Honolulu, Too,

Has Its Problems

Papeete, June 20.

rE admirably conducted Civic Forum debates, broadcast each Friday nierht from the Honolulu Republican Club, have revealed the following facts: •Honolulu maintains the most foul and saualid slums within the dominions of the United States (comparable only with those existing in Kansas City and in Canton. China). •Hoodlums have so increased in num bers as to have become a civic problem. •Honolulu has become congested to the point where the necessity for driving a tunnel through the mountains, in order to open up new land for settlement, is apparent. •The major number of Asiatics inhab iting the archinelago have abandoned the sugar and pineapple plantations, to en gage in other industries. (Presumably, if we are to believe the Honolulu radio, they are to conduct honky-tonks, fantan joints, cocktail lounges and black-market enter prises). Several thousand Filipino lab ourers are to be imported to keep the sugar and pineapple industries going.

Such are the fruits of “progress,” in a once charming and tranquil community!