Arkansas State press., 1942-05-08
Editors Speak

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IN on Japan's scheme to control
Asia, nor are the Burmese, the
Filipinos, the Javanese, nor even
the Siamese, and they all resem-
Bile the Japanese, and we could
add that they have almost a COM
mon racial interest in the East.
That does not destroy the fact THAI
ASIA for the Asiatics," a slogan
created exclusively by Japan, isn't
attracting moral support for the
Land of the Rising Sun and mis-
leading darker races in other coun-
tries in the belief that Japan is
also fighting in the interest of the
black man against white suprem-
acy. Japan harbors no such idea.
The only reason why Japan will
not succeed in fully controlling
Asia is because that it happens
all Asiatics hate Japan more than
they despise any white people. ia
pan is ruthless conqueror; its
lordship over subdued Korea is
horrid history. But the idea of
ASIA for the Asiatics' is a good
one and itself is sinking into the
hearts Of the Asiatic races, yet
they do not want Asia for Japan.
But they do want Asia for the
Asiatics . flor themselves.
Japan is the warrior of Asia.
Now let's turn to the gentleman of
Asia--China---and see how he
stands on the color question inso-
far as darker races are concerned.
Vincent Sheean, world traveller
and historian, tells US the follow
ing in his comparison of the
Orientals "The natural amiability
of the Chinese has been a great
ally in this gradual conquest of
the sympathies of Asia. The Chin
ese in general are friendly, greg
arious folk, who like to talk. will
discuss anything, and are devoid
of what we call race prejudice
That is, they have the strongest
possible feeling Of race, conscious
ness of being Chinese and can
combine with other races without
losing it; but they have no sys-
tenn of social discrimination
against races darker or less adj
vanced than their own. The brown
and black peoples of Asia, SUD-
jected as they are to an infinity
Of discrimination from the side of
the white people, find charm and
solace in this quality of the Chin
csc, the cool, almost Indifferent
friendliness which accepts men of
all colors on the basis of ideas and
manners, and not of skin"
We can heartily agree with Mr..
Sheean when he cites that Chin
csc have no system of social dis
elimination. Those who haven't
been misled by their association
with the American white man have
shown a total disregard for Jim
Crow and miscegenation laws in
this country. They have intermar-
ried with Negroes, reared fami-
lies both in the North and South,
and employed colored labor in pre-
ference to all other. In many south
ern states the Chinese is consid-
cred white man, in others he is
labelled as colored, yet he ignores
whatever racial designation at
tached to him and attends to his
own business without wasting
mental motion on debating about
the color of ones skin and his
station in life.
Back in 1887, after the Ohio and
Mississippi floods, the Chinese peo-
pie entirely of their own accord,
raised more money for the relief
Of Our flood victims than any 9th
er country except Canada.
The Chinese acquires his lessons
in brotherhood from Confucius, his
great spiritual leader. Confucius
revised the old Chinese Bible. in
which he created a Bible without
God. for Confucius, like Buddha.
was an ATHEIST. He believed neither
in heaven for hell, but he did be-
lieve tremendously in his fellow
man. He maintained that if man.
kind would only be governed just
ly, for a single century, all vio-
lence would disappear fiom the
earth. He tried to turn the Chin