Rain Does Not Dampen Spirit

PIRSPEC.:.. CIVIL RIGHTS, EXECUTIVE Jerry ~ REORGANIZATION TOP CONCERN • Enomoto lIJ Jerry Enomoto Releases Mid·Biennium Nat'l Prtsldtnt fI) Report on State of Organization PR Kit PI ..ses M.mb.uhl, PubllClll.n Japan", Am"ICln CIUIIU !.till', US WtUtr $t., Los An,.1 .., Ca 90012 (213) MA 6·4471 The cNorful sheets of the SACRAMENTO - A mld at chapter, district and na Publl,hed W"klr beepl LI'I W"k of th. y,lt - ~ CIIIS Post.q. Plld at Los A."I." Call'. membership kit, complete with biennium r eport on the State tional levels both vertically creaUve letterheads, and ap of the Organization was under and horizontally. propriate texl;;, was a pleas study by members of the Na 4- Enable JACL stat! to Vol. 65 No. 19 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1967 Edit/ Bus. Office: MA 6·6936 TEN CENTS ure to sec. The National Mem tional JACL Board and Stat! function more effectively in bCrllhlp Committee, chaired this w eek. concert with volunteer officers. by James Kasahara, has done National President Jerry ''It we reach the last three a splendid job. Thanks too to Enomoto, in releasing the mid goals, we shall automatically David Miura, 2nd V.P ., for his biennium report, holed it WBS achieve the fil'st, It Enomoto counsel to the Committee, and impossible to cover all area. said. to Jeff Matsui for his staff - Just the important areas only A draft ot the reorganiza Rain does not assistance. in seeking some feedback. tion proposal is being con National Board members ex templated for distribution to H the Kit raises PSW mem pected to be present at the all chapters by early nexl year bership dramatically, and 8 Central California JACL Dis and if all goes well, Enomoto lorge number ot chapters use dampen spirit trict Councll convention in felt that National Council it, it would be great. How Fresno Dec. 2-3 at the Ha action can be expected at San ever, whether such occu.rs or cienda Motel have been In Jose with Implementation in not, I am happy enobgh to vited to discuss any issues. the 1968-70 biennium and in First JACL Japan tour ends after 2 weeks; see one of our national com In the area of civil rights, tull operation from 1970-72. Mas Satow, Pat Okura to make full report mittees come up with a con Enomoto urged that J ACL Unless untoreseen circum crete product. ~1'ore and more, "still needs to move from talk stances develop, the JACL KYOTO-It was miserably wet when the first JACL solid pertormance by our to action" in terms of pro public relations brochure will committees seems to be com Japan Tour came to its scheduled finish Oct. 27-the gram involvemen t. While the be distr ibuted to aU members day Typhoon Dinah triggered heavy rains in central ing to tbe fore. certainly one chapter guidelines at the civil currently on the Paciftc Citi Japan. _ signs of a healthy organiza rights committee and work zen roll. While the unseasonal storm tion. city mayor Wallace Johnson shops conducted by various Enomoto added that excel (ailed to drown the spirit of In sister city celebrations ROOi\1 FOR THE OLD? district cowlcils were encour lent UPR mileage" has been the J ACL tourists, the evening at Sakai during the first aging to Enomoto, he recom gained from distribution of sukiyaki party was an emo I want to comment upon the mended a second installment the Capt. Bosworth book, week of November. The mayor r ecent column by our 2nd tional climax attesting to the to chapter guidelines that "America's Con c e n tr 8 t ion was attending the annual con Veep and Japan traveler, Dave successful two-week tour. would outline specific pro Camps," the JACL-JAL sum There were some misty eyes ference of U.S.-Japan Mayo ... r..1iura. As always, Dave is at and chambers of commerce grams. mer fellowship, EDC-MDC KAMAKURA GATHERING-At the foot of the famed Daibutsu, 99 mem as the group clasped arms and work trying to stimulate think On executive reorganization, Convention, the JACL J apan officials at Nagoya. ing and. in doing, never hesi bers of the First JACL Japan Tour gather for the first of three group photos. weaved about the room sing- which aims to make J ACL Tour , etc. Enroute from Osaka to Kyo tates to be controversial. I Others Were taken at Mikimoto's Pearl Island and on stage with The Takara ing Auld Lang Syne. • operations more effic ient and Nallonal Grant to, the JACL tourists lunched hope he doesn't stop. effective, he pin-pointed four zuka Revue girls. Additional group shots were taken at a Kyoto Sukiyaki party Presence of some half dozen A national scholarship foun and sat in loges to enjoy a goals: pretty geisha apprentices Too keep the pot boiling dation is also under considera which concluded the scheduled tour. Takarazuka matinee as guests I-Make JACL a more effi ( llmaiko," all of whom said Ul0Ugh, I'm going to take Dave tion, according to Enomoto. of the Sumitomo Bank ot on about some aspects of this cient and effective organiza they were 17 or 18 years old) The mid-biennium report Callfornia. The group photo particular column. I heartily tion. was the gayest touch at the also touched on more active 'HUMAN RELATIONS-CHICAGO STYLE': William Hohri d ay. No one missed the party, with the aU-girl company will agree that the proverbial r ut 2-Enable our volunteer Na roles fo r past national presi though some missed the sight rank as the best of the four and organizational apathy that tional officers to assume more that were taken-tbe others at meaningful and active roles. dents, youth program, staff, seeing tour of the Hozu Rapids mark some of our chapters is and national planning. Kamakura Daibutsu, Mild bad, and tbat tbe lack of "new 3-Improve communications Retect idea that people must learn their rights, because of the steady rain. On staff, Enomoto was en Yet the rains gave those who moto Pearl Island and tbe blood" often is at the root of couraged "by the way we have viewed the Katsura imperial sukiyaki farewell party in tbe condition. Undoubtedly been able to implement our villa an even greener vista Kyoto's Gion district. t his is a problem that a ff ects rights exist because people are human beings staff and by the way the stat! as the moss spread tbeir tiny Whereas it was a sunny day all levels of J ACL. Certainly Buddy T. Iwata has taken hold. I hope that leaves to full glory. in Kyoto to view the Jidai JACL cannot alford to live in Mr. Hohrl was a member of the panel on civil rights conducted at the we can make more progress in Matsuri on Oct. 22 commuting the past, nor can it afford to recent EDC-I\IDC Joint district convention In Chicago. His talk was titled: Full Assessment getting increased program con by bus from Osaka, tbe final lose the potential of youtb. liThe Lesson of 1942 and Today's Civil Rights l\lovement." named College sultant services from them in A full assessment of the tbree days of tbe week being In tbis I think most of us areas such as civil rights, com Chicago like standard equipment on a marshals. the guys who tried JACL Japan Tour is to be quartered in Kyoto was other currently steering tbe course munity organization, etc.u was asked to participate new car. We live in a heavily to main tain order among the submitted by coleaders Mas wise-yet tourists who flock of tbe National Board believe. Board chairman Enomoto was expected to in today's panel because of my consumption oriented culture. ranks, kept running up and Satow and Pat Okura in a into the ancient Japanese cap Personally I look back to civil rights activjties. How We are bombarded by adver down telling the Black Power report to tbe National JACL ital of 1,000 years by tbe TURLOCK - Buddy T. Iwata, detail his thoughts on the 1953 and recaU my initiation e v e r, it would be somewhat tising to such an extent that tactions to "cool it". There Board. But it seems that at thousands don't let rain (or general manager of Livingston State of the Organization in at what I then thought to be less than honest if I were to we begin to feel tbat our tree were several slogans associ this point, if National JACL mosquitos in the summer) de Farmers Assn. will chair the future columns of Perspec a S.F. Chapter Board witb maintain the lmpression that dam is dependent upon the ated with symbol of the black should sponsor tours in the ter them. Stanislaus State college ad tives, appearing weekly in the n othing but "old timers," with I am a civil rights activist. I acquisition of the good things panther of Black Power. I future, they be in a similar visory board tor the coming Pacific Citizen. Many JACL tourists stayed me an uncomfortable and cal have parti cipated in a couple in Ufe. We tend to eq ua te our thing the m ost appropriate ot category-for the first-timers. an additional day or two year as a r esult of an election to low youtb, ignored and out of of mar ches. I didn't see any high standard of living with these was one which read.

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