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An JbMMI JTMWjr. Oxgall Publish** aa a JfadJon of Sttftaaakn Among the0 Paopie^ of Japaaasa^ Origin in Canada.
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Testing Democracy
Apart altogether from the actual jaet of mass expulsion oh racial grounds alone, one of the most significant aspects of Canadian policy in the wartin\e treatment of its small minority .of 23,000 Japanese Canadians is steadily envergiijg. in regard to land and prop-erty rights; ' ? - '. .
To say that action taken in this respect by the'Federal Government, acting under the very wide powers conferred upon it by the !War Measures Act, has been drastic and sweeping, is merely an understatement, if has been more than expropriation for military purposes, for not only has property been taken away for no good .reason, but the right to acquire new homes and new farms in their stead has been denied. It is more than a sate* guard against wartime "penetration", for not only is it impossible-for those "*of Japanese origin to gain tangible interests in new homes; but they have been deprived of both real and personal property legally acquired years before the war.
It is, perhaps, inconceivable that in a supposed "democratic country so grave an invasion against any other person, wholly in^ nocent of any indictable en me, could be countenanced. Certainly legal restriction upon even encmv aliens of other racial origins has not reached the limits imposed upon natural-born 'or ifaturali/ed " Canadian "'cili/.ens "of" -Japanese descent. Nor is there the record -.-of ��.convicted felons or those actually: interned for treasonable activity and later released being subjected to equal disablities.
It is evident that the powers upon whom the responsibility for such an/jhyasipiirqf'-litr; hei'cnt rights must rest, eaniiot .have taken such steps lightly^ Strong political prc^siriv fr(Vin riicist'forees-;ih BritishColuinliia ]>arti-.eularly have been chiefly responsible. Upon these: lies the indirect, responsibility for a moral wrong which deniescompletely the ideological triuinph; (d- the United Na'tion/
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maintaining the necessary inrikUngs. The prmiwon of staff and curricula was logically still the obligation of the Department of Education, which up td the time of the evacuation, had always discharged this right and duty fairly and justly.
It is clear that the Provincial Government has not valid grounds for its refusal to contribute to education in any way; It is acknowledged that since the7 evacuation was carried out under Federal direction* a por* tion of the responsibility 'does lie with the Donmnon, But thisj^nojwa^hajige.sjhese, obvious,facts: that the removal to interior settlements had thu lull approval,.of Victoria ; that the children are still legalW resident in the Province, in which almost all were bom; that through the course'of years before the war their 'faiuitiesTdiseharged all -their individual obligations to the support � of the state; and that it has been no fault of their own that normal education facilities are now denied to them.
It is not likelv that any basic change* . can be practically effected in the system of education already established in the interior settlements. But considerable improvements undoubtedly need to be made, and the Provincial Department of Education is best fitted to make them, once it acknowledges its responsibility , in the provision: of a Canadian education for natural-bom future citi'/ens. Not the least of these, incidentally, is the continued training, and more adequate /-compensation to the young � women - giving such valuable service as teachers.
Going Native
�'��.British evacuee:.children; returning to England from temporary wartime homes in America, "a re "reported to" havegreeted thejr long-separated fathers and friends with "lliya, Pop" and Iley, Buddy." in the best t rad i t ioi vol' A merican slanguage. This, it is related, is only one of most obvious instances of � how their 4'exile" in Canada and the Unitcd States has affected these "guni-chewing" children. Aiul it will take some time to' overcome the confusion ainbiii^KhtfU^
finding tlie: transit front "pater*' to '.'pop rather a disturbing one. ; r
ackuowle(lge a sympelhetic under-staivd i ng of their plight. For oil r own child?-rcn. scattered far and wide from the i\ieifie Coast, have. been, acquiring enouglt new tliings in the past ;two years as to 1 eaye; � us; hot *a little bewildered. :   j  v':;-   ; �
If things go (in as might n'attirally be ^expecte^
reveal .sonic rather startling, exaniples of adaptation to environment. In Montreal and in. Siauitoba^ it isjsai(l, sch()pi children are not only acquiring Parisian French, but are ^eveit ^batten
tures in th^ rians,
oiii tlie other jifaiul. are losing their -Pacific" ^Coast � i n toiia t i on for a mo re *' reli lied " ap-r preciation Of the Kiiig's English�subject however to a JugiWSlavian ihHuenct^ in the northern wckhIsv AiuI-yiHiiig AlNrtans may surpris<' lis S(K>n with a\^tr\Hig Ilutigarjan actvnt. if not by their wnversioii. t(� lite Monnon church.   '
�'. In view of these /developments a word <Vf i*aiit roa is due. We see no. ri>a:s��n � w hy-^-in the interests of AUkil Xatioits" unity- -a little Russian ii�iy not profitably be ai^uirtd M-th<�>e <*( �iifl hHTaU^I*''in the Jiooldiays; But SU^nrtts t^pecialTy im'ght be cautHHK\l a,�ainst the acquisitkm of nn�re sptH^acubr trmifs, af least of thenr I>Hitihor�or nei|dihors.
Mr, Croickshaiik. it appear*. 'nnt''<mly wints tii elcttm to btrf thnr cakr and calk too. tat it must be strawberry short-as wefl- .
;   ActiiigJtipon the recAiniikuidatitm of Ihe Boyal Con\inissi(mi which early in January . coiKluctetl an investig^tioiv jnto the niainte anee au{i welfare1 of evacuees in 1}ritish Cpi-> umbia settleinetits, tlU" Coniniissicmer t>f Japa-^ riese Placeinvnt has ainipuiveecl Umt -llie J^o ineial^oyjern
with a view to re-assuming its resiK>nsibr-. litics in resjHet to the education of British Colund)ia ehihlrei).. ^ '.;, :: ; �- :- : llie HoVal ;Commissjon aeeairat^lycp<>|nt-ed tjut jliat."althoii^h etlueatioii is and always has l>een a provincial ri^it aiM <^i^lioor the Dejttirtinent of Education' of the Pnninee of British Columbia his jrefust^l to take any responsibility for the ethiyaiion. of tlux Jai>ancse chihlrtn in (he Interior Set tie men ts althmig|i iKfort^ these - same children >wviv evacuated fn>m the Defehev an a this rt^tHnisibility was; . nxv^liv: a^MimViJ.** -    -
� To datr, ilrrefore. a major pnrtttm <>t ilruw-nUry edocation has beenffrorided by the Doiiiinioiu chiiefly thnmgh the employ-nient of untrained Canadt^horn Japanese Toting people as Uothers. Seeiwulary edue*-\km has been carried out at UHLdiit-et expense families taMaeJres. w� the mr�iuaf4r
aid of  established
of nVe awrtter was rj#er-Ottawa betirved tint it a wr stave by
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(Canadian pariramantary Guide)  .
The ^xphequer Coiirt ol t^nada irom th� "University of'Icdand.
� tBe jwdicUy body which poasea^ He ii i barriater-at:law^of the
�ea original .jurisdiction in alJ ca�ei Kqnourary' Society of the Middle
Where demand is mad* or relief Tempte since X913  and of the
ia   sought   against . the   Crown. Manitoba Bar iinceth� sanie yeaT.
When a person has reason to be- During the!.first^ Great War he-?er-
lieve; that wrong has been.done^ ved with the British Expeditionary
to him b� the Governxnelit he Force as � captaTrT^from KU6 "to"
makes  application . to  Exchequer 1919. Froin 1921 Jo'19&5t he was
Court on Petition of Bight. �      - Dean of the Manitoba Law School,
The. Court sits from time to * which he left for private practice
Jinie  bjr> special order.^ in  su.ch in Winnipeg from 1927 to 1941.
placesas thebbsiness of the~Cflurt7 During^tFe^y^ars 1919"to I9411ie
requires. General' sittings of the lectured at the Law School.
Court may*, also be held as ordered by a Judge of'which notice'is published in the Canada Gazette,
The Court is also continued, as the, Adnuralty_Court^.i"n. Canada. The President arid the Puisne Jud-
Among his riotable assignments in "puhlic affairs is his" appointment as a member of the -Royal Commission1 on Municipal'Finances and^Administration,of the City.of Winnipeg by the Province of Man-
ge have, admiralty. jurisdiction .of � itoba Jn .1938. .He was one of the
the Court. The Governor in .Coun-- delegates to the League of Nations
cil may from time to time consti- in September 1938. From 1926 to
tute any part of Canada an Admir- 1942, he was Liberal  M, P. for
alty'. District and appoint Judges Winnipeg South Centre. In 1926 h<j
to preside therein to be designated was re-elected for Winnipeg South
as District Judge in Admiralty of Centre and in 1935 and 1940 he
the Exchequer Court in and for was re-elected for Selkirk, such Admiralty District. In  1941 he was Chairman of
The Exchequer Court is also the the. War Expenditures Committee
Prize Court jn time of war
The judges take the title of "honourable". The Court "is composed of the President; the Puisne Judge and-the Registrar. HON. J. T. THORSON . The ..present President is the Hon. Joseph Thorarinn Thorsonj B.A., L,L.B., J.D� formerly of Selkirk, Man.; who was appointed to the Court in October 1942 after a distinguished legal, academic and parliamentary career. He' was born in Winnipeg in 1889 the son of Stephen Thorson and Sigridur Thorarinnsdottir,- both of.Iceland-ic origin. He was educated at Manitoba College from which he �: received his B. A. degree in 1910 and at New College, Oxford, Avhere;/he was - awarded a- B, A; degree in 1912. In 1910 he Was appointed Rhodes Scholar for Manitoba. In 1921 he received his L.L.B. degree from tlie Manitoba Law School and in 1930 he wa.s awarded; aii honorary Juris; Doctor
of the House of Commons. On-line-11, 1941 he became . Minister of National,War.-Services which post he held until elevated to the Exchequer Court the following year. HON. EUGENE REAL
The Puisne Judge, is the Hon. Eugene Real, a French Canadian from Montreal. 'He was educated at Laval University from which he received his B.A. degree in 1904 and his L.L.L. in 1907, .-From 1907 to 1932 he practiced law in Montreal when he was appointed to the Court.
The Court Registrar is Arnold Willard Duclos who was educated at McGill and called to the Quebec Bar in^ 1898. Soon after that he went to Ottawa and.-continued.' to practice.- While there he made -a contribution to parliamentary literature in editing and revising the sixth edition of Bourhiot's noted "How Canada is Governed'.
;He exerciser, the jurisdiction of a Judge in Chambers.
:LESS ACTING - .    -V
�From our cousins south of the border, comes a little advice which ' perhaps; cpm j\!st as easily be ap-; plied to many a Nisei this side* of : the 49th paraHcl. Says John Kita-sako in the Heart-Mountain Sen-; tinel: .. �:    :;. -'y'\':.      \        :
� "The. sooner they (the Nisei) : stop   acting' and   feeling  like.. : AnaerkaV symbols of. racial. perr ; secntion.- and . aiartyrs of: racial {> in justice^ the quicker and ^ea^ier ' WiU  be   their  integration  into. . Aniertcan � coiamunity life. The moment they begin to think and. ;  behave like any normal American  they : Will  be  treated  as' Amer|cans.H \      ,�� ; \:.".   -':':. : �
FIRST FEMININE.AVINNER
v^The distinci^^ feminine winner of an. award, for subrnitting the bf&t suggestion to speed up prcductioh and increase efficiency "went   to - a   Japanese
. American; girl employee at a large-lit hographing. firm in . Chicago recently. '-'�.� - � V';
Cherr>*: Yoshitomi. relocee from a war' relocation centre was the winner'..:of the monthly $50.' war
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- Another ^i?ei Arnericari athlete made a splash in the news recently ^-seyenteen year old-, high" school" track star, Henry Aihara/ Under the" lieadCne -"spread" o7~TIIAroTnfib'n pi JUmese^ feoj gyre/ JS<w TrJex Title Hope," the Cnicago Daily. 39ew> da^steH a ~ eelami � and a salf to a picture and ttory^of the Near HJgh SdxwTs high jwnaiag
jumps of over 22 fpet: "Ar:y way you figure it, Henry Aihafa,. the frail-looking quiet Japanese American boy who moved with his family from his home* in Garden Grove, Califto ca.mp in Arizona, and thence alone, to Winnetka to pursue Vhis:- educatiojrv is /a ;maj6r-item in New-Trier's title plans." '� �". *' ':        * :. ":'.': * �    _\
GpOP AS ANYBODY .-'
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Then he said;. i. don't mean, to be nosey'but -are you Chme-4?
He:.wasn^:>much� .mare tHan-t.2. years old. I smiled and shook, my � ^headC,!;     ,:. /�   ^ ' :/'. - -
"If know," he said. /"You're Jap-- aiie^-Ameflcaa. Bat ihatV.all right.  It  doesn't  matter what � ye� are, jast so you>e. "a good;. American. Jnst so- you live' in this cnaatry. and think Aroer-;
I 'thought: he soumled a? if ;he had been reading Sentinel ;etiitorv-
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V; "Lots of people think they're better than other people/' M c:n-tfnued. *�! know - a - palp^r "^?Myerr boy who acts big" when he;c>il5�:-; -from a Japanese American'n-ar. his rotites; bat 1 bexha t W J^?*" �nese - American   is   �s - an
American, as anyb\>iy.r�"Or; t=;e Oof-sM?* by7BnrRoscSaw3;-':.f tffr Reatt MoanUin .Sentine:-".
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