Evening star., 1943-05-16

was tackled up on trees where it
might be seen.
Instead Of having writing on 1t,
the poster had pictures. 1t was in
the nature of picture strip" and
was printed long before any news
paper published such strips.
The first picture showed two white
adults and one white child getting
along very peacefully with the same
number of blacks. That was the
governors idea of how things should
be.
Ihe second picture was along ths
same line of peace, but the figures
were chiefly of white soldiers and
blackfellows of the fighting age"
A white man wearing top-hat also
was included, along with a native
woman and her child.
Result Of Action.
The trouble started in the third
picture section. At the left side OF
that section, blackfellow was shown
sending spears through the body Of
a peaceful white man. On the right
side was shown the result of the
action-the native was hanged by
soldiers.
The fourth, and last section.
showed a white man shooting a
peaceful native. AS a punishment,
he. too, was hanged.
SO, IN pictures, the governor tried
to give the natives warning that
they must not attack the whites.
Likewise, they were told that there
would be justice for them if an at
tack were made by a white.
Perhaps the warning did some
good, but it did not end all trouble
between settlers and natives Now
and then there were murders, and
sometimes there came skirmishes
and battles. Since they had better
weapons. the whites drove most Of
the natives back into the wilder parts
of Australia.
A census taken five years ago
showed there were 76097 black
fellows in Australia. Of these a.
718 were classified as half caste"
meaning they were of mixed blood.
Even counting the half -castes, only
about one per cent of Australia's
people are of the native race.
The Australian government has
made laws to protect the blackfel-
lows. and they are favored in much
the same way as Indians on reser-
vations in North America.
immigration Laws.
In an article written some time
ago, spoke of the efforts to make
Australia "a white mans continent"
Letting the natives live largely by
their old customs, the plan, has
been to keep people of the darker
races from settling in Australia
Those efforts have been largely
successful. Today there are in
Australia less than $4,000 persons
of Chinese, Japanese and Malay
descent, and they make up less than
one-fourth of per cent of the
population.
The brown and yellow people In
Australia are found chiefly along
the northern coast. They, or their
ancestors, reached that section be-
fore the immigration laws were
made strict.
The great majority of the whites
in Australia live in the southern
and eastern sections. The northern
half is thinly settled, mainly because
it has a hot, unpleasant climate,
with much of the land not fit for
crops or even for grass.
American and British soldiers sta
toned around Darwin might gain
the idea that there has been more
mixture of races is Australia than
is really the case. Darwin was the
home of about 1000 persons when
the Pacific war broke out. Many
of the residents were of Chinese or
Malay descent, and about 100 were
classed as Japanese
The 600 Chinese in Darwin made
their living almost entirely by keep
ing shops. They lived in section
known as Chinatown. and there
were two factions" among them.
One of the factions was known as
the War On" The meaning of
that name, oddly enough, is Chi
nese Peace"