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'Hawaiian Style' Lives
"Bimeby"—a loose contraction of "by and by"—generally sums up the Hawaiian attitude of "What's the rush?" fostered by years of relatively isolated life in a land that eternally will suffer from spring fever.
HONOLULU —(UPI)— Rather than the official "The Life of the Land is Preserved in Righteousness," Hawaii might well use the pidgin-English "bimeby" as its motto.
ALTHOUGH IT HAS been five years since President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill passed by Congress granting statehood to Hawaii, the ways of mid-Pacific islands in many ways is no more a "typical" American state today than it was a hundred years ago.
There is still a "Hawaiian style" of life. Not the ukulele strumming-under-the-palm-tree life envisioned by thousands of mainland tourists, but a life at least surface informality in which bermuda shorts is the uniform and "bimeby" the password.
IN A LAND in which natural disaster has been common, a tidal wave or volcanic eruption is more likely to be viewed as a tourist attraction than a threat to life and property. During two major tidal wave alerts last summer, Hawaiian authorities faced a bigger
problem from spectators flocking to the beaches than from the waves, which turned out to be minor.
50th-staters also appear to have their own way of attacking labor problems. During the past year Honolulu has been hit with major construction, hotel, transportation and newspaper strikes, but it's often difficult to distinguish between a picket line and a company party
During the 42-day strike against the city's two major dailies, ukulele bands played and several state legislators provided coffee and donuts while barefoot picketers in muu-mus or shorts marched in front of the news building.
RESIDENTS OF HAWAII have a long string of Hawaiian weeds they find simpler and more expressive than their English equivalents. There is no north, south, east or west on Oahu. Instead, persons travel mauka (to the mountains), maki (to the sea), ewa (toward the town of Ewa), or koko head (toward a landmark at one end of the island).
In Hawaii, a girl is a "wahine," a boy is a "kane," a white person is referred to as a "haole" in much the same way a person from Japan would be termed an Oriental, and anything that is ended or finished is "paul."
In addition to true Hawaiian
words used by almost everyone, pidgin-English still has a large following in the islands. Along with "bimeby" goes "Where you been go, bruddhah?" (the pidgin equivalent of "Where have you been, brother?"), and "No can" (the local version of "I cannot").
Journalists Abroad Hindered By Censors
BACK IN HONOLULU stands perhaps the only university in the country attended regularly by girls in muu-muuus and boys wearing bermuda shorts.
WASHINGTON — (UPI) There is a trend around the world to relax censorship and give the American foreign correspondent more freedom in what he writes. But in many nations he must walk warily lest he step into a hidden booby trap that will blow him clear out of the country.
By Harry Ferguson
The general conception of a censor is that he is a man with a thick blue pencil who takes a reporter's copy and strikes out words, sentences and paragraphs. But there are other factors that impede the free flow of news into the United States:
- The threat to punish a reporter after the fact. He is allowed to send a story and then the axe falls. There has been no censorship in Russia since 1961—except on news pictures, news films and tape recordings—but seven correspondents either have been expelled or denied re-entry after leaving the country. One of them was Frank Bourgholtzer of the National Broadcasting Co. Moscow didn't like a television documentary that NEC showed in the United
University Lecture, 4 p.m., 411 Summerfield. "Bivalent Sulfur in the Preservative of Biochemistry," Dept. of Biochemistry, Columbia U. College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Official Bulletin
TODAY
Catholic Mass, 5 p.m. St. Lawrence Chapel, 1910 Strattford Rd.
Carillon Recital, 7 p.m. Albert Gerken.
SUA Classical, 11 p.m., 7 p.m., Fraser
Treasure, 8 p.m.
University Daily Kansan
Kappa Alpha Mu, photojournalism so-
cause of the war. Union Last meeting of the school year.
Episcopal Evening Prayer, 9:30 p.m. Danforth.
TOMORROW
Catholic Masses, 6:45 a.m., 5 p.m.
Lawrence Chapel, 1910 Stratford Rd.
States. Bourgholtzer had no part in the show, but being in Moscow and within the Kremlin's reach he was the man punished.
Mathematics Staff Seminar, 3.30 p.m.
John Strong, R. Burhin, Wreath
Protective Surgeon, D. Burhin
Latter-Day Saints Institute of Religion.
440-265-3788, Pan American Room. Kansas
U.S.A.
Philosophy Lecture. 7:30 p.m., 108
Organizational Organization.
*Dr. Errol Harris*.
- The confusion that results when a large number of reporters try to file their stories on a limited communications system. That is what is happening in Cyprus today. There is no censorship, but the local cable and telegraph personnel cannot cope efficiently with the thousands of words they are asked to transmit daily.
Senior Recital, 8 p.m., Swarthout Hall.
Julia Varner, pianist.
Holy Communion, 11:30 a.m., St. Anselm's Chapel, Canterbury House.
Senior Recital. 8 p.m. Swarthout Hall.
Oysterhout, soprano; Woodwind
Dinnetter.
Minority Opinions Tape-Discussion, 8
Palm 306 Kansas Union. "Operation
Kansas"
Christian Science Organization, 7:30
Pastor Danforth Chapel. Everyone welcome
Christian Family Movement (CFM), 8 p.m. St. Lawrence Center, 1915 Stratford
"The Tiger," "The Typist," 8:15 p.m.
"Experimental Theater"
Episcopal Evening Prayer, 9:30 p.m.
Danforth.
A couple miles makai of the university is Waikiki. Frequently termed "the jungle" because of its dense accumulation of new highrise apartment buildings, palm trees, old houses, hotels and night spots, Waikiki and its cluttered beach are the world-famous attractions that draw mainland haoles by the tens of thousands each year.
BECAUSE THE STATE has but one major university, sports enthusiasm is directed toward high school athletics. In Honolulu, a game between Roosevelt and McKinley high schools or a Punahou-Kameheamehue contest will draw 28,000 fans.
A revolution or any abrupt national upheaval frequently causes censorship to be clamped on where none existed previously. Soon after President Joao Goulart of Brazil was overthrown, three army captains walked into the Rio De Janeiro bureau of United Press International and announced they had come to "collaborate" and to prevent the sending of any "suspect military news or alarming reports." Four of them have been working in shifts ever since, but so far they have cut nothing out of the file of copy. One of them is looking over the shoulder of bureau Chief Denny Davis when he filed the foregoing information for this dispatch. The Brazilian captain labors under a considerable handicap because he neither speaks nor reads English, the language in which Davis was communicating with the United States.
The United States has a blueprint drawn for instantaneous censorship in event of war. Even though there is no peacetime censorship, the pentagon takes a fling occasionally at deciding what reporters shall write and not write. The most recent case was when Fidel Castro cut off the water supply at Guantanamo Naval Base. Washington reporters were flown to Guantanamo and then told that their copy would have to be reviewed for security reasons. It was a one-sided controversy, because the only way a reporter could get his story back to the United States was to file it over Navy communications. Naturally, the Navy won.
Polynesians and Orientals make up the largest percentage of the population, led by the Japanese who account for close to one-third of all the people in the state.
In the newspapers, the biggest continuing story appears to be the periodic escapes from the Koolau Boys Home on Oahu.
One observer suggested the state install a traffic light on the highway next to the home to prevent possible injury to boys dashing across the road to freedom.
THE ABOLITION of prior censorship by Russia was a giant gain for freedom of information. In the old days, the post of Moscow correspondent had to be listed as the most frustrating job in journalism.
Wednesday, May 13, 1964
And bimeby Hawaii might just do that.
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KU Committee to Tout Peace Corps at Fairs
Distributing information about the Peace Corps throughout the state of Kansas will be the objective of the KU Peace Corps Committee during the summer months.
John Sapp, Astoria, Ill., sophomore and chairman of the KU Peace Corps' Off-Campus Committee, outlined his committee's plans in an interview last night.
"OUR FIRST project will be to prepare a booth for the State Fair at Topeka." Sapp said. "The KU Peace Corps Committee sponsored such a booth last year with great success. This year we hope to have the services not only of members of the KU committee, but also of some Peace Corps volunteers who have returned to Topeka."
Working in the fair booth will be members of Sapp's Off-Campus Peace Corps Committee, and members of the Peace Corps Counseling Service.
"In addition to having a booth at the Topeka Fair, we are planning to have booths at some of the state's other large fairs," Sapp said. "We have found out that there will be over 100 county fairs in Kansas this summer, so we will try to get space in as many as possible, taking into consideration population
Church Disclaims Pamphlet Stuffing
The religious material placed in Kansas distribution boxes last week end was not distributed by the Catholic church. The original pamphlet was printed by the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic men's lay organization, but the anti-Catholic chart stapled in the back of the pamphlet was not.
Passages in the pamphlet were underlined in red ink. This was not done by the publishers of the book. A story carried in Monday's Daily Kansan suggested that the literature was distributed by the Catholic church.
of the area and location with respect to other fairs."
"Our committee has written to civic groups, for example Lions and Optimists, all over the state to make them aware that members of our group are willing to make speeches during the summer.
LAST YEAR, THE group was primarily concerned with reaching high school students with the Peace Corps information. This year it will concentrate on older groups, Sapp explained.
"There are about seven or eight members of the Peace Corps Speakers' Bureau, and four members of the Off-Campus Committee located over the state."
The Peace Corps operates under a fund from the University which pays the transportation costs for the students speakers.
"Our job this summer will involve more spreading of information than actual recruiting for the Peace Corps." Sapp said.
The summer will also give the Off-Campus Committee time to plan for a proposed conference next fall with other Kansas colleges and universities.
"Over the summer, we will be working with Kansas State at Pittsburg to plan such a conference," Sapp said.
THE TIGER and THE TYPIST Two Fine 1 Act Plays
at the Experimental Theatre 8:15 May 14, 15, 16 50c plus ID or $1.00
The Classical Film Series
presents
Buster Keaton
in
THE GENERAL
(One of the great comedies of all times)
Wednesday, May 13
Fraser Theater—7 p.m.
Admission: $.60