Page 1
The New Canadian
THE VOICE OF THE SECOND GENERATION
YAMA TAXI
PAcific 5454
8, 1941
AUGUST
Weekly
Sy K. V/.
i L.A. Queen Contestants
j Reduced to Ten Semi-Finalists
American N.Y.K. Officials
Ignorant of Ship Cancellations
‘Our Town’ Cool Despite
Growing, Threat of War
VANCOUVER.—That characteristic of stoical calm popu
i
LOS ANGELES.—Nine of the reSAN FRANCISCO.—Nippon Yularly
attributed to Oriental peoples has never been more vivid
or "Japanese"
; maining contestants were eliminated sen Kaisya officials here and in Se- ,
"Jap
ly
demonstrated
to this observer than the manner in which the
It's a rare philosopher among us-from ^e race for Nisei Festival attle said Tuesday that they had-;
Japanese
Canadian
community here reacts each day to the
up with injured. Queen jn the 7th annual contest. heard no word that scheduled sail- ]
who doesn't turn
whenever we hear or see our The top three candidates, Shizuyo ings of the Hikawa Maru and Nitta , train of events in Tokyo. Washington and London, that seem
referred to as "Japs.
N°Ushino, Reiko Inouye and Dorothy Maru from Japan to North American I to bring a Pacific war more and more closely at hand.
without reason, for Occidentals gen-; |;jjma retained their lead at the head ports had been cancelled.
It would be difficult to
e'olly, and English-speaking peopleiO^
remaining ten. By August 13,
T. Hasegawa, Seattle manager,
imagine any group of people
particularly, have made use of the^jve more will be eliminated.
said that there were no immediate in Canada likely to find it
three letters,
Jap 1° express ^be jap3nese Sentenced For
plans under consideration for closing
self so much “on the spot” in
the N.Y.K. offices in Seattle or even
ultimate in insulting contempt, —■ Second Degree ;Murder
the event of war.
Isolated
just as they have coined in English;
KALISPELL, Mont.—Sam Kimu- of reducing the present staff, since for fjie most part in distinct
such terms as
Chin ,
„ igger, i ra, Japanese railway worker, was sen- "there has been no cause to consider communities, and easily rec
"Hun," "Wop," or Dago.
ere fenced Monday to serve twenty such a move."
ognizeable as members of an
does not seem to be an equa y er :years in the state penitentiary for
Kazuyoshi Inagaki, consul in San
alien, enemy race, local resFrancisco,
declared
that
he
had
not
idents would find themselves
ogatory term in ng is to app y
; the second-degree murder of Shun
VANCOUVER.—Second gen
those of "British stock, ut we o y Takahashi, a bookkeeper, whom yet received any official word from in a very difficult and un
eration
interested in the Japan
have an insulting term in Japanese, : ^ shot and killed following an argu- Tokyo regarding the suspension of । pappy position,
ese question in British Colum
Even if the
"Keto," and Probab|y °ther fore,9nlment in Whitefish, Montana, last shipping schedules.
Nevertheless, the approach- bia and the problem of racial
languages make use of simi ar epi-;^^
regular schedule is suspended, the ing showdown seems to cause
relations generally will shortly
thets to describe their loathing of.,
Japanese authorities may substitute such a negligible stir in the
Japan Still to Get
;
temporary sailings to take care of community that it is note- have access to the best available
foreigners."
Hollywood Thrillers
lmaterial on the subject.
Just at present we are in the
worthy.
Business goes on as;
TOKYO.—Japanese movie-goers urgent needs, he asserted.
JCCL Library To
Help Nisei Study
Racial Relations
middle of a "Jap" wave, Whenever there is popular feeling
against Japan, the term is used
as an expression of that feeling,
and in the process we too get
tarred, much to our resentment.
Thus, the word finds its way from
a description of the Japanese
navy on the front page to the ex
ploits of the ball team on the sport
page. And . that gets us all hot
and bothered.
Miss Hide Hyodo, record
usual, in fact somewhat better^ ing secretary of the National
who are particularly addicted to Am Seattle Japanese Community
than usual. Baseball still holds Japanese. Canadian Citizens
erican films, heaved a sigh of relief Float Wins First Prize
when the finance ministry ruled that
SEATTLE. ---- Seattle's Japanese the limelight, meetings and soc League, last night said that
the distribution of films does not Community Potlatch parade float ial events proceed without a the library committee of the
come under the freezing regulation won top honours in the annual civic break, the vernacular press J.C.C.L. would comb the huge
enforced July 28.
Library of Congress book
celebration when Miss Mary Kawa rolls into the street each day,
According to finance ministry mura, attractively dressed as one of plans are going ahead for wel
catalogue at the University
authorities, United States motion the four nurses who graced the float, fare drives, for conferences in of British Columbia to secure
picture companies may distribute was presented a trophy cup as first the fall, for winter programs
titles and publishers of all
films if permits for their distribution prize in the non-commercial float of many kinds.
available pertinent books.
Even real estate dealers re
have been obtained.__________________ division.
(The Library of Congress
port that business picks up in catalogue
at
U.B.C.
contains
I think we get that way to an we do try, it usually takes hours or;(Asama Maru Another
one or two days after a short several ,million cards, and is
unnecessary degree.
Often in our days for it to go through all the Mystery Ship of Pacific
lived lull, following sudden ad added to regularly. The most
SAN FRANCISCO.—The Japan
injured pride, we take offense where brain connections.
verse international events such complete catalogue in the
ese
liner Asama Maru, which circled
none in meant, and read into the
After leaving school we stop ;mund in the Pacific for a week with as the recem
recent freezing action.
| world it is one of only three in
most casual remark a whole world learning by study and we haven t
several hundred passengers and $3,-|
In part this cool uni uf e Canada.)
of insult. Actually, to many Cana been trained to learn through con
The committee, which also
000,000 in raw silk, has as yet fail-I attitude may be duV to the s
dian people, (and I think I've met as tact and experience with people.
includes
Miyo Ishiwata and Ka
ed to reach San Francisco.
It was I widely-held belief that actual
many as anyone) , the word "Jap" is Instead of broadening our view
war is still a long way off and zuhiko Oyama, will also seek
only a very convenient short form of point, instead of widening our knowl believed that the ship had returned
may not develop at all. In part out important magazine articles^
"Japanese," conveying to them no edge, we fall into a mental stagna to Japan, following the implementa
it is due to the determination and have copies reproduced
further meaning than would "Keto." tion that finds neither reason nor tion of freezing orders.
not
to be stampeded by fright. and bound for the library. ,
The Asama was last heard of when
In the same way that we use the interest in anything beyond the
With this important addition,
For
the rest, the philosophical
term "Nisei" instead of "Second daily round of feeding our animal she docked in Honolulu after circling
the
J.C.C.L. library, housed in
bowing
to
uncontrollable
forces
Wherefore our lack of. around for a week
..... after
_ the anGeneration," they use the term appeties.
seems to be the only plausible the office of The New Canadian,
"Jap." To the headline writer on personality, our lack of color, our.' nouncement of the American freez
will have two principal sec
answer.
the daily paper especially, a three- lack of ideas.
■ 'n9 steps.
tions, one on Japan and Japan
lettered word meaning the same
ese culture, the other on racial
thing as an eight-lettered word
relations. It will be an invalumakes all the difference between
t able source of information for
dashing off a nice, easy headline or
For while the run is on, there is only serious study.
struggling with furrowed brow for
STEVESTON, B.C.—That frenzied activity
work, work, and more work, night and day,
many a long minute---- the deadline that has no parallel in any other industry in
day and night. Not for five years has there
rushing down upon us.
Again we the world once again has swept this quaintlybeen a run like this—a run that began in earn
speak from experience!—if only we odd fishing village at the mouth of the Fraser
est just two weeks ago and even now is ebbing
could use the word on this sheet!
into a fever of sweat and speed and endurance.
away. So it is that men must work in two
*
*
*
The Fraser Yields Up a Harvest of Silver
U.B.C. Grad Bulletin
Now Off The Press
The Sockeye Run is on!
A silvery trail
of instinct-bound sockeye salmon is heading
A biting, but true, criticism of the for the upper reaches of the muddy, mighty
Nisei came to light at a recent meet river, there to spawn and to die.
In their
ing as to why so few of us every take
death is the creation of the seeds of a new
part in discussions on Nisei ques- harvest that four years hence will return to
tions. We like to kid ourselves of these same waters to call forth again the fever
course that we don't say anything of the "cycle year” that has the whole of the
because we are too shy and backlower Fraser in its grip.
ward.
No doubt there is a good
Leaping and splashing, some steadily and
deal of truth in that, but just the
powerfully, other dilatory and tardily, the
same we have to admit that an
salmon ■are coming. This is the run th^t should
equally good reason for not saying
have come last year, and for which the fish
anything is that we haven't any ideas
ermen waited all season with empty nets and
to express.
emptier pockets. Now in a few days the peak
Yet most of us possess a high
of the run will be over, the horde will dwindle
degree of native intelligence, and
to a mere trickle, but for the past two weeks
have had sufficient education to
boats have been averaging 150-200 fish each
"Can't Think Fast Enough . .
think reasonably on most of our
problems. But it does seem that we
do not learn in school to be readily
receptive to ideas and impressions;
and we fail to learn to examine what
*e see and hear around us critically,
and put it all logically together.
If
So the run is on! And there is a buoyancy
in the air in Steveston, almost an electric ex
citement, that overrides the numb aching
weariness that comes from lack of sleep and
endless hours of exhaustion.
VANCOUVER.—A total of
weeks to reap the harvest that will keep them
73 Japanese have taken bachel
and their families for the whole year. Prices
or degrees at the University of
are good, averaging 65c per fish, and the fish
British Columbia since 1916,
are here!
There is no time for eating and
the
year of the University s
sleeping, because the fish will not wait for
founding, it is revealed in the
union hours or man’s weaknesses.
1941 bulletin, just about ready
The riverfront is no less busy. Into the
for distribution.
giant canneries every hour pours the silver
The bulletin, comprising
harvest. In a few hours it emerges tightly
twelve mimeographed pages
packed and sealed in shining tin cans. Canned
of news on the graduates, is
salmon!
A B. C. product.
Food for fee
dedicated to Dr. Masajiro Mi
Empire. 80 per cent of the pack will go to
yazaki, .first president of the
the hard-pressed people of Great Britain.
Alumni Association. A sketch
Supplies no less vital in the struggle against
of Dr. Miyazaki has been
Hitlerism than T.N.T. or forged steel
executed by Sam Yamada,
Here are the women and girls of Steveston,
well-known Nisei artists and
deep in the midst of a slippery, siimy deafen
photographer. The cover de
ing hell that stinks to high heaven. With deft,
sign is by George Shimo-taflying fingers all day they pack the raw fis
kahara.
into cans. It is easy now to make $4-$o per
Liberal arts degrees are the
day in the cannery.
The fastest, toughes
most plentiful among the alumworkers can reach sometimes as high as $10
(See "BULLETIN” Page 5)
See "STEVESTON” Page 5
THE VOICE OF THE SECOND GENERATION
YAMA TAXI
PAcific 5454
8, 1941
AUGUST
Weekly
Sy K. V/.
i L.A. Queen Contestants
j Reduced to Ten Semi-Finalists
American N.Y.K. Officials
Ignorant of Ship Cancellations
‘Our Town’ Cool Despite
Growing, Threat of War
VANCOUVER.—That characteristic of stoical calm popu
i
LOS ANGELES.—Nine of the reSAN FRANCISCO.—Nippon Yularly
attributed to Oriental peoples has never been more vivid
or "Japanese"
; maining contestants were eliminated sen Kaisya officials here and in Se- ,
"Jap
ly
demonstrated
to this observer than the manner in which the
It's a rare philosopher among us-from ^e race for Nisei Festival attle said Tuesday that they had-;
Japanese
Canadian
community here reacts each day to the
up with injured. Queen jn the 7th annual contest. heard no word that scheduled sail- ]
who doesn't turn
whenever we hear or see our The top three candidates, Shizuyo ings of the Hikawa Maru and Nitta , train of events in Tokyo. Washington and London, that seem
referred to as "Japs.
N°Ushino, Reiko Inouye and Dorothy Maru from Japan to North American I to bring a Pacific war more and more closely at hand.
without reason, for Occidentals gen-; |;jjma retained their lead at the head ports had been cancelled.
It would be difficult to
e'olly, and English-speaking peopleiO^
remaining ten. By August 13,
T. Hasegawa, Seattle manager,
imagine any group of people
particularly, have made use of the^jve more will be eliminated.
said that there were no immediate in Canada likely to find it
three letters,
Jap 1° express ^be jap3nese Sentenced For
plans under consideration for closing
self so much “on the spot” in
the N.Y.K. offices in Seattle or even
ultimate in insulting contempt, —■ Second Degree ;Murder
the event of war.
Isolated
just as they have coined in English;
KALISPELL, Mont.—Sam Kimu- of reducing the present staff, since for fjie most part in distinct
such terms as
Chin ,
„ igger, i ra, Japanese railway worker, was sen- "there has been no cause to consider communities, and easily rec
"Hun," "Wop," or Dago.
ere fenced Monday to serve twenty such a move."
ognizeable as members of an
does not seem to be an equa y er :years in the state penitentiary for
Kazuyoshi Inagaki, consul in San
alien, enemy race, local resFrancisco,
declared
that
he
had
not
idents would find themselves
ogatory term in ng is to app y
; the second-degree murder of Shun
VANCOUVER.—Second gen
those of "British stock, ut we o y Takahashi, a bookkeeper, whom yet received any official word from in a very difficult and un
eration
interested in the Japan
have an insulting term in Japanese, : ^ shot and killed following an argu- Tokyo regarding the suspension of । pappy position,
ese question in British Colum
Even if the
"Keto," and Probab|y °ther fore,9nlment in Whitefish, Montana, last shipping schedules.
Nevertheless, the approach- bia and the problem of racial
languages make use of simi ar epi-;^^
regular schedule is suspended, the ing showdown seems to cause
relations generally will shortly
thets to describe their loathing of.,
Japanese authorities may substitute such a negligible stir in the
Japan Still to Get
;
temporary sailings to take care of community that it is note- have access to the best available
foreigners."
Hollywood Thrillers
lmaterial on the subject.
Just at present we are in the
worthy.
Business goes on as;
TOKYO.—Japanese movie-goers urgent needs, he asserted.
JCCL Library To
Help Nisei Study
Racial Relations
middle of a "Jap" wave, Whenever there is popular feeling
against Japan, the term is used
as an expression of that feeling,
and in the process we too get
tarred, much to our resentment.
Thus, the word finds its way from
a description of the Japanese
navy on the front page to the ex
ploits of the ball team on the sport
page. And . that gets us all hot
and bothered.
Miss Hide Hyodo, record
usual, in fact somewhat better^ ing secretary of the National
who are particularly addicted to Am Seattle Japanese Community
than usual. Baseball still holds Japanese. Canadian Citizens
erican films, heaved a sigh of relief Float Wins First Prize
when the finance ministry ruled that
SEATTLE. ---- Seattle's Japanese the limelight, meetings and soc League, last night said that
the distribution of films does not Community Potlatch parade float ial events proceed without a the library committee of the
come under the freezing regulation won top honours in the annual civic break, the vernacular press J.C.C.L. would comb the huge
enforced July 28.
Library of Congress book
celebration when Miss Mary Kawa rolls into the street each day,
According to finance ministry mura, attractively dressed as one of plans are going ahead for wel
catalogue at the University
authorities, United States motion the four nurses who graced the float, fare drives, for conferences in of British Columbia to secure
picture companies may distribute was presented a trophy cup as first the fall, for winter programs
titles and publishers of all
films if permits for their distribution prize in the non-commercial float of many kinds.
available pertinent books.
Even real estate dealers re
have been obtained.__________________ division.
(The Library of Congress
port that business picks up in catalogue
at
U.B.C.
contains
I think we get that way to an we do try, it usually takes hours or;(Asama Maru Another
one or two days after a short several ,million cards, and is
unnecessary degree.
Often in our days for it to go through all the Mystery Ship of Pacific
lived lull, following sudden ad added to regularly. The most
SAN FRANCISCO.—The Japan
injured pride, we take offense where brain connections.
verse international events such complete catalogue in the
ese
liner Asama Maru, which circled
none in meant, and read into the
After leaving school we stop ;mund in the Pacific for a week with as the recem
recent freezing action.
| world it is one of only three in
most casual remark a whole world learning by study and we haven t
several hundred passengers and $3,-|
In part this cool uni uf e Canada.)
of insult. Actually, to many Cana been trained to learn through con
The committee, which also
000,000 in raw silk, has as yet fail-I attitude may be duV to the s
dian people, (and I think I've met as tact and experience with people.
includes
Miyo Ishiwata and Ka
ed to reach San Francisco.
It was I widely-held belief that actual
many as anyone) , the word "Jap" is Instead of broadening our view
war is still a long way off and zuhiko Oyama, will also seek
only a very convenient short form of point, instead of widening our knowl believed that the ship had returned
may not develop at all. In part out important magazine articles^
"Japanese," conveying to them no edge, we fall into a mental stagna to Japan, following the implementa
it is due to the determination and have copies reproduced
further meaning than would "Keto." tion that finds neither reason nor tion of freezing orders.
not
to be stampeded by fright. and bound for the library. ,
The Asama was last heard of when
In the same way that we use the interest in anything beyond the
With this important addition,
For
the rest, the philosophical
term "Nisei" instead of "Second daily round of feeding our animal she docked in Honolulu after circling
the
J.C.C.L. library, housed in
bowing
to
uncontrollable
forces
Wherefore our lack of. around for a week
..... after
_ the anGeneration," they use the term appeties.
seems to be the only plausible the office of The New Canadian,
"Jap." To the headline writer on personality, our lack of color, our.' nouncement of the American freez
will have two principal sec
answer.
the daily paper especially, a three- lack of ideas.
■ 'n9 steps.
tions, one on Japan and Japan
lettered word meaning the same
ese culture, the other on racial
thing as an eight-lettered word
relations. It will be an invalumakes all the difference between
t able source of information for
dashing off a nice, easy headline or
For while the run is on, there is only serious study.
struggling with furrowed brow for
STEVESTON, B.C.—That frenzied activity
work, work, and more work, night and day,
many a long minute---- the deadline that has no parallel in any other industry in
day and night. Not for five years has there
rushing down upon us.
Again we the world once again has swept this quaintlybeen a run like this—a run that began in earn
speak from experience!—if only we odd fishing village at the mouth of the Fraser
est just two weeks ago and even now is ebbing
could use the word on this sheet!
into a fever of sweat and speed and endurance.
away. So it is that men must work in two
*
*
*
The Fraser Yields Up a Harvest of Silver
U.B.C. Grad Bulletin
Now Off The Press
The Sockeye Run is on!
A silvery trail
of instinct-bound sockeye salmon is heading
A biting, but true, criticism of the for the upper reaches of the muddy, mighty
Nisei came to light at a recent meet river, there to spawn and to die.
In their
ing as to why so few of us every take
death is the creation of the seeds of a new
part in discussions on Nisei ques- harvest that four years hence will return to
tions. We like to kid ourselves of these same waters to call forth again the fever
course that we don't say anything of the "cycle year” that has the whole of the
because we are too shy and backlower Fraser in its grip.
ward.
No doubt there is a good
Leaping and splashing, some steadily and
deal of truth in that, but just the
powerfully, other dilatory and tardily, the
same we have to admit that an
salmon ■are coming. This is the run th^t should
equally good reason for not saying
have come last year, and for which the fish
anything is that we haven't any ideas
ermen waited all season with empty nets and
to express.
emptier pockets. Now in a few days the peak
Yet most of us possess a high
of the run will be over, the horde will dwindle
degree of native intelligence, and
to a mere trickle, but for the past two weeks
have had sufficient education to
boats have been averaging 150-200 fish each
"Can't Think Fast Enough . .
think reasonably on most of our
problems. But it does seem that we
do not learn in school to be readily
receptive to ideas and impressions;
and we fail to learn to examine what
*e see and hear around us critically,
and put it all logically together.
If
So the run is on! And there is a buoyancy
in the air in Steveston, almost an electric ex
citement, that overrides the numb aching
weariness that comes from lack of sleep and
endless hours of exhaustion.
VANCOUVER.—A total of
weeks to reap the harvest that will keep them
73 Japanese have taken bachel
and their families for the whole year. Prices
or degrees at the University of
are good, averaging 65c per fish, and the fish
British Columbia since 1916,
are here!
There is no time for eating and
the
year of the University s
sleeping, because the fish will not wait for
founding, it is revealed in the
union hours or man’s weaknesses.
1941 bulletin, just about ready
The riverfront is no less busy. Into the
for distribution.
giant canneries every hour pours the silver
The bulletin, comprising
harvest. In a few hours it emerges tightly
twelve mimeographed pages
packed and sealed in shining tin cans. Canned
of news on the graduates, is
salmon!
A B. C. product.
Food for fee
dedicated to Dr. Masajiro Mi
Empire. 80 per cent of the pack will go to
yazaki, .first president of the
the hard-pressed people of Great Britain.
Alumni Association. A sketch
Supplies no less vital in the struggle against
of Dr. Miyazaki has been
Hitlerism than T.N.T. or forged steel
executed by Sam Yamada,
Here are the women and girls of Steveston,
well-known Nisei artists and
deep in the midst of a slippery, siimy deafen
photographer. The cover de
ing hell that stinks to high heaven. With deft,
sign is by George Shimo-taflying fingers all day they pack the raw fis
kahara.
into cans. It is easy now to make $4-$o per
Liberal arts degrees are the
day in the cannery.
The fastest, toughes
most plentiful among the alumworkers can reach sometimes as high as $10
(See "BULLETIN” Page 5)
See "STEVESTON” Page 5
Page 2
THE NEW CANADIAN
water 'neath
the bridge
cmma
ffa
COMMENTS
A recipe for a rainy day.
Nothing gets a girl who is out for a living, be she office girl, clerk,
houseworker, dressmaker, than to get up to face a wet world, with the
sky a leaden gray, the wind sharp through a light summer suit, and
another routine day staring her in the face.
But there are compensations in the life of a working girl • the prospect of a glowing fire at the end of a rainy day, with a hot bath
. . . friends like yourself, waiting to keep you company ... to be able
to let down one’s hair, and co be able to come down to brass tacks
. . . to give and take from the depths of our small experience ... to
give vent to our emotions in words as black as you feel ... to hear
the kettle singing ... to open a fresh par of raspberry jam, and as the
wax seal is broken, to get a whiff of home, of raspberries fresh on the
bush, of fragrant stocks, of mother’s voice ... to laugh over the day’s
idiosyncracies. perhaps weep a little, too ... to slip into a gay-patterned
housecoat, red slippers, and to let your hair wander where it wills . . .
to shut out the world of invoices, worries, office manners, telephone calls
. . . to shed the hard cloak of a business world . . . and to be just
’“one’s self.”
Life is glorious, then, regardless
Life has its compensations.
A quiet tale of courage.
Not all the great stories of courage are given a space in the news
front.
One meets them in queer, unexpected circumstances, in all sorts
And, we are such stuff that it is
of strange, unpremeditated places,
only when we meet up with some courageous spirit that we realize that
our lot is perhaps not so bad, that our way of life is really a fortunate
one.
,*
*
*
I met him in a hospital. He had come to see a friend of his, and
so we chanced to meet, and say “hello.”
Tall, fair-haired, slightly in
ebriated he was, as he “kidded” the laughter back into the face of his
He laughed
friend, as he gave back quip for quip, laugh for laugh.
at his friend, at himself, at the whole cock-eyed world, and bought
ice-cream for the whole party.
He had an intent way of gazing at a person---- one couldn't help
but notice how blue-green his eyes were as they became fixed upon you,
how his lashes curled long and upward . . . and how his smile quirked
the corners of his mouth.
A gay. Beau Brummel, with never a care
... a happy-go-lucky sort of fellow.
And he talked “a blue streak” . . . of France, of Paris ... of
law ... of radio telegraph ... he told a few naughty jokes . . . quoted
Shakespeare, several French poets . . . gave his theories on government
. . . and I thought to myself, “What a shame!”
Here was a man of
many abilities . . . and here he was, slightly tipsy, a gay fellow, without
a serious thought in the world.
Then he began his exit. He could not. find the door. He was more
than tipsy, I thought.
For one imperceptible moment, he teetered,
then his hand went out ... he had found the door. With a “chins up,
buddy,” he was out of the door, groping his way.
• Our gay Beau Brummell was slowly going blind . . . there was
no cure for it.
Two years ago, he was in the army . . . seven years.
perhaps nine years ago, he had planned to become a lawyer, but because
of his eyes, no one would take him in as a student-at-law save one
old lawyer, an old family friend . . . but he couldn’t see the words
printed on the legal page ... he turned to radio telegraphy . . . but
again his eyes failed him . . . and now, in St. Paul’s Hospital, he sells
ice-cream and gum. chocolate bars and candy ... in his own especial
manner.
He cannot see two feet away from his face.
The objects that he
sees, the faces he meets, are misty blurs to him, but one would never
guess. His is the story of courage ... of courage and laughter in the
face of a slow, inevitable, oncoming darkness . . . and he is only 29!
QUATRAIN
Before the summer dawns and briefly after
Bird voices mingle with my dreams half spent,
The robin's call, the brown wren’s laughter,
And the sweet thrush notes, wide and innocent.
---- Rachel Mack
R.
A.
VICTOR
D
O
C.
R
S
SEE
Art K. Tateishi
By T. M. K.
their ribbon ends
Are trailing in the stream.
P
S
G
N
O
E
S
INSTRUMENTS
R
E C O R
D S
7 5 1
ON SEYMOUR
The MUSIC BOX
a.y.
The saxophone need neither be ashamed, nor proud of
Its beginnings undoubtedly have quite a bit to do with th'/--”'il®Or?'
not been fully accepted into* the symphony orchestra but \b/* V/^ u ^
part and parcel of the dance band.
.
“~s become
Dry Goods, Groceries and Provisions
E. B. de V.
S T E I N W A
E
’round
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^C. ^u/Mi^ ^o« Ltd.
or
Association
GENERAL MERCHANTS
River Radio
Office Hours: 8:30-5:30
Service
Saturday: 9:00-1:00
A COMMUNITY STORE FOR SERVICE
AND SATISFACTION"
STEVESTON, B. C.
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1041
It’s high time I strummed another
ditty to my backyard and how it
We owe the saxophone to the inventive genius of Adolobe S
'no
in 1842 came to Paris with hardly any money but with
*
flourishes beneath the sun and rain
(the sprinkler system, if you please) . instrument (so it seemed at least to the people of those
ay$) th.
and intermittent weeding.
Half-brasswind, half-woodwind.
He explained r0
the musicians and critics he met th
I always thought that tomatoes ADOLPHE SAX.
at thi* “saxo.
THE
INVENTOR
phone
was a brass instrument fitted w“ h '
grew from only one stalk, or am I
“single-reed” mouthpiece of the clarinet H
seeing things when I say that mine
have as many as eight stalks, every quite a few supporters who gave him the necessary money' to start b
one bearing fruit?
All from one Jealous rivals and competitors made the going difficult* for xp s/1'^'
he presevered to win out. When his instrument was introduced
root? Such enormous leaf-spread, too!
I do hope the red tomatoes will live French military bands it made a big hit right away, and soon b
indispensable instrument. Brought over to America, the
'-catne as
up to their heritage.
saxophone d
Two years ago there were myriads take long to jump from the military to the dance band.
of pansies all around the borders'.
There are five groups of saxophones in common
use today: (
Last year there wasn’t one to be seen, soprano, (2) alto, (3) tenor, (4) baritone. (5) bass,
I may note h.
Then this spring, what do I find in passing, that popular music writers and critics mean i
the saxophon.
hither and thither but countless tiny not the human voice when they speak of an "alto" or "tenor.”
bits of green that I could swear were
These- different saxes work on the same principle the
the long-lost pansies.
So lovingly
(method of playing) is the same for all five. The techniqus
1 am
I scooped them, out with a teaspoon is remarkably easy, simple and regular.
Scales, arpeggios and trick
and set them in orderly rows just sages present little trouble to a person once he has mastered th *
it fundathis side of the snapdragons and zin- mentals of playing.
nias. I hadn’t much hope that they
As may be expected, the tone of the sax combines the qualities of a
would bloom, but any way I left brasswind and a woodwind.
It has the mellowness of the French h*them to the mercy of Mother Na- and the bright clear tone of the clarinet (especially the soprano and alto)
cure.
Imagine my delight and surIn ““forte” (loud) passages it is a poor second to
prise now to see purple pansies. yel- QUALITIES OF
the trumpet or trombone; but, on the other hand
low pansies blooming right and left THE SAXOPHONE
in the score calling for “piano” (soft playing/
with never a care in the world.
it can blend but rarely slip, out of sight into the
Without being a fancier, without orchestral background, which the clarinet or flute finds easy to do, and its
knowing the rules of perfect gar notes can be readily detected. But this disappearing trick is hardly nacesdening, I manage to get a riot of sary in the jazz band where the saxophones' rich tone is desperately needed
color, fragrance and fruit out of little to offset the blare and blast of the brasses.
seeds. What immense satisfaction it
Although the altos and tenors form the mainstay of the sax section,
gives!
the soprano and baritone (and less frequently the bass) saxes are also
Then in my more serious moments brought into play.
As for saxophonists (saxist for short), I find it
I marvel. Life eternal is in my back difficult to name any one outstanding player because there are so many
yard. Though this house may rot and excellent ones. Among the saxists specializing on alto are "Toots” Mon
crumble, the grass will grow, and dello, Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Carter and Hymie Shertzer. Leading the
flowers bloom. Left to themselves tenor men are Tex Beneke, Charlie Barnet, Eddie Miller, Coleman Hawkins,
the stronger plants probably will George Auld, Bud Freeman and Tony Pastor.
choke out the frail ones, the vines
Some orchestra leaders have capitalized on the use of the saxophone.
will spread and cling to anything, Shep Fields, the innovator of the '“rippling rhythm”, burst a bombshell
but the flowers will bloom and the in the orchestral world recently when he came out. with his new band
seeds for the next year will fall to
fronted by a TEN-man reed section, NO brasses
rise again. Hollyhock and foxglove, FIELDS' TEN-MAN and the regular rhythm group. Men in his reed
columbine and rose will grow hither REED SECTION
section are equipped to play one piccolo, eight
and yon, helter-skelter, till Mian's
flutes, one alto flute, ten clarinets, three bass
tender discipline shall put them back clarinets, four alto saxes, six tenors, one baritone and one bass—a total of
in net rows around a home.
thirty-five reeds.
For the most part, Fields contrasts his high and low
To love a garden because it is a reeds, say four altos and a clarinet against a background of five tenor
garden, weeds and all, is very like saxes. For special effects he bring in the various reeds in different com
the love a mother bears her children, binations.
Swingsters who are accustomed to the solid fortissimi of the
faults and all.
brasses will hardly get their fill from Field’s reed offerings. But it’s a
For me it’s another lazy day, gloat novel experience to listen to some of his new Bluebird recordings such as
ing over my flowers and vegetables, “Donna” and ‘Tve Found a Million Dollar Baby.”
yearning for some fruit trees, want
And of course, you all know how Glenn Miller made musical history
ing to do the hedge all over again, by introducing a five-man reed section with four saxes and a clarinet to
weeding spasmodically and dreaming obtain that lush melody featured in many of his earlier recordings.
of a better garden next year.
Now don’t get the idea that the saxophone is shunned altogether by
classical composers. Some writers, especially the French (Bizet and Mas
*
*
senet) were rather fond of creating little tunes for the saxophone. Richard
Strauss went a step further, and composed a
WILLOWS
THE
SAXOPHONE
part
for a quartet of saxes in one of his works.
The sliken lengths
AND THE CLASSICS Undoubtedly, the sudden popularity of the saxo
Of Willow streamers
phone in the French military bands and com
Quiver and curve and gleam
posers caused the “highbrows” of other countries to turn antagonized away
from it. At all events, I regret that the saxophone was not invented before
Lost in the mist-veiled
Beethoven's time because I feel that that great musical genius would have
Shimmer of a
made at least an attempt of exploring its possibilities and perhaps might
Radiant sunlit dream
have incorporated it into the symphony orchestra.
Next week: the brasswinds.
And unaware that
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A recipe for a rainy day.
Nothing gets a girl who is out for a living, be she office girl, clerk,
houseworker, dressmaker, than to get up to face a wet world, with the
sky a leaden gray, the wind sharp through a light summer suit, and
another routine day staring her in the face.
But there are compensations in the life of a working girl • the prospect of a glowing fire at the end of a rainy day, with a hot bath
. . . friends like yourself, waiting to keep you company ... to be able
to let down one’s hair, and co be able to come down to brass tacks
. . . to give and take from the depths of our small experience ... to
give vent to our emotions in words as black as you feel ... to hear
the kettle singing ... to open a fresh par of raspberry jam, and as the
wax seal is broken, to get a whiff of home, of raspberries fresh on the
bush, of fragrant stocks, of mother’s voice ... to laugh over the day’s
idiosyncracies. perhaps weep a little, too ... to slip into a gay-patterned
housecoat, red slippers, and to let your hair wander where it wills . . .
to shut out the world of invoices, worries, office manners, telephone calls
. . . to shed the hard cloak of a business world . . . and to be just
’“one’s self.”
Life is glorious, then, regardless
Life has its compensations.
A quiet tale of courage.
Not all the great stories of courage are given a space in the news
front.
One meets them in queer, unexpected circumstances, in all sorts
And, we are such stuff that it is
of strange, unpremeditated places,
only when we meet up with some courageous spirit that we realize that
our lot is perhaps not so bad, that our way of life is really a fortunate
one.
,*
*
*
I met him in a hospital. He had come to see a friend of his, and
so we chanced to meet, and say “hello.”
Tall, fair-haired, slightly in
ebriated he was, as he “kidded” the laughter back into the face of his
He laughed
friend, as he gave back quip for quip, laugh for laugh.
at his friend, at himself, at the whole cock-eyed world, and bought
ice-cream for the whole party.
He had an intent way of gazing at a person---- one couldn't help
but notice how blue-green his eyes were as they became fixed upon you,
how his lashes curled long and upward . . . and how his smile quirked
the corners of his mouth.
A gay. Beau Brummel, with never a care
... a happy-go-lucky sort of fellow.
And he talked “a blue streak” . . . of France, of Paris ... of
law ... of radio telegraph ... he told a few naughty jokes . . . quoted
Shakespeare, several French poets . . . gave his theories on government
. . . and I thought to myself, “What a shame!”
Here was a man of
many abilities . . . and here he was, slightly tipsy, a gay fellow, without
a serious thought in the world.
Then he began his exit. He could not. find the door. He was more
than tipsy, I thought.
For one imperceptible moment, he teetered,
then his hand went out ... he had found the door. With a “chins up,
buddy,” he was out of the door, groping his way.
• Our gay Beau Brummell was slowly going blind . . . there was
no cure for it.
Two years ago, he was in the army . . . seven years.
perhaps nine years ago, he had planned to become a lawyer, but because
of his eyes, no one would take him in as a student-at-law save one
old lawyer, an old family friend . . . but he couldn’t see the words
printed on the legal page ... he turned to radio telegraphy . . . but
again his eyes failed him . . . and now, in St. Paul’s Hospital, he sells
ice-cream and gum. chocolate bars and candy ... in his own especial
manner.
He cannot see two feet away from his face.
The objects that he
sees, the faces he meets, are misty blurs to him, but one would never
guess. His is the story of courage ... of courage and laughter in the
face of a slow, inevitable, oncoming darkness . . . and he is only 29!
QUATRAIN
Before the summer dawns and briefly after
Bird voices mingle with my dreams half spent,
The robin's call, the brown wren’s laughter,
And the sweet thrush notes, wide and innocent.
---- Rachel Mack
R.
A.
VICTOR
D
O
C.
R
S
SEE
Art K. Tateishi
By T. M. K.
their ribbon ends
Are trailing in the stream.
P
S
G
N
O
E
S
INSTRUMENTS
R
E C O R
D S
7 5 1
ON SEYMOUR
The MUSIC BOX
a.y.
The saxophone need neither be ashamed, nor proud of
Its beginnings undoubtedly have quite a bit to do with th'/--”'il®Or?'
not been fully accepted into* the symphony orchestra but \b/* V/^ u ^
part and parcel of the dance band.
.
“~s become
Dry Goods, Groceries and Provisions
E. B. de V.
S T E I N W A
E
’round
Canadian Japanese
^C. ^u/Mi^ ^o« Ltd.
or
Association
GENERAL MERCHANTS
River Radio
Office Hours: 8:30-5:30
Service
Saturday: 9:00-1:00
A COMMUNITY STORE FOR SERVICE
AND SATISFACTION"
STEVESTON, B. C.
^o'po'roTO'i'iri'iptiii'iHj-iHppii'iiii'iiiriiij'pipiHi'ii'i'iPi'iP]' ii'i’tri'ii'i'V’i'ii'fii'i'iri.'
1041
It’s high time I strummed another
ditty to my backyard and how it
We owe the saxophone to the inventive genius of Adolobe S
'no
in 1842 came to Paris with hardly any money but with
*
flourishes beneath the sun and rain
(the sprinkler system, if you please) . instrument (so it seemed at least to the people of those
ay$) th.
and intermittent weeding.
Half-brasswind, half-woodwind.
He explained r0
the musicians and critics he met th
I always thought that tomatoes ADOLPHE SAX.
at thi* “saxo.
THE
INVENTOR
phone
was a brass instrument fitted w“ h '
grew from only one stalk, or am I
“single-reed” mouthpiece of the clarinet H
seeing things when I say that mine
have as many as eight stalks, every quite a few supporters who gave him the necessary money' to start b
one bearing fruit?
All from one Jealous rivals and competitors made the going difficult* for xp s/1'^'
he presevered to win out. When his instrument was introduced
root? Such enormous leaf-spread, too!
I do hope the red tomatoes will live French military bands it made a big hit right away, and soon b
indispensable instrument. Brought over to America, the
'-catne as
up to their heritage.
saxophone d
Two years ago there were myriads take long to jump from the military to the dance band.
of pansies all around the borders'.
There are five groups of saxophones in common
use today: (
Last year there wasn’t one to be seen, soprano, (2) alto, (3) tenor, (4) baritone. (5) bass,
I may note h.
Then this spring, what do I find in passing, that popular music writers and critics mean i
the saxophon.
hither and thither but countless tiny not the human voice when they speak of an "alto" or "tenor.”
bits of green that I could swear were
These- different saxes work on the same principle the
the long-lost pansies.
So lovingly
(method of playing) is the same for all five. The techniqus
1 am
I scooped them, out with a teaspoon is remarkably easy, simple and regular.
Scales, arpeggios and trick
and set them in orderly rows just sages present little trouble to a person once he has mastered th *
it fundathis side of the snapdragons and zin- mentals of playing.
nias. I hadn’t much hope that they
As may be expected, the tone of the sax combines the qualities of a
would bloom, but any way I left brasswind and a woodwind.
It has the mellowness of the French h*them to the mercy of Mother Na- and the bright clear tone of the clarinet (especially the soprano and alto)
cure.
Imagine my delight and surIn ““forte” (loud) passages it is a poor second to
prise now to see purple pansies. yel- QUALITIES OF
the trumpet or trombone; but, on the other hand
low pansies blooming right and left THE SAXOPHONE
in the score calling for “piano” (soft playing/
with never a care in the world.
it can blend but rarely slip, out of sight into the
Without being a fancier, without orchestral background, which the clarinet or flute finds easy to do, and its
knowing the rules of perfect gar notes can be readily detected. But this disappearing trick is hardly nacesdening, I manage to get a riot of sary in the jazz band where the saxophones' rich tone is desperately needed
color, fragrance and fruit out of little to offset the blare and blast of the brasses.
seeds. What immense satisfaction it
Although the altos and tenors form the mainstay of the sax section,
gives!
the soprano and baritone (and less frequently the bass) saxes are also
Then in my more serious moments brought into play.
As for saxophonists (saxist for short), I find it
I marvel. Life eternal is in my back difficult to name any one outstanding player because there are so many
yard. Though this house may rot and excellent ones. Among the saxists specializing on alto are "Toots” Mon
crumble, the grass will grow, and dello, Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Carter and Hymie Shertzer. Leading the
flowers bloom. Left to themselves tenor men are Tex Beneke, Charlie Barnet, Eddie Miller, Coleman Hawkins,
the stronger plants probably will George Auld, Bud Freeman and Tony Pastor.
choke out the frail ones, the vines
Some orchestra leaders have capitalized on the use of the saxophone.
will spread and cling to anything, Shep Fields, the innovator of the '“rippling rhythm”, burst a bombshell
but the flowers will bloom and the in the orchestral world recently when he came out. with his new band
seeds for the next year will fall to
fronted by a TEN-man reed section, NO brasses
rise again. Hollyhock and foxglove, FIELDS' TEN-MAN and the regular rhythm group. Men in his reed
columbine and rose will grow hither REED SECTION
section are equipped to play one piccolo, eight
and yon, helter-skelter, till Mian's
flutes, one alto flute, ten clarinets, three bass
tender discipline shall put them back clarinets, four alto saxes, six tenors, one baritone and one bass—a total of
in net rows around a home.
thirty-five reeds.
For the most part, Fields contrasts his high and low
To love a garden because it is a reeds, say four altos and a clarinet against a background of five tenor
garden, weeds and all, is very like saxes. For special effects he bring in the various reeds in different com
the love a mother bears her children, binations.
Swingsters who are accustomed to the solid fortissimi of the
faults and all.
brasses will hardly get their fill from Field’s reed offerings. But it’s a
For me it’s another lazy day, gloat novel experience to listen to some of his new Bluebird recordings such as
ing over my flowers and vegetables, “Donna” and ‘Tve Found a Million Dollar Baby.”
yearning for some fruit trees, want
And of course, you all know how Glenn Miller made musical history
ing to do the hedge all over again, by introducing a five-man reed section with four saxes and a clarinet to
weeding spasmodically and dreaming obtain that lush melody featured in many of his earlier recordings.
of a better garden next year.
Now don’t get the idea that the saxophone is shunned altogether by
classical composers. Some writers, especially the French (Bizet and Mas
*
*
senet) were rather fond of creating little tunes for the saxophone. Richard
Strauss went a step further, and composed a
WILLOWS
THE
SAXOPHONE
part
for a quartet of saxes in one of his works.
The sliken lengths
AND THE CLASSICS Undoubtedly, the sudden popularity of the saxo
Of Willow streamers
phone in the French military bands and com
Quiver and curve and gleam
posers caused the “highbrows” of other countries to turn antagonized away
from it. At all events, I regret that the saxophone was not invented before
Lost in the mist-veiled
Beethoven's time because I feel that that great musical genius would have
Shimmer of a
made at least an attempt of exploring its possibilities and perhaps might
Radiant sunlit dream
have incorporated it into the symphony orchestra.
Next week: the brasswinds.
And unaware that
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Vancouver, B. C.
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plated by the Y.P.C.C, executive. Under this arrangement it is
hoped to have representatives from Vancouver Island. upCoast. and the Interior take part in the convention.
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With this in view the exec
morning- service will strike
utive has scheduled a lead
tel
the keynote of the conven
ers’ retreat for August 24,
tion. To enable the out-ofSunday, at ■which a workable
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town societies to take an act
plan will be drawn up to
ive part, the Steveston Young
launch a pre-convention ser
People’s Society is being ap
ies of meetings among Nisei
proached to take charge of
groups. Due to the pressure
this brief service and wor
of time and other conflictingship.
factors, executive ' members
Committees for registration,
are wryly predicting- an “all luncheon, musicale, publicity,
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closing banquet are still to be
for the leaders’ retreat.
6 Nuptial Vows
iMr- MacTaggart’s topic was
selected. The evening worship
But considerable progress has will be looked after by this
A late afternoon wedding at ■ “Christian Missions”.
been made in the planning of year’s executive. The installa
U Jame* Church on Saturday, ।
This meeting was the fourth
the confab.
Discussion lead tion of new officers will also
t q will unite in mar- in a series of summer meetings
ers. speakers and secretarial take place at this concluding
Mivo Molly, eldest daugh- by the society in preparation
choices have been tentatively ceremony.
ter°of Mr. and Mrs. —
Y. —
Hirano, for the fall term.
made.
ip9Semlin, and Mr. Rozaimon @ Marietta School Graduation
Conference Schedule
Yada, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. ।
The Marietta School of Cos
The conference weekend will
! S. Yada, North Vancouver.
tume Design will hold their
No event south of the border at start Saturday evening, Novem
Rev. Nakayama will officiate. graduation dinner and dance in tracts greater interest each year than
ber 8, when a delegates supper
A reception for the couple the Dining Room of David the annual Nisei Festival week, in Los is scheduled at which business
will be held directly after the Spencers Limited on Saturday, Angeles, sponsored by the Japanese matters will be taken up.
American Citizens League. Highlight
ceremony at the home of the August 9, commencing 6 p.m.
Not to neglect the invaluable
aroom-elect. Mr. and Mrs. S. © J.C.C.L. Executive
of the festival is the choosing of the social aspect of the convention,
”
beauteous queen to reign over the a social is being planned for
Mizuhara
were the baishaExecutive members of the
celebrations and in the current contest, St. James Hall from 8 to 11 that
kunin.
Vancouver Chapter of the Jap
*
twenty girls arc still in the running.
anese Canadian Citizens League Last year's queen. Shizue Kobayashi same evening. Billed are skits,
g Powell Y.P.S. Executive
folk and popular dances and
are reminded of the monthly
,Mr- Ge°rge MacTaa&arC^ of!executive meeting to be held (above), heads the Queen Committee refreshments. Plans are afoot
to make this social a lively and
sistant mission y
Youn°lFriday evening, August 8, at directing the beauty-fest.
the Greater Vancouver Yo ^
the office of The
memorable affair and to help
People’s Union was the
each delegate to rub shoulders
speaker at the Powell Y.
with everyone else.
Executive Meeting held Wed- © Powell Y.P. Executive
Conference Sunday will
nesday evening, August 6, at
start at 9:45 when a short
Members of the Powell Y. P.
the home of Miss Kay Yasuna- executive are urged to attend
ka. 2696 Trinity St., at 8 p.m. a very important meeting to
discuss several business matters
at the Church library room,
FOR REAL JAPANESE
next
Monday, August 11.
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The Fairview Japanese Unit
ed Mission will hold its second
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362 Alexander St.
commencing Monday, August
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continuing
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pians!
youngsters between the ages of
The Drama Club of the Ga four and fourteen enjoyed tile
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to make plans for its fall activ ments will be organized. The
lower department will be for
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duction under the direction of Miss Lily Uyeda will be in
Frank Nakamura, and every charge of this department, as
;
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body, anybody, who is even the sisted by Emiko Uchida and
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slightest bit interested in plays, and Yoshiko Shimotakahara.
is welcome.
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Bouquets, Corsages, Plants
children from nine to fourteen
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Ayako Okura, in charge of the
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Colorful and gay—in polka girls. Kimiko Kato, Yuki Nidots, stripes and bright prints shidera, Sachiko Shimotaka—a brand ‘ new shipment of hara. and Takashi Komiyama,
“broomstick” skirts have ar the principal, who will be in
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Get yours assisted by Mitsuo Ohora and
now while choosing’s good.
Katsumi Takimoto.
Those tricky little jerkins
The daily program opens at
that form a neat outfit with 9:15 a.m. with worship, fol
your pleated-all-round south- lowed by music, recreation,
Bible study and notebook work
wind skirts . . And by the way, have you neriods. The last period each
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People’s Society is being ap
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proached to take charge of
groups. Due to the pressure
this brief service and wor
of time and other conflictingship.
factors, executive ' members
Committees for registration,
are wryly predicting- an “all luncheon, musicale, publicity,
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closing banquet are still to be
for the leaders’ retreat.
6 Nuptial Vows
iMr- MacTaggart’s topic was
selected. The evening worship
But considerable progress has will be looked after by this
A late afternoon wedding at ■ “Christian Missions”.
been made in the planning of year’s executive. The installa
U Jame* Church on Saturday, ।
This meeting was the fourth
the confab.
Discussion lead tion of new officers will also
t q will unite in mar- in a series of summer meetings
ers. speakers and secretarial take place at this concluding
Mivo Molly, eldest daugh- by the society in preparation
choices have been tentatively ceremony.
ter°of Mr. and Mrs. —
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Hirano, for the fall term.
made.
ip9Semlin, and Mr. Rozaimon @ Marietta School Graduation
Conference Schedule
Yada, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. ।
The Marietta School of Cos
The conference weekend will
! S. Yada, North Vancouver.
tume Design will hold their
No event south of the border at start Saturday evening, Novem
Rev. Nakayama will officiate. graduation dinner and dance in tracts greater interest each year than
ber 8, when a delegates supper
A reception for the couple the Dining Room of David the annual Nisei Festival week, in Los is scheduled at which business
will be held directly after the Spencers Limited on Saturday, Angeles, sponsored by the Japanese matters will be taken up.
American Citizens League. Highlight
ceremony at the home of the August 9, commencing 6 p.m.
Not to neglect the invaluable
aroom-elect. Mr. and Mrs. S. © J.C.C.L. Executive
of the festival is the choosing of the social aspect of the convention,
”
beauteous queen to reign over the a social is being planned for
Mizuhara
were the baishaExecutive members of the
celebrations and in the current contest, St. James Hall from 8 to 11 that
kunin.
Vancouver Chapter of the Jap
*
twenty girls arc still in the running.
anese Canadian Citizens League Last year's queen. Shizue Kobayashi same evening. Billed are skits,
g Powell Y.P.S. Executive
folk and popular dances and
are reminded of the monthly
,Mr- Ge°rge MacTaa&arC^ of!executive meeting to be held (above), heads the Queen Committee refreshments. Plans are afoot
to make this social a lively and
sistant mission y
Youn°lFriday evening, August 8, at directing the beauty-fest.
the Greater Vancouver Yo ^
the office of The
memorable affair and to help
People’s Union was the
each delegate to rub shoulders
speaker at the Powell Y.
with everyone else.
Executive Meeting held Wed- © Powell Y.P. Executive
Conference Sunday will
nesday evening, August 6, at
start at 9:45 when a short
Members of the Powell Y. P.
the home of Miss Kay Yasuna- executive are urged to attend
ka. 2696 Trinity St., at 8 p.m. a very important meeting to
discuss several business matters
at the Church library room,
FOR REAL JAPANESE
next
Monday, August 11.
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The Drama Club of the Ga four and fourteen enjoyed tile
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RADIOS, REFRIGERATORS,
evening at the Japanese School school. This year, two depart
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ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES
to make plans for its fall activ ments will be organized. The
lower department will be for
PA 6932
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ities. A play is slated for pro children, four to eight years.
duction under the direction of Miss Lily Uyeda will be in
Frank Nakamura, and every charge of this department, as
;
AGENT
body, anybody, who is even the sisted by Emiko Uchida and
• FLOWERS FOR EVERY OCCASION
slightest bit interested in plays, and Yoshiko Shimotakahara.
is welcome.
The uppert department for
Bouquets, Corsages, Plants
children from nine to fourteen
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will be instructed by Miss
Wreaths, Cut Flowers
Ayako Okura, in charge of the
Very Low Prices For Niseis
Colorful and gay—in polka girls. Kimiko Kato, Yuki Nidots, stripes and bright prints shidera, Sachiko Shimotaka—a brand ‘ new shipment of hara. and Takashi Komiyama,
“broomstick” skirts have ar the principal, who will be in
rived at Modiste’s to meet the charge of the boys, He will be
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insistent demand.
Get yours assisted by Mitsuo Ohora and
now while choosing’s good.
Katsumi Takimoto.
Those tricky little jerkins
The daily program opens at
that form a neat outfit with 9:15 a.m. with worship, fol
your pleated-all-round south- lowed by music, recreation,
Bible study and notebook work
wind skirts . . And by the way, have you neriods. The last period each
seen the new fall fur-trimmed day is devoted to handicraft
coats at Modiste’s? They’re ex work.
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ME4
THE NEW CANADIAN
396 Powell Street
PAcific 8431
Vancouver, B. C.
A paper published by and for second generation Japanese tn Canada
citizens of Canada.
and devoted'to their welfare as
Staff
Hunito T. Shoyama
Eiko Henmi
Yoshimitsu Higashi
Seiji Onizuka~^^_
Published weekly at the Taiyo Printing Company.
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Rates: 25c per month
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___________ *
H
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Curtain Coming Down
INVENTS of the past week have served above all to draw mor®
C and more clearly the sharp lines of division between this
Canada, our home and native country, and Japan teJa
We cannot now, if ever we
from whence we have sprung.
r
thp^p
have during the past two years, escape the implications oi these
facts and these events. There now can be no refuge, if ever
there was, in wishful thinking.
Clearly set before us is the train of forces that have pushed
the opposite shores of the Pacific further and further apart.
We had hoped, and we may yet hope again in the fu ure,
of aid in bringing that ocean with understanding and friendly
goodwill. Instead of that, we see today the imminent possibil
ity that the ocean, which was to have been the fundation of
peace, will become the death trap of hate and destruction.
Nevertheless, out of the rubble, out of the dust and broken
bits of a shattered dream, has come a more deeply realized apprediation of our own future. If world history has set before
us this cruel division, our own personal history has made each
one of us aware that our choice can be no other than that of
unswerving loyalty to the land that has borne and nurtured us.
Perhaps we can be philosophically theatrical.
These
events today are ringing down the curtain upon the closing
scenes in the first act of our little drama. It is the first act of
a play that began when our fathers and mothers first came to
this country, to settle, to build homes, to bear us, their children.
It is an act that comes to a close with this realization—born
though it may be in sorrow and struggle and war—that as a
people we are here, that we shall stay, that we shall live on in
a third and fourth generation.
To our life span stretching before us belongs the second
act,_ to play it as we can against fate and fortune, to shape it
as we can with hand and brain. And what we can accomplish
as men and women, is of utmost importance. For upon it de
pends so much of the happiness and ultimate triumph of our
children, a future generation, who will play the third, and we
hope, the final act in our drama.
In Search Of Opportunity
THE OLD MAN
*
*
*
By G. T. WATANABE
TN the evening, after a hard day's
work tending his flowers and
strawberries, he sits down on the
davenport, and picks up the news
paper, and invariably dozes away
after a few minutes of scrutinizing
the headlines.
Lulled by the radio turned on
very low, his eyes close, his head
falls on his chest, his glasses slide
down his nose and he falls fast
asleep.
Evening
fails.
after evening,
it never
Sometimes we wake him gently.
"Wake up, father, wake up." The
Old Man will jerk suddenly, then
with a sheepish grin, go back to his
paper.
But a few minutes later he
is fast asleep again.
The Old Man has a right to be
sleepy.
Though he is nearing his
seventies, he is up bright and early
working in’the soil, hoeing, planting,
trimming.
All day long he toils,
and in the afternoon, with the hot
June sun beating down, his shirt is
wet with perspiration.
And so in the evening, after a
hot tub, his eyes will close no matter
how hard he may try to keep awake.
The Old Man is nearing his seven
ties.
But, by looking at him, no
one would ever guess it. Most people
guess his age at fifty.
Life-long
friends of the Old Man say he hasn't
changed in the last twenty years;
some even venture to remark that
he is getting more youthful-looking,
which brings a smile of pleasure on
the Old Man's face.
The Old Man is young in spirit,
despite his years and his shining
bald head (which once.caused Sonny,
four years old, at the time, to yell
out, "Look there's Grandpa"! when
he saw the seven dwarves in Disney's
'Snow White."
His face is ruddy,
his eyes are sparkling and eager and
he's spry.
The Old Man has always been a
good companion, a steadfast friend.
When we were little boys, he would
make numerous sailboats for us and
together we would sail the miniature
boats. Every Saturday, he'd take us
to the nickelodeon to see the latest
chapter of the weekly serials. And
when the radio first came out, it was
the Old Man who stayed up late in
the night with us and worked on the
crystal sets and one-tubers.
ISPERSION of Japanese Canadians. eastward has been a
much discussed subject among the second generation. As
yet, however, the discussion has lead to no concrete results of
any importance, and instead of the Japanese community grow
ing and expanding outward, it would be equally safe to say
that the community has tended rather to turn inward to itself.
For over a decade economic conditions in the industrial
East have not been rosy. The fact has loomed very large in
discouraging any possible trek of young men eastward,—des
pite the attractions that a considerably-less prejudiced popula
*
*
«
tion might offer. It is significant, to us now, therefore, that
Though
the
Old
Man
won't know
the shortage of manpower generally is being felt much more
keenly in the industrial areas of eastern Canada than is the what the word means, he is a liberal
* case on the Pacific coast. Reports are current of the keenest in the best sense of the word. Our
friends, upon meeting the Old Man,
demand for workers of any size, shape, or capacity.
are
impressed by his tolerance and
If any move eastward is contemplated among the second
and
kindliness and good common
generation it may well be true that economic conditions right
sense.
now are as close to being ideal as they have ever been or are
He is an ardent Christian, but
likely to be for at least another decade. Against that, of course,
is a tense international situation. But there is reason to believe definitely not of the joy-killing var
that the people of eastern Canada may not be as readily in iety. He does not try to force his
clined as British Columbians to divert prejudice felt against beliefs down other people's throats.
Japan itself upon a second generation individual, who is able
He has faith in the Nisei and
to hold his own among Canadians.
when certain Issei speak disparag
It is wholly true that employment in British Columbia is ingly of the Nisei, he will remark
good, and that jobs are plentiful. But it ought to be apparent that the Issei were no model crea
to even the most opimistic of us that the chances for the aver tures in their youth some thirty
age Nisei to rise above discrimination and obtain a position years back.
He has faith in America.
He is
better than a relatively low-paid industrial worker are very
forever reminding us what a debt
slim chances indeed.
we owe to this country. Where else,
On the other hand, it may well be true that an enterprising
he asks, could emigrants settle and
Nisei, intent upon climbing higher in life, may find prejudice
see their children graduate from
a much easier obstacle to surmount in the east, if he goes down high school, all at t-he expense of
there now and digs in. There ought to be food for thought the State? Where else, says he, is
here among some of our more ambitious and intelligent young there such kindliness and good
men, and perhaps a field of study for a few of our more worth neighbourliness as in the United
States.
while Nisei organizations.
D
AUGUST 8, 19
THE NEW CANADIAN
TF and when the final story of Japanese immigratio
1 ment and ultimate assimilation into the n^i
’ -^
Canada is told, one of the more decisive turning pS -^
story may well be recorded as the changing viewpo'
^
emerged in definite form in the ’40’s. True it is £ ^
that was voiced by a lone prophet or two wav bs'k^
twenties. But it is only in the last two or three veaT ? '^
has gained widespread approval and adoption amon^
? ‘!
Canadians who are in any way conversant with the f W§
and human realities of the Japanese problem in Canada13^
1
It is a viewpoint and realization voiced by Mrs L
E. Jamieson, Co-operative Commonwealth Federal
member of the British Columbia Legislature, in the '°n
rent issue of the “Canadian Forum”, scholarly
monthly published in Toronto.
isn
Mrs. Jamieson has written a brief article describing '
of the highlights in racial relations in the company tow^
Ocean Falls. Nisei readers, more accustomed to the
°?
article pounded out by “hack writers” to sell to a ^uirbl
emotional public, will find her study unbiased, her conclusV’
encouraging.
’-ns
“The heads of the Japanese families”, runs the article '
part, “and the single men all work for the company, mostly ^
the mill. There are 1,086 workers in the mill. Of these 210
are Japanese, or roughly 20 per cent ...
“There are two unions in Ocean Falls—Local 360 the
Paper Makers’ Union, which is made up of the workers in the
final stages of papermaking; and Local 312, Pulp, Sulphite and
Paper Mill Workers’ Union, which takes in all other workers
The Japanese belong to the latter union. The Japanese mem
bers meet separately because of the language difficulty but
the need for this practice is rapidly decreasing. The Japanese
have the reputation of keeping up dues 100 per cent and of
aiding in all financial help to unions that appeal for a genuine
cause. When the unions were formed in 1937, the basic wa°e
for white workers was 47c per hour and for Japanese 35c
making a differential of 12c. This was reduced later by 2c’
At the 1940 wage conference, a further reduction of 2c in the
differential was obtained, and Local 312 was pledged to get a
further reduction this year. The present basic wage is 56c for
white workers, and 48c for Japanese.
*
;Jc
*
“In Ocean Falls the goodwill goes further than the union.
Here is a compact, isolated town where Japanese and white
folk lives close together, even though one group is crowded
into one end of the community. They cannot help knowing
each other fairly well. The children go to school together,
take part in sports together. The adult males work in the
same plant and belong to the same union.
“If there were any great divergencies in attitudes or opin
ions, they would be noticed, and fresh prejudices would be
formed. This is not the case. The tendency to extend the
prejudice already existing toward Japan as a partner with the
Axis powers, to all Japanese, whether born and educated in
this country or not, is strong among many B.C. residents. In
Ocean Falls it is not noticeable. Instead, one hears constant
expressions of sympathy, ‘I am sorry for the Japs here; they
are decent and law abiding” ‘They are Canadian citizens just
as we are. They want to raise their standard of living.’ ‘They
can never improve their position. Their young people have no
future,’ etc.
“In the ordinary instances of patriotism the Japanese
are quite on a par with the white population in Ocean
Falls. This is shown in Victory Loan drives, war certifi
cate sales, and Red Cross work. Of course, suspicious
white may think the Japanese contributions are made
solely for the purpose of recognition. But exactly the same
charge could be levelled against white citizens.
“The Japanese Canadians have gone further; they have
made untiring efforts to be accepted in the Canadian army and
See “CHANGING VIEWPOINT” Page 6
A Short Short
QOING through her husband’s pockets one night, a Nisei wife cams
across a small visiting card on which was neatly written: Map
Anne, MArine 6221”. Next morning she indignantly confronted him
with it. "And who is this hussy, whose card you're carrying around
with you”?
The husband broke out into a smile.
little thing!
"Why, my dear, you jealous
Don’t tell me you've never heard of Mary Anne .
"Not until I found this in your pocket”, she fumed.
Hubby hastened to explain ". . . fastest three-year old on Ai
tracks. Burning up Brighouse and Lansdowne.
Mary Anne is a raw.
horse on whom I’ve made a couple of winning bets. I was going to
buy you a fur coat with my last clean-up . . .”
Wifie was still skeptical, "And MArine 6221 ?
. "Oh, that. I place my bets through the MArine office,
stands for the odds on her next race, of course”.
With that the matter closed. Three days later, the husband returne
home to find his wife, a steely glare in her eyess, waiting for a
"What’s up. dear”? he asked.
"Oh nothing at all, except your racehorse called up this afternoo.
that’s all”.
THE NEW CANADIAN
396 Powell Street
PAcific 8431
Vancouver, B. C.
A paper published by and for second generation Japanese tn Canada
citizens of Canada.
and devoted'to their welfare as
Staff
Hunito T. Shoyama
Eiko Henmi
Yoshimitsu Higashi
Seiji Onizuka~^^_
Published weekly at the Taiyo Printing Company.
..
Rates: 25c per month
S2.50 per year in advance
___________ *
H
—
Curtain Coming Down
INVENTS of the past week have served above all to draw mor®
C and more clearly the sharp lines of division between this
Canada, our home and native country, and Japan teJa
We cannot now, if ever we
from whence we have sprung.
r
thp^p
have during the past two years, escape the implications oi these
facts and these events. There now can be no refuge, if ever
there was, in wishful thinking.
Clearly set before us is the train of forces that have pushed
the opposite shores of the Pacific further and further apart.
We had hoped, and we may yet hope again in the fu ure,
of aid in bringing that ocean with understanding and friendly
goodwill. Instead of that, we see today the imminent possibil
ity that the ocean, which was to have been the fundation of
peace, will become the death trap of hate and destruction.
Nevertheless, out of the rubble, out of the dust and broken
bits of a shattered dream, has come a more deeply realized apprediation of our own future. If world history has set before
us this cruel division, our own personal history has made each
one of us aware that our choice can be no other than that of
unswerving loyalty to the land that has borne and nurtured us.
Perhaps we can be philosophically theatrical.
These
events today are ringing down the curtain upon the closing
scenes in the first act of our little drama. It is the first act of
a play that began when our fathers and mothers first came to
this country, to settle, to build homes, to bear us, their children.
It is an act that comes to a close with this realization—born
though it may be in sorrow and struggle and war—that as a
people we are here, that we shall stay, that we shall live on in
a third and fourth generation.
To our life span stretching before us belongs the second
act,_ to play it as we can against fate and fortune, to shape it
as we can with hand and brain. And what we can accomplish
as men and women, is of utmost importance. For upon it de
pends so much of the happiness and ultimate triumph of our
children, a future generation, who will play the third, and we
hope, the final act in our drama.
In Search Of Opportunity
THE OLD MAN
*
*
*
By G. T. WATANABE
TN the evening, after a hard day's
work tending his flowers and
strawberries, he sits down on the
davenport, and picks up the news
paper, and invariably dozes away
after a few minutes of scrutinizing
the headlines.
Lulled by the radio turned on
very low, his eyes close, his head
falls on his chest, his glasses slide
down his nose and he falls fast
asleep.
Evening
fails.
after evening,
it never
Sometimes we wake him gently.
"Wake up, father, wake up." The
Old Man will jerk suddenly, then
with a sheepish grin, go back to his
paper.
But a few minutes later he
is fast asleep again.
The Old Man has a right to be
sleepy.
Though he is nearing his
seventies, he is up bright and early
working in’the soil, hoeing, planting,
trimming.
All day long he toils,
and in the afternoon, with the hot
June sun beating down, his shirt is
wet with perspiration.
And so in the evening, after a
hot tub, his eyes will close no matter
how hard he may try to keep awake.
The Old Man is nearing his seven
ties.
But, by looking at him, no
one would ever guess it. Most people
guess his age at fifty.
Life-long
friends of the Old Man say he hasn't
changed in the last twenty years;
some even venture to remark that
he is getting more youthful-looking,
which brings a smile of pleasure on
the Old Man's face.
The Old Man is young in spirit,
despite his years and his shining
bald head (which once.caused Sonny,
four years old, at the time, to yell
out, "Look there's Grandpa"! when
he saw the seven dwarves in Disney's
'Snow White."
His face is ruddy,
his eyes are sparkling and eager and
he's spry.
The Old Man has always been a
good companion, a steadfast friend.
When we were little boys, he would
make numerous sailboats for us and
together we would sail the miniature
boats. Every Saturday, he'd take us
to the nickelodeon to see the latest
chapter of the weekly serials. And
when the radio first came out, it was
the Old Man who stayed up late in
the night with us and worked on the
crystal sets and one-tubers.
ISPERSION of Japanese Canadians. eastward has been a
much discussed subject among the second generation. As
yet, however, the discussion has lead to no concrete results of
any importance, and instead of the Japanese community grow
ing and expanding outward, it would be equally safe to say
that the community has tended rather to turn inward to itself.
For over a decade economic conditions in the industrial
East have not been rosy. The fact has loomed very large in
discouraging any possible trek of young men eastward,—des
pite the attractions that a considerably-less prejudiced popula
*
*
«
tion might offer. It is significant, to us now, therefore, that
Though
the
Old
Man
won't know
the shortage of manpower generally is being felt much more
keenly in the industrial areas of eastern Canada than is the what the word means, he is a liberal
* case on the Pacific coast. Reports are current of the keenest in the best sense of the word. Our
friends, upon meeting the Old Man,
demand for workers of any size, shape, or capacity.
are
impressed by his tolerance and
If any move eastward is contemplated among the second
and
kindliness and good common
generation it may well be true that economic conditions right
sense.
now are as close to being ideal as they have ever been or are
He is an ardent Christian, but
likely to be for at least another decade. Against that, of course,
is a tense international situation. But there is reason to believe definitely not of the joy-killing var
that the people of eastern Canada may not be as readily in iety. He does not try to force his
clined as British Columbians to divert prejudice felt against beliefs down other people's throats.
Japan itself upon a second generation individual, who is able
He has faith in the Nisei and
to hold his own among Canadians.
when certain Issei speak disparag
It is wholly true that employment in British Columbia is ingly of the Nisei, he will remark
good, and that jobs are plentiful. But it ought to be apparent that the Issei were no model crea
to even the most opimistic of us that the chances for the aver tures in their youth some thirty
age Nisei to rise above discrimination and obtain a position years back.
He has faith in America.
He is
better than a relatively low-paid industrial worker are very
forever reminding us what a debt
slim chances indeed.
we owe to this country. Where else,
On the other hand, it may well be true that an enterprising
he asks, could emigrants settle and
Nisei, intent upon climbing higher in life, may find prejudice
see their children graduate from
a much easier obstacle to surmount in the east, if he goes down high school, all at t-he expense of
there now and digs in. There ought to be food for thought the State? Where else, says he, is
here among some of our more ambitious and intelligent young there such kindliness and good
men, and perhaps a field of study for a few of our more worth neighbourliness as in the United
States.
while Nisei organizations.
D
AUGUST 8, 19
THE NEW CANADIAN
TF and when the final story of Japanese immigratio
1 ment and ultimate assimilation into the n^i
’ -^
Canada is told, one of the more decisive turning pS -^
story may well be recorded as the changing viewpo'
^
emerged in definite form in the ’40’s. True it is £ ^
that was voiced by a lone prophet or two wav bs'k^
twenties. But it is only in the last two or three veaT ? '^
has gained widespread approval and adoption amon^
? ‘!
Canadians who are in any way conversant with the f W§
and human realities of the Japanese problem in Canada13^
1
It is a viewpoint and realization voiced by Mrs L
E. Jamieson, Co-operative Commonwealth Federal
member of the British Columbia Legislature, in the '°n
rent issue of the “Canadian Forum”, scholarly
monthly published in Toronto.
isn
Mrs. Jamieson has written a brief article describing '
of the highlights in racial relations in the company tow^
Ocean Falls. Nisei readers, more accustomed to the
°?
article pounded out by “hack writers” to sell to a ^uirbl
emotional public, will find her study unbiased, her conclusV’
encouraging.
’-ns
“The heads of the Japanese families”, runs the article '
part, “and the single men all work for the company, mostly ^
the mill. There are 1,086 workers in the mill. Of these 210
are Japanese, or roughly 20 per cent ...
“There are two unions in Ocean Falls—Local 360 the
Paper Makers’ Union, which is made up of the workers in the
final stages of papermaking; and Local 312, Pulp, Sulphite and
Paper Mill Workers’ Union, which takes in all other workers
The Japanese belong to the latter union. The Japanese mem
bers meet separately because of the language difficulty but
the need for this practice is rapidly decreasing. The Japanese
have the reputation of keeping up dues 100 per cent and of
aiding in all financial help to unions that appeal for a genuine
cause. When the unions were formed in 1937, the basic wa°e
for white workers was 47c per hour and for Japanese 35c
making a differential of 12c. This was reduced later by 2c’
At the 1940 wage conference, a further reduction of 2c in the
differential was obtained, and Local 312 was pledged to get a
further reduction this year. The present basic wage is 56c for
white workers, and 48c for Japanese.
*
;Jc
*
“In Ocean Falls the goodwill goes further than the union.
Here is a compact, isolated town where Japanese and white
folk lives close together, even though one group is crowded
into one end of the community. They cannot help knowing
each other fairly well. The children go to school together,
take part in sports together. The adult males work in the
same plant and belong to the same union.
“If there were any great divergencies in attitudes or opin
ions, they would be noticed, and fresh prejudices would be
formed. This is not the case. The tendency to extend the
prejudice already existing toward Japan as a partner with the
Axis powers, to all Japanese, whether born and educated in
this country or not, is strong among many B.C. residents. In
Ocean Falls it is not noticeable. Instead, one hears constant
expressions of sympathy, ‘I am sorry for the Japs here; they
are decent and law abiding” ‘They are Canadian citizens just
as we are. They want to raise their standard of living.’ ‘They
can never improve their position. Their young people have no
future,’ etc.
“In the ordinary instances of patriotism the Japanese
are quite on a par with the white population in Ocean
Falls. This is shown in Victory Loan drives, war certifi
cate sales, and Red Cross work. Of course, suspicious
white may think the Japanese contributions are made
solely for the purpose of recognition. But exactly the same
charge could be levelled against white citizens.
“The Japanese Canadians have gone further; they have
made untiring efforts to be accepted in the Canadian army and
See “CHANGING VIEWPOINT” Page 6
A Short Short
QOING through her husband’s pockets one night, a Nisei wife cams
across a small visiting card on which was neatly written: Map
Anne, MArine 6221”. Next morning she indignantly confronted him
with it. "And who is this hussy, whose card you're carrying around
with you”?
The husband broke out into a smile.
little thing!
"Why, my dear, you jealous
Don’t tell me you've never heard of Mary Anne .
"Not until I found this in your pocket”, she fumed.
Hubby hastened to explain ". . . fastest three-year old on Ai
tracks. Burning up Brighouse and Lansdowne.
Mary Anne is a raw.
horse on whom I’ve made a couple of winning bets. I was going to
buy you a fur coat with my last clean-up . . .”
Wifie was still skeptical, "And MArine 6221 ?
. "Oh, that. I place my bets through the MArine office,
stands for the odds on her next race, of course”.
With that the matter closed. Three days later, the husband returne
home to find his wife, a steely glare in her eyess, waiting for a
"What’s up. dear”? he asked.
"Oh nothing at all, except your racehorse called up this afternoo.
that’s all”.
Page 5
Red Cross Notes
• Bember
FUR-FELT hats
by
BILTMORE
'The Master Hat of Canada"
What a hat to .tempt the
i a s t e of the smartlydressed man. Biltmore
jjas unusual character in
this first choice thorough
bred model.In latest colors
PAGE 5
THE NEW CANADIAN
AUGUST 8, 1941
‘Biltmo re
^Msr Hlastfrifat of Ganada
BETTER BUY!
Mitts and Gloves Needed
Mrs. H. A. Ramsden, Provin-]
cial Chairman of the Red Cross
Women’s War Work Commit:ee. has received word from
National
Headquarters
that
“the latest cable from Overseas
indicates in no uncertain terms
that they are still not getting
enough mitts and. gloves to be
ready for the early autumn de
mands”. Mrs. Ramsden urges
all workers to knit these articles in preference to others.
Mobile Kitchen
The Gyro Club of Nanaimo
has presented a cheque for
$3,100 to the B. C. Red Cross
Division to purchase a Mobile
Kitchen. This makes the third
Mobile Kitchen from B. C., the
Junior'Red Cross branches hav
ing presented the other two.
"Bulletin"
A Glance at the Nisei World.
By Staff Writer
jE brought enthusiasm, a kind of fresh vigour and idealism into the
— office, qualities which are not evident in Nisei society today. His
ideas, at times. were slightly off tangent, but he was more than conhad ideas which
vincing for he spoke with conviction, without fear.
In short, he knew
he believed would solve the problem of the Nisei.
all the answers, and sitting at our prosaic desk, we could not help
. . for looking on
suppress a smile, and feel somewhat in sympathy
him, we saw ourse.ves as we were some five, seven, ten years ago.
Perhaps from the Issei point of view, he is a little too cocksure, a
little too ''namaiki''.
From the point1 of view of his less energetic
classmates, he might even be considered a ''windbag .
But we liked
him.
For to us, he was “all right'-'-. We too, had gone through that
impatient, rebellious, idealistic stage.
He was a part of us.
Indeed, talking to him, one could not help but contrast the Niseis
growing up today with ourselves, at their age. A time there was when
young 'teen-age Niseis faced the vast horizon with the light of vision in
their eyes, and built golden careers. As kids what Nisei youth, way back
in 1930, 1932, did not dream of doing something, of
becoming somebody, of getting somewhere beyond the
A TIME
narrowing limits of our Nisei world?
True, we built
THERE WAS
dreams and sometimes, like dream-castles in Spain, they
vanished into thin air, too fragile and ethereal for everyday consumption:
sometimes they were abandoned for newer dreams: sometimes tney
crumbled, but if they crumbled, what mattered, we built again. A dream
was there, and we had our fun dreaming. We never quite attained our
goal. Some of us today, are far afield of the path we mapped for curselves, but no one can deny that in our dreaming and our striving, we
build some form of pattern, some code of meeting the problems that
crop up in our every-day existence. The impetus was there.
But Nisei 'teen-age youth, graduating out of high school today,
Ask the average Nisei
are, on the whole, a different sort of people.
what his intentioni, now that high school is behind him, is, and he will
look you in the eye and say, matter-of-factly, that he is going to earn a
living, of course. "Help the old man in his business,” "Get a job someThese are the
dunno yet, but I'll get a job.
where in a mill,
Perhaps
the
more
fortunate
will
say
I
guess
I
II
spend a year
answers.
one
is
naive
enough
to
venture
forth
with some
at 'Varsity.''
And if
a
future,
of
becoming
somebody,
he
is
met with
remark about building
(Continued from page 1)
ni, 52 graduates having been
conferred bachelor of arts de
grees. Ten alumni have grad
uated as bachelors of commerce.
Next are bachelor of applied
science degrees, eight grads
374-8 POWELL SREET
MRrine 7741
having studied engineering; and
five bachelors of science in
agriculture bring up the list.
Twenty of the alumni hold
more than one degree, having
(Continued from Page <)
taken post-graduate work at U.
other forces, as some of them were accepted in the first world B. C.. or at some other univer
war Their efforts have been fruitless, and the tendency in sity in the United States or
a terse "What's the use?"
official quarters to treat them as fifth columnists, is undoubt- Canada. Ten of the 73 alumni
We are of the same generation, yet poles apart.
Perhaps, we, in
are women, and four of these
edlv causing bitterness.
our
time,
were
fortunate,
for
we
did
not
have
a
vast
group
of our mem
"
*
*
*
are now married.
bers striving and dreaming, and often, in the face of it all, finding dis
Interesting to note is that 48
■‘There is no reason to suppose that the Japanese in Ocean
illusion and defeat. We were all adventurers, feeling around, as it were,
Falls are different from others in B.C. They are not a picked of the graduates are established
and since the field had not been traversed, we did not
group having come there voluntarily from various parts of in some way or other in Canada,
WE
WERE
have
held out before our eyes, ourselves ten years after,
the province. The study of this group of Japanese, however, and 33 of these in Vancouver.
ADVENTURERS
as
examples
of the hopeless outcome of an idealistic at
shows that, when the white people take the Japanese into their Twenty-one have settled down
titude toward living. Our hopes were not. dashed by
groups, the Japanese show a strong loyalty and eagerness to in the Far East, either in Japan,
the eternal dogma of "Look at so and so! What did a higher education,
fulfil their duties to the group and to the country of which they Manchoukuo or North China,
a specialized training do for him? Where did his dreams and ambitions
are citizens. None of the Orientals in B.C. have the vote, even the United States has claimed
and his efforts lead him? He's only a clerk, a gardener, a salesman!
two, and two havepassed om
when they are born here, and are otherwise full citizens.
We knew of discriminations, but somehow they did not assume the vast
“The question that forces itself upon the observer who is
proportions that they do in our Nisei world today. And, also, our par
studying national problems is this:
Can Canada afford o
ents, on the whole, were not securely established as they are now, and it
segregate and emitter groups of her citizens? If the Japanese
took a little more effort, a little more stamina, for us to obtain those
(Continued from Page 1 )
in Canada are found engaging either in sabotage or subversive
things which are so easily obtained these days.
working at top-speed from 7 in
propaganda, they can be detected, and treated likewise.
It is true that one cannot live on ideals alone.
It is true, to a
the morning till after nine at
to subject Canadian citizens, who are fulfilling every u y
degree, also, that in a practical, materialistic world, the realistic, matterSunday is no holiday,
citizenship, to constant discrimination and suspicion, is on y night.
of-fact, almost fatalistic attitude safeguards one against too great a dis
for
Saturday
’s catch must be
to lay up future grief for Canada in her effort o ecome
appointment.
Meet cold hard facts with a hard attitude.
But we
united country. The attitude of the white workers to the canned. Monday is the one day
cannot 'believe that this is undeniably so. Our idealism in our day has
Japanese in Ocean Falls might well be emulated in other in the week that mothers and
not hurt us greatly. We have had our tumbles and our disappointments,
sisters can stay at home to
quarters.”
.
but then too, there were moments when we caught a flash of a splendid
worry for a few, brief moments] experience, which in its own way, has minimized the debits in our ledger.
over neglected household tasks. I
And so, we cannot help but wonder if this realistic attitude among
Closed period each week
FOR THE BEST CHINESE DELICACIES
the Nisei is so much an unflinching analysis of
brings no respite either to I
facts as it is a conditioned reflex, a defence
weary fishermen. Overhauling WE CANNOT HELP
mechanism, a comfortable excuse, for some per
boat and engine, attending to
BUT WONDER . .
sonal inadequacies, some personal disinterest.
gear, patching and mending and
The great events of history, the great social reforms, were brought
“bluestoning” nets,—all these
are jobs for the off-hours. They
about not so much because of a practical adjustment to an existing con
are necessary to make man,
dition, but more because some one or two individuals possessed a dream,
boat and gear a smooth, effic
an ambition, for a better and more glorious future. They were w.lling to
ient productive unit. Only the
sacrifice the present for the future.
man drives himself on to the
PAcific 9740
We in our Nisei world, are too prone to look upon an individual
314 Powell Street
limits of endurance, depending
who is at'variance with the common run of people as something eccentric,
upon his wiry resilience to pull
and if there chances upon the scene, someone who refuses to fit mto our
him through.
mold of life, we are apt to consider him as cocky, naive, or self centre .
After the peak of the run is
And so, glancing at the Nisei world, sitting back on the weight of
spent, each fisherman’s catch |
the years which are mine, I cannot help but feel regret
Something o
will depend upon himself, upon
wonder,
of
value,
of
uplift,
has
gone
out
of
the
process
of
growmg
up.
his skill, his craft, and his
knowledge. Towards the end
of the month the “humpback”
□r pink salmon run will set in
and “all-out effort” will again
ae the watchword.
»T
5 HIBU V H’S
"Viewpoint"
''Steveston
FUJI CHOP SUEY
The Epicures' Rendezvous
* For the BEST IN FOOD
at the LOWEST PRICES
HAJIME SUZUKI
UNION FISH COMPANY
FISH — GROCERIES — PROVISIONS
Highland 0335-6
469 Powell Street
Classified Ads
transportation
EAST COURTEOUS SER.VICE,
r Nabata Taxi. Highland 07C5.
Complete Scientific
Eyesight Service
377 Powell St.
PAcific 3016
• Bember
FUR-FELT hats
by
BILTMORE
'The Master Hat of Canada"
What a hat to .tempt the
i a s t e of the smartlydressed man. Biltmore
jjas unusual character in
this first choice thorough
bred model.In latest colors
PAGE 5
THE NEW CANADIAN
AUGUST 8, 1941
‘Biltmo re
^Msr Hlastfrifat of Ganada
BETTER BUY!
Mitts and Gloves Needed
Mrs. H. A. Ramsden, Provin-]
cial Chairman of the Red Cross
Women’s War Work Commit:ee. has received word from
National
Headquarters
that
“the latest cable from Overseas
indicates in no uncertain terms
that they are still not getting
enough mitts and. gloves to be
ready for the early autumn de
mands”. Mrs. Ramsden urges
all workers to knit these articles in preference to others.
Mobile Kitchen
The Gyro Club of Nanaimo
has presented a cheque for
$3,100 to the B. C. Red Cross
Division to purchase a Mobile
Kitchen. This makes the third
Mobile Kitchen from B. C., the
Junior'Red Cross branches hav
ing presented the other two.
"Bulletin"
A Glance at the Nisei World.
By Staff Writer
jE brought enthusiasm, a kind of fresh vigour and idealism into the
— office, qualities which are not evident in Nisei society today. His
ideas, at times. were slightly off tangent, but he was more than conhad ideas which
vincing for he spoke with conviction, without fear.
In short, he knew
he believed would solve the problem of the Nisei.
all the answers, and sitting at our prosaic desk, we could not help
. . for looking on
suppress a smile, and feel somewhat in sympathy
him, we saw ourse.ves as we were some five, seven, ten years ago.
Perhaps from the Issei point of view, he is a little too cocksure, a
little too ''namaiki''.
From the point1 of view of his less energetic
classmates, he might even be considered a ''windbag .
But we liked
him.
For to us, he was “all right'-'-. We too, had gone through that
impatient, rebellious, idealistic stage.
He was a part of us.
Indeed, talking to him, one could not help but contrast the Niseis
growing up today with ourselves, at their age. A time there was when
young 'teen-age Niseis faced the vast horizon with the light of vision in
their eyes, and built golden careers. As kids what Nisei youth, way back
in 1930, 1932, did not dream of doing something, of
becoming somebody, of getting somewhere beyond the
A TIME
narrowing limits of our Nisei world?
True, we built
THERE WAS
dreams and sometimes, like dream-castles in Spain, they
vanished into thin air, too fragile and ethereal for everyday consumption:
sometimes they were abandoned for newer dreams: sometimes tney
crumbled, but if they crumbled, what mattered, we built again. A dream
was there, and we had our fun dreaming. We never quite attained our
goal. Some of us today, are far afield of the path we mapped for curselves, but no one can deny that in our dreaming and our striving, we
build some form of pattern, some code of meeting the problems that
crop up in our every-day existence. The impetus was there.
But Nisei 'teen-age youth, graduating out of high school today,
Ask the average Nisei
are, on the whole, a different sort of people.
what his intentioni, now that high school is behind him, is, and he will
look you in the eye and say, matter-of-factly, that he is going to earn a
living, of course. "Help the old man in his business,” "Get a job someThese are the
dunno yet, but I'll get a job.
where in a mill,
Perhaps
the
more
fortunate
will
say
I
guess
I
II
spend a year
answers.
one
is
naive
enough
to
venture
forth
with some
at 'Varsity.''
And if
a
future,
of
becoming
somebody,
he
is
met with
remark about building
(Continued from page 1)
ni, 52 graduates having been
conferred bachelor of arts de
grees. Ten alumni have grad
uated as bachelors of commerce.
Next are bachelor of applied
science degrees, eight grads
374-8 POWELL SREET
MRrine 7741
having studied engineering; and
five bachelors of science in
agriculture bring up the list.
Twenty of the alumni hold
more than one degree, having
(Continued from Page <)
taken post-graduate work at U.
other forces, as some of them were accepted in the first world B. C.. or at some other univer
war Their efforts have been fruitless, and the tendency in sity in the United States or
a terse "What's the use?"
official quarters to treat them as fifth columnists, is undoubt- Canada. Ten of the 73 alumni
We are of the same generation, yet poles apart.
Perhaps, we, in
are women, and four of these
edlv causing bitterness.
our
time,
were
fortunate,
for
we
did
not
have
a
vast
group
of our mem
"
*
*
*
are now married.
bers striving and dreaming, and often, in the face of it all, finding dis
Interesting to note is that 48
■‘There is no reason to suppose that the Japanese in Ocean
illusion and defeat. We were all adventurers, feeling around, as it were,
Falls are different from others in B.C. They are not a picked of the graduates are established
and since the field had not been traversed, we did not
group having come there voluntarily from various parts of in some way or other in Canada,
WE
WERE
have
held out before our eyes, ourselves ten years after,
the province. The study of this group of Japanese, however, and 33 of these in Vancouver.
ADVENTURERS
as
examples
of the hopeless outcome of an idealistic at
shows that, when the white people take the Japanese into their Twenty-one have settled down
titude toward living. Our hopes were not. dashed by
groups, the Japanese show a strong loyalty and eagerness to in the Far East, either in Japan,
the eternal dogma of "Look at so and so! What did a higher education,
fulfil their duties to the group and to the country of which they Manchoukuo or North China,
a specialized training do for him? Where did his dreams and ambitions
are citizens. None of the Orientals in B.C. have the vote, even the United States has claimed
and his efforts lead him? He's only a clerk, a gardener, a salesman!
two, and two havepassed om
when they are born here, and are otherwise full citizens.
We knew of discriminations, but somehow they did not assume the vast
“The question that forces itself upon the observer who is
proportions that they do in our Nisei world today. And, also, our par
studying national problems is this:
Can Canada afford o
ents, on the whole, were not securely established as they are now, and it
segregate and emitter groups of her citizens? If the Japanese
took a little more effort, a little more stamina, for us to obtain those
(Continued from Page 1 )
in Canada are found engaging either in sabotage or subversive
things which are so easily obtained these days.
working at top-speed from 7 in
propaganda, they can be detected, and treated likewise.
It is true that one cannot live on ideals alone.
It is true, to a
the morning till after nine at
to subject Canadian citizens, who are fulfilling every u y
degree, also, that in a practical, materialistic world, the realistic, matterSunday is no holiday,
citizenship, to constant discrimination and suspicion, is on y night.
of-fact, almost fatalistic attitude safeguards one against too great a dis
for
Saturday
’s catch must be
to lay up future grief for Canada in her effort o ecome
appointment.
Meet cold hard facts with a hard attitude.
But we
united country. The attitude of the white workers to the canned. Monday is the one day
cannot 'believe that this is undeniably so. Our idealism in our day has
Japanese in Ocean Falls might well be emulated in other in the week that mothers and
not hurt us greatly. We have had our tumbles and our disappointments,
sisters can stay at home to
quarters.”
.
but then too, there were moments when we caught a flash of a splendid
worry for a few, brief moments] experience, which in its own way, has minimized the debits in our ledger.
over neglected household tasks. I
And so, we cannot help but wonder if this realistic attitude among
Closed period each week
FOR THE BEST CHINESE DELICACIES
the Nisei is so much an unflinching analysis of
brings no respite either to I
facts as it is a conditioned reflex, a defence
weary fishermen. Overhauling WE CANNOT HELP
mechanism, a comfortable excuse, for some per
boat and engine, attending to
BUT WONDER . .
sonal inadequacies, some personal disinterest.
gear, patching and mending and
The great events of history, the great social reforms, were brought
“bluestoning” nets,—all these
are jobs for the off-hours. They
about not so much because of a practical adjustment to an existing con
are necessary to make man,
dition, but more because some one or two individuals possessed a dream,
boat and gear a smooth, effic
an ambition, for a better and more glorious future. They were w.lling to
ient productive unit. Only the
sacrifice the present for the future.
man drives himself on to the
PAcific 9740
We in our Nisei world, are too prone to look upon an individual
314 Powell Street
limits of endurance, depending
who is at'variance with the common run of people as something eccentric,
upon his wiry resilience to pull
and if there chances upon the scene, someone who refuses to fit mto our
him through.
mold of life, we are apt to consider him as cocky, naive, or self centre .
After the peak of the run is
And so, glancing at the Nisei world, sitting back on the weight of
spent, each fisherman’s catch |
the years which are mine, I cannot help but feel regret
Something o
will depend upon himself, upon
wonder,
of
value,
of
uplift,
has
gone
out
of
the
process
of
growmg
up.
his skill, his craft, and his
knowledge. Towards the end
of the month the “humpback”
□r pink salmon run will set in
and “all-out effort” will again
ae the watchword.
»T
5 HIBU V H’S
"Viewpoint"
''Steveston
FUJI CHOP SUEY
The Epicures' Rendezvous
* For the BEST IN FOOD
at the LOWEST PRICES
HAJIME SUZUKI
UNION FISH COMPANY
FISH — GROCERIES — PROVISIONS
Highland 0335-6
469 Powell Street
Classified Ads
transportation
EAST COURTEOUS SER.VICE,
r Nabata Taxi. Highland 07C5.
Complete Scientific
Eyesight Service
377 Powell St.
PAcific 3016
Page 6
B
THE NEW CANADIAN
PAGE 6
isei
"World
*
NEWSNOTES FROM EGMONT
CUMBERLAND
*
*
GANGES GLEANINGS
By THE GLEANERS
Wednesday, July 30
I
(Ed. Note.—We are pleased to the correspondent and author
GANGES, B.C.—We wish to happy day for the gay
to present for the first time of “Capital City Chatter”.
By the way, an attractive
extend our sympathy and re- ers w'ho attended
columns of Nisei doings
young
lady
by
the
name
of
Mrs.
grets to the Inouye family, rec- Young People’s picnic apJ
throughout the Province a new
ently arrived from Chemainus, beautiful spot_ Walker’s
correspondent with news jot E. Maruno accompanied Miss
The Royston Lumber Co. ball who had the extreme misfor- The cars left for their de^
tings and patter from Egmont, Hatashita on her return. Mrs
team
has been going through a tune of having their house tion about 9:30 a.m. and re^^
Maruno must think Egmont is
good
for
something,
since
she
series
of ups and downs, mostly burned down. •
EGMONT, B. C.—Greetings
ed at 6:30 p.m. In spite oaI
So it was with apolhas
postponed
her
return
to
the
।
the
latter.
apo
*
*
*
heat, softball proved to be v
to the Nisei from Egmont! For
■ ogetic mien that the boys gathOn Saturday, July 26, about most popular, while swimminl
What is
those of you who are unfamiliar the city indefinitely. —
ered together on the night of forty Japanese, old and young, fishing and boat were aho ’
with the name, Egmont is lo the attraction, Mrs. Maruno?
While some people like Eg- August 2, prepared to face a gathered at the home of Mr. and joyed.
P.S.—Hope vou
cated on Jervis Inlet very near
sizzling lecture by. Manag er Tats Mrs. M. Murakami to hear a
the famous Skookum Chuck mont, others find the city more
enuf’ of the refreshing nJ
1
Rapids, and about 30 odd miles interesting. Mr. Nobuo Takai, for their performances lately. very interesting talk given by girls. My stomach!!!
Fourteen
pairs
of
eyes
sparkled
Rev.
T.
Tatsu
of
Vancouver.
from the now popular summer who formerly stuck to a sched
From Here and There
On Monday evening, the
resort at Princess Louisa Inlet. ule of only one trip a year to at the unexpected welcome they
The Nakamura family ofVi^
instead of being Young People’s Club held a toria were here on Sunday (
Miss Yoshiko Hatashita has the big city, has made another received.
returned to Egmont again after trip there,—twice in one month, bawled out, they were served a special meeting with Rev. Tat- spend the day. It was good I
a very pleasant vacation trip to Come, speak up, Mr. Takai, is brief entree of advice followed su as the guest speaker. The see you folks again.
!
by
a
gasping
spread
of
hot
dogs,
the capital city. Miss Hatashita it purely a business trip, or is it
topic of this speech was “UnAfter spending a few week
pop and cantaloupe.
With ity”, and members received his at Ganges, Mr. Tasaka and faa
said her vacation was grand, combined with pleasure?
*
* #
Winkie as the fireman, Saky words with keen interest. Re- ily, and Mrs. Nishii and dau^li
but Egmont actually is much
better. So very sorry, says she,
Thursday morning of last the dog peddler, Tats the bun freshmerits were served after ter, returned to Vancouve
week a gay party of young splitter- and Walt the sad-eyed the meeting, and during tea i Thursday.
Also leaving
people comprising Misses Y. and onion mower, the boys “went many a hearty laugh was heard same day was Rev. Tatsu wlj
K.' Hatashita, Mrs. Maruno, and got it,” pausing only to while listening to the “Sensei’s” had been the guest of Mr. anl
Frank and Tomo Hatashita, loosen their belts.
humorous remarks.
Mrs. M. Murakami.
Pepped up noticeably by the
Ted Hayashi and this corres
©
Scheafer Pen Agents
pondent went aboard the Kiku big feed, the boys went work
the Bevan crew the next day
Maru for a very enjoyable trip on
-------® Patent Drugs and Sundries
up Jervis Inlet to the famous and downed them 4-2 before
By “KIPPLER"
Yano
©Latest Japanese Recordings
Princess Louisa Falls, where Yano’s five-hit pitching
the river meets the ocean wat- struck out? twelve while he and
Luck was with the gill net- eyes with an average of abou]
33 1 Powell
MArine 9952
ers and the eye views the crea- his teammates collected ten hits ters of the Fraser (from the 700 to a boat.
|
tion of nature’s wonderland.
from Bevan’s Eis.
Royston mouth of the river as far up as
Sockeyes are now selling I
En route back later in the day scored their 4 runs in the 3rd the fish banks) last week as an 12c per lb. and 5c per fisa
we stopped at the Malibu Trad- when Winkie Kimura started unexpected big run suddenly extra.
I
ing Post, located at the entrance the barrage -with a double into swarmed into the Fraser.
What with the humpback
to the Princess Louisa Inlet. right. Bevan’s turn came in the
In this one week, many of the (pinks) priced at 15c a pied
6th when they made 2 runs aid fishermen caught more than (compared with the 5c in pal
There
we
saw
log
cabins,
Indian
Fresh and
Teepees and totem poles, to re ed by errors but Yano brushed they did during the whole sea ! years) the fishermen are readj
Delicious
to “go to town” this season. I
mind us of the original inhab off the next three in a row to son of 1940.
itants of this province. But the stop any further skirmish.
It is believed another run <3
Both
big
fish
and
the
expect
WEDDING CAKES
*
^
«
interiors of the log cabins are
ed small sockeyes were running the sockeyes, which were es
The golf germ has taken up good, although fish about 5 pected back in 1938, will m
very much different from those
of by-gone days. For there far homesteading in the blood ves pounds were -running the best. pouring into the Fraser soo|
distant from any city are to be sels of one Kay S., he of the
High boat for the week is be To this the fishing boys’ joyfil
found
modern
conveniences show white duck cap.
Every lieved to be around 1800 sock-.! shout is “Let ’em come!”
PAcific 7629
such as electricity, sanitary spare minute finds him denting
’ 342 Powell Street
plumbing, running hot and cold our solid playground with his
water, tiled bathrooms with practice shots while on Sunshowers, and beautiful furni- das he haunts the local greens.
ture. We hope that many of He’s aiming to give the oldyou will some day visit Malibu sters something to worry about,
and leave your names in the all in duetime, of course. His
SAVINGS DEPOSITS
guest book, just as we did.
scores are still on the extrava
PAcific 5520
398 Powell Street
gant side but just you wait,
says he.
Fairview golfers,
DELICIOUS CHINESE DISHES
It
Once-when he is a baby.
please note—especially Y.Y.
in our newly-decorated
isn't so bad to be an economic
The Junior ball league wit
liability then, because you have
and enlarged premises
nessed a fiery spectacle when
a Mother and Father to care for
the Royston Juniors turned out
you.
in blindingly bright yellow and
The other time is when he is an
white sweat shirts. Their ap
old man.
Then there is no
pearance,
however,
dazzled
Mother and Father to care for
their opponents only moment
Our New Telephone Number
him.
arily for both No. 1 and No. 5
$
*
PAcific 9610
turned them back, two in a
Life gives us forty years in which
row. The three teams will now
to prepare for the second period
fight it out in the playoffs for
of economic liability.
the cup held by No. 1 for two
years.
Will you be ready when the time
On the feminine side, the
comes?
girls
report that summer heat
SEE
or no/their knitting needles are
clicking and their sewing ma
chines humming as they con
tinue busily with their Red
Cross work. The younger girls
are taking advantage of their
holidays to pitch in their share.
by coleman
£
7 ^
Nimi SMai
RIVERSIDE RIPPLES
r
CAKES!
Vl'r
jjT
<» U *« O
£ a
Powe!I Bakery
JAPAN AND CANADA
TRUST. SAVINGS COMPANY
Twice in his Me
a Man is an
Economic Liability
EDWARD T. OUCHI
Dominion Life
Assurance Company
1831 Marine Bldg.
504 E. Hastings St.
MA 0354
HI 3334-L
“He tears o’er the roads with
the greatest of ease, that daring
young man on the rattling trap
eze”, may be a corny version
of Kazzie’s air conditioned lim
ousine of ancient vintage and
doubtful ancestry as it burns
up the highway but it’s one of
the most cheerful sights we’ve
seen in a long time. Besides as
Kazzie puts it, “No matter what
you say, lads, it- gets you there.”
One of the more outstanding pro-Anglo-American
of influence in Japan is Mamoru Shigemitsu, am as.
Great Britain, who was recently hurriedly called 0
London. Interviewed at San Francisco, the am ass
clared there was no reason why Great Britain and ap
not or should not be able to adjust their relations.
J
J
THE NEW CANADIAN
PAGE 6
isei
"World
*
NEWSNOTES FROM EGMONT
CUMBERLAND
*
*
GANGES GLEANINGS
By THE GLEANERS
Wednesday, July 30
I
(Ed. Note.—We are pleased to the correspondent and author
GANGES, B.C.—We wish to happy day for the gay
to present for the first time of “Capital City Chatter”.
By the way, an attractive
extend our sympathy and re- ers w'ho attended
columns of Nisei doings
young
lady
by
the
name
of
Mrs.
grets to the Inouye family, rec- Young People’s picnic apJ
throughout the Province a new
ently arrived from Chemainus, beautiful spot_ Walker’s
correspondent with news jot E. Maruno accompanied Miss
The Royston Lumber Co. ball who had the extreme misfor- The cars left for their de^
tings and patter from Egmont, Hatashita on her return. Mrs
team
has been going through a tune of having their house tion about 9:30 a.m. and re^^
Maruno must think Egmont is
good
for
something,
since
she
series
of ups and downs, mostly burned down. •
EGMONT, B. C.—Greetings
ed at 6:30 p.m. In spite oaI
So it was with apolhas
postponed
her
return
to
the
।
the
latter.
apo
*
*
*
heat, softball proved to be v
to the Nisei from Egmont! For
■ ogetic mien that the boys gathOn Saturday, July 26, about most popular, while swimminl
What is
those of you who are unfamiliar the city indefinitely. —
ered together on the night of forty Japanese, old and young, fishing and boat were aho ’
with the name, Egmont is lo the attraction, Mrs. Maruno?
While some people like Eg- August 2, prepared to face a gathered at the home of Mr. and joyed.
P.S.—Hope vou
cated on Jervis Inlet very near
sizzling lecture by. Manag er Tats Mrs. M. Murakami to hear a
the famous Skookum Chuck mont, others find the city more
enuf’ of the refreshing nJ
1
Rapids, and about 30 odd miles interesting. Mr. Nobuo Takai, for their performances lately. very interesting talk given by girls. My stomach!!!
Fourteen
pairs
of
eyes
sparkled
Rev.
T.
Tatsu
of
Vancouver.
from the now popular summer who formerly stuck to a sched
From Here and There
On Monday evening, the
resort at Princess Louisa Inlet. ule of only one trip a year to at the unexpected welcome they
The Nakamura family ofVi^
instead of being Young People’s Club held a toria were here on Sunday (
Miss Yoshiko Hatashita has the big city, has made another received.
returned to Egmont again after trip there,—twice in one month, bawled out, they were served a special meeting with Rev. Tat- spend the day. It was good I
a very pleasant vacation trip to Come, speak up, Mr. Takai, is brief entree of advice followed su as the guest speaker. The see you folks again.
!
by
a
gasping
spread
of
hot
dogs,
the capital city. Miss Hatashita it purely a business trip, or is it
topic of this speech was “UnAfter spending a few week
pop and cantaloupe.
With ity”, and members received his at Ganges, Mr. Tasaka and faa
said her vacation was grand, combined with pleasure?
*
* #
Winkie as the fireman, Saky words with keen interest. Re- ily, and Mrs. Nishii and dau^li
but Egmont actually is much
better. So very sorry, says she,
Thursday morning of last the dog peddler, Tats the bun freshmerits were served after ter, returned to Vancouve
week a gay party of young splitter- and Walt the sad-eyed the meeting, and during tea i Thursday.
Also leaving
people comprising Misses Y. and onion mower, the boys “went many a hearty laugh was heard same day was Rev. Tatsu wlj
K.' Hatashita, Mrs. Maruno, and got it,” pausing only to while listening to the “Sensei’s” had been the guest of Mr. anl
Frank and Tomo Hatashita, loosen their belts.
humorous remarks.
Mrs. M. Murakami.
Pepped up noticeably by the
Ted Hayashi and this corres
©
Scheafer Pen Agents
pondent went aboard the Kiku big feed, the boys went work
the Bevan crew the next day
Maru for a very enjoyable trip on
-------® Patent Drugs and Sundries
up Jervis Inlet to the famous and downed them 4-2 before
By “KIPPLER"
Yano
©Latest Japanese Recordings
Princess Louisa Falls, where Yano’s five-hit pitching
the river meets the ocean wat- struck out? twelve while he and
Luck was with the gill net- eyes with an average of abou]
33 1 Powell
MArine 9952
ers and the eye views the crea- his teammates collected ten hits ters of the Fraser (from the 700 to a boat.
|
tion of nature’s wonderland.
from Bevan’s Eis.
Royston mouth of the river as far up as
Sockeyes are now selling I
En route back later in the day scored their 4 runs in the 3rd the fish banks) last week as an 12c per lb. and 5c per fisa
we stopped at the Malibu Trad- when Winkie Kimura started unexpected big run suddenly extra.
I
ing Post, located at the entrance the barrage -with a double into swarmed into the Fraser.
What with the humpback
to the Princess Louisa Inlet. right. Bevan’s turn came in the
In this one week, many of the (pinks) priced at 15c a pied
6th when they made 2 runs aid fishermen caught more than (compared with the 5c in pal
There
we
saw
log
cabins,
Indian
Fresh and
Teepees and totem poles, to re ed by errors but Yano brushed they did during the whole sea ! years) the fishermen are readj
Delicious
to “go to town” this season. I
mind us of the original inhab off the next three in a row to son of 1940.
itants of this province. But the stop any further skirmish.
It is believed another run <3
Both
big
fish
and
the
expect
WEDDING CAKES
*
^
«
interiors of the log cabins are
ed small sockeyes were running the sockeyes, which were es
The golf germ has taken up good, although fish about 5 pected back in 1938, will m
very much different from those
of by-gone days. For there far homesteading in the blood ves pounds were -running the best. pouring into the Fraser soo|
distant from any city are to be sels of one Kay S., he of the
High boat for the week is be To this the fishing boys’ joyfil
found
modern
conveniences show white duck cap.
Every lieved to be around 1800 sock-.! shout is “Let ’em come!”
PAcific 7629
such as electricity, sanitary spare minute finds him denting
’ 342 Powell Street
plumbing, running hot and cold our solid playground with his
water, tiled bathrooms with practice shots while on Sunshowers, and beautiful furni- das he haunts the local greens.
ture. We hope that many of He’s aiming to give the oldyou will some day visit Malibu sters something to worry about,
and leave your names in the all in duetime, of course. His
SAVINGS DEPOSITS
guest book, just as we did.
scores are still on the extrava
PAcific 5520
398 Powell Street
gant side but just you wait,
says he.
Fairview golfers,
DELICIOUS CHINESE DISHES
It
Once-when he is a baby.
please note—especially Y.Y.
in our newly-decorated
isn't so bad to be an economic
The Junior ball league wit
liability then, because you have
and enlarged premises
nessed a fiery spectacle when
a Mother and Father to care for
the Royston Juniors turned out
you.
in blindingly bright yellow and
The other time is when he is an
white sweat shirts. Their ap
old man.
Then there is no
pearance,
however,
dazzled
Mother and Father to care for
their opponents only moment
Our New Telephone Number
him.
arily for both No. 1 and No. 5
$
*
PAcific 9610
turned them back, two in a
Life gives us forty years in which
row. The three teams will now
to prepare for the second period
fight it out in the playoffs for
of economic liability.
the cup held by No. 1 for two
years.
Will you be ready when the time
On the feminine side, the
comes?
girls
report that summer heat
SEE
or no/their knitting needles are
clicking and their sewing ma
chines humming as they con
tinue busily with their Red
Cross work. The younger girls
are taking advantage of their
holidays to pitch in their share.
by coleman
£
7 ^
Nimi SMai
RIVERSIDE RIPPLES
r
CAKES!
Vl'r
jjT
<» U *« O
£ a
Powe!I Bakery
JAPAN AND CANADA
TRUST. SAVINGS COMPANY
Twice in his Me
a Man is an
Economic Liability
EDWARD T. OUCHI
Dominion Life
Assurance Company
1831 Marine Bldg.
504 E. Hastings St.
MA 0354
HI 3334-L
“He tears o’er the roads with
the greatest of ease, that daring
young man on the rattling trap
eze”, may be a corny version
of Kazzie’s air conditioned lim
ousine of ancient vintage and
doubtful ancestry as it burns
up the highway but it’s one of
the most cheerful sights we’ve
seen in a long time. Besides as
Kazzie puts it, “No matter what
you say, lads, it- gets you there.”
One of the more outstanding pro-Anglo-American
of influence in Japan is Mamoru Shigemitsu, am as.
Great Britain, who was recently hurriedly called 0
London. Interviewed at San Francisco, the am ass
clared there was no reason why Great Britain and ap
not or should not be able to adjust their relations.
J
J
Page 7
PAGE 7
THE NEW CANADIAN
AUGUST 8, 1941
A lift for dusty spirits . .
American Loyalty Toi
Keynote District U.SJ
Nisei Conferences
Fighting Fife Rallies To Win Series
Opener As Locals Blow Big Lead
a visit these summer dog-days to the White Cap—
SEATTLE—When the Ameri-;
cans
of Japanese ancestry meetj
u-re the atmosphere is as cool and breezy as the name.
Blowing a big 12-3 lead they had enjoyed until the
wn=re 1
for their Northwest and South-|
You'll enjoy meeting your friends there after the show.
i ern California District Council s seventh inning, the Vancouver Asahis dropped a tough
j conventions in Seattle and Long tilt to Fife Nippons last Sunday at Sumner, Washington,
after the beach, after the picnic, just to relax for an
j Beach, respectively, over the
in the first game of the annual best of three series for
Labor Day holidays, the indi
enjoyable hour or two.
the Pacific Northwest championship.
cations are that it will consti
tute an epoch-making stride in
When the Asahis rang in
came back in, their half of the
the work of the Japanese Am three substitutes in the fatal second inning to score four runs
erican Citizens League toward seventh inning after piling and three hits off Ben Yoshida
integrating the members more
up what seemed to be a safe on the mound for Fife. Ed Na
’’It's a Rendezvous, not a Restaurant-”
fully into the national life.
nine run lead, it ended in dis kamura started off with a triple
The Northern California Dis astrous results. The Fife bat to deep right-centre and scored
333 CARRALL STREET
trict Convention opened last ters greeted new pitcher when the Fife left-fielder drop
week in Monterey, with dele George Yoshinaka in this in ped Nag’ Nishihara’s fly. Shi
gates and members from 26 of ning with a four hit attack shido, who had walked prev
the 5L national League chap and combined this with two iously and stolen second and
a
ters in attendance. There, the bases on balls and three er third bases, came home on a
creed of Americanism was stres rors by the changed Asahi neat sacrifice bunt by Yuki
Nishihara scored on a
sed, as it will be at other con infield to score a total of five Uno.
runs.
Then
Puyallup
Valley
sharp
single
by Mike Maruno
ventions.
Radiating from national head ers followed this up in the and Mike himself crossed the
VANCOUVER.—Marriage and costs of marriage has been
quarters, and permeating all eighth inning with a six run plate when Kaz Suga cracked
n/the most frequently discussed topics in the community
through these gatherings, the splurge to salt the ball game out a bingle into right field. In
oast several months, and several organizations have
the next ginning the Asahis cap
stress will be placed on the away.
"voted considerable time and study to it. Now comes a report
creed of loyalty and service to
It was a tough game to lose italized on the wildness of Ben
Tokyo where the government-sponsored Population
the
nation.
This
is
the
basic
for the Asahis, for they seemed Yoshida and Nobu Yoshida, who
Semss Institute has conducted extensive reseach, detailing
principle of the organization, to have the game practically in came in to relieve Ben, to tally
* o very interesting figures. The average cost of getting
and has been brought out the bag.
six runs.
Carried in Japan, it is disclosed, comes to just 440 yen.
r
*
T\ . X A 1i z\r, h n vr
strongly
of
late.
Pete Mello led the batters
Originally
scheduled
for
the
Detailed studies have been
with
three hits out offive times
Fife High School grounds, the
made by members of the in
JHt» ORDERING YOUR TOILET TISSUE
encounter was switched to the at bat. Kaz Suga hit two for
stitute who approached 707
grass ball field of the Fleisch four.
ALWAYS SPECIFY
couples who married in To
man’s Yeast plant at Sumner
Although they lost the game,
kyo from October 1 to De
when
a
heavy
rain
that
fell
just
the locals played bang-up ball,
cember 31, last year.
before the game made the Fife completing two double-plays
Studies
are
being
continued
IT :s SOFT. SANITARY & SOLUBLE
ground unplayable.
and stealing eleven bases.
by making a nation-wide invesWith current
American inter- Nishihara Effective
-tigation with due considera_
The challengers opened the
ti on being given to the occupa- est centered in the far East and
scoring
in the first inning,
Japanese-American
relations,
tlon, age, and income of the .
pushing
across two runs on
the
Gallup
Poll,
premier
U.
S.
husband, so that the Welfare
three
hits
of Tommy Sawayama,
check
on
American
public
opin
Office will be able to formulate
before Nag Nishihara came in
ion,
revealed
that
Americans
an adequate marriage expense
Naggie pitched a
rate which is expected to be of think the United States should to relieve.
swell
game
until
the seventh,
great help in applying the mar take steps to check Japan’s Far
limiting the Nippons to only one
Eastern moves.
riage loan system.
Even
to
the
extent
of
risk
run and three hits.
The recent Tokyo figures
PA 5856
382 Powell St.
in war with Japan, 51 per
In the meanwhile Asahis
revealed that men marry on
*
cent of the people voted
an average monthly income
E
EO
K
AB
“yes.” 31 per cent voted
Asahis
(including bonus) of 101.70
1
2 o
1 0 0
Terada,
3b
..
“no,” and 18 per cent were Yamamura, 3b .... 3 1 0 0 3 fl
yen.
0 11 0 2
1
5
undecided.Uno, lb ---On studying the relation be
2
6 1
1
2
3
Maruno,
ss
..
The sectional vote showed
0 0
0
2
tween
wedding
expenses
and|
4
Suga, rf, p
AGENT FOR
0 0
1
that the South was strongest for Shiraishi. If
0
4
income according to occupa
0 0
4
4 1 i
intervening in the Orient with Sitsui, c ----. 1 0 0 0 0 1
tions, the salaried man spends
Kutsukake, e
60 per cent voting “yes,” while Nakamura, cf
2
0 0
0
. 4
the most, with an expenditure
3 0
1 4
32 per cent objected, and 13 Shishido, 2b
1 0
of 5.2 times the monthly in
Sawayama, p __ 1 o 0 0
per cent remained undecided.
2 i 0 0 1 0
Nishihara,
p
come, it was found. o 0 0 1 1
Western states (west of Kan
PA 7043
393 Powell St.
Small scale business men
sas, Nebraska) showed the peo
7 24 15 6
:
Total ____ -— .35 12
rank next with a ratio of 4.2,
ple were 55 per cent for check Fife Nippon
E
PO
It
H
AM
followed closely by day labor
0
1 , 1
ing Japan, 32 per cent for leav Osaka, 2b ----------3 2 0 1 1 0
Uchida,
ss
--------ers with 4.1.
ing her alone, and 24 per cent B. Yoshida, p, rf. 4 3 1 2 0 0
Factory workers, who were
undecided. The other sections, Mello, if ___ ___ 5 1 3 4 1 1
expected to be in the van, sur New England, Middle Atlantic, Kasai, cf ----------- 3 3 2 1 1 1
2 2 9 2 0
Sakahara, lb —.. 4
prised research workers by set
East Central and West Central, Takemura, rf .
1 0 0 0 0 0
ting aside only 3,7 times their
1 1 2 0 1
4
showed U. S. opinion to be de N. Yoshida, p.
0 0 i 0 0
2
monthly income for .wedding
Shimizu, c ----finitely in favor of U. S. inter Kuramoto, c ...
0 1
3 1 2 4
purposes.
1 0 0 0 2 0
Takeuchi,
3b
...
1 1 2 0
4 0
Further investigation disclos vention.
Compared to February of this Itami, 3b ------JAPAN mail
ed that the cost for the marriage year when the same question
4
13
27
14
39
Total _____
ceremony and reception ac was asked of those polled with Asahis _______
002 000--- 12
rife
_________ 200 OOI 56x—14
counted for 37 per cent of the
Summary — Triples, Nakamura,
results of 39 per cent for check
total expense.
Wedding pre ing Japan and 43 per cent for Sakahara; Doubles, Itami: Sacri
fice hits,* Uno, Nishihara, Uchida,
parations (trousseau, etc.,) re
Specialists in
staying out, the poll reflects the Stolen bases, Yamamura, Suga 3,
B. W. GREER & SONS
quired 22 per cent, while fur
Mitsui,
Kutsukake,
Shishido
2
steady shift in American opin Nishihara
2, Sakahara: Hit by pit
General Agents
niture and kitchen utensils
Shipbuilding
ion since the world situation be cher. Yamamura by B. Yoshida
took slightly less.
came more acute with the pass Maruno by N. Yoshida, Suga by N
Bank of Nova Scotia Building
Yoshida: Struck outby Nishihara
Compared
with
the
aveiage
MArine 9925
ing months.
4, bv B. Yoshida 1, by N. Yoshida
expenditure of 440 yen on the
Vancouver, B. C.
3: Base on balls off Sawayama 2,
groom’s side, it is interesting to
off Nishihara 2, off Yoshinaka 2,
1969 West Georgia
off Suga 1, off B. Yoshida 6, off
note that bridegs require an
Vancouver, B. C.
average of 479.50 yen to pre
and COMPANY
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pare for marriage.
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I^ rrjgge Costs /n Japan
jSndreTYen Salary Is Average
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WRIGHT GO. LTD.
TO
SUN NOM KING
Chop Suey
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TRAVEL BY
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Machine Co.
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!
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Optometrist
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THE NEW CANADIAN
AUGUST 8, 1941
A lift for dusty spirits . .
American Loyalty Toi
Keynote District U.SJ
Nisei Conferences
Fighting Fife Rallies To Win Series
Opener As Locals Blow Big Lead
a visit these summer dog-days to the White Cap—
SEATTLE—When the Ameri-;
cans
of Japanese ancestry meetj
u-re the atmosphere is as cool and breezy as the name.
Blowing a big 12-3 lead they had enjoyed until the
wn=re 1
for their Northwest and South-|
You'll enjoy meeting your friends there after the show.
i ern California District Council s seventh inning, the Vancouver Asahis dropped a tough
j conventions in Seattle and Long tilt to Fife Nippons last Sunday at Sumner, Washington,
after the beach, after the picnic, just to relax for an
j Beach, respectively, over the
in the first game of the annual best of three series for
Labor Day holidays, the indi
enjoyable hour or two.
the Pacific Northwest championship.
cations are that it will consti
tute an epoch-making stride in
When the Asahis rang in
came back in, their half of the
the work of the Japanese Am three substitutes in the fatal second inning to score four runs
erican Citizens League toward seventh inning after piling and three hits off Ben Yoshida
integrating the members more
up what seemed to be a safe on the mound for Fife. Ed Na
’’It's a Rendezvous, not a Restaurant-”
fully into the national life.
nine run lead, it ended in dis kamura started off with a triple
The Northern California Dis astrous results. The Fife bat to deep right-centre and scored
333 CARRALL STREET
trict Convention opened last ters greeted new pitcher when the Fife left-fielder drop
week in Monterey, with dele George Yoshinaka in this in ped Nag’ Nishihara’s fly. Shi
gates and members from 26 of ning with a four hit attack shido, who had walked prev
the 5L national League chap and combined this with two iously and stolen second and
a
ters in attendance. There, the bases on balls and three er third bases, came home on a
creed of Americanism was stres rors by the changed Asahi neat sacrifice bunt by Yuki
Nishihara scored on a
sed, as it will be at other con infield to score a total of five Uno.
runs.
Then
Puyallup
Valley
sharp
single
by Mike Maruno
ventions.
Radiating from national head ers followed this up in the and Mike himself crossed the
VANCOUVER.—Marriage and costs of marriage has been
quarters, and permeating all eighth inning with a six run plate when Kaz Suga cracked
n/the most frequently discussed topics in the community
through these gatherings, the splurge to salt the ball game out a bingle into right field. In
oast several months, and several organizations have
the next ginning the Asahis cap
stress will be placed on the away.
"voted considerable time and study to it. Now comes a report
creed of loyalty and service to
It was a tough game to lose italized on the wildness of Ben
Tokyo where the government-sponsored Population
the
nation.
This
is
the
basic
for the Asahis, for they seemed Yoshida and Nobu Yoshida, who
Semss Institute has conducted extensive reseach, detailing
principle of the organization, to have the game practically in came in to relieve Ben, to tally
* o very interesting figures. The average cost of getting
and has been brought out the bag.
six runs.
Carried in Japan, it is disclosed, comes to just 440 yen.
r
*
T\ . X A 1i z\r, h n vr
strongly
of
late.
Pete Mello led the batters
Originally
scheduled
for
the
Detailed studies have been
with
three hits out offive times
Fife High School grounds, the
made by members of the in
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encounter was switched to the at bat. Kaz Suga hit two for
stitute who approached 707
grass ball field of the Fleisch four.
ALWAYS SPECIFY
couples who married in To
man’s Yeast plant at Sumner
Although they lost the game,
kyo from October 1 to De
when
a
heavy
rain
that
fell
just
the locals played bang-up ball,
cember 31, last year.
before the game made the Fife completing two double-plays
Studies
are
being
continued
IT :s SOFT. SANITARY & SOLUBLE
ground unplayable.
and stealing eleven bases.
by making a nation-wide invesWith current
American inter- Nishihara Effective
-tigation with due considera_
The challengers opened the
ti on being given to the occupa- est centered in the far East and
scoring
in the first inning,
Japanese-American
relations,
tlon, age, and income of the .
pushing
across two runs on
the
Gallup
Poll,
premier
U.
S.
husband, so that the Welfare
three
hits
of Tommy Sawayama,
check
on
American
public
opin
Office will be able to formulate
before Nag Nishihara came in
ion,
revealed
that
Americans
an adequate marriage expense
Naggie pitched a
rate which is expected to be of think the United States should to relieve.
swell
game
until
the seventh,
great help in applying the mar take steps to check Japan’s Far
limiting the Nippons to only one
Eastern moves.
riage loan system.
Even
to
the
extent
of
risk
run and three hits.
The recent Tokyo figures
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382 Powell St.
in war with Japan, 51 per
In the meanwhile Asahis
revealed that men marry on
*
cent of the people voted
an average monthly income
E
EO
K
AB
“yes.” 31 per cent voted
Asahis
(including bonus) of 101.70
1
2 o
1 0 0
Terada,
3b
..
“no,” and 18 per cent were Yamamura, 3b .... 3 1 0 0 3 fl
yen.
0 11 0 2
1
5
undecided.Uno, lb ---On studying the relation be
2
6 1
1
2
3
Maruno,
ss
..
The sectional vote showed
0 0
0
2
tween
wedding
expenses
and|
4
Suga, rf, p
AGENT FOR
0 0
1
that the South was strongest for Shiraishi. If
0
4
income according to occupa
0 0
4
4 1 i
intervening in the Orient with Sitsui, c ----. 1 0 0 0 0 1
tions, the salaried man spends
Kutsukake, e
60 per cent voting “yes,” while Nakamura, cf
2
0 0
0
. 4
the most, with an expenditure
3 0
1 4
32 per cent objected, and 13 Shishido, 2b
1 0
of 5.2 times the monthly in
Sawayama, p __ 1 o 0 0
per cent remained undecided.
2 i 0 0 1 0
Nishihara,
p
come, it was found. o 0 0 1 1
Western states (west of Kan
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Small scale business men
sas, Nebraska) showed the peo
7 24 15 6
:
Total ____ -— .35 12
rank next with a ratio of 4.2,
ple were 55 per cent for check Fife Nippon
E
PO
It
H
AM
followed closely by day labor
0
1 , 1
ing Japan, 32 per cent for leav Osaka, 2b ----------3 2 0 1 1 0
Uchida,
ss
--------ers with 4.1.
ing her alone, and 24 per cent B. Yoshida, p, rf. 4 3 1 2 0 0
Factory workers, who were
undecided. The other sections, Mello, if ___ ___ 5 1 3 4 1 1
expected to be in the van, sur New England, Middle Atlantic, Kasai, cf ----------- 3 3 2 1 1 1
2 2 9 2 0
Sakahara, lb —.. 4
prised research workers by set
East Central and West Central, Takemura, rf .
1 0 0 0 0 0
ting aside only 3,7 times their
1 1 2 0 1
4
showed U. S. opinion to be de N. Yoshida, p.
0 0 i 0 0
2
monthly income for .wedding
Shimizu, c ----finitely in favor of U. S. inter Kuramoto, c ...
0 1
3 1 2 4
purposes.
1 0 0 0 2 0
Takeuchi,
3b
...
1 1 2 0
4 0
Further investigation disclos vention.
Compared to February of this Itami, 3b ------JAPAN mail
ed that the cost for the marriage year when the same question
4
13
27
14
39
Total _____
ceremony and reception ac was asked of those polled with Asahis _______
002 000--- 12
rife
_________ 200 OOI 56x—14
counted for 37 per cent of the
Summary — Triples, Nakamura,
results of 39 per cent for check
total expense.
Wedding pre ing Japan and 43 per cent for Sakahara; Doubles, Itami: Sacri
fice hits,* Uno, Nishihara, Uchida,
parations (trousseau, etc.,) re
Specialists in
staying out, the poll reflects the Stolen bases, Yamamura, Suga 3,
B. W. GREER & SONS
quired 22 per cent, while fur
Mitsui,
Kutsukake,
Shishido
2
steady shift in American opin Nishihara
2, Sakahara: Hit by pit
General Agents
niture and kitchen utensils
Shipbuilding
ion since the world situation be cher. Yamamura by B. Yoshida
took slightly less.
came more acute with the pass Maruno by N. Yoshida, Suga by N
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Yoshida: Struck outby Nishihara
Compared
with
the
aveiage
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4, bv B. Yoshida 1, by N. Yoshida
expenditure of 440 yen on the
Vancouver, B. C.
3: Base on balls off Sawayama 2,
groom’s side, it is interesting to
off Nishihara 2, off Yoshinaka 2,
1969 West Georgia
off Suga 1, off B. Yoshida 6, off
note that bridegs require an
Vancouver, B. C.
average of 479.50 yen to pre
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Hours: 9:00 a.m.—5:30 p.m.
T'elephone: MArine 9815
Page 8
THE NEW CANADIAN
PAGE *8
AUGUST 8, 1941
JACKSON GIVEN NOD TO KEEP OPEN GOLF CROWN - MAYBE
The blue chips go down at Langara
this Sunday as top-notch golfers of
Nihon-machi go all out in the classic
event of the year.
90 holes, 360
strokes, and three weeks away is the
club open championship, and the mag
nificent Baron Tomii trophy that goes
with it.
Katsukawa Against the Field
From this distance it looks again
like Jackson Katsukawa, talkative,
punchy Northwest champ who bears
down hard in match play, against the
rest of the field. Last year he won
the cup and crown after just making
the qualifying round, then knocking
over in succession Joe Kodaira, George
Isogai and Herby Tanaka, one by one.
The qualifying round is schedul
ed for 18 holes this Sunday, the
eight low gross golfers in each flight
(“A” 6-16; “B” 17-30) will go 18
holes match play in the afternoon to
determine semi-finalists. The semi
final round will also be an 18-hole
affair, and the final round a 36-hole
struggle.
The dopesters are picking George
Isogai, Herby Tanaka and Reg Yasui,
the rest of the big four, to qualify for
certain. The veteran Isogai carded a
72 last week, the first even par score
recorded this year.
Given the nod,
too, are George Ogino, the steady
smoothie, and Jimmy Suzuki, longdriving optometrist who has his ups
and downs. Joe Kodaira, Northwest
"B” champ, “Pocket Battleship” Mi
ura, and the veterans Bunji Hisaoka
and Pat Nimi, are the threats who will
be in there punching for the nod.
Golfing medico Hal Kuwabara, of the
^=tent stance and swing, took a cut in
Iwasaki Out
Court Champions
Providing that Mr. Pluvius is in one of his good moods and
doesn’t greet us this Sunday with one of his favored Sunday
showers, ‘champeens’ of every division except the mixed
doubles will be known this Sunday as the Nippon Tennis Club
Championship Tourney draws to a close. And yezziree, there
certainly will be many changes made in the “Chamiponship
Roll.”
; exhibition of tennis is in store.
The reign of Tommy Iwasa
In the ladies’ singles the
ki as kingpin of the Nippon . race has narrowed down to
Tennis Club took a decided
Long absent Nag Nishihara
Fumi Deshima and Tomi Mi
setback last Sunday when the
toed
the slab for the Nipponese
zusawa by their wins over
ground-covering Gus Hirano,
all-stars
in his first Burrard
Tomi Iwasaki and Teiko Ide,
a long shot in the club tour
respectively. We pick (your League debut and twirled a 7ney, ousted the champ in the
guess is as good as ours) to hit game, but his teammates’
apparent off-night with the
third round.
win!
Displaying sensational versa
In order to complete the tour willows was the obvious extility and resistence, Gus Hira ney as soon as possible a few' olanation for the 3-1 defeat by
league-leading
Diethers.
no fought back splendidly after mixed and a men’s doubles were the
losing the first set to Iwasaki, played last Wednesday night, This loss puts the Asahis’ third
returning smash for smash and i In the men’s doubles the high- place in a precarious position
finally wore down the hereto-j stepping duo of Shig Ouye and as the Shipbuilders are now
fore invincible champion to Gus Hirano, the team that made only 11 games behind.
Monty Montidor on the
mark up the biggest upset in the fine showing in the recent
Diether
mound had the Asahis
the tournament.
In fact, the hardcourts tournament, reach
day was featured by upsets. ed the quarter finals by knock fanning thin air and yielded
Hard-working Shig Yamashita, ing over Mi Akiyama and Sam only 4 hits, 2 each by Kaz
the human dyanmo, seeded sec Hagino 6-3 and 7-5. They meet Suga and Frank Shiraishi.
Asahis scored their lone run
ond in the club, bowed out to the veteran pair of Kinoshita
in
the initial inning as Roy Ya
Fred Sasaki in straight sets.
and Matsubayashi this Sunday,
mamura, who reached first on
The semi-final this Sunday is the winners meeting the finalbase on balls, scored on Kaz
going to be a battle of the ages. ists of the top bracket, probably ।
Suga’s hard liner to centre hay.
It’s going to hurt both ways defending champs Iwasaki-TaAsahis,
pushed their men into
when staunch pals Gus Hirano naka.
scoring
position four times, but
The only game played last
and Shig Ouye meet to decide
each
time
the reps failed to hit
who’s going to be in the finals. night was a ladies doubles vicin
the
clutch.
■
.
In the lower bracket Fred Sa tory by Kay Sasaki and Sumi
Bruce Thirsk, veteran guard
saki meets last year’s runner- Nobuoka over Mune Arikado
of
the hot corner, was the big
up, Johnny Tanaka ... a good and Sadako Iwasa.
Diether hero as he drove out a
hard line drive to centre, scor
ing Ed Henry and then scoring
on Dick Bentley’s pop out to
left.
Again in the fifth he
grooved
one over Cordova
Street on the side of the home
run mark for a circuit blow. In
his third and final time at bat
GET INTO AN M & N
he cracked another over Cor
dova for a double.
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Asahis
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Maruno, s:
Uno, lb „
Suga, rf
Shiraishi.
Mitsui, c
Nakamura, cf
Shishido. 2b .
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“B” flight is an unpredictable
tity. But George Tanaka’s wY?
cap, and the golf he has been play'S
make him a favorite. One arn? an
all. he carded an 84 the other dav u
handicappers Mosey Shimda* ’ =„
Frank Miyazaki will be in there to
especially the latter, shooting to ke^
the Fukuma cup he won last vear b
eliminating Jimmy Togawa. i!HOrW
Oyama and S. Ito.
What a blow-up the Fife-Asahi game must have been. Maybe
was overconfidence or maybe it was something else. Anyhow I wak
there to see the game and the boys prefer not to talk about it, so he
I am still in the dark. All the information I gathered together was th
the Canucks held a healthy 9-run lead, an assurance of victory in a
diamond tilt, so manager Yamamuura withdrew himself, chucker Nis’r
hara, who was going great guns in his first appearance, and backs!
Koei Mitsui for subs and handed the game wrapped up in a pretty packs'
and on a silver platter to the Courier Double-aye Champions... This w
all a very nice gesture on the part of the localites since they were beii
treated so nicely by their hosts, but it might have been foolhardy enou
to cost them the Northwest championship.
OF course I don't blame Roy one bit. If he wanted to give'
everybody a chance his intentions were at least honorable. After!
all who'd want to travel hundreds of miles just to sit on a benchJ
Again, if he hadn't changed the lineup and given others a chance!
when his team held a fat 9 run lead, he would have been criticized!
for not giving everybody a break. A manager's role is not so sweet!
and we deeply sympathize with Roy.
One thing, though, the series here in Vancouver will be much mo
interesting for the boys will have to go all out in order to take bo!
games or lose the championship they have kept this side of the bordi
for the past 5 years.
i
The date of the remainder of the International series to be held
Vancouver is not fixed yet, but one thing certain is that Labor Day is ou
Previously it had been thought that Fife v/ould invade Vancouver c
Labor Day ap in previous years, but on that day the J.A.C.L. confab ;
Seattle is slated.
That means that it will have to be either the 17;
or the 24th of this month . . . Let's win 2 straight ... as Editor Bt
Fukei of the Seattle Great Northern thinks we can.
The Forgotten League-----Japanese League resumes again this Suj
day... (It’s about time.)
The first game of the best-out-of-three final
between the defending champion Union Fish outfit and Messrs. Shavi
Hoshino sponsored Powell Drug is slated for 1 1 :00 a.m. this Sund|
morning.
There was talk going around about having a double-heads
this Sunday in order to try and finish off the series as quickly as possible
but evidently it's fallen through.
I still don't know how they're goir
to finish off unless they wait until September. Asahis have to play Fil
and also Chemainus this month, that will take up two Sundays of if
remaining four. Tell me how you're going to do it, Don?
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*Kutsukake batted for Shishido
in the 7th.
Summary—Home run, B. Thirsk;
Doubles. Thirsk, Henry, Shiraishi:
Sacrifice
hit,
Boston,
Shishido;
Stolen bases, Suga: Buns batted in,
Suga, Thirsk 2. Bentley: Struck out
by Montidor 6, by Nishihara 3: Base
on balls of Montidor 4, off Nishi
hara 1: Hit by pitcher, Bentley by
Nishihara: Left on bases, Diethers
5: Asahis 4: Umpire, Vanhatten.
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PAGE *8
AUGUST 8, 1941
JACKSON GIVEN NOD TO KEEP OPEN GOLF CROWN - MAYBE
The blue chips go down at Langara
this Sunday as top-notch golfers of
Nihon-machi go all out in the classic
event of the year.
90 holes, 360
strokes, and three weeks away is the
club open championship, and the mag
nificent Baron Tomii trophy that goes
with it.
Katsukawa Against the Field
From this distance it looks again
like Jackson Katsukawa, talkative,
punchy Northwest champ who bears
down hard in match play, against the
rest of the field. Last year he won
the cup and crown after just making
the qualifying round, then knocking
over in succession Joe Kodaira, George
Isogai and Herby Tanaka, one by one.
The qualifying round is schedul
ed for 18 holes this Sunday, the
eight low gross golfers in each flight
(“A” 6-16; “B” 17-30) will go 18
holes match play in the afternoon to
determine semi-finalists. The semi
final round will also be an 18-hole
affair, and the final round a 36-hole
struggle.
The dopesters are picking George
Isogai, Herby Tanaka and Reg Yasui,
the rest of the big four, to qualify for
certain. The veteran Isogai carded a
72 last week, the first even par score
recorded this year.
Given the nod,
too, are George Ogino, the steady
smoothie, and Jimmy Suzuki, longdriving optometrist who has his ups
and downs. Joe Kodaira, Northwest
"B” champ, “Pocket Battleship” Mi
ura, and the veterans Bunji Hisaoka
and Pat Nimi, are the threats who will
be in there punching for the nod.
Golfing medico Hal Kuwabara, of the
^=tent stance and swing, took a cut in
Iwasaki Out
Court Champions
Providing that Mr. Pluvius is in one of his good moods and
doesn’t greet us this Sunday with one of his favored Sunday
showers, ‘champeens’ of every division except the mixed
doubles will be known this Sunday as the Nippon Tennis Club
Championship Tourney draws to a close. And yezziree, there
certainly will be many changes made in the “Chamiponship
Roll.”
; exhibition of tennis is in store.
The reign of Tommy Iwasa
In the ladies’ singles the
ki as kingpin of the Nippon . race has narrowed down to
Tennis Club took a decided
Long absent Nag Nishihara
Fumi Deshima and Tomi Mi
setback last Sunday when the
toed
the slab for the Nipponese
zusawa by their wins over
ground-covering Gus Hirano,
all-stars
in his first Burrard
Tomi Iwasaki and Teiko Ide,
a long shot in the club tour
respectively. We pick (your League debut and twirled a 7ney, ousted the champ in the
guess is as good as ours) to hit game, but his teammates’
apparent off-night with the
third round.
win!
Displaying sensational versa
In order to complete the tour willows was the obvious extility and resistence, Gus Hira ney as soon as possible a few' olanation for the 3-1 defeat by
league-leading
Diethers.
no fought back splendidly after mixed and a men’s doubles were the
losing the first set to Iwasaki, played last Wednesday night, This loss puts the Asahis’ third
returning smash for smash and i In the men’s doubles the high- place in a precarious position
finally wore down the hereto-j stepping duo of Shig Ouye and as the Shipbuilders are now
fore invincible champion to Gus Hirano, the team that made only 11 games behind.
Monty Montidor on the
mark up the biggest upset in the fine showing in the recent
Diether
mound had the Asahis
the tournament.
In fact, the hardcourts tournament, reach
day was featured by upsets. ed the quarter finals by knock fanning thin air and yielded
Hard-working Shig Yamashita, ing over Mi Akiyama and Sam only 4 hits, 2 each by Kaz
the human dyanmo, seeded sec Hagino 6-3 and 7-5. They meet Suga and Frank Shiraishi.
Asahis scored their lone run
ond in the club, bowed out to the veteran pair of Kinoshita
in
the initial inning as Roy Ya
Fred Sasaki in straight sets.
and Matsubayashi this Sunday,
mamura, who reached first on
The semi-final this Sunday is the winners meeting the finalbase on balls, scored on Kaz
going to be a battle of the ages. ists of the top bracket, probably ।
Suga’s hard liner to centre hay.
It’s going to hurt both ways defending champs Iwasaki-TaAsahis,
pushed their men into
when staunch pals Gus Hirano naka.
scoring
position four times, but
The only game played last
and Shig Ouye meet to decide
each
time
the reps failed to hit
who’s going to be in the finals. night was a ladies doubles vicin
the
clutch.
■
.
In the lower bracket Fred Sa tory by Kay Sasaki and Sumi
Bruce Thirsk, veteran guard
saki meets last year’s runner- Nobuoka over Mune Arikado
of
the hot corner, was the big
up, Johnny Tanaka ... a good and Sadako Iwasa.
Diether hero as he drove out a
hard line drive to centre, scor
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on Dick Bentley’s pop out to
left.
Again in the fifth he
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run mark for a circuit blow. In
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Frank Miyazaki will be in there to
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eliminating Jimmy Togawa. i!HOrW
Oyama and S. Ito.
What a blow-up the Fife-Asahi game must have been. Maybe
was overconfidence or maybe it was something else. Anyhow I wak
there to see the game and the boys prefer not to talk about it, so he
I am still in the dark. All the information I gathered together was th
the Canucks held a healthy 9-run lead, an assurance of victory in a
diamond tilt, so manager Yamamuura withdrew himself, chucker Nis’r
hara, who was going great guns in his first appearance, and backs!
Koei Mitsui for subs and handed the game wrapped up in a pretty packs'
and on a silver platter to the Courier Double-aye Champions... This w
all a very nice gesture on the part of the localites since they were beii
treated so nicely by their hosts, but it might have been foolhardy enou
to cost them the Northwest championship.
OF course I don't blame Roy one bit. If he wanted to give'
everybody a chance his intentions were at least honorable. After!
all who'd want to travel hundreds of miles just to sit on a benchJ
Again, if he hadn't changed the lineup and given others a chance!
when his team held a fat 9 run lead, he would have been criticized!
for not giving everybody a break. A manager's role is not so sweet!
and we deeply sympathize with Roy.
One thing, though, the series here in Vancouver will be much mo
interesting for the boys will have to go all out in order to take bo!
games or lose the championship they have kept this side of the bordi
for the past 5 years.
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The date of the remainder of the International series to be held
Vancouver is not fixed yet, but one thing certain is that Labor Day is ou
Previously it had been thought that Fife v/ould invade Vancouver c
Labor Day ap in previous years, but on that day the J.A.C.L. confab ;
Seattle is slated.
That means that it will have to be either the 17;
or the 24th of this month . . . Let's win 2 straight ... as Editor Bt
Fukei of the Seattle Great Northern thinks we can.
The Forgotten League-----Japanese League resumes again this Suj
day... (It’s about time.)
The first game of the best-out-of-three final
between the defending champion Union Fish outfit and Messrs. Shavi
Hoshino sponsored Powell Drug is slated for 1 1 :00 a.m. this Sund|
morning.
There was talk going around about having a double-heads
this Sunday in order to try and finish off the series as quickly as possible
but evidently it's fallen through.
I still don't know how they're goir
to finish off unless they wait until September. Asahis have to play Fil
and also Chemainus this month, that will take up two Sundays of if
remaining four. Tell me how you're going to do it, Don?
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*Kutsukake batted for Shishido
in the 7th.
Summary—Home run, B. Thirsk;
Doubles. Thirsk, Henry, Shiraishi:
Sacrifice
hit,
Boston,
Shishido;
Stolen bases, Suga: Buns batted in,
Suga, Thirsk 2. Bentley: Struck out
by Montidor 6, by Nishihara 3: Base
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hara 1: Hit by pitcher, Bentley by
Nishihara: Left on bases, Diethers
5: Asahis 4: Umpire, Vanhatten.
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