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Tokyo Gives 20 Cherry-Trees to Port Dove
PORT DOVER; Ont.—As-- a
symbol of a bond, of friendship.
20 Japanese cherry-trees saplings
arrived here / from Japan last
weekend.
A gift from the Government of
Metropolitan Tokyo to the town

K°t>aN^sHi. school trustee
of rhe town, started the project
a few years ago while the former
Yoshida, was in Tor°ri°transferred to this
ornce Mr. Endo .officially ap-

THE NEW CANADIAN
An Independent Organ lor Canadians of Japanese Origin
Autto^ed as .^cond da« mil. Post OXflce Depmment, Ot^

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APRIL 9,
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TORONTO, ONT
- obtained through the ef- Japanese local government ha*
forts of-Japanese Consul An Tor­ sent cherry-trees to a Canadian
onto Matao Endo and. the.Foreign city as a rift.
Office of the Japanese govern­
Governor/of Metropolitan Toment. They were sent via CPA'to ■
k
Y°,
Seiichiro Yasui, stated in a
the Japanese -Consulate late last
month, and . were/ presented- Ao letter of presentation:
COALDALE, Alta.—Rev. G. C.
Mayor -Harold Schneider last _ "As a...symbol of friendship, the
Saturday by Consul and Mrs. Government of Metropolitan To- Nakayama, Japanese Anglican
Endo.
sends 20 cherry-tree saplings Minister accepted an official in­
Dead on arrival at St. Michael’s
• m?1^ to the town of Port Dover.’ vitation from the Brazilian Ang­
Police said two men entered the
Hospital
was Aisuke Sakurai. 76.
The~ goodwill trees will blossom lican Church and the Japanese
rooming house at 189 Gerrard St.
; ISSEI-DOM
A ^our- years’ time. Japanese Anglican Church of Brazil, as a as a result of a robbery in which
two men escaped with $10. Mr. E> by a rear door and proceeded
cherry blossoms are universally
^ symbol of Japan. special g'uest and speaker for the Sakurai had been released from into the landlord’s room at the
These flowers represent-the close commemoration, of 50 years of the hospital last week with a front of the house. One of the
ties between Port Dover and To- Japanese immigrants in Brazil severe heart condition.
pair was armed.
Kikuzo Kobayashi of Portand 35 years of missionary work
One man forced George Saku­
Dover, Ont., is one swell guy.
The two-year-old tree are the among the Japanese in Brazil.
rai, the son of the dead man to
The -people of Port Dover.boast popular "Somei-Yoshino’
he on the floor. He then looted
varietv.
He is ciue to leave for Brazil
that it is the world’s number one
about
four
feet
tall.
fresh-water/fishing centre, but
in July accompanied by his wife.
Meanwhile the :second bandit
to most it is only one of a number FOR PARR AND SCHOOL
Rev. Nakayama has endeavour­
tried
to rob the oldler man. When
of small towns scattered all over
ed to lessen the/tight .policv for
VANCOUVER.
— Don’t
Canada’s rich .south-western On­ 4.L^on receiving notification of immigrants from Japan to Cana­ scoff. It really will B-C.
rain cats and Mr. Sakurai objected ho
the. arrival of the cherry-trees
tario region.
da
for
some
years,
so
on
this
oc
­
dogs
iru
Vancouver
two days in forced down on a chesterfield.
Mr. Kobayashi has lived in Port from Mr. Endo, the town of Port casion he "will be able to compare May.
Fol ice said it appeared the vic­
Dover for oyer 20 years, the lone Dover hurriedly arranged for conditions in Brazil, of the JaLittle men with flags will also tim died then.
planting
ceremonies.
Guests
at.
Japanese Canadian citizen, until
fore^oino luncheon meeting pasese immigrant situation and float down from the sky.
At this time. Mrs. Anno Kolhe married and raised a family.
collect references for the promo­
"The unusual rainfall ■ will be lough, a roomer, heard the seufheid
by
the
town
included
Consul
At first he was treated as a total
tion of Japanese immigrants to part of Canada’s largest fire­
stranger; He couldn’t get any at­ and Mrs. Endo, T. Umezuki, Pro­ Canada, besides, his missionary works display, a daily and night- iie in her landlord's room and
summoned Wilf .McLellan another
tention from his neighborsA-not vincial Highway Minister Jimmy work in Brazil.
l feature of the B.C. Interna­ i comer occupying" a room on the
Allan,
MP.
for
Norfolk
County
E.
even an answer to his friendly
The Brazilian Anglican Church tional Trade Fair commencing same floor.
Knowles, and. councillors 'and
“Good Morning”, or “Hello.”
May 1.
K. Kobayashi has scheduled i programs from
He said that when he opened
But he strived to build ; up his school trustees.
The fireworks, with a com­
neighborly friendships, devoting was praised as “a great citizen” July 20 .to September 20 for the mercial value of more than $20- his door he saw two men just
himself to good citizenship-for for his efforts- on behalf of the minister. With the cooperation 000 is a gift to B.C. from the leaving the landlord's room. When
of the Brazilian Japanese Chris­
the betterment of the-town, and • town.:.
people of Japan, fair officials he had called to them the pair
now he has won the popularity - Eighteen-trees were planted!at tian Church Federation he will said this week.
fled "without uttering a word
and respect of every Port Dover­ the Memorial. Parky and two were speak- to the . general public /on
Six huge displays to be set off
Canada
and
Japanese
Canadians
It was 45 minutes later before
ite. Serving the past’four years ■set in Yront of the school, Mayor
over the 10-day fair, will have the police were called. They found
in various churches.
as school trustee, he’s now salut- Schneider- said, “We deeply ap­
Rev, Nakayama will be addres­ a Canadian and Japanese theme. no marks of violence on the
ed by- the local kids with “Hi preciate the gift. These cherryThe cats and dogs and little body.
sing the gatherings in English.
Koby!” or “Hi, Doc Koby!”
men
will come from . the first . They did find a wallet containtrees could be the forerunner of
If there are any JC’s ‘who have
Last, weekend, one of his a great many more in.. Norfolk
daylight works” to be seen in
8' ^tucked in the fold behind
cherished, dreams came true when ’ county. In years to come/ Port friends in Brazil, Rev. Nakayama paperafigu^sbeof miimals. men T
fieV^
Chesterrequests
their
names
and
addres
­
the ’ long:awaited
Japanese Dover will become the "Washing­
ses so he may visit them at their and other novelties high in the
cherry-trees arrived in Port ton” of Ontario.
homes.
Dover.
died of a heart attack.
“Even if I were to die tomorrow,” the exuberant Mr. Kobaya­
shi told us, “I should leave the
world without regret.” Now this
may be a bit of an exaggeration
for him, but I can easily.imagine
ST. LOUIS.-—February is wide-'
The two Geralds have some- a change.
his great pleasure, . especially ly
known
as
effect of prejudice on one’s ap“Brotherhood-/thing else in common besides
when Mayor.: Harold Schneider
"I was in a Japanese Ameri­ pearance.
their first name and middle ini­
Month

and
while
everyone
seems
expressed, his deepest-thanks for
can outfit and felt out of place,”
Both came
from sheltered?
"The person
surroundings
where,
"Rimmel’ he laughed. "Where I,.was used
Kobayashi’s endeavors of the EJ^0"* ^*1^ Brother- 'tial.
.
who suffers
from
prejudice is the person
past few years for bringing • the hood Week, some may feel no one pointed out, “You lived in a
to Schwartz and Schriaedelbach,
who has it
it,” said Rimmel. “Ue
Japanese,^cherry-trees., to Port does-anything about it.
I found myself with people
<
neighborhood, with people who
Dover. Perhaps-Koby sard this in
may
not;
suffer'economically
or
Three St. Louis residents who were compatible,” and Koetting, named Hamamoto. A.fter a while
physically,
but
inside,
some
­
front of Consul Endo to show his
you can get sick of looking at
thing is. burning him up. And
sincere appreciation for the Con­ got together as, a speechmaking a.^e^’ “Everything was strati-- nothing but blackhaired .people.”
trio for the 11th consecutive. lied—certain people •. your social
sometimes from thinking mean
sul’s assistance in .the victory.
Brotherhood- Week, are convinced-! eQuals, certain other -people- the
After the war there were many
thoughts, he begins to have a
Port Dover is a famous fresh­ that this talk does help. “It may ones who came to clean for you.”
mean look, too.”
water fishing centre, summer re­ not change the world, but it can Eoth learned about .people dif- more like him in St. Louis. Tana­
ka noticed that where, at first,
sort, and orchard and tobacco
do
a
lot.
to
control
plain
human
ferent
from
themselves
'
when
™ry t0 tell people.” con­
there was resentment,
that’ r
area, but to Japan it is an al­
tinued lanaka. “that each of us
cussedness,

noted
the
Post-Disthey
went
into
military
service,

After
a
while,
people
would
call
most uniknown small town. For patch writer Clarissa Start
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up to tell you about an apartment has. learned from our own exTokyo, the number -one city of
peiience that there is a positive
the world, to send a gift of ...-’oseph
- Tanak-a,, Unitarian,
_________ , and . “The Army came as a. shock for rent or a job opening. As fax* result from human understand­
as the Japanese . are concerned,
cherry-trees: to. this small■ town, Nisei design engineer; Gerald A. to me,” Koetting admitted.
ing. Others may not go through
“I St. Louis has been very kind.”
Consul Endo must have given ex- Rimmel,
n
’ a J ewish lawyer, • and
1
came
up
against
things
-L
knew
our
experience but through us
All three of the men volunteer­
tensive assistance.
Gerald A. Koetting, Catholic mar­■ existed but had never seen. While
they
can see that people with dif­
ed to speak for Brotherhood week
It may be- my personal preju­ ket researcher, have spoken on , lva
ferent
backgrounds can get to­
r>
^
aS
stationed
in
Washington,
when it first began. Thev came
dice against the. "politics” game, Brotherhood, their favorite sub- D.C.
gether
verbally.

I
used
to
take
a.
street
car
together by chance when Dora
'
5
for although I observe that Ko­ ject, to high schools, . ..unions, through*
a Negro neighborhood. Burner of the Southern Illinois
bayashi has plenty of talent for ladies’ aids and business men’s On Saturday nights it would be
All Family Men .
being a country, politician—a de­ clubs. They spoke under auspices ‘ noisy and crowded and I’d think, Conference asked them to be on
All three of the men are
finite asset—, I -wish he could of the Southern Illinois Confer- /Well, that’s the way those peo­ a panel. They clicked, and have family, men. Koetting, who lives
manage to curtail his- political ence of the National Council of ple are.’ But on Sunday morning been making annual appearances I” Norm and yj has four children.
ever since.
activities and put his efforts and Christians and Jew’s.
Rimmel, who lives in Olivette,
on
my
way
to
church
I

d
see
little
love into the residential town.
Their optimistic opinion: Bro­ kids, starched and clean, .men and
Click from Start
and Tanaka _who married the
therhood is becoming more of a
They never have a, set format former Naomi Nakano of Phila- ,
With comparatively good clim­ reality^not only for one week but women sedately on their way to
but
speak informally, fitting their dephia and lives in Crestwood,
church, too, and it struck me that
ate-and the loving care of the for 365 days a year.
ideas
to the type of audience. To have three each. Tanaka works
in the same situation we’re all
townspeople -,the cherry-trees will
a
group
of businessmen, for in­ for McDonnell Aircraft Co., Koetpretty much alike. I got in a lot
All St. Louis-Born
grow quickly. In four years they
stance,
they
might stress the im­ ting for Lincoln Engineering Co.,
w ill be in bloom. When,-as Mayor
Diverse - in background, Tana­ of arguments about it.”
portance
of
brotherhood
in one’s and Rimmel for the law firm of
Meanwhile, Rimmel was sta­
Schneider- says, Port Dover is the ka, Rimmel and Koetting have
job.
Susman, Mayer and Wilier.
“Washington” of Ontario, then one thing in common—all w’ere tioned at a California air base

We
might
point
-out
that
we
Koby.. could be fully content and born in St. Louis so they have where there were a few Negro
They, all agree that brother­
all have our own opinions,” said hood begins in one’s neighbor­
may say, “Even if I were to die/ had an opportunity to observe officers.
"Someone got the idea of put­ Koetting,. “but opinions rigidly hood and on one’s job.
tomorrow, I should Jeave the the same, changing scene. Tana­
ting
a sign on an old shack and held can become prejudice, and
world "without regret. . .”
ka, whose father came from Ja-■
“Brotherhood is necessary for
calling
it Officers Club No. 2,” prejudice can be negative and two reasons,” Koetting sums it
pan, grew rip in South St. Louis
I travel,to Port Dover a couple and describes himself, with a he said. "No one ever used it and have a negative effect on our­ up. “First, because it’s wise—just
of times each year for trout fish­ grin, as “more sauerkraut than it seemed like a foolish and need­ selves, our country, the world.
^’S WISe t° o° to a dentist
less thing to me. One thing you What "we encourage is the con- when you have an aching tooth.
ing, and have often enjoyed Mr. sukiyaki.”;
of in­ But second, because it is so—just
Kobayashi’s generous hospitality.
As a child, he recalls being learned in the Army. It didn’t trol of the outward-show
inflammatory as when my watch says five after
Having joined the Port Dover taunted by playmates with such make much difference what color tolerance,. the
,?me. and Fishing Protective chants as ‘Chinkr-chink-chinaman” or racial background you had, it statement. If a person consciously one, it is five after one. We are
Association of which Kobayashi /(even though he was not Chinese) was what you did that counted.” represses an overt-act often en- brothers. Whether we like it or
'ough he may change his attitude. not, it is so. And at a time like
is president, I feel that I am. in and going home, in tears. Now,
Ex-442nd GI
Without changing basic human this,-when the United States is
a small way, a citizen of Port
the St. Louis JACL past presi__
_______
, ___
_
Joe Tanaka,
oddly
enough,
nature, we can improve human called on to exercise moral
Dover. I look forward to seeing
Oriental, once an found himself thrown with peo- behavior.”
the blossoming, cherry-trees and oddiiy m Middle
leadership, we can’t teach other
West America, pie who were like him rather than
To a group of high school stu­
a good trout season.
is accepted.
different, and for him that was dents, they might emphasize the people to be better than /we our­
selves are.”

Rev. Nakayama to Visit
Brazil This Summer

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Heart Attack
Following $10 Robbery

KOBY and TREES

To Rain in Vancouver

Brotherhood Talks Seen Getting- Results!

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MARGE TOPS B.E.G. TRIALS

HJCCA Basketball Invitational Line-up and Dance

JC To Represent Canada

dates and doings I

MONTREAL.—Margaret IwaHAMILTON, Ont.—Under the shots irom outside. A new face
It has been agreed upon for an
a 15-year-old schoo
sponsorship of the HJCCA,
overnight stay in a hotel and reon toe roster is Ken Kumagai, a
Those interested in agoing to turMng to Toronto Sunday after­
Basketball Invitational, to be lean and lanky., guard whose from Vancouver, topped an imheld on .Saturday, April 12, is sp^PSTh lies in his defensive P^ssNe list of record-breaking the Art Gallery, please be nt hand noon.
shaping up to be the biggest ability, but who can also match performances last night at the Wednesday, April 9 when the
Fox* further information please
Empire NYAF will present their program ^’^^t-Aosliie Tanouye at LE.
event of the ’5S spring social sea­ any player on the team point for close of the Br
son.
point. With this addition and the Games swimming" and diving" of an exhibition of Churchill’s 5-1 <6< or Tom Kawabe at UN.
paintings movies on Australia, a 1-1645. Remember the deadline
Due . to - unfortunate circum­ expert coaching of Ike Mt
of
five
talk on Churchill’s paintings by lor reservations is April 30.
stances, the team from London Hamilton will be fielding" f
in winning
of the Pearl MacArthur, Globe and Mail
will be unable to "oarticipate.
ter team this vear.
Advance notice: April
26,
imal races on the 17-event pro­ Art Critic and a tour through the NYAF will meet at Ichiro’s HideLuckily the committee was able
L'. of T. Niseis:— The Univer­ gram to decide a 12- member Australian Paintings.
to find another team to even out sity
guest is Mr
team is the mystery team. team to represent Canada at the
The NYAF requests interested Roman Toi.
the schedule.
Little is known of their* quality July, games in Cardiff , Wales.
parties to please be on time Wed­
TORONTO:—Last year’s win­ and ability. So all the entrants
Miss Iwasaki posted a time of nesday, April 9, 317 Dundas St.
JC Wins Cadet Award
ners have again proven a strong- had better beware. They will have 1:04.1 in the women’s 100 yard W., at 7:45 p.m.
team and is favoured to take Henry Edamura. considered the butterfly stroke to lower her own
KELOWNA, B.C.—Ivan Tagu­
The executive has now decided
home the trophies. Their line-up best young- player for the former record by 14/16th seconds. She to take the Ottawa trip on the chi was one of five local B.C.
is basically-, the same as last- “Mustangs"’, who will be teamed also won the 100-yard freestyle. •weekend of May 24-25 leaving Dragoons who received Master
year’s with the main strength with Albert Kudo, Joe Yonemit­
about midnight Friday by train. Cadet Awards recently at a
coming from the reliable work su, Dan Maruoka, Tom Haike and
parents’ night held in Kelowna
POSTPONEMENT
horses, Yuki Kameoka and Sam -Kim and Kaz Shikaze.
Armoury.
The boys had to take
The film ‘‘Gautama, the Bud­
Koyota. Between them
they
a
special
course
and write a spe­
An added attraction will be a dha’', scheduled to be shown on Quebec JCCA Meeting
scored 68 out of the team’s total game between the Club Ami girls April 11, has been postponed to
cial examination to qualify for
MONTREAL. — The Quebec this, the highest, award a cadet
of 125 points in the two games. of Toronto and the HamiltonRed April 18, 7:30 p.m. at the Toron­
JCCA will be holding their an­ van achieve.
They will be supported by Gene and Whites girls team.
to Buddhist Church.
nual general meeting on Satur­
Kitagawa, Dick Tanaka and com­
So don’t forget, come out and
day, April 12 at rhe Community
pany.
see lots of action, excitement on
MAIL TO JAPAN:
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HAMILTON CHINESE AC:— Saturday, April 12 in the spa­ Schuyler O. Bland leaves Van­ Montreal starting 7:30 p.m.
The Toronto NAF will hold a
The team, which almost upset cious gymnasium at Cathedral couver for Japan on April 12: the
The
program
will
include
a
re
­
meeting"
on Friday, April 11 be­
Toronto in last year’s elimina­ Girl’s School,. 467 Main St. E in SS Canada Mail leaves April 19. view of last year’s work, elec­ ginning S p.m. at St. Andrew’s
tion, have again accepted and will Hamilton.
tions of executive members for Church for the completion of
In the evening following ■ the
be presenting if possible a better
the coming year and the plan­ plans and a rehearsal for the en­
team. They will again feature tournament, the trophies for the
ning
of future work.
Persons Sought
tertainment portion.
Jim Chong and York Lew, the championship team and the tour­
Everyone is requested to at­
Those who are connected with
Mr. Arthur S. Hara is asked tend this important meeting- and this
deadly jump-shot artists who nament’s MVP will be awarded
coming* event are requested
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Dancing from 8:30-12 and ad­
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Notice of postponement; The
Vancouver, B.C., before the
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Wednesday, April 9. 195

Occidental Teaches Japanese Dollmaking
To Nisei Ladies in Montreal

About Nisei Social Clubs—Hope (b.c I

By JEAN SHAW
sons. It’s my pleasure to
In the Montreal Star
them. It’s a link with my two
In the recent article
„ .


Montreal's second generation adopted countries, and it’s mv About
^bout Nisei Social Clubs?” AI.
M
e ex?ress purpose of seeking Just this, notice that all of ‘I.,
.
Japanese women are learning the way of bringing something lovely Sitarr admirably presents another put potential mates, although'it groups have one thing in <•„.,
ancient art of ceremonial doll- to Canada.”
” sidelight of a Nisei Social Club.
is hard to reconcile the idea of a H ™/"al but se»ara‘= faX
making—and learning it from a
Dolls are a national symbol of
In a sense it is probably true club exclusively, a love mart. in various Avays. '
westerner.
Japan, Mrs. Sidline explains “No that many Nisei join clubs for Suiely most of the Nisei includWhy not the Japanese Cane
Mis. Boris.Sidline holds weekly Japanese home is too poor, but
■ dians placed in a. similar" position
classes in her Clanranald Avenir*
ing married couples join to- satis- • adopt their method^ ?
k Las a couple of dolls as
apartment - instructing Canadian- perhaps its only ornament,” che
ii “XpMaXp®
^'egariousness.
.- L«si
v OCuarat
born Japanese-in the almost for­ says.
Ko doubt interracial marriage cially where 1 social
----- * activity jc; nop
gotten art of making and robing,
“These dolls are given as pre­
is increasing. Still this does not cerned
can be a
“PI??-™
a. uesiran
desirable a. “d
boils in traditional national re­ sents on anniversaries. They’re
mean that it touches the great Poetical feature Simply

majority of the Nisei. Those who the Nisei have tS b
'
galia.
not .toys,
they're
treasures.
, An^.
story which, has ^Seikept ? glass cases as
centre, - clubs, °Japanese
Professor Hideki Yukawa DiJ ai.a?yTare ™^ °f the isolat- munity
"
brought Mrs. Sidline to , Montreal family keep-sakes, and brought'hector of the Research"
ed kind.-Hence we can sav that P?g ja§"e scb°°l, religious temple
and to doll dressing is almost as
some dountermarry but- the rest
?°AnOt mean that we are
romantic as the perfectly-scaled
d0 b°t. It is a-matter of where isolated How. can that.be when
mmiatures of wisteria dancers.
jobs, schools, and other matters
bel Prize winner in physics, again the emphasis is placed.
Aladam Butterfly/ fabled princes­
Interracial
marriage
(or
any
apart
from..the Nisei world ne^
attended the meeting of' world
many hours work
ses, and Geisha girls which take
form,
of
marriage
for
that
mat
­
S!e rubbing shoulders with all
Assembling, the dolls, dressin0* scientists in eastern Canada
undcr her skilful fingers.
ter) is; not necessarily dependent of rhe crowd?
More
than
30
scientists
from
11
. Alontreal is the first .western their hair, twisting their limbs
on social clubs or. a lack of one
Now the question boils down
city I have ever lived in,” ex- to correct stylized positions and countries met last week at the to promote it.
The Nisei can
second
annual
Pugwash
confer
­
P^ai^s. ^rs- Sidline. “I was born costuming them takes 18 or 20
to this: if the Nisei is going to
ence of nuclear scientists to-at­ meet the girl of his dreams at keep forming clubs or building a
in China of Jewish parents. For hours, says Mrs. Sidline.
x at scb°01 Dr any situation
the first 25 .years, of my life, Chi­ T The doll bodies are sent from tempt- to. find practical solutions tnau can encourage such meet­ community centre,
why not a
na was home. For the next quar­ Japan and are cotton forms stuf- to _ the Gangers inherent in the ings. Intermarriage is more of a
build-up
and
testing
of
atomic
good
one
that
.any
ter century, home was Japan
Canadian can
shavings and threadedpersonal nature and is best left be proud of ?
where my husband had an import with- thin wire which can be arms.
The meeting, being held at Lac alone to those, who are involved,
and export business.
twisted into desired positions. beauport, Que.,, is sponsored by -that is to say, those who feel
“My two. sons grew up in Ja­ tje arms are separate affairs of
the need of.^intermarrying will do
Hope, B.C.
pan until it became time for them silk rather than cotton with the industrialist Cyrus Eaton and a so; those who do not will not.
to continue their education be­ tiny fingers individually wired to group of Canadians. The first
xiS al?? a conjecture to say
yond the level possible there for give the necessary curve of posi­ conference was .held last year at
tnat
the Nisei spinster is on the
Mr.
Eaton

s,
summer
home
at
non-orientals. . So, three vears tion.
increase. Here - the statistics
ago/we came to Montreal where
The head is a half egg-shaped
taxen from the Sampling of the
?nP Sr°!\ enr°Kd in engineering Plece °f silk which Mrs. Sidline
white portion in marriage re­
in McGill and the other in physics
search only comes near to some
iTfs )vith shavings and com­
nr Sir George Williams.
pletes
the
back
of
the
head
with
truth
so far as the Nisei is con“We had discussed coming to
MACHINE CO.
^
lneJ 4s Kilzr. Sitarr well knows/
cottomto
which
she
attaches
the
Canada to finish my sons’ educa­
Quaint Japanese practice of
hair is eight inches or
H. S. TSURUDA
tion for many years,” Mrs Sidso of fine silk threads which must
baishakunin
prevents the multi­
(Japanese Canadian Agent)
was wrong plication of spinsters.
me continued. “And I thought be roned smooth and then twist­
how much 1 had loved Japan and
and there are an estimated 600
35 Rowntree Ave., = TORONTO
is quite foolish to eliminate
— into
"■“,u the
Lue difuu- Japanese war brides in the Chirn-e da,Panese people and how I red, cut and shaped
HO. 9-0673
C01ffures of the different.
area .to, prove it, accordinto Kisei organizations for the sole
wanted to take something of their doll cnaracters.
feji. Kakane of the Ja"X purpose^ of encouraging, assimilaculture and accomplishments to
* in Japan you can tell the ap­ American
Service
Committee “?n- ,ke away the clubs arid
Canada with me.
proximate
age, work and social here.
^b?t do y°u have? Absolutely
^ou understand?” she asked
To further confound Kiplin^ no Jung . . . just cannot go out ♦
1 wanted to take something wre- position of a woman by her hair­
FISHING TACKLE
do,” says Mis, Sidline. ,
C1-?^VWJ^
as my goodwill . The material for the costumes these.:brides and their American and join other clubs ... our de­
and
'A
why
husbands, for the most part cx- sires do not matter
I \xto Pa?a<a from Japan. So
is
also
imported
from.
..Japan
and
should
we
the
majority
get
the
sei v icemen, are producing' a
CAMERAS
p
1 attended a famous school of
is usually silk in the traditional bumper crop of American-Japa­ chance? . . many other. Occiden­
h?
Tokyo and learned
tals want to join. . . . For the Joe
"
the old skill ot ceren‘,n”’al dn” patterns which doll-makers have nese babies.
used
for
hundreds
of
years.
dressing.
Fifty nf these wives have form­ Kiser it is not the matter of
The
work
is
A,work
of
love

'When I came to Canada three
ed, the Cosmo Club, -quickly pick- choosing this or that club. Rather "^® ^undas at Dufferin—LE. 2-4267
says
Mrs.
Sidline.

It
is
wonderyears ago, I began teaching Mon?nS 4iUp ? cust°m long practiced the problem is that of what' the
^?
know
that
you
can
make
JoeflJ^^e^dies the art. and
by the American-born housewife Nisei can get.
something
that
is
beautiful
not
and meets monthly at the home _ At the present the Nisei'living
f / V U had almost 80 pupils.
just
in
today

s
fashion,
but
for
in a large city will face almost
I don t charge them for the lespt one of its members.
always.”
According to Mrs. Paul Gott- insurmountable difficulty in join­
ined, club (president, there is al­ ing clubs of Occidental origin.
ways-a planned program in addi­ Extreme -discrimination is exer­
tion-to the favorite female in­ cised im these clubs. Until that
door sport of Just plain chatter. - time when admittance becomes
bits. Gottfried, who manned an easier why suck our thumbs, do
American engineer in Japan dur- nothing and wait? Of course if a
L8JLi£®!!»»J’i^i£r:j^
ont.
inY™ Korean war, says the club Kiser has the ways and means
Do you need to change the beneficiary under your poling
to
be
inducted
into
a
club,
so
activities serves a dual purpose:
t
(1) getting together with other n?udl ^e better; he should; go
Japanese wives to help. relieve right ahead.
The best example of what the
member s homesickness ■ and
ethnic
organizations can mean
planned programs to help
members adjust themselves to and do is illustrated by the Van­
their; new lives.
couver Chinese - . Canadian com­
„ Nakane thinks the war brides munity. The second largest on
pioblem is primary one of two- continent, the Chinese community
way understanding. “Thev have has its own ethnic clubs includ1384^ Queen W.
Chinese
Benevolent
to try very hard to understand mg. the
America and America should try b0^ety’ si^Jlazr to our JCCA.
Toronto
LE. 2-6378
to understand them.”
T .bey aiso have a very active
Lions chib and presumably other
clubs with hakujin origin. Yet
Name
Jf^^associations do not isolate
“be Chinese Canadians. Judging
py. their degree; of employment
Ask for
m the whole of Vancouver, if this
can be. taken as a criterion, the
W“S AVTELES-Michiko Sa
Ad
s
KLAUS
uninese are successful in their ■
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star
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and “Teahouse of Las
the town or dity the Nisei are scatEglinton Caledonia Motors Ltd.
August Aloon,” returned to
'Sde area> it is true..
Los But the Kisei s outlook has not
Angeles
recently.
kiyo tamura
anged appreciably, perhaps due
„ 2°ncl"di^ a" extended theatre
2
necessity^ Look at the number
TUrht/ U< tour of the HawaiLucien C, Kurafa
f s,oc.ial. groups; even this
an?’ ^Lchiko returned to
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x expand this point further.
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examples
from
other
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For instance,
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Chinese and so.
year.
foiFh- • • • What about them?

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