The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21
BY DAN CAMPBELL
United Press STAFF Correspondent

AlCopvright. 1884. BY United Press
= you had any notion that they
would be busting out the little
grass shack" down in Kealakekua
for the visit of a President, just
count it as fantastic as finding
tepee in Manhattan.
The Tin Pan alley conception to
the contrary. there aren't any lit
tie grass ShackS in Hawaii, CONNER
| cial excepted, and you can see one
just as authentic at the Hawaiian
exhibit at the Worlds fair.
President Roosevelt will sleep in
royal Hawaiian hotel suite (once
occupied by the king of Siam) hav-
ing in common with grass Shacks
only the absence of either heating
or cooling systems.
City Rambling and White
AS the cruiser Houston turns her
prov into the coal-locked harbor,
Mr.. Roosevelt will see a rambling
white city of modern buildings,
fronted by great concrete wharves,
with sloping hills and rugged noun
The hills are dotted with green
and white low Sprawling houses like
Mediterranean villas; their neigh
borS may be stately colonial man.
Sions, stucco haciendas or just or
binary houses. AS a whole they
are the same architectural night
mare you find in suburbs of Con-
necticut or Jersey.
About the great battleShip as she
moves to her berth will be Swarms
of brown diving boys. They are
PolyneSians. But don't let that
startle you. They probably speak
better English than the average
Anglo-Sa high school graduate;
have bodies that suggest a combina-
ton of Make Baer'S Drawn and Ru-
dolph Valentines grace, and maybe
tohoTow's Olympic champions. No
sports lover is likely to forget Duke
Kahanamoku.
Natives Prefer FiIet of Sole
A parade of graceful SampanS will
glide by carrying bronzed little fish
ermen, whose fathers may have
Worshiped the Rising Sun of Nip
pom, but these are sons of Hawaii.
who probably prefer their filet of
sole from the skillet rather than
cells raw from the deep.
Primitive tropics? Hardly Gleam-
ing white yachts carrying sons and
daughters of New England mission
aries, who sport oxford accents and
Patou gowns, will glide off the STAR
board and port. Overhead, an ar
mazda OF army and navy planes will
roar with an ear-thundering salute
that will drive from the mind the
swish Of grass skirts.
From the dock the President will
drive through narrow streets and
if you still persist you may count
them foreign" but it is only the
same lack of city planning that
characterizeS municipalities from
New York TO San Francisco.
Fishing by Torchlight
He may eat sukeyaki at an all,
thentic Japanese tea house or
saimin in a Chinese garden. Geisha
girls in komono will serve him in
the former and Mandarian-coated
Chinese in the latter, but both
probably will be American high
school girls, who shed their cos
tunes for cheap Paris imitation
streetwear as Broadway chlorine
sheds her spangles.
The President probably viii
watch the ancient art of fishing
with spears by torchlight, but he
will use modern tackle himself. II
the Observation-Disclosures still
go swimming by at the beach at
Hoonaunau he may have a bit Of
difficulty in asking for them, but
he will find them fine bait for the
au, a swordf1sh worthy of his hook.
Outside of value to song writer's,
the Observation-Disclosures
principal use is bait.
Finally. the President probably
will be greeted by the last repre-
sentative of royalty. She is Prin-
cess Kawananakoa, Republican ma
tional committeewoman for Hawaii.