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4 Hawaii Tribune-Herald, Wednesday, October 27, 1971 Voice Of The GOP TIUBUTJE-HEItJlID Donald W. Reynolds, President Leo A. Weilmann, General Manager Public Hearings Galled A Meaningless Exercise Ray Yuen, Editor Hugh Clark, News Editor Jim Wilson, Advertising Manager David Figueira, Circulation Manager Publiihed Monday through friday afternoon and Sunday morning by the Hawaii Tribune-Herald, Tribune Herald Building, Hilo, Hawaii 96720. Member of the Associated Press and the Audit Bureoi of Circulations. National Advertising Representatives: Western Dailies.

960 Hartford Building Oal lasl.Tenas. MEMBER DONREY MEDIA GROUP A 5-Day Extravaganza Of Fun And Excitement still under unfinished business (in committee) and the committee should come forth with a recommendation, then the Council as a whole should take action on the floor to vote for or against this resolution. I believe that all meetings of the Council are governed by Robert's Rules of Order Revised and actions should be abided by it. The people would like to know of their decision to clear the minds of all concerned. In our last public hearing pertaining to the real property tax rate, a dozen of us testified for reduction of the tax rate.

All of us at this hearing came out in good faith, sacrificing our time to be heard, some coming from as far as 75 miles away. Where was our good Mayor Kimura? Why did he not appear at this hearing last Tuesday to testify in favor of retaining the tax rate? We would have liked to have heard his testimony for I know that the taxpayers are capable of spedning the extra money that they pay in taxes more wisely than the Mayor can. Our testimony for dropping the tax rate by one dollar was based on facts and figures. The mayor's testimony was based purely on assumption. The Council, no reason.

To the voters of this County, this is a good example of what can happen when both the administrative and legislative branches are controlled by one party we have no means whatsoever to benefit from the system of checks and balances in our County government. In closing, I hope that the councilman who remarked on President Nixon's economic freeze knows what he was talking about. (Editor's Note: Recognizing that a viable two-party system strengthens our democratic system of government, The Tribune-Herald makes space available to the Democratic Party and the Republican Party to help them develop new interest in local party growth and in local issues. Columns will be published bi-weekly, with the parties alternating in this top position.) By MINORU SHINTANI Chairman, Republican County Committee What is the purpose of a public hearing? It is a definite fact that when citizens of this County appear to testify in a public hearing, their testimony is not taken by the Council majority (Democrats). We are wasting our time and efforts in these hearings because I feel that the public hearings today are just a meaningless exercise.

To go back a few months, there was the issue of the gasoline fuel tax. An overwhelming majority voiced their opposition to retaining the 3-cent fuel tax. After the hearings, the resolution was sent back to the Public Works Committee. My second article in The Hawaii Tribune-Herald states: What happened to Resolution 334? Some of the Councilmen (Democrats) with whom I talked say the resolution is dead. I strongly disagree with them, for I feel that they do not know their parliamentary law.

This resolution is lttl NEA, li 'The new foreman describes himself as a 'strict constructionist' whatever that is!" derwritten some of the fair expenses. Again, the community welcomes the E. K. Fernandez family who will provide the rides. Mrs.

Price (Kulani) Porter, daughter of the late E. K. Fernandez, has prepared a special exhibit in memory of her father's colorful life. Fair chairman Kenneth Ta-nouye promises this year's fete will be bigger and better than ever before. The schedule of events includes something for everybody.

The popular Demolition Derby and Keiki Healthy Baby Contest will again be featured along with rock music, cultural dances, livestock shows and educational booths. Proceeds from the non-profit annual event will go to help worthwhile community endeavors. The Tribune-Herald urges full support of the County Fair. The 21st Annual Hawaii County Fair which opens tonight with a gala parade promises to be a five-day extravaganza of fun and excitement for Big Island residents. Since September, the Hilo Jay-cees, sponsors of the fair, have spent every weekend and holi-d a preparing for the festive event which has become a pleasant tradition on the Big Island.

Many of the Jaycees have taken their regular vacations this week to give undivided attention to the fair. Jaycees and their families have made a number of sacrifices to promote the fair. Help and advice have also been received from Mayor Shu-nichK Kimura, the Kilauea Job Corps, the Lehua Jaycees and other community organizations. Jack Hoag of First Hawaii Bank helped bring the Church College Marching Band to participate in this year's activities, and Big Island businesses have un Voice Of The Demos Chairman Traces History Of Demo Party In Hawaii Nixon 'Finesse' On Court Nominees United States-Japan Ties Are Fraying By RAY CRUMLEY NEA Correspondent A most disturbing letter has arrived from Tokyo on the political effects of the "double Nixon punches" the Kissinger China trip and the mid-August economic bombshell. The letter, from a friend of 31 years who was once private secretary to a prime minister, reveals how our diplomatic blundering may injure seriously the position of those very men (and groups) in Japan who have been our closest allies and play into the hands of those who would destroy this unique relationship: "Mr.

Nixon's Peking-visit-coup was a real and substantial blow to Mr. Sato (prime minister of Japan). It was almost a fatal blow, snaking the government to its foundation." This at a time when Peking is making a concerted attack on those same Japanese friends of America: "As to China, the relations between Japan and China at the present moment are extraordinary. Peking takes every opportunity to isolate the Sato government from every significant force in Japan political, economic, journalistic. They even try to drive a wedge between Mr.

Sato and other faction leaders of the Liberal-Democratic Party (Sato's party). They openly suggest anybody except Mr. Sato is welcome "Peking's ultimate aim is, I think, obvious to fill and dominate the vacuum created by the American withdrawal, leaving Japan as docile as possible." We have, my friend suggests, created problems quite needlessly. For the difficulties have arisen, not because of Nixon's policies, but because of the way he has gone about achieving them: "One curious thing was the absence of bad feelings toward the U.S. actually all the criticism complaint and accusations were leveled against the Sato government.

People bitterly complained its 'do-nothing' attitude, its 'right or wrong, our American ally' policy. The Nixon shock war, they said, (was) a conclusive proof that Mr. Sato wasn't a trusted friend of America's at all." What's needed, my friend goes qn, is "to keep in close touch concerning the China problem and our economic differences to bring Americans and Japanese into closer personnel contact in order to clear up the misunderstandings." Despite more than two decades of this unique association, he feels, there has been a general absence of the intimacy necessary for such a relationship to endure. Embassy and consular officers come and go. Businessmen meet occasionally.

There is much politeness and some superficial comradeship. But there are not the deep and lasting friendships which make it possible to securely bridge the differences which are inevitable from time to time. We will get by this round, he believes, because the two countries are so heavily dependent on each other. But as the years go by we must make certain that there is built up a sizable body of Americans and Japanese close enough in their appreciation of each other's inner hopes and desires and in mutual respect to meet disasters together. "If both U.S.

and Japanese private organizations, commercial or otherwise, that have branch offices in the opposite country, can have able representatives who stay semipermanently (unlike, for example, embassy people stationed on a two-to-three-year rotation), that will immeasurably help improve our mutual understanding." Relations Act, workers on the plantations, the waterfront and in industry had begun to organize. By the late 1940's, Democrats in Hawaii outnumbered Republicans. The stage had been set for a competitive two-party system. But victory at the polls was delayed for several years while -the diverse and often clashing elements making up the Democratic Party accommodated to each other and worked out a program acceptable to the majority. The rising, tide of opposition to Republicanism peaked in the "revolution" of 1954.

When the ballots were counted, the Democratic Party for the first time in history won majorities in both houses the Senate 9 to 6, the House of Representatives 22 to 8. Among Big Islanders elected in the landslide were Nelson K. Doi to the Senate and Stanley Hara to the House. The majorities were retained in the 1956 election, and John A. Burns, who with Dan Inouye was largely responsible for putting together the winning coalition, was elected delegate to Congress.

The new Democratic Legislature enacted into law many of the delayed aspirations and hopes of Hawaii's people: an improved educational system; expanded slum clearance to make way for low-cost housing; larger welfare appropriations; a 75 cents per hour minimum wage; improved unemployment compensation and disability benefits; a comprehensive net income tax law; and attempts at land reform. Delegate Burns' strategy to win statehood was successful when both houses of Congress voted overwhelmingly to admit Hawaii to the union and voters of the territory endorsed the statehood bill in the June 1959 primary election. Not a single political figure publicly disagreed. After more than half a century of struggle, the people of Hawaii had attained equal political and legal rights with their fellow citizens on the Mainland. But statehood did not solve our unique problems.

Rather it symbolized and stimulated the vast changes taking place in Hawaii's economic, political and social life. Strong labor unions had been established, wages approached those on the Mainland, and our agricultural workers were the best paid in the world. The public schools, including the university and community colleges, grew fantastically. Control of Hawaii's wealth became more widely dispersed and the way was opened for competition from Mainland firms. The Republican Party developed a strong liberal wing.

The political system had been transformed from one-party domination to competition between two well-organized and well-financed parties. Decision making was more widely shared than ever before, opening the way for a democratic solution of the many problems confronting the booming new state. By TADAO OKIMOTO Chairman, Hawaii County Committee Democratic Party The Democratic Party, founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1793, has had a continuous existence for 178 years. Jefferson also wrote the Declaration of Independence, helped draft the Constitution, and insisted upon adoption of the first ten amendments, known as "The Bill of which safeguard individual freedoms. Opposing Jefferson was the Federalist Party of Alexander Hamilton which scorned the "masses" and wanted a strong federal government ruled by an aristocracy of property owners.

Jefferson, on the other hand, advocated decentralized government and direct participation of all the people in governmental affairs. A "Democratic Party of Hawaii" was set up in 1894 shortly after the Republic of Hawaii was established. It could make little headway, however, against the ruling Republican Party establishment because most of the people had been disfranchised by the property qualification for voting in the oppressive Constitution of 1887 which King Kalakaua had been forced to accept. The Organic Act which Congress insisted that Hawaii adopt upon annexation in 1898, restored universal manhood suffrage and opened the door for expanded political action. The immediate result was organization of the "Home Rule Party" to oppose the Republican clique which had plotted the revolution and The new party gained widespread support at the polls and elected royalist Robert Wilcox as the first territorial delegate to Congress.

In 1902, however, the Republicans induced the popular Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole to be their candidate. He won and served as the Territory's delegate until his death in 1922. Following Prince Kuhio's election, the Home Rule Party faded from the scene and the Democratic Party, reorganized in 1902, offered the only opposition to the ruling oligarchy. It grew slowly and was able to elect William P. Jarrett as congressional delegate in 1922 and 1924 and Lincoln Mc-Candless in 1932.

During this period, Democrat John Wilson was also elected mayor of Honolulu and several Democrats were elected to the Territorial Legislature. During the late 1930's and war years, the Democratic Party offered only token opposition to the entrenched Republicans with their ample campaign funds, patronage, and paternalistic rule. The post-war years, however, brought new and growing strength to the Party. Children of Hawaii's large local population, as native citizens, were now old enough to vote. They had been educated in our rapidly developing public school system.

Thousands had fought in World War and returned with honors. Many took advantage of the GI Bill of Rights to equip themselves with a university education and were prepared to enter the political arena. Utilizing the National Labor All signs indicate that President Nixon's two latest nominees for vacancies on the Supreme Court, Lewis F. Powell Jr. and William H.

Rehnquist, will win confirmation by the Senate. Both men the one a former president of the American Bar Association, the other presently an assistant U. S. attorney general appear to fill in eminent degree not only the President's conception of the ideal Supreme Court justice but that of most other qualified observers. Among those who must impute political motives to everything the President does, however, there may be a lingering feeling that once again he has "finessed" his opposition by putting forward the names of several poor-qualified or potentially controversial candidates just to hear his critics howl for no real reason, and then dramatically presenting to the nation over radio and television two men who had not previously been talked about.

Unable to attack his actual nominees (unless skeletons unexpectedly turn up in closets, which has happened before to the embarrassment of the Pres-dent), those critics are confined to complaining about the way he went about selecting them. In particular, they question his use, or misuse, of the American Bar Association's Committee on the Federal Judiciary. One of the two names submitted to the committee both of which were intentionally or inadvertently but inevitably leaked to the press was that of the first woman to be considered for the high court. By an almost unanimous vote of the committee she was found unqualified. Was it just a ploy for the benefit of women's lib? The lines of speculation are tangled and endless, but there is little to be gained from following them.

All this will pass and be forgotten but the names of Powell and Rehnquist, as the President said in his announcement, will be long remembered (if they are confirmed, that is). Presidents come and go, he said, but one of their works that survives them is the direction or "coloration" they give to the Supreme Court by the caliber of men they appoint to that body. The President waxed philosophical, reminding us that no matter how much we may criticize decisions of the court, its word is the last word. It is the law of the land, which all of us are duty bound to obey. Again the cynics may wonder: Was he trying to tell us something? Was he trying to prepare us for unpopular decisions reversing the liberal trend of the past decade and a half? But even a President can really "shape" the Supreme Court only in very general terms.

Once sworn in, a justice is his own man. As rare as it has been in American history for an appointee to be completely uncontro-versial. it has been even rare for one not to grow and mature in judgment and wisdom and value to the nation long after the president who appointed him has taken his place in history. Creativity Via Machine Readers Forum Electroencephalograph machines may someday take the place of tranquilizers or pep pills or even "smart" pills if an investigation sponsored by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare proves fruitful. A $72,379 grant awarded by HEW's National Institute of Mental Health, Health Services and Mental Health Administration will underwrite a project by Dr.

Elmer E. Green of the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, to see, among other things, if people can be taught to be more creative by producing the right kind of brain wave patterns. The research reflects a growing interest among U.S. scientists in the achievement of voluntary control over body processes. The Yogalike principle that the function of various organs may be controlled at will is being explored through a technique known as "biofeedback." Green has experimentally taught' migraine headache sufferers to relieve their symptoms through biofeedback techniques.

Other studies have shown that with appropriate feedback to a subject from an electroencephalograph, the "alpha" brain wave pattern, associated with reverie, can be brought under voluntary control. Green now proposes to teach volunteers to control the production of "theta" brain waves, which are thought to be associated with creativity. Unfortunately, this doesn't mean that we will all become Leonardo da Vincis or Einsteins. There has to be some creativity already in the head to be fed back to. In forthcoming columns we shall discuss the Democratic Party position regarding some of these problems.

Mahalo Nui Loa Today In History your' combined efforts and generosities that made the testimonial the huge success that it was. Mahalo Nui Loa, RICHARD JITCHAKU JERRY SATTO Co-Chairmen Froggie Yoneda's Testimonial Committee Editor, The Tribune-Herald: We would like to take this means of thanking the hundreds of "Froggie" Yoneda's friends who attended his testimonial on Oct. 16, 1971. We would also like to thank the various organizations and individuals (too numerous to mention here) for their assistance and contributions and to all who participated in th program. We are most grateful to all of you, for it was By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Today is Wednesday, Oct.

27, the 300th day of 1971. There are 65 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On this date in 1806, Napoleon Bonaparte's army occupied Berlin. On this date-In 1858, the 26th U.S. president, Theodore Roosevelt, was born in New York.

In 1912, the siege of the Turkish city of Adrianpole began during the Balkan War. In 1920, the League of Nations transferred its headquarters from London to Geneva. '1.