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Vol. 1, No. 21 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Dec. 23, 1948 JoMkss . Wonder Why S-B Writer Named Them “Fags” “No Credit” To Police, By VERA HALL (As Told to Staff Writer) “I don’t, know whether I’m the early bird or the vag,” said the boy in the leather jacket, “but I know if I don’t get Says Pearl City Judge a job, my wife and kids are going to be. hungry Christmas Day.” That-was almost the first thing I heard when I got in line at the U. S. Employment Serv­ Banquet At Olaa Negro Veteran Beaten, Is ice office Saturday morning. I knew the boy in the leather jacket As Lockout Ends; had been reading those articles NAACP Election Charged With “Assault” about the unemployed by Tom Frazier in the Star-Bulletin. May­ 4,000Attend Luau When . Judge Robert M. Yates said the case of Willie . be he was, the same boy in the Lucas “reflects no credit on the Honolulu Police Depart­ leather jacket that Frazier wrote Results In Tie OLAA, Hawaii, Dec. 20—Today it about. Anyhow, he “ was feeling is “Operation Sugar” once again ment,” he voiced what some people feel was a masterpiece pretty low Saturday morning. at Olaa but yesterday it was “Op­ of understatement. Many Are Discouraged Away Vote For Pres. eration Luau” as close to 4,000 Willie Lucas, a shipyard worker and a veteran, was ac­ There were, only a few of us in (By Special Correspondence) people gathered at the Olaa ILWU cused of assaulting two well-armed policemen near his home the line because a lot of people The election of officers for 1949 Local 142, Unit 3 union hall at Pearl City on Dec. 3. Willie don’t go- after .they’ve been told in the National Association for the grounds to celebrate with a gigan­ was unarmed and'as a result of : there isn’t any chance. I got to Advancement, of Colored People, tic “Sugar Workers’-Victory Luau” WOMEN MOVING his “assault” he got what the doc.- talking with an elderly man and Honolulu branch, Dec. 15, resulted .- the end of Une 68-day-old lockout tors called “severe bruises of the the kid in the leather jacket—he in a tie vote for the chairmanship, at-Olaa Sugar Co. FROM KITCHEN mouth and throat,” and he lost a wasn’t much more than 20. between Luther Wideman and Al­ It was a momentous day for the lot of blood. If the cops got any­ TO NEW JOBS thing more than skinned knuckles, “I guess I’m the oaf,” the el­ fred P. Stacy, Each received 31 sugar workers in the Puna dis­ derly man said, “but I still need votes for the office.' trict as .the 1,100 members of the WASHINGTON (FP)—The past it didn’t come out in court on Dec. a job.” Candidates for other offices were Olaa ILWU unit, their families, eight and one-half years have seen 17, when Lucas was acquitted. elected while members of the ex­ guests and friends poured into America’s working women move Hawaii a, “Gold Mine” They kidded a little, but they Olaa by buses, cars, bicycles and out of . other people’s kitchens and -still felt the things Tom Frazier ecutive- committee- were unan­ ' The story was like this: Lucas nounced due to the decision of the on foot to partake of the delicious into clerical, farm and. factory jobs ' and his wife were having a do­ wrote. I hadn’t thought too much kau-kau prepared by the Olaa in large numbers, a recent Labor about the articles till I saw their membership to seal the vote pend­ mestic argument and the neighbors ing ihstructions from the national ILWU Ladies’ Auxiliary, whb were Department women’s bureau sur­ called the police to investigate the effect on those guys. I’m a cook assisted by union members. vey shows. with 18 years’ experience and I office of the NAACP on the pro­ noise. Three policemen came and saw the last depression, so the ar­ cedure to be followed in deciding Largest Luau Ever Held The -bureau reports that be­ entered the Lucas apartment. Lu­ ticles didn’t bother me so much. the question of the tie vote. It was the first time in the his­ tween April 1940 and October 1948 cas had been drinking and there Mrs. Catherine Christopher was tory of the little community of the working women’s population, was some argument. “Why does the newspaper elected vice chairman, Mrs. Arthur Olaa that a luau of such great increased by more than five mil­ write like that about us?” the Lucas, who is' a Negro, quotes Gilliam treasurer, and Mrs. Thel­ proportions was held. lion—17.3 million as opposed to a one of the police as saying: “You kid asked me. “Why do they ma Stacy and Mrs. Thelma Davis, It seemed as though everyone pre-war 11.9 million. The pro­ want us to feel ashamed? They’ve n------s have a gold mine here secretaries. in Puna was there. The entire portion, of women working in do­ and you don’t know it, In the got to have us to work for them.” Murray Leaves Chair managerial staff, from manager mestic service dropped from 17.6 I tried to explain it to him, but states you’d have to ride in. the Considerable confusion existed W. L. S. Williams right on down, -per cent to 8.5 per cent in that back' of buses.” he didn’t understand. during the meeting due to the of" Olaa Sugar Co., was invited. time. Women are also less prom­ Tm not asking for relief- or any­ failure of Attorney Edward Ber­ Businessmen, merchants, police of­ inent in the professions than in . The police asked Mrs. Lucas, if thing like that,” he said. ‘Tm just man to bring the instructions on ficers and politicians from Olaa, 1940, the survey shows. she wanted to spend the night with hunting for a job—for a chance procedure. Mr. Berman assured Mountain View, Pahoa, Kapoho, Farm jobs attracted 1.2 million friends and she said she did, to work. Is that anything to be acting chairman Morris Murray Hilo and vicinity and farmers from more women workers in 1948 than whereupon one of the policemen ashamed of?” escorted her outside while the (more on page 3) (more on page 4) (more on page 5) other two lingered . behind. Lucas ■ About that time the elderly man called to his wife and asked her went up to the desk and they told to come back and talk to him, him there wasn’t anything for him. and then he added: “Stop talking Make You Feel Ashamed Invalided, Joe Capsin Wins Friends, to that Japanese.” “I’ll be a vag soon, all right, if Symonds Trips Policemen - this keeps up,” he said as he Then, the “assault” occurred. walked out. Influences People All Over America According to the police, Lucas, un­ The boy in the leather jacket armed, attacked them from behind. felt even lower after that and Not so many months ago an known through the mails for sev­ ton, giving Congressmen and According "to Lucas, one of the. po­ he said, “I guess this is the be­ American novelist on vacation eral years. Senators his opinions and get- licemen walked back to him, asked, ting . friendly, thoughtful ginning of depression all right. was pleasantly surprised when he That’s a fair sample of the “What did you say?” and punched ■ I’ve heard about it. I’ve heard things. Joe likes to do for his swers, all vja the U. S. mail.. him in the mouth when he repeat- my father talk about how stepped off a ship at Georgetown, friends. You might think a man As his activities broadened, his . ed his words. ■ ashamed they could make you.” British Guiana, to be met by a re­ confined to his bed, with no circle of acquaintances both grew In the cross-examination, At­ “If this ’ is the depression, you porter and a photographer from prospect of getting out' of it, and became more intimate. Now, torney Myer C. Symonds, ap­ haven’t seen anything yet,” I told the local -p ap- er. The writer, R. E. would lose interest in the out­ he is addressed familiarly as “Joe” pearing for the defense, elicited him. Gould, had met with some recent side world. Confinement had by a fairly large number of high the information from Officer I didn’t tell. him about how the success in the U. S. with his first just the opposite effect on Joe. functionaries on Capitol Hill who Mana, first, that he didn’t make papers and the relief agencies all novel, “Yankee Storekeeper,” but He began going out to meet peo­ never saw. him.- the anti-Negro remark and la­ do their best to make you ashamed he had no idea his fame had ple all over the U. S. and before Last week, after he had sent ter, that he didn’t think he to. ask for help. I didn’t tell him spread to such remote places. long he was right in Washing- Secretary of the- Navy John L. made it. - Mana also testified about my niece who was just starts So he sat down and wrote his . Sullivan a clipping he thought that he saw no blood. ing to swallow iodine when we friend, Joe Capsin, of 426 Nama- might interest the secretary, he A'?; . Officer Spencer, who had been grabbed her, or about my uncle, a hana St., Honolulu, because he got an answer addressed “Dear excluded from the courtroom dur­ World War I vet, who would walk, likes to tell Joe the interesting Joe," though he had never writ­ ing Mana’s testimony, said he saw • out of the Red Cross office be­ things that happen to. him. Joe ten Sullivan before. That’s only blood on Lucas’ mouth. He agreed cause they humiliated him. The is a bed-ridden, ‘disabled veteran one of the indications that Joe with Mana that no one had hit boy was feeling low enough al­ of World War I, and he doesn’t Capsin is getting to be something Lucas, so he reasoned the man ready-. I finally got a laugh out of ' get around much. of a Capitol Hill figure himself, “must have fallen down.” him by quoting Abe Lincoln. Had Set the Stage without ever moving out of his bed. Symonds brought out by cross- It was that one about how “God Served on South Dakota examination of the officers that must love thg_p/or folks. He. made ' Joe liked the letter even more than his friend had anticipated. Until a few years ago, Joe had they had wrestled him to the bed so many of ’em.” to put handcuffs on him and one ■ The boy went up for his turn, In fact, he had anticipated that suffered no serious ill-effects from very letter and that very incident, ' an injury he received while serv­ told how he had pressed a knee in. but he didn’t get a job. He was Lucas’ back to pin him down. some kind of electrician, but lie for he had set up the situation for ing in .the Navy on the old battle­ Gouki . by writing the Georgetown ship South- Dakota in .World War Police Charge Collapses offered to do anything. The When Mr. Mee Smith, a. visitor girl just kept saying, “There’s editor .about the author long be­ I. But ' then he began having- fore Gould’s ship arrived there. trouble with his vertebrae and the to the Lucas apartment at' the nothing in that.” time of the incident, testified that “Aren’t there any restaurant Soon, when Gould comes to Ha­ result is that for the past two waii, he will meet face-to-face for Mr. Capsin and Friend years he has been virtually unable there was “blood all over the (more on page 8) the ■ first time the man he has Photo By G. Seitz (more on page 8) (more on page 5) Page Two HONOLULU RECORD Thursday,'Dec. 23, 1948

panics had violated the anti-trust laws. SEC Probes Trans-Pacific has been enjoined from op­ The news that the Securities and. Ex­ erating scheduled flights. change Commission might open an office ^Hawaiian Summary j Recently Trans-Pacific applied for a here was no glad tidings to certain specu­ certificate to schedule its flights and dur­ lators and stock promoters and big business, ing the course of the hearing-,—informatioin although the question of how good a job the San Francisco Stock Exchange where them the protection of the SEC, but the on Inter-Island and Hawaiian Airlines was of investigation this agency would do was the stocks of the present corporation are big shareholders were least concerned with brought out. Developments in this hear­ another matter. The SEC, among its other listed.” this. ing have prompted the Departments Jus­ functions, looks into stock promotions which Listing in the Honolulu Stock Exchange tice to bring its anti-trust suit against the it feels are not on the up and up, and into would free the “management of the two companies. the manipulation of business firms by large new corporations" from furnishing informa­ Sherman Act stockholders at the expense of the small tion on directors and other officers and . A U. S. civil anti-trust suit brought 8,000 Jobless stockholders. nominees for these positions,'fend other spe­ against the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co., .Ltd., and Hawaiian Airlines, Ltd. seeks Approximately 8,000 unemployed are Island investors have lost millions of dol­ cial information required by the Securities seeking work on Qahu through the Terri­ lars in certain Philippine promotions during and Exchange Commission. This meant to force Inter-Island to divest itself, of all controlling stock in Hawaiian Airlines. The torial Employment Service, and added to. the last thee years, according, to the Better the large stockholders could manipulate this are 2,000 more not registered with the Business Bureau. Filipinos have been com­ the companies as they wished. Also the case was filed in Federal court last week by Robert W. Strange, special assistant to IT. S. agency. The only bright spot in the em­ plaining of their losses and this was one officers and directors would not be re­ ployment field was the hiring of 500 sales of the reasons that sent William B. Brown, quired to furnish “information regarding Attorney General Toni Clark, who came and clerical personnel, but these were main- territorial treasurer, to Washington to con­ their trading activities in the stock of the here to file the complaint. • ly extras hired for the holiday rush. vince the SEC that floating of certain stocks two new corporations.” The complaint alleges that the com­ With shipping resumed employment was in the Islands must be investigated. Another advantage to the directors and panies have since 1929, “been parties to an expected to pick up for the- next few Also I iff') the news last week was the an- officers of the two companies under the unlawful conspiracy to restrain and monop­ months, but as yet, job openings are prac­ nouncemerit of a stockholders’ meeting of Honolulu listing is that they will not be olize trade and commerce in the Territory tically nil. Ohly the domestic field and the Waialua Agricultural Co., Ltd., for the prevented by the Securities Exchange Act in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law.”’ highly skilled occupations offer openings purpose of reorganizing the firm to form of 1934 from unfairly using information Not unrelated to this government suit and numerous high school graduates, dis­ two companies. The most interesting part which they obtained by their relationship was a $2,000,000 damage suit brought against couraged after months of fruitless search of the notice was the section that stated to the companies for personal profit. Inter-Island and Hawaiian Airlines by the for jobs, are entering business schools. the two new companies “will be listed on For small stockholders listing under the Trans-Pacific Airlines. In suing for dam­ The islands of Kauai, Maui and Hawaii the Honolulu Stock Exchange but not on San Francisco Stock Exchange would get ages, Trans-Pacific alleged the two com- reported increasing unemployment. Hiss-Chambers Case No Contempt “Is it possible that the real purpose of the In two states on the- extreme ends of present activities of the committee (un- National Summary the United States, court rulings hit at American Activities Committee) is, not to witch hunting. In a Federal court in Los save the country, but to save the commit­ tee?” wrote Zechariah Chafee to the Wash­ and replace it with a special civil rights Mississippi penitentiary. The grandson, Angeles a slim, talented screen writer lis­ ington Post. Chafee, for nearly 30 years group. And, members of Congress re­ Davis Knight, had -merely got married, but tened to a verdict with tears streaming a professor of law at Harvard University, ceived a condemnation of un-American the jury found that under the laws of down his cheeks. He was Lester Cole, one is a former corporation lawyer rated in his committee activities from the National Mississippi, his marriage was a crime. His of the 10 Hollywood' writers and directors, profession as an outstanding authority on Lawyers’- Guild. Said the Guild: “No' wife is a white woman and Davis Knight who was fired from the Metro-Goldwyn- civil liberties. He indicated that the un- agency of the government has or should was held by the Jones County jury to have Mayer Studio for refusing to tell a con­ American Committee was looking for ap­ have the power to inquire into or compel “Negro blood" and therefore to be a Negro. gressional committee whether or not he propriations in “pumpkins.” confession of thoughts; beliefs and associa­ was a Communist. He was cited for con­ Chafee wrote in his letter that com­ tions; the existence and activities of such Headache tempt of Congress in a case still pending mittee chairman, J. Parnell Thomas is “un­ a committee are inherently inimical to the In a San Francisco courtroom corridor, in Federal court. ■ der indictment for cheating the govem- most fundamental rights guaranteed by our during a recess in the case of divinity stu­ The verdict from the jury ordered that . ment in a particularly shabby way” and his Constitution.” dent R. S. McInnes, a quiet, determined Cole be reinstated’ in "his $I,350-a-week job. colleagues on the committee had been beat­ young man stepped up to Assistant U. S. In addition to this the court ordered the en in the November elections. Former Free State Attorney Joseph Karesh and said, “I’d ap­ studio to pay Cole $74,250 in accumulated The Harvard law professor questioned preciate it if you could arrange , for me to- salary. the contradictory mass of alleged evidence In the days when Mississippian Jeffer­ be indicted at the same time,” In Florida the state. supreme court ruled produced by Whittaker Chambers and oth­ son Davis was president of a government The speakei- was the Rev. Robert Meyn- 5 to 2 that Mrs. Leah Adler Benemovsky, a er committee witnesses. Said he: “Is not founded on the enslavement of the Negro ers, associate pastor of the Fellowship Miami Beach woman, had the right to re­ Chambers completely discredited now? His people, Captain Newt Knight, another white Church, and he was taking this means of fuse to testify whether or not she was a own testimony shows that he double-crossed Mississippian, was organizing his co.unty to protesting the post-war selective service Communist. Previously a Circuit court had his former Communist associates. If he be loyal to the Union and Abraham Lin­ draft. Like McInnes, who is being tried on sentenced Mrs. Benemovsky to 90 days in did not tell the committee about those coln. While the Civil War raged at Vicks­ (charges arising from a similar protest, jail for contempt of court. She had re­ documents during his close contact with burg and Tupelo, Jones County, Mississippi Meyners could be deferred if they would fused to reply to the question: “Are you a it last summer then he double-crossed the stood staunch against the Confederacy for register for the draft. But. both men in­ Communist?” The supreme court reversed committee . . .” the Union and became known locally as the sist registration is a violation of their the lower court order. Meanwhile, Rep. Emanuel Celler (Di, “Free State of Jones.” teachings of peace. Said Justice Glenn Terrell,, who handed N. Y.) promised that he would ask the Last week, the grandson of Captain To Assistant U. S. Attorney Karesh, it down the decision: "Membership in the 81st Congress to abolish the committee Knight was sentenced to five years in the was all a “big pre-Christmas headache.” Communist Party is not a crime in Florida.” * K BEST WISHES 8 to The § The HONOLULU RECORD Glamour Barber Shop § from 263 South Hotel Street HAPPY INN CHOP SUEY Hawaii Civil Liberties Committee WISHES EVERYONE A 3 1210 Smith St. Phone 55334 MERRY CHRISTMAS and a Wishes Everyone Start the New Year Right! 8 HAPPY NEW YEAR A MERRY CHRISTMAS Come to the H. C. L. 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She -Imved - to - buy—Ijloeks—of- stock—im-~ -that-the ^kn^^-^mmtentmnal- —assured—members this’ was all for NEW YORK (FP)-Already al institutions, may well become der their market value. and that it would not prevent him then- own. good, since, as she put, ' heavily engaged in real estate and even more marked because of “Trustees thus favored,” it from advising the membership on it, “a number of people have come other commercial enterprises, U.S. this direct entry into the com­ commented, “would seem to have procedural questions. Later, Mi'. to me after meetings and told me colleges and universities are rap­ mercial arena. ample reason to wish to retain Murray refused to accept Berman’s something should be done to elim­ idly expanding their investments, The Men Who Control Oiir Uni­ the goodwill of the firm and interpretations and left the chair. inate the bickering.” a New York Times survey recently versities, published in 1947 by the might consequently be influenced Miss Mary Noonan, a member of There was no open opposition to revealed. King’s Crown Press, a division of thereby in certain of their atti- the nominating committee, pre­ her tactics though a number of Before the war less than 20 per the Columbia University Press,'re-®,■ tudes toward various university sided over the major part of the people left the hall—“to cool off,” cent of the $2% billion in en­ vealed that businessmen and bank­ policies.” meeting after Mr. Murray had they said. ■ dowment funds' was invested in ers dominate the governing boards With increasing investments, withdrawn. Taking over the chair, The motion to refer the tie vote real property, businesses or com­ of the nation’s 30- leading schools. college administrators will be that she proceeded to “put things in to the national office came after modities, the Times reported. After proving statistically that much more susceptible to pressures order." it became apparent that no de­ Today about 40 per cent of $1 these groups control the boards, “For Our Good” cision could be reached here. At­ from outside the university. Theii- torney Myer Symonds .moved the billion is tied up in such enter - the survey said: “The occupations thinking will almost of necessity She recognized no points of or­ prises. The remainder rests in of these trustees and the large question and the motion carried be prejudiced for the side on which der, permitted no questions to the unanimously. U. S. government or so-called incomes they receive reveal only their economic bread is buttered. gilt-edged securities. partially the place of these trustees This^sharply increasing trend'of in the American economic system. And since “no clerical workers the pay; few years has found col­ Their commanding role in the bus- ‘ or skilled, semi-skilled or un­ lege dollars invested in such wide­ iness world is more fully disclosed skilled workers” are on the college ly, scattered properties as an Eng­ ... in their offices and director-' boards, and “no known, representa­ lish walnut grove, spaghetti fac­ ships in business enterprises. tives of these large population tory, airport, cattle ranch, depart­ “The magnitude of the 400 larg­ groups with the single exception ment store buildings, creameries est businesses covered is almost of one-labor union official," the .and chinaware companies. beyond comprehension. , . the en­ survey pointed out there will be no Men Who Control Universities terprises represented are usually voices. to object to this kind of Profits from these investments large and powerful. . . They, in­ prejudice. have one piajor difference from cluded, for example, U. S. Steel, normal corporation profits. Ear­ duPont, General Electric and Gen­ How much of the Icnd- marked for educational purposes, eral Motors." lease gunpowder given to the they avoid, the 38 per cent cor­ Trustees Are Favored Kuomintang has come back to porate tax • and add to college rev­ As an example of what it called Honolulu in firecrackers to pop enues. ■ a “type of recognition” received off in streets during the holi­ What the Times does not by trustees from the business com­ day celebration? point ont is that the big busi­ munity, the study revealed that a ness viewpoint, already prevalent Senate probe In 1933 showed nu­ in the nation’s major education- merous trustees were on a so-called University of Hawaii MERRY CHRISTMAS Theatre Guild and Presents A HAPPY NEW YEAR Aristophanes’ to the “Lysistrata” ..READERS of the RECORD Wed. r Thurs. - Fri. - Sat. 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He Because of the great number mum. Invocation was offered by has cooperated with him to solve established a home. At the end of young men and women serving the Rev. E. C. Yadao, of the ILWU Fifteen pigs and five cows were his gift problem. The problem of the year a baby was on its way. in Israel’s army, there is a great­ Regional Office publicity and pub­ slaughtered to prepare some 9,000 'yas how to give his wife a Christ- shortage of labor in the country. lic relations department, who flew lau-laus. The Hilo Poi Shop do-1 Sias present when he had no mon­ Lost Sight of Plan The Histadrut has been recruit­ from Honolulu especially for the nated 400 pounds of poi. ey with which to buy one. In the struggle of earning a live­ ing pickers among new immigrants, occasion. Other speakers were: ILWU sugar workers residing in The solution came as a result lihood, and in the preoccupation Arabs who have remained in Israel Yasuki Arakaki, veteran labor remote Kapoho prepared the lau- of a conversation he had with her with the practical problems of his and Jewish women exempted from leader at Olaa; H. P. Faye of laus and also gathered the coco­ regarding their home, he lost sight of the plan he military service for religious rea­ Amprinan Factors, who also came nuts for “haupia” (Hawaiian pud­ wartime corres­ had formulated in war-torn Italy. sons. Each group of 20 new’ re­ by air especially from Honolulu; ding). pondence. What had seemed real, tangible cruits is headed by a picker with He had spent and urgent in Italy merged and previous experience. a Christmas Eve disappeared into the background The Ministry of Security has al­ City Grill in Italy. There, of the exigencies of his daily life so released 700 carpenters and in the frustra­ in Honolulu. packers from the armed forces to 72 S. King St. tion," loneliness Then 1948 brought a change. aid in crating the crop. and despondency This year things have not gone WISHES EVERYONE A of that wartime smoothly with the Hamamotos. seem like Christmas since. I can’t £ Christmas Eve Early -this year the baby came. give you anything you want." MERRY CHRISTMAS he had written Later, Mrs. Hamamoto became ill. In September the bus drivers’ “But you can,” she said. “You and her a letter. In cam give lis what you yourself s the letter he told union, of which Mr.,Hamamoto is A HAPPY NEW YEAR Mr. BEEKMAN her what he a member, was forced to strike. wanted for last Christmas.” I planned to do on their first Christ­ Much as the baby was welcome, ‘ He. glanced up in surprise. “I mas together. the expense of' its birth was a got what I wanted for last Christ­ But when he was back in Hono­ strain upon the' family’s slender mas.” lulu, discharged from the army, the financial resources. Mrs. Hama­ She smiled. memory of his previous yearning moto’s illness added additional doc­ She keeps his wartime letters to tor and hospital'bills. her in the same drawer he keeps A MERRY CHRISTMAS had dimmed. On their first Christ­ the bills. She took the letters out mas together he had not fulfilled No Christmas Without Gifts and selected the one she wanted. and his -wish. ' One night recently Mr.' Hama- Carols and Bright Lights The year 1947 did not deal harsh­ . moto seated himself at his desk in On Christmas Eve in Italy he A HAPPY NEW YEAR ly with him. He went back to his the Veterans’ Housing. He opened had written: “What I'miss most, the drawer and drew out his over­ and what I- want , most is to see the I r due bills. He found them so nu­ bright lights of Fort Street . . . I to our merous, so large and so pressing want to hear the music of the g A MERRY CHRISTMAS | that his embarrassment was acute. Christmas carols. Some day I’ll be 8 I and S “Some day,” he told his wife, back. Some Christmas Eve we’ll FRIENDS AND PATRONS "these bills will be paid." go together to. see and listen.” I | A HAPPY NEW YEAR | “Until they are,” she advised, as In the trenches this was most 1 ’ $ she customarily does on such oc­ important because it meant com­ S casions, “let’s be careful.” ing home. Since then the prob­ It § from | “I had thought about buying you lems of his daily livelihood had nylon stockings for Christmas,” he made him forget his Christmas I I aloHa GRILL H said. “I had thought about buying wish until this new problem of I 1130 Bishop St. Phone 55711 you a new permanent*. . . ” gifts caused his wife to remind 1165 Bethel St. § “I had thought about buying him of it. you a leather jacket,” she coun­ This Christmas Eve Mr. and R J. S, FUKUROPA, Prop. H Robert Teruya, Prop. tered, Mrs. Hamamoto are to tour the “It won’t seem like Christmas,” city singing-Christmas carols with & he said, despondently. “It won’t the school children.

Holiday Greetings ToThe People Of Hawaii

From LONGSHORE & ALLIED WORKERS OF HAWAII ILWTJ-CIO Local 136

HAWAII DIVISION MAUI DIVISION OAHU DIVISION KAUAI DIVISION Thursday, Dec. 23, 1948 HONOLULU RECORD Page Five Women Moving From No Credit” To Police Says Judge Toddling Ty k^Teaches T odd Kitchen To New Jobs (from page 1) o--f acquittal-, then added his place,” the picture became more opinion of the police part in the (from page 1) complicated. But when Lucas pro­ affair, as related at the begin- Trading-Term Twaddle in 1940. At present, 10.7 per cent duced his shirt, torn and stained ning of this story. He added of all working women labor on with plenty of blood, the “assault” that in the future, policemen By TINY TODD farms, where they make up 22 charge against Lucas began to col­ should get together on their tes­ So just the week before Christ­ and labor difficulties have ham­ lapse. So apparently did the timony before they appear in per cent of the working force—as charge made by the officers that court. mas I got the word that Santa pered production to a point which opposed to 8 per cent before the Claus at Beer & Co. had a nervous endangers the nation’s economy. Lucas had “resisted arrest" by run­ breakdown, so I applied and half But you never say business is bad® war. In clerical jobs women oc­ ning back into his apartment after an hour later there I was, beard, just like that." cupy 60 per cent of the jobs now, he had been struck in the mouth. READ THE RECORD The judge, in giving the verdict red pants and all, listening to what “What happens if you do say ■as against an .earlier 52 per cent. the kiddies wanted for Christmas. it?” I asked. And in the crafts and factory jobs Mostly, they said about the same “I don’t know,” said the kid, women increased slightly to a 1948 things. Like this: frowning. “I’ll have to ask A. J. proportion of 16 per cent of - all “I wanna train ana magic set I think they kick you out of the workers. MERRY CHRISTMAS ana boxa candy.” National Association of Manu­ But then I got a different, kind facturers.” Business inventories now total and of customer. He was a kid, like The woman began twittering more than $50 billion and have the irest, but he didn’t look like it from where she stood and the kid - risen faster than sales over the A HAPPY NEW YEAR said, “Well, since you can’t help last year. only-made small, and there was a me and F. F. is getting herself prim-looking middle-aged woman into a state, I’d better toddle. with him. Cheers.” from “Careful, J. G.,” she said as she “By the way,” I asked, “Who is g A MERRY CHRISTMAS came up to me. “Those whiskers F. F.” are very unsanitary, so don’t get and too close. If you were to catch a “Fish Face,” said the brat. “She’s | A HAPPY NEW YEAR Richard S. Imada cold, your mother would have kit­ imported. Here’s a dollar, my. man, though you seem a little on the from tens.” moronish side. Yuletide felicita­ REALTOR “Don’t be an utter ass, F. F.,” tions.” Bus. Phones: S9113—S9431 Res. Phone: 7SS1S said this prodigy, dismissing the “Yeah,” I said. “Thanks, J. G., LEILANI governess with an airy wave. “You and plenty of Christmas Jeer know I can handle the old lady if . Beauty Salon D. B. A. REALTY ASSOCIATES anything goes amiss.” right back at you and A. J.” I composed myself well enough 1171 Fort St. 50 North, King St., Honolulu to begin the way I do with other Million In Back Pay Phone 65225 S kids, “Hey, heh, now my little man, • -3s tell old Santa what you want for—” Covers 3 Yr. Period “Can it, uncle,” says the kid. PITTSBURGH (FP)—The Cru­ ‘Tm hep io your pitch. I’m cible Steel Co. announced here it making a sociological study. Ever A MERRY CHRISTMAS will pay more than $1 million and since Dewey lost, I’ve realized this month to about 10,000 work­ that we Republicans are going to ers to iron out wage inequities. have to gather new data and A HAPPY NEW YEAR The company statement said: TO READERS OF THE RECORD AND FRIENDS form some new conclusions if “Under the wage inequity pro­ we’re going to stay in business.” gram instituted under the direc­ Cancelling, Not Buying tive order of the old War Labor , Iwao Narahara The middle-aged woman was Board, this payment is the result “GROWER OF MANOA LETTUCE” looking- a. .little nervous over at of negotiations between the com­ Palolo Valley Phone 766144 one side and I asked the kid, pany and the United Steelwork- “What’s the master with her?” ' ers (CIO). These negotiations re­ “Oh, never mind F. F.,” said sulted in the establishment of new American Jewelry § the kid. “She’s worried because, standard hourly rates for all steel my old lady would bawl her out mill occupations.” Company § SEASON’S GREETINGS for letting me come down here The back pay disbursement cov­ 1153 Fort St. S slumming. A. J. would under­ ers the difference between the ne­ to out stand that I’d better be learn­ gotiated rates and the wages paid Phone 59811S ing about trends among the low­ between Jan. 4, 1944, and April 1, Wishes Everyone S FRIENDS AND PATRONS er classes.” 1947. Similar wage inequity pay­ . MERRY CHRISTMAS | “Who’s A.- J.?” I asked. ments have been made by other Makiki steel firms in the Pittsburgh dis­ and -J 1363 B. Beretania St. Phone 56070 “Father,” says the kid. “He’s on trict, including Carnegie-Illinois a business trip to mainland now.” and Jones and Laughlin. . A HAPPY NEW YEAR * WALTER HONDA, Prop. “Buying?” The kid raised his eyebrows and trebled, “Are you being humorous? -He’s cancelling. Now if you will be cooperative, my man, I may be £ able to elicit some information ■ r —Horn you that will help me revise my hitherto faulty comprehension of business trends.” Merry Christmas Anything But “Bad” “Sorry, j; G.,” I told him. “I haven’t been on the job long enough. Just long enough to tell you business is bad.” The lad shuddered and raised Olympic Radio a hand to pretest, “Don’t say Service that! A. J. taught me when I was still in diapers that ft’s some 1284 Nuuanu Ave. KSBKSSSBSBB kind of crime to say business is Phone 57801 “What do you say then?” I asked. Wishes Everyone “You say business is spotty due to seasonal changes,” the kid came A MERRY CHRISTMAS back, “or you can say over-pur-, and chasing has created static, areas in certain fields of merchandising. . A HAPPY NEW YEAR Best of all is to say‘;that*stirikea

The Honolulu Cafe ■ PINEAPPLE & CANNERY 1196 Fort St. TEE i WORKERS’ UNION a Honolulu Cafe Annex 1315 Kalakaua Ave. ILWV-CIO Local 152

WISH ALL OCR FRIENDS AND PATRONS A MERRY CHRISTMAS and A HAPPY NEW YEAR Kauai Lanai Maui Molokai Oahu George Higa and Paul Higa, Props. Page Six THE HONOLULU RECORD Thursday, Dec. 23, 1948 More Small Farmers Seek Loans from FHA WASHINGTON (FP) — Small caused by .the sudden release oi Workers At Olaa Kept Morale High; Learned Lessons farmers have been coming to the hew funds when the fiscal year government for loans in far great­ began July 1. The average loan (By Special Correspondence) mornings spent on the-picket lines elude, regularly, pork on Mondays, er proportion this year than last, is about $1,200. in the plantation camps at Moun­ beef on Wednesdays, and fish on OLAA, Hawaii—The 68-day-old tain View. The workers had to Fridays. Fresh vegetables donated the Farmers’ Home Administration, FHA lends money to farmers Olaa Sugai- Co. lockout is ended successor to the Farm Security leave their warm beds as early as by truck farmers in the Volcano who cannot get credit elsewhere at but the approximately 1,100 ILWU 2 a' m. to be on duty on time. district, were included in every Administration, announced here. adequate terms and under reason­ meal served. An FHA spokesman said Dec. 10 able conditions. Loans for seed members and their families will Morale Kept High that the 29 per cent increase in and fertilizer for growing a crop never forget the many experiences The pickets, numbering over 600, The union hunters supplied mut­ are repayable at the end of the were transported to Mountain ton and goat meat on special oc­ farm loan applications received encountered during the forced casions. . Hunting was done on the between July and November of season. But loans can be made work stoppage. View on union-owned buses and 1948 over the 1947 record’ for the for terms up to five, years for in­ personal cars, from as far away slopes of Mauna Loa and Mauna same period is "startling.” The vestment in permanent improve­ Although there - were many as 30 miles each morning. On the Kea. Weekly hunting trips were FHA has loaned 50 per cent more ment in family farms. factors that went to make the 68th day of the lockout there were inade. money. than last year in these 68-day battle a victorious one, it well over 600 persons who turned Because they have their own months, he said, but explained was, in the final analysis, the up- for duty. To any unknowing way of cooking, the Filipino- that part of the increase was READ THE RECORD! person, the solidarity displayed by members prepared their meals in close-knit solidarity of the the workers would make it seem as their soup kitchens to their own workers that turned the tide in though the lockout had just gotteh tastes and liking. Some of the- I A-MERRY CHRISTMAS g favor of the union. underway. It was that solid. members who preferred Japa­ The workers will never forget, Soup Kitchen To Continue nese cooking had their meals at § and § the general soup kitchens. for instance, the chilly and wet Over 2,000 persons were fed daily J A HAPPY NEW YEAR | according to David Isa, chairman Special Menu On Birthdays of the relief committee. A majority Meals varied- in the different to of the soup, kitchens will be con- camps. In some cases the resi­ ALL MY FRIENDS - tinned for a month, despite the dents got together and “coined lockout’s end because many of the up” to observe birthdays of all members will still need- relief un­ those living, in that respective Alyce Kanemaru . til after the next pay day. . ‘camp, with a special menu for A typical week’s' meal would in- that occasion. ; For one reason or another, not all of the, members and families ate at soul) kitchens. These fam­ § | A MERRY CHRISTMAS H ilies were given* relief in the form, i and a of either cash or. groceries. A I The typical relief basket given a family • ' g | A HAPPY NEW YEAR | included the following: 1. pound g —to all the g coffee, 5 pounds sugar, 7 cans Honolulu Barber Shop TO ALL OUR FRIENDS cream, 3 cans sardines, 3'cans sal­ I g Readers of the RECORD g mon,- 20 pounds rice, 4 pounds po­ 14 South Hotel Street AND. PATRONS, A tatoes, 1 pound chocolate, 2 cakes. g from Ivory soap, 3 pounds meat, 1 pint Wishes All Its Friends shoyu, 1 roll toilet tissue, 1 tube Merry Christmas toothpaste, 5 pounds flour, 1 can I and Patrons and a Pacific baking powder, 2 pounds onions, Photo Engraving 3 cans chicken noodle soup, 1 8 MERRY CHRISTMAS Happy New Year pound salt and 2 cans corned beef.. I Company Probably one of the biggest, . and a 2952-B S. KING ST., gains made by the Olaa union,, Xrom besides their contractual gains, • I HAPPY NEW YEAR Telephone 75884 was -the uncovering of many new BOYS TOWNE secondary leaders during the 1 duration of the lockout. These 1343 S. Beretania St. J. R. INOKUCHI leaders should be very much in TRY OUR SPECIAL FACIAL — $2 R. W. REARDON the limelight^in the post-lock- s g g »i out period, and the important Ji^^ESKi^E^^^KSSkS^ follow-through work, at Olaa.

Christmas Greetings from 19,000 Sugar Workers

UNITED SUGAR WORKERS ILWU-CIO LOCAL 142 I *

Haidaii Division Kauai Division Maui Division Oahu Division is Thursday, Dec. 23, 1948 HONOLULU RECORD Page Seven

for type, but sickening to some." Others recommended were : “Deadline For Action9* -Portrays CONSUMER’S POT LUCK Yanky Clover, Hudnut'($3.20), soft amber, very sweet. Mystlcum, By JOHN WILLIAMS Scherk. ($8.40), also amber, but How Financial Giants Operate LOVE THAT SMELL! burning wool) and goaty (.which weaker. Top-ranking aldehyde Deadline for Action, a 16-mm one of the corporations making up Here we go, out of our depth blend Was Coty’s L’Aimant ($10.60). film with sound, has been shown m?ans sweaty). The best moss odor listed was the $31 billion Morgan empire. ■again. Perfumes! If you happen to like the scents, to nearly' every unit of the ILWU Seven other financial giants, with Consumers Union recently com- expensive Mitsouko. Guerlain, at and in plantation camps through­ almost inconceivable control over pleted a study of 96 brands of the best buys for quality and price $16.20, described as classic out the Territory. Made by Union not only money but strategic indus­ perfume. Nineteen were judged (all excellent or good—prices in blend.” The moss odors “are often Films for the United Electrical, tries such as steel, autos, trans­ As usual, there was based on oak moss and are fre- Radio and Machine Workers of “excellent.” parentheses per ounce) were: ^quently identified with a type of portation, banks, etc., make up an little relation between quality and Pink Clover, by Harriet Hubbard America, CIO, the film opens with eight-corporation super-giant that price. perfume supposed to have origi- the “hero,” Bill Turner, a General completely dominates our nation’s Ayer ($6), described as a “high- nated in Cyprus in the dawn of Electric Co. employe, facing 1 the Just judging a perfume is tough, pitched apple blossom with some perfuman (si.c) -history.” economy, and which draws profits whether it’s in the bottle or on post-war situation of a cut in take- from every worker and every busi­ jasmine notes.” Muguet des Bois, So there you are. Now off to home pay, and increasing cost of the ear. It is noteworthy that all Coty ($4), lily of the valley. Oeil- Kress’s. nessman every time each buys any of these perfumes were smelled, let Bleu (Blue Carnation), Roger living. commodity. none tasted. The perfume itself &; Gallet ($9.90). Early American BOOK CLUBS Bill was not alone. Every worker How these monopolies used their may run from Almond to Ylang- Old Spice, Shulton ($9.60). Ara­ If you are thinking vaguely of felt the same pressures. For that power against unions, after World ylang, no z’s.'' bian Nights, Scherk ($8.40). That buying more books next year, the reason the UE voted about 83 to 17 War I, and played their game of The classifications used were: one is a “dry, woody perfume.” best book club is the Book-Find. to strike in 1946. The sugar strike power politics at the cost of Amer­ AldenycIA floral, spice, woody L’ Origan, Coty ($8.55), sharp and . The books cost $1.79, four a year in Hawaii was but one little part ican lives in World War H, is odorsSorientals, amber, moss and musky . . . m-m-m-m. Cara Nome, required. A free book for joining of a nation-wide movement of shown in Deadline for Action. Re­ miscellaneous. Some experts di-' Langlois ($7.20), also that way. and another free one for obtain­ workers to keep war-won gains. ports of the U. S. Chief of Staff, vide them according to: Fragrant Jealousy, Blanchard ($9.60), heavy ing a new member. Address: 401 An. Octopus “My Three Years with Eisenhower,” or sweet, acid or sour, burnt (like and sultry, described as “excellent Broadway, New York 13, N. Y. The heart of the film shows the “Dinner at the White House,” etc., or you can join through Patten’s concentration of control in the are quoted to make clear that here. Most of the older book clubs United States, using the report of Americans died not for what they have been going all-out for big­ the Joint Senate-House Commit-' were told was freedom, but what breasted historical romances these tee to Study the Problems of Small was actually political expediency last two years. The tide has be­ Business. The report is titled Eco­ of the economic overlords of the gun to turn and their sales are nomic Concentration of Wealth in. nation. dropping. Book-Find ' has con­ World War H.. General Electric, with a capi­ The latter part of the picture tinued to offer topnotch fiction talization of $543 million, is but shows the 1946 UE strike, support and non-fiction, including Norman it received, employers’ efforts to Mailer’s “The Naked and the Dead” you know some good ones, maybe break the strike and final victory. which sold retail at $3.00. you’ll write in and let Potluck pass The futile fight to keep OPA , . the news along. and labor’s determination to call CHILDREN’S RECORDS Information in this column is Congress to an accounting provide . A good series of records for chil­ taken from Consumer Reports, the thought-stimulating finale of dren is offered by the Young Peo­ monthly publication of Consumers’ Film showings may be arranged ple’s Records which issues one 10- Union, 38 East First St., New York through the ILWU educational inch unbreakable record a month department. M. M for children three to seven and N. Y., subscription $5 annually. another for those over seven. It costs $15 a year with a bonus rec­ ord. Address: 40 W. 46th St., New York City, N. Y. Little Golden The Modern Records are-6-inch unbreakable for three to seven age and cost 29 Dance Studio cents in the East. Good buys. The 138 S. Beretania St. supposed best single record job in Members of the Waialua Fil A. C; pictured above are playing for narration '(ages three to seven) is the second series championship of the Oahu Fil Basketball tournament ■Decca CU 109, $2.10, Winnie the this Sunday at the CHA-3 court at 1:30 p. m. against the Waipahu Pooh Songs with Frank Luther. Wanderers. They won the first series. It’s a 12-incher, unbreakable. Kneeling L to R: Marcelino Ragasa,, Johnny Santos, Richard Cua- resma, Long Canadllla, Seferino Patera, Albert Talaroc and Cris Tan- dal. Standing: Ponte Labarias (mascot), Florencio Galinato, David Lu- CHRISTMAS GIFTS ‘Gentleman Al” Karasick § nasco, William Lunasco, Eddie Ellasus (manager) and Mariano Lunasco Cosmetic, Drugs, Photo Finishing (coach). Not in the picture are Eddie Lapa (assistant coach), Larry Fountain Service of the $ Sumili (scorer) and players Sandy Bunda and Alfredo Alfonso. The Waialua team already holds the Inter-Island Fil Basketball OMIYA SUNDRIES Championship, having won the title at Lanai on November 6, when 1205 S. King St. it defeated the Hilo Fils, Lanai Fil Youth Organization and Honolulu’s 67178—Phone—56383 wishes Everyone Civic Auditorium | Hollywood Custom Tailors. 1314 S. 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TO MERRY CHRISTMAS and ALL OF I MY FRIENDS A HAPPY NEW YEAR SEASON’S GREETINGS from to out 8 I FRIENDS AND PATRONS I 1 I Kailua Products Store I KciFl. Nagane. 147 N. King St. WHOLESALE DEALERS I EUGENE ICHINOSE, Mgr. Kukui & River Sts. Phone 58339 THE HONOLULU RECORD looking backward Koji Ariyoshi . . - Editor a point of, view Published every Thursday''^ By W. K. BASSETT 811 Sheridan St., Honolulu The Almighty Dollar Republic Who remembers when A. J. Gig- gress. They would do so as a pro­ Repudiation of the Press Phone 96445 noux, Lawrence M. Judd and some test against the proposed action to As far as the recent national election is con­ other young businessmen, were go­ take ithe tariff off sugar.” cerned newspapers having 90 per cent of the SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ing to take Hawaii from under the Ex-Governoi- George R. Carter total daily circulation in the United States might 1 year (Oahu) ...... $5.00 American flag and set up a new had no hesitation about letting his ’ just as well have left their editorial columns blank 1 year (Other Islands) ...... $6.00 Republic of Hawaii? It was less name be used. for the six months preceding-November 2. Edi­ ' —Includes Airmailing— than 36 years ago, in April 1913. Said he: “If the American peo­ torial influence of the daily press, reached-an all- time low in 1948. 1 year (Mainland)...... $5.00 It happened at an “informal” ple do not appreciate the bene­ meeting of the Commercial Club^- fit to them of the annexation of Imagine this: 90 per cent of the total daily readers of American newspapers were told by ... Ill the quotes are in the Advertiser the Hawaiian Islands ... we article, so maybe the meeting was should be privileged to petition their newspapers day WAR-TALK a pretty formal one, after all.’ A the United States to give us back after day that the elec­ petition was all drawn up and our autonomy.” tion .of President Tru­ The recent surprise visits of the B-36 ready for signatures: The startling effects, he thought man and of a majority and B-50 which no one here knew about “We, the undersigned citizens would be very good. of Democratic candi­ of the Territory .of Hawaii, re­ A lot of other people didn’t think dates for the United until) the bombers had returned to Texas spectfully pray your honorable so.' Their reaction was: "Now this States Senate and for made'front-page news with streamer head­ body, if the pending legislation crazy suggestion will be spread in the House of Repre­ sentatives would be a lines, pointed how be passed to remove the tariff the press all over the States, and all out vulnerable the on sugar, thereby making it im­ people will take it seriously and catastrophe for the peo­ islands would be in time of war. possible for us commercially to think we. are, crazy .when we’re ple. , In face of .this re-_ exist, that Hawaii may resume really joking.” Maybe the joke, peated editorial warn­ Column after column of editorials re­ its political status as in force sounded like a little sacrilegious' ing the people of Amer­ when we became a part of the to s^me. ica went to the polls on minded us that we were subject to attack November 2 and elected any time, and the flights taking place United States.” So the comments were pretty President Truman and Fathering the idea, apparently, sharp.. swept the Democratic during the Pearl Harbor anniversary, were A. J. Gignoux, F. L. Waldron, L. A. Thurston: "The silliest and Party into comparative­ MR. BASSETT drove home the thought that war can hap­ T. M. Church, ,Ed. Towse, and es­ most asinine thing that has ever ly huge majorities in I i houses of Congress. pecially C. G. Bockus. Said Bock- appeared in print in this Terri- ’ pen any time. us: tory.” Could any repudiation of the editorial policy, of the American press be greater than this? We next saw a change in the tone and “I have no authority to use the Chief Justice A. G. M. Robert­ And the people did it, not alone in the face names of a large number of men son: “I wonder if the Royalists slant of the editorials as U. S. military of contrary editorial instruction, but in the face who approve of the suggestion of were right when, twenty years of daily prophecies that they would do just the strategists pointed out that Oahu has be­ secession. But among them are ago, they said that the annexa­ opposite. ' ex-Governor Carter, John Mc­ tion movement was merely a come less important with newer develop­ The American people gave the newspaper Candless, Frank Halstead, Richard money-making scheme?” editorials and the polls the sympathetic smiles ments in the global warfare picture. Cooke and Lawrence Judd. I be­ Others: “Americans for revenue one accords the babbling of the simple-minded lieve fifty prominent businessmen only.” “Unwarranted folly.” “The Th eh, to the surprise of many, Brig. Gen. would sign the petition right away and went quietly about their business of dropping ‘ Almighty Dollar Republic.” votes in the ballot boxes. ... we believe that if the people “For the new Republic we should Robert F. Travis, commanding general of of this Territory were given the the Pacific air command, said the flight of have, a black flag with, a yellow Repudiation of the Polls' -opportunity, seven-eighths of them streak and nine dollar marks to And do you realize just'how much the people the B-36 was significant because it imposes would sign such a petition to Con­ represent the different islands.” ignored the "scientific” prophets? ; threats to the defenses of a possible enemy Take the Gallup Poll, for instance, which of the U, S. The general emphasized that JOE CAPSIN , Jobless Wonder Why ran along about the same line as the other polls. (from page 1) . (from , page 1) .The Gallup Poll is paid for by 125 newspapers, the B-36, the world’s largest and most far- to move from his bed. There was jobs?” the boy asked finally. among ‘them the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. The ranging bomber, has no equal and that it an operation which didn’t put him It wasn’t any use. He left feel­ poll had Mr. Dewey winning in states having ■on his feet, but to which he gives ing worse than ever. 355 electoral votes and Truman in states with can be a threat to no one but a possible a great deal of credit. What Such Writing Does 134 electoral votes. The^people at the ballot enemy. “It did wonders for me psycho­ I think that Tom Frazier ought boxes gave Mr. Truman 304 electoral votes and logically,” he says. to know how he makes people feel. Mr. Dewey 189. As far as the electoral college The general’s comment shows we have Capsin’s interest in Washing­ When he writes about unemployed is concerned .that’s an error of 130 per cent for Dr. Gallup. come a long way in preparing for offensive ton and national politics has people and calls them "oafs” and helped him to define his own “vags” and “greasy-haired youths,” But that isn’t all. The Gallup Poll predicted warfare, from atomic bombs to supersonic views. He is a Joe Farrington- it's bad enough, but when he makes Dewey victories by decisive majorities in 14 states planes and long-range bombers — to say Glen Taylor-Drew Pearson liber- them all sound like people hunt­ having 170 electoral votes. At the election Dru- • al. He has little use for the ing relief, he does something even man carried those 14 states. nothing of our new submarines and equip­ likes of Parnell Thomas and worse. He becomes, -consciously Look at the extent of Mr. Gallup’s debacle: ment for Arctic warfare. Pearson’s expose of Thomas was or unconsciously, one of the causes He gave Dewey Ohio by 13 per cent, California one of the moves of the news­ of their predicament. He makes by 9 per cent, Iowa by 11 per cent, .Illinois ■ by In view of this it is interesting to read paperman Capsin applauded vig­ them feel they are social outcasts 8 per cent, Massachusetts by 7 per cent, Minne­ because they are unemployed. He the newer note brought out in the Star- orously. sota, Wisconsin and West Virginia by 5 per cent, Relies On Congressional Record even makes it sound like a crime Wyoming by 4 per cent and Nevada by 3 per cent. Bulletin editorial of Dec. 15, after the daily At the moment. Cansin is'doing—; to be poor. On November President Truman carried every had been hitting hard on the theme of the what he can to make Glen Tay­ 1 think he ought to-be told it one of those states. The actual returns by states lor’s return to the Democratic isn’t—if there’s a crime, it’s some­ show that the Gallup Poll was off as much as threat to our defense. The Star-Bulletin where else besides among the peo- 15per cent on the popular vote. family of the Senate a little easier. pie lined up in front of lolani Pal­ said: “Russia’s tactics for the past three He has written Albert Barkley, vice ace. This is enlightening in view of the fact that in president-elect, who will be presi­ September the Princeton University Press pub­ years, including her economic as well as dent of the Senate, and a number lished a book by Dr. George GaHup entitled “A ' military moves, show no disposition tocome •of key. senators. Also, he has writ­ Editor’s Note—“Vera Hall is. the Guide to Public‘Opinions Polls.” In this “guide” ten his. friend, Drew Pearson, to pseudonym of an unemployed Dr. Gallup said: “There are three chances in to blows with the United States.” take it easy on Taylor. woman who felt Frazier’s com­ ments in a series called “Today’s 1,000 that the error (in a poll) will be greater than With this line of talk the editorial ex­ What he wrote to Barkley was: 1.5 per cent. Army of the Idle,” Star-Bulietm, On Page 112 of Dr. Gallup’s book he asked a tended its welcoming hand to tourists in “I know Glen Taylor from the Dec. 14-15-16 so strongly that she Congressional Record—not from came to the RECORD office to question and answered, it as follows: -. these words: “No one need fear to come the press.” give her -views. She uses a pseu­ Q. Suppose some'1’ unscrupulous polling or­ to Hawaii for a visit, and no onfe now here Specifically, what Capsin seeks donym not because she is ashamed ganization should enter the field.. Is there any for Taylor is his return to all sena­ of being unemployed, but because way by which the public could discover this peed rush away in trepidation. All the torial committees and sub-commit­ she feels publicity might endan­ fact? * . signs point to a continuance of Russia’s tees on which he served before he ger her. chances of getting a job. A. If the poll findings 'were trumped up for became the vice presidential can­ an election then the electloA'results would re­ tactics of irritation and bluster through didate on the Independent Pro­ , EDITORS’ CHOICE veal the extent of the manipulation. 1949 and 1950 at least;—and also to the gressive Party ticket. -In that fantastic world created All right. The inference-you get from the fact that Moscow is trying to get its .way “I don’t know yet,” he Says, “but and described by news editors-r-a foregoing is that the legitimate “margin^of error” from the answers I’ve had from world with only coincidental in a poll is 1.5 per cent. ' \ by bluff.” Drew and Alben and the others, resemblances to the one in which Dr. Gallup’s poll was off 130 per cent as to his I think something may be done.” Thus it seems clear that there is no we live—the death of Babe Ruth electoral vote prophecy. ' ’ threat of immediate war from the outside was the 6th biggest news story of He was off 15 per cent in his estimated results New Smear Crowds 1948. So says the United Press. of popular votes in 15 states. and that the U. S. is the only nation* in Less important were the Chinese Basqd on the assertions in Dr. Gallup’s book position to wage war. But nevertheless, Out Routine Smear civil war, involving the death of and the figures in Dr. Gallup’s poll would we our newspapers devote tremendous space WASHINGTON, D. C. (FP)—A more than a million people, and say that the election results do “reveal the ex­ to our vulnerability to attack. pamphlet which went almost un­ the founding of the new state of tent of the manipulation”? noticed because of the excitement Israel, which represented the reali­ This drum-beating serves to camouflage over the Hiss-Chambers spy case zation of the hopes of several mil­ And Now — the Fools a greater threat to the American people was issued by the House un-Amer­ lion more. In the New York Times of November 4 a mem­ today, which is growing unemployment, ican activities committee Dec. 5. It is significant that the editors ber of its editorial staff, in a letter to the editor, The booklet said the Communist, and their bosses, fearful of this analyzing the elections, said: plant shutdowns and cutbacks, in produc­ party is seeking to subvert the! en- changing world and still more fear­ “The great intangible of this election was the tion within our country. , tire U. S. school system from kin­ ful of reporting its changes hon­ political influence of the Roosevelt era on the dergarten to post graduate college Here injadnolulu the real threat to our estly, attached so much importance thinking of the nation . . , we didn’t give enough work. and so much space to the death weight to it. Consequently we were wrong, hot lives is increasing unemployment and re­ The pamphlet was a companion of a ballplayer. only on the election, but, what’s' worse, on the lief. This should be1 brought to public piece to the committee’s recent whole political direction of our time.” 'smear attack . against Protestant One marvels that Li’l Abner's attention and sharply, by our press so that churches, One Hundred Things schmooh didn’t rate a place among Since election the same fool newspapers have immediate steps can be taken to alle­ You Should Know About' Commu­ UP’s first 10 news stories of the resumed their carping. Last week a Star-Bulletin viate the situation. nism and Religion. year. editorial tosses a couple of handfuls of mud at The pamphlet "on religion drew cation had to compete for head­ the prevailing -presence of Franklin Delano We don’t want war or war talk; we want strong protests from Protestant line space with the suddenly re­ Roosevelt. peace and prosperity. clergymen. The pamphlet on edu- vived spy hearings. • Will they never ■ learn?