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The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1950-04-08
Friend of NiSei
Named Judge

WASHINGTON. d C., April q
lADCD-Gov. w. Lee Knous of Colo
RADIO, friend of long standing of
persons of Japanese ancestry, has
received Senate confirmation as Fed
eral district judge for Colorado, Mike
Masaoka. national JACL Ado legis-
lative director. said today.
He was nominated for the post in
early March
Concentrating him upon his APP
pointment M9saoka, in a letter to
the Colorado Democratic leader.
wrote:
Persons of japanese ancestry in
this country are highly gratified that
the Senate has confirmed your APP
pointment to the high judicial post
Of a Federal district Judge
over the years, you have ex-
tended a helping and guiding hand
to those beset with troubles. Your
sympathies have always been on the
side of justice and fair play.
I'VE realize that such facets of a
mans character are increasingly i'm
portant in a period of international
and internal tension, and that one
of your ability and judgement should
prove a distinguished asset to the
judiciary of the nation"
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1950-04-08

roughly 100000 = population and
did not possess sufficiently
strong tax base to support state
that would become the largest i'm
The Union.
Defense was a key word used in
House arguments
Proponents argued that the closer
Hawaii and Alaska were united with
the common cause of the United
States, the more loyal they would be
n event of a future conflict, and
declared that statehood was a fit
ing reward for the loyalty and sac
rifice of the territories in the last
var. Even those opposing statehood
lad admiration for the course the
-erritories pursued in World War II
Although the racial issue never
actually arose i'm the House as
debatabie point, opposition to Ha-
wall came largely from southern
Representatives. indicating that
deep-roOted prejudices of the
South are deterrent in granting
statehood to the island territory.
And yet, paradoxically, some of the
most vigorous proponents also were
southerners.
Masaoka said the JACL Ado VIII
axe vigorous action in behalf of the
tatehood bills in the Senate.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1950-04-08
Judge Clarke Inks
Land Law Ruling

LOS ANGELES. Calf, April 8
The formal Judgment in the Masa-
Okla case challenging the constitu-
tionality of the California alien land
law and recently heard before De-
pertinent 7, Short Cause of the Sup
erior Court Of California, was signed
by judge Thurmond Clarke on
March 80, it was revealed by the
Southern California regional office.
A motion TO set aside the iudg
ment and a motion for a new trial
were filed the same day by the
state of California on the ground
that the alien land law was con-
st'tutiOnal and that the findings
of the court pertaining to the 10y
atty record of the Masaoka bro
theirs were not relevant to the
case.
The motions were denied by
Judge Clarke on March 80, accord
ing to attorney A. l.. Wirin repre-
senting the Masaokas. The state
was represented by Deputy Attor-
ney General John +. HassIcr.
The denial of these motions
marks the last step in the Superior
Court as far as our case is concern
a" said ice Masaoka. one of the
four brothers i'm the case. I'VE hope
that the state will appeal the case
so that this history making decision
can be supported by our higher
covrts.' he added.
The Signal Corps of the U. S.
Army celebrated its 87th anniversary
in March. 1850
e..1-.>.Y>o Io.>1.>-.>c>o, nm
would not be a burden upon the
government to allow any other deb
tore a reasonable extension in which
to file.
Thus. l urge that the Judiciary
Committee bring S. 1917 up for con-
sidelation so that Congress, in the
interests of simple justice, may have
an opportunity to act on this pro-
poSal before the end Of the session. y
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1950-04-08

Hearings will be held by the In
terror and Insular Affairs Commit
tee headed by Sen Joseph G. O'Ma-
honey, Cd, Wyo)
Mike Masaoka, national JACL
ADO legislative director, said the
hearings are signal step forward y
in the drive to win statehood for the
territories.
They mark the first time the
Senate has taken under consider
alton statehood for both Alaska
and Hawaii. The closest either has
come to achieving the status of a
sister state in the republic was
when a Hawaiian statehood bill
passed the House two years ago.
II died i'm the Senate.
Although hearings are set, the
Senate committee has not yet ar
ranged for Committee action on
either of the statehood bills.
But as Masaoka pointed out. in
creasing national sentiment favor
ing the bills might result in suffi-
cient pressure on the Committee to
force consideration of the two bills
this session.
Proponents for the status of state
hood for the territories are convin-
ced the bills could pass if brought
up for Senate vote.
In House arguments on state
hood, Alaska had the toughest
shedding. The principal argument
raised against ii was that the
northern territory had small
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1950-04-08
.JACL ADC Address

WASHINGTON, d. c.. April 8
(ADC) THE JACL Anti-Discrimina-
ton Committee today announced
discrimination of its Post Office
Box Address in Washington, Pc Box
1928 Hereafter, all mail addressed
TO the JACL ADO Washington office
should be sent directly to the street
address: 300 5th St, N E, Wash
ington 2. d G
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1950-04-08
Nasaoka Urges
Fairly Hearings
On Trade Act

WASHINGTON. d. c., April
lADC) - Mike Masaoka, national
JACL Anti Discrimination Commit
tee legislative director, today urged
Sen. Pat McCarran. 3D., New Sen
ate Judiciary Committee chairman,
to schedule early committee hearings
OH S. 1917, a bill to amend the Trad
ing with the Enemy Act.
introduced early i'm the present
Congress by Sen. Warren G. Mag
nuson, ID, Wash.), the bill would
permit resident aliens informed or
par0led during the war to file for
return of debt claims held by the
Office of Alien Property, and ex-
tend the time for filing debt claims
two years from the passage of the
bill.
In letter to Sen. McCarran. Ma
saoka pointed out the Trading with
the Enemy Act specifically excludes
aliens who may have been informed
or paro.ed during the war from fill
ing for a return of investments or
other property held by the DAP
During the war" he wrote. "sev-
eral thousand Japanese aliens were
interned and subsequently paroled,
merely as security measure Those
found dangerous were long ago de-
ported.
In determining the loyalty of
.hese persons during the war, it was
never contemplated that internees
or paroles Would-or Should-be pen
allied by being denied the right to
file claims for debts owed them by
the former owners of property vested
by the DAP"
MasaOka declared that under
existing law, many bemedalled
Japanese American war heroes are
handicapped in their efforts to
continue their education, establish
businesses, build homes and raise
families because their parents can
not file for return of their life
savings.
Many japanese aliens who were
interned and paroled and later re-
leased. as well as the overwhelming
portion of the japanese population
in this country not subjected to alien
enemy proceedings, have claims
against the former owners of vested
property
1T is entirely negotiable that
some japanese aliens who were COM
pletely released or never subjected
10 alien enemy proceedings should be
able to file claims for the recovery
of deposits in japanese branch banks
in the U. S. while neighbors who may
have been informed or paroled for a
very brief time and then completely
released should be prohibited from
filing Tor similar claims.
The problem is a practical and
immediate one, for it appears the
DAP will have millions of dollars of
the assets of vested foreign institu-
tons to satisfy claims by depositors
and debtors.
AT the same time l should like
TO point out a number of alien
enemies neither informed nor par
oiled failed to file claims against
vested institutions either through
lack of knowledge of existing time
limitations or through the mis-
taken opinion that they were pro-
hibited from filing claims.
IF internees and PAROLES are
TO be allowed to file claims, in view
Of The fact the government must
continue to administer claims, it
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1950-04-08

CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our many
friends for their kind words of
sympathy and lovely floral offer
ings extended to us during our
recent bereavement
Mrs. KimiyO Ishikawa
and family
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1950-04-08
VETS TO WIND UP
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE

Arthur Susumi, membership drive
chairman, urged all veterans who
have not yet paid up their 1950-5l
NVC dues to do 50 before the cam
paign ends next week
New membership cards, Susumi
said will be mailed before the annual
installation dinner-dance on Sun
day. April %. in the Chinese Gar
dens. These cards will entitle the
vets to attend the April % event
without charge.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1950-04-08

College.
Two retired Army colonies who
served on General DeWitt's special
staff at the Preside of San Fran
cisco during the early stages of the
war. Colonies Donald Scofield and
VIII Kidwell, and the son of another
Army colonel who was attached to
DeWitt's staff, Dave Wurfel, now a
student and outstanding debater at
the College, argued the military view
Frank Chuman, national JACL
vice president and an attorney of
Los Angeles. Mike Masaoka, nat
ional JACL-ADC legislative direc-
tor. Washington, ID. C., and Fusa
Fujimoto, a freshman student of
speech at the Southern California
school, presented the case for the
Nisei.
Colonel Scofield defined the role
of the military i'm wartime and out
lined the relocation program as one
which involved only enemy aliens"
Chman explained that the issue
involved related not to enemy
aliens" who we're informed by the
Department of Justice but rather
American citizens of japanese an
cestry and their loyal, alien parents
He pointed out that since no dis
LOYALTY was ever proved against the
group, the whole evacuation and re-
location program was contrary to
American traditions of justice and
fair play since guilt is an individual
question and not one of mass asso-
citation
WIlrfel agreed that the evacuation
and relocation of persons of Japan
csc ancestry in the last war was a
violation of civil rights and a dis
elimination against one racial group
but insisted that in total welfare
such injustices were bound to occur.
He declared that because of the po-
tential danger Of espionage or sab
otage, the Army was Justified In its
actions.
Fujimoto pointed out that all
available records proved that be
fore, during and after the attack
on Pearl HarbOr, no resident Jap
anese, citizen or alien, engaged in
any acts of espionage or sabotage
and that. therefore. the Army
based It's evacuation decision on
racial rather than military secur-
ity grounds.
Kidwell held that one of the prime
reasons for the evacuation was the
protection of the Nisei and the Issei
themselves from violence by other
Americans who were inflamed by
the hate and prejudice of the war
against the japanese enemy.
MaSaoka stated that the theory of
protective custody was un-American
and in keeping with Hitler's expla-
nation for his treatment of the Jews
He quoted General DeWitt's state
ment regarding the Japanese Ameri-
can and compared them with those
made by Hitler He confrasted the
wartime treatment Of the japanese
In Hawaii with that Of the west
coast. pointing out that every argu-
ment advanced by Dewitt was even
more applicable to those in Hawaii
He charged that the real motives for
evacuation were economic and that
General Dewitt. because Of his rae
al prejudice was a willing instru-
ment for those who desired to eva
cuate the japanese population for
selfish gain
Advocates for The military point
Of view conceded that they we're i'm
pressed with the arguments advan-
ced by the Nise and that they per-
sonally felt that the west coast eva
cuation was both unnecessary and
unfortunate
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1950-04-08
Relocation of Nisei During War Found
Unnecessary in San Diego Discussion

SAN DIEGO Calf April s. Was the relocation of Jap
Americans in World War II necessary"
Emphatieally the concens1s of those who heard
symposium this subject sponsored by the speech
department Of San Diego State College.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1950-04-08
Senate Will Consider Hawaii Statehood
After Its Hearings on Alaska Measure

WASHINGTON D. G, April (ADC)-The Senate will
begin Committee hearings Alaskan statehood April "a follow
ed week Hawaiian statehood the JACL
Anti Discrimination Committee advised today.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1950-04-08

TodayS modern Air Force Is a
highly technical organization In
which every man is trained TO be-
come a skilled specialist.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1950-09-15
Nobel Specialist
Rev. Aaron Earl Miller. LIB.
364 King Street. Apt. 2E
Telephone 3-7746
Charleston. South Carolina

Rite of circumcision according
to Jewish law, and at the same
time up-to-date method certified
by physicians. Free-for poor
families. Will travel anywhere in
the South.
Rev. Cantor, Aaron Earl Miller,
arrived in Charleston, S. C. and
assumed his duties as Cantor and
Nobel of the Birth Sholon Con-
gregation on March 1, 1850.
Rev. Miller, the son of a Rabbi,
has a long and varied experience
in the Janitorial and Rabbinical
field. He came to Charleston from
Bangor, Maine, where he held the
position of "City Cantor" Also
served the Cong. B'nai Zion of
Newark, N. J. and the United He
brew Cong. of Indianapolis, In
diana, as Rabbi and Cantor. His
major musical work was done at
Ohio Northern University Con-
servatory of Music. He also stud
led at the Yerhivon University
Seminary of New York City.
He is a qualified and expert
enced Nobel and holds certifica-
ton by both Jewish and non
Jewish physicians. Rev. Miller
will travel anywhere in the South
to perform this Mitzvah-will
gladly perform this Mitzvah gratis
for those who cannot pay a fee.
Rev. Miller received his secular
higher education at the College OF
the City of New York and LaSalle
Extension University. He holds
an LIB. Degree from the latter
institution.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1950-09-15
Ten Percent Of Argentine
Jewish Families Are
Engaged in Farming

BUENOS AIRES, (JTA) = A
survey of the 7O,OOO-odd Jewish
families in Argentina reveals that
while the heads of 7,734 families
are farmers, 9,775 family heads
earn their living as small traders.
The study was conducted by Ye-
dido Enron, Zionist leader and
Jewish educator and was publish
ed this week in the Yiddishe lei
tung, leading South American
Jewish newspaper.
A report issued by the Argen-
tine Jewish Institute of Culture
and Information, which is headed
by Simon Mirelman, reveals that
in the two years since it was or
ganized the Institute has publish
ed % pamphlets on Jewish sub
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1950-09-15

Congress program. In the field of
fair employment, to take but one
example, Al Congress has pro-
vided m ilitant and ingenious
leadership. The development of
basic democratic political convic-
tons and the development of a
system of equal economic oppor-
tunity, free from racial or religi-
GUS bias, bear an almost one for
one correspondence. AS Jews, we
are unfortunately intimately con-
versant with the deprivations
which result when jobs, like
neighborhoods, are ghettoized.
Throughout our history, Jewish
talents have been vast e d and
denied. This Illustration Of ability
is still being repeated by dis
criminatory employment practices
directed against Jews as well as
against other racial and religious
minorities. The unofficial but eff
fective prejudices of some private
employers have induced profound
intergroup resentment and, more
over, have served to chain some
minority group members to a
perpetually depressed economic
condition. Beyond this, however,
restrictive hiring practices have
helped create the artificial eli
mate and context in which alone
prejudice can flourish. When men
are permitted to work with each
other, they can know each other,
and when they know each other,
they can cease hating each other.
Principally for this reason, Al
Congress has pressed for enact
ment in state lie gislatur s
throughout the country of Fair
Employment Practices legislation
outlawing any hirin 6 or firing
practices predicated on racial or
religious grounds.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1950-09-15

elsa, on the other hand, as
the legal arm of Al Congress, is
committed to a well articulated
program w h i h envisages con-
crete improvements in intergroup
relations by bold and imaginative
recourse to the engines of change
provided by the democratic pro-
cess, namely the courts and legis-
1atures, and by rounding out this
action with mobilization of public
opinion in support of changes in
community behavior in strategic
areas where change can be most
meaningful-in employm n t,
housing, education, immigration,
the relationship of Church and
State, and in the numerous situa-
tons which comprise the broad
field of civil liberties.
Fair Employment
Even so cursory a survey of
CLSA's activities during the last
war as this brief review neces-
sarily must be, cannot fail to re-
fleet the broad scope of the Al
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1950-09-15

DR.. Alfred Goldman, chief of
Thoracic Surgery at the City Of
Hope, national medical center at
Duarte, will lie cave for Europe
where he will deliver an address
before the First International
Congress of Diseases of the Chest
in Rome September II to %.
Sponsored by the Forlaninni
Institute of Rome, one of the
foremost hospitals for diseases of
the chest in the world, the con-
clave will feature ISL speakers
from every part of the globe.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1950-09-15
Progress Report on the Fight
Against Prejudice
BY PHILIP BAUM

This article, by staff member of the
and Social Action of the American Congress- synd
Gated by the Office of Jewish Information
Recognizing that only broad variable program cope
the complex minority rights problems the
over the past five has evolved Yped
on Law and Social Action which
elimination of bigotrY and prejudice
every In which 1t be found This
enhance the status of minoes in from the
fundamental Al Congress credo that the equality
be at dare be neither pecemea sporadic Too
often agencies particularly seYed
aons play the role Of the deante squanderng energies
IN dsioined effort to EXPOSE antiSeme
goodfeowshp there without
tivties into consistent nteqrated whole.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1950-09-15

jects and on anti-SemitiSm. In
addition, the Institute diSsemin-
ates information on Israel, spon-
sors a radio program about Jews
and Jewish culture and is collect
ing a library of 5000 volumes on
Argentine history, geography and
economy to be contributed to the
Israel National Library in Jeru-
salem.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1950-09-15

Benjamin Browdy president Of the Zionist Of America
shown the White House his with President Truman
Wednesday, August 3Oh Standing the Congressman Abraham
J.. Muter of New York.
Mr. Bwd behalf Of the ZOA, President with
silver plaque award lin grateful recognition and heartfelt appreciation
his invaluable contribution human welfare, his uning
advance ideals traditions his
forgotten founding the State Israeli recognition
member Of the family and laying the political
by all of which he himself
title Of The Citizen World
President Truman expressed his pleasure receiving the plaque and
asked Mr. Bwdy his greetings Dr. Chain Wemann
David Ben Curon He voiced hope for speedy peace
East between Israel and its Arab neighbOrs
Evening star., 1950-06-28
WhyGrow
Old?
ey Josephine Lowmon

k-ver take lightly the fact that
we are greatly Influenced by what
we eat! This is true of the way
we look and the way we act and
the way we feel. Our hair and
our skin are definitely affected
by our menus. to say nothing of
our figures and our health. Many
skin specialists now use vitamin
therapy TO help in overcoming
certain skin troubles.
Our personalities also show the
impact of the food we eat. This
is being recognized more and
more as more is being learned
about it. If your body is function
ing at low ebb and you are tired
because your body does not have
essential materials for smooth
functioning it is reflected in IA
tigue and irritability and lack Of
verve.
1t is most difficult to change the
food habits of an individual or
nation because they are so
deeply irnbedded by habit and
inheritance. Whole races have
become strong or weak because
of the food they consume. Some
peoples will eat no meat, some live
on dark bread and goats milk.
It takes tremendous pressure to
make them change any well en-
trenched habit in foodstuffs.
Only when an individual be-
lieves that much has been learned
about nutrition will he eat for
health and beauty rather than
for his taste buds. There is moth
ing dreary about well-bal-
anced diet or vital foods. On the
contrary. they take advantage of
natures rich store of subtle fla
vors, but when the palate is satia-
ted with highly seasoned. rich,
greasy, devitalized foods. it takes
a little while to learn to like the
natural and subtle f1avors which
nature provides.
Dullards and irritable folks are
often malnourished. The gay, bub-
bling, alert personality comes
from vibrant health and you can
not get this without good nutri-
ton. So, take what you eat seri-
ously and also enjoy it!
If you would like to have my
menus planned for health and
youthfulness. send a stamped,
self-addressed envelope with your
request for leaflet No. IS Diets
for Youth and Health" Address
Josephine Lowman in care of The
Evening Star.
Evening star., 1950-06-28
By Angelo Potri

Interior decoration is impor-
tant4 All room, furnished in good
taste, with comfortable. usable
furniture with lovely colors, the
just-right draperies, rugs and
cushions make a delightful picture
that welcomes the weary body and
mind. To keep it looking like the
picture requires a good bit of time
and some labor, both of which
come under the head OF scarcities
with the busy mother. And what
about the children?
Children will hang and swing.
if they can manage it, on the dra-
perieS. They will, when they can
make it, get up on the sofa and
the chairs and toss the pillows
about. They will pull themselves
to standing positions by clutching
the edges of little tables and
down goes child, table and lamp.
Runabouts do not wipe their feet
nor do they look to see what their
toy automobiles are doing to the
polished table top. Grandmother's
pewter plate is just something to
hold paste or sand and the piano
is grand to thump on. The busy
mother has to decide early which
it is to be. the dreSsed-up house or
the happy active child who makes
that house his home, and hers.
Evening star., 1950-06-28
Decorating the Home

It is hard on young mothers
who. take rightful pride in their
pretty rooms to strip, them of the
precious, lovely things but that is
about what must be done for the
years in which the little ones
learn how to live in a house. Put
away the breakable, precious
things. Try to have the furnish
ings sturdy. wearsble things that
can be washed. Cover the dainty
cushions and put away the brica-
brac.
The choice lies between nag
ging the children, wearing one
self TO a frazzle, making home un-
happy for everybody in it, or
stripping the place for action. Bet
ter do just that and teach the
children, Systematically, what
they can touch and what not, how
to help keep the house clean and
in order, how to look at things
and leave them alone. Children
learn by handling things and it is
important that they learn that
way. Make sure that they have
things they can handle with bene-
fit to themselves and little damage
to the objects, to the feelings of
others and to themselves, physi-
cally. mentally and morally.
Time passes swiftly. Soon there