Ke Alakai o Hawaii, Volume IX, Number 28, 22 ʻOkakopa 1936 — RIVENBURGH URGES ELECTION OF DEMOCRATIC DELEGATE TO WORK WITH DEMOCRAT SOLONS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RIVENBURGH URGES ELECTION OF DEMOCRATIC DELEGATE TO WORK WITH DEMOCRAT SOLONS

Strongly supporting the New Deal policies of President Eoosevelt. whose re-election is regarded as inevitable next month, Bertram G. Rivenburgh is running for the office of Delegate to Congress on the plea, "Send back a Democrat to represent Hawaii in a Democratic administration." Rivenburgh also regards the record of the Republiean incumbent, hailed in the Republican press as "excollent," as not quite so exc.ellent as it might have been by a long shot, and certainly not quite so excellent as might have been establ'ished by a Democratic delegate in sympathy with the Democratic administration, Rivenburgh is pojnting out that the so!e cry of the Republicasns in Hawaii during Republican nalional administratonB has been "S#id a Republican back to represent Hawaii in a Republican administration," and asks caustically why what is sauce for the goose canot be sauce for the gander. v . As regards the certainty o£ President Roosevelt's reelection, Senator William G»bbs McAdoo, Democrat of

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California, is regarded as among the five best and most effeetive politica! campaigners in the Umted States* Senator McAdoo, strong supporter of tke Roosevelt administration, passed through Honolulu recently on the inaugural trip of the Pan-American Airways passenger servicej on his way to Manila. "What the hell are you doing out here, traipsing ali over the Pacific, at the height of a presidQ!itial campaign back on the mainland," Senator McAdoo was asked by a politically-minded friend during his brief stay here. The Senator laughed. "They don't need me back there," he replied. "This man Landon hasn't even the ehanee a snowball wpuld in hel!. If I and the Democrats at national headquarters didn't feel th,at way, do you suppose I wou!d be out here. Not on your life! I would be back there whoogmg it up, but they don't need me, and I thought I would take this trip. "The President i$ certain to carry Califorma, as well as the rest of the West Otherwise, I wou!d be back the* , e »n the ihiek of it." I As far as Delegate Iving's record is concerned, Rivenburgh also asks. \vhy \vas it necessary for Gavernor Poindoxtor to inake two trips back to \Vasliiugton and lor Frank 11. Locey, Hawaii administrator of the Works Progress Administration, to make one trip back to Washington when the bountiful benefits that were pouring into līawaii from tlie natioual government threatoned to cease —simply because the high command in the Peniocratic administration were not overly impressed by pleas of the Kepiihliean, King? One King Fai!ure Those FERA-WPA benefits, aniountmg to §9,000,000 siyce May, 1933, whieh the Territory has received, Riyenburgh declares, most distinetly were NOT among the aecomplishmer\ts of Delegate King, for if he had been able |to obtain those grants, the trips of Governor Poind*..\tei |and Administrator l.ocey to Washington would not liave

been necessary. Also, Rivenburgh is asking, what did Delegate King do but nuHify the efforts of the Hawaiian legislature to have inter-island freight and pasaenger ratas'in Hawaii reduced through having the jurisdiction of the loeal publie utilities eommission restored over the actiyities of the Inter-Tsland Steam Navigation Co. Such restorAtion of loeal juriadiction wa» requested in & joint resolution adopted by the legislature and signed by the Governor, but was pigeon-holed in Wsshington by the Rspublican delegate, who wq.s U£jtf&isg to the voice3 of hi» masters wKo had contributed somethmg like $50,000 for his 1934 campaign fund' # as was broaght out in evidence at the hearings on the suii to oust him from his seat! Consequently, as the result of Delegate King's in r aotivity on this resolution, growers of produpe on Molokai, for instance, the heart of the activities of the Hawaiian Homes Cornmission whieh constantly is striving to extend diversifled farming in Hawaii, will continue to be charged more for the transportation of a ton of freight from Kaunakakai to Honolulu than shippers of pr.nduce are eompell'ed to pay for the transportation of a ton of freight from Sān Francisco to Honolulu. Rates Ruin Farmers The freight rates, exorbitant beyond all reason, have sej^ 7 ed to hamstring the activities of the Hoolehua and other farmers because, while all agricultural exfi.erts %gree that th.ey ean raise almost any crop under the sun, there, is l'iUle use for t|hem to try b,eca.use of the small ehanee for profit—and in the end the farmers find themselves #nly working for the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co., a situation they most distinctly do not like. Rivenburgh bāses his candidacy on a long- service iij puhlie life in many capacities. Bom in Chatham, New York, on May 5. 1881, he first eame to Hawaii in 1904 bn a tour of the South Seas and returned in 1006 to make his permanent residence here. From 1906 to 1908 he was employed at the Waialua plantātion office and in 1909 became secretary to the late Mayor Fern, In 1914 he was promoted to be in charge of the parks department' and went to San Francisco in the year as one of the Hawaii commissioners to the Par»-Pacif!o International Exposition under appointment of the late Gdvernor Pinkham, Near the end of 1915 he was appointed commissioner of puhlie lands, serving unti! 1919 when he entered the real estate business with the Millon Realty Co. In 1922 and 1923 he served as secretary to the late Delegate Bi!I Jarrett. The delegate's office in the House Office building in Washington adjoined the office of the then Representative Millard Tydings, of Marylaiid, who became intimate!y acquainted with Rivenburgh during thoge two yearg. ' 1 Now 25enator Tydings At present that same Representative Tydings is now Senator Tydings, chairman of the powerful Senate Committee on Territories and Insular P*issessions/the Congressional hody whieh has the final say on all §nd appointments having to do with Hawaii, the Philippines and other 6utlying portions of the nation. Hial Senator Tydings, powerful figure on the Capitol and an ardent Demqcrat, would be able to work in better harrnony with a Delegate from Hawaii who is an old and trusted friend, as well as another Democrat, rather than with the Republican incumbent, goes without saying. Henee a vote for Rivenburgh is a vote whieh obtains a sjTnpathetic ear in ā powerful quarter in Congress toward needs, aspirations of Hawaii! Rivenburgh also was superintendent of the Honolulu parks under Mayor John H, Wilson in 1929 and 1930. Since 1933 he has been in charge of Civilian Conservation Corps activities under the Emergency Conservation Works ptpgram at National Park-

BERTRAM O. RIVENBURGH