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Show JAPANESE OF OGDEN EAGER 10 SERVE , IS COUNTRY That more than 200 Japanese residents resi-dents of Ogden and vicinity and approximately ap-proximately 60,000 in the United States would volunteer for servlco in the American Red Cross association was the declaration of Toyohika Kaqawa, journalist and lecturer of Kobe. Japan, this morning. "They will not allow us to volunteer for service in the army," he continued, speaking in perfect English, "so we want to show our loyalty to the United Unit-ed States by serving in the Red Cross." Kaqawajis a graduate of Princeton unlversity, class of 191 G, and has been in Ogden for the past six months working out plans for Japanese farmers' farm-ers' associations. During this period he accomplished the organization of associations in the Cache valley, Roy, Tremonton and Garland districts, with a membership of approximately 200. They are mutual benefit associations andit is expected that their membership member-ship will increase until all the Japanese Japa-nese farmers in northern Utah are enrolled. The Japanese lecturer is a correspondent corre-spondent of Asahi, the greatest newspaper news-paper In Japan, ho declared with pride, with plants in Tokio and Asahi. "Several "Sev-eral months ago," he said, "I wrote a story of tho alien land act of Idaho, which will affect about 2000 Japanese in that state. Before tho legislature convened 4S0 acres of land wore owned by Japanese In tho Twin Falls district and the purchase of S00 more acres was desired. This started the action of the Idaho people for tho alien land la-w. My story was translated and reprinted in quite a number of American Ameri-can newspapers and my friends in the east thought I was anti-American. But ihis is not so. Instead, I am a strong advocate of friendship between Japan and the United States and, after my story ofHhe Idaho land law was printed, print-ed, I wrote another on 'The Honor of America.' It is my hope that this country and Japan will soon forget their differences and I feel that this is a good time for tho Japanese to show their loyalty to their American friends." Mr. Kaqawa had been much Impressed Im-pressed with Utah and said that in natural wonders, especially for the student of geology, this ' state surpassed sur-passed any equal extent of territory in the world. He was greatly disappointed disappoint-ed because he had not found time to make a journey into tho San Jaun country to Investigate recent discoveries discov-eries there of interest to geologists. The Japanese journalist and scholar departed this afternoon for Seattle, from which port he will sail April 17 for Japan. oo- |
