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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-18

hundreds of young men and women here
not of the white race who are Ameri-
cans.
If Americanizing means turning down
our own boys and girls whom we have
trained to give preference to importa-
tions, in work for which youth born
here may be fitted, then the American
izing is not worthy of the name Very
often / notice that such importations
have none of the spirit of Hawaii with
lions are often people whose view of
things tend to disturb the old confidence
and aloha between races and if added
to this the new person is a man about
town with loose principles there is Of
ten not much added to any real Ameri-
canizing.
The only Americanizing worthy of
the name is the determination to give to
every man an equal opportunity before
the law. and the determination that all
men shall be treated with justice, fair
ness and consideration.
The most serious question before the
public school is its aim. Its only true
aim is to develop character in the chill
dren. l believe that in many places
the idea of moral and ethical training
has been overshadowed by the idea that
education is of importance because with
it the child can ''get on better in the
world. 1 am not stating too much
when / say that in many of our Ameri-
can schools the aim put before the pu-
pills perhaps unconsciously is this:
- Learn SO that you can be the better
able to make money" This has, it is
true, been but reflection Of the age in
its universal greed for gain and the idea
has seemed to be that the one thing
desired in life was money, with the
ease, the comforts and the power which
money brings. The effect Of the idea
that gain is the chief aim of life is seen
in the corruption and fraudulent prac-
tees in the conduct of our civic and
business affairs, and the loose Ideas pre-
vailing as to honor, honesty and right
and the Ieniency shown to Of
tenders against public trust.
Today the United States is flooded
with advertising matter relative TO ed
vocational schemes which viii enable
the Youth to make more money.
If children are brought up with the
predominant idea that to gain money is
the chief object of life, there viii GER
tainly be generation of sharpers,
schemers and "knockers The only
real aim of education is that the boy
shall grow up to be a true man and the
teacher s object must be to develop in
aim principle of energy which viii en-
(Contin led on page 81
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INCREASE OF CRIME.

1t would be very easy to show from
statistics that public education, which
! it was once supposed would reduce
crime, has not done so in the United
States. In. 1850 there was one criminal
in the United States to 3442 people and
this had rapidly increased until in 1890
it was about one to $50 people. This
shows at least that the knowledge of
reading, writing and arithmetic does
not of itself make men good and as a
matter of fact among ignorant peoples
there is often far less crime than among
those who enjoy public education. /,
myself, believe that this increase of
crime as reported from some countries
in the past fifty years results chiefly
from change of social conditions, the
holding false standards of success, and
the mad scramble after wealth, and the
Ioosening of old restraining ties and
ideas.
AS for our public schools it is impos-
sible for them to give definite religious
instruction under existing religious con-
to say they are goddess is far from cor
rect. The literature given to children
to read is not goddess. The songs which
they sing are not goddess. But above
all that which really makes in a school
for God or against Him is not so much
the teaching but the teacher. In the
vast majority of the public schools of
the United States, while the Christian
religion is not taught in definite terms,
yet there is scarcely a subject apart
from mathematics which = not satu-
rated with the principles of Christian
ity, which are applied by the conscien-
tious teacher to the affairs of everyday
school life. Cleanliness, decency, order,
mutual consideration, honesty and
truthfulness = these and many other
things are taught from day to day.
When to this is added the Christian life
of the teacher bringing before the
children the powerful influence of
good example, then I, for one, would
prefer this to the teaching of the mere
dry bones of a religious system by one
who is goddess or Indifferent himself.
The great teachers of the world have
been men and women whose characters
more than their teaching have made a
permanent impression upon their pupils.
1t is the church which must supple
ment the public schools with positive
Christian instruction but neither the
school nor the church, nor both of them,
can usually do much when the home is
Indifferent or vicious or degrading or
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HONOLULU
Photo Supply Co.,
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TIME TABLE

October D, lSU4.
OUTWARD.
For Waianae, Waialua, Kahuku and
Way Stations-s9:15 a. M, 1920 p. m
For Pearl City, Eva Mil and Way
Gtations-I7:3 80 a. M, *9:15 a. m, '11:O6
O. m, .2:15 p. m. 1920 p. M, 1913 p. m
1880 D. M, f11:15 p. m.
INWARD.
Arrive Honolulu from Kahuku, Wal
aIua and Waianae-'8:36 a. m, s5:3l
y. m.
Arrive Honolulu from Eva Mill and
Pearl City-f7:46 a. m, 1886 a. m,
1923 a. M, s1:40 p. M, S4:31 p. m.s
s6:31 D. m, '7:30 p. m.
Daily.
Sunday Excepted.
Sunday Only.
The Haieiwa Limited a two-hour
train, leaves Honolulu every Sunday
at 8:22 a. m; returning arrives in Ho-
nolulu at 1910 D. m. The Limited
stops only at Pearl City and Waianae.
q. P. DENISON. F. c. Smith.
Supt. G. P. & T. A.
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THE ORIENTAL MIND.

When I was in Boston early in 1905.
/ attended a meeting of the Round
Table Club in the house of Mr.. Hume
well, the son of the Mr. Hunneweu who
was in Honolulu first in 1916 and who
was one of the founders Of Brewer &
Co. Mr.. Alleyn Ireland, the writer on
Oriental conditions, was present and
ridiculed American methods in the Phil
ippines, especially our educational ex-
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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-18
DIFFERENTIATION.

We hear a great deal about "Ameri
canizing the islands, nowadays
Sometimes it is political talk. sometimes
it comes from those who seem to thinl,
that it is the province of the white race
to crowd out every other race and that
where Americans come, other races
ought to get out. To say that this
spirit is contrary to all great American
documents and every true idea of hui
man rights is only saying that which
every well-informed man knows. If
Americanizing means making this =
white man s country by denying other
men their just rights, as men, to live
and work here, then the term is sadly
misused In the first place, Hawaii has
never been a white man s country in
the sense that he has been in the ma
jority. The original inhabitants were
not white, the laborers brought here
from the Orient to develop the latent
men. Men have frequently no regard
for the history of tropical countries
when they think or write of these
Islands. We deal not with theories but
we deal with conditions as they exist
When we talk Of Americanizing Hawaii
we cannot ignore the thousands of other
races than our own Americans by birth
who are in our schools. The sensible
way of looking at the Americanizing of
the Islands is to labor for the Ameri-
canizing of the children. The older pea
pie of alien blood can be at best only
slightly Influenced by American princi
pies, but the children are growing mp .
read about, to hear about and to under
stand what American principles arc
and what their country stands for.
The Rev. DR.. Pott of St Johns Col
Iege, Shanghai, told me, - Your fourteen
Honolulu boys at st. Johns College
lave all strong ideas of patriotism
which they have learned in the schools
of Hawaii and these ideas make them
burn with zeal for the reformation Of
China This illustrates the idea that
children of Orientals are deeply affect
ed by American principles in the schools
and by the life here.
We frequently hear in connection
with the term Americanizing Hawaii"
that Americans should be employed
wherever possible. But we cannot ig-
more in this connection that there are
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FURNITURE CHEAP

Increased business has forced to our
large Young Bqdng furniture esabhent This gives frontage
feet Bishop and depth of 90
prices We buy large quantities and thus goods the
nanuac cheaper We ship
take the cheapest freight means
we can sell the goods to bedrock prices.
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CHARACTER THE ESSENTIAL.

However, in all our schools, private
and public, we have in a greater or less
degree the same problems and a common
aim. What is this aim2 Is it to teach
the children to read and to write? To
be proficient in arithmetic, to know the
cities, capes and rivers and to be able
to tell about Colonial and Federal wars?
If this were all then many of us would
not be interested in teaching the young
of this Territory. The things we have
named and many others like them, are
only the incidentals and not the object
of our educational efforts. The one
thing sought as an end by every educa-
tor worthy of the name is character. If
schools fail to produce sober, industri-
Gus, honest, virtuous men and women,
then they have failed to attain their
heart without good principles only
makes the pupil so much the better able
to carry his vicious propensities into ex-
ecution. knowledge without good prin
ciples only makes men more crafty and
more capable for evil. 81 want my son
to learn physical science, but rather
than have physical science the principal
thing in his mind, I would gladly have
him think that the sun went around the
world and that the stars were so many
spangles set in the bright blue frma
10 h II - f,,lS
his duty to his Maker and to his fellow
men, so wrote the great educator, Doc
tor Arnold of Rugby.
There is a great deal of talk about
the goddess public school system. BY
goddess, some mean that there is not
taught in the public school the positive
Christian faith. l believe thoroughly
that a church should have church
schools, but that does not dispense with
the necessity of public schools. To find
fault with the public school or any other
institution is very easy task To plan
and work that they may be better is the
task which should engage every mans
attention. But are the public schools
goddess? In France, where the name of
God was eliminated from the text books.
and where the child was asked, ..To
whom do you owe these fields. this beau
uful country. the food which you eat
and the clothes which you wear?'' and
where the answer to these questions, as
they were taught to give it, was LA
France" These may indeed be called
goddess. Mons. NJ A. Jouvenal wrote
some time ago, 1.-The development of
public instruction in France has doubled
Its criminals. in England it has dimin-
ished its criminals by more than half
The paper LIE Temps, commenting on it
at the same time, said, "The evil is
that we have driven God out of our
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EDUCATION IN HAWAII.
Address by Bishop Restarick to Honolulu
High School Graduates.

schools, the remedy is that we may
bring Him back again. Jules Simon
said, You must not weary telling the
people that we cannot get along without
Cod
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these children can be brought to ap-
preciate in a degree commensurate with
conditions American history, American
institutions, American liberty under
law, and the great struggles in England
and America which have given the Eng
disappearing race its commanding po-
Sifi0n
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MANY PRIVATE SCHOOLS.

There is in our whole country no state
or territory where there are in proper
ton so many private schools. About 80
per cent. of our children in these
Islands are in private schools. If the
same proportion prevailed in the United
States there would be nearly 100000
pupils in secondary private schools. In
stead of that number there are, / be-
lieve, about 100000.
The reasons for the large numbers in
our private schools here are:
1st. Liberal provisions for the special
education of the Hawaiian children.
2. The fact that the white people
live in scattered communities where
there are not the educational facilities
which they want for their children.
Sd. The great desire on the part of
the Orientals for an English education
and their willingness to sacrifice that
their children may acquire it.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-18
DO You Get
Color Values !?

In the ordinary way of picture
taking, yeIlows will photograph
black. and blues will photograph
white Many other colors VIII act
the same way on the plate.
But if you use ray filter you get
the proper value in all colors.
The ray filter fits over the lens
and screens the various rays which
affect the Photographic plate and
gives you much stronger and better
results than without it.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-18
LOW PRICES NOW

The months Honolulu, particularly June
and July usually is concerned
importing large
his rather takes
We wish brighten business
year and also reduce stock On this going
profits and the and
tell US OF your wants There
Honolulu fully what
needs an article fill your
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GOOD FURNITURE

We be able to tell Perhaps neednew feather pillows
mattresses for BEDS and possibly better
and more sanitary than the one you have Another chair
pieces for your or New shades for your windows :?
In bedroom in
Curly Birch Bdseye Golden many
n all 0
We have everything line.
dividends thereon
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Following is the address delivered by
Ri. Rev. Bishop H. B. Restariek at the
closing exercises of Honolulu High
School:
Mr.. Scott and Friends of the Public
Schools of Hawaii:
Small countries have played an i'm
mense part in the religious, political and
educational life of the world. These
Islands, tiny speeks as they are upon
the map, present profoundly interesting
problems which are of the greatest i'm
portance not only to US but to the hui
man family. Here, in a proportion ex-
isting in no other land, people of many
races live together with mutual under
standing, consideration and confidence
existing nowhere else.
To the minister, the teacher and So
biologist the most important of these
problems is seen to be the education of
our strangely mixed population and we
ask ourselves the question, What are
our American methods doing for the
cbi1dren2 Can our ideals be understood
by them2 What can we expect in the
future2 What is our duty in the pres
ent?'' These and other questions arise
and the teachers go on patiently trying
to work out the answers.
There are, in our public and private
schools here, set of earnest, devoted
yet who is not fascinated by the novelty
of conditions and who is not eagerly
and hopefully working away believing
that good is being ACCOMPLISHED
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selling the Encyclopedia Britannica

selling the Encyclopedia Britannica
in Japan.
For eight years the Times had been
selling that work on the instalment
plan in all countries of the world.
When the agent went to Japan he was
told by the English residents that he
could do nothing, because almost every
English and American resident had
ordered the Encyclopedia directly and,
of course, the japanese would not buy
fortunately for the Times, because
if they did they would not pay.
But the japanese did buy and pay
too. They bought five times as many
Encyclopedias as We're sold in France
and Germany combined. Contrary to
advice of his countrymen, also, the
agent sold the books to the Japanese
on the instalment plan. The result is
thus told by the manager of the Times
publication department:
In Japan, the monthly payment was
10 yen, equal to about a sovereign,
while in this country the amount was
guinea. In Great Britain less than
half the payments arrived on the day
promised. In Japan less than one per
cent. of the payments were even one
ody idte, ana more imam one-nai1 were
made the day before they were due,
because the Japanese do not like to
run the risk of any accidental delay
that might make them even one day
late. The cost of collecting these in
stalment payments in Japan is less
than half as much as in England SIM
ply because the Japanese are SO pune
tilious that clerical labor and postage
are not expended in reminding them
that their payments are overdue. They
seem to look upon every debt as a debt
of honor, which must not be forgot
ten for even day. There is certainly
no such delicacy of feeling in this
country about commercial transac-
tons"
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fact that it was known that the court
practically doubted that defendants
had even prima facie case and in
timated that it might be his duty to
set verdict aside for defendants
could not operate but to stimulate
those voting in the jury room for the
plaintiff and to dishearten and dis
| courage the private convictions of the
six who were voting for the defend
ants. 1t presented a handicap that
has nulIified that jury trial and re-
suited in gross injustice to the defend
ants"
Mr. Kinney mentions that when the
evening papers report was discussed,
on March Z, Judge De Bolt directed
the jurors net to read the evening
paper.
S. NJ. Ballou, in his affidavit, says:
THAT when court adjourned on the
afternoon of March z, w. A Kinney
had nearly concluded his address to
the jury. The court, in excusing the
jury for the day, addressed them at
some length upon the subject of not
allowing their verdict to be influenced
by any information they might receive
outside of the court, and ended by re-
questing them not to read the even
ing paper; whereupon affiant informed
said w A. Kinney that the substance
of the judges remarks in denying the
motion for directed verdict had bean
published in the Bulletin, and said w.
A. Kinney Immediately stated in sub
stance that he had been info.m that
some remarks of the judge made with
in the court room and intended to be
confidential had been given to the
public press; that he saw no use in
forbidding the jury to read the paper,
and added u statement in substance
as follows: I would be willing to bet
all the money in my pocket that the
hand that slipped that into the BulIe-
tin was the same hand that clipped
those photogra phs' J. A Magoon.
one of the counsel for the plaintiff, re-
torted that Kinney was an Infamous
coward to make that assertion. as he
(Magoon) had had nothing to do with
the publication of the matter in ques-
ton. Kinney then disclaimed any ref
erence to Magoon, stating that Ma
COON had testified that he had not
clipped the photographs and therefore
was not the person referred to, and
the court adjourned while the counsel
was still discussing what Magoon's
testimony had been with reference to
the Photographs
Mr.. Ballou goes on to relate the dis
covery that George Sabin, the unoffi-
cial stenographer, had occupied an of
fee on the same floor as Magoon &
Lightfoot's law offices until a short
time before the trial. that he was in |
the habit of using the same telephone
and advertising it as his telephone.
and that he had visited the offices of
Mr.. Magoon and conversed with him
curing the trial of this case. On this )
showing he proceeds to say:
That had atfiant known ali these |
facts before the submission of said !
case to the jury, he would not have /
rested upon the belief that the infor- 1
nation had been given out by a !
stranger, but would have requested |
further investigation or advised his |
senior counsel, w. a. Kinney, to de- |
nand mistrial according to circum-
1t is further deposed by Mr. Ballou
that none of the defendants We're pres
ent in court DIT ing any of the pro-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-19
PANESE
IN TEXAS
Strong English Tribute
to Honesty of the
japanese.

| Two or three years ago a Japanese
western education and culture, called
at the Advertiser office while a steamer
in which he was travelling to the main
land was in port. To a member of
, this papers staff he presented his card
and gave an interview showing that
he was connected with a scheme of
Japanese colonization in the State of
Texas.
Information of that scheme now
comes in the following item, given in
quotation marks without stating it's
original source, from a letter to the
Montreal Witness by D. Norman,
Methodist missionary at Nagano, Shin
shu, Japan:
I'm 1908 forty japanese families emf
grated to Texas and occupied 500 acres
of land. Now there are 240 families,
occupying $500 acres. They brought
their own rice seed with them, and
produce now 100 sacks to the acre.
where their Texan neighbors produced
but so sacks to the acre. They have
improved the quality of their own rice
as well as that of their white neigh
bors, as consequence of which the
crop for 1905 is estimated to average
40 per cent. more than the crop of
1904. Their children are all attending
American schools. and this community
accommodates itself to American Gus
toms and adopts the habits and man
ners of Americans more rapidly than
any Europeans, except the Irish. It is
expected that they will become an i'm
portant factor in the composite Amer
lean character. The Washington courts
have ruled that they are eligible for
full citizenship. and on the strength
of this ruling they have secured So
600 additional acres and purpose dur
ing this year to settle several thous-
and families on this land"
Mr. Normans letter was written bv
way of comment on letter from the
Right Rev. VIM. Awdry, Bishop of
South Toxic, published by the London
Times, wherein the character of the
japanese people for honesty was i'm
puSfed. On that point Mr.. Norman
contents himself with quoting a reply
to Bishop Awdry by the manager of
the publication department of the
Times itself. The Times mans letter
is exceedingly interesting. not onlv in
proving now square" the Japanese are
out how intensely thirsty they are for
universal knowledge. 1t relates at
length the experience of the Times in