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Show 0?Hi coon TO JAP GIILDIltin Agreement Cetreen Government Gov-ernment -and San Francisco Fran-cisco Ecard of Education Victory for Roosevelt WASHINGTON, Feb. 19. Japanese children are to be admitted to the white 1 schools of Ban Francisco under certain restrictions; skilled and unskilled laborers labor-ers coming from Japan barred from the mainland of the United States, and American laborers, - skilled and unskilled, un-skilled, are to be excluded from Japan. This is the basis of the agreement between be-tween President Roosevelt, . Secretary Root, Mayor Schmitz and the San Francisco Fran-cisco school board as an adjustment of the anti-Japanese agitation brought about by the segregation of Japanese children in the San Francisco schools. The agreement means that the schools of San Francisco will be conducted in the same manner as they were before the Board of Education adopted the resolution, last October, providing for the segregation of the Japanese, except that adult Japanese who are in primary grades must continue to attend the Oriental Ori-ental schools, and that Japanese children chil-dren under 16 will be' admitted to classes with white children of their own ages. While the resolution of the school board, as amended, reads, "children of alien birth," it is freely admitted by Mayor Scbniitz and his associates that the resolution will apply only to the Japanese children, and that the change in the wording was to make it plain to the Tokio Government that no discrimination discrim-ination was intended against Japanese children. |