Thus, something needs to be done to keep them involved in the American lifestyle and learning.
Also, The Life and Teachings of Jesus and the standard stories of the Bible should be covered.
D. Provide playgrounds for children.
III. A Suggestion for the Territorial Government
His suggestions. He adds that all the young men (notice, he says nothing about the women), should be expected to take a citizenship test and path it, and take a formal oath of allegiance to the flag before being allowed to vote.
He also says that “Christians must put forth adequate energy to provide the plantation villages with Christian advantages.”
How to do this?
1. Get able pastors from Japan to visit for a year or two.
2. Special efforts should be made to reach children of age 12 and up.
3. Find promising young men and women to enter Christian service as a life work.
The next part of his work is geared towards the Japanese.
1. The United States is a federation of sovereign states (and two territories, Alaska and Hawaii.)
2. In each state, the government rests upon the will and action of the people. All adult males are voters. In some states the women also are given the suffrage. (Notice that “in some states” women are allowed to vote, but not in all of them.
3. Most of the people in the U.S. are immigrants and descendants of immigrants, and most of them came with their wives and families and whatever possessions they could handle.
4. Americans lay great stress on the moral value of a promise and of absolute truthfulness.
5. “If any one asks the source of the moral and spiritual life of America, there is only one possible answer-the Bible.”
Then he goes into Hawaii's problems.
1. There is doubt that Orientals can “understand, appreciate, and administer loyally and honestly a democratic form of government.”
2. There is doubt as to the “possibility of Asiatics becoming genuinely Occidental-genuinely American in their minds and hearts.”
3. Many Americans in Hawaii look with concern to the time when the Nisei group up and are allowed to vote.
His suggestions?
1. Require them to master English.
2. They should read several histories of the American people.
3. They should newspapers, but also weeklies and monthlies.
Also,
Main Index
Japan main page
Japanese-American Internment Camps index page
Japan and World War II index page