The Northwest Times

attending the national convention of the American Newspaper Guild recently in Portland, Oreg. adopted a resolution calling on all newspapers to cease using the term "Jap" when referring to Japanese

Of course. it had to take an Easterner to present the resolution on the floor.

He was M Michael Potoker, secretary treasurer of the Newspaper Guild of New York which last spring adopted a resolution urging New York metropolitan newspapers to place the term on its proscribed list of names offensive to nationality groups

The fact is the resolution was passed at the request of Shosuke Sasaki. a former Seattleite who is a member of the Standard and Poor's unit of the Newspaper Guild of New York.
Are the Japanese being too finicky We don't believe that is the situation

Rather. it is a wonder the Japanese Americans took it so long

In our daily newspapers, the Canadians aren't referred to as Canucks. And we'll cite the rest of the nationality groups and their "slur-names" as examples: .CzechsBohoes;

Englishmen-Lime- Juicers;
Germans Dutchies;
Greeks- Grease -Balls;
Hungarians -Bohunks: Irishmen-Micks: Italians -Dagos: and Jews-Kikes.

Among Orientals, the "slur names" range from "Chinks" for Chinese and "Gu-Gu(s)" for Filipinos. All of the "slur names" are not pleasant to the ear.

No. the Japanese Americans have every right to protest the usage of "Jap".

During the war years. we have heard peoples from minority races calling the Japanese "Japs"

One of them once remarked that he didn't mean "Jap" in the sense of insulting us. So we returned the fire and mildly referred to him with a name which he obviously did not appreciate. It stung him: he could dish it out but he couldn't take it.

Oh. him? After that exchange, he turned out to be one of our staunch friends,

We are still on good terms today