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Asians among poor requiring OEO aid, JACL tells House body PACIFI ITIZEN

BT RAYMOND UNO Nallonal JACL Pre Iden!

Keeping the PC supplted with a weekly article bas ill tTylng times. My last article I. what I refer to as the H\Vrit_ el··, Nightmare." When proof-InR my own article. I occa-.ionally experience a psychol-ogical block and overlook an obvious mistake even on care-ful reading. One little letter can change the entire meaning of Whillt. is meant Such was the case here.

The Writer'. Nightmar.

(Special to Th~ Paci1\c Clttz.e-nl pro\laJ be requIred before MY WASHINGTON - [n a state- such program be terminated ment pre.- statement by JACL proclaim-grams. Recommendations sub- ed. "OEO has provided the

1 mentioned the ArIzona milted to the House Commit- disad"antaged with a vehicle Chapter was getting lbe San- tee Included: to draIhatize their plight to sei involved. In tbe third to I-That the Economic Op- the government a nd the lasl paragraph of my article portunity Act be eXlended for American public. Other agen-1 said. "Hopefully, we can at.- at least two years \vith full cies have been prodded into tract some of them to JACL to funding; revamping out-dated pro-provide the youthful leader- 2-That Conununlty Action grams, into reevaluating old ship that John Kobashi and programs and local initiative philosophies, and into initiat-Richard Matsuishi are not get- programs be retained under ing innovative and purposeful ting started." That not should OEO \vitb lbe added stipula- programs through the efforts have read !lOW. John and tion tbat Congressional ap- of OEO. OEO programs such Richard are making a big ef- ------"-----"-------"--"-----fort with lbe help ot others in lbe Chapter to expand the base of lbe Phoenix Chapter leadership lo include lbe many

ansei who should and need 10 be in JACL to keep it mov-ing and meaningful.

My sincere apologies to John and Richard for whom I have the deepesl admiration and respect.

The [ollowing Is the text of the speech given at Phoenix. It was in outline form and 1 have nol included various side comments and introduc· tory remarks about the na-tional officers, staff and com-mittees, their (unctions, and JACL programming for this biennium. The speech was geared for graduating students from high school and was in-tended merely to suggest some Ideas to. perhaps, help lhem in some way meet the bnltal onslaught of the "system" and " e s La bl i sb ment." These thoughts have been gleaned fr9m my own pel'Sonal ex-p e l"i enc~. and, Iherefore, may h ave merely incidental or peripheral value, if any at all.

Quest for a Japanes.

American Identity

A YOWlg lady (nend of m Ine once remarked, "All men are beasts, but r can·t help It If I'm an animal lover." Likewise, I love people and havt> found this 10\le atra lr a most Intriguing, challeng-ing and rewarding one.

It is a difficult task to under-'land buman nature. Every in-d ivJdual is different. By and );uge, h owever. people respond favor-ably to kind and consIderate treatmenl A reasonably . simple actron req uJre" a reasonab ly sim-p le elTort . 1 would Uke to brIefly ~4 on this In one .son of life wtyle-a. Japanese AmerIcan ODe.

'NISEI: THE QUIET AMERICAN'

Nihongo-version of Hosokawa book

due in July, translated by Issei SAN FRANCISCO - Publica- Japan's lop lranslators 01 Eng-tion of "Nisei: The Quiet lish and French books. A for-Americans" by \Villiam Ho-- mer San Francisco and Los sokawa late in J 969 enabled Angeles resident, I nouye was many NIsei and thei.r families on the editorial staff of the to learn a great deal of the old Japanese American News historical background about for several ,years in the Jate the Japanese in America. 1920s and early 19305.

Some .30,000 copies of the Dr. Edwin O. Reischauer. book 'vrltten by the Denver former U.S. ambassador to Post ~ss?ciate editor under a Japan and now professor at COm.mJsslon from. the JACL Harvard again, who wrote the have been sold in the past for e w 0 r d for Hosokawa's IS months. book. has written a special in-

Now the Issei in thiS coun- troduction for this new J apa-try will ~iOon have an oppor- Dese edition. tunity to read lhis historical The 620-page volume will account which not only re- be available in July at $10 views the activities of the at Jiji Press oWces in San pioneer Issei, but also lbe Francisco (1S20 Sutler St.) wartime Evacuation, JACL's and Los Angeles (1250 WiI-role in the war and postwar, shire). and the exploits of both lhe 442nd regimental combat team and Nisei servicemen in the Pacific war.

For Hosokawa 's book has been translated into Japanese and will be published next month, according to Jiji Press, wruch acquired the transla-tion rights from Hosokawa.

On Sal. in July

The book will be placed on sa le in lbe United States ear-lS in J uly.

The translation was hand-led by Jsamu Inouye. one of

Origina l Book

Meanwhile, the 0 r j gin a J book publisbed by Morrow continues to be mentioned in newspapers.

Most recently, the Colorado Springs (Colo.) Gazette Tele-graph in its editOlial entitled, "They Made It!". quoted trom Reischauer's introduction to the Hosokawa book and add-ed:

"Although lbey constitute less than hal[ of one per cent

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MASAO MAEDA, A BUILDER:

as Head Start, Job Corps, and VISTA have provided youna people with avenue. of oppor-tunlly that have changed lb. direction of many lives; trom despair and delinquency to lives ot purpose and produc-tivity."

A.lan Poor

JACL indicated to the com-mittee that Asian Americans are among lbose mlnority groups that need the type of help that OEO prograJm can offer.

Pointing out that the prob-lems faced by Asian Ameri-ca ns are simiJar in intensi-ty and number to those plagu-ing other minority groups, J ACL reminded tbe policy makers that Asians, aJso, are entiUed to benefits and grant" made available to larger mi-nority groups to combat pov-erty and social problems.

JACL called attention to th" fact that in many cases Asian Americans are not eligible for c e r t a i n benefits designated specifically to aid minority groups. Under lbe definition ot "m.inority groups" only Ne-gro, American Indian, Mexi-can American, and or Puerto Rican ancestrylJ are deemed eUgible w hie h eliminates Asians from possible consider .. ation.

Sen. Javlta Bill

JACL noted that progress h as been made in tbi. area of Iale as demonstrated by the action o[ Senator Jacob Javi ts of New York.

Sen. Javits recently, in in-troducing the Emergency School Aid Acl at 1971, spe-citlcally included "Oriental Americans" in the definition of minority groups eligible for benefits. The previous legis-lation did not include Asian Americans as possible recipi-ents.

The statement elaborated on this point. "J ACL commends Senalor J avits and HEW for making lbis change which will help correct not only an in· j ustice to deserving Ameri-cans bUl also will provide a measure ot equality to Asian American communities. While we applaud the fact lbat the change has been made in this one instance. JACL stiU res-pectfully reminds lbose who would propose future legisla-tion to alleviate poverty and racism, that in terms of num-bers, in terms ot discrimina-tion, in terms 01 denial and deprivation, Asian American minorities are presently ex-periencing lbe same bitter ex-periences in this country as most of the other minorities."

The Chairman ot the House Committee on Education and Labor is Carl Perkins (D-Ky.) o the r committee membe,..

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Membership Publ iuhon: JaD~new Americ,,, C;t ;l.;, ~1 ~.Iil:~~_(~'i~ St los Angeles Colof. 90012; (213) MA 6-6936

VOL. 72 NO. 20 FRIDAY. MAY 21, 1971 12 CENTS

DILLON MYER TO C b- I I • ADDRESS MAY 30 a Inet- eve committee ARLINGTON RITES for Asians sought in bill

JACL Services Slated

at G ravlllite of

Lt . G ra n t Henjyoji

f Spemal to The Pac.Uic Cltl.zen)

l'ASHlNGTON - Dillon S. Iyer, wartime director of the

War Relocation Authority, will be guest speaker al the ~ nnual Memorial Day serv-ICes sponsored by the Wash-[!Ilion, D.C. JACL Chapter at Arlington Cemetery, according

!beI':v!'t~aSaki , chairman ot

The services lbis year will be held on Sunday, May 30, 9:30 a.m., at the gravesile of Ilt. Grant Henjyoji of Porir land, who was killed In ac-tion in VJetnam. Lt. Henjyo-jf Is interred in Section 34 ot lhe national cemetery.

Toro Hh:ose, immediate past Chapter Chairman and a ve-

(Special to Tbe Patille Cltlzenl er group Is received. Tb_ WASHlNGTON-A bill to es- modes are subject to .hao._ tabUsh a Cabinet Committee over which the OrIentaI-on Oriental American Attairs American bas little c:ontrol.-was introduced In the U.S. Anderson then cited the JI.. House of Represenlative6 on panese experience d uri n I May 5 by Rep. Glenn M. An- World War II. the exe\usiClD den;on (D-CaIif.) of Harbo< and IlmitaUon of Orientab in City. U.S. Immigration policy, and

Congressman And e r son, present- day discrimlnatol7 former . Lie,:,tenant Governor ~ploymenl policies practiced of Cahforrua, proposed the m various areas. as examples creation of the Committee of why such a Committee u whose function will be to in- necessary. lrure "that. FedeTal programs Anderson stated, "Accord-are reaching aU Orienlal iog to the U.s. Commission on Americans and to • e e k out Civil Rights, the Ci~ of San new programs that may be Francisco employed only a necessary to handle problems smaJJ percentage of Oriental that are unique to such per- Americans in 1geO. Whereas sons." Oriental Americans :represent-. Tt:e Cabinet Committee ~y ed 7.9 percent of the city'. InStitute any survey" studies, population, they held ODIy 4.3 researet:, and assistance pro- percent ot tbe ci~ lovern-grams It deems necessary to ment jobs.

teran of the 442nd Regiment- Di lion Myer al Combat Team, will serve _____ __ -=-___ _

=U:b.~~~ C".:b::t ~~~ Few Policy Maken mittee will encourage and pre>- "In the policymakiog po-mote participation of local and sitioDS, they fare even worn. state government" along witb The U.S. Civil Service Com-the private sector to bel p mission. in a 1969 report, solve lbe problems faced by states that: 'Orienlal Ameri.

a, the master of ceremoniea fOr this traditional National J)\CL event. Rev. Sbojo Hon-da, a Buddhist minister, will also participale in the brief services. after which the in-dividual graves of some 24 Ni-sel and Sansei killed in World War n, Korea, and Southeasl Asia and interred in Arling-ton will be decorated by tbose attending tbe memorial servi-Ce6.

Sbimasaki. bimself a veter-an at the European Theater and who has a brother-in-law interred in Arlington, was honored by the National JA-CL tor his many years of per-sonal dedication as the volun-teer chairman of this event. He expressed bis satisfaction that Mr. Myer had accepted lb. invilation to be lbe guest speaker on Memorial Day, noting,

''Probably more than an y singJe individual, Mr. Myer had more to do ,vith per-suading the then War Depart-m",t and President Roosevelt to accept Nisei volunteers .tor

9 Northern Cal

JACL Blue Cross

Oriental Americans. cans have not obtained full Co 1"-- Mak access to managerial posi-

DUD .oc.> eup tion • .' In the Oakland e It,. The Cabinet Committe. as government, no 0 r i ell tal

ouUioed by Congressman An- American employees were at derson Includes: tbe managerial leveL In San

chapters organl'ze The Secretary of AgricuI- Francisco, less than 0.5 per· ture, the Secretary of Com- cent of the Oriental Ameri. merce, the Secretary of La- cans were managers, II conti-ber, tbe Secretary ot Health, I1Ued Anderson.

SAN JOSE - A JACL-Blue Cross Committee was recently organized here by representa-tives of lbe nine JACL chap-ters offering lbe Blue Cross heal th plan and Dr. Takashi Hattori of Monterey Peninsu-la JACL was chosen .. group chairman.

The committee has request-ed official recognition from the No,·them California - Western Nevada District Council along with th e JACL-Blue Shield plan.

The nine chapter. offering the J ACL-Blue Cross health plan are:

Education, and Welfare, the Tbe proposed Cabinet Corn-Secretary ot the Treasury, the mittee would, according 110 Secretary of Housing and Ur- Anderson, "do mucll to eUmi. ban Development, the Attar- nate discrimination, to aid the ney General, the Director ot social integration 0 ttbe Ori-the Office of Economic Op- ental American, and to insure portunl~ , the Adrnlnistrator that he is receiving the tuJl ot the Small Business Admi- benefit" ot American citizen-nistration, a Commissioner of ship." The propooaJ it enaeted Equal Employment Opportuni- would expire after ftt>e y ..... ty Commission, the Chairman of the Civil Service Commis-sion, and other persons of the Committee.

An Advisory Councll on Oriental-Speaking Americans appointed by the President will also be created by the proposed legislation. The Ad-visory Council will be com-posed of nine people wbo are "representative of the Japa-nese-American, C h J n e • e -American, Korean-American, Polynesian - American, and

2,000 jam rail, at Biltmore Bowl

on Pa.ce Sunday BT BARRY JL BONDA

First. we should remember. u me.nlloned betore. we are all au-f erenl and 1 should remind eac.h or you. what) have to say !Sbould be Inodlfied and flavored and taU-ored to what l3 most comfortable and accePtable to you and no one dse.

Role 01 EdueaUob

In a democracy you can fool aU the people aU o( the Ume. but it isn'l neeeS$af}'. a majority will do. Therefore. educa.tlon does play an important part In a democracy.

Housing & Understanding

i" which became the 442nd

'mental Combat Team and taly Intelllgence in t h-e

P~ci1ic . Accordingly, he UD-c;ierstands the meaning at these services more than most, tor as Director of the WRA he was in charge of tbe lives of most of the Japanese on the mainland during most ot World War II."

In addition to Shimasaki and Hir()lSe, other members of the Arlington Committee are:

Alameda. GilrOY. Monlerey Pe .. ninsula, SaUnas. San Jo~, San BenJto County. Sequoia, Sonoma County and Wataonvllle. -.E7e-1r II~ detennin .. when its enrollment periodll are and they have been usual-ly scheduled in February or Marcb when membership cam-paigns are underway.

However, enrollment for new Blue Cross subscriber. with coverage eft'ec:tive July I, 1971, Is now open in tbe Monterey Peninsula chapter and after the current enroli-ment pOl'iod, members may subscribe and be eligible after a six-month waiting period.

other elements of the Orient- LOS ANGELES _ Rul con. ai-speaking and Oriental-sur- cern for Asian Americaruo ~ ~d~~~unity in the Uni- the "gook" complex beioa im-

pressed upon American 101-The duties of the Advisory d.ires being IleDt to Vietnam

Council 8S outlined in the pro- aa "thi. attitude agaioft the posed bill is to "advise the Vietnamese would be tram-Committee with respect to ferred to hatred of Alian such matters as the Chairman American .. upon their return of the Committee may re- to the United States," Rep. quest". The President will ape Spark M. Matmoaga (D-Ha-

In getting an education, regard-less of what kind, trJ; to make lO~~JIfoaun~e11 g~n Jg~r~

~~caJ~ be~~:rne~ha~el~~atl~lna~ 5C~OOls should aJso stre55 a Uberal arts educHtlon , ln some instances, and maybe in most. we all tend to speclaUzc. Even Lr our educa-tion takes the characterrstlcs or a

~~~i~~ ~~~~~~i~d.t ';;~!h dk~~: 510ns or learning should COrTe-.pond to the dimensions o{ life.

Whether we go on to hlgheT education. vocational school or \\ hat ha\'e you. reading always play~ an important part In what \\e learn , It Is nol rea lly neces-

~t · te tfea~~~~ . Cl St~~a~oe~~c:U~~ or I eadlng can make a per60n ex-hemely educated, IT you have nol already done 50, I would suggest takIng It! sJ)M'd reading course. It won't hurt you and it may help you. It systemlzes your reading and will 35S1s1 you to look for eel tAln things in certain ways.

As you begin to read more oilen and perhaps (aster. you will au-

~~~tt~~~, ~le~fi\!~xy~r~~~~~, b:~ 1 cad, As ,you become more seree .. 1I'·e. you wt1l also become more knowledgenhle about 1l1any areas and very knowledJ:eablt" aboul Jiome areas o( peculiar Interest lo you, Actua lly. you become "hun-In.· .. (or knowledge.

A:!' you do more reading. you ",111 lenrn . to scan, Scaonlnl helps }OU to sUI oul the important from Ihe unhnpol'tant matten. It is

~~~'r~~\~lng, ftg~o~~~lln~~ "o~ e caa~ :~tj~~t m~~r~~~~Ug)~o~: ~no~ ~~ read to complele or S4tisfy your curloslt)" on some thin,s.

Progressively, as you read more, YQU wUl start to unconsciously Of' l'onsclOU!'l;ly organize the matertal

~~cla~Bs~m~~~h~'~~S ~ri'Jnre~e~: bering various Hems: becomes eas-Ier Rnd (aster It is like a tTee wilh all Its branches

Oally Routine

Oflantllng ta the key to success for most, but not aU UlinlS. The bellcr :\'ou orgnnln, tlle better I.h(' chRnce~ 1)1 any pro1ttt to 'Ul'cet'd . A Imple way lo start

~ F~r ~~~II~~~. aa~~r~JtO~~~ roi~~otu ." ~~~~:\,~~~ p~J~;~n~:: ~~r~~fl~;' ~~ks t~r:~ a~~U~e~~~~~ OUI of the wa)' , Sct aside some blol'k lime Cor the more difficult and Ihne coll\unllng pl"OJects.

\150. ltd aside some time for lelio> tmporlant thfng!). which. pos.-albly. by the passa,c of time ma.y t ake car. of them.5el\,es. and if not. you hlwe lel tlme as.lde to do H. II you an organized, you will find you ",111 have time to do more thin,s and do them well .nd titlll ha' «' lime to do thln,!i )'CHI Itkt" to do.

~le".llOlll , !lporu;lbtht-v helps t ('l C~\ thln,!i done, In hirIng pea. PIt". tn to J:eL compettnt. depend.

;~~f ~P~~. eb~::~~~ca~~~~,w~:~ l'an ht'lp olh~r 1~$$ fortunate pea_

ft~I,!~r;~~~bmra~~~L~~n t~! ~\~k ln t't=nU,'f' Proal'an\ ,WTNI wheno-by ~'a\t eoR., dou.atf' supe.n>15lon time 10 help disabled or welfare: ff't'lpl('nt acl traintn. throuah

1,;~fr:rftl~~~k.1n~ O~~fe jfb .tra~; at l't'duC'lnJ tht ta1[ load tax. .,., t'TI COI'I'IFt1Iln About but do

;~~rt;ut ~~~tnl~ ~~ tj~~ :J!~ and rn.k~ them ind~pe.nde.nt and l>roductl\'~ clllu'ftS

Thf' d.n~· po('x:et eal .. ndar wlll

~t~~Ull'rf:n~'H Yd~t \~~r ~~ I)Olntmtnl! _nd Itm~ aehedwf'. 'It

CClDliIlu'" GIl ..... ,

Il'hfl Saturday ( May 8) morn-ing edltioh or Ule Sacrame.nlo Bee featured ac ross the top hall or its (ront page a heartwarm-In, story by It~ minority affairs write r. Geo r re WillIams, about. a. Nlnl who buJlt an la-unit. apartm ent for tbe elderly for the Sacramento lJouslne Au ... thorlty. He Is t\hsao Maeda a Sacramento ,rACLer a nd long-time 1000 Clu b membu. 'His son, Wasne. Incldel1 t.a lly wa.s a 19jO JACL-JAL Summer rellowship w'lnner.-Editor. . .

By GEORGE WlLLIAMS Sacramento Bee

Sacramento It was good news day in

Oak Park. Youngsters from the heart or the area con-verged on a brand new apart-ment project for lbe elderly at 2S45 37lh StTeet.

Ice cream. Cookies. Soda pop. A fiesta .

The kids were cel~brating completion of the project with the builder Masao Mae-da, arcbitecl J ames Dodd and reallor Al Hollis. (Dodd and Hollis are both blacks.)

Yesterday (May 7), the keys were turned over to Harry ZOllinger, executive dlreclor ot lbe Sacramento Housing Authority, marking anothe,. milestone in the authority's Pl'ogram to construct public bousing for the elderly at rea son a b I e rent.al rates throughout the community.

The project, said Maeda Dodd and Hollis, has been th~ most successful they have ever been connected with, There was absolutel" no van-dalism - no broken~ windows no wTiting of dirty words i~ fresh concrete, not even one scratch on the stucco walls.

In every otber pI·oJecl. no matter what parI of the com-munity it IS in. they said the builde.r can count on a 'sub-stantial amount ot vandalism.

Ariyoshi urges

greater Japan role TOKYO - Japan wa;; urged by Lt. Gov. George R. Ariyo-shi of Hawaii to go beyond Its role as an economic leader and to tackle problems ot develop-ing nations, the envlnmment and qualily of Ii fe in Asia and the Pacl fic o

Ari..voshi headed a 22-man Hawaii trade missIon to Ja-pan and made lb. remarka May 10 kickin~ 0([ the week-loni! tour

He said he has already ~~ed a "growing sensitivIty.!1 to the,e chaUense, on the part of Japanes. leade,.". .dding that HEmaii and Japan can pIny a central role in the de-"olopm.nt of real Pacific CommUDI~ at NabOO5.

Dodd and Hollis gave credit to Maeda, president of A-I Consbuction Co., who spent 2~2 years in an Arizona con-centration camp along with other AmerIcans of Japanese descent during World War II.

Creelit to IIlacda

Maeda, who was born in Hawaij and spent 10 years in Japan gOing to school during the 20s, has lived in Sacra-mento 22 years.

" Whiles would call me a J ap and discliminate against me and all of us Japanese-100,000 of us," he recalled. "And I don't know wby. I guess I just don't have enough intelligence to know why they did this. But I always felt that if I could have a Wal'm heart, then others would reaJize I doo ' t mean them any harm."

When he Slal'led building the Oak Pal'k project, Maeda said be was told we wou ld have trouble. He hap diffi-culty getting insurance cov-erage for the IS-unit, $270,-000 project.

"They told me Oak Park was a bad p I ace . Bad? I didn't see anything bad.

" If you are always looking down at the dirt, you see bad. But if you look up at the sky, the world is beautiful. And we all have the same sky over us.

"Trouble comes from haLe-fulness. If you have hate then you will have trouble. But if you relate to other people and treat them with warmth and kindness, you will have no trouble. Maybe it takes some sacrifice and some time. But don't even think about the sacl;!ice. The results are won· derful."

NeiJ'hbors Help

Maeda recalied one day Soon after he Slarted building the Oak Park project. A black YOllngster walked over to the site.

"I went over to hlm and put my arm around hIs shoulders and I asked wbat I could do for him. He was friendly. I showed him around the site and told him wbat I proposed to build. 'You want to see this building go up beauti.fuJl.y?' I asked him. He said, • Yeah.' [ told him r wanted hi. help to see lhat nothing went wrong. [ asked him to bring his friends over and prelty soon aboul 12 shOwed up and we showed them around and lbey $aid they would help \l.!i

hI told them we we,.., going to have a big pany after it was built. And thev all smiled -to blacks and ~·o chicanos. After aWhilp. 1 lL.....t to look aero". the .treet and I would lee one of lbem SItting on a bench ", ... tchini the bl1ildioi.

Aimost every day. And their parents came and other older people. They were all very nice."

Recalls Incident

Henry Wakabayashi. Key Ko-bayashi. Joe IchiuJI. Norman Ika -rl. Harry Takagi. and Mike Ma· saoka,

point the Chairman and Vice- waii) warned at !be Pe ... Maeda said he remembered Chairman ot the Advi.ory Sunday raJl,y here 011 Sunday,

one incident in which one of ASIAN WORKSHOP URGES TITLE II Council. May 16. lhe subcontractors saw a Anderson'. ftemarn The congreasman addreued black youngster pick up a the Asian Americaruo for

piece of conduit pipe on the REPEAL AT ESTES PARK CONFERENCE In a speech on the House Peace program at the BUt-site. floor on May 6, Anderson who more Bowl, which W81 8IIed ''Pul that back 01' I' ll call is in hi. second term as Con- to capacity 01' about 2,000 pea-

lbe police," the subcontractor gressman, ouUioed the rea- pIe who were mostly (70'lfo) yelled. SODS he fell such a Commit- Sansei.

''Yeah and I'm gonna bust ESTES PARK. Colo. - The youth. tee was justified. He stated, Author 01 tbe Houae Dem-your apartment house," the Asian workshop of the Task ed7-Coordlnated reereallonal. "The well-being of indlvi- ocratic Caucus reaolution '"to boy shouted. Force on Race and Minority ucational and counselling dual members of the Orientaf move toward peace now' and

Maeda intervened. Group Relations added two re- serVIces must be made avail- minority is unjustly tied to having U.S. troops withdrawn ''Look,'' he told tbe subcon- commendations, including one able for all youth througbout the modes ot acceptanee and trom Indochina durinl the

tractor. "Try this approach. urging repeal of the Emergen- the country. rejection by which the Jarg- current 920d Congress lUIed

Go over and ask the boy to ~ ~ i~ ~'::'J~~~':'~t ~1i~e ~J: Radio-TV orvices ~papoce rtS':.::~I"i:it~~talee show you what he picked up. point statement .forwarded to 8-The (Radio and Tele- ting their congressional r-

~e hO~m lb~n~~~duft~. s~soe'~ P resident Nixon [oUowing tbe v ision) m edia which lease the Anti' -war marchers resenlaitves know u well~;; tn the project. Give him some White House Conference on public air waves must begin writing the President th~ ere othe,' pieces of pipe. Show Youth held bere April 19-22. to better serve their entire disappointed in hi. not aettinI him bow they fit together. The other additional recom- listening and vie,ving audl- break wlOndows of a date certain tor c:oncluclln& Tell him to lake them home mendation called for estab- ence. U.S. military nvolveDWIt in and show his mother and fa- Ushment by lbe federal gov- 9-The concept of educa- Southeast Asia. ther. TeU him to invite his ernment of IlNew Amer ican" tionru exchanges of students. parents and friends over and centers where settlement of Iacult;y, and administration of T ' S mat mo 'Date Certaia' we'll show them al·ound. Tell fOl'eign immigrants is heavy different racial, ethnic and ogln, U I 0 "Announcement 01 a data him we're going to have a to assist newcomers adjust to cultural backgrounds within a certain." Matauoaaa poio1ed big party and invite him to ille in the United Slates. city, or state should be en- out, would oerve notlc:e IIJIClII come. Other workshops participat- dorsed and initiated. SAN FRANCISCO-Although the South Vietnameoe Ieaderl

"How much will it cost for ing in the Task Force repre- IO-The basis on which fed- anti-war demonstrators nUrD- that tbe U.S. will not stay tor-the pipe? Fifty cents? A dol- senled the blacks. Euro-Amer- Ol'aI expenditures are deter- bering some 500 tailed recenl- ever and that they abould at-lal"! I'U pay you. How much icans, ltalo-Americans, Span- mmed for yo.ulb activities Iy (May 5) to tie up business lWDe "their reapCllllibill~ 01. time will il take? Ten min- ish-speaking and non-ethnic should be applied equally to in downtown San Francisco 81 Vietnamlzloa !be war and pro-utes? I'll pay you for your representatives to the White !i'i'rto Rico as to the 6!ty planned, two local Japan_ viding tor their 0WI1 oelf ....

time." House Conference. a e:i_ A National Minority ~=e .. werbOU":.ODIL S\l~ te~p;1es at apple .. inter-M~~a S~den t~e, ·sl· tmedantheagrOtheeder· Recommendation. Youth I' Foundation ShOuld

d bel property damage during the rupted the keynote addrea on

• The Minority Group Rela- estab Ished by tbe fe era day. several oecaaIOIla, but the mad 19 subcontractors on his pro- tions task force reconunenda- government to provide grant" Tbe demonstratoro """ed compuoionate reIPQIl8e _ joet and told lbem the same tions were: to private non-profit youlb one rally at the Standard Oil wben th" HWei lellllatar 00-tbing. And they agreed. l-American institutiom organ)zations which oft'er in- Bldg. 011 Market st. and then ted ewer 40,000 YOllllPen bad

IIlaeda Approach must actively oppose racism. novative . apP,:,,"cheJl of racial split up tn groupa to mewe to II... IhiI COUIltry to CanIda" 2-Those American text- and elbnlc rruoonty youth. the Bank of America BIela. 011 Sweden and oIMr ~

And il worked. Tbe result booka which are used in ele- 12-The pas.t approach to Kearny SI. to avoid -w.e 10 tile _ is a beauli!uJ building. mental,), schools, secondary indIan educatIon should be One group in puunr the th~ lind tb.,- aoI1Ot IIJPPIlI1.

Dodd and Hollis said they schools and coliege. must abandnned by the 'ederaJ gov- Bank of Tokyo at Calltomla Matauoaga called It aoodIar have gone to the butlder. of more clearly and honestly l'f!- ernment ',,!lb th~ power to office at 64 Sutter St. threw udlsturbinl ___ eI the OthOl' projects in other neigh- lIect the diverse racial and ma~ declSlom glV,," to the nute, bolll and other IIIl8Il Db- war In V1etDam aIfedIoa tbI borhoods and asked them to ethnic heritage at tim coun- indIan people themoelveo. jecta and abatt.eftd two larp YDlllll IIII!Il 117110 IIIUIt lie ... use tbe Maeda approach. They try. Asian workshop memben plate glass window.. lied UJlOll tor .... elaur

""! ?~ al)f:~' we do this 3-AII Amertcan. should b. were: ShorlIy after noon, anoth.... NatiOl1'. future".

Additional rates for

all over town?" Maeda ask- encouraged to know the cuI- ~I~~ tJ:~,nM ~JyB:u~ group ~w Iimilar itemll at One of the few WW1 0lil-ture ot each racial and eth- N.w York. lUll. Juan and Cor- the Swmtomo Bank of Cali· ".,... to _____ 10 both the taDd

ed. "You treat people decent- nic group tn this country. don Lew of San F'ranolacG. fornia at 365 Calltomla St. and MlIItaJy lDteIlIIoaee. .. l.l' and tbey give you decf!DCY 4-Bilingual-bicultural edu- ThOR iDlide aid tbe;J beard. amcIuded that wttbdrawIoC

Continu ... OJI rap I cation must become a reality. Hawaii delegate illuel a sound Iimilar to a piItol trom SouIIIeu& Alia Ie lICIt • ----------- 5--Youth must bf! given abot .. one plate ..... window IlID 01. weaa- but 811 JDdi-

mo", decision-making respon- harsh .. nti-whit. report waa b r 0 keD . DernooItra- ""tiOll ot re.l IIreaItb-aibililies, especially tn are.. tors abo daubbed lip with '"lbe peopIeo 01 the .... which directly aft'ect their ESTES PARK. Colo.-A c:nti- red paint on the outllde ",hite wculd I'OCOIJIize our lDMr ....

PC subscriptions raised lives. c:al look al the Ufe in Ha- waI1 at Sumitomo BaoIt wbleb titude and IlOtIrI.Ie If __ 6-A nat Ion a I campaign waii was distnbuted to 1.000 read - "N L F Will WID.," to admit our errar ... do _

In vielV of tbe slight 10- should bf! waged to broaden dele~ates attending the~:h "EveI7 Day ls May Day" and what II rilllt. aT eodIaI aur c,..,ase in liNt class and aIr- meaningtul part-time and House Conlenm"" OIl ~ ~Rerist the War." milllaJ7 IovalvaDeat ID U mail postage rates. additional tuJI-time job opporluniti .. for here recently. II WUu"'!' , Alia at tile ...u.t paaIIIbIa ch . CT racial and ethnic minority by Lehua Loper. 22. ruV. 0 date. we .. a Jl'atiaD ...... S\l~~~i~r w :o"Cl!~re '~::: - -________ __ Hawail senior, who called ber ...... ". p.lrticip.lte i. ataod mod> taller ID .... .,. copies either first class or air- ::~ ""barsh, bitter and aoti- lllinoit ,-e IIIIf'dI eI the wwId.' mail have been raised etrec- Ethnic Studies Mis.- LopeE. who II 01 Ba- CHAMPAIGN. m _ ~_ ...... -... ....... tive wilb !\lay 21. 1971, issue, LO ANGELES _ Summary waJian, Chinese. EngIiIII and live .u;.., ~ at tile 11' .... ~ ..--l as foUow. p., '£0" of th. ten workshopo conduct- Puerto RIcan aneestry' .• '" Univ. 01 IIllnoil led tile Joal 3ACL _ 'I n 1Iar_ F1m Clo .. tU.1 "-lUll add1 ed April 16-18 at the lint In her report that the dItf .... - anti-war maJdI 01. -- I.- -":r JaM e ID AlnnaIl tu.s .. canadal. 13.00 add1 As,an Amencan Studiel Can- ent cultures of the hlandsyare em May 5 1'bJ. _ tile .... ~ __ ....... =3 't~~ ......... :~ :=~ terence at USC-UCLA is beu'g submerpd by.th' do- time that .w.. -- 118ft ...,. eI,=-:_"'''''

~ . il bl t. mlllant white American eul- ~ __ tile •• _. - __ IAbon rat~ co"et .dd.dtcmal .'a a e at pe-r se ac- tu Two AIiIIII ........ --...

_t.~. and han~ only. Sub- «>n1ing to Alan NlSbio. of ~0W1I BaWUWl8 "~~ nOr .......... ~ ........ ::;;:~m~ = .".; b~ Asian Amencao Studis COD- ----.. ___ • __ _ ohlp cIU. foe 1Aa. _I tar, UCLA.. - .. -

2-PACIFIC CITIZEN Friday, ~Iay 21, 1971

W.shington NewsleHer

Mike Masaoka

Asian American Breakthroughs

Washington

Within the past two months, th.re have been .t least t\\'o major breakthroughs in the political front

for Asian Americans. One \\las the overwhelming election of 'orman

?lineta to be ~Iayor of San Jose, California. and the other was the nonlination and confirmation of Herbert Choy of Honolulu, Hawaii , to be a Judge of the inth

Circuit Court of Appeals. . ' Mineta was elected over 14 other candIdates wIth

more than 62"" of the yotes cast in the primary in the nonpartisan election for chief executive of the fourth largest city in the most populous s late In the Union , the 31s t in the entire country, and the fastest growing melropolis in the nation. He is t~ , e firs~ J ~p.anese American to be chosen ~ [ ayor of a bIg cIty 11l the Uniled Stales and as such is probably the highest ranking elective officer among all Americans of Japa-nese anestry on the continenta l mainland.

Choy was nominated bv the President over many otber qualified attorneys and judges for a PQsition Ihal ranks second only to membership on the Supreme Court, that of a judge on Ihe appellate court. He is the first Asian American to be so honored . The Senate unanimously confirmed his nomination 10 this high responsibility, which represents anothel' significan~ breakthrough si nce the ](orean American from Hawall is also the first of A ian ancestry to pe named to the

federal judiciary.

• Minela 's electi on was about .s widely publicized

a news event as any regarding Asian Americans in reo cent history . Practically all of the newspapers and news magazines in the country, as well as radio and television , reported the precedent· breaking event. In· deed, the s tory of his victory was headlined in many puplications Ihroughout the world, and espeCIally in Japan and the Far East.

Particularly heartwarming was the fact Ihat. as far as we know, every report was favorable. though we personall y would have preferred that less emphasis hpd peen placed on the facts that he was of Japanese origin qnd t.hat he had spent some two years in a war relocation camp in Wyoming. After all , Mineta was elected not on the basis of his race hut on his merit ~s an individual.

In San Jose, which has a population of about half f. million , only two percent of the population is of Asian origin and only another two percent black , al-though almost 20 percent are Chicano. It certainly was not the Japanese American vote, or those of minority Americans, that elected Wneta mayor but his solid record, fil"sl. as a City Councilman and, then, as Vice 1Ilavor. .

When it is recalled thai it was only a litUe more than a decade ago that tbe first Japanese American mayor of any mainland community, James ](anno of Fountain Valley, Calif.. was elected , Norman Mineta 's triumph becomes particularly impressive.

The next major brea\tthrough on the elective front is that an Asian American is elected to the national Congress from the continental United States.

• Choy is probably the first Korean American lawyer

In t.l]e country. A long·time member of tile highly suc· cessful Asia n American law firm of Fong, Miho, and Choy (Chinese American, Japanese American , and Korean American, respectively), he also served as the Attorney General of Hawaii.

And the fact that the first of Asian origin to be appointed to serve on the federal bench was named to the appellate court and not the district court is another impressive precedent.

The inth Circuit Court of Appeals has a Chief

NEWS

CAPSULES

Military The Navy commended CQm-

Dlnder Takesbl Yoshlhara ot the Naval ConstructIOn Bat-lallon Center at Port Huene-me, CaliI .. with the Meritori-ous Service Medal for hIs out-:-;.tanding performance of du-ties as public works officer .~ Hueneme from 1969-71. He is a 1953 graduate 01 the Na-val Academy at Annopolis. and the son 01 the Takeshi Yoshiharas 01 Seattle.

Montcley Peninsula Nisei VFW Post 1629 installed Kat. Nisbijima as its commander lor the coming year. Some 130 I?crsons wi lnessed the cere· monies at the Beach Club, Pebble Beach recen tiy. He previously beaded the San Jose Nisei VFW Post 9946 ... Orange County's Kazlio Ma-suda Memorial VFW Post 3670 will hold its installation dinner-dance June 12 at the Airporte.r Inn, Newport Beach. with Hide Kawaratani laking over command.

Politics Hawati COli n l y Mayor

Shtmichi Kimura has indicat-ed he would turn down the Job oITel' as president of the Hawaii Visitors Bureau as he intends to run for his second term in 1972.

Tbe candidates have quali-ficd for the state 27th Sena-todal District special election in Los Angeles June 22. five Democrats, four Republicans (including Edwin C. Hlrolo, oj 1731 RedcliJ)" St., director. health services} and 0 n e Peace and Freedom party member. The countv Demo-cratic central committee also endorsed Assemblyman David Roberti. The Democrats have a 2-1 edge in registration. II no candidate gets a majonty or the votes caste. top flnish-crs for each of the qualified p81'lies battle in the July 20 runoff.

Assemblyman Alex Gal'cia (OJ reacted angrily to tbe primary endorsement, saying "some people are despcl'ately t.rying to prevent a Mexican American candidate fron, be-ing elected to tbe Statc Sen-ale".

Meanwhile. the Hiro to tor

Estes Park-Continued from Front Pare

eat. talk. act , sing, laugh and think white. Some eve n mourn the tact thai Ibey can-not look white. Thc Hawaiians may survive in body, but are dying in spirit/' Miss Lopez wTites.

Valuet, Ethics, C ul t ure

The report was one of 12 written by members of the \Vhite House Conference's task force on values, ethics and culture.

Each member 01 Ihe Iask (orce wrote about his lite, background and feelings about the problems tbe country (aces. The individual reports were part of the task force 's lull report caUed "A Frame-work of the Ideal Society."

Miss Lopez was l h c task lor c e I s representative for youth of all minority groups, exc~pt blacks.

OAJN ' CHILDREN-Peeking bet.- een the legs i. Roger Ni-kaido, IOlmel' PC columnisl and now a mc.mber 01 HCain', Children", a new and exciting improvisational comedy l1'oup which has been appearing betore colleges and New York night clubs. Tbey are (from lelt) Bob Tassie, Roy Darlano. Penny McDonald, JeIT Baudo and Nikoldo. They were taped by Mcu'omcdia for the David Frost Show Cor national re-lease ~Iay 26. Cast met l_st summer when ti1(:Y were all on ti,e NBC guest relations sl8lf.

State Senate campajgn ha~ been stepping up with appear-ances before grou ps at bomes and clubhouses. He holds lorth on Satllrdays, 9 a.m., al Dcnny's Restaurant just off lhe Santa Ana Fwy. cast o( the Union Depot. with "Meet YO\lI' Candidate" bl'cakfast meetings. according to his campaign manager Gino Ce-I'QZZi. Campaim headq\1arters (680-2~60) will COmmence a telephone trace sun'cy th is. week.

i\Jas Ji'ukal of Gardena is cam p a i g n manager Rnd Geor"e KqbaYashi is cam-paign h'easurer fo,· Bill Cpx, ~en io J" management analYst, who is a candidate in Ule spe-cial June 8 elections for a vacancy on the Gardena City Council. Cox is past president of the predominantly-Nisei & Sansei HFOR" ClUb. a city cecreation tmd pal'k commis-~ioner and active with the VFW, YMCA. Boy Scouts and Gardena Evening Optimists.

School Front Special education (eacher,

1\Irs. Ellen Kishiyama, oC San-ta Maria won the local mer-chants' Mother Day contest aftel' relating the wish ot bel' cl ass of 12 ~motionaUy dis-(UI'bed children to dine at Rick's Rancbo Restaurant. Sh~ is also active in the Santa Ma-ria Valley J ACL anp is pres-ident of the Council for Ex-ceptional Children .

Six Asian Americans trom the San Francisco Bay Area a ttended a national confer-ence at Chicago. May 12-14. sponsored by the Training 'Teachers oC Teacher, on bilin-gual and bicultural education. James Louie, chairman of the Berkeley A s ian American Education Task Force. headed the group comprised of:

Mrs. Fuml Hayashi. Mrs. Klthy Louie. Bukele)'; Edison Uno. San Francisco State: ~ 1'rs . Katberl.o~ Reyes. San Francisco UnWed School District: Dal Wone. atu-dent . Stanford.

Among (he top 345 student. 01 Chicago's pub 1 r c h1'gh school honored at tbe lOth an-njuaJ Chicago Tribune acad -emic honors dinner were seven Sansei students:

Marje Ito. 'Kenwood: Joyce KI· noshita. Lakeview: Beth- Ann Okawa. Lindblom: JuUe E: OUki. ~oo se \"eJt : Sandra Lynn HiraI. Kenneth W. Sakamoto. Anale M. Wakaguchl of Waller Hlrh.

Redevelopment Two buildings near comple-

tion (or occupancy early Au-gust are the Iw am~sa Bldg., first to be completed under the San Francisco Nihonmachi C om m u It i t y DeveloPJflt ot

Corp .• and the Miyako Hot'l addition which includes a banquet room accommcdJltina up to 1,000 guests for recep-tions and 500 tor dinners. The hvamasa Bldg. will occupy the northwest C0111er ot Bu-chanan and Post Sts.

Business ~lilsublsh' ~lolo... Corp. or

~apan, whrse Colt Gal~nts Jft already being n,uketed in the U.s. through Chrysler, and the Chryslet Corp. at U.S. format-Iy signed May 12 a contract which enables tne American tirm tq acquire up to 35% ot the Mitsubishi Motor owner-. hlp all in the torm pt new shares QY 1974.

The new Little Tokyo res-taul·anl . HorUtawa reeentiy prepared tbe first Japanesf dinner to be experienced by the Wine and Food Society of San Fernando Valley. Thirly-four guests in • black-tic al-f.ir all ended.

The World Trade Club of San Francisco named Japa-nese b4siness-civic I e a d e r Tal,o Isbuaka 01 Tokyo Shi-baura Electric Co.-known in the U.S. as Toshiba as its In-ternational A chi e v t rn en t awardee. He w ill accept the award at the Club on June 3. Nominees included dis tin· guisned personages on tour continents. Recognition is for outstandinll conh;butipn to enhancement 01 world trade. Ishizaka, who will be 85 on June 3, serves as cbainnlln, d.u-eclor or adviser on boards of more than 60 corporations and nonprofit group •.

Churches 'r he Rc,.. Howard Tpriuml.

pastor ot Union Church, Los Angeles, is one ot the tour minister- commissioners to the 183rd General Assembly pt the United Pre s b y t e r i ~ n Church. USA. being held May 17-26 at Rochester, N.Y. He is representing the Los An~ geles Southwest Presbytery.

Medicine Dr. Yosh Maruyama, acting

administt'ative director ot the Division 01 Radiotherapy at the Univ. ot Minesota Medical School. bas been appointed professor and chairman Qf the Univ. pI Kentuc),;.y DepiXI-ment ot Radiation, Medicine, College of Medical Sciences. A graduate of UC Berkeley and of its medical school in San Fr~cisco , and M'!SSachu-setts General Hospital in Bos-ton. he w~s ~ James Picker Advanced Fellow in academic radiology, being one of the first named. and later ~tudied

LOC:S11 Scene

Lo. Anlele.

Te I'" IQ .econd Commu-nity InformaUOIl Strvleu DIY in Little Tokyo, .cheduled tor Sund.)·, June 8 on Weller st. with the atreet c1oaod to \'.-hlcular tratllc between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., volunteers will be needed, .ecordlog to June Olddl, oIIalnnan ot volunteer recruitment.

Volunteers may call Miss Okid, at the JACL Olllee, fdA 6-4471.

N\eJllr.D ",,4dlllst Cburch ctlebrate! Wel!8'k Day this Sund~y. 10:30 a.m., with Dr. Richard Iwat. lIleaking on "Youth : Behold the lIIysteries of Naturt."

TIle Soutb Ba, _~sian In-volvement openl its olllce thi. Sunday, Mal' 28, at 16408 S. Western, Gatden •. A potluck luncheon, entertainment. dem-onstrations in lie-dyeing. drafl counseling and other commu-nity information services art planned.

Lon,t1me president 01 th. So. Calif. Japanese Women'. Christian Federallon. Mrs. To-miko Nakazaw8. was among elder Americans cited by the County Boa.r

Bill Hosokaw.

Frein the

Frying Pan

JAPAN AIR LINES DENIES JEWISH

BOYCOTT CHARGE I

PULSE ON THE CHAPTERS: School supe"lsor opHmlstic over

integraHon plan

FrIday. May tt, 1171

ROBERT fiNCH TO KEYNOTE LTCDl INSTALLA liON JUNE 15 AT BlLTMOR

Denver, Colo. ON CHANGE-Some lhings change swiftly and

cataclysmically. Other change so slowly and gently that we are almost unaware that it has happened until someone points them out. · .

Item: On April 7, 1942, all but one of the governors of Western states summoned to Salt Lake City by federal authorities were hostile toward the suggestion that thev accept Japanese American evacuees from the West Coast. (The only friendly one was Gov. Ralph Carr of Colorado.) Yet, within a month, in view of a worserung farm labor shortage, officials in many parts of the West were pleading for temporary agricultural laborers from the Assembly Centers. By the end 00 June 1,500 evacuees were working in Idaho, Utah and Montana farm, mainly in sugar beet fields. Dunng the fall harvest 10,000 evacuees left the camps to bring in the beets and thus assure the nation of an ample supply of sugar. This amounted to one-ha If of all male evacuees between the ages of 25 and 50.

A few days ago Bob Sakata, transplanted to Colc>-rado from California by the evacuation, represented the entire American sugar beet industry in a Salute to Agriculture conference in Washington, D.C. Later he was one of a handful of farmers who mel with Pres-ident Nixon to exchange views about agricultural

problems. •

Item: In the fall of 1943 Paul Hagiya, a refugee from the West Coast. was elected president of the student body at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kan . Some local superpatriots considered this outra-geous and indicated their conviction that they could help win the war in the Pacific by doing violence to Hagiya . College authorities spirited Hagiya out of town until the patriotic fervor cooled, then brought him back and "permitted" him to resign from office.

This week the Rev. Paul Hagiya, pastor of the Simp-son United Methodist Church in a Denver suburb, re-turns to Southwestern College by invitation as bac-calaureate speaker. , .

Item: When the evacuees began to pour into Den-ver from the War Relocation Camps in 1943 and '44, it quickly became evident that a fresh fish market was needed . Frank Tsuchiya, a dispossessed Los Angeles fish merchant, in association w ith Frank Torizawa and others, opened the Granada fish market. A couple of blocks away in the warehouse district, in a rococo mallSlon where once a famed madame named Mattie Silks had conducted her business, the Tri-State Bud-dhist Church held its devotionals.

BUlinelS Practices,

Not PolitlCl, Influence

Airline Operationl

NEW YORK - In .. eply 10 a1le«aUons lodged against J.-pan Air Line. by the Conler-ence or Presidents of Major American Jewish Organiza-tions In a New York Time. advertisement on May 3 to the ef/ect thot J AL is en-gaged in a boycott or Isroel due to lhreats from Arab gov-ernments. JAL emphatically denied that "We are now or ever have been engaged in IUch • boycott.

"JAL I. enKaged in the commerclal alrUne business only and doe. not parUcipate In any form oC politic., either on an international sc~le or within any country. We are inlluenced by sound buslnes. practices.

il ln international commer-cial aviation, reciprOCAl land-ing rights are negotiated by governments concerned on the basi. of long, carelui study to inSUT(! that any new route wUI be operated .t a prolil. ]n the past such discussions and negotiations have often been lengthy. For example, it took seven years 01 talk. be-tween the Japanese and U .S. governments Cor J AL to ob-tain all' traWc rights into and bbond New York.

·'At no time has JAL ~ver charged any nation or group with boycotting JAL. Instead we have waited {or a mutual understanding to be reached througb estabiished diplo-matic channels. Thus it is erroneous to say that a single air carrier is involved in re-fusing negotiations for traf-cc rig b t s with any foreign country.

.eWe again reiterate that JAL is not particlpating in a boycott 01 Israel and in iact enjoys normal airline relations with EI Al Israei Airllnes. Thi. fact can easily be sub-stan tiated by EI AI."

J AL Profits Drop

Meanwhile, JAL, which In· auguratcs Boeing 747 service from San Francisco to Tokyo June 1. reported its fi scal year proct dropped from $5.7 mli-lion in 1969 to $5.1 million

Today the Sakura Square apartment and business in 1970 (ending Mar. 31 , complex , sponsored by the Buddhist Church. is rising 1971 ). from its concrete foundations on a square-block site Revenues ,,[ere of'! 20 pct. in Denver's vast downtown Urban Renewal projeet. . and expenses m~reased 30 pct.

. . over the precedmg year. JAL Soon, the apartment tower will beglO to grow at the carried I 62B 000 passengers rate of one floor every six working days until it on its lnt~rna'lIonal routes _ reaches its 20-story height. a 23 pct. increase.

But before the tower is topped out, work will be under way on a major supennarket on the ground Jewish community floor, which will be the new home for Frank Torizawa's groups picket JAL

! Gl:.aoada fish market. PDking around recently . in a maze of lumber, reinforcing bars and newly laid con-crete, Tori2awa pointed out where the new refri-gerated showcases would go, where th!! meat and fish departments wou ld be located, how the carpeting would be laid and where the stairway would lead to the mezzanine level. "This will be a little bit of a monument to remember me after I die," he said, and

, the listener wondered whether he thought, wnen he first came to Denver during the war years, that he would still be here nearly 30 years later. Certainly the Bu ddhists didn't have any idea of their growth . But now they are renovating and expanding their church building to complement the apartment com-plex and laying plans that stretch on into the next century.

By Jim Henry

' Inn' Way to DiICover Japan

• •

PHILADELPHIA - Member agencies of the Jewish Com-munity Relations Council here joined in picketing the local offices o( Japan Air Lines May 4 as part o! a campaign spearheaded nationally by the Conlerence oC Presidents or Maor Jewish Organization •.

The demonstration followed publication oC an announce-ment in the May 3 New York Times or a conCerence statement attacking JAL. It represented the first public action against the carrier, al· though the agencies have been actively involved wi th the problem tor over two years.

The conference charged J AL witb negotiation in bad faith and having no intention o( recommending landing rights for EL AL and for J AL to fly to Israel because oC reprisal threats from Arab govern-ments. The Presidents' Con-!erence declared:

uJAL spokesmen have in-sisted there has been no sub-mission to, or compliance with, the Arab boycott regu-

TOKYO-G

registered with the Japanese "This most recent proposed travel agencies, howeve.r gel-together, as the others be-have plumbing in all the usuai lore it, has now dissolved a. places. the time tor it draws near.1t

Japanese travel bureau can Minshuku has also spread make the arranlremenl.. abroad. People In many Euro- Top beauty expert from

H is possible to see Japan's pean cltie:s, lor example, have tour major islands by moving made their homes available to Japan visiting L.A. trom home to home. In :fac t, Japanese tourists, some even that i. precisely the way many oUering Japane.e lood. These Japanes. travei each year. people have been to Japan,

HI pr~ter minshllku," says or aJ'e Japanese themselves. one Iludent, "not only because In Amsterdam, Berne and ll '~ c.hcaper, but because 1 can London. there are several feci .ome i.mlly warmth Minshuku house •. lvhlle I'm away irom home. In Cbiba prefecture, across Mo.t people who rent out the bay from Tokyo, wbere the.lr room. to travelers are the ide. originated, old Min-very mendly, I think, and .huku establishm~ts have even • ~ .. Iiln (foreil!ller) can expanded so ~eaUy that they enjoy the experience, it be can now seat several hundred know. a llttle J.pan.s.... people at dinner. nol the cus-

The Mlllshuku concept Is tomary two or three. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

H ~ ~ ROY'S SWIM SCHOOL ~ H 4501 Exposition Blyd. Phone: 733-37S1 ~ ~ . ~ H Registration Starts May 20 ~

LOS ANGELES - M .... Alko Yamano l here this week to be one o( the judges of the In-ternational Beauty Congress at Long Beach, witi demon-strate her hairstyling tech-niques at Koyasan Hall, May 21,7 p.m.

Mrs. Yamano is regarded a. the loremost expert in Japan on cosmetic. and hairstylin,l!.

Reiko Yoneyama, HMiss Ja-pan" in the IBC pageant. wiil headline a special program being emceed by Mike Ya-mano.

Event i. co-sponsored by the Japane.e Chamber of Commerce and the 23 Ken-pinkol Presidents Association in Southern California. Down-town L.A. JACL Is amon!! the many supporting organiza-tions.

~ . ~ :t Children, Adults, Competitive and Life Savings r. H ClalSel to start June 21.1971 . Red Cross qualified ~ Community bookstore H Instruttors. ~ LOS ANGELES-A 111'0up of H DIRECTOR: MARY NAKAI ~ Sansei will open Amera.la : , ~ Bookstore and CraIl Center, .,:r.:r.:r.:r.:r.:r.:r.:r.:r.:r. :r.:r.:r.:r.:r.:r.:r.:r.:r.:r. :T.: 313'h E: Fir.t St., and asks

commuruty support to set up

GARDENA - AN ENJOYAILE JAPANESE COMMUNITY

Poinsettia Gardens Motel Apts. 13921 So. Normandi. Ave. Phone: 324-5883

'1aUr\ttt • HutfoCi PI. AIr C~nlO" '"Q Gt KItch«N hl.evt,k>n

OWHID AND OPERATlD IY KOIATA 1R05.

shop III the form of lumber, bricks, cabinet, c.uh register, electrical and building .erv-ice.. Among the young pro-prietors are:

Vlvton lII.aUu~. , r:nJ¥n Yo-th1m.ura. Charloth lunltaml.

i~~N~~\nI:,: ~~~tda,

8an FrUJclsco JACLe .. at- LOS ANGELES - Robert tending their 1971 installation Finch, Coun.ellor to President dinner April 30 At Ryotel Nixon. wiU be the keynote Nikko he.rd scbool IUperin- speaker at the third annual tendent Thomas Shaheen ro- Little Tokyo Community De-I.te the problems faced bv his velopment Advisorv Commit-adrninistralion and the - San t~ Installation banquet, it Fr8ncisco Board of Education. '\"3S announced bv Kho~hi

Outlining his typical work- Kawai. LTCDAC ban q- u e I day that be«ins at 6 a.m., for committee chairman.

44th ANNUAL-Present at the J9n San Francisco JACL inslallation banquet were the following Board ot Governor member. (from lorn : seated-Sandra Ouye, Yo HironakA, G

Dr. Shahun that day was Said Kawai, "We are ex-e.peclally memorable and tremely honored 10 announce ~ectlc as the local court hael that Robert Finch h •• aeeept-lust handed down Its decision ed our invitation to sp~ak at calJlnl{ lor immediate Integra- our June IS banquet. To gel

a speaker 01 the caliber and

-Photo by Steve Dol.

I nsta Ilation

tion of all San Francisco ele-menlary .cbooll.

H. was optimistic II to the tinal outcome ot integrated education In the dWricl

The San Francis~o court or-der is expected to have na-tional repercusoions On schools outside the South because It deals with de-!acto se~egatlon In schools caused by resi-dential pattern. only and not by lcll of governmental bodies.

Nisei parents expressed their deep concern over the quality of education in the coming yea r by their ques-tions that followed .

The JACL sapphire pin was presented by Mas Satow, na-tional director, to Mrs. Yo Hironaka, John Yasumolo, Jack Kusaba and Steve J;)oi.

SAPPHIRE PINS-Recipients 01 the JACL .apphlre pln .t the San Francisco J ACL installation dinner April 30 are (trom lell) John Yasumoto. ' Steve DOi , Mrs. Yo Hironaka and Jack Kusaba. National Director Ma. Satow (right) made the presen lation.

George "'amasaki was in-stalled by NC-WNDC Gov. Shig Sugiyama as chapter president. Roy Ikeda was ban-quet chainnan, assisted by:

Wes Dol, Joann J"keda, Sandra. Ouye. Wayne YamAda and G. Yllmasakl.

-------------------------------- BI,lwara Drive The San Franci.co J ACL

~dorsed a recently announced move to have the city name the Golden Gate Park road in front o! the Japanese Tea Garden uHagiwara Drive."

Japanese American Day proclaimed

by Illinois governor as JACL cites Issei G

Mary Ishizuka and Haru Nakata were appointed sur-vey co-chairmen by the chap-ter board alter it. was assured by Dr. Byr1 Robinson, prin-Cipal . he would oUer every possible assistance.

Berkeley District seeks Asian American coordinator

The Rev. Masaya Hibino 01 the roadway. the Church of Christ Presby- The chapter board aiso terian, was toastmaster. Pro- urged the United Bay Area tram included presentation of Crusade to fund mlnority pre>-the Wakamatsu Colony Cen- jects, to hire minority stat! teonial bronze medal. to Is.ei members and to allow mlnori-over age BO, greetings from ty penon. to participate In the Japanese consulate gen- decision-making processes. eral by Consul H. Nakayama, It also urged the Japanese a reading 01 tbe Governor's American Curriculum Pro-proclamation to the Issei and 'ject, the National JACL edu-response for the Issei by T. cation eornmitlee and all other Asato. lllteres\ed persons to work to-

Sanjlro Sakamoto, wbo Is getber to prepare a book about Japanese Americans for use In

Apri I Events elementary schools.

In othel' actioru, the board asking the restoration o! the $4.1 million in the state bud-

!Ill. was the olde.t wei tending.

at- get lor the educational op-portunity program and voted $25 to the Trl-Dlstrict J ACL youth meeting to be held In Southern Callfomia in August.

Dancers from the Midwest Buddhist Church, Miss Shizu-ko lnbe's troupe, folk .ongs by George Maruyama, seiec-tions by Mrs. Mei1m Kanoga-wa on her koto, a yo~g chil-dren'. violin group directed by Yuko Nasu, the Picture Bride skit featuring the Rev. Hibino as marriage broker, Isamu Sugimoto as the eager client and Kumeo Yoshinari as the blushlllg bride. and Rev. Andrew Oyama's nani-wabushi highlighted the en-te rta inment.

A copy of the Governor's proclamation is being repro-duced to distribute to all Is-sei pioneers. The Chicago JA-CL is also requesting names o! other Issei, BO and up.

Sharon Deguchi and Lynn Watanabe, co-chairmen, were aided by:

Kumeo Yoshinarl. Ul11an Oya-ma, hosp .: Richard Ok abe, gen. arr_: Carol NaJca,awa. pub. rel.: :Ruth KumAb .• proJf.; Jean NaJto. Inv.; Muako lnouye. lood.

Ted Dureins share Japan trip with Monterey CLen

Mr. and Mrs. Ted Dureln presented Uteir film account Ql their recent trip to Japan, ieaturing the well-known plus out-oC-the way points oC in-terest, at the lIIoDterey PCDIII-.111. JACL potluck supper April 25. There were 170 pre-.. nt, according to George Ke>-dama, social chairman.

Civic Affairs

national r"known •• he i., has to be a major event for all of Llttl" Tokyo."

The banquet will be held at the Biltmore Hotel tn tho BUtmor. Bowl.

Blrhly Sourht Speaker

"Finch Is probably one 01 the most sought alter govern-ment officials in the nation because of his high InfluenUal position as one of President Nixon's right hand men. W. leel proud and very !ortunate tha t be will be coming here to speak on Littie Tokyo's be-halt," said Kawai.

Finch, whom President Nix-on has caUed one of hi. "closest ASSociates and advi!; .. ers," has had a distinguish-ed career in poiitics and pub-Hc service, having been elec~ ed California'S Lieutenant Governor in 1966. a position which he beid until 1969 when Nixon appolllted him to the post of Secrelary of Health, Education, and WeUare.

In 1970, saying that he "wanted more or Bob Fnch's counsel" both domestic and

Central California

testimonial set

for Dr. K. Taira

Robert Finch

r 0 I' e I « n malt@l'S, l'resI4!11t Nixon appointed Fineb to IIlI pr",ent position woridnl 41. reclly with the l'resIdeJIt " a part or hi. White Houie .talt.

ha~ef.i~e o:::e~, ~ti~k': A. Nakano, now in Honolulu. was a partner IhM and aeti". with East Lo. Angeles JACL.

Earthquake FnDda

According to Kawai, l'Inelk first became interested III IJt. tie Tokyo redevelopment ... resuit of the activities of the LitOe Tokyo Earthquake DI. saster Task Force. Thls troup conferred wi th blm and ... cured his assistance In .... n. ing emergMCY funds for till redevelopment program in • meeting held in Lo. An,el. early this year. Tbereafter

l Finch was kept Informed 01 the progreso of the Tuk Fore. and hence is aware and lII. terested in the Little Tokyo area.

The LTCDAC banquet I. heid each year to not only install the new otticlab but also to commemorate and IIv, recognition to the .chlev .. ments and progress of the Little Tokyo Redevelopment Project. "This year's banquet," Kawai stated, "will probably be the biggest one of all."

Altred T. Hatate, vice pre-sident of Merit Savlnp II Loan A.sn., and longtime JA-CLer from Detroit and no., in the Downtown L.A. chap. ter. will be installed as the LTCDAC presidenl HatAte d currently National JACL trea. surer.

BERKELEY-Application for a Berkeley UnWed Schoni DistTict position of Coordinat-or of Asian American Studies (pre-school through ad u I t education) must be made by June IB, according to the school personnel oUjce, 1414 Walnut St. (644-6153).

Appointment is effective Ju· Iy I, 1971: the salary com-mensurate with education and experience. Background in teaching, Asian American his-tory and demonstrated leader-ship in Asian comrnun.ity groups is desirable.

West L.A. endotses city school bond issues

Passage 01 Prop. A on the May 25 Los Angeies baUot to rebuild or replace pre-1933 built public scbools received ~ndorsement 01 lhe West L.A. JACL board. it was announced by George Kanegai, presidenl

The board heard Dr. Byrl Robinson, University Adult

School principal, explain the meuuxe.

5.25%5.75% Palo Alto Nisei parenti ask for Nihongo class

PALO ALTO-N,.ei parents are urging the Palo Alto School Board to offer courses in the Japanese language next year. The subject was debated at the trustee meetin,; May 3 but no decision was made.

Mrs. Jan e t t e Arakawa, mother of several students In the district, said, "We are just beginning to get a feeling 01 pride at being Japanese ... I (eel the school district can help by having Japanese 01-lered."

School officials Rid • pre-liminary .tudy showed more than 70 junior and senior higb school students were interest-ed In Japanese. There are 88 students presently enrolled in Russian and 99 in Mandarin classe~,

Trustee. discussed pro~am costs and a1lernative plans, EUch as a summer course and one-year pilot plan_ One ques-tIoned the overempbilSis OD foreign languages

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Potshots

America, the Litlerful

PorUand Many Americans may des-

crfbe our society as being a "throw-away society" - one af convenience. Vance Pac.k-.,'d has called us the "waste-makers." There are too few number ot Items wbicb you ean purcbase nowadays which do not have extra. unneces-oary packaging and one-time usage.

Thank. to the publiCIty giv-en Earth Day by President Nixon last year, many public-Iplrited individuals, large cor-porations, etc., began discuss-ing our "wasteful" society mor~ openly. However, to o many ot us soon forgot that we still Utter the olher 364 days of the year. That day In April was only a briet (all too briel) reminder that the preservation ot our planet Earth Is becoming endanger-ed by the rapid consumption of the natural resources and continued misuse and overuse o{ tbe environmenL (How many times have you see D paper lttdiscriminately depo-sited on your lawn or along the blghway?)

We teach our children in achool that it is wrong to lit-ter, but few ot us question • elgarette out the car win-dow, a piece ot paper dropped below the seat at a ball game, or a piece of gum stuck bl>-low the lunch counter or seat.

What do foreigners see when they come to America? Lady Bird Johnson made an eUort to call our attention to beautifying America, but little was actually done besides set-ting aside some wilderness areas for national parks.

Orel ooians have loU been proud ot their scenic beauty, gTeen trees, and snow-cover~ ed mountains. Tourists come trom throughout lhe nation to visit the natural, tranquil , and "unspoiled" beauty o! Oregon (pronounced Orygun, please) .

Unfortunately, what greets tourists is ugly bottles, cans, and paper indiscriminately tossed trom cars, Ii tiered campgrounds. and general container pollution.

Some Oregonians are asking the State Legislature to pass a law tG help slop this pol-lution. A 5c deposit on all beverage containers, plus a ban on pull-tab containers is included in House Bill 1036. It would m a k e it law to charge 5c on aU beverage con-tainers (deposit and no-dep-oit, bottle. and can~ by July 1, 1972.

Tbls bill passed the. House of Representatives wit h 0 u t much trouble. Now it ~ in the Senate and a strong in-dustry lobby has made the Issue more debatable and IOmewhat doubUul.

Those favoring the legisla-tion are largely environment-alists, young people, and anti-litter advocates. They present-ed lengthy testimony before the Senale Committee wblch indicated lhat the no-deposit

CALENDAR PSWDy~;X a: 1 Fi~iA~~Y~anta

Maria Jrs host. lieattle-ComOl Queen coronation.

Nonvay Center.

EDC-B~!a)1fi. C:~~d~r~ 'lua . Gardena Vauey-Coronatfon ball.

Gen. Rosecrans VFW Hall,

&l~6~~t~~~~ r~h~ 'H~pe United Church of Christ. 7:30 p.m.

West VaUey-Cull Heritage .. tt •. Grace UnJled Methodlsl Church. Saratoga. 7:30 p.m .; Mrs Florence Yoshiwara, spkr

I an Gabriel Valley-Scholarship Award Night, Japanese Comm

AJ ~~'eJ:~h~;~!~ab:wfi~'i tourn, Mel's Bowl.

Gardena Valley-Nt s e I \V e e k queen candidate coronaUon ball, VFW HaU, Western & 162nd St., Bob Bergara 's band

!:.as t Los Angeles-Emerald Ball. Montebello Country Club, 7 p.m. dance, 9 p ,m .

May 23 (Sund.ay) PSWDC-San Diego JACL hOsts :

2d Qtrly Session. Nisei VFW

n:n~ :~~~~~ I , 1Hfi s'~;0 c~·~e. tery, 10 a.m.

Slolcramento-Socud Service In!or-maUon Day . County Health Dept .. 2..?21 Stockton Blvd., 10 • . m.· .. p.m.

May 2'- (Monday) Berkeley- Bd Mtg, American

S&L. 7 '30 p.m. May Z6" ()10nd1l,')

"Monterey Penln::.ula-Bd l\'ltg. J ACL Ra il . 7 :30 p ,ln

Gardena VaUe.\"-Golr tournament. Alondra Park. 9:1$ a,m.; Award Onr. Kyoto Sukiyaki. (BntTles due May \7),

"ay 28 (Friday) Sel.noco-Cen Mig. West Los Angeles-Benefit mO\lle.

Mahood Rec Clr. 6 p.m, 1\11.)' ~S-30

MDC-Jr J ACL workshop, Northfield Inn. Southfield, Mich.

May 30 (Sunday) DC-Memorlal Da y Rites.

;\.rllnrton Nat'] Cemetery. Mal· 31 (Monday)

&an F'ral\clsco-'temorial Oav .servlee. Gold~n Gatt Nat" Cem~tery. 10 am.; ShlC Suci.).'lmo, spkr

June J (Tuesday) P SWOC-Ntsei Relays Corrun Mtt,

Japlnese ChlUTlber ot Cornm, Rm 206, 1,25 Weller St ,. Los Anlelu, 8 p.m

ConLra ~~~~!..~~~tu:~h~ llacu' Bay Area Communlt.y-New tsui

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A ~~:.~~~~~?U{;~~~~ Vbla United Methodlst Church. ' :SO p _rn

.rU1)~ I (Sunda.vl P WDC-Nisei Relays. Franklln

HS Field, 9 a.m eaer&1TIento - COmlTt Picnic:, Elk

Grove Park, 11 I.m

Pro • • W:~I~t!..~~eUtt) Jun~ 9 (Wednesila.1l

OrAllie County-Bd Mt&'. 8a.nk af Tokyo, Santa An •• 8 p.m.

June I%-oU Xden Tawnshlp-Saulr, "Eden

COmm C\r .Junr 11 ($Ulld.A,.v)

.. haH Vall~y-Barbecue. Bolldo Park.

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bottle (which make~ up 55% ot total beer and soft drink sales) and the lhrow-away can are the major villains. They argue that the deposit would oUer an incentive to not lit-ter, and the pull-tab ban would remove a "health baz-urd".

The proponents asserted that an Oregon Litter Survey (conducted in three cities dur-ing March, 1971) showed that throw-a ways accounted tor over 95 % ot the litter by the piece. It also said that t b e throwaway is 21 times more likely lo be a lilter than the deposit bottle. A Ic-deposit bottle has 10 times gt'eater chance ot becoming litter Ulan a 5c-deposit bottle. Further-more, a significant percentage of paper litter was packaging and carrying containers tor beverage botUes.

Some children asserted that the 5c deposit would help "to make Idds ricb , and tbe high-ways clean." Ecologists em· phasized that we now have a case ot dwindling natura] re-sources, and the need to cur-tail consumption.

Strong opposition has been generated by industry. The bottlers say it will mean un-employment in their plants and glass and aluminum plants. Grocery store owners say that the lack ot storage space makes the bill unfeas-ible. The industry sees this piece of legislation as un.fair and dlscriminatory.

Within the next few weeks the Legislature will either pass, kill, or table HB 1036. It will make a deep mark on the beverage industry, the many proponents and oppo-nents, and the highways. parks and front lawns.

Regardless of HB 1036 tbl. legislative drive has aHect-ed people. They have become more conscious of our litter-ing habits and need to clean-up our environment.

Furthermore, environment-alists have urged us to re-cycle materials like bottles

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Honolulu Despite the new abol"tion

law. the " 1 ' D d~ ' birth tolll& art up. In facl mort babies wtrt: born In Ha waii in 1970 than in any other year since 1962 Bh-ths in the state num-bered 16,463 last year com-pared to 15.668 in 1969. Th. 1970 total, however. is still be-low the high 01 17,932 rccord-cd In 1962. Researchers hav, alll'ibulcd the increased birth rate to a lRl'ge number 01 war babies now at ohlld-bearing ,ats. Divorces and annulmeat. rose to 2.589 in 1970. com-pared with 2.310 in 1069. And the r e were •. 132 ch ' ilian deatha in t970, comp.red with ( ,146 in 1969. Birlhs Icss deaths equaled 12,331 (01" 1970, Jiving a rate 01 natural in-crease o( 17.3 per 1,000 civi-lian residenls. Th. medin are "'~ IIsled as 25 Ipr Hawaii, compared wilh 27.8 n;tion-widc.

Crime Fil.

City employe., Fu conducted • bookie ope.-atlon out 01 a City office. It was palrontbed by bUlldred. at Clly-County employees. Vice Officer! said thai thousands at doUars a week in btLs on Mainland and local sports evcnts changed hand. through a betting sys-tem conducted in the City In· tormalions Systems Dcpt. Fu was a rOl1ner systems analyst in the dat_ processing opera-tion that scrves CiI), depart· ments. He quil his post abollt a month ago. He is now em-ployed by the Hawaii Govern· ment Elnpio),ees Assn. Fu was fined $500 bul ~Iagistrale Frank Takao suspended pay-ment or $400 o( lhal amount.

C"nJr~ssion~1 Score Sen. Hiram L. Four said in

WashiDlfton Mal' 3. " I lavor demonstrations by any 0 n e wilhin lhe limils o( the law, but 1 deplore such actions as the planned traffic tieup 10 disrupt governmenl operations iu our nation's capital. l also cannot condone the vandalism which I understand has oc-cun-ed

Friday, May n , 1971 DlUtY: Mr. Prafcleat, 'VI-etnam1zatiOft will DOt ~ • l8II ..... tiOl1 or. _c:e. ntha'

Nixon and Kerry • ~ti o n ot c:antinued ..... In an attA!mpt to prop up a govemm..,t whleb will fall u 800Il as we leave, wh etht!!'J' it be tomorrow or ten y ..... trom now.

Jerry Enomoto

Perspectives M eanlnr 01 'Firm. DIlle' (Onetime momber of the National JACL Board, Harold Gordon

previously contributed at National 1000 Club ebalrman, more recently ... national ebalrman, JACL legislative committee. Be also covered the last National Democratic Convention 113 the PC Chicago Editor.)

Setling • fi r m date, Mr, P resident, for withdrawal of American troops does not .ay anything to North Vietnam that they do not already know. On the other band, oet· ting • firm date will COI1\'ey the message to Tbleu and Ky that the jig i. u p - that if they wish to save their skin.o they had better allow a broad based government to be form· ed wbieb wiU negotiate an Immedia te cease tire and whicb will bold truly tree and honest elections. Having done this, if Thleu and Ky fear for their own salet,y, they can fly to Switzerland to enjoy a Ilfe of ease with the funds in their numbered accounlzl there.

• • • B:r HAROLD GORDON KALEIDOSCOPE_I am I11nI that all of us remem·

ber as kids the teleecope-Jike toy, in which we looked into a coDStanUy IbJftiDg myriad of colors. Recent montru remind me of thiIi ever-&hifting, always-chang. ing scene.

Shuld I t. 1l \IOU tDh4t I eonaider to be ummg? Wha t I eonaider to be tD r ~ " t hle of South Vletnam ar e so lncensed at

We found that most of the the heavy losses or their people there did not eve n troops in the Laotian opera-know the difference bet ween tion designed merely to pro-communism and democracy. teet withdrawing American They oniy wanted to work troops, t h at Thieu fears he in their rice paddies without rna\' not be r ... elected in Oc. helicopters strafing them and tot.er no ma tter what election bombs with napalm burning frauds are committed. their \~JJages and tearing their country apart.

PRESIDENT: You wouldn't have us bug out without gua· ranteeing tha t the South Viet.-namese have a democratic

Casualty Roll

PRESIDENT: But il we t ai l in Vietnam, the blood·bath that follows would be a blot on American history.

PACIFIC CITIZEN

KERRY: Mr. Pr..tdent, the Kennedy subcommittee b ... pieced together a picture ot the terrible cost ot the In· dochlna war:

V.I . S. VJet.

~ ~=~ : : : J: : ~ 1~ : ~ g= ~~deti · :: :: ::: : m:= Rdugee8 •••.••..•• .••••• • 1.500,000

Tbat isn't exactly a bubble bath Mr. Presidentl In issu· Ing his committee report, Sen-ator Kennedy stated " We can-not allow the spectre of a highly dubious 'bloodbath' of the future to bllnd us tram the 'bloodbath' that is going on today--every day-in Viet.-Dam and aU ot Indochina ,"

Vietnamization, Mr. Presi· dent, merely means the sub· s titution at Vietnamese bodi ... for Americans. We are ask-ing Vietnamese to die so that Thieu and Ky, who are univ-ersally hated In South Viet· n.am , ~ be maintained in power 'VItb some of our sUJr port troops and with our mas-sive bombings. It is because Thleu and Ky lack the sup· port of their own people that we have had to adopt the tactics at free fire zones and searcb and destroy missions kllling innocent women and cblldren and crealing mil· lions of refugees. Vj etnamiza-tion could I a s t another ten years and there stin would be no will to tight on the part of the South Vietnamese.

Mr. President, my fellow veterans and 1 have come to Washington to undertake one last mission, to search out and destroy the las t vestige of this barbaric war, to pacify our own hearts, to conquer the hate and the fear that have driven this coun try these las t ten years and more, and so when in thirty years trom now our brothers going down the s treet without a leg, with-out an arm, or a face. and small boys ask why, we will be able to say "Vietnam" and not mean a desert, not a fi l· thy, obscene memory but in .. stead tbe p lace wbere Amer· ica finally turned and where soldiers like us helped in the turning.

'How do you feel about adding other Oriental. to our organization., Mn, Jones?'

CAPITAL SCENE: David Ushio

First Impressions

Gradual Withdrawal

The gradual withdrawal of American troops, m e r e l y means that those luckless Americans remaining, will be more and more vulnerabJe to attack with eacb contingent at troops coming back to the United States. Between now and October when you have promised your next annollD.ce-ment of further troop Wlth· drawal, we c a n expect the death of a t loost another 1" 000 A me r i c a n s and the wounding of many times tha t number.

Mr. President, you cannot expect American boys who bave fought and watched their buddies die, to watch quletly while American lives are lost so that we can exercise the incredible arrogance of Viet· namizing the Vietnamese. The b"aggings, and refusals of ':lor troops to obey orders sending them on combat missions, will increase as their morale de-creases, and as more of them become dope addicts because of the increasing supply or heroin obligingly furnished, for protit.. by the corrupt gen· eraLs surrounding Thieu and Ky. As this process develops, we will be faced at last with the spectacle of an entire ar· my refusing to obey the com· mands of their officers to fight and die for the biggest noth· ing in history.

A MIstake

Mr. P resident, each day while we facilitate the pro· cess by whieb the United States washes ber bands of Vietnam, we are asking our boys to give up their lives so t hat the Uni ted States does· n' t have to admit something

Comment: light at the End of the Tunnel

This " light" is not the one promised us by L .B.J. an d Dean Rusk - but the light ot peace brought about by an aroused public that have had it ,vith the war and want out now.

The politicos in Washington (with a few shining excep· tions wbo have consistently opposed the war) are slowly (too slowly ) becoming aware ot the fact t bat there are signs all around us that the " turning" which Lt, Kerry speaks or is taking place.

The tirst indication was the J an. 15 Gallup Poll wblch ,..,. ported that 73 % or Ameri· cans favor the setting of Dec. 31 1971, .. a finn date for withdrawal ( an increase from 55 % only last September).

Madison, Wis., the same electorate which voted 27,000 to 21,000 aga inst \vilbdrawal in 1968, voted in a new r e-l erendum several weeks ago two to one for immediate \vithdrawal (31 ,500 to 15,900) , Wisconsin State Senator Fred Resser was quoted after the referendum as saying "The people a r e frustrated . They are red up with the war, It Is a message to the govem.-ment that they want out and want out now."

On April 12, an news story out 01 Galesburg, a conserva-tive Southern lllinois town, quotes Tbomas B. Bering, the city manager: "That a ttitude (pro war) has switched com· pletely, Tbe number or peo-ple in Galesburg who would say our action in Vietnam. is correct has changed drastic· ally. I would say that people in Galesburg would like this country to get out ot it com· pletely _ now. U

Super-hawks Chauge

the entire world knows-that From Griffin, Ga., on April we bave made a mistake, 18 came the story headlined They have to die so that you, "EVEN SUPER·HAWKS OF Mr. President, won't be- 'PATRIOTISM BELT' ARE and these are your words - SICK OF VIET," The story "the firs t President to lose 11 tells a t Rep. John J , F lint, war." Jr., a former superhawk who

• A. month has passed ainu

Da ve Ushlo repor ted to I\tlke i\!asaoka'i ofllce as the assistant Washln(ton oI ACL Repr ese D ta ~ tin. Tbls II his "maiden col-umn" thou,b h e hal prepand several special sto rln which bave a.lru dy appeared in the Paclftc Citizen_Editor.

Washington

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Driving along the ~rge Washington Parkway over· looking the Potomac River, my 5rst impressions of Wash· ington were blghly favorable. The beautiful azalea and dog· wood blossoms were replacing the last remnants at the sa· kura, and the lush greenery of the East provided a marked contrast to the I1lgged, bleak maj esty of Utah. Washington'. collection 01 monuments, mu .. seums, and historical minutiae were oveN1elming to me tor their cultural value.

My wile, Judi, and I bad just driven across the gee-grapblcal heartland of Amer· ica, quickly sampling a taste at the diversity which makes up our nation. FTom the Rockies whleb ' we bad con-sidered home, we traveled across Kansas whieb offered little in terms of scenery but conversation with the people we met supplied us with a firs t hand view a t wby Pres· ident Nixon could dare speak on a university campus in this locale.

The Ozarks of Missouri supplied us an inslgbt Into the life style of m any at the char· acters of whom we had read in tbe novels of Our school days.

The other states Came and went as we pushed on toward the East. The most vivid memo ori .. or the trip came during a day in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia. Tbe poverty tbat shocked John Kennedy in 1960 shock· ed me in 1971. It still exists,

The comments of the peo-pIe ' who readily admit that they had never met a person from west of K en t u c k y startled me, People who talk.· ed of being born, raised and buried in a very small area, wbo express litUe bo"" at leaving the conditions of pov· erty, renewed my personal conviction in the responsi-bility of Americans to eIimi· nate these conditions.

We are asking you, Mr. Pre· has now voted against the sident, and all Americans to extension at the draft on the think about this because how basis that bis constituents who do you ask a man to be the were tormerly saying, t'Win last man to die in Vietnam? the war in Vieblam,IJ are now W. came at right time •• • How do you ask a man to be saying, "Get out or Indochl-the Jast man to die for a na ." But soon we were in Wash-mistake? Tbe Lt. William Calley al· ington enjoymg the beautiful

fair finally brought about the ~pnng . (Everyone keeps tell· PRESIDENT: We bave tried awakening of millions at l1.'g us. that we came at the

to negotia te a peace in Paris Americans to the atrocities TIght time.) A week went by but the Viet Cong and the we have been committing in and Washington wa~ tr~s North Vietnamese refu se to Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia forme.d from . a ~autitul C!ty negotiate. in the name of protecting the enJoymg S~nng mto a CIty

• . , • shout.! of the wbite col-lar workers encouraging the cops to arrest anyone who had long hair.

It was over a!i soon as it started although similar scenes were enacted throughout the morning. 7,000 arrested.

It's quiet uow in the city . The obvious Issues are still being hashed over .. they have been time and time again. The morality of the Indochina War, the re-order-ing 01 our national priorities, the morality of civil disobe-dience, who actually runs this country - special j n t e T est money or the people? It goes on and OD.

Worriel and hope • • •

But what has been bother· ing me tor many, many months and wbat exploded in front or me on the streets of Wasbington is the hate and the blanket condemnation that emanate from all sides.

For example, what causes the outwardly dignified white collar businessman to smile and cheer as law officers beat u p dishelved youthful demo onstrators? What causes the same men and women to use foul obscenities in demanding the pollce to arrest anyone wbo has long hair, who is not dressed in a coat and tie, to disregard the rlgbts guaran· teed by our Constitution just to get " the filth" of! the streets?

On the other hand, what cause young people to label anyone who wears a coat and tie as a "cop out"? 'What causes them to insult older ""ople just because they ap-""ar to be older than 40? What cause the young to shout " pig" at anyone in a blue uni-form or in any uniform?

The mentallty of these com-batants re5ects on both sides the same mentality that calls for Lt.. Calley to be a national hero.

It's the sarne mentality that led General DeWitt to pro· claim, t . A J ap is a J ap."

It is also the mentallty of both young and old that on one band, blankeUy condemns all the old as being rigid and unresponsive, and which chas-tizes all the young as being radical and unappreciative on the other.

This mentality cries out that anyone who is different is no good. Anyone who disagrees is worthless.

Why don't we listen to eacb other? Can we not learn any· thing at worth from one an· other?

We call for human dignity but we can't listen to wbat individuals have to say,

Washington is exciting, I like it. My bo"" for the future is that my questions do not remain unanswered.

KERRY: Mr. President, the peoples there "against aggres- ch o k ~ . by Vll'tual martial l aw. only thing they will not ne· sian from the north". Dnvmg along the same gotiate is 0 u r insistence on Greater than the impact of beautiful P arkway .near the maintaining Thleu and Ky in tbe 300,000 to 500,000 protest- Potomac, the . bea.utilu.1 bIos· power against the will ot the ors who assembled in Wasb. soms were still m VIew on South Vietnamese. All the oth· ington on April 24, was the Monday mornm!l May 3, but er points are negotiable once impact or armless and legless a strange and slckenmg leel-we have set a firm date for Vietnam veterans walklng up mg en gulled the area. Heb· wi thdrawal. in front of the television cam· ~ o pters hovered over Wash· Hosokawa-

eras tossing their medals over mgton l ike a small s?,ann . of PRESIDENT: Once you set the fence in front at tbe Ca . locust. Heimeted ~Idiers .Wlth

a date we say, in effect, to the .. ( first in bayonets VIsible lined bfldges Continued from Front Par e enemy: "We qult, regardless ~;ric~~~:;'ry>" and th e and major intersections of the ot what you do", then we bursting tears because of the cIty; B ertz rental truc~s were of tbe population, Japanese destroy any incentive the ene- memory ot their dead bud- stahoned at ~e y pomts to Americans today have djstin-my might have to negotiate dies whom they fel t had r eal. serve as addltional paddy guished themselves in almost and of course we destroy our I earned the medals _ the wagons. S qua d cars and every major field of endeav· bargaining position with re- ~ act ot the impDSing pre- groups ot police on ~cooters or." gard to POW's. s.1ce or Lt. Kerry hl.msel! and ~ d ready to spring mto ac· From an interview with

The Negolialion. bl b t · tion Gov. John A. Burns of Ha· his unanswera ere orlC. . It' was as though a foreign , waii in the May 4 Honolulu

KERRY: Mr. President, you The Mcqovem • Batfi ~l d invading enemy had overrun Star· Bulletin: "The Governor

Since I left the Olflc:e of National President, 1 have been swept uf in a Job that has involved the constant putting out 0 fires. In the midst of all this have been some experiences in the last eouple of months that have provided change of pace ana stimulation .

I recall a recent mvitation to share my experiences at Soledad with a graduate law seminar at Stanford University, One observation I came away with was that there was a healthy combination of respect for the sanctity of the individual, as well as the law, among those future lawyers, At. a matter of fact some of them had actually tried some criminal cases in court as part of their training,

I also talked to a number of classes at Blackford High School in San JOIe and found a significant amount of interest. When you talk to high school stu-