Show hawaii ne seeks eks admission to sisterhood of states iny by WILLIAM C UTLEY just what would you do N NOW with another star in the amerlean american flag forty eight Is a nice even number all full of multiples 48 white stars look mighty pleasing and regular placed on their field ot of blue in a rectangle of six rows down and eight across as you find them on old glory today but how bow would you arrange 49 seven rows of seven each not so good a square on a rectangular background what then what did we do when there were only 40 not in 23 years has there been a change in the number or the arran arrangement ge of the stars in the american flag the last was when arizona was admitted as the forty eighth state of the union completely solidifying our western frontier as we thou thought glit at the time but if there Is to be a forty ninth star it will undoubtedly stand for a far flung outpost that may be the base of an altogether new frontier pushed 2000 miles into the pacific ocean it will stand for the hawaiian islands the principal motive for the present drive uncle sams island citizens are making for statehood seems to be escape from the effects of the jones costigan bill on the hawaiian sugar industry of course the hawaiians Hawaii ans have tor for years been certain in their own minds that their islands would some day be it a state but they have been more or less passive about it until the last two years they feel that in ing years the predominating influence since that time has always been american I 1 the last remains of the monarchy were completely overthrown in 1893 and the hawaiians Hawaii ans set up a provincial government with S B dole as governor dole negotiated an annexation treaty with president harrison but the treaty was later withdrawn by president cleveland it was finally admitted by mckinley RIc Kinley in 1893 1803 and in 1900 a territorial government was set up with dole as governor the T he present governor Is joseph B poindexter appointed by the president the islands have little mineral wealth so the principal industry Is agriculture the sugar crop is annually worth more than and the pineapples civilization has developed to a high degree steam railroads run on regular schedules on all the eight islands there are street cars in honolulu schools are excellent in fact it was in hawaiian schools that early california settlers sent their children to be educated education is compulsory the university of hawaii compares with many on the mainland hawaii and texas are the only parts of the united states that have come into the union by annexation no purchase or conquest was involved people are of the feeling today that their territory has grown to a point which justifies its statehood americans in the states are perhaps inclined to feel the islands so per cent of the total registration a record for the united states the islands are governed by a senate of 15 members elected for four year terms and a house of representatives of 30 members elected for two years the governor serves a tour four year term for efficiency honolulu city and county were combined under one civil government in 1009 the city proper Is about the size of albany N Y long beach calif or norfolk va but its government includes an area 2260 miles long stretching from midway island to palmyra island centralization has been the trend of hawaiian government all along in the present session of the territorial legislature serious consideration Is being given the proposal for consolidation of the two legislative houses fla hawaiians Hawaii ans are proud of their climate it Is said that no temperature has ever been recorded below 50 56 or about 88 in honolulu even prouder lire are the hawaiians Hawaii ans of their patriotism during the world war hawaii exceeded its quota on every liberty and victory loan enlistments were so heavy that the territory was exempted from the first draft delay in realizing the dream of statehood was of little consequence to ila ha until the jones costigan bill made them feel that they weri were being subjected to the whim and will of congress champions of statehood see the increasing of the cuban sugar quota at expense much as a keean might see a similar law restricting enormously the production oi of cheese in wisconsin so that american purchases of holland cheese could be increased hawaii wants statehood for the of her agricultural interests in which hundreds of 0 millions of dollars are invested PW SN nw 74 X 5 tam esq V al T v general view of honolulu with inset of the territorial capitol and a hula hula dancer this bill increases american purchase of sugar from cuba at the expense of hawaii 13 awall the law could hardly have been passed wera were hawaii a state with virti virtually fally every inhabitant of the pacific paradise cheering for him samuel wilder king the island delegate to congress has introduced a bill in the present session petitioning that body of very busy ladies and gentlemen to let the people of hawaii organize a state government an interesting state and what an interesting state hawaii would be it would be the only state where pineapple Is one of the principal products the only state with an active volcano the only state with its own distinctive native race of people and the only state inaccessible by railroad or motor car it boasts some of the most beautiful resorts in the whole world and it has a leper colony its government and customs are as american as a model T ford and more than a third of its population is of japanese descent land of the hula hula bula and the ukulele uke lele hawaii boasts also some fine schools and great industries the islands which stretch out for nearly learly miles 2100 miles southwest of san francisco were discovered in 1555 by a sailor named juan gaetano they were promptly forgotten but were rediscovered by capt james cools cook in 1778 the Ha hawaiian wallan islands first became united under one strong central government in 1795 when the native king Kame kamehameha conquered maul blaul aej and baliu oahu john jacob astor visited the islands in the interest of trade in 1811 and france england and the united states traded considerably with the people of the islands during the follow remote from them that they care little yet a woman has flown from hawaii to california in only a few hours there is even now regular re ular air mall mail service between the states and the islands hawaiians Hawaii ans point out that their population Is double that of texas when texas entered the union the states are apt to retort that some two thirds of population is not of the white race that one third of it Is of japanese descent since annexation hawaii has paid approximately into the federal treasury in taxes customs receipts and so on an average of a year for several years hawaii has paid more than any one of IG 10 states including oregon and alabama which have three and seven times its population respectively Ila walls trade relations with the ilie mainland have increased mightily since she became a territory from quite modest beginnings the sum total of imports and exeor exports ts rose to in 1928 they maintained nearly as high a level even after the crash in 1832 1932 they totaled hawaii has been but little affected by the depression it Is one of the few places on earth where a man who wants work can get it overnight honolulu Is american honolulu the capital city Is truly american it has compulsory education like all the islands and it has more endowed institutions than any other city of its size in the united states it has no billboards and Is un american Amerl can in that way it preferred to keep its roadsides beautiful instead of commercial hawaiians Hawaii ans are interested in their government the average vote in an average election la 13 approximately SO 80 hawaiian citizens claim that main oi landers misunderstand her problem oe races hawaii they say Is not as many persons in continental united states believe overrun over run with alien orl ori dentals who are into western culture and modes of thought and who would in the event of statehood control the politics and govern mant fedt through a tendency to vote according to racial blocs there Is fear sometimes expressed that in the event of war the americans of alien descent in hawaii would constitute an anti american group in an american community logically the Ha claim this criticism would hold as true of hawaii the territory as of hawaii the state As to the argument that citizens of alien ancestry will tend to form a racial bloc and so dominate island polities politics hawaiian proponents of statehood will retort by referring you to the record and here are two instances they are sure to recall first the 1030 1930 campaign when an american of japanese ancestry was elected outright at the primary to the board of supervisors of the island of haual at that time the citizens of japanese extraction were in the minority on kauai and the successful candidate was elected by the ballots of I 1 tall all races two years later when for the first time americans of japanese ancestry led all groups in racial registrations the same man went down to defeat second a campaign on the island of maul in the same year two citizens of japanese ancestry ran for tho ahr board of supervisors one was elected outright at the primary the other was not even nominated ad western nejapa newspaper union |