The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-12-18

dren. and passed the following reso-
luton October IL:
| Resolved, That in accordance with
Article X, section 1862, Of the school
law of California, principals are here
by directed to send all Chinese, Jap
anese. or Korean children to the ORR
entail public SCHOOL, situated on the
south side of Clay street. between
Powell and Mason streets. on and af-
ter Monday, October rs. 1906.
The action of the board in the
passage of the resolutions of May G,
, 1905, and October IL, 1906, was un-
doubleday largely influenced by the
activity of the Japanese and Korean
Exclusion League, an organization
formed for the purpose of securing
the enactment by the congress of the
United States of law extending the
provisions of the existing chinese ex-
clu sion act so as to exclude japanese
and Koreans. The league claims a
membership in the state of California
of $500. thrse-fourths of which
membership is radd to be in the city
of San Francisco. The membership
IS composed almost entirely of mem
bers OF labor organizations.
On the day when the order of Oc-
tober / went into effect. viz, october
IS. there were attending the public
schools of the city of San Francisco
90 Japanese pupils. These pupils
were distributed among 30 schools of
the primary grades. There are eight
grades in the public schools of San
Fl0ncisco. the first grade being the
lowest and the eighth grade the high
est-graduates of the eighth grade
going into the High school. OF this
total of SO pupils, GS We're born N
Japan and 25 in the United States.
Those born in the United States
would. of course, under section l of
Article XIV of the Constitution of
the United States, be citizens of the
United States and of the state where
~ they reside. and as such subjects
to the laws of the nation as well as
of the state,
The ages OF the pupils attending
the public schools ON the day when
the order went into effect ranged from
: to 20 years. A list of pupils attend
ing the schools, which list gives the
name Of each pupil, name of school.
age of pupil, grade, place of birth
and sex, Is hereto attached II Will
be observed that those born in the
United States occupy about the same
position in the different grades as
American children of the same age.
while those born in Japan are very
much older.
!. The number of schools in San Fran
cisco prior to April is was rs. OIL
this number 2S primary or grammar
schools were destroyed by earthquake.
leaving As schools. Since April l 81
% temporary structures have been
erected, making the total number of
school buildings at the present time
~. A map showing the location of
the public schools in San Francisco
attended by Japanese pupils up to the
time the order of the board went into
effect is herewith submitted.
An examination of the map attach
ed hereto will at once clearly show
that 1t will be absolutely impossible
for children residing in the remote
sections of the city to attend the ORR
entail school The conditions in San
Francisco are such, owing to the great
conflagration, that il would not be
possible even for grown children liv-
ing at remote distances to attend this
school
| found the sentiment in the state
very strong against japanese young
men attending the primary grades.
Many of the people We're outspolSen
in their condemnation of this course,
saying that they would take exactly
the same stand against American
young men of similar ages attending
the primary grades. | am frank to
say that this objection seems to me
a most reasonable one.
The press of San Francisco pretty |
generally upholdS the action OF the
board of education. OF the attitude
of the more violent and radical news
papers it is unnecessary to speak fur
ther than to say that their tone Is the
usual tone of hostility to "Mongol
hordes," and the burden of their
claim is that japanese are no better
than Chinese. and that the same rea-
sons which dictated the exclusion of
the Chinese call for the exclusion of
the Japanese as we'll.
The temper and tone Of the more
newspapers may better
be illustrated by an epitome OF their
argument upon the public school
question. The argument practically
Is as follows: II ii should be held that
there was a discrimination operating
in violation of the treaty with Japan
N the states treatment Of Japanese
or even IL a new treaty with
Japan should be framed which would
contain ON behalf of japanese sub
iects the ''most favored- ticn"
clause, this could and would be met