The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 27, 1920, Page 8

"SUNTEAGP ‘JAP TOTS IN OWN SCHOOL ~ Brown Youngsters Flock in Late Afternoon to Nippo- | nese Teacier’s Class How the brown, slanteyed chil @ren of Japanese farmers, who co! trol the cream of the farming in Duwamish valley, are er County schools there was 8 Braphically to a Star man who visit © @d the schools yesterday Tn many of the schools the brown faces outnumbered the whites. And foattered here and there for 20 miles up and down the valley were the * gchools maintained by the Japs | themselves—schools to which the Jap youngsters go daily In the late afternoon, after leaving the public | Behools, there to unlearn the things Which the American schools teach _ them. The overcrowded condition of King county's schools is becoming *) gertous, |ARY TEACHER STUMPED _. “1 don’t know what I'm going to 0, With so many Japanese children coming in, my room is filled to over Mowing, and I simply cannot give ‘proper instruction to all of them,” a primary teacher in one of the rural schools south of Seattle told The Star man and Thomas B. Hulse, as sistant superintendent of county sehools, who accompanied him. i ‘The condition revealed in her > complaint was found to be unfversal > in the institutions visited. | On either side of the highway, al! “f along the route, it was noticeable “| that the best locations, the best ranches, the best gardens were tho: med | owned or controlled by Japs. | ‘fap is a good gardener, His stand-| @rd of living is so low and hia! Gapacity for long hours and hard} Work so great that the white farm- @rs cannot successfully compete with | him. Furthermore, ‘the Jap is agian! ‘with only the finest slope, the most | ‘fertile bottom. Hence, in all ta Best gardening districts the Mock in. ‘SAP CHILDREN OUTNUMBER WHITES ‘This is the condition in Duwamish Walley. And as the Japs move in their children soon increase until in 7 some districts they actually outnum Ber the white children in the lower grades of school. _. For instance, in the O’Brien school } there are in the primary room 10 4 te children and 21 Japs, or more two to one. In the intermediate there are enrolled 13 Japs and whites, and in the upper room white children and five Japs. in the Thomas school, a few miles Kent, practically the same ns were found. There were an@ 22 White children tn the room, which included the and second grades; in the next Whites, while a count of the next % nine Japs out of a total en- it of 30 pupils. It is noticeabie that the proportion Japs diminishes as the upper are approached. This is due, to the testimony of teach- te who have inquired into the rea- t@ the custom of the Japs of | @ their children back to Japan they have reached about the or seventh grades. There they until they are about 21 years age, when they return to the gees To JAPAN ‘The children are sent to Japan, the Parenly tell the teachers, so that d May learn the customs, tradi. , language and religion of their oe people. But the chief difficulty with which county school board has to con ja not the rapidly increasing Rumber of Jap students. It is the - coged schools maintained by the which the children attend aft- er they are dismissed from the pub- Hie schools in the afternoon, that Undo much of what the Amertean | teachers are able to accomplish. One df these private schools is to- on the Tacoma highway at its : fon with Taylor road. WHERE ASIATIC CHILDREN OVERRUN OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS cd ABOVE—Interior of Japanese private school at junction of Taylor road and Tacoma highway. Primary class at county public school at Thomas, just south of Kent. -Miss K. Makujama, teacher of the Jap school pictured above. —Photos by Cress- Dale. BELOW- _ IN SERT— BOURBONS PLAN MANY. MEETINGS Three Rallies to to Be Held on Thursday citing. on right. Not 2 Typewriters Clicking as One PORTLAND, Oct. 27 is not simply two typewriters that click as one,” Dr. W. T. McElveen told a ¥. MC. A “Don't marry a woman to get the services of an unmlaried valet. Mar ry one with your deepest as well as your most Marriage audience here. Democrats of ‘the city have planned several political rallies in Seattle for | frivolous thought.” Thureday, United States Senator Morris Shep Hear. Cats Sold 2 as pard, of Texas, credited with having phrased the prohibition amendment. will speak at Levy's Orpheum thea tre at noon, PORTLAND, Ore. Oct. 27 Health department officials here are investigating a report that house Another meeting will be held at] c®t# are being sold on market here | : ax dressed rabbits, Patrolman Tim the’ same theatre at 2:20. under the/sisiehon found a package of cat auspices of the League of Nations a» | hide, et cetera, Pear a rabbit farm. sociation of the state of Washing: a tan. WEYMOUTH, England, Oct. 27.— At the same hour Herbert Parsons, | Pighing from a pler here, & man lost of New York; Col. W. B. Whittlesey | his soft hat. Three days later he and Mrs. N, C. Schoomaker, of Con-| waw bathing a mile and a half away necticut, will conduct a gathering at| from the plier when a wave washed the Hippodrom ‘the hat ashor ~~ EY) Ves Ze) e way a3 =, ro re 2 A oR The one room accornmodates about | 80 children. The walls are decorated with posters and writing in the Japanese language. The text books fre the same as those used in the “Sehools in Japan. The teacher is a Japanese young woman. ‘The only English she apparently can speak is “I don't know.” ee LESS ROOM ‘The primary clase was reciting When this school was visited. Hud Aled in the cold room, for there is RO stove, the little tote came for. | | ward one at a time. Standing with their backs to the teacher, and with the book held straight up so she could follow, in a singsong tone they read their lesson. ) _ As the visitors left, the older chil-| © Gren, just dismissed from the pub 3 He school, were coming down the | Fead to spend the rest of the day Until 6 o'clock in the native school The county school bourd tried to clone these Japanese schools last year, but found that there is no law | fon the state statutes controlling Proper legislation to effect — abolishment will be pushed this ‘These are the conditions as the re © Porter and the school official found them in Duwamish valley. And they re duplicated in many other sections of King county, according to Superin- tendent Hulse. Princeton and U. W. | to Meet in Debate Patrick Websters of Princeton uni versity and Daniel Henrys of the University of Washington will meet 4n forensic battle in Seattle, This was definitely decided Tues- _ @ay when Princeton formally ac. . gepted the gage of battle from the Washingtonians. The oratory will probably be spilled during the Christ : mas holidays, altho an attempt will _. be made to schedule the intercollegi- at rahe: for another Gate, ‘ eoming a wheat growing country. fot a Hallow¥eg for the little this mont 9 fhments, ’n music, A Victrola will r music! ily Burnish just the right Victrolas come j prices, from a § clear on up tofpr Come in fd pick out the right Victrola for this jolly Plallowe’en party. us, if you wish, for suggestions about the merfjest children’s recorg a great @priety of styles and dly litele$nstrument at $25, 500. Convenient payment terms, on any Vidtrola Sherman |Glay & Go. Third Avenue at Pine Street SEATTLE Tacoma - Spokane + Portland whom you can share! Dressed Rabbits! THE SEATTLE STAR KILLS WOMAN THEN SUICIDES to Farm Buildings HARBOR SPRINGS, Mich, Oct After murderigg Mra. Margaret Kennedy and setting fire to the | house and other farm buildings Mon day night, John Harado, threshing machine hand, went to the barn and committed suicide | Neighbors saw the burning build | ings and found Mrs. Kennedy's 6 yearold daughter wandering along the highway, The little girl told of the attack on her mother ther'and the murder, 3,000,000 Eggs Per Week Are Smashed LONDON, Oct. 27.—According to | te@ importers, about 15 per cent of the normal weekly Irish exports of approximately 20,000,000 ees are oat by delay, damage and plifering. high cost)pf shoeing. PATENT OR French BRO Black d OU $1 MISS all si Tan or black, toes ; $10 to FELT Sf With leath $1.86 With comf, ’ SHO Tan calf, patent og gunmetal English lace; »s up to 2 4.40 IEN’S SHOES ce or button, Englil 5 values, and nearly dgery size— 56.80 ana $8.46 “Basement Store” Intermediate class re- White children on left, Japs it corks are thoroty soaked tn mett 4 paraffin and cooled they can be cut, drilled or turned as easty as soft wood without losing their elas | Farm Hand Also Sets Fire| Beate Dei MONTH-END BASEMENT STORE SALE offers exgeptional values that help reduce the IG EDIE BOOT TOPS eral colors and all sizes— $2.00 KID PUMPS eels and hand-turned soles, dj nearly all sizes— $5. UE OXFORDS brown, all sizes— 50 PP, les— ples— and high WEDNESDAY, OCTORER 27, 1928. (PAID ADVERTISING BY FARMER-LABOR STATE COMMITTEE) REPRINT FROM SEATTLE STAR, MAY 23, 1915. HAND BOB BRIDGES - | WHAT'S COMING TO HIM® The Star tod much, but it’s He said it wat Single-handed newspapers. He tory the “Ayers syndicate,” and the Ayers lone weathered the brain-storm which threatened to sweep Seattle off its f firm. Even when thé resolute Chittenden, wavered, and esident of the port commission, General sberg vacillated, Bob Bridges refused He was agdinst the ‘Ayeks scheme and he fought the Ayers scheme single handed. EvergThe Star, which didn’t believe in the | crooked plan, and said so, di Bridges did. Bridges will tell you that have been hopeless, but we t t, however, come ouft and fight it as hout The Star’s help.his fight would nk Bridges is too kind. We confess. land we do it frankly, that for @nce when a real worth while battle was on, The Star didn’t don it fighting togs, ANDTHESTAR WAS NOT ON THE FIRING WINE. Bob Bridges was there, AND ALONE! Bridges was the target for bgickbats of venom and abuse, slan- der, calumny, hatred and misrepfresentation. He didn’t dodge. He hit back. Everybody had it in for Bridgeg him was that he was as stubbor® as a mule and as blind as a bat! because he was not heart and sodl for the Ayers fake. And now he’s vindicated, In simshort months the city has been cured of its folly. Bridges didn’t eRpect Seattle to learn its lesson so soon, and the Seaport of Success would of the coast. It’s a mighty debt of gratitude S You hadn’t a single selfish interest ve become the laughing stock attle owes you, Bob Bridges. D serve by being “stubborn.” J}; You got no pay for being unpopular. This little bouquet handed you by The Star is perhaps all youl # ever get for your service. At that, The Star is mighty glad to hagd this bouquet to you. ‘And we wish there were more men in the pu@jic service as “bullheaded and “stubborn” as you. BRIDGES AS GO' Will Render the Same Service for VOTE FOR BRIDGES AND THE FARMER-LABOR PARTY Hear Bridges Speak at the — ARMORY 8 P. M. FRIDAY When others faltered, Bridges stood ' But for Bob Bridges we rapuld have gone on in our folly, | “ e