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Show URGES JAPS TO WED u. s, as Intermarriage of Yellow and White Races Favored By "Potato King." ! SAN FRANCISCO. Julv 13 George IShlma, president of tho Japanese? As lOClatlon of America, and so-called "potaio king of California," told the house committee on immigration and naturalization here that he is in favor of intermarriage between. Japanese land Americans. The committee is ln- tigating the Japanese situation in I California There may bo objections now, but a hundred years from now we will look back upon i: as ail right ho said. , 'When potato scea in this state in no longer ood, we cross it with re,j?on I seed and the second year thofv is a fine crop of potaloob. ' To be sure, a good many Japane.sr dohM lu.ikr. enough money to support Yankee g'.rls. Thov are too expen 'sive." Shima said ho had been a resident i of California for thirty years and on1 Ins on I. vlsii back to Jupan he had1 been decorated bj the emporor Replying to rpiesilnns by Congressman Congress-man Johnson, Washington, if he had been decorated because he was the loading Japanese busin' -s man and farmer in this country, he .-aid "Oh, no, I don'i know myself Biy i Japanese paper?, have said it was because be-cause my old schcol I earlier, who was 'later Ihe emperors teacher, kept boosting fur me all the time." Senator James D Phelan of a)i fornia, testified in favor of more ciras-ilic ciras-ilic immigration laws and John V , Irish a land owner opposing furthi r immigration, i.'rged better treatment of Japanese hero The committee will hold a hearing j in Sacramento today. |