The San Francisco call., 1907-01-22
AN T. JAP PANESE
ORDER ISSUED
by JORDAN
Orientals Segregated in
Stanford Dormitory and
CHARTERED in Basement
PRACTICE Bellies
RECENT PREACHING


Of Mongolians to Occupy
Comfortable Apartments
Only hoodlums make race
troubles. The Japanese school
children were not dirty, nor i'm
moral, nor undesirable. The San
Francisco School Board had no
reason for passing that segrega-
ton order. 1t pays a nation to be
gentleman in international af-
fairs" Statement of President
Jordan.
Shall the foreign policies of
the United States be directed by
gentleman or shall they be di-
rected from within the shadow OF
San Quentin?" - Question ASKED
By President Jordan.
Apparently to the scientific mind OF
DR.. Jordan the segregation of Jap
anese students in San Francisco is a
hoodlum act. but on the Stanford
campus ii is the deed OF a gentleman.
While the good doctor has been
shouting his love for the Japanese
from San Francisco banquet boards,
he has been quietly practicing a dis
elimination against them at Palo
Alto more pronounced than anything
complained of in this city. At Stan
ford there is an order, which has been
rigidly enforced, TO the effect that all
Japanese, negro and Chinese students
must sleep in the basement of the
dormitory.
RULE OF LONG STANDING
This has been rule OF the insti-
tuition almost since the day 1t opened
its doors. AS DR.. Jordan has juris-
diction over all matters pertaining to
the dormitory. it is presumed that the
law is OF his own framing. At any
rate, he enforces it to the letter.
Encina dormitory is one of the finest
buildings on the Stanford campus. and
in IL the male students have their
rooms. II is four stories in height.
with a large basement. The rooms
on the four floors are neat, airy sani-
tary and commodious. These are re-
served for the white students In the
basement-poorly ventilated, Ill fur
nished and with floor of cement-the
Japanese. negro and Chinese students
are quartered.
The $50 rooms on the upper floors
are as good as the rooms In a first
class hotel. while the basement is such
as may be found in an average apart
ment house. About twelve Japanese
students are at present domiciled in
the dormitory basement. Among them
are young men of well-to-do Oriental
families, who have come to America
to get an education and to learn
American ways
JAPANESE ELECTED
Although DIR. Jordan considers it a
crime to assign Japanese students In
San Francisco to special schools, as
clean, as good and as thorough in every
way as those provided for white chill
dren, he regards it as a "gentlemanIy
act" to force Japanese students into
cold basement while the white students
repose in comfortable quarters above.
The good doctors logic has gone sadly
awry.
That the arrangement at Stanford is
no mere casual condition is attested by
the Japanese themselves They recall
an incident of three years ago when
Japanese student, through an oversight,
was assigned to room above the base
ment. The Oriental continued TO enjoy
his suddenly found comfort for almost
a term, when the university officials
learned Of the oversight and had him
transferred to the basement.
ORDERS FROM LATHRoP
An instance is also recalled in which
a negro student was accidetally given
a commodious room. AS soon as #
came to the attention of the college
authorities he was deprived of his
apartment and told to take up his resi-
dence in the basement.
The allotment of rooms in Encina
dormitory rests directly with the high
er officials of the university. The man
in charge says he gets his orders from
Charles G. Lathrop. the treasurer of
the university and brother of the late
Mrs. Stanford. The orders barring
japanese from the upper floors of the
are positive and have gone
the regular official channels.
KEENAN, REPLIES TO WALSH
George Kennan, the author and tray-
eler, who spoke at the Unitarian Club
dinner with DR.. Jordan and who sub
sequently was griIled along with the
president by President
Walsh of the school Board, replied |
last night to the attack of Walsh. He
said:
Il did not join with President Jordan
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