'49
vol 12�No. 58.
An Independent Weekly For Canadians of JapaneM Origin
TORONTO. ONT. SATURDAY.  JULY 30, 1949
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ictor Who Turned Down Chinese Patient My Criticized By Medical Council
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VANCOUVER,   B. C. � The Council of the College of Physici-and Surgeons has sharply iriticized a local doctor for race prejudice. In a statement issued on July the local body declared it is. 'completely put  of  sympathy" nth the attitude of the city doctor who  refused  to   treat   a patient because he was Chinese. As written in the June 4 issue
his group the situation. The Council of Physicians and Surgeons set up a committee to investigate the. case. Later the doctor involved was brought''be-, fore the 9 man council of the medical group.
Dr. F. L. Whitehead, executive secretary of the College, released the following statement:  .
"The council of the College is completely out of -sympathy with the attitude the doctor adopted
"The council believes that this Ms an;isolated case and it is the
pf the New Canadian, Mrs. Edna
^ong of .Vancouver took her son j in this particular case, ko an eye specialist after securing an  appointment  with  the receptionist. The doctor on their
Lrrival to his office asked them ' firsl of. its kind which has ever their business. Mrs. Fong told been brought to the attention of kirn of her appointment where-.!the. Co,leSe of Physicians and (upon he is reported to have said,; Surgeons. .' H don't take Chinese, Japs or j "People of all races are treat-(Hindus". . ed every day by the members of
James Bury of the local Labor our profession and in . all our (Council reported to a meeting of hospitals."      .
The Weekly Habit
By Toyo Takatd
Next week, it will be five years -( rsmce we stumbled out of the � JCPR coach after a grimy, four-day ordeal at the Union Station and landed in Toronto, the meeca of the eastern pilgrimage of the B. C. exiles. After spending nearly two years in one of the British Columbia Security Com-, mission's rest homes, it was somewhat bewildering to be thrust into a pushing, shoving, me-first struggle of a big town where everyone seemed busier, than a gossip at a shotgun wedding.       :. �
Toronto then was experiencing the same weather that we are suffering now, that prostrating humid stickiness. I'll never forget that time, making our Toronto debut in the midst of a pronged heat wave that broke a 100-year record. How I longed for Slocan then when five of us were .holed up in a three-room incinerator. '. �' . - ' ;
Toronto's   evacuee  population had not yet  hit the  thousand ^ar.<. and there were very few and Sansei school kids or l5^-.   Only a few had homes, l?.d n-.ost Nisei; lived in single -s wondering if they should <aV.."their'families but.   A life-, an-i-aeath  struggle � was   being "a~-i In Western Europe, and � :       drove   street-cars . and : and worked the pumps at * stations.
'�" '-srh five years have gone yet   to   see   Toronto '.y.  i have to admit that I ' given-the Art Gallery Museum the once-over ar.d have been admonished, still many parts of ^hat I haven't seen: be-Cair is very unfamiliar, �^re are a rM of Xtwi Tor-who fail in the ttme�
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you could see it any time, you just don't get around, to it. I've seen the^Art Galterv in Cleve-land, even visited their library, and have taken in the Museum in Chicago, but I can see Toronto's anytime, so I've never been there.
Perhaps the only occasion one gets to see his own.bailiwick is when some out-of-towners are sight-seeing and you happen to go along. The first and only visit to the Casa Loma was two years ago when a couple of New Yorkers were in town. Nor did I go up to the top of the Dank of Commerce Building until last week, then I went up twice, on both occasions with visitors;
For its size, Toronto has very little to' offer in the way of tourist attraction. Coast cities like Victoria or- Vancouver have it all over the Queen City with places to see. There are no particularly beautiful scenic spots, nothing to match Vancouver's Stanley Park. or Victoria's But-charts Gardens. And its always a poser as to where to take visitors. People from New York or Chicago certainly would not find places like Sunr.yside to be of much interest. Compared to their amusement psfks, it would look like a country fair.
Our Japanese section edit-TS have been getting after us for not knowing oyr home city, and knowing .everi � less abou* Canada. 'Y^u should Tanada first." they *ay, "Instead of going to NVw York. Buffalo and other L*. S. p-^:^t5. 5*e yrmr co-un-:ry first.-*
"Ho-w rrrar.y Niseis in Toronto have ever been to Ottawa:" they a.-k. As far a* *e know, we ha~eT.T h-srf of aftyor.e who ev�?r visited the Canadian capital. And they have *oTreth:!ig there. Ottawa sh^u'd be basest in our
Tom Nobuokti
A MONO THE MANY teniuV enthusiasts are (I. (o r.) Mary >obuoka, Molly Tanaka and Sumi Iwasaki.
Tennis has become a very popular summer pastime among the Ni*ci set in Toronto. More than 200 are reported to be patting much of their leisure time on public court* scattered throughout the city. There are three Nisei organised tennis clubs, the JCCA, Bussei and St. F. X. In addition, there are other unat-t ached groups.
A Nisei Open Tennis Tournament is scheduled to be held In August,   probably commencing on August 21.   This will he the �s?cond year for the tournament.
American Gl's In Japan In Ju-Jitsu Says
Have More Interest Of Recreation
� NEW YORK, N.Y. � Most A-i icricnn Gl"> in ''.-.la-pan are most int ^rested in_ i>i-jitsu than gei-sh;\ girls". - - :m'd..: -American mi''.ii:'v.s should stop fretting. The tip crime from the-'No. 1 woman ex-�euiivc With th> s'b Army of Occupation, Katherine Donaldson, staff adviser of Japan's, 91 service clubs.
Miss Donaldson, who looks like a- fraternity, housemother and talks like a tomboy, stopped at New York en route to her headquarters in Yokohama, after a six .months' recruiting tour, of the v. S.'-"
The mother of one of the-8th Army boys, carr^e 1-5 miles to see -her because she had heard a lot of propaganda about the Gl's going.bes'-rk in Japan. When the mother, saw her she said, "You look' i.jke a .nic*. safe woman., I gu/^ss my "hoy's all right"
After five y^ars of �up*M*vis-:r,z. entertainment for the 0<*-fjna'w f.-.-frpss,. she didn't r*al-itf that ?:''y r^m>r? rou'd skip
; tIt. e ra ry f r places * n visi t.' Per-haps we should see our own rapiTa':. ^jr own province, and
"What's wrong with you Nisei they ask. The>- really h:: tW roof wberr I t*?d them F^e been to Chicago four times Iwt I*** yh to see Nia�ara FalU.
across the ocean. She thinks that perhaps the American boys like service club type of entertainment best because it keeps them so busy.
She showed programs, from onich of japan's -10 �� -big-city service clubs, 5"� on-post clubs and 20 'sw'ankv beach hotels for men on leave. Kach day was1 packed with entertainment froni
Wl Firing Of Gun
VANCOUVER, B, C. � Sock-eye salmon fishing on the Fraser River opened at 8 a.m., July 26, with the firing of the traditional starting gun.
An estimated 1501) to 2000 gill-net boats were on the river, their fisherman' optimistic that this will be a top season for Fraser sock eye. The early run of the-fish rehabilitated by the Hell's Gate fishways has been big this year, making grounds for the optimism.
The Fraser was a hustle of activity as fishing got under way. Little coloured pennants distinguished boats operating for the various fishing companies. Packing boats began roaming the river, collecting the first catches and sending them to the canneries.   .
At the peak of the season, probably .'3000 gill net tors will be on the river.       ,
NATIONAL JCCA ISSUES BULLETIN
A special National JCCA Bulletin on human rights has been released by the National office; Edited by George Tftnalta, National JCCA executive secretary, it is a 62-page mimeograph* ed publication giving tfca com* prehensive background of human rights.
The bulletin deals with th# Human Rights Charter as adopted by the United Nations, a story of discrimination, Fair Employ* ment Practices legislation and brief and resolutions for FEPC, talk on Human Relations by Hugo Woiter, and bill of rights for Canada;
A thousand copies were published, requiring 65,000 stencils. The office staff: of the National JCCA with the astm* tance of Tom Sagara completed the work.
Immunity Of JoponMe To Polio Revealed!
TOKYO, Japan. � Brigadier
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. Since her first job as, adirec- : General Sams, pubHc hearth chief tor for a settlement house she 1 to General McArthur, stated has been supervisor of "the. pro-|tnat Japanese have apparently fessional  division  of the  New developed a natural immunity to
Jersey v. A.,, director of a settle- ; Polio.
ment house in Washington and j He said that before im the Supervisor, of Recreation for the 'disease .wasn't reported because
American Red Cro>� in the Far Eastern Theatre of Operation.
' of. its relative rarity.  Last year, when there were zlfioq cases in
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With Hampton Band
SAN    FRANCISCO.i*aal j Higaki     r>ow towing the Por- ; tand area aa a member of the � Lionel Hampton orchestra which ;   Richard is now in the mid-t of a one- f Rupert  and night stand tour in the Pacific r Map Nwnhwest. ; ship
Higaki was with several noted. hai,d* in Chicago during the ~rar ; srhoots in 199
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P�al Le*, joined the noted Negro ,   The New leader's outfit just recently and weekly has played �*>Jo uiiwbunie mnr*-
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