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By CINDKKKLLA
It Never Happens To Me
I THINK THBREthould be a law against a certain misrepresentation of .facts, particularly when those facts relate closely to one's Everyday way of life. Fm thinking of Hollywood's version of the White Collar Girt. I dpn't know where �Hollywood gets those lovely ideas on how a White Collar Girl lives; but the things which happen to her never ever happen to me or to my girl friends who check in at nine and quit at five.
Now, I think I'm a good secretary, having won my secretarial spurs via several progressively interesting and remunerative jobs, tackling anything new that came my way with gusto, and clinging to what some "recently-become-secretaries" would consider an illusion -^- that every job can be interesting if one puts her energy and her. heart into it. But that doesn't mean -that I've become a part of the office fixtures or that I've even resigned myself to staying where I am forever. It's a good job until somet'hing more challenging or soul-stirring comes along. I like the-people I work with, and I still get a thrill when some fresh office boy whistles as I go by or when the janitor or the elevator man makes a special trip for trie just because it's I who asks for service;
I've just fallen heir to three new girls, each fired with ambition � to snag a nian, I don't blame itherh at all. And I hope they'll snag a nian soon, for marriage and children and a home still add up to a very good institution. But in the meantime, I have to work with them; And therefore the rub. These youngsters are all fed on Hollywood guff and slkk paper magazine stories about White Collar" Girls in the big city;             'l
Hollywood's conception of a White Cdllar Girl is one who always seems to manage to live in a more-than-average walk-up apartment, with enough room to throw one of those cosy, intimate dinners, planned to show that the career girl is a. mother arid housewife at heart. I should like to corner the next Hollywood scenario writer nnd invite him to the apartment I used tb live in when I was starting out as a $27.QO-per-week sterio, He.'d never �believe, it. My window looked, but, not on a grassy square, but on a clothesline. My only indication of any change in seasons was the scenery on the clothesline,, as it changed from flannel Underwear to bathing suits.dripping water on tenants who had the ill fortune .to be retrieving some article which had fallen off his window siH. And even if I did want to ask some nice man to dinner, T wouldn't have dared � for there was only just enough room for myself, my bed and one hot plate � and anyone could fry pork chops, even a mere man!
And if those bright little girls are going to stall around, dropping their notebooks and going for their powder puffs even* time a male walks into the office, they're going to have-a disillusioning time of it all. Only a Hollywood',White Collar Girl can "happen to Ho there" just at the right moment. She can fall coming down the stair*, get caught in a revolving door or a rainstorm, and come through unscathed, with a good-looking man on her arm. And it's pretty slow business, according to Hollywood standards. if the man doesn't progress from solicitude to dinner date, and then to mutual discovery that they both work in the same place �' hr, naturally, the executive and she, the flower that has been blooming-unseen oehind the Tiling cabinets in the shipping department. Soon he realix^s he.cant live without her. and in no time, his personnel man.agor is putting up another ad for a filing clerk with high school oducatton and no experience. . .               :
Not so in real life, behVre �ie! When I fall I usually fall flat on my face, or worm- still, on my knees, thus experiencing a double trapedy of seeing a pair of 11.75 nylons go "kaput* and feeling extraordinarily infinitesimal into the bargain. 0 Hollywood, where is thy Nice Yo-unp Man to make fallrnpr an Act of God? I usnally have to pick myself up, filing very foolish, only to find some glamorous, beautiful w*rnan eyeing me with a look that can only m*�n "How sloppy can on<� he!" t can or.ly slink away, up some deserted street. f<vlinjr a* camWnom* a* a. *a*k �f p�lato��.
If I jcet caught in a revolving <kwvr. 1 simply revolve several tin** and w*1 c�t into the foyrr. where ! run the risk of being awn hy a Hff �NTnbyr of the Temperance Union, who wouldn't hesitate to the proper aothorittes for being tipsy at firr o'clock. ,1>W lea ��**>* io tcTBpttrr* to->. btrt unlike my Haflywood ctrnn-wfco always finds a coR#mial man who "jmt happen* to �OTfevfhr" �r 1r itsn^Hiqr in 9*m* shelter *Jttrt hi* cwmirli I fisrf �f��lf abw. jetting *�i*ht'J te the V�e. Or if I MM jeincrf hy a dwciT. rriewfly ** whkh,
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unity Activities
Some months ago, the Toronto JCCA invited the older Nisei of the community to a. meeiiag to discuss the latter*s closer parti-cipation in Japanese Canadian community work because the older Nisei were conspicuously, absent from . JCCA meetings and 'JCCA leadership, and because the local JCCA needed the support of this grpup.
At the initial meeting, about twoscore interested older Nisei turned out and discussed . the advisability or the desirability of formihg a new group rather than supporting by personal partici-pation, the local JCCA in. its present set-up.
A planning committee of nine people was formed to study further the proposal of a new group/ considering it *from all angles including past failures or successes in such group organizations.
This committee discussed;
1. Failure of the Toronto JCCA
to attract older Nisei to its exr
.ecutive. Points brought out were:
(a)  Wartime emergency being over,   the  peculiar  work  of the JGCA seems unnecessary.
(b)   Older Nisei are too ab^ sorbed in persbhal life� within the limits Of niarriage, work,: recreation,    etC.    .�'-.-.�'�        ';-.'..
(c)  Personal conflicts have re-� suited from divergent viewpoints on politics and methods in JCCA work; - � �. --':,; . _;'" '   .'; -/' �  ��'� ... .:  : �.
"2. : Possibility of failure of a new group to.dp any better than the JCCA has done ih bringing this' group into community activities. Points brought out:
(a)   Indifference  toward   Ja: panese  C a n a d i an  community work/       .'.                        r    .
(b)    Absorption   in   personal life, as 1 (b) above.
(c)  Disagreement on the structure, purposes,  and  methods  of any ne\v group.
(d)   Possfibility that there is no need-for. any. group, whether^
in   or  out   of   the   local  JCCA framework.
3. Possibility that a new group completely dissociated from the JCCA might attract more of the older Nisei willing to participate in community work but not taking part in local JCCA activities for various reasons. Points:
(a)   Agreement on  need  for United   community   efforts,   but JCGA is obvious agency for such purposes.
(b)   Probability   that   a -new group   would   support   the  local JCCA   in   community   work   in ways similar to  such organizations as Kiwanis, etc.
(c)   Desirability of Japanese Canadians knowing each other in more general arid friendly fashion,   to   find   common   bonds  in ancestry, culture, interests, problems.
{dj New group could be channel of communications between skills, professions, for people of same interests w'hq' othenvisc would not meet.together.
On conclusion of discussion, the planning, committeo called a meeting of Nisei, jnvitihg especially those who had been at some time executives of Nisei organi^ zation's. About twerity-three, peor phe turned up. It .was decided that a newv group apart from the JCCA Would be set .up with, .its purpose an all-embracing one of being ready at any time to do whatever was required in the way of coiiihiunity .work. A for-inal constitution'was regarded as unnecessary unless the group was legally required/to incorporate. Among the matters discussed:
i. Membership hot to be restricted by age, or by technical qualifications as Nisei. ,
2.,Suggestion that membership be. in committees or sections composed of thos^ of similar interests, in order that every member might be active in some way.
.3\: This group to be representative only of its members, and
How. ii bu:-
p;iro!y
not representative of thp
nese Canadians as a w j . i ' ,
.; 4. Suggestion that th--' v;a':Vf r,j group be distinctively' j;,j?ar^W without the use in ary uay of the words "Japaneso" - Ca^. dian," or "Citizen."
5.   Such   new   group   mj#t  o necessity start out socially jn th* inceptive .stage, befnro booming involved in serious projec ever, it was. further .p'M
. that  the � new  group "w more supporting of j)roj� the initiating of them.
6,   Some advocacy <*f social group.
-'..Those present we're ngwabk-to forming a new group .ami > , voted. Another .meeting ^v;i> proposed in order to cussion of 'topics the agenda, and also tr> 6h.ivn5c ^ name, and' to forin. somr kind of an executive.
Eleven Nisei ansvvemt th^. �'! for a general meet inji.ronfiijiih still remains as to the o\ act purpose of a new group, ..-and as . tn w-hy the series of meeting's. ,\va? called at all. The following ''-opi-' nions were, ex pressed:
.1. Those . who had ^ ait c these meetings before, ^ agreeable to becojuing all had various, legrtiniato for "absence at thi? gii't hiring'.-However, some of thosr at (eliding came even though they-aM'o had persbnal reasons for .?hiying away.                                  :
2. AVhile the id.eaVvf -thr pw-posed new group \vas ; gMd,-- if poor attendance such -as ni thi? .meeting was a ';� criterion-: of th? interest to be hiaintaini 'd; by th^ group in future, .thero i> little basis for an ofganizatioii. /....
Since  summer is   not  a'-p^xf' time .for  organizivtiojK: b;:>in<-^ was  suspended  till .the  ^- -^ public meeting   wiir he  l?-/:i1.. H-Sept ember to  resume oixra'i^ Active interest of the gro;;p w: : .be. necessary, however, if t.w group is to: be formed.         _�_.;
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Mack recalled that he had spent _n�ore than a year in Mexico, living in small towns and the byway places from the big city to the Guatemalan border. While staying.in Mexico City he says he kept seeing people on the street" �who looked "Japanese." One day he ?aw a group of young boys and girls with school book?. He" inquired, and found they were returning from the local Japanese language school. They were members of evacuee families who had lived oh the Mexican west coast arid had been moved to the interior in collateral action to thf mass evacuation in the United States. ' -
Unlike Canada and the United States. wh*r^ * background of race nrejudice or. th^ part of some element.* of the nopnlation became c^rifu�*�d with the neeewHies of TwIUtary po!ky, th*� ev�m-ation in Mexico appear* to hav�� berTi jttrictTy 'as a mlTTtarr maneuver carried nut a? nart �f sort of n^mi9i>heric under*Un�ti�>e.
to -the view that the mass
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of Japanese ancestry were rounded up. i-nV: and later deported via the United SUV??.   .
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IN .PERU, with a population of .?��-Japanese Peruvians, the government a;. hare acted somewhat capriciously. Many of Japanese ancestry with large.'cnmn'-.er ings were arrested and se^nt to th; 1 r:' for internment. ..
Political scandals  since have  V �-�:�" " involving members of -the gi^vomr -.- ' at the 'time, involving seizure of tV of the. evacuees for personal   jralr. has refused to permit many of th^ -return and several hundred still aro ;- ' States under the supervision of :l^ ^. of Jxiittice.
Efforts are being made to oh*ar.  > residence rights for these Ja?ar^   -. � all of �-hom have row lived ir. *- ^ t for so?re 12 years.
of persons of Jinanes? ancestry fmrn the coaatal  areas  of the western hemitphfn part rf Grn. IVWftt's grand stnitcy. TTiT*
of <oursea the Question why there BO attempt to evacuate M*OI* 1WMWW> pmnns �  Jzvmnrtr awcjtiy   fiMii   Hawaii,  hot  then Hawut mas not wiihtk Ocn. OeWttt^s covonan^ I� Cost* KSca it is Rfettcd thnt aO pmoM
year? before Pear! HarVr. nf Japanese ancestry in the ** the p<*tept�al TVr*  ha*  n<* been an artefnpted sabotage <m the pa Japanese ance*rry
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TL altstooch sv��t�l m�ith� HaAor an< tV time the