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Show --. r a r m r e ry mi ". " i ; NEW TOES, Nov. Zi. Mayor , Schmitz' oi ' San Francisco, speaking of .- the' Jspanese. problem in San Fran-cisco Fran-cisco last night, ehsracterized it as a , "tempest in a teapot." He said that -- when he returns home, he intends to : . urge the State Legislature to repeal " the laws relating to the segregation of Japanese pupils and make new laws providing for the age -limit as to the age at which a child can enter a certain cer-tain grade Of any school. ; -0 - -' 4 'I think this sge limit will solve the whole problem," said . Mayor Schmitz. The Japanese surely -could not complain of laws :, which were equally binding' upon Americans,' and it would-not . then be necessary to class the Japanese - as Mongolians, which has caused them mach grief of spirit and has been really. at the bottom bot-tom of the whole trouble. With the age limit the only discrimination against the Japanese, it will effectively keep them out of the schools, because the majority of the -Japanese who are, in the primary grades are grown men. There -will then do no ground for outside out-side interference with San Francisco school 'question." ' - Mayor Schmitz .said that the President Presi-dent could not have chosen a better man -than Secretary-Metcalf to conduct the Government inquiry, but said that in case' Secretary Metcalf report was adverse to the San Francisco school board, he did not believe the people of that city would do more than receive re-ceive it with courtesy. V '. . , |