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Show INSISTS JAPANESE ARE MONGOLIANS If Their Children Are Ex-eluded, Ex-eluded, Changs in San Francisco Statutes Will Be Necessary. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb.' 2L City and County Attorney Burke, is discussing the Japanese school case as .altered by new agreements, said: "If the Japanese children over 16 years of age are to be kept out of our public schools, statute 1562 of the civil code will have to be repealed by the Legislature. The statute makes provision that all children chil-dren between the ages of 6 and 21 shall be allowed to enter our public schools, except ex-cept for certain reasons. In case the Japanese Japa-nese are allowed to enter our general schools a new statute will have to b framed, if the school board wishes to keep those over 1 years of ace out of the schools." "The statute also provides that in case an Oriental school is provided, the peoples so specified shall attend no other. Hence the present Oriental school must be abolished to aUow the Japanese to enter our schools. But if the Oriental school Is not abolished, then children so specified must attend that school and no other. The statute speciflles . children of Mongolian Mon-golian descent, and we shall Insist, until proved otherwise in court, that the Japanese Japa-nese are of Mongolian descent." |