The Washington times., 1922-12-03

"white person" was made in obedience to
the words of the law which forbids citi-
zenship to any but "white persons"
But why is a Jap not white man?
The Supreme, Court did not take the
time nor the trouble to go into the
scientific reasons why Jap is not and
can never be a white man. The branch
Il science which deals with the races of
-, mankind is called anthropology and the
anthropologists have carefully studied
, every portion of the human anatomy from
the hairs of the head to the soles of the
feet-from the Eskimos in the far north
down through the various peoples of the
world to the naked Patagonian savages
near the Antarctic Circle.
Every popularity of humanity has been
noted and catalogued and the anthro-
biologists have finally divided mankind into
three very distant races.
l. The Caucasian, or white race.
2. The Mongoloid, including Eskimos,
Indians, Chinese and Japanese.
- 8. The Negroid race, which covers not
-, only African Negroes but also the
savages in many of the South Sea
Islands.
BY the rules of science it is impossible
for the anthropologists to be fooled. If you
have regular features and light skin, but
if the hair that comes out of your head is
an elongated oval instead of exactly
round, science knows you have negro
blood in your veins.
eco Tf houo yyhtfo Hn1nr ond
other appearance of being a "white
man." but your hair emerges from your
scalp perfectly straight-the anthropolo-
" gists know you have Mongolian blood in
your veins.
=. 1t is not a matter of opinion, it is a
matter of exact science. The Jap has been
" examined, classified, properly labeled and
: filed on the chronological shelf.
wv Science has literally stretched him un-
der the microscope, examined the size
and shape of his skull, the cross section
- and color of his hair, his eyes, and skin
. celebration until it has found certain char
aeteristics that distinguish him from the
!. other races of man. If he is Jap he has
these characteristics; il he is not Jap he
cannot have them.
49, Try as he may, change his environ
.ment as he WILL. absorb the habits of the
community in which he lives or even in
termarry-still, like the mark of Cain, GER
tain physical traits which he never can
get rid of proclaim his race and explain
>, why he can never be "white man."
,-- And finally, the other day, as already
stated, Justice Sutherland of the United
States Supreme Court gave official sane
'-tton to the decision of science. He de-
= MED the right of naturalization to any
, Jap, because he is not "white person."
or even of African negroid descent who
are made exceptions under the law.
= Students Of world politics have long
realized that It would be quite impossible
: for the Jap through intermarriage to mix
his blood and racial characteristic with
: the white man. Once Jap, always q
Jap.
..;.s This attitude has given rise to many
, bitter legislative and legal battles, and
Japanese statesmen have repeatedly pro-
tested against what they call the hostile
discrimination directed toward them by
the laws of some of our Western States,
particularly California, which does not
allow them to own or lease the thousands
of acres which nearly 100000 Japs are
now cultivating. a..
. =. This law has brought on many bitter
legal battles-but has always been up
held in the courts. The United States
courts of review have passed on it, and
finally after biding his time and picking
out an ideal subject. the Jap struck his
e final blow for racial equality in the
United States.
wv" Takao Ozawa, a japanese salesman, rep
resented his people in their last assault to
remove the barrier raised against
them. Interest ran at fever heat. Thou
sands of Japanese in Hawaii went into
their own pockets to pay the distin-
"yuished legal talent, and to collect the
elaborate, scientific theories that were
presented to the Supreme Court to up
hold their case.
Ozawa claimed that he was really
white" To prove this contention he
Ytraced his ancestry back several thousand
years to the Ainu tribe. He claimed that
=, his children were brought up to speak only
English, and that they were taught
neither the history Of their ancestors nor
= the practice of their religion.
,5p Justice Sutherland gave much valuable
lime to a consideration of conflicting
.scjentfic testimony, and finally based his
'Jecision on what was obviously the in
6Scntion of Congress in denying the right
,-of naturalization to members Of the
Mongolian race. --
But the Jap really met his downfall in
the laboratory of the scientist, who Is able
''tS prove by peculiar traits that the races
'1Bf man are not one, although they sprang
'fsrom a common ancestor. In the dim
'"ages Of the past, millions Of wears ago,