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THE HONOLULU ADVERTISER, TUESDAY, MAY 9, 950. WANT AD SERVICE CALL 52977 SIX History From Our Files Kona, an Aroused Titan By CHARLES E. HOGUE In olden days during and before the reign of -Ksmehameha the Great, the Land of Kona on the Island of Hawaii was the scene of turbulence, strife and vigoi-us industry; a Titan in the Polynesian scene. Then the giant dozed, enjoy- 1 ing a restful period of recuperation in an at- mosphere that even the most stirring of 1 events cannot wholly deprive of its natural placidity. Kona in the last century became eel- 5" ebrated as a region where complete relaxation EDITORIAL PACE 93 Yean Your Family Seuspapet, established My 2.

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lORRIN P. THURSTON RAYMOND COLL JAN JABULKA President ind General Manager Editor Managing Editor The Advertiser uill not be responsible lor letters, manuscripts, or photographs toluntarily submitted to this office unless accompanied hi self-addressed envelope and stamps to coter tie postage (or return mailing. Tuesday, May 9, 1950. Seventy Years Ago 18S9 In the Legislature: We do not remember having heard before such a lengthy debate on the subject of corrupt practices, but when a candidate receives more votes than there are voters, it is about time that matters were ventilated. The extensive and elegant billiard parlors which Mr.

James Lemon has lately thrown open to the public, at the Commercial Exchange, corner Beretania and Nuuanu streets, should receive a visit, if not patronage of those desiring to enjoy a sight rarely seen in this quarter of the globe. is a harmonious complement to productive re- sources and bountiful recreation on sea and land. Kona folks farmed of fished or hunted to their hearts' content, yet at cay's end found themselves able to take comfort in improvement and progresj throughout the rubber district. Thirty Years Ago 1920 Joseph K. Akana, well known Honolulu boy, leaves for San Francisco, from where he will go to Colon, Panama Canal Zone, to become associated ith his brother, who is owner of the Wcsing Company, the largest mercantile establishment in the Canal Zone.

James L. Friel of Inter-Island Steam Navigation Company, is returning passenger by the Mau-na Kea from H1I0 and the Big Island. Mother's Day will be fittingly commemorated by men in uniform at each of the camp huts today. At the Army and Navy in Honolulu, F. Frear will give a short talk, while Mrs.

Eleanor H. Peacock, will sing for the men and tell some stories. Miss Louise Lucas is dinner hostess, covers being laid for eight at prettily decorated table. Bridge is enjoyed after complete ease of mind and body. That is a rare gift; a bounty which will be preserved iealouslv even though the slumberous giant of HOGUE COMPETITION rv is? From the Christian Science Monitor.

Letters From the People Sixty Years Ago 1890 The following committees of the YMCA are appointed for the ensuing year: Devotional, H. W. Peck, chairman; Walter Wheeler, Theo. Richards, Dr. J.

M. Whitney, W. A. Bowen, J. E.

Bidwell, Edwin Benner; Henry Waterhouse, C. I. Carter. Temperance, F. J.

Lowrey, chairman; Rev. S. E. Bishop, Rev. H.

H. Bowen, W. L. Howard, T. S.

Southwick, B. Atherton, John Cassidy. Mr. James Morgan sells the property belonging to the estate of the late Margaret Keegan, by order of the administrator. Fixing Unions9 Responsibility The Unite! States Supreme Court- has ruled that the non-Communist oath provided for union officials who deire to ue the venires of the National Lahor ITelations Board is con-titutio'nal.

Thi i a detail of the Taft-Hartley Art to which tome unioni-t have objected on the ground that infringed their individual lihertie. Chief Vin.on opinion denies that tlii is to. A majority of the court agrees with him. They hold that the MJtB, when it i ueJ, gives the representatives of unions powers comparable to tho-e of a legislative body. They can create and restrict the rights of thoe whom they represent.

Hence they, like the President and the agencies of government, cannot evade the responsibility that goes with that power; must give public aurancc that they have at least a "minimal loyalty to the government of the United States. This sounds like common senv The unions have called upon the laws of the country liberally to aid them in organization am! in the maintenance of their authority. It seems the least they can do is to express openly their faith in, and allegiance to the government that makes those laws. yesteryear has awakened now, ancient fire gleaming in his eyes as he flexes his muscles and prepares to assume once more his role of a leader in the Hawaiian march of progress. The Kona Titan is aroused, but he has replaced his mailed gauntlet with a velvet, glove.

An earnest of the far vision that possesses Kona today comes from Kenneth S. Nagata, field assistant in the Adult Education Division of the Department of Public Instruction. Mr. Nagata tells of a group of twenty-two business people who got together on the Kona Coast and worked up a program which offers "an opportunity to learn, and to live a more satisfying life." This group took as its thesis, "People should know how to live not just how to make a living." Then its members set out to show the way. "Although the planning was carried out through our help," Mr.

Nagata says, "we want you to know that it has been Kona's program from the start. He sends a booklet, which is titled "Education for a Lifetime." Its contents tell a graphic story, of a community which knows its own needs and is determined to fulfill them. )Jt 36 3C English for beginners, advanced English and a complete high school course are offered. Then there is training for naturalization and instruction in the privileges and the responsibilities of citizenship. Fundamentals of parliamentary procedure are offered as a means of bringing orderly effectiveness to neighborhood meetings.

And there are courses in beginning Hawaiian and conversational Japanese. Commercial training is afforded through classes in typing, shortliand transcription, beginners bookkeeping, accounting and commercial law. Crafts, are encouraged through instruction in block printing, sewing, pattern drafting, woodcraft and woodwork, wood carving, knitting, crocheting and lauhala weaving. Industrial pursuits are dealt with in classes on fishing, electrical practices, radio maintenance and repair, poultry production for meat, fruit and nut growing and flower culture. Homemaking and esthetic values are given due consideration.

There are classes that dwell on personal appearance, on American, Chinese and Japanese cookery, on flower arrangement, on drawing, painting and dancing. The hula is taught along with modern ballroom and square dancing. There is a Kona Community Center orchestra and groups for choral singing. Lessons are given on the ukulele and guitar. No fees are charged for the Homemaking and Agricultural classes conducted by the Department of Public Instruction.

Nominal fees are collected for the community-sponsored courses. Public school facilities are employed at Alae, Hookena, Ho-naunau, Napoopoo, Konawaena, Keauhou, Holualoa, Kailua. Ho-nokokau and Kalaoa. Here the Kona folks meet their old friends and make new ones, heeding the plea of the project's sponsors to "be a part of the community that is getting the most out of life." Fifty Years Ago 1900 George Ward risks his life to stop a runaway horse which is attached to a vehicle driven by John Blank. Mr.

Ward is badly shaken up by his adventure, but refuses to accept a substantial taken of John Blank's appreciation. "It was my duty," he says. Marshal Brown, accompanied by Senor Canavarro, goes to Ewa to investigate further into the anarchistic statements which are alleged to have been uttered against the life of Consul Twenty Years Ago 1930 At 4:30 p.m. yesterday, The Honolulu Advertiser had received $181 in contributions for the China Famine Relief Fund. City misrule is bad publicity, says Harry Kluegel, now with the territorial government, speaking before Ad Club, and cites Chicago as a case of notoriety, and characterizes Chicago as "The Capital of Crime." Ten Years Ago 1940 Luther Walker Hough, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Luther Walker Hough, has been accepted for admission to West Point, according to message received from Delegate Samuel Wilder King. Lawrence M. Judd, Hawaii's former governor, returns aboard the Matsonia after three seasons spent on American lecture platform. Former Governor Judd's lectures brought him before audiences in 20 of the states.

Mr. Judd says he found a growing sympathy with Hawaii aims and more interest in the islands. LETTERS MUST BE SIGNED and author's address given. Preference will co to those that are typewritten, double-spaced, on one side of paper, of 250 word or lesi. and with which the author li willing to have his-name appear.

Pen names will be permitted at the Editor! discretion. All letter are subject to condensation, editing or rejection. Truth and good taste are required. Letters will not be returned or held. SHUT-INS ARE GRATEFUL Editor The Advertiser: Forty Years 1910 In this issue picture of Dr.

L. R. Gaspar, who is vice-president of general entertainment committee for cruiser San Gabriel. W. G.

Scott returns to Maui after visit to his rubber lands at Nahuku and reports much Rainbow Lei for Visitors Nature in a dramatic mood hung a brilliant rainbow over Honolulu harbor yesterday morning; a lei of welcome for i'itori arriving on the Lurline for an Island outing. It may have that the new guests, after the novelty of the display had pascd, would have preferred clear skies and fewer showers than the day afforded, but that was something which could riot be arranged in all neighborhoods. However, even if Hawaii's spring weather was a little disappointingas it has been for several weeks there was in it at Jeat tfie value of contrast to that which the Mainland news reports offered. Fatal storms were raging on the East Coast, flood beset Canada and there was a typhoon off Guam. Then, too, if Hawaii's weather were fair the year around thi would be a bleak and desolate place indeed.

For the Islands beauty stems from the bounty of their rainfall. So we hope our latest visitors will not let their pleasure be dampened by whatever happens to them in the matter of weather; our aloha to them is warm and sincere. Will you please yass on my gratitude to the American Factors, Theo. Davis and the Murphy Motors for their wonderful concerts given over the radio week after week. Not only do shut-ins appreciate them but many of the great records are so very expensive as to be beyond the limited means of many people who love good music.

Also mahalo for Mr. H. M. P. Rose's splendid Hawaiian Lei Day songs of the Islands in place of the many times poor substitutes for the beautiful old Hawaiian Songs both music and words.

Good advertising! Leaves a nice feeling. Mahalo Nui May 4 A. H. LARNED THE PUBLIC AND WELFARE FUNDS Editor The Advertiser: On its face, the Community Chest's "open door" policy might look good to some people. However, Mr.

Henderson's claim that there is a lack of evidence that the independent campaigns achieve any substantial degree of support is unwise. If the un-afilliated agencies were having a diiticult time of it, the door would not have to be left opened the knocking would virtually tear it down. The wolf" agencies seem to be getting their DOWN TO CASES njad. REMINISCENT NOTE Jared Smith says he likes to remember away back to the real old days when a nickel would buy a good 5-cent cigar. Sydney, Australia, hostesses, plagued by gate-crashers, now demand that each guest be identified.

They ohght to be thankful that they don't have to give luaus. "Hollywood Plans 'Unearthly' Plots." Headline. J. R. says that's a mightily delayed announcement.

The Man With the Red Mustache says his idea of a foreign, language is the words you can't figure out in the crossword puzzles. Your Hpkum for Today: "It will sound all right when I ret in there with' my tenor." share and, in turn, serving the community adequately. The Chest, though, doesn't seem to be able to keep its own affiliated agencies in potatoes and gravy. Elsewise, why the extra Iund drives of these welfare groups after they have received their share of the Chest funds? At least the independents only have to make one appeal a year. Has it ever occurred to Mr.

Henderson that most people have "pet" charities? It's too easy for agencies to lose their identity with the public once they come under the Chest's wing. In conclusion, it is not "in the final analysis" the business community which must give the final answer. It is the people, Mr. Henderson, the plain, common ordinary people. May 7 (Mrs.) E.

T. STOSKUS Tcannvorh at Kona "Recent reports of ventures in adult education on the Kona Coast of the Island of Hawaii emphasize the teamwork, the cooperative spirit, j.n which thee enterprises are being undertaken. Kesidents of the region are taking the initiative and employing facilities that are afforded them by government agencies. Kona is a vacation center of remarkable charm. But, also, it is more than a pleasant place to res and play.

It has vital assets in its lands and in the ocean waters that roll along its shores. Best of all, it has a people who are alert to their own welfare and that of their neighbors and are determined that reidenlvthere shall have the full advantage of schooling es-pecially adapted to their needs. Therein they set an example in civic enterprise in which all Hawaii finds cause for pride. 'South Pacific's' New Emile By ROBERT C. RUARK NEW YORK, One of the more magnificent obsessions around towTi belongs to Mr.

Ray Middleton, whose hair has suddenly turned gray, and whose face has lined beyond its middle years. Mr. Middleton is roughly in the spot that was encumbered by Harry Truman when FDR went away. i Mr. Middleton takes over on the first of June for Signor Ezio Pinza, in a pageant called SAFEGUARD HAW AII'S LAND Editor The Advertiser: May I heartily endorse Mr.

William L. Kahuena's defense of the Hawaiian Commission Act. When I first came over here from England two years ago, I quickly made friends with the Hawaiians and became very sympathetic to them. May 6 WENDY VAN DEN BERGH Pepper Aftermath By MARQUIS CHILDS WASHINGTON Those who see Communism as the issue in the election this fall and in 1952 can claim with justification that the victory in Florida of Congressman George Smathers over Senator Claude Pepper proves that this is the I best way to win. Red charges against Pepper I took hold with voters from the top on down the 1 scale.

i I 11 would be unwise to draw any final con-j I elusion from the outcome of the intensely bit- i ter Florida contest. Pepper was running against a powerful Republican minority I sparked by rich Northern vacationers as well I as the conservative Democrats. Then, too, he was extraordinarily vulnerable. His ambition I and egotism had led him into dalliance with i I the Extreme Left immediately after the war. He wanted to be President.

CHILDS In New York's Madison Square Garden Pepper gave out the proper line to draw massed cheers and, at the mention of hated names, massed booing. Under this spell, Pepper opposed the Democratic organization and President Truman. He took conspicuous public occasions to demonstrate his irregularity. At the Democratic convention in 1944 Truman is said to have received word that Pepper favored him for the vice presidential nomination. Truman was nominated for Vice President by Bennett Champ Clark.

Pepper was recognized and seconded the re-nomination of Henry Wallace for Vice President. At the Philadelphia convention four years later he teamed up with the liberal-left Democrats who were eager to displace Truman as the party's nominee. A feeble little boomlet for Pepper sprang up, with Pepper for President signs blossoming briefly in an office across from the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. Most people forget such minor footnotes to a big political shindy almost as soon as they are over. But President Truman is one who does not forget.

His political memory is longer than an elephant's. Since Smathers voted and spoke in opposition to Administration policy on important issues, Pepper's defeat could presumably cause trouble beginning next January. But one more Southern Senator, which is what Smathers promises to be, surely will not make much difference in view of the present confused and divided state of the Democratic party in Congress 1 ooum 01 wmcn you may have heard. This is generally accorded to be bravery above and beyond the call of anything except money, for Mr. Pinza, a grayed, corseted Italian who fell from opera to musical comedy, has been Set-Back for 'Welfare State' President Truman's "Welfare State" program of individual dependence upon government from the cradle to the grave, was fiven a significant setback in Florida when Senator Claude Pepper was defeated decisively for re-election after fourteen years in the United States Senate.

The primary campaign there tantamount to a final election was waged solely on the issue of the Truman so-called Fair Deal. George Smathers, successful candidate, won on a forthright free enterprise" platform. TRIBUTE TO SPLENDID SERVICE Editor The Advertiser: Now is the time 10 honor the splendid service rendered by the men and women who represented Hawaii in its effort to obtain statehood. To them let us be grateful for a task well done. Never in the history of Congress has there been a group of men and women of different racial origins who so ably spoke for the Territory's statehood cause.

Never has there been a representative body appeared which so determinedly sought the approval of a Senate committee to allow a bill be heard in the Senate for ratification of statehood qualification. Hawaii deserves admission to the Union as a state. It is without a question of doubt that she is qualified. Communism is not the predominated issue. Comparatively with the rest of the states, here in Hawaii, Communism has gained so small foothold that it is a small issue to mention.

Here the question of loyalty is expounded in every way possible, and there should be without a question of doubt that the people as a whole are loyal Americans in every sense of the spirit of democracy is prevalent throughout the length and breadth of the Territory. Nowhere in the world is there a legislative body of men and women of different races and creeds bonded together and make laws that are truly democratic to the people. Hawaii can lead the way to realistic democratic American way of life; a bulwark of democracy. To the body of men who represent the Senate of the Congress of the United States let us be one of you as a state, let us be a people free to elect the man qualified to govern the people whose rights and "privileges are invested and guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States. Let us live as free people in a government ruled by the people, of the people and, for the people.

May 6. DR. W. S. CHAR TH AN KS FROM KALI HI WAENA Editor The Advertiser: On behalf of Kalihiwaena School and the P.T.A., I take this means to thank you very much for the excellent publicity that you have given to our recent fair and carnival.

It was a success, educationally, socially and financially. The children of Kalihiwaena School will be able to enjoy the enriched classroom suppies and equipment. KALIHIWAENA SCHOOL May 2 STEPHEN'S. KANDA, Principal I to grandmother since he opened opposite Mary Martin a year back. Mr- Pinza, I suppose, is the sexfest grand father on record.

His sex-appeal has been so great that he has skipped some 60 performances without wrecking himself at the box office. As Emile, the tropic-island planter, Mr. Pinza has stirred forgotten emotions among the matrons, and has dignified grizzled hair to the acute embarassment of 40-year-old iu-yfmIfS; He the movies. to get richer, leaving Mr. Middleton with the chore of being washed out of Miss Martin's crew-cut.

Middleton, the veteran he-lead of "Annie Get Your Gun," is in seclusion at a muscle ranch he owns conjunction with the director of his show and an Oriental iriend He has undertaken to rediscover the role of Emile the French expatriate who got lost when Ezio, the flamboyant, burst upon the scene. i feulS SOrt mile the character who got mislaid. He has assayed Emile's years, for instance, and finds that the man who wins Miss Martin's heart cannot possibly be more than 43 years old as opposed to Mr. Pinza, who is considerably older Ray will play an Emile who is 48 years old I locks of Mr. Middleton were reasonably "raven when 1 Iermai's marksmanship in but a few critical friends have observed that he has tossed away the India-ink bottle, and has recently become as gray as a wolf This is as far as he mtends to go in personal physical adaptation for the Pinza role.

Mr. Middleton does not wear a girdle. He will however, change the outer costuming for the part Whereas Pinza shows up in every scene as frfsh as a bond salesman, impeccable worsteds, Mr. Middleton feels that a fellow is apt to get sweaty if he works for a living on a troDie islend so Mr. Middleton will dress the part of a sweaty Emile wlH- TCaf P1.

khaki and creased pongee and I do believe he intends to let his whiskers sprout from time to time There may even be a thin film of soil under his nails for a scene or two, since he says that a planter of copra in the Far Pacific cannot remain immaculate if he oversees his acres with sincerity I cannot predict that Brother Middleton will drive the "memory of Signor Pinza from the consciousness of the begirdled bobby-soxers, but he ought to strike a happy medium somewhere. baritone, is bigger and handsomer Ann- lasted exactly two years and eight months in tion on any tage aSamst Merman, who is stout competi- Give United Nations a Chance By THOMAS L. STOKES WASHINGTON It is unfortunate that Herbert Hoover has used his prestige to propose that Russia and her satellites be barred from the United Nations. Much more pointed to the Disturbing Optimism Out here in mid-Pacific, the people of Hawaii have a clearer view of Russian Communism, particularly as it applies to Sov iet conquest in Asia, than seems to exist on the Mainland, even sometimes in Washington for all its avenues of world information. So the news that President Truman takes such an optimistic view of the current situation that he thinks our defense preparations can be curtailed is definitely disturbing here.

Islanders are more likely to agree with congressional and military leader that the cause for alarm is greater now than it has been heretofore. Mr. Truman says it is the business of the President to be optimistic. It would he mote accurate to say that it is the President role to be coldly factual in his outlook. Blind optimism is a perilous attitude.

It is with some measure of relief that Hawaii hears of the decision of the House Armed Services Committee to recommend the maintenance of the nation's military draft machinery for another two years. This action will not mean the drafting of any men without the approval of Congress but it will he a precautionary measure which may eventually have untold i I needs 01 today was a proposal made the same day in New York by John Foster Dulles, another distinguished Republican and foreign affairs expert, for a general conference to revise the U. N. on the basis of the first five years of experience to make it a more effective agency. All- of us have suffered frustration from the way Russia has balked repeatedly in the U.

N. and lately has been boycotting various of its agencies because she wants Communist China to replace National China on the Security Council. It has been disappointing, too, that the STOKES U. N. has been handicapped because of the differences between MacArthnr Tells the Russians General MacArthur's reply to a Russian protest against the maintenance of occupation force defenses in Japan and Okinawa was couched in language the Kremlin can understand.

He told the Soviets bluntly that the defenses would le maintained at a level which will safeguard those lands against invasion, and that this is none of Moscow's business. A little more talk on this same plane from Washington would helpful to the cause of the world's free peoples. Nothing good ever came out of offering appeasement to a totalitarian dictator. the two most powerful members, our nation and Russia. But it is unlike Herbert Hoover to yield to such frustrations.

Wmle the U. N. has been inadequate so far with major international-problems involving us and Russia, it has. nonetheless, done a great deal through its agencies, especially of the humanitarian sort for helping refugees, promoting education, and health, and feeding starving children. This sort of aid has penetrated beyond the Iron Curtain to help and improve the lot of people.

That, of itself, contributes to international good will and understanding. We can not, for humanity's sake, close that door, either. We can not afford to be self-righteous. We must not forget that we, as well as the Russians, insisted upon the Big Power veto that has caused so much trouble, and that we were the first to go outside the" U. N.

in our Greek-Turkish venture right at the doorstep of Russia. As for Mr. Hoover's over-all objective of "moral and spiritual cooperation of God-fearing free nations," we have already created numerous agencies to promote that, as Mr. Dulles pointed out, in ECA, the North Atlantic Pact, and the smaller Western Union in Europe. It was upon our insistence at San Francisco that such regional organizations ere permitted within the U.

N. framework. This is not the time to break up the world federation through which we can project our influence all over the world. Let us not start any secession movement. World Growth of Baha'i Completion of the interior ornamentation of the Baha'i Temple early next year was announced to the more than 700 delegates and visitors at the 42nd annual convention of the Baha'is of the United States at Wilmette.

Illinois. Total cost of the construction of the Temple, beun in 1921, will reach $2,500,000. Highlight of the session was the election by the 171 delegates of the nine-member National Spiritual Assembly for the coming year. Paul Haney, Washington, D. was elected chairman of the Assembly by its members.

Other members elected were Mrs. Dorothy Baker, Lima, vice-chairman; Horace Holley, Wilmette, secretary; W. Kenneth Christian, Lansing, H. Borrah Kavelin, New York City; Miss Elsie Austin, Washington, D. Miss Edna True, Mrs.

Amelia Collins, and Leroy C. Ioas, all of Wilmette. Of outstanding interest to the convention was the report by Edwin Mattoon, Wilmette, chairman of the Inter-America teaching committee, of the formation of National Assemblies next year in Central and South America. It will bring to 11 the number of National Baha'i Assemblies. In western Europe.

35 Baha'i centers have been firmly established i ten nations, Miss Edna True, chairman of the European teaching committee, told the assembled delegates. A message from Shcghi Effendi, international head of the Faith, at Haifa, Israel, informed American believers that Baha'is are now found in 100 different countries and literatures has been translated into 631anguages. I Honor for Dr. Stokes Dr Anson Phelps Stokes, former Yale secretary and one time Canon of Washington Cathedral, will be honored by Harper vnrir a the Yale club New York City Wednesday afternoon, May 10, which is the publication date for Clergyman Stokes three-volume work t'--' and State in the United States," which documents 160 years of church-state relations. Leaders in both clerical ana uou are among those invited.

Among those who have made possible the sale of this extensive illustrated and documented work at a reasonable price for wide purchase are Christians and Jews, individual philanthropists, and nationally known foundations. Two of the foundation realizing the importance of the American plan of constitutional religious freedom and separation of Church and State have given funds for distribution of the work to important libraries abroad, could not otherwise afford sets. Prominent publicists, lawyers, educators and historians, as well as clerical and lay church leaders have written endorsements of these volume as an invaluable contribution to the understanding of American history and of one of America's pressing problems A THOUGHT FOR TODAY Bad fortune in the end often turns out to be the very best fortune, if we properly study it. As a mnn chnsteneth his son, to the Lord thy God chastcneth thee. Deut.

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