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THE NEW CANADIAN
An Independent We ekly for Canadians of Japanese Origin
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I Area After End of War
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“MILLION-DOLLAR INDUSTY RUINED

| The possibility of even a few Japf anese returning to the Pacific coast at
I the termination of the war did not
| seem very much last week when A.
| E. Eastwood, general manager of the
I British Columbia Security Commis| sion told the secretary of the Kelowna
OTTAWA.— The only limitation to
Mr. Sneyd’s special field, it is in­
I committee “that the Coast would re- the employment of evacuees in varidicated, will be the placement of skill­
I main a ‘protected area’ for ‘many jous occupations is the unwillingness
ed hands or tradesmen in positions
| vears' after the war.’
(Of employers to hire them, it was in- where they will be able to make use
| The Kelowna committee viewed the aicated to The New Canadian last
I statement as an assertion that the week-end by officials of the Federal of their abilities.
He will also seek to open up smaller
I Japanese with duration permit would Department of Labor.
I remain in the district even when the
lines and towns in the east in which
This was in clarification of a
I or ended. They stated that the Com- story which appeared June 12. re­ no evacuees have yet been placed, and
! mission had indicated that it is only porting that Montreal placement'of­ farm opportunities.
I interested in getting Japanese domi- ficials said that evacuees would be
This is in line with the conviction
I died and, as the Coast will remain a placed only in occupations recently here that too great concentrations in
t protected area after the war, they classified by Selective S/rvice regu­ any centres must be avoided if the re­
f will have to remain in the interior.
lations as “non-essential.”
location program is to meet with any
I’
It was noticeable in the report that
The object of government policy. A. permanent success.
I the Kelowna committee did not even H. Brown, solicitor for the Depart­
I consider the question of repatriation ment told The New Canadian, is
I of Japanese as one way of getting lathei to direct all available labor to
STREET CAR PASSES
| Japanese out.
meet acute needs in “essential” indus.

Limitation of Jobs For Evacuees
Depends on Willingness to Hir

Yamaga: Slow Interest in Sale
VANCOUVER.:—Interest in the sale of Japanese property in the Van­
couver area was not great, reported the Daily Province last week.
A special advertisement was carried on June 25 in the 5’ancouver papers
offering for sale the property of Dr. K. Shiinotakahara, cha rm ah of the
Japanese Property Owners’ Association. Although this property is listed
in the C section for which tenders have yet to be called, it is not known
for what reason the property was offered for
except for possible test
action.
In Kaslo. the Japanese Property Owners’ .Association reported that the
sum of $1800 had been collected from 500 property owne
da. Fifteen Occidentals have contributed, the report added.
HANEY.—A million-dollar indus­
try, which was the result of 35
years of slow work by Japanese
farmers, now seems to be the thing
of the past. That is how Mr. Yasutaro Yamaga felt when he recently
inspected the strawberry patches in
the lower Fraser A’alley.

democratic me-

members of the Advisorv Committee on Kurai

and not
He reported that, in the districts
around Haney, the only strawber­
from the
ries growing were the “Pitts.”
, it was
which are the wild strawberries
ern centres, and many are now enVANCOUVER. — The once pros­
propagated by Mr. Saito of Pitt
gaged in work very closely related to perous Japanese shopping district
Meadows
many years ago. They are Property Owners' Association
war production.
along Powell Street is now inhabit­
good, however, only for. the manu­
The problem encountered is whether ed in places by families of laborers
facture of jam. Being a hardy
the employer, for various reasons, is who live in the stores with the
Air. Yamaga submitted his resig­
Education Question Being willing
plant,
the “Pitts” grow even among
or not to engage workers of windows covered with curtains like
nation to His Honor Judge 55’hitethe weeds and on the old ranches.
side. chairman of the committee, on
Studied By Labour Dept. Japanese origin.
the gypsies who drift in now and
The

Sovereigns,

which
of
May 25 and returned to the ll-Milc
then.
| PORT ARTHUR, Ont. —Considerahigher quality, were seen growing or, Camp, near Hope, B. C.
,
OTTAWA. — Further extension of
The Japanese characters on the the newly cultivated tracts aroun.
He interest has been attached to the placement services afforded by the
In his statement, Mr. Yamaga dis­
| proposal to establish a small centre Toronto office of G. E. Trueman is front windows of the once Meshiyas Mount Lehman by Air. Yamaga, bu. closed that he had at first agreed to
of Japanese evacuees and their fami- anticipated with the appointment of and florists stare lonesomely out to there, too, much of the land was over­ serve on the committee because of
lies in sites adjacent to the woods the former YMCA official, H. S.Sneyd. the deserted streets and the street grown with weeds and half or a quar. his desire to protect the interests of
operations of the Pigeon Timber Corn.-to assist in specialized fields of the cars, for the most part, pass right ter acre of these berries remained on the Japanese farmers. He felt that
through the street without stopping. this farm.'
pany at Neys, Ontario.
WOl'K.
without his help, the committee would
I Neys, a flag stop on the Canadian*
Officials have stated that they be­ I not be able to dispose the properties
His appointment is expected also
In contrast to some of the shop
I Pacific Railway, is 40 miles east ofi to provide the Toronto offices with
lieve that the yield this year would in a manner satisfactory to the Jap­
windows which are in disorderly
I Schreiber and about 170 miles eastj opportunities to seek opening up
be
about one-quarter of former anese, since the other committee
state, the Sun Pekin Chop Suey is
years.
However, according to Mr. members could not “understand the
I of Port Arthur.
j new occupations and industries for
thriving on the wartime prosperity
I At the present time some sixty men. capable workers; Relieved of detail­
Yamaga, less than one-fifth of the sentiment that the Japanese owners
and on Saturday nights, it is crowd­
crop
will probably measure up to attached to their lands” and also be­
I are employed here by the Pigeon ed work, it is thought that the chief
ed with Chinese and white patrons.
the
quality
specified in the Domi­ cause in some cases legal steps had
I Timber Company, most of whom are. of the Toronto office will be able
Chinese women, attired in WAC
nion
Fruit
Act.
I from the camp at Angler.
j to push forward with the broader
uniforms can be seen occasionally
not been taken to transfer the title
I It is understood that a number of program of “selling” Nisei workers
Raspberry bushes were showing of the property left by the deceased
as they enter the eating house with
comparatively good growth, but it is to the inheritor.
I the married men have signified their, to more employers.
their men folk.
I wish to bring their families from in-!
felt that sin'ce. the weeds would grow
Please understand that I have just
very quickly, the crop would be re­ as strong an attachment for my land
I tenor housing projects in British Col-;
duced to about one-third of former and for the berry growing industry as
I umbia. Investigations are therefore,
seasons.

«
I being made as to the practicability i
any of the- other 700 evar.uee owners,
| of developing a settlement.
I
Three-quarters of the 250 acres of Mr. Yamaga stated. Mr. MacPherson
land which were devoted to asparagus of the Custodian’s office knows that I
| The Pigeon Timber Company, it is;
Manitoba Fields Reported In Serious Condition
cultivation are now overrun 'with have fought to protect this industry
| said, is interested in supplying the
Good Weather in Alberta Sees Record Operation
weeds, he stated.
I materials necessary to build houses;
to the very last, and it was only
It was observed by Mr. Yamaga through his request that I accepted
fir the married men and their fami-1 WINNIPEG.—Thinning of sugar b eet fields in the Tied River Valley of
lie: Three camp sites a few miles southern Manitoba is far behind the progress made in the province of Al- that owing to the land being left with, :he position on the Advisorvy Comout care, only about one-quarter of nittee.
apart would be developed.
; berta, it was reliably reported last w eek.
Provision of educational facilities I Heaxv rains and the resulting wet fields have delayed work considerably the cultivated tracts will be left at
I hope for the success of the Jap• for the children is being studied by i and growers are hoping for more
favorable weather for thinning of the the end of the season.
tnese Property Owners’ Association in
Poultry farming in the Strawberr.
j the Department of Labor at Ottawa j 17,000 acres planted to beets for co mmercial purposes in Manitoba this
is fight for justice as much as any­
; in cooperation with the Ontario De- iyear.
(See “YAMAGA” P. 4)
*
one else, he concluded.
thinning operation would be finished
' partment of Education.
; At the meeting held on April 24 at by this week.
Medical services, it is declared, can Winnipeg, C. L. Taylor, agricultural
MONTREAL.—Decline of the Ont­
he easily made_ available
since the superintendent of the Manitoba Sugar ario sugar beet industry is revealed STUDENT RELOCATION
. ______ ____
Company has already retaind the ser- Company, had prophesied good wea- in the following report appearing in
vices of a Japanese physician and ther ^conditions for the coming season the current issue of the Family Her­
surgeon.
; However, adverse weather conditions ald and Weekly Star of Montreal:
SiBSisKH-KKiiSigi^
thie past few weeks have brought
“Only fifteen thousand seven hun­
TORONTO, Ont. — Lifting of bar_
KASLO. — Favorable replies have,
sugar beet work to a standstill.
dred
acres
of
sugar
beets
have
been
riers against the admission of Cana­ been received from a number of east­
Further wire on easing of travel
Unless better weather comes im- contracted for in Ontario. This means
dian-born Japanese students enforced ern universities stated Mrs. V. Shimorestriction ... no .permit required mediately it is reported, that there
east of Sault Ste. Marie (Quebec, as will be a minor catastrophe in the that the big Chatham sugar factory last year by a number of eastern takahara of the Student Relocation
will be closed down and that even the Canada universities is foressen here
well as Ontario) except: (1) for
Committee of the Nisei Liberties
Manitoba sugar beet industry. Ac­ neighboring Wallaceburg plant will
before the opening of the next school Union in Kaslo.
permanent change (2) over 30 days cording to reports coming in from
not run at capacity.
year.
(3) N.B. for travel outside of the
However, the committee lacks in­
various districts, weeds are playing

The
failure
to
grow
sugar
beets
boundaries of the area described;
Nisei and others, including the
havoc among the beets and already is due'principally to the lack of labor
be. travel from Toronto to Port Ar­
Government placement offiers, the formation of prospective students.
some fields arc overrun with wild oats. in this area and the problem still re­
thur, Winnipeg, Sask., Alta., B. C-.
Student Christian Movement and the only a few having sent in corres­
mains
unsolved. The Ontario govern­ International Student Service, are in­
This
existing
condition
is
of
grave
etci. requires a permit.
pondence, thus hampering the work
concern to the Japanese sugar beet ment in an effort to assist the grower terested in the relocation of students
to
some extent, she declared.
families, whose main livelihood is has announced a subsidy of 55 cents who wish to carry on with their ad­
dependent on the income derived per ton and the Dominion government vanced education.
Japanese will be accepted by these
Editor Visits Ottawa
50 cent tax remission on refined sugar
from this labor.
universities
their application is
It is recognized that leadership
OTTAWA.—-(CP)—An observer in
io the grower.”
found
to
be
satisfactory.
Applicants
needs among- the Nisei are and will
die Press Gallery in the House of
LETHBRIDGE.— Japanese settlers
continue to be very great, apart al­ should write to the Student Relocation
oiumons last week was Thomas Sho. are tackling the sugar beet thinning Logging Begins Soon
together from the development of Committee in Kaslo, care of The New
yama, editor of The New Canadian, with such speed this year that a large
Canadian, giving the last school at­
VANCOUVER.-—Convoy of TO hea_ evident skills and abilities.
°dy Japanese paper published in Ca­ number of them have already com­
tended,
their grades, the course they
vy logging trailers left Vancouver for
The marked success of the program
nada from Kaslo, British Columbia.
pleted the operation after three and Slocan Valley and other interior Bri­ carried out in. the United States. wish to take, financial standing and
^r- Shoyama has been on tour of four weeks of work.
tish Columbia points last week, where where over 500 colleges have ab­ character references. The approval of
Favored by excellent weather, they will be used with evacuee Jap­ sorbed almost 1000 former Pacific the British Columbia^ Security Com­
Astern Canada viewing at first hand
:e general conditions of Japanese stabilized surroundings and a year’s anese in the British Columbia Securi­ Coast students, has been cited with mission is also required.
evacuees relocated there. He stated experience, work is progressing ty Commission’s fuel - wood cutting admiration in numerous quarters here.
It is indicated that Japanese stu­
*»at he was due to return to Kaslo quickly. In many cases, operation project.
Young people in the west, interest­ dents are generally discouraged from
■t^6611 July 10 and 14. He indicated has been held up by the lack of
Other equipments to be used in cut­ ed in carrying on with their studies, taking science courses due to govern­
ting fuel wood will follow later, G. C. are advised to-contact The New Cana­ ment war research being conducted in
he would make a short visit to growth of the plant.
Js home at Kamloops before turning
The New Canadian was informed Collins, general superintendent of the dian at Kaslo for further develop­ the school laboratories at the present
c^ via New Denver for Kaslo.
that the major proportion of the beet Secuity Commission stated.
ments.
time.

Men’s Families

THROUGH POWELL ST.
' This is the policy bein
followed
WITHOUT STOPPING
with regard to Nisei labor in all east-

Weather Holds Up Thinning

Accepted By Eastern Colleges

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Kaslo; . B.. C.

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Expression.' Among the People of Japanese Origin in Canada
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Takaichi Umezuki
Japanese Section Editor
Staff
Harry S. Kondo
H. Tsuji
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Labour Organizations And Us
A few weeks ago, we reported an instance of the Van­
couver Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders Union, Local
No. I, protesting against discrimination of racial minori­
ties. Commenting .on this, we stated that this was “an
example of how unified labor could be of help to racial
minorities.” This week we received a letter from the
Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union Local 2786 at Port
Arthur, Ontario. Said their letter:
“We were lately shown a copy of your paper by a Japanese worker
who is employed in the bush in this district. We might say that a number of Japanese workers are join’.ng our Local Union and we will be
glad to be put on your mailing list so that we might receive your paper regularly.”

besides bcm^ anothei subscription for our files, the
letter was particularly inspiring to us, for it seemed that
at last, some Japanese workers were leaving their narrow evacuee employment status and joining labor organ­
izations.
'
i
But what good are labor organizations many will ask,
pointing out that a few years ago, the Japanese did or­
ganize a labor union and did affiliate with the Trade
Labor bodv in this country.
j
A few years ago..when the International Pulp, Sulphite
and Paper Mill Workers Union Local was organized at
Ocean Falls, all Japanese workers enrolled in the ranks.
They succeeded in increasing their wages, improving their
working conditions and broadening contacts with their
fellow Occidental workers.

Slocan B ISEB II I.
SIDELINES by TAMI
Just to show what a baseball
league keyed, up to a high pitch
of interest will do . . . A near riot
occurred here recently in one of
•the bush leagues. It all started at
the intense last inning where' a de­
cision one way or the other made
a difference in the outcome of the
game.

The losing side, in a “similitude”
conduct of'Dem Bums, vociferous­
ly protested against the umpire’s
call on a foul ball. Fans and play­
ers all milled in and hot words flew
so vehemently that blows were
dangerously to being struck There
was one amusing incident when one
woman fan got involved.
Orchids to the boys, senior and
junior ball players, who all turned
out to fix the ball field for the
coming gala event on Dominion
Day when four Interior town teams
will tangle for the championship.
Other attractions on that day will
feature sports between the games,
and such things as Bingo and
other items will be in the adjoining
field. The local Girls’ Club will be
attending the refreshment stands
and therefore their hot dogs, and
soft drinks are certain to have a
lovely flavor in them.

The girls here would like to play softball, (now called fastball in the
interior) with girls of other towns.
So, come on Kaslo, Denver and
Lemon Creek. How about it ? Oh
yes, just a warning. The local girls
are pretty good and there are a
few Amazons among them ... as
big as . . . well, up to 160 pounds.
. . . and I don’t mean maybe.

TASHME WELFARE MANAGER
,THANKS JAPANESE

-July 3, 1948

® leaning

The Unattainable
In an article by Archibald Rut­
ledge, “The World’s Biggest Negro
Business,” appearing in the June
number of the Reader’s Digest,
Charles C. Spaulding, the president
and one of the three founders of
the sixty-million-dollar North Car­
olina Mutual Life Insurance Com­
pany, is quoted as saying on tne
question of racial equality, as. fol­
lows:

“Equality is a thing that
should not be demanded, because
it cannot be granted. It has tol be
earned. No Utopian dreamer can
achieve it for another man. If
the Negro wants equality — except of opportunity — he must
pay for it, and the unalterable
price is character and achieve­
ment.”
There is nothing new in the
principles enunciated therein. We
have heard and said them many
times. But, coming from a Negro
as the result of forty-four years of
rich, variegated life and business
experiences, they deserve a fresh
and careful consideration.
While not altogether ignorant of
it, we often tend to forget, that
most of-the things which make our
lives rich aad liveable, and which
therefore we passionately desire to
have, are things that cannot be
given. They have to be earned and
achieved. No parent, friend, Church
or Government can hand them out
to us, no matter how strongly they
may wish to do so.. They can at
best help us to achieve these va­
lues, by offering opportunities and
creating favorable environments
for that'purpose.

as on the achievement of maer
character. John Bunyan in Bedford
Prison was deprived of almost all
freedom; yet found freedom
- enough to create his immortal
work, “The Pilgrim’s Progress.”'

THE GOOD THINGS
The same is -true with other
good things- of life. Quietness may
be given, but not serenity. Fran­
chise may be. granted, but not good
citizenship. A degree can be con­
ferred, but not the scholarship. Art
treasurers may be bequeathed, but
the appreciation and the enjoy­
ment of them, never. Pleasures
may be bought, but not happiness.
Victory, security, peace, of which
we hear so much these days, can­
not be bestowed by anybody. All
these values have to be achieved
through patience, application, dis­
cipline, sacrifice and co-operation.
The Lord of the Universe has de­
creed that there shall be no easier
way of .obtaining them.
Ignorance or forgetfulness of
this truth has been a major cause
of much unhappiness and trouble
in the world. There has always
been a tendency in us to blame
others, the individual, the society,
or the Government — whenever e
feel we are denied these good
things of life, forgetting to exa­
mine ourselves. That there are in
the world many injustices to be
righted, numerous defects to be re.
formed, and countless evils to be
removed, there is no question; and
for the proper solution of these
problems, we should put our
strengths, minds and souls.
IN SPITE OF . . .
But we should not forget that
some evils cannot be removed, but
should be surmounted; that some
reforms cannot be affected unless
we ourselves are willing to1 be re­
formed; that some good things can
be achieved in spite of these exist­
ing evils right now’ where we are
placed without waiting for all the
obstacles to disappear. And this is
■where character, or spiritual char­
acter is of utmost importance.
“And the unalterable price is char,
acter and achievement,” as Charles
Spaulding has rightly said.

Tashme, B. C.
A PROPER EDUCATION
We speak about giving educa­
Previous to this in 1920, a bonafide Japanese workers To The Folk at Tashme:
tion; but in the strict sense that is
You will read this after I have
Union was formed and with increased membership, it gone and perhaps forgotten. But I not possible. Schools, teachers,
expanded into the Camp and Mill Workers Federal La­ will never forget my most happy books, laboratories, and other
bor Union No. 31, Vancouver and Vicinity. It affiliated stay in Tashme as welfare mana­ things may be provided for us;, but
we can never get a true education
with the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada and with ger.
unless
we achieve it for ourselves.
You were sb happy to meet and
the Vancouver, New Westminster a n d District Trade ■when
That
is
why many people who have
there was ice and snow and
received
schooling are not really
so many cold' hands, you always
educated in the proper sense of the
met me with the same courageous
In affiliating with these organizations, they removed spirit. I’m proud to have served you term. On the other hand, many
the iclea; of exclusion of the Japanese workers among or­ and often I wished I could have people who received little or no
often achieved education.
ganized labor and contributed a great deal towards the done so much more for you, espe­ schooling
Abraham Lincoln is said to have
protection of interests of Japanese workers. It is also to cially for the young folk.
received only seven months of
And this is the blessing: that
To the student of the Night
their credit that not until the affiliation of he Japanese S Jiool, I wish to say how proud schooling. yet no one can say that oneje acquired, these values cannot
was not educated. George Ste­
be taken away by anybody or by
Workers Union as an unit of its body, did the Trades and you can feel that you are carrying he
phenson could not read nor write
anything, unless W’e ourselves al­
on so well. You deserve credit, and
until he was eighteen, but by sheer
low’ them. Time cannot wear them
although the grind is hard you will
application and discipline, he edu­
elusion of all Asiatic labor.
out, nor can circumstances impair
soon realize how well you will be
cated himself and became the fa­
them.
are heavenly treasures
The Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades repaid. Keep up the excellent work mous inventor of steam locomotive. which These
“neither moth nor rust doth
you have started.
and Labor Council had also been vigorous as champipns
corrupt,
and thieves do not steal.”
True
freedom
is
another
thing
I wish to thank the Shinwa-kai
of anti-Oriental labor. With the acceptance of Japanese and office staff for their never fail­ that cannot be granted. We should As lights, they shine more brilliantly in dark circumstances, to
remember this when we hear so
workers into the Union, the platform of the Labor ing assistance and kind advice.
#’ much about the four freedoms, as
cheer and guide us, and to help us
John L. Sanders
Unions was changed to “exclude all those who could not
overcome all difficulties. One’s
if they can be doled out to us at
character
is his greatest asset: no
assimilate with Canadian society.” This in itself was pro­
some definite time or at inter­
himself more pro­
one
can
engage
vals, by some agencies such as
gress on the part of Japanese people.
fitably
at
any
time,
as in the de­
the Government or the Peace
velopment of his character.
Council. Negative freedom—free-s
At the annual convention of 1931, the Labor Council
dom
from
outward
hindrances

I recall to memory a maxim by
endorsed a resolution presented by the Camp and Mill
• Mrs. Thomas O’Hagan. Jas_
may be given; but positive dyna­
Horace Greenley, memorized in my
■Workers Union to give the franchise to Canadian citi­ per Park, Alberta, wishes to em­
mic freedom, the freedom to
high school days, which ran some­
ploy a cook - general. The salary
zens of Japanese origin.
create a higher value, which is
thing like this:
will be $30 to commence, with a
the only kind of freedom worthy
“Fame is a vapour; riches take
Thus, it can be seen that labor organizations are of raise to $35 after six months. She
of the name — can never be
wings;
those who cheer today
be. granted two weeks holiday
granted.
tremendous help especially to racial minorities. They are will
will
scorn
tomorrow; only one
after six months and one month
True freedom is dependent not
organized on the principles of democracy, and there is no after a year’s work. There are just
thing abides —- character.”
so
much
on
outward
circumstances,
Is it not intensely true?
two
adults
in
the
family
and
they
difference as to race, color or creed. We strongly advise
live in a nine room house. Mrs.
O’Hagan writes that she should
ber and Sawmill Workers Union Local2786. The Union like a woman whose husband or and modern eqipped hotel. S-hour
FOOTNOTES FROM U.S.
is democracy at work and democracy will work for you 'friend is in the B.-C. Camps, which day, minimum wages and time and
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt may do
one half for overtime. The girls
would be company to visit, etc.
as a Canadian worker.
an article for a national magazine
will be required to work on the
guest room floors only.
on war relocation ... A Chinese
Mr.
Yorath,
3GEGG
*
*
*
River, Alberta, wishes to employ a
American business man is actively
OPPORTUNITY TO BUY YOUR
• Mrs. H. G. Martin, S6 Wood,
Japanese girl as a domestic. There
interested in obtaining two cera­
are
two
adults
in
the
family
and
lawn
West,
Toronto,
wishes
to
em
­
STUDIO PICTURE NEGATIVE
mics factories in the New York
. two children, ages 6}*! and 5 years.
ploy a general housemaid. Her
area to assist in the relocation of
Their home is fully modern and is
each 45c
Postcard
evacuees . . . An illustration of the
husband is a Baptist minister in
a seven roomed house. The salary
_ ___ 50c
4x6
widespread
campaign being conToronto. There are two children in
to commence is $25, with a raise
_____75c
1 ducted by west coast race-baiters
the family. The wages offered to
to $30 after three months satisfac­
against loyal Americans of Japan­
_____ 90e
tory work.
commence are $30 per month and ese ancestry is the fact that a let­
8x10
will be raised to $40 after three< ter from the California Joint Im­
• The Athabasca Hotel, Jasper
months
’ satisfactory work. Cooking migration Committee was publish­
EMPRESS STUDIO
National Park, Alberta, wishes to
experience is not essential. There
ed recently by the New Orleans
VANCOUVER, B. C.
43S MAIN STREET
employ two Japanese girls for
is liberal time off. This home is
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chambermaids in their first class
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July 3, 1948

From coast io. coast

j Jems Cl J A111

• JIMI I Illi I S

LaRochelle, Man.

all surprising.
One of the sources of great dis­
AUTUMN SCENES
comfort in LaRochelle, we found
^ hen the beet thinning, first and
on our arrival last April, was the
second hoeing are over, the sugar
wind that never seemed to stop
beets grow rapidly and at the same
blowing. At times it -would turn in­
time the wheat fields become a sea
to a 50-miles-an-hour gale and
oi' golden yellow as harvesting
would blow away everything from
nine draws near. Against the
wash-tubs to garbage cans. One
background of the green growth
morning, Air. Kurahachi Yoshino,
along the banks of the Red River
our neighbor, woke up to find even
rise red barns and elevators, and
his outhouse missing because of
steeples of the Catholic churches
the windstorm during the night.
pierce the sky like needles; and at
Now, we have become used to the
night the darkness is lit by the
wind that it. does not bother us
aurora of the northern lights. In­
any more.
deed Manitoba is never so rich in
Working on the farm last sea­
natural beauty than at this time
son we discovered the surprising
of the year. Then it is the time
fact that the wind is a factor of
that the fireflies are most numer­
ous.
indispensable value to the agricul­
tural industry.
FIREFLIES
In farming, work is suspended
One, two, three . . . Fireflies flit
when it rains. On the prairies it s
at the sound of our feet and it was
vitally necessary that the soil dries
not infrequent that we found our­
quickly after each rainfall and the
selves chasing them through the
dark in our nightclothes. At this
wind helps- immensely to do this in
half-a-day. The wind also keeps the
time, too, white plantains and wild
mosquitos. away and relieves us
morning glories grace the banks of
greatly from the intense summer
the streams. Manitoba is a land
with a beauty all its own.
heat'on the flat, shadeless prairie
land.
—TAKATSU
MOSQUITOS
Last May -wewere tortured for
OKANAGAN CENTRE
two days by mosquitos -when a
With the arrival of the busy
spell of several summer-like..days
farming
season, the people here,
produced swarms of this bloodboth
young
and old, are working
seeking insect. This year, the
hard unmindful of the slight rain
snow which fell tv-ice in early May
that comes now and then.
killed many of these pests.
Our family, which evacuated to
Spider webs are seldom found in
Kamloops
last season had occasions
w i n d y Manitoba. Consequently
to
change
our address six times
there is no fear of such unpleasant
before
finally
settling in this dis­
experiences as finding spider webs
trict. We have found the “hakujin”
in the nooks of houses and brush­
people
very kind and friendly.
ing against them while walking
There is a “haiku” circle called
through the brush. Neither are
the “Aoba - kai” here and it has
there any snakes, for I, at least,
been‘in existence for twenty years.
have yet to see one and am ready
Gatherings, however, have been
to swear that there is not one on
suspended for the time being in
our farm.
order to avoid misunderstanding
Earthworms, too, are non - exis­
of
the Occidental people of the dis­
tent in tliis dry belt. Wishing to go
trict.
fishing in the river, the children
Last Alarch the women folk sent
would often dig for them, but they
in
a donation to the Hastings Park
were nowhere to be found, not even
Hospital
and received a letter of
under the pile of manure. When it
thanks
from
Airs. AI. E. Flimann,
is learnt that the soil freezes se­
matron of the hospital.
veral feet underneath during the
NAKAMOTO
winter, this information is not at

Beet Blockers
LETHBRIDGE.—Science is com_
ing to the aid of the sugar beet
growers of the southern Alberta
districts to assist in meeting the
manpower shortage. Eight mecha­
nical blocking units are in the dis­
trict and they are generally prow
Ing very satisfactory on fields
where the stands of the beets are
good. On thin stands the results
are not so favorable.
“They are still in the pioneering
stage in this country,” declared
Agricultural Superintendent of the
Sugar Company, F. Taylor. “How­
ever, they are in demand and work­

ing steadily. Results are being
watched.” Mr. Taylor pointed cut
that thir.n-ng should not be done
immediately alter the rows are
blocked with the machines. In fact,
two weeks should elapse before
thinning, the blocking being done
while the beets are very small.
“With the use of segmented
seed the machines have given very
interesting results in some regions,
leaving as high as 75 per cent sin­
gle beets. This will indicate the
possibilities of these machines un­
der proper conditions,” said Air.
Taylor.
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Reminiscence
By H. Y.
BAYFARM, B. C.
bumie. watched the scarlet sun
slowly sink below the western sky
and behind the majssiic mountain.
' It was her last night here, she
thought as her eyes followed the
last rays of sunlignt disappear into
the horizon. Her eyes then traced
the sharp mountain ridges towards
the east. The first star peeped its
precious, sparkling gem from the
blanket of twilight. Silent tears
formed in her lonesome eves as she
made a wish. Yes, the same wish
she had made so many times be­
fore.

Suddenly the past came to her
like a vivid picture of unreality.
She could remember distinctly
those nights they spent strolling
through the peaceful park. Sumie,
remembered as if it were yester­
day how they talked of the tiny
cottage they were going to have
for themselves just outside of
town, yes, and she remembered
those nights she sat by his bed un­
til he was well again.
Then that fateful day dawned
one morning. All their precious
plans were shattered overnight. On
top of all that she was to lose ■
Hideo, for he would have to go
away. Oh, how she had cried that
night. Sumi could never forget the
day Hideo left. She tried to be
brave as Hideo told her to, but
tiny droplets of silver tears trick­
led down her nose. She remember­
ed Hideo saying, that girls were
cry babies. Yet she knew that
Hideo wanted to cry too but would- .
n’t show it.
.
Finally he boarded and the train
began to pull ever so -slowly out
of the station. Everybody followed
the slow moving train but Sumie
stood there where Hideo had left
her, alone. Through her tear-filled
eyes she could see Hideo waving
frantically. Weakly she waved back
as the train rounded the corner and
out of sight. He was gone now and
Sumie was alone.

That was a year ago. ...Sumie
stirred and tui-ned her head up in­
to the night again. There was a
multitude of twinkling jewelled
stars out now. Her eyes were filled
with tears again as once before.
But this time it was tears of hap­
piness for soon she would be re­
joining her Hideo. Yes, soon they
could resume their plans of that
cottage and start their road
through life together.
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(Ed. Note: Next week “The
Ocean” a story in the similar
vein as “Reminiscence,” by H.Y.
of Poston Relocation Centre. Aliss
“H.Y.” is a weekly columnist for
the Poston Chronicle.)

TRUTH
Truth, it has been said, will set
the world free.
The world today is fighting for
freedom. The . oppression which
brought on this war was made pos­
sible by keeping large masses of
people ignorant or misinformed ...
Aiillions of people are fighting
against the right today because
those millions believe they are
right,-If anything can end warfare for­
ever and weld the world into one
brotherhood, it can be done by the
free dissemination of truth and un­
derstanding among peoples.
Perhaps it seems a fantastic
dream, too idealistic for the wellknown selfishness of humankind.
But it seemed fantastic that men
would learn to fly ...
But let us not assume that when
this free interchange of ideas come
— as come it must some day —Americans will be teaching the rest
of the world how to live. There
must be in some far corners of
this earth a few sparks of truth
about better living that we have
overlooked.
*
—San Jose Mercury Herald.

BUT WHAT NEXT ?

“We’ ve Got to Be Realistic About
Our Japanese” Says Liberty Writer
"Where do we go from here,”
asks a Mr. Omaki in concluding an
article in the recent issue of the
Liberty Magazine entitled “O u r
Japs Have Been Resettled — But
Y hat Next,” by Charles Shaw,
former Vancouver Province busi­
ness editor.
Mr. Shaw also repeats the same
question throughout his story and
advises: "Allocate those who will
remain in such a way as to enable
them to be a constructive element
rather than a continuing threat x>
the country's peace and content­
ment.”
In carrying out this policy, Mr.
Shaw lists four points which he
deems as absolutely necessary to
be considered in carrying out a
program in regard to the Japan­
ese Canadians. States he:
1. We don’t want to create a
situation that will only embitter
the Japanese more than necessary
and thus sow the seeds of more
conflict on the Pacific, as well as at
home. However complete our vic­
tory over Japan may be, its teem­
ing millions will continue to com­
prise a neighbor nation of deep
significance to us, economically as
well as politically.
2. We don’t want to adopt even
a faint suggestion of Hitler tactics
toward a minority simply because
we don’t like them. After all, that’s
one of the things we’re fighting
against.
•3. We do want to prevent a sec­
tion of our country from being
overrun by a people who cannot be
assimilated and whose presence
tends to lower living standards and
stifle sociological developments.
4. We do want to avoid the sau­
cer of racial prejudice and an ag­
gravation of the controversies tint

were growing t o serious propor­
tions even before the war.”
Commenting on the torrent of
words in the last B. C. Legislature
demanding wholesale repatriation,
the writer states flatly, “We’ve
got to be realistic. We can’t just
ship 23,000 people out of the coun­
try when peace is declared, any
more than Austin Taylor and his
Commission- could round them up
overnight and scatter them through
the interior. It took a year to do
the latter, and it would take a good
deal longer- to shift them from one
country to another even if there
were no international complica­
tions.”
‘‘Furthermore.” he continues,
“don't forget that more than half
the Japanese in Canada when
war began were either Canadianborn or naturalized Canadians.
This is the only country and the
only home that half oj the Jap­
anese in Canada know.”
Mr. Shaw’s final w< rds could per,
haps be read with good deal of
value to many citizens of British
Columbia. ‘‘What we finally do will
not be based on the offhand judge­
ment of a few politicians, but on
the terms of the peace, on global
politics, and a good deal on what
the United States decides to do
with her 150.000 or more Japanese
in the coastal states.”
Mr. Shaw is introduced in the
editorial section of the magazine as
the man "who has written more
copy on this country’s Japanese
problem than any other man on the
west coast.”
,

Alter many years with the Van­
couver Daily Provin e as the busi­
ness- editor, he recently left that
paper to devote himself to free­
lance writing.

ENTRECOTE BORDELAIS

A Horse Meal Bish
By JACK 'NAKAMOTO
Ever observant, curious and want
meantime the waiter asked me in
French
:
-to-’know, like a news hound, I was
“Que vous servirai-je, monsieur?”
wandering about the labyrinthines
■ 1 always believed in the credo
streets of central London, with gas
that
“when you go to Rome, do as
mask and steel helmet slung from
the
Romans
do” and so I replied
my shoulders and the sleeves of
jerkily,
my blouse revealing three stripes
“Ahhh . . . je sais pas.”
and a greande, indicating that I
“Le diner est a prix fixe,” he
was a sergeant.
said.

No sooner had I found my way
O nthe wall by my table, hung
into Soho district, the Latin quar­
a placard which read: “Un Repas
ter of London where people flocked
Sans Vin Est Une Journee Sans
to night-club in a Continental at­
Soleil.”
mosphere, than I came upon a Par­
“Le vin est-il compris?” I asked.
isian French restaurant with
“Non monsieur, nous comptons
French cuisine as its specialty. A
ca a la carte,” he said.
gourmet’s paradise I thought. I
I felt his impatience and the pro­
had already savored and re-tasted
bable
aftermath with a surge of
like an epicure the various for­
dramaticism
and expressiveness
eign dishdb, such as Russian borsch,
which
are
characteristic
of the La­
the Greek pimento dolma, Burmese
tin people, so I chose one course of
puppadun, Hungarian goulash,
the dish at a random:
Mexican chili con came, Gypsy
“Je voudrais du consomme a la
patchiv; thus learning the art of
bonne
femme et puis . . . ahhh . . .
eating and enjoying fine, rich food
Encre»ote
Bordelais, s’il vous
and picking up simultaneously, lit­
plait.

tle bits of foreign words and ex­
pressions. The present conflict is a
The placard reminded me to or­
cosmopolitan war, so I reflected,
der wine and I selected “Noulin a
and why shouldn’t I be a cosmopo­
Vent” from the wine-list, besides
litan myself.
the hors-d’oeurvre of truffles and
pates de fois gras. It was an excel_
I went into the restaurant and
lent
meal as its savoriness still re­
up to the mezzanine floor from
mained
in my mouth. But I was
whidi I could watch the sophisti­
wonder struck as to what kind of
cated couples from Mayfair, danc­
meat with such a fragrant taste it
ing gracefully to the tunes of a
could be.
15-piece orchestra. One of my hob­
“Ca . . . e’etait de la viande de
by is studying human nature, and
cheval,
” declared the waiter and
while in the process of stripping
continued in English, “. . . osa
the moral mcke-up of each couple,
meat, you know.”
I was confronted by a French wait­
er. I scrutinzed the menu, but
“C’est vrai ca?” I wanted to be
found the list of high - sounding
assured. He nodded his head and I
dishes unfamiliar, so I lingered as
stalked out with an uncomfortable
to what I should order. In the
look and a stiff neck.

# Airs. C. B. Elwin, 56 Charles­
ton Avenue, West, Hamilton, wish­
es to employ a general domestic.
Cooking experience is not neces­
sary. Th-re are two adults in the
family and the entire top flat of

the house, bed - sitting room and
private bath is at the disposal of
the maid. The salary to commence
is 535 a month -with a raise within
three months., This home is recom­
mended by the Y.W.C.A.

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Page 4

Round the. Towns
O. Elects Committee

Siocan Sun

Eight Nisei Graduate
From Kaslo High School

Workers Go On Strike
Protest Against Order

KELOWNA.—“Peate in Sight,” jubilantly headed the Kelowna Gy
editorial
of June 17, commenting on the report that 112 Jaoan^w wier
TASHME. — The Tashme Youth
men,
KASLO.

Traditional
graduation
women and children would be removed from the district after the
.Organization at their semi - annual I
exercises for eight Nisei attending the season.
meeting elected Bob Kadoguchi as'
local Kaslo High School took place
But sadly, peace was not in sight for th Kelowna people.
president for the remainder of the I
last
week
on
June
25,
when
Principal
Last
Thursday, Japanese field work­
year.
By HUGO YAMAMOTO
H.
R.
MacArthur
presented
the
diplo
­
ers,
protesting
against the order of mission refused to work and growers
Supervisors Walter Hartly and J. J.
SLOCAN. — The first great event mas. A number of these students fi- the British Columbia Security Com- were in fear chat a serious loss nvoly
Sutherland are honorary president
be suffered in the tomato crop. ° 1
and vice- president of the thriving ' since the opening of the Bay Farm, | nished, writing their university eni
Slocan
City,
Popoff
S.
hool
took
place;trance
examinations
last
week.
George Collins Commission head
club. Mr. Naoyuki Oseki, former pro­
on the afternoon of June 19 when the
stated in Vancouver that- he had not
minent Japanese in the Ocean Falls
The graduates were Ylichi Kai, Kelowna Nisei Whip
heard of the work stoppage but
community is an honorary member. I school Sports Day filled the air with Hideko Omori, Amy Yamamoto, Ka­
! tense excitement and thrills in everyposed the Japanese had left their
The new executive is as follows:
zuko Shinobu, Eiko Nobuoka, Helen Summerland 16 - 6
jobs to seek employment in districts
Martha Hori, past president; Yo­ one’s heart.
Kumagai, Martha Yamazaki and
... 2
Kelowna Nisei —.....
I
From
every
corner
of
the
school
where they could remain J^'wenrly
shikazu Ono, first vice - president;
Minoru Furukawa.
Lumby Ex-Coast .....
... 25
He said the November 15 deadline' for
Frank Hatashita, second vice-presi­ i field came the lusty cheers of houses
Gamma, Delta, Sigma and
Many promotions for Nisei students
I
Alpha,
... 16
Kelowna Nisei ... .....
their departure had been set at" the
dent; Mitsuye Yoneyama, recording
and the cheers in Grades 9, 10 and 11 were listed in
Summerland Hinode
.... 6
secretary; Myea Okamura, corres­ s Kappa. The songs
ahead rang loud the local paper, the Kaslo Kootenaian.
ponding secretary; Marge Takaha­ practiced for weeks
By An Okanagan Observer
The high school graduation dance
athletes.
for their respective
KELOWNA, June 28. —Japanese
shi and Toshiye Mitobe, treasurers.
SUMMERLAND. — The Kelowna
held in the evening was attended by
labor upset appeared settled after
Walter Inouye, Jatk Matsui, Kay CHAMPIONS
leading citizens of Kaslo who danced Nisei Ball Club, smarting from the a proposal had been given by the
Machida, service department; Fred
Frank Toyota, a junior in the to the strains, of a special orchestra terrific beating suffered at the hands
three-man committee that the Jap.
Saiga, Toyo Kimura, Yuki Arai, edu­ Kappa house won the boys’ chamof the Lumby Ex-Coast Boys, turned
for the occasion.
anese be allowed to remain over
cation department; Ritsuko Shin, Sho_ picnship with a staggering figure
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around and soundly whipped the Sum­
the winter if they returned to the
. jiro Ikawara, George Kakino, enter­ of 25 points out of possible 30. Ki­
merland Hinode to the sweet tune of fields now.
tainment department; Douglas 'Fuji­ yoshi Kinoshita (of Beta house was DOMINION DAY. PICNIC
16 - 6.
The Japanese are discussing this
KASLO.—A grand picnic sponsored
moto, Ken'Hori and Sumi Ota, sports runner-up with 19 points although
The players were:
proposal among themselves and are
department.
he was unfortunately injured in one by the Koyukai was held at Vimy
Kelowna: Koga, T. Inouye, Shige
expected to reach a decision within
Advisors are Rev. Yoshio Ono, Mr. of the races. Tiny Miyoko Bando, a Park on July 1st. Various games for
Kawahara, I. Yamamoto, T. Yamaoka, the next two days.
. Minoru Sakamoto and Mr. S. E. Yo­ junior for Delta, and Yuriko Fuji­ youngsters and the older folk were
Matsuba, Roy Kuroda, S. Yamashita,
shida.
oka, a Sigma senior, were co-cham­ run off smoothly.
Tom
Naito, Bob Yamamoto, F. Kuro­
Swimming, tennis, hiking, golfing,
pions for the girls. They each had
da
and
Jim Kitaura.
request of Kelowna residents.
21 points and the cup was shared beach parties are now being enjoyed
Summerland:
I.
Tada,
George
Uza
­
■ The Daily Province reported that a
Sandon Spotlight
b’y Kaslo evacuees as the summer
between them.
weather really came to Kaslo this wa, Sam Imayoshi, N. Aoki, M, Kita, three-man.- committee representing the
The brawny Kappa house led week.
H. Furuya, F. Inaba, Ritz Kinoshita, City Council, the business men and
School Paper Gives
throughout the whole event in house
Sho Ikesaka.
**
*
growers had met in camera until early
standing and ended with 176 points.
in the morning but failed to reach
Sigma house was second with 128 and LEAVE FOR ONTARIO
agreement on the Japanese labor pro­
On Interior Town
KASLO.—A number of Japanese
Delta third with 83 points.
blem.
The teachers’ relay held on the evacuees left for Ontario points last OUR “ODD” SPOT
The committee met again the fol­
SANDON. — A bright three - page
second day of the meet proved thrill­ Monday morning on the bus. They
fifth
NANAIMO.

The
twenty
lowing
day hoping to reach a decision
mimeographed sheet, “The Sandon
ing and entertaining and was just were Mrs. R. Nobuoka, Sue, Eiko and[ annual convention of the Associated
before that night, the time set in the
Spotlight” was presented by the ener-i - ,
,
. . , ,,
gotic members oX the Journalism Club1 completed when rain speckled the Yasushi, Mr. and Mrs. E. Shinkoda! Boards of Trade of Vancouver Is­ Japanese ultimatum.
grounds. Within a few minutes the and Kenny Oda. Also leaving next: land, last week refused to take any
The Japanese message stated ihat
to the school a few weeks ago.
downpour came and the remainder of week is Eiko Kutsukake, who has’ action on a resolution from Tofino they would seek work in other dis­
Said editor Sadakazu Sato in his ,
,
,
o
,
message: "‘Although this isn’t very ‘he events were postponed till bunday vorked in Kaslo for a vear as nurses’, urging all Japanese Canadians be tricts rather than be forced to move
aide, for Hamilton. Miss S. Tait,’ mis_ sent back to Japan after the war.
big, we have put our heart and soul, afternoon.
out of the Okanagan after the sea­
The climax of the events was start- sionary left for a year’s holiday at The Tofino Board claimed that ex­ son.
"
into it.” Reporters were Junji Kino­
ed with the whole student body sing- -he coast.
perience had shown it was impossi­
The Kelowna Courier, a 39-year old
shita and Shizuko Kanamitsu and the
ing the school songs, “'Fight, Slocan
------------- :------------ ----- ble to assimilate Japanese to Cana- paper, winner of various cups and
club is sponsored by Misses Anpi and
School” and “On Your Toes Slocan.”
dian way of life.
Ono.
shields in the Canadian and British
Mr. Graham, the donor of the two sil- Lemon CreeK Courier
The majority of the 25 delegates Columbia weekly newspaper competi­
Among; the various items containver cups for individual championships
present were of the opinion the tions, stated:
ed in the paper there are some
FIRST
OPEN
DAY
made the presentations. Mr. Y. Shoji,
Japanese
question was cut of the
which could only come from an in­
“The government’s decision would
president of the P.T.A. presented to:
sphere of a Board of Trade. It was
terior housing school and there are
ATTRACTS
MANY
be
welcomed except for the condition
the. Kappa house the championship
an international
question,
and
of course, the usual bright sayings,

forwith.
” The committee has a
banner which the P.T.A. had donated.!
should be dealt with as the govern­
VISITORS
and jokes.
shrewd suspicion that Ottawa is hav­
Assisting Mr. T. Tsuji and Miss Y'.
ment sees fit.
“Our Little Gray School-House” by
ing a quiet chuckle at the position in
Tanabe, the principals of the school,
By John Tokiwa, School Reporter
Shizuko Kanamitsu has the followingwhich its offer has placed the body.
of the
The Lemon Creek Students’ Council
interesting paragraph for posterity:. were the P.T.A. and members

Refusal to accept removal will cerLiterary Club.
[played host to over two hundred visi-! Toronto White Wedding
“Our little gray school-house is con-,
I
tainly mean an end of all negotiations
I tors at the first Open Day held at;
strueted over a carpenter shop. We
TORONTO.

Grace
Church
on
the
and acceptance may result in partial
J Lemon Creek School on June 17 and
study the whole day through the hum.
.
_
। hills, Forest Hills formed the setting failure to harvest the tomato crop.
i IS.
ming of the electric saw, the pound- Claim Letters . .
1 June 10 for a pretty “white wedding”,
“With Ottawa’s dec’sicn coining
ing of the hammers and the running
Despite the showers, young and oldwhen Miss Hariye Suehiro was joined
TASHME. — The following letters
waters of the toilet and the tap. Stu- arQ wajting to'be claimed at the Tash. came in eager groups to observe the in matrimony to Mr. Sam Hagino. at the worst possible time so far as
the vegetable picture is concerned,
■dents of grades one, two and six me post Office reports the Japanese children at work.
Assisting the principals were Miss
it
looks as if the committee is faced
study at the former City Hall, while Mail Department head, Harry KumaEvery classroom gave evidence of Chizuko Hagino and Mr. Sam
amawith
taking a chance with produc­
the rest of the grades attend the gray n0

[the tremendous, amount of activity da.
tion
decrease
by tomato growers
brick school-house.’’
j Yoshimasa Yamada, Kisaburo Oku- that has been going on since the openThe bride is the daughter of Mr.
Commenting upon the effect of the r3) Toshiki Nakano, Miss Y. Naito, ing of the school. Displays of paint- and Mrs. Yutaka Suehiro of Prince due to lack of pickers, or possible
H
Japanese evacuation on Sandon, a ^;ss Mutsuko Mizusawa, H. Takena- ings, drawings, test papers, and hand- Rupert and Slogan City, and the re-opening of negotiations later
writer .crisply states
“Sandon days ka> Tokumatsu Tamai, Osamu Hase- work produced a colorful atmosphere: groom the son of Mr. and Mrs. Rinzo with Ottawa.”
ound they go . . •"
“Down and
. . fading .
of glory were fading
in the rooms. An Indian project was [Hagino, Vancouver and Tashme. They
gawa, T. Fukubara.
kicking each others pants seemed to
The year 1942 welcomed into the de­
prepared by one grade 6 class with’are now residing in Toronto.
be the only way of describing the
solate town, 1000 coast Japanese.’
carvings of totem poles and canoes
Kelowna
people, Japanese and whites,
Now, life is being pumped into the!
made of birch bark. Grade 7 boasted
New
Denver
Organizes
who
have
been at it for a year and a
weary town. The white residents, in-'
a science exhibit of different types of
half.
We
wonder
if the tomato crop is
Kaslo Sawmill Begins
eluding miners, number 65.”
! garden, soil.
4-Team Baseball League
being grown and properly tended,
Items of note concerning Sandon
Primary
classes
lured
many
visi
­
Operation
This
Week
NEW
DENVER.

A
four
team
with all this rumpus going on.
■are listed in the “Did You Know” co­
tors
to
their
displays
of
toy
stores,
baseball
league
was
organized
here
lumn. “. . . That Sandon is named
Very soon now the snarl of the
after John Sandon, an early prospec­ following a meeting of players two miniature farms, and large murals
producing
’ saw-mill will be in the. JAPANESE GOV’T
1^
tor . . . That Carpenter Creek is weeks ago. The results were four, drawn by the children themselves.
air
again
in Kaslo. The new saw­
IAttractive
sand
tables
were
promi
­
named after Eki Carpenter, a pros­ teams: Giants, Tigers, Cubs and Wol-[
mill which has been built by the ASSURES CARE OF
nent
in
many
classrooms.
pector who with another prospector, ves. “Seasoned” and “green” players'
Lambert Lumber Co. of Nelson is PERSONS, FAMILIES
s
John Seaton climbed Payne Mountain were divided evenly among the team
The hallways attracted much atten.
just about ready to start cutting.
i tion, too, with snaps of each class,
to the north of Sandon in 1891 . . . to insure keener competition.
VANCOUVER. — Assurance
All the belts and conveyers were
Captains and managers were ap-j houses and Sports Day events. A speThat the last portion of the railroad
lined up Saturday, and the power given by the Japanese Government R
into Sandon has the steepest grade of poifited as follows: Giants, B. Oha-j cjaj interest was the Students’ Council
that necessary assistance were bein' fc
was turned on for a short time.
all railroads in North America . . . shi and M. Mayeda; Tigers, S. Kiyono; Scrap Book prepared by executive
given to ' persons and families who |
One of the first jobs will be to
That it was in 1927 that the ear road and M. Yoshioka; Cubs, F. Doi andR.’members Noboru Matsuba and Kunio
were encountering difficulties due J L
cut lumber to house the machinery
from Nelson to Slocan was extended Nakamura; Wolves, G. Yoshinaka dnd.gUyama_ and ^e Visitors’ Book made
the war in a cable received by t * ||
to
protect
it
and
the
belting
from
T.
Oikawa
and
S.
Okumura.
by
Kiyoshi
Ito.
to connect with New Denver, Rose­
local Spanish Consul from the Span15 K
rain and dampness. All the con­
i Games are scheduled every AV ednes- STUDENTS TEACH CLASSES
bery, and Sandon ? . . .”
p
struction is of a permanent nature Foreign Office.
; dav. Saturdav and Sunday and there
.
Stated
the
translation
of
the
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During the third period on Friday,
and Manager George Lambert con_
I is promise ot plenty of excitement ins .
“YAMAGA”
I
j
visitors were surprised to see very
sidevs this mill will continue to op_ dated June 18. 1943:
i store tor the evacuees during the,
„ .
“Circular 33 Imperial Governing |
(Continued from Page 1)
youthful instructors teaching lessons
erate here for many years.
coming summer.
requests
you to advise Japanese rfci
to the pupils. Leading grade eight
Hill district has also dwindled, manv
The
engineer,
Jim
Sapriken,
K.
dents
in
that
country who have fnnu K
students took over the classes for one
of the hen-houses now being empty.
Maruyame,
and
the
three
Baba
lies in Japan that the Imperial
,K
period, the girls teaching the primar­
A number of stucco houses and
brothers, who have constructed the ernment is taking the necessary
B
Discuss
With
Consul
ies
and
the
boys
taking
the
upper
their lawns, built after many years
mill
frame
in
the
past
two
weeks,
to
aid
without
exception
their
fnmi^
B
Spa.
grades, while the teachers went off to
LEMPRIERE.—F. P. Bernard
of hard work by the Japanese farmers
were well satisfied when every residing in Japan who are encoum^ K
the bus depot to extend wedding con­
nish
Vice-Consul,
was
a
recent
visitor
presented a neglected appearance. The
pulley and belt ran true when.the ing living difficulties and who sn ’ H
houses which are tenanted look much to this camp. At a meeting held in gratulations to Mrs. Fukazawa (Miss
mill was turned over.
peded from attending schools due g
the same as before, but empty houses the mess hall, the question of increas. Fumiko Saito, grade 2 and 3 teacher).
the
cessation of the remittances g
The
discipline
during
that
period
was
There
is
a
boom
of
logs
ready,
:he minimum wage rate paid to
.
which are being taken care of by a
money
that they should not
and the new saw-mill will be at
tenant running two or three farms, worke here and other problems were exceptionally good. We have the mak_
about
the
livelihood of their fami &
ings of some very good teachers.
it by the time the paper comes out
; discussed with the official.
look sadly dilapidated, he stated.

SLOCAN SPORT
CHAMPIONSHIP WON
BY FRANK TOYOTA

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