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SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith PAGE 6 2f01talttltt.tar-iHttUflm Saturday, may 30,1953 Hawaii's Greatest Newspaper In the PUBLIC EYE In Washington by Doris Tleeson Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday 125 Merchant St, Honolulu 2, Territory of Hawaii, U. S. A. EDITOR RILEY ALLEN WASHINGTON BUREAU 317 National Press Building; Frank Hewlett. Correspondent- NATIONAL REPRESENT ATI VE OMara Ormsbee, New York 420 Lexington Chicago 221 North La -Salle Detroit 640 New Center Los Angeles General Petroleum 610 Flower San Fran-Cisco Russ Bldg.

MEMBER OF THE AP The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use of republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and local news published therein. A.B.C Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. LLP. The Star-Bulletin receives standard day report of United Press. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY Are you willing to think? Consider carefully, for the answer to that question will largely determine your success or failure in life.

If you would develop your judgment, use it. Exercise your power cf judgment as often as you can, for the first rule of good judgment is practice. The functions of your mind, no less than the muscles of your body, receive their strength through repeated use. JOHN M. WILSON Letters From Readers PHOTOGRAPHERS REPUDIATE ON CHAR'S CRITICISM OF 3IR.

SHIMAMURA Editor The Star-Bulletin: On benalf of The Professional Photographers Association of Hawaii, we register a strong protest against On Char's unfair criticism of the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in his statement in The Star-Bulletin on May 22, 1953. We had written and spoken to Representative Clarence Y. Shimamura, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, regarding H.B. 875 and S.B. 501 on photography.

We found Representative Shimamura to be sincere, fair and courteous. Mr. Char had promised to inform this Association's committee and other photographers of the hearing on the bills. But he did not. Representative Shimamura has acted in good faith and his sincerity is beyond reproach.

Mr. Char shows extreme ingratitude in attacking the committee chairman, when the latter assisted us and gave fair consideration to the bills. Representative Shimamura conferred with the president of the association and with On Char on the late afternoon of May 18, 1953. Mr. Char had not informed us of the Senate amendments to S.B.

501. At the conference, the president of the association thought it best that the bills be deferred till the next session or be referred to the Holdover Committee for careful study. That same night other photographers appeared objecting to S.B. 501 even in its amended form. Also some members of the Judiciary Committee did not favor reporting out the bill.

The members of this association feel that Mr. Char has been unfair both to the association and to Representative Shimamura. On Char's attack on Representative Shimamura is uncalled for, and we make public apology to him. THE PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS ASSOCIATION OF HAWAII DANNY MORSE. President, 949 McCulIy Street DAVID MURAMOTO.

Corresponding Secretary 1011 University Avenue I Memorial Day---We Must Keep the Faith TIME NEARING FOR DECISION OF KOREAN TRUCE PROPOSALS WASHINGTON, DC. Washington is going about its ordinary business rather absent-mindedly. It is realized here that a great decision whether there shall be a truce in Korea is in the making. Congress and the country have pressed the new President for leadership and in this area they have it. Exactly what he has consented to do in the way cf a Korean truce is a secret, but the Eisenhower leadership at least consists in this: He has been willing to try a new method.

It is the method of secret diplomacy. OPEN NEGOTIATIONS FAIL Open negotiations have been tried and have failed. They have led only to recriminations and more stalemate. One day the Peiping Radio would blast; the next day the Allies would answer. Result: Zero.

The new terms were laid down in executive session and a recess was tacitly agreed to. With the great courage and patience with which his name was associated during World War II, the President has sat down to wait. Not everybody is as patient. The South Koreans are vocal. Their ambassador here objects on two grounds: The terms do not provide for unification of Korea and they do not offer ank acceptable solution of the prisoner-of-war issue.

The White House broke its silence to answer the prisoner issue. It said that no prisoners would be repatriated by force, coerced or intimidated in any way. There must be a definite limit to the greater conflict, then they will not have been entirely in vain. We at home must steel ourselves to our duty as defenders of freedom the freedom of our friends and neighbors throughout the world as well as our own. For if we allow Korea to be split again, if A While flower leis were being placed with loving care on the graves of war dead in the Pacific National Cemetery in preparation for today's observance of Memorial Day, the Communists were launching a major attack on the Korean -Thus, while we salute today the men who died in freedom's fight, new sacrifices are being made on far-off battlefields to protect the world from totalitarian aggressors.

We greet this Memorial Day with the grim knowledge that events have taken a critical turn in Korea. Decisions made now may affect our whole future. A Munich-type settlement in Korea, which leaves that country divided and the forces of Communism free to roam elsewhere in Asia, will be merely the prelude to even greater sacrifices than those which already have been made on that unhappy peninsula. Determination to forge a military victory which would enable us to dictate terms of decency and humanity will mean more sacrifices on Korea's ridges, more graves in Punchbowl's cemetery. But if those sacrifices prevent an even STUDENTS MAKE FINDING ON FLUORIDATION we allow Indo-China to be overrun and the rest of Southeast Asia to fall into Communist hands, our own freedoms will be imperiled.

A defeat for freedom anywhere in the world is a defeat from which we in time will reap bitter fruit. And though the rites of this solemn day recall the grievous sacrifices already made on the battlefields of this century all made in the cause of freedom we must know full well that we have not seen the end of sacrifice nor the end of the need for sacrifice. Mankind is still engaged in a bitter struggle to rise above his animal instincts and create a civilized world in which all men can live and produce without fear. And we may take everlasting pride in the knowledge that man has not lost the will to fight for such a world. We who wait at home must keep the faith.

"Land sokes! If the young man who calls thot carrying-em singing isn't being horsewhipped, he certainly ought to bel" WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Divided Democrats Desert Oregon's Senator Morse by Drew Pearson, Noted Capital Columnist D.C. Democratic Senators have shown remarkable teamwork since January, but they split wide open this week over a Republican Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon. Tempers flared backstage as Democrats debated whether they period of their captivity. Prisoner procedures must reflect these principles. UNIFIED KOREA LEFT OUT The silence.

It is permissible to speculate that something less than unification of Korea is in the terms. It can be suggested that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles gave informed guidance on this matter recently despite a White House repudiation. All that is speculation. Whatever he has done, the President clearly is prepared to defend it. Most politicians think that the country will believe him.

Here, where it is almost obligatory to be suspicious and cynical, word immediately spread that Russian Moves in East Germany Editor The Star-Bulletin: We, the students of 6-112, University Elementary School, wish to share our findings and feelings concerning fluoridation of water. During our unit study, we found that the cost of fluoridation would be $1.50 per person who needs the treatment; however, if everyone in our Territory shared in the expenses, it would only cost 25 cents per person. If the students and parents will cooperate, we feel sure that all of our 13 pumping stations will have fluoridated water. Perhaps some are unaware of the many benefits concerning this treatment. 1 The adults will not be fully benefited by it because their teeth are already "matured." 2 It will help children under 13, reduce tooth decay.

3 It cuts the cost of dental care by reducing the number of cavities. 4 We experimented and found that fluoridated water is harmless and tastes, smells, and looks like pure water. We know that many people are informed about it, but nothing specific has been done at the present Legislature. Class 6-112 hopes that fluoridation will be recognized in our next legislative session. Parents, teachers, students, friends will all help straighten out the "bends." Hopefully waiting, CLASS 6-112, University Elementary School TURNED DOWN BECAUSE OF AGE Editor The Star-Bulletin: I think a great majority of Honolulu's worthwhile residents (the matured citizens who are forced to earn their own living despite certain employers ideas of retirement age) will agree with me that turning a man down for a position on one reason only, his age, is as prejudiced, biased, and as unworthy as to sneer at him because of his race, color or creed.

A firm or company refusing to hire a person for this reason only, is guilty of medieval narrow-mindedness, and is really no benefit to itself or the community. You guessed it! I was the perfect man for the job but I'm in my 50s. A.L. me rresiaent, naa learned ot senator Tatts "go-it-alone" speech and had issued his statement to counteract it. This is untrue.

The President acted to set at rest any apprehensions that might arise from the complaints of the South Koreans. Americans do not turn helpless prisoners'over to totalitarian justice and he wanted to stress that. CHURCHILL, NEHRU AGREE There are two other known facts. British Prime Minister Churchill has supported the truce terms and so has Indian Prime Minister Nehru. Doubtless this caused some hackles to rise here.

In Administration quarters comfort is derived from Senator Taft's admission that "we should do our best now to negotiate this truce." Should the Communists reject the truce terms, the issues move to different grounds. Acceptance or a counterproposal returns the ball to the President. He will know few more solemn hours than those in which he might then have to decide what next. Early withdrawal of Russian troops from East Germany seems to be in prospect. At least this is the implication drawn from the announcement that Russia has taken its control over East Germany out of the hands of the military.

Henceforth, a civilian commissar will preside in Berlin. This is no magnanimous move on the part of the Russians. As the Associated Press reported from Berlin, it could mean that Moscow is convinced that the European treaties will be ratified by the Western powers, including reluctant France, and therefore the Soviets must be ready to recognize the Russian zone of Germany as an autonomous state also. The re-unification of Germany is no nearer as a result of this latest Soviet action any more than the unification of Korea was helped by the withdrawal of Russian troops after they had completed their job of training a Communist army in North Korea. Let no one be deluded into thinking that the Russians haven't done the same thing in East Germany and that any sign of weakness to the West would be a signal for a putsch to reunite Germany under Communist leadership.

If anything, it re-emphasizes the necessity of strengthening the Western Defense Community to resist any belligerent moves from East Germany, following the Korean pattern. One of the purposes of this new Russian move undoubtedly is to stimulate renewed opposition in the West against a large N.A.T.O. defense force and to drive wedges deeper into the cleavages which have appeared among the Western allies in recent weeks. In any event, it will be a relief for the East Germans to be rid of the 300,000 Russian troops they have been supporting since 1945. But the Russians undoubtedly will find ways to increase East Germany's export quotas to the Soviet Union to make up for it.

should vote to restore previous committee seats to the man who had done his best to help them out in the last election and who, as a result, is now being punished by the Republicans. The issue has been seething among the Democrats for some time. It began several weeks ago when a majority of Senate Democrats met privately in the office of Senator Clinton P. Anderson of New Mexico and decided to make a fight to restore the committee appointments which the Republicans had taken from Morse. To this end Senator Lister Hill of Alabama was delegated to discuss the matter with Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson.

Johnson, however, was in Texas and Hill didn't see him. So the matter finally came up in the Democratic Steering Committee Monday, at which time Senators, Herbert H. Lehman of New York, Paul H. Douglas of Illinois, Henry M. Jackson of Washington, and Anderson appeared before the committee and urged that Morse be given back his old seats on the Armed Services and Labor Committees.

"There is no reason," pleaded Anderson, "that Democrats should help the Republicans discipline Morse." "Morse will be chief speaker at the Jackson-Jefferson Day dinner for the Democratic Party in Oregon," urged Douglas. "The Democrats should be the last people to turn against him." "Munroe Sweetland. Democratic National Committeeman from Oregon, is here in town right now urging that he get Democratic support," argued Jackson of Washington. NEELY'S ELOQUENCE Most eloquent plea was made by Elder Statesman Matt Neely, who has been in Congress or Governor of West Virginia for about 40 years. "Back in the 64th or 65th Congress," Neely reminded his Democratic colleagues, "it came to the election of a speaker, and blind Senator Schall, then a Republican Congressman from Minnesota, deserted Speaker Joe Cannon, w-alked down the center of the aisle and made a speech for Champ Clark.

His vote let the Democrats organize the House of Representatives for Woodrow Wilson. "I would like to remind you," continued Neely, "that the next Senate could easily result in a tie vote in which the Senator from Oregon might determine who organizes the Senate. "Today the Republicans are determined to punish this man despite our Constitution which guarantees the right to vote our convictions without punishment. It's just plain common sense that the Democrats support Wayne Morse." But after these closed-door arguments. Senator "Lying-Down" Johnson made an appeal to the Steering Committee to stand back of him.

He explained that he had made a deal with Senator Taft on committee assignments and he demanded Democratic support for that deal. DEMOCRATIC SPLIT Senator A. Willis Robertson of Virginia supported Johnson though for purely personal reasons. He was afraid he would lose his seat on the Appropriations Committee if Morse was given back his committee assignments. Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee also said that if Morse got his committees back, he.

Gore, would insist on going on the Appropriations Committee. In the endDemocrats voted 16 to 23 against the independent Senator from Oregon. Among his opponents were such friends as Senators Stuart Symington of Missouri. John O. Pastore of Rhode Island, John F.

Kennedy of Massachusetts, and Mike Mansfield of Mon I They Can Save a Million Dollars IN THE CAPITAL by Peter Edson SOME DOUBT WILSON'S LOWER MANPOWER GOALS WILL LAST WASHINGTON, D.C. Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson's plan to cut back the size of the U.S. Armed Forces and keep the draft call under 25,000 men a month may avoid temporarily what was becoming an exceedingly tight manpower squeeze. This squeeze was developing from the fact that the number of men reaching draft age between 1950 and 1960 averages only a little more than 1,000,000 a year.

When physical and mental rejections are taken from this number, the figure is TEACHING OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES Wahiawa T.H., May 23, 1953 Editor The Star-Bulletin: I am inclosing a cliD- risen during the past year, but they have not risen anything like 160 per cent. ping from your, paper of May. 27 in which I was A spokesman for the present bidders is quoted as estimating that the Board of Water 9uie thoroughly misquoted, i believe that more instead of less of the social sciences should be Supply could have floated a bond issue of taught. The "extraneous" material referred to was many of the units found in the 1947 Course of Study, in which more time is devoted to "Orientation," "Health," "Guidance," and "Social Security" than to World History or American Historywhich are supposedly the prescribed courses for the 10th and llth grades. I believe in the chronological study of history in those years then perhaps the "problem" approach will be effective in the 12th grade course, which is listed as "Problems of American Democracy," and should include government, economics, and international relations.

GEORGIA S. REMALY, 26 Dole Avenue, Wahiawa (Editor's Note: The error, not of the reporter's doing, was inadvertently substituting "Social Studies" for "Social Security." Thanks to Mrs. Remaly for clarifying the matter.) reduced by 20 per cent to around 800,000 eligible for service. DEPRESSION RESULT The low number is directly traceable to the depression years, when U.S. marriage and birth rates fell off sharply.

Until Secretary Wilson announced his recent cut of the U.S. Armed Services from a planned total of 3.647,000 to 3,356.000 and expressed his hopa that the draft call could be kept under 25.000 a month, a number of drastic proposals were being considered. They included lengthening the period of draft Honolulu supervisors can save the taxpayers $1,000,000 if they act promptly to merge the Board of Water Supply and the Suburban Water System. True enough. Senate Bill 650, the water merger bill, froze to death in Chairman Yasu-taka FukushimaY House County Committee after passing the Senate.

But this action did not displace the statutory authority, created when the Board of Water Supply was set up, to extend its jurisdiction to the entire City-County by a simple resolution of the Board of Supervisors. That authority still stands. If the supervisors don't merge the systems, they will saddle Oahu taxpayers with an unnecessary charge of more than $1,000,000 over the next 30 years. Here's how: One of two bids for the Suburban Water System's $3,000,000 bond issue is at an average interest rate of 4.382 per cent, which would bring the 30 year interest and redemption on costs to a total of $2,791,975. The other bid, at an average interest rate of 4.353 per cent, would make the total cost $2,773,143, roughly the difference of a cat's whisker.

Just a year ago the Board of Water Supply marketed a $3,000,000 revenue bond issue at an average interest rate of 2.79 per cent, making the total carrying charges over a 30 year period $1,508,400. It is admitted that bond interest rates have $3,000,000 at an interest rate of 3.75 to 3.90 per cent. Accepting the latter figure, it would have resulted in a saving of $667,143 over the 30 year period. But, local experts on the bond market conditions are firmly of the opinion that the Board of Water Supply could have floated the issue at an interest rate of not greater than 3.25 per cent, which would mean a 30 year saving to rural water consumers of $1,018,143. These figures are conservative and favor the position of the opponents to a merger of the water systems.

It is quite probable that the saving to result from a sale of the bonds by the Board of Water Supply would be closer to $1,500,000 than $1,000,000. Because of its long record of non-political and efficient business management, the Board of Water Supply has established a strong position in the Mainland bond market. So high is its credit standing that for many years past it has consistently marketed its revenue bond issues at lower interest rates than those obtained by any other governmental division in the Territory. We can't believe the Board of Supervisors will fail to take advantage of this and save rural Oahu water consumers $1,000,000. service from two to four years, lowering the selective service mental and physical standards still further, ending educational and occupational deferments and the drafting of young fathers.

U.M.T. TOPS ALL EXTREME MEASURES On top of all these extreme measures there has always been in the background the possibility of putting in universal military training. General of the Armies Omar N. Bradley, U.S. Chief of Staff, put in a plug for U.M.T.

in an Armed Forces Day speech in Washington only a few days ago. Congress is afraid of U.M.T. President Eisenhower now says he doesn't want it. Just the same, military men regard it as an ultimate necessity and the only way to make every man do his duty to his country. But Secretary Wilson's lowered military manpower goals have caused the politicians to heave a great sigh of relief.

They are taken of an FINE COOPERATION AT WAIAXAE SCHOOL Editor The Star-Bulletin: Please permit this letter of appreciation to be printed in your On behalf of the parents, teachers, and students of Waianae Elementary and Intermediate School, we wish to thank every firm, organization, and person who helped in anyway to make the Waianae PTA and School fair-bazaar the success that it was. It will be our sincere obligation to see that the profit derived therefrom will be spent for the benefit of the students and after consultation with parents, teachers and students. L. E. SMITH, WILLIAM F.

FOX Co-directors, WaianaeBazaar, Waianae Elementary Intermediate School 'Emergency Vehicles' and Right-of-Way As an aftermath of Wednesday's collision tana. Symington called Morse to tell him what a tine jod ne naa done on the Armed Services Committee. "But," he added, "Lyndon has made this a matter of party loyalty." "Thus," ironically concluded Anderson of New Mexico, "we Democrats help the Republicans to discipline one of their party who be- friended us, while the Democrats who deserted our party take the lead in helping' the Republicans." Note Johnson, who led the move against Morse, took only a tepid part in the Stevenson campaign in Texas last year, while Senator Richard B. Russell of Georgia, who also helped the fight against Morse, went to Venezuela last fall, refused to make a speech for Stevenson. PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE FRIENDSHIP While Senator McCarthy and the isolationists are blasting our old allies in Europe, a large segment of the American people are working harder than ever at people-to-people friendship.

Here are some of them: The Cleveland Heights, Ohio Public School Choir will embark on a European tour with broadcasts from various European capitals over The Voice of America. Today the "Tour of Somerville" bicycle race starts in New Jersey featuring bicycle teams from Japan, Mexico and other countries as one way to cement closer relations. Kiwanis International brings senior high school students from various European countries and gives them one year of study in the United States of America. Kiwanis clubs all over the country have joined in this, treat the youngsters as if they were their own. In Gainesville, Georgia, Kiwanians gave their youngster a new evening gown and expenses for a week-end date at Annapolis.

Students of Chico State College. California, brought seven foreign students to Chico through a U.N.E.S.C.O. committee, gave them tuition, books, maintenance for one whole year. The Junior Chamber of Commerce holds its eighth Congress in San Francisco next month, where delegates of 40 nations will discuss mutual problems, seek avenues for universal understanding. The Century Association of the 100th Infantry Division is raising money to help the battered town of Bitche in Lorraine, France, where they fought during the war.

In contrast, Congress last year cut the United States appropriation for the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund from $16,000,000 to $8,000,000 and this year Representative John Ta-ber proposes to cut it out altogether despite the fact that it helped support 23,000,000 children last year. THANKS FOR HELP OS MAY RALLY Editor The Star-Bulletin: On behalf of the May Rally Committee (Catholic) may I express our heartfelt gratitude and appreciation for your cooperation which contributed so greatly to the success of the 1953 May Rally. The Blessed Mother must have been very impressed by such a mass-attendance, and rest assured that She will reciprocate a thousand fold in Her own time, in Her own way. Yours for Her greater honor, RAYMOND M. Chairman May Rally Committee, 1164 Bishop Street embarrassing spot by not having to vote for U.M.T.

or lengthened selective Service or the ending of deferments. The great unanswered question is whether this solution of Mr. Wilson's will last. It is the experience of draft board officials all over the country that when quotas are lowered, the recruiting of new volunteers and the re-enlistment of men already in the Armed Services fall off sharply. FEAR RECRUITING WILL FALL OFF It is the fear of some manpower officials that the cut in the draft quota now announced as 23.000 a month for June and July will further curtail recruiting and re-enlistments.

If that happens it will, of course, be necessary to raise the draft quota again. MAY BE NECESSARY FOR SAFE OPERATION; "Exceed the speed limits SO LONG AS HE DOES NOT ENDANGER LIFE OR PROPERTY; "Disregard regulations governing direction of movement or turning in specified directions SO LONG AS HE DOES NOT ENDANGER LIFE OR PROPERTY." Plainly, the responsibility for damage to life, limb or property rests on the driver of an emergency vehicle when he ignores a traffic regulation. The height of absurdity was reached in Wednesday's accident. Two emergency vehicles converged on a single intersection. Both had siren and red lights on so both "had the right of way." As it turned out, neither did.

The green light means "come ahead, the right of way is yours" to the private motorist. Emergency vehicles have no authority to violate this right. between a City-County ambulance and an assistant Fire Chief's car, the Fire Department has proposed a traffic signal "both audible and visible" at Punchbowl and Beretania Streets. The idea seems to be that motorists need further warning of the approach of emergency vehicles. What is really needed and the sooner the drivers of emergency vehicles learn this the better is more careful driving on their part.

They might, for example, read the Honolulu Traffic Code, Section IV, relating to exemptions to authorized emergency vehicles. The code says such drivers may: "Park or stand notwithstanding the provisions of this ordinance. "Proceed past a red light or stop signal or stop Sign, BUT ONLY AFTER SLOWINGDOWN AS Crosses on Memorial Day AIDING THE POO TET FUI May 28. 1953 Editor The Star-Bulletin: We wish to thank you for the excellent publicity afforded the Poo Tet Fui. women's society of the First Chinese Church of Christ, benefit bazaar recently held.

The bazaar was a huge success and we must say the assistance from your staff members, Mrs. Betty Wilder, Miss Jeanette Lam and Miss Margaret Nelson, aided immensely in the successful promotion of our benefit. MRS. EDWIN TAM, Publicity Chairman Poo Tet Fui Bazaar First Chinese Church of Christ. By V.

C. KELSO United States Army White crosses on a hillside. Where rest our honored dead, White crosses in a Valley, caressed by poppies, red. Many other crosses, throughout this world so ide, Marking the resting places, of those GIs who died. Merited Recognition for a Hawaii Scientist SMILES OF THE DAY PUBLICIZING GARDEN CLUB TOURS Editor The Star-Bulletin: The Garden Club of Honolulu wishes to thank The Star-Bulletin for the wonderful and heart-warming cooperation given during the current garden tour season.

Many visitors and Island residents might have overlooked the opportunity to isit homes and Little wooden crosses, describing glorious deeds. Whose total cost of maintenance hampers no one's needs. Yet Diamond Head, with sorrow, looks back across a land. Where rests her honored children, but where no crosses stand. LIMITED BENEFITS Two young men were walking up the Avenue of the Americas in New York City When one spied a sign over a shop and called his friend's attention to it.

"Ain't that something!" he exclaimed. His companion read the sign aloud, "Electric Shoe Shme 10 Cents." Tint he failed to share the enthusiasm and added dryly, "After all- 1 gardens opened bi-monthly. February through electric snoesr cnrisuan science aionuor. Now. a plea is carried eastward, by a rainbow ow many people have became his successor and has grown in the respect of his fellow scientists through the years.

The Guggenheim Fellowship will permit him to make studies in Mainland universities and museums. It is only a stage of his development, and the future holds much promise for this young man, now only 42, who came from such humble beginnings in the little sugar town of Kaeleku, far off the beaten path on Maui's East end. Hawaii is appreciative of this recognition of one of its worthy sons and proud of the record Dr. Kondo has made. His career is an inspiration and an example.

He has demonstrated once again that America is a land of opportunity for those who will work and achieve. Dr. Yoshio Kondo of the Beniice P. Bishop Museum has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to carry forward his study of shells of the Pacific Ocean area. This is a noteworthy recognition for a young Hawaii scientist who, through his own energy and ambition, has become one of the world's top ranking malacologists (shell scientists).

His interest in the science dates back to 1934 when he was engineer on a sampan which carried a Bishop Museum expedition to Southeastern Polynesia under the leadership of the late Dr. C. Montague Cooke Jr. During his off hours, young Kondo assisted Dr Cooke and became interested in his work. was inspired to continue his education at the University of Hawaii, where the quality of research won him the 1940 Dean prize.

When Dn Cooke died in 1948, Dr. Kondo May. if it had not been for the pictures and articles published in your paper. Please accept our thanks for your kokua. both at this time and all during the vear.

MRS JAMES A. PELL President, Garden Club of Honolulu colored wave, "Oh. won't you honor our GIs and give to those who gave? Restore our wooden crosses and mark our resting place, Aloha from the Islands, GIs of every race." (Note: The White Crosses were removed from the cemetery in Punchbowl Crater by the Army. Bills are pending in Congress to restore the Crosses.) WASHINGTON PIPELINE Avra Warren, a capable career diplomat, is scheduled to be the new Ambassador to Turkey. A terrific story in Cosmopolitan Tom Gaddis piece on the oldest prisoner in Alcatraz.

Recommended reading for Congressmen: Bert Gross new book "The Legislative Struggle." A satellite ambassador has been talking secretly to the State Department about political asylum in this country. He's ready to walk out on the Reds and take a suitcase full of secret documents with him. President Voroshilov of the U.S.S.R. The foreign policy of the Soviet Union is a policy of peace based on the strictest observance of treaties and agreements concluded by the U. S.

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