Hawaii Hopes Soon To Be
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The 49Th State
From Our Own Correspondent LATE in March electors of Hawaii went to the polls to appoint representa tives to a special Convention, which will draft a Constitution for the antici pated transition of the Territory into a new state of the Union. Some 117.000 citizens are eligible to vote for the 200 candidates for the 63 seats.
The bill for the elevation of Hawaii to a State has passed the House of Repre sentatives at Washington, and is before the Senate.
The fight for statehood has been a long and uphill one. Hawaii’s chief obstacles to admission to statehood have been its distance from the mainland United States, and its rapidly increasing Japanese popu lation. Imnroved means of communica tion, and the fine record of Hawaii-born Japanese soldiers in the late war, have gone far to overcome these obstacles.