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HOLIDAY
SUPPLEMENT

THE NEW CANADIAN

VOL. 17 —NO. 99

WEDNESDAY,

DECEMBER

22,

1954.

ENGLISH
Section 1
TORONTO,

ONT.

JjUNDREDS Of Japanese Canadians —
Issei as well as Nisei — knew of
B. K. Sandwell, who died this month
in Toronto at the age of 78.
They knew of him mainly as a staunch
friend of the Japanese in Canada. In
editorials in the weekly magazine, Sat­
urday Night, and in many public speech­
es and other activities. Dr, Sandwell
sharply criticized the government's
evacuation-relocation-repatriation-d i s persal policy. At a time when our faith
in Canada and Canadians was flicker­
ing in despair, he was one of a small
group of men and women who revived
that faith for us..
This is why news of his death brought
a sharp sense of loss into many Japa­
nese homes across the country.

ALTHOUGH

MOST

readers of The
New Canadian may remember him as
“a friend of the Japanese Canadians,”
Bernard Keble Sandwell probably never
thought of himself in those terms. He
wasn’t being partial to the Japanese in
Canada when he fought for our rights
— he was just sticking to his belief in
the liberal tradition of justice, freedom
and fair play.
Dr. Sandwell was a man of consider­
able accomplishments. In this 20th Cen­
tury world of specialists, he was a bit
old-fashioned — he could- do many things
well. Firstly, ‘‘B.K.”, as. he was known,
was a great magazine editor. Under his
editorship, Saturday Night attained top
rank as a Canadian voice of opinion in
politics, literary matters and the arts.
He himself wrote some of the most
civilized, reasoned and witty editorials
ever produced in this country. He was
also a founder of the Canadian Authors
Association. He wrote two books himself
— The Privacity Agent, a collection of
humorous essays, and The Canadian
Peoples. For his magazine and for other
publications, he was drama critic,, music
critic and book critic. In all his work,
this English-born immigrant did much
to put Canadian literature on its feet.
He was also a respected scholar —
traditionally an unusual qualification for
a journalist. He interrupted his news­
paper and magazine careei’ with univer­
sity teaching. He was a professor of
economics at McGill, and head of the
English department at Queen’s. As an
economist, he was an expert on popula­
tion problems. As an English teacher,
he fought a strong battle for good usage
throughout his journalistic career. Dr.
Sandwell could write a brief editorial
in Saturday Night about bad oi' sloppy
English — and make you chuckle while
you got his point.
- He was a superb after-dinner speaker.
In fact, some Japanese Canadian groups
in Eastern Canada have been fortunate
enough to hear him. They understand
why he was considered one of the half­
dozen men in the country who proved
that after-dinner. speeches could be the
piece de resistance of the evening. He
was also a devastating platform speak­
er. A speech he made in 1947 at a civil
liberties meeting in Winnipeg is one I
remember well. It was full .of humor, ;.t
also had lots of bite. The Sandwell
humor, spoken or written, had nothing
of the bulldozer' about it. Instead it was
like a keen knife being used by a super­
lative craftsman.
He was highly respected in his time
lor his many accomplishments and abililies. In his later years, honors were
heaped on him by academic, literary and
journalistic circles.

B. K. SAN DWELL

-- Friend to All Canadians
by FRANK MORITSUGU
AND HE WAS loved by many — hated
by very few. This in itself was a unique
achievement for a man who did so much
and had so much influence on what
went on in Canada. The editorials and
obituaries that came in the wake of his
death were more than the usual ges­
tures made towards well-known person­
ages. In them was love, respect and
pride that Canadians had had among
them a citizen such as he.
I have suggested that B. K. Sandwell
was an “old-fashioned”
type of man because
he could do so many
things well. He was
“old-fashioned’ in still
another sense. The
warmth that showed
between the. lines of
his editorials and
speeches was a vital
part of the man him­
self that he was willing
to share with all com­
ers. Unlike most mod­
ern executives who are
always “too busy” be­
hind a bristling barrier
of receptionists, sec­
retaries and executive
assistants, Dr. Sand­
well was a man you
could always get in to
see, no matter who
y o u. av ere. I know
because I was’lucky enough to experience
this old-fashioned bigness of the man.
His interest and kindness to his fel­
low men was so Avidespread, some years
ago a magazine article on Dr. Sandwell
mentioned that he Avas notorious for
helping out young would-be’s, has-beens,
never-Avill-be’s and plain ordinary bums.
Many men and Avomen Avho have since
become established in their fields oAved
their start to this learned, Avise and
keen-minded man. One of them is Wil­
liam Arthur Deacon, the venerable book
editor of the Toronto Globe and Mail.
-He recalled on the week of B. K. SandAvell’s death that it Avas Sandwell the
editor Avho helped him get started Arhen
he was “just a young unknoAvn in the
West, trying to write.”
I, too, Avas given a boost by Dr. Sand­
well eight years ago. I’d like to tell
you about it.

IN 1946, I Avas fresh out of the service,
in my mid-tAventies, and not at all sure
Avhere I was going next. I invaded Tor­
onto to find a job. Dr. Sandwell, then
editor of Saturday Night, Avas one per­
son I approached. I chose him because
I thought he might be sympathetic to
my imagined problem: how to get a
journalistic job although Japanese.
He gave me an appointment immed­
iately although he had never heard of
me before. His office in the Consolidated
Press building on Richmond Street Avas
typical of the old-time editor. Simple and
unadorned, it sported a desk that was

hidden under a mess of clippings, manu­
scripts, letters and other papers. Some
long galley proofs hung on a tall viciouslooking spike on the desk. The windoAvs
of his office looked out on the dirty
commercial buildings across the way.
Streetcars and cars and trucks noisily
brushed by below.
Dr. Sandwell sat by his desk, bespec­
tacled and a little rumpled. He Avas a
spare, slightly stooped man. But his
eyes Avere spry and kind.
He Avanted to know
— as I was a Japanese
Canadian — if I kneAv
why the Japanese in
B.C. were refusing to
come east and be “dis­
persed’’. At that time
the repatriation furor,
had just died down. The
people in ghost tOAvns
Avere suspiciously re­
sisting any attempt to
get them to leave B.C.
Could I write an article
about it? he asked.
I’d never Avritten any­
thing for any publica­
tion grander than The
cav Canadian, but I
said, Yes, I thought I
could.
I left the office, feel­
ing much better than
I had felt before my
talk with him. B. K. Sandwell had been
interested in me! In my’ ears echoed
joyously his parting Avords, Can’t pay
you much but it might give you some­
thing to do in betAveen job-hunting,
Mr. Moritsugu.
The article was duly Avritten in three
Aveeks of a sultry Toronto summer. I
Avill spare you the depressing details of
the agony that Avent into it. I Avas a
callow youth Avith high school education
and some time spent on The Ncav Can­
adian. I was fresh out of the Army after
spending a year overseas. About what
Avas going on in B.C. ghost towns, I
kneAv from nothing. I bought a book on
magazine article writing, studied many
issues of Saturday Night so I could pick­
up its measured scholarly style, did some;
research and Avrote the article. It Avas
submitted after several rewrites I did
on the good advice of two friends, Irene
Uchida and Kunio Hidaka.

SOON AFTER, I moved to Winnipeg to
to join The Ncav- Canadian. In a few
Aveeks, a personal note from Dr. Sand­
well arrived. He liked the article, and
Avould use it Avith .“a few minor chang­
es.” He also sent along a cheque for
forty dollars — standard payment by
his magazine for a 2000-word article.
You can imagine my ecstasy. I had
made the grade in a national publication.
I Avas going to frame the note. I Avould
have framed the cheque, too — but I
really couldn’t afford it. Finally — 1
nearly died of suspense — the issue

Avith the article appeared. I rushed out
to buy six copies. As far as I could see,
the only change made Avas the deletion
of one paragraph. My family, my
friends, my former teachers all Avrote
to tell me they Avere happy and proud.
I Avas on top of the world. I must
have been insufferable.
HoAvever, I recount this episode in de­
tail because of what it did for me. It
Avas a fat hard boot in the pants in the
direction of a journalistic career. It
raised my self-confidence several notch­
es. It made me believe Avhat I’d been
wondering about for some months: that
I had a chance to make the grade in
the journalistic profession.
But although this episode has been
one of the milestones of my OAvn deve­
lopment, I've often thought in the years
since that to B. K. Sandwell the favor
he did me Avas nothing unusual. Just
as he Avasn’t being partial to Japanese
Canadians when he supported our cause,
he Avasn’t being partial to me Avhen he
gave a helping hand. Rather, doing
favors of that sort Avas to him as much
a part of his life as eating, sleeping,
Avriting and editing.
The note I received from Dr. SandAvell
is noAv stored away in a box of things
that I am saving to show my children
Avhen they are old enough to understand
Avhat they mean. In that box, I have
a second note from him. It also shows
that B. K. SandAvell Avas the kind of
man Avho Avas never too busy to give
time to others. It Avas all a part of his
“old-fashioned” philosophy — that Avhat
happened to others was his business, too.
Shortly after the magazine article ap­
peared, I Avas in a dilemma. I had some
DVA education credits. I had decided to
train for journalism. But I didn’t .knoAv
what courses to take for this training.
I discussed this problem Avith my high
school journalism teacher in VancouA-cr.
She is another good friend. She Avrote,
Why not ask Dr. SandAvell ? He knoAvs
universities and obviously he would knoAv
about journalistic training.

IT HADN’T occurred to me to Avrite to

him. After all, you just don’t go bother­
ing important people like him with your
petty personal problems. But if my
teacher felt it Avas all right, then Avhy
not ?
His reply to my letter of query Avas
almost immediate. “Dear Moritsugu,”
he started on the note with the letter­
head- “SATURDAY NIGHT, from the
office of the editor.” He compared the
merits of the journalism courses at
Carleton College in Ottawa and the
University of Western Ontario. He also
suggested that a good liberal arts course
Avould be just as good — and mentioned
the kind of subjects I should take.
I did run into Dr. SandAvell a feAv
times after that. I came to the Univer­
sity of Toronto Avhere I naturally' spent
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THE

B. K. SANDWELL
lifetime of book reviewing. The
only way to build up a library,
he said with a twinkle.
Commenting on my curiosity
about his books, he invited me
to come up some afternoon for
tea and to browse among his
bookshelves. I said eagerly that
I would very much like to do
this. ■
I must now confess that I
never did take up this invita­
tion. It’s hard to imagine how
it was possible to think myself
so busy with other things that
I never found an afternoon
open for a visit. The incredible
stupidity that threw away such
a golden opportunity has made
me burn with shame for some
vears.

graduate daily, The Varsity. B.
K.

Sandwell was

one of the

early editors of the paper and
I took on myself the pleasant
duty of asking him to contri­
bute to an anniversary issue we
put out. He complied with a
warmly humorous comment on
the difference between his un- .
dergraduate days and ours. He
also remembered me from my
Winnipeg days. It was only
natural that as editor I should
ask him to be the speaker at
the annual banquet that is the
high point of the year for the
half-a-hundred staff members
of The Varsity.
In my final year, I saw B. K.
Sandwell for the last time. A
campus men’s club devoted to
historical .studies held one of
its meetings at his home. I at­
tended as a member. He was a
splendid host. As you might
expect, he was the rare type
of older man who is perfectly
at home with young students.
I said that I envied him the
walls of books that lined his
home. Dr. Sandwell smiled;
very few of the books had cost
him any money, he said. Most
were the ill-gotten gains of a

X

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B. K. SANDWELL was a firstrate man in many things.. But
even if he had not been an ex­
cellent editor, writer, scholar
and speaker, he still would have
been a great Canadian, for
what is greater than a man
who is big enough to help o!hers as a matter of c-.
If
his example is followed by even
only a few of those he influ­
enced, this world of ours will
become a much pleasanter place
in which to live.

CHRISTMAS AMD NEW YEAR GREETINGS
Mr. and Mrs. RIEMON TONOGAI
Mr. and Mrs. NOBBY TONOGAI
Mr. TAKEO TONOGAI

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Wednesday, December 22, 1954.

THE

NEW

CANADIAN

Page 3

FIRST PRIZh, Short Story Contest
^?? ^ACK-r°°fed houses slowly blend­
ed into the darkness and one by'one the
back.”
igilts replaced the brown framed win­
"And leave him here?”
dows. Beyond, the solid outline of the
“If you’ll carry my bag- and the light.
mo?n^a’lls made them look more massive
I

ll
carry him.”
and overpowering than the blue hills that
The
doctor returned his equipment to
they were.
his
bag-,
tucked his shirt under his belt,
by NANCY AYUKAWA
Presently a figure walked past each
and
lifted
the man to his shoulder. The
window, disappeared behind four box
doctor was not a large man but he was
Iron
Springs,
Alta.
cars, then reappeared on the tracks. He
young, and, although he swayed a little
stopped for a moment to fasten the zip­
under the weight, he steadied himself
He
vluilea,
yondering
whether
to
run,
per on his windbreaker. He turned his
might not be the first time that his
and trod down the bank with Henry
Ts^ ‘■v1 vain away as though he hadn’t
ear to the distant yelping of a doe:,
uncle had whined of his doom. “Serves
beside him.
noticed.
It
could
be
an
injured
dog.
he
thrust his hands in his pockets, them
you right . . .” he said aloud.
Prompted to a; haste he could not
thought. If he could take'it home''and
sighed and moved on, each pace slowing
“It’ll be your fault . . . it’ll be vow
understand,
for he would surely have to
>ave its lifej The idea of being a hero
as darkness crept to his feet.
fault if I die.”
explain
his
prolonged absence. Henry
quickened Ins heart and in his“ anxietv
Coming to the end of the network of
'PTT1^ do anything,” Henry retorted.
hurried
home,
his anxiety falling into
he. almostyailed out, but just at that
tracks, he turned to look at the lighted
“I didn’t have to come up here. Nobody
relief,
and
then
to quiet apprehension.
instant, a low moan from somewhere to
windows. Only the kitchen window was
knows . . .” He stopped.
He
surprised
himself
with his casualness
his left alerted him. Having satisfied
lighted a.t his house, and he supposed
”... 1 knew what I was doing . . .”
in
saying
he
had
taken
a walk. Nothing
himself that only a man could moan that
that his father would still be sitting in
his father had said. Had he done this
more was said.
^V; he yaIle<d out. He got no reply.
the dark parlor.
to Uncle Matt? Did Dad know that
With the simplicity of youth, he
Who’s there?” he called again, and
It’s funny, he thought, how often his
Uncle Matt, was dying here? The ans­
quickly
dismissed the incident from his
waited.
father went for walks in the dark, angry
wer was already with him before he
mind
when
no mention was made of his
This time he heard a distinct, call for
Or troubled, and returned quietly as
finished asking himself the questions.
uncle
eitherat homo or in town. Had it
help. Breathing heavily with excitement,
though he had just come home. There
If Uncle Matt dies . . . Don’t they put
been
anyone
but his uncle, his bursting
he moved towards the- sound. So this
was nowhere one could go except to
people in jail for things like that? He
pride would have told the town of a
wa® adventure ... a little fear, a little
walk the dirty, coal-dusted road in front
couldn’t let his father go to jail. It
glorified rescue.
anticipation, curiosity and compassion.
of tne houses or the ties on the tracks.
would be his fault. Is that, what Uncle
Forgetting what one wanted to was
Guided by the periodic moans and
Surely his father would not need a
Matt was saying ?
not very difficult: awakening to a rude
giunts, he moved to the left, peering
walk so badly that he would climb that
“Are you dying?” Henry asked.
memory intensified reality. Henry’s
ahead.
Although he could see more in
bank to be on the clean, paved highway.
His uncle didn’t reply. He moved his
stomach leaped to his throat when, a
the moonlight now. he still did not see
The boy’s eleven-year-old mind could not
mouth and gestured with his hand but
few days later, he saw his uncle walking
he didn’t say a thing.
perceive what comfort there could be in . any sign of the man.
. . . walking- toward their house.
“Where are you?” he said, almost to
being alone in the night. Quickly he
“Dr. Riley’s hard to find sometimes,”
The sling-shot which he had been as­
himself.
looked about him and then again to his
Henry said, “but I’ll try.” Turning, he
sembling with such great care was now
“Here . . . over here . . .” came the
kitchen window. For a brief moment he
started down the bank, but after a few
a neglected piece of rubber band and
painful reply, almost making Henry run
thought of running home.
feet he paused for a: moment, afraid to
wire. He moved to the west wall away
in fright.
Then, remembering his mother’s shak­
leave lest his uncle should die if there
from the front door, and assumed Ure
The man was breathing in moans but,
ing voice and his father’s low rumble,
was no one to talk to him. Realizing
position of something like a spy. It
when Henry reached his side, the
he scrambled a few feet up • the bank
the importance of saving his uncle’s
seemed funny to Henry that his uncle
breathing stopped. Then, with a sigh,
life, he slid and dashed, slowing his pace
and sat down.® He did not know what
should choose a: Sunday. Uncle Matt
the stranger’s chest heaved again and
over the tracks, and stopped for a
it was all about but he knew there was
wouldn’t care, of course, but his father
he stretched out his hand as he said,
moment at the end. No, he mustn’t try
something terribly wrong in the way
would have to watch his language.
“Get me doctor. I won’t ... I can’t last
anyone else. He must find Dr. Riley him­
his father had walked in, sullen and gray,
Uncle Matt greeted Henry’s father at
much longer.” His voice croaked and
self. He crossed the road, hurried by five
his mother following into the parlor
the door with a sarcastic formality.
he finished in a whisper: “Get me doc
houses and went directly to the front,
with a questioning frown but saying not
Henry visualized his father’s surprised
tor . . .”
door when he saw the parlor light
a word.
look. He guessed he would hear shout­
Henry looked down at the man at
was on.
ing soon.
'The twins had looked happy sitting on
his feet. “Uncle Matt!” he exclaimed.
With glasses on and a newspaper un­
Time, dragged as though teasing them
the kitchen floor, drawing lines with
“You’re back!” He dropped to his knee
der his arm, Dr. Riley opened the door.
their spoons, while he had stood at the
to continue in silence. Henry had the
and watched as his uncle’s face slowly
“There’s a man up there,” Henry said
impulsive feeling that, his father might
stove, wondering if he should continue
took him in. It had been over three
breathlessly, swinging his arm behind
stirring the tomato soup.
be staring- at the visitor, believing in
years, and Henry wondered if his uncle
him. “He’s hurt and he says he’s going
ghosts. It was the quet voice of his
Through the closed door, he had heard
recognized him.
to die.”
father that broke the silence. “So you’re
his mother say, “Oh, no!” Then a few

Kid,
kid
.
.
.
it

s
you.

Henry
thought
“I’ll be right with you, Henry,” the
still here.”
muffled murmurs, a shuffling of feet,
he
noted
a
touch
of
disappointment.

Go
doctor
said,
and
disappeared
from
the
“I couldn’t have gone if I had wanted
and his father’s rebuke: “I knew what
get a doctor, kid. Y’gotta' hurry!”
doorway. He returned shortly, thrusting
to,” came the reply. No triumph — per­
I was doing ...”
Rising, Henry put his hands, in the
a flashlight in Henry’s hand. “You lead
haps a little regret. “I came to see the
Henry did not stay to hear any more.
back
pockets of his jeans. “I thought
the way, boy.”
kid.”
He pulled the pan to the side, put on '
Dad told you not to come around here
“But I . . .’’.He didn’t know quite what
So! The last word is what he wants.
the lid, and with a backward glance at
again,

he
said
in
the
tone
that
an
to
say but he had expected the doctor
It was not enough that his life was
the twins, picked up his coat and walked
adult would use to a child. His uncle
to go alone . . . At least he hadn’t ex­
saved. Henry clenched his teeth.
out.
didn

t
seem
surprised
or
interested
that
pected
to
go
back.
The
doctor
waved
“He’s not home,” his father answer­
It was simple enough, walking out.
Henry
should
know
of
that.
He
blankly
him
on.
ed.
“Why should you want to see him?”
He wasn’t really afraid of the dark, so
opened
his
eyes
and
tried
to
lift
his
head.

Maybe
he
can

t
be
moved,
in
which

Because
I only got one life. And even
why shouldn’t he stay out until all was
“I remember . . . you hit Dad. He
case you’ll have to ’come back for some
if you don’t think much of it, I do. Now
well at home? His father did it well
didn’t do anything- and you had to hit
help. I wish we had an ambulance,” the
where’s the kid?”
enough. Tonight he can sit at home and
him!
You
broke
Mom

s
blue
lamp
and
doctor
said in an undertone. “You say
“What did Henry do that makes you
think, if he must.
Dad
told
you
.
.
.

he

s
up
the
bank?

so
gracious all of a sudden? You haven’t
But Henry could not think of anything .

Ah kid, please . . . Don’t just stand

Uh
huh.
Not
far
from
,the
highway,

got
any more use for kids than you have
pleasant to pass the time. Maybe they’re
there--------go on!” He was trying hard
Henry
replied.
for
a
little sweat!”
having supper now, he thought. If'his
to shout.

Who
is
he?
Do
you
know
him?


All
right!” The fact finally hurt him
father was not sitting alone in the dark
“You thought you were so smart. Do
Must
he
lie?
No
...
no
it
wouldn

t
a
little.
He lowered his voice. “Maybe'
parlor, then he was wasting his time
you know what you are? You’re just a
seem to be a lie — not really. “It was
the car should’ve killed me but, seeing
here, _ waiting for nothing. He liked
tramp! I wish you weren’t my uncle!”
dark. I couldn’t sec who it was.”
that I’m still livin’, the kid’s gonna get
tomato soup . . .
In his confusion, Henry was just as
“Well, we’ll see,” said the doctor as
the satisfaction of knowin’ that I ap­
He thought he heard something be­
close to tears as he was to anger.
they walked behind the flashlight beam.
preciated
it.”
hind him. Turning, 1 ■ looked up to the
“I’m dying,” the man choked. “Can’t
The man was still alive when they
Henry
walked slowly to the front
highway but, seeing no sign of an ap­
you see? I’m dying!”
reached him. Henry was directed to hold
door. He caught his father’s eye on him,
proaching car, he decided to start for
Henry simply stood and stared. Did
the light although he fidgeted and pro­
then his uncle’s. There was only one
home. If he walked slowly it would take
everybody who died look like that ? It
tested. If the doctor thought the boy’s
question in Henry’s mind. “Did a car
a while . . .
did not seem possible that a person
attitude to a little adventure was rather
hit you?” he asked.
Then tins time h ? was sure. There
could breathe so heavily and still be . strange, he didn’t mention it.
was something or someone behind him.
“Just a little longer. Then we’ll go
dying. It occurred to Henry that this
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CANADIAN

3

What “JCCA” Means to Me

GREETINGS

eA

Ottawa
Japanese-Canadian
Club

suits were obtained. In serving on minished, but are we to forger
I the first committee of that Taft so easily the time and effort
road camp, I gained much val- expended by those many members
y^HAT JCCA means to me: this uable experience in working with
of JCCA and its predecessor or­
takes me back to the days people.
ganizations in giving us equality
of evacuation, to a day in April,
CALGARY, Alta.
In the following year it was as Canadian citizens ?
1942, when I was one in a group
OTTAWA, Ont.
my good fortune to be in London,
And what has JCCA given to
of men to arrive at a quite deso­
Ont., and to be a member of the me? I have enjoyed intimate fel­
late spot named Taft.
London Nisei Organization. My- lowship and understanding with
Taft, B.C., consisted of a rail­
close association with m a n y many persons whom I have met
way station, houses scattered
friends in London is never to be in various regional conferences.
GREETINGS and SEASON'S BEST V/ISHES
here and there, no stores, a few
forgotten.
JCCA has given me the. confi­
railway boxcars which were to
While I was there, the organi­ dence to speak in public and the
be our homes until better accom­
from
zations of St. Thomas, Chatham privilege of representing the
modations could be provided. As
and
London were very closely Japanese - community at many
weeks passed, there were more
QUEBEC CHAPTER J.C.C.A.
new arrivals. Bunkhouses and knit, and the Japanese Canadian functions. One of my proudest
mess house were completed; new Western Ontario Regional Con­ moments came when the Crown
and
camps sprung up, until within a ference was initiated. The en­ Prince of Japan made his visit
few months, six camps were fill­ couraging results of the confer­ and I had the honor of represent­
JAPANESE LANGUAGE DIVISION
ed to capacity along the Sica- ence in further understanding of’ ing the Japanese Canadian citi­
our problems and toward some zens at Convocation Hall.
mcus-Revelstoke highway.
unity
of the Canadian Japanese
In places such as road camps,
Quite recently, I spoke at the
were
very
satisfying
to
all
of
us
grievances are likely to arise
Tenth Congress of the Czechoslo­
among the men. In the Taft who attended.
vakian Association of Canada as
In London, also, I remember a representative of the Toronto
camp there were complaints about
a
gathering
at which the late Dr. JCCA. By attending that gather­
the food, the work, the pay, week­
end passes, armed guards, and B. K. Sandwell was guest speak­ ing, I began to realize the extent
extends to all
many other details. At first the er. A- champion of equal rights of personal time and effort the
Best Wishes for
men took their complaints indivi­ for all men, Dr. Sandwell dis­ Czechoslovakian Canadians were
dually to the head foreman of cussed the problems of the Japa­ giving to help bring about a
the camp, but satisfaction seldom nese in Canada as citizens of the free Czechoslovakia. Some under­
country. I could not help but feel standing of their problems has
resulted.
Finally everyone concerned de­ at that time, as I still do, that added to my ideas of what JCCA
and a Prosperous New Year
cided that a committee should be we must help ourselves — we should do.
formed among the men for the must take the initiative and be­
Yes,’JCCA has given me much
channelling of all problems to the come actively interested in the to be thankful, for it has given
oroper authorities through one welfare of the Canadian Japa- me the opportunity to be of
voice. This done, the desired re- nese and the communities in some service to the Japanese
which they live.
Canadians.
'ea^on j
In 1947 the Toronto JCCD
JCCA, to me, means service.
(Japanese Canadian Citizens for The work of the Japanese CaneaAon a
Democracy) was speaking in adian Citizens’ Association should
terms of a national organization be not only to assist the Canadto represent the Japanese Can­ ia.n Japanese, but also to discuss
adians as one voice, with the ulti- mutual problems in cooperation
and
mate aim of the erasure of the with other ethnic groups, service
many restrictions against the clubs, etc. The aim of the JCCA
Canadian citizens of Japanese an- today should be to contribute its
Montreal, P.Q.
cestry. As a result of their un- share on behalf of the Japanese
tiring efforts, the National JCCA Canadians to make each local
was formed in Toronto in 1948 community, the whole Canadian
at the first national conference nation, the world, a better place
of Japanese Canadians, with re­ in which to live.
presentations from the various
JCCA has done well, but I ant
provinces. The realization of the looking to the future, stressing
D
national set-up was a high point not what the organization has
j in my experience in working accomplished, but what it can
with people and strengthened my do for the benefit of all man­
CITIZENS ASSOCIATION’
confidence in them.
kind. Let us not allow the JCCA
Much credit is due the JCCD to fade away: let us strive to
for having taken the initiative strengthen it and make it an or­
in those years. As years have ganization of which we can con­
NATIONAL JCCA
passed, the urgent work has di- tinue to be proud.

ED IDE

fCALGARV NISEI CLUB

8

THE HAMILTON J.C.C.A.

Toronto J.C.C.A

Montreal Nisei
Fellowship

ISSEI DIVISION

Season’s Wishes

'a/^a^e L a/x&7/a#

ALBERTA JCCA
BRITISH COLUMBIA JCCA
MANITOBA JCCA
QUEBEC JCCA
ONTARIO JCCA

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Lakehead Bowling Club
Lakehead Nisei Students’ Club
Lakehead Nisei Club

NATIONAL COUNCIL
Hiroshi Okuda
Yoichi Kato
Mrs. Rei Nakashima
Kim Nakashima
Toyo Ebata

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Mildo Ochiai
Yoshio Ono

FORT WILLIAM, Ont.

Amy Uahida
err^

Provincial Liaison Officers
Walter Koyanagi — Alberta JCCA
Peter Yamauchi— British Columbia JCCA
Kay Morita

Manitoba JCCA
Jesse Nishihata

Quebec JCCA
Fred Sunahara — Ontario JCCA

if

ear

VANCOUVER J.C.C.A.

k

B.C.
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Wednesday, December 22, 1954.

THE

NEW

CANADIAN

yOUR editors have very* kindly offered
me space in this Christmas issue to
extend Season’s Greetings to you all
and to express my thanks to all those
who have so courteously and painstak­
ingly taken time out of their busy lives
by BETTY WANGENHEIM
in order to help me. As many of you
in and around Toronto will know, I am
now a graduate Sociology student mak­
be, and how best to achieve these ends.
the best facets of Japanese cultural
ing a study of present conditions among
Secondly, may- I say that, while I quite
life. Fine! That is a wonderful idea!
the Japanese in this area, a task which
definitely have no desire to annoy* or
Even though the phrase “cultural melt­
would be impossible without your cooper­
insult anyone, still I don’t expect you
ing-pot” is perhaps a little hackneyed,
ation. I do hope, however, that there
all to agree with what I say and if you
still Canadians do come of extremely
will be others among you, now scattered
don't agree, please tell me so. And please
varied cultural ancestries and only*
far and wide across Canada, who may
don’t think you have to spare my* feeithrough the growth of understanding
remember me from the confused days
ings. I enjoy an argument, and besides,
and appreciation of each other’s heritage
of 1941 when, having unwittingly wanI would be truly interested in vou
just as difficult to become accustomed
opinions.
dered into the B.C. Security Commission
for a truly* enriched and unified Canada.
Well then: Reading through the file:
in search of a summer job, I found my­
And you Canadians of Japanese origin of the “New Canadian” of the pas
self on Powell Street and determined to
quite definitely have something to offer.
fifteen years has not been
do all I could to make the harsh process
Well then, how are you going about
of evacuation less painful. I was, and
Indeed some of it has been extremely
it ? Some attempts I know about: When­
am, aware that all such small individual
enjoyable. Through the year vou have
ever you are asked to participate in
attempts at helping are very feeble in
been blessed with a succession of column­
some sort of Folk Festival, you very*
such a time of chaotic upset but never­
ists, some of whom were of very* high
gladly* have several girls dressed up in
calibre. From many articles and stories
theless I hope I was able in some small
traditional costumes dance an odori. Or
I have derived much help for my* re­
way to relieve the anxiety and bewilder­
perhaps some of you display* traditional­
search, as they helped me to get the
ment of at least a few. I have always
ly dressed dolls at a Church bazaar or
“feel” of certain situations or discussed
been grateful to those of you who, in
even lend a cherished painting for an
in detail your reactions in regard to
the midst of your awn turmoil and in­
art showing-. This is all well and good
world events or traditional customs. But
security, still took the time and made
but does it really* achieve the desired
there were other articles so delightfully*
result ? I am not too optimistic. For
the effort to make me feel more at ease.
and informatively* written that I forgot
one thing, a great many* people just do
I must also take this opportunity* to''
all
about

scientific
objectivity

and
not go to folk festivals and bazaars
express publicly to your editors my
read them eagerly, fascinated by* the
unless strongly- urged. And even if they*
gratitude for the help they have given
new
vistas
for
personal
enjoyment
that
do,
I don’t believe that just looking at
me during the past year. Not only did
they* opened up to me. There were arthings in a crowded room is sufficient.
they give me full access to all the files
on
Japanese
poetry,
painting,
One must to some extend understand in
tides
of The New Canadian but they have
of
order to appreciate. All of us quite
also devoted many* hours to answering ■ flower arranging, various forms
dancing
and
other
forms
of
artistic
naturally* judge new things in terms of
the many questions that occurred to me
pression. What particularly pleased
what we already* know and hold dear.
in the course of my reading. I have,
to
the
authors
took
pains
And if something does not fit in com­
;
was
that
■unfortunately, had to confine myself to
fortably* and effortlessly* with our cher­
elaborate and explain not only what
reading the English sections, but even
but
also
why
it
was
done,
the
ished ideas and customs, we tend in­
was
done
there I was often bewildered by the
historical background and also the prestinctively* to reject it as bad or at any
number of Japanese words in romaji
rate consider it ‘queer’. You Nisei must
sent
significance
and
appeal
they
have
sprinkled through the pages. Your edit­
to people. I had previously gained some
recall instances when things y*ou had
ors have always been willing to give me
knowledge
of
Japanese
painting
through
learned
to like were rejected by* your
translations and, even more important,
visits
to
art
galleries,
but
never
before
.
parents
or
other Issei because they* just
have explained the significance of words
had I known anything worthw*hile about
didn’t fit in with the Japanese ways of
and of various customs referred to. They*
doing things. However, in the same way
the
other
forms
of
artistic
expression,
have also shown a delightful willingness
that the Issei have learned to like danc­
Now I began to become aware of their
to allow themselves to be led off on
ing once they understand it is not the
potentialities
and
to
in
some
way
under
­
tangents into long discussions on all
the immoral custom they* once believed
stand why* so many* Japanese derived
sorts of topics and through them I feel
it to be, so can the hakujin learn to
satisfaction
from
them.
To
be
sure,
this
I have come closer to developing an
appreciate the Japanese cultural contri­
is a long way from developing a rude
appreciation (though I dare not say a
bution once they* have been helped to
personal
appreciation
of
these
arts

real knowledge) of the artistic values
understand that the significance of a
but it is a first step. My point is that
of Japanese art and poetry.
certain dance or song or poem fulfils in
under
ordinary
circumstances
I
might
Which brings me to the subject 1
a certain way an emotional need in the
never have been in a situation stimulat­
want to discuss with you. Let me first
Japanese for which people of some other
ing
me
and
enabling
me
to
take
that
say that here I am not talking as a
cultural background find satisfaction in
first step towards such an appreciation.
sociologist (from that jargon and gob­
some other way. In other words, by find­
I
gather
that
in
the
past
few
years
bledegook may* we all be spared!) but
ing out that, though different, we are
there has been considerable discussion
as an ordinary Canadian with fairly*
all similar.
among
you
about
contributing
to
the
strong but sometimes confused ideas on
So now we come back to the principal
growth of a Canadian culture some of
what Canada is and Canadians should

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point. People have to be helped to un­
derstand and appreciate the cultural
contribution of other groups. To how
many* persons have you personally* ex­
plained the difference between bon odori
and any* other kind? Or demonstrated
the significance of land, sea and sky* in
flower arranging? Or told about the
historical backgrounds of kabuki and
Noh? Or explained what different dolls
stand for and described the doll festi­
val ? Or made people aware in some
measure of the pleasure derived by sim
pie ordinary* people from writing and
listening to the reading of the different
types of Poetry ? Or introduced to the
wonders of Japanese cooking (this being
a form of artistic expression just as im­
portant as all the others and perhaps
and point of view can we ever hope
to) ? You may* say* that no one has ever
asked you about these things and there­
fore no one is interested. This is not
necessarily* so. Many* people who might
become very* much interested in these
forms may* never have become aware of’
their existence or else may* know of them
but be too shy* to ask for explanations
oi- to venture to attend any performance
where otherwise the audience is exclus­
ively nihonjin. Does that idea seem
strange to you? Well, it shouldn’t. Japa­
nese are not the only* ones who are often
shy when it comes to attending gather­
ings in unfamiliar surroundings where
one may* be handicapped through not
knowing the language or the proper way*
to behave or they may even be a little
nervous about being conscipuously dif­
ferent from all those around them. I
will admit that even I, who do know* by
now quite a bit about your various ways
of thinking and acting, would think
tw’ice about going to a concert or othersuch performance, however much I
might be interested in seeing it, unless
«>some of you whom I know* w*ould
go with me to explain things and
also to make me feel more at
ease. Now, if that is the way I
feel about it, just put yourselves
in the place of others who know
to our many
nothing about ‘things Japanese’,
Customers and Friends
even though they might be will­
ing to learn and even though they
were on very good terms with
those of you whom they had had
the opportunity to meet perso­
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to you all, and could help to make
*
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the general life in this country
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IZUMI ARNOTT AND SUGIYAMA

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NEW

Wednesday, December 22, 1954.

CANADIAN

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His uncle did not elaborate.
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I wasn’t seein’ too good, and I
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thought that now he knew what
had happened.
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P.O. Box 579
“Maybe you didn’t want to, kid,
but you saved my life. I won’t
forget it, kid. Thanks.” It thrilled
IIBIBIIi™
Henry’s heart to hear the simple
MIIIIIIIIIIIIM
word “thanks”. Coming from his
uncle whom he knew to be such
an ungrateful person, it was a
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great reward.
Uncle Matt turned to leave.
But, as though calculating- his
last speech, he faced his brother..
“You don’t have to worry about
me shamin’ you. My stay here
didn’t hurt you none . . . The
doc don’t know who I am and
he’s been paid to keep quiet
about the old tramp.” He looked
at Henry. “T didn’t like being
humiliated in front of all them
men. Okay, to them I ain’t your
brother. You tell them your bro­
ther don’t drink, don’t smoke,
don’t . . . you tell them your
brother- is a saint!” He turned
. there’ll
his back, muttering.
be no f i s t - f 1 i n g i n ’ around
here ...”
His departure was like the
representing
passing of a rain storm. The
hush of the wind, the lightness F;
in the air, the clearness of ~ the
mind. Henry watched the round­
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Wednesday, December 22, 1954.

THE

NEW

CANADIAN

Page

retrospect
1221

No.

1

Road

Steveston, B. C.

P.O. Box 12

by CINDERELLA

HAVE a great aversion to my name,
I had a lot to , pie. 1 remember that day, that
being put on the shelf before learn.
i awful day when 1 stood for the
STEVE MORISHITA
MICH MORI
I am ready for it. It is, I guess,
The first several columns writ­ } last time at that window, looking
trait of-character which I come ten under these conditions were 1 at the typewriter which had been
y quite legitimately. I under- noticed favorably by a select j mine for two years. We had all
tand I had a grandmother on reading- public of two members, i raid the flip thing's — our Niseis
S i my father's side who lived to the myself and the lad who labored were going to build the Trans­
eadon
a ! venerable age of SO, and chal- under the illusion that 1 would Canada Highway; that it would
[ longed anyone who was intefest- eventually turn out to be a be a better fate, this evacuation,
j ed that she could drink him under
mind", The next was a column than facing gunfire; that I would
■ the table with first quality sake on women’s clothes. My editor have a wonderful time practicing
time without losing her dig-- told me it need not be an intel­ my psychological theories on the
And my mother has some lectual treatise, merely a com­ evacuees. But it didn't take away
novel reasons for not being ment on women’s fashions. I, the feeling- that I had been a
to hear, and would rather who had at that time not enough traitor to my readers. Where was
FU. 7230
Steveston, B.C. -■ | j drop dead than be caught sport- money to buy clothes and was,
the wonderful, shining future I
ig a hearing aid. My father, anyway, at that stage of my de- used to rave about ?
Imost to the day he died, was 45 vclopment
1 could
Sandou will always be home
years old, although his birth. happy in “just anything”, buckl­
to me. No individual can remain
certificate revealed him closer ed down, making it clear to my
unresponsive to
environto 65.
1 editor that this was definitely a ment. Thrown into
environTherefore, it gave me some- matter of my “condescending to
ment with people ‘whose ideas
thing of a jolt to have my present come down quite a piece . . .” 1
were alien to mine, living with a
editor tell me that I have been finished it, and refused to sign it.
bitter and antagonistic, people,
associated in one way or another “What about a by-line?” ven­
who would confound me with the
with The New Canadian for about tured the editor. “Oh”, said I,
meanness to which they could
15 years. Perhaps, he suggested, “any old thing will do, so long
356 Moncton St.
stoop one day, and then surprise
I would have some fond recollec­ as it is not a ridiculous one like
me with such dignity . <~f spirit
tions.
§ FU. 7031
Cinderella!

Thus

Femme
Fare

and racial pride the nc . ,
weSteveston, B.C. |
I ran to my mirror and realized was born, by-lined by Cinderella!
thing of the bitterness \v „ , L ■ ■
my slacks and sweater just That was a long time ago.
of my heart. There were mam,
wouldn’t do. They didn't let me
things
to do. There were children
Those two years with The New
feel that old or that nostalgic!
Canadian just before Evacuation to be taught, clothing to be given
I scouted around for one of those
were exciting ones. Looking back out, m i x c d-u p teenagers to
lacy, be-ribboned bonnets made
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now, I realize I had an 'editor straighten out. — and sometimes
famous by Whistler, who made
who was discerning enough to the wonder of a Sandou moonhis mother pose in one
discover and point out to me the Hght, and the hushed peace of a
really handy concoction which
style which was the truest ex­ virgin countryside.
could be used as a tea cosy or a
Looking back in retrospect, all
pression of myself as I was, not
butterfly net in a pinch — forced
as I wished to be thought. lie these tragic events have fallen
myself into a chair which in
IMPERIAL OIL AGENT
gave me a free hand, showing into a pattern, like pieces in a
some ways resembled a rocker,
me in subtle ways that one need jigsaw puzzle, and the end result
tilted my spectacles on my nose
FU. 7626
Steveston, B.C.
not be ashamed of sentiment. In is one which, even in the heyday
and “'let myself grow into the
skort, I learned that a woman's of my most idealistic, period, J
part of a reminiscing old lady”
column need not be a namby- never dreamed wonM happen. Out
ir. true Stanislavsky manner.
pamby, chit-chat affair. For thai of the welter of confusion, each
I should begin, creaking in my I am eternally grateful. And experience has now fitted into
nas &
^J/appy 11cw Ljcar
erru
joints, and quavering like a hol­ looking back now, I am grateful a pattern.
low reed, J‘Oh my dear' me, yes for all those people who came in
Today, all the peculiar con­
. . . fifteen years is a long time and out of the offices on Powell
flicting thoughts I .had harbored
... a very long time!” But the Street. I had grown up in a small
as an insecure Nisei, have resolv­
truth of the matter is that, for town, intensely Canadian in out­
ed themselves. Today, being a
me, those fifteen years have sped look, having undergone the usual
Japanese Canadian is for me no
B
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by on winged feet. It seems like disillusions of an offspring of
longer a -tragic thing but a won­
yesterday when, fresh out • of Japanese parentage. I had nevcr
G. N. FENTIMAN
derful experience. I sit back now
college, I was asked to “fill in” come in touch with all the differ­
and enjoy being a Japanese Ca­
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for a clever and witty columnist ent kinds of people who made up
Steveston, B.C.
nadian, enjoy being different
and try my hand at writing the Japanese community. The
from the rest of the crowd ub
“Candlelight and Wine”. Think­ two years with The New Canadmuch as I once decried being dif­
ing back on it now, I remember ian were my “finishing school”.
ferent. I revel in 'the knowledge
I tried very hard to live up to Looking back I know that,
that my heritage is a little differ­
what a college graduate was ex­ strange as it may sound, I shall
ent, that the slant of my eyes
pected to be. Oh, I had very never write again with so much
sometimes makes me the centre
definite ideas! I was to be, first heart, so much giving of myself
of a crowd. I think I am even a
and foremost, an intellectual as I did when I looked out of my
little in love with the fact that I
writer! Secondly, so help me God, window onto Powell Street. I
am a Canadian of Japanese par­
I would not write chit-chat trash! ।
wrote and wrote — columns on entage and rather enjoy the cu­
And here I blush to think of the etiquette, because we Niseis were
riosity that this fact invokes in
many columns I have filled, car­ not yet of age and were stiil
others. Out of the crucible of
ried away by the exuberance of wanting in the finer things of the
strange events I have come to
my feelings at the moment, con­
social set, columns on the ideals this.
fident though inexperienced, and
and aims and desires of this seg­
And now, with these remarks,
lacking nothing in fancy and
ment of a New Canada, little none of which will be postmarked
imagination. Thirdly, I vowed I
vignettes on the personalities for posterity, I crawl out from
would never write anything to that
passed my
Powell behind the bonnet, spectacles and
which I would be ashamed to sign street
that brave street, that rocking chair. If my grandmother ■
Phone FU. 8015
olorful thoroughfare, had so on my father’s side could hold
MR. & MRS. S. P. YAMAUCHI
many tales to tell — all new and her own in any drinking bout at
and DALE
j untouched. And the greatest her age, if my mother can ignore
414 East Cordova St.
tales, those were never written the facts with injured grace, and
Vancouver, B.C.
for they touched the friends I if my father could shed 15 years
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knew and respected, those who without anyone finding out, I
would be the first to shrug it al! don’t see why I have to be rushed
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George Koyanagi
MRS. YOSHI IWASE
off as the only thing possible into old age without some pro^,Mrs. Y. Shiho
YOKO, JOAN and KAY
Mr. &Mrs. M. Koyanagi!
under those circumstances.
tests.
2701 West Broadway,
I think Evacuation has meant
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HEADERS OF The New Canadian, who
' also lend a regular ear or eye to the
outlets of Canadian culture,, have been
treated this past year to an interesting
expose of one of our most-publicized,
but obviously least-known, institutions.
Hollywood seems to have sparked it
some time ago by whomping up a movie
called “Saskatchewan”. Those who suf­
fered through it will recall it featured
the Canadian Rockies in technicolor,
Shelley Winters in decolletage, and Alan
Ladd in quick-change tricks from shabby
buckskins to resplendent. Mountie uni­
form. The movie turned out to be such
hokum' that the whole of the RCMP
seems to have blushed scarlet. Canada’s
“national magazine”, stung to the quick
of the national honor, leapt to the de­
fense. In a series of six articles last
summer, Maclean’s started out to rescue
the Mounties from the malarkey by
featuring that sober, down-to-earth po­
lice force as it really is. But if the
spirit of Hollywood was temporarily
subdued, like the Eskimos from Edmon­
ton it never gave up. By the end of the
series, glamor was tall in the saddle,
and the Mounties were getting their
man. Now the RCMP have returned in
what seems to be an officially approved
version. This is the weekly CBC radio
programme,
evocatively titled “The
Quiet Force.” It’s very good listening,
too, even if Rawhide’s interpretation is
a little too literal, when he has the
Force perform duty without uttering a
sound.
Whatever the interpretation, any ex­
posure to the RCMP is enough to stir
some memories? We suppose that most
of us, recalling the wartime evacuation,
take some kind of personal interest in
that police force. It was difficult enough
for any of us who took part as protest­
ing victims at that wholesale uprooting
and expulsion ever to ignore the physical
presence of the Mounties in those years.
It was their duty to compel the regis­
tration, the fingerprinting, the little
cards with photographs and numbers.
It was they who enforced the leaving
of homes,- the reporting at stations, the
boarding of trains, the settlement in
relocation centres, road camps, farm
labor projects. They issued and checked
permits, descended on homes, searched
the streets, and shepherded the suspect­
ed disloyal and the defiantly Canadian
alike to detention and internment. They
stood at the focus and in the background,
weaving the whole web of surveillance,
regulation and restriction. In everything
that was most offensive to democratic
freedom and personal dignity, the phy­
sical force and human compulsion was
clothed in a uniform of yellow and
brown. The uniform was an ever-present
symbol, perhaps even a hateful reminder,
of the vengeful blast of organized so­
ciety. suddenly and unexpectedly turned
full upon us.

•SO I AR AS we know, there is extremely
little on record concerning the role of
the RCMP in the evacuation proceedings.
Only the scantiest of references is made
to it in the annual reports of the Com­
missioner. The exploits of the police
dogs in tracking with “deep nose”
-trough the bush receive far more at­
tention. The Maclean’s magazine arucles dealt at length with individual
Indians, Eskimos, drug peddlers and
Communists, but .made no mention of the
wholesale detention, evacuation and sub­
sequent resettlement of 20,000 men,
oumen and children from the coastal

WEDNESDAY,

DECEMBER

22,

1954.

ENGLISH
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TORONTO, ONT.

QUIET FORCE
... a personal recollection
by S. K.
legions of British Columbia. Nor has the
ladio series, so far as we’ve caught it
to date, touched upon it. Professor La
I iolette, in his academic “sociological
and psychological account”, refers fre­
quently to the RCMP, but only in rela­
tion to the particular tasks assigned to
them. All in all, as large an operation
as it was, it seems to have been one
of the quietest episodes in the whole his­
tory of the “Quiet Force’’. And possibly
the conscience of Canada would have
it permanently banished to the forgotten
past as quickly as possible.
It seems, however, that the signifi­
cance of the RCMP’s role in the evacu­
ation lies just in the lack of glamor,
heroics and popular interest. The truth
is there was little, if any, need for
derring-do or scientific sleuthing. So far
as we can recall, perhaps the most
stubborn resistance the Mounties encoun­
tered throughout the whole proceedings
was at the hands of a handful of strongminded, elderly Issei women. Like Mad
Trapper Johnson, they “gambari-ed” to
the bitter end, and were finally escorted
individually to the interior camps, still
protesting their right to remain in their
homes. Then there was the task of
tracking down the men and boys who
refused voluntarily to comply with eva­
cuation orders. But this consisted chiefly
of trailing through Powell Street, check­
ing permits and registration cards, and
no Sam Carr appeared to lead the police
a merry chase. Two or three strikes or
demonstrations took place in the camps,
but they pale in historic interest when
set alongside the gore of the Regina
riots and the Battle of Ballantyne Pier.
No doubt the lack of overt conflict

explains the neutral reaction of most
of us today, so far as the RCMP are
concerned. Although the police had to
enforce all the distasteful compulsions
that could not help but stir resentment
and hostility, very little of this was ever
directed against them, either personally
or as a collective organization. In fact
we cannot recall meeting any serious
protest of bitterness or loud outburst
of personal hostility levelled at the
Force during all those long-, tortuous
months. It seems to us that the police,
both individually 'and collectively, de­
serve considerable credit for this. In the
circumstances of tension and disturb­
ance, one might well have expected
rather serious incidents to occur. Atti­
tudes of arrogance or acts of physical
brutality on the part of the police might
not have been surprising. Perhaps it
was realized that this could well have
charged the atmosphere to the breaking
point and focussed hostility directly upon
the police. Fortunately, nothing of this
actually happened — and this we record
today as a truer tribute to the Force
than any act of valor.
ME SUPPOSE that not a few of u?
can call to mind individual constables
and officers, if not with any deep affec­
tion, at least with friendliness, respect
and appreciation. There were many acts
of kindness and demonstrations of
friendly sympathy by individual mem­
bers of the RCMP, thrust by accident
of war into intimate contact with a
strange, bewildered, disintegrating com­
munity. For ourselves, we recall that

most of the Mounties were concerned
only to do their jobs, impersonally and

efficiently, and consequently with a min­
imum of officiousness. We think that
most of us liked it best that way. Ona
or two we. met seemed more impressed
by their uniforms, and were anxious to
assert their dominance in particular
situations. They come back to mind with
much distaste, but fortunately they
were the exceptions rather than the rule.
We think that most New Canadian read­
ers will bear out this impression.
Three or four of the Mounties we
had occasion to encounter remain in our
memories today as positive.; individual
human beings. We never got to know
them well, partly because their* uni­
forms, while a point of contact, were
also a subtle barrier. But our experience
with these men seemed to illuminate in
one way or another our whole com­
prehension of a police force operatingin a democratic country — its power,
its mind and character.

ONE WE REMEMBER chiefly from
contact in the interior relocation camp.
A man of broad training and long ex­
perience with the Force, he came to the
centre after a period of arduous and
heroic service in the Arctic. Perhaps
that exposure had quickened his appre­
ciation of people as individual human
beings, and made it possible for him to
dominate his uniform rather than to
be dominated by it. At any rate, al­
though he wore it with a singular phy­
sical distinction, it was only an adjunct
to a genuine personality. He was un­
failingly cheerful, courteous, and helpful
to us all. His chivalry to the aged Issei,
men and women alike, you felt was
instinctive and sure. He joked with the
children, teased the young women, and
cut away red tape. Where we had looked
upon his young and callow predecessors
in the centre as unavoidable evils, we
ail soon came to welcome the Corporal
as a citizen, a man and a friend. As
such, he gave stature to the Force.
A second was also a non-commissioned
officer, whom we recall chiefly from the
days just prior to and immediately after
Pearl Harbor. Just what the Sergeant’s
role was has always been a mystery to
us. We remember his boyish, wide grin,
the red tinge in his hair, and the frank,
confiding manner he always adopted,
as if he were unfolding the top secrets
of the Force. But you never really
learned anything from him.
K-and ourselves used to speculate
about him, his background and respon­
sibilities, his contacts in the Japanese
community. He used to turn up every
once in a while, accompanied by a spe­
cial constable who understood and spoke
the Japanese language, and we imagin­
ed that he was the RCMP’s chief agent,
responsible for keeping a general tab on
the whole Japanese community'. We
thought he might have grown into that
responsibility from earlier experience in
the investigations into illegal immigra­
tion, and such criminal activities as
presumably went on the Powell St. area,
particularly gambling rackets and the

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NEW

the milkman on his rounds

MR. <S MRS. R. E. SHERWOOD
and FAMILY

by T. M. K.

New Denver, B.C.

^HRISTMAS! and milk to deliver!
Br-r-r! This business makes me shiver;
Why can’t they buy enough the day before
To save me all this extra chore
On Christmas morn,
On every Christmas morn!

Wednesday, December 22, 1914,

CANADIAN

fSeit With

Dr. and Mrs. M. MIYASAKI
Elizabeth Masumi
Rumiko Deanna
Kenneth Lyle

MR. H. CLEVER
New Denver Meat Market,
New Denver, B.C.

P.O. Box 190

REV. W. F. BUSHE
St. Stephen's Anglican Church
New Denver, B.C.
P.O. Box 44.

The W’atsons never leave their bottles out . . .
How’d she like to be without ?
(Two whole quarts ... a pint of cream . . .)
I’d like to smash her morning dream!
Here’s the note I always write:
“Please put your bottles out each night.”
Giddy-ap, you Horsey, Giddy-ap!
I’ve got to get my morning nap / . .

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THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Rev. D. A. MacKellar

Lillooet, B.C.



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and HIROSHI
New Denver, B.C.

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MANUFACTURERS of FOREST PRODUCTS

MICKEY MURAKAMI

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MR. & MRS. SEIJI ONIZUKA
Midway, B.C.

MR. TOYOJI ABE
and SONS
Box 493,
Williams Lake, B.C.
DR. & MRS. E. C. BANNO
ROBERT TADASHI
VICTOR MITSURU
DALE YUTAKA

H. MATSUBAYASHI & SON

435 Victoria St.,
Kamloops, B.C.

Slocan Soya Company
.Manufacturers of Soya Bean Products
and Oriental Foods

REV. <5 MRS. W. H. GALE
and FAMILY
3762 West 24th Ave.,
Vancouver 8, B.C.

SLOCAN, B. C.

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MR. & MRS. TOSHIO KURITA
and FAMILY
P.O. Box 482,
Princeton, B.C.

QTEADY now! Steady!
Buddy, are you ready ?
Horsey, can’t you ever stop your whirling;
Must you set the milk a-twirling ?
Haven’t I enough to do,
Without my looking after you ?
Now stop your weaving ...
And your heaving . . .
Let me stand upon the ground.

MR. i MRS. MASAO NABATA
and FAMILY
549 West 16th Ave.,
Vancouver 9, B.C.
EX. 1108

Slocan City, B.C.

P.O. Box 26

New Denver, B.C.



Just the same you can’t fool me:
I can reach that porch, y’see ?
It’ll take some time, you bet.
But ... I haven’t broken a bottle yet!

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HAZEL & LES CAMPBELL



Whoops-a-daisy; the earth turned round
And smacked me in the face just now!
If I drop this bottle . . . ugh! I’ll be in an awful row.
Steady, boy, steady! Hang on tight!
A little to the left . . . no, better to the right . . .
The sidewalk seems to slip somehow . . .
It doesn’t stay in place at . . . WOW!
Nearly got me with that monkey-shine . . .
Got to toe the sober line ...
Funny how each Christmas past
This place has always been the last,
And ev’ry time it’s the only one
To start this peculiar kind of fun . . .
Trying to trip me down and . . . well,
There seems to be a sort of spell!

FIR AND WHITE PINE LUMBER

New Denver, B.C.

And still the milkman wends bis way.
Familia)- rounds of every day:
Stopping here,
Stopping there,
Now very warm and cheery,
Tho’ his eyes grow somewhat bleary.
The cheer that meets him at some bouses . . .
Ob nectar of the happy souses! . . .
Works upon him like a charm.
(Good gosh, I hope he doesn’t come to barm!'')
Then a/ length the Horsey stops unreined . . .
He is a horse superbly trained . . .
Before the end bouse on the block.
Whose shuttered windows seem to mock
The solitary wagon and the solitary horse . . .
And the milkman’s strange, zig-zagging course.

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Mickey Murakami, Proprietor

He hasn’t missed these seven years,
As soon as Horsey’s tread he hears,
To open wide the door to greet
The early milkman from the street:
“Merry Christmas, Bert, you dope,
You can stand a glass, I hope?”
Giddy-ap, oh Giddy-ap, you Horsey pal o’ mine!
Sweet A-d-line . . .

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New Denver, B.C.
Next the Downings . . . bless her heart!
She never inisses on her part.
Who, you Horsey, what do you know!
Here’s' a gift she left to show
She really does appreciate ...
(Catch her growling when I’m late.)
The Baxters now ... I hope he’s up
To let me share a cheering cup . . .

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Men of Good Will

ADVENT ushers in the begin­ clean sheets and covers; having’
Some there, are who are indif­
ning of another Christian year that scrubbed and starched feel­
on Christmas day, and a week ing that lasted practically the ferent to this annual ritual. Thev
later comes "O-Sho-Gatsu”. In all whole day? These were the out­ have never bothered to wash off
countries where the New Year ward physical marks of the an­ the old dirt, or even acknowledg­
is greeted with traditional cus­ nual rite, and brought to its ed the new accretions they are
likely to acquire. They just dis­
toms, often with the solemnitv of lowest
common
denominator,
appear
into the mound of what­
religious dedications, there is a were both hygienic and salutary.
preparation, a cleaning up, with There was discipline in it too, ever has stuck to them, good or
fresh resolves against old habits and respect: respect for tradi­ bad, and have not. recognized
which we discard or hope to dis- tion and the good purpose behind either. Some utter that effete
cry: ‘T am free!” and slump into
card with the passing twelve­ the practice.
the bondage of their own bes­
month. The people taking part in
When the preparation reaches
tiality,
while others mourn: ”1
these preparations with a reali­ the intellectual and spiritual
zation of their meaning have kept realms, then the ceremony be­ am doomed ” and sink into the
a vitality of spirit that is now comes complete. A study of the sloughs of their own inertia. The
in their
lost to many of our contem­ balance sheet of the past twelve­ tragedy
wilful
ignorance.
poraries.
month can be anything from dis­
Against the murderous arro­
How many of us remember the gusting to inspiring. As animals,
gance
of the Nietzsches, and the
festive day when we were clean have we remained natural ? As
from the skin out, hart ng bathed rational beings, have we been suicidal tendencies of the Scho­
in what amounted to a ritual of intelligent ? As men, have we penhauers, there are the humi­
washing’ off the old dirt and been good ? Have there been per­ lity and courage of true men.
putting on freshly laundered and versions of nature, subversions These have given their steadfast
ironed clothes, if not new clothes; of intellect; have there been con­ integrity, their inspiring ideals,
their faith in man and God, so
having got out of beds which had versions of the will ?
that sceptical as we are, weary
and bored as we are sometimes,
we are still touched to wonder
and
admiration when we meet or
BEST WISHES OF THE SEASON
hear of these men of good will.
There is Abbe Pierre of Paris,
there was Francis of Assisi, botn
living the life of their fellow-men
among the rag-pickers of Paris,
the beggars of Assisi. There was
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Thomas of Aquin, a simple monk,
Hamilton, Ont.
but the world’s greatest philo­
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sopher since Aristotle. There
was Gilbert K. Chesterton, the
great man of letters in England.
There is Jacques Maintain, teach­
ing in an American university, a
Wishing You All a Very Merry Christmas
man of deep humility and simpli­
city, but a great intellectual.
and a Happy and Prosperous New Year
These are all famous people, but
there are hundreds of thousands
who are un-named to worldly
fame: some right here in Toronto whose names arc not unknown to those who search for
truth.
What would we do without the
people who await the new year
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with clean and open hands, with
clear and humble hearts? What
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would we do without the people
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We could not survive without
Vancouver, B.C.
these men of good will.

LUCK INN CHOP SUEY

DAVID S. MATSUBA

b^st wishes for a merry Christmas & a prosperous 1955

ib5 West Hastings
Vancouver,

450-460 Granville

B.C.

Mr. & Mrs. T. Shimotakahara
Mr. & Mrs. J. Suzuki, Lawrence, Karen & Christopher
Mr. & Mrs. C. Kadota, Jennifer & Constance
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^HEN. Kazuo Kawasaki was sixteen
" years old he had told his parents:
“I don’t intend to get married, ever.
I know what I want in life, and ic
doesn’t include a female/’
At the time when he said this, Kaz’s
parents were elated and they smiled
secretly at one another. And if you think
that Mr. and Mrs. Kawasaki took the
words of their son frivolously, you’re
mistaken.
You see, to Mr. and Mrs. Kawasaki
there were eleven Commandments of
which the eleventh was the most impor­
tant. And because the authorities per­
sisted in overlooking this Commandment,
they had taken it upon themselves t>->
pound it into their son. Mr. and Mrs.
Kawasaki had reiterated their pet pro­
verb year after year, now in one form,
now in another.
Boys and girls don’t mix . . . As long
as you’re a student, don’t you ever think
of girls . . . Girls are scheming, evil,
wicked. . . . Schools and girls are like
water and oil, they don’t mix . . .
And so on.
Kaz was smart and learned the lesson
well. While most of us acquired an
interest in girls, Kaz developed an in­
terest in Physics^ and while our infatu­
ation with our first love withered and
waned, Kaz’s fascination for Physics
blossomed and matured. He was virtually
married to the subject, and we friends
of his jealously expected a brain-child
any day.

But while our attitude to Kaz had
changed from one of ridicule to respect.
Mr. and Mrs. Kawasaki worried over
their son’s overzealous preoccupation in
academics. They came over to our house,
one evening, and confessed their irre­
parable ‘faux pas’.
“It was your silly idea that girls
should have no place in the boy’s heart,’’
accused Mr. Kawasaki.
"But that was only so he wouldn’t
get mixed up with a' girl prematurely.
You yourself agreed on the scheme,”
protested Mrs. Kawasaki.
"The boy is abnormal, and I’m not
at all convinced that we’re not partiallv
responsible,” said Mr. Kawasaki.
"Partially? Perhaps wholly,” said Mrs.
Kawasaki.
Mr. Kawasaki turned and looked me
straight in the eye.
"Won’t you help straighten him out,”
he begged. "God knows he needs guid­
ance but he won’t listen to me. Maybe
if you talk to him, informal-like, he
might listen.”
What could I say ? I promised to do
my best. Mr. Kawasaki took my hand
and shook it warmly, but I already had
some misgivings. What could I say to
Kaz? Romance is quite a delicate sub­
ject and not the easiest thing to sell
to a born bachelor. Besides, you can’t
argue or reason with Ka.z; he twists
your arguments around and makes a
monkey out of you if you try. I studied
various approaches to the problem and
decided on a sermon. I didn’t like the
idea, particularly, but my cortex re­
fused to provide a better suggestion.
And so I prepared a well-planned speech
and awaited the opportunity to exercise
my oratory. I didn’t have long to wait

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because Kaz and I are good friends de­
spite our different interests.
“Kaz,” I said solemnly, one day,
“there are times when one must be
cruel only to be kind. There is nothing
sadistic in telling people the facts of
life, even if the people concerned happen
to be your parents. The dating-rating
complex is part of our national heritage
and as rightful citizens of this demo­
cratic nation, we must uphold this value.
Why, girls stimulate men to greater
endeavors, ultimately to fame and pros­
perity. Companionship with girls is a
desirable and natural thing and should
be fostered, encouraged . . .”
“Ugh,” said Kaz, "your adolescence
is abominable.”
I was going to tell him that he was
sublimating his frustration in a highfaluting facade of simulated intellec­
tualism, but I felt he wouldn’t under­
stand.
And frankly, I couldn’t understand
Kaz. For a guy who’s smart and good­
looking, he just didn’t make sense. Would
you believe it? The guy’s tall, dark,
and handsome; he’s got an angular fare
that catches the light well; and an infec­
tious smile that is reputed to have sent
the hearts of a lot of girls aflutter
— and he’s unattached.
Mr. Kawasaki took my disappointing
report in good stride. He must have
anticipated my failure for he had con­
cocted a sure-fire plan in the meantime.
He was exuberantly confident and di­
vulged his secret scheme to me. The
plan was a take-off on the traditional
Japanese picture marriages.
Are you familiar with Japanese pic­
ture marriages? It’s something like this:
photographs of a lot of girls are pre­
sented to an eligible bachelor who is
asked to pick out a prospective mate.
What the poor guy doesn’t know, of
course, is that most of the prettier girls
are already married; and invariably,
the pretty Miss the guy picks out is
already somebody’s Mrs. At this point
the sewanin or baishakunin enters the
picture.
“My dear boy,” he says to the em­
barrassed lad, “matrimony is not some­
thing to be taken so lightly. You are
asked, my dear boy, to make the most
important decision of your life. On the
altar you must promise to love, honor,
and obey, to bear with the woman of
your choice through sickness, disease,
poverty and pestilence — till death, my
boy . . . Naturally you are overcome.
Who wouldn’t be? Well now, maybe I
can help you, my boy.
“Now this girl that you picked. Yes,
I admit that she’s rather good-looking,
but believe me, that’s all she’s got. She’s

as dumb as an ox and stubborn besides.
Notice all the jewellery she wears, she’ll
spend all your meager wages on cosme­
tics and clothes. She lives in the present
with no thoughts of the future, and
when her beauty fades with the years,
she’ll become intolerable. A potential
hypochondriac, this one. You’d be wise
to pass her by, my boy.
“Now see this cute thing. Her mother
made her take music lessons and dancing
lessons. She can play the piano, do the
mambo, and knit fancy sweaters, but
she can’t cook, or sew, or do anything
fundamental.
“Now this girl, she’s not very- gla­
morous, I agree, but you’ve got to get
to know her to appreciate her. She’s
unpretentious and she’s got a heart of
gold. She can cook, sew, and do the
housework. You’d be wise to pick her,
my boy, but you’d better hurry —
there’s half a dozen other fellows after
her. you know.”
The fellow ‘picks’ and is assured of
his future happiness. But to get back
to the story — Mr. Kawasaki has been
in this country for over twenty years
and he has come to appreciate the
Western way of life. He is determined,
above all. that his son should do his own
picking. Thus all Mr. Kawasaki proposed
to do was to invite an attractive girl
to his home to arouse his son’s interest
in the fairer sex.
Mr. Kawasaki is, by nature, not very
talkative. Thus his self-imposed ordeal
was an especially excruciating one, but
like many an Issei parent, he thought
only of his son’s happiness.

“I have a problem,” began Mr. Kawa­
saki one evening, and Kazuo immediately
lent an attentive ear. Father and son
conversation was not a very common
occurrence in the Kawasaki household,
and when it did occur, it was generally
important.
“You see, Kazuo,” said Mr. Kawasaki,
“a daughter of an old friend of mine
has a. job in this city. She doesn’t know
anybody here, and her mother doesn’t
want to send her here unless she can
be assured that her daughter will be safe
in the big city . . . The problem is,
Kaz, you’re so dead set against girls
that I’m afraid you’ll frighten her back
to the country. Here’s her picture, by
the way, in case you’re interested.”
Kaz said nothing, and Mr. Kawasaki
thrust the picture into his hand.
“Well son,” said Mr. Kawasaki, “do
you think you can act as a host to this,
I must say, rather attractive young
lady?”
“Why can’t she stay at the ‘Y’?”
Kaz said.
‘ Didn’t I tell you, Kaz, she’s an un- ‘

sophisticated country girl? Her mother
doesn’t trust . . .”
“I’m sorry Dad, but I’m awfully busy.”
“Won’t you think about it, son?
“Sorry Dad.”
It was a defeated Mr. Kawasaki that
came to our place that week. I tried to
assure him that in matters of the heart
one can never be too certain, but words
were hardly the things that could com­
fort Mr. Kawasaki.
Kaz, on the other hand, was in an
especially jocund mood when I saw him
next. He smiled, smirked, and said:
“You know what? I think Dad’s get­
ting old — senile and doting.”
“He’s worried about you,” I said.
“What for?” asked Kaz.
“You know darn well what for,” I
said, and then I wondered if he did
know.
“You’re unsociable and you stick too
much to yourself,” I said.
“Ah, the cosy comfort of confinement;
but maybe I’ll surprise him,” said Kaz
with his diabolical half-smile.
I did not see much of the Kawasakis
in the few weeks that followed. The
fault, of course, was entirely mine. I
avoided Kaz because I did not know
what else I could say to him, and I
purposely avoided Mr. Kawasaki because
I didn’t know what I could say to him
either.
And so, when the Kawasakis invited
me to dinner as they often did, I ac­
cepted with mixed emotions. Mrs. Kawa­
saki is a wonderful cook, and what did
I have to lose! Bridges should be
crossed when you come to them, I said
to myself.
You can well imagine my surprise
then, to see an eye-catching intelligentlooking girl in the living room of the
Kawasakis. I wondered how Mr. Kawa­
saki had managed that and was think­
ing it was a shame that Kaz did not
inherit his father’s ways with the ladies.
Kaz interrupted my reverie by introduc­
ing the young lady. Her name was
Y'ukiko.
I was drawn to her as an iron filing
is attracted to a. powerful magnet; 1
felt as helpless as a child that had not
yet learned how to manipulate his vocal
apparatus. I scrutinized her in silence.
She was the kind of girl that even
Mickey Spillane couldn’t have spoiled.
Dickens couldn’t have described her —
she couldn’t be caricatured. She would
have defied Dostoyevsky as well. The
Russian novelist was always much too
preoccupied with psychic analysis to
have been impressed by her surface
radiance. Flaubert would have failed,
but Tolstoy might have done her justice.
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Wednesday, December 22, 1954.

The abrupt awakening was
cruel. It came suddenly and spon­
taneously — something- snapped
— my senses returned. That, I
thought was what Wouk made
Keefer call the “pregnant pause”,
and I searched the literature for
the appropriate words to say. I
found them in Keats:
“Much ha.ve I travelled in the
realms of gold . . .”
“Oh, don’t give me that —
wolves don’t travel, they crawl
on all fours,” said the living doll.
“I swear I am not a wolf. The
closest I’ve come to being one
was when I was a uniformed Cub
in a Wolf Cub Pack, but that was
before I was graduated into the
ranks of the Boy Scouts.”
“Happy scouting, friend,” she
said, “and I hope you meet a
nice girl guide. Too bad I gra­
duated from that rank years ago,
Her coldness reminded me of
Kaz. I turned and caught him
eyeing me with that silly, whim­
sical look of his.
“A real sweater girl — this
Yukiko,” I said.
“She’d look good in calico,”
said Kaz.
“She’s a beauty,” I said.
“And she’s witty,” said Kaz.
“She’s neat,” I added.
“Very sweet,” said Kaz.
“By golly, she’s got you talkingin rhymes,” I said.
“'Who cares, as long as she’s
mine,” said Kaz.
“Gee, when did Kaz meet a
girl like you, Yuki?” I asked.
“Mmm, when was it, Kaz, it’s
been so long . . .”
“S hhh,” whispered Kaz.
And then I realized that Kaz
was smart, very smart, and in
more ways than one.

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by JOY NAKAYAMA
Coaldale, Alta.
FIVE unsympathetic fingers
propelled me from the silvery
palace. The gate slammed on n
devil-may-care-ish shrug, and
my lower fighting lip drooped
peevishly.
“Fitzgerald,
you
ass.” I
paused. “Ass,” I said. The word
shocked me deliciously. I defied
the heavens, cupped my hands
and bellowed: “Fitzgerald, vou
ASS’”
Two jet-propelled feet fled
through the snow, over the field
and up an encrusted drift.
There, a grinning imp hugged
himself in devilish mirth. I roll­
ed on the hard frosting, guf­
fawing exhaustively.
The sky was incredibly pure
and deep. Almost frightening, I
thought. “If I bought some
magic beans, Fitzgerald would
throw them out the window, and
I’d let the giant catch him,
and-------- ”

Fe fi fo fum echoed earth­
ward and a golden egg tumbled
out of the blue. With an electri­
fying minor chold the firma­
ment dissolved and Jack came
gdissading down a heaven-sent
vine. The air gradually filled
with a rollicking, whirling- sym­
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Out stepped' the Pied Piper
from his empyreal home. Lift­
ing his pipe, he led the celestial
orchestra in a quaint, curious
appeal. I was filled with a mad
hunger, and with an impulsive
lurch, leapt from the snow.
Jack cocked his head, winked
an eye, and scrambled nimbly
upwards. A numb moment, later,
Jack’s n e w 1 y - w o n shadow
steeplechased after him.
Perched atop the beanstalk,
Jack and I peered down at the
little world beneath us. An ex­
hilarating sensation engulfed
me as Fairyland’s atmosphere
pierced my core. Another theme
from the revolving spheres her­
alded a glistening Pegasus into
existence. Two hops, skips, and
glides landed Jack and shadow
on the winged back.
We soared out of Oz, gallop­
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toed past Mother Goose, waltz­
ed by Wonderland, and nibbled
through the Sugar Plum king­
dom, sailing- more gaily and
tirelessly than did ever Wynken and brothers. Earth, time,
and all mundane verities lost *
meaning in our celestial para­
dise. We spurred our steed on

until his shoes spanked to a
halt before a heavy mist, glow­
ing with an unearthly eerie
phosphorescence. We dismount­
ed wonderingly.
Cymbals clashed, the spectre
swung open, and an armless
hand, palm first, was thrust in
our faces . . . Jack tumbled
backwards. As I attempted to
retreat, the hand grasped me,
dragged me through, closed the
aperture, and as quick as
thought vanished, leaving- a be­
wildered boy alone.

A wave of Sunday-school hor­
ror mixed with Saturday-night
mirth crept over me. as my
senses responded to this new
environment. Ten feet from me
sat Rollo Rhubarb, mixing- ser­
pents in a fiery cauldron. At
his feet, choking convulsively
in the blood and gore, lay three
mighty champions of good:
Samson, Daniel and Fitzgerald.
I glanced furtively across my
right shoulder, crossed my toes,
and gulped at the blasphemy.
Here Virtue fought Vice a
losing battle. The air thickened
with soot and sorcerers’ brews,
with shrieks and jeers, with

That motion instigated action.
My lead feet metamorphosed
into mercury, and I flew. I
could hear the raucous voice, of
my pursuer as I sped past the
milky way.
“HEY there! Get down from
that tree and come for supper.”
The earth came swooping to­
wards me as I slithered to
safety down the beanstalk. I
sprinted across the North Role.
“Tie for dessert.”
1 sank resignedly before my
captor.
“What were you hollering
about in that tree?”
I shrugged. Fitzgerald brayed
like such an - - a donkey, I
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PEOPLE — old greybeards, graIndeed magazine articles, mov­
duates and the like — will tell ies, and cartoons all have com­
you as if they were letting you bined to make of “college life”
g in on a secret of sorts, that the something out of the virile pages
four years of ‘“college life” are of Scott Fitzgerald and his
incomparable beyond all things theme of frenetic pursuit of en­
in the pursuit of fun, frolic and tertainment and debauch. And
underwear. To give you evidence, patriarchs of society still cling
they will relate tales of the to their favorite hobby of mut­
fanciful feats of their undergra­ tering in their beards about the
duate days, which together with wicked younger generation. I was
the dutiful reports of the current somewhat confused when first I
crop by the daily press, are in­ crossed the greensward of the
clined to give credence to the campus, for I had heard breath­
theory. For example, not long less tales of beardless actions
ago there was a story to the ef­ among the cloisters. “Non-con­
fect that the average college formity!” was the battle-cry of
woman imbibes with apparent the university, and that, in
gusto the astounding total of essence, was a frightening thing
twelve pints of beer weekly, far in itself. I still stumble across
surpassing the supposedly hard­ the campus, clutching musty
ier male who meekly and blush- books in my hot little hands,
ingly admitted to a relatively but the deeds of the barbarous
negligible amount. “College life”, have become myths. The campus
if you will believe these people, type is, after all, too human
is suffused with beer and sex and feels too much at home with
and all the gayety of a Parisian the law of gravitation to exert
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filled with disillusionment about
the world and- society. The old
crusaders

have faded away to

extinction. The poetry of T. S.
Eliot is now accepted as sane
and meaningful, and the modem
conservative tendencies have re­
placed the leftist political radi­
cals who might have made things
far more exciting and truculent.
What is left now are the usual
fall and spring exercises of un­
dergarment raids, proms, half­
hearted beer parties, football
games, and above all, the necessity to find a proper niche in
society.
Education is supposed to resuit in a man emerging as a
“well-rounded” personality. The
educated man should be able, at
the shutting off ’ of the TV set.
to discuss James Joyce, Dylan
Thomas, Picasso, or such sophi­
sticated popular culture as Pogo
or the metaphysics of Mickey
Spillane. He is supposed to
emerge with the equipment to
deal with worldly as well as intel­
lectual matters. But the only man
who seems to succeed in this
noble undertaking is, surprising­
ly enough, the engineer, who upon
A graduation is besieged with of­
A
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A could be more worldly and plea­
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X
with the grim prospect of not
..being able to enjoy either. It
follows therefore, that the major­
A ity of college students have sub­
merged themselves for this rea­
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son
in the uninspiring mechanism
A
X of practical science. What price
A
A a well-rounded personality ? It is
X
not a salable product.
Perhaps too, the engineers are
to blame for the passion for for­
mal convention of dress on the
campus. Current collegiate uni­
forms seem to cater towards
jackets with faculty names em­
blazoned across the back in a
most unbecoming and embarras­
sing manner, as if their owners
were out collecting advertisements. Add to this: white bucks,
preferably dirty, in the place of
civilized footwear, a slightly
smug air, and you see the picture arrange itself. No less conventional are the arts types with
their navy blue blazers, com­
plete with, proud and superior
crests, smartly-pressed grey flan­
nels, and an air of studied casual­
ness. But at least they seem
less likely than their uncultured
brethren to cause local tavernkeepers to be imprisoned for
of
the existing
malfeasance
liquor laws, What is lacking is
headwear of some sort, but per­
haps that too will come to be.
The girls are less conventional
in dress except for the condemn­
ing presence of those mottled
two-toned saddle shoes, Why
shapely feet are encumbered with
such monstrous pieces of leather
I cannot figure out. They adfl
little to the feminine form divine,
but instead render it into the
semblance of flat-footed hippo­
potami working for baccalau­
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in the years after graduation,

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as oillars of social, life they will
be hissing haughtily into each
other’s faces if two of them com­
mit the faux pas of wearing the
same, frippery. The significant
thing of all this, of course, is
that the uniformity of dress has
become
a
social desirability
among the college neophytes.
And it is illogical to suppose that
non-conformity of mind can be
Loused in the types who revel in
conformity of dress.
All-out beer-guzzling, which is
ballyhooed far and wide as the
backbone of college life, is prac­
tically
confined to
“football
weekends” and then is indulged
in only by the extrovert or the
confirmed drinkers who really
form such a small portion of the
student body that the amount of KATHLEEN KAWAGUCHI of Toronto was awarded the Ontario
publicity given to it is really JCCA Oratorical Challenge Trophy at the Hamilton YMCA by
remarkable, if not extravagant. provincial chapter prexy Mits Sumiya, Jim Kadonaga (Hamilton)
Perhaps it is accountable for the and Beverley Tamura (Toronto, 2nd prize) look on. Other contes­
immoderate emotionalism ram­ tants were Mayumi Yamasaki (3rd prize), Akemi Horiuchi, and
pant in football games where
Grace Toguri, all of Toronto.
more importance than seems
necessary is given to four quar­
ters filled with insipid school
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songs and and cheers which are ;
shouted with the incredible vociferousness of orangoutangs looking for jungle-mates, and summarily accompanied with the
polyphony
of
little retching
noises. And there is little validity
R. H. (Jim) Tanouye & family
in the sentiment of the engineer­
Hamilton
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(and implies that they only can
do it). It is a supremely egotistic and challengeable bit of
erru
ear
nonsense.
Finally, the spring and fall
panty-raid follies have ballooned
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BEST WISHES
for

A Very Merry Christmas

The Best of Everything

in 1955

. Best Wishes of the Holiday Season
MR. & MRS. KOICHIRO OKIHIRO
and FAMILY
483 Evans Ave.,
Toronto 14, Ont.
CL. 9-1358

to our Nisei friends and customers:—
We thank you for your patronage

and hope we may be of continued service
a

in the coming year.

MR. & MRS. GEO. T. TANAKA
and FAMILY
57 Sullivan Ave.,
Toronto 2-B, Ont.
3u° to bereavement in the family,

season's greetings will be omitted

MR. BUNSHICHI SHIOZAKI
MR. & MRS. DAVID SHIOZAKI
MR. & MRS. RICHARD SHIOZAKI
MR. & MRS. KAZUO IWAMOTO
119 MacPherson Ave.,
Toronto, Ont.

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THE

THE QUIET FORCE
(Continued from Page One)
drug trade. Hence the nature of
• his personal contacts. But we
could scarcely be persuaded that
a background such as this was
the right training for surveil­
lance of political sentiment and
wartime disloyalty. The actual
record on wartime political in­
ternments, which we suspected
he directed, seemed to confirm
this impression, as did the initial approach of the B.C. Security Commission. But -we think
we realize how innocent we
were in those days. And we
don’t suppose that we shall
ever learn if the Sergeant knew
much less than we did, or if, in
fact, he actually knew a very
great deal more about all the
political sentiments felt or ex­
pressed in our community. Ser­
geant Leopold is described as
having operated as an under­
cover agent right in the midst
of the innermost Communist
councils. Was it possible that
one or more of our neighbors
carried on similar undercover’
activity in the Japanese com­
munity? We like to think not
— even though it may have
been necessary. And if he did,
did he then have the complete
confidence of the RCMP? And
was our smiling- friend, Sergeant - - - , the key link in the
chain of secret surveillance?
And what power lay in the
hands of the undercover inform­

and injustice
alike! These are questions that
er,

for

justice

intrigue us still. The “Quiet
Force”, we suppose, is not likely

to unburden itself of the ans­
wers.

THE THIRD MEMBER of th
Force we recall most vividly,
we never saw in a uniform of
any kind, Our first encounter
with him took place in prePearl Harbor days, when we
appeared before the special gov­
ernment committee which had
been set up to inquire into the
wave of intense anti-Japanese
feeling that had been rapidly
building up in B.C. from before
the outbreak of war in Europe.
It’s almost fifteen years ago
now, but we remember the at­
mosphere of secrecy that en­
shrouded our meeting, the plush
hotel suite, the panel of ques­
tioners. Our most vivid memory
is of the man of whom we speak
— his long, lean frame; the
keen, penetrating eyes in the
grave, unsmiling face; the careful, deliberate, extremely slowspoken framing of the questions.
About a year later we went
through a much more difficult
questioning. This was at the
height of the tension, when
incipient Nisei opposition to
the conduct of the evacuation
might well have turned the
whole course of events into unknown channels. K----- and ourselves are not likely ever to
forget the shock that overcame
us to hear the false charges
brought against us, the taut
grilling or our angry denials, or
the vehement reaction that
broke

through the

disciplined

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police exterior to reveal some­
thing of the man beneath.
A third encounter, some time
later, was still more revealing
He talked rather more freely
than at any previous time. He
confided his personal abhor­
rence of the tide of prejudice,
and the cheap political exploi­
tation of it, with which he' had
to grapple. He spoke of his own
role as a police officer, and of
the responsibilities of his men.
And he unbent with something
that might have been interpret­
ed as an apology, when he
pointed out that had it not been
for the accident of war, our
paths as police officer on one
hand, and ordinary law-abiding
citizen on the other, in all
probability would never have
crossed. We felt him to be whol­
ly sincere, to be deeply sym­
pathetic towards us all, and
genuinely anxious that the RC­
MP should carry out its respon­
sibilities in as just a manner
as the circumstances would per­
mit.
IN RETROSPECT, and reflect­
ing on the events and leading
personalities of those years, we
think it very likely that this
was the source of much of the
moral leadership experienced
by both the Security Commis­
sion and the police. We think
it likely his influence and moral
approach was felt throughout
the whole administration of an
exceedingly complex, drastic and
delicate operation. The fact that
so many of us managed to
come through it with so few
permanent scars is a tribute to
him that we are glad to record
this Christmas day.

W.»da««i«Y, Dscambsr 22, 1354,

MR. & MRS. K. K. IRIZAWA

Mr. <5 Mrs. ARTHUR K. OKAMOTO
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HOLIDAY

THE NEW CANADIAN

VOL. 17 —NO. 99

WEDNESDAY,

DECEMBER

22,

ENGLISH
Section 3

1954.

TORONTO, ONT.

MY FIRST VISIT to the Yukon was
back in June of 1951. A group of busi
nessmen, including myself, took a fishingtrip to the Yukon and Alaska from High
Prairie in the Peace River country of
Alberta.
We were so fascinated by the country
— the rugged snow-capped mountains,
the multitude of clear lakes and streams
— all still untouched by man, that we
were back again the following year.
And, of course, the fish were exception­
ally good.
On our 1952 trip I inquired about the
possibilities of establishing a dental
practice in Whitehorse — particularly
since there seemed to be such a backlog
of dental work to be done here. Besides,
what could be nicer than having an
excellent practice right in the middle
of a sportsman’s paradise ?
Office space was at a premium, so
it wasn’t until February of 1953 that
I was able to arrange for suitable ac­
commodation. It was about this time that
the federal government announced the
possible developing of 4% million horse­
power on the Yukon River. So I felt I
was making a wise move, since the
expansion and development of White­
horse and the Yukon seemed imminent.
At this time, I had a four-chair clinic
in High Prairie. In May, when the office
at Whitehorse was ready, I had my
equipment crated and transported 1,300
miles further north. I started practice

STRANGE AS it may seem, the pressure

being built to house seven doctors and
dentists, and in anticipation of future

in June.

of dental work here is unbelievable.

tremendous growth for Whitehorse.

WHITEHORSE is situated on the south

There are three civilian and three mili­

bank of the Yukon River and at mile

tary dentists to serve the community.

THE COST of living- is much higher
here than outside. Consequently, wages.

Why I Live in the Yukon
by Dr. NOME NISHIO
918 on the Alaska Highway. It is the
No. 1 city in the Yukon though by
outside standards very small. It’s com­
posed of 3,500 civilians and 3,500 Army
and Air Force personnel.
Whitehorse had its start, in the days
of 98 and the Klondike Gold Rush, the
events of which have been immortalized
by the Bard of the Yukon, Robert Ser' ice, and his now famous works, includ­
ing “The Cremation of Sam McGee.”
In 1942 the American Army construct­
ed the Alaska Highway which extends
from Dawson Creek, B.C. (mile 0),
through Fort Nelson and Whitehorse,
to Fairbanks, Alaska — a distance of
1,527 miles. Since the construction of
the Highway, an ever-increasing number
of tourists and travellers is visiting this
north country, and it is a common ex­
perience to have seen visitors from every
province in Canada and every state in
the United States.
The lure of the north and stories of
fortunes being made overnight attracts
a great many Americans to Alaska.
There are lodges and gas stations about

every fifty miles along the Highway.

and yet I found myself booking nine
months in advance — an unheard of
situation in practices outside. We draw
a lot of patients from Alaska as well
as from the Yukon and northern British
Columbia. It is a common occurrence to
have patients fly in by plane, or travel
three to 400 miles
up or down the
Highway to keep an appointment.
With regard to the type of practice
here — since we have no specialists,
as in any small community, we learn to
handle most of the ‘special’ cases such
as jaw injuries in accidents, working
hand in hand with the local doctors in
the hospital. We have many car acci­
dents on the Highway due to ice and
snow in the winter and dust in the
summer. For the most serious cases,
we fly the patient either to Vancouver
or Edmonton.
At the present moment I have another
dentist helping me and have word out.
for a second. The two MD’s and myself
are constructing a two-storey medico­
dental building which should be ready
for occupation by January, 1955. It is

salaries, etc., are correspondingly higher.
For example, we pay 50c a quart for
milk, 55c for a gallon of gas, 25c for
a copy of the daily Edmonton newspaper.
Eggs are 85c a dozen, bread is 26c a
loaf, and butter 85c a pound.
Automobiles average 8500-600 more
here than in Toronto, due to freight
costs.
Real estate is sky-high in Whitehorse.
An empty corner lot sold for $28,000
recently, although the average business
lot ranges from $10,000 to $50,000 for
a fifty-foot frontage. Lots for homes
average $1,500 — when they can be
purchased.
Since Whitehorse is located in a valley
and surrounded by mountains, the ex­
tent of expansion has reached the limit.
All future expansion is planned for
across the Yukon River where 3,000 lots
are available. The government is ap­
propriating $750,000 for the construction
of a bridge in 1955.
KNOWN AS the “Land of the Midnight
Sun”, the Yukon has 24 hours of day­
light in the summer and practically the
same number of hours of darkness in
winter. In Whitehorse, which is in the
southern Yukon, the sun rises about
10:30 a.m. and sets about 2:15 p.m. in
mid-winter.

(Continued Next Page)

UBC
was

COED

the

Mary

winner

of

Endo,

19.

the

first

postwar oratorical contest held

PROBLEM of ASSIMILATION
by MARY ENDO

on the west coast by Japanese
Canadians. Revived by the Vancouver .
held on

the contest was
21,

1954

for the

Consul Nemichi Oratorical Chal­
lenge Trophy. The text of Miss
Endo's winning speech is Riven
here.

nese Canadians who determinedly fought the bitterest
winds of intolerance for liberty and equality. Aided
by the Canadian-Japanese associations and the many
church missions, these people struggled to establish
themselves as an integral part of the society. The
brotherhood and friendship shown by the non-prejuDean Angus of the University of British Columbia
diccd Occidentals encouraged them on towards their
once said:
goal
of complete acceptance. With education they
“It is essential that our Canadian Common­
overcame
the greatest obstacle, that of language, the
wealth should not consist of two categories of
chief vehicle of - assimilation, the means of conveying
citizens, complete and incomplete. We must suc­
ideas and ideals, songs, poetry, religion, law.
ceed in forming a society in which every Canadian
Today, a mutual trust and a mutual tolerance is
of whatever race can feel at home, in which he
slowly
developing between the different peoples. In
can find all those elements which constitute a
the economic field, race restrictions have been lifted,
fatherland for which he can loyally work and on
and the Nisei and the Sansei are allowed into a
whose support he can count in times of trial
variety of occupations.
and crisis.”
Politically, they have gained all the rights of the
Therein lies Canada’s Japanese problem, a problem
Canadian citizen. ,
of assimilation.
But it is in the social field that the problem of!
The Japanese came to Canada in great numbers
during the turn of the century-. Their expansion into . assimilation is still clearly evident. Canadian society
has not yet fully accepted the Japanese Canadian.
agricultural and commercial- fields caused a resent­
He is considered Japanese, never just Canadian. One
ment among their fellow Canadians which eventually
of the more controversial phases of this same subject
turned into bitterness and outright hatred. This un­
- is the one of intermarriage. The Eurasian child pre­
comfortable situation was accentuated with Japan’s
sents the problem. He is viewed with disfavor by both
participation in World War II. The events that follow­
groups; he is treated as a pariah, neither parent race
ed are known to all of us. Evacuation!! Even now,
willing to accord him equality of status. Is there a
twelve years later, the word stirs a' storm of emotion
solution
? A complete banning of this type of marriage
within the heart of the Japanese Canadians. Evacu­
is impossible. More intermarriages and the birth of
ation I! The word meant fear, terror, distrust: it meant
more
Eurasian children would certainly help. But it
political and economic restrictions, censorships, and
is within the hearts of the people that the work
me loss of homes built by years of toil and hardship.
must
begin. The Occidental and the Oriental must
This was Canadian democracy^ All loyalty was crumbled
uproot racial prejudice from their hearts and accept
-nto a dust of disillusionment.
each and every person, of whatever race or race mixHowever, there were those several thousand Japa-

gold, but only men ean make
A people great and strong —
Aien who. for truth and­ honor's sake
Stand fast and suffer long.
A £>/

ture, as an equal. Until this is done and until even
the smallest minority is accepted, the fight towards
assimilation must go on.
It is the problem of the present Japanese Canadian
generation to find a sane balance between the rather
strict, disciplinary- ways of their parents and the
individual initiative and enterprise of the western
civilization; between the formal, well-established cul­
ture of Japan and the indefinite mixture of cultures
of Canada. In finding this balance, the Nisei should
do his utmost not to lose his heritage, of immeasurable
value to the Canadian mosaic. It lies within his power
to contribute to Canada “the best of Japanese culture
with its formal traditions, its beauty and grace, its
aesthetic sensibilities, and its ethical seriousness.”
Looking back on the history of the Japanese in
Canada, we see a remarkable progress. .Assimilation
is certainly not complete but the problem is gradually
disappearing with Canada’s fight for a unified people.
With the granting of citizenship to most persons of
Japanese origin by the Citizenship Act of 1947, the
biggest step towards assimilation was taken. Given
equal rights, these people now had something to fight
for — their Canada. Even the evacuation, though it
broke the hearts of so many of the Isseis, could bo
looked on with a different light. It did scatter the.
Japanese Canadians into many different communities
across the country. Did the ends satisfy the means?
Was not the distrust and hatred that was caused
a rather high price to pay? We cannot say, but we
can be glad that the dispersal
been so successful.
Today, the Japanese Canadians are actively parti -

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the constructiohy:of many .“hew
homes and buildings comparable
to-- any outside.
(Continued from Page One)
The new $1.5 million federal
building occupies the central
MR. & MRS. JIRO. KIYONAGA
MR. <S MRS. TOM EBATA
Temperatures vary greatly in stream and are excellent snort
- position- -in ;|own;z
and
GARY
and-MARLEEN
the Yukon. Whitehorse is in a on a fly. Of course w-e have" many
It is a common sight to. see a
comparatively warm area, affect­ other game fishes here too —
5 Saugeen Cr.,
2523 Sharon Cr.,
beautiful new bungalow- or office
ed by coastal winds, and temper­ rainbow trout and land-locked


londale
Heights,
Ont.
Cooksville, Ont.
ybuilding standing next to an old
atures average 10-40. degrees-be­ salmon} to name a couple.
leaning •; cabin,.— and we-haveYIn Whitehorse, ^everyone fishes
low in winter and>65-90 in sum­
-or 3-storey log . cabins here too,
mer. Of course the odd cold snap during the summer — a 15—
MR. 6 MRS. RALPH KAMO
MR. & MRS. TAKEO YANO
built in the days of ’98.
may take the temperature way minute drive from town is all
and ETHEL
down to 60 or 70 below. 200 miles that is required -to -reach excel- OUR ’EVERYDAY life is much
the same as in any city outside
87 Nash Dr.,
to the north is Snag, known as lent fishing grounds.
64 Dufferin Ave.,
Downsview,
Ont.
And, of course, hunting has/ its -— we have :a .theatre; places to
the coldest-place in North AmeBrantford, Ont.
rica- and :deserv’edly so- — the' - hundreds of fans here too. Moose ; dance,-, play .basketball, -; badmin-84 mark was reached: there a hare -quite common- as:, are bear* Aon, or to curl in winter. In. summer, finding something to- do is
few years ago.
. -no'problem with the magnificent
Within easy reach of White­
About
the-.
Author
.
scenery we have here. ;
.
horse by plane or car are' many
Jea3on 3
“ft was in March' of ■ 1942, ”; says . .: Since; the city is intimately confamous cities and towns" of his­
torical interest. Mayo Landing’ Dr. Nishio, ‘‘that-. Sab 'Takahashi;: ; nected with the Armed .Forces,
Dr. and Mrs. NOBLE HORI
and Keno, famous for lead mines, Fred,.Sasaki and myself were asked most, of .-. the ’ i businessmen are
to leave UBC.and Vancouver for . ? members of the officer’s mess of
are 250 miles to the north'. Daw­ points east — you might' say we
and KATHRYN
son City,. with’the historic dance ■ led the trek east for the thousands either the Army or the Air Force,

with
all
the
privileges
as
asso
­

that
were
to
follow.

The
author
halls, et cetera," still 'standing, is
350 "miles to the north and7 reach-' ryendeririup i-n;.’Edmonton; where Jie. ciate members — it . is., indeed.
9 Ternhill Crescent
graduated from , the University of
ed by car or “paddle’ wheeler” — Alberta with his,degree in dentistry. •--quite an honom They hold many,
DON MILLS, Ont.
an amazing trip dovm the Yukon rri'1947. Meanwhile," the Nishio social ; evenings of one form-hr.
River in the paddlewheeler “Klon­ 'family .had moved from Vancouver - another,..so my wife and..I:’find;
dike”. Most of these flat-bottom­ to' Bridge River,’ then on. to Mon.- ; - that-our social life is very.busy
:a
ed boats have "been taken off the - - treat,: which -Dr. .Nishio now con-;., and full.
siders his hometown. He practiced
run since' competition by truck at High Prairie, Alta., for six’ years.
There., are : very few- Japanese
*
ea^on d
freight has been tod great? ’ '" - Dr. Nishio, now 31; 'tells the rest in the Yukon Territory, the- bld- of his story here.
Carcross is 30 niiles • to' the '■i
timers being the Nakano family
south and ‘ was 'one/of'the stop-iri Dawson City, long-established
X
ping points for' the thousands of: /(bUck; browTi," and grizzlies). in the- restaurant and bakery
gold seekers who came over the"J Mountain sheep requires more business. There is also a family White -Pass from Skagway,' Ala- ■ ■ dxpe'nenced hunters and includes living in Mayo and another in
FURRIER
ska^in T898AAttin, B.C., is 100 - considerable 1 mountain-climbing Whitehorse.
J. 6 Rednor Road
miles to"Ahev southeast- and-: was' •for-success.
Phone GR. 1307 i

, FOR A LITTLE personal his­
the scene of another-gold rush, • Caribou are taken by the- him-’
tory: I married in 1953, arid my"
in days- past. It has "a beautiful; dreds f arther. morth around .Daw-.
wife and-Iu now'have a small son
setting on' the ' shores: of Attic . : son - * City. Hundreds . of -. sports-;
who I hope.will grow up to like
Lake.

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"• midii/from the States in particu­
i?
this north country as much as
lar,-’-visit the Yukon :each year-for his father does.
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THE YUKON is undoubtedly one
its unparalleled hunting and . ' I feel there is unlimited oppor- of the few remaining sportsman’s
5
fishing.
tunity in the north. It is just be­
paradises. - Lake trout averaging,
10-40 pounds are taken regularly ’THE FACE of Whitehorse has ginning to open up. But it takes
during the summer (To prove changed greatly in the past year a certain amount of initiative and
this point, Dr. Nishio has serif a or two. It was once a typical aggressiveness to,make the move.
color photograph which is unfor­ boom town- composed, -of many, • .L feel <that in .IA2 years in,
tunately not suitable for repro­ ’ unpainted .aridy leaning^ cabins,s Whftehbrse, ■■F'have ,accomplished;,p
duction.— Ed.) — and with Very ; shacks, and- so7 forthb However, more than;:L did, and.-am farther,■;
little effort. Grayling abound'by { Whitehorse has now taken on a ahead than I was, after six
the millions in every lake arid s more permanent appearance with years in Alberta.

Why I Live in the Yukon

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“In the Nature of Materials”

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Dr. PAUL K. ASADA
Doctor of Chiropractic

by GEORGE; TANAKA

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bt-jlb mow to be a time with the unconvincing varnish-or States' what he terms “gravity
or long- ago. But the evacu- paint. Many of us can remember
699 Yonge St.
Tel: Office:. RA. 6549
(j tion, too. is receding- into the tb.e “tansu” our-parents possessed- heating , popularly known now
Toronto, Ont.
Res.: WA. 3-6384 i j limbo df time. It was a time when — the Japanesesdrawer-cabinef- as radiant heating.
The modular proportions . in
I earned my living in Vancouver well-proportioned in its design
a
and finished within the'nature of4^4’nffj 'practiced by contemHeis, frustrated as we all
the ,.mater.iaI' .
_
_ .])OraT. "’estern architecture has
then in our'efforts to mak
V .1P wa§ in 191.4 - thgt^
. its ^forerunner .y ins the’ Japanese
m our live
invited to build the Imperial house where the proportions Tor
eadori j
Gardens
i.n;
Hotel in Tokyo.-In Tokyo then,; construction were determined bi’
were' much alike to me, whether he was invited to dinner at Baron the size of the
“tatami’
they were in Kerrisdale, Point; Okura’s home. It
winter. ' feet by six feet. Thus a house
Shaughnessy Heights, or The Baron’
dining room wits
was determined as a nine.
; along- Marine Drive.
Mr. & Mrs. JACK TANAKA
were. or thirty-four mat
monotonous in design. Rockeries;
house.
and FAMILY
were made for rocks' sqke, if^
: 1 recall ; conversation with
PHONE: EM.. 8-6609 seemed to me, with unconvincingi'
■ 479 QUEEN ST. EAST
- r. K. Narita who headed the
Res: EM. 4-1705
boulder placed by unconvincing;
/l3.^?’1^ " Government Overseas
TORONTO, ONT. '
boulder, side by side in irregular;
^I"bde Office at Ottawa a few
pattern, tier upon unimaginativeyears ago. Air. Narita told me
tier..
. h
$hat~the-'essence'o^ Japanese cul­
Like other Niseis I ma.de good
ture could be found in the reliuse of the free services of the
gion s of Japan.
Vancouver Public Librarv at
It has been said by Wright that
Hastings and Main Streets. All
the Japanese dwelling is a verithe books in the librarv on land
t^Nc seirnon bn the subject of
Kiscape architecture i and architect
"style in "industry”, that it be;
ture were' familiar to me. The
caane what.it is owing to a reli­
S books bn landscape design were
gious admonition, “Be clean’"
^ uninspired? for they were still of
That, simple cry was the austere
^ the eighteenth and nineteenth
soul, .of Shinto. Wright states:
| century schools' "of''thought ’-of
“Japanese art heard the cry, and
| 372 Bay Street
Toronto ^ formal symmetry and axial bal^us posterity has one' primitive
ance. But. one day I came across J
instance where a remarkably
the inspired book on the architec- |.
simple religious. edict or ideal
THE AUTHOR tural shelf. It was a new book*
■ made- architecture; - art,
and
*:* entitled In the Nature of Mater-’- heated by the "hibachi”. During craftsmanship the cleanest, in
*:* ials,' by Frank Lloyd Wright.. the 19-course dinner Wright every sense, of all clean workeadon d
Lined
❖ Those familiar with the subject. could hardly eat for-the cold in m anshi p fhe wor 1 d> b ve r. ’ ’ A nd; he
> will know Wright as the world- the room, for being a westerner, states, consequently all Japanese
THOMAS T. ONIZUKA
£ f a m o u s American architect., he was neither sufficiently cloth- art with its imaginative exuber­
:* Wright was recently interviewed ed nor conditioned like -the Japa- ance,.and organic elegance is .the
Barrister, Solicitor & Notary Public
> over the i CanadiangBroadcasting 'nese to the house temperature in practical -study in elimination.of
♦’ Corporation’s t e 1 e v i s i o n pro-' Japan. But after dinner the the insignificant. And herein was
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to our parents. Wright in art was born. And here,.states
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kneeled on the floor and immed- Wright, in this “plastic’ideal”,
From Wright’s book T learned;, .lately experienced an indescrib- we touch the secret of great
the important meaning of “indi<-.able comforting warmth which style. Wood is allowed to , be
genous" applicable to landscape seemed to glbvs up Into hfisfibbdy.i wood. Metal is allowed — .even
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other design fields. Indigenous: room, heat from the fire outside stone was never asked .to be less
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by Jack Nakamoto^E™ town has its Ginza

THE GIHZ

be it big or small, old or new.

Broadway; it

London. Picadilly Circus; Win
nipeg. Port age Ave. But in all

by GEORGE NISHIMURA

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wide world, there is
; only one real Ginza, and that
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are repre
of
the Ginza in Tokyo.
world-wide manufacturings. Col­
teeming mil
orful native garbs and sleek 66: hons, thieves
gauge
nylons, Swiss-made watch­
the Ginza —
( were it not for the Ginza, there es and Mikimoto pearls, hard
; might well be no Tokyo at all. dried fish and Hershey chocolate
The Ginza is the heart of Tokyo, bars line the counters in abanas Tokyo is the heart, of Japan. doned disorder. Prices of pur­
And
the heart throbs of chase range from five yen foe
i Tokyo sustain the life of Japan, the evening paper being hawked
I so do the heart throbs of the by the barefoot newsboy on the
j Ginza pulse life in the capital. street corner, to several million
I
The Ginza is a place of ex- yen quoted on the price tags of
treme contrasts — typical of the a brand new Jaguar on regal dis­
so-called “mysterious" Orient. Its play in a car dealer’s glassy
subway and its pedi-cabs are both show room. Anything is available
! vital parts of the city’s intricate at a price.
During the day, the Ginza is
i transportation sy
exquisite
a
bustling artery of Tokyo's
pieces of art are sold side by
daily
activities. Amid the din of
side with crude straw sandals
and bamboo combs; quality im­ the jam-packed subways, the
ported liqueurs and cheap local grinding wheels of the elevated
brews flow together in the noisy trains and the honking and toot-

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barrooms.

to MEMBERS and FRIENDS

TORONTO NISEI MAJORS
BOWLING LEAGUE
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Compliments of the Season

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People from all walks of life |
gather and disperse, and conver­
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
sation is conducted in a motley
Former editor of The New Can­
of strange tongues. Gullible
sightseers
with fat, bulging adian and now an officer in the
pocketbooks; black marketeers KCAF, the writer recalls Tokyo’s
with hawk-like eyes constantly on famed Ginza from memories of his
the lookout for an easy buck; several years’ experiences in post­
foreign service personnel, and war Japan.
kimono-clad window shoppers —
these and many more comprise
ing of the diesel-engine buses,
the Ginza’s existence. And all
satchel-bearing businessmen, be­
who trespass within its sacred
spectacled government clerks and
bounds are without exception af­
mascara-painted ■waitresses scur­
fected by an odd sensation —
ry to and fro. But even in this
the indefinable charm that is the
mad rush, life’s grimness can be
Ginza’s, and the Ginza’s alone.
detected
perhaps from the
And of course, the entrepre­
sight of a pair of ragged bodies
neurs — they are the backbone
— a mother and her infant —
of the Ginza. From modern, airconditioned apartment stores to huddled in the shelter of an
the dingy open air street stalls, abandoned street stall; or the

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parked Cadillac, searching the
curbs for discarded cigarette
butts. No one, however, stops to

take notice of them in their haste,
for they are nothing new — they
were there yesterday and pro­

bably will be there again tomor­
row.
ILth the setting of the sun,
an abrupt change takes place in
the scene. Merry voices mixed
with the tinkling' of glasses and
strains of dancing music, drift
out to the street from the crowd­
ed bars and taverns. Neon signs
advertising various choice deli­
cacies gawdily adorn the entranc­
es of cafes and restaurants.
Further along the street, a Ka­
buki playhouse is playing S.R.O.;
across from it a long queue
patiently awaits admission to see
Gary Cooper in 20th Century
Fox’s latest western. In the shad­
ows of side street doorways lurk
scantily-clad girls stalking their
prey. The girls are mostly still
in their teens, but having newly
emerged from the farms, that is
the only job they c-an' find. Life,
continues to be grim . . .
As the hours while away, the.
liveliness of the Ginza gradually
dies down, until by the wee hours
of the morning, all has once more
become quiet and serene — in
hushed expectance of another
mad day. Occasionally’’, perhaps,
the unsteady gait of a solitary
walker is heard — he had, in his
over-indulgence, no doubt, missed
his last streetcar home.

So that is the Ginza — at least
as far as words can tell. Yet,
much has been left out that
simply cannot be told — the emo­
tions and the atmosphere, and the
color of the Ginza remain among
the things that are indescribable.
The Ginza has been sung about,
filmed, and, yes, even written
about — but never has all that
is the Ginza been fully conveyed.
For to know the Ginza is the for­
tune of only those who have ac­
tually tread upon its holy do­
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A Problem of Assimilation
(Continued from Page One)

MR. & MRS. J. KONO
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cipating in every phase of Canadian life. There are
only an ignorant few in Canada who deliberately snub
the black-haired race. We have come to the day when
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"IFe -first saw light in Canada

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Assimilation is a twofold process. There is the
person who is assimilated and the community which
: . assimilates him. The colored and the white must work
together and meet each other half way. Each must
regard the other as Canadian first, foremost, and
always. When this is realized, the problem is almost
solved. For truly, there is

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GRACE and DOROTHY
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Here are some of the titles of these books:

Let’s Explore Your Mind
^iISEIS WHO are exposed to Dr. E. S. Carpen­
Peace of Mind
ter's anthropology courses at the University
of Toronto are fortunate indeed, for they are
On Being a Real Person
learning from one of the thinking men at the
How to Stop Worrying
Lnneisity. I should like to present a digest of
and Start Livingan anthopologist’s views on mental health.
Let Go and Let God
Dr. Carpenter feels that advances have been
What Your Dreams Mean
made in the social sciences, but. so far they are
being used with great skill to sort out and
Release from Nervous Tension
control men for purposes not of their willing —
“How to Win Friends and Influence People”
such as turning frig’htened draftees into tough
by Dale Carnegie has been called “an agglome­
soldiers who will kill in a war of which they do
ration of weaseling deceitfulness, the gutter
not understand the purposes. Democracy is grave­
guide to boot licking and insincerity, the adap­
ly threatened when social sciences are used as
tation of the cheapest rickery of super sales­
instruments of mass control. He feels it is a
manship in human relations.”
significant measure of the impotence of liberal
These books sell you the idea that you can
democracy that psychiatry must increasingly be
be selfish with justification so long as you
directed, not on democracy’s own problems, but
persuade yourself that you only give service to
on such matters as reducing the time required
them. In personal relations you are taught to
to return a shell-shocked soldier into the battle
be cunning and diplomatic, using this psychologyfield. Psychiatry is making great strides, but
talk. All these books breathe an atmosphere of
in what direction we are not told. Nor are we
optimism. Everybody can be happy or should bo
told who was the healthy man, nor what haphappy; if he isn’t, he should be. These books do
pened to those men trained to kill when they
not teach how to face life as it is.
resumed civilian life.
These books throw environment out of the
Dr. Carpenter wonders again and again what
window. Social evils are rationalized and, there­
kind of society would that
be which
fore, justified, as the result of individual faults
develops skills not on war, but on the problems
amenable to self-improvement. It’s not the social
of peace; by discovering not how to lessen men’s
scene, but the isolated inhabitant that needs ana­
fears in battle, but how to lessen the massive
lysis. Repressive measures of authoritarian fig­
insecurities of civilian life; by developing not
ures are non-existent; only the repressing mech­
the synthetic morale of an army, but the living
anisms of the mind exist. If you can’t help your­
tissue of democratic solidarity; not in the hope­
self, the remedy you must seek must be indivi­
less search for palliatives for the caste gulf
dual, not social. In other words, all this is escape
between races, but in discovering the optimum
literature.
conditions of responsible democratic relations
Dr. Carpenter concludes that social scientists
among men of different color and speech.
should face the fact squarely, that the problems
The philosophy ,of the best-seller psychology
with which they deal involve values: that every
books found on the pocket book racks stresses
application of one of their techniques not only
security arid adjustment to the social order, no
supports but furthers the value system employing
matter what its form. Dr. Carpenter states that
these techniques. Dr. Carpenter feels that wo
these writers are like secular missionaries preach­
first must decide: What kind of mental health
ing the divine gospel of mediocrity and confor­
do we want? In other words, what kind of people
mity. They view with alarm people who dare to
do we want to be ?
pursue goals away from the prosperous and
Like Dr. Lundberg, the sociologist, Dr. Car­
respectable, safe and happy middle road of the
penter, the anthropologist, feels that scientific
prosaic mundane life of mediocrity. Such non­
methods can be used to study the value systems,
conformists and individualists are considered
and until we do that, we will have books and
people stressing adjustment to the social order,
dangerous and abnormal, something to be stifled,
no matter what its form ...
and not cultivated.

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