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No. 26

THE NEW CANADIAN

An Indepe ndent We eklv for Canadians of Japanese Origin

40c per month

10c per copy

From Edmonton to Montreal
the month of cap and gown
sets a notable record for
trousseau times to match.

Mav 27. 1944

Nisei American Unit Awarded Broad. Constitutional Kights at otaL
960 Service Decorations in Italy In Court Battle
Petitions Ask For Ruling Government Orders Invalid;
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The famed 100th Infantry Battalion of the U. S.
Fifth Army’s 34th Division—-the enlisted personnel of Write in English
which is composed entirely of Japanese Americans, most of
whom are from the Hawaiian Islands—now fighting on the To Avoid Delay,

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stitutional questions eonceruM subject will be at
•• the inherent properly riLie here Monday, when the hearing on the compulsory
Jananese evaenees from
nroDertv own- 1

-------- ------ - ---- --------- Anzio Beachhead in Italy is display. ing courage that is aptly describes
Tilini
! by and Associated Press correspon“figuratively written in
; dent
befo.e
KASLO, B.C.—■Use of the Eng! blood.”
lish language in letters a the best
Three Distinguished Service Cros­
means of alleviating delay in deThree petitions of right, seeking to C^'
PriCCS IB Sell©
ses, 21 Bronze Stars, 36 Silver Stars
livery of mail was urged in a
upset
rhe
right
of
the
Government
to
A
Request For Education
and 900 Purple Hearts /many of
statement given early this week
sell the property, have been hied
which were awarded post-humously)
by George ” Collins, Commissioner The court on behalf ot Jiimo arm UlcLimS UUSIOGiail
Of Evacuee Children
of Japanese Placement.
were won by the Japanese Americans
Takejiro Tanaka. Eikichi Nakashima ,
VANCOUVER — The education of of this battalion.
Mr. Collins said tha-t on various and Tadao Wakabayashi, Japanese
the evacuated Japanese children by
The delayed dispatch dated May 5
inspection trips he had met the nationals, naturalized britisn
the Provincial Government will again reported in the Pacific Citizen quoted
preliminary
constant complaint from Japanese nd Canadian-born citizen
be requested by G. E. Collins, super­ Lieut. Young O. Kim or Los Angeles i
committees that there was an unintendent of the B. C. Security Com­ a Korean American officer who has
due delay in the delivery of mail yveiy
SOH.
CNCCUUW
mission at the recommendation of the kept a record of the combat perform­
written in the Japanese langu^
pkrtment of state, it was disclosed
The test cases are being
Jackson Royal
Commission..
The ances of the . battalion since it first
s caused by ccn- by a voluntary organization of cm
that nearly $1,000,000 has been real­
Koval Commission, which studied the saw action last September 25 in the
wartime reguia- uee property owners, which
and
in
ized in the "compulsory sale of Japa­
evacuation question and made a tour mountains behind Salerno as saying
tions
governing
censorsm
membership
of
over
650
ovneis.
Gi
nese real property.
of the interior towns recently, report­ “that 900 wounded is significant in ar
Even the two-third of these are either natur
necessity
unite
severe,
Approximately half of the 464 pared that the Provincial Government outfit sent four times across the leiinsertion of a phrase or sentence ized or Canadian-born citizens
cels of property ordered sold have
ought to reassume its obligation in turno River and once into Cassino,'
in the Japanese langunige makes
Court will
already been disposed of. this poi
the matter of educating the Japanese
“Heroism is a common commodity
it necessary for letters to be sent three or four days, it is oxpem
N tion said Mr. McPherson, represented
children. Previously, the government in the doughboy outfit known to tin
for examination by the Censors m hear the argument from solicitoi . 'J the ’ most valuable properties and
had rejected the request.
territory of Hawaii as ‘one puke,
the Pacific Coast.
the Property Owners’ Association ti1Ll brought over $600,000 to the Japanese
puka’, in which all the enlisted mc-i.
Mail
written
in
Eastern
Canada
the statement, of defense from
Unemployment No Problem and more than half the officers av
owners according to The Vancouver
for delivery in the same area is. Attorney-General’s Department and Daily Province report.
WASHINGTON. — Labor Minister of Japanese descent and have tt
therefore held up considerably by the justice Department acting for t’.e
'Die properties in the Powell Street
Mitchell told a press conference, here slogan ‘Remember Pearl Harb m
this procedure.
Government.
district of “Little Tokyo”, containing
last week that there is little likelihood the AP writer reported.
The delav would be alleviated,! it is understood that an agreement poorer estates are mostly still in
of unemployment in Canada in tne
“The Japanese Americans don’t pm
Mr.
Collins' said, if people would of facts on which the legal
Japanese hands held by the Enemy
years immediately after the war. it into words, but you feel that they
write
their letters in the English can be based has been arrived.at.
“Our' biggest problem will be to con­ no longer feel it necessary to provt
;will obviate the necessity of calling Property Custodian.
language
in
preference
to
Japan
­
Japanese property outside of Van­
their patriotism. Generals have com­
trol a boom,” he forecast.
ese. Letters should also be marked .witnesses to Ottawa to give evidence couver and in the Fraser Valley
The great accumulation of savings, mended them honestly. They have
that they are written in English Hn the hearing
the back-log of public and private gone through the infantrymen’s hell
amounting to approximately 400 par­
construction and the necessity . of and come out unshaken,” the A.P.
cels have now been listed for sale.
J The issue is finally being brougnt
catching un on civilian production correspondent said in the dispatch
This includes a number of farm
to court well over a year since tne properties, although a large portion
SUN STATEMENT
would provide plenty of employments^ appeared in the Citizen.
'first announcement of. the Govern­
in Canada for years after the war,
The correspondent described a front
of these farms were sold sometime
ment’s intention to liquidate property
UNTRUE;
NO
FUND
ago to the Soldier Settlement Board.
line ceremony in which two members
Mr. Mitchell said.
of the 100th Battalion, Sgt. Melvin FOR REHABILITATION which has been registered by owners
Seventy auctions selling household
with the Custodian of Japanese Prop­
OTTAWA.—The Prices Board an­ Tesuda of Honolulu and Pfc. Kazufurniture, appliances and other per­
nounced Tuesday that price ceilings nobu Yamamoto of Paia were award­
OTTAWA, Ont. — Refuting the erty.
sonal belongings have already been
This registration was required un­
have been established for Canadian- ed the Silver Stars for gallantry in statement made by the Vancouver
held
in Vancouver
and in the Fraser
der the terms of order-in-council
. .
grown strawberries or raspberries ai action.
Sun last Friday that B.C.S.C. regula- 1665 issued earlv in March, 1942, Valley, bringing

"an
average sale
in
a level which is below maximum
‘‘Shuffling
the blanket

„ in past
<? front itions provided for a rehabilitation uA4^
Ten
fifteen
^:»cS“ --“o beingto held
J.
prices paid by consumers last year but door came the two soldiers from a^un(j £or Japanese up to $1000 cash
higher than 1942 prices. It will be the night’s outpost guard, to
credit a Labor Department spokes- m Ar to Xervise the evacuation the Valley to sell the atm rcma.mng
been
themselves
by
request
to
Lieut.
Col.:^
Wd last Saturday that no such
first time these berries have
placed under a ceiling.
! Gordon Singles of Denver.
fund had been established for the
j “‘For gallantry in action’ reads the:japaneSe but that specific amounts of
Former U. B. C. Student
(citation.
Their assets were being held back. defence zone.
;
^ j
’esc have already been
Under
the
order,
evacuees
''ere
1^^
wb
;
cb
when the forced sale is
Wins Two Scholarships
'
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7
' according to a CP report.
of
City,
received
first
class
honours
m*
EmpIovab
i
e
Japanese
are
required
quired
to
register
as
a
Completed
would
strip many Japanese
KINGSTON. Ont.—The closing
measure
only

all
Property,
both
iea
propertv
and chattels,
engineering
physics
to
gain
owp
asset
.
s
down
io
the 1944 session at the Queen’s Uni­
and
personal,
other
than
casn

held
Bachelor
of
Science
degree.
S
260
for
adults
and
$50
for
children
versity. and convocation exercise
| ^ .^ thought by tbe committee in
on Mav 20 disclosed three Niseis,
----- - tv\
- o|; Former U. B. ,, C.
wnftwo in the policy followed by the admims- bank deposits.
respectivc
Hideo
Miura
was
the
recipient
of
1
t
ti
N
maintenance
allowance
is
their
r
of whom shone in
~ued on January HI 1943, purported‘charge of the sales that although the
exam-scholarships,the
theP.O.
P-D.Poss
Rossand
andth
le in this category.
classes, as having passed their
to
empower the'Custodian to sell thrt holdings were sold over the. owners
^Sckmce Class of ‘39 scholarships of.gnen to people
.
inations.
who^a MOO*each Hiroshi Tsuvuki success-i These amounts are the same as Ji. nrmZv at his discretion, without Sheads they received good prices said
his exams
i amounts which Japanese repatriated
Hiroji Richard Yamanaka J h j
Japan are allowed to take with
parents, are now residing at Slocanril^^
to have approval of
(See ‘TROPERTY” P1S)J<SeeJ^^^
” ~
Them. There is no such thing as a I
i rehabilitation fund.
C. C. F. Panel Discussion:
( “It should rot be forgotten that the
Test Government^Auihorky:
igreat bulk of these people were evac-i
'uated for reasons of military nenes-;
* sity and not on any grounds of
VANCOUVER B. C-—Repatriation would not be the solution of tne loyalty and they are removed from:
Japanese problem ’ of Canada according to the views expressed hy t^ their civilian occupations and means ।
w'CHINGTON
D.C.—The U. S. Supreme Court formally granted on,
C.C.F. members at a panel discussion held under the auspices of me of livelihood,” said the spokesman.
| Mav 8~a Ninth Federal Circuit court request that it consider
aP^
Vancouver East C. C. F. District Council last week.------------------------ —
The Labour Department said that • of Mitsuve Endo, an American woman of Japanese descent, wh.ch t A
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annrox-!bv hunger. Secondly*, because the big assets of the Japanese were in. effect* the authority of the government to detain her m a war relocation centre.
hately ei0Qa people expressed was corporations^ found they needed them held in trust by the custodian of' Miss Endo appealed to the circuit
court from a California district. Court
that repatriation would tend to create .in ™»eib“nt” ^ (he fehin£ j,,. enemy property.
300 Oth
decision which denied her petition for
contusion and discord
“ ^dai;rv taa not been controlled by the
a writ of habeas corpus and for a
people were no. prepared to “."' "

b t bT «whitc monopolistic
Crumbling “Little Tokyo
Besides Japanese
hearing on -her claimed right to re­
a mass concentration of
did not offer unlease
from
further
restraint
by
the
the Lower
. nTO Mainland
Mwwa.w prior
nrror to t..e ue..^,- <;ompetition t
organized labor.
OTTAWA. — Figures given in the
iWRA according to a report by the House of Commons by Justice Minis­
was reported
portation.
; and many of their so-called fauto
VANCOUVER.—The last relics Pacific Citizen.
Vancouver Province.
Grant McNeil, ihad been forced upon them by vrites. of the former “Little Tokyo’ on ‘ Formerly a resident of Sacramento ter L. S. St. Laurent show that in
I* was declared
,
.by
=uch as segregation, living standards, Powell Street began to disappear where she was employed by the state addition to the 430 persons of Japa­
nese origin interned, there are also
M.L.A. that ?/dTT lX iaS17»riiiJ units, etc.
as the compulsory sales of the mer­ government. Miss Enao was confined
.
D ’ B]3ck and Mr. McNeil feared
300 persons of other racial origins
riation knowr .ha. =uch a t^nS
chandise in T. Maikawa. one of the to the Tule Lake relocation centre
Possible tor .m“l -“?4 4 4 fiat repatriation. if ever undertaken. largest Japanese owned dry goods
■before that centre was changed to a held.

a mrH problem, even
is just a ‘ •political trick.
These include 141 German aliens;
store, got underway on Monday.
Segregation camp. Following segrega­ 120 British subjects of German ori­
create a
F
that - th Dominion must accept the
।a racial war.
Household furnitures and radios tion proceedings, she was transferred gin; 6 persons of Italian origin; and
responsibility.

.
, ,
looking to postwar eras,
the solution could be round he said, ।
_ -^ ^^^ ^^^ ^ JapM a; belonging to former Vancouver to the Central Utah, (Topaz) reloca­ 32 others, held principally because of
Japanese residents have been sold tion centre where she is now residing, 'heir connections with the Unity
in
CtF- STXXadaJtai^t powers on the Pacific “and
i The circuit court requested the
Japanese across
- _ ■
er of these two great countries since the release of instructions by U. S./high tribunal for “instructions National party. Austrians and Hun­
the Secretary of State for the sale
garians are grouped with the Ger­
them with economc
*t— ^olerate canada taking action
for
a

proper
decision

in
her
case,
reby
evacuees,
educating
,
them
on
a
pro^
^
create
&
refugee
problem
.of
all
chattels,
owned
portunity
mans.
■ ports the Citizen.
;
BlaUk said “'We are Pacific
per basr and having Jie
equipment,
Farm
and
dairy
i In agreeing to this request, the
dealt in juch a way a= co
*
le Oui- future ]ie3 to the west. It household goods, and engines are
military evacuation order as affecting
economic opportunities in other P^'i^/^ n,e -t ^ould be bad business being auctioned off at Langley Supreme Court also announced that it American citizens.
would hear argument in the case imThe arguments will be scheduled in.
Prairie. Effects are also being sold i mediately after it hears attorneys on
Norman Black, opening the
the
next court term beginning in
at the Berry Growers’ Hall at Sur
an appeal by Fred Toyosaburo Kore­
mission, said the Japanese came to o. Bn^vaamo
rey.
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matsu, questioning the validity of the October.
the west coast primarily because they are
“T
£
- lands couver Province report.
had been driven from, their own

Censorship Delay

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Custodian Should Hold Property In Trust Till War s End

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Court to Hear ’’Habeas Corpus

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An Independent Weekly Organ Published ■
as a Medium of Expression Among the
People of Japanese Origin in Canada.
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Japanese Section Editor
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Stress To Unity?
The recent Parliament Hill focus on the
Japanese question has provoked editorial com­
ment from two leading Montreal dailies. One
of these, from the Star, despite its thousands
of words, may be dismissed with only the un­
happy comment that it repeats in parrot-like
fashion the familiar race-baiting terms of west
coast politicos and the Vancouver Sun. It is,
in short, the sort of thing we might well expect
from the newspaper know as one of the most
reactionary in the entire Dominion.
The Montreal Gazette, on the other hand,
is much briefer. It does manage to offer the
constructive thought that “the problem is
not regional” and urges that if “national
unity” is threatened by the stress of the ques­
tion felt in British Columbia, then the country
needs to think and act as a whole on the mat­
ter. But it does not -outline what that thinking
and action ought to be.
And yet the Gazette is in a very favor­
able position to know. W “liberal” journal in
racially cosmopolitan Montreal ought to be
well aware of the many factors—economic,
social and emotional—that influence racial
relations. But its daily record of Montreal’s
activities ought also to reveal the fundamental
sameness of human nature, whether it be
clothed in an English, French, Japanese or
Chinese exterior. That understanding will
surely provide the Gazette with the most de­
sirable guidance “in matters of this kind.”
When west coast politicos or the Mon­
treal Star advocate racial persecution and
postwar deportation, they threaten the com­
plete trampling of the rights of every minority
group in the country, they assail every tenet of
Canadian democracy, and they seek to rob
Canadian citizenship of everything which
gives its value. The Gazette surely will not
urge that Eastern Canada accede to demands
of that nature to overcome any stress to Cana­
dian unity. For upon what, indeed, is the es­
sential unity of our far-flung and broad coun­
try country based, other than upon these self-

The Mig’ht Have Been
An American contemporary reports an
item in its current issue which provokes some
interesting speculation into the realm of the
“might-have-been.” Fifty Japanese women
and children, some of them wives and families
of United States soldiers sein ing overseas,
have arrived unescorted in San Francisco
from various parts of the country, and are
now awaiting transportation back to former
homes in Hawaii. Some were attending school
in the Uni toil States when the Pacific war be­
gan: others were members of small evacuee
groups moved from the islands to relieve the
pressure of accomodation arising from the
tremendous influx of military personnel to
that base.
In the midst of the continuing clamour
in Ottawa’s House of Commons, as io the
“perplexing problem" of the present and post­
war disposition of evacuees uprooted from
former Pacific Coast homes, the contrast with
Hawaii is striking. For Hawaii has not en­
countered any problem at all. From the out­
set. the Japanese were allowed to remain in
their homes, carry on with their daily pro­
ductive work, and serve the heavy wartime
labour needs of the Islands. And this, despite
the fact that one-third of the territory’s popu­
lation is of Japanese ancestry, and that the
Islands themselves are perhaps the most im­
portant military installation the United
States nossesses in the Pacific.

Far from posing any present or future
problem, Hawaii’s Japanese Americans,
who have been justly treated as Americans,
have proved themselves an invaluable asset
to the cause of the United Nations. They
have given the entire world the proof posi­
tive that democratic treatment can and will
assure unswerving loyalty and devotion.
For it is on the record of the U. S. Wrar
Department and the Federal Bureau of In­
vestigation that no sabotage was committed
in Hawaii. Japanese American citizens
have bo.osted war loans and blood banks to
the limit. And it is Hawaii’s Japanese
American battalion serving in Italv—at
Salerno, at Cassino and Anzio—that has
won almost a thousand decorations for gal­
lantly in action.

Historians of the future will record the
contrast in policies which prevailed with
respect to Hawaii and the Pacific mainland.
If they are unprejudiced, let us hope they
will also be gentle.

Causing No Trouble
Under federal order-in-council the
Minister of Labor, his deputy who is also
National Selective Service Director, and the
Commissioner of Japanese Placement are
charged with the supervision and care of
persons of Japanese ancestry in Canada.
They speak, therefore, with an official res­
ponsibility in startling contrast to a great
many other people in the country.

Mr. Mitchell made a very reasonable
point in the House of Commons discussions
recently when he told members that his de­
partment. did not consider the Japanese in
Canada a serious problem. Almost half, he
said, -were now back on a complete selfsupporting basis and with very few excep­
tions, no trouble had been met in the admin­
istration of complicated and radical war­
time policy.
A similar story, derived from even
more intimate contact, is related by the •
placement officer for Southern Ontario. He
relates that in a recent survey it was found
that 210 young men placed in one city alone
over the past two years were still working
steadily and industriously at the same jobs
to which they were first introduced. Em­
ployers, he noted, were completely satisfied.
So smooth, in fact, had things been going
in this direction that he had completely
overlooked this fact, his attention being oc­
cupied by frequent labor turnovers of other
evacuees.

It all goes to suggest that if, you leavepeople alone, without hedging .them about
with unnecessary restriction and bigoted
criticism, they will prove very capable of
being decent, industrious, law-abiding
citizens.

Cost Per Capita
The Federal Government will provide
this year some $2,750,000 to finance its
wartime policy for about -3,000 people of
Japanese origin in Canada — approximate­
ly $120 per capita. Congress at Washing­
ton has recently approved a War Reloca­
tion Authority appropriation of $40,000.
000 to finance American policy in a similar
direction. On a per capita basis this works
out to about $330.
The comparison in figures speaks for
itself.
There should be no second-grade citizens within
a democracy. In that, connection I had occasion to sav­
in April. 1941, and deem it relevant to quote here that:
“I know of no principle which justifies the proposition
that any group of people, of any province or of any
industry. are mere stepchildren of the Canadian social
order and expected to be satisfied with a lower standard
of living than that generally approved by contemporary
social and economic standards.’’
—J. L. Cohen, in. the minority report
of the National War Labor Board.

May 27, 1944.

Nisei Note on Centennial for the ’ Y1
When on June 3, next Saturday,
the Young Men’s Christian Asso­
ciation throughout most of the
world marks its one hundredth
anniversary, a great many Nisei
throughout Canada will be among
the first to offer their birthday
greetings.
They will do so in full apreciation of what the “Y” has meant
to them in very personal terms.
For the familiar triangle design in
red, white and blue has been a
welcome 'sign to many a forlorn
Nisei, adrift and friendless in the
post-evacuation world.
In the old days, the “Y” did not
mean a great deal to us. Except
for a small handful of former
Vancouverites
(remember
the
swimming pool, Bill, and the SocEd Classes that even taught a golf
swing, YPsters) the organization
famous for its friendliness was an
unknown religious organization,
quite ignored by Little Tokyo.
APPRECIATE THE YMCA
Personally, we came to know a
little of its friendliness just about
six years ago on our first trip
eastward. We found it attractive
chiefly because of its low room
rates. But we came to appreciate
too the genuine friendliness of its
officials and residents, as much as
the refreshing balm of its hot1 and
cold shower baths, in Winnipeg,
Toronto, Montreal and New York.
We noted then that instead of
meeing with any discrimination
(and anti-feeling was rising then),
we usually met people who were
very interested in the fact that we
were Japanese. In fact in Montreal
we met a clerk who spoke Japan­
ese; in New York’s Sloan House,
a man who was interested in learn­
ing the language.
Since the great trek eastward,
however, a great many more Nisei
have come to 'know and depend
upon the “Y”. Early in thei evacu­
ation, in Toronto and Montreal it
opened its doors, even to the point
of giving employment and enroll­

ing college students when almost
every other university in the coun­
try had slammed them tight.
And
as
increasing numbers
gathered in the cities, it offered
its social and recreational facili­
ties to meet what had become rhe
greatest need our lonely young
men felt. Its younger sister organ­
ization,
the
Young
Women’s
Christian Association, has been
just as active—if not more so—in
lending a helping hand to Niseiettes wandering far from former
homes. And reports of social fun­
ctions that come into the New
Canadian pages rarely fail to men­
tion that the gathering place for
young men and voung -women was
the “Y”.
Thus far this work has been
most notable in the east, where
groups of Nisei have been active
in taking .advantage of the facili­
ties offered. Hamilton’s Sophy-Ed
Club is an outstanding example—
but we recall on a tour last year,
moments spent in the Y’s in Mon­
treal, London, Toronto and Ottawa
with Nisei groups.
NISEIS ACTIVE
Recently the General Secretary
of the National Council in Canada
said that Associations in the west
follow the same principle of no
discrimination because of race. In­
dividual Nisei, it was found in a
survey, have lived in domitories
and participated in programs. He
gave the assurance that a warm
welcome awaits them in any of the
79 “Y’s” in Canada.
The anniversary observances will
centre in Montreal, where the first
institution in North America was
established in 1851. Tribute will
be paid to the spirit of George
Williams, a 23-year old draper’s
clerk of London, England, who
with eleven comrades founded the
movement, with the central
thought that life could be lived1 on
a basis of Christ’s teachings of
brotherhood. Many grateful Nisei
evacuees will join in that tribute.

Editor, The New Canadian:
It has been very worth while
reading The New Canadian and it
has given us and several of our
friends much information. But
most of all, it has shown the great
effort being made by the far-see­
ing Niseis and such men as the
Rev. Shimizu, to break down the
racial compactness of the Canadian
Japanese. The paper has such a
magnificent spirit between the
lines.” We take our hats off to the
courage with which so many of the
Canadian Japanese are meeting
this terrible ordeal -which they
have had to go through.
Again, many thanks for just
being creative, and striving onwards and upwards.
Mrs. H. Graham Brown
Walkers Landing, B. C.

tion “lock, stock and barrel”. This
is all the more reason -why I wish
to “Combat Racial Discrimina­
tion.”
These good pamphlets—and I
■stress the “good”—that I have
been talking of, need publicity.
Tlje white people use the power of
the press, the magazines, speakers,
the platforms, door to door can­
vassing for ublicity.
They do
everything within their power to
make themselves heard.
I am more than a little disap­
pointed at the response to the
“Combat Racial Discrimination”
campaign. Only three people have
sent in their dimes. If these pam­
phlets could be sent to all the
newspapers, to Canadian Women’s
Clubs, Church organizations, to
schools, to stand on the magazine
stands of every store, then they
would attract the required atten­
tion. But no one seems to be inter­
ested or otherwise I’m certain that
they’ll take the. time to send in
their dime.
K. Oyama
10816 Berri
Montreal P. Q.

Editor, The ’New Canadian:
Recently in a write up of a ses­
sion in Parliament in The Mon­
treal Star, there appeared an edi­
torial urging the people to realize
the danger of the “unassimilable”
Japanese of presenting another
“problem” and advocated deporta­

The Ordinary Man
(PULL-TOGETHER-CANADA)
Who are the men of the hour?
Statesmen ? Generals ? W o r I dfamous figures? They are the ones
whose names will go down in his­
tory. But alongside them are the
ordinary men and women in the
Armed Forces and on the home
front. The future will depend on
them.
For several weeks at Philadel­
phia, representatives of the ordin­
ary worker in many countries have
been meeting representatives of
management and government to
discuss all phases of the war and
post-war reconstruction. They are
delegates
to
the
International
Labor Office Convention.
LtnderTying the problems they
have discussed is one all-important
question. Where shall we find the
spirit that will make the solutions
lasting ?
That spirit comes when every­
one lives the way he wants the

world to be run.
It is here that the ordinary
worker has his special opportunity.
He can give the lead. He is not
merely ~ - hands and muscles or
the nation. He can inspire its mind
and spirit. He has responded to
the call “Give us tools and we will
finish the job.” He can also build
the moral armament we need—
clean living, teamwork, honesty,
faith in God. These are nugnty
weapons. They brought our nation
through in the past. If we all pro­
duce them on a big enough scale,
they will make our victory secure
-And glorious.
“We the re-m-akers of the world '
—is not that the thinking aim
the willing of the ordinary man”
He can become an expert at bukuing, in himself first and then in ms
community, the character whicn i>
the very stuff of the new world.
The ordinary man is the man othe hour.

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Page 7

THE NEW CANADIAN

Page 7;

Christian Social Council’s “Challenge wiu® §«H#r
To Patriotism and Statesmanship”

Preparing for the Postwar World
(Editorial from the Sophy-Ed. a
monthly bulletin published by' the
Sophy-Ed Club of the Hamilton
Y. M. C. A.)

Dr. Norman Black, well known
educationist and an active member
of the C. C. F., in his pamphletentitled “A Challenge to Patriot­
ism and Statemanship’-’ delves into
the Japanese “‘problem”, which, in
his words is based on “vague but
real economic fears and perplexi­
ties that clamour for scapegoats.”
The new pamphlet, published
under auspices of the Christian
Social Council of Canada is a com­
prehensive but concise review of
the situation which developed from
wartime evacuation, (Single cop­
ies, 5c; 6 for 25c; 100 for S3;
Christian Social Council of Cana­
da, 3 Willcocks St., Toronto 5).

It is striking to note the im­
portance laid by two recent speak­
ers to the Sophy-Ed Club, on Nisei
Canadians being a wee bit better
than other men on the same job.
If the Japanese Canadian is to
have any chance in the scramble
for post-war jobs, it seems this
cannot be over emphasized. It is
of such importance that in the
words of the relocation officer,
Ernest Trueman, “The whole crux
of the resettlement program de­
pends upon thq favorable impres­
sion the Nisei makes upon employ­
ers of labour in Ontario and
Quebec.”

May 27. 194-k

By K. O.

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As a solution to this “problem”,
Dr. Black advocates “geographical
and occupational dispersion” of the
Japanese people. In the following
excerpts from his pamphlet, he
-points out the major reasons as to:
WHY MANY JAPANESE ARE
DISINCLINED TO DISPERSION
In the first place, the more en­
terprising of the younger people
have already gone east, and this
means steadily deteriorating lea­
dership among those left behind.
Parental influence, always strong
in a Japanese community, is fre­
quently not on the side of disper­
sion. The older people naturally in­
clude a larger proportion of folk
whose Canadianization has been
less thorough than that of the
second generation. They resent the
disruption of their families. Most
of the people caring to accept agri­
cultural employment have already
gone east, and jobs offered do not
attract men who are skilled mech­
anics, boat-builders, businessmen
accustomed to the conduct of inde­
pendent
enterprise,
experienced
“white-collar workers” of various
sorts, or men familiar only with
fishing. Many are sadly dreaming
of their once prosperous garage, or
green grocery, or cleaning and
pressing establishment, or tailor
shop, or insurance agency, or
apartment house, -and in eastern
news they see nothing to encour­
age a belief that they’ will be al­
lowed opportunity to devote them­
selves to occupations for winch
their training and experience best
fit them. They are concerned about
the housing situation; remaining
where they are, they at least have
a roof over their family and they
have no assurance that such would
be the case if they ventured into
distant places where they have

good reason to believe that the
housing shortage is very serious.
In the concentration settle­
ments they have about them the
comfort of friendly and familiar
faces; even the whites with
whom they7 come in contact—
members of the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police, officials of the
Security Commission, teachers,
missionaries and others—they7
know to be their friends. They
also know that a friendly wel­
come among strangers in distant
places is something upon which
they7 cannot count.
They7 know that under ordersin-council at present operative they7
have no chance to buy the property7
that may7 be necessary7 to their
economic independence. They' know
that so long as they7 remain in the
concentration settlements the Sec­
urity7 Commission will stand be­
tween them and actual want and
they7 are afraid to venture forth at
the risk of the welfare of their
dependants.
They7 are unhappy; and un­
happiness does not make for
charity of thought.
INTERESTED IN EDUCATION
OF THEIR CHILDREN
The Japanese are very7 keenly7
interested in the education of their
children. Their attitude in this con­
nection recalls the best traditions
of Scotland. Many7 of them own
property7 that is pay7ing taxes for
the support of schools for white
children, while the buildings and
equipment available for the edu­
cation of their own families are
inadequate or unsuitable. While
the teachers are young Japanese
Canadians of good ability7 and
manifest high ideals of public ser­
vice and are doing a remarkably7
good job hr ‘spite of their handi­
caps, they7 almost without excep­
tion are professionally untrained.
The Security7 Commission has not
responsibility7 for the education of
Japanese children beyond the elementary grades. Such high school
instruction as is available is pro­
vided chiefly7 through the gener­
osity7 of missionary7 bodies. While
this friendly help is greatly appre­
ciated, it is felt to be an intoler­
able hardship that: the governmen­
tal authorities have made practi­
cally7 no provision for children of
high school grades. Some of these
children are taking correspondence
courses but the fees are so high as
to be beyond the reach of parents
of limited means.

I got off the bus at Niagara
Falls feeling like a honeymooner
who had forgotten his bride.
Across the river, facing me, was
the American Falls whose thun­
dering waters formed a cloud of
mist. For a moment I thought the
grounds beneath me were tremb­
ling with the noise, but it was my’
imagination.

To the right of the American
Falls
is
Goat
Island
which
separates the American Falls from
Niagara Falls.
I 'walked towards the tails, sown
the artificial gateway7 to the arti­
ficial railing along the artificial
roadway.

I looked down at the river where,
ice was just beginning to break
up. In summer, a boat named
“Maid of the Mist” takes you right
up to the falls' and behind it.
I followed the road to the right
towards Niagara Falls, but before
I could get very’ close, I came to
the end of my walk at a place
where two soldiers stood on guard.
Along the road at certain inter­
vals there are a number of bino­
culars on stands. I put a dime in
the slot and stood waving the
thing at the falls trying to get it
focussed when it clicked and 1 saw
black. It’s a racket.

RECOALMEND EDUCATION
It is obvious then that the Nisei
must strive to improve himself in
more ways pertaining to his work.
He must develop new abilities, a
positive personality7 and be ready7
for opportunities that may7 come
his way. For this end we recom­
mend highly' the educational facili­

ties for workers in Hamilton ....
Perhaps more than this, it is
well to note the large number of
Nisei, both men and women taking
night school courses at the univer­
sity and in the city7 schools. They
have
studied
typing,
English,
mathematics, economics, radio and
leadership training. It takes quite
an effort after a hard day’s work
to attend lectures and prepare for
examinations, but we are sure
their studies will not be wasted
and that some form of reward will
come for their efforts.
The school year will soon end
and these part-time Nisei students
can look back with satisfaction to
a year when progress on their part
was made. Next September, the
new year begins and we cannot
urge too strongly; that other Nisei
follow these examples. We urge
them to look into these classes, and
we are sure that whatever line
they7 may7 wish to pursue, there
will be a class just for them. It
is good to say, “I can do this.”
when questioned as to one’s quali­
fications and only in that way can
opportunities be utilized.

“From The Frying Pan:”

This is tlie story of Charlie S. Seo

ty Bill Hosokawa in the Pacific Citizen)
piness 1 can out of the things
This is the story, and some of
1 do. When will the war be over?
the views, of a young SingaporeTwo years?
Four years?
Six
born Chinese. His name when I
years?
first knew him in Singapore was
“Who knows what will have hap­
■Charlie S. See. Now, as a member
There is nothing much to see
pened
to Singapore and all my
of a Chinese night club entertain­
here outside of the falls.
holdings
there in that time. May7ment team touring the States it is
be
I
will
get them back. Maybe
Li-Sun.
It was off season, and I saw
I
will
not.
1 can’t just stand still
“The name See,” he explains,
only three honeymoon couples; one
“didn’t sound Chinese enough It here and wait for the war to
pair holding hands over pie and
end until 1 find out what happen­
wasn’t good for business, so my7
coffee in the Hotel’s (General
ed to my property. And so 1 must
wife changed it for me.”
Brock) cafeteria, another taking a
make the best of circumstances
That, it seems, is the essence of
horse and buggy7 ride, and a third
that are not my7 fault, or anyone's
the
outlook of this stranger to
couple walking toward the falls
fault. What else is there to do?”
with a box camera. The boy was ' America. Not the implication that
his wife dominates him, but the
In many ways Charlie’s posi­
in a soldier’s uniform.
point that he is willing to accept
tion is similar to that of the
The uniformed boy7 came up to
change.
Nisei evacuees. Charlie has some
me smiling a naive happy7 smile
Charlie See was one of the big
advantages: natural ability, ex­
and asked me to take their picture.
•young men of Singapore. In his
perience. The Nisei have many
I took their picture as they placed
mid-thirties, he had made a trip
more advantages: American citi
shy arms around each other and
around the world, he was the
zenship, greater knowledge of
smiled.
manager of one of the three big
their native land, American edu­
- 0 amusement parks of the city, he
cation.
owned shares in a couple of news­
THE TOURISTS
PLIGHT SIMILAR TO NISEI
papers and several rubber plan­
Charlie’s ability to adapt him­
120 miles north of Calgary7 and
tations. He was wealthy, and able
self
to circumstances should be
80 miles south of Edmonton, there
to live an indulgent life. Instead
an example to many Nisei who
is a place called Lacombe.
he chose to be progressive, and
have not found the courage or
many of the stunts that other
Here, Mr. and Mrs. T. Sato
ambition to leave the relocation
amusement parks picked up were
spend their days, growing vege­
centres. Already Charlie has new7
originally introduced by Charlie
tables and attending the Seventh
ideas. He’s going to sell sarong
See
at
his
own
place.
Adventist sponsored college (en­
Resent Seizure and Sale of Property
prints and designs to the Amer­
is in public interest, it is felt tnat
rollment: 200—including three or
A few weeks before Pearl Har­
Many of the Japanese remember
ican public for summer wear, and
'to
compel
a
private
individual
to
four
other
Japanese).
bor,
Charlie See got an American
with resentment that their seized
he’s going to make a success of
sell his property to the govern­
visa, packed up something like
automobiles were sold at prices
the
endeavor.
After the day’s work and study,
ment is quite a different thing
2.000 sarongs and trunkloads of
which, as they believe, entailed
Charlie
is not unaware of the
they7 sit down in the lamplight
from compelling him to sell it to
other items and headed for the
much loss. They7 feel affronted by
plight
of
the
Nisei. And he views
among their books and a threeanother private individual.
United States by way of Java. He
what they consider to be libel­
the
attacks
of
American racists
day-old Vancouver Province. One
For these and other reasons a
was in Bali, taking movies, -when
lous attacks made upon them in
with
misgivings,
for as an Asiatic
day, recalling their past memories,
majority of those still remaining
the war came.
newspapers and in legislative halls.
he
is
suspicious
of
white suprem­
they decided to visit the evacuation
in the concentration centres are
He was in Capetown, South Af­
acy
arguments.
,
Some of their fishing boats were
towns of B. C.
disinclined to co-operate in the
rica, when Singapore fell. Seven
stripped of expensive equipment
“These politicians who attack
present dispersal policies of the
ships had left a Java port to­
Last week, the one-time princi­
by thieves and were otherwise sub­
Japanese Americans are only
government.
gether. Only See’s reached its
jected to unnecessary injury, all
pal of what was the largest Japa­
making it harder for the United
EVACUATION NOT MOTIVATED
destination.
of which involved the evacuated
nese language school on the Pacific
Nations to win back Japanese-acBY MISCONDUCT
coast (enrollment - 900) was visit­
owners in heavy charges for re­
Months later he landed in New
cupied areas,” Charlie declares.
It
is
constantly
to
be
borne
in
pairs and re-equipment. They al­
ing the ghost towns of Slocan
York, practically broke. He met
“They are supplying Japanese
mind that the Canadian author­
lege violation of original under­
Valley with his wife.
a California-born Chinese girl, a
propagandists in Malaya and else­
ities. civil and military, have
standings between the evacuees
professional dancer and married
where
with the most powerful
been emphatic in their repeated
He came to see what kind of
and the Security7 Commission, and
her. Then he discovered the Chi­
kind
of
ammunition to fight
statements that the evacuation • lives7 the ghost towners were liv­
nese in America had only two ob­
they fail to see that certain prom­
against
the
Allies.
of coastal Japanese was not
ing, to look up former students
vious vocational choices—opera­
ises, made in good faith by7 res­
motivated by any misconduct on
and acquaintances, and perhaps
RACE BAITING BACKFIRES
ting a hand laundry or waiting
ponsible persons, are no longer
their part and involved no reflec­
seeking
to
warm
himself
a
little
in
“The native peoples of southern
possible of fulfilment. Their hopes
tables.
tion upon the loyalty of more
the
glow
of
his
past
prestige.
Asia
have never had a square deal
still centre about abandoned homes
than a small minority; and these
LEARNED
TO
DANCE
from
Europeans—except in the
to which it is now highly impro­
Mr. and Mrs. Sato to whom
there
has
been
ample
opportu
­
To
hell
with
it,
he
said,
and
de
­
Philippines
—and they are ready7
bable that many7 of them will be
evacuation probably dealt a harder
nitv to segregate and. intern for
cided to learn to dance. Six, weeks
to believe anything bad about the
able to return.
blow than it did to most of the
the duration.
later he had picked up enough of
white people. How can ’they7 be­
Many of the evacuees are
others, were little changed in ap­
All Japanese
property, the
the finer points from his wife’s
lieve United Nations promises of
heartsick over the fact that
pearance. Mr. Sato’s forehead may
transfer of which .seems necessary7
tutelage, and was ready for a try­
racial equality and freedom when
farms, poultry ranches and fruit
have been a bit higher.
in the public interest, should be
out.
they
hear that American citizens,
ranches which they had deve­
expropriated at a fair price, nou
because
they are of Asiatic descent
As
a
dance
team,
Li-Sun
and
They
were
not
forgotten.
They
loped by years of toil have fallen
peddled to private buyers who look
are
discriminated
against by some
Jadin
Wong
got
their
first
billing
were
welcomed
everywhere
at
tea
into ruinous neglect even though
upon the Tenth Commandment as
people
:
n
the
United
States, which
at
S50
a
week.
Since
the
two
of
parties
and
dinners
given
by'
for
­
largely7 on account of the labour
suspended

for
the
duration
.
n
is
supposed
to
be
the greatest
them
were
working,
an
income
of
mer
pillars
of
Japanese
society
shortage. They bitterly resent
cases where government purchase
democracy?

S25
a
week
each
was
nothing
to
and
his
ex-students
still
remaining
the compulsory sale of then
does not provide the capital necesThat is a question which will
cheer about.
property, even while they* readily
in B. C.
=arv for re-establishment, this
loom
increasingly larger as the
Six months later they danced in
admit that the Custodian has
Dominion must recognize its moral
In
his
addresses,
Mr.
Sato
still
land
offensives
against JapaneseHollywood for ten times the pay,
made a conscientious effort to
obligations: it must, ii neces=ary,
shone as a master of story-telling.
occupied
areas
begin.
The Native
and now the couple, together with
ensure fair prices.
advance
the
first
payments
on
the
In
his
ideas
he
seemed
more
mel
­
American
racists
must
be impres­
other Chinese girls, are on a night
The legality of governmental
purchase of new homes and o— such
lowed. His message at New Den­
sed
that
with
each
verbal
blow
club circuit at a comfortable in­
procedures in this connection is av
equipment as may be essential; for
ver: 1. to live conforming to the
they
take
at
American
minorities
come.
present “sub judice” and therefore
self-support. The dispersion at
ways of the environment we are
—to inflate their egos or bid for
Li-Sun’s philosophy is no less
cannot here be discussed. However,
which the government authorities
in
:
2,
not
to
lag
behind
the
spirit
a vote — they are making the
interesting than the story7 of his
while few are inclined to question
are aiming must be made not only
of
the
age.
American service man’s job pro­
career.
the paramount authority of tne
economically possible but economi­
portionately more dangerous and
“I live from day' to day,” he
Dominion government to expro­
Their tour looked like a total
cally
attractive.
difficult.
says, “and try to get what happriate—particularly in war-time-—
success.
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May 27, 1944.

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‘ Agricultural Front:

Niseis Return to Essex for 7 hird Time

Acknowledge Kindnesses
Of Many Well-Wishers
The Japanese Canadians of Lon­
don in a gesture of thanks donated
a substantial sum to cover substan­
tial sum to cover subscriptions of
The New Canadian to several well
known individuals as well as to the
London Canadian Library, the YAI.
C.A. and the librarian of the Uni­
versity of Western Ontario.
These donations were made in
gratitude for the many acts of
kindnesses that have been accorded
to the Niseis in London.
Similar subscriptions of . The New
Canadian have been paid by the
Sophy-Ed Club of Hamilton, and. the
Maniseis Club of Winnipeg in an
effort to spread a better understanding of the Japanese question
among interested Canadians.

Hamilton Youth Conference:

Conference Urges Race Equality

HAMILTON — The Hamilton and .------------------------------------------------- -------- —
j CHATHAM, Ont.—The first group
District Youth Conference held at the ! j t
t J Tn Marrin
jot Japanese Canadians have arrived
Technical Institute on May 6 and 7 interested in Marriage.
Official Word On
‘at the labour camp site three miles
unanimously passed the resolution, TORONTO, Ont.—The recently orfrom Essex, .(not far from Windsor)
Sandon Closure
that there be “no discrimin ation o-anized marriage bureau here opened
'with more expected to come. Essex
against Canadians of Oriental ori_ .^ (joors wi(]e f0 welcome any pros­
VANCOUVER—First official word was the only camp operating last
gin.”
in that
pective grooms or brides to be.
that the Sandon interior housing cen- vear
.■— —
----- district and has been
Six Nisei delegates attended
tre will be closed was announced by runnning for the past three years
' The application should be made by
conference and took part in the
George E. Collins, superintendent of .with Japanese labour.
either the applicant himself or bv his
ious discussion groups wmeh were:
3
the B. C. Security Commission.
t A “decidedly increased” number of
The Committee guarantees
Tost-W-ar Opportunities', Education, guardian.
,, , ,,
Populated with 650 men, women German prisoners of war will further
j
P
' that the files are Kept strictly confi, Citizenship and Minority Group Proor

dential.
and children, Sandon is one of the Canada’s war effort on the agricul­
ilems, Recreation, and Religion in the
tural front, Arthur MacNamara told
smaller centres.
{Life of Youth.
। Parties interested may contact the
The relocating of the residents to ; the Ottawa Journal this week.
One resolution put forth at the con­ committee at: Toronto Issei Commitbe distributed in the other housings While the exact number of .Nazi
ference was that of the discussion tee, c-o Miss . F. M. Bird, bl Bond
centres has already begun and is ex- prisoners on farms could not be divulgroup on “Minority Group Problem’ Street, Toronto 2, Ont.
pected to be completed by the end of ed by Dr. MacNamara for security
which pleaded for no discrimination ,
reasons, he said the increase in 1944
the summer.
on the basis of race only against
Provisions are being made lor self- over 1943 would be “substantial.”
j
the Canadians of Oriental origin.
supporting Japanese wishing to re- ‘ They are being used in increasing A Tribute to a True Christian
One of the more important detaili Tourino- Towns In B. C.
main at Sandon. Those intending to numbers this year in special branches
=
Tribute is paid by a Winnipeg cor- of this resolution was:—no discrimi- i
stay will have to make their own ar- of farming, notably in the sugar beet respondent to a well-known Presby- nation against Canadians of Oriental
KASLO, B. C.—A tanned, healthyrangements for- housing. Only a few fields of Alberta and Ontario, he said, terian minister, Dr. E. C. Hunter, who iorigin in industry and in the question looking man arrived with his wife
are expected to remain.
;“In this type of farm labor, men recently preached an editorial from;of civil or political rights to own here Wednesday on a whirlwind tour
The Administration staff will also work in groups of eight or ten to­ the pulpit of one of Winnipeg’s larg-{property and engage in business and of the ’nterior towns from Lacombe,
Alberta and gave an interesting talk
be absorbed into the other camps Mr. gether, stopping over the low crops est churches urging Christian toler- other pursuits.
la large part of the time. With this ance toward people of all races.
of conditions at Lacombe as guest
Collins said.
'set-up, one guard can look after each
which
is
hoped
to
better
A
survey
speaker at a meeting sponsored by

There
are
certain
quarters
and
The closing of the camp is the re­ -;roup of men. accompany them to the
the
“Koyukai”. The visitors were Mr.
social
and
economic
conditions
for
groups
in
Canada
where
racial
pre
­
sult of the steady movement of evac- ields in the mornings, and escort
the
people
of
Japanese
origin
in
and
Mrs. Tsutae Sato, former prin­
judice
against
negroes,
Jews
and
paruees to eastern Canada and the prair- diem back to prison camp in the
to
be
conducted
soon
by
cipal
and teacher of the largest Japa­
prevails
to
the
I
Hamilton
is
.
_
t icul ary Japanese
ies. Over 1000 have relocated from evening.
Dr.
Hunter
said.
!
the
Membership
Committee
of
the
nese
Language school on the Pacific
point of bigotry,”
this province during the past year

A
new
prison
camp
which
will
acB.
C.
Girls

and
Sophy-Ed
Clubs.
Coast.
True Christianity, he declared to his
and over 7000 since the first evacummodate
some
300
German
prisoners
congregation, made no distinction^
ation orders were issued.
They have just completed the first
>f war, is now being- built in the vici­ on the sheer ground of race and color.
half of their tour having already

PROPERTY

7
nity of Chatham, Ont., and all these
Our correspondent adds that Dr.
visited Rosebery, New Denver, Slocan
(Cont’d from P. 1)
men
will
be
put
to
work
in
the
sugar
Hunter
has taken a keen interest in
New Tax System Predicted
City, Bay Farm. Popoff and Lemon
beet fields. Even larger numbers of Japanese Canadians, helping them in the past year.
Creek. Mr. and Mrs. Sato left here
OTTAWA.—Single Nisei wage ear­ Germans will be working on the many more ways than one. In the
Real property has been listed and for Greenwood yesterday and will
ners will watch with interest a fore­ sugar beet farms of Alberta.”
past, when they were less acquainted sold by tender, while large amounts visit Tashme tefore they leave for
cast high spot in the budget to be
Mr. M; ‘Tamara said that prisoners {with the city, he invited the young of personal goods and chattels in Vancouver on business commitments.
presented to Parliament shortly by ire paid on a scale that encourages
” ' ; and old to the church hall for in­ storage have been disposed of by pub­
On their return trip to Lacombe,
Hon. J. L. Ilsley, minister of finance. them to work, and at the same time formal get-togethers.
lic auction.
they intend to stop over at Picture
This high spot, it is predicted, will does not lower prevailing wage scales
One of the largest deals took place Butte, Alta.
be to increase exemption in income in the industries or the districts in
early
in June of last year, when 769
tax from $660 to $1,000 for Canadian .vhich they are em'ployed.
parcels
of farm l^nds registered with
wage earners, and is expected to
“SALE”
the
Custodian
were turned over to the
affect close to 1,000,000 persons.
Director of the Veterans’ Land Act.
(Cont’d from P. 1)
If this reported revision goes into Strikers Return To Work
The
Petitions
of
Right
filed
with
effect, it will also afford some mea­
YAMAMOTO - AKAI
ithe special Japanese committee under
HOPE—A three day sitdown strike
sure of relief to wage and salary
Wedding bells chimed as Terumi. the Exchequer. Court maintain that Mr. Justice Sydney’ Smith.
earners in the higher brackets. This came to an end last week at the 15 eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. the Custodian was empowered to act
If a Japanese owner of a property
will take place because they will not Mile Camp on the Hope-Princeton Kashiro Akai of Greenwood was only as a trustee for the property, does not live in one of the B.C. Sec­
have to pay the graduated tax—stif­ road project when the workers re­ joined in holy matrimony to Mr. and is legally required to return it urity Commission camps, he received
fest of all—upon the $340 of income turned to their work on their own Yoshio Yamamoto, eldest son of Mr. to the owners at the end of the war. the cash from the sale, less any char­
and
Mrs. Jukichi Yamamoto
of They argue further that the various ges, but if he lives in a relocation
which lies between the present exem­ accord.
The
roadcampers
went
on
strike
to
ption level of S660 and the proposed
Alberta on May 14 at the Greenwood order-in-council giving the Custodian centre, .the money is held in trust and
protest the dismissal of a fellow United Church. Rev. Barnett was in control and the right to sell against
new figures of §1,000.
released in limited amounts by the
worker and demanded his reinstate­ charge of the service.
the wishes of the owners are invalid, B. C. Security • Commission.
ment but Resident Engineer W. K.
SUBSCRIBE NOW TO
The couple went for their honey- unconstitutional and “ultra vires” of
Until recently, the Japanese could
Gwyer remained adamant in his moon to Grand Forks.
the authority of the Government.
THE NEW CANADIAN
have
radios and other household
decision.
effects sent to them provided they
Mr. and Mrs. James Sano of Kaslo Prisoners Treated O. K
paid freight charges but now*, every­
became the proud parents of a 9 lb.
thing,
with the exception of personal
BRISBANE, Aust. — A Canadian
baby boy on May . IS.
and
religious
effects, is being sold.
Press dispatch reported that Japan’s
The
general
quality
of their chattels
general treatment of Allied prisoners
OBITUARY
is
not
high
and
is
bringing
auction
of war in camps is in accordance With
prices
accordingly,
the
Custodians
ROBERT OH AMA
international conventions, according
The death is reported of Robert to a statement from Archbishop Paul stated.
IMEE
Obama, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Marella, Apostolic delegate to Japa­
T. Obama of Rainier, Alta, who pas­ nese, given to the * Vatican, the
Tailored To Pleasure
sed away on May 18. A Christian Netherlands Agency Aneta said Tues­
funeral service was held on May 19. day.
BY
“BLACK”
OTTAWA
Justice Minister
HARRY MI YASAKI
Laurent’s- reply to recent , communi(Continued from P. 7)
(HARRY’S CLOTHES)
The policy here advocated as cations that interned men who are
| now free be reinterned Avas that such
Representing
just and necessary to achieve the
'an
act
was
undemocratic.
disgeographical and occupational
House of Stone
persion of our Japanese Canadians j He stated that no one would be
is one that will pay us big divid- .detained unless he showed himself as
Smart English Woollens
ends, irrespective of what proce--acting in such a manner that it would
Call Evenings
178 Beverly St. $
dure may be adopted after the war warrant internment in view of public
Toronto. Ont.
is over. All disaffected persons of safety or safety of the state.
i£HcSEHEEEEEEECEEEEEEE(»9i
Japanese origin should of.course|
i®6®G
i 02EEGS3EEEEELE
be sent back to Japan, together
with any others of their stock who
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may go voluntarily. Few will so
KASLO. B. C.
choose. They are having a hard
time of it, but most, of them have
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g
of the parties concerned to have
L
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masse, though British Columbia
Name
can and should take care of its
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