The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-11-13
GOOD SCHOOL BUILDINGS.

quarters Scotch and one-quarte
| white"
GOOD SCHOOL BUILDINGS.
| In all the schools visited on the va
rious islands it was a matter of sur
prise to find INTELLECTUALLY handsome
well-kept buildings, with modern ap
pointments and fittings. The build
ings were usually of brick or pebble
/ dash, set in a large lawn with flower
beds The schoolrooms were almost
invariably large, cool, airy, we'll 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
WTlllGu ny d SAlIiACSC oNhoOA1t 4AA AiAC
Honolulu High School, and not intend
ed for publication:
THE democratic Constitution of the
United States suggested to the world
other like policies of popular govern
rnent for human prosperity AMI 6e-
Tense. 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-R 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 tho 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
but many declare the Japa-
nese to be tricky. In the public
schools one is told that the Chinese
quickly become impregnated
with American ideas and American
ideals The Chinese children become
to know the meaning of patriotism and
show patriotic spirit. 1t is declared
that this spirit of American patriotism
they take back to China with them.
Bishop Restarick aff1rms that the Off
GERS of a Chinese institution write
back: Your boys are leaders in
studies, in sports, and societies for adj
of religious and civil life. |
they burn with zeal for China and
hey impart their spirit to others. They
are Americanizing the Orient"
lot so readily accept American ideas |
md teachings of American patriotism. !
IN many Japanese families in the is
ands, 1 am told, it is the custom to |
;end the children to Buddhist priest |
or instruction in the Japanese lam
suage and patriotic principles for an |
lour or two each day before the pub
ic schools open, and after they are |
dismissed for the day. On the road |
rom Laupahoehoe to Hilo a specter
vas pointed out to US: A Japanese
private school with an arm rack on !
he lanai filed with wooden guns, in
,lain view from the road.
EXPECTATION OF WAR WITH
JAPAN.
Nearly every one in Hawaii seems
O feel that the United States will
ave a war with Japan in the coming
i've or ten years. Nearly every man
GU meet processes to believe that
apan has designs on Hawaii, and that
t the first signs of hostilities the Jap
nese on the islands will rise and take
ossession of the towns and fortifica-
ions and of the islands. This preva-
ant belief accounts in large part for
THAT feeling exists against the Jap
nese. To quote Bishop Restarick again.
rom an article in the Independent:
still the Japanese are Influenced,
he women especially impressed. with
ne conditions of women here. I like
Iawaii,' 1 heard one Japanese woman
ay to my wife. In Japan, he up
ign. woman down low; in Hawaii,
-oman she UP high, too, all same
lan.' The children also, when they
0 back to Japan, as perhaps most of
lem do, will take some of the Amer
anizing which they have gained here, !
nd it win not be lost. What makes
II our work so important here is that
nder peculiarly favorable conditions
e have an opportunity of teaching
lie Orientals something which they
ould not gain in their own lands. 1t
ill all tell, and is telling, in the up
fling of the race"
The first white people who went from ,
lie United States to Hawaii were of
lie best type of men and women pro-
uced in this country. They left their
orneS and made the long and danger