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I J "Even Now Lt s 1
I j Not Too Late’' 5
By T. UMEZUKI

THE NEW CANADIAN
An Independent Orgsn far Canadians of Japanese Origin

TORONTO, ONTARIO
When the National JCCA HisWEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15. 1961
I torv sub-committee met with re9 o^entatives of various Issei
Director of Economic Research
1 Groups (Toronto JCCA Issei-bu,
I Seasei-kai and former members
l ^the Kitsilano Japanese LanU ige School) last Wednesday
J evening to explain the progress
M of the History Project, some dis1 satisfaction was expressed by the
S
toward the delay in meeting
J with those in Toronto to obtain
REGINA, Sask.—Thomas K- Party Leader “Tommy” C. Doug-'
Shoyama, senior economic advi­ i las, at least temporarily.
1 information and material from
Mr. Douglas told reporters that
sor to the Saskatchewan govern­ 1
i the first generation. Hearing the
:
lie
hoped “at a later date” to have.
ment and one-time editor of The
9 report (NC Nov. 11), the Issei
Mr.
Shoyama as director of eco­
New Canadian, is expected to join
1 people commended the structure
the staff of the New'Democratic nomic research in his Regina
headquarters.
and the contents of the History
Mr. Shoyama has held the $13.9 and they expressed high regards
000 a year job of secretary of the
9 for the writer, Ken Adachi’s,
economic advisory and planning
m ability and sincere efforts. Howboard since 1950 and previously
fl ever they maintained that there
had been an economist with the
board since 1946.
are many former leaders of the

photo
by
Jack
Heminy
Mr. Shoyama said he hoped to
Japanese Canadian community in
KELOWNA, B.C.—“I solemly take a leave of absence from his
I Toronto, who know much of the
swear to renounce allegiance to government post at the end of the
earfydays of tlls JaPanese Cana’
any other sovereign or state . . . year “to go to help” Mr. Douglas
and do swear allegiance to Her as research assistant for six
dians on the West Coast and it is
TORONTO.—Consul Komuro and Mrs. Komuro are shown being Majesty Queen Elizabeth the months or so.
from these people that much of
Second*... so help me God.
the needed information, for the greeted by Mr. C. Furukawa, President of Toronto Issei-bu at a
By this oath, 19 people, includ­
History, can be gathered. They reception held in their honor at the Nikko Gardens on Sunday. Over ing one Japanese, became Cana­
one hundred persons were present at the reception.
expressed deep concern in makdian citizens in Kelowna recently.
- ing the History one which will be
In welcoming the new Cana­
authoritative and complacent.
dians, Tom Tomiye, prominent
In the course of discussion the
Nisei resident of Kelowna told
; meeting decided to take the foithem they must be willing to be
lowing steps and to get the full
patient in this new land.
co-operation of the Isseis which
“When my father came here
from Japan in 1908, he too, in
is greatly needed.
PORT HOPE, Ont.—Russell C. chased from her and in 1961 the 1913 became a Canadian citizen
Firstly, with the co-operation
Honey,
Durham Liberal candi­ estimates show we will sell 100 in the same way you are doing
fl of the Toronto JCCA Isseibu, the
so now. Canada was good to him.”
date, criticized the Conservative per cent more.
National JCCA will shortly call a trade policy with Japan, when he
If Japan cuts her buying from
“There is in this land nothing
meeting of representatives of addressed the local Liberal Assoc, us as she has warned, and rightly to hold you back from going
so, if we do not buy more from ahead; but you must be patient,
various Japanese Canadian orga- last week.
He said that if the govern­ her, then hundreds of people will otherwise you may find your­
fl nizations. Those who are related
be out of work.
selves at the wrong spot at. the
fl to the project and those who have ment will not change the present
“There is much criticism of Ja­ wrong time. If you are .patient,
export-import imbalance with the
fl an interest in it are invited to
U.S. by channelling more trade panese goods hurting- Canadian you will find that Canada will be
■ attend.
he
continued as good to you as it was to my
to Britain then it could do some­ manufacturers,”

but
no
damage
would
be
done if parents and to me.”
thing
with
respect
to
the
Japa
­
Here, they will discuss whether
imports from Japan involved re­
Mr. Tomiye said that the new
nese market.
T. K. SHOYAMA
the Isseis should be included in
placements
of
goods
Canada
now
Canadians
must not expect every­
He
said
that
last
week
Prime
Mr. Shoyama is also vice-chair­
the History sub-committee or
Minister Diefenbaker told a TV buys from other countries—in thing to be rosy.
man
of the South Saskatchewan
fact
we
would
profit
by
the
lower
whether a seperate Issei Advi­ audience that the purpose of his
“I cannot say that there has
River Development Commission
cost
of
Japanese
goods.
never been discrimination in this and serves on the directorship of
sory committee should be set up. trip to Japan was to solve the
Mr.
Hney
went
on
to
show
that
trade
problems
between
the
two
great land.
There has been at
Lastly, they will select various
in 1960 Canada bought $29,719,000 various periods. But the telling the Government Finance Office,
countries.
His
talks
stressed
the
Issei people with whom the sub­
reception by flag waving child­ worth of electrical apparatus point is that Canada is willing the Saskatchewan Power Corpora­
committee or the writer, Ken ren and Canada’s forgiveness' of from the U.S. which were not ma­ to learn how to overcome these tion and the Saskatchewan Min­
erals Corporation.
Adachi, can confer and obtain Japan for the Second World Wat nufactured in Canada, but we instances of discrimination.
A commerce graduate from the
bought
only
$27,000
worth
of
simaterials, through conversation but there was sickening omission
It would be a very .great disas­
University
of British Columbia,
miliar
electrical
aparatus
from
ter if Canada were to assume an
or by receiving concrete articles. about what his government was Japan.
he
later
took
post graduate stu­
doing to ensure the vitally im­
attitude that the country . and
These Issei will be chosen from portant continuing export sales to
dies
in
economics
at McGill Uni­
With a bit of imagination and Canadians can do no wrong. But
amongst the former leader's of that country even though Mr. Die­ planning on the part of the gov­ we are willing to learn—and you versity.
various fields in which the Japa­ fenbaker stated Japan is Cana­ ernment it could materially alter must, as part of your duties as
the trade picture to reduce our Canadian citizens, help bring this
nese Canadians have taken part, da’s third largest customer.
Wine-Flavored Gum To
huge
trade defied with the U.S. to pass.”
Mi*.
Honey
warned
that
some
(farmers, fishermen etc.) and
5,400. people in Canada depend on and improve the Japanese trade
Mr. Seiiohi Sakai was one of Go On Sale In Tokyo
"ho are regarded as having the exports to Japan for a living. In balance by buying more of those
TOKYO.—Wine-lavored chew­
best knowledge of the history of 1960, Canada sold to Japan about items from that country. In turn, the 19 people who became Can­
ing
gum will go on sale at To­
adian citizens.
Japanese pioneers to this coun- 60 -per cent more than was pur­ Japan can buy more from us.
kyo’s tobacco counters sometime
h. These chosen Issei men' or
late this month, it was reported.
'•omen will then meet with the
A leading Japanese gum manu­
'-llb-committee and the author at
facturer announced an agreement
with one of the country’s largest
a general meeting or individually.
liquor firms, which will supply
E ^e aLove decisions, which I
spirits
and technical advice for
TOKYO.—Memo for. travellers to Japan: brush i producer takes you back across 20 years of song.
’nk are wise and appropriate,
the project.
In Tokyo’s giant department store, a magnifi­
*re carried out, and I earnestly up on your music before you come.
Three flavors will be offered:
This is a nation of music lovers, and they look cent hi-fi system plays classical European sym­
‘Ope they are, for “even now it to you for inspiration. You should know the pre­
graps
wine, gin fizz and cherry
phonies alternated with American pop music.
brandy.
noi too late” it will serve sent whereabouts of rock and roll singer Paul
At a Nagoya castle a loudspeaker mounted near
a- a great assistance towards the Anka. Y'ou should know all the verses of “O My the moat broadcasts “Auld Lang Syne” to warn
'oinpledon of the History Pro- Darling Clementine.”
tourists that the gates are about to close.
CANADIAN ART
A knowledge of the airs from ‘‘Madame Butter­
i^abing the Japanese transHarry
Belafonte,
who
visited
Japan
in
1960,
is
fly” is recommended, and without some facility in
OFF TO JAPAN
‘ mon which the National JCCA the manbo and the tango social success will be in­ -a top favorite with the post-war generation. Louis
VANCOUVER.—Art work by'
Armstrong is at least as popular here as in Can­
mir-d as their next major complete.
Canadian
school children went to
ada
and
the
rock
and
roll
singers
much
more
so.
Music assails the ear from every diveriion,
^ntertakinv
Japan
last
week.
Anka
visited
Tokyo
a
couple
of
years
ago
and
left
much of it Japanese, more of it American and
a trail of devastated bobby-soxers who still talk
The
culture
package—more
European.
MIYOSHI UMEKI SIGNED
about
him.
than
150
pieces
of
representative
In Tokyo, loudspeakers on the street-corners
Frank Sinatra is another favorite, but his name work—was assembled at The
hinvh^^^^T^byoshi Ume- play music all days long, broken by the breathy,
is always pronounced “Seenatola.”
Vancouver School of Art. Includ­
hr
ew ^ork to continue aphrodisiac voice of a Japanese girl vho is oniv
ed are paintings, etchings, wood­
To
the
western
ear,
the
piquancy
of
a
Japanese
reading
commercials.
signed - " In mo'Tes, has been
cuts
and silk screens.
In a century-old Japanese inn in Kyoto, a rous­ sing-song gains extra flavor from the exotic pro­
Harver L°r w‘5tar, "nth Laurence
nunciation.
The art is a permanent- gift
'ha HvL f211^ biuyen and Mar- ing chorus pf.“Old Black Joe” wafts upvard from
“Lock, lock, lock around the crock” is a line from Canada to Japan. Arrange­
G^l Named Ta­ the kitchen as you squat before a lacqured cable
that will appeal to a tourist particularly, especially ments have been made for show­
in JmS C" HaE Wallis will film eating breakfast.
_
when it comes right after- a plaintive song from ings at various art exhibitions in
The
music
in
a
bar
or
night
club
sounds
like
Paramount. John
= -=
direct.
Tokyo and throughout Japan.
one of those nostalgic radio programs where the “Madame Butterfly”.
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IIIII ■ I

Shoyama To Join
“Tommy” Doughs

Nisei Aids Swearing
in Of New Canadians

W®ls@m®

Government Policy On
Japan Trade Criticized

Contemporary
Japan

Music Lovers

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Winnipeg . .

Essies &neS ^Qinys

THE NEW CANADIAN
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Post Office Ds ■partment, Ottawa,
and for payment of postage in cash.

JCCA

Rec Socratic Hard-Times Dance on Sunday

T. UMEZUKI. Publisher, RICK
MATSUMOTO, English Section
olution could be found at this Editor: KEN
MORI, Japanese
TORONTO.—Grab your "Glad sion there will be no dance les­ meeting- of the Executive commit­ time. Regret report that the Section Editor and Advertising
tee of the Manitoba JCCA was church group will be formingmgs” and put the cardboard in­
Alan a ger.
sons. This is an OPEN HOUSE!
held at 82 5 Winnipegon their own sports association.
serts into those airconditioned

Take the song- title “I Enjoy
Jable tennis facilities are now
S4.00 per 6 months
Being- a Girl” and
I reanible discussions
he females
57.00 per year
available to us through the school
Dance” this Sunday, November can thank their lucky' stars for around the Outlook ad
and St. Andrews Society.
U9 QUEEN ST. WEST,
Xmas and the Capital Theatre’s
19th. This is strictly an informal they get in free.
Band
arrangements
for
the
EMpire 6-5005
showing of Bridge to the Sun,
If you are unaware of th
“pull out the stop” sort of dance
Christmas banquet are now com­
club

commencing
Nov.
12th.
new
home,
the
clan
meets
and we want to see you all “twis­
plete. Charge for the occassion
at Victoria Auditorium, 53 Queen , Keirokai, held on Nov. 4th was will be $6.50 per couple. Special
tin’ and turnin’.” The dance be­ St. E., near Yonge St’. There is
■Deemed successful with favorable
gins at 8:00 P.M. and continues ample parking facilities and for comments being- received from rates on the liquor have been
obtained. Several members will;
through until 11:30. On this occa- those riding the TTC the subway those in attendance and from the be approached in the near future
is a short block away.
members. The full statement will to act as MC at the banquet.
Female Help Wanted
he
given at the December meet- Guests will include Consul N. Ta­
The club is very fortunate to
COUNTER GIRL, experienced for dry
have on hand over 100 records P'S- The Manitoba JCCA wishes kasugi and family. Mayor S. Ju­ cleaning
EM. 4-1334
2 Vesta Drive
store Phone RO. 2-6473 (Tor­
to
express
its
appreciation
to
EM. 4-1395
HUdson 5-1365
recently
received
from
the those who attended and apologies ba, 'Mayor Fennel of Fort Garry. onto). '
The Christmas Kiddies Party
“Grown-up” radio station CKFH. to those who missed.
Domestic Help Wanted
was
set for December 17th as this
Sunday evening is no time to ,.^.e one remaining canvassingBARRISTER, SOLICITOR
is tlie only feasible date available.
SjSO monthly or more for a couole for
sit glassy eyed in front of the district, for members, will be See Notice in Outlook.
NOTARY PUBLIC
,^S^ess^exec~lives home, live in Box
video-box. Come out’ and enjoy covered in the following- weeks.
A request for consideration of 10 The New Canadian.
1008 Northern Ontario Building
Collection of ad fees for the tele­
youit>elf this Sunday, November
330 Bay Street (at Adelaide)
phone directory was left in abey­ immigration of a relative of Mr.
Rooms to Let
TORONTO
G. Teranishi was tabled by I. Hi19 at Club Rec Socratic’s swing­ ance with Mr. T. Hirose.
*r^an\a‘ W- Shibata will contact
ing- ‘‘Hard Times Dance.”
n^011^011® t0 date for the Mio Mr. Teranishi and arrange for CARLTON-PARLIAMENT furnished flat,
^^loon.^e^e^ Fund total emrespondence between the Na­ phone WA. 2-3696 (Toronto)
$108.00. A motion to be added to tional JCCA, the Manitoba chapparking privileges,
[this amount. Further donations tei and Mr. Teranishi regarding 6<To°§k%
Rpnfoilth<
Phone afler
(Toronto).
_____
will be accepted until the end of tills matter.
the year. A raffle draw at the
Apartment For Rent
Next meeting, Dec. 6th at 7:30
Amas banquet was proposed and
will be considered by the com­ 1 .M. at 825 Winnipeg Ave. Let’s 1^2 BED8°OM heated Apartment at
unfurnished, $85. monthly
Wall-to-wall carpeting; and rugs
mittee in charge. Mr. I. Hiraya­ see another good attendance.
Phone EM. 6-5316 (Toronto).
For expert advice call
ma will act as coordinator to send
M^00*!-^ HOWLANB- two furnished
the money to the victims through
cMan kitehen and bedroom. 47 Howland
the consul.
Ave, Phone WA. 2-9101 (Toronto).
l
Ethnic program proposed
RU 1-3838
Home for Rent
by the Canadian Council of Christions and Jews was advanced to Vancouver Nisei 5-pin League: A Class
) Jun Chiba 924 (355, 321); Dennis Ko- SIX ROOM house on 386 St. Clarence
the church groups.
784 (323); Tad Kitagawa 756;
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"We dries day, November 15, 1961

What Is Fallout ?

omer

its fireball vast quantities of ma­ Is There A Permissable Dos^ Of
terial that can ..be made radio­ Fallout Radiation?
What Is Fallout?
active by neutrons. The product
A major issue of disa^reeme^
Fallout is the radioactive de­ of the fission process becomes among authorities has been the
THE WEEK OF November 15 to 22 has been designated as bris which results from a nuclear part of solid particlies formed by setting of levels of exposure
to
YOUNG CANADA’S BOOK WEEK, and is patronized this year by explosion. The fallout produced the cooling of gases in the fire­ radiation that are permissable mr
novelist Hugh MacLennan, who says, “The books we read when we by an explosion varies with the balls.
a person to undergo without suf.
are young are the most important books we will ever read. They type of bomb and the altitude at
Dust and dirt in the air absorb fering ill effects.
reach us freshly. They can bring the whole world to us, and if the which it is exploded. The amount1 the “hot” in&cerials. After the exworld they bring is a true one, they are almost more valuable than of fallout depends on' the size plosion, the contaminated dust What Types Of Fallout
Are There?
school.” Books have been just that for me.
and design of the bomb. High al­ returns to earth as fallout.
Some authorities divide fallout
A Moth-eaten, black leather jacket (My generations Al Capone titude explosions produce less
How Does Fallout Affect
into three categories—local, insymbol) hangs in my closet as a constant reminder of my youth, and local fallout.
.Human Beings?
termediate or tropospheric, and
how things could have continued to be if I had not been introduced
Fallout filters down through
In nuclear war, fallout could stratospheric of world wide-—on
to the world of books.
the air as sut or it can be carried
It was during- one of my most mixed-up periods in life. As melo­ down in rain or snow. Radioactive give a lethal dose of radiation in basis of how it- falls to earth
dramatic as it may sound to me today, the fears of not having enough fallout cannot be seen, felt, tast­ a very short time. The hazard of
Local fallout is mamlv con­
to eat, or a place to sleep, or a job, and multiplied by the anger and ed, smelled or heard; its presence world wide fallout from -testing centrated. near the explosion, it
heartbreaks of too many things too personal to mention, were all.too can only be detected by instru­ of bombs stems from the gradual appears in a matter of hours, is
accumulation of small amounts of highly radioactive and would con­
vividly real then. Sometimes, when I think back to those days, I am ments.
radioactive
substances in the stitute a major .threat in case of
surprised I did not get into more trouble than I did.
What Is Radioactivity ?
bones or glands or other parts atomic or nuclear war.
About this time a friend, who had then just entered the Univer­
Radioactivity is the unstable
sity of Toronto, started bringing along his books to my room on his condition of an atom that causes of the human body.
Intermediate
or
tro-uosherk
Fallout gets into food supply. fallout (named for lower’part of
daily visits. I can’t remember quite how he did it, but he got me in­ the atom to emit particles or
terested in books. And during the intervening years, I studied all the electromagnetic radiation spon­ The dust settles down on the atmosphere) consists of dust too
books in his course; including all the suggested supplementary read­ taneously.
A radioactive atom earth, where it is absorbed by fine to fall locally. A detonation
ing, that I later discovered was not that frequently used.
emits alph, beta, or gamma rays. plants. Animals eating the plants of more than one megaton (equal
further concentrate the radio­ to a million tons of TNT) blows
As I read on, the most important thing I discovered in books
Beta radiation consists of short active dust. Food products are ul
radioactive dust into the strato­
(at that time) was how unsure life was, always had been, and always range electrons that can be stop­
timately
affected.
It
is
suspected,
sphere. The fallout returns slowly
will be. I was not alone anymore. And I realized that if I had the ped by ordinary clothing. Gamguts—like others in the past—I could crawl out to the surface again ma radiation is so penetrating though not established, that ac­ to earth in a space of time rang­
and make some sense out of my life without-completely losing my that a shield of several feet of cumulation of fallout radioactivi­ ing from months to years. Most
sanity. There were many other things I discovered in good books:, earth or concrete is necessary to ty in joints or glands can cause of the world-wide fallout hazard
cancer in human beings and could comes from detonation larger
different viewpoints,' exchange of ideas, ways of life, history of stop.
ultimately
contribute to the num­ than a megaton.
places and people, and entertainment. It filled a huge gap for me.
Man has lived in an environ- ber of babies born with congenial
How Is Fallout Measured?
When a writer puts a lifetime’s knowledge into a book—and ment full of minor radioactivity defetes.
gives up so much in the process—is it asking too much for the reader for hundreds of years. Air, rocks,
Since fallout does not reveal
to spend a couple of hours or so on it? Unless a writer has another soil and building walls all con­ What Can Radioactivity
itself to any of the human senses
trade or profession to keep him going-, he does go through hell. And tain natural radioactivity. Cos­ Do To The Human Body?
it must be detected by instruhe keeps g.etting older and more insecure.
_ Exposure to large doses of ra­ mentsments capable of picking up
mic . rays constantly shower ra­
Gone are the days of the great patrons of the arts. When diation on the earth.
diation is lethal. The argument garma rays and betta particles/
Spencer had finished the “Faerie Queen”, he carried it to the Earl How Is Fallout Produced?
is over the hazard involved in Does Fallout Pose A
of Southampton, the great patron of the poets of those days. The
A hydrogen bomb requires the small exposures over a long Hazard How?
manuscript being sent up to the Earl, he read a few pages, and then
period of time.
The public health officials say
ordered the servant to give the writer twenty pounds. Reading fur­ splitting of uranium or pluto­
The intensity of radiation is that, there is no cause for “undue
nium
atoms
to
attain
the
100,000,ther, he cried in rapture, “Carry that man another twenty pounds!”
000 degree temperature neves- measured in units called roent- public concern” now, but that pre­
Proceeding still, he said, “Give him twenty pounds more!” But at sary for the fusion of hydrogen. gens. In human beings, 600 roent­
sent fallout levels warrant con­
length he lost all patience, and said, “Go. turn the fellow out of the
The splitting of these elements gens kills almost everyone expos­ tinuous, intensive survellance.
'house, for if I read on I shall be ruined!” Nowadays, a writer must produce some 200 different ra­ ed. 400 to 500 roetgens kills half
consider himself lucky if he can get a part time job pearl-diving dioactive isotopes. In addition, a those exposed and 300 roetgens
(washing dishes) to keep him going.
nuclear fusion explosion produces will kill only a few of those ex­
There are libraries full of good books for children of all ages vast quantities of neutrons, or posed.
and adults alike. You can make it an interesting part time hobby neutral elementary particles.
Very
Very high doses of radiation
with your children; or even as a full time hobby, like, for instance,
If a nuclear explosion impinges destroys the central nervous sys­
reading and tracing the history of literature. And if you are not on the ground, it sweeps up into
tems and cause death in a very
sure of what to begin reading, there are many good “reading plans”
few hours. Lower doses damage
available at any book-store.
the intestinal system and the
Here is a short list of some of the books I have enjoyed over the
blood
forming system.
years. Perhaps you might find one you like among them. War and
Peace—Leo lolstoy; Old Man Goriot—Honore De Balzac; Tom Jones
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