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That Grass Shack
In Hawaii-It’s Just
An Idle Dream!
By WILLIAM WORDEN
AP Features
HILO, Hawaii — From a strici
l ly realistic real estate point of
view, the average American had
better kiss goodbye to that pipe
dream of getting a little grass
shack in the Sandwich isles and
letting the world go by.
Three peacetime barriers will
prove more formidable than the
wire which now ring the Hawai
anti-aireraf? guns and barbed
ians. They are the Big Five, the
Bishop Estate and the land laws.
The Big Five is a group of
companies tactually more than
five) which control practically
everything from pineapples to
banking and shipping. No one
can build anything larger than a
corner grocery without their say
so.
The Bjshop estate, which con
trols three-fourths of ■'he hab ta
ble land in Hawaii, never sells
any land at all. Most Hawaiian
houses for sale are literally that.
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with no land to go wi'h them ex
cept on lease from the e>-tate.
Native Hawaiian? own some
property mil 'he problem is not
which, but how many, own each
tract. Under the old monarchy,
all land reverted to the crown
when each new k ng ascended
the throne and he parceled it ou*
again. The laws were iust foggy
enough so that a grant hy King A
has some legal statu? er King
T nut a new owner on the prop
•r'y. Then came the gr.- nts by
vines C and D
The same land muddle extends
o most of the coral atolls in the
'acific. Tarawa, Funafuti and
Wakin islands have every square
•on* above water almted to native
•'vners under old Polynesian law.
The tracts run the gamut of all
shapes, including c rck and
stars.
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MODERN PILGRIMS
! AN ALEUTIAN BASE — <AP)
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j :ng on Aftu. since the recovery
I >r that outermosJ island from the
Taps, are called the “pilgrim
neaehes.” The group—eight Navy
nurses under Lt. Judith Wilson,
formerly of Anchorage. Alaska
arrived on the island Th ank‘giv
ing Day.
TURN ABOUT
FORT OGLETHORPE. Ga —
TAP'—Uncle Sam gets back most
of the money he pays to Privates
Emma Bassett of Portland. Ore.,
and Minnie Weinstein of Phila
, delphia, at the Third WAC Train
ing Center here. Each of 'hem
: buys a $37.50 war bond out of
i her $50 a month pay
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Floating Postmen
Greet F reignters
For 50th Year
AP Features
DETROIT — A cinch for top
rank n any popularity poll with
Great Lakes’ seamen is Detroit's
fishing post-office which early
this month inaugurated its 50t.h
year of mid-river deliveries to
inter-lake freighters.
The trim.dieseJ-poworetl O. H.
Mook. fourth :n a line of mail
boats. is the only maritime post
office main’amed by the IX S.
government Last year in a 248
day season, it handled' a record
2.263.109 pieces of mail, 48 times
the volume of the first year’s op
eration in 1895
At the outset, transfer of mail
with lake steamers was nccom
plished by a three man carrier
crew, taking turns in a rowboat
and exchanging letters in a buck
et lowered from the passing
freighters.
Today expert pilots swing the
65-foot Mook alongside a steamer
as it churns along Transfer of
letters, parcels. money orders
and postal savings is accomplish
ed ik seconds and the Mook is
away to greet another oij tanker,
ore or grain carrier. Last year
the Mook. in it? eighth season of
service, made 21,344 such con
tact?.
The bucket remains the means
of exchange, however, but the
floating posfmerf can’t remember
the last time a load went into the
water.
Mail delivered to the River
station eight times a day by truck
is sorted below deck.
River traffic ordinarily is well
spaced but the floating postmen j
must move nimoly when clear
ing weather free? a *fog fleet”.
Veterans recall those busy days,
when moil was exchanged with
"23 vessels in 25 minutes" or "37
boats in 21 minutes.”
‘Farmer!’ - When
The War Is Over,
Savs Sailor Lad
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By JACK STINNETT
WASHINGTON — He was just
an ordinary sailor, machinist’h
mate-third class. I didn’t even get
bis name, but in the brief conver
sation I did ask him what he
planned to do when the war is
over.
"Me?” he said slowly and got
a little starry-eyed. “I’m gonna
get me a farm and raise chickens
and pigs and things ”
This wouldn’t be anything sur
prising except that he disclosed a
few moments later that he had
been born and reared in Brook
lyn and had never been closer to
farm land than what nearby Long
ls;lnnd had tc offer.
The point is that he is typical
of a million or so men in service
that the Department of Agricul
ture and Congress are counting
on giving a helping hand when
they get back from up front.
There are a number of bills in
Congress providing for readjust
nisr the discharged service men to
civil life blit one thing that is in
almos4 every one of them and
certain of passage in some form
is provision for getting Ihe would
be farmer off to a good start. j
The prospective congressional
provisions would (D make di
rect loans to ex-service men who
desire to buy larms: <23 provide
for guaranteed mortgages, thus!
permitting banks and farm mort-(
gage companies to make liberab
loans; and (3) direct the Depart
ment of Agriculture to give all
possible aid to these young farm
ers toward seeing that their ef
forts produce cash returns.
Since farm production is now
being pushed to the limit, an
expanded postwar program may
seem like a pipe dream, but agri
oul'ure officials will tell you that
isn't so. Apparently the "econo
my of scarcity” which resubed in
bonuses for plowing under every
thing from pigs to cotton has been
abandoned. The idea now is that
it will take years of maximum
Droducbon to feed a post-war
world.
As for available land, the ex
perts estimate that the Army and
Navy now have 3,000.000 acres of
good farm land which can be re
turned to farming as soon as the
war is over. In addition, blue
prints are being drawn for recla
mation of addbional millions of
acres principally through rriga
tion, but some also through drain
age and flood control.
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The Department of Agriculture
estimates that ♦here are now a
million farm youths in the armed
services. While a large percent
age will return to their family
farms and an additional number
will make use of their service
training to turn to other pursuits,
there still will be hundreds of
thousands who will want their
own farms. There’s probably evert
a greater number of farmers who
have gone into war industry and
will want to return to fanning as
soon as the lush wartime wages
begin to shrink.
No consideration has been given
so far to these ex-war workers
but many officials here think
that some similar provision will
be made as soon as the “G-I Bill
of Rights" or something like it
has became a law.
. Unless all present signs are
| pointing in the wrong direction,
j the would-be farmers in the
armed services are going to be
given the biggest break of any of
the dischargees.
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