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TORONTO

A Critical Period Unfold
Station as Evacuee Nisei Arrive

“LOOK A CHINESE"
“SO WHAT.” SHE SAID

“Pete and I went downtown the
other night to see a movie. While
By TOM SHOYAMA
of PICTURE BUTTE
standing in line. 1 became aware
Warn Public of Bomb in
Centuries ago the site upon which
an inspec-'
"
of a little girl and boy. obviously
I tne
ox Toronto now
brother and sister, who couldn't j tion hair of interior housing:
knov n in history. It was the “plac
have been over six and five years
VI meeting;- on the sbores of Lake
And Raymond Areas
Ontario, the rendezvou s where Indian
old.
LETHBRIDGE. — The minister or tribe, ana ponies gathered for peace
“Ihe 1 it t 1 e boy. seeing me.
for Kootenav! Crop Will Be Worth
national defence for air last week! ana. ^ ar" ^ow, hi 1943, it is the eswhispered to his sister, ‘Look a
warned the public through an adver-’ia^^^ meeting place and nerve
$10 and $11 Per Ton
Chinese.' His sister didn't even


• m
• ■ ^e Lethbnage
i
i
c
for
3
group
Cunadian^
Herald^ citi2Mls, of thfM^^
bother to turn around. Miffed, he
BUTTE. Alta. — Heavy
Mr. Esling stat
hat just beforei
i-hat, lvo aaditional Practice Bombing I from Toronto reaches east to Mon­
being done throughout
repeated, this time a little louder, he left Ottawa, hl
I
Southern
Ranges have been established to serve! treal, south to Niagara, west to Chawta
sugar beet fields as
'Hey, look, a Chinese.’ The girl inat as soon as ne could dispose
I
aw
we
and
Gunnery
School
?

iam

and
north

perhaps
to
Kapuscontinues.
Some crops
No. 8 Bombing
turned around looked up for
urgent matters in his Department,
kasing.
In
all
the
suburbs
we
touched
deteriorated
through
at Lethbridg-e, Alberta.
a tour ofi, .
. ,
.
moment and didn’t
a word. was his intention to make
,
.
.,

lack
of
moisture,
reports
the
Picture
the talk drifted sooner or later to' th
the towns just to sc i what the coni
Ine little boy kept nudging her.
Bombing Range No. 4 is described work wages and welfare of the Nisei
He also stated that he
,1* Ho'v
ditions i
as situated approximately two miles-dwelling in this city, caustically desto
learn
at
first
hand
the
11,!
W-rmcrs) expoc to f« a good
‘Loo-ook, a Chinese.*
in ten deci
north of the.town of Magrath. Bomb-Bribed as the “biggest, little village
nature
of
recent
complaints
™t....
|,0
"
li:IEC
01 tv^r lwls
a'«
“Finally the girl stamped her foot
ing Range No. 5 is situated three and! m Canada.”
&
conditions
the Doukhabors.
in exasperation. ‘So what,’
one half miles north of the town ofj Whatever the truth of that descrip
"This beef crop will be worth besaid, ‘Ain't you a German?’
While the Minister could make no* tween $10 and Sil per ton. From
Raymond.
jtion, certainly it was the “place , of
—From a letter in the special statement concerning- the fu- an economic viewpoint it swms imThese ranges are liable to be in i meetinS” wl-en our party numberingHeart Mountain Sentinel ture disposition of the Japanese, the; possible that anyone would neglect
use for twenty-four hours daily, Sun- almost fifty (mostly girls) wound up
certainty is that they will never
a crop as' we see it done at the pre­
days included, until further notice, ^ie sia’rs W]'^ a bewildering array of
turn
to
the
Pacific
coast,
the
report
sent time, when it is so valuable.”
bags, boxes and bundle,:s, through the
stated the advertisement.
stated.
That
has>
been
made
clear
by
Till two weeks ago the sugar beet
long corridors of th; famous Union THE MOST TANGIBLE
Any unauthorized person enteringthe emphatic views expressed by crop had been considered average but
Station, and into the warm greetings
members on several occasions.
range areas is liable to prosecution
through lack of irrigation, reports in­
and embraces of friends and relatives AND CONCRETE SIGN
under the Defence of Canada ReguApparently, said Mr. Esling in the dicate that the crop is not up to aver­
We stood with our back to one of the OF OUR CITIZENSHIP
lations, warned the notice.
report,
the Government's policy is to age of previous years. “All sugar
pillars surveying the welcoming-, and
VANCOUVER.—In a “letter to .the i distribute the 23,000 Japanese hr one beets should have been irrigated
couldn’t help recalling how many
times we’d stood at the station in!editor’’ of the Vancouver- Daily Pro-,01' Uvo families in every community twice in July and should have received
Slocan Visitor Slightly
Vancouver watching the opposite pro.! vince last week, S. Shinobu, secretary;”1 Canada, by which means it is two more irrigations in August if
cess. A noisy, confused scone played of the Japanese Property Owners’ As_’sought to prevent any strong centrai- such drought, continues, stated the
Injured as Bus Overturns
i Progress, pointing out that the crop
against a backdrop of crowds ofjsociation in Kaslo, B. C., stated that J Nation .of the Japanese.
i required eight inches of water in July
NELSON.'—Miss Ruth Carruthem, people rushing
_ - to and from their work:’“it is safe to say that Mr. Ken Kita-!,
and five inches in August.
Field Secretary for the Dominion]'011 aild °iT the coming and going]mura is absolutely incorrect when held
For
Sale
'
The above conditions apply to 50
Womens, Auxiiiary of the Anglican jtrains? But strong was the suggestion: states that many Japanese whose pro-j *
,
per
cent of the growers and this crop
Church sustained slight injuries*'as a|that ^ere was unfolding a new and’perty is now being sold feel they are
VANCOUVER.—One of the largest can -be improved and brought back to
result of a accident when the Grev-ieven moie critical chapter in our nis-j being treated properly.”
Japanese business holdings on the:standard jf irrigation of fields is
hound bus overturned on the Slocan J01 ^' Following it through as the in-j
If there were any who wished } coast, the Deep Bay Logging, Com-j watchcd carefully and completed, adValley road last Mondav. Miss Car-!dividual stexy of a single person,! voluntarily to relinquish their hold- I pany Ltd. at Fanny Bay, B. C. washed the paper
ruthers had been proceeding to Nel-!rather than as tlie mass movement of ings and thus relieve their minds, i put up for sale last week by P. S. j '
son from Slogan where she had gone A la^ge gioup, will be difficult but it would have been simple for them । Ross and Sons, agents acting on beto see the -work of the missionaries ^huMy absorbing. We gathered that to notify the Custodian of Japanese half of the Custodian.
Interior Housing Centre
among the Japanese evacuees The! "^konungs such as these are now? Property to that effect, the writer
The holdings include a fully equiped
accident resulted from a front tire ।a common thing in Union Station, j pointed out.
railroad logging operation and timber Photographs Available
for nearly
of ;i Surely it is clear that rights of i lands said to contain 17 million feet
blow-out.
. every new resident
.
KASLO.— An extensive series of
comes here first, and;property basic to our existing society] of fir, hemlock and cedar,
photographs
taken in Tashme, GreinAlso a passenger was Rev. Y. Ono most folk come visiting at least from jin Canada are thus being assailed;!
wood, Slocm, New Denver and Sanenroute from ,Tashme to New De:;nver. j (-]ie . suburbs.
and who is there to say that if iti
;
don last winter by a government pho_
Four were reported to be in the TORONTO THE DINGY
can be done with respect to one ra-|Iron Springs Notes
toguapher from the National Film
hospital bu none were seriously inIf one is not greatly impressed, by rial group, it cannot also be done
IRON SPRINGS.—&euuo Miya­ Board have been filed with The New
jured. Man
of the passengers were ^ e tall buildings of lower Bay and with respect to any other group, the.'
; shita is confined to the Lethbridge Canadian.
examined by X-Ray to make sure that Yonge Streets, or the massive dingi- letter said.
These photos are available to the
Hospital with appendethey were not seriously injured.
‘As human beings we are asking! A ’ Michael
'
ness of the Royal York that hits you
public, at a charge of 5c for 4 x 5’s
m ■
and 20c for 4 x 10’s. They may be
The bus, makin. the Nelson-Nakusp as spoil as you step outside the. sta-ithe court to preserve the sanctity of;cl ‘S’
first
impression
olTor-!°
ur
homes,
built
up
through
years
of!
,
01
su
ermg nom sunstroke ordered through The New Canadian
run had travelled about a mile alon, tion, one’s
cofined in
” Aering. The fact;unstinting toil; as citizens we seek ^rin^
the Valley road after leaving the onto is not very flattif a description of the picture is sent
and mustito maintain a basic democratic right;!fc Hospital.
Southern Transprovincial at South that you are a relocatee,
in to the National Film Board at Ot-.
of Sam Sakumoto in tawa.
t
Slocan in the morning when the acci­ therefore head westward to 1’74 SpaJant' as Canadians we seek to preserve' I^le condition
(Sgg
TORONTO P 4)
jthe most tangibl© and concrete cvi- ^“^ St. Michiel Hospital is reported
Copies of the photographs have
dent occurred. *
! dence of our interest in this country.1 critical.
been made available in some of the
__ ________________ _
I The monthly meeting of the Iron towns, and thos
to secure
J Springs Young People Association them are advised to inspect these to
Many Members of the House1 takes place at the home of Mr. and determine the serial number themMrs. S. Aoki on August S.
selves wherever possible.
of
Commons
of
non-Canachan
VANCOUVER.
Representatives

Heavy irrigation

Interview Camp Men for Logging
Repatriation Ship Leaves

lfrom

camps in Brith" “l

B,rth bhown ^ L,st

' tinibia north country are now inter-!

,
Wka« Q T
T '
A
i Commenting editorially on the obvvnen bailing KlSt Approved Viering former Japanese loggers loc-ijection of jean Francois* Pouliot, M.
to people of non
AMACHE, Colorado. — The g g . ated in road camps between Jasperi: P. for Temiscouta,
r
holding
posts of re-i
Gripsholm, with repatriates and ex-;and Blue River with a view of hiring;-Canadian birth
A U.S. FIGHTER STATION,] ing with the United States Army.
the
counsels
of the'
patriates as passengers, will ieaveAhem, G. C. Coll.ns, of the B. C.; ^P°nsioi uy in
S:rxfrV\B'’Sh‘^
On -learning - that Staff Sergeant
New York Harbor as soon as the Security Commission stated to ths i Dominion,^ the Nelson Dailv News' JhcatJ
!
Kuroki
had been awarded an oak leaf
interesting
Japanese government approves of the Vancouver Province.
i^Tty °UC
p rfa"t that
,, ,’ a Ai Ren b
^V
t
^cluster to hb air medal, the advertis—
v
I
this were brought into force, the]
Ben Kuroki
Hersenv
r
i
.
2
according uo a wire re“Following a meeting of loggingi H o u s e of Commons would lose its! geanl
K
,
•’
. png director of an Omaha, Neb., store
^e‘ocailon - mnonoperators in Prince George last week,; scea]-er; four Cabinet. Ministers, the! brasha
„ .
— was among American air;.. u -r। •>
,
.
Tr ’ ,
- •
&
wrote Kuroki’s parents in Hershey,
4 director, Dillon S. Myer, reported; arrangnients were made to hire what.; ip;3ri-prs of
CCF pnrl SaMM crp_ i “gnters presented
r
D to the 1 King
A antl' requesting a picture'of their hero son.
the Granada Pioneer, relocation centre jever japanese that were needed with! dit parties and" at ’ least 26 "private‘ Queen
~
.
of Great Bntam when the
ro.lfor d(,ptoy in one of thc ^
yal couple recemty visited the Eignt^^
newspaper last week.
I the stipulation that representatives of i members.
It is reported that some 1400 JaPvthe loggng firms tour the camps and: The 1
non-Canadian members! or^e?om^er station here, the Paci-;
jfic Citizen reports.
'
' e arc de'Ot!n? on«
our proanees will be repatriated on this ex-: personally select rhe men they wished: deluded in
majorit
.
eminent
windows
to
the display of picMange. The number of Japanese in? to hire.
! born in the United States and the,
Staft Sergean. Kuroki who has,of our NebrM^
Canada affected i
“Once the men have been chosen,: f11 Ac J Lngdcm. Tae names eon own swardea an air medal with an j
Feldman, the advertising dirore That 20
he remainder b
men
ot
Kinleaf
cluster,
greeted
the
Engl.sh
ecwr

f
j. u Brandeis
an individual permit must be granted j tamed shoved that
& Sons. “We
& all from
that (he BkjwtiM
i by the Security Commission before!uted from Russia, Sweden, Ukraine.iSovereigns wA .chow members o^
of these picAe crew of the Liberty Lass, a Liber.
fa an fa iration
(any Japanese can leave the camp. “No : and other countries
to all of us.”
j applications have yet been received; It is a long list of good Canad nslator bomoer, the Stars and Stripes,:
Picture Butt?
lbv*u=.” said Mr. Collins.
; men devoted to the welfare of be' daily newspaper of the U.S. armed; “Kindly send us, at your earliest
!
'
'
.
,
states the paper and con-'forces in the European theatre, re : convenience, a picture of Sergeant
PICTURE BUTTE.—A Japanese; “The logging representatives, look-: country.
tinaes ~ glow;ng!y? it exemplifies one ported.
i Kuroki in uniform . We shall make an
owie is scheduled to be shown at the!
ing for >50 Japanese uggeia, w ;or ^ reasons for the growing!
The Nisei airman, now a veteran ; enlargement of t he original, which
apse's Hall, Wednesday, August rid
tour me camps on.y .as ^ar as
> greatness of Canada.
No matter:' member of the Liberator crew- j will not harm it ij
Picture Butte.
ul -port- J^JJ’ lor ^'€ “me ^e‘n^’ St<ltea J ^jwhat his origin, an immigrant hj which has seen extensive service in I Staff Sergenat
:roki’s parents
COALDALE.—A succe
k^i Club f°Ams.
'Canada, if he has proved worthy,’ Africa and the Middle East, is the operate a farm at Hershey, and are
yy sponsored by the No
of Selective Service are! possesses full privileges as a Canad-! tail gunner on the Liberty Lass. doing yeoman work on the production
here rook place on. Au cm st 1 o—oFri-k C>1
assisting in. logger’s quest for Japan- ian citizen, even to that" of govern- He is one of four Nebraska-born front to support their son’s fighting
ning the count:
brothers of Japanese ancestry serv-. on the front lines of aerial combat.
ese labor.
snd field, softball and baseball.
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Presented to King and Queen

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Kaslo, B. C.

An Independent Weekly Organ Published as a Medium of
Expression Among the People of Japanese Origin in Canada
Tom Shoyama
Editor & Publisher
Takaichi Umezuki
Japanese Section Editor
Harry S. Kondo
Rates: 40c per Month

T. Mayeda

Roy Ito

S2.00 for Six Mouths in Advance
55

By R. I.

A letter from Alberta tells th
e Broder Canning Company h
built a house ’or Their Japanese
workers th
r. A cook has been
hired and ooara i= provided ar
one dollar per aav
niaitresses £ j supplied,

Editor, The New Canadian . . .
Halifax is very old, and despite
the busy rush of war-time, has not
quite lost its quainmess. The cemeterv in the middle of the business
n the
section display
dates
1700’s. The buildings ar old and
seem to breathe o
things they

friends in Kaslo and accept mv
very best wishes for the continued
sue.'ess of The New Canadian.
-’largaret (McDuffee) James

tg bed and mattresses a
long sigh escaped me as I read
Our American friends, with their flair for frank termi­ this and a wish came to me char
Editor, The New Canadian . .
nology, have adopted a descriptive name for certain Ni­ I had been back in Alberta to
■ I take my hat off to you and
in rhe War of the American Revoreceive the letter that came from
sei evacuees. They are called "six-week Japs.”
the
staff of The New Canadian for
S12
lution and in the War of
telling me to work ■hi.
giving
’’Six-week Japs”, obviously are those evacuees who Broders
news of our friends
thousand of men leaving for the
year. A long sigh escaped me, for
from
Tashme
to Montreal and
in
1914
IS
for
Boer
War,
again
move from relocation centres to jobs and positions on the last year I worked for Broders and
making every effort to link the
England,
mighty
outside"’, but who. for various reasons, leave them al­ at that time things
people of the interior towns, the
different.
War is an old tory to Halifax
most immediately for other employment. The effect has
settlers in Alberta and Manitoba
and yet there is a tenseness here
Learning that some form of a
and
the Nisei in industrial Ontario.
been, of course, to leave in their trail a list of disgrunted cannery job was available in that we did not feel at the Pacific
Editor, The New Canadian . .
employers, whose opinion of the Nesei in general is poor, Lethbridge, _ where in Lethbridge, coast, or notice
else in
May I take this opportunity to
Canada.
They
take
their
blackout
and who. unfortunately, are not likely to keep that opin­ for how long or for what wages,
wish you continued success. Keep
trials in deadly earnest. Their A.I did not know—packing blankets
on printing -. . . keep on serving.
ion to themselves.

'R:P. organization is said to be the
and work clothes I went into town
K. NISHII
Relocation officers and the Nesei press have been quite confidentally one morning on most efficient in the Dominion.
Picture
Butte,
Alta.
in their conclemmition
this sort of thing thebus to be greeted at the stop by This is partly due to the living
•’
*
S=
*
memory of the awful explosion in
a
tho
directed
me
to
th
which if carefully
1917 which cost the lives of about
Felt' Like Pioneers
Ukrainian Hall where we were to
cultivated might have led to excellent opportunities. In stay.
1600 people and destroyed 3000
I’m just putting in a few words
homes
and
business
premises.
Al
­
others it has endangered wide prospects for relocation
saying that since we as a family
The hall had no beds and no
though I have been here such a
have been here in Toronto for a
stoves. How are we going to sleep
■throughout an entire district.
short time, I have heard that story
year and a little over, we feel like
The condemnation applies with equal if not greater and how are we going' to cook ? from three different sources.
pioneers when we see so many of
TouTe going to sleep on the floor
force to the Canadian scene, where mdenticallv the same and you’re going to cook on the ■ The streets are so crowded with the recent arrivals-in this city. But
in race relations
we are getting to love Toronto
primus stove. We slept on the floor
soldiers, sailors and airmen that a
more and more, and the people
■ of the stage and we cooked, if
lone civilian is literally compelled
you called it cooking, on the priand friends we make at school are
to edge his way through them. I
11 is freely admitted that some of the jobs apd
mus stove. '
more than kind to us.
have never heard so many dialects
, lions offered to. relocees may not be of the best;, if
We
of the English language — one
appreciate what The
The Broder Cannery was still a
1
New
hears Cockney,^ Yorkshire, Scottish, ■
an has done for us,
new structure, shining
| were labor which is already in the cast would be ;
UP-toenabling us to keep in touch with
Lancashire, Irish etc. — all in the
date in all its equipment, When
z for them.. And there mav be exceptional circumst;
all our friends and their doings
spa e of one block.
we arrived, sco es of girl were
to employers cannot be wholly ful- outside waiting’ for the day shif
I .dm finding it all very interest­
who are scattered all over Canada.
ing, the short clipped speech of
To our friends we would like
filled. But as a g ncral rule the importance of cultivating to come off.
to
have them know that we have
the
natives,
the
strange
names
for
The day shift came off . . . mostand maintaining goodwill, even at the expence of perfamiliar objects, and even “Tunermoved to 152 Collier Street from
girls ... we were to do all the
sonal comfort and gain, is so great that we, cannot afford heavy
ville
Trolley

type
of
strret
cars
our
former Orde Street address.
and the
shift
Wishing
that have the wheels grouped in
to have "six-week Jap.” In fact with more limited em- punched their way in..night
<ew Canadian
Presently
the
centre
of
the
car
and
go
leap
­
every
luck
and
success
to continue
plovnant centres :
we were the only ones left and we
ing
along
like
a
ship
in
a
heavy
on
with
the
good
work.
much less than trooped into the office. No work sen.
DOT MIZUTANI
yet, said the timekeeper, We sat
their American cousins.
I
would
like
to
say

hello

to
my
Toronto,
Ontario.
down to wait, for what we did
We need to remember, even with all our individual not know Occasionally we peeked
tastes, virtues, fa
and desires, that no one of us is curiously into the swinging doors hundreds the flies buzzed over out EXPRESS THANKS to FRIENDS
from w
emitted clanging of
any longer simpl
m individual.
tl
contrary cans roL fere
heads, our arms and our legs tr ■
ing down the wavs, cookMr. Takeshi Uchida, although
everything we do.
representative of our ers letting off steam, the splashing endlessly torture us as we tried to not completely recovered, left the
group. And in nothing arc our obligations to our group of water and the banging of doors. sleep ... and the thermometer Makusp Hospital to rejoin his fam
climbed to ninety and more,
Trucks rumbled through the gate
ily at Rosebery. He was injured
as concrete as they are in the record of our
But our troubles did not end
of the cannery loaded with vegelast
±all*at No. 1 Camp, Princeco i,
relations
with new employers.
there. For arguments arose in the
,ables
Their identifications read
and since then has been treated at
Lethbridge City Council over
Barnwell, Cranston Magrath. The
A ancouver General, New Denclause in their agreement with the
foreman in gumboots came out
end Nekusp Hospitals. He ex.
Commission saying that no Japan­
wiping tne sweat from his fore­
presses deep gratitude to the men
ese were to be allowed to reside
head, and called to the timekeeper
of No. 1 Camp, to th nurses of
A month ago a reader in Toronto, offered the suggestion that the En­
or take employment in Lethbridge.
for four men. The timekeeper call­
the hospitals, and to his friends
glish section be printed on pages one, two, seven and eight, and the JapGet out of town by tomorrow
ed four men, gave them numbers
and acquaintances for their symp­
night,
the Commission ordered us.
anese section on pages’ three, four, five and
Now, we have an apoloand a card and they went in. I
athy and kindness.
The
cannery
sent
a
wire
to
Ed
­
was
the
only
one
left.
Soon,
a
short
gy to make, for contrary to the note to the letter, we find that we
monton and to Ottawa. Stick by us
man in shirt and braces came
can print the sections-, in the page order uggested.
and we’ll stick by you, the ' can­
strolling along. He was Mr. Brojobs two hours later and somehow
Beginning with this issue, the new format will be so that the Ennery
told us. Then over' station
d^r. V ou want to work? he said.
permission came for us to remain
CJOC- came the broadcast asking
glish and the Japanese sections can be easily separated. The major pro­
Sure, I replied. O.K., he said, I’ll
in town for 'another wdek.
for fifty men to work in. the can­
Writing it down on paper today
see what I can do for you and dis­
portion of the news5 item will be found on the front page and page
nery.
What
the
hell,
we
all
said,
if
appeared
into

may
make it sound so matter-ofthe cannery. Five
and the editorial page and t
page on page two and
we’re going to get fired, let’s quit
minutes later he; came out. I’ve got
fact, but at that time it w a s
in ioliowmg mis suggestion, we trust that the English section will
now andi go home! The night shift
the job for you, he exclaimed
mighty important to
But I
go promptly to the English-reading Nisei in the family, and the Japan­
did
not
to
Mr. Broder
enthusiastically, and patting my
■with a sizeable amount earned at
ese sec.-on to their parents. Perhaps in a small way. the new page orcame over and pointed out that
back he added This will put a
the cannery — but we had fun and
ciei v ill am in keeing narmony m the family the day the paper arthe radio announcement was mere­
three weeks in the city with its
OU.
ly
to
protect
himself.
There
won

t
theatres,
its skating rinks, its cafes
r two weeks work.
be any fifty men, he stated em­
^ff for the Broder Canning Com­
and its pool rooms. It was a de­
phatically. We went back to our
pany m Lethbridge, loading hund­
cided change from the farm.
red pound sacks of beans on the
freight car for four solid hours.
-After the 12—hour shi:
we totcered home in the morning sun to
By G. B. R.
greet the Gay shift workers stream­
THE NEW CANADIAN
ing back to work. We tottered into
Here we lie, a human derelict,
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Desolated and outcasted the most.
peas wim a slice or bacon, topped
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Yet we lie, here we lie serene, in beds infernal.
ta came into town during the two
Address
Here we lie, forever rotting, rotting.
weeks to meet the boys at the can.
nery, and the hall 'became their
Languid limpid air blandly sipping,
meeting place where they talked
Subscription Rate: 40c per month
Weakly we smile as if bidding;
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S2 for six months in advance
one
Death to pass as it goes lightly rapping.
into he hall
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Our New Format

The NEw Canadian

Here We Lie

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Page 7


THE
FOWN MEETING of the AIR

Of Our Intentions Regarding Race
The following article is the text of a prepared address delivered by
Carey Ale Williams, noted authority on American minority problems
and former CalLCirua state director oi immigration and housing, on the
Blue-Network’s Town .Meeting of'the Air in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Mr. -dcAViIIiams is tne author of two books on migratorv labor.
“Factories in the Field” and “Hl Fares the Land”. His books on
America’s minority race groups “Brothers Under the Skin,’’ was
published in April, 1943, by Little, Brown and Co.

Do you go to church at ail
haps the last time you were in
one was when you left Sunday
s.hool ur if you are married, pro­
bably rhe rime you took rhe vows
at the altar. If you do go, have
you ever asked yourself., why ?
What a ridiculous question to ask,
you are apt to remark. Going to
church has become a routine in
our lives and we take the custom
for granted, just like fundamental
education. We don’t evei* stop to
probe the whys and wherefores .. .
If I were to say, why do people
have to earn a living, I couldn't
have asked a more futile question.

cays, 1 had w move my residen t
on eighteen difeent occasions and
received much good-natured ban­
tering from my school mates. At
the time of my marriage, my el­
der brother remarked to my wife
teasingly,
y mov.
man i
ed.” Evacuation
:» have
ms
wit
borne him out,
t ranks,
koris, clothes bags, wife and child­
ren, I moved three times before
finally settling hero four miles
from Vernon.
Being hired by a farmer was all
right except that I did not know
much about the work. I could not

rare
women.
Bai it cannot be helped. Sunday
is a holiday and when it rains,
we are forced to sit. in our chairs
tor tlv
a time. No work
or the family —
ami there would b e no pity from
God If I let my children starve.
After conferring with my wife, we
decided that both of Us would work
when it v as available. Only in this
wav
^ould have no Tear from
want, and .we are thankful.
Wo. emmet
and
Uhl at times we would like
am or tobn co. Taking two
dollars
ing out for town
one dr
mistaken for an
unemployed and asked, “You come
ami work for me?” “How much
would you pay?” 1 asked and the
farmer stated. "Forty cents per
hour with work the. year round.”
it was much better than my pre­
sent raie and my wife would no
longer, have to work. 1 thought.
But
a wonderful employer and
this is where we muse
it out for we have certain
is to him. Returning- home
and t
ag re,ying. “Even if we must
su Iler
itle. we must, not forget
our obligations.”
— M1NAT0GAWA

“Should all Japanese continue to
against them, and laying tire foun­
be excluded from .the west coast
dation for- their eventual depor­
coast f o r t h e duration of the
tation.
war?,,
If this emerging pattern is per­
My answer to this question is
mitted to take form now, it is
“No,” w.th however, some impor­
likely* to result in the indefinite
tant qualifications. Fox- example,
postponement of the restoration of
there are about 2,000 Japanese
full citizenship even to those who
who were taken into custody im­
have never- been suspected of dis­
quest 10
ncerning my farming
mediately after Pearl Harbor and
loyalty. Since this was not our in­
nil — but
who are now held in detention
And yet we meet up with the experience — w
tention, in ordering mass evacu­
it
W.K
a
spirited

Yes

1 gave.
camps. Each of these individuals is
younger Nesei just passing out of
ation, we should either promptly
Instead
of
learning,
farming
is
being held for good cause after
adoiesecence who generally inquire
restore full citizenship rights cr
a
matter
of
getting
used
to
it,
and
full investigation and an impar­
with a sneer. “‘What do you go to
give an immediate guarantee of
today I might say that 1 am first
tial hearing. There are also sev­
church for?” What would., you
such restoration the moment rhe
class
farm-hand. Working with me
eral thousand evacuees in reloc­
answer to them? Would you truth­
military* emergency* terminates.
are
former
tailors, carpenters, gar­
ation centrs who hav expressed a
fully admit that you attend the
We cannot ignore the fact
deners and fishermen — fifteen in
desire for repatriation ox- have in­
churches because certain parties
that the current agitation is be­
all. Here on the farm, we are all
dicated a disinclination to renounce
stimulate your business or mental
ing largely predicated, as in
modest
of our ability in our forall allegiance to' Japan. Obviously
the past mon dangerously ir­
interests ? If you ‘ were to imply
mer
lines
of work.
neithex- off these groups should be
that religion Was the mainstay, the
relevant so-called racial consid­
Today
was
pay day. Into my
younger generation is going to
reteasd from a relocation centre
erations unsupported by a shred
blistered
hand
I received my pay.
scoff at you anyway. Be • honest
without a searching and vigorous
of scientific evidence. To make
For
the
first,
time
since 1 was born
with yourself. Just what is it that
investigation.
a race issue of this problem is
it
was
money
earned
by the sweat
draws you to church? The pastor,
A MILITARY QUESTION
to do precisely what Tojo is try­
of the brow. The thankfulness of
the congregation, your friends or
Whether any of those released
ing to do. How we handle the
my
wife could be understood. How.
is it the soloist and the choir?
evacuee problem is, therefor-'-,
should be prmittd to return to the
ever,
it was the lowest of the low
Which ?
one measure of our intention to
west coast isprimarily a military*
wagos
I ever received. It was a
apply the Four Freedoms to
question since the area has been
Recenty I heard a guest speaker
declared a theatre of war. There
all people, regardless of color.
accuse all churches of being “stuf­
As a nation we stand firmly* fy”. After all religious groups play
are special hazards in ‘atheatre of
war which it "would be folly to min­
committed to the great ideal that a ‘substantial part in communities
imize. Only the military can ap­
distinctions based upon race, coland since they have to compete
ox- ox- creed have no place in Am­
praise these hazards since they
Last May when we wen still in
field
with numerous other organizations,
Farm, we
alone possess the requisite infor­
erican life in.peace or war. If we why not do away with stiff con­ Vancouver, a rumor passed among
found a rattlesnake that was three
mation. Since it is their respon­
permit the concept of citizenship
the Japanese people th?, it Gro-n.
feet in length mid six inch in
ventions. Annual reports show that
sibility, they should make the de­
to be broken at orp point, fox- one
wood,
when
the
raiile.H
gmth.
Eleven rallies were found on
the church attendance have fallen
cision.
group, we are undermining the
on
the
rampage,
no
house
was
considerably. It is only natural
this one. Bottled in alcohol by the
If and when the military author­
very* structure of American cit­
safe, and already one evacuee
provincial police officer, the rattler
that people are subject to turn to
ities relax the ban (as they have
izenship. We have never tolerated
from Steveston had died from the
programs more satisfying and
was put on exhibition in the Imai
already done in the case of fur­ the notion that there could be
deadly bite of the rattlesnake.
entertaining. Not that we go to
shoe repaii- shop in Greenwood.
lough-ed soldiers), then evacuees
different levels of citizenship,
There was much worry and appre­
Sunday services with the intention
•The poisonous fangs; of the
should be permitted to return if
with rights withheld from some
hension on part of evacuees des-,
of enjoying ourselves, but unless
rattlesnake can be seen protruding
they so desire.
citizens which were freely grantind for Greenwood.
some changes are made, the public
downward from the upper jaws.
As a citizen, I hope that the
ted to others.
Leaving with the advance work­
is going to got disinterested. If
A
thick
body
proportionately
ban can be relaxed before the war
To suggest that race can be a test
ers as an electrician, I reached
we could entex- a chur;h with some
short,
tapers
suddenly
five inches
is over and for the following reaof loyalty is as insulting to these
Greenwood on May 23 and imme­
assurance of relaxation, the pews
from
the
end;
and
the
general
sons:
(Nisei) soldiers, and to their fam­
diately inquired about the rattle­
would be filled to capacity and
appearance
of
the
snake
is de­
BASIS FOR DEPORTATION
ilies as it is to some 16,000,000
snakes and prepared to send a wire
there would be less need fox- the
cidedly
unhealthy.
The present agitation against
other Americans whose skins
of reassurance to the folks in Van­
pastor and the faithful congregaThe rattle has two ring-like
the return of any evacuees is bring
happen
to be black, yellow or
couver. On reading my telegram,
tion to resort to methods of drawconstrictions so that it resembles
conducted with primary regard to
brown. Such a suggestion is ut­ ing the indifferent public to their
the telegraph operator smilingly
three hollow bulbs, gradually <lin on- military considerations. N o
terly at variance with America’s
commented:
door.
minishing in size and each one ■
attempt is. made to disguise the
magnificent opportunity fox- world
If
you
write
something
like
that,
Can you imagine yourself, face
opening
hi to its neighbour; the
fact that this agitation has for its
leadership in an unprecendented
everone will laugh at youx- ignor­
to face with the preacher, telling
largest
is
also open at its free end
real real purpose the. permanent
crises in human affairs. As the
ance of these parts. In the 30 years
him “I didn’t like youx- sermon,
where
the
tail enters. Newly-born
exclusion of all Japanse from the
President has reminded us, “Amer­
that I have been here, I have never
It was too dry,” instead of the
snakes have no rattle, but the
west coast. Its avowed purposes
icanism is a matter of the mind
seen a rattlesnake. I admit, h? add­
customary, “Your sermon was very
rattle is said to be audible at a
include such objectives as stripping
and heart,- Americanism is not,
ed.
that
there
are
rattlesnakes
nine
inspiring,” . . . when you and the.
distance of twenty yards.
the American-born Japanese of
and ne vex- was. a matt ex- of race
miles north and south of here.
rest just about dozed off into bore­
The color of the snake is light
their American citizenship, estab­
ox- ancestrv.”
dom. It is a known fact that social­
brown
to light green and length­
— PACIFIC CITIZEN.
lishing rigid economic barriers
Living in Greenwood now for a
ites join the church to get in with
wise
run
silver lines, which caught
year I have yet to hear of a evacthe right crowd, fox- good appear­
by
the
sun
reflect brilliantly and
cuee stating that he has seen a
ance is considered an essential
look beautiful—from a distance.
rattlesnake in Greenwood.
asset to most ambitious families.
A
few
days
ago
in
the
wheat
—YOSHIDA
Times have changed since the
pioneer- days when the people were
really ccncientious about religion.
still is a source of brinding people
Today churches are too com­
MURASE
By KENNY
to church. And yet in this age why
mercial; the public ponders with
is it that certain denominations
representatives of religious, racial,
Philadelphia is not. an extra­
much concideration as to whi'h
ban dancing when it if done
ordinary city by any means—it is . labor and political groups. It is a
denomination they prefer, accordmoderately in a proper hall , it is
big and ugly and unclean, like most
city where such stories as these
ingto their family background and
@ Mr. Francisco Pacanins, 403
a pleasant pastime. It is said that
may be tcld: a Nisei student and
cities, but the people are good and,
influential friends. The actual wor­
Clarke
Ave., Westmount, MON­
a very conservative
Methodist
like most people. Philadelphia is a
her elderly aunt were on the street
ship holds a minox- interest of the
TREAL,
P.Q., wishes to employ a
cross-examined her minister. “Are
car when a tipsy old woman began
city wixere two Nisei girls are
congregation; the church itself is
general
maid.
The salary to com­
we Methodists forbidden to dan­
screeching, “ There’s a couple of
employed by the Office of Civilian
an open house where people meet
mence
will
be
$45 a month and
ce?” “Aladam,’’was the slow de­
Dexenes in its' day-care nursery pro
Japs. They don’t belong here—get
for social contact, an ideal place
after
three
months
’ satisfactory
liberate reply, “Sonxe can and some
them 'off!” The conductox- turned
gram, supervising children whose
where youth of either- sex can
work,
$50
or
$55.
If
there is any
can’t.”
around and sharply retorted, “Let’s
mothers are war workers; and
convene without worrying their
over-time, she will be paid 30c
Today the service men and wohave none of that stuff here, or
working in one of the largest air­
parents. The mere mention of re­
per
hour.
men, and not to mention the
else you get off. Don’t you know
craft manufacturing plants in the
ligion frightens youth from its
There
are two rooms and on
this is a democracy, and we don’t
East. Philadelphia is a city where
door. Surely there must be a
“starch could be taken cut of the
bathroom for the employee’s use
stand for none of that stuff here,
Nisei Ure guests of a party given
better approach to attract the
collar..” You can’t expect the con­
There are three children in th
or else you get off yourself!”
by a Chinese young peoples group,
sponsored union. Some of the boys
gregation
to
return
in
mass,
week
family,
their ages being fourteer
Then there’s the one about a
where the director of the Chinese
stay away* from such gatherings
after
week
to
worship
unless
some
­
thirteen,
and twelve.
bunch of boys who hooted and
Christian Centre offers clubroom
because they hate to be seen by
thing
stable
is
going
to
keep
their
All
heavy
work is done by a
walked into a comer newsstand,
space for Nisei students to meet in,
their associates.
interests intact. Most of us are too
casual charwoman.
whistled at a Nisei girl who had
and where a Nisei girl is a lea­
human,
too
mundane
in
oui
habits
® Mrs. Luther Holton, EDGEThe Salvation Army has been a
and the proprietor lashed out at
der of a Chinese girls’ club and
quotations
to
digest
the
Eible
CLIFFE,
R.R. No. 2, FREEMAN,
refuge to millions all over the
them 'saying, “Cut it out you gays
and adored by all its members.
year
on
end
and
an
overdose
of
Ontario (near Hamilton), wishes to
globe. It is quite instinctive for
—all your old men and old women
It is a city where a prominent
puritanical lectures can become
employ
a cook and a house parlor­
human
come
from
Italy,
and
we

re
fight
­
community leader invites all the
wearisome. What with the drastic
maid.
There
is one 17 - year old
church.
Strangers
in
the
of
the
ing
Italy
too
you
know

don

t
for
­
Japanese families and students of
changes
to
come,
the
church
should
child
in
the
family
who is attend­
city
often
find
themselves
heading
get we’re in America.”
the ciry to his country estate to
ing
boarding
school.
There is a
These are stories that never
for a church in search of comreform to a current informal
spend week-ends, where Nisei can
sitting
room,
bedrooms
and a bath­
make the headlines because they
go to an endless number of picnics
panionship, as mucin as they hare living, to revive a movement more
room for the employees. The sa­
are happening every day, and by
parties arid social gatherings spon­
to admit it. Where else can they go suited to our mode of living. And
lary to commence will be $45 to
no means, does Philadelphia have a
sored by youth and church groups
on Sundays if you want to keep of
when such a day comes the people
$55 and after six months will be
monopoly
on
such
happenings

"where numerous institutes and con­
will
go
back
to
the
church.
raised
to §50 or $60.
the
streets?
Music
has
been
and
they
are
happening
everywhere.
ferences have been held with other

PHILADELPHIA

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isei in

re burr,
meeting, polite and impel
i before getting a chance to prove what
dina, probably along Queen Street J he could do, In many case: just to
■ted at
doesn’t help very much—-even if vou j sustain themselves they
jobs
at
very
low
wagesrealize the backside of anv city is | menial LETHBRIDGE.—In the last weex .
rarely its best side. But unhappily,! in a brief six or eight months they
farmers Own Page”, Saturday fea-;
3nCl OH
the touch of Cordova & Main seems I have climbed high and wide and hope
ire of the Lethbridge Herald, South.:
to permeate even the best shopping! to keep climbing.
SLOGAN CITY.—At
ern Alberta farmers pare urged to st-:
SANDON.—The Sandon Japar.es
districts, and the smoke of industry!
One young man we met tripled his udy specialized crops and tichnique; Cammittee expresses deep apprec!a-iceieiaonl
has combined with time and weather | wages in a year, and now is forman of growing and processing them, “it’s Moin to the Slocan Centre Hakkokaii^u^ys^ -^ home 01 Mrs. k. k..,.iV
11
to give much of the city a faded of" a
” crew. Two other hav oeen going to be important to our future Avho made available recently to the; u'; eldest, daughter of }jr ^li
shabbv look. In Montreal that faded assured of jobs after the war ‘‘‘no development,” prophesized the article.; peOp]e here, fresh vegetables at ^U1’ Chuzo ususmma of L^J i
matter what happens.” Another mov­
look suggests a -historical
this forcast, the articie: very low price.
. Cieek, was united in marriage ~o tt
In making
In Toronto it is just shabby. Nor are ed up from office boy to teThnition. pointed out that at the present time,?
Hikichi
of
the
Sandon
Koaao 01 Kaslo. B3
Mrs. Wakako
the rows of typed dull red-brick houI'
These are the young men with some45,000 acres are planted in spe
Thursday.
,TakasIa kom,^“a
the
the
narrow
lawn
ses ref resiling, for
goods to deliver, who are thinking in cialized crops, practically all on ini -. ■ Aonreciation
a
service.
=
also extended by.
*
and ancient trees serve only to soft concrete and realistic terms of be- gated lands. “Twenty years ago there:^ "people for is
their sympathy and:
1116 bride is employed at the
en, not to beautify, the harshness o: eoming genuinely a part of Canadian were none of these urops, and most; kincjness>
!urity Conimision office in
of the cily- Of scenic effects, so fami society. And it is a logical assumption of those 45,000
.... acres were , inj-wheat.”'
Mr. I. Sugiman travelled to Haslo^166^ anu bie gioom is a msL
native British Columbia —already borne out by the facts—
liar to
specia izec ciops me u
® J this week to show the Japanese pic- of the -staff of The New CanX
there are none, save for the lake that they will accomplish this not The
beets, canning crops, canning seed ■ 1
.Both Xvere particularly well-ka^
tures there.
which might well make one homesick. simply as single individuals, but with
crops, mustard, sunflowers, rape for
! Alexander Japanese Langue
But as evacuees who have lived life partners. Girls, again take note*
and Young People’s activiti in Vat
ed and the like.
in the Kootenays are apt to re­ that the complaint in Toronto is the
c ouver.
mark, “You can t live on scenery.” lack of enough satisfactory, feminine
from an examination of a list of
And if Toronto has failing in this
ompani nsh ip.
GREENWOOD.— All able-bodied
addresses and a street-map that the
ropect, it certainly makes up for
X
men
inthis housing centre are now
them in other directions.
There is. incidentally, rather a “congregatihg-together” has not been farms and as section crews in distChief of these, unquestionably, is strong school of thought whidh bo. as su cessfully avoided as it has in
Visiting in the Kootenay town io. •5
tricts
close
to
Greenwood.
employment. The important of that lieves that two can live as cheaply as some centres. In part this may be
a biief interval oefor leaving to ac­
The detailed list of workers, ex­ cept a position in Montreal i; Pi
factor may be judged by the fact that one. While wages are good Judging due to the larger numbers, in part
:T
this city and its outskirts now have from previous experience and com­ to discrimination practised by land­ cluding Commission workers, has Toshio Ono, formerly of Cumberland
more evacuees hard at wo'k than parisons, few earning less than ♦ an lords in better class residential dist­ men working at" 43 men working at and lately of Tashme. Mr. 0d
any other single eastern centre. Of hourly rate of 50 cents, wartime liv­ ricts. Low centals, convenient loca­ the Midway Sawmill, 8 at Midway Montreal address will 'be c-o ®
all the places we visited, Toronto im­ ing costs are high. Especially is tions, andthe human instinct to stay farms, 18 on the C. P. R. section Sherbrooke E,, Montreal.
pressed us most with the hustle of its is this true if meals are eaten in close to friends have also been im- crew, 2 in the mines, 10 working in
Former welfare worker and direct®
stores, 3 houseworking and 2 emwartime pace. Even its modern street­ cafes, as’ is the case with a majority portgntfactors in reviving a ghost
of the. Kootenay Lake public sIk
cars conform. Boom city of all boom of the young men. Housing again is of Powell Street in one. section of the pua aoquinyd sb umo? aip ur poXo[d at Kaslo.for the past several months
restaurant cook.
cities , the lists of its help-wanted ad
a familiar problem, although ap - city. Perhaps a.n undue
Roy Shinobu, only son of Mr. audits
no
out-dj
all others. And in
In addition to the Vernon or- S. Shinobu left Friday for Toronto 3
patently not so acute as in some of been raised— as one might think
other
oos there seem to be the smaller cities to the south. Sin- when walking through the distri'tchards have gone 8 Nisei and to producer and Slocan playboy, youth
an equal demand by so many diversi­ gle men, too, pay; such substantial but the experience of the past neces­ Althabask, Alberta Cannery,, 4 men
ful Hugo Yamamoto left Slocan Cs
fied industries for labor of all kinds, sum:
to the government,we heard, sarily should make the Nisei cautious
WednesdayBradford Ontario, '
Wednesday for Bradford,
skilled semi-skilled; unskilled, white that some believe a tax exemption and carefull.
collar and heavy lifting, male and fe­ might more than pay its own way,
The criticism is heard too, not with­
male, voting and old.
carey i earn Looses Close
especially if it is good company and out cause, that placement policy is
TASHME.—Formre Port 'Alice,
•VARIED JOBS
can cook!
likely to err in dispatching too many New Westminster and Vancouver folk Game To St. Pierre Boys
The result is that in no other city
evacuees to one end the same place share in the interest over the anis there a comparable number o f
It is recognized by most, though of employment. We heard it said that
CAREY, Manitoba.—With, quite:
noucement of the engagement Jnly
energet ic and less- energetic Nisei not always admitted by the less
crowd gathered around the park, th
working at such a varied list of jobs. well-disciplined young men. that a Nisei, by scouting around, might 24th of Miss Myea Okamura and Mr. Nisei of this district met the &
open
up
a
place
and
sellhimself
to
Wataru Wajter Inouye, both of Tash­
The records are not complete, but there are two definite and
related hiss employer and fellow employees.
:
me.
Miss Okumura is the second Pierre team on July 18th for a K
numbered among them are machine dangers. These are simply too
Then, suddenly, several other Nisei daughter of Mrs., Misao Okamura, “World Series” of their own.
shop hands, lathe operators, cooks, great a concentration, first
J
in ieWith much improvement from h
dishwashers, garage mechanics, clean- gard to living quarters. second in might turn up to work in the same and is a member of the welfare staff
place,
sometimes
on
edge
lest
too
year...
when the Nisei were white
of
the
B.
C.
S.
C.
here.
ers, dyers, bicycle repairmen, steel regard to occupations.
many
others
would
be
attracted
or
washed
to the tune of -13 _ 0. th
foundry workers, radio service=men.
Mr. and Mrs. T. Takahashi and
Either, or both, may call into being sent to the same place, thus causing
photographers, chemical workers, tool in the mind of the native ToronMr. and Mrs, M. Sakamoto are the settlers fought a close g-ame, mergh
the
other
workers
to
become
worried.
|
makers, shoe factory men, printers, toite group attitudes toward the Nisei
baishakunins. The wedding is expect- on thelosing end of 11 _ 10.
For
security
present
and
in
the
sawmill hands, watchmakers, domes- similar to those which today have
ed to take place in the near future.
tics,
platers, electrical instru_ already labelled Elizabeth Street future, dispersal can and must be
St. Pierres hitless tell the 4th ini
meat makers, gardeners, shipping as the unsavoury, unkown China- occupational and geographical — a
when
7 runs were chalked up in ©it
MR. ZENICHI KINOSHITA
clerks, stockroom clerks, plastic ma­ town, or every Jew on Spadina Av­
succession by the winners. The Ms
fact which sadly enough seems to NOW SLOGAN CITY AGENT
chine operators, truck drivers, truck enue as the tight-fisted oily cloth­
runs began to come in on the 2nd is
have escaped entirely from the
gardeners: assembly line workers, bell ing dealer.
© Mr. Zenichi Kinoshita, The ning when timley singles brought* ;
growing number of evacuees laying
hops and business men — some deadly
New Canadian agent for Pcpoff 9 runs. Nagasaka was relieved id e
all their eggs in one basket in the
routine, some heavy lifting, some AVOID GROUP PREJUDICE
will also act as the agent for Slocan 4th by the Dick Mitsunaga.
.... The fact is that right now to most forests and sawmills of interior Bri­
highly skilled.
Stars for the Nisei were U®
City. Assisting Mr. Kinoshita with
This is nut to suggest for one mo­ of the people he meets, George Tan­
Inouye,
ex-Hompa Star, 2 . 3: Du
delivery and collection is Yoshio
tish Columbia.
ment that the way has been easy, or aka is a pleasant, capable individual,
Togawa.
Mitsunaga, ex-Mission Showa, 3 .
Although we spent several days in
that many evacuees simply walked who came out from British Columbia,
into good jobs without difficulty. On lives on Bedford Road , north of the. metropolis, most of it was spentl^®!EE0EEEEEEE£EEE£EEi»aai
the contrary, while we heard of num­ Bloor, works as a mechanic cn Ger­ i" seemg r-eopk. We managed to find^
«™
bers of lucky breaks, we also met and rard Street, and goes to church on ’ time for the Casino, browse through ^
heard of ease after case where a Ni­ : Sundays. He must not be allowed To!the magnificent public library, shop in
sei arriving finally in the big city via become in the eyes of the average' Eaton’s Annex, taste Toronto beer,
the tortuous trail of road camp, bush STorontoite, “Another of those goggle-1 and stroll through the University. But
© Mr. P. B. Bouget, The Singer ward aide will receive $35 pt­
camp and farm, had tramped the'eyed, buck-toothed Jap tailor from
l1 shows, plays, theatres, boat
SO, P. Q., wishes to employ a cook. month with maintenance.
trips, lectures, political meetings^
frcezingly-cnld streets for days and: University Avenue and Dundas.”
The salary will be $40 per month.
© Mr. F. A. Nancekivell, 343?
weeks, following" up every possible: Whether he does or not is very golf, promenade symphonies, night
There
will be very little cleaning to Stanley St., MONTREAL, wishes
Hi
lead with dogged determination, much up to himself. But it is evident clubs, name bands, amusement parks,
tion of her own. She will have libto employ two domestics. The sa­
Nisei birthday party, and Internation­
do and no washing with the excep^EEEE
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lary
will* be S50 each per ®^
al Association baseball went by un­
eral time off. Mr. Bouget prefers
and if they are exceptionally
© MEN’S SPORT SHIRTS
heeded. They’re all reserved for a fu­
to have a cook aged 40 to -50 years.
Sizes Medium and Large
Mr. Nancekivell says that
ture
longer,
if
not
permanent,
stay.
£1^
Thurso is comparatively neai’ not be the limit. There are ^’0^
Special, each . $1.75
Ottawa and Montreal, and arrang- cellent rooms in the house fM ^e
@ MEN’S WORK SHIRTS
y
Lt
ments
will be made whereby the help. At the present time, two ^
Blue, each .............
$1.35
7
S.
HIGUCHI
HEADS
cook
can
visit those cities every anese cooks are employed
Caribou Brand. Khaki 1.70
third week-end, if she wishes to do house and it is well reconA^
7
so. There are two adults in the by Mr. Trueman.
Blue, pair __ $
TURIN. Alta.—The Turin Japanese
family and two children who at­
Caribou Brand. Khaki
STUDENT ...DOMESTICS g
sung People’s Association was or- 3 tend boarding school.
inized following a meeting at the
Alma College, ST. Thomas
Caribou Brand, Black 2.65
This position is highly recomen­
I
A
I
Ahome
of Mr
© Boys’ Summer Underwear
@
The Alma College, x
ded by Mr. A. MacNamara, Deputy
no last mor
Combinations. Special, suit 59c

s' Minister of Labour, Ottawa.
Thomas, Ont., wishes to em
ng the adoption of the conSHIPPING charges will be paid
W 4 <F
.four girls as student donics^stitution the election and appoint- 3
© The Neepawa General Hos­
by us on the above merchandise.
$30 per month. They

ment of executives took place. The
pital, NEEPAWA, Manitoba, wish,
Salted Salmon
$15.10 per 100 Ib=.
fib
results i
as follows:
to employ a Japanese couple — like to employ two Ritciieti^
(Minimum Case _ 50 lbs.)
3 es
the
man to act as janitor and keep who would not have s^c-1
Higuchi, president Ha- ^
$3.75
Salted Herrings 25 lb. case
rhe place in condition generally.
rushi Tanigami, vice-president: Mitsuo
study, but who woula rec*"? 1
50 lb.case
His
wire

to
take
charge
of
the
Hiroshi
treasurers
F.O.B. Vancouver
yLHiAb
a month. In addition a 'v?n‘"
DTK’1?
Kenichi Hisao- ^ laundry department, with some
needed, who would oe
knowledge of that particular line
ka, secretaries; Toshiyuki Sameshima,
taking charge of the kuci^
of work. The janitof would be
Shunji Araki, auditors: Harushi Ta­
der a dietitian, and who ^ld
paid
SiO
per
month
and
his
wife
nigami. chairman: Matsuo Matsumujl
$35
per
month
with
maintenance.
ra. v
be able to lock
fib
Id he
To
Two maids are also required, one
cooking. Her salt
Eikichi Matsumura

T. MAIKAWA STORES LTD.
Vancouver. B. C.
369 Powell St.
(Operated by the Custodian under control of P. S. Ross & Son's)
bLJt

per month.
o Matsumura, > H to work in the laundry with the
sie Maeda, ?o,^ janitor’s wife and the other to
__ Persons interested apply ^ ‘
work in the wards to help the
C. V. Booth, 360 Homer. )at
T h e Association gratefully ac- H nurses. The laundry maid and the
towledges the donation of ten dol-iS
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