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

Honolulu Record, Volume 9 No. 1, Thursday, August 2, 1956 p. 1

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Beatty to Hit Road Aug. 23 on Ringling Route

Was it financial difficulty, or financial opportunity that kept Clyde Beatty's show from coming to Hawaii?

Word comes from the Mainland now that Beatty has signed to fill a number of dates across the Mainland left vacant when the Ring-ling Bros. Circus decided to return to its quarters in Sarasota, Fla. According to this information, Beatty will hit the road beginning Aug. 23, just about a week before he was scheduled to open in Honolulu under auspices of the HGEA and Promoter Ralph Yempuku.

Beatty, according to the information, will be working on a salary.

In show circles here, it is believed Beatty probably has very little financial interest of his own in the show, but operates on the orders of his financial backers — some of them powerful in a number of fields. And the new information gives rise to speculation as to whether Beatty's backers didn't pull out of the Honolulu project when they saw a chance for more lucrative freight costs.

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A spokesman of the Yempuku Mainland engagements. interests said this week that transportation costs were the main obstacle, and that other difficulties, including those with the actors' union, had been ironed out. When Earl Finch, co-promoter with Yempuku, went to California to finalize the agreement, however, he reported back that transportation costs would be out of the question. Originally, it was planned that the Beatty show, under auspices of the HGEA, would open in Honolulu at the end of August, moving to Maui later for the Maui County Fair.

After all, in face of opposition TPA grew because islanders envisioned a competing airline that would improve island air traveling, and TPA filled their bill. TPA's success has been rewarding to Hawaii's people.

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.