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______■ _ . ______...... •■.1 ' • - - —————;------Vol. II, No. 18 ' u SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS Thursday, Dec. 1,1949 Charge Public Works Has ‘Pets’ Private Group Has 37th Of The 4th . $15^000 Worth Of Sutures Is Maui Civil Service Hits Beach Monopoly Confab Influenced Hand In Giving Resolutions to open the Terri­ tory’s beaches to the public and New Hospital Buying Story By Recent Report to request a local hearing oi the Jobs To Architects The liveliest ruckus of the Ter­ visiting Congressional sub-com­ An attempt by the Queen’s Hos- George Dennis, who had worked By KOJI ARIYOSHI mittee on lands were passed pital administration to cancel a at Queen’s for 10 years, left after ritory-wide conference of civil Wednesday night by the Demo­ service commissioners at Wailuku, “We don’t want bids here!” em­ cratic Club in the 37th of the 4th $15,000 order for sutures from a •serving under Mr. Flath for about Maui, Nov. 28-29, came when some phasized B. B. Montgomery, assist­ after some discussion. It was de­ local firm when the drug was al­ two years. The RECORD learned commissioners questioned the pres­ ant superintendent of the Ter­ ence of an observer, Daiyel Ainoa, ritorial' Department of Public cided that both resolutions should ready on its way, because the ad­ from a reliable source that Mr. Works, in a huffy manner that be rewritten before they are pre­ ministration “wanted instead to Dennis was one of the local people engineer of the Honolulu Board sented to the County Committee. order from another firm on the of Water Supply. clearly suggested, that “We run Ma-inland” was cited by a busi­ who left under pressure or was It was argued that observers our department as we very well Some debate occurred when Dep­ weeded put, to be .replaced by a. please!”-. ■ uty Attorney General Thomas J. nessman as an example of how should-not be allowed at the con­ Mainlander. The RECORD interviewed Mr. Flynn disqualified himself from business is managed at the hos­ ference, but the commissioners fi­ Montgomery after it heard- re­ the task of rewriting the resolu­ pital. nally voted to allow Ainoa to re­ Among those who left Queen’s main. ports that the Department of Pub­ tion to the Congressional sub­ “Queen’s Hospital has changed are Miss Marian Davis, personnel lic Works “dished out” architec­ committee because it dealt with ever since Mr. Carl I. Flath took Asked why he had sent -an ob­ tural contracts to a “chosen few” over the administration. Now director, who is how assistant server, Fred Ohrt, supervising en­ the Hawaiian Homes Commission, administrator at St. Francis Hos­ on its list of. favorites. The REC­ and therefore had a direct bearing the assistant administrator, gineer, said: “It’s my duty to pro­ ORD. was also informed that even on his official position. Another Maurice Jackson, tells the phar­ pital. tect the Board of Water Supply ataong the favorites, a few get member of the club then chal­ macist what brand of drug to The RECORD learned that the and its employes. That’s why I the big money jobs, without any lenged everything Flynn had said buy and that’s not a happy situa­ former administrator, Gustav attend the meetings of the civil sort of competition. previously during the meeting on tion,” a reliable source informed Olson, drew a monthly salary of service commission here.” “We can’t give out bids. We the ground that he should dis­ the RECORD. “If he were a about $10,000 a year. Flath’s sal­ Although it was agreed that can’t get the best for our money,” qualify himself from discussing pharmacist, he could do that and ary is $18,000. He has an assist­ the recent report to the mayor emphasized Mr. Montgomery. other topics, on similar grounds. the doctors would not mind.” ant administrator and an ad­ of Honolulu on civil service per­ A. I. A. Gentlemen’s Agreeinent The resolution pertaining to the Snack Bar Alumnus ministrative assistant. sonnel practices by Research But the department receives bids beaches named especially the The present purchasing agent “With three administrative ex­ Associates would riot be a topic from contractors for public works Bishop Estate as having effected at Queen’s is Mike Georgette, perts, is Queen’s better today than of discussion at the conference, and highway projects running a monopoly of beaches, along with brother of Charles Georgette, ad­ it was under Mr. Olson? That’s a number of the recommenda- . into millions of dollars. Wasn’t other land-owners, b y collusion ministrative assistant. Mike Geor­ a $64 question,” a person close to Hons of the report were reflect­ there a contradiction? he was with Government officials. It de­ gette is one of the Mainlanders Queen’s Hospital said-. He com­ ed in actions of the conference, asked. Why not bids for architec­ mands that beaches at Kalama, hired by Mr. Flath’s administra­ mented that with the economy especially in the report of the tural assignments also? Kailua, Lanikai, Kahala, and Port­ tion. After running the snack bar move at the hospital cutting down steering committee. “What right have you to ask luck be made available to the pub­ at Queen’s, Mike Georgette was staff workers who are overloaded All references, heretofore re­ such questions?” boomed white- lic, because, it says, they have been made the purchasing agent. with work, morale is low. quested of applicants, will be de- haired, tall Mr. Montgomery, who (more on page 4) The former purchasing agent, (more on page 5) (more on page 4) . Demo Harmony Group Bouslog Speaks On CIO Faces Basic Issues Old American Gpme, Says The comiriittee appointed to Confab At HCLC Gathering bring harmony to the Democratic Hite; Liquor Case Falls Party in the Territory will have There were 8,000 empty seats in Abram Flaxer, UPW, Joseph Stulle, the problem of tackling funda­ By STAFF WRITER lawyers who “know where the., the convention hall every day of Amerian Communications Asso­ mental issues, among them the What’s behind the rumors of body is buried." the recent National CIO Conven­ ciation, and James Durkin, questipn of statehood. pay-offs to the Liquor Commis­ In July, ,a source near the at­ tion in Cleveland, Harriet Bouslog The selection of Harold Rice sion? Well, for the RECORD, these torney-general’s office told the’ told an HCLC audience Saturday UOPWA, defended their policies by the Territorial Democratic Cen­ are the things that led up to the RECORD that a report had been night, but' every effort was made as representing sound trade un­ tral Committee to head the har­ meeting on Monday in which the made and filed with the City- by the Murray leadership to pre­ ionism. mony committee was almost in­ Commission issued citations County prosecutor for action. vent rank-and-file union members The character of the conven­ evitable, political observers say. against Chono Oshiro of the Story Utatold from attending their convention, tion was evident from the pro­ Chairman Lau Ah Chew made Chicken Griddle and. Robert M. "Your paper would be doing a in spite of the fact that'hundreds gram, alone, Mrs. Bouslog said; the other selections, informed Kaya, of Kaya’s General Mer­ useful thing to bring the whole of steel workers in Cleveland were pointing out that speakers, Omar sources say. It is believed that he chandise, Punaluu, to show cause story to light,” said that Official. then on strike. Bradley, Dean Acheson, and made the appointments on this why they should not have their But it wasn’t that easy, and “In those eight thousand vacant others were invited to “sell” the -. premise: Mr. Rice is pro-governor, licenses revoked. maybe it isn’t that easy yet, though seats,” said Mrs. Bouslog, “was evi­ delegates on U. S. foreign policy, and the governor is against state­ In May investigators were re­ Charles M. Hite, the prosecutor, dence of the bankruptcy of Na­ while the problems relating to hood. Thus he appointed Super­ ported around many bars, most says nothing much came of the tional CIO policy." trade unionism were largely ig­ of them owned by AJAs and li­ report after all. nored. visor Chuck Mau and Takaichi It was obvious from the begin­ Miyamoto, who have opposed the censed within the past few years, “The witnesses told one story ning, Mrs. Bouslog said, that Phil­ The battle-cry of the right, re­ governor principally on the issue asking whether1 or not they had to the attorney-general's office,” ip Murray and his right-wing na­ iterated by each, was “There’s a of statehood. To balance up the paid fees to anyone to help them says Hite, “and another one to tional leaders had come to the conspiracy between Wall Street forces, Foreman Thompson was get licenses. me. When I asked them, they convention with the express pur­ and the Communist Party," Mrs. chosen to team with Rice, and In May, too, there was talk said they hadn’t told the inves­ pose of “beating the so-called left Bouslog said. The right-wingers Supervisor Ernest Heen was made of destroyed police files, of an tigators anything like that.” wingers over the head.” Left-wing depicted themselves and the Tru- the fifth member, since he has unsavory story told about a com­ The statements alleged to have leaders, including Harry Bridges, (more on page 5) been politically flexible. missioner in those files, and of (more on page 4) Page Two HONOLULU RECORD December 1, 1949 Dollar Conscious pioneering jobs—always under tremendous As the news got out that Clark Clifford, National Summary pressure and often under destructive criti­ President Truman's personal advisor and cism.” counsel, is going into private law practice Lilienthal has been unhappy about the because his $16,000 a year- pay is not enough bated Truman’s nomination of Carl Ilgen- and economic monopolists? Would he ap­ over-emphasis on secrecy of atomic energy to live on, the question was again asked: fritz, an executive of the U. S. Steel Corp., point lawyers who have devoted their, time by Congress. He described concealment of Do Americans want to pick leaders and as head of the Munitions Board. The Sen­ to cases on labor and civil liberties? These information required to teach new scien­ were pertinent questions.- officials for a democratic government from ate, asked to confirm Hgenfritz and per­ tists and develop new techniques as vir­ among those who think of a big money mit him to draw $70,000 a year from the Among the country's. 90 per cent for tually choking “ourselves.” He said he was income as more important than public steel company while holding down his gov­ whom $16,000 a year is more than enough, quitting in order to say what he thinks. service? ernment job, was forced to turn down the there were numerous first-rate men. FORMERLY, as head of the TVA, THE PRESIDENT has time and again appointment. Coming just at the time world’s largest electric power plant, he complained about the terrible time he when steelworkers, receiving an average “Utmost Regret” was smeared and attacked by power lob­ has in keeping “first-rate men” in top pension of $5 were demanding increase .When Dec. 31 rolls acound, David- E. byists. Industrialists interested in mono­ government jobs. He asked Congress for •in pension payments, the Hgenfritz deal Lilienthal of the Atomic Energy Commis­ polizing atomic energy development at­ salary raises, and Congress recently com­ got embarrassing. sion will be its ex-chairman unless “pub­ tacked him when he was appointed chair­ plied. But demands for higher salaries con­ TODAY, WHILE the Fair Deal program lic interest" demands he stay on a while man of the Atomic Energy Commission, tinue among those who receive from $16,000 is waiting vigorous action, that vigorous longer. Last week he handed his resig­ fearing he would push nationalization of to $25,000. And the President says private action was certain, not to come from gov­ nation to the President. j atomic enterprises. But under Lilienthal industries offer far more attractive re­ ernment officials chosen from the economic THE PRESIDENT in accepting filer emphasis of the atomic development pro­ muneration. i class opposed to the Fair Deal. Would, resignation “reluctantly and with utmost gram was sorely limited to A-bomb stock This fight for big pay got raked over Truman go to the nation’s universities fpr regret,” • praised Lilienthal for “almost 20 piling. Use of atomic energy for peacetime the coals recently when the Senate de- economists instead of turning to the banks­ consecutive years of public service in tough industries was awaiting development.

Starvation and Surplus “Dissidents” For months the Food and Agriculture World Summary The recent Philippines election was Organizations of the United Nations looked called the “most sanguine in Philippines at the world’s food supply, saw starvation ships as a “constant shell barrage” that history,” but the aftermath was bloodier of millions in countries like India and “Sincere Young Man” than ever. China, while countries like America have came without warning. Mohamed Reza Shah Pahlevi of Iran, THE ISBRANDTSEN line sent a strong­ THE VICTOR In THE presidential elec­ agricultural surpluses. The FAO studied who> learned English in Switzerland, de­ tion, Elpidio Quirino—whose constabulary thoroughly the possibility of a world com­ ly-worded telegram to Secretary of State lighted his American hosts in Washington forces harrassed voters, whose party ma­ modity clearing house on the lines of the Dean Acheson, saying,, “these are unlawful with his fast comeback in conversations. chine shifted election booths at the last relief food stamp procedures used in the attacks upon our legitimate commerce Young (30), he came to the U. S. for a minute in order to keep opposition voters U. S. against which we have repeatedly sizable loan, to modernize Iran. from - casting their ballots, and in some THE IDEA CAUGHT fire and received asked you to take effective action.” Re­ IN SOME respects, he reminded Amer­ provinces let even “trees, bees; birds and backing from,'various government officials cently, the Flying Cloud, owned by the icans of Madam Chiang Kai-Shek,, when children” vote—called all those who chal­ and organizations, but chances of success same company, was damaged by shell fire she was popular back during the war years. lenged his victory "dissidents.” looked dim. Despite the strong support of from a Kuomintang warship. She had a fast comeback too, as for instance Fighting broke out in Batangas pro­ progressive farm organizations like the This new development in China came when she said, “God helps those who help vince, south of Manila, where voters were National Farmers Union and some ele­ just about the time American consul-gen­ themselves,” while answering questions in dissatisfied with the whole election. At ments within the Agriculture Dept., in­ eral Angus Ward and his staff at Mukden Washington during her appeal for Ameri­ first about 300 anti-Quirino elements bat­ formed sources in Washington were pre­ were convicted by a people’s court of beat­ can assistance. tled Quirino’s constabulary and other dicting the plan is doomed to failure. ing a Chinese. They were ordered expelled. The Shah, who described himself as forces, but this number soon grew to a F The State Dept, is reported against the The state department through its officials a "working monarch,” was kept busy from thousand. Constabulary chief Brig. Gen. plan for fear that Russian and East Euro-_ in Peking was making arrangements with the moment he was flown into Washington Alberto Ramos, under orders from Quirino, pean countries might profit. / 'officials of the new government to trans- from Teheran on the presidential Inde­ employed artillery, planes and ground SOME STERLING bloc nations, in­ port the Americans out of Manchuria. pendence. The President showed him much forces to crush the rebels. cluding India, have come out against the IN THE UN political committee of the attention, presented him with a hunting .' THE REBELS WERE not Huks, it was plan because they believe that use of sur­ general assembly at Lake Success, U. S. rifle with an engraved silver butt-plate. reported, but members, of influential and pluses from America and other producing Atobassadsr-at-Large Philip C. Jessup He said of the young man: "A very earnest middle class families in Batangas province countries would keep ths price of food­ asked delegates of 59 nations for a hands^ -and sincere young man.” who saw Quirino as the worst of three, stuffs high. oM policy in China. Political observers saw THE SHAH, like all monarchs;, wants evils to fill the presidential post. .■a modern military machine to> replace his the irony in this proposal, for the U. S. Manila newspapers deplored Quirino’s Nationalist Blockade has given to Chiang’s government ever -outmoded forces, and he had Mgh hopes orders and there were some who saw a For months the U. S. state department isince V-J Day $5 billion in arms and sup- ■of getting military aid from the U. S., developing situation like that of China dur­ ignored the Kuomintang’s blockade of Chi­ giliee. particularly because Iran borders Russia ing the past decades.. Like Chiang Kai- nese ports, saying it did not recognize it. When file U. S. first became committed and American corporations, draw ofl from shek’s government, Quirino’s administration But the blockade was real as Kuomintang Ito support Chiang in a war to take over Iran’s wells. is severely criticiz.ed for corruption, and warships, turned over by the U. S. to

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And it is an outrage for> unemployed do not get employ­ dependent drivers against the dressed Congress in general and Congress and the Administration ment compensation, a resolution powerful competition- of Ben Dil­ the UnAmerican Activities Com­ mittee in particular, in the fol­ to sit idly by and see them per­ passed by the Women’s Division of lingham’s ORAL taxi company. secuted in this un-American man­ the Democratic Party maintains. lowing terms, Oct. 19: ner. By an agreement with the Pier The drastic effects of such .unem­ 12 Service Station, union taxi­ “This organization (the Anti- “I am calling upon the Com­ drivers save 11 per cent on all Defamation League), which is a mittee on Un-American Activi­ ployment (18 per cent of the avail­ purchases they make there of gas, gestapo for an organized minor­ ties to Investigate this subver­ able work force) must be borne, oil, and lubrication. ity, is carrying on the most vi­ sive outfit, and I am calling up­ says the resolution, "upon the Union members pay the regular cious persecution of white gen­ on the Congress of the United shoulders of the wage-earner, price for gas, show their union tiles ever known in all the his­ States to protect white Christian tory of this country. farmer, small business and pro­ books, and get receipts. At the Americans from such persecu­ fessional men and women," end of the month, they total their “They are attempting to control tion as is now being perpetrated receipts, go to the Taxi Union of­ the press, the radio, the motion b y this subversive organiza­ The resolution asks further as­ fice at Pier 11 and get their 11 picture shows, and every other tion. . . sistance, from the National Demo­ per cent refund. Thus, a man means of communication. They “Right” To Slur cratic Executive Committee in whose gas and oil bill for the have virtually driven Christian Following which, Rankin intro­ asking allocation of new federal American actors and actresses contracts to alleviate the plight of month had been $35 would receive duced H. R. 6519 making mem­ the jobless. a refund of $3.85. from the mbving-picture field. bership in the Anti-Defamation “They are now carrying on a One Benefit League a crime punishable by a Ask Jury Duty drive to fasten upon the Amer­ $500 fine, or imprisonment of not Also passed at the meeting, held "It’s a bargain Independent men FAMILIAR NAME—Janies Roose­ ican people the infamous FEPC feel they can’t resist,” says Henry velt, eldest son of Franklin D. more than five years, or both. at Washington Intermediate Roosevelt, has announced he will law, which would result tn driv­ School Tuesday night, was a res­ Epstein, business agent of the un­ ing white Christian, Americans The Anti-Defamation League be a candidate for governor of has as its chief aim, the elimina­ olution asking support for candi­ ion, “and I think it’s a factor out of business in every State dates to the Constitutional Con­ behind the steady flow of new California in the 1950 elections. in the Union. tion of scenes, dialogue, plays, and books which make slurs on or vention who will favor an- "equal members into our union. It's just “The white gentiles, the white rights” clause which would allow one of the benefits we offer.” Christian Americans, if you please, against' minority racial and na­ tional groups. Their chief target women to serve on the juries of Reports that ORAL is discrimi­ County Car Smashed still have some rights left in this the Territory. nating against Filipino drivers in country. They are the ones who is anti-Semitism of the sort Con­ its hiring policy were not entirely By Drunk Overseer; have made this country great. gressman Rankin has always ap­ A third resolution is aimed, at substantiated by the RECORD in parently considered one of the eliminating language in. the rules Their sons have fought the na- “rights of white Christian Amer­ of the Democratic Party which Is making an investigation. There CIO Hits Whitewash icans." discriminatory against women. All are one or two Filipino drivers UNA MERICAN three resolutions passed unani­ employed by the Dillingham out­ HILO—“Malfeasance and mis­ mously and all have been for­ fit, it is believed. feasance” were charged against Aiea Parent Resigns warded to the County Committee. “But there are very few,” says James Spencer, road overseer for Thomas Throws Self Another resolution which would one long-time union taxi driver, alter the system, of calling the roll “and there are very few Japa­ North and South Kohala, last week From IMUA; Felt at County Committee meetings was nese drivers, too. Nearly all the in a letter the Hawaii CIO Coun­ On Mercy of Court After more than a year of stall­ discussed and returned to the pre­ Dillingham drivers are haoles.” cil sent James Kealoha, Hawaii Org. Related To PTA cinct club from which it origi­ Discrimination, the union man County executive officer. ing, J. Parnell Thomas (nee Fee­ nated, the 6th of the 4th. pointed out, may exist in an un­ ney) , former chairman of the A tearful housewife and moth­ balanced proportion which The charges arose from an in­ Congressional Committee on Un- er from Aiea this “week ex­ Mrs. Thelma Monaghan, Chair­ stance, reported some months ago American Activities, on Wednes­ man, of the Women’s Division, said, amounts to almost the same thing pressed to a RECORD represen­ she thought practice at County as exclusion. in the RECORD, when Spencer day withdrew his plea of “not guil­ tative the hope that innocent allegedly wrecked the County of ty” to charges of payroll padding members of the Parent-Teach­ Committee meetings is the busi­ Hawaii sedan No. 916 at 8 p.m. and threw himself on the mercy of ers Association b e rwarned ness of the County Chairman and on the night of March 26, 1949. Judge Alexander M. Holtzoff’s against the recruiting methods officers of the County Committee. Water Still Flows; According to the police reports, federal court at Washington. of IMUA (I Might Undertake If members have objections, she Spencer knocked down an electric When first accused two years Anything). said, they should bring them up For Jobless None light pole and the accident re­ ago by Drew Pearson, newspa­ She joined her- PTA unit, she at meetings of the County Com­ sulted in the Kamuela lights being per columnist, Thomas threat­ mittee, rather than in precinct PORTLAND, Ore. (FP)—Victims said, because she wanted to do clubs. out for about two hours. ened libel suits. When charged 'everything possible to help her of unemployment, 190 families in formally, he became ill and A Correction a small working class section of No Action Taken children in school. When an the city had their water turned The letter further alleges: “In stayed ill until an examination officer of the PTA asked her to An incorrect impression was spite of the fact that the police ordered by the court demolished join IMUA, she thought it must given about this resolution in last off recently. They could not af­ week’s .RECORD in that many ford to pay the 70-cent monthly reports show that Mr. Spencer his excuses and brought himbe- somehow be in connection with water user’s charge. was driving under the influence fore the bar. ' the school or PTA, and she readers got the impression it had of liquor and using a county ve­ It had beem proved conclusively joined. been discussed in a previous meet­ The district is inhabited largely ing. This was not. the case. by sawmill and plywood workers, hicle after working hours, we un­ that he paid employes salaries for Only—when she came home veterans who were cut from the derstand that no action has been imaginary services and then forced and told her husband, a union taken against him.” them to remit large parts of their man, did she learn the truth. BREAKFAST LUNCH “52-20 club” unemployment rolls salaries to him. last August and members of riii- Accusing Spencer further of Her husband told her of IMUA’s SANDWICHES ’ abusing employes under his super­ Justice for Thomas (nee Fee­ strike-time origin and of its an­ Monday Through Saturday nority groups. These people have ney) would be severe if Judge been hit hard by unemployment, vision, of being discourteous to ti-labor function, and she forth­ 5:30 a. m. to 3:00 p. in. ■! up 48 per cent since November - citizens who ask his help, and of Holtzoff, in sentencing him, fol­ with resigned. 1948. being so anti-union he has tired lows the practice of the notorious But she thinks all parents who Skipper’s Lunchroom Some 400 families were due to at least one man because he was un-American who hounded some participate in school activities lose their water, the Federated a member of the CIO, the letter out of their jobs (as the Holly­ should be warned, so long as Pier 15 further alleges: wood writers) and others to IMUA is allowed to continue its (Under Demo. Party Office) Press learned, but a last-minute death (Harry Dexter White). payment saved them temporarily. Kicked Employes recruiting at PTA meetings. New Management—Reasonable ok The delinquent notices sent out by “They (members of the union) the city in October asked for a also report that he treats the BUSINESS DIRECTORY ft $2.80 payment to cover the 70- County employes in an abusive cent monthly charge for the three way, cursing at, them and threat­ FLORIST Automobile Repairs months and a 70-cent sewer user’s ening them. On several occasions, Places To Dine tariff. they ‘ say, he told the employes Police Testing Station No. 37 that he would fight them if they TASTY DISHES didn’t like his orders. At least FLOWERS SAIMTN - COLD DRINKS GOOD AND BAD twice in recent years, he actually J. K. Wong Garage Fl WASHINGTON (FP) — Though kicked men working under him." Garden Flower Shop Tawata Fountainette praising the garbage disposal sys­ The letter is signed by Fred GENERAL AUTO REPAYING tem in some cities, British Health Low, Jr., president of the Hawaii 742 S. Beretania St. Waipahu Ministry expert J. C. Dawes said CIO Council, and Wataru Kawa­ ______. Phone 57168 _ Nov. 23 that in some U. S. cities moto, secretary. Phone 55372 David Tawata, Prop. he had seen “refuse is put into Liquor Stores open dumps and left to do its worst as a breeding place for in­ DEMOCRATIZING JAPAN REAL ESTATE Comer Taxis sects and rodents as well as creat­ Pick up the Hearst newspapers ing a public nuisance.” Dawes on any given day and chances are For Your Value in Real Estate Liquor Store was studying U. S. sanitation for you’ll find a piece beating the tom­ Complete lines of popular HARBOR TAXI the World Health Organization. toms on how Gen. Douglas Mac- consult Arthur is bringing democracy to Beer—Wines—Liquors Charge* from Point of Pickup In 1939 New York housewives Japan. LEWIS K. YOGI—Broker paid 36 cents a pound, for butter. WILFRED M. OKA UNION" METER CABS The Japanese people might be Bus. Phone 87511 Manager Average today is 73 cents. pardoned for having a different approach. 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tfWWVWWVWWWWVWWWWWUVWWWWWWWWU FAVORITISM HIT (from page 1) QadtaJuMt — Labar Haundup leaned far back in his chair and stared down at the writer through SCORES ARE STILL low but the lower half of his spectacles. QUEEN’S HOSPITAL’S own bul­ UWVWWWWWWWWVWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW, growing in the race to win two letin was scooped by the RECORD Earlier, a staff member of the free tickets donated by Wilfred on the “easing out” of A. G. Shar­ RESTAURANT WORKERS WIN f \ department told the RECORD Oka to the Police benefit game, key, who was in charge of main­ After a considerable delay, the 17 restaurant workers of the Hotel that the private architects of tenance there. The bulletin came and Restaurant Workers Union, Local 5 (AHL) realized complete vic­ American Institute of Architects Friday, Dec. 16. The winner of out after the RECORD, sleepily had a plan of rotating job con­ tory in their demands of the Waikiki Tavern from which they had the tickets will be the person who handling the retirement as if it tracts among themselves. has sold the most subs to the were nothing more than that. been peremptorily discharged. Maintaining they were fired without “It’s a gentlemen’s agreement sufficient notice and without cause, they asked either reinstatement RECORD by Dec. 10. Competition among them. The A. I. A. takes THE HAWAIIAN Humane So­ care of that. They are A. I. A. was declared open by Oka in last to their jobs, or separation pay of $20 for each year they had been week’s issue. ciety has become the object of at employed at the restaurant. Some of them had been employed there boys and the architects take least one man’s curiosity. He’s turns,” the staff member said. for as much as 20 years. TWO MONTHS after the REC­ wondering what “dog policy” the Ruddy Tongg, negotiating for the Tavern, agreed to the union’s The RECORiQ was informed by ORD, Riley Allen is‘going into the HHS follows. He tried to adopt demands. Three of the workers have been re-employed and the others a reliable source that all archi­ Kaimuki dynamite disaster with one dog and found that it was al­ have been paid their separation pay at the rate they had asked. tects who have received any work- his Star-Bull to see why Terri­ ready spoken for by the lady in Terming the original action a "mass layoff," A. A. Rutledge, busi­ were members of the A. I. A. This torial and City-County officials charge. Then he put in for an ness agent for the union said Tongg has agreed to take others of the source indicated that it was more have allowed contractors to break attractive bulldog and was told he 17 back if business improves. Tongg's original reason for firing, as than a coincidence that James laws regarding dynamite use. He’s couldn’t have it because the HHS stated to the union, was that the restaurant was being re-organized Morrison, architectural engineer late, of course, but better late is advertising for its owner by under new management. in the Department of Public Works, than never. newspaper and fadio. was elected president of the A.I.A. —although a comparatively new MACHINISTS TO ELECT OFFICERS BIG ISLAND cowmen are be- THE PUSH against Jim Crow, member—when he was appointed half-organized by a number of The International Association of Machinists, Local 1245 (AFL), to the Territorial patronage-dis­ ginning to raise cain because the Territory forces them to raise angry servicemen during Miki will hold its annual election of officers at its next meeting, Dec. 9. pensing role of architect a couple week, was not the first of its kind Officers who have served during the past year include Harold T. of years ago. cane. Every time they want to Doney, president, Thomas Pratt, secretary, Henry Kitkousky, past-presi­ lease new pasture land, they’re in Honolulu. A waitress from dent, and three trustees: Harold Gjanese, James Cozby, and Ray Adam­ Rules Out Competition forced to lease an amount of un­ Tony Gora’s tells how a single Ne­ son. “How can a private organization desired cane land. There’ll be more gro soldier was refused admittance, occupy a favored position in pub- . on this in later issues of the how he returned with from 20 to Although there is a nominating board, elections in the union (about lie projects?” a person who has RECORD. 30 other Negro servicemen, upon TOO members) will be from the floor, and there is nothing to prevent been in the construcifon business which Gora left, the bouncer left, incumbents from being re-elected. and no one remained but the bar­ ***** for years in the Territory asked. AN ORAL DRIVER, passing by “We give jobs according to mer­ a bus stop, was flagged frantical­ tender and a few waitresses—who OFF-THE-RECORD TALKS IN SUGAR it,” explained Assistant Superin­ ly by an impatient waiter-for-the- served ‘the' soldiers.- After they’d “Cautious optimism” was expressed by both industry and the nego­ tendent Montgomery. He added, bus. The driver shook his head proved they could do it, the sol­ tiating committee of ILWU Local 142 following a series of off-the- however, that competition through regretfully and went on. Beside diers left and went somewhere record talks which has continued since Armistice Day. bids was no way of determining the prospective passenger stood a else and the racists slunk back to Jack Hall, ILWU Regional Director who has served on the com­ merit. RECORD circulation man with their posts. mittee, wrote in his column in the unionrs newspaper, ILWU Reporter, “We go by past record,” he con­ an armload of papers. “One thing is sure and that is that we understand each other a little tinued. "Thus, we give our hos­ "YOU ARE hitting in the third pital jobs to Dickey Associates. ring of the target,” said a city better and if a fight is forced upon us we will know what it is about.” “ANDRADE!” exclaimed a REC­ hall official, who reads the REC-_ ***** They are good and are specialists ORD reader. “But you guys boosted in that line.” Boyd Andrade; you got him on ORD only when someone brings TRE-NEGOTIATION TALK IN PINEAPPLES the force! How come you knock him one, "with your Queen’s Hos­ As pineapple negotiations approach Dec. 9, the day when a session ■ Was the architectural contract pital stories. The spending there for the new aquarium given to him down now?” is incredible.” has been called for the union to meet with management, talk among Hart Wood because he is a spe­ “Sure,” answered the writer, union men is to the effect that job-security for all and benefits for cialist? he was asked. who handled both stories. “We The official, indicating that the field workers will be among the issues raised. The point is raised in­ real bull’s eye of the target had Mr. Montgomery refused to boosted him on one count—that formally, by union stewards, that security for workers in both can­ he’d been kept off the police force not been hit, was informed that neries and fields has diminished with the increase in mechanization, answer. He said that in some the RECORD has not finished instances, the department re­ unfairly. Now, when hergets on, but that of the two, field workers have suffered more. he does something like that stuff shooting yet. ****** warded architects for completing their contracts under difficulties. he pulled on Lampley and we re­ BRIDGES DEFENSE FUND , “Take Mark Potter who did the port what happened—what the TALK IS that one radio per- Contributions were reported coming in from many ILWU units “University chemistry building,” he judge said happened, too. If he former, known chiefly for the im- ■ said. “He lost money. There was does something worth boosting, partlahty with which he smears throughout the islands for the Bridges-Robertson-Schmidt Defense we’ll boost him again.” civic and cultural groups, legis­ Fund as a check for $404.50 was turned in to the local office by Oahu much detail that he had to handle. lators and “Reds,” is on his way Division Vice President Justp dela Cruz. Members of Local 142 are But he did not complain when he out. The station carrying his generally donating a minimum of 50 cents each, and most full-time was burdened by difficulties. So . does not realize that he is violat­ program has begun asking cash ■officers have pledged donations of at least $5 each. we’ll give him more jobs to com­ ing the Sherman Anti-Trust payment in advance—and that’s Recognizing in the Bridges case an attack upon civil liberties, pensate him for the loss. law,” an informed source told the beginning of the end. many local citizens were reported buying Bridges defense stamps Question bf “Difficulties” the RECORD. “For precedent it from $i to $5 from union solicitors. The stamps bear a picture of a What did Mr. Montgomery mean is suggested that he study Cali­ fornia and New York laws.” JOHN T. JENKINS jumped for hand being sheared off and carry the legend, “Save This RSgtot Hand.” by “difficulties”? Could the “dif­ a telephone to protest a month or They are available at the union hall at Pier 11. ficulties” mean a mistake in the In the canon of ethics of the so back when Gadabout coupled foundation design Which cost the A. I. A., a section says that the the name of IMUA with that of "Territory thousands of dollars? charge shall not be less than 6 the late departed Filipino Action Beach Monopoly Hit Liquor Case Falls How can such a policy of “re­ per cent. Another section says Committee. • (from page 1)' warding” continue when the ar­ no architect shall make any at­ (from page 1) been made to the attorney-gen­ chitects play a key role in con­ tempt to take work from a fellow “He shouldn’t have,” comments blockaded by land-owners and of­ eral’s investigators were to the struction projects? They are the architect. F. P. Gamboa, who was original­ ficials who “have taken unto them­ ones who draw the plans. Don’t ly one of the cogs of that com­ effect that Oshiro and Kaya had. These provisions eliminate com- mittee. “Jenkins was one of those selves that they are lords anoint­ paid $600 and $300 respectively the contractors study the plans petition and new architect, ed.” to Susumu Nomura to help them and specifications drawn by the breaking into the field indepen­ with whom I used to hold con­ Cites TH Plight architects and bid on the proj­ ferences from twelve at night, till get liquor licenses. dently, cannot stand up against three o’clock in the morning when The resolution, asking a special So far as he could find out, ect? Do the contractors get re­ well-established firms. hearing of the Congressional Lands says Mr. Hite, there was nothing warded, too, when they go we were deciding what the com­ through “difficulties”? The ar­ “A fixed fee brings business to mittee was going to do.” Committee, describes the economic illegal because there is no proof the big guys in the A. I. A. while plight -of— the—Territory . and__ its that Mr. Nomura, if he indeed re- chitects get, as their fee, 6 per the young elements who can com­ people in terms of 50,000 unem­ ceived the money, ever paid it to cent on the first $100,000 of the PLENTY OF big shots in the contract and 5 per cent there­ pete. only through lower fees are local union-busting racket are ployed, an unbalance of import­ any member of the commission. controlled through membership in export trade of $153,000,000. Universal Racket after. , chewing their nails these days Mr. Montgomery, forgetting he the organization,” a person in the over the book, chock-full of letters, The resolution also accuses “Perhaps I have a perverted building business said. sense of humor,” said Mr. Hite, ds an employ of a democracy, said, tijat's being prepared by Mr. Gam­ “local industrialists and capital­ Not Even Crumbs ists” of building a “false econ­ “but to me it was nothing but the “We know who has the ability. boa presently — relating to his omy" which created disaster for old American game of shake­ We want the architects we want!” A kamaaina in the contracting association with such characters as the Territory when army and down with nothing illegal about When asked if it would not be business told the RECORD that far back as ’36—and which will navy annual purchasing power ■ it.” ' ' ■ ■ - fair to all architects, those few “many of those local architects be published probably about the of $175,000,000 was removed. You might also call it the Ori­ who are now getting Territorial listed in the'phone book are good first of the year. They can gnaw ■contracts and those who are being in earnest, too, for “incriminating” Two other resolutions, addressed ental -practice of “cumstiaw,” Mr. architects. Many local-born fel­ Hite went oil, and said it is recog­ passed up, to have them submit lows don’t smell the big jobs, and is the word Gamboa uses to de­ to the mayor and the City-County plans for projects, if merit is the scribe many of the letters. Government, seek a new children’s nized as old and almost legitimate some. not even the crumbs.” He all over the world. guidepost for the department in said that “some of the AJAs, like park in the Lunalilo Home Road making the selection, Mr. Mont- Area' and adequate flood control “This man told people he could the Akagi, Hara, Nishida, Onodera FEUDALISM is censored for help get them licenses,” said Mr. gomery answered: and Kunimoto Associates” get writers, actors and artists in Japan on Kuliouou Road. Hite, “and when they got the “The projects here are not big small jobs and the department who are ordered by General Mac- licenses, he convinced them he enough for that!” can nail down criticisms of “fa­ Arthur to be modern and “demo­ RAKE-OFF had helped theni.” Refuses To Answer voritism” just by that. cratic.” So says a T. H. Nisei who Since the last century when Cecil Afr. Hite said he was careful to “Would you say that of the The construction kamaaina re* just returned from a couple of Rhodes’ British South Africa Com-^ say, in his letter to . the Commis­ $30,000 contract you just gave out' marked, “The Territory is sup-, years’ study on the Star-Spangled sion, that he found no evidence to three architectural firms—Mer­ posedly a. Democratic administra­ Mikado’s staff. Also pertaining to pany took a leading part in the of any irregularity on the part of rill Simms & Roehrig, Vladimir tion, but the Republicans get the MacArthur’s -censorship, a review scramble for Africa, that mono-. any commissioner. All the com­ Ossipoff and A. W. Heen to draw jobs. Mr. Belt, the superintendent of Frank Reel’s book, “The Case poly has enjoyed the rights to missioners were disposed to see preliminary plans for the execu­ of public works, might say the of General Yamashita,” in Time royalties on all minerals mined in the matter in that light, he said,' tive-legislative building?” Republican architects have money mag brought a flock of letters Northern Rhodesia. On the copper with one exception, That exception "I don’t have to answer that!” and facilities but that does not from reader's. One of them, a belt the company itself does no was Harry B, Kronick, who took Mr. Montgomery said. hold water. A farly weU-eqtiipped former Yank correspondent, wrote mihing; it just enjoys the rake-off. the whole thing much more ser­ (Merrill Simms & Roehrig -was architectural firm can handle big that he had covered Yamashita’s ./ The British . South Africa, Com­ iously. formerly Dickey Associates, which jobs. It must hire additional staff, trial for the GI publication, that pany reported, profits of $5,580,000 So a few ghosts have been laid firm Mr. Montgomer -aid Is a as most any firm does to do special correspondents had taken a vote for the year finding September 1948 to'rest, but there Are others that specialist on hospital jobs.) jobs, but I’ve seen architectoral o—n w--h--e-t-h--e-r —or n—ot -Y--a--m--a-s--h-i-t-a ' as compared with $3,800,000 for remain untouched either by the “In giving work only to mem- firins not on’’Belt’s favored list should be hanged, and that the the previouSr 'jear, despite. an. tor attorney-general’s investigation or 1 bers of the A. I. A., the Superih* turn out big jobs, and do a helluva ‘ result was 12-0 against-the axecu- crease of over 50 per cent in taxes. by Hite’s follow-up. ■ tendent of PubUo Works perhaps good job.” : " tion.' •' December 1, 1949 HONOLULU RECORD Page Five STORY BEHIND THE PURCHASE OF PUMP No. 17 The Veterans Administration bought subdivision lots from the won't help the veterans at Maka­ Waianae Development Co., Ltd., REVIEW OF 1949 “SOCIAL PROCESS” ha, the banks won’t lend money ar^. getting water from the Glover to new owners of the subdivision tunnel through a main that is lots, and the FHA turns thumbs inadequate. Housing Article Gives Picture down to requests for assistance to Fire hydrants are installed but all of them—all because there is during most of the day there is Of Inadequacy; Old Theme Used no adequate water supply at Ma­ not enough water to spurt from kaha. a garden hose. Demonstrating Volume XIII of Social Process In 000 home, today without, fear of As the board of supervisors the lack of water pressure, A. C. Hawaii, annual publication of the losing his investment,” writes overrode the mayor’s veto Tuesday Stein turned on a garden hose Sociology Club at the University of Miss Barnes—and only about six to purchase Pump 17 at Makaha and stopped the weak flow of , WITH THE STRENGTH of his Hawaii, has turned out to be “un­ per cent of Hawaii’s individuals from the Waianae Development water with his thumb. Then he thumb, A, C. Stein shuts off the lucky thirteen.” fall within this lucky class. Co., Ltd., for a sum of $50,000 and started a water pump on Harold water-pressure in a garden-hose This magazine-was founded pri­ At least 9,464 homes in Honolulu allotted another $150,000 for its Nadler’s property. As the stream at Makaha sub-division, on the marily so that outstanding articles and 1,797 in Hilo fall short of basic repair, residents of Makaha shook of water came out he comment­ property of Harold Nadler. Under on Island society by university stu­ requirements for pure air, sunlight, their heads and looked up at the ed, “Now, no one in this neigh­ his left hand is the pump neces­ dents could be published. In the space„in sleeping "rooms and the sary for supplying Nadler with like—in short, they are slum dwell­ Glover tunnel. borhood gets water.” water. 1949 issue, out of 79 pages only 23 No Fire Protection are written by students, and the ings. There are 4,093 families to­ How can the city planning day living in temporary projects of “Pump 17 is no. good," a vet­ commission allow subdivisions un­ four student articles' are not much better than might be written by an the Hawaii Housing Authority and eran said. “It can give only about der this condition, people at Ma­ KRONICK SLIPPED thousands more who would like to 700,000 gallons during the summer kaha ask. People who bought land intelligent high school senior. All Harry B. Kronick, following are on the rather wornout theme find room there. Miss Barnes cites months when we need water most. want to build houses but they several examples of extreme crowd­ What made the supervisors buy cannot get loans because the water an assiduous editorial campaign of immigrants’ adjustment to Ha­ waiian life. ing and breakdown of family life that is beyond us. Glover tunnel supply is inadequate. by the Advertiser, announced on due to poor housing. is better.” Limit Subdivision President Gregg M. Sinclair Today residents of Makaha who A veteran, the RECORD learned, Oct. 31, that he was resigning has a sketch, “Conversations To combat this condition, there made arrangements to buy a lot as an officer of the Young Around the World,” that would are at present only 361 perma­ with VA backing, but when he Democrats and that he would' be a good article if a student had nent Low Income units, and 480 written it. C. S. CONFAB mentioned Makaha subdivision, henceforth conduct himself in more are on the program but are the VA turned him down. A long article by visiting Profes­ not yet under construction. (from page 1) the non-political manner be­ Informed sources say that the sor Jesse F. Steiner on “Japanese- Volume xm of Social Process In leted from all application • blanks, only solution to supplying Ma­ hooving a liquor commissioner. Americans on the Mainland; Post­ Hawaii can be obtained at the if the recommendation of the kaha with adequate water is to But Lau Ah Chew, chairman war Status and Problems,” is eas­ university for 75 cents.—JH.. steering committee is followed, limit the subdivision. The area of the Democratic Central Com­ ily the best in the annual. Most and confidential inquiries will no will need more water than both mittee, got a check for $50, dated interesting to the average reader longer be sent to references listed the newly purchased Pump 17 for either Nov. 21 or 22, from of the RECORD will probably be BOUSLOG SPEAKS by applicants. and the Glover tunnel can sup­ the Young Democrats in pay­ “Housing: An Investment In Citi­ (from page 1) Will Study Practice ply, as more people settle. It is ment for Democratic rules books. zenship,” by Constance C. Barnes, man Administration as being mid- Discussion of the practice of re­ believed the Waianae Develop­ It was signed by “Harry B. tenant supervisor of the Hawaii dle-of-the-roaders. jecting applicants with criminal ment Co. will continue to sub­ Kronick, trustee.” Housing Authority. The occasion for Mrs. Bouslog’s records- resulted in. the recom­ divide, as it owns the whole val­ Miss Barnes points out how talk was the annual Thanksgiving mendation that the subject be left According to latest informa­ completely inadequate Hawaii’s Frolic of the Hawaii Civil Liber­ ley. tion, as the RECORD goes to housing is. “If we are to be real­ for the present to the discretion The RECORD learned that re­ ties Committee, Saturday night at of individual commissions, while press, Kronick is still a member istic, it would be the individual 50 s. Queen St. ' the steering committee, the only cently the board of supervisors, of the liquor commission. with an annual income above meeting in a caucus with the $4,500 who could purchase a $10,- Alarming Symptom standing committee of the com­ mayor, agreed to buy the Waia­ Another speaker, Henry Epstein, missioners, makes a study of the nae water system. The mayor at Dragnet Slashed business agent of the United Pub­ practice and a report later. that meeting, it is reported, made lic Workers, drew from his ex­ The report to the mayor indi­ no comment. But later when the “A dragnet which may enmesh PUBUC SPIRITED periences as a GI in .World War H cated that many department matter of purchasing the water anyone who agitates for a change to interpret the meaning, of . civil heads, as well as the technical in government” was the descrip­ By MARTY SOLOV system from the Waianae Develop­ Federated Press liberties, and he said that the staff of the civil service commis­ ment Co., Ltd. came up, the mayor tion of a New York supreme most alarming symptom of the sion, have rejected applicants who court justice for the state’s law, In recent months the newspapers present attack is the practice of vetoed the supervisors’ action. passed in 1949, which made it and radio -have been flooded with were otherwise qualified, because People Resist judges, beginning with Medina’s of petty offenses or because they illegal for a Communist to teach shrieking ads pointing up the al­ handling of the case against the In a following meeting of the in the public schools. leged cold-killing qualities of some were considered “notorious” char­ supervisors, it is reported, that 11 Communist leaders, of senten­ acters by the department head The law, enacted by Gov. sensational new drugs known as cing lawyers Who carry the fight there were enough votes to over­ antihistamics. concerned. ride the veto, but because of the Thomas E. Dewey, was called of defendants with too much en­ The effort to achieve uniform­ strong resistance of the people “witch-hunting” and strongly Comes now the Better Business ergy. - ity in application forms through­ from Waianae, the supervisors did condemned-by Justice Harry E. Bureau with a full-length report Robert Greene, HCLC chair­ out the islands bogged down, it is not take action. Schirick who upheld on all condemning the claims made in man, introduced the speakers understood, in a maze of objec­ As the supervisors allotted $200,- grounds a complaint registered the ads and pointing out the dan­ and played a portion' sf the new tions and will be the subject of 000 for the Makaha pump, parties by the Communist Party. gers of the drugs. record, “Peekskill Story,” a com­ experimentation between the Ho­ interested in the Waianae water The Advertiser, which front­ We read a flock of papers and bination of music and vocal in­ nolulu Civil Service Commission system asked what became of the paged Edward N. Sylva’s effort the only one we saw the story in terpolation which gives an. im­ and that of the Territory. After letter written by the board of to pillory Dr. and Mrs. John was the New York Times-of Sun­ pression of the racist-minded a year, it is expected, the experi­ appraisers of the Waianae water, Reinecke as “not possessing the day, Nov. 20. And even then, while Peekskill mobs on the audience mentation will produce some ma­ asking the city and county at­ ideals of democracy,” put this the Times printed an exclusive at Paul Robeson’s'Peekskill con­ terial results from which recom­ torney pertinent legal questions in story on page 5. story, it appeared in the relatively cert early in September. mendations can be made. order to make the appraisal. obscure financial section. Decorated with foliage and pa­ A liberalization of the rules for One of the questions asked is, LETTER FROM READER Citing an official of the Bet­ per-cutouts in keeping with the filing applications was recom­ “Does the Company have any ter Business Bureau, the Times Thanksgiving season, the walls mended by the steering committee legal obligation to furnish water Editor, the Honolulu RECORD: said: “None of the drugs has been also bore large lettered slogans which voted to receive applications to purchasers of lots in recent Reading the page 1 spread, of found effective for all cold suf­ that carried messages of the HCLC. postmarked as being in the mail (since 1945) subdivisions made Nov. 29 in the afternoon daily ferers, so that a positive state­ The largest, behind the platform, on the time and date specified by the Company?” about the high cost of coffee and ment that ‘you can stop colds with proclaimed, “Peace, Democracy, on the announcement; The communication was referred recalling the-FP release in—last­ Them’, is untrue in the cases of’ Security.” ; ’ ' : week’s RECORD on the coffee The steering committee’s report to the Committee on Public Works many Individuals to whom it would Slightly more than 100 guests of the board of supervisors. The manipulators false statements re be addressed.” attended the function. was made over the signature of weather conditions causing a poor Herbert Kum, its chairman, who committee wrote the mayor on Oct. Pointing up the danger of some 11, 1949, that the letter “asking crop-which were exposed by the * Labor. Supports Farmers will serve throughout the year. Dept, of Agriculture, the question antihistamics, the article quoted Other members will be directors clarification of certain legal as­ a BBB official as stating: “For ROME (ALN — Italian workers pects concerning water, water comes to mind, is the article of have called many strikes in sup­ of the various civil service com­ Nov. 29 meant to forewarn some individuals there are side missions. rights, etc., in Waianae, for their reactions such as dizziness, drowsi­ port of peasants who have seized determination- of the value of the T. H. consumer that the high uncultivated land for their own Also signing the report was Al­ cost of coffee is going even out­ ness, nausea, and so on. vin K. Silva, chairman of the same in their appraisal, recom­ “Naturally the drugs should not use. General strikes took place mends that it be filed for the rageously higher, regardless? Drew in Palermo and Terni. In addi­ Maui civil service commission, who Pearson, last Sunday night, said be advertised as safe or harmless, information therein contained.” or in language calculated to en­ tion to these sympathy walkouts, served as chairman for the two- The questions were never an­ in his broadcast that the U. S. day conference, the first Territory­ has a larger supply of coffee than courage careless use. They are generally called to last 24 hours, wide gathering of civil service swered and the board of ap­ not to be given to infants, and telephone workers throughout praisers was dissolved. ever before, to the extent of “at Italy are on strike for higher commissioners since 1943. least 1 million bags.” The hysteria illustrations in -ads showing young “Even if the city-county paid which provoked over buying on children are not recommended." wages. $1 for the whole Waianae water the Mainland this past month or T. H. Unemployment system as Fred Ohrt appraised, so, can have no logical effect now the city will be taking on a lot Unemployment increased b y since the cause has been brought of expense to furnish water ade­ to public notice. Since the daily’s g VARSITY BOOK AND ART SHOP 1,954 during October and reached quately,” a city hall observer said. story admitted that there is nd a new high of 33,701 in the Terri­ While the pro and con of ac­ shortage here as yet, and the | School Supplies • Stationery • Magazines. tory which represents 17.3 per cent quiring the Waianae water rights wholesale price must drop shortly, of the labor force, the Territorial from the Waianae Development if it hasn’t already, why are we CARDS FOR ALL OCCASIONS Employment Service reported re-* Co. was debated as a hot issue being prepared for a further jump cently.' Unemployment on Oahu for past weeks, a voluminous con­ in the local price? Block Prints and Paintings -from Japan totalled 26,071, .or 18.9 per cent fidential report by Fred Ohrt, that goes back Into the history of the The stink of rotten fish is over­ | PAINTINGS BY U. H. STUDENTS of the labor force. On Hawaii, un­ powering! employment totalled ■ 3,680, or 14.6 water rights, was in Mayer Wil­ per cent of the labor force; on son’s office. The report, the REC­ A Coffee Drinker I 1004 Kalo Lane Phone 915355 Maui, 2,650, which is 14.7 per cent ORD learned, Is extremely re­ S■ (Near University Ave. & S. King St.—Moiliill) _ - S ef the labor: force; and on Kauai, vealing and probably influenced About 250,000 men and women unemployment totalled 1,300 or . the mayor to veto the purchase are disabled by injury or disease 10 per cent of the labor force. of the water system. every year. Page Six HONOLULU RECORD December 1, 1949

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(Federated Press) Franklin D. Roosevelt made his famous statement about one-third of a nation in a time of depression. The people he said were ill clothed, ill housed and ill fed were for the most part, unemployed. Now we have enjoyed at least eight years of high employment. The problems Roosevelt set the New Deal to solve should have dis­ By HAROLD J. SALEMSON A bout which had Bobo Olson ducking in and out because of finan­ appeared. But they haven’t. Federated Press cial and managerial troubles finally materialized when he fought John­ A report by the joint congressional committee on the economic ny Duke, an impprtee from Los Angeles. Olson looked sluggish after Powerful Picture Tells of How a long layoff, but managed to take care of Duke by a unanimous decision- report reveals some painful facts about low income families. Nearly Fascism Might Come To This bout was the second one promoted by Augie Curtis, who has been half of all American families—46 per cent—have incomes under $3,000 America threatened with the revocation of his license. A crowd of around 3,200 a year. Yet, according to other government figures, a family needs Huey Long used to say that if saw.the bouts. The number differs from official figures as we have in­ about $3,200 a year for a' minimum decency standard of living in the fascism came to America it would cluded a number of dead-heads, including the writer and a critic we average U. S. town. be draped in the flag and dis­ dragged along by the name of Joseph Kealalio. guised as 100 per cent American­ The smart boys were saying before the fight that there would be GO ON TWO-THIRDS OF BARE MINIMUM ism. Now the story of his life, no knockout. However, the smart boys almost had to eat crow when as written in Robert Penn War­ Bobo nearly lowered the boom on the Duke of John. It happened A quarter of all families and individuals have income under $2,000 ren’s Pultizer Prize novel, All the twice—once toward the end of the fifth round and the second time at a year. They can scrape together less than two-thirds of the things King’s Men, and adapted to the the end of the ninth round. they need for a minimum standard of living. screen by Robert Rossen, forms an Mike Innes and Bobby Acusta fought to a draw in the semifinal Low Income today is not primarily a problem of unemployment. exciting and important warning on match and so did Bobby Sanders and Al Padilla. ‘The judges thought the same subject. that because Padilla got a knockdown, plus the fact of a foul Padilla If you can believe the government figures, there are still less than four should get a draw. We saw Sanders the winner in spite of these two- million unemployed. There are about 12 million workers in the fami­ Technically, Rossen has done a superb job. His excellent script factors. Ken Ogitani won over teammate Correa by sinking one into lies under the $2,000 Income level. • writing was well-known to us; the lard can and teammate Correa hung ’em up for the evening. The fact is that in spite ef record-breaking production and that he was a magnificent direc­ The fight that should be severely criticized was the match between tor remained to be revealed with Al Kalua and Leo Tolentino. Read the story of Al Kalua and you’ll profit figures in recent years, the low income groups get short­ see the complete disinterest of the Commission in protecting the life changed. And low income is immediately converted into a dozen this film. His casting, from the- top roles down to the least ex­ of Al Kalua and in the protection of the paying public. Al Kalua start­ other problems. tra, is impeccable. And, if the ed fighting in the amateurs in 1941. He had a fairly successful season The low income family has to spend about half1 of its money for story is inconclusive and broken and with the advent of the war he joined the navy. food. Even so, a family with less than $2,000 a year must do without off at the height of Willie Stark’s In the navy and here too, he was a better than average fighter. At the end of the war he lived on the island of (Hawaii and there fought things needed for health. (Huey Long) life, as it was in ac­ tuality, the lesson is none the as an amateur with one of the clubs on the Big Island. If we remem­ less telling. ber correctly, we saw Al get knocked out twice on the Big Island by WHERE THE MONEY IS SPENT amateurs just starting, and not by terrific punchers, either. If we For example, no one wants to cut down on the amount of milk for Played by Broderick Crawford, remember correctly, these two KOs were not the only ones he got dur­ Willie Stark Is a backwoods ideal­ children. . But the average family with more than $2,000 a year spends ist who starts out to bring some ing his decline as an amateur fighter. Mind you, we. said in the 28 per cent more for milk than the lowest quarter of the population. amateur ranks. honesty into politics. By imitating In fact, the word got around to all except the present Commis- Families under the $2,000 mark spend 54 per cent more for flour his corrupt (but victorious) oppo­ sioners that Al Kalua had ai chinaware chin and that an ordinary and other cereals than those over the line. This makes for a filling, nents, he becomes a demagogue tap on it will paralyze his legs. This is what happened last week consumed with his own ambition after he was granted a license to fight by the fistic stepfathers, with­ heavy, starchy diet. When it comes to fresh fruits, the low income and self-importance. When an as­ group must spend 40 per cent less. out benefit of a manager or an advisor. The Commissioners gave sassin’s bullet ends his career he him Patsy Fukuda and a guy by the name of Nosaka to second him. The low income families also take a beating on housing. About has already destroyed not only the You saw the result. 15 per cent of the under $2,000 group live in broken down shelters man he once was, but also all those Powder-puff puncher Leo Tolentino, a mediocre fighter and a in need of immediate repairs. Less than four per cent of the over whom he controlled. tap artist, staggered Al so many times that the fight had to be merci­ $2,000 families live in places that bad. , True, the story takes place in a fully stopped by the referee. Al was also stopped by Eddie Reyes in vague southern state apparently Hilo in his first pro debut, although it wasn’t in the first round. Food and shelter use up most of the budget of the low income fam­ inhabited only by white people. We understand the Commission has the supervision of all boxing ilies. On other items they are pinched still more tightly. They can Also, there is no .mention what­ except for the army and navy fights. The Commissioners have the spend almost nothing on higher education. Their children have to drop ever of labor, organized or other­ reoords and the history of every fighter who may wish, to turn pro. It out of public school sooner to go to work, and must fight hard to get wise, in .Willie Stark’s platforms is only a matter of looking up the records of'fighters like Kalua. This any kind of technical training. The misfortunes of the parents are or campaigns. But there is a pos­ boy should not be allowed to continue to fight. It is an indication of the sible good reason for these omis­ disinterest of the Commissioners and they are duty bound to the pub­ passed on to the next generation. sions. The line of Willie's degen­ lic and for humanity’s sake, to watch for cases like that of Al Kalua. eration is clearer for being unob­ Check the records. We want to be shown that we are all wet on this case. RAISING WAGES IS IMPORTANT structed with minority' or other There are also dealers in human misery who say let Kalua Boosting overall production might do something for the families problems. And the glaring avoid­ fight because “he needs .the dough.” We call.on the Commissioners with low income, but not much. Most of them are at work. They ance of these issues may well be to check Kalua’s record. We call on the public to demand that simply do not receive enough wages for their work. used as a touchstone for recog­ fighters who have fallen to such a state of defenselessness should nizing fascists: those who claim to be shelved for the good of all concerned. Commissioners, wake up! This ought to be obvious but it is not. The corporation spokes­ bring panaceas which do not en- men are still plugging at the theme of raising production. Raising compass minority or labor prob- COLLEGE OF THE PACIFIC FOOTBALL TEAM production is fine but raising wages is more important. lems can be nothing but dema­ gogues and phonics. The upsurge of power in many of our smaller colleges throughout To date American workers have found only one main way of fatten­ the country has been credited by physical education authorities to the ing their pay envelopes: Organization. The congressional committee Crawford is excellent as Stark thousands of trained physical education instructors who have been figures on low income are a proof of the job which still faces unions in and ■ is surrounded by fine play­ turhed out by our many colleges. Fortunately, many of these teach on our country. It is no accident that low income' families are thickest ers, largely unknown: John Ire­ the high school level. Where formerly given secondary importance, in the south where unions are weakest. More than 40 per cent of all land as the wavering newspaper­ physical education has been granted equal status with other, impor­ southern families are under the $2,000 income level. reporter; Mercedes McCambridge as Stark’s secretary—who is tant subjects in our curriculum. Trained instructors have taken over There are some cynics who say now that organization is nearly bound to be an important star where formerly a classroom teacher was appointed to handle sports complete. They hint that the American labor movement has nothing as the result of this perform­ as part of his duties in addition to his regular teaching. better to do than settle internal beefs. The truth is that Roosevelt’s Progressive principals have fought to have all subjects given one-third of a nat.on still exists. ance; Shepperd Strudkick, Jo­ equal status. Showers, gyms, playing fields were given top priority anne Dru, Anne Seymour and along with chemistry labs and classrooms and clean restrooms for Of course a depression would make the situation very much worse. innumerable others. The extras, But raising low incomes is one of the better ways of trying to avoid a too, allegedly non-Hollywood the students. This is as it should be, in spite of many feudal-mind­ depression. Aggressive union policy Is the best safeguard of prosperity. people, look their parts and are ed school boards who swear by the outmoded, antiquated, reading, ’riting and ’rithmetic style of school. j -r as un-screenlike as possible. College-of the Pacific, a Christian denominational school, has been It is said that the picture shows praised by leading newspapers because of the sensational 'showing of Stark, the dictator, as the only the team this year. It started its development when the great Alonzo character with will power, and the Stagg, Sr„ started the spark by teaching at the small Pacific Coast Strong Family Ties people as dupes. But where was school. Stagg taught football as well as other subjects. His spark the progressive upswing in Louisi­ caught on. Today-Pacific is reaping the result of Stagg’s work- and CHARLES JEFFERSON HENDERSON ana during Huey’s time or after also the high standard of physical education in the California schools. his demise? Last week, When Pacific took on California Polytech and rolled Residence: 2944 Noela Drive No. This is a realistic, hard­ up an 88 to 0 score to total 500 points for the season—averaging 50 hitting, powerful picture—which is points a game—it established a national record and it brought the Vice President-Director: Castle & Cooke, Ltd. great entertainment, and the name of Eddie LeBaron to All-American stature. This is the team Vice President-Director: Waialua Agricultural Co., Ltd. screen fulfilling as much of its re­ that is going to play the University of Hawaii Dec. 16. This is a school . Vice President-Director: Helemano Co., Ltd. sponsibility to be meaningful as the size of the University of Hawaii. While watching LeBaron, • be Vice President-Director: Ewa Plantation Co. Hollywood’s masters will allow. sure to watch the front line. Compare Fresno State when it plays Vice President-Director: Kohala Sugar Co. ♦ ♦ * * Hawaii. Pacific beat Fresno by a score of 48 to 0. Nuff said. Vice President-Director: Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Hawaii, Ltd. Other Screen News Briefly Noted Vice President-Director: Oahu Supplies, Ltd. Charles Korvin co-stars with N. Y. GIANTS TO HIRE NEGRO BALL.PLAYERS Director: Hawaiian Pineapple Co., Ltd. Evelyn Keyes, William Bishop, Lo­ We read with a great deal.of interest that Leo Durocher, formerly Director: Kahua Ranch, Ltd. la Albright and Dorothy Malone of the Brooklyn Dodgers and now of the New York Giants, has put in Director: Hawaiian Equipment Co., "Ltd. In The Killer That Stalked New a call for Kenny Washington, formerly of UCLA and more recently of Director: Oahu Transport Co., Ltd. Yers, tale of h, smallpox epidemic, the Los Angeles Rams, to try"out for the Giants next spring at their Born 1903, Nevada; graduated Harvard, .1926. Married Lcuirc snrrin replaces John Ireland of Phoenix, Ariz. camp. Erdman, daughter of the Rev. John P. Erdman- and Mrs. xvizmuM A? Si Huags Men, otherwise oc­ This is welcome news as- the Giants need more than their fiery (Dillingham) .Erdman, his mother-in-law being sister' of W. F. cupied . . . Alfonso Bedoya, in the manager to bring their team, standing up to pennant contenders from Dillingham and H. G. Dillingham. Mrs. Henderson- is a director menacingly smiling Mexican ban­ the second division, where they finished last season. The Dodgers, of The B. -F. Dillingham Co., Ltd., and. Mokuleia Ranch & Land dit role in Treasure of Sierre Ma- with the addition of Jackie Robinson, Don Newcombe and Roy Cam­ Co., Ltd. dr.e, since seen in the. Streets of panella, not only took the National League pennant, but have brought Laredo - and. Border Incident, will about! better game attendance'and greater' interest from thousands' of wMember of Outrigger. apb, Pa^lfig. CIul^..Waiajae .qolf Club. have a leading role in Fortunes- of fans df all racial groups’: It has done even more. It has debunked the Captain Blood. false theory’that mixed "ball clubs lead to racial antagonism. December 1, 1949 HONOLULU RECORD Page Seven tural Experiment Station imme­ Housewives Can Get "Surplus’' diately secured seed of many bean CONSUMERS POTLUCK varieties and began a long series of experiments to produce a hy­ YOUR NOSE nasal and head stuffiness accom­ Produce Farmers Plow Under panying a cold, yet, says CU, the brid green bean as good as Lua­ In this time of colds and in­ over-stimulation and irritation of By ELEANOR AGNEW pr sell very cheaply such produce lualei with an added resistance fluenza it may be well to repeat the fiiucuous membrane of the nose Last week I spoke of the possi­ they cannot take to market rather to epidemics of rust. information from Consumers' may be more uncomfortable than Union published by Potluck al­ bilities of food-budget relief in than see it wasted. Their efforts were painstaking was the original stuffiness. and exhaustive. . Beans were most 10 months ago. There are * * « * home canning of foods. During the recent longshore many cures for colds, none of grown in cool, wet sections and THE ASPIRIN BRIGADE The alert housewife can some­ strike “bumming" committees in warm, dry sections. Many which work. Doctors use the word times obtain vegetables for canning from the union received hun­ “psychosomatic” to describe cura­ Recently, a number of new dreds of pounds of tomatoes, varieties were tried in 175 cross­ tive effects due in part, to a fa­ drugs have been advertised and very cheaply, or even without cost. beans, etc., from farmers who es by 1942, at which time the vorable disposition of the patient ballyhooed as replacing aspirin as At times during the year our could not sell them and were experimenters were successful in to be cured.' So it’s a little like a pain-killer. Aspirin, acetylsali­ crossing the type called Bounti­ farmers are faced with a situation happy to let the union men ful with the Lualualei. This new this—if you believe very strongly cylic acid, relieves pain frequent­ where there is pick them and take them away. in your favorite nostrum, it may ly but has no effect at all on a bean, named Hawaiian Wonder,' disease so far as is certainly a “surplus” of If you are fortunate enough to proved highly resistant to the be that it does help you (and this obtain vegetables for canning this destructive rust. column may be doing a disserv­ known. Among the new drugs is some vegetable way, you can lower your food ice). DOLCIN, which contains aspirin or other. In or­ While the people of the Hawaii plus calcium succinate, which doc­ der to keep the budget to a noticeable degree. University Experiment Station In some so-called curatives * ♦ * * and patent medicines there are, tors and government officials are price of this warn that there is no assurance however, certain dangers when unimpressed with as a pain-killer. produce at a Green beans have been for many that the Hawaiian Wonders resis­ used without the advice of a ERTRON for arthritic prob­ level where the years one of the most popular tance to rust will be maintained physician. Some “cold” drugs lems has had little success with farmer and the vegetables grown in Hawaii. Com­ indefinitely, it is at present giv­ arthritis and has occasionally wholesaler can mercial crops were for a long ing good yields and is highly sat­ can be seriously harmful to you. make the prof­ time very profitable and home isfactory as to taste. According to CU, no drug or vac­ caused serious "Vitamin D in­ toxication with permanent dam­ Eleanor Agnew it they feel growers found them easy to raise Full Information about this new cine now available will prevent or age to blood vessels and kid­ they must, qr when it does not and a delicious addition to family bean is given in Circular 28 issued cure colds. A new drug may soon meals. be on hand to fight against cer­ neys. In at 'least five reported pay the farmer to harvest his by the University of Hawaii Agri­ instances such Vitamin D in­ crop, this “surplus” produce is However, by the winter of 1937, cultural Experiment Station. tain types of cold virus. toxication has caused death.” not brought to market. It is rust had become so severe in Nose drops or preparations con­ The station is also maintaining Another new drug is IMDRIN. plowed under or left to rot. the crop of Lualualei (a heavy­ a small supply of stock seed that taining “sulfa” have no advan­ yielding, pole type of bean tage over other preparations, and Its only effective Ingredient for When the local housewife hears can be obtained by farmers and relieving pain is a salicylate drug. of such a situation on the food well adapted for local growing), others who wish to test the variety their prolonged use may “increase Vitamin B is thrown in as a come- front she should make haste to that farmers were turning to less or increase the seed. the resistance of germs- In the fragile crops and they were fast respiratory tract and thereby less­ on bait. Other pain-killing drugs contact farmers1 who grow the par­ for which there is little clinical ticular vegetable or vegetables be­ disappearing from home gar­ en the likelihood that sulfa drugs dens. Department store sales in Au­ will be effective if really needed evidence available to show them ing disposed of in this way. Most gust dipped 9 per cent below the superior 'to aspirin are: PABA- farmers would rather give away Workers at the Hawaii Agricul­ August 1948 figure. later.” LATE, CAUSALEN, OXO-ATE B Penicillin, though it may be and SUBENON. used by a doctor to prevent com­ plications, is not a cure. In fact, THE PRICE OF ASPIRIN says CU, the best thing still for And as for aspirin itself, you Classified Directory ■■... ,. a cold is to rest at home for a might as well pay the least possi­ day or so. ble. CU found all aspirin (five- Some nasal drugs may have ser­ grain) on the market to be iden­ tical in every respect but the label ious consequences. 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Economy the other hand, I have discovered decrepit and dilapidated rookeries Scan Our Business Shoe Service. 2739 S. King.: 903185 with roofs leaking and danger and disease threatening the occupants; PLUMBING contracting,- repairs Smith Act itself, In a three-page statement the super­ Plantation management in our fathers’ time talked little nonsense under which the Communist leaders were indicted visors read into the record before over­ about bringing immigrant labor up to American standards of living. and Jiried. If the Smith Act is unconstitutional— riding the mayor’s veto, we find these Enough food to keep them healthy machines, enough shelter to pre­ and many conservative authorities so contend— phrases: vent sickness, enough clothing to protect them from the sugar cane— then the convictions would of necessity be set what more was necessary for these Asians? aside. “. . . in fairness to the people of Makaha Dr. Peterson wrote his circular after reading the careful descrip­ and in justice to the present and future But let us say, for the sake of argument, that tion of plantation housing and living, conditions which had come from the now conservative-dominated supreme court development of the suburban water sys­ the pen of his co-worker, Wray Taylor of the Bureau of Immigration. finds the Smith Act constitutional. The 11 de­ tem” the board of supervisors moves for According to, Mr. Taylor’s vivid description: fendants then can contend that the trial they the adoption of the $200,000 allotment. “The kind of building varies with the class of labor. .European received in New York violated completely our The board also said that the “people of labor has for a family, or for two single men, two rooms in a four- whole concept of jurisprudence and the canons room cottage. Chinese, being single men, are housed in barracks of judicial ethics, and I believe that even the most Makaha” bought lots “within a subdivision with from six to 40 men in a room. Single Japanese are often pro­ rabid anti-Communists among the high court jus­ approved for construction by the city plan­ vided for in the same way, sometimes, however, two only occupying tices would, purely on the merits, grant them a ning commission.” the same room. Married Japanese are furnished with a small room new trial. That is, unless fascism in America is for each family.” The revised ordinance of our city, 1942, stronger than even I have believed. Such rooms, we learn elsewhere, were about 12x12 feet. Of course, I speak purely as a layman, but as says that adequate water must be supplied The Question of Privacy a layman who believes, in justice and fairplay. And in order for a subdivision to qualify. There “These houses are rough frame buildings, shingle or iron-roofed, there are still many who have refused to be, si­ is not enough water at Makaha for mini­ with a six-foot wide covered porch extending their whole length. All lenced by the present hysteria and who consider mum home sanitation, like flushing a toi­ lately erected buildings are well raised from the ground. Most have it their duty as Americans to buck popular opinion of the moment in order to preserve the freedoms let, during many hours of the day. walls 8 to 10 feet high from floor to roof-plate. The height of ridgepole above this is from 4 to 6 feet. Beneath the roof there is no ceiling, which are a glorious part of our national heritage. Today, the Makaha settlers are getting and when divided into rooms these are all open at the top and a clear At the moment, I am talking specifically water from the Glover tunnel. In a year, space above from end to end of the building (thus enabling one to look about an organization known as the National when the city and county puts Pump 17 into his neighbors’ rooms—Ed). All walls are whitewashed. Often the Non-Partisan Committee to Defend the Rights space between the rafters above the roof-plate is left open for ventilation.- of the 12 Communist Leaders, with headquar­ in shape to supply 700,000 gallons, the Wai­ “Conveniences—These quarters furnish only a shelter and a place ters at Suite A, 23 West 26th St., New York 10, anae Development Co., if conditions are to rest. Nothing more is attempted. In barracks where many single N. Y. I have just received their pamphlet, “Due favorable, will have subdivided more land. men are collected, a platform 6 to 8 feet wide and raised 2 feet above Process In a Political Trial,” containing lengthy Then what guarantee isth ere thatthecity —the floor -runs the Jength of the building, and each man has about 3 excerpts from the actual record in the New York feet in width of space for himself to sleep on. The floor space is pub- case—a-record completely at variance with re­ and county will not be put into a position lic property. Again, tiers of shelves 3 feet wide along the sides of the ports in the daily press and revealing bias the where it must purchase the Glover tunnel room, sometimes 3 or 4 tiers high with some slight, low partitions, give like of which has seldom, if ever, been witnessed from the Waianae Development Co. As the about 3x6 feet for a man. in a federal court. mayor indicated, the Pump 17 deal was , “In a family room is a platform two feet above the floor, tak­ This committee, be it noted, is composed of a “come on” game. ing up about two-thirds of the floor space. On this the family men and women with courage who sincerely be­ sleeps and lives when at home. The above for the Japanese. The lieve civil rights are indivisible. Co-chairman, Interestingly, a while back the super­ European cottages are often supplied with rude box bedsteads and along with Paul Robeson, is Judge Norval K. Har­ visors were all committed to buying not perhaps a table and bench. All else must be supplied by the laborer. ris of the circuit court of Sullivan, Ind. Among only the Makaha Pump 17 but the Waia­ “For cooking purposes all kinds of makeshifts find a use. Most the vice chairmen are Father Clarence Parker, nae water system as well. After, the mayor characteristic of a Japanese camp is the rude stove made from a kero­ Episcopal rector of Chicago; Mrs. Andrew W. Sim­ sene oil tin or paint oil drum .. . All along the edge of the 6-foot porch kins, co-chairman of the South Carolina Repub­ vetoed the spending of a large sum of above-mentioned, these little stoves may be seen arranged in front of lican party; Prof. Louise Pettebone Smith of public money, a couple of supervisors lined and convenient to the doors of the respective rooms. Wellesley College, and Mrs. Theresa Lee Robin­ up enough votes to override the veto. But son of Washington, director of the Elks Civil Lib­ “Many plantations provide central cook-houses, with or without erties committee. Others listed as members from people’s pressure from Waianae stalled ovens, and large cauldrons. Some furnish dining rooms with tables and all parts of the nation include artists, educators, their action. benches.” Girls’ Favorite Pastime ministers, rabbis, labor leaders and editors. Their pamphlet was prepared by a group of In the Waianae area we have heard bit­ A feature of the Japanese camps was—and in a few places, still is ter remarks like ‘‘greasing the supervisors’ New York attorneys and has been sent to many "—the big common bathhouse where everybody, regardless of age and lawyers with a tetter by Judge Harris who says: palms.” This, we believe, until facts war­ sex, gathered at pauhana to relax in the great steaming wooden tubs. “The undersigned has read the document and rant otherwise, is unjust criticism. But we A favorite pastime of the adolescent boys a Paauhau, about 15 years believes it raises serious questions in relation to ago, used to be to pull the girls’ legs by reaching in the water under know this—rbehind the Waianae company the partition that had been built across the dressing room in respect for the administration of justice.” are powerful men like its president, the In the first part, titled “The Judge’s Antag­ western manners, but which did not divide the furo. The girls’ Javorite onism Toward Defense Counsel and Its Effect Honorable Senator Heen, Ernest Kai, Chinn pastime, naturally, was to pull the boys’ legs. On the Trial” are documented chapters headed Ho and others. In the early part of this century, we are informed, clashes “Silencing Defense Counsel,” “Grounds for the Is this the reason why a few supervisors sometimes took place between Japanese and Puerto Rican laborers ' Exclusion of Defense Questions Withheld by when the latter objected to their neighbors strolling to the bath­ Judge Medina,” “Discriminatory .Treatment of have so persistently pushed for acquiring houses in a state of nature. Defense Counsel as Compared With the Prose- a water pump and a water system at a But to return to the 1899 report. As a physician, Dr. ‘Peterson was ,cution,” “Threats Against Defense Counsel,” ,“Par- handsome price? (more on page 7) (mare on page 7)