Evening star., 1932-01-11
HAWAII PASTORS
CONDEMN PRATT
One Hopes He'll Be Relieved
of Duty for Stand on
Natives Staying.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
HONOLULU, January 1.-Two OF
Honolulu's leading churches were on
record today with statements from their
pastors condemning Admiral william v.
Pratt, chief of naval operations, for his
quoted statement condoning the lynch"
ing here Friday of Joseph Kahahawai.
The Rev DR.. Horace Leavitt, pastor
of the world-famous Central Union
Church and a recent arrival here from
a New York pastorate, accused Admiral
Pratt of putting himself above the
law-wl1ich is anarchy" The accusa-
ton formed part of DR.. Leavitt'S Sun
day sermon He did not refer to the
admiral by name.
The high service ofricial in Wash
ington who is reported as justifying this
resort to lynch law because the courts
have failed, puts himself and the force
he represents above the law-which is
anarchy and utterly false to the Con-
stitution he has sworn to uphold" he
said.
"As a Christian minister and as o
citizen of this Republic, conceived and
established in justice and liberty, pro-
test at this sanction and approval given
to lawlessneSS, and at this individual
Interpretation of vengeance which thus
mocks civilized society
Wants Pratt Ousted.
Hope that the President of the
United States would use every due
process OF law TO see that Admiral Pratt
Is relieved of his command" was eX-
pressed by the Rev. Galen r. Weaver,
pastor Of the Church Of the Gross
Roads.
"Of all the public statements made
in relation to the present situation, this
is the most dangerous and devilish to
come out of the mouth of an Intelligent
man." he said. 1T is an Endorsement
of lynch procedure from one Of our
highest officials, sworn to uphold the
Constitution. 1t directly inciteS further
acts of violence of the kind we saw this
week"
He added that whether the man was
innocent or guilty is beside the point"
Bishop H. Harrington Littell of the
Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii stood With
public officials in asserting the absence
Of racial feeling in Hawaii.
"If Kipiing should revisit Hawaii" he
said. "he could well add another verse
to his poem about the East and the
West. In Hawaii the Orient and the
Occident not only have met, but have
11termingled, The cultures oil tne East
and the West have produced a new
thing on earth.
Evils at Minimum.
Hawaii is one place where the evils
OF racial caste have been reduced to a
minimum. The best Of the East and
the best Of the West have been well
coined and assiInilated."
Previously public officials had said the
racial element did not enter into the
attacks on white women, which cul-
minated Friday in the Staying Of Joseph
Kahahawai, a young Hawaiian, as one
of the attackers.
The bishop said that in the islands
the Orient and the Occident meet in
manner not duplicated anywhere else
in the world. In thoroughly Western
environment, 1876 900 Occidentas and
nearly $50, 900 people Of Oriental ances-
otry live, study work and play together.
f. About half Of these former are Ameri-
cans by birth. The others are develop
ing ateadily into English-speaking Amer
lean citizens. To this civilian popula-
ton must be added about 10000 soldiers
and sailors.