Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-06-11 | Page 35 | Race is Not Dying but 'Marrying Out'

RACE IS NOT DYING BUT 'MARRYING OUT' HON'OLTTLU. T. IT.. June 10 The Hawaiian race Is not 'dying out" but in reality Is marrying itself out of existence, ' according to a- htatoment i made here by Miss M Hester Lemon, ; registrar of vital statist ics. Although there has been no material increase In tho death rate of pure-blooded pure-blooded Hawalians during tho past !foui years, the birth Hie for the calendar cal-endar ear 1!21 showed a material de-Crease de-Crease as compared with those of tho four preceedlng years and indicated that Hawaiian men and women arc destroying their own race hy marring into other groups, she said It will bo seen readllv that this practice will tend to increase the part-Hawaiian part-Hawaiian population and at the name time decrease the pure Hawaiian population pop-ulation Insofar as the future Is concerned, con-cerned, " she added. on