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vi 1 ai-iLl- c. 1 i Life Is Easier for the Fish Around ihe Islands While the events of Dec 7 seem to Have made no rl difference tbe lives of most of the Japanese too Hawaiian Islands, there has been some job discrimination and the myriads of fishing boats, al- mnost exclusively operated by Japanese, have been tied np for the duration. AboTe are some of the small vessels in a lagoon at Oahn. 4 Worried Whites Weigh loyalty 1 Busy Nipponese Residents By CHARLES GORDON HONOLULU. It's three months since Pearl Harbor, but events in the Pacific have made no wrenching differences in the lives of the 160,000 Takahashis in this simmering melting-pot with a total population of something over 400,000.

There is an undercurrent of distrust on the part of some of the haoles (all-whites), and there is an attitude of let-it-lay among others, but by and large it's business as usual for the Japanese and apanese-American merchants and workers. Which means that they are working, with the usual industry that always amazes and sometimes pleases the non-Japanese of the are inclined at times to become langorous and let the little yellow men exert themselves. The personal property holding of the Japanese the Isei (those born in Japan) and the Nisei (American-born) are paid to total 525,000,000. Japanese make up 47 of the depositors in Hawaii's banks, and their deposits are 30 of the total. They have stores, banks, garages, milk routes, farms and thousands of them are independent businessmen cf one kind or another.

Still other thousands are" employed non-Jananese residents. For All Small Japanese girt yields her fingerprints under Hawaiian ruling that all 160,000 Japanese, including foreign- and American oorn, must be fingerprinted along with everybody else on tho islands. As Usual It's perfectly normal for Japanese lady barber to be shaving a soldier or a sailor. Nobody in Honolulu gives it a thought. about America and Japan now that the nations are at war?" "That is a foolish question." he replied, "but not to you who has always lived in America." He is 55, came to Hawaii when he was 15, and can never be an American citizen.

I choose America to live in. I will bury vy six children here and I want to be buried here myself. "You say, 'Do I still love If a man is born in Colorado and comes to Hawaii, it is the same thing. I love this country because it is now my home." Washington Has Its Own Plans. These Japanese seem to be attempting to ride it out, to go along as before.

Senator Sanji Abe and six other Japanese-Americans remain members of the territorial legislature. The haoles still patronize the Japanese stores. But the Japanese are troubled. They are asking themselves: "What do the haoles really think of us? If we try to appear patriotic some people will think we are trying to lay it on. If we try not to overdo it, we might be under suspicion.

What kind of technique 0 I I' if Jit should we use to show our patriotism?" What the Army and Navy intelligence services and the FBI think about Jimmy Watanabe's pledge to fight to the last ditch for America in a showdown on Hawaiian soil is not for publication. Washington, has its own plans for the "Japanese problem" here. Oldtimers also have their own ideas. "WHAT do I think of the Japs?" said an official of one of the islands' oldest business institutions, whose work brings him into constant touch with hundreds of them. (Incidentally, the term "Jap," so common on the mainland, is not used here.

It's "Of course," he said, "the Japanese here are different from the Japanese in Japan. Hawaii Japanese enjoy a standard of living unknown in Japan. But generally speaking, I think as a race that they're a pretty smart bunch of little men. This hooey they're handing out to you is just what you'd expect. What else can they say? "I believe the young Japaneso businessman has a foot in both camps.

Of course, he would like tnxngs to continue just as they are. America is a pleasant country ta live in. They are thoroughly AmeT' v. -j-r- (I vjEr-p'" Mclting-Pot Fissures The population of Hawaii in 1940 was 423,330, an increase of 64,994 over 1930. The divisions as to race and nationality are approximately as follows: Hawaiian 21,000 Caucasian-Hawaiian 21,000 Asiatic-Hawaiian 21,000 Portuguese 30,000 Puerto Kican 7,700 Spanish 1,200 Japanese (alien and Hawaiian born) 160,000 Filipino 52,500 Chinese 28,000 Korean 6,700 good meals a day but lack of vegetables and fruit and it is permissible I do not mind to send papayas and bananas not every day but occasionally.

I live in a country where many farmers and they are too glad to serve with their products. "If I am allow to suggest a few things which I thought were good. Detainees want to read some things to keep up their morale and an English Gospels such as St. John, St. Mark, St.

Luke and St. Matthew will enlighten them much and also if checkers, cards or indoor ball material for recreation will cheer them up very much and if it is permissionable, I am sure churches and YMCA are too glad to send them in. "In closing I wish to thank you for your good treatment while I was in concentration camp. Thank you again and again." In an interview after his release Since Dec. 7.

numerous Japanese In Hawaii, spokesmen for second-nd third generation Japanese-Americans, have made public avowals of their attitodes in the war with Japan. In fact, there has been a Teritable flood of such ftatenunts from the Japanese community. I am an American citizen," says a Japanese-American newspaperman. "A loyal, law-abiding resident of the greatest nation on earth. My skin is yellow and you rail me a Japanese.

But I'm an American and I'll fight for my country. 1 have as much right to le known as an American as a Spanish citizen, or an Italian or a Swede." Wish to Prove Ourselves Worthy." His is typical of the plea of generic go fur- Jimmy atanabe fa name for Japanese). To ther with I wish I could tell you of our intense desire to prove ourselves worthy of our priceless American citizenship, of our hurt pride and cur deep disappointment at finding that in certain ways we are not wanted, of the searing pain of our hearts when we are at times told or made to understand that we are Japs, not Americans "Nowhere else tn tke world could sir parents get tke kind of 'American justice' tket are getting kere. Our friends and brother have teen called to tke colors. We still anion tke civil rights that are enjoyed by citizens of other races.

We have yet to be pushed off the sidewalks as many have been on the mairdand. "We know that we have many friends who trust us, who judge us by what we are and what we do instead of by the color of our skins or the slant of our eyes. We know that the spirit of fairness traditional in the American way of life may be temporarily submerged but will never die. And when this war is over, we want to say that our record is clear, that we have done our part as loyal Americans." THE Eev. C.

P. Goto, Japanese- born pastor of a Methodist Episcopal congregation, lives with 'his wife and six children at Kaneohe, a coastal town on Oahu that overlooks a naval air station. The air base was bombed nd ma chine-gunned on Dec. 7. Goto is the civilian defense contact man for a group of 4,000 Japanese farmers and fishermen in his dis trict.

He was picked tip in the FBI roundup after the attack, was held in a concentration camp for 19 days and then released under the usual restrictions for enemy aliens. He wrote to the newspapers after his release (his own words are reproduced): "I am very sure that all those detainees are fairly treated and all are satisfying at the camp. They are also willing to co-operate vAth you and warden and they are wishing to set example as good detainees, so you can depend on them as much as co-operations are concerned. "All are enjoying there three he was asked: "What do you think.