Page 1
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I
Its hello! from
Winnipeg with
our first issue
s.-nce refocation
i
the NEW CANADIAN
Reviewing
The Hews
t™y Betrui4i"’
______----- ipso More Nisei Canadians
T
We regret that
the.. Japanese
Section has been
unavoidably
delayed
Qlr.oi
ion
CoSi"9 EC ** P Detachment
Completes Registration of All
। ^S-^S Asking Return to Japan
-n British Columbia action has!
-ORONTO, Ont.-The per
been started on behalf of two
50 Pex-cent of the
centage
of enlistments among I Room 249, National Defense I11,100 pei-sonfOf
persons of Japanese ancestry t0 ’
Japanese Canadians in Ontario ' Bldg., Ottawa.
seek a judicial order that * the
Lieut. Thomas replied to the
( government is powerless to re-. compares favorably with the I
several questions which were j sources here.
. patriate any Japanese Canadians! percentage enlistments among
a& revealed by reliable
asked by those present at the j
e
total
Canadian
population,
The
travelling
R.C.M.P.
detach_
e^en if they have signed
forms I stated Lieut, c. Thomas of the
meeting. To a question regard
requesting repatriation.
iment which has been receiving!
~
Canadian Army at a meeting
ing the possibility of Nisei girls applications from persons request
, ?
Sent by T' B- Bickers
^ is. indicated that the Japaentering the services, he replied ing repatriation to Japan for the § ’ Connuissio^er for the Japacalled by the Japanese Cana
. Lese will press a claim that those
that
no openings were available
dian Committee for Democracy.
past two weeks,
3 ^A0 Slgned these forms did so
weeks, completed its i: uese Placement, to all evacuees
for them at present. He ad
.
Lieut.
Thomas,
who
is
in
work
in
Manitoba
on July 30, and ’i that these applications for renm
ter duress.
■riMton are strictly voluntary. X
vised, however, that those who
charge of recruiting Japanese
has moved on into Ontario.
Attention will probably
wished to join the nursing corps
-- be focCanadians for special service
like British Columbia, there has
The number of persons who
, a>sed on the fact that the official
should
make
individual
applica
been no mention here of “com
with the allied forces said that
requested repatriation to Japan
'epa (nation forms provided for
tions.
pulsion."
the army was seeking an addils high in this province, and
, Die Canadian-born and naturalized
For the Japanese Canadian
tional 150 volunteers,
Enquirmay exceed fifty percent of the
, Nisons of Japanese origin calls
repatriation survey
men, all branches outside of the
ies in this connection
may
be
total
evacuee population. It is
TO
AID DISPERSAL POLICY
•o> a renunciation of British na- directed to Lieut, c.
special services in which they
believed that next to British
Thomas,
; i.onality. it is not strictlv a
'
Earlier in the year, it was not
are now being used are closed.
re-1
Columbia, Manitoba will have intended to conduct a detailed‘re
• ?^Ciatibu’ but a declaration
the highest percentage of per patriation survey of persons who
i 7. Tesire to relinauish .
Brit j
sons who requested repatria had moved east of the Rockies.
. ^ nationality and to assume the!
tion.
-'“His of a national of Japan.”!
Only those who wished to be re
The largest number of appli patriated were requested to re
L us a serious declaration espe-!
, cmxly during war.
I
cations have been received from port to the R.C.M.P. for the pur
persons who are still tied to the pose of signing an application.
Uns writer does not profess to)
sugar beet farms. A large
know how the courts will inter-!?
n
.
However, since so large a sec- VANCOUVER, B.C.
sec■—The fight tion of them
of Japanese against
are Japanese na- tion of people of Japanese origin
pret this
document. However, a!
repatriation tionals.
Which has been rnentiox^
.
*
The percentage is low in B.C. requested repatriafion^ it
to Japan entered a
new phase
among those who
■ in this journal (January 6, 1945)
have settled I was thought necessarv to dete”
Benis Mur- within Winnipeg.
; regarding persons of dual nationmine more closely what section
Was Dotified tB^t the British
LEMON CREEK. B.C. — Q
ZZT Columbia Security Commission no
The
largest
group
f the evacuees outside of B.C.
;( a my comes to mind.
ation of non-repatriates fr
among those
ion no
om re- °n§er 1S a legaI entity, according
who have requested
intended to remain in Canada' af
, n ^
artic]e 011 “Nationality! patliates here was completed vEh
„
repatriation
w
ith
i
to
a
C.P.
report
of
July
ter the war in order that the
aie
the
older
evacuees
who
have
, ^no Citizenship,” George T. Ta-lUie last contingent of those who
r 28.
who
Three
weeks
ago.
v
uiau a graduate of the Dalhousie ! expressed the desire to remain in
. ago, writs were some savings, and who wish to government policy of distributing
issued
in
supreme
court against spend their old age in Japan, j the people of Japanese origin
Law School, has writtenj Canada moving
to Kaslo two Die commission in behalf of a Others have
wives or relatives in evenly across Canada may be
■V
weeks ago.
p
- ~—.x vx „
“A person born with dual naJapan
with
whom
they wish to Cained °Ut more effectively.
Only thirteen families moved to
'bWn JaPanese and a
,nat(onality may, on reaching
is reported that in Manitoba/ove^
XX ”“
be reunited. A third
Lew Denver a»d koseb"
group LUU*
con•
,
^1a*Llr,ty' renounce his British
JO percent of the persons who
a
r<^i°nslit^ in time of peace,
a few
tew groups transferring /
to J
Kaslo1 “at •the documents theN signed is s o those who have been dis
=> eeing to go to Japan after the illusioned as a result of th e treat LeCIUeSteCl repatriation had done
° ,,await a(Buce of relocation
n®^ during war.
previous r
war were obtained as a result of ment they have received, d n cl; ।so
to the operation
l
11 v
of
_ F this statement is interpreted while others relocated eastward,
who
see
no
hope
for
themsel
false
representations
and
are
of
ves
j
SnrVey
by
the travelling R.C.
without
dual
Exch
^
n
S'
es
between
Tashme
and
Include persons i
M.P. detachment.
no value.
in this country
e centres at New Denver, Rose
/dxionality, it means- that
Cana
i
The repatriation survev
Mr. Murphy was notified that
On the other hand, the major
dian citizens, by birth or natural- bery and Kaslo were expected to
the Security Commission was dis ity of those who are .making satr- conducted in Manitoba iin much
X‘Mion, cannot renounce his Brit- oe completed early this month.
I tiie same manner
in British
Movement between the Slocan Val- solved by order-in-council before isfactory adjustments, especially I Columbia’
isa nationality if- under
the
actions
were
started
and!
twenty- iey centres
All
persons
of Japan moan areas, have shown little ! nese origin
------- _ (Slocan City
•one; and if they have
Bay I probably before the facts arose!
reached Farm and Popoff) and New Den-'
16
years
and
interest in the offer of free trans-1
§ ’
over,
JWZZZ-they cannot renounce
ver were expected Z >
i °U which they are founded.”
leqnired to appear separateportation to Japan. Most of them
of them ]y before the R c M p detachment
s aen British nationality- during some time yet
11 mue foi-j
Mr. Murphy commented that he are y°uug
Japanese - Canadians
but may do so during peace!
- on a specified date tq state
will obtain default judgments if! who feel tha
- -n any case those persons who!, In many cases, families who the actions are not defended and this country. They are rapid X X
”Ot ^ ^^
Jure signed repatriation forms 1^''® be“i transferred to New
will proceed also against■ the iin.t‘™‘uS
the rresentment! seekin
“
'he war. Those
without intending to go to Japan Denver
......... are
“
discontent with the dividual members of the <
commis-pOich ‘hey felt at the time of t„ «n°- rePa'
‘On were asked
.would be foolish to wait unlll at- accommodation which have‘been sion.
their evacuation from the B C I r
specially prepared apter the war for rectification of provided them.
tne
. phCation forms.
DISSOLVED IN 1943
coast.
tneir , action if they do not wish
Through unofficial sources, it
An organization known as the
ciic
.
tc3 ^®rany sPeakiiig.. the evacu-! panese nationals requests the Jakt1'*
Z ]oss of their Canadian has been learned that relocation_ I Japanese Division _
of the Depart-fees
Cacitizenship.
(and resettlement of naturalized ■ ment of Labor has^-epUce^l^
are le^M SatlSfact°ri.ly hdian government to arrange
ane Canafban'born cjtizens of Jap- Rc- Security Commission on ad-f returning to Japan
eres e< m ' or and effect his repatriation to
B.S. SCENE
“X’X7.“ 66 !te”CIi >'p J “‘"‘station of Japanese affairs. I
It was emphasized in the circa {Japan^Sether "'“h *>“ depenfl.
l
ie United States is apparently
neai future. Nationals, j
11 Is expected that the next'
'
(Continued on Page 4)
contemplating a deportation of a
however, are to be kept in the^0^ °f the Japanese mav be an
section of her enemy aliens,
is reported that Attorney! centies at New Denver and Rose-1 Whcation to the Federal cabioeiy until the naturalized and(net to s«e the government, speciReally- the Department of Labor
to deport any enemv alien whom L
7 g,’°nps Who have ^em- m their legal battle against
the attorney general might deem1
COnfined in internment camps patriation to Japan.
few “--jUTUTTT^
VANCOUVER, B.C.—A survey
iB.C.: 3,650 in Alberta: 158 in Sasindicates that more than half
‘
J
M hite House on July 17.
i ~
'
----- ------------ --------------------------------- -------------_______ / of the 23,867 Japanese in Can katchewan; 1,103 in Manitoba;
p Under a previous proclamation
I ada want to be repatriated to j 3,194 in Ontario; 589 in Quebec;
, one in the Maritimes and 28 in
( | the late Pj'esident Roosevelt. J------------- ^^^21_2^2£H£££^
their homeland when the war is
; the A ukon and Northwest Terriattorney general merely had a i
over, The Vancouver Province ' tories.
reported July 18.
■
Tne lone Japanese Maritimer is
j - The trend was shown in figures j n°t an evacuee from B.C. (Since
It is
ii eleased on a survey among these ! these figures were released one
orney
senerars XweT Xx
। people, said the report.
i family relocated to New Bruns'-ly to the dangerous eneniv a’;-!
LAKE RELOCATION’I
The survey has been completed ‘ wick from the relocation centre
TULE
ani’ d°eS Dot cover P^ons 1
Calif—The need
'
pi °^lde aids for families ! among the 15,144 Japanese in Brit-! at New Benver, B.C.)
Iu tile country or naturalized ; r
or
emergenev
^^ ^^I501'3^ assistance^11 Columbia and 8.676 want to!
The June 30 Population total of
uizens.
: temporary
evacuees^arln-'t7.X'aK !hl”S11OTSeh0'''S' The j be repatriated. They have signed ! 23’S67 compared to the June 30,
a nee by
Tule Lake or other rein™H „6 comito'ed under this I al>Ph“Uons to be taken awav ■ 1943 figures of 23,111. T. B. Pick^.000 PLAN TO
s to resettle eX X
' Catesorj'
‘“elude household ’ when
"'ar is over.
ersgill. Commissioner of Japanese
ithe United States UlXe prXXehoX
r”8’"''13"0'1
°F
The S”rre’' "“^ among Placement, credited the greater
|
TO OREGON
Japanese east of figure now to “natural increase.”
a
—About 4.000jrifled for through the War Jteta-lrenLo 1^1“*^
L‘
e>e -Americans who
rent to establish security during! the Rockies.
In Ottawa, it was felt that the
It is bein: conduct
wereition Authority and the Social Se- the
4 f
। cuuiea from Oregon in l^Uuritv
iar>i
The S^^rC' ed by the R.C.M.P. and is ex-|PerCeDta§e °f east‘^^^^
|re Planning
*
^2 purity Board, it was announced,
> V.. .
Japanese wanting to return to
|re already back
^^ 037 j at the project
’s administration of-1 through 7^^7100^
leefs
lotion
6 ^ar Re' ^e.
- — Japan will not be as great as that
g
a Authmty said, July 30.
J Ths War Relocation Authority i ’"'T°' WeI(are'
ald w
among
The Tun a ?n
i-.g Japanese in
i B.C. It was'
showed
Population figures explained that a a
I
(Continued on Page 2)
— - a greater percent
piloted these totals outside cof
age of these are Canadian-born.
?
iBCSC Announced Dissolved as
Court Case Enters New Phase
Lemon Creek Finishes
^e5re0aiwn Movement",1 their soIicitoi>
8676 in British Columbia
■ Sign for Return to Japan
RX“ interato^7U.S. Evacuees Will Receive Aids
To Reestablish Households
I
Its hello! from
Winnipeg with
our first issue
s.-nce refocation
i
the NEW CANADIAN
Reviewing
The Hews
t™y Betrui4i"’
______----- ipso More Nisei Canadians
T
We regret that
the.. Japanese
Section has been
unavoidably
delayed
Qlr.oi
ion
CoSi"9 EC ** P Detachment
Completes Registration of All
। ^S-^S Asking Return to Japan
-n British Columbia action has!
-ORONTO, Ont.-The per
been started on behalf of two
50 Pex-cent of the
centage
of enlistments among I Room 249, National Defense I11,100 pei-sonfOf
persons of Japanese ancestry t0 ’
Japanese Canadians in Ontario ' Bldg., Ottawa.
seek a judicial order that * the
Lieut. Thomas replied to the
( government is powerless to re-. compares favorably with the I
several questions which were j sources here.
. patriate any Japanese Canadians! percentage enlistments among
a& revealed by reliable
asked by those present at the j
e
total
Canadian
population,
The
travelling
R.C.M.P.
detach_
e^en if they have signed
forms I stated Lieut, c. Thomas of the
meeting. To a question regard
requesting repatriation.
iment which has been receiving!
~
Canadian Army at a meeting
ing the possibility of Nisei girls applications from persons request
, ?
Sent by T' B- Bickers
^ is. indicated that the Japaentering the services, he replied ing repatriation to Japan for the § ’ Connuissio^er for the Japacalled by the Japanese Cana
. Lese will press a claim that those
that
no openings were available
dian Committee for Democracy.
past two weeks,
3 ^A0 Slgned these forms did so
weeks, completed its i: uese Placement, to all evacuees
for them at present. He ad
.
Lieut.
Thomas,
who
is
in
work
in
Manitoba
on July 30, and ’i that these applications for renm
ter duress.
■riMton are strictly voluntary. X
vised, however, that those who
charge of recruiting Japanese
has moved on into Ontario.
Attention will probably
wished to join the nursing corps
-- be focCanadians for special service
like British Columbia, there has
The number of persons who
, a>sed on the fact that the official
should
make
individual
applica
been no mention here of “com
with the allied forces said that
requested repatriation to Japan
'epa (nation forms provided for
tions.
pulsion."
the army was seeking an addils high in this province, and
, Die Canadian-born and naturalized
For the Japanese Canadian
tional 150 volunteers,
Enquirmay exceed fifty percent of the
, Nisons of Japanese origin calls
repatriation survey
men, all branches outside of the
ies in this connection
may
be
total
evacuee population. It is
TO
AID DISPERSAL POLICY
•o> a renunciation of British na- directed to Lieut, c.
special services in which they
believed that next to British
Thomas,
; i.onality. it is not strictlv a
'
Earlier in the year, it was not
are now being used are closed.
re-1
Columbia, Manitoba will have intended to conduct a detailed‘re
• ?^Ciatibu’ but a declaration
the highest percentage of per patriation survey of persons who
i 7. Tesire to relinauish .
Brit j
sons who requested repatria had moved east of the Rockies.
. ^ nationality and to assume the!
tion.
-'“His of a national of Japan.”!
Only those who wished to be re
The largest number of appli patriated were requested to re
L us a serious declaration espe-!
, cmxly during war.
I
cations have been received from port to the R.C.M.P. for the pur
persons who are still tied to the pose of signing an application.
Uns writer does not profess to)
sugar beet farms. A large
know how the courts will inter-!?
n
.
However, since so large a sec- VANCOUVER, B.C.
sec■—The fight tion of them
of Japanese against
are Japanese na- tion of people of Japanese origin
pret this
document. However, a!
repatriation tionals.
Which has been rnentiox^
.
*
The percentage is low in B.C. requested repatriafion^ it
to Japan entered a
new phase
among those who
■ in this journal (January 6, 1945)
have settled I was thought necessarv to dete”
Benis Mur- within Winnipeg.
; regarding persons of dual nationmine more closely what section
Was Dotified tB^t the British
LEMON CREEK. B.C. — Q
ZZT Columbia Security Commission no
The
largest
group
f the evacuees outside of B.C.
;( a my comes to mind.
ation of non-repatriates fr
among those
ion no
om re- °n§er 1S a legaI entity, according
who have requested
intended to remain in Canada' af
, n ^
artic]e 011 “Nationality! patliates here was completed vEh
„
repatriation
w
ith
i
to
a
C.P.
report
of
July
ter the war in order that the
aie
the
older
evacuees
who
have
, ^no Citizenship,” George T. Ta-lUie last contingent of those who
r 28.
who
Three
weeks
ago.
v
uiau a graduate of the Dalhousie ! expressed the desire to remain in
. ago, writs were some savings, and who wish to government policy of distributing
issued
in
supreme
court against spend their old age in Japan, j the people of Japanese origin
Law School, has writtenj Canada moving
to Kaslo two Die commission in behalf of a Others have
wives or relatives in evenly across Canada may be
■V
weeks ago.
p
- ~—.x vx „
“A person born with dual naJapan
with
whom
they wish to Cained °Ut more effectively.
Only thirteen families moved to
'bWn JaPanese and a
,nat(onality may, on reaching
is reported that in Manitoba/ove^
XX ”“
be reunited. A third
Lew Denver a»d koseb"
group LUU*
con•
,
^1a*Llr,ty' renounce his British
JO percent of the persons who
a
r<^i°nslit^ in time of peace,
a few
tew groups transferring /
to J
Kaslo1 “at •the documents theN signed is s o those who have been dis
=> eeing to go to Japan after the illusioned as a result of th e treat LeCIUeSteCl repatriation had done
° ,,await a(Buce of relocation
n®^ during war.
previous r
war were obtained as a result of ment they have received, d n cl; ।so
to the operation
l
11 v
of
_ F this statement is interpreted while others relocated eastward,
who
see
no
hope
for
themsel
false
representations
and
are
of
ves
j
SnrVey
by
the travelling R.C.
without
dual
Exch
^
n
S'
es
between
Tashme
and
Include persons i
M.P. detachment.
no value.
in this country
e centres at New Denver, Rose
/dxionality, it means- that
Cana
i
The repatriation survev
Mr. Murphy was notified that
On the other hand, the major
dian citizens, by birth or natural- bery and Kaslo were expected to
the Security Commission was dis ity of those who are .making satr- conducted in Manitoba iin much
X‘Mion, cannot renounce his Brit- oe completed early this month.
I tiie same manner
in British
Movement between the Slocan Val- solved by order-in-council before isfactory adjustments, especially I Columbia’
isa nationality if- under
the
actions
were
started
and!
twenty- iey centres
All
persons
of Japan moan areas, have shown little ! nese origin
------- _ (Slocan City
•one; and if they have
Bay I probably before the facts arose!
reached Farm and Popoff) and New Den-'
16
years
and
interest in the offer of free trans-1
§ ’
over,
JWZZZ-they cannot renounce
ver were expected Z >
i °U which they are founded.”
leqnired to appear separateportation to Japan. Most of them
of them ]y before the R c M p detachment
s aen British nationality- during some time yet
11 mue foi-j
Mr. Murphy commented that he are y°uug
Japanese - Canadians
but may do so during peace!
- on a specified date tq state
will obtain default judgments if! who feel tha
- -n any case those persons who!, In many cases, families who the actions are not defended and this country. They are rapid X X
”Ot ^ ^^
Jure signed repatriation forms 1^''® be“i transferred to New
will proceed also against■ the iin.t‘™‘uS
the rresentment! seekin
“
'he war. Those
without intending to go to Japan Denver
......... are
“
discontent with the dividual members of the <
commis-pOich ‘hey felt at the time of t„ «n°- rePa'
‘On were asked
.would be foolish to wait unlll at- accommodation which have‘been sion.
their evacuation from the B C I r
specially prepared apter the war for rectification of provided them.
tne
. phCation forms.
DISSOLVED IN 1943
coast.
tneir , action if they do not wish
Through unofficial sources, it
An organization known as the
ciic
.
tc3 ^®rany sPeakiiig.. the evacu-! panese nationals requests the Jakt1'*
Z ]oss of their Canadian has been learned that relocation_ I Japanese Division _
of the Depart-fees
Cacitizenship.
(and resettlement of naturalized ■ ment of Labor has^-epUce^l^
are le^M SatlSfact°ri.ly hdian government to arrange
ane Canafban'born cjtizens of Jap- Rc- Security Commission on ad-f returning to Japan
eres e< m ' or and effect his repatriation to
B.S. SCENE
“X’X7.“ 66 !te”CIi >'p J “‘"‘station of Japanese affairs. I
It was emphasized in the circa {Japan^Sether "'“h *>“ depenfl.
l
ie United States is apparently
neai future. Nationals, j
11 Is expected that the next'
'
(Continued on Page 4)
contemplating a deportation of a
however, are to be kept in the^0^ °f the Japanese mav be an
section of her enemy aliens,
is reported that Attorney! centies at New Denver and Rose-1 Whcation to the Federal cabioeiy until the naturalized and(net to s«e the government, speciReally- the Department of Labor
to deport any enemv alien whom L
7 g,’°nps Who have ^em- m their legal battle against
the attorney general might deem1
COnfined in internment camps patriation to Japan.
few “--jUTUTTT^
VANCOUVER, B.C.—A survey
iB.C.: 3,650 in Alberta: 158 in Sasindicates that more than half
‘
J
M hite House on July 17.
i ~
'
----- ------------ --------------------------------- -------------_______ / of the 23,867 Japanese in Can katchewan; 1,103 in Manitoba;
p Under a previous proclamation
I ada want to be repatriated to j 3,194 in Ontario; 589 in Quebec;
, one in the Maritimes and 28 in
( | the late Pj'esident Roosevelt. J------------- ^^^21_2^2£H£££^
their homeland when the war is
; the A ukon and Northwest Terriattorney general merely had a i
over, The Vancouver Province ' tories.
reported July 18.
■
Tne lone Japanese Maritimer is
j - The trend was shown in figures j n°t an evacuee from B.C. (Since
It is
ii eleased on a survey among these ! these figures were released one
orney
senerars XweT Xx
। people, said the report.
i family relocated to New Bruns'-ly to the dangerous eneniv a’;-!
LAKE RELOCATION’I
The survey has been completed ‘ wick from the relocation centre
TULE
ani’ d°eS Dot cover P^ons 1
Calif—The need
'
pi °^lde aids for families ! among the 15,144 Japanese in Brit-! at New Benver, B.C.)
Iu tile country or naturalized ; r
or
emergenev
^^ ^^I501'3^ assistance^11 Columbia and 8.676 want to!
The June 30 Population total of
uizens.
: temporary
evacuees^arln-'t7.X'aK !hl”S11OTSeh0'''S' The j be repatriated. They have signed ! 23’S67 compared to the June 30,
a nee by
Tule Lake or other rein™H „6 comito'ed under this I al>Ph“Uons to be taken awav ■ 1943 figures of 23,111. T. B. Pick^.000 PLAN TO
s to resettle eX X
' Catesorj'
‘“elude household ’ when
"'ar is over.
ersgill. Commissioner of Japanese
ithe United States UlXe prXXehoX
r”8’"''13"0'1
°F
The S”rre’' "“^ among Placement, credited the greater
|
TO OREGON
Japanese east of figure now to “natural increase.”
a
—About 4.000jrifled for through the War Jteta-lrenLo 1^1“*^
L‘
e>e -Americans who
rent to establish security during! the Rockies.
In Ottawa, it was felt that the
It is bein: conduct
wereition Authority and the Social Se- the
4 f
। cuuiea from Oregon in l^Uuritv
iar>i
The S^^rC' ed by the R.C.M.P. and is ex-|PerCeDta§e °f east‘^^^^
|re Planning
*
^2 purity Board, it was announced,
> V.. .
Japanese wanting to return to
|re already back
^^ 037 j at the project
’s administration of-1 through 7^^7100^
leefs
lotion
6 ^ar Re' ^e.
- — Japan will not be as great as that
g
a Authmty said, July 30.
J Ths War Relocation Authority i ’"'T°' WeI(are'
ald w
among
The Tun a ?n
i-.g Japanese in
i B.C. It was'
showed
Population figures explained that a a
I
(Continued on Page 2)
— - a greater percent
piloted these totals outside cof
age of these are Canadian-born.
?
iBCSC Announced Dissolved as
Court Case Enters New Phase
Lemon Creek Finishes
^e5re0aiwn Movement",1 their soIicitoi>
8676 in British Columbia
■ Sign for Return to Japan
RX“ interato^7U.S. Evacuees Will Receive Aids
To Reestablish Households
Page 2
: Page Two
Wednesday, August 8,-1945-
ft
THE NEW CANADIAN
504 Talbot Avenue
Phone
t-none out Joo
ft
Winntneo
Winnipeg. Man
Man
Broken Sunliaht
By S.W. and K.O.
An independent weekly organ published
_ as a medium of
expiession among the people of Japanese origin in Canada
Tom Shoyama
......... -...................... Publisher ■
Kasey Oyama ...... .
....... —...... -...... —............ Editor
Takaichi Umezuki
.. Japanese Section Editor
Soldier's Wife
Need5 Race Be a Barrier ?
The following-, essa^. written
by Josie Yano,
won the first
cry out—we only wept in silence.
The politician began to think that
we weren’t like him and his broth
ers, who would shout and squeal
at the slightest pinch; he thought
that we didn’t suffer the same dis
mal depths of despair, the same
heights of joy, the same flood of
love and the same grief of death.
The politician began to regard us
like a machine the capitalist owns,
something out of which to make
money, something to which demands could be made but given.
only food enough to work on,
something to be employed but
only to his advantage.
piize in an essay contest con
‘You know, it’s funny, the ab
solute difference between how
ducted at the Tashme High
Things are and how things appear.
School.
That’s, especially true with people.
* * *
fheie
are
people
I
know,
many
Rates: 40c per Month
God created all men equal,”
$2.00 for Six Months in Advance
of them confident, even aggresbut what vast territtory lies de
s’ye who give ah impression that
tween the white and the colored
they’ve been around. And yet they
man!
A territory so vast, that
are really timid inside. They’re
in it is built a barrier so wide
only putting up a bold front.
and so high, that few men have
Then there are people who
ever struggled across that bar*egar£^
confused thinking by evacuees seem gay and carefree—yet they liei to live freely on both sides.
may be hiding a terrible loneli
ha? this Ven tr
‘
e^1?
Especially ness.
Racial prejudice, which spi-ings
from this barrier, unlike it, has
‘And you never guess the truth
no bairiers and obeys no bound
that is, until some incident mav
NEED RACE BE A BARRIER?
—certainly not geographical
re^hiaS.^ ^vantages promised to thos^X’seek cause you to realize the truth, aries
Need Race be a Barrier? In
boundaries, for it is found in
with something of a shock.
deed
not, most people will answer
crowded metropolises, as well as
“Take Sono, for instance. To
when asked this question. Then
in spi eading plains of the prainewspaper from the vari- tell you the truth I never noticed i'ies; in small-fishing hamlets, as why is it? I can quite easily re
indication of the truth the
umb^ can be taken as an any change in her after her hus well as in rude lumber camps— member the embarrasment r used
band left for overseas. By the
influence on theevacuees’ decTsion I
the
to suffer when asked by a white
certainly it knows no social bar
way he’s in India now , , , finds
friend
or teacher: “What do you
was the assurance that the “repatriates”^!]]
riers, for it dwells in the heart
to remain in R c mua
t L ie^dUldies will be allowed army life lots of fun. Of course of the proud aristocrat as well as want to be?” What do I want
completed for their deportia® aS a™ements have been they never write about the tough
to be? Lawyer? Doctor? Pre
in the heart of the lowly peasant;
side. You know Sono, don’t you?
sident? Prime Minister?—oh what
it eats the soul of the opera singShe's the liveliest and the most
heights!
Or perhaps as the ques
ei and the farmer, the capitalist
cheerful girl in our district. I
tion should have been asked:
and the proletarian — certainly it
never thought otherwise—that is.
“What can you be?” Store clerk?
has no time boundaries, for it was
until last night.
Farmer ? Fisherman? Proprietor
there
in
the
Greek
and
Roman
“I was coming home from
weX?6’ 11 ?1?y -e leCalled’ are the same tvpe of men who
a
of a grocery store? What acEmpires, the French Revolution,
late sho tv. You remember how
counts for this difference in the
the Napoleonic Wars, the First
ugly the weather was last night
dieams of youth? You have only
World War and it is also in this
• • . cloudy, gloomy, threatening,
to
look at his face—it is not white
war. Racial prejudice has fanned
and then that heavy, soaking rain.
is it? It may be yellow or red
AV ell, in that rain-storm I saw the fires of every war, past and
or black, but it is not white. Why
hei. She must have been caught pi esent and future( ?)—cei’tainly
mpnt wnnU
i->ir down anv program
that the govern- out in the rain because she was it has no age barriers, for it is must people be condemned be
ment
would lay
there in the jeering taunts of the
cause of race? Why, like the lep
which it cannot or does n't carrying an umbrella.
not intend to carry out."The best legal
ers in Jesus’ day, are they forced
five-year-old
’
s
“
Aw,
you
Chink!
”
;
advice is available
She was trudgin;g home down
to the government.
to shout “We are unclean! We
in the prejudicial remarks of the
the deserted street.• She opened
twenty-year-old
’
s
“
the
ol
’
Japs!
”
;
are
unclean!” Why must race
tried to point out the the gate—;a bit too carefully, I in the querulous words
hang like a dreaded disease?
persons seeking “volun- thought. Hei steps up the stairs ninety-year-old’s, “houmph of the Why? Is it right? No! O, what
taiy repatriation to Japan was Li
UCcl
a Jew,
in ceffect,
not strictly vol- were deliberate, calculated. She eh?”
vast territory, what real oppor.hesitated at the door’—just a motunities, what rich talents what
ment. Her rain-soaked back was
WHAT IS PREJUDICE?
gigantic powers, what deep loves
turned towards me. But in that
AV hat is racial prejudice or racand friendships lie lost in racial
instant, I really saw her for the
ial intolerance? It is the judg
prejudice!
■
first time—a figure of loneliness,
ment without due examination of
Where can be found the cure i'o
uncertain, anxiety. ...”
the abilities or customs of other
the headaches and the heartaches
races, and the refusal of the
caused by racial prejudice? H.
power races to pass on to the
that does not take into account
I repeat the old proverb:; “An
■ • • and the disrespectable
minoiity races what rights or
bum comes up to me and mur
all the people in the apartments
ounce of prevention is worth a
Editor, The New Canadian:
gains they possess, fused together
murs
something
into
my
ears,
like
and rooms upstairs. For instance,
pound of cui e.
Therefore, 1 et. us
with petty jealousies and rivalries
Livin g as I am in the Powell
he was confiding something in
seek the pi evention by erasing
oyer the old bank is the New
in the business and economic
United Church Building.
me. I looked at him, searching
World Hotel. The Powell grounds
any racial prejudices, however
I am
fields. It is wrong to blame the
quite interested in the list of tenlike. His eyes wavered, then he
small, however harmless it may
are always busy in the evening
White man for all the racial prej
atiis in the 200 and 300 blocks of
abruptly held out his right hand,
with some kind of a game going
seem, that might be lurking in
udices. We, the colored folks—
Powell Street, as g ven by your
palms up.
His cunnings eyes
on and plenty of spectators. I have
our hearts, so that when we leave
the Negroes, the Chinese, the Jap
correspondent.
seemed to defy any comments.
nt\et happened to see a Chinese
Tashme, we can so up to the
anese, the Indians—must take our
He
was
staring
at
me
boldly.
I
team,
though
I
have
twice
seen
brown boy from the plains, of
Actually, though, it does not
share of the blame, for we too,
looked at him hands, it was a
a bunch of negro boys playing in
Araby, the yellow girl from the
seem so much like Chinatown as
have sheltered race prejudice in
the afternoon.
typicaly ‘bummish’ hand, nothing
it sounds. Even in the list given.
shores of the Yangtse River, the
our
hearts.
I often think that
extraordinary,
you
know
—
a
bit
ESTHER
L.
RYAN
white
boy from the highlands of
one third are Chinese, and
perhaps one of our faults was
dirty.
VANCOUVER, B.C.
Scotland or the wheat fields of
then sudden-like, an expensive ■that we didn’t cry out loud
the Ukraine, the black girl from
enough when they bled us through
looking Longine wrist watch slith
darkest Africa and say “Brother,
various Bills and Acts; we didn’t
ers into his hand. It was brand
Fiiend, Fellow-Citizen!3
new. i stared dumfounded.
(Continued from Rage 1)
No thanks.’ I turned abrupt
be given the evacuees until the
sons who need medical or other
ly.
But
just as quickly his hands
end of the relocation program.
emergency help, in addition
were
on
me.
to
Ihe War Relocation Authoritv
. old-age as Stance, aid to
the
Look mister, I’m willing to
blind and aid for dependent chilm primarily a service organiza
A visit to a camp where Nisei
part with------ ’
hours. Must get pretty hot in there
dren. where eligibilitv
tion, stated Myer. -It's main job
soldiers
are stationed isn't a priv:ts been
No thanks,’ I repeated firmly
with all the passion being poured
is to help the people in relocation
established. Sucl i aids will be
ilege that every girl gets, ;o here
‘ind jeiked away my arm. At the
out on paper, especially in one
centres become established again
J provided as needs occur.
I am to tell you some of my
corner I stopped and looked back!
case ui a iusance tliat has biosm private life. During the past
experiences.
The resettlers needing
I saw him scurry up and talk
housesomeu
num a nap Out New York
three
years
in helping over 45,hold or other• temporary
to a baldish man.
The
first
thin
assistg
that
struck
me
way.
000 persons to relocate.
ance may determine before they
have
I wondered how much he
as
I
entered
the
boys
’
hut
was
encountered almost every
And here's a taste of what ac
leave the centre the amount of
conwould have given it to me for. . . .
the atmosphere of warm congeniceivable type of resettlement probtually goes on when the boys are
such assistance which ma v
Not that I had any intention of
ahty and the utter lack of prilem.
m
action. Picture the boys camavailable to them.
buying it. you know. . . /•
iac>. Ihe hut wasn’t exactly the
ouflaged with twigs and war-paint.
“Bach family that has come
It is intended to close the eight
picture of neatness as they so
There
they go, into the “jungles.”
forward for relocation assistance
relocation
centres
often claimed but the bovS Quickly
in
United
of Brantford, half of the platoon
has presented a challenge to the
States by the end of the
explained that Sunday was their
i
year.
out to get the other half. Bang!
Only Tule Lake is
energy and ingenuity of our staff
day off and that I should see it
scheduled to
remain open, but no
members-no two cases have been
• Says one Roy to anthe next morning. Of course they
bar is being
CHICAGO, Ill.—Bob Hope,
other:
placed
Hey,
Roy, you're dead!
a
e
to
help
the
relocators
in
on
the
kuew I d be sixty miles from here
movement of
radio and screen star. de
Hand
over your ammunition.’
working out their own distinctive
people in
by that time.
..P.
centre who may
clared in his newspaper col
G wan, I shot you first
Problems and in making an ade
wish to find a home outside.
!” “Okay,
Out on the grass a
m
e
umn. “It Says Here." on July
let s call it even then.’
quate adjustment.
So the
INDIVIDUALIZED
H. that “we did a show for
was deeply engrossed in an -at
two Roys go banging
“
Never
once
on their
ASSISTANCE PROMISED
about 1,400 enlisted men.
tempt to shorten his shorts with
have we found an
separate ways. That’s the adult
individual
or
a-needle almost as large as himmostly
Japanese - American
In a message to the residents
family relocation
version of “cops and
problem
which
robbers.”
GIs
this
evening.
”
se
f and with his own-inimitable
of all relocation centres. Dillon
we considered unBut they claim, it’s not
solvable.
We
so funny
Commenting on the Nisei
version of the gentle art. Washdo not expect to
S. Myer, Director of the War Re
as it sounds, especially when they
meet such problems in the future,
soldiers, Hope declared:
mg was strewn all over the green
location Authority, has stated
have to crawl
is
highly
important
that
we
ana
i
“nougn swamps
-inch just goes, to .show what
"These boys
are reallv
no individual or family reloca
iX t ^ ''“h heavy Packs on
continue
rendering
this
individu
Hiarp
and
just
as
American
bovs
can
do
when-.they,
have
no
tion problem will be considered
bar backs and all the parapheralized type of assistance in re
as a hamburger sandwich.”
women to dance attendance
unsolvable. and that the "individ
on
naha
strung about them.
location until the very
them.
Hope's column was dateualized” type of assistance will
end of the
program
Imed "Somewhere in the At
tl'eT
feaIly §Oing to miss
The light in the-'writing room,
lantic.”
the boys when they go.
they say.burns till the wee sma'
—Nisei Affairs.
fir
—s ;- •• As
The Bum
Leiters To The Editor
S Evacuees Will Receive Aid
A Niseiette Visits an Army Camp
Bob Hope Entertains
Nisei GIs on Ship
f
Wednesday, August 8,-1945-
ft
THE NEW CANADIAN
504 Talbot Avenue
Phone
t-none out Joo
ft
Winntneo
Winnipeg. Man
Man
Broken Sunliaht
By S.W. and K.O.
An independent weekly organ published
_ as a medium of
expiession among the people of Japanese origin in Canada
Tom Shoyama
......... -...................... Publisher ■
Kasey Oyama ...... .
....... —...... -...... —............ Editor
Takaichi Umezuki
.. Japanese Section Editor
Soldier's Wife
Need5 Race Be a Barrier ?
The following-, essa^. written
by Josie Yano,
won the first
cry out—we only wept in silence.
The politician began to think that
we weren’t like him and his broth
ers, who would shout and squeal
at the slightest pinch; he thought
that we didn’t suffer the same dis
mal depths of despair, the same
heights of joy, the same flood of
love and the same grief of death.
The politician began to regard us
like a machine the capitalist owns,
something out of which to make
money, something to which demands could be made but given.
only food enough to work on,
something to be employed but
only to his advantage.
piize in an essay contest con
‘You know, it’s funny, the ab
solute difference between how
ducted at the Tashme High
Things are and how things appear.
School.
That’s, especially true with people.
* * *
fheie
are
people
I
know,
many
Rates: 40c per Month
God created all men equal,”
$2.00 for Six Months in Advance
of them confident, even aggresbut what vast territtory lies de
s’ye who give ah impression that
tween the white and the colored
they’ve been around. And yet they
man!
A territory so vast, that
are really timid inside. They’re
in it is built a barrier so wide
only putting up a bold front.
and so high, that few men have
Then there are people who
ever struggled across that bar*egar£^
confused thinking by evacuees seem gay and carefree—yet they liei to live freely on both sides.
may be hiding a terrible loneli
ha? this Ven tr
‘
e^1?
Especially ness.
Racial prejudice, which spi-ings
from this barrier, unlike it, has
‘And you never guess the truth
no bairiers and obeys no bound
that is, until some incident mav
NEED RACE BE A BARRIER?
—certainly not geographical
re^hiaS.^ ^vantages promised to thos^X’seek cause you to realize the truth, aries
Need Race be a Barrier? In
boundaries, for it is found in
with something of a shock.
deed
not, most people will answer
crowded metropolises, as well as
“Take Sono, for instance. To
when asked this question. Then
in spi eading plains of the prainewspaper from the vari- tell you the truth I never noticed i'ies; in small-fishing hamlets, as why is it? I can quite easily re
indication of the truth the
umb^ can be taken as an any change in her after her hus well as in rude lumber camps— member the embarrasment r used
band left for overseas. By the
influence on theevacuees’ decTsion I
the
to suffer when asked by a white
certainly it knows no social bar
way he’s in India now , , , finds
friend
or teacher: “What do you
was the assurance that the “repatriates”^!]]
riers, for it dwells in the heart
to remain in R c mua
t L ie^dUldies will be allowed army life lots of fun. Of course of the proud aristocrat as well as want to be?” What do I want
completed for their deportia® aS a™ements have been they never write about the tough
to be? Lawyer? Doctor? Pre
in the heart of the lowly peasant;
side. You know Sono, don’t you?
sident? Prime Minister?—oh what
it eats the soul of the opera singShe's the liveliest and the most
heights!
Or perhaps as the ques
ei and the farmer, the capitalist
cheerful girl in our district. I
tion should have been asked:
and the proletarian — certainly it
never thought otherwise—that is.
“What can you be?” Store clerk?
has no time boundaries, for it was
until last night.
Farmer ? Fisherman? Proprietor
there
in
the
Greek
and
Roman
“I was coming home from
weX?6’ 11 ?1?y -e leCalled’ are the same tvpe of men who
a
of a grocery store? What acEmpires, the French Revolution,
late sho tv. You remember how
counts for this difference in the
the Napoleonic Wars, the First
ugly the weather was last night
dieams of youth? You have only
World War and it is also in this
• • . cloudy, gloomy, threatening,
to
look at his face—it is not white
war. Racial prejudice has fanned
and then that heavy, soaking rain.
is it? It may be yellow or red
AV ell, in that rain-storm I saw the fires of every war, past and
or black, but it is not white. Why
hei. She must have been caught pi esent and future( ?)—cei’tainly
mpnt wnnU
i->ir down anv program
that the govern- out in the rain because she was it has no age barriers, for it is must people be condemned be
ment
would lay
there in the jeering taunts of the
cause of race? Why, like the lep
which it cannot or does n't carrying an umbrella.
not intend to carry out."The best legal
ers in Jesus’ day, are they forced
five-year-old
’
s
“
Aw,
you
Chink!
”
;
advice is available
She was trudgin;g home down
to the government.
to shout “We are unclean! We
in the prejudicial remarks of the
the deserted street.• She opened
twenty-year-old
’
s
“
the
ol
’
Japs!
”
;
are
unclean!” Why must race
tried to point out the the gate—;a bit too carefully, I in the querulous words
hang like a dreaded disease?
persons seeking “volun- thought. Hei steps up the stairs ninety-year-old’s, “houmph of the Why? Is it right? No! O, what
taiy repatriation to Japan was Li
UCcl
a Jew,
in ceffect,
not strictly vol- were deliberate, calculated. She eh?”
vast territory, what real oppor.hesitated at the door’—just a motunities, what rich talents what
ment. Her rain-soaked back was
WHAT IS PREJUDICE?
gigantic powers, what deep loves
turned towards me. But in that
AV hat is racial prejudice or racand friendships lie lost in racial
instant, I really saw her for the
ial intolerance? It is the judg
prejudice!
■
first time—a figure of loneliness,
ment without due examination of
Where can be found the cure i'o
uncertain, anxiety. ...”
the abilities or customs of other
the headaches and the heartaches
races, and the refusal of the
caused by racial prejudice? H.
power races to pass on to the
that does not take into account
I repeat the old proverb:; “An
■ • • and the disrespectable
minoiity races what rights or
bum comes up to me and mur
all the people in the apartments
ounce of prevention is worth a
Editor, The New Canadian:
gains they possess, fused together
murs
something
into
my
ears,
like
and rooms upstairs. For instance,
pound of cui e.
Therefore, 1 et. us
with petty jealousies and rivalries
Livin g as I am in the Powell
he was confiding something in
seek the pi evention by erasing
oyer the old bank is the New
in the business and economic
United Church Building.
me. I looked at him, searching
World Hotel. The Powell grounds
any racial prejudices, however
I am
fields. It is wrong to blame the
quite interested in the list of tenlike. His eyes wavered, then he
small, however harmless it may
are always busy in the evening
White man for all the racial prej
atiis in the 200 and 300 blocks of
abruptly held out his right hand,
with some kind of a game going
seem, that might be lurking in
udices. We, the colored folks—
Powell Street, as g ven by your
palms up.
His cunnings eyes
on and plenty of spectators. I have
our hearts, so that when we leave
the Negroes, the Chinese, the Jap
correspondent.
seemed to defy any comments.
nt\et happened to see a Chinese
Tashme, we can so up to the
anese, the Indians—must take our
He
was
staring
at
me
boldly.
I
team,
though
I
have
twice
seen
brown boy from the plains, of
Actually, though, it does not
share of the blame, for we too,
looked at him hands, it was a
a bunch of negro boys playing in
Araby, the yellow girl from the
seem so much like Chinatown as
have sheltered race prejudice in
the afternoon.
typicaly ‘bummish’ hand, nothing
it sounds. Even in the list given.
shores of the Yangtse River, the
our
hearts.
I often think that
extraordinary,
you
know
—
a
bit
ESTHER
L.
RYAN
white
boy from the highlands of
one third are Chinese, and
perhaps one of our faults was
dirty.
VANCOUVER, B.C.
Scotland or the wheat fields of
then sudden-like, an expensive ■that we didn’t cry out loud
the Ukraine, the black girl from
enough when they bled us through
looking Longine wrist watch slith
darkest Africa and say “Brother,
various Bills and Acts; we didn’t
ers into his hand. It was brand
Fiiend, Fellow-Citizen!3
new. i stared dumfounded.
(Continued from Rage 1)
No thanks.’ I turned abrupt
be given the evacuees until the
sons who need medical or other
ly.
But
just as quickly his hands
end of the relocation program.
emergency help, in addition
were
on
me.
to
Ihe War Relocation Authoritv
. old-age as Stance, aid to
the
Look mister, I’m willing to
blind and aid for dependent chilm primarily a service organiza
A visit to a camp where Nisei
part with------ ’
hours. Must get pretty hot in there
dren. where eligibilitv
tion, stated Myer. -It's main job
soldiers
are stationed isn't a priv:ts been
No thanks,’ I repeated firmly
with all the passion being poured
is to help the people in relocation
established. Sucl i aids will be
ilege that every girl gets, ;o here
‘ind jeiked away my arm. At the
out on paper, especially in one
centres become established again
J provided as needs occur.
I am to tell you some of my
corner I stopped and looked back!
case ui a iusance tliat has biosm private life. During the past
experiences.
The resettlers needing
I saw him scurry up and talk
housesomeu
num a nap Out New York
three
years
in helping over 45,hold or other• temporary
to a baldish man.
The
first
thin
assistg
that
struck
me
way.
000 persons to relocate.
ance may determine before they
have
I wondered how much he
as
I
entered
the
boys
’
hut
was
encountered almost every
And here's a taste of what ac
leave the centre the amount of
conwould have given it to me for. . . .
the atmosphere of warm congeniceivable type of resettlement probtually goes on when the boys are
such assistance which ma v
Not that I had any intention of
ahty and the utter lack of prilem.
m
action. Picture the boys camavailable to them.
buying it. you know. . . /•
iac>. Ihe hut wasn’t exactly the
ouflaged with twigs and war-paint.
“Bach family that has come
It is intended to close the eight
picture of neatness as they so
There
they go, into the “jungles.”
forward for relocation assistance
relocation
centres
often claimed but the bovS Quickly
in
United
of Brantford, half of the platoon
has presented a challenge to the
States by the end of the
explained that Sunday was their
i
year.
out to get the other half. Bang!
Only Tule Lake is
energy and ingenuity of our staff
day off and that I should see it
scheduled to
remain open, but no
members-no two cases have been
• Says one Roy to anthe next morning. Of course they
bar is being
CHICAGO, Ill.—Bob Hope,
other:
placed
Hey,
Roy, you're dead!
a
e
to
help
the
relocators
in
on
the
kuew I d be sixty miles from here
movement of
radio and screen star. de
Hand
over your ammunition.’
working out their own distinctive
people in
by that time.
..P.
centre who may
clared in his newspaper col
G wan, I shot you first
Problems and in making an ade
wish to find a home outside.
!” “Okay,
Out on the grass a
m
e
umn. “It Says Here." on July
let s call it even then.’
quate adjustment.
So the
INDIVIDUALIZED
H. that “we did a show for
was deeply engrossed in an -at
two Roys go banging
“
Never
once
on their
ASSISTANCE PROMISED
about 1,400 enlisted men.
tempt to shorten his shorts with
have we found an
separate ways. That’s the adult
individual
or
a-needle almost as large as himmostly
Japanese - American
In a message to the residents
family relocation
version of “cops and
problem
which
robbers.”
GIs
this
evening.
”
se
f and with his own-inimitable
of all relocation centres. Dillon
we considered unBut they claim, it’s not
solvable.
We
so funny
Commenting on the Nisei
version of the gentle art. Washdo not expect to
S. Myer, Director of the War Re
as it sounds, especially when they
meet such problems in the future,
soldiers, Hope declared:
mg was strewn all over the green
location Authority, has stated
have to crawl
is
highly
important
that
we
ana
i
“nougn swamps
-inch just goes, to .show what
"These boys
are reallv
no individual or family reloca
iX t ^ ''“h heavy Packs on
continue
rendering
this
individu
Hiarp
and
just
as
American
bovs
can
do
when-.they,
have
no
tion problem will be considered
bar backs and all the parapheralized type of assistance in re
as a hamburger sandwich.”
women to dance attendance
unsolvable. and that the "individ
on
naha
strung about them.
location until the very
them.
Hope's column was dateualized” type of assistance will
end of the
program
Imed "Somewhere in the At
tl'eT
feaIly §Oing to miss
The light in the-'writing room,
lantic.”
the boys when they go.
they say.burns till the wee sma'
—Nisei Affairs.
fir
—s ;- •• As
The Bum
Leiters To The Editor
S Evacuees Will Receive Aid
A Niseiette Visits an Army Camp
Bob Hope Entertains
Nisei GIs on Ship
f
Page 3
Wednesday, August 8, 1945
Page Three
K-
Drifting Off
Winnipeg impressions and People
Q
This is the Story of One Man s Relocation Experiences
By BILL HOSOKAWA
wanted, in the auditing division
hood bunch.
found comIt-took two long, grimy and hot
This
is
the
story
of
one
man's
of the Iowa Power
Ing city. People are always in a
ghi Complete
acceptance
at
school.
The
days to get here in Winnipeg
pany.
hurry to get ^somewhere. The pe relocation experiences. It may
wife, meanwhile, left
Sakamotos
are
part
of
the
neigh
Two days and two nights of dull
their t wo children with Sam's
destrians have complete disregard not be typical, but it gives a
borhood now.
monotony of seeing nothing but
parents in Heart Mountain and
for all traffic lights and noncha pretty good idea of what a man
Their
victory garden
the- endless stretch of the flat
can do.
came out to Des Moines where
lantly stroll across the streets.
is
the
pride
of
the
neighborhood.
prairie lands.
In the fall of 1943 Sam Saka she took the dietician's job at. the
The more-or-less countryfied reloSam
and
his
father
have introThe days were hot and the
moto left Heart Mountain, where
Friends
Hostel.
cee from the B.C.
town
dueed the painstaking care of the
train crowded with holidayers and
he was employed in property confeels out of place and lost in the
Sam and his wife. Chiyo, worked
Japanese
American truck farmtrol. and came to Des Moines,
men of the armed services. Our
hurrying stream of humanity. He
foi a full year to see how things
ci s skill to lowans who don't even
There he found the job he had
fellow7 travellers were all nice peo feels inconspicuous because in the
were
to turn out.
d) to compete—they just look on
his eye on before lie left the cen- health hadn’t been too
ple.' The men in uniform were
ghost town he had many friends,
rood and
with a certain sort of awe and
especially friendly.
tre had been taken by a not her
he wanted to see how it would
while here in the big city, he
admiration.
evacuee.
To the relocee w7ho has travel rarely sees a Nisei
hold up. Chiyo eventually left
face.
He shopped around for
led over the Rockies and across
M eeds would not have the temthe hostel and now has a job in
Quite naturally, this resettler
weeks before he got the job he
the prairies, living in a self-con
erity
to show their heads in that
a drug store waiting on customers
hastened off to the downtown sec
tained little world of a day coach
garden. The tomato plants are
and working in the fountain.
tion to see the bright spots.
is not new7. The cramped, uncomYea, I replied truculently.
One year after their arrival, the the tallest and sturdiest in the
He gaped at the huge Eaton's
foi table nights, or the close heat
B.C. s got nerve sending you
neighborhood and the Sakamotos
Sakamotos >vere ready to call out
department store. He window
that makes perspiration ooze out
out here. Not that we don't want
bam s lather and mother , a young- have even planted two rows of
shopped down the entire Portage
of every pore and cling clammily
you here — he smiled a friendly
celery which most victory gardener sister, and the two children,
Avenue which is the busiest sec
smile.
onto the clothes—all have been
ei
s would no dare attempt.
After considerable sear citing for
tion of the town. He was wafted
On the street car a man noticexperienced. And doubtless, most
In a way, that garden is sym
housing. they decided to
up in an elevator to the seventh
ing this resettler craning around
of them have heaved a sigh of
bolic.
It is the contribution the
floor of the Somerset Building to
oter a three-bedroom home an
looking for a familiar street re
relief at the end of the journey.
Sakamoto family has made, in a
other Japanese American family
report to the B.C.S.C. office. He
marked:
Even to the city-bred, the clang
small,
symbolic way, to the life
was about, to vacate.
experienced the queer feeling in
Stranger?
and roar of the busy streets,
In January, 1945, when the M’est of that neighborhood.
the stomach as the cage came to
bright lights of the signs, hurry
les, 1 nodded. Just got in the
an abrupt stop. He rode down
reopened to Japanese
The other residents have given
other day.
ing pedestrians and rushing cars
Americans,
the escalator in the Hudson's Bay
the
Sakamotos hospitality7 The
almost
decided
Ion’ll get used to it, he said,
at e a bit frightening after being
to go back to hi s old home in
just to see how it felt. He drifted
Sakamotos
in turn have introlakes a little time.
shut off in the quiet seclusion of
San Jose, But when he put the duced a. new skill
along with the tide of people
which has won
a ghost town for three years.
. . . and while waiting for a bus
matter to his employers, they
through the stores. And he gorged
for them respect. and which has
Even the occasional visit to
at tile bus stop, a pleasant young
gave him a comfortable pay boost
himself on ice cream and other
new
standards of
Nelson while making the rounds
man
struck
up
a
conversation.
‘
and urged him to stay on u per- achievement for the native loluxuries which are practically un
You’re Japanese. He smiled. I
of the interior housing settle
manent basis.
obtainable in the ghost towns.
dealt
ments of B.C. has been inadequate
with many of your people
T he elder Sakamoto found the
—H eart Mountain Sentinel
when I was working at the B.C.
to prepare one for a lai’ge city.
THE PEOPLE ARE FRIENDLY
Iowa winters not to his liking so
coast. Very fine people.
For Winnipeg is big and Nel
This resettler has found the
be quit his job during the cold
I’m an Ukrainian, he said, and
son could easily be swallowed up
people friendly.
months. But now he is back at
proud of it. There's no need to
in one of the suburban districts
work in a greenhouse, The work
Theie was one incident when he
of this city.
be ashamed of your race. Racial
Born io Mr. and Mrs. Charles
is not too strenuous .and he en•went to purchase a pennant sou
barriers should be broken down
Here, one has to adjust himself
Omori
(nee Kikuye Tani), of 368
joys being kept busy.
venir in a drug store.
and all work toward a common
Bigin Avenue, Winnipeg. Man a
to become a part of a fast-movYou’re a Jap, stated the clerk.
Sam s younger sister is a fullcause.
6 lb., 1 oz. b;
mm—
fledged member of the neigh boron July 25.
Place: Third-class cafe in down
town Toronto.
She is followed
Time: Saturday night, 11.30 p.m.
by
an
eighteen-year-old
brother of
Scene: Centre front — A round
George, Ed. Tomiko walks up
table is surrounded by a few
before George. George
chairs on. which are seated two
embarrassed.)
Nisei youths, Nobby and Kaz.
Nobby—Yeah? Who's talking?
George — Sorry, 1—[ meant to
a bloody headache. Make me a
. On the table are two coke
of Heaven . . . Hey’
I’ve got more sense than you
bromo,
will
you?
call
you up and tell you 1 couldn't
bottles.
think. My job’s alright for now
George (looks up and says very
make it. 1 . . .
Jimmy —A hangover, eh? I
Nobby is tall, slim, and looks
deliberately)—Shut up!
but what about after the war?
didn’t know you drank,
.ever mind George (sits
(Makes
about 28. He is sloppily dressed.
Drunk—So, you want to light,
It s a cinch we d be kicked around
down
).
a bromo, takes it up to George
know. Ed told me all
Kaz is flashily di'essed, and looks
eh?
Puts hands on George's
again.
Besides, I'm having my
about
it.
and
sits
down
beside
him.
M e thought you might
head.)
George
about 22. He is. a small youth
fun now without getting married.
be
down
takes
off
his
hat
and
here.
you've
gulps it
with pale complexion and sharp
George (sweeping hands off) —
Kaz—Well, you’re not getting
been
drinking.
down.)
Feel
better?
eyes. His hands are oil stained.
Lay off! (Drunk staggers and tries
any younger you know.
Soon
George—Sorry.
Both are smoking and seem to be you’ll be too old to get married— ' George—Yeah, a little.
to grapple with George.)
waiting for someone.
Jimmy
What happened any
(There is a short silence. Ed
even if you
First Soldier (who had been
o back for a wife
goes
over to the counter and
way.
Something
go
wrong?
hunt
in
B.C.
Right back—Soda fountain and
looking on the scene, walks up io
orders a pop for himself.)
cash register
them)—Break it up tor
's
A Greek proprie
George — Oh everything's hay
Nobby—So what? I could stay
Well, I guess we'll have to call
tor, Jimmy, is
sake.
over the single. I’m not the type to get
wire. I got fired today and I . . .
it
off. . . .
bills. He is a pleasant looking married.
Drunk—Mind your own busiwe’d planned to get married next
man of 36. Cafe entrance is to
ness, Zombie.
Tomi — ’What do you
month.
mean
Kaz (mocking)—Expect me to
the right.
George
(in
a
low
First
Soldier
(angrily
grasps
voice) don’t
believe you?
Jimmy (skeptically)—Go on!
you
care
for
me
any
more?
the
drunk
s
shirt,
slaps
his
cheek
Left back—Three booths, and a
Nobby—Shut up will you?
George—I'm not kidding, You
George (relieved)—No, it's not
repeatedly) —You’d better look be
juke box against the left wall.
know
that ------- who works in our
(Two young hakujin girls
fore you-talk. (Drags the drunk
that. I mean we could postpone
Another young Nisei youth, Roy,
department. Well, he called me
walk in. One is blonde and the.,
who is thoroughly cowed, and
the marriage. You know it would
is seated in one of the booths.
a bloody Jap, and I couldn't take
other dark. They7 wear heavybe hard on you. 1 was a d a rn 11
thrusts
him
outside
the
door,
and
He is -about 19. He is reading a
it. This isn't the first time you
make-up, and they behave
fool.
. . .
returns
to George.)
You
crime magazine, while his feet
know. Anyway, I lost my temcheaply.)
born in Canada weren’t you?
iomi-.\o, George. Maybe you
keep time to the boogie woogie
per. He kicked up an awful fuss,
Here they7 are at last.
(George
nods.)
Bo
you
know
Joe
shouldn't
have fought.
Put it's
music coming from the juke box.
so . . .
Tanaka ?
Nobby
—
What
the
hell's
the
too
late
now, anyway.
get
Curtain rises as the music
Jimmy — That’s too bad. But
George—No.
matter
with
you
—
keping
us
wait
married
George,
like
the
way
we
draws near the end. Soft jazz is
guys like you can ;always get aning all night.
First Soldier (slightly embarplanned.
You
could
get
another
heard from off-stage.
Kaz and
other job.
rassed)—I knew Joe back in B.C.
job. I know you can. And George,
Blonde—Take it easy, old boy
Nobby are talking.
George—I don't know, Jimmy.
Nice
kid.
Last
I
heard
from
him
maybe we could skip the honey
(goes and sits on Nobby’s lap).
Kaz—Didja hear George is get
I had a hard time getting that
he was bragging that he’d be in
moon to Niagara.
Where’re we going?
ting hitched next month?
job. I had to study at a night
the army before long. You know
George—You re a swell kid.
Nobby
—
Usual
place
I
guess.
school to hold it. The boss was
Nobby (surprised)—Yeah? Who
I just came back from Hu rope,
Tomi — I remember what you
(Looks at Kaz who is talking to
with?
very decent about it. He said he
Me fought because we didn’t be- told me once, George . . . about
the other girl). Well, let's get didn t want to fire me, but.
lieve in this Nazi idea of race life, lou said it might be tough
Kaz Tomiko somebody. Darn
Said he d give me a good recom
superiority. When I come back
nice kid. ... I don't mind having
there would be disappointments
Kaz—Okay, we're ready!
mendation anyway. God, why did
and see the same sort of thing
a girl like her myself.
and
fears — but no matter howI have to be born a Jap!
(They leave noisily, joking
going on over here it makes me
Nobby—Tomiko, eh?
I heard
Lard the load we could make a
Jimmy—Come on George, don't sick. Thank God there's not verv
and laughing, and waving to
they were going pretty steady.
go of it because there are two
feel so bad about it. You don't
the proprietor as they go out.
many of that kind.
No, they’re all the same—a bunch
of us. I believe that, George.
mean
what
you're
saying.
Roy
gets
up,
yawns,
goes
over
of stuck-ups. Hmmmm ... so
George (murmurs)—Thanks.
George (takes Tomiko's hands)
George — No, I guess I don't.
to the juke box and drops in a
be s finally hooked, eh.
Poor
First Soldier—(Pretends not to —Tomi . - . you know . . . I'm a
Just the same . . . (covers his
nickel. George enters. He is
guy. ...
heat and goes back to the coun- lucky guy.
head
with
his
hands.
A
drunk
tall
and
goo-d
looking.
George
and
Kaz—What the heck!
I bet
tei to join the other soldier. Rov,
(Tomiko
takes away' her
two soldiers walk in.
The two
is neatly dressed except for his
■who has been watching this scene,
you re just jealous. "Why shouldn’t
hands gently. She places a hat
soldiers sit at the counter and
hat which is on at an awkward
he get married. He's got looks,
leaves quietly. After a short while
on George’s head, looks towards
oider
soft drinks. Jimmy7 hurries
angle. He looks dejected.)
the soldiers leave.
They look
personality, good job; and a nice
Ed and Jimmy and gives George
off to serve them.
The drunk
girl. I hear his job is good even
back at George and say "so long.”
George—Hello, Jimmy! (Goes to
a hurried kiss.)
walks
up
to
George
and
stands
after the war.
Geoige waves back. Jimmy7 starts
the round table anti'': sits down
Tomiko (to Ed)—Come on Ed,
looking at him.)
Nobby (thoughtfully)—I’m get without taking off* his’ hat.)
to come out to join George but
we’re going. (They begin walking
Drunk—Hey, Charlie!
ting as much as him.
hurries back behind the counter out.)
Jimmy—Oh, hello George. Have
George—(Silent.)
. K^z Why don’t you get mar n’t seen you in ages. Hey, what’s
as a new customer enters. It is
George (smiling)—So long, Jim
Drunk Hooking into George’s
ried and settle down, too, instead wrong! You:sick.2
Tomiko, She is a pretty Nisei- my!
face)—Hey, you Jap? Say some ette with
of leading sucha reckless life?
a trim figure. She shows
Jimmy—So long! Drop in. again'.
George—No, it’s nothing. Just
thing boy. Bloody Jap . . . Son
strength of character without be(Curtain)
*
Something New
J
\
the relocees
A Short Play by Hideo Shigei
C
J
j.
Page Three
K-
Drifting Off
Winnipeg impressions and People
Q
This is the Story of One Man s Relocation Experiences
By BILL HOSOKAWA
wanted, in the auditing division
hood bunch.
found comIt-took two long, grimy and hot
This
is
the
story
of
one
man's
of the Iowa Power
Ing city. People are always in a
ghi Complete
acceptance
at
school.
The
days to get here in Winnipeg
pany.
hurry to get ^somewhere. The pe relocation experiences. It may
wife, meanwhile, left
Sakamotos
are
part
of
the
neigh
Two days and two nights of dull
their t wo children with Sam's
destrians have complete disregard not be typical, but it gives a
borhood now.
monotony of seeing nothing but
parents in Heart Mountain and
for all traffic lights and noncha pretty good idea of what a man
Their
victory garden
the- endless stretch of the flat
can do.
came out to Des Moines where
lantly stroll across the streets.
is
the
pride
of
the
neighborhood.
prairie lands.
In the fall of 1943 Sam Saka she took the dietician's job at. the
The more-or-less countryfied reloSam
and
his
father
have introThe days were hot and the
moto left Heart Mountain, where
Friends
Hostel.
cee from the B.C.
town
dueed the painstaking care of the
train crowded with holidayers and
he was employed in property confeels out of place and lost in the
Sam and his wife. Chiyo, worked
Japanese
American truck farmtrol. and came to Des Moines,
men of the armed services. Our
hurrying stream of humanity. He
foi a full year to see how things
ci s skill to lowans who don't even
There he found the job he had
fellow7 travellers were all nice peo feels inconspicuous because in the
were
to turn out.
d) to compete—they just look on
his eye on before lie left the cen- health hadn’t been too
ple.' The men in uniform were
ghost town he had many friends,
rood and
with a certain sort of awe and
especially friendly.
tre had been taken by a not her
he wanted to see how it would
while here in the big city, he
admiration.
evacuee.
To the relocee w7ho has travel rarely sees a Nisei
hold up. Chiyo eventually left
face.
He shopped around for
led over the Rockies and across
M eeds would not have the temthe hostel and now has a job in
Quite naturally, this resettler
weeks before he got the job he
the prairies, living in a self-con
erity
to show their heads in that
a drug store waiting on customers
hastened off to the downtown sec
tained little world of a day coach
garden. The tomato plants are
and working in the fountain.
tion to see the bright spots.
is not new7. The cramped, uncomYea, I replied truculently.
One year after their arrival, the the tallest and sturdiest in the
He gaped at the huge Eaton's
foi table nights, or the close heat
B.C. s got nerve sending you
neighborhood and the Sakamotos
Sakamotos >vere ready to call out
department store. He window
that makes perspiration ooze out
out here. Not that we don't want
bam s lather and mother , a young- have even planted two rows of
shopped down the entire Portage
of every pore and cling clammily
you here — he smiled a friendly
celery which most victory gardener sister, and the two children,
Avenue which is the busiest sec
smile.
onto the clothes—all have been
ei
s would no dare attempt.
After considerable sear citing for
tion of the town. He was wafted
On the street car a man noticexperienced. And doubtless, most
In a way, that garden is sym
housing. they decided to
up in an elevator to the seventh
ing this resettler craning around
of them have heaved a sigh of
bolic.
It is the contribution the
floor of the Somerset Building to
oter a three-bedroom home an
looking for a familiar street re
relief at the end of the journey.
Sakamoto family has made, in a
other Japanese American family
report to the B.C.S.C. office. He
marked:
Even to the city-bred, the clang
small,
symbolic way, to the life
was about, to vacate.
experienced the queer feeling in
Stranger?
and roar of the busy streets,
In January, 1945, when the M’est of that neighborhood.
the stomach as the cage came to
bright lights of the signs, hurry
les, 1 nodded. Just got in the
an abrupt stop. He rode down
reopened to Japanese
The other residents have given
other day.
ing pedestrians and rushing cars
Americans,
the escalator in the Hudson's Bay
the
Sakamotos hospitality7 The
almost
decided
Ion’ll get used to it, he said,
at e a bit frightening after being
to go back to hi s old home in
just to see how it felt. He drifted
Sakamotos
in turn have introlakes a little time.
shut off in the quiet seclusion of
San Jose, But when he put the duced a. new skill
along with the tide of people
which has won
a ghost town for three years.
. . . and while waiting for a bus
matter to his employers, they
through the stores. And he gorged
for them respect. and which has
Even the occasional visit to
at tile bus stop, a pleasant young
gave him a comfortable pay boost
himself on ice cream and other
new
standards of
Nelson while making the rounds
man
struck
up
a
conversation.
‘
and urged him to stay on u per- achievement for the native loluxuries which are practically un
You’re Japanese. He smiled. I
of the interior housing settle
manent basis.
obtainable in the ghost towns.
dealt
ments of B.C. has been inadequate
with many of your people
T he elder Sakamoto found the
—H eart Mountain Sentinel
when I was working at the B.C.
to prepare one for a lai’ge city.
THE PEOPLE ARE FRIENDLY
Iowa winters not to his liking so
coast. Very fine people.
For Winnipeg is big and Nel
This resettler has found the
be quit his job during the cold
I’m an Ukrainian, he said, and
son could easily be swallowed up
people friendly.
months. But now he is back at
proud of it. There's no need to
in one of the suburban districts
work in a greenhouse, The work
Theie was one incident when he
of this city.
be ashamed of your race. Racial
Born io Mr. and Mrs. Charles
is not too strenuous .and he en•went to purchase a pennant sou
barriers should be broken down
Here, one has to adjust himself
Omori
(nee Kikuye Tani), of 368
joys being kept busy.
venir in a drug store.
and all work toward a common
Bigin Avenue, Winnipeg. Man a
to become a part of a fast-movYou’re a Jap, stated the clerk.
Sam s younger sister is a fullcause.
6 lb., 1 oz. b;
mm—
fledged member of the neigh boron July 25.
Place: Third-class cafe in down
town Toronto.
She is followed
Time: Saturday night, 11.30 p.m.
by
an
eighteen-year-old
brother of
Scene: Centre front — A round
George, Ed. Tomiko walks up
table is surrounded by a few
before George. George
chairs on. which are seated two
embarrassed.)
Nisei youths, Nobby and Kaz.
Nobby—Yeah? Who's talking?
George — Sorry, 1—[ meant to
a bloody headache. Make me a
. On the table are two coke
of Heaven . . . Hey’
I’ve got more sense than you
bromo,
will
you?
call
you up and tell you 1 couldn't
bottles.
think. My job’s alright for now
George (looks up and says very
make it. 1 . . .
Jimmy —A hangover, eh? I
Nobby is tall, slim, and looks
deliberately)—Shut up!
but what about after the war?
didn’t know you drank,
.ever mind George (sits
(Makes
about 28. He is sloppily dressed.
Drunk—So, you want to light,
It s a cinch we d be kicked around
down
).
a bromo, takes it up to George
know. Ed told me all
Kaz is flashily di'essed, and looks
eh?
Puts hands on George's
again.
Besides, I'm having my
about
it.
and
sits
down
beside
him.
M e thought you might
head.)
George
about 22. He is. a small youth
fun now without getting married.
be
down
takes
off
his
hat
and
here.
you've
gulps it
with pale complexion and sharp
George (sweeping hands off) —
Kaz—Well, you’re not getting
been
drinking.
down.)
Feel
better?
eyes. His hands are oil stained.
Lay off! (Drunk staggers and tries
any younger you know.
Soon
George—Sorry.
Both are smoking and seem to be you’ll be too old to get married— ' George—Yeah, a little.
to grapple with George.)
waiting for someone.
Jimmy
What happened any
(There is a short silence. Ed
even if you
First Soldier (who had been
o back for a wife
goes
over to the counter and
way.
Something
go
wrong?
hunt
in
B.C.
Right back—Soda fountain and
looking on the scene, walks up io
orders a pop for himself.)
cash register
them)—Break it up tor
's
A Greek proprie
George — Oh everything's hay
Nobby—So what? I could stay
Well, I guess we'll have to call
tor, Jimmy, is
sake.
over the single. I’m not the type to get
wire. I got fired today and I . . .
it
off. . . .
bills. He is a pleasant looking married.
Drunk—Mind your own busiwe’d planned to get married next
man of 36. Cafe entrance is to
ness, Zombie.
Tomi — ’What do you
month.
mean
Kaz (mocking)—Expect me to
the right.
George
(in
a
low
First
Soldier
(angrily
grasps
voice) don’t
believe you?
Jimmy (skeptically)—Go on!
you
care
for
me
any
more?
the
drunk
s
shirt,
slaps
his
cheek
Left back—Three booths, and a
Nobby—Shut up will you?
George—I'm not kidding, You
George (relieved)—No, it's not
repeatedly) —You’d better look be
juke box against the left wall.
know
that ------- who works in our
(Two young hakujin girls
fore you-talk. (Drags the drunk
that. I mean we could postpone
Another young Nisei youth, Roy,
department. Well, he called me
walk in. One is blonde and the.,
who is thoroughly cowed, and
the marriage. You know it would
is seated in one of the booths.
a bloody Jap, and I couldn't take
other dark. They7 wear heavybe hard on you. 1 was a d a rn 11
thrusts
him
outside
the
door,
and
He is -about 19. He is reading a
it. This isn't the first time you
make-up, and they behave
fool.
. . .
returns
to George.)
You
crime magazine, while his feet
know. Anyway, I lost my temcheaply.)
born in Canada weren’t you?
iomi-.\o, George. Maybe you
keep time to the boogie woogie
per. He kicked up an awful fuss,
Here they7 are at last.
(George
nods.)
Bo
you
know
Joe
shouldn't
have fought.
Put it's
music coming from the juke box.
so . . .
Tanaka ?
Nobby
—
What
the
hell's
the
too
late
now, anyway.
get
Curtain rises as the music
Jimmy — That’s too bad. But
George—No.
matter
with
you
—
keping
us
wait
married
George,
like
the
way
we
draws near the end. Soft jazz is
guys like you can ;always get aning all night.
First Soldier (slightly embarplanned.
You
could
get
another
heard from off-stage.
Kaz and
other job.
rassed)—I knew Joe back in B.C.
job. I know you can. And George,
Blonde—Take it easy, old boy
Nobby are talking.
George—I don't know, Jimmy.
Nice
kid.
Last
I
heard
from
him
maybe we could skip the honey
(goes and sits on Nobby’s lap).
Kaz—Didja hear George is get
I had a hard time getting that
he was bragging that he’d be in
moon to Niagara.
Where’re we going?
ting hitched next month?
job. I had to study at a night
the army before long. You know
George—You re a swell kid.
Nobby
—
Usual
place
I
guess.
school to hold it. The boss was
Nobby (surprised)—Yeah? Who
I just came back from Hu rope,
Tomi — I remember what you
(Looks at Kaz who is talking to
with?
very decent about it. He said he
Me fought because we didn’t be- told me once, George . . . about
the other girl). Well, let's get didn t want to fire me, but.
lieve in this Nazi idea of race life, lou said it might be tough
Kaz Tomiko somebody. Darn
Said he d give me a good recom
superiority. When I come back
nice kid. ... I don't mind having
there would be disappointments
Kaz—Okay, we're ready!
mendation anyway. God, why did
and see the same sort of thing
a girl like her myself.
and
fears — but no matter howI have to be born a Jap!
(They leave noisily, joking
going on over here it makes me
Nobby—Tomiko, eh?
I heard
Lard the load we could make a
Jimmy—Come on George, don't sick. Thank God there's not verv
and laughing, and waving to
they were going pretty steady.
go of it because there are two
feel so bad about it. You don't
the proprietor as they go out.
many of that kind.
No, they’re all the same—a bunch
of us. I believe that, George.
mean
what
you're
saying.
Roy
gets
up,
yawns,
goes
over
of stuck-ups. Hmmmm ... so
George (murmurs)—Thanks.
George (takes Tomiko's hands)
George — No, I guess I don't.
to the juke box and drops in a
be s finally hooked, eh.
Poor
First Soldier—(Pretends not to —Tomi . - . you know . . . I'm a
Just the same . . . (covers his
nickel. George enters. He is
guy. ...
heat and goes back to the coun- lucky guy.
head
with
his
hands.
A
drunk
tall
and
goo-d
looking.
George
and
Kaz—What the heck!
I bet
tei to join the other soldier. Rov,
(Tomiko
takes away' her
two soldiers walk in.
The two
is neatly dressed except for his
■who has been watching this scene,
you re just jealous. "Why shouldn’t
hands gently. She places a hat
soldiers sit at the counter and
hat which is on at an awkward
he get married. He's got looks,
leaves quietly. After a short while
on George’s head, looks towards
oider
soft drinks. Jimmy7 hurries
angle. He looks dejected.)
the soldiers leave.
They look
personality, good job; and a nice
Ed and Jimmy and gives George
off to serve them.
The drunk
girl. I hear his job is good even
back at George and say "so long.”
George—Hello, Jimmy! (Goes to
a hurried kiss.)
walks
up
to
George
and
stands
after the war.
Geoige waves back. Jimmy7 starts
the round table anti'': sits down
Tomiko (to Ed)—Come on Ed,
looking at him.)
Nobby (thoughtfully)—I’m get without taking off* his’ hat.)
to come out to join George but
we’re going. (They begin walking
Drunk—Hey, Charlie!
ting as much as him.
hurries back behind the counter out.)
Jimmy—Oh, hello George. Have
George—(Silent.)
. K^z Why don’t you get mar n’t seen you in ages. Hey, what’s
as a new customer enters. It is
George (smiling)—So long, Jim
Drunk Hooking into George’s
ried and settle down, too, instead wrong! You:sick.2
Tomiko, She is a pretty Nisei- my!
face)—Hey, you Jap? Say some ette with
of leading sucha reckless life?
a trim figure. She shows
Jimmy—So long! Drop in. again'.
George—No, it’s nothing. Just
thing boy. Bloody Jap . . . Son
strength of character without be(Curtain)
*
Something New
J
\
the relocees
A Short Play by Hideo Shigei
C
J
j.
Page 4
Page Four
THE
NE W
CAN ADI AN
Wednesday, August 8, 1945
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Switz
erland, neutral country which
—The clang. English, and Air. T. R. Hall, who! already represents United States
interests in Japan, will take
of the school
once again is acting as principal of the Sum
beckoned ninety-some-odd Nisei! mer School.
over representation of Japanese
school teachers to the* classrooms!
tj16 new method (demonstra-j interests in the U.S. on the con
of the third consecutive ummem tion ciasses)
which is being put I dition the Japanese government
school on July
ST. PIERRE. Alan. — The
IRON SPRINGS, Alta.—The Iro
। into practice this year, is hoped j permits neutral observers to
The fa miliar sight of teachers!
Pierre Nippons were nosed out Springs Y.P.A. climbed back
make regular visits to Japanese
to give a better scope of teaching
streaming up the
from I technique.
prison camps, the State Depart 3-2 by the powerful Steinbach second place by virtue of a 16-4
the orchard to the local school j
nine in an open basebal tourna victory over the Turin Y.P.A. nine
ment announced July 27.
Extra curricular activities are
is again being re-enacted.
I
ment here on July 22.
There was no other detail an
on July 15 in a regular Northern
expected to be carried on with
And om-e again a staff of com-i
nounced.
The tournament, which was .League fixture.
Mrs. Mclvor taking over the physpetent, top notch instructors are j
Japan has been without neu open to all entries in the district,
Art Oshiro made his debut on
ical classes and Miss Grier the
imparting the tine art of teach-i
was sponsored by the Knights of the mound with a seven-inning,
tral representation in the United
drama classes.
ing- to the youthful teachers from!
Columbus of St. Pierre.
States and Canada since March,
three-hit job but had to be re
For the most part, the Nisei
the various housing centres.
I
Although the Nippons were lieved by R. Hayashi when his
when Spain withdrew as the
teachers are those who have filled
A short, informal opening cere-,
Japanese government represent knocked out of the running in control faltered.
Tak Ikeda,
mony began the third summer in after the original teachers had
ative.
the first round. they displayed pitched the entire game for Turin
school with >7 teachers, more relocated.
snappy fielding and put up a dog but. was hit freely.
There has been no word that
Five males have bolstered the
than 60 less than the previous
ged
fight before they were elimi
Switzerland will take over Jap
teaching
staff
of
At Picture Butte, the Busseis
the
interior
housyear, attending the occasion.
!
anese interests in Canada yet.
nated by the Steinbachs, the cur
ing
schools
and
trimmed
the Chinooks 16-9 in a
it was expected
Fifty-four students from Grades !
rent league leaders in the southern Manitoba Baseball league. free hitting game.
IT. V and Vlll who comprise the! that a few more would come from
Lemon
Creek.
classes with which the instructors i
The Nippon’s downfall was their
will demonstrate teaching tech
The registration sheet showed
weakness in batting.
IRON SPRINGS, Alta.—The Iron.
A publication by the Toronto
niques were also present.
a total of 91 teachers from the
Both teams scored their runs Springs Y.P.A. continued their
Ayako
past president various centres, but only S7 were Committee for Democracy, “Nisei in the first four innings while winning ways and whipped the
presided as chairman. A. R. Dord, present at the opening ceremony, Affairs," made its initial bow to -the latter part of the game was Picture Butte Chinooks 14-8 in a.
who was the principal last year, The absentees were made up the Niseis in Ontario last month. tight and scoreless.
heavy-hitting game on July 22.
The mimeographed, seven-page
mostly of male teachers who had
The Steinbach nine’s rally in
introduced the instructors.
'Ihe game was played in a heavy
volunteered to fight fire at Nak bulletin, edited by Irene Uchida, the fourth inning gave them a wind which caused
Miss Zella Manning, Mr.
much grief to
Findlater. music instructor who usp which was still not under is published at S4 Gerrard St. E., one-run lead, which they held the players.
Toronto 2. Ont.
taught at Bay Farm la
throughout the entire game. The
year, control at the time.
Roy Hayashi for the victors let
and Mr. w. p. Weston. art in
rest
of the game was a pitcher’s up seven scattered
A1I centres showed a slight de
hits, while S.
s true tor. are agi
duel between Steinbach hurler Kasasaki, of the Chinooks, was
on the staff crease in their teaching staff.
Newcomers are A
Rempel and' Susuki for the Nip touched for 12 bingles.
Lemon Creek had 24 registered
pons.
who is giving instructions in the but only 20 were present on open- OMURA—ITO
S. Miyashita, of Iron Springs,
primary subjects: Mrs. L. Mclvor.
hit
a teirifle homer. A Konno was
Bay Farm listed 20,
TORONTO. Ont.—The marriage
who is demons: rating teaching
also credited with a homer when
New Denver 15, but took place of Mr. Shei Omura,
technique with the intermediate: three were absent;
Popoff S. formerly of Hammond, B.C., sec
Terry Ezaki fumbled the ball near
grade and who is also teaching i Rosebery 5, AI id way 3. Al into 1.
the foul line.
ond son of Mrs. C. Omura, of New
j Si. Pierre Niseis
Toronto Democracy
Group Publishes
Nuptial Notes
Kasloiies Trounce
Denver, B.C., to Miss Shizue Ito.
Turin won by default over the
KASLO, B.C. — The local nine
I formerly of Vancouver. The cere.Picture
Butte Busseis to tighten
1 mony was officiated by the Rev. thoi oughly trounced the visitingup the league race.
i Janies Findley at the Cartion Nelson team 26-7 in a game full
i United Church here early in May. of errors, on July 22.
By MRS. T. NISHIMURA
Reggie Aasui, veteran Asahi
but with the steadying influence
KAI
UR
A
—
KITAGAWA
backstop, donned the belly pad and
Ihe summer has been tediously keep with flowers, radishes and
of
veteran Yasui bore down for
NEW DENVER, B.C.—The prin- mask once again to aid the Kaslo
slow in coming to Grand Forks plum trees.
ciples of a very pretty wedding cause. On the mound was youth- the rest of the game to an easy
but it is here at last.
victory.
girls, I used to en- which took place here on June
Hiro Kawaguchi gave
Each morning clouds
ful Shig Akada who got off to a
m joy playj
sterling- performance on
‘house” and other 30 were Toshiye. third daughter shaky
the mountains that separate us
start in the first inning, base.
! childhood
but more than of Mr.. and Mrs Shinjiro Kitafrom the United States, and hover these things, 1 enjoyed going into j
who
exchanged nuptial
along the topmost branches of
tne garden to watch the plants. vows with Mr. Hideo
the evergreen trees at the end
Sometimes 1 rolled lazily in the third son of Mr. and Mrs. Otoichi
of the fields, or ale
green fields and watched the Kaiura, at the Orchard Japanese
ing mountain stream
clouds drifting.
Hall.
The onion plants
In
those
dav
Baishakunins were Air. and
1 tried to avoid
rapidly under the wide skies. Its!
A limited number of American
!
people
s
companv
Airs.
K. Ryoji.
but
I
have
com-1
white Howers aie in bloom and! , , ,
troop unit, The Pacific Citizen re
,
soldieis
of Japanese /ancestrv ported recently.
pletely
changed.
Now
I
enjoy;
undulate in the wind like waves.
The engagement of Miss Alit- from the West Coast participated
reflecting the brilliant mid-.lulv talking with everybody, and I!
|
Policy previously announced
1 enjoy their company,
suye Inaba, of Tashme. B.C., to in the recent Philippines cam
by
the War Department had in
I have ma ny a cq u a i n t a n c es Mr. Toshio Nishikawa, took place paign as combat soldiers, mem
It was three
dicated that Japanese Ameri
ago that we ! When T go out to town on Saturon July 1 at the home of Air. and bers of the famous American para
‘st gazed on this
can combat troops would not
when i days.
M hen they greet me with Airs. Tobei Hayashi. Air. and Mrs.
as lonely traveller
be used in the Pacific.
we steppedj a loud
“hello! hello!" the love Hayashi were baishakunins.
off the train at the small station
Thousands of Japanese-Ameriand human sympathy within my
of Grand Forks. At that time we
cans are now believed on active
heart seem to leap out with a
(Continued from Page 1)
wondered
what
these
white |cry o( pleasure T am especially
duty in the Pacific and in .the
blooms were. It wa raining ^Nfond of people who work on the
ents under sixteen years of age Burma-India and Chinese war the
day, and as we gaze on the tlKl* i farms. I like their unaffectedness
"under the conditions set out in
atres as interpreters and lan
less fields of onions wet in the'and the faint smell of the
NAKUS P, B.C.—Approxima te 1 y the statement .of the Minister of guage specialists, participating in
summer ram. the loneliness of. that clings to them.
600 men were mustered out from Labor, dated February 13. 1945.”
actions ranging from invasion
the Slocan Valley centres and!
the scene was etched into our
11
The Minister of Labor's state- landings
memories.
leave my bicycle behind when ;
with army and marine
Kootenay districts to quell a for-i ment assures the “repatriates" forces to that of activity
....
,
' ITO to town. As I tramn
as radio
that the net proceeds realized
Three years have passed There
.
a Ols!
i
l
(he country road some farm cart I est fire near here two weeks agoJ
operators
on
B-29
Superfortresses,
times have we experienced the- with a mountainous load of
The fire was brought under con-1 from the disposition of their prop- according to information previhay
worrie and the joys that are en-; would rumbl
r
i erty, real and personal, will be
,
behind
trol after over a week of fireously published.
tailed in the cultivation of onions.!
" »emnd. and
The men were slowlv! becured t0 them, and may be
The news that a number of
lift.
fipm the planting to the final bar-:
wrmia 1 m
returning home last Sunday in ! transferred by them to Japan. It
vestinI
°uld help me up to the toP i small
Japanese - Americans had taken
guarantees their free pasgroups.
OneLgaiu we are busy with! "!,'"' j™* ?'!" ‘"^ 1 w<mW I
part in the Philippines campai
to Japan, including free
The majority of the firefighters
weeding. As 1 work alone in iheI,! ‘ '‘!'u)pplt 111 the <iry- frag-i
as combat troops was the
tne^^nce of sunHght and hay JapaJ were made up of men from the transportation for their personal , LH ^h^ was the first
-----1 iBmcation that Nisei soldiers had
large fields, under the wide skie
various relocation and repatria- property.
■ nese mixed English and Russianbeen sent to the Pacific for com
going up and down the long row i mixed English would flow in the p1™ centres in tiie Blocan Valley MUST RENOUNCE
bat
duty. The Japanese-American
of plants, poems come easi y to
BRITISH NATIONALITY
^ott wind, and I find myself re-i «
■
, conibat soldiers taking part in the
my mind, and I find myself eon!
the form provided for the Ca-; Philippines campaign volunteered
turning
once
more
to
my
childtemplating life.
i nadian-born or naturalized Cana-;for paratroop duty while in
I do not enjoy listening to war
the
’ dians of Japanese origin requires ■ Suited States.
nd- i
.
One
of
the
solnews. I ieel that we small
CRANBROOK. B.C.—Equal I the person signing to make a
Poo- denly hot when the sun comes !
dec-1 ^i^’s- a private for Los Angeles,
pie. no matter how much we woreducational
opportunity foi ; laiation that he wishes to
out. and when the su a goes down. '
give
J was ^rounded.
ry. cannot hope to influence the
children of al races in this ; up his British
it becomes rapidly cool. Every;
nationality.
The:,
Japanese-American interpreters
big events that are taking place
district, including persons of ! form readsevening the cloud ?
disappear!
Japanese ancestry, was agreed ! “I
.
> and lansuage specialists, meanin the world. I would rather pend somewhere
and
the
sky
become:
,
...........
hei
eby
de-,
while, have been renoi-tpd in acall my energy in doing my daily !a spotle
at the annual meetin g of the :
blue. After finishins:'
BritiV
11
'
tO
rel!nciu
ish
my
|
tion in every phase of the Pacific
chores, and in trying to build uplniy days
Athaimer- Invermere School
work in the field
11
a warm, happy home.
Board here recently.
j wash rice in the tiny flower
! I request'the c<“
°
f“' i ““ '" Burma and China. Many
Overcrowding of
district j. request the Government of Can-,of these troops, it was reported
den in preparation for the eveschool facilities w a s dis
There is joy in watching things
| ada. under the conditions s
ning meal. The pale reflection of
cussed. A resolution su
grow. Even as a child I used to
the moon is shattered in the pail
enjoy planting trees and flowers.
of water. At that moment I ex
Fen^ around begging our neigh- perience a keen pleasure of being;'
^hoUId
thsir ehMren in | patrita^ to Japa‘
°k“
hors for plants, and crowded the
born a woman. (From a letter to !
the school district in which i mv deoendents
w
Fukui,
winner of the
little' garden my mother used to! the Japanese Section.)
;
they are enrolled.
Hears of age
sixteen; Bronze Star, was killed in the iaof age as listed hereunder.” | vasion of the Kelama Islands
Nisei American Paratroopers
Reported in Action in Pacific
Bepairiaiion Survey
Evacuees Fight Forest
Fire Near Nakusp
Equal Educational
Opportunity Offered
THE
NE W
CAN ADI AN
Wednesday, August 8, 1945
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Switz
erland, neutral country which
—The clang. English, and Air. T. R. Hall, who! already represents United States
interests in Japan, will take
of the school
once again is acting as principal of the Sum
beckoned ninety-some-odd Nisei! mer School.
over representation of Japanese
school teachers to the* classrooms!
tj16 new method (demonstra-j interests in the U.S. on the con
of the third consecutive ummem tion ciasses)
which is being put I dition the Japanese government
school on July
ST. PIERRE. Alan. — The
IRON SPRINGS, Alta.—The Iro
। into practice this year, is hoped j permits neutral observers to
The fa miliar sight of teachers!
Pierre Nippons were nosed out Springs Y.P.A. climbed back
make regular visits to Japanese
to give a better scope of teaching
streaming up the
from I technique.
prison camps, the State Depart 3-2 by the powerful Steinbach second place by virtue of a 16-4
the orchard to the local school j
nine in an open basebal tourna victory over the Turin Y.P.A. nine
ment announced July 27.
Extra curricular activities are
is again being re-enacted.
I
ment here on July 22.
There was no other detail an
on July 15 in a regular Northern
expected to be carried on with
And om-e again a staff of com-i
nounced.
The tournament, which was .League fixture.
Mrs. Mclvor taking over the physpetent, top notch instructors are j
Japan has been without neu open to all entries in the district,
Art Oshiro made his debut on
ical classes and Miss Grier the
imparting the tine art of teach-i
was sponsored by the Knights of the mound with a seven-inning,
tral representation in the United
drama classes.
ing- to the youthful teachers from!
Columbus of St. Pierre.
States and Canada since March,
three-hit job but had to be re
For the most part, the Nisei
the various housing centres.
I
Although the Nippons were lieved by R. Hayashi when his
when Spain withdrew as the
teachers are those who have filled
A short, informal opening cere-,
Japanese government represent knocked out of the running in control faltered.
Tak Ikeda,
mony began the third summer in after the original teachers had
ative.
the first round. they displayed pitched the entire game for Turin
school with >7 teachers, more relocated.
snappy fielding and put up a dog but. was hit freely.
There has been no word that
Five males have bolstered the
than 60 less than the previous
ged
fight before they were elimi
Switzerland will take over Jap
teaching
staff
of
At Picture Butte, the Busseis
the
interior
housyear, attending the occasion.
!
anese interests in Canada yet.
nated by the Steinbachs, the cur
ing
schools
and
trimmed
the Chinooks 16-9 in a
it was expected
Fifty-four students from Grades !
rent league leaders in the southern Manitoba Baseball league. free hitting game.
IT. V and Vlll who comprise the! that a few more would come from
Lemon
Creek.
classes with which the instructors i
The Nippon’s downfall was their
will demonstrate teaching tech
The registration sheet showed
weakness in batting.
IRON SPRINGS, Alta.—The Iron.
A publication by the Toronto
niques were also present.
a total of 91 teachers from the
Both teams scored their runs Springs Y.P.A. continued their
Ayako
past president various centres, but only S7 were Committee for Democracy, “Nisei in the first four innings while winning ways and whipped the
presided as chairman. A. R. Dord, present at the opening ceremony, Affairs," made its initial bow to -the latter part of the game was Picture Butte Chinooks 14-8 in a.
who was the principal last year, The absentees were made up the Niseis in Ontario last month. tight and scoreless.
heavy-hitting game on July 22.
The mimeographed, seven-page
mostly of male teachers who had
The Steinbach nine’s rally in
introduced the instructors.
'Ihe game was played in a heavy
volunteered to fight fire at Nak bulletin, edited by Irene Uchida, the fourth inning gave them a wind which caused
Miss Zella Manning, Mr.
much grief to
Findlater. music instructor who usp which was still not under is published at S4 Gerrard St. E., one-run lead, which they held the players.
Toronto 2. Ont.
taught at Bay Farm la
throughout the entire game. The
year, control at the time.
Roy Hayashi for the victors let
and Mr. w. p. Weston. art in
rest
of the game was a pitcher’s up seven scattered
A1I centres showed a slight de
hits, while S.
s true tor. are agi
duel between Steinbach hurler Kasasaki, of the Chinooks, was
on the staff crease in their teaching staff.
Newcomers are A
Rempel and' Susuki for the Nip touched for 12 bingles.
Lemon Creek had 24 registered
pons.
who is giving instructions in the but only 20 were present on open- OMURA—ITO
S. Miyashita, of Iron Springs,
primary subjects: Mrs. L. Mclvor.
hit
a teirifle homer. A Konno was
Bay Farm listed 20,
TORONTO. Ont.—The marriage
who is demons: rating teaching
also credited with a homer when
New Denver 15, but took place of Mr. Shei Omura,
technique with the intermediate: three were absent;
Popoff S. formerly of Hammond, B.C., sec
Terry Ezaki fumbled the ball near
grade and who is also teaching i Rosebery 5, AI id way 3. Al into 1.
the foul line.
ond son of Mrs. C. Omura, of New
j Si. Pierre Niseis
Toronto Democracy
Group Publishes
Nuptial Notes
Kasloiies Trounce
Denver, B.C., to Miss Shizue Ito.
Turin won by default over the
KASLO, B.C. — The local nine
I formerly of Vancouver. The cere.Picture
Butte Busseis to tighten
1 mony was officiated by the Rev. thoi oughly trounced the visitingup the league race.
i Janies Findley at the Cartion Nelson team 26-7 in a game full
i United Church here early in May. of errors, on July 22.
By MRS. T. NISHIMURA
Reggie Aasui, veteran Asahi
but with the steadying influence
KAI
UR
A
—
KITAGAWA
backstop, donned the belly pad and
Ihe summer has been tediously keep with flowers, radishes and
of
veteran Yasui bore down for
NEW DENVER, B.C.—The prin- mask once again to aid the Kaslo
slow in coming to Grand Forks plum trees.
ciples of a very pretty wedding cause. On the mound was youth- the rest of the game to an easy
but it is here at last.
victory.
girls, I used to en- which took place here on June
Hiro Kawaguchi gave
Each morning clouds
ful Shig Akada who got off to a
m joy playj
sterling- performance on
‘house” and other 30 were Toshiye. third daughter shaky
the mountains that separate us
start in the first inning, base.
! childhood
but more than of Mr.. and Mrs Shinjiro Kitafrom the United States, and hover these things, 1 enjoyed going into j
who
exchanged nuptial
along the topmost branches of
tne garden to watch the plants. vows with Mr. Hideo
the evergreen trees at the end
Sometimes 1 rolled lazily in the third son of Mr. and Mrs. Otoichi
of the fields, or ale
green fields and watched the Kaiura, at the Orchard Japanese
ing mountain stream
clouds drifting.
Hall.
The onion plants
In
those
dav
Baishakunins were Air. and
1 tried to avoid
rapidly under the wide skies. Its!
A limited number of American
!
people
s
companv
Airs.
K. Ryoji.
but
I
have
com-1
white Howers aie in bloom and! , , ,
troop unit, The Pacific Citizen re
,
soldieis
of Japanese /ancestrv ported recently.
pletely
changed.
Now
I
enjoy;
undulate in the wind like waves.
The engagement of Miss Alit- from the West Coast participated
reflecting the brilliant mid-.lulv talking with everybody, and I!
|
Policy previously announced
1 enjoy their company,
suye Inaba, of Tashme. B.C., to in the recent Philippines cam
by
the War Department had in
I have ma ny a cq u a i n t a n c es Mr. Toshio Nishikawa, took place paign as combat soldiers, mem
It was three
dicated that Japanese Ameri
ago that we ! When T go out to town on Saturon July 1 at the home of Air. and bers of the famous American para
‘st gazed on this
can combat troops would not
when i days.
M hen they greet me with Airs. Tobei Hayashi. Air. and Mrs.
as lonely traveller
be used in the Pacific.
we steppedj a loud
“hello! hello!" the love Hayashi were baishakunins.
off the train at the small station
Thousands of Japanese-Ameriand human sympathy within my
of Grand Forks. At that time we
cans are now believed on active
heart seem to leap out with a
(Continued from Page 1)
wondered
what
these
white |cry o( pleasure T am especially
duty in the Pacific and in .the
blooms were. It wa raining ^Nfond of people who work on the
ents under sixteen years of age Burma-India and Chinese war the
day, and as we gaze on the tlKl* i farms. I like their unaffectedness
"under the conditions set out in
atres as interpreters and lan
less fields of onions wet in the'and the faint smell of the
NAKUS P, B.C.—Approxima te 1 y the statement .of the Minister of guage specialists, participating in
summer ram. the loneliness of. that clings to them.
600 men were mustered out from Labor, dated February 13. 1945.”
actions ranging from invasion
the Slocan Valley centres and!
the scene was etched into our
11
The Minister of Labor's state- landings
memories.
leave my bicycle behind when ;
with army and marine
Kootenay districts to quell a for-i ment assures the “repatriates" forces to that of activity
....
,
' ITO to town. As I tramn
as radio
that the net proceeds realized
Three years have passed There
.
a Ols!
i
l
(he country road some farm cart I est fire near here two weeks agoJ
operators
on
B-29
Superfortresses,
times have we experienced the- with a mountainous load of
The fire was brought under con-1 from the disposition of their prop- according to information previhay
worrie and the joys that are en-; would rumbl
r
i erty, real and personal, will be
,
behind
trol after over a week of fireously published.
tailed in the cultivation of onions.!
" »emnd. and
The men were slowlv! becured t0 them, and may be
The news that a number of
lift.
fipm the planting to the final bar-:
wrmia 1 m
returning home last Sunday in ! transferred by them to Japan. It
vestinI
°uld help me up to the toP i small
Japanese - Americans had taken
guarantees their free pasgroups.
OneLgaiu we are busy with! "!,'"' j™* ?'!" ‘"^ 1 w<mW I
part in the Philippines campai
to Japan, including free
The majority of the firefighters
weeding. As 1 work alone in iheI,! ‘ '‘!'u)pplt 111 the <iry- frag-i
as combat troops was the
tne^^nce of sunHght and hay JapaJ were made up of men from the transportation for their personal , LH ^h^ was the first
-----1 iBmcation that Nisei soldiers had
large fields, under the wide skie
various relocation and repatria- property.
■ nese mixed English and Russianbeen sent to the Pacific for com
going up and down the long row i mixed English would flow in the p1™ centres in tiie Blocan Valley MUST RENOUNCE
bat
duty. The Japanese-American
of plants, poems come easi y to
BRITISH NATIONALITY
^ott wind, and I find myself re-i «
■
, conibat soldiers taking part in the
my mind, and I find myself eon!
the form provided for the Ca-; Philippines campaign volunteered
turning
once
more
to
my
childtemplating life.
i nadian-born or naturalized Cana-;for paratroop duty while in
I do not enjoy listening to war
the
’ dians of Japanese origin requires ■ Suited States.
nd- i
.
One
of
the
solnews. I ieel that we small
CRANBROOK. B.C.—Equal I the person signing to make a
Poo- denly hot when the sun comes !
dec-1 ^i^’s- a private for Los Angeles,
pie. no matter how much we woreducational
opportunity foi ; laiation that he wishes to
out. and when the su a goes down. '
give
J was ^rounded.
ry. cannot hope to influence the
children of al races in this ; up his British
it becomes rapidly cool. Every;
nationality.
The:,
Japanese-American interpreters
big events that are taking place
district, including persons of ! form readsevening the cloud ?
disappear!
Japanese ancestry, was agreed ! “I
.
> and lansuage specialists, meanin the world. I would rather pend somewhere
and
the
sky
become:
,
...........
hei
eby
de-,
while, have been renoi-tpd in acall my energy in doing my daily !a spotle
at the annual meetin g of the :
blue. After finishins:'
BritiV
11
'
tO
rel!nciu
ish
my
|
tion in every phase of the Pacific
chores, and in trying to build uplniy days
Athaimer- Invermere School
work in the field
11
a warm, happy home.
Board here recently.
j wash rice in the tiny flower
! I request'the c<“
°
f“' i ““ '" Burma and China. Many
Overcrowding of
district j. request the Government of Can-,of these troops, it was reported
den in preparation for the eveschool facilities w a s dis
There is joy in watching things
| ada. under the conditions s
ning meal. The pale reflection of
cussed. A resolution su
grow. Even as a child I used to
the moon is shattered in the pail
enjoy planting trees and flowers.
of water. At that moment I ex
Fen^ around begging our neigh- perience a keen pleasure of being;'
^hoUId
thsir ehMren in | patrita^ to Japa‘
°k“
hors for plants, and crowded the
born a woman. (From a letter to !
the school district in which i mv deoendents
w
Fukui,
winner of the
little' garden my mother used to! the Japanese Section.)
;
they are enrolled.
Hears of age
sixteen; Bronze Star, was killed in the iaof age as listed hereunder.” | vasion of the Kelama Islands
Nisei American Paratroopers
Reported in Action in Pacific
Bepairiaiion Survey
Evacuees Fight Forest
Fire Near Nakusp
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