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SECTION TWO The Language Os Romance By Wilborne Harrell BU Urn Now that the spotlight has been turned on Hawaii by ad mission to Statehood, much in terest and some curiosity has centered on these islands of ro mance. Not the least of this in terest is directed on the proper pronunciation of the word “Ha waii.” Should it be ' Hawaii, wHh the “W” sound, or Havaii, with the “V” sound? It seems that the correct pronunciation will be Hawaii, with the “W” sound, as the most universally accepted pronunciation. If you write letters to your friends in Hawaii. don’t abbrevi ate the new State in your ad dress—don’t shorten Hawaii to Haw. or Ha., as Va. for Virginia or N. C. for North Carolina. The Post Os. ice has decreed that you should spell out Hawaii and not abbreviate. W ' we have to learn to speak Hawaiian in our relations with our new sister State? Since English is already univers ally spoken in the Islands, there is only one reason or necessity for learning the Hawaiian lang- ‘ uage, or some of it, at least. And that reason can be summed up in these words: romance and glamor. There are few places on earth j that is more romantically at tractive than the Hawaiian Islands. And nothing can ex press this romance and glamor better than the Hawaiians them ; VV WVWV WV V VVVVVVWVVVVVVW V * » -V » » - » » » » - I House For Sale! Three Bedrooms, bath and a lialf, "central heat, double ga rage, 80 x 200 lot, DESIRABLE LOCATION J. M. BOYCE PHONE 34X3 Glenihore KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY • 86 PROOF JK&W JTi Vyears old J JHmSyHM {MS? •~g%fr i„i M —-*? —■ t! ;,,^.^; l ,„ ~„ I • i £lT&¥t A HRRMif) CLASSIFIED AU THE CHOWAN HERALD selves in their own language. The early missionaries to the Islands are largely responsible for introducing to the Hawaiians many innovations which we' Lave come to believe as strictly Hawaiian. For instance, • the guitar came from Spain and the Portuguese introduced its little brother the ukulele. The langu age was no exception—the mis sionaries simplified the Hawaiian language into only 12 letters: A, E, I. O, U. H. K, L, M. N. P and W. The Hawaiians use only these twelve letters today. The pronunciation is not too difficult, if you break the words into s> llables with the accent usually falling on the next to the last .-yllable. Honolulu is pronounced HO-NO-LU-LU. with the accent on the third syllable. Every visitor to the Islands usually picks up several words of Hawaiian with which to amaze his friends back home. Here are a few of the most used and best understood. “Aloh'” ranks, first among Hawaiian words and has many shades of meaning, from “I love you” to “lend me ten dollars.” Os course, the latter meaning is an exaggeration, and is used to em phasize the fact that the mean ing of the word “aloha” depends largely on the circumstances under which it is spoken, and to whom. If you are seeing your friend off on a trip aloha means “goodbye”; if he is returning, it ■ means “hello”; if you kiss your j girl in the moonlight under the j palms and whisper tenderly," aloha, it means “I love you.” j Roughly translated the many: shades of meaning of aloha car-; vies a general friendly, warm overtone. Here are a few more words j you may add to your Hawaiian | vocabulary; Lei, a wreath of j flowers; lanai, porch or veranda;! luau, a feast; kamaaina, old timer or Rmg resident of the.! Islands, as opposed to malihini,: a new arrival or tenderfoot, j Aloha nui iff a fommon greeting and pilikia- paeans grief or trouble. Wahine means wife or woman, and kane means man or husband. Wgi means water: i kope, coffee; hokele, hotel and on and on. . * The Hawaiian language is a; very interesting study, and to add spice and interest to your visit to the new State (if you are ever so fortunate as to visit the Islands) you w.ill no doubt pick lip quite a- few of the more commonly used Hawaiian words. But as the Hawaiians pride them'elves on their English, don’t overdo .it. And if you use any Hawaiian words, be careful, get them right, for Hawaiians resent any mispronunciation of 's""uage. Aloha good bye to you. i Weekly Devotional i j Column ’ j Rt JA WM (VtacivKe’/tK I —1 ■ 11 '■ 1 “And when they had prayed . I the place was shaken where the;, were assembled together: and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they'spake the Word of God with boldness” (Acts 4:31). i ‘But ye shall receive power, after cmM *l®“-p«i/ for a. |hong-ternfl|j| ’ J • illness? »L® Nationwide’s new MAJOR MEDICAL Plans begin where your ordinary hospitalization policy leaves off! Helps to pay the BIG BILLS for hospitalization, medical, surgical expense—resulting from long-term illness and serious accident. Protection is low-cost •«. worldwide... guaranteed renewable! nauonwidcmß3R^|ancemmi s an' home office: Columbus, Ohio t JMeph M. Th,n4 -’ ■ Edanion Regional Office: Raleigh T*L 2423 ..■■ mi wii.h. ... ■nn.—■■■■!■■, i ■■> RAPID ADDITION —Hawaiian dancers livaoani Dcmsena, leit, and Meaoii Horoi, appealing in New York, pose with one solu tion to the problem of where to put the 50th star in Old Glory's field, now that Congress has voted approval of statehood for Hawaii. Star has been tacked at right, third row from ben tom, to 49-star Alaskan-iiiociol flag. Mo’e likely solution: five rows of 6 stars each, alternat ing with four rows of 5 stars each, but it’s anybody s guess until an official commission rules ™ the flag’s rnake-^p. that the Holy Ghost is come u.:on you ...” (Acts 1:8). Certainly th : s is the crying bond r e tho Christian Church to day: POWER. Indeed, we have everything else: beautiful build ings, insoir ng music, impressive rituals, polished sermons, fine or ganization, good programs, and ivell-oiled denominational ma chinery. But when it comes to accomplishing work for God that really counts, we are impotent, power'ess. We add numbers s o our church rolls, but I wonder bow rripnv WC geld to I awh's Book of Life? We build chur-h --es, but do we build lives? Our religion, I fear, is often iiß e o ur beauty, only skin deep. Let the church out bold ly on some moral issue, and the world will pav no attention what ever. Let some rriws'er t ’kc a stand for Jesus Christ, and some one will come up to him and threaten to run him out of town if he doesn’t shut up. Let a church take a stand against worldliness and compromise and half its members will quit in an ger. In the midst of everything we have nothing. We are like a Cadillac that is out of gas: in the nidst of all our finery and raa •hinery we are powerless. And Dwer will’ only come as individ al Christens, like you and me, eceive the baptism with the oly Spirit. , Certainly we ?re a needy peo- I pie. And the first step toward receiving anything from God is I to realize our need, and our ut -1 ter inability to meet that need. The second step is to believe that ■ God is willing and able to meet our need. Jesus said, “If ye, then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your chil dren; how much more shall ydur heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?” (Luke 11:13). Indeed, we are commanded, in Ephesians 5:18 to rv^H.r.ui muu2d£sM3M |||p^ "Knowledge oj our duties is the essential port of the phi losophy oj life.” We have a proper consider ation for our responsibilities .to tha community and serve with fidelity and courtesy. “Be filled with the Spirit.” | What must we do to be fill !ed with the Holy Spirit? First of all, let it be understood that the Holy Spirit already indwells ■ every believer (Romans 8:9). Be ing filled with the Spirit does not mean that we “get” the Spirit, for we already have Him. Neith- I er does it mean we get more of IHim: the Holy Spirit is a Person, not a substance; a He, not an it. ’ Being filled with the Spirit means 1 I simply that the Holy Sp’rit re ceives more of us. We are filled with the Spirit when we yield full control of our lives to t e in 4'veling Holy Spirit. We are filled with the Spirit when we ;f' “ ' j To Top the Market with Top Yields... 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