Page ACCION Saturday, Jan. 25, 1947 Men of Influence in Our Lives MAJ. GENERAL MEHAFFEY Governor of the Panama Canal DR. RICARDO ALFARO Panama Minister of Foreign Relations COLONEL FRANK WANG Assistant to the Governor of the Panama Canal We are sincere in the belief that no man can long fight for himself without fighting for others; that no man can protray the crying need of his people without reflecting the similar needs of others. For a job well done in the assembly halls of the United Nations, we find ourselves co partners in indebtedness to Dr. Ricardo Alfaro, Panama Foreign Mi nister.
We are of the opinion that we should never hesitate to tell our friends how much we appreciate them, and their beneficence on our behalf. Local 713, United Public Work ers of America CIO, has many friends on the Isthmus of Pa.
nama. Friends in high places, friends of character and inte.
grity, friends of sterling worth; and so today we salute them.
We have been very fortunate in securing the friendship of no less a personage than Don Enrique Jimenez, President of the Republic. This depart ment opines that the friend ship of Don Enrique, from the very beginning, has been like a priceless jewel among the treasures of Local 713. It is our opinion that the shelter afford ed us by the Republic of Pa.
nama has been the greatest gift of friendship bequeated on the harried and exploited sil.
ver workers since the birth of the Republic forty three years ago. So, today we say, Viva Don Enrique Jimenez, Presidente de la Republica de Panama, Amigo de los Obre.
ros, y Paladin de la verdadera democracia We count among our great est friends that man of sterling qualities, friend of the people; scholar, linguist and three times Governor of the Pro.
vince of Colon, Don Victor Navas, who by his evident sin cerity and interest in the af fairs of the common people has earned for himself a spe cial place in the hearts of his countrymen and foreigners.
We must emphasize here that we have many friends among white American em ployees on the Canal Zone.
Men and women who are seri.
ously concerned about the flagrant discrimination against and exploitation of silver workers. They are concerned because they know that these symbols of racism are un Am erican and should not exist in any place the Stars and Stripes. that true banner of demo.
cracy is unfurled.
We also know that on the side of the line we have a few friends who have been sympathetic; friends who have realized the difficulties sur rounding the silver employee of the United States Gov.
ernment on the Canal Zone.
We know that Major General Mehaffey, Governor of the Panama Canal is alive to the facts and that both he and Col onel Frank Wang, Assistant to the Governor and for many years Executive Secretary of the Panama Canal, are huma.
nitarians, and sincere in their efforts to inject changes into the status quo.
DON JIMENEZ President of the Republic of Panama Today, friends of Freedom and of Liberty, friends of Fair ness and Equality, we salute you. We salute you through the medium of ACCION. of ficial organ of Local 713, and in the name of Christendom which teaches the Fatherhood of God and te Universal Bro.
therhood of man.
FOSTER BOURNES.
DONOR NAVAS Governor of the Province of Colon BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL ERNESTO CASTILLERO