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K. Mitsui, Nisei Natator
j Wins Coveted Arlen Trop’
i At Revelstoke Swim Meet
I
Design Co-op to Meet Problem
Of Home Life for Single Relocees
an aggregate total of fourteen
NEW DENYER, B. C.—Undeterred by a spectacular electrical storm
which will be Chinese Of Military Age „
points in tne ISth annual swimming
that completely washed out all arrangements for a scheduled outdoor
and d.ving meet of the
presentation of their wind-up concert, teachers from the summer school
Club, held it Williamson
K. Mitsui ledLake
the
nin on
P1'^.^1
here Thursday night rallied against the difficulties caused by the sudden
last Wednesda
downpour, a stifling, jam-packed Bosun Hall, and an unfamiliar stage
University
Campus
Houses
is er ! VANCOUVER, B. C. — The first
field ef contestants to win the Ar
military call-up affecting between
setting, to present the most praiseworthy show this reporter has yet enlen Cup, awarded to the best il peeted to be opened early this fall. 3500 to -1500 Chinese males in British
countered in years of covering the N
The three storey building situated
annual
round competitor in I
groups eligible
■ Columbia within
The second annual presentation,
.near
the downtown aiea on Jarvis.
tournament.
military
ser
x is at4 present4 undergoing alter-Tor
vent into effect
; tor mihtarv
- service
given by the teachers as a gesture tor-in-chief, with Hideyo Eguchi,
Placing first in the boy 14 year ’ street,
•
'
i
•
a
r
ithis . week reported 1 he Vancouver
of appreciation to the New Denver ■Yuki Arai, Masuko Eguchi and Mary
and under 50 yds. and 75 yds. ations and repairs, the voik ot ixmcn Province.
community, tock the form of a pa- : Mizuhara each directing one of the
events and moving up to the older i is being done by nine Niseis.
Chinese throughout the Dominion
life of a typi- four acts.
geant, depicting
boys’ class and taking firsts in the j The cost of living will be nominal.
11 been subject to dr
cal Japanese Canadian family.
{ In starring roles capably performed
16 yrs. and under. 75 yds. and ob- I based on the total expenditures for have :
tions except in British Columbia
Beginning with its origins in a pic- were Misao Hatanaka, Yoshiko Kuristacle races, second in the 16 and I the month expended on the rent
where authorities have not enforced
ture bride in Japan, the family is ta, Fred' Okimura, Toshiko Miyashita
well
under diving competition as well as - upkeep of the building
{the
call-up notices.
and
Vi
Tokiwa.
Two
young'
New
Den
seen twenty-five years later in a Van
being on the winning three man re ! paying for a cook and foodstuff.
inclined
ver
boys,
Susumu
Nishikawa
and
I
Chinese
spokesn
couver Island home, then in Hastings
lay team, the young Nisei natator i Each lodger is expected to
to
think,
that
their
countrymen
have
Park clearing station and finally in - Kazuo Arima, filled in creditably in
was just ahead of the runner-up out certain janitorial duties at regu-not
been
drafted
because
authorities
the New Denver housing settlement, important male parts. Much credit is
with three points.
‘ lar intervals' on a co-operative basis
in British Columbia felt that the
HUMOR AND PATHOS
:due the doctors for particularly
Ito defray further expenses which
’
Chinese could then demand the right
in any of the events.
Woven into this pageant, written, .^ne casting- in tnese and many other
I would be the case if a janitor were
to vote said the Province.
directed and produced by the student ■minor roles,
The Arlen cup was presented by ito'be hired.
teachers under the guidance of facul- ' Kate Oyama was heard in three en
i
Three hundred Chinese males were
Arlen,
in
the film star.
■ The plan is to elect a responsible
during
the
songs
joyable
populai'
sent,
draft notices and some, have al1936 for the best all-round compe ’ executive committee, from amongst
ty members, was a display of spark
with
Miss
play,
and
choral
singing
i
ready
taken medical examinations
titor in the annual tournament.
ling amateur talent in acting, singing
Ithe boarders which will handle the
-Velma
Campbell
conducting
was
efi
land
other
army tests said the Provand dancing. It reached highlights of
{financial as well as personal grievI
fective
and
pleasing.
It
is
expected that three hunnice.
surpassing humor, much enjoyed by
{ ances of the lodgers.
Increase
In
Restricted
Area
!
Dancinghighlights
included
three
jdred will be called up each week.
an audience relatively well-behaved
consul general
Li Chao,
under the circumstances. But what {graceful odori, one of which was a I The venture, believed to be the
Advocated
By
Bracken
!
classical
solo
performed
by
Harumi
’
‘stated Monday that the denial of vote
impressed this reporter most of all
{first of its kind on a large scald mea
iTomotsugu.
hi
interesting
contrast;
was the fact that the pageant emerg
KAMLOOPS, B. C.—The Progres sure, was organized to give the young {might affect the attitude of the
ed as a drama, posing questions of ' was the tap dancing and jitterbug- sive Conservative policy on the Jap bachelors a better environment. Re- i Chinese to their call-ups.
*
*
*
genuine social significance. For it ex - ging of Mary Inouye. Perhaps most anese “problem” would be to increase ports showed that many of the single
pressed
in
surprisingly
effective ■ novel and enjoyable of all was the the present wartime restricted area men were dissatisfied with the lack
With the enforcement of the draft
terms something of the pathos im { smooth rhythm and vitality of the for Japanese which is 100 miles in of company when living alone. One |regulations as affecting .the Chinese,
plicit in the culture conflict of an im ! modern ballet dancing, performed by land from the coast to five hundred of the chief reasons for opening the i the Hoysun Ninghyng Benevolent
migrant group and the tragedy with a group bf eight girls under the dir- miles. John Bracken, National leader I co-operative house was to create a I Association in Vancouver, submitted
■which our own group has been deeply ' ection of Mrs. Marjorie Lee, P. E. , of the Progressive Conservatives! told ‘friendlier atmosphere and fellowship •a telegram to Premier John Hart, reinstructor at the school.
touched by the present war.
la public meeting on Monday. This among the Nisei and to cut down the {questing that Chinese in B. C. be
the Issei i ASK PARENTAL HELP
When, for instance
- policy if carried out -would totally ex ■cost of living which when eating out given the right to vote.
mother reprimands her son for ar- I At the opening of the concert, A.R. clude- Japanese from B. C.
in restaurants would amount to a
“Request you have necessary leg
guing with his teacher at Hastings {Lord, principal of the Vancouver Norislation
passed by special session to
;
fairly
high
rate.
imal School, addressed an appeal to j Declaring that in future Canada ! A sponsoring committee comprised correct situation which prevents our
Park, the boy replies:
something parents to give their utmost support 'must consider* the allegiance of people ‘of G. E. Trueman, Eiji Yatabe, Miss voting here. Other provinces grant
“But arguing
about
-allowed into the country, the Proisn’t showing disrespect. After all. to the Nisei teachers.
Florence Bird and a W.M.S. executive jthis right. We consider it our duty
s
He said they were doing a very gressive Conservative leader said, ‘‘it will represent the Nisei Co-operative I and privilege to exercise full rights
this is a democracy and we can have
fine job under very difficult condi- is bad enough to allow certain foreign Association, the name given to this {of citizenship.”
our own ideas if we want them.”
irrationals into our country, but it is
The mother, who says in agitation । tions which could not be .avoided,
newly founded housing organization.
and he asked parents to give all the imuch worse when they continue alle- This committee will act as an agent ithat the sum was to be used for the
sometimes my
to her friend,
! glance to a foreign country.” the CP
children frighten me!” is not just help they possibly could.
for the Association in any business .purpose of purchasing suitable living
reported.
। accommodations for the Nisei.
Misao Hatanaka capably performing i In particular, he stressed, the
matter which may be transacted.
a starring role in a play; she is an teachers are trying to improve the i In peace time Japanese ships would
The propertv was acquired through I The property will be managed by
Issei mother face to face with one of calibre of English in the schools, and probably touch B. C. ports and Pro- a donation to'the W.M.S. of $10 000 the W.M.S. and the home mission
the most fundamental problems in in this work needed assistance from i gressive Conservatives feel it -would by a Toronto woman who stipulated board of the United Church.
; the home.
■ be for the welfare of Japanese m
our personal lives.
{Canada if they are removed from any
And the punch lines o4’ the closing । FORMAL CLOSE
scene. The greying Issei father evac 1 The summer school session came to {contact with visiting Japanese, Mr. Vacationers Travel
uated to New Denver, his family dis- a formal close with a brief ceremony Bracken added.
persing in all directions, gets up and. Friday morning, when instructors
Mr. Bracken asserted that no more
walks across- the stage in deep and education officials were given !Japanese immigrants should be al
presentations by the teachers. Vice
thought:
HAMILTON, Ont.—With the sum- miles east of Hamilton.
llowed to enter Canada.
-president
Amy Uchida moved thanks
I
to
do?
Can
we
be
“.. . what am
mer holiday season rapidly drawing ■ For others, summer camps at famgin a new life at our age in a new to the instructors, and Myea Inouye
to a climax, Nisei and Issei relocees ous Muskoka, on the shores of Lake
to the New Denver P.T.A. and Wo Miss F. Kono Wins ATCM
country ?”
in Ontario have found much to do. , Ontario and Lake Erie beckoned Ammen’s Association.
the
KAMLOOPS, B. C.-Fumi Kono Swimming, tennis, cycling, camping, ibitious Nisei sojourned up at
Among the platform guests were
OntTo Miss Zella Manning, instructor
nd
in;
church
work
camps
at
Orillia,
of East Lillooet, B. C. successfully travelling are attracting them
in English at the summer school, goes F. A. Jewett, inspector of schools in
and
gleefully
carpentering
passed the A.T.C.M. solo perfor spite of stretches of hot sticky wea- ' ario,
a large part of the credit for the- in the Kootenay district, Mrs. C.V.
’
‘
.
{painting
churches.
They
are
quartermers examiners in piano held re ther, proving highly enjoyable.
Commission,
spiration and success of the produc Booth of the Security
Travelling~and visiting seems to beied in private homes, paying a nomicently by the Toronto Conserva
tion. Mrs. Mary Asazuma was direc- and Mr. Rutherford of New Denver.
the
main event of workers enjoying ■ nal sum of little over one dollar per
tory of Music here.
their
week’s holiday with pay, now {day for room and bond,
She is a former pupil of Mrs.
compulsorv
in Ontario. This city has । A continuous trickle of telocees arAnnie Bampton
of
Vancouver,
witnessed'a
stream of visitors from {rive from the west, and although the
B.C. Other Niseis who obtained
London,
Guelph,
Beamsville,
St. ' housing situation, is still far from
their A.T.C.M. under Mrs. Bamp
GRAND FORKS B. C.—The dasperate labor shortage for the coming
Thomas,
Chatham,
Toronto,
Galt
and
; easing, find some, sort of accommodaton are Lily Washimoto, Mary
harvest of fruit and ’seed crops in the Grand Forks Wiley received a
Montreal.
Many
were
en
route
to
the
{tion and work. With the closing of
Hamagaki and Mrs. S. Enomoto,
little lift in hopes last week with the possibility_ of luO Japanese resi
magical
name
of
Niagara
Falls,
40
; the summer peak season and the favthe former Etsuko Nimi.
dents from Greenwood coming to ease the situation.
----- ------------------------------- ----------------------- sourable progress of the war in EurThe growers requested the Board ■
LQJ °pe> observers forecast that the need
—
_lfor workers in industries will visibly
I
Says
Prime
Minister
of Trade to help relieve the pressure •
slacken.
on the labour problem.
Universities will not open their
The Board of Trade contacted
the
GresnSeptember, but prosdoors 1
Commission at
fl upper classpective freshmen
wood and received a favorable answer
could
be
obtained
the
following
dry
studying harder
:
men
are
thinking
o:
mast)
rcr
Japanese
spies.
Anything to make an
WA
possibility o: a 150 ;
fiat
by
anyone
in
public
wishing
to
do
so.
radcs
in senior
The
Independent
member
from
the
{this
year.
Higher
:he Japanese in Canaissue
Japanese workers willing to come
M.
J.
Coldwell,
C.C.F.
leaner,
de
jt
the
4th week
Comox
Aiberni
constituency
claimed
ihigh school open al
al weapon against rite
according to da as a pc
as sis
: of September to e:
C.C.F. seemed to he tne chiet oojte that there were two Japanese, one a
It
the
' assist in the harves
4:ve of
W. Neill, independent stenographer taking notes in the gal made by Mr. Neil
that together with th
thou
*
*
lery
during
the
speech
made
by
the
attending
the
deb
I
member
of
Parliament
for
Comoxoil'
high school student;
the
Aife more sett
Aiberni. at’the Monday session of th' Prime Minister on the postwar dis
nd the prospe
=11
said
life in Ontario in the third
Co
id
persal
policy
of
the
Japanese.
Ho
heaap
’
mrters
panese workers, will m; ike up a House of Commons.
in chary
ter evacuation on the surface.
also
charged
that
the two Japanese he had the I
'03
The issue evolved around
fficiently large labour group to
hdnnif ao
!Hv becoming settled. With the
were occupying a private room of a me i
ar^e
that two Japanese had been
;et requirements for the
nd
that
no
one
used
the
room
assurance hv the Prime Minismember
in
the
House
and
making
it
;
recent
sence
the
Lowed
’ust treatment for loyal JapaA few weeks ago, the
ter
<-n
ana
madians and the official statetnat
any
Japam
or
ox tne proc
.Adamson, a Toronto Pro
.At this juncti re, -Mr. Neill cr.argea meat of permanent relocation restricbeing
tly prohibi
and growers m an
u'la'
hoped,
ons now in o]
Conservative stated that that there was a direct and permathe chamber ex- rrcssi
actavish, supervisor of the
with D.
to
hasten
the
resetill
be
removed
Japanese
rent connection
here were
e press galleries.
iritv Commission interior cent in
B. C. J
een the C. C. F. and the Japa
b
Torchv .Anderson, reporting in The
Interesting to note is the increasing
housing centre at Greenwood were
nese.
He withdrew his charges of the
The Prir e Minister was inclined to
Vancouver Province wrote with a
number
of engagements and martold tha the most that could be coun- •inze of sarcasm: “It must have been think that the argument and making Japanese making Mr. Maclnni room
Deputy
'
riages
and
the ever increasing talk of
headquarters
after
.- worker; the heat, or the weariness of the long a sensatior about a few people in the their
ted on would be about
undermatrimony
among Nisei Ontario-ites.
supervise debate that brought some members of gallery tai fur notes absurd and add- Sneaker J. A. Biadette said he
Last week, however,
ood Mr. Neill had stated he was not Leap year or otherwise, 1944 should
ntimated that there might be a po- the House to the stage of looking un ed that a complete report in printed .
(Please Turn to Page 8) - give a new record on Nisei weddings.
der the bed (or in the galleries at form in Hansard on the proceedings I
ability of a hundred more worker
i
t
f
a
M
4
Varied Activities Keep Ontario-ites Busy
4
Seeks Evacuee Labour for Harvesting
o,
J
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.’I >1
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K. Mitsui, Nisei Natator
j Wins Coveted Arlen Trop’
i At Revelstoke Swim Meet
I
Design Co-op to Meet Problem
Of Home Life for Single Relocees
an aggregate total of fourteen
NEW DENYER, B. C.—Undeterred by a spectacular electrical storm
which will be Chinese Of Military Age „
points in tne ISth annual swimming
that completely washed out all arrangements for a scheduled outdoor
and d.ving meet of the
presentation of their wind-up concert, teachers from the summer school
Club, held it Williamson
K. Mitsui ledLake
the
nin on
P1'^.^1
here Thursday night rallied against the difficulties caused by the sudden
last Wednesda
downpour, a stifling, jam-packed Bosun Hall, and an unfamiliar stage
University
Campus
Houses
is er ! VANCOUVER, B. C. — The first
field ef contestants to win the Ar
military call-up affecting between
setting, to present the most praiseworthy show this reporter has yet enlen Cup, awarded to the best il peeted to be opened early this fall. 3500 to -1500 Chinese males in British
countered in years of covering the N
The three storey building situated
annual
round competitor in I
groups eligible
■ Columbia within
The second annual presentation,
.near
the downtown aiea on Jarvis.
tournament.
military
ser
x is at4 present4 undergoing alter-Tor
vent into effect
; tor mihtarv
- service
given by the teachers as a gesture tor-in-chief, with Hideyo Eguchi,
Placing first in the boy 14 year ’ street,
•
'
i
•
a
r
ithis . week reported 1 he Vancouver
of appreciation to the New Denver ■Yuki Arai, Masuko Eguchi and Mary
and under 50 yds. and 75 yds. ations and repairs, the voik ot ixmcn Province.
community, tock the form of a pa- : Mizuhara each directing one of the
events and moving up to the older i is being done by nine Niseis.
Chinese throughout the Dominion
life of a typi- four acts.
geant, depicting
boys’ class and taking firsts in the j The cost of living will be nominal.
11 been subject to dr
cal Japanese Canadian family.
{ In starring roles capably performed
16 yrs. and under. 75 yds. and ob- I based on the total expenditures for have :
tions except in British Columbia
Beginning with its origins in a pic- were Misao Hatanaka, Yoshiko Kuristacle races, second in the 16 and I the month expended on the rent
where authorities have not enforced
ture bride in Japan, the family is ta, Fred' Okimura, Toshiko Miyashita
well
under diving competition as well as - upkeep of the building
{the
call-up notices.
and
Vi
Tokiwa.
Two
young'
New
Den
seen twenty-five years later in a Van
being on the winning three man re ! paying for a cook and foodstuff.
inclined
ver
boys,
Susumu
Nishikawa
and
I
Chinese
spokesn
couver Island home, then in Hastings
lay team, the young Nisei natator i Each lodger is expected to
to
think,
that
their
countrymen
have
Park clearing station and finally in - Kazuo Arima, filled in creditably in
was just ahead of the runner-up out certain janitorial duties at regu-not
been
drafted
because
authorities
the New Denver housing settlement, important male parts. Much credit is
with three points.
‘ lar intervals' on a co-operative basis
in British Columbia felt that the
HUMOR AND PATHOS
:due the doctors for particularly
Ito defray further expenses which
’
Chinese could then demand the right
in any of the events.
Woven into this pageant, written, .^ne casting- in tnese and many other
I would be the case if a janitor were
to vote said the Province.
directed and produced by the student ■minor roles,
The Arlen cup was presented by ito'be hired.
teachers under the guidance of facul- ' Kate Oyama was heard in three en
i
Three hundred Chinese males were
Arlen,
in
the film star.
■ The plan is to elect a responsible
during
the
songs
joyable
populai'
sent,
draft notices and some, have al1936 for the best all-round compe ’ executive committee, from amongst
ty members, was a display of spark
with
Miss
play,
and
choral
singing
i
ready
taken medical examinations
titor in the annual tournament.
ling amateur talent in acting, singing
Ithe boarders which will handle the
-Velma
Campbell
conducting
was
efi
land
other
army tests said the Provand dancing. It reached highlights of
{financial as well as personal grievI
fective
and
pleasing.
It
is
expected that three hunnice.
surpassing humor, much enjoyed by
{ ances of the lodgers.
Increase
In
Restricted
Area
!
Dancinghighlights
included
three
jdred will be called up each week.
an audience relatively well-behaved
consul general
Li Chao,
under the circumstances. But what {graceful odori, one of which was a I The venture, believed to be the
Advocated
By
Bracken
!
classical
solo
performed
by
Harumi
’
‘stated Monday that the denial of vote
impressed this reporter most of all
{first of its kind on a large scald mea
iTomotsugu.
hi
interesting
contrast;
was the fact that the pageant emerg
KAMLOOPS, B. C.—The Progres sure, was organized to give the young {might affect the attitude of the
ed as a drama, posing questions of ' was the tap dancing and jitterbug- sive Conservative policy on the Jap bachelors a better environment. Re- i Chinese to their call-ups.
*
*
*
genuine social significance. For it ex - ging of Mary Inouye. Perhaps most anese “problem” would be to increase ports showed that many of the single
pressed
in
surprisingly
effective ■ novel and enjoyable of all was the the present wartime restricted area men were dissatisfied with the lack
With the enforcement of the draft
terms something of the pathos im { smooth rhythm and vitality of the for Japanese which is 100 miles in of company when living alone. One |regulations as affecting .the Chinese,
plicit in the culture conflict of an im ! modern ballet dancing, performed by land from the coast to five hundred of the chief reasons for opening the i the Hoysun Ninghyng Benevolent
migrant group and the tragedy with a group bf eight girls under the dir- miles. John Bracken, National leader I co-operative house was to create a I Association in Vancouver, submitted
■which our own group has been deeply ' ection of Mrs. Marjorie Lee, P. E. , of the Progressive Conservatives! told ‘friendlier atmosphere and fellowship •a telegram to Premier John Hart, reinstructor at the school.
touched by the present war.
la public meeting on Monday. This among the Nisei and to cut down the {questing that Chinese in B. C. be
the Issei i ASK PARENTAL HELP
When, for instance
- policy if carried out -would totally ex ■cost of living which when eating out given the right to vote.
mother reprimands her son for ar- I At the opening of the concert, A.R. clude- Japanese from B. C.
in restaurants would amount to a
“Request you have necessary leg
guing with his teacher at Hastings {Lord, principal of the Vancouver Norislation
passed by special session to
;
fairly
high
rate.
imal School, addressed an appeal to j Declaring that in future Canada ! A sponsoring committee comprised correct situation which prevents our
Park, the boy replies:
something parents to give their utmost support 'must consider* the allegiance of people ‘of G. E. Trueman, Eiji Yatabe, Miss voting here. Other provinces grant
“But arguing
about
-allowed into the country, the Proisn’t showing disrespect. After all. to the Nisei teachers.
Florence Bird and a W.M.S. executive jthis right. We consider it our duty
s
He said they were doing a very gressive Conservative leader said, ‘‘it will represent the Nisei Co-operative I and privilege to exercise full rights
this is a democracy and we can have
fine job under very difficult condi- is bad enough to allow certain foreign Association, the name given to this {of citizenship.”
our own ideas if we want them.”
irrationals into our country, but it is
The mother, who says in agitation । tions which could not be .avoided,
newly founded housing organization.
and he asked parents to give all the imuch worse when they continue alle- This committee will act as an agent ithat the sum was to be used for the
sometimes my
to her friend,
! glance to a foreign country.” the CP
children frighten me!” is not just help they possibly could.
for the Association in any business .purpose of purchasing suitable living
reported.
। accommodations for the Nisei.
Misao Hatanaka capably performing i In particular, he stressed, the
matter which may be transacted.
a starring role in a play; she is an teachers are trying to improve the i In peace time Japanese ships would
The propertv was acquired through I The property will be managed by
Issei mother face to face with one of calibre of English in the schools, and probably touch B. C. ports and Pro- a donation to'the W.M.S. of $10 000 the W.M.S. and the home mission
the most fundamental problems in in this work needed assistance from i gressive Conservatives feel it -would by a Toronto woman who stipulated board of the United Church.
; the home.
■ be for the welfare of Japanese m
our personal lives.
{Canada if they are removed from any
And the punch lines o4’ the closing । FORMAL CLOSE
scene. The greying Issei father evac 1 The summer school session came to {contact with visiting Japanese, Mr. Vacationers Travel
uated to New Denver, his family dis- a formal close with a brief ceremony Bracken added.
persing in all directions, gets up and. Friday morning, when instructors
Mr. Bracken asserted that no more
walks across- the stage in deep and education officials were given !Japanese immigrants should be al
presentations by the teachers. Vice
thought:
HAMILTON, Ont.—With the sum- miles east of Hamilton.
llowed to enter Canada.
-president
Amy Uchida moved thanks
I
to
do?
Can
we
be
“.. . what am
mer holiday season rapidly drawing ■ For others, summer camps at famgin a new life at our age in a new to the instructors, and Myea Inouye
to a climax, Nisei and Issei relocees ous Muskoka, on the shores of Lake
to the New Denver P.T.A. and Wo Miss F. Kono Wins ATCM
country ?”
in Ontario have found much to do. , Ontario and Lake Erie beckoned Ammen’s Association.
the
KAMLOOPS, B. C.-Fumi Kono Swimming, tennis, cycling, camping, ibitious Nisei sojourned up at
Among the platform guests were
OntTo Miss Zella Manning, instructor
nd
in;
church
work
camps
at
Orillia,
of East Lillooet, B. C. successfully travelling are attracting them
in English at the summer school, goes F. A. Jewett, inspector of schools in
and
gleefully
carpentering
passed the A.T.C.M. solo perfor spite of stretches of hot sticky wea- ' ario,
a large part of the credit for the- in the Kootenay district, Mrs. C.V.
’
‘
.
{painting
churches.
They
are
quartermers examiners in piano held re ther, proving highly enjoyable.
Commission,
spiration and success of the produc Booth of the Security
Travelling~and visiting seems to beied in private homes, paying a nomicently by the Toronto Conserva
tion. Mrs. Mary Asazuma was direc- and Mr. Rutherford of New Denver.
the
main event of workers enjoying ■ nal sum of little over one dollar per
tory of Music here.
their
week’s holiday with pay, now {day for room and bond,
She is a former pupil of Mrs.
compulsorv
in Ontario. This city has । A continuous trickle of telocees arAnnie Bampton
of
Vancouver,
witnessed'a
stream of visitors from {rive from the west, and although the
B.C. Other Niseis who obtained
London,
Guelph,
Beamsville,
St. ' housing situation, is still far from
their A.T.C.M. under Mrs. Bamp
GRAND FORKS B. C.—The dasperate labor shortage for the coming
Thomas,
Chatham,
Toronto,
Galt
and
; easing, find some, sort of accommodaton are Lily Washimoto, Mary
harvest of fruit and ’seed crops in the Grand Forks Wiley received a
Montreal.
Many
were
en
route
to
the
{tion and work. With the closing of
Hamagaki and Mrs. S. Enomoto,
little lift in hopes last week with the possibility_ of luO Japanese resi
magical
name
of
Niagara
Falls,
40
; the summer peak season and the favthe former Etsuko Nimi.
dents from Greenwood coming to ease the situation.
----- ------------------------------- ----------------------- sourable progress of the war in EurThe growers requested the Board ■
LQJ °pe> observers forecast that the need
—
_lfor workers in industries will visibly
I
Says
Prime
Minister
of Trade to help relieve the pressure •
slacken.
on the labour problem.
Universities will not open their
The Board of Trade contacted
the
GresnSeptember, but prosdoors 1
Commission at
fl upper classpective freshmen
wood and received a favorable answer
could
be
obtained
the
following
dry
studying harder
:
men
are
thinking
o:
mast)
rcr
Japanese
spies.
Anything to make an
WA
possibility o: a 150 ;
fiat
by
anyone
in
public
wishing
to
do
so.
radcs
in senior
The
Independent
member
from
the
{this
year.
Higher
:he Japanese in Canaissue
Japanese workers willing to come
M.
J.
Coldwell,
C.C.F.
leaner,
de
jt
the
4th week
Comox
Aiberni
constituency
claimed
ihigh school open al
al weapon against rite
according to da as a pc
as sis
: of September to e:
C.C.F. seemed to he tne chiet oojte that there were two Japanese, one a
It
the
' assist in the harves
4:ve of
W. Neill, independent stenographer taking notes in the gal made by Mr. Neil
that together with th
thou
*
*
lery
during
the
speech
made
by
the
attending
the
deb
I
member
of
Parliament
for
Comoxoil'
high school student;
the
Aife more sett
Aiberni. at’the Monday session of th' Prime Minister on the postwar dis
nd the prospe
=11
said
life in Ontario in the third
Co
id
persal
policy
of
the
Japanese.
Ho
heaap
’
mrters
panese workers, will m; ike up a House of Commons.
in chary
ter evacuation on the surface.
also
charged
that
the two Japanese he had the I
'03
The issue evolved around
fficiently large labour group to
hdnnif ao
!Hv becoming settled. With the
were occupying a private room of a me i
ar^e
that two Japanese had been
;et requirements for the
nd
that
no
one
used
the
room
assurance hv the Prime Minismember
in
the
House
and
making
it
;
recent
sence
the
Lowed
’ust treatment for loyal JapaA few weeks ago, the
ter
<-n
ana
madians and the official statetnat
any
Japam
or
ox tne proc
.Adamson, a Toronto Pro
.At this juncti re, -Mr. Neill cr.argea meat of permanent relocation restricbeing
tly prohibi
and growers m an
u'la'
hoped,
ons now in o]
Conservative stated that that there was a direct and permathe chamber ex- rrcssi
actavish, supervisor of the
with D.
to
hasten
the
resetill
be
removed
Japanese
rent connection
here were
e press galleries.
iritv Commission interior cent in
B. C. J
een the C. C. F. and the Japa
b
Torchv .Anderson, reporting in The
Interesting to note is the increasing
housing centre at Greenwood were
nese.
He withdrew his charges of the
The Prir e Minister was inclined to
Vancouver Province wrote with a
number
of engagements and martold tha the most that could be coun- •inze of sarcasm: “It must have been think that the argument and making Japanese making Mr. Maclnni room
Deputy
'
riages
and
the ever increasing talk of
headquarters
after
.- worker; the heat, or the weariness of the long a sensatior about a few people in the their
ted on would be about
undermatrimony
among Nisei Ontario-ites.
supervise debate that brought some members of gallery tai fur notes absurd and add- Sneaker J. A. Biadette said he
Last week, however,
ood Mr. Neill had stated he was not Leap year or otherwise, 1944 should
ntimated that there might be a po- the House to the stage of looking un ed that a complete report in printed .
(Please Turn to Page 8) - give a new record on Nisei weddings.
der the bed (or in the galleries at form in Hansard on the proceedings I
ability of a hundred more worker
i
t
f
a
M
4
Varied Activities Keep Ontario-ites Busy
4
Seeks Evacuee Labour for Harvesting
o,
J
Ur*
J f'^ '’MW
.’I >1
j Fuss in Commons Centres on Visitors Listening in Gallery
Vs
■Sts
II
Page 2
Page 2
THE NEW CANADIAN
THE M' C1UBLH
P. O. Drawer A
Kaslo, B. C
families are enjoying visits from sons and
daughters who nave settled a long wav
from home, these are the young’ peoole
who formed the vanguard of "dispersal"
August 19. 1944.
Principles m Postwar Dispersal Policy
(Prime Minister’s Speech on Aug. 4, 1944)
pw may I spear; of persons of
and have refrained from acts of
An Independent Weekly Organ Published
3'
Japanese origin in Canada
On
botage and obstruction duvi-nohe
as a Medium of Expression Among the
several occasions the view has
war. It is a fact that no per
roadcamps and kitchen sinks, sugar beet
been . expressed by resident
People of Japanese Origin in Canada.
Japanese race born in CanaBritish Columbia that the rest of
fields and dining tables gave them their onE
been charged with any act* m Sa»0.
Tom Shoyama
Editor & Publisher
Canada
does
not
appreciate
the
Takaichi Umezuki
tage
or disloyalty, during th^ ve-m
Japanese Section Editor
opportunity in those early "pioneering”
Japanese problem, and that it has
*
of war. For the future
been left as virtually the sole res
of those who have remained lova]
Rates: 40c per .Month S2.00 for Six Months in Advance
ponsibility of their province. The
to become teachers, doctors,, mechanics, en
as well as to eliminate those who
fact, that in 1941 of the 23,149 per
have remained loyal, as well'as to
gineers., business workers, and so forth, in
sons of Japanese race in Canada,
eliminate those who have shown
the two years gone by has been the best
22,096 lived in British Columbia,
that their true allegiance is not ^
possible tribute to declare that upon their- undoubtedly made the people of Canada but to Japan, the govern.
At some time in the near future, a quasi
that province particularly aware
Eent
of the view that persons
proven record stands a major portion of
judicial commission will begin a program of
of the problem, and I can equally
of the Japanese 'race, whether .Jap
say it made the people of other
toying to separate among us those who are
anese nationals or British subjects
parts
of Canada less aware of how
by naturalization or birth, who
‘‘loyal’’ to Canada from those who are “disgreat
the
problem
was.
It
cannot
have
shown this loyalty to Canada
Nov/ they are coming home on holiday
It will be a difficult task and one
be said that during the war the
during
the war, should not have
naturally wonders what methods the Commis visits, in an interesting reversal of inspecgovernment of Canada has left the
the privilege of remaining in On
K^n, they are curious to survey the homes
question on the doorstep of British
ada after the struggle Is termi
sion will use to probe into the minds and
Columbia.
It has taken primary
nated. That is a second principle
of their families as "ghost towners” a year
responsioility. I should like now to
that is considered to be funda
ago were surveying relocation conditions.
But we may safely leave the devising of
say, and to emphasize the state
mental.
Some report glowingly, some moderately
ment, that the government recog
such procedures to the Commission, and
STOP IMMIGRATION
nizes that the problem is one toand some gloomily of the things they have
Thirdly, the government is of
rather at this time try to subject our feelings
be facea and dealt with not merelv
the view that, having regard to
seen and clone and experienced since ieavand beliefs to a frank appraisal of our own.
by British Columbia but by the
the strong feeling that has been
whole country. The provinces have
The influences upon our loyalty have been
aroused against the Japanese dur^eir particular sphere of respon
individuals,
who
often
have
contradictory
sharply conflicting. Even granting our inbred
ys the war and to the extreme
sibility. I wish to make clear, how
difficulty
of assimilating Japanese
stories
and
differing
appraisals
to
tell,
even
Canadianism, it would be senseless to pretend
ever, that the government does
persons in Canada, immigration of
recognize that the problem is one
similar circumstances
that the sequence of events in Canada, parti
Japanese into this country should
to be faced by the whole of Can
and conditions.
cularly since Pearl Harbor—evacuation, res
not be allowed after the war. It
ada as a Canadian problem. It is
is realized, of course, that no
lu that contradiction lies the obvious
triction, property liquidation, disenfranchise
on this basis that the matter has
declaration of this type can or
been approached.
ment—have not left their impress. Thus we
secret of the tvhole matter. Successful dis
should be attempted which would
CONCENTRATION UNWISE
persal and resettlement will depend to an
might well ask ourselves in our own minds
be binding indefinitely into the fuThe
government
has
had
certain
ture.
Nevertheless/ as a guiding
impoitant
extent
upon
the
conditions
under
what things should be basically important in
basic principles before it in for
principle
in the years after the
determining our loyalty.
whicn it is carried out. But even more, it
mulating the policy which I wish
war. it is felt that the migration
to present today. In the first place,
are incontro
of Japanese should not be permit
it recognizes the concern felt by
ted.
vertible.
British Columbia at the possibility
FAIR TREATMENT
intelligent understanding and‘ cheerful ad
Our debt to Canada-—whether we are
of once again having within its
Finally, the government consi
citizens or aliens—is both real and large. We
justment to the conditions thev meet. Mr.
borders virtually the entire Japa
ders that while there are disloyal
nese population of Canada. In the
owe her our physical safety: we take it for King and his government, provincial pre
persons to be removed, and while
past, the situation has led to acri
immigration
in future is undesir
granted in such confidence that we forget its
miers and public opinion, churches and
mony and bitterness. - That the
able, and while problems of assimiimportance even in a world where lives are
ministers can ease those conditions. But
feeling is general in British Col
lation
undoubtedly do present
umbia has been made evident not
being snuffed but in thousands each passing the real job of rebuilding worthy and better
themselves with respect even to
only by the remarks of hon. mem
the loyal Japanese in Canada, nev
homes and citizens is one that‘depends on
day- We owe her a life abundant: even the
bers from that province but also
ertheless they are persons who
•lowly and mean among us enjovs a material
a showdown upon our own individual merit.
through representations received
have been admitted here to settle
from many west coast organizasufficiency beyond any to be found in most
and become citizens, or who have
tions nd individuals. In view' of
been
born into this free country of
• of the world’s surface. We owe her. too, the
ECHOES FROM POWELL. STREET
that concern, it is felt that it must' ours, and that we cannot do less
■enjoyment of the mind and sense, and free
(From The New Canadian, August 15, 1939)
be accepted as a basic factor- that
than treat such persons fairly and
The
Japanese
Students
Christian
Association
in
dom of thought and voice in genuine contrast"
it -would be unwise and undesir
justly. The interests of Canada
able, not only from the point of
New f ork launched a continent-wide survey which will
must be paramount, and its inter
to millions of the world’s peoples. Can we
view of the people of British Col
delve into the Nisei vocational situation, unemploy
ests will be protected as the first
them despite what may appear as injustice,
umbia
but
also
from
that
of
per
duty
of the government. It has
ment, labor conditions, education, public opinion, poli
be meanly and bitterly ungrateful to so bounsons
of
Japanese
origin
themsel
not,
however,
at any stage of the
tics, social mentality, old country heritages, etc . .
ves,
to
allow
the
Japanese
popula
-war
been
shown
that the presence
iKul and provident a motherland?
J- C. C. L. general secretary Edward T. Ouic’hi reported
tion to be concentrated in that
of a few thousand persons of Jap
finance and membership campaigns show encouraging
province after the war.
anese
race who have been guilty
results. Niseis ur^ed to enter second annual J. C. C. L
of no act of sabotage and who
"Secondly,
account
should be
essay contest .... No sign of strain in relations behave manifested no disloyalty,
is the
ne fact that for the most
tween Occidental Canadians, native Indians. Chinese
even during periods of utmost
part
is the
people of Japanese race in
al] our education and perand Japanese in the small hamlets on the West-Coast
trial. constitutes a menace to a
the country have remained loyal
of V ancom er Island despite agitation against Japanese
s taught us that it must
(Please turn to Page 7)
in
Vancouver,
was
the
comment
made
by
Dr.
George
be that concept of the brotherhood of man.
Ishiwara, recently home from a visit to Ucluelet.
But where and how are we to search and work
Tofino and Nootka .... Victoria J. C. C. L. rehearsing
m it be in the "Non
for September concert tour of Vancouver Island
Germany or the race
Ocean Fall
oftball squad touring- coast centres. Seeks
Editor, The New Canadian:
apaiE The answer I
provincial Senior B softball championship
us. ror
Nisei delegates were
to attend
It seems proper, at this moment,
Iwasaki
defeats
veteran
J.
Kinoshita
after
nome. in Canada, where
hard
the session and as I
to say that -‘The New Canadian”
fought three set game to regain the men’s
they have made a 1
democracy is b
even though imperfect.
reaches
us regularly, and as each
crown for the second successive year ..
pression
not
upon tn? symAU our outcries
issue arrives is put away carefully
pathizers. bat also ipri those who
for safe keeping. We felt you
ha ve mean inn- s
are prone to
view Busseis ousted the Kitsilano nine from the playwould like to be assured of this.
tic move.
The Nisei Democratic
ofil spot and will meet the powerful Hompa squad for
relieve m democratic hrothcrWhatever may happen, it i= my
i behave was
Committee
which
ehampionship
sei
belief that copies of “The New
Yosh H
e. freedom and equality: and
.mid much cri•
formed
voluniaril
showed rare from allowing only two hits to the losers
Canadian” will always be vail able
WC
rrvins on day
ticism, have been
here lor those of the com
. . . . Asahi's pared down. Patricia Hotelmen’s chances
and night, sacrificing their
''^E111^ 'T^^ to scan them; for
of a playoff slot by taking a close 4-2 decision . . . .
energy and pleasures in orde; mat
v. hac purpose we do not, of course,
Commencing September 1, 1939, The New Canadian
we may at least be heard and
know. We can say. however, that
important
will appear as a weekly Nisei Journal . ... Generally
known by the public. The? the
newspapers
published on Burrard
poor
conditions
throughout
the
important
fishing
inCommittee members, deserve high
determinant
our
Inter (Vancouver Harbor) fifty,
dustry of B. C. have been widely reported within the
praise and needless to say. wt owe
sixty or even seventy years' ago.
them . much gratitude. The
past two weeks, and many' Nisei fishermen in the
are being coj tinuousiy referred^to
thing
we must keep clear in
Fi3Sgi I\.A6i Tien S3\ iliut their only hope, to secure
by someone or other, ^or some pur
is that no one should be pref.;
adequate returns this year lies in the possibility of
Ameripose or other, and we presume
because
of the Committee's ;
good fall fishing in cohoes and chum salmon.
those ot the future will be no dif
armv today
set forth earlier in the yearferent to those of oui- generation.
twelve
afraid that such will not rs
Americans will find the road back a
And, it is our hope that, if thev
of us. Whatever
ter roau t han the one Japanese Canadians must
wall
do wish to see
el at war’ss end.
dian” of 1944 it
deem it a worthy saeritiee. That indeed is a
1 be here for
For our 2 it pi irancliise is still ir
ve
ttee’s actions so
them
to
look
at.
ite attemp
testimonial to it that we Nisei Canadians and
by some to restrict our property
worthy ones.
rmh s. those rights are still whole,
our parents need to ponder both long and
In recent months, and p
important, too, in the postwar future o:
Archivist
larly
after th : new Bill was
Vancouver.
B.
C.
well.'
be the proud service record of our men and
induced,
the committee has gc
?n in uniform. And the Purple Hear : and
ider
to debt wh’ch was inevitable
bronze s
Editor. The New Canadian:
5 ot Nisei soldiers will serve to remind ne
.Tenation, 1
the
existing circumstan
it target, that its Japanese Americans v
Some weeks a: V • there sprang
-. I
part of
ther we are approached
—Pacific Citizen
up a roar ot protest and the
feel it is our duty and c
echoe ■ are still resounding from
Ba
a o a Canadian. Uur aneesa
such a wort! y purpose
coast to coast. I refer to the discommenting
•
upon
the
nay settlements ;
ed many hardships, and
contribute n to alleviate U
e good. Whv not ive the Japanese a chance
d
number of "new
W’ suddenly appearing
throughout the Dominio
<o
i Canada and become an
St.
E.,
Toronto,
is
the
Treasurer.
doubt, everyone of us fe
in their midst thi
ce and life ? If we do not
I am writing’ this as an maiv;depressed
rental rights, thev shall
ch an action
Nisei faces, for the most part.
remain till Ar
And yet i
dual
and have no connection w.-.aiCanadian minority
verv little dmi
let all person
C mada. and all na
*se circles of the housing prosoever with the CommitteeCa
with equal rights
John Kumagai
n vaauelv familiar. For manv
—Renfrew Mercarv
in me House of Common
Toronto. Ont.
Determinant of Loyalty
esettlement
THE NEW CANADIAN
THE M' C1UBLH
P. O. Drawer A
Kaslo, B. C
families are enjoying visits from sons and
daughters who nave settled a long wav
from home, these are the young’ peoole
who formed the vanguard of "dispersal"
August 19. 1944.
Principles m Postwar Dispersal Policy
(Prime Minister’s Speech on Aug. 4, 1944)
pw may I spear; of persons of
and have refrained from acts of
An Independent Weekly Organ Published
3'
Japanese origin in Canada
On
botage and obstruction duvi-nohe
as a Medium of Expression Among the
several occasions the view has
war. It is a fact that no per
roadcamps and kitchen sinks, sugar beet
been . expressed by resident
People of Japanese Origin in Canada.
Japanese race born in CanaBritish Columbia that the rest of
fields and dining tables gave them their onE
been charged with any act* m Sa»0.
Tom Shoyama
Editor & Publisher
Canada
does
not
appreciate
the
Takaichi Umezuki
tage
or disloyalty, during th^ ve-m
Japanese Section Editor
opportunity in those early "pioneering”
Japanese problem, and that it has
*
of war. For the future
been left as virtually the sole res
of those who have remained lova]
Rates: 40c per .Month S2.00 for Six Months in Advance
ponsibility of their province. The
to become teachers, doctors,, mechanics, en
as well as to eliminate those who
fact, that in 1941 of the 23,149 per
have remained loyal, as well'as to
gineers., business workers, and so forth, in
sons of Japanese race in Canada,
eliminate those who have shown
the two years gone by has been the best
22,096 lived in British Columbia,
that their true allegiance is not ^
possible tribute to declare that upon their- undoubtedly made the people of Canada but to Japan, the govern.
At some time in the near future, a quasi
that province particularly aware
Eent
of the view that persons
proven record stands a major portion of
judicial commission will begin a program of
of the problem, and I can equally
of the Japanese 'race, whether .Jap
say it made the people of other
toying to separate among us those who are
anese nationals or British subjects
parts
of Canada less aware of how
by naturalization or birth, who
‘‘loyal’’ to Canada from those who are “disgreat
the
problem
was.
It
cannot
have
shown this loyalty to Canada
Nov/ they are coming home on holiday
It will be a difficult task and one
be said that during the war the
during
the war, should not have
naturally wonders what methods the Commis visits, in an interesting reversal of inspecgovernment of Canada has left the
the privilege of remaining in On
K^n, they are curious to survey the homes
question on the doorstep of British
ada after the struggle Is termi
sion will use to probe into the minds and
Columbia.
It has taken primary
nated. That is a second principle
of their families as "ghost towners” a year
responsioility. I should like now to
that is considered to be funda
ago were surveying relocation conditions.
But we may safely leave the devising of
say, and to emphasize the state
mental.
Some report glowingly, some moderately
ment, that the government recog
such procedures to the Commission, and
STOP IMMIGRATION
nizes that the problem is one toand some gloomily of the things they have
Thirdly, the government is of
rather at this time try to subject our feelings
be facea and dealt with not merelv
the view that, having regard to
seen and clone and experienced since ieavand beliefs to a frank appraisal of our own.
by British Columbia but by the
the strong feeling that has been
whole country. The provinces have
The influences upon our loyalty have been
aroused against the Japanese dur^eir particular sphere of respon
individuals,
who
often
have
contradictory
sharply conflicting. Even granting our inbred
ys the war and to the extreme
sibility. I wish to make clear, how
difficulty
of assimilating Japanese
stories
and
differing
appraisals
to
tell,
even
Canadianism, it would be senseless to pretend
ever, that the government does
persons in Canada, immigration of
recognize that the problem is one
similar circumstances
that the sequence of events in Canada, parti
Japanese into this country should
to be faced by the whole of Can
and conditions.
cularly since Pearl Harbor—evacuation, res
not be allowed after the war. It
ada as a Canadian problem. It is
is realized, of course, that no
lu that contradiction lies the obvious
triction, property liquidation, disenfranchise
on this basis that the matter has
declaration of this type can or
been approached.
ment—have not left their impress. Thus we
secret of the tvhole matter. Successful dis
should be attempted which would
CONCENTRATION UNWISE
persal and resettlement will depend to an
might well ask ourselves in our own minds
be binding indefinitely into the fuThe
government
has
had
certain
ture.
Nevertheless/ as a guiding
impoitant
extent
upon
the
conditions
under
what things should be basically important in
basic principles before it in for
principle
in the years after the
determining our loyalty.
whicn it is carried out. But even more, it
mulating the policy which I wish
war. it is felt that the migration
to present today. In the first place,
are incontro
of Japanese should not be permit
it recognizes the concern felt by
ted.
vertible.
British Columbia at the possibility
FAIR TREATMENT
intelligent understanding and‘ cheerful ad
Our debt to Canada-—whether we are
of once again having within its
Finally, the government consi
citizens or aliens—is both real and large. We
justment to the conditions thev meet. Mr.
borders virtually the entire Japa
ders that while there are disloyal
nese population of Canada. In the
owe her our physical safety: we take it for King and his government, provincial pre
persons to be removed, and while
past, the situation has led to acri
immigration
in future is undesir
granted in such confidence that we forget its
miers and public opinion, churches and
mony and bitterness. - That the
able, and while problems of assimiimportance even in a world where lives are
ministers can ease those conditions. But
feeling is general in British Col
lation
undoubtedly do present
umbia has been made evident not
being snuffed but in thousands each passing the real job of rebuilding worthy and better
themselves with respect even to
only by the remarks of hon. mem
the loyal Japanese in Canada, nev
homes and citizens is one that‘depends on
day- We owe her a life abundant: even the
bers from that province but also
ertheless they are persons who
•lowly and mean among us enjovs a material
a showdown upon our own individual merit.
through representations received
have been admitted here to settle
from many west coast organizasufficiency beyond any to be found in most
and become citizens, or who have
tions nd individuals. In view' of
been
born into this free country of
• of the world’s surface. We owe her. too, the
ECHOES FROM POWELL. STREET
that concern, it is felt that it must' ours, and that we cannot do less
■enjoyment of the mind and sense, and free
(From The New Canadian, August 15, 1939)
be accepted as a basic factor- that
than treat such persons fairly and
The
Japanese
Students
Christian
Association
in
dom of thought and voice in genuine contrast"
it -would be unwise and undesir
justly. The interests of Canada
able, not only from the point of
New f ork launched a continent-wide survey which will
must be paramount, and its inter
to millions of the world’s peoples. Can we
view of the people of British Col
delve into the Nisei vocational situation, unemploy
ests will be protected as the first
them despite what may appear as injustice,
umbia
but
also
from
that
of
per
duty
of the government. It has
ment, labor conditions, education, public opinion, poli
be meanly and bitterly ungrateful to so bounsons
of
Japanese
origin
themsel
not,
however,
at any stage of the
tics, social mentality, old country heritages, etc . .
ves,
to
allow
the
Japanese
popula
-war
been
shown
that the presence
iKul and provident a motherland?
J- C. C. L. general secretary Edward T. Ouic’hi reported
tion to be concentrated in that
of a few thousand persons of Jap
finance and membership campaigns show encouraging
province after the war.
anese
race who have been guilty
results. Niseis ur^ed to enter second annual J. C. C. L
of no act of sabotage and who
"Secondly,
account
should be
essay contest .... No sign of strain in relations behave manifested no disloyalty,
is the
ne fact that for the most
tween Occidental Canadians, native Indians. Chinese
even during periods of utmost
part
is the
people of Japanese race in
al] our education and perand Japanese in the small hamlets on the West-Coast
trial. constitutes a menace to a
the country have remained loyal
of V ancom er Island despite agitation against Japanese
s taught us that it must
(Please turn to Page 7)
in
Vancouver,
was
the
comment
made
by
Dr.
George
be that concept of the brotherhood of man.
Ishiwara, recently home from a visit to Ucluelet.
But where and how are we to search and work
Tofino and Nootka .... Victoria J. C. C. L. rehearsing
m it be in the "Non
for September concert tour of Vancouver Island
Germany or the race
Ocean Fall
oftball squad touring- coast centres. Seeks
Editor, The New Canadian:
apaiE The answer I
provincial Senior B softball championship
us. ror
Nisei delegates were
to attend
It seems proper, at this moment,
Iwasaki
defeats
veteran
J.
Kinoshita
after
nome. in Canada, where
hard
the session and as I
to say that -‘The New Canadian”
fought three set game to regain the men’s
they have made a 1
democracy is b
even though imperfect.
reaches
us regularly, and as each
crown for the second successive year ..
pression
not
upon tn? symAU our outcries
issue arrives is put away carefully
pathizers. bat also ipri those who
for safe keeping. We felt you
ha ve mean inn- s
are prone to
view Busseis ousted the Kitsilano nine from the playwould like to be assured of this.
tic move.
The Nisei Democratic
ofil spot and will meet the powerful Hompa squad for
relieve m democratic hrothcrWhatever may happen, it i= my
i behave was
Committee
which
ehampionship
sei
belief that copies of “The New
Yosh H
e. freedom and equality: and
.mid much cri•
formed
voluniaril
showed rare from allowing only two hits to the losers
Canadian” will always be vail able
WC
rrvins on day
ticism, have been
here lor those of the com
. . . . Asahi's pared down. Patricia Hotelmen’s chances
and night, sacrificing their
''^E111^ 'T^^ to scan them; for
of a playoff slot by taking a close 4-2 decision . . . .
energy and pleasures in orde; mat
v. hac purpose we do not, of course,
Commencing September 1, 1939, The New Canadian
we may at least be heard and
know. We can say. however, that
important
will appear as a weekly Nisei Journal . ... Generally
known by the public. The? the
newspapers
published on Burrard
poor
conditions
throughout
the
important
fishing
inCommittee members, deserve high
determinant
our
Inter (Vancouver Harbor) fifty,
dustry of B. C. have been widely reported within the
praise and needless to say. wt owe
sixty or even seventy years' ago.
them . much gratitude. The
past two weeks, and many' Nisei fishermen in the
are being coj tinuousiy referred^to
thing
we must keep clear in
Fi3Sgi I\.A6i Tien S3\ iliut their only hope, to secure
by someone or other, ^or some pur
is that no one should be pref.;
adequate returns this year lies in the possibility of
Ameripose or other, and we presume
because
of the Committee's ;
good fall fishing in cohoes and chum salmon.
those ot the future will be no dif
armv today
set forth earlier in the yearferent to those of oui- generation.
twelve
afraid that such will not rs
Americans will find the road back a
And, it is our hope that, if thev
of us. Whatever
ter roau t han the one Japanese Canadians must
wall
do wish to see
el at war’ss end.
dian” of 1944 it
deem it a worthy saeritiee. That indeed is a
1 be here for
For our 2 it pi irancliise is still ir
ve
ttee’s actions so
them
to
look
at.
ite attemp
testimonial to it that we Nisei Canadians and
by some to restrict our property
worthy ones.
rmh s. those rights are still whole,
our parents need to ponder both long and
In recent months, and p
important, too, in the postwar future o:
Archivist
larly
after th : new Bill was
Vancouver.
B.
C.
well.'
be the proud service record of our men and
induced,
the committee has gc
?n in uniform. And the Purple Hear : and
ider
to debt wh’ch was inevitable
bronze s
Editor. The New Canadian:
5 ot Nisei soldiers will serve to remind ne
.Tenation, 1
the
existing circumstan
it target, that its Japanese Americans v
Some weeks a: V • there sprang
-. I
part of
ther we are approached
—Pacific Citizen
up a roar ot protest and the
feel it is our duty and c
echoe ■ are still resounding from
Ba
a o a Canadian. Uur aneesa
such a wort! y purpose
coast to coast. I refer to the discommenting
•
upon
the
nay settlements ;
ed many hardships, and
contribute n to alleviate U
e good. Whv not ive the Japanese a chance
d
number of "new
W’ suddenly appearing
throughout the Dominio
<o
i Canada and become an
St.
E.,
Toronto,
is
the
Treasurer.
doubt, everyone of us fe
in their midst thi
ce and life ? If we do not
I am writing’ this as an maiv;depressed
rental rights, thev shall
ch an action
Nisei faces, for the most part.
remain till Ar
And yet i
dual
and have no connection w.-.aiCanadian minority
verv little dmi
let all person
C mada. and all na
*se circles of the housing prosoever with the CommitteeCa
with equal rights
John Kumagai
n vaauelv familiar. For manv
—Renfrew Mercarv
in me House of Common
Toronto. Ont.
Determinant of Loyalty
esettlement
Page 3
August 19, 1944
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Page 7
Page 7
THE NEW CANADIAN
7
‘Second Pioneers”—Novelette Review
WILL POWER, RELIGION AND CHINA
tion of radios and cars and the
on
Fact
IN many respects r
an odd
by it all, I pulled it out’ and a lit
evacuation
trom tne
Japane
Thunder and lighrn
character. Some might have called
tle blood followed. Picking up the
st have been published
The life in a ghost town proves
Pacific
The mher nighr tl
him queer and there would have
began to weave
needle
to be a holiday lor the youngster,
uted for the public, but
been justification for that, rhe
broken
and
n of his arm as'
■dly any fictionization of
as yet,
the bitter teen-aged
hours of the morning, yours tr
landlady called him a “funny guy’’,
if he were darning. With hi
; in printed book form
more bitter until she
the
exo
was just cleaning up the mess ; in
especially
on
Saturday
nights
close to mine he said, or rather
let for her emotions i organizing
has ma-.
washing the dishes when sudde
liquor, out
will power I
when he indulged
roup to give the
Niseis across Canada would find
... . boom .... a thunderclap .
otherwise she stated that he didn’t
He talked of many things that
children
countless number of things to
a clatter of dishes and then da
night, mostly concerning- religion
bother her in any way and always
The steadfast faith in tne coun
write about on the history of the
ness. Lightning had str
and China And 1 found
paid his rent promptly.
try
of their adoption of the Mori
forced
evacuation
from
tne
B.
C.
The Chief and James
most
He was by no means out of the
he express I himself in
family
contrasts sharply with the
j time
propped up in bed at
in appearance, being rather on the
unorthodox
embittered
farmer Nakano, who
their
life
in
resettle
on
s blurreligion should
concents (
small side for his race, his face
decides
to
repartiate
on the ex
itres
or
in
the
ghost
ing our the latest in jive topped
mean and its application to men.
thin to the point of hawkishness,
change
ship
the
“
Gripsholm
” when
Probablv
one
of
the
first
fiction
abruptly. There
an eerie
were highly idealistic. He fated
agile in his walk but nothing that
i' real esrumours
oi
tne
sale
based
on
the
net
silence.
would lead to people pointing him
that his parents had been mi; siontate property reaches the ghost
f the evacuation
bout them
aries to China and both had died
out as an source of amusement to
ie
ghost
town
and
relotown.
meat
in
tl
James exclaiming:
the Chief and
.
in tint- country. From his sister
their children. When he got drunk
the
east,
Constance
cation
to
The ambitious youths, Ken Mori
holy smoke;is, what goes on, soundlie ' had learned how well-treated
on those Saturday nights, how
Chappell, former teacher of the
etc.
began
bumping
ed
close,
they had been by the Chinese peo
ever, he looked like a mean char
Christian
College, in
Women’s
make a decision to relocate to the
around the other room looking for
ple. From his talk, I realized that
acter and it was more than once as
short
story
Tokyo,
has
written
east in a search for better jobs
a candle and matches.
his power to love, his power of
we -wended our way home in-the
Second
Fionin
a
booklet
entitled
and to further their education.
Lightning flashed across the
deeper emotions
were
centred
early Sunday morning that we
Relocees will sympathize with
skies and illumined the room sil
around that word China.
have heliowed him as he came
for
teen-agt
Although
written
Ken
in his difficulties in finding
houetting the two groping figures
Do you know Jimmy someone
sidling down the street. Where he
■s
and
evac
groups,
older
reloci
living
quarters for himself. Of his
for a brief instant. The cratch of
Chinese in Toronto? He question
was venturing at that time of the
uees
will
find
it
interesting.
Evac
efforts
to assimilate "with the oc
match, a muttered darn it,
ed. No, I replied. He talked about
night, or morning to be exact, was
uees
will
recognize
many
passages
cidentals
and his eventual success
it broke. another scratch, a flare
him. He talked about China and
hard to figure.
applicable,
in
this
story
as
being
mainly
brought
about through his
of light and the candle sputtered
more about China and I didn’t inBut -even then his appearance
thei
r
own
in
many
instances,
to
activities with the church.
to life.
terupt him. He spoke of equality
was deceptive for he always hailed
personal experiences.
Diving'
into
the
closet
and
grabThe move to a better job in a
of all people. Why should a white
us back in the most friendly man
*
*
their
raincoats
and
trying
to
larger
city, the search for a house
bing
man think he’s better than a
ner. It gave us a warm feeling in
The story is centred around
in
"order
to call the family to the
while
on
the
put
on
their
slippers
Chinese? God doesn’t say that be
side to be thus hailed by an ac
three families, the Mori’s, the
run,
the
two
went
dashing
out,
eastern
city,
and the troubles and
cause a man’s skin is yellow that
quaintance, even an intoxicated
Nakano’s, friends
Terada
’
s
and
the
coat
tails
flapping
while
I
came
problems
faced
by the relocee in
he’s no good. There’s good and bad
acquaintance at something like
of old standing but parting and
up
in
the
rear
still
dazed
by
it
all.
finding
suitable
accommodations
in every people. But he damned
two in the morning. You begin to
going their separate ways/ a life
“
Lookit
that
one,
”
I
could
hear
may
bring
back
memories
to the
the Japanese. I then said, suppose
feel as if you had lived for some
time friendship broken up by the
reader
who
has
had
similar
.ex
the
deep
baritone
voice
of
the
I argue with you here. OK., argue,
time 'and belonged in that one
fast moving
ruthless' wartime
Chief
yellng
as
flash
after
flash
periences.
he said. You just said that there’s
place, and that is something which
world.
lighted up the night.
The story ends on an optimistic
good
and
bad
in
every
people.
Y
hy
many evacuee still have to get.
Based on actual fact, but. using
“Yahoo” emitted James and did
note with the father of the now
not
the
Japanese,
too?
Sure,
he
One Saturday night when I was
fictitious names. Miss Chappell be
a war dance in jig time, looking
relocated Mori family saying: “I
said. There’s good and bad in them
alone, there came a knock on the
gins her story in a series of events
semi-darkness
grotesque in the
believe with all my heart that, if
too,
but
right
now
theyre
all
bad!
door and he poked his head in. I
from the time of the hubbub of
and loose flutwith
milling
arms
:
we
Japanese Canadians face life
About midnight he took me. to
could see that he was dressed only
packing and getting ready for the
tering
raincoat.
wisely
and courageously, we can
his room. He made me a strongin his pyjamas and was walking in
evacuation from the :oast to an
it
all wearing
The
novelty
of
i
find
our
place in Canadian life. I
cup of tea. He put in lots of sugar.
his barefeet. Want a . . •••lie
interior town.
ofl',
we
trooped
back
into
the
house
believe
too,
that some clay we shall
He cut me a big slice of apple pie.
asked, making a motion of tipping
The thrill of adventure for the
in the darkness
and
fumbling
look
back
on
this evacuation and
He gave me a huge piece of cake.
a glass. No. I shook my head. I
young boy of seven, the bewilder
found our warm soft beds and
say
it
was
not
sheer tragedy, but
He waited on me literally hand
got a case’ full of beer today, he
ment of a fourteen year old, the
were
soon
asleep.
a blessing.”
and feet. He watched me anxiously
urged. He was still poking his head
bitterness of a seventeen year old
Dozing peacefully, floating on a
Interwoven into the story is the
as
I
went
at
the
tea.
Good?
he
ask
girl and the worry and resignition
into the door. Once more I shook
soft
billowy
cloud,
being
wafted
hardworking
and helping hand
ed over and over again. Good, I
mv head. I don’t like the stuff, I
of the parents are the reactions
away to dreamland and with sleep
given
by
the
United Church and
assured him. Anytime you’re out
admitted. How about a cigarette,
of the families in regard to the
onlv a few seconds away, I was
missionary workers.
of anything, just come in and use
curfew' regulations, the confiscahe said, offering me his package.
rudely awakened by a flash, This
mine,
even
if
I
’
m
not
in.
lou
’
re
I replied regretfully that I didn t
time right before my eyes, The
not humming . . . you’re borrowing.
smoke. He looked much disappoint
blinding light continued.
It was getting late and I stood
ed and to rhake amends I invited,
I’m a goner, I thought as I
up to go. Am I bad company, he
come in anyway.
cautiously opened my eyes. Light
asked seriously. No I said. He
For a while he sat on the daven
ning must have hit the house.
hotels in Chicago. A picture actook mv hand and shook it. We
port, smoking and chatting, and I
BEST FOR THE SEASON
Whew! Whaddyuknow, I sighed
mg an article featured in
com pa
mav look different, he said very
Sono Osato, who was featured
listened. Then somehow or rather,
with relief, its only the bed ex
of the Saturday
a recent
movingly, but I want you to know
as premiere danseuse in the musi
as all conversations get to be, he
tension light. Wc had forgotten to
Evening
Post
on
the “world’s lar
that we’re brothers just the same.
cal comedy “One Touch of Venus”
asked me, How old do you think
turn off the lights when the elec
gest
hotel
”
showed
Japanese
Placing his hands on my shoulder^
won further accolades by winning
I am? I examined him more close
trical storm put the town power
rmong
the
workers
emAmericans
he suddenly kissed me on my left
the first annual Donaldson Award
ly and reckoned at about fortyline out of commission.
said
the
that
ployed at
cheek. That’s to show you that. I
for outstanding achievement in
five. No, he said, waving his hand
thanks
I expressed my
the theatre during the past season.
negatively, I’m over sixty.
the Lookmean
The author
taken
WORLD’S LARGEST SEED PLOT
The show business magazine, Bill
and'
backed
out,
somewnac
- He did not speak in the ordinary
certainly had the right
n evacuee
story
board, named the danseuse of Jap
way, not he. He peered right into
back.
when he wrote, quote “the
farmer from California who is dev
anese Irish ancestry the outstand
I wonder about him now. Did he
my face and watened every move
rest of the Lakeside Villa slept
eloping a new industry for the
ing
dancer
of
the
Broadway
Sea
ment of it. Look, he said, andjowcommotion
that we were y mnese . >
through
the
whole
State of Utah, that of seed grow
son.
She
was
formerly
a
featured
ered his head. I” have only dnee
without so much as a stir. No won
I am .ore that we tola him that v. c
ing
was brought to light in a re
sixty. Do
artist with the Ballot Russe.
were Japanese Canadians when he
der they find the ghost town dead
cent
report in the Pacific Citizen.
Paul
Robeson,
well
known
negro
'pay his compliments at
you know why? he asked, -vs wm
came
at times.”
new
as advancing
Hailed
bass singer was named outstand
power, he stated.
budtenh
ie
Christmas. But would it matter to
I made enough noise when I
field in agriculture in Utah, Roy
ing actor for his performance in
stood up and pulled down ms Pa j
him ? I wonder.
was trying to put out the lights
Tachiki,
of Elberta, ^tah, evacuee
“Othello.”
It I lit?
amas and exhibited a terrime
and
I wonder too f he has finished
in the
farmer
from
California was visited
wound in his abdomen. Loo'm he
manuscript which ho
chasing a huge insect that insisted
that pat
bv
prominent
agricultural men on
The Pacific
said again. That's a saw-tooUev
to the Chief’s
be his autobio; rarhv. It
in kee
an
inspection
of
115 acre plot veg
Aug
Weed
the “Storv of
German bayonet. I got it at Vp^es.
didn’t use his
face. S too bad
etable
seed
project
which he has
•w
ust 5 the visi
I was in the .hospital for sixteen
r field. Wonder
ing and was to contain his philoso
; a lain
underway.
on July 29 to the Advanced Head
phy of life, his experiences, and
months and they said that I mdn c
what he would rave sam n
nd under
Tachiki has (
I
lived.
Do
you
quarters of the Fifth Army h
his' love for China. Does he stul
wadded newspaper had batted him
have a chance.
atv acre
an
his
supervisio
Italy and his chat,
square on the nose, flattening both
know why? It’s will powe
_
read those dime putp mat
patch of oinion seed, believed to be
asked
ican soldiers of Ja
Get a needle, he ordered. Cur
questionable quality? I
the largest sin le Mot of its kind
Hideo
ious as to what he intended io do,
Both soldiers, Sg
me. do you read these,
The following dav xe learned
in the world and thirty-five acres
refuse.
of Honolulu apd Pfc. 1
I found a needle in a hurry.
a fir e up in the
me a few to take. I did n
of lettuce seed ami lesser radish
he
a match he sterilized the pointed
Tahara of Olympia
Pretty good stuff in there,
1
hills and we had to go without
plantings of radish.
holders of the Silver
end. Some people say that I have
bread
for
the
day
be
SEMANTICALLY CORRECT
They
into
tian.
oic' achievement in
no blood, Sticking the shait
fighters hod bought out the comwould be interesting to go
Americans of Japanese ancestry
members of the
r'place and see
his finger he drew blood in a. i
plate stoc k of bread so we subst iour
are usually referred to as “Japan
which with the 100th Battaconclusive manner to prove
him again, mat man of will power,
tuted pie for bread, which was all
ese Americans” or “Japanese-Am
he
brilliant
bathis
moutn
lion have compiled a
Opening
he had.
right too.
iel;<Hon and China. He was an
ericans.” The Pacinc Citizen uses
tie record.
need!
stuck the needle
tarouyn
character and I liked him in an oml
“Japanese American,” without the
King
George
stopped
and
talked
cheek. The end showed. Pull a ^t.
Much to my grief, I found out
sort of way. But I still wonder
hvphen because it does not believe
with
the
Japanese
Americans
dur
he said. But, I said and nesnaiec.
that there are more than one kind
about a few things._______ _________
in hyphenated Americans and be
ing his visit to an advanced Fifth
Go on, go on . • •
amazea
of thunder and lightning and anj cause
it believes, t.iat persons of
Army position.
one who has not had previous ex
problem. The exigencies of the fu
Japanese
ancestry born in the
PROVED WORTH
perience in. this line taste been.
ture may dictate modifications or
United
States
are Americans. The
“KING”
Japanese American evacuees in
Never get into an argument with
alterations.
“
Janancse
”
part
of it is just an
(Continued from Page 2)
Chicago have proven their worth
a femme, no matter how wad. or
I should add that in handling
,
just
a$
you would refer
adjective
as workers as was evidenced by
weak she looks. She may be just
nation of almost twe^e iru.hon
as blond
the Japanese problem we shall at
to
other
Americans
the firm backing given by promi
skin and bones out Iooks can be
blue-eyed.
tempt, in so far as it seems desir
people. Those who are
haired
Americans,
nent hotelmen when racists pro
deceiving.
must be removed. That is ciear.
Americans, or cross-eyed Ameri
able, to maintain a policytnat in a
tested the relocation of Japanese
After reading about the hair
Surelv. however, it is not to be
cans. and is used to describe a
sense can be considered as part
Americans in the city. Tne noteddressing
business
written
bv
pected that the government wm
certain group ox .Americans when,
a continental policy. The situation
men declared that Chicago hotels
do other than deal justly with
Pachycephaleous, I got into a sim
such
group identification is necesin the United States in a great
mav not have been able to accom
ilar verbal battle with a member
those who are guilty or no cr^j
manv essentials is the same ^s our
sary. ?Jany readers have suggestmodate the recent national con
or even of any ill intention. Fo.
of the weaker (?) sex. Presentmg
own.' and to the extent tnat it
ed that the Nisei be called “Amerventions of the Democratic and
the same argument as Pachyce
the government to act
i^an-Jananese”, a word which imseems desirable we snail endea
Republican parties if evacuee wor
phaleous,
and
finding
that
his
would be an acceptance jm t—
mediately
suggests nypnenancn.
vour to ensure tnat our piir)
kers were not available. Accord-ng
statement of the futility of quar
standards of our enem-c^
CL’. A
and
which
indicates
that the peo
takes account of the pol.c.e? wYa
to the Pacific Citizen, there has
relling with women too true, I gave
negative of the purposes tor wmea
ple
in
ouesticn
are
“
Japanese.
” We
are being applied south’ of the. oorbeen no complaint from either pol
out
with
a
derisive
“
looks
like
a
maintain
that
the
Nisei
are
Amer
we are fighting.
dew There is no need for an itenitical nartv with regard to _ Japabird
’
s
nest
”
in
describing
her
These are the principles
icans
and
that
the
word
‘
Japanese
titv of policy, but I believe there
nese Americans employed in the
hairdo. That must have stung be
have seemed to the government
American” is semantically correct.
is merit* in maintaining a substan
hotels. Japanese Americans are
cause
I
got
stung
too.
Pow!!!
—Pacific Citizen.
worthv of acceptance as ^.e
tial consistency of treatment in tne
employed by several of the largest
for a reasonable and equitant pol
Lightning had struck again
two countries.
icy in disposing of this vexatxii:
THE NEW CANADIAN
7
‘Second Pioneers”—Novelette Review
WILL POWER, RELIGION AND CHINA
tion of radios and cars and the
on
Fact
IN many respects r
an odd
by it all, I pulled it out’ and a lit
evacuation
trom tne
Japane
Thunder and lighrn
character. Some might have called
tle blood followed. Picking up the
st have been published
The life in a ghost town proves
Pacific
The mher nighr tl
him queer and there would have
began to weave
needle
to be a holiday lor the youngster,
uted for the public, but
been justification for that, rhe
broken
and
n of his arm as'
■dly any fictionization of
as yet,
the bitter teen-aged
hours of the morning, yours tr
landlady called him a “funny guy’’,
if he were darning. With hi
; in printed book form
more bitter until she
the
exo
was just cleaning up the mess ; in
especially
on
Saturday
nights
close to mine he said, or rather
let for her emotions i organizing
has ma-.
washing the dishes when sudde
liquor, out
will power I
when he indulged
roup to give the
Niseis across Canada would find
... . boom .... a thunderclap .
otherwise she stated that he didn’t
He talked of many things that
children
countless number of things to
a clatter of dishes and then da
night, mostly concerning- religion
bother her in any way and always
The steadfast faith in tne coun
write about on the history of the
ness. Lightning had str
and China And 1 found
paid his rent promptly.
try
of their adoption of the Mori
forced
evacuation
from
tne
B.
C.
The Chief and James
most
He was by no means out of the
he express I himself in
family
contrasts sharply with the
j time
propped up in bed at
in appearance, being rather on the
unorthodox
embittered
farmer Nakano, who
their
life
in
resettle
on
s blurreligion should
concents (
small side for his race, his face
decides
to
repartiate
on the ex
itres
or
in
the
ghost
ing our the latest in jive topped
mean and its application to men.
thin to the point of hawkishness,
change
ship
the
“
Gripsholm
” when
Probablv
one
of
the
first
fiction
abruptly. There
an eerie
were highly idealistic. He fated
agile in his walk but nothing that
i' real esrumours
oi
tne
sale
based
on
the
net
silence.
would lead to people pointing him
that his parents had been mi; siontate property reaches the ghost
f the evacuation
bout them
aries to China and both had died
out as an source of amusement to
ie
ghost
town
and
relotown.
meat
in
tl
James exclaiming:
the Chief and
.
in tint- country. From his sister
their children. When he got drunk
the
east,
Constance
cation
to
The ambitious youths, Ken Mori
holy smoke;is, what goes on, soundlie ' had learned how well-treated
on those Saturday nights, how
Chappell, former teacher of the
etc.
began
bumping
ed
close,
they had been by the Chinese peo
ever, he looked like a mean char
Christian
College, in
Women’s
make a decision to relocate to the
around the other room looking for
ple. From his talk, I realized that
acter and it was more than once as
short
story
Tokyo,
has
written
east in a search for better jobs
a candle and matches.
his power to love, his power of
we -wended our way home in-the
Second
Fionin
a
booklet
entitled
and to further their education.
Lightning flashed across the
deeper emotions
were
centred
early Sunday morning that we
Relocees will sympathize with
skies and illumined the room sil
around that word China.
have heliowed him as he came
for
teen-agt
Although
written
Ken
in his difficulties in finding
houetting the two groping figures
Do you know Jimmy someone
sidling down the street. Where he
■s
and
evac
groups,
older
reloci
living
quarters for himself. Of his
for a brief instant. The cratch of
Chinese in Toronto? He question
was venturing at that time of the
uees
will
find
it
interesting.
Evac
efforts
to assimilate "with the oc
match, a muttered darn it,
ed. No, I replied. He talked about
night, or morning to be exact, was
uees
will
recognize
many
passages
cidentals
and his eventual success
it broke. another scratch, a flare
him. He talked about China and
hard to figure.
applicable,
in
this
story
as
being
mainly
brought
about through his
of light and the candle sputtered
more about China and I didn’t inBut -even then his appearance
thei
r
own
in
many
instances,
to
activities with the church.
to life.
terupt him. He spoke of equality
was deceptive for he always hailed
personal experiences.
Diving'
into
the
closet
and
grabThe move to a better job in a
of all people. Why should a white
us back in the most friendly man
*
*
their
raincoats
and
trying
to
larger
city, the search for a house
bing
man think he’s better than a
ner. It gave us a warm feeling in
The story is centred around
in
"order
to call the family to the
while
on
the
put
on
their
slippers
Chinese? God doesn’t say that be
side to be thus hailed by an ac
three families, the Mori’s, the
run,
the
two
went
dashing
out,
eastern
city,
and the troubles and
cause a man’s skin is yellow that
quaintance, even an intoxicated
Nakano’s, friends
Terada
’
s
and
the
coat
tails
flapping
while
I
came
problems
faced
by the relocee in
he’s no good. There’s good and bad
acquaintance at something like
of old standing but parting and
up
in
the
rear
still
dazed
by
it
all.
finding
suitable
accommodations
in every people. But he damned
two in the morning. You begin to
going their separate ways/ a life
“
Lookit
that
one,
”
I
could
hear
may
bring
back
memories
to the
the Japanese. I then said, suppose
feel as if you had lived for some
time friendship broken up by the
reader
who
has
had
similar
.ex
the
deep
baritone
voice
of
the
I argue with you here. OK., argue,
time 'and belonged in that one
fast moving
ruthless' wartime
Chief
yellng
as
flash
after
flash
periences.
he said. You just said that there’s
place, and that is something which
world.
lighted up the night.
The story ends on an optimistic
good
and
bad
in
every
people.
Y
hy
many evacuee still have to get.
Based on actual fact, but. using
“Yahoo” emitted James and did
note with the father of the now
not
the
Japanese,
too?
Sure,
he
One Saturday night when I was
fictitious names. Miss Chappell be
a war dance in jig time, looking
relocated Mori family saying: “I
said. There’s good and bad in them
alone, there came a knock on the
gins her story in a series of events
semi-darkness
grotesque in the
believe with all my heart that, if
too,
but
right
now
theyre
all
bad!
door and he poked his head in. I
from the time of the hubbub of
and loose flutwith
milling
arms
:
we
Japanese Canadians face life
About midnight he took me. to
could see that he was dressed only
packing and getting ready for the
tering
raincoat.
wisely
and courageously, we can
his room. He made me a strongin his pyjamas and was walking in
evacuation from the :oast to an
it
all wearing
The
novelty
of
i
find
our
place in Canadian life. I
cup of tea. He put in lots of sugar.
his barefeet. Want a . . •••lie
interior town.
ofl',
we
trooped
back
into
the
house
believe
too,
that some clay we shall
He cut me a big slice of apple pie.
asked, making a motion of tipping
The thrill of adventure for the
in the darkness
and
fumbling
look
back
on
this evacuation and
He gave me a huge piece of cake.
a glass. No. I shook my head. I
young boy of seven, the bewilder
found our warm soft beds and
say
it
was
not
sheer tragedy, but
He waited on me literally hand
got a case’ full of beer today, he
ment of a fourteen year old, the
were
soon
asleep.
a blessing.”
and feet. He watched me anxiously
urged. He was still poking his head
bitterness of a seventeen year old
Dozing peacefully, floating on a
Interwoven into the story is the
as
I
went
at
the
tea.
Good?
he
ask
girl and the worry and resignition
into the door. Once more I shook
soft
billowy
cloud,
being
wafted
hardworking
and helping hand
ed over and over again. Good, I
mv head. I don’t like the stuff, I
of the parents are the reactions
away to dreamland and with sleep
given
by
the
United Church and
assured him. Anytime you’re out
admitted. How about a cigarette,
of the families in regard to the
onlv a few seconds away, I was
missionary workers.
of anything, just come in and use
curfew' regulations, the confiscahe said, offering me his package.
rudely awakened by a flash, This
mine,
even
if
I
’
m
not
in.
lou
’
re
I replied regretfully that I didn t
time right before my eyes, The
not humming . . . you’re borrowing.
smoke. He looked much disappoint
blinding light continued.
It was getting late and I stood
ed and to rhake amends I invited,
I’m a goner, I thought as I
up to go. Am I bad company, he
come in anyway.
cautiously opened my eyes. Light
asked seriously. No I said. He
For a while he sat on the daven
ning must have hit the house.
hotels in Chicago. A picture actook mv hand and shook it. We
port, smoking and chatting, and I
BEST FOR THE SEASON
Whew! Whaddyuknow, I sighed
mg an article featured in
com pa
mav look different, he said very
Sono Osato, who was featured
listened. Then somehow or rather,
with relief, its only the bed ex
of the Saturday
a recent
movingly, but I want you to know
as premiere danseuse in the musi
as all conversations get to be, he
tension light. Wc had forgotten to
Evening
Post
on
the “world’s lar
that we’re brothers just the same.
cal comedy “One Touch of Venus”
asked me, How old do you think
turn off the lights when the elec
gest
hotel
”
showed
Japanese
Placing his hands on my shoulder^
won further accolades by winning
I am? I examined him more close
trical storm put the town power
rmong
the
workers
emAmericans
he suddenly kissed me on my left
the first annual Donaldson Award
ly and reckoned at about fortyline out of commission.
said
the
that
ployed at
cheek. That’s to show you that. I
for outstanding achievement in
five. No, he said, waving his hand
thanks
I expressed my
the theatre during the past season.
negatively, I’m over sixty.
the Lookmean
The author
taken
WORLD’S LARGEST SEED PLOT
The show business magazine, Bill
and'
backed
out,
somewnac
- He did not speak in the ordinary
certainly had the right
n evacuee
story
board, named the danseuse of Jap
way, not he. He peered right into
back.
when he wrote, quote “the
farmer from California who is dev
anese Irish ancestry the outstand
I wonder about him now. Did he
my face and watened every move
rest of the Lakeside Villa slept
eloping a new industry for the
ing
dancer
of
the
Broadway
Sea
ment of it. Look, he said, andjowcommotion
that we were y mnese . >
through
the
whole
State of Utah, that of seed grow
son.
She
was
formerly
a
featured
ered his head. I” have only dnee
without so much as a stir. No won
I am .ore that we tola him that v. c
ing
was brought to light in a re
sixty. Do
artist with the Ballot Russe.
were Japanese Canadians when he
der they find the ghost town dead
cent
report in the Pacific Citizen.
Paul
Robeson,
well
known
negro
'pay his compliments at
you know why? he asked, -vs wm
came
at times.”
new
as advancing
Hailed
bass singer was named outstand
power, he stated.
budtenh
ie
Christmas. But would it matter to
I made enough noise when I
field in agriculture in Utah, Roy
ing actor for his performance in
stood up and pulled down ms Pa j
him ? I wonder.
was trying to put out the lights
Tachiki,
of Elberta, ^tah, evacuee
“Othello.”
It I lit?
amas and exhibited a terrime
and
I wonder too f he has finished
in the
farmer
from
California was visited
wound in his abdomen. Loo'm he
manuscript which ho
chasing a huge insect that insisted
that pat
bv
prominent
agricultural men on
The Pacific
said again. That's a saw-tooUev
to the Chief’s
be his autobio; rarhv. It
in kee
an
inspection
of
115 acre plot veg
Aug
Weed
the “Storv of
German bayonet. I got it at Vp^es.
didn’t use his
face. S too bad
etable
seed
project
which he has
•w
ust 5 the visi
I was in the .hospital for sixteen
r field. Wonder
ing and was to contain his philoso
; a lain
underway.
on July 29 to the Advanced Head
phy of life, his experiences, and
months and they said that I mdn c
what he would rave sam n
nd under
Tachiki has (
I
lived.
Do
you
quarters of the Fifth Army h
his' love for China. Does he stul
wadded newspaper had batted him
have a chance.
atv acre
an
his
supervisio
Italy and his chat,
square on the nose, flattening both
know why? It’s will powe
_
read those dime putp mat
patch of oinion seed, believed to be
asked
ican soldiers of Ja
Get a needle, he ordered. Cur
questionable quality? I
the largest sin le Mot of its kind
Hideo
ious as to what he intended io do,
Both soldiers, Sg
me. do you read these,
The following dav xe learned
in the world and thirty-five acres
refuse.
of Honolulu apd Pfc. 1
I found a needle in a hurry.
a fir e up in the
me a few to take. I did n
of lettuce seed ami lesser radish
he
a match he sterilized the pointed
Tahara of Olympia
Pretty good stuff in there,
1
hills and we had to go without
plantings of radish.
holders of the Silver
end. Some people say that I have
bread
for
the
day
be
SEMANTICALLY CORRECT
They
into
tian.
oic' achievement in
no blood, Sticking the shait
fighters hod bought out the comwould be interesting to go
Americans of Japanese ancestry
members of the
r'place and see
his finger he drew blood in a. i
plate stoc k of bread so we subst iour
are usually referred to as “Japan
which with the 100th Battaconclusive manner to prove
him again, mat man of will power,
tuted pie for bread, which was all
ese Americans” or “Japanese-Am
he
brilliant
bathis
moutn
lion have compiled a
Opening
he had.
right too.
iel;<Hon and China. He was an
ericans.” The Pacinc Citizen uses
tie record.
need!
stuck the needle
tarouyn
character and I liked him in an oml
“Japanese American,” without the
King
George
stopped
and
talked
cheek. The end showed. Pull a ^t.
Much to my grief, I found out
sort of way. But I still wonder
hvphen because it does not believe
with
the
Japanese
Americans
dur
he said. But, I said and nesnaiec.
that there are more than one kind
about a few things._______ _________
in hyphenated Americans and be
ing his visit to an advanced Fifth
Go on, go on . • •
amazea
of thunder and lightning and anj cause
it believes, t.iat persons of
Army position.
one who has not had previous ex
problem. The exigencies of the fu
Japanese
ancestry born in the
PROVED WORTH
perience in. this line taste been.
ture may dictate modifications or
United
States
are Americans. The
“KING”
Japanese American evacuees in
Never get into an argument with
alterations.
“
Janancse
”
part
of it is just an
(Continued from Page 2)
Chicago have proven their worth
a femme, no matter how wad. or
I should add that in handling
,
just
a$
you would refer
adjective
as workers as was evidenced by
weak she looks. She may be just
nation of almost twe^e iru.hon
as blond
the Japanese problem we shall at
to
other
Americans
the firm backing given by promi
skin and bones out Iooks can be
blue-eyed.
tempt, in so far as it seems desir
people. Those who are
haired
Americans,
nent hotelmen when racists pro
deceiving.
must be removed. That is ciear.
Americans, or cross-eyed Ameri
able, to maintain a policytnat in a
tested the relocation of Japanese
After reading about the hair
Surelv. however, it is not to be
cans. and is used to describe a
sense can be considered as part
Americans in the city. Tne noteddressing
business
written
bv
pected that the government wm
certain group ox .Americans when,
a continental policy. The situation
men declared that Chicago hotels
do other than deal justly with
Pachycephaleous, I got into a sim
such
group identification is necesin the United States in a great
mav not have been able to accom
ilar verbal battle with a member
those who are guilty or no cr^j
manv essentials is the same ^s our
sary. ?Jany readers have suggestmodate the recent national con
or even of any ill intention. Fo.
of the weaker (?) sex. Presentmg
own.' and to the extent tnat it
ed that the Nisei be called “Amerventions of the Democratic and
the same argument as Pachyce
the government to act
i^an-Jananese”, a word which imseems desirable we snail endea
Republican parties if evacuee wor
phaleous,
and
finding
that
his
would be an acceptance jm t—
mediately
suggests nypnenancn.
vour to ensure tnat our piir)
kers were not available. Accord-ng
statement of the futility of quar
standards of our enem-c^
CL’. A
and
which
indicates
that the peo
takes account of the pol.c.e? wYa
to the Pacific Citizen, there has
relling with women too true, I gave
negative of the purposes tor wmea
ple
in
ouesticn
are
“
Japanese.
” We
are being applied south’ of the. oorbeen no complaint from either pol
out
with
a
derisive
“
looks
like
a
maintain
that
the
Nisei
are
Amer
we are fighting.
dew There is no need for an itenitical nartv with regard to _ Japabird
’
s
nest
”
in
describing
her
These are the principles
icans
and
that
the
word
‘
Japanese
titv of policy, but I believe there
nese Americans employed in the
hairdo. That must have stung be
have seemed to the government
American” is semantically correct.
is merit* in maintaining a substan
hotels. Japanese Americans are
cause
I
got
stung
too.
Pow!!!
—Pacific Citizen.
worthv of acceptance as ^.e
tial consistency of treatment in tne
employed by several of the largest
for a reasonable and equitant pol
Lightning had struck again
two countries.
icy in disposing of this vexatxii:
Page 8
; Placement of Evacuees
i In Okanagan Valley
Under Discussion
Ends In South Alberta
VERNON, B. C.—Questions i
lating to the employment and 1
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. —- Southern Alberta will count on -Japa
placement
of
Japanese
Canad.an
'
evacuee
labour to ease the manpower shortage in harvesting the w
New Denver Art Exhibi
evacuees in the Okanagan valley ■ crops this fall, according to a report by the Lethbridge Herald.
SLOCAN, B. C.
With the hall
NEW DENVER, B. C.—Art work
have been the subject of conversa
packed to the limit and many people
f Evacuees will assist in rhe x^nh
in oils, water colors and pen drawing
tions late this week held by W.A.
' crop harvest during the slack suo-ar
turned away, Rev. K. Shimizu held a
o outstanding and promising artists
Eastwood, general manager of the
very successful meeting here in the
(beet season which will continue untq
were exhibited here at the Legion
Security Commission, with local
Pine Crescent school at Bay Farm,
’the latter part of September when
Into City Turned Down
Hall on August 5 and 6.
officials in Kelowna and Vernon.
Tuesday night.
I
they will return to resume work on
The exhibit was sponsored by the
. Under existing conditions a con By Edmonton City Council
Rev. Shimizu spoke on observations
। the beet farms.
siderable number of evacuees are
student-teachers
of
the
Summer
gained from his experiences while
I Agricultural
officials
announced
employed in agricultural work in
School and Mrs. H. A. Rose, Miss H.
EDMONTON, Alta.—The applica
serving as a personal counsellor in
(that
there
was
no
fear
of
a serious
the valley under permits which ex tion of Sampei Sugiura for permis
relocation areas of eastern Canada Hyodo, supervisor of schools in the
Jack of labour this year. With ths
interior housing centres • and Miss
pire on November 15.
sion to call his family to this city
last spring.
It is thought that a renewal of was turned down _ Monday night by (light yield in crops in southeastern
Terry Hidaka, assistant supervisor.
He showed the home movie films of
the permit arrangement which was the Edmonton City Council. About a ■Alberta where farmers are doin<r
One of the best works shown at
relocees in the east which have been
evolved as a compromise between month ago, the subject was brought ;most of their own harvesting which
arousing widespread interest thr this exhibition was that of W. P.
(freed many workers; urban workers
conflicting interests in the valley, before the council but there was no
Weston, A. R. C. A. of Vancouver
oughout the towns.
would be sought for the period of discussion on the matter other than (service personnel, conscientious obIt is expected that Rev. Shimizu who is teaching art classes at the
(jectors, prisoners of war and the Jap
another year.
to refer back to city commissioners
Contributions by
will hold another meeting at Popoff Summer School.
anese evacuee sugar beet workers are
Mr. Eastwood also visited in for further information.
early in the week of August 21, as Densaku Kondo of New Denver,
expected to make up an adequate
Kamloops where a large number
The applicant’s family is at present number of workers for the harvest.
well as a showing in the New Denver water colors of Kootenay scenery
of evacuees are employed on living in the interior housing centre
and a portrait by Alan Allsebrook of
Sanatorium.
A break in drought in this area
farms, lumber mills and railroad at Kaslo, B. C. He has been a resi
Kaslo and pen drawings by Roy
ing. He has been on an extensive dent of Edmonton for the past two was foreseen . in light showers in
Miyashita, promising young Nisei ar
many parts of the south Tuesday,
Vernon Dissatisfied
toui’ of housing settlements at years.
tist of Kaslo appeared at this exhi
Other southern districts
received
Greenwood, Kaslo and in the SloVERNON, B. C. — “A certain a- bition. A last minute entry was made
The city council also rejected the | heavy downpours of rain and crop
can Valley.
mount of dissatisfaction” was expres by Ann Marubashi of Lemon Creek,
application of S. Tsukishima, Japa- | reports were favorable.
sed recently by the Vernon City who is attending the Summer School.
nese Canadian student from Stirling j Sugar beets at Coaldale were reCouncil on the handling of the Japa
who requested temporary residence ported to be well above average and
nese question, by the Dominion Gov Enrollment Doubled At
within the city to enable him to com- much better last year- although a few
ernment, the Vernon Council stated
plete a course in automotive engin- of the farms suffered from the lack
in a letter -which was received and Lemon Creek High
eering.
of moisture.
.GOTO - EYEMOTO
filed by the City Council Monday
Heavy irrigation was carried on
The reason given for the refusal
LEMON CREEK, B. C. — When
The marriage of Haruko, eldest
iiight.
letter concluded:
was that a precedent would be set if over seventy per cent of the farms
“We are of the opinion that Japa Lemon Creek High School re-opens daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. Eye- any allowances were made and would In the Picture Butte area during the
nese residents in Canada, if all were its doors again September 12, pupils moto of Dominion City, Man. to Mr. make it difficult to refuse' any future ; dry season and the sugar beet crop,
shipped back to Japan would (if our will enjoy the advantages of a new Takeo Goto, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. applications.
look promising. Excellent growing
Western civilization and education is two-room building now rapidly near- Goto of St. Agathe, Man., took place
conditions due to the weather which
staple in them) be splendid mission ing completion on the northern out- ; on August 5 at the Allianu Taber
■were
damaged slightly by hailstorms.
nacle ‘ in Winnipeg. Rev. William Tule Lake Hunger Strike
aries and exponents of our doctrines skirts of the community.
Weight
sampling will begin shortly.
The building has been financed by Price officiated.
of peace and goodwill.”
The
area
around the Turin district
the Parent-Teachers Association and
The bride, given in marriage by Revealed As Fraud
seemed
to
be
the hardest hit by the
has been constructed entirely by vol her father, wore a dress of blue crepe
■drought,
-while
at Barons, pests were
No C.C.F., Japanese Tie-up untary labor. It ‘s divided into two with matching hat and veil with Ends After 11 Days
■
ruining
crops.
The
Iron Springs sugar
rooms by a removable partition in or white accessories. She wore a corsage
Says Angus Maclnnis
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Thir beet crop was 'reported to be only
der that it may be used as a hall.
of red roses and forget-me-nots. Miss teen segregees at the Tule Lake seg
.fair.
VANCOUVER, B. C.—Angus Mac
It is hoped that equipment from Eleanor Ramond, the bridesmaid
regation
centre
at
Newell
in
Modoc
lnnis, C.C.F., Vancouver East, who the school at Sandou will be made was dressed in a yellow dress and hat
county ended their “hunger strike”
recently returned from a Parliamen available to furnish the new structure
with brown accessories. Her corsage on July 30, tw.-nty-four hours after I Three U. S. Nisei Sisters
tary tour to ^Australia stated, that with necessary benches, desks, black
was made up of talisman roses. The
there was “no tie-up between the boards and so forth.
“p„jL™°
”stat“ ™ 'T“J br Convicted Of 'Conspiracy
;
groom was supported by E. Eyemoto, the
WRA as an apparent fraud, it
r~
j
C.C.F. and the Japanese anywhere,”
Enrollment in the United Church brother of the bride. Mrs. Anderson, was stated on August 1, reported the ' DENVER, Col. — Three Japanese
reported The Vancouver Province.
.of Canada sponsored school is expect the soloist sang, “Oh Perfect Love” Pacific Citizen.
American sisters accused of helping
“Anyone with any knowledge of
ed to soar to close to 140, double the accompanied by Miss Johnson. The
WRA
officials
here
two
German prisoners escape from
the situation knows thei’e is no tie-up
reported that
total number of pupils last year, ac ushers were Messrs. T. Mitani and
between the C.C.F. and the Japanese
the men had started their “hunger internment camp were found guilty
cording to school officials.. They re Carlson.
anywhere. Perhaps I have taken a
strike” on July 19 with the declara by a U. S. District Court jury last
port that five full-time teachers and
Photos were taken at the Lafayette
lead in standing up for the rights, of
tion that they would not take food Friday of conspiracy to commit trea
two part-time instructors will com Studio, followed by a family recep
Japanese, because they are Canadian
until
they were released from camp’s son, and were acquitted of treasonprise the staff which will conduct tion at Moores Restaurant.
citizens. I intend to keep on doing pupils
isolation
stockade where they were charges, said an AP report.
For travelling, the bride chose a
through the correspondence
so.” The Province quoted him as courses
interned following the disturbances i Sentence, which, under the law, •
of the Department of Edu- blue dress and camel hair coat with
saymg.
last November.
may not exceed two years in prison
cation.
beige accessories. The couple left on
ww.
W W //« V/.titftHftnt/r.W) Y/i Wi W.'t>t»t»ftfiif4fW) t/AWY/t
The men were sent to the camp and -$10,000 in fine, was withheld. If
a short honeymoon to Kenora.
they had been convicted of treason
CARD OF THANKS
Mr. and Mrs. T. Goto will reside i hospital on July 30, after breaking
Maruno
Stars
As
Reveistoke
the
penalty could have been death.
their fast. They will be returned to
The very generous donation of Mr.
in Winnipeg.
Defense was given three days in
G. Nikaido of Toronto, Ont. in com Breaks Losing Streak
The baishakunins for the event the isolation area, the WRA reported.
which
to file a motion for a new trial
The
thirteen
strikers
“
definitely
memoration of his daughter’s recent
were Mr. and Sirs. T. Mitani.
if
it
was
decided to ask one.
-were
not
in
a
serious
condition
”
the
REVELSTOKE,
B.
C.
—
Mike
Mar
graduation from a Toronto university
BIRTHS ....
The
defendants
— Mrs. Tsuruko
WRA
said.
is acknowledged with sincere thanks uno proved he still retains his speed
Mr. and Mrs. Aizo Hasebe of
“Toots
”
Wallace,
35,
Mrs. Florence
of former Asahi days when he slid Kaslo, B. C. became the proud par
by The New Canadian.
The strike had been started by
“
Flo
”
Shizuye
Otani,
33, and Mrs.
into the home plate to beat out a ents of a bouncing baby boy on Aug fourteen segregees, but one member
Billie
Shitara
Tanigoshi,
32,—exhibi
throw-in in a recent Mainline league ust 9 at the Victorian General Hos of the group had quit the demonstra
ted
no
emotion
when
the
verdict
was
Tailored To Pleasure
game played at the Recreation Park pital.
tion on July 25.
read,
said
the
report.
here between the Revelstoke nine and
Two stork visits were made at the
The decision to abandon the “hun
The government accused them of
the visiting Salmon Arm team. The Slocan Community Hospital at New
BY
ger
strike
”
reportedly
came
after
the
'
treason
and conspiracy to commit
'Revelstoke Review in writing up the Denver, B. C. on July 31.
WRA
declared
Julv
29
that
foodstuffs
Treason
in
allegedly furnishing maps,
game
'good sliding tactics” got
A baby girl was born to Mr. and which were in the isolation area 1
HAR$Y MIYASAKI
kit'
• clothing and aid to two German pri^(him across the plate safely. The run Mrs. K. Iio of Rosebery, B.C.
(HARRY’S CLOTHES)
chen apparently had been hidden to (soners of war, in their escape from
^!scored in® the third inning helped to
And a boy to Mr. and Mrs. H. be eaten later” during the strike.
Representing
; an internment camp last October.
^ boost the Revelstoke team to a 5-3 Yasunobu of New Denver.
;
Rev. Shimizu Shows Films
Receive Wide Acclaim
House of §tone
Smart English Woollens
178 Beverly St
Toronto. Ont.
Call Evenings
I
This broke the Salmon Arm’s win
streak and brought the Revelstoke
team out of the loss column after suf
fering two defeats from a Kelowna
team.
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The engagement of Kazuko, third
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Naojiro
Izumi to Mr. Mitsuo Terakita, third
son of Mrs. Imae Terakita of Popoff
on June 40 was announced as broken
on July 31.
The engagement was broken by
(agreement of both families.
NEW DENVER, B. C.—Turning of
the sod is now underway in prelimi
FUSS IN COMMONS
nary work of establishing the foun
dations of an additional unit to the
(Continued from Page 1)
:B. C. Security Commission sanitarium
aware that there were Japanese in
, at New Denver.
Mr. Maclnnis’ room.
j The new unit will provide needed
OBITUARY
Previously in the debate, Mr. Neill convalescent facilities for
MRS. NIWA AOMOTO
advocated the expulsion and a perma- from the sanitarium proper. 1
The death is reported of Mrs. N iwa nent barrier against the return of
well enough to be up from
Aomoto. who passed away on July Japanese to B. C. He added that it
rn
25 at the New Denver Sanatorium, j would be a good idea to send them not sufficiently recovered to
home.
i Final funer
rites were held at
e all to Saskatchewan which was tin
It ’s blueprinted as a 45 by
( New Denvei Buddhist Church on July ; onl
province whose, premier indi structure, complete in itself, a
a?
^29. Rev. S. Asaka officiated.
gatea a willingness to retain Japan- later be matched by a simila:
jCis survr
ter . ese witmn their borders reported ture. Housing have been mrvi
1, two ;ons
he sanitarium grounds to IT
re at pre ent
IHiniliUnHIIlillilllHiIlllHHinilUIHIIHHii for the new building.
Ov
' The unit will serve
ARIMA
■ considerable congestion
yr
Arima. mother
mrium.
and will open the
passed away ar Bay Farm
admittance of new path
3. Funeral services were I
A position is open for
Additional housing for
o been provi
nome
; RUBY KOBAYASHI
Denver
the moving
with
in Alberta. Duties will be light
: The four month’s
dau
bunkhouses from the Hunter
housework for two adults and car- fuel project to the Orchard.
o
Man., passed away on July ; ing for two children. The family is
Although of plain plank
General Hospital at Win- ’ of Christian faith. Good w.
ages
are
!
and
rough construction, the
‘mpeg. Man. Funeral services we:
offered.
(houses
have been cleverly p
held at rhe Morris Funeral Parlo
gether
and
finished to form
I- or further particulars. write to
; on July 29. Rev. Y. Akagawa mini
five
courts,
which
mark an mi
:terea
ua! rites.
George Kuwata.
Grand Centre.
ment
in
appearance
over the c
he third daughter of M:
Alberta.
Tliep are locates
housing- uni
niiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiniiHnniinfmin School Road.
i In Okanagan Valley
Under Discussion
Ends In South Alberta
VERNON, B. C.—Questions i
lating to the employment and 1
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. —- Southern Alberta will count on -Japa
placement
of
Japanese
Canad.an
'
evacuee
labour to ease the manpower shortage in harvesting the w
New Denver Art Exhibi
evacuees in the Okanagan valley ■ crops this fall, according to a report by the Lethbridge Herald.
SLOCAN, B. C.
With the hall
NEW DENVER, B. C.—Art work
have been the subject of conversa
packed to the limit and many people
f Evacuees will assist in rhe x^nh
in oils, water colors and pen drawing
tions late this week held by W.A.
' crop harvest during the slack suo-ar
turned away, Rev. K. Shimizu held a
o outstanding and promising artists
Eastwood, general manager of the
very successful meeting here in the
(beet season which will continue untq
were exhibited here at the Legion
Security Commission, with local
Pine Crescent school at Bay Farm,
’the latter part of September when
Into City Turned Down
Hall on August 5 and 6.
officials in Kelowna and Vernon.
Tuesday night.
I
they will return to resume work on
The exhibit was sponsored by the
. Under existing conditions a con By Edmonton City Council
Rev. Shimizu spoke on observations
। the beet farms.
siderable number of evacuees are
student-teachers
of
the
Summer
gained from his experiences while
I Agricultural
officials
announced
employed in agricultural work in
School and Mrs. H. A. Rose, Miss H.
EDMONTON, Alta.—The applica
serving as a personal counsellor in
(that
there
was
no
fear
of
a serious
the valley under permits which ex tion of Sampei Sugiura for permis
relocation areas of eastern Canada Hyodo, supervisor of schools in the
Jack of labour this year. With ths
interior housing centres • and Miss
pire on November 15.
sion to call his family to this city
last spring.
It is thought that a renewal of was turned down _ Monday night by (light yield in crops in southeastern
Terry Hidaka, assistant supervisor.
He showed the home movie films of
the permit arrangement which was the Edmonton City Council. About a ■Alberta where farmers are doin<r
One of the best works shown at
relocees in the east which have been
evolved as a compromise between month ago, the subject was brought ;most of their own harvesting which
arousing widespread interest thr this exhibition was that of W. P.
(freed many workers; urban workers
conflicting interests in the valley, before the council but there was no
Weston, A. R. C. A. of Vancouver
oughout the towns.
would be sought for the period of discussion on the matter other than (service personnel, conscientious obIt is expected that Rev. Shimizu who is teaching art classes at the
(jectors, prisoners of war and the Jap
another year.
to refer back to city commissioners
Contributions by
will hold another meeting at Popoff Summer School.
anese evacuee sugar beet workers are
Mr. Eastwood also visited in for further information.
early in the week of August 21, as Densaku Kondo of New Denver,
expected to make up an adequate
Kamloops where a large number
The applicant’s family is at present number of workers for the harvest.
well as a showing in the New Denver water colors of Kootenay scenery
of evacuees are employed on living in the interior housing centre
and a portrait by Alan Allsebrook of
Sanatorium.
A break in drought in this area
farms, lumber mills and railroad at Kaslo, B. C. He has been a resi
Kaslo and pen drawings by Roy
ing. He has been on an extensive dent of Edmonton for the past two was foreseen . in light showers in
Miyashita, promising young Nisei ar
many parts of the south Tuesday,
Vernon Dissatisfied
toui’ of housing settlements at years.
tist of Kaslo appeared at this exhi
Other southern districts
received
Greenwood, Kaslo and in the SloVERNON, B. C. — “A certain a- bition. A last minute entry was made
The city council also rejected the | heavy downpours of rain and crop
can Valley.
mount of dissatisfaction” was expres by Ann Marubashi of Lemon Creek,
application of S. Tsukishima, Japa- | reports were favorable.
sed recently by the Vernon City who is attending the Summer School.
nese Canadian student from Stirling j Sugar beets at Coaldale were reCouncil on the handling of the Japa
who requested temporary residence ported to be well above average and
nese question, by the Dominion Gov Enrollment Doubled At
within the city to enable him to com- much better last year- although a few
ernment, the Vernon Council stated
plete a course in automotive engin- of the farms suffered from the lack
in a letter -which was received and Lemon Creek High
eering.
of moisture.
.GOTO - EYEMOTO
filed by the City Council Monday
Heavy irrigation was carried on
The reason given for the refusal
LEMON CREEK, B. C. — When
The marriage of Haruko, eldest
iiight.
letter concluded:
was that a precedent would be set if over seventy per cent of the farms
“We are of the opinion that Japa Lemon Creek High School re-opens daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. Eye- any allowances were made and would In the Picture Butte area during the
nese residents in Canada, if all were its doors again September 12, pupils moto of Dominion City, Man. to Mr. make it difficult to refuse' any future ; dry season and the sugar beet crop,
shipped back to Japan would (if our will enjoy the advantages of a new Takeo Goto, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. applications.
look promising. Excellent growing
Western civilization and education is two-room building now rapidly near- Goto of St. Agathe, Man., took place
conditions due to the weather which
staple in them) be splendid mission ing completion on the northern out- ; on August 5 at the Allianu Taber
■were
damaged slightly by hailstorms.
nacle ‘ in Winnipeg. Rev. William Tule Lake Hunger Strike
aries and exponents of our doctrines skirts of the community.
Weight
sampling will begin shortly.
The building has been financed by Price officiated.
of peace and goodwill.”
The
area
around the Turin district
the Parent-Teachers Association and
The bride, given in marriage by Revealed As Fraud
seemed
to
be
the hardest hit by the
has been constructed entirely by vol her father, wore a dress of blue crepe
■drought,
-while
at Barons, pests were
No C.C.F., Japanese Tie-up untary labor. It ‘s divided into two with matching hat and veil with Ends After 11 Days
■
ruining
crops.
The
Iron Springs sugar
rooms by a removable partition in or white accessories. She wore a corsage
Says Angus Maclnnis
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Thir beet crop was 'reported to be only
der that it may be used as a hall.
of red roses and forget-me-nots. Miss teen segregees at the Tule Lake seg
.fair.
VANCOUVER, B. C.—Angus Mac
It is hoped that equipment from Eleanor Ramond, the bridesmaid
regation
centre
at
Newell
in
Modoc
lnnis, C.C.F., Vancouver East, who the school at Sandou will be made was dressed in a yellow dress and hat
county ended their “hunger strike”
recently returned from a Parliamen available to furnish the new structure
with brown accessories. Her corsage on July 30, tw.-nty-four hours after I Three U. S. Nisei Sisters
tary tour to ^Australia stated, that with necessary benches, desks, black
was made up of talisman roses. The
there was “no tie-up between the boards and so forth.
“p„jL™°
”stat“ ™ 'T“J br Convicted Of 'Conspiracy
;
groom was supported by E. Eyemoto, the
WRA as an apparent fraud, it
r~
j
C.C.F. and the Japanese anywhere,”
Enrollment in the United Church brother of the bride. Mrs. Anderson, was stated on August 1, reported the ' DENVER, Col. — Three Japanese
reported The Vancouver Province.
.of Canada sponsored school is expect the soloist sang, “Oh Perfect Love” Pacific Citizen.
American sisters accused of helping
“Anyone with any knowledge of
ed to soar to close to 140, double the accompanied by Miss Johnson. The
WRA
officials
here
two
German prisoners escape from
the situation knows thei’e is no tie-up
reported that
total number of pupils last year, ac ushers were Messrs. T. Mitani and
between the C.C.F. and the Japanese
the men had started their “hunger internment camp were found guilty
cording to school officials.. They re Carlson.
anywhere. Perhaps I have taken a
strike” on July 19 with the declara by a U. S. District Court jury last
port that five full-time teachers and
Photos were taken at the Lafayette
lead in standing up for the rights, of
tion that they would not take food Friday of conspiracy to commit trea
two part-time instructors will com Studio, followed by a family recep
Japanese, because they are Canadian
until
they were released from camp’s son, and were acquitted of treasonprise the staff which will conduct tion at Moores Restaurant.
citizens. I intend to keep on doing pupils
isolation
stockade where they were charges, said an AP report.
For travelling, the bride chose a
through the correspondence
so.” The Province quoted him as courses
interned following the disturbances i Sentence, which, under the law, •
of the Department of Edu- blue dress and camel hair coat with
saymg.
last November.
may not exceed two years in prison
cation.
beige accessories. The couple left on
ww.
W W //« V/.titftHftnt/r.W) Y/i Wi W.'t>t»t»ftfiif4fW) t/AWY/t
The men were sent to the camp and -$10,000 in fine, was withheld. If
a short honeymoon to Kenora.
they had been convicted of treason
CARD OF THANKS
Mr. and Mrs. T. Goto will reside i hospital on July 30, after breaking
Maruno
Stars
As
Reveistoke
the
penalty could have been death.
their fast. They will be returned to
The very generous donation of Mr.
in Winnipeg.
Defense was given three days in
G. Nikaido of Toronto, Ont. in com Breaks Losing Streak
The baishakunins for the event the isolation area, the WRA reported.
which
to file a motion for a new trial
The
thirteen
strikers
“
definitely
memoration of his daughter’s recent
were Mr. and Sirs. T. Mitani.
if
it
was
decided to ask one.
-were
not
in
a
serious
condition
”
the
REVELSTOKE,
B.
C.
—
Mike
Mar
graduation from a Toronto university
BIRTHS ....
The
defendants
— Mrs. Tsuruko
WRA
said.
is acknowledged with sincere thanks uno proved he still retains his speed
Mr. and Mrs. Aizo Hasebe of
“Toots
”
Wallace,
35,
Mrs. Florence
of former Asahi days when he slid Kaslo, B. C. became the proud par
by The New Canadian.
The strike had been started by
“
Flo
”
Shizuye
Otani,
33, and Mrs.
into the home plate to beat out a ents of a bouncing baby boy on Aug fourteen segregees, but one member
Billie
Shitara
Tanigoshi,
32,—exhibi
throw-in in a recent Mainline league ust 9 at the Victorian General Hos of the group had quit the demonstra
ted
no
emotion
when
the
verdict
was
Tailored To Pleasure
game played at the Recreation Park pital.
tion on July 25.
read,
said
the
report.
here between the Revelstoke nine and
Two stork visits were made at the
The decision to abandon the “hun
The government accused them of
the visiting Salmon Arm team. The Slocan Community Hospital at New
BY
ger
strike
”
reportedly
came
after
the
'
treason
and conspiracy to commit
'Revelstoke Review in writing up the Denver, B. C. on July 31.
WRA
declared
Julv
29
that
foodstuffs
Treason
in
allegedly furnishing maps,
game
'good sliding tactics” got
A baby girl was born to Mr. and which were in the isolation area 1
HAR$Y MIYASAKI
kit'
• clothing and aid to two German pri^(him across the plate safely. The run Mrs. K. Iio of Rosebery, B.C.
(HARRY’S CLOTHES)
chen apparently had been hidden to (soners of war, in their escape from
^!scored in® the third inning helped to
And a boy to Mr. and Mrs. H. be eaten later” during the strike.
Representing
; an internment camp last October.
^ boost the Revelstoke team to a 5-3 Yasunobu of New Denver.
;
Rev. Shimizu Shows Films
Receive Wide Acclaim
House of §tone
Smart English Woollens
178 Beverly St
Toronto. Ont.
Call Evenings
I
This broke the Salmon Arm’s win
streak and brought the Revelstoke
team out of the loss column after suf
fering two defeats from a Kelowna
team.
THE NEW CANADIAN
KASLO. B. C.
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The engagement of Kazuko, third
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Naojiro
Izumi to Mr. Mitsuo Terakita, third
son of Mrs. Imae Terakita of Popoff
on June 40 was announced as broken
on July 31.
The engagement was broken by
(agreement of both families.
NEW DENVER, B. C.—Turning of
the sod is now underway in prelimi
FUSS IN COMMONS
nary work of establishing the foun
dations of an additional unit to the
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:B. C. Security Commission sanitarium
aware that there were Japanese in
, at New Denver.
Mr. Maclnnis’ room.
j The new unit will provide needed
OBITUARY
Previously in the debate, Mr. Neill convalescent facilities for
MRS. NIWA AOMOTO
advocated the expulsion and a perma- from the sanitarium proper. 1
The death is reported of Mrs. N iwa nent barrier against the return of
well enough to be up from
Aomoto. who passed away on July Japanese to B. C. He added that it
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25 at the New Denver Sanatorium, j would be a good idea to send them not sufficiently recovered to
home.
i Final funer
rites were held at
e all to Saskatchewan which was tin
It ’s blueprinted as a 45 by
( New Denvei Buddhist Church on July ; onl
province whose, premier indi structure, complete in itself, a
a?
^29. Rev. S. Asaka officiated.
gatea a willingness to retain Japan- later be matched by a simila:
jCis survr
ter . ese witmn their borders reported ture. Housing have been mrvi
1, two ;ons
he sanitarium grounds to IT
re at pre ent
IHiniliUnHIIlillilllHiIlllHHinilUIHIIHHii for the new building.
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' The unit will serve
ARIMA
■ considerable congestion
yr
Arima. mother
mrium.
and will open the
passed away ar Bay Farm
admittance of new path
3. Funeral services were I
A position is open for
Additional housing for
o been provi
nome
; RUBY KOBAYASHI
Denver
the moving
with
in Alberta. Duties will be light
: The four month’s
dau
bunkhouses from the Hunter
housework for two adults and car- fuel project to the Orchard.
o
Man., passed away on July ; ing for two children. The family is
Although of plain plank
General Hospital at Win- ’ of Christian faith. Good w.
ages
are
!
and
rough construction, the
‘mpeg. Man. Funeral services we:
offered.
(houses
have been cleverly p
held at rhe Morris Funeral Parlo
gether
and
finished to form
I- or further particulars. write to
; on July 29. Rev. Y. Akagawa mini
five
courts,
which
mark an mi
:terea
ua! rites.
George Kuwata.
Grand Centre.
ment
in
appearance
over the c
he third daughter of M:
Alberta.
Tliep are locates
housing- uni
niiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiniiHnniinfmin School Road.