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Show BEVERLY HILLS Well all I know is just what I read in the papers. pa-pers. Did I ever tell you about the time 1 steameu into Honolulu Harbor? Well I been lying so much, 1 reckon 1 better tell you. It was in late July of the year 34. It seems that Mr Roosevelt picked that same time of the same year to go too. I dont know wnaL lie waa uu- lug there. Well yes I do, he had really real-ly gone out there to see. that wonderful won-derful place of ours. It is a kind of a freak place. By that I mean that there is nothing just like it anywhere. any-where. While it might at first suggest sug-gest nothing but sunburn and surf boarding, ukalcles and cocauuts, when you really get ashore you find folks working. We steamed in to that wonderful old Harbor on an early Friday morning, morn-ing, in the S.S. Malolo of the Mat-son Mat-son Line. After a fine trip, lots of fun, good weather, and whoever said that ship rolled was some communist com-munist propagandist. When they roll I am not above decks, and I was above decks all the time, so it certainly cer-tainly dident roll. I got a sea stomach stom-ach that will roll just two jumps ahead of any ship. Well we steamed in and there was what they called "Diamond Head." We have the Diamond Back, but the Head is a mountain. Its an old volcano thats seen better days. Its like everything else nowadays, its laying off. This depression has hit those volcanoes too. And if you ever saw a sad looking sight its a volcano thats been hit by a Republican Repub-lican depression. They just sorter sag in the middle, and all sides hang loose. Nothing going in. Its a real depression. They say that the Army, or Navy, has sneaked in there and charged her innards with some 18 or 20 inch guns, and that while you cant see em from the outside, they can see you. It was a fine morning and fine sight. Then we spied the Presidents boat, the cruiser "Houston." "Hous-ton." Named in the honor of the Chairman of the R.F.C. Then there was another one laying there by it, I forget its name. It was to carry three newspaper men who were on the trip. It was the biggest yacht that ever housed three men. All nice boys though and deserved It. I got to my hotel and I had twenty-eight of those things around my neck, and they were all of a different, differ-ent, and wonderful fragrant breed of flowers. I thought they was all going to be paper ones like those Hawian bands use over home, and all yellow, but these are some of em made out of orchids. Thats running to a real wreath brother. Then up to the wonderful Royal Hawian Hotel. Ho-tel. And look out of your windows right down onto the beautiful ocean and Wikiki Beach. And guys coming in on surf board as easy as a poli-tican poli-tican can stand up on a Fourth ol July picnic speakers stand. Rierht up above us and kinder over to one side on a balcony apartment was the Presidents rooms. Had a lot ol bathing suits hung out there. Made it look mighty ordinary and homelike. home-like. I dont think he himself went In. But 1 bet he sure would have liked too. He is a fine swimmer. 1 know the two boys were in, Frank-lyn Frank-lyn and John. Then out to drive and see the city, and say its a real city. My wife had been there before, and you know it is when somebody has already seen the picture, they start telling you the answers before they happen. But she hadent exagerated it at all. I dident get mixed up in the ocean during the whole trip. Guess I am the only person ever went to Honolulu and dident take a whirl at the ocean. But I couldent ride one of those ironing boards with my stirrups stir-rups hobbled. You know that racket Is just mangy with skill. My kids tried.it, but they come in a new way, they had the board riding them. It was standing up on end right on their necks. That night Mrs Rogers and I were asked to have dinner with the President Presi-dent up in his apartment. There was a mighty jolly party of 10 or twelve. He was in great humor, and told us many diplomatic diplomat-ic things, and many that was-ent. was-ent. He was simply sim-ply overjoyed at the spirit and prosperity of the Islands, and the way they all got along there together to-gether the various nationalities. That night for him was given one of the greatest and most novel pa ' rades ever given on American soil. 1 It was called a Chinese and Japanese Japa-nese lantern parade. And It was unique. 1 tell you they do things right in these Islands. Ah It would take me a year to tell you about em I went over to the big Island and stayed three days where the big cuttle cut-tle ranches are. j 113. l,jyauSht Synitcalt, Int. |