The Honolulu Advertiser from Honolulu, Hawaii • 20

WEDNESDAY MARCH 19, 1947 EDITORIAL PAGE fll-jiiawkrl's Territorial Newspaper MR. TAFT SHOOTS HIS BOLT History From Our Files Hoist By His Own Game By RAY COLL, JR. History is not clear on whether gin rummy was born in but it is certain that this curious game of cards has been The Honolulu Advertiser 90 Years Your Family Newspaper, Established July 2, 1836 Honolulu, 2, T. Advertiser Square, Kapiolant Blvd. and South St.

Printed and Published by Advertiser Publishing Company, Ltd. LORRIN P. THURSTON President and General Manager RAYMOND COLL Editor JAN JABULKA Business Manager The Advertiser will not be responsible for letters, manuscripts, or photographs voluntarily submitted to this office unless accompanied by self-addressed envelope and stamps to cover the postage for return mailing. 2 riy adoptea Dy tne iiiciser emzenry as uieir pdiutuMi jjasuinc. i tmi itritVim-it TftCArvatinn mm tery, former U.

S. engineer here, intimated that the United States government will take over the wiarves at the foot of Fort street, oeside erecting the rear range light at that point as selected by Captain Slat-1 tery. Seventy Vears Ago 1877 Another Guano. Island It is stated that a considerable deposit of Guano has been discovered at Farming's Island hitherto considered valuable only for its cocoanuts. The quality of the article is said to be a little inferior to that of Jarvis' and Enderbury's Islands, out the demand for fertilizers in Europe is large and increasing.

We congratulate our friend Greig, the owner of Fanning Island, on his fortune. IjrWUUUlalia Will ttli WU TWAbAAvrMV v-w-. that they are the best gin rummy players in the world. In fact they will tell you they are the best in anything you care to mention. The adjectives "colossal," "stupendous," and "gigantic" were long ago taken over by Hollywood press agents to describe productions until they have become synonomous with the city of flood lights, premieres and Oscars.

It is news, therefore, when a colossal Hollywood press agent who, through a period of many years as a topflight engineer in his particular field has been one of the leaders in mak- tha film it-i4ncfi-v intn Hillinn Hnllar Husi- hew: -J a izm 1 ness, comes to town and is trimmed at his own RAY COLL, JR. game of gin rummy. Thirty Years Ago 1917 "The Vanishing Hawaiian" is the subject of a very interesting article from the pen of Vaughan McCaughey, professor at the College of Hawaii, appearing in the current Pear-: son's magazine. Private cable advices have been received that the opening prices for pineapples in the Mainland markets ill be declared this week, according to the Maui News. These advices indicate that canned pines will sell at a dozen which means a price locally of about a ton to growers for No.

1 pines unless they have contracts on other bases. Sixty Years Ago 1887 The Australia orought a large mail for Honolulu 31 bags, beside the news dealers, packages. The Alameda was delayed an hour on Saturday morning to enable the Foreign Office to send its voluminous correspondence off. Road To Understanding Yale's President Charles Seymour set up some plain markers for guidance along the road to world understanding and peace when he spoke at Farrington Hall Monday. Form opinions on facts and maintain the strength to assure that right opinions shall prevail, he counseled," and added that the logical starting point is in the schools.

This is straight thinking. It recognizes, even if the speaker did not say so, that too many American schools have confused propaganda with facts. Hawaii has seen this happen in its own schools, all along the line from the grades to the university. Too often one group of propagandists or another has been set up to present their special viewpoints as a means of giving students "all sides of the picture." This method seldom, if ever, accomplishes its purpose. Special pleading tends to create so much confusion in the minds of immature listeners that facts are lost to sight.

The most persuasive speaker leaves the strongest impression, frequently one that is false. President Seymour's hope that students will come to have a more thorough training in world affairs will approach realization only when the schools find teacher who are capable of, and willing to present facts so objectively that those whom they instruct will be armored against the seductive plausibilities of the propagandists. A goal which is likely to remain beyond reach until the American people recognize that competent teachers cannot be employed for janitors' pay. 4- Fifty Years Ago 1897 Mr. D.

Keiiiokamoku of Ewa has given the Bishop Museum a pearl found in an okupe shell, and two specimens of the pipi or Waipio oyster. Business is not 'generally dull with men who resort to printer's ink to let the world know what is offered for sale." W. W. Dimond reports, almost holiday trade in solid silver, cut glass and Royal Worches-ter ware. Twenty Years Ago 1927 Construction of a permanent R.O.I at Schofield is planned as the result of a change in war department policy.

At the invitation of James D. Dole, president of the Hawaiian Pineapple members of the legislature will leave on the Mauna Kea at midnight tonight for the island of Lanai, where they will be guests of the company tomorrow. From The Washington Post I refer to none other than that mild-mannered and soft-spoken gentleman, Harry Brand, the man who looks after the public relations and press agentry of Twentieth Century-Fox Studios. Mr. and Mrs.

Brand arrived Saturday morning by plane for a three weeks' stay and were in town a bare 36 hours when Harry got into a gin rummy game and all but lost his shirt to that well-known shirt maker, Nat Norfleet. "The guy hustled me into the game before I could even get a little Hawaiian sunshine to disgujse my Hollywood pallor," Mr. Brand complained. "He gave me the line that gin" rummy is little known in the Islands and that he himself wasn't sure if he knew how to play anymore. That's an old come-on line and I should have known better.

In 15 minutes by the lock, as Christopher Columbus once said, this pseudo native had me skinned. A fine thing! And you brag about your Hawaiian hospitality." Now it is true that gin rummy is not a local pastime bu Harry should have known that Nat got his start around the Hollywood Athletic club. Harry and Sybil Brand were last in Honolulu in 1939 and before that in 1932. They belong to the clan that thinks this is the ideal vacation spot. It's an old line, but Harry insists that when he retires he's coming down here to make his home and I think he's sincere.

On Sunday Harry celebrated his 50th birthday. Mrs Brand decided it was worthy of a "surprise" party and knowing Harry's fondness for Chinese food, P. Y. Chong's provided a setting for a wonderful dinner for the Brands and a group of friends. When Darryl Zanuck, the brains pf Twentieth Century-Fox, decides to make a picture it is Harry Brand's job to see that the picture is well advertised and plugged throughout the country.

That Harry has been more than successful in this respect is attested to by the fact that he has been with Zanuck for many years and is respected in the industry as one of the few press wizards in filmland. His relations with the nation's press have always been cordial. He follows dignified lines and he himself looks anything but the average person's conception of a Hollywood press agent. He'll for this, but Harry might better pass for a campus prof. But what he doesn't know about Hollywood and its people could be written on the nail of your little finger.

Many a star can place at his door the credit for his or her success and fame. Mr. Brand is a solid citizen and a credit to an industry that has too often been damned for its raucous ways. It is men like him who have rushed in to lift it out of the mire where some flicker individual has pulled it by indiscreet behavior. The Brands are stopping at the Halekulani where, as Harry says, "we hope to remain a while if I can keep away from such pluckers of innocents as this character Norfleet." Hour Of Terrible Decision By THOMAS L.

STOKES WASHINGTON It was a nice day outside, the crisp, nippy edge of spring, but it was depressing there in a corner of the House of Representatives listening to the words of the man down there on the Speaker's rostrum. Forty Years Ago 1907 Delegate Kuhio made i "first call on Governor Carter since his return from Congress yesterday. Mrs. Stangenwald carried out her annual custom on Sunday by furnishing the Rapid Transit carmen with green favors for St. Patrick's Day.

Mr. and Mrs. John A. Cummins entertained a large number of guests at their Nuuanu residence. Ahipuu, at a luau on Sunday, the occasion being the 72nd birthday of Mr.

Cummins. It is said to be probable, according to what Captain Slat- Ten Years Ago-M937 Amelia Earhart Putnam's flight around the world will be resumed from Wheeler Field probably late this evening, th noted aviatrix told The Advertiser last night. Edward D. Sultan, manufacturer's agent, returned yesterday on the Matsonia from aa extensive business trip. Pacific Guano Fertilizer and its subsidiary, Pacific Guano company of California, net income in 1938 was $264,764.91, equivalent to $4.92 a share on 53,750 shares, par $70.

He was grim as he read, and, perhaps for that reason, Harry Truman's voice seemed even more flat than usual, though they were strong words he was using. Grim, too, were members of the House and Senate who sat before him in joint session, and grim were members of the Cabinet in the front row, and the people in the galleries. "We have considered how the United Nations might assist in this crisis. But the situation is an urgent one requiring immediate action, and the United Nations and its related organizations are not in a position to extend help of the kind that is required." So he spoke. 1111 wmm STOKES DOWN TO CASES d.

case Made To Order Daylight saving was made to order for Hawaii. Why should anyone sleep through these gorgeous mornings anyway? Spend an extra hour of coolness in making sure of that bread and butter, spend an extra hour of sunlight in the afternoon at your" particular beach, which is the best in the Territory The surf beckons, the mountains beckon, and have you had a walk around Kewalo basin lately? The beaches and mountains or just the lanais beckon pleasantly as the days grow longer. To sleep-through the finest part of the very fine days is wasteful. People travel thousands of miles to enjoy this climate. Doris Duke Cromwell wouldn't air-condition her home here.

Why come all the way here and then spoil the air? seemed to be her attitude. Let's all reduce our tension by enjoying as many daylight hours as possible. Pass the daylight saving bill. Letters From The People BUM YOLK AREA The Man With the Red Mustache says he can remember away back to the good old days when ham actors, suffering from the accuracy of egg-throwers, never filed hit-and-run charges. "Winds Abating Over Islands." Headline.

'Probably because members of the house have quit arguing and have gotten down to work. J. R. says that if the pari-mutuel bill in the legislature becomes law, a lot of people who have never done much reading will begin making a lot of inquiries about good bookies. B.

B. says he bets a lot of Hawaii women had a good laugh over the row in the lower chamber of the legislature as to who should be speaker of the house. (Tbe views and opinions expressed in letters in this column are not to be accepted as reflecting the policy or opinion ol The Advertiser. The editor reserves the risht to reject letters or to make deletions in his judgment advisable. To guard against errors, letters should be typewritten.

Name and address of writer should accompany each letter, not for publication unless desired, but as an evidence of ood faith.) "Here's that book I borrowed from Your Hokum for Today: you last week." Reciprocal Trade Necessary Detroit News: The cause of continuing reciprocity needs all the active support it can get. The question should be studied here, with a view to action by commercial and trade organizations The value cf United States exports in 1946 came to nearly $10,000,000,000, double the value of imports. One-sided trade of these proportions can not continue under peace conditions. ON BUS DRIVING SAFETY Editor The Advertiser: The problem of the reckless driving of Honolulu Rapid Transit bus drivers as presented in today's "Letters From The People" brings to light a problem which has for a long time been apparent to any observing resident or visitor of Honolulu. But what happens? Obviously, nothing! Any day of.

the week buses may been seen speeding past the large school on Kam Highway a place where drivers should slow down to insure the safety of small children at play, but there, if anything, the tendency is to speed up. One may see buses racing to beat a changing light and almost in the same glance see. another one poking along at 5 or 6 miles an hour, apparently waiting for the light to change. The poor pedestrian is completely at the mercy of the bus drivers and it is only by being more careful and observant than the drivers that he may escape certain injury. So, again, what is to be done, to discipline the Rapid Transit drivers? Is help so scarce that when a driver refuses to obey the traffic laws his services cannot be spared? I think not.

March 12 ROBERT E. DEAN, PRIVATE, USMC It was a nice day outside, and it was a nice day out there in San Francisco almost two years ago when the representatives of 51 nations gathered, most of them from pockmarked areas of a war still raging. They were full of hope to fashion an organization in which all could work together to bind up the broken economies and feed the hungry victims and give them spiritual sustenance to build anew and that was for prostrate Greece as well as the others. Whence has gone that fine dream? Again the voice spoke "The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members." And where now is that fine dream? The voice went on "In addition to funds, I ask the Congress to authorize the detail of American civilian and military personnel to Greece and Turkey, at the request of those countries." It was a nice day often when young men in Greece died before the onrush of the Nazi military machine, and when young men of America and Britain died as they fought through the hedge rows xn Prance, and stumbled and fell as they raced across beaches in the Pacific, or pushed through the jungles of now forgotten islands. So too, when young men of Russia fell stubbornly retreating and, again, when they surged back triumphantly across the desolate plains of war.

Out of this tnere was to come peace and a united nations. But, in what was supposed to be "a town meeting of the there is so much talk, like a modern tower of Babel, men have not been able to reach each other. So it has been too often in the international conferences that have succeeded one another. Today, instead of many working there are the two of us, the two great world powers, symbolizing two modes of government and society, harshly contradictory, glaring at each other with chip on shoulders Russia and the United States. That's the way President Truman put it.

But, more than that, he took up the challenge of what is known as "ideological warfare" that Russia has thrown down by her infiltrations here and there. And he announced, bluntly, that we would champion the cause of people everywhere who are struggling to create democracy as we have it here, everywhere in the world. How long can a war of ideas go on this basis, with outposts stoutly manned along explosive borders, before it bursts into brute force and bloodshed on each side? And can brute force and bloodshed crush ideas? Can anybody win in the end but death? Can there yet be another trial by men of good will, under law, of the organization we created, as some in Congress hopefully say, or is this league to go down like the other created a quarter of a century ago and leave us to the futile niceties of diplomacy and power politics and, in the end, another holocaust? Is it too late? Has the die been cast? Truly, we are in an hour of terrible decision. Douglas Alexander Cooke Hawaii's sugar industry owes much to the intensive research studies in agricultural chemistry carried on by Douglas Cooke during the last twenty years. Born in Honolulu, he would have reached his 46th birthday in April.

Long a sufferer from a progressive ailment, death came as a welcome release but to the end his mind was active with the problems which were his life's work. He brought to the sugar industry new methods of determining the availability of plant foods in cane soils while the crop is growing, thus enabling the immediate correction of deficiencies, or savings where additional fertilizers were not needed. This application of scientific theory to practical dollar-making was supplemented by research in the field of pure science. He sought proof of the guessed-at functions of soil nitrogen in the living cane plant, to advance the sum of human knowledge and understanding. Mr.

Cooke had the rare talent of logical and lucid presentation of scientific lore in terms readily grasped by the layman. He has written a brilliant page in the science of sugar. HANDWRITING ON THE WALL Editor The Advertiser: To certain Members of the House of Representatives: You are referred to the handwriting on the wall "Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin." March 13 PRO BONO PUBLICO THE EM WAY TO JUST DROP IT! LIQUOR MONOPOLY SIDELINE Editor The Advertiser: The argument that liquor monopoly is a socialistic move is ridiculous of course. Then so is a fire department a socialistic development. And even if it is so what? There are so many more valid reasons why the Territory of Hawaii should not go into the liquor business.

Anyone acquainted with the sad mess the states of Washington and Oregon have made of so-called liquor control, as is the writer, will agree that here are at least two good arguments against such control. In the above states, and particularly in Washington, prices of liquor in the state stores are no lower than in the state of California where distribution is in private hands and since no incentive exists to stock quality merchandise, such bottled goods are seldom obtainable. In fact, it would seem there is more profit in rot-gut whiskey and that is what these citizens are forced to accept. Obviously, these state stores pay no taxes, and since net profit to the territory appears to be the main argument in favor of Government operation, this argument is in part, at least, met. The only control visible- in these liquor control commission stores, is the sign on the green store door which says "Hours 12 till 8 p.m." which makes for a very nice after-hour (and be-fore-hour) business for numerous taxi drivers and bell boys.

The per capita consumption of hard liquor (of inferior quality) in these states will be found to be as high or higher, than elsewhere and the opportunities for large scale graft can be seen at a glance. So you want liquor monopoly, Hawaii citizen? You'll be sorry. March 14 DAN DACKINS Red Cross Roll Call We in Hawaii have seen the Red Cross work at close range during war and disaster. We watched the Red Cross care for wounded soldiers. We saw the organization go into quick action during the tidal wave a year ago.

The roll of its achievements is a long one. The annual campaign for funds is under way. Enough said! Words Of One Syllable Reducing scientific terminology to the language of the man on the street is one of the great difficulties of government scientists, as well as those outside the government. In a speech here the other day, Dr. George Russell dean of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recalled this incident: A plumber of foreign extraction wrote the national Bureau of Standards and said he found that hydrochloric acid quickly opened plugged drainage pipes and inquired if that was a good thing to use.

A scientist at the bureau replied that "the efficacy of hydrochloric acid is indisputable, but the corrosive residue is incompatible with metallic permanence." The plumber wrote back thanking the bureau for telling him the method was all right. You can make your bank deposits easily and quickly, if you use the Bank of Hawaii's Lobby DROP BOX. Place your check and deposit slip in a special DROP BOX envelope, seal it arid" put it in the DROP BOX. Your check will be credited to your account by the next day. Use this quick convenient method to avoid waiting in the teller's line.

The scientist was disturbed about the misunderstanding and showed the correspondence to his boss another scientist who wrote the plumber: "We cannot assume responsibility for the production of toxic and noxious residue with hydrochoric acid and suggest you use an alternative procedure." A Beloved Woman Passes Beloved and respected for her lifelong devotion to the welfare of her people, Hawaii mourns the death at 88 of Mrs. Emilie Macfarlane, Kauai-born matron whose gracious personality and good works endeared her to a host of friends. She founded the Hawaiian Relief Society, formed in 1895 to care for sufferers in an epidemic; was a charter member of the Kapiolani Maternity Hospital, the Kaiulani Home for Girls, the Daughters of Hawaii and for more than three decades a member of the board of industrial schools. Her interest centered on the rehabilitation of young people who had taken the wrong path and in the restoration of happy homes. "Auntie Mela" has left a heritage of far-reaching friendships gilded with human sympathy and rare understanding.

FOR DAYLIGHT SAVING Editor The Advertiser: With a promise of an increase in public golf courses available for the community, it seems to me that it is more important than ever that we adopt Daylight Saving. Daylight Saving goes into effect on the Mainland about April 25th and it would be rather nice if this Territory would adopt the same plan. March 14 ROBERT FRAZER THANKS FROM SCOUTS Editor The Advertiser: The Boy Scouts of America during the month of February took part in the many programs of National Boy Scout Week and highlighted the celebration with our 36th annual Makahiki. We are indeed grateful to you and your news staff for the many fine news stories and your editorials of praise to our program during these events. We are especially appreciative of the page of pictures in the Sunday, Feb.

9, edition. March 14 F.B.FORBES Scout Executive The plumber wrote back that he agreed with the bureau-hydrochloric acid works fine. Greatly disturbed, the scientists took their problem to the top boss. He broke with scientific terminology and wrote the plumber: "Don't use hydrochloric acid. It eats hell out of the pipes." Debt Cuts Vs.

Tax Cut Denver Post: Mr. Truman's 37-and-one-half-billion-d 1 1 a budget allows an insignificant 202 million dollars for retirement of the 260-billion-dollar national debt. This is ridiculously inadequate. At this rate it would take more than 1,000 years to liquidate the debt. In this day of inflated income we should be paying off the national mortgage in annual amounts of at least 5 billions.

That is plain prudence. The burden of wartime tax rates is heavy, and it is proper that Congress should be thinking of reductions. Some cuts may indeed be possible. At the same, time, however, we must keep a sane perspective. For the future stability of the economy, tax reduction should be secondary to removing the dangerous incubus of debt.

DHK OF HAWAII A THOUGH! FOR TODAY How long are ye slack to go to possess the land, uhich the Lord God of your fathers hath given you? Josh. 18:3. f..