1906] Complicated Misunderstanding 



clause of an international agreement. In that case, 

 the natural remedy was to be found in the nearest 

 United States Court, not in appeals to the press 

 of Japan. 



Meanwhile, to justify themselves, the board 

 invented the plea tjiat separation of Japanese 

 children from American was in the interest of 

 morality, because half-grown Japanese boys had been 

 put in the same classes with little girls, to the injury 

 of the latter. In support of that contention an agent Dishonest 

 went to the Clement Grammar School and photo- tactics 

 graphed Japanese lads from the upper grades 

 alongside with little ones of the kindergarten. But 

 even had such conditions existed, they could have 

 been easily remedied by a general ruling applicable 

 to all pupils. 



Heated newspaper discussions now stirred up much 

 loose talk of war, and militarists cried for more 

 dreadnoughts. Then Roosevelt, being greatly an- 

 noyed by the whole matter, issued a warning to 

 California, excellent in purpose but unfortunately 

 threatening in tone, and therefore naturally resented Roosevelt's 

 by the people of the state, who were as a whole in no 

 way responsible. Finally, the President asked the 

 mayor, Eugene E. Schmitz, a henchman of Ruef, to 

 come to Washington to talk things over, meanwhile 

 cannily arranging to have him entertained by Vice- 

 President Fairbanks. The result of the conference 

 was the repeal of the offensive ordinance, the question 

 of its legality never being tested. 



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In 1906 Andrew Carnegie endowed "The Carnegie 

 Foundation for the Improvement of Teaching," 



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