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Show THE RICH CO UNIT REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH HAWAII EAGER TO BECOME 49th STATE I Majority of Island People Favor Statehood; Hawaii Contributes Liberally to Support of Federal Government, Yet Congress Withholds Favorable Action. tave oreous -- . feeling 50ul Although I We homely ftace.. I only wish my i.ur'fc. showed-I- ' By WRIGHT A. PATTERSON In the fields you find Japanese and is a loyal American citizen who lives in Honolulu. He went Filipino workers. Whites and native American schools. He talks, thinks and acts American. But Hawaiians work in the sugar fields. is one American privilege he does not have, and he Chinese serve as clerks in oifices. wants it he wants to vote for a president of the United States. Steady Work for All. That is Yaps reason for wanting Hawaii admitted as the forty-nint- h Help on the plantations is well paid. pa.ss eration of the orientals in the islands, all of whom want to vote for a president of the United States. I went to the islands to ascertain whether or not the people of Hawaii of desired statehood. A congress had done the same thing. The members of the committee had held sessions in Honolulu and listened to statements made by 105 residents who wished to appear, of whom 90 advocated statehood. In its report the committee stated that a comfortable majority of the people of the islands favor statehood," that the territorial legislature since 1903 had repeatedly passed resolutions favoring statehood, and other reasons Sport is competition, and competition means the clash not merely of athletes but of temperaments. When two highly strung athletes get in con- &. tact with each other, sparks often fly. I have seldom seen an unsportsmanlike act performed by a woman e in competition. You may say that's because they havent been at it as long as the men. Maybe so. But the fact remains : the girls seem to be better balanced. Up to the present, anyhow, feminine participation in athletics hasnt been motivated entirely by the desire for glory. They appear to be playing for the sport. John R. Tunis in Cosmopolitan Magazine. big-tim- d for pretty YAP state. Vernon C. Yap was born in the islands of Chinese parentage. His father and mother were small farmers on the island of Molokai. He has a Chinese wife and one son. His home is a small and unpretentious cottage, but typically American in furnishings and cleanliness. Yap is typical of a very large percentage of the second and third gen- The Ladies Are Given a Big Hand THE CHEERFUL CHERUB y pta.ee. jure1'"1 The work of cultivating, cutting and loading sugar cane is done largely on a piece basis by the Japanese and Filipinos and their average earnings run around $90 a month, to which is added free house rent in comfortable homes, free fuel, cut to stove lengths for cooking, free medical, hospital and nursing services. The lowest flat wage paid to anyone is $1 a day, to which is added the free rent and all the free services. Workers in the sugar mills, most of them white or native Hawaiians, average better than $100 per month, and they too receive free rent and other free services, excepting only those who get $150 a month or more, who are charged a small hosoital fee only. NU Serv ice. Ministers Son Invents Invisible Ear Drum The Invisible Ear Drum invented by A. O. Leonard, a son of the late Rev. A. B. Leonard, D.D., for many racial group are the .Japanese, but nev er more than three Japs have been years secretary of the Board of Formembers of the legislature at any one eign Missions of the Methodist Epistime. copal Church, for his own relief from extreme deafness and head The Democratic national committeenoises, has so greatly improved his man from the islands, and the present is a mixture of hearing that he can join in any ordipostmaster, John Wilson, nary conversation, go to the theatre Polynesian, Hawaiian and Scotch Irish. He served as mayor of Honolulu for nine and hear without difficulty. InexpenThe islands have a total population sive and has proved a blessing to years and is an ardent advocate of statehood as a matter of justice for the isof some 384,000 people. Of that num- many people. Write for booklet to land people, believing they can better ber in 1930, 61,445 yere foreign born A. O. Leonard, Inc., Suite 209, 70 regulate their internal affairs than conaliens. The population is larger than Fifth avenue, New York city. Advt them. do the can for job gress that found in ten of the present 48 Schools. Maintain Japs states of the Union. Museum of Lace The one possible A museum, one of the first of its The islands pay more taxes into the is the Japanese language schools. They federal treasury than 16 states and kind, has been opened at Halas, Hunthey pay their own governmental ex- gary. It features a single product, pense, except for the. salaries of the the famous Halas lace, made by descendants of the Cumanians, a tribe governor and the legislators. of Turkish origin who settled in EuHawaiian Status Unique. In Hawaii you never hear a reference rope at the beginning of the Thirto the states or to the United teenth century and introduced their States. To the people there it is the highly decorathe arts to the eastern mainland and the islands." The peo- world. ple insist on their place as a part of the United States. They resent being considered a foreign country, and especially resent such a reference when made in the halls of congress. The people insist the islands are not a stepchild as uas the case with the Philippines and is the case with Puerto Rico. The islands ere not a possession of the United States, but have a territorial status and as such are just as much a part of the United States as is any state. They are not a conquered people. They sought annexation and did so at a time, in 1898, when the islands represented tremendous value as a naval base. Conditions, they say, have radically changed in 40 years and today they are asking that the status of the islands be changed from that of a territory to thrive stores and Chinese Japanese Oriental quarter of Honolulu, where state. that of the forty-nint- h and the fish markets clamor with activity. to Statehood Cited. Right that seemed to favor admission of the are maintained by the elder Japs, those To demonstrate the right of the isborn in Japan. To these schools go lands to statehood the islands as a state. But the committee people will quote the Japanese children before or alter voted five to three against the stateyou many figures. They will tell you legular school hours. Here Japanese the islands buy mainland products to hood bill then before congress I wantteachers teach the Japanese language. the extent of more than $70,000,000 aned to know why. Japanese history and Japanese customs nually ; that there is in the island propAmericanization Needed. and culture. erty values of $385,565,812. I talked to many people representing The attendance at these schools will add that the islands have all classes and all races. Mr. Lorin rather rapidly with the di- 184They excellent public schools employing alien of Thurston, publisher of the Daily AdverJapanese. 2,674 teachers and enrolling 83,319 stuminishing population tiser, does not believe the islands are There has been no Japanese immi- dents; that with all of the mixture of ready for statehood at this time, but gration since 1900 and it will be but a races there is only 15 per cent of illiter will be when the orientals are thoroughly Americanized. Mr. Joseph Farrington, publisher of is insistent the Daily that congress grant statehood now. Under the present territorial status he feels congress can at any time legislate the islands out of business by re- STREAT0R--Sr.1IT- ll CHEVROLET DEALER Offers about 60 CHEVROLETS 40 FORDS 20 AND ABOUT OTHER CARS All Popular Makes 36 models to 28 models and are backed by our Written Guarantee G. M. A C. Terms Used Trucks Good Trucks Big Trucks Stakes Small Trucks Pickups and Hyd. 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Doctor Dean, former president of the University of Hawaii, and Mr. Ather- ton, representing the industrial interests, are as insistent upon statehood as is Mr. Farrington. Yap lives in a modest but comfortable cottage of five rooms. His small boy has shoes, but he wears them only on stated occasions and then under protest. Earl Thacker, one of the islands prominent citizens, lives in p. beautiful home in the Diamond Head Hawaiian sugar plantation viewed from the air. Fields of green cane, the olstrict. His children have shoes, but mill and plantation village are seen. sugar they are worn only on stated occasions, and then under protest. The children few years when all the Japanese born acy; that from 1900, to 1936 the populawill have passed away and with them tion has grown from 154,000 to 384,000; of these two families typify social conthat the people of the islands own and islands. the in ditions the Japanese language schools. drive more than 50,000 automobiles. The business of Hawaii is agriculTaka Politic Seriously. From such investigations as I was confined to three commercial ture, able to make, I would say that between in a social, political or cultural way there is no race problem in Hawaii. crops so far as exports are concerned. 75 and 85 per cent of the people want The island people, whether they be They are sugar, pineapples and coffee. statehood and an opportunity to vote "haolis (whites), orientals, PolyneSugar and pineapples demand large for a President, but I did not discover sians or native Hawaiians, take their scale operations. They are produced on why the congressional comtttee voted plantations of many thousands of against admitting Hawaii as the forty-nintpolitics seriously. But in politics there big acres on each of which you find villages not are are no racial blocs. 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