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movement, had set fire to the ranch property. We were always hearing about the strikes and violence fermented by the "wobblies."

Even more, we constantly heard about the "damn Japs." Elsewhere in the country, prejudice might be directed against Negroes, Jews and other minorities. But in California, I am sorry to say, its principal targets were the Japanese. In retrospect, it seems so strange. They were paragons of good citizenry. They worked hard. They were clean personally and in their homes. Their children were bright in school If a Japanese name ever appeared in connection with a crime, I do not remember it. But they worked more cheaply than others and that, I suppose, was reason enough for the scorn and fear aimed at them. Also, the "yellow journals " constantly harped on them of "the Yellow Peril," warning that we might see the smoke of invading Japanese battleships on the horizon at any time.

In our situation, this was ironical: My father's foreman on the ranch was a Japanese and we all liked him