EIGHT 2jmtnhtht 0tar-lUtllrtm HauaiCs Greatest Seicspaper Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday. 125 Merchant St., Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, U. S. A. RILEY II. ALLEN EDITOR! WASHINGTON BUREAU Wasnirgton Press Service. 103 A.t.fe tiidg., Waahwigion, D. C. NATIONAL HEPRKSF.NTATJVi-.S O ;,Tara & Ormsbw, lie. Offices- Yotfc 20 Madi-son Ave ; CMcago N. Micntn Ave; Los Ansreie 4-;4 1A , iluh'rs St: Sn rrnctsco Kuss R!dg.; Uetroit General Motors Eidg.; A tianta Journal Bids ; Eos ton Transcript B,6s. MEMBER Of THK ASSOCIATKO PRESS The Aso-faltd Prrss in exclusively entitled to tt u.-e of republication of ait news dispatch'! credited to it or rot otherwise credited in this paper and ho trie local ne-.vs published Herein. Ail right f t republication of special diipatehe fcerein are also reserved. A. B. C. Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. GRAPEVINE NEWS FROM THE DEEP SOUTH It may Le that the dogwood is lale blooming this year. Maybe the frost got into his sweet potato hills and ruined them, or a late cold spell killed his .spring planting. Maybe our correspondent is just disgruntled and is viewing events and their meaning with a jaundiced eye. Or he has an ax of his own to grind; you never can tell when people start talking politics. But whether he's right or wrong and you can take it for what it's worth our correspondent in the Deep South sends word over our private grapevine telegraph that the folks down there arc doing some wishful thinking about the next president. It's heresy, of course, to say it out loud, and our correspondent would probably deny it till he was blue in the face if you ever took it back to him, but the grapevine says and you can take it for what it's worth that the people back there are thinking how nice it -would be to have a Republican president again. " Now, don't think for one minute that the folks down south would vote for a Republican. No, sub! "Why, heck, man, I'd vote for a yellow dog if he was a Democrat." You know. You've heard it. But if the rest of Ilic country went ahead and elected a Republican this time, as it had been doing for so long it was an awful surprise when nearly everybody else joined the south and elected Roosevelt in i032 why, if the rest of the country did that, the south would just have to like it, that's all. You know, the south is kind of sot in its ways. It's been poor for so long it's got used to that, and as for voting Democratic why, suh, that's a matter of honor and tradition. Mr. Erskine Caldwell, who has made quite a piece of money off a play telling how vicious the life of a sharecropper is, said -while in Honolulu recently that he'd rather be a European serf than a southern sharecropper. Now, Mr. Caldwell is an intelligent man, and his opinion carries a lot of weight, but the average sharecropper is just dumb enough rather to be what he is. As a matter of fact, a lot of them would rather be what they arc than to be Mr. Caldwell. But that just goes to show how sot in their ways they are. They don't like to change things very fast. Some of them are still scratching their heads over why Mr. Henry Wallace got them to plow up part of their crops in the early days of the New Deal. They took his money for doing it, and were glad to get it, and so long as Mr. Roosevelt kept the price of cotton at 12 cents, why, he was their man. But the supreme court, or something, got in Mr. Roosevelt's way, and southern farming became the same tough scuffle it had always been. And now, by gravy, after running the country in debt and nothing to show for it but the CIO, he's trying to get us into another war. s&s ijs Our correspondent says a lot of folks thought Mrs. Roosevelt was sticking out her neck when she resigned from the Daughters of the American Revolution because that organization wouldn't let a Negro woman sing in Constitution hall in Washington. Now, neither we nor the correspondent wants to get into any controversy over the way many southern white people feel about the Negroes, nor why they feel that way. It all goes back to slavery time. The correspondent is just pointing out that the feeling docs exist, and he says Mrs. Roosevelt's act cost the president "support in practically every part of the south. Which gets us back to our correspondent's message over the grapevine telegraph, and what we've just finished decoding. It says that if Mr. Roosevelt goes after the nomination for a third term, he won't get it with the south's support. The south, as you may have heard, is long on tradition. If two terms were enough for every president the country has had so far, why, that's enough now. The south recalls that the only man who ever tried to get in on a third term was another Roosevelt. And so, if Mr. Franklin D. goes after the nomination, he'll have to get it without the south's help. Maybe he'll get it anyway. He needs only a majority vote this time, not the two-thirds which under the old rule enabled the south, voting solidly, to veto anybody it didn't want. If he's nominated, why, we'll vote for him, suh! He'll be running on the Democratic ticket, even if he isn't a Democrat at heart. Now, as for Garner why, suh, there is a man for you! And it's about time we had a southerner in the White House! If he wants the nomination and the election he can have the south's vote. That's what the grapevine telegraph savs That's what our correspondent in the Deep South hints at. STANDING UP TO MUSSOLINI Britain and France display toward the swaggering Mussolini a much greatei firmness of opposition than toward the equally bullying Hitler. For this there arc several reasons. First, Italy's moves to grab additional territory more directly interfere with Britain than do the German moves. The menace of the British "life line of empire" is far greater in the Mediterranean than in Middle Europe. Second, France and Britain can cooperate directly and devastatingly against the Italians. Third, British temper, slow to kindle, has by now been pretty well stirred by the various moves of the dictators. The Italian scheme to grab the Greek island of Corfu is only a straw piled on the stack that has been growing for years, but it is a conspicuous and seriouslv challenging straw. The British and French have both learned that the bland "assurances" of Mussolini and Hitler are worth exactly nothing except as a play for time. Behind these polite expressions there is a tie-liberate ami well-matured plan to grab all of Europe that is grabbable. But playing for time can work both ways. Britain in" particular has used to good advantage the breathing-spell that came after the much-heralded but practically futile Munich "agreement." In fact, Chamberlain's policy, halting and humiliating as it has been, has given the British invaluable months of preparation for possible war. So now Britain and France together are serving stern warning on Mussolini which is just as much a warning to Hitler. The urgent question in the mind of the world is, Will there be war? Our guess is that Mussolini will not risk a showdown. He will test every possibility of further territorial aggressions but he will not risk retaliation by the British and French fleets. In fact, we think that if a squadron of British or French cruisers had been up in the Adriatic sea, lying off the harbor of Durazzo, there would have been no Italian grab of Albania. SWIMMING AND SWIMMERS Laden with cups and medals, covered with glory, another Hawaii swimmer has come home from oversea competition and adventure. He is Kiyoshi Nakama, 18 year old high school boy of Maui. His trip to Australia brought him many victories and the spotlight of attention of hundreds of thousands of sports loving people. But he returned with the same modest demeanor he carried south on the steamer. Nakama's name is added to that of the "swimming greats" of Hawaii Dan Renear, Duke Kahanamoku and his brothers, Buster Crabbe, the Kalili bovs and many another. For its size and population, .Hawaii has furnished more world and Olympic champion swimmers than any other part of the world. And they have brought to Hawaii not only the acclaim of the world of sports but fame as a country where year-round swimming is the natural activity. Indeed, the prowess of Hawaii's amateur swimmers unpaid and competing merely for the love of it and the occasional trips that are possible has been of very great effect in centering attention of this mid-Pacific playground. Now the Junior Chamber of Commerce, an alert and energetic group of young men ... is sponsoring the swimming and diving championship competition of the Hawaiian Association of the Amateur Athletic Union. These will be held Friday and Saturday nights, this week, in the Elizabeth Watcrhouse Memorial pool, Puna-hou, beginning at 7:30. Visitors in the city, especially if they've never before seen a Hawaii swimming meet, will enjoy its color, and the thrill of a fine and exciting sport. They'll see future world champions now in the making youngsters who some day are likely to equal or eclipse the records of "our Duke" and the latest sensation of the water, Kiyoshi Nakama. REP. MULLER SUMS IT UP Representative Emil Muller of Maui correctly and strikingly sums up the current legislative proposal to tax payrolls. In debate on revenue-producing bills in the territorial house of representatives, Mr. Muller declared that the senate plan hoisting the tax on wages and salaries means "taking away the buying power of the poor man, whose payroll would he taxed one and one half per cent under the senate revenue measure." And there is no need to put this additional heavy burden on poor people. Engle and his house finance committee have submitted a proposal which would avoid it. Their plan includes the liquor tax and the cigaret tax, and it may be that there will have to be a small real property tax increase. Otherwise existing imposts would remain the same. The scheme to shove the additional tax on wages and salaries upon the breadwinners of Hawaii is not only unfair to them but extremely shortsighted as a matter of territorial economy. For just as Representative Muller pointed out, it means that buying-power will drop. And that can have but one result on general business an injurious result. At last, Hitler's great work, "Mem Kampf," appears in a complete translation. It turns out to be Tony Galento's comments on the other pugs, but longer. New Haven Evening Register. At Harvard, a freshman won $10 by swallowing a live three inch goldfish. And yet people say the paths of opportunity are closed to our young. Detroit News. it
