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Show Germans. Chinese-Hawaiian and Porto Por-to R leans. Only thirteen American men and three American women married Asist-lcs; Asist-lcs; fifteen American men married Chinese-Ha wHllsna. snd 223 American men married women of Hawaiian blod. The 111 American women who did not wed American men married in order: British, Caucssian-Hawalians. Germans. Hswatians. Portuguese. Ths figures also show that: Most Germans married others than Germsns, preferring Americans. Most Ppsnlsh men married Hpanlsh women, although Spanish women marled freely outMe their natlonal- Ity a condition opposite from that prevailing among the Americans. I In general, Japanese marry only Japanese, showing more racial allegiance alle-giance than any other race ia the islsnds. The Korean women, without excep Hon, married Korean men. The women wo-men of no other race In Hawaii had a' like record for loyalty to their own men. Most Hawaiian men marry Hawaiian Ha-waiian but the native women marry freely outside their own race. The conclusion is that "all the races except the Korean and Japanese are fusing rapidly thrWugh Intermarriage, but the Japanese group is maintaining Its racial distinctiveness " AMERICAN WOM SHOW LOYALTY IN MATING By RALPH H. TURNER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. March 10. Does ; the American woman hold greater loyalty and love for the American man than the American man does for th American woman? government printing office don't Attempt At-tempt to answer such queries. Hut still there's a touch of romance ro-mance In this Hawaiian report, prepared pre-pared by the df partment of th interior, in-terior, for it shows strange conditions of lifo that prevail In the "Paradise of the Pacific" the Kouth flea Island group where there Is probably one of the greatest racial mixtures the world has ever seen, even though all these I people live under the American flat:. I Kt down midway In the Pacific, with six days and 2000 miles separating separat-ing her from her nearest neighbor, the 'tittle Hawaiian group does not ad-Just ad-Just Itself so readily to the flow of human currents as her uncle on the mainland. FOUR GROUPS. The outstanding feature of Hawaii's situation is the nature of her population. popula-tion. This population, totaling 263,666. Is divided Into four groups: Asiatics Japanese, Chinese, Koreans snd Filipinos. Polynesians - Ha walians. Calcasinn-Ham-aiians and Asiatlc-Hawallans. Ljitins Portuguese, .Spaniards and Why does the American womart. living liv-ing In a land peopled by all the races, insist upon marrying the American man. whereas t he American man Is only half as eager to choose one of hip own nationality for his lifemate? There questions are suggested by a report, made public hre today, on conditions In Hawaii. Rut the cold, proMsaic reports emantinv from a ' Torto Ricans. Americans, llrltish, Russians, Germans, Ger-mans, etc. Of this total population, to per cent N oriental, the Japanese leading with 41.7 ier cent of the population. The Americans, British and all the Teutonic and Slavic elements combined com-bined comprise only II H per cent of the totti I in ha hit ants. It lit the most interesting phase of the report is th.; summary which Indicates In-dicates to what extent these virions racial groups fu."' through intermar-r.age. intermar-r.age. . ' Jf a rapid fusion is taking place in this manner," fay the report, "the Territory of lla waij ill be looked upon us being unique In this, namely, that a new nice of people would be in process of creation. If. on the other hand, racial groups maintain group solidarity and manifest no 'chemical affinity,' then we shall doubtless wit-ness wit-ness a struggle In the future. -for suurema cy." Here it points out that In the period j which the .investigation covered, only In if of the American men In the Island married American women, but practically prac-tically all of the American women married men of their own nationality. MARRIAGE RECORDS. In numerical order. American men married Americans, f'ortuguese, Cau-cajiao-Mawaitans, Hawaiian. UtiUsh, . |