Ke Alakai o Hawaii, Volume IX, Number 25, 1 October 1936 — HAWAII DEBT TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT JUSTIFIES STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC VOTE – FOR THE HAND THAT IS FEEDING US [ARTICLE]

HAWAII DEBT TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT JUSTIFIES STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC VOTE - FOR THE HAND THAT IS FEEDING US

Bourbons Liot Extraor-dmayy Boncfita Accruing4e--— — Territory Under Present Administration in Addition to Ordinary Appropriations—Plead for Support of FDR Hawaii's debt to President Roosevelt, tlie boundle£S benefits acerumg to the Territory under the New Deal administration of that great humanitarian, provides the greatest of all reasons why voters in the islands should support the Democratic ticket in an effort to show the thanks and appreciation of the archipelago for the gifts ite has received! That is the theme song on whieh. Democratic candidates enter the Saturday primary conYinced that the grate- , ful voters of Oahu will elect Supervisor Mānuei C. Paeheeo mayor of the city and county ar>d other unopposed muq|eipal candidates outright and will east such a godly num-. ber of bailots for the party's delegate and legi£lative candidates as wiil assure their eleetion in the general election, These New Deal benefits to the Territory. as announced in a recent special dispatch from Washingtoi& £o the Star-Bulletin, amounted to almost $23,000,000 in the fiscal year ending June 30, last. Under the Republican national, Territorial and City and County pla'tforms, whieh all are interlocked, tho*e benefits must cease automatically if a majority of the Republicans are elected to office at the elections this falL That the keystone of those three platforms—»'«!<• the New Deal, regardle«s of the benefits that have accrued to Hawaii—return the government control to the Republicans so that they may wreck the country again, as they did under President Hoover! Just recently—and later than wou!d have been the case if Hawaii had been repreaented in Washington by a Democratic instead of Republican delegate—there was extended to Hawaii the latest of these New Deal.benelit§_ against whieh the Republicans are so firm in their opposition. This was the Naiional Youth Administration, for whieh an allotment of ?79,272 was made available to assist youths of school age in the Territory to comp!ete their education. It was placed under the jurisdietion of oren E. Long, superintendent of public instruction. Civilian Cc«iservation Corps hoi' two > ears anofcher of the humanitarian agencies conceived by President Rooseve!t—the Civilian Conservation Corps—has maintained a minimum of 600 boys at camps on all of the islands_in the T er»gaged in clearing fprest fire prevention and other usefui iactivities —at a monthly vvage cf $30 and found. The oniy requisite is that the enrollee must have one or more dependents, to whom he makes a monthb* allotment of $22 from his pay. Both *ctiviiies were iaau«urated with the purpose of keeping the growing youth of Amenea, for whom lhere «w» be found no plaee in the nation*s industry and eommerce, off the street corners and other loiterio£ and evil-breedin£ envlronments, and putting in healthful surroundiugs uaiil a plaee ean be fouqdJEar them ia the ordiaiary social scheme of thing&. President Franklm Delano Roosevelt took office m March. 1933, and up to the end of 1936, the Territory Hawaii hasr.<?ceived from the fedei39J goveznmieiit extraordinaiy benefits that totai §113,000,000 as follows: Direct beoefits—Su«ar taxea under the Jo«es-Costigan Act t CWA, FERA aad WPA, Farm Loaa Adnumstration, Home Owaers' Loaa Cwpor<ali(ta, miscellaneous rec<?ijpU from oUae* New $32,000,000. Pu*eapple price increa»e due to hetter tim«4 under New Deal-—51.20 per case, or a loUl of $37,000,000. pnee mcrease due to the 3oncs-Costigan Act and better times under the New Qeal —Ui<ui $IZ.OO per ton. or a totfl of $44,000,000, i>Yaju these benefiu all classes of the popnlalion of Hawaii have benefitted—sugar planters, pineapple planand pineapple contractors, general buainess* building c.ontractors to the pomt where th.e living coadi- | tiona of e\en tiiq laborer among ua, and the memI :b4ri» oi have beeu improved to a great extent» i in the iaee <rf great benefits tc Hawaii the Re!publiesn Temtoria} platform ; on whieh iU candidates aee |running in tho eleeiion, supports the na- . f tlauul plutform oi the Republican p&rty, vhLeh is nothing f uw* w uoi le&* Uian a broadside o£ critie;sm of President i Rooseveits poliaes—the Kew Deal polioies whieh have [po«Yed $113,000,000 into this Territory in less than four lyears. And iMnust U tniberp tliat this vast sum of. i extraordinuiy be,nefius not include ihe ordinary ap- | propriations—larger now than ever—£or the maintenaac« }oi the arin>, navy and other, federai government dep&rtia Hawaii'; . ..■■■*? f On the other hand, the l>emi.vrstic *Territe3rial plati forfn, on whieh its candidates are runnhig £oc Jin Hawaii, is a endorsement of the nation&Vtkm^:rs-

tic platform, »nd a strong endoi"jjenioi|s of Freiidont Euoiicvt'li und lhc New Dcal polieiee brouglit ihuae 1113,000,000 to H.a>vai,L

To irnui:e ihe£e &ad benefita 0f Presideqt Roo§e-, \ elt i ]Se\\ Deal fpr līawaii, it is absolutely that the Tenitory must have men in public office, both in the legialature s.nd in tlve city &$d county an£ cpuj)tx, goyemments, who belieye iii those New Deal policies and suppojrt them publicly. The Republican party is the party of wealth, of the Big I.iiter.ests, as represented ,in Hawaii by the "Big Five." Its candidates are connected directly or indirectly in Hawaii with that same Five"; they are to the Big, Inter,ests for favors- —past or future—and must do the bidding of their Bosses who pull the strings that run to the rings that have bees pja£gd, in tho§e van4idajtes' pogeSj as their past records prove without doubt. | _ : Tfae, P§i|j s ocr.atic p.arty is the party of the ordinary citizen, the eomnaon people, "the forgotteij man." īts eandidates in Hawaii are m.ainly men and women who are independent of thg Big Interests~-"The Big Fi ye "—defenderg of the rights, not of the Big Interests, but of the whole population of Hawaii. The shining example of this is Manuel C. Paeheeo, the Democratic candidate for Mayor, and his record in private and puhlie life, A vote for Republican candidates in Hawaii is a vote AGAINST President Roosevelt and ,his New DeaJ policies whieh have poured those $113»000,000 in extraordinary benefits into IJawaii In less than four years. A vote for ,Democratic candidates in Hawaii is a vote -FOR President Roosevelt and his New Deal polici,es whieh have pour,ed those $113,000,000 in extraordi&ary benefits into Hawaii in lesā than four years. | A vote for Republican candidates in represents the abhorrent act of "biting the hand that.'s feeding Hawaii." But the outstanding contribution of Presidept Roosevelt's New Deal to Hawaii —the one agency whieh dwarfs all others in the public eye and mind—is th.e Works Progress Administration, formerly the Federal Ei?iergency Relief Administration. More Than $5,000,000 The offkial report of Frank H. Locey f Territorial Administrator, tb Governor Joseph B. Poindexter, cover-| ing the fisc.a! vear July 1, 1935-June 30, 1936, revealed' that the FERA-WPA had poured a total of $5,082,960.72 • in federal funds into the Territory in the past two years—$2,358,000 between July 1, 1934 and June 30, 1935, and $2.724,960.72 in the fiscal period ending June 30, 1936. During the year ending June 30, 1936, the report stated that an average of 4,286 mdividua!s had been employed on worthwhile projects permanent value «nd had been rescued thu« from destitution and starvation. [ But thi* 13 not the only service provided{ for the eom- ! numity by the Works Progress AdmsnistratĪ6n, it was retvealed by a later report whieh showed that the employment servtce of that orgamzation had succeeded in plaefor the two-week period ending September 19, a total of 7,071 persons m jobs. . 1 *<■ ■■ Übor By Groups These were divided as follows—Nat;ona] Recovery Highways, 895 i Navy WPA projects (s§parate appropriation)} 430; WPA projects, 4,181; Civiliajj Conseyvation Qorps, 600; Army WPA projects (separ.ate appropriation), 684; and Puhlie Works Administration projects (private contracts), 281. If it had not been fojr the FERA-WPA the other agencie« of President RooseveltV New Deal, it has been without employment today—would be either starving or a charge upon the community, with their bare maintenanee as human beings an ob!igation tQ met by those residents of Hawaii who are fortunate enough to have a a private ineome, or a job. Consequently. a vote against President Roosevelt and the rest of the Democratic New Deal cajvdidates In ihe commg elections has been interpreted as an act of "biting ti»e hand th£.t*s feeding you"—& distinctly un.-Ani§ric&n traitl

Whiie Mayor Wright, in Honolulu t has pomtiixg with pride and with sweeping gestures at 'Eepūbliean raiiy "to the accompiishments of MY administration/' aad naming some of these so-dalled achievements, an anaiysis of the projects to whieh labor has-been assigned by the FERA-WPA disclosed that most of the projects listed by His Honor had been made possible only througb tfee eontribution of federal funds whose expenditure the Republicans now decry!

i In order that the reoord may kept ciear, the followiiig is a parUal llst of projects on whieh FERA-WPA fuads have heen expended on Oahu in thV last two yf>ars of the present nnmleipal admlnistration: Benjamin Parker school Im-Pi-ovmenkt, Kaueohe. C&ilfornj,%, Avenu€ improvemer.ts, Waliinwa. J>mol!s?hiner Ih-lwe KuTi!o's res4denc«. Ooto street extension. Swt ,i)e SrUMy Fieia.

i Fort Ruger qu&rries aa<! rOAds. I Fort Shafter St-9rm w&ter dra4ugs;e. Mi<i4ie jstfe«i cxtenslon. ' Hauula Park lmprbvenienU. Heeia Radio Station road f Kī>~ olaupoko. Inimigration steOoo improvements U> groundsKaiirtuki reservors ituprovemerit to grounds, Kaneohe Bay parfc 1 Kaneohe P<wrk. Laie school iniprovemenU. sc]iool ixuprovemēnts.