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Wednesday, Sept. 14, 1949
ANOTHER SUMMER PASSES
� After a month of editorial silence, the only holidays enjoyed by the English Section staff this sum me i1, the g'a# has been removed to voice our autumnal observations. With the 'heat scotching our parched journalistic capacities, the self-invposed .reprieve from opining our editorial thoughts for the week was indeed a welcome relief. � -
It is with regret that we resume our editorials-for it imp!les' the: passage of the shirt-sieeye days and the impending approach of the fur coat and .rubbers season. Despite the intenseness of the humid heat in pur third-story domain experienced these past two months, we much prefer a hot; Dominion Day 16 ^hite Christmas, burning sand at the beach to ice on the sidewalks and sleepless summer nights to biting winter ;mpniing&.
The end of summer has another significance to us, the overwhelming task c>f planning-and,preparing the annually special .Christmas pr end-of-the-year issue. As work for this bumper issue must be sandj\viched between the regular editions/ it/huist be ^prganized we .beforehand, and that*t(me is^ now upon us.;; Tims, \ve must direct much of our attention towards this yearly undertaking. . /
Capitalizing pn this adventitious mention of the subject, we would like to make; a plea to our many ecm-tributors that we are depending upon them -again to enhance pur big issue \vith their literary efforts.: We hope; that they give consideration towards contributing an article now \vhile there is time to mull over a possible theme-or subject.
AVe would like to point out here through our editorial- column that for individuals, organizations and business firms; our Christmas issue is an effective medium or.sending their greetings to their many friends across Canada.
At any; rate, our chronological, computations tell us that there are only eighty-six more shopping days until Christmas. . -v'�:"�- ^'
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
I MEET A POET
sentimental verse to race
sion, from Southern courting
customs to religion.
He Was a Hawaiian guitar-esson salesman. Means he wai selling "lesson on how to play the: guitars-Hawaiian style. . Tall stringy guy, brown tweed suit) small unimportartt mustache,, brown hat, reddish tie, black u'ri-[>olished oxfonls. No dude.
This was one hot afternoon in early summer. Told hinl didn't think my kid brothers would be interested. Too busy with bantam and pee-wee baseball.-He wanted to come along in evening to give them "musical aptitude" tests,, but talked him out of it, Hot day, and he didn't seeni - to �are one way or
His sales Spiel oVer, he tUrri-sd to his battered Chev parked .one foot oit running board. Then began a king-sized Conversation. Don't ask me how [get. into these, thi'ngs.
.He announced he was a poet. Don't ask me how we got oh the subject either. Must have been talking about the weather and you know how poets are, I'm quite a;-fiend: for poetry (since the last couple yea'rs); so my ears perked up. ."�-'..... :
One of his first jobs .was in petroit as electrician in auto factory." Always liked to write
D�ar Arabella: from Virginia�in tobaccoland
Just like a character out of ^ Met her in Simcoe in tobacco Saroyan, he was. The guy I'm harvest. Ran into trouble court-going to tell you fcbout* I niean, ling her because of old Southern }ur conversation had a Saroy-' customs her parents stuck to. anesque flavor too, jumping from They had to obey a 0:30 p.m.
curfew nightly, What the neck kind of courtship is that? I asked. Oh, you get used to it, he said. GueM you didn't let it bother you; ydu maririeti her, I suggested. Yeah, the poet said. Got itttd American' Negro problem. Went down South last summer to visit wife'jj relatives. Didn't think much of discrimination of colored people, he said, but thought. better do what the Romans do. Slipped once though. "Driver of the family car was a young Negro named Tom. After driving family into town, Tom sat at wheel of car. The poet .stood on curb, talking to /Tbrn. Real" hot afte^rnodH So suggested to Tom that they go ;intd d drugstore and get something to cool off. Tom says nossir. Tried to coax him but Tom..was adamant, and not as friendly as he had been.--' .'�" . : -. -./ .',".'�...' ... , v"; . .Later back .'home, the poet mentioned the incident to folks commenting on sudden change in Tom's attitude. His hosts gave him. heck for suggesting such a thing. Just wasn't done^a Negro and a white man going into a place together to have something, Especially o.n main street, Tom knew it too> . �
But things are slowly chang:-ing down there, this poet says, they've given Negros the vote
poems: What he meant was ";6ut.' it's still pretty bad. When a verse-�if you-want to be siiob-, Negro tries to vote he is met �l bishly technical about it. But the polls by a gang of toughies
who ask him:"Hear what happened to the :last darkie that
Legal Problems
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heck, if a guy wants to call hinir. self a poet, okay. ; Yersifier sounds: phony anyway and would be tough to drag into a conversa-
Editor, The New Canadian:
At 6:�SO p.m.. Frijda\% September 'J, I had tho privilege to meet and gret?t my bt-st and dearest friend, Miss Kileon Hi'^hiko. and her young sister. Yuriko. They arrived in Vancouver on the C. P. Steamship Line from Seattle. Eileen travelk�d from her home in Montreal t�> noet ht�r Bister. Yuriko, who arrived in San Kran-cisco on Au^. 2T fr^nv Japan. Unfortunately Yuriko �ent :>i Japan in July. 1939. and was detained there because of the war. It was the first time I had >een my friend Eil**r in rim* year? and it was a very happy aj*1 e\-tnt*nmtt ftf bntit pf ns. We tkit* days tofrtVr �|rht-, visiting fnends and ratch-
i incr uj> on nine years' nexv'jS and .happenings�and iht>n it ended
all 50 quickly.
r Last nisrht at 8:l.VI uj^ain said '>o long for awhile".to my closest and best-!o\vd friend as she and her ?;?ter left by CPR for the ea>t and home. In front of each /�ther .we were brave and smiled �but for me the tears came �l^U'k'y ar.d heavily a? I watrhed fhr trsfn cnrryirijr rny dear onos fr-.v^. sipht.'-
That oid saying. '"Out of sisfhi. .:: of rund" does rtot and never ha? or never will apply to rr.e. Many of aiy friends KS�TT beer* IUT ->f sijfht *in�.v evacuation time -�^but nt->t one of them has been oot of my thoufrhte and prayer?. Od aranting h, f
Apparently he had written a poem abput Evening.. He recited it .for me-^-the two stanzas�and I vaguely remember something about-"the shadows in the pines". A friend who worked on Detroit Times where Edgar Guest was hanging out showed it to the great Guest. Guest took the poom, commented on its worth (''shows talent") and paid $5 for in Detroit times Ever since been a poet. \Vrites them all the time when net selling Hawaiian guitar lesson?. '
Often called upon to read poems at church gatherings et cetera. Poetry, he told me, can teach you.about life. �
What is religion?
it. Printed week later;
he asked. We had come to poetry and religion. Why should you go to church -just-to be b<-�red ? I agreed, why should you? Mentioned need for youncr ministers who were broadminded and didn't close his eyes to what was going- on. He thought this was fine. We were
jrettinp a^ng famously.
Inteilijctfnt people don't enjoy life very much, he told me. they *�* and fee? foo '�any thin** that �*ape simpler folk. Therefor* ijcnoraftcr is Miss. B�t ...
The p.^t said hi? wife
and
voted?" - .
Discrimination in employmeM is getting cut down a bit thougli. NTegroes \\;ho are army and navy vets know their rights and insist on thern^-Makes it tough for the manufacturers who used to trade on the .former ignorance of the Negro. '�":�
In all, the poet sumniarized, the Southern people treat the Negro well. They don't mistreat him.. But a. Negro must \yalt until the whites have ^finished before he can sit down to eat in the same place. Guess you gotta
keep them in their place.
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After the poet had left,! wondered whether he had ever written .any verges, on the plight of the .Negro. But then if he's an Edg^ir Guest man, it didn't seem likely. Besides his wife�his dearest cr|tic�would probably nix the thing.
"Those sentimental memories* � - ."�he wrote one called that by the way�this kind of subject would be much easier and happier to work with; As he said, what the world needs is more happiness anyway.
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Question. I drive in connectior with miy business: Recently 1 hac-a light accident. T have. no* been summoned to court. I have been charged witli an offence under the Highway Traffic Act, Should I defeiiid this charts. ..
Answer i Yes. The an\eiitker;r to the Ontario Highway -Traffic Act '(and also ;other Jiroviiices} deal very severely \viUi afiyoft conVicted and rir>,- matter - ho*. trivial the accident, you may an-i probably will lose yout :ppera�?rV licence, fiy all meanf y<>u shoiiW defend this charge. If you lose. your operator's license" your business will of course suffer.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The New Canadian :' acknc*: ledges with thanks generous <^ nations from the following:
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�Mr. and Mrs;.Ukiehi: Torontb, on the . occasion of marriage of their daughter.
Former tashme .SUfdent? . residing in Toronto, ��_ .''
Can't think of a. hrtterway TT erd thi# Letter than tn quote thi? d^Ii^rhtfu! verse: Twinkle, twinkle. little hat! H** I wonder wfc�t yo�*r* at? IP ab*re tk* w�rU ymm fly. Like a tea-tray i� the sky. ;'verj>,r.e and UMA -*r fe.r- w^rf J Thisr. of ^>urse, U recited by j he tear* of joy anr happiae*s. {the Mad Hatter at the tern party I nyi* C�rr J in Alice in Wonderlaad. A book
I Vawwrer. R C. I bv the way that Teidy. the 10-
OBITUARY
shixzo DCHIAI
Montreal. � Mrs. -Shhuo passed away in his residence Montreal on Sept. ~t.: services were held nt the .-Funeral Chapel' on Sept: �Rev. T. Komiyama offi Interment -wns at the. Ha Dale Cemetery. He i?' ^ by his- wife'. ?>^ ' ^.d daughters. .
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NOBi'KO
Mrs. Nobuko ed away at heY Funeral service? Kipuke Hal! on
year-old kid fully enjoyed t hi ^ I thought Ar:i'f n' #nooty now ar.d:^^'-" But then if A^Cf she <"r h<";1 ;"% into .a" '"� and the de!t�rh:vj. i � nonsense that �;* ^^' ^�v� i^*t hf^rt "-ir.C-
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a moral here -'** -�*'* boy^. but II; :'^-it oat. SI.
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