The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-09-03
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PRAISE JAPANESE
Professor Scott Says Those In
. Hawaiian Islands Win Make
Good Americans
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Arita welcomes Guthrie tT .ra
IL II. AEita, Japanese acting consul gen
eral at Honolulu, who greeted Ambas
sador Guthrie on his arrival yesterda,
from two months vacation spent In
the United States and who entertained
him the major part of the day, deliver
ed n speech Of welcome TO the diplomat
In 30 doing he reminded his listener,
that at the time the critical interna
national situation arose two years ago
over the California land laws IL wa,
Ambassador Guthrie whose counsel aid
ed materially in bringing the two ma.
tons to clearer and more friendly
understanding. r..., :
Mr.. Arita also took accession TO conf
plimcnt Alexander Hume Ford on his
efforts to knit the countries in and
bordering on the Pacific ocean in a
closer bond of union, first by the organ.
ization of his nds-Around the Pacific
movement and more recently the lorna
ton Of the local branch, known as the
Pan-Pacific Association. L..
Talks Of Amertcanization - 3d..
The Japanese consul made statements
concerning the Americanization of ia.
panese in Hawaii.
| 1.-THE American Japanese program 80
far as Hawaii is concerned win be solv.
ed automatically within the next gen.
traitor" he said. o..
1.-The. Japanese now in the territory
have accomplished much; yet to many
Americans they appear to have fallen
short of the thorough Americanization
desired. Americanization cannot come
in moment. But il will come in time.
Cites Need Of English
alt depends upon the teaching OF
English. That is the obstacle which
the people of Hawaii must surmount
rhe Japanese here, the great majority
of whom have emigrated from Japan,
have found the English language their
greatest barrier They have BEEN cri.
ticized for lack Of that education. But
the young Japanese born in Hawaii are
found to speak the tongue quite as
fluently as Americans.
"When the Hawaiian born Jananese
have rcUlaced their fathers and mothers
il will be found that the race problems
is solved. as the older men born before
he Reformation were replaced by the
younger of. the Meiji era and the ruI-
pose of the reformation has been &c.
olIrlished in japan.
Two Other Speakers
Two other speakers of the evening
were passengers of the steamer Mon
golia, and are en- route to the Orient.
These are Horatio T. Newell of the
American Board of Foreign Missions,
and DIR. Il, ii. Hnma. The former Is
returning after a vacation on the Coast
to resume missionary work In Japan
and the latter to take up his station
at the Changsha College, China, which
was established by the alumni of Yale
University.
Mr.. Newell, who has been among the
japanese in their own country twenty.
FIVE years, said he believed the DIFF
ferences between the Japanese and
Americans would be forgotten as the
races came to know each other better.
At the time OF the California agita
tion two years ago he was up country,
in constant touch with the people or
the interior of japan. Up there, he
said, there was no antipathy shown
toward California or America; rather,
it was a questioning sentiment.
"What kind of people can have
been sent over there to give the Amer
leans such a feeling against usf" they
constantly asked him.
Land Law Called Blunder
Mr.. Newell said he believed the Cali,
fOrnia land law was great economic
blunder, intinating that he thought Il
was engineered largely by the labor
unions and politicians, both under I
delusion. As matter or fact, Mr.
Newell said, the 10000 Japanese ~
California are landless and homeless; a
population which must remain forever
in competition with the laborers OF
the white race. If they were privil
eyed eventually to own their homo:
and acquire their own farms the JapR
nese gradually would be eliminated
from labor competition there, he De
elared.
Doctor Hume tod briefly of the hu
manitarian work essayed by the Rookie
Teller Foundation in the Orient, saying
its lend is to the ultimate good Of
all people, of all creeds, natiOnalitieI
and races. Science and human service
he said know no national OF race bound
airy. There is in science no line Of di
vision setting China apart from japan
| VI hHCIhCa1
are of the one big family-this wa
his sentiment.
Prof. Scott Speaks
Prof. NJ. NJ. Scott, principal Of Nc
Kinley High School, spoke on the ques
ton whether the japanese here finall,
will become citizens. History of thei
own country proves that ayerred th
principal. The most marked charac
teristic of the race is personal loyalty
1t stands out through the entire his
tory of their native land.
They are true to the country the.
have been taught to love, or to the on
they choose to adopt. Those in Amer
lea cannot help becoming in tim
true natriots to the United States, n
the descendants Of the Pilgrim fathers
Lloyd Killam Of the Y. NJ. @. A
told of an effort to establish at Homo
lulu an educational bureau for all fol-
eP""rs seeking citizenship in the Uni
ted States. Under the auspices of th
YIN. G. A. a campaign of education
10 j." instituted soon, employing NOV
ing pictures and special instructors
carry TO all who seek it a better know
edge of American ideals, methods, hi
tory and citizenship.