Posted on: Wednesday, August 21, 2002

EDITORIAL
Hugh Lytle: 1902-2002

For 13 years, from 1947 through 1960, the opinions that regularly filled this place in the daily Advertiser came largely from veteran newsman Hugh W. Lytle.

Lytle's brand of tough-talking, ultraconservative opinion probably wouldn't make a great match with today's readers or today's community standards.

But he was uncompromising in his principles, dedicated to newspapering and fierce in his determination that The Advertiser (and daily journalism in general) would survive in the Islands.

Lytle died last Friday in Novato, Calif., at the age of 100. His work, which ranged from filing the first Associated Press bulletin about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to later work as a gubernatorial press secretary and free-lance public relations consultant, helped shape the story of modern Hawai'i.