Somewhat Expressive
By Harold Holifield

The Japanese girls who have resigned from their office jobs in the public schools included the following paragraph in their resignation:

"We take this step to prove our loyalty to the schools and to the United States by not becoming a contributing factor to dissension and disunity when national unity in spirit and deed is vitally necessary to the defense of and complete victory for America."

So They Quit Their Jobs And Gave Up.

This paragraph was quoted because of its similarity to the argument of the Union official who said that Negroes should not wish to work at Boeing's because their presence there would cause dissension.

Because of a few protests because of their race, the Jap girls quit their jobs in the midst of a defense period.

If the girls had really felt patriotic they would have kept their jobs.

They quit when they might have fought to remain, when they might have denounced emphatically their ancestry and continued to serve their country.

Perhaps they did not wish to publicly denounce Japan.

Perhaps it is true that Jap-American are not really good American citizens.

Perhaps, along with the German-Americans, the Italian-Americans, they possess a secret longing for their fatherland to succeed.