The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-11-15
GOOD SCHOOL BUILDINGS.

GOOD SCHOOL BUILDINGS.
In all the schools visited on the va
rious islands it was a matter Of sur
prise to find architecturally handsome
well-kept buildings, with modern ap-
pointments and fittings. The build
lings were usually of brick or pebble
dash, set in a large lawn with flower
Deds. The schoolrooms were almost
invariably large, cool, airy, well light
ed, provided with excellent black
boards, and in most of them copies OF
good pictures were hanging on the
wall Taken by and large, the New
York city schools, except the newest
ones, are not as good as the schools
| in such towns as Honolulu, Hilo, and
Wailuku. In Honolulu there is a
normal school where American teach
ers are instructing native Chinese,
Portuguese and part-Hawaiian girls in
the elements of pedagogy. These young
women are doing an admirable work.
The general spirit of the Chinese
pupils in Hawaii is shown in the fol-
lowing extract from school paper
written by a Chinese student in the
Honolulu High School, and not intend
ed for publication:
THE democratic Constitution of the
United States suggested 10 the world
other like policies of popular govern
ment for human prosperity ami de-
fense. Theodore Roosevelt.
the worlds greatest champion of
peace has saved The Hague tribunal
from failure; has brought about the
treaty of Portsmouth, and ended the
Japanese-Russian war; has whitfield
away the war cloud that lowered over
the Venezuelan blockade affair; has
supported the neutrality of China in
the Japanese-Russian war; and has re- |
minded Russia of the wrongs done to /
the Jews at Kishenev. Our
early heroes have built tn" temple of
liberty, have built the temple of civ
ilization and Christianity; they have
laid the foundations for the temple of
peace, dying in their struggle. The
present civilized age considers it our
duty to live for our country; to.fight,
not with weapons, but against the
very weapons themselves. We must
live to complete the temple of peace,
for which the foundations have al
ready been laid"
CHINESE LIKED BETTER THAN
JAPANESE.
The Chinese are much better liked
than the Japanese in Hawaii, because
they have shown themselves much
more susceptible to the genius OF
American institutions. Residents in
the island call the Chinese honest and
faithful, but many declare the Japa-
nese to be tricky. In the public
schools one is told that the Chinese
children quickly become impregnated
deals The Chinese children become
20 know the meaning of patriotism and
show a patriotic spirit. 1t is declared
hat this spirit of American patriotism ,
hey take back to China with them.
Bishop Restarick affirms that the Off
,ers of a Chinese institution write |
pack: your boys are leaders in ,
studies, in sports, and societies for ad-
of religious and civil life.
they burn with zeal for China and
hey impart their spirit to others. They
ire Americanizing the Orient ii
The Japanese on the other hand do
nd teachings of American patriotism.
n many Japanese families in the is I
ands, 1 am told, it is the custom to |
end the children to a Buddhist priest
or instruction in the japanese Ian
-uage and patriotic principles for an
our or two each day before the pub
c schools open, and after they are
ismissed for the day. On the road
rom Laupahoehoe to Hilo a specter
Yas pointed out to us: A-Japanese
rivate school with an arm rack on
he lanai filled with wooden guns, in
lain view from the road.
EXPECTATION OF WAR WITH
JAPAN
Nearly every one in Hawaii seems
, feel that the United States will IL
ave war with Japan in the coming OF
We or ten years. Nearly every man ;.
GU meet processes to believe that =
ipan has designs on Hawaii, and that M
the first signs of hostilities the Jap nj
nese on the islands will rise and take gl
ossession of the towns and fortifica- r
ons and of the islands. This preva-
mt belief accounts in large part for
Idl ltChHS CAAStS tic jap
lese. To quote Bishop Restarick again. ST
ON an article in the Independent de
"Still the japanese are influenced,
e women especially impressed, with m
e conditions of women here. I like sh
avail I heard one Japanese woman r,
y to my wife. In Japan, he up sn
gh, woman down low; in Hawaii,
oman she up high, too, all same sit
an The children also, when they ne
back to Japan, as perhaps most of Br
EN- do, will take some of the Amer els
anizing which they have gained here, CO
ID it will not be lost. What makes cls
our work so important here is that en-
der peculiarly favorable conditions sp
: have an opportunity of teaching Ma
e Orientals something which they tai
uld not gain in their own lands. 1t ,
II all tell. and is telling, in the up OF
ting of the race" pa
rhe first white people who went from to
e United States to Hawaii were of ito
e best type of men and women pro-
ced In this country. They left their Ra
mes and made the long and danger rul
s journey to these islands impelled loy
0-n- y.