Mr. Douglas P. Lynch, who is identified with the lumber department of the Northern Pacific Railway, with headquarters in Tacoma, Washington, is visiting his sister, Mrs. W.B. Bullock and other relatives in Oxford.
Mr. Lynch is well informed and is an interesting gentleman. He left Oxford 28 years ago and settled in California. He spent two years in Japan and several years at Vancouver, B.C., before moving to Tacoma, where he now makes his home.
Mr. Lynch has come in contact with the “foreign menace,” as it exists along the Pacific slopes, and of the two regards the Chinaman superior to the Jap. You will see as many Japs and Chinamen in the cities and towns along the Pacific as you will see colored people in Granville county, said Mr. Lynch. Many of them own real estate and have accumulated fortunes. One of the first and bet hotels at Vancouver is owned and operated by a Chinaman. The Japs and the Chinamen, said Mr. Lynch, have a “corner” on rooming houses and restaurants. The Chinamen are good cooks, said Mr. Lynch, and their places are patronized by the English speaking people Neither the Japs or the “Chinks,” said Mr. Lynch, recognize God, and they seem to be void of all honor. Of the two, he said, he would prefer to deal with the Chinaman.
Accompanied Mr. Lynch is his wife, an interesting lady he married in Tacoma. They stopped at Hillsboro to visit relatives before coming to Oxford last week. Practically all of the business men of Oxford remember Mr. Lynch, and the greeting is very pleasant.
From the front page of The Oxford Public Ledger, Tuesday, October 7, 1924
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