The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-05-23
HAWAIIAN RACE
BEING REBORN
infusion of Foreign Blood Rein
vig0rateS Inhabitants OF
the Island.
KOREANS REFUSE TO MIX
Analysis of 1859 Marriages in the
Islands Reveals Some Surprises
to Science-Japanese Not Most
Prolific Race on Island

Honolulu, T. H.-The Hawaiian
general, has been regarded as a dying
people, is being reborn and Ieinvig-
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 Amerf-
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,
rt-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 a single case
of a Korean woman marrying a man
other than a Korean having been dis
covered.
A New Racial Group.
AS whole, the tables indicate, the
part-Hawaiian group has tendency
to consolidate rather than scutter,
since Of Observation-Disclosures males
who marry, 1927 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,
1876 per cent marry back into the
Hawaiian strain, only 1.3 into the |
Asiatic strain and a 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 abnormaIly susceptible to civiliza-
tons diseases, but with much higher
resistant powers than the old Ha-
waiian stock and vfsibly adding to it's
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 0.3
of one per cent of Japanese women
contract Out-marriages, or unions with
men 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
415 per cent for the men American
lT.9 for the women and SIT for the
men; Portuguese 1928 women, $50
men; Hawaiian, 40.5 women, 1915 men.
Pure Stock Dies Fast.
The pure Hawaiian death rate is
he 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-
,ility to diseases of civilization is re-
ponsible for the disappearance of the
,ure Hawaiian race, but the figures
ust made public by Mr.. Sullivan are
he first to show that the intermar-
iage is rebuilding the old race into
more hardy people.