The Pensacola Journal

HAWAII SCHOOLS ANTI AMERICAN
Investigating Commission Recommend That Teaching Japanese Be Abolished

Honolulu, T. H., July 4.—The report of the federal school survey commission, just made public by Vaughan MacCaughey, superintendent of public instruction for the territory, recommended that the Japanese language schools of Hawaii be abolished. The federal commission was headed by Dr. Frank F. Bunker, chief of the city school division of the bureau of education at Washington. It is suggested that opportunity be supplied in the public schools, wherever the demand is sufficient, for the study of Oriental languages in special classes after regular hours, taught by teachers regularly employed by the territory.

The commission's report declared that language schools, which in the aggregate outnumber the public schools of the territory, are centers of an influence which, if not distinctly anti-American, certainly is un-American.

"While doubtless many teachers are brought from Japan rather than procured from among Hawaiian-born Japanese because it is sincerely believed they speak purer Japanese, nevertheless, some at least share the opinion frankly recently before the Japanese Education Association of Maui by Obata Shusan, formerly head priest of the Jodo Shu Mission at Puunene on the Island of Maui, and principal of the Misuka girls' school. Mr. Shusan said:

"'Any man who is to teach in Japanese language schools should not be a man with democratic ideas. A man of strong Japanese ideas should be its teacher.'"