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, . U·NO Bar By RA \'MOND UNO National JACL I'ruldent D uri n g my meandenngs through philosophy, I happen- ed to lake a class In ethics. Du,;ng my sojourn through Ule ethjcs class, we came across the proposition of a choice between two goods and al other times between two evils; It was nol a eboice be- twcen good and bad. emotional1y charged decIsions that cut through the sensitive nerve IIbers ot delicately en- if you do and ••• trenched lee lings are double edged swords and tbey cut both ways. Thus. regardless 01 the decision, "you are damned il you do and damned II you don't" by some segment of the membership . Be it the National President, the National Council, the Na- tional Board or the National Executive Committee, mem- bers are going tn ventilate their russatisfaction and dis- appointment in varying de- grees of heat (and cold) as ",ell as blood-cllding (and sam e tim e s blood-letting) means and manner. It is a terrific experience for the elected (and sometimes an- noin ted) few. Flack {rom certain decisions of the recent National Board meeting may be predicted. Without going inlo all the names of Board members and details of all of the discus- sions (Harry Honda's lerri- tory). I will take the liberty 01 making some comments on a few ltemS. . However, lo touch on the 1ighter side before comment- ing, the anemoon I split with the Grand Tour grouP. Harry Honda and r sauntered around Crenshaw Square and ran into a numbe,' of people from Salt Lake, including Yo Takagaki. the developer of Crenshaw Squ are. Since the festivities started in full bloom the next niehl, r visitcd the Square the following night with a poli- tical co-worker and neighbor from Salt Lake who moved to Long Beach, Malilyn Per- who was the secretary of my' state Sen ate campaign. 'YO's wife. Mary (a relation through my mother's side), joined us and fiUed us up with delicious sushi al the Sushi Bar. Since Marilyn is a gour- met cook, she nol onlY de- voured the food, but took de- laUed mental notes Of every- thing she consumed. . . , Skipping from ealing places to the peopl e who gl'OW the food. the protracted discus- sion and debate on the Cen- tral Califomia District Council motions on the cenh'al Cali- fornia growers problems in respect to union organizing activities, certainly crystal- lized the two good and two ev-U concepts o( farmer and laborer disputes. It depends, many times, on which side of th e fence you view the prob- lem. Fred Hirasuna, an 'Iold" war horse of JACL controversies, ably and eloquently pleaded the farmers (as weU as Cen- tra] Calilornia Di s trict Coun- cll's) case. as did Harry Kubo. both active JACLe,·s. When the gOing gets rough, you le al" to hit where it hU11s and counts, in money and membership. ] think Fred and Han'Y squeezed about as much juice out or the JACL ol'ange as was possible. and much more than 1 thought the Board. a, conslituted. would ever concede. As Jerr\' Enomoto touched in his pel:petual verbal fenc- Ing match with Bob Taka- sugi. "you can lake a country boy out of the country. but you canJt take the country out of th e counlry boy." Too many Nisei and Sansei have roots back in the 131m where they were raised and know the hardships of the small [a1'1l1- ers, namely their parents and relatives. The era at the J A IarmeJ' is last coming to a close in many areas. Their de- mise be attributed in some respects to the profit and loss statement. With progress. mechanization. unionization and increased cosis of fanu- lng, the diminution o[ J A :tal'nleI"S is already a fait ac- compli. \Vanell Furutnni. who is fast developing sophistication and finesse in dealing with dlfficull problems, to articulat e lhe two good, two e"il dilemma. There just is not a Clit rUld dry answer to overy problem, C s Il e c I a I I y when lhe human element in- tel'venes. And, when we deal with human beings. we don't just tromp over them as If they were animals (In facl. we mAlly times treat animals belte,') Regal-dless of how wtong om' opponent, or how bilter the controversy, we should always II'Y to feel com. passion toward lellow human bpings. \Vonen, in m,y opin- ion. hRS this compassion. More thon his sharpnpss of wit, and his courage to eontl'onl. his foeHns for people will oan'y him a lone way. ThaI is say- ing a lot for a YOWlS man of 23. Since Ihe "Untold tor,," contl'O\,cTSY was my baptism under lire. Twas dpeply dis- appOinted in the decision 01 J ACL Board 10 curtail any fUl'thel' nCllon on the supple- mentnry text book. As one of Board members staled. Ihe dedsloll leaves "bad tasle" in his UlO\l'.h. and .everal olh- N', who read the book and diGeSled the pro and con of tht colllrovCl"y fell the same way Compromise l. a live C'ouliDued ou Pese • '" PACIFI ITIZEN Sr, Los Ao,geles uhf. 90012; (213) MA 669J6 ond Closs """''II. P.>II .t L .. Ango .... uhf. VOL. 73 NO. 6 FRIDAY. AUGUST 6, 1971 IubIc:rutuoa ble Per Yeu 11.a • 1'onICD. 12 CENTS NATIONAL JACL BOARD DECISIONS 'Involvement' key to future By BARRY K. HONDA Los Angeles Vice President Mike Suzuki reported that chapter went oul consciously to get young adults inlo leadership and felt encouraged .rthough we still have our factions and pl'ob- lerns". Nisei Week queen contest 10 Los Angeles was officiaJ1y under- way with seven candidates introduced at the Consul General 's Residence July 25. At left is Consul General Kanji Takasugi, while on lhe line (in kimono) is Mrs. Mable Yoshizaki, ebapel'one: and (apple gl'een en- sembles) Audre Miura. Long Beach; Mar- craret Nishimoto. Pasadena; Diane TakeJ. \Vest Los Angeles; Joyce Kikuchi , East Los Angeles; Lynn Shibata, Citrus Vall ey; Karen Kitagawa, Gardena; and Connie Nakao, San Fernando Valley. -Cut Courtesy: Rafu Siumpo The capsulized resume of what transpired (see PC, July 30) at the National JACL Board and Staff session a couple at weeks ago at inter- national Hotel indicated the scope of the meeting, but there was an hour of free - .... heeling dialogue Sun day (July 25) on tbe future 01 JACL as an organization, which bears telling. (The tapes have been pre · served for replaying to the National JACL Planning Com- missIon which meets next weekend, Aug. 13 -1 5, at San Francisco. ) "As lar as young people are concerned. we have to make a strong efTort to have them come in," the onetime youth commissioner added. Two Issues Confused President-elect Henry Ta· naka was of the opinion that increasing in volvemen t of membership in J ACL and the nature of the CIP (commu- nity involvement program) were being confused in the discussion. Berry picker sues grower, ass' n with anti-union bias WATSONVlLLE-A class ac- lion suit charging strawberry growers in Santa Ci'UZ and Monterey Counties with dis- crimination against members and supporters oC the United Farm W 0 r k e r s Organizing Committee (UFWOC) was filed Jul" 22 in Santa Cruz County Superior Court. Filed on behalf 01 Mru;a Hernandez, a 'V atsonv ille agricultuJ'al worker and UF- WOC 0 r g ani z e r. the suit charges the growers with a conspiracy to deprive agl'icuJ- tllral workers of their right. under the state labor code to name their collective ing agent. The suit charges one of the defendants. Pajaro Vall e y Stawberry Growers Assn .. was formed in :Ma), "to cal"ry out the terms of the conspiracy:' Deiendants in the suit in- clude : -5bigeo Tao. grower and employer of Mrs. Hernandez, who she claims fired her be- cause of her connection with UFWOC. "at the urging oC the other de[endants:' -Naturipe Berry Gr owers. Han unincorporated associa- tion designated as collective bargaining agent for growers in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties." and associatio n president and general man- agel' Tad Tomita oI San Jose. The suit further chargos the growers have conspired to dis- criminate against active mem- bers or supporters of UFWOC in the employment of (ann workers fol' the 1971 straw- berry harvest The growers have reCused to hire such wOl'kers and are firing those who took an ac- tive part in the UFWOC st"ike called last summer (or conec- tive bargaining recognition, the suit states. Sen . Zenovich shocked by vandalism at ranch SACRAMENTO - State Sen. George Zenovich (D·Fresno) , in his Capital Memo. express- ed his .hock by tbe acts at vandalism directed against the Hamada orchards in Reedley on July 11. Such tactics indica te lia lack of genuine COllCel11 10r farm workers. . and are becoming an all too famiJiar aspect of [at'm labor relations. "Repeated incidents of this type are certain to cause the mainstream of organized labor to reassess its posture in re. gards to the Chavez move- ment. The politics at threat and violence in the long run may prO\'e to be most dam- aging to the farm workers that UFWOC claims to rep- resent," Zcnovich said. Elks retain all·white membership policy NEW ORLEANS - For the third consecutive year, the Benevolent and Protective Or- del' of the Elks convention voted down a move to rid its all-white membership policy. Question Came July 22 when 3.000 delegates were asked to delete the restriction. An es- timated 010 per cent were in favol" of the resolution intro- duced b) the Madison. Wis., lodge. But a Iwo-thirds ma- jority was needed. In separate resolUtions, the grand e" a I ted ruler was granted authol;!J' to SUspend this rule during his term tal' lodges quartered on federal properly ----- Slide rule identifying drugs now available Al JOSE - The 'umitomo Balik her e has a"ailable a limited supply of a drug iden- tification slide rule. crcaled b) Action In Drug Education. as part of its program Qf con- tinuing public 5en'iee to the community, manager Ryuichi Klmun announced. The slidt" rule conta1ns. data on live narcotic:", four three- three acids marijuana a.nd organic """·ellIS. 1971 NISEI WEEK FESTIVAL Calendar of Events Raymond S. Uno Alfred Hatate LOS ANGELES-Mayor and 1I11·s. Norman Mineta of San Jose will be Ule grand marshal oI the 1971 Festival Pru'ade on Sunday, Aug. 22, climaxing the annual Nisei Week fes- ttvities in Liltle Tokyo. .1 Amel'ica Ondo" J lyrics by S. Takayanagi and music by ill. Koga , choreographed by Fujima Kansuma, this yeru"s Ondo dance director, will be introduced. President Ray m 0 n d Uno p!'efaced his opening state- ment with an overview of the cur r e n t economic situation with all levels at government cutting back because funds 3l'e tight. "An d the three things that get cut are in health, education and welfare," he emphasized. "In talking. to university people. espeCially in biological !'esearch, they are in the midst of some heavy research, some starting back 10 years ago, and all 01 a sudden-b ang-tbey're out of job. And the research stops." He deflned " program" as being geared to a specifiC ob- jective which is not. restricted to tbe young. "We should not use program necessarily to in- volve young people. Progra ms are sel up to concetltrate on a relevant issue that's impor- tant 10 the function of the or- ganization. I don't. necessarily agree programs should be used for community involve- ment." MORE JACL REGIONAL. OFFICES, STAFF ENDORSED BY NArL BOARD Candidates for Miss Nisei Week have been tbe fewest in Veal'S at seven. A week-long staple of past Nisei Weeks-the show-has been dropped. Evening programs at Union Church throughout the week have been added. The Nagoya doll exhibit Aug. 18-22 at the new Hongwanji is a special feature. TH UR UAY. AUGUST 12 Relating it to JACL, Uno 6:30 p.m.-Mlkoshf Dedication ........................... 352 E. l!il St said uWe must take a close 7:30 p.m.-Nisei Week Chorus ................ . ......... Koyasan Hall look' at what we are doing.' FRIDAY, AUGUST J3 Funding ill JACL is similarly 8·10 :30 p.m.-Issei Night (Kansuma Troupe Dances) .. .. Koyasan }fall being affected. "We have to 9 9.rn.-Baby Show .. .. 1 .t. Little Tokyo Theater figure out how much we make, 1 p.m.-Kempa. Aikido, Karate (All Arneriean.,l .. .... .. ..Koyasan Halt how much we've got, where ' Out ':::::: .. : .. SATURDAY-SUNDAY. AUGUST 14-15 from it"-as if be were bor- p.m.-Goh .. Sun Bldg .. Rm. 306 rowing some lines National 5:30 a.m.-5CNGA Goll Touranment ......... Montebello country Clu.b Treasurer Al Halate had said 12n-SCN Women's Golf Tournament ........ . Alondra GoU Course earlier. 11:30·5 p.m.-Akita Dog Exhibition ... ..... N.. San PedroKParking RLAti 'Vho's Dom, the Work 7:30 p.m. -JACS · Asfan 10\·01\·ement...... .. . .... Union Church Deli vering his 1'emarks with I\ IONDAl'. AUGUST 15 machine-gun staccato, Uno I'e. 9:30.11:30 a.tn.-Openlng Ceremonies . ", ... ..•... . -... CIlY Hall peated an observation he rt;·: :::.:: :: ::::::: made in his b'avels and VlSI - TUESDAY, AUGUST 17 lations oi ebapters around the p' L) Kawatuku c:ountrv: "We have 5 per cent Takeshl Kubala, PNWDC governor, a JACLer of the Biennium, said he has coun- seled his chapter presidents on the value of diversified pro- grams, noting there are many who join J ACL because of goll, bowling, etc., " but we hope to involve them in other programs" In the Pacific NOlthwest, Kubota noled the aide,. Nisei are starting to become more involved in JACL with re- Conttnued ou Par. 3 1971 budget light but allow $5,000 Hall or less' ot our membership do- 7:30 p.m.-Yellow Brotherhood ........... ,., ..... •.. Uwon Church ing 95 per cent ot the work. f Issei' film AUGUST 1& he othel' 95 per cent of tbe or .. .. ::c;. em.bel:&hip is only dOing 5 WEDNESDAY-SUNDAY. AUGUST 18- 2-1 per cent or less of the organ- 1-9 p.m.-Nagoya Doll ExhIbit ... .. .. "' " ...... Hompa Hon" ... anjl ization's work. This I seems THURSDAY, AUGUST 19 true in tbe chapters and dis- 7 p.m.-Mjnyo: Japanese Folk Mustc ................ .... Koyasan Hall mct COUDCUS." 10 ....... .. Umon Church Uno further observed that 7:30·9:30 p.m.-5hlgin Taikal ................. Nishl Honl;'wallji ( Old) the same people are involved, Youti,':' React; 1 p.rn.-Bankei. .. .. Rm. 302.303 the older group. The younger 1 p.m.-PhoW Exhibil ............................... Zenshujt Temple people beg off becaute they 1 p.m.-5enior Citizen Art Exillbit ... .... .. SWl Bldg. Pioneer Center claim the programs are not S \T URDA'\: AUGUST ?) rel evant or there is nothing in 12:30·3 p.m.-Kempo ; 6.\0 p.m. Karate (So. -CallI,) ... Koyasan HaU JACL for them. 6-9 p.m. -Ondo .. Street Where some changes in 1 p.m.-Artistic 0011 Crafts. Bonsai. E-Sarasa ..... . Zenshujj Temple direction have been effected. .. · .. ·.·.\V·eller '::: l group) pick up the 1 p.m.-Japanese Sword Exhibit ..... . ........ l\tent Savings & Loan but it's only "for a little 1 p.m.-Roketsu Zome (Batik) . . . ...... . .. 1016 Weller St. while" for they see little op- SU!fnA l: . AUGUST 22 pOl'tunity to better themselves within JACL. So the chapter 5:30 -8 p.m.-NIsei Week Parade .......... . ........... .. . Little Tokyo relies on its veteran stal warts A CANADIAN VIEW LOS ANGELES-In his open- ing statement before the in- terim National JACL Board and StalT meeting here July 23-25. national treasurer Al Hatate said the 1971 financJaI picture was gloomy and ex- pected another deficit. It was $16,000 last year. That all but Ioreclosed fundlng of any special proj- ects that might be p,.esenled even though the National Board sessions jn preVlous vean have anthorized special iunds, it was recalled. Yet, the merit 01 the Vis- ual Communications Commit tee's special budget request for $5,000 prevai led and the National Treasure,. and Na· tional Director Mas Satow were directed by the board to grant the funds The decision was not easily LOS ANGELES - Sentiment for more J A CL regional stalf and offices was strong among National JACL board mem- bers meeting here July 23- 25 as it urged District Coun- cils draft detailed propOsals tor submission at the next na .. tional convention. The Northern Calilornla- Western Nevada JACL Dis- triel Council bas long sought the services ot a regional di- rector, who pr e v i 0 u.s I y doubled as assistant nallonal director. a position untilled for several years. The board has Tecommended the $8.400-10,- 210 position be restored in the next budget. The Midwest Dist,;ct Coun- cil had requested S10,000 at the last national convention to hire a fuD-time regional director headquartered at Chi- cago, but this was rejecled by the Council. The MDC IS ex- pected to reintrodUce tbis re- quest. Since tbcn proposals for JACL stafT in other districts, such as the Pacific Northw<3l. Central California and Inter- mountain have been men- tioned. New York Olliee A sll'ong case for a J ACL office in New York was pre- sented by Ira Shimasaki , EDC governor J at the interim board session. Three primary rea- sons were cited: (I) tn help raise funds. (2) tn work in the acea of public relations. and (3) tn assist Japanese liv- ing in the region. Kaz Horita or Philadelphia, national vice -president for public affairs, also supported the plea, noting that many Japanese industrial fIrnIs have their headquarters there and New York City is regarded as the hub of public relations in America. No figures were attached to the EDC governor's plea. While the Board concw'red tbat more regional staff and olllces are needed and referred the resolution to the personnel commitlee with a view at possible reorganiza- tion 01 national JACL staff, the national treasurer. AI Ha- tate. reminded that aU budget requests should be itemized. "Besides speJJing out the qualifications 01 additional staff, we need an itemized breakdown at the budget tor regional stalT and offices so as to convince the National Council," Hatate explained. ltemked Bud,el "Instead of a Oat figure. the budget should spell out the salary range, travel allowance. office rent supplies, etc. "In fact. our budget com- ebainMn shimura o[ Mt. Olympus JACL) will request all com- mittees m a k e sure their budget items are broken down in detail," Hatate said. Mike Suzuki of Sacramen- to, national vice-president for general operations, added that a matching-basis idea be in- corporated when reilolUl are seeking funds lor such 01- fices. Regions should designatAt how much at the staff's time is required. Maybe two dis- tricts can co-sponsor such • proposal. uWe all recognize the well i. kinda dry now for normal funding. It will be up tn the regions to pump a little hard- er" Suzuki added. "We have a ",eater probl".'" in trying raise funds nationally now. Other Pointe The resolution lor addition- al staff. releM'ed tn both the personnel and budget commit- tees, calls tor: I-Review at the National JACL administrative staff 2-Review at JACL polley on regional offices. 3-Submission at itemized budgets from Distriel Coun- cils requesting services 01 stal! and office. possible IIIatchine fund prospects as weD .. ral- ing addilional funds. Being Japanese The following l! Ule: complete teld of a speech entitled "On Beine Japanese In Canada". ,Iv. en by Or. David Suzuk'l UDinr. s lty of British Columbia pror«- sor a.nd star or the C.B.C. Tele\'lsion series "S uz uki Oh Science", given at the: Toronto Japanese Canadian Cu i t u r a 1 Centre on June 15. A capadt y c rowd atten ded. Since they didn't, the y got what they deserved . Among Sansei I meet in tile university. I get two striking impressions: one is ignorance, a complete una wal'eness or Jack of concern for past ev .. ents thal affected their par- ents and grandparents; Ihe second is coniusion, a dHfi .. culty o[ defining an identity or role in society of many years who value the importance of J ACL to perpe- tuate it. " Of courseJ these are the same people we want to knock"; but the younger peo- ple discover complacency at the general membership is st ill the same and quit, Uno lIoted. Yet this mass of the mem- bership represents Hour na- tional budget ... and let·s not kllock them either". Uno hoped there would be 10,000 more of them though he realized it mean that those involved ill JACL would as- sume that much more work in servicing them. At chaptel's which have continued to grow, Uno heard officers plead this wou Id be their last yeal·. "I'll pay my dues but my wile and children have p1'iorities," they explained to Uno. Communications Committee cbairman Bob Na- kamw'a said a 30-minute doc- umentary film on the Jssei- with scenes (l'om the wild- flower ll'ip last as the prevailing vehicle-is a S1.5,- 789 project with JACL bemg asked to grant $5,000. It attempts to portray the human implications of Japa- nese American history, Naka- mura added. Nat'l JACL Board joins in statement on U.S. involvement in Indochina By DAVID T. SUZUKI Toronto Recent political de velop- ments in Canada and discuss- ions I've had \ViUl Sansei have aroused my concern about the meaning of being a Japanese in this country in terms of our roles as responsible citi- zens and in terms of our per- sonal identities. \Vhat I'm go. ing tn say will be highly per- sonal and therefore based on intuition and experience rath- er than any scientific docu- mentation. While 1 was teaching in U,e Universit;l' of California at Berkeley in 1969, J became deeply involved with a stu- dent group called Asian Poli- tical Aliiance (APA). which was pressing tor a separate coDege of Asian Studies. Tn one 01 the Asian Studies courses, a Walter Cronkite CBS television program about the Japanese evacuation, ("Ni- sei The P rid e and the Shame") was shown. It was devastating and 1 was moved uncontrollably to tea r s, whereas the reaction ot the: Sansei around me was one ot laughter and derision. This was a shocking experience to me because their reaction re- Uecled a number at things: l-eontempt for the funny appearance and behavior of the Issei and Nisei, 2-a teeling at emotional unim'olvement which implied thaI it couldn't possibly hap- pen again. 3-and man,), radical San. are now condemning the Is.'<ei and NiseI ror peacefully ,ubmitting 10 Evacuation. The mood of activism leads them 10 feel Ihat the Japan .... should bave actively resisted and fought for their right&. Let me discuss the Identity crisis first. Society in North America is undergoing a pro- found upheaval and re-evalu· ation of its ideals and goals. The level of awareness gen· erated by ci,'il rights. the Vi· etnam war and the environ- mental cl'isis is creating a deep disenchantment with the gaudy promises ot technology. Lite styles are being radical- ized to an incredible degree- just think of the use of pot, Conlinued on Pare 6 Dr. DaVid Suzuki Grassroot FeellDgS Inilially Tabled When inittally introduced. the prOpOsal was tabled ior lack of budget. The ViSUal conununcations committee had below b .. d btu intended tor pubUcaUol1 e.rUer but Dr. Clifford Uyeda. JACL lntemaUonaJ .train t::ommJttee chairman, preseated It to tile turrence. It wal; adopted on lobe first dal_Bd.) hoped JACL lund SaD Franc!>co monies might be avaIlable II the present request was not Tn the midst of a growing possible from the J ACL treas- tide or anti·war sentiment This frustration at tbe chap- ury. from broad and diverse sog- ter board level was evident R atate was adamant in ask- ments ot the American popu- nationwide. Uno said ing for National Board d.irec- lace (72% according to one He had boped that in South· tion on where the budget recent national poll) as reveal- ern CaIlIodna, where the pop- might be ebopped 10 fund the ed by massi,·. demonstrations ulation is. there would bave Issei tUm project. "Since we such as the April marches been more younger people haven't been told where tn held simultaneously In San chapters by now - but I!le cut, the National Director and Francisco and Washington. Northern CaliIomia DistrIct I will try to work out some- D.C.. the Mayday actions m Council continues to lead. thing, but don't complam to Washinglon, D.C .. prolit ... He noted that 90 per cent of WL We might have to cut ration of a multitude at 01'- the JACL service. are here down visitation by staff. un- ganizations mobilized tnwarda but it hasn't been manifested less dlsmcts are willlng to ending the war sueb as Com· with more young people in the pick up the entil'e travel ex- mon Cause, B.F.M. (BuaInesa cbapters. Most of the South- penses." Hatate said. Executi,.es Movement). the CallIornla ebapters have National Board member. testimony 01 hundreds of tbe same old J ACLers on were cbecking over the June American Vietnam ,'eterans board. "Thing we have to ad- 30 1971, financial report when at the extent to which civi- dress ourselves to is-how do I he)' asked. "where', lian atrocities have been we solve this problem'" $5.000 conung from?" doned by military authorities It was Uno's position that To date. some $235.000 has gi"en al the Winer Soldi..,. the Community Involvement been relJUtted !rom ebap- Tribunal held In Detroit in Program here would assist tel'S and other sources toward December. llno. as well as JACL relate to the communIty the H8.000 budget. NOl mueb the contlnulng nmpaillDl. at and vice-versa, getting people more can be expected. Hatate more Long lived intn JACL or having its gen- pOinled oul. Expenses thus tar mo\'emenl IfOUpa - It seems become in- amounled to $118.000 and Ha- that the call tor an end to the valved. tate" projectedS20.000 per Vietnam war bas become not '-This is the reality with montb in operatJonal expen- only desinble, bul aIJo tasb- On Sunc1a). May 18 01 thl' year hundreds 01 middle cillO Asian American, of a II ages attended a peace rally held in Los Angeles tn hear speak- ers as di\'er.;e as Rep. Spark Matsunaga, Vietnam veteran Mike Nakayama. and actnr George Takel raislDg their protests against the war. Yet in the face at such an un- questionable mandate to end the war. the National JACL, the mosl influential and Iar,- est national organization of Japanese Americans in I h e U.S., has as yel to add Ita voice and weJgbt to thiI time- ly national tor peece. . . . AA memben ot the JACL International Affaln Comnut. lee, we teel that the value of our work lies m the pre- sentation at Issues related to aspects 0' Amer1can fonl.., poDcy and the di.d ........ of pertlnenl informatlOll whicb may not be ordinaril.r obtaln- a ble through the popuJ.ar ...... the cam- mittee will 8110 promote ... lid.... in order to cataJ,ze rational 8 Q d gent adiOll The c:ommIltee does not feel. howevn-. that Ita p..- ablolves the Na- tional Board. as \he __ Inc body of JACL. from _ c:-tIned _ .... I which we are faced." Uno ses tor the remainder of the ionable. concluded. "r have wracked year. Within the Japanese Ama- • taft my brains over this. Th.e pea- Previo ... Bequ .. t lean commnnIt7. untold DWII- Scout jCIIIIboret S pIe wbom rve talked 'nth are ber of Japanese LOS • "0- _ '...,.. .. inlerested but ask, ·how ... o It was noted in the financial men have been _ tn ___ • .... _...r-v we get this to the membeI- report that Com- and die ill th1s aomeI_ war. bIa_ COOI'dln.ItoI' fDt ship?' mumcation. Comnullee was publk·. <alIaua Bo7 Scout Southwat ..... In Central Calilornia, Dll;- funded ID lilIlount of 53.- to t b e CalIe1 trial 12 CGIItiDamt now In J_ triet Governor Fred Hirasuna ,56 (rom the JACL Beoerw erdiet reawakened tar _ fw the 11th Wodd Jambone, said thaI "youth only come to Fund last nar to< Its 1970 ;_ \he CODtiDuLnc pend_ .. .-Iped t.o the oed fu "-' H -. I , __ ,,_ .. - uff. An lOS us when thev n n... e program whu:b IDC U<xv 8."., ...... .............. - --,;.;;; WW2.ad _ft telt the problem at inrolve- 01 educ:aWlnal mate- American raoan. "'""" S*r menl III J ACL "115 not w'hof- rial, ,"ellIding \he Con ..... tra- 0-..... the p •• t few yean wi1Il the headed \y with the older generatJOn tJon Camp .xhibit and the -aaen til ...... CIQ' Ur' wIuoD at- for the youth appea! to be film -Mam;anar". [t is abo AmeriCaIIa uve 1IdItreb' -- ::... ... II1II IfIppca 8cGut more Interested in thin .. be- engaged uchival war'" cata- ell ill aata-_ aad _ " ........ Natioaal c:.u..I _ .... 6 tiYttieB _ ...........
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    By RA \'MOND UNO National JACL I'ruldent

    D uri n g my meandenngs through philosophy, I happen-ed to lake a class In ethics. Du,;ng my sojourn through Ule ethjcs class, we came across the proposition of a choice between two goods and al other times between two evils; It was nol a eboice be-twcen good and bad. T~ese emotional1y charged decIsions that cut through the sensitive nerve IIbers ot delicately en-

    D~mned if you do and •••

    trenched lee lings are double edged swords and tbey cut both ways. Thus. regardless 01 the decision, "you are damned il you do and damned II you don't" by some segment of the membership.

    Be it the National President, the National Council, the Na-tional Board or the National Executive Committee, mem-bers are going tn ventilate their russatisfaction and dis-appointment in varying de-grees of heat (and cold) as ",ell as blood-cllding (and sam e tim e s blood-letting) means and manner. It is a terrific experience for the elected (and sometimes an-noin ted) few.

    Flack {rom certain decisions of the recent National Board meeting may be predicted. Without going inlo all the names of Board members and details of all of the discus-sions (Harry Honda's lerri-tory). I will take the liberty 01 making some comments on a few ltemS. .

    However, lo touch on the 1ighter side before comment-ing, the anemoon I split with the Grand Tour grouP. Harry Honda and r sauntered around Crenshaw Square and ran into a numbe,' of people from Salt Lake, including Yo Takagaki. the developer of Crenshaw Square. Since the festivities started in full bloom the next niehl, r visitcd the Square the following night with a poli-tical co-worker and neighbor from Salt Lake who moved to Long Beach, Malilyn Per-~ik who was the secretary of my' state Senate campaign.

    'YO's wife. Mary (a relation through my mother's side) , joined us and fiUed us up with delicious sushi al the Sushi Bar. Since Marilyn is a gour-met cook, she nol onlY de-voured the food, but took de-laUed mental notes Of every-thing she consumed. . . ,

    Skipping from ealing places to the people who gl'OW the food. the protracted discus-sion and debate on the Cen-tral Califomia District Council motions on the cenh'al Cali-fornia growers problems in respect to union organizing activities, certainly crystal-lized the two good and two ev-U concepts o( farmer and laborer disputes. It depends, many times, on which side of the fence you view the prob-lem.

    Fred Hirasuna, an 'Iold" war horse of JACL controversies, ably and eloquently pleaded the farmers (as weU as Cen-tra] Calilornia District Coun-cll's) case. as did Harry Kubo. both active JACLe,·s. When the gOing gets rough, you leal" to hit where it hU11s and counts, in money and membership. ] think Fred and Han'Y squeezed about as much juice out or the JACL ol'ange as was possible. and much more than 1 thought the Board. a, conslituted. would ever concede.

    As Jerr\' Enomoto touched in his pel:petual verbal fenc-Ing match with Bob Taka-sugi. "you can lake a country boy out of the country. but you canJt take the country out of the counlry boy." Too many Nisei and Sansei have roots back in the 131m where they were raised and know the hardships of the small [a1'1l1-ers, namely their parents and relatives. The era at the J A IarmeJ' is last coming to a close in many areas. Their de-mise ma~ ' be attributed in some respects to the profit and loss statement. With progress. mechanization. unionization and increased cosis of fanu-lng, the diminution o[ J A :tal'nleI"S is already a fait ac-compli.

    \Vanell Furutnni. who is fast developing sophistication and finesse in dealing with dlfficull problems, app~ared to articulate lhe two good, two e"il dilemma. There just is not a Clit rUld dry answer to overy problem, C s Il e c I a I I y when lhe human element in-tel'venes. And, when we deal with human beings. we don't just tromp over them as If they were animals (In facl. we mAlly times treat animals belte,') Regal-dless of how wtong om' opponent, or how bilter the controversy, we should always II'Y to feel com. passion toward lellow human bpings. \Vonen, in m,y opin-ion. hRS this compassion. More thon his sharpnpss of wit, and his courage to eontl'onl. his foeHns for people will oan'y him a lone way. ThaI is say-ing a lot for a YOWlS man of 23.

    Since Ihe "Untold tor,," contl'O\,cTSY was my baptism under lire. Twas dpeply dis-appOinted in the decision 01 J ACL Board 10 curtail any fUl'thel' nCllon on the supple-mentnry text book. As one of Ih~ Board members staled. Ihe dedsloll leaves "bad tasle" in his UlO\l'.h. and .everal olh-N', who read the book and diGeSled the pro and con of tht colllrovCl"y fell the same way Compromise l. a live

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    PACIFI ITIZEN Sr, Los Ao,geles uhf. 90012; (213) MA 669J6

    ond Closs """''II. P.>II .t L .. Ango .... uhf. VOL. 73 NO. 6 FRIDAY. AUGUST 6, 1971 IubIc:rutuoa ble Per Yeu

    11.a • 1'onICD. 12 CENTS

    NATIONAL JACL BOARD DECISIONS

    'Involvement' key to future By BARRY K. HONDA

    Los Angeles

    Vice President Mike Suzuki reported that chapter went oul consciously to get young adults inlo leadership and felt encouraged .rthough we still have our factions and pl'ob-lerns".

    Nisei Week queen contest 10 Los Angeles was officiaJ1y under-way with seven candidates introduced at the Consul General's Residence July 25. At left is Consul General Kanji Takasugi, while on lhe line (in kimono) is Mrs. Mable Yoshizaki, ebapel'one: and (apple gl'een en-

    sembles) Audre Miura. Long Beach; Mar-craret Nishimoto. Pasadena; Diane TakeJ. \Vest Los Angeles; Joyce Kikuchi , East Los Angeles; Lynn Shibata, Citrus Valley; Karen Kitagawa, Gardena; and Connie Nakao, San Fernando Valley.

    -Cut Courtesy: Rafu Siumpo

    The capsulized resume of what transpired (see PC, July 30) at the National JACL Board and Staff session a couple at weeks ago at inter-national Hotel indicated the scope of the meeting, but there was an hour of free -.... heeling dialogue Sun day (July 25) on tbe future 01 JACL as an organization, which bears telling.

    (The tapes have been pre· served for replaying to the National JACL Planning Com-missIon which meets next weekend, Aug. 13-15, at San Francisco. )

    "As lar as young people are concerned. we have to make a strong efTort to have them come in," the onetime youth commissioner added.

    Two Issues Confused

    President-elect Henry Ta· naka was of the opinion that increasing in volvemen t of membership in J ACL and the nature of the CIP (commu-nity involvement program) were being confused in the discussion.

    Berry picker sues

    grower, ass' n with

    anti-union bias WATSONVlLLE-A class ac-lion suit charging strawberry growers in Santa Ci'UZ and Monterey Counties with dis-crimination against members and supporters oC the United Farm W 0 r k e r s Organizing Committee (UFWOC) was filed Jul" 22 in Santa Cruz County Superior Court.

    Filed on behalf 01 Mru;a Hernandez, a 'V atsonv ille agricultuJ'al worker and UF-WOC 0 r g ani z e r. the suit charges the growers with a conspiracy to deprive agl'icuJ-tllral workers of their right. under the state labor code to name their collective bargain~ ing agent.

    The suit charges one of the defendants. Pajaro Vall e y Stawberry Growers Assn .. was formed in :Ma), " to cal"ry out the terms of the conspiracy:'

    Deiendants in the suit in-clude:

    -5bigeo Tao. grower and employer of Mrs. Hernandez, who she claims fired her be-cause of her connection with UFWOC. "at the urging oC the other de[endants:'

    -Naturipe Berry Growers. Han unincorporated associa-tion designated as collective bargaining agent for growers in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties." and associatio n president and general man-agel' Tad Tomita oI San Jose.

    The suit further chargos the growers have conspired to dis-criminate against active mem-bers or supporters of UFWOC in the employment of (ann workers fol' the 1971 straw-berry harvest

    The growers have reCused to hire such wOl'kers and are firing those who took an ac-tive part in the UFWOC st"ike called last summer (or conec-tive bargaining recognition, the suit states.

    Sen. Zenovich shocked

    by vandalism at ranch

    SACRAMENTO - State Sen. George Zenovich (D·Fresno) , in his Capital Memo. express-ed his .hock by tbe acts at vandalism directed against the Hamada orchards in Reedley on July 11.

    Such tactics indica te lia lack of genuine COllCel11 10r farm workers. . and are becoming an all too famiJiar aspect of [at'm labor relations.

    "Repeated incidents of this type are certain to cause the mainstream of organized labor to reassess its posture in re. gards to the Chavez move-ment. The politics at threat and violence in the long run may prO\'e to be most dam-aging to the farm workers that UFWOC claims to rep-resent," Zcnovich said.

    Elks retain all·white

    membership policy

    NEW ORLEANS - For the third consecutive year, the Benevolent and Protective Or-del' of the Elks convention voted down a move to rid its all-white membership policy.

    Question Came July 22 when 3.000 delegates were asked to delete the restriction. An es-timated 010 per cent were in favol" of the resolution intro-duced b) the Madison. Wis., lodge. But a Iwo-thirds ma-jority was needed.

    In separate resolUtions, the grand e" a I ted ruler was granted authol;!J' to SUspend this rule during his term tal' lodges quartered on federal properly

    -----Slide rule identifying

    drugs now available

    Al JOSE - The 'umitomo Balik her e has a"ailable a limited supply of a drug iden-tification slide rule. crcaled b) Action In Drug Education. as part of its program Qf con-tinuing public 5en'iee to the community, manager Ryuichi Klmun announced.

    The slidt" rule conta1ns. data on live narcotic:", four ~a~ IIV~. three- slimu18nt~: three acids marijuana a.nd organic """·ellIS.

    1971 NISEI WEEK FESTIVAL

    Calendar of Events Raymond S. Uno Alfred Hatate

    LOS ANGELES-Mayor and 1I11·s. Norman Mineta of San Jose will be Ule grand marshal oI the 1971 Festival Pru'ade on Sunday, Aug. 22, climaxing the annual Nisei Week fes-ttvities in Liltle Tokyo.

    .1 Amel'ica Ondo" J lyrics by S. Takayanagi and music by ill. Koga, choreographed by Fujima Kansuma, this yeru"s Ondo dance director, will be introduced.

    President Ray m 0 n d Uno p!'efaced his opening state-ment with an overview of the cur r e n t economic situation with all levels at government cutting back because funds 3l'e tight. "And the three things that get cut are in health, education and welfare," he emphasized. "In talking. to university people. espeCially in biological !'esearch, they are in the midst of some heavy research, some starting back 10 years ago, and all 01 a sudden-bang-tbey're out of job. And the research stops."

    He deflned " program" as being geared to a specifiC ob-jective which is not. restricted to tbe young. "We should not use program necessarily to in-volve young people. Programs are sel up to concetltrate on a relevant issue that's impor-tant 10 the function of the or-ganization. I don't. necessarily agree programs should be used for community involve-ment."

    MORE JACL REGIONAL. OFFICES,

    STAFF ENDORSED BY NArL BOARD

    Candidates for Miss Nisei Week have been tbe fewest in Veal'S at seven. A week-long staple of past Nisei Weeks-the ~I't show-has been dropped. Evening programs at Union Church throughout the week have been added. The Nagoya doll exhibit Aug. 18-22 at the new Hongwanji is a special feature.

    T H UR UAY. AUGUST 12 Relating it to JACL, Uno 6:30 p.m.-Mlkoshf Dedication ........................... 352 E. l!il St said uWe must take a close 7:30 p.m.-Nisei Week Chorus ................ . ......... Koyasan Hall look' at what we are doing.'

    FRIDAY, AUGUST J3 Funding ill JACL is similarly 8·10 :30 p.m.-Issei Night (Kansuma Troupe Dances) . . .. Koyasan }fall being affected. "We have to

    9 9.rn.-Baby Show .. ~~.~~~~~.::. ~.~~~~~ .. 1.t.Little Tokyo Theater figure out how much we make, 1 p.m.-Kempa. Aikido, Karate (All Arneriean.,l .. .... .. ..Koyasan Halt how much we've got, where

    ~ : fo~ · ; . ~:,~~;J~~R~:~~ 'Out ':::::: ~::::: .. : :~.e.v~~ ~~ .. '0!~~reCh~~~~! ~~t ~~n:~~s fho;n~~~td r~~~~ SATURDAY-SUNDAY. AUGUST 14-15 from it"-as if be were bor-

    12n~8 p.m.-Goh Tourna~~e~~~'y;'AUGusT'i5 .. Sun Bldg .. Rm. 306 rowing some lines National 5:30 a.m.-5CNGA Goll Touranment ......... Montebello country Clu.b Treasurer Al Halate had said 12n-SCN Women's Golf Tournament .... .... . Alondra GoU Course earlier. 11:30·5 p.m.-Akita Dog Exhibition ... ..... N.. San PedroKParking RLAti 'Vho's Dom, the Work t~ig ~ :~: =~~d~h~~td~teT~~ii~'S~~i~·::::::::.:::: ~ iiomJ)a°1:~~"a:jf 7:30 p.m.-JACS· Asfan 10\·01\·ement...... .. . .... Union Church Delivering his 1'emarks with

    I\IONDAl'. AUGUST 15 machine-gun staccato, Uno I'e. 9:30.11:30 a.tn.-Openlng Ceremonies . ", ... ..•... . -... CIlY Hall peated an observation he !t~s t1~mp:;~~:~~;:~1~~p~f:il~'[~~~. rt;·::::.:::: ::::::: ~i'~~~~~~n made in his b'avels and VlSI-

    TUESDAY, AUGUST 17 lations oi ebapters around the p' L) Kawatuku c:ountrv: "We h ave 5 per cent

    Takeshl Kubala, PNWDC governor, a JACLer of the Biennium, said he has coun-seled his chapter presidents on the value of diversified pro-grams, noting there are many who join J ACL because of goll, bowling, etc., " but we hope to involve them in other programs"

    In the Pacific NOlthwest, Kubota noled the aide,. Nisei are starting to become more involved in JACL with re-

    Conttnued ou Par. 3

    1971 budget light

    but allow $5,000 ~~ro~ ~~~~~a:annce~~o'}.o·puiar·~1uslc··irii··. ·.·.:: ::::: ·. k~yasan Hall or less' ot our membership do-7:30 p.m.-Yellow Brotherhood ........... ,., .....•.. Uwon Church ing 95 per cent ot the work. f Issei' film

    WED ~"ES D AY , AUGUST 1& he othel' 95 per cent of tbe or ;;~ ~:~~~;~~$~e:gl~ ~~t,g .. ~~;~~~t .. ::c;. ··:~·::::: ~gl~sa~~ em.bel:&hip is only dOing 5

    WEDNESDAY-SUNDAY. AUGUST 18-2-1 per cent or less of the organ-1-9 p.m.-Nagoya Doll ExhIbit ... .. .. "' " ...... Hompa Hon" ... anjl ization's work. This I seems

    THURSDAY, AUGUST 19 true in tbe chapters and dis-7 p.m.-Mjnyo: Japanese Folk Mustc ................ .... Koyasan Hall mct COUDCUS." 10 p.m.~ 1 2m,-Church F~~~~~~: !~~~~;t2 " ....... .. Umon Church Uno further observed that 7:30·9:30 p.m.-5hlgin Taikal ................. Nishl Honl;'wallji (Old) the same people are involved,

    ~;~g~:'O~.~ . !rg;p~aJ;~~0!~~1~ Youti,':' React; ·()~i::: ::.' un~:J'a~~r ~ ~;:~ bi~:e~e:;ta;~~gt~ ~~ 1 p.rn.-Bankei. ~~~~:TS~~:~:i~th~y~~.~~ . . ~O~t~rdg .. Rm. 302.303 the older group. The younger 1 p.m.-PhoW Exhibil ............................... Zenshujt Temple people beg off becaute they 1 p.m.-5enior Citizen Art Exillbit ... .... .. SWl Bldg. Pioneer Center claim the programs are not

    S \T URDA'\: AUGUST ? ) relevant or there is nothing in 12:30·3 p.m.-Kempo; 6.\0 p.m. Karate (So. -CallI,) ... Koyasan HaU JACL for them. 6-9 p.m.-Ondo ~:~~~~A~;:SU · NDA · V:· · AU(ius·T .. 2;~:!2· \Veuer Street Where some changes in 1 p.m.-Artistic 0011 Crafts. Bonsai. E-Sarasa ..... . Zenshujj Temple direction have been effected.

    ~ ~ :~: ~~~~llg~~ , ~~k Cam ·i ~.a·l ··. ·.·.·.· .. · .. ·.·.\V·eller St~~~~~tyB~~~k1:-~ca r!~ ~'~~e~~~:ge{o pt~~ l e 2\l!3~ '::: l ~:~:=r,~~~~,11~!~~~~'n61,~l·B~~~h c~:~~;n~.: :.:.:_. ':: H~fg~ g~~~~ group) pick up the ga~tlet 1 p.m.-Japanese Sword Exhibit ..... . ........ l\tent Savings & Loan but it's only "for a little 1 p.m.-Roketsu Zome (Batik) . . . ...... . .. 1016 Weller St. while" for they see little op-

    SU!fnA l:. AUGUST 22 pOl'tunity to better themselves ~2~ · ~ · p~;l:=J~~~~s ~~~~~~~~t ·· . ·.· .:· .· . ·.·.·.·.·.·.· . :·.·.·.·:.~.~.~~~sa ~°¥iaCU within JACL. So the chapter 5:30-8 p.m.-NIsei Week Parade .......... . ........... .. . Little Tokyo relies on its veteran stalwarts

    A CANADIAN VIEW

    LOS ANGELES-In his open-ing statement before the in-terim National JACL Board and StalT meeting here July 23-25. national treasurer Al Hatate said the 1971 financJaI picture was gloomy and ex-pected another deficit. It was $16,000 last year.

    That all but Ioreclosed fundlng of any special proj-ects that might be p,.esenled even though the National Board sessions jn preVlous vean have anthorized special iunds, it was recalled.

    Yet, the merit 01 the Vis-ual Communications Commit tee's special budget request for $5,000 prevailed and the National Treasure,. and Na· tional Director Mas Satow were directed by the board to grant the funds "someho\~". The decision was not easily

    LOS ANGELES - Sentiment for more J A CL regional stalf and offices was strong among National JACL board mem-bers meeting here July 23-25 as it urged District Coun-cils draft detailed propOsals tor submission at the next na .. tional convention.

    The Northern Calilornla-Western Nevada JACL Dis-triel Council bas long sought the services ot a regional di-rector, who pr e v i 0 u.s I y doubled as assistant nallonal director. a position untilled for several years. The board has Tecommended the $8.400-10,-210 position be restored in the next budget.

    The Midwest Dist,;ct Coun-cil had requested S10,000 at the last national convention to hire a fuD-time regional director headquartered at Chi-cago, but this was rejecled by the Council. The MDC IS ex-pected to reintrodUce tbis re-quest.

    Since tbcn proposals for JACL stafT in other districts, such as the Pacific Northw

  • 2-PACIFIC CITIIIN FrIday, August 6, 1971

    Washington Newsletter

    David Ushio

    For the Fulure: Visual Communications

    Manzanar what it was like then and what's left now. Bob Nakam~ra has created a poignant film that tells us visually and emotionally what concentration camps are all about. I saw Bob's film "Manzanar" for the first time recently in Los Angeles. ~e has . don~ a magnificent job in putting together this senslhve film that recreates a piece of our history. 1 found myself living the agony of being rounded up and incarcerated in desolate camps. r could feel the despondency and futility of those who suffered the indignities of evac· uation.

    Ron Hirano, JACL Education Commissio~ head, tells us that the multimedia approach to learrung has a lasting effect; that the textbook, even if written in an acceptable manner, does not have the impact that visual communication has in educating the individual.

    My experience in viewing Bob's film definitely makes me a strong advocate for the continued support of JACL for projects such as visual c?mmunciati?ns. I have read most of the books concermng evacuatton; I have talked to many of the Nisei who were involved in the decision making; working lvith Mike Masaoka has given me some personal insights into Evacuation that very few people has knowledge of as Mike has shared with me on numerous occasions many historical anecdotes that are not readily available to read.

    But, even lvith what I consider to be a pretty good knowledge of the history, for one who did not ex· perience Evacuation, my empathy and intellectual re-sponse to Evacuation did not fully give me a feel for the situation. You can learn just so much from books; you can learn so much from firsthand conversation with those who went through the experience. But, the impact of Bob's film on me gave me an added dimen· sion to what I have tried to empathize and study. It was an emotional experience that nailed down the despair and injustice that our people suffered to my personal consciousness as if I were there and it were happening to me.

    Hank Tanaka, our National President-elect, relates that the film was successfully used in Cleveland to illustrate the need to repeal repressive legislation. Response was most favorable as people internalized the injustice of Evacuation and made the commitment to eliminate future possibilities for such mistakes. "Manzanar" is indeed an award'lv!nning film created by a talented young man.

    • • • Bob tells us that he is working on a new film about

    the Issei. If the Issei film is as sensitive as his ''1I'1an· zruur" it will be a lasting contribution to our heritage. Issei to me represent a living symbol of love. A group of courageous men and women who braved the un· known to carve out a helitage for their posterity. It's a gratifying experience for me to talk to the Issei and to explore their reservoir of history and knowledge.

    A great service 1V0uid be performed for the future if Bob can capture on film the beauty and the vibrant heritage that the Issei portray.

    I visited the Pioneer Center in Los Angeles last week and talked to some of tlie ISsei that congregate there. To me the light that shines from their eyes when they talk to me of their life, their struggles, and their home in Japan is inspiring. When they find out that r have visited their hometown the joy exhibited on their faces is indescribable. To capture it on film for the Yonsei and Gosei of the future is essential.

    My own lvish would be to have my own Obachan's smile recorded for posterity. The concern in her eyes when she asks how my wife feels now that she is four and one·half months pre~nant. The longing Obachan exhibits to be closer to Washington, D.C. so that she can help take care of her first great·grandchild. The laughter she suppresses so "Nihon·teki like" when she presents me \vith my favorite Japanese food when I visit Salt Lake City. All these expressions so uniquely Japanese need to be saved; my children ,vill not be so privileged to know what it's like to have an Issei Obachan. A beautiful film can be a reminder for my children.

    • • • If a firm maker such as Bob Nakamura can save

    even in part a glimpse of what Issei are like, the future g.e~er.ations of Japanese Americans will be the bene-fiCianes.

    We are told that funds are scarce to help produce such filmed records These are types of projects that have everlasting value. Districts and chapters would be greatly rewarded if they would look into the Visual Communication Committee's work and to make the commitment to insure its existence.

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    NEWS CAPSULES

    people, as ot mid-June, with L __________ .. another $2,800 due to meet Its goal. according to Tak Ku· bota, Nisei division chalrman Nisei Week

    of the fund. The 1971 Nisel Week BabJ' The funds will underwrite Sbow will be heid at the Sho

    the EngUsh translation and Tokyo Theater on Saturday, publication ot the 100'year Aug. 14, from 9 to 1l:30 a.m., history of Issei In the Paci- rshl f Hlg I fie Northwest (including Bri- under sponso . P 0 0 Kai Japanese CUltural Club tlsh Columbia), authored and at 'CaJJlornia State College, ~~r~y Kazuo Ito ot the Los Angeles. Contestants will

    Persons donating $15 to be judged in the foliowlng

    "Hokubei Hyakunen Zakura", cai::~o~~~r Se.-e to 18 mouths 1414 S. Weller St., SeatUe old : Tiny Tol&-18 mouth. to 3 98144 h a v e been assured a years old: and The S"'ingel'$-3 transl'ated copy. i:~[; ~UI~ t~': :~c; :~ri~D~'tio

    J. of Japanele ancestry.

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    at the Nisei Week office, 125 Weller St., Sun Bldg., Rm. 202. Entry deadline bas been

    Continued from Front Pa,e extended to Aug. 10. Tbe en.

    tering Into consideration ot international issues ot rele-vance to the JACL member-ship.

    try fee Is $3 per child. accord· ing to Paul Su~uki (737-2084).

    Students of Mrs. Kel T. Ka· mllanl. wbo has been teach· ing the exotic and tlme·con-sumlng dye art, E·Sarasa Diane Ogimachi, 1971 (Batik), in Los Angeles will Miss Teen of Crenshaw Sq. exhibit tileir pieces during NI-sei Week, Aug. 21-22, at Zen-shujl Temple. The art. began some 50 years ago under Mas- Academy A war d winner ter Midorl Motol. George Kennedy. The series

    Awards CII_ • .r.,U..... "~ . .n-JIqIIsh -*br dn~=~sta~ti~~ wutkly ..... ' ... U ~~~~~ celved the Order of the RIa- LOS ANGELIS A Jara ;;\ .. I!-_ Uno. will fold with the inI Sun, 5th C1asa, from the "R.LP" bordere4 b; black ~. Aq. 17, Issue. .ecanl-Japaneoe government In re- the ~t pale 01 Ita .... ~ inliam to EdItor Publ1sher Ww. cognition of his w 0 r k with JuI,y 30 Iawi, • ~.~. BIroIo.. blind Japaneoe children. He Imminent deD~ tbe HIroto will be JoInInc the founded In IDeO while In the roads the Loa AnaeIa 9:l:i ~~ Restaurant CJl'I8DiA-milltary service In Japan, an : r _ _ _ ' elided b, Km Ish1aaJd. 0trganJzdatil anal tto gatther tun

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    or me c: rea men 0 - - --slghtiess younpten.

    Courtroom

    Tbe trial ot J 0 h n LInley Frazier on the charges of kill-tng Santa Cruz eye pbyslclan Dr. Victor Ohio, his wlte, two sons and secretary last Octo-ber 9 haa been sbifted to the adjacent San Mateo County with Santa Cruz Superior Court Judge Charies Franlch on the bench. The state su-preme court last month order-ed a change in venue. Fra-zier has pleaded Innocent by re&JOn of insanity.

    Sports

    East L.A. JACL board mem-ber Min YoshIzakJ Is back In form, firing an 8-under par 62 over the Mesa Linda course at the Japanese·owned Costa Mesa Country Club In a prac· tice round to sharpen for the August tournaments. A l-han-dlcapper who underwent ma-jor abdominal surgery a year ago, he toured the front nine In sub·par 32 and the back In sub·par 30. He birdied eight boles.

    Wilshire Agency

    Members Earn Top

    Co~pany Honors Th,ee members of CaI.We.tem life's Wi''''I,. Agency

    have coptu,ed top honors In competition with In other ,epresentatlve, of CaI.West.m's field force.

    Bill T. Yamashiro once tgaln N. qu.lifled for member. ship in CaI·Westem's elite 'resident', Council by produc. ing over one million dollars ~ new life insurance during the yea,. Yamashiro i •• Iso being honored .s second vic .. chairman of the Council.

    Certalnly when Rep. Matsu· naga, Mink and Sen. Inouye have not Ialled to take steps toward the immediate seW.,. ment ot our involvement in Vietnam, when it is evident that growtng numbers ot Ja-panese Americans are active-ly involved in antl·war acti-\'i ties-the silence on the part ot the National Board is n~ table and deserving of more than critical scrutiny.

    The committee recognized that America's entrance Into the Internal aftalrs ot Viet-nam and other Indochinese nations may bave been griev-ous mistakes, but can by no means been seen to be ac-cidental. T be United States supported, bot h politically and financially, the colo.nial policy ot France in Indochina. After the final deleat ot French colonial rule at the battle of Dien Bien Phu, the United States \vil!uUy chose to dlsregard the 1954 Geneva Accords which would have provided for a peacelul reo unification ot Vietnam and proceeded to h e I p bring to power and to maintain a suc· cession ot corrupt and r .... pressive governments in Sai-gon under the guise of pro-tecting the rights of the Vi-etnamese people.

    American Nippon Kenpo will be seen on Tuesdays on will demonstrate their martial the NBC·TV network. The art at Koyasan on Saturday. Hawaiian. b 0 r n weightillter Aug. 14, I p.m., with Go k I won a silver medallion in the Klnuya, 7th dan master and 1948 Helsinki Olympics went r-----------.. fo~nder of Kenpo In the U.S., i n to professional wr~stling expect.ed ~o be present ,trom with the name of Great Togo Japan. ~.ppon Kenpo was and quit the grunt & groan founded m 1928 ... The Shoo exhibits for the nigbtclub cir-dnli Kempo demonstrations cuit and acttng.

    Tats Kushlda and M.ck Mlyaukl, by maint.ining I high level of sales ability and .. rvic., have gained mtmbetslilp in the exclusive EI Capitan Club.

    The United States has con-sciously \vithheld vital inIor-matlon from the American public which would have dl ... closed the hypocrisy ot our Indochina policy. As yet the public Is 0 n I y beginning to learn ot tbe full horror Amer-ican military involvement has wrought upon the Vietnamese people and their land.

    U.S. involvement in Indo· china is only one of the more recent episodes in a quest tor economic domination and strategic control in Asia which may be see n to go back to the last hal! ot the nineteenth century.

    The war has piaced tremen-dous strains on the internal aftairs ot our nation. Public trust in the government has been undermined to the point wbere there is increasingly less confidence in the ability ot the government to r u I e responsibly and sanely. Mili-tary expenditures have divert-ed funds from many urgent domestic probl=s confront.-ing our society.

    Thus the very unity or mi-nimal cohesiveness ot our so-ciety more embroiled in the senseless venture.

    • •

    are slated Aug. 21, 2 p.m., at Koyasan Hall \vith the Rev. Alfred Tsuyuki as narrator. Sister Cities

    Four Los Angeles high Redevelopment school students lett July 31 on

    Demolition ot two buildings a lwo·week goodwill visit to 0)'1 E. 2nd St. In the Lit- Nagoya, as parl ol the an-tie Tokyo Redevelopment Pro- nual student exchange pro-iect First Action Are a has gram, .t was ~nounced by been delayed pending agree- Tad Ikemoto, cbaum~ ot the ments between the Communi- L.A.-Nagoya SIster C.ty Com-ty Redevelopment Agency and mlttee. Last year, f 0 u r stu-the local office of the Dept. dents i!om Nagoya spent two oI Housing and Urban Deve- weeks m Los Angeles.

    lopment, according to KaD«O M'I' KunltsulrU, project director. I Itary

    All properties tn the First Ac· Lt. Col Toshlo NakanJ.hi tion Area have been acquJr- . . . ' ed or are in escrow, he add- ~::; ~~n:s:~s~~~t ri~le~: 1"':::: ed. guage Institute, Presidio of

    Business

    Barley Kusumoto, general manager ot Holiday-Stardust Bowl In West Covina the past Bowl in West Covina for five years and eight years with tbe Los Angeles, has resigned. Fu· ture plans were not revealed. J.J. Kanega. is succeeding Kusumoto at Holiday-Star-dust.

    Taul Watanabe terminated his consultant role with the Port of SeatUe Aug. I to be closer to his business opera·

    Monterey, has retired alter 28 years ot active duty in mili-tary intelligence. The Hawall. an-born Nisei and his wife will continue to reside in Monterey. They have two sons, Calvin (tn Vietnam) and Gregory (studenl at San Fran-c sco State) . He is author ot "The Compilation ot Precise Terminology and Organiza-tional Names" listing Japa-nese social, political and eco-nomic institutioM.

    Crime tlons In the Pacific Northwest. K During his 30.month assocla- Idnap suspect ~bert Lew,

    tlon, be negotiated agreemen~ ~Im~:U sl':,n t!r:li:o'J:m;f \vith several. Japanese firms to 1\ccompanied by hi. atttrney: designate SeaWe as port of He was sought as a prime entry. Datsun, Honda motor- suspect In tbe Jul 16 h Id-cycle and Mazda cars are now ki i Y 0 unloaded bere for shipment up dnapp .ng o~ Alan Maye· e83t. da, Daly C.t.y hi-fi & stereo

    Entertainment

    shopkeeper. Mayeda said he was heid up by two Orient-als, held as bostage for the gelaway while police sur-rounded the shop at 180~ Ju-nipero Serra Blvd.

    Local Scene

    Los Aneeles

    The J a pan e I e American Junior Cbamber, sponsors for the 31st Annual Nisei Week Talent Show, is seeking par-ticipants for the Nisei Week Talent Show to be held Aug. 21 at Koyasan Hall. Interest-ed parties may call 629-2576 or 389-9543 eve.

    A group from Japan called "The Young Japans" will be highlighted.

    The Gardena Friends ot Rl-cbard (FOR) athletic program has added junior gol! for youth 18 & under during the swnmer at Victoria Gol! Club. A tournament Aug. 16 In co· operation with the So. Calit. Nisei Golt Assn. i. slated at Los Verdes with Randy Joe (321-0785) as chairman.

    A party of 20 Japanese, headed by Bess Higuchi, will attend the Santa Monica Civ-ic Aud cat show Sept. 4-5. She io a Nisei working with the U.S. government In Ja-pan. The show Is the second largest in the U.S.

    New York

    Whlie the muslo & lyrics ol Joanne Miyamoto. Chris liji-man and Charlie Chin of New York comprise the core ot the Amerasia Song & Poetry Pro-ject, the Basement Workshop, 54 Elizabeth St., NYC 10013, is coliectlng additional material -poetry, artwork, photos-for a bookiet to stimulate the cr .... afive consciousness of other young Asians.

    Best remembered for his role ot Odd Job in the James Bond tIIm, "Goldfinger', Ha· rold Sakata will continue to play the role ot Kenjl Taki-chi, the Buddhist cook in a Catholic parish house in a new TV series, "Sarge", starring

    DO·IT-YOURSELF PLAYGROUND

    Tokyo's Tire Park Most Imaginative

    BILL T. YAMASHIRO President's Council

    TATS KUSHloA, C.L.U. EI Capitan Club

    MACK MIYAZAKI EI Capitan Club

    Mr. Kushida and Mr. Mlyaukl, .Iong with their wives, this week are .t the Del Monte Lodge in Pebble Beach, attending a special conference of the EI Capitan Club .s guests of Cal·Westem. Mr. Yamashi,o and his wlf. will be honored guests at II conference of the President'. Council to be held August 22-25 at the Chateau Frontenac In Quebec City, Quebec.

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    Recognizing these points, the International A f fa irs Committee requests that the National Board take imm.,. dlate steps toward the adop-tion and communication of the toliowing points:

    D.C. JACLER SELECTED

    CONGRESSIONAL 'FELLOW' TOKYO-"Tire park In Ota ward, Tokyo is most lmagtna. tlve playground in the world," declared two American tree lance journalists, now travel· ing throughout the nation to make an on-the·spot survey of children's playgrounds.

    made playgrounds. We pro-- -... t_'''''~.'''_'_4''''~.'''_'_''7~'''_'_''C ~t .... __ ,, ___ ~ ...... pose to make cheap, economic ' -- ~ V$

    I-The JACL press tor the deadline date ot December 31, 1971 by which all American troops and war materials must be \vithdrawn from In· dochina .

    2 - American total with· drawal is the first precondl-tion which would aliow the Vietnamese people to deter-mine their own political des-tiny.

    3-Contlnued political and BConomic support of the Sal-gon government must also be \vithdrawn.

    WASHINGTON-Cherry Tsu. tsum1da, with the Dept. ot Health, Education and Wel-fare and an active JACLer here was among 25 tederal empioyees, eight journalists and eight political scientists selected as Fellows for the 1971-72 Congressional Opera-tions Program, administered by the Civil Service Commis-sion and American Poli tical Science Assn.

    Onetime Arizona Nisei Is also publicity director for the 1972 national JACL conven-tion here.

    Program aims to give prom-Ising young federal execu-tives, writers and student-teachers a thorougb under-standing ot congressional op-errations.

    Paul Hogan, 43. writer, and crohn M. Hyk, Jr., 22, free lance photographer, arrived bere in April to make their survey.

    The park's faciliUes are mainly made up of used tire •. Hyk filmed the whole aspeet on 16mm. color to show at the convention ot the Inter. national Recreation Assn. to be held in Geneva from May 28 througb June 3.

    They are now on a round-the-world trip to write a book about "d~lt·yourself" play-grounds under the sponsor. ship ot J . B. Llppencott, a Philadelphia publisher.

    playgrounds using waste ma-terials from ·industries and governments."

    He stressed that a play-ground of this type can re-cycle the waste materials so that they may not cause en-vironmental pollution, the critical problems now men· acing human beings.

    Hogan and Hyk insisled that children are a silent majority without an effective lobby in Washington.

    "To liberate those children trom the value system ot the adults, d~it-yoursel! play. grounds will give them a spirit ot Independence from establishment. Paul Is our technical adviser for this," Hyk noted.

    Int CHEVROLET Flett Price to All

    4-Inasmuch as the human misery ot the countiess num· bers ot Vietnamese kilied, wounded, displaced resultant from the war, the destruction ot Vieinam's ecology through the massive sustained uses ot biological and c hem I c a I agents, the disruption ot the culture and sovereignty of Vietnam are ali dlrect conse-quences ot American policy; the United States should as-sume the responsibility ot equitable reparations to the Vietnamese people, such r.,. parations to be enacted upon the settlement by the Vletna· mese people, of tl)eir Iladon-at situation.

    "Most playgrounds tn the Aok Fo,

    Pioneer Fresno couple United Slates." Hogan said, FRiD MIYATA "are not imaginative, just liresome monuments of tbe Hansen Chevrolet

    mark 75th wedding fete architect.. 1IU1 W.Oly ... lclt.d. WHtLA. uChildren are apathetic 479",,"11 Rn. 12'·9101

    • (The Midwest and Pacl11e

    Southwest JACL d I. t ric t councils and the Northern CaJJlornia·Western N e v a d a district youth councll have publicly Is. u e d statements against U.S. involvement in Vietnam Ia.t year. Chapters \\~shlng to m a k e simlIar statements are urged to com· municate througb the Paci-fic Cltizen.-Ed.)

    FRESNO-~ . and Mrs. Yo- aa~bo~u~t.~PI~ay~in~g~in~SU~cll~~re:a:d~y~-~;:;;:;;:;;:;;;;;;;:;~ shisaburo Okuda celebrated \,.#1 ::w:n:. their 75th wedding anniver. sary July 25 here at the Del Webb Townehouse. The pi~ neer Issei couple hail fro m Hiroshima, were marrIed in 1896, and came to the U.S. in 1899, settling in the Fre' no-Bowles area where the) fanned ever since.

    Pruent at the party were 90 triends and relative., in· eluding two children, 11m. Tomiko Ishikawa, Mrs. Aya-ko Okamura; five grandchll. dren. Bob Ishikawa, Gail Ishikawa, Mrs. Joyce Kuhooe, Ray Okamura, Tom Okamura ; and nine great grandchildren.

    Congratulations were ex· tended from President Nixon. Gov. Reagan, the California Slate Senate and the City ot Fresno.

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    Frying Pan

    ...... RJ:PL~1'NIIdI lI'rIday, Augut 8, 1971 PACIFIC "171_~

    'Involvement' key to JACL future rr~~~ -MAN-U-EL-IC,-IN-ADO-M-I ----LuptoD. Mile W. San iAilo Vol-

    Contlnned from Front Pare ~=aJ~~ici~e1ft,~ at ~eI!a~~e:~~~ 1e7. New VorL Confirmed as Harbor Commissioner spontrlbllitiea tor rearing their were able to better contribute. 23-25. ordered the suggested JACL Endowment Fund children having dImlnlshed. first-timers on the other chapter guidelinea tor uoe ot alleta at $402,000 LOS .. ...... He expecled the younger peo- hand telt baffled by the Endowment Fund principal be ...... Sl.BS-MQar Sam Be also is • membar cd: pie would tollow in a tew agenda and nature 01 discus- circulated to chaptera for re- FRESNO-The NaUonal JA- ~~ad~ll~ Muluel m~m~':.t ~n: J!II!: years. slon. New DYC chalnnen consideration a It e r recom- C~ Endowment Fund Com- we -... OWD Ja- YlIICA. K_ ~,

    Jeffrey Matsui, associate 08- should read up on the prevl- mendatlons trom the Endow- nuttee chairman Dr. Georp paneae bo~esa- COmmORe of X- ~ ~ tlonal dlrector, reiterated hU ous year's convenUon mln- ment Fund are submltted and Miyake has reported a drop : W

    J - 1ast = =~:...r""'&.""C ....

    Denver, Colo. phl!osophy on the JACL role. utes, one old-Urner suggested, approved by the National in the current assels of the eoun.J uI7 2~ the City AnpI ... MonteboDo, aDd ~ 'WIth youth, JA~ should to clear up what mlght appear Board. lund since the prevtous reo U • of the bra. AN ELDERLY ISSEI LADY IS SPEAKING: I went enco~~e them Into. com- as mysterious background. The initial ta1Jy follow,: port made to the 1970 COIlven- ~~ of Harbor Ccm- He Ia married. father of ..

    to visit relatives in California recently. They live in muruty Involvement. With the National treasurer Al Ha- APPROVAL (68)-COlwnbla Ba- tion. children and Uvea wltll JIll f J f iii· ~ I was community, JACL's role Is late spelled out his job In lin, Gruham.l\'Nuldale. Mld-Co- As or June 30, 1971, the Jnadoml eua the vacanC7 famlly at 2890 La8d4III a community 0 many apanese am es an servtce and not necossarlly commenting to one youth ~blll, Puyallup ValleKi P0':tland. JACL fund net auels were created b:r the nalpalloo of Drive, Los Angela

    amazed to learn how rigidly they cling to old apanese assumlng the spokesman role chairman who declared JACL At!:nU:cia. S~~:y, ~n~ Co~: valued at $402,395.75 u com- !'red L Wilda. for the term customs of social obligation. Af~er. I arrived, .maJ.lY, for the group tn the commu- has a hang-up with deficit Ed." TOWnah!'lI florin. Fremont. pared with $471,848.78 .. of ~din8 June 30, 1875. "The TroJan aut. Idckoff many neighbors came to call, brmgmg me d~licacles nJty." spending JACL funds come ~Y' M~ Ie. ~ontertr.-p~- Mar. 31,1970. The record high City Ia fortuna. to have • like home·grown fruits and vegetables, fresh fish they Matsui also believed the trom me~bershlp, Hatate said, Reno~' Oa and. Peer oun, ot $601,931.04 was reafstered man of Mr, Inadoml'. c.liber luncheons schecluW

    k d Thi more staff JACL has the and the budget is voted upon Sacramento. Sallnu Valle •• SAn Mar. 31, 1969. .. hi. IU_ 011 the Board had caught, or something they had coo e. s was more area JACL can ~over b th N tlo al Counell Benllo. San Francisco. San Jose. of H. r b 0 r CommIaionen," LOS ANGELES B!l! very thoughtful, but they brought much more than I Yet much of the acllvities;'; YRon

    e Hi;an~ education' com- ~~IyMaI'lflOck~~ .UOI~a~n~e~ Bank of Tokyo (Calif.) aaid Yoorty, football coach ~

    and the relatives I was staying with could consume. other districts Is voluntarily mlttee directOr also attend- Fowler: Fresno. Selma. Tulare Inadoml, ham in Japan, Ia atana hIa annual 111-.. And when it was time for me to go home, I had to conducted, Hlrasuna remtnd· ing his first board session, ~.l\"J." 8~~':'~~d-;';'?'Wc:~ rank lumps 24 places :en na~ ~er\c:an dU- tour of Trojan Club IdcWd

    Call on each of these families to express my thanks ed. suggested more Involvement wood. Imperial Valley, Long 1 al J .. Amerlac:t1ve in lunche

  • 4-PACIFIC CITIZEN FrIday, August 6, 1971

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    A Look at Ihe Ark

    Oakland It wao I h. Sunday alter

    Presldent Nixon announeed his plans 10 visil the Peo-ple's Repubbc 01 China. Tbe Nationalist Chinese on Tai-wan felt lett oul and nervous. 1 wenl thai Sunday to visit the First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley where many As· fan s are known to attend.

    I arrived lale and discov-"red the preacher announcing ~ group which regularly met to pray tor the Nationalist Chinese. "They'U probably pray for Genel'a1issimo Chi· anes successful invasion ot the mainland a nd eventual return to power," I thought,

    Budgel-Continued from Frollt Pa,e

    logwng pictures in the pos-""ssion of the JACL-UCLA Japanese American Research P rojec t and has prepared vis-ual materials on Asian Amer-icans for the Pasadena Uni-fied Schools.

    but qulckly add.d a "ery pro-per bit or piety: "Lay otf, you're being too cynical. Give. this p1ace a chance." My gen-erosity iasted 10 seconds.

    I Doticed t h " choir robes: Red, White and Blu.! It brought to mind those Un.,. ot their fellow Presbyterian, tbe Rev. Dr. Roberl McAtee Brown, Professor ot Religion at Stanford: "The Church is like Noah's Ark. If it wasn't lor the storm outside, they couldn't hal'. stood the stench inside." .

    Luckily these stormy day. days have changed the Ark, somewhat. Battles wit h j n have broken windows; the re-sulting ventilation has dimi· nisbed the stal. odor ot sanc-tity. Salvos from without have struck ber hulI, oniy to drop the impending barnacles. The Ark smells belter and look.. the sleeker. Two incidences for evidence.

    PULSE ON T HE CHAPTERS:

    'Walking History' relating experience

    of Asians in U.S. has mixed raves Th. "Walking Blstod ....

    presented by the Bay Area C omm unl~ J ACL wa. an un-C!'A.-pected and unique cxperi-tmce for the general public at the Oakland Museum Asian American Festival on July 17-

    Civic Affa irs

    18. Most found it educational, but some became upset. (Pho-to in PC, July 30.)

    HI didn't know .. ,", "( didn' t realize . . . ", were heard often as whites and blacks read the his tor i e s which were printed on poster boards being carried on the backs ot JACLers. Many were surprised to see such a "dem-onstration" by Asian Amer-icans,

    Favol'able comments came from school leach",'s who said they often wondered how the Asians came to CaJitornia, and how they could include the contributions of a II mino-rities into the school curri-culum. Others {elt lhe docu-mentation on "Legal Racism" was very revealing and helped them understand the deep rooted pI'ej udice that exists in California.

    OgnlWlg neIghborhood and community groups as v..bicles for expression of citizen opi-rtion and to be r"layed to an governmental agencies; (6) and relieving the city council trom hearing appeals on lJ-cense applications, zoning va-riances, etc.

    The chapter also approved pW'chase 01 the Dr. Kitano f\lmstrip and record ($29) lor its offiCI! l ibrary.

    Om~ha JACL cO-lponso .. 'Any town Nebraska'

    Four Omaba JAOL sponsor-ed teenagers participated in the first UAnytown, Nebras-ka" pl"ogl'am J une 6·12 at Mt. Michael High School near Elkhorn. They were Mark and Joan Tsuji, Sharon Ishii and Curtis Kawamoto. Serving on the steering committee was Mrs. G. L. Mardesen, JACL board member.

    U·NO BAR Conllnn. d fro.. Par.

    and take affair aud many times it i. not a llIty-flfty ratio. I have p ut my chin out and had it IlteraUy torn off • number ot times Iln • ftauraUve lense) to tTY to prove I wu really l.incere when J extended my offer to compromise and aomeUme., Uu,t is what 1t takes

    :rJi~~ "o~'~~O~:I~·:'~d. faJ'd; or no faith

    SometimeA people mtstak. the

    ~~kn~ .. CO~ll::~ tharn:: .~~ would we ~ be U none of us were wiUlnl' to compromise. te-lalldJe.as ot the attthide and eJC· ample ot OUT opponents? Drlvln, • hard barlain and drlvlng no bargain are two dlfterent thin,. It was and 1.5 my feel1nr that our

    ~~~U~~Uli: ~!' a~~~~o:a~~ ~er;:;~:!op~ •. ~fi~o~~ ' t ~~~ a~~n~::t ~~~~~~~~s a;:t. b~~~ one member who was right or nearly right aU ot: the llme; but

    !v~~O~? h~ O ~onWa!~'r'rt B ~~m i certainly am not about to Il!.t lelt ~

    ~~~t~~:.. P:!l~k~~e thse: o rif ~ t Damoclell (leady to

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    THE HEATHEN CBJNEE:. A 81nt17 of Amerlcaa Attl- • Blllp)011DUlI ludea toward ChIna, 1890-1905. bJ' Bobert MaCleUaa. Ollie '1_ ~ioJNnl AIItIO Stale Unlv.rsIlJ' Pre., 21% PP •• ,10. JoII Inquirlls W .... tIlI

    H.n"aii Today Honolulu

    The 50th State Fair Is scheduled from Aug. 26 to Sept. 6. It will be sponsored by the Honolulu Jaycees and the HawaII Bureau Federa-tion. Tentative arrangements with comedIan Jerry Lewis have been made for his ap-pearance at the fair.

    Rep. park lIlat&unara has announced thaI Hawaii has been awarded a $100.000 fed-eral grant tor the restoration of IolanI Palace. He said the junds were made avallable under the historic preserva-tion grant program of the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development.

    re::~teJ~ee~~, ' eoJ::r~~~edp~~~ to carve a third cros.s·the-island highway throUlh ~loanalua Val· ley. ConservaUonlsts have charged

    ~:~ th~1 h'f~:·a;,.~r:~~d ~~~ .nes. Public oppo51tlon to the road has Lmpresnd the U.S. Gov .. comment to go slow on the proJ-es ereated for the Chinese set the mold for stereotypes and discrimlnatlon that would be directed towards the later Ja-panese inunJgrants. AmerIcan attitudes toward the Japanese I immigrants, however. we r e rendered more vir u I en t through tear of Japan as a military power.

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    • • 'THE BUDGET'S TIGHT'

    It must have been nearly 20 years ago (when we first came on to edit the PC) that the wO'i:d-uparsimon-ious"-was often used by National Director Mas dur-ing brief remarks at installation dinners and in cor-respondence to the chapters .. It .(the word) has stuck in our minds as well as the mCldent because of one chapter president who confessed having ~o look up the word in the dictionary in his installation accept-ance speech.

    owadays, it's the National Treasur~r AI choru~ing with National Director Mas a more strIdent cry- the budget's tight". And noting the $16.000 deficit of last year and prospects for the same this coming year, plus the JACL Reserve Fund down to record low with-in the past decade, the era has come for J ACL to as· sess its fiscal operations more closely.

    National President Ray said it urunincingly at the last National Board meetmg. " We must take a close look at what we are doing ... We have to figure out how much we make; how much we've got, where that money's going and where can .w~ get the most results from it." No one needed a dictionary to understand what he had to say.

    National Vice President Mike for General Opera· tions sized up the situation best. "The well is running dry •. , we' ve got to pump harder now."

    • • A politically·conscious organization, such as Na·

    tional JACL, perhaps has come to another major cross· road in its growth pattern. Those who pump harder in JACL deserve recognition-now that the incentive factor of previous years will fade away. We refer to the policy instituted several years .ago to gra du~ll y eliminate " rebates" to chapters which oversubscnbe their membership quotas. For a while, chapters sur-passing their dollar quotas were returned 40% of the oversubsclibed amount. That has been trimmed to 20% this year. And from 1973, there will be no reo bates to distribute.

    Rather than fingeling at chapters which fa il to carry their share of the National Budget to sustain p r o-grams of the organization, the chapters which are pumping harder at the well can righteous ly assert their prerogatives and claim the time has come to make the National Council more responsive to the will of its member ship.

    How that can be resolved is not the point of this column but we remember hearing in the past that the National Council should be more "representative" and that spells a hot series of debates over proportional representation. We envision such a debate to be more heated than the time when the National Council cre-ated district council jurisdictions. All that heat gen-erated over the district council boundaries, perhaps, was necessary for a good weld has resulted.

    An assessment of proportional representation may be one of the propOSitions that the National JACL Plan-ning Commission meeting next weekend in San Fran· cisco will be circulating this fall for possible considera-tion at the 1972 national council.

    Midst the historic surroundings of the Nation 's Capital, we can' t picture a more worthy subject mat-ter for delegates to consider-a more representative National JACL Council.

    The 1971 interim JACL national board & staff meeting was historic because of its composition-seven di I.rict youth chairmen were voting members. It was als o igniIicant for its statement on farm labor, for its greater concern of wh ere JACL can secure funds for programs and, for us, the pace was moderate. (At least we had a chance to recap the decisions of the day after each session and fully enjoy the repast with PSWDC executive board members at the Sonoda residence.)

    Other Sidelights of the board session included the presentation during a luncheon of California state r es· olutions from the Assembly and Senate commending Jerry Enomoto upon his long years of service with the corrections department. And onetime past national president George Illagaki joined the board al. the same luncheon. He looks fine and has mended well from open heart surgery sustained earlier this year

    • R.I.P.-THE CROSSROADS

    Coullnned frOID Frout Pa,.

    bicycles, communes, sensitivi~ ty groups. conlrontations and unemploymenL

    Among the young, there is a feeling of helplessness and unimportance and a rejection of the Protestant Ethjc or work lor work's sake. ot Ule goals at a good income and material things, at the rugged indlvjdualist loolring out for rumsell.

    'What's So Great, • .'

    They ' ~'e asking "wha t's so lP'eat about having a steady job and a good Income it I don't enjoy it?" They're ask-ing ubow can we believe in brotherly love and concern tor ieUow man when businessmen cheat people with long hair,

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    when society becomes a dehu-n1ani2..ing environment?"

    The Sansei al'e as caught up in this revolution as any alb· er group. I suspect tilat tile contlict between life styles or young Sansei and th.eir. par-ents is greater than It IS be-tween the more permissive middle class wrute parents and their cruldren.

    My advice to all parent.:;, Japanese or whHe, is "Listen: your cruldren are trymg to tell you something very im· portant. The world is caughl up in an ins a n e spiral of technological change which threatens our sW'vival and must be stopped. Your belieCs and jdeals are outmoded and irrevelant in an age of glob-al TV, stel"eOS, drugs. SST's, sex and interplanetary t1'8V" el.'·

    Racial Identity Crisis

    But this is an jdentity prob· lem all young people are en-countering today. Sansei have an added factor, namely their race. Many, if not most, gen-uinely feel lhat there is no difference between Japanese and wbites and that opportu-njties are equai for all.

    Others have been brougbt up to be overly conscious of their difference and still alb-ers consciously avoid contact with Japanese.

    By and large, however, Wl· less one is totally insensitive or stupid, a Sansei has en .. countered uincidents" which sensitize hlm to b i s funda-mental rufference. The critic· al times of introspection gen-erally come wben dating or marriage are considered.

    Tbe tragedy is that at one time, Nisei stood in unique position of truly bleneling the culture and language of two great civilizations, east and west. But clearly that's gone now.

    The language hangs on in bits and pieces, food and a few habits last but wHl be lost soon. In a white society, the retention of .Japanese cul-ture and values by a small minority js impossible and j( will really be hakujin support and interest wrucb will keep the traditional arts going.

    Sound Off

    The social hang-ups thal re-sult from our feeling of inse-cW'ity, reticence and infelio-ri ty boil dow n to personal ones whicb can be greally re-lieved by talking-talking to other Japanese, to wrutes and to psycruab·ists. I'm afraid the struggle for sell-identity is ul-timately a personal one-ev-eryone bas t hat fight and ours happens to be compound-ed by an added factor of ra-cial difference.

    But we're commilted to a role in a wbite-Canadlan-technological-society and that has to be the role we work out.

    Now the question is, from what I've said, do I mean that we should forget our Ja-panese-ness? In a utopian so-ciety, I suppose that's the ideal-that is, if society were to encourage difference with -out making one kind better than another, then being Ja-panese would be no different {rom ha ving red. hair 01' a big nose and we could each go out and do au'· own thing.

    But we're not in a utopian society. If you've rea d the U.S. Commission reports on cities and on civil rights. you will see that the U.S. is clear-ly a racist country. There is nothing to lead me to think otherwise aboul Canada -whether it's attitudes towards blacks, native Indians or As-ians.

    Ethnic Groups Rol.

    Here then lies our function in society-so long as this so-ciety classifies people as In-dian, Japanese, Jew or Negro, it perperll/ltes the reality and im.portance oj chat grou.pill.g! To classify someone as a Jew in our society carl'ies morc implications than to call someone a Presbyterian. To call me a Jap carries more implicatiollS than to call me a geneticist.

    'I'his then places a respon-sibillt,y on each of us. Even Ihough I don' t know many

    This column cannot pass the week without mourn· Japanese, I feel responsible to ing the announcement the all·English Nisei weekly, that group into which society

    The Crossroads, is calling it "30" with their Aug. 27, ~~ce~tigO~~e: th':-;e~~:~ 1971. i ue. Through their 22·year history, it has raised on the Japanese. e"e,,)' evil I i sues and perhap rubbed JACL wrong at times. perpetrate will be borne by But we can forget the weeks it came to 0111' assistance the Japanese communily.

    thysicallY to have the PaciIic Citizen published when Then take the m~t deprav-I R h d h ed Japanese Canadian and I nlerna evenue s uttere l e f ormer plant where we will say I share rus guilt be-had our type set. 'cause this society makes him

    Save fot' the typesetter and mailer, the Crossroads my brother. has been a one·man operation these llJany years in As a group then, the ma-

    '" ' H ' t H t nl I dl d Jar ractor making the lenn t Imp ll'0 o. e no 0 Y Ian e the editorial chore, Japanese-Canadian meaning.

    locked up the pages and other shop functions, but tul is a racial one that so-solicited the ads and sent out the bills. He augmented ciety perpetuales. The cultur-his publi bing income with a small public relations al and psychological ties bet-agenc". He found time to go back to post.graduate ween indi"idual Japanese ca-

    J nadlans aloe rapidly disappear-studie and assist Ken Ishizaki of Yalllato Re tauranl ing among young people. open a new ealery in ell-port Beach. No wonder, it 'lmllar Pressur .. II as hard lo catch him on the phone at hi office.

    .\ man 11110 has alway promoted the Lillie Tok)o ~cene, we sball mil! biro.

    The strength of our rac,al ;l'OUp does not deri .. 'e from oW' numbers or polihcal pow-

    er but from a recognition that all groups categorized by race or religion are placed under the same pressures.

    10 order to work towards •• ociety ln which each indi-vidual is valued for his own worth, we must identify and aUy ourselves with all other potentia lly oppressed groups.

    Anti-semitism, segregation, squalid Indian reserves and ghettoes are conditions we must fight against with oth-er groups.

    In our selfishness and short.-sightedness, man y or us brealhe a sigh of relief ae Hother" groups are discrimi-naled against-in fact, many Nisei l've met aTe just 8! bigoted towards blacks and other racial g:roUps as wrutes.

    How stupid to think tilat bf-gotry aimed at blacks or Jew" js any different from preju-dice directed at us. Tbe mer-est pulI of a whisper can turn anti-semitism to a tear or the yellow peril..

    Have any of you noticed how the media are talking about the invasiolt from Ja-pan, an economic Wel1' with Japan, a1'mies ot Japanese salesmen? Just watcb.

    To Be Conoluded It Has to Be Plugged In

    History of 'torii' LETTERS FROM OUR READERS

    explains its use

    as gate for birds By DON ESTES

    Sau Diego In the non-Asian mind

    nolhing typifies the essence of the Japanese architectural form like the Torii. It is seen in travel posters, photos, p a i n tin g s , and woodblock prints. Howevet·, like so many things Ihat al'e easily seen, the origins are at best only dlmly known.

    NOl'mally to mosl westem-ers, the TOl'ii is nothing more tilan a simple. but tasteful

    HERITAGE

    Ambassador's Speeches

    Editor: I found the text of the ad-

    dresses given by the Japanese ambassador to the United States (PC, July 9) at inter-est inasmuch as I had writ-ten to him to protest some at the unethical practices in Japanese industry, the effects of wruch are alienating a great many people h er e against Japanese products ..

    To make sW'e no one lUIS-understands, I'm not talking about trade war, product dumping, copying or stealing patents, rugh tariffs and that sort or thing. What I'm re-ferring to is the damage to lbe ecology - sometrung that is apparently ignOI'ed by big business in Japan. American bi business has been simHal'-Iy accused but they are get-ting the word now-and fast.

    gateway usually found in coo- I feel other Japanese Amer-junction with a Shjnto Slnine. icans should protest - for The usual standard fOl'm con- whatever Japan does is cast sists of two upright and two up (however, right or wrong) horizontal beams. The ma- as an image of the Nisei. terial used is usually wood I protesfed the indlscrimi-or in some cases stone. nate, wholesale slaughter of

    Some quick questions re- whales of Japanese compa-gal'ding the ol'igins or the nies. While the "4.S. govern-Torii will rapidly show that ment has just forced the last the history of these uoiqultous wbaling company jn this gates are lost in t he mists of country to shut down, Japan bistol'Y. For the most common remains the only nation wruch explanation of the ol'igins of refuses to sign an agreement the gates, one must turn to to protect thjs endangered the Kanji used to write the (arm of life. If the present word itsell. rate or rape i. kept, up, these

    Usillg the chal'actel's w. Japanese comparues ,vill be find that the word liter:P..II out of business and whales means a "per~ for towls. e»tinct witrun ten years. And Tori = Fowl, and I from Iru for what: to provide cat food = dwelling. In other words and fertilize,? the Torii were roosts fol' the Another thing wbich ha s sacred birds who w!IfDed of annoyed many people are the the break 0/ day. It IS one of advertising: by Japanese rna-those curious paral:'els that torcycie companies showing Japanese cock bas, SUlce tinle their machines tearing up our immemorial, been the hel'a1d environment. It has. gotten so of the new day. bad that one &ilifomia Con-

    gressman h as complained. The TorU's connection with

    And tbe Sierra Club and oth-er friends of the earth are concemed over the fantastic proliferation of off-road ve-rucles in the past rew years.

    Japanese firms are doing everything possible to sell yet more snowmobiles, campers, jeeps, scramblers, minibikes, etc. Our rapidly vanishing wilderness and park areas are literally being torn apart and polluted by hordes at these contraptions.

    VAUGHN M. GREENE San Francisco J ACLer . . .

    Word like 'Bannock'

    Editor: Please extend my gratitude

    to columnist Bill Hosokawa and reader Mary HeOllbaU for catcrung my blunder in the use of the word "Bannock" in my column (PC, July 9).

    When I wrote my coiumn, tTying to illustrate the prob-lem we face in society with the use of hate words, r had no knowledge of the Ban-nocks, a tribe of Indians liv-ing in southeastern Idabo.

    Whereas I could have been soundly criticized for my ig-norance, Mr. Hosokawa and Mrs. Henshall corrected me with sympathy and sensitivi-ty.

    My error also points out the great need for all-encom-passing etbnic awareness in this country. I wonder how many people, outside of the m 0 s t north western sta, tes. know of the Bannock tribe? Or about American Indians in general? There musl be many minorities Methnic, cultural, religious and political-which have been losl in the wrute shuffle. Americans would do well to "discoverlJ and recog-nize them once again.

    JON FUNABIKI 2673 Alma Street Palo Alto, 94306

    tbe cock may go back to the EDITORIAL: Denver Post (July 25) legend of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu's djspute with her brother Susanoo. As a result of the dispute, the goddess hid in a cave and thus caused the world to be plunged into

    Elks Vote to Keep Racial Bias darkness.

    As part of the attempt to I u l' e Amaterasu out of tbe cave. Tokoyo Naganakl-Dori (Perpetual Daylight Long Singing Bird or rooster) was to perch in fran I of the cave and signal the start of a new

    For nearly 100 yeal's, th e Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks has excluded black people from member-srup, not for any deficiency in personal qualities, but sole-ly because of the color of their skin.

    day. The perch was, of course, At a convention in N e \Y the first Torij. Orleans last week, the Elks

    Closer investigation how- voted tor the third consecu-ever shows tbat these gates tive year, not 10 revoke this are not unique to Japan. ancient prejudice, but to re-Similar gates a.l'e tound in alfu'm it. The Elk, witb 1.5 Korea where they mark the million members, may n 0 \V approaches to royal palaces. conslitute the largest remain· In China like architectural ing bastian of racial dlscrimi-forms are called P 'ai Lou. nation in America.

    Those who do not belong to lhe Elks bave a right to look upon the organization as a force that is serving to pre-serve bigob-y in American life. Tbey can shun its faci-lities and its aclivities. They can object to the use by the Elks of public property and to the holding of government meetings at Elks facili ties.

    The Elks have done a tre-mendous amount of good work over the years; and it is tragic tbat they must con-tinue to spoil thei,. reputation ,vith the unnecessary and un-realistic stain of bigotry.

    They are erected to l'ecord the The Elks may-or may not No one would question virtues of individual men and -have a legal or constitution- their righl to choose members women wbo a.re to serve as al right to exclude people on on the basis of relevant cri-models for the whole com- the irrelevant basis of l' ace teria, such as honesty, good munity. alone. But people in and out

    In n0l1bem India gates of of the organization who find sportsmanship and at/ability. a similar type are called Tu- such a. policy distasteful have But to imply Ihat blacks are ran, and in central India they a right to react to it in ap- unworthy of membership. ev-arc called Tori. Some ety- propriate ways. en i.e they meet such crltelian, mologists believe that our is to insult 20 million Ameri-word "door" bas its roots iQ, Those who belong to the cans who are not in much the Indian language. In con- Elks can resign. Those who or a mood these days to ac-trast to the J apanese Torii, ehoose to remain can work cept insuJts. the Indlall Turan (and Tori) more vigorously to change the The Elks policy can only bave three cross beams, while pollcy, even though the pros- mean trouble unti1 it is the Japanese gate bas only peets. arter three consecutive changed. We count on the two cross beams. defeats, are not \rery bright. many men of good will who

    Many people believe lhat To remain in the Elks witb- belong to lbe Elks to see to any building witb a Torii js out working for change is to it that the change is not de-automatically a Sltinto Shrine. condone the Elks policy. layed very much longer. ~~!e ~~.:e~~~~J~ is t~';; I===-...:.......:.. ....... ...:..~:....-=---...:...'---'---------since the Japanese Buddilists' 2S Y Ago did adopt this basically Shin- l ears to form. The Buddhists used these gateways to support I t~ble1.s w. ith Buddhist inscrip- I_ In the Puific Citizen, Augu.t 10, 1946 tlons.

    Addlhonally, the Buddhist Torii will in most cases be highly omamenled while the Shinto Torti will retain bas· cally plain sinlple lines. 10 the process at adoption the Buddhists changed the simple straighl lines by turning up the comers of the transverse beams.

    Today the,.., are at least 13 major types of Torti. They range from the basic Kuroki Torii. which is the simplest, to the Sanna Torii which is one of the most eiaborate.

    Finally. W. G. Aston, an Englishman. had one last hypothesis on lhe origin of tbe Torii. He belie,'ed the arcrulectural form was intro-duced from the Asian main-land about AD 770. Aston holds Ihat the newly intra-Quced gale Cils with an al-ready existing native w 0 r d Torii which meant "a linler'. and later aL'quired Its sacred W:"OC'tatiQn.

    -San D'ego JACL -e'Hletle,.

    U.S. Immigration Serv,ce will accept Issei applications for "first papers" though bar-red from naturalization ... Defense contention of statute of Iimltations applying to ali-en land escheat cases disput-ed by State of California ... New test case (Yoshika2u Tsucruyama) filed to prevent Ca1Il. fuh and Game Com-mission from interfering ,vith return of Issei to commercial !!shing industry; Judge Will-is, Los Angeles, issues tempo-rary restrain.ing order on state fish and game from dis-criminating against aliens of Japallese ancestry.

    Truman signs pri"3le bill granting U.S. Citizenship to Mrs. Edith de Becker Sebald. considered ineligible to ciu-.erup because or her birth in Japan and Japanese motb-~r ...... "is~ aeronautical de--sicner Jam e!' .. "agamatsu bead. BuUalo I.- Y.) aircraft plant ••• Statewide cammtl-

    tee organized to comb'!t Cali.f. Proposition 15, tightenlDg all-en land laws b,· referendum ... U.S. delays hearings on Per u -Japanese deportation cases 22 .000 e\'acuees back in Los Angeles, JACL chap-ter reacti\~aled .. U.S. mar-shals seek owners to ret~ wartime contraband (radios, cameras. swords. binoculars. firearms. knives)... S.a .n Francisco Council lor CIVIC Unit'" show leamwork to aid e\'acuees .,. Sealtle Nisei Veterans Committee compn~ ing list of Nisel war casual-ties from .tale.

    Leo Angeles \ etenuu group raps Rep. En&Ie's oppol>ition to e\-acu~ claim legislation

    . . L'n!\·. of Hawaii • .run-meros_ coached b) icru kamo\.O. $1O'eep men', AAU championsrups 81 n Diego

    •• Sen. Robert Taft blocks nale rontirmallan 01 DJIl-

    on I, er ID U HOUSUlI Au-thorny chiel.

    BY MASAO W. SATOW • • •

    COUNCIL FOR CIVIC UNITY-Japanese Amer-icaw; returning to their homes in the Bay Area in early ~945 10!1nd a group of people awaiting to assist them m housmg, employment and other basic adjustments. ~. welcomers had already done much during war-time .m making our situation their special concern,

    fespecia\l y in efforts to tum public sentiment in our avor. .

    In time, as returning evacuees achieved some sem-blance of normalcy, they reminded themselves that other minority Americans living in their midst haVe always been beset with discrlmiDation in housing and emplo~enl So our immediate situation sparked the f0f!Dation of the San Francisco Council For Civic Umty, w~ch con~ues. in its eHorts toward equal opportumties, espeCIally m the housing area. . The annual meeti,ng of this pioneer group in the

    field of human relatioDB headliried State SuperiJiten-dent of Schools, Dr. Wilson Riles honOring him u CCU's Man of the Year. What bothered us was how few Nisei attend.ed (Yori Wada, Ann Howden), how short our memones.

    • • • NATIONAL STAFF CONFERENCE _ On recom-

    mendation of the National Personnel Committee the now nine full-time professional JACL staff had a full day get-together. This was the first slaH meeting in recent years, now that we have an appreciable staH, We spent most of our time informally finding out more about eac~ other's assignments, hangups and pro~ lems, sharmg our concerns on various aspects of the National program in a free-wheeling manner and to o~~~t ourselves in relation to each other's responsi-bilities. We hope at future such meetings we can come up with specific recommendations to the National or-ganization from the viewpoint of staH. . . .

    NATIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION-We trust the ~ationa.l Planning Comhission meetin~ in San Fr~nclSco. mld-~ugust und.er the chairmanship of Tom Shimasaki, beSIde the pnmary consideration of pro-gram emphases, will take a hard look at the structure of the organization needed to fulfill such programs_ Thi~ to include sla!fing, the kind of stili people, and therr most effective deployment geographically ill servicing the Chapters and members. Certainly

    budgeting lvill come under consideration, hopefully with some guidelines as to priorities.

    Pentagon Papers By ROBERT M. TAKASUGI be deWy parried by an eml>-

    National Le,al Counsel ty utterance 01 National Se-

    With release 01 the conten~ of the so-called "Pentagon Papers", we are presently wit-nessing the boldest counter-Establishment insurgency of recent history. IT'be First Amendment guarantee or fre ... dam of press defiantly ,isk-ed a radical collision wit h that awesome opponent stole-ly laboring under the title at

    EIGHTY-SIX

    ftnational secwity". Tho s • who were victimized by War Relocation or those wbo had devoted their efforts to the attempted repeal or Tille II of the Internal Security Act can at least sense that elu-sive, gigantic posture at Na-tional SecurHy - clear, per-haps to some, as a concept; hazy in definition and some-times tragic for the ,';ctirns at its brawn. History has proven tbat a shouting plea for National Security has of-tentimes resulted in an in-fringement 01 buman freedom. It bas Men used as an ar-gument of tyrants and a creed of slaves.

    The issue of whether the uPapersJl were within the reabn ot "top secret" became a justiciable issue which the United States Supreme Court dealt with in Caval' or Free Press. Former Justice and U.S. Representative to the United Nations, Artbur Gold. berg, had stated that or the thousands of documents he had read or vieWed. 75% should never had been classi-fied , 15% should have been kepl secret for a brief lime. William G. Florence, a tor-mer security classitication ex-pert for the Detense Depart-ment. estimated that only one ha\! of 1 % should be classi-fied. The decision by the Su-preme Court at least estab-lishes the almost maruacal penchant of oWcials tor clas-sifying government matters.

    The Cou rse of the Southeast A s i a conllict has caused a moral re-awakening on the part of many concerned indi-viduals among whom Daniel ElIsberg presently stands most prominent. He has passed through the stages of "hawk", "dove" and now, according to many, a martyr.

    With the public release of the Pentagon Report, the is-sues, most poIntedly, become one of a right to know or a right 10 at least be told the truth of what th" Gov, ernment selects a. the pe0-ple's right to k now Vet'1U6 National Security.

    E,'en if a conceulan i. made that certain matl

    So tar, the -papers" re .. I thal poIItIcs.~ to be the coaduc:l of publk alfain far pri ate adnIIIII&e. Our nib' ID m- a-' IIIId ... DIll

    curity.

    A Victory for Buconcill.

    Several editions ago, thU writer reported on the tenu-ous status of Lindy Bascon~ 10 In his guest for tenuresrup with the Temple City (Calif.) School District. It was the!) reported that because Bascon-cillo had inadvertently o~(ended rus senior teacber who was also his department head and had sustained an Inju'l resulting in 41 % physical ~_ ablllty, Dr. John Rand. til. superintendent or the dIstrict, recommended terminati~ thereby denying tenureship. for Basconcillo.

    Pursuant to law, BasconcU. 10 requested a bearing.Pen4_ ing the decision, Dr. Rand in-dicated that regardless of the hearing officer's declsion, Bas-cancilla would be hired "over his dead body". Procedurally; the hearing oUicer i, reqnir-ed to submit bis PToposed de-cision to the Board of Edu-cation and the SUperintend-e ntis likewise required ID submit his recommendation to the Board. Then the Board conducts a hearing to ulti-mately determine the issue of reemployment. According to a faculty member of some 15 years, no teacher h. d ever been rehired by the Board over tbe Superintendent', re-comendation to the contrary regardless of the decision 01 the hearing oUicer.

    Pending the decision of the hearing orticer. a pUblicity campaign and a lawsuit were being readied. Constant preo-sure was Imposed upon bolll Dr. Rand, the other school ad-ministrators as well as t h • Board. The bearing oUlcel"s decision was rendered In lav-or of Basconcillo to the ex-tent that Incompetence was not proven. Realizillil Dr. Rand's prior commeatll about his regard for the hearin& 01-Cicer', decision, the practice or the Board to automatical-ly follow t h. recommenda, lions of the Supertntendent, extensive preparations were undertaken tor the Board or Education hearing scheduled. two days alter the relea.e or the hearin, oUlcer's decision. The board hearing came on a. regularly scheduled. By uuanlmous vote, the heario, DUlcet'" decision was adopt. ed in lavor or BaJconcilio. To compensate for the indigna-tion Basconcillo was subJect-ed to. the Board oUered him a speeial projecl for Ih .. sum. mer with additional monetal)' remunl!J'atlon.

    A job wu saved. HowlOYe:r, u usual. the Board had tel seareh Ind rind a ICape,oat who bad the audacity 01 SUI-gesting t h. Basc:ondllo dls-mJual. The SUperintendent? , . , No. because he wu too blgh on the totem pole. Ev-entually they seWed and t ..... cu.ed on I h.. oenlor teacher and demoted ber, M expect-ed. the many who had e-Hrely criUc:Izecl Buconcillo', competence were the first in Un .. in the back-tlapplnl pa-rade oace the Board', decision wu announced.

    Fro m an ununpeachable lOUr«, It was reponed to thla writer that the Temple Cit,. Scbool District has IUccumb-eel to the preuuTes 01 three ... eaed Utlptlon and public dis-clooun of wha t did InnJIpJre ID thesr "ba


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