The Washington times., 1921-04-10


California. SO long as she is un-
aided by the Fderal government.
will fnd her every effort at hold
ing in check the Japanese menace at
least partially thwarted by the In
| fux of these Japan-educated little
brown Americans. They will make
her Alien Land Law look like q piece
OF Swiss cheese with ants swarming
through it's holes.
More than 10000 OF them were
born in the islands In the last de-
cade. or these 34.20S were registered
with the territorial board Of health.
Sixty per cent At least of Japanese
children are born without medical at
tendance, and parents and midwives
often fail to report births to the
board OF health, though they always
report them to the Japanese consulate.
ALIEN CONSULATE KEPT FULLY
INFORMED.
In 1916 for the first time the board
of health compared their birth ng-
ures with those Of the consulate and
found that 877 more births had been
reported to the representative Of
Japan than it's total of 1922. For
the last half of the decade this dis
crepancy amounted to 2744-docreaS-
Ing year by year under r-the active
campaign of.thc board OF health and
a dawning rreaiization by japanese
that advantages accruing under
Hawaiian birth might be lost except
for this record. The board OF health
estimates that an average of 900 q
year during the first half OF the de-
cade were not recorded with II, max
ing a total of these unrecorded births
T.244. or a total of 1882 births for
the decade.
That this Is a conservative estimate
is demonstrated by another fgure
from the records OF the Japanese
consul generals Office. According to
those records, 22,921 Japanese males
were born in the islands from 1910 to
1919. inclusive. As many girls are
born, approximately, as boys: there
fore 1t is probable that $4,000 would
be a more accurate estimate OF the
births for the decade.
BIRTH RATE INCRERAsEs
WITH GREAT RAPIDITY.
At present births exceed 5000 .
year. and are rapidly increasing.
Approximately 1000 year of
| these children, or two-f,fths, have
been sent back td Japan for educa-
ton. The others have been sent to
Japanese language schools, which,
with home influences. submerge the
training in the public schools. and
they, too, are turned out as American
citizens thoroughly Japanese.
As American citisens they can
come to the mainland at will. Moth.
ing can keep them out. More than
600 who were born In 1900 are now
twenty -one and can come to Califor-
mia and acquire land, or become d.
rectors of land holding corporations,
or may lease land. In 1922, some
1900 of these Hawaiian born will
come of. age; in 1928, about 1900: In
1924 about 5000. BY 1890 the total
of these Hawaiian-born. Japanese
Americans of aduft age of both sexes
] will have reached $4,000.
Some of these will be eager to
come to California and acquire land.
as their opportunities will be better
here. others will be induced to
come. As agents under secret agree
| ment they can buy or lease land that
will be worked and in fact owned by
alien Japanese barred by the law It.
self from such lease or ownership.
Hawaiian Japanese can spare plenty
for this thwarting of the alien land
! law. and still have plenty left in the
/
or six years from now.
JAPANESE SOLDIERS
BECOME NATURALIZED.
More than 400 alien Japanese who
| served in our army during the war
remaitning in Hawaii-have been
naturalized Probably more than
half of these have already come to
| California, and some of them are al
ready being utilized In the organiza-
ton of corporations for the acquisi-
| ton OF agricultural lands.
Absurd attempts have been made to
prove the loyalty to America of Ha-
waiian japanese by pointing to these
| few soldiers-pitiably few as COM
pared to the 10000 OF Japanese popu-
| iatiop of the islands. But none OF
| them volunteered: they were in the
rational guard and had no choice, or
they were drafted. Some of the
drafted men did not claim exemption
as alien-born because they did not
know they had that right. Besides,
japan was an ally. not an enemy.
There is not the slightest reason to
believe that any OF them would have
| fought for the United States against
| Japan. Many OF them could not un-
| derstand English.
ALIEN SOLDIERS IMPORT
JAP PICTURE BRIDES.
IN Is a curious fact that a number
Of these Japanese soldiers in Ameri
can khaki brought over picture