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W*4n***�trj# Octobar 29.1952
An Indfftndwt JaffMSi.&tglisb Organ. Published on Wednesday tnd Saturday of each week as a medium of expression and news outlet among those of Japanese origin in Canada,
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This is the time of the year vyhen we are somewhat education-minded, Mr. Sitarr no less than the rest of us. If 1 hadn't discovered who and what M. Sitarr was, his last column would have been passed off with a shrug: The man's nuts. However, as a column by someone with a college education, that column was a shambles compounded of shallow reason and forced ami-logy which limps badly. Have you ever seen blinders on a horse? Wonder if that's what M. Sitarr wears,, because he doesn't seem to have much vision. Sad isn't it.
It is plain that M. Sitarr has some phobia against religion, but it is not clear why he chose to use as analogy a story for children that is itself not a very coherent one. Or perhaps the eho'uv of such a story is all part of his own. distemper. If l\e wanted to " attack the yardstick of the religions (Basic principle) he should have whacked away at the railroad tracks, and explained wlty. little TooUe,;a! train-engine-to-b.e at that, ought to be free to run' off the tracks to smell, flowers -   like Ferdinand the Bull.
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all these kids to be a part of the most lucrative,; the most dominant, th.e top-level group, and if they don't get there they don't (ret the reward.
Rubbish. From what I've seen of kids, the more anyone tries to fit them into such a pattern the more, skittish they get and "they wind up being what they want to be anyway. If spontaneity means "without restraint"-, or "constraint", we-ell, some kids have so darned much they have to oe turned off:to save themselves and the suffering neighbourhood;; in short their spontaneity ought to be controlled into channels like rugby, and being Cheerleaders, or maybe the community clown, as well as into the more appreciated r.oles of entertainer, politician and volunteer firemen, etc.: whichever one suits theni best.
Oh I grant you some kids, grow up into terrible introverts; they can see only themselves and consequently, measure the rest of the world'-by their own incapacities. And for each one of these psychofics some adult-may have, been to blameV but by, everything that's- sensible, I. wouldn't g'o-.blaming -religions  if: such   are
story   about   little Tootle, (my | based on universal truths which taste '-running   more - to   Pogo- | van bo interpreteddawn, to our types), but from what M. Sitarr j level of comprehension as plain ' relates.  Tootle' has   a' definifo '\ eood sense. |
identity as an engine..The defi- j    As for this- '"reality toting" ' nition -becomes even more ">'{�'- ".'.business.- I)oe>M -.Sitarr'.-think : cif-ic: lie's a'.iraih-engi.no. -albeit j kids don't test everything"they're i a young one. I .don't -see Ithat -*i |- told.?- \V'ju> hasn't known the child j mat tors whether he becomes a. i with burnt fingers' ?. lie. just w.ant-streamlfnor- or a freight-pvdlov. j K-,\ to. prove, tho stove.-was 'really because  these are -"-governed, ^y"; hot. eve v.- when .his- mother .tried .quality and 'polish.'.-.The-point is. \ to get him to accept '-that fact on Tootle is. a - train engine, inasmuch as to sav that children are - people. As a train engine. Tootle, is limited to being one. ju'st -is children   are '"limited   to   lyin^ people;  that  is to say. .Tootle isn't   a  butterfly, ar.d chihm-iv aren't   trains:  therefore. Tooth-has to act like a train w.^v.s the .wav children  have to --act  Hike
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what, moral this tlert.rf.de C pton is soiling, but 1 would a guess'arid say that To ��:'< trying to be a butterfly who ought to be a train -evgir.o. his identity rnixed. ye-; -v;?h-Well. M. Sitarr has h-< : logy Tmxvd a'sr*.
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At the last session of Parliament, legislation was adopted to provide annual pensions for long* service members up to a maximum of $3,000 per year. The act does not come into force, however, until the first day of the next, session, which is November 20.
� First elected to. the Commons in 1937, the hew ambassador has i. served the 17- sessions required to ! draw the full pension. On tho ; first day of the next session, if stilKa member, he could have elected to pay in the required amount  to  cover  contributions over the period a-nd-made himself eligible for the full pension whenever he retired from the House.
Since Mr. Mayhew became. 72 three days before, that 'is, 'on Thanksgiving Day, the ?3,000 per year pension would have been reduced automatically by the amount of the old age pension, giving him $2,500 per year.
The cabinet .minister related that he had his first dealings with the Japanese after the. great Tokyo earthquake in .September, 1923, when.he- sold building materials fo them. A wealthy manufacturer, Mr, '-Mayhew was born and raised in Renfrew, Ontario, and went west to engage first in pulp land paper business and later founded a roofing and building material business in Victoria.
"I believe the Japanese people are now sincere and will go a long Avay toward peace," he said, coughing a little.
To. look for a picture album, Mr. Mayhew went to the outer office momehtariiy. In the lnean-time, 1 surveyed the room. It was oblong in shape, with hardwood panellings- "forming the Avails, scattered with several chairs and abench, all of which might have
poison, after being told to accept on faith it wotiid kill them if they drank it. But the newspapers report that, some children, even grown-ups; do that. .'�
However, M. Sitarr might understand these truths oii this level of our five senses. 1 suspect' he gets lost- on- the higher levels of spiritual truths; These, art over and ..beyond our external, senses, for -they are understood on the intellectual level by even.the iliii.-eraie who has never heard of pjii.livop'hy. KvenM..Sitarr takes a few -jf thesc'truths for granted, .though he doesn't seem to know.' it. He's been trying-to ilhi's-tra-^e �the' -fact that., wrong cannot oe right..'but -ho. has -the most "confused; understanding of the bash-principle "thtrofm and the application:: th-reof. Look- ;:t hew lw �gets pc-opV iuixvd.up with cr ::as!'l>k: :sk:
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been used for a small, private conference. With only one medium window, the office was sombre and simple; there was nothing modem or even tasteful about it.
Consequently, my mind began to associate the stark simplicity of the room with the plain "fact that a cabinet minister is still a servant of the Canadian taxpayers. It was rightly so that his office should be kept in line with his obligations to the people.
Mr. Mayhew proudly spread open the album which was about 4 inches chick and leafed through it quickly to show me only those pictures he thought woiild.be interesting to me. The pictures, glossy 8" x 10" photos were' of those provided by the press.
There we;re .several photos of the occasion when he went to Korea to inspect the Canadian troops in action. It was during his attendance of the North Pacific Fisheries Conference held in Japan last winter that he paid a 5-day visit to the Korean theatre of war. He donned a battle dress, went up to the front lines amidst flying bullets and exploding shells and narrowly escaped being killed j or wounded. �'..�.��.-'
"I remember reading an editorial in an Ottawa paper praising you when you risked your life to go and see pur boys up front." � "When I went to the front the enemies gave .me a royal salute/' Mr; Mayhew joked.
As he continued to flip the pages of the album, I immediately spotted a picture in which Mr. Kaizo Tsuyuki barely: appeared, with a quarter, of his body un-photographed. A Japanese Canadian Issei who had at one time shown Japanese .� movies on. the west coast and sparetime correspondent for The New Canadian in Japan, Mr. Tsuyuki visited Canada in February, 1951, representing a fruit growers*, association and brought gifts from the Japanese fishermen to Mr. Mayhew.
Also pictured at Odawara fishermen^ co-operative cannery with Mr. Mayhew were two Japanese fishermen who had given him tvy'o- bamboo^ falling poles, books on fly-casting and an embroidered silk-piece. The gifts had been the result of Mr. Mayhew's previous trip to Japan in January, 1950, when he went as a member of Hon. Lester Pearson's diplomatic mission to Ceylon and Australia in connection with the-Colombo Plan.
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There was a photo in which Mr. Msyhew appeared with pre-mier Shjgeru Yoshida and Mr. Sad*e Iguchi, the first Japanese ambassador to Canada.
"I see that you met Mr. Iguchi in Japan."
"Yes. I know him well. In fact I saw him last night at the cock-' tail party of the Peruvian Km-bassy. He told me he is going to Toronto to-morrow � (Oct. IT) " said Mr. Mayhew.
When asked about the one-time speculation that he might be appointed to the Se�-->te, the fishor-ies minister adm \cd that he has not been offered a senatorship.
"Even if I have been offered a seat in the Senate, I don't think I care to make several trips back and forth every year for life from Victoria to Ottawa to -it- : tend sessions. I would rather be more active elsewhere," he smiled.
Mr. Mayhew has two children, a daughter and a son, while another son .was killed in World War 11. "I have eight grandchildren, too,", he beamed, sniffingly, with his'handkerchief still in his hand.
It was about 5:45 p.m. when I left Mr. Mayhew whose two secretaries, one a male and the other, a woman, were still in the outer office working. Since the cabinet minister, was leaving within the next few days it seemed as though they were all goimj to work overtime that evening.
I was more than pleased with the -interview and, above all, very.. appreciative that he had complied readily to a request for an interview when he seemed very busy the day after Prime Minister St. Laurent had announced his appointment. The interview Listed about 35 minutes, and I: began to feel a bit sorry, for the kind, elderly cabinet minister who was carrying on his governmental duties despite the discomfort of a bad cold. '
CANVASSERS MEETING ;-
The Toronto JCCA'/'is;'holding a Canvassers Meeting on Thurs-. day, Oct. 30, from 8 p.m., at tho University Settlement Houte, on Grange and John Sts. All canvassers, and other volunteers are requested to attend.
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