Show Trouble in Hawaii Traced to Enmity Of Native Cliques Intense Jealousy of Diving Boys for Beach Boys Is Described Editors Editor's note Much of the current current current cur cur- rent trouble in Honolulu has been attributed to enmity of a clique known as the diving boys for forthe forthe forthe the more fortunate beach boys an m exclusive group of expert swimmers divers and surf board riders and musicians which caters ca caters caters ca- ca to the rich tourist trade from the mainland and foreign coun coun- tries A A. B B. B Loudermilk former I student at the University o of Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii Ha Ha- and ex member ex-member of the thc communications communications com com- staff of the Radio Corporation of America spent many years in the Paradise of the Pacific During his stay there he was in n constant association association association tion with the beach boys He has written for the United Press an interpretive and descriptive article article ar ar- telling of this rivalry and how it may have been responsible ble for the attack of five men on Mrs Thalia Massie wife of a ayoung ayoung young naval officer aUker and the subsequent subsequent subsequent sub sub- sequent murder of Kahahawai one of her alleged assailants By J A A. A JB B. B B- B LOUDERMILK Copyright 1932 by United Press SAN FRANCISCO Jan 13 The 13 The hatred and tumult th that t grips Honolulu Hono Honolulu Honolulu lulu today today today-a a hatred fierce as a tropical tropIcal tropical trop trop- ical hurricane hurricane can can an be traced directly direct direct- ly to the culmination o of years rears of gradual gradual gradual grad grad- ual of the Honolulu beach boy boy a a bronzed carefree primitive youth whose naive charm has led him into the highest c circles of society in the Paradise o of the Pacific But this hatred is not engendered by the true beach boy himself It Itis Itis Itis is the hatred of or the polyglot diving boy the boy the spawn of the waterfront waterfront- whose jealousy for the beach boy burns with the fiercest of tropical passions The diving boy sees the beach boy with boy with his charm and gaiety galety- penetrate the highest levels of the American tourist society He does not realize that the beach boy is only an entertainer And he is only this except in a few regrettable cases where in all truthfulness it is the fault of jaded and thrill seeking American women BECOME ECO GIGOLOS Pandering to American women has corrupted the beach boy into a gig gig- I olo But he is a gigolo with his tongue in his cheek If Honolulu has a racial problem if if the present strife is an interracial interracial inter inter- interracial racial outburst of passion then passion then we must say that it is the jealousy of the half-caste half hoodlum diving boy for forthe tho the pure-blood pure beach boy whose station he cannot reach That and the fact that the strictly strictly- reared army and navy officers ac officers ac accustomed to issuing orders orders look look upon up n all natives the beach boys included as inferior persons to be treated as The codes of the south and New England states and states and most of the Honolulu officers are from these sections sections sections sec sec- of the country country are are such that they cannot understand the apparent apparent apparent ent attachment of women for the beach boys A triangular situation of jealousy and misunderstanding then is the cause of the present so-called so interracial interracial interracial inter racial strife The male population whether population whether it be the military or tourist tourist looks looks upon the bronzed beach boys as the transgressing racial barriers Because Because Because Be Be- cause the boys are dark the military military military mili mili- tary in particular considers them themon on the same plane as negroes and servants The boys resent this The diving boys on the tho other othe hand consider the more fortunately situated beach boys as arrogant They are arc jealous and envious of these youths' youths attachments to women of wealth and position As a former resident of the island and a football player for the tho University University University sity of Hawaii I know the conditions of which I speak for I often frequent frequented ed the beach boys' boys exclusive club Picture Waikiki beach Gay pleasure pleas pleas- ure seeking holiday bent Americans intoxicated by the tropical splendors throng the beach night and day Great hotels catering to all the pleasures of tropical imagination border the theseas theseas seas sea's c calm lm magnificence Into this setting at once romantic and seductive place the s called so-called Hawaiian Hawaiian Ha Ha- beach bo boy Magnificent of physique poised and confident of ability a master of the sea he flies through the breakers mounted on his surf board board board-a a true picture of manly grace and strength Night falls In his white flannels and oD necked anon shirt a lei around his lis his his- br bronzed neck and a a flower behind his lis ear the beach boy joins his comrades comrad s on the beach in in singing the sagas of tropical splendors He is adored feted and petted by women i intoxicated by the beauty of the set set- ting Then picture the waterfront div divI diving div ing jag boys Banned from this exclusive sive she circle they run in droves and packs similar to the gangs of young oung hoodlums in an any large mainland city They make their living diving for sm small coins in the stagnant oily waters waters wa wa- wa of the piers where transpacific liners dock The work is hazardous fatiguing and the return small HEARS BEARS EXAGGERATIONS To the ears of the outcast diving di boy come tales of festivities arranged arranged ar sr ar- ar ranged by white women of wealth beauty and position There are exaggerated exaggerated exaggerated ex ex- tales of or illicit relationships between the handsome boys and the seeking pleasure women The diving boy believes himself the equal of the beach bo boy The tales of ot the bacchanal fetes engaged in n by tie the beach boys bos and white women sta stain n the already inflamed imaginations of the diving hoodlums Outside looking lookin in their conceptions of the morals of the women are weird beyond belief belieL Their imaginations thus sharpened by inherent jealousy for the beach boys they have attempted to emulate emu emu- late their conception of the beach boys boys' relationships with women This misconception together with a wrong interpretation of the morals of Amer Amer- lean ican women is responsible ible for most of Honolulu's heinous attack cases The attackers of Mrs Thalia Massie were of the hoodlum element She was a victim of hoodlums hoodlums' ms' ms misconception miscon miscon- of American women's morals and their attempt to emulate the conception con con- their inflamed minds pictured pic- pic of the privileges of the beach boys |