Show r 6 ii 1 ro Eb etl WHERE RACE PROBLEMS ARE MOST COMPLEX By CHESTER H. H H ROWELL I Hawaii Is perhaps the most in In- interesting interesting racial and an social labora-j labora labors labors' j tory lory in the world West of ot the west and east of ot the east at the crossroads of the Pacific it is the I focus fotus of all the forces and move move- movements movements ments that make up the newest stage of or the worlds world's development And it Is small enough for a laboratory lab lab- laboratory I oratory orator to try tryout out things mentally I I am going to make this coun coun- country country country try a white mans man's country whether It ever raises a pound of sugar or not Theodore Roosevelt once said to tl a 2 prominent Island leader But Dut he did not earn carry carr out hU his threat Sugar combined with feud feud- feudalism feudalism was stronger Ihan than Roose noose Roosevelt velt Sugar needed workers The na na- native native na- na native tive HawaIIans will work but not in the white mans man's sugar fields nelds for his wages SO first came the Chinese Ex Ex- Exclusion Exclusion Exclusion laws stopped that and th tn Chinese C already here went up in do inthe inthe dothe the world until they are now among tho most substantial people in the Islands Then the Portuguese They Th promptly slipped over to Califor California nia for Cor better wages or worked up I Into higher hiS her jobs in the Islands Islan Sugar had not yet gone far tar enough down the tho human scale to realize Its Ideal of citizenship So after various minor experiments experiments ments it tried Japanese coolies They The also turned out to be too good The older Japanese still work the cane fields but they want goo good wages and sometimes strike The I I younger generation go to school where they are prepared to want I and to be able to fill better Jobs Finally come the Filipinos It If they too start upward capitalism will yearn earn for Cor still sUII more backward peoples When immigrants come It Is the most enterprising who reach the far tar countries When they arc brought capitalism seeks the least enterprising THE MOST COMPLEX PROBLEM COMPLEX PROBLEM OF ALL So here in hI a country where the tho original races roces the Yankees and the HawaIIans drew no social line against each other and free ly intermarried we now DOW tho the themore more complex race problem of a jumble of ot all the races in the world with the white population a small minority but constituting a small email feudal aristocracy on top lop There is no room for the com com- common common mon white man Land is not a commodity bought and sold but the permanent estate of a II few ducal and baronial families and of ot the government go as successor to the crown These families lack nothing of actual nobility but its formal title tille Below Delow them Is a very small mid mid- middle dlo dle dads class of professional and busi busi- business business ness men nearly all In tho city of Honolulu and a certain number of ot skilled mechanics Nearly all tho the thorest thorest I rest is coolie unskilled labor Jabor Governmentally the territory is isan Isan isan an American republic with the na na- native native tive Hawaiian race still sUll the voting majority Socially it IB is a feudal aristocracy erected over a foundation foundation tion of ot race WHERE THE REST OF US WILL PROFIT One way or another Hawaii will wll solve or fall fail to solve its Hs problem I The world can afford to risk Hawaii on the experiment experiment- experiment It If tt it 1 succeeds on the race problem lem lern either by social equality including Intermarriage or by some caste system the rest of us will have hae the advantage antage of ot Ha Ha- Hawaii's waits wait's experience If it does docs not wall Hawaii will take consequences and the rest relit of ot ofus otus ofus us will profit proUt by the tho warning 00 00 The Th old common boiler boller can e n be bo turned tUrn d into a washing machine by a a. device recently Invented |