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4 THE GARDEN ISLAND, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1921 THE GARDEN ISLAND Issued Every Tuesday KirS'WH C. HOTTER Managing Editor TLF.FDAY JUNE 21. 1921 FARRINGTON CONFIRMED Tin? United States Senate has confirmed TMvmlent llarding's nomination of Wallace R. I rrington as governor of Hawaii. In i wireless received in Honolulu tbis week Mr. i'arrington said: ' Y v aim will be to give Hawaii a clean-cut Aim? ican administration and toward tbe ful fili'K nt of this purpose I know I "shall receive the si m ere and ready cooperation of the splen did tody of American citizens who have kept lli.w;iii's standards high. "I iiave no political bargains to fulfil aiid no cnen ' js to punish. . ' T ere is worth-while work ahead of us and we v. ill go forward unitedly. Let lis never foigi that as citizens resident in a vital Am erica i outpost we have daily responsibilities that "n a peculiar manner test our capacity, our i :.tience, our common pense and our loyal ty to Vmeriean ideals." W believe that Governor Farrington means junt i hat he says. We believe that he will give -s a fair, capable business government, undi which Hawaii will advance unitedly. "U 'I EX SVOAR SHOOTS THE CHUTE'' T't'ler the above heading Wela-ka-hao, the officii organ of the Honolulu Ad club, prints the f Mowing little bit of encouragement to us in oi . gloom caused by the sugar prices sett ling vd lowering about us: "S ?nr is down. And when sugar goes dowt; the spirits of this conimuuity are likely to fo low it. Many of us already are chanting dirgf i No sugar money, no business, we moui. And our pessimism permeates the purli is of prosperity like the plague. We shou1 ! be made of sterner stuff. "A' I most of us are, thanks be. It would seem hat we should be able, and if not will ing, .-.en to dissemble a willingness, to stand for a little four cent sugar after the period of stejc 'y ascending prices which reached the iinmr eat peak of 23 cents not so loner aero. t we can have more than two lumps of at a sitting now without being slapped on H vrist by Uncle Sammy. " 3..c skidding sugar reminds us that we sho i' ! have some eggs in another basket. Thin is a good one at hand in the form of the tou-it traffic which, with half the attention givt r io sugar, would yield larger and more reliable results." At U SUfcl BARRING THE JAPS coraska, with her many foreign-born al iens, lias recently enacted a law prohibiting all .i 'ens from acquiring title to land. There neei.n to be no reason to doubt that many othtr states will follow her lead in such elim iuatic ii of alien landholders, who have not al ready bought real estate. Wherever such laws tre passed the road to real estate owner ship by the Japanese will be closed. And to day, every resident of this territory knows, the Japanese question is one of the biggest and luott serious this nation has to face. Aliens from Europe can quickly become citizens of the United States and thereby es cajK; from the provisions barring them from ownii land, but the Japanese and Chinese will I e unable to do this. They must remain aliens and landless, unless they already own real estate, where such laws as the one enact ed in Nebraska are passed. Every incident like the one in Nebraska helpa California and the other Pacific coast states n their struggle to stop the spread of Japan se land-owning and the multiplication of Ja:iTnese in this country. Every measure by a .late far from the Pacific ocean which check ilien progress in real estate buying and makes citizenship in this republic the open door i important privileges, strengthens the westei states, and at the same time serves to make the entire United States a great deal more :rfe from a mighty bad mixup with the old v dd in the years to come. THERE'S TWO SIDES Wl.cn you have read of the crimes and quar rels aril irregularities of life until you are de press?.', and doubtful about the old world, re memlw i that these things are displayed be cause they are news and because they xtrc uuusui '. They were the exceptional things, and lo that reason they were printed with a big, Vittk head above them. And for the same i -uhoii you read them. And if it is an aritd about some man or woman going wroiicr reHt assured that the vast majority of peoj k who read that article do not approve of it. There are always two sides to the thing; you see and hear and read about. You can't j .dge properly the movement of a whole army ) watching a few stragglers. So you can't tell the trend of the human race by ru mors you read in the papers. People gener ally find what they are looking for, and If they only look on the surface, or only listen to rumors they are not apt to learn the right side. LID PARTLY CLOSED The emergency bill, limiting the number of aliens to 3 per cent of the number of each nat ionality resident in the United States in 11)10 has passed the Sennte by a vote of ?8 to 1. The Senate struck out the provision to. exempt from the 3 ier cent limitation those emigrating to escape religious and political persecutions. Thus one step has been taken to close the door upon the undesirable immigration that for the last quarter of a century hns poured into the United States almost without restrict ion, until fu many of our cities and in all of our manufacturing centers the foreign popula tion is equal to or iu excess of the native, and the language of tbe people is as mixed as that of tiie throng that attempted the erection of the tower of Babel, after the "confusion of ton gues." This act of Congress is a step toward the preservation of America for Americans. It is a movement toward relieving the housing situation and the preservation of our American customs; a move to check the tidal wave of alien humanity that is threatening to submerge our American institutions beneath an un-American clement. The door is closing too late, however ; far too late 'to preserve much that has been lost for ever; but that it has been done at all thould be and doubtless is hailed with joy by the great majority of American people. America will now have a breathing upell and an opportunity to Americanize its svrplus of alien energy. We do not want citizens of the United States voting as Germans, Russians' Austrian, or any other race or people. We do not ar prove of American citizens speaking a foreigr. tongue, reading foreign-language papers, or conducting their affairs after the manner of European customs. . This is America, and Americans s'lould be imbued with the spirit that has made this country great. They should talk United States, think United States, and bring up their children to love and respect the United States and its institutions. If the United States is not good enough for any of our alien people they should pack their worldly goods and go by the most direct route back to the country from whence they came. Let every American citizen speak the lan guage of America, think in the language of Am erica, and in all their dealings act as a good American should. Let every American citizen think "America First," and love the fkig of the United States above all others. If he does not he is not worthy to be an American citizen, and we do not want him. If his interests are not in America I.e is a dans;?r(.in element in our body politic, and should be invited to de part for the country where he belongs ; for there is no place for him in America. LOOKING AHEAD Henry Ford says the farmer will see the day when both the horse and cow will be done away, with. The horse will go, he says, because of the auto truck and the tractor; "he is a 1,200 pound hay motor of one-horse power," says Mr. Ford, "and a little machine half his fdze will equal twenty of him." As for the cow, the great auto builder says: "It is a simple matter to take the same cereals that the cow eats and make them into a milk which is superior to the natural article and much cleaner." Nor is meat essential, for he describes a scientific food which will not only take the place of milk, but of meat. . Henry may be right. He has done such wonderful things in the past that it would be hard to find a man brave enough to try him out in an argument. Maybe he could go still far ther and say the day will come when there will be so many different kinds of machines and chemicals that a fellow can quickly and cheap ly manufacture his own clothing and do away with factories, and by swallowing a tablet of this kind and one of another enjoy an entire meal without having to waste au hour at the dining table. Maybe we'll all have more time for ourselves by not having to stop to eat, and maybe the women will have more leisure by not having to cook. There really isn't anything impossible iu this world, and if they can con vince us that they've found something to re place the cow you know they already furnish us eggs in the form of a powder then we are willing to admit that Henry Ford is a prophet, and fully a thousand years ahead of his time. JUS. F. MORGAN Company, Limited REAL . E3TATE AND INSURANCE STOCKS, BONDS, No. 125131 Merchant St P. O. 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