Show EAGER TO BECOME STATE AT JL E gajo majority Ahio rity of f island people favor statehood hawaii co contributes tributes liberally to support of federal government yet Con congress V aress withholds favorable action by WRIGHT WEIGHT A PATTERSON AP is a loyal american citizen who lives in honolulu he went y YAP to american schools he talks thinks and acts american but there is one american privilege Z lie he does not have and lie he wants it lie he wants to vote for a president of the united states that is yaps reason for Av wanting hawaii admitted as the forty ninth state Verl vereion C yap was born in ill 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 arid and bious s cottage but typically american in furnishings and I 1 cleanliness yap v is typical of a very y large sa percentage Z of the second and third gen atlie orientals orient als in the lie islands atlie orientals orient als in the lie ration ladon ot or the whom want to vote for a president 11 of a of the united states I 1 T went to the islands to ascertain whether or not tile the people of hawaii desired statehood A subcommittee sub committee of congress had lone done the sa the committee had held ot of tile the men members ibers sessions in honolulu and listened to by residents who Is made statements ta wished to appear of whom 00 advocated statehood in its report the committee stated comfortable majority of the that a people of the 1 islands I ands favor statehood that the territorial legislature since 1903 had bad repeatedly passed resolutions favoring statehood and other reasons hughly americanized mr joseph farrington publisher of the dally daily star bulletin is insistent insisted n that coD congress gress grant statehood now under the present territorial status he feels congress can at any time legislate the islands out of business by restricting strict ing or prohibiting exports to the american mainland as was done in the case of sugar ile he said we have the population we ire afe 6 a loyal people we have the wealth ond a industry we pay liberally toward efte c support of the federal government 1 I as a loyal people and tar taxpayers payers ive have e a right to representation A prominent native woman who does lot ot wish to be named name agrees with mr thurston hurston she fears japan japanese se domina td flon and japanese control of state offices lector dean former president of the dilver of hawaii and sir mr atherton representing the industrial interns ests are as insistent upon statehood as 18 r farringto arrington li n jap yap lives in a modest but comfort ab le cottage of five rooms ills his small b oy y has shoes but he wears them only oil n stated occasions and then under Dr latest otest E earl arl thacker Thack cr one of the Is Il lids prominent citizens lives in a dutiful home in the diamond head Ol tr lct his children have shoes but racial group are the japanese but nev er mure more than three japs have been members of the legislature at any one time the democratic national committeeman front from the islands and the present postmaster john wilson ff ilson it is n mixture of Iolyn polynesian esian hawaiian and scotch irish ile he served as mayor oj of honolulu for nine years and is an ardent advocate of statehood as a matter mailer of justice for the island people believing they can better belter regulate their internal affairs than congress can do the job for them japs maintain schools the one possible fly in the ointment Is the japanese language schools they 41 tin a 4 1 p ar A Z V 7 oriental quarter of honolulu where chinese and japanese stores thrive and the fish markets clamor with activity that seemed to favor admission of the islands as a state nut hut the committee voted five to three against the statehood bill then before congress I 1 wanted to know why americanization needed I 1 talked to many people representing all classes and aed all races mr loran thurston publisher of the daily advertiser does riot not believe the islands are ready for statehood at this time but will vill be when the orientals orient als are thor Y are worn only on stated occasions ind i then under protest the children ot t these two typify social con ons in the islands take politics politic seriously Seri outly it a social political or cultural way J there re is no race problem 11 in hawaii 1 the ne island pe people ople whether t they hey be whites orientals orient als dialls or native Ila take their bics tics seriously but in politics there we do racial blocs there are not e than 25 negros negroes in the islands t a negro was elected to the island 1418 mature lature by far the largest single 0 are maintained by tile the older elder japs those born in japan to these schools go the japanese children before or a fter after school hours here japanese teachers teach the japanese language langle i JapS japanese nese history an and d japanese customs and culture the attendance at these schools Is diminishing rather rapidly with the diminishing mini shing population of alien japanese there has been no no japanese immigration since 1900 and it will be but a sugar mill and plantation oiw all the japanese born when r few years them and with will have passed away the japanese language schools the business of hawaii Is agriculture commercial confined to three so far as ex exports ports are concerned crops pineapples ples and coffee they are sugar demand large sugar sug ar arid pineapples on they are prodoc produced ed scale operations thousands of of many big plantations each of which w h ich you find villages acy acres es on employees 9 good peopled by plantation recreation hospital sch schools churches a centers plantation 3 and stores playground and always the he big sugar mitt mill in the fields you find japanese anil and filipino workers whites and native hawa ita an S work in the sugar fields chinese serve as clerks in offices steady work for all help on the plantations Is well paid the work of cultivating cutting and loading sugar cane Is done largely on OD a piece basis by the japanese and filipinos and their average earnings run abou arou around nd 00 90 a month t to which is added free house rent in comfortable homes free fuel cut to stove lengths for cook ing free medical hospital hospit and dursin nursing g services the lowest hat flat wage paid to anyone Is 51 1 a day to which Is added the free rent and all the tree free services workers in the sugar mills most of them chite or native average better belter than per month and they too free rent and other free services excepting only those atho get a month or more taho are charged a small hosn hospital ital fee only the islands have a total population of some people of that number in 1030 were foreign born aliens the population is larger than that found in ten of the present 48 states of the union the islands pay more taxes into the federal treasury than 16 states and they pay their own goern governmental mental expense except for the salaries of the governor over nor and the legislators hawaiian status unique in hawaii you never hear a reference to the states or to the united states to the people there it Is the mainland and the islands the people insist on their place as a part ot of the united states they resent being considered a foreign country and especially ally resent such a reference when made in the halls of congress the people insist the islands are riot not a stepchild as ua the case with the philippines and is the case with puerto rico the islands ere are 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 vale stale they are not a conquered people they sought annexation and did so at a time in 1808 when the islands represented tremendous value as a naval base conditions they say have radically changed in 40 y years ears and today they are asking that ne he status of the islands be changed from that of a territory to that of the forty ninth state right to statehood cited to demonstrate the right of the islands to statehood the people will quote you many figures they will mill tell you the islands buy mainland products to the extent of more than annually that there Is in the island property values of they idill add that the islands have hare excellent public schools emp employing loing 2674 teachers and enrolling students that all of the mixture 01 0 races there is only IS 15 per cent of billiter and plantation oiw 57 7 71 Y 3 e 7 t 91 ri Z X y A ap A p FM V e 1 Y 1 1 H M 4 X rm 4 31 1 V viewed from the air fie fields ids of green cane the hawaiian sugar plantation village are seen ticy acy that from 1900 to 1936 the population ti 1 has aa as g aroun iron from to that the people of the islands own and drive more than automobiles from such investigations as I 1 was able to make I 1 would say that between 75 and 83 85 per cent of the people want statehood and an opportunity to vote for a president but I 1 did not discover wily why tile the congressional comit committee tee voted against admitting cawall all as the forty ninth state unless it was the reason assigned by people la in the isla ads politics D petern newspaper union |