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THE NEW CANADIAN
Another Land
Another Christmas
| VOL XI, No. 48—10c Per Copy
TORONTO, ONT.. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22. 1948
The Story of Taro and Emiko ...
And Incidentally, the Repatriation
By JACK T. OKI
ribbon shone
The narrow
I
gold in the
stretched be-
the dockside and Ure ship.
It. was May 2!
W
lli^/.
4
i
f;
L
$
^$3
133
Kas
WE
a
VS
1941. The slight
orning haze h: I magically vanished from over the bustling city
t waters. The
and its adj
weeks, then a month pass
ed and still no word from Taro,
Emiko began to wonde
ould ever write
would
listen
intently
whenever her parents talked over
any letter from the Oharas.
he overheard
One day
North Shore mountains, still mother, in t .Iking to a friend.
donning their winter snow-caps. | mention Taro' name. Her sketchy
looked a ross the shimmering sur- !
Japanese was insufface of Ure Inlet .on a bit of. real ficient to fully underst and the conenacted on
life drama
versation but she thought they
Vancouver dock.
that. " . . . though th
Emiko had dreaded the coming had said
of this day ever since Taro’s par-' Oharas had wanted to send Taro to
ents> had decided to return to drool. he was unable to go beSW^W
checked
the cause it appeared that he would be
Japan.
She
had
"Ships, departure and arrival"
drafted into the forces.’’
column of the Vancouver Province
It was a day before the end of
for the fateful line
every day
i
Maru—for
Japan—May the summer holidays. As Emiko
"Heiian
27” with the hope that somehow it came in the door, her young bro
would be delayed.
ther. Ken. shouted. "Hey, there's
Shoji Takah
At first Taro had argued. "I a letter for yowl" When he added.
Winter Scene in Manitoba
don't want to go!" But his parents
‘It's from Taro!” Emiko broke out
told him that they were obliged to
and had an
;
go and care for his aging grand m a smile
But Henry was
looked worried as he talked
“Oh. I just happened to meet a
mother. Not only" that, they point shout for joy.
nersen trovn Canaoa
met
ed out, Taro, with a knowledge of
Bhe picked up the letter with a with her mother. “How can we ge ecu pie of Canadian missionaries
both English and Japanese, would Tokyo postmark and withdrew, East with
young children and while I was in 'Jersey City’. They and he had to toll someone.
find opportunities in Japan that he
He had to tell Sis. so he ran over
king care not to appear’ too hasty, । no money;
he asked, more to m ent i on e d som eth i ng about a big
would never have in Canada be- .nto me privacy of her own room J
to Emiko who was helping with
himself than anyone else. “Ra- Christmas party they
~cause he was of Japanese ances- to read it.
refreshments, and whispered in her
!
then than face the unknown, it their mission house, and that if I
try.
ear, "Sis. that man iver there, he
The letter might be better to go to Japan.
anyone from Canada
"Dear Emiko: .
The thoughts of adventure, of
ran
too!"
becoming a man of influence . - a
On the day that her fattier was during my travels to pass along a came from Canada,
big shot . . . typical dreams of
his decision known,
to
where
Henry
looked
Emiko
“This is just a short note to let asked Emiko about her wishes,
youth, did much to dissipate Taro’s
•
‘
Where's
'Jersey
City'
and
how
pointed ju t as Taro tu r.n e d a r ound.
you knew that I am in good health What could she say? She didn't
reticence.
far is it?" asked Taro excitedly.
and hope you are the same.
want to leave Canada. And yet.
They aw each other,
“Oh. it's that jerk-water stop
s
$
$
hew
would
her
father
support
the
The narrow paper ribbon had
months
now
is over
about
50
miles
out
of
Tokyo.
I
changed from a ray of gold to. its since we arrived in Japan. Since family if they moved East, even
Taro forgot the pain in his leg
of the name. We
actual colour of faded pink. It men I have been trying to become with her help? And then. Taro can't just think
hobbled across the room,
call it ‘Jersey City’. One day we as he
had been broken as the ship mov sufficiently accustomed to the ways was in Japan . . .
were passing through the town at Emiko could hardly keep from
ed away. And from Taro on boarci of this country* to make my way
“I will do what you decide.” she
a pretty fast clip. That road sure running.
and Emiko on the dockside, it about without appearing ridicu replied.
had its ups and downs and one of
the first
“Hello. Emiko."
traced a graceful arc as the broken lously foreign. It is difficult. I am
the
boys
started humming ‘The
ends merged with the icy, bluish- still a stranger in this land of my
words Taro spoke.
Her father signed to return to Jersey Bounce’. And so the name.
green water.
forefathers and probably always Japan. They were among the first
“Hello. Taro," . .
Taro didn't have much time to
to
be
sent
and
here
they
group
will be.
conversation ended as abponder over the imaginative’* gen
Taro Ohara and Emiko Sato had
"All the young men are being were in Seattle, boarding the ship.
ius of these Americans, as the G. I. ruptly as it began, Sometimes
been born in. Vancouver and had drafted into service and since I
eloquently
lived only a block apart. They had muld not furnish sufficient reason
They had been in Japan for followed up with. “I guess you d silence speaks more
attended the same public and high co stay out, I was conscripted last three months now. Her father s kind'a like to go. eh? ’
han words.
“I sure would! replied Taro.
schools.'
family
had
been
hard
hit
by
the
Then they became aware that
week. I feel like an outcast.
•war,
and
so
they
had
moved
in
“
It's
kinda
tough
getting
around
Taro was 18 and had just gradthev were all alone on the centre
“Good-bye for now, Taro.”
with her mother’s relatives.
on
that
bum
leg.
eh?
”
uated. Emiko was IT and in last
of the floor and every one was
After supper, Emiko sat down to
“Sis. don’t anybody speak Eng
“Yup, but it's getting better and
year high.
to
staring at them.
write a reply- It was difficult
They had known each other decide on what to say. She wanted lish in Japan?” asked Henry, her it coulda been worse." .
Emiko's face, already flushed
ever since they had grown old to poui" her heart out, but couldn t. ten-year-Old brother.
“Say, I'll probably be around
with excitement, tock on a still
enough to become members of the
Emiko answered, “Yes. some here for the next two weeks, so if
a- soldier now. What
brighter hue as she blushed. .
neighbourhood group of children. Taro "was
I’m free and can get hold of trans
people
do.”
a
solwrite
about
to
“I bet you’d like something to
Their acquaintance was that of jhould on
“When are we going home to port, maybe I’ll run down with
in another land.
said Emiko as she led Taro
di
er
eat.
vou. Anyways, drop around on the
any neighbourhood playmates . • ■
midnight when after Canada?" he continued..
towards the refreshments.
was
that is, until last year.
*
*
“Oh, pretty soon.'’ she replied, 24th.”
many attempts and many, crumpled
*
*
It was last year that Emiko be- sheets of paper had gone into the wishing that it were true.
“Say. Ohara, you sure knbw the
They parked the jeep and Taro right people, don’t you?
gan to look at Taro differently. waste-paper basket, that she finjoked
Emiko had made numerous en
It went unnoticed, except by the
quiries about the Ohara family, aided by the G. I. headed for the the G. I. enviously.
ished ... a one page letter.
older members of the neighbourbut Tokyo was a large city and Mission.
“I’ll bet you come from Canada,
hood. Emiko was in love with
Emiko waited and waited but no jvervthing was in. such a mess
eh? You’ve got that fresh kinda
Taro.
As they drew near, the sound of
letter followed. Then came Dec. that it was impossible to unearth
beauty, we used to hear Canahappy children’s voices singing
’But Emiko’s affection was not 7th. and Japan was at war with iven the vaguest clue.
he said, looking at
dians had,'
shared by Taro. He was the young America, and Canada, too. Taro
She enquired at various govern Christmas carols could be heard.
Emiko.
man-about-the-neighbourhood. He
As Taro and the G. I. entered,
was now an enemy.
ment registries. Twice, she had
liked Emiko but did not feel any
t
*
«
After refreshments had - been
gone to Tokyo to search. It was some of those near the door look
thing deeper.
In the evacuation, the Sato about 50 miles from the village ed at them. But the others paid no served. Taro and Emiko sat in a
As the ship passed under the family went to Tashme.
corner and tried to talk.
attention.
where she lived.
Bridge and disappeared behind the
father
brought
G. I.s were no longer a novelty
But there was so much to say
One day. her
Point. Emiko quickly dabbed the
It was August, 1948. One day her- to these kids and there -were others and so little time.
heme word that he RCMPs were
tears from her eyes with the hand
making some sort of survey. He brother. Ken. came home and ex there. And Taro was just another
After they had made several unkerchief she had only a moment wasn’t too sure, but it was some citedly told her, “Sis, I heard that
soldier
j C <* JU
1 W* V * with a crippled leg.
succeesfui
attempts at. sustainin-,
ago been waving in farewell and thin0’ about moving East or being some missionaries from Canada
came the conversation, it was time *o go
I
One
.of
the
missionaries
began to make her way homeward
have started a church in town.”
Merry
over to welcome them.
| repa dated to Japan.
over
home.
with the rest of the people.
.“You find out where it is and Christmas." he said, as he shook
Taro walked out with Emiko.
As he turned
we’ll go," said Emiko.
ft
he G. I.’s hand.
The G. I- saw them and told
arcund to shake Taro's hand, the Taro “I guess you two have lots io
a
Every Sunday, with her brothers
G. I. aia, ‘He comes from Canada, talk about, so'if you want me to.
THE NEW CANADIAN
id ^ters. Emiko went to the
I'll hang around for 15 minutes,
to sir.”
Mission. It was good to
“Is that so. There are others out of sight and hearing distance.
someone from Canada.
from Canada here, tonight, nxn -m ‘ . . . That is. if you want me to,,
She had never been as happy for introduce them to you." As he led he repeated with a knowing wink.
Taro away, the missionary told me
a long time.
*
*
G. I.. “Make yourself at home.
There were no need for wordo
“oav. Ohara, you come from
,s Taro took Emiko in his arms.
Canada, don’t you?”
that Taro met
was
Henry
It
It was another land, and another
CHRISTMAS, 1948
Nisei G. I. member of the occupa
first. Henry had been too young Christmas. And God had been
tion force.
Ito know Taro or for Taro to know
His Christmas gift to
5 him vHien the Oharas had left Can- | jemerous
que.
•“Sure, tnats rignv.
§
i ada.
tioned Taro.
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Another Land
Another Christmas
| VOL XI, No. 48—10c Per Copy
TORONTO, ONT.. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22. 1948
The Story of Taro and Emiko ...
And Incidentally, the Repatriation
By JACK T. OKI
ribbon shone
The narrow
I
gold in the
stretched be-
the dockside and Ure ship.
It. was May 2!
W
lli^/.
4
i
f;
L
$
^$3
133
Kas
WE
a
VS
1941. The slight
orning haze h: I magically vanished from over the bustling city
t waters. The
and its adj
weeks, then a month pass
ed and still no word from Taro,
Emiko began to wonde
ould ever write
would
listen
intently
whenever her parents talked over
any letter from the Oharas.
he overheard
One day
North Shore mountains, still mother, in t .Iking to a friend.
donning their winter snow-caps. | mention Taro' name. Her sketchy
looked a ross the shimmering sur- !
Japanese was insufface of Ure Inlet .on a bit of. real ficient to fully underst and the conenacted on
life drama
versation but she thought they
Vancouver dock.
that. " . . . though th
Emiko had dreaded the coming had said
of this day ever since Taro’s par-' Oharas had wanted to send Taro to
ents> had decided to return to drool. he was unable to go beSW^W
checked
the cause it appeared that he would be
Japan.
She
had
"Ships, departure and arrival"
drafted into the forces.’’
column of the Vancouver Province
It was a day before the end of
for the fateful line
every day
i
Maru—for
Japan—May the summer holidays. As Emiko
"Heiian
27” with the hope that somehow it came in the door, her young bro
would be delayed.
ther. Ken. shouted. "Hey, there's
Shoji Takah
At first Taro had argued. "I a letter for yowl" When he added.
Winter Scene in Manitoba
don't want to go!" But his parents
‘It's from Taro!” Emiko broke out
told him that they were obliged to
and had an
;
go and care for his aging grand m a smile
But Henry was
looked worried as he talked
“Oh. I just happened to meet a
mother. Not only" that, they point shout for joy.
nersen trovn Canaoa
met
ed out, Taro, with a knowledge of
Bhe picked up the letter with a with her mother. “How can we ge ecu pie of Canadian missionaries
both English and Japanese, would Tokyo postmark and withdrew, East with
young children and while I was in 'Jersey City’. They and he had to toll someone.
find opportunities in Japan that he
He had to tell Sis. so he ran over
king care not to appear’ too hasty, । no money;
he asked, more to m ent i on e d som eth i ng about a big
would never have in Canada be- .nto me privacy of her own room J
to Emiko who was helping with
himself than anyone else. “Ra- Christmas party they
~cause he was of Japanese ances- to read it.
refreshments, and whispered in her
!
then than face the unknown, it their mission house, and that if I
try.
ear, "Sis. that man iver there, he
The letter might be better to go to Japan.
anyone from Canada
"Dear Emiko: .
The thoughts of adventure, of
ran
too!"
becoming a man of influence . - a
On the day that her fattier was during my travels to pass along a came from Canada,
big shot . . . typical dreams of
his decision known,
to
where
Henry
looked
Emiko
“This is just a short note to let asked Emiko about her wishes,
youth, did much to dissipate Taro’s
•
‘
Where's
'Jersey
City'
and
how
pointed ju t as Taro tu r.n e d a r ound.
you knew that I am in good health What could she say? She didn't
reticence.
far is it?" asked Taro excitedly.
and hope you are the same.
want to leave Canada. And yet.
They aw each other,
“Oh. it's that jerk-water stop
s
$
$
hew
would
her
father
support
the
The narrow paper ribbon had
months
now
is over
about
50
miles
out
of
Tokyo.
I
changed from a ray of gold to. its since we arrived in Japan. Since family if they moved East, even
Taro forgot the pain in his leg
of the name. We
actual colour of faded pink. It men I have been trying to become with her help? And then. Taro can't just think
hobbled across the room,
call it ‘Jersey City’. One day we as he
had been broken as the ship mov sufficiently accustomed to the ways was in Japan . . .
were passing through the town at Emiko could hardly keep from
ed away. And from Taro on boarci of this country* to make my way
“I will do what you decide.” she
a pretty fast clip. That road sure running.
and Emiko on the dockside, it about without appearing ridicu replied.
had its ups and downs and one of
the first
“Hello. Emiko."
traced a graceful arc as the broken lously foreign. It is difficult. I am
the
boys
started humming ‘The
ends merged with the icy, bluish- still a stranger in this land of my
words Taro spoke.
Her father signed to return to Jersey Bounce’. And so the name.
green water.
forefathers and probably always Japan. They were among the first
“Hello. Taro," . .
Taro didn't have much time to
to
be
sent
and
here
they
group
will be.
conversation ended as abponder over the imaginative’* gen
Taro Ohara and Emiko Sato had
"All the young men are being were in Seattle, boarding the ship.
ius of these Americans, as the G. I. ruptly as it began, Sometimes
been born in. Vancouver and had drafted into service and since I
eloquently
lived only a block apart. They had muld not furnish sufficient reason
They had been in Japan for followed up with. “I guess you d silence speaks more
attended the same public and high co stay out, I was conscripted last three months now. Her father s kind'a like to go. eh? ’
han words.
“I sure would! replied Taro.
schools.'
family
had
been
hard
hit
by
the
Then they became aware that
week. I feel like an outcast.
•war,
and
so
they
had
moved
in
“
It's
kinda
tough
getting
around
Taro was 18 and had just gradthev were all alone on the centre
“Good-bye for now, Taro.”
with her mother’s relatives.
on
that
bum
leg.
eh?
”
uated. Emiko was IT and in last
of the floor and every one was
After supper, Emiko sat down to
“Sis. don’t anybody speak Eng
“Yup, but it's getting better and
year high.
to
staring at them.
write a reply- It was difficult
They had known each other decide on what to say. She wanted lish in Japan?” asked Henry, her it coulda been worse." .
Emiko's face, already flushed
ever since they had grown old to poui" her heart out, but couldn t. ten-year-Old brother.
“Say, I'll probably be around
with excitement, tock on a still
enough to become members of the
Emiko answered, “Yes. some here for the next two weeks, so if
a- soldier now. What
brighter hue as she blushed. .
neighbourhood group of children. Taro "was
I’m free and can get hold of trans
people
do.”
a
solwrite
about
to
“I bet you’d like something to
Their acquaintance was that of jhould on
“When are we going home to port, maybe I’ll run down with
in another land.
said Emiko as she led Taro
di
er
eat.
vou. Anyways, drop around on the
any neighbourhood playmates . • ■
midnight when after Canada?" he continued..
towards the refreshments.
was
that is, until last year.
*
*
“Oh, pretty soon.'’ she replied, 24th.”
many attempts and many, crumpled
*
*
It was last year that Emiko be- sheets of paper had gone into the wishing that it were true.
“Say. Ohara, you sure knbw the
They parked the jeep and Taro right people, don’t you?
gan to look at Taro differently. waste-paper basket, that she finjoked
Emiko had made numerous en
It went unnoticed, except by the
quiries about the Ohara family, aided by the G. I. headed for the the G. I. enviously.
ished ... a one page letter.
older members of the neighbourbut Tokyo was a large city and Mission.
“I’ll bet you come from Canada,
hood. Emiko was in love with
Emiko waited and waited but no jvervthing was in. such a mess
eh? You’ve got that fresh kinda
Taro.
As they drew near, the sound of
letter followed. Then came Dec. that it was impossible to unearth
beauty, we used to hear Canahappy children’s voices singing
’But Emiko’s affection was not 7th. and Japan was at war with iven the vaguest clue.
he said, looking at
dians had,'
shared by Taro. He was the young America, and Canada, too. Taro
She enquired at various govern Christmas carols could be heard.
Emiko.
man-about-the-neighbourhood. He
As Taro and the G. I. entered,
was now an enemy.
ment registries. Twice, she had
liked Emiko but did not feel any
t
*
«
After refreshments had - been
gone to Tokyo to search. It was some of those near the door look
thing deeper.
In the evacuation, the Sato about 50 miles from the village ed at them. But the others paid no served. Taro and Emiko sat in a
As the ship passed under the family went to Tashme.
corner and tried to talk.
attention.
where she lived.
Bridge and disappeared behind the
father
brought
G. I.s were no longer a novelty
But there was so much to say
One day. her
Point. Emiko quickly dabbed the
It was August, 1948. One day her- to these kids and there -were others and so little time.
heme word that he RCMPs were
tears from her eyes with the hand
making some sort of survey. He brother. Ken. came home and ex there. And Taro was just another
After they had made several unkerchief she had only a moment wasn’t too sure, but it was some citedly told her, “Sis, I heard that
soldier
j C <* JU
1 W* V * with a crippled leg.
succeesfui
attempts at. sustainin-,
ago been waving in farewell and thin0’ about moving East or being some missionaries from Canada
came the conversation, it was time *o go
I
One
.of
the
missionaries
began to make her way homeward
have started a church in town.”
Merry
over to welcome them.
| repa dated to Japan.
over
home.
with the rest of the people.
.“You find out where it is and Christmas." he said, as he shook
Taro walked out with Emiko.
As he turned
we’ll go," said Emiko.
ft
he G. I.’s hand.
The G. I- saw them and told
arcund to shake Taro's hand, the Taro “I guess you two have lots io
a
Every Sunday, with her brothers
G. I. aia, ‘He comes from Canada, talk about, so'if you want me to.
THE NEW CANADIAN
id ^ters. Emiko went to the
I'll hang around for 15 minutes,
to sir.”
Mission. It was good to
“Is that so. There are others out of sight and hearing distance.
someone from Canada.
from Canada here, tonight, nxn -m ‘ . . . That is. if you want me to,,
She had never been as happy for introduce them to you." As he led he repeated with a knowing wink.
Taro away, the missionary told me
a long time.
*
*
G. I.. “Make yourself at home.
There were no need for wordo
“oav. Ohara, you come from
,s Taro took Emiko in his arms.
Canada, don’t you?”
that Taro met
was
Henry
It
It was another land, and another
CHRISTMAS, 1948
Nisei G. I. member of the occupa
first. Henry had been too young Christmas. And God had been
tion force.
Ito know Taro or for Taro to know
His Christmas gift to
5 him vHien the Oharas had left Can- | jemerous
que.
•“Sure, tnats rignv.
§
i ada.
tioned Taro.
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। home in Canada, talked and talk- ,
MAMA-SAN AND THE G.l
Nest Instalment
i ed as if the tensions of the past j
Although the GI:s took over
‘ seven years must be exercised.
the occupation duties immed
1 Sometimes her hands lay quietly
iately after Japan surrenI folded in her lap. her meal forgot
dered, it was a long time oeten: sometimes she gestured excit
fore
Canadian authorities
edly with her hands to emphasize
around
to looking after th: resome remembered action. We lis
quests
of
Canadian re: dents
tened enthralled, as she related;
By SUE SADA
who were stranded in Japan
“T can never forget one night-j
nd who now
communicative about that at fail. rime raid. The B-29s
Her
luggage
dropped ।
at
all
possible,
MAMA-SANS exploits with tne
to
Canada. So Mam:
But she certainly knew about the
flares. Those flares . . . if y ou aie :
sisted mainly of lignt summer
covered.
I. in occupied Japan are really
later B-29 raids, because she was
under them . - • are ghastly!- . ■ •
autumn clothing, and many
1
wonHer further
there. -Air-raids, says Mama-san.
somet
■mething
in
up the city like the
parcels for different people.
can do without, for
Gl-occupied
Japan will be
are
one
thing
she
der it any other Issei Mranoee can
that
if
you
wanted
day
How often, in the next few
fi t questions on you could read a newspaper by its
continued in subsequent issues
Tne "some- vears. sne was to w isn sne had had One of
J
of The New Canadian.
Toronto
;
was:
reacning
glare—if you want to read a news
about Mama-sans expei- sometmpg more substantial for
"Is th!s city safe from future paper when you re crouched in a
a-nu s stem from tne fact ^that cold weather wear! But. in the
air-raids? Is there some place in bomb-hole. I was crouched in such
■though <ne was born and educated spring of 1941. war scarcely enter- Canada where one. can find safe
I do? My feet just, wot;
a bomb crater. Trying to get away
>t J a par sne lived most oi her ed into her calculations.
anymore!”
ty. especially" for the children?"
from the light I hugged the sides
iiftv-odd years in Canacta thus
got
her
By the time Mama-san
Strangely, as Mama-;
Air-raids. Mamma-san says, re of the hole, holding tightly to my
.' sorb.ng ( a hethei she was aware private business cleared up and
for
Death to catch up
duce the ordinary7 numan being bag of personal papers, and sitting
he:
of it or not) some of the western
ready to come nome a snoot to utter helplessness. As for airthe
bombers moved c
on
my
suitcase.
Tou
know,
I
car
: tnougnt. anti casual bestarted. Tne funny ram shelters . . . they" are no good.
war had
1
to
ried these two items with me accomplished their m
a
western izect thing is. sne never got the ^udo-cii
Strand
haviour.
Nd the ones she knew. In the be- wherever I went. I never went that night. They didn't bother with
atmosphere of almost shock and impact of Pearl Harbour
I.- e' m
ginning Mama-san used to go to anywhere without them, for you the last corner of their target, the
feudal, and certam y. nationalistic, Day as we did because it was hardthese shelters like a frightened never knew just when to expect a corner closest to where Mama-san
attitudes: tnen b mg onto me ly- publicised in Japan.
rabbit
holing up. but th e suspense raid, and these were my only" pos was crouching.
scene the uniquely civilian Ameito get a down there was just too much for
Thus
when
sne
tried
The raids became steadily worse,
sessions . . . myr identification, you
.can soldier. Such a combination
boat home, tne shipping company her Besides, Mama-san had never
but Mama-san couldn’t quite un
might say . - •"
•makes for a tale at once comic and
derstand why there was so little
shut t ne wicket in her face and seen a B-29 though she heaid
n
consequences
at
.•■HOU', i omits
“If you have ever heard the
usean
was
left
waving
a
counter-attack. After all
plenty
about'it,
and
she
was
deter
Ma m a
once natural and surprising.
less return ticket for the other side mined to find out what a bomber scream of a bomb falling close by. in Tokyo, supposedly v
well
you will never forget it. The sound
When you. the reader, know that oi the ocean. That s when she had
’defended. She had to stay alive
looked
like.
will haunt your dreams. You will
Mama-san was a strandee. your
tier fust misgivings. thoughtfully
“My!” she said, her eyes wide hear it always in your ears . . . as long enough to get back home to
turn
first natural curiosity would
resources and with remembering, “you never
counied up
Canada, and it was highly inconI can hear it now when I remem
on the whv and wneiefoie o.
iound them nil.
siderate
of .the defence strategists
saw such a shining thing! In the ber -what it was like. When the
being in Japan at the wiong time
was nothing to sun and in the rays of the search
to
leave
her so open to • death by
However,
th
er
Well. her reasons for being in
bomb is so close you don’t know
bombs.
Mama-san
wondered where
be
done
but
to
go
back
to
hei
lights the B-29 shone with such in which direction to run. There is
•Tapan really- has nothing to do
were
those
squadrons
of fighter,
brothers
home,
them
to
wait
out
sparkle you would never think it nothing to do except crouch and
with her subsequent, story, It’s
planes
she
had
heard
about
but
the war. It was a long wait.
to be a war-plane. They were try to be invisible .
and. pray,
enough to say- that sne did go.
had never actually seen. Nobody
Mama-san never knew- the facts beautiful! And the bombs!”
okaved for a twelve-month
old now. and there
I’m
seemed to know.
about
the
Doolittle
raid,
tnougn
Mama -san’ voice rose with the wasn’t much I could do except
V 1'lt She would have been back
Of course there were quite a few
that fatetui winter oi tne begm- she was in Tokyo at the time. Tne intensity of never-to-be-forgotten pray. When I crouched in that
dog-fights between B-29s and Ze
somewhat
unning off he Pacific war. had it been Japanese press was
sights.
hole, the noise and the light were
ros . . . but nothing like what they
si
. The bombs! Like shining so intense that I couldn't think ought to be, thought Mama-san as
things they fell slowly, and grace straight. All I could think of was
she watched a lone Zero go after a
fully, and the whole thing was un this: I must not die yet ... I must
B-29.
real . . . more like a dream, yet not die yet ... I must go home
“Yes, I -watched a dog-fight. I
you knew that those bombs would ... I must go home. But then, I
■
w
as
determined to see one so I
scatter fire and destruction and thought also that if I must die, I
could
tell you about it when I
death . . . I’ll never forget the wanted death to be quick.”
lb
came home. This day. when i
from
smell of burning death . . . But
Mama-san stopped to remember heard my neighbours yelling that
Death wasn’t one-sided. I saw the all the times that Death missed
a Zero had gone up against the
B-29 explode into nothing. I saw her. Tier next door neighbours had
B-29 I ran out to see.
the huge black shell of a fallen perished under a direct bomb hit.
“The B-29 looked haughty and
B-29. and it was said the dead while miraculously her own place
proud like an eagle, moving slow
Beihei were still in them.”
was untouched. Another time, she ly over us. Because the bomber
Toronto, Ontario
Her voice flattened, at dreadful was moving from one quarter to
502 Yonge Street
was so huge, the Zero looked like
pictures brought to mind. Listen another, and in moving became
an impudent sparrow as it climbed
ing to that voice. I knew there delayed by this and that. When she
and dipped and darted about the
r
were horrors that would not be arrived at ■ her destination, there
American plane. I saw flashes of
described, that were better forgot was nothing left of it except the
light and heard sounds of gunfire.
ten.
blackened and smoking nubble.
All of a sudden one wing of the
■Mama-san had been a very- little
“I was lucky, indeed.” she said, B-29 broke off . . - then the other
girl when .Russian-- prisoners had
“because I had only myself to look wobbled . . . then I saw a cuil of
h
been brought to Japans during the
out for—my brother had moved to smoke underneath ... I wondered
Russo-Japanese war.
another province. But you know, about the Zero and when I looked.
"Goodness me! Such oig men!
my strength isn’t what it used to it had caught fire in the tail ana
Such beards! More like folk-lore
be. and once. I thought the end the pilot bailed out. *1 saw the
monsters than humans, or so it
Wishes
had come for sure. ■
white flutter of a parachute. The
seemed at that time.”
"One day." she went on. “I was B-29 was burning now. and I saw
When the First World War bcout.
gan. Mama-san had been in Can caught in the middle of a terrible three white things flutter
Only
three.-Then
the
B-29
turned
ada for some seven years, married. raid. It was one of those precision
slowly on end and began to spiia*.
and had three young children. bombings when every- square foot
down with a dreadful whine. Tne
of
the
target
is
flattened
neatly
That war never seemed real at all,
Zero had exploded into nothing
and
thoroughly.
I
heard
the
bombs
in spite of the daily sights of
but its pilot landed safely, I heard.
fall
about
twoblocks
away,
and
’
marching men. the blare of brass
of
bands, and the news reports. That the noise was deafening, and the This was his fifty-ninth fight: he
was far. far away, in some people were running wildly for was -well-known.
“The people around me began
called Europe. It hardly safety" somewhere . . . anywhere . ..
$ ifIac
to
rush to the spot where they
?*“.’ touched
tniir.
her personal life. But this and I was running itoo. Only I
thought
the Beihei would land. I
Second World War was much too didn’t know which way to run and
f W
413 SACKVILLE STREET. TORONTO
close. Especially the tail-end of it the planes were coming closer. It did not know what to do. I dicing
was getting darker, too, and there want to gloat over a fallen ‘enemy •
and those B-29 raids on Tokyo.
By the time these bomber raids I was with my bag and suitcase. The temper of the crowd was uglybegan. Mama-san. with all her running and running . . . I don’t so I held back, but they* milled
$ neighbours in Tokyo were begin know where. People around me around so much that I was sort of
ning to feel ’the pinch of the food were shouting and running and pulled with it. I did have a sneak
u । shortage. She was beginning to falling into holes. The ground ing wish .to see some American
h
faces ... the .though: of seeing
S | know the weariness of lining up shook with explosions . . .
a little
I’m trying to get away but my western faces made me
! for rations, or for anything to eat.
did see
j For several winters also, she had limbs are old and tired, and I homesick . . . but I neve :
cm
was
t;
$ j known freezing cold. The few haven’t had much sleep for a long them. The crowd around m
t<
os
j clothes she had brought from Can- long time becase of the raids, I’m too great, and there was an
tor a
phere of hysterical hatred.
I ada had long since worn out. and awfully tired, and the suitcase
“One woman offered me
3 • what garments she wore were bor- i heavier and heavier until I
so
that I, too. could beat the fah&
jj ’ rowed and patched together. When j hardly* breathe with the effort of
en.
I refused. The very thougm
‘J;
^ ; tiie raids became bad. she went; running . . .
I
§ i days and nights without once tak- >
I had to run. It hurt to breathe? I such brutality made 'me sie^
and
a
nor
bl
the
aid to the woman:
; ing off those rags.
I couldn’t afford to lose my* suitcase.
£
Just hearing the description of; I barely managed to get to a wire some international law by
:S - war is never very real to those i fence. The others were scrambling the persons of captured enem.eso lover the fence going farther and are sacred from such mmreatnai hlama—Sa
ale brought to i farther away- from me. but I could- ment?’ She laughed at n:
bl
my mind only movie montage. of i n’t. I simply had no strength left said: ‘Huh! you can talk! 1
every war film and
reel I i to climb th at fence. I just crouched half American anyway - • •
lied
had seen, which had as a central i against it in despair, gasping for sides, have you had a son
our
in some far-off island, or h*
running in breath and
to myself: Thi
bon
home crushed by
and cut of them. .the story* un is the end.
folded. I could hea
‘‘T’^e screech of bombs, the roar i watched your husband wri
roaring,
the
of
the bombers nose-diving over 1 agony from shrapnel wound.
&
■i :
0'
the screarti the exoloding t;
the scream: ; have no one in Japan to
h
S > and whine of
Ilin I planes, the
nd shouts of pecpl were appall i over! Bah! Sanctity* of Pr
Ther
Cj
;
air-raia
sirens
the
shouts
and
Add to this the ghastly ligh i indeed! Western barbarians!
ronto, O
1 i 1 Dundas St. W.
-• her
! she ran after the mob to a
ah cries of people running around in of the flare,
■ mad confusion, the moaning des fence. too tired,
too numb to care i blows to that of the others, i
1
§ olation of the
was happening around me. ; something to do. Those P
PLaza 3SS4
«•
Mam
san.
scarcely knowing I di^ have a feeling I shouldn’t ; were hag-ridden enough with
t'
■ what
(Continued on Page 1c’
e ate at her first breakfast give up like this. but.what could:
A Westernized Issei Sits Out the War in Japan
And Is On Hand to Welcome the American Troops
M
H
I
SEASON’S GREETINGS
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h
SYD SILVERS
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Best
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MAMA-SAN AND THE G.l
Nest Instalment
i ed as if the tensions of the past j
Although the GI:s took over
‘ seven years must be exercised.
the occupation duties immed
1 Sometimes her hands lay quietly
iately after Japan surrenI folded in her lap. her meal forgot
dered, it was a long time oeten: sometimes she gestured excit
fore
Canadian authorities
edly with her hands to emphasize
around
to looking after th: resome remembered action. We lis
quests
of
Canadian re: dents
tened enthralled, as she related;
By SUE SADA
who were stranded in Japan
“T can never forget one night-j
nd who now
communicative about that at fail. rime raid. The B-29s
Her
luggage
dropped ।
at
all
possible,
MAMA-SANS exploits with tne
to
Canada. So Mam:
But she certainly knew about the
flares. Those flares . . . if y ou aie :
sisted mainly of lignt summer
covered.
I. in occupied Japan are really
later B-29 raids, because she was
under them . - • are ghastly!- . ■ •
autumn clothing, and many
1
wonHer further
there. -Air-raids, says Mama-san.
somet
■mething
in
up the city like the
parcels for different people.
can do without, for
Gl-occupied
Japan will be
are
one
thing
she
der it any other Issei Mranoee can
that
if
you
wanted
day
How often, in the next few
fi t questions on you could read a newspaper by its
continued in subsequent issues
Tne "some- vears. sne was to w isn sne had had One of
J
of The New Canadian.
Toronto
;
was:
reacning
glare—if you want to read a news
about Mama-sans expei- sometmpg more substantial for
"Is th!s city safe from future paper when you re crouched in a
a-nu s stem from tne fact ^that cold weather wear! But. in the
air-raids? Is there some place in bomb-hole. I was crouched in such
■though <ne was born and educated spring of 1941. war scarcely enter- Canada where one. can find safe
I do? My feet just, wot;
a bomb crater. Trying to get away
>t J a par sne lived most oi her ed into her calculations.
anymore!”
ty. especially" for the children?"
from the light I hugged the sides
iiftv-odd years in Canacta thus
got
her
By the time Mama-san
Strangely, as Mama-;
Air-raids. Mamma-san says, re of the hole, holding tightly to my
.' sorb.ng ( a hethei she was aware private business cleared up and
for
Death to catch up
duce the ordinary7 numan being bag of personal papers, and sitting
he:
of it or not) some of the western
ready to come nome a snoot to utter helplessness. As for airthe
bombers moved c
on
my
suitcase.
Tou
know,
I
car
: tnougnt. anti casual bestarted. Tne funny ram shelters . . . they" are no good.
war had
1
to
ried these two items with me accomplished their m
a
western izect thing is. sne never got the ^udo-cii
Strand
haviour.
Nd the ones she knew. In the be- wherever I went. I never went that night. They didn't bother with
atmosphere of almost shock and impact of Pearl Harbour
I.- e' m
ginning Mama-san used to go to anywhere without them, for you the last corner of their target, the
feudal, and certam y. nationalistic, Day as we did because it was hardthese shelters like a frightened never knew just when to expect a corner closest to where Mama-san
attitudes: tnen b mg onto me ly- publicised in Japan.
rabbit
holing up. but th e suspense raid, and these were my only" pos was crouching.
scene the uniquely civilian Ameito get a down there was just too much for
Thus
when
sne
tried
The raids became steadily worse,
sessions . . . myr identification, you
.can soldier. Such a combination
boat home, tne shipping company her Besides, Mama-san had never
but Mama-san couldn’t quite un
might say . - •"
•makes for a tale at once comic and
derstand why there was so little
shut t ne wicket in her face and seen a B-29 though she heaid
n
consequences
at
.•■HOU', i omits
“If you have ever heard the
usean
was
left
waving
a
counter-attack. After all
plenty
about'it,
and
she
was
deter
Ma m a
once natural and surprising.
less return ticket for the other side mined to find out what a bomber scream of a bomb falling close by. in Tokyo, supposedly v
well
you will never forget it. The sound
When you. the reader, know that oi the ocean. That s when she had
’defended. She had to stay alive
looked
like.
will haunt your dreams. You will
Mama-san was a strandee. your
tier fust misgivings. thoughtfully
“My!” she said, her eyes wide hear it always in your ears . . . as long enough to get back home to
turn
first natural curiosity would
resources and with remembering, “you never
counied up
Canada, and it was highly inconI can hear it now when I remem
on the whv and wneiefoie o.
iound them nil.
siderate
of .the defence strategists
saw such a shining thing! In the ber -what it was like. When the
being in Japan at the wiong time
was nothing to sun and in the rays of the search
to
leave
her so open to • death by
However,
th
er
Well. her reasons for being in
bomb is so close you don’t know
bombs.
Mama-san
wondered where
be
done
but
to
go
back
to
hei
lights the B-29 shone with such in which direction to run. There is
•Tapan really- has nothing to do
were
those
squadrons
of fighter,
brothers
home,
them
to
wait
out
sparkle you would never think it nothing to do except crouch and
with her subsequent, story, It’s
planes
she
had
heard
about
but
the war. It was a long wait.
to be a war-plane. They were try to be invisible .
and. pray,
enough to say- that sne did go.
had never actually seen. Nobody
Mama-san never knew- the facts beautiful! And the bombs!”
okaved for a twelve-month
old now. and there
I’m
seemed to know.
about
the
Doolittle
raid,
tnougn
Mama -san’ voice rose with the wasn’t much I could do except
V 1'lt She would have been back
Of course there were quite a few
that fatetui winter oi tne begm- she was in Tokyo at the time. Tne intensity of never-to-be-forgotten pray. When I crouched in that
dog-fights between B-29s and Ze
somewhat
unning off he Pacific war. had it been Japanese press was
sights.
hole, the noise and the light were
ros . . . but nothing like what they
si
. The bombs! Like shining so intense that I couldn't think ought to be, thought Mama-san as
things they fell slowly, and grace straight. All I could think of was
she watched a lone Zero go after a
fully, and the whole thing was un this: I must not die yet ... I must
B-29.
real . . . more like a dream, yet not die yet ... I must go home
“Yes, I -watched a dog-fight. I
you knew that those bombs would ... I must go home. But then, I
■
w
as
determined to see one so I
scatter fire and destruction and thought also that if I must die, I
could
tell you about it when I
death . . . I’ll never forget the wanted death to be quick.”
lb
came home. This day. when i
from
smell of burning death . . . But
Mama-san stopped to remember heard my neighbours yelling that
Death wasn’t one-sided. I saw the all the times that Death missed
a Zero had gone up against the
B-29 explode into nothing. I saw her. Tier next door neighbours had
B-29 I ran out to see.
the huge black shell of a fallen perished under a direct bomb hit.
“The B-29 looked haughty and
B-29. and it was said the dead while miraculously her own place
proud like an eagle, moving slow
Beihei were still in them.”
was untouched. Another time, she ly over us. Because the bomber
Toronto, Ontario
Her voice flattened, at dreadful was moving from one quarter to
502 Yonge Street
was so huge, the Zero looked like
pictures brought to mind. Listen another, and in moving became
an impudent sparrow as it climbed
ing to that voice. I knew there delayed by this and that. When she
and dipped and darted about the
r
were horrors that would not be arrived at ■ her destination, there
American plane. I saw flashes of
described, that were better forgot was nothing left of it except the
light and heard sounds of gunfire.
ten.
blackened and smoking nubble.
All of a sudden one wing of the
■Mama-san had been a very- little
“I was lucky, indeed.” she said, B-29 broke off . . - then the other
girl when .Russian-- prisoners had
“because I had only myself to look wobbled . . . then I saw a cuil of
h
been brought to Japans during the
out for—my brother had moved to smoke underneath ... I wondered
Russo-Japanese war.
another province. But you know, about the Zero and when I looked.
"Goodness me! Such oig men!
my strength isn’t what it used to it had caught fire in the tail ana
Such beards! More like folk-lore
be. and once. I thought the end the pilot bailed out. *1 saw the
monsters than humans, or so it
Wishes
had come for sure. ■
white flutter of a parachute. The
seemed at that time.”
"One day." she went on. “I was B-29 was burning now. and I saw
When the First World War bcout.
gan. Mama-san had been in Can caught in the middle of a terrible three white things flutter
Only
three.-Then
the
B-29
turned
ada for some seven years, married. raid. It was one of those precision
slowly on end and began to spiia*.
and had three young children. bombings when every- square foot
down with a dreadful whine. Tne
of
the
target
is
flattened
neatly
That war never seemed real at all,
Zero had exploded into nothing
and
thoroughly.
I
heard
the
bombs
in spite of the daily sights of
but its pilot landed safely, I heard.
fall
about
twoblocks
away,
and
’
marching men. the blare of brass
of
bands, and the news reports. That the noise was deafening, and the This was his fifty-ninth fight: he
was far. far away, in some people were running wildly for was -well-known.
“The people around me began
called Europe. It hardly safety" somewhere . . . anywhere . ..
$ ifIac
to
rush to the spot where they
?*“.’ touched
tniir.
her personal life. But this and I was running itoo. Only I
thought
the Beihei would land. I
Second World War was much too didn’t know which way to run and
f W
413 SACKVILLE STREET. TORONTO
close. Especially the tail-end of it the planes were coming closer. It did not know what to do. I dicing
was getting darker, too, and there want to gloat over a fallen ‘enemy •
and those B-29 raids on Tokyo.
By the time these bomber raids I was with my bag and suitcase. The temper of the crowd was uglybegan. Mama-san. with all her running and running . . . I don’t so I held back, but they* milled
$ neighbours in Tokyo were begin know where. People around me around so much that I was sort of
ning to feel ’the pinch of the food were shouting and running and pulled with it. I did have a sneak
u । shortage. She was beginning to falling into holes. The ground ing wish .to see some American
h
faces ... the .though: of seeing
S | know the weariness of lining up shook with explosions . . .
a little
I’m trying to get away but my western faces made me
! for rations, or for anything to eat.
did see
j For several winters also, she had limbs are old and tired, and I homesick . . . but I neve :
cm
was
t;
$ j known freezing cold. The few haven’t had much sleep for a long them. The crowd around m
t<
os
j clothes she had brought from Can- long time becase of the raids, I’m too great, and there was an
tor a
phere of hysterical hatred.
I ada had long since worn out. and awfully tired, and the suitcase
“One woman offered me
3 • what garments she wore were bor- i heavier and heavier until I
so
that I, too. could beat the fah&
jj ’ rowed and patched together. When j hardly* breathe with the effort of
en.
I refused. The very thougm
‘J;
^ ; tiie raids became bad. she went; running . . .
I
§ i days and nights without once tak- >
I had to run. It hurt to breathe? I such brutality made 'me sie^
and
a
nor
bl
the
aid to the woman:
; ing off those rags.
I couldn’t afford to lose my* suitcase.
£
Just hearing the description of; I barely managed to get to a wire some international law by
:S - war is never very real to those i fence. The others were scrambling the persons of captured enem.eso lover the fence going farther and are sacred from such mmreatnai hlama—Sa
ale brought to i farther away- from me. but I could- ment?’ She laughed at n:
bl
my mind only movie montage. of i n’t. I simply had no strength left said: ‘Huh! you can talk! 1
every war film and
reel I i to climb th at fence. I just crouched half American anyway - • •
lied
had seen, which had as a central i against it in despair, gasping for sides, have you had a son
our
in some far-off island, or h*
running in breath and
to myself: Thi
bon
home crushed by
and cut of them. .the story* un is the end.
folded. I could hea
‘‘T’^e screech of bombs, the roar i watched your husband wri
roaring,
the
of
the bombers nose-diving over 1 agony from shrapnel wound.
&
■i :
0'
the screarti the exoloding t;
the scream: ; have no one in Japan to
h
S > and whine of
Ilin I planes, the
nd shouts of pecpl were appall i over! Bah! Sanctity* of Pr
Ther
Cj
;
air-raia
sirens
the
shouts
and
Add to this the ghastly ligh i indeed! Western barbarians!
ronto, O
1 i 1 Dundas St. W.
-• her
! she ran after the mob to a
ah cries of people running around in of the flare,
■ mad confusion, the moaning des fence. too tired,
too numb to care i blows to that of the others, i
1
§ olation of the
was happening around me. ; something to do. Those P
PLaza 3SS4
«•
Mam
san.
scarcely knowing I di^ have a feeling I shouldn’t ; were hag-ridden enough with
t'
■ what
(Continued on Page 1c’
e ate at her first breakfast give up like this. but.what could:
A Westernized Issei Sits Out the War in Japan
And Is On Hand to Welcome the American Troops
M
H
I
SEASON’S GREETINGS
h
I1
is
h
SYD SILVERS
II
Best
h
h
h
. .
Marietta School
I
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ri
M!
&
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MAMA-SAN AND THE G.l
going badly, That may being distributed . . . but then I her faith that, she need have no
' be all
t for these people in drought to myself that thi didn't ; fear of the Americans . . . even
i Japan, but not for me. I’m going
? belonged to the conqueue. So Ijthough
a
(Continued from Page 2)
! to stay alive, meaning no disre] er I can go home *o
mily.
e. Mama-san thrust out
querca
j spect to anyone, but I’m going to
war to cope with ... a war they
= do my best to stay alive. I just
I
For the world
jaw determined.lv
didn't know anything about except
outward from ,
people
{ end of the war
in sight. but i have to got home to my family.
"Well. I’m opt running away.
what they heard from their beti Hiroshima was a
ro come. and ; I'm going to stay alive even if I the city .
s outward, to- :
• ers. They don’t know the west as
Mama-: n would not be ; have to hide in the hills . . .
ward the
I did . . . not that I excuse their
over tor a long ime yet. About i
Later the same day. Mama-san window to
tnem.
cans to talk to
senselessness.
Another
woman
this time she moved
i heard the less dramatic, but none i morning I
my bi
warned me not to talk like I did.. .
and then .
hu. boardin.
i tireless momentous news from her ■
with
not in Japan.’’
brother
i brother.
family.
"Where a
Mama-san paused to shake her
Is
SA
The
"Brother, what did the emperwas going badly fo: !
g.
sister?”
mad at the
ugliness of war. Sne : T
,
.
i
i Japan, and the oeoole wtere begin i or actually say? I surmised that
the hills
.vondered if sire was really halt- ;
j § A Merry Christmas
truth. There j some terrible national tragedy has
to suspect
lived
most
of
American.
"But why? Why do
be national
was much speculation about na occurrea. Would
er life in North America.
What from?"
and A Happy New Years
tional suicide . . . but all tills wa suicide?"
she went
"You
know
"The Americans.”
01T i strictly private. One didn't specu"Nothing like that. but it's a
"every time I got into a difficult ! late aloud on such matter: Hunger deep humiliation just the same.
“For goodness' sakeis . . . the
spot like that I just shut my was the main concern: tor every- The war is over, We have surren- Americans? Why' . . . of all the
71
&
mouth. Whatever happened I had one.
ially for people like dered.”
silly things . . . are ycou afraid of
XV.
.1555
Dundas
to stay alive to get home to you. Mama-san with no roots left
that the Americans?"
"Eh? The war is
There was nothing I could do for Japan, half a stranger there, de- j
TORONTO. ONT.
"Why no. I was brought up in R
true?’’
those airmen. It was war. and I pendent, on the kindnesses of j
an
American
Mission
School.
No.
&
“Yes . . . our surrender
what
reminded myself that those same others for her daily food. Hunger
I’m not afraid of them.”
LA. 7570
the
emperor
broadcast.
’
’
airmen had been bombing people and dysentery plagued the people.
Mama-san pondered for a mom
"Well . .
just as much victims of war as Who knows but that they must
ent,
She hoped she was justified in
Mama-san felt sorry for het
they themselves. I thought, too, have wished for the quick ending
dejection, but she wa;
that if I lived to get home I would of war. hoping that the end of brother
overjoyed herself to
too
gT(
tell you about these things and hostilities would bring more food!
dwell
oh
his
gloom. The War was
maybe you can do something some down to tire lower level of civilian
and
Happy
g
over.
Over
at
last. Now she could
day. War is such a useless brutal- life? Hunger has a way of mock
go home to her family. She must
ing any kind of pride.
ity-”
■
make preparations at once to go
Mama-san dreamed .too often of
home.
She must find out. 'where to
The riddle of the absence of the bounteous Christmas dinners
Zeros to defend the city against the she used to know in faraway’ Can apply for a passage home . . . whe
from Bill, Dick and Dave
B-29s plagued Mama-san. till one ada. She thought of store shelves ther through the Japanese Gov
threw discretion to the piled high with groceries of every ernment or through the Occupa
day she
:
winds and acosted a uniformed description. And the dream made tion troops. Brother had said the
figure. The uniform was a Naval the reality of hunger almost un Occupation would begin at once.
55 ELIZABETH STREET. TORONTO. ONT.
Reserve. Usually Mama-san leaves bearable. She cupped her palms to Fray God that the Americans will $
K
come
first.
They
would
understand
such uniforms strictly alone. Who show how much food she got for
¥
EL. 5810
a Canadian Japanese where a Rus
knows what one might encounter one day.
Ji
sian or a Chinese could not.
in them?
"Just a handful of beans . . . day
That’s how Mama-san began
This day, however, she had to after day. till your gunubled. and
waiting impatiently for the Amerfind out the whereabouts of the your jaws ached -with chewing and
; ican G. I.’s to arrive.
a
defence planes. This uniform had your stomach revolted more times ;
"I thought I would bur
a nice face so Mama-san asked | than your strength could stand. I
V!
C’ J
I1 wished and wished ! K
impatience.
'h
caion J
•ft
politely' (after getting over the j We had no salt, no sugar, no shoyu. :
d
the Beihei would hurry up. I had
first greetings):
nothing except that handful of I
had enough of waiting. I -was sure
"By the way. can you tell me dried beans. No way of making a :
they would listen sympathetically
what happened to ' those fighter fire. We tried grinding the beans ;
to my plea to get home to Canada.
planes we heard about? You no into meal, swallowing that by the ;
"Then a funny thing happened
■ -ft
tice the air-raids are getting worse, pinch.
j in that inland city. It’s funny how
but the defence seems to be someIS
Toronto,
Ont
"When it was cold ... so very. ; I was so glad to learn the Amer558 Queen Street West
what lacking. That might be stra- very cold, that not even the rewere
coming
first,
ican soldiers
tegy ... I wouldn’t know . . . would membered warmth of furnace and
EL. 0047
that it never occurred to me that
you?"
central heat-in; could warm my other people would - be afraidt
"I have no idea.” he replied thoughts.’’
S51^g£SSx.-l
Since I. myself, have no reason
the to fear the Americans . . . haven t
at
politely.
Ala ma-san shuddered
;
I visited the United States before
Mama-san glanced sideways at memory.
all this happened? ... I just took
thi. navy blue figure and did not
Finally news came of the end of it for granted that everybody else
ask anymore. You couldn’t really
Now I i $
expect a uniform to tell you about war. only Mama-san didn't get it i would be thankful too.
the plans of other uniforms. Mama- quite that way. The people were ] think of it, it was perfectly nasan didn’t know then, and pro- notified that the Emperor would i tural for the Japanese to be afraid
therefore of the possible vengeance of the
bably that sailor didn’t know broadcast to his subject:
everyone Occupation troops.
They*
don t
either, that the Navy was also in i it was expected that
would
listen
with
the
utmost
re
know
westerners.
They
just
think
a state of some invisibility. They
of them as barbarians. Besides we
didn’t know at all about Iwojima, spect. Mama-san was greatly sur
broadcast?
prised.
The
Emperor
heard rumours of what terrible
Kwajalein, -Okinawa etc. Nobody,
What
a
novel
idea!
But
the
very
atrocities they would commit. Such
least of all the Press, bothered to
novelty
of
it
bred
a
fear
that
some
rumours went in one ear and out
tell the people anything.
calamity
had
national
।
the other so far as I was concernHowever, Mama-san wondered if dreadful
would
!
ed j was .[.oo much taken up with
Otherwise
why
happened.
there w-ere any planes left to de
the emperor speak so directly io j sheer 'waiting. But the other peo
fend the city. After all, if there
his people? On the appointed day. , ple apparently believed the ru
were planes, you’d think they’d be
Mama-san sat before the radio. ; mours.
up and fighting for their homeland.
with Sister-in-law and her child- ,
"About a week before the troops
It was certainly odd that the de
ren gathered around in respectful ■ actually came into the city. I saw
fence was so pitiful. Oh well, she silence. Unfortunately the broad- j
cl
lines of people going througn
thought, if there are no planes left
cast was interrupted by so much 1 ‘h^ treeis. carrying with them all
maybe the war will end that much
static that no one heard a word ; corts of bundles, and wheeling
sooner. I don't like war of any of what was said. While Mama-san j carts
and wagons. nd whole famHouse of Diamonds —
kind, and the sooner it ends the listened with every shov of re- . _ _
after their goods,
unintelligible
sounds.
:
llies
spect
to
the
5 a I
better, because who ever
on silently and - I couldn t understand this sight. I t$:!
war.’ Death and destruction are I her thoughts
' wondered where they were going. &
losse. whoever holds the gun. And | rebelliously:
LA. 7053 ^
i For a moment I thought it was anTORONTO
Emperor is
"I suppose
The thought, always foremost w
: other line-up for rations of some
to commo.
ter. returned with a stronger ache: . hortmg tne people
If
him because ' kind and I almost asked what was
File sooner the war ends the soon- | tional suicide v
§
M
William Bendena
Merry Christmas
New Year
A
LOWE BROS. JEWELLERS
s
THE
TWO
LITTLE
JEWELLERS
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Christmas
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a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New lear'
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going badly, That may being distributed . . . but then I her faith that, she need have no
' be all
t for these people in drought to myself that thi didn't ; fear of the Americans . . . even
i Japan, but not for me. I’m going
? belonged to the conqueue. So Ijthough
a
(Continued from Page 2)
! to stay alive, meaning no disre] er I can go home *o
mily.
e. Mama-san thrust out
querca
j spect to anyone, but I’m going to
war to cope with ... a war they
= do my best to stay alive. I just
I
For the world
jaw determined.lv
didn't know anything about except
outward from ,
people
{ end of the war
in sight. but i have to got home to my family.
"Well. I’m opt running away.
what they heard from their beti Hiroshima was a
ro come. and ; I'm going to stay alive even if I the city .
s outward, to- :
• ers. They don’t know the west as
Mama-: n would not be ; have to hide in the hills . . .
ward the
I did . . . not that I excuse their
over tor a long ime yet. About i
Later the same day. Mama-san window to
tnem.
cans to talk to
senselessness.
Another
woman
this time she moved
i heard the less dramatic, but none i morning I
my bi
warned me not to talk like I did.. .
and then .
hu. boardin.
i tireless momentous news from her ■
with
not in Japan.’’
brother
i brother.
family.
"Where a
Mama-san paused to shake her
Is
SA
The
"Brother, what did the emperwas going badly fo: !
g.
sister?”
mad at the
ugliness of war. Sne : T
,
.
i
i Japan, and the oeoole wtere begin i or actually say? I surmised that
the hills
.vondered if sire was really halt- ;
j § A Merry Christmas
truth. There j some terrible national tragedy has
to suspect
lived
most
of
American.
"But why? Why do
be national
was much speculation about na occurrea. Would
er life in North America.
What from?"
and A Happy New Years
tional suicide . . . but all tills wa suicide?"
she went
"You
know
"The Americans.”
01T i strictly private. One didn't specu"Nothing like that. but it's a
"every time I got into a difficult ! late aloud on such matter: Hunger deep humiliation just the same.
“For goodness' sakeis . . . the
spot like that I just shut my was the main concern: tor every- The war is over, We have surren- Americans? Why' . . . of all the
71
&
mouth. Whatever happened I had one.
ially for people like dered.”
silly things . . . are ycou afraid of
XV.
.1555
Dundas
to stay alive to get home to you. Mama-san with no roots left
that the Americans?"
"Eh? The war is
There was nothing I could do for Japan, half a stranger there, de- j
TORONTO. ONT.
"Why no. I was brought up in R
true?’’
those airmen. It was war. and I pendent, on the kindnesses of j
an
American
Mission
School.
No.
&
“Yes . . . our surrender
what
reminded myself that those same others for her daily food. Hunger
I’m not afraid of them.”
LA. 7570
the
emperor
broadcast.
’
’
airmen had been bombing people and dysentery plagued the people.
Mama-san pondered for a mom
"Well . .
just as much victims of war as Who knows but that they must
ent,
She hoped she was justified in
Mama-san felt sorry for het
they themselves. I thought, too, have wished for the quick ending
dejection, but she wa;
that if I lived to get home I would of war. hoping that the end of brother
overjoyed herself to
too
gT(
tell you about these things and hostilities would bring more food!
dwell
oh
his
gloom. The War was
maybe you can do something some down to tire lower level of civilian
and
Happy
g
over.
Over
at
last. Now she could
day. War is such a useless brutal- life? Hunger has a way of mock
go home to her family. She must
ing any kind of pride.
ity-”
■
make preparations at once to go
Mama-san dreamed .too often of
home.
She must find out. 'where to
The riddle of the absence of the bounteous Christmas dinners
Zeros to defend the city against the she used to know in faraway’ Can apply for a passage home . . . whe
from Bill, Dick and Dave
B-29s plagued Mama-san. till one ada. She thought of store shelves ther through the Japanese Gov
threw discretion to the piled high with groceries of every ernment or through the Occupa
day she
:
winds and acosted a uniformed description. And the dream made tion troops. Brother had said the
figure. The uniform was a Naval the reality of hunger almost un Occupation would begin at once.
55 ELIZABETH STREET. TORONTO. ONT.
Reserve. Usually Mama-san leaves bearable. She cupped her palms to Fray God that the Americans will $
K
come
first.
They
would
understand
such uniforms strictly alone. Who show how much food she got for
¥
EL. 5810
a Canadian Japanese where a Rus
knows what one might encounter one day.
Ji
sian or a Chinese could not.
in them?
"Just a handful of beans . . . day
That’s how Mama-san began
This day, however, she had to after day. till your gunubled. and
waiting impatiently for the Amerfind out the whereabouts of the your jaws ached -with chewing and
; ican G. I.’s to arrive.
a
defence planes. This uniform had your stomach revolted more times ;
"I thought I would bur
a nice face so Mama-san asked | than your strength could stand. I
V!
C’ J
I1 wished and wished ! K
impatience.
'h
caion J
•ft
politely' (after getting over the j We had no salt, no sugar, no shoyu. :
d
the Beihei would hurry up. I had
first greetings):
nothing except that handful of I
had enough of waiting. I -was sure
"By the way. can you tell me dried beans. No way of making a :
they would listen sympathetically
what happened to ' those fighter fire. We tried grinding the beans ;
to my plea to get home to Canada.
planes we heard about? You no into meal, swallowing that by the ;
"Then a funny thing happened
■ -ft
tice the air-raids are getting worse, pinch.
j in that inland city. It’s funny how
but the defence seems to be someIS
Toronto,
Ont
"When it was cold ... so very. ; I was so glad to learn the Amer558 Queen Street West
what lacking. That might be stra- very cold, that not even the rewere
coming
first,
ican soldiers
tegy ... I wouldn’t know . . . would membered warmth of furnace and
EL. 0047
that it never occurred to me that
you?"
central heat-in; could warm my other people would - be afraidt
"I have no idea.” he replied thoughts.’’
S51^g£SSx.-l
Since I. myself, have no reason
the to fear the Americans . . . haven t
at
politely.
Ala ma-san shuddered
;
I visited the United States before
Mama-san glanced sideways at memory.
all this happened? ... I just took
thi. navy blue figure and did not
Finally news came of the end of it for granted that everybody else
ask anymore. You couldn’t really
Now I i $
expect a uniform to tell you about war. only Mama-san didn't get it i would be thankful too.
the plans of other uniforms. Mama- quite that way. The people were ] think of it, it was perfectly nasan didn’t know then, and pro- notified that the Emperor would i tural for the Japanese to be afraid
therefore of the possible vengeance of the
bably that sailor didn’t know broadcast to his subject:
everyone Occupation troops.
They*
don t
either, that the Navy was also in i it was expected that
would
listen
with
the
utmost
re
know
westerners.
They
just
think
a state of some invisibility. They
of them as barbarians. Besides we
didn’t know at all about Iwojima, spect. Mama-san was greatly sur
broadcast?
prised.
The
Emperor
heard rumours of what terrible
Kwajalein, -Okinawa etc. Nobody,
What
a
novel
idea!
But
the
very
atrocities they would commit. Such
least of all the Press, bothered to
novelty
of
it
bred
a
fear
that
some
rumours went in one ear and out
tell the people anything.
calamity
had
national
।
the other so far as I was concernHowever, Mama-san wondered if dreadful
would
!
ed j was .[.oo much taken up with
Otherwise
why
happened.
there w-ere any planes left to de
the emperor speak so directly io j sheer 'waiting. But the other peo
fend the city. After all, if there
his people? On the appointed day. , ple apparently believed the ru
were planes, you’d think they’d be
Mama-san sat before the radio. ; mours.
up and fighting for their homeland.
with Sister-in-law and her child- ,
"About a week before the troops
It was certainly odd that the de
ren gathered around in respectful ■ actually came into the city. I saw
fence was so pitiful. Oh well, she silence. Unfortunately the broad- j
cl
lines of people going througn
thought, if there are no planes left
cast was interrupted by so much 1 ‘h^ treeis. carrying with them all
maybe the war will end that much
static that no one heard a word ; corts of bundles, and wheeling
sooner. I don't like war of any of what was said. While Mama-san j carts
and wagons. nd whole famHouse of Diamonds —
kind, and the sooner it ends the listened with every shov of re- . _ _
after their goods,
unintelligible
sounds.
:
llies
spect
to
the
5 a I
better, because who ever
on silently and - I couldn t understand this sight. I t$:!
war.’ Death and destruction are I her thoughts
' wondered where they were going. &
losse. whoever holds the gun. And | rebelliously:
LA. 7053 ^
i For a moment I thought it was anTORONTO
Emperor is
"I suppose
The thought, always foremost w
: other line-up for rations of some
to commo.
ter. returned with a stronger ache: . hortmg tne people
If
him because ' kind and I almost asked what was
File sooner the war ends the soon- | tional suicide v
§
M
William Bendena
Merry Christmas
New Year
A
LOWE BROS. JEWELLERS
s
THE
TWO
LITTLE
JEWELLERS
\1i
Holidays I
IK
/e x
n
IK
8
Once
a 2-3.111
of pleasant associations with you
Christmas
Season
returns
with
remembrance
Joyous
a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New lear'
an opportunity of wishing you
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Canadian Democracy In Action
By GEORGE TANAKA
Executive secretary of the National JCCA
SEASON’S GREETINGS
I was asked recently to define j a goal which embraces all that, the rights of Canadian citizen
ever-decreasood in the!ship and face
“Democracy” by a Nisei girl who j we comprehend as
ing
barrier
of
discrimination,
we
was carrying out a personal sur- J statement, “Government by the
can
readily
recall
the
extent
of
Surely.
vey in connection with a school j people for the people.”
those
inequalities
which
existed
assignment. It would have been i I yvould have found it difficult
just a few short years
possible for me to give an ade- j to reconcile this definition of De- against us
can take pride in the
quate though tr:
reply with a ■ mocracy with the fact of existing ago. We
our keen interest as
factthat
to
force
which
die inequalities
definition taken irom
citizens
prompted us
Canadian
make one citizen or a group of
itionary’, “Government by
during
the
past
years
to make
i citizens in Canada ,o accept a
people for the people." 1
ever\
r
possible
effort
to
alleviate
hesitated to reply to her question ; lesser stature in the eyes of
our
position
of
inequality.
We
because I felUT had not yet earn-i others through the countenancmust
acknowledge
the
tremend
ed that right.
} ing of legislative, economic and
ous
benefits
and
gains
which
we
If I had attempted to define ’ social injustices.
have received and now enjoy as
Last March, when I was in
the meaning' of Democracy em- {
a direct result of the efforts of
bracing to the fullest extent all j Ottawa to make representation many Canadian citizens and or &
the thoughts which it inspires [ to members of the Government
ganizations whose faith in the
in men. perhaps I might have j and members of Parliament for
grasped at a straw in my efforts) the JCCA on the work of com- principles of Canadian Democ
federal discriminatory racy occasioned their great work.
an adeauate definition. , batting
We have experienced discrim
against
Japanese
and symbolized its meaning in j legislation
ination
in the form of legislative,
that it । Canadians, I was happy to en
my thoughts by st;
economic
and socal injustices
is a goal to which we should al! joy the company of a great Candespite
the
fact of our status as
Maclnnis.
Mr.
Angus
strive in Canada to attain for adian.
Canadian
citizens.
ourselves and our fellow citizens, While I had lunch as his guest
We have witnessed"' Canadian i
in the special dining room in
in action carried
the Parliament Building. I saw democracy’
sitting about me at the various through by the great efforts of
tables the distinguished com many Canadian citizens and org
i
pany of Cabinet Ministers and anizations to our benefit.
We desire more than ever our
Members of Parliament. It oc
ft;
From
inalienable
rights as Canadian
curred to me then that these
V
citizens.
And
yvhere they are still
people, regardless of any politi
a cal differences, greatly respected denied to us we are aetvely en
the honesty and sincerity of char gaged with the help of others to
acter of my host.
obtain them.
MR. & MRS.
GEORGE KEN WAKE
We have learned to expect the
It is not difficult to recall the
& magnificent
and
courageous j human rights and fundamental
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Toronto. Ont.
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and GERALD DOUGLAS
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zens of Japanese ancestry for principles 10 Phoebe St. (PL. 3370)
the protection of fundamental the people.’
Toronto Ont.
rights
on the floor of the House
But in these words is indicated
8
a
responsibility we cannot over
of
Commons.
MR. & MRS. R. FUJII
I am sure there is no doubt in look to protect for others the
21 Henry
our own minds that he is well rights we so desire for ourselves.
Toronto. Ont.
able to define the meaning of And
while inequalities exist
OHASHI
& MRS.
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grounds of race .creed or colour,
its principles.
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By GEORGE TANAKA
Executive secretary of the National JCCA
SEASON’S GREETINGS
I was asked recently to define j a goal which embraces all that, the rights of Canadian citizen
ever-decreasood in the!ship and face
“Democracy” by a Nisei girl who j we comprehend as
ing
barrier
of
discrimination,
we
was carrying out a personal sur- J statement, “Government by the
can
readily
recall
the
extent
of
Surely.
vey in connection with a school j people for the people.”
those
inequalities
which
existed
assignment. It would have been i I yvould have found it difficult
just a few short years
possible for me to give an ade- j to reconcile this definition of De- against us
can take pride in the
quate though tr:
reply with a ■ mocracy with the fact of existing ago. We
our keen interest as
factthat
to
force
which
die inequalities
definition taken irom
citizens
prompted us
Canadian
make one citizen or a group of
itionary’, “Government by
during
the
past
years
to make
i citizens in Canada ,o accept a
people for the people." 1
ever\
r
possible
effort
to
alleviate
hesitated to reply to her question ; lesser stature in the eyes of
our
position
of
inequality.
We
because I felUT had not yet earn-i others through the countenancmust
acknowledge
the
tremend
ed that right.
} ing of legislative, economic and
ous
benefits
and
gains
which
we
If I had attempted to define ’ social injustices.
have received and now enjoy as
Last March, when I was in
the meaning' of Democracy em- {
a direct result of the efforts of
bracing to the fullest extent all j Ottawa to make representation many Canadian citizens and or &
the thoughts which it inspires [ to members of the Government
ganizations whose faith in the
in men. perhaps I might have j and members of Parliament for
grasped at a straw in my efforts) the JCCA on the work of com- principles of Canadian Democ
federal discriminatory racy occasioned their great work.
an adeauate definition. , batting
We have experienced discrim
against
Japanese
and symbolized its meaning in j legislation
ination
in the form of legislative,
that it । Canadians, I was happy to en
my thoughts by st;
economic
and socal injustices
is a goal to which we should al! joy the company of a great Candespite
the
fact of our status as
Maclnnis.
Mr.
Angus
strive in Canada to attain for adian.
Canadian
citizens.
ourselves and our fellow citizens, While I had lunch as his guest
We have witnessed"' Canadian i
in the special dining room in
in action carried
the Parliament Building. I saw democracy’
sitting about me at the various through by the great efforts of
tables the distinguished com many Canadian citizens and org
i
pany of Cabinet Ministers and anizations to our benefit.
We desire more than ever our
Members of Parliament. It oc
ft;
From
inalienable
rights as Canadian
curred to me then that these
V
citizens.
And
yvhere they are still
people, regardless of any politi
a cal differences, greatly respected denied to us we are aetvely en
the honesty and sincerity of char gaged with the help of others to
acter of my host.
obtain them.
MR. & MRS.
GEORGE KEN WAKE
We have learned to expect the
It is not difficult to recall the
& magnificent
and
courageous j human rights and fundamental
(Formerly W a k a b a y:
112 Jane Street
work which Mr. Maclnnis carried freedoms as a matter of natural
Toronto. Ont.
out during the period of the last course in the faith that yve gov
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war on behalf of Canadian citi ern ourselves under democratic
JACK & MARY IIEMMY
and GERALD DOUGLAS
“by the people for
zens of Japanese ancestry for principles 10 Phoebe St. (PL. 3370)
the protection of fundamental the people.’
Toronto Ont.
rights
on the floor of the House
But in these words is indicated
8
a
responsibility we cannot over
of
Commons.
MR. & MRS. R. FUJII
I am sure there is no doubt in look to protect for others the
21 Henry
our own minds that he is well rights we so desire for ourselves.
Toronto. Ont.
able to define the meaning of And
while inequalities exist
OHASHI
& MRS.
democracy for he has observed against our Canadian citizens on
grounds of race .creed or colour,
its principles.
9 Russell Street
Toronto, Ont.
While we now enjoy many of we have work to do.
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11 Mr. & Mrs. O. ONISHI
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HANNAH MATSUMOTO EILEEN SHINTANI
Toronto, Ontario
ST
MR. and MRS. SAUL KADONAGA
TED and KAY HATASHITA
a
RY U. V
Brooklyn Avenue
Toronto. Ont.
Phone
a
mas cm
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BABY ELIZABETH
Ellis Park Road
Toronto. Ont.
MK. & MRS.
HARRY S. KONDO
and ALAN
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31 Osborne Avenue
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Toronto
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21 St. Paul St.
Toronto 2. Ont
. & MRS. FRED KATO
and FAMILY
129 Spruce Street
Toronto 2. Onn
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Toronto.
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THE STAFF
Toronto Japanese Golf Club I
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S3 Foxley Street
Toronto. Ont.
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Avenue
Toronto. Ont.
Phone AD. 6822 |
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Chop Suey House
g 60-A Elizabeth St., Toronto, Ontario
MR. & MRS.
R. OTO KUNIHIRO
Augustine’s Seminary
St
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2156A QUEEN ST. E.
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Oriental Interlude"
O!
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he
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A STORY by MARILOU
said qu
O
mas
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<7 tl 6
here to Hades, but Ahline j ^
e was a goddess. She was so ! d
e
^
§
ork and each day I drop into a I n
sck shop to buy some dessert for i
‘No,
I saia aeniurety, hopin
lunch—a cookie, an apple turned
into
oace
1 made an impression.
r. or sometimes a chocolate bar.
so
"I can tell.” he said. "I can tell
$
? big brown
he tuck shop is on the corner
lx naa oeen ;
other tuck
my heart the
has recently been opened by a
and any other
k. I would
1 named Jim. The college coke
have felt queer at the rei
‘How could she keep tho;
lets consider it a “super place
g
But on this day. I could only
hers so shin ■ and so roun
?hat.” I shall always remember
and stare.
. what a
s that—and something more.
Jim tapped ligh
on me coun- ;
ria!
I
hair.
Sa
Jim stood about five feet . even. ter.
ngered the doll. r I had given (
more!''
ft
it husky—‘about 155 pound —but
him and then with an a
■
for long
a houldered. and he had me
counted the ehang.
nd
didn't s
diuni brown hair with a beautiful
Grecian curve for the blonde ting
yon re not All the day
on were
ed wave. I must admit I sighed from Toronto either."
: neil. Eacn flight aiterwaro.s I prayeach time I went into his shop.
r
Then he did an odd thing
: ed that I could have my arm cut
For the first few times I ex
Drooping the. change in
: off so I could see. her as
changed only the usual good morn- i hand he grasped ■:
hand. ana
I was sent back
ir.gs and good afternoons. But I al- ; felt mv arm, my ea
mv
But I couldn't set.
wavs closed the door with “I wish
lingered there for a mo
v her again anc
I had said more" feeling.
i ment.
I was so
I could . GOD. I NEVER WILL,
numb
Then aLer half a dozen visits. ! hardly breathe.
i
He let go my hand. It
om his nervous pe
and damp
spiration.
"The mi erns said if I hadn't
wanted to see Ahline so much I
through.
wouldn't have pulled
Yeah, andft FROM THE HOME OF FINE CHINESE FOOD
. loved her for her
loved her
ft
smile, her thought ■the way she
118-A ELIZABETH ST.
Iked, everything. In fact everyTORONTO. ONT.
thing in that hell hole took on a
TELEPHONE: EL. 2786
meaning because I knew Ahline
was there.
tf
“I was sent back to the States
later, and now I'm wandering here.
The boys in the squadron used to
tell me that I’d meet someone else
I could love. You know, miss, I’ve
never thought about love until
now. You’re like her. You talk like
her.
“The weird insects, the stuffy air.
and the sticky rain was life to her.
I thought I had lost, it. Now I
think I’ve got it again, Sure and I
will find her again too. Not Ahline
. . . but the life she liked. The
boys used to kid me . . . ‘oriental
interlude’ they called it . . .
“Hell, what did I care if she was
Burmese? Does the color of the
hair or the skin matter in love?
You know, maybe I could have
loved a Jap too.”
I excused myself and left, I did
not go. back for two weeks. I tli ink
I was a little afraid.
Today, I went back to the shop
again.
•Jim will not be here anymore.'
I was told. “He's got a job at the
Rehab School. You see, Jim lost
& both his eyes in Burma . . .”
I realized then that Jim had
never-known I was a Jap.
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294 QUEEN ST. WEST
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$
KEN SHIMADA, S. SHIMADA & STAFF
Fl
KI. 3365 s
1 College Street, Toronto
31
^ Merry Christmas and a Happv New Year! $
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CHOP SUEY HOUSE
a
92-A ELIZABETH ST.
EL. 9035
TORONTO, ONT.
Season’s Best Wishes
£
FROM
a
VARIETY GRILL
655 Yonge Street, Toronto
CATHAY GARDEN
it
a
NOBORU FUJIMOTO
2.1-A Elizabeth Street
Toronto, Ont.
EL. 7698
p
MASAHIKO FUJIMOTO
Jeasonjs
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SHIGERU FUJIMOTO
SATOSHI FUJIMOTO
S
SHIRLEY FUJIMOTO
DOUGLAS FUJIMOTO
S
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SEASON’S GREETINGS
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For Tastv Oriental Dishes
Toronto. Ont. L
69 Albert Street
ILL. 99
8
From
TORONTO
H. MARUBASHI
and FAMILY
343 Highfield Road
Toronto, Ont.
Phone: GE. 8924
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£
HARUKO NAKASHIMA
117 .Alton Avenue
.Toronto, Orit.
HOMESTEAD RESTAURANT
|
470 SPADINA AVENUE, TORONTO
RA. 6901
MR. & MRS.
JOHN NAKASHIMA
and VIVIAN
117 Alton Avenue
Toronto, Ont.
Best
MRS. YASU IGUCHI
MASUKO IGUCHI
HIDEYO IGUCHI
KATSU IGUCHI
731 Dufferin Street
Toronto, Ont.
Wishes
II
ROYAL HARDWARE & ELECTRIC
242 CARLTON ST., TORONTO, ONT.
240 CARLTON ST., TORONTO, ONT.
$
8
&:£
ma
HOLIDAYS
3
m
SB
3 a
MRS. TAMI OBATA
MK. & MRS. ROGER OBATA
346 Merton Street
Toronto, Ont.
Phone PR. 3727-8
For Specialized Radio and Electrical Repairs
JACK MATSUI and TED MORISHITA
6 Cobalt Avenue
- Toronto 9, Ont.
Phene: MU. 9015
MR. & MRS. K. IKENO
and FAMILY
17 Saunders Avenue
Toronto, Ont.
BABYLAND FURNITURE
HAPPY
SHOICHI
MACK TSUKADA
KGY TSUKADA
83 Foxley Street
Toronto, Ont.
T‘Your Northern Electric Dealer'5
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MR. & MRS. TERRY TSUJI
and TERRALYN GALE
1 Hunter Street
Toronto, Ont.
8
Dr
b
. & MRS. K. NARUSE
and FAMILY
Wellesley Street
Toronto, Ont.
__ For Oriental Foodstuffs —
127 DUNDAS ST. WEST
TORONTO, ONT.
c«
WA. 6247
I?
8
s
O!
4 M.
he
I
A STORY by MARILOU
said qu
O
mas
>1
,n ।
<7 tl 6
here to Hades, but Ahline j ^
e was a goddess. She was so ! d
e
^
§
ork and each day I drop into a I n
sck shop to buy some dessert for i
‘No,
I saia aeniurety, hopin
lunch—a cookie, an apple turned
into
oace
1 made an impression.
r. or sometimes a chocolate bar.
so
"I can tell.” he said. "I can tell
$
? big brown
he tuck shop is on the corner
lx naa oeen ;
other tuck
my heart the
has recently been opened by a
and any other
k. I would
1 named Jim. The college coke
have felt queer at the rei
‘How could she keep tho;
lets consider it a “super place
g
But on this day. I could only
hers so shin ■ and so roun
?hat.” I shall always remember
and stare.
. what a
s that—and something more.
Jim tapped ligh
on me coun- ;
ria!
I
hair.
Sa
Jim stood about five feet . even. ter.
ngered the doll. r I had given (
more!''
ft
it husky—‘about 155 pound —but
him and then with an a
■
for long
a houldered. and he had me
counted the ehang.
nd
didn't s
diuni brown hair with a beautiful
Grecian curve for the blonde ting
yon re not All the day
on were
ed wave. I must admit I sighed from Toronto either."
: neil. Eacn flight aiterwaro.s I prayeach time I went into his shop.
r
Then he did an odd thing
: ed that I could have my arm cut
For the first few times I ex
Drooping the. change in
: off so I could see. her as
changed only the usual good morn- i hand he grasped ■:
hand. ana
I was sent back
ir.gs and good afternoons. But I al- ; felt mv arm, my ea
mv
But I couldn't set.
wavs closed the door with “I wish
lingered there for a mo
v her again anc
I had said more" feeling.
i ment.
I was so
I could . GOD. I NEVER WILL,
numb
Then aLer half a dozen visits. ! hardly breathe.
i
He let go my hand. It
om his nervous pe
and damp
spiration.
"The mi erns said if I hadn't
wanted to see Ahline so much I
through.
wouldn't have pulled
Yeah, andft FROM THE HOME OF FINE CHINESE FOOD
. loved her for her
loved her
ft
smile, her thought ■the way she
118-A ELIZABETH ST.
Iked, everything. In fact everyTORONTO. ONT.
thing in that hell hole took on a
TELEPHONE: EL. 2786
meaning because I knew Ahline
was there.
tf
“I was sent back to the States
later, and now I'm wandering here.
The boys in the squadron used to
tell me that I’d meet someone else
I could love. You know, miss, I’ve
never thought about love until
now. You’re like her. You talk like
her.
“The weird insects, the stuffy air.
and the sticky rain was life to her.
I thought I had lost, it. Now I
think I’ve got it again, Sure and I
will find her again too. Not Ahline
. . . but the life she liked. The
boys used to kid me . . . ‘oriental
interlude’ they called it . . .
“Hell, what did I care if she was
Burmese? Does the color of the
hair or the skin matter in love?
You know, maybe I could have
loved a Jap too.”
I excused myself and left, I did
not go. back for two weeks. I tli ink
I was a little afraid.
Today, I went back to the shop
again.
•Jim will not be here anymore.'
I was told. “He's got a job at the
Rehab School. You see, Jim lost
& both his eyes in Burma . . .”
I realized then that Jim had
never-known I was a Jap.
L
ft
I
TORONTO -A
294 QUEEN ST. WEST
s
P
B
Ml
$
w
$
I
■s
‘•FAMOUS FOR GOOD FOOD”
$
KEN SHIMADA, S. SHIMADA & STAFF
Fl
KI. 3365 s
1 College Street, Toronto
31
^ Merry Christmas and a Happv New Year! $
I
I
i
CHOP SUEY HOUSE
a
92-A ELIZABETH ST.
EL. 9035
TORONTO, ONT.
Season’s Best Wishes
£
FROM
a
VARIETY GRILL
655 Yonge Street, Toronto
CATHAY GARDEN
it
a
NOBORU FUJIMOTO
2.1-A Elizabeth Street
Toronto, Ont.
EL. 7698
p
MASAHIKO FUJIMOTO
Jeasonjs
Uji:
SHIGERU FUJIMOTO
SATOSHI FUJIMOTO
S
SHIRLEY FUJIMOTO
DOUGLAS FUJIMOTO
S
I
Wishes . .
g
§
SEASON’S GREETINGS
g
s
S
For Tastv Oriental Dishes
Toronto. Ont. L
69 Albert Street
ILL. 99
8
From
TORONTO
H. MARUBASHI
and FAMILY
343 Highfield Road
Toronto, Ont.
Phone: GE. 8924
g
I
3
£
HARUKO NAKASHIMA
117 .Alton Avenue
.Toronto, Orit.
HOMESTEAD RESTAURANT
|
470 SPADINA AVENUE, TORONTO
RA. 6901
MR. & MRS.
JOHN NAKASHIMA
and VIVIAN
117 Alton Avenue
Toronto, Ont.
Best
MRS. YASU IGUCHI
MASUKO IGUCHI
HIDEYO IGUCHI
KATSU IGUCHI
731 Dufferin Street
Toronto, Ont.
Wishes
II
ROYAL HARDWARE & ELECTRIC
242 CARLTON ST., TORONTO, ONT.
240 CARLTON ST., TORONTO, ONT.
$
8
&:£
ma
HOLIDAYS
3
m
SB
3 a
MRS. TAMI OBATA
MK. & MRS. ROGER OBATA
346 Merton Street
Toronto, Ont.
Phone PR. 3727-8
For Specialized Radio and Electrical Repairs
JACK MATSUI and TED MORISHITA
6 Cobalt Avenue
- Toronto 9, Ont.
Phene: MU. 9015
MR. & MRS. K. IKENO
and FAMILY
17 Saunders Avenue
Toronto, Ont.
BABYLAND FURNITURE
HAPPY
SHOICHI
MACK TSUKADA
KGY TSUKADA
83 Foxley Street
Toronto, Ont.
T‘Your Northern Electric Dealer'5
I
S
*3U
MR. & MRS. TERRY TSUJI
and TERRALYN GALE
1 Hunter Street
Toronto, Ont.
8
Dr
b
. & MRS. K. NARUSE
and FAMILY
Wellesley Street
Toronto, Ont.
__ For Oriental Foodstuffs —
127 DUNDAS ST. WEST
TORONTO, ONT.
c«
WA. 6247
I?
8
s
Page 6
impossible ■task of finding Toronto where, to quote «n edloronro as clerks. tor lai in the Toronto Glob
e & Mad
stenographers,
bookkeepers,
ac of September 11, 1948: "1
°nce ofcountants, salesmen — jobs requir
ficers in plain clothes ba ttered
ing them to meet the public.”
down the doors of two ap, sbtmerns
LEGAL RIGHTS
to capture and manhandle
Then take the field of ‘TegaT’ abiding citizen who w
rights, by which is meant such with his wife from wn
ie
rights as the right of habeas cor thought was a gang- of
pus. a free trial; the right to be breakers. The officers
entered the
represented by counsel; freedom law-abiding
citizens’
spartment
or■ "deten- without a search, warrant, brow
from arbitrary at
tion; the denial to any person the beat him with rude questions anc’
right after arrest to be promptly harsh threats, accused him oi
posinformed of the charges against sessing an accomplice who
had
him and to trial within a reason managed to escape and proceeded
able time or to be released: free- to search the apartment. This is a
dom from unreasonable interfer(Continued on Page 7)
ence with -your privacy, family .or
home: freedom from excessive bail.
unusual
punishment,
cruel
or
so-called
Herp
too, one finds
nights, too frequently honoured in
From
the breach. While space does not
allow for a complete documenta
. TORONTO
tion of the violations, these cases
perhaps show that . the “legal”
rights of Canadians are all too
MRS. T. YATABE
and FAMILY
often ignored:
most
A Noted Toronto
Lawyer Discusses
An Important Issue
A BILL OF RIGHTS
FOR CANADIANS?
By IRVINE HIMEL
SOMEONE a little while ago ing when a violation of civil libsaid: “We must be alert that we erties comes to their attention and
do not emulate totalitarian regimes by their silence leave the impresby curtailing
by sup sion that all
ell.
pressing free speech, by persecut
ing a minority, whether racial or
the other hand, there are an
pohtical; we must make sure our
Towing number of Canacivil rights are extended
i
to all dians who
groups, regardl
; of race, creed. ed about the state of our civil
colour or political faith. We must liberties.
They point to the remake certain that the glory of our cord of civil liberties in Canada
civil rights is not confined to their over the past few years and argue
illustrious history but is found in that all is not well.
They base
their application in the voting their case in part on the followbooths, assembly halls and courts ing:
of the country; in their observ
MINORITY RIGHTS
ance throughout the precincts and
For one. they say, take the field
county seats of th land, in the re of minority rights:
spect the citizens of our villages
1. In
December,
1945,
four
and cities give to them.”
The months after the end of the war.
person was United States Supreme the Dominion Government, withCourt Justice William O. Douglas. out resort to Parliament and fol
It might well have been a judge lowing a course which would have
ol our own counts.
been unconstitutional in the United
There are some Canadians who
believe ■ there is nothing wrong
with the state of civil liberties in
Canada,
You will find them in
the halls of Parliament asserting—
There is: no need for a Bill of
Rights in. Canada. You meet them
in your community amongst peopie who have little tolerance for
the opinion of .others. But by far
the greatest number are to be
found amongst those who do noth-
§
States, passed three Orders-inCouncil which, had they been put
into effect, would have exiled at
least 11,000 persons of Japanese
origin, a great many of whom
were Canadian citizens, to Japan.
without charge or trial.
2. Again, on April 14, 1947, by
an Order-in-Council, the Dominion Government • has made . it an
offence for anyone of Japanese
origin to enter the Province of
Holiday Greetings
I LORD’S CREDIT JEWELLERS
$
Toronto, Ont.
K 580 Danforth Avenue
SH OTARO YAMA SA KI
|
63 FOXLEY STREET, TORONTO
|
ect^on J
FROM
r
THE MANUFACTURERS LIFE
Insurance Company
AND
K
ritish Columbia or live there
ithout first obtaining a permit.
3. Further, by Order-in-Council
Canada
P.C. 2115, residents
have been divided into two classes;
those of Asiatic origin, which in
eludes Chinese, Indians and Japanese. and those ■of non-Asiatic de
scent.
In the case of the nonAsiatic, the law provides that they
need onlybe residents of Canada
to be able to bring their wives
and children under eighteen into
the country to live with them. In
the case of Asiatics, however, the
law prescribes that they must first
become citizens before this privilege is extended to them.
4. By the Dominion Elections
Act. the right to vote is denied to
Indians living on reservations,
veterans excluded. In addition the
British Columbia Provincial Elec
>1. Speaking in the House of
tions Act deprives Japanese, vet Commons on May 16, 1947, John
erans excepted, of the franchise.
G. Diefenbaker, M.P., said: “I
5. Then, there is the case of the come down to a more recent ex
Hutterites in Manitoba, from whom ample where civil rights were in
the Legislature has been attempt fringed and that is in connection
ing to take away the right to buy with the espionage commission set
land.
up under Orders-in-Council pass
6. Another instance of a denial ed on October 6, 1945. No one to
of minority rights is illustrated by day would say that there was not
this editorial in the Montreal in that Order-in-Council a cavalier
Standard on April 26, 1947, en- disregard of great and basic con
titled, ■‘Education
a Right”: stitutional liberties, of those liber
“The Protestant population is as ties which are guaranteed to all
much concerned as the Jewish for our people under the charter of
the preservation of both minority British peoples. Under- that Orderrights and the rights accruing to in-Council
habeas corpus
was
all Canadians by virtue of citizen swept aside by the simple subter
ship. One of them is the right of fuge of averring that each man
a child, of whatever race or creed, held thereunder was presumed to
to an education. Yet the Quebec have been in lawful custody.”
Government has set the seal cf its
“That Order-in-Council was a
approval on the denial of that denial of those basic principles
right. This seal of approval was which we cherish. Liberty under
affixed yesterday by Premier Du law was denied and coercion anc
plessis himself when he said in the interrogation resorted to in order
Legislature, ‘that there are only to translate suspicion into proof.
two school systems in the prov- The individual was denied the
ince, a Catholic and a Protestant right to counsel. Fifteen were de
system’.”
clared to be guilty by the royal
7. Illustrative of the economic
discrimination that is experienced
by members of certain racial
groups in Canada is this article
that appeared in the Toronto Globe
& Mail entitled, “Have We a Col
our Line?” which stated in part:
“Manjr coloured people have gone
to the United States -to face the
social prejudice there sooner than
the economic discrimination which
they claim makes life impossible
for them here. To back up their
conclusions they point to the al-
a
56 Augusta Avenue
Toronto 2-B, Ont.
K. HANADA
and FAMILY
247 Lansdowne Avenue
Toronto, Ont.
Phone: KE. 8383
I
MR. * MRS.
TSUTOMU KIMOTO
and MINORU
JACK KIMOTO
GEORGE KIMOTO
PATRICIA KIMOTO
MARGARET KIMOTO
YONZI ARIMA
TAD SAWADA
57 Sullivan Street
Toronto, Ont.
a
a
si
1
g
8
1
MR & MRS. SHIGERU OUE
136 Courcellette Road
Toronto 13, Ont.
MR. & MRS.
MASAO TAKAOKA
283 Dundas St. E.,
Toronto, Ont.
I
I
I
MR. & MRS.
SHO OKAWARA
&
178 Beverley Street
Toronto 2, Ont.
MR. & MRS.
YUKIO KOYANAGI
MRS. KOTO KOYANAGI
362 Bartlett Avenue
Toronto, Ont.
commission and subsequent events
proved that the commission was’
about sixty per cent wrong. That
royal
commission
impaired
or
tends to impair respect for the
judiciary. By the publication of the
report it did irreparable harm to
those whose names were mention
ed before the trials, in that it said
they were guilty before they were
tried. It is doing irreparable harm
today to individuals who have been
found not guilty.”
2. More recently a case arose in
MR. & MRS. TOM EBATA
s
1
2
$
60 Indian Rd. Cres.
Toronto 9, Ont.
Mr. & Mrs.
YUTAKA KOBAYASHI
105 Nassau Street
Toronto, Ont.
MR. & MRS. TOM OKADA
and HOWARD
950 Castlefield Ave.
Toronto 10, Ont.
£
MR. & MRS. BILL FUJINO
391 Ontario Street
Toronto, Ont.
“BUTCH”
MASAJI
391
FROM
S. SHINOBU
INAMOTO
Ontario Street
Toronto, Ont.
FLORENCE M. BIRD
HAROLD MORISHITA
51 Bond Street
Toronto. Ont.
Chartered Life Underwriter
Akemi Handcraft Jewellery
198 ALBANY AVENUE, TORONTO
MRi & MRS.
WILLIAM T. KOZAI
209 Maria Street
Toronto 9, Ont.
LA. 9332
1
3
§
1931 Avenue Road
ERNEST TRUEMAN
24 Adelaide St. E.
Toronto, Ont.
REV. & MRS.
g
K. SHIMIZU
VICTOR-,
THEODORE,
GRACE,
and DOROTHY
I
C^R
131 Ivy Avenue
on s
SAM T. TSUJI
$
S
9
11
3
I
JOHN Y. TSUJI
MRS. A. FUJIWARA
Qrove Avenue Qarage
DEALERS IN USED CARS
LEFTY NAKAMURA
QUEEN CITY JEWELLERS
78 Queen Street West
Toronto, Ontario
$
§ 1222 DUNDAS ST. W., TORONTO
Toronto 8, Ont.
£
7026 2 jg
WA. 9207
M s
8
S
a
MR. & MRS.
E. KITAGAWA
MR. & MRS.
DOUGLAS FUJIWARA
DR. M.
WESLEY FUJIWARA
ALAN FUJIWARA
Toronto. Ont.
A
8
e & Mad
stenographers,
bookkeepers,
ac of September 11, 1948: "1
°nce ofcountants, salesmen — jobs requir
ficers in plain clothes ba ttered
ing them to meet the public.”
down the doors of two ap, sbtmerns
LEGAL RIGHTS
to capture and manhandle
Then take the field of ‘TegaT’ abiding citizen who w
rights, by which is meant such with his wife from wn
ie
rights as the right of habeas cor thought was a gang- of
pus. a free trial; the right to be breakers. The officers
entered the
represented by counsel; freedom law-abiding
citizens’
spartment
or■ "deten- without a search, warrant, brow
from arbitrary at
tion; the denial to any person the beat him with rude questions anc’
right after arrest to be promptly harsh threats, accused him oi
posinformed of the charges against sessing an accomplice who
had
him and to trial within a reason managed to escape and proceeded
able time or to be released: free- to search the apartment. This is a
dom from unreasonable interfer(Continued on Page 7)
ence with -your privacy, family .or
home: freedom from excessive bail.
unusual
punishment,
cruel
or
so-called
Herp
too, one finds
nights, too frequently honoured in
From
the breach. While space does not
allow for a complete documenta
. TORONTO
tion of the violations, these cases
perhaps show that . the “legal”
rights of Canadians are all too
MRS. T. YATABE
and FAMILY
often ignored:
most
A Noted Toronto
Lawyer Discusses
An Important Issue
A BILL OF RIGHTS
FOR CANADIANS?
By IRVINE HIMEL
SOMEONE a little while ago ing when a violation of civil libsaid: “We must be alert that we erties comes to their attention and
do not emulate totalitarian regimes by their silence leave the impresby curtailing
by sup sion that all
ell.
pressing free speech, by persecut
ing a minority, whether racial or
the other hand, there are an
pohtical; we must make sure our
Towing number of Canacivil rights are extended
i
to all dians who
groups, regardl
; of race, creed. ed about the state of our civil
colour or political faith. We must liberties.
They point to the remake certain that the glory of our cord of civil liberties in Canada
civil rights is not confined to their over the past few years and argue
illustrious history but is found in that all is not well.
They base
their application in the voting their case in part on the followbooths, assembly halls and courts ing:
of the country; in their observ
MINORITY RIGHTS
ance throughout the precincts and
For one. they say, take the field
county seats of th land, in the re of minority rights:
spect the citizens of our villages
1. In
December,
1945,
four
and cities give to them.”
The months after the end of the war.
person was United States Supreme the Dominion Government, withCourt Justice William O. Douglas. out resort to Parliament and fol
It might well have been a judge lowing a course which would have
ol our own counts.
been unconstitutional in the United
There are some Canadians who
believe ■ there is nothing wrong
with the state of civil liberties in
Canada,
You will find them in
the halls of Parliament asserting—
There is: no need for a Bill of
Rights in. Canada. You meet them
in your community amongst peopie who have little tolerance for
the opinion of .others. But by far
the greatest number are to be
found amongst those who do noth-
§
States, passed three Orders-inCouncil which, had they been put
into effect, would have exiled at
least 11,000 persons of Japanese
origin, a great many of whom
were Canadian citizens, to Japan.
without charge or trial.
2. Again, on April 14, 1947, by
an Order-in-Council, the Dominion Government • has made . it an
offence for anyone of Japanese
origin to enter the Province of
Holiday Greetings
I LORD’S CREDIT JEWELLERS
$
Toronto, Ont.
K 580 Danforth Avenue
SH OTARO YAMA SA KI
|
63 FOXLEY STREET, TORONTO
|
ect^on J
FROM
r
THE MANUFACTURERS LIFE
Insurance Company
AND
K
ritish Columbia or live there
ithout first obtaining a permit.
3. Further, by Order-in-Council
Canada
P.C. 2115, residents
have been divided into two classes;
those of Asiatic origin, which in
eludes Chinese, Indians and Japanese. and those ■of non-Asiatic de
scent.
In the case of the nonAsiatic, the law provides that they
need onlybe residents of Canada
to be able to bring their wives
and children under eighteen into
the country to live with them. In
the case of Asiatics, however, the
law prescribes that they must first
become citizens before this privilege is extended to them.
4. By the Dominion Elections
Act. the right to vote is denied to
Indians living on reservations,
veterans excluded. In addition the
British Columbia Provincial Elec
>1. Speaking in the House of
tions Act deprives Japanese, vet Commons on May 16, 1947, John
erans excepted, of the franchise.
G. Diefenbaker, M.P., said: “I
5. Then, there is the case of the come down to a more recent ex
Hutterites in Manitoba, from whom ample where civil rights were in
the Legislature has been attempt fringed and that is in connection
ing to take away the right to buy with the espionage commission set
land.
up under Orders-in-Council pass
6. Another instance of a denial ed on October 6, 1945. No one to
of minority rights is illustrated by day would say that there was not
this editorial in the Montreal in that Order-in-Council a cavalier
Standard on April 26, 1947, en- disregard of great and basic con
titled, ■‘Education
a Right”: stitutional liberties, of those liber
“The Protestant population is as ties which are guaranteed to all
much concerned as the Jewish for our people under the charter of
the preservation of both minority British peoples. Under- that Orderrights and the rights accruing to in-Council
habeas corpus
was
all Canadians by virtue of citizen swept aside by the simple subter
ship. One of them is the right of fuge of averring that each man
a child, of whatever race or creed, held thereunder was presumed to
to an education. Yet the Quebec have been in lawful custody.”
Government has set the seal cf its
“That Order-in-Council was a
approval on the denial of that denial of those basic principles
right. This seal of approval was which we cherish. Liberty under
affixed yesterday by Premier Du law was denied and coercion anc
plessis himself when he said in the interrogation resorted to in order
Legislature, ‘that there are only to translate suspicion into proof.
two school systems in the prov- The individual was denied the
ince, a Catholic and a Protestant right to counsel. Fifteen were de
system’.”
clared to be guilty by the royal
7. Illustrative of the economic
discrimination that is experienced
by members of certain racial
groups in Canada is this article
that appeared in the Toronto Globe
& Mail entitled, “Have We a Col
our Line?” which stated in part:
“Manjr coloured people have gone
to the United States -to face the
social prejudice there sooner than
the economic discrimination which
they claim makes life impossible
for them here. To back up their
conclusions they point to the al-
a
56 Augusta Avenue
Toronto 2-B, Ont.
K. HANADA
and FAMILY
247 Lansdowne Avenue
Toronto, Ont.
Phone: KE. 8383
I
MR. * MRS.
TSUTOMU KIMOTO
and MINORU
JACK KIMOTO
GEORGE KIMOTO
PATRICIA KIMOTO
MARGARET KIMOTO
YONZI ARIMA
TAD SAWADA
57 Sullivan Street
Toronto, Ont.
a
a
si
1
g
8
1
MR & MRS. SHIGERU OUE
136 Courcellette Road
Toronto 13, Ont.
MR. & MRS.
MASAO TAKAOKA
283 Dundas St. E.,
Toronto, Ont.
I
I
I
MR. & MRS.
SHO OKAWARA
&
178 Beverley Street
Toronto 2, Ont.
MR. & MRS.
YUKIO KOYANAGI
MRS. KOTO KOYANAGI
362 Bartlett Avenue
Toronto, Ont.
commission and subsequent events
proved that the commission was’
about sixty per cent wrong. That
royal
commission
impaired
or
tends to impair respect for the
judiciary. By the publication of the
report it did irreparable harm to
those whose names were mention
ed before the trials, in that it said
they were guilty before they were
tried. It is doing irreparable harm
today to individuals who have been
found not guilty.”
2. More recently a case arose in
MR. & MRS. TOM EBATA
s
1
2
$
60 Indian Rd. Cres.
Toronto 9, Ont.
Mr. & Mrs.
YUTAKA KOBAYASHI
105 Nassau Street
Toronto, Ont.
MR. & MRS. TOM OKADA
and HOWARD
950 Castlefield Ave.
Toronto 10, Ont.
£
MR. & MRS. BILL FUJINO
391 Ontario Street
Toronto, Ont.
“BUTCH”
MASAJI
391
FROM
S. SHINOBU
INAMOTO
Ontario Street
Toronto, Ont.
FLORENCE M. BIRD
HAROLD MORISHITA
51 Bond Street
Toronto. Ont.
Chartered Life Underwriter
Akemi Handcraft Jewellery
198 ALBANY AVENUE, TORONTO
MRi & MRS.
WILLIAM T. KOZAI
209 Maria Street
Toronto 9, Ont.
LA. 9332
1
3
§
1931 Avenue Road
ERNEST TRUEMAN
24 Adelaide St. E.
Toronto, Ont.
REV. & MRS.
g
K. SHIMIZU
VICTOR-,
THEODORE,
GRACE,
and DOROTHY
I
C^R
131 Ivy Avenue
on s
SAM T. TSUJI
$
S
9
11
3
I
JOHN Y. TSUJI
MRS. A. FUJIWARA
Qrove Avenue Qarage
DEALERS IN USED CARS
LEFTY NAKAMURA
QUEEN CITY JEWELLERS
78 Queen Street West
Toronto, Ontario
$
§ 1222 DUNDAS ST. W., TORONTO
Toronto 8, Ont.
£
7026 2 jg
WA. 9207
M s
8
S
a
MR. & MRS.
E. KITAGAWA
MR. & MRS.
DOUGLAS FUJIWARA
DR. M.
WESLEY FUJIWARA
ALAN FUJIWARA
Toronto. Ont.
A
8
Page 7
A BILL OF RIGHTS
Wi
'hat
of Jehov
;d fen
es -must
Greetings
o net me
a firm public opinion
formed .as to their natur
(Continued from Page 6)
VI
t
H
8
8
added: "
T
moussy adopted a resolution conabout
ou
in
vvlation." the editorial goes on to
oemning trie arrest ox the elected
«
saw "of the citizen's most sacred
on
leaders of the textile union on
wgat—the privacy of his home. In
age in Canada. Ther
strike at the Ayers textile ulant at
D
the face of such evidence how can Lachin:
tor more public discussion
mhs
earlier
the
Pre
ft
• He Police Commission be satisfied
u
without
task of defining th
er
cancelled
rhe liquor
3
#•
to let the matter drop with a mere
freedoms to be safe
Roncarelli. rights a
I
<-o investigate the record
a Mon'real restaurant proprietor, guarded
one of the officers concerned?
ARTHUR
FREEDOMS
■e he posted bail for some
findings indicate that its memWo have here in the clearest
ARNOLD
yj
arre. id members of the JehoFinally out or no import
s either do not know what
possible terms a challenge to the
1
Witnesses.
the field of
"free
Canadian people — if they desire
ns the citizen possesses or do ance
HEDY
doms;”: freedom of speech and exfurther safeguards to their civil
not care to protect them."
2. According to a British United
MIOKO
pressdon. freedom of the press or
liberties, they must make that fact
Press news item of March 22. 1947
in
After
spending
five
months
other
mean
3.
communication.
known to their members of Par
the film. "Man
One Family."
55 Pape Axe nue
jail for alleged theft, of a $7.00 freedom of religion, freedom of
liament.
intolerance, a
William Brazeau of Cornwall lawful assembly, organization or dealing with ra
Toronto, Ont.
The challenge, it is suggested
recently given his liberty association. Here again- we see the product, of the British Information
when the Court of Appeal of On need for ever-increasing vigilance Service, was banned by the Al can be met. by indixudual Cana
follow
tario quashed his conviction. It is as is borne out by these cases berta Department, of Education dians and organization.
from
showing
in
the
province's
unfortunate, said one of the appeal which are only a few of many that
1. Giving their support to groups ‘1
public schools because, according
judges. commenting on his case, could be cited:
that
advocate the enactment, of a
to government officials, it “did not
that a man charged with teal ing
i«
Bill
of
Rights as part of the Consti
1. In a Canadian Press story of fit into the curriculum.”
S7.00 of property was kept in jail
tution of Canada.
from January 25 to February 26 March 19. 1947. it is reported that:
THOMAS SAIT
It was also charged that the Al
without trial and that he has been “An amendment giving municipali berta Government had issued a
MARY SAITO
2. Forming civil liberties asso
in jail five months awaiting this ties power to prohibit the distri verbal banning of two other films, ciations to act. as watch dogs of
ELSIE SAITO
appeal, ‘ particularly
when
the bution of pamphlets and similar “Every Man’s World” and "Don't civil rights in their community and
HARLES SAITO
maximum sentence for the offence' printed matter within their con Be a Sucker." exhibited by the supporting associations
of
this
fines stirred vigorous debate in
>17 Winona Drive
type already established.
is six months.
National Film Beard.
the Quebec Legislative Assembly
W
Toronto, Ont.
ft
4. The Toronto Daily Star in its last night, as Premier Maurice Du
It is to be recalled that. evenal
3. Writing their members of ParPhone: KE. 8991
ue of May 13, 1947,. reported that plessis. obviously referring to the weeks ago the Quebec Board of liament. and telling them what
Film Censors banned a French they would like to ee them do
film "Les Enfants du Paradis” about civil liberties and making
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which the French Ambassador had their views 'known where
1
it will
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sought to have exhibited in Can do the most good, when actual
^lapptj. ^lew ^^ear
ma J
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ada.
'
civil
cases of infringement of
H11 )EO TAKA IIA S HI
rights occur.
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A KI RA TA KA HA SHI
3. In the 194? annual report of
FROM
the
Alberta
Government's
’
Social
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ft
4. Promoting an effective pro
Credit Board the abolition of poli gram of public education to in'A
ft
HARRY S. KONDO
tical parties is urged. The Board form the people of the civil rights
y criticizes the secret ballot and re
entitled and
to which they
FUMIKO TAKAHASHI
commends its abolition in certain which they owe one another. As
M
circumstances.
observed in
Prime Minister
g
fl
his
farewell
ad
to
the
NaToronto,
Ont.
4. In its brief to tne Special
g
637 Bay Street
148 Manning- Ave
Convention "the
Joint Committee of the Senate and tional Liberal
g
Toronto, Ont.
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s House of Fundamental
i-4
Freedoms dom never ends."
:o
Rights and
that sat <in Ottawa during the last
session of Parliament, the Cana-. P
& dian Daily Newspapers Association
H
(Shriitinai an
g condemned the Quebec Padlock
ear
ft
V’ iaxx- as a threat to the freedom of
the press. "In permitting." the
FROM'
brief states, ‘’confiscation and de
struction
of
newspapers,
periodic
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tributed In contravention to the
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5. This year, the Prince Edward
Island Legislative Assembly put
through
amendments
to
their
Trade Union Act that require trade
54 unions to be licensed and make it
a punishable offence to act for and
represent onese-lf 'to be a member w
of an unlicensed union. The right
or ’revoke a license is
to
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in
the sole discretion of the
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Enough has been said perhaps to
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ties. Infringements of civil rights:
which'should be rare occurrences
are becoming increasingly com
mon -Each of us has -a responsibil
ity to discharge in seeing mat
■human rights and fundamental
freedoms are observed in our com
munities and in the nation as a
whole: if only, because experience
eaches that once you allow the
others to be taken
liberties
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a matter of time
away, it
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findings indicate that its memWo have here in the clearest
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s either do not know what
possible terms a challenge to the
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the field of
"free
Canadian people — if they desire
ns the citizen possesses or do ance
HEDY
doms;”: freedom of speech and exfurther safeguards to their civil
not care to protect them."
2. According to a British United
MIOKO
pressdon. freedom of the press or
liberties, they must make that fact
Press news item of March 22. 1947
in
After
spending
five
months
other
mean
3.
communication.
known to their members of Par
the film. "Man
One Family."
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jail for alleged theft, of a $7.00 freedom of religion, freedom of
liament.
intolerance, a
William Brazeau of Cornwall lawful assembly, organization or dealing with ra
Toronto, Ont.
The challenge, it is suggested
recently given his liberty association. Here again- we see the product, of the British Information
when the Court of Appeal of On need for ever-increasing vigilance Service, was banned by the Al can be met. by indixudual Cana
follow
tario quashed his conviction. It is as is borne out by these cases berta Department, of Education dians and organization.
from
showing
in
the
province's
unfortunate, said one of the appeal which are only a few of many that
1. Giving their support to groups ‘1
public schools because, according
judges. commenting on his case, could be cited:
that
advocate the enactment, of a
to government officials, it “did not
that a man charged with teal ing
i«
Bill
of
Rights as part of the Consti
1. In a Canadian Press story of fit into the curriculum.”
S7.00 of property was kept in jail
tution of Canada.
from January 25 to February 26 March 19. 1947. it is reported that:
THOMAS SAIT
It was also charged that the Al
without trial and that he has been “An amendment giving municipali berta Government had issued a
MARY SAITO
2. Forming civil liberties asso
in jail five months awaiting this ties power to prohibit the distri verbal banning of two other films, ciations to act. as watch dogs of
ELSIE SAITO
appeal, ‘ particularly
when
the bution of pamphlets and similar “Every Man’s World” and "Don't civil rights in their community and
HARLES SAITO
maximum sentence for the offence' printed matter within their con Be a Sucker." exhibited by the supporting associations
of
this
fines stirred vigorous debate in
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type already established.
is six months.
National Film Beard.
the Quebec Legislative Assembly
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Toronto, Ont.
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3. Writing their members of ParPhone: KE. 8991
ue of May 13, 1947,. reported that plessis. obviously referring to the weeks ago the Quebec Board of liament. and telling them what
Film Censors banned a French they would like to ee them do
film "Les Enfants du Paradis” about civil liberties and making
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Credit Board the abolition of poli gram of public education to in'A
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tical parties is urged. The Board form the people of the civil rights
y criticizes the secret ballot and re
entitled and
to which they
FUMIKO TAKAHASHI
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5. This year, the Prince Edward
Island Legislative Assembly put
through
amendments
to
their
Trade Union Act that require trade
54 unions to be licensed and make it
a punishable offence to act for and
represent onese-lf 'to be a member w
of an unlicensed union. The right
or ’revoke a license is
to
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vested
in
the sole discretion of the
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Provincial Secretary. No union is
MAXWELL
entitled to a license if it has .mem
bers outside the province or if
their decisions or deliberations are
directed by any person outside
their membership. In other words, ft
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it seeks to take away from the _ Phone 2-9113
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the right to organize lawful trade
unions affiliated with such bodies
as the Trade and Labour Congress
of Canada or the Canadian Con ft gress . of Labour, or with member
is ships outside the ’province.
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Enough has been said perhaps to
indicate. that we cannot live on our.laurels in the realm of civil liber
ties. Infringements of civil rights:
which'should be rare occurrences
are becoming increasingly com
mon -Each of us has -a responsibil
ity to discharge in seeing mat
■human rights and fundamental
freedoms are observed in our com
munities and in the nation as a
whole: if only, because experience
eaches that once you allow the
others to be taken
liberties
s
only
a matter of time
away, it
before your own disappear.
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The Night I Met Mary
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at her again.
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had to be
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At the time the lights of the
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I made up my mind.
mce was vain ner.
"Come on. Satchel, introduce me
that girl dancing with Bruce.”
take you
■‘Okay, wolfus. Did
such an
ong. did it?"
Satch
and we both laughed.
“Say, you couldn’t be from Van,
Mary?” I asked, trying to find
wfully good sport.
I was ..."
•‘I said “Hello. Mary.”
She cut me off excitedly. “For
a .week, and ohhh, . it was terrible!
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She smiled and said “Hi!"
sounds were there. The harsh city
noises . . . the screech of cars, the
Maybe it was the way she raised were treated—packed in like . . .
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blaring horns, the snapping of her eyebrows slightly and made well, just like wet, slimy7 sarand FAMILY
trolley lines.
The sounds were j her whole face smile—or maybe it dines
was the way she said “Hi!’’ as
tune.
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there and I was out of
<
“It’s a shame how much wrong
.hough it was meant just for me.
discrimination
can do. An awful ft
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at
a
young
1
I
remember
staring
10 Stanley
Or maybe it was both.
shame, isn’t it? It seems just be-,
couple who walked out from : the |
I held her just so—not too close,
Toronto, Ont.
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cause we look a little different,'
YWCA. They were so obviously |
in case she was a dud at dancing because bur skins are a little
in
love
that
they
stuck
out
like
a
!
®
—not that it mattered.
But it darker, they find us an easy tarThey
sore thumb.
I grinned.
wasn’t necessary.
get for a lot of unnecessary •abuse
smiled back and gave a friendly
I moved my arms in a little more
. . ..discrimination—it just burns
“Hi!” I felt good.
firmly and she touched my cheek me up!’’ . .
MR. & MRS.
I .walked , into the building and
with . her
MAMORU NISHI
forehead.
Her hair
peeked into the auditorium. The
smelled nice and cool and it
lights were on. Frank and Tak
MR. & MRS.
We separated from the • gang
brushed against my lips every
TORAO TAJIRI
saw me right away and rushed
later on and wpnt window' shoptime we pivoted.
and AKIRA
over.
It’s funny. The thought occur- ping down Portage.
They pounded my back, shook
MR. TOSHIO NISHIJIMA
She wore- a black coat, the kind
red to me right then that maybe
my hands.
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with a hood attached, and the way
this
was
“
the
girl.
”
I
thought
‘
Why.
you
old
farmer,
ft MISS MEYKO NISHIJIMA
Half way through the music she she walked had class -written all
they flunked you out!”
over. And I -was her escort!
murmured:
As I hung my coat on the rack.
38 Peterboro Avenue
“
You
’
re
not
very
talkative,
are
We crossed the street over to
(Vicinity St. Clair W.)
Frank whispered:
you?”
Eaton
’s where she claimed they
'ft
“Hey, you should see the new
Toronto. Ont.
“Oh, I'm sorry, Mary. I was . . .” had the best window display de
chick . . . Hubba! Hubba!”
“You
needn't
apologize.
It’s signs and I simply had to look at
"Just lead me to her, man. just
;
nice dancing with
you
re it. So I did. I would have walked
lead me to her!”
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off Osborne Bridge. that night if
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The loving couple who had
And she snuggled ^up close again. she had asked me.
DR. & MRS.
greeted me outside had gone• to
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We were looking at the hat dis
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I had eight more dances with play when suddenly she turned
Then Sachi came over.
her. Five of them were “saved” slyly and gazed at' the couple
and RONALD
"Well, well, wolfus. Long time
me. By then I knew enough walking past. She put on an ex
no see. Wanna use me as bait for
about her to tear up my little aggerated shiver and whispered:
this dance?”
black book;
“Ohhh. I would hate to be . in
“Natch, Satch," I said and took
Twenty,
first
year
Home
Ec
at
that
girl’s shoes. I bet she feels
her in my arms, That’s when I'
Toronto, Ont.
the
U,
and.
a
very
good
conver
terrible!
”
saw Mary.
sationalist.
.
Personally.
I didn’t see anyShe was quite a looker.
Her
She
mentioned
Wdolcott.
Sarothing
wrong
with
her s]hoes — in
hair was brushed back into a small
yan.
Lewis.
Picasso,
ft
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Kuniyoshi
—
fact they were very nice as far as
bob and you could tell.right away
all during that same evening. . . . I c.ould see. Nor was there any
that her cheek bones were shaped
thing wrong with her, a very at
just so. She wasn’t short like
It was a good thin she happened tractive hakujin brunette.
most
Niseiettes.
She
was
tall
and
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But that was months ago. . . .
& shapely and even the "new look” to be with our group. As usual,
the bunch went to the Mandalay And I haven't seen Mary since.
couldn’t hide her well-proporand JUDITH KAY
for a snack, The eight of us had to
Gee, I had fun though, that US
tinned limbs.
wait for a table because 11.30
night I met Mary!
And I'll bet
She was—well s'
was just like
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rush.
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they did too, the couple we saw
one of those pretty queen candiJust then a couple got up to in front of Eaton's—the nice-look
Toronto 6. Ont.
dats
you saw in the Nisei-Vue
leave.
I looked at Mary and she ing brunette,
and her Negro
magazine
and wished why on
smiled yes.
escort.
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TAI ICHIRO KADOI
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KOKO
YUKIE
hopped the No
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I -remember too that there was
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;• the city and the
fuzzv and indis-
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We sat' down and ordered sand- US
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wiches and coffee,
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She locked at me, ft
had to be
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in
At the time the lights of the
y were subdued but all the
I made up my mind.
mce was vain ner.
"Come on. Satchel, introduce me
that girl dancing with Bruce.”
take you
■‘Okay, wolfus. Did
such an
ong. did it?"
Satch
and we both laughed.
“Say, you couldn’t be from Van,
Mary?” I asked, trying to find
wfully good sport.
I was ..."
•‘I said “Hello. Mary.”
She cut me off excitedly. “For
a .week, and ohhh, . it was terrible!
MR.
ISAMU,
Hamilton,
r.t
more common ties.
‘ No. I’m from the Island . . d’
571 Burlington Sr. E.
Hamilton, Ont.
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“Did you stay7 in the Park at all?
ESTHER
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310
$
She smiled and said “Hi!"
sounds were there. The harsh city
noises . . . the screech of cars, the
Maybe it was the way she raised were treated—packed in like . . .
I. NOBUTO
blaring horns, the snapping of her eyebrows slightly and made well, just like wet, slimy7 sarand FAMILY
trolley lines.
The sounds were j her whole face smile—or maybe it dines
was the way she said “Hi!’’ as
tune.
|
there and I was out of
<
“It’s a shame how much wrong
.hough it was meant just for me.
discrimination
can do. An awful ft
!
at
a
young
1
I
remember
staring
10 Stanley
Or maybe it was both.
shame, isn’t it? It seems just be-,
couple who walked out from : the |
I held her just so—not too close,
Toronto, Ont.
K?
cause we look a little different,'
YWCA. They were so obviously |
in case she was a dud at dancing because bur skins are a little
in
love
that
they
stuck
out
like
a
!
®
—not that it mattered.
But it darker, they find us an easy tarThey
sore thumb.
I grinned.
wasn’t necessary.
get for a lot of unnecessary •abuse
smiled back and gave a friendly
I moved my arms in a little more
. . ..discrimination—it just burns
“Hi!” I felt good.
firmly and she touched my cheek me up!’’ . .
MR. & MRS.
I .walked , into the building and
with . her
MAMORU NISHI
forehead.
Her hair
peeked into the auditorium. The
smelled nice and cool and it
lights were on. Frank and Tak
MR. & MRS.
We separated from the • gang
brushed against my lips every
TORAO TAJIRI
saw me right away and rushed
later on and wpnt window' shoptime we pivoted.
and AKIRA
over.
It’s funny. The thought occur- ping down Portage.
They pounded my back, shook
MR. TOSHIO NISHIJIMA
She wore- a black coat, the kind
red to me right then that maybe
my hands.
K
w
with a hood attached, and the way
this
was
“
the
girl.
”
I
thought
‘
Why.
you
old
farmer,
ft MISS MEYKO NISHIJIMA
Half way through the music she she walked had class -written all
they flunked you out!”
over. And I -was her escort!
murmured:
As I hung my coat on the rack.
38 Peterboro Avenue
“
You
’
re
not
very
talkative,
are
We crossed the street over to
(Vicinity St. Clair W.)
Frank whispered:
you?”
Eaton
’s where she claimed they
'ft
“Hey, you should see the new
Toronto. Ont.
“Oh, I'm sorry, Mary. I was . . .” had the best window display de
chick . . . Hubba! Hubba!”
“You
needn't
apologize.
It’s signs and I simply had to look at
"Just lead me to her, man. just
;
nice dancing with
you
re it. So I did. I would have walked
lead me to her!”
8
awfully good."
ft
off Osborne Bridge. that night if
ft
The loving couple who had
And she snuggled ^up close again. she had asked me.
DR. & MRS.
greeted me outside had gone• to
W
&
*
*
:S > my head.
We were looking at the hat dis
E
I had eight more dances with play when suddenly she turned
Then Sachi came over.
her. Five of them were “saved” slyly and gazed at' the couple
and RONALD
"Well, well, wolfus. Long time
me. By then I knew enough walking past. She put on an ex
no see. Wanna use me as bait for
about her to tear up my little aggerated shiver and whispered:
this dance?”
black book;
“Ohhh. I would hate to be . in
“Natch, Satch," I said and took
Twenty,
first
year
Home
Ec
at
that
girl’s shoes. I bet she feels
her in my arms, That’s when I'
Toronto, Ont.
the
U,
and.
a
very
good
conver
terrible!
”
saw Mary.
sationalist.
.
Personally.
I didn’t see anyShe was quite a looker.
Her
She
mentioned
Wdolcott.
Sarothing
wrong
with
her s]hoes — in
hair was brushed back into a small
yan.
Lewis.
Picasso,
ft
.
Kuniyoshi
—
fact they were very nice as far as
bob and you could tell.right away
all during that same evening. . . . I c.ould see. Nor was there any
that her cheek bones were shaped
thing wrong with her, a very at
just so. She wasn’t short like
It was a good thin she happened tractive hakujin brunette.
most
Niseiettes.
She
was
tall
and
ft MRS. MORIO
But that was months ago. . . .
& shapely and even the "new look” to be with our group. As usual,
the bunch went to the Mandalay And I haven't seen Mary since.
couldn’t hide her well-proporand JUDITH KAY
for a snack, The eight of us had to
Gee, I had fun though, that US
tinned limbs.
wait for a table because 11.30
night I met Mary!
And I'll bet
She was—well s'
was just like
$
the
time
of
ft
after-the-show
rush.
14 Chilton Road
they did too, the couple we saw
one of those pretty queen candiJust then a couple got up to in front of Eaton's—the nice-look
Toronto 6. Ont.
dats
you saw in the Nisei-Vue
leave.
I looked at Mary and she ing brunette,
and her Negro
magazine
and wished why on
smiled yes.
escort.
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MRS. 11
and FAMILY
AIRS. C. SCAAIBLER
and PAUL
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MR. & MRS.
CHARLIE OMORI
and VIRGINIA
4Z Talbot Avenue
Winnipeg, Man.
Dryden, Ont
MRS. HARO
and BARRY
AIR. and AIRS.
FRANK Y’UKIO HIGO
RONALD KENICHI
and KAREN ANN
32 Hindley Avenue
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and FAMILY
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MR.
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William. Ont
MR.
>35 Robertson Sire
Fort William. Ont
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and FAAI1LY’
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AIITS SAKAAIOTO
LUCY SHIZUKO SAKAAIOYO
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DEANNA TAKAKO
SAKAMOTO
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TADASHI BRUCE,
A;
and EMIKO LAURA
Box 331
Gera Id ton, Ont.
The Niseiette
“New Look” For19-year-old
Miyo Nishi of Venice California^ She
THERE IS actually no point in the appearance
is a student of costume design, and was one of the
of this picture of a pretty Japanese American ---------, , . .> •
lass in the dead middle of Canadian winter except finalists in the J ACL queen contest held in
-
MR. & MRS.
T. Y. NAKAGAWA
SAMUEL Y. NAKAGAW
Home wood Sani ta rin m
Guelph, Ont.
to discredit the common belief that the Nisei girl tember.
has no figure. If you’re interested, the girl is
•I.
202 AIcKay Avenue
North Kildonan, Man.
n
^5
GEORGE ABE
JIM ABE
BABS SAKAAIOTO
Toronto, Ont
reetmgs
Season’s
Picture Butte, Alt
JAMES S. SUGIYAMA
ule, Wynn & Rule, Architects
FRANK H. MATSUMOTO
Cranford, Alta.
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Holiday Greetings
FROM
Chicago Noodle
Shop
WINNIPEG. MAN
MR. & MRS. TAK SHIRATANI
t/
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218 Alexander Avenue
WINNIPEG
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& MRS. S. SAKON
and FAMILY
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and FAMILY
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KUSANO
ear
from
CHICKEN-COOP INN
538 McLaughlin Street
8
MRS.
Box 4
Oxdrift, Ont
Raymond, Alta.
MARTHA
and
HARRY
MR. & MRS. H. MITSUNAGA
DICK MITSUNAGA
SUE MITSUNAGA
SAM MITSUNAGA
KAY MITSUNAGA
And from
Chicken-Coop Inn Baseball x earn
1948 Champions of the Lakehead Nisei Baseball League
KAMO
100 N. Hill Street
Port .Arthur, Ont.
M. B. OSATO
General Delivery
Terrace Bay, Ont.
FORT WILLIAM, ONT.
TONAO OHAMA
APT ORI OHAMA
kikuye
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392 - 3rd St. S.
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CHIZUKO OHAMA
ALBERT OHAMA
OH"1 '
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Rainier, Alta.
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& MRS MAS TOYOTA
RICHARD and JANI
607 King Street W.,
Kitchener, Ont.
11
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Edmonton, Alta.
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P.O. Box 609
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for the New Year^
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MI
EXECUTIVE:
TED T. AOKI
SEI KU SAKUMOTO
GEORGE H GA
WALTER KOYANAGI
KIYOTO SH GEIFRO
MALCOLM FUKAMI
F. FILHMAGARI
M. OGA
MAS SUNADA
ALBERTS
Calgary. Alta
h
Fort William, Ont.
and TAKIKO
R.R. No. 1
ThamesvilJe. Ont.
42 Poplar Road
West Hill, Ont.
MR. & MRS
MACER “MUSS” OKA
719 Chilver Read
Windsor, Ont.
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From
ONTARIO
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MR
MOHACm
JS. CFO. T.
nd FAMILY
Jin, Toru,
and K
i Moncton Avenue
Winnipeg, Man.
Manor.
Blenheim. Ont
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5S7
Elgin
Dufferin Avenue
Brantford. Ont.
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Winnipeg, Alan.
rt
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GEORGE M. EJIMA
Adelaide St.. Sou
Chatham. Ont.
CHERS LACK
and Solicitor
Street
Winnipeg, Man.
u
h
Barrister
and AIRS. KAZUO
and FAAIH.Y
ME
K
ARGE. MOLLY,
MIKI
61 Isabel -Street
Winnipeg, Man.
KAMEDA
MRS. 11
and FAMILY
AIRS. C. SCAAIBLER
and PAUL
24 Sterling -Apts.
Winnipeg, Alan.
&
Dryden
Ont
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MR. & MRS.
CHARLIE OMORI
and VIRGINIA
4Z Talbot Avenue
Winnipeg, Man.
Dryden, Ont
MRS. HARO
and BARRY
AIR. and AIRS.
FRANK Y’UKIO HIGO
RONALD KENICHI
and KAREN ANN
32 Hindley Avenue
St. Vital, Man.
u
T
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and FAMILY
Camp 57-A
Dryden. Ont.
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MR.
ft
Chatham. Ont
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Winnipeg, Alan.
631
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William. Ont
MR.
>35 Robertson Sire
Fort William. Ont
MR. & MRS. JON NAKANO
I
5 Hughson Avenue
East Kildonan, Man.
and GORDON
L
MR. & MRS. SHIG SAKIYAMX
and FAMILY
,
41S St , Anne’s Road
Vital, Alan.
.MR. & AIRS. AI. SHINYEI
and FAAI1LY’
t
543 St. Anne’s Road
Genthon, Alan.
l
KITARO OYAMA
o
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Moss
r
V
tl
Supply &
Co.
Spur, Man.
Winnipeg
AIITS SAKAAIOTO
LUCY SHIZUKO SAKAAIOYO
IRENE 1TSUKO SAKAAIOTO
DEANNA TAKAKO
SAKAMOTO
#
TED y- F'”'?^S’ «'’-'\A
TADASHI BRUCE,
A;
and EMIKO LAURA
Box 331
Gera Id ton, Ont.
The Niseiette
“New Look” For19-year-old
Miyo Nishi of Venice California^ She
THERE IS actually no point in the appearance
is a student of costume design, and was one of the
of this picture of a pretty Japanese American ---------, , . .> •
lass in the dead middle of Canadian winter except finalists in the J ACL queen contest held in
-
MR. & MRS.
T. Y. NAKAGAWA
SAMUEL Y. NAKAGAW
Home wood Sani ta rin m
Guelph, Ont.
to discredit the common belief that the Nisei girl tember.
has no figure. If you’re interested, the girl is
•I.
202 AIcKay Avenue
North Kildonan, Man.
n
^5
GEORGE ABE
JIM ABE
BABS SAKAAIOTO
Toronto, Ont
reetmgs
Season’s
Picture Butte, Alt
JAMES S. SUGIYAMA
ule, Wynn & Rule, Architects
FRANK H. MATSUMOTO
Cranford, Alta.
R
Holiday Greetings
FROM
Chicago Noodle
Shop
WINNIPEG. MAN
MR. & MRS. TAK SHIRATANI
t/
YEE YUON
218 Alexander Avenue
WINNIPEG
93 Jnchbury Sire
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MR. & MRS.
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■1
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and KEIKO
MRS. SOME KADONAGA
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London, Ont.
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A.T.C.M.. L.R.S.M.
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Edmonton, Alta.
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Ont.
m
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& MRS. S. SAKON
and FAMILY
Crow Creek
Opasatika, Ont.
& MRS. MINATO SASAKI
T. MB.
Fort William. Ontario
•fl
8.
Lethbridge, Alta.
188
t
ft
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Ottawa. Ont.
.ft
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KYUJIRO
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ma J
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SHINKICHI OKAMOTO
and FAMILY
Box 545
Taber, Alta.
KUSANO
ear
from
CHICKEN-COOP INN
538 McLaughlin Street
8
MRS.
Box 4
Oxdrift, Ont
Raymond, Alta.
MARTHA
and
HARRY
MR. & MRS. H. MITSUNAGA
DICK MITSUNAGA
SUE MITSUNAGA
SAM MITSUNAGA
KAY MITSUNAGA
And from
Chicken-Coop Inn Baseball x earn
1948 Champions of the Lakehead Nisei Baseball League
KAMO
100 N. Hill Street
Port .Arthur, Ont.
M. B. OSATO
General Delivery
Terrace Bay, Ont.
FORT WILLIAM, ONT.
TONAO OHAMA
APT ORI OHAMA
kikuye
KINGO OH AM A
392 - 3rd St. S.
Lethbridge Alta.
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OHAMA
CHIZUKO OHAMA
ALBERT OHAMA
OH"1 '
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<
& MRS MAS TOYOTA
RICHARD and JANI
607 King Street W.,
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11
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Edmonton, Alta.
WALTER W.
P.O. Box 609
Taber. Alta.
12
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MR. & MRS. 1. ITO
and FAMILY
CHOP SUEY
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H. HYODO
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in
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and FAMILY’
•1 . t6t’» Street S.
Lethbridge. Alta.
Best Wishes
for the New Year^
T
MI
EXECUTIVE:
TED T. AOKI
SEI KU SAKUMOTO
GEORGE H GA
WALTER KOYANAGI
KIYOTO SH GEIFRO
MALCOLM FUKAMI
F. FILHMAGARI
M. OGA
MAS SUNADA
ALBERTS
Calgary. Alta
h
Fort William, Ont.
and TAKIKO
R.R. No. 1
ThamesvilJe. Ont.
42 Poplar Road
West Hill, Ont.
MR. & MRS
MACER “MUSS” OKA
719 Chilver Read
Windsor, Ont.
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ment, and. so far as Mr peiSM
WILL IT BE A WITCH-HUNT
lives are concerned. airs
X
with the world. Or
think .t true ?hat
From
gone a !ong
■, especially ip
: BRITISH COLUMBIA 9
nomic status, sinice The Ne^c
dian first be^sn Publication ju•an
decade ago. I ■think u very’ ;
& MRS. JOE HOMMA
too, That our enforced eaU, ■ip
and FAMILY’
migration is in
■Pleasure ■
Greenwood, B.C.
sponsible
for thi.
«t
THE TALL, gauntly’ - majestic as such, and by’ implication the Union is geared for the production
a
opened up vocational oonon^T
MR. & MRS.
figure spoke with moving sincer- Russian brand of it, is phrased in of heavy industrial goods, of ma to us in such number and va^
SHINY’A TATEYAMA
l
ity.
The expressive face,
in terms of a direct and compelling terials to be poured into the maw that today we accept as conu^
Greenwood, B.C.
/i a halo of snowy-white hair, gave appeal to fundamental Christian of Mars, the God of War. And we place what would have been n%v’
MR. & MRS. J. E. FUKUI - Yi to him the authority of teacher principle. It is, perhaps, on those prisoners, political and war, were worthy and talkworthy in
and JUDY’
days on the British Columbia coas
and prophet. His bearing sug- j grounds, difficult to contradict.
■made to work under a diabolically
Greenwood, B.C.
But we must also admit that in
gestgd the importance of his mis
But by odd chance a few day’s cunning system, at the least ex
our
society today, improved eco
. TOSH SEKI
sion to further the cause of world later there came to me a vastly’ penditure with the maximum of
FUKUYE SEKI
nomic
status Is at best a fra^h
peace. .His message was of com different kind of message. A, report efficiency’ to keep this program accomplishment. A period ’of d?
MASAYUKI SEKI
moving.
Greenwood, B.C.
munism. a compound of economic on the Soviet Union from an even
pression might quickly- wip- «
“Gross inequalities are a multi
doctrine and religious principle, a more direct source, the observa
MR. & MRS.
many of our gains. What seems to
tude. Thus in Soviet Russia the
DAVID PRIESTMAN
me to be so much more important
torch to light the highway’ to the tions of a three-year stay spent,
g
Wlast’—-or the 'powers that be, in is the degree of progress we mav
Duncan & Ocean Falls
better world.
g
B.C.
on the inside of the “iron curtain," cluding, of course, the Kremlin have won as manuring individual.
and the
Communist What progress have we made in
SS
This was the
Rev.
Hewlett without -benefit of -guided -tours autocrats
RUTH and JEAN TANO
Party
—
live
in
the
laps
of luxury.
Johnson, the famous “Red Dean.” and planned display’s.
■our. capacity for individual- re.
It is specifically for them that all
sponsibility and judgment? How
Kamloops, B.C.
on his speaking -tour of Canada.
The report came in the form of the great cultural achievements of
far
has the extension of out phy
g One of the best-known cham- a letter from a former Vancouver which the U.S.S.R. can rightly
HARRY TANAKA
sical
world been accompanied by
pion.; of Soviet Russia and Rus-.; Nisei, a university’ graduate in boast are maintained. On the
a
widening
of mental horizon^
sian communism, -the Dean has; English, who had been imprisoned ;pther hand, the worker, in whose
Kamloops, B.C.
What
progress
have we made A
won a wide audience because of by’ the Russians while working as name the ‘Vlast’ rules, lives in
developing
an
improving
system Ol
his status as a high official of -the a civilian newspaperman in Man utter misery. In the majority of
KATHLEEN LANG
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went to hear him speak, Ais mes after the war he had been held in lights, no sinks, no running water,
"These would seem to be fair
Kamloops, B.C.
sage was a familiar one.
camp, with thousands of Japanese no plumbing, no modern .con questions, if only to test our com
2 In the Soviet Union, as he had prisoners-pf-war. But with a flair veniences.
placency.
And I am inclined to'
HELEN R, HURD
s
for
languages,
he
learned
to
speak,
feel
that
the
answers on the whole
ri
seen it. he said, the Russians are
P.O. Box 398
Without bread for the day. theread
and
write
Russian
and
acted
may well be encouraging. The
Prince Rupert, B.C.
establishing a new order of bro
as an interpreter for his fellows laborer roundly curses, and with, evacuation experience and all that
therhood
and
economic
security,
MR. & MRS. GEORGE
the curse, steals some wood—state has occurred since has been an in
of common ownership by all the while they labored on many con- property
1CHIZO NISHIMURA
well aware that if tensely’ personal affair for each
and FAMILY’
people of-all the means of wealth. struction projects, He writes a
P.O. Box 294
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caught
it
means
at least five years, one of us. To escape the impact of
They’ are creating a state where black indictment of the Russia he
Kamloops, B.C.
and goes .off to sell it in the black some of its lessons would have
saw
and
knew.
discrimination becau. e of creed
market bazaars, ubiquitous institu been hard.
and
’ colour"— i
unknown, -where
“Russia.” says his letter, “is on
DR. M. MIYAZAKI
tions
of
the
Soviet
Union.
“man's 'inhumanity’ to man" is be big prison camp. One half of the
It has indicated to us, for in
Throughout
this
misery,
the
Rus
Lillooet,
B.C.
$
ing eliminated, where extremes of population is occupied in keeping
sian lives stoically, with a hero- stance, just how important a scale
ostentatious wealth and
direst watch over the other half. It is
of . moral values actually’ is. In in
ism that is almost astounding.”
MR. & MRS. SEIJI ONIZUKA
poverty’ are unknown. It is a new difficult to paint the whole pano
numerable ways it suggested to tu
Thus these versions of Russian the fruitful results
order closely’ akin to the greatest rama of conditions as they exist
Midway, B.C.
close. co
•ommunism
at . home, and of the operative effort.
religious
teachings
of
all
ages.
It.
today but it can be said that the
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ing put to practice? And the Soviet Year Plan depends for its execu peace.
necessity for mature decisions, and
Union's great need and great de- tion upon the inexhaustible pool of
New Denver, B.C.
the acceptance of very obvious pri
a are s for peace to bring success forced labor which Russia's con
Now -thi
perhaps. is an un- vate and social responsibilities. It
to its new world building.
' j victs supply.
happy issue to;raise in the Christ- broadened our knowledge of ou1
MOTOYE
mas columns of The New Cana
Thus the Red Dean's sincere be-|
“The whol
machinery of pro dian. It would be nice to shut our country’—perhaps no ethnic group
lief. His advocacy of communism- ductive.. activity’ in the Soviet
(.Continued on Page 11)
minds upon the newspaper head
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real spirit of Christmas a continu Sa Happy “New Year I
si
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:1 ing force in. the world is a sure
a
symptom of our basic awareness
MR. & MRS.
of its full meaning. Few of us can
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lives are concerned. airs
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with the world. Or
think .t true ?hat
From
gone a !ong
■, especially ip
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nomic status, sinice The Ne^c
dian first be^sn Publication ju•an
decade ago. I ■think u very’ ;
& MRS. JOE HOMMA
too, That our enforced eaU, ■ip
and FAMILY’
migration is in
■Pleasure ■
Greenwood, B.C.
sponsible
for thi.
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THE TALL, gauntly’ - majestic as such, and by’ implication the Union is geared for the production
a
opened up vocational oonon^T
MR. & MRS.
figure spoke with moving sincer- Russian brand of it, is phrased in of heavy industrial goods, of ma to us in such number and va^
SHINY’A TATEYAMA
l
ity.
The expressive face,
in terms of a direct and compelling terials to be poured into the maw that today we accept as conu^
Greenwood, B.C.
/i a halo of snowy-white hair, gave appeal to fundamental Christian of Mars, the God of War. And we place what would have been n%v’
MR. & MRS. J. E. FUKUI - Yi to him the authority of teacher principle. It is, perhaps, on those prisoners, political and war, were worthy and talkworthy in
and JUDY’
days on the British Columbia coas
and prophet. His bearing sug- j grounds, difficult to contradict.
■made to work under a diabolically
Greenwood, B.C.
But we must also admit that in
gestgd the importance of his mis
But by odd chance a few day’s cunning system, at the least ex
our
society today, improved eco
. TOSH SEKI
sion to further the cause of world later there came to me a vastly’ penditure with the maximum of
FUKUYE SEKI
nomic
status Is at best a fra^h
peace. .His message was of com different kind of message. A, report efficiency’ to keep this program accomplishment. A period ’of d?
MASAYUKI SEKI
moving.
Greenwood, B.C.
munism. a compound of economic on the Soviet Union from an even
pression might quickly- wip- «
“Gross inequalities are a multi
doctrine and religious principle, a more direct source, the observa
MR. & MRS.
many of our gains. What seems to
tude. Thus in Soviet Russia the
DAVID PRIESTMAN
me to be so much more important
torch to light the highway’ to the tions of a three-year stay spent,
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better world.
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on the inside of the “iron curtain," cluding, of course, the Kremlin have won as manuring individual.
and the
Communist What progress have we made in
SS
This was the
Rev.
Hewlett without -benefit of -guided -tours autocrats
RUTH and JEAN TANO
Party
—
live
in
the
laps
of luxury.
Johnson, the famous “Red Dean.” and planned display’s.
■our. capacity for individual- re.
It is specifically for them that all
sponsibility and judgment? How
Kamloops, B.C.
on his speaking -tour of Canada.
The report came in the form of the great cultural achievements of
far
has the extension of out phy
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HARRY TANAKA
sical
world been accompanied by
pion.; of Soviet Russia and Rus-.; Nisei, a university’ graduate in boast are maintained. On the
a
widening
of mental horizon^
sian communism, -the Dean has; English, who had been imprisoned ;pther hand, the worker, in whose
Kamloops, B.C.
What
progress
have we made A
won a wide audience because of by’ the Russians while working as name the ‘Vlast’ rules, lives in
developing
an
improving
system Ol
his status as a high official of -the a civilian newspaperman in Man utter misery. In the majority of
KATHLEEN LANG
£
•private
and
social
values?
Church of England. The night I churia in 1945. For three years homes that I visited, there are no
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157 Seymour Street W.
went to hear him speak, Ais mes after the war he had been held in lights, no sinks, no running water,
"These would seem to be fair
Kamloops, B.C.
sage was a familiar one.
camp, with thousands of Japanese no plumbing, no modern .con questions, if only to test our com
2 In the Soviet Union, as he had prisoners-pf-war. But with a flair veniences.
placency.
And I am inclined to'
HELEN R, HURD
s
for
languages,
he
learned
to
speak,
feel
that
the
answers on the whole
ri
seen it. he said, the Russians are
P.O. Box 398
Without bread for the day. theread
and
write
Russian
and
acted
may well be encouraging. The
Prince Rupert, B.C.
establishing a new order of bro
as an interpreter for his fellows laborer roundly curses, and with, evacuation experience and all that
therhood
and
economic
security,
MR. & MRS. GEORGE
the curse, steals some wood—state has occurred since has been an in
of common ownership by all the while they labored on many con- property
1CHIZO NISHIMURA
well aware that if tensely’ personal affair for each
and FAMILY’
people of-all the means of wealth. struction projects, He writes a
P.O. Box 294
■
caught
it
means
at least five years, one of us. To escape the impact of
They’ are creating a state where black indictment of the Russia he
Kamloops, B.C.
and goes .off to sell it in the black some of its lessons would have
saw
and
knew.
discrimination becau. e of creed
market bazaars, ubiquitous institu been hard.
and
’ colour"— i
unknown, -where
“Russia.” says his letter, “is on
DR. M. MIYAZAKI
tions
of
the
Soviet
Union.
“man's 'inhumanity’ to man" is be big prison camp. One half of the
It has indicated to us, for in
Throughout
this
misery,
the
Rus
Lillooet,
B.C.
$
ing eliminated, where extremes of population is occupied in keeping
sian lives stoically, with a hero- stance, just how important a scale
ostentatious wealth and
direst watch over the other half. It is
of . moral values actually’ is. In in
ism that is almost astounding.”
MR. & MRS. SEIJI ONIZUKA
poverty’ are unknown. It is a new difficult to paint the whole pano
numerable ways it suggested to tu
Thus these versions of Russian the fruitful results
order closely’ akin to the greatest rama of conditions as they exist
Midway, B.C.
close. co
•ommunism
at . home, and of the operative effort.
religious
teachings
of
all
ages.
It.
today but it can be said that the
g
Resettlement has
is ,the principle, of ^Christianity be main basis of the present Five- Soviet Union's hopes for. world imposed upon countless Nisei the.
REV. & MRS.
ing put to practice? And the Soviet Year Plan depends for its execu peace.
necessity for mature decisions, and
Union's great need and great de- tion upon the inexhaustible pool of
New Denver, B.C.
the acceptance of very obvious pri
a are s for peace to bring success forced labor which Russia's con
Now -thi
perhaps. is an un- vate and social responsibilities. It
to its new world building.
' j victs supply.
happy issue to;raise in the Christ- broadened our knowledge of ou1
MOTOYE
mas columns of The New Cana
Thus the Red Dean's sincere be-|
“The whol
machinery of pro dian. It would be nice to shut our country’—perhaps no ethnic group
lief. His advocacy of communism- ductive.. activity’ in the Soviet
(.Continued on Page 11)
minds upon the newspaper head
P
lines, and go back to the loved
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^
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MRS. FUJIYE IWASAKI
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story
of the birth of the Prince of
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vast
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WE WISH to thank you for.^
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your patronage during theji
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wish one and»
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Perhaps our anxiety- to keep the Kall—A Merry Christmas and^
and FAMILY
P.O. Box 879
Vernon,
real spirit of Christmas a continu Sa Happy “New Year I
si
Hill.
:1 ing force in. the world is a sure
a
symptom of our basic awareness
MR. & MRS.
of its full meaning. Few of us can
LLEWELLYN C. FLETCHER
&
be so adept at self-deception as to
I tf:
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be unconscious of the tragic ab’ GREETINGS
Ocean Falls. B.C.
i
sence
of peace and goodwill abroad
’riI
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FROM
in
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world today. Perhaps we
and FAMILY’
g
do not need any’ reminders of this.Okanagan Centre. B.C.
■a
&
TONY KOBAYASHI
^®rhaPs^ too, a brief attempt
H
a., ^defining the issue we face will &
MR. & MRS. BUD AKIYAMA
Greetings
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of
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the
past
ten
MR.
HIGASHIDA
years.
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1535 W. 5th Avenue
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There is a very complacent feel
Vancouver, B.C,
ri R
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Adlans' is .better-travelled in Sovier
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most of us endured and., surcrucial
key
to
the
. d a series of corrosive reCHARLES NAKAMURA
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without permanent psycho- time.
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’ development of powers of
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front
with
special
inter;
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of the day
Pad-;S
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conflict is clearly centred over
lock
law.
the
cancellation
of
citi- j ^ Y. HOSOKAWA
vould be foolish to attempt the self-same democratic values
anv sort of appraisal of the
union worke
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peace. The forces op the past ten years of Nisei expe-;
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home. And apart from the type
could possibly- hold, our i
soning passion fed on ignor-| of jnjusti
slice visited upon Individ
million Canadians could | unrea;
verve
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or
even upon groups of in- j
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a
very
attack
upon
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be
trampled
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and
freedoms
shall
end-uring “peace on earth”
31 d an
is
,
। institution, and tenets of political
it
without. a positive response from upon, whether great ano needless ! democracy weakens the possibiliu
blocs of . today. injustice 'be visited upon large j ties for constructive, democratic j
the .AV o great power
rlv though neither the people
groups of innocent citizens.
!
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s
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Long before Pearl Har- T
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hum. Thus
xuu^ our
vu. voluntary ।
cent of the 'hate-the-Japs” cam- co-operation in special registration
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Bar Association to the Seafarers' | whether deliberately designed for
International Union, from Mr. Hall reactionary ends, or as incidental
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to Mr. Drew, the great Red hunt to an anti-communist measure. It
is hard enough to combat the
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cunning, financed and directed by difficult, wrapped up and clothed
FROM
a foreign power! As the cold wai as it is in the patterns of emotion,
intolerance
and
prejudice.
goes on in Europe and in Asia,
Perhaps as Nisei Canadians we
2
feeling will continue to rise and
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the cry to swell—with the daily were fortunate enough to develop
oning and powpress (with rare exceptions) giv a faculty for
Rcvelstoke,
B.C.
ers of judgment in enduring a
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ing back the faithful echo.
campaign
that called a man a
But how familiar the ring of the
Map” and thus condemned him. If
words! From 1938 until only yes
KAMLOOPS, B.C. J
terday. evei’y Nisei from the West so we can put these faculties io
VICTORIA STREET
good
use
in
resisting
any
campaign
Coast was on the receiving end of
MR. & MRS. T. NIMI
an identical campaign. We woke designed to call a man a "Red” and
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to join in the tom-tomming than
PETER NIMI
the communists themselves.
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I do not mean to suggest a de «
fence of communism in any way.
Nor
of communists engaged in any
54 Cathcart Street
act duly adjudged as against the S
Hamilton, Ont.
law of the land or of active threat
to our national security. I think
they are basically wrong in their
tc
aporoach to the problem of human 2
progress. For. if a slight digiession is permitted, although I do
-<u-ee that our economic society is
DR. & MRS. H.
in urgent need of drastic overhaul
KAMITAKAHARA
I cannot feel that the communist.
method — the seizure of political
■power by revolutionary mean
TAKASHI, and ATSUSHI
succeeded by
an authoritarian
$
‘•dictatorship of the -proletariat
is either necessary or progressive
in the long run. On the coritary.
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’ development of powers of
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like
to
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standing and judgment, and io a new
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home
front
with
special
inter;
the
the broader.-, urgent isP
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est to Nisei Canadians. For here
of the day
Pad-;S
i painfully familiar. Quebec
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conflict is clearly centred over
lock
law.
the
cancellation
of
citi- j ^ Y. HOSOKAWA
vould be foolish to attempt the self-same democratic values
anv sort of appraisal of the
union worke
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ensmp of
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111 •
our
impasse
and
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sen
md their extreme
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peace. The forces op the past ten years of Nisei expe-;
for
en
tences. the fascist political dema
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home. And apart from the type
could possibly- hold, our i
soning passion fed on ignor-| of jnjusti
slice visited upon Individ
million Canadians could | unrea;
verve
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or
even upon groups of in- j
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ely channel these forces to- ance and intolerance, basic
a
very
attack
upon
the
be
trampled
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and
freedoms
shall
end-uring “peace on earth”
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is
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। institution, and tenets of political
it
without. a positive response from upon, whether great ano needless ! democracy weakens the possibiliu
blocs of . today. injustice 'be visited upon large j ties for constructive, democratic j
the .AV o great power
rlv though neither the people
groups of innocent citizens.
!
No doubt precaution
s
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xuu^ our
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£
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International Union, from Mr. Hall reactionary ends, or as incidental
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to Mr. Drew, the great Red hunt to an anti-communist measure. It
is hard enough to combat the
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FROM
a foreign power! As the cold wai as it is in the patterns of emotion,
intolerance
and
prejudice.
goes on in Europe and in Asia,
Perhaps as Nisei Canadians we
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feeling will continue to rise and
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the cry to swell—with the daily were fortunate enough to develop
oning and powpress (with rare exceptions) giv a faculty for
Rcvelstoke,
B.C.
ers of judgment in enduring a
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ing back the faithful echo.
campaign
that called a man a
But how familiar the ring of the
Map” and thus condemned him. If
words! From 1938 until only yes
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terday. evei’y Nisei from the West so we can put these faculties io
VICTORIA STREET
good
use
in
resisting
any
campaign
Coast was on the receiving end of
MR. & MRS. T. NIMI
an identical campaign. We woke designed to call a man a "Red” and
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to hear the charges in the morning automatically condemn him.
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and went to bed with them at
1 night,
And, to be sure, no one
s was more prompt or vociferous
Season’s Greetings
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2
435 VICTORIA STREET
KAMLOOPS. B.C.
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Room 12, Lee Bldg.
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to join in the tom-tomming than
PETER NIMI
the communists themselves.
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BOBBY’ NIMI
I do not mean to suggest a de «
fence of communism in any way.
Nor
of communists engaged in any
54 Cathcart Street
act duly adjudged as against the S
Hamilton, Ont.
law of the land or of active threat
to our national security. I think
they are basically wrong in their
tc
aporoach to the problem of human 2
progress. For. if a slight digiession is permitted, although I do
-<u-ee that our economic society is
DR. & MRS. H.
in urgent need of drastic overhaul
KAMITAKAHARA
I cannot feel that the communist.
method — the seizure of political
■power by revolutionary mean
TAKASHI, and ATSUSHI
succeeded by
an authoritarian
$
‘•dictatorship of the -proletariat
is either necessary or progressive
in the long run. On the coritary.
Greenwoodj. B.C.
w
a I do feel that the “liberal. *ho be
Beves in the slow advancement of
man through the exercise of indi
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BEST YARD GOODS SELECTION
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0 Victoria Street
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and FAMILY
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Christmas in Tokyo
1937
Is Nevertheless Clouded with Loneliness
arounc. in Tokyo were • crossed the Pacific just for a vacto Japan. Some had ; a-ion £nd ?.-s = "urning to Te
nuay and orners ’■
sg
some
ublv
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wno escortea
rearming girls were from :
.ame small city in British Col
.. ou ve
oence
C
la. We had all gone through
;c school and high school toand
were
of i
es. Bill had gone to .Japan
after graduating from high
ooi and had been studying the
g or. t teir
".■g up on s=-ir Japa^^e
by
stress language for about five
■ years, ‘iom and I had
* 1 , Canada arm went to Japan in the
o-do
Having
r in -fall of 1937 for a combined pleasla it was a rare treat' to have ; ure £-2 opportunity-seeking trip,
mem in Japan. The other girl : It was really a grand reunion that
ho
rrived in Japan :
time. She had;
i
."th Bill, and 'this Chris'
Tais is how we spent that Christtrl ; mas oay in Tokyo. In the after| i noon we went to the Hibiya Gekijo
^jj (
eason
Greenwood Meat Market
Jon Onodera
any mat the best restaurants in everyone seems to catch the spirit
Toronto are capable of serving. TVe of it in an unexplainable way. The
had everything from hors d'oeu gaily decorated store windows, the
vres and bouillion to roast turkey hustle and bustle of last minute
with cranberry sauce and plum shoppers, the wonderful spirit of
pudding. On top of all this a whole •goodwill, and the beautiful Christ
P.O. BOX 395
broiled lobster was thrown in for mas music—all these go to make a
GREENWOOD, B.C.
good measure. ’What a dinner! truly symbolic Christmas. These
There were enough left-overs for were the things which were so
another banquet by the time we sadly lacking in that Christmas of
"S xre nve ‘°°^ some pictures in beaugot
no our cotree and cigarettes. 1937.
tiful Hibya
Hinivs Park.
(Port For some un
tiful
And
what service! A waiter hover
§ .-mown reason I was carrving
In all the months that I spent in
ed
over
each one of us throughout
| Tom's camera in my pocket as we
And Best Wishes for the Comin
Japan I -was never so homesick for
the whole dinner filling our glass
M ^"”^ unto the Hibiya Theatre,
Canada as I was during that month
es
each time -we took a sip. Then
g -“^-er i,he snow. I went to put on
of December. True, rhe Niseis cele
a!my coat outside the theatre and came the surprise of the evening— brated the occasion with parties
^ guess what? No camera! I rushed our check. For that feast fit for a among their own group but some
KEN, HIRO
back into the theatre to see if I king we were only charged 2 yen how when the general populace
and MRS. MUKAI
rad left, it on the seat. Accompan 50 sen per person which was .wasn't in the same spirit of good
equivalent to about 65 cents Can
ied by the usher I ■.-went
-went back to the
will toward all men. it just didn't
Box 422
adian
at that time.
Greenwood. B.C. 3 row in -which my seat was located.
feel like Christmas. There were
'1-After s^PPing on ^ toes of half
After the sumptuous dinner, we no ’Christmas trees in the homes,
went
for a stroll down the Ginza nor children playing with their
I a dozen people and apologizing to
until
it
was time to go dancing at Christmas gifts under the tree: no
^ ! ss maay more, I finally' reached my
the
Shimbashi
Dance Hall, Thus, Santa Claus nor Christmas carols.
SU seat only to find a big. fat grouchywith
an
evening
of enjoyable danc
looking character seated there
There’s no place like Canada
completely absorbed in the picture. ing ended a perfect Christmas Day. "our home and native land” when
In a Hurry?
And yet paradoxical as it may it comes to Christmas. It's a good
In my pidgin-Japanese I tried to
Less -waiting now with
seem,
the Christmas of 1937 was thing Irving Berlin hadn't written
explain
to
him
that
;I
had
lost
a
our fast and reliable
camera. A hurried search despite one of the loneliest I have ever White. Christmas at that time: I
dry cleaning service.
the violent (protests (from the an experienced. The wonderful tiring would have been even more home
noyed occupant revealing nothing. about Christmas in Canada is that sick.
I beat a hasty, and embarrassing
K. NAKAGAWA
' I retreat.
BOX 535
The others were waiting for me
GREENWOOD, B.C.
outside the theatre. As we walked
the several blocks up to the Ginza
eason
and along to the Olympic Grill, we
discussed the disappearance of the
May Your Christmas Be Gay
camera and came to the conclusion
And the New Year
that I had been the victim of a
pickpocket. Unifortunate as it was.
Bright with Happiness
it did not dampen our Christmas
spirit too much.
Our Christmas dinner at the
Olympic was equal or superior to
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GROCERIES
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Bank of Commerce Building, Toronto
|i- (tneatre) to see Deanna Durbin
» ] and Leopold Stokowski in “A Hun£7! dred Men and a Girl". After thor| ( oughly enjoying the movie we
^ i came out of the theatre with the
^ I hundreds of other people who had
fi gone in about the same time.
crowd iwas someone
H who was to add the only note of
«. disappointment to an otherwise
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MAS MASATSUGU IMAI
TO OUR FRIENDS
AND PATRONS
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and
FROM
the
Un
P.O. Box 579
Mercantile
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New Denver. B.C.
MURAKAMI & ONO, SAWMILL
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1937
Is Nevertheless Clouded with Loneliness
arounc. in Tokyo were • crossed the Pacific just for a vacto Japan. Some had ; a-ion £nd ?.-s = "urning to Te
nuay and orners ’■
sg
some
ublv
o s
wno escortea
rearming girls were from :
.ame small city in British Col
.. ou ve
oence
C
la. We had all gone through
;c school and high school toand
were
of i
es. Bill had gone to .Japan
after graduating from high
ooi and had been studying the
g or. t teir
".■g up on s=-ir Japa^^e
by
stress language for about five
■ years, ‘iom and I had
* 1 , Canada arm went to Japan in the
o-do
Having
r in -fall of 1937 for a combined pleasla it was a rare treat' to have ; ure £-2 opportunity-seeking trip,
mem in Japan. The other girl : It was really a grand reunion that
ho
rrived in Japan :
time. She had;
i
."th Bill, and 'this Chris'
Tais is how we spent that Christtrl ; mas oay in Tokyo. In the after| i noon we went to the Hibiya Gekijo
^jj (
eason
Greenwood Meat Market
Jon Onodera
any mat the best restaurants in everyone seems to catch the spirit
Toronto are capable of serving. TVe of it in an unexplainable way. The
had everything from hors d'oeu gaily decorated store windows, the
vres and bouillion to roast turkey hustle and bustle of last minute
with cranberry sauce and plum shoppers, the wonderful spirit of
pudding. On top of all this a whole •goodwill, and the beautiful Christ
P.O. BOX 395
broiled lobster was thrown in for mas music—all these go to make a
GREENWOOD, B.C.
good measure. ’What a dinner! truly symbolic Christmas. These
There were enough left-overs for were the things which were so
another banquet by the time we sadly lacking in that Christmas of
"S xre nve ‘°°^ some pictures in beaugot
no our cotree and cigarettes. 1937.
tiful Hibya
Hinivs Park.
(Port For some un
tiful
And
what service! A waiter hover
§ .-mown reason I was carrving
In all the months that I spent in
ed
over
each one of us throughout
| Tom's camera in my pocket as we
And Best Wishes for the Comin
Japan I -was never so homesick for
the whole dinner filling our glass
M ^"”^ unto the Hibiya Theatre,
Canada as I was during that month
es
each time -we took a sip. Then
g -“^-er i,he snow. I went to put on
of December. True, rhe Niseis cele
a!my coat outside the theatre and came the surprise of the evening— brated the occasion with parties
^ guess what? No camera! I rushed our check. For that feast fit for a among their own group but some
KEN, HIRO
back into the theatre to see if I king we were only charged 2 yen how when the general populace
and MRS. MUKAI
rad left, it on the seat. Accompan 50 sen per person which was .wasn't in the same spirit of good
equivalent to about 65 cents Can
ied by the usher I ■.-went
-went back to the
will toward all men. it just didn't
Box 422
adian
at that time.
Greenwood. B.C. 3 row in -which my seat was located.
feel like Christmas. There were
'1-After s^PPing on ^ toes of half
After the sumptuous dinner, we no ’Christmas trees in the homes,
went
for a stroll down the Ginza nor children playing with their
I a dozen people and apologizing to
until
it
was time to go dancing at Christmas gifts under the tree: no
^ ! ss maay more, I finally' reached my
the
Shimbashi
Dance Hall, Thus, Santa Claus nor Christmas carols.
SU seat only to find a big. fat grouchywith
an
evening
of enjoyable danc
looking character seated there
There’s no place like Canada
completely absorbed in the picture. ing ended a perfect Christmas Day. "our home and native land” when
In a Hurry?
And yet paradoxical as it may it comes to Christmas. It's a good
In my pidgin-Japanese I tried to
Less -waiting now with
seem,
the Christmas of 1937 was thing Irving Berlin hadn't written
explain
to
him
that
;I
had
lost
a
our fast and reliable
camera. A hurried search despite one of the loneliest I have ever White. Christmas at that time: I
dry cleaning service.
the violent (protests (from the an experienced. The wonderful tiring would have been even more home
noyed occupant revealing nothing. about Christmas in Canada is that sick.
I beat a hasty, and embarrassing
K. NAKAGAWA
' I retreat.
BOX 535
The others were waiting for me
GREENWOOD, B.C.
outside the theatre. As we walked
the several blocks up to the Ginza
eason
and along to the Olympic Grill, we
discussed the disappearance of the
May Your Christmas Be Gay
camera and came to the conclusion
And the New Year
that I had been the victim of a
pickpocket. Unifortunate as it was.
Bright with Happiness
it did not dampen our Christmas
spirit too much.
Our Christmas dinner at the
Olympic was equal or superior to
QUALITY MEATS - FRESH FISH
GROCERIES
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
f
Bank of Commerce Building, Toronto
|i- (tneatre) to see Deanna Durbin
» ] and Leopold Stokowski in “A Hun£7! dred Men and a Girl". After thor| ( oughly enjoying the movie we
^ i came out of the theatre with the
^ I hundreds of other people who had
fi gone in about the same time.
crowd iwas someone
H who was to add the only note of
«. disappointment to an otherwise
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And a Happy and
HEADQUARTERS:
TO MY FRIENDS
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SHOE STORE
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Quality Boots and Shoes
mat
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RAYTOM KIYOSHI IMAI
JINX FL’S AO IMAI
EDDIE EHCHI IMAI
MAS MASATSUGU IMAI
TO OUR FRIENDS
AND PATRONS
eajon j
and
FROM
the
Un
P.O. Box 579
Mercantile
CLARKE (Prop.)
New Denver. B.C.
MURAKAMI & ONO, SAWMILL
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EVER SINCE Taro was old ; other girls too as he rode on the
enough to docige street cars on ■ street car each day to and from
MONTREAL
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into
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head such words of tUsdom as!and he imagined himself dating
"work
hard.”
"save
every:; the blonde in the next building,
Anr. 5. 57S0 Darlington Ave.
penny.■■ "don't smoke,” "don't j• and even making love to her.
Montreal 26, P.Q.
"don't go around with i
He began to neglect going to
5
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girls.'
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go
to
church
every'
Sun•CHRlSTmflS &
church where, he told himself,
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old
maids
went
anyway.
S’
JIMMY H. HORIUCHI
$
Taro was a "good" boy to his Instead, he began to go to mov
1261 Everett St., Apt. S,
aMontreal, P.Q.
behaved, obedient ies more often and saw handsome
% mo cher—well-But
to some others men make Pronate love to
and
thrifty,
UR. & MRS. SHOZO TOMITA
^
he
was
a
GEORGE TOMITA
O’
maladjusted mama's beautiful screen heroines. Taro
\va tched carefully in an effort to
^ boy. a tightwad, a jerk.
9777 St. Charles Ave.
R. FUJII and T. TvIORI
~
P^k
up the technique of makingMontreal, P.Q.
It was no surprise to those ; lov
MR. & MRS.
who knew him when the first i
For a while Taro was content
BUN JIRO OHASHI
thing Taro did after coming to !
KAZUKO OHASHI
to
just daydream as he loaded
the big city was to head for the ’
6173 Bannantyne Avenue
I nearest church. A kindly' min- I and unloaded stock, made out
Montreal 19. P.Q.
iter gave him reference, and Ire ; shipping tags. etc., but he g■rad101E QUEEN STREET WEST
MR. & SIRS. I. NISHIO
was soon punching the time ually became more and more
REI, and KAZ
clock at seven each morning- in restless.
7391-C Denormanville St.
WA. 6953
TORONTO
As he emerged from the movMontreal 10, P.Q.
a glove factory and was beingpaid $18 a week.
' ies and saw real life couples
MR. & MRS. F. MORISAKI
He lived frugally, cooking his j strolling arm in arm. he felt
h
6533—13tli Avenue
U
meals in the hall way on a gas i terribly depressed.
Rosemount,.
At nights he found it more
Montreal. P.O.
plate which he shared with four i
difficult
to go to sleep, and he
other people.
MR.
&
MRS.
I.
IKEBUCHI
lay
awake
making plans on how
F
He worked hard and began to
r
he
would
get
to know the blonde.
1249 St. Elizabeth Street
save money, while the other
o
Montreal 18, P.Q.
And although his plans were
factory hands thought him a
ingeniously thought out, they
sucker.
ST. RAPHAEL'S HOUSE
MK. & MRS. S. YAMAMOTO
never reached the point of actual
KANAME.
f
In a couple of years, however,
r
AMY, and BETTY’
execution.
YOU
Taro was promoted to assistant
7374 Chambord St., Apt. 6
One day', quite unexpectedly.
ew i ear
the
Montreal. P.Q.
shipping clerk with a few dollars
Taro got a letter from his moth
increase in pay.
3467 Ontario Avenue
er which told him to come home
YOSHI SUZUKI
One day as Taro sat on a
4
Montreal, P.Q.
Uy
to Slocan. The. letter suggested M
box in the stock room eating the
5280 Ponsard Avenue
that there was a wonderful girl RMontreal. P.Q.
cheese sandwiches he had made
M
there and it was time Taro-had
himself, he happened to glance
settled down. Taro boarded the
MR. & MRS. HERBY TANAKA
out the window and noticed a
and FAMILY
first train West, and he was
cute blonde looking at him from
Best Wishes from
soon married to the girl.
6269 St. Dominique St.
the window of the adjoining
Montreal, P.Q.
Today Taro has three kids and
building.
has been promoted to full-fledg
SIR. & SIRS.
Taro was startled and em- ed shipping clerk at $35 per
SADAICHI HIRAYAMA
To prevent further
barrassed.
week.
5190 ■ Iberville St. (No. 4)
such
encounters,
he piled some
Montreal 36, P.Q.
boxes in front of the window.
H
&
MRS.
S.
KADONAGA
MR.
Then he discovered that he could
1;
h
36 Summit Circle
Season’s Greetings from
$ look out between the boxes and
Westmount
see the girl without being seen
Montreal, P.Q.
CROW CREEK, ONTARIO
himself.
Although troubled by
GO1BCHI OGURA
a guilty feeling, he nevertheless
VIC OGURA
enjoyed the peeking and it be
3505 Lorne Avenue
came a regular pastime.
Montreal. P.Q.
As he looked at the blonde -in
the
next building day after day.
MR. & MRS.'
JUICHIKO IWASAKI
he began to notice more things
about her.
She was fond of
5870 Bannantyne Avenue
HAMILTON, ONTARIO
Verdun. P.Q.
sporty blouses and skirts.
She
had a cute feminine hairdo. She
FROM
GEORGE KADO-HAMA
wore
a
bright-colored
lipstick.
1Z
and FAMILY
Then Taro began to notice
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during the past year
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Japanese Canadian Citizens Ass’n
HAMILTON
Season’s Greetings
The Lakehead Nisei Club
6265 10th Avenue
Rosemont. P.Q.
MR. & AIRS. MASAO TSUYUKI
JEANNINE.
DONALD A,
and ADOLINe
5752 Jeanne d'Arc
Montreal. P.Q.
?!
MOSSY
31.
SEASON’S GREETINGS
FORT WILLIAM, ONT.
:^^»s
SUGIE
3469 St. Lawrence Blvd.
Montreal. P-Q-
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h
Japanese Canadian Citizens Ass’n
SUGIE
SAM
3469 St. Lawrence Blvd.
Montreal, P.Q.
& MRS.
MR.
Winnipeg, Manitoba
S. NOSE
5325 Victoria Avenue
Montreal 26. P.Q.
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IRS.
KINA KUWABARA
and FAMILY
5268
Esplanade Avenue
Montreal. P.Q.
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President:
Secretary:
HAROLD HIROSE
BILL SASAKI
68 Kate Street. Winnipeg
12 Dundurn Place. Winnipeg
AYA. and TOYOKO
G.
MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL
2708 Rosemount Blvd.
Montreal. P.Q.
iPeterTKaraisUj | SEASON’S
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Sincerely wishes his
many
policyholders
and friends ail the
joys of a
Merry Christmas
and a Prosperous
New Year
£
GREETINGS
............................
SEIJI HOMMA (B.C.)
KAR KOBAYASHI (B.C.i
BILL SASAKI (Man.)
IAICHI UMEZUK1 (Man. i
FRED NOG .AMI (Ont. >
MAS SUNADA -Alta TOM TAMAKI iSa.= £.»
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MEMBERS
O Ft All r vJITA
^MONARCH LIFE
CO
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TOM SHOYAMA
EDWARD IDE (Ont.)
"ONY KOBAYASHI (S.C.i
HIROSHI OKUDA < Que.)
President. ..............................
First Vice President .
Second Vice President
Treasurer
ii
THE ONTARIO DISTRICT COUNCIL I
THE NATIONAL
JAPANESE CANADIAN CITIZENS ASS N
TAKASHI "TOD” ONO
MR.
ea^on
Toronto. Ont.
2 Moutray St.. Toronto
K. SHIMIZU
1253
OIKAWA
* '
OF THE
(Que.;
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
KUNIO HIDAKA
TOM SAGAHA
I. UCHIDA
T. KAMEOKA.
I. KAWAJIRI
MICKEY SATO
T. UMEZUKI
GEORGE
TANAKA
Tar© Gets a Wife
»
Greetings 5
6
5
A STORE By M. H.
§
JS
EVER SINCE Taro was old ; other girls too as he rode on the
enough to docige street cars on ■ street car each day to and from
MONTREAL
J?
rowell Stuei. his motnei had । woric
He began to davdream.
$
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pounded
into
ms
egg-shaped
1
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head such words of tUsdom as!and he imagined himself dating
"work
hard.”
"save
every:; the blonde in the next building,
Anr. 5. 57S0 Darlington Ave.
penny.■■ "don't smoke,” "don't j• and even making love to her.
Montreal 26, P.Q.
"don't go around with i
He began to neglect going to
5
MR. & MRS.
girls.'
‘
go
to
church
every'
Sun•CHRlSTmflS &
church where, he told himself,
YOSAKU HORIUCHI
day.”
$
RALPH A. HORIUCHI
only
old
maids
went
anyway.
S’
JIMMY H. HORIUCHI
$
Taro was a "good" boy to his Instead, he began to go to mov
1261 Everett St., Apt. S,
aMontreal, P.Q.
behaved, obedient ies more often and saw handsome
% mo cher—well-But
to some others men make Pronate love to
and
thrifty,
UR. & MRS. SHOZO TOMITA
^
he
was
a
GEORGE TOMITA
O’
maladjusted mama's beautiful screen heroines. Taro
\va tched carefully in an effort to
^ boy. a tightwad, a jerk.
9777 St. Charles Ave.
R. FUJII and T. TvIORI
~
P^k
up the technique of makingMontreal, P.Q.
It was no surprise to those ; lov
MR. & MRS.
who knew him when the first i
For a while Taro was content
BUN JIRO OHASHI
thing Taro did after coming to !
KAZUKO OHASHI
to
just daydream as he loaded
the big city was to head for the ’
6173 Bannantyne Avenue
I nearest church. A kindly' min- I and unloaded stock, made out
Montreal 19. P.Q.
iter gave him reference, and Ire ; shipping tags. etc., but he g■rad101E QUEEN STREET WEST
MR. & SIRS. I. NISHIO
was soon punching the time ually became more and more
REI, and KAZ
clock at seven each morning- in restless.
7391-C Denormanville St.
WA. 6953
TORONTO
As he emerged from the movMontreal 10, P.Q.
a glove factory and was beingpaid $18 a week.
' ies and saw real life couples
MR. & MRS. F. MORISAKI
He lived frugally, cooking his j strolling arm in arm. he felt
h
6533—13tli Avenue
U
meals in the hall way on a gas i terribly depressed.
Rosemount,.
At nights he found it more
Montreal. P.O.
plate which he shared with four i
difficult
to go to sleep, and he
other people.
MR.
&
MRS.
I.
IKEBUCHI
lay
awake
making plans on how
F
He worked hard and began to
r
he
would
get
to know the blonde.
1249 St. Elizabeth Street
save money, while the other
o
Montreal 18, P.Q.
And although his plans were
factory hands thought him a
ingeniously thought out, they
sucker.
ST. RAPHAEL'S HOUSE
MK. & MRS. S. YAMAMOTO
never reached the point of actual
KANAME.
f
In a couple of years, however,
r
AMY, and BETTY’
execution.
YOU
Taro was promoted to assistant
7374 Chambord St., Apt. 6
One day', quite unexpectedly.
ew i ear
the
Montreal. P.Q.
shipping clerk with a few dollars
Taro got a letter from his moth
increase in pay.
3467 Ontario Avenue
er which told him to come home
YOSHI SUZUKI
One day as Taro sat on a
4
Montreal, P.Q.
Uy
to Slocan. The. letter suggested M
box in the stock room eating the
5280 Ponsard Avenue
that there was a wonderful girl RMontreal. P.Q.
cheese sandwiches he had made
M
there and it was time Taro-had
himself, he happened to glance
settled down. Taro boarded the
MR. & MRS. HERBY TANAKA
out the window and noticed a
and FAMILY
first train West, and he was
cute blonde looking at him from
Best Wishes from
soon married to the girl.
6269 St. Dominique St.
the window of the adjoining
Montreal, P.Q.
Today Taro has three kids and
building.
has been promoted to full-fledg
SIR. & SIRS.
Taro was startled and em- ed shipping clerk at $35 per
SADAICHI HIRAYAMA
To prevent further
barrassed.
week.
5190 ■ Iberville St. (No. 4)
such
encounters,
he piled some
Montreal 36, P.Q.
boxes in front of the window.
H
&
MRS.
S.
KADONAGA
MR.
Then he discovered that he could
1;
h
36 Summit Circle
Season’s Greetings from
$ look out between the boxes and
Westmount
see the girl without being seen
Montreal, P.Q.
CROW CREEK, ONTARIO
himself.
Although troubled by
GO1BCHI OGURA
a guilty feeling, he nevertheless
VIC OGURA
enjoyed the peeking and it be
3505 Lorne Avenue
came a regular pastime.
Montreal. P.Q.
As he looked at the blonde -in
the
next building day after day.
MR. & MRS.'
JUICHIKO IWASAKI
he began to notice more things
about her.
She was fond of
5870 Bannantyne Avenue
HAMILTON, ONTARIO
Verdun. P.Q.
sporty blouses and skirts.
She
had a cute feminine hairdo. She
FROM
GEORGE KADO-HAMA
wore
a
bright-colored
lipstick.
1Z
and FAMILY
Then Taro began to notice
£
«
m£RRV
Sincere thinks for your patronage
during the past year
5
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KAPUSKASING
Japanese Canadian Citizens Ass’n
HAMILTON
Season’s Greetings
The Lakehead Nisei Club
6265 10th Avenue
Rosemont. P.Q.
MR. & AIRS. MASAO TSUYUKI
JEANNINE.
DONALD A,
and ADOLINe
5752 Jeanne d'Arc
Montreal. P.Q.
?!
MOSSY
31.
SEASON’S GREETINGS
FORT WILLIAM, ONT.
:^^»s
SUGIE
3469 St. Lawrence Blvd.
Montreal. P-Q-
a
h
Japanese Canadian Citizens Ass’n
SUGIE
SAM
3469 St. Lawrence Blvd.
Montreal, P.Q.
& MRS.
MR.
Winnipeg, Manitoba
S. NOSE
5325 Victoria Avenue
Montreal 26. P.Q.
h
IRS.
KINA KUWABARA
and FAMILY
5268
Esplanade Avenue
Montreal. P.Q.
p
t
H
President:
Secretary:
HAROLD HIROSE
BILL SASAKI
68 Kate Street. Winnipeg
12 Dundurn Place. Winnipeg
AYA. and TOYOKO
G.
MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL
2708 Rosemount Blvd.
Montreal. P.Q.
iPeterTKaraisUj | SEASON’S
u
a
Sincerely wishes his
many
policyholders
and friends ail the
joys of a
Merry Christmas
and a Prosperous
New Year
£
GREETINGS
............................
SEIJI HOMMA (B.C.)
KAR KOBAYASHI (B.C.i
BILL SASAKI (Man.)
IAICHI UMEZUK1 (Man. i
FRED NOG .AMI (Ont. >
MAS SUNADA -Alta TOM TAMAKI iSa.= £.»
-
MEMBERS
O Ft All r vJITA
^MONARCH LIFE
CO
^R
TOM SHOYAMA
EDWARD IDE (Ont.)
"ONY KOBAYASHI (S.C.i
HIROSHI OKUDA < Que.)
President. ..............................
First Vice President .
Second Vice President
Treasurer
ii
THE ONTARIO DISTRICT COUNCIL I
THE NATIONAL
JAPANESE CANADIAN CITIZENS ASS N
TAKASHI "TOD” ONO
MR.
ea^on
Toronto. Ont.
2 Moutray St.. Toronto
K. SHIMIZU
1253
OIKAWA
* '
OF THE
(Que.;
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
KUNIO HIDAKA
TOM SAGAHA
I. UCHIDA
T. KAMEOKA.
I. KAWAJIRI
MICKEY SATO
T. UMEZUKI
GEORGE
TANAKA
Page 14
NiSEI SPORTS SCENE IN 1945
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ear
i A look over the Nisei sports
§; achievements of the past year
|; leaves little doubt that 1948 was
w • a very successful year.
|j
From B.C. to Quebec the
a : Nisei are participating in every
| > field of sports in greater numM i bers than ever.
*
*
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8{
Individually,
the
greatest
Kamloops Nisei Athletic Club
> 84 s ;’ -t
KAMLOOPS, B.C.
been indulging in their ,hari
sports.
Led bv =hN e ^ g
Harry Miyasaki was the mas Hank Sugiyama, the ii; *'
termind behind the great Asahi the Winnipeg casaba crom««»
teams of the past. Reg Yasui
was rated just about the best
Sports activities at the U’ P
catcher in Vancouver baseball
head has been kept huw I
circles, Caucasians included.
by the Lakehead Nisei cUfe
To Koei Mitsui, who had the
most to do with the formation
of the Westerns, might be given
the ‘‘sportsman of the year the Ft. William Nisei Basejf.
award without too much arguLeague championship.
f
ment.
| single achievement was un
doubtedly Hiroshi “Rosie”
Okuda’s perfect “450” five-pin
Over in Hamilton, the pJ'
game bowled on March 7, at the
Fai' West in B.C., the Kamsponsored
all-Nisei entry in Y H
McGill- Bowling Academy in loops Nisei Athletic Club, under
Hamilton Intermediate Ba^eH I1
Montreal. It was the first per Joe Oikawa, Slim Shoyama and
fect game ever bowled by a company has been going great league romped off with tlY
championship, but didn’t fa”
Canadian Nisei.
guns with a varied sports pro
too well in the Provincial phgram which accomodates prac
downs. Incidentally, Bob Shi £
Collectively, the entry of the tically every sports lover.
moda who is the man who kee^ I
i Western baseball team in the
A, little lower in the Okan
the gears meshed for the Hann'
West Toronto Senior League agan valley, the Nisei have been
ton Rec Society' with its wiaemust be given top spot.
The active at Kelowna and Vernon,
spread activities, deserves a lew
Western, made up of veterans not to mention Greenwood.
§
bows.
and youngsters, found it tough
in their first year in one of the
In the heart of the Rockies,
Far East in Montreal, Tv
ft
two top senior ball loops in the Nisei
sparked
the
Coleman
Suga, another ex-Asahi star, did r
city, but their performance was Cubs to the Crowsnest baseball
1
creditable.
championship for the -second a terrifically good job with the
all-Nisei, entry in the local ball
Most of the youngsters lacked straight year and into the -pro
experience, but under the expert vincial playoffs. George Yosh oop, which made the city finals
guidance of Harry Miyasaki, Reg inaka, Stumpo and Yoho KipiIn the popular sport of badYasui, Mike Maruno, Koei Mit- oto, Roy Hayashi and Jim Kita
minton,
Johnny Tanaka and
sui and others, they improved guchi were the stars.
Fi ank Matsui, a couple of vetergreatly as the season progressed.
At the crossroads of the coun ans, won the men’s double
try, Winnipeg, the Nisei have championship at the Nisei Open
tournament held in Toronto to
claim tne distinction of beim
Lakehead Baseball Teams
the top Nisei team in the
country.
Tom Nobuoka defeated
Johnny Tanaka for the title in
the Tennis tourney held in Tor
onto. - Fred Sasaki is still the
top Nisei tennis player and reoresented Toronto’s Kew Beach
Tennis club in a local league.
In soccer, Johnny Miura plac
ed for the Massey Harris team
which reached the finals in the
Toronto and District League.
I Wishing you a merrier Christmas
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Nisei basketball leagues can be
found all over the country. In
Toronto, the “Thin iMen" seems io
be the team to -beat. The London
Nisei entry in the local churcn
league made a good showing. Playin.g for .the Varsity second team
was star Nisei playmaker. Ion
Shimizu, who graduated this year.
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SEASON’S BEST WISHES
TO FRIENDS ACROSS CANADA
Bowling is another game the
Nisei are playing in droves.
There isn’t a single centre where
there are more than two dozen
Nisei that doesn't have some
sort of bowling league. And
been gettm
the scores
better all the time, especially of
the girls.
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^° our many supporters
k
Merry Christma
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The. Nisei advent into hockey
Canada’s national game, is an
athletic by-product of the evac
uation. They should do well «t
puck-chasing. That these “mad ,
athletically that is. pucksten
held their practice at 2 and 3
o’clock in the A.M. is sufficient
evidence of the fervor of Nisei
athletes, and leaves little doubt
CHICKEN-COOP INN.—1948 Champions Johnny Umakoshi that bigger and better things
of—the
| Nisei Baseball League. Front row (left to right)
Bob Lakehead
Koizumi* can be expected of them.
NH MitSunty- T«” Kanna, Ken Kuwabara'
The Nisei spores world that
Fral,k “lizaki- Isa Sunohara was predominantly male in pie'
evacuation days has been in
ot
M’S Kumabe, Ken Iwasa.
Iwamoto. Suzie Ki ™ Lx M ,™’ "Cfl ‘° ‘^'-Wahoo vaded by the, per:.wo- weake-but more attractive specie ex
Baek row-Eddy
Nisei.
Thev are play ire
nd Lefty Iwasa.
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'★“ppy
1
ear
i A look over the Nisei sports
§; achievements of the past year
|; leaves little doubt that 1948 was
w • a very successful year.
|j
From B.C. to Quebec the
a : Nisei are participating in every
| > field of sports in greater numM i bers than ever.
*
*
*
8{
Individually,
the
greatest
Kamloops Nisei Athletic Club
> 84 s ;’ -t
KAMLOOPS, B.C.
been indulging in their ,hari
sports.
Led bv =hN e ^ g
Harry Miyasaki was the mas Hank Sugiyama, the ii; *'
termind behind the great Asahi the Winnipeg casaba crom««»
teams of the past. Reg Yasui
was rated just about the best
Sports activities at the U’ P
catcher in Vancouver baseball
head has been kept huw I
circles, Caucasians included.
by the Lakehead Nisei cUfe
To Koei Mitsui, who had the
most to do with the formation
of the Westerns, might be given
the ‘‘sportsman of the year the Ft. William Nisei Basejf.
award without too much arguLeague championship.
f
ment.
| single achievement was un
doubtedly Hiroshi “Rosie”
Okuda’s perfect “450” five-pin
Over in Hamilton, the pJ'
game bowled on March 7, at the
Fai' West in B.C., the Kamsponsored
all-Nisei entry in Y H
McGill- Bowling Academy in loops Nisei Athletic Club, under
Hamilton Intermediate Ba^eH I1
Montreal. It was the first per Joe Oikawa, Slim Shoyama and
fect game ever bowled by a company has been going great league romped off with tlY
championship, but didn’t fa”
Canadian Nisei.
guns with a varied sports pro
too well in the Provincial phgram which accomodates prac
downs. Incidentally, Bob Shi £
Collectively, the entry of the tically every sports lover.
moda who is the man who kee^ I
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A, little lower in the Okan
the gears meshed for the Hann'
West Toronto Senior League agan valley, the Nisei have been
ton Rec Society' with its wiaemust be given top spot.
The active at Kelowna and Vernon,
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Western, made up of veterans not to mention Greenwood.
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and youngsters, found it tough
in their first year in one of the
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championship for the -second a terrifically good job with the
all-Nisei, entry in the local ball
Most of the youngsters lacked straight year and into the -pro
experience, but under the expert vincial playoffs. George Yosh oop, which made the city finals
guidance of Harry Miyasaki, Reg inaka, Stumpo and Yoho KipiIn the popular sport of badYasui, Mike Maruno, Koei Mit- oto, Roy Hayashi and Jim Kita
minton,
Johnny Tanaka and
sui and others, they improved guchi were the stars.
Fi ank Matsui, a couple of vetergreatly as the season progressed.
At the crossroads of the coun ans, won the men’s double
try, Winnipeg, the Nisei have championship at the Nisei Open
tournament held in Toronto to
claim tne distinction of beim
Lakehead Baseball Teams
the top Nisei team in the
country.
Tom Nobuoka defeated
Johnny Tanaka for the title in
the Tennis tourney held in Tor
onto. - Fred Sasaki is still the
top Nisei tennis player and reoresented Toronto’s Kew Beach
Tennis club in a local league.
In soccer, Johnny Miura plac
ed for the Massey Harris team
which reached the finals in the
Toronto and District League.
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athletically that is. pucksten
held their practice at 2 and 3
o’clock in the A.M. is sufficient
evidence of the fervor of Nisei
athletes, and leaves little doubt
CHICKEN-COOP INN.—1948 Champions Johnny Umakoshi that bigger and better things
of—the
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Bob Lakehead
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NH MitSunty- T«” Kanna, Ken Kuwabara'
The Nisei spores world that
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