Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-06

cheney and preparedness for actual field
service, and the arms. equipment and prop
erty may be properly cared for.
- The interest shown by Major John Nc
Clellan. comma nding officer of the artillery
district of Honolulu, and his officers. and
the assistance rendered and instruction
given by them, has done much to advance
the efficiency of the 1st Regiment. Too
much cannot be said in commendation OF
the painstaking and tireless energy
shown by First Lieutenant Harry w. New
ton.
The Public Schools.
At the close of the fiscal period the total
enrolment in all schools of the territory
was 1s.415 pupils, as against 1888 pupils on
June 80, 1902. This shows a gain of s97
pupils during the year. OF these 10000
were males and s.3s5 were females, the dis
proportion of sexes among the school popu-
lation not being so great as among the main
population. The enrolment of the public
schools was 13, 193, against Is, 1S9 in 1902,
an increase of 6O4. and the enrolment of
the private schools was 4.622 against 4,329
in 1902, an increase of 293.
1t may be further interesting to note, be-
fore quitting this section of the subject,
that the total school enrolment in 1880
was 7,1G4; In 1890 It was 10.OO6; in 1900 1t
was 1857. and that at the present writing
the space of three years.
There are in all 203 schools in the terri
tory. of which IA are public schools, sup
ported by public money, and 50 are private
schools, supported by trust funds. rents.
private contributions and fees All public
schools, from the normal and high schools
to the smallest country school, are Free
ana are open to all classes of the popula-
tlon, regardless of color or race. In the
public schools all the heterogeneous ele-
ments of our polySlot population meet upon
q plane OF equality, and the Asiatic, the
American, the Malay and the European sit
sloe oy side and play together in the play
ground In perfect harmony. 1t is the school
that makes the population kin. The school
taxes the place Of that one touch OF nature
winch. Shakespeare says. makes the whole
world kin.
The total number of teachers in the ter
ritory In active employment was 1913, of
whom LIB were males and $50 females OF
tnese $50 were employed in the public
SCHOOLS and 247 were teaching in private
schools. This gives an average Of IS pupils
to each public school teacher and IS pupils
to every teacher in the private schools.
we st1ll continue to divide our school
population according to the nationality OF
the parents for purposes of race statistics,
but 1t must be remembered that, with only
a few exceptions, chiefly among the Asiat-
lcs' the pupils are by right of birth Ameri-
can citizens It may be said that at the
present time the schools of the territory
are educating over $4,000 pupils who are
by birth American citizens. derived from
the various races enumerated.
IL is In this fact that our justification in
educating Chinese and japanese children
ues. Iney are born here. In course of
ume they will claim their rights as voters
ana that right cannot be denied them. 1t
IS necessary, therefore, that they should be-
educated and trained by American meth
oos. Were they not to become citizens and
voters should advise saving the expense
OF educating them, but as they will he II 10
d prime necessity To 70
tney Will vote intelligently. It is the school
that makes citizens During the last wear
nearly 10000 Italians, Asiatics, Hungar-
lans and Russians came to the mainland as
immigrants In a generation the Younger
portion of these immigrants will have he
come thoroughly assimi1ated. They will
no longer De Italians. Hungarians or Rus
SANS; they will be Americans and it is this
process we must follow out here-we must
make Americans ~
dawa11ans of Unmixed Blood.
The total number of Hawaiians of IN
mixed blood IN school has remained prac-
hcally stationary. In 1902 there were 1903.
ana the present report shows 4S93 This
Is decrease of ten in a year, which means
nothng On the other hand there has been
considerable increase in the number of
part Ha"ahans-that is children whose
parentage is partly Hawaiian and partly
some other nationality. Last wear these
pupils were reported at 1850. This vear
they number 3,01S, and it is evidently only
question OF time when the part Hawaii
ans ans; VIII equal and then exceed those Ha-
Wallans of unmixed blood In 1880 when
tms classification was first made there
were only 955 part Hawaiians in school in
! 5S so, there We're 1873 in 1900 there were
A,Si. Ihere has thus been a steady an
nual increase. Adding Hawaiians Of nm
mixed blood and part Hawaiians together
we nave 1911 pupils in our schools of Ha
"T Tha parentase of one kind or another.
owl to-.
llnportance as to the number in our schools
IN June 80, 1902, there were 3,S09 punils of
ms nationality. June 80 1903. they num-
ona aI4'.oVer 400 more in the space of
, p,e year. another year WILL in all proha-
plnty' see the number of Portuguese chill
oren In school equal the number of Ha-
Walian children. In 1880 there were "a
I saeSe chlidren in school, In 1890 there
were l'ol5, In 1890, $500. The increase from
uecaue TO decade has been enormous The
statement that numbers of Portuguese are
leaVlng the territory is certainly not borne
Out ,",,, ny the school statistics. If they are
Ieasins the territory, there are enough re-
naming to swell the census returns.
Smnese appeared in our statistics Of
1850 as only numbering s.. Ten wears
iater, IN 1880, there were only 262 in the
SCHOOLS; IN 100 there were 1,2S9; In 1902
June 30, there were 1895 and at the pres
eit Wrltlng Chinese In school number 1914.
VI "hom 1,!o6 are in the public schools
and 44S are in private Institutions
The increase of Japanese has been dur
ing a much shorter space of time This
nationality first appears in the school sta
t1stics In 1888, when "a pupils were report
81. IN 1884 there were only 113, but from
that tlme there has been a steady Increase
In 1898 there were 1877; in 1900 the thou
SAND mark was overtopped and $50 were
reported Last year. on June 80, there were
a9 Japanese In school, and this year
2521 was the number given at the same
date. ZIG saihe
Americans and Europeans other than
portuguese number 1,64s Adding this to
the portuguese pupils we get a white
school population of 5,s91-larger than the
Hawaiian school population, but not SO
large as the Hawaiians and part Hawaiians
combined. On the other hand, the white
school population is larger than tbe two
Asiatic populations combined The Porto
Ricans, though Americans, and OF very
much mixed blood, it is interesting to
In school June 80, 1903.