The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-02-13
DETECTIVES FOR SOCIAL PROGRESS IN
Continued from Pdoe One.)

ton of labor in plantation management. The way to get rid If ogtators
way to prevent labor organizations being put over from outside is to give
labor a legitimate and adequate organization within the industry, taking it
in as a partner on the ground floor
Not many # US here have any direct responsibility for doing this but
We all have a part in creating that atmosphere of public influence which
shall communicate itself to those in immediate control and make it easy
for them to advance in this direction of industrial democracy
The greatest and most obvious social objective for us here in Hawaii
rs o, oUSr 4g r s| w 81" s n tntt naEes mot to srsbtest 6uyoronce to
the nation what Hawaii thinks about a dozen different political questions
Our opinion on the tariff, or the League of Nations, or the Mexican situation
weighs not an unc in the decisions If Washington. There is just one
thing concerning which we have tremendous influence, just nc thing in which
our success OF failure will largely decide the policy Of the United States,
and that S or relationship to the Oriental If we live at peaoe and harmony
with the Oriental, if W e prove that the second and third generation of
Chinese and Koreans and japanese can be nodded into genuine American
,attorai rI.tionsbi OF tho United states with the Ortent. If n the other
hand, We shall fl. to do that our failure will be a most severe setback to
the cause Of right relationships between the East and the West Here then
is our great task; here is the peculiar contribution which Hawaii is called
upon to make to national and worldwide problems. I a sorry to say that
there are some among US who are already disposed to give u the fight From
time to time someone assures me that this AUGMENTATION business is al
bunk" that the Chinese and japanese are essentially and etInaly Oriental
and car never be Ameicanized. Such consummate souls SCI o help but in
a total surrender of the situation, throwing over our Territorial selfgovern-
ment and calling for a commission form Of government backed up by the
so either. It is related of Paul Jones that in a famous naval battle with a
British shp, his own ship was sinking and he vas called upon to surrender to
which he gave the memorable reply: Surrender, have only just begun
to fight" dashed his ship to the enemy, boarded her and took her by storm.
The same applies to Hawaii We have only just begun to fight and the
battle is by no mcons hopeless. Most o us know in or experience here in
the Islands Oriental boys and girls n are thoroughly Amercanzed' n
such Chinese boy came to me and asked to join my church. l found that
. mr cr D% t@ 10y h@ rmarb no 70 Gnnday sobooia and 6d nnvor' hnord
a sermon, but he had absorbed Amercansm and Christianity IN tn play
ground and in the classroom. Eight years in Kaiuani Public School and
three years in Punahou had worked the transformation. The graduating
cassof a certain school in this Territory consisted recently entirely of Oren-
tails, but the indignation of that school was boundless when a local paper
carelessly and inaccuratey said not a bona he American among them
The students of that high school had n doubt as to their Amencanism
There is a boy up here in the Kula sanitafum. A friend of min said o
MN o o. are a usu NO ii Su' my ftner "as d Fotu
guese but my mother was Hayaian, and that is 10 quite right either. My
father as Portuguese and your mother Hawaiian and Chinese, what does
that make you?' oh" he said, I'm a American" That is the great and
significant thing which w are doing here in Hawaii. We are making Am
orleans. The supreme means Of Americanization is, Of course, the public
school system and to this We must give most adequate and generous support
l was over o Kaua recently and watched a friend Of min teaching a class
of 50 little children, some of whom had lot been in school more than two
weeks She had to divide hen into or groups nd devise methods o.
keeping three groups busy while she taught the fourth. Such a condition
great a load for any young woman to carry and the system is also unfair
to the children. They are held back from promotion not through lack of
given When W e g at DIFFERENTIATION in dead earnest we will give that
One Of the things which must be done in support of the public schools
must be the ultimate elimination of the language school The public school
ought not to have any competition in the educational field and the total a
tention OF children in their earlier school years, that is children who come
from fonisnspeakng homes should be concentrated o. he mastery OF the
English language. At the same time in all fairness, we must remember
hat the language schools are at present fulfilling certain useful functions
and it would be unjust and unfortunate to abolish them any faster than we
can provide for the taking over Of these functions under the public school
close Of the public school Tbey also teach the language which is most
necessary to the children concerned in their future business and family
relationships 1t is therefore important that GU public school curriculum
and teaching force be expanded and enriched SO as to permit o a longer
school day through the addition of vocational training and organized play
ground activities. Provision should also be made for the teaching in all
grades above the 9Th OF whatever foreign language is most desired by the
community surrounding the school When these things ar done the pres
ent language schools ought to be abolished and the education of children
unified under the public school system.
An expansion 0 the public schools in the direction Of the night schools
on ~. 4p r Tatn'on1 ana iS lranntrr damanded hv ordttonD in G prwau ru nw
eagemess for AUGMENTATION and or insistence of the abolition of all
foreign schools we need also to remember the necessity of patience and
winsome tactmness in bringing AmericanizauOn about. We must not be
Prussan in u methods, o think that outward conformity Of speech will
get us anywhere unless We have the inward love and loyalty of the heart
Asace speaks German, but it thinks and loves French. Germany ruthlessy
enforced her language upon the Prussian parts of Poland, but she never
made loyal Germans nut of the Poles, partly because of her suppression Of
their language. The most successful AmencanzatiOn will not be by aboh-
ton, but by winsOmeness. a Japanese friend of min in Hawaii who is
thoroughly Americanized, a graduate of the Boys High School in San
Francisco, picked up a little Japanese boy for a rid. in his auto (Which
do you like best the American II the japanese SCHOOL, he asked him. After
his shyness had been overcome the boy confessed that he liked the American
school better. "Why?" asked my Japanese friend. Because like the
teacher" said that little boy. AT the Japanese school the teacher is a man
and he is very stern, but at the American school the teacher is a lady and