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THE NEW CANADIAN
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ft
1
^r^riinga
per copy
4 HAMILTON, Ont. — Elected as
typiesident of the Sophy-Ed Club at
•-its second annual elections was Jin
■ ride, succeeding. Yoshio Hyodo.
4 Supporting him on the executive
flare: Margaret Inouye, vice-president;
Sid Sakanashi, treasurer. Bob
-vOikawa, secretarv.
y Convenors for the committees are:
iMas Hyodo, social; Shige Oue, mmntybership; Roy Ito, publics,tion, Jack
V>-Oki, athletic; and Yosh Hvocio,
gram.
- For its program’ of the year,
club has developed a basketball am
ci bowling league. Badminton is a 1st
^enjoyed by the group at tb
C.A
’ v Pere the club has one i
rcserved every two weeks.
# Meetings
continue
to b- heir
|every second week and the programs
Fare su h to develop intere:
-the Ni ni in social, physical md eduactivities.
I Th? hb bulletin “The Sophy-Ed
Ah?s now been published for the p
half
and will hove reached
issue number 11 by the end of the
vear.
i
40c per month
^bbeeeegeeegeeebeei 8>O6W)|333E0EE
i® toss 11HllI
Hamilton Sophy-Eds Plan
-Continued Active Program
KASLO. B
Suu (iilir i^i'iit ^par
Saturday, December 23, 1944
REEK
^tookuup 0}&aL on ^owsdL SJA££L, &£m£jouv£^
WRA To Supervise
Gradual Return
, WASHINGTON. - lUunited
states War
Department
Monday
mornmg Dec. 18, announced that it
tad revoked its order excluding mH
persons of Japanese ancestry from
the Pacific Coast.
Favorable progress of the ivar in
the Pacific, as well a.s other developments,” was given as the reason for
the revocation.
In its announcement the Army
said: “Those persons of Japanese
cestry whose records have stood
the test of army scrutiny during
ne past two years will be permitted
Lie same freedom of movement
throughout the U.S. as other loyal
citizens and law-:’bid noWar
believes
that the people of the Pacific Coast
area will accord returning persons of
Japanese
al! the consideration to which they re entitled.”
In S: i Francisco
the Western,
Defence Command* s d that revocaPon of the order
not mean a
>uduen return of evacuees. It expects
^Regina Nisei Club Studies
the War Relocation Authority to see
that
the return is gr' dual and that
/‘Citizens Forum” Project
those
who
return
ar<
carefully
' REGINA, Alta.—The Regina. Nisei
screened.
.Club have organized a group which
The Defence Command said that
^vill discuss, the Citizen Forum “Of
about ot) officers with clerical assist
■ Things to Come” published by the
ance will visit all relocation centres
Canadian Association for Adult Eduin the interior and will have personal
tyation in conjunction with the Uni
conferences with all persons on the
versity of Saskatchewan Extension
“excluded” list and re-examine their
Department. The Citizen Forum “Of
Vin.B.C,
records.
^ Things to Come” is broadcast over
Once we knew it as
Persons who have relocated—about
„tCBC every Tuesday evening.
3.3,000 of the tot"! of 119,000 evacavenue, main street wall street
The Club will sponsor a Christmas
uees-— have the right to return and
and park avenue . . .,” as “the \ ^^YOR STILL FAVORS EXILE:
.social on December 26 at the Drake
may.
inquire if they are on the ex
centre of a social scheme”. Few
..Hotel, it was decided at a meeting
cluded list. Those excluded will nave
may go back to it, but Sam I.
.on December 8. Members were treatthe right to appeal to a three-officer
1 ed to several reels of movies, taken ; hamada has sketched it in faith
board for re-consideration.
in B.C., Manitoba and Saskatchewan !
*
*
*
ful detail as it looked from half
Xred! '"HIIIHIllllllllllllIllllliiiiiillliii.........
By Mr. Nakamura, Familiar faces
Reaction to the new turn in policy,
way down the four hundred block.
were recognized by many former
its oi-der banning Japanese Amen-i OTTAWA
GIVING NG which will permit the return , of evac
British Columbians.
cans
United orates
States hs.s
hs.s sti-.^unneur
sti '----------—- from the uwien
t
uees to their former homes after
Kamloops Man Hurt As
mulated interest in British Columbia! THOUGHT TO MATTER January 1, has been varied up and
coastal cities from which Japane
Raymond Group Election
Train Smashes Truck
OTTAWA.—Canada will not fol down the coast.
Canadians were likewise forced to I
The Council of Churches of Seat
. DYMOND, Alta.—The Raymond !
low the example of the United
move.
KAMLOOPS
B.s condition
C.—Ichiro inNishitle
and other organizations, inclu
£™iA*S rfty11”
fc
is in ™"
bosMayor Cornett of Vancouver s-aid { States in removing orders exclud
ding
the American Friends Ser
./annual election of officers nem on; pitai here f m
he would bring the matter of mak ing | ing persons of Japanese ancestry
injuries
suffered
vice
Committee,
expressed approval
^Aovember 19
.
,
, .
, .
- -----------from the prohibited area on the
■ ^ pinp+pa m tKn
xi^hen a truck in which he was riding further representations to Ottawa i
of
the
action,
and offered their
JM-vE n-^a
1.1 1 V T’w:s stn,<* hy *
train toda? before the City Council early next * British Columbia coast. Charles
services
in
aiding
the return.
Bishop, chief of the Southam bur
iKotata
’ -J
a Canadian Pacific Railway cross- year.
Opposition
in
Washington
appear
^Aojata, vice-president; Toshiko Sugi- ; ing two miles West of here.
The Canadian Press quoted the j eau in Ottawa, reported Monday. ed centred in the “Remember Pearl
Jiro
Jmoto, chairman; Natsuko Koyata
“No thought is given the matter.”! Miyasawa, diiver of the truck, e?- mayor: “There’s no bitterness in my J
Harbor” league, organized in the
the
veteran Ottawa correspondent
•’secretary, Seiko Kinoshita, treasurer; caped uninjured, the Canadian Press hesrt, but personally
I think it will!
White
and Puyallup River valieys.
said.
''P^a.e Koyata and Chieko Amemori,
be better both fortheir sake and ours hni
i reported Dec. 18.
Inl||||||l|l|SII|I|II|II|I1IIII|II|1||1||||||1||
The league plans a‘“boycott
of re'?°cia? convenors; Mrs. Ikuta and
if they
all shipped back to!.
; turning evacuees.
^Toshiko Saruwatari, advisors.
Japan.”
i military authorities could, no doubt 1
In Los Angeles Mayor Fletcher
-5 A joint opening party of the Y.W
“I fail to see any point in discri-' kave put tIie Japanese of military Bowron said the governm mt should
^"\ was held on December 2 attend- ।
,
minating between Japan-born and 1 age thr°ugh a. screen and found use
provide trot ps for the protection of
^ed b.v a. good attendance. Convenors ! SgCIPIv
Canadian-born,” the Mayor told the ' ^or. Those who p-ssed the test. But... those who return.
At Sacramento,
-Toshikazu Tsukamoto and T. Taka-,'
10 Deilef
Vancouver Province.
' politics forbade and messed up the Governor Earl Warren called on Cali
hashi carried out n enjoyable proSimilar sentiments were voiced bv ■ s^ua^°n.”
fornians to respect the constitutional
igram.
Jack
Henderson, provincial president I
The Vancouver Sun, which played rights of the people
concerned.
/a
*
*
CHATHAM, Ont.—The first get- of the Canadian Legion, who added ’a ,leadin? part in agitating for the Washington governor Arthur B. Lan
..Iron Springs
Xmas Frolic ; together of a newly organized group that he thought the “Japanese ques- i o^lpnai evacuation, affirming that glie said at Olympia the action wras
_
r IRON SPRINGS, Alta.—With the ■ comprised of the Isseis and Niseis of. tion should be settled at the peac- YUI must not happen here,” said: "On “premature”.
At San
Francisco,
a basis of population, B. C. should Harry Bridges, well-known G. I. O.
^lYestive season just around tne cor- ■ Latham, Cedar Springs and Fletcher conference.”
'Her. the Iron Springs Y.P.A. is plan- ' X°°k P’aCe °- December 3 at the
Editorially, the Vancouver Prov
ot be called upon to take more than labor leader, applauded the govern
I^ng a gala Christmas frolic at the ; .ark Street United Church here with
ince declared that: “In British Col |2000 (Japanese Canadians).
ment’s action.
umbia, where the Japanese formed
Joy.l Community Hall on December ’ Slxty Present at the meeting. The
'26.
aim of this organization is to ena larger proportion of the popula
■
courage
the
relocees
tattend
tion
than in the three American ; PARTOFRECIPROCAL MOVEMENT:
Io r:ise funds for winter activistates, there is a political as well
-’hes. a raffle draw* is being held dur- । church, various church activities rd
to
become
more
Canadianized.
as
a military side to the evac^3 g tne evening with several grand
Jack
nation.
”
Nishizaki, acting chairman
jpnze? offered.
for
the
evening, introduced Rev.
The.United States is in a position
g -^d are cordially invited to come
OTTAWA, Ont. — Japanese lang- > Province.
^nd dance to the rhythmic music of Edwards minister of the Park Street o decide which Japanese can be • uage books sent from Japan through i
TLL
This L^unuu
distribution of books is part
rusted on the coast and kwhich can
ylbeit Renner and his “Nobleford. Church. Rev. Edwards extended
Jter"stional Red Cross may be ' of a reciprocal novement by which
I
cordial welcome to the relocees
not. Can-da is in no such n-isit'-n. distributed among Japanes*
al Tones
ationals Canada hopes to .send badly needed
, invited them to join the local resi Left to themselves the •Canadian
Canadian in Canada, the Vancouver Province food supplies via
Russia to Canadian
dents in social and recreational acti■ reported in a dispatch dated Dec- prisoners of war, the Province report
London 5-pin Race Tied
vities instead of organizing a separ- ing '^nen an open discussion on cur ■ ember 16.
stated.
LONDON, Ont.—The Jinxes were ate group among themselves.
? ^-nts vas henl.
The reading material, intended for
*
*
*
fl Loldmg down first place in the
The president and secretary- of the
“
committee
consisting Japanese nationals in this counts
An external affairs official said
\ team Hyman Bowling League local Young People’s Union, Blake o^ me 01 the newly organized mem- has been forwarded by the Jenane/e
that
Canadian authorities are explor
tn 12 wins and 6 losses but Milt Snobelem 2nd Louise Austin were
Ston^y Yamaura, George Wafa- Red Cross to be distributed through
ing
ways
of sending foodstuffs, medi
ey'= Big Fives boosted their win also on rhe hand to welcome the new
01 Cedar Springs and Lloyd the
International Red
Cros
,
,
.
_
—
,
with
cines
and
other supplies to Canadian,
o.unin record and now share top group. The Young People’s Union Nishiyama. Jack Nishizaki and —
-headquarters
in Switzerland. E. C. prisoners of war in Japan, and that
pot honors.
has been actively assisting in organ- Toda of Chatham were appointed to
Maag. International Red Crass deleThe Dumbells moved up one rung izing
club or the relocees.
make arrangements for the next gate in Canada is at present super some supplies had already reached
orcin g the Yank- into a third place
Canadians via the Soviet. No.efforts
Mr. end Mr: English, well known meeting to be held during the Christvising the distribution of this liter- would be spared to reach an agree
^ie w th the Jokers.
. Chatham citizens *.vho have been mas holiday
eek.
, ature.
I Aft
ment suitable to Japan 'in- this res
;r two months of regular lea- active in aiding the evacuee reset
The meeting closed with
the
F. P. Bernard, honorarv Snanish pect, the official said.
/ >.
ames results on November 27 tlers even since 1942 when the first national anthem and a prayer led by
consul in Vancouver declared that he
Goods are awaiting/* shipment r--to
snowed Jinxes and Big Fives tied for sugar beet camps were - established Rev. Edwards.
■ had received no word of this ship- the prisoners-of-war andswilLbe sent
^st place: Hellcats and Dumbells here.
Refreshments were served ai
n
ment of reading material, but that under the auspices ^f life Canadian
or second; and Yanks and Jokers
Mrs. English presided as chairman social hour was enjoyed by
all
।
it
would be his job to assist in dis- Red Cross as"s,coiii as-,an ^agreement
or third place.
during the latter part of the meet- ■ present.
t-ributing it upon arrival, said
is reached between-the two countries.
American Example Upsets B. C.
Chathamites Form
Interracial Affairs
Red Cross Sends Japanese Books
g
ft
1
^r^riinga
per copy
4 HAMILTON, Ont. — Elected as
typiesident of the Sophy-Ed Club at
•-its second annual elections was Jin
■ ride, succeeding. Yoshio Hyodo.
4 Supporting him on the executive
flare: Margaret Inouye, vice-president;
Sid Sakanashi, treasurer. Bob
-vOikawa, secretarv.
y Convenors for the committees are:
iMas Hyodo, social; Shige Oue, mmntybership; Roy Ito, publics,tion, Jack
V>-Oki, athletic; and Yosh Hvocio,
gram.
- For its program’ of the year,
club has developed a basketball am
ci bowling league. Badminton is a 1st
^enjoyed by the group at tb
C.A
’ v Pere the club has one i
rcserved every two weeks.
# Meetings
continue
to b- heir
|every second week and the programs
Fare su h to develop intere:
-the Ni ni in social, physical md eduactivities.
I Th? hb bulletin “The Sophy-Ed
Ah?s now been published for the p
half
and will hove reached
issue number 11 by the end of the
vear.
i
40c per month
^bbeeeegeeegeeebeei 8>O6W)|333E0EE
i® toss 11HllI
Hamilton Sophy-Eds Plan
-Continued Active Program
KASLO. B
Suu (iilir i^i'iit ^par
Saturday, December 23, 1944
REEK
^tookuup 0}&aL on ^owsdL SJA££L, &£m£jouv£^
WRA To Supervise
Gradual Return
, WASHINGTON. - lUunited
states War
Department
Monday
mornmg Dec. 18, announced that it
tad revoked its order excluding mH
persons of Japanese ancestry from
the Pacific Coast.
Favorable progress of the ivar in
the Pacific, as well a.s other developments,” was given as the reason for
the revocation.
In its announcement the Army
said: “Those persons of Japanese
cestry whose records have stood
the test of army scrutiny during
ne past two years will be permitted
Lie same freedom of movement
throughout the U.S. as other loyal
citizens and law-:’bid noWar
believes
that the people of the Pacific Coast
area will accord returning persons of
Japanese
al! the consideration to which they re entitled.”
In S: i Francisco
the Western,
Defence Command* s d that revocaPon of the order
not mean a
>uduen return of evacuees. It expects
^Regina Nisei Club Studies
the War Relocation Authority to see
that
the return is gr' dual and that
/‘Citizens Forum” Project
those
who
return
ar<
carefully
' REGINA, Alta.—The Regina. Nisei
screened.
.Club have organized a group which
The Defence Command said that
^vill discuss, the Citizen Forum “Of
about ot) officers with clerical assist
■ Things to Come” published by the
ance will visit all relocation centres
Canadian Association for Adult Eduin the interior and will have personal
tyation in conjunction with the Uni
conferences with all persons on the
versity of Saskatchewan Extension
“excluded” list and re-examine their
Department. The Citizen Forum “Of
Vin.B.C,
records.
^ Things to Come” is broadcast over
Once we knew it as
Persons who have relocated—about
„tCBC every Tuesday evening.
3.3,000 of the tot"! of 119,000 evacavenue, main street wall street
The Club will sponsor a Christmas
uees-— have the right to return and
and park avenue . . .,” as “the \ ^^YOR STILL FAVORS EXILE:
.social on December 26 at the Drake
may.
inquire if they are on the ex
centre of a social scheme”. Few
..Hotel, it was decided at a meeting
cluded list. Those excluded will nave
may go back to it, but Sam I.
.on December 8. Members were treatthe right to appeal to a three-officer
1 ed to several reels of movies, taken ; hamada has sketched it in faith
board for re-consideration.
in B.C., Manitoba and Saskatchewan !
*
*
*
ful detail as it looked from half
Xred! '"HIIIHIllllllllllllIllllliiiiiillliii.........
By Mr. Nakamura, Familiar faces
Reaction to the new turn in policy,
way down the four hundred block.
were recognized by many former
its oi-der banning Japanese Amen-i OTTAWA
GIVING NG which will permit the return , of evac
British Columbians.
cans
United orates
States hs.s
hs.s sti-.^unneur
sti '----------—- from the uwien
t
uees to their former homes after
Kamloops Man Hurt As
mulated interest in British Columbia! THOUGHT TO MATTER January 1, has been varied up and
coastal cities from which Japane
Raymond Group Election
Train Smashes Truck
OTTAWA.—Canada will not fol down the coast.
Canadians were likewise forced to I
The Council of Churches of Seat
. DYMOND, Alta.—The Raymond !
low the example of the United
move.
KAMLOOPS
B.s condition
C.—Ichiro inNishitle
and other organizations, inclu
£™iA*S rfty11”
fc
is in ™"
bosMayor Cornett of Vancouver s-aid { States in removing orders exclud
ding
the American Friends Ser
./annual election of officers nem on; pitai here f m
he would bring the matter of mak ing | ing persons of Japanese ancestry
injuries
suffered
vice
Committee,
expressed approval
^Aovember 19
.
,
, .
, .
- -----------from the prohibited area on the
■ ^ pinp+pa m tKn
xi^hen a truck in which he was riding further representations to Ottawa i
of
the
action,
and offered their
JM-vE n-^a
1.1 1 V T’w:s stn,<* hy *
train toda? before the City Council early next * British Columbia coast. Charles
services
in
aiding
the return.
Bishop, chief of the Southam bur
iKotata
’ -J
a Canadian Pacific Railway cross- year.
Opposition
in
Washington
appear
^Aojata, vice-president; Toshiko Sugi- ; ing two miles West of here.
The Canadian Press quoted the j eau in Ottawa, reported Monday. ed centred in the “Remember Pearl
Jiro
Jmoto, chairman; Natsuko Koyata
“No thought is given the matter.”! Miyasawa, diiver of the truck, e?- mayor: “There’s no bitterness in my J
Harbor” league, organized in the
the
veteran Ottawa correspondent
•’secretary, Seiko Kinoshita, treasurer; caped uninjured, the Canadian Press hesrt, but personally
I think it will!
White
and Puyallup River valieys.
said.
''P^a.e Koyata and Chieko Amemori,
be better both fortheir sake and ours hni
i reported Dec. 18.
Inl||||||l|l|SII|I|II|II|I1IIII|II|1||1||||||1||
The league plans a‘“boycott
of re'?°cia? convenors; Mrs. Ikuta and
if they
all shipped back to!.
; turning evacuees.
^Toshiko Saruwatari, advisors.
Japan.”
i military authorities could, no doubt 1
In Los Angeles Mayor Fletcher
-5 A joint opening party of the Y.W
“I fail to see any point in discri-' kave put tIie Japanese of military Bowron said the governm mt should
^"\ was held on December 2 attend- ।
,
minating between Japan-born and 1 age thr°ugh a. screen and found use
provide trot ps for the protection of
^ed b.v a. good attendance. Convenors ! SgCIPIv
Canadian-born,” the Mayor told the ' ^or. Those who p-ssed the test. But... those who return.
At Sacramento,
-Toshikazu Tsukamoto and T. Taka-,'
10 Deilef
Vancouver Province.
' politics forbade and messed up the Governor Earl Warren called on Cali
hashi carried out n enjoyable proSimilar sentiments were voiced bv ■ s^ua^°n.”
fornians to respect the constitutional
igram.
Jack
Henderson, provincial president I
The Vancouver Sun, which played rights of the people
concerned.
/a
*
*
CHATHAM, Ont.—The first get- of the Canadian Legion, who added ’a ,leadin? part in agitating for the Washington governor Arthur B. Lan
..Iron Springs
Xmas Frolic ; together of a newly organized group that he thought the “Japanese ques- i o^lpnai evacuation, affirming that glie said at Olympia the action wras
_
r IRON SPRINGS, Alta.—With the ■ comprised of the Isseis and Niseis of. tion should be settled at the peac- YUI must not happen here,” said: "On “premature”.
At San
Francisco,
a basis of population, B. C. should Harry Bridges, well-known G. I. O.
^lYestive season just around tne cor- ■ Latham, Cedar Springs and Fletcher conference.”
'Her. the Iron Springs Y.P.A. is plan- ' X°°k P’aCe °- December 3 at the
Editorially, the Vancouver Prov
ot be called upon to take more than labor leader, applauded the govern
I^ng a gala Christmas frolic at the ; .ark Street United Church here with
ince declared that: “In British Col |2000 (Japanese Canadians).
ment’s action.
umbia, where the Japanese formed
Joy.l Community Hall on December ’ Slxty Present at the meeting. The
'26.
aim of this organization is to ena larger proportion of the popula
■
courage
the
relocees
tattend
tion
than in the three American ; PARTOFRECIPROCAL MOVEMENT:
Io r:ise funds for winter activistates, there is a political as well
-’hes. a raffle draw* is being held dur- । church, various church activities rd
to
become
more
Canadianized.
as
a military side to the evac^3 g tne evening with several grand
Jack
nation.
”
Nishizaki, acting chairman
jpnze? offered.
for
the
evening, introduced Rev.
The.United States is in a position
g -^d are cordially invited to come
OTTAWA, Ont. — Japanese lang- > Province.
^nd dance to the rhythmic music of Edwards minister of the Park Street o decide which Japanese can be • uage books sent from Japan through i
TLL
This L^unuu
distribution of books is part
rusted on the coast and kwhich can
ylbeit Renner and his “Nobleford. Church. Rev. Edwards extended
Jter"stional Red Cross may be ' of a reciprocal novement by which
I
cordial welcome to the relocees
not. Can-da is in no such n-isit'-n. distributed among Japanes*
al Tones
ationals Canada hopes to .send badly needed
, invited them to join the local resi Left to themselves the •Canadian
Canadian in Canada, the Vancouver Province food supplies via
Russia to Canadian
dents in social and recreational acti■ reported in a dispatch dated Dec- prisoners of war, the Province report
London 5-pin Race Tied
vities instead of organizing a separ- ing '^nen an open discussion on cur ■ ember 16.
stated.
LONDON, Ont.—The Jinxes were ate group among themselves.
? ^-nts vas henl.
The reading material, intended for
*
*
*
fl Loldmg down first place in the
The president and secretary- of the
“
committee
consisting Japanese nationals in this counts
An external affairs official said
\ team Hyman Bowling League local Young People’s Union, Blake o^ me 01 the newly organized mem- has been forwarded by the Jenane/e
that
Canadian authorities are explor
tn 12 wins and 6 losses but Milt Snobelem 2nd Louise Austin were
Ston^y Yamaura, George Wafa- Red Cross to be distributed through
ing
ways
of sending foodstuffs, medi
ey'= Big Fives boosted their win also on rhe hand to welcome the new
01 Cedar Springs and Lloyd the
International Red
Cros
,
,
.
_
—
,
with
cines
and
other supplies to Canadian,
o.unin record and now share top group. The Young People’s Union Nishiyama. Jack Nishizaki and —
-headquarters
in Switzerland. E. C. prisoners of war in Japan, and that
pot honors.
has been actively assisting in organ- Toda of Chatham were appointed to
Maag. International Red Crass deleThe Dumbells moved up one rung izing
club or the relocees.
make arrangements for the next gate in Canada is at present super some supplies had already reached
orcin g the Yank- into a third place
Canadians via the Soviet. No.efforts
Mr. end Mr: English, well known meeting to be held during the Christvising the distribution of this liter- would be spared to reach an agree
^ie w th the Jokers.
. Chatham citizens *.vho have been mas holiday
eek.
, ature.
I Aft
ment suitable to Japan 'in- this res
;r two months of regular lea- active in aiding the evacuee reset
The meeting closed with
the
F. P. Bernard, honorarv Snanish pect, the official said.
/ >.
ames results on November 27 tlers even since 1942 when the first national anthem and a prayer led by
consul in Vancouver declared that he
Goods are awaiting/* shipment r--to
snowed Jinxes and Big Fives tied for sugar beet camps were - established Rev. Edwards.
■ had received no word of this ship- the prisoners-of-war andswilLbe sent
^st place: Hellcats and Dumbells here.
Refreshments were served ai
n
ment of reading material, but that under the auspices ^f life Canadian
or second; and Yanks and Jokers
Mrs. English presided as chairman social hour was enjoyed by
all
।
it
would be his job to assist in dis- Red Cross as"s,coiii as-,an ^agreement
or third place.
during the latter part of the meet- ■ present.
t-ributing it upon arrival, said
is reached between-the two countries.
American Example Upsets B. C.
Chathamites Form
Interracial Affairs
Red Cross Sends Japanese Books
Page 2
Pa«e 2
December 23. 1944.
TH .HIV HMIH
P. O. Drawer A
Kasio, B C
An Independent Weekly Organ Published as a Medium of
Expression Among the People of Japanese Origin in Canada.
Readers, The New Canadian
Bear ’Folks All year now we’ve
been publishing lett;
to the
eauor. Now we’re in a holiday7
mood and feel like doing someKnng different. So we’re writing
to all our iiieues wno nave leu
SUZUKI
the leuer to you in the thought
Kasio for other parts and to those
that you might find it of some in
v.ho are still, with us, we extend
(A GUEST EDITORIAL BY REV. K. S
terest. It s just a little bit of inSABURO
Hearty7 Christmas Greetings and
formation on what’s been going on
HOSE WHO WOULD seriously seek the truer meaning of Christn
behind the scenes of this Christ
the hope that the New Year will mas cannot but be grieved to see such a sharp discrepancy7
mas issue, and now tiiat it’s
bring happiness and success to all.
between the actual conditions of the world t
SUZUKI
and the conditions
almost
out,
it
feels
something
like
which Christ came to create—Christ whose birthdav Christmas is
A ^
MR. & MRS. G. S. BAKER
Old Home Week again.
supposed to commemorate. The world as a whole, especially in its
See the sketch on the front
P.O. Box 353,
mass behaviours—whether socially, nationally’ or international!
even
lo, B. C.
Page ? Right there in the bonk on
toda
ely ignores Christ and his causes, and goes on actually in
Schreiber, Ontario
the corner is where we used to
accordance with the old pagan way of intolerance, selfishness and
keep z what money we had.
greed. Indeed, Christ may not be crucified so crudely as he was in
It
TAMIKO SUZUKI
wasn't a very big bank
the first century: he may even be worshipped for certain emotional
. . It
Kasio,
B.
C.
113 Darling St., Brantfon
satisfactions; but he is not in practical life followed seriously, in • didn’t need to be on account of
our deposit. Two doors down was
truth and in totality.
To all our friends of Kasio, New
the Sumiyoshi, where countless 1 Denver
and Slocan and those gone
Into such a world as we see today, Christmas comes as a strange
Powell Streeters like ourselves 1 East, Kindest Greetings and Re
anomaly. Unless it is commercialized, secularized and paganized as it
have consumed tons of coffee. Just
generally is, Christmas itself may be repudiated altogether as incon
membrance to you all.
behind the tree on the left is the
gruous to the actual life. The; real Christmas seems to be highly
ALAN ALLSEBROOK & FAMILY
second story window where we
irrelevant in the world of the present.
*
Kasio, B. C.
used to put our feet up on the
A deepei* thought, however, will reveal that it is this very, dis
sill, thinking out The New Can
MR. & MRS. TOMIO BABA
crepancy between the existing conditions of the world and what Christ
ST. ANDREWS UNITED CHURCH
dian for three years and watching
and Tokio Ronald,
mas really stands for, which makes Christmas most relevant. “Amid
the Asahis play7 ball every sum
P.O. Box 445, Kasio, B. C.
the darkness the Light shone,” was the interpretation of John in
mer. We were sitting there Sun- |
regard to the first Christmas. Light and darkness are discrepant,
day morning, Dec. 7, 1941, when
incongruous and incompatible; but it was because the world was so
HENRY NARUSE & FAMILY
Kunio Shimizu came in with the
intolerably dark that the coming of the Light was so significant, wel
news. The feet cfme down in a
comed as an Occasion of great rejoicing.
hurry and the words exploded out:
Kasio, B. C.
Kasio, B. C. •
“Well, goddam it, so they did it!”
For the world is by no means satisfied with itself, nor with the
ways it has been run so far. Through the experiences of the
But beside that picture, we
GWEN SUTTIE
two world wars, the whole world is being forced, to the conclusion
think you might be interested in
DR. & MRS. M. UCHIDA
that something radically must be wrong with the materialistic pagan
New Denver, B. C.
the by-lines in this Christmas isways of life, by which this world has too long been, ruled. What has
isue. Most of this year’s writers
and Midori Jane
MR. & MRS. AKIRA IWASAKI
been believed to be “practical” is not practical after all: it does not
have moved around that same
work for the abundant life or righteous peace that we desire. And it
and FAMILY
office with characteristic
gait,
is more and more being realized that the Way of Christ, which has
New Denver, B. C.
Cindv was always in a hurry, R.I.
New Denver, B. C.
been set aside as “an impractical ideal of an impossible dreamer”, is
meditatively serious, F.A.M. breez
most practical; it is the only Way that wc rks for the end that the
ed about, T.M.K. came only7 on
SHAW MIZUHARA
REV. T. KOMIYAMA
whole humanity consciously7 or unconsciously most desires1.
grave business, N.M.T. slouched
New
Denver,
B.
C.
around with witty7 observations,
Professor Shotwell of Columbia is not a lone voice, but an expres
Lemon Creek, Slocan, B.C.
and we covered “Peg” for the first
sion of the general, present-day spiritual awakening, when he says:
STONEY & LUCY ODAMURA
time when with
school-girlish
THE MEAT MARKET
•’“Our problem is largely7 an ethical one; it involves recognition on the
curls flying about she.gave forth
^
5? A 3^ W$
part of all peoples, large and small, strong and weak, of the rignts
______ Bay Farm, Slocan, B. C.
to
a
srea
4
oration
in
the
Aiexanof others; a willingness on the part of all to make, sacrifices for the
12 Fir Ave., Lemon Creek, B.C.
der Street school.
general good; a belief in the existence of a power in the world that
MR. & MRS. YOSHIO TANAKA
makes for righteousness.”
Out there on the front, then, is
and FAMILY
MRS. TERUKO IKEDA
If the world is to be saved from general disintegration, one thing
the sketch of Powell Street by7
__________ Slocan City, B.C.
^
H
Jig
^
necessary7 at the present time, probably- more than anything else, is
Sam I. Yamada, one of our most
a genuine repentance—a thorough and radical change" of heart and
versatile Nisei, who seems equally7
KINA KUWABARA.
MITSUKO IKEDA
;
mind and life on the part of all. We need to have a healthy dissatis
at home with photogra'phic lens,
faction, a heavenly sorrow, and a positive disgust with the existing
pen and ink, watei’ colo and oils
Slocan City, B.C.
conditions of thing's—including ourselves: with a view to ushering in
Slocan City, B.C.
brush
badminton
and
tennis
a better and juster world order, according to the spirit that Christmas
racket, . golf clubs and political
DR. & MRS. E. MIYAKE
brings, the spirit of goodwill and mutual helpfulness.
'speeches. Sam is making ,a name
and fortune for himself at FrecIf Christmas brings us that, then it is most relevant
the
land’s
(“masculine
viewpoint”)
present time, for through it we can see in reality the dawn of
a new age.
Studio in Toronto.
LAIKO MIYAKE
PHOTOCRAFT
Our
reporter
from
Tashme
(page
as yer,
TAK & KAY TOYOTA
Slocan City, B.C.
whose contributions have been reportorial only thus far. But in^
E
M‘
^t
RUBY MIYAKE
WE ^E THIS last chrocreasing experience and a matur
morale and of economic resources,
Ml
fgu ^
’’ nude of jJMd in a sober, ed
ing style promise things for rhe
These obstacles—real and im
P.O. Eox 80,
7
itorial mood,. For .the experience of
future we plan to publish.
Toronto, Ont.
aginary7, economic and political,
the past year has been a sobering
Barring no one in the whole
Social
nd psychological — have
Slocan City, B.C.
one. If anything at 311, ** has ser
couiftry, “E.C.B.”, who reviews the
been clearlv defined throughout
ved chiefly to give us h more real
the past year, They need to be
American situation through Carey7
istic understanding of .just how
MERRY CHRISTMAS and
McWilliams book, is probably7 the
tackled again by7 the evacuees
long and hard a road must yet be
keenest student and observer of
themselves. And they7 need to be
.followed by Canadians’ of Japan
HAPPY NEW YEAR
the Japanese question in Canada.
tackled with progressive vigor by
ese Uncestrv. Ptlrlinns
His
interest
goes
back
to
active
the government administration, if
us it has not been a- highly
membership in the first Nisei or
Canadian democracy is to swing
.momentous twelve months, like
into
lint
ganization in the country, through
with
the
forthright
those of 1942, with events strik-,
American example of
two decades of political events in
to
ing deeply into our own personal
z
cluding a trip to Ottawa with the
maintain its basic principles of
worla. But in review the year has
franchise delegation, and he keeps
society and government and to
been a significant one.
in close touch today through wide
rectify its own mistakes.
The affirmation by the Prime
spread contacts, shrewd observa
The year, happily, has not been
Minister, putting at rest the fear
tion
and voracious reading. Treat
British Columbia
all debits to the ledger. Instance
of mass postwar expulsion, and
ing dental cases in Kasio, B.C., is
after instance is recounted of in
confirming an official government
really* E.C.B.’s sideline.
dividual cases of Nisei pioneering*
pbJl'cy of segregation, dispersal
THE COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON
“Christmas, 1944” marks the re
successfully on the eastern front
and resettlement, has provided an
turn to these pages of a writer
ier. And the latent strength of our
from
important
foundation
for
whose
absence has been sadly felt.
democracy in Canada was impres
fu tu re. Unfort unat e 1 y. the conAn English Honors graduate from
sively evidenced by the sharp op
crete details have not yet Peen
L.B.C., Eiko Henmi, created the
position voiced by a large section
made known. But long- nticipated,
column
of responsible public opinion
which in pre-war day
they should be revealed early in
though designed for the Ivdie
rainst the federal disfranchiserightly ranked first in appeal to
ent of Japanese Canadians east
CHIYO KAWAHARA
When these details are announof the Rockies.
Nisei Joe and Nisei Ann alike.
PATSY KIMOTO
time will be at hand for
ced
Today, after months of attending
One further word should be addJOSIE OMOTO
a considerable number to make a
to Sanden
’are and educationThe one question still pzraLemon
Creek
decision which should prove to be
al needs, Eiko is kitty Foyle-ing
mount in
importance to the
British Columbia
a turning point in their lives. And
it in Montreal.
genuine integration of the Jap
important changes may be expect^ou will get a bang out of
madian minority still re
me
to
plate insofar
m
Frank Akira Moritsugu’s ebulunanswered. It is the quesGreetings and Test Wishes fo
'most apparent failure recorded
the w-'r and of Nisei—and
(Please
tum
to
Page
S.)
adoring rhe year is concerned. That
Alligations to the country?J failure is the slowness of the
of theiir choice. Though the impact
leadership and Nisei service,
'movement of evacuees away* from
ot I
war has been felt through
man any other factor, his been
gvvernmeht^
camps back
and hrough our group, the fact
such
as to underwrite the conto.'independence and freedom. This
that exclusion from
sideration
of the American nation
v'we7eanriot^iiLdescribe as the unrmed
rces has left us refor
the
whole
of its Japane.se min
‘''Jiapplest’.deBitod\1944's ieoger:
imm the vital being of
ority.
It
remains
and
surelv. in
fbryover jjfp,OOSl of hurx people still
on. The importance of that-reas it has
mce
19-39. for
remain'bogged d’ot^ m
maze of
eness i s emphasized in the
Canadians to seek to measure uu
STAFF
snnrnlv contrasting picture in our
and
prove
themselves
Lemon Creek
tne
has seen s^steady deterioration of
neighboring country. There 2
manner.
British Columbia
Tom Shoyama
Takaichi Umezuki
Rates: 40c per Month
Editor & Publisher
Japanese Section Editor
32.00 for Six Months in Advance
young people’s
Society
The Year Now Gone
PARKER Brothers
Grahm and his
December 23. 1944.
TH .HIV HMIH
P. O. Drawer A
Kasio, B C
An Independent Weekly Organ Published as a Medium of
Expression Among the People of Japanese Origin in Canada.
Readers, The New Canadian
Bear ’Folks All year now we’ve
been publishing lett;
to the
eauor. Now we’re in a holiday7
mood and feel like doing someKnng different. So we’re writing
to all our iiieues wno nave leu
SUZUKI
the leuer to you in the thought
Kasio for other parts and to those
that you might find it of some in
v.ho are still, with us, we extend
(A GUEST EDITORIAL BY REV. K. S
terest. It s just a little bit of inSABURO
Hearty7 Christmas Greetings and
formation on what’s been going on
HOSE WHO WOULD seriously seek the truer meaning of Christn
behind the scenes of this Christ
the hope that the New Year will mas cannot but be grieved to see such a sharp discrepancy7
mas issue, and now tiiat it’s
bring happiness and success to all.
between the actual conditions of the world t
SUZUKI
and the conditions
almost
out,
it
feels
something
like
which Christ came to create—Christ whose birthdav Christmas is
A ^
MR. & MRS. G. S. BAKER
Old Home Week again.
supposed to commemorate. The world as a whole, especially in its
See the sketch on the front
P.O. Box 353,
mass behaviours—whether socially, nationally’ or international!
even
lo, B. C.
Page ? Right there in the bonk on
toda
ely ignores Christ and his causes, and goes on actually in
Schreiber, Ontario
the corner is where we used to
accordance with the old pagan way of intolerance, selfishness and
keep z what money we had.
greed. Indeed, Christ may not be crucified so crudely as he was in
It
TAMIKO SUZUKI
wasn't a very big bank
the first century: he may even be worshipped for certain emotional
. . It
Kasio,
B.
C.
113 Darling St., Brantfon
satisfactions; but he is not in practical life followed seriously, in • didn’t need to be on account of
our deposit. Two doors down was
truth and in totality.
To all our friends of Kasio, New
the Sumiyoshi, where countless 1 Denver
and Slocan and those gone
Into such a world as we see today, Christmas comes as a strange
Powell Streeters like ourselves 1 East, Kindest Greetings and Re
anomaly. Unless it is commercialized, secularized and paganized as it
have consumed tons of coffee. Just
generally is, Christmas itself may be repudiated altogether as incon
membrance to you all.
behind the tree on the left is the
gruous to the actual life. The; real Christmas seems to be highly
ALAN ALLSEBROOK & FAMILY
second story window where we
irrelevant in the world of the present.
*
Kasio, B. C.
used to put our feet up on the
A deepei* thought, however, will reveal that it is this very, dis
sill, thinking out The New Can
MR. & MRS. TOMIO BABA
crepancy between the existing conditions of the world and what Christ
ST. ANDREWS UNITED CHURCH
dian for three years and watching
and Tokio Ronald,
mas really stands for, which makes Christmas most relevant. “Amid
the Asahis play7 ball every sum
P.O. Box 445, Kasio, B. C.
the darkness the Light shone,” was the interpretation of John in
mer. We were sitting there Sun- |
regard to the first Christmas. Light and darkness are discrepant,
day morning, Dec. 7, 1941, when
incongruous and incompatible; but it was because the world was so
HENRY NARUSE & FAMILY
Kunio Shimizu came in with the
intolerably dark that the coming of the Light was so significant, wel
news. The feet cfme down in a
comed as an Occasion of great rejoicing.
hurry and the words exploded out:
Kasio, B. C.
Kasio, B. C. •
“Well, goddam it, so they did it!”
For the world is by no means satisfied with itself, nor with the
ways it has been run so far. Through the experiences of the
But beside that picture, we
GWEN SUTTIE
two world wars, the whole world is being forced, to the conclusion
think you might be interested in
DR. & MRS. M. UCHIDA
that something radically must be wrong with the materialistic pagan
New Denver, B. C.
the by-lines in this Christmas isways of life, by which this world has too long been, ruled. What has
isue. Most of this year’s writers
and Midori Jane
MR. & MRS. AKIRA IWASAKI
been believed to be “practical” is not practical after all: it does not
have moved around that same
work for the abundant life or righteous peace that we desire. And it
and FAMILY
office with characteristic
gait,
is more and more being realized that the Way of Christ, which has
New Denver, B. C.
Cindv was always in a hurry, R.I.
New Denver, B. C.
been set aside as “an impractical ideal of an impossible dreamer”, is
meditatively serious, F.A.M. breez
most practical; it is the only Way that wc rks for the end that the
ed about, T.M.K. came only7 on
SHAW MIZUHARA
REV. T. KOMIYAMA
whole humanity consciously7 or unconsciously most desires1.
grave business, N.M.T. slouched
New
Denver,
B.
C.
around with witty7 observations,
Professor Shotwell of Columbia is not a lone voice, but an expres
Lemon Creek, Slocan, B.C.
and we covered “Peg” for the first
sion of the general, present-day spiritual awakening, when he says:
STONEY & LUCY ODAMURA
time when with
school-girlish
THE MEAT MARKET
•’“Our problem is largely7 an ethical one; it involves recognition on the
curls flying about she.gave forth
^
5? A 3^ W$
part of all peoples, large and small, strong and weak, of the rignts
______ Bay Farm, Slocan, B. C.
to
a
srea
4
oration
in
the
Aiexanof others; a willingness on the part of all to make, sacrifices for the
12 Fir Ave., Lemon Creek, B.C.
der Street school.
general good; a belief in the existence of a power in the world that
MR. & MRS. YOSHIO TANAKA
makes for righteousness.”
Out there on the front, then, is
and FAMILY
MRS. TERUKO IKEDA
If the world is to be saved from general disintegration, one thing
the sketch of Powell Street by7
__________ Slocan City, B.C.
^
H
Jig
^
necessary7 at the present time, probably- more than anything else, is
Sam I. Yamada, one of our most
a genuine repentance—a thorough and radical change" of heart and
versatile Nisei, who seems equally7
KINA KUWABARA.
MITSUKO IKEDA
;
mind and life on the part of all. We need to have a healthy dissatis
at home with photogra'phic lens,
faction, a heavenly sorrow, and a positive disgust with the existing
pen and ink, watei’ colo and oils
Slocan City, B.C.
conditions of thing's—including ourselves: with a view to ushering in
Slocan City, B.C.
brush
badminton
and
tennis
a better and juster world order, according to the spirit that Christmas
racket, . golf clubs and political
DR. & MRS. E. MIYAKE
brings, the spirit of goodwill and mutual helpfulness.
'speeches. Sam is making ,a name
and fortune for himself at FrecIf Christmas brings us that, then it is most relevant
the
land’s
(“masculine
viewpoint”)
present time, for through it we can see in reality the dawn of
a new age.
Studio in Toronto.
LAIKO MIYAKE
PHOTOCRAFT
Our
reporter
from
Tashme
(page
as yer,
TAK & KAY TOYOTA
Slocan City, B.C.
whose contributions have been reportorial only thus far. But in^
E
M‘
^t
RUBY MIYAKE
WE ^E THIS last chrocreasing experience and a matur
morale and of economic resources,
Ml
fgu ^
’’ nude of jJMd in a sober, ed
ing style promise things for rhe
These obstacles—real and im
P.O. Eox 80,
7
itorial mood,. For .the experience of
future we plan to publish.
Toronto, Ont.
aginary7, economic and political,
the past year has been a sobering
Barring no one in the whole
Social
nd psychological — have
Slocan City, B.C.
one. If anything at 311, ** has ser
couiftry, “E.C.B.”, who reviews the
been clearlv defined throughout
ved chiefly to give us h more real
the past year, They need to be
American situation through Carey7
istic understanding of .just how
MERRY CHRISTMAS and
McWilliams book, is probably7 the
tackled again by7 the evacuees
long and hard a road must yet be
keenest student and observer of
themselves. And they7 need to be
.followed by Canadians’ of Japan
HAPPY NEW YEAR
the Japanese question in Canada.
tackled with progressive vigor by
ese Uncestrv. Ptlrlinns
His
interest
goes
back
to
active
the government administration, if
us it has not been a- highly
membership in the first Nisei or
Canadian democracy is to swing
.momentous twelve months, like
into
lint
ganization in the country, through
with
the
forthright
those of 1942, with events strik-,
American example of
two decades of political events in
to
ing deeply into our own personal
z
cluding a trip to Ottawa with the
maintain its basic principles of
worla. But in review the year has
franchise delegation, and he keeps
society and government and to
been a significant one.
in close touch today through wide
rectify its own mistakes.
The affirmation by the Prime
spread contacts, shrewd observa
The year, happily, has not been
Minister, putting at rest the fear
tion
and voracious reading. Treat
British Columbia
all debits to the ledger. Instance
of mass postwar expulsion, and
ing dental cases in Kasio, B.C., is
after instance is recounted of in
confirming an official government
really* E.C.B.’s sideline.
dividual cases of Nisei pioneering*
pbJl'cy of segregation, dispersal
THE COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON
“Christmas, 1944” marks the re
successfully on the eastern front
and resettlement, has provided an
turn to these pages of a writer
ier. And the latent strength of our
from
important
foundation
for
whose
absence has been sadly felt.
democracy in Canada was impres
fu tu re. Unfort unat e 1 y. the conAn English Honors graduate from
sively evidenced by the sharp op
crete details have not yet Peen
L.B.C., Eiko Henmi, created the
position voiced by a large section
made known. But long- nticipated,
column
of responsible public opinion
which in pre-war day
they should be revealed early in
though designed for the Ivdie
rainst the federal disfranchiserightly ranked first in appeal to
ent of Japanese Canadians east
CHIYO KAWAHARA
When these details are announof the Rockies.
Nisei Joe and Nisei Ann alike.
PATSY KIMOTO
time will be at hand for
ced
Today, after months of attending
One further word should be addJOSIE OMOTO
a considerable number to make a
to Sanden
’are and educationThe one question still pzraLemon
Creek
decision which should prove to be
al needs, Eiko is kitty Foyle-ing
mount in
importance to the
British Columbia
a turning point in their lives. And
it in Montreal.
genuine integration of the Jap
important changes may be expect^ou will get a bang out of
madian minority still re
me
to
plate insofar
m
Frank Akira Moritsugu’s ebulunanswered. It is the quesGreetings and Test Wishes fo
'most apparent failure recorded
the w-'r and of Nisei—and
(Please
tum
to
Page
S.)
adoring rhe year is concerned. That
Alligations to the country?J failure is the slowness of the
of theiir choice. Though the impact
leadership and Nisei service,
'movement of evacuees away* from
ot I
war has been felt through
man any other factor, his been
gvvernmeht^
camps back
and hrough our group, the fact
such
as to underwrite the conto.'independence and freedom. This
that exclusion from
sideration
of the American nation
v'we7eanriot^iiLdescribe as the unrmed
rces has left us refor
the
whole
of its Japane.se min
‘''Jiapplest’.deBitod\1944's ieoger:
imm the vital being of
ority.
It
remains
and
surelv. in
fbryover jjfp,OOSl of hurx people still
on. The importance of that-reas it has
mce
19-39. for
remain'bogged d’ot^ m
maze of
eness i s emphasized in the
Canadians to seek to measure uu
STAFF
snnrnlv contrasting picture in our
and
prove
themselves
Lemon Creek
tne
has seen s^steady deterioration of
neighboring country. There 2
manner.
British Columbia
Tom Shoyama
Takaichi Umezuki
Rates: 40c per Month
Editor & Publisher
Japanese Section Editor
32.00 for Six Months in Advance
young people’s
Society
The Year Now Gone
PARKER Brothers
Grahm and his
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c-o Richard Tanouye
MARh T. KOBA ARASHI
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Best Wishes for a
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The Season s Compliments
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P.O. Box 371, Greenwood, B. C.
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Satoru Howard, Alan Alitsuru
Tashme, B. C.
(idjr Hag §>rnitis Assnriaiinn
1st TASHAIE GROUP
SHIGE E. YOSHIDA, SCOUTAIASTER.
“A” TROOP
“B” TROOP
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JAAIES SUYESHI SHINO, S.AI.
Tsutomu Kawabe, A.S.AI.
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Tatsuo Hori, Jr. A.S.AI.
Kazuo Kadonaga Jr. A.S.AI.
VICTOR ISAO KADONAGA, S.AI.
Ken Shirakawa, A.S.AI.
Chikao Chik Kageyama, Jr. A.S.AI.
Harold Aliwa, T. L.
I
Yoshio Wally Fukumoto, T. L.
I
iHaruo Hatanaka T.L. Bob Yoneda T.L.
Eagle Ptl. — Fox Ptl. — Swallow PtI Volf Ptl. — Cougar Ptl. — Bear Ptl.
I Raven Ptl. — Owl Ptl. — Coyote Ptl, Beaver Ptl.—Stag Ptl.—Buffalo Ptl
“C” TROOP
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TOMIO TOAI SEKI, S.AI.
Hiroshi Shin A.S.AI.
Arnold Arai, Jr. A.S.AI.
WOLF CUB PACK
TATSUO KOY’ANAGI, Jr. A.C.AI.
TSUTOAIU NAKAY'AAIA, Jr. A.C.AI.
Tadao Kawasaki. T. L.
I
Kazuo Fukumoto, T. L.
I Hawk Ptl.—Seagull Ptl.—Robin Ptl. I Red Six — Blue Six — Brown Si?:I
Tawny Six — Green Six
{Antelope Ptl.-Lynx Ptl.-Reindeer PtlJ
yaite a time tr;
& •«!
io moe
n their tiny hi
mas, from the
their offspring-.
ine scnool children
oon
begin
o r r y i n g about the
Christir
exams.. Some folks a;
uneventful
coking forward to A
have before did not improve mat
^ ul etide entertainment, such, a
.ind
ters muon. But the snow and con
we
conceits, private parties, the New
about
the
rmverts
helped to relieve the monoYears Dance. Others are antici
matching and chipped dishes
tony somewhat.
had to eat our Christmas dinner
pating, with gladness, the arrival
Christmas. I
a little
from. ( r mother, like most
from rhe mills, sections and road
better, We were more settled and
mothers, hated the thought
camps, of their sons and trim.is
more
who will have Christmas in Tash
bringing
ics
— for
... mar
v ere all used to Tashme life by
me. Everywhere there is an air of
hat . they migiit be broken on the
now,, and had learned to live hapexpectancy ano gladness in the at
onpier lives. Alost of them begged
mosphere. On the whole, I think
ly the odd pieces. The g.
inaand got skates and hockey
ware and other things v
we will be having a wonderful
sticks
for Christmas. You see,
Chrirstmas this year.
tully packed and locked aw
in
skating
is the “sport” in Tashme’
What a contrast tills is to
the downstairs closed. A
Some
of
us went out looking’ for
Christmas, 1942! Some folks had
looked back on our dear home for
a likely7 looking Christmas tree to
the last time before boardin the
come to Tashme in July, but many7
fit our tiny7 homes.
of us came much later, in Septem
truck, the thought that we ■would
By7 this time, the different clubs
ber and October. Most of us h,d
have a place to come back to and
and
organizations were well starr
just begun to get used to the
dishes to set before us when all
ed.
Concerts and dances were
high altitude and the different
this was over, gave us courage.
sponsored for the Christmas enand hope.
surroundings. We were just getteifainment.
Christmas1 cheer went
ting, our new homes settled, and
But this dream was rudely shat
to
the
old
men,
to the patients in
getting acquainted with our new
tered when a. curt letter arrived
the
hospitals,
and
to the men in
friends and neighbors. We were
from the Custodian, informing us
internment
camp.
Christmas
gifts
not really prepared for Christmas
that our home was sold, and all
were given and received, and most
yet; but winter was coming fast
our
belongings
auctioned
or-!
of us had a lovely7 time. There
and the outlook was bleak indeed.
Everything sold! Auctioned off!
was
heartbreak, though, in some
When Christmas came around,
We could have cried, and many7 oi
homes where their sons were cut
most of us made feeble attempts
us did. But what good would cry
off the payroll; here and sent East
to decorate the rooms with bus
ing do? Well, Ml our plans were
to other occupations. HomesAwere
of last year’s tinsel, but this did
upset once more, and most of us
agmn being broken up around
not seem to help much. A kindly7
were homeless. The older folks
Christmas and the New Ycciy and
person in our apartment, a forwere very7 bitter, and so were we,
this took all the cheer out of
mer florist, made cedar wreaths
but we have learned to forget.
things.
for our community7 kitchen, and
Alost of us have a brand new set
But this yrear, it will be differpassed around to each room, bits
of plan laid out, and dream or
en
fj just wait and sec. The Tiom.es
of. Christmas decoration.
This
the dav ’hen all our wishes shall
ate
better protected against the
raised our spirits somewhat. This,
come true.
cold, and the people here know
com,
and the well-loved Christmas Car
And so we sat around most of
just what to expect. Yes, we tare
ols which were played over the
that first Christmas day in Tash
all used to this sort of life now,
P.A. system. These joyous carols
me feeling very sorry for our
and we re all dreaming of a peace
were heard all over the township
selves. Thinking, back upon .the
ful, happy Christmas,. . . ....
and added cheer to the otherwise
happy Christmases
■sed to
C. O.
( PREJU D1C E, Japanese
Americans: Symbol of Racial
Intolerance”, by Care y McWilHams, Little, Brown & CO.,
Boston, .Mass.)
QAREY AIcWILLIAAIS is a cruv sading, if not militant, cham
pion of America’s underprivileged
minorities. As such he owes a
noteworthy7 national reputation to
some excellent volumes. In his
“Brothers Under The Skin”, re
viewed in these pages recently,
he makes a case for these minorTy groups and suggests a course
°f legislative remedies to relieve
discrimination.
The present volume, “Prejudice,
Japanese Americans: Symbol of
Racial Intolerance” deals particularly with one such group. It
shoves how a region rd minority7
issue, caught in a tornado of
mounting racism incident to the
war, herded the entire people in
volved mto concentration camps.
But now, in retrospect, he observes that America need not
apologize
for
this
temporary
harsh wartime measure, “a detour
from
democracy”,
if
broken
fabrics can be repaired and a
positive course can be charted to
convert it into an instrument for
strengthening the process of dem
ocracy itself.
ration:
According to McWilliams the
total removal of the Japanese
was due in part to the existence
of a deep fault, generally ignored,
in the social structure of the
Pacific Coast. And it was due in
part to the existence of a group
who, keenly awrre of this potentially-activN defect, had not onlyanticipated the moment when it
could be utilized, but had laid
foundations in fear and in fantasy. Thus they lost no time in
capitalizing upon the shock Vie
instant
came. It was this
“basic social fact that precipitated “the large
forced migra-
tion in American history.”
Thus the development of
stage setting for this expulsion
is traced with careful documenta
tion. The arrival of the first im
migrants over fifty7 years ago,
their gradual ascendancy7 in Cal
ifornia’s economic sun, the erose,
compact, suffocating in-group ec
onomy of the Little Tokyos that
dotted the Pacific Coast, the in
evitable psychological and cultural
cleavage
-d conflict between the
Issei ant.
’isei—all these are
subjected to - sen analyses.
In the atk/nment of this eco
nomic security and the achieve
ment of Little Tokyo solidarity,
the Issei hmd effected a sort of
cultural compromise with the exterior pressures
established
racial mores of the region: and
their community had traditions
and institutions peculiar to itself
and an atmosphere all its own. It
■was a marginal world between
tne two civilizations,
but its
structure and contents were more
and more subject to increasing
influence from the environment
of the New AVorld. Yet it was a
world which tended to keep out
broad currents of ideas and inter
ests. It was not onlv small.
It
was essentirJly pi
It was a
world that made io frustration.
Thus it was that the Nisei, subject to this narrow, limited orbit,
found a slow stifling of sensitiv- •
ity and individual development.
The favorite character
the
Nisei short story was a “Byronlc
figure, full of frustration and despair: sensitive, rebellious, introvert.” The frustrated nd introvert Aisei spent much time in
self-criticism over a wide field,
discussing the “
:i Mondai”
and in the main the were perplexed and unhappy, despite the
contrary reputation
they
had
among the Issei. “Withou knowing why, the Nisei were seeking
a larger world: they7 were suffo
cating in Little Tokpo.”
Perhaps it was due to the nat-
ural senility of Little Tokyo, or
it was the slow decay inherent in
its economy. Perhaps the Nisei
were mt last reaching their intel
lectual maturity. In any event towaids 1940 they were beginning
to emerge from this fog and un
certainty. But they7 were not pre
pared for the shock of Pearl Har
bor. For them it had come a de
cade too soon.
Gn^DeWitfs Decision:
The release of the DeWitt Re
port early in 1944 makes it possible
to
rev
the
reasons
prompting the mass evacuation.
The action was predicated on
what was called “military necessity”. But this decision involved
aJu<^ment7 by an army official,
which should have been purely
sociological i n nature. It was not
a decision
wheih should hrve
been assigned to a military
commander.”
DeWitt’s report
clearlv
.
----- , indicates that Tacial considerations”
??re<(al.SO regarded as a part of
the military necessity” itself. It
also develops that the former
commanding general for the West
ern Defence Command has since
convicted himself of being deeply
prejudiced on tne score of race.
^e» doubt that “military neces
sity” wgs the only7 causative rea
son for evacuation becomes in
creasingly clear when no such
action was found necessary in
Hawaii, a military’ outpost much
closer to the enemy and a territ-ory in which people of Japanese
ancester represent a verv large
part of the total population.
It is now disclosed, too, that
there was exerted upon General
DeWitt direct and indirect poli
tical pressures through the technique of an organized campaign.
Various economic groups were
also at work. And the ultimate
decision rested with a man who
himself hod a strong personal
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b I WRITE THIS.. Chris
mas is just arouna me
corner. The Cantee:
stocking up
games, tree c
and cranberries. People
b^S Christmas cards, and ordering
Picture Butte., Alberta
c-o Richard Tanouye
MARh T. KOBA ARASHI
c-o A. G. Heaven Radio
Colborne St., Oakville, Ont.
Best Wishes for a
MERRY CHRISTMAS
1627 Ottawa Street,
R egina, Saskatchewan
MR. & AIRS. H. S. ARIKADO
and Alarjorie
50 Claremont St., Toronto,. Ont.
HIDEO OSHIMO
HARUO MACHIDA
-o Nipigon Lake Tbr. Ltd.,
MR. & MRS. FRANK OHTAKE
Armstrong, Ontario
Io St. Clarens Ave..
Toronto, Ontario
AIR. & AIRS. TOSHIO KURITA
Yasuo and Shigeru
Greenwood, B. C.
MR. & AIRS. WILLIAAI T. KOZAI
AIR. & MRS. J. E. FUKUI
Greenwood, B. C.
255 Alaria St., Toronto 9, Ont.
AIR. & AIRS. SEIJI HOAIAIa
and Chiyo Anne
Greenwood. B. C.
The Season s Compliments
AIR. & AIRS. HIDEO ONOTERA
'b S ^f « =fe
AIR. & AIRS. SUEKICHI ONIZUKA
SEIJI ONIZUKA
Larry and Kazue Elaine
Greenwood, B. C. I
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AIR. & AIRS. TATSUO ONOTERA
SHIGEO......................... Toronto, Ont.
TOSHIZO ..... Winnipeg, Alan.
P.O. Box 371, Greenwood, B. C.
Ts OBUYUKI .... Winnipeg, Alan.
The Season s Greetings
greenwood
Dry and Steam
Repairs,
Pressing
Alterations
Dyeing
Dressmaking
AIRS. NAKAGAAIA
AIRS. S. MATSUZAKI
Greenwood, B. C.
P.O. Box 538, Greenwood, B. C.
MISS AMY OKUGAWA
REV. AV. R. AIcWILLIAAIS
Greenwood, B. C.
Log Cabins, Tashme, B. C.
E. E. BEST
^rasnn’s ^rrriittg.
Log Cabins,- Tashme, B.C.
from
Medical and Nursing Staff
S. AI. AIILLER. M.D.
H. AI. SHIMOKURA, ALD.
TAI KUZUHARA, D.D.S.
A. REID, R.A., Alatron
H. KUAIANO, R.N.
C. AIOGENSON, R.N.
]Shizue Adachi
Kimiko Nakamura
I Alary Ishikawa
Tomio Seki
I Airs. Ko Kadonaga Airs. Ikuko Takada
Yukie Kaneko
Ayako Tehara
iTokuko Kawamoto Jean Uchikura
Hisaye Kihara
Alikiko Yamamoto
Tomiye Alitobe
Alary Yano
Yeiko Nagata
Alarge Yonemura
MR. & AIRS. WALTER INOUYE
Tashme, B. C.
I
C. OGAWA
Tashme, B. C.
KIYOZO KAWAI
yrT
'q
ft
ilk
921-9th Ave.. Tashme, B. C.
DR. & AIRS. M. SHIMOKURA
Satoru Howard, Alan Alitsuru
Tashme, B. C.
(idjr Hag §>rnitis Assnriaiinn
1st TASHAIE GROUP
SHIGE E. YOSHIDA, SCOUTAIASTER.
“A” TROOP
“B” TROOP
I
JAAIES SUYESHI SHINO, S.AI.
Tsutomu Kawabe, A.S.AI.
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Tatsuo Hori, Jr. A.S.AI.
Kazuo Kadonaga Jr. A.S.AI.
VICTOR ISAO KADONAGA, S.AI.
Ken Shirakawa, A.S.AI.
Chikao Chik Kageyama, Jr. A.S.AI.
Harold Aliwa, T. L.
I
Yoshio Wally Fukumoto, T. L.
I
iHaruo Hatanaka T.L. Bob Yoneda T.L.
Eagle Ptl. — Fox Ptl. — Swallow PtI Volf Ptl. — Cougar Ptl. — Bear Ptl.
I Raven Ptl. — Owl Ptl. — Coyote Ptl, Beaver Ptl.—Stag Ptl.—Buffalo Ptl
“C” TROOP
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TOMIO TOAI SEKI, S.AI.
Hiroshi Shin A.S.AI.
Arnold Arai, Jr. A.S.AI.
WOLF CUB PACK
TATSUO KOY’ANAGI, Jr. A.C.AI.
TSUTOAIU NAKAY'AAIA, Jr. A.C.AI.
Tadao Kawasaki. T. L.
I
Kazuo Fukumoto, T. L.
I Hawk Ptl.—Seagull Ptl.—Robin Ptl. I Red Six — Blue Six — Brown Si?:I
Tawny Six — Green Six
{Antelope Ptl.-Lynx Ptl.-Reindeer PtlJ
yaite a time tr;
& •«!
io moe
n their tiny hi
mas, from the
their offspring-.
ine scnool children
oon
begin
o r r y i n g about the
Christir
exams.. Some folks a;
uneventful
coking forward to A
have before did not improve mat
^ ul etide entertainment, such, a
.ind
ters muon. But the snow and con
we
conceits, private parties, the New
about
the
rmverts
helped to relieve the monoYears Dance. Others are antici
matching and chipped dishes
tony somewhat.
had to eat our Christmas dinner
pating, with gladness, the arrival
Christmas. I
a little
from. ( r mother, like most
from rhe mills, sections and road
better, We were more settled and
mothers, hated the thought
camps, of their sons and trim.is
more
who will have Christmas in Tash
bringing
ics
— for
... mar
v ere all used to Tashme life by
me. Everywhere there is an air of
hat . they migiit be broken on the
now,, and had learned to live hapexpectancy ano gladness in the at
onpier lives. Alost of them begged
mosphere. On the whole, I think
ly the odd pieces. The g.
inaand got skates and hockey
ware and other things v
we will be having a wonderful
sticks
for Christmas. You see,
Chrirstmas this year.
tully packed and locked aw
in
skating
is the “sport” in Tashme’
What a contrast tills is to
the downstairs closed. A
Some
of
us went out looking’ for
Christmas, 1942! Some folks had
looked back on our dear home for
a likely7 looking Christmas tree to
the last time before boardin the
come to Tashme in July, but many7
fit our tiny7 homes.
of us came much later, in Septem
truck, the thought that we ■would
By7 this time, the different clubs
ber and October. Most of us h,d
have a place to come back to and
and
organizations were well starr
just begun to get used to the
dishes to set before us when all
ed.
Concerts and dances were
high altitude and the different
this was over, gave us courage.
sponsored for the Christmas enand hope.
surroundings. We were just getteifainment.
Christmas1 cheer went
ting, our new homes settled, and
But this dream was rudely shat
to
the
old
men,
to the patients in
getting acquainted with our new
tered when a. curt letter arrived
the
hospitals,
and
to the men in
friends and neighbors. We were
from the Custodian, informing us
internment
camp.
Christmas
gifts
not really prepared for Christmas
that our home was sold, and all
were given and received, and most
yet; but winter was coming fast
our
belongings
auctioned
or-!
of us had a lovely7 time. There
and the outlook was bleak indeed.
Everything sold! Auctioned off!
was
heartbreak, though, in some
When Christmas came around,
We could have cried, and many7 oi
homes where their sons were cut
most of us made feeble attempts
us did. But what good would cry
off the payroll; here and sent East
to decorate the rooms with bus
ing do? Well, Ml our plans were
to other occupations. HomesAwere
of last year’s tinsel, but this did
upset once more, and most of us
agmn being broken up around
not seem to help much. A kindly7
were homeless. The older folks
Christmas and the New Ycciy and
person in our apartment, a forwere very7 bitter, and so were we,
this took all the cheer out of
mer florist, made cedar wreaths
but we have learned to forget.
things.
for our community7 kitchen, and
Alost of us have a brand new set
But this yrear, it will be differpassed around to each room, bits
of plan laid out, and dream or
en
fj just wait and sec. The Tiom.es
of. Christmas decoration.
This
the dav ’hen all our wishes shall
ate
better protected against the
raised our spirits somewhat. This,
come true.
cold, and the people here know
com,
and the well-loved Christmas Car
And so we sat around most of
just what to expect. Yes, we tare
ols which were played over the
that first Christmas day in Tash
all used to this sort of life now,
P.A. system. These joyous carols
me feeling very sorry for our
and we re all dreaming of a peace
were heard all over the township
selves. Thinking, back upon .the
ful, happy Christmas,. . . ....
and added cheer to the otherwise
happy Christmases
■sed to
C. O.
( PREJU D1C E, Japanese
Americans: Symbol of Racial
Intolerance”, by Care y McWilHams, Little, Brown & CO.,
Boston, .Mass.)
QAREY AIcWILLIAAIS is a cruv sading, if not militant, cham
pion of America’s underprivileged
minorities. As such he owes a
noteworthy7 national reputation to
some excellent volumes. In his
“Brothers Under The Skin”, re
viewed in these pages recently,
he makes a case for these minorTy groups and suggests a course
°f legislative remedies to relieve
discrimination.
The present volume, “Prejudice,
Japanese Americans: Symbol of
Racial Intolerance” deals particularly with one such group. It
shoves how a region rd minority7
issue, caught in a tornado of
mounting racism incident to the
war, herded the entire people in
volved mto concentration camps.
But now, in retrospect, he observes that America need not
apologize
for
this
temporary
harsh wartime measure, “a detour
from
democracy”,
if
broken
fabrics can be repaired and a
positive course can be charted to
convert it into an instrument for
strengthening the process of dem
ocracy itself.
ration:
According to McWilliams the
total removal of the Japanese
was due in part to the existence
of a deep fault, generally ignored,
in the social structure of the
Pacific Coast. And it was due in
part to the existence of a group
who, keenly awrre of this potentially-activN defect, had not onlyanticipated the moment when it
could be utilized, but had laid
foundations in fear and in fantasy. Thus they lost no time in
capitalizing upon the shock Vie
instant
came. It was this
“basic social fact that precipitated “the large
forced migra-
tion in American history.”
Thus the development of
stage setting for this expulsion
is traced with careful documenta
tion. The arrival of the first im
migrants over fifty7 years ago,
their gradual ascendancy7 in Cal
ifornia’s economic sun, the erose,
compact, suffocating in-group ec
onomy of the Little Tokyos that
dotted the Pacific Coast, the in
evitable psychological and cultural
cleavage
-d conflict between the
Issei ant.
’isei—all these are
subjected to - sen analyses.
In the atk/nment of this eco
nomic security and the achieve
ment of Little Tokyo solidarity,
the Issei hmd effected a sort of
cultural compromise with the exterior pressures
established
racial mores of the region: and
their community had traditions
and institutions peculiar to itself
and an atmosphere all its own. It
■was a marginal world between
tne two civilizations,
but its
structure and contents were more
and more subject to increasing
influence from the environment
of the New AVorld. Yet it was a
world which tended to keep out
broad currents of ideas and inter
ests. It was not onlv small.
It
was essentirJly pi
It was a
world that made io frustration.
Thus it was that the Nisei, subject to this narrow, limited orbit,
found a slow stifling of sensitiv- •
ity and individual development.
The favorite character
the
Nisei short story was a “Byronlc
figure, full of frustration and despair: sensitive, rebellious, introvert.” The frustrated nd introvert Aisei spent much time in
self-criticism over a wide field,
discussing the “
:i Mondai”
and in the main the were perplexed and unhappy, despite the
contrary reputation
they
had
among the Issei. “Withou knowing why, the Nisei were seeking
a larger world: they7 were suffo
cating in Little Tokpo.”
Perhaps it was due to the nat-
ural senility of Little Tokyo, or
it was the slow decay inherent in
its economy. Perhaps the Nisei
were mt last reaching their intel
lectual maturity. In any event towaids 1940 they were beginning
to emerge from this fog and un
certainty. But they7 were not pre
pared for the shock of Pearl Har
bor. For them it had come a de
cade too soon.
Gn^DeWitfs Decision:
The release of the DeWitt Re
port early in 1944 makes it possible
to
rev
the
reasons
prompting the mass evacuation.
The action was predicated on
what was called “military necessity”. But this decision involved
aJu<^ment7 by an army official,
which should have been purely
sociological i n nature. It was not
a decision
wheih should hrve
been assigned to a military
commander.”
DeWitt’s report
clearlv
.
----- , indicates that Tacial considerations”
??re<(al.SO regarded as a part of
the military necessity” itself. It
also develops that the former
commanding general for the West
ern Defence Command has since
convicted himself of being deeply
prejudiced on tne score of race.
^e» doubt that “military neces
sity” wgs the only7 causative rea
son for evacuation becomes in
creasingly clear when no such
action was found necessary in
Hawaii, a military’ outpost much
closer to the enemy and a territ-ory in which people of Japanese
ancester represent a verv large
part of the total population.
It is now disclosed, too, that
there was exerted upon General
DeWitt direct and indirect poli
tical pressures through the technique of an organized campaign.
Various economic groups were
also at work. And the ultimate
decision rested with a man who
himself hod a strong personal
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PREJUDICE, Japanese Americans
By E. C. B.
(Continued from Page 7)
conviction and who was obliged
to make a .quick mandate, not
with\ the nicety of a scientific
technician.
*
*
Toward- The Future:
In considering the future of the
Japanese Americans, Mr. McWillieims observes that there exists
an opportunity to eradicate “not
only the dangerous zone of race
feeling” but to change our racial
ideologies in general.
This ’s made even more possible
particularly in reference to
this minority group, by reason of
the concurrence of several factors
which have tended to speed up
the process of cultural change.
According to the author this is
a two-fold process: a change in
the attitude of the minority group
itself; and a change in the atti
tude of the dominant group.
With the death of the Little
Tokyos, the visible and invisible
ties that existed with Japan have
largely vanished. Relocation of
the evacuees has thrust me prooblem upon the Federal Govern
ment, thus minimizing the possi
bility of manipulation of the is
sue by race bigots from the Paci
fic Coast. Tension of this sort
naturally tends to abate with the
mow,
REV. & MRS. W.H.H. NORMAN
lessening of concentration. The
national press has begun to re
fute some of the prejudicial non
sense that was common in west
coast newspapers. In eastward re
location
evacuees
are * finding
themselves free for the first time
from the pressures which held
them down before. And they are
finding a community acceptance
that they had not enjoyed pre
viously. The magnificent battle
record of the Japanese American
units, under the stigma of popular
suspicion, above all is creating
favorable impressions in the minds
of the American public.
Evacuees are reaching out now
to identify their views with those
of the economic group ro which
they h-we become attached in the
process of relocation. They have
shown a real understanding of the
labor movement and a growing
political maturity. This is in con
trast to pre-Pearl Harbor affilia
tions with the Little Tokyo communities or with organizations
within these communities. The
evacuees arc rediscovering the
real America—not its bogus coun
terpart—to their and to America’s
advantage.
The Fundamental Thesis:
What is fundamental in Mr.
McWilliams’ thesis is, of course,
^Letter from the Editor:
Cent’
lienee, which neither the cold eye
of this editor nor the udders of
Mr. Mitchell Hepburn’s cows have
been able to deflate. His eyeview
of the state of the nation and his
patch work from Ontario (page 23)
are steps in a career that started
with cartooning and editing the
Kitsilano High School “Life” in
Vancouver, carried into a stretch
at gardening and road making,
extended into a short spasm of
writing professionally for these
columns, and is centred tempor
arily in Bannockburn Farms at
St. Thomas, Ont.
Our Hi-lo columnist and former
assistant editor again displays the
touch that springs,from the heart
of the people in “Papa’s Good Old
Days” (page 10). We remember the
rehashing that went on for weeKs
and weeks on Roy’s first contribu
tion to The New Canadian a long
while back. Roy went in as a saw
mill hand after finishing technical
school, thence to Alberta’s sugar
beets via the road camp, then he
esme to us in Kaslo for a year,
and from here journeyed off in
search of more education at Hamilton s McMaster University. There
he is now Associate Editor of the
University's weekly “Silhouette*’.
“T.M.A.” is the pen-name for a
veteran writer whose contribu
tions to Nisei literature you will
discover in Young People’s* Society
magazines of the early ‘30’s. Mar
riage. and bringing up children in
a well-ordered household, still did
not prevent her from conducting
a many-faceted column for Trie
New Canadian before the war. Her
story, “All One People”, (page 5)
is a true report on the relocation
of herself and family to Toronto
early in 1942.
that the nation must now take an
6464 Chester St., Vancouver, B.C.
affirmative step in dealing w.tn
the matter of race relations. This 1 Rejoicing that so few of you bear
suggestion is repeated and some I and resentment, and praying that
what enlarged in the present vol 1 He will strengthen and sustain you
ume. He stresses the need of a
all in every moment of trial
declared public policy by the Fed
eral Government, to be imple MR. & MRS. DAVID PRIESTMAN
Ocean Falls & Duncan, B. C.
mented by a total mobilization of 1
government agencies ana services
to effect compliance -with that
MRS. EUGRETTA HAWORTH
policy.
The suggestion is pre I
(Robertson)
mised on a basic proposition that
i -t 7 • 4 — • p X — b y y
it is the responsibility of the
Federal Government to see to it I
Ocean Falls Kindergarten
that “no. citizen is discriminately I
Box 464, Ocean Falls, B. C.
denied, on the basis of race alone,
access to those services and facili
ESTHER L. RYAN
ties which are a vital requisite of
good citizenship.”
Since the publication of “Bro
1
500 Powell Street
thers Under The Skin”. in which
Vancouver, B. C.
the suggestions were first em I
bodied, the proposal has received
considerable attention. Whether or
May the Spirit of Christmas rule
not these remedial proposals will
the World and always be with
be applied in the manner suggest
each one of you.
ed, namely, “from the top down”,
KATHLEEN
LANG
seems debatable. But thene seems
little cteubt that with the tncreas^> ^ V — >- ' 7 y 7"
ing awareness of the eritical
North Kamloops, B. C.
nature of the problems of race
relations .pparent in the country
MR. & MRS.- YOSHIAKI SATO
today, there will be a considerable
Giscome, B. C.
volume of public opinion in sup
port of positive actions
field.
in
— • -^ '7 f • -t y ?’
No. 1009. Dominion Bank Bldg..
207 W. Hastings St., Vancouver, B.C.
were submitted, but space has not
permitted the publication even of
those of considerable merit and
interest. They will appear, how
ever, in the near future.
Barrister
^7>^«^*7>^-* ^7^837 W. Hastings St., Vancouver, B.C.
GEORGE O. SHAW
i>’d — £/ • d — • £z 3 ]>
Powell Drug Company
MORY UYENO
TRIXIE UYENO
■Monte Lake, B. C.
MUCK KOBAYASHI
Kamloops, B. C.
HENRY TADASHI OKAMOTO
P.O. Box 1091, Vernon, B. C.
YUSAKU SUGIYAMA
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Bridge River, B, C.
Hope, B. C.
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KEIJI MINATO
Mr. & Mrs. ISSAKU UCHIDA
Grindrod, B. C.
c-o Summit Limeworks Ltd.,
Crows Nest, B. C.
TAMOTSU KOSAKA
TAKAHARU KUMAMOTO
TAKAYUKI KUMAMOTO
JOHNNY KARIYA
TERUJI MURAKAMI
TADASHI MATSUMOTO
TOSHIO NAGAI
FRANK TAKAGI
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TAYLOR LAKE
FAWN P. O., B. C.
TED “DU” AIDA
HIPPO TOWATA
JOE NAKAMURA
TOSH RYOJI
SHIG NISHIZAKI
ROY NISHIZAKI
GEORGE YOSHINAKA
KON OBAYASHI
WATT NISHIDA
i
MANABU ART OKIMURA
FUDGE FUKUMOTO
FUZZY FUJIWARA
SUS FUJIWARA
KANAME YAMAMOTO
K. NATSUHARA
S. WATANABE
MAS TSURUOKA
ICHY SHIINO
HISAO KIKUCHI
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NAKUSP, B. C.
Wn My 3Frir«hH anh Sitstnmws
COMPLIMENTS
OF
THE
APPRECIATION
OF
YOUR PATRONAGE AND
SEASON,
AND
SINCERE
FAVORS.
MAY THE NEW TEAR HOLD FOR EVERYONE, EVERY-
^HERt,
GOOD
LUCK AND HAPPIER DAYS.
CLony Kobayashi
WIN-CENTRE RADIO AND ELECTRIC
Complete Public
Address Service
KANAGAN CENTRE, B. C.
4
MR. & MRS. K. YAMAURA
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K. UCHINAMI
KIMI TAKIMOTO
<W
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399 Powell St., Vancouver, B.C.
DR. M. MIYAZAKI
RADIO and
Appliance Repairs
Hl
1
W. W. LEFEAUX
Best Wishes for a
MERRY CHRISTMAS
St. Thomas, Ontario
B ranches
ALBERT H. YOUNG
# He ±
this
Likewise, a tentative project to
publish a section with contribu
tions from our school children Had
An original turn to a familiar
to be scrapped because there just
story is “Peg’s” notable contribu
wasn't room. But we do plan to
tion to this Christmas issue. Bare
do something about it next year.
ly out of her teens, she went to
Our very sincere thanks go to
■school from a Mission, B.C., farm,
everyone who sent in contribu
and while in Mantoba first began
tions, whether they were publish
to write for our columns. Readers
ed or not. And a mild malediction
will remember her account of life
rests upon a number of other emi
on the prairie sugar beet farms
nently capable writers we know
in last year’s Christmas number.
who didn’t quite summon up the
This year her story comes from
inspiration or perspiration to let
Hamilton, where she is studying
us share in their creative ability,
and working-, and stilly finding time
XV e have to thank, too, all the
and inspiration for writing and
many staunch
supporters
who
club activities.
gave necessary financial assistnee by publishing their greetJack Nakamoto, whose notable
ings. Frankly, the whole staff exexperience as a soldier with the
pected to work late every night,
Canadian Army in England at the
which we did: but the business
time of Pearl Harbor, was sensi
manager didn’t quite expect to
tively penned a year ago, too, re
spend so much money. Notwithturns with a venlure into a Nisei'
standing. if this issue gives you
love story. Our secretary Naomi’s
some enjoyable reading during the
enthusiastic vote and' plea for a
holiday season, we’ll count it well
little romance completely over
worth it.
rode the jaundiced objections of
the male editors.
It goes to you with very best
wishes
for the holiday season and
Space does not all w for com
the
New
Year from Takaichi
ment on every contributor, but a
Umezuki,
admiringly
known as
word may be said in thanks to
the unshakeable Russian marshal;
A.P. Allsebrook, of Kaslo, whose
from Tsukane Mayeda, who picks
water color, “Early December is
type all day and prints all night
reproduced on page 25. Mr. Allse
with never a cuss word; from
brook has been a sincere friend
Naomi Tanaka, who weeps more
and staunch supporter of the evac
bitterly every day as the circula
uees in th - Kootenays.
tion and mailing system becomes
A number of other manuscripts
more and • more neglected; from
Junji Ikeno, who fondly christened
his linotype machine, “Mrs. Jim
my Kane”, both because of her
womanly temperament and her
productivity; from Noji Murase,
who despite excess worry and no
sleep,
managed to keep up his
ear
poundage by eating four large
meals daily; and from Tom Shoyama, who was busy either ar
somebody else’s wedding or play
in crucial moments with Eiko,
-, Etsuko. Yaeko,
Kazuko,
i. Viola, Eveline, Jackie and
Takuji, none of whom fortunately
ed their eleventh birth-
Main Store
MRS. ALICE HIGASHIDA
'
1
03
r y
1535 XV. 5th Ave., Vancouver, B.C 1
T
Wn ©ur Setting JJairnns
"The Okanagan Wanderers’
nJ
P.O. Box 422, Cedar Springs. Ont.
Dora.
; Ruth, Pete and Tonv
PREJUDICE, Japanese Americans
By E. C. B.
(Continued from Page 7)
conviction and who was obliged
to make a .quick mandate, not
with\ the nicety of a scientific
technician.
*
*
Toward- The Future:
In considering the future of the
Japanese Americans, Mr. McWillieims observes that there exists
an opportunity to eradicate “not
only the dangerous zone of race
feeling” but to change our racial
ideologies in general.
This ’s made even more possible
particularly in reference to
this minority group, by reason of
the concurrence of several factors
which have tended to speed up
the process of cultural change.
According to the author this is
a two-fold process: a change in
the attitude of the minority group
itself; and a change in the atti
tude of the dominant group.
With the death of the Little
Tokyos, the visible and invisible
ties that existed with Japan have
largely vanished. Relocation of
the evacuees has thrust me prooblem upon the Federal Govern
ment, thus minimizing the possi
bility of manipulation of the is
sue by race bigots from the Paci
fic Coast. Tension of this sort
naturally tends to abate with the
mow,
REV. & MRS. W.H.H. NORMAN
lessening of concentration. The
national press has begun to re
fute some of the prejudicial non
sense that was common in west
coast newspapers. In eastward re
location
evacuees
are * finding
themselves free for the first time
from the pressures which held
them down before. And they are
finding a community acceptance
that they had not enjoyed pre
viously. The magnificent battle
record of the Japanese American
units, under the stigma of popular
suspicion, above all is creating
favorable impressions in the minds
of the American public.
Evacuees are reaching out now
to identify their views with those
of the economic group ro which
they h-we become attached in the
process of relocation. They have
shown a real understanding of the
labor movement and a growing
political maturity. This is in con
trast to pre-Pearl Harbor affilia
tions with the Little Tokyo communities or with organizations
within these communities. The
evacuees arc rediscovering the
real America—not its bogus coun
terpart—to their and to America’s
advantage.
The Fundamental Thesis:
What is fundamental in Mr.
McWilliams’ thesis is, of course,
^Letter from the Editor:
Cent’
lienee, which neither the cold eye
of this editor nor the udders of
Mr. Mitchell Hepburn’s cows have
been able to deflate. His eyeview
of the state of the nation and his
patch work from Ontario (page 23)
are steps in a career that started
with cartooning and editing the
Kitsilano High School “Life” in
Vancouver, carried into a stretch
at gardening and road making,
extended into a short spasm of
writing professionally for these
columns, and is centred tempor
arily in Bannockburn Farms at
St. Thomas, Ont.
Our Hi-lo columnist and former
assistant editor again displays the
touch that springs,from the heart
of the people in “Papa’s Good Old
Days” (page 10). We remember the
rehashing that went on for weeKs
and weeks on Roy’s first contribu
tion to The New Canadian a long
while back. Roy went in as a saw
mill hand after finishing technical
school, thence to Alberta’s sugar
beets via the road camp, then he
esme to us in Kaslo for a year,
and from here journeyed off in
search of more education at Hamilton s McMaster University. There
he is now Associate Editor of the
University's weekly “Silhouette*’.
“T.M.A.” is the pen-name for a
veteran writer whose contribu
tions to Nisei literature you will
discover in Young People’s* Society
magazines of the early ‘30’s. Mar
riage. and bringing up children in
a well-ordered household, still did
not prevent her from conducting
a many-faceted column for Trie
New Canadian before the war. Her
story, “All One People”, (page 5)
is a true report on the relocation
of herself and family to Toronto
early in 1942.
that the nation must now take an
6464 Chester St., Vancouver, B.C.
affirmative step in dealing w.tn
the matter of race relations. This 1 Rejoicing that so few of you bear
suggestion is repeated and some I and resentment, and praying that
what enlarged in the present vol 1 He will strengthen and sustain you
ume. He stresses the need of a
all in every moment of trial
declared public policy by the Fed
eral Government, to be imple MR. & MRS. DAVID PRIESTMAN
Ocean Falls & Duncan, B. C.
mented by a total mobilization of 1
government agencies ana services
to effect compliance -with that
MRS. EUGRETTA HAWORTH
policy.
The suggestion is pre I
(Robertson)
mised on a basic proposition that
i -t 7 • 4 — • p X — b y y
it is the responsibility of the
Federal Government to see to it I
Ocean Falls Kindergarten
that “no. citizen is discriminately I
Box 464, Ocean Falls, B. C.
denied, on the basis of race alone,
access to those services and facili
ESTHER L. RYAN
ties which are a vital requisite of
good citizenship.”
Since the publication of “Bro
1
500 Powell Street
thers Under The Skin”. in which
Vancouver, B. C.
the suggestions were first em I
bodied, the proposal has received
considerable attention. Whether or
May the Spirit of Christmas rule
not these remedial proposals will
the World and always be with
be applied in the manner suggest
each one of you.
ed, namely, “from the top down”,
KATHLEEN
LANG
seems debatable. But thene seems
little cteubt that with the tncreas^> ^ V — >- ' 7 y 7"
ing awareness of the eritical
North Kamloops, B. C.
nature of the problems of race
relations .pparent in the country
MR. & MRS.- YOSHIAKI SATO
today, there will be a considerable
Giscome, B. C.
volume of public opinion in sup
port of positive actions
field.
in
— • -^ '7 f • -t y ?’
No. 1009. Dominion Bank Bldg..
207 W. Hastings St., Vancouver, B.C.
were submitted, but space has not
permitted the publication even of
those of considerable merit and
interest. They will appear, how
ever, in the near future.
Barrister
^7>^«^*7>^-* ^7^837 W. Hastings St., Vancouver, B.C.
GEORGE O. SHAW
i>’d — £/ • d — • £z 3 ]>
Powell Drug Company
MORY UYENO
TRIXIE UYENO
■Monte Lake, B. C.
MUCK KOBAYASHI
Kamloops, B. C.
HENRY TADASHI OKAMOTO
P.O. Box 1091, Vernon, B. C.
YUSAKU SUGIYAMA
#
1'
Ui
P. O. Box 874
Bridge River, B, C.
Hope, B. C.
ft
^
=
—
Camp 17
Mr. & Mrs. TADASHI KITAGUCH
Hansard, B. C.
t
(
.
Keitel
Mr. & Mrs. KAZUO HARAGA
®
—
^5
KEIJI MINATO
Mr. & Mrs. ISSAKU UCHIDA
Grindrod, B. C.
c-o Summit Limeworks Ltd.,
Crows Nest, B. C.
TAMOTSU KOSAKA
TAKAHARU KUMAMOTO
TAKAYUKI KUMAMOTO
JOHNNY KARIYA
TERUJI MURAKAMI
TADASHI MATSUMOTO
TOSHIO NAGAI
FRANK TAKAGI
ft
r-
i
ffl —
c-o Sorg Pulp €Company, Ltd.,
TAYLOR LAKE
FAWN P. O., B. C.
TED “DU” AIDA
HIPPO TOWATA
JOE NAKAMURA
TOSH RYOJI
SHIG NISHIZAKI
ROY NISHIZAKI
GEORGE YOSHINAKA
KON OBAYASHI
WATT NISHIDA
i
MANABU ART OKIMURA
FUDGE FUKUMOTO
FUZZY FUJIWARA
SUS FUJIWARA
KANAME YAMAMOTO
K. NATSUHARA
S. WATANABE
MAS TSURUOKA
ICHY SHIINO
HISAO KIKUCHI
3
Vi:
W
81
i5®
^^S Bend Lumber Company
NAKUSP, B. C.
Wn My 3Frir«hH anh Sitstnmws
COMPLIMENTS
OF
THE
APPRECIATION
OF
YOUR PATRONAGE AND
SEASON,
AND
SINCERE
FAVORS.
MAY THE NEW TEAR HOLD FOR EVERYONE, EVERY-
^HERt,
GOOD
LUCK AND HAPPIER DAYS.
CLony Kobayashi
WIN-CENTRE RADIO AND ELECTRIC
Complete Public
Address Service
KANAGAN CENTRE, B. C.
4
MR. & MRS. K. YAMAURA
-
^
ICHIRO SHIINO
#£
if
—
Mp
c-o Big Bend Lbr. Co., Nakusp, B.C
K. UCHINAMI
KIMI TAKIMOTO
<W
)
399 Powell St., Vancouver, B.C.
DR. M. MIYAZAKI
RADIO and
Appliance Repairs
Hl
1
W. W. LEFEAUX
Best Wishes for a
MERRY CHRISTMAS
St. Thomas, Ontario
B ranches
ALBERT H. YOUNG
# He ±
this
Likewise, a tentative project to
publish a section with contribu
tions from our school children Had
An original turn to a familiar
to be scrapped because there just
story is “Peg’s” notable contribu
wasn't room. But we do plan to
tion to this Christmas issue. Bare
do something about it next year.
ly out of her teens, she went to
Our very sincere thanks go to
■school from a Mission, B.C., farm,
everyone who sent in contribu
and while in Mantoba first began
tions, whether they were publish
to write for our columns. Readers
ed or not. And a mild malediction
will remember her account of life
rests upon a number of other emi
on the prairie sugar beet farms
nently capable writers we know
in last year’s Christmas number.
who didn’t quite summon up the
This year her story comes from
inspiration or perspiration to let
Hamilton, where she is studying
us share in their creative ability,
and working-, and stilly finding time
XV e have to thank, too, all the
and inspiration for writing and
many staunch
supporters
who
club activities.
gave necessary financial assistnee by publishing their greetJack Nakamoto, whose notable
ings. Frankly, the whole staff exexperience as a soldier with the
pected to work late every night,
Canadian Army in England at the
which we did: but the business
time of Pearl Harbor, was sensi
manager didn’t quite expect to
tively penned a year ago, too, re
spend so much money. Notwithturns with a venlure into a Nisei'
standing. if this issue gives you
love story. Our secretary Naomi’s
some enjoyable reading during the
enthusiastic vote and' plea for a
holiday season, we’ll count it well
little romance completely over
worth it.
rode the jaundiced objections of
the male editors.
It goes to you with very best
wishes
for the holiday season and
Space does not all w for com
the
New
Year from Takaichi
ment on every contributor, but a
Umezuki,
admiringly
known as
word may be said in thanks to
the unshakeable Russian marshal;
A.P. Allsebrook, of Kaslo, whose
from Tsukane Mayeda, who picks
water color, “Early December is
type all day and prints all night
reproduced on page 25. Mr. Allse
with never a cuss word; from
brook has been a sincere friend
Naomi Tanaka, who weeps more
and staunch supporter of the evac
bitterly every day as the circula
uees in th - Kootenays.
tion and mailing system becomes
A number of other manuscripts
more and • more neglected; from
Junji Ikeno, who fondly christened
his linotype machine, “Mrs. Jim
my Kane”, both because of her
womanly temperament and her
productivity; from Noji Murase,
who despite excess worry and no
sleep,
managed to keep up his
ear
poundage by eating four large
meals daily; and from Tom Shoyama, who was busy either ar
somebody else’s wedding or play
in crucial moments with Eiko,
-, Etsuko. Yaeko,
Kazuko,
i. Viola, Eveline, Jackie and
Takuji, none of whom fortunately
ed their eleventh birth-
Main Store
MRS. ALICE HIGASHIDA
'
1
03
r y
1535 XV. 5th Ave., Vancouver, B.C 1
T
Wn ©ur Setting JJairnns
"The Okanagan Wanderers’
nJ
P.O. Box 422, Cedar Springs. Ont.
Dora.
; Ruth, Pete and Tonv
Page 9
J&M
4^®
HRISTMAS IS OLD REMEMBRANCES, ACH
INGLY SWEET . . . the pungent, spicy, cedary
fragrance caught in a house changed to magic
overnight, corners full of surprises . . . bright
steams of light spilling over window sills, ..cast
ing shadows down the snowy lanes . . . the wide
expanses of untrodden snow, almost blue-green,
so puiy it makes the heart ache with beauty . .
. . stars so clear, so close that one could stand tip-toe to
grab them . . . the crunch of snow underfoot . . . the
naked trees, hiding their modesty in drapes of crystal
ice . . .
And with Christmas, 1944, approaching, Nisei Joe says
"Huh, the less fuss we make about Christmas, the better!
Christmas doesn’t mean a damn thing to me
He
lights his cigarette casually, too casually, to show that he
does not Caie, and his eyes take in the small black room
. . . one bed. one small gas-plate, a make-shift cupboard
and table, and his duffle bag, bearing the scars of rough
ti avei all the way-across a continent. And from his one
window, he. looks out upon the drabness of dark roofs.
the sooty windows
unwashed curtains of back bathrooms, the dirty grey of traffic-churned snow, and th
washline of cloth s which never look.s white, strung slatternly across a bit of backyard.
But Christmas is old remembrances, achingly sweet
'Aar
I
CHRISTMAS
IS HUMANITY’
SHEDDING
ITS
VENEER OF HARDNESS AND SOPHISTICATION, the
opening of the heart to happy, half-forgotten things. It
is the.winging back of the spirit to long-forgotten, far-off
expeiiences ... to days when one counted with impatience,
the slow march of hours, dragging to Christmas Eve i I
special, treats, like scraping the insides of bowls, and rev
elling' in the sweetness of brown sugar, butter, spice and
brandy . . .■ that first pet dog, warm and cuddly, licking
one’s face, and snuggling behind one’s ear '. . . that won
derful day when Santa stooped from his tall height, shifted
his ponderous weight, and for the first time, twinkled
light into, one s heart b.y saying. “Missy, and what do you
want . . .’’ And Santa came every year after that, but it
was nevei me same. Twas mother’s time for worrying, as
she bustled about, wondering how she could stretch’the
turkey for the four unexpected guests. Dad too, made
£
rapid mental calculations a to how he could squeeze in
another fort. ounces for his own use. without mother
finding out. And Nisei Joe too, suddenly
new leaf, stayed very close to the family hearth, for he
needs must get on the “old man’s good side" if he were,
to squire the lady of the hour, she who had not been impervious to his "wolfing tactics." to the party of the year.
Nisei Ann somehow lost her tomboyish ways and even her
brother’s ‘ ’Fer gosh sakes, what are you mooning about"
could not dim the bright dreams which Christmas was to
bring . . .
But Christmas will be differen
and
Nisei Joe. It will be a lonely time,
up two or three more evacuees like himself on Christina.
Eve down a bottle or so to get that "Christmas spirit.'
then will sleep till noon. And 6 p.m. Christmas dav
restaurant will give him hi
dinner for a dollar . . . then a game of snooker at the
corner pool room,, . some
. bridge
- or poker.
------ 3O- Merry
Oniistmas . . . wmlc like a nauntmg melody, thoughts of
home will come drifting back to him as some late radio
station blares out a familiar tune.
CHRISTMAS IS MINGLED SENSATIONS OF PRAC
TICALITY AND DREAMS. It is an attempt, fleeting per
haps, but still an attempt to keep intact, those beliefs
somehow feel to be true, b
which, with the
? of childhood, have lost themselves in the clutterings of every-day living. It is the instinctive attempt to
hold for a moment, something of the wonder and credulity
of a cnild. even though the practical experience of life
questions the fitness of such an attempt. It is the impulse
which makes the most reasonable of us say, as everything
about us takes on a festive air. “Of course, there IS a
Santa Claus!" It is the pain which pulls at the heart
when a world-wise eight-year-old scornfully says “Naw,
there ain’t no Santa Claus. He’s yer old man!”
. It is this feeling which makes Nisei Ann and Nisei
’Joe take time off during their lunch hours to go buy the
kid sistex her silk stockings, even if it means waiting in a
Ime-up for over an hour. It is the feeling which makes
Nisei Joe give up his shows, his Saturday night snooker,
his new suit, to send mom a new coat, despite her letter
saying. "Son. never mind sending us things . . . we’ve
nothing we can send out here . . . just s:ave and look after
yourself." What if Nisei Ann is broke and her weekly
pay cheques
three months? In
her mind’s eye
too. she sees her kid
brothers and si:
too young to come out as evacuees.
up on Christmas
f in a 14 feet by 14 feet
wooden structure which they call home, forgetful of war.
privations, as once again. Christmas as of old. lights their
eyes and warms their hearts.
CHRISTMAS IS HOPE BROUGHT CLOSE TO THE '
HEART OF .HUMANITY. It is the transcendency of the
spirit and the momentary vision that even if things arc
pretty bad now. they cannot always remain the same. It
the moment when the heart is made
aware
ill left in the world, despite the fact that
the world todav
a tired, di ppointing one. Christmas
is
day born of hope. It is the shining symbol of peace
and goodwill.
And it is this hope, this prayer—-"Peace on Earth.
Goodwill to all Mankind"-—which somewhat brightens the
drabness and the bleakness in. the lives of Nisei
and
citizens of
upreme
of loyalty
and life. It is this hope which makes them look forward
to another year, makes them go on quietly, filling in the
places left vacant by their more fortunate Canadian
friends. Their lives are strangely uprooted: their future
is insecure: they go on. day by day. fulfilling as best they
can, their little jobs. For th. ir silent, valiant little battl
against pessimism, heartache and loneliness, there ;are no
ribbons, no medals, no
01 : songs—just a feelinig that
they ar somewhat a 1 tie cut off from the full si ream
of life. But hope, made articulate by Christmas and
Christmassy things, make Nisei Joe and Nisei Ann write
to dear ones back home: "Morry Christmas . . . and don't
worry, ’cause we’re doing fine.’’
AND SO, MERRY CHRISTMAS. A LA 1.944!
—Cinderella.
.You haven't
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O CAN A D A. our heritage, our love, probably has
never looked like this to you unless you are sadly in
need of glasses or under the influence of the happy holi-
day season. A ep, geography students may gasp, crosscountry trekking evacuees may protest, and ghost town
teachers may shudder. .But this has nothing to do with
projections or what the airplane is doing to the globe.
It’s just our country with emphasis in definite Tree hand,
on where we are and what we’re doing these days.—F.A.M
4^®
HRISTMAS IS OLD REMEMBRANCES, ACH
INGLY SWEET . . . the pungent, spicy, cedary
fragrance caught in a house changed to magic
overnight, corners full of surprises . . . bright
steams of light spilling over window sills, ..cast
ing shadows down the snowy lanes . . . the wide
expanses of untrodden snow, almost blue-green,
so puiy it makes the heart ache with beauty . .
. . stars so clear, so close that one could stand tip-toe to
grab them . . . the crunch of snow underfoot . . . the
naked trees, hiding their modesty in drapes of crystal
ice . . .
And with Christmas, 1944, approaching, Nisei Joe says
"Huh, the less fuss we make about Christmas, the better!
Christmas doesn’t mean a damn thing to me
He
lights his cigarette casually, too casually, to show that he
does not Caie, and his eyes take in the small black room
. . . one bed. one small gas-plate, a make-shift cupboard
and table, and his duffle bag, bearing the scars of rough
ti avei all the way-across a continent. And from his one
window, he. looks out upon the drabness of dark roofs.
the sooty windows
unwashed curtains of back bathrooms, the dirty grey of traffic-churned snow, and th
washline of cloth s which never look.s white, strung slatternly across a bit of backyard.
But Christmas is old remembrances, achingly sweet
'Aar
I
CHRISTMAS
IS HUMANITY’
SHEDDING
ITS
VENEER OF HARDNESS AND SOPHISTICATION, the
opening of the heart to happy, half-forgotten things. It
is the.winging back of the spirit to long-forgotten, far-off
expeiiences ... to days when one counted with impatience,
the slow march of hours, dragging to Christmas Eve i I
special, treats, like scraping the insides of bowls, and rev
elling' in the sweetness of brown sugar, butter, spice and
brandy . . .■ that first pet dog, warm and cuddly, licking
one’s face, and snuggling behind one’s ear '. . . that won
derful day when Santa stooped from his tall height, shifted
his ponderous weight, and for the first time, twinkled
light into, one s heart b.y saying. “Missy, and what do you
want . . .’’ And Santa came every year after that, but it
was nevei me same. Twas mother’s time for worrying, as
she bustled about, wondering how she could stretch’the
turkey for the four unexpected guests. Dad too, made
£
rapid mental calculations a to how he could squeeze in
another fort. ounces for his own use. without mother
finding out. And Nisei Joe too, suddenly
new leaf, stayed very close to the family hearth, for he
needs must get on the “old man’s good side" if he were,
to squire the lady of the hour, she who had not been impervious to his "wolfing tactics." to the party of the year.
Nisei Ann somehow lost her tomboyish ways and even her
brother’s ‘ ’Fer gosh sakes, what are you mooning about"
could not dim the bright dreams which Christmas was to
bring . . .
But Christmas will be differen
and
Nisei Joe. It will be a lonely time,
up two or three more evacuees like himself on Christina.
Eve down a bottle or so to get that "Christmas spirit.'
then will sleep till noon. And 6 p.m. Christmas dav
restaurant will give him hi
dinner for a dollar . . . then a game of snooker at the
corner pool room,, . some
. bridge
- or poker.
------ 3O- Merry
Oniistmas . . . wmlc like a nauntmg melody, thoughts of
home will come drifting back to him as some late radio
station blares out a familiar tune.
CHRISTMAS IS MINGLED SENSATIONS OF PRAC
TICALITY AND DREAMS. It is an attempt, fleeting per
haps, but still an attempt to keep intact, those beliefs
somehow feel to be true, b
which, with the
? of childhood, have lost themselves in the clutterings of every-day living. It is the instinctive attempt to
hold for a moment, something of the wonder and credulity
of a cnild. even though the practical experience of life
questions the fitness of such an attempt. It is the impulse
which makes the most reasonable of us say, as everything
about us takes on a festive air. “Of course, there IS a
Santa Claus!" It is the pain which pulls at the heart
when a world-wise eight-year-old scornfully says “Naw,
there ain’t no Santa Claus. He’s yer old man!”
. It is this feeling which makes Nisei Ann and Nisei
’Joe take time off during their lunch hours to go buy the
kid sistex her silk stockings, even if it means waiting in a
Ime-up for over an hour. It is the feeling which makes
Nisei Joe give up his shows, his Saturday night snooker,
his new suit, to send mom a new coat, despite her letter
saying. "Son. never mind sending us things . . . we’ve
nothing we can send out here . . . just s:ave and look after
yourself." What if Nisei Ann is broke and her weekly
pay cheques
three months? In
her mind’s eye
too. she sees her kid
brothers and si:
too young to come out as evacuees.
up on Christmas
f in a 14 feet by 14 feet
wooden structure which they call home, forgetful of war.
privations, as once again. Christmas as of old. lights their
eyes and warms their hearts.
CHRISTMAS IS HOPE BROUGHT CLOSE TO THE '
HEART OF .HUMANITY. It is the transcendency of the
spirit and the momentary vision that even if things arc
pretty bad now. they cannot always remain the same. It
the moment when the heart is made
aware
ill left in the world, despite the fact that
the world todav
a tired, di ppointing one. Christmas
is
day born of hope. It is the shining symbol of peace
and goodwill.
And it is this hope, this prayer—-"Peace on Earth.
Goodwill to all Mankind"-—which somewhat brightens the
drabness and the bleakness in. the lives of Nisei
and
citizens of
upreme
of loyalty
and life. It is this hope which makes them look forward
to another year, makes them go on quietly, filling in the
places left vacant by their more fortunate Canadian
friends. Their lives are strangely uprooted: their future
is insecure: they go on. day by day. fulfilling as best they
can, their little jobs. For th. ir silent, valiant little battl
against pessimism, heartache and loneliness, there ;are no
ribbons, no medals, no
01 : songs—just a feelinig that
they ar somewhat a 1 tie cut off from the full si ream
of life. But hope, made articulate by Christmas and
Christmassy things, make Nisei Joe and Nisei Ann write
to dear ones back home: "Morry Christmas . . . and don't
worry, ’cause we’re doing fine.’’
AND SO, MERRY CHRISTMAS. A LA 1.944!
—Cinderella.
.You haven't
How MYoO
WODekVAVE
Yoo?
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O CAN A D A. our heritage, our love, probably has
never looked like this to you unless you are sadly in
need of glasses or under the influence of the happy holi-
day season. A ep, geography students may gasp, crosscountry trekking evacuees may protest, and ghost town
teachers may shudder. .But this has nothing to do with
projections or what the airplane is doing to the globe.
It’s just our country with emphasis in definite Tree hand,
on where we are and what we’re doing these days.—F.A.M
Page 10
Mama kept on pouring for them.
But soon Papa began to pour. And
then Papa’s good friends all be
gan to pour for each other. And
so Mama was kept busy heating
the “sake” in her kettle.
Have just one more, Papa would
say, picking up Sato-san’s glass
and giving it to him to hold.
No, no, no! protested Sato-san,
but still holding his glass most
carefully not to spill the “sake”.
Then Sato-san poured for Tapa,
and Papa protested most vigor
ously. It went around like that.
Everybody said they didn’t want
any more “sake” but kept on
pouring for each other and thev
became pinker and pinker and
Mama was kept more than busy
running between the kitchen and
the table to heat the “sake”.
,
*
APA DOESN’T mention it
ny moustache, Tomura-san was all
very much now that we
wrinkled up, Kondo-san was a lit
tle stooped, and Sato-san had a
are over here, He says
thin face and talked very fast,
we shouldn’t talk about
Papa was the nicest looking of
those days when we were back on
them all since he had only one
the coast as “good old days” be
little wart on his right 'cheek. But
cause people might think we liked
these good “'oji-sans” were all
those days when all the Japanese
getting old, so no one should think
people -were together much better.
of them as funny to look at or
That would be bad and so Papa
laugh at them.
doesn’t talk of those days. ,
When Mama went up the hall to
But I knov.T that Papa does
greet them, they usually bowed
think a good deal of those days.
very low many times and' said
Papa was very happy and his
Not that he isn’t happier now than
things in Japanese. They did this
friends
were very happy. Mama
he was before, but you can under
many times, 'and Mama thanked
was
happy
watching them too.
stand how all people, especially
^m Toi' all the kind things the
And
I
felt
happy too because
old people, look back and talk of
“oji-sans” had done for me in the
Papa
was
so
happy. Soon he be
the “good old days”.
past year and then they thanked
gan
to
sing
one
of those Japanese
Mama for all the good things she
Papa’s good old days go back
songs
he
likes.
First he used to
had done for Tomi-chan, Kazukoto the time when he first came to
sing a verse, and then his good
san, Toko-chan,
Emi-chan
and
Canada and worked on the railfriends
came in with “yoi, yoi,
Eiko-san.
They
even
thanked
road gang, or when he was fishyoi-sho-ne!
” clapping their hands
Mama for letting ‘them play with
ing for salmon from a. r ilboat’ on
to
keep
time.
And then Papa's
me and then Mama used to say
the Skeena with Tomura-san. But
good
friends
took
turns singing
how bad I was.
Then they ail
his best “good old days” was
the
verses.
Mama
usually
smiled
laughed and said how bad Tomiwhen the New Year came along.
and
watched,
but
she
sometimes
dhan and everybody else was. It
Mama thinks so too. She worked
joined in and behind the door I
was
all very hard to understand.
hard all day boiling the “tako”,
tried to keep time and sing to
When it was my turn, each
making her “osushi”' and “kanten”
myself. It -was all very merrv.
came up to me and said, “Happy
... all those wonderful things so
If Papa felt very happy, he
New Year,” in English, shook my
nice to look at and so good to
danced
around the table. Papa’s
hand, gave me a pat on the hand
taste! My, it was good! Papa was
friends
would
be very happy too
and twenty-five cents. With ' five
busy, to , making “sashimi”; he
and
they
danced
too. It became
“oji-sans” I had one dollar and .
would never have it prepared at
exciting
then.
Mama
at this time
twenty-five cents and was very
the Powell Street fish store. Too
would
leave
the
room
and catch
rich, but Mama always made me
dirty, he said. We decorated our
me peeking through the door and
put it all in the piggy bank.
home with white “mochi” with an
■send me to bed at once. How long
orange on top. At three o’clock on
it. was before Papa and his
were all
o-misoka” when Papa brought
friends -went to bed, I do not
seated at the table all gleapiout our little pine tree and nailed
know, but next morning he was un
ing with wonderful things. Mama
it to our porch, we were all ready
before me and ready to begin his
began to fill the little dishes we
for the New Year, And then the
second round of New Year calls.
used only once a year. Then she
best part of
apa’s “good old
He is a wonderful Papa.
poured
a
little
bit
of
“
sake
”
for
days was still to come.
each of them. At this time I had
Q VER HERE, Papa thinks of
On New Year’s day, about five
to go to bed, because they said it
in the afternoon, when Papa had
those “good old days”. And
was getting late, although it was
Mama thinks of them ' too. But
finished his first round of greet
only six o’clock in the afternoon.
they don’t talk about them be
ings and had sipped little drops
But I never went upstairs but
cause people might think they
of sake - at the - Mornes of other
peeped
through
the
door.
It
'was
want
that kind of thing more than
people, he used to come home
wonderful
to
see
Papa
and
his
anything
else and that would not
with his good friends. Papa was
friends
so
happy.
They
talked
be good. And besides, drinking
a wise man and he knew that if
about the “g-ood old days’ when
“sake” doesn’t* seem to be the
one sipped too much “sake”, one
they were young men. At eight
thing. Papa doesn’t enjoy whiskey
■aught feel funny and not be able
een, said Papa, I did a full man’s
like his “sake”. But he never says
to- get home, especially with the
work.
At
seventeen,
Sato-san
said,
anything
about that, because peo
sidewalks slippery with ice.
Of
I got married. At nineteen, Kuniple
might
think he likes “sake”
-course. Papa’s friends agreed with
to-san
said,
I
had
two
hundred
better'
than
whiskey, which would
him and so reserved other New
dollars.
Then
they
all
shook
their
be
bad,
he
says.
lear calls for the second day. At
heads and remarked how bad the
five on New Tear’s day they came
Poor Papa. I wish he could have
Nisei
people were getting to be—
co our home.
his good old days once more. I
g-oing- to university, dancing, mov
They were Tomura-san. Papa’s
don t think it is so bad because I
ing pictures, running around with
former partner at Skeena: Satosee lots of other people drinking
and
spending
much
and singing. Poor Papa, he goes
san, who worked in a mill; Kondomoney.
around singing- “I’m dreaming of
san, who was a janitor; MotomoAll this time they sipped their
a white Christmas” these days in
san, who went around on a. truck
“
sake
” very nicely and Mama was
a most funny way. New Year is
selling things; and Kunito-san.
kept busy heating it up in her
coming again, but his
who had a rooming house. They
good old
kettle and pouring from the little
da vs won’t be. Yet I don’t think
were all good “oji-sans”, these
white round bottle. Papa and his
anyone would mind him being
filends of Papa, but other people
good friends talked some more
bappy and be drinking not whis
might think them funnv to look
about the “good old days”. By this
key but “sake” and singing- with
^: because they did look funny to
time I noticed that they were all
his friends. It would make Mama
>ome people. Motomo-san was a
speaking- a little louder and be
very
happy too. Perhaps I do not
little bald, Kunito-san had a funcoming a little pink in their faces.
understand Papa after all.
KEN & NOBLE HORT
FRED KUSANO
SACHI & KAY HAMAGUCHI
66 Homewood Ave., Toronto
Geraldton. Ontario.
119 Hazelton, Toronto
MR. & MRS. GENGO FUJITA
and 31 ARIE
Box 153. Georgetown. Ont.
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may we dispense with the
season’s greetings.
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But soon Papa began to pour. And
then Papa’s good friends all be
gan to pour for each other. And
so Mama was kept busy heating
the “sake” in her kettle.
Have just one more, Papa would
say, picking up Sato-san’s glass
and giving it to him to hold.
No, no, no! protested Sato-san,
but still holding his glass most
carefully not to spill the “sake”.
Then Sato-san poured for Tapa,
and Papa protested most vigor
ously. It went around like that.
Everybody said they didn’t want
any more “sake” but kept on
pouring for each other and thev
became pinker and pinker and
Mama was kept more than busy
running between the kitchen and
the table to heat the “sake”.
,
*
APA DOESN’T mention it
ny moustache, Tomura-san was all
very much now that we
wrinkled up, Kondo-san was a lit
tle stooped, and Sato-san had a
are over here, He says
thin face and talked very fast,
we shouldn’t talk about
Papa was the nicest looking of
those days when we were back on
them all since he had only one
the coast as “good old days” be
little wart on his right 'cheek. But
cause people might think we liked
these good “'oji-sans” were all
those days when all the Japanese
getting old, so no one should think
people -were together much better.
of them as funny to look at or
That would be bad and so Papa
laugh at them.
doesn’t talk of those days. ,
When Mama went up the hall to
But I knov.T that Papa does
greet them, they usually bowed
think a good deal of those days.
very low many times and' said
Papa was very happy and his
Not that he isn’t happier now than
things in Japanese. They did this
friends
were very happy. Mama
he was before, but you can under
many times, 'and Mama thanked
was
happy
watching them too.
stand how all people, especially
^m Toi' all the kind things the
And
I
felt
happy too because
old people, look back and talk of
“oji-sans” had done for me in the
Papa
was
so
happy. Soon he be
the “good old days”.
past year and then they thanked
gan
to
sing
one
of those Japanese
Mama for all the good things she
Papa’s good old days go back
songs
he
likes.
First he used to
had done for Tomi-chan, Kazukoto the time when he first came to
sing a verse, and then his good
san, Toko-chan,
Emi-chan
and
Canada and worked on the railfriends
came in with “yoi, yoi,
Eiko-san.
They
even
thanked
road gang, or when he was fishyoi-sho-ne!
” clapping their hands
Mama for letting ‘them play with
ing for salmon from a. r ilboat’ on
to
keep
time.
And then Papa's
me and then Mama used to say
the Skeena with Tomura-san. But
good
friends
took
turns singing
how bad I was.
Then they ail
his best “good old days” was
the
verses.
Mama
usually
smiled
laughed and said how bad Tomiwhen the New Year came along.
and
watched,
but
she
sometimes
dhan and everybody else was. It
Mama thinks so too. She worked
joined in and behind the door I
was
all very hard to understand.
hard all day boiling the “tako”,
tried to keep time and sing to
When it was my turn, each
making her “osushi”' and “kanten”
myself. It -was all very merrv.
came up to me and said, “Happy
... all those wonderful things so
If Papa felt very happy, he
New Year,” in English, shook my
nice to look at and so good to
danced
around the table. Papa’s
hand, gave me a pat on the hand
taste! My, it was good! Papa was
friends
would
be very happy too
and twenty-five cents. With ' five
busy, to , making “sashimi”; he
and
they
danced
too. It became
“oji-sans” I had one dollar and .
would never have it prepared at
exciting
then.
Mama
at this time
twenty-five cents and was very
the Powell Street fish store. Too
would
leave
the
room
and catch
rich, but Mama always made me
dirty, he said. We decorated our
me peeking through the door and
put it all in the piggy bank.
home with white “mochi” with an
■send me to bed at once. How long
orange on top. At three o’clock on
it. was before Papa and his
were all
o-misoka” when Papa brought
friends -went to bed, I do not
seated at the table all gleapiout our little pine tree and nailed
know, but next morning he was un
ing with wonderful things. Mama
it to our porch, we were all ready
before me and ready to begin his
began to fill the little dishes we
for the New Year, And then the
second round of New Year calls.
used only once a year. Then she
best part of
apa’s “good old
He is a wonderful Papa.
poured
a
little
bit
of
“
sake
”
for
days was still to come.
each of them. At this time I had
Q VER HERE, Papa thinks of
On New Year’s day, about five
to go to bed, because they said it
in the afternoon, when Papa had
those “good old days”. And
was getting late, although it was
Mama thinks of them ' too. But
finished his first round of greet
only six o’clock in the afternoon.
they don’t talk about them be
ings and had sipped little drops
But I never went upstairs but
cause people might think they
of sake - at the - Mornes of other
peeped
through
the
door.
It
'was
want
that kind of thing more than
people, he used to come home
wonderful
to
see
Papa
and
his
anything
else and that would not
with his good friends. Papa was
friends
so
happy.
They
talked
be good. And besides, drinking
a wise man and he knew that if
about the “g-ood old days’ when
“sake” doesn’t* seem to be the
one sipped too much “sake”, one
they were young men. At eight
thing. Papa doesn’t enjoy whiskey
■aught feel funny and not be able
een, said Papa, I did a full man’s
like his “sake”. But he never says
to- get home, especially with the
work.
At
seventeen,
Sato-san
said,
anything
about that, because peo
sidewalks slippery with ice.
Of
I got married. At nineteen, Kuniple
might
think he likes “sake”
-course. Papa’s friends agreed with
to-san
said,
I
had
two
hundred
better'
than
whiskey, which would
him and so reserved other New
dollars.
Then
they
all
shook
their
be
bad,
he
says.
lear calls for the second day. At
heads and remarked how bad the
five on New Tear’s day they came
Poor Papa. I wish he could have
Nisei
people were getting to be—
co our home.
his good old days once more. I
g-oing- to university, dancing, mov
They were Tomura-san. Papa’s
don t think it is so bad because I
ing pictures, running around with
former partner at Skeena: Satosee lots of other people drinking
and
spending
much
and singing. Poor Papa, he goes
san, who worked in a mill; Kondomoney.
around singing- “I’m dreaming of
san, who was a janitor; MotomoAll this time they sipped their
a white Christmas” these days in
san, who went around on a. truck
“
sake
” very nicely and Mama was
a most funny way. New Year is
selling things; and Kunito-san.
kept busy heating it up in her
coming again, but his
who had a rooming house. They
good old
kettle and pouring from the little
da vs won’t be. Yet I don’t think
were all good “oji-sans”, these
white round bottle. Papa and his
anyone would mind him being
filends of Papa, but other people
good friends talked some more
bappy and be drinking not whis
might think them funnv to look
about the “good old days”. By this
key but “sake” and singing- with
^: because they did look funny to
time I noticed that they were all
his friends. It would make Mama
>ome people. Motomo-san was a
speaking- a little louder and be
very
happy too. Perhaps I do not
little bald, Kunito-san had a funcoming a little pink in their faces.
understand Papa after all.
KEN & NOBLE HORT
FRED KUSANO
SACHI & KAY HAMAGUCHI
66 Homewood Ave., Toronto
Geraldton. Ontario.
119 Hazelton, Toronto
MR. & MRS. GENGO FUJITA
and 31 ARIE
Box 153. Georgetown. Ont.
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may we dispense with the
season’s greetings.
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170 Oakmount Rd.. Toronto
MR. & MRS. SIIUICHI SASAKI
and FAMILY
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and FAMILY
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30 Phoebe St., Toronto
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all Church St., Toronto
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KINZIE TANAKA
83 Hayden St., Toronto
krrard St. E., Toronto
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416 Markham St., Toronto
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Toronto. Ontario
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EIJI YATABE
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Toronto, Ontario
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83 Hayden St., Toronto
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KUNIO SHIMIZU
83 Hayden St., Toronto
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32 Berryman St., Toronto
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19 Grandview, Toronto
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379 Spadina Ave., Toronto
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22 Hazelton St., Toronto
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norance which bred fear, the arro
gance that led to cruelty; he de
nounced the economic greed that
liquidated a people and which same
greed used profitably rhe helpless
ness of RCMP- and governmentcontrolled-and-tied evacuees.
. . . and he was the ministerial
voice I knew of that thundered
from the pulpit so fearlessly in such
unequivocal term. Lately there has
been quite a rash of ministers
speaking out fo the poor Japanese.
But. o far as I know. Mr. Finlay
was the first, and the only one for
a long time, to champion the Jap
anese in their hour of distress.
By the time Christmas of that
year, 1942. came around. I felt a
pride and an uplift in knowing that
my family was somehow and forevermore
to hi. through the
intangible bonds of hi:
It, is an honour covered by many
who look to him for strength, for
guidance, for the reality of his
Christ-hke love for all people.
What I have said so far antici
pates the climax to- our stay at the
parsonage.
Mr. iSc Mrs. Kishio Sasaki
P.O. Box 3IS, Letellier, Man.
|
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GEORGE MASUDA
LU
1
“
P. 0. Box 367, Sutherland, Sask.
'' -... “
- —----------
Mr. k Airs. Ross Matsuba
K. Yamamoto
73 Hargrave St., Winnipeg, Man.
c-o C. J. Wiebe
Dominion City, Manitoba
him, know him
nd yet what
HE CHIEF, as he is fondyou will probably
after that
■^ly called by his ardent
S. Takatsu
Mr. k Mrs. A. Okimura
w
^^
be
the
same
inadequate:
W
supporters, is that unique
“
He
is
a
great
man.
”
Sift
ih
th
1^
#
350 Qu Appelle Ave.. Winnipeg, Man J
person who practices
yg
I'
ou
will
wonder
whv
La
Rochelle,
Manitoba
there
what he preaches. The
aren’t more like him. You will won
Chief is the minister of
der why other ministers pale to in
M. Ozamoto
Mr. (Sc Mrs. II. A. Hirose
an old downtown church
significance beside him. However,
which would have closed
I
hb $
,£ A
he is not a big man. as Westerners
6S Kate St., Winnipeg. Man.
its creaking, ancient doors had he
M'
Oak Bluff, Manitoba.
k n o w the term “big.” His eyes
not taken strong hold to make of
tybikle,
and
the
tinge
of
gray
lends
it a vital part of this City. His vi
a
Suekiehi Kodama
distinction to his whole bearing.
Alice A. Nakauchi
brant personality and his under
Most
likely,
too.
if
he
should
ever
fa
$ *
s
standing of the deep need of this
SO
Smith
St.,
Winnipeg.
Man.
read
this,
he
would
throw
back
his
district moulded together a tran
Homewood, Manitoba.
head and roar his appreciation of
sients’ church into a stronghold of
my attempts to describe him, by
thinkers, doers, and of true friend
Takeo Kawata
saying:
Jack T. Goto
liness.
JU
Hl
A
^
“You make me sound better than
5S2 Bannatyne Ave., Winnipeg, Man.
From the beginning, when he
I am . . .”
A
S
THE
WHITE
GIFT
Sunday
Middlechurch,
Manitoba.
first realised the connection be
drew nearer and nearer I heard
tween the attack on Pearl Harbour
more
and more about the service
N oshikazu Fuchihara
and the evacuation of the Japanese
Masashi Oikawa
^LL THIS, of course, leads to the
built around the scene of the Nativ
from the coast, his was the first
ffil
/A
^
—
telling of his strong conviction,
630 Balmoral St.. Winnipeg, Alan.
ity, and I could scarcely wait. As
pulpit, and the only one for a long
not only voiced, but also practised
57
Lily,
St.,
Winnipeg,
Alan.
I
the day dawned, we were ready
time, to denounce in forthright ■ as other Nisei than myself will tes
with our white gifts, and a little
terms the- injustices and preju,tify, that under the different color
ROY SUZUKI
before eleven o’clock we headed
dices involved in the wholesale
ings the races are all one people.
GORO
SUZUKI
for the church four blocks away.
movement and uprooting of a peo
R. Tachibana
You find in his church people from
When
we
entered
the
vestibule
ple. Then, instead of just talking
12 Dundurn Place, Winnipeg, Man.
all countries, people who believe as
with reverent quiet we felt the un
about it and leaving it there, he
he does, people who come twenty
281 McDermot Avenue,
1
usual bustle of that special day.
organized an action group to do
miles winter and summer to hear
I
I
i
r
o
s
h
i
AI
o
ri
s
h
i
la
There were white containers for
what they could in their small way
him. You find there is a special
Winnipeg, .Manitoba.
1
the gifts of the congregation stand
to help the Japanese evacuees. I
St. Pierre, Manitoba.
friendliness towards the Negroes.
ing at the archways, and here we
know, for I was among the first to ■ to the Orientals, though at present
placed
carefully our offerings and
know how good, how warm that
the Chinese are conspicuously ab
hurried inside. The dull crimson
help was.
MR. & MRS. HARRY K. TSUCHIYA
sent. It has been condemned for
carpets, the dark wood seemed
Sam
I.
Seto
All this, when the only Nisei he
this friendliness, too. Perhaps not
deeper and softer than usual.. We
±
1
had ever met was one lone student
in outright words but in withdraw
saw
the
altar
and
railings
draped
who had ambled one evening into
641 Castle Avenue,
als from membership, from attend
in soft white, with here and there
this church that now sees some
ance. When one of the Negro girls
27 Riel Ave., St. Vital
1
evergreens. A Star was suspended
twenty other Japanese in constant
Winnipeg, Manitoba.
was denied entrance to Nurses
over
a
rush-filled
manger
that
attendance.
Winnipeg, Alan.
1
Training on the ground that her
stood where the Communion table
black
hand
would
horrify
the
sick
AT UNION STATION
stood, a light glowed from the Crib,
patients, he thundered out in out
i first saw him as I came out into
and the organ played softly above.
ROY Y. MURATA
raged accents:
The music swelled into triumphant
the early morning light of the
#
UI
j
“How dare they reject a healing,
cadence, and as the minister entered
Union Station, and he bent down to
helping
hand
.
.
.
whateverthe
color
his pulpit the children of the Sun
greet the children. Through one
HARDY H. IM URATA
12 Dundurn Place
I
of that hand!”
day School came in from the Vestry
eastern window a shaft of sunlight
#
ra
When it was so obvious that the
doors on both sides, singing in their
shone on his head making a golden
Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Japanese
evacuees
were
being
used
clear childish treble of “The First
nimbus of his hair, which was un
1406 Selkirk Ave., Winnipeg,
merely as labor stop-gaps in those
Nowell.”
covered. I was travel-weary and
days of 1942 when family ties were
Going towards the loft behind
train-dizzy. The marble or stone
MR. & MRS. K. SUZUKI
disregarded, and when he was dis
the pulpit were the gowned mem
floors, I never knew which, seemed
gusted by one company ' after
bers of the choir singing also, and
still to sway with the sound of the
another
bidding for the Jap males
the congregation joined in as the
clickety-clack wheels of the train
1
^ /b Ik
only- as cheap, easily controlled
children circled right around and
and it was difficult to concentrate
manpower,
and
not
as
people
with
S. SUZUKI
went down the centre aisle to their
on anything, so I kept my eyes on
individual
skills,
with
family
ties
places at the front.
that sunlit head and vaguely won
^
in
SU
. . . then he, the Chief, cried with
Winnipeg, Man.
dered who he could be.
“The first Nowell . . . the angels
flashing eyes from the pulpit in
12 Dundurn Place, Winnipeg, M
did sing . . .”
As I stood there ■ stupidly, in a
words
that
echoed
over
the
air
vacuum without any feeling, he
The organ, the children, the choir,
waves of the radio:
looked up toward me with the same
the people sang in joyous refrain,
i
“Any man . . . any country that
welcoming smile he had for the two
and our heads lifted and our hearts
Independent
looks
upon a minority as merely
little girls and said:
thrilled once again to the glad tid
KOOTNICRAFT
economic gadgets . . . that man, that
“Finlay is the name . .
ings. so that when we looked to
country is doomed!”
Credit Jewellers
I know he said it, but I do not
wards the Crib we were not sur
w
remember
his
voice
that
morning.
prised
to
see
Joseph
and
Mary
hov
HE THUNDERED FEARLESSLY
^3
Later I was to hear daily its rich
ering over the Babe. I felt the song
This he said in July of that same
493 Notre Dame Ave., (Cor. of Isabel)
tones raised in song, in rolling
echo and re-echo in my heart . . .
year, while I sat in the congrega
6th floor, Bedford Building
laughter, in light chatter and in
back . . . back to childhood of
tion, my blood tingling with exul
earnest
conversation.
Christmases
long
past,
and
I
thought
Represented by
tation that here at last was one
^1
281 McDermot Ave.,
passionately:
minister who wasn’t afraid to come
That’s how I met the Chief, and
“This is the real Christmas.”
right out and say what he believed,
that’s how he met the first Nisei
Winnipeg, Man.
a
family he had ever seen. I got to
to denounce with powerful and
A GREAT EVENT
Happy S. Hiraya m
thrilling words the evil of racial
know him in the next seven months
I stole a look at the children while
hates. So he pled, Sunday after
we lived -with his family in the big
we bowed in prayer, and them
Sunday, for kindness and tolerance
parsonage. He is a great man. One
young faces reflected the dream
K
and justice for a people he scarcely
cannot describe his glowing person
like trance of the moment. They
ality. You must meet him, talk to
knew at all; he decried against igwere part of a great event, and they
May You?' Christmas Be Happy and 1945
S'
knew it. There was a slight rustle,
an audible sigh, when we raised
Bright and Prosperous
our heads again for there on either
side of the pulpit, and the Holy
Scene, were four angels robed in
white, kneeling in an attitude of
s
prayer and worship.
We never
heard them come.
I
By H. B. Sasaki
The service neared its climax
three long years a shaft of “broken
^NOTHER CHRISTMAS — will
when someone began to sing:
sunlight"’ is to penetrate the dark
this mean another year of hope
“We three kings of Orient are
ness that has enfolded our one-fifth
less waiting and moping about the
Bearing gifts we traverse afar .. .”
of one per cent of the total popula
’morrow yet to come? Will the
. . . and from behind the congre
tion of the Dominion?
’morrow bring about the familiar
Ellen II. Fujie
gation
came in solemn majesty the
headlines of the past? Headlines
One-fifth of one per cent of the
gorgeously-gowned Kings to pay
Nobue Hashimoto
which always mean another addi
total population! Such a mere fig
homage to the Babe. First came
tion to quick-mounting fears over
ure tO'be so concerned over! Surely,
Melchoir, the Hindu with his gold
Eddie K. Tanabe
the Nisei future? Or is it safe to
this is not the group of people who
held high, then Gaspar with his
enjoy this, our third Christmas here,
created such, a furor in British Co
frankincense, Baltasar with his
Ronnie M. Inouye
with the assurance of happier days
lumbia. Surely it could not be
myrrh . . . jewelled and crowned
to come?
thought, or even imagined, that
Tommy S. Iwamoto
in earthly magnificence they came
These thoughts are uppermost in
they would ever grow "to “domin
to kneel before the Manger.
Marv Inouvc
my mind, as I realize that another
Herby Y. Ohori
ate" this country. Surely these, who
Now the children hastened for
year is quickly roUing by. The past
have fitted into their new sur
ward with their white gifts and laid
Slug Sakiyama
has been filled with so many varied
roundings in Manitoba, could not
them in profusion around the Crib,
happenings . . . The re-allocation
have been the people who. accord
Yao Odaguchi
while the three wise men aban
i
of the people settled in the interior
ing to the cry, are so hopelessly indoned their regal dignity to assist
ill the continuing
Sue Hozaki
towns.
assimilable.
Muts Terakita
I
the receiving of all the gifts, and
problem. Then the battle of prop
No, facts and figures comprising
the service went on and we were
Mitsue Taniguchi
A Vai ch i ro E n ta
erty rights and the Custodian.—
the record of the past prove these
singing:
still to be settled. And again the
Japanese Canadians to be no differ
Sumire Kaita
Osamu Tamakf
“Joy to the World . . .”
Government's announcement of a
I
ent inherently from any other citipromise on a future policy concern
.
.
.
while
I
could
not
take
my
-Martha Inouye
z e n s of Canada.
Henry Kusano
they were
and when made
eyes from the figures of the angels,
ing ourselve
granted equal rights and privileges
Emy Nishioka
public, leaving us no further in our
for one was Negro, one was Chinese,
Shoji Ty Minamide
as any average citizen, they would
thoughts than awakening us to the
the other two were blonde Ger
1
prove this even more vividly. If
Sam Katsura
George Sasaki
fact that an equitable dispersal will
mans; and first Wise Man was a
only Christmas could mean the gift
be sought. These and many other
Japanese,
and
the
second
was
Eng
George Hirose
of these things, what a Christmas
Charlie Omori
babblings, which always tend to
lish and third was Italian.
present that would be!
drown out the few really soothing
Then I gazed upward toward the
Tucker Y. Tanabe
Fred Kivoshi Enta
And so another Christmas comes
melodies. What does 1945 hold in
minister with a deeper sense of his
Mr. and Mrs. K. Suzuki
and goes, leaving the hope that the
greatness, and saw* beyond his head,
store?
I
next will be merrier. And another
|
Will the New Year bring even a
over the choir, the words in letters
New Year, leaving the resolve that
little contentment to our yet hope
of gold:
12 Dundurn Place
so far as Niseis are able, it will be
f
ful life? Will Canada keep on ignor“Peace on Earth. Good Will to
WINNIPEG
MANITOBA
happier.
or will it be that after these
Men.”
W
Tri
My
V
I
1
i
*
fl
i1
?3
'5^it^
#
norance which bred fear, the arro
gance that led to cruelty; he de
nounced the economic greed that
liquidated a people and which same
greed used profitably rhe helpless
ness of RCMP- and governmentcontrolled-and-tied evacuees.
. . . and he was the ministerial
voice I knew of that thundered
from the pulpit so fearlessly in such
unequivocal term. Lately there has
been quite a rash of ministers
speaking out fo the poor Japanese.
But. o far as I know. Mr. Finlay
was the first, and the only one for
a long time, to champion the Jap
anese in their hour of distress.
By the time Christmas of that
year, 1942. came around. I felt a
pride and an uplift in knowing that
my family was somehow and forevermore
to hi. through the
intangible bonds of hi:
It, is an honour covered by many
who look to him for strength, for
guidance, for the reality of his
Christ-hke love for all people.
What I have said so far antici
pates the climax to- our stay at the
parsonage.
Mr. iSc Mrs. Kishio Sasaki
P.O. Box 3IS, Letellier, Man.
|
1
1
GEORGE MASUDA
LU
1
“
P. 0. Box 367, Sutherland, Sask.
'' -... “
- —----------
Mr. k Airs. Ross Matsuba
K. Yamamoto
73 Hargrave St., Winnipeg, Man.
c-o C. J. Wiebe
Dominion City, Manitoba
him, know him
nd yet what
HE CHIEF, as he is fondyou will probably
after that
■^ly called by his ardent
S. Takatsu
Mr. k Mrs. A. Okimura
w
^^
be
the
same
inadequate:
W
supporters, is that unique
“
He
is
a
great
man.
”
Sift
ih
th
1^
#
350 Qu Appelle Ave.. Winnipeg, Man J
person who practices
yg
I'
ou
will
wonder
whv
La
Rochelle,
Manitoba
there
what he preaches. The
aren’t more like him. You will won
Chief is the minister of
der why other ministers pale to in
M. Ozamoto
Mr. (Sc Mrs. II. A. Hirose
an old downtown church
significance beside him. However,
which would have closed
I
hb $
,£ A
he is not a big man. as Westerners
6S Kate St., Winnipeg. Man.
its creaking, ancient doors had he
M'
Oak Bluff, Manitoba.
k n o w the term “big.” His eyes
not taken strong hold to make of
tybikle,
and
the
tinge
of
gray
lends
it a vital part of this City. His vi
a
Suekiehi Kodama
distinction to his whole bearing.
Alice A. Nakauchi
brant personality and his under
Most
likely,
too.
if
he
should
ever
fa
$ *
s
standing of the deep need of this
SO
Smith
St.,
Winnipeg.
Man.
read
this,
he
would
throw
back
his
district moulded together a tran
Homewood, Manitoba.
head and roar his appreciation of
sients’ church into a stronghold of
my attempts to describe him, by
thinkers, doers, and of true friend
Takeo Kawata
saying:
Jack T. Goto
liness.
JU
Hl
A
^
“You make me sound better than
5S2 Bannatyne Ave., Winnipeg, Man.
From the beginning, when he
I am . . .”
A
S
THE
WHITE
GIFT
Sunday
Middlechurch,
Manitoba.
first realised the connection be
drew nearer and nearer I heard
tween the attack on Pearl Harbour
more
and more about the service
N oshikazu Fuchihara
and the evacuation of the Japanese
Masashi Oikawa
^LL THIS, of course, leads to the
built around the scene of the Nativ
from the coast, his was the first
ffil
/A
^
—
telling of his strong conviction,
630 Balmoral St.. Winnipeg, Alan.
ity, and I could scarcely wait. As
pulpit, and the only one for a long
not only voiced, but also practised
57
Lily,
St.,
Winnipeg,
Alan.
I
the day dawned, we were ready
time, to denounce in forthright ■ as other Nisei than myself will tes
with our white gifts, and a little
terms the- injustices and preju,tify, that under the different color
ROY SUZUKI
before eleven o’clock we headed
dices involved in the wholesale
ings the races are all one people.
GORO
SUZUKI
for the church four blocks away.
movement and uprooting of a peo
R. Tachibana
You find in his church people from
When
we
entered
the
vestibule
ple. Then, instead of just talking
12 Dundurn Place, Winnipeg, Man.
all countries, people who believe as
with reverent quiet we felt the un
about it and leaving it there, he
he does, people who come twenty
281 McDermot Avenue,
1
usual bustle of that special day.
organized an action group to do
miles winter and summer to hear
I
I
i
r
o
s
h
i
AI
o
ri
s
h
i
la
There were white containers for
what they could in their small way
him. You find there is a special
Winnipeg, .Manitoba.
1
the gifts of the congregation stand
to help the Japanese evacuees. I
St. Pierre, Manitoba.
friendliness towards the Negroes.
ing at the archways, and here we
know, for I was among the first to ■ to the Orientals, though at present
placed
carefully our offerings and
know how good, how warm that
the Chinese are conspicuously ab
hurried inside. The dull crimson
help was.
MR. & MRS. HARRY K. TSUCHIYA
sent. It has been condemned for
carpets, the dark wood seemed
Sam
I.
Seto
All this, when the only Nisei he
this friendliness, too. Perhaps not
deeper and softer than usual.. We
±
1
had ever met was one lone student
in outright words but in withdraw
saw
the
altar
and
railings
draped
who had ambled one evening into
641 Castle Avenue,
als from membership, from attend
in soft white, with here and there
this church that now sees some
ance. When one of the Negro girls
27 Riel Ave., St. Vital
1
evergreens. A Star was suspended
twenty other Japanese in constant
Winnipeg, Manitoba.
was denied entrance to Nurses
over
a
rush-filled
manger
that
attendance.
Winnipeg, Alan.
1
Training on the ground that her
stood where the Communion table
black
hand
would
horrify
the
sick
AT UNION STATION
stood, a light glowed from the Crib,
patients, he thundered out in out
i first saw him as I came out into
and the organ played softly above.
ROY Y. MURATA
raged accents:
The music swelled into triumphant
the early morning light of the
#
UI
j
“How dare they reject a healing,
cadence, and as the minister entered
Union Station, and he bent down to
helping
hand
.
.
.
whateverthe
color
his pulpit the children of the Sun
greet the children. Through one
HARDY H. IM URATA
12 Dundurn Place
I
of that hand!”
day School came in from the Vestry
eastern window a shaft of sunlight
#
ra
When it was so obvious that the
doors on both sides, singing in their
shone on his head making a golden
Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Japanese
evacuees
were
being
used
clear childish treble of “The First
nimbus of his hair, which was un
1406 Selkirk Ave., Winnipeg,
merely as labor stop-gaps in those
Nowell.”
covered. I was travel-weary and
days of 1942 when family ties were
Going towards the loft behind
train-dizzy. The marble or stone
MR. & MRS. K. SUZUKI
disregarded, and when he was dis
the pulpit were the gowned mem
floors, I never knew which, seemed
gusted by one company ' after
bers of the choir singing also, and
still to sway with the sound of the
another
bidding for the Jap males
the congregation joined in as the
clickety-clack wheels of the train
1
^ /b Ik
only- as cheap, easily controlled
children circled right around and
and it was difficult to concentrate
manpower,
and
not
as
people
with
S. SUZUKI
went down the centre aisle to their
on anything, so I kept my eyes on
individual
skills,
with
family
ties
places at the front.
that sunlit head and vaguely won
^
in
SU
. . . then he, the Chief, cried with
Winnipeg, Man.
dered who he could be.
“The first Nowell . . . the angels
flashing eyes from the pulpit in
12 Dundurn Place, Winnipeg, M
did sing . . .”
As I stood there ■ stupidly, in a
words
that
echoed
over
the
air
vacuum without any feeling, he
The organ, the children, the choir,
waves of the radio:
looked up toward me with the same
the people sang in joyous refrain,
i
“Any man . . . any country that
welcoming smile he had for the two
and our heads lifted and our hearts
Independent
looks
upon a minority as merely
little girls and said:
thrilled once again to the glad tid
KOOTNICRAFT
economic gadgets . . . that man, that
“Finlay is the name . .
ings. so that when we looked to
country is doomed!”
Credit Jewellers
I know he said it, but I do not
wards the Crib we were not sur
w
remember
his
voice
that
morning.
prised
to
see
Joseph
and
Mary
hov
HE THUNDERED FEARLESSLY
^3
Later I was to hear daily its rich
ering over the Babe. I felt the song
This he said in July of that same
493 Notre Dame Ave., (Cor. of Isabel)
tones raised in song, in rolling
echo and re-echo in my heart . . .
year, while I sat in the congrega
6th floor, Bedford Building
laughter, in light chatter and in
back . . . back to childhood of
tion, my blood tingling with exul
earnest
conversation.
Christmases
long
past,
and
I
thought
Represented by
tation that here at last was one
^1
281 McDermot Ave.,
passionately:
minister who wasn’t afraid to come
That’s how I met the Chief, and
“This is the real Christmas.”
right out and say what he believed,
that’s how he met the first Nisei
Winnipeg, Man.
a
family he had ever seen. I got to
to denounce with powerful and
A GREAT EVENT
Happy S. Hiraya m
thrilling words the evil of racial
know him in the next seven months
I stole a look at the children while
hates. So he pled, Sunday after
we lived -with his family in the big
we bowed in prayer, and them
Sunday, for kindness and tolerance
parsonage. He is a great man. One
young faces reflected the dream
K
and justice for a people he scarcely
cannot describe his glowing person
like trance of the moment. They
ality. You must meet him, talk to
knew at all; he decried against igwere part of a great event, and they
May You?' Christmas Be Happy and 1945
S'
knew it. There was a slight rustle,
an audible sigh, when we raised
Bright and Prosperous
our heads again for there on either
side of the pulpit, and the Holy
Scene, were four angels robed in
white, kneeling in an attitude of
s
prayer and worship.
We never
heard them come.
I
By H. B. Sasaki
The service neared its climax
three long years a shaft of “broken
^NOTHER CHRISTMAS — will
when someone began to sing:
sunlight"’ is to penetrate the dark
this mean another year of hope
“We three kings of Orient are
ness that has enfolded our one-fifth
less waiting and moping about the
Bearing gifts we traverse afar .. .”
of one per cent of the total popula
’morrow yet to come? Will the
. . . and from behind the congre
tion of the Dominion?
’morrow bring about the familiar
Ellen II. Fujie
gation
came in solemn majesty the
headlines of the past? Headlines
One-fifth of one per cent of the
gorgeously-gowned Kings to pay
Nobue Hashimoto
which always mean another addi
total population! Such a mere fig
homage to the Babe. First came
tion to quick-mounting fears over
ure tO'be so concerned over! Surely,
Melchoir, the Hindu with his gold
Eddie K. Tanabe
the Nisei future? Or is it safe to
this is not the group of people who
held high, then Gaspar with his
enjoy this, our third Christmas here,
created such, a furor in British Co
frankincense, Baltasar with his
Ronnie M. Inouye
with the assurance of happier days
lumbia. Surely it could not be
myrrh . . . jewelled and crowned
to come?
thought, or even imagined, that
Tommy S. Iwamoto
in earthly magnificence they came
These thoughts are uppermost in
they would ever grow "to “domin
to kneel before the Manger.
Marv Inouvc
my mind, as I realize that another
Herby Y. Ohori
ate" this country. Surely these, who
Now the children hastened for
year is quickly roUing by. The past
have fitted into their new sur
ward with their white gifts and laid
Slug Sakiyama
has been filled with so many varied
roundings in Manitoba, could not
them in profusion around the Crib,
happenings . . . The re-allocation
have been the people who. accord
Yao Odaguchi
while the three wise men aban
i
of the people settled in the interior
ing to the cry, are so hopelessly indoned their regal dignity to assist
ill the continuing
Sue Hozaki
towns.
assimilable.
Muts Terakita
I
the receiving of all the gifts, and
problem. Then the battle of prop
No, facts and figures comprising
the service went on and we were
Mitsue Taniguchi
A Vai ch i ro E n ta
erty rights and the Custodian.—
the record of the past prove these
singing:
still to be settled. And again the
Japanese Canadians to be no differ
Sumire Kaita
Osamu Tamakf
“Joy to the World . . .”
Government's announcement of a
I
ent inherently from any other citipromise on a future policy concern
.
.
.
while
I
could
not
take
my
-Martha Inouye
z e n s of Canada.
Henry Kusano
they were
and when made
eyes from the figures of the angels,
ing ourselve
granted equal rights and privileges
Emy Nishioka
public, leaving us no further in our
for one was Negro, one was Chinese,
Shoji Ty Minamide
as any average citizen, they would
thoughts than awakening us to the
the other two were blonde Ger
1
prove this even more vividly. If
Sam Katsura
George Sasaki
fact that an equitable dispersal will
mans; and first Wise Man was a
only Christmas could mean the gift
be sought. These and many other
Japanese,
and
the
second
was
Eng
George Hirose
of these things, what a Christmas
Charlie Omori
babblings, which always tend to
lish and third was Italian.
present that would be!
drown out the few really soothing
Then I gazed upward toward the
Tucker Y. Tanabe
Fred Kivoshi Enta
And so another Christmas comes
melodies. What does 1945 hold in
minister with a deeper sense of his
Mr. and Mrs. K. Suzuki
and goes, leaving the hope that the
greatness, and saw* beyond his head,
store?
I
next will be merrier. And another
|
Will the New Year bring even a
over the choir, the words in letters
New Year, leaving the resolve that
little contentment to our yet hope
of gold:
12 Dundurn Place
so far as Niseis are able, it will be
f
ful life? Will Canada keep on ignor“Peace on Earth. Good Will to
WINNIPEG
MANITOBA
happier.
or will it be that after these
Men.”
W
Tri
My
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Page 16
H'H
1 g-i-i'-a?
December 23. 1944.
TN A WAY, the statement made
* in Parliament on August 4th by
Premier King marked a milestone
in resettlement history, for in his
speech Mr. King expressed very
clearly what the future Govern
ment policy is to be in regard to
all those of Japanese birth in
Canada. By it, the fear that every
one of Japanese parentage -whether
Canadian-b o r n,
Naturalized
or
Japanese Nationals -would be re
patriated or “exiled” to Japan was
dissipated. A quasi-judicial com
mittee is to be appointed -whose
uuty it will be to separate the
loyal from the disloyal.' While the
return of those who wish to iden
tify themselves with Japan will be
expedited after the war, those
deemed loyal to Canada and to
Canadian institutions will stay in
Canada and will be treated “fair
ly” and “justly”.
In the statement, the Govern
ment plan to solve the Japanese
Canadian problem by encouraging
the evacuees to scatter themselves
more or less evenly throughout the
country in such a way as to avoid
any approach to a “colony” recei
ved fresh emphasis; it was urged
that this method was quite the
best policy not only for Canada
but also for the Japanese Cana
dians themselves, since the oppo
site would undoubtedly result in
arousing feelings of racial hosti
lity- .
It was clearly stated, too, that
no return of the evacuees in num
bers to the British Columbia Coast
would be permitted. The policy is
evidently to take advantage of the
situation produced by the war to
see to it that the Japanese Cana
dian problem which has been so
prominent in British Columbia for
the last few decades disappears
from Canadian history.
While to many the Government
declaration itself may prove a disapnointment, every one, I nm sure,
will welcome the’ fact that the
long- period of uncertainty is now
past; as long as the Government’s
attitude was unexpressed,- it was
impossible to make plans that
mig-ht not later be upset. From
now on the road ahead is verv
clear; every person concerned can
chart the main features of his
future course without fear of un
due interruption.
k THE first MAIN ISSUE to be
faced, therefore, is. undoubted
ly whether the evacuee wishes to
spend the rest of his life in Cana
da or prefers to return to Japan.
With some the decision will not be
difficult; in fact, it probably has
already been made. It can safely
be assumed, I think, that the vast
majority of those already resettled
Eas?t of the Rockies will’be linking
a
FHHEBIM FAR THE FUTURE
t
I
I
By
ERNEST TRUEMAN
Placement Officer, Toronto, Ontario
up their future destiny with Cana
da. It is almost sure, too, that
many of the Japanese Nationals
whose ties with the Mother coun
try are too varied and strong to be
easily severed will request repat- '
riation. There is a large number,
though, in between these two
groups to whom the recently en
unciated Government policy will
come as a definite challenge to do
some conclusive thinking as to
which of the continents bordering
on the Pacific Ocean will be the
scene of their future activities.
One thing seems to me to oe quite
certain—the Commissioners who
ever they are, will not be offering
any inducements calculated to per
suade any of the evacuees to stay
in Canada. Granted that there is
no incriminating evidence to indi
cate a disloyal attitude, the deci
sion to be made will be wholly up
to the person concerned.
It is mostly to this latter group
that this article is written. In it
I wish to share with them some of
the concerns which have come to
be mine as Placement Officer in
the Toronto area over a period of
some twenty-eight months.
•
M Y FIRST serious concern has
to do with this policy of dis
persal. I am strongly convinced
that it is only through a whole
hearted approval and adoption of
this policy on the part of the Jap
anese Canadian Group that there
can be any happy future for them
in Canada. Race prejudice is as old
as man; it arises from fear—fear
of the unknown. Given someone of
a different color or language or* hab
its of life and a barrier is imme
diately raised. It finds its most
intolerant expression when the
“unknown” live in groups, since
then there are more people to be
feared; it almost invariably disap
pears when an opportunity for
acquaintanceship is given to be
recognized. It goes without debate,
therefore, that it would be unwise
hi the extreme for the evacuees
with all Canadia to choose from to
congregate in any one particular
place to such a degree that the
area where they are would come
to be known as a Japanese colony.
When I urge the evacuees thus
to scatter themselves throughout
the length and breadth of the land,
I realize I am asking of them a
difficult thing. By all means, the
most baffling problem this office
has had to face in the past is the
inordinate desire on the part of
practically all to come into Toron
to or to Montreal. Literally hun
dreds have refused to leave the
Settlements unless their destina
tion was one of the two places
mentioned above. The reasons giv-en for such an attituae are var
ious; the most common one is that
opportunities are better in the big
cities than anywhere else; another
one, heard almost as often, is that
in the big cities they are inconspi
cuous—when they go to smaller
towns or villages they are stared
at. While there may be some str
ength to such arguments certainly
there is not enough in them to
warrant us facing the dire results
that -will undoubtedly come from
too great a concentration of Japa
nese Canadians in any one place.
If the evacuation is simply to
mean the transference of the prob
lems met in Vancouver to Toronto
or to Montreal, the whole tragedy
of the evacuation could well be
said to be meaningless.
My hope is that the evacuees
will all come to consider themselves as Canadians of Japanese heri
tage — not Japanese in Canada.
Thousands and thousands of the
rank and file of Canadians of vnrious racial inheritance find happy
and useful lives on farms, in vil
lages, in smaller and larger towns.
The only hope for a happv settle
ment of the Japanese Canadian
problem is when the evacuees will
go and do likewise.
MY NEXT CONCERN is lest
* those of the Japanese race in
Canada accept the privileges of
life in this country without a feel
ing that they must also share in
its responsibilities. Canada is now
in its fifth year of war. Though
large geographically and rich in
resources, its population is small.
It was never* planned, therefore,
that its direct manpower contribu
tion te the rvar would be more
than a token one. Its help would
have to be in the field of produc
tion—food, munitions, ships, etc.
Any one, therefore, engaged in
“production” from the standpoint
of service to the state can well
consider himself as taking equal
rank with a man in uniform. It is
for this reason that “absenteeism”
is so frowned on by thinking men
everywhere;
considered as a
sort of third cousin to disloyalty;
at any rate it indicates a lament
able lack of understanding of the
proper responsibilities of citizen
ship.
ment. When, however, the person
?■
concerned speaks English perfectlv
I
and still insists that he will be
lonely unless he is talking to Jap
anese Canadians, something must
fe
be wrong. You will note that above
I used the word “progressively”.
I am quite willing to admit that
there should perhaps be a transi
tion period before complete Cana- ■
dianization takes place. This per
iod, however, should be shortened
as much as possible; this will be
made possible when the person
concerned deliberately chooses
membership in clubs and organiza
tions where perhaps he would be
the only Japanese present. Some
of the evacuees are already doing
this in a very remarkable way. Un
fortunately, however, so far that
number has been alb too small.
Undoubtedly to thus step out
fearlessly into new communities
requires- a high degree of initiative
and courage. The North American
Continent, however, was originally
colonized by men and women with
characteristics of this sort, this
too in areas when the foes to be
faced were actual perils to life and
ordinary creature comforts now
commonly available were practi
cally unknown. I often say that the
advent of a Japanese Canadian to
j
a new community, from the standj
point of the community, is only a
j
three days wonder; the same is i
true as far as the newcomer is
5
concerned.
Generally speaking, |
Canadians in Eastern 'Canada are
fighting a war against nations, not
against individuals. Neighbours as
a whole are kindly and hospitable
and readily respond to gestures of
friendliness.
In this regard, I think it is safe
to say that the thing that has
caused me most disappointment
and pain of heart in my placement
work so far has been the large
amount of absenteeism among the
Nisei workers in this area. With
little or iio regard for their em
ployers’ needs and more often
than not without even saying “by
your leave”, too many of them
have apparently felt free to take
time off. In one company where 16
men were employed, there were 12
of them off on one day—node of
them had even consulted the com
pany authorities before staying
away. In another company where
40 men are eng;aged, the manager
telephoned me not long ago statin
that during the first three days of
the week concerned, absentees
were 9, 6 and 8; none of these had
even intimated to the management that they wei e to be a wav.
Quite a number of the boys have
been given permission to return to
B. C. to visit their folk. Selective
Seiwice allows one month for the
trip including travel both ways,
really a very generous concession,
since the legal vacation allowed to
industrial workers in
is
but one week; quite frequently,
though, these visitors to B.C. have
asked for an extension of their
holidays running anywhere from
one to chiee weeks. These are sim
ply illustrations. The point is tfiat
those who plan -to stay in Canada
should first of all understand thor
oughly our Canadian way of doing
things and to adapt their conduct
accordingly. It is only by so doing
that their presence here will be
welcome
and
they
themselves
prove to be an asset to the life of
the nation they will be choosing
to call their own.
MY THIRD CONCERN is lest
* those who stay in Canada
may fail to be thoroughly assimi
lated and so fall short of becoming
real Canadians. This means ' that
all Japanese Canadians must pro
gressively find their social satis
factions from contact with Cana
dians other than those of their
own
In trying to relocate
evacuees in this area, over and
over again we have been frustrat
ed because of our inability to get
any one to consent to go to a town
or village where none of the Japa
nese race are living.
Whenever
there is a language difficulty, we
would not, of course, even suggest
that one should take such a place-
WHAT I HAVE SAID above
V 1 does not in any way- indicate
that the first job taken will be
the final one. Two or even three
steps may be required before the
final resettlement is reached. My
advice to all is take any decent job
that may be available at the time,
stay in it until a release agreeable
to the employer can be secured,
using the time thus afforded to
discover the very job to which the
person’s interest, skill and past
experience befits him. I am a great
believer in the fact that “'there is
a Divinity that shapes our ends
rough-hew them how we will”.
Time and time again, I have seen
apparent disappointment turned to
Happy victory. Frustration does
not necessarily mean defeat. I am
confident that if those bereft of
homes and businesses by the war
will face the future with faith and
courage and good humor, there
will come to pass for them in this
Canada of ours a life far richer
and more significant than they as
yet have experienced. The age of
pioneering has not yet passed.
s
Qjjtp Masons Warmest tortinqs Jrnm ^anultnn, (©utari
MR. & AIRS. ROBERT MIYASAKA ;
51 Kinrade St., Hamilton
-
IS Forsythe Ave. N_ Hamilton
I
1
1
AIR. & AIRS. EDDY ISHIBASHI
Tadashi Nagao
177 Mary St.. Hamilton
AIR. & AIRS. JINZO TSUCHIDA
318 Hunter St. E.. Hamilton
AIR. & MRS. S. H. INOUYE
I7S John St. N.. Hamilton
1
AIR. & AIRS. SAM KONDO
(0 Aberdeen Ave. AY, Hamilton
J
RUTH TILLMAN
81 Kinrade St., Hamilton
TAD TSUJI
48 Somerset Ave., Hamilton
MR. & AIRS. TAK OGAKI
c-o 1. M. C. A., Hamilton
177 Alain St. AY, Hamilton
JOHNNY SHINOHARA
BETTY NAMIKO TANIZAWA
BOB HORI
Catherine St. N., Hamil
152 Hunter St. E., Hamilton
e-o Y. AI. C. A., Ham-Tron
AIR. & AIRS. RICHARD ITO
Hamilton, Ontario
.MAISIE NISHIMURA
KOJI GOTO
85 Roberts St., Hamilton
AIR. & MRS. ROY I. MATSUMOTO
178 John St. Na Hamilton
81 Elgin St., Hamilton
GEORGE KUBOTA
CECIL I. OK AWARA
363 Alacnab St. N.. Hamilton
SUEJI UAIETSU
35 Earl St., Hamilton
AIR. & AIRS. JOHN S. UCHIKATA
357 Alacnab St. N., Hamilton
154 Gibson Ave. N., Hamilton
JOHNNY ITO
SAM KAI
44 Elgin St.. Hamilton
ZEN TANAKA
225 King St. E.. Hamilton
MR. & AIRS. TOSH TONOGAI
Regal Hotel. 152 King W., Hamilton
i
AIITSUO SONODA
J
65 Cathcart St.. Hamilton
KEN HASHIMOTO
238 John St. N., Hamilton
TOSH ONISHI
ROY and FRANK HAAIADE
llacnab Street North.
166 King St.. AA'.. Hamilton
71 Catherine St. N.. Hamilton
Hamilton, Ontario
and son Howard
169 Jackson St. E.. Hamilton
MR. & AIRS. ERNEST K. IKENO
and son Satoshi Geoffrey
225 King St. E.. Hamilton
TAD. SLIM. AIARY
and PAT KONDO
153 AA ellington fet. N., Hamilton
Harue Tatebe. Kay Idenouye
Irene Baba and Jean Hayashida
139 Hunter St. E.. Hamilton
MRS. T. GOROAIARU
AIR. & AIRS. AI. FUJIMOTO
and FAMILY
and FAMILY
680 King Street- East
Hamilton, Ontario
TERRY UYEDE
KEN SATO
355 Alacnab St. N., Hamilton
YUTAKA. MILLIE and
TSUZUKI TAKEUCHI
85 Roberts St., Hamilton
ASSOCIATION
AIR. & AIRS. HARRY NAGANOBU'
and sons
Albert Lawrence, Edward Roland
HI Hillyard St., Hamilton
MR. & AIRS. SUEJI KOYAAIA
and DONALD AHTSURU
355 Alacnab Street North.
Hamilton. Ontario
I
81 Bold St. AV., Hamilton
AIR. & AIRS. GEORGE NISHINO
1 AIR. & AIRS. EDDIE NAKAA1URA
I
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'
EIKI KAWANO
HAMILTON,
Ontario
139 Hunter Street East,
Hamilton, Ontario
t
93 Bold St., Hamilton
AIR. & AIRS. UJI YE 1
143 Hunter St. E., Hamilton
AIR. &' AIRS. T0AIA1Y AI. ISOWA
71 Catherine St. N., Hamilton
NONKY, AKIRA, and
NOBBY IDENOUYE
547 James St. N., Hamilton
MR. & AIRS. ROA' AIASUI
and daughters
Alarylin and Sharon
312 James St. N., Hamilton
MR. & AIRS. THOAIAS YOSHIDA
and HARUAII LORRAINE
104 AVest Avenue South,
Hamilton, Ontario
_______ _______________________________ J
8
1 g-i-i'-a?
December 23. 1944.
TN A WAY, the statement made
* in Parliament on August 4th by
Premier King marked a milestone
in resettlement history, for in his
speech Mr. King expressed very
clearly what the future Govern
ment policy is to be in regard to
all those of Japanese birth in
Canada. By it, the fear that every
one of Japanese parentage -whether
Canadian-b o r n,
Naturalized
or
Japanese Nationals -would be re
patriated or “exiled” to Japan was
dissipated. A quasi-judicial com
mittee is to be appointed -whose
uuty it will be to separate the
loyal from the disloyal.' While the
return of those who wish to iden
tify themselves with Japan will be
expedited after the war, those
deemed loyal to Canada and to
Canadian institutions will stay in
Canada and will be treated “fair
ly” and “justly”.
In the statement, the Govern
ment plan to solve the Japanese
Canadian problem by encouraging
the evacuees to scatter themselves
more or less evenly throughout the
country in such a way as to avoid
any approach to a “colony” recei
ved fresh emphasis; it was urged
that this method was quite the
best policy not only for Canada
but also for the Japanese Cana
dians themselves, since the oppo
site would undoubtedly result in
arousing feelings of racial hosti
lity- .
It was clearly stated, too, that
no return of the evacuees in num
bers to the British Columbia Coast
would be permitted. The policy is
evidently to take advantage of the
situation produced by the war to
see to it that the Japanese Cana
dian problem which has been so
prominent in British Columbia for
the last few decades disappears
from Canadian history.
While to many the Government
declaration itself may prove a disapnointment, every one, I nm sure,
will welcome the’ fact that the
long- period of uncertainty is now
past; as long as the Government’s
attitude was unexpressed,- it was
impossible to make plans that
mig-ht not later be upset. From
now on the road ahead is verv
clear; every person concerned can
chart the main features of his
future course without fear of un
due interruption.
k THE first MAIN ISSUE to be
faced, therefore, is. undoubted
ly whether the evacuee wishes to
spend the rest of his life in Cana
da or prefers to return to Japan.
With some the decision will not be
difficult; in fact, it probably has
already been made. It can safely
be assumed, I think, that the vast
majority of those already resettled
Eas?t of the Rockies will’be linking
a
FHHEBIM FAR THE FUTURE
t
I
I
By
ERNEST TRUEMAN
Placement Officer, Toronto, Ontario
up their future destiny with Cana
da. It is almost sure, too, that
many of the Japanese Nationals
whose ties with the Mother coun
try are too varied and strong to be
easily severed will request repat- '
riation. There is a large number,
though, in between these two
groups to whom the recently en
unciated Government policy will
come as a definite challenge to do
some conclusive thinking as to
which of the continents bordering
on the Pacific Ocean will be the
scene of their future activities.
One thing seems to me to oe quite
certain—the Commissioners who
ever they are, will not be offering
any inducements calculated to per
suade any of the evacuees to stay
in Canada. Granted that there is
no incriminating evidence to indi
cate a disloyal attitude, the deci
sion to be made will be wholly up
to the person concerned.
It is mostly to this latter group
that this article is written. In it
I wish to share with them some of
the concerns which have come to
be mine as Placement Officer in
the Toronto area over a period of
some twenty-eight months.
•
M Y FIRST serious concern has
to do with this policy of dis
persal. I am strongly convinced
that it is only through a whole
hearted approval and adoption of
this policy on the part of the Jap
anese Canadian Group that there
can be any happy future for them
in Canada. Race prejudice is as old
as man; it arises from fear—fear
of the unknown. Given someone of
a different color or language or* hab
its of life and a barrier is imme
diately raised. It finds its most
intolerant expression when the
“unknown” live in groups, since
then there are more people to be
feared; it almost invariably disap
pears when an opportunity for
acquaintanceship is given to be
recognized. It goes without debate,
therefore, that it would be unwise
hi the extreme for the evacuees
with all Canadia to choose from to
congregate in any one particular
place to such a degree that the
area where they are would come
to be known as a Japanese colony.
When I urge the evacuees thus
to scatter themselves throughout
the length and breadth of the land,
I realize I am asking of them a
difficult thing. By all means, the
most baffling problem this office
has had to face in the past is the
inordinate desire on the part of
practically all to come into Toron
to or to Montreal. Literally hun
dreds have refused to leave the
Settlements unless their destina
tion was one of the two places
mentioned above. The reasons giv-en for such an attituae are var
ious; the most common one is that
opportunities are better in the big
cities than anywhere else; another
one, heard almost as often, is that
in the big cities they are inconspi
cuous—when they go to smaller
towns or villages they are stared
at. While there may be some str
ength to such arguments certainly
there is not enough in them to
warrant us facing the dire results
that -will undoubtedly come from
too great a concentration of Japa
nese Canadians in any one place.
If the evacuation is simply to
mean the transference of the prob
lems met in Vancouver to Toronto
or to Montreal, the whole tragedy
of the evacuation could well be
said to be meaningless.
My hope is that the evacuees
will all come to consider themselves as Canadians of Japanese heri
tage — not Japanese in Canada.
Thousands and thousands of the
rank and file of Canadians of vnrious racial inheritance find happy
and useful lives on farms, in vil
lages, in smaller and larger towns.
The only hope for a happv settle
ment of the Japanese Canadian
problem is when the evacuees will
go and do likewise.
MY NEXT CONCERN is lest
* those of the Japanese race in
Canada accept the privileges of
life in this country without a feel
ing that they must also share in
its responsibilities. Canada is now
in its fifth year of war. Though
large geographically and rich in
resources, its population is small.
It was never* planned, therefore,
that its direct manpower contribu
tion te the rvar would be more
than a token one. Its help would
have to be in the field of produc
tion—food, munitions, ships, etc.
Any one, therefore, engaged in
“production” from the standpoint
of service to the state can well
consider himself as taking equal
rank with a man in uniform. It is
for this reason that “absenteeism”
is so frowned on by thinking men
everywhere;
considered as a
sort of third cousin to disloyalty;
at any rate it indicates a lament
able lack of understanding of the
proper responsibilities of citizen
ship.
ment. When, however, the person
?■
concerned speaks English perfectlv
I
and still insists that he will be
lonely unless he is talking to Jap
anese Canadians, something must
fe
be wrong. You will note that above
I used the word “progressively”.
I am quite willing to admit that
there should perhaps be a transi
tion period before complete Cana- ■
dianization takes place. This per
iod, however, should be shortened
as much as possible; this will be
made possible when the person
concerned deliberately chooses
membership in clubs and organiza
tions where perhaps he would be
the only Japanese present. Some
of the evacuees are already doing
this in a very remarkable way. Un
fortunately, however, so far that
number has been alb too small.
Undoubtedly to thus step out
fearlessly into new communities
requires- a high degree of initiative
and courage. The North American
Continent, however, was originally
colonized by men and women with
characteristics of this sort, this
too in areas when the foes to be
faced were actual perils to life and
ordinary creature comforts now
commonly available were practi
cally unknown. I often say that the
advent of a Japanese Canadian to
j
a new community, from the standj
point of the community, is only a
j
three days wonder; the same is i
true as far as the newcomer is
5
concerned.
Generally speaking, |
Canadians in Eastern 'Canada are
fighting a war against nations, not
against individuals. Neighbours as
a whole are kindly and hospitable
and readily respond to gestures of
friendliness.
In this regard, I think it is safe
to say that the thing that has
caused me most disappointment
and pain of heart in my placement
work so far has been the large
amount of absenteeism among the
Nisei workers in this area. With
little or iio regard for their em
ployers’ needs and more often
than not without even saying “by
your leave”, too many of them
have apparently felt free to take
time off. In one company where 16
men were employed, there were 12
of them off on one day—node of
them had even consulted the com
pany authorities before staying
away. In another company where
40 men are eng;aged, the manager
telephoned me not long ago statin
that during the first three days of
the week concerned, absentees
were 9, 6 and 8; none of these had
even intimated to the management that they wei e to be a wav.
Quite a number of the boys have
been given permission to return to
B. C. to visit their folk. Selective
Seiwice allows one month for the
trip including travel both ways,
really a very generous concession,
since the legal vacation allowed to
industrial workers in
is
but one week; quite frequently,
though, these visitors to B.C. have
asked for an extension of their
holidays running anywhere from
one to chiee weeks. These are sim
ply illustrations. The point is tfiat
those who plan -to stay in Canada
should first of all understand thor
oughly our Canadian way of doing
things and to adapt their conduct
accordingly. It is only by so doing
that their presence here will be
welcome
and
they
themselves
prove to be an asset to the life of
the nation they will be choosing
to call their own.
MY THIRD CONCERN is lest
* those who stay in Canada
may fail to be thoroughly assimi
lated and so fall short of becoming
real Canadians. This means ' that
all Japanese Canadians must pro
gressively find their social satis
factions from contact with Cana
dians other than those of their
own
In trying to relocate
evacuees in this area, over and
over again we have been frustrat
ed because of our inability to get
any one to consent to go to a town
or village where none of the Japa
nese race are living.
Whenever
there is a language difficulty, we
would not, of course, even suggest
that one should take such a place-
WHAT I HAVE SAID above
V 1 does not in any way- indicate
that the first job taken will be
the final one. Two or even three
steps may be required before the
final resettlement is reached. My
advice to all is take any decent job
that may be available at the time,
stay in it until a release agreeable
to the employer can be secured,
using the time thus afforded to
discover the very job to which the
person’s interest, skill and past
experience befits him. I am a great
believer in the fact that “'there is
a Divinity that shapes our ends
rough-hew them how we will”.
Time and time again, I have seen
apparent disappointment turned to
Happy victory. Frustration does
not necessarily mean defeat. I am
confident that if those bereft of
homes and businesses by the war
will face the future with faith and
courage and good humor, there
will come to pass for them in this
Canada of ours a life far richer
and more significant than they as
yet have experienced. The age of
pioneering has not yet passed.
s
Qjjtp Masons Warmest tortinqs Jrnm ^anultnn, (©utari
MR. & AIRS. ROBERT MIYASAKA ;
51 Kinrade St., Hamilton
-
IS Forsythe Ave. N_ Hamilton
I
1
1
AIR. & AIRS. EDDY ISHIBASHI
Tadashi Nagao
177 Mary St.. Hamilton
AIR. & AIRS. JINZO TSUCHIDA
318 Hunter St. E.. Hamilton
AIR. & MRS. S. H. INOUYE
I7S John St. N.. Hamilton
1
AIR. & AIRS. SAM KONDO
(0 Aberdeen Ave. AY, Hamilton
J
RUTH TILLMAN
81 Kinrade St., Hamilton
TAD TSUJI
48 Somerset Ave., Hamilton
MR. & AIRS. TAK OGAKI
c-o 1. M. C. A., Hamilton
177 Alain St. AY, Hamilton
JOHNNY SHINOHARA
BETTY NAMIKO TANIZAWA
BOB HORI
Catherine St. N., Hamil
152 Hunter St. E., Hamilton
e-o Y. AI. C. A., Ham-Tron
AIR. & AIRS. RICHARD ITO
Hamilton, Ontario
.MAISIE NISHIMURA
KOJI GOTO
85 Roberts St., Hamilton
AIR. & MRS. ROY I. MATSUMOTO
178 John St. Na Hamilton
81 Elgin St., Hamilton
GEORGE KUBOTA
CECIL I. OK AWARA
363 Alacnab St. N.. Hamilton
SUEJI UAIETSU
35 Earl St., Hamilton
AIR. & AIRS. JOHN S. UCHIKATA
357 Alacnab St. N., Hamilton
154 Gibson Ave. N., Hamilton
JOHNNY ITO
SAM KAI
44 Elgin St.. Hamilton
ZEN TANAKA
225 King St. E.. Hamilton
MR. & AIRS. TOSH TONOGAI
Regal Hotel. 152 King W., Hamilton
i
AIITSUO SONODA
J
65 Cathcart St.. Hamilton
KEN HASHIMOTO
238 John St. N., Hamilton
TOSH ONISHI
ROY and FRANK HAAIADE
llacnab Street North.
166 King St.. AA'.. Hamilton
71 Catherine St. N.. Hamilton
Hamilton, Ontario
and son Howard
169 Jackson St. E.. Hamilton
MR. & AIRS. ERNEST K. IKENO
and son Satoshi Geoffrey
225 King St. E.. Hamilton
TAD. SLIM. AIARY
and PAT KONDO
153 AA ellington fet. N., Hamilton
Harue Tatebe. Kay Idenouye
Irene Baba and Jean Hayashida
139 Hunter St. E.. Hamilton
MRS. T. GOROAIARU
AIR. & AIRS. AI. FUJIMOTO
and FAMILY
and FAMILY
680 King Street- East
Hamilton, Ontario
TERRY UYEDE
KEN SATO
355 Alacnab St. N., Hamilton
YUTAKA. MILLIE and
TSUZUKI TAKEUCHI
85 Roberts St., Hamilton
ASSOCIATION
AIR. & AIRS. HARRY NAGANOBU'
and sons
Albert Lawrence, Edward Roland
HI Hillyard St., Hamilton
MR. & AIRS. SUEJI KOYAAIA
and DONALD AHTSURU
355 Alacnab Street North.
Hamilton. Ontario
I
81 Bold St. AV., Hamilton
AIR. & AIRS. GEORGE NISHINO
1 AIR. & AIRS. EDDIE NAKAA1URA
I
1
'
EIKI KAWANO
HAMILTON,
Ontario
139 Hunter Street East,
Hamilton, Ontario
t
93 Bold St., Hamilton
AIR. & AIRS. UJI YE 1
143 Hunter St. E., Hamilton
AIR. &' AIRS. T0AIA1Y AI. ISOWA
71 Catherine St. N., Hamilton
NONKY, AKIRA, and
NOBBY IDENOUYE
547 James St. N., Hamilton
MR. & AIRS. ROA' AIASUI
and daughters
Alarylin and Sharon
312 James St. N., Hamilton
MR. & AIRS. THOAIAS YOSHIDA
and HARUAII LORRAINE
104 AVest Avenue South,
Hamilton, Ontario
_______ _______________________________ J
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Page 17
Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year
HARRY" KONDO
t
FRANK KONDO
SHIRO TEHARA
EILEEN UYEHARA
DICK NISHINO
NOREEN ITO
TAK NISHINO
ROGER TANAKA
TETSUO MORI
REX H. MATSUYAMA
HAROLD HAYASHI
JOE HE JIRO TEH AR A
JOE IDE
SUSUMU TAZAWA
KIYOSHI BOB MAEDA
Hons is bred the "go-to-hell” at
titude. And no matter- how it is
viewed, it is not an encouraging
state of affairs for the individual
Nisei or the group, for the person
directly concerned or for others.
There is the well-founded belief
that the best solution to this sit
uation is for the families to relo
cate here, and thus provide a more
fixed and stable centre from which
the individual young man can face
his daily responsibilities.
KIYOSHI NAKASHIMA
Interestingly enough, an accur
ate gauge of resettlement progress
is afiorded by the number of homes
being- set up by young couples
T UST AFTER passing McMaster
where
Japanese
Canadian
job
married in Ontario or newly-weds
University, on the left side of
seekers are shifted to the base
from
out west.
the highway leading hi from
ment labor-handling department,
Brantford, a big billboard proudly
Dozens of them now dot the’
regardless of their- qualifications.
declares taat 174,547 citizens live
^H? each little home consisting,
In spite of this some progress
in the city of Hamilton proper.
perhaps of merely two or three
Greetings and Best Wishes from
can assuredly be said to have "been
And another huge sign in front of
rooms, but still, furnished and
MARY SHIMIZU.
made. For instance, one of the
Wallingford Hall, McMaster U.
the T. H. & B station tells the
complete with all the little details
larger industrial plants opened up
MUNE ARIKADO
visitor that Hamiltcn has 401 in
that turn a couple of rooms into
365 Hess Street S.,
employment
to the Nisei a scant
dustries,
$255,862,917
in
capital
a
home. Babies arrive now and
SAKANASHI
23 Undercliffe Avenue
month
Other firms
investment,
58,820
employees
anti
then,
to be fondly christened with
ELEANOR ANDERSON
22 Fairleigh Avenue S.
and small, have followed suit: and
/
6,141
nomes
and
apartments.
"A
most
wonderful names by their
TOMI MIZUSAWA
in many
the late-arriving
250 Park Avenue S.
City of Panorama and Beauty!”
doting parents. Young Nisei coup
YAE YADA
ch to be grateful
32 Emerald Street S.
Truly a thriving metropolis, with
les deserve every blessing and en
to
the
early
pioneers
for
the
jobs
SUSIE ONISHI
111 Dalewood Crescent
great industries, with comfortable
couragement. and they seem to
they have opened up.
homes and with an eye to the fu
FINKS KONDO
summon up unseen resources of
542 Main Street E.
Observers visiting our ci tv for
ture.
Hamilton
is
known
as
the
courage
and spirit, as they face
MITZI UMETSU
307 Hess Street S.
the first time may believe that
Ambitious City.
the.
uncertain
future together as
BESSIE UMETSU
very little real progress has been
c-o J. N. Dalley, Ancaster. Ont.
man
and
wife.
It is difficult to place the exact
achieved in resettlement. Bui the
EIKO UMETSU
81 Elgin Street
date when Nisei firtt arrived from
The older Issei-headed families
early
pioneers voice an opinion
CHIYO HYODO
The Brow Infirmary, Mt. Sanatorium
the west coast as a result of evac
find
difficulty in the first period
born of months and months of ex
MARGARET INOUY"E
uation.
But
it
is
on
record
that
of
adjustment.
The mother is usu
Wallingford Hall, McMaster U.
perience. They recall the abomi
more
than
one
Japanese
Canadian
KAY HATASHITA
ally
lonely,
while
the children are
139 Hunter Street E.
nably poor housing which was the
had
his
home
here
in
the
city
quite happy at school and the hus
KAY" YAMAGA
only thing they could secure when
32 Emerald Street S.
before that fateful December 7.
band spends his days at work.
they first arrived. They rem cm be
The first Nisei evacuee to ar ive
Some ~ form of a group has been
the unstable em p 1 oym ent situawas probably a
oung iw-in who
organized
for these mothers, to
tion, when the reaction o cmployleft the western province before
take
off
the
sharp edge of loneli
ers and fellow employees was still
free exodus was taboo. Not long
ness
in
the
big city. They meet
an unknown thing. In contrast, the
after, under the guidance of the
under
the
sponsorship
of a local
THE COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON
Nisei arriving now have’ recog
B. C. Security Commission,'several
minister
’
s
wife,
for
moments
of
nized pieces in which they can
girls were placed in private homes
fellowship
and
work
on
a
common
seek housing. And they go to jobs
project.
as domestic workers early in 1942.
ng that employers have had
The first
One of the more encouraging
•arrival of the
some satisfactory relations with
Nisei in any numbers, however, did
patterns
observable in Hamilton
other Nisei workers.
has been the keen interest in fur
not occur until the fall of that
ther study. The interest has been
year, when several of them blazed
A matter given much serious
the trail into the city from the
remarkably high, and night school
thought by the Nisei here, voiced
farms of Southern Ontario. With
classes at Central and Westdale
GEO. S. BROWN
or unvoiced, is postwar employ
687 Main Street, East.
the turn of 1943, Nisei continued
Collegiates number a large num
VERNON HAKAKU
ment. The majority believe that
199 Catherine Street, North
to arrive steadily, until new, late
ber
of Nisei as students. Others
the close of the war will find them
OSCAR O. HATASHITA
139 Hunter Street, East
in 1944, Hamilton ranks as the
attend
at
Hamilton Technical,
jobless. Many are certain. Tn dis
HAROLD HEIKE
20 Greig Street
leading relocation centre, as the
while
registration
for both day
cussing this vital problem, the
ROY HEIKE
monthly reports of the B.C.S.C.
and
night
classes
at McMaster
20 Greig Street
condition of Hamilton’s industries
University,
where
Japanese
Cana
clearly
indicate.
The
recent
survey
HARRY HOYANO
Longfield, Ancaster
at war’s end must be considered.
dian
students
are
readily
wel
conducted
by
the
Sophy-Ed
Club
In the reconversion to peacetime
MAS HYODO
104 West Avenue, South
covered over 300 rclocees, and the
comed, have increased.
needs, it is thought that a great
YOSHIO HYODO
104 West Avenue, South
actual number is probably close to
number
of
workers
may
be
laid
off
p ERHAPS the finest thing in
HENRY IDE
Pickering College, Newmarket, Ont.
500.
for a period of time. An industrial
the Hamilton scene is the
JIN IDE
When
139 Hunter Street, East
e authorities will stop
It
city such as Hamilton is certain
number
of sympathetic, under
further relocation to the city is a
BABE H. IKENO
225 King Street, East
to feel the first effects as the war
standing and faithful friends that
II
matter of some concern to the
boom tapers off and the purchas
MASAYOSHI IKENO
225 King Street, East
the
Nisei
have
made
among
local
Nisei already here. The feeling is
ing power of the nation turns on
ROY" ITO
Edwards Hall, McMaster University
citizens. They number a good
growing that a sufficient number
the
downward grade. If this situ
1
MAC KAWANAMI
many
leaders of the churches, pri
.Mountain Sanatorium, Hamilton
are here for the present time and
ation materializes, both Occidental
vate business and
professional
MASAO KAWASAKI
357 Macnab Street, North
that a further sharp increase is
and Nisei workers face the pros
men, and others in the educational
inadvisable. This is easily suggest
150 East Avenue, North
AZA KOSUGI
pect of unemployment. The fact
field.
The Advisory Committee,
ed by taking a short walk along
that larger firms might retain
150 East Avenue, North
GEORGE KOSUGI
headed
by Mr. G.T.A. Reanv, is
the two principal thoroughfares,
their workers according to senior121 Avondale Avenue, North
RODNEY S. KUWABARA
always
ready
to lend advice* and
King and James streets, where
ity ratings may ensure that n<
121 Avondale Avenue, North
assistance.
And
foremost among
TAK W. KUWABARA
Nisei may be encountered with
discrimination will be practised
these
friends
who
have interested
THOMAS KUWABARA
121 Avondale Avenue, North
every few steps, While no serious
But here again the Nisei worker
£
themselves
in
the
Nisei
and their
sentiments have been voiced by
KIYOSHI MA1KAWA
23 Holmes Street, North
is unfortunate in h
ng a low
problems
have
been
Mr.
George
S.
local citizens, it seems that some
164 Victoria Ave., South
rating because of his recent arJ. Y. MIYASAKA
Brown of the Steel Company of
sort
of
policy
should
be
planned
rival.
164 Victoria Ave., South
MASAO MIYASAKA
Canada, Mr. Stanley Sneyd and
and acted upon before the city
127 Jackson Street, 'West
Mr. Cecil Brown of the Y.M.C.A.,
TOMMY MIYASHITA
fathers bring the mutter up at
•ft
j HE SOCIAL and recreational
Miss
M. Collie of the Y.W.C.A.,
127
ROY T. MURAKAMI
Jackson Street, West
i tv
one of their council meetings. Cerneeds of a number of Hamil
ttd
and Rev. W.H. Pike of the United
tainly, resettlement will not be
YUTAKA MURASE
51 Kinrade Street
ton Nisei are well taken care of
Church.
hastened if the city
to be
by the Sophy-Ed and the B. C.
SI* Elgin Street
With such staunch supporters,
closed
and
famili
prevented
Girl’s Clubs, both groups bein.~
ROY NAKANO
164 Victoria Ave., South
the
uncertain horizon of the Ham
from uniting as has been the un
centered in the friendly Y.M.C.A.
39 Bay Street, South
.MITS NAKASHIBA
ilton
Nisei brightens to a consider
happy case in neighboring Torand Y.W.C.A. But some form of
able
degree.
The Nisei can only
BILL T. NISHI
127 Jackson Street, West
onto.
organization for th
not in
*
keep
faith
by
being worthy citi
JOHN NOJIMA
Greycourt, Ancaster, Ont.
these groups is a serious need.
zens
of
Hamilton.
In regard to employment,
<
the
There can .be no denying that a
TADASHI ODE
Greycourt, Ancaster, Ont.
are lieavily■ concentrated in
problem
does exist in the case of
224 John Street, North
VIC OHASHI
labor and semi-labor occupation
manv a kisei, away from home
ROBERT OIKAWA
357 Macnab Street. North
Greetings and Best Wishes
The number of white
and parental guidan
for the first
81 Elgin Street
KATS OIKAWA
ers is exceedingly small; in fact
time. The very en ironment in
THE OKI FAMILYit i ; negligible. Progress in this
150
which they live, the cramped, din
517 Cannon Street East,
of work is considered imposghy quarters, the irregular catum
517 Cannon Street. East
GUS G. OKI
Hamiltcn, Ontario
sible and hopeless by Nisei who
habits, the lack of healthv
ocial
517 Cannon Street, East
is
have pounded miles
outlets, the uncertain future , all
pavement
104 West Avenue, South
in quest of this form of work. No
lead to an an disciplined outlook.
206 Dromore Crescent
FUMIO SA IM OTO
encouragement is give:
open to any temptation that may
at the
and son Robert
547 James Street, North
local Selective S e r v i •e office.
come along. Under these condi184 Queen St. N., Hami
Hi®
Kaslo, B. C.
THOMAS SHOYAMA
KAORU HAMANO
Y.
M.
C.
A.
YOSHIRO MIY"AUAKI
STANLEY" SNEYD
GEORGE Y". TSUCHIYA
‘M
§f
W
164 Victoria Ave., South
MASATO S. SORA
^; Ih
^ h ^
252 Macnab St., N., Hamilton
± Ei
f^
206 Dromore Crescent
HENRY' TAMAKI
163 Elgin St.. Hamilton
NOBBY" KAMITOMG
303 Grosvenor, North
MITS TANINO
c-o Cawesco Club
CHUJIRO YOSHIDA
HIDEO D. TAKAOKA
163 Jackson St., W., Hamilton
nF E
^
-X gp
23 Elgin St., Hamilton
35 Earl Street
TOSH TAKAOKA
163 Elgin St., Hamilton
its
357 Macnab Street, North
ISAMU TAKASHITA
MR.
&
MRS.
KUNIO
SHINOHARA
Hamilton
MR. X.
MR. & MRS. HIKOYE YAMASAKI
CHOTARO AOYAMA
Mountain
Sanatorium, Hamilton
TOMMY’ UCHIYAMA
#
^
^
it
t E
-M uk Flfj
E
^l
^
|
ri
357 Macnab Street, North
DOUG MINORU UMETSU
BETTY SHINOHARA
357 Macnab Street, North
FRANK USAMI
65 Cathcart St.,
71 Catherine St-, N., Hamilton.
TOSH YOKOYAMA
143 Hunter Street, East
390 Macnab St., N., Hamilton
Hamilton, Ontario
JOHNNY KONDO
JACK GENTARO TEHARA
I
I®
tl
•i
HARRY" KONDO
t
FRANK KONDO
SHIRO TEHARA
EILEEN UYEHARA
DICK NISHINO
NOREEN ITO
TAK NISHINO
ROGER TANAKA
TETSUO MORI
REX H. MATSUYAMA
HAROLD HAYASHI
JOE HE JIRO TEH AR A
JOE IDE
SUSUMU TAZAWA
KIYOSHI BOB MAEDA
Hons is bred the "go-to-hell” at
titude. And no matter- how it is
viewed, it is not an encouraging
state of affairs for the individual
Nisei or the group, for the person
directly concerned or for others.
There is the well-founded belief
that the best solution to this sit
uation is for the families to relo
cate here, and thus provide a more
fixed and stable centre from which
the individual young man can face
his daily responsibilities.
KIYOSHI NAKASHIMA
Interestingly enough, an accur
ate gauge of resettlement progress
is afiorded by the number of homes
being- set up by young couples
T UST AFTER passing McMaster
where
Japanese
Canadian
job
married in Ontario or newly-weds
University, on the left side of
seekers are shifted to the base
from
out west.
the highway leading hi from
ment labor-handling department,
Brantford, a big billboard proudly
Dozens of them now dot the’
regardless of their- qualifications.
declares taat 174,547 citizens live
^H? each little home consisting,
In spite of this some progress
in the city of Hamilton proper.
perhaps of merely two or three
Greetings and Best Wishes from
can assuredly be said to have "been
And another huge sign in front of
rooms, but still, furnished and
MARY SHIMIZU.
made. For instance, one of the
Wallingford Hall, McMaster U.
the T. H. & B station tells the
complete with all the little details
larger industrial plants opened up
MUNE ARIKADO
visitor that Hamiltcn has 401 in
that turn a couple of rooms into
365 Hess Street S.,
employment
to the Nisei a scant
dustries,
$255,862,917
in
capital
a
home. Babies arrive now and
SAKANASHI
23 Undercliffe Avenue
month
Other firms
investment,
58,820
employees
anti
then,
to be fondly christened with
ELEANOR ANDERSON
22 Fairleigh Avenue S.
and small, have followed suit: and
/
6,141
nomes
and
apartments.
"A
most
wonderful names by their
TOMI MIZUSAWA
in many
the late-arriving
250 Park Avenue S.
City of Panorama and Beauty!”
doting parents. Young Nisei coup
YAE YADA
ch to be grateful
32 Emerald Street S.
Truly a thriving metropolis, with
les deserve every blessing and en
to
the
early
pioneers
for
the
jobs
SUSIE ONISHI
111 Dalewood Crescent
great industries, with comfortable
couragement. and they seem to
they have opened up.
homes and with an eye to the fu
FINKS KONDO
summon up unseen resources of
542 Main Street E.
Observers visiting our ci tv for
ture.
Hamilton
is
known
as
the
courage
and spirit, as they face
MITZI UMETSU
307 Hess Street S.
the first time may believe that
Ambitious City.
the.
uncertain
future together as
BESSIE UMETSU
very little real progress has been
c-o J. N. Dalley, Ancaster. Ont.
man
and
wife.
It is difficult to place the exact
achieved in resettlement. Bui the
EIKO UMETSU
81 Elgin Street
date when Nisei firtt arrived from
The older Issei-headed families
early
pioneers voice an opinion
CHIYO HYODO
The Brow Infirmary, Mt. Sanatorium
the west coast as a result of evac
find
difficulty in the first period
born of months and months of ex
MARGARET INOUY"E
uation.
But
it
is
on
record
that
of
adjustment.
The mother is usu
Wallingford Hall, McMaster U.
perience. They recall the abomi
more
than
one
Japanese
Canadian
KAY HATASHITA
ally
lonely,
while
the children are
139 Hunter Street E.
nably poor housing which was the
had
his
home
here
in
the
city
quite happy at school and the hus
KAY" YAMAGA
only thing they could secure when
32 Emerald Street S.
before that fateful December 7.
band spends his days at work.
they first arrived. They rem cm be
The first Nisei evacuee to ar ive
Some ~ form of a group has been
the unstable em p 1 oym ent situawas probably a
oung iw-in who
organized
for these mothers, to
tion, when the reaction o cmployleft the western province before
take
off
the
sharp edge of loneli
ers and fellow employees was still
free exodus was taboo. Not long
ness
in
the
big city. They meet
an unknown thing. In contrast, the
after, under the guidance of the
under
the
sponsorship
of a local
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Nisei arriving now have’ recog
B. C. Security Commission,'several
minister
’
s
wife,
for
moments
of
nized pieces in which they can
girls were placed in private homes
fellowship
and
work
on
a
common
seek housing. And they go to jobs
project.
as domestic workers early in 1942.
ng that employers have had
The first
One of the more encouraging
•arrival of the
some satisfactory relations with
Nisei in any numbers, however, did
patterns
observable in Hamilton
other Nisei workers.
has been the keen interest in fur
not occur until the fall of that
ther study. The interest has been
year, when several of them blazed
A matter given much serious
the trail into the city from the
remarkably high, and night school
thought by the Nisei here, voiced
farms of Southern Ontario. With
classes at Central and Westdale
GEO. S. BROWN
or unvoiced, is postwar employ
687 Main Street, East.
the turn of 1943, Nisei continued
Collegiates number a large num
VERNON HAKAKU
ment. The majority believe that
199 Catherine Street, North
to arrive steadily, until new, late
ber
of Nisei as students. Others
the close of the war will find them
OSCAR O. HATASHITA
139 Hunter Street, East
in 1944, Hamilton ranks as the
attend
at
Hamilton Technical,
jobless. Many are certain. Tn dis
HAROLD HEIKE
20 Greig Street
leading relocation centre, as the
while
registration
for both day
cussing this vital problem, the
ROY HEIKE
monthly reports of the B.C.S.C.
and
night
classes
at McMaster
20 Greig Street
condition of Hamilton’s industries
University,
where
Japanese
Cana
clearly
indicate.
The
recent
survey
HARRY HOYANO
Longfield, Ancaster
at war’s end must be considered.
dian
students
are
readily
wel
conducted
by
the
Sophy-Ed
Club
In the reconversion to peacetime
MAS HYODO
104 West Avenue, South
covered over 300 rclocees, and the
comed, have increased.
needs, it is thought that a great
YOSHIO HYODO
104 West Avenue, South
actual number is probably close to
number
of
workers
may
be
laid
off
p ERHAPS the finest thing in
HENRY IDE
Pickering College, Newmarket, Ont.
500.
for a period of time. An industrial
the Hamilton scene is the
JIN IDE
When
139 Hunter Street, East
e authorities will stop
It
city such as Hamilton is certain
number
of sympathetic, under
further relocation to the city is a
BABE H. IKENO
225 King Street, East
to feel the first effects as the war
standing and faithful friends that
II
matter of some concern to the
boom tapers off and the purchas
MASAYOSHI IKENO
225 King Street, East
the
Nisei
have
made
among
local
Nisei already here. The feeling is
ing power of the nation turns on
ROY" ITO
Edwards Hall, McMaster University
citizens. They number a good
growing that a sufficient number
the
downward grade. If this situ
1
MAC KAWANAMI
many
leaders of the churches, pri
.Mountain Sanatorium, Hamilton
are here for the present time and
ation materializes, both Occidental
vate business and
professional
MASAO KAWASAKI
357 Macnab Street, North
that a further sharp increase is
and Nisei workers face the pros
men, and others in the educational
inadvisable. This is easily suggest
150 East Avenue, North
AZA KOSUGI
pect of unemployment. The fact
field.
The Advisory Committee,
ed by taking a short walk along
that larger firms might retain
150 East Avenue, North
GEORGE KOSUGI
headed
by Mr. G.T.A. Reanv, is
the two principal thoroughfares,
their workers according to senior121 Avondale Avenue, North
RODNEY S. KUWABARA
always
ready
to lend advice* and
King and James streets, where
ity ratings may ensure that n<
121 Avondale Avenue, North
assistance.
And
foremost among
TAK W. KUWABARA
Nisei may be encountered with
discrimination will be practised
these
friends
who
have interested
THOMAS KUWABARA
121 Avondale Avenue, North
every few steps, While no serious
But here again the Nisei worker
£
themselves
in
the
Nisei
and their
sentiments have been voiced by
KIYOSHI MA1KAWA
23 Holmes Street, North
is unfortunate in h
ng a low
problems
have
been
Mr.
George
S.
local citizens, it seems that some
164 Victoria Ave., South
rating because of his recent arJ. Y. MIYASAKA
Brown of the Steel Company of
sort
of
policy
should
be
planned
rival.
164 Victoria Ave., South
MASAO MIYASAKA
Canada, Mr. Stanley Sneyd and
and acted upon before the city
127 Jackson Street, 'West
Mr. Cecil Brown of the Y.M.C.A.,
TOMMY MIYASHITA
fathers bring the mutter up at
•ft
j HE SOCIAL and recreational
Miss
M. Collie of the Y.W.C.A.,
127
ROY T. MURAKAMI
Jackson Street, West
i tv
one of their council meetings. Cerneeds of a number of Hamil
ttd
and Rev. W.H. Pike of the United
tainly, resettlement will not be
YUTAKA MURASE
51 Kinrade Street
ton Nisei are well taken care of
Church.
hastened if the city
to be
by the Sophy-Ed and the B. C.
SI* Elgin Street
With such staunch supporters,
closed
and
famili
prevented
Girl’s Clubs, both groups bein.~
ROY NAKANO
164 Victoria Ave., South
the
uncertain horizon of the Ham
from uniting as has been the un
centered in the friendly Y.M.C.A.
39 Bay Street, South
.MITS NAKASHIBA
ilton
Nisei brightens to a consider
happy case in neighboring Torand Y.W.C.A. But some form of
able
degree.
The Nisei can only
BILL T. NISHI
127 Jackson Street, West
onto.
organization for th
not in
*
keep
faith
by
being worthy citi
JOHN NOJIMA
Greycourt, Ancaster, Ont.
these groups is a serious need.
zens
of
Hamilton.
In regard to employment,
<
the
There can .be no denying that a
TADASHI ODE
Greycourt, Ancaster, Ont.
are lieavily■ concentrated in
problem
does exist in the case of
224 John Street, North
VIC OHASHI
labor and semi-labor occupation
manv a kisei, away from home
ROBERT OIKAWA
357 Macnab Street. North
Greetings and Best Wishes
The number of white
and parental guidan
for the first
81 Elgin Street
KATS OIKAWA
ers is exceedingly small; in fact
time. The very en ironment in
THE OKI FAMILYit i ; negligible. Progress in this
150
which they live, the cramped, din
517 Cannon Street East,
of work is considered imposghy quarters, the irregular catum
517 Cannon Street. East
GUS G. OKI
Hamiltcn, Ontario
sible and hopeless by Nisei who
habits, the lack of healthv
ocial
517 Cannon Street, East
is
have pounded miles
outlets, the uncertain future , all
pavement
104 West Avenue, South
in quest of this form of work. No
lead to an an disciplined outlook.
206 Dromore Crescent
FUMIO SA IM OTO
encouragement is give:
open to any temptation that may
at the
and son Robert
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local Selective S e r v i •e office.
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MRS.
KUNIO
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Hamilton
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Pa.ge 18
December 23. 1944.
DARK YOUNG GIRL of
about fourteen years sat
near her
grandmother
fanning her for air. The
late afternoon sun filtered through
the grass matting screen. Outside,
the palm-bordered lagoon
was
glassy.
“That was a nice Christmas dinner, grandma,” said Sally to the
old woman who sat with closed
eyes. “Tell me about Canada,
where it snows for Christmas.”
“Well, Sally, it really snows in
winter there. When I was a young
girl, a song called ‘White Christ
mas was very popular. It tells
about a young man who used to
long for snow at Christmas because he was in a place like this
where it never snows.”
“About Canada,” urged Sally,
“why did you leave?”
The old woman half spoke to
herself ruefully, ‘ 'I was young and
did not have the courage to carry
on where your grandfather left
off.”
“He died in a war, didn’t he ?
What did he leave off?” asked the
gM“Yes, he died fighting for the
ideals of his country, I was too
tired and disillusioned to keep up
his fight,” she replied.
“Did you have to fight even
after the war was over?” queried
the girl.
“There were many things that
living on this island you will never
know—I hope you will not have to
know. Canada is a beautiful place
but war came to the country’’ end
suddenly the bad, or, really, the
ignorant people made life ugly for
us of Japanese’ blood. But we must
remember that in wartime, people
very often think with their hearts
instead of with their heads. They
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hate something they can see in
stead of the evil, itself.
“Before the war, most of the
Japanese lived in British Columbia, that is the part of Canada
nearest Japan, There -were many
who were born in Japan and had
not yet learned the Canadian way
of life. There had always been
people picking on us but with the
outbreak of war, these men, who
wanted publicity, said that we
should be sent away from the
coast because we were dangerous
to the safety of the land.
We
didn’t have a vote so we could, not
do anything but be moved, leaving
our homes and everything that we
had worked for all our lives.”
“It wasn’t fair, you should not
have moved at all. You were Can
adians just as the others!” Sally
put in heatedly.
“I felt that way, too.
So did
many others. But there was a law
made to move us and policemen
came around to enforce it. Those
.who would not obey the law were
put in jail. So you see we had to
move. My parents went to a ghost
town where those who could not
find positions easily in the eaststayed until they could be placed.
It was in the east, in Toronto, that
I met your grandfather.”
“Tell me about grandpa and how
you met. Was he good looking?”
she- asked instantly diverted by
the prospect of a romantic story.
“Yes, dear, I met your grand
father about a year after going to
the east. We were married soon
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Wray grew up 'and I have all you
fine grandchildren. ”
Sally sighed and with shining
eyres looked at the old lady* Seeing
her drooping lids, the girl tip-coed
away.
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after, much against the wishes of
my parents.”
“Did you love him as much as
girls in stories usually do ? You
haven’t told me anything about
before you were married,” prompt
ed Sally.
“Yes, child, I loved Wray far
more than any story romance has
ever told. He wa? serious about
things, while I liked to dance and
be gay. It wasn’t love at first
sight, though. I was still young
enough to be dazzled by the gla
mour of the college boys in east
ern Canada. Wray had never been
to university.
“When we became better acquainted,
used to go for long
walks in the hazy October days
and scuffle our feet in the crackl
ing pile of coloured leaves. He
' talked about Japanese Canadians.
I had never heard anyone like him.
He was not at all bitter about
things as I was. Often, I would
say hotly, ‘But don’t you feel that
we are drifting ? Our security has
been taken flom us, we have no
vote, the government can push us
where it wants.’
“To which he would reply,
‘There is no security anywhere in
the world today, but no one drifts
unless he stops swimming. Man
must have hope in tomorrow and
faith in the goodness of others.
What does dwelling on past grie
vances bring you but unhappi
ness?’ Then he would suddenly
look down and grin, ‘Look at Miss
Heavy Thinker, let’s jump in that
pile of leaves.’ I didn’t really understand all he meant, but I can
see now how much older and wiser
he was than I.”
“In those days all Japanes
born in Canada were fighting for
full rights. You see, we still did
not have the vote. There were
many who volunteered to fight for
Canada even without that right.
They reasoned that one must give
before asking foi’ anything. Your
grandfather was one of these. I
was proud that he’stayed -with his
beliefs when so manv were saying
sneeringly. ‘even the promised
word of the authorities can’t be
trusted. Look how often they have
contradicted them selves. Those
poor fools, going to fight without
so much as a hint of future equal
ity.’
“Men volunteered but were not
taken immediately. But Wray got
himself in the armv. He went to
serve in Europe and never came
back. Little
md I were
alone.”
ArltK THE WAR, jobs were
scarce even for white people so
you can imagine what chance I had
with my’ Japanese face. That my
husband had died for Canada made
no difference. I looked Oriental
and employers had no work for
me. I could feel my friends scorn
ful pity, ‘Look at her’, they would
whisper, ‘her husband died fight
ing for this country but she is no
better off than we are. We at
least, have our husbands alive.’
“My parents wrote me a for
giveness note and advised me to
come back to them in the ghost
town and thence to Japan. I grit
ted my teeth and said, ‘Never’.
“As winter came, little Wray
became ill and cranky.
He was
pale and thin because I couldn’t
afford the proper food nor care for
him. I was always jumping from
one short job to another.
mv
tired dreams I would see my baby
fat and myself with enough ener
gy- to play with him. Against my
will, these dreams began to seem
more real than those that Wray
and I had talked about so often.
I went back to my parents.
“After year? of independence. I
had to listen constantly to my par
ents’ and their friends’ advice on
everything. The hardest to take
was their veiled T told you so’.
They said what a pity it was that
I had not married some intelligent
young man and stayed safely with
them in the ghost town, where he
could not get any dangerous ideas
of the east. Often I thought of
going back to Toronto but I had
no money for the train fare. Be-
TALL TANNED YOUTH in a
pareu and a lithe girl came
strolling by. He turned to the girl
and said. “The old gal has Peen, &
telling that gullible kid sister of
mine about my grandfather who
died fighting for a glorious cause, &
for freedom and equality, so his
widow could get kicked out of his
country.
The old chap probably
died of the measles on the German
front. She gets so romatic aoout
it all, it must be old age.”
“She is a dear, though,” The
girl spoke up. “Your grandfather
must have been quite a man.”
“Correction, an
ide o 1 o g i c a 1
fool,” he quipped “Who cares
about votes and the rest of the
bunk. I don’t vote but I get along
fine. C’mon let the old boy stayburied with his dreams. The surf
looks good, race you! Last one in
is a monkey!”
With that, the two raced gaily
towards the lagoon.
“Forgive me their irresponsibility, Wray. Are those your grand
children who care fox- nothing but
their selfish pleasures ?
Could I
have given them a chance for de
cent citizenship in Canada ? I am
so confused here,” she sighed.
She dozed off. Teardrops glisten
ed in the corners of her withered
lids but a smile played on her lips.
5
She was dreaming- of Christmas t
with snow outside, a roaring fire
in the hearth, apples and walnuts
in a. bowl, the Christmas litter still
spread on the floor, and on the i
radio, Bing Crosby crooning, “May
all your Christmases be white.”
A
sides, Wray was
rosy.”
fat and
its moorings, I stood on the
deck for my last look at the land
of my childhood, the land where I
was leaving my dreams and my
heart, the land to which i could
never return. I could almost hear
Wray saying, ‘You must believe,
that you are a Canadian or no one
else will. You must struggle for,
the right to be a Canadian as for
anything else worth having.’ My
mind cried out against that voice,
T tried, tried hard. It isn’t fair
that I should have suffered so
much and to have everything turn
against me. I am not strong
enough to fight it alone.’
“The pier was blending into the
shoreline. Little Wray tugged at
my skirt and said, “Why are you
crying, mummy, don’t you like the
big boat ? We’re going to a nice
place where everyone will look 'Ike
u9 and be nice to us, grandma told
me.’ Too late—I saw that I was
giving up this land not only for
myself, but my7 child and all his
children.”
“I could not bury myself in the
little village of my parents. Peo
ple pointed me out as that widow’
of the traitor who fought and died
for Canada. No child was allowed
to play with my Wray. Life wias
narrow and unbearable. I ran away •
after a year and managed to come
to this island. Here life has been
calm. No one has asked where I
am from or what I was. Here
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December 23. 1944.
DARK YOUNG GIRL of
about fourteen years sat
near her
grandmother
fanning her for air. The
late afternoon sun filtered through
the grass matting screen. Outside,
the palm-bordered lagoon
was
glassy.
“That was a nice Christmas dinner, grandma,” said Sally to the
old woman who sat with closed
eyes. “Tell me about Canada,
where it snows for Christmas.”
“Well, Sally, it really snows in
winter there. When I was a young
girl, a song called ‘White Christ
mas was very popular. It tells
about a young man who used to
long for snow at Christmas because he was in a place like this
where it never snows.”
“About Canada,” urged Sally,
“why did you leave?”
The old woman half spoke to
herself ruefully, ‘ 'I was young and
did not have the courage to carry
on where your grandfather left
off.”
“He died in a war, didn’t he ?
What did he leave off?” asked the
gM“Yes, he died fighting for the
ideals of his country, I was too
tired and disillusioned to keep up
his fight,” she replied.
“Did you have to fight even
after the war was over?” queried
the girl.
“There were many things that
living on this island you will never
know—I hope you will not have to
know. Canada is a beautiful place
but war came to the country’’ end
suddenly the bad, or, really, the
ignorant people made life ugly for
us of Japanese’ blood. But we must
remember that in wartime, people
very often think with their hearts
instead of with their heads. They
LOTOS EATERS 2000
STOR
hate something they can see in
stead of the evil, itself.
“Before the war, most of the
Japanese lived in British Columbia, that is the part of Canada
nearest Japan, There -were many
who were born in Japan and had
not yet learned the Canadian way
of life. There had always been
people picking on us but with the
outbreak of war, these men, who
wanted publicity, said that we
should be sent away from the
coast because we were dangerous
to the safety of the land.
We
didn’t have a vote so we could, not
do anything but be moved, leaving
our homes and everything that we
had worked for all our lives.”
“It wasn’t fair, you should not
have moved at all. You were Can
adians just as the others!” Sally
put in heatedly.
“I felt that way, too.
So did
many others. But there was a law
made to move us and policemen
came around to enforce it. Those
.who would not obey the law were
put in jail. So you see we had to
move. My parents went to a ghost
town where those who could not
find positions easily in the eaststayed until they could be placed.
It was in the east, in Toronto, that
I met your grandfather.”
“Tell me about grandpa and how
you met. Was he good looking?”
she- asked instantly diverted by
the prospect of a romantic story.
“Yes, dear, I met your grand
father about a year after going to
the east. We were married soon
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Wray grew up 'and I have all you
fine grandchildren. ”
Sally sighed and with shining
eyres looked at the old lady* Seeing
her drooping lids, the girl tip-coed
away.
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after, much against the wishes of
my parents.”
“Did you love him as much as
girls in stories usually do ? You
haven’t told me anything about
before you were married,” prompt
ed Sally.
“Yes, child, I loved Wray far
more than any story romance has
ever told. He wa? serious about
things, while I liked to dance and
be gay. It wasn’t love at first
sight, though. I was still young
enough to be dazzled by the gla
mour of the college boys in east
ern Canada. Wray had never been
to university.
“When we became better acquainted,
used to go for long
walks in the hazy October days
and scuffle our feet in the crackl
ing pile of coloured leaves. He
' talked about Japanese Canadians.
I had never heard anyone like him.
He was not at all bitter about
things as I was. Often, I would
say hotly, ‘But don’t you feel that
we are drifting ? Our security has
been taken flom us, we have no
vote, the government can push us
where it wants.’
“To which he would reply,
‘There is no security anywhere in
the world today, but no one drifts
unless he stops swimming. Man
must have hope in tomorrow and
faith in the goodness of others.
What does dwelling on past grie
vances bring you but unhappi
ness?’ Then he would suddenly
look down and grin, ‘Look at Miss
Heavy Thinker, let’s jump in that
pile of leaves.’ I didn’t really understand all he meant, but I can
see now how much older and wiser
he was than I.”
“In those days all Japanes
born in Canada were fighting for
full rights. You see, we still did
not have the vote. There were
many who volunteered to fight for
Canada even without that right.
They reasoned that one must give
before asking foi’ anything. Your
grandfather was one of these. I
was proud that he’stayed -with his
beliefs when so manv were saying
sneeringly. ‘even the promised
word of the authorities can’t be
trusted. Look how often they have
contradicted them selves. Those
poor fools, going to fight without
so much as a hint of future equal
ity.’
“Men volunteered but were not
taken immediately. But Wray got
himself in the armv. He went to
serve in Europe and never came
back. Little
md I were
alone.”
ArltK THE WAR, jobs were
scarce even for white people so
you can imagine what chance I had
with my’ Japanese face. That my
husband had died for Canada made
no difference. I looked Oriental
and employers had no work for
me. I could feel my friends scorn
ful pity, ‘Look at her’, they would
whisper, ‘her husband died fight
ing for this country but she is no
better off than we are. We at
least, have our husbands alive.’
“My parents wrote me a for
giveness note and advised me to
come back to them in the ghost
town and thence to Japan. I grit
ted my teeth and said, ‘Never’.
“As winter came, little Wray
became ill and cranky.
He was
pale and thin because I couldn’t
afford the proper food nor care for
him. I was always jumping from
one short job to another.
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tired dreams I would see my baby
fat and myself with enough ener
gy- to play with him. Against my
will, these dreams began to seem
more real than those that Wray
and I had talked about so often.
I went back to my parents.
“After year? of independence. I
had to listen constantly to my par
ents’ and their friends’ advice on
everything. The hardest to take
was their veiled T told you so’.
They said what a pity it was that
I had not married some intelligent
young man and stayed safely with
them in the ghost town, where he
could not get any dangerous ideas
of the east. Often I thought of
going back to Toronto but I had
no money for the train fare. Be-
TALL TANNED YOUTH in a
pareu and a lithe girl came
strolling by. He turned to the girl
and said. “The old gal has Peen, &
telling that gullible kid sister of
mine about my grandfather who
died fighting for a glorious cause, &
for freedom and equality, so his
widow could get kicked out of his
country.
The old chap probably
died of the measles on the German
front. She gets so romatic aoout
it all, it must be old age.”
“She is a dear, though,” The
girl spoke up. “Your grandfather
must have been quite a man.”
“Correction, an
ide o 1 o g i c a 1
fool,” he quipped “Who cares
about votes and the rest of the
bunk. I don’t vote but I get along
fine. C’mon let the old boy stayburied with his dreams. The surf
looks good, race you! Last one in
is a monkey!”
With that, the two raced gaily
towards the lagoon.
“Forgive me their irresponsibility, Wray. Are those your grand
children who care fox- nothing but
their selfish pleasures ?
Could I
have given them a chance for de
cent citizenship in Canada ? I am
so confused here,” she sighed.
She dozed off. Teardrops glisten
ed in the corners of her withered
lids but a smile played on her lips.
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She was dreaming- of Christmas t
with snow outside, a roaring fire
in the hearth, apples and walnuts
in a. bowl, the Christmas litter still
spread on the floor, and on the i
radio, Bing Crosby crooning, “May
all your Christmases be white.”
A
sides, Wray was
rosy.”
fat and
its moorings, I stood on the
deck for my last look at the land
of my childhood, the land where I
was leaving my dreams and my
heart, the land to which i could
never return. I could almost hear
Wray saying, ‘You must believe,
that you are a Canadian or no one
else will. You must struggle for,
the right to be a Canadian as for
anything else worth having.’ My
mind cried out against that voice,
T tried, tried hard. It isn’t fair
that I should have suffered so
much and to have everything turn
against me. I am not strong
enough to fight it alone.’
“The pier was blending into the
shoreline. Little Wray tugged at
my skirt and said, “Why are you
crying, mummy, don’t you like the
big boat ? We’re going to a nice
place where everyone will look 'Ike
u9 and be nice to us, grandma told
me.’ Too late—I saw that I was
giving up this land not only for
myself, but my7 child and all his
children.”
“I could not bury myself in the
little village of my parents. Peo
ple pointed me out as that widow’
of the traitor who fought and died
for Canada. No child was allowed
to play with my Wray. Life wias
narrow and unbearable. I ran away •
after a year and managed to come
to this island. Here life has been
calm. No one has asked where I
am from or what I was. Here
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"BACK IN B.C. .
s
t
A Westerner, like this relocee. is
impressed after a few months in
the wilds of Southern Ontario by
the overwhelming sense of superi
ority that this province feels over
the rest of the country. This is un
derlined by the frequent descrip
tion of Ontario as “Canada’s Premiei* Province’ in local newspaper
headlines, et al. This rather un
ashamed conceit can be traced to
the many ways- that Ontario is
number one in the Dominion, such
as population, industry and smug
complacency.
Of course, this “premier prov
ince” is just what native Ontari
ans think and would like you to
think. Natives of other parts of
Canada, especially evacuees from
British Columbia with its joys
still fresh in their minds, natu
rally take opposition to this view
point.
And in the question of the weath
er, B.C.-ites have a field day. For
definitely, whatever else it is, the
weather is not one of Ontario’s best
points. True, to the natives who
have never experienced any other,
the conditions here probably are
satisfactory. But to us, who still re
member with longing the moderate
climate of the Pacific Coast—until
now the phrase “,moderate climate”
did not mean much—it is a poor
comparison.
Consequently it is not strange
that we make disparaging remarks
about Ontario weather when the
frequent violent phenomena like
severe thunderstorms and bitingly
cold winds assail the district.
“By God, you gotta go back to
B.C. to have good weather,” we
say rather contemptuously, “back
there we never have lousy weather
like here.”
And recently I am beginning to
have a sneaking suspicion ■ that
there are occasions when some On
tario acquaintances of ours bravely
resist an overwhelming temptation
to throttle us.
POLITENESS ALWAYS PAYS
The second incident involved a
son of China and a son of British
Columbia. The son of China being
a well-built, smooth-faced—I guess
“bland” is the right word—Chinese,
who looked as if he had a good job
as a cook at some local cafe. The
son of British Columbia being of
course—me.
I had just got off the Checker
cab on the last lap of my trip to the
CNR station in London which also
serves as the northern terminus of
the L. and P.S. system. On nearing
the front entrance I lowered my
giip and parcel on the ground to
open the doors. Looking up I saw
this Chinese approaching. Auto
matically I waited, holding the door
for him to enter.
To my consternation, on seeing
my act, the doubtful expression
on his face disappeared and apparently taking me for a compatriot, he addressed me in what
must have been Cantonese.
Flustered,
embarrassed,
and
also totally without knowledge of
any words of the Chinese language.
I did the first thing that occurred
to me, which was to frantically
scoop up- my bag and parcel and
speed through the entrance like a
Mosquito bomber. Not until I was
safely entrenched in the grimy in
terior of a London and Port Stan
ley car did I take a deep breath of
relief.
I often wish though that I could
have seen the expression on Mr.
Lee’s face as he watched my rapidly vanishing figure go' through
those CN doors.
LATE AND POOR SERVICE
denly in talking of the sad ituation
oi the scarcity of femalepower, he
said why doesn’t The New Canadian or somebody :ei some pictures of the pretty fillies in the
B.C. ghost towns and sell
pin-ups . . . boy, he’d get a lot of
business.
Seems like a capital idea. If some
typical interior housing
cenes
could be taken with a beauteous
Nisei belle or two or three in the
foreground gosh, what are you
guys waiting for—and don’t forget
those mountains — because that'c
another thing Ontario hasn’t
MR. & MRS. Y. FUJII
1
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^
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c-o XV. Hotson, Jordan Station, Ont.
R.R. No. 5, Blenheim, Ont.
U. P. MOTOTSUNE
$ ^ 1
— #15
c-o XX . Hotson, Jordan Station, Ont.
The effect of my stay in a B.C.
road camp and a ghost town still
:
manifests itself at times eveni in
New Niseville. and I find myself
indulging in
mood of self-pity
for being of Japanese extraction.
Especially is this brought on in
some public conveyance when there
is a large number of people among
whom are some who direct curious
___
and perhaps even hostile glances at
one such as me.
I was returning from a mutually
disagreeable date with the dentist
one day last month when as I
boarded the L. and P.S., I found
myself in one of those coaches that'
have seats facing each other. I. was
in a particularly low mood at the
time, what with visions of the dentist s drill still keen in my mind
and some glaring passengers mak
ing me the object of their dirty
looks. (I should explain that this
was probably accentuated more
because of my imagination nursed
by my low morale than the amount
of hostility we experience, because
our district is singularly free from
unpleasantness on that score.)
Presently (we were still in the
station), a couple asked me whether it would be all right to sit across
from me and did so.
^
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Jordan Station, Ontario
Hajime shiga
KAICHIRO J.
H. Davis, Fonthill. Ont.
464 Talbot St.. London, Ont.
K. KOBAYASHI
Health Institute
Port Dover. Ontario
the
and FAMILY
Town Line Rd., Oakville, Ont.
japanese Canadian
MITSUKO MURAKAMI
wishes tlie
c-o 36 Church St.. St. Catherines. Ont.
and the
SUE MURAKAMI
c-o
‘Iree-Tops”, Winona, Ont.
th
FRANK. KEN and
HARVEY MORITSUGU
KAY KAM AI
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SAM I. TOMOTSUGU
Bannockburn Farm. R. R. No. 5,
St. Thomas, Ontario
FRANK T. KONDO
p. O. Box 34, Union
St. Thomas, Ontario
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26 Gunn Street,
London, Ontario
MR. & MRS. MONPEI ANPI
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Chatham, Ontario
Chisholm Sawmills Company, Ltd.
CAMP NO. 2, SLAVE LAKE, ALBERTA
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c-o Dr. G. K. Wharton
C-o Miss M. Millichamp
36 Centre St. ML, Richmond Hill, Ont. 4^ University Ave., Kingston, Ont.
I
J. TERAMURA
^ It ® ± #J5
P.O. Box 380, Chapleau, Ont.
R.R. No. 1, Port Credit, Ontario
HEISHIRO AOYAMA
NOBORU NAKASHIMA
RIHEI FURUYE
SHIGEO NAKASHIMA
ROY INAMOTO
TOSHIO NA KA SHIM A
EIKICHI KITER A
SHIGE NII NAKA
NOBBY KOYAMA
JACK OHARA
SUSUMU KOZAI
GEORGE SHIRATANI
KATSUNOSUKE KUBOTA
HARRY SHIRATANI
KINICHI KATSUMI
MASAHARU SHIN
KIYOSHI MURAKI
FRANK TAKAYESU
MINORU NAGAHARA
DOUGLAS UCHIDA
ICHIRO NAKAGAWA
TOSHIO YAMAUCHI
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St. Thomas. Ontario
MASARU NISHIMURA
Fletcher, Ontario
b
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lit
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KIHEI NISHIRO
-o B.H. Bull & Son, Brampton, Oni
—‘#15
and MICHIKO
MAS MURAKAMI
.MASATO & EIKO YONEKURA
S. KATAHARA
c-o XX. Hotson, Jordan Station, Ont.
* ,
- —^----------------------------------------- -
c-o XV. Hotson. Jordan Station, Ont.
199 St. James St.. London, Ont.
KAZUFU YONEDA.
E
K
SHIGEO MURAKAMI
TOSHIO MURAKAMI
MARY MURAKAMI
Windsor. Ont.
I FELT BETTER . . .
I should perhaps go into more
detail about the L. and P.S. as it
seems to occupy quite a prominent
place in this Southern Ontario nar
rative. It is an electric railway,
called the London and Port Stan
They were a curious-looking
ley Railway, from which the initials
pair to say the least. The lady
are derived.
who was much the more striking
Many unkind individuals, includ
had some hair that was obviously
ing myself, often refer to it as the
dyed
to a shade of red someLate
and
Poor
Service
Rly.
With
"YOU'RE ALL RIGHT . . ."
what like maple leaves in Octo
much
reason:
for
the
L.
and
P.S.,
After- arriving in Ontario on my
ber. Which explains why she was
which is a kind of country cousin
trip across Canada last spring I had
so striking. It was also obvious
of
such
modern
systems
as
the
B.C.
two personal
experiences,
one
that she- had seen her best years
Electric Railway interurban sys
rather on the humorous if embar
go by and now tried rather skill
tem,
has
a
personality
all
its
own.
rassing side, that served to remind
fully, if vainly, to cover up with
The timetable, without which I
me that relocation didn’t blot out
a heavy application of cosmetics.
would
not
be
able
to
lead
such
a
the ever-familiar bogey of race
The male portion of the duo was
well-rounded existence, says rather
prejudice.
a tall, lanky, thirtyish man, untidily
proudly
on
the
cover
—
“
Provides
Having a few hours to kill in
dressed in an expensive brown suit.
Rapid and Efficient Electric Pas
Toronto between trains I wandered
He had the habit of parking his
senger
Service
between
London,
St.
rather aimlessly through the dirty
feet on the seat opposite him.
Thomas, Port Stanley and interme
ciowded streets of the metropolis
diate points.” *Which p r o b a bl y
(Which evidently the L. and P.S.
and eventually found myself in the
frowns upon to judge by th-e little
shows its whimsical side.
huge Simpson’s department store
signs posted conspicuously in pro
. It is my belief that the coaches
happily riding up and down on the
minent
places in its luxurious cars.)
used
on
the
line
are
hand-meescalators.
I just couldn't do it myself because
downs from the big railways, al
Suddenly . . . “Hey,” said some
the red female was sitting across
tered to electric railway specifica
body. I turned to see a young negro
from me.
tions. The odor, and there is a very
dressed somewhat in the flashy
The lanky man was regaling the
characteristic fragrance to each
“zoot” style.
lady with some gossip, -well-punc
coach, seems to be strong evidence
His shifty eyes blinked as he
in proof of this allegation.
tuated with rich profanity, when
queried anxiously of me, “Are you
he dug into his pocket, brought out
Japanese or Chinese?”
GHOST TOWN "PIN-UPS”
a package of Player’s, scraped back
‘ Japanese,’ T say, perhaps with
the tinfoil, and thrust the cigarettes
Long ago I suggested in these col
an unconscious belligerency, the
towards me, saying:
umns that some enterprising ghost
ghost town “chip-on-the-shoulder ”
“Smoke?”
towner with a photographic bent
attitude still being with me.
“No thanks, * don’t smoke,” was
could make himself a tidy fortune
“Yeah? Well, that’s all right, boy,
my answer, and after a smile at me
if he started a “pin-up” photo ser
I don’t care what you are—you’re
vice of Nisei damsels.
went back to his lively conversa
all right . . . but sometimes these
tion with his companion.
A recent visit to London found
goddam whites . . .” he trailed off,
me talking to an evacuee, long in
“No thanks ...” was what I said,
turned in front of me, -waved smil
time spent in these here eastern
but I added in my mind, “Thanks
ing and went down the escalator
parts and single like the majority,
for asking ME, thanks a lot,” and
steps two at a time.
endorsing this suggestion—for sudI felt much better.
K. OIKAWA
OKAMOTO
JIMMY Y. NISHIYAMA.
®
111
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if
K*Wieiiia:i
BS
"BACK IN B.C. .
s
t
A Westerner, like this relocee. is
impressed after a few months in
the wilds of Southern Ontario by
the overwhelming sense of superi
ority that this province feels over
the rest of the country. This is un
derlined by the frequent descrip
tion of Ontario as “Canada’s Premiei* Province’ in local newspaper
headlines, et al. This rather un
ashamed conceit can be traced to
the many ways- that Ontario is
number one in the Dominion, such
as population, industry and smug
complacency.
Of course, this “premier prov
ince” is just what native Ontari
ans think and would like you to
think. Natives of other parts of
Canada, especially evacuees from
British Columbia with its joys
still fresh in their minds, natu
rally take opposition to this view
point.
And in the question of the weath
er, B.C.-ites have a field day. For
definitely, whatever else it is, the
weather is not one of Ontario’s best
points. True, to the natives who
have never experienced any other,
the conditions here probably are
satisfactory. But to us, who still re
member with longing the moderate
climate of the Pacific Coast—until
now the phrase “,moderate climate”
did not mean much—it is a poor
comparison.
Consequently it is not strange
that we make disparaging remarks
about Ontario weather when the
frequent violent phenomena like
severe thunderstorms and bitingly
cold winds assail the district.
“By God, you gotta go back to
B.C. to have good weather,” we
say rather contemptuously, “back
there we never have lousy weather
like here.”
And recently I am beginning to
have a sneaking suspicion ■ that
there are occasions when some On
tario acquaintances of ours bravely
resist an overwhelming temptation
to throttle us.
POLITENESS ALWAYS PAYS
The second incident involved a
son of China and a son of British
Columbia. The son of China being
a well-built, smooth-faced—I guess
“bland” is the right word—Chinese,
who looked as if he had a good job
as a cook at some local cafe. The
son of British Columbia being of
course—me.
I had just got off the Checker
cab on the last lap of my trip to the
CNR station in London which also
serves as the northern terminus of
the L. and P.S. system. On nearing
the front entrance I lowered my
giip and parcel on the ground to
open the doors. Looking up I saw
this Chinese approaching. Auto
matically I waited, holding the door
for him to enter.
To my consternation, on seeing
my act, the doubtful expression
on his face disappeared and apparently taking me for a compatriot, he addressed me in what
must have been Cantonese.
Flustered,
embarrassed,
and
also totally without knowledge of
any words of the Chinese language.
I did the first thing that occurred
to me, which was to frantically
scoop up- my bag and parcel and
speed through the entrance like a
Mosquito bomber. Not until I was
safely entrenched in the grimy in
terior of a London and Port Stan
ley car did I take a deep breath of
relief.
I often wish though that I could
have seen the expression on Mr.
Lee’s face as he watched my rapidly vanishing figure go' through
those CN doors.
LATE AND POOR SERVICE
denly in talking of the sad ituation
oi the scarcity of femalepower, he
said why doesn’t The New Canadian or somebody :ei some pictures of the pretty fillies in the
B.C. ghost towns and sell
pin-ups . . . boy, he’d get a lot of
business.
Seems like a capital idea. If some
typical interior housing
cenes
could be taken with a beauteous
Nisei belle or two or three in the
foreground gosh, what are you
guys waiting for—and don’t forget
those mountains — because that'c
another thing Ontario hasn’t
MR. & MRS. Y. FUJII
1
^
^
+
S
HI
^
^
c-o XV. Hotson, Jordan Station, Ont.
R.R. No. 5, Blenheim, Ont.
U. P. MOTOTSUNE
$ ^ 1
— #15
c-o XX . Hotson, Jordan Station, Ont.
The effect of my stay in a B.C.
road camp and a ghost town still
:
manifests itself at times eveni in
New Niseville. and I find myself
indulging in
mood of self-pity
for being of Japanese extraction.
Especially is this brought on in
some public conveyance when there
is a large number of people among
whom are some who direct curious
___
and perhaps even hostile glances at
one such as me.
I was returning from a mutually
disagreeable date with the dentist
one day last month when as I
boarded the L. and P.S., I found
myself in one of those coaches that'
have seats facing each other. I. was
in a particularly low mood at the
time, what with visions of the dentist s drill still keen in my mind
and some glaring passengers mak
ing me the object of their dirty
looks. (I should explain that this
was probably accentuated more
because of my imagination nursed
by my low morale than the amount
of hostility we experience, because
our district is singularly free from
unpleasantness on that score.)
Presently (we were still in the
station), a couple asked me whether it would be all right to sit across
from me and did so.
^
^(
fe
Jordan Station, Ontario
Hajime shiga
KAICHIRO J.
H. Davis, Fonthill. Ont.
464 Talbot St.. London, Ont.
K. KOBAYASHI
Health Institute
Port Dover. Ontario
the
and FAMILY
Town Line Rd., Oakville, Ont.
japanese Canadian
MITSUKO MURAKAMI
wishes tlie
c-o 36 Church St.. St. Catherines. Ont.
and the
SUE MURAKAMI
c-o
‘Iree-Tops”, Winona, Ont.
th
FRANK. KEN and
HARVEY MORITSUGU
KAY KAM AI
51a
LI
‘
L]t
SAM I. TOMOTSUGU
Bannockburn Farm. R. R. No. 5,
St. Thomas, Ontario
FRANK T. KONDO
p. O. Box 34, Union
St. Thomas, Ontario
JOHNNY N. KOREKIYO
M
M
#
MAS TOMOTSUGU
t
JACK M. WAT ANA BE
^:
it
11^
<
T. H. Taylor Co., Chatham, Ont.
BOB KONDO
* ■
SENTARO SUZUKI
tn
bOJ
-rm
N. MIYATA
A;
ffl
C A Uli
Pigeon Tbr. Co., Camp 76, Ne - s. Ont.
26 Gunn Street,
London, Ontario
MR. & MRS. MONPEI ANPI
Ji
Chatham, Ontario
Chisholm Sawmills Company, Ltd.
CAMP NO. 2, SLAVE LAKE, ALBERTA
KAZUAKI YOSHIHARA
EIJI MAEDA
ffl
HIDEO MAEDA
t
ffl
KI KUO KIMURA
*
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#
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MOR UI TANIGAMI
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JE
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R.R. No. 1, Port Credit, Ontario
HEISHIRO AOYAMA
NOBORU NAKASHIMA
RIHEI FURUYE
SHIGEO NAKASHIMA
ROY INAMOTO
TOSHIO NA KA SHIM A
EIKICHI KITER A
SHIGE NII NAKA
NOBBY KOYAMA
JACK OHARA
SUSUMU KOZAI
GEORGE SHIRATANI
KATSUNOSUKE KUBOTA
HARRY SHIRATANI
KINICHI KATSUMI
MASAHARU SHIN
KIYOSHI MURAKI
FRANK TAKAYESU
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S. KATAHARA
c-o XX. Hotson, Jordan Station, Ont.
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c-o XV. Hotson. Jordan Station, Ont.
199 St. James St.. London, Ont.
KAZUFU YONEDA.
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SHIGEO MURAKAMI
TOSHIO MURAKAMI
MARY MURAKAMI
Windsor. Ont.
I FELT BETTER . . .
I should perhaps go into more
detail about the L. and P.S. as it
seems to occupy quite a prominent
place in this Southern Ontario nar
rative. It is an electric railway,
called the London and Port Stan
They were a curious-looking
ley Railway, from which the initials
pair to say the least. The lady
are derived.
who was much the more striking
Many unkind individuals, includ
had some hair that was obviously
ing myself, often refer to it as the
dyed
to a shade of red someLate
and
Poor
Service
Rly.
With
"YOU'RE ALL RIGHT . . ."
what like maple leaves in Octo
much
reason:
for
the
L.
and
P.S.,
After- arriving in Ontario on my
ber. Which explains why she was
which is a kind of country cousin
trip across Canada last spring I had
so striking. It was also obvious
of
such
modern
systems
as
the
B.C.
two personal
experiences,
one
that she- had seen her best years
Electric Railway interurban sys
rather on the humorous if embar
go by and now tried rather skill
tem,
has
a
personality
all
its
own.
rassing side, that served to remind
fully, if vainly, to cover up with
The timetable, without which I
me that relocation didn’t blot out
a heavy application of cosmetics.
would
not
be
able
to
lead
such
a
the ever-familiar bogey of race
The male portion of the duo was
well-rounded existence, says rather
prejudice.
a tall, lanky, thirtyish man, untidily
proudly
on
the
cover
—
“
Provides
Having a few hours to kill in
dressed in an expensive brown suit.
Rapid and Efficient Electric Pas
Toronto between trains I wandered
He had the habit of parking his
senger
Service
between
London,
St.
rather aimlessly through the dirty
feet on the seat opposite him.
Thomas, Port Stanley and interme
ciowded streets of the metropolis
diate points.” *Which p r o b a bl y
(Which evidently the L. and P.S.
and eventually found myself in the
frowns upon to judge by th-e little
shows its whimsical side.
huge Simpson’s department store
signs posted conspicuously in pro
. It is my belief that the coaches
happily riding up and down on the
minent
places in its luxurious cars.)
used
on
the
line
are
hand-meescalators.
I just couldn't do it myself because
downs from the big railways, al
Suddenly . . . “Hey,” said some
the red female was sitting across
tered to electric railway specifica
body. I turned to see a young negro
from me.
tions. The odor, and there is a very
dressed somewhat in the flashy
The lanky man was regaling the
characteristic fragrance to each
“zoot” style.
lady with some gossip, -well-punc
coach, seems to be strong evidence
His shifty eyes blinked as he
in proof of this allegation.
tuated with rich profanity, when
queried anxiously of me, “Are you
he dug into his pocket, brought out
Japanese or Chinese?”
GHOST TOWN "PIN-UPS”
a package of Player’s, scraped back
‘ Japanese,’ T say, perhaps with
the tinfoil, and thrust the cigarettes
Long ago I suggested in these col
an unconscious belligerency, the
towards me, saying:
umns that some enterprising ghost
ghost town “chip-on-the-shoulder ”
“Smoke?”
towner with a photographic bent
attitude still being with me.
“No thanks, * don’t smoke,” was
could make himself a tidy fortune
“Yeah? Well, that’s all right, boy,
my answer, and after a smile at me
if he started a “pin-up” photo ser
I don’t care what you are—you’re
vice of Nisei damsels.
went back to his lively conversa
all right . . . but sometimes these
tion with his companion.
A recent visit to London found
goddam whites . . .” he trailed off,
me talking to an evacuee, long in
“No thanks ...” was what I said,
turned in front of me, -waved smil
time spent in these here eastern
but I added in my mind, “Thanks
ing and went down the escalator
parts and single like the majority,
for asking ME, thanks a lot,” and
steps two at a time.
endorsing this suggestion—for sudI felt much better.
K. OIKAWA
OKAMOTO
JIMMY Y. NISHIYAMA.
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THE NEW CANADIAN
December 23, 1944.MARGE MIYO ASANUMA
DECEMBER, 1944:-BAI FIRM
---------------- ------------------------
By H. T. T.
“This is the day.
“What day?”
Don’t you remember?”
-
“The day it all happened.”
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'
.
'
In the world of children they are singing the' carols of
Christmas—of joy, of hope, and of peace. Everywhere there is that
unsophisticated exhilaration of color, laughter, beauty, and spirit
prevalent of the approaching season. To the. world of youth, this is
their rightful inheritance, all that symbolizes the greatest single
event of Christian history. And as is their natural response, there
is no rationing of the quality of exuberance that is so evident about
and within.
They have forgotten for a time that single longing that has
haunted them throughout the years—to go home again. Perhaps in
moments of relapse there will be a remembrance of things past. But
not just now.
Joy seems to be a quality of spirit exclusive to childhood; peace
something intangible in the distant future; and hope, a nonentity. ,
Perhaps a parallel could be drawn when the fog enshrouds this
valley and sits for days upon the mountain in company with the
snow halfway down its sides; or when the cloudbank takes its place
refusing to rise, but hanging glumly for days not far above the lower
circle of pines.
There seems to be still deep within the heart of humanity a
deep sense of hurt of being uprooted—a bitterness that rankles but
does not express itself so outwardly now. Like a spirit cloud that
refuses to rise, it seems to color their* attitudes and actions;
with or without reason the cause of the uncertainty and despair of
this temporary subsistence.
It is apparent that this present situation cannot continue: that
isooner or later they will be uprooted and shunted around again.
What use then, is there in designing a pattern for living here, only
to have it changed again ?
' There is the despair that never will they have a similar driving
incentive such as they had for their former occupations, even if it
did mean a struggle for their very. existence. For in that struggle
they felt they were accomplishing and acquiring something they
could call their own as the years passed by, something intangible for
years of sacrifice and ingenuity.
Many here realize the absence of this incentive—unless it is for
himself alone; that there is very little creative enterprise that
demands the finer processes of thought., Living is no longer one of
the finer creative arts; there is very little community in this diver
sity.
Possessing undesirable traits has become exclusive to thee—
unknown to me.
But perhaps at this time there is a special Christmas angel
hovering not far above, waiting for light to pierce the cloudline. In
the warmth and* beauty of that Light, perhaps too, there Will be revived
all the compassion, gentleness, sympathy, and sincerity that lies deep
within the depths of this group of humanity.
Sorg of ffyc mountains ... Slocan
Towering mountains all surrounding
Icy slivers tipped in molten gold.
Aigretted on the hoary slopes, behold!
Above—the blue gray skies,
With fleecy shrouds of white!
Gradually the day is closing
Where the gold is disappearing
Between the mountain heights.
Ah. but what in vale below;?
Those flimsy houses, the smoke upcurling
Slots and sad unfurling?
The ground so cold and hoar?
What story here?—does man ask man;
Here stay people persecuted by
War and race hatred executed, aye!
And towering mountains their only balm.
Gradually the day is closing
Where the gold is disappearing
Between the mountain heights.
But ah—whence comes sudden glow?
From the misty eastern sky?
Dreams and hopes of their tomorrow
In their breasts a-high
And noon takes place of night.
A NISEI SOLDIER
LOIS YAMAMOTO
37 Thurlow Road,
SERVES IN ITALY
(From the Kenora, Ontario
.Miner and News, May 5, 1944.)
This week Rev. C. A. Hill re
ceived the following letter from
Gunner James Oshiro, Central Mediterrantan Forces, Italy, written
under date of March 31st, and it
is so interesting we pass it on
to our readers. Gnr. Oshiro, eldest
son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Oshiro of
Kenora, is with the 2nd Medium
Regiment, R-.C.A., and has been in
Italy since last fall:
MRS. Y. YAMAMOTO
Hampstead, P.Q.
AMY YAMAMOTO
1055 Valiquette, Verdun, P. Q.
HIDEO IWASAKI
and FAMILY
5870 Bannantyne Ave., Verdun, P.Q
Mr. & Mrs. V. SHIMOTAKAHARA
and son JEFFREY TSUTOMU
1134 Brault, Montreal 19, p. Q.
MR. & MRS. JERRY K. ITO
ERNEST TAMAKI
630 Roslyn Avenue,
156 Hillside,
Westmount, P. Q.
Westmount, P. Q.
HEIDI YOSHIKUNI
MAS YOSHIKUNI
3621 University Street
Montreal 2, P. Q.
MR. & MRS. S. NOSE
YOSHIMITSU JOHN HIGASHI
5780 Darlington Avenue, Apt. 5',
Montreal, P. Q.
JIMMY HORIUCHI
1305 Redpath Crescent, Montreal
5325 Victoria Avenue
Montreal 26, P. Q.
“It is just like summer here with
warm still, sunny days. Makes me
feel as lazy as theUizards sunning
themselves on the grassy slopes.
All the trees are in full summer
dress, and orchards are beginning
to blossom. Spring is in full swing
in Italy.
“The only reminder of the war
is the jagged shells of the build
ings that are left, and the contin
ual stream of army transports on
the roads raising clouds of white
dust behind them. It is hardly pos
sible to believe that there can be
such utter devastation of towns
and cities,—not a whole building
left untouched in one place with a
population of 10,000.
“This is the price these people
are paying for the war they so enthusi.astically entered, and I do
not think that they will ever forget
it. Even the people of England can
not realize how fortunate they
were in not having a land war
fought on their soil. And people in
Canada do not even know what a
war is like because they have never
seen bombed cities, shelled villages, towns which have been
fought over house by house.
“Most of the civilians have fled,
taking what they can carry, causing many problems in living space
shortages and food shortages.
“We have been in action for
some time but are still far from
being experienced. It is not as bad
as I thought although at times it
is not a picnic. Jerry always man
ages to toss a few over to remind
us he is not too far away.
“I have met more Kenora boys
out here than I ever did in Engwe are all very homeland .
sick .
AKINORI RALPH HORIUCHI
17 Melbourne Ave., Westmount, P.Q.
SATORU AKAZAWA
Shigeko and Tsutomu
MR. & MRS. T. YASUNAKa
MRS. MINE AKAZAWA
YOSHIO AKAZAWA
5780 Darlington Avenue, Apt. 5.
180 Bernard St. IV., Montreal.
Montreal, P. Q.
MR. & MRS. ISOJI YAMASHITA
DR. C. GEORGE HORI
and FAMILY
629 Prince Arthur,
Montreal, P. Q.
St. Mary’s Hospital, Montreal, P.Q.
KAICHI ASAE
MR. & MRS. J. HORI
2027 City Councillors St., Montreal.
D. H. SHIOMI
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2038 St. Urbain St., Montreal, P.Q.
MR. & MRS. B. OHASHI
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KAZUKO OHASHI
6473 Bannantyne Ave., Montreal 19.
MR. & MRS. B. UYEDA
MARIKO & LILY
5977 La Salle Blvd., Verdun, P.Q.
MR. & MRS. HAJIME SUZUKI
and LAWRENCE MUTSUMI
1030 Brault Ave., Verdun, P.Q.
GOHICHI OGURA
NOBUO OGURA
3532 Lorne Avenue, Montreal, P.Q.
YASU NAGAMI
261 Buena Vista Road,
MR. & MRS, ERNEST YAMAOKA
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DALE and JUNE
IS. ^
1208 Crescent St., Montreal, P.Q.
MR. & MRS. T. SHIMOTAKAHARA
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and FAMILY
373 St. Catherine Road,
Outremont, Montreal, P. Q.
Ottawa. Ont.
62 Chelsea Rd.. Hull. P.Q.
Best Wishes tor a
MERRY CHRISTMAS
HIROSHI OKUDA,
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and FAMILY
1201 Foch Avenue. Verdun. P.Q.
KIYOSHI OKUDA
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MITSUGI OKUDA
The Season's Greetings
CLEVER MAID
SUMIYE OKUDA
Manufacturing
713 Moffat Avenue. Verdun. P.Q.
Company
1213 Bleury Street.
Alon treal, P. Q.
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B
YOSH OGURA
5780 Darlington, Apt. 5, Montreal
GEORGE SHOTARO TOMITA
MARY HARU CHAPPELL
Mis
5347 St. Andre, Montreal, P.Q.
—MARY ASAZUMA.
451 Holland Ave.. Ottawa, Ont.
£
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THE NEW CANADIAN
December 23, 1944.MARGE MIYO ASANUMA
DECEMBER, 1944:-BAI FIRM
---------------- ------------------------
By H. T. T.
“This is the day.
“What day?”
Don’t you remember?”
-
“The day it all happened.”
--------- ------------------- =-----------
'
.
'
In the world of children they are singing the' carols of
Christmas—of joy, of hope, and of peace. Everywhere there is that
unsophisticated exhilaration of color, laughter, beauty, and spirit
prevalent of the approaching season. To the. world of youth, this is
their rightful inheritance, all that symbolizes the greatest single
event of Christian history. And as is their natural response, there
is no rationing of the quality of exuberance that is so evident about
and within.
They have forgotten for a time that single longing that has
haunted them throughout the years—to go home again. Perhaps in
moments of relapse there will be a remembrance of things past. But
not just now.
Joy seems to be a quality of spirit exclusive to childhood; peace
something intangible in the distant future; and hope, a nonentity. ,
Perhaps a parallel could be drawn when the fog enshrouds this
valley and sits for days upon the mountain in company with the
snow halfway down its sides; or when the cloudbank takes its place
refusing to rise, but hanging glumly for days not far above the lower
circle of pines.
There seems to be still deep within the heart of humanity a
deep sense of hurt of being uprooted—a bitterness that rankles but
does not express itself so outwardly now. Like a spirit cloud that
refuses to rise, it seems to color their* attitudes and actions;
with or without reason the cause of the uncertainty and despair of
this temporary subsistence.
It is apparent that this present situation cannot continue: that
isooner or later they will be uprooted and shunted around again.
What use then, is there in designing a pattern for living here, only
to have it changed again ?
' There is the despair that never will they have a similar driving
incentive such as they had for their former occupations, even if it
did mean a struggle for their very. existence. For in that struggle
they felt they were accomplishing and acquiring something they
could call their own as the years passed by, something intangible for
years of sacrifice and ingenuity.
Many here realize the absence of this incentive—unless it is for
himself alone; that there is very little creative enterprise that
demands the finer processes of thought., Living is no longer one of
the finer creative arts; there is very little community in this diver
sity.
Possessing undesirable traits has become exclusive to thee—
unknown to me.
But perhaps at this time there is a special Christmas angel
hovering not far above, waiting for light to pierce the cloudline. In
the warmth and* beauty of that Light, perhaps too, there Will be revived
all the compassion, gentleness, sympathy, and sincerity that lies deep
within the depths of this group of humanity.
Sorg of ffyc mountains ... Slocan
Towering mountains all surrounding
Icy slivers tipped in molten gold.
Aigretted on the hoary slopes, behold!
Above—the blue gray skies,
With fleecy shrouds of white!
Gradually the day is closing
Where the gold is disappearing
Between the mountain heights.
Ah. but what in vale below;?
Those flimsy houses, the smoke upcurling
Slots and sad unfurling?
The ground so cold and hoar?
What story here?—does man ask man;
Here stay people persecuted by
War and race hatred executed, aye!
And towering mountains their only balm.
Gradually the day is closing
Where the gold is disappearing
Between the mountain heights.
But ah—whence comes sudden glow?
From the misty eastern sky?
Dreams and hopes of their tomorrow
In their breasts a-high
And noon takes place of night.
A NISEI SOLDIER
LOIS YAMAMOTO
37 Thurlow Road,
SERVES IN ITALY
(From the Kenora, Ontario
.Miner and News, May 5, 1944.)
This week Rev. C. A. Hill re
ceived the following letter from
Gunner James Oshiro, Central Mediterrantan Forces, Italy, written
under date of March 31st, and it
is so interesting we pass it on
to our readers. Gnr. Oshiro, eldest
son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Oshiro of
Kenora, is with the 2nd Medium
Regiment, R-.C.A., and has been in
Italy since last fall:
MRS. Y. YAMAMOTO
Hampstead, P.Q.
AMY YAMAMOTO
1055 Valiquette, Verdun, P. Q.
HIDEO IWASAKI
and FAMILY
5870 Bannantyne Ave., Verdun, P.Q
Mr. & Mrs. V. SHIMOTAKAHARA
and son JEFFREY TSUTOMU
1134 Brault, Montreal 19, p. Q.
MR. & MRS. JERRY K. ITO
ERNEST TAMAKI
630 Roslyn Avenue,
156 Hillside,
Westmount, P. Q.
Westmount, P. Q.
HEIDI YOSHIKUNI
MAS YOSHIKUNI
3621 University Street
Montreal 2, P. Q.
MR. & MRS. S. NOSE
YOSHIMITSU JOHN HIGASHI
5780 Darlington Avenue, Apt. 5',
Montreal, P. Q.
JIMMY HORIUCHI
1305 Redpath Crescent, Montreal
5325 Victoria Avenue
Montreal 26, P. Q.
“It is just like summer here with
warm still, sunny days. Makes me
feel as lazy as theUizards sunning
themselves on the grassy slopes.
All the trees are in full summer
dress, and orchards are beginning
to blossom. Spring is in full swing
in Italy.
“The only reminder of the war
is the jagged shells of the build
ings that are left, and the contin
ual stream of army transports on
the roads raising clouds of white
dust behind them. It is hardly pos
sible to believe that there can be
such utter devastation of towns
and cities,—not a whole building
left untouched in one place with a
population of 10,000.
“This is the price these people
are paying for the war they so enthusi.astically entered, and I do
not think that they will ever forget
it. Even the people of England can
not realize how fortunate they
were in not having a land war
fought on their soil. And people in
Canada do not even know what a
war is like because they have never
seen bombed cities, shelled villages, towns which have been
fought over house by house.
“Most of the civilians have fled,
taking what they can carry, causing many problems in living space
shortages and food shortages.
“We have been in action for
some time but are still far from
being experienced. It is not as bad
as I thought although at times it
is not a picnic. Jerry always man
ages to toss a few over to remind
us he is not too far away.
“I have met more Kenora boys
out here than I ever did in Engwe are all very homeland .
sick .
AKINORI RALPH HORIUCHI
17 Melbourne Ave., Westmount, P.Q.
SATORU AKAZAWA
Shigeko and Tsutomu
MR. & MRS. T. YASUNAKa
MRS. MINE AKAZAWA
YOSHIO AKAZAWA
5780 Darlington Avenue, Apt. 5.
180 Bernard St. IV., Montreal.
Montreal, P. Q.
MR. & MRS. ISOJI YAMASHITA
DR. C. GEORGE HORI
and FAMILY
629 Prince Arthur,
Montreal, P. Q.
St. Mary’s Hospital, Montreal, P.Q.
KAICHI ASAE
MR. & MRS. J. HORI
2027 City Councillors St., Montreal.
D. H. SHIOMI
W
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2038 St. Urbain St., Montreal, P.Q.
MR. & MRS. B. OHASHI
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KAZUKO OHASHI
6473 Bannantyne Ave., Montreal 19.
MR. & MRS. B. UYEDA
MARIKO & LILY
5977 La Salle Blvd., Verdun, P.Q.
MR. & MRS. HAJIME SUZUKI
and LAWRENCE MUTSUMI
1030 Brault Ave., Verdun, P.Q.
GOHICHI OGURA
NOBUO OGURA
3532 Lorne Avenue, Montreal, P.Q.
YASU NAGAMI
261 Buena Vista Road,
MR. & MRS, ERNEST YAMAOKA
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IS. ^
1208 Crescent St., Montreal, P.Q.
MR. & MRS. T. SHIMOTAKAHARA
T ® ]M
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and FAMILY
373 St. Catherine Road,
Outremont, Montreal, P. Q.
Ottawa. Ont.
62 Chelsea Rd.. Hull. P.Q.
Best Wishes tor a
MERRY CHRISTMAS
HIROSHI OKUDA,
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and FAMILY
1201 Foch Avenue. Verdun. P.Q.
KIYOSHI OKUDA
I”J
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MITSUGI OKUDA
The Season's Greetings
CLEVER MAID
SUMIYE OKUDA
Manufacturing
713 Moffat Avenue. Verdun. P.Q.
Company
1213 Bleury Street.
Alon treal, P. Q.
I
B
YOSH OGURA
5780 Darlington, Apt. 5, Montreal
GEORGE SHOTARO TOMITA
MARY HARU CHAPPELL
Mis
5347 St. Andre, Montreal, P.Q.
—MARY ASAZUMA.
451 Holland Ave.. Ottawa, Ont.
£
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The Seasori’s
Compliments from
Christmas Wishes
from
£ctttly 0£££mJb£ji, "on Jiooienaju Jtjzkr
Sso^P Collin&
s^-.
former
Commissioner of
B.C. Security
Japanese Placement
Commission
'kf ANY readers of
f J- The New Cana
dian will be spending
this Christmas Season
with re-united, and in
many cases, entirely
new friends. It is my
sincere wish that such
friendships will be
true and long lived.
AUHERE people and
’
nations live in
troubled times the .
non-essentials are gra
dually eliminated
from their existence
and the fundamentals
assume a greater im
portance which gives
them their rightful
place in the scheme of
life.
For those who are
obliged to remain in
the. Interior Settle
ments. I trust that the
uncertainty of your
present circumstances
may be removed be
fore this festive sea
son next year.
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Just as sincerely as
I believe that this season will
again,
may I e:
to you
al] A Merry Christmas
New
Year.
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So I live and talk.
And still my thoughts;
Yet forlorn truth rises to cry
I could not set free
From her heart,
The half reluctant surrending sigh,
That mystic, fateful alchemy
Whereby she could have
Painfully, proudly
Loved me.
—N. M. T.
The innkeeper took stock
Of travel-wearied feet, the soiled robe . . .
And quickly slipp’d the bar
Lest she see the warm hassock
Richly spread for a paying guest.
And to his board he turned,
Gulped the red wine, wiped his drooling mouth,
Let out his belt another inch . . . and sighed . . .
And soon forgot
The wan face with eyes abrim with stars.
water Color bv A. P. AlPebrool
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tel
Though repetition
may dull one’s taste !
for the superficialities,
it should enhance
one’s appreciation of
the realities so, each
year as our private
and national life con
tinues uncertain and
unsettled, the spirit of
Christmas a n d the
N e w Y e a r should
mean more to us, —
more kindness, more
goodwill and, most of
all, more of the simple
art of happiness.
May I wish you all,
then, a very old and
simple wish: A Christ
mas as Merry as you
may desire and a tru
ly Happy New Year.
JOHN S. ROWE, LAKEVIEW COLLEGIATE SCHOOL, MEW DENVER, B. C.
1^^ Christmas Carols ring out again, bringing’
experimentation, some man will discover and present
Iways a warmer and g-ayer atmosphere to the
to a. delighted world the Key to Peace—a simple for
fading year. “Peace on earth, Goodwill toward all
mula, use as directed, guaranteed not to disturb the
men.” Goodwill' from peace, no peace without goodmost delicate constitution. Probably a post-war plan,
will—really twin sides of the same bright coin. Rarely
requiring only the setting up of a "Nations’ Assembly
does the inseparableness of the two come home to
and an Executive Council, of course backed with suf
us, but it is hard to escape the truth at Christmas,
ficient force—oh by all means with “teeth”.
No peace in society until we practise goodwill in our
personal living contacts . . . . . But we want our
■But Peace is no more the absence of war than
life is the absence of death. Peace is something to be
peace without getting involved, none of these per
worked at—like Democracy it involves each ‘one of
sonal and emotional entanglements, thank you!
Can’t we get our world peace without the horribly
us. It is not an impersonal fact, a thing-in-itself
hard work of thinking and acting equality with our
waiting to be discovered by those who, escaping from
neighbors whoever they are?
the actualities of day by day living, find time to dab
ble in research,—these indeed cannot discover it,—
Why not solve the thing scientifically? Thank
rather it is a personal process inseparable from and
fully we seek our escape in the world of "non-human
only discoverable in day to day living. For this Peace
facts. We are adept at manipulating facts and figures
is a living thing, a dynamic outgrowth from the
—this is the outstanding talent of our age—bur,
practice of sympathy, tolerance and justice in dealing
because of non-ratronal prejudices and blindnesses,
with our neighbors. And b
justice” we do not mean
almost hopelessly inept when faced by the simplest
the kind which proceeds from war and is called Retri
human problem. We proceed. Peace is merciv’ the
bution, classified by George Bernard Shaw as crude
absence of war, agreed? Then we will eliminate war
vengeance with a fancy nume, but the justice of the
by preventing its outbreak exactly as an engineer
man whose birthday we celebrate at this season—
solves the problem of recurring floods by damming
forgiveness
free and goodwill to all men.
the river once and for all.
“All men want peace, but few desire the things
Thus we persist in believing that human problems
that make for peace.” Then ring out sweet belli; and
can be settled on a non-human level, -namely on the
level of technology. Someday, much as a scientist in
carols and greetings of Christmas, and remind us of
his laboratory discovers a new element by fortunate
those things which make for peace.
Si
E'#
®
She must have felt like this . . .
Her’s too, the strange wild hope that perhaps
This door . . . this door would take her in . . .
Knowing one fierce exaltation, one fierce love
For one quiescent, one perpetual dream
As yet a promise and a hope . . .
. . . and suddenly
Mute, four-footed creatures of the earth
That trust and cling to instincts
Gave her room . . .
And the smell of hay, fresh-sweet as the day
It left the sun-steeped, clover-thick fields
Of Nazareth’s plain
Drugg’d her fever’d brow with dreams of home . . .
An old old story? Old?
Still dark-eyed Mary walks a wider Bethlehem
With mute, four-footed things for company.
The Goddess of Winter tip-toed through our town
And left us her regal, white velvet gown.
All beaded with diamonds along each seam,
It’s thin crystal hem stretching out to each stream.
Was she in a hurry? Why nobody knows—
But to think, she left her best Sunday clothes’
And on slanting housetops all over the town
She hung crystal candles out, upside down.
Jo StuzkrntA, fcv&ujwheAfL
J/isistinqA
MISS F. G. HAMILTON, ELCEE HIGH, LEMON CREEK, B. C.
To you, who are digging deep for knowledge,
and worse still, their meaning and inspiration, Even
who are earnestly striving in these difficult times to
if we have heard the bells on Christmas. Day
keep up in the race for “education”, who have the
“Their old familiar carols play,
ability and will to think things through for yourselves
And wild and sweet the words repeat
—tc you all I put' this question, Is Christmas. 1944,
Of peace on earth, good-will to men.”
going to mean anything deeper to you than all une
we perhaps, have scornfully turned a deaf ear or,
Christmases you have known?” You may say that
this depends upon your surroundings and circum
“In despair have bowed the head,
stances, but it does not. It depends upon YOU. your'There is no peace on earth’, have said,
s^lf—your attitude towards your surroundings and
‘For hate is strong and mocks the song
circumstances.
Of peace on earth, good-will to men’.”
At Christmas time I like to take stock, not so
much because it is near the commonly recognized
stock taking time, the year-end, as because it is Vne
time of all the year when the challenging message
or the* “Angel’s Song” rings in our ears, re-echoes in
our hearts, urging us to rethink our attitudes to
wards the happenings in the world, towards the cor
ner of the world we fill, and towards our fellowmen
near and far.
During the past four years many of us have
been wholly concerned with the catastrophic changes
■winch catapulted us from one era into another; from
complacent, self-centred, comfort-loving, pleasure
seeking lives into a kind of pioneer existence we had
never dreamed might again be the lot of any people
on this planet, much less of ourselves.
So occupied have our minds been with these
things, I say, that Christmases of recent years have
lost for us much of their usual glamour and fun,
But as. one Christmas after another has come
and gone with the sobering influences of a dearth of
luxuries and a great scarcity of necessities; and With
the ever-powerful magnet of God’s Plan and Purpose
for each individual pulling us away from earth, so
cruelly shattered by men’s selfishness and stupidity,
have we felt or glimpsed the eternal fact that,
“God is not dead, nor doth He sleep.
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail
With peace on earth, good-will to men”?
It will! Yes, right will prevail! But not till enough
people get the secret of peace in their hearts and
good-will towards all men everywhere.
May Christ’s Birthday, 1944, mark the beginning
of a new age when all malice, bitterness, resentment,
hate will give way in your heart and mine to thank
fulness, forgiveness, helpfulness, LOVE—for God so
loved that He gave us His Son, the Babe of Beth
lehem. “O come, let us adore Him, Christ the Lord!”
4
Sil
fc
J Sl'&
The Seasori’s
Compliments from
Christmas Wishes
from
£ctttly 0£££mJb£ji, "on Jiooienaju Jtjzkr
Sso^P Collin&
s^-.
former
Commissioner of
B.C. Security
Japanese Placement
Commission
'kf ANY readers of
f J- The New Cana
dian will be spending
this Christmas Season
with re-united, and in
many cases, entirely
new friends. It is my
sincere wish that such
friendships will be
true and long lived.
AUHERE people and
’
nations live in
troubled times the .
non-essentials are gra
dually eliminated
from their existence
and the fundamentals
assume a greater im
portance which gives
them their rightful
place in the scheme of
life.
For those who are
obliged to remain in
the. Interior Settle
ments. I trust that the
uncertainty of your
present circumstances
may be removed be
fore this festive sea
son next year.
t
»'
8’
111
Just as sincerely as
I believe that this season will
again,
may I e:
to you
al] A Merry Christmas
New
Year.
ww
fAI
7
So I live and talk.
And still my thoughts;
Yet forlorn truth rises to cry
I could not set free
From her heart,
The half reluctant surrending sigh,
That mystic, fateful alchemy
Whereby she could have
Painfully, proudly
Loved me.
—N. M. T.
The innkeeper took stock
Of travel-wearied feet, the soiled robe . . .
And quickly slipp’d the bar
Lest she see the warm hassock
Richly spread for a paying guest.
And to his board he turned,
Gulped the red wine, wiped his drooling mouth,
Let out his belt another inch . . . and sighed . . .
And soon forgot
The wan face with eyes abrim with stars.
water Color bv A. P. AlPebrool
Il 8
tel
Though repetition
may dull one’s taste !
for the superficialities,
it should enhance
one’s appreciation of
the realities so, each
year as our private
and national life con
tinues uncertain and
unsettled, the spirit of
Christmas a n d the
N e w Y e a r should
mean more to us, —
more kindness, more
goodwill and, most of
all, more of the simple
art of happiness.
May I wish you all,
then, a very old and
simple wish: A Christ
mas as Merry as you
may desire and a tru
ly Happy New Year.
JOHN S. ROWE, LAKEVIEW COLLEGIATE SCHOOL, MEW DENVER, B. C.
1^^ Christmas Carols ring out again, bringing’
experimentation, some man will discover and present
Iways a warmer and g-ayer atmosphere to the
to a. delighted world the Key to Peace—a simple for
fading year. “Peace on earth, Goodwill toward all
mula, use as directed, guaranteed not to disturb the
men.” Goodwill' from peace, no peace without goodmost delicate constitution. Probably a post-war plan,
will—really twin sides of the same bright coin. Rarely
requiring only the setting up of a "Nations’ Assembly
does the inseparableness of the two come home to
and an Executive Council, of course backed with suf
us, but it is hard to escape the truth at Christmas,
ficient force—oh by all means with “teeth”.
No peace in society until we practise goodwill in our
personal living contacts . . . . . But we want our
■But Peace is no more the absence of war than
life is the absence of death. Peace is something to be
peace without getting involved, none of these per
worked at—like Democracy it involves each ‘one of
sonal and emotional entanglements, thank you!
Can’t we get our world peace without the horribly
us. It is not an impersonal fact, a thing-in-itself
hard work of thinking and acting equality with our
waiting to be discovered by those who, escaping from
neighbors whoever they are?
the actualities of day by day living, find time to dab
ble in research,—these indeed cannot discover it,—
Why not solve the thing scientifically? Thank
rather it is a personal process inseparable from and
fully we seek our escape in the world of "non-human
only discoverable in day to day living. For this Peace
facts. We are adept at manipulating facts and figures
is a living thing, a dynamic outgrowth from the
—this is the outstanding talent of our age—bur,
practice of sympathy, tolerance and justice in dealing
because of non-ratronal prejudices and blindnesses,
with our neighbors. And b
justice” we do not mean
almost hopelessly inept when faced by the simplest
the kind which proceeds from war and is called Retri
human problem. We proceed. Peace is merciv’ the
bution, classified by George Bernard Shaw as crude
absence of war, agreed? Then we will eliminate war
vengeance with a fancy nume, but the justice of the
by preventing its outbreak exactly as an engineer
man whose birthday we celebrate at this season—
solves the problem of recurring floods by damming
forgiveness
free and goodwill to all men.
the river once and for all.
“All men want peace, but few desire the things
Thus we persist in believing that human problems
that make for peace.” Then ring out sweet belli; and
can be settled on a non-human level, -namely on the
level of technology. Someday, much as a scientist in
carols and greetings of Christmas, and remind us of
his laboratory discovers a new element by fortunate
those things which make for peace.
Si
E'#
®
She must have felt like this . . .
Her’s too, the strange wild hope that perhaps
This door . . . this door would take her in . . .
Knowing one fierce exaltation, one fierce love
For one quiescent, one perpetual dream
As yet a promise and a hope . . .
. . . and suddenly
Mute, four-footed creatures of the earth
That trust and cling to instincts
Gave her room . . .
And the smell of hay, fresh-sweet as the day
It left the sun-steeped, clover-thick fields
Of Nazareth’s plain
Drugg’d her fever’d brow with dreams of home . . .
An old old story? Old?
Still dark-eyed Mary walks a wider Bethlehem
With mute, four-footed things for company.
The Goddess of Winter tip-toed through our town
And left us her regal, white velvet gown.
All beaded with diamonds along each seam,
It’s thin crystal hem stretching out to each stream.
Was she in a hurry? Why nobody knows—
But to think, she left her best Sunday clothes’
And on slanting housetops all over the town
She hung crystal candles out, upside down.
Jo StuzkrntA, fcv&ujwheAfL
J/isistinqA
MISS F. G. HAMILTON, ELCEE HIGH, LEMON CREEK, B. C.
To you, who are digging deep for knowledge,
and worse still, their meaning and inspiration, Even
who are earnestly striving in these difficult times to
if we have heard the bells on Christmas. Day
keep up in the race for “education”, who have the
“Their old familiar carols play,
ability and will to think things through for yourselves
And wild and sweet the words repeat
—tc you all I put' this question, Is Christmas. 1944,
Of peace on earth, good-will to men.”
going to mean anything deeper to you than all une
we perhaps, have scornfully turned a deaf ear or,
Christmases you have known?” You may say that
this depends upon your surroundings and circum
“In despair have bowed the head,
stances, but it does not. It depends upon YOU. your'There is no peace on earth’, have said,
s^lf—your attitude towards your surroundings and
‘For hate is strong and mocks the song
circumstances.
Of peace on earth, good-will to men’.”
At Christmas time I like to take stock, not so
much because it is near the commonly recognized
stock taking time, the year-end, as because it is Vne
time of all the year when the challenging message
or the* “Angel’s Song” rings in our ears, re-echoes in
our hearts, urging us to rethink our attitudes to
wards the happenings in the world, towards the cor
ner of the world we fill, and towards our fellowmen
near and far.
During the past four years many of us have
been wholly concerned with the catastrophic changes
■winch catapulted us from one era into another; from
complacent, self-centred, comfort-loving, pleasure
seeking lives into a kind of pioneer existence we had
never dreamed might again be the lot of any people
on this planet, much less of ourselves.
So occupied have our minds been with these
things, I say, that Christmases of recent years have
lost for us much of their usual glamour and fun,
But as. one Christmas after another has come
and gone with the sobering influences of a dearth of
luxuries and a great scarcity of necessities; and With
the ever-powerful magnet of God’s Plan and Purpose
for each individual pulling us away from earth, so
cruelly shattered by men’s selfishness and stupidity,
have we felt or glimpsed the eternal fact that,
“God is not dead, nor doth He sleep.
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail
With peace on earth, good-will to men”?
It will! Yes, right will prevail! But not till enough
people get the secret of peace in their hearts and
good-will towards all men everywhere.
May Christ’s Birthday, 1944, mark the beginning
of a new age when all malice, bitterness, resentment,
hate will give way in your heart and mine to thank
fulness, forgiveness, helpfulness, LOVE—for God so
loved that He gave us His Son, the Babe of Beth
lehem. “O come, let us adore Him, Christ the Lord!”
4
Sil
fc
Page 26
December 23. 1944.
^ EfISEI
VIGNETTE
BY J^GK
^^IK^iMO'TO
■lows about having to go slow ■with
Niseiettes. Then he recalled, a
group of girls complaining, “Oh,
boys aie so slow.” But instinctive
ly he felt her ^n the defensive,
thinking perhaps what he had said
might ’have been only an indiscreet “line”.
AK UYEMURA had first
brother,” asked Mary somewhat
laid eyes on her at the
bewiluered.
<D THEN it was Christmas
Nisei fall social back in
“Upset, oh, it’s the other way
Eve. For days st the furniture
September. Her name was
round, I’m tickled to meet him. I
factory and nights in his dinghy
Mary Tsuruda. But it
always thought he was your boy
McCaul Street room, Tak had
wasn’t until the Halloween dance
friend,” he explained quickly.
ourneu over and over in his mind
in Hamilton that he was intro
She smiled. Then Di
grinned,
what to do, before coming to a
duced.
and with a wave of hi: hand was
decision. He phoned Mary, and
off.
Each being self-conscious, hard
desperately, “Mary, I’ve got to
Tak took over and was glad
ly a word was exchanged between
see you. I’ve got to. It’s something,
that at last he could take her
them while they drifted quietly
very important ...”
home.
but none too gracefully to the
She broke in, “Can’t you tell me
Mary7 was employed in house
lilting dance music from the jukeover the phone?”
box.
work for a young couple in up
“No, no, I can’t.”
town Toronto. “T can’t go out till
At the last moment Tak had
“All right, if you must, you can
the dishes are done. That will be
(mustered enough courage to face
come up. They’re both out at a
around after 2,” she said in reply
her and
party.”
smiled
questioningly,
to
his suggestion that they go out
“Could I take you home?”
As quickly as he could get there
in the afternoon.
he was ringing at the door. Mary
“I’m going home with my
It was the middle of November.
came to greet him, and led him
friends,” her almond e'yes sought
But
it was unusually beautiful in
into the living room, where the
his as she added, “thanks, just the
the mid-afternoon, with just a
fireplace burned brightly, casting
same.”
cold nip in the air to suggest win
*
*
a soft, cheerful glow.
ter in the offing. And Tak and
‘‘Mary, ah, ah, . . .” he stuttered.
She appealed to Tak immediateMary
found
themselves
laughing
“
You’ve something urgent to
ly in a way no other Niseiette
like
a
couple
of
kids
they
tell me,” softly7 she came to his
ever did. Not that others were less
ploughed
through
dry
rescue.
crispy
"attractive. No, for he had feasted
leaves.
Afterward Tak took her
“Yes I have,” he whispered re
his eyes upon so many in their
home. They lingered awhile in the
gaining
his composure. “You know
budding womanhood. That was
late afternoon dusk.
I
’
m,
in
love
with you. I’ve tried to
last summer, when he’d visited the
“I’ve had a swell time today,
tell you so often, but I was
■ghost towns, where it seemed the
thanks to you, Mary,” he mumbled
afraid.” He stalled. “Remember
marriageable girls outnumbered
as though his mouth were full of
that time I blurted it at you and
the boys five to one.
stones.
made
such a mess of it. I figured
But she carri d herself with a
“I should thank you, instead,” . it out that perhaps you didn’t be
quiet dignity and Tak thought
she said and hurriedly started to
lieve me, or even if you did, you
there was something else, too.
fidget for- her key in her handbag.
wanted to spare my7 feelings by7
Something almost intangible. Per
As she entered smiling, sho spoke
not
saying that you didn’t care.”
haps one would call it a spiritual
brightly, “Well good night.”
Mary
7 stood silently and turned
grace latent beneath her doll-like
“Mary . . .” he called hesitatto
look
out the window where the
beauty.
•
ingly.
snow
was
falling softly.
Hell, he told himself, he had
“Yes?”
• I want to know where I stand,
never felt like this about any girl
“I hope I’ve a chance to take
Mary. Please don’t be evasive,” he
he, had met during the 26 years
you out again.
spoke more forcefully.
he’d been knocking around.
All
“
I
hope
so,
too.
”
She turned to look at him, ques
this was tantamount to a confes
*
*
tioning him with her ey7es.
sion that he had fallen in love
On Wednesday .evening:. Tak
“Mary7 ... I love you ... so
with her, he decided.
phoned Mary for a ■date, knowing
very much. Will you . . . marry
she would have half a day off on
me?” he managed to as»x, and
Learning- that she commuted to
Thursday.
the Church of All Nations on
hastily drew from his pocket a
But I’ve a l°t of shopping to
Queen Street, Tak argued with
small box. Hesitating for a mo
do,
she countered and asked,
himself about going there.* Then
ment he opened it to show her the
‘Aren’t you working too?”
ring.
one ~ Sunday he went. After the
“
I
’
m
on
graveyard
shift
now,
■service it was quite an ordeal for
‘ Oh, Tak!” she took an involun
from midnight to seven in the
him to go through the rounds of
tary7 step forward, “It’s so beauti
morning, and as for the shopping,
ful . . . but 1 don’t know.” She
introductions, which the kindly
all the more reason for me to go
■stopped. “It’s so sudden and un
minister insisted upon. Irritated
along to help you out.
I’ve got
expected.”
and impatient, he still couldn’t
some shopping to do too/’ he
Tak Uyemura’s self-possession
withdraw from his newlv-madc ac
urged.
fled
on wings. He pocketed the
quaintances- to
to speak to
“Air ght, I’ll
Mary.
ring
meet
you
at
grabbed his coat, and slam
Eaton’s College
It was
she
agreed.
med
out
the door.
,
,
— —' when he
The mantel ciod ticked out the
-chanced t- see Mary again. Thev
Five weeks later the news that
seconds. Ten, twenty, thirty. Sud
reciprocated a smiling salute. She
Tai and Mary had been going out
denly
she collected herself to real
was on a Bloor Street tram with
together,
usually
'
'
'
ize
what
he had done. Left her. ..
twice ' a week
^. ^Hooking guy. He looks just
was
gradually
spreading
like Ut
perhaps for good. Swiftly she ran
through• the Japanese
out New Niseiville.
screen col terpmt of Robert Tavout and down the sidewalk where
Don t you think we’d be better
lor. tho tight Tak
sue could see him striding
miserably to
off, if we didn’t see each other too
through the snow. Panting, she
himself.
much?” she asked anxiously, add
called, “Oh Tak, Tak, please.”
. “Well, that does- it. No wonder
ing hurriedly. “Besides, I don’t
He turned and in a moment was
she refused my offer to escort her
want you to spend money on me
beside her, grasping her tightly.
home that night.”
for nothing.”
She buried her face in his shoulder
Anger lamed up in Tak and he
and burst, into tears.
PEELING obligated to go to
grasped her anas.
“Toil do
re, you will marry
4 church once in a while, the
me?” he a
“Mary, I ve fallen in love with
d roughly.
nbxt Sundav Tak dec
sue said softly through
you,” he said as bluntly and awk
There was
her
■
with the
wardly as any Nisei could be.
nice-looking
To ethei, oblivious to the scares
He wondered
She flushed, turned her head
how they were getting alone
away, and quickly evaded his sud
ol cuiions passers-by7, they7 turned
After the service, to his great
den declaration.
o the house,. and to the fire
surprise, Mary and her escort applace
in
the living room.
“I 11 be very busy from now on
proached
He took out the ring and placed
taking a refresher in shorthand,
“Hello Tak! You don’t seem to
it on her finger. They sat on the
I’m hoping- to get an office job
be very
friendly,”
reproached
some day . . to make use of what
rug before the fire. Marv resting
Mary.
I learned at school. I’ve alwavs
his shoulder,
“Oh no, I don’t think so.” He
looking
at
wanted to feel like Kitty Foyle,
and then into
tried to be as casual ns possible.
the flames.
just for the sake of the exper“Tak, meet my brother, Dick.’’
ience.” she rushed on.
“Your brother’’” he blurted out,
“Y'es, Tak.”
Tak didn’t dare repeat what he
suddenly confused.
“I was wondering . . .?”
had said, noting how flustered she
“'What’s the matter You seem
Suddenl
remembered the
(‘Y es, you were wondering
to be upset about meeting my
I heard from other fel“I was wondering, Mary, if I
could . . .
your
She turned and smiled and
lifted her face to his.
And Tak Uyemura thought of
The following song was composed h'- Mary Asazuma, and
Christmas
and the Christma
presented at the closing concert of the Teachers’ Summer School
that
had
come
to him.
held at New Denver last summer. The music is from the familiar
Japanese air “Moonlight on a Ruined
Oh my home land so dear
Always near to me
Fondest memories all so clear
Ne'er forgot shall be
All my hopes and all my dreams
Though broken they may be
No matter where'er I roam
This I'll call my home
This I'll call my home.
—MARY ASAZUMA.
r^r^o
Mary Asazuma
Masako Iri
Mitsuko Ikeda
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Sakaye Kawabata
ihnnyu
Takako Arima
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Masuko Iguchi
Mary 1 amaoka
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Greetings and Best Wishes from
So
Fumi Okura
Chizuko Mivamoto
vaiyou Ochiai
ROSEBERY, BRITISH COLUMBIA
Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Yea
Jean Uno
Toyoko Matsuzaki
Betty H amamoto
RASLO, BRITISH COLUMBIA
Greetings and Best Wishes
Tsuyuko Koyanagi
Misuki
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Rosy Hirayama
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Tama Deshima
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I uriko Deshima
Sadako
Shizue Hayakawa
Nishimura
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Rimiko bakamoto
‘ Sadako Sakuma
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Sumi Kato
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The Season's Compliments
Bl
to the Lemon Creek
School and Staff
IRENE UCHIDA
Aunesly Hall. U. of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
£
Chieko Okino
TASHME. BRITISH COLUMBIA
^ EfISEI
VIGNETTE
BY J^GK
^^IK^iMO'TO
■lows about having to go slow ■with
Niseiettes. Then he recalled, a
group of girls complaining, “Oh,
boys aie so slow.” But instinctive
ly he felt her ^n the defensive,
thinking perhaps what he had said
might ’have been only an indiscreet “line”.
AK UYEMURA had first
brother,” asked Mary somewhat
laid eyes on her at the
bewiluered.
<D THEN it was Christmas
Nisei fall social back in
“Upset, oh, it’s the other way
Eve. For days st the furniture
September. Her name was
round, I’m tickled to meet him. I
factory and nights in his dinghy
Mary Tsuruda. But it
always thought he was your boy
McCaul Street room, Tak had
wasn’t until the Halloween dance
friend,” he explained quickly.
ourneu over and over in his mind
in Hamilton that he was intro
She smiled. Then Di
grinned,
what to do, before coming to a
duced.
and with a wave of hi: hand was
decision. He phoned Mary, and
off.
Each being self-conscious, hard
desperately, “Mary, I’ve got to
Tak took over and was glad
ly a word was exchanged between
see you. I’ve got to. It’s something,
that at last he could take her
them while they drifted quietly
very important ...”
home.
but none too gracefully to the
She broke in, “Can’t you tell me
Mary7 was employed in house
lilting dance music from the jukeover the phone?”
box.
work for a young couple in up
“No, no, I can’t.”
town Toronto. “T can’t go out till
At the last moment Tak had
“All right, if you must, you can
the dishes are done. That will be
(mustered enough courage to face
come up. They’re both out at a
around after 2,” she said in reply
her and
party.”
smiled
questioningly,
to
his suggestion that they go out
“Could I take you home?”
As quickly as he could get there
in the afternoon.
he was ringing at the door. Mary
“I’m going home with my
It was the middle of November.
came to greet him, and led him
friends,” her almond e'yes sought
But
it was unusually beautiful in
into the living room, where the
his as she added, “thanks, just the
the mid-afternoon, with just a
fireplace burned brightly, casting
same.”
cold nip in the air to suggest win
*
*
a soft, cheerful glow.
ter in the offing. And Tak and
‘‘Mary, ah, ah, . . .” he stuttered.
She appealed to Tak immediateMary
found
themselves
laughing
“
You’ve something urgent to
ly in a way no other Niseiette
like
a
couple
of
kids
they
tell me,” softly7 she came to his
ever did. Not that others were less
ploughed
through
dry
rescue.
crispy
"attractive. No, for he had feasted
leaves.
Afterward Tak took her
“Yes I have,” he whispered re
his eyes upon so many in their
home. They lingered awhile in the
gaining
his composure. “You know
budding womanhood. That was
late afternoon dusk.
I
’
m,
in
love
with you. I’ve tried to
last summer, when he’d visited the
“I’ve had a swell time today,
tell you so often, but I was
■ghost towns, where it seemed the
thanks to you, Mary,” he mumbled
afraid.” He stalled. “Remember
marriageable girls outnumbered
as though his mouth were full of
that time I blurted it at you and
the boys five to one.
stones.
made
such a mess of it. I figured
But she carri d herself with a
“I should thank you, instead,” . it out that perhaps you didn’t be
quiet dignity and Tak thought
she said and hurriedly started to
lieve me, or even if you did, you
there was something else, too.
fidget for- her key in her handbag.
wanted to spare my7 feelings by7
Something almost intangible. Per
As she entered smiling, sho spoke
not
saying that you didn’t care.”
haps one would call it a spiritual
brightly, “Well good night.”
Mary
7 stood silently and turned
grace latent beneath her doll-like
“Mary . . .” he called hesitatto
look
out the window where the
beauty.
•
ingly.
snow
was
falling softly.
Hell, he told himself, he had
“Yes?”
• I want to know where I stand,
never felt like this about any girl
“I hope I’ve a chance to take
Mary. Please don’t be evasive,” he
he, had met during the 26 years
you out again.
spoke more forcefully.
he’d been knocking around.
All
“
I
hope
so,
too.
”
She turned to look at him, ques
this was tantamount to a confes
*
*
tioning him with her ey7es.
sion that he had fallen in love
On Wednesday .evening:. Tak
“Mary7 ... I love you ... so
with her, he decided.
phoned Mary for a ■date, knowing
very much. Will you . . . marry
she would have half a day off on
me?” he managed to as»x, and
Learning- that she commuted to
Thursday.
the Church of All Nations on
hastily drew from his pocket a
But I’ve a l°t of shopping to
Queen Street, Tak argued with
small box. Hesitating for a mo
do,
she countered and asked,
himself about going there.* Then
ment he opened it to show her the
‘Aren’t you working too?”
ring.
one ~ Sunday he went. After the
“
I
’
m
on
graveyard
shift
now,
■service it was quite an ordeal for
‘ Oh, Tak!” she took an involun
from midnight to seven in the
him to go through the rounds of
tary7 step forward, “It’s so beauti
morning, and as for the shopping,
ful . . . but 1 don’t know.” She
introductions, which the kindly
all the more reason for me to go
■stopped. “It’s so sudden and un
minister insisted upon. Irritated
along to help you out.
I’ve got
expected.”
and impatient, he still couldn’t
some shopping to do too/’ he
Tak Uyemura’s self-possession
withdraw from his newlv-madc ac
urged.
fled
on wings. He pocketed the
quaintances- to
to speak to
“Air ght, I’ll
Mary.
ring
meet
you
at
grabbed his coat, and slam
Eaton’s College
It was
she
agreed.
med
out
the door.
,
,
— —' when he
The mantel ciod ticked out the
-chanced t- see Mary again. Thev
Five weeks later the news that
seconds. Ten, twenty, thirty. Sud
reciprocated a smiling salute. She
Tai and Mary had been going out
denly
she collected herself to real
was on a Bloor Street tram with
together,
usually
'
'
'
ize
what
he had done. Left her. ..
twice ' a week
^. ^Hooking guy. He looks just
was
gradually
spreading
like Ut
perhaps for good. Swiftly she ran
through• the Japanese
out New Niseiville.
screen col terpmt of Robert Tavout and down the sidewalk where
Don t you think we’d be better
lor. tho tight Tak
sue could see him striding
miserably to
off, if we didn’t see each other too
through the snow. Panting, she
himself.
much?” she asked anxiously, add
called, “Oh Tak, Tak, please.”
. “Well, that does- it. No wonder
ing hurriedly. “Besides, I don’t
He turned and in a moment was
she refused my offer to escort her
want you to spend money on me
beside her, grasping her tightly.
home that night.”
for nothing.”
She buried her face in his shoulder
Anger lamed up in Tak and he
and burst, into tears.
PEELING obligated to go to
grasped her anas.
“Toil do
re, you will marry
4 church once in a while, the
me?” he a
“Mary, I ve fallen in love with
d roughly.
nbxt Sundav Tak dec
sue said softly through
you,” he said as bluntly and awk
There was
her
■
with the
wardly as any Nisei could be.
nice-looking
To ethei, oblivious to the scares
He wondered
She flushed, turned her head
how they were getting alone
away, and quickly evaded his sud
ol cuiions passers-by7, they7 turned
After the service, to his great
den declaration.
o the house,. and to the fire
surprise, Mary and her escort applace
in
the living room.
“I 11 be very busy from now on
proached
He took out the ring and placed
taking a refresher in shorthand,
“Hello Tak! You don’t seem to
it on her finger. They sat on the
I’m hoping- to get an office job
be very
friendly,”
reproached
some day . . to make use of what
rug before the fire. Marv resting
Mary.
I learned at school. I’ve alwavs
his shoulder,
“Oh no, I don’t think so.” He
looking
at
wanted to feel like Kitty Foyle,
and then into
tried to be as casual ns possible.
the flames.
just for the sake of the exper“Tak, meet my brother, Dick.’’
ience.” she rushed on.
“Your brother’’” he blurted out,
“Y'es, Tak.”
Tak didn’t dare repeat what he
suddenly confused.
“I was wondering . . .?”
had said, noting how flustered she
“'What’s the matter You seem
Suddenl
remembered the
(‘Y es, you were wondering
to be upset about meeting my
I heard from other fel“I was wondering, Mary, if I
could . . .
your
She turned and smiled and
lifted her face to his.
And Tak Uyemura thought of
The following song was composed h'- Mary Asazuma, and
Christmas
and the Christma
presented at the closing concert of the Teachers’ Summer School
that
had
come
to him.
held at New Denver last summer. The music is from the familiar
Japanese air “Moonlight on a Ruined
Oh my home land so dear
Always near to me
Fondest memories all so clear
Ne'er forgot shall be
All my hopes and all my dreams
Though broken they may be
No matter where'er I roam
This I'll call my home
This I'll call my home.
—MARY ASAZUMA.
r^r^o
Mary Asazuma
Masako Iri
Mitsuko Ikeda
8
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Sakaye Kawabata
ihnnyu
Takako Arima
s
Masuko Iguchi
Mary 1 amaoka
—Vice-principal
—Home Economics
—Vice-principal
—Principa
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BAY FARM, SLOGAN, B. C.
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Greetings and Best Wishes from
So
Fumi Okura
Chizuko Mivamoto
vaiyou Ochiai
ROSEBERY, BRITISH COLUMBIA
Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Yea
Jean Uno
Toyoko Matsuzaki
Betty H amamoto
RASLO, BRITISH COLUMBIA
Greetings and Best Wishes
Tsuyuko Koyanagi
Misuki
l oshiko
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Rosy Hirayama
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Tama Deshima
TA.
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I uriko Deshima
Sadako
Shizue Hayakawa
Nishimura
^3
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Rimiko bakamoto
‘ Sadako Sakuma
8
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$ 4^
■
Kadonaea
Sumi Kato
is
w
larie Kawamoto
The Season's Compliments
Bl
to the Lemon Creek
School and Staff
IRENE UCHIDA
Aunesly Hall. U. of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
£
Chieko Okino
TASHME. BRITISH COLUMBIA
Page 28
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