the school.” gro" acts in such-and-such ways. ried Oriental girls and left them You can tell that Senator Butler is a (Republi­ Mainlanders coming to Hawaii can. He talks and acts like one. He came here Whether or not Mr. Among walks on behind in Hawaii because their and was ambushed by representatives of the Big tethel Street is beside the point. The fact learn that the “typical Filipino” Mainland families “wouldn’t un­ is so-and-so. I well remember derstand.” It is also no secret Interests who told him they were afraid they hat he is hated and threatened with a how I was instructed by Oriental that island parents of all sorts wouldn’t do so well in Hawaii under a state gov­ engeance is illuminating. and Hawaiian friends, when I first have disowned their children for ernment wherein the people selected all their' came to Hawaii, in the faults of .officials. It’s high time we cleaned the back yard out-marrying. There are prob­ The Republican senator who now, for­ .t Waialee, before we throw additional the “typical” Portuguese. But I ably as many marriages—success­ found few Portuguese who were ful and ■ lasting ones—between tunately, has no standing before the court of uoney into a mismanaged institution. typical. the 81st Congress, goes back to Washington Mainland haoles and Japanese as and throws us a sop in the place of statehood. I may add that after living 20 between Japanese and Okinawans. We must “learn to walk before we run” he is FOR THE PUBLIC years in Hawaii, I know most of I think a pretty good argument quoted as saying. That is highly amusing in the "typical” shortcomings attrib­ could be. made for the thesis that the face of the fact that there are a number The mayor’s budget for 1949 wi^include uted to each Of our peoples here Mainland haoles in Hawaii have of states in the American Republic that 175,000 for the purchase of a beach prop-' by all the rest—and they are very been a liberalizing force as com­ haven’t yet learned to walk in the race to put little different from what the pared with Island-bred haoles; :rty at Waikiki as an initial step to extend “typical” Mainland haole says the actual principles of democracy into effect. the Kuhio beach park as far as the Moana that they have mingled on a more As far as our preparation for statehood is con­ about the “typical” Negro or Mexi­ nearly equal footing with non- cerned, suppose we think back on California which Hotel. can or Jew. haoles than have most of the peo­ became a state without ever having been a terri­ The owner of this property is the Mat- Second, probably because he is ple who were brought up in the tory; became a state when its populace was a son Navigation Co., which says it wants a newcomer, Mr. Davis attributes to Island haole tradition. little more than a rabble of gold-seekers without to build a 100-unit Moana Hotel annex the Mainlanders the blame for the JOHN E. REINECKE, form or concept of government. It became a there. This answers why the Advertiser serious injustices in Hawaiian so­ 1555 Piikoi Street state, in fact, only because of that gold. Senator Hugh Butler is an example of the and the Star-Bulletin are hammering away kind of Federal legislator I don’t believe Hawaii against the city’s plan. would ever lower herself to send to the American These papers even suggest in their news looking backward Congress. ” • » columns that the supervisors can- veto this How Pitiful expenditure. From reading the news items On a certain day in November, 1863, a news­ it seems that Mayor John H. Wilson is a A Belated Dumping paper in New York ran complete the two-hour hard-headed man, who is not much dgn^ address of Edward Everett Hale at the dedication cemed about tourist dortiafS'— The expensive staff of that Re­ Club. No electoral vote for any­ of the Gettysburg National Cemetery. a year, Matson says) which would be publican Club on Richards Street, body running for President could Following, it ran a sentence which read some­ maintained by the Big Interests, emanate from this Territory. thing like this: brought in by building a beach-front ho­ experienced a painful “looking “We will draw the curtain of charity over the tel annex. backward” the past week when it It is rather ironical that these feelile remarks of the President.” This is far from the truth. The mayor gathered up accumulated refuse barrels out in front of the Repub­ I’m reminded of this when about every and deposited' it in a barrel on the lican Club represented what the other day a certain man on Merchant Street is following through on a plan for the ex­ sidewalk for the city garbage de­ Democratic Party did not do in writes an editorial endeavoring to prove how tension ' of Kuhio beach which the oity partment to dispose of. Hawaii for Truman and Barkley feeble were- the life and deeds of Franklin planning commission mapped outi years, There were heroic-sized prints who, according to the election re­ Delano Roosevelt. turns, seem to have come out all This “hate Roosevelt” poison which appears to ago. In this plan the hotels would be on of the portraits of a Mr. Dewey right.—W. K. B. the mauka side of Kalakaua Avenue, fac­ of New York State and Of a Mr. course persistently through the veins of (jhe man Warren of California. Th’ere were on Merchant Street is much, the same as the ing the beach and the park, still with an ■ scores of them. / “hate Lincoln" poison which permeated the blood ocean view. Eutile All Along / FEW CRAVEN SOULS streams of that editor in New York: and scores of other so-called editors in the then confines of As the mayor says, Waikiki’s single big Hundreds of brochures of Dew­ "A' few craven souls no doubt asset is its surfing. the United. States. ey-Warren propaganda, w ere will try. to influence the Senate Particularly reprehensible is this Merchant. “We would be giving the hotels an ex­ ' dumped into these barrels. by furtive, off-the-record objec­ Street man’s continuous barbs because the man at elusive right to the show,” says the mayor, It had all been so futile and tions . . . The reason for the "whose-njemory he persistently shoots made him­ so fruitless. Come to think of covert and devious ways of this “if they are permitted to build on the minority is that any argument self great in world history despite the.fact that beach strip; it, its futility and its fruitlessness day . after day for the last quarter-century of his were quite apparent even during against statehood must be bot­ life he suffered the mental and physical tortures “The public would be shut out, as well the halcyon days of certainty tomed either upon disbelief in of an incurable affliction. as guests at the othei- hotels not on the ■ that “This Is a Republican Year.” democracy, self-interests, or ig­ One's anger is somewhat soothed by the beach. I don’t think the city should be a What good this hundreds of dol­ norance of American history.” thought that when the record of Franklin lars worth of Dewey-Warren prop­ —J. Garner Anthony, former at-^_ part of a monopoly,” the mayor empha­ torney general, at the Wimberly^ Delano Roosevelt still stands emblazoned on sized. aganda could do in Hawaii must the pages of history, the memory of the man have been a mystery even to the Cordon Statehood hearing. ( on Merchant Street will have faded far, far How right he is! ardent employes of the Republican into the impenetrable nowhere.