The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-07-06
HAWAIIAN RACE
BEING REBORN
Infusion Of Foreign Blood Rein
vigorates Inhabitants Of
the Island.
KOREANS REFUSE TO MIX
Analysis Of 14,559 Marriages in the
Islands Reveals Some Surprises
to Science-Japanese Not Most
Prolific Race on Island.

Honolulu, T. 1.-THE Hawaiian
race, which with the Polynesians in
general, has been regarded as dying
people, is being reborn and reinvig-
Grated by infusion of alien blood, ac-
cording to statistics just compiled by
Louis r. Sullivan of the New York
Museum of Natural History now at
tached to the Bishop museum in
Honolulu.
Mr. Sullivan has just completed
analysis Of 1859 marriages in the
islands, selected at random, and his
findings in some cases have been sur
prises to science.
According to the tables, more Ameri-
can men in the territory marry WOm-
en- Of blood foreign to their own than
marry American or British women.
The japanese are not, as has been
supposed, the most prolific race in the
islands, but are surpassed in this re-
gard by Portuguese, Porto Ricans,
part-Hawaiians and Spanish. OF
American women, more than one in
every six living in the islands marry
Hawaiians, part-Hawaiians and 9TH
ers Of blood strange to their ancestry.
OF all the racial groups the Korean
women represent the only one which
refuses to mix blood, not single case
of a Korean woman marrying man
other than a Korean having been dis
covered.
AS whole, the tables indicate the
part-Hawaiian group has a tendency
to consolidate, rather than scatter,
since of Observation-Disclosures males
who marry, 1921 per cent marry back
into the full-blooded Hawaiian strain,
while only 1873 per cent take white
wives and the remainder, either in
breed among their own kind or marry
at large. OF Asiatic- Hawaiian males,
1875 per cent marry back into the
Hawaiian strain, only 1.3 into the
Asiatic strain and negligible pro-
portion into the Caucasian strain.
The result, SO far as the Hawaiian
race is concerned, is said to be new
racial group, fecund to high degree,
still abnormally susceptible to civiliza-
tons diseases, but with much higher
resistant powers than the old Ha-
waiian stock and visibly adding to its
numbers.
While the women Of Korea lead all
other males and females Of the islands
In marrying within their own race,
there are other groups which are a
close second in this respect. Only O.3
of one per cent Of Japanese women
contract out-marriages, or unions with
Hen Of other races, while or Of one
per cent Of Japanese men so pick their
mates. The percentage for the Chi
nese is per cent for the women and
41.5 per cent for, the men; American,
17.9 for the women and ST. for the
men; Portuguese, 1928 women, 1870
men; Hawaiian, 4O.5 women, 1915 men.
Pure Stock Dies Fast.
The pure Hawaiian death rate is
the highest in the islands, 13.4S per
thousand annually, although the pure
Hawaiian birth rate is nearly twice as
high as American, British and other
whites.
Scientists recognize that suscepti-
bility to diseases of civilization is re-
sponsible for the disappearance of the
pure Hawaiian race, but the figures
just made public by Mr.. Sullivan are
the first to show that the intermar-
rage is rebuilding the old race into a
stronger, more hardy people.