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SEY. 1414
YAMA
TAXI
ew Canadian
SEIS3?? OF THE SECOND generation
TAIYO
PRINTING CO UTO.
JUNE 15 th 19.39
0
■ H'I Tu ?i Y®' sch°o1 PuPils was given by the
pnnopals of Model, Simon Fraser, and Mount Pleasant
scnools, when they addressed a joint meeting of school
teachers and parents who met to consider ways and means
of co-operation in furthering the welfare of their children
and pupils.
OF OUR WORK.
7
VANCOUVER, B. C
Co-operation Necessary For Child Welfare
This is a SPECIMEN
Ambassador To
Visit Japan
The Japanese ambassador
to Canada, Baron Shu Tomii,
accompanied by Madame To
mii, will arrive in Vancouver
Friday morning from Ottawa.
They will sail for Japan on
Wednesday, June 21, aboard
the Hikawa Maru.
; Tough Schedule Faces Barnstorming Team
Marking the beginning of the longest barn-storminq
j tour ever undertaken by a Canadian basketball team the
; Vancouver Westerns, 1938 Dominion champions, who were
} just nosed out of the Dominion finals this year by Victoria's
। Dominos, will leave for Japan aboard the Hikawa Maru
crac?. N-Y-K- hner sails for Japan Wednesday
momma, June
}
।.
The team
te, will ?!
PPIVA in
The
arrive
in V
Yoko-
\
The meeting, the first of its
kind, was sponsored by the Fair
view Japanese United Church
hama, July 4, and embark on
Parent-Teachers’ Association,
the return journey from the
and was held Saturday night at
same
port on August 3. While
the Church Hall.
in Japan they will be the guests
Rev. K. Shimizu, chairman for]
of the All-Japan Basketball As
The evening, and Miss Miyo Goro-I
sociation, playing a schedule of
:r
extended
words
of welcom
------------vxUlJ ux
nUlVUlllC
twelve games in Japan and
to the twenty-three school teachManchukuo.
^xx^
ers who attended. Mr. Yoshida,
All but two of the regular mem
president of the Church P.T.A.,’
bers of the team will make the
addressed the Japanese fathers’!
Irin, including manager Peter
Making
their
last
public
and mothers explaining the na
up Winckler. Jimmy Bardsley, Art
pearance before returning to Willoughby. “Jo-Jo” Ross. Jack
ture of the meeting.
(Japan
.
. followin _ a three-months Gordon, Emmet Ritchie. Al Bea
Principal Clarke of Mount
, tour of the United States, forty ton, Dick Wright, “Feet” Parsons,
Pleasant School, complimented
members of the Takarazuka Girls and Sonny Watson.
the Nisei school pupils upon
Opera Company of Tokio will
George Siborne of Stacy’s has
their industriousness and sportj
present
their
famous
Cherry
been
added; and Freddy Bolton,
manship and teamwork. He em
Blossom Ballet at the Music former president of Men’s Athphasized that the difficulty en
Hall Theatre in Seattle next. Sat letics at U.B.C., will make the
countered by some of the stu
urday and Sunday, June 17 and trip as assistant manager and
dents is largely due to the prob
18.
trainer.
lem of bi-lingualism.
This
will
give
people
of
Se
Bolton will write the story of
Pi incipal Meadows, of Simon
attle
and
vicinity
an
opportun
the
tour for The New Canadian,
Fraser School re-iterated Mr.
ity to see a modernized version
while touring Japan.
Clarke’s words and recommended
of
the
ancient
traditions
of
the
Coach Whlly Mayers will not
that parents co-operate with teach
be
able to make .the trip, nor will
Japanese
theatre,
with
its
ers: (1) to rid their children of
highly stylized music, dancing “Hunk” Henderson, the star
extieme shyness, that seriously
—Staff Photographer Minicam Photo
and pantomime.
guard, A play in t coach will be
handicaps the average Nisei; (2)
Yukiko Tsushima smiles a happy smile as she receives Principal
Says the Japanese-American elected by the team, probably
to instruct their children not to Sato’s beautiful cup from the hands of Dr. M. Ishiw.ara in the recent
Courier, “Only girls of good fami either Ross. Willoughby. or
speak Japanese while in the day Jikyokai Oratorical Contest.
lies are accepted in the Takara Bardsley.
schools; (3) not to have the childTOUGH SCHEDULE
zuka schools. They have been
ren leave for summer work beThe team, is facing a strenuous
trained in both Japanese and
tore the close of the school term;
schedule
in Japan, having to play
Occidental music, dancing and
D) to assist the school nurse as
stage technique, and were se almost throe games a. week. They
regards to dental and medical
care.
I Many Attend Jikyokai Oratorical Contest lected not only because of their have been practicing regularly
for two months, and space aboard
Before four hundred people gathered at the Japanese Hall on .ability to give Americans a the ship has been provided for
Principal Woodhead, of Model
School, had many comments Saturday. June 10, to witness the second annual Jikyokai Oratorical i unique understanding of modern them to work out en route to
•n common with the previous Contest, lukiko Tsushima, Fuyokai representative, carried off the 'Japanese theatre art, but also Japan.
speakers, and stressed that, handsome challenge cup donated by Principal T. Sato, from a field because they are truly repreAll expenses of the tour will be
sentative of the younger genera“Japanese will make good of six contestants. The topic of her speech was “Gratitude.”
paid by the Japan Basketball As
Masako Miyazaki with her ad- tion of artists °f Nippon.”
expansion may be.”
are trying to stir in them a
sociation, but the team will make
dress, “Worship Your Ancestors,
The shows are billed under the up its own tourist class fare. A
“Parents of a great many dif
desire to be worthy and true
captured second prize while Mikio I personal direction and manage- good sum was raised by means of
ferent countries are here in the
Canadians,
to
help
to
develop
Ochiai was a close third ■with hisj^ent of Cecilia Schultz, widely
cJy, he said, “but we are not. I
talk
on “The Pride of Our!known impressario, and the ad- the recent draw, but Winckler re
See TEACHERS Page 8
concerned with their origin. We I
grets having lost the opportunity
School.’’ Other competitors were I mission prices range from 50c to to share in the gate from the
Roy Ito, Patricia Kawajiri and $1-50 for the matinee and 75c to Dominion Finals. “We’d have
Shigeo Kawasaki.
j $2.00, plus tax, for the evening
been able to charter the whole
I
Dr. Meinosuke Ishiwara speak performances.
Empress,” he said.
ing for the eight judges compli- =
mented the participants upon I
their poise, naturalness and flu-1
ent delivery. After announcing l
A vigorous drive to abolish dual citizenship status the winners he presented the cup ;
[ To Sponsor Oratorical Essay Contest Again
Ainoncr the Nisei in America is being undertaken by all to Miss Tsushima.
For the text of the prize-win-■
^oityfive chartered chapters of the Japanese. American
Delegates to the Fourth Annual National Youth Conning
discourse
please
turn
to
i
citizens League, under direction of National headquarters. page six.
I gress will be formally appointed by the National Execu
Takarazuka
Girls Onera Tn
Show In Seattle
ICLLIo toe Congress Reps
\^a^n§' Lie campaign for expatriation is national presiQent y\ alter Tsukamoto, Sacramento attorney.
tive ol the Japanese Canadian Citizens* League at its meet
ing Monday evening, June .19. A dearth of experienced
speakers has required the postponement of the selection
of delegates to this date.
Active in the fight which the
77
,. . . .
;
> thre district conferences are ’ Divoters Drive
‘he anti-Japan^^i^J keeping interest high, and the
major national activity on the
i
The Executive will also draft
Tsukamoto declared that the
,
question
of
dual
citizenship,
was
:
I
plans
for the second open es- internal and. international policy
Nisei “would be in a safer po
Two beautiful cups have been j say contest, and the open ora- of the Dominion in relation to
described as “the most con
sition if they renounced Jap
donated by the Honorable Baron ( torical contest which will be this situation.
certed campaign ever underanese citizenship.”
Tomii and Mr. Eikichi Kagetsu, | held in the fall.
Committee
D,
taken by the J.A.C.LJ om. this
“Canadian
t He “fors-ees the possibility that
president of the Canadian Jap i Considerable interest has been Unity,” will discuss the ques
issue.
oj having dual citizenship, it
A Seattle Courier dispatch says anese Association, at the open aroused, in the Congres which tions of minority rights, demomight be the loophole by which that approximately fifty per cent, tournament that is to take place
cratic institutions, and the ef
s°me anti-alien bill might work of the American Nisei “are un at the Langara Golf Links this meets in Winnipeg from June 30 fect of sectional differences
to July 3. Some thirty delegates
against the Nisei.”
der dual citizenship, having had coming Sunday. June 18.
are expected to attend the con upon Canadian Unity.
..In his review of J.A.C.L. ac- their birth registered by their
Committee C, is concerned with
The Tomii cup will go to the gress from the Vancouver disJames Y. Sakamoto, former parents, but the number has de- divoter amassing the lowest gross | Principal feautre of the con the training of young citizens
^ague president and - Seattle dined considerably in recent points, while Oe Kagetsu cup will
gress will be the five discussion through education, vocational
ourier Editor, commented fa years.”
be awarded to rhe contestant with groups, which will convene sep guidance and recreation. Com
vorably upon the work of local
It will be recalled that a simi the lowest net score.
mittee B, “Youth in Industry,”
arately to consider problems of will study industrial problems
c apters and district councils.
lar stand was taken by the major
By virtue of his recent spark youth. Committee E, “Canadian
Although no national con- ity of delegates to the recent
and social legislation and Com
ling win Jimmy Suzuki’s handicap
vention is to be held this year, Vancouver Island Nisei Conven- has been sliced to thirteen strokes. Peace Policy,’’ will consider the mittee A, many questions of im
present world situation, and the portance to youth in agriculture.
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SEY. 1414
YAMA
TAXI
ew Canadian
SEIS3?? OF THE SECOND generation
TAIYO
PRINTING CO UTO.
JUNE 15 th 19.39
0
■ H'I Tu ?i Y®' sch°o1 PuPils was given by the
pnnopals of Model, Simon Fraser, and Mount Pleasant
scnools, when they addressed a joint meeting of school
teachers and parents who met to consider ways and means
of co-operation in furthering the welfare of their children
and pupils.
OF OUR WORK.
7
VANCOUVER, B. C
Co-operation Necessary For Child Welfare
This is a SPECIMEN
Ambassador To
Visit Japan
The Japanese ambassador
to Canada, Baron Shu Tomii,
accompanied by Madame To
mii, will arrive in Vancouver
Friday morning from Ottawa.
They will sail for Japan on
Wednesday, June 21, aboard
the Hikawa Maru.
; Tough Schedule Faces Barnstorming Team
Marking the beginning of the longest barn-storminq
j tour ever undertaken by a Canadian basketball team the
; Vancouver Westerns, 1938 Dominion champions, who were
} just nosed out of the Dominion finals this year by Victoria's
। Dominos, will leave for Japan aboard the Hikawa Maru
crac?. N-Y-K- hner sails for Japan Wednesday
momma, June
}
।.
The team
te, will ?!
PPIVA in
The
arrive
in V
Yoko-
\
The meeting, the first of its
kind, was sponsored by the Fair
view Japanese United Church
hama, July 4, and embark on
Parent-Teachers’ Association,
the return journey from the
and was held Saturday night at
same
port on August 3. While
the Church Hall.
in Japan they will be the guests
Rev. K. Shimizu, chairman for]
of the All-Japan Basketball As
The evening, and Miss Miyo Goro-I
sociation, playing a schedule of
:r
extended
words
of welcom
------------vxUlJ ux
nUlVUlllC
twelve games in Japan and
to the twenty-three school teachManchukuo.
^xx^
ers who attended. Mr. Yoshida,
All but two of the regular mem
president of the Church P.T.A.,’
bers of the team will make the
addressed the Japanese fathers’!
Irin, including manager Peter
Making
their
last
public
and mothers explaining the na
up Winckler. Jimmy Bardsley, Art
pearance before returning to Willoughby. “Jo-Jo” Ross. Jack
ture of the meeting.
(Japan
.
. followin _ a three-months Gordon, Emmet Ritchie. Al Bea
Principal Clarke of Mount
, tour of the United States, forty ton, Dick Wright, “Feet” Parsons,
Pleasant School, complimented
members of the Takarazuka Girls and Sonny Watson.
the Nisei school pupils upon
Opera Company of Tokio will
George Siborne of Stacy’s has
their industriousness and sportj
present
their
famous
Cherry
been
added; and Freddy Bolton,
manship and teamwork. He em
Blossom Ballet at the Music former president of Men’s Athphasized that the difficulty en
Hall Theatre in Seattle next. Sat letics at U.B.C., will make the
countered by some of the stu
urday and Sunday, June 17 and trip as assistant manager and
dents is largely due to the prob
18.
trainer.
lem of bi-lingualism.
This
will
give
people
of
Se
Bolton will write the story of
Pi incipal Meadows, of Simon
attle
and
vicinity
an
opportun
the
tour for The New Canadian,
Fraser School re-iterated Mr.
ity to see a modernized version
while touring Japan.
Clarke’s words and recommended
of
the
ancient
traditions
of
the
Coach Whlly Mayers will not
that parents co-operate with teach
be
able to make .the trip, nor will
Japanese
theatre,
with
its
ers: (1) to rid their children of
highly stylized music, dancing “Hunk” Henderson, the star
extieme shyness, that seriously
—Staff Photographer Minicam Photo
and pantomime.
guard, A play in t coach will be
handicaps the average Nisei; (2)
Yukiko Tsushima smiles a happy smile as she receives Principal
Says the Japanese-American elected by the team, probably
to instruct their children not to Sato’s beautiful cup from the hands of Dr. M. Ishiw.ara in the recent
Courier, “Only girls of good fami either Ross. Willoughby. or
speak Japanese while in the day Jikyokai Oratorical Contest.
lies are accepted in the Takara Bardsley.
schools; (3) not to have the childTOUGH SCHEDULE
zuka schools. They have been
ren leave for summer work beThe team, is facing a strenuous
trained in both Japanese and
tore the close of the school term;
schedule
in Japan, having to play
Occidental music, dancing and
D) to assist the school nurse as
stage technique, and were se almost throe games a. week. They
regards to dental and medical
care.
I Many Attend Jikyokai Oratorical Contest lected not only because of their have been practicing regularly
for two months, and space aboard
Before four hundred people gathered at the Japanese Hall on .ability to give Americans a the ship has been provided for
Principal Woodhead, of Model
School, had many comments Saturday. June 10, to witness the second annual Jikyokai Oratorical i unique understanding of modern them to work out en route to
•n common with the previous Contest, lukiko Tsushima, Fuyokai representative, carried off the 'Japanese theatre art, but also Japan.
speakers, and stressed that, handsome challenge cup donated by Principal T. Sato, from a field because they are truly repreAll expenses of the tour will be
sentative of the younger genera“Japanese will make good of six contestants. The topic of her speech was “Gratitude.”
paid by the Japan Basketball As
Masako Miyazaki with her ad- tion of artists °f Nippon.”
expansion may be.”
are trying to stir in them a
sociation, but the team will make
dress, “Worship Your Ancestors,
The shows are billed under the up its own tourist class fare. A
“Parents of a great many dif
desire to be worthy and true
captured second prize while Mikio I personal direction and manage- good sum was raised by means of
ferent countries are here in the
Canadians,
to
help
to
develop
Ochiai was a close third ■with hisj^ent of Cecilia Schultz, widely
cJy, he said, “but we are not. I
talk
on “The Pride of Our!known impressario, and the ad- the recent draw, but Winckler re
See TEACHERS Page 8
concerned with their origin. We I
grets having lost the opportunity
School.’’ Other competitors were I mission prices range from 50c to to share in the gate from the
Roy Ito, Patricia Kawajiri and $1-50 for the matinee and 75c to Dominion Finals. “We’d have
Shigeo Kawasaki.
j $2.00, plus tax, for the evening
been able to charter the whole
I
Dr. Meinosuke Ishiwara speak performances.
Empress,” he said.
ing for the eight judges compli- =
mented the participants upon I
their poise, naturalness and flu-1
ent delivery. After announcing l
A vigorous drive to abolish dual citizenship status the winners he presented the cup ;
[ To Sponsor Oratorical Essay Contest Again
Ainoncr the Nisei in America is being undertaken by all to Miss Tsushima.
For the text of the prize-win-■
^oityfive chartered chapters of the Japanese. American
Delegates to the Fourth Annual National Youth Conning
discourse
please
turn
to
i
citizens League, under direction of National headquarters. page six.
I gress will be formally appointed by the National Execu
Takarazuka
Girls Onera Tn
Show In Seattle
ICLLIo toe Congress Reps
\^a^n§' Lie campaign for expatriation is national presiQent y\ alter Tsukamoto, Sacramento attorney.
tive ol the Japanese Canadian Citizens* League at its meet
ing Monday evening, June .19. A dearth of experienced
speakers has required the postponement of the selection
of delegates to this date.
Active in the fight which the
77
,. . . .
;
> thre district conferences are ’ Divoters Drive
‘he anti-Japan^^i^J keeping interest high, and the
major national activity on the
i
The Executive will also draft
Tsukamoto declared that the
,
question
of
dual
citizenship,
was
:
I
plans
for the second open es- internal and. international policy
Nisei “would be in a safer po
Two beautiful cups have been j say contest, and the open ora- of the Dominion in relation to
described as “the most con
sition if they renounced Jap
donated by the Honorable Baron ( torical contest which will be this situation.
certed campaign ever underanese citizenship.”
Tomii and Mr. Eikichi Kagetsu, | held in the fall.
Committee
D,
taken by the J.A.C.LJ om. this
“Canadian
t He “fors-ees the possibility that
president of the Canadian Jap i Considerable interest has been Unity,” will discuss the ques
issue.
oj having dual citizenship, it
A Seattle Courier dispatch says anese Association, at the open aroused, in the Congres which tions of minority rights, demomight be the loophole by which that approximately fifty per cent, tournament that is to take place
cratic institutions, and the ef
s°me anti-alien bill might work of the American Nisei “are un at the Langara Golf Links this meets in Winnipeg from June 30 fect of sectional differences
to July 3. Some thirty delegates
against the Nisei.”
der dual citizenship, having had coming Sunday. June 18.
are expected to attend the con upon Canadian Unity.
..In his review of J.A.C.L. ac- their birth registered by their
Committee C, is concerned with
The Tomii cup will go to the gress from the Vancouver disJames Y. Sakamoto, former parents, but the number has de- divoter amassing the lowest gross | Principal feautre of the con the training of young citizens
^ague president and - Seattle dined considerably in recent points, while Oe Kagetsu cup will
gress will be the five discussion through education, vocational
ourier Editor, commented fa years.”
be awarded to rhe contestant with groups, which will convene sep guidance and recreation. Com
vorably upon the work of local
It will be recalled that a simi the lowest net score.
mittee B, “Youth in Industry,”
arately to consider problems of will study industrial problems
c apters and district councils.
lar stand was taken by the major
By virtue of his recent spark youth. Committee E, “Canadian
Although no national con- ity of delegates to the recent
and social legislation and Com
ling win Jimmy Suzuki’s handicap
vention is to be held this year, Vancouver Island Nisei Conven- has been sliced to thirteen strokes. Peace Policy,’’ will consider the mittee A, many questions of im
present world situation, and the portance to youth in agriculture.
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THE NEW CANADIAN
THE NEW CANADIAN
The Crying Need
The Vanguard of Nisei Opinion
Dear Eddie: I've been waiting to
hear from you for over a month. |
really don't know what to think
why you haven't written. | jusJ
couldn't stand your long silence, and
besides I've something to ted you
about.
THE NEW CANADIAN SOCIETY
Tel. TRinit}’ J076
230 Alexander St.
EDITORS
'Ihomas K. Shoyama, Yoshimitsu Higashi, Edward T. Ouchi,
Seiji Onizuka, Minoru Yatabe.
H's just the saddest story |'Ve
heard in a long while. And it's
just like so many of us Niseis
who look forward to a bright
future, and then cuddenly every
thing goes phooey, so they get
awfully bitter.
STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS
Wataru Inouye
From Angela
Jo Seko
PUBLISHED SEMI-MONTHLY AT THE
TAIYO I’RINTING CO., 230 ALEXANDER STREET
Registered as second-class matter at Ottawa, February 13,
1939, under the Postal Regulations of Canada.
Remember when I was in town
last Christmas | went to see Mariko
and Roy.
They got married in
June, just two years ago.
It was funny about them, wasn't
'The Test of a Nation"
it? Remember when she first came
to town, how quiet she was? We
"For the first time in our lives we have had Canada's
went to the Academy for sewin^
®IT^R’S N0TE; To the anonymous contributor of this car
unjust law barring Nisei from the franchise held up to us
lessons together. Everybody thought
toon The Lew Canadian extends its thanks.
she was just a country girl, and just
as a theoretical example for this country to follow."
didn't have any glamour.
These are the words of Togo Tanaka, English Section
So we were all so surprised when
editor of the Los Angeles Daily News, in his critique of the
^0// the man-about-town suddeniy fell for her. All of us girls were
INTERNATIONAL CLUB
controversy that raged in California over the "strenuous
J. A. C. L. MESSAGE
so mad as the dickens, because he
ut futile campaign" to expel Japanese fishermen of many
(Editor, The New Canadian)
v/as
one of the town's most eligibl(Editor, The New Canadian)
Dear Sir: The Executive and
years standing from the fishing industry.
Dear Sir: I wish to take this es—had a good job and a car.
Members of the International
No more conclusive indictment- of this unjust law Club wish to thank you for the means of thanking you kindly for
But anyway when I went to see
them
last Christmas they were so
could be conceived than this—that a manifest wrong in write-up of their club in your the current and back issues' of
issue of May 27.
The New Canadian” since its in happy. And so proud over their
our province should not only wreck injustice and suffer
baby and no wonder. He was just
May we compliment you on a ception in January of this year.
seven
months old, fat and chubby,
ing upon its own citizens, but also that it should prove most interesting paper and wish
I am very happy to see the cre
the inspiration for a similar wrong in another country. you every success.
ation of such an excellent paper with big black eyes and lots of hair.
Mariko and Roy told me about
CONSTANCE M. WAGG,
as yours, inasmuch as I feel that
The responsibility for this unfortunate situation lies
Secretary. the Nisei in Canada as our Nisei the house they were planning to
upon both our Canadian legislators and the Nisei. For Hotel Georgia,
in this country, must be brought build as soon as spring came They
closer together to solve the many were sick and tired of the smells
despite the innumerable arguments that have been raised Vancouver.
complex problems which are pe and noise of Powell Street. They
upon all sides against the extension of the franchise to
culiarly the Nisei’s. I am hope wanted their own house and garden,
VISITING TEAMS
Canadian citizens of Oriental origin, the fundamental and
so little Roy could have lots of fresh
Dear Sir: lour recent issue ful and feel certain that the guid- air
and sunshine.
essential nature of the question is clearly etched against ‘Tn Commemoration of Their Ma Lig light of your publication will
I didn t see how they could
the background of the historical development of the dem- jesties Canadian Tour” was a be of inestimable service to the
have enough money to build a
“swell job.” I only wish more of Nisei citizens of Canada.
ocratic state.
house
of their own.
But Roy
Wishing you unbounded sucThe exclusion of Canadian-born citizens from the that spirit of enterprise which cess, I am
said he was going to borrow some
characterized this edition could
money under some government
right and opportunity to participate in their own govern be shown by our American col
Sincerely yours,
housing
plan called the National
W. T. TSUKAMOTO,
ment, is irrefutably an absolute violation of all the princi leagues.
Housing Act or something.
President,
I should like to take this liberty
ples upon which the government of our country is founded.
If you've got a job and making
Japanese American Citizens’
to make a suggestion which might
Any fair-minded person who will take the trouble to inci ease the effectiveness of your League, National Headquarters so much, you can borrow enough to
build a house, and pay just a little
^ ri™ t0 “^tigate with understanding and without Canadianization program. It is Sacramento, Calif.
bit of interest.
prejudice wl I recogn.ze the truth, even though some few one which a group of us college
students
representing
PUBLIC SPEAKERS
They were so keen on it They
Negro,
individuals whether because of vested interests, selfish pol Mexican, White and Japanese
even had the plans already. Just
(Editor, The New Canadian)
itical reasons, or intolerance, hypocrisy, and bigotry have Ameiicans put into practice this
a little five room bungalow out in
Dear
Sir:
With
reference
to
the
spi
ing
with
very
encouraging
re
the Grandview District, on a nice
SXXf and ravcin an ef,ort toius,if^
sults.
letter by “Mirror” in your issue corner, high up, so you could get a
We formed a deputation team of May 1st, 1 hereby tender my good view, they told me.
The Nisei too. must realize their responsibilities which visited various white thanks to him who expressed his
They were going to paint the
opinions
regarding
the
formation
American
churches,
at
their
in
house white and green, and have a
to their, American cousins. lf they accept such injustice
vitation, and presented an eve of a political faction of the Pol lawn in front with roses and a
without a struggle, and such injustice endangers the ning s service, which was centred itical Discussion Club at U.B.C.
garden at the back. Mariko even
position of American citizens of Japanese ancestry, as around the addresses of the speak “Mirror’s” suggestion of solici said she was going to have the kit a
has happened in this recent case, then the blame for ers’ who presented the problems ting support from other Orientals chen done in cream with green trimconfronting their respective racial as well as from those Occidentals mings, and she was going to have
that injustice rests partly upon the indifference of the groups. We used several vari
who are really interested in the curtains of white marquisette with
Canadian Niseis.
ations: and adaptations could be piomotion of the Nisei cause was green dots for the kitchen windows.
made
in your case.
well made.
It has been said that the test of a nation lies in the
She was so happy. | just couldn't
Here is a method of doing someI
wholeheartedly
agree
with
feel
envious of her. But last week
number of its citizens that accept and fulfill their selfthing constructive toward real she writer’s proposition regarding she and Roy and the baby were over
imposed responsibilities. Here is a case to test the char- intor-racia 1 unders tan ding, If it he inauguration of a parliamen- to Victoria. I was so surprised to
NiXb°th °f °Ur Canadian communiW and the Canadian is done sincerely, directly and tary forum with the J.C.C.L. as see them, because I thought they'd
undemandingly. it should prove sponsor. I hope that this plan still be busy with the new house.
successful. I should be glad to will not confine opportunities for And I hadn't, heard from her.
help any group who might like public expression on the Univer
Do you know what hapoened?
some leads, although I say with sity campus only, but will allow
THEME SONG
frankness that we are continu- any member of the Japanese com Everything just went up in smoke,
and they were feeling so blue.
V ana ouerr Island Nisei Convention
ally experimenting and revising,
munity to acquaint himself with
I don't know just why, but it
and so yet have no set methods.
Composed tor the convention by Miss Eiko Henmi to
parliamentary procedure in speak seems that even though Roy had
rune
In beginning this team, we felt ing. I would suggest that a
or the popular Japanese song. " Aikoku-koshin-kyoku.
that _ the great majority of Cali special department of the J.C.C.L all the necessary things like a
good job and so on, they wouldn't
MM to New Canadians, pledging loyahu
fornia us, in spite of their contacts be formed to manage the matter. lend
him the money. He says he
with race groups, were ignorant
To the land that gave us birth and oar destiny.
An executive of the J.C.C.L.
of many facts, which if known suggested to me that immediate can t see why, except that it
) onder gleams the challenge bright.
must be cause he's Japanese. Just
and understood would at least plans be drafted for such a move thinking about it made him so
Tho’ the Way be dark
alter their attitude toward races. ment. Since, however, I am of
All together with one faith
mad, he couldn't help swearing.
I think . people in B.
are no the opinion that manv young
On to Victoria.
I felt so sorry for them, because
more informed of true circum^
e0
S
are
,
at
present
t0
°
b
W
to
-------- H
.O1111CU cvv
,yuil„y w
3
O now comrades rise
they had
planned
everything
so careivith the
stances than our people. and anv
the matter’ 1 Propose) fully and dreamed about it so much.
Make a worla that s sate tor all in one unity
effort on the part of your Nisei to
™
J
o
CTmeilCemenfc of the) Of course I tried to cheer them
make them see and understand
What the heartache, what the price?
„ b?C.Spe:^^
After all they're very lucky
would be worthwhile.
Ours the courage true,
^°liet . 11
September at which'people, and have so much. Funny
Yours sincerely.
Eight on, to the end,
time it may swing into action
thing too, it made me think how
:i
|
SUSUMU SETO.
e rise with the dawn.
Sincerely.
much
we
all
have
to
be
thankful
jLos Angeles, Calif.
PETER F. YAMADA..
See ANGELA Page 2
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
w
THE NEW CANADIAN
The Crying Need
The Vanguard of Nisei Opinion
Dear Eddie: I've been waiting to
hear from you for over a month. |
really don't know what to think
why you haven't written. | jusJ
couldn't stand your long silence, and
besides I've something to ted you
about.
THE NEW CANADIAN SOCIETY
Tel. TRinit}’ J076
230 Alexander St.
EDITORS
'Ihomas K. Shoyama, Yoshimitsu Higashi, Edward T. Ouchi,
Seiji Onizuka, Minoru Yatabe.
H's just the saddest story |'Ve
heard in a long while. And it's
just like so many of us Niseis
who look forward to a bright
future, and then cuddenly every
thing goes phooey, so they get
awfully bitter.
STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS
Wataru Inouye
From Angela
Jo Seko
PUBLISHED SEMI-MONTHLY AT THE
TAIYO I’RINTING CO., 230 ALEXANDER STREET
Registered as second-class matter at Ottawa, February 13,
1939, under the Postal Regulations of Canada.
Remember when I was in town
last Christmas | went to see Mariko
and Roy.
They got married in
June, just two years ago.
It was funny about them, wasn't
'The Test of a Nation"
it? Remember when she first came
to town, how quiet she was? We
"For the first time in our lives we have had Canada's
went to the Academy for sewin^
®IT^R’S N0TE; To the anonymous contributor of this car
unjust law barring Nisei from the franchise held up to us
lessons together. Everybody thought
toon The Lew Canadian extends its thanks.
she was just a country girl, and just
as a theoretical example for this country to follow."
didn't have any glamour.
These are the words of Togo Tanaka, English Section
So we were all so surprised when
editor of the Los Angeles Daily News, in his critique of the
^0// the man-about-town suddeniy fell for her. All of us girls were
INTERNATIONAL CLUB
controversy that raged in California over the "strenuous
J. A. C. L. MESSAGE
so mad as the dickens, because he
ut futile campaign" to expel Japanese fishermen of many
(Editor, The New Canadian)
v/as
one of the town's most eligibl(Editor, The New Canadian)
Dear Sir: The Executive and
years standing from the fishing industry.
Dear Sir: I wish to take this es—had a good job and a car.
Members of the International
No more conclusive indictment- of this unjust law Club wish to thank you for the means of thanking you kindly for
But anyway when I went to see
them
last Christmas they were so
could be conceived than this—that a manifest wrong in write-up of their club in your the current and back issues' of
issue of May 27.
The New Canadian” since its in happy. And so proud over their
our province should not only wreck injustice and suffer
baby and no wonder. He was just
May we compliment you on a ception in January of this year.
seven
months old, fat and chubby,
ing upon its own citizens, but also that it should prove most interesting paper and wish
I am very happy to see the cre
the inspiration for a similar wrong in another country. you every success.
ation of such an excellent paper with big black eyes and lots of hair.
Mariko and Roy told me about
CONSTANCE M. WAGG,
as yours, inasmuch as I feel that
The responsibility for this unfortunate situation lies
Secretary. the Nisei in Canada as our Nisei the house they were planning to
upon both our Canadian legislators and the Nisei. For Hotel Georgia,
in this country, must be brought build as soon as spring came They
closer together to solve the many were sick and tired of the smells
despite the innumerable arguments that have been raised Vancouver.
complex problems which are pe and noise of Powell Street. They
upon all sides against the extension of the franchise to
culiarly the Nisei’s. I am hope wanted their own house and garden,
VISITING TEAMS
Canadian citizens of Oriental origin, the fundamental and
so little Roy could have lots of fresh
Dear Sir: lour recent issue ful and feel certain that the guid- air
and sunshine.
essential nature of the question is clearly etched against ‘Tn Commemoration of Their Ma Lig light of your publication will
I didn t see how they could
the background of the historical development of the dem- jesties Canadian Tour” was a be of inestimable service to the
have enough money to build a
“swell job.” I only wish more of Nisei citizens of Canada.
ocratic state.
house
of their own.
But Roy
Wishing you unbounded sucThe exclusion of Canadian-born citizens from the that spirit of enterprise which cess, I am
said he was going to borrow some
characterized this edition could
money under some government
right and opportunity to participate in their own govern be shown by our American col
Sincerely yours,
housing
plan called the National
W. T. TSUKAMOTO,
ment, is irrefutably an absolute violation of all the princi leagues.
Housing Act or something.
President,
I should like to take this liberty
ples upon which the government of our country is founded.
If you've got a job and making
Japanese American Citizens’
to make a suggestion which might
Any fair-minded person who will take the trouble to inci ease the effectiveness of your League, National Headquarters so much, you can borrow enough to
build a house, and pay just a little
^ ri™ t0 “^tigate with understanding and without Canadianization program. It is Sacramento, Calif.
bit of interest.
prejudice wl I recogn.ze the truth, even though some few one which a group of us college
students
representing
PUBLIC SPEAKERS
They were so keen on it They
Negro,
individuals whether because of vested interests, selfish pol Mexican, White and Japanese
even had the plans already. Just
(Editor, The New Canadian)
itical reasons, or intolerance, hypocrisy, and bigotry have Ameiicans put into practice this
a little five room bungalow out in
Dear
Sir:
With
reference
to
the
spi
ing
with
very
encouraging
re
the Grandview District, on a nice
SXXf and ravcin an ef,ort toius,if^
sults.
letter by “Mirror” in your issue corner, high up, so you could get a
We formed a deputation team of May 1st, 1 hereby tender my good view, they told me.
The Nisei too. must realize their responsibilities which visited various white thanks to him who expressed his
They were going to paint the
opinions
regarding
the
formation
American
churches,
at
their
in
house white and green, and have a
to their, American cousins. lf they accept such injustice
vitation, and presented an eve of a political faction of the Pol lawn in front with roses and a
without a struggle, and such injustice endangers the ning s service, which was centred itical Discussion Club at U.B.C.
garden at the back. Mariko even
position of American citizens of Japanese ancestry, as around the addresses of the speak “Mirror’s” suggestion of solici said she was going to have the kit a
has happened in this recent case, then the blame for ers’ who presented the problems ting support from other Orientals chen done in cream with green trimconfronting their respective racial as well as from those Occidentals mings, and she was going to have
that injustice rests partly upon the indifference of the groups. We used several vari
who are really interested in the curtains of white marquisette with
Canadian Niseis.
ations: and adaptations could be piomotion of the Nisei cause was green dots for the kitchen windows.
made
in your case.
well made.
It has been said that the test of a nation lies in the
She was so happy. | just couldn't
Here is a method of doing someI
wholeheartedly
agree
with
feel
envious of her. But last week
number of its citizens that accept and fulfill their selfthing constructive toward real she writer’s proposition regarding she and Roy and the baby were over
imposed responsibilities. Here is a case to test the char- intor-racia 1 unders tan ding, If it he inauguration of a parliamen- to Victoria. I was so surprised to
NiXb°th °f °Ur Canadian communiW and the Canadian is done sincerely, directly and tary forum with the J.C.C.L. as see them, because I thought they'd
undemandingly. it should prove sponsor. I hope that this plan still be busy with the new house.
successful. I should be glad to will not confine opportunities for And I hadn't, heard from her.
help any group who might like public expression on the Univer
Do you know what hapoened?
some leads, although I say with sity campus only, but will allow
THEME SONG
frankness that we are continu- any member of the Japanese com Everything just went up in smoke,
and they were feeling so blue.
V ana ouerr Island Nisei Convention
ally experimenting and revising,
munity to acquaint himself with
I don't know just why, but it
and so yet have no set methods.
Composed tor the convention by Miss Eiko Henmi to
parliamentary procedure in speak seems that even though Roy had
rune
In beginning this team, we felt ing. I would suggest that a
or the popular Japanese song. " Aikoku-koshin-kyoku.
that _ the great majority of Cali special department of the J.C.C.L all the necessary things like a
good job and so on, they wouldn't
MM to New Canadians, pledging loyahu
fornia us, in spite of their contacts be formed to manage the matter. lend
him the money. He says he
with race groups, were ignorant
To the land that gave us birth and oar destiny.
An executive of the J.C.C.L.
of many facts, which if known suggested to me that immediate can t see why, except that it
) onder gleams the challenge bright.
must be cause he's Japanese. Just
and understood would at least plans be drafted for such a move thinking about it made him so
Tho’ the Way be dark
alter their attitude toward races. ment. Since, however, I am of
All together with one faith
mad, he couldn't help swearing.
I think . people in B.
are no the opinion that manv young
On to Victoria.
I felt so sorry for them, because
more informed of true circum^
e0
S
are
,
at
present
t0
°
b
W
to
-------- H
.O1111CU cvv
,yuil„y w
3
O now comrades rise
they had
planned
everything
so careivith the
stances than our people. and anv
the matter’ 1 Propose) fully and dreamed about it so much.
Make a worla that s sate tor all in one unity
effort on the part of your Nisei to
™
J
o
CTmeilCemenfc of the) Of course I tried to cheer them
make them see and understand
What the heartache, what the price?
„ b?C.Spe:^^
After all they're very lucky
would be worthwhile.
Ours the courage true,
^°liet . 11
September at which'people, and have so much. Funny
Yours sincerely.
Eight on, to the end,
time it may swing into action
thing too, it made me think how
:i
|
SUSUMU SETO.
e rise with the dawn.
Sincerely.
much
we
all
have
to
be
thankful
jLos Angeles, Calif.
PETER F. YAMADA..
See ANGELA Page 2
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
w
Page 3
THE NEW CANADIAN
PART 2
Editor's Note: Due to .the lack of
Canadan, this article, the second space m the last number of The
in the senes, mas omitted. It
■eturns with this issue.
We wish to apologize to our readers for
i ■
ana at the same time to thank those
unexplained omission
eery point. Such interest mas gratifying ^h^^ ^
New Canadian" is Publicized in Japan
A t ll’
ln recognition of his work on behalf of
An outstanding example of how
one individual, in a quiet and unthe Niseis in Canada, Shinobu Higashi
obstructive manner, mav contri
former editor-in-chief of The New Canad
portant streeti^vlnco^
Til
m°St im’ bute much more to the creation
ian received considerable publicity in the
ot
better
relations'
and
mutual
ing business concerns, prosperous hotels X °lg stores- thrivTokyo press, when he arrived in Japan last
centres were lined along Rs X S
and a^nseniEmt understanding between the Jap
month.
Higashi, well-known as a writer
“Savoy,” a hotel with a bar on the main
Th?atre and the anese and other Canadians than
and speaker among the local Niseis, sailed
magic pictures for many.
In f Oor’ stiI1 conjure up an\ number of petty Nisei or
ganizations was brought to light
?
^aSt ^pri! t0 assume a position on
San Francisco in all her rip-roaring eIofv
last
week.
Barbary Coast could not have been moreJak lc’“0TP “' the
!__i!22^j!a^ °^ the Manchurian Daily
Crosby United Church Senior
News, the largest all-English daily
BARBARY COAST beyond ail propX^ S’S^ Young People's Society, one of
published in Manchoukuo.
California Law
seductive French ^“ ^
«^d the most active and progressive
The following write-up is an ex
societies of its kind in the city,
tract from the well-known Tokyo
took place behind the batten swing gate^nT d T nes tbat
No Match For
elected
Tak
Uyeda
to
the
post
“Chugai Shogyo Shimpo” of May
f,“!("T,Jlt0 reach the ears »'” J y X" 7
rS “d
of president.
14. Similar write-ups appeared in
And the theatres of those
Pvi
S'
Dan Cupid
Die Tokyo “Asahi” and the
mere hovels compared with some of'tfie otIoJTJ0' them TOe
Tak, sou of Mr. and Mrs. B
“
Yomiuri.” A picture of the front /
todaY Vaudevilie provided the XX^
°‘ Lyeda, 2996 West 29th Avenue.'
(L. A. Mirror Dispatch)
page of the April 15 issue of The
nVT’
°ta raM had Z come n
has long been active both in the
Japanese Americans may not New Canadian, together with a
affaiis of his own society and in
Miss Uchida recalls one film in Dawienu; J?'
'The Volcano.' As you can imaaino J? '” *’’
was called executive work of the ' Greater marry Caucasians in California. picture of Higashi, accompanied
the story in the “Chugai Shogyo
lurid scenes a”d Tne
^Hfylng.y
Vancouver Young People’s Union. So when there have been rare Shimpo.
”
cases of this nature, the couples
PRIMITIVE shows nature in one of its mit a
.’^
He has served as Convenor
“With the blooming of flowers
have gone to another state or
MOVIES
The vividness of the scene and
”Md8' for the annual Y. P. drama
in
early summer, a young Nisei
to Mexico to consummate mar
sound effects of thunder and t^
accompanying
festival and the annual debate
riage.
has come to Japan from Canada.
frightened me that I burst into tears (I tas . ’3'.° animals so
tournament, as well as in numbad been beating a drum and a diahnan h.^ " 'Tr that a
This week a new slant on He is Shinobu Higashi, who grad
uated last year from the Univer
Those were the real primitive dan
“ksta?e behind the screen. erous other- activities. For the
this race marriage problem was sity
of B. C.
. ‘^Picture held a. strange fascto^^^
^oeot reeord-breakina picnic
presented.
“Since the outbreak of the
mother to let me see it a number of times’’
begged my at Newcastle Island he had
It all happened when a lad
Corresponding to the "shorts” of todav
charge of ticket sales.
of Japanese-German parentage Sino-Japanese conflict, anti-Jap■ were presented between
fMtnmD Sy’ magc Iantem slides
.
anese propaganda has been such
> pened to show a color
f
$ne of these slides hap-1
c iosen for the executive applied for a marriage licence. as to cause hardships upon the
musical instrument Well up no^nM °y strummin? “W at some IJ the. s°clety at its closing meet He declared he was going to Japanese Canadians.
boy outfit and yodeling whafP i^ °Ue man rl8Sed up in a cow’ ’-S °f ^ season- June 4, were marry an American girl. But
“In the beginning of the year,
original song and* nla vi™ >T ‘’ 1
PP0se’ ™ meant to be the ™e-President, Stewart Gibson; noting his father’s Japanese
Powell street was ±7 ^^niment”
past president, Darrel Braidwood; name, the young lad was denied aided by fellow graduates of the
same University, he established
nevertheless it was one of
J
loped at that time. But secretary’ Ireue Jenkins; treas- a licence.
This decision was made by the New Canadian, a newspaper
street-car tracks. From
©w streets that could boast of arer’ Jack Fairburn; mid-week,
for the second generation in Can
m station on Carrail Street theu,ei?^ _ Campbell;
fellowship, California’s
Attorney-General ada; and as the editor-in-chief, he
ycuU loll its way up to Hastings
Bryden; culture, Margaret Earl Warren.
POWELL STREET
fought vigorously to protect the
I
f
Westminster Avenue (the pres- McDuffee; missionary,
‘
Frances
So, off the couple skipped to rights and privileges of his felPowell it would
street) to Powell. Then UDpMoore;
vloore; sports, Hi
Hubert Ruffell; the next state to secure the ows.
Avenue Already Cr p 5“^
bushlands past Campbell^™”' Ruth R°by;
C editor, Gwyn licence and will then return to
Invited to-join the Manchuria
was doing a thrivin b
California for residence.
Daily News, Higashi is paying a
visit to Japan on his way to Daiien. At present he is staving at
the home of Miss Tsuji'Yoshi
Tim
r
ed efficiency of the street cars of to-dav
mura, who graduated from U B C
in 1934.”
we used to'have.fUnnleS almost have a better crate than the relics Candle-Lighting Ceremony at Final Social
A? n
■ty }
.1
A*«
t<J|J
" ft; <
Girls Awarded Service Badges
Patronize your
Streetnsw^T'T6'” ejaculated Miss Uchida, "Powell "
^eatur"29 an opening candlelighting ceremony, a
but iLJt J
country road. True, street cars passed there
mother and daughter ' social on Saturday, June 10
New Canadian Advertisers
Plank, , ^17* “ T01'17 paved and sidewalkS were made o
Drought
to
a
close
another
year's
activities
of
the
Church
sX cX , TT^ ?Y6Pt f°r a few hoteIs apd business
AsAcen|.'on ^.ni0r ancl the Girls' Women's Auxiliary to
and-bug-y daU p‘®domiuated Mind you those were the horseThe presentation of
teliere it or not th» J1'7- bln“"S had a stabls behind it. And the Anglican Missionary Society.
3lth u and dll,gent service to Mary Matsuo
horses
h i I1001Dg of cows as weU as the neighing of
Storey
^
IZUtani
3nd Mldori Sato was made by Mrs. George
at that
J
, C°ming frOm some of tliese stables for
Hi-b ® *cIYastu/’^
abounded beyond Alexander Street.”
Powell%hhppt characterized the geographical outlay of the land.
-business meetin
meeting st.rive to do unceasingly God’s
After a short business
P«w
XT?" through a hill and the houses were the guests were entertained by W111 in al! Phases of life—mentalHIGH. 4567
i
twenty feet above the road. Accordingly, when many games which delighted both ly,
spiritually,
socially
and
1 355 POWELL ST
physically.
street.the basemenl — ™ h””1 °" ‘he Same level as Pweli old and young.
was dug deep into the hill. When the structure
During one interval Mary Mizuwas
finished
the
constructors
in
charge
:ani entertained those present
HILLY DISTRICT
Fountain
N©W Pjep Cafe
Service
congratulated themselves for having erected with a piano solo. For refresh
tlmv
a
sp
le
n(
iid
building.
However,
one
thing
ments all proceeded to the new
had
storv
uTJ
U
—
lt
Y
Water
flows
from
hf
8her
to
lower
levels.
basement
hall where they were
The
floX
of
Tb
°r
,
T
T
thC
first
bad
rai
"
y
day
ra
m
"'ater
220 MAIN STREET
SEY. 0124
treated to a mandolin solo bv
had
e
f ,^! e lllgh back all0y and had flooded the basement. Jeanine Tsuyuki.
(To be Continued in the Next Issue)
Rev. G. Nakayama congratu
lated the girls upon their most
rr
interesting program. He said,
“It is through these clubs that
our women of the future learn to
tYOUR'
serve
God, to give of themselves
Developing
Optometrist
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(Continued from. Page 2)
for. Even if we don't think so all
the time, we are much luckier than
many other people, aren't we?
That's what "J. C." was telling
me here at the Island Convention.
He said something about us Niseis
needing the optimism of the wild
and wooly west. He's awfully quiet,
you know, but thinks a lot and is
very, very nice. In fact he's going
to write me, even if you don't, so
there.
But just the same, you know I'm
waiting every day for your next.
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8
PART 2
Editor's Note: Due to .the lack of
Canadan, this article, the second space m the last number of The
in the senes, mas omitted. It
■eturns with this issue.
We wish to apologize to our readers for
i ■
ana at the same time to thank those
unexplained omission
eery point. Such interest mas gratifying ^h^^ ^
New Canadian" is Publicized in Japan
A t ll’
ln recognition of his work on behalf of
An outstanding example of how
one individual, in a quiet and unthe Niseis in Canada, Shinobu Higashi
obstructive manner, mav contri
former editor-in-chief of The New Canad
portant streeti^vlnco^
Til
m°St im’ bute much more to the creation
ian received considerable publicity in the
ot
better
relations'
and
mutual
ing business concerns, prosperous hotels X °lg stores- thrivTokyo press, when he arrived in Japan last
centres were lined along Rs X S
and a^nseniEmt understanding between the Jap
month.
Higashi, well-known as a writer
“Savoy,” a hotel with a bar on the main
Th?atre and the anese and other Canadians than
and speaker among the local Niseis, sailed
magic pictures for many.
In f Oor’ stiI1 conjure up an\ number of petty Nisei or
ganizations was brought to light
?
^aSt ^pri! t0 assume a position on
San Francisco in all her rip-roaring eIofv
last
week.
Barbary Coast could not have been moreJak lc’“0TP “' the
!__i!22^j!a^ °^ the Manchurian Daily
Crosby United Church Senior
News, the largest all-English daily
BARBARY COAST beyond ail propX^ S’S^ Young People's Society, one of
published in Manchoukuo.
California Law
seductive French ^“ ^
«^d the most active and progressive
The following write-up is an ex
societies of its kind in the city,
tract from the well-known Tokyo
took place behind the batten swing gate^nT d T nes tbat
No Match For
elected
Tak
Uyeda
to
the
post
“Chugai Shogyo Shimpo” of May
f,“!("T,Jlt0 reach the ears »'” J y X" 7
rS “d
of president.
14. Similar write-ups appeared in
And the theatres of those
Pvi
S'
Dan Cupid
Die Tokyo “Asahi” and the
mere hovels compared with some of'tfie otIoJTJ0' them TOe
Tak, sou of Mr. and Mrs. B
“
Yomiuri.” A picture of the front /
todaY Vaudevilie provided the XX^
°‘ Lyeda, 2996 West 29th Avenue.'
(L. A. Mirror Dispatch)
page of the April 15 issue of The
nVT’
°ta raM had Z come n
has long been active both in the
Japanese Americans may not New Canadian, together with a
affaiis of his own society and in
Miss Uchida recalls one film in Dawienu; J?'
'The Volcano.' As you can imaaino J? '” *’’
was called executive work of the ' Greater marry Caucasians in California. picture of Higashi, accompanied
the story in the “Chugai Shogyo
lurid scenes a”d Tne
^Hfylng.y
Vancouver Young People’s Union. So when there have been rare Shimpo.
”
cases of this nature, the couples
PRIMITIVE shows nature in one of its mit a
.’^
He has served as Convenor
“With the blooming of flowers
have gone to another state or
MOVIES
The vividness of the scene and
”Md8' for the annual Y. P. drama
in
early summer, a young Nisei
to Mexico to consummate mar
sound effects of thunder and t^
accompanying
festival and the annual debate
riage.
has come to Japan from Canada.
frightened me that I burst into tears (I tas . ’3'.° animals so
tournament, as well as in numbad been beating a drum and a diahnan h.^ " 'Tr that a
This week a new slant on He is Shinobu Higashi, who grad
uated last year from the Univer
Those were the real primitive dan
“ksta?e behind the screen. erous other- activities. For the
this race marriage problem was sity
of B. C.
. ‘^Picture held a. strange fascto^^^
^oeot reeord-breakina picnic
presented.
“Since the outbreak of the
mother to let me see it a number of times’’
begged my at Newcastle Island he had
It all happened when a lad
Corresponding to the "shorts” of todav
charge of ticket sales.
of Japanese-German parentage Sino-Japanese conflict, anti-Jap■ were presented between
fMtnmD Sy’ magc Iantem slides
.
anese propaganda has been such
> pened to show a color
f
$ne of these slides hap-1
c iosen for the executive applied for a marriage licence. as to cause hardships upon the
musical instrument Well up no^nM °y strummin? “W at some IJ the. s°clety at its closing meet He declared he was going to Japanese Canadians.
boy outfit and yodeling whafP i^ °Ue man rl8Sed up in a cow’ ’-S °f ^ season- June 4, were marry an American girl. But
“In the beginning of the year,
original song and* nla vi™ >T ‘’ 1
PP0se’ ™ meant to be the ™e-President, Stewart Gibson; noting his father’s Japanese
Powell street was ±7 ^^niment”
past president, Darrel Braidwood; name, the young lad was denied aided by fellow graduates of the
same University, he established
nevertheless it was one of
J
loped at that time. But secretary’ Ireue Jenkins; treas- a licence.
This decision was made by the New Canadian, a newspaper
street-car tracks. From
©w streets that could boast of arer’ Jack Fairburn; mid-week,
for the second generation in Can
m station on Carrail Street theu,ei?^ _ Campbell;
fellowship, California’s
Attorney-General ada; and as the editor-in-chief, he
ycuU loll its way up to Hastings
Bryden; culture, Margaret Earl Warren.
POWELL STREET
fought vigorously to protect the
I
f
Westminster Avenue (the pres- McDuffee; missionary,
‘
Frances
So, off the couple skipped to rights and privileges of his felPowell it would
street) to Powell. Then UDpMoore;
vloore; sports, Hi
Hubert Ruffell; the next state to secure the ows.
Avenue Already Cr p 5“^
bushlands past Campbell^™”' Ruth R°by;
C editor, Gwyn licence and will then return to
Invited to-join the Manchuria
was doing a thrivin b
California for residence.
Daily News, Higashi is paying a
visit to Japan on his way to Daiien. At present he is staving at
the home of Miss Tsuji'Yoshi
Tim
r
ed efficiency of the street cars of to-dav
mura, who graduated from U B C
in 1934.”
we used to'have.fUnnleS almost have a better crate than the relics Candle-Lighting Ceremony at Final Social
A? n
■ty }
.1
A*«
t<J|J
" ft; <
Girls Awarded Service Badges
Patronize your
Streetnsw^T'T6'” ejaculated Miss Uchida, "Powell "
^eatur"29 an opening candlelighting ceremony, a
but iLJt J
country road. True, street cars passed there
mother and daughter ' social on Saturday, June 10
New Canadian Advertisers
Plank, , ^17* “ T01'17 paved and sidewalkS were made o
Drought
to
a
close
another
year's
activities
of
the
Church
sX cX , TT^ ?Y6Pt f°r a few hoteIs apd business
AsAcen|.'on ^.ni0r ancl the Girls' Women's Auxiliary to
and-bug-y daU p‘®domiuated Mind you those were the horseThe presentation of
teliere it or not th» J1'7- bln“"S had a stabls behind it. And the Anglican Missionary Society.
3lth u and dll,gent service to Mary Matsuo
horses
h i I1001Dg of cows as weU as the neighing of
Storey
^
IZUtani
3nd Mldori Sato was made by Mrs. George
at that
J
, C°ming frOm some of tliese stables for
Hi-b ® *cIYastu/’^
abounded beyond Alexander Street.”
Powell%hhppt characterized the geographical outlay of the land.
-business meetin
meeting st.rive to do unceasingly God’s
After a short business
P«w
XT?" through a hill and the houses were the guests were entertained by W111 in al! Phases of life—mentalHIGH. 4567
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twenty feet above the road. Accordingly, when many games which delighted both ly,
spiritually,
socially
and
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physically.
street.the basemenl — ™ h””1 °" ‘he Same level as Pweli old and young.
was dug deep into the hill. When the structure
During one interval Mary Mizuwas
finished
the
constructors
in
charge
:ani entertained those present
HILLY DISTRICT
Fountain
N©W Pjep Cafe
Service
congratulated themselves for having erected with a piano solo. For refresh
tlmv
a
sp
le
n(
iid
building.
However,
one
thing
ments all proceeded to the new
had
storv
uTJ
U
—
lt
Y
Water
flows
from
hf
8her
to
lower
levels.
basement
hall where they were
The
floX
of
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,
T
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thC
first
bad
rai
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y
day
ra
m
"'ater
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treated to a mandolin solo bv
had
e
f ,^! e lllgh back all0y and had flooded the basement. Jeanine Tsuyuki.
(To be Continued in the Next Issue)
Rev. G. Nakayama congratu
lated the girls upon their most
rr
interesting program. He said,
“It is through these clubs that
our women of the future learn to
tYOUR'
serve
God, to give of themselves
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for. Even if we don't think so all
the time, we are much luckier than
many other people, aren't we?
That's what "J. C." was telling
me here at the Island Convention.
He said something about us Niseis
needing the optimism of the wild
and wooly west. He's awfully quiet,
you know, but thinks a lot and is
very, very nice. In fact he's going
to write me, even if you don't, so
there.
But just the same, you know I'm
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THE NEW CANADIAN
Sunbury Kendoists
Donate Books
I was surprised to sen tp(1
resemblance of the Father (o' your country and to your To School Library
Capita! City Chatter Bloedel Bulletin
Jack. The same rugged chin ami emoeror.’
the same kindly ryes but wreath-' "I watched the dimming shoreThe authoritative work, "The
Here’s something we picked up
Further extension of the Island
ed with lines of toil and care. He?ine ()f Japan for a lon" time- with Japanese Canadians,” by Charles at a local oyster house that we
Highway
from Vanisle terminus
straightened himself in th" wonJa nn.mb ache in my heart and pon Young, Helen R. Y. Reid and think is good enough to pass on.
toward Bloedel and Lamb locality
Morriss chair and his bright un-i dered over the words of my Dr. W. A. Carrothers and the Luke had it before; Paul had it
dimmed eyes reflected the flying aging father.
humorous "Memoirs” of popu behind; Mathew never had it; all is under way. With headquarters
He paused and T noticed
sparks in the grate.
lar Stephen Leacock were don girls have it once, boys cannot at Vanisle, surveyors and road"
ated by the Sunbury Japanese have it; old Airs. Mulligan had it men of the Forest Project are con
T sat silent unable to say a ii v- gleam in his eye.
structing a road through wilder
SAN FRANCISCO
Canadian Fencing Club to the twice in succession; Dr. Lowell ness.
thing.
was Jack’s father
But the feeling of adventure Delta Junior Senior High had it before and behind too. He
whom Jack had adored and about
j _ Fully aware of more hazardous
whom he had raved during four soon dispersed my ache. And for School Library during the had it twice as bad behind as fire weather ahead, the Bloedel
before.
whole years at Princeton. Here days T laid in mv bed too sick to school’s "Book Week.”
Now get your friends together Stewart and Welch Ltd. intend*
was the man that had sparked eat or think. Three weeks later
to close operation at Bloedel fo?
and work this out—if (?) neces three
•lack to the tremendous athletic we reached San Francisco, T had
weeks from
~
June 27 to
and
scholastic
achievement, a hundred dollars in mv pocket Maple Ridge Review sary, all requests for the answer July 17.
whispered still in awe by a new and a firm resolve to study.
In a hectic tussle for supreniAlthough the change in Weather may be sent to Ye Editor.
"I stayed for three months in over the week-end to ideal har
During the Chemainus con- acy,
generation of Japanese students.
"Bloedel Bombers” baseball
After a pause, as if to take my an English home. But soon the vesting conditions had given rise vention last year, if we recoh nine of Camp 4 went down to desilence as proud acquiescence, he lure of easy money made me to hopes that the crop would equal lect rightly, the opportunities feat at the hands of Campbell
broke abruptly again. "Do yon leave. I worked on farms, weed- that of last year, the unexpected for the Nisei lay in the east, but River at the "River” June 4 bv
mind listening to an old man?" ing and manuring plants ... I formation of clouds Tuesday from the way a couple of young a score of 6-5.
slept on filthv straw infested with
UNFOLDS STORY
morning brings fears that the sters here are carrying on, their
Cod fishing in the midst of the
lice
...
I
pounded
steel
spikes
And then he leaned back and uncream of the crop may spoil in only desire is to head north kelp of the swirling back-eddies
ioldod the story of the secret into rocklike ties for fourteen the fields and that those picked wards — and no further than of Seymour Narrows is compen
newer that had driven Jack hours a day . . . coarse and bru may not be of a quality suitable Cumberland and vicinity at that. sating for the present "fair”
„
tal men were my companions .
Tut, tut.
through (he years of his life.
for shipment to the east.
they called me Togo when they
You have lots of competition, salmon trolling. "C. A.” caught
"as horn m a good family.
For
the
past
several
weeks,
bo
We know for a fact that four cod and three ling-cod re
My father was a merchant in our were in a good mood . . . when Kenneth Oikawa has been trying f
Jimmy
was, in town for a cently using a homemade plug.
ancestral village. His great they became drunk they called his luck at trout fishing but son
,
,,
tTtrv^V1?
did Kawabara and Harold Kawasoe?
grandfather was one of the re a ‘God dammed Jap’ and kicked far has only a little nine inch one
me
and
spat
tobacco
juice
in
my
to his credit. Judging from his L
y and fmd Out lf a cer’
How are your chances boys?
tainers of a powerful overlord
face
.
.
.
at
nights
I
was
too
tired
Three
boys trying their darnd'est
fishy
yarns
he
seems
to
be
a
poor
W
St
!
!
\
h
town-yes,
but he had settled in this village
to
think
and
I
flopped
into
bed
fisherman
as
the
big
ones
always
L
ffc
L*
cause
shed
to catch a trout or two in the
after one of the annual visits of
every
muscle
protesting
get
away
from
him.
the
ni
\
ht
before
'
gorge but no luck so far—mayhis lord to Yedo. the seat of the
OPENS BUSINESS
Rumors have it that Toh is haps you’re not using the right
Tokngawa Sh ogunate.
"Years went by, I drifted from
Ellen
a j
l down 011 the farm tuning up on sort of bait, fellas.
He did not forget that he was a one job to another. All this time
ter
of
IlZ
n
'
u
9
2 his ™cal serenading so we’ll
Samurai, and his children and his I could
f»tl
U
j
f
Hammond,
have another soloist t0 entertain
not forget the face of my
grandfather lived in the shadow father,
and the wharf and his
“e long winter
of a great tradition. From child words.
Hight yc%^
have even
the
Finally
I
had
saved
up
hood I was brought up to observe enough
money to open a little
j •
r i Y
‘
makings of a real singing-waiter
the rigid code of Bushido.
candv shop. Business was good r he d.T'ver °f the caL Robert E. to cater at the next social.
I was still in college when the • • . money that came from the Cramm, 3536 Ouesnelle Drive, VanMy, oh my, somebody is beamban on those desiring to emigrate gold hills of the interior filtered couver, was charged with
. . .
. . ' .
man- ingly happy these days. What
to the America was lifted. But over my counter. Suddenly I slaughter
and later released by the a lot of sunshine a mere letter
only students were allowed to wanted a wife.
=£P2^
can bring, if (?) it is from ^
leave.
"I wrote to my parents and as he was old enough. After r'9bt party.
LURED
soon they had arranged it so
A11 the boys were out for base"Lured by tales of quick riches that my bride, pre-arranged school he would work as a deto be gotten in the United States’ when I was still a boy came to livery boy, or as a newshawk. Be-'^ practice last Friday night
incited by the plans of some me. I greeted her at the wharf. fore we, knew it he had finished Iunder the watchful eyes of Masao
KEEP
the room.
"
schoolmates who were leaving for The girl that I had known was his public school education.
AND
The neighbors laughed when
Slowly, as if in a trance, the
the source of all riches, I too, in a beautiful creature. My heart
we sent him to high school. He old man once more continued his
spite of the silent tears of my welled with the thought that I
COMFORTABLE
was
practically the first Japan- narration.
mother and the stern dissuasions was to have this woman to wife
This Summer
ese. At night he would come
"My life has been a failure. I
01 my father made up my mind to and to confide in.
join my friends.
home and pore over his books have made no money, I have
"She only stood with her
“I shall never forget the last glued to the ground—a eyes in the light of a smoking oil- gained no honours, no social pres WEAR A
faint lam p . . . his desk was the sew- tige, I have suffered, I have sacwords that my father left with blush on her cheeks.
mg machine top, his seat a rificed‘ everything.
me as I stood on the windswept
Sport Shirt
But even
"I
took
her
home
to
the
back
battered
piano stool.
wharf for the whistle. 'You are
though I failed, my son has caught
$ BUTTON
of a line of Samurais. Never of the store. It was dirty and un "ft was in his fourth year at my vision. He will carry on the
ZIPPER
bring' shame to your family comfortable. But she did not say high school, that he came home family name. He will achieve that
I
NON BUTTON
name, never bring shame to a word. She took control and with eyes alight and told us his dream which I could not realize
soon we had a one room home that ambition. With trembling he un in my own life. Now, I am happy.
seemed paradise after mv vears folded his secret dream of becom I live knowing that even if I COLOURS
spent in camps and in tents.
ing a bridge between Japan and should die to-morrow, my life and
Cream, Grey, Green,
America. He told of his vision of work will not have been in vain.
RIOTS
Copper, Blue, Teal,
;
The anti-Japanese riots broke a new Pan-Pacific era. He gloried
Tan.
out. My windows were smashed over the future that the new genmy goods stolen . . . and we were eiation would play in the interna
dragged lower and lower into tional situation between America
misery and want. Our furniture and Japan, knowing the two lanPOWELL DRUG first
lied (he woodstove during the guages and the customs of Am
winter months and our pans’were erica.
you want CAMERAS SKINTITE
"My wife, now old and frail
tacked to the ceiling to catch the
I
Swimming Trunks
listened with tears in her eyes
tain as it dripped through.
Men’s
*
"Then Jack came. My wife and smiled. I think, as she ’re
PERSONAL
membered
the
hours
of
teaching
never strong became worse. From
RADIO From $15.oo
Jack Japanese, both drugged with
c ar radio & antenna "
011 Sle vas a semi-invalid. fatigue.
REPAIR & INSTALLATION
But she continued to work around
w'a?
JANTZEN
He
paused
again
at
the
thought
High. 1660
H. INOUYE de house and in the summer of his wife. She had died hie
Bi
Men’s
vent with us to work in the grape
605 E. HASTINGS ST.
following
year.
yards to pick grapes.
Jack worked hard too as soon ]e ^^ hoiked liard. entered colre working during rhe summer
k
months at anything he could find. WE ARE EXPERT ADVISERS
BOYS
\ i vient 'without clothes and many
ON PHOTOGRAPHY
99c
£ comforts. I dropped a tobacco
TRinity 2899
SKINT1TE
£ habit, that had dogged me 'for
JANTZEN
years. .After his mother died.
films
by
"SILVER
FINISH
”
Jack suddenly grew up. He be
2.95
came tender and motherly in his
SOLE AGENT FOR
attention to me.
a
SLIKN1T
CERTO CAMERAS
s
I here was a long silence.
The old man was evidently
tired. The wood in the fireplace
s
eputtered and crackled as the
r Dt
SE ymour 5218
tire sank lower and lower. Far
399
Powell
St.
away, the wailing cry of the "Mid
369 POWELL STREET
night Limited” came drifting into ।
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ud
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THE NEW CANADIAN
Sunbury Kendoists
Donate Books
I was surprised to sen tp(1
resemblance of the Father (o' your country and to your To School Library
Capita! City Chatter Bloedel Bulletin
Jack. The same rugged chin ami emoeror.’
the same kindly ryes but wreath-' "I watched the dimming shoreThe authoritative work, "The
Here’s something we picked up
Further extension of the Island
ed with lines of toil and care. He?ine ()f Japan for a lon" time- with Japanese Canadians,” by Charles at a local oyster house that we
Highway
from Vanisle terminus
straightened himself in th" wonJa nn.mb ache in my heart and pon Young, Helen R. Y. Reid and think is good enough to pass on.
toward Bloedel and Lamb locality
Morriss chair and his bright un-i dered over the words of my Dr. W. A. Carrothers and the Luke had it before; Paul had it
dimmed eyes reflected the flying aging father.
humorous "Memoirs” of popu behind; Mathew never had it; all is under way. With headquarters
He paused and T noticed
sparks in the grate.
lar Stephen Leacock were don girls have it once, boys cannot at Vanisle, surveyors and road"
ated by the Sunbury Japanese have it; old Airs. Mulligan had it men of the Forest Project are con
T sat silent unable to say a ii v- gleam in his eye.
structing a road through wilder
SAN FRANCISCO
Canadian Fencing Club to the twice in succession; Dr. Lowell ness.
thing.
was Jack’s father
But the feeling of adventure Delta Junior Senior High had it before and behind too. He
whom Jack had adored and about
j _ Fully aware of more hazardous
whom he had raved during four soon dispersed my ache. And for School Library during the had it twice as bad behind as fire weather ahead, the Bloedel
before.
whole years at Princeton. Here days T laid in mv bed too sick to school’s "Book Week.”
Now get your friends together Stewart and Welch Ltd. intend*
was the man that had sparked eat or think. Three weeks later
to close operation at Bloedel fo?
and work this out—if (?) neces three
•lack to the tremendous athletic we reached San Francisco, T had
weeks from
~
June 27 to
and
scholastic
achievement, a hundred dollars in mv pocket Maple Ridge Review sary, all requests for the answer July 17.
whispered still in awe by a new and a firm resolve to study.
In a hectic tussle for supreniAlthough the change in Weather may be sent to Ye Editor.
"I stayed for three months in over the week-end to ideal har
During the Chemainus con- acy,
generation of Japanese students.
"Bloedel Bombers” baseball
After a pause, as if to take my an English home. But soon the vesting conditions had given rise vention last year, if we recoh nine of Camp 4 went down to desilence as proud acquiescence, he lure of easy money made me to hopes that the crop would equal lect rightly, the opportunities feat at the hands of Campbell
broke abruptly again. "Do yon leave. I worked on farms, weed- that of last year, the unexpected for the Nisei lay in the east, but River at the "River” June 4 bv
mind listening to an old man?" ing and manuring plants ... I formation of clouds Tuesday from the way a couple of young a score of 6-5.
slept on filthv straw infested with
UNFOLDS STORY
morning brings fears that the sters here are carrying on, their
Cod fishing in the midst of the
lice
...
I
pounded
steel
spikes
And then he leaned back and uncream of the crop may spoil in only desire is to head north kelp of the swirling back-eddies
ioldod the story of the secret into rocklike ties for fourteen the fields and that those picked wards — and no further than of Seymour Narrows is compen
newer that had driven Jack hours a day . . . coarse and bru may not be of a quality suitable Cumberland and vicinity at that. sating for the present "fair”
„
tal men were my companions .
Tut, tut.
through (he years of his life.
for shipment to the east.
they called me Togo when they
You have lots of competition, salmon trolling. "C. A.” caught
"as horn m a good family.
For
the
past
several
weeks,
bo
We know for a fact that four cod and three ling-cod re
My father was a merchant in our were in a good mood . . . when Kenneth Oikawa has been trying f
Jimmy
was, in town for a cently using a homemade plug.
ancestral village. His great they became drunk they called his luck at trout fishing but son
,
,,
tTtrv^V1?
did Kawabara and Harold Kawasoe?
grandfather was one of the re a ‘God dammed Jap’ and kicked far has only a little nine inch one
me
and
spat
tobacco
juice
in
my
to his credit. Judging from his L
y and fmd Out lf a cer’
How are your chances boys?
tainers of a powerful overlord
face
.
.
.
at
nights
I
was
too
tired
Three
boys trying their darnd'est
fishy
yarns
he
seems
to
be
a
poor
W
St
!
!
\
h
town-yes,
but he had settled in this village
to
think
and
I
flopped
into
bed
fisherman
as
the
big
ones
always
L
ffc
L*
cause
shed
to catch a trout or two in the
after one of the annual visits of
every
muscle
protesting
get
away
from
him.
the
ni
\
ht
before
'
gorge but no luck so far—mayhis lord to Yedo. the seat of the
OPENS BUSINESS
Rumors have it that Toh is haps you’re not using the right
Tokngawa Sh ogunate.
"Years went by, I drifted from
Ellen
a j
l down 011 the farm tuning up on sort of bait, fellas.
He did not forget that he was a one job to another. All this time
ter
of
IlZ
n
'
u
9
2 his ™cal serenading so we’ll
Samurai, and his children and his I could
f»tl
U
j
f
Hammond,
have another soloist t0 entertain
not forget the face of my
grandfather lived in the shadow father,
and the wharf and his
“e long winter
of a great tradition. From child words.
Hight yc%^
have even
the
Finally
I
had
saved
up
hood I was brought up to observe enough
money to open a little
j •
r i Y
‘
makings of a real singing-waiter
the rigid code of Bushido.
candv shop. Business was good r he d.T'ver °f the caL Robert E. to cater at the next social.
I was still in college when the • • . money that came from the Cramm, 3536 Ouesnelle Drive, VanMy, oh my, somebody is beamban on those desiring to emigrate gold hills of the interior filtered couver, was charged with
. . .
. . ' .
man- ingly happy these days. What
to the America was lifted. But over my counter. Suddenly I slaughter
and later released by the a lot of sunshine a mere letter
only students were allowed to wanted a wife.
=£P2^
can bring, if (?) it is from ^
leave.
"I wrote to my parents and as he was old enough. After r'9bt party.
LURED
soon they had arranged it so
A11 the boys were out for base"Lured by tales of quick riches that my bride, pre-arranged school he would work as a deto be gotten in the United States’ when I was still a boy came to livery boy, or as a newshawk. Be-'^ practice last Friday night
incited by the plans of some me. I greeted her at the wharf. fore we, knew it he had finished Iunder the watchful eyes of Masao
KEEP
the room.
"
schoolmates who were leaving for The girl that I had known was his public school education.
AND
The neighbors laughed when
Slowly, as if in a trance, the
the source of all riches, I too, in a beautiful creature. My heart
we sent him to high school. He old man once more continued his
spite of the silent tears of my welled with the thought that I
COMFORTABLE
was
practically the first Japan- narration.
mother and the stern dissuasions was to have this woman to wife
This Summer
ese. At night he would come
"My life has been a failure. I
01 my father made up my mind to and to confide in.
join my friends.
home and pore over his books have made no money, I have
"She only stood with her
“I shall never forget the last glued to the ground—a eyes in the light of a smoking oil- gained no honours, no social pres WEAR A
faint lam p . . . his desk was the sew- tige, I have suffered, I have sacwords that my father left with blush on her cheeks.
mg machine top, his seat a rificed‘ everything.
me as I stood on the windswept
Sport Shirt
But even
"I
took
her
home
to
the
back
battered
piano stool.
wharf for the whistle. 'You are
though I failed, my son has caught
$ BUTTON
of a line of Samurais. Never of the store. It was dirty and un "ft was in his fourth year at my vision. He will carry on the
ZIPPER
bring' shame to your family comfortable. But she did not say high school, that he came home family name. He will achieve that
I
NON BUTTON
name, never bring shame to a word. She took control and with eyes alight and told us his dream which I could not realize
soon we had a one room home that ambition. With trembling he un in my own life. Now, I am happy.
seemed paradise after mv vears folded his secret dream of becom I live knowing that even if I COLOURS
spent in camps and in tents.
ing a bridge between Japan and should die to-morrow, my life and
Cream, Grey, Green,
America. He told of his vision of work will not have been in vain.
RIOTS
Copper, Blue, Teal,
;
The anti-Japanese riots broke a new Pan-Pacific era. He gloried
Tan.
out. My windows were smashed over the future that the new genmy goods stolen . . . and we were eiation would play in the interna
dragged lower and lower into tional situation between America
misery and want. Our furniture and Japan, knowing the two lanPOWELL DRUG first
lied (he woodstove during the guages and the customs of Am
winter months and our pans’were erica.
you want CAMERAS SKINTITE
"My wife, now old and frail
tacked to the ceiling to catch the
I
Swimming Trunks
listened with tears in her eyes
tain as it dripped through.
Men’s
*
"Then Jack came. My wife and smiled. I think, as she ’re
PERSONAL
membered
the
hours
of
teaching
never strong became worse. From
RADIO From $15.oo
Jack Japanese, both drugged with
c ar radio & antenna "
011 Sle vas a semi-invalid. fatigue.
REPAIR & INSTALLATION
But she continued to work around
w'a?
JANTZEN
He
paused
again
at
the
thought
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Bi
Men’s
vent with us to work in the grape
605 E. HASTINGS ST.
following
year.
yards to pick grapes.
Jack worked hard too as soon ]e ^^ hoiked liard. entered colre working during rhe summer
k
months at anything he could find. WE ARE EXPERT ADVISERS
BOYS
\ i vient 'without clothes and many
ON PHOTOGRAPHY
99c
£ comforts. I dropped a tobacco
TRinity 2899
SKINT1TE
£ habit, that had dogged me 'for
JANTZEN
years. .After his mother died.
films
by
"SILVER
FINISH
”
Jack suddenly grew up. He be
2.95
came tender and motherly in his
SOLE AGENT FOR
attention to me.
a
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I here was a long silence.
The old man was evidently
tired. The wood in the fireplace
s
eputtered and crackled as the
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tire sank lower and lower. Far
399
Powell
St.
away, the wailing cry of the "Mid
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THE NEW CANADIAN
'i
lisei$ Receive School Awards
£
Localites To Attend
Finally, the school term has come expected to speak and write in just .Takarazuka Opera
to a close. Just before dismissal, as high a standard of English as;
, The presentation of the CherryBy Tyrone Power
however, many deserving students your fellow-Canadians.
Blossom
Ballet
by
members
of
the
I reaped the fruits of their year's toil,
I’ll be handling this column until our
We wish you all good luck and a i Takarazuka Girls Opera in Seattle is I while
columnist.
Miss
Hon-ne.
decides to crawl out of her
and were presented with numerous
happy vacation. We're expecting attracting a number of local resi
awards.
bo. men, this is your chance to square accounts with
great achievements from those of
Among those students were many you who remain. If you will always dents to the Washington metropolis So-ne-chan and her reporters, and discuss the day's doing in this
over the week-end, including among exclusive "For Men Only" column. Just “light up and listen
Niseis—a significant fact, in face keep in
of the usual passivity for which the singular mind the fact that your others: Frank and Satoshi Nakamura, awhile."
Japanese students are notorious. Let Nisei as actions reflect upon the Hiroshi Okuda, Kunio Shimizu, Harry'
a whole, you cannot go far Shibuya, Bill Okada, Chief Fuku
The shrewdest crack of the week overheard it in a 5.30 p.m.
us, however, strive for more active wrong.
yama, S. Fukukawa and H. Iwasaki.
ar yesterday: "Look, at all those women sitting’ there
and diverse participation in the fu
THE FOUR 1939 GRADUATES.
They've nothing to do bitt try to look pretty and take up
ture.
Woodwork Display
unnecessa r y space.’
With this issue, the School Shorts
*
*
The Woodwork display was held Y.P.S. Beach Party
Column folds up until fall. To those in the main hall. Among the Ex
That ''Oyster without his shell" was seen at Ernies
Powell United Y.P.S. will hold
correspondents who unselfishly gave hibits was a beautiful table made
spanking
naughty little girls. Good practice for future
its first beach party of the year
their time to support the column by Goro Omotani.
occupation, eh, George?
on the beautiful sandy beach be
♦
since its modest inception, the
Baseball Championship
low
the
University.
The
date
is
Schoo! Editor extends his whole Magee won the Inter-high Baseball
The annual Hokutokai Picnic was as big a success as ever
Thursday. the 22nd, the time, Noticed
hearted gratitude, and hopes that Championship Cup.
would-be sophisticates having the time of their lives on
7:30,
and
the
fee,
probably
only
their successors will be equally in
the swings and see-saws. That worried look on the brow of that
Shige Fukumoto helped Magee- one thin dime.
artist,
musician, orator, and photographer, when the rain threat
teresting and co-operative.
ites win their way to victory.
If
you
’
re
coming
please
tele
ened
to
prevent the girls arriving in the p.m. with gastronomic
KITSILANO KAPERS
Anual
phone
Tak
Komiyama,
DExter
delights, . . . Meyko certainly knows how to put. orf screeching
The school's annual picnic, held
After lots and lots of hard work 0769-L, or Eiji Yatabe, BAyview “breaks" when going down the slides—how about a little castor
on the 3rd of June, was a success, on the part of interested students,
oil ioi her, guys? . . . Sun glasses don’t agree with the Maestro.
as far as the general fun was con was finally completed. It was edit
After
everyone had complained loud and long about the rain, he
cerned. As for Nisei attendance ed and printed entirely by the stuand their terpsichorean tripping, it the 1939 annual, "The Adventure" Matrons Club Meet pipes up with this naive remark: “Why, it’s raining. I thought it
was spots on the sun" . . . That girl in grey taking part in an eat
was dismal. There were just eight dents. Norah Fujita was the "Arts !
ing
marathon—one of you men better whisper "figure" to her
The finer details in the art of
Niseis present, and only one was; Editor" for the annual.
Japanese Cookery will be dem But the baseball mound star with a ruddy countenance seemed to
stepping at all. Come on, Niseis,
GRANDVIEW GLANCES
onstrated and discussed Thurs- enjoy gnawing on a rooster and a half . . . My good fran. Joe,
where is your school spirit?
June 12 was a momentous day
blushing with embarrassment sprawled all over the dance floor—
The Monday following the pic for a great many students, includ ^ay, June 22, at the home of Mrs. the i esult of coming' into too close contact with Jimmy’s wiggle
nic was awards day, and here the ing many Niseis. They had reason E. Miyake, 504 Cassiar Street, wiggles . . . Mizi manhandling his better half in the three-legged
Niseis didn't do too badly. At least to be glad, for it was Awards Pres when the Matrons’ Club gathers race, just to win some stationery to send southwards . . . Yukio’s
for its regular monthly meeting.
fleas need more training. They were jumping all over Y.Y., much
eight were honored. Reiko Tsuji entation Day.
to his discomfort ... A handful of girls dogging bashful Shige and
mura and Frank Sumi received a
Emiko Okukawa was awarded a
candid camera shooting him whenever possible. Brother Mich
small block "K," for athletic merit; cup, as the typewriting champion of
Farewell
Banquet
says: “The women are spoiling him. He bought a new pair of
/,^^e" ^ato' a'so a sma" block Grade XI; Katsuzo Hayashi received
K , for Inter-High sports; Jack both a block and a small "G" for
A farewell banquet in honour pants and sox just for this picnic” . . . That young lady suspended
Sumi, in addition to a small block soccer and track; Tom Nobuoka, of Eichi Goto, who sails for Japan in mid-air in a frankly “cock-eyed” fashion—well, So-ne . . . Conso
^ f°r Easeball, received a blue likewise for soccer; Takeo Yamada, aboard the Hikawa Maru, June lations to Sho, who miscalculated the distance between the boat
"K" for service in the Utility Club; similar awards for soccer and art; 21. will be held at the New Pier and the wharf. Result—an icy bhth!
The end of a perfect day saw weary but happy crowd sailing
George Suzuki for service in the and the same for Masao Naka, for Cafe Saturday evening, June 17,
home.
at 7:00 p.m.
Projection Committee, also received track.
*
*
*
a blue "K".
Sponsored by the Meirokai, all
For track work, Tom Sagara re
A couple fellows have been upsetting the tradition that
The Nishio brothers again shone ceived a small "G"; a similar prize friends are cordially invited to
it’s only women who worry about their weight. Over
with Nori receiving a small block
to Mary Yamada for orchestra work, attend, and are asked to comheard
Kaz and Mike in a heated argument, each convinced
"K" as a member of the Jr. Cana
to Emi Okukawa who sang in the municate with Miss Pat Kawajiri,
he was the slimmer of the two. They’re asking public
dian rugby team and Tommy re
Glee Club; to Amy Oki of the SEy. 2490-R. or Dick Tomoda, SEy
opinion now, so have that tape measure handy.
*
winning his big block "K" for
Dancing Club, and to Takeru Furuya 1803.
work on both the Sr. Canadian of the Camera Club.
__A fee of only 35c will be asked.
A couple of college lads sent in this contribution: ‘‘Listen
and English rugby teams.
men, ever felt moony—it’s a sure symptom of love. So-ne went
The School Annual, coming out
so moony the other day, as to play the wrong tune on the organ.”
Minoru Yatabe, for leading Grade on June 2, contained a full list of
Ide
Addresses
Y.P.
XI in scholastic achievements, re honour students, among which were
Thanks for the info’, lads.
*
*
*
The speaker at the regular
ceived a scholarship award, repeat more than a generous sprinkling of
Niseis, Those of the graduating meeting of the Wilson Heights
ing his success in grade IX.
Say, Steve, how about a tip on those two little KitsiUnited Church Young People’s
classes included:
lano girls, who’ve been haunting Happyland lately.
MAGEE MEDLEY
*
*
*
A Message from the Graduates.
Society, Tuesday evening, June
1 st class—Yoshiko Kurita,
Action is required on this! It’s an extract from some of Sone2nd class—Takeru Furuya, Haru- 13, was Jin Ide, who addressed
Dear Undergraduates:
ch
lan
’s fan mail I laid hands on. Look here:
Permit ^us, as graduates from this ko Maruno, Tom Sagara, Tamaye the members on the Second Gen
dear old Alma Mater, to leave with Shintani, Kowi Sagawa, and Terrie eration Japanese in B. C.
“It is with deep regret and sorrow tha-t I read of your sudden
Sugiura.
you a bit of sage advice.
and
unaccountable withdrawal from the realm of keyhole journal
Receiving awards for playing on
BRITANNIA BILLINGS
JI) Show your■ interest in school
the Senior English Rugby team were ism. 1 hope that you have not taken to heart the so-called resentOur
apologies
for
failing
to
mention
activities by co-operation and serT. Fukuyama, Dick Matsui, Henry ment of the characters you describe so fluently, for I know that the
Vice- Remember that your fellow one of the graduates in Class 3—a Okada, Bill Okada, Roy Oshiro, Frank self-same people who kicked so vigorously will be the ones who
miss your column most. It will be a terrific blow to their
students and yourself are the future championship athlete and artist. The
"B" crescts were won by Bill will
pride
and love of the limelight.”
citizens of Canada: they are the B-Hi-Scoops says "Jack Takayesu's Okada (2), Frankand Jack Taka
That sounds something like a. slam, that we can’t take lying
ones who may decide thecate of the smile brightens anybody's blues."
yesu, Yoshi Tsuji, T. Fukuyama, and
down.
Let’s give him the woiks, men.
Diamond
crests
were
awarded
Nisei. You can do inestimable good
H. Okada for English and Canadian
or yourself and yours by quietly to Amy Iwasaki, Shinko Nagata, Rugby, and by Teiso Uyeno (2) for
and Kazuko Sanmiya for their
displaying your abilities.
English Rugby.
Louis Gold's School of Dancing
U) Study conscientiously and work in the Music Club; and to
DELTA DOPE
prepare yourselves for a great work, Yuki Ochiai (2) and Jack TaBy H. T.
Modern and Old Time Dances
(2)
for
their
artistry
in
kayesu
especially in the subject of English.
I Here's our contribution from the
Striclty Private Lessons Daily
s Canadian-born citizens, you are the Poster Club.
Delta Junior-Senior High. With so
At Town Hall Ballroom, Pender at Burrard
Many of the boys won recogni many schools breaking into this
Class Lessons from July 3rd, 8 One-hour Lessons for $2.00
tion for athletics, especially in Eng- column, we might as well all join in
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and Jack Takayesu, Yoshi Tsuii, and the fun, before this column breathes
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Teiso Uyeno.
its last.
lish and Canadian Rugby, some of
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Only nine out of the total 260
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The graduates of this year are
Jessie Maeda and Emiko Oikawa.
Jessie was the secretary of the
Grade 12 class.
was one of the
debaters in the non-decision debate,
held in March, on the subject,'
Resolved that Democracy is better than the isms'.
Eiji Maeda copped
first place in
. .
the school 100-yard dash in the
school track meet, but was unable
to repeat this trick in the Fraser
Valley Meet.
Better luck next
time, Eiji.
Deyo Maeda is playing on the
school lacrosse team, which we re
gret to report, lost to Surrey on
June 9.
Ernest Tamaki
208 MAIN ST.
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M
if
'i
lisei$ Receive School Awards
£
Localites To Attend
Finally, the school term has come expected to speak and write in just .Takarazuka Opera
to a close. Just before dismissal, as high a standard of English as;
, The presentation of the CherryBy Tyrone Power
however, many deserving students your fellow-Canadians.
Blossom
Ballet
by
members
of
the
I reaped the fruits of their year's toil,
I’ll be handling this column until our
We wish you all good luck and a i Takarazuka Girls Opera in Seattle is I while
columnist.
Miss
Hon-ne.
decides to crawl out of her
and were presented with numerous
happy vacation. We're expecting attracting a number of local resi
awards.
bo. men, this is your chance to square accounts with
great achievements from those of
Among those students were many you who remain. If you will always dents to the Washington metropolis So-ne-chan and her reporters, and discuss the day's doing in this
over the week-end, including among exclusive "For Men Only" column. Just “light up and listen
Niseis—a significant fact, in face keep in
of the usual passivity for which the singular mind the fact that your others: Frank and Satoshi Nakamura, awhile."
Japanese students are notorious. Let Nisei as actions reflect upon the Hiroshi Okuda, Kunio Shimizu, Harry'
a whole, you cannot go far Shibuya, Bill Okada, Chief Fuku
The shrewdest crack of the week overheard it in a 5.30 p.m.
us, however, strive for more active wrong.
yama, S. Fukukawa and H. Iwasaki.
ar yesterday: "Look, at all those women sitting’ there
and diverse participation in the fu
THE FOUR 1939 GRADUATES.
They've nothing to do bitt try to look pretty and take up
ture.
Woodwork Display
unnecessa r y space.’
With this issue, the School Shorts
*
*
The Woodwork display was held Y.P.S. Beach Party
Column folds up until fall. To those in the main hall. Among the Ex
That ''Oyster without his shell" was seen at Ernies
Powell United Y.P.S. will hold
correspondents who unselfishly gave hibits was a beautiful table made
spanking
naughty little girls. Good practice for future
its first beach party of the year
their time to support the column by Goro Omotani.
occupation, eh, George?
on the beautiful sandy beach be
♦
since its modest inception, the
Baseball Championship
low
the
University.
The
date
is
Schoo! Editor extends his whole Magee won the Inter-high Baseball
The annual Hokutokai Picnic was as big a success as ever
Thursday. the 22nd, the time, Noticed
hearted gratitude, and hopes that Championship Cup.
would-be sophisticates having the time of their lives on
7:30,
and
the
fee,
probably
only
their successors will be equally in
the swings and see-saws. That worried look on the brow of that
Shige Fukumoto helped Magee- one thin dime.
artist,
musician, orator, and photographer, when the rain threat
teresting and co-operative.
ites win their way to victory.
If
you
’
re
coming
please
tele
ened
to
prevent the girls arriving in the p.m. with gastronomic
KITSILANO KAPERS
Anual
phone
Tak
Komiyama,
DExter
delights, . . . Meyko certainly knows how to put. orf screeching
The school's annual picnic, held
After lots and lots of hard work 0769-L, or Eiji Yatabe, BAyview “breaks" when going down the slides—how about a little castor
on the 3rd of June, was a success, on the part of interested students,
oil ioi her, guys? . . . Sun glasses don’t agree with the Maestro.
as far as the general fun was con was finally completed. It was edit
After
everyone had complained loud and long about the rain, he
cerned. As for Nisei attendance ed and printed entirely by the stuand their terpsichorean tripping, it the 1939 annual, "The Adventure" Matrons Club Meet pipes up with this naive remark: “Why, it’s raining. I thought it
was spots on the sun" . . . That girl in grey taking part in an eat
was dismal. There were just eight dents. Norah Fujita was the "Arts !
ing
marathon—one of you men better whisper "figure" to her
The finer details in the art of
Niseis present, and only one was; Editor" for the annual.
Japanese Cookery will be dem But the baseball mound star with a ruddy countenance seemed to
stepping at all. Come on, Niseis,
GRANDVIEW GLANCES
onstrated and discussed Thurs- enjoy gnawing on a rooster and a half . . . My good fran. Joe,
where is your school spirit?
June 12 was a momentous day
blushing with embarrassment sprawled all over the dance floor—
The Monday following the pic for a great many students, includ ^ay, June 22, at the home of Mrs. the i esult of coming' into too close contact with Jimmy’s wiggle
nic was awards day, and here the ing many Niseis. They had reason E. Miyake, 504 Cassiar Street, wiggles . . . Mizi manhandling his better half in the three-legged
Niseis didn't do too badly. At least to be glad, for it was Awards Pres when the Matrons’ Club gathers race, just to win some stationery to send southwards . . . Yukio’s
for its regular monthly meeting.
fleas need more training. They were jumping all over Y.Y., much
eight were honored. Reiko Tsuji entation Day.
to his discomfort ... A handful of girls dogging bashful Shige and
mura and Frank Sumi received a
Emiko Okukawa was awarded a
candid camera shooting him whenever possible. Brother Mich
small block "K," for athletic merit; cup, as the typewriting champion of
Farewell
Banquet
says: “The women are spoiling him. He bought a new pair of
/,^^e" ^ato' a'so a sma" block Grade XI; Katsuzo Hayashi received
K , for Inter-High sports; Jack both a block and a small "G" for
A farewell banquet in honour pants and sox just for this picnic” . . . That young lady suspended
Sumi, in addition to a small block soccer and track; Tom Nobuoka, of Eichi Goto, who sails for Japan in mid-air in a frankly “cock-eyed” fashion—well, So-ne . . . Conso
^ f°r Easeball, received a blue likewise for soccer; Takeo Yamada, aboard the Hikawa Maru, June lations to Sho, who miscalculated the distance between the boat
"K" for service in the Utility Club; similar awards for soccer and art; 21. will be held at the New Pier and the wharf. Result—an icy bhth!
The end of a perfect day saw weary but happy crowd sailing
George Suzuki for service in the and the same for Masao Naka, for Cafe Saturday evening, June 17,
home.
at 7:00 p.m.
Projection Committee, also received track.
*
*
*
a blue "K".
Sponsored by the Meirokai, all
For track work, Tom Sagara re
A couple fellows have been upsetting the tradition that
The Nishio brothers again shone ceived a small "G"; a similar prize friends are cordially invited to
it’s only women who worry about their weight. Over
with Nori receiving a small block
to Mary Yamada for orchestra work, attend, and are asked to comheard
Kaz and Mike in a heated argument, each convinced
"K" as a member of the Jr. Cana
to Emi Okukawa who sang in the municate with Miss Pat Kawajiri,
he was the slimmer of the two. They’re asking public
dian rugby team and Tommy re
Glee Club; to Amy Oki of the SEy. 2490-R. or Dick Tomoda, SEy
opinion now, so have that tape measure handy.
*
winning his big block "K" for
Dancing Club, and to Takeru Furuya 1803.
work on both the Sr. Canadian of the Camera Club.
__A fee of only 35c will be asked.
A couple of college lads sent in this contribution: ‘‘Listen
and English rugby teams.
men, ever felt moony—it’s a sure symptom of love. So-ne went
The School Annual, coming out
so moony the other day, as to play the wrong tune on the organ.”
Minoru Yatabe, for leading Grade on June 2, contained a full list of
Ide
Addresses
Y.P.
XI in scholastic achievements, re honour students, among which were
Thanks for the info’, lads.
*
*
*
The speaker at the regular
ceived a scholarship award, repeat more than a generous sprinkling of
Niseis, Those of the graduating meeting of the Wilson Heights
ing his success in grade IX.
Say, Steve, how about a tip on those two little KitsiUnited Church Young People’s
classes included:
lano girls, who’ve been haunting Happyland lately.
MAGEE MEDLEY
*
*
*
A Message from the Graduates.
Society, Tuesday evening, June
1 st class—Yoshiko Kurita,
Action is required on this! It’s an extract from some of Sone2nd class—Takeru Furuya, Haru- 13, was Jin Ide, who addressed
Dear Undergraduates:
ch
lan
’s fan mail I laid hands on. Look here:
Permit ^us, as graduates from this ko Maruno, Tom Sagara, Tamaye the members on the Second Gen
dear old Alma Mater, to leave with Shintani, Kowi Sagawa, and Terrie eration Japanese in B. C.
“It is with deep regret and sorrow tha-t I read of your sudden
Sugiura.
you a bit of sage advice.
and
unaccountable withdrawal from the realm of keyhole journal
Receiving awards for playing on
BRITANNIA BILLINGS
JI) Show your■ interest in school
the Senior English Rugby team were ism. 1 hope that you have not taken to heart the so-called resentOur
apologies
for
failing
to
mention
activities by co-operation and serT. Fukuyama, Dick Matsui, Henry ment of the characters you describe so fluently, for I know that the
Vice- Remember that your fellow one of the graduates in Class 3—a Okada, Bill Okada, Roy Oshiro, Frank self-same people who kicked so vigorously will be the ones who
miss your column most. It will be a terrific blow to their
students and yourself are the future championship athlete and artist. The
"B" crescts were won by Bill will
pride
and love of the limelight.”
citizens of Canada: they are the B-Hi-Scoops says "Jack Takayesu's Okada (2), Frankand Jack Taka
That sounds something like a. slam, that we can’t take lying
ones who may decide thecate of the smile brightens anybody's blues."
yesu, Yoshi Tsuji, T. Fukuyama, and
down.
Let’s give him the woiks, men.
Diamond
crests
were
awarded
Nisei. You can do inestimable good
H. Okada for English and Canadian
or yourself and yours by quietly to Amy Iwasaki, Shinko Nagata, Rugby, and by Teiso Uyeno (2) for
and Kazuko Sanmiya for their
displaying your abilities.
English Rugby.
Louis Gold's School of Dancing
U) Study conscientiously and work in the Music Club; and to
DELTA DOPE
prepare yourselves for a great work, Yuki Ochiai (2) and Jack TaBy H. T.
Modern and Old Time Dances
(2)
for
their
artistry
in
kayesu
especially in the subject of English.
I Here's our contribution from the
Striclty Private Lessons Daily
s Canadian-born citizens, you are the Poster Club.
Delta Junior-Senior High. With so
At Town Hall Ballroom, Pender at Burrard
Many of the boys won recogni many schools breaking into this
Class Lessons from July 3rd, 8 One-hour Lessons for $2.00
tion for athletics, especially in Eng- column, we might as well all join in
SE ymour 0413
and Jack Takayesu, Yoshi Tsuii, and the fun, before this column breathes
SE ymour 8177-R
Teiso Uyeno.
its last.
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held in March, on the subject,'
Resolved that Democracy is better than the isms'.
Eiji Maeda copped
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school track meet, but was unable
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THE NEW CANADIAN
Prize-Winning Speech
bit toDo
anc
By DEBORAH
My co-columnist has finally relented in his resolve never to let
me have the column to myself. He even begged me to take over the
post for this time.
Did you notice? The editor refused to accept his last article. I
knew that the appalling sins against journalism committed by Mr. ”1”
would someday overtake him.
Editor’s Note: With this speech, ‘‘Gratitude” (Onkai)
Tsushtma took first place in the recent Jikyokai Oratorical Con^
the Japanese Nall.
at
^5FZ
Having a
“Higher than the highest reach
es of Mount Fuji whither we lift brothers and sisters. I quarre]
up our eyes is a parent’s love.”
With them from time to time bn
"WHEAT AND SOLDIERS"
j
we
do so simply because we are
Truly there is nothing higher or
are
Spring has passed and with her has exited temporarily the poetic
deeper than a parent’s love. Day that intimate. Hardly have ?e
Ty faV°rite V°lume of Poetry I read the book,
and night sacrificing everything finished quarrelling than we are
Wheat and Soldiers, which Dame Fortune put into my hands in a
they burden their hearts with talking happily of school things
most unexpected fashion.
prayers for our happiness and If we compare our lot with that
This novel is by Corporal Ashihei Hino who has won himself
seek to make us splendid young of a single, lonely child, a feel
a name by winning the Akutagawa prize, one of the highest literary
men and women. Let us think ing of love towards our brothers
Although the book is only a few months
quietly of these things for a few and sisters swells up in our
old, 500,000 copies have already been sold in Japan. And now its
hearts.
moments.
tame is rapidly spreading among occidental readers.
OUR FRIENDS
Are we doing
daily good
deeds____
Even
towards
our friends with
in a series of war annals by
that make our parents happy?
There is a saying according to whom we share our joys and our
which even while we try to be sorrows we should not forget the
f
1, recounts the Japanese campaign in China from Wid ^ suggest table decorations good towards our parents they spiiit of gratitude. One cannot
the fall of 1937 to the summer of 1938 as the author experienced it
menu? Could 1 use ^er
as an infantryman.
P
ced H places and cloth with a cooked pass away. Therefore, while our but be deeply moved by the con
The narrative which runs
. ,. ,
.
meal to carry out the idea? Thank parents are now in good health, stant, faithful and trusting love
«
gamut of a soldier s emotions and you.
n
let us be upright and active, and between friends as exemplified
rent byTnever-ceasing barrag^
.°f skie$ that are
Answer-To carry out to a T the make our parents’ hearts happy/ by Damon and Pythias.
sa,isit-mT «o^iXX3“ i^cs:sx
N
our teachers
OUR COMMUNITY
Thanks
to public facilities such
sure moments and have their pleasures and amusements is detailed you wUJ want a PaPer table cloth
Next to the love of our parents
with a rare understanding.
or place mats, napkins, plates and is the love of our teachers. 7,2 aS the SCh°o1’ cI1urch, library
' e streets
and parks and thanks to
I happened to read a commentarv by a wniLi-pn,v„ a
... e'e-- paper forks and spoons. How- are fortunate indeed to he able
•
mis nook, here is an excerpt from if
u
t
° — ------ to. Iearn ^glish m She public■ tne products of civilization such
ARTIST INTERPRFTeo
ho^ foods, be sure to get paper plates schools and Japanese in the"ky- ?L- electnc Wghts, telephones,
"Th?
-mat are nonabsorbent. You can
la n’ steamer, radio, gramawith m
/n° 30 °Ldlnary man< He is a highly sensitive artist * so make ^P6 Paper flowers for ritsu gogakko
Great indeed are the difficnl I'
eS' newsPaPera and magazIn.
•
1
.. y 0 Escover the truth and to state it simply His storv l-e ^H^ptece. But a Jack Horner
ties
experienced
by
our
tX
so revealing to a war-conscious world that it must influence thM 9*h °? Paper is another alternative,
emotions of ordinary man. If is devoid of oron^nanHa
4
1 would oe a grand place to
against war. |ts greatness lies 7 its hones v n thZ f L r
or ! ' ’ 5® ‘?r each ^st, attach- while they are educating us. But
We must not forget the great
ulously devoid of bunk and heroics
h * * '* IS mrac’ 21 "bbon streamer to each favor we sometimes forget their kind- debt we owe to those who in the
"To the
an ^^mg the guests draw. These ness and turn our backs on their past and present have and still
owed aLbLf.
, authorof th.s extraordinary diary there is
“s,“S»t be desk pads, msters, instruction. In spite of this, with
H. k,
. gratitude, and especially by the Japanese people
X
Paper doilies! unchanged love and tears they are. devoting their time and enHo has presented a picture of war, inspired by the littlo known
S i,?8 Oar,ds
so
aU made continue to teach us.
ergies to the development of
Japanese culture, that should be more helpful to infematinn.i
a
J paper, of course. The menu for
civilization.
How are we to respond to such
Will than a corps of diplomats "
’"’nal goodhe anniversary dinner could be
OUR WORLD
a sublime love? We should seek
.omato
juice
cocktail
fried
phiek-pn
Moreover
"THE PATRIOT"
^^,®et potat«s. »“T for hi8to education, pursue 7ay beneflte'of’Mother
w”
we are receiving
the
i£ A A’ ?md ln ^dividual to enlightment, and strive earn6 Natmre. We
Prize Inti. P*Per dishes, Ice cream, wed- estiy
" for
' fellowship between Mak the value ‘o? thXn° v™?”1
for Literature with her "Good Earth."
I din. cake, of course, and coffee.
ada
nda and
and Japan
Tonn«
1 e Vdlue or the sun. FurtherThe Patriot covers the events of twelve years
It beoins
more,
when it rains we feel de
with
Hie revolution sweeping down the Yangtze, when young students fired
OUR FAMILY
spondent. and complain that the
rain spoils the flowers. But if
H nGW
went singing to jail or to the beheading ground
It ends m the mountains of inner China, where driven back foain and
we realize that the growth ot
again by the invader, students and peasants old war
5
°
plants and trees, the beautiful
guerillas alike, stand in a united front and fight on
y™9
blooming of flowers are all due to
the bountifulness of rain we can
With ttetak Hfr^lT
Chinese bwks'-becomes fired
By Kay Yasunaka
im tne .deals ot the revolutionary movement and casts lots with .
not help but feel grateful.
wi" S00n be her« and you'll
But his ,a,hcroh nmJ e
If we do not feel that grate
probably be very busy with tennis and swimminq7 and fulness, but hate ’and speak evil
So of people, it is because we lack
'S taken into the Muraki family, falls in love with picnics, but you can t do those things all the time
the daughter, Tama, and marries her.
h why not start a correspondence with a boy or girl in the the reverent spirit, the humble
STIRRINGS OF HUMANITY
Hawanan islands? There are many, many Nisei bovs and soul, the thankful heart.
e . . e le,ds a T'iet life and almost forgets his revolutionary ideas
OUR TASK
Th ,TK Bl" Strife be'«n China =M Japan comes to 7
rf girls down there who would like to have pen-pals in Canada
Owing to the
— ,.
VJii.ViU1 en
sacrificial
he tide of patriotism that sweeps over the inhihitantc
,
m sure you II have heaps of fun writing to them
deavours
of
many
people
in tbe
country engulfs him too and back he goes to fight for Chin£'S ad°pted
Let s look info one or two of
past we are enjoying our present
n unbiased, intelligent .and sympathetic study is "The
"
these letters and see what these Hawaii.
good
fortune. Accordingly, we
However, Peari Buck is more concerned over the human, the psychofar-away friends have to say.
you are interested in hearing ourselves should build up a part
logical rather than the historical import of events.
From Kualapuu, Molokai, comes a, from boys or girls in romantic of civilization.
Her portrayal of a love between a man and a woman of
.Even I shall drive one golden
two letter from Emiko Tendo. Emiko is Hawaii, please write to me, care of
countries separated by turmoil and strife touches the strings
twelve years old, and she says, "I The New Canadian, giving me in nail into the temple that is beof
the
reader's heart.
like to write to Japanese girls, and formation about your age, your per ing built from the very
beginsonal interests and sparetime ac nmg of time.”
I
wish
I
knew
many
Japanese
girls
14
around the Coast.”
tivities, and whether you would like
No matter how weak, how small
to
exchange, letters with boys or our lives may be, we are a part of
Claire Kondo of Spreckelsville,
THE
Maui, writes . . . ”| am a girl who with girls.
civilized society. One and all
I'll
try
my
very
best
to
find
loves to send letters to the different • +
an we are driving in our nails, in
countries and I am interested in cor m ereStin9 and helpful pen-pal for significant though we may be,
respondence.” Claire is fourteen.
y°U
into the structure of civilization.
ou may have the addresses of
these girls by writing to me.
Young, Reid and Carrothers
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nue, Hilo, Hawaii. Age 17. Edith*
is interested in sports and goes to I
see most of the baseball and basketball games. Her hobbies are reading |
novels, and best of
g all corresponding with pen-pals.
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Prize-Winning Speech
bit toDo
anc
By DEBORAH
My co-columnist has finally relented in his resolve never to let
me have the column to myself. He even begged me to take over the
post for this time.
Did you notice? The editor refused to accept his last article. I
knew that the appalling sins against journalism committed by Mr. ”1”
would someday overtake him.
Editor’s Note: With this speech, ‘‘Gratitude” (Onkai)
Tsushtma took first place in the recent Jikyokai Oratorical Con^
the Japanese Nall.
at
^5FZ
Having a
“Higher than the highest reach
es of Mount Fuji whither we lift brothers and sisters. I quarre]
up our eyes is a parent’s love.”
With them from time to time bn
"WHEAT AND SOLDIERS"
j
we
do so simply because we are
Truly there is nothing higher or
are
Spring has passed and with her has exited temporarily the poetic
deeper than a parent’s love. Day that intimate. Hardly have ?e
Ty faV°rite V°lume of Poetry I read the book,
and night sacrificing everything finished quarrelling than we are
Wheat and Soldiers, which Dame Fortune put into my hands in a
they burden their hearts with talking happily of school things
most unexpected fashion.
prayers for our happiness and If we compare our lot with that
This novel is by Corporal Ashihei Hino who has won himself
seek to make us splendid young of a single, lonely child, a feel
a name by winning the Akutagawa prize, one of the highest literary
men and women. Let us think ing of love towards our brothers
Although the book is only a few months
quietly of these things for a few and sisters swells up in our
old, 500,000 copies have already been sold in Japan. And now its
hearts.
moments.
tame is rapidly spreading among occidental readers.
OUR FRIENDS
Are we doing
daily good
deeds____
Even
towards
our friends with
in a series of war annals by
that make our parents happy?
There is a saying according to whom we share our joys and our
which even while we try to be sorrows we should not forget the
f
1, recounts the Japanese campaign in China from Wid ^ suggest table decorations good towards our parents they spiiit of gratitude. One cannot
the fall of 1937 to the summer of 1938 as the author experienced it
menu? Could 1 use ^er
as an infantryman.
P
ced H places and cloth with a cooked pass away. Therefore, while our but be deeply moved by the con
The narrative which runs
. ,. ,
.
meal to carry out the idea? Thank parents are now in good health, stant, faithful and trusting love
«
gamut of a soldier s emotions and you.
n
let us be upright and active, and between friends as exemplified
rent byTnever-ceasing barrag^
.°f skie$ that are
Answer-To carry out to a T the make our parents’ hearts happy/ by Damon and Pythias.
sa,isit-mT «o^iXX3“ i^cs:sx
N
our teachers
OUR COMMUNITY
Thanks
to public facilities such
sure moments and have their pleasures and amusements is detailed you wUJ want a PaPer table cloth
Next to the love of our parents
with a rare understanding.
or place mats, napkins, plates and is the love of our teachers. 7,2 aS the SCh°o1’ cI1urch, library
' e streets
and parks and thanks to
I happened to read a commentarv by a wniLi-pn,v„ a
... e'e-- paper forks and spoons. How- are fortunate indeed to he able
•
mis nook, here is an excerpt from if
u
t
° — ------ to. Iearn ^glish m She public■ tne products of civilization such
ARTIST INTERPRFTeo
ho^ foods, be sure to get paper plates schools and Japanese in the"ky- ?L- electnc Wghts, telephones,
"Th?
-mat are nonabsorbent. You can
la n’ steamer, radio, gramawith m
/n° 30 °Ldlnary man< He is a highly sensitive artist * so make ^P6 Paper flowers for ritsu gogakko
Great indeed are the difficnl I'
eS' newsPaPera and magazIn.
•
1
.. y 0 Escover the truth and to state it simply His storv l-e ^H^ptece. But a Jack Horner
ties
experienced
by
our
tX
so revealing to a war-conscious world that it must influence thM 9*h °? Paper is another alternative,
emotions of ordinary man. If is devoid of oron^nanHa
4
1 would oe a grand place to
against war. |ts greatness lies 7 its hones v n thZ f L r
or ! ' ’ 5® ‘?r each ^st, attach- while they are educating us. But
We must not forget the great
ulously devoid of bunk and heroics
h * * '* IS mrac’ 21 "bbon streamer to each favor we sometimes forget their kind- debt we owe to those who in the
"To the
an ^^mg the guests draw. These ness and turn our backs on their past and present have and still
owed aLbLf.
, authorof th.s extraordinary diary there is
“s,“S»t be desk pads, msters, instruction. In spite of this, with
H. k,
. gratitude, and especially by the Japanese people
X
Paper doilies! unchanged love and tears they are. devoting their time and enHo has presented a picture of war, inspired by the littlo known
S i,?8 Oar,ds
so
aU made continue to teach us.
ergies to the development of
Japanese culture, that should be more helpful to infematinn.i
a
J paper, of course. The menu for
civilization.
How are we to respond to such
Will than a corps of diplomats "
’"’nal goodhe anniversary dinner could be
OUR WORLD
a sublime love? We should seek
.omato
juice
cocktail
fried
phiek-pn
Moreover
"THE PATRIOT"
^^,®et potat«s. »“T for hi8to education, pursue 7ay beneflte'of’Mother
w”
we are receiving
the
i£ A A’ ?md ln ^dividual to enlightment, and strive earn6 Natmre. We
Prize Inti. P*Per dishes, Ice cream, wed- estiy
" for
' fellowship between Mak the value ‘o? thXn° v™?”1
for Literature with her "Good Earth."
I din. cake, of course, and coffee.
ada
nda and
and Japan
Tonn«
1 e Vdlue or the sun. FurtherThe Patriot covers the events of twelve years
It beoins
more,
when it rains we feel de
with
Hie revolution sweeping down the Yangtze, when young students fired
OUR FAMILY
spondent. and complain that the
rain spoils the flowers. But if
H nGW
went singing to jail or to the beheading ground
It ends m the mountains of inner China, where driven back foain and
we realize that the growth ot
again by the invader, students and peasants old war
5
°
plants and trees, the beautiful
guerillas alike, stand in a united front and fight on
y™9
blooming of flowers are all due to
the bountifulness of rain we can
With ttetak Hfr^lT
Chinese bwks'-becomes fired
By Kay Yasunaka
im tne .deals ot the revolutionary movement and casts lots with .
not help but feel grateful.
wi" S00n be her« and you'll
But his ,a,hcroh nmJ e
If we do not feel that grate
probably be very busy with tennis and swimminq7 and fulness, but hate ’and speak evil
So of people, it is because we lack
'S taken into the Muraki family, falls in love with picnics, but you can t do those things all the time
the daughter, Tama, and marries her.
h why not start a correspondence with a boy or girl in the the reverent spirit, the humble
STIRRINGS OF HUMANITY
Hawanan islands? There are many, many Nisei bovs and soul, the thankful heart.
e . . e le,ds a T'iet life and almost forgets his revolutionary ideas
OUR TASK
Th ,TK Bl" Strife be'«n China =M Japan comes to 7
rf girls down there who would like to have pen-pals in Canada
Owing to the
— ,.
VJii.ViU1 en
sacrificial
he tide of patriotism that sweeps over the inhihitantc
,
m sure you II have heaps of fun writing to them
deavours
of
many
people
in tbe
country engulfs him too and back he goes to fight for Chin£'S ad°pted
Let s look info one or two of
past we are enjoying our present
n unbiased, intelligent .and sympathetic study is "The
"
these letters and see what these Hawaii.
good
fortune. Accordingly, we
However, Peari Buck is more concerned over the human, the psychofar-away friends have to say.
you are interested in hearing ourselves should build up a part
logical rather than the historical import of events.
From Kualapuu, Molokai, comes a, from boys or girls in romantic of civilization.
Her portrayal of a love between a man and a woman of
.Even I shall drive one golden
two letter from Emiko Tendo. Emiko is Hawaii, please write to me, care of
countries separated by turmoil and strife touches the strings
twelve years old, and she says, "I The New Canadian, giving me in nail into the temple that is beof
the
reader's heart.
like to write to Japanese girls, and formation about your age, your per ing built from the very
beginsonal interests and sparetime ac nmg of time.”
I
wish
I
knew
many
Japanese
girls
14
around the Coast.”
tivities, and whether you would like
No matter how weak, how small
to
exchange, letters with boys or our lives may be, we are a part of
Claire Kondo of Spreckelsville,
THE
Maui, writes . . . ”| am a girl who with girls.
civilized society. One and all
I'll
try
my
very
best
to
find
loves to send letters to the different • +
an we are driving in our nails, in
countries and I am interested in cor m ereStin9 and helpful pen-pal for significant though we may be,
respondence.” Claire is fourteen.
y°U
into the structure of civilization.
ou may have the addresses of
these girls by writing to me.
Young, Reid and Carrothers
m
p
Pen-Pals Ahoy!
c
t
i
j
t
if
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Here are some names and ad
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the NEW CANADIAN
ACE BASKETBALLER
THE SPOUT CLOTHESLINE
j Managers Seek Players for Cellar Team
By Me Washee Too
By Walter Koyanagi
|
I u Amid T® cheer'n9s of a home crowd, Hurricanes
j brushed aside a somewhat refined winless VirL™
<
A fine state of affairs things have come to. There I
was going my way, looking on life with vim and vigor, when
a of a sudden I had all the sport linen dumped into my lap.
\A/Uf 9°°d r^iends Washee hied himself off to the North
v\oods, leaving me holding the bag, or rather this column.
the hke fate of the Indian crew, of the senior city ranks
J,TyJ?^ T Wa!aru Koy^gi are now trying
- ro secure additional players for the Marpoie team but as
yet have not been successful.
' DuT as
So here I am, my faith in huJ.......~
- -- —.............
manity shattered, but what's more,
9°eS w,thout sayng that it's
a
swell
idea, but why not try join
important, stuck with this whole
length of clothesline,—J, who never ing the Vancouver Sun Swim Classes
before had even lifted a pen ex- this summer?And speaking of swimming,
cept to scribble a few lines to the
better half, and that out of pure here's a rather comical situation.
Can you imagine Niseis on the
self-defence.
U. S. Olympic splash team, up
So, dear sport fans, please unholding Uncle Sam's honor against
derstand and be tolerant, and dear
the Japanese aces? According to
mother, please buy me that ear
reports from Hawaii, it may be
muff we saw the other day, to help that
two, if not three, Niseis will
me against all the verbal brickbats
carry the American colors into
flying this way.
Diminutive substitute Miike was
evidently laying on the wood, or
was he trying to show his bigger Suzuki Stars in
brothers how th© game shouldbe
played? He led his mates with
Uchiyama Cup
two goals.
Jimmy Minamimaye was in
good form again, heading the Play-Offs
Island team by scoring three
runes.
By “DOC” BANNO
Marpole players are definitely
Jim Suzuki established him
believers of that saying, “every
man’s a forward and every man’s self as the outstanding golfer
a defense.” Even the fact that of the year when he defeated
‘ he was playing in goal did not ‘Hornton” Oyama in an 18-hole
apop Jinx Miike from taking his play-off for the Uchiyama Cup
worite solo flights, to leave his over the 6500 yard Langara
f goal
oal open and make, poor man- Course, Sunday, June 11.
Suzuki toured the layout in
ager, Irie’s heart flutter in
a sensational 82, an eight un
anxiety.
Boxla Balderdash: Hurricanes der performance with his hand
are falsely accused of being dirty icap at 18. Oyama played fair
golf but could not match the
/ players. To certain individuals, spectacular short game of the
; a fair and most legitimate body eventual winner. The issue
check is considered dirty. Unless was never in doubt as Suzuki
a better knowledge of the rules turned up the half-way mark
are acquired by some players, and five strokes up.
to “take” as well as to “give”,
____
---------------- ------------------ ’ I they will be hopelessly lost when
8 &
playing against a superior team.
ee SSOXla Boys Speaking of dirty business, one
player was knocked down, and
llis face tramPIed ove1’ You’re
improving Kapidly
only supposed to-do that in Can
adian football. M . . .
Sea Island’s bantam team lost ’-------------- —------ ------------j
their first game in four starts
PICNIC
PUTTERINGS
competition at Helsingfor in Fin
land next year.
And did Washee pick a fine time
Two weeks ago in the Duke of
to leave us. All the ball games Kahanomoku swimming meet in
were called off to permit the play Honolulu, two Hawaiian prep swim
ers to take in the Hokutokai outing mers gave notice of challenging
at Belcarra. With nothing else to Nippon's aquatic supremacy.
do, your scribe followed the crowds
The youngsters, Kiyoshi Nakama
to the picnic—and what a picnic . . and Takashi Hirose handed AmeriA regular field day there—fish ca's great Jack Medica a triple lick
ing, rowing, baseball, races, swim ing. Medica was simply outclassed
ning, eating, dancing, twosome-ing by Hirose in the 100 yard free
(oops, that slipped), and at last, style, and floundered in a
poor
eeping.
fourth place.
Dancing at the new pavilion
proved the most popular sport—
so popular in fact, that half the
races had to be called off. Many
of the boys in the League were
seen gliding over the floor, as
gracefully as they usually caper
on the ball diamond.
(Which
way do I mean that? Suit your
self) .
Nakama and Hirose then caplured first and second in the 220
free style, with Medica in third
The sharpshooting Gold- Dust
spot. And just by way of rubbing
T win, Jimmy Bardsley, former
it in, Nakama came back to beat
public courts tennis champ and
Medica
by forty yards in the gruell
captain of the Varsity Thundering 500 yard event. Finishing a
birds, Canadian champions in
bang-up third, right on the heels
1 937, may lead the Westerns on
of
the splashing Medica, was young
their coming invasion of Japan
Jimmy Tanaka, a triple title winner
as captain and playing coach.
Coming home on the boat we in the National Y. M. C. A. swi m
heard enough pepper and chatter championships in San Francisco
for half-a-dozen ball games, what three weeks ago.
with the community singing—and
BOXLA BARRAGE
sore throats. All in all—"a most
My thanks to Wataru Koyanagi
Obiikion by being admitted, to the r
enjoyable time was had by all."
of the North Arm Hurricanes for
bniicane team. Other stars are, pplit Twin Bill With Old-Timers, 6-9, 13-2
his interesting and informative let
SURPRISE PACKAGE
twelve-year-old Yashushi Koya-1 '
'
z
Coming back to the local front,, ter in regard to the last Clothesline.
nagi, Shige Nagai and Teruo KoBy Staff Correspondent
here's the surprise find of the year I'm sure Washee would want me
vanagi.
There is great rejoicing in the camp of the “Riverside” J C C L —none other than Mike Maruno, to apologize to you, if your team
So attention, all “pee wee’ box- baseball nine and congratulations are in order for finally the team Asahi pitcher.
felt that he was being unduly criti
a boys, let’s have some compe has put an end to their string of defeats. On Sunday, June 11 at
Usually a third sacker, Mike was cal and biased in his column and
tition.
the Queensborough Park they turned the trick in a Fraser Valley
first sent in as relief pitcher in one thank you for taking the trouble to
Baseball League fixture and their victims were the New Westmin
write.
ster Old Timers.
----------- —_ of the early season's games. HoldSupport Your
At any rate, Wataru, the sports
ing the opposition down the rest
In the first game “Riverside „ Oikawa and T. Tamaki.
the way, he was credited with editors of The New Canadian thor
New Canadian Advertisers
In the second half of the double of
was enjoying a two-run lead, 6-4,
the win.
oughly agree with your views on
until the seventh inning. In the bill, “Riverside” scored a sweepsportsmanship
and certainly want to
Since then he's started on the
“lucky” seventh, the final inning, ing victory under the superb
mound in three fixtures, and won I co-operate in every way to keep the
the Old Timers touched two pitching of George Sasaki, Sasaki all of them. And the statistician new league going and lacrosse alive
“Riverside” hurlers for four time with his unique “Mae West”
in the community.
comes to bat with the informaYOSHINO
ly hits to stage a five run rally, specialty limited the Old-Timers tion that Mike has allowed a
landing on top with the score to five hits and two runs while total of only five runs and eight
the home team blasted Scotty
of 9-6.
Tanaka for ten hits and fourteen hits since starting out this seaBatteries:
5
362 ALEXANDER ST.
runs for a complete, smothering son.
Old-Timers: S. Tanaka, Seki victory.
OLYMPIC SWIM STARS
J
PHONE TRI, 0723
FLORIST
and Omori, T. Nishijima.
Going over some of Washee's fan
Batteries:
BOUQUETS. WREATHS. POTTED PLANTS
"Riverside”: E. Tamaki, T.
mail
this week, here's a suggestion
Old-Timers: S. Tanaka, and
from a young fellow who wants to
Omori, Nishijima.
2 3 5 6 W 4TH AVE.
BAY. 7881
learn to swim. Says he, "Come on,
“Riverside”: - G. Sasaki and M. J.C.C.L. or some other organizaKanai.
tion. How about conducting some
free swimming lessons for the
CLOTHES SHOP
Niseis?"
Werside' Mne« Win Column
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Winners of Westerns
Basketball Draw
Following are the winners of
the Western Basketball draw
which was held Wednesday
night, June 8: 1, Herb Reid,
2021 West 43rd Avenue; 2, Jim
Steele, Angelus Cigar Store; 3,
Jim Paton, 279,5 West 37th Ave
nue; 4, Ross Maden, 319 Nootka,
New Westminster; 5, Norm
Flowerdew, 402 West Pender
Street; 6, Jim Engelfield, 3671
Point Grey Road; 7, Mrs. M. C.
Gordon, 6190 Cypress Street;
8, May Hawthorne, Box 941,
Powell River, B. C.; 9, J. Thomps’on, 2633 Burns Street.
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ACE BASKETBALLER
THE SPOUT CLOTHESLINE
j Managers Seek Players for Cellar Team
By Me Washee Too
By Walter Koyanagi
|
I u Amid T® cheer'n9s of a home crowd, Hurricanes
j brushed aside a somewhat refined winless VirL™
<
A fine state of affairs things have come to. There I
was going my way, looking on life with vim and vigor, when
a of a sudden I had all the sport linen dumped into my lap.
\A/Uf 9°°d r^iends Washee hied himself off to the North
v\oods, leaving me holding the bag, or rather this column.
the hke fate of the Indian crew, of the senior city ranks
J,TyJ?^ T Wa!aru Koy^gi are now trying
- ro secure additional players for the Marpoie team but as
yet have not been successful.
' DuT as
So here I am, my faith in huJ.......~
- -- —.............
manity shattered, but what's more,
9°eS w,thout sayng that it's
a
swell
idea, but why not try join
important, stuck with this whole
length of clothesline,—J, who never ing the Vancouver Sun Swim Classes
before had even lifted a pen ex- this summer?And speaking of swimming,
cept to scribble a few lines to the
better half, and that out of pure here's a rather comical situation.
Can you imagine Niseis on the
self-defence.
U. S. Olympic splash team, up
So, dear sport fans, please unholding Uncle Sam's honor against
derstand and be tolerant, and dear
the Japanese aces? According to
mother, please buy me that ear
reports from Hawaii, it may be
muff we saw the other day, to help that
two, if not three, Niseis will
me against all the verbal brickbats
carry the American colors into
flying this way.
Diminutive substitute Miike was
evidently laying on the wood, or
was he trying to show his bigger Suzuki Stars in
brothers how th© game shouldbe
played? He led his mates with
Uchiyama Cup
two goals.
Jimmy Minamimaye was in
good form again, heading the Play-Offs
Island team by scoring three
runes.
By “DOC” BANNO
Marpole players are definitely
Jim Suzuki established him
believers of that saying, “every
man’s a forward and every man’s self as the outstanding golfer
a defense.” Even the fact that of the year when he defeated
‘ he was playing in goal did not ‘Hornton” Oyama in an 18-hole
apop Jinx Miike from taking his play-off for the Uchiyama Cup
worite solo flights, to leave his over the 6500 yard Langara
f goal
oal open and make, poor man- Course, Sunday, June 11.
Suzuki toured the layout in
ager, Irie’s heart flutter in
a sensational 82, an eight un
anxiety.
Boxla Balderdash: Hurricanes der performance with his hand
are falsely accused of being dirty icap at 18. Oyama played fair
golf but could not match the
/ players. To certain individuals, spectacular short game of the
; a fair and most legitimate body eventual winner. The issue
check is considered dirty. Unless was never in doubt as Suzuki
a better knowledge of the rules turned up the half-way mark
are acquired by some players, and five strokes up.
to “take” as well as to “give”,
____
---------------- ------------------ ’ I they will be hopelessly lost when
8 &
playing against a superior team.
ee SSOXla Boys Speaking of dirty business, one
player was knocked down, and
llis face tramPIed ove1’ You’re
improving Kapidly
only supposed to-do that in Can
adian football. M . . .
Sea Island’s bantam team lost ’-------------- —------ ------------j
their first game in four starts
PICNIC
PUTTERINGS
competition at Helsingfor in Fin
land next year.
And did Washee pick a fine time
Two weeks ago in the Duke of
to leave us. All the ball games Kahanomoku swimming meet in
were called off to permit the play Honolulu, two Hawaiian prep swim
ers to take in the Hokutokai outing mers gave notice of challenging
at Belcarra. With nothing else to Nippon's aquatic supremacy.
do, your scribe followed the crowds
The youngsters, Kiyoshi Nakama
to the picnic—and what a picnic . . and Takashi Hirose handed AmeriA regular field day there—fish ca's great Jack Medica a triple lick
ing, rowing, baseball, races, swim ing. Medica was simply outclassed
ning, eating, dancing, twosome-ing by Hirose in the 100 yard free
(oops, that slipped), and at last, style, and floundered in a
poor
eeping.
fourth place.
Dancing at the new pavilion
proved the most popular sport—
so popular in fact, that half the
races had to be called off. Many
of the boys in the League were
seen gliding over the floor, as
gracefully as they usually caper
on the ball diamond.
(Which
way do I mean that? Suit your
self) .
Nakama and Hirose then caplured first and second in the 220
free style, with Medica in third
The sharpshooting Gold- Dust
spot. And just by way of rubbing
T win, Jimmy Bardsley, former
it in, Nakama came back to beat
public courts tennis champ and
Medica
by forty yards in the gruell
captain of the Varsity Thundering 500 yard event. Finishing a
birds, Canadian champions in
bang-up third, right on the heels
1 937, may lead the Westerns on
of
the splashing Medica, was young
their coming invasion of Japan
Jimmy Tanaka, a triple title winner
as captain and playing coach.
Coming home on the boat we in the National Y. M. C. A. swi m
heard enough pepper and chatter championships in San Francisco
for half-a-dozen ball games, what three weeks ago.
with the community singing—and
BOXLA BARRAGE
sore throats. All in all—"a most
My thanks to Wataru Koyanagi
Obiikion by being admitted, to the r
enjoyable time was had by all."
of the North Arm Hurricanes for
bniicane team. Other stars are, pplit Twin Bill With Old-Timers, 6-9, 13-2
his interesting and informative let
SURPRISE PACKAGE
twelve-year-old Yashushi Koya-1 '
'
z
Coming back to the local front,, ter in regard to the last Clothesline.
nagi, Shige Nagai and Teruo KoBy Staff Correspondent
here's the surprise find of the year I'm sure Washee would want me
vanagi.
There is great rejoicing in the camp of the “Riverside” J C C L —none other than Mike Maruno, to apologize to you, if your team
So attention, all “pee wee’ box- baseball nine and congratulations are in order for finally the team Asahi pitcher.
felt that he was being unduly criti
a boys, let’s have some compe has put an end to their string of defeats. On Sunday, June 11 at
Usually a third sacker, Mike was cal and biased in his column and
tition.
the Queensborough Park they turned the trick in a Fraser Valley
first sent in as relief pitcher in one thank you for taking the trouble to
Baseball League fixture and their victims were the New Westmin
write.
ster Old Timers.
----------- —_ of the early season's games. HoldSupport Your
At any rate, Wataru, the sports
ing the opposition down the rest
In the first game “Riverside „ Oikawa and T. Tamaki.
the way, he was credited with editors of The New Canadian thor
New Canadian Advertisers
In the second half of the double of
was enjoying a two-run lead, 6-4,
the win.
oughly agree with your views on
until the seventh inning. In the bill, “Riverside” scored a sweepsportsmanship
and certainly want to
Since then he's started on the
“lucky” seventh, the final inning, ing victory under the superb
mound in three fixtures, and won I co-operate in every way to keep the
the Old Timers touched two pitching of George Sasaki, Sasaki all of them. And the statistician new league going and lacrosse alive
“Riverside” hurlers for four time with his unique “Mae West”
in the community.
comes to bat with the informaYOSHINO
ly hits to stage a five run rally, specialty limited the Old-Timers tion that Mike has allowed a
landing on top with the score to five hits and two runs while total of only five runs and eight
the home team blasted Scotty
of 9-6.
Tanaka for ten hits and fourteen hits since starting out this seaBatteries:
5
362 ALEXANDER ST.
runs for a complete, smothering son.
Old-Timers: S. Tanaka, Seki victory.
OLYMPIC SWIM STARS
J
PHONE TRI, 0723
FLORIST
and Omori, T. Nishijima.
Going over some of Washee's fan
Batteries:
BOUQUETS. WREATHS. POTTED PLANTS
"Riverside”: E. Tamaki, T.
this week, here's a suggestion
Old-Timers: S. Tanaka, and
from a young fellow who wants to
Omori, Nishijima.
2 3 5 6 W 4TH AVE.
BAY. 7881
learn to swim. Says he, "Come on,
“Riverside”: - G. Sasaki and M. J.C.C.L. or some other organizaKanai.
tion. How about conducting some
free swimming lessons for the
CLOTHES SHOP
Niseis?"
Werside' Mne« Win Column
HARBY’S
459 E. Hastings St.
High. 2132
^< ^uvuum
direct Importers of Japanese Provisions and Curios
FOR BETTER TRADE RELATIONS
BUY JAPANESE GOODS
Seymour 2933
109 Powell Street
VANCOUVER, B. C.
Nimi Shokai
Winners of Westerns
Basketball Draw
Following are the winners of
the Western Basketball draw
which was held Wednesday
night, June 8: 1, Herb Reid,
2021 West 43rd Avenue; 2, Jim
Steele, Angelus Cigar Store; 3,
Jim Paton, 279,5 West 37th Ave
nue; 4, Ross Maden, 319 Nootka,
New Westminster; 5, Norm
Flowerdew, 402 West Pender
Street; 6, Jim Engelfield, 3671
Point Grey Road; 7, Mrs. M. C.
Gordon, 6190 Cypress Street;
8, May Hawthorne, Box 941,
Powell River, B. C.; 9, J. Thomps’on, 2633 Burns Street.
Shaeffer Pen Agents
Note to Hecklers Remember
the law of averages, ‘‘Riverside” Latest Japanese Recordings
can’t always lose. They’ll be TRinity 3112
331 Powell St.
right in there bidding for the
VANCOUVER, B. C.
pennant!
TRINITY
4822
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314 POWELL
STREET
Page 8
THE NEW CANADIAN
Asahis Stretch League lead
Suga’s Hurling and Hitting Sink Westerns
L?.?^9 on ^e slants of two Westerns pitchers for
en solid blows, Asahis chalked up another victory in the
Lea9Lie last Wednesday, as they downed the hapess Westerns I I -5 to send the losers further into thp cellar
with eleven losses without a win.
S,^Z. J-«.L Speakers At Marpole Meet
Asahi .................
10
Merritt-Gordon .... 8
Patricia ..... ........ 6
Westerns ............ 0
3
^9
Round Table Discussion On Nisei Problems
•545
.ooo
x.
Over fifty first and second generation residents of th
Marpole district attended the round table discmA^
Nisei problems and the Japanese Canadian Citizens LrY
held Saturday evening, June 10, in the Marpole J3D „W
Language School under sponsorship of the School Gradu^
Society.
^'auuare
5
5
11
Asahi pitcher Kaz. Suga start
ed his team to a victory with a ed into the Western catcher at
smashing homer to deep left the home plate on a successful
centre, to cross the plate with the double steal engineered by Roy
Presided over by Ichiro Nishi
Yamamura.
initial Asahi counter in the first
Hoopsters Honoured
°f the Society'
BOX SCORE
inning. The Nipponese scored Asahis
and Alls. D. Abe, principal of the
another run the same inning and
At Send-off Banquet school, the meeting was adcires
AB II II
E
then went on to score three runs Suga, P.
4
sed both in English and Japanese
0
o
c
Honouring the
Westerns by three speakers from the J. c
1
1 0
and a lone counter in the second Masuda,
Uno, lb., 3 b,
•3
1 9
1
0
BuTf'Cll'd Schedule I ®asketball Team, which leaves C. L.
and fourth innings respectively. Nishihara, c.f.
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1 1 6 0 1
June
*
f°r a mon^’s tour of Japan
Our boys really went to town Maruno, 3b
0 0 1 4 0
3- C. C. L. SPEAKERS
Mitsui, r f
At
Thurs. 15 _ Merritt-Gordon vs. S ^4^^V- ’ »«» ban0 0 0 0
though, in the sixth inning, as Shishido,
Miss Hide Hyodo explained
Westerns.
quet under the sponsorship of
they bunched doubles by Yama Yama in u r’a, 2 b....... 31 1 20 40 91 0
how the League had been estab^ri- it—Merritt-Gordon vs. Asahis, the Vancouver J.C.C.L and the
mura, Shiraishi and Uno with Shiraishi, l.f.......... 2
1
0 0 0
^
’
iS'^E™
“
“
Japanese
Association
lished as a province-wide or
n, c.f. batsingles by Suga and Nishihara Nakamur;
ted for Shishido
ganization to work for the wel
^1U be held on Friday evening,
to produce a five-run scoring
in third) _______ 3 0 0 0 0 0 W’ed. 21—Patricia vs. Merritt-Gorfare
and protection of the sec
r
June
16
’
at
the
Fuji
Chop
Suey,
out-burst.
r
don
e>
~^
U
VSMerritt
Gor
at
6.30
p.m.
Total ........... ...28 n 10 21 u
ond generation; and told the
i
The Westerns scored two runs Westerns
Sat. 24—Patricia Hotel vs. Asahis.
Guests at the banquet will
story of the memorable Ottawa
m the fourth inning on succes
AB R II PO A E
Westerns.
be
the
members
and
officials
of
delegation of four Niseis, who
sive hits by Casement and Turn- MacKinly, 2 b 3 b. 4 1. 2 0 I 1
McLean, s
appealed
o
vs.
pathe
team,
and
the,
consular
offi1
1
0
1
to the Federal Govbull; and another three runs in Young, c.f
0 0 1 0 0 Thurs. 29—Westerns vs. Patricia cials who arranged the tour.
ernment
for the right of fran^he last inning when two singles Roach, c.
0 0
0 0
FrL
Ot
30
_
.
Quests
speaker
at
the
banquet
chise.
McPhee,
r.
f
and two bases on balls off Suga
Westerns.
Memtt-Gordon vs. | Wjn be Charles “Chuck’’ Jones,
9,
2b., l.f. .
0 0 0 1
permitted three men to cross the Casement,
o
Thomas Shoyama spoke on the ,
lb., r.f
3
0 0
plate.
well-known basketball coach.
Turnbull, If., 2 b 1 0
1 9
aims of the J. C. C. L. and ex- '
1
A social period is to follow
0 0
Although nicked for seven hits, Ewart. 3 b.
1
0 Envoy To Swing
plained the work of the League
Steele, p.
1
0
the
dinner.
0
1
0
including three doubles, winning 1Tyre (for Roach
in the Youth Congress movement,
pitcher Suga kept the hits scatin 4th)
__ 0 0 4
Here
in
.
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,
u
.
.
,
0 1 Golf Clubs
as
well as the recent Island Nisei
GoIf dub members FOrtland N,Se’ G,rl
p. (for
'tered to prevent them from prov- Straight
'
Convention.
in 7 th).. 0 0 0 0 0 0
ing dangerous.
Edward T. Ouchi, general sec
Suga was the hitting star of
Total _______ 26
f^f^r^
Attends Amsterdam retary
17 6 4
of the League, addressed
Summary: Home run, Suga,
the game, getting three hits out
Honourable
Baron
Tomii,
play
IJ
V
the meeting in Japanese at some
of three trips to the plate, in Triple, lino; Doubles, Yamamura,
his
favdrite
game
here
en
route
to
^0^0
TOUrn
VOnfaD
length,
explaining how the League
cluding a homer. Casement was Shiraishi, McKinley, McLean,
Japan
on
the
Hikawa
Maru
„
.
was working for the welfare of
the heavy batter for the West Casement; Struck out, by Suga. 8; June 21.
(Seattle Courier Dispatch)
the second generation by striving
erns, connecting for three for by Steele 3: Bases on balls, off
A few select foursomes are tenRepresenting the Christian Jap- to create better relations with
four, including a double.
Suga 4; off Steele 4; off Straight
The game was unfortunately 1: Balk, Steele; Passed ball, tatively planning to play at the anese youths of the Northwest other Canadians, and by educating
marred by an injury suffered bv Ewart; Stolen bases, Suga 2, beautiful Capilano Course Mon- wil1 ^e the mission of Frances the Niseis in. their responsibili
Maeda, second generation leader ties of citizenship.
George Shishido, when he bump- Masuda, Nishihara 2, Maruno, day, June 19.—E. C. B.
~
’ - —
- - of Portland, when she departs After the meeting, tea was serv
Shishido 2, Yamamura, Shiraishi.
M0G6l Aeronaut'S
VUI14117’ for the ^r°rId Christian ed by the feminine members of the
MR. MOTO’S BOYS' CORNER
Six members of the Vancouver
T Amsterdam, Society, the round table discus- 1
Aeronauts,
Nisei
modef
Xatt
’
’
“
y
AuSllsL sion continuing upon matters of ;
At last the long dreamed of SUM
MER VACATION—baseball, swim- club, participated in the Interna-L _ Efforts are now being made to current importance, including the
328 POWELL ST.
ing, the great out-doors, carefree tional Wakefield elimination con finance her trip. In making his franchise, fishing licenses, and
SE. 0853
days. Work hard and play hard, is test at Connaught Park. Sunday appeal for funds, William Yorozu. trade licences.
my wise advice for you.
afternoon, June 11. The winner general chairman for the 1939
WHEN ORDERING YOUR TOILET TISSUE
... Congratulations Mr, Mighty Ochie, of the contest goes as one of six young People’s Christian Con
coming third in the oratorical con Canadian representatives to com ference here, said: “This youth
ALWAYS SPECIFY
test.
pete in final contests in New conference assembling over 1,000
After the hot busy days of work \ork. which draws competitions young people from all over the
woild to discuss the common
come down to the Nisei Free Rollo from all over the world.
Footwear
IT IS SOFT. SANITARY &- SOLUBLE
Skating Links in the cool of the eve
Fred Kagawa took third place problems confronting young peo
ning, and enjoy the game and the in the contest, his plane making ple’s organizations. Miss Maeda’s
Quality and Distinction
beauty of the North Shore landscape. a flight of 1 minute, 57 seconds. attendance will show that there
"Club House" for the bunch dur
Other members of the club, in is a group of Japanese young peo
762 Granville St.
ing the summer will be that swell cluding Flight Commander Bob ple who are working toward a
528 W. Hastings St.
news exchanging corner of Powell Suzuki, Dick Matsui, Norie Nishio, common goal.
and Princess . . . and by the way, Henry Shoji and Jim Kagawa,
where is that rough-house gang, that were not so fortunate with their
was roaming along Powell?
models. largely due to weather I
Farewell message this, but I.B.C/- conditions.
*ng you again in the fall.
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a progressive, democratic and
co-operative city.’’
Miss Florence Bird of the Kineiyaiten also spoke. KcfreshI meats and a short social period
j followed, the meeting coming to
i a close with the singing of “The
REAL CHINESE DISHES
SERVED AT
SUN PEKIN
252
Rolleiflex
POWELL ST.
Memorial services in remem
brance of Tadashi Tokumaga,
who was killed in action in
01 th China last month, were
held m the Powell United
Church Monday evening, June
Rolleicord
I; ^j
V
-----11 For Real Japanese Dishes q
1 TSUBAME J
■
4
1
25S POWELL ST.
TRINITY 056 1
Sunday, June 18th
The deceased was well known
in Vancouver, having studied el
ectrical engineering at the Uni
versity of British Columbia.
Rev. K. Shimizu conducted
the service assisted by the Rev
K- Nomoto. Dr. E. C. Banno,
Nobuichi Yamaoka, and Tokichi
Takeuchi spoke briefly in mem
ory of the deceased.
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Asahis Stretch League lead
Suga’s Hurling and Hitting Sink Westerns
L?.?^9 on ^e slants of two Westerns pitchers for
en solid blows, Asahis chalked up another victory in the
Lea9Lie last Wednesday, as they downed the hapess Westerns I I -5 to send the losers further into thp cellar
with eleven losses without a win.
S,^Z. J-«.L Speakers At Marpole Meet
Asahi .................
10
Merritt-Gordon .... 8
Patricia ..... ........ 6
Westerns ............ 0
3
^9
Round Table Discussion On Nisei Problems
•545
.ooo
x.
Over fifty first and second generation residents of th
Marpole district attended the round table discmA^
Nisei problems and the Japanese Canadian Citizens LrY
held Saturday evening, June 10, in the Marpole J3D „W
Language School under sponsorship of the School Gradu^
Society.
^'auuare
5
5
11
Asahi pitcher Kaz. Suga start
ed his team to a victory with a ed into the Western catcher at
smashing homer to deep left the home plate on a successful
centre, to cross the plate with the double steal engineered by Roy
Presided over by Ichiro Nishi
Yamamura.
initial Asahi counter in the first
Hoopsters Honoured
°f the Society'
BOX SCORE
inning. The Nipponese scored Asahis
and Alls. D. Abe, principal of the
another run the same inning and
At Send-off Banquet school, the meeting was adcires
AB II II
E
then went on to score three runs Suga, P.
4
sed both in English and Japanese
0
o
c
Honouring the
Westerns by three speakers from the J. c
1
1 0
and a lone counter in the second Masuda,
Uno, lb., 3 b,
•3
1 9
1
0
BuTf'Cll'd Schedule I ®asketball Team, which leaves C. L.
and fourth innings respectively. Nishihara, c.f.
<
1 1 6 0 1
June
*
f°r a mon^’s tour of Japan
Our boys really went to town Maruno, 3b
0 0 1 4 0
3- C. C. L. SPEAKERS
Mitsui, r f
At
Thurs. 15 _ Merritt-Gordon vs. S ^4^^V- ’ »«» ban0 0 0 0
though, in the sixth inning, as Shishido,
Miss Hide Hyodo explained
Westerns.
quet under the sponsorship of
they bunched doubles by Yama Yama in u r’a, 2 b....... 31 1 20 40 91 0
how the League had been estab^ri- it—Merritt-Gordon vs. Asahis, the Vancouver J.C.C.L and the
mura, Shiraishi and Uno with Shiraishi, l.f.......... 2
1
0 0 0
^
’
iS'^E™
“
“
Japanese
Association
lished as a province-wide or
n, c.f. batsingles by Suga and Nishihara Nakamur;
ted for Shishido
ganization to work for the wel
^1U be held on Friday evening,
to produce a five-run scoring
in third) _______ 3 0 0 0 0 0 W’ed. 21—Patricia vs. Merritt-Gorfare
and protection of the sec
r
June
16
’
at
the
Fuji
Chop
Suey,
out-burst.
r
don
e>
~^
U
VSMerritt
Gor
at
6.30
p.m.
Total ........... ...28 n 10 21 u
ond generation; and told the
i
The Westerns scored two runs Westerns
Sat. 24—Patricia Hotel vs. Asahis.
Guests at the banquet will
story of the memorable Ottawa
m the fourth inning on succes
AB R II PO A E
Westerns.
be
the
members
and
officials
of
delegation of four Niseis, who
sive hits by Casement and Turn- MacKinly, 2 b 3 b. 4 1. 2 0 I 1
McLean, s
appealed
o
vs.
pathe
team,
and
the,
consular
offi1
1
0
1
to the Federal Govbull; and another three runs in Young, c.f
0 0 1 0 0 Thurs. 29—Westerns vs. Patricia cials who arranged the tour.
ernment
for the right of fran^he last inning when two singles Roach, c.
0 0
0 0
FrL
Ot
30
_
.
Quests
speaker
at
the
banquet
chise.
McPhee,
r.
f
and two bases on balls off Suga
Westerns.
Memtt-Gordon vs. | Wjn be Charles “Chuck’’ Jones,
9,
2b., l.f. .
0 0 0 1
permitted three men to cross the Casement,
o
Thomas Shoyama spoke on the ,
lb., r.f
3
0 0
plate.
well-known basketball coach.
Turnbull, If., 2 b 1 0
1 9
aims of the J. C. C. L. and ex- '
1
A social period is to follow
0 0
Although nicked for seven hits, Ewart. 3 b.
1
0 Envoy To Swing
plained the work of the League
Steele, p.
1
0
the
dinner.
0
1
0
including three doubles, winning 1Tyre (for Roach
in the Youth Congress movement,
pitcher Suga kept the hits scatin 4th)
__ 0 0 4
Here
in
.
।
,
u
.
.
,
0 1 Golf Clubs
as
well as the recent Island Nisei
GoIf dub members FOrtland N,Se’ G,rl
p. (for
'tered to prevent them from prov- Straight
'
Convention.
in 7 th).. 0 0 0 0 0 0
ing dangerous.
Edward T. Ouchi, general sec
Suga was the hitting star of
Total _______ 26
f^f^r^
Attends Amsterdam retary
17 6 4
of the League, addressed
Summary: Home run, Suga,
the game, getting three hits out
Honourable
Baron
Tomii,
play
IJ
V
the meeting in Japanese at some
of three trips to the plate, in Triple, lino; Doubles, Yamamura,
his
favdrite
game
here
en
route
to
^0^0
TOUrn
VOnfaD
length,
explaining how the League
cluding a homer. Casement was Shiraishi, McKinley, McLean,
Japan
on
the
Hikawa
Maru
„
.
was working for the welfare of
the heavy batter for the West Casement; Struck out, by Suga. 8; June 21.
(Seattle Courier Dispatch)
the second generation by striving
erns, connecting for three for by Steele 3: Bases on balls, off
A few select foursomes are tenRepresenting the Christian Jap- to create better relations with
four, including a double.
Suga 4; off Steele 4; off Straight
The game was unfortunately 1: Balk, Steele; Passed ball, tatively planning to play at the anese youths of the Northwest other Canadians, and by educating
marred by an injury suffered bv Ewart; Stolen bases, Suga 2, beautiful Capilano Course Mon- wil1 ^e the mission of Frances the Niseis in. their responsibili
Maeda, second generation leader ties of citizenship.
George Shishido, when he bump- Masuda, Nishihara 2, Maruno, day, June 19.—E. C. B.
~
’ - —
- - of Portland, when she departs After the meeting, tea was serv
Shishido 2, Yamamura, Shiraishi.
M0G6l Aeronaut'S
VUI14117’ for the ^r°rId Christian ed by the feminine members of the
MR. MOTO’S BOYS' CORNER
Six members of the Vancouver
T Amsterdam, Society, the round table discus- 1
Aeronauts,
Nisei
modef
Xatt
’
’
“
y
AuSllsL sion continuing upon matters of ;
At last the long dreamed of SUM
MER VACATION—baseball, swim- club, participated in the Interna-L _ Efforts are now being made to current importance, including the
328 POWELL ST.
ing, the great out-doors, carefree tional Wakefield elimination con finance her trip. In making his franchise, fishing licenses, and
SE. 0853
days. Work hard and play hard, is test at Connaught Park. Sunday appeal for funds, William Yorozu. trade licences.
my wise advice for you.
afternoon, June 11. The winner general chairman for the 1939
WHEN ORDERING YOUR TOILET TISSUE
... Congratulations Mr, Mighty Ochie, of the contest goes as one of six young People’s Christian Con
coming third in the oratorical con Canadian representatives to com ference here, said: “This youth
ALWAYS SPECIFY
test.
pete in final contests in New conference assembling over 1,000
After the hot busy days of work \ork. which draws competitions young people from all over the
woild to discuss the common
come down to the Nisei Free Rollo from all over the world.
Footwear
IT IS SOFT. SANITARY &- SOLUBLE
Skating Links in the cool of the eve
Fred Kagawa took third place problems confronting young peo
ning, and enjoy the game and the in the contest, his plane making ple’s organizations. Miss Maeda’s
Quality and Distinction
beauty of the North Shore landscape. a flight of 1 minute, 57 seconds. attendance will show that there
"Club House" for the bunch dur
Other members of the club, in is a group of Japanese young peo
762 Granville St.
ing the summer will be that swell cluding Flight Commander Bob ple who are working toward a
528 W. Hastings St.
news exchanging corner of Powell Suzuki, Dick Matsui, Norie Nishio, common goal.
and Princess . . . and by the way, Henry Shoji and Jim Kagawa,
where is that rough-house gang, that were not so fortunate with their
was roaming along Powell?
models. largely due to weather I
Farewell message this, but I.B.C/- conditions.
*ng you again in the fall.
J^iiipress Cafe
3KH
SMITH, BfiVIDSON &
WIGHT CO. LTD.
® Father’s Day
TEACHERS
(Continued from Page 1)
a progressive, democratic and
co-operative city.’’
Miss Florence Bird of the Kineiyaiten also spoke. KcfreshI meats and a short social period
j followed, the meeting coming to
i a close with the singing of “The
REAL CHINESE DISHES
SERVED AT
SUN PEKIN
252
Rolleiflex
POWELL ST.
Memorial services in remem
brance of Tadashi Tokumaga,
who was killed in action in
01 th China last month, were
held m the Powell United
Church Monday evening, June
Rolleicord
I; ^j
V
-----11 For Real Japanese Dishes q
1 TSUBAME J
■
4
1
25S POWELL ST.
TRINITY 056 1
Sunday, June 18th
The deceased was well known
in Vancouver, having studied el
ectrical engineering at the Uni
versity of British Columbia.
Rev. K. Shimizu conducted
the service assisted by the Rev
K- Nomoto. Dr. E. C. Banno,
Nobuichi Yamaoka, and Tokichi
Takeuchi spoke briefly in mem
ory of the deceased.
SEY. 3517 - 5774
$134.40
390 POWELL ST.
SEY. 3831
Memorial Service
Opening of New Funeral Chapel
ARMSTRONG 8 CO.
Nothing could please him more
for Fathers Dav
ARROW SHIRT $2.00 and up
ARROW TIE
50c & 51 00
UNDERTAKERS
H
Matsumiya & Nose Ltd.
304
DUNLEVY
AVENUE
229 POWELL ST
TRINITY 2113