SACRAMENTO MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT
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SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA | ( 14 )
October 22, 1943

Secretary
Rotary Club
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Sir:

The circumstance of the two items which appear
on the enclosed clipping from the Sacramento Bee for
October 19, 1943 impels this note to you, despite the
fact that I am not a Rotarian.

It seems to me that the Los Angeles item is
a fair cross section of the feeling of people in Calif-
ornia and on the entire Coast. The statement of Attorney
Crosby is proved in every community in California where
there is a Japanese colony. The statement of Attorney
Howser confirms every conversation I have had with returned
service men.

I have talked to no one who is in sympathy with
the. statements made to your club by Director Myer. As
for his sympathy with Japanese children who "should grow
up in more American surroundings," the truth of the matter
is that Japanese colonies keep very much to themselves
and though their children under California law must go to
school, each day after our schools close and the Japanese
child has absorbed whatever Americanism he might, he is
sent by his parents to Japanese schools, to undo whatever
little good might have been done in the hours before.

In urging United States communities to "receive
the Japanese Americans as citizens whose loyalty had been
subjected to the most rigorous tests" I would suggest that
you of Lawrence, before receiving these people, get in
touch with Roane Waring, last year's Commander of the
American Legion, whose correspondence with Mr. Myer and
the F.B.1I. does not indicate that any rigor at all was
applied to the examination of Japanese who were released
from the re-location centers.

 

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