Delegate King said that the number of civilian skilled workers at Pearl Harbor naval establishments had increased from 2,000 to 6,000, and that army civilian pay rolls have trebled or quadrupled since the great mili-were The population tary and naval expansion measures
growth in the Territory of Hawaii during the decade from 1930 to 1940 was 149 per cent, compared to a 72 per cent. increase for the entire United States. The city of Honolulu increased 304 per cent. in a decade, and its population is now over 180,000.
"If statehood for Hawaii were to be regarded as incompatible with the special administrative interests of the army or navy, then the same argument could be made with respect to other great military centres within mainland states," he said. "The national aim of the United States at ihis time is the preservation of democracy, end statehood for Hawaii would conform to the spirit of this the Orient and to the Seas.
Delegate King will await action by the Legislature on the Statehood Commission before asking for hearing here on the statehood enabling act which he introduced early in the the present session of Congress. H.R. 597, ling before the House Committee on the Territories, is entitled "A bill to enable the people of Hawaii to form a constitution and State government and to be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original states,"
Delegate King is convinced that the logic of events will rapidly increase the support for such a measure.
"The 49th star is on the horizon," he said—United Press, "De-Superstition"
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