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GENERAL JAPANESE SITUATION. POLITICAL: most of which has been devoted to intensive cultivation, are directly affected by the ruling. Much of this is in large holdings, which had been leased in small units to Japanese tenants for flat acreage rentals or for shares of the crop. The tensot nndertook all responsibility for labor and production of crops, operating with what is called "share boys," whom he boarded and remunerated at the end of the season with an agreed portion of the crop returns. Frequently in the last few years : a these tenants have not made money. Then came the sweeping decision i , of the Supreme Court abolishing this system, with the immediate result |that the land owner was without tenants or means with which to crop the lang. In the neighborhood of 70,000 acres are embraced in the tracts of the Holland Lend Comp any and the California Delta I Farms, Inc, ,headed » Menderhteall, in neither of which ‘does the company itself do any farm- » They are purely developing companies, which prepare the land for intensive cultivation and pass on the risk anf profits to individual owners or to tenants of unsold portions, FINANCES I8 BIG PROBIEM, The big probiem prought about by the revolutionizing decision is not a labor problem, according to Mendenhall, but one of financing. Gebor can always be had for a price, whether it be Japanese, Chinese, Sonth Sra Islanders or Hindus - it doesn't make so much difference. “we |ana he can never be sure whether the men are to be on the job the next eas or not. In addition, he > Bet only a short, adesultory day's work in T1164 ut a white tenant must pay theses laborers ss the work is done each week, I |