The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-02-02
JAPS SOON WILL
CONTROL HAWAII

Honolulu, T. H., IN. ga fed
eral survey commission, headed by
DIR. Frank F. Bunker, of Washing
ton, which recently surveyed educa-
ton in Hawaii, in a preliminary re-
port declared that the momentum
of the japanese race in Hawaii puts
all other racial groups out OF the
running in respect to numbers and
that the momentum if continued
will carry the Japanese race into an
increasingly dominant numerical
position, giving their Hawaiian born
progeny in 1880 about 2s per cent
of the electorate Of the territory.
The report, which is freely inter-
spersed with tables of figures OBJ
tanned from federal and territorial
official sources and from the office
of the Japanese consulate-general
in Honolulu, says in part:
with an actual population now IN
the islands of 114,137 (1s19) as re-
ported by the Japanese consulate
general, against $4,000 Portuguese,
the next largest group, it IS clear
that the japanese race has acquired
a momentum which puts all the
other groups out of the running
with respect to numbers.
"That this momentum inevitably
will carry the Japanese race into an
increasingly dominant numerical
position, if continued, is clearly
shown by tables compiled from in
formation obtained from the office
of the Japanese consul-general and
from the records of the territorial
board of health"
Dealing iwth the parallel present.
ed by the methods of adjustment to
island influences represented by the
Portuguese and the Japanese races,
the report says: "While both groups
originally were brought into
the islands to satisfy the need for
cheap labor on the plantations
there in with both a pronounced
tendency to seek better economic
position by breaking away from the
plantations and engaging in other
activities giving promise Of free
and more ample life.
sThe Japanese are ambitious to
become tenants, to own land, to set
up business, to enter a profession,
to rise above the category of un-
skilled labor and as they individual
" achieve their ambition, they are
like the Portuguese, participating
more and more in the affairs of the
islands, socially, educationally, poll
tically. Furthermore, they are all at
work. There are few triflers and
idlers among them. There are now'
approximately $4,000 male and IT,
600 female adult japanese in the is
lands. A table, based upon informa-
ton obtained from the japanese
consulate-general shows that 50,149
of them are employed in gainful oc-
cupations.
'It should be said in fairness
that there are few Japanese chill
dren in the juvenile courts and IN
institutions for delinquents; and
there are proportionately very few
Japanese among the convict labor
gangs and in the jails. Few, if any
are supported by public charity, nor
are any begging in the streets.
Their per capita savings bank de-
posts rank third among those OF
the island races, being exceeded by
the Americans and Portuguese only.
"All of which activity laudable in
itself, can be explained adequately
on the basis of racial qualities, in
herent in the Japanese, of patience,
persistence, thrift, initiative, endur-
ance, ambition, group solidarity,
coupled with acumen and astuteness
which give them the ability to get
on where other races have failed.
Indeed, so we'll have the japanese
adjusted themselves to island condi-
tions, and so rapidly are they in
creasing in the numbers of Hawaii
anIborn children, that this group
soon will have a majority of voters
of the islands"
The commissioners report then
deduces from a table of births of