THE NEW CANADIAN
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"Japanese in the Americas"
Issei in Canada Have Comparable History With U.S. Japanese in Early Pioneer Role
By ELMER R. SMITH
^Livingston, Calif., is a community made over from the shifting sands of the desert. It used to be a barren, dry region scorched by a fierce sun, Today it is one of the most thriving areas in California. Before the Japanese moved into the region and made trees, flowers and orchards gro\\; in a bundance, there were no shade, Water, schools, sanitation.
One should remember that 12 years before the Japanese decided to move to Livingston a Caucasian colony had tried to conquer the desert. After a brief struggle with hostile conditions,
... this first colony moved out. When a small group of-Japanese .-stated they were moving to Livingston in 1906, all the people in the surrounding communities made fun'
. of-them, and said they would be "blown away" as others had been before them.
The Livingston Japanese colony faced disaster after disaster, and they almost starved through five very lean years before a profit came from their' labors. The wind swept away the soil loosened by the tilling of the desert floor, and tbe hot, dry, climate dried up their voting plants, leagues of grass-hoppers devoured what the wind left. Water for domestic use had to be carried for two long, hot miles. In the
Japanese Bank in San Francisco, which held second mortgages.on the land, closed it.* doors. The outlook for the colony was black and dreary: The colonists.had no money, and many went 'from one day to the next without many'of the basic necessities. However, their faith in their- laud ami in themselves carried them 'through.'
Today the community of Livingston is a thriving and ri'cn "area in California. Grapes, peaches, figs and a variety of other fruits are raised in abundance in what was once a 'wind blown" eVsert. All of this is due to the pioneering spirit of a few Issei and their children.
Tto Jf�mn* hi Canada had � roa parable kistory of pioneering an did llM*e of tbe United States One of the principal fields where the JapaBesae were abte to pioneer
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Britt** Colambia. They were in ike fuJrinit i��v�lry from the beginning of eettlenimt, RvronU
show that Japanese fishermen were located near the mouth of the Eraser River in 1885. Their success as fishermen contributed millions of dollars to the fishing industry of Canada. However, competition with the Indians and Caucasians was keen and often bittter, developing into numerous discriminatory acts leveled against the Japanese.
The Japanese in Canada have been closely allied with; the lumbering industry from early days. Lumbering was especially appealing to the Japanese because it demanded labor, arid the Japanese fishermen would work at lumber camps: and milfs during the off-; season in fishing. Furthermore, the lumber camps and mills were located close to the fishing centres, making long trips unnecessary for the gaining of employment. Non-Japanese labor recognized the importance of the Japanese in the lumber industry and as in fishing protests and discriminatory acts were leveled against theni. After 1021, when anti-Japanese agitation in the lumber industry began to reach its strength, Japanese lumbermen began to decrease, but even then until World War It. many Japanese lumber operators could be found in British Columbia.
In- mining, railroading and agriculture the Japanese in.Canada played a leading pioneering role as they did in the United States. The Canadian Japanese and the Japanese American in the early days left a comparable, inheritance to their children. This inheritance is one of faith in themselves, in their integrity, their worth, and in the country in which they live. It was this inheritance -which made possible the strength of the Nisei in the United States and Canada during the irvirx times of World War II.
from Pacific Citizen
COSTLIEST PHONE BILL?
TOKYO � The village of S^-roy3. Mio Prefecture, said las. wee.k they were bil'ed Sl.l^> the single telephone in their cor"r-'.unity, thus laying c'.aim to the w..fid> costliest telephone.
The telephone busine^< in Japan is govern men:-o wired ar.d operated.
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Br Ken Adacw
On Nylon Blouses
Add another score to the growing list of the formidable and deadly weapons which The Woman has at her disposal to befuddle mere man. I'm speaking about nylon blouses.
On these summery days, one gets to thinking about these things since there's so much opportunity to examine these specimens of ladies wear on our fair streets. Not content with the demoralizing influence that nylon stockings have left on the too impressionable male, the lovely ladies have come up with another of their ingenious things What with conventional things like Chanel No'. 5, finger-hail polish, poodle-cuts, and the more desperate aids to nature like falsics, how nylon blouses.
I was talking recently to one male who told' me, "These thing.? do marvels for women. Doesn't matter what kind of figure she has, I run for blocks just to.'catch up with a girl who's wearing one." ".':. ".-�';�'
I slapped his idiotic face several times. To think that that is what makes Sammy run. He is the slowest thing I know otherwise. -:'
I really have nothing against them. They are excellent stuff for imagination,, particularly for one who has such a well-developed imagination as mine. But they have the same effect as a Bikini bathing suit and are even more revealing since the male mind has more to work upon. Think of the eyebrows that would be lifted should women wander about the streets in negligees. It is hot .v far cry from that.
On the male physique, I thins nylon shirts look downright ugly since male underwear has lost.its appeal long since Clark. Gable first revealed his undershirt to screaming women in a celebrated movie role. Tin told that it's easy to wash and that'there is no. necessity for pressing it. Remarkably ingenious but the silhouette of underwear through the nylon shirt, just leaves me cold. I do i.ot wear them. -
Women have long-'.lost :their, shyness as far. as. wearing .revealing cltifhes. In.'wearing th-? r.ylori efforts, the ��woman .-seems pretty anxious to show oft her unmentionables. It won't be loner before the flattering male .\\'<'A Comment,. "'-What' a lovely you have on. my-dear".'Ani female- will �'�bhfsh prettily, feel proud, as hell.
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Autumn Is A Woman
"Paul," I ftsked, "why aren't you married-?"
I was very young, and I wasn't ready for marriage, but I thought, at that time, that if I were twenty years older, Paul would be very nice to live with. I thought then, too, that all nice people were married . . .you know, a princess for every Prince Charming.
"Why?" he smiled quizzically at me, me at fifteen, gauche of manner, impulsive of speech, and terribly, terribly intense, and said, "Well,, chickeny let me see . . .1 guess I'm just waiting for you to grow up." "... ' .
"You make me so mad, Paul! I mean seriously!"
And matching my intensity with a seriousness that made me feel very, very grown-up and wise, not at all an awkward half child, half-woman which I found unbearable, he confided: "Well, chicken, I'll tell you. Urn in love with a lady called Autumn . . "
"O Paul, you're crazy!"
There was something delightful about Paul, for an old man of 29.
Paul had a way of making me feel important "Why, chicken, i thought you'd understand; I'm disappointed in you. There's something aboirt her ...you ^
"0 yes, Paul!" I broke in with a rush, "Her eyes are smoky-grey . . . and her hair light brown ..." - .
"No, chicken, black as midnight ... light brown is for sum-mer -. . , , " �''-:.-. ... ' �."�� . �'. ' .
"But spring's nice, Paul,.and summer . ... "
"Nice, yes, chicken ... but Autumn is a woman . . . "
"O", I said rather disappointedly, "Is that all?"
Then he lifted my chin, looked into my puzzled eyes and -said, "Being a woman is the most wonderful thing that can happen to you. Don't forget it, chicken!"
Since then, I have made friends with Autumn. And I know now, why Paul loved Autumn.
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'.Yes,-.you,�..Autumn; are a woman.
You hre of many moods. Y"ou are expectancy, fresh,: clean aiid exhilarating. The sleepy, blue-gray haze slightly touched with gold in. the morning, the wind just rustling the leaves in the trees, the sharp touch of frost in the air, the smell of dew on the. grass� Avith these simple. things you can inspire dreams. You make one wake up in the morning feeling capable.of tackling anything...
You are serenity, You are not afraid of- silence for its own sake. Yon are not afraid of unspoken, .wordless moments. You do not rush peilniell like spring. The rippling water, the wanton breeze, the madcap ringing of bluebells, the noisy hum of insects.are not; for you. Yours are the unspoken moments of tranquility like the quiet afterglow of a late September; afternoon, the changing colour* of an Indian Summer sky,, the sight of smoke curling lazily into a clear, frosty sky. You are unspoken understanding. :
You are courage. You live and love deeply. You laugh and ynn give generously. Your courage you express in a way which is coa-tradictory to the fear often lurking.in your heart; Courage and a. hidden fear are mingled in the flight of birds turning south, in one half-green, half-sere leaf clinging tenaciously and precariously on a. bare branch, in the flamboyant, riot of colour with"which you deck yourself to meet a dying year. You go out to meet life unflinchingly. You are forever getting hurt, but you pick yourself up with a shrug, of your shoulders, a flip of your midnight hair, and you march on. a gallant lady, to whatever fate awaits you.
And underneath your positiveness you are eternal sadness and mystery. You are of this world arid yet not of it. You listen always, your head tilted as if to catch some far-off .song which will answer the longing \n the depths of your smoky eyes.
Autumn, you are man's dream of woman. You are man's need" for inspiration r.nd understanding, for what man is there alive, who. =ome� moment nr another, has not found himself under bis -own e scrutiny; not the great man he thought he was, but something :hrn man?. You are part of a' man's- quest for happiness�not materia! but th* spiritual quest�serenity, generosity andcour-* o.u are eternal mystery that teases man's, ego, 'makes him rise that need, to satisfy-that longing which seems forever a
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