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HERE one star shines like morning, there
is Bethlehem.” And so, over the broad
highway, past the busy marts of men, I wended
my way. But never a shining one did I see in
the sky . . - only one pale star glimmering into
oblivion. Was that the star? The star of Beth
lehem?
I stopped an old wayfarer and said: ‘‘Tell
^me, is that the star of Bethlehem?” The old
man scratched his head, looked askance, and
shrugged. “Look, matey, you’d better hurry
homer ’Tis too much blarney ye be seein’ to
night. Get along wid ye afore the police ketch
up wid ye! ”
Proudly, I gazed at his unkempt hair, his
ill-fitting cap, his grimy hands, and then from
my full height, I said to him, “I seek the
Christ Child. They tell me if the heart be pure,
the love sincere, the vision clear, he shall be
hold the Christ Child’s shining face.” He
scratched his head a second time, and said,
“Well, matey, I guess ye’ll have to find Him
yerself. There's an. old woman waitin’ without
a bite to cat, and I sort o' promised her a share
of my day’s pickings. You see, they pay ye
well-in'the shipyards . . • even though I’m
old.” And silently, he was lost in the crowd.
Down past the busy streets. I picked my
way. Here was the mead. Was the star I. was
following, the star of Bethlehem? It was so
obscured and pale, not'the shining radiance the
prophets foretold. There, in an old forsaken
field I spied a wizened farmer, bent to the
plOUgh.
“Say, stranger, is this the way, to Bethlehem.
Over that hill just yonder'?” I asked.
“What for be ye seeking Bethlehem?”
“I seek the Christ Child tonight,” I said,
drawing myself away from the dirt and grime.
‘‘Come, join me, stranger, and let s seek Him
out. If your heart is pure, your love sincere,
your vision clear, for you the Christ Child
will smile in His Holy Sleep!
My heart is
sincere, for I worship only the Christ. My love
is pure, for I know no sordidness. My vission is clear, for I see naught but the image
of His shining face.”
‘‘Sorry, young feller,” the farmer replied.
‘‘I ain’t got much time for dreamin . . • times
are hard, you know . . . and my son s yonder,
fighting .
• so’s I’m back at the plough.
Sorry, young feller, I guess you 11 have to find
Him yerself.’ And quietly, he disappeared over
the curve of the hill.
SO
These are the tracks they spoke of . it must be yonder . . . the Christ Child s stable
door, I thought to myself, stumbling upon
unaccustomed stones and'thorns. Strange grave
yard faces met my gaze’ . . . white peaked faces
and bony hands, playing in- squalor and dirt
and grime. Ramshackle cabins strewed here and
there . . . and the strident tongue of the for
eigner grated the ear. Surely, not here, not
here! Somewhere in my wanderings I had lost
my way. But no, the star was still there . .
glimmering and wan.
Suddenly, a girl came into view, strangely
unsuited to the foreigner crowd. “Hello!
I
hailed her. She stopped in her tracks. ‘Say.
miss, could it be yonder, the Stable of Beth
lehem?” Here eyes grew wide as she searched
my face ... only to fall from me as a small
child whispered at her skirts.
“Bethlehem, sir?” she asked in strange dis
belief, as if what I had asked were something
insane.
Yes, if the heart be pure, the love sincere,
the vision clear, one shall behold the face of
the Christ Child fast asleep,” I replied. ‘‘They
say it’s yonder, in a stable he lies. Come, let’s
scek him, you and I.
‘‘Sorry, sir,’ she answered grave and small,
‘‘much as I would see His face, these little
And hugging a
charges are my first care.
dirty child to her breast, she quickly and silently hurried away.
Weary and footsore, I walked on alone.
Now. there was nothing, only dark desolation
and barren waste. I looked up into the sky . . .
the star still moved, glimmering and wan. Night
came on ... a storm blew in from the sea.
The fear of the unknown was upon, my heart.
‘‘If the heart be pure, the love sincere, the vi
sion clear . . .’’ these thing were poor comfort
to a lonely man.
I groped in the dark. Was it a man’s voice
I heard? ‘‘Help me . . . my leg. Quick! . . •
A thief
To the shed . . . they’re after me
in the night . . . yet he was brother to me.
Suddenly, the haggard stranger’s fingers dug
into my aching flesh. “Listen!” he hissed . . •
and from somewhere from the dark precincts of
that old shed, there came a wail, a whimpering
cry. ‘‘He ain't gonna be a number
see!”
With that, he fled!
There, on the dirty hay, I found the waif,
and as it turned its face to mine, I think I saw
the Christ-Child’s shining face.
This was no time to be seeking for Bethle
hem. Regretfully, I lifted the child and turned
toward home. Dawn was breaking . . . the air
was soft ... and lo, there was a radiant Star
shining over the city from whence I had come.
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HERE one star shines like morning, there
is Bethlehem.” And so, over the broad
highway, past the busy marts of men, I wended
my way. But never a shining one did I see in
the sky . . - only one pale star glimmering into
oblivion. Was that the star? The star of Beth
lehem?
I stopped an old wayfarer and said: ‘‘Tell
^me, is that the star of Bethlehem?” The old
man scratched his head, looked askance, and
shrugged. “Look, matey, you’d better hurry
homer ’Tis too much blarney ye be seein’ to
night. Get along wid ye afore the police ketch
up wid ye! ”
Proudly, I gazed at his unkempt hair, his
ill-fitting cap, his grimy hands, and then from
my full height, I said to him, “I seek the
Christ Child. They tell me if the heart be pure,
the love sincere, the vision clear, he shall be
hold the Christ Child’s shining face.” He
scratched his head a second time, and said,
“Well, matey, I guess ye’ll have to find Him
yerself. There's an. old woman waitin’ without
a bite to cat, and I sort o' promised her a share
of my day’s pickings. You see, they pay ye
well-in'the shipyards . . • even though I’m
old.” And silently, he was lost in the crowd.
Down past the busy streets. I picked my
way. Here was the mead. Was the star I. was
following, the star of Bethlehem? It was so
obscured and pale, not'the shining radiance the
prophets foretold. There, in an old forsaken
field I spied a wizened farmer, bent to the
plOUgh.
“Say, stranger, is this the way, to Bethlehem.
Over that hill just yonder'?” I asked.
“What for be ye seeking Bethlehem?”
“I seek the Christ Child tonight,” I said,
drawing myself away from the dirt and grime.
‘‘Come, join me, stranger, and let s seek Him
out. If your heart is pure, your love sincere,
your vision clear, for you the Christ Child
will smile in His Holy Sleep!
My heart is
sincere, for I worship only the Christ. My love
is pure, for I know no sordidness. My vission is clear, for I see naught but the image
of His shining face.”
‘‘Sorry, young feller,” the farmer replied.
‘‘I ain’t got much time for dreamin . . • times
are hard, you know . . . and my son s yonder,
fighting .
• so’s I’m back at the plough.
Sorry, young feller, I guess you 11 have to find
Him yerself.’ And quietly, he disappeared over
the curve of the hill.
SO
These are the tracks they spoke of . it must be yonder . . . the Christ Child s stable
door, I thought to myself, stumbling upon
unaccustomed stones and'thorns. Strange grave
yard faces met my gaze’ . . . white peaked faces
and bony hands, playing in- squalor and dirt
and grime. Ramshackle cabins strewed here and
there . . . and the strident tongue of the for
eigner grated the ear. Surely, not here, not
here! Somewhere in my wanderings I had lost
my way. But no, the star was still there . .
glimmering and wan.
Suddenly, a girl came into view, strangely
unsuited to the foreigner crowd. “Hello!
I
hailed her. She stopped in her tracks. ‘Say.
miss, could it be yonder, the Stable of Beth
lehem?” Here eyes grew wide as she searched
my face ... only to fall from me as a small
child whispered at her skirts.
“Bethlehem, sir?” she asked in strange dis
belief, as if what I had asked were something
insane.
Yes, if the heart be pure, the love sincere,
the vision clear, one shall behold the face of
the Christ Child fast asleep,” I replied. ‘‘They
say it’s yonder, in a stable he lies. Come, let’s
scek him, you and I.
‘‘Sorry, sir,’ she answered grave and small,
‘‘much as I would see His face, these little
And hugging a
charges are my first care.
dirty child to her breast, she quickly and silently hurried away.
Weary and footsore, I walked on alone.
Now. there was nothing, only dark desolation
and barren waste. I looked up into the sky . . .
the star still moved, glimmering and wan. Night
came on ... a storm blew in from the sea.
The fear of the unknown was upon, my heart.
‘‘If the heart be pure, the love sincere, the vi
sion clear . . .’’ these thing were poor comfort
to a lonely man.
I groped in the dark. Was it a man’s voice
I heard? ‘‘Help me . . . my leg. Quick! . . •
A thief
To the shed . . . they’re after me
in the night . . . yet he was brother to me.
Suddenly, the haggard stranger’s fingers dug
into my aching flesh. “Listen!” he hissed . . •
and from somewhere from the dark precincts of
that old shed, there came a wail, a whimpering
cry. ‘‘He ain't gonna be a number
see!”
With that, he fled!
There, on the dirty hay, I found the waif,
and as it turned its face to mine, I think I saw
the Christ-Child’s shining face.
This was no time to be seeking for Bethle
hem. Regretfully, I lifted the child and turned
toward home. Dawn was breaking . . . the air
was soft ... and lo, there was a radiant Star
shining over the city from whence I had come.
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NEW CANADIAN ’
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A TYChristmas message to you is not
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simply a pretty little greeting
card with ribbons on it. It is an
earnest request that you get to work.
Get Consumers Cooperatives—con
sumers organizing their own retailing
outlets, these retailing outlets organ
izing their own wholesalers, these
wholesales organizing their own sour
ces of manufacturing plants and sour
ces of supply—is structure. Cooperatives Jare so organized that you can
not help assisting your neighbours at
the same time as you benefit yourself.
Start co-op grocery stores, filling
stations, farm supply depots, credit
unions. Invite anyone of any race or
religion to .join who will. Working
together for common economic pur
poses, you1 will find the usual social
cleavages of race and religion (by
products of a cut-throat, dog-eat-dog,
profit-at-the-expense-of-your - neigh
bour economic system) disappearing.
Your common economic interest will
provide, a basis for spiritual unity.
You will be drawn together, first in
there race prejudice in Eastern
ISCanada?
Yes. But the answer is too
cryptic and apt to be misleading.
There is among many sections of the
public, not all, a group attitude to
ward negroes, French-speaking Can
adians, Jews, Syrians, Japanese Can
adians, and others.
Here as else
where you will hear that “Jews are
all alike”, that “negroes are no good’’,
that “Syrians are yellow”. But you
will also hear of a “good” Jew, a
“good nigger”, a “good” French Can
adian, and even of a “good Jap”. In
short, these are unconsciously accord
ed the doubtful honour of being one
of the “emancipated”. The strangest
thing about it all is however that
these good” fellows are not necessarily everything that their usually
recognized group is not. But the pro
bable truth is that these have only
been individualized in the minds of
the people with whom they come in
contact. So with respect to these “race
prejudice”, as such, practically dis
appears.
After all, what is race prejudice?
Is it not only a group attitude or ra
tionalization—a preconceived notion
whether it be resulting from physical
differences, self-interest, or plain ig
norance? There is no denying that
we Japanese Canadians wear a dis
tinct racial mask, and it is useless to
try to discard that mask. Naturally
the general population finds it easier
to classify us than to individualize us.
Almost every new acquaintance will
have some preconceived notion about
DECEMBER 25; 194]
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ists, as well as the intellejw^l
ians.
It will enlist the talent®
accountants, clerks, salesmen
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anics, writers, speakers and artist?®
wil provide employment, as vou?l
operative grows, for more and?!
people, with a big future for the^
ented. It will keep the money in
communty from being drained
by outside corporate interests
finally, it will unite, in pract£«
everyday terms, common sense
sound business practice with the high!
est ideals of human brotherhood "I
Co-operatives for the New Year
Dr. S. I. Hayakawa . . .
earnestly requests that you get to work
the state and provincial boundaries.,
your own communities, then across
and finally across national boundar
ies, with fellow-cooperators all over
the earth of every race and creed.
PEOPLE WILL WORK TOGETHER
DON’T tell me that the people in
your community will not work
together. If fishermen in Nova Scotia, migrant workers in California,
negroes in Chicago’s Souths Side,
working men in Sweden,’ Denmark,
Norway and Finland, trades union
men in England and Scotland, inde
pendent farmers in . New England,
Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin,
and Saskatchewan, and college pro
fessors in Evanston, Illinois, can learn
to cooperate,- anyone can.
Already
tea plantations, oil refineries, shoe
factories, agricultural fertilizer plants,
flour mills, tractor assembly plants,
huge insurance companies, and steam
ships are owned by consumers coop
eratives. But all these million-dollar
enterprises began in little hole-in-thewall local societies, such as you will
have to start with.
A cooperative started in your com
munity can get immediate help from
already established larger cooperative
organizations. These may be close at
hand or far away, but they will be
equally eager to help you get started.
Your cooperative will unite the inter
est of the diverse elements in your
community; the practical housewife or
consumer whose principal interest is
in lower grocery or gasoline prices,
the religious or humanitarian ideal-
Prejudice and Personality
By Cam Omori
The essential problem facing the second genera
tion as seen by a local Nisei now adventuring in Eastern
Canada.
you—whether that notion was der
ived from cursory travel in the Orient,
magazines, newspapers, or Gilbert and
Sullivan.
This individualizing process is not
of course an easy one. It used to be
that a “greasy Italian” was either a
restaurant keeper or a workman, a
“nigger” always a labourer.
That
young Chinese without his laundry
bag is not shuffling off to wait on
ignoble guests at his “two-bit” cafe.
He is an engineer on a Government
housing project. Occasionally you
will hear of Japanese Canadian doc
tors, nurses, stenographers, engineers,
and tradesmen in the’ East. Not a few
have been accepted into the ranks of
the Canadian armed forces.
TTERE in the hurly-burly of every4 4 day life the so-called Japanese
problem of the Pacific coast is all but
forgotten—overshadowed as it is by
greater issues. So far as the attitude
of Eastern Canadians as a whole to
this particular problem can be des
cribed—the best that can be said is
that it is vague and nebulous. It is of
course that a lack of concentration of
large numbers of peoples of Japanese
descent has prevented a deep fixation
of group attitude toward these peo-
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pie. The longer one lives in the East,
the more it seems that perhaps one
reason why it is often considered that
the -relatively few Japanese Can
adians east of the Rockies fare better
with their fellow Canadians than in
the coast province, is that here there
is greater opportunity of asserting
one’s individuality among the Can
adian public. In many cases the only
alternative is practical isolation.
It is a simple fact but nonetheless
an important one that this problem
of' individualization is perhaps one of
the chief personal problems faced by
a second generation in the East. It
is not always easy. People will not
know how to approach you. Do not
lose your temper if you receive pa
tronizing smiles from well meaning
persons whom you suspect to be of
less than mediocre intelligence. It’s
better than to receive no smile at all.
Patience, tact, sociability and frank
ness will get you further than apathy.
qO living in the East is in many res
pects a lesson on life itself. Can
this lesson be applied to second gen
eration in British Columbia?
One
would think so. To urge that the
second generation strive to become
individualized in the eyes of British
. a MERRY CHRISTMAS to you, an|
n a Happy New Year. And to rnakl
sure that the New Year and subseB
quent New Years will be happy, stol
talking about discrimination and thl
inequality of opportunity. Start buildl
ing and creating those social struj
tures that will ultimately make social
cleavages, whether of race, of relig|
ion, or of class, as antiquated ahi
about absurd as astrology, witchcrafl
idol-worship, or head-hunting.. .
1
Columbians is perhaps more easil®
said than accomplished. But thil
seems to be a fundamental necessity!
To do this will require first a realizal
tion in the second generation himseil
that he possesses a distinct personalitl
inferior only to nobody’s. Perhapl
from the Nisei viewpoint—the seconl
generation problem of adjustment 11
too the problem of life—call it humal
relations, call it soul searching, call
it if you wish the. socio-psycho-phill
osophical approach, or call it simpll
personality of development.
1
To the leaders and teachers anl
parents falls the difficult task ol
searching out, strengthening, ahi
rounding out the Nisei (and thirl
generation) character. In the final
analysis, although we do not travel
through this life alone, everyone musl
learn to walk by himself. In teach!
ing the Nisei to walk, we must star!
from the individual, preferably froni
childhood.
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Canadians on the whole are essen]
tially fair and broad minded people
Nowhere is this more apparent than
in Eastern Canada. They are a hard]
headed practical people whose way ol
life may best be described the enter]
prise system. Is it not a source ol
comfort to many minorities in Can
ada that the Canadian tradition is that
the state is only a voluntary creation
of individual citizens responsible to
them and designed primarily to pro
tect their liberties? This tradition of
fers us a way of taking the sting oul
of race prejudice through the process
of individualization.
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A TYChristmas message to you is not
■
simply a pretty little greeting
card with ribbons on it. It is an
earnest request that you get to work.
Get Consumers Cooperatives—con
sumers organizing their own retailing
outlets, these retailing outlets organ
izing their own wholesalers, these
wholesales organizing their own sour
ces of manufacturing plants and sour
ces of supply—is structure. Cooperatives Jare so organized that you can
not help assisting your neighbours at
the same time as you benefit yourself.
Start co-op grocery stores, filling
stations, farm supply depots, credit
unions. Invite anyone of any race or
religion to .join who will. Working
together for common economic pur
poses, you1 will find the usual social
cleavages of race and religion (by
products of a cut-throat, dog-eat-dog,
profit-at-the-expense-of-your - neigh
bour economic system) disappearing.
Your common economic interest will
provide, a basis for spiritual unity.
You will be drawn together, first in
there race prejudice in Eastern
ISCanada?
Yes. But the answer is too
cryptic and apt to be misleading.
There is among many sections of the
public, not all, a group attitude to
ward negroes, French-speaking Can
adians, Jews, Syrians, Japanese Can
adians, and others.
Here as else
where you will hear that “Jews are
all alike”, that “negroes are no good’’,
that “Syrians are yellow”. But you
will also hear of a “good” Jew, a
“good nigger”, a “good” French Can
adian, and even of a “good Jap”. In
short, these are unconsciously accord
ed the doubtful honour of being one
of the “emancipated”. The strangest
thing about it all is however that
these good” fellows are not necessarily everything that their usually
recognized group is not. But the pro
bable truth is that these have only
been individualized in the minds of
the people with whom they come in
contact. So with respect to these “race
prejudice”, as such, practically dis
appears.
After all, what is race prejudice?
Is it not only a group attitude or ra
tionalization—a preconceived notion
whether it be resulting from physical
differences, self-interest, or plain ig
norance? There is no denying that
we Japanese Canadians wear a dis
tinct racial mask, and it is useless to
try to discard that mask. Naturally
the general population finds it easier
to classify us than to individualize us.
Almost every new acquaintance will
have some preconceived notion about
DECEMBER 25; 194]
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ists, as well as the intellejw^l
ians.
It will enlist the talent®
accountants, clerks, salesmen
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anics, writers, speakers and artist?®
wil provide employment, as vou?l
operative grows, for more and?!
people, with a big future for the^
ented. It will keep the money in
communty from being drained
by outside corporate interests
finally, it will unite, in pract£«
everyday terms, common sense
sound business practice with the high!
est ideals of human brotherhood "I
Co-operatives for the New Year
Dr. S. I. Hayakawa . . .
earnestly requests that you get to work
the state and provincial boundaries.,
your own communities, then across
and finally across national boundar
ies, with fellow-cooperators all over
the earth of every race and creed.
PEOPLE WILL WORK TOGETHER
DON’T tell me that the people in
your community will not work
together. If fishermen in Nova Scotia, migrant workers in California,
negroes in Chicago’s Souths Side,
working men in Sweden,’ Denmark,
Norway and Finland, trades union
men in England and Scotland, inde
pendent farmers in . New England,
Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin,
and Saskatchewan, and college pro
fessors in Evanston, Illinois, can learn
to cooperate,- anyone can.
Already
tea plantations, oil refineries, shoe
factories, agricultural fertilizer plants,
flour mills, tractor assembly plants,
huge insurance companies, and steam
ships are owned by consumers coop
eratives. But all these million-dollar
enterprises began in little hole-in-thewall local societies, such as you will
have to start with.
A cooperative started in your com
munity can get immediate help from
already established larger cooperative
organizations. These may be close at
hand or far away, but they will be
equally eager to help you get started.
Your cooperative will unite the inter
est of the diverse elements in your
community; the practical housewife or
consumer whose principal interest is
in lower grocery or gasoline prices,
the religious or humanitarian ideal-
Prejudice and Personality
By Cam Omori
The essential problem facing the second genera
tion as seen by a local Nisei now adventuring in Eastern
Canada.
you—whether that notion was der
ived from cursory travel in the Orient,
magazines, newspapers, or Gilbert and
Sullivan.
This individualizing process is not
of course an easy one. It used to be
that a “greasy Italian” was either a
restaurant keeper or a workman, a
“nigger” always a labourer.
That
young Chinese without his laundry
bag is not shuffling off to wait on
ignoble guests at his “two-bit” cafe.
He is an engineer on a Government
housing project. Occasionally you
will hear of Japanese Canadian doc
tors, nurses, stenographers, engineers,
and tradesmen in the’ East. Not a few
have been accepted into the ranks of
the Canadian armed forces.
TTERE in the hurly-burly of every4 4 day life the so-called Japanese
problem of the Pacific coast is all but
forgotten—overshadowed as it is by
greater issues. So far as the attitude
of Eastern Canadians as a whole to
this particular problem can be des
cribed—the best that can be said is
that it is vague and nebulous. It is of
course that a lack of concentration of
large numbers of peoples of Japanese
descent has prevented a deep fixation
of group attitude toward these peo-
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pie. The longer one lives in the East,
the more it seems that perhaps one
reason why it is often considered that
the -relatively few Japanese Can
adians east of the Rockies fare better
with their fellow Canadians than in
the coast province, is that here there
is greater opportunity of asserting
one’s individuality among the Can
adian public. In many cases the only
alternative is practical isolation.
It is a simple fact but nonetheless
an important one that this problem
of' individualization is perhaps one of
the chief personal problems faced by
a second generation in the East. It
is not always easy. People will not
know how to approach you. Do not
lose your temper if you receive pa
tronizing smiles from well meaning
persons whom you suspect to be of
less than mediocre intelligence. It’s
better than to receive no smile at all.
Patience, tact, sociability and frank
ness will get you further than apathy.
qO living in the East is in many res
pects a lesson on life itself. Can
this lesson be applied to second gen
eration in British Columbia?
One
would think so. To urge that the
second generation strive to become
individualized in the eyes of British
. a MERRY CHRISTMAS to you, an|
n a Happy New Year. And to rnakl
sure that the New Year and subseB
quent New Years will be happy, stol
talking about discrimination and thl
inequality of opportunity. Start buildl
ing and creating those social struj
tures that will ultimately make social
cleavages, whether of race, of relig|
ion, or of class, as antiquated ahi
about absurd as astrology, witchcrafl
idol-worship, or head-hunting.. .
1
Columbians is perhaps more easil®
said than accomplished. But thil
seems to be a fundamental necessity!
To do this will require first a realizal
tion in the second generation himseil
that he possesses a distinct personalitl
inferior only to nobody’s. Perhapl
from the Nisei viewpoint—the seconl
generation problem of adjustment 11
too the problem of life—call it humal
relations, call it soul searching, call
it if you wish the. socio-psycho-phill
osophical approach, or call it simpll
personality of development.
1
To the leaders and teachers anl
parents falls the difficult task ol
searching out, strengthening, ahi
rounding out the Nisei (and thirl
generation) character. In the final
analysis, although we do not travel
through this life alone, everyone musl
learn to walk by himself. In teach!
ing the Nisei to walk, we must star!
from the individual, preferably froni
childhood.
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Canadians on the whole are essen]
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Nowhere is this more apparent than
in Eastern Canada. They are a hard]
headed practical people whose way ol
life may best be described the enter]
prise system. Is it not a source ol
comfort to many minorities in Can
ada that the Canadian tradition is that
the state is only a voluntary creation
of individual citizens responsible to
them and designed primarily to pro
tect their liberties? This tradition of
fers us a way of taking the sting oul
of race prejudice through the process
of individualization.
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DECEMBER 25, 194] '
IE NEW CANADIAN
The Conflict of Loyalty and Affection
Canadian Legion of the B. E S. L
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HE average second generation Japanese their forbears. And it is not merely what one’
Canadian, and the first generation too, actually does, it concerns too what one thinks
looks upon the war only with the deepest and feels. Such is the clear issue of loyalty to
regret. That regret springs both from selfish Canada. The answer must be just as clean
and unselfish feelings; but in either case it is
If we are honest, we shall never say that we*
both real and deep. And perhaps the collective hate the Japanese or that we hate Japan. An^
attitude of the community is to wring its hands if we stand for Canada, we need not he'
Vancouver, B. C.
in self pity, and bewail the cruel fates that ashamed of being a “Jap”. We are human
have thus plunged it into the centre of all the individuals first, with innate sense of grati-i
conflicting forces now let loose in the Pacific tude, obligation and duty—and these must be
• arena. Many of us now declare that we knew fulfilled.
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a war was coming; but most of us too hoped
Indeed, being a “Jap” and being influenced^
against hope, and relied on that hope, that
by
Japanese thinking ought only to make even'
1941 would not shatter the fragile balance of
clearer
to us where our loyalty lies, and to
peace that had kept the Pacific as yet undis
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what degree we must uphold it. For it is in i
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Yet a detached and cold-blooded observer
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finds a certain satisfaction in it all, as far as
affection
,duty
comes first.
the Japanese Canadian community is con
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Dr. Inazo Nitobe, famed internationalist,
cerned. That satisfaction springs from the.fact
scholar
and fortyears a pillar of strength in the *
that the war has accomplished in a short time
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League
of Nations, has put it this way:
what otherwise would have required years and
“In his great history, Sanyo relates in touch
years. . It has come like a surgeon’s knife, in
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swift, sharp though painful operation, severing ing language the heart struggle of Shigemori,
the lingering ties of loyalty that Japanese Can concerning his father’s rebellious conduct. "If
adians thought they might retain with the land I be loyal, my father must be undone; if I obey
of their forbears. It has reared Lip like a blitz my father; my duty to my sovereign must go
to knock the collective community off its pre amiss. . . .
carious, uncomfortable perch astride the fence.
“Many a Shigemori has his heart torn by
Prince Rupert, B. C.
Pearl Harbour has become the determining the conflict between duty and affection. In
factor that has-placed us on Canada’s side of deed neither Shakespeare nor the Old Testa
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that fence, as Canadians. And it’s up to us to ment itself contains an adequate rendering of
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fight for our side, to share the duties and dang ‘ko’, our conception of filial piety. And yet in
ers of that side, to become an honorable part . such conflicts Bushido never wavered in its
of it.
choice of Loyalty ...
True, there are mlny Canadians,' some sin
“Since Bushido,” Dr. Nitobe continues, “con-1
cere, some not, who are going to make it tough ceived the state as antedating the individual—'
Eburne, B. C.
for us to prove that we too are Canadians. But the latter being born into the former as part i
now that we know just where we are going, and parcel thereof—he must live and die for
it’s just up to us to find out if we are big it or for the incumbent of its legitimate author
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enough to overcome that opposition.
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ity. Readers of Criito will remember the argu-<
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Right now it’s simply a case of clear, straight ment with which Socrates represents the laws ■
thinking, of concentrating on the essentials, of the city as pleading with him on the sub- '
and not to be thrown off the track by bitter ject of his escape. Among others he makes;
ness and resentment. Admittedly some of the them' (the laws, or the state) say: “Since you ;
guff that is. thrown at us today is hard to take were begotten and nurtured under us, dare <
But we can class most of it as coming from you once to say you are not our offspring and ;
the sort of people, wrought up and hysterical, servant. . . . Loyalty is the ethical outcome of ■
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who declare that if they had been born in this political theory.”
Japan, they would not therefore have become
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“Japs”. They imply, in other, words, that even
anonymous letter writers, some by “yellow” •
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if born and brought up in Japan, they would
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HE average second generation Japanese their forbears. And it is not merely what one’
Canadian, and the first generation too, actually does, it concerns too what one thinks
looks upon the war only with the deepest and feels. Such is the clear issue of loyalty to
regret. That regret springs both from selfish Canada. The answer must be just as clean
and unselfish feelings; but in either case it is
If we are honest, we shall never say that we*
both real and deep. And perhaps the collective hate the Japanese or that we hate Japan. An^
attitude of the community is to wring its hands if we stand for Canada, we need not he'
Vancouver, B. C.
in self pity, and bewail the cruel fates that ashamed of being a “Jap”. We are human
have thus plunged it into the centre of all the individuals first, with innate sense of grati-i
conflicting forces now let loose in the Pacific tude, obligation and duty—and these must be
• arena. Many of us now declare that we knew fulfilled.
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Indeed, being a “Jap” and being influenced^
against hope, and relied on that hope, that
by
Japanese thinking ought only to make even'
1941 would not shatter the fragile balance of
clearer
to us where our loyalty lies, and to
peace that had kept the Pacific as yet undis
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what degree we must uphold it. For it is in i
turbed by a major war.
the
truest Japanese tradition, far more so than i
Yet a detached and cold-blooded observer
in
western,
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finds a certain satisfaction in it all, as far as
affection
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cerned. That satisfaction springs from the.fact
scholar
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of Nations, has put it this way:
what otherwise would have required years and
“In his great history, Sanyo relates in touch
years. . It has come like a surgeon’s knife, in
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swift, sharp though painful operation, severing ing language the heart struggle of Shigemori,
the lingering ties of loyalty that Japanese Can concerning his father’s rebellious conduct. "If
adians thought they might retain with the land I be loyal, my father must be undone; if I obey
of their forbears. It has reared Lip like a blitz my father; my duty to my sovereign must go
to knock the collective community off its pre amiss. . . .
carious, uncomfortable perch astride the fence.
“Many a Shigemori has his heart torn by
Prince Rupert, B. C.
Pearl Harbour has become the determining the conflict between duty and affection. In
factor that has-placed us on Canada’s side of deed neither Shakespeare nor the Old Testa
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fight for our side, to share the duties and dang ‘ko’, our conception of filial piety. And yet in
ers of that side, to become an honorable part . such conflicts Bushido never wavered in its
of it.
choice of Loyalty ...
True, there are mlny Canadians,' some sin
“Since Bushido,” Dr. Nitobe continues, “con-1
cere, some not, who are going to make it tough ceived the state as antedating the individual—'
Eburne, B. C.
for us to prove that we too are Canadians. But the latter being born into the former as part i
now that we know just where we are going, and parcel thereof—he must live and die for
it’s just up to us to find out if we are big it or for the incumbent of its legitimate author
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thinking, of concentrating on the essentials, of the city as pleading with him on the sub- '
and not to be thrown off the track by bitter ject of his escape. Among others he makes;
ness and resentment. Admittedly some of the them' (the laws, or the state) say: “Since you ;
guff that is. thrown at us today is hard to take were begotten and nurtured under us, dare <
But we can class most of it as coming from you once to say you are not our offspring and ;
the sort of people, wrought up and hysterical, servant. . . . Loyalty is the ethical outcome of ■
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who declare that if they had been born in this political theory.”
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work-in Hawaii. But no mention is made
will not iSite you. That is the principal differ
of his written statement that Hawaiian-born
ence between a man and a dog.”
Japanese dockyard workers manned machine
The question that every Japanese Canadian guns against the Japanese attack on Pearl Har
faces then, is the cynic, right, as far as they are. bour; That is relatively unimportant. For us
concerned; Are they prepared to be traitors, to as Canadian-born Japanese, it is important to.
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the Japanese tn Japan, we shall have
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nies, incendiary persecutions at the
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or not, we ace too conspicuous physically to escape notice as the Germans}®
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MAIKAWA
369 Powell Street
Japanese Department
S. MIZUHARA
WEST COAST TRADING CO. LTD
Real Estate — Insurance
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504 East Hastings Street
TAISHODO COMPANY
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1055 Vernon Drive
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To all our many friends
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glorious event.
The demcracies are fighting for the
principles of freedom and justice for
all people whatever their color or
creed.
Of course, because we JapaneseCanadians belong to the same race, as
the Japanese tn Japan, we shall have
to suffer in many ways: false calum
nies, incendiary persecutions at the
hands of “patriots”, etc. Unhappily
or not, we ace too conspicuous physically to escape notice as the Germans}®
and Italians can, with their European}^
coloring. Perhaps it seems incredible^
to the Occidentals that we can be loyal}
to Canada at this time. Yet we are. |
Their mustrust cannot make traitors R
of us. Let us put our trust in tbe
decency of the common people like}^
us, in the justice that ts the slogan of}#
Democracy, and if me must suffer, C
suffer with courage and grim endue- R
To all our many friends
the greetings of
the Children
PAcific 9635
ance.
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the heritage we give the children, tv/to
must not look back to darkness, but R
to light: the thrilling example
their parents' and Eders' indomitable
spirit.
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let us give the children their day, and H
for ourselves remember with abiding}^
faith the song the angels sang:
“Glory to God in the highest, and\^
on earth peace, goodwill towards^
men.”
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npHERE are two things that the Nisei would do well
^ never to’forget even in our strained circumstances.
One is the exquisite art of bowing low from the hips,
the other is the dextrous manipulation of chopsticks.
The latter art is the one which will be most faithfully
retained and conscientiously practiced. Man remembers
his stomach before his manners.
Chopsticks are the table utensils of the Orient. Coup
led with the porcelain spoon, chopsticks have faithfully
fed the Chinese and Japanese through the eras. The ’
Chinese were probably the inventors of this mode.of
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dining but the manner of its discovery is lost in the
dim past in the shifting sands of 8ungwhan. The
second generation on this continent, both Chinese and
Japanese, are exponents of this dining with wooden
sticks which a well known youngster’s encyclopedia
describes as being “very much like lead pencils.’’
Many a Occidental housewife or madam who has
employed a Japanese or Chinese cook has marvelled
at the simplicity of chopsticks and many have expressed
a desire to acquire the art because of its usefulness in
the kitchen. With spoon and chopsticks most culinary
demands may be taken care of in a satisfactory and
clean manner.
In the hands of the expert who cultivates “feel” and
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intuition, chopsticks may do -surprising deeds.
incident which is amazing to the male who watches the
clock carefully to prepare a four minute egg is to have
a cook-san ignore the clock, pick up the egg with the
chopsticks and pronounce it ready or not. Cook-san
usually calls the turn to the right degree of the boiled
. & Our Nisei philosopher return after \
state. Cook-san explains that it is simply done by
seeing and feeling how easily it could be picked up with
365-days of profound contemplation upon
the sticks. This test is for experts. For the stranger
the science of gastronomy to utter and to
in the kitchen it is better for him -to call himself “the
scientific type” and to rely on Big Ben with an alarm
offer observations and reflections appropri
attachment. .
ate to the depths of his well-known wisdom
THE EAST AND WEST
THANKS to their ability to balance rice with chopand sagacity—amen!
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at least in the field of selfish gastronomical patronage ■
forgotten. Nor does one become an epicure through
and indulgence. Daily the Nisei enjoys the best in East
the medium of walking through every restaurant. No,
and West. Moreover he frequently visits other lands
the true epicure is made by other means. The true
and tastes their delicacies.
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epicure is a philosopher before he becomes an epicure.
as
much
as
For city dwellers the fare is as varied
Moreover
the true epicure springs from the kitchen.
they please. The average Nisei at breakfast partakes of
When
a
man has donned mother’s apron and trans
orange juice, cereal, toast and coffee. Lunch is also
lated
the
lingo
of the cook book into understandable
Occidental with either sandwiches and tea or a regular
terms, when he has mixed his ingredients with alien
meal at a restaurant. Dinner is Japanese with rice,
tools and felt the sweat on his brow: when he has
orsuke, fish or meat, or tsukemono and other tidbits.
popped
his mixture into the oven for the trial by fife;
For a change the Nisei has around the corner Chinese
when
he
has tapped his feet, resisting a mad desire to
dishes of chow mein and chop suey> awaiting him. For
open the oven door for a swift peek: when he has
festive nights and for a late snack a warming “soba”
stared at the kitchen clock wondering whether he
is unbeatable while for the adventurous Nisei the novel
should wait a minute more; and then when he has
ties of smorsgabord and chili con-carne are to be inves
finally flipped the oven door and found that he has
tigated.
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tentious, agonizing frustrated second either a philoso
wards hamburgers and coffee. It is the march of time
pher
or a grouch is born. If a philosopher is born
and also the fact that the sound of soba being “slurped”
then
an
epicure is soon to follow but if a grouch is
up and the sound of the “Chattanooga Choo-Choo” do
made then he bears a deep wound eternally and to
not mix well. Hamburgers, the compressed dinner cap
assuage it probably gets married.
So epicures are
sules fit into the modern tempo.
generally
single.
But
again
it
is
not
entirely
through
Though there is less variety in the fare available in
choice.
Women
are
leery
of
a
man
who
has
discovered
the hinterland and in the small camps with their Jap
that superior cooking is merely a mechanical and
anese cooks, still the increasing number of Niseis in
chemical
operation of simple combination plus a bit
these camps have had their effect and the demand and
of
practice.
serving of varied foods has been noted.
'
In contrast with the epicure there is the vain and
But for late risers the Japanese breakfost of misomisinformed male who with fashionable modesty offers
shiru and rice and a bit of something or o.ther will still
the fact that he does not know the difference between
remain as the speediest method of acquiring internal
a turnip and a casserole. This is regarded by the male
stimulation and support to last until the noon whistle.
as an accomplishment and gladly accepted by the female.
For those who enter the mess hall with but a minute
It is best to inspect this mode of thought. It may be
to work-time a hasty solution of rice and “miso-shiru”
that the suggestion was planted by Eve. Of course it
will remain as the most steadfast strategy.
was. Such males may marry and go through life eating
THE BIRTH OF AN EPICURE
out of cans. Why take a beating while you re eating?
UTHEN the Nisei or for that matter anyone has tasted
ERHAPS the most fearful aspect of Western dining
’’ of foods of both the East and West it is inevitable
is the formidable arsenal of cutlery that confronts
that he will become taste and enjoyment-conscious. He
the
guest.
The Average Occidental does not relish the
thus may be in the way of becoming an epicure. How
prospect
of
company dinner so it is not strange that
ever the word “Epicure” has been mangled to a mis
the
average
Nisei
would have grave apprehensions of
taken idea.
An epicure is too often coupled with
a faux pas at the table. Though it is funny to hear
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npHERE are two things that the Nisei would do well
^ never to’forget even in our strained circumstances.
One is the exquisite art of bowing low from the hips,
the other is the dextrous manipulation of chopsticks.
The latter art is the one which will be most faithfully
retained and conscientiously practiced. Man remembers
his stomach before his manners.
Chopsticks are the table utensils of the Orient. Coup
led with the porcelain spoon, chopsticks have faithfully
fed the Chinese and Japanese through the eras. The ’
Chinese were probably the inventors of this mode.of
By "DISCIPVLUS
dining but the manner of its discovery is lost in the
dim past in the shifting sands of 8ungwhan. The
second generation on this continent, both Chinese and
Japanese, are exponents of this dining with wooden
sticks which a well known youngster’s encyclopedia
describes as being “very much like lead pencils.’’
Many a Occidental housewife or madam who has
employed a Japanese or Chinese cook has marvelled
at the simplicity of chopsticks and many have expressed
a desire to acquire the art because of its usefulness in
the kitchen. With spoon and chopsticks most culinary
demands may be taken care of in a satisfactory and
clean manner.
In the hands of the expert who cultivates “feel” and
One
intuition, chopsticks may do -surprising deeds.
incident which is amazing to the male who watches the
clock carefully to prepare a four minute egg is to have
a cook-san ignore the clock, pick up the egg with the
chopsticks and pronounce it ready or not. Cook-san
usually calls the turn to the right degree of the boiled
. & Our Nisei philosopher return after \
state. Cook-san explains that it is simply done by
seeing and feeling how easily it could be picked up with
365-days of profound contemplation upon
the sticks. This test is for experts. For the stranger
the science of gastronomy to utter and to
in the kitchen it is better for him -to call himself “the
scientific type” and to rely on Big Ben with an alarm
offer observations and reflections appropri
attachment. .
ate to the depths of his well-known wisdom
THE EAST AND WEST
THANKS to their ability to balance rice with chopand sagacity—amen!
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■*• sticks the Nisei have bridged the East and West
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at least in the field of selfish gastronomical patronage ■
forgotten. Nor does one become an epicure through
and indulgence. Daily the Nisei enjoys the best in East
the medium of walking through every restaurant. No,
and West. Moreover he frequently visits other lands
the true epicure is made by other means. The true
and tastes their delicacies.
’
epicure is a philosopher before he becomes an epicure.
as
much
as
For city dwellers the fare is as varied
Moreover
the true epicure springs from the kitchen.
they please. The average Nisei at breakfast partakes of
When
a
man has donned mother’s apron and trans
orange juice, cereal, toast and coffee. Lunch is also
lated
the
lingo
of the cook book into understandable
Occidental with either sandwiches and tea or a regular
terms, when he has mixed his ingredients with alien
meal at a restaurant. Dinner is Japanese with rice,
tools and felt the sweat on his brow: when he has
orsuke, fish or meat, or tsukemono and other tidbits.
popped
his mixture into the oven for the trial by fife;
For a change the Nisei has around the corner Chinese
when
he
has tapped his feet, resisting a mad desire to
dishes of chow mein and chop suey> awaiting him. For
open the oven door for a swift peek: when he has
festive nights and for a late snack a warming “soba”
stared at the kitchen clock wondering whether he
is unbeatable while for the adventurous Nisei the novel
should wait a minute more; and then when he has
ties of smorsgabord and chili con-carne are to be inves
finally flipped the oven door and found that he has
tigated.
■
.
been hesitating a minute too long—then, in that porThe younger fry in the city seem to lean more to
tentious, agonizing frustrated second either a philoso
wards hamburgers and coffee. It is the march of time
pher
or a grouch is born. If a philosopher is born
and also the fact that the sound of soba being “slurped”
then
an
epicure is soon to follow but if a grouch is
up and the sound of the “Chattanooga Choo-Choo” do
made then he bears a deep wound eternally and to
not mix well. Hamburgers, the compressed dinner cap
assuage it probably gets married.
So epicures are
sules fit into the modern tempo.
generally
single.
But
again
it
is
not
entirely
through
Though there is less variety in the fare available in
choice.
Women
are
leery
of
a
man
who
has
discovered
the hinterland and in the small camps with their Jap
that superior cooking is merely a mechanical and
anese cooks, still the increasing number of Niseis in
chemical
operation of simple combination plus a bit
these camps have had their effect and the demand and
of
practice.
serving of varied foods has been noted.
'
In contrast with the epicure there is the vain and
But for late risers the Japanese breakfost of misomisinformed male who with fashionable modesty offers
shiru and rice and a bit of something or o.ther will still
the fact that he does not know the difference between
remain as the speediest method of acquiring internal
a turnip and a casserole. This is regarded by the male
stimulation and support to last until the noon whistle.
as an accomplishment and gladly accepted by the female.
For those who enter the mess hall with but a minute
It is best to inspect this mode of thought. It may be
to work-time a hasty solution of rice and “miso-shiru”
that the suggestion was planted by Eve. Of course it
will remain as the most steadfast strategy.
was. Such males may marry and go through life eating
THE BIRTH OF AN EPICURE
out of cans. Why take a beating while you re eating?
UTHEN the Nisei or for that matter anyone has tasted
ERHAPS the most fearful aspect of Western dining
’’ of foods of both the East and West it is inevitable
is the formidable arsenal of cutlery that confronts
that he will become taste and enjoyment-conscious. He
the
guest.
The Average Occidental does not relish the
thus may be in the way of becoming an epicure. How
prospect
of
company dinner so it is not strange that
ever the word “Epicure” has been mangled to a mis
the
average
Nisei
would have grave apprehensions of
taken idea.
An epicure is too often coupled with
a faux pas at the table. Though it is funny to hear
Bacchus. Epicurus himself was a Stoic, a fact which is
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THE NEW CANADIAN
DECEMBER 25, 1941
rhe fellow who drank out of the fingerbowl still
a Nisei knocks on wood even while stricken to
Soor 'n paroxysms of laughter.
remedy is obvious. Knowledge gives confidence,
the happier, days of Japan school children were
v
to one of the better Western style hotels for
t3
There the teacher would arise and hold aloft a
spoon and say “soup spoon". Then he would
i ^nstrate its use. There would follow then a cadenf liquid noise with the teacher hastily subduing the
W-Avment. The manners taught are English and the
Sult was highly ; satisfactory. However The rub .was
That the rules once’learnt were never relaxed and so
Lev were no true enjoyments.
The Nisei should read thoroughly at least one comnprent book on table manners and then forget its wordL and remember only its essentials. Too often the
Sall points are disputed and many points expressed
absolute law invariable and fixed. Yet according to
and place a goocLhearty “yum" would delight a
hostess much more than the conventional it s deh-
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economic security have returned to thousands
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LITTLE WOMAN, WHAT NOW?
moved, that shopkeepers, hotel operators,
ZOOMING down to present circumstances there is the
grocers and other businesses could go back to
k> grave situation that we find ourselves in now. Now
business as usual.
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the women to keep them going.
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rate a growing fear for the future. They
among Japanese Canadians. Many a staple food that
were men with honest faces, shrewd but hon
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of storm. One could almost see life return to
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Nisei too the condition is quite prevalent. It: is a fact
straightening of spines and the throwing back
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of shoulders.
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I have a family to feed. What am I going o
closely guarding a mountain of haversacks and climb
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do? I wish the government would put me
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ing outfits stuffed with rations for a week long camp
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into a concentration camp so I wouldn t have
ing trip. . The youngsters blandly assured her that.it
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forgot
that
in
other
countries
people
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have been shot for less.
only for the purpose of getting to the next clearing and
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the
same
man
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said
the
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sitting down to eat.
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The Issei of course have their hand in this condition.
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In the community picnics which were so popular a few
the same man if he had happened to be there
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years ago, the major result of the gatherings was that
at the time. But it wasn’t. It was another man,
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and this is the essence of what he said, slowly
a great many people suffered acute indigestion or got a
hangover. Try this on poppa next time, in a respectful
and a little reverantly:
“It’s too good. It’s too good to be true.
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DECEMBER 25, 1941
rhe fellow who drank out of the fingerbowl still
a Nisei knocks on wood even while stricken to
Soor 'n paroxysms of laughter.
remedy is obvious. Knowledge gives confidence,
the happier, days of Japan school children were
v
to one of the better Western style hotels for
t3
There the teacher would arise and hold aloft a
spoon and say “soup spoon". Then he would
i ^nstrate its use. There would follow then a cadenf liquid noise with the teacher hastily subduing the
W-Avment. The manners taught are English and the
Sult was highly ; satisfactory. However The rub .was
That the rules once’learnt were never relaxed and so
Lev were no true enjoyments.
The Nisei should read thoroughly at least one comnprent book on table manners and then forget its wordL and remember only its essentials. Too often the
Sall points are disputed and many points expressed
absolute law invariable and fixed. Yet according to
and place a goocLhearty “yum" would delight a
hostess much more than the conventional it s deh-
®
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papermen describes the war as it came to
100,000 Japanese Americans. And in the
policy of the American government, he
believes he has found ...
Joyous Greetings for the Holiday Season
NIPPON AUTO SUPPLY
Democracy in Practice
". . . give thanks that by accident of
birth we are on the right side . . .”
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turned to the LiT Tokios of the Pacific Coast.
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Alien Japanese, technically “enemies,” have
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been told to carry on, with a few minor ex
Christmas Cheer
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1941, the last day of troubled peace before
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Japan’s militarists struck as only the desper
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C‘°One sore spot for the average Nisei is the drinking
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Peace of mind and at least a little sense of
eating of soup. Noiseless eating of soup goes against
€
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rhe Nisei grain. Udon and soba has demanded audible
economic security have returned to thousands
©
•nioyment and the habit remains to egg the Nisei into
of households here. That, friends, is democ
racy in action, and a great tribute to the
sipping his soup and spaghetti with accompaniment.
€
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Succumbing to this temptation is a bad thing according
American way. America won thousands of
©
to the books but there is food for thought when one
grateful, faithful friends by the humane,
€
0
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considers that people who make noises while they are
well-advised steps the government took to
1969 West Georgia Street
©
eating look as if they were eating because they were
€
safeguard the positions of alien Japanese long
© 3 ©©©©©Ci®®
I hungry and liked to eat and because the food was good
residents of this country.
.
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1 while people who eat decorously often look as if they
I happened to be in an information dis
©
| were eating because it was twelve o’clock or six o clock.
tribution center in the Japanese community
when word came that restrictions were re
Best Wishes for a Happy Holiday Season
LITTLE WOMAN, WHAT NOW?
moved, that shopkeepers, hotel operators,
ZOOMING down to present circumstances there is the
grocers and other businesses could go back to
k> grave situation that we find ourselves in now. Now
business as usual.
• is all the more necessary that the ladies wield what
£
All week long I had seen harried little men
it is
ever culinary skill they possess. The men will do whatstream into th office for information, en
government
asks them to do and it is up to
lightenment of some sort which could Penet
ever the
.
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More so is this
the women to keep them going.
, true.
rate a growing fear for the future. They
among Japanese Canadians. Many a staple food that
were men with honest faces, shrewd but hon
Printers to The Neu? Canadian
has come from the Orient or has been imported from
est, wrinkled, bent, calloused by toil, some
the America will not come any more. Already we feel
time of effort be denied them.
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the effect of the lack of rice. The change is that we
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haggard from worry lest the fruits of a life©
230 Alexander Street
shall have to eat bread and Western foods wholly. T e
©
All week long I had seen the operators of
©
Western foods too must be economically and health
®®®®®®®®®®®
this office assuring and re-assuring, joking
fully prepared in order to assist our country. No
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or scolding as the case demanded, trying to
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longer will it be enough to know the easy short order
®
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maintain the faith of their countrymen that
®
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dishes. There must be knowledge of the preparation
®
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Compliments
of
the
Season
all
would
be
well.
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of the cheaper cuts of meats and good cooking in
©
When the news came in, it was as it a
®
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®
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heavy black drape that had been hanging
®
If the Nisei womanhood fails in this task the^ results
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over the scene were suddenly raised. It-was
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will be greater indigestion. The terms ' greater is in
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as if the sun had burst out after eight days
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the comparative degree because the Japanese Canadians
of storm. One could almost see life return to
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usually suffer from indigestion anyways. Among the
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frightened eyes, could notice perceptib e
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Nisei too the condition is quite prevalent. It: is a fact
straightening of spines and the throwing back
©
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that school teachers taking Nisei children on picnics are
of shoulders.
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amazed at the size of their lunch boxes. A young
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days
after
the
start
of
the
war
someOccidental lady taking a group of Nisei youngsters to
2k one had come into the office and said
the North. Shore for a day'hike relates the tale of woe.
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bitterly: “My assets are frozen. I can’t oper
245 Union Street
She came to the ferry slip with her lunch in a little
ate my business., I have no cash on hand and
bag. Her charges were waiting for her; they were
I have a family to feed. What am I going o
closely guarding a mountain of haversacks and climb
©
do? I wish the government would put me
©
ing outfits stuffed with rations for a week long camp
©
into a concentration camp so I wouldn t have
ing trip. . The youngsters blandly assured her that.it
©
Greetings for the Yuletide Season
to worry about the future.’
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was the day's lunch. It was. They proved « b[ 61t'
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He
forgot
that
in
other
countries
people
ting down every half hour and eating. The lads hiked
©
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have been shot for less.
only for the purpose of getting to the next clearing and
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It
wasn
’
t
the
same
man
who
said
the
fol©
sitting down to eat.
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, .
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lowing a lew days later. It eould Jiave been
The Issei of course have their hand in this condition.
©
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In the community picnics which were so popular a few
the same man if he had happened to be there
©
years ago, the major result of the gatherings was that
at the time. But it wasn’t. It was another man,
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and this is the essence of what he said, slowly
a great many people suffered acute indigestion or got a
hangover. Try this on poppa next time, in a respectful
and a little reverantly:
“It’s too good. It’s too good to be true.
sort of way of course.
,
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We’ve been given back our livelihoods.
So it is best to conclude with a warning to those
2141 Dundas Street
who are smacking their lips over the prospects of turThis is truly a democracy. Thank God this
cranberry
sauce,
plum
pudding
and
is America! It couldn’t have happened any
key. giblet gravy,
that
it
is
simple
to
have
a
good
where else.”
other trimmings,
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Limited
TAIYO PRINTING COMPANY
VANCOUVER PAPER BOX
Company Limited
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Kurisumasu, but care must be taken or they will
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PAGE 8
DECEMBER 25, 194]
raSEEEEEESGEGEEEEEEEEBEEGEEEEEGBBEEEISEEEGEEEGEEEEiaEEEGEEEEEE
Steve Enomoto
. J. Hori
THE SAGA OF U
Nakayama
By Eiko Henmi
®
®A
npHIS is the saga of Powell Street. This is the story of an un
recorded, uninvited war. No headlines scream the en
®
® croachment of enemies into private territory.
No sirens wail
® ' like, banshees over the sea.
No
Tight
flares
suddenly
in the
®
® darkness. But Powell Street is standing up under the strain
Mr. & Mrs. M. Noguchi ®
The battlements of Powell Street have not .changed verv
much during the cataclysmic events of the past two weeks ft
goes on very much as it has done for the past forty years dur. ing this Christmas tide, preparing for Christmas, hanging holly
The city itself is jusf
®I buying presents, eating and sleeping.
®
® the same. In the distance, the old wooden church with its new
® coat of brown paint is dimly outlined, obscured somewhat from
®
by trees which border the ball park, bare trees without
Mr. and Mrs. S. Noseh view
singing birds. The little stores are-gay for Christmas, gay with
streamers and neon lights throwing vivid splashes of red upon
the road. Children still walk the streets, oblivious to the world
® and its cares.
The quaint old Chinaman still peddles his
9
ancient
sweetmeats,
taking his stand on the corner with his
9
9 little hand-wagon, his bundle of lighted torches,^and his tink
9
And the tinkling of that bell is as enticing and as
® ling bell.
® tempting as it was two weeks ago. Only the ball park in front
Mr. & Mrs. Hideo Oda 99 of the church holds some aspect of mystery like some brooding
® thing, lighted here and there where last night’s rain made
5
Mr. and Mrs. H.
Fukuyama
Mr. & Mrs. K. Igashira
. & Mrs. K. Gondo Mr. & Mrs. E. K. Ikeno
Mr. and Mrs. J.
Hamanaka/
Ken Hayashi
. Kawata
Mr. and Mrs.
' E; Kitagawa
Kay Oda
Ir. & Mrs. Y. Hirano
Mr. and Mrs. Z. •
Kinoshita
C. Ogawa
Hide Hyodo
Takashi Komiyama
Mr. & Mrs. T. Ohara
Chiyo Hyodo
Mr. and Mrs.
K. Kutsukake
Mr. & Mrs. J. Oiye
Overhead the sky is the same. The self-same evening stars
glimmer faintly through a rent in the grey sky. To the north,
across the stretch o placid sea, above the twinkling shore-line
the still, darker outlines of North Vancouver’s hill sprawl like
peaceful lions, casually on guard over Jap Town.
/T^ODAY, there is no outward evidence of a batte on Powell
A Street. That is the irony of it all. Yet, last week, one of the
boys came.home. He did not believe that such a thing could
happen to him. But it has happened. He was up in the interior,
working as a section hand, a part of a gang who saw to it that
the silver rails were ever in smooth working order for one of
British Columbia’s longest transportation systems. He had
been, on night shift, and too tired even to take his boots off, he
had fallen asleep when he was rudely shaken out of his slumbers, given his bundle of clothing and told to go. Go? Why?
Where? He had not yet heard the momentous news.
He will tell you that he has tried to find a job. He has
appealed to the authorities. He was a Canadian-born Surely
the war had nothing to do with him. He was a Canadian! He
said it, proudly, almost confidently. But bluntly the answer
came back. ‘‘‘There’s no such thing as a Canadian.” But aren’t
you a Canadian?” Came back the reply, “I’m a Britisher.”
The'finality in his voice was more than an answer. Today, he
is a part of Powell Street.
The boy next door is home to stay. The turbulent waters
of the West. Coast, the muddy, sand-filtered yellow Fraser, the
calm inland waters, are now forbidden territory. His trim
little boat, on which he had spent his savings is rounded up
BEE
3
Yuki Matsui
Fumi Ohori
Mr. arid Mrs. Mickey
Maikawa
Hiroshi Okuda
Mickey S. Sato
Mr. & Mrs. I. Sugiyama
Frank Nakamura
Mr. and Mrs.
Edward T. Ouchi
Mr. and Mrs. Harry
K. Shibuya
Aya Suzuki
Mr.-and Mrs.
K. Nakashimada .
Mr. and Mrs. T.
Sakamoto
Mr. & Mrs. H. Shiga
Yoshiko Suzuki
Rev. & Mrs. K. Shimizu
Chitose Uchida
Kunio Shimizu
Dan Washimoto
Kazuye Sada
Yae. Suzuki
Irene Uchida
©
©
©
©
©
Kay Yasunaka
2
©
©
Dr. and Mrs. George Mr. and Mrs. T. IKEDA
A. Ishiwara
AND FAMILY
3
3
PAGE 8
DECEMBER 25, 194]
raSEEEEEESGEGEEEEEEEEBEEGEEEEEGBBEEEISEEEGEEEGEEEEiaEEEGEEEEEE
Steve Enomoto
. J. Hori
THE SAGA OF U
Nakayama
By Eiko Henmi
®
®A
npHIS is the saga of Powell Street. This is the story of an un
recorded, uninvited war. No headlines scream the en
®
® croachment of enemies into private territory.
No sirens wail
® ' like, banshees over the sea.
No
Tight
flares
suddenly
in the
®
® darkness. But Powell Street is standing up under the strain
Mr. & Mrs. M. Noguchi ®
The battlements of Powell Street have not .changed verv
much during the cataclysmic events of the past two weeks ft
goes on very much as it has done for the past forty years dur. ing this Christmas tide, preparing for Christmas, hanging holly
The city itself is jusf
®I buying presents, eating and sleeping.
®
® the same. In the distance, the old wooden church with its new
® coat of brown paint is dimly outlined, obscured somewhat from
®
by trees which border the ball park, bare trees without
Mr. and Mrs. S. Noseh view
singing birds. The little stores are-gay for Christmas, gay with
streamers and neon lights throwing vivid splashes of red upon
the road. Children still walk the streets, oblivious to the world
® and its cares.
The quaint old Chinaman still peddles his
9
ancient
sweetmeats,
taking his stand on the corner with his
9
9 little hand-wagon, his bundle of lighted torches,^and his tink
9
And the tinkling of that bell is as enticing and as
® ling bell.
® tempting as it was two weeks ago. Only the ball park in front
Mr. & Mrs. Hideo Oda 99 of the church holds some aspect of mystery like some brooding
® thing, lighted here and there where last night’s rain made
5
Mr. and Mrs. H.
Fukuyama
Mr. & Mrs. K. Igashira
. & Mrs. K. Gondo Mr. & Mrs. E. K. Ikeno
Mr. and Mrs. J.
Hamanaka/
Ken Hayashi
. Kawata
Mr. and Mrs.
' E; Kitagawa
Kay Oda
Ir. & Mrs. Y. Hirano
Mr. and Mrs. Z. •
Kinoshita
C. Ogawa
Hide Hyodo
Takashi Komiyama
Mr. & Mrs. T. Ohara
Chiyo Hyodo
Mr. and Mrs.
K. Kutsukake
Mr. & Mrs. J. Oiye
Overhead the sky is the same. The self-same evening stars
glimmer faintly through a rent in the grey sky. To the north,
across the stretch o placid sea, above the twinkling shore-line
the still, darker outlines of North Vancouver’s hill sprawl like
peaceful lions, casually on guard over Jap Town.
/T^ODAY, there is no outward evidence of a batte on Powell
A Street. That is the irony of it all. Yet, last week, one of the
boys came.home. He did not believe that such a thing could
happen to him. But it has happened. He was up in the interior,
working as a section hand, a part of a gang who saw to it that
the silver rails were ever in smooth working order for one of
British Columbia’s longest transportation systems. He had
been, on night shift, and too tired even to take his boots off, he
had fallen asleep when he was rudely shaken out of his slumbers, given his bundle of clothing and told to go. Go? Why?
Where? He had not yet heard the momentous news.
He will tell you that he has tried to find a job. He has
appealed to the authorities. He was a Canadian-born Surely
the war had nothing to do with him. He was a Canadian! He
said it, proudly, almost confidently. But bluntly the answer
came back. ‘‘‘There’s no such thing as a Canadian.” But aren’t
you a Canadian?” Came back the reply, “I’m a Britisher.”
The'finality in his voice was more than an answer. Today, he
is a part of Powell Street.
The boy next door is home to stay. The turbulent waters
of the West. Coast, the muddy, sand-filtered yellow Fraser, the
calm inland waters, are now forbidden territory. His trim
little boat, on which he had spent his savings is rounded up
BEE
3
Yuki Matsui
Fumi Ohori
Mr. arid Mrs. Mickey
Maikawa
Hiroshi Okuda
Mickey S. Sato
Mr. & Mrs. I. Sugiyama
Frank Nakamura
Mr. and Mrs.
Edward T. Ouchi
Mr. and Mrs. Harry
K. Shibuya
Aya Suzuki
Mr.-and Mrs.
K. Nakashimada .
Mr. and Mrs. T.
Sakamoto
Mr. & Mrs. H. Shiga
Yoshiko Suzuki
Rev. & Mrs. K. Shimizu
Chitose Uchida
Kunio Shimizu
Dan Washimoto
Kazuye Sada
Yae. Suzuki
Irene Uchida
©
©
©
©
©
Kay Yasunaka
2
©
©
Dr. and Mrs. George Mr. and Mrs. T. IKEDA
A. Ishiwara
AND FAMILY
3
3
Page 9
DECEMBER 25, 1941
^666i
embattled
PAGE 9
TH E N EW CAN AD I AN
9
9
street
with the rest, like so many cattle for the slaughter. Yester,
_
nnlv yesterday . . his life was a secure one. It was a
bumper year . . . and his enthusiasm hadshown on his face,
-out there ” he had said, pointing out beyond the gulf "where
the horSon loses itself, with the wind in one’s face, the waves
Ashing the sides of the boat, the grey dawn breaking, and the
dashing
beneath one’s touch, it’s man against the
XgXts
It isn’t small. It’s not so bad at
i ” And this was the lad that had dreams of becoming a
lawyer No, the sea had not been petty. There was a bigness,
a vastness, and a livelihood, out there.
9
9
9
turns back to sleep ... a bellboywithout a job.
OUCH is the saga of Powell Street today. . Powe1! Street can
S take it Its people are learning the story of life the hard
way There will be slip-ups; there will be fadures: there ^
hP betrayals . . but there shall aso be victories. Till two weeKs
the^tory of these people was a matter of local ^judice.
Today the colour of their hair and their eyes bring with them
SS ^Xieades set up around Powell
street They invite authority .. . . they accept decrees. Their
weapon is their faith in the land of their birth. ‘ Canadianism
is their barricade against the hammering onslaughts upon their
The Saga of
css fe^xwfta^• ~ » =»
fear is no longer there. The moment of crisis has passed.
has been realized and accepted.
Gen Hayashi
The Season’s Greetings
front the
Nisei of Mission, B. C.
Tadashi Saito
Mitsuo Hayashi
Bob Oikawa
Isao Sakon .
5?
S
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
Nao Moriyama
fit
is sorely tried.
This is the saga of Powell Street.
$6666'
Bob Senda
2^
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Jim Yako
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
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Yutaka Ogawa
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
Roy Senda
Dick Yamauchi
9
9
9
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9
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Yoshio Senda
Tatsuo Yanoshita
Chiu Adachi
REGINA YOUNG
MEN'S ASSOCIATION
TAMOTSU OKABE
£s
9
®
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Bloedel, B. C.
It
There is a new spirit on Powell Street. It is ^ere’ ™'
printed on the faces of weatherbeaten fisherfolk, dandling their
fi^Xn offsprings on their knee their ^ge jnar ed
bands idle and awkward, unused to idleness. H is there in
eves of Powell Street youth, working at jobs which tomorrow
Say take away
It is there in the smile of maidens whose
world never secure, even at best, now trembles. Tolerance
Courage9
Wisdom?
Fatalism? Whatever the .spirit,
that spirit which makes Powell Street people .^.on “.Xa’
the spirit which enters into the buying of Chnstm
nresents It U thZ spirit which fills in the void with everyday
oXary things . . . things which must be done even if the heart
Mr. and Mrs. T. Uwate
$8)8)6
9
9
9
They were going to have their new home for Christmas
with red candles and holly and mistletoe. It wouldn t hav
hppn a very big house, but one where they could be alone. No\
the holly has been put away ... the new dress folded for
another time. Yet, by habit, he needs must get up each noin
first rin0 of the alarm. He must hurry. It is lat
Se^e—" like an ingulfing stream, and he
PrlV^eSWpowell Street is taking it in her stride.
166666666669'
Kanematsu Ken Sano
Jimmy K. Kakutani
Britannia Beach, B. C.
PL Arthur Kato
Thomas N. Nomura
9
9
9
9
9
9
Mr. and Mrs. N.
Yamaoka
Luke Murakami
Mary Murakami
Mission, B. C.
Fred S. Tanouye
Kantaro Kadota
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Minoru Kadota. .
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Englewood, B. C.
Ganges, B. C.
Kiyoshi Izumi
Grace K. Numajiri
Tom T. Hori
Ganges, B. C.
Regina, Saskatchewan
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Setsuo Kuwahara
Mt’!
Prince Rupert, B. C.
£
SB
Mr. and Mrs. H.
Mr. and Mrs. T.
Yasunaka
Kiyoshi Enta
Kamikichi Nagasaka
Mr. and Mrs. Yoshida
. and daughter
i Harumi Lorraine
Mabel Furutani
Masatoshi and
Yasushi Ohori
I
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ONOTERA & FAMILY
R. R. No. 1
New Westminster, B. C
R. R. No. 1
New Westminster, B. C.
9
A Merry Christmas
9
9
a
Happy
New
Year
and
9
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Mr. & Mrs. F. TAMAK.
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R. R. No. 1
New Westminster, B. C.
Dick & Kay Takenaka
Bert Murakami
R. R. No. 1
New Westminster, B. C.
fe®®8>86
I
Seido Nagamori
Massy Kanai
TATSURO SUZUKI
Mrs. T. Sumioka
^666i
embattled
PAGE 9
TH E N EW CAN AD I AN
9
9
street
with the rest, like so many cattle for the slaughter. Yester,
_
nnlv yesterday . . his life was a secure one. It was a
bumper year . . . and his enthusiasm hadshown on his face,
-out there ” he had said, pointing out beyond the gulf "where
the horSon loses itself, with the wind in one’s face, the waves
Ashing the sides of the boat, the grey dawn breaking, and the
dashing
beneath one’s touch, it’s man against the
XgXts
It isn’t small. It’s not so bad at
i ” And this was the lad that had dreams of becoming a
lawyer No, the sea had not been petty. There was a bigness,
a vastness, and a livelihood, out there.
9
9
9
turns back to sleep ... a bellboywithout a job.
OUCH is the saga of Powell Street today. . Powe1! Street can
S take it Its people are learning the story of life the hard
way There will be slip-ups; there will be fadures: there ^
hP betrayals . . but there shall aso be victories. Till two weeKs
the^tory of these people was a matter of local ^judice.
Today the colour of their hair and their eyes bring with them
SS ^Xieades set up around Powell
street They invite authority .. . . they accept decrees. Their
weapon is their faith in the land of their birth. ‘ Canadianism
is their barricade against the hammering onslaughts upon their
The Saga of
css fe^xwfta^• ~ » =»
fear is no longer there. The moment of crisis has passed.
has been realized and accepted.
Gen Hayashi
The Season’s Greetings
front the
Nisei of Mission, B. C.
Tadashi Saito
Mitsuo Hayashi
Bob Oikawa
Isao Sakon .
5?
S
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
Nao Moriyama
fit
is sorely tried.
This is the saga of Powell Street.
$6666'
Bob Senda
2^
w
1
Jim Yako
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
0
Yutaka Ogawa
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
Roy Senda
Dick Yamauchi
9
9
9
9
9
9
S'
B
i
■R?
[cj
®
9
sass
®s
KB
KJ
9
9
9
9
s9
Mas Ohno
Yoshio Senda
Tatsuo Yanoshita
Chiu Adachi
REGINA YOUNG
MEN'S ASSOCIATION
TAMOTSU OKABE
£s
9
®
E
Bloedel, B. C.
It
There is a new spirit on Powell Street. It is ^ere’ ™'
printed on the faces of weatherbeaten fisherfolk, dandling their
fi^Xn offsprings on their knee their ^ge jnar ed
bands idle and awkward, unused to idleness. H is there in
eves of Powell Street youth, working at jobs which tomorrow
Say take away
It is there in the smile of maidens whose
world never secure, even at best, now trembles. Tolerance
Courage9
Wisdom?
Fatalism? Whatever the .spirit,
that spirit which makes Powell Street people .^.on “.Xa’
the spirit which enters into the buying of Chnstm
nresents It U thZ spirit which fills in the void with everyday
oXary things . . . things which must be done even if the heart
Mr. and Mrs. T. Uwate
$8)8)6
9
9
9
They were going to have their new home for Christmas
with red candles and holly and mistletoe. It wouldn t hav
hppn a very big house, but one where they could be alone. No\
the holly has been put away ... the new dress folded for
another time. Yet, by habit, he needs must get up each noin
first rin0 of the alarm. He must hurry. It is lat
Se^e—" like an ingulfing stream, and he
PrlV^eSWpowell Street is taking it in her stride.
166666666669'
Kanematsu Ken Sano
Jimmy K. Kakutani
Britannia Beach, B. C.
PL Arthur Kato
Thomas N. Nomura
9
9
9
9
9
9
Mr. and Mrs. N.
Yamaoka
Luke Murakami
Mary Murakami
Mission, B. C.
Fred S. Tanouye
Kantaro Kadota
®
9
9!
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
®j?4
ft
Minoru Kadota. .
P
fe
Englewood, B. C.
Ganges, B. C.
Kiyoshi Izumi
Grace K. Numajiri
Tom T. Hori
Ganges, B. C.
Regina, Saskatchewan
G
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I'
Setsuo Kuwahara
Mt’!
Prince Rupert, B. C.
£
SB
Mr. and Mrs. H.
Mr. and Mrs. T.
Yasunaka
Kiyoshi Enta
Kamikichi Nagasaka
Mr. and Mrs. Yoshida
. and daughter
i Harumi Lorraine
Mabel Furutani
Masatoshi and
Yasushi Ohori
I
i
ONOTERA & FAMILY
R. R. No. 1
New Westminster, B. C
R. R. No. 1
New Westminster, B. C.
9
A Merry Christmas
9
9
a
Happy
New
Year
and
9
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Mr. & Mrs. F. TAMAK.
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WT;
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lit
R. R. No. 1
New Westminster, B. C.
Dick & Kay Takenaka
Bert Murakami
R. R. No. 1
New Westminster, B. C.
fe®®8>86
I
Seido Nagamori
Massy Kanai
TATSURO SUZUKI
Mrs. T. Sumioka
Page 10
PAGE 10
★ the female animal
• By F. A. M.
nTHE other day the head man in the joint calls me, so
•*• wondering watinell I was going to get told off
about, I entered the Almighty's presence. He gives me
the ashy eye and says, “you got a girl?” I admit that I
am in that happy state then the boss man looks away
into space with a dizzy look in his eyes and I know he s
got an idea again -. . . funny thing about newspaper
-editors . . . they always go nuts at a certain time of
The year and this was the time I guess . . .finally his
optics come back into focus and he says, "I think that
if you wrote a column about girls, their virtues and their
vices . . . the novelty of it might be interesting.” Me,
I just stand there and look at the guy for a coupla beats,
then t say, “Oh, no, I don’t like this . . . I'm agin it
[ , . . It ain’t constitutional,” but a lotta good
that does; the guy says, “Well, are you or arent you?”
and so I says I see what you mean and get to work . . .
not that I'm scared of the guy but after all he's the head
man ...
Nov/ in the beginning, (ahem) what I say about
dames and their faults and their good qualities, mostly
their faults ... has nothing to do with my own gal
friend . . . don’t forget that; Arabella ...
Nov/ I ain't a woman-hater but gals as a whole are
not the passion of my young life ; . . most dames are
a pain in the neck . . . not you, Arabella . ... they think:
that we-men were made so that we would be around to
lay tweed topcoats over mud puddles,
so that they
won't get their size fives wet, my dear” . . . in other
words, suckers to the cause . . . their cause . . . then
with that masculine protection they can go about look
ing calm and beautiful ... the first by the sweat of the
gullible male and the latter by the miracle wrought by
that great modern invention—paint . . . that fragile
female” gag is really a stinker . . .
After all that's why it's alwjays the females who write
about etiquette and that sort of drip . . . they are the
ones who get all the advantages while we males do the
dirty work ...
You know . . . women get away with everything . . .
now, don't get me wrong,. Arabella . . . they give you
the stuff about the guy chasing the dame when they
know darn well that it's the inferior sex that are really
desperate and try everything to get their dishpan hands
on any. available and unsuspecting specimen of the male
animal ...
And another thing . . . she-males can swoon and drool
Jn public about their Power or Taylor or Mature even
when they've reached and passed long ago the age when
they should know better, but any fairly normal male
:going about gushing about his passion for Turner or
'Grable would get panned by the whole darn world in
general ...
And why, oh why, do all forms and varieties of the
female of the species have to indulge in cat-chats . . .
- some skirts exist on meowing . .-. when you see a group
of men talking, you'd expect to and find a discussion on
1 sport or the latest doings or such . . . but women, they
can’t help mixing; in the latest dirt and, fellows, it’s
really dirt . . . such as about the dope who took what’sher-name out to the party . . . and guess what he did
there! ! ! and so on into the night . . . well, I guess it
started with Eve ...
Females are born morons in every conceivable way
according to a Gallup survey I have been conducting
since I was fourteen ■. . . heck, Arabella, you know you're
the exception that proves the rule . . . anyway, for one
thing they giggle . . . for no special reason at all . . .
another thing, most, if not all of them think that they
are smarter than we members of the stronger and better
sex . . . this shows more than anything else how bad it
is with the membersof the lesser sex . . . and they find
some guy who is the exception that proves the rule of
masculine superiority so they think they have the right
to feel sorry for the whole caboodle of us poor unfor
tunate (to them) males ...
Of course all the cracks and slams in this are only at
the majority of the weaker sex, as I said before, my gal,
Arabella, is the exception that proves the rule . . . and,
baby, what an exception! ! 1 You know|. . . she reaches
just to my eyes . . ., nice and slim with curves where
curves should be . . . nice legs, of course . . . and smart
as a whip . • . really agrees with me and my pet theories
. . . yes, indeed, she’s perfect ...
Yeah, women really go against my grain . . . but,
Arabella . . . she's an exception . . . and, ah, WHAT AN
EXCEPTION! 1 I
EDITOR’S NOTE
We offer this page at this time des
cribable only as "The present situation”
just for the H--11 of it.
DECEMBER 25, 194]
THE NEW CANADIAN
Papa’s Kuleesmus
-K the milkman on his rounds
• By R. I.
9 By T. M. K.
'T'AKESHI and Sumiko came dancing in from school.
HRISTMAS! and milk to deliver!
•*■
“Ta-dai-ma.”
Br-r-r! This business makes me shive
“Ta-dai-ma.”
Why can’t they buy enough the day befon
“O-kae-ri.”
To save me all this extra chore
Busily they peeled off their outer garments and
On Christmas morn,
jumped to the table. Mmmmm . . . chow-mein. Go
On every Christmas morn!
kan chodai. Ohashi. Shoyu.
Mama, “Today kara holiday?”
The Watsons never leave their bottles out ...
“Hai,” said Sumiko.
How’d she like to be without?
“Till when holiday ka?” asked papa.
(Two whole quarts ... a pint of cream . . . )
“New Year’s second day,’ replied Takeshi.
I’d like to smash her morning dream!
“Isn’t it long? put in mama.
Here’s the note I always write:
“Oh, no!”
“Please put your bottles out each night.”
Ohashis went merrily. Gohan chodai. O-cha please..
Giddy-ap, you Horsey, Giddy-ap!
Ten-year-old Takeshi looked at eight-year-old Sumiko
I’ve got to get my morning nap . . .
meaningly. She nodded her head vigorously.
“Papa
Next the Downings ... bless her heart!
“Um ...”
She never misses on her part.
“Papa ... can we have a Christmas tree this year?”
Who, you Horsey, what do you know!
“Nani? What?”
Here
’s a gift she left to show
“A Christmas tree this year?”
• She really does appreciate ...
“Nani? What?”
(Catch her growling when I’m late.)
“A Christmas tree ...”
“Kuleesmus tree? Papa never do that. Papa always
The Baxters now ... I hope he’s up
say that Kulessmus is Keeleesto—no birthday. Papa
To let me share a cheering cup . . .
is Bukkyo, a Buddhist.”
He hasn’t missed these seven years,
Bukkyo no Kuleesmus wa April no eight day.
As
soon as Horsey's tread he hears.
■•J^!:.;
Uzuki yokka da yo.”
To open wide the door to greet
“But papa, everybody has a Christmas!”
The
early milkman from the street:
“But that’s different!”
“
Merry-Christmas,
Bert, you dope.
“Mo . . . speak no more about it,” commanded papa
You
can
stand
a
glass,
I hope?”
impatiently, for this topic was brought up every year
Giddy-ap,
oh
Giddy-ap.
you Horsey pal o' mine!
since the two had started school, “papa wa Bukkyo
Sweet A-d-line ...
da.”
*
♦
*
♦
*
♦
■■ ♦
And still the milkman wends his way.
TJAPA worked down at the mill with a white man
Familiar rounds of every day;
by the name of Jack Moody.
Stopping here.
“Christmas pretty soon eh, Jim,” said Jack.
Stopping
there,
.
'
“Kuleesmus . . . ummmm ...”
Now
very
warm
and
cheery,
“Christmas good eh?”
Tho' his eyes grow somewhat bleary.
“Nomatta to me.”
The cheer that meets him at some houses . . .
Silence between papa and Jack Mpody.
Oh
nectar of the happy souses! ...
“Jack Moody what do on Kuleesmus?” asked papa
Works
upon him like a charm.
with a faint interest.
(Good
gosh, I hope he doesn’t come to harm!')
“Oh . . . turkeys, movies-and lota of beer and wine.”
Then at length the Horsey stops unreined . . .
“No church?” said the surprised papa.
He is a horse superbly trained . . .
“Church. Ha ha. Say ... I haven’t been in a
Before
the end house on the block,
church since I got married.”
Whose
shuttered windows seem to mock
“Kuleesmus, Keeleesto bon, no?”
The solitary wagon and the solitary horse . . .
“Kleesto bon!”
And
the milkman’s strange, zig-zagging course.
“Um . . . Kuleesto bon.”
*
O
O
“Oh, you mean Christ born.”
STEADY now! Steady!
“Mmmm.”
Buddy, are you ready?
“Sure, Christ born so what?”
Horsey,
can’t you ever stop your whirling;
“No chuch?”
Must
you
set the milk a-twirling?
“Say, Jim, you gotta lot to learn. Nobody has
Haven’t I enough to do,
Christmas because Christ was born, not many anyway.
’
Without my looking after you?
You have Christmas tree and Santa Claus because . . .
Now
stop your weaving ...
because . . i at Christmas everybody is supposed to be
And your heaving ...
good to each other guy.”
Let me stand upon the ground.
“Good-to ...”
“Yeah. Like the way the mill gives you a turkey at
Whoops-a-daisy; The earth turned round
Christmas.”
And
smacked me in the face just now!
“Oh?”
If I drop this bottle . . . ugh! I’ll be in an awful row.
“Like if the Chinks and Japs were Christians they
Steady, boy, steady! Hang on tight!
would stop war on Christmas; shake hands and have
A little to the left . . . no, better to the right . . .
some fun.”
The
sidewalk seems to slip somehow . . .
“. . . and you give your kids whatever they want.”
It doesn't stay in place at . . . WOW!
“But no money!”
Nearly got me with that monkey-shine ...
“But no money!”
Got to toe the sober line ...
“Never mind. You give them whatever they want,
Funny how each Christmas past
that’s Christmas!”
This place has always been the last,
“Kuleesmus velly good.”
And ev’ry time it’s the only one
“Sure, Christmas is a good time to get drunk too.”
*
*
*
*
To start this peculiar kind of fun . . .
Trying to trip me down and . . . well,
/CHRISTMAS EVE.
.
There seems to be a sort of spell!
Said Takeshi to Sumiko, “I wonder if we should
hang up our stockings again.”
Just the same you can’t fool me;
Sumiko looked at the kitchen pipe and wondered
I can reach that porch, y’see?
how stubby Santa Claus could ever come down that
It’ll take sometime, you bet.
way anyway.
But ... I haven’t broke a bottle yet!
“We might as well. Wa-ka-ra-nai-yo.”
Christmas morning opened bright and cheery. Ta
keshi and Sumiko tumbled from their beds and raced
A small pair of girlish hands went to work.
to their stockings. They stopped. Their stockings
“A paint-box!”
were flat, apparently empty. Takeshi took his down.
“A new pair of shoes for mama!”
Something rustled. One dollar ... he gasped. Sumiko
“Oh! Here is one for papa.’
took hers down. Money jingled . . . eighty cents . . .
“Open it, papa!’
she giggled with joy.
“Mmmm ...”
Papa's voice could be heard. “Come here.”
A large bottle of Three Star jumped into view and
They went to the parlour. A Christmas tree, poorly
and sparsely decorated but still a Christmas tree stood winked alluringly at them.
Papa . laughed.
in the corner. And there were ...
“Santa Clos no forget papa too. Kuleesmus velly
“Oh, a bicycle! ”
good . . . eh. Take-chan . . . Sumi-chan?”
“Look, Takeshi, at those packages!”
C
★ the female animal
• By F. A. M.
nTHE other day the head man in the joint calls me, so
•*• wondering watinell I was going to get told off
about, I entered the Almighty's presence. He gives me
the ashy eye and says, “you got a girl?” I admit that I
am in that happy state then the boss man looks away
into space with a dizzy look in his eyes and I know he s
got an idea again -. . . funny thing about newspaper
-editors . . . they always go nuts at a certain time of
The year and this was the time I guess . . .finally his
optics come back into focus and he says, "I think that
if you wrote a column about girls, their virtues and their
vices . . . the novelty of it might be interesting.” Me,
I just stand there and look at the guy for a coupla beats,
then t say, “Oh, no, I don’t like this . . . I'm agin it
[ , . . It ain’t constitutional,” but a lotta good
that does; the guy says, “Well, are you or arent you?”
and so I says I see what you mean and get to work . . .
not that I'm scared of the guy but after all he's the head
man ...
Nov/ in the beginning, (ahem) what I say about
dames and their faults and their good qualities, mostly
their faults ... has nothing to do with my own gal
friend . . . don’t forget that; Arabella ...
Nov/ I ain't a woman-hater but gals as a whole are
not the passion of my young life ; . . most dames are
a pain in the neck . . . not you, Arabella . ... they think:
that we-men were made so that we would be around to
lay tweed topcoats over mud puddles,
so that they
won't get their size fives wet, my dear” . . . in other
words, suckers to the cause . . . their cause . . . then
with that masculine protection they can go about look
ing calm and beautiful ... the first by the sweat of the
gullible male and the latter by the miracle wrought by
that great modern invention—paint . . . that fragile
female” gag is really a stinker . . .
After all that's why it's alwjays the females who write
about etiquette and that sort of drip . . . they are the
ones who get all the advantages while we males do the
dirty work ...
You know . . . women get away with everything . . .
now, don't get me wrong,. Arabella . . . they give you
the stuff about the guy chasing the dame when they
know darn well that it's the inferior sex that are really
desperate and try everything to get their dishpan hands
on any. available and unsuspecting specimen of the male
animal ...
And another thing . . . she-males can swoon and drool
Jn public about their Power or Taylor or Mature even
when they've reached and passed long ago the age when
they should know better, but any fairly normal male
:going about gushing about his passion for Turner or
'Grable would get panned by the whole darn world in
general ...
And why, oh why, do all forms and varieties of the
female of the species have to indulge in cat-chats . . .
- some skirts exist on meowing . .-. when you see a group
of men talking, you'd expect to and find a discussion on
1 sport or the latest doings or such . . . but women, they
can’t help mixing; in the latest dirt and, fellows, it’s
really dirt . . . such as about the dope who took what’sher-name out to the party . . . and guess what he did
there! ! ! and so on into the night . . . well, I guess it
started with Eve ...
Females are born morons in every conceivable way
according to a Gallup survey I have been conducting
since I was fourteen ■. . . heck, Arabella, you know you're
the exception that proves the rule . . . anyway, for one
thing they giggle . . . for no special reason at all . . .
another thing, most, if not all of them think that they
are smarter than we members of the stronger and better
sex . . . this shows more than anything else how bad it
is with the membersof the lesser sex . . . and they find
some guy who is the exception that proves the rule of
masculine superiority so they think they have the right
to feel sorry for the whole caboodle of us poor unfor
tunate (to them) males ...
Of course all the cracks and slams in this are only at
the majority of the weaker sex, as I said before, my gal,
Arabella, is the exception that proves the rule . . . and,
baby, what an exception! ! 1 You know|. . . she reaches
just to my eyes . . ., nice and slim with curves where
curves should be . . . nice legs, of course . . . and smart
as a whip . • . really agrees with me and my pet theories
. . . yes, indeed, she’s perfect ...
Yeah, women really go against my grain . . . but,
Arabella . . . she's an exception . . . and, ah, WHAT AN
EXCEPTION! 1 I
EDITOR’S NOTE
We offer this page at this time des
cribable only as "The present situation”
just for the H--11 of it.
DECEMBER 25, 194]
THE NEW CANADIAN
Papa’s Kuleesmus
-K the milkman on his rounds
• By R. I.
9 By T. M. K.
'T'AKESHI and Sumiko came dancing in from school.
HRISTMAS! and milk to deliver!
•*■
“Ta-dai-ma.”
Br-r-r! This business makes me shive
“Ta-dai-ma.”
Why can’t they buy enough the day befon
“O-kae-ri.”
To save me all this extra chore
Busily they peeled off their outer garments and
On Christmas morn,
jumped to the table. Mmmmm . . . chow-mein. Go
On every Christmas morn!
kan chodai. Ohashi. Shoyu.
Mama, “Today kara holiday?”
The Watsons never leave their bottles out ...
“Hai,” said Sumiko.
How’d she like to be without?
“Till when holiday ka?” asked papa.
(Two whole quarts ... a pint of cream . . . )
“New Year’s second day,’ replied Takeshi.
I’d like to smash her morning dream!
“Isn’t it long? put in mama.
Here’s the note I always write:
“Oh, no!”
“Please put your bottles out each night.”
Ohashis went merrily. Gohan chodai. O-cha please..
Giddy-ap, you Horsey, Giddy-ap!
Ten-year-old Takeshi looked at eight-year-old Sumiko
I’ve got to get my morning nap . . .
meaningly. She nodded her head vigorously.
“Papa
Next the Downings ... bless her heart!
“Um ...”
She never misses on her part.
“Papa ... can we have a Christmas tree this year?”
Who, you Horsey, what do you know!
“Nani? What?”
Here
’s a gift she left to show
“A Christmas tree this year?”
• She really does appreciate ...
“Nani? What?”
(Catch her growling when I’m late.)
“A Christmas tree ...”
“Kuleesmus tree? Papa never do that. Papa always
The Baxters now ... I hope he’s up
say that Kulessmus is Keeleesto—no birthday. Papa
To let me share a cheering cup . . .
is Bukkyo, a Buddhist.”
He hasn’t missed these seven years,
Bukkyo no Kuleesmus wa April no eight day.
As
soon as Horsey's tread he hears.
■•J^!:.;
Uzuki yokka da yo.”
To open wide the door to greet
“But papa, everybody has a Christmas!”
The
early milkman from the street:
“But that’s different!”
“
Merry-Christmas,
Bert, you dope.
“Mo . . . speak no more about it,” commanded papa
You
can
stand
a
glass,
I hope?”
impatiently, for this topic was brought up every year
Giddy-ap,
oh
Giddy-ap.
you Horsey pal o' mine!
since the two had started school, “papa wa Bukkyo
Sweet A-d-line ...
da.”
*
♦
*
♦
*
♦
■■ ♦
And still the milkman wends his way.
TJAPA worked down at the mill with a white man
Familiar rounds of every day;
by the name of Jack Moody.
Stopping here.
“Christmas pretty soon eh, Jim,” said Jack.
Stopping
there,
.
'
“Kuleesmus . . . ummmm ...”
Now
very
warm
and
cheery,
“Christmas good eh?”
Tho' his eyes grow somewhat bleary.
“Nomatta to me.”
The cheer that meets him at some houses . . .
Silence between papa and Jack Mpody.
Oh
nectar of the happy souses! ...
“Jack Moody what do on Kuleesmus?” asked papa
Works
upon him like a charm.
with a faint interest.
(Good
gosh, I hope he doesn’t come to harm!')
“Oh . . . turkeys, movies-and lota of beer and wine.”
Then at length the Horsey stops unreined . . .
“No church?” said the surprised papa.
He is a horse superbly trained . . .
“Church. Ha ha. Say ... I haven’t been in a
Before
the end house on the block,
church since I got married.”
Whose
shuttered windows seem to mock
“Kuleesmus, Keeleesto bon, no?”
The solitary wagon and the solitary horse . . .
“Kleesto bon!”
And
the milkman’s strange, zig-zagging course.
“Um . . . Kuleesto bon.”
*
O
O
“Oh, you mean Christ born.”
STEADY now! Steady!
“Mmmm.”
Buddy, are you ready?
“Sure, Christ born so what?”
Horsey,
can’t you ever stop your whirling;
“No chuch?”
Must
you
set the milk a-twirling?
“Say, Jim, you gotta lot to learn. Nobody has
Haven’t I enough to do,
Christmas because Christ was born, not many anyway.
’
Without my looking after you?
You have Christmas tree and Santa Claus because . . .
Now
stop your weaving ...
because . . i at Christmas everybody is supposed to be
And your heaving ...
good to each other guy.”
Let me stand upon the ground.
“Good-to ...”
“Yeah. Like the way the mill gives you a turkey at
Whoops-a-daisy; The earth turned round
Christmas.”
And
smacked me in the face just now!
“Oh?”
If I drop this bottle . . . ugh! I’ll be in an awful row.
“Like if the Chinks and Japs were Christians they
Steady, boy, steady! Hang on tight!
would stop war on Christmas; shake hands and have
A little to the left . . . no, better to the right . . .
some fun.”
The
sidewalk seems to slip somehow . . .
“. . . and you give your kids whatever they want.”
It doesn't stay in place at . . . WOW!
“But no money!”
Nearly got me with that monkey-shine ...
“But no money!”
Got to toe the sober line ...
“Never mind. You give them whatever they want,
Funny how each Christmas past
that’s Christmas!”
This place has always been the last,
“Kuleesmus velly good.”
And ev’ry time it’s the only one
“Sure, Christmas is a good time to get drunk too.”
*
*
*
*
To start this peculiar kind of fun . . .
Trying to trip me down and . . . well,
/CHRISTMAS EVE.
.
There seems to be a sort of spell!
Said Takeshi to Sumiko, “I wonder if we should
hang up our stockings again.”
Just the same you can’t fool me;
Sumiko looked at the kitchen pipe and wondered
I can reach that porch, y’see?
how stubby Santa Claus could ever come down that
It’ll take sometime, you bet.
way anyway.
But ... I haven’t broke a bottle yet!
“We might as well. Wa-ka-ra-nai-yo.”
Christmas morning opened bright and cheery. Ta
keshi and Sumiko tumbled from their beds and raced
A small pair of girlish hands went to work.
to their stockings. They stopped. Their stockings
“A paint-box!”
were flat, apparently empty. Takeshi took his down.
“A new pair of shoes for mama!”
Something rustled. One dollar ... he gasped. Sumiko
“Oh! Here is one for papa.’
took hers down. Money jingled . . . eighty cents . . .
“Open it, papa!’
she giggled with joy.
“Mmmm ...”
Papa's voice could be heard. “Come here.”
A large bottle of Three Star jumped into view and
They went to the parlour. A Christmas tree, poorly
and sparsely decorated but still a Christmas tree stood winked alluringly at them.
Papa . laughed.
in the corner. And there were ...
“Santa Clos no forget papa too. Kuleesmus velly
“Oh, a bicycle! ”
good . . . eh. Take-chan . . . Sumi-chan?”
“Look, Takeshi, at those packages!”
C
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PAGE 12
DECEMBER 25, 194;
tumbling out as he had triM +
/_pHE old man slowly opened his eyes,.
himself in . . . the boat had tW
For a few odd seconds the misti
farther and farther .
th^0^
ness of sleep still clung to him and
jumbled . . . and the old^y
then two familiar sounds filling the
been claimed by the icy Skeena
small cabin, the gentle waves cares
is how it would look thought tha n
sing the wooden hull of his gill-netter,
fisherman with a wry, penitent s^
the loud ticking of his alarm assured
A SHORT STORY BY
him that all was well.
TTE sat down on his stool and
The old man yawned, shook his
another cigarette. He brou?
head like a dog and sat up on his
out a box of cookies and
ght
Punched
small bunk. He peered through the
them slowly. They tasted good
?
porthole. Other craft were riding at
to him was a foolish business. Fisher
he grasped the fly-wheel and swung looked behind to the solitary
their anchor, their lanterns shining
men, he said, worked day and night
it over in one expert movement. The light of the cannery, his wife an|
and reflected in the murky waters of
the summer long, but still when, win
engine started to life, uncertainly, daughter were there. He gazed at th
the Skeena.
ter came, the cannery was a necro
smoothly now as the speed was in opposite side of the river. Clustering
Already lights were on the river.
polis of worried men. Always in debt
lights marked the still-anchored fish
creased.
A boat puffed slowly out, a ghostly
ing
fleet, one of them was his son
to the cannery, they never tasted the
He drew in his anchor, swung his
vessel and a ghostly man sliding out
common things in life that others took
He looked this way and
tiller, and shoved his gears ahead. Takashi.
to work. A bit too early thought the
for granted. Tak said, “Isn’t that
that
way
and
each time once-forgot
With a faint gurgle the propellor be
old man. He took down the tide book.
ten
memories
returned.
5
enough for anyone to try for some
gan its revolutions and the gill-netter
Let’s see . . . August 25 . . . low-tide thing else? Isn’t there a hakujin
He remembered the old sailing
headed into mid-stream. It wove its
2:24 . . . add 10 difference ... that
axiom that says, “Try, try, try again”?
boats
towed out to the fishing grounds
way
among
the
sleeping
boats
and
in
would be 2:34 A.M. . . . six feet too
Isn’t there a Japanese tale about a
He
remembered
shivering many times
a few moments puffed alone in open
... too early concluded the old man
frog
who
jumped
and
jumped
till
he
in
the
wet
with
a
cold bowl of rice in
waters.
‘
again.
got where he wanted?”
The old man helped himself to his hand. He remembered the fog
He slipped on his rubber boots, his
The
old man stared in the direction
another
cigarette.
Luxuriously he and how he had went ashore at Powell
thick sweater and groped his way
of . his son’s boat. Yes, Takashi was
puffed. He felt strangely light and Point. He remembered the fishermen
outside. Stretching himself to his full
right, fishing wasn’t much of a living
carefree. Everything would be all of long ago, of the many that came to
five-four, he took a deep breath to fill
but every work had its detestable but
right. Takashi would stay in the can Skeena each summer to fill the bunk
his /cramped lungs with the late-sum-. bearable points. Fishing wasn’t a road
nery, make his home there, look after house with their lusty songs. He remer air.
to fortune but it gave a healthy liv
his mother and hister. He would fish -membered the great catch, the un
The sky was filled with a mass of
ing, good comrades, and a zest for
for cohoe and spring like the rest of believable storm, the strike, the great
pin-pointed stars. Dark clouds hung
living. Wasn’t that enough . . .
them. Everything was going to be all fire. Memories ...
here and there and over to the south
But the old man knew that no mat
He dipped his hand into the river.
right.
swung a hazy shadow of a moon. A
ter what the malignant facts may be,
It
was cold, very cold. Thirty years
He headed towards the point, it
solitary light flickered to the west,
it was now to late to resume to mere
the
river had given him a living, it
was the shadowy outline dead ahead.
marking his home, one of the many
was
like a friend, but still it was a
talking. To-morrow the sockeye nets
He left the tiller for a few seconds to
canneries of the river.
cold
river.
would be hung up for. the last time
check the oil in the lanterns.
ReHe suddenly stooped to peer at a
and his son would head, south again
filling them, he once more took his
Thirty Years
boat riding close by. “T-K-three-sixon the next boat. Something had to
place
at
the
wheel.
two-one,” he read; that must be his
Thirty years, much had happened.
be done, now and quickly, but the
The old fisherman calculated the Sail boats to gas engines. Sue and
son Takashi.
old father saw no way except one.
distance in the darkness with an ex- Tak were born and raised. Tough
The old man sat down on his small Weeks of thinking, thinking when he
perienced eye, maneuvered into posi years, fat years, lucky years, tragedy
stool. He took out his can of handshould have been sleeping had given tion, slowed his engine, took his place
years, they passed the old man in
rolled cigarettes, took one, lit it,
him only one possible solution.
in the stern and began casting his net. thirty short years. And now he was
puffed once, and lost himself in wor
Gently he placed the end buoy on the old, no longer young, ready to go. He
That Was The Chance
ried thoughts.
river, it trailed behind. He played wondered what they would say at his
He wondered if it would be worth
Here it was, the 25th of August, the
out the cork-line and the lead-line funeral. “The old man was a good
the
result he prayed for. Would Tak
last night of the last week of the sock
neatly
so as not to tangle the meshes. man . . . honorable, helpful and kind
react as he hoped? Would he? That
eye season, and he had meant to have
The rest followed, the old man guid . . . for thirty years he . . ” Thirty
was the chance he had to take but
the problem finished and solved once
ing them in effortlessly.
years ...
and for all. But that was what he had
still a more complex thought occurred
He threw his cigarette into the
Twenty Corks, Thirty-Corks
to him . . . was it necessary?
intended to do for what he had actu
river,
the glowing end was snuffed
ally done was negligible.
Would Takashi after a few more
. Twenty corks, thirty corks, forty
out
in
a second. For a few moments
years of pilgrimage to the south settle
corks. He drew his gears into neutral
His Sori, Takashi
for good in the Skeena? Or would he
and glanced back at his corks. A few the cigarette. clung to the hull as if
For seven busy weeks he had pon forever be a rolling stone between
were caught in the light and bobbed reluctant to part with a living body.
dered over the problems of Tak, prob
two points, like a bird in a seasonal
impishly, the rest were lost in the I disappeared. The old man had one
lems of the old man to be more con migration, unfixed and unreliable?
dark to where the buoy lantern shone more thing to do. He opened the gas
cise. He wondered if all niseis were
valve and emptied the tank until only
To the old man that was the big
cheerfully.
restless and blind to the cold, actual
question . . . was it necessary? And
He once more shoved his gears a few minutes supply was left. The
facts of life. No matter in what way
something told him he . must act be
ahead and then he did a strange petrol left an oily, greenish mess co
the old man had castigated Tak, with fore it was too late. He himself was
thing, He no longer guided the two the surface of the river.
pleading words, with sarcastic words,
Once more he started the engine,
getting old, he would die before long
lines. He threw, the net into the
insulting
words,
Tak
remained anyway and no sacrifice was too
the gears ahead. The old man took a
river
twisted
and
tangled.
Ten
yards,
staunchly, obstinately to his stand.
great for his son reasoned the old
twenty yards, once more the gears quick look around, he took a step to
His son had a healthy determination man. No sacrifice was too great.
were pushed into neutral. The boat the side, and another, and he was
and faith in his belief, there was no
Abruptly he stood up and glanced
glided to a stop, the exhaust puffed gone.
scepticism in his make-up. No, Taka
The gill-netter moved slowly on its
obliquely at “TK 3621”. His; mind
laboriously.
Silently the old man
shi believed he was right.
was made up.
Was it necessary?
contemplated his work. He could not set course, the snaky mass following
For six years he had gone down Would it work? What
djd it matter!
see his net in the darkness but he in its wake. It soon reached the end.
south to find a better living and six He could at least try.
The cork-line stood taut. The pro
The old man knew how it would look.
summers he had returned to Skeena had made up his mind.
It. would look as if he had been peller gurgled. Dismally the exhaust
to fish. To the old man, that was
casting his net . . . and then his foot in the inky darkness of the shadowy
enough in itself to warrant Tak’s per
pjE felt his way into the cabin. He
had been caught in the treacherous mountain. It gave a cough ...a
manent stay in the cannery but to his
stooped over the engine and
meshes . . . he had been pulled into dying motor gasping for life . . . and
son, no.
primed the starter. H eopened the
the river; frantically he had grasped it stopped. The engine was dead . •
Tak had it all figured out. Fishing
gas-valve, he spat on his tough hands,
the cork-line . . . but the net had come and soon it was cold.
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DECEMBER 25, 194;
tumbling out as he had triM +
/_pHE old man slowly opened his eyes,.
himself in . . . the boat had tW
For a few odd seconds the misti
farther and farther .
th^0^
ness of sleep still clung to him and
jumbled . . . and the old^y
then two familiar sounds filling the
been claimed by the icy Skeena
small cabin, the gentle waves cares
is how it would look thought tha n
sing the wooden hull of his gill-netter,
fisherman with a wry, penitent s^
the loud ticking of his alarm assured
A SHORT STORY BY
him that all was well.
TTE sat down on his stool and
The old man yawned, shook his
another cigarette. He brou?
head like a dog and sat up on his
out a box of cookies and
ght
Punched
small bunk. He peered through the
them slowly. They tasted good
?
porthole. Other craft were riding at
to him was a foolish business. Fisher
he grasped the fly-wheel and swung looked behind to the solitary
their anchor, their lanterns shining
men, he said, worked day and night
it over in one expert movement. The light of the cannery, his wife an|
and reflected in the murky waters of
the summer long, but still when, win
engine started to life, uncertainly, daughter were there. He gazed at th
the Skeena.
ter came, the cannery was a necro
smoothly now as the speed was in opposite side of the river. Clustering
Already lights were on the river.
polis of worried men. Always in debt
lights marked the still-anchored fish
creased.
A boat puffed slowly out, a ghostly
ing
fleet, one of them was his son
to the cannery, they never tasted the
He drew in his anchor, swung his
vessel and a ghostly man sliding out
common things in life that others took
He looked this way and
tiller, and shoved his gears ahead. Takashi.
to work. A bit too early thought the
for granted. Tak said, “Isn’t that
that
way
and
each time once-forgot
With a faint gurgle the propellor be
old man. He took down the tide book.
ten
memories
returned.
5
enough for anyone to try for some
gan its revolutions and the gill-netter
Let’s see . . . August 25 . . . low-tide thing else? Isn’t there a hakujin
He remembered the old sailing
headed into mid-stream. It wove its
2:24 . . . add 10 difference ... that
axiom that says, “Try, try, try again”?
boats
towed out to the fishing grounds
way
among
the
sleeping
boats
and
in
would be 2:34 A.M. . . . six feet too
Isn’t there a Japanese tale about a
He
remembered
shivering many times
a few moments puffed alone in open
... too early concluded the old man
frog
who
jumped
and
jumped
till
he
in
the
wet
with
a
cold bowl of rice in
waters.
‘
again.
got where he wanted?”
The old man helped himself to his hand. He remembered the fog
He slipped on his rubber boots, his
The
old man stared in the direction
another
cigarette.
Luxuriously he and how he had went ashore at Powell
thick sweater and groped his way
of . his son’s boat. Yes, Takashi was
puffed. He felt strangely light and Point. He remembered the fishermen
outside. Stretching himself to his full
right, fishing wasn’t much of a living
carefree. Everything would be all of long ago, of the many that came to
five-four, he took a deep breath to fill
but every work had its detestable but
right. Takashi would stay in the can Skeena each summer to fill the bunk
his /cramped lungs with the late-sum-. bearable points. Fishing wasn’t a road
nery, make his home there, look after house with their lusty songs. He remer air.
to fortune but it gave a healthy liv
his mother and hister. He would fish -membered the great catch, the un
The sky was filled with a mass of
ing, good comrades, and a zest for
for cohoe and spring like the rest of believable storm, the strike, the great
pin-pointed stars. Dark clouds hung
living. Wasn’t that enough . . .
them. Everything was going to be all fire. Memories ...
here and there and over to the south
But the old man knew that no mat
He dipped his hand into the river.
right.
swung a hazy shadow of a moon. A
ter what the malignant facts may be,
It
was cold, very cold. Thirty years
He headed towards the point, it
solitary light flickered to the west,
it was now to late to resume to mere
the
river had given him a living, it
was the shadowy outline dead ahead.
marking his home, one of the many
was
like a friend, but still it was a
talking. To-morrow the sockeye nets
He left the tiller for a few seconds to
canneries of the river.
cold
river.
would be hung up for. the last time
check the oil in the lanterns.
ReHe suddenly stooped to peer at a
and his son would head, south again
filling them, he once more took his
Thirty Years
boat riding close by. “T-K-three-sixon the next boat. Something had to
place
at
the
wheel.
two-one,” he read; that must be his
Thirty years, much had happened.
be done, now and quickly, but the
The old fisherman calculated the Sail boats to gas engines. Sue and
son Takashi.
old father saw no way except one.
distance in the darkness with an ex- Tak were born and raised. Tough
The old man sat down on his small Weeks of thinking, thinking when he
perienced eye, maneuvered into posi years, fat years, lucky years, tragedy
stool. He took out his can of handshould have been sleeping had given tion, slowed his engine, took his place
years, they passed the old man in
rolled cigarettes, took one, lit it,
him only one possible solution.
in the stern and began casting his net. thirty short years. And now he was
puffed once, and lost himself in wor
Gently he placed the end buoy on the old, no longer young, ready to go. He
That Was The Chance
ried thoughts.
river, it trailed behind. He played wondered what they would say at his
He wondered if it would be worth
Here it was, the 25th of August, the
out the cork-line and the lead-line funeral. “The old man was a good
the
result he prayed for. Would Tak
last night of the last week of the sock
neatly
so as not to tangle the meshes. man . . . honorable, helpful and kind
react as he hoped? Would he? That
eye season, and he had meant to have
The rest followed, the old man guid . . . for thirty years he . . ” Thirty
was the chance he had to take but
the problem finished and solved once
ing them in effortlessly.
years ...
and for all. But that was what he had
still a more complex thought occurred
He threw his cigarette into the
Twenty Corks, Thirty-Corks
to him . . . was it necessary?
intended to do for what he had actu
river,
the glowing end was snuffed
ally done was negligible.
Would Takashi after a few more
. Twenty corks, thirty corks, forty
out
in
a second. For a few moments
years of pilgrimage to the south settle
corks. He drew his gears into neutral
His Sori, Takashi
for good in the Skeena? Or would he
and glanced back at his corks. A few the cigarette. clung to the hull as if
For seven busy weeks he had pon forever be a rolling stone between
were caught in the light and bobbed reluctant to part with a living body.
dered over the problems of Tak, prob
two points, like a bird in a seasonal
impishly, the rest were lost in the I disappeared. The old man had one
lems of the old man to be more con migration, unfixed and unreliable?
dark to where the buoy lantern shone more thing to do. He opened the gas
cise. He wondered if all niseis were
valve and emptied the tank until only
To the old man that was the big
cheerfully.
restless and blind to the cold, actual
question . . . was it necessary? And
He once more shoved his gears a few minutes supply was left. The
facts of life. No matter in what way
something told him he . must act be
ahead and then he did a strange petrol left an oily, greenish mess co
the old man had castigated Tak, with fore it was too late. He himself was
thing, He no longer guided the two the surface of the river.
pleading words, with sarcastic words,
Once more he started the engine,
getting old, he would die before long
lines. He threw, the net into the
insulting
words,
Tak
remained anyway and no sacrifice was too
the gears ahead. The old man took a
river
twisted
and
tangled.
Ten
yards,
staunchly, obstinately to his stand.
great for his son reasoned the old
twenty yards, once more the gears quick look around, he took a step to
His son had a healthy determination man. No sacrifice was too great.
were pushed into neutral. The boat the side, and another, and he was
and faith in his belief, there was no
Abruptly he stood up and glanced
glided to a stop, the exhaust puffed gone.
scepticism in his make-up. No, Taka
The gill-netter moved slowly on its
obliquely at “TK 3621”. His; mind
laboriously.
Silently the old man
shi believed he was right.
was made up.
Was it necessary?
contemplated his work. He could not set course, the snaky mass following
For six years he had gone down Would it work? What
djd it matter!
see his net in the darkness but he in its wake. It soon reached the end.
south to find a better living and six He could at least try.
The cork-line stood taut. The pro
The old man knew how it would look.
summers he had returned to Skeena had made up his mind.
It. would look as if he had been peller gurgled. Dismally the exhaust
to fish. To the old man, that was
casting his net . . . and then his foot in the inky darkness of the shadowy
enough in itself to warrant Tak’s per
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DECEMBER 25, 1941
"Frenesi" had rode to face on
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BREAKER
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BY A. Y.
Rhapsody” was marqueed ten times over such lesser
THE YEAR-END ROUND-UP OF POPULAR TUNES
lights as "You Walk By" and "It All Comes Back to
Me Now". In the scramble, a six-year record holder
The year, 1941, proved one of the most interesting "My Reverie" (8 firsts) was relegated to the limbo o
and at the same time, one of the most insipid years in past champions.
In surveying the whole year's parade of song Readers
the annals of popular music. , . - Interest.ng because
of the sweeping gains made by the juke boxes in pop we find two others right on the very heels of "I Hear
ularity, the many excellent recordings of "sweet and a Rhaosodv”. Th6 amazing feature of the statistical
"swing", the increasing number of entertaining Holly showing of "Maria Elena” and "Intermezzo” is that
both came first just twict
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wood creations featuring name bands, and the rise o
Shattered, too, during the year was the proud rec
several colorful new bands. . . . Insipid because ofthe
colorless run of songs which - ruled the roost on Your ord of seventeen Hit Parade placements made by the
rollicking ditty "Beer Barrel Polka", when six songs
Hit Parade".
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for 3rd, and so forth...
And all this was strongly and quite faithfully
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reflected on "Your Hit Parade”, self-styled gauge of
The lack of space forces me to postpone the results'
of the song contest just recently completed. Look for
America's current song favorites.
In the first few months of the year, there was actu it and other Music Box jottings in the following issue
ally a dearth of presentable new songs. Duiing this of The New Canadian. In the meantime, A Merry,
vacuum one song had "greatness thrust upon u. I
Merry Christmas.
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Hear a Rhapsody” was its title. Before this piece.
Heartiest Greetings for
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to use an apt vernacular term, between the radio net of songs.
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The grand old lady of them all was Maria Elena
works and ASCAP (American Society of. Composers
I who faidy creaked with old age as "she” bowed outand Publishers) with the latter losing heavily both of the "Hit Parade” scene in the 22nd act on Sep
financially and in prestige. For
instance, when NBC and ASCAP tember 27th, after having made her debut five months
ASCAP vs.
decided to bury the hatchet on
before on May 3rd.
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RADIO FEUD
Among other melodies, ”| Don t Want to Set the
a dreary seven-month feud in
World on Fire” moved up the rungs of the ladder with
August, ASCAP had kicked away $2,500,000 in- re- scorching speed, with only thirteen appearances to date
ceipts (ouch!), stood to make $1,000,000 per year
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less than in 1940 when the radio barons paid it $4,- to its credit.
"The Things I Love” (with 8 fourths to make up
500 000 (ouch!), and had lost its tight monopoly on
for the lack of first, seconds and thirds), "Daddy”,
broadcastedI music—BMI (Broadcast Music Incr.)
rsed corporation will continue to function and "You Walk By" complete the list of the top ten
radio-nursec
numbers for 1941.
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(OUCHI).
Other songs which gained first place billing and
While BM1 had not yet cut its milk teeth, its ar
rangers and composers frantically thumbed non-copy- deserving mention are: "There I Go”, "Wise Old Owl ,
righted music for inspiration. Stephen Foster, the "My Sister and I”, "Hut Sut Song", J'Tomg.it We
classics, the so-called semi-classics, and Latin Amen-, Love" and the latest, "Elmer's Tune".
can tunes were worked over and over-worked.. Jean
More detailed statistics are:
nie with the Light Brown Hair" was fairly crucified.
1st 2nd 3rd Times Pts.
Song- Title
Staid lovers of classical music threw up their hands in
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KAY MORI
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Many individuals had expected the worst.
When the blow did not fall, they learned the
meaning of democracy more P01Sn“ ly fr^
a display of fairness than they possibly could
have from all the world’s text books.
Now that normalcy has returned more or
less, to these parts, it might be well to take
stock on the second generation and their par
ents here. Doubt as to the loyalty of this
group hangs over only an infinitesimal po
tion of it. We must disperse even that last iait may be temptation to dismiss the war
bit of doubt. Those who would do harm to
as almost won since the fighting ^as
America, if any, must be ferreted out from
into the Far East. But the war is far from
among us and put away for safe keeping. nvpr and there is bound to be much bad
While no witch hunts are called for, we must news before the final victory. We must not
show the way in uncovering traitors. We our relax here, just because blackouts are no
selves, must take the initiative in helping to longer enforced. This is a world war, and it s
remove every doubt no matter how small.
no t° going to be finished until the dictator
Since restoration of business the Commun governments are crushed so completely that
ity can go ahead and play its part in national the common people throughout the g^A Y^T
defense. Its greatest effort can be in keeping world can live in peace, security and freedom.
everything normal on the civilian front.
We needn’t be emotional about it and we
Seattle Japanese operate a great number don’t have to wave flags and sing patriotic
of hotels housing a large percentage of de songs unless we feel that way. But we should
fense industry workers. They run rooming realize that the showdown is here, and 4*11
houses, restaurants,z groceries, laundries , and of us have the privilege of assisting in the
cleaning establishments. They supply pernaps world-wide struggle to better the lot of little
80 per cent of the local produce that reaches neople like you and I and our friends.
These are solemn times. And in 311 solem
Seattle markets.
In other words, the Japanese have won for nity, we should give thanks that by the ac
themselves a vital part in the life of this com cident of birth we are on the right side.
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quickly and as smoothly as Possible
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W these shores. Our blackouts, our “raider
scares our radio silences are but a memory
as the scene of battle shifts to distant fortresses. But anything is possible in this war.
Who knows when hostile bombers will ap
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recording. And until
BREAKER
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the name had appeared ("Amapola") , ”1 Hear a
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Rhapsody” was marqueed ten times over such lesser
THE YEAR-END ROUND-UP OF POPULAR TUNES
lights as "You Walk By" and "It All Comes Back to
Me Now". In the scramble, a six-year record holder
The year, 1941, proved one of the most interesting "My Reverie" (8 firsts) was relegated to the limbo o
and at the same time, one of the most insipid years in past champions.
In surveying the whole year's parade of song Readers
the annals of popular music. , . - Interest.ng because
of the sweeping gains made by the juke boxes in pop we find two others right on the very heels of "I Hear
ularity, the many excellent recordings of "sweet and a Rhaosodv”. Th6 amazing feature of the statistical
"swing", the increasing number of entertaining Holly showing of "Maria Elena” and "Intermezzo” is that
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Shattered, too, during the year was the proud rec
several colorful new bands. . . . Insipid because ofthe
colorless run of songs which - ruled the roost on Your ord of seventeen Hit Parade placements made by the
rollicking ditty "Beer Barrel Polka", when six songs
Hit Parade".
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Dressmaking and Sewing School
MRS. J. KAWANO, Principal
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for 3rd, and so forth...
And all this was strongly and quite faithfully
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reflected on "Your Hit Parade”, self-styled gauge of
The lack of space forces me to postpone the results'
of the song contest just recently completed. Look for
America's current song favorites.
In the first few months of the year, there was actu it and other Music Box jottings in the following issue
ally a dearth of presentable new songs. Duiing this of The New Canadian. In the meantime, A Merry,
vacuum one song had "greatness thrust upon u. I
Merry Christmas.
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Hear a Rhapsody” was its title. Before this piece.
Heartiest Greetings for
259 East Hastings
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to use an apt vernacular term, between the radio net of songs.
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The grand old lady of them all was Maria Elena
works and ASCAP (American Society of. Composers
I who faidy creaked with old age as "she” bowed outand Publishers) with the latter losing heavily both of the "Hit Parade” scene in the 22nd act on Sep
financially and in prestige. For
instance, when NBC and ASCAP tember 27th, after having made her debut five months
ASCAP vs.
decided to bury the hatchet on
before on May 3rd.
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RADIO FEUD
Among other melodies, ”| Don t Want to Set the
a dreary seven-month feud in
World on Fire” moved up the rungs of the ladder with
August, ASCAP had kicked away $2,500,000 in- re- scorching speed, with only thirteen appearances to date
ceipts (ouch!), stood to make $1,000,000 per year
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less than in 1940 when the radio barons paid it $4,- to its credit.
"The Things I Love” (with 8 fourths to make up
500 000 (ouch!), and had lost its tight monopoly on
for the lack of first, seconds and thirds), "Daddy”,
broadcastedI music—BMI (Broadcast Music Incr.)
rsed corporation will continue to function and "You Walk By" complete the list of the top ten
radio-nursec
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Other songs which gained first place billing and
While BM1 had not yet cut its milk teeth, its ar
rangers and composers frantically thumbed non-copy- deserving mention are: "There I Go”, "Wise Old Owl ,
righted music for inspiration. Stephen Foster, the "My Sister and I”, "Hut Sut Song", J'Tomg.it We
classics, the so-called semi-classics, and Latin Amen-, Love" and the latest, "Elmer's Tune".
can tunes were worked over and over-worked.. Jean
More detailed statistics are:
nie with the Light Brown Hair" was fairly crucified.
1st 2nd 3rd Times Pts.
Song- Title
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Frenesi ,
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KAY MORI
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THE NEW CANADIAN
MArine 0983
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Many individuals had expected the worst.
When the blow did not fall, they learned the
meaning of democracy more P01Sn“ ly fr^
a display of fairness than they possibly could
have from all the world’s text books.
Now that normalcy has returned more or
less, to these parts, it might be well to take
stock on the second generation and their par
ents here. Doubt as to the loyalty of this
group hangs over only an infinitesimal po
tion of it. We must disperse even that last iait may be temptation to dismiss the war
bit of doubt. Those who would do harm to
as almost won since the fighting ^as
America, if any, must be ferreted out from
into the Far East. But the war is far from
among us and put away for safe keeping. nvpr and there is bound to be much bad
While no witch hunts are called for, we must news before the final victory. We must not
show the way in uncovering traitors. We our relax here, just because blackouts are no
selves, must take the initiative in helping to longer enforced. This is a world war, and it s
remove every doubt no matter how small.
no t° going to be finished until the dictator
Since restoration of business the Commun governments are crushed so completely that
ity can go ahead and play its part in national the common people throughout the g^A Y^T
defense. Its greatest effort can be in keeping world can live in peace, security and freedom.
everything normal on the civilian front.
We needn’t be emotional about it and we
Seattle Japanese operate a great number don’t have to wave flags and sing patriotic
of hotels housing a large percentage of de songs unless we feel that way. But we should
fense industry workers. They run rooming realize that the showdown is here, and 4*11
houses, restaurants,z groceries, laundries , and of us have the privilege of assisting in the
cleaning establishments. They supply pernaps world-wide struggle to better the lot of little
80 per cent of the local produce that reaches neople like you and I and our friends.
These are solemn times. And in 311 solem
Seattle markets.
In other words, the Japanese have won for nity, we should give thanks that by the ac
themselves a vital part in the life of this com cident of birth we are on the right side.
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munity, and in the welfare of the larger
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usual channels, making every adjustment as
quickly and as smoothly as Possible
IVAR in the Pacific appears to have left
W these shores. Our blackouts, our “raider
scares our radio silences are but a memory
as the scene of battle shifts to distant fortresses. But anything is possible in this war.
Who knows when hostile bombers will ap
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Okanagan Centre, B. C.
Academy of Domestic Arts
MRS. T. MATSUZAKI, Principal
1603 Franklin Street
Highland 5140-R
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The New Canadian
A MESSAGE TO THE NISEI FROM
W. L. McTAVISH
Editor, the Vancouver Province
T TNDER the very special conditions prevailing just now,
perhaps I should say at the outset that I have no doubt
whatever of the loyalty to Canada of the Nisei, and I hope
most sincerely that nothing will occur to disturb the even
tenor of their lives in this country.
: Further I want to express the hope that as time goes on
and unworthy prejudices disappear they will be able to live
the richer and fuller lives to which their talents entitle them,
and make the greater contribution to Canadian citzenship
they are able to make
To the Nisei themselves T can offer only one word of
counsel: Be patient. Under its chauvinistic leadership the land
of your forebears has pursued a course for which of course
you are in no way responsible but which unfortunately jus
tified to a degree the prejudice with which your race has
been regarded by many Canadians. Therefore you must
continue in patience to wait and to justify by your good
works and good conduct the high opinion those of us who
have been brought into contact with you have formed of you.
W. L. MacTavish.
A CHRISTMAS EDITORIAL By
REV. K. SHIMIZU
Pastor, Powell United Japanese Church
ON CURSORY thought, Christmas seems to be out of place
in a war-torn world. R further reflection reveals, however,
that Christmas not only has been always at home in a word
darkened by war — for into such world it first came; but its
message becomes clearer and its functions more important in
time of war
War can be a purifying agent. It does away with many
indulgences tolerated in time of peace. Christmas in war
time will be purged of all its frills and spurious accretions,
and will once more become highly sprit ual. and therefore
realistic. Instead of being a secularized festival, it will be
come a season of last Joy, born of the realization that
"God so loved the world that he gave' his only Begotten
Son . . . that the world through Him might be saved."
Christmas comes to remind us of the ultimate purpose
of life revealed in Jesus Christ, who said: "I came, not to
do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me." To do
the will of God is the highest good, in reference. to which
everythng takes on meaning and value. War is "hell, brutal and brutish . . ." and more; we do not certainly like it,
nor do we want it, much less wish to court it. But when
it is thrust upon us, we cannot do anything but to accept
it, and say: "We can do no other; so help us God." find
like all other evils of life, the only recourse open for us is
to take it to God, and try to serve the eternal purpose of
God through it all, with a firm faith that "all things work
together for good to them that love God." So Christmas in
war time is a season of true repentance, and a renewed
resolve, -in the words of Lincoln, to be concerned, not so
much whether God be on our side, but that we be on
God's side.
Christmas comes to show us the way to true victory.
It is the way of Jesus, who even as a babe, was "wrapped
in swaddling clothes," and all through life, "emptied him
self by taking the nature of a servant . . . and humbly
stooped in his obedience even to die, and to die upon the
cross." It is the way by which we are not only willing to
accept "blood, sweat, toil and tears," but for the sake of
the Cause of the Kingdom, we deem it an honor and privil
ege to offer all we have, comfort, wealth, or life itself, for
we know that these things are of value only as they are
so dedicated The way of the cross will also teach us to
overcome evil with good, and not be overcome by the
evil means we employ.
Christmas brings us the assurance of final victory, "find
the light goes on shining in the dark; and it is not over
come by the’dark.” Darkness can never put out the light
of God. In spite of everything, God still reigns. The evil
power of the world can go a long way in. their work of
destruction, but their end is doomed. The Light of truth and
righteousness, of love and brotherhood will triumph in the
end.
fis the light shines with greater brilliance against the
darker background, Christmas comes to us with truer mean
ing this year; darkened as it is by the world-wide war.
Let us- enjoy Christmas in this true sense.
DECEMBER 25, 194]
THE NEW CANADIAN
396 Powell Street
PAcific 843]
Vancouver, B. C.
paper published by and for .second generation Japanese in Canada
and devoted io their welfare as citizens of Canada.
Published weekly at the Taiyo Printing Company.
The Year 1041
I Must Be Strong
By J. K.
Now that rhe year 1941 is draw
| KNOW now for what war I was born.
ing to a close I turn back the pages
Every ch,ild is bom to see some straggle.
of my diary and see what I did this
But this conflict is yet the .worst.
year. Lets look at January.
For my dark features are those of the enemy,
Hm . . . the first part of the
And my heart is buried deep in occidental soil.
month was uninteresting. Then on
People will say things, and people will do things.
the 18th I broke the first resolution.
I know they will, and I must be strong.
Excuse—the Nisei Talent Revue and
I got excited and smoked a forbidden
I dread the thought of having to leave home each
cigarette.
The rest of my resolu
day.
tions fell apart magically. By the
The thought that I must continue as naught has
twentieth I did not have the slight
happened,
est twinge of a troubled conscience.
For clouds will hang where the sun was bright
Heard about the special registration
Everyone will smile, but what of their thoughts
of Japanese and said ‘what again?’
As they gave on one whose eyes are so black?
Niseis can’t get in the Army.
People will say things, and people will do things,
February . . . girl friend’s birth
I know they will, and I must be strong.
day and got her the brand new
—Anonymous Nisei.
Nylon hosiery ... J. S. C. Ora
torical Contest was a highlight and
mine has lost his job . . . fishing
the Japanese ‘Ghetto’ plan was the month. ■
\ December . . . Heard about the boats are rounded up . . . we are at
low spot.
March ... I went down and got 6000 cans of salmon that the Upper war with Japan ... I am at war
registered . . . took my picture and Fraser Japanese fishermens Associ with Japan . . . my duty to this
went down hoping that the R.C. ation donated to the people of Great country is plain . . . the hysteria
against the Japanese Canadian is in
M.P. thought better of my picture Britain. It was a grand gesture.
than I did. It was alright. I was
Bang. . . Dec. 7th . . -. my hopes creasing and will increase . . . it
quizzed, fingerprinted and got my go up at Pearl Harbour . . . black will be a stern Christmas and a
white card. I felt a lot better after outs . . . rumors ... a friend of sterner New Year.
it all.
April . . . Highspot this month
was seeing Mr. Toyohiko Kagawa.
He is a little man but with a big
heart.
May . . . The Burrard Baseball
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June . . . Victory Loan Campaign
and I scraped enough together to
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buy a bond. I put my bit in on the
War Effort and felt fine. The C. J.
W.A. and - the J.C.C.L. sponsored
the Benefit Concert for the Queens
Fund. It was a stupendous success
and I saw Mayor Cornett really close
up. I told my family history again
Physicians and Surgeons
and got • registered. It was the Do
minion Census man this time.
July . . . Daylight saving started
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and I just lived thiis month. The
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political air in the Pacific was tense
but daylight saving let me play golf
after work.
August . . . Another month of
tension and ships are wandering
about in the Pacific with no word
Dental Surgeons
when they will dock. A big sockeye
run has the fishermen in a dither.
Everything is cold . . . freezing here,
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freezing there.
September . . . The first Nisei
was accepted in B. C. Pte. Kato is
his name. Maybe persistence is the
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tendance and asked for the right to
join in the army. But war clouds
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more boats are hovering who knows
MArine 9815
189 East Hastings Street
where? I went to donate a bit of
blood to the Red Cross.
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Welfare drive.
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Nisei girls
sold me an Armistice poppy.
The
PAcific 3016
377 Powell Street
Nisei Christian Conference had a
record attendance. This was a good
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Best Wishes for a
Merry Christmas
and a Happy Neus Year
Dr. M. Uchida
Dr. H. Kamitakahara
Dr. H. Kuwabara Dr. H. M. Shimokura 1
Dr. K. Shimotakahara
Dr. M. Miyazaki
Dr. E. C. Banno
Dr. G.
Dr. E. Miyake
HENRY K. NARUSE
Optometrist
HAJIME SUZUKI
Optometrist
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The New Canadian
A MESSAGE TO THE NISEI FROM
W. L. McTAVISH
Editor, the Vancouver Province
T TNDER the very special conditions prevailing just now,
perhaps I should say at the outset that I have no doubt
whatever of the loyalty to Canada of the Nisei, and I hope
most sincerely that nothing will occur to disturb the even
tenor of their lives in this country.
: Further I want to express the hope that as time goes on
and unworthy prejudices disappear they will be able to live
the richer and fuller lives to which their talents entitle them,
and make the greater contribution to Canadian citzenship
they are able to make
To the Nisei themselves T can offer only one word of
counsel: Be patient. Under its chauvinistic leadership the land
of your forebears has pursued a course for which of course
you are in no way responsible but which unfortunately jus
tified to a degree the prejudice with which your race has
been regarded by many Canadians. Therefore you must
continue in patience to wait and to justify by your good
works and good conduct the high opinion those of us who
have been brought into contact with you have formed of you.
W. L. MacTavish.
A CHRISTMAS EDITORIAL By
REV. K. SHIMIZU
Pastor, Powell United Japanese Church
ON CURSORY thought, Christmas seems to be out of place
in a war-torn world. R further reflection reveals, however,
that Christmas not only has been always at home in a word
darkened by war — for into such world it first came; but its
message becomes clearer and its functions more important in
time of war
War can be a purifying agent. It does away with many
indulgences tolerated in time of peace. Christmas in war
time will be purged of all its frills and spurious accretions,
and will once more become highly sprit ual. and therefore
realistic. Instead of being a secularized festival, it will be
come a season of last Joy, born of the realization that
"God so loved the world that he gave' his only Begotten
Son . . . that the world through Him might be saved."
Christmas comes to remind us of the ultimate purpose
of life revealed in Jesus Christ, who said: "I came, not to
do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me." To do
the will of God is the highest good, in reference. to which
everythng takes on meaning and value. War is "hell, brutal and brutish . . ." and more; we do not certainly like it,
nor do we want it, much less wish to court it. But when
it is thrust upon us, we cannot do anything but to accept
it, and say: "We can do no other; so help us God." find
like all other evils of life, the only recourse open for us is
to take it to God, and try to serve the eternal purpose of
God through it all, with a firm faith that "all things work
together for good to them that love God." So Christmas in
war time is a season of true repentance, and a renewed
resolve, -in the words of Lincoln, to be concerned, not so
much whether God be on our side, but that we be on
God's side.
Christmas comes to show us the way to true victory.
It is the way of Jesus, who even as a babe, was "wrapped
in swaddling clothes," and all through life, "emptied him
self by taking the nature of a servant . . . and humbly
stooped in his obedience even to die, and to die upon the
cross." It is the way by which we are not only willing to
accept "blood, sweat, toil and tears," but for the sake of
the Cause of the Kingdom, we deem it an honor and privil
ege to offer all we have, comfort, wealth, or life itself, for
we know that these things are of value only as they are
so dedicated The way of the cross will also teach us to
overcome evil with good, and not be overcome by the
evil means we employ.
Christmas brings us the assurance of final victory, "find
the light goes on shining in the dark; and it is not over
come by the’dark.” Darkness can never put out the light
of God. In spite of everything, God still reigns. The evil
power of the world can go a long way in. their work of
destruction, but their end is doomed. The Light of truth and
righteousness, of love and brotherhood will triumph in the
end.
fis the light shines with greater brilliance against the
darker background, Christmas comes to us with truer mean
ing this year; darkened as it is by the world-wide war.
Let us- enjoy Christmas in this true sense.
DECEMBER 25, 194]
THE NEW CANADIAN
396 Powell Street
PAcific 843]
Vancouver, B. C.
paper published by and for .second generation Japanese in Canada
and devoted io their welfare as citizens of Canada.
Published weekly at the Taiyo Printing Company.
The Year 1041
I Must Be Strong
By J. K.
Now that rhe year 1941 is draw
| KNOW now for what war I was born.
ing to a close I turn back the pages
Every ch,ild is bom to see some straggle.
of my diary and see what I did this
But this conflict is yet the .worst.
year. Lets look at January.
For my dark features are those of the enemy,
Hm . . . the first part of the
And my heart is buried deep in occidental soil.
month was uninteresting. Then on
People will say things, and people will do things.
the 18th I broke the first resolution.
I know they will, and I must be strong.
Excuse—the Nisei Talent Revue and
I got excited and smoked a forbidden
I dread the thought of having to leave home each
cigarette.
The rest of my resolu
day.
tions fell apart magically. By the
The thought that I must continue as naught has
twentieth I did not have the slight
happened,
est twinge of a troubled conscience.
For clouds will hang where the sun was bright
Heard about the special registration
Everyone will smile, but what of their thoughts
of Japanese and said ‘what again?’
As they gave on one whose eyes are so black?
Niseis can’t get in the Army.
People will say things, and people will do things,
February . . . girl friend’s birth
I know they will, and I must be strong.
day and got her the brand new
—Anonymous Nisei.
Nylon hosiery ... J. S. C. Ora
torical Contest was a highlight and
mine has lost his job . . . fishing
the Japanese ‘Ghetto’ plan was the month. ■
\ December . . . Heard about the boats are rounded up . . . we are at
low spot.
March ... I went down and got 6000 cans of salmon that the Upper war with Japan ... I am at war
registered . . . took my picture and Fraser Japanese fishermens Associ with Japan . . . my duty to this
went down hoping that the R.C. ation donated to the people of Great country is plain . . . the hysteria
against the Japanese Canadian is in
M.P. thought better of my picture Britain. It was a grand gesture.
than I did. It was alright. I was
Bang. . . Dec. 7th . . -. my hopes creasing and will increase . . . it
quizzed, fingerprinted and got my go up at Pearl Harbour . . . black will be a stern Christmas and a
white card. I felt a lot better after outs . . . rumors ... a friend of sterner New Year.
it all.
April . . . Highspot this month
was seeing Mr. Toyohiko Kagawa.
He is a little man but with a big
heart.
May . . . The Burrard Baseball
®
9
League opened and the beloved Asahis
9
were back in there swinging. Sum
a
9
mer's coming and the first straw
a
berries were out. We had a black
3
out test.
3
June . . . Victory Loan Campaign
and I scraped enough together to
3
buy a bond. I put my bit in on the
War Effort and felt fine. The C. J.
W.A. and - the J.C.C.L. sponsored
the Benefit Concert for the Queens
Fund. It was a stupendous success
and I saw Mayor Cornett really close
up. I told my family history again
Physicians and Surgeons
and got • registered. It was the Do
minion Census man this time.
July . . . Daylight saving started
3
and I just lived thiis month. The
1
Osteopathic Physician
political air in the Pacific was tense
but daylight saving let me play golf
after work.
August . . . Another month of
tension and ships are wandering
about in the Pacific with no word
Dental Surgeons
when they will dock. A big sockeye
run has the fishermen in a dither.
Everything is cold . . . freezing here,
0
freezing there.
September . . . The first Nisei
was accepted in B. C. Pte. Kato is
his name. Maybe persistence is the
goToTuToTuIoIuTuIuIoIu^
trick.
Baseball had me biting my
JfiEE
jcmEEEBffiGEEEEEEEEEELi^
nails but to no avail. The Asahis
9
went down fighting.
9
9
October . . . The J.C.C.L-. Con
9
5
ference in Victoria had a good at
tendance and asked for the right to
join in the army. But war clouds
E
are again in the Pacific and some
more boats are hovering who knows
MArine 9815
189 East Hastings Street
where? I went to donate a bit of
blood to the Red Cross.
A nice
*
*
note was the success of the Folk
Festival with some Japanese contri
butions.
9
November . . . The Japanese
9
Branch went over their, quota in the
Welfare drive.
Some more Niseis
[c
have made the Army.
Nisei girls
sold me an Armistice poppy.
The
PAcific 3016
377 Powell Street
Nisei Christian Conference had a
record attendance. This was a good
3
Best Wishes for a
Merry Christmas
and a Happy Neus Year
Dr. M. Uchida
Dr. H. Kamitakahara
Dr. H. Kuwabara Dr. H. M. Shimokura 1
Dr. K. Shimotakahara
Dr. M. Miyazaki
Dr. E. C. Banno
Dr. G.
Dr. E. Miyake
HENRY K. NARUSE
Optometrist
HAJIME SUZUKI
Optometrist
Page 17
The New Canadian
THE VOICE OF THE SECOND GENERATION
December 2.5, 1941
VANCOUVER, B. C.
Weekly
whirligig
Citizens’ League Broaches $1500 Emergency Budget
Special Committee to
Direct JCCL Action
For Emergency Needs
"Remembrance o
By K. W.
Of pleasant things . . . exclusive
VANCOUVER. — A spe
cial committee of the National
Japanese Canadian Citizens
Tomorrow . . . is Christmas, and
League will study the feasibilit's nice to think that there'll be no
ity of employing a full-time
stiff-shirted tux to wear tomorrow
general secretary to devote
because there is no Christmas ball.
every effort to meet emergency
"The girls have wept, and will weep
work arising from the Pacific
with no one to see them in their
long gowns, but tomorrow I shall
conflict, following a meeting
sleep late, and go out to dinner
of the National Executive and
without even a tie on and just relax
Vancouver Chapter executive
and quaff Christmas cheer and talk
Sunday here.
- freely in an inebriatedly happy man-।
This
special
committee
ner and . lie on the floor and play ;
comprising Dr. E. C. Banno,
; with the kids ... no radio news, no!
Tatsuro Suzuki, Harry Naga' letters to the editor . . . just a!
obu, Kunio Shimizu, and Tom
drumstick in one hand and a glass I
Shoyama was empowered to
s in the other and the kids all over . . .
act for the organization in ?
Familiar scenes are these that
Tonight ... I should go Christmatters of national and urlinger now only in the
gent need.
' mas shopping, but being so busy
for they are a part of 1941 s
Tra
ding
With
The
Enemy
biggest
news
story,
—
the
war
and
; at work, there's been no time to
Provide Leadership
what it meant to 1800 fisher
5 shop, so I still have cash jingling in
It is felt that a second gener
men, their wives and families. A ation organization must now
f .my pockets which I shall spend very
packer silrouetted against the
[ economically after prices come down
step into the shoes of the older
sea, putting out into the Gulf
any
person
now
resident
in
from their Christmas boom and if I
generation to carry on com
VANCOUVER.—As far as
for the outposts of British Co
haven't got the spirit, I shall find can be ascertained from gov Japan. British subject or
munity work, especially when
lumbia's fishing
industry.
A
t it in a place I know with the money
fisherman taking time out for the need for progressive leader
ernment sources, no action to otherwise, must be reported
to
the
custodian,
and
is
con
the traditional ritual that sur
ship and vigorous leadership is
I've saved . . confiscate or freeze the assets
rounds the washing of rice to
trolled
by
him.
Any
business
so obvious.
I
One sorrowful note • • . suddenly and funds of residents, whether
satisfy the inner man.
matters
that
have
to
do
with
Employment of a full-time
I' strikes me so hard that my resolu- alien Japanese or not, is con such property must be ap
Photos by
secretary carries with it the
Jimmie K. Kakutani
l tion has gone the way of all resolu- templated by the authorities.
proved
by
the
Custodian.
task of raising an additional
In fact, the Custodian of
These
regulations
all
apply
f tions, but this year there will be no
$1500 to meet salary and office
enemy property in Vancou
| innocent, sweet, juicy mikans to eat
moreover
to
any
local
resident
expenses. The special commit
ver has given assurance that
I continuously from dawn till slumwho
has
been
detained
by
the
tee will draft a plan for sub
the “Consolidated Regula
I ber-time. That's a tragedy, but we'll
federal
police
under
the
De
mission to another meeting of
tions respecting trade with
I make up for it somehow, maybe
fence
of
Canada
regulations.
Vernon
Issei
Sentenced
officers in January.
the enemy” do not affect the
I we'll eat more pickles instead. . - Any
business
dealings
with i For Prejudicial Statements
Survey Unemployment
property of Japanese race,
their property must therefore ]
VERNON, B.C. — Believed to be
The economic relations com
I
Heartwarming ... in the midst who are “conducting them
be
approved
before
being
valid.
the
first
Japanese
offender
against
mittee
’s work has changed to
| of gloom and depression have been selves in a proper manner.
Payments to such persons must Defence of Canada Regulations since making a survey of the effects
In other words, unless the
I the telephone calls and letters from
the outbreak of war in the Pacific, of the war on employment con
law
is amended at Ottawa, local be made to the Custodian.
I Canadian friends throughout the
The families of such persons The News-Herald reported today, ditions in the Japanese com
city arid the province, expressing residents, first or second gen are allowed reasonable living "Masukuso Fusioko'' was fined $100 munity. The exact effects must
their sympathy and wish to help. eration, may feel perfectly easy expenses out of the assets tied
or two months
jail in
ins in
in joh
hi court here
- be ascertained so that represehThis is the attitude of those who are as to the safety of their proper
Monday
on
charges
under
the
regu
Itations may be made to the auup,
fair and understanding, and who ty or bank accounts.
The validity of any contract lations dealing with uttering state- thorities,
L11U11UCO) or that
------------some measure
In the United States, the
recognize local Japanese residents
entered,
into
is
subject
to
the
Treasury department placed a entered into
°f ments likely to be prejudicial to His q{ reuef be evolved.
as human beings, not blocks of wood
The committee chairman,
freezing
order
over
all
enemy
decision
o
or senseless stone. One such friend Sen property, thus lining up State,, who may cancel such Majesty.
Final ruling as to internment is Kinzie Tanaka, will be assisted
makes up'for a hundred silly letters
left for action by the Attorney-Gen by chapter heads in all districts,
local business for many first contracts.
- - ■
Full
details
may
be
obtained
to the press.
eral. The accused offered no defence and Vancouver representatives,
W do Ovuxx
—
—
ii’i
generation. This ban was
soon
that
busiby
writing
to
the
Custodian,
de
and bowed and smiled unconcerned- E Kitagawa, Hajime Suzuki,
Santa Claus . . . has been arriving relaxed however, so
flor- partment of the Secretary of iy throughout proceedings, said the Harry S .Kondo, Yoshio Terada,
’ State,
_ . . Ottawa.
i
_ TLocal offices are
daily for some time now, each time ness men, market keepers
and Eiji Yatabe.
son, in the News-Herald.
with greetings from near and far ists and so forth are now carryCareless talk can easily be an]
National officers attended
ing
on
as
usual
in
American
^
‘
V
B
f
nk
Building.
Los Angeles, Halifax, Montreal
Royal Bank Building.
from
Victoria, Chemainus,
offense
against
the
regulations.
V/innipeg, Regina, Edmonton cities.
______________ ——------------Steveston,
Mission, Maple
Under the Consolidated regu- '
. Okanagan, Skeena, Victoria . . .
Christmas Shopping Makes
Ridge,
New
Westminster, and
Hello, Readers!
lations of 1931, the property of
Comeback from War
____ _________
all persons, regardless of their
VANCOUVER.— Improved busi Vancouver.
This issue of The New Can
nationality, who reside in en
adian will be the only issue ness conditions, with a higher vol business picked up considerably as
emy or enemy occupied terri
published during Christmas ume of business approaching more Christmas came closer and the pub
tory must be reported to the
week. Extra copies are avail usual levels at Christmas time is re
lic recovered some confidence as out
Custodian of enemy property!
able for your friends.
ported by local Powell Street mer standing questions were settled,
and will be held subject to hisj
The next publication day chants. Although badly hit imme
control.
will be Wednesday, Decem diately after the outbreak of war, merchants said.
Thus property owned by
ber 31, and the following
week The New Canadian will Hisei Soldiers Unaffected By Pacific War
Powell Street, Kerrisdale, and Hast Contingent of West
।
be issued at least twice.
ings East ... if a newspaperman Coast Boats Arrive
;
mer.
Visiting in Vancouver for
The co-operation of all our
never makes money, he does make
The outbreak.of the war on
VANCOUVER.—Some 100 boats
readers in making news avail Christmas leave from mili
friends . . - and gifts are but the from the west coast of Vancouver;
the Pacific has made no dif
able to the paper and thus tary camp at Vernon, where
.symbol of that friendship.
ference either to himself 9^
Island were added to the already,
he is now in training, is Pri
helping
us
to
keep
the
public
to Private Hiromu Tanaka,
And last, but not least ... oh large fleet of fishing vessels immob-|
vate Joe Aida, Smithers-born
well-informed
is
earnestly
Prince Rupert Nisei, also in
ilized at New Westminster, here,
Nisei youth, who enlisted in
'boy, oh boy, tonight around 3 or 4
requested.
training at Vernon.
Monday. Most of the boats werej
a.m. when the last business is clean
And just a note: We must the Active Army last sumAida’s travelling compan
brought in by their owners, con-;
ed up, the last paper mailed, the
apalogise for the regrettably
ion and bosom buddy, inci
voyed by the navy. Many of the
emergency s i t u a t i on and
last typewriter covered, I'm going
large number of typographi
dentally, is a Chinese second
larger seine boats and packers, it is
overlooked on that account generation, who enlisted at
to sleep the clock around, sleep,
cal
errors
appearing
in
re
understood, are being used in patrol;
—just as we overlooked Prince Rupert with him..
sleep, sleep that knits up the racent issues. We hope that
vell'd sleeve of care, the, death of work, leased by the authorities at $3,
they will be attributed to the them.
ly will this column be, written^ not
for readers, written only for me . . .
Government Regulations Clarified
© Newsbriefs
<each day's life, sore labours bath.
per day.
*
THE VOICE OF THE SECOND GENERATION
December 2.5, 1941
VANCOUVER, B. C.
Weekly
whirligig
Citizens’ League Broaches $1500 Emergency Budget
Special Committee to
Direct JCCL Action
For Emergency Needs
"Remembrance o
By K. W.
Of pleasant things . . . exclusive
VANCOUVER. — A spe
cial committee of the National
Japanese Canadian Citizens
Tomorrow . . . is Christmas, and
League will study the feasibilit's nice to think that there'll be no
ity of employing a full-time
stiff-shirted tux to wear tomorrow
general secretary to devote
because there is no Christmas ball.
every effort to meet emergency
"The girls have wept, and will weep
work arising from the Pacific
with no one to see them in their
long gowns, but tomorrow I shall
conflict, following a meeting
sleep late, and go out to dinner
of the National Executive and
without even a tie on and just relax
Vancouver Chapter executive
and quaff Christmas cheer and talk
Sunday here.
- freely in an inebriatedly happy man-।
This
special
committee
ner and . lie on the floor and play ;
comprising Dr. E. C. Banno,
; with the kids ... no radio news, no!
Tatsuro Suzuki, Harry Naga' letters to the editor . . . just a!
obu, Kunio Shimizu, and Tom
drumstick in one hand and a glass I
Shoyama was empowered to
s in the other and the kids all over . . .
act for the organization in ?
Familiar scenes are these that
Tonight ... I should go Christmatters of national and urlinger now only in the
gent need.
' mas shopping, but being so busy
for they are a part of 1941 s
Tra
ding
With
The
Enemy
biggest
news
story,
—
the
war
and
; at work, there's been no time to
Provide Leadership
what it meant to 1800 fisher
5 shop, so I still have cash jingling in
It is felt that a second gener
men, their wives and families. A ation organization must now
f .my pockets which I shall spend very
packer silrouetted against the
[ economically after prices come down
step into the shoes of the older
sea, putting out into the Gulf
any
person
now
resident
in
from their Christmas boom and if I
generation to carry on com
VANCOUVER.—As far as
for the outposts of British Co
haven't got the spirit, I shall find can be ascertained from gov Japan. British subject or
munity work, especially when
lumbia's fishing
industry.
A
t it in a place I know with the money
fisherman taking time out for the need for progressive leader
ernment sources, no action to otherwise, must be reported
to
the
custodian,
and
is
con
the traditional ritual that sur
ship and vigorous leadership is
I've saved . . confiscate or freeze the assets
rounds the washing of rice to
trolled
by
him.
Any
business
so obvious.
I
One sorrowful note • • . suddenly and funds of residents, whether
satisfy the inner man.
matters
that
have
to
do
with
Employment of a full-time
I' strikes me so hard that my resolu- alien Japanese or not, is con such property must be ap
Photos by
secretary carries with it the
Jimmie K. Kakutani
l tion has gone the way of all resolu- templated by the authorities.
proved
by
the
Custodian.
task of raising an additional
In fact, the Custodian of
These
regulations
all
apply
f tions, but this year there will be no
$1500 to meet salary and office
enemy property in Vancou
| innocent, sweet, juicy mikans to eat
moreover
to
any
local
resident
expenses. The special commit
ver has given assurance that
I continuously from dawn till slumwho
has
been
detained
by
the
tee will draft a plan for sub
the “Consolidated Regula
I ber-time. That's a tragedy, but we'll
federal
police
under
the
De
mission to another meeting of
tions respecting trade with
I make up for it somehow, maybe
fence
of
Canada
regulations.
Vernon
Issei
Sentenced
officers in January.
the enemy” do not affect the
I we'll eat more pickles instead. . - Any
business
dealings
with i For Prejudicial Statements
Survey Unemployment
property of Japanese race,
their property must therefore ]
VERNON, B.C. — Believed to be
The economic relations com
I
Heartwarming ... in the midst who are “conducting them
be
approved
before
being
valid.
the
first
Japanese
offender
against
mittee
’s work has changed to
| of gloom and depression have been selves in a proper manner.
Payments to such persons must Defence of Canada Regulations since making a survey of the effects
In other words, unless the
I the telephone calls and letters from
the outbreak of war in the Pacific, of the war on employment con
law
is amended at Ottawa, local be made to the Custodian.
I Canadian friends throughout the
The families of such persons The News-Herald reported today, ditions in the Japanese com
city arid the province, expressing residents, first or second gen are allowed reasonable living "Masukuso Fusioko'' was fined $100 munity. The exact effects must
their sympathy and wish to help. eration, may feel perfectly easy expenses out of the assets tied
or two months
jail in
ins in
in joh
hi court here
- be ascertained so that represehThis is the attitude of those who are as to the safety of their proper
Monday
on
charges
under
the
regu
Itations may be made to the auup,
fair and understanding, and who ty or bank accounts.
The validity of any contract lations dealing with uttering state- thorities,
L11U11UCO) or that
------------some measure
In the United States, the
recognize local Japanese residents
entered,
into
is
subject
to
the
Treasury department placed a entered into
°f ments likely to be prejudicial to His q{ reuef be evolved.
as human beings, not blocks of wood
The committee chairman,
freezing
order
over
all
enemy
decision
o
or senseless stone. One such friend Sen property, thus lining up State,, who may cancel such Majesty.
Final ruling as to internment is Kinzie Tanaka, will be assisted
makes up'for a hundred silly letters
left for action by the Attorney-Gen by chapter heads in all districts,
local business for many first contracts.
- - ■
Full
details
may
be
obtained
to the press.
eral. The accused offered no defence and Vancouver representatives,
W do Ovuxx
—
—
ii’i
generation. This ban was
soon
that
busiby
writing
to
the
Custodian,
de
and bowed and smiled unconcerned- E Kitagawa, Hajime Suzuki,
Santa Claus . . . has been arriving relaxed however, so
flor- partment of the Secretary of iy throughout proceedings, said the Harry S .Kondo, Yoshio Terada,
’ State,
_ . . Ottawa.
i
_ TLocal offices are
daily for some time now, each time ness men, market keepers
and Eiji Yatabe.
son, in the News-Herald.
with greetings from near and far ists and so forth are now carryCareless talk can easily be an]
National officers attended
ing
on
as
usual
in
American
^
‘
V
B
f
nk
Building.
Los Angeles, Halifax, Montreal
Royal Bank Building.
from
Victoria, Chemainus,
offense
against
the
regulations.
V/innipeg, Regina, Edmonton cities.
______________ ——------------Steveston,
Mission, Maple
Under the Consolidated regu- '
. Okanagan, Skeena, Victoria . . .
Christmas Shopping Makes
Ridge,
New
Westminster, and
Hello, Readers!
lations of 1931, the property of
Comeback from War
____ _________
all persons, regardless of their
VANCOUVER.— Improved busi Vancouver.
This issue of The New Can
nationality, who reside in en
adian will be the only issue ness conditions, with a higher vol business picked up considerably as
emy or enemy occupied terri
published during Christmas ume of business approaching more Christmas came closer and the pub
tory must be reported to the
week. Extra copies are avail usual levels at Christmas time is re
lic recovered some confidence as out
Custodian of enemy property!
able for your friends.
ported by local Powell Street mer standing questions were settled,
and will be held subject to hisj
The next publication day chants. Although badly hit imme
control.
will be Wednesday, Decem diately after the outbreak of war, merchants said.
Thus property owned by
ber 31, and the following
week The New Canadian will Hisei Soldiers Unaffected By Pacific War
Powell Street, Kerrisdale, and Hast Contingent of West
।
be issued at least twice.
ings East ... if a newspaperman Coast Boats Arrive
;
mer.
Visiting in Vancouver for
The co-operation of all our
never makes money, he does make
The outbreak.of the war on
VANCOUVER.—Some 100 boats
readers in making news avail Christmas leave from mili
friends . . - and gifts are but the from the west coast of Vancouver;
the Pacific has made no dif
able to the paper and thus tary camp at Vernon, where
.symbol of that friendship.
ference either to himself 9^
Island were added to the already,
he is now in training, is Pri
helping
us
to
keep
the
public
to Private Hiromu Tanaka,
And last, but not least ... oh large fleet of fishing vessels immob-|
vate Joe Aida, Smithers-born
well-informed
is
earnestly
Prince Rupert Nisei, also in
ilized at New Westminster, here,
Nisei youth, who enlisted in
'boy, oh boy, tonight around 3 or 4
requested.
training at Vernon.
Monday. Most of the boats werej
a.m. when the last business is clean
And just a note: We must the Active Army last sumAida’s travelling compan
brought in by their owners, con-;
ed up, the last paper mailed, the
apalogise for the regrettably
ion and bosom buddy, inci
voyed by the navy. Many of the
emergency s i t u a t i on and
last typewriter covered, I'm going
large number of typographi
dentally, is a Chinese second
larger seine boats and packers, it is
overlooked on that account generation, who enlisted at
to sleep the clock around, sleep,
cal
errors
appearing
in
re
understood, are being used in patrol;
—just as we overlooked Prince Rupert with him..
sleep, sleep that knits up the racent issues. We hope that
vell'd sleeve of care, the, death of work, leased by the authorities at $3,
they will be attributed to the them.
ly will this column be, written^ not
for readers, written only for me . . .
Government Regulations Clarified
© Newsbriefs
<each day's life, sore labours bath.
per day.
*
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Congratulations from many
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friends
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p.m. A small fee of 35c will be pound baby girl, their second
First Pioneer Battalion, Royal Can
daughter, last Sunoav, Decern
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per person.
that, while they guarantee ev
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one o’clock until two.
would appreciate care, moder
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• Christmas Eve Social
part of all.
In response to popular de
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mand and reversing last week’s ’ Blessed Event
decision, the Rissho Young Peo
Congratulations from many
ple’s Society will go ahead full
friends
indeed are being re.
swing with a gala Christmas
ceived
by
Rev. and Mrs.'rati'
Eve Social, December 24, at
Hastings Auditorium, from 8 bana, upon the birth of an 8"Kiyoshi Jack Nakamoto, E2910.1
p.m. A small fee of 35c will be pound baby girl, their second
First Pioneer Battalion, Royal Can
daughter, last Sunoav, Decern
asked from the public.
adian Engineers, has leen promoted
ber 21.
* * *
to the rank of corporal. . . ."
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forget, chillun, all
. . . one whose lot we envy
I books or go to a show (and some
about the rare doings dated fo’
knew him. ...
Nisei are even scared, to do that), Happyland night of December
Kiyoshi Nakamoto., and if you well, that sort of thing is going to
29, thass Monday, when the
had told me years ago that he get one and all of us down in a
Seikokai Young Men’s Club
would be serving in this man's short while. ...
throws the latest gag—a twoarmy some day I would, probably
So I say, let's get in. the groove, hour session of roller skating,
have said, "Oh, ydu'ie full of it!" don't let the- heebiejeebies of war
plus an extra two hours of
. . . and so would anyone else of get us down . . . let loose and en
smooth truckin’ and jivin’. All
his friends . . . they would have joy ourselves . . . we need it!
fo’ only fo’ty cents.
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gathering in numbers., not speaking
Japanese in public, and so on, so as
not to arouse and antagonize any
dangerous feelings in the minds of
some hotheads. However, there is
such a thing as carrying this too
far, [ mean of course, the "gathering-in-numbers"
question,
the
language matter should be strictly
adhered to.
' In time of war when everyone is
under a severe strain, holding
dances, socials and other similar ac
tivities is very helpfitl in upholding
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THE NEW CAN AD I AN
DECEMBER 25; 1941
The Army—
Oliver Invaded
proudest
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CAPITAL CITY CHATTER
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ki Kondo is the The Taiyo Club Christmas
President Eiji Yatabe will be
Draw Results
pappy
hereabouts.
host bn Saturday night, DeFirst.
Mrs. Fukushima, No.
(Troni the Vernon News)
The reason: his wifey Alice
comber 2 /, to the member s ot
OLIVER, B.C.. Dec. 13. — presented him with the nicest 207; Second, Jack Norman, No.
The Hompa Buddhist Sunday theexecutive of . the Powell
Anti-Japanese feeling is run Christmas present imaginable 103; Third, G. A. Lindguist,
School Will carry on as usual Y. P. S., at his home 2818 Yew
ning high in Oliver and Osoy- __ a six pound, two ounce baby No. 273; Fourth, Mrs. W. Has
next Sunday, December 28 St.. from 8 p.m. for a strenuous
oos since the arrival of a Jap girl on Saturday. December 20. egawa, No. 296; Fifth, S. H.
with classes beginning at 9.o0 business session.
Frith, No. 293; Sixth, K. Ise,
anese family on a farm six All doing nicely, thank you.
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for the children _
On Sunday, December 28,
miles north of this town, which
Please note that the Christ No. 214; Seventh, S. Henmi,
a special New Year’s Eve the Society will hold its allfor 23 years has barred all mas Social sponsored by the No. 203. Consolation prizes: R.
"vice will be held at the Hom- important annual general meet Orientals from the district.
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local chapter of the J.C.C.L. is H. Lott and A. Alexander.
na Temple on New Year’s Eve, ing for business reports and the
Mixed feelings of surprise
LEAGUE STANDING
election of new officers for and indignation are expressed being held on Christmas Day
December 31, from 10 p.m.
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and not on the 26th as erron
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doing
With Kuwabara boys
held at 9 o’clock in the morn- local and national effect that tile chapter.
from 10 p.m.
the
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The Date: Christmas Day.
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tory.”
Wishing You All
The move comes at a time of Cook and Fort St. Admis Taiyo Club downed the BeavSeason’s Greetings
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when Japan goes to war with sion: 25c.
A Happy Holiday Season
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Mrs. Fukushima, No.
(Troni the Vernon News)
The reason: his wifey Alice
comber 2 /, to the member s ot
OLIVER, B.C.. Dec. 13. — presented him with the nicest 207; Second, Jack Norman, No.
The Hompa Buddhist Sunday theexecutive of . the Powell
Anti-Japanese feeling is run Christmas present imaginable 103; Third, G. A. Lindguist,
School Will carry on as usual Y. P. S., at his home 2818 Yew
ning high in Oliver and Osoy- __ a six pound, two ounce baby No. 273; Fourth, Mrs. W. Has
next Sunday, December 28 St.. from 8 p.m. for a strenuous
oos since the arrival of a Jap girl on Saturday. December 20. egawa, No. 296; Fifth, S. H.
with classes beginning at 9.o0 business session.
Frith, No. 293; Sixth, K. Ise,
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miles north of this town, which
Please note that the Christ No. 214; Seventh, S. Henmi,
a special New Year’s Eve the Society will hold its allfor 23 years has barred all mas Social sponsored by the No. 203. Consolation prizes: R.
"vice will be held at the Hom- important annual general meet Orientals from the district.
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local chapter of the J.C.C.L. is H. Lott and A. Alexander.
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Mixed feelings of surprise
LEAGUE STANDING
election of new officers for and indignation are expressed being held on Christmas Day
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I for veterans, too. because all i Sports Department.
i amount of work involved in
i these old timers displayed here i
starting off with Jackson i "the directorship of such organ
' are still the big guns in the LKatsuk* ^^ king pin golfer of zations, the
Nisei sport world. Never say i^he Pacific Northwest.
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fall back on any one individual
. best known in sandlot circles,
; the natural choice would be
•Roy Yamamura, veteran of
■ many, many years. Manager
• of the Burrard League Asahis
and also president of the Japan। ese Baseball League.
| Next the three directors, Mi
ia, ‘Mat’ Matsui .and
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Last minute cage notices
SENIOR BIG TEN
from director Mi Akiyama are:
Pts.
On Tuesday, December 30, the Sub Miike (Marp.)_______ .. 34
cagette league calls a meeting Yuki Uno (Maik.)________ .. 21
Wakabayashi (Maik.)....
to outline the season that starts B.
J. Miike (Marp.)...................... . 20
immediately after the New Y. Fujioka (Marp.)_______ _ . 16
Joe Akiyama (Maik.)....,___ .16
Year.
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senior and intermediate games Nori Nishio (Shib.)________ . 14
Suga (Maik.)_ ____ ___ . 14
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i riE NEW CANADIAN
DECEMBER 25, 1941
I
Mapl es Fly as Kegkrs Swing Into Groove
| Asahi Paper Box
■Asahi O
Sing'ers
ISO— 7 09 Kov Yamamurt
49S K. ’ Kntsukake
5 31 Yuki Uno -.... 1676 01
248
4 90
213
147
10S
36
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603
510
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140
petition, the expectant big, Hamakawa
217
173
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11
207
194
251 Powell
scores
started
to
pop
out
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3
bowlers
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Total .........— S3S 1103 996-—2937 —Kishino 0
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145
121
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Total
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game record of 291 pins made ;
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151
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day when he bowled 282.
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are concerned Mas Isoshima is; Total ------4S9— 571 3 473 Powell
Tanaka Bros. 2
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9
169
—
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114206— 533
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107
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98
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219
1
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890 889
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Walk down Powell street during a warm
lunch hour and you will see the inevitab
^ group of youn_J fellows in front of some store
3 talking—GOLF. Yes. it’s more than likely
they are analyzing their
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hooks and slices, or bragS GOLF IS
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drive on the 9th, or the
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on
the
17th,
or sadly lamenting the
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birdie
214 Powell
oth^r non-too-cheery side of golf—that / or
on the Sth, instead of the bM MolTls here to
Asahis won the night ^ °?“ “^
9 stay and will not take a back seat to any Nisei
9
MA 8789
9
9
9
9
sport.
1941 GOLF REVIEW:
PA 7965 gi
The Spring Open, the Northwest Classic and
years and “”™
,, ol Northwest Japkawa, the Bobby Jones ^
Hayashiya
Delicious
Japanese Dishes
362 Powell
• |
had too much on the ball and won out 2 and
i Mrs. Sadayo Fujisawa
315 Powell
394 Powell
crown, the Fall Open,
-ound match
a comparative »«c»“
two down, two to go m
ZTiook ti hard- 17th with a par pu Play, ne
,
,
a go-footer
led out his “Sunday” P^/0.0.^,
for a birdie three on the last hole to tie up
the match and thence disposed of the “upput up a
By JIMMY SUZUKI
Hayashi Eishindo
827—2822
The Nineteenth Hole for 1941 s troll
HI 3160
£
289 E. Hastings
891
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selection as the most ou the
BM OF “POWER” standing
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Mrs. R. Kita
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As in other years, the season was sparked
bv the “dream” shot of all golfers
|
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hole-in-one. Three were made dY-“rcuwle
230 Powell
season — two at Hastings by Hiroshi Kuwa
9
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9
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by George Ogino who aced the fifth at La^
9
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during the Second Issei-Nisei match, which
9
incidentally the Nisei won out to avenge the
9
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249 Main
defeat earlier in the season.
|
9
The aspiring golfers at Hastings made^^a
grand start this year organizing the . Has in^
Dub and Dodo Club,” the name derived from
Ozawa Shoe Store
the fact that most of the players were Dubs
(beginners to non-players)
and
Dodo from the two
THE DUBS
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holes in one made this 3 244 Powell
AND DODOS.
year. Three tourneys were
9
9
held during the year — in
“P°c” *^^
9
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JaC?L
9
9
-son” Katsukawa’s elite performance, _ y
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winning the first two and with
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Otto Yanagizawa.
,
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i riE NEW CANADIAN
DECEMBER 25, 1941
I
Mapl es Fly as Kegkrs Swing Into Groove
| Asahi Paper Box
■Asahi O
Sing'ers
ISO— 7 09 Kov Yamamurt
49S K. ’ Kntsukake
5 31 Yuki Uno -.... 1676 01
248
4 90
213
147
10S
36
Mikado Taxi
603
510
In the second week of com1S5
140
petition, the expectant big, Hamakawa
217
173
PA 1545 S
11
207
194
251 Powell
scores
started
to
pop
out
as
the/i™
7
u
'\
ui
PA 1439 §
17
217
3
bowlers
familiarized
them-.Q, Yaua^izawc 130
f 391 Powell
Handicap
...
36
E selves with the strange Chap829 1064
Total ----man Alleys, and on the whole
Total .........— S3S 1103 996-—2937 —Kishino 0
Ishoshima 3159— 425
145
121
0 individual marks showed vast
J. lliyazaw
Musashiya
475— 417
16
6
—
5
7
6
Yamashita
19
6
11
1
130
Asae BroSi
K
| improvement over last week
409
—
440
113— 3S5
1S1
150
Confectionery
133— 503 T. Nose ------------ 10S
1 9 3— 5 0 6
200
Three bowlers really went tow.
G.
Nishino
202
Shoe Renew
Y. Nishimura. 114
| town and spilt the pins in the'^y
IR
PA 8912 E
Powell
Handicap —
3
S ‘700” mark. Mas Isoshima hadj*
MA 4816
Total —
— 691 S9S
his hook ball right in thei
221 Gore
. 930 1031 921—2882
Kondo 3—Nishimura O
193— 585
groove, scattering the pins for *
•J 4 9— 608 M. Sugie --------143— 441
201
15S
ISO
Kitamura
..
three gam aggregate total ofi^193----- 6S4 K.
0GM
217
139
i J ack
Habata Shoe Store g
Kamishiro
1 55— 544 J.
210
17 9
786 pins. Mas Ishihara and Joe I Tom Hori
101
Asahi Garage
1-4— 439 D. Koyanagi
1 1 a
120
lb Tehara picked off 711 and 709; Sab Kubota
Handicap —158— 5S.>
244
1 So
1S3— 680
21
5
2S2
pins respectively.
IT a cl Kondo
S8
MA 8912
W 356 Powell
Total ----- ---— 888 767
Yamashita's single i
er Gore & Cordova
.1058 1006 868—2932
Total
Sonoda 2—Fujimoto 1
game record of 291 pins made ;
21 9
PAcific 4950
215— 552 K Fujimoto
24 5
136
145
151
1 S3
Ono
....
last week still stands on-rec
Mori
14
4
—
504
T.
156
204
IS 5
Endo Wakakashi
I
Ma
225— 62 S T;
501
ord as tops. Stylist Tad Kon
24 4
159
194
Sonoda
132— 490 T. Fujimoto —
19 41 34
17 4
Kubota
do came the closest last MonHabata Taxi
.
Sugamori
..
263— 711 M
217
Ishihara 231
b
*
day when he bowled 282.
i MasHandicap
2S
—
84
2S
2S
...
829.—2836
G. Hardware
So far as individual scores!
Total —------- . 960 949
947 965 1067—2969
HI 0765 ^
•Kntsukake
1
are concerned Mas Isoshima is; Total ------4S9— 571 3 473 Powell
Tanaka Bros. 2
IS 4
9
169
—
502
16615'1
well afront of the rest with a 6!Bing. Tanaka .
ISO
Tsujikav
5 61
2 0 6165—- 603
15 S
206
PA 8027 ^
Kutsukri
J
gameaverage
of
236
pins
and
f
Mkaido
159— 456
p 208 Main
5 90
217200
17 0
Goromaru .
Oka
warn
5 OS S.
114206— 533
-g in team standing Tanaka Bros. -.-^^
162
0
107
502 H.
98
and Tad Kondo's team are lead- sieve Ebata
219
1
New Fish Market
888---- 2665
ing with 5 games won and 1
Handicap
890 889
Total
^-
S. Nukina
1
Mb .
I
Cordova Grocery
790 E.
Cordova
Total ----------- 1102
g lOSS.
N bright sunny Sundays during the golf
Diamond Cleaners
season, if you happened to be around Lan□ gara, Golf Course at noon, you’d wonder if tai
£
W course was owned and operated by Japanese
S to see all the fellows on the putting green
2163 E. Hastings
H! 0687
g waiting for their round of Sunday go f- Th
0
B same applies to the East End course at Hastkj
g ings—the haven for embryo golfers.
Yes, golf has finally arrived and has be
Electric passage
0
come an integral part of Nisei sport life.
E
I
Walk down Powell street during a warm
lunch hour and you will see the inevitab
^ group of youn_J fellows in front of some store
3 talking—GOLF. Yes. it’s more than likely
they are analyzing their
| Empress Studios
hooks and slices, or bragS GOLF IS
'
H HERE TO STAY! °'ing about that beautiful
drive on the 9th, or the
MA 5634
438 Main
KJ
on
the
17th,
or sadly lamenting the
MA 5634
birdie
214 Powell
oth^r non-too-cheery side of golf—that / or
on the Sth, instead of the bM MolTls here to
Asahis won the night ^ °?“ “^
9 stay and will not take a back seat to any Nisei
9
MA 8789
9
9
9
9
sport.
1941 GOLF REVIEW:
PA 7965 gi
The Spring Open, the Northwest Classic and
years and “”™
,, ol Northwest Japkawa, the Bobby Jones ^
Hayashiya
Delicious
Japanese Dishes
362 Powell
• |
had too much on the ball and won out 2 and
i Mrs. Sadayo Fujisawa
315 Powell
394 Powell
crown, the Fall Open,
-ound match
a comparative »«c»“
two down, two to go m
ZTiook ti hard- 17th with a par pu Play, ne
,
,
a go-footer
led out his “Sunday” P^/0.0.^,
for a birdie three on the last hole to tie up
the match and thence disposed of the “upput up a
By JIMMY SUZUKI
Hayashi Eishindo
827—2822
The Nineteenth Hole for 1941 s troll
HI 3160
£
289 E. Hastings
891
THAT EXTRA
selection as the most ou the
BM OF “POWER” standing
To
PA 8035 ^
take al! major crowns in »^™n
-feat worthy m «“af Xot be dupformance is someth .. _ t^ ^ repeats,
heated m the tutu
difficulties, but
e Kasuga Confectionery^® True he encountered ““\hd“cxtra bit ol
® each time c™e '^
champion. His closest
“power” that defines
,.fense of his last
PA 5015 ^ to not repeating was in defense
359 Powell
Nishihata
Sheet Metal Works
457 Powell
-
I
0 338 Powell
Mrs. R. Kita
Dressmaking School
h
451 Powell Street
199(898^
K. Tanabe
Watchmakers
PA 7629 |
0
fid
I
243 Main
®
®
®
575 Gore
PA 1416
Takata Taxi
©
©
©
®
®
bright side of life!
®®®
MA 5657
Tokyo Sembei
241 Powell Street
MA 1029
Tsubame
Tanacar Garage
250 Powell
^ 325 Powell
HI.0426.«
As in other years, the season was sparked
bv the “dream” shot of all golfers
|
PA 8759
hole-in-one. Three were made dY-“rcuwle
230 Powell
season — two at Hastings by Hiroshi Kuwa
9
hara and the other by Eddie Kitagawa on his]
9
9
own “backyard.” The ^ .^“^“n
9
by George Ogino who aced the fifth at La^
9
Omae
9
oara — his second in three years o* go
Confectioners
9
during the Second Issei-Nisei match, which
9
incidentally the Nisei won out to avenge the
9
PA 0757 9
249 Main
defeat earlier in the season.
|
9
The aspiring golfers at Hastings made^^a
grand start this year organizing the . Has in^
Dub and Dodo Club,” the name derived from
Ozawa Shoe Store
the fact that most of the players were Dubs
(beginners to non-players)
and
Dodo from the two
THE DUBS
PA 6412
holes in one made this 3 244 Powell
AND DODOS.
year. Three tourneys were
9
9
held during the year — in
“P°c” *^^
9
ui, the club secretary almost
JaC?L
9
9
-son” Katsukawa’s elite performance, _ y
Safety Garage
KJ
9
winning the first two and with
9
in hand, balked to lose out to darkhorse
MA 0748 d
a 213 Powell
Otto Yanagizawa.
,
So the fortunes of golf go — with winter^
still to be heard from, the majority still go ©
out every Sunday to get enough material for ®
the 19th hole before a Warm fire or at ^t ®
Shigematsu Florist 99
®
9
corner coffee counter — waiting for
®
0
9
Sunday to come so they could do better than ®
9
le Sunday before - always looking on the ®
MA 1417 9
®
Tengu
1
9
9
9
9
®
Okura Laundry
i©9®®
Kato Shoe Store
PA 9628 £
PA 5619
258 Powell
|
i®®®®®®
rTHfWFMEEKEEEEEEE™
PA 2657
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
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®
[gE^EEEI^EEEEEEEfc
348 Powell
9
a
®
®
®
® Shigematsu Transfer
®
®
©
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PAcific 1627
® 268 Powell
®
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©
®
®
Sun Mom King
©
© 3 82 Powell
©
9
9
9
9
9
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9
9
9
9
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9
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PA 5856 J
Page 22
PAGE 22
DECEMBER 25, 194]
THE NEW CANADIAN
Redwings Surprise Tigers—Still Deadlocked In Soccer Semi-Final
back until they had ie Yamada in a mad scramble
Last Sunday the Cambie! Tige
Tiger-Kitsilano Redwing sud the Tig srs playing defensive. in front of the goal mouth.
Soccer Bits: Shig Yamashita,
Otto Yanagizawa who played
den-death semi-final resulted in
Tiger
’s sure-footed penalty
a
good
game
at
fullback
break
a 1-ali deadlock after two over
kicker
missed his first penalty
time periods. This game will ing up the Cambie combination
be carried over to Sunday, De time and again started the set kick of the season . . . Otto
ting for the first goal Dribbling Yanagizawa, playing in running
cember 28 at 10:00 o’clock.
The highly touted and star- the ball past the Tigers he shoes, made a big difference on
studded Cambie Tigers failed passed to right-winger Kimura the Redwing defence ... .
Yamada - and
Mas
to impress this cold and mos- who in turn centered it in front Goalies
erable scribe who stood on of the goal mouth where Ghuck George Yoshinaka displayed
sparkling goal-tending. . . . .
the sidelines for nearly two Terada hooked it in.
Next
Sunday the Kitsies will
Yosy Yasui countered for the
hours. The Kitsies’ forward
line led by Chuck Terada and Tigers late in the second half play Kito Kato, Tad Wakaba
Company were pushing the when he headed one past Goal- yashi as well as Otto. . . . .
Let’s take a glance back over the many
activities that highlighted the community’s
horsehide and hickory world during the season just passed. The Asahis of the Burrard
League, the Japanese,
Inter-city
Bussei
and
loops.
The yea r 19 4 1
brought additional glory
and honor to the al
ready brilliant record of
the Asahi Baseball Club.
This year’s array of
stars upheld the tradi
tional sportsman ship
and color that has won
for the rep diamond nine and the Japanese
community many Occidental friends during
the two decades the Asahis’ name has flashed
across the city baseball world.
Although they failed to win the champion
ship of the Burrard League, we must pay
tribute to the Nippon’s courageous and bril
liant showing the past year. Their’s was an
up-hill battle against competition that was
vastly superior to the calibre they had been
accustomed to in past years. Asahis rose to
the occasion with superlative ball-playing and
gave stiff battles to the other teams studded
with former pros and, semi-pros.
Asahis weren’t even considered
against the tougher opposition but
they changed quite a few minds by
putting up a keen battle and
reaching the semi-finals. Even in
the semis they carried the playoffs
to the limit.
Although the Burrard League
Championship was a closed book
for the Nipponese, the local nine
proved that they were still tops as
far as the Northwest Japanese diamondeering was concerned. This
year the Vancouver nine turned back the
challenge of the Fife Nippons from across the
border to chalk up their fifth consecutive
Pacific Northwest Championship. The Fife
squad, five times title-holders of the Courier
Double “A” circuit, were expected to have
the best chance in many years to cop the
coveted bauble when they overwhelmed the
Canadians oh Fife’s home ground. But the
sad story remains that they were trounced
two straight by the Canucks in Vancouver.
No new names were added to the Asahi
roster this year, every veteran of the previous
season coming back to don their uniforms
again. There is not the least doubt that the
higher calibre of ball, played this year pulled
the Asahis far above the level accustomed to
in recent years.
A few of the names that flashed across the
pages most consistently during the season
come to mind now. Big gun in the Asahi of
fensive was, as per usual, Kaz Suga, who has
led his team in hickory-wielding for the
fourth consecutive year. Besides his high bat
ting average of .395, the southpaw ace led in
total bases, base hits, runs batted in and top
ped it off by pilfering the most number of
bases. . . . Slight Tommy Sawayama led the
Asahis pitching staff. . . . the brilliant short
stop guardian, Mike Maruno, won him honorable mention and a spot on the All-Star
selection by local daily, . . . Others that stand
fast in our memories is . . . the comeback of
hefty Koei Mitsui with his hickory bludgeon
. . . the steady playing of keysack guardian,
Yuki Uno and George Shishido at second will
never be forgotten . . . and last but not least
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JAPANESE LEAGUE.
For the third consecutive year, the Japan
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pennant flies
proudly atop the Union Fish mast. After get
ting off to a poor start, Sandy Stein’s boys
fought back and finally outlasted Maikawa
and Powell Drug.
Bouquet of flowers right now to manager
Stein for his success and also for bringing up
three untried youngsters and playing them
regularly during the latter, part of the sea
son. These kids, discovered in the
baseball school started by Kaz
Suga and Mike Maruno came
through nobly in the pinch and
proved valuable factors in the
Union Fish pennant drive.
BUESSEI LEAGUE.
The long monopoly of the Hompa
team on Bussei League champion
ship was finally broken, the first
time since the league was organ
ized six years ago.
Well on their way to permanent
city possession of the second championship
trophy, the city squad met their Waterloo, in
the Farmer ball team from the Maple Ridge
Y.M.B.A., newcomers to the church league.
In toppling the Hompa nine from their lofty
pedestal, the Farmers accomplished what
Fairview had been itching to do since the
league’s inception. Until this year, the final
playoffs always saw the perennial rivals,
Fairview and Hompa battling it out. The Kitsilano Busseis nearly always put up a grand
fight, but were never able to grace the win
ner’s circle.
INTER-CITY LEAGUE.
Kitsilano Kyuhins grabbed the top spot and
the new shiny Inter-city Challenge Cup at
the finish of a well-fought and really fast
season. Big addition to the loop this year was
the Steveston Fuji, who gave the twicechampion Kyuhins
their only serious com
petition.
The only interest
that Mikados, last year
runner-ups, had in the
league was in trying to
keep ahead of the last
spot New Westminster
Taiikus which turned
out to be not quite so
difficult for the Taiik
us lost all their games.
The final season standing saw Kitsilano
Kyuhins sitting happily on top with five wins
and one loss. Stevestonites lost two games.
Mikado’s with four losses and two wins and
Taiikus with five losses and no wins followed
in order.
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DECEMBER 25, 194]
THE NEW CANADIAN
Redwings Surprise Tigers—Still Deadlocked In Soccer Semi-Final
back until they had ie Yamada in a mad scramble
Last Sunday the Cambie! Tige
Tiger-Kitsilano Redwing sud the Tig srs playing defensive. in front of the goal mouth.
Soccer Bits: Shig Yamashita,
Otto Yanagizawa who played
den-death semi-final resulted in
Tiger
’s sure-footed penalty
a
good
game
at
fullback
break
a 1-ali deadlock after two over
kicker
missed his first penalty
time periods. This game will ing up the Cambie combination
be carried over to Sunday, De time and again started the set kick of the season . . . Otto
ting for the first goal Dribbling Yanagizawa, playing in running
cember 28 at 10:00 o’clock.
The highly touted and star- the ball past the Tigers he shoes, made a big difference on
studded Cambie Tigers failed passed to right-winger Kimura the Redwing defence ... .
Yamada - and
Mas
to impress this cold and mos- who in turn centered it in front Goalies
erable scribe who stood on of the goal mouth where Ghuck George Yoshinaka displayed
sparkling goal-tending. . . . .
the sidelines for nearly two Terada hooked it in.
Next
Sunday the Kitsies will
Yosy Yasui countered for the
hours. The Kitsies’ forward
line led by Chuck Terada and Tigers late in the second half play Kito Kato, Tad Wakaba
Company were pushing the when he headed one past Goal- yashi as well as Otto. . . . .
Let’s take a glance back over the many
activities that highlighted the community’s
horsehide and hickory world during the season just passed. The Asahis of the Burrard
League, the Japanese,
Inter-city
Bussei
and
loops.
The yea r 19 4 1
brought additional glory
and honor to the al
ready brilliant record of
the Asahi Baseball Club.
This year’s array of
stars upheld the tradi
tional sportsman ship
and color that has won
for the rep diamond nine and the Japanese
community many Occidental friends during
the two decades the Asahis’ name has flashed
across the city baseball world.
Although they failed to win the champion
ship of the Burrard League, we must pay
tribute to the Nippon’s courageous and bril
liant showing the past year. Their’s was an
up-hill battle against competition that was
vastly superior to the calibre they had been
accustomed to in past years. Asahis rose to
the occasion with superlative ball-playing and
gave stiff battles to the other teams studded
with former pros and, semi-pros.
Asahis weren’t even considered
against the tougher opposition but
they changed quite a few minds by
putting up a keen battle and
reaching the semi-finals. Even in
the semis they carried the playoffs
to the limit.
Although the Burrard League
Championship was a closed book
for the Nipponese, the local nine
proved that they were still tops as
far as the Northwest Japanese diamondeering was concerned. This
year the Vancouver nine turned back the
challenge of the Fife Nippons from across the
border to chalk up their fifth consecutive
Pacific Northwest Championship. The Fife
squad, five times title-holders of the Courier
Double “A” circuit, were expected to have
the best chance in many years to cop the
coveted bauble when they overwhelmed the
Canadians oh Fife’s home ground. But the
sad story remains that they were trounced
two straight by the Canucks in Vancouver.
No new names were added to the Asahi
roster this year, every veteran of the previous
season coming back to don their uniforms
again. There is not the least doubt that the
higher calibre of ball, played this year pulled
the Asahis far above the level accustomed to
in recent years.
A few of the names that flashed across the
pages most consistently during the season
come to mind now. Big gun in the Asahi of
fensive was, as per usual, Kaz Suga, who has
led his team in hickory-wielding for the
fourth consecutive year. Besides his high bat
ting average of .395, the southpaw ace led in
total bases, base hits, runs batted in and top
ped it off by pilfering the most number of
bases. . . . Slight Tommy Sawayama led the
Asahis pitching staff. . . . the brilliant short
stop guardian, Mike Maruno, won him honorable mention and a spot on the All-Star
selection by local daily, . . . Others that stand
fast in our memories is . . . the comeback of
hefty Koei Mitsui with his hickory bludgeon
. . . the steady playing of keysack guardian,
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pitching staff.
JAPANESE LEAGUE.
For the third consecutive year, the Japan
ese
League ’ championship
pennant flies
proudly atop the Union Fish mast. After get
ting off to a poor start, Sandy Stein’s boys
fought back and finally outlasted Maikawa
and Powell Drug.
Bouquet of flowers right now to manager
Stein for his success and also for bringing up
three untried youngsters and playing them
regularly during the latter, part of the sea
son. These kids, discovered in the
baseball school started by Kaz
Suga and Mike Maruno came
through nobly in the pinch and
proved valuable factors in the
Union Fish pennant drive.
BUESSEI LEAGUE.
The long monopoly of the Hompa
team on Bussei League champion
ship was finally broken, the first
time since the league was organ
ized six years ago.
Well on their way to permanent
city possession of the second championship
trophy, the city squad met their Waterloo, in
the Farmer ball team from the Maple Ridge
Y.M.B.A., newcomers to the church league.
In toppling the Hompa nine from their lofty
pedestal, the Farmers accomplished what
Fairview had been itching to do since the
league’s inception. Until this year, the final
playoffs always saw the perennial rivals,
Fairview and Hompa battling it out. The Kitsilano Busseis nearly always put up a grand
fight, but were never able to grace the win
ner’s circle.
INTER-CITY LEAGUE.
Kitsilano Kyuhins grabbed the top spot and
the new shiny Inter-city Challenge Cup at
the finish of a well-fought and really fast
season. Big addition to the loop this year was
the Steveston Fuji, who gave the twicechampion Kyuhins
their only serious com
petition.
The only interest
that Mikados, last year
runner-ups, had in the
league was in trying to
keep ahead of the last
spot New Westminster
Taiikus which turned
out to be not quite so
difficult for the Taiik
us lost all their games.
The final season standing saw Kitsilano
Kyuhins sitting happily on top with five wins
and one loss. Stevestonites lost two games.
Mikado’s with four losses and two wins and
Taiikus with five losses and no wins followed
in order.
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THE NEW CANADIAN
ECEMBER 25, 1941
veston Brooklynites’ Blitz Highlights Colourful Judo Year
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jsc
ing of the collective Steveston heart could Hatashita had never been thrown or oth ««
the din of the crowd.
pTEVESTON, the Brooklyn of the judo world created the greatest sen- j defeated
in the memories of most of ^^“^^
D sation in judo doings in 1941, when, accompanied by the usual rabid ton lad spilled the husky Vancouver giant for half and offtimes hysterical band of rooters (they are only eclipsed by the
inq went wild in a slightly colossal way.
finally tossed and
notorious Brooklyn, U.S.A, baseball fans), the prides of Steveston cleanea
' But lightning didn't strike twice and Tan.no was ^
^
ton,s
up the show at the junior tournament in the Japanese Hall last November. pinned by Hatashita and with
“never satisfied?
Their feat shaded considerably the ether sensation of the year.
dream of a perfect cleanup ... but, h—II some pv-opisBy F. A. M.
The brother act of the Hatashita clan who overwhelmed the rest of the
• field in the black belt and under b.b. championships in the senior
The Hatashita Bros, affair in the same
" ^ ® ;he
tournament held in the spring.
mildly a shock (althou' pleas- I was more or less '^^^XXlk 9 and the Vancouver Centre mem
The Steveston triumph was to put i
ant) even to the most optimistic Stevestonite. Steveston was favoured ^XT established more firmly in the minds of judo Tans the ever
in some of the divisions, such as the under I 6 individual, and the under
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RTF
from the outset
of the meet, cheered on by the
popular
The senior Hatashita's final opponent m the black belted
team divisions. However
I
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—
.
Dravers and the half-uttered urgings of their fellow townsmen the Lulu Minoru Sakata of Chemainus, whidt “"'l^^as probably more than a
Island lads brushed aside all opposition almost contemptuously. When
is Xd instructor Jt the Chemainus gym.
their reps showed up strongly in the later rounds, the venerable Japanese
Hall shook with the joy and expectant shouts of the now slightly insane
p®
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crowd of supporters.
■
The finals lined up like this: the under 18 individual—Steveston vs.
Vancouver Centre; the under 16—Steveston vs. Chemainus; the under
i ^Steveston vs. Chemainus; the under 18 team final—Steveston vs.
Vancouver Centre; and the under 1572 team final—Steveston vs. Che-
.1
as athletes from each gym journeyed
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and other prizes
Fairview, Kitsilano, Woodfibre, and Chemainus Cups
of
were fiercely fought for and a good t.me was had by a I. I nis p
awarding Pdzes will probably^
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vanquished their opponents in quick order, the ecstasy of the pseud
18 to 16 so that the senior ^ JX ^X issued in May
Brooklynites grew and when the under 18 final rolled up featunng them
Mitsunobu Tanino and "Oscar" Hatashita the perennial champion and *SXXXX wouid gain impetus and energy from the
oresent time holder of the underblack belt championship, which mea
tournamentsintbe^^
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THE NEW CANADIAN
ECEMBER 25, 1941
veston Brooklynites’ Blitz Highlights Colourful Judo Year
.,
jsc
ing of the collective Steveston heart could Hatashita had never been thrown or oth ««
the din of the crowd.
pTEVESTON, the Brooklyn of the judo world created the greatest sen- j defeated
in the memories of most of ^^“^^
D sation in judo doings in 1941, when, accompanied by the usual rabid ton lad spilled the husky Vancouver giant for half and offtimes hysterical band of rooters (they are only eclipsed by the
inq went wild in a slightly colossal way.
finally tossed and
notorious Brooklyn, U.S.A, baseball fans), the prides of Steveston cleanea
' But lightning didn't strike twice and Tan.no was ^
^
ton,s
up the show at the junior tournament in the Japanese Hall last November. pinned by Hatashita and with
“never satisfied?
Their feat shaded considerably the ether sensation of the year.
dream of a perfect cleanup ... but, h—II some pv-opisBy F. A. M.
The brother act of the Hatashita clan who overwhelmed the rest of the
• field in the black belt and under b.b. championships in the senior
The Hatashita Bros, affair in the same
" ^ ® ;he
tournament held in the spring.
mildly a shock (althou' pleas- I was more or less '^^^XXlk 9 and the Vancouver Centre mem
The Steveston triumph was to put i
ant) even to the most optimistic Stevestonite. Steveston was favoured ^XT established more firmly in the minds of judo Tans the ever
in some of the divisions, such as the under I 6 individual, and the under
|
df(_
„ ,egend of the invincibility of the Ha'ash. g.
RTF
from the outset
of the meet, cheered on by the
popular
The senior Hatashita's final opponent m the black belted
team divisions. However
I
—
—
.
Dravers and the half-uttered urgings of their fellow townsmen the Lulu Minoru Sakata of Chemainus, whidt “"'l^^as probably more than a
Island lads brushed aside all opposition almost contemptuously. When
is Xd instructor Jt the Chemainus gym.
their reps showed up strongly in the later rounds, the venerable Japanese
Hall shook with the joy and expectant shouts of the now slightly insane
p®
Mife
\W1)^
crowd of supporters.
■
The finals lined up like this: the under 18 individual—Steveston vs.
Vancouver Centre; the under 16—Steveston vs. Chemainus; the under
i ^Steveston vs. Chemainus; the under 18 team final—Steveston vs.
Vancouver Centre; and the under 1572 team final—Steveston vs. Che-
.1
as athletes from each gym journeyed
/
and other prizes
Fairview, Kitsilano, Woodfibre, and Chemainus Cups
of
were fiercely fought for and a good t.me was had by a I. I nis p
awarding Pdzes will probably^
rul<ng
d
t
>f?
of
ma‘n And as one by one, Isao Nishi, Kenji Yoshida, and the two teams
vanquished their opponents in quick order, the ecstasy of the pseud
18 to 16 so that the senior ^ JX ^X issued in May
Brooklynites grew and when the under 18 final rolled up featunng them
Mitsunobu Tanino and "Oscar" Hatashita the perennial champion and *SXXXX wouid gain impetus and energy from the
oresent time holder of the underblack belt championship, which mea
tournamentsintbe^^
cess
X “^ the senior and junior divisions in ail of Canada, Ihejo^
3
1
Tsuruo Enta
Kelly I. Kawamoto
Mr. & Mrs. H. Kuwada Mr. & Mrs. K. Ogawa
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Melvin Kawano
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