Japanese Students’ club Discusses War Problems

More than two hundred Japanese students of American birth met with Robert O’Brien, assistant dean of arts and sciences and advisor of the Japanese Students’ club, in Home Economics hall last Friday to discuss pertinent problems brought up by the war with Japan.
University officials distributed to the students a folder from the Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco giving information regarding the amount of money Japanese nationals may withdraw from savings accounts for living expenses.
Prof. Jesse Steiner of sociology explained to the students the special regulations in force applying to the Japanese in this country and predicted the trends these restrictions could be expected to follow. His talk was followed by a student discussion of the problem, with Kiyoshi Kamikawa, president of the campus Japanese coeds’ organization, acting as chairman.
Dean O’Brien announced yesterday that the University had assisted nearly fifty Japanese students in securing their American birth certificates from cities throughout the West.
“Representatives of the University are working in close cooperation with downtown churches and the Seattle Defense Fund to help solve the problems of the American-born Japanese students and their parents,” he said.