The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-08-16
MacCAUGHEY TELLS EASTERNERS
OF BAD FEATURES IN OUR SYSTEM
WHICH PREVENTS AME RIC CANlZATION

PrevocatiOnal, manual and industrial
training is well organized, with trained
teachers and supervisors on each island.
. Practically all Of the larger schools,
urban and rural, have school shops and
school kitchens. In the latter lunches
are prepared by the pupils, under su.
pervisiOH, and sold at cost. At some
schools many hundred lunches are sold
daily. In the shops all sorts Of school
and home furniture and repairs are
mad" by the pupils, under supervision,
aud sold at cost. In this way the man.
nal departments are partially self. sus.
tanning. The Y. NJ. G. A. has a strong
educational program, with definite Am.
crcnniZatiou propaganda. II is doing
pioneer work.
The school and home garden move.
mcnt is now thoroughly organized
throughout the islands. with total of
several thousand home gardens. Prizes
nre given for the best gardens in each
district and the newspapers give much
publicity to the garden campaign. In.
asmuch as gardens in Hawaii can be in.
tcnsity cultivated all the year round,
the Importance of this movement, in
increasing the amount of home. grown
food, is Obvious.
During the past spring the Boys
Working Reserve has been effectively
organized in conjunction with the pub.
lie schools. At present large prprpn.
tage Of the able, bodied boys' popua.
tiOn Of Hawaii Is enlisted and at work
in this important branch of the home
! defences. A pig raising campaign Is
also iudprogress at the present time.
Poor Boys Colleges
"Public high schools have been es-
tablished on all of the larger islands
Of the group during the past decade;
previously there were hut two in the
Territory. These poor boys colleges
! are potent agencies for Ameriraniza.
tion, and are steadily growing in size
and educational significance. They of
I fer general college preparatory. srien-
| tific, and commercial courses, with some
shop work. cooking. dressmaking, etc
The vocational and home training work
is expanding rapidly during the present
period.
Although not part Of the public
schools, the Territorial Fair is truly q
public educational institution Of large
! pOtentialities for the Americanization
of Hawaii. A great variety Of educa.
tional exhibits are made, in addition
TO the standard agricultural and indus
trial exhibits. The Territorial Fair q
democratic institution; it stands for
the slowly emerging middle class. and
should have a permanent place in the
upbuilding Of Hawaii s rural life.
Four Bad Factors
g. IL
the basic one of nationality, that mill.
tate against Americanization in Hawaii.
and that tend TO nullify the work of
the public schools;
81. The difficulty of purchasing
farm land. There is very little farm
land not already under the complete
control Of the agricultural corporations
nd that little is leased at exorbitant
"eutals 1t is practically impossible
for white man to go into farming in
| Hawaii as he does on the mainland
| There are practically no homes and no
farms in rural Hawaii las these terms
are used on the mainland There are
only corporations, and peasant lessees
"2. The Japanese language schools
| which are largely under the control Of
| he Buddhists, are attended by nearly
| Ill of the japanese children. These
schools are narrow. superstitiOus shrines
for Mikado worship. Buddhism is
| Nasicnlly undemOcratic and un. Ameri
can. SO long as ninety-fve percent of
the Japanese population of Hawaii re-
! mains Buddhist. so long will American
zatiOn be retarded The American de
mocracy is founded on the ideals and
practiseS of the Christian home
"3. \ preponderate Asiatic popula
'i"n which is ineligible to citizenship
I This arbitrary and impossible bar to
the privileges and responsibilities of
citizenshiI-which excludes only the
Asiatic and admits all others, no mat
ter how debased or mOngrel-is justly
resented by the Orientals. and necessar-
ilv imPrdcs the true AmericaniZation of
their American born children. The nat
uralizatIon plan advocated by Dr. Sid
ney Guhck (which the present writer
fully advOcutes-wOuld undoubtedly rec
tlty the present unfortunate and un-
fair situation.
49, The continual importation, by
the agricultural corporations, of floods
of cheap, iliterate. ignorant, and of.
ten criminal peasants, mostly males, of
the lowest classes, from such regions
as the Philippines and Porto Rico. They
have been brought in in such numbers,
and permitted to live under such con.
dltlOnS, that real assimilation has been
almost impossible They tend to de,
grade and depreciate the whole body
OF the population. BY thus keeping the
labor market Overstocked with the low
est grades Of human material, the up.
building Of anything like the American
home has been very greatly retarded
Hawaii will never he 100 percent Am,
erican until the artiRciallv stimulated
immigration (the Territorial govern
ment has borne, directly or Indirectly
the whole expense of immigratiOn). /.
stopped for period Of time sufficient
~ long to enable the public schools
missions, aud other social agencies tc
truly Amerlcanize the present popula
! ton.
Chairman ,mau II RiprlOw ar
| FnON lCIFrd that IL