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VoTTs-NO. 62
American Negro to Vanish 300 Years; Wm. Faulkner
S.ATUHDAY, AUGUST 13, 1955
TORONTO, ONT.
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TOKYO. � N<ivelist William fanlkiirv predicted hist week the N<gfo nue in America will "van-;<h'' lw mofger with the rest of H^ V.S; population, in 3<H) years. '" Tiro fa::ied author snid that, in \\\? /neaiuvhile. it 'is up to the Xeirv' t'v have "'tolerancej intel-;:>vti<.'�v. iiivti'e'nce, and be S*MI-. ,!hb'" in solving the. segregation
� "-Xoi the white mail," -ho said,
-iHH'iiusv- tlie white nian is fran-
uc; JH'S afraid; he's/fighting."
T!io Noln'l Pn/o-winning chro-
niol.-r 'of life in America's deep;
#outh .nude his remarks to, .newSr
:ncn at-"the. Tokyo- Foreign Cor-
''ivsitomleiiu; club following his
aniv;i! -..'in/'Japan for a. three-
'.\vcok'..tour .sponsored-' by the U.S.
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ters' sat on the floor in i-ciivh around .-Faulkner'.-as 'I'lar.iM'i in his modulated .sippi ':icce..iit, that only WO: men read .the better iiovels in
Asked wh\ jus books are- so much niore popular -in France than in his native land, the pipe-sni'okiiig1- author'.drawled.:'." : '.': "That's because everyone in the States \vrites�-no one reads.
10,000 Scouts la Meet At Niapa-on-Lake 8tli World Jamboree
Our culture U base<l an pr tion and success . ''.... \he only people in the States who read
: are women."
j Faulkner said he felt tha't. "all1: Ainerican authors should
\ get the Nobel. Pri/.v because it would be difficult to1 name/any. single American creative writer lajilking after hiinself and Frn-cst Hemingway.
lie called Thomas Wolfe the "finest Hternry failure'1 in America, then judged himself "the second finest failure, (John) Dos I'assos third and 'Hemingway last.1'.-H0./..dismisscd John Steinbeck as /merely "a /reporter." / � ., .-/; : �'�'��.:;.��; '.-..' ..-.
Faujkiier characteri/.eil the \vriting of novels as one "failure after another, with, the novelist making successive tries for success although ""he knows he'll never be successful," . /
The author /described "Thc-Sound and The Fury" as his own "fiivcst: failure'' and he said he wrote ''Sanctuary" onlyvio- make fnoney. ' ';',�
".;. "Pd heard- ibat people^ made 'money writiiig books and 1 wanted to buy a horse," Faulkner explained, "So I \vrote a book to make money to buy a horse.''
The vvliite-ha.ired novelist said he;'�'believed, human '-.life1':is "a tragedy", but .added: / v
"t /do believe in man and . his capacity1 for folly . . . I believo that man -will some day end war. 1/t will take a long.time, but he
Canada Student Delegates Seen Curious, Energetic, Frank, Ready
i ''Editor's'Sole: On conclusion of t hi> four-day program at Mount Koya of the Sixth World Uni.vorshy Sorvici- International . Seminar. Tokyo �MainK'hi.-staff writer Ken Ta-
; kemurii wrote th*> following observations on Canadian ^tu-
I dent delegates:
; Youthful cu.riosily, funt.irinVen-
I't-rgy. pleasant .frankness, and
�'.readiness.1-to meet any difficulty.
in an entirely different environ-
V merit ..are the four marked char-
; 'acteristics'. of Canadian'students'.
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I This -was "tli'e consensus.-'of Ja-t'panese delegates at the Sixth' ; W.US Int.erria'tional Seminar. .
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_--.M?ni�> -of the 10,000 Scottish leader's fronvmore; than GO coun-triv? expected for the* 8th World >VoM- Jamboree have already: ar-nvo.l jit Canada, others are on ihfii- \v:,y, while still others have ye! -to leave home. For the first t]'-i>\ the Jamboree is being held ! y i.�'_f a'i':i'd?( Aug-. :� 18,2.8 at Nia-'j ^ira-u!.Mho-Lake,; Ont. " .---:/-'� ��'IV /various .scout contingents 1 allocated in ten . camps. '�;).';'. ?c*�uts from Japan will - v <!' at the 11 udson B'a-v'
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Canadiaiv scouts in the Hay camp will include > of the Toronto contin->lv Kurit.n of Tape Aye. -=ta:H scoutmaster for "5. while. Peter Shintani ire. St. has been elected !'-V patrol".leaders,, riivhoree will, be open to '>*- Aug. 20-25 and Aug. :i. visitor? will he charg-n foe.'
Steveston Boy Wins Scholarship
Van JGCA Prepares Float for PNE Parade
�'�: VANOOUVKH.^Mount /Fu j i and a torii (Shinto shrini? archway)/ will be -.depleted--'in the Vancouver .JCCA float for/ the Pacific National' Exhibition Parade: to be held Aug. .2-1,
Ten Nisei girls in Oriental dress and. cherry; blossoms w-ill (tec-orate a 2(>-ft. long float. Fuji-; ran will be 13 feet in height.
Lakefiead Nisei Club Elects PaolMa Prexy
FORT WILLIAM, Ont �In an executive meeting July 4, the following officers were elected for the 1955-56 term-of. the I/ake-Iv-ad Nisei Club: .Paul. Oda. pre?ident: TTarry Kamo. pa?t pT^Pident: Luke Na-kanioto: genera! ?^crc-tary:" Ha-yaml Nishimura. executive secretary-: -Kay Nakairnto. ^e^retary-
Nisei from Alberta Enlilhtens on State Of Japanese in Canada
MOtiNT 10\JA>-- 'Interracial njarriages; between Japanese descendant sin Canada and FAIrop-ans are not generally accepted by either society," said Miss Shigeko Takeda, the only -Can-' adian Jap<ih<T>e, with the W.US seminar group cu r rent |y visiting J.apan: ''Sociely is basically nar-
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row-mindod isn't it ?'* : . Miss Takeda, 121 -year-old sec-ond^year 'student fit the Univer-sity'; of Alberta, ,hoWo\eiy emphasized: that there; is no unequal treatment:in the business \\orld and many Japanese Nisei are now occupying highly respected positions.. ".'� -.'�-.", .: ;..-"Quite a number of Japanese descendants" 'are going' to colleges, nnd, since Canada ,is~ now iho richest rountry.in the world many of them, are very well off, ?iio said, ��� .-�; -�;'. '.'�-.
�'Miss' Takeda told Japanese newspapermen of .(lie. scattering of Japanese all across Canada rafter the evacuation and deserib-the situation as similnr to that of the Japanese in the United
Miss Takedn. -whose parents fire from Ehime.'Prefecture, vi?-.itod Japan in 1953 for a short I time, and want? .to study in Ja-i pan for .a year/after the two-1 month seminar ends Aug. 2<X . �
. Fo\irteen Japanese students, including six coi-tls!, told the, Mai-i-iich'i their cxpAyrien:c�\s after living' together- with Canadian 'students' in a round-table confab.
All Hut Tsukemono
Confronted with genuinely^ Japanese-style food on the l,14fl/ year-old Koyasan. all of 25 C i'ldian students showed i able appetite by eating all the dishes cooked by the l\igeniii Hall priests. ''
Youthful curiosity drove them to try anything�.they h:\m\led "hashi" (Japanese chopsticks), gulped "miso" soup and sipped bitter tea. Many emptied, for the first 'time in their lives, two large howls of rice, adding Worcestershire 'Sauce or 4ishoyu" (Japanese soya bean "sauce). ' '.- �..-�:'
"Tsukemono" (Japanese pickles), for its peculiar smell, proved to be the only "insurmouitt-;ible'' object for the most ;cur-ious. .-.'�;.-::. '�' ;' '..- ��.��-.���.' /.. ..; '.' �"/'.
�'Coiipled'-wilh readiness to. meet any "difficulties in Japan, no Canadian students complain of uncomfbrtabjc Japanese toilets, batli tubs, and bard "tatami", as well, as food. .
"Those Frank Canadians" A Canadian, as lie gbes to bed, gathers all the cushions, around and uses anything soft in order to put them under bis body when ho sleeps on tatami. Those frank .Canadians who "cannot :sleep well at night on hard tatami are ready to lie on their back on tatami during lecture.meetings at live ball. -.,..'/'.. /
The Canadian students in such a large group to visit, Japan have ,been "aina/ingly-' well orientated about ^things Japanese
and are perfectly prepared U> nuyt. any situation they uro in. They are also always ready to correct their mannei-s when they are told to.
Some of them were about to wash their bodies with soap inside a Japanese bath tub. As they were told not to do that, they immediately followiHl-J'apa-' neSe way iif bathing....
Not only energetic and curious but brave-/aiv the Canadians. After'18 hours of flying across tho Pa'cific and arriving at Tokyo early in the morning, a Canadian liung. annmd Tokyo streets and t ried J a panese sake the same af-ternoon alone;
�".Jajw'iioso' More �llcsil'a'nl
A �i:ip:mese remarked: -"We would be n\uclv more hesitant in Canada, and we would not be able to move around so easily as they do in a Japanese house."
The frankness about Canadian h o.y 's assoc i a t ion w i t b gi r 1 s has been � ix cpnstiint surprise arid envy t" Japanese students, particularly to: men students. �
Canadian girls often leaned ;:>.gaiiist boys when they felt tired or wanle-J to .sibop, even in a train. Their cheerful conversation '�� v >ve Ja|ianese boys to mingle ��!:'/ freely with Japanese gi.r.ls. -�-}* >;:des curiously, they are try-iier i.ii be as polite as possible. Ma:?y Jajmnese Students, have been asked at dinner table, "From which dish should .".'we. start?" by Canadians.
Most of the' .Canadians' have, nicked up several routine words iii Japanese to greet non-Knglisb-speaking Japanese and thank tlVem for what they have (lone.
Seminar Delegates Hear Lectureson Canada, Japan
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laponese Girl Who Speaks 'English English' Sought in Edinburgh
FD1XP.URGH. Scot-arid.�The
Fdir.burgh drama.festival is look-
.rn? f�>r a Japar.e*^ gir! .who
rot "An:- rican Knj:lj.<h." .
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MOUNT KOYA, Wakayama.� On the second day of the Sixth AVUS seminar thr^'e. lectures.were" given to . orientate- the delegates -about Japan and Canada, the two co-.-pon?oring countries of the seminar. . .."....-'
. l^rofessor lichi Oguchi of Tokyo University .explained the unujiioness of relicion .of Jaj)�in as against Cbristiiinity in. the wf:steriv world. ,
"When a baby -con:.--.-, the paf-rnt^ go .to-a- Shinto shrine." while they look to a Pvuidhi?f trmpb-'-ral when the baby di??. ^R^IirioT1. of a fan r.y arwl fr-li-or> r>f individual family r> are c^mpV-t^ly difff "It n'not Bud<lhT�rn nor Shin-ism, but rv'\v re'isrion? wioh a* '�r KonVokyo that have
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IVofossor Soward told of the close gt'ographicaT and .cconoinic link '-with' the United States and the ".sentimental affiliation", with HrOat Rritain. Describing Canada as a" "master of com-promiso," the' UBC professor explained that she must mediate b^-tween Frr-nch and British Can-nrh�i an<i int<*rt>�ti�>f��Uy, muM interpret British idea,* for. th<^ U.S., and ro!ay Anifrican sug-er-stion.s to Britain.
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