The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-04-22
Boys of Lahaina
Will Watch Press
Current Events Club Tackles
Difficult Problem of Promot-
ing More Perfect Under
standing Between Races.

While legislation to curb improper
utterances from the press is pending
in the legislature there has been
started movement among the youth
of Lahaina to work for the same pur-
poses, for the prevention of publica-
lion OF articles tending to strain rela-
tons between foreigners here and the
United States or their countries and
this, or to counteract the effect of
articles publiched that may be subver
sive to American ideals, ethics and
teachings. Newspapers of all the
languages published in the Islands
will be the text books.
The formation of the Current Events
Club and its purposes are told by
William II. Douglas in the following
letter:
April 18th, 1921
Editor Maui News:
"Lahaina Troop No. 5, Boy Scouts
has inaugurated a movement Which
we believe to be OF importance TO the
people of Hawaii. Believing in the
impossibility of a lasting friendship
between people who cannot under
stand one another's viewpoint, we
have taken "A step which we hope will
pave the way to a better understand
ing between the many nationalIties
who compose the population of this
place.
Will Criticise News
We have formed a Current Events
Club, which will meet one a week
for the purpose of studying the news
papers of the Territory, both English
and foreign language, in order that
we may be able to interpret the news
items and the editorial pages to those
at home who are themselves unable
to read English. We will discuss tie
foreign language papers and see if
they conform TO our ideals of Amer
icanism and if they do not we will do
all in our power to combat their in
duence, both at home and among our
| friends.
Our troop is composed of "a boys
| OF Japanese ancestry, of Chinese an
cestry and one of Portuguese, and we
! feel that it is our duty to do what we
can in promoting Americanism, and
we believe that we can help by watch
| ing the press of Hawaii and, to the
| best of our ability understanding and
interpreting it, to others.
THE troop feels that there has been
much misrepresentation by certain pa
pers, and in the future when we find
misstatement we intend to challenge
it and, if that paper will not correct
it, we will request some other paper to
do so.
For Pure Amercanism
1--WE resent un-Americanism no mat
ter from what source it comes, and
we also believe that there has been
more disloyalty printed in the Hearst
papers of California than in all the
foreign language press in the Islands.
"Our club will endeavor, where pos
sible, 10 get speakers of note to ad
dress US upon American ideals and we
will try to pass the message along.
I'VE believe that misunderstanding
is breeder of war and we know that
no thinking person in the Islands can
consider the idea of war without hor,
ror, for, whatever the outcome, "A
Trans-Pacific War means absolute
GRAFTON to come.
ne ulOllO VI llle DOy oCoulo VI AIN
erica is BE Prepared" and we intend
to live up to the motto by meeting all
un-American propaganda, from within
and without with the message of Am
ericanism, Get Together
Preservation of Peace
"The ancient saying In time oi
peace prepare for war was good but
let us be modern and substitute for II
another. In time of peace We will
work for peace
Il was in the army in France dur
ing the war and when returned home
! helped organize the American Legior
in California and was the first secre
tary of San Francisco Post No. l, ant
: as an American with 800 years of Am
erican ancestry behind me, l want t
say, that | believe that any man 81
, organization that consciously tries t
stir up hostility between the United
States and any other nation is guilt!
of treason to America and to human
ity.
"WILLIAM H. DOUGLAS,
"Scoumaster Troop No. 5,
| "Lahaina