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THE NEW CANADIAN
#
.7?
10c per copy
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA
Y DAD'S COME BACK
$5 for 1 year
—
Saturday. December 21. 1946
New Hope Seen for Solution to
Japanese Problem as Year Ends
By STAFF WRITER
As rhe year drew to a close in Ottawa, department of labor officials were busily pre
paring what may be their last balance sheet on Japanese Canadian affairs, to be readjbefore
Parliament early next year by the labor minister.
In Toronto, the Japanese Canadian Committee for Democracy was feverishly engaged
in carrying out a broad-scale economic'losses survey of Japanese evacuees, to count up the
material costs of the evacuation:
while the Co-operative Committee
was getting ready to confront the
government with another delega
tion.
Widely dispersed across Can
ada. 20.0(10 persons of Japanese
ancestry were gradually gettingused to the results of govern
ment’s “dispersal and resettle
ment” policy. And in mid-Pacific,
on board the Marine Adder, the
last of the 4.000 Japanese re
patriates leaving Canada volun
tarily would spend their Christmas
on the high seas.
So. 1946 marked another in the
series of event-packed years which
followed on the • heels of Pearl
Harbor.
But, although much confusion
and unfinished business remain
to be cleared up, it looked for
the first time as though the end
to the “Japanese problem” was
in sight. How soon that end is
s< VETERAN MEETS HIS SON FOR THE FIRST TIME—The return
if two-score Nisei veterans from overseas service was one of the highights of the year. Company Sergeant-Major Tatsuro “Buck” Suzuki
s seen with his 14-month-cld son, Beverly, and a Japanese samurai
tword on his return to his home in Brantford, Ont., after 19 months
’n India and Malay.—(Toronto Globe and Mail photo.)
in Vancouver Sun
TORONTO. — An
executive
recommendation that the Citi
Io Guard Against Coast Return
VANCOUVER.—“It is to our interest that other parts
)i Canada shall not regard us as excessively intolerant and
itecan gain nothing by pursuing them (Japanese Canadians)
iOthe coasts of Labrador,'’ declared Roy W. Brown, editorial
In reference to the 6.000 persons
»to had renounced their applicas« for expatriation, he said:
-my move to forcibly carry out
£e:2w would he met by strenuous
cP?et:tien in Eastern Canada
<-?e me view j< held that Brit-<■ CvKunhia s attitude is one of
oxfiete intolerance. This is not
“ case in fact, but the Eastern
■■litre against us should be
borne in mind, kt will be better
to settle this business without- a
big quarrel.-’
Some points for future govern
ment policy on the Japanese were
suggested in the article:
•‘(The
government
should
make) a firm declaration that
no large scale return to the
Pacific Coast area will be tol
erated . . . the position (should
be made clear) that if they are
to l:ve in peace in Canada they
must not revive any idea of re
establishment or a Pacific Coast
colony.
-The
government
continue
in
full
ought
to
operation
the
now
yank niseiettes
six
CROSS BORDER
looking for jc-bs can have no
excuse of lack of opportunity to
work. These offices could easily
•'^ei guns, hound for War Deservice with the occuin Japan, recently
^•m i.anaca while awaiting pasindicating that Ca~
‘-'uiuer restrictions against
1,1 -Japanese ancestry
-/.A”*'1* ?ei&x*<l It’s reported
. y *-^mictions were imposed
J ^K‘;'
local policy. High
■^.2"'“? cnit-ials are believed
.
•'-Presentations over
s'V
Policy, following V r~
which two Japsoldiers from
- rinsed entrv to
as visitors.—
• A-paeific citizen.
Mass Meeting Agrees
No More Need for
Defense Group
government Must Keep Controls
lector of the Vancouver Sun in
-e tutorial article last week.
Brown wag commenting from
Tawa on the recent Privy Couni! ruling on the deportation
?rce?$.
reached depends on the good
sense of the government, and
placement
offices
it
maintains ... so that Japanese
head off any attempt of the Jap
anese to head westward again.
About New Denver—“Many or
the Japanese there are sick and
old or otherwise unemployable.
The government could well take a,
short-cut for this l.OOd people and
give them the bouses of the camp.
They could make a fair living oft
their gardens and by work in the
neighborhood."
Brown concluded, “. . • if the
East expects tolerance, then we
must have ample assurances
from
the
government
th a t
Powell Street and Steveston are
to remain white.”
zenship Defence Committee be
dissolved was approved by a
mass meeting of Defence Com
mittee supporters at the Church
of All Nations, Saturday, Dec.
14.
Reasons for dissolution of the
body formed at the time of the
deportation crisis were given in
the recommendation as follows:
The deportation issue had reached
a phase in which the committee's
main purpose of raising funds for
court action, publicity, etc., was
not needed: Japanese Canadian,
political action was being centred
in the Xisei and particularly the
JCCD. as in the recent Co-opera
tive Committee request that the
Nisei group conduct an economic
loss survey among evacuee JapaI!ese: the existence of similar
duplicating organizations like the
Defence Committee was not neces
sary and the support of the mem
bers should be thrown fully be
hind the JCCD.
Treasurer R. X' o b u o k a an
nounced remaining funds in the
treasury would be presented to the
Co-operative Committee.
Secre
tary Kunio Hidaka explained the
Privy Council ruling and the
future plans of the Co-operative
Committee.
TANAKA TOPS IN
TABLE TENNIS
TORONTO.—Bing Tanaka, king
of Nisei table Betters in pre-evacuation days, was listed one of the
top performers in the . Toronto
and District table tennis loop sen
ior section recently. Hou Beedle
and Tanaka both have 44 wins
against four Josses in their rec
ords.'
on the continued efforts of the
Japanese Canadians and their
friends.
1946 was the year when the
mass exodus of Japanese out of
British Columbia became a. fact,
and with it came the gradual
abatement of the anti-Japanese
agitation which at one time had
reached hysterical proportions.
About 5.000 more Japanese Cana
dians packed up and trekked east
of the Rockies during the year.
Left in B.C. were about 6.000
others, mostly scattered in the in
terior. and the B.C. people were
inclined to view them with toler
ance. The main job of dispersal
had been accomplished.
The man most responsible for
the year’s successful relocation
program was the new Commission
er of the Department of Labor, J.
F.MeKinnon. The Commissioner,
who succeeded T. B. Pickersgill,
tackled the relocation with a firm,
gentle hand, and an understand
ing of a psychologically ailingpeople. The new official attitude,
together with the end of the war
and its incidental uncertainties
greatly facilitated the program.
The bitterly controversial de
portation question which emerg
ed from the government-spon
sored “repatriation survey” of
spring. 1945, reached its climax
in 1946 in appeals to the Su
preme Court of Canada and the
imperial Privy Council.
Both courts upheld the govern
ment's powers to deport, but by
this lime, the government, con
fronted with unexpectedly strongopposition to its policy, was pre
pared to. and had been given the
time to backtrack. Its excuse: the
successful dispersal of the Japa
nese Canadians made deportation
no longer necessary nor desirable.
An
impressive
manifestation
of the year was the manner in
South 'Ontario County
Protests Coming of
B.C. Japanese
LONDON, Ont.—A
resolution
protesting the proposed transfer
of Japanese
Canadians from
British Colu mbia to work in
agriculture in this distr'et was
passed by the Middlesex County
council recently.
J. Frank Gerry, reeve of London
township, criticized the resolution
as “unchristian" but was opposed
by Reeve 'William Goddard of
’Westminster township who said
the prospective workers were
“undesirable" and called on the
council to add their protests to a
similar protest made earlier by
the neighboring county of Oxford.
(The city of London is situated
in Middlesex county which is
directly north of Elgin county
where the Fingal hostel and the
city of St. Thomas are.)
New Year Brings
Citizenship Act
OTTAWA—There will
be
no
hyphenated Canadians after the ■
New Year when the new Cana- ,
dian Citizenship Act comes into
fo rc e.
Extensive plans are being made
in cities, towns and villages
throughout the Dominion to cele
brate the new bill. Formal cere
monies granting citizenships to
new Canadians, assemblies of citi
zens with military bands, choral
music and the trooping of the
colors, are examples of the pro
grams being drawn up in various,
localities.
Citizenship Week will be from.'
Jan. 5 to Jan. 12 next year. The
statement
of the government
citizenship branch representatives
who are assisting in the country
wide preparations that; “We want
to push the idea that persons re
ceiving Canadian citizenship are
receiving something worthwhile
and owe something in return,” is
the underlying theme behind the
celebrations.
which prominent Canadian citi
zens.
through a Co-operative
Committee, rallied to the sup
port of a threatened minority,
and took political
and legal
action to forestall further in- !
justices.
The year also brought the return
of a number of Canadian Nisei
servicemen from their overseas
assignment, and the occasion was
commemorated by well-publicized
receptions in various cities.
.About 4,<T0 Japanese Canadians?
decided to go to Japan for a num
ber of mixed reasons. There was
a squabble in. Ontario about the
proposed ' national federation. A
notable beginning was marked hi
the question of property losses
survey which would precede the
agitation for indemnification.
Less dramatic than the other
events was the manner in which.
Japanese reiocatees were getting
adjusted to their new homes and
liking it. Many new businesses
were opened by them. A record
number of Japanese Canadian stu
dents were attending the univer
sities. Nisei talent was being em
ployed in an increasingly wider
range q- employment.
And through the events which
marched through the year could
be traced a pattern which fore
cast a hepeful future in Canada
for the Japanese Canadians.
.Severn]
important
questions,
(Please see Page 2)
NEXT ISSUE JAN. 4
This special 32-page
Holiday
Issue is the final issue of this yearReaders are reminded that the
staff will be taking a week-holiday
at year end as is the annual cus
tom and publication will be re
sumed on Jan. 4. 1947.
THE NEW CANADIAN
#
.7?
10c per copy
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA
Y DAD'S COME BACK
$5 for 1 year
—
Saturday. December 21. 1946
New Hope Seen for Solution to
Japanese Problem as Year Ends
By STAFF WRITER
As rhe year drew to a close in Ottawa, department of labor officials were busily pre
paring what may be their last balance sheet on Japanese Canadian affairs, to be readjbefore
Parliament early next year by the labor minister.
In Toronto, the Japanese Canadian Committee for Democracy was feverishly engaged
in carrying out a broad-scale economic'losses survey of Japanese evacuees, to count up the
material costs of the evacuation:
while the Co-operative Committee
was getting ready to confront the
government with another delega
tion.
Widely dispersed across Can
ada. 20.0(10 persons of Japanese
ancestry were gradually gettingused to the results of govern
ment’s “dispersal and resettle
ment” policy. And in mid-Pacific,
on board the Marine Adder, the
last of the 4.000 Japanese re
patriates leaving Canada volun
tarily would spend their Christmas
on the high seas.
So. 1946 marked another in the
series of event-packed years which
followed on the • heels of Pearl
Harbor.
But, although much confusion
and unfinished business remain
to be cleared up, it looked for
the first time as though the end
to the “Japanese problem” was
in sight. How soon that end is
s< VETERAN MEETS HIS SON FOR THE FIRST TIME—The return
if two-score Nisei veterans from overseas service was one of the highights of the year. Company Sergeant-Major Tatsuro “Buck” Suzuki
s seen with his 14-month-cld son, Beverly, and a Japanese samurai
tword on his return to his home in Brantford, Ont., after 19 months
’n India and Malay.—(Toronto Globe and Mail photo.)
in Vancouver Sun
TORONTO. — An
executive
recommendation that the Citi
Io Guard Against Coast Return
VANCOUVER.—“It is to our interest that other parts
)i Canada shall not regard us as excessively intolerant and
itecan gain nothing by pursuing them (Japanese Canadians)
iOthe coasts of Labrador,'’ declared Roy W. Brown, editorial
In reference to the 6.000 persons
»to had renounced their applicas« for expatriation, he said:
-my move to forcibly carry out
£e:2w would he met by strenuous
cP?et:tien in Eastern Canada
<-?e me view j< held that Brit-<■ CvKunhia s attitude is one of
oxfiete intolerance. This is not
“ case in fact, but the Eastern
■■litre against us should be
borne in mind, kt will be better
to settle this business without- a
big quarrel.-’
Some points for future govern
ment policy on the Japanese were
suggested in the article:
•‘(The
government
should
make) a firm declaration that
no large scale return to the
Pacific Coast area will be tol
erated . . . the position (should
be made clear) that if they are
to l:ve in peace in Canada they
must not revive any idea of re
establishment or a Pacific Coast
colony.
-The
government
continue
in
full
ought
to
operation
the
now
yank niseiettes
six
CROSS BORDER
looking for jc-bs can have no
excuse of lack of opportunity to
work. These offices could easily
•'^ei guns, hound for War Deservice with the occuin Japan, recently
^•m i.anaca while awaiting pasindicating that Ca~
‘-'uiuer restrictions against
1,1 -Japanese ancestry
-/.A”*'1* ?ei&x*<l It’s reported
. y *-^mictions were imposed
J ^K‘;'
local policy. High
■^.2"'“? cnit-ials are believed
.
•'-Presentations over
s'V
Policy, following V r~
which two Japsoldiers from
- rinsed entrv to
as visitors.—
• A-paeific citizen.
Mass Meeting Agrees
No More Need for
Defense Group
government Must Keep Controls
lector of the Vancouver Sun in
-e tutorial article last week.
Brown wag commenting from
Tawa on the recent Privy Couni! ruling on the deportation
?rce?$.
reached depends on the good
sense of the government, and
placement
offices
it
maintains ... so that Japanese
head off any attempt of the Jap
anese to head westward again.
About New Denver—“Many or
the Japanese there are sick and
old or otherwise unemployable.
The government could well take a,
short-cut for this l.OOd people and
give them the bouses of the camp.
They could make a fair living oft
their gardens and by work in the
neighborhood."
Brown concluded, “. . • if the
East expects tolerance, then we
must have ample assurances
from
the
government
th a t
Powell Street and Steveston are
to remain white.”
zenship Defence Committee be
dissolved was approved by a
mass meeting of Defence Com
mittee supporters at the Church
of All Nations, Saturday, Dec.
14.
Reasons for dissolution of the
body formed at the time of the
deportation crisis were given in
the recommendation as follows:
The deportation issue had reached
a phase in which the committee's
main purpose of raising funds for
court action, publicity, etc., was
not needed: Japanese Canadian,
political action was being centred
in the Xisei and particularly the
JCCD. as in the recent Co-opera
tive Committee request that the
Nisei group conduct an economic
loss survey among evacuee JapaI!ese: the existence of similar
duplicating organizations like the
Defence Committee was not neces
sary and the support of the mem
bers should be thrown fully be
hind the JCCD.
Treasurer R. X' o b u o k a an
nounced remaining funds in the
treasury would be presented to the
Co-operative Committee.
Secre
tary Kunio Hidaka explained the
Privy Council ruling and the
future plans of the Co-operative
Committee.
TANAKA TOPS IN
TABLE TENNIS
TORONTO.—Bing Tanaka, king
of Nisei table Betters in pre-evacuation days, was listed one of the
top performers in the . Toronto
and District table tennis loop sen
ior section recently. Hou Beedle
and Tanaka both have 44 wins
against four Josses in their rec
ords.'
on the continued efforts of the
Japanese Canadians and their
friends.
1946 was the year when the
mass exodus of Japanese out of
British Columbia became a. fact,
and with it came the gradual
abatement of the anti-Japanese
agitation which at one time had
reached hysterical proportions.
About 5.000 more Japanese Cana
dians packed up and trekked east
of the Rockies during the year.
Left in B.C. were about 6.000
others, mostly scattered in the in
terior. and the B.C. people were
inclined to view them with toler
ance. The main job of dispersal
had been accomplished.
The man most responsible for
the year’s successful relocation
program was the new Commission
er of the Department of Labor, J.
F.MeKinnon. The Commissioner,
who succeeded T. B. Pickersgill,
tackled the relocation with a firm,
gentle hand, and an understand
ing of a psychologically ailingpeople. The new official attitude,
together with the end of the war
and its incidental uncertainties
greatly facilitated the program.
The bitterly controversial de
portation question which emerg
ed from the government-spon
sored “repatriation survey” of
spring. 1945, reached its climax
in 1946 in appeals to the Su
preme Court of Canada and the
imperial Privy Council.
Both courts upheld the govern
ment's powers to deport, but by
this lime, the government, con
fronted with unexpectedly strongopposition to its policy, was pre
pared to. and had been given the
time to backtrack. Its excuse: the
successful dispersal of the Japa
nese Canadians made deportation
no longer necessary nor desirable.
An
impressive
manifestation
of the year was the manner in
South 'Ontario County
Protests Coming of
B.C. Japanese
LONDON, Ont.—A
resolution
protesting the proposed transfer
of Japanese
Canadians from
British Colu mbia to work in
agriculture in this distr'et was
passed by the Middlesex County
council recently.
J. Frank Gerry, reeve of London
township, criticized the resolution
as “unchristian" but was opposed
by Reeve 'William Goddard of
’Westminster township who said
the prospective workers were
“undesirable" and called on the
council to add their protests to a
similar protest made earlier by
the neighboring county of Oxford.
(The city of London is situated
in Middlesex county which is
directly north of Elgin county
where the Fingal hostel and the
city of St. Thomas are.)
New Year Brings
Citizenship Act
OTTAWA—There will
be
no
hyphenated Canadians after the ■
New Year when the new Cana- ,
dian Citizenship Act comes into
fo rc e.
Extensive plans are being made
in cities, towns and villages
throughout the Dominion to cele
brate the new bill. Formal cere
monies granting citizenships to
new Canadians, assemblies of citi
zens with military bands, choral
music and the trooping of the
colors, are examples of the pro
grams being drawn up in various,
localities.
Citizenship Week will be from.'
Jan. 5 to Jan. 12 next year. The
statement
of the government
citizenship branch representatives
who are assisting in the country
wide preparations that; “We want
to push the idea that persons re
ceiving Canadian citizenship are
receiving something worthwhile
and owe something in return,” is
the underlying theme behind the
celebrations.
which prominent Canadian citi
zens.
through a Co-operative
Committee, rallied to the sup
port of a threatened minority,
and took political
and legal
action to forestall further in- !
justices.
The year also brought the return
of a number of Canadian Nisei
servicemen from their overseas
assignment, and the occasion was
commemorated by well-publicized
receptions in various cities.
.About 4,<T0 Japanese Canadians?
decided to go to Japan for a num
ber of mixed reasons. There was
a squabble in. Ontario about the
proposed ' national federation. A
notable beginning was marked hi
the question of property losses
survey which would precede the
agitation for indemnification.
Less dramatic than the other
events was the manner in which.
Japanese reiocatees were getting
adjusted to their new homes and
liking it. Many new businesses
were opened by them. A record
number of Japanese Canadian stu
dents were attending the univer
sities. Nisei talent was being em
ployed in an increasingly wider
range q- employment.
And through the events which
marched through the year could
be traced a pattern which fore
cast a hepeful future in Canada
for the Japanese Canadians.
.Severn]
important
questions,
(Please see Page 2)
NEXT ISSUE JAN. 4
This special 32-page
Holiday
Issue is the final issue of this yearReaders are reminded that the
staff will be taking a week-holiday
at year end as is the annual cus
tom and publication will be re
sumed on Jan. 4. 1947.
Page 2
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Saturday, December ’T ^
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THE STORY OF THE JCCD
1 Merry Christinas and a Happy New Year
By GEORGE TAINAKA
HAPPY S. HIRAYAMA
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Winnipeg
1043 Manitoba Ave.
Winnipeg, Man.
This . is the story of an organ!-,
zation which has constantly at
tempted to spearhead the efforts
and the thinking of a people—an
organization formed by the urgent
need for political action toward
promoting- the welfare of Japa>
nese Canadians desiring to live in
Canada as full Canadian citizens.
Mr. and Mrs. KAZUO MIKI
and FAMILY21 1 Edison Ave.
North Kildonan, Man.
Greetings to my friends
from the S 20
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THOMAS KANNA
109 Disraeli St.
Winnipeg, Man.-
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531 Sargent Ave., Winnipeg
Mr. and Mrs.
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545 Notre Dame Ave.
Winnipeg, Man.
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431 William Ave.
Winnipeg, Man.
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racial origins to understand one
another better for the purpose
of strengthening the unity of
Canada;
.
To encourage and assist Ca
nadian residents of Japanese
ancestry to
attain
Canadian
citizenship.
The first significant effort of
this organization was a campaign
to inform the people of Eastern
Canada- of the many discrimina
tory restrictions levied on Japa
nese Canadians. In this connec
tion. a five-page report, dated Nov.
1. 1943. was tendered to the Co
operative Committee on Japanese
Canadians, in Toronto. A concrete
result of the efforts of this period
was the Toronto Nisei Co-opera
tive’ Residence.
In 1944. when the Canadian Goveminent proposed to disenfran
chise Japanese Canadian evacuees
through Bill 135. the JCCD took
emergency responsibility and
made aware to the Co-operative
Committee and Japanese. Cana
dian groups across Canada, the
need for immediate and concerted
action toward gaining public sup
port in order to halt passage of
this discriminatory bill.
A comprehensive ten-page brief.
dated June 24. 1944. was submitted
to the Prime Minister and various
members of Parliament, and two
JCCD executives were sent
Ottawa to contact members ot
Parliament regarding the bill.
Compl ime n t s
s ®
To undertake educational ac
tivities which will enable Cana
dians of Japanese and other
In August, 1946,
Co-operative Committee’s delegation, which
included the JCCD chairman, gain
ed audience with Government
officials and presented a. brief
assailing the undemocratic, imposition on the Japanese Canadians.
The JCCD made a concept
effort to publicize th
deportation questio
newspaper stories, and
meetings addressed
Canadian citizens.
NISEI AFFAIRS
On July 20. 1
appeared
initial issue of
ei Affair;
JCCD journal of opinion. ~~
publication has been received &
vorably and is filed b/ pcg
libraries in New York City, t;
ronto, Vancouver, the gQ pp
vincial Library in Victoria;
the Stanford University
Library. Its mailing fe; has op
200 names, and covers. ac^
others, members of
editors, newspapers, -publisher;
civil liberties groups, labor c?ns
zations. and religious, eduea-im-;
and political leaders.
ECONOMIC LOSS SURVEY
Since Nov. 10, 1946. the JCCE
has been working under exne^
pressure to carry out an Ecosona
Doss Survey of Japanese Casa
dian evacuees on a tathasis
scale, with the co-operation a
Japanese. Canadian groups acres
Canada.
The Japanese Canadian C03
mittee for Democracy Ims come!
long way
begi:
nings in 1943, and its endeavorduring the four difficult years jar
passed have proved the commit
tee’s worth to the Japanese Cast
diau community.
The present executive of &i
JCCD renews its pledge with ii
coming of another year, to do it
utmost toward the committee;
objective of promoting Japanes
Canadian welfare.
Japanese Problem Near Solution
(Continued from page 1)
however, remain- unanswered as
we
into the new
The
government adoption of a property
losses indemnification plan was
uncertain, though, there seems a
better than a 50-50 chance. The
best approach might be to pre
sent the government with an in
demnification proposal similar to
the one introduced to the Con
gress by the U.S. Interior Secre
tary. J'. A. Krug. Strong points in
the evacuee case were the ques
tionable handling of properties by
the Custodian, the possibility of
instituting numerous legal ac
tions. and the support of the C.C.F.
members.
Another
important
question
was: How soon will the govern
ment remove travel and other
restrictions?
The government
apparently wishes to retain the
controls on movement as lo^
as possible to give the evacuee;
time to get settled in their new
homes. That was the best way
of preventing their return to tn;
West
Coast.
But
its
special
powers would expire in a few
months. The issue was would
the government seek to retain
the control after that by special
measures?
All across Canada, Japanese^
nadians were welcoming the ^"’
year with new hope.
8
BILL 135 ACTION
8
8 I
nadians which will enable them
to make active contributions to
the progress and development
of Canada;
To contact and co-operate with
Japanese Canadians in other
cities and communities;
PHON E 25 032
a
In the matter of depot
the
JCCD co-operated to th*
with
the Toronto Co-operative- Commit
tee in protesting a Government
policy which would have brought
about
mas
Canadian
citizens of Japanese- ancestry.
to the fundamental rights and
duties as citizens of Canada;
To protect and further the
of all citizens- of Japanese an
cestry in Canada;
Phone 25 016
s
8
DEPORTATION ISSUE
civil, social and economic rights
,.^ 233 King Street
Sb
Rf
When the call for Nisei volunreers came., the JCCD executive
enlisted in full force. Throughout
the summer and fall of 1945, JCCD
members carried out a drive to
raise a Christmas Gift Fund for
the Niseis in uniform.
strive for equality of treatment of all races with respect
%
8
8
S
credit for influencing
Canadian. Government’s final decision
to inductNiseis inta the Canadian
IN THE BEGINNING . . .
Army
iwT945 is due to JCCD ap-.
The story begins with a group;
peals
to Captain. Di Mollison of
of Japanese Canadians who set
tled in Eastern Canada during the the British ’ Army, who came to
early days of 1942-43. whose faith Canada, in- the fall-of 1944 to rehad remained unshaken by the - emit Canadian Niseis for linguis
bitter experience of the evacua tic work in the South East Asia
tion. They believed that the war- Command. He found Niseis were
barred from Canada’s fighting
born racial fear and hatred would
one day subside, and that the wel forces, and went to great lengths
to open the way to their acceptfare of the Japanese Canadian
ance.
Previous to meeting with
minority was important, as are
JCCD
representatives.
Cape. Moithose of all minorities, to the unity
lison had planned to advise the
of a democratic country.
Niseis to join the British
These Niseis, brought together
directly,
to get around the enlistin Toronto by a pressing need for
ment ban.
organization, formed the Japanese
Canadian Committee for Democ
racy. and wrote the constitution
which is today the backbone of
the organization.
The aims and objectives as listed in this constitution are as follows:
99 503
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i^
GE OKGE- TAKASA is the - quiet
’ capable new chairman of the Jap
anese Canadian : Committee . for
Democracy in Toronto. An. Armyveteran. he is the brother of Past
JCCD chairman Abzie Tanaka.
From the New Canadian Staff
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ft
3
Mr. and Mrs. Kasey Oyama
and Dennis Satoshi
ii
/51 McCalman Avenue
Mr. and Mrs. T. Umeru^
Billy. Bobby and Marjons
504 Talbot Avenue
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Ronnie, Lloyd and Jov--
5
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504 Talbot Avenue
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to gain and enjoy the full citizenship privileges, one must
nowledge and shoulder all respon
sibilities which prevail."
It.is felt that some part-of the
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1 Merry Christinas and a Happy New Year
By GEORGE TAINAKA
HAPPY S. HIRAYAMA
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SAUL M. CHERN1ACK
Barrister
460 Main St.
Winnipeg
1043 Manitoba Ave.
Winnipeg, Man.
This . is the story of an organ!-,
zation which has constantly at
tempted to spearhead the efforts
and the thinking of a people—an
organization formed by the urgent
need for political action toward
promoting- the welfare of Japa>
nese Canadians desiring to live in
Canada as full Canadian citizens.
Mr. and Mrs. KAZUO MIKI
and FAMILY21 1 Edison Ave.
North Kildonan, Man.
Greetings to my friends
from the S 20
Mr. and Mrs.
THOMAS KANNA
109 Disraeli St.
Winnipeg, Man.-
Mr. and Mrs.
SHOZO TOMI H i RO
MIYOKO TOM I HI RO
531 Sargent Ave., Winnipeg
Mr. and Mrs.
GRAMPS ONOTERA
545 Notre Dame Ave.
Winnipeg, Man.
Mr. & Mrs. KURUSHIMA
431 William Ave.
Winnipeg, Man.
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racial origins to understand one
another better for the purpose
of strengthening the unity of
Canada;
.
To encourage and assist Ca
nadian residents of Japanese
ancestry to
attain
Canadian
citizenship.
The first significant effort of
this organization was a campaign
to inform the people of Eastern
Canada- of the many discrimina
tory restrictions levied on Japa
nese Canadians. In this connec
tion. a five-page report, dated Nov.
1. 1943. was tendered to the Co
operative Committee on Japanese
Canadians, in Toronto. A concrete
result of the efforts of this period
was the Toronto Nisei Co-opera
tive’ Residence.
In 1944. when the Canadian Goveminent proposed to disenfran
chise Japanese Canadian evacuees
through Bill 135. the JCCD took
emergency responsibility and
made aware to the Co-operative
Committee and Japanese. Cana
dian groups across Canada, the
need for immediate and concerted
action toward gaining public sup
port in order to halt passage of
this discriminatory bill.
A comprehensive ten-page brief.
dated June 24. 1944. was submitted
to the Prime Minister and various
members of Parliament, and two
JCCD executives were sent
Ottawa to contact members ot
Parliament regarding the bill.
Compl ime n t s
s ®
To undertake educational ac
tivities which will enable Cana
dians of Japanese and other
In August, 1946,
Co-operative Committee’s delegation, which
included the JCCD chairman, gain
ed audience with Government
officials and presented a. brief
assailing the undemocratic, imposition on the Japanese Canadians.
The JCCD made a concept
effort to publicize th
deportation questio
newspaper stories, and
meetings addressed
Canadian citizens.
NISEI AFFAIRS
On July 20. 1
appeared
initial issue of
ei Affair;
JCCD journal of opinion. ~~
publication has been received &
vorably and is filed b/ pcg
libraries in New York City, t;
ronto, Vancouver, the gQ pp
vincial Library in Victoria;
the Stanford University
Library. Its mailing fe; has op
200 names, and covers. ac^
others, members of
editors, newspapers, -publisher;
civil liberties groups, labor c?ns
zations. and religious, eduea-im-;
and political leaders.
ECONOMIC LOSS SURVEY
Since Nov. 10, 1946. the JCCE
has been working under exne^
pressure to carry out an Ecosona
Doss Survey of Japanese Casa
dian evacuees on a tathasis
scale, with the co-operation a
Japanese. Canadian groups acres
Canada.
The Japanese Canadian C03
mittee for Democracy Ims come!
long way
begi:
nings in 1943, and its endeavorduring the four difficult years jar
passed have proved the commit
tee’s worth to the Japanese Cast
diau community.
The present executive of &i
JCCD renews its pledge with ii
coming of another year, to do it
utmost toward the committee;
objective of promoting Japanes
Canadian welfare.
Japanese Problem Near Solution
(Continued from page 1)
however, remain- unanswered as
we
into the new
The
government adoption of a property
losses indemnification plan was
uncertain, though, there seems a
better than a 50-50 chance. The
best approach might be to pre
sent the government with an in
demnification proposal similar to
the one introduced to the Con
gress by the U.S. Interior Secre
tary. J'. A. Krug. Strong points in
the evacuee case were the ques
tionable handling of properties by
the Custodian, the possibility of
instituting numerous legal ac
tions. and the support of the C.C.F.
members.
Another
important
question
was: How soon will the govern
ment remove travel and other
restrictions?
The government
apparently wishes to retain the
controls on movement as lo^
as possible to give the evacuee;
time to get settled in their new
homes. That was the best way
of preventing their return to tn;
West
Coast.
But
its
special
powers would expire in a few
months. The issue was would
the government seek to retain
the control after that by special
measures?
All across Canada, Japanese^
nadians were welcoming the ^"’
year with new hope.
8
BILL 135 ACTION
8
8 I
nadians which will enable them
to make active contributions to
the progress and development
of Canada;
To contact and co-operate with
Japanese Canadians in other
cities and communities;
PHON E 25 032
a
In the matter of depot
the
JCCD co-operated to th*
with
the Toronto Co-operative- Commit
tee in protesting a Government
policy which would have brought
about
mas
Canadian
citizens of Japanese- ancestry.
to the fundamental rights and
duties as citizens of Canada;
To protect and further the
of all citizens- of Japanese an
cestry in Canada;
Phone 25 016
s
8
DEPORTATION ISSUE
civil, social and economic rights
,.^ 233 King Street
Sb
Rf
When the call for Nisei volunreers came., the JCCD executive
enlisted in full force. Throughout
the summer and fall of 1945, JCCD
members carried out a drive to
raise a Christmas Gift Fund for
the Niseis in uniform.
strive for equality of treatment of all races with respect
%
8
8
S
credit for influencing
Canadian. Government’s final decision
to inductNiseis inta the Canadian
IN THE BEGINNING . . .
Army
iwT945 is due to JCCD ap-.
The story begins with a group;
peals
to Captain. Di Mollison of
of Japanese Canadians who set
tled in Eastern Canada during the the British ’ Army, who came to
early days of 1942-43. whose faith Canada, in- the fall-of 1944 to rehad remained unshaken by the - emit Canadian Niseis for linguis
bitter experience of the evacua tic work in the South East Asia
tion. They believed that the war- Command. He found Niseis were
barred from Canada’s fighting
born racial fear and hatred would
one day subside, and that the wel forces, and went to great lengths
to open the way to their acceptfare of the Japanese Canadian
ance.
Previous to meeting with
minority was important, as are
JCCD
representatives.
Cape. Moithose of all minorities, to the unity
lison had planned to advise the
of a democratic country.
Niseis to join the British
These Niseis, brought together
directly,
to get around the enlistin Toronto by a pressing need for
ment ban.
organization, formed the Japanese
Canadian Committee for Democ
racy. and wrote the constitution
which is today the backbone of
the organization.
The aims and objectives as listed in this constitution are as follows:
99 503
^iS^iS^&^^ii^t&tS^^^O&fS^if^ii
i^
GE OKGE- TAKASA is the - quiet
’ capable new chairman of the Jap
anese Canadian : Committee . for
Democracy in Toronto. An. Armyveteran. he is the brother of Past
JCCD chairman Abzie Tanaka.
From the New Canadian Staff
ft
c
ft
3
Mr. and Mrs. Kasey Oyama
and Dennis Satoshi
ii
/51 McCalman Avenue
Mr. and Mrs. T. Umeru^
Billy. Bobby and Marjons
504 Talbot Avenue
s
5
ft
Mr. and Mrs. T. Mayeda
8
Frank Moritsugu
Ronnie, Lloyd and Jov--
5
751 McCalman Avenue
504 Talbot Avenue
&
i
1
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA
&
$
J X
Ji,
ON NISEI ENLISTMENT
$2
■In the Nisei enlistment ques
tion. the JCCD abided by the principie: “If a state of war exist
to gain and enjoy the full citizenship privileges, one must
nowledge and shoulder all respon
sibilities which prevail."
It.is felt that some part-of the
&
A HAPPY NEW YEAR
CHINESE GROC
$
w
w
219 Alexander Ave.
Winnipeg
253 King Street
Winnipeg
Page 3
lira;
•"re
it
December 21, 1946
time Japanese
- Pacific Coast
felt a natural
eir properties
ehind them at
• enforced det? and summer
Paee Three
GBORGE TAMAKI was admit
ted to the bar in Nova Scotia this
year. Currently employed by
Saskatchewan government at
gins, he holds degrees from ;
universities. University of
ish Columbia, University oi
ronto and Dalhousie Unive
net erm
liquid:
no dec
oman
been
MR.
or civil
ret a clear picture
tmiened to date it
ble to retrace our
w the main events
it became evident
fur.
1942 that all perlebrs
the 100I of M
of British
eted
limbi would be obliged, renationality, to vacate
dies*
on short notice, conlerable ifficulties arose as to
l dispo; i and protection of per^j and real property. It is to
1 notec mat motor vehicles and
immediately
imats w ere
aided. md were later disposed
by Gov rznment agencies. Sales
re credited to the acmts oi the owners in the Office
Custodian of Enemy
jperty. but many' owners re:
fd io recognize the enforced
es arc disputed the prices at
m were made.
With re
to
property of these evacuees, there
was a natural tendency to attempt
to liquidate those
which
were readily saleable, bur it was
obviou
that the bulk or
evacuee property' could not
dealt with in this way, especially
in view of the fact that movement
was often ordered on 24 hours
notice.
The Dominion Government therefore used the Office of
the Custodian of Enemy Property’
as an agency of protection and
decreed by' order in council that
all property' left by these evacuees
would be vested in the Custodian
who would have the job of pro
tecting them.
At the time of
departure evacuees were required
to report to the Custodian what
property' had been left
the
Coast.
si
This job of protection was an
^mittedlv , a difficult one. but no
more difficult to the Custodian
i SEASON’S GREETINGS
than it was' to the evacuees who
ksM. GEORGE and MARY
were forced to leave their property
I
0B0KATA
behind. Moreover, it was not long
[ HQ SEATIC. HQ SEALF
before reports filtered in that cerI
Singapore, SEAC.
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tain officials of the Government
I Sgt. & Mrs. E. YATABE
were favourably inclined to the
I.- 73:7 DeNormanville
idea of sellings such Japanese
I
Montreal. P.Q.
property in order to ensure that
the Japanese' would never return
®?ii^?ii;
Wt
to the Pacific Coast after the war.
While this later was denied by
RestWishes ■ .
the officials concerned, the fears
of the evacuees were not quieted
for a very Merry
when they received notices that
their properties were being sold
Holiday Season
at auction or otherwise at what
and a
seemed to be ridiculously low
prices. In the meantime, reports
ear
of break-ins and pilfering of perto our
sonal property continued to come
in.
Japanese Canadian
When evacuees were notified
Friends,
that even vacant real property
which they owned were being
sold, it became evident that the
Custodian had taken the view
a
that the way to protect evacuee
property was to sell it. It was. of
course, sheer nonsense to suggest
Mr. and Mrs
that selling vacant real property
was protection.
The prices at
which real property' was being
disposed of were in numerous
cases far below the assessed
KASLO, 3.C.
value of such property.
Legal action was begun in 1943
^®^^<!gl(S?!l^i}!;gi)!j!gi)^
hts u n a er eme rgen cy
tions. and it s'
the best
ed by’ di:
i.’ o m i n 1 o n G o v e rn m e n t
ment. This is not to advise that
all legal actions should be dropped. Neither is it su
thg comparative inac<
the courts should i
w ha
might easily become on the par
of the Custodian’s office an
tude of callous disregard of
interests and
of the pe
sons whose property it was called
on to protect.
In view of the allegations oi
mismanagement which have been
made against the Dominion Gov
ernment in handling the proper
ties of the evacuees.
it is
somewhat surprising that to date
there apparently has been no
effort made by’ the Government to
make a public investigation of
those charges. It is reported that
the Consultative Council in Van
couver and the Committee for
Democracy' in Toronto as well as
various other organizations and
individuals have been pressing for
some kind of accounting by the
Government. It would be to the.
interests of the evacuees to support such moves.
The Government should be
urged to appoint a Royal Com
mission to investigate the whole
of the activities of the Custodian's
office in its handling of Japanese
evacuee property as .well as into
the whole of the Government's
policy with respect to the ItquidaIt should
tion of their assets,
also be prepared to appoint a
Claims Commission with wide
powers of compensating for such
losses as may have been suffered.
submitted
In conclusion. it
that the proper course of action
for the evacuees would be as fol
lows :
(a) Unless there has been
complete satisfaction, no- quit
claim of their rights should be
made by the evacuees,
(b) Court action to determine
the legality' of enforced sales
should be continued.
(c) Support should be given
to any move to urge—the Govern
ment to make a public investiga
tion.
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it
December 21, 1946
time Japanese
- Pacific Coast
felt a natural
eir properties
ehind them at
• enforced det? and summer
Paee Three
GBORGE TAMAKI was admit
ted to the bar in Nova Scotia this
year. Currently employed by
Saskatchewan government at
gins, he holds degrees from ;
universities. University of
ish Columbia, University oi
ronto and Dalhousie Unive
net erm
liquid:
no dec
oman
been
MR.
or civil
ret a clear picture
tmiened to date it
ble to retrace our
w the main events
it became evident
fur.
1942 that all perlebrs
the 100I of M
of British
eted
limbi would be obliged, renationality, to vacate
dies*
on short notice, conlerable ifficulties arose as to
l dispo; i and protection of per^j and real property. It is to
1 notec mat motor vehicles and
immediately
imats w ere
aided. md were later disposed
by Gov rznment agencies. Sales
re credited to the acmts oi the owners in the Office
Custodian of Enemy
jperty. but many' owners re:
fd io recognize the enforced
es arc disputed the prices at
m were made.
With re
to
property of these evacuees, there
was a natural tendency to attempt
to liquidate those
which
were readily saleable, bur it was
obviou
that the bulk or
evacuee property' could not
dealt with in this way, especially
in view of the fact that movement
was often ordered on 24 hours
notice.
The Dominion Government therefore used the Office of
the Custodian of Enemy Property’
as an agency of protection and
decreed by' order in council that
all property' left by these evacuees
would be vested in the Custodian
who would have the job of pro
tecting them.
At the time of
departure evacuees were required
to report to the Custodian what
property' had been left
the
Coast.
si
This job of protection was an
^mittedlv , a difficult one. but no
more difficult to the Custodian
i SEASON’S GREETINGS
than it was' to the evacuees who
ksM. GEORGE and MARY
were forced to leave their property
I
0B0KATA
behind. Moreover, it was not long
[ HQ SEATIC. HQ SEALF
before reports filtered in that cerI
Singapore, SEAC.
$
tain officials of the Government
I Sgt. & Mrs. E. YATABE
were favourably inclined to the
I.- 73:7 DeNormanville
idea of sellings such Japanese
I
Montreal. P.Q.
property in order to ensure that
the Japanese' would never return
®?ii^?ii;
Wt
to the Pacific Coast after the war.
While this later was denied by
RestWishes ■ .
the officials concerned, the fears
of the evacuees were not quieted
for a very Merry
when they received notices that
their properties were being sold
Holiday Season
at auction or otherwise at what
and a
seemed to be ridiculously low
prices. In the meantime, reports
ear
of break-ins and pilfering of perto our
sonal property continued to come
in.
Japanese Canadian
When evacuees were notified
Friends,
that even vacant real property
which they owned were being
sold, it became evident that the
Custodian had taken the view
a
that the way to protect evacuee
property was to sell it. It was. of
course, sheer nonsense to suggest
Mr. and Mrs
that selling vacant real property
was protection.
The prices at
which real property' was being
disposed of were in numerous
cases far below the assessed
KASLO, 3.C.
value of such property.
Legal action was begun in 1943
^®^^<!gl(S?!l^i}!;gi)!j!gi)^
hts u n a er eme rgen cy
tions. and it s'
the best
ed by’ di:
i.’ o m i n 1 o n G o v e rn m e n t
ment. This is not to advise that
all legal actions should be dropped. Neither is it su
thg comparative inac<
the courts should i
w ha
might easily become on the par
of the Custodian’s office an
tude of callous disregard of
interests and
of the pe
sons whose property it was called
on to protect.
In view of the allegations oi
mismanagement which have been
made against the Dominion Gov
ernment in handling the proper
ties of the evacuees.
it is
somewhat surprising that to date
there apparently has been no
effort made by’ the Government to
make a public investigation of
those charges. It is reported that
the Consultative Council in Van
couver and the Committee for
Democracy' in Toronto as well as
various other organizations and
individuals have been pressing for
some kind of accounting by the
Government. It would be to the.
interests of the evacuees to support such moves.
The Government should be
urged to appoint a Royal Com
mission to investigate the whole
of the activities of the Custodian's
office in its handling of Japanese
evacuee property as .well as into
the whole of the Government's
policy with respect to the ItquidaIt should
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also be prepared to appoint a
Claims Commission with wide
powers of compensating for such
losses as may have been suffered.
submitted
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that the proper course of action
for the evacuees would be as fol
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(a) Unless there has been
complete satisfaction, no- quit
claim of their rights should be
made by the evacuees,
(b) Court action to determine
the legality' of enforced sales
should be continued.
(c) Support should be given
to any move to urge—the Govern
ment to make a public investiga
tion.
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Saturday. Deceuih
v ThG’S theme this year is the
plight of the many young Cana
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to Japan. While purelv
imaginary in context the back
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staff of an Eastern University
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Weathers. who worked in rhe
same department. She would
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the time her mother had hinted
that other girls were able to get
soap through "office -connections."
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happiness for the "masses" some
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wanted people about ner to be
happy now. She wanted to be
happy now.
Once she had scarred to tell Fu
^•^O CHER BLEAK evening drew
jino about the "evacuation in Can
“
to a close in the narrow7
ada, and about the anxieties and
ruined streets outside. It was
the hardship^ she had shared with
time to leave the office, time to
LEAN, h e a v y - b r o w e d youth,
the other Japanese evacuees. But
go home. Home? ... to what?
wearing heavy-lensed spectaFujino wasn’t interested. He in
Sally thought about the cold, bare cles brushed past
with a
terrupted with a statement that
house, and the inevitable supper curt ’Sayonara." It wa
Fujino.
it
of boiled imo and dark rice,
who worked in the same office.
. was all the fault of the capitalstretched with herbs. To think
Fujino was a Communist, who
bts’ They always pushed around
the defenceless peoples. He quot
grandmother considered that a had once tried pretty7 hard to perfeast. . .
ed liberally the words of Tokuda.
Sally took her hat from suade Sally to join his extremist
the rack.
a Communist leader whom he
group. He was a good talker.
idolized.
When Sally did not
Sally, or "Yuriko” her grand Wa rs and human
■rings are
GOODBYE TO B.C.—Baggage piled
agree
with
his views, he wa bitin readiness for the deoartu
mother insisted, smoothed her due to the capitalistic ystem. he
an early repatriate group which left
Canada this spring. (Taken
ter. He denounced Sally and all
hair and put on the hat. She said.
S.C. ghost town by Tak Toyota.)
women as unimaginative, compla
looked into her mirror and saw
"They bring us freedom, they
dull hair and dull eyes. The year say,” Fujino had expounded dra cent reactionaries, hidebound by
would have to unlearn her soft
traditional sentimentalism.
and a half in Japan had certainly matically, "but freedom for whom?
Sally remembered Rick as Y
western ways. How her mother
not improved her. She felt sick Freedom for themselves and their
leaned ou^the rails of the ^.
oi it all, sick of being hungry,
change ship Gripsholni. watchiig
had changed! In Canada she had
bourgeois kind, to ram. their ac-y
sick of being told to mind her cursed economic system down the
the
American shoreline iadh^
been bewildered and dependent on
Japanese manners, sick of the throat of the masses. Sure thev
away. He deliberately tore into
her children. Sally loved her and
dirt, the poverty, and the furtive liquidated a few large companies
tiny shreds a last unopened letter
had been grateful-for the sacri from a friend who was remain!^
ness in the people around her. —to
ILLY
shrugged
her
shoulder:
s in
room for more. And
in Canada.
How long can a human being they tell us we can’t make speech
a gesture of indifference as she fices she made. But now she had
stand alone with a tired body and
recalled the irritated face of Fu turned into a tyrant under the in
es. Why? Because we’ll show the
Sally had sensed the turmoil
a soul rotting with bitterness— people how to get real freedom— jino. .She hurried along the ll n- fluence of grandmother. Together
that was in Rick's mind. She had
with no laughter, no friends, but freedom from fear and want. Once
lighted streets, past numerous
gone up to him and had placed
they dinned into Sally the need
just silent bowing in • agreement the masses learn that, the money beggars, and homeless waifs lurkher hand timidly on his. And be
for being "onna rashii." which
at home and yes-ing at work?
grabbing days of capitalistic con ing in the corners of half-ruined
had held her hands firmly, re
meant not only lady-like^ but with
She hall thought of accepting spiracy will be over." So Fujino
buildings.
assuringly. and his face had show
the dinner invitation from Lieut.
a thorough knowledge of the
ranted on.
all the solemnness of his eighteen
duties and place of a woman and
years.
to bear her trials in silence.
'3
jj
Sasun’s ®rrftjiiqs
,i
FROM
Montreal Nisei Fellowship Group/
£
3505 LORNE AVE., MONTREAL, P.Q.
&
y^fHY did her mother and grandmother have to worry so muc
about making a Japanese lady out
of her? She must not take such
swinging strides. She must not
hold her head so high. She must
treat all superiors in age or rank
with hypocritical deference. She
must learn to sew by hand, to
arrange flowers, and to do a thou
sand other trivial things.
^HEN Sally was particularly
lonely or bitter. as she was
now. she missed the understandof her brother Rick . .
Rick had been two years older
than Sally. He wasn’t a minor,
and could have remained in Can
ada if he wished. He had- tried
so hard to persuade mother not to
apply for repatriation, but without
success. So finally h
had said
gaily to worried Sal!
"I can’t
leave al v little sister
to those
wolve in Japan, can I? and had
come- away with them.
She hated sleeping on the floor.
She hated worse getting up at
dawn to wash the vestibule with
cold water. She had complained
to her mother. But mother had
told her this was Japan, and she
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and
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GEORGE 1RIZAWA
SUE M. KANZAKI
ROLAND KUDO
HANNAH HORI
TOM HORI
MABEL S. KITAGAWA
ROY M. OHASHI
RUSTY K. HORI
s
PAT TSUJIMOTO
CHRISTINE AI. HORI
LEO KOBAYASHI
BOB YONEDA
ILENE SATO
FRANK H. HORI
Besf Wishes for
Mother too. had adjusted hersen
to her old home with remarkable
ease. She did not seem to nuns
very much the meagre daily ra
tions which were barely enough
for subsistence. Perhaps being
amongr her folks once again madup for these hardships. -Selfish
selfish.” thought Sally as heanger turned towards her moth-'
$
darker. Moth
1 and grandmother would n
she arrived home late. Sally
dered at the thought or retr.
to a cold house, and colder h:
gJvuAbna^
to our
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DOROTHY/M. J. KATO
BARBARA YONEDA
With Rick gone. Sally was th;
oldest, and on her fell the re
sponsibility of seeing that the
family travelled safely from Sin
gapore to Uraga, and then w
mother’s home in the outskirts ot
Tokyo.
Her sister Yachiyo, now ten.
forgot Canada and most of her
English in a short time. She felt
at home, jabbering in Japanese,
playing house with her sehoC'?
mates. "Little insensate clod, how
I wish I were young enough t-J
forget." thought Sally.
WINNIPEG. MANITOBA
SID KONISHI
from
“
K & H TRANSFER
^OW Rick lay somewhere in the
Indian Ocean. The sea was a
fitting sanctum for a boy without
a country. His had been an uedramatic end. Rick had caught
dysentery while on the trip. For
several days he was delirious and
one night slipped away. Sally had
felt utterly alone at the funeral
as she stood near her brother's
body. But her eyes were dry.
while her mother wept and prayed.
/4-B Elizabeth St.
Toronto, Ont
Committee on
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126 Eastbourne Ave.
Toronto 12. Ont.
5>
3
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I
v ThG’S theme this year is the
plight of the many young Cana
dian Xiseis who had to accpmP.any their parents in •‘repatria
tion
to Japan. While purelv
imaginary in context the back
ground is based on authoritative
reports from Japan. The writer
is a frequent New Canadian con
tributor who has taken time off
from her studies and work on the
staff of an Eastern University
weekly in order to send us this
story.
/
Weathers. who worked in rhe
same department. She would
American food.
Man
friends got meal
Ions—that way. No . . . not that.
Sally remembered with loathing
the time her mother had hinted
that other girls were able to get
soap through "office -connections."
>any did not want a vague
happiness for the "masses" some
time in the distant future. She
wanted people about ner to be
happy now. She wanted to be
happy now.
Once she had scarred to tell Fu
^•^O CHER BLEAK evening drew
jino about the "evacuation in Can
“
to a close in the narrow7
ada, and about the anxieties and
ruined streets outside. It was
the hardship^ she had shared with
time to leave the office, time to
LEAN, h e a v y - b r o w e d youth,
the other Japanese evacuees. But
go home. Home? ... to what?
wearing heavy-lensed spectaFujino wasn’t interested. He in
Sally thought about the cold, bare cles brushed past
with a
terrupted with a statement that
house, and the inevitable supper curt ’Sayonara." It wa
Fujino.
it
of boiled imo and dark rice,
who worked in the same office.
. was all the fault of the capitalstretched with herbs. To think
Fujino was a Communist, who
bts’ They always pushed around
the defenceless peoples. He quot
grandmother considered that a had once tried pretty7 hard to perfeast. . .
ed liberally the words of Tokuda.
Sally took her hat from suade Sally to join his extremist
the rack.
a Communist leader whom he
group. He was a good talker.
idolized.
When Sally did not
Sally, or "Yuriko” her grand Wa rs and human
■rings are
GOODBYE TO B.C.—Baggage piled
agree
with
his views, he wa bitin readiness for the deoartu
mother insisted, smoothed her due to the capitalistic ystem. he
an early repatriate group which left
Canada this spring. (Taken
ter. He denounced Sally and all
hair and put on the hat. She said.
S.C. ghost town by Tak Toyota.)
women as unimaginative, compla
looked into her mirror and saw
"They bring us freedom, they
dull hair and dull eyes. The year say,” Fujino had expounded dra cent reactionaries, hidebound by
would have to unlearn her soft
traditional sentimentalism.
and a half in Japan had certainly matically, "but freedom for whom?
Sally remembered Rick as Y
western ways. How her mother
not improved her. She felt sick Freedom for themselves and their
leaned ou^the rails of the ^.
oi it all, sick of being hungry,
change ship Gripsholni. watchiig
had changed! In Canada she had
bourgeois kind, to ram. their ac-y
sick of being told to mind her cursed economic system down the
the
American shoreline iadh^
been bewildered and dependent on
Japanese manners, sick of the throat of the masses. Sure thev
away. He deliberately tore into
her children. Sally loved her and
dirt, the poverty, and the furtive liquidated a few large companies
tiny shreds a last unopened letter
had been grateful-for the sacri from a friend who was remain!^
ness in the people around her. —to
ILLY
shrugged
her
shoulder:
s in
room for more. And
in Canada.
How long can a human being they tell us we can’t make speech
a gesture of indifference as she fices she made. But now she had
stand alone with a tired body and
recalled the irritated face of Fu turned into a tyrant under the in
es. Why? Because we’ll show the
Sally had sensed the turmoil
a soul rotting with bitterness— people how to get real freedom— jino. .She hurried along the ll n- fluence of grandmother. Together
that was in Rick's mind. She had
with no laughter, no friends, but freedom from fear and want. Once
lighted streets, past numerous
gone up to him and had placed
they dinned into Sally the need
just silent bowing in • agreement the masses learn that, the money beggars, and homeless waifs lurkher hand timidly on his. And be
for being "onna rashii." which
at home and yes-ing at work?
grabbing days of capitalistic con ing in the corners of half-ruined
had held her hands firmly, re
meant not only lady-like^ but with
She hall thought of accepting spiracy will be over." So Fujino
buildings.
assuringly. and his face had show
the dinner invitation from Lieut.
a thorough knowledge of the
ranted on.
all the solemnness of his eighteen
duties and place of a woman and
years.
to bear her trials in silence.
'3
jj
Sasun’s ®rrftjiiqs
,i
FROM
Montreal Nisei Fellowship Group/
£
3505 LORNE AVE., MONTREAL, P.Q.
&
y^fHY did her mother and grandmother have to worry so muc
about making a Japanese lady out
of her? She must not take such
swinging strides. She must not
hold her head so high. She must
treat all superiors in age or rank
with hypocritical deference. She
must learn to sew by hand, to
arrange flowers, and to do a thou
sand other trivial things.
^HEN Sally was particularly
lonely or bitter. as she was
now. she missed the understandof her brother Rick . .
Rick had been two years older
than Sally. He wasn’t a minor,
and could have remained in Can
ada if he wished. He had- tried
so hard to persuade mother not to
apply for repatriation, but without
success. So finally h
had said
gaily to worried Sal!
"I can’t
leave al v little sister
to those
wolve in Japan, can I? and had
come- away with them.
She hated sleeping on the floor.
She hated worse getting up at
dawn to wash the vestibule with
cold water. She had complained
to her mother. But mother had
told her this was Japan, and she
| Montreal Nisei Athletic Club |
&
Merry Xmas
and
YEE YUON
CHOP SUEY HOUSE
&1
Si
A Happy New Year
41
©
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y
1
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Canada 5
Metropolitan United Church
TORONTO. ONTARIO
SEASONS GREETINGS from
«
K1
Usa
M
ffimnpltniruis nf th Orason
THE REGINA NISEI CLUB
541
Elgin Avs.
K
BUTCH HAMAKAWA
704 Flora Ave.
REGINA. SASKATCHEWAN
^^)®^»®«)«4®«>«^^ag)i©!i2^}^a?Sjgia?i!!?^(!
§
s
s
s
s
s
s
AMY NOMURA
GEORGE 1RIZAWA
SUE M. KANZAKI
ROLAND KUDO
HANNAH HORI
TOM HORI
MABEL S. KITAGAWA
ROY M. OHASHI
RUSTY K. HORI
s
PAT TSUJIMOTO
CHRISTINE AI. HORI
LEO KOBAYASHI
BOB YONEDA
ILENE SATO
FRANK H. HORI
Besf Wishes for
Mother too. had adjusted hersen
to her old home with remarkable
ease. She did not seem to nuns
very much the meagre daily ra
tions which were barely enough
for subsistence. Perhaps being
amongr her folks once again madup for these hardships. -Selfish
selfish.” thought Sally as heanger turned towards her moth-'
$
darker. Moth
1 and grandmother would n
she arrived home late. Sally
dered at the thought or retr.
to a cold house, and colder h:
gJvuAbna^
to our
*
I
I
|
I
anese Canadian customers
. to all who seek peace 9
I
and goodwill toward men
1
A. ARTHUR KATO
DOROTHY/M. J. KATO
BARBARA YONEDA
With Rick gone. Sally was th;
oldest, and on her fell the re
sponsibility of seeing that the
family travelled safely from Sin
gapore to Uraga, and then w
mother’s home in the outskirts ot
Tokyo.
Her sister Yachiyo, now ten.
forgot Canada and most of her
English in a short time. She felt
at home, jabbering in Japanese,
playing house with her sehoC'?
mates. "Little insensate clod, how
I wish I were young enough t-J
forget." thought Sally.
WINNIPEG. MANITOBA
SID KONISHI
from
“
K & H TRANSFER
^OW Rick lay somewhere in the
Indian Ocean. The sea was a
fitting sanctum for a boy without
a country. His had been an uedramatic end. Rick had caught
dysentery while on the trip. For
several days he was delirious and
one night slipped away. Sally had
felt utterly alone at the funeral
as she stood near her brother's
body. But her eyes were dry.
while her mother wept and prayed.
/4-B Elizabeth St.
Toronto, Ont
Committee on
»
126 Eastbourne Ave.
Toronto 12. Ont.
5>
3
>
I
Page 11
^., De^beMS
Page Eleven
angel said unto them. Fear not
for-,, behold, I bring you good tid
ings of great joy which shall be
to all people. For unto you is born
this day in the city of David, a
Saviour which is Christ the Lord."
PEG
Lyf fumbled in her pockets
bor rhe letter she had recently
^ved from Canada She looked
.
t0 reading it again. It
Xa Kazuko, and she had
Lb fiat she would be coming
BMQ on the next boat. Sally
‘ veiled at the thought, and at
' 5;r-,e time a lit He sorry for
friend.
azuko had written that her
,iiy had been forced to choose
going ease or going to
n. “I know I haven’t the
image to take my aged parents
Detern Canada, ger them set^nd support them. They tell
'rbat iobs are scarce out there
r sirls like me. Maybe it would
better in the
u we went to
sn. -My unde 1ms a farm in
Weaken and maybe we’ll have
® security. I’m sick of all this
rry, and my parents are sick of
aiiada. I can’t blame them, Sally,
lev're homesick too . .
$o Kaz was coming too. Sally
,k impelled to warn her friend
o? to come. It would be much
.ueli worse than Kazuko was execring. Don’t come. Kaz . . . But
•zuko was probably already on
‘P way.
Sally felt, comforted,
knot, of misery seemed to loosen
within her. For the first time, she
thought of Canada without pain.
She remembered the days she had
sung in the church choir, anti the
happiness of past Christmases.
And as she knelt there, the year
ahead seemed no longer like a
maze of loneliness, Could she go
back to Canada? Or would she
have to stay in Japan forever?
It didn’t seem important any more.
For
moment her- old self
scorned her resign. tion. "Become
an insensate clod? . . . No. never!"
As though to drown out this in
terruption the organ music grew'
louder. Until there was no pain,
no darkness, no' cold, no hunger,
and no bitterness. Sally was filled
with an unreasoning, almost hysterial esctasy. The music grew
and filled her heart until she
thought she could hear the
heavenly choir praising God and
singing “on earth, peace, goodwill
toward men."
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A Very Merry Christmas
and
S’
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fcALI.Y became aware oi the
f sound of an organ. She
membered that there was a Roman
Batholic church near by. “I don’t
Believe in God." she thought, “Fie
Couldn't let us suffer so much il
He’s so good . .
f Yet in spite of her professed disfeief. she wondered achingly'.
|Dear God, why have you for
saken me . ..?" And Sally realized
Li she was echoing an age-old
Erv.
। Sally had never been to a
Catholic service. She watched the
scene hesitatingly. Then she stepM in boldly and knelt as the
ethers were doing. The organ beMi to play a. familiar hymn. Sally
s-Gized suddenly that tonight av as
Cristinas Eve.
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reception camp for early Japanese Canadian repatriates at Kurihama.
about 40 miles south of Tokyo; The people were housed in former
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this reception centre for about a week while details of their entry
into the country were being handled.
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8 Merry Chrisimas and a Happy New Year
| She felt strangely drawn by the
|ound of the organ. Forgetting
herself, she followed the music,
ana turned into a. side street. She
arrived before an open door of a
Makeshift chapel. Inside, she saw
an elaborate crucifix and the
|kure of the Virgin on an other
wise bare dais. There were several
Kows of crude seats. A nun was
fated at a shabby organ. A few
people were kneeling in prayer . . .
I ‘Medetash
i seicho michimiteru.
plaria
. Hail Mary full of
{grace .
H. MADOKORO
H. MORISHITA
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angel said unto them. Fear not
for-,, behold, I bring you good tid
ings of great joy which shall be
to all people. For unto you is born
this day in the city of David, a
Saviour which is Christ the Lord."
PEG
Lyf fumbled in her pockets
bor rhe letter she had recently
^ved from Canada She looked
.
t0 reading it again. It
Xa Kazuko, and she had
Lb fiat she would be coming
BMQ on the next boat. Sally
‘ veiled at the thought, and at
' 5;r-,e time a lit He sorry for
friend.
azuko had written that her
,iiy had been forced to choose
going ease or going to
n. “I know I haven’t the
image to take my aged parents
Detern Canada, ger them set^nd support them. They tell
'rbat iobs are scarce out there
r sirls like me. Maybe it would
better in the
u we went to
sn. -My unde 1ms a farm in
Weaken and maybe we’ll have
® security. I’m sick of all this
rry, and my parents are sick of
aiiada. I can’t blame them, Sally,
lev're homesick too . .
$o Kaz was coming too. Sally
,k impelled to warn her friend
o? to come. It would be much
.ueli worse than Kazuko was execring. Don’t come. Kaz . . . But
•zuko was probably already on
‘P way.
Sally felt, comforted,
knot, of misery seemed to loosen
within her. For the first time, she
thought of Canada without pain.
She remembered the days she had
sung in the church choir, anti the
happiness of past Christmases.
And as she knelt there, the year
ahead seemed no longer like a
maze of loneliness, Could she go
back to Canada? Or would she
have to stay in Japan forever?
It didn’t seem important any more.
For
moment her- old self
scorned her resign. tion. "Become
an insensate clod? . . . No. never!"
As though to drown out this in
terruption the organ music grew'
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ana turned into a. side street. She
arrived before an open door of a
Makeshift chapel. Inside, she saw
an elaborate crucifix and the
|kure of the Virgin on an other
wise bare dais. There were several
Kows of crude seats. A nun was
fated at a shabby organ. A few
people were kneeling in prayer . . .
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DECEMBER 21, 1V46
A Message From the New Canadian
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year i
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HENRY 'HANK' KOJIMA.
has been high) should go to all those who have supported us so
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It is the sincere wish of The New Canadian that each and every
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Winnipeg, Man.
MOOSE JAW, Sask.— Fumio
Hara, a member of a transplanted
Japanese family living in a former air school buildin south of
Moose Jaw, hit the s port pages
of the Winnipeg Free Pre s last
in Canweek with his prowe
ada’s national game.
A s forward of the Alexandra
Dukes in the Moose Jaw schools
pee wee league, 12-year-old Fumio
entered the scoring lists recently,
one of the goals in his
team s 2-1 win over another
school.
An independent weekly organ published as a-medium of
expression among the people of Japanese origin in Canada
DECEMBER 21, 1V46
A Message From the New Canadian
With a sigh of relief and not a little sense of accomplishment.
we offer for your approval, this holiday issue of The New Canadian,
This special number is the culmination of over a month and a half
of preparation, and in the last few weeks, of day-and-night labor
on the part of the staff.
A large part of the credit for what we believe is one of the
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year i
HIDEO SHINOHARA
HENRY 'HANK' KOJIMA.
has been high) should go to all those who have supported us so
well by sending us literary contributions, and by making use of our
personal greetings department.
Merry Chrisimas
Dr
1134 Bra ult
OSCAR HATASHITA
HARRY 1 DENOUYE
erdun, p.q
■CHIPS’ T. OGAKI
TOM OKADA
2159 St. ,
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&
Mrs. GEO. KAKINO
and TEDDY
163 Rebecca St. E.
Hamilton, Ont.
M r. &
reaching us first, and those which carried the Christmas theme.
Mr. and Mrs.
THOMAS S. TANAKA
279 Claremont St.
Toronto, Ont.
It is the sincere wish of The New Canadian that each and every
one of our readers throughout Canada and in other parts of the
world will enjoy the merriest of holiday seasons, and that 1947
will bring to all a happy life in their homes, wherever they may be.
Mr. and Mrs.
BLACKIE SEKINE
263 McNab St. N.
Hamilton, Ont.
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MITSUO OHORA
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P.O. Box 340
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and Family
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and NAOMI ELAINE
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Leaverleigh Farm
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from
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Fellowship Group
P.Q.
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Creek — Blessed Christmas
and aHappy New Year
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appear on page 31. have since moved to a
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Page 13
NISEIS IN CANADIAN KHAKI
By TOM SHOYAMA
One of the brighter chapin Japanese Canadian
ter
when the
mi4ory began wnen
ute bars
u<ub
gainst Nisei enlistment in
^he Canadian army were be
latedly lifted in early 1945.
i\ow almost two years later,
U BO-cdd servicemen who
Lie the last remnants of Jap
anese Canadian representa
tion in the army are spending
(their Iasi overseas Christmas
[jn Japan. China and Malay.
i Tom Shoyama. former edihr of this publication and
jiiiusclt a veteran, has deived
into his store of records and
personal memories to give us
an "inside story" of how ex
clusion of Japanese Cana
dians from service in the
armed forces became govern
ment policy and how this'dis
criminatory policy was finally
[overcome in the late days of
fee past war.
I The following is the first in
k series of articles that trace
be events which finally led
b the donning of khaki by
the Canadian Nisei. The
Story revolves around many
^ell - known personalities —
^mong them. Dr. H. L. Keenjeyside (now Canadian am
bassador to Mexico), Lt. Col.
Sparling. Etsuji Morii of the
Rippon Club, Lieut. C.
|Tlionias, and Capt. D. Mollibn of the British Army.
CINCE THE END of the war it
r has been popular for a number
^frather highly placed officers to
itreak into print with behind-thescenes accounts of what they-saw
Wd did during the war. “My
pree fears With Eisenhower"
pd "Top Secret’’ gave us interhiiag. if contradictory, reports on
the “private lives’’ of the Allied
'oEmand in Europe. Col. Dick
Close's “Mi :mg From the Rec-
r as the future of our own community was concerned.
in the early months of the war.
of course, our concept of the task
ahead, in common with that of
e Canadians, was naive in the
reme. The Canadian eontribu-
in terms of materiel, not
And the nation was
committed to a policy
nicer enlistment for active
Conscript ion. if found
was to be only for
enee. But it was not long
orc
number of Nisei in seat
ed the province were
ar recruiting stations
be accepted as volunon iv in meet with rejection.
HE CASE of one Nisei comes
to mind.
met
ON THEIR WAY—A group of Nisei OR's at the CPR station
(present president of JCCD), Tom S agara. Tom Hoshiraki, Akira
and Saichi Imai.
of the wartime meetings of the
Big Three.
All of this has been on a high
level—remote from most of us to
whom these names are only of his
torical importance. But it sets a
good precedent for an attempt
here to recall the main threads
and. some of the sidelights on a
story of more personal interest,
This is the less well-known account of how the Nisei in Canada
waged a five-year struggle against
racist hostility and official dis
couragement, until at last they
came late in the war to don Ca
nadian khaki and to wear with
pride the green and white flashes
of the Canadian Intelligence
Corps.
the same thing for
[he Canad
army itself. And
50V jus
bom the last word in
She peei
to:in show has been
‘eached
Elliot Roosevelt’s
'As He
W
—the inside story
While never a confidant of the
joint chiefs-of-staff. nor of Ian
Mackenzie, British Columbia's
cabinet member and spokesman
for west coast anti-Japanese
forces in Ottawa, perhaps as the
former editor of i he New Carecollection and innadian
terpretation of events will interest at least the future writer
of that "Nisei novel."
£
from
Swth-iast Asia Command
On Active Service
SILL HUNTER
CSM. GEORGE SUZUKI
GSM. GEORGE CBOKATA
^T. KLARK ITO
SGT. FRANK HALEY
SGT. EIJI YATABE
SGT. HOWARD MCDONALD
SGT. GREG OHASHI
Hi IMAI
O NIKAIDO
SGT. MATS MATSUE-UCHI
THE STORY begins in the years
A immediately preceding the war.
For the official policy of exclud
ing Japanese Canadians from
service in Canada’s army was
rooted in the anti-Japanese feel
ing of the Pacific Coast. And this
in turn was a complex of racial
prejudice, economic rivalry and
internationally - engendered emo
tion. Japanese military aggression
in Manchuria and China, and her
common interest with Nazi Ger
many had set the stage in 1938
for an intense political campaign
directed against our community
in British Columbia. Many
will
t he spearhea ding
that campaign by Lid.-Col. Macgregor Macintosh, then a provincial M.L.A.. His charge? of illegal
entry of thousands of .1 a pan es e
aliens were buttressed by the
Communist allegations of whoksale espionage and disloyasl ariivns the a nark
that it, led finally to the investigation and report of the KePiiky.
side Commission,
chairman. Dr. H. 1.. Keenleyside,
of the Department of Externa) Af
fairs. The Commission's report,
while ineffectual in stemming agi
tation for long, was undoubtedly
significant in influencing official
government attitudes and future
policy. H came too as a source
of comfort to the community.
of that year Hitler let loose his
iron-clad legions upon Poland.
And the Parliament of Canada,
hastily assembled, made its historic voluntary declaration of
W n r 3 s 3 sovereign nation at
the side of Great Britain.
The same night a telegram was
on its way to Ottawa from a com
mittee ol Nisei who had been ap
pointed by a meeting of commu
nity representatives. Harry Naganobu and Dr. E. C. Banno, national
executive members of the Japanese Canadian Citizens League,
and myself, framed a situ ph?
pledge of loyalty and an offer cf
service. We felt it then to be a
history-making commitment, so
good looks and vitality and the
cheerful optimism with which
he approached the solution of
rac iaI minority problems,
He wasn't cheerful the
time we met. Shortly after the
war broke out, he and a friend
travelled to Victoria to enlist in
the Canadian Scottish regiment.
He never told me the details of
their reception at the recruiting
station, but it was easy to see
that it had not been pleasant,
When he was rejected as a
"Jap." he came to Vancouver
rather than going straight home.
(Please Turn to Next Page)
d
Sgt. Elmer Oike (extreme right). Canadian Intelligence Corps, with two
Indian men-on-the-street. Meerut, India, February, 1946.
both in
and disloyalty
detail and sub
For a brief period following that
pois. the rr-mpo of agitation
GORDON J. Ki ELEY
CSM. FRED
TOM SHOYAMA guided The
New Canadian from its infancy
until his enlistment in the Cana
dian Army in 1945. Probably no
one is more qualified to write on
the subject of Nisei enlistment.
.After discharge from the Armv
th.s year he has been employed
in Regina by the Saskatchewan
government.
the
Island Japanese Canadian Citi
zens League conference in Vic
toria in the spring of 1939. He
was a delegate from one of the
oldest and most active up-Island
JCCL chapters. He struck me
particularly with his youthful
I remember the jubilation with
which our first regular issue of
The New Canadian on February
1, 1939. pictured Dr. Keenleyside
and
report v.hi<-h
SGT. HARRY CURRAN
SGT. Ji
SGT
ii
From the left: George Tanaka
Isezaki. Costello Sato, Deuke Shintani,
him
to Van(ohpaid their roy;
ver. amona the
War I in honored p)a<-es stood the
members of the Japanese branch
of the Canadian Lesion. In New
NO
★
TAD ODE
SGT. GEORGE HASEGAWA
SGT. ART SAKAMOTO
$
giris waved Union .Jacks along
the route, and trim fishboats, red
ensign at the masthead and skip
pered by first and second genera
tion Japanese Canadians escorted
the Royal Vessel to sea.
On the first day of September
lassrpom scene at S-20, Canadian
AND NOV/ THIS KANJI . .
Army Japanese Language School at Vancouver. Among those present:
Pte. (later Sat.) Reger Obata (extreme left): Lt.-Col. A. P. MacKertzie.
S-20 commanding officer: and instructors Salla rd (Okada) and Jirrimy
-Horiuchi.
..
'
j
By TOM SHOYAMA
One of the brighter chapin Japanese Canadian
ter
when the
mi4ory began wnen
ute bars
u<ub
gainst Nisei enlistment in
^he Canadian army were be
latedly lifted in early 1945.
i\ow almost two years later,
U BO-cdd servicemen who
Lie the last remnants of Jap
anese Canadian representa
tion in the army are spending
(their Iasi overseas Christmas
[jn Japan. China and Malay.
i Tom Shoyama. former edihr of this publication and
jiiiusclt a veteran, has deived
into his store of records and
personal memories to give us
an "inside story" of how ex
clusion of Japanese Cana
dians from service in the
armed forces became govern
ment policy and how this'dis
criminatory policy was finally
[overcome in the late days of
fee past war.
I The following is the first in
k series of articles that trace
be events which finally led
b the donning of khaki by
the Canadian Nisei. The
Story revolves around many
^ell - known personalities —
^mong them. Dr. H. L. Keenjeyside (now Canadian am
bassador to Mexico), Lt. Col.
Sparling. Etsuji Morii of the
Rippon Club, Lieut. C.
|Tlionias, and Capt. D. Mollibn of the British Army.
CINCE THE END of the war it
r has been popular for a number
^frather highly placed officers to
itreak into print with behind-thescenes accounts of what they-saw
Wd did during the war. “My
pree fears With Eisenhower"
pd "Top Secret’’ gave us interhiiag. if contradictory, reports on
the “private lives’’ of the Allied
'oEmand in Europe. Col. Dick
Close's “Mi :mg From the Rec-
r as the future of our own community was concerned.
in the early months of the war.
of course, our concept of the task
ahead, in common with that of
e Canadians, was naive in the
reme. The Canadian eontribu-
in terms of materiel, not
And the nation was
committed to a policy
nicer enlistment for active
Conscript ion. if found
was to be only for
enee. But it was not long
orc
number of Nisei in seat
ed the province were
ar recruiting stations
be accepted as volunon iv in meet with rejection.
HE CASE of one Nisei comes
to mind.
met
ON THEIR WAY—A group of Nisei OR's at the CPR station
(present president of JCCD), Tom S agara. Tom Hoshiraki, Akira
and Saichi Imai.
of the wartime meetings of the
Big Three.
All of this has been on a high
level—remote from most of us to
whom these names are only of his
torical importance. But it sets a
good precedent for an attempt
here to recall the main threads
and. some of the sidelights on a
story of more personal interest,
This is the less well-known account of how the Nisei in Canada
waged a five-year struggle against
racist hostility and official dis
couragement, until at last they
came late in the war to don Ca
nadian khaki and to wear with
pride the green and white flashes
of the Canadian Intelligence
Corps.
the same thing for
[he Canad
army itself. And
50V jus
bom the last word in
She peei
to:in show has been
‘eached
Elliot Roosevelt’s
'As He
W
—the inside story
While never a confidant of the
joint chiefs-of-staff. nor of Ian
Mackenzie, British Columbia's
cabinet member and spokesman
for west coast anti-Japanese
forces in Ottawa, perhaps as the
former editor of i he New Carecollection and innadian
terpretation of events will interest at least the future writer
of that "Nisei novel."
£
from
Swth-iast Asia Command
On Active Service
SILL HUNTER
CSM. GEORGE SUZUKI
GSM. GEORGE CBOKATA
^T. KLARK ITO
SGT. FRANK HALEY
SGT. EIJI YATABE
SGT. HOWARD MCDONALD
SGT. GREG OHASHI
Hi IMAI
O NIKAIDO
SGT. MATS MATSUE-UCHI
THE STORY begins in the years
A immediately preceding the war.
For the official policy of exclud
ing Japanese Canadians from
service in Canada’s army was
rooted in the anti-Japanese feel
ing of the Pacific Coast. And this
in turn was a complex of racial
prejudice, economic rivalry and
internationally - engendered emo
tion. Japanese military aggression
in Manchuria and China, and her
common interest with Nazi Ger
many had set the stage in 1938
for an intense political campaign
directed against our community
in British Columbia. Many
will
t he spearhea ding
that campaign by Lid.-Col. Macgregor Macintosh, then a provincial M.L.A.. His charge? of illegal
entry of thousands of .1 a pan es e
aliens were buttressed by the
Communist allegations of whoksale espionage and disloyasl ariivns the a nark
that it, led finally to the investigation and report of the KePiiky.
side Commission,
chairman. Dr. H. 1.. Keenleyside,
of the Department of Externa) Af
fairs. The Commission's report,
while ineffectual in stemming agi
tation for long, was undoubtedly
significant in influencing official
government attitudes and future
policy. H came too as a source
of comfort to the community.
of that year Hitler let loose his
iron-clad legions upon Poland.
And the Parliament of Canada,
hastily assembled, made its historic voluntary declaration of
W n r 3 s 3 sovereign nation at
the side of Great Britain.
The same night a telegram was
on its way to Ottawa from a com
mittee ol Nisei who had been ap
pointed by a meeting of commu
nity representatives. Harry Naganobu and Dr. E. C. Banno, national
executive members of the Japanese Canadian Citizens League,
and myself, framed a situ ph?
pledge of loyalty and an offer cf
service. We felt it then to be a
history-making commitment, so
good looks and vitality and the
cheerful optimism with which
he approached the solution of
rac iaI minority problems,
He wasn't cheerful the
time we met. Shortly after the
war broke out, he and a friend
travelled to Victoria to enlist in
the Canadian Scottish regiment.
He never told me the details of
their reception at the recruiting
station, but it was easy to see
that it had not been pleasant,
When he was rejected as a
"Jap." he came to Vancouver
rather than going straight home.
(Please Turn to Next Page)
d
Sgt. Elmer Oike (extreme right). Canadian Intelligence Corps, with two
Indian men-on-the-street. Meerut, India, February, 1946.
both in
and disloyalty
detail and sub
For a brief period following that
pois. the rr-mpo of agitation
GORDON J. Ki ELEY
CSM. FRED
TOM SHOYAMA guided The
New Canadian from its infancy
until his enlistment in the Cana
dian Army in 1945. Probably no
one is more qualified to write on
the subject of Nisei enlistment.
.After discharge from the Armv
th.s year he has been employed
in Regina by the Saskatchewan
government.
the
Island Japanese Canadian Citi
zens League conference in Vic
toria in the spring of 1939. He
was a delegate from one of the
oldest and most active up-Island
JCCL chapters. He struck me
particularly with his youthful
I remember the jubilation with
which our first regular issue of
The New Canadian on February
1, 1939. pictured Dr. Keenleyside
and
report v.hi<-h
SGT. HARRY CURRAN
SGT. Ji
SGT
ii
From the left: George Tanaka
Isezaki. Costello Sato, Deuke Shintani,
him
to Van(ohpaid their roy;
ver. amona the
War I in honored p)a<-es stood the
members of the Japanese branch
of the Canadian Lesion. In New
NO
★
TAD ODE
SGT. GEORGE HASEGAWA
SGT. ART SAKAMOTO
$
giris waved Union .Jacks along
the route, and trim fishboats, red
ensign at the masthead and skip
pered by first and second genera
tion Japanese Canadians escorted
the Royal Vessel to sea.
On the first day of September
lassrpom scene at S-20, Canadian
AND NOV/ THIS KANJI . .
Army Japanese Language School at Vancouver. Among those present:
Pte. (later Sat.) Reger Obata (extreme left): Lt.-Col. A. P. MacKertzie.
S-20 commanding officer: and instructors Salla rd (Okada) and Jirrimy
-Horiuchi.
..
'
j
Page 14
Page F ourteen
■ Saturday, December 21 i^
NISEIS IN CANADIAN KHAKI
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
S
Sa.
r
(Continued From Previous Page)
Mr. and Mrs.
DAVE M. MURAKAMI
and MICHAEL
Box. 366
New Denver. B.C.
Late Residents of
Tash me, B.C.
Mr. and Mrs.
HARRY FUKUSHIMA
Mine, Stocan City, B.C.
sry Happy Christmas
and- a- Prosperous
New Year
ATTENTION!
We talked briefly in the office.
I remember his bitterness as he
stood staring moodily at the
rain splashing off the Powell
Grounds stands.
“I’ll never try that again. If
ihey’llthey ever do want
have to come and- drag me in! ”
MR. G. A. COWELL
E. GOTOH
MRS. F. S. COWELL
MR. Si W_ ATKINSON .
Sinclair Mills, B-.C.
MRS. L. ATKINSON
MR. T. REID
Mr. and- Mrs. JOE HOMMA
and FAMILY
Greenwood, EkC.
I wondered how many other
Nisei might, be thinking the-
MRS. A. REID
Mr. and Mrs. SEIJI HOMMA
CHIYO, ANNE and ~RURY
Greenwood, B.C.
KARL
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. FUKUI
and JUDY
Greenwood. B.C.
e:
HANSEN.
New Denver, B.C.
rl
Mr. and Mrs;
HIDEO ONOTERA
Mr. & Mrs. Toshio KURITA
YASUO and SHIGERU
Greenwood, B.C.
ry, and Elaine. Shirley
Mr. and Mrs. S. SHIMONO
and FAMILY
P.O. Box 536
Greenwood. B.C.
&
STEVE S. ENOMOTO
RANDALL and DENNIS
R.R. No. 3
Bralorne. B.C.
Vernon, S.C.
Mr. and - Mrs.
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SEASON'S GREETINGS
About The Stamps
On Page 18. . .
v Zenichi Kinoshita
The stamps on page IS include early
Meiji era issues, commemorative
stamps.
scarce
Japanese
Formosa
stamps.
overprinted Korea issues,
‘•Tekkoku Kofuku” (Enemy Surren
der) issues (1945). new pcst-war
stamps issued after Aug. 1.’ 1946 and
a picture postcard original of a new
Fujiyama stamp cancelled on date of
issue.
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S TORONTO YOUNG BUDDHISTS' SOCIETY:
The International Japanese Phil
atelic Specialists Study Club activities-had been curtailed during
the. war since the club president,
Capt. William H. Talbot, was serv
ing in the Armed Forces. Follow
ing his return to civilian life, the
club was re-organized on an inter
national basis and has some of the
world’s outstanding collectors in
its .membership.
«3
^
This latter all-important j;!
had' ’come to the fore in the fi
of 1940, when the new
A
ous stage of the w
in. The National
ilization Act had been proclaim*
And Canada had come a Ions wa
in the space of a year toward
fuller realization of the huma
sacrifices, which would have to b
made in the war against I
The “token force" was bem en
larged to an army:
consent
tion for home defence was use
eign service of-the British Govern
ment.
Contrary to the- system of pub
The new- agitation was centered lic hearings followed in, the inin, Vancouver, where a number of- vest!gation two years before. the’
public and semi-public figures had' work of this', commission was car
(The second article on the stor
begun to beat a rising tom-tom of ried out very quietly—almost, unof “Niseis in Canadian Khaki” wi
racial hate. Notable among these der rhe cloak of-military eeurity.
appear in the next issue of’Th
was the former Vancouver aiderI
the almost furtive
New Canadian.)
man. Halford Wilson, of whom the
less said-here. the better.-. But by
the middle of 1940 the situation
had again grown so acute that
Ottawa ordered a new inquiry, a
special investigating commission
S’TO WISH OUR MEMBERS AND
was set up. again headed by Dr.
FRIENDS HAPPINESS NOT
ONLY DURING THE HOLIDAY
SEASON BUT ALWAYS.
All interested in the club’s ac
tivities are referred to reproduc
tions of Japanese stamps in the
Japanese Section (page IS) and
are asked to contact club secre
tary T. Maeda. 504 Talbot Avenue.
Winnipeg. (Letters may be writ
ten in either English or Japanese.)
STORE
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May Christmas hold its meaning
throughout the New Year
for all our patrons.
"walk-on thevPoint- Grey campus
;:since,1942; plays on-the-Varsity
. “A"
basketball
These early, defeats, even-before .. ] ■intermediate
'squad .. . \
any general policy; was under-.:-] I ' Other Niseis in Vancouver
stood, were easily attributed to
< ^ include the Kato, brothers, ex"sergeant-major George and extwo. factor
Volunteer
were
.lance-corporal - Joe, Goro Su
available in greater numbers than
zuki, Nori. Tomiyama of- Verrequired for Canada’s token force.
nori and-Tom Imada. , . . SerAnd the agitation against Japageent-major Kato, Suzuki and
nese Canadians, which had ebbed
Imada
East- veterans.
for. a brief period, was again swiftly rising, as the outlines of the
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis began to
•assume clearer shape.
Greenwood, S.C.
TEISUKE ASANO
c/o D.D. Ranch
same, thing.
Keenleyside and- including Assist manner in which
ant Commissioner- R. J; Mead; of eluding myself, wet
the RCMP; Lt.-Col.'A. W. Sparling, missioner Mead w,
jnS
of the Army; and Sir George San man. It was the fir
som. well-known as an authority
of highly varied mee
on Japan by virtue of his long res . with him, He phrase
idence-in that country in the for- tions with extreme
very slowly ana ;
commission. so far
r
University of British Columcerned, was
it:
fbia. roils: list a Nisei student
the
problem
of
dual
nati
is Ronnie
This year . . . He!
and., the attitude of the N
Ikeda, of Vernon,
.
; a vet- <
eran
; Ikeda, first Nisei tox:
ward service in the army
ft
>enus
her most sincere
- wishes
. for a
Happy Christmas
and a
Blessed New Year
to all former pupils
and friends
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B.C.
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■ Saturday, December 21 i^
NISEIS IN CANADIAN KHAKI
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
S
Sa.
r
(Continued From Previous Page)
Mr. and Mrs.
DAVE M. MURAKAMI
and MICHAEL
Box. 366
New Denver. B.C.
Late Residents of
Tash me, B.C.
Mr. and Mrs.
HARRY FUKUSHIMA
Mine, Stocan City, B.C.
sry Happy Christmas
and- a- Prosperous
New Year
ATTENTION!
We talked briefly in the office.
I remember his bitterness as he
stood staring moodily at the
rain splashing off the Powell
Grounds stands.
“I’ll never try that again. If
ihey’llthey ever do want
have to come and- drag me in! ”
MR. G. A. COWELL
E. GOTOH
MRS. F. S. COWELL
MR. Si W_ ATKINSON .
Sinclair Mills, B-.C.
MRS. L. ATKINSON
MR. T. REID
Mr. and- Mrs. JOE HOMMA
and FAMILY
Greenwood, EkC.
I wondered how many other
Nisei might, be thinking the-
MRS. A. REID
Mr. and Mrs. SEIJI HOMMA
CHIYO, ANNE and ~RURY
Greenwood, B.C.
KARL
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. FUKUI
and JUDY
Greenwood. B.C.
e:
HANSEN.
New Denver, B.C.
rl
Mr. and Mrs;
HIDEO ONOTERA
Mr. & Mrs. Toshio KURITA
YASUO and SHIGERU
Greenwood, B.C.
ry, and Elaine. Shirley
Mr. and Mrs. S. SHIMONO
and FAMILY
P.O. Box 536
Greenwood. B.C.
&
STEVE S. ENOMOTO
RANDALL and DENNIS
R.R. No. 3
Bralorne. B.C.
Vernon, S.C.
Mr. and - Mrs.
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A MERRY CHRISTMAS
and a HAPPY
and PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR
to oar
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Customers
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SEASON'S GREETINGS
About The Stamps
On Page 18. . .
v Zenichi Kinoshita
The stamps on page IS include early
Meiji era issues, commemorative
stamps.
scarce
Japanese
Formosa
stamps.
overprinted Korea issues,
‘•Tekkoku Kofuku” (Enemy Surren
der) issues (1945). new pcst-war
stamps issued after Aug. 1.’ 1946 and
a picture postcard original of a new
Fujiyama stamp cancelled on date of
issue.
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A Merry Christmas
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Season's Greetings to All
May the coming year bring a brighter and
happier life—wherever you are now located
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Wishing Our Many Friends
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S TORONTO YOUNG BUDDHISTS' SOCIETY:
The International Japanese Phil
atelic Specialists Study Club activities-had been curtailed during
the. war since the club president,
Capt. William H. Talbot, was serv
ing in the Armed Forces. Follow
ing his return to civilian life, the
club was re-organized on an inter
national basis and has some of the
world’s outstanding collectors in
its .membership.
«3
^
This latter all-important j;!
had' ’come to the fore in the fi
of 1940, when the new
A
ous stage of the w
in. The National
ilization Act had been proclaim*
And Canada had come a Ions wa
in the space of a year toward
fuller realization of the huma
sacrifices, which would have to b
made in the war against I
The “token force" was bem en
larged to an army:
consent
tion for home defence was use
eign service of-the British Govern
ment.
Contrary to the- system of pub
The new- agitation was centered lic hearings followed in, the inin, Vancouver, where a number of- vest!gation two years before. the’
public and semi-public figures had' work of this', commission was car
(The second article on the stor
begun to beat a rising tom-tom of ried out very quietly—almost, unof “Niseis in Canadian Khaki” wi
racial hate. Notable among these der rhe cloak of-military eeurity.
appear in the next issue of’Th
was the former Vancouver aiderI
the almost furtive
New Canadian.)
man. Halford Wilson, of whom the
less said-here. the better.-. But by
the middle of 1940 the situation
had again grown so acute that
Ottawa ordered a new inquiry, a
special investigating commission
S’TO WISH OUR MEMBERS AND
was set up. again headed by Dr.
FRIENDS HAPPINESS NOT
ONLY DURING THE HOLIDAY
SEASON BUT ALWAYS.
All interested in the club’s ac
tivities are referred to reproduc
tions of Japanese stamps in the
Japanese Section (page IS) and
are asked to contact club secre
tary T. Maeda. 504 Talbot Avenue.
Winnipeg. (Letters may be writ
ten in either English or Japanese.)
STORE
THE G. T
©
7 ft
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May Christmas hold its meaning
throughout the New Year
for all our patrons.
"walk-on thevPoint- Grey campus
;:since,1942; plays on-the-Varsity
. “A"
basketball
These early, defeats, even-before .. ] ■intermediate
'squad .. . \
any general policy; was under-.:-] I ' Other Niseis in Vancouver
stood, were easily attributed to
< ^ include the Kato, brothers, ex"sergeant-major George and extwo. factor
Volunteer
were
.lance-corporal - Joe, Goro Su
available in greater numbers than
zuki, Nori. Tomiyama of- Verrequired for Canada’s token force.
nori and-Tom Imada. , . . SerAnd the agitation against Japageent-major Kato, Suzuki and
nese Canadians, which had ebbed
Imada
East- veterans.
for. a brief period, was again swiftly rising, as the outlines of the
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis began to
•assume clearer shape.
Greenwood, S.C.
TEISUKE ASANO
c/o D.D. Ranch
same, thing.
Keenleyside and- including Assist manner in which
ant Commissioner- R. J; Mead; of eluding myself, wet
the RCMP; Lt.-Col.'A. W. Sparling, missioner Mead w,
jnS
of the Army; and Sir George San man. It was the fir
som. well-known as an authority
of highly varied mee
on Japan by virtue of his long res . with him, He phrase
idence-in that country in the for- tions with extreme
very slowly ana ;
commission. so far
r
University of British Columcerned, was
it:
fbia. roils: list a Nisei student
the
problem
of
dual
nati
is Ronnie
This year . . . He!
and., the attitude of the N
Ikeda, of Vernon,
.
; a vet- <
eran
; Ikeda, first Nisei tox:
ward service in the army
ft
>enus
her most sincere
- wishes
. for a
Happy Christmas
and a
Blessed New Year
to all former pupils
and friends
ft
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Canadian Soya Industries Ltd
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2131-2141 Dundas Stree
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VANCOUVER
B.C.
E REPRESENTATIVE: MR;
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15.^
Page 15
HAMILTON—City of Resettlement
from the MOUNTAIN TOP
up the Wentworth
p the side of Hamilis a long and an are.
But
to the more enefdu one
,o
make
that effort, the
Frtic
well worth while. For.
climb
antage
point at the head
from
one
can look down
of iU stairs.
on th whole of Hamilton which
lies- • i hazy miniature, beneath
-he GUM
I
I
|
|
I
[
f
i a ''rii
C.K. is a young Nisei thinker
who makes his home in the citv
o:
torso murders
and
steel
strikes. An ex-Lemon Creeker ha
is well known for his addiction to
pipes.
and industrial arts courses at
Westdale and Wentworth Techni
cal high schools. Similarly. Nisei
attendance in high schools has
kept pace with the number of new
arrivals in the city.
But it is not only the Niseis
who feel the need for education.
A number of Issei women, realiz
ing the need of English in every
day life, are attending weekly
English classes held at the First
United Church. Coaching them is
Miss Katie Oyama, who enjoys
her work. USays Katie: “It’s fun
teaching, especially when they are
so willing to learn and try so hard
despite the handicap of age and
the fact that they have to start
from scratch.”
Sfasnni (Srprluuw
ft
h
that or the Sophv-E Club is the
B.C. Girts’ Club of
This club for Nisei
s almost disbanded at one time as a
result of marriasres and denar
of its members, but it is now be
ing re-organized with veteran and
new members.
The young married couples, who
have less time for frequent meethave an organization of their
own which meets once a month,
This group began its new term
last month under the able leader
ship of Mr. Bob Miyasaka, with
the support of secretary-treasurer
Mr. Bob Kimoto.
FROM THE
HAMILTON YOUNGER
NISEI ORGANIZATION
Tg
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AVE. NORTH
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R A Y M O N D MORI Y AM A
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TOM FUJINO
the ex-Vancouverite, the
! seen-' has some resemblance to
ROY HEIKE
' his oi home town as seen from
MIKE HONDA
i atop ’ be Grouse Mountain. The
| Canal Bridge at the right correI spends to the Lion’s Gate Bridge.
The Kyowakai. which created a
| Hamilton Bay is like the Burrard
mild furore in other parts of Can
RUTH ITO
I Inlet with the High Level Bridge
ada by opposing the proposal for
* in a position roughly correspond
a national federation of Japanese
TOYOKO IZUMI
[ ins to the Second Narrows Bridge
Canadians, was originally organ
YURIKO IZUMI
Gin-Vancouver. Oue of • the first
ized to provide entertainment and
EDITH KADONAGA
? objects to catch the eye in the
a meeting place for the Isseis.
KAZ KADONAGA
I city, which lies directly below, is
Recently this group has been takVIC KADONAGA
$
i .the F-gott Building, tallest in
mg a growing interest
TOM KONDO
* Hamilton. Farther out- along the
affairs.
jimmie Kawai
ORGANIZATIONS OF
’ Bay are the tall chimneys of the
MARK
FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS
heavy industrial plants—National
ALICE KUWABARA
To meet the social and educaSome mention must be made, in
Steel Car. Hamilton By-Products,
51
.
tional
needs
still
being
felt
by
the
connection
with the present picSteel Company" of Canada, InterGEORGE MASUDA
5 national Harvester -Co., etc., from relocatees. a number of organiza- ture in Hamilton, of the various
i which are emitted endless streams _ tions have been started among Occidental friends who played an
; of smoke, blanketing the. city- 'in them. Probably-the most-livewire important behind-the-scenes role
group among them is rhe Hamil in promoting the welfare of the
: a sooty grey atmosphere.
ton Younger Niseis Organization. relocatees in Hamilton. .Among
i CITY CF RESETTLEMENT
: or Hy-Noters Club for short. As its ■them are -Mr. George S. Brown.
। ■ This :s Hamilton, the industrial
name implies, the club members Mr. and Mrs. Roy D. Allan; Mr.
I city where the recent steel strike are Nisei teen-agers.
G. T. A. Beanyr. Mr. Stan Sneyd.
[ .almost paralyzed the nation’s
The Sophy-Ed Club of the YM Miss Jean Moore. Rev. and Mrs.
[ economy, the ambitious city which
CA, after two years of good rec W. H. Pike. Miss Beulah Graham.
| celebrated its hundred years of ord. is continuing to provide a
DON INOUYE
Miss Frances Hawkins, and a host
i growth this summer with noisy ■ program both interesting and useof other local citizens.
Vai Cote. Or
| centenrial festivities, and, to. us, ful to club members, in
line with
. With, the backing of such
L the city of resettlement where its policy of stressing assimila- friends.
the future of the new
[ over ore thousand Japanese evac- tion.
,
Hamiltonians seems
bright
i uees are making their homes.
Mr. and Mrs.
Following, a similar policy to indeed.
TOM N. MATOBA
l-’-The relocatee population has.
and FAMILY
i seen an erratic growth in the past
two re.
co River Bend Farm
At one time the influx
R.R. No. 1
i was sc sudden and large that the'
ft
Niagara
on the Lake, Ont.
I local newspaper, Hamilton Specta
By
Kaz
Oiye
। tor, commented: "4 to 5 Japanese ’
Canadi -s (are) arriving daily . . .
Another reason is the fact that
HUGO YAMAMOTO
taking ndesirable jobs in the inthe
Nisei
was
practically
unknown
ft
KAZ OIYE had Tashme as the
Mrs. FUSAKO YAMAMOTO
dustrie.
stopover point on his way out
in the east prior to the evacua
East to Hamilton. He is one of
In a-? 'Jal numbers, however, the
560 Col borne St.
tion. and he still remains, to a
the vigorous members of the HyNotera group which bids fair to
one th asand relocatees are lost
large
extent,
an
unknown
quantity
Brantford, Ont.
set a high pace for Nisei leaders
among -.he 200.000 other Hamil
of the future to follow.
as far as the general public is ft
tonians. It may be noted too. that
concerned. And while some east
VIC KADONAGA
the evacuee influx is almost at an
erners were openly hostile against
c
o
Mr.
Ernest Townshend
IKE THE REST of Canada's
end.
R.R. No. 2
the Japanese evacuees and others
younger set, the Nisei teenBayfield, Ont
mawere sympathetic, the
relocatees well
agers like their jive. And that’s
ft
joriry of them were more or less
SCATT RED
why you’re likely to meet some
YUTAKA OGAWA
suspicious, hesitating to accept ft
For ■ - most part, the relocat- of the nicest ‘’hep cats" at
R.R. No. 2
ft
the newcomers too readily.
ees ha J shown good' sense in
West
Montrose, Ont.
•Noters’ meeting in Hamilton.
scatter: s throughout the city.
These factors were obviously
YUKIO ODE
This group of gay and energetic
What 1 le concentration there is
handicaps to the process of
83
Weber St. E.
io cert a areas was due not so Niseis have their share of danc
‘•assimilat’on,"
which
is smKitchener, Ont.
ft
much • choice, but to the fact ing. horseplay and eats, and they
cerely desired by most Niseis.
boast that their meeting is never
SORGE S. BBOWK
that C e wa s
Under these circumstances, an
ft
little alternative dull, but there is also a serious
but to :—ake a home wherever vaorganization such as the Hyside to their activities.
Hamilton. Out.
fancies ■vere available. '
Noters club, which seeks to fos
The Hy^Noters club (the name
Mr. & ‘Mrs. Jinzo TSUCHIDA
. The : vlocatees arriving in Hamter a healthy mental attitude in
and SHIGERU WILLIAM
is
derived
from
“Hamilton
ikon csse, for the most, part, as
the impressionable Nisei teen
204 John St. N.
Younger
Nisei
Organization
”
)
laborer:= in this.essentially indusan important
agers can
Hamilton Ont.
was formed in March, this year,
trial ci- and there has been little
purpose. It is realized, however,
TOSH HASHIMOTO
by the H.y-Noters executive, that
^“'■-aent in their ceonomic • for a serious purpose—that of
52 Kinrade St.
developing the submerged desir
the club fills a transitional need,
-cLg as compared to two years
Hamilton Ont.
able traits in the personality of
which, they believe, will not be
.
he^ire to improve their
the Niser. teen-ager. By work
standing is not
Mr. and Mrs.
felt by the younger Niseis not
ft
lacking, and we
JOHN DESHIMA
ing, towards such an end, it is
The
latter
yet in
ft
11 to take place event163 Rebecca St. E.
believed by the club's backer,
Ua,lF Up to the present, however.
will have ample opportunity for
Hamilton Ont.
ft
Rev. W. H. Pike of the All Peo
close association’ with Occiden
t^5
' beea handicapped by
Mr. & Mrs. GEO. KADINO
ple’s Church, the Niseis could
tal friends in schools and in
Jobs 2?\ M"°'
of
and TEDDY
be assisted greatly towards a
everyday life.
■ 7
^cm. and the occur163 Rebecca St. E.
smooth integration into the Oc
the club
But until such a t
Hamilton Ont.
sieel strike which
cidental society.
is
following
its
present
policy
of
Mad an indirect adft
GRACE YAMAGUCHI
It may be questioned by the developing positive personality
'ou them.
326 Wellington Ave. N.
more active Niseis why others among the present teen-age Nis
Hamilton Ont.
l_*7 °th’r hand' despite the
:
freely
with
eis.
with,
it
is
admitted,
a
liberal
should
hesitate
to
mix
With which the end of
ACE OIKAWA
^s
awaited, it did not the n'on-Nisei society, But there mixture of fun and jive.
123 Tisdale St. N.
bring =
The club has been steered by
Hamilton Ont.
•ous repercussions to the are several difficulties in the way.
reloca
One reason is that: the Nisei. such capable Niseis as the erst ft
"^h-^ ^as due in part
te the ;
Mr. and Mrs.
1 most of them were emerging suddenly from the close while president, Vic Kadonaga
YOSHIZO IRIZAWA
a&t err
(who recently left Hamilton to
252 McNab St. N.
i- direct war indus- ly-knit racial communities of the
ft
West
Coast,
has
a
tendency,
like
continue
his
studie
Hamilton Ont.
7 -ere able to beft
ttv
members
of
other
minority
Collegiate),
vice-pr
Alice
w?!l established in
MR. KIYOHARU SHIMOJI
tb“:
Kuwabara, secretary Grace Yama ft
groups, to throw up a defensive
■^-^t jobs.
and FAMILY
Going T° SCHOOL
shield between himself and the guchi. and treasurer Raymond
355 McNab St. Ni
Hamilton Ont. A
Es^ <103
ft
rest of the-society. He has a fear Moriyama.
H
seems
to
be
a
^tiein his subconscious mind that he
It is hoped ^1 hat . the club can
;Mr. i Mrs. TOSH TONOGAI
importance to the will be discriminated against ifihe continue to enjoy such good lead*.
V
93 Bold St.
’
them are enrolled were to venture from his immehi- ership. as well as the . ■valuable a
’^T. both ’aeaiieinie , . ate^circle mi-friends'. - ■” • - —x'
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TOSH OIKAWA
MAS OKURA
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KIM TAKEDA
TOMI TAKEDA
UCHIDA
DOUG LUM ETSU
MICHI W A K A B A Y A S H ■
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GERALDINE YAMASHIT
EMIKO YANAGAWA
B
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£
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G R A CE Y A M AG UC HI
a
Merry Chrisimas and a Happy New Year «
&
aft
&
HEP-CATS AND PERSONALITY
8
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8
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AM.
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MICKEY TAKEDA
204 John St. N.
Hamilton, Ont.
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AM
8
TETSUO SEKI
357 McNab St. N.
Hamilton, Ont.
s
ft
s
.
ITOKO and TAMA
DESHIMA
134 Charlton Ave. E.
Hamilton, Ont.
FUMI,
Mr. A Mrs. ITSUKI FUJINO
TOM and SHIN
24 Greig St.
Hamilton, Ont.
s
8
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■ 5
AM
8'
■
5-
■
5
ft
MITS TANINO
106 Burton St.
Hamilton. Ont.
ft
S’-
Mr. and Mrs. Y. G. OIKAWA
$
106 Wellington North
Hamilton, Ont.
171
Sherman Ave. N.
Hamilton, Ont.
JEAN SHINTANI
312 James St. N.
Hamilton, Ont.
FRANCES 3 HAWKINS
x 7 . t’ •*—*•✓;
160 Catharine St. S.
Hami
$
MR. & MRS. UZO KOSUGI
AZA, GEORGE & CONNIE
IM
/Mb
ft
51 Kinrade Ave.
Hamilton, Ont.
ifi
JUNSO
FUNAMOTO
50-1 Ontario St.
Hamilton, Ont.
$
5
Mr. and Mrs.
JISABURO MAEDA
57 Murray St. W
Hamilton. Ont.
BOB T. KONDO
HANK K. KONDO
106 Well'ngton North
Hamilton. Ont.
hi
A*
ft
$
AM
$
A*
$
M.
ft'
ft.
MR. 5. MRS. ROY MAS
Hamilton. Ont.
from the MOUNTAIN TOP
up the Wentworth
p the side of Hamilis a long and an are.
But
to the more enefdu one
,o
make
that effort, the
Frtic
well worth while. For.
climb
antage
point at the head
from
one
can look down
of iU stairs.
on th whole of Hamilton which
lies- • i hazy miniature, beneath
-he GUM
I
I
|
|
I
[
f
i a ''rii
C.K. is a young Nisei thinker
who makes his home in the citv
o:
torso murders
and
steel
strikes. An ex-Lemon Creeker ha
is well known for his addiction to
pipes.
and industrial arts courses at
Westdale and Wentworth Techni
cal high schools. Similarly. Nisei
attendance in high schools has
kept pace with the number of new
arrivals in the city.
But it is not only the Niseis
who feel the need for education.
A number of Issei women, realiz
ing the need of English in every
day life, are attending weekly
English classes held at the First
United Church. Coaching them is
Miss Katie Oyama, who enjoys
her work. USays Katie: “It’s fun
teaching, especially when they are
so willing to learn and try so hard
despite the handicap of age and
the fact that they have to start
from scratch.”
Sfasnni (Srprluuw
ft
h
that or the Sophv-E Club is the
B.C. Girts’ Club of
This club for Nisei
s almost disbanded at one time as a
result of marriasres and denar
of its members, but it is now be
ing re-organized with veteran and
new members.
The young married couples, who
have less time for frequent meethave an organization of their
own which meets once a month,
This group began its new term
last month under the able leader
ship of Mr. Bob Miyasaka, with
the support of secretary-treasurer
Mr. Bob Kimoto.
FROM THE
HAMILTON YOUNGER
NISEI ORGANIZATION
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the ex-Vancouverite, the
! seen-' has some resemblance to
ROY HEIKE
' his oi home town as seen from
MIKE HONDA
i atop ’ be Grouse Mountain. The
| Canal Bridge at the right correI spends to the Lion’s Gate Bridge.
The Kyowakai. which created a
| Hamilton Bay is like the Burrard
mild furore in other parts of Can
RUTH ITO
I Inlet with the High Level Bridge
ada by opposing the proposal for
* in a position roughly correspond
a national federation of Japanese
TOYOKO IZUMI
[ ins to the Second Narrows Bridge
Canadians, was originally organ
YURIKO IZUMI
Gin-Vancouver. Oue of • the first
ized to provide entertainment and
EDITH KADONAGA
? objects to catch the eye in the
a meeting place for the Isseis.
KAZ KADONAGA
I city, which lies directly below, is
Recently this group has been takVIC KADONAGA
$
i .the F-gott Building, tallest in
mg a growing interest
TOM KONDO
* Hamilton. Farther out- along the
affairs.
jimmie Kawai
ORGANIZATIONS OF
’ Bay are the tall chimneys of the
MARK
FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS
heavy industrial plants—National
ALICE KUWABARA
To meet the social and educaSome mention must be made, in
Steel Car. Hamilton By-Products,
51
.
tional
needs
still
being
felt
by
the
connection
with the present picSteel Company" of Canada, InterGEORGE MASUDA
5 national Harvester -Co., etc., from relocatees. a number of organiza- ture in Hamilton, of the various
i which are emitted endless streams _ tions have been started among Occidental friends who played an
; of smoke, blanketing the. city- 'in them. Probably-the most-livewire important behind-the-scenes role
group among them is rhe Hamil in promoting the welfare of the
: a sooty grey atmosphere.
ton Younger Niseis Organization. relocatees in Hamilton. .Among
i CITY CF RESETTLEMENT
: or Hy-Noters Club for short. As its ■them are -Mr. George S. Brown.
। ■ This :s Hamilton, the industrial
name implies, the club members Mr. and Mrs. Roy D. Allan; Mr.
I city where the recent steel strike are Nisei teen-agers.
G. T. A. Beanyr. Mr. Stan Sneyd.
[ .almost paralyzed the nation’s
The Sophy-Ed Club of the YM Miss Jean Moore. Rev. and Mrs.
[ economy, the ambitious city which
CA, after two years of good rec W. H. Pike. Miss Beulah Graham.
| celebrated its hundred years of ord. is continuing to provide a
DON INOUYE
Miss Frances Hawkins, and a host
i growth this summer with noisy ■ program both interesting and useof other local citizens.
Vai Cote. Or
| centenrial festivities, and, to. us, ful to club members, in
line with
. With, the backing of such
L the city of resettlement where its policy of stressing assimila- friends.
the future of the new
[ over ore thousand Japanese evac- tion.
,
Hamiltonians seems
bright
i uees are making their homes.
Mr. and Mrs.
Following, a similar policy to indeed.
TOM N. MATOBA
l-’-The relocatee population has.
and FAMILY
i seen an erratic growth in the past
two re.
co River Bend Farm
At one time the influx
R.R. No. 1
i was sc sudden and large that the'
ft
Niagara
on the Lake, Ont.
I local newspaper, Hamilton Specta
By
Kaz
Oiye
। tor, commented: "4 to 5 Japanese ’
Canadi -s (are) arriving daily . . .
Another reason is the fact that
HUGO YAMAMOTO
taking ndesirable jobs in the inthe
Nisei
was
practically
unknown
ft
KAZ OIYE had Tashme as the
Mrs. FUSAKO YAMAMOTO
dustrie.
stopover point on his way out
in the east prior to the evacua
East to Hamilton. He is one of
In a-? 'Jal numbers, however, the
560 Col borne St.
tion. and he still remains, to a
the vigorous members of the HyNotera group which bids fair to
one th asand relocatees are lost
large
extent,
an
unknown
quantity
Brantford, Ont.
set a high pace for Nisei leaders
among -.he 200.000 other Hamil
of the future to follow.
as far as the general public is ft
tonians. It may be noted too. that
concerned. And while some east
VIC KADONAGA
the evacuee influx is almost at an
erners were openly hostile against
c
o
Mr.
Ernest Townshend
IKE THE REST of Canada's
end.
R.R. No. 2
the Japanese evacuees and others
younger set, the Nisei teenBayfield, Ont
mawere sympathetic, the
relocatees well
agers like their jive. And that’s
ft
joriry of them were more or less
SCATT RED
why you’re likely to meet some
YUTAKA OGAWA
suspicious, hesitating to accept ft
For ■ - most part, the relocat- of the nicest ‘’hep cats" at
R.R. No. 2
ft
the newcomers too readily.
ees ha J shown good' sense in
West
Montrose, Ont.
•Noters’ meeting in Hamilton.
scatter: s throughout the city.
These factors were obviously
YUKIO ODE
This group of gay and energetic
What 1 le concentration there is
handicaps to the process of
83
Weber St. E.
io cert a areas was due not so Niseis have their share of danc
‘•assimilat’on,"
which
is smKitchener, Ont.
ft
much • choice, but to the fact ing. horseplay and eats, and they
cerely desired by most Niseis.
boast that their meeting is never
SORGE S. BBOWK
that C e wa s
Under these circumstances, an
ft
little alternative dull, but there is also a serious
but to :—ake a home wherever vaorganization such as the Hyside to their activities.
Hamilton. Out.
fancies ■vere available. '
Noters club, which seeks to fos
The Hy^Noters club (the name
Mr. & ‘Mrs. Jinzo TSUCHIDA
. The : vlocatees arriving in Hamter a healthy mental attitude in
and SHIGERU WILLIAM
is
derived
from
“Hamilton
ikon csse, for the most, part, as
the impressionable Nisei teen
204 John St. N.
Younger
Nisei
Organization
”
)
laborer:= in this.essentially indusan important
agers can
Hamilton Ont.
was formed in March, this year,
trial ci- and there has been little
purpose. It is realized, however,
TOSH HASHIMOTO
by the H.y-Noters executive, that
^“'■-aent in their ceonomic • for a serious purpose—that of
52 Kinrade St.
developing the submerged desir
the club fills a transitional need,
-cLg as compared to two years
Hamilton Ont.
able traits in the personality of
which, they believe, will not be
.
he^ire to improve their
the Niser. teen-ager. By work
standing is not
Mr. and Mrs.
felt by the younger Niseis not
ft
lacking, and we
JOHN DESHIMA
ing, towards such an end, it is
The
latter
yet in
ft
11 to take place event163 Rebecca St. E.
believed by the club's backer,
Ua,lF Up to the present, however.
will have ample opportunity for
Hamilton Ont.
ft
Rev. W. H. Pike of the All Peo
close association’ with Occiden
t^5
' beea handicapped by
Mr. & Mrs. GEO. KADINO
ple’s Church, the Niseis could
tal friends in schools and in
Jobs 2?\ M"°'
of
and TEDDY
be assisted greatly towards a
everyday life.
■ 7
^cm. and the occur163 Rebecca St. E.
smooth integration into the Oc
the club
But until such a t
Hamilton Ont.
sieel strike which
cidental society.
is
following
its
present
policy
of
Mad an indirect adft
GRACE YAMAGUCHI
It may be questioned by the developing positive personality
'ou them.
326 Wellington Ave. N.
more active Niseis why others among the present teen-age Nis
Hamilton Ont.
l_*7 °th’r hand' despite the
:
freely
with
eis.
with,
it
is
admitted,
a
liberal
should
hesitate
to
mix
With which the end of
ACE OIKAWA
^s
awaited, it did not the n'on-Nisei society, But there mixture of fun and jive.
123 Tisdale St. N.
bring =
The club has been steered by
Hamilton Ont.
•ous repercussions to the are several difficulties in the way.
reloca
One reason is that: the Nisei. such capable Niseis as the erst ft
"^h-^ ^as due in part
te the ;
Mr. and Mrs.
1 most of them were emerging suddenly from the close while president, Vic Kadonaga
YOSHIZO IRIZAWA
a&t err
(who recently left Hamilton to
252 McNab St. N.
i- direct war indus- ly-knit racial communities of the
ft
West
Coast,
has
a
tendency,
like
continue
his
studie
Hamilton Ont.
7 -ere able to beft
ttv
members
of
other
minority
Collegiate),
vice-pr
Alice
w?!l established in
MR. KIYOHARU SHIMOJI
tb“:
Kuwabara, secretary Grace Yama ft
groups, to throw up a defensive
■^-^t jobs.
and FAMILY
Going T° SCHOOL
shield between himself and the guchi. and treasurer Raymond
355 McNab St. Ni
Hamilton Ont. A
Es^ <103
ft
rest of the-society. He has a fear Moriyama.
H
seems
to
be
a
^tiein his subconscious mind that he
It is hoped ^1 hat . the club can
;Mr. i Mrs. TOSH TONOGAI
importance to the will be discriminated against ifihe continue to enjoy such good lead*.
V
93 Bold St.
’
them are enrolled were to venture from his immehi- ership. as well as the . ■valuable a
’^T. both ’aeaiieinie , . ate^circle mi-friends'. - ■” • - —x'
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Page 21
d
Page 22
TN 1922 Jimmy -was rhe Young
longer alone in a cold emptiness.
Man with-a. Future.
Someone cared enough to ask, as
.if
it was the most important matIn 1932 ;he ' w^s a* man with: a
ter,: how she was. The tender
'past.
vines
of her affection curled
Jimmy climbed the heights and
around
the gentleness of-Jimmy.
knew the depths of. human ex
perience.
From the depths of High school student. Some days,
dishonor, from the bed of a wast she was not out in the middle of
the sidewalk, waiting eagerly: she
ing illness, he set his eyes on the
was hidden in the shadow of the
peaks, ready to. climb again. In
brick wall, her heart sore, her
rhe flesh he did not get there, but
stomach empty of food, when sun
in the spirit he did.
light seemed cruellj’ to emphasize
Every time Sue remembered
her sick hunger. She would still
him, that memory was another
feel Ba-chan’s stinging slap on
candle lit to illumine the im
her face, hear the slammed door
perishable quality of his peculiar
that shut her out from shelter and
genius. Other people must have
food.
When Jimmy came and
known these facets of his life, yet
called to her, she would yearn to
they stood out in Sue’s mind
confide in him, though she dared
above other things-because of the
not, but ..the tenderness in his
threadbare quality of her child
voice would break down the wall
hood.
of her desolation and she -would
Sue was ten, a very dirty and
sob heart-brokenly against his
sweaty ten, when she saw Jimmy
shoulders. Years and years later
again, when he was at the zenith
Sue could hear the tones of his
of his young career. From an old
voice deepened, trembling almost.
vacant lot she saw him swinging
“Su-chan . . . Su-chan . . . tell
down the street with the fine free
Jimmy.. . . what happened? Were
stride of confidence and power, so
you
naughty? Did Ba-chan spank
she called:
you?
Did she lock you out again
"Jimmy . . . Jimmy . . ."
At her squeaky voice he stop without lunch? There . . . Su-chan
don’t cry.”
ped, turned, and waited as she ran
towards him, her tangled hair and
Once Su-chan saw the terrible
faded dress flying in the breeze.
look that flashed in his eyes, but
Dirt, sweat and all, he caught
she knew instinctively that it
her up in strong young arms with
wasn’t.- for her. How could she
a warm boisterous laugh.
explain when she didn’t know her
"Why Su-chan . . . How you
self what she had done to be
have grown! Det’s get some ice ..slapped for, and how could she
cream. Would you like that?”
' say in'childish words:
That was the last time Sue saw
VThat old woman hates to be
Jimmy with his dreams still
burdened with my care, and she
bright in his clear, unclouded
takes out her irritation on me, to
eyes. Not that a child of ten
spite my mother who is unable to
would look so deeply into a man’s ; care for me just now.”
eyes, but retrospect brings back
Then he would take out his
a truth imprinted indelibly on 1
”
rumpled
handkerchief to wipe her
the subconscious mind of Su-chan.
: tears.
In a small city on the banks of
“Come on, Su-chan ... . let’s
a river, when Su-chan was only
find Mr. Tak. He wiil have some
seven years old, she used to wait
money, and we’ll get you some
every day for Jimmy. This was
thing.to eat.”
the high, moment for a thin, and
lonely child.
She would begin
Hand in hand they would stroll
waiting practically from the noon
down the street to the Poolroom
hour, concentrating her whole
where Mr. Tak worked. Su-chan
soul for the lovely hour when she
thought Mr. Tak was a very nice
could look up into an affectionate
old man, but Jimmy was the best.
face, know warmth and happiness
The two men would take Su-chan
from the kindest man in her
to a little store that had two tea
world. It was wonderful when he
tables, and. fill her little stomach
bent his knee so - that his eyes
with crackers and milk and cup
would be on a level with her own
cakes. Expanded with food and
as he asked with grave concern:
care she would beam at them
"How are you today, Su-chan?
adoringly, their masculine and
Have you been a good girl?”
adult comments completely un
intelligible to her.
Then Su-chan felt she was no
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Mr. and
Mrs.
SHUICHI SASAKI
and FAMILY
136 Oakpark Ave.
8
Toronto, Ont.
Mr. and Mrs.
S. YAMASAKI
and FAMILY
MISS YONE MATSUI
MARTHA YAMAZAKI
164 St. Clair Ave. E.
Toronto, Ont.
8”
105 Nassau St.
Toronto, Ont.
8
Mr. and Mrs.
KUNIO SHIMIZU
19 Grandview Ave.
8
I
S
Toronto 6, Ont.
Mr. and Mrs. E. KITAGAWA
and FAMILY
Toronto 13, Ont.
&
a
Mrs. H. F. WOODSWORTH
54 Admiral Rd. ;
Toronto 5 Ont.
HIDEO SAKAMOTO
382 Dundas St. E.
Toronto, Ont.
ROY MATSUI
8
8
JOHN MIURA
TAD MIURA
107 River St.
Toronto
WATCHMAKER
63 Foxley St.
Toronto 3. Ont.
8
.8
SADAICHI ARAI
TEIKO ARAI
DOUGLAS K. ARAI
MARJORIE J. ARAI
THOMAS K. ARAI
3077 Danforth Ave., Toronto 13
Mr. and Mrs.
SHIGERU ASADA
219 Jarvis St.
Toronto, Ont.
JACK & MARY HEMMY
10 Phoebe St.
Toronto 2-B. Ont.
SHIRLEY MORITA
PAUL MORITA
JIMMY MORITA
85 Oxford St.
Toronto
Mr. 1 Mrs. NIHEI OTSUKI
and FAMILY
210 Gainsborough Road
——~ Toronto 8. Ont.
Mr. and Mrs.
JOHNNY TANAKA
15 Howland Ave.
Toronto,: OnL
5
8
i
that happened
could erase from her mind
the memory of thos happ: times.
w-hen two people, a tudent and a
poolroom attendant, fed her hunaffection.
for
food
Jimmy went on to the university
to become the brilliant, charming,
handsome Young Man With a
Future. Su-chan grew up and be
came Sue. However, much had
changed in the ten years that had
passed from the day when she
hailed him from the playing fields
in 1922.
itics. she and Jimmy orten worked
side by side. At these times some
thing of the old intimacy would
come back, and he would confide
a few of his thoughts to her! making for a cameraderie that was
almost as good as she had known
as a child,, except for the under
tone of a sardonic
Often Sue would recollect scraps
of gossip she had heard as a child,
but she never once asked him a
direct question about his private
life.
enhancing
life. Ska explains’ Brother aid Farewell'
. on true happenH^.’”
something
20W Wj;
accumulated po
oi 16i
tured years:
the loss of health the weatyJ
turned too long on itself, the
body. Once Jimmy had hn^J
claim from
public. No;
was a forgotten man. waki2JJ
pity and scorn for his -dj
estate. Thus passes the slon]
this world.
'1
“Jimmy-san- will be ruined by
Takako if he is not careful.”
“That- woman is arrogant. She
will force the issue.'’
“All she wants is a brilliant
career so she can shine, just be
Life dealt Jimmy a body-bid
cause she went to a fine school in . . . a knockout. W ho care* ky
Japan, and talks like a peeress.”
caused his downfall? Let tQ
“.Sjie voiced she would marry only who remember it remember.sd
It was Jimmy, yes . . . but .what a man with a college degree, who that even in defeat Jimmy’s^
will enter the diplomatic corps. . filled life wa
a changed man'
ghter than &
Jimmy-san is obviously the only
dull,
incomprehension
of
She took in his bld raincoat, his.
man to fit the bill.”
minds. Sue was shocked thtfe
lined and haggard face, his whole
“
But
he's
not
graduated
yet
.
.
.
childhood’s hero could tall hr
air of broken-down shabbiness.
become
something
in
thi
the
gutter. ; Jimmv disappears;
and
to
She saw these things incidentally,
out of' the public eye. and d
for she was unreservedly glad to country or anywhere, for that
matter, he will have to go higher month; and months Sue did he
see him again after ten years.
still, get a doctorate, a Ph.D. de know where he was. No o;
“Jimmy . .
gree. He's Japanese and can’t get seemed to care.
“I beg your pardon? I'm afraid anywhere in this country.”
Sue wished desperately to mat
I haven’t the pleasure .' : ..”
“He ca-n’t support her.”
up to Jimmy the awful Emelins
“She says she'll work to ' the that he must feel, rejected ad
He turned his blank gaze on
bone
to earn money Ao get his wras by his .peers •and infers:
her, < glancing ' at her: with’ polite
with careless condescension a
disinterest. - Slowly his thoughts Ph.D.”
S
ay
She
“
That
’
s
what
she
contempt. There was no thoug I
came around to this eager young
won't stick. If he stop: schooling
of "sticking,” of a show of ser
woman, for Sue was caught in
now
he
’
ll
never
achieve
his
goal.
ous forgiveness on her part.
the richest memories of her child
a
He
’
ll
be
like
the
rest
of
us
was outraged memories of a you:
hood and must have presented
ivork-horse.
”
’
Jimmy soothing a sobbing f
quite a- picture to ,a disillusioned
“
It
’
s
awonder
he
can
’
t
see'
that
chan.
i
man. But Sue’s assurance faltered
when
.he
says
he
will
look
after
Then Sue found him-again,: ^
uneasily- when she saw something
her
if
her
family
kicks
her
out
the Public Library, of all unlike S
like a leer mar his face.; She hastened to say, the words tumbling for this scandal.”
places.
“When- you got that kind of
out in a rush:
She had turned the corner ot
. brains . f . you either become a
stack
.of books when she bun:':
’I’m Sue . . . remember? . .
'great professor . . . or die a foot.
into him. Her first feeling w^i |
used to feed me. . . . I mean . . .
“This kind of thing always hap
last I’ve found you!" but ft
back in . . . You and Mr. Tak . . .”
pens to a man like that. He gets
8
“Sue. H'm.” Recognition dawned all romantic, and because he him she saw his seediness, she toslowly as he leaned forward. self has no pettiness he can't'see horrified. If she was surprised!
his change when she saw him £
“Why, of coure, Su-chan!”
such fault in her. Ready to make Main Street, his looks now mat
“Yes.”. Sue’s honest gladness a- tragic heroine out of .her 'and
her weep within her heart. Jims
shone in her eyes.
sacrifice
whole career for was unshaven, and actually griEj“Su-chan . ; , how you have this.”
A cold cigarette hung from Is
“What a cursed woman!”
grown. (Had she not heard that
lips, which were pressed thinly
“Tha-t comes of educating wo- He had several books under to g
before?) Into quite a charming
men too much. Think they are
young lady.”
arms, and without even turnip
too
good for the work-a-day fel- his head. muttered an apology |
There was a sting in the comlow. Poor Jimmy-san.”
pliment Sue had not heard from
Sue caught at his arm.
Later
.
him before, and it hurt her, oddly.
"Jimmy . . .”
“Well .
tnat Jimmy-san and
His slight sarcasm brought a flush
He
turned swiftly, and bae
to her sallow cheeks; neverthe Takako are still in that west coast
village. Fighting and quarrelling away. There was horror in i
less she held her ground, gazing
eyes, as if he had been traptv.
tooth and nail.”
into his gray and bitter face. He
and bow
“Bookkeeper for fishing com Shuffling his feet.
fumbled at his worn hat in a for
apologies,
be ne:
whispering ;
gotten gesture of greeting, he, who pany ivhen he might have been a
Watching him run out, Sue &■
used to treat her as a big, warm great man!”
the
ashes choking her throat
“They say he's a heavy gambler
hearted brother would have done.
Another time, she saw him j*
2'
She saw him quite often after a nd d rin her no w ”
into a dark side street, so she
“His kind always get T.B.”
that, for he was working in the
“She didn't help him get a de off the street-car in a hurry, k
city now, and taking a leading,
gree after all. eh? Never thought she lost sight of him. Sbe^e
part in the newly-risen Nisei con
■ she would anyway. That’s a wo her discovery to herself. Sbe*<?sciousness. As Sue also was much
dered .what he was doing uo-j
man for you.”
interested in the rise of Nisei pol“He could have left her and why he ran from her. ana ^
worked as he studied. Why didn't and on what he was subsist
*1
mon^
he? Heard that it was she u'ho The days passed till the■ with
i^
was going to leave .him, him be- a letter from him
postman.
ing a failure.”
“Who made him fail?”
The Buddkid p~
Dear
verb, “Jigokude Hotoke:\ (1n Bp
Ta'Every time Sue saw
kako. she felt a burning hatred an Angel)-comes forcibly
for her. This selfish, vain w:oman m ind as .I think of the ere
•ar
with you in the city library
B; had taken Jimmy from, his future,
$
drained him of happiness and en is. of course, my mental sta
ergy.‘till he was a husk of bitter not the library tha-t ?-taste. Takako had kept her. looks, with, the Hellher smooth skin and shapely
I had always intiended to ^
hands. Her vocabulary wa still
to you to express bo
■tei ^
^
ultra lady-like. Just the same her and still am for hat
rottenness lurked in her eyes, and a blundering -idiot,
because Sue felt it there, she saw intended to wigte ya ; yet.
y obliO^k'
it there.
til I had fully met ?
413 Sackville
hemo. One day Takako left, for Japan." and retrieved my
otea
Toronto
sue never knew, nor asked, it she chance encounter prom
•w had gone with his consent. That stray from the oriya
H. D. Morishita
was the last of her and- her affec Hgtoks seemed to tell
ter do ‘it yrioir. Patn
tations. Sue found fierce joy in
Si
. her going. Now Jimmy-could rna^ ^ved £^h. 9°%^^
\
Late in 1932, Sue was trotting
down Main Street in her shiny
new high-heeled shoes. She was
twenty, medium height, just like
any other young lady of her means
. . . not too good, but not bad. She
she
glanced
around.
because
thought that a once-familiar face.
I
3
a*»
a
OWaAiztta School
longer alone in a cold emptiness.
Man with-a. Future.
Someone cared enough to ask, as
.if
it was the most important matIn 1932 ;he ' w^s a* man with: a
ter,: how she was. The tender
'past.
vines
of her affection curled
Jimmy climbed the heights and
around
the gentleness of-Jimmy.
knew the depths of. human ex
perience.
From the depths of High school student. Some days,
dishonor, from the bed of a wast she was not out in the middle of
the sidewalk, waiting eagerly: she
ing illness, he set his eyes on the
was hidden in the shadow of the
peaks, ready to. climb again. In
brick wall, her heart sore, her
rhe flesh he did not get there, but
stomach empty of food, when sun
in the spirit he did.
light seemed cruellj’ to emphasize
Every time Sue remembered
her sick hunger. She would still
him, that memory was another
feel Ba-chan’s stinging slap on
candle lit to illumine the im
her face, hear the slammed door
perishable quality of his peculiar
that shut her out from shelter and
genius. Other people must have
food.
When Jimmy came and
known these facets of his life, yet
called to her, she would yearn to
they stood out in Sue’s mind
confide in him, though she dared
above other things-because of the
not, but ..the tenderness in his
threadbare quality of her child
voice would break down the wall
hood.
of her desolation and she -would
Sue was ten, a very dirty and
sob heart-brokenly against his
sweaty ten, when she saw Jimmy
shoulders. Years and years later
again, when he was at the zenith
Sue could hear the tones of his
of his young career. From an old
voice deepened, trembling almost.
vacant lot she saw him swinging
“Su-chan . . . Su-chan . . . tell
down the street with the fine free
Jimmy.. . . what happened? Were
stride of confidence and power, so
you
naughty? Did Ba-chan spank
she called:
you?
Did she lock you out again
"Jimmy . . . Jimmy . . ."
At her squeaky voice he stop without lunch? There . . . Su-chan
don’t cry.”
ped, turned, and waited as she ran
towards him, her tangled hair and
Once Su-chan saw the terrible
faded dress flying in the breeze.
look that flashed in his eyes, but
Dirt, sweat and all, he caught
she knew instinctively that it
her up in strong young arms with
wasn’t.- for her. How could she
a warm boisterous laugh.
explain when she didn’t know her
"Why Su-chan . . . How you
self what she had done to be
have grown! Det’s get some ice ..slapped for, and how could she
cream. Would you like that?”
' say in'childish words:
That was the last time Sue saw
VThat old woman hates to be
Jimmy with his dreams still
burdened with my care, and she
bright in his clear, unclouded
takes out her irritation on me, to
eyes. Not that a child of ten
spite my mother who is unable to
would look so deeply into a man’s ; care for me just now.”
eyes, but retrospect brings back
Then he would take out his
a truth imprinted indelibly on 1
”
rumpled
handkerchief to wipe her
the subconscious mind of Su-chan.
: tears.
In a small city on the banks of
“Come on, Su-chan ... . let’s
a river, when Su-chan was only
find Mr. Tak. He wiil have some
seven years old, she used to wait
money, and we’ll get you some
every day for Jimmy. This was
thing.to eat.”
the high, moment for a thin, and
lonely child.
She would begin
Hand in hand they would stroll
waiting practically from the noon
down the street to the Poolroom
hour, concentrating her whole
where Mr. Tak worked. Su-chan
soul for the lovely hour when she
thought Mr. Tak was a very nice
could look up into an affectionate
old man, but Jimmy was the best.
face, know warmth and happiness
The two men would take Su-chan
from the kindest man in her
to a little store that had two tea
world. It was wonderful when he
tables, and. fill her little stomach
bent his knee so - that his eyes
with crackers and milk and cup
would be on a level with her own
cakes. Expanded with food and
as he asked with grave concern:
care she would beam at them
"How are you today, Su-chan?
adoringly, their masculine and
Have you been a good girl?”
adult comments completely un
intelligible to her.
Then Su-chan felt she was no
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Mr. and
Mrs.
SHUICHI SASAKI
and FAMILY
136 Oakpark Ave.
8
Toronto, Ont.
Mr. and Mrs.
S. YAMASAKI
and FAMILY
MISS YONE MATSUI
MARTHA YAMAZAKI
164 St. Clair Ave. E.
Toronto, Ont.
8”
105 Nassau St.
Toronto, Ont.
8
Mr. and Mrs.
KUNIO SHIMIZU
19 Grandview Ave.
8
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Toronto 6, Ont.
Mr. and Mrs. E. KITAGAWA
and FAMILY
Toronto 13, Ont.
&
a
Mrs. H. F. WOODSWORTH
54 Admiral Rd. ;
Toronto 5 Ont.
HIDEO SAKAMOTO
382 Dundas St. E.
Toronto, Ont.
ROY MATSUI
8
8
JOHN MIURA
TAD MIURA
107 River St.
Toronto
WATCHMAKER
63 Foxley St.
Toronto 3. Ont.
8
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SADAICHI ARAI
TEIKO ARAI
DOUGLAS K. ARAI
MARJORIE J. ARAI
THOMAS K. ARAI
3077 Danforth Ave., Toronto 13
Mr. and Mrs.
SHIGERU ASADA
219 Jarvis St.
Toronto, Ont.
JACK & MARY HEMMY
10 Phoebe St.
Toronto 2-B. Ont.
SHIRLEY MORITA
PAUL MORITA
JIMMY MORITA
85 Oxford St.
Toronto
Mr. 1 Mrs. NIHEI OTSUKI
and FAMILY
210 Gainsborough Road
——~ Toronto 8. Ont.
Mr. and Mrs.
JOHNNY TANAKA
15 Howland Ave.
Toronto,: OnL
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i
that happened
could erase from her mind
the memory of thos happ: times.
w-hen two people, a tudent and a
poolroom attendant, fed her hunaffection.
for
food
Jimmy went on to the university
to become the brilliant, charming,
handsome Young Man With a
Future. Su-chan grew up and be
came Sue. However, much had
changed in the ten years that had
passed from the day when she
hailed him from the playing fields
in 1922.
itics. she and Jimmy orten worked
side by side. At these times some
thing of the old intimacy would
come back, and he would confide
a few of his thoughts to her! making for a cameraderie that was
almost as good as she had known
as a child,, except for the under
tone of a sardonic
Often Sue would recollect scraps
of gossip she had heard as a child,
but she never once asked him a
direct question about his private
life.
enhancing
life. Ska explains’ Brother aid Farewell'
. on true happenH^.’”
something
20W Wj;
accumulated po
oi 16i
tured years:
the loss of health the weatyJ
turned too long on itself, the
body. Once Jimmy had hn^J
claim from
public. No;
was a forgotten man. waki2JJ
pity and scorn for his -dj
estate. Thus passes the slon]
this world.
'1
“Jimmy-san- will be ruined by
Takako if he is not careful.”
“That- woman is arrogant. She
will force the issue.'’
“All she wants is a brilliant
career so she can shine, just be
Life dealt Jimmy a body-bid
cause she went to a fine school in . . . a knockout. W ho care* ky
Japan, and talks like a peeress.”
caused his downfall? Let tQ
“.Sjie voiced she would marry only who remember it remember.sd
It was Jimmy, yes . . . but .what a man with a college degree, who that even in defeat Jimmy’s^
will enter the diplomatic corps. . filled life wa
a changed man'
ghter than &
Jimmy-san is obviously the only
dull,
incomprehension
of
She took in his bld raincoat, his.
man to fit the bill.”
minds. Sue was shocked thtfe
lined and haggard face, his whole
“
But
he's
not
graduated
yet
.
.
.
childhood’s hero could tall hr
air of broken-down shabbiness.
become
something
in
thi
the
gutter. ; Jimmv disappears;
and
to
She saw these things incidentally,
out of' the public eye. and d
for she was unreservedly glad to country or anywhere, for that
matter, he will have to go higher month; and months Sue did he
see him again after ten years.
still, get a doctorate, a Ph.D. de know where he was. No o;
“Jimmy . .
gree. He's Japanese and can’t get seemed to care.
“I beg your pardon? I'm afraid anywhere in this country.”
Sue wished desperately to mat
I haven’t the pleasure .' : ..”
“He ca-n’t support her.”
up to Jimmy the awful Emelins
“She says she'll work to ' the that he must feel, rejected ad
He turned his blank gaze on
bone
to earn money Ao get his wras by his .peers •and infers:
her, < glancing ' at her: with’ polite
with careless condescension a
disinterest. - Slowly his thoughts Ph.D.”
S
ay
She
“
That
’
s
what
she
contempt. There was no thoug I
came around to this eager young
won't stick. If he stop: schooling
of "sticking,” of a show of ser
woman, for Sue was caught in
now
he
’
ll
never
achieve
his
goal.
ous forgiveness on her part.
the richest memories of her child
a
He
’
ll
be
like
the
rest
of
us
was outraged memories of a you:
hood and must have presented
ivork-horse.
”
’
Jimmy soothing a sobbing f
quite a- picture to ,a disillusioned
“
It
’
s
awonder
he
can
’
t
see'
that
chan.
i
man. But Sue’s assurance faltered
when
.he
says
he
will
look
after
Then Sue found him-again,: ^
uneasily- when she saw something
her
if
her
family
kicks
her
out
the Public Library, of all unlike S
like a leer mar his face.; She hastened to say, the words tumbling for this scandal.”
places.
“When- you got that kind of
out in a rush:
She had turned the corner ot
. brains . f . you either become a
stack
.of books when she bun:':
’I’m Sue . . . remember? . .
'great professor . . . or die a foot.
into him. Her first feeling w^i |
used to feed me. . . . I mean . . .
“This kind of thing always hap
last I’ve found you!" but ft
back in . . . You and Mr. Tak . . .”
pens to a man like that. He gets
8
“Sue. H'm.” Recognition dawned all romantic, and because he him she saw his seediness, she toslowly as he leaned forward. self has no pettiness he can't'see horrified. If she was surprised!
his change when she saw him £
“Why, of coure, Su-chan!”
such fault in her. Ready to make Main Street, his looks now mat
“Yes.”. Sue’s honest gladness a- tragic heroine out of .her 'and
her weep within her heart. Jims
shone in her eyes.
sacrifice
whole career for was unshaven, and actually griEj“Su-chan . ; , how you have this.”
A cold cigarette hung from Is
“What a cursed woman!”
grown. (Had she not heard that
lips, which were pressed thinly
“Tha-t comes of educating wo- He had several books under to g
before?) Into quite a charming
men too much. Think they are
young lady.”
arms, and without even turnip
too
good for the work-a-day fel- his head. muttered an apology |
There was a sting in the comlow. Poor Jimmy-san.”
pliment Sue had not heard from
Sue caught at his arm.
Later
.
him before, and it hurt her, oddly.
"Jimmy . . .”
“Well .
tnat Jimmy-san and
His slight sarcasm brought a flush
He
turned swiftly, and bae
to her sallow cheeks; neverthe Takako are still in that west coast
village. Fighting and quarrelling away. There was horror in i
less she held her ground, gazing
eyes, as if he had been traptv.
tooth and nail.”
into his gray and bitter face. He
and bow
“Bookkeeper for fishing com Shuffling his feet.
fumbled at his worn hat in a for
apologies,
be ne:
whispering ;
gotten gesture of greeting, he, who pany ivhen he might have been a
Watching him run out, Sue &■
used to treat her as a big, warm great man!”
the
ashes choking her throat
“They say he's a heavy gambler
hearted brother would have done.
Another time, she saw him j*
2'
She saw him quite often after a nd d rin her no w ”
into a dark side street, so she
“His kind always get T.B.”
that, for he was working in the
“She didn't help him get a de off the street-car in a hurry, k
city now, and taking a leading,
gree after all. eh? Never thought she lost sight of him. Sbe^e
part in the newly-risen Nisei con
■ she would anyway. That’s a wo her discovery to herself. Sbe*<?sciousness. As Sue also was much
dered .what he was doing uo-j
man for you.”
interested in the rise of Nisei pol“He could have left her and why he ran from her. ana ^
worked as he studied. Why didn't and on what he was subsist
*1
mon^
he? Heard that it was she u'ho The days passed till the■ with
i^
was going to leave .him, him be- a letter from him
postman.
ing a failure.”
“Who made him fail?”
The Buddkid p~
Dear
verb, “Jigokude Hotoke:\ (1n Bp
Ta'Every time Sue saw
kako. she felt a burning hatred an Angel)-comes forcibly
for her. This selfish, vain w:oman m ind as .I think of the ere
•ar
with you in the city library
B; had taken Jimmy from, his future,
$
drained him of happiness and en is. of course, my mental sta
ergy.‘till he was a husk of bitter not the library tha-t ?-taste. Takako had kept her. looks, with, the Hellher smooth skin and shapely
I had always intiended to ^
hands. Her vocabulary wa still
to you to express bo
■tei ^
^
ultra lady-like. Just the same her and still am for hat
rottenness lurked in her eyes, and a blundering -idiot,
because Sue felt it there, she saw intended to wigte ya ; yet.
y obliO^k'
it there.
til I had fully met ?
413 Sackville
hemo. One day Takako left, for Japan." and retrieved my
otea
Toronto
sue never knew, nor asked, it she chance encounter prom
•w had gone with his consent. That stray from the oriya
H. D. Morishita
was the last of her and- her affec Hgtoks seemed to tell
ter do ‘it yrioir. Patn
tations. Sue found fierce joy in
Si
. her going. Now Jimmy-could rna^ ^ved £^h. 9°%^^
\
Late in 1932, Sue was trotting
down Main Street in her shiny
new high-heeled shoes. She was
twenty, medium height, just like
any other young lady of her means
. . . not too good, but not bad. She
she
glanced
around.
because
thought that a once-familiar face.
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Page Twensy-tkree
Lturday. December 21, 1946
Ja/tzuielL!
warted this letter, but
Ij started
blu difficult to give e-x.wssiem to what I feel and wish
; a v e b een so ash a med
J sdy
J lived in hell.
f irbo
.
p.-rhaP^ I should not have writqv'this letter at all. for there is
X great advantage in being ren-yrded
scoundrel by all.
there will. then, be no danger of
Orting anybody mo matter what
Mt do. There is tw> greater sorthan to disappoint those who
flight well of you. Eor am I
efficiently recovered from the.
torching sense of shame. . . . L n1 have, regained my selfaspect. . - ■
Jimmy.
Answermg ax once. Sue invited
to rail on her. but he wrote
gain:
Dear hue Your invitation has
one lied me to the core, but for
;if present I must denymyseif.
I aw afraid the old. spirit of
taring is deserting me. I used to
>? afraid of nothing. Oue of these
lays. 1 shall be catling on you, all
’filed up. beaming with pride
iifi satisfaction w my accomilishmciits. . . •
By
Sue Sada
than usual so I quickly sei- d mu
pen. for such an opportunity may
not come again for a long time.
.At night I sometimes wonder how
long I can hold out. I have at
best a 50-50 ciwin.ee of recovery.
But tomorrow is a vast uncertain
ty, and I thought I must write to
you once while I still had the e;:to be.
ergy- - - • H-rmi is to b
So let us not fret and pine but
face the future with n st
whatever it may have' in store
He ' was moved to the big city
hospital* after much wire-pulling
by a very good Occidental friend.
He, Jimmy, had two such friends.
The other one was a professor in
a faraway university. This profes
sor sent Jimmy a monthly cheque
for small expenses like letter pa
per. stamps; etc. Jimmy spoke of
them as “better friends a man
couldn't- have." Jimmy was veryill and the move from the Island
to the mainland had not made him
any better. He .would not see Sue.
He asked her to write, send him
“sushi." hut wait till he was some
what better before attempting to
see him. The nurse at the desk
too
admitted that he really
weak to-have visitors unless they
were his family.
cared they for the man.who had
cried out in the agony of selfaccusation’.
A fierce rage at them boiled up
in her as she gazed into their
closed and solemn faces. How
dared they be so smug in their
goodness? How paltry their untempted virtue’ How shameful
righteousness I
their conscious
From the depths of her anger and
personal loss. Sue spoke:
"Once, this man had a brilliant
future. Now he is dead. What his
achievements might have been,
who can tell? I only remember
him as the kindest, man I knew,
who shared his little with a lonely
child. He had faults. Who has
not? What right have we or anyone to judge him?"
Sue’s voice broke, and now she
wept without sound, her tears
spilling from her cheeks onto her
coat. She stood there, unable to
go on. with all she wanted to say
in defence of the dead. Blindly
she groped back to her place.
This was the passing of Jimmy.
Sue was* tormented by the in
completeness of his life. He had
once dreamed of being a Ph.P„
a writer on political science and
economics. He had tried to wake
the. Nisei to their splendid heri
tage. to their responsibilties as
citizens of Canada . . . he. Jimmy,
an alien. He had died under a
cloud, his name and reputation
still hedged with whispering ru
mors. - -
a d^ar friend of mine. The re
morse is for the things I might
have done, but didn’t'do. I didn’t
know he was ill until last spring.
The bitterness results from a con
tempt for the intolerable bigotry
a
of mu fellow-countrymen .
bigotry which denied a dear friend
the position ana comforts his undoubted qua lifloat ions inerited.
Merry Christmas
Mr. and Mrs.
ROGER OSATA
34-6 Merton St.
Ironically enough. I had already
taken steps to assure Jimmy's fu
ture. My depart mental chief had
agreed to accept him. as a full
candidate for graduate work ii;
return for his presence here from
January Axi May. The rest of the
time- lie could have spent in earn
ing an. income. With my assist
ance. he could have taken his doc
torate and emir red, fully qualified,
upon a career of economic ana' po
litical journalism. it was his
cherished dream. \row the bubble
is broken, arid- the dream has
given way to a nightmare.
5
ROY USHIJIMA
GEORGE TAKAHASHI
107 River St.
Toronto. Ont.
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M. R. UY ENG
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tunning tor
weired your
another reason. I
ar mg way to a lecture
Glancing hastily at it. I mistookyour writing jor Jimmy
iiia the return address. I thought
26 RoIyat St
SUS and INA HOTTA
and ALAN
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hospital! Then I opened the let
ter and found him dead. I hope
my class forgives me jor toe l< cfare ... I don't rente mber much
about it. for mu mind was fall of
Jim my.
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BRUCE
Li
Maria St,
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TSUYAK© MATSUMOTO
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Toronto. Ont.
Mr. and Mrs.
MAMORU H. NISHI
Mr. TOSHIO NISHIJIMA
Miss MIYEKO NISHIJIMA
you I
And so he w gone
don't get realize the
all. Your reference
d nd
like features’ haunts
the
1 ache within,
i it hurf
end of all. a
8
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s
Sue sent him his journalism
His shame and humiliation books, some of her poetry books,
touched Sue till she shared them.
“sushi and. taku-wan" as often as
Mr. AKIRA R. TAJIRI
s.tid because ine auman soul, she could. In his deep need tor
This man. whose brilliance had
60 St. Patrick St.
which is not entirely without re companionship among men. he been a legend, who. even though
. Toronto. Ont. ■> :
silience, must hope. ..she-, hoped
clung to Mr. Tait, who was now disillusioned in his private life,
'ey
yith him for his eventual victory.
quite a solid citizen, and still the tried to explain to immature
jVeeks went by, and. summer came best friend Jimmy* had among the minds the need for political free
d to me that
ESTHER L. HYUN c
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around again, when Jimmy came- “nihonji h." It wasn’t Sue that dom, national rights, social eman
r a liar or a fool
ling
to her door, clean-shaven, neatly Jimmy needed in his desperate cipation and civic integrity . . .
42 Elgin Ave.
"The East is East
idressed. hatless. He had to come, straits, She understood that, and who had known the heights and
is West, and
Or
Toronto. Ont.
ko tell her he was on the way* waited.
the lowest depths . . . this man.
the twain shall 'meet.
My final
$
•back ... to everything. He was
his greatness unacknowledged, salute to him. is that or a A a mu a
I*
Then one evening. Sue read in died in ignominy. No. not total
11
going back io a west coast fishing
Mr. and Mrs.
soldier to his dead comrade:
the paper that Jimmy had died. ignominy*. He had two Occidental
$
willage to work.
i
brother,
and
farewell!
”
Eor
HARRY
S- KONDO
&
That the funeral would be held friends. Mr. Tak. and Sue to sin
and ALAN TADASHI
Ihor he surelu was. in the
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Jimmy and Sue sat in the warm at the church on Powell Street.
w
cerely mourn his death.
Sun. talking little, remembering Sue had just sent some "nigiri$
2011h Beverley St.
much. Sue liked to think that she meshi” the day before. He had
It is eight years since Jimmy
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had eased some of the raw pain gained a. pound and a half since died. In the eight years other ■/ ti 2£' uTS ® ^' <25? 0 ^ .-cP CS? <2^ <2? ie» v
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from him. that her even welcome coming to the city*. Sue was fearful changes have occurred.
XTYOSHI HORIUCHI
was a matter of course and noth- stunned, and there was no one Those who remember Jimmy and 8
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■Sue he brought only respect. Sue funeral that Mr. Tak was around. months, years. Perhaps they can
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wished he would forget his grati
appreciate now, that Jimmy was
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Shocked
to
her
marrow,
she
tude to her, because it placed her
a. great man. a truly great man.
in a spot she had no wish to be went to the burial services with and some of his former associates »
FRED KATO and FAMILY
There was Jimmy . .
da. However she let deeper -issues dry
can realize the future that was de 8
SCUTTA NAKAMURA and .
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a strange Jimmy . . . lying in wax
heal in silence.
nied him.
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en stillness in the gray coffin, his
AS.
Even* time he came to town he despair and struggle over forever.
Where is a fitter epitaph than
129 Spruce St.
came to Sue
a visit separate She stared around at the pitiful the reply to Sue trom Jimmy’s
Toronto 2. Ont,
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from all other life . . . when he number of people scattered in the friend, the professor at a great
AS
brought his offerings of new pews. Around the coffin was a university?
Wishing our fritx'.ds cvjryweere.
T. MORI
R. FUJII
Happiness
at
Christniab ^atici
creams, new hopes. aspirations, meager array of flowers, When
every Blessing, in the New Year
Your letter was a
His very first
of merit he the minister was about to launch
$
Rev. & Mrs. R. N. SAVARY
101 to Queen Street E.
the first.
would dedicate to her.
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into his sermon. Sue stood up sud sh ock to me, foi- it was
MAE WALKER
Jimmy's dTie its
denly.
and
walked
steadily
to
the
AYA SUZUKI
‘'Bosh'. rue smiled.
Since then. Mr. W.'s letter
M. GRACE TUCKER
altar. The mourners stirred a
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£ 604 Jarvis St.
little at this interruption, but their arrived. Grier, remorse, bi
"No. truly ... 1 want to . .
Phone: WAverley 6953
ness.
still
plague
me.
The
grim
faces showed only curiosity, no
US?A AZA AZ^ AZRA'S AZi -VO ^ AZ^AZfi AZ^A
Fate has a way of settling things
coniurehension or sorrow. What is understandable tor. Jimmy was
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Early in I93S. a letter, written
shakily in. pencil, came to Sue
i"om a Hospital on the Island.
Jimmy was very ill. his operation
a failure: he craved "nigiri-meshi
«7a ttmeboshi." could Sue please
nna some? Despite her initial
shoc-K at this unexpected news,
^K hurriedly sent a package of
sJsht, nigiri-meshi. umeboshi,
Lku-wan and slices of red shoga."
^se prayed for bis recovery. She
^21 him book
and more Japa-k eats. She wrote cheerful letHis letters were few. but
“«i ne said frightened Sue.
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bleeding. . . I was afraid
tn ftat be cans I am a "blecderJ’
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Lturday. December 21, 1946
Ja/tzuielL!
warted this letter, but
Ij started
blu difficult to give e-x.wssiem to what I feel and wish
; a v e b een so ash a med
J sdy
J lived in hell.
f irbo
.
p.-rhaP^ I should not have writqv'this letter at all. for there is
X great advantage in being ren-yrded
scoundrel by all.
there will. then, be no danger of
Orting anybody mo matter what
Mt do. There is tw> greater sorthan to disappoint those who
flight well of you. Eor am I
efficiently recovered from the.
torching sense of shame. . . . L n1 have, regained my selfaspect. . - ■
Jimmy.
Answermg ax once. Sue invited
to rail on her. but he wrote
gain:
Dear hue Your invitation has
one lied me to the core, but for
;if present I must denymyseif.
I aw afraid the old. spirit of
taring is deserting me. I used to
>? afraid of nothing. Oue of these
lays. 1 shall be catling on you, all
’filed up. beaming with pride
iifi satisfaction w my accomilishmciits. . . •
By
Sue Sada
than usual so I quickly sei- d mu
pen. for such an opportunity may
not come again for a long time.
.At night I sometimes wonder how
long I can hold out. I have at
best a 50-50 ciwin.ee of recovery.
But tomorrow is a vast uncertain
ty, and I thought I must write to
you once while I still had the e;:to be.
ergy- - - • H-rmi is to b
So let us not fret and pine but
face the future with n st
whatever it may have' in store
He ' was moved to the big city
hospital* after much wire-pulling
by a very good Occidental friend.
He, Jimmy, had two such friends.
The other one was a professor in
a faraway university. This profes
sor sent Jimmy a monthly cheque
for small expenses like letter pa
per. stamps; etc. Jimmy spoke of
them as “better friends a man
couldn't- have." Jimmy was veryill and the move from the Island
to the mainland had not made him
any better. He .would not see Sue.
He asked her to write, send him
“sushi." hut wait till he was some
what better before attempting to
see him. The nurse at the desk
too
admitted that he really
weak to-have visitors unless they
were his family.
cared they for the man.who had
cried out in the agony of selfaccusation’.
A fierce rage at them boiled up
in her as she gazed into their
closed and solemn faces. How
dared they be so smug in their
goodness? How paltry their untempted virtue’ How shameful
righteousness I
their conscious
From the depths of her anger and
personal loss. Sue spoke:
"Once, this man had a brilliant
future. Now he is dead. What his
achievements might have been,
who can tell? I only remember
him as the kindest, man I knew,
who shared his little with a lonely
child. He had faults. Who has
not? What right have we or anyone to judge him?"
Sue’s voice broke, and now she
wept without sound, her tears
spilling from her cheeks onto her
coat. She stood there, unable to
go on. with all she wanted to say
in defence of the dead. Blindly
she groped back to her place.
This was the passing of Jimmy.
Sue was* tormented by the in
completeness of his life. He had
once dreamed of being a Ph.P„
a writer on political science and
economics. He had tried to wake
the. Nisei to their splendid heri
tage. to their responsibilties as
citizens of Canada . . . he. Jimmy,
an alien. He had died under a
cloud, his name and reputation
still hedged with whispering ru
mors. - -
a d^ar friend of mine. The re
morse is for the things I might
have done, but didn’t'do. I didn’t
know he was ill until last spring.
The bitterness results from a con
tempt for the intolerable bigotry
a
of mu fellow-countrymen .
bigotry which denied a dear friend
the position ana comforts his undoubted qua lifloat ions inerited.
Merry Christmas
Mr. and Mrs.
ROGER OSATA
34-6 Merton St.
Ironically enough. I had already
taken steps to assure Jimmy's fu
ture. My depart mental chief had
agreed to accept him. as a full
candidate for graduate work ii;
return for his presence here from
January Axi May. The rest of the
time- lie could have spent in earn
ing an. income. With my assist
ance. he could have taken his doc
torate and emir red, fully qualified,
upon a career of economic ana' po
litical journalism. it was his
cherished dream. \row the bubble
is broken, arid- the dream has
given way to a nightmare.
5
ROY USHIJIMA
GEORGE TAKAHASHI
107 River St.
Toronto. Ont.
$to$
M. R. UY ENG
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tunning tor
weired your
another reason. I
ar mg way to a lecture
Glancing hastily at it. I mistookyour writing jor Jimmy
iiia the return address. I thought
26 RoIyat St
SUS and INA HOTTA
and ALAN
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hospital! Then I opened the let
ter and found him dead. I hope
my class forgives me jor toe l< cfare ... I don't rente mber much
about it. for mu mind was fall of
Jim my.
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Li
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Toronto. Ont.
Mr. and Mrs.
MAMORU H. NISHI
Mr. TOSHIO NISHIJIMA
Miss MIYEKO NISHIJIMA
you I
And so he w gone
don't get realize the
all. Your reference
d nd
like features’ haunts
the
1 ache within,
i it hurf
end of all. a
8
S
s
Sue sent him his journalism
His shame and humiliation books, some of her poetry books,
touched Sue till she shared them.
“sushi and. taku-wan" as often as
Mr. AKIRA R. TAJIRI
s.tid because ine auman soul, she could. In his deep need tor
This man. whose brilliance had
60 St. Patrick St.
which is not entirely without re companionship among men. he been a legend, who. even though
. Toronto. Ont. ■> :
silience, must hope. ..she-, hoped
clung to Mr. Tait, who was now disillusioned in his private life,
'ey
yith him for his eventual victory.
quite a solid citizen, and still the tried to explain to immature
jVeeks went by, and. summer came best friend Jimmy* had among the minds the need for political free
d to me that
ESTHER L. HYUN c
$
around again, when Jimmy came- “nihonji h." It wasn’t Sue that dom, national rights, social eman
r a liar or a fool
ling
to her door, clean-shaven, neatly Jimmy needed in his desperate cipation and civic integrity . . .
42 Elgin Ave.
"The East is East
idressed. hatless. He had to come, straits, She understood that, and who had known the heights and
is West, and
Or
Toronto. Ont.
ko tell her he was on the way* waited.
the lowest depths . . . this man.
the twain shall 'meet.
My final
$
•back ... to everything. He was
his greatness unacknowledged, salute to him. is that or a A a mu a
I*
Then one evening. Sue read in died in ignominy. No. not total
11
going back io a west coast fishing
Mr. and Mrs.
soldier to his dead comrade:
the paper that Jimmy had died. ignominy*. He had two Occidental
$
willage to work.
i
brother,
and
farewell!
”
Eor
HARRY
S- KONDO
&
That the funeral would be held friends. Mr. Tak. and Sue to sin
and ALAN TADASHI
Ihor he surelu was. in the
$
Jimmy and Sue sat in the warm at the church on Powell Street.
w
cerely mourn his death.
Sun. talking little, remembering Sue had just sent some "nigiri$
2011h Beverley St.
much. Sue liked to think that she meshi” the day before. He had
It is eight years since Jimmy
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to
had eased some of the raw pain gained a. pound and a half since died. In the eight years other ■/ ti 2£' uTS ® ^' <25? 0 ^ .-cP CS? <2^ <2? ie» v
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from him. that her even welcome coming to the city*. Sue was fearful changes have occurred.
XTYOSHI HORIUCHI
was a matter of course and noth- stunned, and there was no one Those who remember Jimmy and 8
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■Sue he brought only respect. Sue funeral that Mr. Tak was around. months, years. Perhaps they can
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Toronto. Ont.
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wished he would forget his grati
appreciate now, that Jimmy was
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Shocked
to
her
marrow,
she
tude to her, because it placed her
a. great man. a truly great man.
in a spot she had no wish to be went to the burial services with and some of his former associates »
FRED KATO and FAMILY
There was Jimmy . .
da. However she let deeper -issues dry
can realize the future that was de 8
SCUTTA NAKAMURA and .
XT.
a strange Jimmy . . . lying in wax
heal in silence.
nied him.
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en stillness in the gray coffin, his
AS.
Even* time he came to town he despair and struggle over forever.
Where is a fitter epitaph than
129 Spruce St.
came to Sue
a visit separate She stared around at the pitiful the reply to Sue trom Jimmy’s
Toronto 2. Ont,
$
from all other life . . . when he number of people scattered in the friend, the professor at a great
AS
brought his offerings of new pews. Around the coffin was a university?
Wishing our fritx'.ds cvjryweere.
T. MORI
R. FUJII
Happiness
at
Christniab ^atici
creams, new hopes. aspirations, meager array of flowers, When
every Blessing, in the New Year
Your letter was a
His very first
of merit he the minister was about to launch
$
Rev. & Mrs. R. N. SAVARY
101 to Queen Street E.
the first.
would dedicate to her.
%
into his sermon. Sue stood up sud sh ock to me, foi- it was
MAE WALKER
Jimmy's dTie its
denly.
and
walked
steadily
to
the
AYA SUZUKI
‘'Bosh'. rue smiled.
Since then. Mr. W.'s letter
M. GRACE TUCKER
altar. The mourners stirred a
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£ 604 Jarvis St.
little at this interruption, but their arrived. Grier, remorse, bi
"No. truly ... 1 want to . .
Phone: WAverley 6953
ness.
still
plague
me.
The
grim
faces showed only curiosity, no
US?A AZA AZ^ AZRA'S AZi -VO ^ AZ^AZfi AZ^A
Fate has a way of settling things
coniurehension or sorrow. What is understandable tor. Jimmy was
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tor mortals. ;
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Early in I93S. a letter, written
shakily in. pencil, came to Sue
i"om a Hospital on the Island.
Jimmy was very ill. his operation
a failure: he craved "nigiri-meshi
«7a ttmeboshi." could Sue please
nna some? Despite her initial
shoc-K at this unexpected news,
^K hurriedly sent a package of
sJsht, nigiri-meshi. umeboshi,
Lku-wan and slices of red shoga."
^se prayed for bis recovery. She
^21 him book
and more Japa-k eats. She wrote cheerful letHis letters were few. but
“«i ne said frightened Sue.
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Page Twenty-four
Saturday, Dece
A LOOK AT LONDON-1946
By M.K.M
First place in a review of the the new body has already7 dis
year’s London Nisei activities cussed National Federation, local
naturally goes to a word of thanks welfare and many contemplated
for the encouragement and assist plans.
ance given to local Niseis by the .
Sport and social activities also
LONDON JAPANESE CANADIAN
ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
This committee did a great
deal during the deportation order
controversy through spreading
widely the facts of the situation,
giving addresses to various
groups, sending letters to the gov
ernment asking fair treatment of
the Japanese and tiring other or
ganizations to do the same. Finan
cial support for court actions insiiuted by the Toronto Co-opera
tive Committee was given by7 the
committee.
Dr. W. Balderston of University
of Western Ontario is acting
chairman of the Advisory Commit
tee which contains representa
tives from church bodies, women’s
council, Teachers’ Federation, and
labour groups. United Nations Or
ganization, Chamber of Commerce
and many interested individuals.
We in London are very grate
ful to the committee members
for their efforts and feel that
they have aided greatly success
ful resettlement of Japanese in
this city.
Conversion of the informal Jap
anese Canadian group into a representative LONDON NISEI ORGANIZATION was made in Sep
tember. This change came about
when the majority of local Niseis
felt the need for a strong organi
zation to handle the immediate
action necessary in the current
campaigns toward restoration to
full-time citizenship status. With
President Eddie Ide at the helm,
are a part of the LNO’s current
program. The athletic commit
MRS. TAKE
Fred Kagawa and Art Nunoda
also held perfect hands, dealt in
was one dance when girls out
numbered boys, an unprecedent
ed happening in local Nisei an
The last months of the year
found the closing of the ten-monthold hostel at 240 KING STREET.
This hostel was operated by John
Kumagai as a stop-over place for
relocatees heading for Southern
Ontario points in this year’s mass
exodus, Well over 100 guests
passed through the hostel and as
far as can be ascertained, every'
family has settled happily in its
section of Ontario.
nals. Credit is mostly due to co
operation from St. Thomas and
Chatham for this unusual event.
Another high spot of 1946 was
the return of our overseas men.
Sgt. Fred Kagawa (Canadian In
telligence Corps, Burma, India),
Ptes. Joe Takashima and Jimmy
Kagawa (C. Int. C., India), and
Pte. Mas Murakami (RCEME,
United Kingdom) were repatriated
to Canada last spring. In May a
reception for these veterans was
held by the Advisory Committee
at King Street United Church.
Two Londoners, CSM’s George
Obokata and George Suzuki are
still at Singapore.
SHORES S. KONDO
JIMMY Y. KONDO
P.O. Box 34
Union, Ont.
KEN
G.
S'
$
Four local Nisei were startled
St. Thomas is one fine city.
Why? Because IS,000 St. Thomasites, including some fifty-odd
Japanese Canadians say so. .
St. Thomas is known to the
Nisei world for three main reasons. Alma College, ex-Ontario
premier Mitchell F. Hepburn's
Bannockburn Farms, andI the
$
hostel seven
i
miles
’ Alma College has seen many
pretty Niseiette faces since evacnation. The first group of
arrived in 1942. This year finds
an almost completely new roster
with Y'oshiko Kurita the only
holdover.
JUNE M. MORITSUGU
R.R. No. 5
St. Thomas, Ont.
ino (Popoff). Mr. and Mrs. w.
Ohori are also employed at the
&
Season's
Greetings
EMY KOYANAGI
KATIE YOSHINO
ALMA COLLEGE
St. Thomas. Ont.
of
suits,
clubs
to
spades.
is
&
LONDON, ONTARIO
EIICHI AND TED HARADA.
ROY HIKIDA..
EDWARD IDE—
c/o Slone & So
GEORGE IDE—
KATSU IGUCHI
FRED T. KAGAWA..
JIM W. KAGAWA
^’
CHIYO AND JOHN KUMAGAI
FRED MORIYAMA............ ....... .
MARY MURAKAMI......................
come, we will be able to keep
up the standards already set; to
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YECe
once S
"ward Ave
TAKAKO NAGATA...?:....................................
ART AND BOB NUNODA.............................
ART OBOKATA.................................................
KIYO OBOKATA............. .................................
KEIZO OTANI................................... .................
TAM AND TAKEO OZAKI................. .........
FRED A. SUNAHARA..... .................. ...........
TYE SAKAGUCHI............. .............................
MR. AND MRS. EICHI WAKABAYASHI
KUYIY YOSHIDA...................„....... ...... ...........
So, this was London, 1946. It
hoped in the New Year to
: Kldout
oz
lilies St
albot St
aiboi St
. Mail J:
■ Lil Clarence
..211 Clarence
■ 5■ Si. George
...211 Clarence
57 Si. George St
-211 Clarence
.... o < >t. George St
2121-2 Piccadilly St
live up to the ideal of always
looking forward and working
together to
keep this new life
worthwhile one.
Merry Christinas and a Happy New Year i
Mr. and Mrs. I. KIKUKAWA
Stonewall, Man.
Emy Koyanagi (Lillooet), Lois
Nakashima
(Popoff),
Eileen
Namba (Bayfarm), Kay Sasaguchi (Tashme), and Katie Yosh-
iARVEY H. MORITSUGU
EILEEN H. MORITSUGU
order
&
St Thomas—One Street Town
The five other Niseiettes who
work and study at Alma are
MORITSUGU
the
The London Nisei Organization
in a friendly city a happy and
*
away.
KONDO
bridge hand of thirteen clubs, to
find that the other members of
the foursome, Mary Murakami,
from
ts
newspapers across the country
early this month when Tak Tak
emura dealt-- himself a perfect
tee has Operations Badminton
and Basketball in full swing
while the social committee has
been
very
successful
with
dances this year. There even
new Fingal
Merry Chrisimas
principals in an event that hit
College.
Mitch Hepburn’s estate, four
miles south of the city, has also
seen its share of. Japanese Canticks. Currently two families live,
on Bannockburn, Kishimotos and
Moritsugus, The former family
relocated to St. Thomas from
Courtenay' via Hastings Park and
worked on the farm three year
Now two members of the Moritsugu family, which came from
Tashme in late 1943. are the only
adian workers on the
Mr. and Mrs. MITSUO YAGI
ISOO-acre estate.
Fiugal’s
temporary
settlers,
numbering over 250, have received
a friendly7 welcome from St.
Thomas, with the Times-Journal,
local daily, going to great pains
to introduce the hostellers to the
native residents.
Early
relocatees
point
St. Charles, Man.
c/o J. L. Lahti
Geraldton, Ont.
Mr. and Mrs. K. SASAKI
P.O. Box 318
Letellier, Man.
MASASHI MATSUDA
and FAMILY
C/O E. QUINLAN
TADAAKI OYAGI
TOM OYAGI
P.O. Box 23
Lorne Park, Ont.
with
pride to their assured
acceptance in the community af
Mrs. GERTRUDE KNAPP
Box 385
Thorold, Ont.
ter residence of some years. An
outstanding example of being
one with his new neighbours is
young Francis Yamada of South
wick Street. Frank capped his
grand champion, by being elect
ed president of St. Thomas’
Canteen.
As far as is
known, he is the only Nisei in
the Canteen.
ME. AXL MBS.
R.R. No. 3
modest
enviable record as athlete, schol
arship winner, school
cheer
leader and YMCA hobby-show
TED and FRANCES
SAKAMOTO
and BRUCE
SHINJI FUKUSHIMA
5
&
&
Teen
§
Mr. and Mrs. HARO ASANO
and BARRY
509 McLaughlin St.
Fort William, Ont.
FRANK and HISAYE
HAYASHI
258 Birmingham St.
Nev/ Toronto, Ont.
ESSEX, ONT.
Christmas Gree •4-.es and Best }
New Year to all
Wishes fo
my forme: Stu I a:s and friends ।
of Lemon Creet and the Slocan ■
Valley.
FRANK L. SHOWLER
Christian Island, Ont,
Greetings from rhe capital . . .
MIN and NOBBY SASAKI
c/o A. J. Freiman Ltd.
Advertising Dept,
Ont.
Seasons Greetings
JOE. K. MIYAZAKI
c/o Dryden Paper Co.
Dryden, Ont.
Other Niseis are leading broader existences through outlets
gained by sport participation,
Three Niseis played on teams in
a four-village baseball league this
summer.
THOMAS Y. HOSHIZAKI
Thus, St. Thomas, one fine
city. A true and heartening example of friendliness in South
ern Ontario.
Mr. and Mrs.
HENRY KUSANO
Box 4
Oxdrift. Ont.
Dryden, Ont.
c/'o Dryden Paper Co.
Dryden, Ont.
FRED KA
HISAO TL
ENPAYK
GEORGE :
AKIRA S?
KENZO T
MELVIN :
TOSHIO r
Ont. Minn, r-u
Comp?, ny
RA KAMI
YAMA
AMA
& Paper
a.
Vermilion o?y- Ont.
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5
INCORPORATED
<’3
TOSH HOKI
:A1TO
DOUGLA
124th St.
ri
New York 27, N.Y.
Jy
'i
3
TOSHIO
MASAHARU OMAE
KOICHI YAMAMOTO
TOSHIO YAMAUCHI
ROBERT YOSHIKI
and FAMILY
LEAVERLEIGH FARM
R.R. No. 1. PORT CREDIT, ONTARIO
MEI
5
a
TOKUE
The November cover of the FAR
EAST PHOTO REVIEW features
Setsuko Hara (Toho Studios), who
is sensationally popular today, in
the Japanese movies.
KAMEOKA
64 Sullivan St.
Toronto 2-B, Ont.
Phone: WA 9934
Saturday, Dece
A LOOK AT LONDON-1946
By M.K.M
First place in a review of the the new body has already7 dis
year’s London Nisei activities cussed National Federation, local
naturally goes to a word of thanks welfare and many contemplated
for the encouragement and assist plans.
ance given to local Niseis by the .
Sport and social activities also
LONDON JAPANESE CANADIAN
ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
This committee did a great
deal during the deportation order
controversy through spreading
widely the facts of the situation,
giving addresses to various
groups, sending letters to the gov
ernment asking fair treatment of
the Japanese and tiring other or
ganizations to do the same. Finan
cial support for court actions insiiuted by the Toronto Co-opera
tive Committee was given by7 the
committee.
Dr. W. Balderston of University
of Western Ontario is acting
chairman of the Advisory Commit
tee which contains representa
tives from church bodies, women’s
council, Teachers’ Federation, and
labour groups. United Nations Or
ganization, Chamber of Commerce
and many interested individuals.
We in London are very grate
ful to the committee members
for their efforts and feel that
they have aided greatly success
ful resettlement of Japanese in
this city.
Conversion of the informal Jap
anese Canadian group into a representative LONDON NISEI ORGANIZATION was made in Sep
tember. This change came about
when the majority of local Niseis
felt the need for a strong organi
zation to handle the immediate
action necessary in the current
campaigns toward restoration to
full-time citizenship status. With
President Eddie Ide at the helm,
are a part of the LNO’s current
program. The athletic commit
MRS. TAKE
Fred Kagawa and Art Nunoda
also held perfect hands, dealt in
was one dance when girls out
numbered boys, an unprecedent
ed happening in local Nisei an
The last months of the year
found the closing of the ten-monthold hostel at 240 KING STREET.
This hostel was operated by John
Kumagai as a stop-over place for
relocatees heading for Southern
Ontario points in this year’s mass
exodus, Well over 100 guests
passed through the hostel and as
far as can be ascertained, every'
family has settled happily in its
section of Ontario.
nals. Credit is mostly due to co
operation from St. Thomas and
Chatham for this unusual event.
Another high spot of 1946 was
the return of our overseas men.
Sgt. Fred Kagawa (Canadian In
telligence Corps, Burma, India),
Ptes. Joe Takashima and Jimmy
Kagawa (C. Int. C., India), and
Pte. Mas Murakami (RCEME,
United Kingdom) were repatriated
to Canada last spring. In May a
reception for these veterans was
held by the Advisory Committee
at King Street United Church.
Two Londoners, CSM’s George
Obokata and George Suzuki are
still at Singapore.
SHORES S. KONDO
JIMMY Y. KONDO
P.O. Box 34
Union, Ont.
KEN
G.
S'
$
Four local Nisei were startled
St. Thomas is one fine city.
Why? Because IS,000 St. Thomasites, including some fifty-odd
Japanese Canadians say so. .
St. Thomas is known to the
Nisei world for three main reasons. Alma College, ex-Ontario
premier Mitchell F. Hepburn's
Bannockburn Farms, andI the
$
hostel seven
i
miles
’ Alma College has seen many
pretty Niseiette faces since evacnation. The first group of
arrived in 1942. This year finds
an almost completely new roster
with Y'oshiko Kurita the only
holdover.
JUNE M. MORITSUGU
R.R. No. 5
St. Thomas, Ont.
ino (Popoff). Mr. and Mrs. w.
Ohori are also employed at the
&
Season's
Greetings
EMY KOYANAGI
KATIE YOSHINO
ALMA COLLEGE
St. Thomas. Ont.
of
suits,
clubs
to
spades.
is
&
LONDON, ONTARIO
EIICHI AND TED HARADA.
ROY HIKIDA..
EDWARD IDE—
c/o Slone & So
GEORGE IDE—
KATSU IGUCHI
FRED T. KAGAWA..
JIM W. KAGAWA
^’
CHIYO AND JOHN KUMAGAI
FRED MORIYAMA............ ....... .
MARY MURAKAMI......................
come, we will be able to keep
up the standards already set; to
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Fion
YECe
once S
"ward Ave
TAKAKO NAGATA...?:....................................
ART AND BOB NUNODA.............................
ART OBOKATA.................................................
KIYO OBOKATA............. .................................
KEIZO OTANI................................... .................
TAM AND TAKEO OZAKI................. .........
FRED A. SUNAHARA..... .................. ...........
TYE SAKAGUCHI............. .............................
MR. AND MRS. EICHI WAKABAYASHI
KUYIY YOSHIDA...................„....... ...... ...........
So, this was London, 1946. It
hoped in the New Year to
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■ 5■ Si. George
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2121-2 Piccadilly St
live up to the ideal of always
looking forward and working
together to
keep this new life
worthwhile one.
Merry Christinas and a Happy New Year i
Mr. and Mrs. I. KIKUKAWA
Stonewall, Man.
Emy Koyanagi (Lillooet), Lois
Nakashima
(Popoff),
Eileen
Namba (Bayfarm), Kay Sasaguchi (Tashme), and Katie Yosh-
iARVEY H. MORITSUGU
EILEEN H. MORITSUGU
order
&
St Thomas—One Street Town
The five other Niseiettes who
work and study at Alma are
MORITSUGU
the
The London Nisei Organization
in a friendly city a happy and
*
away.
KONDO
bridge hand of thirteen clubs, to
find that the other members of
the foursome, Mary Murakami,
from
ts
newspapers across the country
early this month when Tak Tak
emura dealt-- himself a perfect
tee has Operations Badminton
and Basketball in full swing
while the social committee has
been
very
successful
with
dances this year. There even
new Fingal
Merry Chrisimas
principals in an event that hit
College.
Mitch Hepburn’s estate, four
miles south of the city, has also
seen its share of. Japanese Canticks. Currently two families live,
on Bannockburn, Kishimotos and
Moritsugus, The former family
relocated to St. Thomas from
Courtenay' via Hastings Park and
worked on the farm three year
Now two members of the Moritsugu family, which came from
Tashme in late 1943. are the only
adian workers on the
Mr. and Mrs. MITSUO YAGI
ISOO-acre estate.
Fiugal’s
temporary
settlers,
numbering over 250, have received
a friendly7 welcome from St.
Thomas, with the Times-Journal,
local daily, going to great pains
to introduce the hostellers to the
native residents.
Early
relocatees
point
St. Charles, Man.
c/o J. L. Lahti
Geraldton, Ont.
Mr. and Mrs. K. SASAKI
P.O. Box 318
Letellier, Man.
MASASHI MATSUDA
and FAMILY
C/O E. QUINLAN
TADAAKI OYAGI
TOM OYAGI
P.O. Box 23
Lorne Park, Ont.
with
pride to their assured
acceptance in the community af
Mrs. GERTRUDE KNAPP
Box 385
Thorold, Ont.
ter residence of some years. An
outstanding example of being
one with his new neighbours is
young Francis Yamada of South
wick Street. Frank capped his
grand champion, by being elect
ed president of St. Thomas’
Canteen.
As far as is
known, he is the only Nisei in
the Canteen.
ME. AXL MBS.
R.R. No. 3
modest
enviable record as athlete, schol
arship winner, school
cheer
leader and YMCA hobby-show
TED and FRANCES
SAKAMOTO
and BRUCE
SHINJI FUKUSHIMA
5
&
&
Teen
§
Mr. and Mrs. HARO ASANO
and BARRY
509 McLaughlin St.
Fort William, Ont.
FRANK and HISAYE
HAYASHI
258 Birmingham St.
Nev/ Toronto, Ont.
ESSEX, ONT.
Christmas Gree •4-.es and Best }
New Year to all
Wishes fo
my forme: Stu I a:s and friends ।
of Lemon Creet and the Slocan ■
Valley.
FRANK L. SHOWLER
Christian Island, Ont,
Greetings from rhe capital . . .
MIN and NOBBY SASAKI
c/o A. J. Freiman Ltd.
Advertising Dept,
Ont.
Seasons Greetings
JOE. K. MIYAZAKI
c/o Dryden Paper Co.
Dryden, Ont.
Other Niseis are leading broader existences through outlets
gained by sport participation,
Three Niseis played on teams in
a four-village baseball league this
summer.
THOMAS Y. HOSHIZAKI
Thus, St. Thomas, one fine
city. A true and heartening example of friendliness in South
ern Ontario.
Mr. and Mrs.
HENRY KUSANO
Box 4
Oxdrift. Ont.
Dryden, Ont.
c/'o Dryden Paper Co.
Dryden, Ont.
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124th St.
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New York 27, N.Y.
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TOSHIO
MASAHARU OMAE
KOICHI YAMAMOTO
TOSHIO YAMAUCHI
ROBERT YOSHIKI
and FAMILY
LEAVERLEIGH FARM
R.R. No. 1. PORT CREDIT, ONTARIO
MEI
5
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TOKUE
The November cover of the FAR
EAST PHOTO REVIEW features
Setsuko Hara (Toho Studios), who
is sensationally popular today, in
the Japanese movies.
KAMEOKA
64 Sullivan St.
Toronto 2-B, Ont.
Phone: WA 9934
Page 25
December-21. 1946
8
HELP
VC BfEN
AMBUSHSO
By
MAS IKENO
Emily Brontes
By Estrelhta
So. young man, you’re going to
the big dance tonight! Good for
yon! Dancing is a wonderfid
form-of recreation . . . it gives
you poise and self-confidence . . .
it is good for your health because
it increases circulation, improves
muscle tone, digestion and color
• • • it provides you with an ex
cellent opportunity to show off
your social graces and charm,
.and besides . . . all the girls love
.a good dance)'!
Winds arise,
ESTRELLITA. is one of the
youngest of the New Canadian
columnists. Her excuse for the
disappointingly few columns she
turns out is that she is extremely
busy with her studies and activi
ties in the East. In this survey
of Nisei male dancing styles, she
lays down a few points of advice
to aspiring Prince Charmings and
Arthur Murrays.
the music and his arms start
pumping furiously until the end
of the tune, the poor girl all but
collapses in his arms. The man
then drags out a handkerchief to
mop his brow.
Also at every dance, there is at
least one man who likes to “mow
'em down.” Just get a fast number going and he will waltz
around, jitterbug or imitate a
cyclone and keep the rest of the
dancers guessing as to zehere the
sudden gust of zvind came from.
Nothing bothers him . . .-not even
the icy stares thrown at him by
the jostled croted. He goes his
merry way . . . what if others get
having hi
a few bumps
fun.'
grinning and bearing it
Bat say, fellow, are you a
.GOOD dancer? Can you keep
time with the music? Can you
avoid unnecessary toe-stepping
and collisions? Do you. know
your dance floor etiquette? Certdrily a lot of this depends on
your partner, but not entirely
What can a girl do if the man
bungles every move and create
embarrassing situations ?
can only wish fervently that the
floor would open up under her or
Pray that the music will end soon.
B'd' more than likely, all she can
^ ^ grin and bear it.
The opposite to the- whirheind
is the picture of slow motion. He
likes his music soft and dreamy.
He dances in a trance, takes a
graceful step forward, pauses in
mid-air and just as his fan' lady
is about to fall flat on her back.
he comes out of his reverie just
long enough to take another step
forward that ivill precede another
suspense-filled pause.
DOING IT THE HARD WAY
^So)ne men really believe in getung. th? maximum of exercise
mg the three or four hours of
odance. These are the kind that
bab a girl ang shove her down
■‘ door backwards . . one. two.
our with a slight change
dion every fifth or sixth
1 when another couple
"do his path and blocks
a His strides increase in
^id’ the rising tempo of
V
B.C.
TADASHI, and VICTOR
Kaslo. B.C.
I
%
PR- m.
K. BALLARD
Miyazaki
a
Lillcoet, B.C.
Ik
Tempest wild with tossing pain!
But with all this, the good
dancer usually makes up for the
few stumbling blocks at a party.
Nothing is more pleasant than to
get a really smooth dancing part
ner' who knows what to do, where
he is going, tvhat to say and tvhen
to say it. He does not join the
stag line that usually occupies
half the floor by just standing
around trying to get a glimpse of
the girl that the other fellow is
•dancing with—too scared to get a
partner of his own. He does not
leave a lady in distress right in
the middle of the floor after the
music stops. He is the one who
finds a chair for the girl to sit
on or takes her back to the man
she came with. He is the one
who can dance gracefully out of
a traffic jam: the one who un
consciously keeps time with the
music. Hems the one whom girls
term a- “swell dancer” . . . the
one they dream about as the vert
day breaks!
Anguish cries for love in vain!
Slanting rays on window-panes.
Storm broods.
Mocking shadows, dimming light;
Dark moods
Tremble with the troubled night.
Here is passion,
Soul’s confession:
Life kills,
Stabbing every poignant moment;
Death stills,
Ending every living torment.
This was love
Robbed of realest ectasy;
This was love
Told in tortured fantasy.
Winds die
Ore)' crag and lonely heath;
Moors lie
tfie earth beneath.
. . Dana.
*^^'X&ys&i&p:s&i^£&M&ti^i^z?!PS'-ii&d)&^
5s
jesto
zsr
£
Dr. & Mrs. EDW. C- BANNO &
KAWAMOTO
"BX" Vernon.
DREAMS AND A GOOD
DANCER
Clouds despise
%
The “jumping bean’ type or
dancer seems to be dying away
KAWAMOTO
’• & SUE
Sweeping thro' the heathered lanes;
zef
$
i
but there are still the “breathtakers” who are determined to
leave their partners breathless
. . . in one zvay if not another . . .
and the ones zvho like to have
room to breathe themselves and
so, hold the girl at arm’s length,
leaving her to zvonder whether
she should dash out and get some
Lifebuoy soap or Colgate’s toothpaste.
ODD SORTS AND VARIETIES
। Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
MAC
Wuthering Heights
3185 Eas
Vancouver. B.C.
3
Say . . . wait a minute! You
ARE going to the dance tonight,
aren’t you? Don’t back out now
just because of these few obser
vations . . . that's no way to
learn anything. Go and have a
good time, my dear man, and
practise your dancing until you
are perfect.
But please . . . just remember
to be a gentleman and then you
have nothing to fear since no one
is more attractive to a nice girl
than a nice gentleman ... on the
dance floor or off . . . good
dancer or not!
So off you go, mister
the best of luck to vouI
■S'
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to
•sr
$
SILK-O-LINA
Stores
^
■sr
Pi
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«r
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Edmonton, Alberta
Regina, Saskatchewan
$
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8
HELP
VC BfEN
AMBUSHSO
By
MAS IKENO
Emily Brontes
By Estrelhta
So. young man, you’re going to
the big dance tonight! Good for
yon! Dancing is a wonderfid
form-of recreation . . . it gives
you poise and self-confidence . . .
it is good for your health because
it increases circulation, improves
muscle tone, digestion and color
• • • it provides you with an ex
cellent opportunity to show off
your social graces and charm,
.and besides . . . all the girls love
.a good dance)'!
Winds arise,
ESTRELLITA. is one of the
youngest of the New Canadian
columnists. Her excuse for the
disappointingly few columns she
turns out is that she is extremely
busy with her studies and activi
ties in the East. In this survey
of Nisei male dancing styles, she
lays down a few points of advice
to aspiring Prince Charmings and
Arthur Murrays.
the music and his arms start
pumping furiously until the end
of the tune, the poor girl all but
collapses in his arms. The man
then drags out a handkerchief to
mop his brow.
Also at every dance, there is at
least one man who likes to “mow
'em down.” Just get a fast number going and he will waltz
around, jitterbug or imitate a
cyclone and keep the rest of the
dancers guessing as to zehere the
sudden gust of zvind came from.
Nothing bothers him . . .-not even
the icy stares thrown at him by
the jostled croted. He goes his
merry way . . . what if others get
having hi
a few bumps
fun.'
grinning and bearing it
Bat say, fellow, are you a
.GOOD dancer? Can you keep
time with the music? Can you
avoid unnecessary toe-stepping
and collisions? Do you. know
your dance floor etiquette? Certdrily a lot of this depends on
your partner, but not entirely
What can a girl do if the man
bungles every move and create
embarrassing situations ?
can only wish fervently that the
floor would open up under her or
Pray that the music will end soon.
B'd' more than likely, all she can
^ ^ grin and bear it.
The opposite to the- whirheind
is the picture of slow motion. He
likes his music soft and dreamy.
He dances in a trance, takes a
graceful step forward, pauses in
mid-air and just as his fan' lady
is about to fall flat on her back.
he comes out of his reverie just
long enough to take another step
forward that ivill precede another
suspense-filled pause.
DOING IT THE HARD WAY
^So)ne men really believe in getung. th? maximum of exercise
mg the three or four hours of
odance. These are the kind that
bab a girl ang shove her down
■‘ door backwards . . one. two.
our with a slight change
dion every fifth or sixth
1 when another couple
"do his path and blocks
a His strides increase in
^id’ the rising tempo of
V
B.C.
TADASHI, and VICTOR
Kaslo. B.C.
I
%
PR- m.
K. BALLARD
Miyazaki
a
Lillcoet, B.C.
Ik
Tempest wild with tossing pain!
But with all this, the good
dancer usually makes up for the
few stumbling blocks at a party.
Nothing is more pleasant than to
get a really smooth dancing part
ner' who knows what to do, where
he is going, tvhat to say and tvhen
to say it. He does not join the
stag line that usually occupies
half the floor by just standing
around trying to get a glimpse of
the girl that the other fellow is
•dancing with—too scared to get a
partner of his own. He does not
leave a lady in distress right in
the middle of the floor after the
music stops. He is the one who
finds a chair for the girl to sit
on or takes her back to the man
she came with. He is the one
who can dance gracefully out of
a traffic jam: the one who un
consciously keeps time with the
music. Hems the one whom girls
term a- “swell dancer” . . . the
one they dream about as the vert
day breaks!
Anguish cries for love in vain!
Slanting rays on window-panes.
Storm broods.
Mocking shadows, dimming light;
Dark moods
Tremble with the troubled night.
Here is passion,
Soul’s confession:
Life kills,
Stabbing every poignant moment;
Death stills,
Ending every living torment.
This was love
Robbed of realest ectasy;
This was love
Told in tortured fantasy.
Winds die
Ore)' crag and lonely heath;
Moors lie
tfie earth beneath.
. . Dana.
*^^'X&ys&i&p:s&i^£&M&ti^i^z?!PS'-ii&d)&^
5s
jesto
zsr
£
Dr. & Mrs. EDW. C- BANNO &
KAWAMOTO
"BX" Vernon.
DREAMS AND A GOOD
DANCER
Clouds despise
%
The “jumping bean’ type or
dancer seems to be dying away
KAWAMOTO
’• & SUE
Sweeping thro' the heathered lanes;
zef
$
i
but there are still the “breathtakers” who are determined to
leave their partners breathless
. . . in one zvay if not another . . .
and the ones zvho like to have
room to breathe themselves and
so, hold the girl at arm’s length,
leaving her to zvonder whether
she should dash out and get some
Lifebuoy soap or Colgate’s toothpaste.
ODD SORTS AND VARIETIES
। Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
MAC
Wuthering Heights
3185 Eas
Vancouver. B.C.
3
Say . . . wait a minute! You
ARE going to the dance tonight,
aren’t you? Don’t back out now
just because of these few obser
vations . . . that's no way to
learn anything. Go and have a
good time, my dear man, and
practise your dancing until you
are perfect.
But please . . . just remember
to be a gentleman and then you
have nothing to fear since no one
is more attractive to a nice girl
than a nice gentleman ... on the
dance floor or off . . . good
dancer or not!
So off you go, mister
the best of luck to vouI
■S'
$
to
•sr
$
SILK-O-LINA
Stores
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LOCATED
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Page Twenty-six
CAI
sized cap hung precariously on
his head, and his shabby clothes,,
showing evidence of much patch
ing, clung loosely to the skinnyBy JACK LEE
frame of his body. His face was
Wishin
alien- -in a prisoner-of-war’s uni smudged as though with grease,
a ble
but his tired eyes loomed with'
JACK DEE,
formerly Jack
form among the Germans of the
Nakamoto, is a regular contri
happy
and
ingenuous
inn ocence
Afrika Korps.”
butor who takes as his theme .this
year a cross-section of Nisei-onBuzz and Dan had been prac curiosity.
Christmas Seaso
the-street attitudes. Mr. Lee is
walking
and
Dan
stopped
an overseas veteran who served
tically- raised together out in Van
and a New Year
in the Royal Canadian Engineers.
*
*
couver. They had lived next door, watched the boy- pulling the load
of True Peace!
%
while Buzz waited impatiently.
to each other, gone to school and
In a small upstairs room four
our rights. What's the use of . .
“Gee. the kid’s cute,” said Dan
played together. It was only- when
Niseis we; 3 deeply absorbed in a
KATHLEtN LANG
“Aw shut up, Dan,” interrupted
as he started in the direction of
they started high school that the
card game. The air was heavy
the third player. “You ought to difference in their outlooks be the boy.
with pale blue cigarette smoke.
know Buzz by now. Come on, give
“Are you going to follow him
came apparent.
One of the players stood up and
N. Kamloops. S.c,
me
two
cards.
”
asked
Buzz, slightly' disturbed.
Buzz had toiled assiduously at
opened the only store window in
“What?” .Dan asked, preoccu
the study of Japanese in the even
the room. As a gust of cold wind
pied
with the boy' ’ahead.
came in, he changed his mind and
The game broke up around mid- tual hope of enrolling at Waseda
.
They'
walked in absolute silence
But Dan
closed it again.
night. Feeling a bit tired and university' in Japan.
for five blocks until the boy turn
5
were crazy to
very hungry, the Niseis trudged didn’t take his Japanese seriously.
*1^
ed
into
the
courtyard
of
a
tene
REV. and MRS. Y. OGURA
die said as he redown to Chinatown for some food. He found Japanese school an
^oi|ii
joi^
ideal refuge in which to indulge ment built in the old French
While waiting for their order,
P.O. Box 295
STj^ihing across the Buzz and Dan engaged in another in -day-dreaming or dozing, He architectural style.
A
tarpaper
shack
lay'
buried
in
concentrated on his public and
reed|j “Maybe So, Buzz,
Grand Forks, S.C.
argument. This time it was about
deep snow with only the passage
my]’life sure put me
high
school work instead.
Christmas and the Christma^
leading to
I it partly cleared away.
!f’.of'tilings, more than
wish Ito
spirit.
The boy■ opened the tin door, reyou’ll ever know . . .”
Presently Buzz yawned, stretch“What a farce . . . this business
A Happy Christmas and a St?
pitiful familyr scene
vealing
a;
Year bringing Hops and Sect?
ing out his arms He sat up and
of giving and receiving gifts. You
“Cut,” he said, and began to
ity
! And our warmest greetings
mostly
were
They
within.
blinked- at Dan “Oh, you’re still
give, hoping you’ll get something
to all our friends of Kaslo, &
deal the cards slickly- for lowball.
can, New Denver, wherever tie;
youngster
pallid and huddled
good in return . . . giving only- tar here . . . You’re a queer one to
“I don’t know,” said the first
may be now.
was
no
There
stove.
around
the
stick around with me. You know .
the sake of getting.” Buzz was
Nisei who was addressed as Buzz,
ALAN P. ALLSEBROOK
tree, no wreaths, gifts or any
we’re not cut from the same
being sarcastic as usual.
“You were chucked out of the
other signs of Yuletide. Lacking,
and FAMILY
He added: “And telling kids
chunk.”
Coast, weren’t you? And
with
&
too, was the noisy happiness
the myth about Santa Claus comthey grabbed your old man’s boat.
“I stick
Kaslo. B.C.
Dan felt irritated,
the
which
children
welcome
ing down the chimney' to bring
Still you go and stick your neck
around just so long.’ he said,
Christmas season.
gifts to good little girls and
out to join the army. What did
“Just like some gamblers I know.
“I wonder if Christmas is ever
boys . . .”
MISS IDA B. WITHERS
your old man say? ... Or maybe
I drop in on them, but only once
going
to come here,” queried Dan
Dan replied: “Let the kids beyou think you’re getting it all
in a while. If I associated with
with concern.
lieve in him as a sort of Christ them I’d become one of them, too.
back now in free education at Mc“I don't know and I don’t care
mas spirit. Christmas should be
3890—21st Ave. W.
So don’t worry, I won’t be hang
much
either,” Buzz said coldly,
made impressionable to kids—as
"That’s a heck of a lot more
ing around you all the time.”
Vancouver, B.C.
turning away.
something symbolic of love and
than you’re getting.” the dealer
Buzz swung his right fist at
As they turned the corner and
goodwill, and not so much as a
replied hotly. Then he became
Dan, sending the latter reeling
passed in front of a brightly-lit
time of feasting.
Let it teach
serious, “We’ve got to keep fightback against the wall. Dan braced Dionne groceteria, Buzz stopped
MISS DOTTIE KARR
them that it’s more blessed to
ing, Buzz. We’ve got to fight for
himself, jerking his head and
abruptly. “I’m going to buy some
give than to receive . . . even if
w
fingering his jaw. He gazed up
Japanese oranges,” he said and
it’s only' a handshake, a word of
R.R. No. 3 Goudette Road
at Buzz, not. with anger, but with
strode into the store, Dan purkindness, or a sympathetic smile.
a mixture of surprise, hurt and
sued exclaiming, “Say, you can’t
New Westminster. B.C.
After all, if we’re to prevent wars
something like compassion.
buy
Japanese
oranges
these
put
in the future, we’ve got to
Buzz wilted under the oth
days.”
that kind of spirit into the kids
GEORGE O. SHAW
stare
and muttered. “Sorry."
$
Buzz was at the counter. “. . .
SUSUMU and MIYOKO
now.”
“Forget it, Buzz. Let’s go
Yes,
’
the
biggest
hamper
of
“You should have - taken up
UCHIDA and FAMILY
town for some shopping. I’ve
groceries you got for the people
POWELL DRUG
theology instead of medicine,” said
to buy one more present fo a
living in the shack. You’ll deliver
c/o Simon Ronacher
Buzz.
399 Powell St.
couple I know in the city.’’
no.
it? Swell. Just sign . .
“Well, I’m not buying any
Vancouver, B.C.
Athalmer, B.C.
never mind.”
The Niseis hailed a Yellow Cab,
presents but I’ll tag along.”
At they left the store, Dan
Ai
* * *
piled in. and headed homeward.
looked strangely at the other
MR. & MRS. K. MARUYAMA
Dan decided to sleep out the night
It was like old ime
and FAMILY
Nisei.
$
at Buzz’s.
places together. Da:
a sort
"Goddamn it, quit looking at
It was noon Saturday when Dan
of camaraderie for his friend
me like that!” scowled Buzz, and
Box 340
rubbed his eyes open to the which he had almost forgotten.
Creston. B.C.
added hurriedly, “I’ve got to beat
clamouring chorus of children in
“Say, I’m going to see two
ETTA DsWOLFE
it now, so Merry Christmas to
Beside him, Buzz
the streets.
colored girls tonight. How about you. in case I don't see you till
— 9? $ ps 7
was a still form in relaxed recoming along for the date?’
then.”
JIRO JOE YAMASAKI^
2570 Spruce St.
pose, appearing strangely differ
“W-h-a-t? Colored dames?”
“Sure
Vancouver, B.C.
Kamloops, B.C.
ent from his usual cynical self.
“Yeah, they’re tap dancers in a
“And, uh . . . the colored girls
MISS SADIE OLIVIA TAIT
Dan recalled the times when
night club.-We can see them after . . . are they pretty?”
Interesting, very'
Buzz had poured out his bitter their show.
MISS TERRIE &OTO
“Hunh? The colored girls? Oh,
friendly,
and
nice
to talk to,” as sure ...”
ness born out of three and a half
1306 West 12th Ave.
•
Pritchard, B.C.
Vancouver. B.C.
sured Dan.
years of internment.
“Well, so long,” gestured Buzz.
MAY 0WST0N
“Oh. no, Dan. No Kurombos
Buzz had been herded off to a
“Yeah . . .”
for
me.
”
camp as one of a group of Niseis
Mr. and Mrs.
* * *
. $
who
stubbornlyresisted
the
H. KUWAHARA
“What’s the matter? You blab
2856 w. 11th Ave.
The snow fell' softly' as dusk ’ |
Vancouver. B.C.
evacuation and refused to comply
and RONNIE
to high heaven about being a tar approached, The lights along the
^
$
with government orders. Seared
get for race prejudice, and now
Mr. and Mrs.
street were blinking, and the
“
T. U. HIGASHIDA
323-15th Ave. West
into his mind were memories of you’re showing them the same
streets continued to swarm with
Calgary', Alta.
1535 W. 5th Ave.
&
the time he was cut off abruptly : dirt.’’
people.
Vancouver. B.C.
"Tm invited out to Kishimoto's
during a telephone conversation
MR. and MRS. W. H.
for supper tonight and then have l>^tetel> fiJtel! ^®D/g!^!!fl?8«'tf1
with his parents when he spoke
and FAMILY
to go bowling later," Buzz evaded.
in Japanese, the time machine
e
Lyalta, Alta.
"Why don’t you come along and
guns were trained on them while
ft
Merry Christmas
have nihonshoku for a change?
en route to a. new camp, the time
MASAO MAJIWARA
«
They
always
tell
me
to
bring
he was given ten days' detention
c/o Jas. E. Lawlor
c
and a
along any of my friends.”
for something trivial by a callous
Picture Butte Alta.
I
“If I could speak half decent
orderly' officer, the times he had
ft
Happy
Netti
Year
s
Japanese I might think about it,
Mr. and Mrs.
to wear a POW uniform when
i
MALCOLM FUKAMI
Dan replied without enthusiasm.
sent out to work with German
§
Diamond City, Alta.
I
prisoners-of-war.
They got off the street car at
“It’s a laugh you know . . . the
a
$
MR. & MRS. TON A OH AM A
St.
Catharine Street, the city's
whole goddamn thing. I’m sup
and SHOKO
«
main
thoroughfare.
slushed
posed to be a born Canadian and
Rainier. Alta.
I
&
through the damp streets amongst
they' treat me just like an enemyLEFEAUX
The
crowd.
At Eaton’s
department
store.
they
scanned
AS
Barrister, Solicitor.
the rows of holiday merchandise,
5
and finally Dan found a modestNotary
looking Swiss music box which
. to all my friends across
seemed the very thing for. a
4
ft
Canada and in Japan
young
couple
recently
married.
w
While leaving the shopping dis
GARMAT PLEASURE
$
$
bJ
CRAFT
trict.
the
two
Niseis
spotted
a
Eugretta (Robertson) Haworth
K. W. GAKDINER
frail-looking boy about five years
837 Hastings
I. P. MATSUMOTO
old on the curb in the midst of
I. M. MATSUMOTO
AS
heavy- traffic, waiting to move on
R.R. 1
Nelson. B.C.
$
Vancouver
OCEAN FALLS KINDERGARTEN
at the green light. Behind him
Merry
Christmas
and
J
%
OCEAN FALLS, B.C.
he was towing a large orange box
.4 Happy Neta Year!
;8
loaded .with .firewood. His oyerTHE STREETS swarmed with
the late shoppers and the
merry-makers. The bright lights
blinked at the snow-smudged
scene. Christmas was coming. It
was in the air. The shop windows showed off their wares. A
gaily painted poster proclaimed
gift suggestions “for the one you
love.”
IA Happy New YeJ
ft._____ ______ __
I Merry Chrisimas 5
If
W. W.
GREETINGS!
CAI
sized cap hung precariously on
his head, and his shabby clothes,,
showing evidence of much patch
ing, clung loosely to the skinnyBy JACK LEE
frame of his body. His face was
Wishin
alien- -in a prisoner-of-war’s uni smudged as though with grease,
a ble
but his tired eyes loomed with'
JACK DEE,
formerly Jack
form among the Germans of the
Nakamoto, is a regular contri
happy
and
ingenuous
inn ocence
Afrika Korps.”
butor who takes as his theme .this
year a cross-section of Nisei-onBuzz and Dan had been prac curiosity.
Christmas Seaso
the-street attitudes. Mr. Lee is
walking
and
Dan
stopped
an overseas veteran who served
tically- raised together out in Van
and a New Year
in the Royal Canadian Engineers.
*
*
couver. They had lived next door, watched the boy- pulling the load
of True Peace!
%
while Buzz waited impatiently.
to each other, gone to school and
In a small upstairs room four
our rights. What's the use of . .
“Gee. the kid’s cute,” said Dan
played together. It was only- when
Niseis we; 3 deeply absorbed in a
KATHLEtN LANG
“Aw shut up, Dan,” interrupted
as he started in the direction of
they started high school that the
card game. The air was heavy
the third player. “You ought to difference in their outlooks be the boy.
with pale blue cigarette smoke.
know Buzz by now. Come on, give
“Are you going to follow him
came apparent.
One of the players stood up and
N. Kamloops. S.c,
me
two
cards.
”
asked
Buzz, slightly' disturbed.
Buzz had toiled assiduously at
opened the only store window in
“What?” .Dan asked, preoccu
the study of Japanese in the even
the room. As a gust of cold wind
pied
with the boy' ’ahead.
came in, he changed his mind and
The game broke up around mid- tual hope of enrolling at Waseda
.
They'
walked in absolute silence
But Dan
closed it again.
night. Feeling a bit tired and university' in Japan.
for five blocks until the boy turn
5
were crazy to
very hungry, the Niseis trudged didn’t take his Japanese seriously.
*1^
ed
into
the
courtyard
of
a
tene
REV. and MRS. Y. OGURA
die said as he redown to Chinatown for some food. He found Japanese school an
^oi|ii
joi^
ideal refuge in which to indulge ment built in the old French
While waiting for their order,
P.O. Box 295
STj^ihing across the Buzz and Dan engaged in another in -day-dreaming or dozing, He architectural style.
A
tarpaper
shack
lay'
buried
in
concentrated on his public and
reed|j “Maybe So, Buzz,
Grand Forks, S.C.
argument. This time it was about
deep snow with only the passage
my]’life sure put me
high
school work instead.
Christmas and the Christma^
leading to
I it partly cleared away.
!f’.of'tilings, more than
wish Ito
spirit.
The boy■ opened the tin door, reyou’ll ever know . . .”
Presently Buzz yawned, stretch“What a farce . . . this business
A Happy Christmas and a St?
pitiful familyr scene
vealing
a;
Year bringing Hops and Sect?
ing out his arms He sat up and
of giving and receiving gifts. You
“Cut,” he said, and began to
ity
! And our warmest greetings
mostly
were
They
within.
blinked- at Dan “Oh, you’re still
give, hoping you’ll get something
to all our friends of Kaslo, &
deal the cards slickly- for lowball.
can, New Denver, wherever tie;
youngster
pallid and huddled
good in return . . . giving only- tar here . . . You’re a queer one to
“I don’t know,” said the first
may be now.
was
no
There
stove.
around
the
stick around with me. You know .
the sake of getting.” Buzz was
Nisei who was addressed as Buzz,
ALAN P. ALLSEBROOK
tree, no wreaths, gifts or any
we’re not cut from the same
being sarcastic as usual.
“You were chucked out of the
other signs of Yuletide. Lacking,
and FAMILY
He added: “And telling kids
chunk.”
Coast, weren’t you? And
with
&
too, was the noisy happiness
the myth about Santa Claus comthey grabbed your old man’s boat.
“I stick
Kaslo. B.C.
Dan felt irritated,
the
which
children
welcome
ing down the chimney' to bring
Still you go and stick your neck
around just so long.’ he said,
Christmas season.
gifts to good little girls and
out to join the army. What did
“Just like some gamblers I know.
“I wonder if Christmas is ever
boys . . .”
MISS IDA B. WITHERS
your old man say? ... Or maybe
I drop in on them, but only once
going
to come here,” queried Dan
Dan replied: “Let the kids beyou think you’re getting it all
in a while. If I associated with
with concern.
lieve in him as a sort of Christ them I’d become one of them, too.
back now in free education at Mc“I don't know and I don’t care
mas spirit. Christmas should be
3890—21st Ave. W.
So don’t worry, I won’t be hang
much
either,” Buzz said coldly,
made impressionable to kids—as
"That’s a heck of a lot more
ing around you all the time.”
Vancouver, B.C.
turning away.
something symbolic of love and
than you’re getting.” the dealer
Buzz swung his right fist at
As they turned the corner and
goodwill, and not so much as a
replied hotly. Then he became
Dan, sending the latter reeling
passed in front of a brightly-lit
time of feasting.
Let it teach
serious, “We’ve got to keep fightback against the wall. Dan braced Dionne groceteria, Buzz stopped
MISS DOTTIE KARR
them that it’s more blessed to
ing, Buzz. We’ve got to fight for
himself, jerking his head and
abruptly. “I’m going to buy some
give than to receive . . . even if
w
fingering his jaw. He gazed up
Japanese oranges,” he said and
it’s only' a handshake, a word of
R.R. No. 3 Goudette Road
at Buzz, not. with anger, but with
strode into the store, Dan purkindness, or a sympathetic smile.
a mixture of surprise, hurt and
sued exclaiming, “Say, you can’t
New Westminster. B.C.
After all, if we’re to prevent wars
something like compassion.
buy
Japanese
oranges
these
put
in the future, we’ve got to
Buzz wilted under the oth
days.”
that kind of spirit into the kids
GEORGE O. SHAW
stare
and muttered. “Sorry."
$
Buzz was at the counter. “. . .
SUSUMU and MIYOKO
now.”
“Forget it, Buzz. Let’s go
Yes,
’
the
biggest
hamper
of
“You should have - taken up
UCHIDA and FAMILY
town for some shopping. I’ve
groceries you got for the people
POWELL DRUG
theology instead of medicine,” said
to buy one more present fo a
living in the shack. You’ll deliver
c/o Simon Ronacher
Buzz.
399 Powell St.
couple I know in the city.’’
no.
it? Swell. Just sign . .
“Well, I’m not buying any
Vancouver, B.C.
Athalmer, B.C.
never mind.”
The Niseis hailed a Yellow Cab,
presents but I’ll tag along.”
At they left the store, Dan
Ai
* * *
piled in. and headed homeward.
looked strangely at the other
MR. & MRS. K. MARUYAMA
Dan decided to sleep out the night
It was like old ime
and FAMILY
Nisei.
$
at Buzz’s.
places together. Da:
a sort
"Goddamn it, quit looking at
It was noon Saturday when Dan
of camaraderie for his friend
me like that!” scowled Buzz, and
Box 340
rubbed his eyes open to the which he had almost forgotten.
Creston. B.C.
added hurriedly, “I’ve got to beat
clamouring chorus of children in
“Say, I’m going to see two
ETTA DsWOLFE
it now, so Merry Christmas to
Beside him, Buzz
the streets.
colored girls tonight. How about you. in case I don't see you till
— 9? $ ps 7
was a still form in relaxed recoming along for the date?’
then.”
JIRO JOE YAMASAKI^
2570 Spruce St.
pose, appearing strangely differ
“W-h-a-t? Colored dames?”
“Sure
Vancouver, B.C.
Kamloops, B.C.
ent from his usual cynical self.
“Yeah, they’re tap dancers in a
“And, uh . . . the colored girls
MISS SADIE OLIVIA TAIT
Dan recalled the times when
night club.-We can see them after . . . are they pretty?”
Interesting, very'
Buzz had poured out his bitter their show.
MISS TERRIE &OTO
“Hunh? The colored girls? Oh,
friendly,
and
nice
to talk to,” as sure ...”
ness born out of three and a half
1306 West 12th Ave.
•
Pritchard, B.C.
Vancouver. B.C.
sured Dan.
years of internment.
“Well, so long,” gestured Buzz.
MAY 0WST0N
“Oh. no, Dan. No Kurombos
Buzz had been herded off to a
“Yeah . . .”
for
me.
”
camp as one of a group of Niseis
Mr. and Mrs.
* * *
. $
who
stubbornlyresisted
the
H. KUWAHARA
“What’s the matter? You blab
2856 w. 11th Ave.
The snow fell' softly' as dusk ’ |
Vancouver. B.C.
evacuation and refused to comply
and RONNIE
to high heaven about being a tar approached, The lights along the
^
$
with government orders. Seared
get for race prejudice, and now
Mr. and Mrs.
street were blinking, and the
“
T. U. HIGASHIDA
323-15th Ave. West
into his mind were memories of you’re showing them the same
streets continued to swarm with
Calgary', Alta.
1535 W. 5th Ave.
&
the time he was cut off abruptly : dirt.’’
people.
Vancouver. B.C.
"Tm invited out to Kishimoto's
during a telephone conversation
MR. and MRS. W. H.
for supper tonight and then have l>^tetel> fiJtel! ^®D/g!^!!fl?8«'tf1
with his parents when he spoke
and FAMILY
to go bowling later," Buzz evaded.
in Japanese, the time machine
e
Lyalta, Alta.
"Why don’t you come along and
guns were trained on them while
ft
Merry Christmas
have nihonshoku for a change?
en route to a. new camp, the time
MASAO MAJIWARA
«
They
always
tell
me
to
bring
he was given ten days' detention
c/o Jas. E. Lawlor
c
and a
along any of my friends.”
for something trivial by a callous
Picture Butte Alta.
I
“If I could speak half decent
orderly' officer, the times he had
ft
Happy
Netti
Year
s
Japanese I might think about it,
Mr. and Mrs.
to wear a POW uniform when
i
MALCOLM FUKAMI
Dan replied without enthusiasm.
sent out to work with German
§
Diamond City, Alta.
I
prisoners-of-war.
They got off the street car at
“It’s a laugh you know . . . the
a
$
MR. & MRS. TON A OH AM A
St.
Catharine Street, the city's
whole goddamn thing. I’m sup
and SHOKO
«
main
thoroughfare.
slushed
posed to be a born Canadian and
Rainier. Alta.
I
&
through the damp streets amongst
they' treat me just like an enemyLEFEAUX
The
crowd.
At Eaton’s
department
store.
they
scanned
AS
Barrister, Solicitor.
the rows of holiday merchandise,
5
and finally Dan found a modestNotary
looking Swiss music box which
. to all my friends across
seemed the very thing for. a
4
ft
Canada and in Japan
young
couple
recently
married.
w
While leaving the shopping dis
GARMAT PLEASURE
$
$
bJ
CRAFT
trict.
the
two
Niseis
spotted
a
Eugretta (Robertson) Haworth
K. W. GAKDINER
frail-looking boy about five years
837 Hastings
I. P. MATSUMOTO
old on the curb in the midst of
I. M. MATSUMOTO
AS
heavy- traffic, waiting to move on
R.R. 1
Nelson. B.C.
$
Vancouver
OCEAN FALLS KINDERGARTEN
at the green light. Behind him
Merry
Christmas
and
J
%
OCEAN FALLS, B.C.
he was towing a large orange box
.4 Happy Neta Year!
;8
loaded .with .firewood. His oyerTHE STREETS swarmed with
the late shoppers and the
merry-makers. The bright lights
blinked at the snow-smudged
scene. Christmas was coming. It
was in the air. The shop windows showed off their wares. A
gaily painted poster proclaimed
gift suggestions “for the one you
love.”
IA Happy New YeJ
ft._____ ______ __
I Merry Chrisimas 5
If
W. W.
GREETINGS!
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THE
Page Thirty-one
A Review of Population Tendencies
A Letter to a Logger
By E.P.B.
cling last month of the
expatriation ship to Japan
;he official number of
of Japanese ancestry in
try to the lowest point in
vears. The Canadian Japnopulation figure of 23.224
horded in the 1941 census
■iar of Pearl Harbour. But
Onflow across the Pacific durtce- past eight .months has
/large enough to more, than
-t the natural increase of the
E.P.B. has been a keen observer
of Japanese Canadian activities
for many years. In this article
on the decline of the Japanese
population in Canada, he prophe
sies some striking developments
in the assimilation of the* Japa
nese Canadians into the • ‘poly
glot ‘Canadian’ racial stream."
Agreement." which permitted lim
ited Japanese immigration into
the country—and the exceedingly
dim prospects that the Pacific
door will be re-opened to Japanese
immigration for some time to
come, even if a new, liberal immigration policy is shortly adopted.
The second factor
gleaned
from a Dominion Bureau of Statistics pamphlet on population.
Entitled "Cultural Differences in
Family Size." it is a study of some
of the various factors which de
termine how many children the
average couple have and rear. In
spite of all the Nisei marriages
and Sansei births being currently
recorded, it is a well-known fact
that the second generation do not
believe in large families. Just
how :surprisingly
small these
familie are is revealed in the following excerpt from the study
mentioned:
tn-'
oday. then, the population of
minority group stands at about
level as in
at the
uiier part of the 1920 s. And
the changes in our economic,
iitical and social prospects since
.a time are noteworthy, even
rote so. it might be said, are the
rances in our "biological'- pros—biological, that is, in the.
: of an expanding or declinacial group.
It is interesting, if academic, to
dilate upon these prospects,
•ticularly because we cannot
escape the conclusion that our
tunibers will increase, if at all,
rnly very slowly over the next
few generations. And assuming
There is, as we should expect,
to change in immigration restric
a
marked
difference between the
tions against the people of Asia,
Asiatic-born and the Canadianthere is a parallel conclusion. Our
born (in size of family).
Still
failure to multiply will lead to a
more marked is the difference
relatively rapid absorption or
between
Japanese-speaking and
malgamation of the people of
Chinese-speaking.
Table 1 gives
apanese blood into the increas
average family size for Asiatics
ingly polyglot “Canadian’’ racial
resident in
British Columbia
stream. The process, indeed, ‘is
rural districts, and in Vancouver:
likely to take place at a rate far
■and
Victoria. ’The Chinese-born
more rapid than we would have ■
who
were mostly, resident in
wildly imagined even less than
Vancouver and Victoria show
five years ago.
a higher fertility than any other
The evidence from which these
’conclusions are drawn is simple.
The first factor is the cancella
tion of the pre-war "Gentlemen’s
city group in this study.
other
Japanese-born,
on
the
Pi&i&^ir^^l^^^fS^^^
mother-tongue groups.
A Happy New Years
hand,*«re at the same level of
fertility as the
European
Table I. Average size of family of married women, foreign
and Canadian-born.
MR. & MRS. KEN ICHINO
Asiatic-born
Lethbridge, Alta.
Canadianborn
Chinese
MotherTongue
6.50
Japanese
MotherTon sue
4.45
3.74
2.75
women
____
Table 2 shows the
with Japanese mother-tongue in
EVA SAITO
greater detail. There is no ob
vious difference between rural
A.T.C.M.. L.R.S.M.
and city families, although there
clear indication of an edu-
Alberta College
Edmonton, Alta.
cational gradient.
Average
2.
Table
Japanese
of
family
Mr. and Mrs.
FRED OKUMURA: w
ROBERT F. OKUMURA
SYSH0JI OKUMURA ^0BUKO JEAN OKUM URA ^
.women.
Years of
Schooling
0:8 years
c ° E. Breitkreutz
RR- No. 3, Vernon, B.C.
9-12 years .
13 years and
St
up
size
of
married
Vancouver
& Victoria
4.25
4.30
Rural
B.C.
4.72
3.90
3.08
2.86
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The biological prospect is thus
fairly clear. N
will there
be no outside augmentation of
our extremely small group of
20.100 people, but all indications
are that the second generation
are not going to do very much
more than to replace themselves,
The average Nisei fan ily has only
~.«5 children and as the educa
tional level rises, as it unquestion
ably will, even this low average
is likely to decline still further.
It is thus po: dble that over the
next ten to 2 years the rising
mortality rate among the a cine
first generation will wholly eounteract births and a further de
crease in our numbers may actu
ally ensue before a more basically
stable figure is finally reached. If
we were located on a desert isle,
it is possible that the problem of
in-breeding might eventually con
cern us.
But none of this will be taking
place in a test tube work! where
it will be possible to observe a.n
isolated biological process. On the
contrary, social environment will
exert steadily strengthening and
expanding pressure. The upheaval
of the war shattered our pre-war
segregated communities and with
them the close semblance of test
tube conditions that did prevail.
Relocation and dispersal have left,
in their stead, a scattering of
groups across six provinces —
groups which are not only much
smaller, but are also much less
tightly knit.
Nor is there the close inter
relation among the groups, which
formerly ' provided the convenient
migration of Itms-bands and wives
froni the bem farms to the fishing villages, o; tike lumber camps
to the city a tv?as and vice versa,
Instead, on all. sides, is the impact
of the white Crmadian community,
and wholly mw■v patterns of social
relationships are evolving for
hundreds of second and third
generation, In a few short years,
even under clearly unfavourable
conditions, it is noteworthy that
the trend toward amalgamation of
relocees into the larger community has already been evidenced.
We have then what amounts to
a simple, basic picture—unless
some entirely new element, such
as the dissolution of the 49th
parallel, is introduced.
On the. one hand, our severe
limitation of numbers—the total
population of people of Japanese
ancestry in Canada, never large
to begin with, is likely to decline
within the next two decades and
then to increase, if at all. at a
very slow rate.
On the other hand. the wide and
extensive contacts we now have
with white . Canadian neighbors,
plus the scarcer and weaker rela
tions with Japanese neighbors,
are already contributing toward
racial amalgamation.
The combined result of these
two forces will be to lead, as
noted before, to a relatively rapid
absorption of the minority Japanese group into the main biological
stream of the majority Canadian
group. This is likely to be the
most permanent effect of the war.
generations it
In five or
may be difficult to locate a Canadian of pure Japanese ancestry.
And we have seen enough physical evidence of the modification
of the “Japanese physical type’’
through intermarriage as to believe that in the same space of
time, it may be impossible to
recognize most Canadians of
Their
mote Japanese ancestry.
svllabic names. indeed, may be
the only tag of identification, and
these are readily changed by due
process,of- law. . .
By S.Y.J.
Dear Chum:
Howzit up there in God’s conn
Fugged? Write yon a long
later.
Pal.
P.S.:
Merci beaueoup for your
postcard. And my French teacher
thought she taught all her French
to me in vain. Why l can still
read the French directions on
milk can labels . . . with the Eng
lish alongside it.
And as you can. plainly read. I
still retain some words from the
vocab like merci, beaueoup. Chev
coupe, consomme. Ie. la. soh. fah.
me, re and do. And also a crowd
of others.
The Saturday night bull session
what it used to be without
you to supply the bull: but oh
well. gone are the nights when
the seven of us squeezed in a
booth and the six of you talked
and talked. While the seventh
one—the one with the feeble
smile—nodded knowingly at the
wrong time and wondered where
in Jehovah’s name you lugs had
ever picked up the Yiddish langu-
Confusing. But very faseinating and revealing after 1 caught
sounds which were similar to
words. This was after hearing
these sounds about ten times over.
Words
like
"cat
skinner."
"chokermen.''
"trimmer"
and
such. I remember sitting then1
with my mouth wide open at the
horrible implications. . . .
I pictured cats. cats, thousands
of them from Angora. Siamese.
Maltese to Falcon, black, pink,
green, all sorts of cats running
here and there ami everywhere
(like Kilroy) and as a. result, the
loggers go on strike.
But we must, have our toothpicks'
So the company
Chokermen.
They (the blackhearted scoundrels that, they are!)
lure the innocent, little felines
with catnip. After petting them
into their confidence;
they—
snappp! !—just like that.
Tsk, tsk. And the guys wonder
why the hamburger had a mousy
taste.
Logically, the Cat Skinners
(also black-hearted scoundrels)
then rush to the scene of the mas
sacre.. And girls down yonder, a
year later, would
longingly
a.t the “genuine mink' coats on
display. Tsk. tsk.
And Trimmers?
Shucks, you
SY J is a young writer on a sugar
beet farm who has made New
Canadian readers chortle with his
recent accounts of prairie farm
life. Ite confesses to a liking for
cartooning and has his eye on
higher education if the “daikon"
does not. keep him rooted to the
soil.
r
can’t fool me. 1 know they need
barbers down that a ways.
I envy you. Yosh. I nhlly do.
Here 1 live gradually being bored
stiff by overdoses of luxurious
living, girls, shows, girls, res
taurants. girls, dances . and of
While tilery you are. chopping
down ^rees ’ left and right, hourafter hour, morning til) night, day
in and,.day out. having a wonder
ful time developing muscles like
Charles Atlas would like to have
l hem.
Yessir, give me the wide cranni
ed spaces with trees all round me.
Give me a man-sized axe. Give
me lots of room. And I’ll be m
the hospital before ye.
having
wonderful
We
are
cather. It hasn't snowed for a
day and a half and 1 saw the sun
twice yesterday. As you are well
aware, the snowfall could have
been much worse—it couldI have
inches and where
snowed
would we be then. 1 ask you?
We would be wallowing in
inches of snow.
12.
Instead the snow h a s fallen
only, oh lucky us. 11 and a half
inches, and two feet in front, of
our door.
Say 1 used a. little imagination
and started out like. “The bluish
violet luminous moon, faintly
tinged, with fading colors of
greenish indigo, emanated an.
aura of pale eerie so and so . . .’’
shucks, if I started out like that.,
you might think that, a blue moon
did come up and it did have something to do with my answering
two months late. But, oh well, I’ll
keep those fiendish ideas to myself as yet. Take care.
P.P.S.: The town is dead without
you lugs.
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write, it’ll be when the blue moon
the mountain, not.
comes
that a blue moon has anything to
do with my writing to you but it
certainly sounds better than say
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THE
Page Thirty-one
A Review of Population Tendencies
A Letter to a Logger
By E.P.B.
cling last month of the
expatriation ship to Japan
;he official number of
of Japanese ancestry in
try to the lowest point in
vears. The Canadian Japnopulation figure of 23.224
horded in the 1941 census
■iar of Pearl Harbour. But
Onflow across the Pacific durtce- past eight .months has
/large enough to more, than
-t the natural increase of the
E.P.B. has been a keen observer
of Japanese Canadian activities
for many years. In this article
on the decline of the Japanese
population in Canada, he prophe
sies some striking developments
in the assimilation of the* Japa
nese Canadians into the • ‘poly
glot ‘Canadian’ racial stream."
Agreement." which permitted lim
ited Japanese immigration into
the country—and the exceedingly
dim prospects that the Pacific
door will be re-opened to Japanese
immigration for some time to
come, even if a new, liberal immigration policy is shortly adopted.
The second factor
gleaned
from a Dominion Bureau of Statistics pamphlet on population.
Entitled "Cultural Differences in
Family Size." it is a study of some
of the various factors which de
termine how many children the
average couple have and rear. In
spite of all the Nisei marriages
and Sansei births being currently
recorded, it is a well-known fact
that the second generation do not
believe in large families. Just
how :surprisingly
small these
familie are is revealed in the following excerpt from the study
mentioned:
tn-'
oday. then, the population of
minority group stands at about
level as in
at the
uiier part of the 1920 s. And
the changes in our economic,
iitical and social prospects since
.a time are noteworthy, even
rote so. it might be said, are the
rances in our "biological'- pros—biological, that is, in the.
: of an expanding or declinacial group.
It is interesting, if academic, to
dilate upon these prospects,
•ticularly because we cannot
escape the conclusion that our
tunibers will increase, if at all,
rnly very slowly over the next
few generations. And assuming
There is, as we should expect,
to change in immigration restric
a
marked
difference between the
tions against the people of Asia,
Asiatic-born and the Canadianthere is a parallel conclusion. Our
born (in size of family).
Still
failure to multiply will lead to a
more marked is the difference
relatively rapid absorption or
between
Japanese-speaking and
malgamation of the people of
Chinese-speaking.
Table 1 gives
apanese blood into the increas
average family size for Asiatics
ingly polyglot “Canadian’’ racial
resident in
British Columbia
stream. The process, indeed, ‘is
rural districts, and in Vancouver:
likely to take place at a rate far
■and
Victoria. ’The Chinese-born
more rapid than we would have ■
who
were mostly, resident in
wildly imagined even less than
Vancouver and Victoria show
five years ago.
a higher fertility than any other
The evidence from which these
’conclusions are drawn is simple.
The first factor is the cancella
tion of the pre-war "Gentlemen’s
city group in this study.
other
Japanese-born,
on
the
Pi&i&^ir^^l^^^fS^^^
mother-tongue groups.
A Happy New Years
hand,*«re at the same level of
fertility as the
European
Table I. Average size of family of married women, foreign
and Canadian-born.
MR. & MRS. KEN ICHINO
Asiatic-born
Lethbridge, Alta.
Canadianborn
Chinese
MotherTongue
6.50
Japanese
MotherTon sue
4.45
3.74
2.75
women
____
Table 2 shows the
with Japanese mother-tongue in
EVA SAITO
greater detail. There is no ob
vious difference between rural
A.T.C.M.. L.R.S.M.
and city families, although there
clear indication of an edu-
Alberta College
Edmonton, Alta.
cational gradient.
Average
2.
Table
Japanese
of
family
Mr. and Mrs.
FRED OKUMURA: w
ROBERT F. OKUMURA
SYSH0JI OKUMURA ^0BUKO JEAN OKUM URA ^
.women.
Years of
Schooling
0:8 years
c ° E. Breitkreutz
RR- No. 3, Vernon, B.C.
9-12 years .
13 years and
St
up
size
of
married
Vancouver
& Victoria
4.25
4.30
Rural
B.C.
4.72
3.90
3.08
2.86
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The biological prospect is thus
fairly clear. N
will there
be no outside augmentation of
our extremely small group of
20.100 people, but all indications
are that the second generation
are not going to do very much
more than to replace themselves,
The average Nisei fan ily has only
~.«5 children and as the educa
tional level rises, as it unquestion
ably will, even this low average
is likely to decline still further.
It is thus po: dble that over the
next ten to 2 years the rising
mortality rate among the a cine
first generation will wholly eounteract births and a further de
crease in our numbers may actu
ally ensue before a more basically
stable figure is finally reached. If
we were located on a desert isle,
it is possible that the problem of
in-breeding might eventually con
cern us.
But none of this will be taking
place in a test tube work! where
it will be possible to observe a.n
isolated biological process. On the
contrary, social environment will
exert steadily strengthening and
expanding pressure. The upheaval
of the war shattered our pre-war
segregated communities and with
them the close semblance of test
tube conditions that did prevail.
Relocation and dispersal have left,
in their stead, a scattering of
groups across six provinces —
groups which are not only much
smaller, but are also much less
tightly knit.
Nor is there the close inter
relation among the groups, which
formerly ' provided the convenient
migration of Itms-bands and wives
froni the bem farms to the fishing villages, o; tike lumber camps
to the city a tv?as and vice versa,
Instead, on all. sides, is the impact
of the white Crmadian community,
and wholly mw■v patterns of social
relationships are evolving for
hundreds of second and third
generation, In a few short years,
even under clearly unfavourable
conditions, it is noteworthy that
the trend toward amalgamation of
relocees into the larger community has already been evidenced.
We have then what amounts to
a simple, basic picture—unless
some entirely new element, such
as the dissolution of the 49th
parallel, is introduced.
On the. one hand, our severe
limitation of numbers—the total
population of people of Japanese
ancestry in Canada, never large
to begin with, is likely to decline
within the next two decades and
then to increase, if at all. at a
very slow rate.
On the other hand. the wide and
extensive contacts we now have
with white . Canadian neighbors,
plus the scarcer and weaker rela
tions with Japanese neighbors,
are already contributing toward
racial amalgamation.
The combined result of these
two forces will be to lead, as
noted before, to a relatively rapid
absorption of the minority Japanese group into the main biological
stream of the majority Canadian
group. This is likely to be the
most permanent effect of the war.
generations it
In five or
may be difficult to locate a Canadian of pure Japanese ancestry.
And we have seen enough physical evidence of the modification
of the “Japanese physical type’’
through intermarriage as to believe that in the same space of
time, it may be impossible to
recognize most Canadians of
Their
mote Japanese ancestry.
svllabic names. indeed, may be
the only tag of identification, and
these are readily changed by due
process,of- law. . .
By S.Y.J.
Dear Chum:
Howzit up there in God’s conn
Fugged? Write yon a long
later.
Pal.
P.S.:
Merci beaueoup for your
postcard. And my French teacher
thought she taught all her French
to me in vain. Why l can still
read the French directions on
milk can labels . . . with the Eng
lish alongside it.
And as you can. plainly read. I
still retain some words from the
vocab like merci, beaueoup. Chev
coupe, consomme. Ie. la. soh. fah.
me, re and do. And also a crowd
of others.
The Saturday night bull session
what it used to be without
you to supply the bull: but oh
well. gone are the nights when
the seven of us squeezed in a
booth and the six of you talked
and talked. While the seventh
one—the one with the feeble
smile—nodded knowingly at the
wrong time and wondered where
in Jehovah’s name you lugs had
ever picked up the Yiddish langu-
Confusing. But very faseinating and revealing after 1 caught
sounds which were similar to
words. This was after hearing
these sounds about ten times over.
Words
like
"cat
skinner."
"chokermen.''
"trimmer"
and
such. I remember sitting then1
with my mouth wide open at the
horrible implications. . . .
I pictured cats. cats, thousands
of them from Angora. Siamese.
Maltese to Falcon, black, pink,
green, all sorts of cats running
here and there ami everywhere
(like Kilroy) and as a. result, the
loggers go on strike.
But we must, have our toothpicks'
So the company
Chokermen.
They (the blackhearted scoundrels that, they are!)
lure the innocent, little felines
with catnip. After petting them
into their confidence;
they—
snappp! !—just like that.
Tsk, tsk. And the guys wonder
why the hamburger had a mousy
taste.
Logically, the Cat Skinners
(also black-hearted scoundrels)
then rush to the scene of the mas
sacre.. And girls down yonder, a
year later, would
longingly
a.t the “genuine mink' coats on
display. Tsk. tsk.
And Trimmers?
Shucks, you
SY J is a young writer on a sugar
beet farm who has made New
Canadian readers chortle with his
recent accounts of prairie farm
life. Ite confesses to a liking for
cartooning and has his eye on
higher education if the “daikon"
does not. keep him rooted to the
soil.
r
can’t fool me. 1 know they need
barbers down that a ways.
I envy you. Yosh. I nhlly do.
Here 1 live gradually being bored
stiff by overdoses of luxurious
living, girls, shows, girls, res
taurants. girls, dances . and of
While tilery you are. chopping
down ^rees ’ left and right, hourafter hour, morning til) night, day
in and,.day out. having a wonder
ful time developing muscles like
Charles Atlas would like to have
l hem.
Yessir, give me the wide cranni
ed spaces with trees all round me.
Give me a man-sized axe. Give
me lots of room. And I’ll be m
the hospital before ye.
having
wonderful
We
are
cather. It hasn't snowed for a
day and a half and 1 saw the sun
twice yesterday. As you are well
aware, the snowfall could have
been much worse—it couldI have
inches and where
snowed
would we be then. 1 ask you?
We would be wallowing in
inches of snow.
12.
Instead the snow h a s fallen
only, oh lucky us. 11 and a half
inches, and two feet in front, of
our door.
Say 1 used a. little imagination
and started out like. “The bluish
violet luminous moon, faintly
tinged, with fading colors of
greenish indigo, emanated an.
aura of pale eerie so and so . . .’’
shucks, if I started out like that.,
you might think that, a blue moon
did come up and it did have something to do with my answering
two months late. But, oh well, I’ll
keep those fiendish ideas to myself as yet. Take care.
P.P.S.: The town is dead without
you lugs.
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SUEO HAYASHI
JACK S. NAGAI
YO NISHIMURA
KEN ITO
JACK KADONAGA
LANKY KADONAGA
MUSH KADONAGA
TOSH OGA
KEN SAKAMOTO
SHIGEHIRO
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certainly sounds better than say
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BLACKIE TAKADA
FRED YAKO
TOM YAKO
MAMORU YAMAMOTO
YOSH YAMAMOTO
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Page Thirty-two
THE
NEW
CA N A DIAN
Saturday. Deceit
To M. N. T.
^^/dld^^^A.
( W ritten
By HUGO YAMAMOTO
PROM WHERE he sat, Mitchell
A Harris could see the crowd
milling around like cattle herded
into one corral. The thousands
of voices jabbered incoherently,
tilling the heavy air around him
with pressing restlessness.
Mitchell thought of the four
long years spent in the mud and
slime of Europe—watching men
die. seeing kids like these suffer
and slowly waste their tired life,
wandering aimlessly. lost and
lonely, with the dull pan
of
hunger gnawing continuously in
their wretched bodies. It was as
though an unseen death hovered
above them, constantly reaping
its toll as they gave up the fight
for life.
Yes, Mitchell Harris was an
actor, but sometimes the roles he
had to play hurt him deeply.
“Ho! ho! ho!”
A jolly laugh, the script read.
he thought.
‘‘Your name is Junior Bratkid is
it? And, what do you want from
dear old Santa this year?”
"What's your name, child
‘•Mildred."
Her voice
scarcely above a whisper.
was
‘■Mildred . . . Mildred . . ” he
repeated thoughtfully, for that
name evoked a strangely familiar
echo in his mind.
. . And what would you like
for Christmas, child?"
Mitchell felt obligated to call her
"child" in much the s time way
that one addresses another sir."
Mildred's lips quivered and her
whole body seemed to tremble.
For a long rime she sat silent, and
only her eyes seemed to speak of
her anxiety. Then she looked in
to Mitchell's eyes and stammered
between welling tears.
"I .
. I
. want my
daddv
Mildred's tears rolled down
cheeks and fell on Mitchell 's red
flannels, marking a dark round
spot.
Mitchell's throat tightened and
his fingers gripped Mildred. Here
was something that wasn't in his
books or his script. Here was
something that hit him hard.
piercing his armor of indifference. For now. he knew
Dear old Santa, my foot!
thought Mitchell. It was always
the same—a train, an airplane, or
a shiny red fire-engine . . . and the
girls with their dolls, buggies and
tea sets.
“Come now. Mildred.” A quiet
tender voice came.
if in a
dream, from the crowd. Mitchell
looked up and saw the face of a
woman, young in appearance, but
aged with the suffering and grief
that surrounded her spark of life
embodied in the child.
Mitchell's thoughts strayed once
more of the suffering, to the place
where toys were of no use, for the
hard struggle for existence did
not spare the time nor the energy
for pleasure.
‘T m sorry, sir. if she bothered
you,' she said in a steady quiet
voice as she took Mildred from
his knee. Mildred’s tiny fingers,
clutched tightly 6n Mitchell’s coat,
relaxed slowly. Mitchell mumbled
Suddenly from among the tiny
faces
that surrounded
him.
Mitchell noticed one little
standing silently and alone, and
staring up at him. He had seen
her before but Mitchell had not
noticed her particularly- until
?.tow. The child's face reminded
him of something or someone he
couldn’t quite place. Her tiny,
^hin face was taut and pale like
so many he had seen in the desti
tute, war-torn streets of Europe.
Mitchell had seen the same coun
tenance so often that he could
never erase the vision. Yet there
was something else in this child's
deep blue eyes that was faintly
disturbing.
“Come, child." he beckoned putting aside the long line of children before him.
She seemed
hesitant and scared, Slowly she
shuffled forward.
Mitchell lifted her gently to his
knee and smiled down at her
frightened face. He felt tiny
gers clutching his coat tightly.
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Softly rest then, friend, in peace w wa
Let my eager tongue repeal in pod ‘
My pen inscribe in faithfulness tht a< - u
So would this loss, this deeper aU< i„
Thy parting gift, my priceless t u^i^
To write a fitting epitaph to gran d a
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For a moment Mitchell's
sank,
Then he saw the door
close. and the two were
standing there. unable> to e
the crowded elevator.
hurried.
“Ann . . . Mrs.
a rro 1I ! ''
Mitchell called out. The woman
turned, her face showing surprise
at Mitchell's moist eyes.
"How . .
how did you know
my name?" she stammered un
Mitchell led her to
a quiet corner of the building.
‘'Mildred . . . Mildred told me
through -her eyes." he said.
t2
child’s eyes never lie.
Johnny
had the same eyes. I could pick
them from a million. You see. I
was his buddy over there. I was
52
there when . . . when .
Mitchell
could not finish.
%
“Then . . . you must be Mitchell
Harris.” Her voice was unsteady.
Mitchell nodded in silence.
The big man in red stooped
down and picked up the child
fondly. And when he looked down
at the child’s mother, she was
smiling, and there passed be
tween them a look of mutual
understanding.
y
Si
Montreal
Japanese
Welfare
Federation
Ma
a was
Time, that ancient one, heedless of o»^Did take to his sombre self thy haU-eFinding in thy dreamers soul a atm,,
Reckon'd on his sifting sands the r a p
Too tender ’gainst the passions ot Mu i
Cut thee from opr company, set Death a
§
&
memory o
passed
ye title friend. beneath
A.pril rain, the August sun.
Dike the seedling
t
gras that
Upon the naked ground,
grief.
But, whopleeps forever yet doth a a
Accent the anguish of bereavemti ( 1
Where Death stands guard behind t'
for
was racing agair t t
watched the two ■alkmg away
He sat motionless, ad dazed witi
bewilderment.
Coming back to himself with a
start, Mitchell bounded up from
his seat, and headed towards the
fast-disappearing couple.
Damn the job, Mitchell thought
as he pushed his way through the
crowd. He could see them mak
ing their way to the elevator.
UGO YAMAMOTO
best
known in the Nisei world, for his
into the world of t!
wring his stay in ti.ne
iley. He has penned us
i
istic story from Brea:
fold. Ontario, his base of opera
tions since relocation from B.C
Mitchell was (loaned in the azeold costume of bright red flannel
coat fringed with imitation white
red trousers tucked
snugly into his jet black high
boots, and hi.is woolly white beard
and moustache, so often pulled by
those seemingly innocent brats to
see if it was a phony or not. The
stifling hot air and . his outfit
made his whole body sticky with
sweat. It all built up to a smoul
dering anger.
in
wh o
THE
NEW
CA N A DIAN
Saturday. Deceit
To M. N. T.
^^/dld^^^A.
( W ritten
By HUGO YAMAMOTO
PROM WHERE he sat, Mitchell
A Harris could see the crowd
milling around like cattle herded
into one corral. The thousands
of voices jabbered incoherently,
tilling the heavy air around him
with pressing restlessness.
Mitchell thought of the four
long years spent in the mud and
slime of Europe—watching men
die. seeing kids like these suffer
and slowly waste their tired life,
wandering aimlessly. lost and
lonely, with the dull pan
of
hunger gnawing continuously in
their wretched bodies. It was as
though an unseen death hovered
above them, constantly reaping
its toll as they gave up the fight
for life.
Yes, Mitchell Harris was an
actor, but sometimes the roles he
had to play hurt him deeply.
“Ho! ho! ho!”
A jolly laugh, the script read.
he thought.
‘‘Your name is Junior Bratkid is
it? And, what do you want from
dear old Santa this year?”
"What's your name, child
‘•Mildred."
Her voice
scarcely above a whisper.
was
‘■Mildred . . . Mildred . . ” he
repeated thoughtfully, for that
name evoked a strangely familiar
echo in his mind.
. . And what would you like
for Christmas, child?"
Mitchell felt obligated to call her
"child" in much the s time way
that one addresses another sir."
Mildred's lips quivered and her
whole body seemed to tremble.
For a long rime she sat silent, and
only her eyes seemed to speak of
her anxiety. Then she looked in
to Mitchell's eyes and stammered
between welling tears.
"I .
. I
. want my
daddv
Mildred's tears rolled down
cheeks and fell on Mitchell 's red
flannels, marking a dark round
spot.
Mitchell's throat tightened and
his fingers gripped Mildred. Here
was something that wasn't in his
books or his script. Here was
something that hit him hard.
piercing his armor of indifference. For now. he knew
Dear old Santa, my foot!
thought Mitchell. It was always
the same—a train, an airplane, or
a shiny red fire-engine . . . and the
girls with their dolls, buggies and
tea sets.
“Come now. Mildred.” A quiet
tender voice came.
if in a
dream, from the crowd. Mitchell
looked up and saw the face of a
woman, young in appearance, but
aged with the suffering and grief
that surrounded her spark of life
embodied in the child.
Mitchell's thoughts strayed once
more of the suffering, to the place
where toys were of no use, for the
hard struggle for existence did
not spare the time nor the energy
for pleasure.
‘T m sorry, sir. if she bothered
you,' she said in a steady quiet
voice as she took Mildred from
his knee. Mildred’s tiny fingers,
clutched tightly 6n Mitchell’s coat,
relaxed slowly. Mitchell mumbled
Suddenly from among the tiny
faces
that surrounded
him.
Mitchell noticed one little
standing silently and alone, and
staring up at him. He had seen
her before but Mitchell had not
noticed her particularly- until
?.tow. The child's face reminded
him of something or someone he
couldn’t quite place. Her tiny,
^hin face was taut and pale like
so many he had seen in the desti
tute, war-torn streets of Europe.
Mitchell had seen the same coun
tenance so often that he could
never erase the vision. Yet there
was something else in this child's
deep blue eyes that was faintly
disturbing.
“Come, child." he beckoned putting aside the long line of children before him.
She seemed
hesitant and scared, Slowly she
shuffled forward.
Mitchell lifted her gently to his
knee and smiled down at her
frightened face. He felt tiny
gers clutching his coat tightly.
52
*
i>
8
8
Softly rest then, friend, in peace w wa
Let my eager tongue repeal in pod ‘
My pen inscribe in faithfulness tht a< - u
So would this loss, this deeper aU< i„
Thy parting gift, my priceless t u^i^
To write a fitting epitaph to gran d a
e
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IM
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■a
ft
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CfinMnw
auh
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Bui
^rar
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W.
MONTREAL. P.Q.
Phone: PL 0427
Mr. and Mrs.
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Ethier. Proprietor
EP^as^s^d^y^^ti^y^
Mr. Lloyd H. Shimotakahara
Misses Lillian. Margaret,
and Hazel Shimotakahara
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Montreal. P.Q.
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1040 Brault Ave.. Verdun. P.Q.
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For a moment Mitchell's
sank,
Then he saw the door
close. and the two were
standing there. unable> to e
the crowded elevator.
hurried.
“Ann . . . Mrs.
a rro 1I ! ''
Mitchell called out. The woman
turned, her face showing surprise
at Mitchell's moist eyes.
"How . .
how did you know
my name?" she stammered un
Mitchell led her to
a quiet corner of the building.
‘'Mildred . . . Mildred told me
through -her eyes." he said.
t2
child’s eyes never lie.
Johnny
had the same eyes. I could pick
them from a million. You see. I
was his buddy over there. I was
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there when . . . when .
Mitchell
could not finish.
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“Then . . . you must be Mitchell
Harris.” Her voice was unsteady.
Mitchell nodded in silence.
The big man in red stooped
down and picked up the child
fondly. And when he looked down
at the child’s mother, she was
smiling, and there passed be
tween them a look of mutual
understanding.
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Japanese
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Time, that ancient one, heedless of o»^Did take to his sombre self thy haU-eFinding in thy dreamers soul a atm,,
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Too tender ’gainst the passions ot Mu i
Cut thee from opr company, set Death a
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memory o
passed
ye title friend. beneath
A.pril rain, the August sun.
Dike the seedling
t
gras that
Upon the naked ground,
grief.
But, whopleeps forever yet doth a a
Accent the anguish of bereavemti ( 1
Where Death stands guard behind t'
for
was racing agair t t
watched the two ■alkmg away
He sat motionless, ad dazed witi
bewilderment.
Coming back to himself with a
start, Mitchell bounded up from
his seat, and headed towards the
fast-disappearing couple.
Damn the job, Mitchell thought
as he pushed his way through the
crowd. He could see them mak
ing their way to the elevator.
UGO YAMAMOTO
best
known in the Nisei world, for his
into the world of t!
wring his stay in ti.ne
iley. He has penned us
i
istic story from Brea:
fold. Ontario, his base of opera
tions since relocation from B.C
Mitchell was (loaned in the azeold costume of bright red flannel
coat fringed with imitation white
red trousers tucked
snugly into his jet black high
boots, and hi.is woolly white beard
and moustache, so often pulled by
those seemingly innocent brats to
see if it was a phony or not. The
stifling hot air and . his outfit
made his whole body sticky with
sweat. It all built up to a smoul
dering anger.
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