Center for Labor Education & Research, University of Hawaii - West Oahu: Honolulu Record Digitization Project

Honolulu Record, Volume 10 No. 7, Thursday, September 12, 1957 p. 6

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TV & Radio

The Honolulu Advertiser, instead of allowing Bob Krauss to write two columns weekly on the low state of TV programs in Hawaii, would be smarter if the same space was given over to ex-tracts from letters by long-suffering viewers.

The Advertiser owns KONA-TV and therefore must, kowtow to the sponsors of its programs who also take display ads in the Advertiser. These sponsors undoubtedly would toe more interested in the opinions of genuine viewers (potential customers) than in those of Krauss.

CBS world news (KGMB 7 a.m. and NEC's News of the World (KGU 5:30 p.m.) give vital news items which aren't in the local newspapers. These radio newscasts, which are short-waved from New York on weekdays, often originate what they call "exclusive" items.

For example, NEC collared the first U. S. student back from the recent World Youth Festival at Moscow. This student, who spoke Russian, regretted that at least 2,000 students (instead of 200) hadn't gone from America because, he said, the young Russian men and women thirsted for facts about America.

Said he:
"As usual we were asleep at the switch and missed a swell chance to swap ideas."

Another recent NEC exclusive was an exposure of the hypocrisy of certain US. industrialists and the Department of State. NBC said that American companies, who aren't allowed to trade directly with China, simply farm out manufacturing licenses to Japanese companies which export the machinery, machine" tools, and other critical Hems to China. The American companies, of course, get their rake-off' on the trade, in the same way as they sell to England, France and other countries which re-export to China.

When the party of American students, now touring China, started Inspecting Chinese production lines they were startled at the wide use of new American equipment. They told NBC that, from what they saw, China is well stocked with American goods of all kinds from A to Z.

p /> I do not say that at odd hours a patient must be given the regular hot dinner or supper. Few people would expect this.
 
But what is so complicated about opening and heating a can of soup, making some toast, or preparing instant coffee or tea? Why cannot a night nurse do these simple things after the kitchen to closed? Is it just too much trouble?

It is only common humanity to feed the hungry. If our hospitals are too big, too complex, too impersonal to do these small kindnesses for the sick, something is very wrong.