St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-08-11

Thirty-five miles from Honolulu
after you have wendell your way
down the circuitous highway which
leads to the foot of the Nuuanu
Pail, you will come to the sleepy
little village of Kailua. It is thick
ly populated with cottages belong
ing to the middle class towns peo-
pie who want to get away from the
city. 1t was there that 1 spent
many a weekend, mostly among
the Japanese who specialized in
gatherings of all races who were
genuinely interested in social prob
lens throughout the entire world.
Without a Needle
Ny mind runs back to one occa-
sion when the hostess had gone to
an inestimable amount of trouble
and expense to make her party a
success. In Honolulu, radio at its
best is indeed very poor and many
times the stations sign off entirely
as early as eleven p. m. The host
ess had purchased a $500 combina
ton radio with photographic at
tachment that would play twenty
records successfully. She spent
several hours selecting and pur-
chasing records. / shall never for
get the bewilderment on her face
that night when the radio signed
off and she rushed to the instru-
ment to switch it's mechanism so
that it would begin playing rec
ords, and she had forgotten to
bring some needles. It was a star
Ting realization to this writer who
had never remembered that as long
as there were needles even a thou
sand dollar Victrola and an equal
amount of records is entirely use
less without one-cent needle.
We Need Solidarity
This illustrious race of mine can
be hkened unto this experience. In
less than four-score years we have
innumerable educators, great ath-
letes, we have doctors, merchants,
bankers, we have some lawyers at
the bar, we spend millions Of dol
lars in the open market and yet
we are the most backward race in
America. Why? 1t is as simple
as victrola needle WE NEED
SOLIDARITY. ...-
A great white contracting firm
once decided to also go into the
wreckng business. They decided
to be- the greatest builders and
likewise the best wreckers for
miles around. They hired a per-
force of one hundred white
men and one hundred colored men.
Whenever they had big building
to erect they put the white men on
the job and when they received a
job to tear down a building they
sent the colored men to the task,
for they knew full well they are
as wreckers.
Study the Japanese
AS a result of having studied
closely the 100000 Japanese in
Honolulu, I was better prepared to
know what to look for in Japan. l
beseech my race to study the Japa-
nese people to learn something
about solidarity. l must warn you,
though, that Japan is the most de-
spised nation on earth. It isn't the
German people that anyone de-
spises, it is Hitler. Students of
world controversies do not even
blame the beloved Germans for the
fact that such a Frankenstein has
raised himself up in their midst.
In ancient and medieval times if
a Japanese was angry with you
about something he would come
over to your house, ring your door
bell and with a dagger-like knife
he would rip open his abdomen and
bleed to death on your front porch
to spite you. Suicide and death
have always been glorifed by the
Japanese and it's easy to see why
such people would make great