Page 1
The New Canadian Fi^VlB’
THE VOICE OF THE SECOND GENERATION
VANCOUVER
Weekly
By K. W.
1940.
Rumors Fantastic
"K-
Whirligig
AUGUST
YAMA TAXI
SEymour 1414
Investigation Will Prove Charges False
Editorial
VANCOUVER. B. C.—Declaring that they , would
Now and again I drop into the
Vancouver’s City Council in committee meeting yester i welcome a'complete investigation into community affairs to
offee of the paper just at that time day approved steps to make representations to the Federal 'clear awav anv suspicion of subversive activity, leading citizens
f the morning when the, sunshine
j pouring through the open win- Government with a view to the imposition of further restric lot the Japanese community express doubt that the so-called
TEmpirc-widc round-up" of Japanese businessmen would
jow casting long shadows across tions upon Japanese Canadians in the province.
'jitter on the editor's desk, and
Once again the moving spirit behind this movement is i be extended to British Columbia.
Although a serious view is
Darkling off ever knob, lever and Aiderman Halford D. Wilson, who has caught the public ,
taken of the increasing tension
:Omer of his battered typewriter.
I in Anglo-Japdnese relations, it
But this morning he handed .me attention time and again as the bitterest advocate of a repres
a letter from Nellie L. McClung, the sive policy against Japanese Canadians. In a lengthy tirade,
i is felt that this crisis will be
well-known Canadian authoress who; he again reviewed all the usual and familiar allegations
j safely weathered through dipha< made a distinguished contribu- which he has used so long and so often as weapons with
I lomatic negotiations, just as the
ion to Canadian literature, and now which to attack this minority group, which has no means
blockade and the
j Tientsin
near
Victoria.
ives at Lantern Lane,
Burma Road questions were
of defence in a democratic country.
!
Here is the letter:
settled.
But this time Mx. Wilson has come out deliberately
Latest reports both from
I am a reader of your pubiica- with charges he knows himself to be false. Local Japanese. ।
London and Tokyo indicate that
tion, and have been pleased with he charges, are not interested in Canada or the .Empire, and j
i discussions aimed to settle the
the spirit of your editorials, but I have shown no interest in or support of Canada s war effort. |
latest differences are already
feel I must, as a friend, protest
What, in actuality, are some of the facts that Mr. ।
Actual War Doubted
against a paragraph in your Weekly
Whirligig of July 31, in which you Wilson knows are true?
Local observers are convinced
soeak of the law examinations, and
On the day that Great Britain went to war to uphold
that although Japan may drift
your regret that Japanese students freedom, tolerance and the democratic way of life, the Japan
closer toward the Axis powers, the
are not allowed to practise law in ese Canadian Citizens’ League, representing Canadian-born
i possibility of actual war in the
this province.
Pacific area is exceedingly re
"Your threat that this may pro Japanese throughout the province, telegraphed a pledge ot I
mote.
Especially emphatic is
duce a Japanese Hitler who will loyalty and devotion to Canada and the Empire.
i their belief that Japan cannot
weak vengeance on the Canadians
No sooner had Canada declared her stand alongside
I possibly attack Canada’s western
in the years to come, is a foolish the mother country, than donations from individuals, or
I coasts with any hope of military
and dangerous thing for you to
ganizations
and
tiny
Japanese
communities
from
all
over
success whatever.
To support
^oread abroad among young people.
this contention, they point to the
"I have always been an advocate the province had begun to roll into Canada s war chest, in
tremendous .distance that the
of the extension of the franchise support of the nation's war effort. Long before Vancou
Japanese Navy would be forced to
to all citizens in Canada, irrespec ver’s Air Supremacy Drive had been yet visualized. Japan-,
operate from their bases.
tive of race, color, or creed. But I esc Canadians, acting solely upon their own initiative. had
will admit this piece of propaganda,
Local business men point out
Kunio Shimizu
with its clear threat of retaliation contributed some $4000 in direct and unsolicited donations who, as a secretary of the
also that only a few Japanese
nas given me an unpleasant shock. to the Department of National Defence. Reference to tin.
Canadian' Japanese Association
firms with headquarters in
"At this moment our relations Department itself will offer indubitable proo .
and executive Japanese Canad
Japan actually have representa
P No racial group in Canada, within the limit of its ian Citizens League is co-ordin tives in Vancouver. Actually
are badly strained, and all men and
women of goodwill must do all in resources, subscribed more freely or more quickly to the
ating activity of the two comthe majority of businesses have
their power to prevent the spread
mirnity organizations to assist in
been built up over many years
,•
ot hatred. But you have struck out nation’s first war loan.
National
Registration
of
some
Inauiry at the Vancouver offices of the Canadian Red 7000 Japanese in Vancouver. time by original immigrants
a sort of blind fury, which will, I
from Japan, even the only
am afraid, have a bad effect, you Cross Society will prove how liberal have been donations,
Mr.
Shimizu
stresses
that
still
Japanese bank in the city hav
have certainly embarrassed us, who „"«y but of time and effort, to ass,st m the
more volunteer workers are
ing been established in this
are your friends.
needed
if
the
registration
is
to
humanitarian work.
way.
"The British people are fighting Society's
proceed smoothly and to be
Only
one
thing
has
prevented
the
enlisting
of
Japanese
For this reason it is not Celt ■
this terrible war to free the world,
accomplished with the min i that arrests of alien Japanese
Canadian
youth
in
the
Canadian
Active
Service
Force
the whole world, from the threat
imum of delay or trouble.
can possibly proceed in the same
of force now. I hope you will do the refusal of recruiting officers to accept their services
manner
as has occurred in LonThese are rhe evidence of support which Japanese Canawhat you can to wipe out this un
don,
Rangoon
and Hongkong.
fortunate remark."
to
the
nation
’
s
war
effort
—
support
given
dians have given
Espionage rumors too are branded
ot their
tneir own
own initiative not to convince fellow Canadians
of
as fantastic.
I regret indeed that my remarks
of their loyalty, but to express their own feeling. In the
last week may have been construed
"We have faith in the good
u
that
support
will
be
forthcoming
as a "piece of propaganda, with a war effort yet to come.
sense and common decency of
the Canadian public and the
clear threat of retaliation," or that with the same genuine
genuine spontaneity
spontaneity as it has in the rpast,
Canadian authorities to feel that
despite
all
unscrupulous
efforts
to
prove
Japanese
Can
I had intended to spread such a
blind,
unreasonable action will
thought of retaliation among the dians less Canadian than they are.
not be taken against Japanese in
second generation. Such a thing
Canada, many of whom have lived
was farthest from my mind.
VANCOUVER. — Organized j and worked, and raised families
What I wanted to do was to
Nisei co-operation'in the forth-|jn mis country desiring only to
protest to Canadians, to cry out
coming National Registration inq3e accepted as Canadians,” was
against their own blindness, to
many centres throughout the । the sentiment expressed generally,
try to make them see that what
After studying at Rush Medical province is expected to follow aFalse Charges
they do to youth today inevitably
School, University of Chicago and general appeal addressed to all
Brilliant Nisei Doctor
Reference was made to the
will leave its impress upon the
interning at Providence Hospital in member chapters of the Japanese
Returns to City
character and soul of our gen
VANCOUVER — Following the Detroit, Dr. Hori successfully pas Canadian Citizens League made charges which were investigated
successful completion of five years of sed Dominion Council Examinations this week by General Secretary by the Keenlyside Commission
eration. And no one wishes to
less than two years ago as well
see that growing character and
study in the Eastern United States, in Toronto recently, qualifying him Edward T. Ouchi.
in pursuit of a medical degree, Dr. to practice anywhere in the Domin
soul twisted, warped, scarred, less
Vancouver Chapter has already as the rumours circulated in
in
ion.
He
may
take
up
a
practice
:
than myself.
George C. Hori, brilliant University
enlisted the help of many volun February of last year by the Com
to
the
city,
or
return
to
the
East
In my personal experience and of B. C. graduate in 1935, has re
teers particularly to render in munist organ, the “People’s. Ad
continue post-graduate research.
observation nothing has disturbed turned to the City.
terpreters’ services, and chapters vocate,” since banned, to illus
L. A. Nisei Frolic In
me more deeply than the psycho
in the Fraser Valley, up coast and trate the fantastic nature of these
logical effects of racial discrimina- the prejudice of the human mind. Festival This Week
on Vancouver Island will probably charges. All of these, it was
And
second
generation
Japanese
are
proved upon investigation, were
iion upon both the first and second
LOS ANGELES—The biggest Nisei take similar steps.
as
human
as
fifth
generation
United
generation Japanese in Canada. I
Festival on record swung under way
bn his appeal, Mr. Ouchi found to be wholly false.
have met young people, .in whom Empire Loyalists, as human as last Saturday night with a grand urged that Niseis with a know
“As for rumors of naval officers
: the frustration of hope and ambi- Shakespeare's Shylock . . T'lf You "Coronation Ball" at the swank ledge of Japanese and English working as fishermen in charting
t>on and the smothering of ideals poison us, do we not die?
Biltmore Blue Room. The fun and volunteer their services to aid the B. C. coast, I’ve heard the
We realize full well the vital
: hy the hard realities of racial
frolic will continue till next Sunday. both the work of the authorities same story at least fifty times if
j Prejudice has left them gasping in need today for a human under
When the polls closed in the an and of their Japanese fellows. I’ve heard it once, during my
| He depths of their own bitterness. standing and a human brotherhood nual queen contest, winsome Shizue
It was also pointed out that thirty-five years in Canada,” a
I
It is rarely easy even for the untouched by the shadow of force Kobayashi, five feet and 1 05 pounds unless interpreters are provided well-known merchant declared.
j most intelligent or idealistic of But we learn from experience and of Nisei pulchritude, was found lead- voluntarily in this manner, every
f mortal human beings, to rise above example—and whatever that is, it i,ng the field of eleven contestants person
registering who is unable by law to secure his own inter
.
will
determine
our
contribution
to
I sll the accidents of fate—especially
by the wide margin of 10,000 votes, to understand English is required preter at his own expense.
i when such accidents arise only from ward that ideal.
JCCL Council Asks
Province-wide
The
N ewsfront
THE VOICE OF THE SECOND GENERATION
VANCOUVER
Weekly
By K. W.
1940.
Rumors Fantastic
"K-
Whirligig
AUGUST
YAMA TAXI
SEymour 1414
Investigation Will Prove Charges False
Editorial
VANCOUVER. B. C.—Declaring that they , would
Now and again I drop into the
Vancouver’s City Council in committee meeting yester i welcome a'complete investigation into community affairs to
offee of the paper just at that time day approved steps to make representations to the Federal 'clear awav anv suspicion of subversive activity, leading citizens
f the morning when the, sunshine
j pouring through the open win- Government with a view to the imposition of further restric lot the Japanese community express doubt that the so-called
TEmpirc-widc round-up" of Japanese businessmen would
jow casting long shadows across tions upon Japanese Canadians in the province.
'jitter on the editor's desk, and
Once again the moving spirit behind this movement is i be extended to British Columbia.
Although a serious view is
Darkling off ever knob, lever and Aiderman Halford D. Wilson, who has caught the public ,
taken of the increasing tension
:Omer of his battered typewriter.
I in Anglo-Japdnese relations, it
But this morning he handed .me attention time and again as the bitterest advocate of a repres
a letter from Nellie L. McClung, the sive policy against Japanese Canadians. In a lengthy tirade,
i is felt that this crisis will be
well-known Canadian authoress who; he again reviewed all the usual and familiar allegations
j safely weathered through dipha< made a distinguished contribu- which he has used so long and so often as weapons with
I lomatic negotiations, just as the
ion to Canadian literature, and now which to attack this minority group, which has no means
blockade and the
j Tientsin
near
Victoria.
ives at Lantern Lane,
Burma Road questions were
of defence in a democratic country.
!
Here is the letter:
settled.
But this time Mx. Wilson has come out deliberately
Latest reports both from
I am a reader of your pubiica- with charges he knows himself to be false. Local Japanese. ।
London and Tokyo indicate that
tion, and have been pleased with he charges, are not interested in Canada or the .Empire, and j
i discussions aimed to settle the
the spirit of your editorials, but I have shown no interest in or support of Canada s war effort. |
latest differences are already
feel I must, as a friend, protest
What, in actuality, are some of the facts that Mr. ।
Actual War Doubted
against a paragraph in your Weekly
Whirligig of July 31, in which you Wilson knows are true?
Local observers are convinced
soeak of the law examinations, and
On the day that Great Britain went to war to uphold
that although Japan may drift
your regret that Japanese students freedom, tolerance and the democratic way of life, the Japan
closer toward the Axis powers, the
are not allowed to practise law in ese Canadian Citizens’ League, representing Canadian-born
i possibility of actual war in the
this province.
Pacific area is exceedingly re
"Your threat that this may pro Japanese throughout the province, telegraphed a pledge ot I
mote.
Especially emphatic is
duce a Japanese Hitler who will loyalty and devotion to Canada and the Empire.
i their belief that Japan cannot
weak vengeance on the Canadians
No sooner had Canada declared her stand alongside
I possibly attack Canada’s western
in the years to come, is a foolish the mother country, than donations from individuals, or
I coasts with any hope of military
and dangerous thing for you to
ganizations
and
tiny
Japanese
communities
from
all
over
success whatever.
To support
^oread abroad among young people.
this contention, they point to the
"I have always been an advocate the province had begun to roll into Canada s war chest, in
tremendous .distance that the
of the extension of the franchise support of the nation's war effort. Long before Vancou
Japanese Navy would be forced to
to all citizens in Canada, irrespec ver’s Air Supremacy Drive had been yet visualized. Japan-,
operate from their bases.
tive of race, color, or creed. But I esc Canadians, acting solely upon their own initiative. had
will admit this piece of propaganda,
Local business men point out
Kunio Shimizu
with its clear threat of retaliation contributed some $4000 in direct and unsolicited donations who, as a secretary of the
also that only a few Japanese
nas given me an unpleasant shock. to the Department of National Defence. Reference to tin.
Canadian' Japanese Association
firms with headquarters in
"At this moment our relations Department itself will offer indubitable proo .
and executive Japanese Canad
Japan actually have representa
P No racial group in Canada, within the limit of its ian Citizens League is co-ordin tives in Vancouver. Actually
are badly strained, and all men and
women of goodwill must do all in resources, subscribed more freely or more quickly to the
ating activity of the two comthe majority of businesses have
their power to prevent the spread
mirnity organizations to assist in
been built up over many years
,•
ot hatred. But you have struck out nation’s first war loan.
National
Registration
of
some
Inauiry at the Vancouver offices of the Canadian Red 7000 Japanese in Vancouver. time by original immigrants
a sort of blind fury, which will, I
from Japan, even the only
am afraid, have a bad effect, you Cross Society will prove how liberal have been donations,
Mr.
Shimizu
stresses
that
still
Japanese bank in the city hav
have certainly embarrassed us, who „"«y but of time and effort, to ass,st m the
more volunteer workers are
ing been established in this
are your friends.
needed
if
the
registration
is
to
humanitarian work.
way.
"The British people are fighting Society's
proceed smoothly and to be
Only
one
thing
has
prevented
the
enlisting
of
Japanese
For this reason it is not Celt ■
this terrible war to free the world,
accomplished with the min i that arrests of alien Japanese
Canadian
youth
in
the
Canadian
Active
Service
Force
the whole world, from the threat
imum of delay or trouble.
can possibly proceed in the same
of force now. I hope you will do the refusal of recruiting officers to accept their services
manner
as has occurred in LonThese are rhe evidence of support which Japanese Canawhat you can to wipe out this un
don,
Rangoon
and Hongkong.
fortunate remark."
to
the
nation
’
s
war
effort
—
support
given
dians have given
Espionage rumors too are branded
ot their
tneir own
own initiative not to convince fellow Canadians
of
as fantastic.
I regret indeed that my remarks
of their loyalty, but to express their own feeling. In the
last week may have been construed
"We have faith in the good
u
that
support
will
be
forthcoming
as a "piece of propaganda, with a war effort yet to come.
sense and common decency of
the Canadian public and the
clear threat of retaliation," or that with the same genuine
genuine spontaneity
spontaneity as it has in the rpast,
Canadian authorities to feel that
despite
all
unscrupulous
efforts
to
prove
Japanese
Can
I had intended to spread such a
blind,
unreasonable action will
thought of retaliation among the dians less Canadian than they are.
not be taken against Japanese in
second generation. Such a thing
Canada, many of whom have lived
was farthest from my mind.
VANCOUVER. — Organized j and worked, and raised families
What I wanted to do was to
Nisei co-operation'in the forth-|jn mis country desiring only to
protest to Canadians, to cry out
coming National Registration inq3e accepted as Canadians,” was
against their own blindness, to
many centres throughout the । the sentiment expressed generally,
try to make them see that what
After studying at Rush Medical province is expected to follow aFalse Charges
they do to youth today inevitably
School, University of Chicago and general appeal addressed to all
Brilliant Nisei Doctor
Reference was made to the
will leave its impress upon the
interning at Providence Hospital in member chapters of the Japanese
Returns to City
character and soul of our gen
VANCOUVER — Following the Detroit, Dr. Hori successfully pas Canadian Citizens League made charges which were investigated
successful completion of five years of sed Dominion Council Examinations this week by General Secretary by the Keenlyside Commission
eration. And no one wishes to
less than two years ago as well
see that growing character and
study in the Eastern United States, in Toronto recently, qualifying him Edward T. Ouchi.
in pursuit of a medical degree, Dr. to practice anywhere in the Domin
soul twisted, warped, scarred, less
Vancouver Chapter has already as the rumours circulated in
in
ion.
He
may
take
up
a
practice
:
than myself.
George C. Hori, brilliant University
enlisted the help of many volun February of last year by the Com
to
the
city,
or
return
to
the
East
In my personal experience and of B. C. graduate in 1935, has re
teers particularly to render in munist organ, the “People’s. Ad
continue post-graduate research.
observation nothing has disturbed turned to the City.
terpreters’ services, and chapters vocate,” since banned, to illus
L. A. Nisei Frolic In
me more deeply than the psycho
in the Fraser Valley, up coast and trate the fantastic nature of these
logical effects of racial discrimina- the prejudice of the human mind. Festival This Week
on Vancouver Island will probably charges. All of these, it was
And
second
generation
Japanese
are
proved upon investigation, were
iion upon both the first and second
LOS ANGELES—The biggest Nisei take similar steps.
as
human
as
fifth
generation
United
generation Japanese in Canada. I
Festival on record swung under way
bn his appeal, Mr. Ouchi found to be wholly false.
have met young people, .in whom Empire Loyalists, as human as last Saturday night with a grand urged that Niseis with a know
“As for rumors of naval officers
: the frustration of hope and ambi- Shakespeare's Shylock . . T'lf You "Coronation Ball" at the swank ledge of Japanese and English working as fishermen in charting
t>on and the smothering of ideals poison us, do we not die?
Biltmore Blue Room. The fun and volunteer their services to aid the B. C. coast, I’ve heard the
We realize full well the vital
: hy the hard realities of racial
frolic will continue till next Sunday. both the work of the authorities same story at least fifty times if
j Prejudice has left them gasping in need today for a human under
When the polls closed in the an and of their Japanese fellows. I’ve heard it once, during my
| He depths of their own bitterness. standing and a human brotherhood nual queen contest, winsome Shizue
It was also pointed out that thirty-five years in Canada,” a
I
It is rarely easy even for the untouched by the shadow of force Kobayashi, five feet and 1 05 pounds unless interpreters are provided well-known merchant declared.
j most intelligent or idealistic of But we learn from experience and of Nisei pulchritude, was found lead- voluntarily in this manner, every
f mortal human beings, to rise above example—and whatever that is, it i,ng the field of eleven contestants person
registering who is unable by law to secure his own inter
.
will
determine
our
contribution
to
I sll the accidents of fate—especially
by the wide margin of 10,000 votes, to understand English is required preter at his own expense.
i when such accidents arise only from ward that ideal.
JCCL Council Asks
Province-wide
The
N ewsfront
Page 2
August 7, 1940
THE NEW CANADIAN
The New Canadian
THE VANGUARD OF NISEI OPINION
TRinity 0309
396 Powsil Street
Vancouver, B. C
paper published by and for second generation Japanese in
Canada and devoted to their welfare as citizens of Canada.
Published weekly at the Taiyo Printing Co.
25c per month; One year $2.50 in advance
Where Do We Stand
f Niseiara
jTHERE was quite a furor at the
I
San Francisco International
Exposition recently when willow
trees adorning the fair grounds sur
rounding the Japanese Pavilion
started to topple strangely.
"Sabotage? Fifth Column Ac
tivity?"—Suspicions leaped luridly
into the minds of many. Great v/as
the excitement until it was dis
covered that the saboteurs were two
beavers which had escaped from the
nearby Shasta-Cascade building.
! Have Faith in The Nisei
T have faith in the Nisei. To you that may seem a very baH tr*
—even slightly out of tune with the time, when one ^=7' =
finding in the midst of upheaval, chaos and destruction amC'
motely suggesting the deep-rootedness of faith.
:
Looking about today upon man's insensate folly and y- r-.
everywhere we turn, not merely in the political events of tr=7'''
even in our day-to-day contacts with our fellow,—we wonder 7" "
co.uld be so unworthy of himself and his whole heritage
it more true that we have to turn from the outside and oots^dourselves and our thoughts to seek any justification or hcoe for h44.
—to seek within ourselves the Kingdom of Heaven.
And in so doing, I am convinved that we shall find a faith i-..
second generation—a faith that they will achieve happiness as Can:4
that in time they will enter upon a truly rich and satisfying |ife~^
his genuine meaning for them, that they will leave to their child4
hard-won security of status and most of all the memory of a courage'-,
an idealism that carried them through the years of bitter experience ••
bitter frustration.
?
War clouds grow blacker in the Pacilc today. AngloJapanese relations are becoming increasingly strained as action
and reaction continue to spread their influence further and H/HEN American Niseis do things,
further in ever-widening circles. And the Japanese in Can
they don't do them by halves,
ada—a generation of immigrants and a generation of native- it seems.
born Canadians, view the trend of events with an unspoken
One of the main attractions at
IRST, I think we have to look at the mental inheritance cf our ra^question, “If the worst comes to the worst, where do we the Japanese Pavilion last year was
find the foundations for faith. That inheritance, | consider to
the $25,000 silk tapestry, "Mount
stand ?’’
deeply-rooted emphasis upon things of the spirit, upon eitical 4
For native-born Canadians, aspiring to a destiny as Fuji" that graced a wall of Travel the
moral
principles, implanted within the second generation by their pore4 TH?•oS
citizens of Canada, it is a question fraught with so many Hall in the pavilion. Through the Perhaps the Nisei themselves will be inclined to scoff at the suggests
efforts of the Japanese American
possibilities, that it leaves the mind a conflict of fear and Citizens League of Utah, the art that they are more than ordinarily aware of moral values, and probol ?
emotion. At such a time, is it not our direst need to attempt work was presented to the state of of many, unfortunately, this will be true. But 1 am convinced that cH I
a little honest soul-searching, to discover what faith we have Utah, and will be hung in the parents brought with them to Canada a breath of "the soul of Japan"-; I
in ourselves, what we truly believe and how we must surely rotunda of the state capital at Salt the spirit of Busido, implying virtues of rectitude, justice, courage, benevolence, politeness, veracity and sincerity, honour and loyalty. And no ■
Lake City.
act.
matter how our parents may have wavered from these principles in the ■
No matter how much we might wish', we cannot run
VIDENCE of the advance of Nisei desperate struggle for existence which they perforce have waged, they ■
away from the situation if it comes to pass. In our hearts
into the wider cutural fields have kept them very much alive, striving to instill them within their ■
■
and minds we know how incredibly false are all the charges was borne out lately when Ruby children.
Yoshino,
popular
Nisei
vocalist,
was
Secondly,
and
just
as
important
to
my
thesis,
we
must
look
to
the
B
of un-Canadianism. of disloyalty, of treachery and espionage.
And we have a premonition of how viciously bitter Cana chosen to appear at the Greek environment in which these ethical values and the second generation I
■
dians may be under the stress of the distorted emotions of Theatre on the University of Cali themselves are nurtured.
fornia campus.
In Japan itself, I think the spirit of Bushido has become formalised I
war.
She is the first second generation and even stultified by the dead weight of centuries of custom and tradi- I
In the meantime it is our duty to do everything in our artist to be accorded the honour, and tion and by accepted and rigid forms of thought, so that what may have I
power to prevent the further aggravation of Anglo-Japanese will be appearing Sunday, August been spontaneous and creative in the beginning, has too often become I
relations. If in time of peace we have striven to foster under- 11, under the sponsorship of the merely a matter of imitative form, perhaps even an intolerant national ■
standing, friendship and goodwill across the Pacific, how University of California Committee fetish which dictates a national morality to a submissive people.... . I
In Canada (on America), on the other hand, while our liberal I
much neessary are our efforts today when war threatens. on Music and Drama. Miss Yoshino
has a long line of accomplishments philosophy has laid strong emphasis upon very similar ethical values, the ■
And we shall do our best to prove to Canadians that we
early and far-reaching rise of our material civilization has had the op- I
are loyal to our home and native land, that first loyalties to her credit.
posite effect. Instead of crystalizing as rigid forms in our society, these |
come first, no matter how sympathetic we may be towards f^NE of the major questions facing values have too often been discarded all together in our mad pursuit cf I
Niseis has long been the vo material gain, and our insistence up the rights of the individual.
Japan’s aspirations in the Far East.
I
cational problem, but the Nisei can
And if the worst finally comes to the worst, we will take heart from this story of an
TN the Nisei, then, I perceive the fusing of these two diverse streams. I
be prepared to face a baptism of fire, with an unshakeable American employer.
* ..In some cases, of course, the mingling of these contrasting elements I
conviction in our ability to emerge from that ordeal, not
Along busy Broadway in Los will have, and in fact have had, disastrous results, and out of it emerge I
Angeles,
one beauty shop operator individuals, falsely emotional in reaction, intolerant in criticism', distorts |
ruined, broken and bitter, but strengthened and matured by
hires
some
30 Niseis. He has two in outlook, irresponsible in action. But in others, and I believe them to I
our experience to build again for the future.
100
F
E
stores and employs close to
people at both establishments.
He is a successful operator, and
his past experience has shown him
that Niseis are very capable anc
For Out-of-Towners
"'Showmanship"
talented in the beauty-shop busi
Editor,
The
New
Canadian
—
ness.
Editor, The New Canadian.
Perhaps this will presage a new
... I believe that “K.W.” in his Dear Sir: It is encouraging to
showmanship sure hit the nail on note the whole-hearted support of chapter in the vocational history o
the head but I know that, that Vancouver City Japanese in the the Nisei. There seems to be a
sort of thing is going to keep up Government’s national registra way for those Niseis who have the
will to excel.
as long as the Isseis have any tion plans for August 19-21. But
feeling for Japan no matter how what about the outlying districts, 'THE Roosevelt vs. Wilkie, Demosmall that feeling may • be. It such as parts of the Fraser Vai A crats vs Republicans battle for
is something that most Niseis run ley and the Islands? Have the national election honours is being
up against, for the Issei will have Japanese outside Vancouver volun followed with more than a mere
that feeling of “clinging” to Japan teered their services as interpre side-line interest by some 30,000
no matter how Westernized he ters to the respective registrars up-and-coming Niseis.
may become. In the sections of their districts? Has the Nikkai
According to estimates, there wil
where Japanese are grouped to or the J.C.C.L. done anything in
be
some 30,000 young people who
gether this feeling is still strong this line outside Vancouver City?
er and the children of such Japan After all, it must be remembered will cast their first ballot this year,
ese are slowly but surely being that these organizations are not the estimate is based on the statis
tics which go to show that 10,000
turned or converted into Niseis limited to Vancouver City.
Niseis
were born each year in this
with Issei outlook on life. This
It must be remembered that the country from 1916 to 1919. They
eternal power of thought is the initiative will probably not be
most stupendous of all lessons taken by the registrars because have all reached the voting age since
that life teaches . . . “you" and “I” under the regulations those un 1936.
can transform our lives by chang
able to speak either French or HJHILE on the subject of elections,
ing our ways of thinking! !!
English must bring their own
here is an interesting tale
Most Isseis and even Niseis can interpreters.
reported in the Los Angeles Mirror.
help to maintain relative security
T. S.
It contrasts the differences of poli
in Canada by strictly observing
New Westminster.
tical status between B. C. and Cali
the laws of Canada. It's no fun
fornia Niseis only too well in point
to be criticized or be looked upon who try to learn after leaving ing out that our American counsins
with suspicion. ... It gives the school—. mostly what they read have weapons to use against un
rest o.f us a black eye. I said is not worth the time reading.
scrupulous politicians, which Can
"most" and "even” at the first
About the Japanese language adian Niseis lack.
because they are in the very question—I feel that if you can
Back in 1935, Congressman John
minority that actually try it.
get by talking that all that’s
F.
Dockweiler made the following
I don't believe that most Niseis needed. For those who ask why
statement:
have any idea what we Niseis are let them read—‘‘The Last French
"One hundred and fifty fish
up against when it comes to legal Lesson” by Alphonse Daulet.
ing vessels operated by Japanese
M. H.
matters. (I know that the more
in San Pedro can be converted
o,
R.R.
No.
I learn of things the less I know
Now Westminster, B.C.
into torpedo boats or supply ships
of things). There are very few
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
be by far in the majority, the ethical values implanted by their parents |
will find constructive an dcreative outlets under the influence of a liberal |
western philosophy. That is to say, in the second generation we will |
have fused those virtues of the spirit which are synomous with tie |
Japanese people, and the sense of individualism and liberal enterprise, I
which our material civilization has brought. The result, I think, wil «
sense of progressive community responsibility, free to work out t e u good of the highest number.
In Chinese philosophy moral precepts are often conveyed by tne
use of the concept of a "Superior Being." I do not,think J amiss .
suggest that the Nisei, too, can be a ' Superior Being.
?\°T u
logical deduction bear this out, but also the actual way o iM 'followed by many Nisei of my own acquaintance and yours in which seen genuine evidences of this sense of personal service and respond
verify this conclusion.
——=========='
THE QUALITY OF LOYALTY
“In a small old book known as the Canon of Loyalty, the
author explains the character of this virtue more clearly than do man,
other writers.
■ virtues
"If to loyalty,’’ says he, "you add benevolence, the country
will shine forth. Add to it wisdom, the country will be well
If courage is added, danger to the country will be averted.
us a
capacities made effective by loyalty. On the contrary to exercis
lence without loyalty, is to grant personal favour. To be wise vi^
being loyal is to cover treachery. To act courageously wit out
loyal, is to create disturbances. Thus—abilities, unless gui t 1
lead to run.’’—Dr. Inozo Nitobe.
ently foregetful of the revert^
and be effecive in destroying the
caused by his unfortunate stated
naval bases on the Coasts and the
of five years ago.
Panama Coast."
But the local.Nisei Democrats,^
The ridiculous accusation aroused
forgetting Dockweiler s unwp^
furore and indignation, in local Jawill intropanese__ circles- and among fair- attack on the Japanese
duce a resolution to tne Sta>e
minded citizens of this city.
mi(icc of the . Demote W
Not long ago, Dockweileran- mittee
Federation of California °'. ^
nounced his candidacy for the post ment, demanding tha
^
of District Attorney of L. A. clarify and retract his
County and recently appeared before
Now, it seems, it is Mr.
a local Citizens League rally to bid
for support from the Nisei, appar- weiler who is on the spot.
THE NEW CANADIAN
The New Canadian
THE VANGUARD OF NISEI OPINION
TRinity 0309
396 Powsil Street
Vancouver, B. C
paper published by and for second generation Japanese in
Canada and devoted to their welfare as citizens of Canada.
Published weekly at the Taiyo Printing Co.
25c per month; One year $2.50 in advance
Where Do We Stand
f Niseiara
jTHERE was quite a furor at the
I
San Francisco International
Exposition recently when willow
trees adorning the fair grounds sur
rounding the Japanese Pavilion
started to topple strangely.
"Sabotage? Fifth Column Ac
tivity?"—Suspicions leaped luridly
into the minds of many. Great v/as
the excitement until it was dis
covered that the saboteurs were two
beavers which had escaped from the
nearby Shasta-Cascade building.
! Have Faith in The Nisei
T have faith in the Nisei. To you that may seem a very baH tr*
—even slightly out of tune with the time, when one ^=7' =
finding in the midst of upheaval, chaos and destruction amC'
motely suggesting the deep-rootedness of faith.
:
Looking about today upon man's insensate folly and y- r-.
everywhere we turn, not merely in the political events of tr=7'''
even in our day-to-day contacts with our fellow,—we wonder 7" "
co.uld be so unworthy of himself and his whole heritage
it more true that we have to turn from the outside and oots^dourselves and our thoughts to seek any justification or hcoe for h44.
—to seek within ourselves the Kingdom of Heaven.
And in so doing, I am convinved that we shall find a faith i-..
second generation—a faith that they will achieve happiness as Can:4
that in time they will enter upon a truly rich and satisfying |ife~^
his genuine meaning for them, that they will leave to their child4
hard-won security of status and most of all the memory of a courage'-,
an idealism that carried them through the years of bitter experience ••
bitter frustration.
?
War clouds grow blacker in the Pacilc today. AngloJapanese relations are becoming increasingly strained as action
and reaction continue to spread their influence further and H/HEN American Niseis do things,
further in ever-widening circles. And the Japanese in Can
they don't do them by halves,
ada—a generation of immigrants and a generation of native- it seems.
born Canadians, view the trend of events with an unspoken
One of the main attractions at
IRST, I think we have to look at the mental inheritance cf our ra^question, “If the worst comes to the worst, where do we the Japanese Pavilion last year was
find the foundations for faith. That inheritance, | consider to
the $25,000 silk tapestry, "Mount
stand ?’’
deeply-rooted emphasis upon things of the spirit, upon eitical 4
For native-born Canadians, aspiring to a destiny as Fuji" that graced a wall of Travel the
moral
principles, implanted within the second generation by their pore4 TH?•oS
citizens of Canada, it is a question fraught with so many Hall in the pavilion. Through the Perhaps the Nisei themselves will be inclined to scoff at the suggests
efforts of the Japanese American
possibilities, that it leaves the mind a conflict of fear and Citizens League of Utah, the art that they are more than ordinarily aware of moral values, and probol ?
emotion. At such a time, is it not our direst need to attempt work was presented to the state of of many, unfortunately, this will be true. But 1 am convinced that cH I
a little honest soul-searching, to discover what faith we have Utah, and will be hung in the parents brought with them to Canada a breath of "the soul of Japan"-; I
in ourselves, what we truly believe and how we must surely rotunda of the state capital at Salt the spirit of Busido, implying virtues of rectitude, justice, courage, benevolence, politeness, veracity and sincerity, honour and loyalty. And no ■
Lake City.
act.
matter how our parents may have wavered from these principles in the ■
No matter how much we might wish', we cannot run
VIDENCE of the advance of Nisei desperate struggle for existence which they perforce have waged, they ■
away from the situation if it comes to pass. In our hearts
into the wider cutural fields have kept them very much alive, striving to instill them within their ■
■
and minds we know how incredibly false are all the charges was borne out lately when Ruby children.
Yoshino,
popular
Nisei
vocalist,
was
Secondly,
and
just
as
important
to
my
thesis,
we
must
look
to
the
B
of un-Canadianism. of disloyalty, of treachery and espionage.
And we have a premonition of how viciously bitter Cana chosen to appear at the Greek environment in which these ethical values and the second generation I
■
dians may be under the stress of the distorted emotions of Theatre on the University of Cali themselves are nurtured.
fornia campus.
In Japan itself, I think the spirit of Bushido has become formalised I
war.
She is the first second generation and even stultified by the dead weight of centuries of custom and tradi- I
In the meantime it is our duty to do everything in our artist to be accorded the honour, and tion and by accepted and rigid forms of thought, so that what may have I
power to prevent the further aggravation of Anglo-Japanese will be appearing Sunday, August been spontaneous and creative in the beginning, has too often become I
relations. If in time of peace we have striven to foster under- 11, under the sponsorship of the merely a matter of imitative form, perhaps even an intolerant national ■
standing, friendship and goodwill across the Pacific, how University of California Committee fetish which dictates a national morality to a submissive people.... . I
In Canada (on America), on the other hand, while our liberal I
much neessary are our efforts today when war threatens. on Music and Drama. Miss Yoshino
has a long line of accomplishments philosophy has laid strong emphasis upon very similar ethical values, the ■
And we shall do our best to prove to Canadians that we
early and far-reaching rise of our material civilization has had the op- I
are loyal to our home and native land, that first loyalties to her credit.
posite effect. Instead of crystalizing as rigid forms in our society, these |
come first, no matter how sympathetic we may be towards f^NE of the major questions facing values have too often been discarded all together in our mad pursuit cf I
Niseis has long been the vo material gain, and our insistence up the rights of the individual.
Japan’s aspirations in the Far East.
I
cational problem, but the Nisei can
And if the worst finally comes to the worst, we will take heart from this story of an
TN the Nisei, then, I perceive the fusing of these two diverse streams. I
be prepared to face a baptism of fire, with an unshakeable American employer.
* ..In some cases, of course, the mingling of these contrasting elements I
conviction in our ability to emerge from that ordeal, not
Along busy Broadway in Los will have, and in fact have had, disastrous results, and out of it emerge I
Angeles,
one beauty shop operator individuals, falsely emotional in reaction, intolerant in criticism', distorts |
ruined, broken and bitter, but strengthened and matured by
hires
some
30 Niseis. He has two in outlook, irresponsible in action. But in others, and I believe them to I
our experience to build again for the future.
100
F
E
stores and employs close to
people at both establishments.
He is a successful operator, and
his past experience has shown him
that Niseis are very capable anc
For Out-of-Towners
"'Showmanship"
talented in the beauty-shop busi
Editor,
The
New
Canadian
—
ness.
Editor, The New Canadian.
Perhaps this will presage a new
... I believe that “K.W.” in his Dear Sir: It is encouraging to
showmanship sure hit the nail on note the whole-hearted support of chapter in the vocational history o
the head but I know that, that Vancouver City Japanese in the the Nisei. There seems to be a
sort of thing is going to keep up Government’s national registra way for those Niseis who have the
will to excel.
as long as the Isseis have any tion plans for August 19-21. But
feeling for Japan no matter how what about the outlying districts, 'THE Roosevelt vs. Wilkie, Demosmall that feeling may • be. It such as parts of the Fraser Vai A crats vs Republicans battle for
is something that most Niseis run ley and the Islands? Have the national election honours is being
up against, for the Issei will have Japanese outside Vancouver volun followed with more than a mere
that feeling of “clinging” to Japan teered their services as interpre side-line interest by some 30,000
no matter how Westernized he ters to the respective registrars up-and-coming Niseis.
may become. In the sections of their districts? Has the Nikkai
According to estimates, there wil
where Japanese are grouped to or the J.C.C.L. done anything in
be
some 30,000 young people who
gether this feeling is still strong this line outside Vancouver City?
er and the children of such Japan After all, it must be remembered will cast their first ballot this year,
ese are slowly but surely being that these organizations are not the estimate is based on the statis
tics which go to show that 10,000
turned or converted into Niseis limited to Vancouver City.
Niseis
were born each year in this
with Issei outlook on life. This
It must be remembered that the country from 1916 to 1919. They
eternal power of thought is the initiative will probably not be
most stupendous of all lessons taken by the registrars because have all reached the voting age since
that life teaches . . . “you" and “I” under the regulations those un 1936.
can transform our lives by chang
able to speak either French or HJHILE on the subject of elections,
ing our ways of thinking! !!
English must bring their own
here is an interesting tale
Most Isseis and even Niseis can interpreters.
reported in the Los Angeles Mirror.
help to maintain relative security
T. S.
It contrasts the differences of poli
in Canada by strictly observing
New Westminster.
tical status between B. C. and Cali
the laws of Canada. It's no fun
fornia Niseis only too well in point
to be criticized or be looked upon who try to learn after leaving ing out that our American counsins
with suspicion. ... It gives the school—. mostly what they read have weapons to use against un
rest o.f us a black eye. I said is not worth the time reading.
scrupulous politicians, which Can
"most" and "even” at the first
About the Japanese language adian Niseis lack.
because they are in the very question—I feel that if you can
Back in 1935, Congressman John
minority that actually try it.
get by talking that all that’s
F.
Dockweiler made the following
I don't believe that most Niseis needed. For those who ask why
statement:
have any idea what we Niseis are let them read—‘‘The Last French
"One hundred and fifty fish
up against when it comes to legal Lesson” by Alphonse Daulet.
ing vessels operated by Japanese
M. H.
matters. (I know that the more
in San Pedro can be converted
o,
R.R.
No.
I learn of things the less I know
Now Westminster, B.C.
into torpedo boats or supply ships
of things). There are very few
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
be by far in the majority, the ethical values implanted by their parents |
will find constructive an dcreative outlets under the influence of a liberal |
western philosophy. That is to say, in the second generation we will |
have fused those virtues of the spirit which are synomous with tie |
Japanese people, and the sense of individualism and liberal enterprise, I
which our material civilization has brought. The result, I think, wil «
sense of progressive community responsibility, free to work out t e u good of the highest number.
In Chinese philosophy moral precepts are often conveyed by tne
use of the concept of a "Superior Being." I do not,think J amiss .
suggest that the Nisei, too, can be a ' Superior Being.
?\°T u
logical deduction bear this out, but also the actual way o iM 'followed by many Nisei of my own acquaintance and yours in which seen genuine evidences of this sense of personal service and respond
verify this conclusion.
——=========='
THE QUALITY OF LOYALTY
“In a small old book known as the Canon of Loyalty, the
author explains the character of this virtue more clearly than do man,
other writers.
■ virtues
"If to loyalty,’’ says he, "you add benevolence, the country
will shine forth. Add to it wisdom, the country will be well
If courage is added, danger to the country will be averted.
us a
capacities made effective by loyalty. On the contrary to exercis
lence without loyalty, is to grant personal favour. To be wise vi^
being loyal is to cover treachery. To act courageously wit out
loyal, is to create disturbances. Thus—abilities, unless gui t 1
lead to run.’’—Dr. Inozo Nitobe.
ently foregetful of the revert^
and be effecive in destroying the
caused by his unfortunate stated
naval bases on the Coasts and the
of five years ago.
Panama Coast."
But the local.Nisei Democrats,^
The ridiculous accusation aroused
forgetting Dockweiler s unwp^
furore and indignation, in local Jawill intropanese__ circles- and among fair- attack on the Japanese
duce a resolution to tne Sta>e
minded citizens of this city.
mi(icc of the . Demote W
Not long ago, Dockweileran- mittee
Federation of California °'. ^
nounced his candidacy for the post ment, demanding tha
^
of District Attorney of L. A. clarify and retract his
County and recently appeared before
Now, it seems, it is Mr.
a local Citizens League rally to bid
for support from the Nisei, appar- weiler who is on the spot.
Page 3
Page
THE NEW CANADIAN
August 7, 1940
^yone Must Register
Will You
Nisei To Be Sworn In As Deputies
Volunteer?
JBC To Increase Overseas Power
Demand For Good Nisei Announcers
Fascinating stories of the magic ing considerable interest and that
voice
of radio were related by pis a result there would be moie
Bring Interpreters At Own Expense
Taiichiro Sato of the Japan Broad- time devoted to them trom now
casting Corporation at a banquet! on.
-With National Rs- volunteer who will complete the;
One thing about Vancouver that
tendered in his honour by ■ the
^Zon^aies less than two' registration card in the usual
Canada Daily News and the Tair- impressed Mr. Sato deeply was its
manner.
iku Nippo, Saturday evening at delightful weather. He was only
Persons who are absent from
fortheeficienthandthe Fuji.
of a quarter-million 3 aneou- Canada during the registration j
period
(on
a
trip
to
Japan
for|
Though Mr. Sato is still a young day morning for Seattle.
X during the three-day peninstance),
must
register
at
a
-post!
man. he has worked bis way up
; Joi August 19-21 inclusive. Japoffice
within
30
days
after
their
j
in his work. He told the audience
| Ee^e Canadian Citizens League
YOSHINO
return.
Similarly,
persons
who!
that the Japan Broadcasting Cor I
Stives meet Wednesday to
poration is contemplating an in
I Ttribute volunteers among aif- become 16 after the last day ofj
the
registration,
must
also
regis-j
crease in the wattage of Station
I Cerent registration booths throughter at the post office within 30;
JZK to three times its present
Lut the city.
days after their birthday.
362 ALEXANDER ST.
<
strength in order to insure good J
F Vmost two hundred first and
Any person registered, who
reception on this side of the Paci <
PHONE TRI. 0723
5
I second generation will be sworn afterwards marries, or changes his
fic and the lengthening of the
I
to act as volunteer assistant or her place of residence is rebroadcasting time.
I deputy registrars, it is expected quired within 14 days to notify
Niseis who have a good com
I hv local leaders, who are co-opei- tne
the VOHUHIUU
Dominion Qiauonuiuu
Statistician at Otmand of English both speaking
I
activelv to assist in the re- tawa of the date of marriage, and
and writing and especially those
I Uiioiis of the estimated 6000 the person married, or the new
who possess a good radio voice ।
I Japanese in the city covered by address to which they have
Shaeffer Pen Agents
..are in great demand as announc
| the regulations.
Latest Japanese Recordings
moved.
ers and office workers, he de
I It is hoped that during the
clared. Among the ten Niseis
331 Powell St.
I week many more Nisei will come
employed by the broadcasting TRinity 31 12
I ^rward with offers of assistance.
company he cited the case of
VANCOUVER, B. C.
I The majority of volunteers will be
Miss Yoshiye Suyama, former
I stationed in three booths adjacent
Vancouver Nisei, who is now
Nationality Asked in Registration Card
I to the Japanese centre in Vancouemployed by the JBC in the
! ver centre, but additional volunHawaii hookups.
you enter Canada?---------For Real Japanese Dishes
Aithough the questionaires to
I -eer? will be needed to assist in
<
8.
Racial
origin.
Fan
Mail
I Vancouver South, where the Mar- be filled out in the National Reg
During the course of his speech,
According to instructions for dep
I nole community is located, and in istration are quite long and de
he
pointed out that on the aver
uty
registrars
issued
by
the
Chief
I Vancouver Burrard, this electoral tailed, most of the questions are
age
over 20,000 letters have been
258 POWELL ST.
’ division including large popula quite simple and easily answered. Registrar, Japanese would answci as received monthly by the JBC from
TRINITY 0561
>•
6 tions in Fairview and Kitsilano Officials ask. however, that every follows:
not
only
civilized
countries
all
one read as much as possible be
British subject (a) by birth or over the world, but from distant
Bmg Interpreters.
or
Under the regulations, anyone forehand, so as to, make the marriage—All Canadian - born
South Sea Islands and from the
registration
as
easy
as
possible.
women who have married naturalized depths of the African jungles. He
not able to understand English
It is hoped, too, that Nisei British subject will answer 1 es.
is required to bring his own inter
regretted the act that the short
g preter at his own expense, so ac readers will' explain the regis and leave all other questions under age of workers made it impossible
tion io provide voluntary inter- tration to their parents if ne this, head blank.
to have all the interesting and
IF
Fresh and
pretors has been welcomed.
cessary, so that no time will be
(b) Japanese who have naturali- encouraging letters answered.
lost in registration booths. In zation papers will answer i es
Every person resident in Can
Delicious
He related one case where an
cases
of difficulty of course, under naturalization, and should as- Englishman in Africa 'wrote say
K ada, whether a British subject
volunteer deputy registrars, in certain the date and timc of their ing that he had heard one of the
WEDDING CAKES
or alien, over 16 years is restructed as to how the questions naturalization before going to the JBC programs and had even en
quired to register, and to secure
should be answered, will be on registration booth for questions (d) closed a snapshot showing African
a certificate of registration
which must be carried around
hand to assist.
natives listening to the Japanse
and (e) .
inspection
for
and produced
The following questions, num
(f) Legally, anyone who is not music as it came over the ether.
when
necessary.
342 Powell St.
TR. 5531
bers 7 and 8, however, may bear a British subject is classed as an
5
Nisei Programs
Booths will be open from 8 a.m. some explanation since they re alien and owes allegiance to the coun
Mr. Sato stated that the pro
to 10 p.m., Monday, Tuesday, and quire a knowledge of the law and try whose citizenship he holds. In the grams for the Nisei were attractWednesday, August 19-21.
apply particularly to Japanese or case of Japanese, this of course would
g
other immigrant groups.
People 111 or Absent
be Japan.
At present, however,
7.
Nationality
or
country
of
allegi
some
doubt
has
been expressed conPersons who are ill and cannot
attend the registration booth in
ance:—British
subject (a) by cerning the interpretation of this
person may be attended to by a
birth?____ (b) by naturaliza question, and inquiries have been
agent for
tion?____ (c) foreign citizen? directed to clear up the matter.
(d) If naturalized, in
(8) For racial origin, both first
and second generation will answer,
s
place?______ (0 M
Bno!h “Japanese.”
subject, to what country do yo"
PHONE TRI. 5599
300 E. CORDOVA ST,
In regard to nationality, the folowe allegiance?---------lowing points should be noted:
VANCOUVER, B. C.
an immigrant, in what year did
Every person has become a Brit
ish subject who was born in any
dominion of the Empire, no matter
what the nationality of his parents.
Marriage
In the case of first generation
To Subscribe To
women, if they have married a na
turalized British subject, they have
Specialists in
become
British subjects. Similarly, if
groceries and
the husband during the marriage has
Shipbuilding
PROVISIONS
become a naturalized British subject
f
before January 15. 1932, the wife
j becomes a British subject. ,
TRinity 4702
THE paper published by niseis for the
353 Powell St.
On the other hand, a woman who
1969 West Georgia
NISEI
Trinity 5784
was
a British subject loses her citizen
Vancouver, B. C.
ship if she married a man before
January 15, 1 93 2 who was not a
British subject, or since that date
THE NEW CANADIAN '
QUALITY, ECONOMY AND SERVICE
who married an alien Japanese and
acquired her husband s nationality.
396 Powell Street, Vancouver, B. C.
Volunteers are still needed
to assist in the National Reg
istration from August 19 to
August 21. They are required
especially to man three reg
istration booths near the
Japanese community in Van
couver Centre, where the
great bulk of Japanese resi
dents are located. In addi
tion volunteers are needed
for stations in Vancouver
Vancouver
Burrard
and
South.
Will you do your bit to
assist in this national programme.
Telephone your
name immediately to Dr.
George Ishiwara, SEymour
3797, to Kunio Shimizu,
TRinity 0072, or The New
Canadian, TRinity 0309.
| Sukiyaki j:
Nimi Shokai
Volunteers To Receive Instructions
TSUBAME
CAKES!
Powell Bakery
S. NAKANO
t
sun life of canna
STANLEY PARK
SHIPYARDS
STAR MARKET
The Easy, Handy Way!
THE NEW CANADIAN
§
Union fish Company
WHEN ORDERING YOUR TOILET TISSUE
ALWAYS SPECIFY
h
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS
1^4
??
to
IT IS SOFT. SANITARY & SOLUBLE
FREE DELIVERY SERVICE
Highland 0335-6
469 Powell Street
SMITH, DAVIDSON &
WRIGHT CO. LTD.
Dear Sirs:
Please send me The New Canadian for four months,
Enclosed is one dollar.
Name___
Address
THE NEW CANADIAN
August 7, 1940
^yone Must Register
Will You
Nisei To Be Sworn In As Deputies
Volunteer?
JBC To Increase Overseas Power
Demand For Good Nisei Announcers
Fascinating stories of the magic ing considerable interest and that
voice
of radio were related by pis a result there would be moie
Bring Interpreters At Own Expense
Taiichiro Sato of the Japan Broad- time devoted to them trom now
casting Corporation at a banquet! on.
-With National Rs- volunteer who will complete the;
One thing about Vancouver that
tendered in his honour by ■ the
^Zon^aies less than two' registration card in the usual
Canada Daily News and the Tair- impressed Mr. Sato deeply was its
manner.
iku Nippo, Saturday evening at delightful weather. He was only
Persons who are absent from
fortheeficienthandthe Fuji.
of a quarter-million 3 aneou- Canada during the registration j
period
(on
a
trip
to
Japan
for|
Though Mr. Sato is still a young day morning for Seattle.
X during the three-day peninstance),
must
register
at
a
-post!
man. he has worked bis way up
; Joi August 19-21 inclusive. Japoffice
within
30
days
after
their
j
in his work. He told the audience
| Ee^e Canadian Citizens League
YOSHINO
return.
Similarly,
persons
who!
that the Japan Broadcasting Cor I
Stives meet Wednesday to
poration is contemplating an in
I Ttribute volunteers among aif- become 16 after the last day ofj
the
registration,
must
also
regis-j
crease in the wattage of Station
I Cerent registration booths throughter at the post office within 30;
JZK to three times its present
Lut the city.
days after their birthday.
362 ALEXANDER ST.
<
strength in order to insure good J
F Vmost two hundred first and
Any person registered, who
reception on this side of the Paci <
PHONE TRI. 0723
5
I second generation will be sworn afterwards marries, or changes his
fic and the lengthening of the
I
to act as volunteer assistant or her place of residence is rebroadcasting time.
I deputy registrars, it is expected quired within 14 days to notify
Niseis who have a good com
I hv local leaders, who are co-opei- tne
the VOHUHIUU
Dominion Qiauonuiuu
Statistician at Otmand of English both speaking
I
activelv to assist in the re- tawa of the date of marriage, and
and writing and especially those
I Uiioiis of the estimated 6000 the person married, or the new
who possess a good radio voice ।
I Japanese in the city covered by address to which they have
Shaeffer Pen Agents
..are in great demand as announc
| the regulations.
Latest Japanese Recordings
moved.
ers and office workers, he de
I It is hoped that during the
clared. Among the ten Niseis
331 Powell St.
I week many more Nisei will come
employed by the broadcasting TRinity 31 12
I ^rward with offers of assistance.
company he cited the case of
VANCOUVER, B. C.
I The majority of volunteers will be
Miss Yoshiye Suyama, former
I stationed in three booths adjacent
Vancouver Nisei, who is now
Nationality Asked in Registration Card
I to the Japanese centre in Vancouemployed by the JBC in the
! ver centre, but additional volunHawaii hookups.
you enter Canada?---------For Real Japanese Dishes
Aithough the questionaires to
I -eer? will be needed to assist in
<
8.
Racial
origin.
Fan
I Vancouver South, where the Mar- be filled out in the National Reg
During the course of his speech,
According to instructions for dep
I nole community is located, and in istration are quite long and de
he
pointed out that on the aver
uty
registrars
issued
by
the
Chief
I Vancouver Burrard, this electoral tailed, most of the questions are
age
over 20,000 letters have been
258 POWELL ST.
’ division including large popula quite simple and easily answered. Registrar, Japanese would answci as received monthly by the JBC from
TRINITY 0561
>•
6 tions in Fairview and Kitsilano Officials ask. however, that every follows:
not
only
civilized
countries
all
one read as much as possible be
British subject (a) by birth or over the world, but from distant
Bmg Interpreters.
or
Under the regulations, anyone forehand, so as to, make the marriage—All Canadian - born
South Sea Islands and from the
registration
as
easy
as
possible.
women who have married naturalized depths of the African jungles. He
not able to understand English
It is hoped, too, that Nisei British subject will answer 1 es.
is required to bring his own inter
regretted the act that the short
g preter at his own expense, so ac readers will' explain the regis and leave all other questions under age of workers made it impossible
tion io provide voluntary inter- tration to their parents if ne this, head blank.
to have all the interesting and
IF
Fresh and
pretors has been welcomed.
cessary, so that no time will be
(b) Japanese who have naturali- encouraging letters answered.
lost in registration booths. In zation papers will answer i es
Every person resident in Can
Delicious
He related one case where an
cases
of difficulty of course, under naturalization, and should as- Englishman in Africa 'wrote say
K ada, whether a British subject
volunteer deputy registrars, in certain the date and timc of their ing that he had heard one of the
WEDDING CAKES
or alien, over 16 years is restructed as to how the questions naturalization before going to the JBC programs and had even en
quired to register, and to secure
should be answered, will be on registration booth for questions (d) closed a snapshot showing African
a certificate of registration
which must be carried around
hand to assist.
natives listening to the Japanse
and (e) .
inspection
for
and produced
The following questions, num
(f) Legally, anyone who is not music as it came over the ether.
when
necessary.
342 Powell St.
TR. 5531
bers 7 and 8, however, may bear a British subject is classed as an
5
Nisei Programs
Booths will be open from 8 a.m. some explanation since they re alien and owes allegiance to the coun
Mr. Sato stated that the pro
to 10 p.m., Monday, Tuesday, and quire a knowledge of the law and try whose citizenship he holds. In the grams for the Nisei were attractWednesday, August 19-21.
apply particularly to Japanese or case of Japanese, this of course would
g
other immigrant groups.
People 111 or Absent
be Japan.
At present, however,
7.
Nationality
or
country
of
allegi
some
doubt
has
been expressed conPersons who are ill and cannot
attend the registration booth in
ance:—British
subject (a) by cerning the interpretation of this
person may be attended to by a
birth?____ (b) by naturaliza question, and inquiries have been
agent for
tion?____ (c) foreign citizen? directed to clear up the matter.
(d) If naturalized, in
(8) For racial origin, both first
and second generation will answer,
s
place?______ (0 M
Bno!h “Japanese.”
subject, to what country do yo"
PHONE TRI. 5599
300 E. CORDOVA ST,
In regard to nationality, the folowe allegiance?---------lowing points should be noted:
VANCOUVER, B. C.
an immigrant, in what year did
Every person has become a Brit
ish subject who was born in any
dominion of the Empire, no matter
what the nationality of his parents.
Marriage
In the case of first generation
To Subscribe To
women, if they have married a na
turalized British subject, they have
Specialists in
become
British subjects. Similarly, if
groceries and
the husband during the marriage has
Shipbuilding
PROVISIONS
become a naturalized British subject
f
before January 15. 1932, the wife
j becomes a British subject. ,
TRinity 4702
THE paper published by niseis for the
353 Powell St.
On the other hand, a woman who
1969 West Georgia
NISEI
Trinity 5784
was
a British subject loses her citizen
Vancouver, B. C.
ship if she married a man before
January 15, 1 93 2 who was not a
British subject, or since that date
THE NEW CANADIAN '
QUALITY, ECONOMY AND SERVICE
who married an alien Japanese and
acquired her husband s nationality.
396 Powell Street, Vancouver, B. C.
Volunteers are still needed
to assist in the National Reg
istration from August 19 to
August 21. They are required
especially to man three reg
istration booths near the
Japanese community in Van
couver Centre, where the
great bulk of Japanese resi
dents are located. In addi
tion volunteers are needed
for stations in Vancouver
Vancouver
Burrard
and
South.
Will you do your bit to
assist in this national programme.
Telephone your
name immediately to Dr.
George Ishiwara, SEymour
3797, to Kunio Shimizu,
TRinity 0072, or The New
Canadian, TRinity 0309.
| Sukiyaki j:
Nimi Shokai
Volunteers To Receive Instructions
TSUBAME
CAKES!
Powell Bakery
S. NAKANO
t
sun life of canna
STANLEY PARK
SHIPYARDS
STAR MARKET
The Easy, Handy Way!
THE NEW CANADIAN
§
Union fish Company
WHEN ORDERING YOUR TOILET TISSUE
ALWAYS SPECIFY
h
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS
1^4
??
to
IT IS SOFT. SANITARY & SOLUBLE
FREE DELIVERY SERVICE
Highland 0335-6
469 Powell Street
SMITH, DAVIDSON &
WRIGHT CO. LTD.
Dear Sirs:
Please send me The New Canadian for four months,
Enclosed is one dollar.
Name___
Address
Page 4
>n.ha.ha.h4»
THE NEW CANADIAN
DEDICATION
My heart and mind
have grown rich
with passing years . . .
TOWN ' TOPICS
Gakuyukai Plans Anniversary Drams
Officers Volunteer Registration Services
no longer do I sit
Another milestone came in sight for fry ' ,
AU REVOIR
WELCOME
and think and lie awake . .
memoers or me oaKiiyurtai wno met at the J;
In honour of Mr. Kenji Kitamura
Mr. Sty H. Ion popular Victor
Nisei, paid a short visit to the city . who will be leaving for the Orient no longer does the sound of sweet,
Friday evening to formulate plans for the fal
banquet will be given at sad music pierce my soul . . .
last week. He returned to his home : shortly
will complete the major items on the Gakuvul
: the. New Pier Cafe this Saturday.
on Friday. August 2
its 25th Anniversary celebrations.
:August 10. at 6:30 p.m. Mr. Kita- tor do all loveliness and beauty
Among the passengers who re , mura. a mining student at the ;ni- pain me ruthlessly
In addition, twenty-two mem equally touching and hurtapT
But
city
on
board
the
turned to the
bers of the executive volunteer sweep and details.
'
j versity of British Columbia. was
Hikawa Maru last Friday, Auaust j former president of the Japanese now I shall not mind
ed their services for the com
The production which wp
the coming of the years . . .
2, were Dr. H. Kamitakahara, Miss Students’ Club.
ing national registration, in isoon getting under wav
for I shall walk with you
Tat sue Saito, Miss Takako and
accordance with the society’s directed by Frank Xaka
Adi friends who wish to ato’er quiet lanes of summer
Mr. Hiroshi Kagetsu.
programe of supporting the na- . achieved such sign
tend the banquet are asked to send
where the streams
tional government in every pcs- past performances.
Dr. Kamitakahara re-opened his
in reservations to Luke Tanabe,
are clear
zun]
sibie way in its present war Kyoshitsu”
SEy. 4108, by Friday.
office on Tuesday, August 6.
and
and deep.
effort.
—Asagao.
Hotel.” Two even!;
CONG RA TULA TIONSI
Miss Kimi Iwamoto is expected
Another constructive contribu- 4 and 5, have beer AS. OcW
To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
home shortly for a three-week vaca
tion to the welfare of the country dates for the presen S-L as K
on
Yoshida
(nee
Ayako
Takimoto)
ation of ;L
tion from Lamont Hospital in Al
and indirectly to the local com plays in order to accommod^
the
birth
of
a
daughter.
Harumi
berta where she has been in training
munity was made possible by the the vast.crowds which have s®
Lorraine, on Saturday, August 3.
since last summer.
decision of the executive to lend the seating capacity o: the jand
SOCIAL SWIRL
official backing to a fifth group ese Hall in past year
Start the autumn social whirl by
of the Japanese Red Cross unit.
en
I
| escorting your best girl to the NipWith the strong-support of the so
A-^^^TM\ i Pon Tennis Club Sports Dance, the
ciety, organization-work of local
a
j “must” in Vancouver’s social calenNisei girls for Red Cross activity
RADIOS
Idar- And' SirIs' 3 Hine—if he’s still
It’s vacation time for Red Cross hs expected to proceed rapidly
elusive, remember there are only four Knits, but not for the Hastings under the continued co-captainREFRIGERATORS
more months left to 1940, so just East Group 1, the members of shjp of -Lily Fukumura and
reserve two tickets and then what
323 Powell Street
which are so enthusiastic about Kazuko Kagawa.
HIGH. 4567
SE ymour 4121 can the poor man do but say “yes? doing their bit that they are carry These steps are in keeping with
And you'd better hustle, girls, for
ing on with their regular Mon the progressive work carried out
1 355 POWELL ST
tickets will be on sale shortly at
day night meetings.
by
the
Gakuyukai
which
has
come
S 1.25 a couple.
Eight girls met at the home of
Dance to Bus Hodson’s S-piece Miss Hisako Kato, group-captain, to be recognized as one of the
orchestra, the Royal Ambassadors, last Monday. The evening was leading youth forces among the
SUMMER EYE-TROUBLE
one of the smartest of Vancouver's spent in work on knitting sox and Nisei today.
FALL PLAY CHOSEN
rhythm vendors... Thrill to Lily sweaters, and sewing dressing
Many people now find their
Ide, Vancouver’s own husky gowns and babies’ nighties.
For its epochal fall production,
Books and Stationery
eyes smarting and difficult to
voiced Nisei vocalist singing your
*
the Gakuyukai Drama Club has
*
SEYMOUR 4230
use, and many of them are
favourite melodies.
The Provincial Red Cross is selected the play, “Roppa and
347 Powell St Vancouver, B. C
The place—White Rose Ballroom, taking a lead in a food conserva- Soldiers,” by Corporal Ashihei
V finding relief in properly fitted
favoured for its smooth springy hard tion project and is extending a I Hino.
m
Those who have read
glasses—clear or tinted, See
wood floor: the date, Labour Day, special invitation for co-operation Corporal Hino’s epical “Wheat
September 2; the time—9:00-1 a.m. to the Women’s Institutes in the and Soldiers” and remember its
about yours.
EXPERT ADVISOR FOR
0
We’ll be seeing you. It’s a date.
agricultural districts, the mem- graphic presentation of a soldier s
8 YOUR FAMILY PROTECTION
bership being largely farm women life on the battlefronts in North
M
W. B. PITMAN
SEE
—partners of the men who pro China will find that this play is
&
>>
R. S. RHODES
duce the country’s food supply. J.lul J>ihl.h«l<hiiil.hml>ii<Lt>d.iH).liii<lm'£
It is intended that food conserved
■A
h
under this scheme should be dona
•>
I
tions of surplus food products
visitor to British Columbia which might otherwise go to
AGENT
Vancouver
for
the
first
time
and
waste. This canned food will be
is
Mr.
Harry
Morimoto,
who
is
distributed by the Red Cross, as
| Optical House
V spending an extended vacation on the need arises to Canadian on
announces a
(06 W. Hastlnga Vancouver | Canada’s Pacific Coast.
Overseas service, refugees in Eng
NEW LOCATION
A native of Fort McMurray, land, refugees and evacuees in
t 302 Alexander
TRin. 0283
857 HOMER STREET
several hundred miles north of Canada, and to the needy in any
Edmonton, Mr. Morimoto is em emergency. In order that no time
PIONEER REPRESENTATIVE
ployed in a mining town on Great be lost in getting canning pro
for
Slave Lake. Much impressed by jects under way, a temporary Pro
Vancouver’s “Little Tokyo”, he vincial Red Cross Food Preser
told The New Canadian that in vation Committee has been set
Alberta the attitude of Canadians up.
towards Japanese seems to be Study Knitting Directions.
During this period of slowing
quite different, since in his ex
Gendron Folding Carrier
perience he has always been ac down Red Cross Branch work,
Mrs. H. A. Ramsden, Provincial
cepted as one of them.
See the latest models of
Mr. Morimoto’s elder brother Chairman of the Work 'Committee,
■was the first Nisei in Canada to advises all Red Cross knitters to
Handy Streamlined Folding
NO OBLIGATION FOR
enlist in the Canadian Active study carefully Red Cross knit
FREE SERVICE
Service Force, and is now a lance- ting'directions. Give special at
Baby Carriers at
tention
to
seamen
’
s
stockings.
corporal attached to a unit at
1766 Franklin St. High. 5978-R
SHIBUYA'S.
They must be ribbed the length
Windsor, Ontario.
of the leg to the instep. The maxi
SWWSWWWVWAW^WMWAWWiWiWV/
mum length of other service socks
They come in Beautiful
is 16 inches—the minimum, 13
inches. Longer or shorter means
Finishes of Wallis-Blue,
a serious waste of wool.
Seagull-Grey, Maroon, Na A
Indians Sew for Refugees.
General Merchants
The Thompson (T’Lakapamuc)
or Ivory.
Indians, whose territory centres
■»
at Lytton, are doing refugee -work.
269 Powell St.
TRinity 0092
The men contributed $27 to buy
materials and 20 women are mak
9 $24.50
$21.95
• $17.50
W’.Y.\W\\'.WVA’.,iV<V«V.WAVWWAWA\%WWV
ing the garments.
S
POWELL LUMBER
1 Uchida
I
^limans
Little Tokyo Amazes
Alberta Visitor
5
Marietta Swlpni |
3
fflnstumr Benign t
Singer Sewing
Machine Company
S. Shinobu, CW
Manufacturers J
Life Insurance Co.
FOR YOUR BABY
M. Yanagisawa
and Son
KOMURA BROS. LTD
(as illustrated
"Better to have Insurance for a Lifetime and not
E
i
need it than need it for a day and not have it."
i TANAKA INSURANCE AGENCY
§
I
t
415 POWELL ST.
Highland 2571
1IB
i
U. S. Fingerprints Aliens
In National Registration
SEATTLE—As part of the Na-|
tional Defence program, a nation-1
wide registration of aliens begins
August 27 at the post offices of the
nation, continuing for four months.
Fingerprinting of all aliens will be
included in the registration.
An estimated 50,000 first gen
eration Japanese will be affected by
the regulations.
• $8.50
• $12.45 (with hood)
• $15.95
★ Reversible Chromium Handles, Hoods c
Aprons are Standard Equipment on
at $15.95 or over.
SHIBUYA'S
TRinity 5525
d Store
ds putts
374 . 378 Powell St
THE NEW CANADIAN
DEDICATION
My heart and mind
have grown rich
with passing years . . .
TOWN ' TOPICS
Gakuyukai Plans Anniversary Drams
Officers Volunteer Registration Services
no longer do I sit
Another milestone came in sight for fry ' ,
AU REVOIR
WELCOME
and think and lie awake . .
memoers or me oaKiiyurtai wno met at the J;
In honour of Mr. Kenji Kitamura
Mr. Sty H. Ion popular Victor
Nisei, paid a short visit to the city . who will be leaving for the Orient no longer does the sound of sweet,
Friday evening to formulate plans for the fal
banquet will be given at sad music pierce my soul . . .
last week. He returned to his home : shortly
will complete the major items on the Gakuvul
: the. New Pier Cafe this Saturday.
on Friday. August 2
its 25th Anniversary celebrations.
:August 10. at 6:30 p.m. Mr. Kita- tor do all loveliness and beauty
Among the passengers who re , mura. a mining student at the ;ni- pain me ruthlessly
In addition, twenty-two mem equally touching and hurtapT
But
city
on
board
the
turned to the
bers of the executive volunteer sweep and details.
'
j versity of British Columbia. was
Hikawa Maru last Friday, Auaust j former president of the Japanese now I shall not mind
ed their services for the com
The production which wp
the coming of the years . . .
2, were Dr. H. Kamitakahara, Miss Students’ Club.
ing national registration, in isoon getting under wav
for I shall walk with you
Tat sue Saito, Miss Takako and
accordance with the society’s directed by Frank Xaka
Adi friends who wish to ato’er quiet lanes of summer
Mr. Hiroshi Kagetsu.
programe of supporting the na- . achieved such sign
tend the banquet are asked to send
where the streams
tional government in every pcs- past performances.
Dr. Kamitakahara re-opened his
in reservations to Luke Tanabe,
are clear
zun]
sibie way in its present war Kyoshitsu”
SEy. 4108, by Friday.
office on Tuesday, August 6.
and
and deep.
effort.
—Asagao.
Hotel.” Two even!;
CONG RA TULA TIONSI
Miss Kimi Iwamoto is expected
Another constructive contribu- 4 and 5, have beer AS. OcW
To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
home shortly for a three-week vaca
tion to the welfare of the country dates for the presen S-L as K
on
Yoshida
(nee
Ayako
Takimoto)
ation of ;L
tion from Lamont Hospital in Al
and indirectly to the local com plays in order to accommod^
the
birth
of
a
daughter.
Harumi
berta where she has been in training
munity was made possible by the the vast.crowds which have s®
Lorraine, on Saturday, August 3.
since last summer.
decision of the executive to lend the seating capacity o: the jand
SOCIAL SWIRL
official backing to a fifth group ese Hall in past year
Start the autumn social whirl by
of the Japanese Red Cross unit.
en
I
| escorting your best girl to the NipWith the strong-support of the so
A-^^^TM\ i Pon Tennis Club Sports Dance, the
ciety, organization-work of local
a
j “must” in Vancouver’s social calenNisei girls for Red Cross activity
RADIOS
Idar- And' SirIs' 3 Hine—if he’s still
It’s vacation time for Red Cross hs expected to proceed rapidly
elusive, remember there are only four Knits, but not for the Hastings under the continued co-captainREFRIGERATORS
more months left to 1940, so just East Group 1, the members of shjp of -Lily Fukumura and
reserve two tickets and then what
323 Powell Street
which are so enthusiastic about Kazuko Kagawa.
HIGH. 4567
SE ymour 4121 can the poor man do but say “yes? doing their bit that they are carry These steps are in keeping with
And you'd better hustle, girls, for
ing on with their regular Mon the progressive work carried out
1 355 POWELL ST
tickets will be on sale shortly at
day night meetings.
by
the
Gakuyukai
which
has
come
S 1.25 a couple.
Eight girls met at the home of
Dance to Bus Hodson’s S-piece Miss Hisako Kato, group-captain, to be recognized as one of the
orchestra, the Royal Ambassadors, last Monday. The evening was leading youth forces among the
SUMMER EYE-TROUBLE
one of the smartest of Vancouver's spent in work on knitting sox and Nisei today.
FALL PLAY CHOSEN
rhythm vendors... Thrill to Lily sweaters, and sewing dressing
Many people now find their
Ide, Vancouver’s own husky gowns and babies’ nighties.
For its epochal fall production,
Books and Stationery
eyes smarting and difficult to
voiced Nisei vocalist singing your
*
the Gakuyukai Drama Club has
*
SEYMOUR 4230
use, and many of them are
favourite melodies.
The Provincial Red Cross is selected the play, “Roppa and
347 Powell St Vancouver, B. C
The place—White Rose Ballroom, taking a lead in a food conserva- Soldiers,” by Corporal Ashihei
V finding relief in properly fitted
favoured for its smooth springy hard tion project and is extending a I Hino.
m
Those who have read
glasses—clear or tinted, See
wood floor: the date, Labour Day, special invitation for co-operation Corporal Hino’s epical “Wheat
September 2; the time—9:00-1 a.m. to the Women’s Institutes in the and Soldiers” and remember its
about yours.
EXPERT ADVISOR FOR
0
We’ll be seeing you. It’s a date.
agricultural districts, the mem- graphic presentation of a soldier s
8 YOUR FAMILY PROTECTION
bership being largely farm women life on the battlefronts in North
M
W. B. PITMAN
SEE
—partners of the men who pro China will find that this play is
&
>>
R. S. RHODES
duce the country’s food supply. J.lul J>ihl.h«l<hiiil.hml>ii<Lt>d.iH).liii<lm'£
It is intended that food conserved
■A
h
under this scheme should be dona
•>
I
tions of surplus food products
visitor to British Columbia which might otherwise go to
AGENT
Vancouver
for
the
first
time
and
waste. This canned food will be
is
Mr.
Harry
Morimoto,
who
is
distributed by the Red Cross, as
| Optical House
V spending an extended vacation on the need arises to Canadian on
announces a
(06 W. Hastlnga Vancouver | Canada’s Pacific Coast.
Overseas service, refugees in Eng
NEW LOCATION
A native of Fort McMurray, land, refugees and evacuees in
t 302 Alexander
TRin. 0283
857 HOMER STREET
several hundred miles north of Canada, and to the needy in any
Edmonton, Mr. Morimoto is em emergency. In order that no time
PIONEER REPRESENTATIVE
ployed in a mining town on Great be lost in getting canning pro
for
Slave Lake. Much impressed by jects under way, a temporary Pro
Vancouver’s “Little Tokyo”, he vincial Red Cross Food Preser
told The New Canadian that in vation Committee has been set
Alberta the attitude of Canadians up.
towards Japanese seems to be Study Knitting Directions.
During this period of slowing
quite different, since in his ex
Gendron Folding Carrier
perience he has always been ac down Red Cross Branch work,
Mrs. H. A. Ramsden, Provincial
cepted as one of them.
See the latest models of
Mr. Morimoto’s elder brother Chairman of the Work 'Committee,
■was the first Nisei in Canada to advises all Red Cross knitters to
Handy Streamlined Folding
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eration Japanese will be affected by
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du mtuo
\t
I
SHOES FOR TODAY
he one of the things that women bore in silence
’ occasional dainty fainting spell. But today it s
nd complaining of your feet. Barring actual defo
rou
“7 necds to suffer pedal troubles. The shoemakers a
"
that fit wider toes and narrower backs . . - and heel:
■nin
culture teachers and the beauty salons are paying attention
i
you wane.
■
T .
,
F 7 7whv? After all vour feet more or less set the pace. It spends
I
them down and what you do with them when it s time
F7
7 .rain, whether you move like a tugboat in neavv seas
LgAv^
mannequin. Your feet. too. are the keenote to veer
Jr
KesSn. For instance did you ever see a footsore woman wno was
and
Athletic
rtv years ago the average woman bought
o
7 it was a 6. Today she walks into a stoiblinking an eyelash.
,
<hoeman attribute it to the tact that t> neuvr generation
HTc Consequently the bones of the feet have increased consiuerRomore aching arches and cramped toes from spiked heels and
I
h»ta# and so forth just can't be done with
I
few
as vou may know from experience. So they struck ot
Ka oxfords and the like, designed for summer and beach wear. What
Kn^ known as "hygienic” or "orthopedic shoes are now standard
IKo'stvle. Dr. Lockc’s shoes, as you undoubtedly have heard, are
loopular here in Canada.
I' The present fashionable last has a broad tread, a rounded toe. and
Lnmowcr in the rear, so that it doesn’t slide up and down loosely at
Lc back of the heel. In other words, it allows the foot co take its normal
Lotion • • and believe me this is the most important thing.
!‘ The shoe stylists have done right by us. Of course, they go on
Jmaking high-heeled pumps, spiked sandals, etc. But we re ^P^J
L be «« enough to wear them for short penods only . . . that, is to
Lcrnoon teas, dinners, cocktail and evening parties. Just because they're
Ithe prettiest shoes on a woman's feet, they’re not to be worn from morn
Bins to night. But too often, girls forget this and pay for it afterwards
i . . very painfully too.
_
E
If You’re Having Trouble
I
If your feet ache dully after a hard day’s work or an evening of
I fun. try soaking them in a warm Epsom-salt bath for about 15 minutes.
finish up with a cold bath.
.
.
.
I
If your feet perspire too readily, especially in the warm summer
[days, wash them in a boracic acid solution. You will find this very
i
I soothing.
,
r
|
And of course, for real foot comfort, for anyone at all. there’s
I really nothing like a daily change of hosiery.
Wear the Proper Shoes >
|
A district nurse here in the city has told me tnat many J panes
s Isuffcr from fallen arches, and she suggests these few hints to help th
(situation. Try walking on the outside of your food literally ho ding t
larches up. when you are barefooted in your room.
rese ry i 1 _
I cool soft sand of the beach. You can also stretch up and down on our
Btoes about ten times a day, reaching as far as you can.
n
aen,
|the proper shoes will help a great deal.
_
1
What to wear and what not to wear is of course up to the indivi ua .
1 But don’t trv to follow the syles slavishly, or because they look so cuu o
lYoshiko. so I’m going to get them!” The best all-round shoes is the
(Oxford. as you probably know after wearing Saddle, Redeyes an
I heels this season. Overweight women may think it makes the an
ia trifle thicker, but'believe me it’s the best shoe. Don t wear pun ps
Byou'rc heavy, nor ankle shoes, unless your ankles are neat an turn.
Bean get Oxfords now in lighter lines and angles, ratter tian
Bcurves, for foot health and foot beauty.
TRINITY
4822
I
314 POWELL STREET
The S. R. Bell Funeral Home Ltd
Mr. KEN STRANGE, well-known undertaker in the Japanese
community, wishes to announce that he is now associated
with the above firm and will personally supervise and conduct
all Japanese funeral arrangements.
COURTEOUS SERVICE AT MINIMUM COST
«*
12.35 East Hastings
Highland 0015
ationlthe Department of Oriental Prints
of the world's leaning Janauolo-; at the British Museum. \> m
a vs deal-! published many essays on un
ejsis. a collection of es
J ap anese art.
with various aspee
European Scholars
ane^e culture is to be published
Manuscripts are also expected
next vear by the Kokusai Bunka
from French writers. Paul
Shok-ii Society for International
Claudel, former French Ambas
Cultural Relations) in commem
sador, and Georges Bonneau, a
oration of the 26th centenary ot
Doctor of Literature from Kyodo
the Japanese Empire.
Twenty noted scholars repre-Hmiversity.
i dentins.- 10 different nationalities Canons ot the
,
^ave consented to contribute! Shu"; from tour outs ant ing Gm
k^avs to this volume which will; man scholars and 1”‘
' b.
7m printed in English. French and i from ^scholars trom Holland. . .
i German. A Japanese edition, con-;and Sweden.
k-nnimr all the essays in transla-’ Representing American Nipto be published separately.; penologists are John H. AVgmoie
a
Specialists in Field
i 01
on Japanese legal nisbject to be dealt with
tory, and Lois V. .Ledoux, noted
ted to cover a wide field, authority on Japanese ”Ukiyo-e
as each author will select the prints.
one subject in which he has been
Australian scientist
cholar has;
penalizing. Each
is Arthur L. Sadler.
Taking a leading role in the been given complete freedom re-; contributing
Oriental Studies at
performance of the garbing the contents of his man Professor of
premier
the University of Sydney, who
the subject; was decorated with the Order o!
“Geisha” at Vancouver’s sum- uscript, except th
mer ‘‘theatre under the starshould deal with Japanese Cui
educaSun for
the
in the Stanley Park Music Bowl j ture.
lional services in Japan.
August 6 was James A. McVie, i The first essay received is by
Oriental scientists to co-o per
talented local tenor, i he music j Giacinto Auriti. former Italian
Kal idaf
al comedy which enjoyed a । ambassador to Japan. whose es ate in the work include
U
niversity
Professor of the
record three-year run in London say entitled ‘•Kyoto,’ is the reand two Chinese
will again be presented August suit of his years of study in Jap- of
ars:
Chou Tsue-jen and
anese c ulture and deals with that sehoh
13 and 20.
Professor at the
city as the background of Japan’s Chien Tao-sun,
University of Pekin.
cultural history.
Especially interesting is the
Y.P. Church Service second
essay received from
Arthur Waley, formerly of the
This coming Sunday morning,
British Museum, whose trans
Transportation
August 11th at 11 a.m. a Young
lation of Japanese poetry, Noh
People’s Service will be held in
CAST COURTEOUS SERVICE
plays, and, in six volumes, Lady
f Nabata Taxi. Highland 0765
the Fairview United Mission
Murasaki’s “Tales of the Genji”
and
Columbia
Sixth Avenue
are world-famous. Mr. Waley
HELP WANTED
St.).
has written this time on “The
plRL. BETWEEN THE A GJ
The sermon will be given by
Originality of Japanese CivilvT of 20-40. as waitress, ExperKomiyama, who has
Mr.
ization.”
Japanchosen as his topic, “ Loyalty to
The majority of the maims ience not necessary, but
TRinity
the Highest Ideals.”
! cripts still expected are by Europ ese language essential.
An ever increasing number of ean scholars. English authors in- 5061.
young people are regularly at- elude Sir G. B. Sansom, former ;
tending these services for Commercial Counselor of the
worship. An invitation is ex British Embassy in Tokyo and
tended to all young people in the well-known for his work, “Japan:
Fairview district and elsewhere A short Cultural History”; and
HOME PORTRAITS
to attend this coming Sunday. Laurence Binyon, in charge of
AMATEUR FINISHING
® COMMERCIAL PICTURES
With ihe eo-o.pe
Classified Ads
Jo Seko
Anytime, Anywhere
Up-town Store Pleases Nisei Shopper
Sauntering down Granville St., than a pleasant duty to shop there.
a few weeks ago, your reporter MODISTE has a very large stock
was attracted by a beautiful dis of coats, for one thing. And, best
play window in a ladies’ ready-to of all, they are designed -to suit
wear shop. The name above the Nisei figures especially, which we
store was rather an odd one, have to admit aren’t so often the
tall and willowy kind. And the
“‘MODISTE.”
prices—they are so moderate, you
I stopped to do a bit of windowneedn’t worry about the effects
shopping: but glancin in the door
on your pocketbook at all.
I was surprised to see some Nisei
After poking around some |
girls busily attendin to custom
ers. Naturally 'I was anxious to more, I found everything a girl
know how it was they were em can possibly need for every oc
ployed in such a prominent store casion . . . slacks and sweaters
in the business centre of Vancou- that hit just the right degree of
. the cutest little
informality
ver.
daytime wear of
play suits
So of course, I decided to do
. . blouses
every description
some real shopping, instead of
for every taste . . . enchantrng
just the window variety, and
There
1
soon
found
evening gowns.
walked in.
the answer to my question, be
I’m a MODISTE fan now, not
cause the store is owned and just because I think we ought to
managed by a Japanese mer support our own stores, but more
chant of many year’s standing important, because it’s the place
in the community, Mr. Torayu to find just what I want.
Shimotakahara.
I thought to myself, this is just
b
H what we need as an answer to the
J
J job problem for Nisei girls. ‘Tf
? only we had more stores like this!
AGENT FOR
J We ought to give them all the
support we can.”
s
Moderate Prices
4
%
After
looking
around, too, I was I <
4
4 surprised to find everything so:'
.
SEv
modern, up-to-date and attractive p a93 Powell
in every way. that it was more! <_---- —
S. TSURUTA
Singer Sewing
Machine Co.
SEyrrtour 4570
221 Main St. (Maple Cafe)
or ask for
JO SEKO, TRinity 0794-Y
REAL CHINESE DISHES
SERVED AT
SUN PEKIN
252 POWELL ST.
SEY. 3517 - 5774
THERE’S A NEW THRILL
SNAPSHOOTING WITH A
N£W KODAK?
Seishindo Co.
249 Powell'
SEy. 4884
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940
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Sines in the Geisha
K. B. S. Mobilizes World Scholars
Join In Memorial Volume on Japanese Art
du mtuo
\t
I
SHOES FOR TODAY
he one of the things that women bore in silence
’ occasional dainty fainting spell. But today it s
nd complaining of your feet. Barring actual defo
rou
“7 necds to suffer pedal troubles. The shoemakers a
"
that fit wider toes and narrower backs . . - and heel:
■nin
culture teachers and the beauty salons are paying attention
i
you wane.
■
T .
,
F 7 7whv? After all vour feet more or less set the pace. It spends
I
them down and what you do with them when it s time
F7
7 .rain, whether you move like a tugboat in neavv seas
LgAv^
mannequin. Your feet. too. are the keenote to veer
Jr
KesSn. For instance did you ever see a footsore woman wno was
and
Athletic
rtv years ago the average woman bought
o
7 it was a 6. Today she walks into a stoiblinking an eyelash.
,
<hoeman attribute it to the tact that t> neuvr generation
HTc Consequently the bones of the feet have increased consiuerRomore aching arches and cramped toes from spiked heels and
I
h»ta# and so forth just can't be done with
I
few
as vou may know from experience. So they struck ot
Ka oxfords and the like, designed for summer and beach wear. What
Kn^ known as "hygienic” or "orthopedic shoes are now standard
IKo'stvle. Dr. Lockc’s shoes, as you undoubtedly have heard, are
loopular here in Canada.
I' The present fashionable last has a broad tread, a rounded toe. and
Lnmowcr in the rear, so that it doesn’t slide up and down loosely at
Lc back of the heel. In other words, it allows the foot co take its normal
Lotion • • and believe me this is the most important thing.
!‘ The shoe stylists have done right by us. Of course, they go on
Jmaking high-heeled pumps, spiked sandals, etc. But we re ^P^J
L be «« enough to wear them for short penods only . . . that, is to
Lcrnoon teas, dinners, cocktail and evening parties. Just because they're
Ithe prettiest shoes on a woman's feet, they’re not to be worn from morn
Bins to night. But too often, girls forget this and pay for it afterwards
i . . very painfully too.
_
E
If You’re Having Trouble
I
If your feet ache dully after a hard day’s work or an evening of
I fun. try soaking them in a warm Epsom-salt bath for about 15 minutes.
finish up with a cold bath.
.
.
.
I
If your feet perspire too readily, especially in the warm summer
[days, wash them in a boracic acid solution. You will find this very
i
I soothing.
,
r
|
And of course, for real foot comfort, for anyone at all. there’s
I really nothing like a daily change of hosiery.
Wear the Proper Shoes >
|
A district nurse here in the city has told me tnat many J panes
s Isuffcr from fallen arches, and she suggests these few hints to help th
(situation. Try walking on the outside of your food literally ho ding t
larches up. when you are barefooted in your room.
rese ry i 1 _
I cool soft sand of the beach. You can also stretch up and down on our
Btoes about ten times a day, reaching as far as you can.
n
aen,
|the proper shoes will help a great deal.
_
1
What to wear and what not to wear is of course up to the indivi ua .
1 But don’t trv to follow the syles slavishly, or because they look so cuu o
lYoshiko. so I’m going to get them!” The best all-round shoes is the
(Oxford. as you probably know after wearing Saddle, Redeyes an
I heels this season. Overweight women may think it makes the an
ia trifle thicker, but'believe me it’s the best shoe. Don t wear pun ps
Byou'rc heavy, nor ankle shoes, unless your ankles are neat an turn.
Bean get Oxfords now in lighter lines and angles, ratter tian
Bcurves, for foot health and foot beauty.
TRINITY
4822
I
314 POWELL STREET
The S. R. Bell Funeral Home Ltd
Mr. KEN STRANGE, well-known undertaker in the Japanese
community, wishes to announce that he is now associated
with the above firm and will personally supervise and conduct
all Japanese funeral arrangements.
COURTEOUS SERVICE AT MINIMUM COST
«*
12.35 East Hastings
Highland 0015
ationlthe Department of Oriental Prints
of the world's leaning Janauolo-; at the British Museum. \> m
a vs deal-! published many essays on un
ejsis. a collection of es
J ap anese art.
with various aspee
European Scholars
ane^e culture is to be published
Manuscripts are also expected
next vear by the Kokusai Bunka
from French writers. Paul
Shok-ii Society for International
Claudel, former French Ambas
Cultural Relations) in commem
sador, and Georges Bonneau, a
oration of the 26th centenary ot
Doctor of Literature from Kyodo
the Japanese Empire.
Twenty noted scholars repre-Hmiversity.
i dentins.- 10 different nationalities Canons ot the
,
^ave consented to contribute! Shu"; from tour outs ant ing Gm
k^avs to this volume which will; man scholars and 1”‘
' b.
7m printed in English. French and i from ^scholars trom Holland. . .
i German. A Japanese edition, con-;and Sweden.
k-nnimr all the essays in transla-’ Representing American Nipto be published separately.; penologists are John H. AVgmoie
a
Specialists in Field
i 01
on Japanese legal nisbject to be dealt with
tory, and Lois V. .Ledoux, noted
ted to cover a wide field, authority on Japanese ”Ukiyo-e
as each author will select the prints.
one subject in which he has been
Australian scientist
cholar has;
penalizing. Each
is Arthur L. Sadler.
Taking a leading role in the been given complete freedom re-; contributing
Oriental Studies at
performance of the garbing the contents of his man Professor of
premier
the University of Sydney, who
the subject; was decorated with the Order o!
“Geisha” at Vancouver’s sum- uscript, except th
mer ‘‘theatre under the starshould deal with Japanese Cui
educaSun for
the
in the Stanley Park Music Bowl j ture.
lional services in Japan.
August 6 was James A. McVie, i The first essay received is by
Oriental scientists to co-o per
talented local tenor, i he music j Giacinto Auriti. former Italian
Kal idaf
al comedy which enjoyed a । ambassador to Japan. whose es ate in the work include
U
niversity
Professor of the
record three-year run in London say entitled ‘•Kyoto,’ is the reand two Chinese
will again be presented August suit of his years of study in Jap- of
ars:
Chou Tsue-jen and
anese c ulture and deals with that sehoh
13 and 20.
Professor at the
city as the background of Japan’s Chien Tao-sun,
University of Pekin.
cultural history.
Especially interesting is the
Y.P. Church Service second
essay received from
Arthur Waley, formerly of the
This coming Sunday morning,
British Museum, whose trans
Transportation
August 11th at 11 a.m. a Young
lation of Japanese poetry, Noh
People’s Service will be held in
CAST COURTEOUS SERVICE
plays, and, in six volumes, Lady
f Nabata Taxi. Highland 0765
the Fairview United Mission
Murasaki’s “Tales of the Genji”
and
Columbia
Sixth Avenue
are world-famous. Mr. Waley
HELP WANTED
St.).
has written this time on “The
plRL. BETWEEN THE A GJ
The sermon will be given by
Originality of Japanese CivilvT of 20-40. as waitress, ExperKomiyama, who has
Mr.
ization.”
Japanchosen as his topic, “ Loyalty to
The majority of the maims ience not necessary, but
TRinity
the Highest Ideals.”
! cripts still expected are by Europ ese language essential.
An ever increasing number of ean scholars. English authors in- 5061.
young people are regularly at- elude Sir G. B. Sansom, former ;
tending these services for Commercial Counselor of the
worship. An invitation is ex British Embassy in Tokyo and
tended to all young people in the well-known for his work, “Japan:
Fairview district and elsewhere A short Cultural History”; and
HOME PORTRAITS
to attend this coming Sunday. Laurence Binyon, in charge of
AMATEUR FINISHING
® COMMERCIAL PICTURES
With ihe eo-o.pe
Classified Ads
Jo Seko
Anytime, Anywhere
Up-town Store Pleases Nisei Shopper
Sauntering down Granville St., than a pleasant duty to shop there.
a few weeks ago, your reporter MODISTE has a very large stock
was attracted by a beautiful dis of coats, for one thing. And, best
play window in a ladies’ ready-to of all, they are designed -to suit
wear shop. The name above the Nisei figures especially, which we
store was rather an odd one, have to admit aren’t so often the
tall and willowy kind. And the
“‘MODISTE.”
prices—they are so moderate, you
I stopped to do a bit of windowneedn’t worry about the effects
shopping: but glancin in the door
on your pocketbook at all.
I was surprised to see some Nisei
After poking around some |
girls busily attendin to custom
ers. Naturally 'I was anxious to more, I found everything a girl
know how it was they were em can possibly need for every oc
ployed in such a prominent store casion . . . slacks and sweaters
in the business centre of Vancou- that hit just the right degree of
. the cutest little
informality
ver.
daytime wear of
play suits
So of course, I decided to do
. . blouses
every description
some real shopping, instead of
for every taste . . . enchantrng
just the window variety, and
There
1
soon
found
evening gowns.
walked in.
the answer to my question, be
I’m a MODISTE fan now, not
cause the store is owned and just because I think we ought to
managed by a Japanese mer support our own stores, but more
chant of many year’s standing important, because it’s the place
in the community, Mr. Torayu to find just what I want.
Shimotakahara.
I thought to myself, this is just
b
H what we need as an answer to the
J
J job problem for Nisei girls. ‘Tf
? only we had more stores like this!
AGENT FOR
J We ought to give them all the
support we can.”
s
Moderate Prices
4
%
After
looking
around, too, I was I <
4
4 surprised to find everything so:'
.
SEv
modern, up-to-date and attractive p a93 Powell
in every way. that it was more! <_---- —
S. TSURUTA
Singer Sewing
Machine Co.
SEyrrtour 4570
221 Main St. (Maple Cafe)
or ask for
JO SEKO, TRinity 0794-Y
REAL CHINESE DISHES
SERVED AT
SUN PEKIN
252 POWELL ST.
SEY. 3517 - 5774
THERE’S A NEW THRILL
SNAPSHOOTING WITH A
N£W KODAK?
Seishindo Co.
249 Powell'
SEy. 4884
Page 6
THE NEW CANADIAN
Page 6
i:or A' That
"Min Loved The Sea"
the blood of every young man burns the uncontrollable desire
to conquer the seas. To be able to ride a pitching rolling,
ship over mountainous waves and hold the vessel true to its course
is every fisherman’s pride and joy.
tN
By T.M.K.
My friend and colleague on the
front page. K. W., mentions ‘‘gossip
mongers, 'who themselves know very
Min was a fisherman. As a child he oiten dreamed of gainging little of etiquette and practise less.”
supremacy over the seas. Man has struggled through the ages A true picture.
Man has struggled through the ages trying to outfox old King
Ladies, or for that matter, gentle
Neptune. Some have succeeded, but others have failed tragically. men, don't gossip. By gossip I
Man can do almost everything but subdue the sea completely is mean malicious slander. You know
another thing. This story is dedicated to those courageous men the kind I mean. Of course we 'our
who venture out into the uncertain seas to battle the roaiing, selves being human, sometimes in
dulge in idle talk, about who’s on
churning, boiling waters.
Min loved the fishing industry. But he loved Hanako Ota the verge of matrimony, who is
more. To please her he would always say that he would quit fish going with whom to where, etc.,
ing after the “next time.’’ Nevertheless, when the next fishing etc . . . Let's forgive a little curiseason rolled around, Min was the first to haul up his anchoi and ousity. Here’s the sort of talk I
want to pillory:
race for the best fishing spots.
“I hear you’re going to marry so
tMSHING like quick-sand was hard to get out of.
The more re- and so. You know he used to love so
1* sistance one offered, the deeper one was dragged. Hanako and so. I know, because I know her
begged him to quit and go into the city where a job was promised and she used to tell me about him
him. Min knew he was cut out to be just a fisherman, and his heart and all the things he said, and how
ever yearned for the tangy feel and smell of salt air. But he would
crazy he was over her, and every
thing. We thought they were quite
do anything to please Hanako.
mad about each other, and I don’t
So, one day when he came and tried to tell us that this time
know why they didn’t get married
would be his “last time.” Hanako and I kidded him about it. My
after
all. it was a good match so far
fishing days are over!” he exclaimed. At least I must admit theie
as she's concerned. Did so and so
was a ring of sincerity in his voice.
tell you about her. Ha, ha, I guess
Hanako was happy. At last she could sleep peacefully. No
he wouldn't. Well, I always say
more waiting, hoping, and patiently listening for his returning foot it's good to know these things so
steps along the board walk. Min lived in the cabin, just next door.
that if other people tell you about
A smile crossed her face as she told me that after this last it, you can say you know all about
it . . . blah, blah, blah—ad in
season.” they would be come man and wife.
finitum.”
x ND so the “last time” came—a stormy night, with a west gale
Perdition take such well-intention
A shieking in over the Delta. All night she stayed awake, ed women or men. Have you ever
hoping, praying, and wishing with all her soul that he might letuin seen men and women lean together
in an avid sort of kinship, eyes roll
safely.
ing this way and that, nodding their
Suddenly she was startled by a noise! Could that be min? With
a cry of joy she leapt to her feet. But soon she discovered that heads over some particularly spicy
the wind had been playing tricks with her. Throughout the night, detail, absolutely feline in their sinu
the tiniest noise caused her to tremble. Every5 howl of the wind, ous insinuations. My gorge rises.
Nothing spreads so fast as bad
every creak of the walls made her think that Min had come back.
news.
Pity the poor unsuspecting
But no! It was only nature seemingly trying further to torment
victim! He or she goes around in
her already anguished heart.
pitiful ignorance of the way the
Min wanted to be master of the sea. But it just wasn t in the
wind blows, vaguely conscious of
books. For he never returned from his “last time.”
something, not knowing quite what,
catching odd glances here and there,
questioning lifted brows—what goes
FLOWERS FOR EVERY OCCASION
| on? Rumor grows extravagantly,
and soon reaches proportions un
Bouquets. Corsages, Plants
| dreamed of by the first link in the
Wreaths, Cut Flowers
$ chain of gossip. Someone is bound to
‘‘Where there’s smoke, there
V&ry Low Prices For Niseis
^ say.
must be fire!”
Shigematsu ■ Florist
I 3!~,ISh
I
Tune Up Your Motor
;X
with the
|
KING TESTER
I
at
I
NIPPON AU10 SUPPLY
|
Corner Gore & Alexander
|
I
Can you sec the innocent victim
being led to the slaughter? Perhaps
after reputation and character have
been ‘‘raked fore and aft,” some
kindly person will caution the poor
lamb. Late, too late! Or is it?
If he or she is gentle, unassuming,
meek or timid,—bang! goes self con
fidence, leaving self-consciousness to
take toll of his or her peace of mind.
For why? Because some unthinking
malicious tongue had slipped. Fear
| of what “people will say” will haunt
them for the rest of their lives, un
I less they are jerked out of it. But if
he or she is a lively sort, slightly reck
less. impatient, then, by something,
there will be fireworks. Defiance!
Exaggerated nonchalance! Bitter in
difference! These shall be their
counter-weapon to slander.
|
TRinity 2899
|
Have I overdrawn the picture?
DOMINION LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY
Niseis, Be Sure That You Are Assured
For Your Loved Ones
See . . .
For all that the victim is victim
ized, he or she usually proves to be
thoroughly decent, with the same
feeling as the rest of us. The one
incident, or string of incidents con
tributing to the gossip, may have
been as free of distortion as air, yet
so evil are our hearts and minds we
see dirt where there is none, and add
a small share of dust to the cyclone.
___ __________________ August 1 f 1940
Niseiette Sketch
Designing -- An Art and Profession
Charming is a hackneyed word, but it's about the one a^
that sums up adequately the qualities of Haruko Morishita, y
Steveston miss who is directing the Marietta School of Costume ^
She's one of these rare cases of a Canadianized Nisei gjr| ret?
many qualities of a well-bred Japanese woman.
Talking with her, one is struck by her excellent command of M
English and Japanese. Her story to account in part for her knowlX
of English has a quaint appeal. ''In Steveston,” she recounted V
family lived near the Canadian-Scottish cannery which J
KEEN
separated from Steveston proper by a long wooden brie*
STUDENT When I started school, 1 was seized with a desire to|J
English. So on our way to and from school my next-doa'
neighbour friend and I would repeat what English we learned at sch^
every day, and found it great fun.” That was the modest start of^
serious and continuous effort to master the language, despite th
fact that she received her schooling in bits, now at Steveston, now-J
Prince Rupert, now at Vancouver, now at Queen Charlotte Isl^
wherever the family followed the fortunes of their fisherman father.
As to Miss Morishita's success i |
her particular profession, just ^1
FASHION ARTIST
week it was that finding her school
premises too cramped she complete!
the purchase of more spacious quart J
ers on Homer Street.
■
Follow the graph showing the J
crease of the school's pupils and you I
have the story of the Nisei designer's!
success. In the fall of 1936, rooms!
were rented in the Davis Chamber
building near Famous, but they be
came totally inadequate. Similarly
with the quarters in the Dominion
Bank Building. The Marietta Fash
ion Display, which enjoyed such a
brilliast success last spring, is an!
indication of the excellence of the
school.
Miss Morishita's success springs
largely from the splendid training
she received in the States. Putting
aside her childhood ambition of be
coming a woman doctor, she took
up her studies in the Southland of
California. Enthusiasm lit her eyes
as she talked about the courses she
took at the Estelle Fashion Academy
in Los Angeles and later at the
Chauinard School of Art at Long
BeaCh—courses covering the myriad details of costume
FASHION
designing, modelling, and millinery using modern equipTRAINING
ment, up-to-date text books and actual models.
At Chauinard School of Art hers was the experience of rubbing
shoulders with wives of several famed movie stars. "They used to come
to the school in slacks, speaking in husky tones, smoking cigarettes,
wearing no make-up except a liberal application of lip rouge, yet ap
pearing glamorous," she reminisced.
What she has learned she is passing on to her pupils. Classes
held every week-day cover a number of courses: pattern drafting, con
struction of garments, history of costume designing, pencil sketching
and useful arts such as "smocking" and ''fagottmg.
SCHOOL
Emphasis is laid on the practical rather than the mere theory,
COURSES so that the girls may get good positions as soon as hey
graduate from school. Miss Morishita is proud 0i the «ct
that not a few of her graduates now operate shops of their own.
In the classroom the pupils and teacher work, talk, plan togetneri..
mother to the girls,
a congenial atmosphere. "Often I feel like a
Miss Morishita remarked with a teasing smile.
Although her many responsibilities leave her actually very' it^
time to herself, Miss Morishita has managed to get in a little reading
and writing (she's made a few contributions to a local paper). P$n>
aren't her forte, but roller skating . . - even t e na^
sidewalks
of Steveston hold no terror for her. Flowers no
HOBBY
special spot in her likes; although she ruefully mentionedLOBBY
she hasn't had time lately to putter around in ^e a '^
-no
garden. She admitted a keen interest in interior decoration.
compact table of modernistic design graces her office.
Although she claims she has been a lucky person, hers ^^
been an easy life. Work wasn't foreign to her as a chilo.
en, .j.
off to the country she would go berry-picking. Once her mot er a
stay home to nurse a younger sister. Little Haruko, then eeven;w;
her mother's place in the cannery even though she had to s ana
stool to get her work done.
And her future hopes? Like the proverbial Cashes in ^P^
they're wrapped in the haze of imagination-land, but a g imPs- ^
the mist reveals a beautiful stucco building with spaucus SUI\'. j^
rivalling
the
famous
Chauinard
institution, ^nere ^ ^
are busied learning all about costume designing with iea mo
the latest word in equipment.
___—
The summer grass—
EDWARD I. OUCHI
1831 Marine Building
’Tis all that’s left
Of ancient warriors’ dreams.
—Basho.
SEymour 9370
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Fountain
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i:or A' That
"Min Loved The Sea"
the blood of every young man burns the uncontrollable desire
to conquer the seas. To be able to ride a pitching rolling,
ship over mountainous waves and hold the vessel true to its course
is every fisherman’s pride and joy.
tN
By T.M.K.
My friend and colleague on the
front page. K. W., mentions ‘‘gossip
mongers, 'who themselves know very
Min was a fisherman. As a child he oiten dreamed of gainging little of etiquette and practise less.”
supremacy over the seas. Man has struggled through the ages A true picture.
Man has struggled through the ages trying to outfox old King
Ladies, or for that matter, gentle
Neptune. Some have succeeded, but others have failed tragically. men, don't gossip. By gossip I
Man can do almost everything but subdue the sea completely is mean malicious slander. You know
another thing. This story is dedicated to those courageous men the kind I mean. Of course we 'our
who venture out into the uncertain seas to battle the roaiing, selves being human, sometimes in
dulge in idle talk, about who’s on
churning, boiling waters.
Min loved the fishing industry. But he loved Hanako Ota the verge of matrimony, who is
more. To please her he would always say that he would quit fish going with whom to where, etc.,
ing after the “next time.’’ Nevertheless, when the next fishing etc . . . Let's forgive a little curiseason rolled around, Min was the first to haul up his anchoi and ousity. Here’s the sort of talk I
want to pillory:
race for the best fishing spots.
“I hear you’re going to marry so
tMSHING like quick-sand was hard to get out of.
The more re- and so. You know he used to love so
1* sistance one offered, the deeper one was dragged. Hanako and so. I know, because I know her
begged him to quit and go into the city where a job was promised and she used to tell me about him
him. Min knew he was cut out to be just a fisherman, and his heart and all the things he said, and how
ever yearned for the tangy feel and smell of salt air. But he would
crazy he was over her, and every
thing. We thought they were quite
do anything to please Hanako.
mad about each other, and I don’t
So, one day when he came and tried to tell us that this time
know why they didn’t get married
would be his “last time.” Hanako and I kidded him about it. My
after
all. it was a good match so far
fishing days are over!” he exclaimed. At least I must admit theie
as she's concerned. Did so and so
was a ring of sincerity in his voice.
tell you about her. Ha, ha, I guess
Hanako was happy. At last she could sleep peacefully. No
he wouldn't. Well, I always say
more waiting, hoping, and patiently listening for his returning foot it's good to know these things so
steps along the board walk. Min lived in the cabin, just next door.
that if other people tell you about
A smile crossed her face as she told me that after this last it, you can say you know all about
it . . . blah, blah, blah—ad in
season.” they would be come man and wife.
finitum.”
x ND so the “last time” came—a stormy night, with a west gale
Perdition take such well-intention
A shieking in over the Delta. All night she stayed awake, ed women or men. Have you ever
hoping, praying, and wishing with all her soul that he might letuin seen men and women lean together
in an avid sort of kinship, eyes roll
safely.
ing this way and that, nodding their
Suddenly she was startled by a noise! Could that be min? With
a cry of joy she leapt to her feet. But soon she discovered that heads over some particularly spicy
the wind had been playing tricks with her. Throughout the night, detail, absolutely feline in their sinu
the tiniest noise caused her to tremble. Every5 howl of the wind, ous insinuations. My gorge rises.
Nothing spreads so fast as bad
every creak of the walls made her think that Min had come back.
news.
Pity the poor unsuspecting
But no! It was only nature seemingly trying further to torment
victim! He or she goes around in
her already anguished heart.
pitiful ignorance of the way the
Min wanted to be master of the sea. But it just wasn t in the
wind blows, vaguely conscious of
books. For he never returned from his “last time.”
something, not knowing quite what,
catching odd glances here and there,
questioning lifted brows—what goes
FLOWERS FOR EVERY OCCASION
| on? Rumor grows extravagantly,
and soon reaches proportions un
Bouquets. Corsages, Plants
| dreamed of by the first link in the
Wreaths, Cut Flowers
$ chain of gossip. Someone is bound to
‘‘Where there’s smoke, there
V&ry Low Prices For Niseis
^ say.
must be fire!”
Shigematsu ■ Florist
I 3!~,ISh
I
Tune Up Your Motor
;X
with the
|
KING TESTER
I
at
I
NIPPON AU10 SUPPLY
|
Corner Gore & Alexander
|
I
Can you sec the innocent victim
being led to the slaughter? Perhaps
after reputation and character have
been ‘‘raked fore and aft,” some
kindly person will caution the poor
lamb. Late, too late! Or is it?
If he or she is gentle, unassuming,
meek or timid,—bang! goes self con
fidence, leaving self-consciousness to
take toll of his or her peace of mind.
For why? Because some unthinking
malicious tongue had slipped. Fear
| of what “people will say” will haunt
them for the rest of their lives, un
I less they are jerked out of it. But if
he or she is a lively sort, slightly reck
less. impatient, then, by something,
there will be fireworks. Defiance!
Exaggerated nonchalance! Bitter in
difference! These shall be their
counter-weapon to slander.
|
TRinity 2899
|
Have I overdrawn the picture?
DOMINION LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY
Niseis, Be Sure That You Are Assured
For Your Loved Ones
See . . .
For all that the victim is victim
ized, he or she usually proves to be
thoroughly decent, with the same
feeling as the rest of us. The one
incident, or string of incidents con
tributing to the gossip, may have
been as free of distortion as air, yet
so evil are our hearts and minds we
see dirt where there is none, and add
a small share of dust to the cyclone.
___ __________________ August 1 f 1940
Niseiette Sketch
Designing -- An Art and Profession
Charming is a hackneyed word, but it's about the one a^
that sums up adequately the qualities of Haruko Morishita, y
Steveston miss who is directing the Marietta School of Costume ^
She's one of these rare cases of a Canadianized Nisei gjr| ret?
many qualities of a well-bred Japanese woman.
Talking with her, one is struck by her excellent command of M
English and Japanese. Her story to account in part for her knowlX
of English has a quaint appeal. ''In Steveston,” she recounted V
family lived near the Canadian-Scottish cannery which J
KEEN
separated from Steveston proper by a long wooden brie*
STUDENT When I started school, 1 was seized with a desire to|J
English. So on our way to and from school my next-doa'
neighbour friend and I would repeat what English we learned at sch^
every day, and found it great fun.” That was the modest start of^
serious and continuous effort to master the language, despite th
fact that she received her schooling in bits, now at Steveston, now-J
Prince Rupert, now at Vancouver, now at Queen Charlotte Isl^
wherever the family followed the fortunes of their fisherman father.
As to Miss Morishita's success i |
her particular profession, just ^1
FASHION ARTIST
week it was that finding her school
premises too cramped she complete!
the purchase of more spacious quart J
ers on Homer Street.
■
Follow the graph showing the J
crease of the school's pupils and you I
have the story of the Nisei designer's!
success. In the fall of 1936, rooms!
were rented in the Davis Chamber
building near Famous, but they be
came totally inadequate. Similarly
with the quarters in the Dominion
Bank Building. The Marietta Fash
ion Display, which enjoyed such a
brilliast success last spring, is an!
indication of the excellence of the
school.
Miss Morishita's success springs
largely from the splendid training
she received in the States. Putting
aside her childhood ambition of be
coming a woman doctor, she took
up her studies in the Southland of
California. Enthusiasm lit her eyes
as she talked about the courses she
took at the Estelle Fashion Academy
in Los Angeles and later at the
Chauinard School of Art at Long
BeaCh—courses covering the myriad details of costume
FASHION
designing, modelling, and millinery using modern equipTRAINING
ment, up-to-date text books and actual models.
At Chauinard School of Art hers was the experience of rubbing
shoulders with wives of several famed movie stars. "They used to come
to the school in slacks, speaking in husky tones, smoking cigarettes,
wearing no make-up except a liberal application of lip rouge, yet ap
pearing glamorous," she reminisced.
What she has learned she is passing on to her pupils. Classes
held every week-day cover a number of courses: pattern drafting, con
struction of garments, history of costume designing, pencil sketching
and useful arts such as "smocking" and ''fagottmg.
SCHOOL
Emphasis is laid on the practical rather than the mere theory,
COURSES so that the girls may get good positions as soon as hey
graduate from school. Miss Morishita is proud 0i the «ct
that not a few of her graduates now operate shops of their own.
In the classroom the pupils and teacher work, talk, plan togetneri..
mother to the girls,
a congenial atmosphere. "Often I feel like a
Miss Morishita remarked with a teasing smile.
Although her many responsibilities leave her actually very' it^
time to herself, Miss Morishita has managed to get in a little reading
and writing (she's made a few contributions to a local paper). P$n>
aren't her forte, but roller skating . . - even t e na^
sidewalks
of Steveston hold no terror for her. Flowers no
HOBBY
special spot in her likes; although she ruefully mentionedLOBBY
she hasn't had time lately to putter around in ^e a '^
-no
garden. She admitted a keen interest in interior decoration.
compact table of modernistic design graces her office.
Although she claims she has been a lucky person, hers ^^
been an easy life. Work wasn't foreign to her as a chilo.
en, .j.
off to the country she would go berry-picking. Once her mot er a
stay home to nurse a younger sister. Little Haruko, then eeven;w;
her mother's place in the cannery even though she had to s ana
stool to get her work done.
And her future hopes? Like the proverbial Cashes in ^P^
they're wrapped in the haze of imagination-land, but a g imPs- ^
the mist reveals a beautiful stucco building with spaucus SUI\'. j^
rivalling
the
famous
Chauinard
institution, ^nere ^ ^
are busied learning all about costume designing with iea mo
the latest word in equipment.
___—
The summer grass—
EDWARD I. OUCHI
1831 Marine Building
’Tis all that’s left
Of ancient warriors’ dreams.
—Basho.
SEymour 9370
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Fountain
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Page 7
I
£
THE NEW CANADIAN
Fighting Union Fish Nine Pushes Giants Out Of Playoff Picture
Giants—Kaminishi.
3b
(i-:> .
Fukui, lb (0-3): Shiraishi, H (0-4).
‘Tanaka, 2b (1-5): K Nakamura ss
; (1-5): Suga, p (2-4); Miike, i t (1-4, .
Kutsukake. c (1-4); bujioka, <
(0-1); E. Nakamura ct
>
i
Sudden Death Game Causes Near Riot.
Paldi Parade
Talk about excitement’ Never in the annals of the Japanese
back
again
to
give;
League
was there anything of the kind like last Sunday at Powell
- we are
Union Fish—Tanaka, ss (3-U;
dope
of
the
Cow-|
;
Street
Grounds.
Never were there so hotly contested games, bi.-,
,e latest
; Maruno, e (2-4); Inouye, rf O-D;
I
say
we
because;
Geague stuff took place when a near riot broke out among the pM)
Valley.
’Okumura. 3b (1-4); Suzuki. Lb (a-;,);
io
lend
a
helpOn
ers'as Union Fish in the final drive for the pennant eased the Giants i Wakabayashi, of (1-4): Yanagizawa.
have three guest
hf (1-5); Fukui, p (0-1); Akiyama.
.......
hand
'out of the playoffs 9-8.
_
(1-3)—15
Kam it cnno.
lb
j
In the afternoon Steveston’s Kusano realized, that you cant
bach Party • ■
RHE
had
on
the
night
i
judge a player by his past performance. Haruo Shimoda, who had
Score by Inning’s:
; i cov time was
Giants ....... .200 050 000— 7 8 1
previously struck out three times, made up for his boners wit i
By A. Y.
Lj^v ’b) when a group m
Union risk 130 004 10x— 9 15
V w^ieues held a spur-of-theinterest bv slugging out a homer with two on base to smelt the
It
was
a
year
ago
that
this
column
^ beach party. With every
Steveston—Shishido,
ss
(2-4);
game, and the first'’place by for Mr. Hoshino’s Powell Drug to the
Mori. If (1-5); Nakatsu, cf (0-4):
ist
first
picked
up
a
magazine
and
an enjoyoble time it
Nishihara, lb (0-5): Oike. rl (0-U:
tune of 6:4.
____________________ _____ —
! Kusano, P (2-4); Sogawa, e (1-2)
i
,s though plans are under read rave notices about an up-andNear Riot
i by grounding out Kaminishi.
Hoshizaki, 3b (0-4); Sawayama. U
another one in the neai coming band led by a certain Glenn ।
wy Tor
—6 hits.
Miller. "Never heard of him," he i The dispute in the Giant-Union i
The toughest part of the (0-3)
Powell
Drug — Yamamura,
s
fnure.
sniffed to himself. Since then, he's J Fish game arose when Eddy Na-1 game was when Ty Suga walked 1(0-5);
Yasui, of (1-5): Uno, lb (1-4)
tiers
and
Tripping
.
•
•
Trav'!
27 had occasion to change his attitude. I kamura, the slugging milkman.; Mike Maruno intentionally fill
I Arriving on Saturday. July
For today right at the very pinnacle i poked one over the centre-field ing the bases to get at Chum moda, 2b (1-4); Yost
3b (2-4);
h spend their summer vacation of musical fame, Glenn Miller is| sidewalk.
Ordinarily the hit Inouye, but his tiring arms Terada,
(0-4 ) — । hits.
the
Misses
K
£i paid! were
been good enough failed momentarily and walked Score by Innings:
R H E
of Vancouver, K settina the pace along with Benny would have
Scotty) Omoto Westminster,
and | Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Bob for a double, but Baron W aka- in the run which proved to be
Steveston .010 110 OOI— 4 6 5
‘Yoshino of New
centre-fielder
Powell
Dr?. 200 000 40x— 6 7 5
bayashi.
speedy
.rosby.
■Westminster.
the winning run.
wasn’t to be caught napping. Hei
Pitchers’ Duel
If any band is entitled to a
L Paying a visit io Duncan on July
vaulted over the embankment and (
of the game, with the final score
Akiyama
and
his
hard-luck, down-and-out origin,
i were Mr. T.
The StevestomPowell game wa Steveston 4. Powell Drugs
pulled down a beautiful catch off
?u,hter -Chie.’’ Mr'. George Obo- the Miller band would be the one.
Next week Union Fish will play
the sidewalk. Now the big argu a pitchers' duel between seasoned
and Miss S. Shirago, all of First organized in 1937 as a
ment was whether or not Naka- Duke Kusano and Rookie George a. double header at Steveston and
iMWeron Like Logging Co. of string quartet jazz band unit, it
Umpire Roy Yoshinaka. Kusano yielded one if the third game is necessary the
mura was out.
Coombs. B. C.
made a -few Columbia records (now
Yamamura called him out, but more hit than Yoshinaka, a hit final game will be played at
i With a fairly heavy rain fall
a prize for record-collectors) then
the Giants had something else to that changed the decision of the Powell Grounds the following
ing on Friday, July 26, the Mayo
fizzed out. His second band had
say for that hit would have meant whole game.
i I week.
Bros. Lbr. Co.’s logging opera
Yoshinaka had his curves and j
Kutsukake scoring for the tying
no better luck.
tions have resumed their reguIn the league’s ground fast ones well placed and had
Discouragements were but tem run.
: lar shift after a week of on the
porary setbacks for Glenn Miller. rulings, any ball hit over the side the Steveston hits scattered for
‘■grave-yard” shift.
He set out to organize his third walks touching the trees was con a minimum of damage. Kusano
Our sympathies to Mitsugi aggregation which again bumped in sidered automatically a double. was working smoothly too until
Araki who received painful injur to tough spots, but finally in the Complications arose because the the tragic seven when his ex
ies to his foot while working at summer of 1939 hit the road to suc ball failed to touch even a par teammate Shimoda stepped into
SEy. 7875
Hillcrest Lbr. Co.
382 Powell
cess with a record-breaking en ticle of leaf, with nothing in the his fast ball and chalked up
As Boake Carter says, quote: gagement at Glen Island Casino, and ground ruling to that effect.
three big runs.
•Now that I see that my time* is topped the year's work by captur
The argument lasted a full half
Seveston had a dandy chance of
ud.’’ unquote, I’ll say, ‘ Adios.
hour.
and
this
poor
sport
’
s
scribe
tying
up the game in the last
ing
Metronome's
Achievement
wore out a nickel s worth of frame with two on base, and none
Award for 1939.
eraser changing the marking on out. Manager Nag Nishihara s
And now, the thunderous ovation
the scorebook which switched baseball
brains
failed
him.
ARMSTRONG
S
which
greets his fifteen-minute pro
V
Ordinarily the usual procedure
every few minutes.
s
gram over the CBS points eloquently
and COMPANY
s
would have been to bunt advanc
Nakamura Walked
h
to his tremendous popularity. He
UNDERTAKERS
The game finally resumed with ing the runner at second to third,
waxes eight sides per month for
This but his urge to hit overcame his
Victor Bluebird, which rank consist Nakamura hitting again.
common sense and smacked clean
ent best sellers. Right now half of time pitcher Kamitomo took no into a double play. Oike grounded
the requests phoned in to a local chances and walked him purpose out to second for the last putout
we have every confidence
DX Prowl call for Miller recordings, ly and retired the hectic inning
an unheard of phenomenon.
Established 1912
that your verdict will favor:
Gienn Miller
SUN NOM KING
Chop Suey
YOU.
5304 Dunlevy Ave.
High. 0141
Forte: Originality
Champion Hompas Out To Keep Title Tip Top Clothes
The maestro himself is respons
ible for many of the band's unusual,
colorful and original arrangements
9-2
including the smash hits, "In the
Mood", "Tuxedo Junction", "Danny
The Hompa squad in the Bus banged it out for a circuit blow.
Boy", and "Stardust."- Moreover,
tailored-to-measure
His teammates, however, failed
his contribution to music in tone sei League took a one game lead
to follow suit as Misumi tightened
colouring, voicing and orchestration in the best of three final series
up and retired the side with no
(five-man saxaphone section with last Sunday as they walloped the
other damage.
four trumpets and four trombones) first place Fairview Busseis 9-2
Yo Nishimura yielded 11 hits,
.rCl Grounds.
have been adopted by several dance at i
FRESH FISH
most of it in pinches, while Ki
one price
Playing before the biggest yoshi Misumi allowed only 6 wellbands.
VEGETABLES
crowd that ever witnessed a
TOP TUNES OF TODAY:
scattered hits.
GROCERIES
Bussei tilt, Hompa opened up
I'll Never Smile Again.
Fairview—Takahashi, 2b (0-4);
a dizzy pace which the Fairview
The
Breeze and I.
2.
262 Powell
TRin. 7875
Ebata, rf (0-3);
lads failed to keep up.
(2-2);’ Nishimura, p (0-3); Hama3. Sierra Sue.
" "
M. Tsukada, If
Kaminishi
started
off
with
a
kawa, cf (1-3);
4. Fools Rush In.
Tsukada, 3b (1-3): Maeda.
*
(0-3);
E.
big triple and scored on Nobby
t SAY YOU SAW IT IN
5. Make Believe Island.
lb (1-3) Tanaka, c (1-3)—6 hits.
Tanaka’s safety for the first
Playmates.
..
Hompa—Kaminishi,
3b
(1-4);
6.
THE NEW CANADIAN
Hompa
marker
in
the
first
inning.
Misumi,
p
(2-5);
Tanaka,
ss
(3-4);
Imagination.
7.
1
A homer by Fairview’s Yosa Ha Inouye, If (1-3); Yanagizawa, c
It
(2-4); Nosuye, rf (1-4); Inouye, cf
makawa deuced up the game at (0-4); Suga, lb (1-3); Gotch, 2b
320 Main Street
the start of the second frame.
(0-4)—11 hits.
SEymour 3372
Score by Innings:
Rousing Hompa Rallies
I1 airview
- 01® 901 0—2
In the third frame, Hompa ral Hompa......... .......... -..... 193 001 4—9
lied again as Ott Yanagizawa
poked a hard triple over left field
B
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fence, scoring two runners and
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then scoring on costly Fairview
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infielders’ error. The final Hompa
n
blitzkrieg came in the final frame
r)
when Chum Inouye, Otto Yana
i^
& gizawa, Nosuye and Kiyoshi Suga
I
four safeties
I
came
through
with
tl!
in a row and rolled up four more
Direct Importers of Japanese Provisions and Curios
markers.
Optometrist
tally
Fairview’s only other
109 Powell Street
came in the sixth frame. when
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hard
hitting
Tomi Nishikawa,
377 Powell St.
VANCOUVER, B. C.
shortstop, stepped into one of
Kiyoshi Misumi’s offerings and
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THE NEW CANADIAN
Fighting Union Fish Nine Pushes Giants Out Of Playoff Picture
Giants—Kaminishi.
3b
(i-:> .
Fukui, lb (0-3): Shiraishi, H (0-4).
‘Tanaka, 2b (1-5): K Nakamura ss
; (1-5): Suga, p (2-4); Miike, i t (1-4, .
Kutsukake. c (1-4); bujioka, <
(0-1); E. Nakamura ct
>
i
Sudden Death Game Causes Near Riot.
Paldi Parade
Talk about excitement’ Never in the annals of the Japanese
back
again
to
give;
League
was there anything of the kind like last Sunday at Powell
- we are
Union Fish—Tanaka, ss (3-U;
dope
of
the
Cow-|
;
Street
Grounds.
Never were there so hotly contested games, bi.-,
,e latest
; Maruno, e (2-4); Inouye, rf O-D;
I
say
we
because;
Geague stuff took place when a near riot broke out among the pM)
Valley.
’Okumura. 3b (1-4); Suzuki. Lb (a-;,);
io
lend
a
helpOn
ers'as Union Fish in the final drive for the pennant eased the Giants i Wakabayashi, of (1-4): Yanagizawa.
have three guest
hf (1-5); Fukui, p (0-1); Akiyama.
.......
hand
'out of the playoffs 9-8.
_
(1-3)—15
Kam it cnno.
lb
j
In the afternoon Steveston’s Kusano realized, that you cant
bach Party • ■
RHE
had
on
the
night
i
judge a player by his past performance. Haruo Shimoda, who had
Score by Inning’s:
; i cov time was
Giants ....... .200 050 000— 7 8 1
previously struck out three times, made up for his boners wit i
By A. Y.
Lj^v ’b) when a group m
Union risk 130 004 10x— 9 15
V w^ieues held a spur-of-theinterest bv slugging out a homer with two on base to smelt the
It
was
a
year
ago
that
this
column
^ beach party. With every
Steveston—Shishido,
ss
(2-4);
game, and the first'’place by for Mr. Hoshino’s Powell Drug to the
Mori. If (1-5); Nakatsu, cf (0-4):
ist
first
picked
up
a
magazine
and
an enjoyoble time it
Nishihara, lb (0-5): Oike. rl (0-U:
tune of 6:4.
____________________ _____ —
! Kusano, P (2-4); Sogawa, e (1-2)
i
,s though plans are under read rave notices about an up-andNear Riot
i by grounding out Kaminishi.
Hoshizaki, 3b (0-4); Sawayama. U
another one in the neai coming band led by a certain Glenn ।
wy Tor
—6 hits.
Miller. "Never heard of him," he i The dispute in the Giant-Union i
The toughest part of the (0-3)
Powell
Drug — Yamamura,
s
fnure.
sniffed to himself. Since then, he's J Fish game arose when Eddy Na-1 game was when Ty Suga walked 1(0-5);
Yasui, of (1-5): Uno, lb (1-4)
tiers
and
Tripping
.
•
•
Trav'!
27 had occasion to change his attitude. I kamura, the slugging milkman.; Mike Maruno intentionally fill
I Arriving on Saturday. July
For today right at the very pinnacle i poked one over the centre-field ing the bases to get at Chum moda, 2b (1-4); Yost
3b (2-4);
h spend their summer vacation of musical fame, Glenn Miller is| sidewalk.
Ordinarily the hit Inouye, but his tiring arms Terada,
(0-4 ) — । hits.
the
Misses
K
£i paid! were
been good enough failed momentarily and walked Score by Innings:
R H E
of Vancouver, K settina the pace along with Benny would have
Scotty) Omoto Westminster,
and | Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Bob for a double, but Baron W aka- in the run which proved to be
Steveston .010 110 OOI— 4 6 5
‘Yoshino of New
centre-fielder
Powell
Dr?. 200 000 40x— 6 7 5
bayashi.
speedy
.rosby.
■Westminster.
the winning run.
wasn’t to be caught napping. Hei
Pitchers’ Duel
If any band is entitled to a
L Paying a visit io Duncan on July
vaulted over the embankment and (
of the game, with the final score
Akiyama
and
his
hard-luck, down-and-out origin,
i were Mr. T.
The StevestomPowell game wa Steveston 4. Powell Drugs
pulled down a beautiful catch off
?u,hter -Chie.’’ Mr'. George Obo- the Miller band would be the one.
Next week Union Fish will play
the sidewalk. Now the big argu a pitchers' duel between seasoned
and Miss S. Shirago, all of First organized in 1937 as a
ment was whether or not Naka- Duke Kusano and Rookie George a. double header at Steveston and
iMWeron Like Logging Co. of string quartet jazz band unit, it
Umpire Roy Yoshinaka. Kusano yielded one if the third game is necessary the
mura was out.
Coombs. B. C.
made a -few Columbia records (now
Yamamura called him out, but more hit than Yoshinaka, a hit final game will be played at
i With a fairly heavy rain fall
a prize for record-collectors) then
the Giants had something else to that changed the decision of the Powell Grounds the following
ing on Friday, July 26, the Mayo
fizzed out. His second band had
say for that hit would have meant whole game.
i I week.
Bros. Lbr. Co.’s logging opera
Yoshinaka had his curves and j
Kutsukake scoring for the tying
no better luck.
tions have resumed their reguIn the league’s ground fast ones well placed and had
Discouragements were but tem run.
: lar shift after a week of on the
porary setbacks for Glenn Miller. rulings, any ball hit over the side the Steveston hits scattered for
‘■grave-yard” shift.
He set out to organize his third walks touching the trees was con a minimum of damage. Kusano
Our sympathies to Mitsugi aggregation which again bumped in sidered automatically a double. was working smoothly too until
Araki who received painful injur to tough spots, but finally in the Complications arose because the the tragic seven when his ex
ies to his foot while working at summer of 1939 hit the road to suc ball failed to touch even a par teammate Shimoda stepped into
SEy. 7875
Hillcrest Lbr. Co.
382 Powell
cess with a record-breaking en ticle of leaf, with nothing in the his fast ball and chalked up
As Boake Carter says, quote: gagement at Glen Island Casino, and ground ruling to that effect.
three big runs.
•Now that I see that my time* is topped the year's work by captur
The argument lasted a full half
Seveston had a dandy chance of
ud.’’ unquote, I’ll say, ‘ Adios.
hour.
and
this
poor
sport
’
s
scribe
tying
up the game in the last
ing
Metronome's
Achievement
wore out a nickel s worth of frame with two on base, and none
Award for 1939.
eraser changing the marking on out. Manager Nag Nishihara s
And now, the thunderous ovation
the scorebook which switched baseball
brains
failed
him.
ARMSTRONG
S
which
greets his fifteen-minute pro
V
Ordinarily the usual procedure
every few minutes.
s
gram over the CBS points eloquently
and COMPANY
s
would have been to bunt advanc
Nakamura Walked
h
to his tremendous popularity. He
UNDERTAKERS
The game finally resumed with ing the runner at second to third,
waxes eight sides per month for
This but his urge to hit overcame his
Victor Bluebird, which rank consist Nakamura hitting again.
common sense and smacked clean
ent best sellers. Right now half of time pitcher Kamitomo took no into a double play. Oike grounded
the requests phoned in to a local chances and walked him purpose out to second for the last putout
we have every confidence
DX Prowl call for Miller recordings, ly and retired the hectic inning
an unheard of phenomenon.
Established 1912
that your verdict will favor:
Gienn Miller
SUN NOM KING
Chop Suey
YOU.
5304 Dunlevy Ave.
High. 0141
Forte: Originality
Champion Hompas Out To Keep Title Tip Top Clothes
The maestro himself is respons
ible for many of the band's unusual,
colorful and original arrangements
9-2
including the smash hits, "In the
Mood", "Tuxedo Junction", "Danny
The Hompa squad in the Bus banged it out for a circuit blow.
Boy", and "Stardust."- Moreover,
tailored-to-measure
His teammates, however, failed
his contribution to music in tone sei League took a one game lead
to follow suit as Misumi tightened
colouring, voicing and orchestration in the best of three final series
up and retired the side with no
(five-man saxaphone section with last Sunday as they walloped the
other damage.
four trumpets and four trombones) first place Fairview Busseis 9-2
Yo Nishimura yielded 11 hits,
.rCl Grounds.
have been adopted by several dance at i
FRESH FISH
most of it in pinches, while Ki
one price
Playing before the biggest yoshi Misumi allowed only 6 wellbands.
VEGETABLES
crowd that ever witnessed a
TOP TUNES OF TODAY:
scattered hits.
GROCERIES
Bussei tilt, Hompa opened up
I'll Never Smile Again.
Fairview—Takahashi, 2b (0-4);
a dizzy pace which the Fairview
The
Breeze and I.
2.
262 Powell
TRin. 7875
Ebata, rf (0-3);
lads failed to keep up.
(2-2);’ Nishimura, p (0-3); Hama3. Sierra Sue.
" "
M. Tsukada, If
Kaminishi
started
off
with
a
kawa, cf (1-3);
4. Fools Rush In.
Tsukada, 3b (1-3): Maeda.
*
(0-3);
E.
big triple and scored on Nobby
t SAY YOU SAW IT IN
5. Make Believe Island.
lb (1-3) Tanaka, c (1-3)—6 hits.
Tanaka’s safety for the first
Playmates.
..
Hompa—Kaminishi,
3b
(1-4);
6.
THE NEW CANADIAN
Hompa
marker
in
the
first
inning.
Misumi,
p
(2-5);
Tanaka,
ss
(3-4);
Imagination.
7.
1
A homer by Fairview’s Yosa Ha Inouye, If (1-3); Yanagizawa, c
It
(2-4); Nosuye, rf (1-4); Inouye, cf
makawa deuced up the game at (0-4); Suga, lb (1-3); Gotch, 2b
320 Main Street
the start of the second frame.
(0-4)—11 hits.
SEymour 3372
Score by Innings:
Rousing Hompa Rallies
I1 airview
- 01® 901 0—2
In the third frame, Hompa ral Hompa......... .......... -..... 193 001 4—9
lied again as Ott Yanagizawa
poked a hard triple over left field
B
FOR BETTER TRADE RELATIONS
SAVINGS DEPOSITS, REMITTANCES
fence, scoring two runners and
BUY JAPANESE GOODS
then scoring on costly Fairview
TRinity 0400
398 Powell St.
infielders’ error. The final Hompa
n
blitzkrieg came in the final frame
r)
when Chum Inouye, Otto Yana
i^
& gizawa, Nosuye and Kiyoshi Suga
I
four safeties
I
came
through
with
tl!
in a row and rolled up four more
Direct Importers of Japanese Provisions and Curios
markers.
Optometrist
tally
Fairview’s only other
109 Powell Street
came in the sixth frame. when
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Sey.
1185
hard
hitting
Tomi Nishikawa,
377 Powell St.
VANCOUVER, B. C.
shortstop, stepped into one of
Kiyoshi Misumi’s offerings and
CHAKI
Fish Market
Wallop Nishimura To Down Fairview,
AIHOSHI
JAPAN AND CANADA
TRUST SAVINGS COMPANY
HAJIME SUZUKI
I JI(C. ^u^woa *&&. Ltd
Page 8
THt N t vV CAN AD IAN
Asahis Amble Easily To First North West Victory In Slugfest
and combining errors and bases
Floodlights Frighten ion balls rang up a grand total of
I
asahis
: Yamamura
j Maruno, 3
Nag Nishihara- started off fori Shiraishi.
buga,
ci P-the Vancouver Reps, but
out oave 5 Uno
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place to Kaz Suga in the fourth ; Nishihara, p, rf
inning.
?0
9
■ Kutsukake, c
all that ist
One more win
*
; Shishido, ss
needed by the Asahis to retain
j Terada. 2b
WESTERN GIANTS
। Kaminishi, rf
their Northwest Championship for
0
AB R H BO
E I Mitsui, c ___
another year. Last Saturday at
2 a 1 I
Totals ____
Kataoka, c
0
38 22 13 2Athletic Park, the local boys jump Kumasaka,
4 2 1
4 1 Score by Inning's;
5 0 1 0 0 1
ed on four Western Giant chuck-; Suyama, cf
Western Giants.. 120 413
5 1 0 4 1
- 000,'
an
easy
22-10!
“
'^
ss
Asahis
ers to breeze in
901 043 32SJ
j OdbdKlj II __
0 0 1 0 0
j Nishimura, 3b ...
victors.
Summary3 1 1 0 0
Nakawata,
rf
____
1
1
0
those
The game was one of
i
ShiraishiAkita, lb, 3b.„^„.. 4
Kumasaka, Yamaw’-jW
long drawn-out affairs with Takekawa, p ____ . 3 11 0 0 11 11 bases,
Maruno 3, Shiraishi
spurts of scoring sprees. The Taguchi, lb ____ . 1 0 0 4 0 0 mura, Kutsukake 2: Hirhrt®
9
0 0 0 0 0 Suga by Hakekawa
dazzling floodlights bothered Kuroiwa, rf ____
Noda, p ________ . 0 0 0 0 0 0 Suga; Stuck out by Ni^®:
I offer my sincere sympathy to Roy the Nipponese players badly Sakai, p
3y S. O.
. 0 0 0 2 0 0
3’ ^^ Takekawa 1- p®
,,
...
...
,
r
; Yamamura. I would have hated to and errors on both sides were Takac-oshi, p ____ . 1 0 0 0 0 0
How d:d you like Ine beattie- .
...
,
। x c j
U
7
. I be in his shoes last Sunday.
I he plentiful.
Totals 41
_________
10 9 27 11 8 off Takekawa 9. off
Vancouver game roiksr
Yeah,
r. ,
.
■
off Sakai 2. off Noda
.
.
s
. I Giant-Union Fish encounter is stull
As far as the spectators were
know it was terrible.
I ne final; . r
£
□ -h ।
,
; the talk of the town, and will keep; concerned the game was over in
scores ooKea like lacrosse or basket- ;
, .
. ..
d
being the tak for a long time to
the initial inning. The local boys
ball scores rather than baseball. It 1
The sad part of it is become.
really went fo town and drove in
was a good game while i lasted j
cause of just one call, rhe Giants 9 runs. After that the Asahis put
though, it gave us plenty of time to I
are out of the playoffs. Don't get
the touch on all four chuckers
admire new faces and pretty faces)
me wrong folks, the call wasn't bad,
in the oacked grandstand.
;
it was just one of these small things[
Perhaps | shouldn't be so hard on I which forgot to be mentioned in;
the poor fellows, after all I imagine the ground ruling, but big enough)
it would be awfully hard to judge to raise plenty of argument.
Well what do you know? More
a ball that comes soaring out of the
It's tough for the Giants, but
visitors
this week-end. Yes sir,
darkness, catching your eye just as
I personally think the Union Fish
now that the Canucks find it
it comes in direct line with the
crew was the better team. Every
too
much trouble to cross the
powerful floodlights. Anyway I'll wait
member
of
'39 championship
border, the Americans are oblig
the series before
for the rest
team is slugging now, and their
ingly coming up. Last week-end
making any more cracks.
infield, renowned for cracking up
it was the Seattle Western
in crucial moments have held fast.
UMPIRES HEADACHE
Giants. This Sunday the local
tM6W
13
Nippon
Tennis
Court
will
be
the
me
Talking about baseball, I
It's hard to say which team is
going to emerge victorious in the stamping ground for the racquet
semi-finals, the teams are so well wielders of the Seattle Nippon
Because they mean
FINEST CAKES
balanced. Steveston is strong, but Tennis Club.
Secretary "Mat” Matsui has
if Unions can play the brand of ball
leadership,
dished out in the last three games, just received word from Seattle
they have nothing to worry about. that close to fifteen netters, (in
representing
cluding
young
ladies,
of
course)
392 Powell St
Here's a good one for Ripley's
latest in smart style
will make the trip.
"Believe It Or Not." Frank NakaThe local net artists are cook
Sey. 3933
mura, .veteran ball player struck out
ideas.
ing
up a sweet revenge for the
for the first time in three years, in
his last time at bat, in the last inn defeat suffered last July 1st as
ing, the last man up to bat, in the guests of the Seattle Club. This
the Giants last game of the season; time, with most of the top-notBEST KODAKS
and what he claims to be the last chers fighting for the home-town
ball-game he will every play. Figure club, they expect to turn the
tables.
that one out!
Always!
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Ide-Yamashita in Upset for Doubles Crown
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Under the hot. blistering sun second
breath
and
smashed
last Sunday, newcomer Slug Yam through to a 7-5 deuced game, but
ashita and starry George Ide in the last set. the younger duo
brushed aside Tommy Iwasaki picked out Negoro’s weak spots
and Eichi Negoro for the doubles and relentlessly cut through him
championship of the Nippon with their dynamite drives and
) Tennis Club.
had no trouble dispensing with
Perhaps Tommy Iwasaki and kingpin Iwasaki and his partner
Negoro’s downfall can be attri- 6-1. Negoro’s long absence from
buted to the condition they were the tennis courts had created
in after being given a stiff battle many flaws and had trouble with
i by Mi Akiyama and Slug Ouye, his forehand drives.
Semi finals duo of Mi Akiyama
I but any way you look at it, the
I duo of Yamashita and Ide were and Shig Ouye suffered set backs
'■undeniably the tops. They ran from Iwasaki and Negoro. Ex
I true to form, playing in perfect plosive Mi Akiyama and directly
smash- opposite Shig Ouye failed to click
; unison. Chopping
ling they took the first set easily as much as their temperaments.
399 Powell
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I 6 - 2. In the second set. singles Although they carried the victors
j champ Iwasaki got a hold of his to a deuce game they blew up and
lost out 6-4. and 7-5.
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Deshima Wins
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In the ladies singles Fumi
Deshima, tournament favorite
%
%
was slow
in starting, but
emerged as the ladies’ single
champion for the season 194041.
She dropped the first set to
a
Edith Ikeda 5-7, but came right
back and steadily smashed her
way to a 6-1. 6-4 triumph.
In order to take part in the
Vancouver Sun-sponsored West
Hotel World
ern Canada hardcourts champion
ship
tournament,
the mixed
396
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St.
MArine 1746
doubles
were
postponed
u.o to the minute.
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MUTUAL LIFE OF CANADA
369
MAIKAWA
POWELL STREET
VANCOUVER. B. C.
Asahis Amble Easily To First North West Victory In Slugfest
and combining errors and bases
Floodlights Frighten ion balls rang up a grand total of
I
asahis
: Yamamura
j Maruno, 3
Nag Nishihara- started off fori Shiraishi.
buga,
ci P-the Vancouver Reps, but
out oave 5 Uno
> ^
99
SB4S jS
Fielders For Feeble
$fe
f izzles and Flops
IO#
|W
' ^
1
AB R H
place to Kaz Suga in the fourth ; Nishihara, p, rf
inning.
?0
9
■ Kutsukake, c
all that ist
One more win
*
; Shishido, ss
needed by the Asahis to retain
j Terada. 2b
WESTERN GIANTS
। Kaminishi, rf
their Northwest Championship for
0
AB R H BO
E I Mitsui, c ___
another year. Last Saturday at
2 a 1 I
Totals ____
Kataoka, c
0
38 22 13 2Athletic Park, the local boys jump Kumasaka,
4 2 1
4 1 Score by Inning's;
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ed on four Western Giant chuck-; Suyama, cf
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ShiraishiAkita, lb, 3b.„^„.. 4
Kumasaka, Yamaw’-jW
long drawn-out affairs with Takekawa, p ____ . 3 11 0 0 11 11 bases,
Maruno 3, Shiraishi
spurts of scoring sprees. The Taguchi, lb ____ . 1 0 0 4 0 0 mura, Kutsukake 2: Hirhrt®
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0 0 0 0 0 Suga by Hakekawa
dazzling floodlights bothered Kuroiwa, rf ____
Noda, p ________ . 0 0 0 0 0 0 Suga; Stuck out by Ni^®:
I offer my sincere sympathy to Roy the Nipponese players badly Sakai, p
3y S. O.
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; Yamamura. I would have hated to and errors on both sides were Takac-oshi, p ____ . 1 0 0 0 0 0
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. I be in his shoes last Sunday.
I he plentiful.
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10 9 27 11 8 off Takekawa 9. off
Vancouver game roiksr
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off Sakai 2. off Noda
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. I Giant-Union Fish encounter is stull
As far as the spectators were
know it was terrible.
I ne final; . r
£
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,
; the talk of the town, and will keep; concerned the game was over in
scores ooKea like lacrosse or basket- ;
, .
. ..
d
being the tak for a long time to
the initial inning. The local boys
ball scores rather than baseball. It 1
The sad part of it is become.
really went fo town and drove in
was a good game while i lasted j
cause of just one call, rhe Giants 9 runs. After that the Asahis put
though, it gave us plenty of time to I
are out of the playoffs. Don't get
the touch on all four chuckers
admire new faces and pretty faces)
me wrong folks, the call wasn't bad,
in the oacked grandstand.
;
it was just one of these small things[
Perhaps | shouldn't be so hard on I which forgot to be mentioned in;
the poor fellows, after all I imagine the ground ruling, but big enough)
it would be awfully hard to judge to raise plenty of argument.
Well what do you know? More
a ball that comes soaring out of the
It's tough for the Giants, but
visitors
this week-end. Yes sir,
darkness, catching your eye just as
I personally think the Union Fish
now that the Canucks find it
it comes in direct line with the
crew was the better team. Every
too
much trouble to cross the
powerful floodlights. Anyway I'll wait
member
of
'39 championship
border, the Americans are oblig
the series before
for the rest
team is slugging now, and their
ingly coming up. Last week-end
making any more cracks.
infield, renowned for cracking up
it was the Seattle Western
in crucial moments have held fast.
UMPIRES HEADACHE
Giants. This Sunday the local
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Tennis
Court
will
be
the
me
Talking about baseball, I
It's hard to say which team is
going to emerge victorious in the stamping ground for the racquet
semi-finals, the teams are so well wielders of the Seattle Nippon
Because they mean
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if Unions can play the brand of ball
leadership,
dished out in the last three games, just received word from Seattle
they have nothing to worry about. that close to fifteen netters, (in
representing
cluding
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ladies,
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ing
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for the first time in three years, in
his last time at bat, in the last inn defeat suffered last July 1st as
ing, the last man up to bat, in the guests of the Seattle Club. This
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Ide-Yamashita in Upset for Doubles Crown
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Under the hot. blistering sun second
breath
and
smashed
last Sunday, newcomer Slug Yam through to a 7-5 deuced game, but
ashita and starry George Ide in the last set. the younger duo
brushed aside Tommy Iwasaki picked out Negoro’s weak spots
and Eichi Negoro for the doubles and relentlessly cut through him
championship of the Nippon with their dynamite drives and
) Tennis Club.
had no trouble dispensing with
Perhaps Tommy Iwasaki and kingpin Iwasaki and his partner
Negoro’s downfall can be attri- 6-1. Negoro’s long absence from
buted to the condition they were the tennis courts had created
in after being given a stiff battle many flaws and had trouble with
i by Mi Akiyama and Slug Ouye, his forehand drives.
Semi finals duo of Mi Akiyama
I but any way you look at it, the
I duo of Yamashita and Ide were and Shig Ouye suffered set backs
'■undeniably the tops. They ran from Iwasaki and Negoro. Ex
I true to form, playing in perfect plosive Mi Akiyama and directly
smash- opposite Shig Ouye failed to click
; unison. Chopping
ling they took the first set easily as much as their temperaments.
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j champ Iwasaki got a hold of his to a deuce game they blew up and
lost out 6-4. and 7-5.
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Deshima Wins
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In the ladies singles Fumi
Deshima, tournament favorite
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was slow
in starting, but
emerged as the ladies’ single
champion for the season 194041.
She dropped the first set to
a
Edith Ikeda 5-7, but came right
back and steadily smashed her
way to a 6-1. 6-4 triumph.
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the mixed
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