Van Campen Declares Second American

[?]Heated) to the Editor

War Of Independence

mjoy your magazine very ich up here, we really do. iat furious little voice out last century, screeching and g against the inexorable ; of civilisation, is good for »f laughs and we wouldn’t out it. pleasant to watch the bad nial system going down the 11 over the world—in Africa, south-east Asia, and your the Pacific—and it makes it tore pleasant to hear the 1 cries of the colonialists slide down the sump, sh, however, to enter a against the abysmal :e revealed in most of your g of events in Hawaii, h a bit removed from? your c, we are among the Islands” and it seems to it might behoove your staff Hire a little elementary ge of conditions here, y as this is the only ago in the ocean that has 1 to rise above the battery hemical toilet, warm beer delevelopment. immediate motivation of 3t is the stupid remark, in :ent story on Hawaii-based investigations, to the effect Iging by the names of the ;1 on the research ships we iking thorough use of >e know-how” in this work, ersons to whom you refer Americans, born here or States, and whatever ow” they have was acquired can schools and universities you consider that it could ;en inherited from their i ancestors, most of whom mers. not fishermen), night with equal justice, stupidity, have remarked are making good use of “know-how” in our city •ritorial governments, our rts, and our hospitals, as n our baseball teams. The that we are making good he industry, honesty, and that these people learned icir immigrant parents; other knowledge they s strictly American, writers often dwell with the material richness of our blasted television our congested mass of les, our revoltingly ig tourist business, our •kets and stores filled with prices not too different •se of Mainland cities.

Then the blighters will turn around and tell with horror how we have been overrun by Asiatic hordes, how we even have a “Jap” on our Supreme Court, how the poor Hawaiians have been crowded out of the picture. You have got to realise that these two pictures are just two sides of the same medal.

If you are going to hold down the working people in your territories, justifying yourselves with phony notions of racial superiority, you will hold yourselves back in the process, and eventually you will be kicked out. leaving only black ignorance and hatred behind.

I am, etc.,

W. G. Van Campen,

Ocean View, Honolulu.

Aug. 2, 1956.

Editorially—if We May

Now that Mr. Van Campen, who ever he might be, has given his interpretation of how Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, we would like to explain what it was that brought on all this fuss and fury.

It was a small paragraph— innocent we imagined—in the

shipping section of the PIM. it concerned the activities of the US Fish and Wildlife research ships some of the technical personnel of which are (let us whisper it) ethnologically Japanese. We said that about fishing they had Japanese know-how.” Mr Van Campen says they aren’t Japanese they are Americans. Moreover what they know about fish is what American universities and schools have taught them.

We don’t propose to argue with Mr. Van Campen about what these Americans with the Japanese

know about fish—although juld like to say that the people with Japanese names merican nationals) whom we ncountered fishing about the know more about the •y than the rest of the South together, and they didn’t t in America. most interesting thing about ade has nothing to do with \ course—it lies in its anti sentiment. of us here in the South feel nothing but friendship mericans and the United -so much so that we are apt et that there is a solid block ;rican opinion that does not at same way about us. mialism” is, of course, ly the most popular whip hich to flay our hides and people will remember Mr. utterances on the subject a nths ago in Indonesia. the end of World War 11, a has taken the lead in ; Western policy. The of this, in Asia, the Middle Hrica and Europe may be = to the Van Campens. are, however, many others i the light of events in igust. 1956, are doing a lot d re-aligning of thought, fan Campen’s opinions don’t in the least—except that ed a million times they rovide that wedge that the seph Stalin used to dream ng between the British and encans.