Evening star., 1927-03-10
JAPANESE ELATED
BY HAWAII VICTORY
Supreme Court Decision Up
holding Foreign Language
Schools Is Praised.
BY ROBERT T. SMALL.

| HONOLULU, March 10.--Hawaiian
| views of the Supreme Court decision
| declaring unconstitutional the terri
! torial laws against foreign language
schools appear to be cooling down at
F., last. In talks with island legls-
! lators. the writer found the prevail
| ing sentiment against attempting new
| laws at this time. which might CIR
cumvent the decision of the highest
| tribunal.
Nevertheless, that decision has been
a bitter pill for island officials 10 sWai-
| low. for they have held the foreign
! language schools to be un-Americal, ,aa.l
| whereas the Supreme Court says laws
against such institutions are un-
| American.
| There are 173 schools in the ha'
waiian Islands where no word OF Eng
! lish is spoken. About $50 of these are
Japanese. the others equally dlVldeu
between Chinese and Korean. The
| compulsory educational law requires
| that all children of all nationaities at
| tend American public schools, ana II Is
after regular schools let out that
| Japanese children go to tnelr own
| language schools, where they are
| taught Japanese history and culture
and fealty to their emperor.
Retain Japanese Allegiance.
rnasmuch as fully 80 per cent OF an
Japanese children born in THESE rs
lands. and thereby entitled to Amer,
can citizenship, have been registered
bv parents at the japanese consulate
as desiring to remain SUBJECTS Vi .ii0
en,neror the significance OF the Jap
anese schools becomes more apparent.
There is also significance IN the
manner with which Japanese hele
received the news of their victory pc
fore the Supreme Court. An alrplaie
was chartered to drop leaflets spread
ino the news. which was also posted
in every Japanese shop, While extra
editions of Japanese language papers
sneedilv were printed. The situation,
perhaps, is best reflected by the Ioi-
lowing editorial just translated from
the Hawaiian Herehi, n Japanese
newspaper. The quaint language OF
the translation is given verbatim:
struggling against all sorts or per-
secution and intimidation, japanese
language schools instituted a ntlga.
ton against foreign language school
act, whose main purpose was 10 an
nihilate and wipe out of its existence
the language schools of these islands.
although they were sure of VIC
tory, the local Japanese were fright
ened and worried over the outcome.
But suddenly out Of a clear sky came
the news of great victory of japanese
language schools.
Congratulations Pour In.
about $50 am. Maxine came rush
ing into the editorial room shouting
We've won Then Kawamura came
into the room with the telegram.
Maxine. Terasaki, Kawamura and
Haga shook hands and cried with
tears. Pressmen called attention to
the extras and the editors began TO
write them.
Before the extras were out on the
streets the congratulations began
pouring In Men from various parts
of the island came. Consul General
Kuwashinla and Vice Consul Takechui
were the first ones to congratulate
us on the telephone. The telephones
kept ringing the whole morning.
Soranaka, Tanahashi, Yasui, Tasaka,
Tatsutani, Kobayashi, Hazgawa,
Iwanaga. Ogata and many others
came to offer congratulations. They
shook hands and cried With joy. Men
wept
1.-THE aviation company sent a rep
resentative and request that 1t be al