The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-10-01
Soldier in Islands
Says He'd to
Trade Jobs Here
Natives boost prices on
stuff sold to soldiers,
Kippes writes
Hawaiian Islands

AlppCC W11oOO rr
Hawaiian Islands
Mr. Reed:
Been receiving your paper regu-
,artv but rather late-last issue was
Aug. a. Seen the letters from diff
ferent boys in the service - very
interesting. ~ <s .-,.-
This is the land of hula hula girls,
coconuts and monkeys. No monkeys
here unless it is these japs. The
true Hawaiian peaple are larger and
better built than the American peo-
nile but the mixed breed people,
which consis of japs, Chinese and
Whites, and brown race don't aver
age over 4 feet 9 inches in height.
The women mostly are very small,
could stick half dozen of them
in nv CT overall rear pocket and
never know they were there. That's
the size pants government issue I
got size A waist bib overalls, and I
wear size "a so when I put them on
look from the waist on down like
a woman with a pleated skirt on.
The country looks a lot like the
foothills of the Blue Mountains only
no tall timber on top of them. On
the foothills it's all sugarcane and
pineapples.
Most Of the native trees and flow
ers have thorns on them which drop
on the ground preventing a person
from going barefooted. You will
only sit on one of these thorns once,
the next time you will look before
you sit down.
It takes 10 months to raise a crop
Of sugarcane, lots of hard work be-
sides. Some of the boys are CATCH
ing small sharks along the beach
IN the evenings. We have Sunday
afternoons off now. Have been work
ing seven days week up until now,
besides standing guard every night.
Then lot of you people think you
are working hard and not getting
enough pay and keep hollering
strike. Well if you think you are
working too hard or aren't getting
enough pay, why come on, I'll trade
places with you and work for moth
ING You people in the states don't
even know their is war going on
unless you have boys in the service.
once every ten days we get pass
70 Honolulu, Its funny town scat
tered all over the country, with the
main cuisines part of town con-
ssting fifty per cent sfacks all
aui OF tinkets and junk trying to
seI your money with two prices on
everything. Eggs 80 cents per doz-
en- Ice cream 80 cents per pint,
lou very seldom get any spuds when
YOU go to a restaurant for a meal.
iney offer you rice instead. A de-
vent meal costs you from, lbs to
zW per meal. The natives treat a
perSon alright, They should with all
ae money they are making off of
boys and the government.
on my last pass I west to Homo
,aiu and from their down to Waikiki
sacn, which is supposed to he one
" ne big attractions in peace time,
= Rnt any prettier then your beach
a. pasco. They have Sears Roe
luck, Kress ten cent store Piggy
aegiy, Western Auto, New berry
S'ores over here.
neiio Carl Mayor in Australia, I
mote you a letter around the last
July, did you get it, If our letters
sua : reach us we can use the home
oNa paper for a letter carrier, I
au your letter in the Aug. q
ssue' everything fine over here, I'm
~. uie Coastal Artillery, quite warm
a, e, very seldom wear shirt, Mes
Sntoes by the millions at night. You
t say any thing about your
en over there You KenneWick
somen will have to come over here
u learn to do the hula hula, You
NC way behind the times when its
s;s ues 10 hulaing. / have the same
'o Oh job that Margret Hawkins
@ Have good radio so can get
~ ". Of rodio programs direct from
we home land.
lester Fishback is the only one in
~ Battery from Kennewick area,
nv u ne sleeps right next to me.
e get to go to church almost every
c,aay at Waipahu. I'll agree with
Safi Mayer that Mr. I,incoln's son