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Show flPl Ji itf.t & i '&AiL.i (Holered by Western Ncwbpoper Union.! HI 10 WAYS OF A JAP-AM) JAP-AM) TI1K AMERICAN WAY TOTO IS A JAP, an Americnn-born Americnn-born Jap, but in wartime, because of the recognized nature of the race, a Jap is a Jap, regardless of his place of birth. Toto and his Japanese wife and children cultivated, as his Japanese-born Japanese-born father did before him, a few acres near the little California city in which I am writing. There he has raised beans, carrots, peas, lettuce and other vegetables and many flowers. flow-ers. He and all his family worked from before sunrise to after sunset each day of the week and year at growing things, cleaning them, tying ty-ing them into bunches and selling them at so low a price as to defy competition on the part of gardeners garden-ers of other nationalities. Of the Americans who know Toto. no one would have thought to question ques-tion his loyalty to America, but neither nei-ther would anyone guarantee that loyalty. That is a thing you cannot do with a Jap, wherever born. Because his blood and ways are those of Japan, he was forced to move. He could not be trusted to remain near the seacoast where he might though no one believed he would aid other Japs in bringing war to America. When an American Ameri-can officer told him he and-his family fami-ly must leave, he accepted the verdict ver-dict with the stoical calm of his race. He did not protest his loyalty. He did not oiler any criticism or complaint. He packed up the simple sim-ple personal belongings of his family fam-ily and did as he was told. Today Toto and his family are living liv-ing in Owens valley, California. Uncle Un-cle Sam has provided them with a (better house than they have ever known before. They have all the home conveniences of America conveniences and comforts some Americans, though they have the money, cannot buy today because the materials are needed for war production. They have a well-watered well-watered garden patch, with fertile soil. They are provided with better food than they have had. The acres they have left are under the care of a competent government custodian. When the war is over, when the race from which Toto comes has been defeated, he and his family will go back to the acres, to the vegetables and flowers from which they were removed as a precaution against possible disloyalty. There are thousands of Totos along the western coast of America. Among them are some who are the nation's enemies. The enemies are undoubtedly a small percentage of the total, but which are loyal and which are not, it is impossible to judge. America cannot afford to take chances, but while providing for our protection, we, as a Christian Chris-tian nation, provide also for the care and comfort of those we mistrust. mis-trust. The Jap Totos are of that class. Buy Defense Bonds LABOR RACKETEER RIDES FOR A FALL THAT THE UNION labor racketeer racke-teer is riding to a fall is evident from the testimony of Thurman Arnold, Ar-nold, assistant attorney general of the United States, before the house judiciary committee. He accused these racketeers with disregarding every right of the farmer, the small business man and small manufacturer, manufac-turer, and hampering the distribution distribu-tion of civilian necessities in time of war. He demanded legislation that would force union leaders to disclose their receipts and to hold elections in such a way as to permit member workmen to choose leaders. He said that under existing laws, the justice department could do nothing to protect the farmer, the small business man or the consumer. The American people will not long permit such a condition to continue con-tinue and American workmen do not want it to continue. Organized labor made great and rapid advances ad-vances over the past half century. Under such conditions it had public support. Today a great portion of labor unions are not being conducted conduct-ed on democratic lines. They are ruled by dictators, their members have no voice in their control. The dictators levy tribute on members, on employers, on classes, and on the general public, without accounting to anyone for the receipts from such tribute. The end of it all will be a definite loss for the workers of America. It s will mean a punishment for the just workman because of the actions of the unjust racketeer. What American labor needs is another an-other Samuel Gompers. Buy Defense Bonds TOM GIRDLER GETS A SALARY of one dollar per year. For that he manages a great airplane plant on the West coast that is producing war planes up to the maximum demanded demand-ed by the President. Before this one dollar a year man took charge, the production in that plant was largely large-ly "talk." THE TIME TO BE THINKING of the problems of tomorrow is today. One big problem is to find increased uses for the products of our farms. Chemurgy will solve that if we try. |