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If arnhxln tar-Sulbtm Managing the News 8 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Thursday, Ha wait Greatest etvspaper Published Daily and Sunday 605 Kapiolani Boulevcrd, Honolulu 13, Hawaii Telephone 567-222 WILLIAM H. EWING Editor WASHINGTON BUREAU 1244 National Pre. Building, Frank Hwlett, Correipondent; NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE Cresmer, Woodward, O'Mara end Ormibee, Incorporated, York 522 Fifth Avtnue; Chieago-1 East Waclter Drive; Detroit Northland Tower Building; to Angeles 3540 Wil. hire Boulevard; San Francisco Russ Building; Atlanta-3108 Piedmont Road, N.E.; Philadelphia-1616 Walnut Street. MEMBER OF THE A.

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National Review Bulletin MANAGING THE NEWS is a trick-ier business than managing a hamburger stand or even a steel mill. News is just about the most explosive commodity after H-bombs; and when it exceeds the critical mass of enriched lies, it has a way of blowing up in the manager's face. The peculiar problem of the news manager comes from the fact that the very completeness of his success can wreck his operation. No one bothers about a routine exaggeration, a slanting against the opposition, the suppression of a few uncomfortable facts, even an occasional outright lie, from "government everyone knows that's the way all governments are. BUT WHEN DISTORTION, planted fakeries, plain and fancy lying, in big things as in small, become a government's normal routine, then, after a while, no one believes it any longer.

This is what happens under totalitarian regimes where the citizens become skeptical of every official statement on every subject. They learn to read accurately between official lines, and develop an extraordinary informal grapevine. MR. KENNEDY MAY live to regret the ingenuity and scope of his news management as he must certainly regret, already, its indiscreet avowal by several members of his Administration. Now that we all know how carefully he times news releases in order to LETTERS tothe EDITOR Haiti May Be The Congo of The Americas By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON Only a few miles across the Caribbean from President Kennedy's Central American conference is the most dynamite-laden situation in Latin America today Haiti.

It could be the Congo of the Americas. This Negro republic, founded by French slave owners and populated by the descendants of French speaking slaves, is now ruled by a doctor graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School, who started out as something of a humanitarian, but who has now set up a dictatorship not unlike that which preceded Castro in Cuba. MEANWHILE, ACROSS the narrow straits which divide Haiti and Cuba, some 6,000 Haitian exiles are training in Oriente Province under the guidance of Rene Depestre, director of the Cuban Printing Office and a well known international Communist. If a sign of revolt breaks out in Haiti, these exiles are set to cross the straits in small boats and take over. The blood bath sure to follow would make Castro's revolution mild in comparison and would be sure to bring calls from Senator Ken Keating, New York Republican, for U.S.

intervention. Actually Haitians are people who ordinarily would not turn to communism. Theirs is a country of small, independent landowners, whose peasant population would almost rather cut off an arm than surrender an inch of the little plots that dot the mountainsides. BUT PRESIDENT Francois Duvalier of late has imposed a reign of terror featured by cold-blooded shootings in the streets and the mysterious disappearance of his enemies. Originally he had the backing of the United States which sent a small detachment of marines to Port-au-Prince to train the Haitian police.

Relations between the United States and Duvalier have cooled of late, but the State Department is still stuck with the fact that something seems better than nothing and that if Duvalier left there would be chaos. Furthermore it is still against. U.S. treaty obligations to intervene in Latin countries. The Organization of the American States could, of course, intervene.

But that is the last thing timid, wife-dominated O.A.S. Director Jose Mora is likely to do. THE PUBLIC HEALTH Service estimates that at least 1,368,000 Americans are harmed every year through drug in other words by taking the wrong medicine or taking unproved medicine. So the only druggist in the Senate, Hubert Humphrey, Minnesota Democrat plans to do something about it. He is holding Senate hearings to promote exchange of information between medical centers and hospitals so that doctors may readily and easily get word when a drug has been discovered with harmful side effects.

The Senate druggist who grew up over a family drug store in South Dakota before he moved to Minnesota, is concerned over his finding that federal hospitals, especially veterans and defense hospitals, have no centralized system of reporting medical mistakes. There are 199 of them and they spend one billion dollars annually of the taxpayers' money. But they don't bother to have a centralized drug reporting service. It's Dangerous To Say That You're Afraid By DAVID LAWRENCE WASHINGTON It may seem unusual for a news correspondent to suggest that any hot news ever should be suppressed, but the best interests of the country are served when the Government refrains from publicly telling a potential enemy that it is afraid of him. A glaring example of news that never should have been published is the testimony of Edwin M.

Martin, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, who told a House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee that the United States discontinued its blockade of Cuba last autumn for fear that it might cause Russia to go to war. MR. MARTIN, who accompanied President Kennedy this week on his trip to Central America, is high up in the councils of the Government. His whole testimony was given in secret during the last four weeks, and it was released on March 14. It so happens that Secretary of State Rusk only a few days ago made an excellent statement describing the firmness of American policy in relation to any future build-up by the Soviets in Cuba or their attempts to subvert Latin-American countries by force of arms or otherwise, but the full effect of Mr.

Rusk's utterance has been diluted now by the publication of the testimony given by Assistant Secretary Martin. To say that the risk of nuclear war would have been "accelerated very greatly" if the United States had continued its blockade of Cuba last autumn is but another wray of saying that the United States gave up its "quarantine," without actually achieving its full objectives, because the American Government was in effect, afraid that it might displease or offend the Soviets. NO WEIGHT SEEMS to have been given to the American side of the case and the right of this country to be offended or aggravated by a palpable act of aggression by the Soviets just 90 miles away from our shores. Unfortunately, moreover, this delicate situation persists today because the United States did not insist upon on-site inspection and hence has not been able to verify absolutely whether all the weapons capable of offensive use were withdrawn. A debate is going on as to bow many Soviet troops are actually being pulled out of Cuba, and yet it is five months now since the United States learned positively that an offensive military base had been set up by th Soviets in Cuba.

AN EXCESSIVE REGA1D here for Soviet sensitiveness has been noted recently, but no such clear expression of American fears has been disclosed as is contained in the testimony of Assistant Secretary Martin. It may well be asked now whether the Soviets really believe that the United States will actually stand up in a crisis. The testimony by Assistant Secretary Martin raises the question as to how far the American Government was really prepared to go last autumn. Such an official statement of American fears and qualms as this testimony reveals should never have been released for publication. to sleep as well as usual just to think about that Thunderhird and its driver callously driving into human beings as though they were worms.

The policeman standing in the center of the K.D.I, driveway didn't even have an opportunity to clear the way. I have been picketing for several weeks at K.D.I, and noticed this policeman is especially conscientious in doing his job and keeping us in line. LUCILLE TOYAMA seize the big and unchecked play in newspapers and on TV newscasts, we will pay less attention to headlines and sensational bulletins from Washington. Since we know that reports embarrassing to the Administration are sat on or censored, we will put less stock in those that are published, and dig out hidden information by other means. It being proved that the Administration not only concealed the truth about Cuba in September but lied about what it knew, we will keep our fingers crossed on anything it may say in March about Cuba or France or California.

IT IS A GOOD IDEA to distrust any government, including one's own, up to a certain healthy point. But it is a dreadful thing if the citizens must distrust their government utterly. Let us assume that most of what Mr. Kennedy's spokesmen tell us is true, as it quite probably is. Still, when we know when he has himself told us that some is false and all deliberately managed not for the sake of communicating the truth but to produce desired political effects, and when this managing is not only or primarily to deceive an external enemy but to manipulate the citizens at home when we know all this, how can we be sure that this statement now before us is not one of the phonies? To get back in frank communication with his country, the President is going to have to give some impressive demonstrations of playing it straight and open.

residents and having in mind the considerations which motivate travelers (such as time, convenience, cost, do you believe a person traveling for a business purpose would usually go from island to island by ship? 3. Turning to travel by Hawaii residents for pleasure rather than business and considering the probable time in transit (round-trip), do you believe that parents with children in school would travel by ship to vacation just for the weekend? Do you believe that Hawaii parents with children in school would use an interisland ferry for vacation at all during the school year? 4. Turning to travel for pleasure by Hawaii families during summer vacation, what would parents and two children, for example, be apt to spend for lodging and food for a week on a neighbor island (not to mention meals aboard ship, for those able to eat)? What effect would this over-all cost of an other island vacation have on the probable market for ferry passengers? 5. When the market is limited to single persons, couples and families (summer vacation) who can afford the overall cost of such a vacation, how many passengers per trip are you talking about? RICHARD K. SHARPLESS Reunion Editor the Star-Bulletin: Former members of 87th Depot Repair Squadron, Kelly Field, Texas; Foggia, Italy; Casablanca, North Africa, contact 87th D.R.S.

Reunion Headquarters care of Ray Hoorrnann, 1209 Redman Avenue, St. Louis 38, Missouri (or details on 1965 reunion. Soup's On. A. E.

SHAFFER, (ex-cook) More on K.D.I. Pickets Editor, the Star-Bulletin: A few weeks ago I started into Kapiolani Drive-In with my turn blinker light on (it was practically dark). The pickets were thick and didn't budge, so I sounded my horn three times quickly, and inched forward trying to turn right off Ena Road and get out of that traffic. When I finally got into the parking area, the policeman on duty stopped me and SCOLDED saying, "You didn't need to make that noise, they would have moved." I asked, Possibly the lady who hit some pickets one Saturday night had had a similar experience, or worse. Certainly I haven't seen pickets bolder, or nastier than those at K.D.I.

When the policeman had his back turned talking to me, there were threatening fists in my direction. Then when I ate and left there was much of the same, much more and muttering, which I preferred not to hear. My sympathies are with Mrs. Marian Edmunds. HARRIET PURDY Editor, the Star-Bulletin: Every day you make a big "thing" about the accident toll in Honolulu yet a woman deliberately drives into pickets at K.D.I, and you say the pickets shouldn't have been there.

I was standing by the Kalia driveway when Mrs. Edmunds drove into the pickets after first driving into the Kalia Driveway, backing out and driving into the pickets without taking her foot off the gas. It took two policemen to stop her and three to keep her from leaving the scene after she ran down several human beings. Most of us wouldn't even run over a dog and drive on yet when the policeman made her face those she had injured she just stood there as though she was in another world. And her husband called us bums and a disgrace.

Of course, he was flanked by three policemen at the time. He was fortunate only "cat calls" gave him an unpleasant few minutes. The five of us who were standing by the Kalia driveway haven't been able March 21, 1963 vs. Leeward minded, preserve at least one open space for a view of Pearl Harbor that is becoming increasingly obscured by the industrialization of that portion of Kamehameha Highway. Mr.

Lemke made a point that a good many residents overlook Pearl Harbor is a national shrine. Few tourists come here and return home without expressing a desire to see where World War II began for the United States. Waimalu Park would provide a vantage point for contemplating this historically significant body of water, as well as a useful recreation area for the fast-growing Leeward population. It is unfortunate that Waimalu could not have been considered on its merits. That possibility has been all but destroyed by the Mayor's unfortunate decision to offer the Council a choice of Waimalu or Kawainui.

That such a choice is realistic, in view of the City's finances, is no consolation to the residents on both sides of the Island who would prefer a more objective determination. With the injection of another emotional factor, the fate of both Waimalu and Kawainui becomes highly uncertain. The Mayor's message could also have negated what Councilman William K. Amona may have considered as a master stroke the introduction of a letter from Chief Engineer Yo-shio Kunimoto detailing the acute garbage disposal problems faced by Windward Oahu. and suggesting sanitary fill at Kawainui both to solve this problem and to build the future park.

The next move is that of the State Land Use Commission. If it decides to reserve Kawainui for park purposes by denying it urban designation and the Council refuses to appropriate funds for its development Centex-Trousdale, the developers who own the land, are going to find themselves with a mighty expensive white elephant on their hands and the people of Kailua will have to live with their swamp until a Council more sympathetic to their wishes comes along. And that may be a long, long time in the future. Crosswalks concerned. The result, of course, is that the right is often abused.

This, people being people, is expectable and is unlikely to be changed. But the City, by inviting pedestrians to walk into the path of oncoming traffic, so long as they remain in a crosswalk, has a serious responsibility to both pedestrian and driver. That responsibility is to see that the crosswalk is plainly marked, so plainly as to warn the driver to approach with caution. Honolulu's crosswalks aren't so plainly marked. They consist generally of two thin lines painted across the street with a pair of diagonals.

To the man painting them they no doubt show up plainly. For the approaching driver they are so foreshortened in perspective that, unless he knows the crosswalk is there, he may have difficulty seeing it. A new idea in crosswalk marking has come, of all places, from Communist Poland. This crosswalk consists of a series of broad lines running parallel with the street, not thin lines painted crosswise. The effect on the approaching driver is to cause the lines to appear, in foreshortening, broader than they are, and to be much more plainly visible than if they were painted at right angles to the driver's course.

As crosswalks are now marked in Honolulu, they appear more visible to the pedestrian than to the driver because their principal lines run parallel to the pedestrian's path. The opposite ought to be true. That is, the important thing is to bring them to the driver's attention. Potomac Fever By FLETCHER KNEBEL WASHINGTON One thing about a Rockefeller-Kennedy race in '64. Nobody will be able to say that the candidates have as much chance of going broke as the country.

T.F.X. Bulletin: Defense Boss Mc-Namara expands the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It now includes Admiral Anderson and Generals Taylor, LeMay, Wheeler, Shoup and Dynamics. To hear New Frontiersmen tell it, the real purpose of Noah's Ark was to tow a couple of Kennedys on water skis. Windward A new note was injected Tuesday into the long-standing controversy over the future of Kawainui Swamp on the outskirts of Kailua.

If anything, it will dim the hopes of those who favor the development of the 700-plus acres of marshland as a huge regional park. For now an element of competition has been injected. It's Leeward Oahu versus Windward Oahu. Here is how it all came about. Mayor Blaisdell sent a message to the City Council saying that the armed forces have declared surplus some 26 acres of land at Waimalu, midway between Aiea and Pearl City, on the shores of Pearl Harbor.

The City may buy this land, which the Planning Commission has designated for a purposes on its general plan (still being discussed) for an estimated $1.5 million. But the Mayor says the money should be used instead to acquire Kawainui. The City can't afford both. And thereby, the element of competition has been introduced. This could very well leave the final decision on Kawainui to a future City Council, if the State Land Use Commission decides to hold firm to its decision to preserve the marshland as non-urban, as the City Planning Commission and the Mayor recommend.

Certainly the fact that the Administration is against urban zoning, and the Council is split down the middle, combined with the fairly strong community support in Kailua for park development, will have some bearing on the Land Use Commission's final decision. There is just a possibility that because of the competition that has now been introduced between Windward and Leeward, neither will get very much from the Council. The forces supporting a park at Kawainui may now become just as adamant in opposing a park at Waimalu as the forces supporting Waimalu are opposed to Kawainui. In the end, neither side of the Island will gain. Waimalu would be a rather small, park, but it would, as Councilman Herman G.

P. Lemke pointedly re New Idea in By both law and custom, but more importantly by the latter, Honolulu is a city where the pedestrian has almost undisputed right of way in a marked crosswalk. Visitors from other cities are amazed to see the deference shown by auto drivers to the lowly pedestrian, who often elsewhere must look alive no matter where or find himself a casualty. In Honolulu, however, the marked crosswalk is all but an extension ot the sidewalk, so far as encroachment on the right of way of pedestrians is Charity San Diego Union The administration's new tax bill provides that taxpayers may deduct interests on gifts to charity and mortgages "only in amounts which exceed 5 per cent of total income." Taxpayers who normally would give away 20 per cent of their incomes would get no tax deductions on the first 5 per cent, under President Kennedy's plan. Who would suffer? All privately endowed universities, cultural projects, churches and charities would be the victims.

Contributors in the middle and upper tax brackets most certainly would review their previous gifts to education and charity and curtail them. IT IS LOGICAL to assume that large contributors, after realizing they will get no deductions on the first 5 per cent and that they also face a new capital gains tax on appreciated securities at the time of gift or death, will become more conservative in their giving. There are those who argue that these provisos would affect only the wealthy. That is true to a large extent. But large contributions have been the bulwark of most fund-raising campaigns.

Harvard obtained about $82.5 million in its "Program for Harvard College." There were 27,000 contributions but of that number 712 produced close to $70 million. Institutions and charities dependent upon contributions from private sources should properly raise an outcry against the administration's tax proposals. Their fiscal stability hinges on defeat of the measure. Sees Aid to Treason Editor, the Star-Bulletin: On March 14 the House Committee on Government Efficiency and Public Employment held a hearing regarding the bill to establish a time limit on the personal history declaration required of State and County employees. This specifically applies to information about Communistic, Nazi or other subversive activities.

The I.L.W.U. was there arguing that a person's past should be forgiven after eight years. They cited the statute of limitations laws for certain crimes. Mr. David Trask, suggested it might even be reduced to a limit of five years.

(Editor's note: As passed by the House yesterday, five years is the limit set in the bill.) Gentlemen, the only ones who can possibly benefit from this bill are those who have or who are committing treason and there is no statute of limitations on treason. Government service is a privilege and not a right. No one who has the slightest possibility of being a Communist in thought Dr action should be permitted to hold any position in public service. I note that it is now 10 years since Jack Hall and six others were tried and convicted under the Smith Act for conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of our government. (The Supreme Court later threw out the conviction Ed.) Under the provisions of this pending bill, these same people would not have to report this "incident" on a Hawaii State job application.

Where are we going? DISGUSTED Crumbling Memorial Editor, the Star-Bulletin: Some years ago a beautiful War Memorial was built on Waikiki beach in the form of the West's largest salt water swimming pool replete with fine pavilion and high-dive platforms. Today, due to neglect and lack of maintenance by the City-County-State Governments, this once fine memorial to our war dead is now a paintless, crumbling eyesore. What is the matter with the local veterans' organizations, if any, plus the highly touted H.V.B. who. with the proper pressure on the officials responsible for this disgraceful neglect, could turn this once beautiful memorial into an asset for H.V.B.

to point to with pride and our local citizens could enjoy this fine pool daily. Instead of taking proper care of what now exists the politicians are outdoing each other screaming for more beach front to build up their own image and departments, but under the guise of a service to the long-suffer-mg taxpayer. In contrast to the slovenly maintenance of our public facilities, such as the war memorial, take a look at the beautiful maintenance job performed daily at Fort DeRussy by a handful of enlisted personnel to provide decent facilities for the thou-sands of families of enlisted and officer personnel who use these facilities, pay taxes to help support the local politicians, but seldom use the less crowded public beaches. DISGUSTED VETERAN Ferry Questions Editor the Star-Bulletin: The newspapers report you, Senator John J. Hulten, to be the principal sponsor of Senate Bill 16 (interisland ferry).

Are you certain you have made a realistic appraisal of the prospects for the transportation of passengers on the proposed interisland ferry? 1. Being aware of the trend toward package tours whereby tourists come to Hawaii with interisland transportation already purchased and being also aware of the comparatively-short stay of the average tourist, do you consider that tourists in any significant quantity would patronize an interisland ferry, and if so, why? 2. Turning from tourists to Hawaii Secret Waste St. Louis Post-Dispatch THE STORY OF the Washington man who bought a pipe organ located in a building over which the Central Intelligence Agency has jurisdiction has an intriguing aspect. The purchaser, Burgess Ramos, had a great deal of trouble obtaining permission to pass C.I.

A. guards and look at the organ. While waiting in an outer office he became fascinated by signs reading, "Secret Classified Waste Only," and, "Deposit Classified Waste only on Tuesdays and Thursdays." Probably there is nothing startling about classified trash in the field of professional espionage, but the idea does not come easily to the householder. Presumably the trash collectors have security clearance and are instructed to destroy the stuff to prevent foreign agents from rummaging in it. What does the C.I.A.

do with classified trash on days other than Tuesdays and Thursdays? Presumably that is classified information. And we'll bet that if anyone asked the C.I.A. what they do with unclassified trash, that questioner would be shadowed 24 hours a day. Second Look Salt Lake City Deseret News Much of what looks to us like "sophistication" when we're young and far removed from it looks more like feverish desperation when we are older and close to it. Paging Evelyn Webb Editor, the Star-Bulletin: I was given your name, 1 hope you Cein be of some help to me.

I was born in Hawaii in 1933. I believe maybe my mother may still be there, here is my birth certificate. I hope she still is there, my father I believe lives in San Francisco, California. If my mother still is alive please have her write any part of her family. It's been since I was born I have never seen her and to be able to write to her means a lot.

Also my picture is enclosed. PEGGY WEBB 1845 N.Wr. 16 terr Miami 36, Florida (Editor's note: The birth certificate reveals that Miss Webb was the daughter of David Eavert and Evelyn De Fontes Webb, then living at 880 South Beretania Street.) Dan Renewed Her Faith Editor, the Star-Bulletin: Just a short note to express my thanks to Mr. Inouye for his stand on the Hawaii Subversive Activities Commission report. After reading the kinds of things that are thought to be subversive by the commission, I had begun to doubt my sanity.

Mr. Inouye has renewed my faith in humanity and myself. MARY SMITH All letters for publication in the Star-Bulletin must carry a hand-written signature; address should also be given. Names will be withheld on request and a pen-name used..