Especially when trans-continental flights were priced at a premium as they were new. Not only the noise problem introduced by boarding an infant, but the medical implications.
Sooooooo what is itty-bitty baby Barak doing 2500+ miles away from Honolulu?
How did Stanley Ann get him there so quickly that she didn't have time to learn how to diaper him in transit?
Don't tell me he never pooped on a slow boat from Hawai'i to Seattle? Vancouver?