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The Nome nugget., 1947-01-15
MIR. POLET REPORTS ON JUNEAU TRIP

ing of the Development Board in Juneau, arrived there on Monday at which time the Board recon vened as there was still a quorum of member present. The meeting had been called for the previous week but two members had been detained by weather. Those pres ent were Wilbur Wester of An chorage, J. A. Talbot of Ketchi- kan, Governor E. Gruening and George Sundborg, general mana ger of the Board. The Fairbanks member, l.. Nerland, had returned to Fairbanks. The session lasted two days during which time the Second Division report was dis cussed and incorporated into the Boards program which will be submitted to the Legislature
 The Board did not include items which are of immediate local in- terest as it is suggested that the program as a whole be submitted to the delegation of the Division for their attention and support.
 MT. Polet met this morning with the members of the Legislative Committee of the Chamber of Commerce, the Nome Develop ment Board and the Second Divi- sion legislative delegation and presented the program for the coming session of the Legislature.
 While in Juneau, MT. Polet, who is Grand President of the Pio- neerS conferred with the Grand Secretary of the organization. Mrs. Dora Sweeney, and plans were made for three day session. The first evening of the session, all delegates will be guests of Juneau Igloo No. 6 and Auxiliary No. 6.
 On the second day of the session the Grand Igloo will meet in the Odd Fellows Hall and organize. Several Igloos have offered CO., operation. Ketchikan Auxiliary No. 2 will send a team to exem- plify a flag drill.
 Juneau Igloo plans to put on an initiation of candidates. A memo rial exercise honoring the broth CTS and sisters who have passed beyond will be presented. A ban quet is planned in the Gold Room of the Baranoff Hotel and several prominent citizens will be speak CTS.
 MT. Polet called on Homer Gar win, president of the Alaska Ter ritorial Chamber of Commerce in Juneau and ascertained that a call for meeting of the Chamber will be made soon, the date being set for February "A and 25. The con tinuation of the Territorial organ iZation will be discussed.
 Don Foster, Superintendent of the Alaska Native Service dis cussed the coming Northwestern Alaska Fair and assured MT. Polet of his active and wholehearted CO., operation.
 While in conference with the officials of the Alaska Native Service MT. Polet obtained the consent of the department to the re-establishment of the Douglas herd. 500 reindere will be trans ported next summer to this herd. In the meantime preparations will be made of housing and the selec- tion of native families to make up
The Nome nugget., 1947-01-15

Bees eat 20 pounds of honey in making 1 pound of wax.
The Nome nugget., 1947-01-15
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 Tickets at these bargain fares will be sold to mid night April l. excursion travel to be completed by April 2O For help in planning your winter excursion bv Flying Clipper, get in touch with Pan American.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-01-01

of lies, misconceptions, distortions.
But that is what he must think
with.
These are the tools there isn't
anything else. If you don't have
scalpel, you have to use jack
knife. So this is theorigin of de-
cision: words. often the carriers of
prejudice.
It is hard to get people to ex-
anime words carefully before they
take them in. The stereotypes of
the Negro, the Chinese, the Conn.,
munist. the Japanese, the Italians,
are built around the casually ac-
cepted phrase. These sterotypes
are the mortar and bricks which
the propandists use when he wants
to build a wall of prejudice and
misunderstanding between groups
within the nation. This is stuff for
the man who wants to prevent
world peace and understanding.
If democracy is to work, there
must be easy and free communica-
ton between every group, race,
religion and nationality.
The barriers built by words car
rying prejudice, and barriers erect
ed out of thes tereotypes promoted
by the racist, may result in a
breakdown of world understand
ing, lead to world prejudice, re-
taliation and war.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-01-01
By FRANK MIYAMoTo

l generally shy away from such
an assignment as, THE Future of
the Nisei in the Pacific North
west" for social scientists have
made only modest beginnings in
methods of prediction, and pro-
phecies into the social future
therefore are subject to consider
able error. Further. If some critic
inquiries, What future ?" ana
Whose future" I was talking
about, l should be routed into ever
more meaningless generalities.
But most people enjoy playing the
game of fortune telling, no less
than others, and in that spirit /
venture a few guesses.
To give my guesses an aura of
scientific validity, l want at least
to state the criteria by which 1
make my prophecies.
First, the best guess as to how
people will behave in the future is
the way they behaved in the past
in given situations. Second, since
behavior is subject to change, the
above requires a correst factor;
and so we state that changes are
accounted for by the trends which
may be observed. Finally, since
trends likewise are subject to
fluctuations and sharp breaks, a
further correction is made by get
ting at the developing tendencies
of a given group at a given time.
Indignation Held Vital
Having stated my criteria by the
rules of present-day thinking, /
may now make prognosticatiofss
with the snug assurance that
whatever l say is irreproachable.
One of the major subjects OF
discussion today is the question of
whether or not the Nisei are "inte-
grating" themselves into Amer
lean society.
My reaction, admittedly a dog
matte one, is that that problem
will take care of itself.
Outlook Favorable
In many respects the power of
the Japanese Government in the
previous decade Il here distin-
guish between power and culture)
was more of a disadvantage to the
Nisei. for the American condemna-
ton of japanese policy often be-
came re-directed to a condemna-
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-01-01

secured and acceptance won de-
ponds on the individual Nisei.
Merely to leave the west coast
is not a key to abundant living
and social acceptance, although I
believe these are more easily Sc
cured in the midwest and east be-
cause the populations in general
have not acquired the deep preju-
dices against the Nisei. There,
person of Japanese parentage is
considered first as an individual
and not as a member of a racial
group.
I do not criticize in the least
Nisei who have returned to tbs
west coast. And l do not criticize
or praise those who choose to re-
main away. The whole thing
seems to me an individual matter.
Happiness Comes First
If an individual is satisfied with
his lot, wherever he is, there let
him remain. There is little worth
in being a martyr to the cause of
racial assimilation and striving to
live out what might be an in
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-01-01

Tom Kanno, who was active as
a JACL member here prior to
World War II, dropped in from
Cincinnati, o., to visit friends in
Seattle and vicinity. He was to
have left for Cincinnati today.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-01-01
BY ROBERT HosoKAwA

Many opinions have been ex-
pressed regarding the opportuni-
ties for Nisei in geographical
areas other than the western
slope where they were born and
reared.
Sociologists. anthropologists and
economists both amateur and
professional = have writer
widely on the favorite aspects
of population dispersal. This
was especially true during the
nearly-forgotten days of "reloca-
ton fever"
There was much heartache and
loneliness in the resettlement of
evacuees. Some found themselves
in little towns and villages, the
only brown-skinned Americans for
miles around. Others poured into
labor-hungry cities like Chicago
where there was no apparent sat
uration point.
Stresses Gains In East
AS the months passed, and the
Pacific coast was reopened to
evacuees, many Nisei returned TO
their home communities.
There are those who would
argue the wisdom of that move
ment back to an area where race
is still an ugly and prime con-
sideration in measuring the worth
of man.
think most individuals who
have lived both in the west and
the east will concede that voca-
tional opportunities are m C h
greater away from the Pacific
coast. The economic and social
gains made by those who mi
grated eastward and stayed are
evidence enough.
It's Up to Individual
There is room in almost every
vocation and profession for a
Nisei who can qualify. 1 believe
the facility with which jobs are
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-01-01
Where Should Nisei Settle Down. Is
Wherever HE is HAPPY, WRITER THINKS

tensely lonely life in some mid
west or eastern community. Eco
nomic position is insignificant if
the individual and his family are
not happy because of one reason
or another.
Many Nisei with good jobs have
turned their backs on the mid
stream of America and have salts
fled their longings for life among
their kind in the west. If this
makes for happiness, those Nisei
are far better off. But if upon
his return he encounters the bar
riers of traditional Discrimination,
there is nothing he can cry about,
unless -.
Yes, unless, he is one of many
earnest Nisei many are vet
Grams = now leading a long and
challenging fight for more UNDER
standing on the west coast, Those
of us who remain away from our
home communities and who are
doing our own public relations
Jobs for the Nisei all over the
country have an easy time in COM
parison to the Nisei engaged
actively in the rough fight in
Washington, Oregon a nd Cali
fornia.
Says Fight Is Never-Ending
There are definite evidence of
Continued on Page A.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-01-01
Editors MiyamOo assistant professor
Sociology
participated scientific studies
ment.)

ton of Japanese Americans, but
that situation for the present has
been liquidated.
The remarkable record of the
Nisei soldiers in the American
Army also did much to bring to
the support of the Nisei a host of
fair-minded Caucasians. This is
not to say that ceilings of social
opportunities do not exist. nor
that everything is bright and
rosy" but prospects are at least
made favorable.
Indignation" is a matter of &C.
ceptance by the majority group,
on the one hand, and of personal
ity, residential diffusion and eco
nomic opportunities of the minor
ity on the other. If and when we
learn more about human nature,
or are willing to attack social
problems with an attitude of ex-
Fermentation, indignation" may
becomes subject to social controls,
but until then. 1 repeat, the pro-
cess will largely take care of
itself.
Future Linked to Society
A decade ago there were Issei
who shook I;ieir heads disapprov-
ingly and doubted that the Nisei
would ever make anything OF
themselves" but present indica-
tions are that there are many
Nisei with the imagination, bold
ness, and persistence to gain
economic advancement. In tn e
nature of the situation, much of
this ascendance is likely to occur
for the Nisei in individual enter
prises both on the farm and in
/ business.
/ suspect that the ceilings of
economic opportunities in eau
casian-operated firms will increas-
ingly drive the Nisei into private
enterprises, though obviously not
all can take such recourse. The
immediate problem centers on the
question of whether the present
shaky economy of Japanese Amer
leans can stabilize itself suffici-
emily to weather the expected
postwar depressions.
Clearly, the future of the Nisei
is related to the future of society
in general, and it is to the interest
of the Nisei to note general sooie-
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-01-01
By AUBREY e. HAAN

There are meanings and mean
ings for the words you use. The
confusion of their meanings and
usage often prevents straight
thinking, builds misconception.
There are words that keep you
from thinking.
Some words help to initiate your
ego by their implications or
others inferiority.
All words of broad sense are
packed with connotations from
real and vicarious experiences
which make their meanings a lit
tie different for each of us.
Other words reveal the stress
es and strains of the individuals
personality by the frequency or
the strangeness of their usage.
In the matter of discrimination
against races and religion, words
are. wicked carriers of prejudice.
AS such they are exported from
region to region, country to coun-
try. The South, through the spoken
and printed word, the pat phrase,
the called name, has exported its
prejudice and told the story of its
discrimination to the entire ma
ton. ;" So also do California ex-
port anti-Oriental symbols, and
New York its anti-Semitic phrases
and life.
These words and phrases keep
you from h kin g intepigently
about other people, new problems.
Then there are the ego-stroking
words, the words that imply infer
iority in other religions or other
races, or nationalities, or other
economic levels: wop. dago, chink,
Niger, Polack, hunky, Jap, kike,
darby, sheeny, kraut, frog, yell
low belly These words are weap-
ons to strike people who are diff
-ferent, to flay those of other re-
ligions, to establish our superiority
to those about us.
The work of words can be seen
in this instance: the individual in
our case faces a problem; 1t is the
familiar one of whether or not to
restrict the use of property to
Caucasians, whatever that is.
Searching in his not too we'll
furnished mind for the words
with which to think, our subject
comes from like "'nigger," 'da-
60" The emotional tone is hate
full, bitter, derogatory. They car
~ with them tremendous burden
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-01-01
Classified Ads

GIRL WANTED for general house
work in informal home. East
0045.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-01-01
Signs
of
The Times

There was a time when the
Nisei made up the majority in
Alaska salmon cannery crews. A
job in Alaska then was T II f
JOB for the Nisei seeking a small
fortune.
Things, however. are different
now
Only seven. or perhaps eight,
Nisei hit the Alaska trail last
summer
Present lukewarm enthusiasm
indicates the fingered number
won't increase much this coming
season.
AFTERTHOUGHT: What are
we going to do about the graves
of Issei buried in the heart of
lonely Idaho?
Like the Indians who always
returned to their happy hunting
grounds, the Issei and the Nisei
are slowly coming home an d
setting up businesses on Main and
jackson streets.
The transition of the Japanese
from the unsettled to the settled
is not a pretty picture to watch
Most of the people are still in
state of lethargy. They don't
know what they want, and they
surely suffer miserably from a
queer defeatist complex.
But despite all this, we are con-
fident the people would soon snap
out of it and again rebuild their
community.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-01-01

Editors note: Robert HOsOk-
ava Is teaching journalism and
English at Winona State Teach
ers' college in Winona, MINI.
Previously, he worked as copy
reader on the Des MOines Regis
ter (sowa) and also as news ed
itor of two weekly papers In In
dependence, Mo-, which is Presi-
dent Truman's home town. He
also found time to accept a fell
lowship at the University of Wis
consin while receiving his mas
ter's degree In jOurnalism.)
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-01-01
All Is Not Bright and Rosy
BUT THE NISEI ARE MIXIN6 WELL

tai trends such as the recent in
creases of population in COMMUNE
ties just outside the metropolitan
eenters. or the coming era of avia-
ton. At the same time, the
shadows cast on the Nisei's future
come from the disturbances in the
economic, political, and social pro-
cesses of modern society as a
whole, and these too, should be
matters of concern to us.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-01-01
Carriers Of Prejudice
the LANGUAGE OF DISCRIMINATION

Editors note: Following is a
condensation of an article deal
ing with the language Of dis
elimination written by Aubrey
f. Ham in q recent edition of
the Pacific Citizen. Mr.. Ham
Is principal of Stewart Training
school of the University Of
Utah.)
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-01-01
SUGGESTS:

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The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-01-01
Motsuokos of Montana
Visit Shieoyos Here

Mr.. and Mrs. James Matsuoka
and their daughter, Janice, and
son, Richard, of Great Falls,
Mont, and Mrs. T. Matsuoka, also
of Great Falls, are visiting DR..
and Mrs. Paul S. Shigaya here.
The Matsuolas last week were
guests at a family reunion held in
the Shigaya residence. Besides
the Matsuokas and the Shigayas.
those present were Mr.. and Mrs.
Ed Natori and their sons. Kenneth
and Alfred, Mr.. and hrs. Ray XII
yohara and their daughter, Bea-
trice, and son, Dennis. Mrs. Kiyo-
hara, Miss Mosi Kiyohara, Mr..
and Mrs. K. Natori, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Mimbu and their sons,
John and David, and Miss Mar
garet Ouchi.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25
.3-Business Opportunities

FOR SALE-Will sacrifice a going
Mercantile business On the main
business street in the city Of
Wilmington. for immediate sale.
Ill health is the reason. If in
terested, I invite the strictest
investigation. Price much less
than inventory cost. Mostly new
and staple merchandise. Mems
and ladies ready-to-wear, work
clothes, shoes, etc. Purchaser
can lease store as long as de-
sired. Excellent location. Not in
terested in curiosity seekers.
Apply Box CT. care Star-NeWs.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25

PUPPIES: PUREBRED, deworm-
ed, healthy, 2 months old. Cock
err Spaniels, Chinese Chow, males
$4,000, females $40. 90, Toy Fox
Terriers, Spitz, Pit Bulldogs,
English Shepherds, males SIS. 90,
females $1,000. Shipped COD
Curry's Kennel, Owings, S. C..
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25

FOR SALE - Purebred healthy
dewormed pups, two months old.
Pit Bulls. toy fox terriers, old
time English shepherds, Eskimo
spitz, Belgium Shepherds, toy
spitz, rat terriers, toy shepherds,
males $500 females So. 90.
Border collies, German policies
Scotch c%ollies, males $4,000, fe-
males $1,000. Ship COD approval
Health certificate furnished.
John Willis, Owings, S. C.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25

CONCRETE BLOCK MACHINERY
THE AGITAMPER (hydraulical-
ly operated) is the only block
machine licensed to make the
attractive new Old English drop
side block Cooks like wood
dropsiding). Also standard sizes.
The Agitamper makes 1000 to
1900 highest quality blocks per
day. Price $3.50 On demon
stration here. Immediate de-
livery. Pallets, mixers, con-
veyors. Leslie Miller Supply
Inc, 687 Broadway, Bedford,
Ohio. Telephone 583 or sos.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25

FOR SALE = Reasonable, Kelvi-
nator electric range, just over
hauled table top gas range, coal
and wood range with water oil
clrculator for five or six rooms.
$40 Central Blvd.
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2-Auio. Trucks

1887 CONVERTIBLE sedan. Excel
lent condition. Will trade or sell.
Dial POTTS. Can be seen at 2312
So. Front st.
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U-For Sale Farm Equipment

FOR SALE 10 bales first Gu!
cotton linters. Superior SEED q
Feed Co., Ellington, N. I,
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Extra thin keen blade of
"Super-Tuff" steel properly
heat treated and hardened.
Black satin finish head. Hick-
DRY handle. 35a-in. cut.
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Ironing
Board
3.ss

S d y o
board for long
service. Top is
Is X 54-in. Easy
hand grip to p
and close.
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Durable wire covered with
synthetic rubber. Rack is ex-
ira deep. Heavy nodded rub
Der feet raise it for drainage.
Red. white or black.
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No other drill like. it! Eff
cient streamlined design. All
gears entirely enclosed.
Strong, light, rustproof. Hol-
low handle for drill storage.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1947-12-18
Football Banquet
Considered Success

One hundred and one guests
heard the plaudits of the 1947 ver-
sion of the Caldwell Redskins,
Thursday evening, at the annual
football banquet held in the First
Presbyterian church.
Sponsored by the Caldwell Boos-
ter club, members of the football
team. manager and cheerleaders
were guests for a fried chicken din
ner.
President Don A. Hamilton spoke
briefly, after which the program
turned over to Dwain Dyer, super
intendent of schools, who served as
POSTMASTER.
Those appearing on the program
were Attorney L. c. Young, John
Wilbur Hazard, Rev. George S. Viii
son, Gilbert w. Weekley, principal
of the school, Marvin p. Wood, di-
rector of the band and Gerald Ram
sey, who coached the team to their
seasons record. Each member of the
squad was introduced by Coach
Ramsey.
L. E. Potts brought the evening
to a close by showing slides of diff
ferent football games and the swing
band in action.