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Show "ROOSEVELT IS WRONG," DECLARES ARCHBISHOP LOS ANGELES, Feb. 22. Archbishop Arch-bishop Patrick W. Eiordan of San Francisco, of the Soman Catholic church, who has been in Pasadena for a few days, is , quoted today on the j subject of the compromise in Washington Washing-ton on the Japanese question as follows: fol-lows: "It appears to me that President' Roosevelt has made 'a serious mistake j in his treatment of the question of j San Francisco 's provision for Japanese in the public schools. I do not believo that we should be called upon to pro-' vide schools for these people. They do not come here intending to become citizens. citi-zens. Their ideals are different. Their morals are different. Let them provide schools for themselves. I There are 50,000 Japanese in California, Cali-fornia, I am told. They are still coming com-ing and are likely to continue to come. The prerogatives of the individual Statei have been slipping away from it gradually grad-ually but I think that this one we I should still guard zealously. President Roosevelt is wrong." |