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Letters From headers SIDE GLANCES By Go.lbro.ith MAN to MAN by Harold L. Ickes CHARLES E. UNDERHILL WANTED Editor The Star-Bulletin: Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Charles E. Underhill, who formerly worked for Byrne Organization and also for the Salvation Army, please get in touch with William B. Kinehart at the Red Cross, telephone 59a71.

WILLIAM B. RINEHART. Director, Home Service Department. STICK TO THE POINT, PLEASE! Because of limited space The Star-Bulletin must request that writers on the subject of religious education in the schools confine their comments to that issue. Several letters have been received raising the point that the "Sabbath" is not necessarily our nresent 8 Saturday, August 9, 1947 Hawaii's Greatest Newspaper Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday 125 Merchant Honolulu 2, Territory of Hawaii, U.

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The Star-Builetin receives the standard day report of the United Press. A Thought for Today give my courage wings, like wild geese flying In arrowed wedge against the far-flung sky; In patience wait, when little things are trying, And keep the flame of faith clear, white and high. Virginia Eaton. day Sunday. The discussion of the "Sabbath vs.

question is beside the point and. as it is an age-old issue, it can not be settled in this column. Accordingly, no more letters debating this issue will be published. AIDING NATIONAL HOSPITAL DAY Editor The Star-Bulletin: On behalf of the Hospital Council of Honolulu. I wish to thank you for your fine coverage of National Hospital Day.

I am "sure that the publicity made possible by your kindness played a large part in the good turnout of visitors reported by all the hospitals. HOSPITAL COUNCIL OF HONOLULU, Uichi Kanayama, President. WASHINGTON, D. Just how much oil does this country possess in its known oil reserves? How much coal? How much natural gas? We ought to know but we do not. Many people have made many bad guesses, but guesses are not enough.

Even a penny-pinching congress ought to realize the ultimate economy to the country in knowing what we have and then in determining how these resources can be best used for the economic welfare and the defense of the country. Congress should authorize an inventory of our coal, oil and gas resources. These three fuels, to a very large degree, are supplementary and interchangeable. Also to a considerable extent, all three are found in the same areas. Since they enter into interstate commerce, they are subject to proper regulation by the congress.

Should oil be use.d for less than its best uses, if there is coal available? Should either coal or oil be used if gas is escaping into the air. as it has done to the extent of hundreds of millions of cubic feet, if that gas can be induced into pipes and sold? Just as we are amazed at the wanton destruction that former generations permitted of forests which, if properly lumbered, would still be supplying us with wood that we need, so will future generations be appalled when they consider the wanton and criminal waste that we are permitting of our energies. And yet there has not been enough statesmanship shown in either branch of congress to indicate that a single member cares enough about this tremendously important domestic issue to insist upon the course of action that would be obvious to an individual if his personal interests were involved. It is no longer true that a kingdom may be lost for the want of a horseshoe nail. But it is true that a nation may be lost for the want of a barrel of oil.

Over and over again, I have cried out for something to be done with respect to oil. My words have fallen upon unheeding ears, even although I went to the trouble, a few weeks ago. of preparing and sending to every member of congress, an open letter on the subject of oil. Most of those gentlemen apparently were too deeply engaged in petty political intrigues to pay any attention to the natural wealth that was going STILL INVITING DISASTER More than four months ago The Star-Bulletin drew public attention to fire hazards in the public schools of Honolulu. The first editorial dealt with the menace at Robert Louis Stevenson school.

It was entitled "Inviting Disaster." And it asked the pointed question: "Are the territorial and city authorities, with their responsibilities for teachers, pupils and buildings, waiting for a catastrophe before they do something about Stevenson school?" That editorial brought a quick reaction from Frank R. Sommerfeld. chief deputy fire marshal of the territory. He brought in a report showing that not one by twelve public schools in Honolulu are in buildings where known fire hazards exist. The fire marshal's office at that time rated the following schools as having definite fire hazards: Waialae, Kaimuki, Washington.

Kalakaua, Kapalama, Kawananakoa. Central, Kaahumanu, Royal, Likelike, Liliuokalani, Stevenson. The Star-Bulletin thereupon editorially urged that during the summer vacation, steps be taken to eliminate or reduce the fire hazards. In some schools, this could be done by construction of additional ramps, fire escapes, exit doors and there was time to do it in the summer. Now the fire marshal has made another report to the city buildings department and to City Fire Chief Smith.

He lists the following eight schools as the most hazardous: Kawananakoa, Washington, Waialae, Kaimuki, Central, Kapalama, Kalakaua and Kaiulani. All but one of these were on the original unsafe list. Relatively little was done during the summer to eliminate or greatly to reduce fire hazards. Something is being done now at Central and at Kaimuki. Honolulu will be fortunate indeed if we escape a bad fire in one of these flimsy buildings to which hundreds of boys and girls are consigned daily during the school year.

And parents and children will be fortunate if such a fire does not cost a life, or several lives. And yet, until there is a disastrous and tragic fire, the public officials responsible for the safety of these children may not shake themselves from the inertia which now characterizes their attitude. COMMENTS ON GARBAGE COLLECTION Editor The Star-Bulletin: I do not believe that City Engineer Karl A. Sinclair is justified in stating that most complaints regarding the garbage service are unjustified. Some garbage truck gangs are very satisfactory; others are quite to the contrary.

I purchased two corrugated, galvanized garbage containers of about five gallon capacity. Before putting them into service. I had the bottoms of the cans reinforced with a galvanized iron band, one eighth by one and one half inches, and had a similar band rivited to the inside of the top. This was to prevent damage to the ends. Both of the cans have been beaten out of shape, punctured and generally put out of business.

There never has been any reason to beat the edges of the cans on the truck sides because the contents were in bags or cans and would fall out easily. The bails on both cans have been broken loose, the botloms of cans beaten in and the top edges of the in COHt 197 BY HIA MUVtCE. WC. T. W.

WC U. WT. OW. "Hello, Mr. Jones! I guest you don't know me.

but just ask Mrs. Jones about the butcher who saved those juicy steaks for her during the war! cans have been badly beaten. There is absolutely no i WASHINGTON MERRY-CO-ROUND by Drew Pearson, Noted Capital Columnist PAA Official's Expense Record; $49,928 for 'Personal' Items excuse for this kind of handling. I have seen garbage men deliberately raise cans above their heads and throw them down on the sidewalk as hard as possible; furthermore, many times the garbage collectors half empty the containers where the contents could he easily shaken out. I have also seen garbage men see part of the contents of the cans fall out on the sidewalk from the truck and do nothing about it.

This was due to the improper throwing of the cans on to the truck. I appreciate the fact that a garbage man's job is not too attractive, but on the other hand, they are probably making more money at that work than they could at any other job. Furthermore, they are working on the basis of "uku pau," which makes the men work faster and use less care. As far as I know there is no supervision. If the men were properly supervised by somebody's following up on them once in awhile, conditions will improve greatly.

There are some good crews on the trucks, but they have to suffer for the irresponsible ones; so, a little more supervision by Mr. Sinclair's department is in order. HONOLULU BUSINESSMAN. to waste for lack of understanding and the want or a national and international policy. Truly, congress unmelodiously fiddles while our treasures evaporate into the air or flow down into the sea.

Anyone with an after dinner coffee cupful of brains could find out for himself how serious is the shortage of petroleum and its products that has already become manifest in various parts of the country. But most of us do not want to know. If we can not buy, in all parts of the country, all of the gasoline that we want now: if, next winter, we shall find it difficult to buy enough fuel oil to keep our homes warm, all that men like Senator Martin of Pennsylvania will have to do to make us feel content and assured will be to say that it is not a shortage of oil, but a shortage of steel that is the matter. So childlike can the American people be and so wanting in statesmanship can some of our members of congress be! In the final analysis, it has always been possible to assure the country that if petroleum should go short on us, even with an abundance of steel, we can fall back upon a supply of coal that will last us 2.000 years. In addition, we have lignites and shale, all of which can be synthesized into gasoline.

So, if we have coal that will last us for 2,000 years, ergo, we have potential gasoline for 2,000. So why worry? Of course, synthetic gasoline would cost more, but why worry about that? And so I raise the question, just how much coal do we have in this country? BRITONS NEVER SLAVES? Winston Churchill is not far wrong when he says that the new powers granted to Britain's Labor government are a blank check for totalitarian government. Very little is left of a Briton's traditional individual freedom. He becomes an infinitesimal cog in the giant wheels of a socialist regime. He will henceforth work where he is told, at what wages, and how long.

Nor is the so called ''worker'' alone in this. Management, if its plant fails to produce what the government thinks it should, will be kicked out. The government then will take over the plant. It has the power, under measures approved by the Labor majority of commons Friday, to do this. There are always two aspects to consider when government invades the domain of the citizen.

The first is, Is it right? The other is. Will it work? Considerations of necessity enter into the first question. Men are told in wartime to offer their bodies for destruction. It becomes right for the government to do this because it is necessary. It also answers the other question satisfactorily.

No way has yet been found to fight a war except with men's bodies. The Socialist government's expropriation of individual rights in England appears to answer neither question. Is it right, on the score of necessity which alone can justify it to wipe out individual freedom? When the Battle of Britain was being fought, the common danger caused Britons freely to give up their rights. But is this such a battle? As to the second question, Will it work? a single instance will suffice. As part of its new program, the government has put a 75 per cent tax on foreign films.

This means primarily American films. Immediately American exporters announced they will send no more films to England. Does this mean Britons will turn to British films? Here's what a representative of 4.500 British theaters says: "If American producers withhold their products, cinemas will be closing all over the country within a year's time." What the Churchillians may fear, and what seems increasingly apparent, is that Britain is edging nearer and nearer the line which marks off socialism from communism. The British people the majority, that is are showing a remarkable disposition to throw up their hands and let the government do everything. There is no popular outcry against the totalitarianism being imposed by the Labor government.

Only Tories speak out. The class line has been drawn so firmly that a member of the cabinet can say. meanly and significantly: "We do not give a tinker's cuss about nonlabor people in Britain," and be approved. When the people turn over their lives to the government, that is totalitarianism, no matter what you call it. And totalitarianism is just as bad under one name as another.

IN THE CAPITAL ARE THE LEADERS INTELLIGENT ENOUGH? The very final straw of U. S. governmental incompetence would be to let us in for another war. Comfortingly, although there are many danger signals on the horizon, hardly anybody really believes another big war is imminent. It is the fashion for some observers to draw parallels between what is happening today and what happened preceding the last war, and from these parallels to draw the obvious conclusion.

The situations and the circumstances are alike, it is true. But situations and circumstances do not proceed blindly and relentlessly toward a conclusion. They are guided by the powers that, to a degree at least, control them. The difference between the axis powers and the one power capable of starting a war today. Russia, is that the axis knew it would have to fight to get what it wanted and proceeded on that basis.

Russia hopes to get it without a fight. This being true, there is a place here for the. skillful and intelligent management of by Peter Edson Japan's Population Pushes Rapidly lip By KEYES BEECH Chicago Daily News Foreign Service Correspondent and Former Star-Bulletin Staff Member TOKYO Fast breeding Japan's population is headed for an all time high of more than 77.000,000 in 1947. This, in the opinion of Japanese birth control advocates, clinches their case for a nationwide birth control program under government auspices. Their most telling point is that Japan's population is growing more rapidly thtn ever before at a time when Japan has less living room than at any time in modern history.

Japan, third most densely populated country in the world, ranks first in number of persons per square mile of cultivated land. Birth control advocates point ofjt that Japan's population increased from 56,000,000 in 1920 to 73.000.000 in 1940. In prewar years the increase held at 1.200.000 annually. But contrary to expectations, it has jumped to nearly 2,000,000 annually since the end of the war. The fight for birth control in Japan is being led by a.

group of American educated doctors. One of them, a woman doctor named Fumiko Amano, was a vigorous birth control advocate before the war and frequently was threatened with violence for her stand. Dr. Amano. who calls Japanese women "breeding machines." holds them as much responsible for the war as the zaibatsu or militarists.

"Do you realize that if you had not thoughtlessly kept on over manufacturing human bullets, there never would have been such a tragic war as this?" she told a recent birth control audience. HIGH COST OF ENTERTAINMENT WASHINGTON, D. The house labor subcommittee under Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Carroll D. Kearns is trying to do something about the high cost of entertainment.

In previous Washington hearings after passage of the Taft-Hartley bill, the Kearns subcommittee took on James Caesar Petrillo of the musicians' union for a couple of days. Just before congress adjourned. Kearns and Petrillo had a private conference in which they paved the way for curing two of the Petrillo caused headaches broadcasting by school orchestras and the making of records by the U. S. armed service bands, for instruction purposes.

This doesn't mean that the Petrillo menace is over. But Kearns believes that with this as a starter, the other Petrillo demands can be worked out by direct negotiation. They include protection for musicians against loss of employment through chain broadcasts, and new royalty arrangements for musicians on recordings, and in the making of movie sound tracks. The approach to the movie rackets in Los Angeles is much the same. Hollywood has been in an uproar for years over what are probably the most stupid jurisdictional strikes in the country.

What Kearns wants to do is show the public how men are actually being kept from work by union restrictions. The union rules are Durnoselv involved. government which can find a way out of the perplexing issues that beset us. We have seen it repeatedly in a business which seemed lost. By new ways of doing old things, by energy, by intelligent direction most of all, the business thrives again.

Another business down the street, lacking the benefit of skilled management, falters along and finally goes under. Whether the present government of the United States is capable of rising to the tremendous responsibilities thrust upon it is a question which every thoughtful observer has pondered. One of the greatest evidences of the immaturity of the American people is their fond conviction that if a man is a good man and you he believes, in order to create confusion and make it hard to operate. If public opinion can just be aroused over these things. Kearns says it will do more good than all the acts of congress or supreme court decisions to i end such abuses.

Dr. Amano estimates that 26 per cent of Japanese women practice birth control, but only 2 per cent effectively. Japan, she says, is at least 25 years behind other countries, including the United States, in the practice of birth control. Many doctors, she said, are either opposed to birth co trol or ignorant of its methods. Socialist Prime Minister Tetsu Katayama and his party are on record as favoring a national birth control program.

But, says Katayama, there is no money for it. WASHINGTON, D. Senator Brewster's war investigating com mittee has performed a healthy service in showing how Howard Hughes's aide spent $5,083 entertaining Elliott Roosevelt. This is something the public is entitled to know about. However, the public is also entitled to know about all the vish entertainment poured out by other big airplane companies when that entertainment as deducted from the taxpayers' money.

And if you take the $5,083 spent on Elliott Roosevelt and stack it alongside what the taxpayer shelled ottt for "entertainment" by Pan American Airways, it makes Elliott's entertainment look like chicken feed. For instance, here is the expense account of Pan American's senior vice president. Robert G. Thach, as noted in an official report of the civil aeronautics board: "Meals for himself and others. $10,208.30 In 1938." Ten thousand dollars is a lot to spend for meals alone in teW A.nd Mr Thach had other expenses that year which totaled $49,928.24.

These he listed as "laundry, sightseeing, deck chairs, club dues, doctors, nurses." and various other things. His bill for long distance telephoning alone in 1938 was $10,334.25. However, the year 1938 was not out of line with other years for Mr Thach. The civil aeronautics board, examining the accounts of Pan American Airways, made this official and critical comment: "When during a 30 month period, expense vouchers totaling 100.000 exclusive of salary, are approved for one officer (Thach) without investigation or inquiry by the company's chief accountmf office, then such items would not be considered by the CAB in determining the 'need of the HOW THE PUBLIC PAYS "Need" in this case, refers to Pan Am's need of airmail subsidies and the reason the CAB was examining Pan American's accounts wai that the amount of its mail subsidy is determined in part by its expenses of operation. And what the American taxpayer doesn't generally realize is that the cost of the expensive lobby conducted by Pan American to influence congress is largely paid for by the taxpayer himseif through the airmail subsidy.

This is also true of other aviation companies, except that Pan American has received far more airmail subsidies than any other company, and also conducts one of the most far flunf and expensive lobbies in the history of government For instance. Pan American maintains three different offices in Washington, though it has no airline entering Washington. In addition, it has two secret hideaway spots in the capital all connected with lobbying. One of these is a 10 room suite at 1815 15th which has a private telephone line direct to Pan Am headquarters in New York. Then there is a confidential office at 1319 St.

operated by Bill McAvoy, Pan Am's suave publicity man and full-time lobbyist. Very few people know this office exists. Also, there is the official office at 1109 Connecticut Avenue. In addition, three rooms are always kept at the Mayflower hotel, rooms 605. 621 and 743 available to Pan Am officials in case of sudden trips to Washington.

Much of the time, however, they are vacant, thus adding to the crowded condition of Washington's hotels. Much of this is eventually paid out of the taxpayer's pocket. Finally, there is Pan Am's colonial mansion at 2017 St. where Pan Am President Juan Trippe entertains congressmen and other big shots. Here a butler and maid are on constant duty, and when Trippe puts on an especially oig party, extra servants are brought in, sometimes from the White House staff.

Rent for this colonial mansion is reported to be $800 a month. PAN AM'S AIRPLANE JUNKETS Then there are the special Pan American facilities at the national airport where two private planes are kept, the NC4000 and 400W. It is these planes which have flown Senator Brewster on various trips up to his home in Maine, and once to Hobe Sound. Florida, whera Sam Pryor, vice president of Pan American, maintains his winter home. Mr.

Pryor, former Republican national committeeman from Connecticut, "is one of the ablest lobbyists in the capital and handles Pan Am's most difficult jobs. It is Senator Brewster who has been charged by Howard Hughes with investigating him because he refused to take Brewster's suggestion that Hughes's Trans World Airline amalgamate with aPn American. It was Senator Brewster who flew to Raleigh. N. C.

last year to visit ailing Senator Bailey of North Carolina, then chairman of the senate interstate commerce committee, to urge his support of the "one company" idea for American Airlines overseas. The "one company" plan is urged by Pan American to fly all foreign routes, as against the American system of free competition, favored by other companies. Incidentally, when Brewster flew to see Senator Bailey in Raleigh, Jack Frye. then president of Trans World Airline, learned of the flight: and. getting ex-Senator Bennett Clark out of bed in Kansas City, persuaded him to phone Senator Bailey long distance not ta side with Brewster in favor of the one company" bill.

Brewster's plane was delayed about 15 minutes in reaching Raleigh, which permitted Clark's phone call to come through and persuade Bailey not to go along with Brewster. This was probably the chief reason why the "one company" bill never passed the 79th congress. It was also one of Pan Am's special planes which carried A. T. Whitney of the railroad trainmen and Alvanley Johnson of the locomotive engineers on a trip from Cleveland last year at the time tha two brotherhood leaders came out for the "one company" bilL PAN AM'S TREMENDOUS SUBSIDY The reason all these special flights and extra expenses are important is that they help to determine the amount of airmail subsidy paid by the government to Pan American Airways.

It is estimated that Pan American has received a total subsidy from the government of more than $150,000,000. This does not include the $100,000,000 paid Pan Am in connection with building special airports in Latin America during the war. The $150,000,000 figure compares with the $40,000,000 paid by the government to Howard Hughes. And just as the money spent by Hughes to entertain Elliott Roosevelt is reported to have come out of government funds, so also the cost of ornate lobbying offices, the $10,000 for meals for one Pan Am vice president, and the fees to high priced lobbying attorneys all go into expenses when it comes te figuring Pan Am's airmail subsidy. Regarding Pan Am's waste of money on lobbying, the civil aeronautic board has some caustic things to say.

And it would be a simple matter for Senator Brewster's committee to subpena the CAB reports if he wants the full truth. He cites as a typical abuse Cecil DeMille's testimony about the star whose dress became unsnapped in the making of "Unconquered." Paramount had to he halted for a matter of hours and at a cost of 93,000 until a union wardrobe mistress could be located to button the leading lady up. Nobody else dared touch her. All these things make the cost of entertainment higher for the public, says Kearns. Many makers of cheap westerns have been put out of business by union restrictions.

Extra costs just can't be passed on to the public in higher and higher theater ticket prices. The GALLUP POLL by George Gallup Director American Institute of Public Opinion like him, he is therefore capable of administering any public office. We do not elect men to public office on the score of ability. Nor, unfortunately, are those administrative servants selected by elected officials always chosen by that standard. We have a government which is cautiously feeling its way, which is moving slowly down the footpath through the jungle and so far without any outwardly serious hurt.

But this does not prove that the beasts are not crouching in the underbrush, ready to spring when the time suits them. The new evaluation of American economic aid to Europe is a disturbing note and a serious reflection on the acumen of our administrators at the top of the government structure. Since the war we have poured out billions to Europe, nation by nation, expecting this money to set Europe's economy to going again. Today it would be hard to find anywhere any tangible evidence of where the money went. Now we are going to do it all over again.

We are going to spend the same billions, and many more besides, to do the same job. Trustingly, we are asked to believe that if we give it to Europe as such, instead of to each nation piecemeal, the effect will be different. Maybe it will. But if such a colossal error could be made once and any error running into the billions of dollars is colossal who can say that another error which might pitch us into a war will not be made? It is a question worth thinking about. Because there is no relentless destiny which moves the two great factions of the world into armed conflict.

There is a way out. if the people who lead us are intelligent enough to find it. TO PREVENT CHILD TRAGEDIES A 15 year old boy is dead: a 13 year old playmate is sad and shaken; and two families are mourning all because the 13 year old lad took out his father's rifle to show to juvenile friends. The gun went off, the 15 year old boy died with a gunshot wound through his throat and head. 9 The father says that the boy had been told never to touch the gun.

The safe thing to do, when there are children about a house for all children are sometimes thoughtless is to keep the gun where juvenile hands can't get it or don't keep it in the house at all. That kind of thoughtfulness on the part of adults will prevent many a childish tragedy. NO NEED TO GET DIZZY One of our city-county supervisors says that the current parking meter proposals and discussions made him "dizzy" in the public works committee and that the whole board of supervisors is "going dizzy" over the same issue. We see no occasion for the board to be either dizzy or dilatory. Whether or not parking meters shall be installed in Honolulu is merely one of the many important problems before the board.

And, when these same supervisors were running for election last September. October and early November, they had no misgivings on their ability to tackle and solve any and all problems that might come before them. They asked the people for election on the basis that they the candidates could, once id Kennedy of AP Is Cleared In Historic VE-Day Controversy (From the Magazine Editor and Publisher) It has taken two years for all the facts to come out about the German surrender story which Ed Kennedy flashed to the world from Paris. At that time he was censured by the army, his fellow correspondents and many editors here, for breaking a confidence and interrupting the plans for a joint Allied announcement. (Note: At the time that AP's Ed Kennedy.

European correspondent, "broke" the news of Germany's surrender, representatives of other press associations and newspapers accused him of violating a pledge of secrecy given to the U. S. supreme high command in Europe. Mr. Kennedy maintained that the supreme high command had itself allowed the story of the surrender to be given out in Germany; that the British Broadcasting Co.

had been given the news and was preparing to announce it; and that the supreme high command was trying to tie up the American press unfairly.) Now we know that the "joint Allied announcement" was just an excuse cooked up on the spot. Actually. SHAEF had authorized the German radio station at Flensburg to break the story while the 16 newsmen who saw the surrender ceremony were bottled up by censorship in Paris. The BBC rebroadcast the report. It was on its way around the world.

Kennedy heard it and he told the chief censor that inasmuch as the news had been released he no longer felt bound by the pledge. It was stupid for the military to hold up the news since SHAEF had already released it. Had we been in Kennedy's position we are inclined to believe we would have attempted to do just as he did. Kennedy's name has been cleared and we believe that his story will go down in the books as one of the greatest journalistic beats in history. A Bit of Hawaii History Interesting information on the annexation of Hawaii is carried in the Congressional Record for July 15.

It is a letter from Harry B. Hawes. who served in congress for many years and who died only a few days ago. He represented Missouri in the lower house and later in the senate. Mr.

Hawes was for many years in close touch with Hawaii and a strong advocate of annexation. His letter was inserted in the Record by Congressman Donnell as a matter of interest in view of the statehood legislation which had passed the lower house two weeks previously and had gone to the senate. SC HOOL TEACHER PAY NEW YORK An overwhelming majority of American voters believe that public school teachers should be paid at least $2,400 a year. A national cross-section was asked: "It has been suggested that the lowest yearly wage which could be paid to any teacher in a public grade or high school anywhere in the United States should be 2.400 a year that is, 200 a month. Do you agree or disagree with this idea?" The response: Agree 74 Disagree 20 No opinion 6 California voters in 1946 approved a constitutional amendment fixing at $2,400 the minimum salary of all in that state, which is the highest anywhere in the country.

The actual California vote. 74 per ce.it for approval, exactly parallels the results of the institute's current national poll. Several other states are planning to establish the same minimum. When it comes to raising funds to make the minimum possible. 58 per cent of the cross-section say they would be willing to pay higher taxes if necessary to pay teachers in their communities at least $2,400 a year.

This response from almost six out of 10 voters is primarily a measure of the intensity with which people feel about higher wages for teachers, and is not related to any specific tax proposal. Comment on Statehood (From the Reno, Gazette) Rejoicing is reported in Hawaii over the action by our house of representatives which brings statehood one step closer. The house voted 196 to 133 in favor of the statehood bill. Hawaii has sought statehood through petition or resolution 14 times, but this marks the first time that either house of congress has voted on it. While proponents of statehood naturally are encouraged, achievement of their goal still seems far away.

Senate action on the statehood measure is held extremely unlikely at this session of congress. Hearings are not scheduled to start until after congress recesses late in July and Senator Butler of Nebraska, chairman of the committee in charge, says his group will give the bill "careful study." When, as and if the senate approves the statehood bill and it is signed by the president, there will still be time-consuming formalities that must be completed before a 49th star can be put in the flag. The people of Hawaii first must elect delegates to a convention' to draft a state constitution. The constitution then must be ratified by the people of Hawaii and approved by the president. Let's hope the Hawaiians if it comes to the tesir won't experience as much trouble with their constitution Nevada's founding fathers did.

Drew Pearson's Revelations Sent Race Track Men to Jail WASHINGTON. D. C. A final chapter in one man's campaign to prevent the diversion of building materials away from veterans' housing was written a few days ago when officials of the Tanforan race track were given three months in jail and fined $113,500. The campaign, carried on by Columnist Drew Pearson, began more than a vear ago when, on June 2 and 22, 1946, he first called public attention to the wide-scale thwarting of building controls bv the Tanforan race track near San Francisco and suggested that something be done about it.

Pearson also charged that Tanforan building materials were being diverted to a gambling casino near Reno, Nev. Tanforan racing officials countered with an emphatic denial and threatened a libel suit. Pearson, however, continued to make charges. Finally, the federal court in Nevada fined E. W.

Heple, Tanforan contractor, for his part in the Nevada gambling casino venture. Last week U. S. Judge Val M. Lemmon of San Francisco fined and jailed Guy M.

Standifer. president of the track, together with three other Tanforan officials. elected, deliver the goods. The parking meter issue has its complexities, it is true. But we doubt if any candidate for the board of supervisors last fall would have announced that he couldn't handle that issue or any other.

Barbs and Brickbats By HAL COCHRAN Record number of cigarets were smoked in 1946. The modern wife helps her husband in many ways. It's strange no dad ever thought of passing the hat instead of cigars, when a new son was born. Sixty million radio sets were in use last year in the U. S.

That's a lot of blasts from next door. A boss is a man who doesn't necessarily work a i being a boss at home. Mr. Hawes's letter was written November 30. 1897, at St.

Louis. Mo. (he was a native of Missouri) to George G. Vest, at that time a U. S.

senator. In this letter Mr. Hawes urgently advocated the annexation of Hawaii. He said pointedly that "it is but a question of time before the conquest of Hawaii will be accomplished by Japan and in the most peaceful and yet the most practical and complete manner." His letter, many pages in length, was a vigorous and sustained argument for annexation. Hawaii was annexed by act of congress the following year on August 12.

1898, the United States flag was hoisted over Iolani palace as a signal that the Republic of Hawaii (formerly a monarchy) had become a territory of the United States. SMILES OF THE DAY SO WE'VE OBSERVED "Women are not very strong physically." "Perhaps not. but they can put the cap on a fruit far so that it rakes a man 20 minutes to get it off." Atlanta Two Bell. Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Saturday, August 9, 1947 9 ruworu a Kin dci nn ic ativitifq cmmsa mvation Army.