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Show JAPS SOON MAY CONTROL HAWAII Momemtum' of Race Will Give Them Dominant Position in Year 1930 HONOLULU, t. h.. Jan. ' (Cor- resjiondeiico of the Aaaoclutf-d PrS - . A fe.lerjtl snrvev i-tininilssion. htud-ed htud-ed by L'r. ltj:;nlk P. Bunker of Washington, Wash-ington, whleh reeeqtly surveyed education edu-cation conditions In Hawaii. In a preliminary pre-liminary report declared that the ' in-metitvim" in-metitvim" of the Japaneat ract in Hawaii puts nil other racial groups out of the running In respect to numbers num-bers anl thnt the momentum. If continued, con-tinued, will carry the Japanese race Into an Increasingly dominant numerical nu-merical position, giving their h walian-born progeny In 130 abotft per cent of the electorate of the territory. ter-ritory. The report, which is freely Interspersed Inter-spersed with rabies of figures' obtain! d from federal end territorial official -voiirecs and from the office of the Japanese Consulate genei ll In Honolulu, Hono-lulu, says In part: "With an actual population now In the Islands of 114.137 (19181 SS reported re-ported by the Japanese (fonsulatt g( ! rral. against 211,000 Boriuguese, the i exl largest group, it ts c lear that tin Japanese race has nctjulretl a momen urn which puts all thn other groups out of Ih running' With respect to numbers. "Thai this omentum Inevitably will carry the Japanese race into an increasingly dominant numerical po sltlOU, If CpntlnUed. Is clearly shown by tables complied frotn Information obtained from the office of the j.-ipn-nese consul general and from the records rec-ords of the territorial board of! henlth ' LOXG1 R ' kBQRl ii- Iealltig with the pnrallel presented present-ed by the methods of adjustment tt' island Influences represented by thoj Portuguese and the Japanese races, the report says. "While both groups orlglnallv were hrbughr into the Islands to satisfy the need for cheap labor on the. plantations, there Is with both a pfOnbUDcetJ tendency to seek a better economic position bv I breaking away from the plantations ! and engaging In other activities giving promise of a freer and more unoic life "The Japanese are ambitious lo bo-! bo-! come tenants, lo own lend: t.t gel , . business, to enter a prof- alonv I lia 'above the category of tin ..!;' 1 labor und a they Individually ichlet hl ; ambition they are. like the 1'ott't-guese. 1'ott't-guese. participating more and ruott in the affairs of the Islnndx. socially, educationally, politically. Purthei more, thev arc all at work r:i re are few trlflers tnil Idlers lirnonfj j them. There are now. appr. 3S.0U0 male and 27.00n f.-, , ,, Japanese In the islands. A bea. ed upon information obtained frm the Jupuiase cansulate general shos that '.IIS of them ar en.p.oe,i M; I gainful occupotioi - JAPS Ifftl THRItm "It should be sild In 'aim- that 'ately very ft Japanea,- among the ' convict labor gangs and in the jal I Kcw. If Kny. are supported ,- public ' I elSaffHy-, nor are any biKsnir p the I streets. Their per capita sevtBaTS 1 deposits rank third among .bo-the .bo-the Island races, being c,. i. p tha Americana and I'ortiiguae onlv- "All or which activity, laudable in ;'seif. can be explained sdequateh The basis of racial QtialUiaa, Inh ie"' tn the Japanee. ..f -ntlmcs uel ence. thrift. Initiative, endurance am ition rroip solidarity, couplad with I acumen and astuteness, which civ el oihar races hav failed. Inir . t e,i havs the Japanese adluate i 'n' of thf vuf-Mtre .,S) ha " a Tn"l"'l V-. Ji 'he Lslan.ls " I Thaloi"' T? ' "N,,i," duces frnm"! "TUVr " Ut"'rl UtSn de- I n.e cfaUdTe Sim USisa! J i::t HasralUn-btrn JatH bi,i dren will have bect.ror Jid T t""" I vote by 1930; that ti.iil more -111 have been added to the Ibt .,f . 'Ik! -bi voters l i94o. making a total i duilii u 21yeaf period '-f IB I 17, ii 'ducting 15 per cent t,, cover p. , lo.v. s by ivtini. tl mi .l,..nh the report re-port estlm.tles that by 19li then will i be all aggregate of Japanese voters In I the terrltorj- of 30.857. including -M7 , now registered. I I'olntiog to Iho fact tha; Japanese children in the publli schools of Hawaii Ha-waii In 1910 wen- 27 7: per tent of the total enrotigjat ni and thai In I i tin- School group flood it lu 05 per em of tho whole. i) report says thi Indicates that the plage In the elec-i elec-i torate that the Japanese will occupj hi 1990 and again m 14J may, in deed, be underestimated " The i on-frele on-frele deduction then follows I "Whether or noi the Japanese desire de-sire to achieve political control, without with-out doubt, within a few will he m n position to do o If they choose " I Int. -renting comparisons tif the ds-t ds-t gree of Intermarriage indulged in by different races in the Islands next are ' 'aken up, whleh bring the uimparlson |