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As always it is Our intention to give as complete as possible coverage of Nisei news ajul views, and we hope to put on a .sustained effort to this end in this new year.
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mem 'awl that sentiment � p'.-�'\ �forms-'the. function of..the intellect. And such is intellect in disguise-; � ' '.- ,
'.. Life is a, serious-.-.affair, but certainly not as � serious ; as '-a-woman librariair takes ,it when, having attempted to get., a' borrower to return a book, she finally gets him on the phone and. Expounds'ad-nauseam on how the
to the newspaper. These j proerastinator is hampering; the
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by G. T. ; father.. ' ' � ' .
FATHER BKCAMK a psychol-1 Who commands the status quo? ogist when son was bom. .That 1 father? Well, son lets him think is, when son became two years
so.
old, I mean' It all." began, when j sou started to take eharg? Father Jiad. to become a psychologist! ~'
Ever since son the. house ha:
all kinds of. bisCuits and.cookies. Arrowroot, cratfte. rss' �� ^-square
and round, Cheezies, and all .varieties, of home-made ones- Of course they are not all. in the house at any one time. Rut son knows what is what and when is when. . '�
At supper lime son eats with father. Never mind.if it. is son's second round. What does >on; want ? asks father at the table. Of course father is hungry..-too! \
But here comes uncle ambling into the - picture. Military strategy; is aii old art to son. Two of son's contemporaries have come on to the.scene. Visiting is no legitimate reason for them. to. invade bis territory of affection. One doesn't wear pants but that doesn't matter a bit. She can come-and try all her wiles, and feminine tricks but they'will get her nowhere. Poor uncle, he's sunk!-. Son is.all affection to him. and he takes it all in. So uncle, is well in tow; Soil's contemporaries, are just out of luck for [uncle's affections. �
Music! Son loves music. Father
advancement and 'dissemination of knowledge. 0 Cod!- � Women
l-'u.'iny" which, had been recommended to i:ie by a person of my acquaintance.. '.I discovered' not ' that' people are funny,- hut - that _ t.he people taking part in the \ programme were. put.through all � sorts of wild'y-.imagihed' . situations'and -then duly laughed'at. ; The .programme, I venture to 1 say. is 'misnamed: it should be fval!o.d. -TlK-llorse-Laugh Show,-'. , The fact that the, participants "fare rewarded with d,'ep-freezers, : Wittmiuor watches, and super1. : s'.upor sewing machines . in com-' ivnsution for the horse-play doe.^
about the author
A Second World War "..vet--� eian, Ray Stevens Was a -p'ris'-" ! oner of war in Germany while serving fvilh the famous Black Watch Regiment. He is now a ; third year .student of philo-��: sophy at Carleton College, Ot-j tawa.
logicians bore me!
j hot in any way legitimize condo-; nation of this kind of embarras-..''*';."���* ,'/.'.'� . r sing derision. 1 am very happy
One Sunday evening I reclined to report that the C.B.C. does
in iny Lazy-Roy to listen to the radio, programme "l*e\>ple Are
not' broadcast this programme. Most . literature on mental
health is prescriptive, but whr. | the people really need is something' that will cure their philosophical ills.
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�Empirically it is not possible to prove the cvis't.enee of God. Rationally it becomes possible' U: posit His existence. Rut to posit is not to establish^ Then' again there are those who feel tha: proof is not necessary; one. feels, that God must exist. Others say that no moral ideal is completv without God as a "fdunlal.nnoa.l-� that there can be )>o moral justice without a supreme being who punishes or rewards. ..
1 believe that no mora! system is worth anything unless it has God as a backer. To the question of the existence of God I answer I don't, know; every �inquiry; has led me out the dooi-wherein I went. The theologians are good psychologists; they insist on faith, thereby silencing the cries of reason.
Undoubtedly Winston Churchill is a great man,' but his greatness is of- a peculiar kind. It seems to lack the. savor which character-. b:es the greatness for which
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LETTER from ALBERTA
So. Alta. JC's Live In and With Community
ylchs A5sociation has some p rob'-', lem s bu t, i h Split her n Albert a a t least, they do not seem major, .or -.-pressing. When; they were
by ANDREW SNADDON
The arrivaL of more than 4,000 Japanese -Canadians^ in Southern Alberta during the war years was an event greeted with little I mov�j. out of British Columbia, enthusiasm either" by the new | the Custodhui of Alien Property arrivals, or by the long-time j took over their land, their fish-citizens, 'into whose.midst they.;inff vessels and most. of their: came. It was a wartime measure, pother property, - and sold it. at but, for approximately 2,500 n jpnees which were Often .absurdly has turned out to be permanent; | ^w. The Japanese would like to and it seems to be working out � ?l-t their money back, at least,
Tide! ^says son to '.father. 'Tide!, [has got his mind made up that well.
ibut "as one remarked, they haven't
Only son calls it Teed. What's ;.son is a coming genius in music, ihe difference? Noiu\ whatsoever. - Son can really siiig too, says
The Japanese were hitherto not tooMnuch hope, of getting it, and known in Alberta in quantity. m0st of them are now resigned.
nese, there is considerable active participation -. in the .Christian churches. Most of the younger generation do- not even speak. Japanese, have never been to Japan, and apparently have not much intention of going there, other than, perhaps, for a visit.
To assume that there is no problem at all, and that the people of Southern Alberta are somehow/better and more tolerant, than those in British Columbia, would be unwarrahf^d. The fact iis.. that the Japanese are not I really heavily concentrated in ! Southern Alberta, and their pre-
So finally son gets his CbeezTes. 'tmcle. Rut best of all son likes to ; Then, following the outbreak to accepting .th-s and getting on That -is. after father^ g.u it into; listen to the record player. -RecJapan, they were moved l^it^^the job; of living.;
his thick skull that the Tide box jcfd . after-record he will plav. ''-.from their heavy concentration ; T^>' live in aml with their, {sencc is not felt as much as ;t isorange-volored'too. :. ' . 'n'oi all of the record, of course [on the British Columbia-coast "j community. At Conldale near Father likes to think son is Just the good parts.: Ave Maria? ;jand shipped to Alberta. Th^ j Mhbridge the: hospital is run by self-reliant at an early age. So Of course, and; s
father -is-.teaching "sojv to brush too. getting, red
his teeth. But ir. father become *e:uv
oi\\cv to helo those high notes. Uncle! Sure, he
son will sing it (greatest number of them were ; two Japanese doctors. A consider-in the face on |put to work at the hard labor of |ahle number have ceased to be
industrv. When ' employees on-sugar beet farms
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course. Thais.' fatia t>rogr��Mi'? Of-couts*1 learning.
� Rut the .>t:ier day..-fat-her- uvk son dowr. to'he base:ver:.- Why" Son had a reas.�n. 0::u' dev. r. the basen-.e:.: fatht r.- w i:ural'\ being a vr>or.; havir.g a sh-r: interest spar.. s;;w :'�v sh-v� po'.i>ri box and go: the .d. to p.v>h h:-shoes. -Father's br_s"" st'-.^ke k�-p: tcmp%^ -\v;0n s>^' ? : z r.c '
sings too, taking his � cue from.! the war ended,, there was'a lot son-when, he 'misses some of those'*! of strong feeling, publicly ex- �'xn- :
r.o:os. T" ' 1 prosed i:x Southern; Alberta tha-: Japanese. girls are employed
Son has got father ami -ur.cie .'the Japanese should go back t> ;a; >ocretaries in Lethbridge of-'stumped,- Son has a co-leviion of -j British .Columbia.. A lot of them j f-ces-:. Mayor Shackleford has On? a. couple of dozen records from Ave-Maria-to You. You. You and the little rod unbreakable kinds,. ' So* knows thenvall. Knows which, is which. Can son read already?
So you see father has become a psychologist. Nightly he is immersed \t. b-vks tha: dea' with terrr.s '.Ike behaviorism, ir.tr^ SjWtiorish^ nerve paths, stimuli. .vor.ditToned ref!ex. et al.
t did-go back to'resume their trad.- I working for him at his theatre I as fishermen -xnd --truck garden-. Other young Japanese students !ers, Soa.t moved east, mainly to bive enrolled at the University' ! Toronto, a few others w'er.t � back'j �-" Alberta, the Provincial Insti-i to Japan, bat the rest have taken
iio!d. wh^ro r. years ago ;he> were feared. >u>pected "vf d'.wr.-righ: hav-d.
So�'e Are Teachers
Te-i Aoki. a f�>m:er pr.t-*ider.L of the Japanese Canadian Citi-
't-ste .of Technology in Calgary, land the Olds Seho^M of Agriculture. In L^'.hbridge there are : -.� -lpanese menibers. of both the lions and the. Kinsn:en*s Club.
Foddhist Temples
- .���.-�--------� -�- .,-�� -v^ v...**!�. There are Buddhist temples
Sinking' tur.e" That wa> jus: as ^i'ather has learned tha: the jzens Council in Southern Alberta. . iactaaRy halls, although a proper
food as pUm ERg.sM Tr...: s. best way ?o bring up son is to [teaches in the Lethbridge junior - one is feeing built in Lethbridge)
it should have her- S f.-'Vr hi.; teach him. no:-dictate. Scufather. [ high school, as do some other in Raymond. Picture Butte, Leth-
kept his -wit* about h.ir-. ThJe has come w agreement with , Canadian of Japanese descent. ! bridge and Coaldale. This is
tM^i bnuh tunv, .T w-ur>v. Hvi: Everything Is done by agreemen*. tThere i* no segregation In any 1 mainly the work of older Japa~
not tooth bm*h tow, Bru*h! So . Ag_re em e n
hi? sh.^s. with H*mm!
A#rrement �cf the achooU. ,
- The Japanese C
(�was in prewar British Columbia, j One Japanese remarked that j the dispersal' from the coast, upsetting and hard asjt.was at the time, particularly for those : who ivere Canadian by birth an 1 . in outlook, was in the;end,-a good thing. It lessened their sense of I being one large minority .group j separate froni other citizens, and has led to the blending-'with the community which is so noticeable in Southern Alberta.
Chris Gibson, a member of the Lethbridge branch of the Canadian Legion, who happened into Mayor Shackleford's office, while he was talking, was asked his opinion without being given any 'indication of what was being i discussed. "A fine race of peo-'ple. They did great work here ! during the war," he replied frith no hesitation. "We think it shows that different noes can �-g^et'-aJoiig' av -C!*u " **
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