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PAGE FOUR "Vy Not, Ain't Ve Hoodlums, Too?" 'Round About Town Wake Up, America Is Internment of Japanese -Americans Constitutional Moderated by Fred G. Clark, general chairman, American Economic Foundation. Debated by James R. Young, author of Behind the Rising Sun, veteran Japanese correspondent and Far East authority, and Roger N. Baldwin, executive secretary of the Ameru can Civil Liberties Union.

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Mr. Baldwin Opens: Granting that the government has constitutional power to remove citizens from military zones, it cannot cover wholesale evacuation on racial grounds of American citizens of Japanese ancestry. The constitutional argument the government offers is "war powers," whatever they are. A Japanese invasion threatened, a military zone was therefore justified, and all Japanese constituted a dangerous class. That argument ignores (1) the right of American citizens to be heard individually on charges, (2) the almost equal danger from pro-Axis German and Italian Americans not interned, (3) lack of all evidence of sabotage, espionage or disloyalty among the Japanese, (4) the lack of military necessity in a zone from Canada to Mexico.

Even if evacuation on racial grounds is constitutional, internment after evacuation is not. Can our government hold American citizens in concentration camps outside a military zone? Releases to live and work outside, for those found loyal, does not alter Let's Explore Your Mind By Albert Edward Wiggam, D. Mr. Young Opens: If we are to debate constitutionality, would might still be in the process when the Japs again attempt a west coast attack? Japanese-Americans comprise two classes: (1) Those born here, who returned to Japan for schooling, then returned; (2) those born 'and educated here who have not been to Japan. A Japanese, wherever he is born, remains a Japanese subject, irrespective of oaths to other governments, or whether he is in the uniform of the country where he was born.

His name is on ward office rec- ords in Japanese prefectures, Only through his consul can he apply to have his name stricken from Japanese official records. His renunciation of Japanese citizenship must be with parental arrangement. This act is not carried out it shames a family to pledge allegiance to the United States! But, a Jap wants his constitutional rights! Yet, Japan sus pended constitutional govern- Mnnl in 1QQA A naca. A PI ican, under our constitution, wants its benefits but will not acknowledge a military expedient to help us save our constitution. These Japanese all of them for the duration must be interned or placed in useful work to help win the war.

Simultaneously, the Department of Justice must institute action to dispossess disloyal Japanese of their American citizenship. Mr. Baldwin Challenges: Mr. Young ignores the question of this debate. Obviously because he knows internment of citizens is unconstitutional.

So he falls back on the argument that Japanese-Americans are expatriated by Japanese law. He is in error. Japanese law recognizes persons of Japanese ancestry born abroad only when registered with consuls within 21 days of birth. Even so, American law recognizes as citizens everybody born on American soil whatever the claims of other countries. Mr.

Vnnntf'c rpflpptinn rtn thp fhnn- I sands of Japanese-American volunteers in our Army and on the overwhelming citizen majority are unjustified by the facts. Both his legal and practical proposals are un-American. Mr. Youns Replies: Will Mr. Baldwin guarantee no further sabotage, espionage, disloyal acts and rioting if Japanese-Americans are released? The FBI announces that American-born Japs, presumed loyal, are increasingly demonstrating their Tokyo allegiance.

Japan has es- tablished spy systems in religious and athletic groups. Read the To- lan Committee report. Refer to Volume 6, Dies Committee report. Remember the Jap forest fire in Oregon? Recall the sinking of our three ships off Palos Verde, California, where 136 Jap families, including "citizens," lived, while we argued the constitutional right of moving them inland? Consider the military expedient of internment as against ex-parte of impractical un-American theorists. 1 V-s I JF JU Meeei Less Discriminatory The patent unfairness of elimination of all Jones avenue service by the Fublic Service is recognized in the announcement that partial restoration, beginning today, has been agreed on.

City officials, acting in response to expressions of public opinion, have served the city well in carrying the matter to Public Service officials with the result that at least part-time transportation will be available to those residing or employed In the Jones avenue sector. In view of the recognized need for reduction of bus service to comply with Office of Defense Transportation orders, there can be no criticism of the public utility concern for reducing service, but it is clear that too Htle consideration of the facts was given before the summary move was made to deprive a large portion of New Brunswick citizenry of means of public transport at a time when that is the only legitimate means available. Perhaps deeper probing into the lituation will make it evident that a spread of the bus service cut over the entire city would be far more equitable and practical than the system under which one neighborhood bears the full brunt of the conservation step. Let's Be Fair Intentionally or otherwise a great many newspaper- in the gasoline starved East, through editorial condemnation of administrative short-comings which they charge are responsible for the Atlantic coastal states' plight, have done a disservice to their government and the motoring public. Whether or not it has been intended, these papers have stirred up resentment over the situation to a point where the public is unwilling to cooperate as it must cooperate if the armed forces and essential grsoline users, farmers, for example, are to have all the motor fuel they need.

Perhaps this editorial criticism would be warranted if there were any apparent means of relieving CO. the violation of constitutional rights in holding citizens with-' out charges or trial on some FBI I finding. Constitutional principles demand that all Japanese Americans should at least be free to live and work outside military zones. Anything less does not square with constitutional principles of a democracy, as valid in war as in peace. Mr.

Young Challenges: Under the Fourteenth Amendment persons born or naturalized here are subject to government jurisdiction. From 1937 to 1940 thousands of Japanese arrived in Japan from the United States repatriated and expatriated for military purposes. I witnessed a mass meeting headed by Prince Ko-noye, who told them that irrespective of birthplace they are subjects of the Emperor. Forty per cent of present interned Japanese, including Japanese-Americans, declared their loyalty to Japan when answering question 28 in the government questionnaire. By encouraging them to use constitutional privileges, they shift their "allegiance." The Japs at Malaya and Manila, and those at Singapore with British citizenship, were trained spies! Mr.

Baldwin Replies: The contention that some Japanese-Americans are more loyal to Japan than the United States does not affect the unconstitutionality of wholesale internment. Those who went to Japan for education and expatriated themselves by an oath to that government, or oth- erwise, can of course, be legally interned, and deported after the war. They are aliens. The internees who expressed a desire to emigrate to Japan after the war are mostly aliens and their dependent children. Our shocking discrimination against Japanese-Americans would strain anybody's loyalty.

The wonder is that so great a majority interned are still patriotic Americans, with no spy or saboteur among them. LABOR LOST Harvey Kitchen doesn't have a garden but he's a great help to his neighbors who have. The other afternoon he spent a long, hot hour picking bean beetles off the plants in the Joe DeCoster, George Dochat and "Doc" Black tract on North Sixth avenue, only to find after he had a jar full that he had been collecting light ning bugs! EARLY RISERS Freeholder "Tom" Dolan of Sayreville is one of the early birds at the county buildings. As chairman of the buildings and grounds committee, "Tom" ar rives at the court house square before 8 o'clock every morning. "Charlie" Collins, chief county detective, holds first honors among the "early birds.

He Is usually found at his office at 7:30 a. m. BLUNT REPLY John K. Daly, downtown tire and gasoline dealer has returned from the Bronx Hospital after a 10 weeks' stay for an operation. He is loud in his praise of the i hospita1' especially the medical staff.

After three days in the hospital, Daly inquired of one of the medical staff as to how long ne would have to remain a patient. "Brother," replied the physician, "you don't have to stay another day, if you don't want to. We have no ropes on you." "That reply put me in my place," Daly told his friends when he returned home. "The question hour was out from then on." REUNION Father John Dwyer, son of former Police Lieutenant and Mrs. Thomas Dwyer met several of his old classmates of the Sacred Heart School at the graduation exercises held yesterday after noon.

It was his first meeting with some of his classmates in 30 years and he had difficulty in recognizing them but once he heard their names, he recalled vividly cavorting with them at the Sacred Heart. FRUIT'S RIPE The political "plum tree" will be picked by the "city fathers" on June 22, according to City Hall advices. The "plums" will fall into the hands of the "faithful" including Frank Higgins, electrical inspector, who will be reappointed, James F. Hefferty, plumbing inspector, and Tax Assessors Samuel Cohen and Anton Keller. Anthony F.

Daly will grab one of the tax assessor jobs. HOW IT LOOKS Court House observers are betting that John Swan, Negro porter who brutally murdered Marian Oliver, will be given a new trial. The conviction is on appeal in the Court of Errors and Appeals, based on the contention that Swan was not given "fair trial." DUE FOR CHECK Retail food dealers in this section can expect visits from OPA representatives for a check-up on observance of ceiling prices. brought, the merchants will not be able to say they "didn't know." We, the Women By Ruth Millett There are few businesses that can give the same quality service in war time that they used to give in peace time. Most customers understand that.

Most are willing to make allowances for slow, and often inferior service. But there is one thing they won't make allowances for and that, is a discourteous "take w-hat you can get and like it" attitude. Firms that are offending in this respect had better wake up. People will understand and accept almost any kind of service, if there is a legitimate excuse for it, and if the reason is explained to them and regret expressed. But it burns them up to be told they are lucky to get any service at all, or otherwise treated as though their patronage were just a nuisance.

Yet there are many firms doing more business than they have in years that let their help take that attitude toward customers. They may get by with it in war time, when people have more money to spend than there are things and services to buy. There'll Come a Day But customers, like elephants, have long memories. They are going to remember, when the war is over, which businesses treated iuui lco; aim tuusiuci- ation when they had more customers than they could easily accommodate. They are also going to remember which ones snubbed them and their patronage.

And they are going to spend pust-wi uuuars wun me ims that get uppity when business boomed. WRITER SAVS- IN COURTSHIP TODAY, WOAAAW HAS BECOME INSTEAD SOUGHT. THIS BODES ILL FOR THE WORLD'S FUTURE. JXtjAm corrmaHT Answer to Question No. 1 1.

I find it hard to get excited over the notion that this is going to become a woman's world. Even if the custom does develop of women doing a little more active courting than Queen Victoria would sanction I rather think it would help many a bashful man over the proposal hur dle. When half the human race the women are held in a sort of social slavery and are not allowed to seek a husband, and are not encouraged to develop their inborn abilities so as to contribute their "feminine" points of view to our problems, I think nothing could bode worse for the world's future. The answer is no. Answer to Question No.

2 2. Frank R. Elliott reports in Educational Psychology, a study of tne results at Indiana University, first of merely sending liter- ature to 15,510 high school sen- Hollywood By ERSKINE JOHNSON Gary Cooper regrets, but he will not be wearing shorts as Comdr. Corydon M. Wassell, for mer Arkansas country doctor who won the Navy Cross for heroism, in C.

B. DeMille's "Story of Dr. Wassell." In real life, it seems, Dr. Wassell wore regulation Navy shorts during much of the time in Java. Coo? per, however, indicated a strong preference for "longies," and De- Mille agreed.

The rangy legs of Gary will stay encased in long pants in the picture. "After all," says Cooper, "we don't want to frighten the kiddies." Every Sunday Rev. Hugh Beaumont preaches at the Euclid Heights Methodist Church in Los THE -S. V. THE do you t4X JOHN W.

DCU.E LOUIS MAY. WELLS LEWIS. WALTER BUflNS. HARTLAND riwui HOMER cursions by such parties might prove i'ae answer a home-bound America is looking for. Why not stop berating "Washington" long enough to give it a whirl? Foredoomed A foretaste of the fate of the Italian mainland was supplied when Lampedusa fell to become the second Italian island in two days to succumb to non-stop aerial bombardment as the Allies pounded their way toward the eventual goal the erstwhile European fortress that has become the Hitlerian prison.

The fall of Pantelleria after 19 days of relentless bombing assaults marked a new phase in aerial warfare, representing as it did the first time in history an island bastion had capitulated to air power alone. The subsequent surrender of weaker Lampedusa served notice that the United Na tions intend to continue this type warfare, so less costlv in terms of human life than the sterner, perhaps swifter methods of overland assault. The Germans failed at Crete to force capitulation of the island garrison there, and seized it only after ground troops had been landed by glider and parachute. They and the Italians failed at Malta to pound that British outpost into submission from the air, and therein lies strong evidence that the Allies today have reached a degree of aerial might to which the Nazis once aspired but never attained. Sicily and Sardinia undoubtedly are next on the Allied time table and thereafter the Italian "boot" itself.

And every passing day lends weight to the words of Secretary of State Hull that Benito Mussolini's "timely end" is rapidly aproaching and logic to President Roosevelt's bid to the Italian people to disavow the onetime "strong man's" leadership and throw themselves on the mercies of the United Nations. Youth Is Serving In the recent accomplishment of New Brunswick High School students this city finds new reason to point proudly to the war jobs Us vouth is acceDtine and carrvine to lis size ana siuaeni memoer- ship, striking proof of the zest with which they tackled a man-sized job and performed it to perfection. STATE DRAFT QUOTAS There has been considerable discussion of the need for state quotas in calling men under the boards yet have single men from which to select eligibles, while other boards have exhausted the supply of men without dependents. A Philadelphia newspaper says of the experience of boards in that city: "Only recently some draft boards in this city were found to be sending childless married men to camps, while in other districts the boards still had plenty of registrants with lesser degrees of dependency or no dependents, to fill the Calls they received." The Selective Service Act is supposed to deal equitably with manpower recruited for war ser- vice The ideal of is vio- lateL PPon. ch WOUld hp lflroplv rrrrcritA It 1 lhe quota plan- ttiiiaoein Journal Discussion Of the Day By S.

Burton Heath Nothing, says the more or less official song, will stop the Army Air Corps. Sure, and that's cheer ine news, after looking over some of the Service Division's ideas for replacing those old fav orite chanteys such as "Made moiselle From Armentieres" and "Around Her Neck She Wore a Yellow Ribbon," on which World War Number One was won. Atlantic City headquarters, you remember, barred these two famous marching songs along with "Roll Out the Barrel," "I've Been Working on the Railroad," "How Dry I Am," "Oh, My Feet Hurt," "When the War Is Over" and "The Moron Song." The theory is that such verses might be in terpreted as slurs on women, on military courage, or on soldiers' well known distaste for alcoholic liquors. So far as we have heard, the ban has not been extended to "Dirty Gertie From Bizerte. That probably is because the boys who cleaned the Axis out of North Africa to the more than slightly off-color lyrics of "Dirty Gertie" haven't come home yet to introduce its multitudinous verses to trainees.

You remember some of the verses from "Mademoiselle from otherwise known as "riinky Dinky pariey-voo. Of course you do. We can't print them, anyway no more than some of the reasons why "Around Her Neck She Wore a Yellow Ribbon." Those were real grass-roots soldier songs. Presumably they started from spotless Purity League lines, but they didn't stay clean long after the boys, between chasing rats, searching for body lice and whipping Germans, dressed them up to take their minds off their more pressing physical miseries. Don't bet a plugged penny that the fellows won't find ways of laking something interesting out of some of the new offerings.

But honestly, now, what would you do if you were somewhere in North Africa, or on Guadalcanal, or perhaps in the Balkans or Norway or France or Germany, plodding wearily along a road in full battle equipment, wondering when a wave of Stukas would begin dropping bombs your back almost broken, your feet sore and your stomach empty and some cheery soul tried to strike up a marching song like "Marching Along By the way, do you know any good new verses for "Mademoiselle from The war is going to move into France pretty soon. Gasoline Shortage When there is a particularly serious shortage of gasoline on the Home Front, here are some thoughts: A heavy bomber burns 200 gallons of gasoline, flying 250 miles in an hour A medium tank goes only two miles on a gallon, so that the tanks in a mechanized division use more than 10,000 gallons to move slightly more than 100 miles. Although a jeep will go around 16 miles on a gallon, the average army vehicle from tank to jeep and including everything between requires a gallon for every six or seven miles. A destroyer would need 214,000 gallons of fuel oil for a straight line trip from Nw York to Casablanca only they can't go straight. All this must be transported from wells to the east coast and then to the war front, using facilities which otherwise would handle gasoline for the Sunday drivers.

COLLEGES SCNO' OUT BALES OP- TOLLING THEIR ACWANTA6ES.DOE4 THIS INCBEA-Se XC AC -3C CAW A WOMAKl MARRY A lA AMD Be rsAo I iors; and, second, of sending literature and a faculty speaker to address 77,171 high school seniors. The results from the print-ed and spoken presentation combined were seven times as high per thousand students as from the printed presentation alone. One control group which received nothing at all contributed as many students as another group to which literature but not a speaker was sent. Answer to Question No. 3 3.

Yes, but the chances of a happy marriage are considerably greater where the husband is in a business that keeps him most all the time at home. Of course much travelling for many men, is necessary but in such cases husband and wife should make special effort to keep in close touch by mail and phone and otherwise, in order that their lives may not slowlv. often un. consciously drift apart. Highlight? Angeles.

Week days he's a film actor the first practicing preacher-actor in film history. At the moment he's playing a romantic role opposite Jean Brooks in RKO's "The Seventh Victim." He was born in Lawrence, came to Hollywood four years ago to become a film actor and became a fully-ordained minister several months ago. gays Rev. Beaumont: "Living in Hollywood gave me the idea. I'd never had any clerical ambitions.

It just sort of happened" Paul Kelly, released by the Army because he's over-age gets a big role in Republic's "Old Oklahoma" All records for a short subject are being smashed in England by Walt Disney's "Der Fuehrer's Face." tute for broom corn, to augment the 50,000 tons needed this year for Army, Navy, civilian and Lend-Lease. Casein fibre, devel- oped from miIk the Depart- -M A li gricuuure, may be used as a substitute for nylon in hairbrushes. Throwing a New Light Recently patented was a new type fluorescent light, circular in shape, that can be attached to an ordinary lamp socket. Odds and Ends OPA has set specific dollars and cents retail price ceilings on new iceboxes New fuel oil ration coupons will be issued this month to persons living at the same address as they did last year so their can be filled in July Amount of rayon yarn available for manufacture of hosiery and other civilian products formerly made of silk and nylon was cut approximately one sixth below present figures by WPB A simple method to dehydrate molasses to increase shipments from the Caribbean area has been worked out, BEW reports. So They Say the East of its fuel drought.

But out s0 cornmendably. as evidence of the non-construc- Given tne challenge to purchase five of this heckling is the sufficient War Bonds and stamps fact that many editorialists have to finance the building of a Fly-suggested that the mid-West be ing Fortress, the student pop-put on as strict a rationing basis ulation not only met it, but as is the East. Just what could oversubscribed the goal so mag-be accomplished by that move, nificently that where one huge since the equipment to haul gaso- bomber was asked, two were proline and fuel oil to the East vided for- would remain unavailable, is hard The standing of N. B. H.

S. to see. But it does illustrate the fifth amon8 a11 the schools in New tone of attacks by these news- Jer5ev-is ar out of PrPrtion The armed forces will get as much oil and gasoline as they need. There is no use in anyone kidding anyone else about it supplies available for civilians ivill be tight for some time to come. Petroleum Administrator Harold L.

Ickes. Side Glances papers. No one enjoys the severe conditions existing in the East, but the fact remains that they do exist. So long as that is the case more can be accomplished by an acceptance of the facts, no matter how reluctantly, than by criticism purely for criticism's sake. Home Front Forecast It serves only to anger a public Selective Service Act rather than that should be advised thoroughly local board 3uotas' of the need lor rigid rationing The reason for the demand is controls rather than tolc how apparent.

The distribution of eli-completely justified it is in chisel- gibles is not equal in various part ing ir fiehtina men hv illppallv of a state. In our own city some By BETTY MacDONALD WASHINGTON Whittling down on the cotton waste-line, WPB and manufacturers are now nlanninff to standardize some 30 types of hand towels, and 26 sizes in batn towels. Your new war model towel will be a utility size. Also affected will be the sizes of wash cloths, bath mats, napkins, pot holders, baby bibs and kitchen towels. Through standardization, WPB hopes, in a small way, to help save on some half billion yards of cotton needed monthly in the war effort.

Apples vs. Gravity If farmers in Isaac Newton's day had known about naphthalene acetic acid, the law of gravity might never have been discovered. Modern orchard owners can now use 10 parts naphthalene acetic acid to one millionth part of water to "glue" apples to branches just before harvest time. It reduces spoilage 50 per cent, as most apples don't fall to the ground when treated with this fruit spray. Rice roots may prove a substi- I using automobiles.

Since the complaints and tirades in the world won't make available the steel needed to construct the thousands of additional tank cars necessary to haul us our "gasoline as usual," wouldn't it be far better to resign ourselves to i bad situation and make the most of it? America has been on gasoline- enven wneeis so long it has for- gotten tne less convenient modes of travel, but today seems as good a time as any to become re- acquainted. Walking and hiking clubs and bicycle-riding groups among those entitled to own them may at first blush seem a far cry from the pleasure of a Sunday drive, but if fair I jcoae. by nt stavicr, we. T. m.

ate, u. nr. err. "I'm glad there are two girls to see him off, dear if he hasn't made up his mind, we'll still have him for a while when he comes home!".