VoI9 . No.1S · The)oum.lofSeattl •• Asiancommunih .. • August 4.1982

'I drink a little bit of whiskey, makes the blood go around, makes healthy'

Henry Chin, a long and productive life as a cook in Chinatown

by Sue Chin "I dnnJ.. a little bit of wluskey. ~es the blood go around. ~es healthy." says 84-year­

old Henry Chin. reveatmg the secret of Ius long and productive life in Seattles Intematl<, ... 1 Distnct·Clunatown.

Henrv ,,~ one of about 20 retired and achve COO" recently honored at a banqutl gJwn by the own= of Uny.n R taurant and Uruk>d Savmgs and Loan Board Chamnan Robert Chinn.

I thought It would be fun to have a spt'CiaI day for you lor m.Jking China to" n what It IS today Unven owner

ine \ oUI18 MId to the atte~uv. ch "no ha, worked f r Ten-

R ali1 t ' e and many otl tl' A.-.ian in and atound Se.ttle

Henr;.thoughhe.84 stillhelrsout at th Un)en Restaurant te.ching the resl<kntcook h"tradesccret .

In hiS he dar, Henry" orked In sev­eraJ prornment rt.'St.1urants inciudm.J

Tai Tung and the 'fW Chinatown the International O"trict dnd the

Out,;gg.,r. a restaurant whIch preceded Trader Vic S In downtown Seattle

\O$lly American food.' hesald . Hen­ry also fondly remembers cooking for rich people' mdudmg the head of the

Boeing Comp.ny m the early 1950's who once a month held big parties .• Henry said.

Henry was born 10 China. came to Seattle in 1917 .nd .Imost Immedi.tely went to work .t the Shanghai Rest.ur­ant. then located on 2nd Avenue. for ·one doll. r . day, cooking. dishw.sh­jog, cutting veget.bl ..... Ever sme... Henry said. he has worked m restaur-

an~ "ith the e'''''Phon of five to . IX

years in the late 1920's when he worked as a foreman in the canr.en in Alaska

He was 17 and lJ\'ing in Canton. Henry remember; when his father, al­ready operating a Chinese laundry in Seattle. sent lum money to come to the United St.tes. Henry remembe", boarding • Japanese freighter le.vmg lor Seattle. The crossing "took 32 days. Henry said. ".nd (the freighter) was very crowded. lots of people 70 to ~ people. I st.yed '" the bottom of the sh,p. The f.re Henry saId WIth e~ phas~, was onlv$65tocomeover

Henry has Jived In Chinatown most "f hIS adult Iile. In 10 21 h went b.ck 10 Chma 10 marry the dau,;hter the

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taurant. HI'" new bndel however. didn't want to come to the Uruted

St.1tes .. Henry said Although he came ba k alone from

Cluna. Henry's family ha grown over the yea", He has children and grand­child"'n scattered around the • 'orth­west. well., in A .. a; h VISIts but never lives "ith th~m '1 like In.ing In Chinatown: Henry says. verydav. \ go 10 the HI-lite !Calel for donut and coffee. play cards pl.y some pool. Henry also venture> from hi mall room atop the Linyen Restaurant to eat lunch with friends .t the nutrilion pro­gram at the Bush-As ... Center. Some evenings he buys. small P'«" of "ten­derloin steak, and go home .nd cook." he .. ys.

Talking of times past , Henry remembers Seatties Chin.town when sidewalks were m.de of wood ,King Street was ·alIlumber. no cement and one street car go up King Street, H Hen-

ry saId. In Chinatown. Henry remem­bers when 'only Goon D,p and Quong Tuck had cars.

And gambling was big in China­town 'Everybody gambled." Henry >aid. "Big gambling. Henry talks from experience. He worked lor a nightclub .t 7th and King in the 10405. '1 worked as a dealer. Someone makes $200. deal­er gets $10 tip, make good money." Henry remembers paying for police protection. then ''they don't bother you. Now it' elitferent. You can t do that now .. "

Chinese women were rare c;ig.ht~ m Seattle. There were no Clunese wom­en at all • Henry exaggerated. "Very peaceful. H he said, thu kling.

Perhaps because of the shortage of Chinese women, Henry saYS8 many C1unese mal .. dated white women but "kept it secret " because of racial ten­sions.

Henry aI"" dated and eventually wed a '"" 0 fan ," a Caucasian, {"ven though he still had. wife in China

Henry qUlclJy explained that h. h.d rem.med thinking that his wife in China was ktlled dunng the War Hen­ry said that. over the yea~ prior to World W.r II. he maintained a corre­spondence ,,;th his ,,~fe who had tay­edin(hlnd \"'hentheWarcame. Hen­ry found out later. hi~ wite had SOM to ChurW-mS; lor safety. but .11 corre-

pondence had cea...ro '\ no hear from her. She mlo;smg. I thought the J.pan­ese killed her.

For ,b( to seven years, Henry esti­mated. he didn't hear from hIS wtfe in China. Meanwhile. he met Ius future second \ .. 'itewhen she came to work in d

restaurant he operated in downtown Seattle he wa. a good worker." Hen­rv said 'She h.d • good he.rt ." For ~'hatever reasons, after not hearing from hIS wife m China and presuming her killed. Henry remamed.

After the War. hIS hrst wife had gone back to Hong Kong and "she o;ent me a Itlter." Henry saId.

Henry divorced his Causasion wtfe m 1Q50 but keeps in touch with her to thisd.y

At 84 Henry remams active work· ing part-hme .t Unyen Restaurant, "That's why Unyen have good busi· ness now. '" he says In aU seriousness Henry is. familiar figure in thelnterna­tIOnal DlStri<:t walking up .nd down King Street saying hello to old and new friends aI ..... He shoots pool .t the H,­hte and continues to gamble. I lust ,...m a little bit .nd Ret out· I lose • httle btt and get out." he .. )".

And WIth a toothl ... grin. he tells me the ...:ret of hIS long life. I smoI<r 62 yea", novor get .K:k. I dnnk .1itt1r bit ,>/ whiske" .. makes the blood go around. mak .. healthy.

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01 A man was found in room • . tryi", to "cold turkoy· off Mod,cs checkod the ffi'n . found

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or out in a boat. You may be Ii lone..., Mfdic:s rK'e1w<i a radio Colli of an m· from help and what you have in your Idt

ddent at a loc,J,) intersection. \I\'hen IDEe u n rea lly come in handy, Here art a '-medics arri ved at the intersection. we things needed for most COUUllOD could find nothing.; we thvt made Ii all to si tuatio ns. thto r.lChodispatchertoget;Jnaddnss. Vv'e Gauzr: This is cotton woven an • fou nd out that a ptrson WAS bl~ingat 01 pattern to dog blood , Gauze U5UAIJy hotf'1 jU5t up the street. There wasil Mlay comes In Ii two. three or (our lI\chsqUAft,. in tM amval of back-up help since all Stenleonesa rethe best logeL units in the area were on other calls. Tap'- M~ica l tape works best . Hou.-WeWf:ntuptothehot~lroom. standtng hold tape is okay. but dOHrt't work.

outside the door which was slightly ajar 0 well. Many types of medical tape have "Oon' t kick it optn'" one person told us ;0.0 small holes where theskincanbreathe. "He s bdUnd itl' We found a light switch tIC Ointm"'l ts: There are many types of .nd tumrd it on, The room WoiIS a total c: meu, itmu thrown oiIbout the floor ~ ointments (alcohol is usually wl'Ult .. Choillr'S overtumrd, the bed in chaos. The -:; needed the most for minor cuts) . n.,. INn lay in the middle of the floor. ~ cometnfoilpacksandarefa irlycheap, covered with • blanket soaked with ;:;.;:;..._;...:.r.IU:;....:.:.. .... =------' Scissors,' If you ca n get one wlth.ill blunt blood, still blf'edlOg, "00 I need to go to It 15 very common for IDEC to come always totally responsible for their end, it's a lot safer. In an emergency you the hospitalr he aslrd. \'\'e said we were into contact with abusive. aggTf'S iveand actions. We understand this, and even if might get e'(cited and 'sllcl 'em. AJsolll afraid so. Alter we asked him a bne! set of be.I1igerent folks. Many times these we are successful, these people will be on one that can cut clothes The unaII questions, thevidim'scondillon began to people have taken drugs. Bizarre reac- the street agclln. When not on drugs. nickel-dime" one isn't going to doit . get worse. Medics from the Fire ~part- tions ~ sometimes also complicated by many of these people are iIIble to function PlIls'mrriicatlol1, These should be mtnt ~wr c.aJlrd in to OIssist. We found alcoho1. People can chillJ\ge (rom being as nonnal human beings. Then again. taken only as needed. H you are on somt muluple stOib wounds about the body of qujt~ calm to oong angry and hysterical. somepeopleweseearecrazy pecial medication. you should always the victim. who had ~n beaten and When fnends and family COIn no longer bring along extra. Aspirin is also good to robbed. The Seattle Polia Department help these people d~al with their drug We responded to another calion a dia- have. or aspirin substitute. wasc.alled 10 help find th~assailant . problems. medics are sometimes called belic who \'lias having problems, He was Large bcmdases You never know when

When ~-e ~ponded to another radio in. One of the firstthmgs we try to do is to unconscious when we found him. After It can come in handy, Surplus medical all, medics received verbal abuse from calm th~m down which isn't illS easy as it he received medications, he became items are good and cheap. the VlCtim who had a very minor wound might seem. Ever try to calm somebody aroused, then violent. talmg swings at To find any of these products. dwd IDEC called off the additional help that down who is trying to throw you out a medics. k.icking, etc. Knowing tha t thiS is your loe.al drug store Many of thee was coming sJ.nCe the injury was very window7 Or a person who has a broken sometimes nonn ... 1 for persons with his. itemscanalsobe made at home, minor The viCtim became very abusive wme bottle and is bent on leavmg it In condition, medics restrained him from eed help1 Write IDEe in care of n., and started throwing items about the you1 injunng himselt and us Finally, the £ramm£>r. Include a self-ad sldew~lk. Mrdics told the victim to leave IDEC medics come in contact with medications tool eftect and the pe~n stamped envelope. theare. a_ ------------m-a-ny types of people. and the) ... re not wa!.left in his room. Anothe ... r.:..pe_rs_o_n_w_a' _ ___ --. r-----------,

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Commission requests additional funds to study long-term impact of Wartime, relocation

WASHINGTON D.C - Th. Com­mission on Wartimt' Rt'iocation and In· tennent of Civilians has request~ that Congrrss appropriate additional funds fo r its work and e'(tend the Commissjon"s lin until June 30, 198.3 to enable it to complete studies and investigations.

After President Frank.lin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 0060 in ] Q42 more than UO.OOO Japanese Americans. Alwts and Japanese nalionals were evacuated from their homes and detamed in camps in remote areas. That action has bet.n criticized as a breach of constitu­tional liberties and racially discrimina­tory.

Congress crt!aled the Commission in 1980 to inquire into the facts and circum­stances surrounding Executive Order 9Ob6, review U.S. military directives related to the Executive Order and make recommendations on redress. Earlier, Congress authorized the expenditure ot S1.S million for the Commission's wor\...

reviewed archival materials pertaining to the internment, including outside opinions and pressures on the U.S government during World War 1I

In lE'tteni to House Speaker Thomas P ONeill and SenatE' Prnldent Pro­tempore Strom Thunnond, Commission Chairpenion Joan Z. Bernstein said the Commission's present budget and report­ing date would enable it to provIde: Con­gress with a competent and thoughtful record and report, but would not enable it to provide the work on the long.tenn impact of the evacuation.

"We cannot undertake the studjes of economic losses and long-term impairment of psychic health and well­being .. which a full account should include, Bernstein said. ''Th(>Se require the hiring of a variety of experts and the collection of data and information which are beyond the Commission's present budgetary ability .

bul only $1 million was appropriated. Among the remaining tasks, Bernstein The Commission has now requested said. are review and analysis of land

appropriation of the remainder of the assessment records on the West Coast, authoriz.ed funds. the information and records compiled

Since beginning its work. the Com· thmugh the operation of the Japanese. mission has held 20 days of hearings American Evacuation Oaims Act. and a throughout the nation - including hear- "professional review of the literature on iogs in Seattle - listening to more than the sociological and psychologicaJ 750 witnesses. The Seattle hearings, Sep- impact of the evacuation and detention. tember 9, 10, and 11, attracted overflow "In addition , we are unlikely to have the crowds at Seattle Cent:r.11 Community funds which would allow a mass printing Collt"gE', The Commission has also of the hearing record. she remarked.

Chol Soo Lee goes on trial this month

Convicted Korean gets second chance to prove his innocence

byGr~tDin

SAN FRANCISCO. Calif. - Aft .. years of delays. Chol 500 Lee. a 20 ·year· old Korean immigrant convicted and im­prisoned eight years for a murder his supporters say he did not commit, is finally gettinga retrial.

In 1973, a reputed gang advisor was killed in San FranciscoChinatown, one of a string of murders which have never been solved Chol 500 Lee was arrested and convicted of that murder on the ba<;i~ of testimony given by three tourists who had scarcely three seconds 10 identify the killer, In 1978, public pressure forced the court to rehear LeE"s case. Because the prosecution had suppressed evidence pomting to LeE"s innocence, the judge threw out the conviction.

San Francisco District Attorney Arlo Smith will retry ehol Soo Lee in a trial slated to begin this month, Korean and Asian American supporter.;; nationwide have been instrumental in raising funds and gathering support for Lee, and are organizing support efforts (or the upcom­ingtrial

Jury selection was scheduled to begtn August 2. the trial itself expected to start August Q, Ranko Yamada, attorney and member of the San Francisco Bay Area Committee to Frft Chol 500 Lee. said V\'e finnly believe \'Ot'll \'Om. She sayS her optimism is bdsed on a linn convic4

tion that Chol Soo Lee is innocent as well as on new supporting evidence.

Two San Francisco attorneys have jomed defense lawyer Leonard Weinglass in bringing Lees caS(> to trial - Stuart Hanlon and Tony Serra, well·lnown criminal defense attorneys. In February, Weinglass drcreased his involvement in t~ retrial because of other pres51ng

commitments and his health The attorneys, law students, volunteers, and the National Jury Project. which is attempting to ensure a fair and represen­tative jury selection.

On February 25, District Attorney Smith met at his office with seven members of the Bay Area Committee to Free Chol 500 Lee, one of several committees throughout the country_ The Committee questioned Smith's efforts to follow up on eVidence showing Lee's innocence.

Smith blamed the police for suppres­sion of evidence, and. according to com­mittee members, was non-<ommittai about conducting a fair prosecution. However. Smith latecprivatE'I), requested that the State Attorney GE'neral's office investigate the committeE' But the Attorney General's office did not find that Ihert was any wrongdoing by the Committee.

The Commitlee has launched an "ad campaign, with hundreds of supporters from throughout the United Statescontri­buhng tow;ard an ad expressing Lee's innocence and urging Smith to drop all charge<>. The ad was scheduled to run in the Sa" Francisco crammer, Chrollicle on Sunday, August 1, the day before jury selection

The Committee has also bet:n involved in extensive fundr-using to help detray legal and inv~tigative costs, including food sales at community fairs . .1 benefit jazz concert and solicitation of dona­tions.

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1neGovemor has signed into law a bUl authorizing • St.ate lottery, which is exp«ted to ra..i~ S3J million dollars (or tM State in the- first sb, months of its opention. Oh boy. another gimmick for

The State lottery: Take my money, ./- t .-.,-....

metogambJeon. Fifteen other st.tes operate lotteries_

According to Washington's proposed version of the- St~te lottery, 40 perant will be given back to the public as prizes . 45 percent wilJ go to Ih4'! Slate's general fund a5 profit , and lS percent will go to the administration and expenses of running the lottery. As proposed, lottery tickets wUl be sold in supennarkets and convenience5to~ .

A State lo ttery is "inflation proof," No matter ho w bad things are, no mailer how tight the econo my is. no matter how rough folks are st ruggling. people will sliU scrape up a dollar for a chance to win some big bucks. And legislators know that . Jt 'saguarantE't'd way ofbuiJding the sta te 5 dwindJing sources of revenue. It's ~ caUed "greed. And the returns are mea­~r. Hell , even slot machines are supposed to pay back 97 percent of the money taken in . But it won' t make a difference to most of us . $0 what if the percen tages are poor; we got a chance a t the big one .

At least there is no skill invo lved . The good gamblers have abou t the same chance of winning as the suckers. It's like throwing sever31 hundred thousand, maybe a millio n. nu mbers in a hat and pu ll ing the or lucky number out. Such a deal. Wh y tax people unwillingly when you can get them to shell it out in the name of a 'lootery. Take my money, p lease.

Yes, I believe that the legislators have come up with a good idea of ra ising some bucks. It' s voluntary , nobody is fQ[cmg anYOM toplayaloHery. The~areaJot o( folks who are opposed to gambling. Irs even aga inst some people's religions. The M o ral Majority has filed suit in an effort to stop the lottery. Of course, for others. gambling isa way of life.

Me, I am a concerned citizen, concerned about the cuts in education, concerned about the cuts in social ser­vices, concerned about the cuts in health care. l prefer to thinl..of itasmy civic duty to participate in the lottery as my contri­bution to education, social services, and health care. Oh yeah, 1 wouldn't mind the money either if I won .

So now you don' , have to go all the

way to Reno fo r a chance at the big payoff. This lo ttery may do wonders for the convenience sto res. All the kids will be waiting in li nes to play the v ideo games while their parents wait in hne fq r their lottery tickets. Isn't it ironic that the most popular convenience store. ye 01" Seven­Eleven, has the same nam(" as the number.; to play in craps, the dice game11t's bad news for ~olks who can't pas .. up an un­attended slot machme. Now th~y won't be able to pass a SevenMEJeven without thinking, 'The winning tickel's there ,"

Then, of course, t he~ is a da rk side to the lottery, Why. there'll be people spending their last dollar on the chance of scoring some moola. Mothers may tell their starvin' kids that the grocery money went to buy some lottery hckets. Dads may be cutting off their k.ids ' Pac~Man money to save some quarters for the

lottery. A black market for stolen lottery tickets is bound to develop. People will meet in dark comers to deal in lottery tidets.

You won't be able to look your fnends in the eye. They may have bought some lottery tickets. They are your competi~ tion. So will the rest o~ the couple at

. 'd t lucky number. Yo u can' t mill ion ~r so Washington resl ents, no I The line fo rms in ' to mentJon those carpetbagger.; from pay. - , $ 1 Idaho, Oregon. and .British C o lumbia ticket I,salll; ~::S,itt~::r who know a good thing when they ~ the pnce 0 h I B one. Inl be you against the world fo r the Support the~ 00 s'. uy big cash-out. But. hey , everyone likes a Support SOCial dservlc~. Ith lo ng shot , even more so if it happens to be ticket . S.upport ecent ea themselves. lottery tICket. . .

But l"m no t going to lose. You go t to have that w inn ing attitude. Then again , after frequen t ventures to Reno. a wi nning attitude is usually the only thing I have left to bring home. My wallet i considerably lighter . But that won 't stop me. As anyone who knows me will tell you, 1 like to bet on anything. 1 bet o n prof~sional baseball, basketba ll. football, and boxing. I'd bet on profes­sional bowling and golf if they we ren't so boring to watch. Football pools, raffle tickets, bmgo. poker games, black. jack. craps, roulette, pull tabs, horse races, slo t machines, gin rummy. I'm constant ly thinl..ing of new ways to support the gambling mdustry _ A couple of lottery tickets7 Sure, why not?

So folks, it's time to mortgage the house. hock the car , and sell the k.ids. Get ready for the new game in town. Get your

So, the State lS gOlOg to and a lot of people ou t droves to buy their many people. irll be the bem8 rich, It 'll lust be person whowins doe~jO' t

If that ha ppens, just and his money are see the fool7 Look in the

11ailbox. ________________________ ~ __________ __ The smugness of the anti-nukers

Dear Editor: This letter is in response to what I perceive

as the growing self·nghleousness of a number of politically aware and comfortably radical folks. The anti·nuke power protesten -claiming their concern for the environment, for their pocketbook - make me wonder wh~t their real ccnce:ms are. It is spKifically their caUK, the right cause and 1M only one. Nuclear war is detestable - there is no argo· men t on that point . Bu t nuclear power is not the sam~ thing, no matter how you s« it. Donald C Winston has written a perceptive and lucid artid~ on the hazards of sola r energy; '1N"hy are so man y of those who tremble in terror over the Three Mile Island accident, which killed no one, ecstat ic about the prospect of putting tons of Silicate pa rticles into the air we breather'

I ask the protesters: Where wert you when the chemic",1 plants exploded and people were killed1 Were you fightmg (or black South Alricaners who are killed each year in the coal mines? Sometimes it IS a IUJeury to be able to protest . Why nol stage protests against the phone company for its incredible rate hike, or demonstrate o1.gainst Boeing (or its manufac-

pagt tIThe lntetN.liONiI Enmtner/ Augusl 4, 1982

tore of military hardwarel Politically incor­rectI

Greil Marcus was right when he wrote in New West magazine about the smugness of the antiMnukers and the attitude in the film No Nukes that no ra tional person could be concerned about any other ue more than nukes: Me. me! That's the politics o( No Nukes! Solipsism under fire. as if sohpsl<:m were not a perversion of a good life but a utopia worth fighting for. The!' perfonners who speak oul in NQ Nubs main ly get across that their peace of mind is threa tened - if James Taylor With all his money and fame is worried shouldn' t you bel , One thinks, for example, of the matter of abortion righ ts. of the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits med iM cal payments for abortions for poor women. The right to life movement has gained power through its alli.mce with other right wing groups, and through its success in raising the money to defeat liberal legisla tors, When the Corrie 8iU, Great Britain's version of the Hyde Amendment, came up for a vote in ParliaM ment , rod . n' roll groups organized. 4lnd not just all women's groups; why has nothing simiiarhapptned in the U.5.1 15 it po~ible that Bonnie Raitt , Carly Simon and Nicolette La~n ha ve never had abortions, or that James Taylor and Graham Nash were never happy their girlfriends and wives could get them1 It's'possible , but 11 ISn't likely . Safe energy is a safe: issue - controversial bu t

marketable, and marketable b«ause it'ssafely controversial. The China Syndrome was thert' first after all. That's'one reason \~ e're offen!'d No Nuhs and not Freedom of Choice. The Hyde Amendment does not threaten rod., stars.

Thirty-five years ago, most Japanese Americans had little choi~ in jobs. My father felt a scientific ileld would be secure- and prac~ tical, a necessity. He stud ies the feaSibilit y and safety factors in the nuclearenC!' rgy issue. I had many choi~ in my career path. 1 studied humanities and warned abo ut a lob after graduate school. Some friends of mine can even attend exptnsive graduate schools and worry abou t paying (or it la ter

It is healthy to raise issues: realpolitil-.. is an understand ing of what you share with others like or unlike yourself; it involves the realiza­tion that life d~ not separate into categori~ . Consistf'ncy In belief and sincerit y in princi­ple. Not the att itude of politically co rrect, or the smugness of the "good cause

Very sensitively written Dear Editor,

You r article by Alan Lau on Tom and Kay was outstandingl Very sensitively writt en and a worthwhile subject to educate the publiC.

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IOldage is really a lonely battle'

by Grog S. CastUla

''You know." he told me, 'my c:iream is to ",.ch the age of 100. I pray th. t God WIll gove me .nough stre",th and good he~hh to reiICh this ultimate dre~m of mine

Thm the 96-yur-old Filipino began to f .. l .. d.

But I ~m getting to be sickly now. My head is oft.n tirnes painful. My loft eye is g~tlfl& blurred. Sometimes I have no appeti te . \-\lhen 1 walk ~round 1M Intt.rNtional District I always end up go pl",for breath. Oh . . . my .. "

The old man was a bit embarrassed (or sharing what was probably an Impossible drum. 'Probably I won't live that long anymore At 96 I can be dead tomorrow orthedily~tutomorrow, Whoknowsl"

In h1.5 room at the Bush Hotel he showt'd the traditional Fillpmo hOSPIt.II­lily, He off • ...d cigarettes bread, and. jokingly. his medione to anybody who entered his room Despite his smiles and olhihty to rKilll memories of the fields of Stockton and the anneries in Alaska. he showed the usual SJgnS of asiJl8,. His voice h~a t~mbltn.gsound. He is hard of hear-11\8. HIS skin i like. crumpled dried tob.acro leaf _ He wOlll..s with short strides

Old age IS .... lIy a lonely battl •. I hate btolng aloM in this room. I need people to share my lile with. I n~ ~ple to tall to. I ~ 5Om~y to at least shMe a

meal with . it might sound ridiculous but given the chance I would still marry. My heart isafterallstill young.

The man remembered his daughter by his lint wile. I wish she would write more often . The last time i heard Irom her was ~mber whenshese.nt me a Chnst­mascud .-

Tean began to fOiIl from the man'seyes. "Son, my life has always bftn a life or

suffering. As a young man in the canneries I h.iad to endu re the mtolerable and inhuman conditions be:causesurvivill was for me more Important than suffer­ing. Then I got married ONY to experience the pain of losing a wile. And now, belng away from your children and being remembered only on special occa.sJons is Just . . . "

Then. he SOlid that he is st ill thanlJul tor

... illCiIJ aIiw. Bul ~ 10 ...... onrhisfact.

"In this world, you haw 10 be __ _ foryourliH lobe~. For. 10", limo. hopo .... for me .. empty word until I bopn 10 loom 10 fact Ufe courapously. I don'l how .. y ilIuoIon. I'vo bqun 10 attopI thal_~: Ndn.u, sufftrina .... part 01 bvtna. V., Ihey a", ~ bull how INmod lOp them a new dimonslon. When thinp 11ft

roush. I am not aoIwnocIlO ay. Bul it don not make .... !no oIa man.·

lIKk in the lobby 01 the Bush Hotel, the old man 101 down alone. watchlni __ pass by. He told me this woo his daily ritual aft ... he r<suJarly viol .. his doctor al the 10 Health Clinic and his counoolor a t the Asian Counseli", and RefornJ s..­vice.

V .. , h ... id, sometimes ... 1ends his sociol security money to people ... knows will sometimes not pay him back. He evm welcomes in his room unknown and young Filipinos who .re W41.til18 to be disp.tchedto Al.ru. ' I alw.y, haY< a soIt .... rt for people who are in need. 1 have uperienced w~t it muns to ~ in neoed - m need of aH«­tion, In need of money. in need of a fnend. 11\ need of anything - th.t I don't want to see people suffer the Qme

ordeal It WiIS almost six o'clock in the f'vmi"8

~dlwantedto8ohome. Theoldm~for the I~t time tried to stress iii pomt

living alone in a room at my. is a very lonely Uld bonns experience. But I stiU want to live longer beauw 1 know I }ave so much to give to people. It might not be money. But I .always n..Vf SOI'ne­

thing to oHer. At night I sometunes cry. Butlamh.ppy."

He t.1pped my shoulder and bId me goodbye.

striking Chinese restaurant workers reach contract agreement NEW YORK. Y - Chonese ""au­

rant wor\.ft'S. who had orpniz.ed a two­UKl-a-haU month strike for better work conditions against a midtown rntOlurant OInnounced 1000t month that their union has stgned a contrad with the restaurant owners ,

The ~wtlii Kai Dining Room Union (HKDRU), an independent union organ­iud by Chtnese waiters. signed its first contuct With China United Restaurant , Inc., owner of the Hawaii K.ai Restau~ rant.

Union members had gone out on strike against the Hawaii Kai Restaurant on

l.rch 26 to pr<>',,' what they ailed unfa U" employer labor practices; they were: al1 fired on March 30 because of theirunioni.zlngaclivities

The management of the Hawaii Kai Restaurant . supported by other Chinese restaurant owne.rs . ...... aged an extensive publicity campaign in the Chinese p~ 10 disc...dil Ihe HKDRU's demands Dunng the slnke, the HKORU conducted a boycott of the retaurant . with support from groups such 015 the ChuleSe Staff and Workers AssociOlition and the Asian American uw Students Association. Th management temporarily clCl6e'<l the restaurant and even threOlte.ned to 6ot1l the

bu",iness to ra.i.st the unionization drive. Accordlll8 to tlw Union'. attorn~.

the collective barpining a,greeme.nt . an('lounced on July 15 . contains the best job security provi. ions in the rntaurant industry. including:

OJ succnsor clause that ~uirt'S a new owner not only to rtCogniud the HKDRU, but also to assume all the terms of the union contrilct;

- a maintenance of benffits provlSions that requirn lnfina.gement to &iveemplo)'t"tSstand-b)' pay and medical coverage: il the rntOliura nl temporarily c1~ for up to sOl mont~ ;

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The rnaNgemenl a1so 08"'ed to .bide byfederal .. ndstateminimumw.,gebws.

One waiter. who worled at the Hawaii K~ for 10 yurs, comrMnted ..... For the first time. we waiters will have real job secunly. paid holidays. health insurance ben.!its and decent wage·

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A pour of 5f'~ltle artl! ts and writers Wntmg rfudu.storv ~,,-e published a landTNrk ~Ian OJth~n'r"t:j Amerinn anthology which . .lcccordmg; to For I~t"rgt""(>nttloru the bool-(j introduction. prHents a ."V(Ju'ruuuill'tit'S githering of the, crtativ"t respo~ of St-~m trit'ial mdrl'J indlVldualstothetrenVITonment The modem poets reatured are Alan

Turnmg Shudou's Intet LI~1Jt - a 001- Chong Lau, Laureen Mar. Garrett Kaoru IKtion of e"'SQ.ys, photogr,aphs, ,artw~rk Hoogo, Lonny Kaneko~ James Masaa ,and hterlture on Asian Amerinn ,artasts ~ 'l1t5ui and Lawson FuYO lnada. Manyof of the orth....... before .he Second .. \"'orld War _ IOdudts ston~ of eilrly the poems concern history. such as Mar's Chi~ ,and J,ap.lln~ artist photo- "The Jmmigration Act of 1924" or grilphers and wnte~ and FilipinO boxers Kolneko s 'Camp Harmony; Puyallup ilnd mu~Kians Contemporary J>Of'try IS Fairgrounds IQ78 1942 • JOdda's Songs intet'5~rsed throughout the book voi an the Ancient Tradition IS a long pom'I

rdlectlng on .J.nd responding to these inspired by ancient Chinese ~try nrh'ilrtio;;h Garrett Hongo wrote a particularly

Robert Monroe' ,article on the Seattle haunting poem with the unmanageable C.J.l'Tlf'r.1 Club, is perh.1ps the m.ost impreo- s.o: .. ltlC' , .. p.rwwClrb Cluh ('t'ri0l1f\0l"'("C' Col 1O"t-S from T",rnl"'': ..;Jwd title On the Last Performance of

g\'e m dt"plchng the .J.rhsts wlde-rangmg in the foreground . a small sailboat on the bands of the day Frank Osl~ was one .\1usumt' Dojo;i at the ippon Kan of the SU~S and the ulhlT'l4lte loss of the horizon . such musician who play~ With. 'Oeveral Astor Hotel. Seattle \.\'ashington." grour s .1rt.The5e'olttleColmer.aClub or- Kunl.sh'oe's wor!'" is more modem Filipano big bands in Seattle w. Ith such which hasa beautiful surrealistic ending. ~anued by I I pho'Q!V.phers. nou- ~ h M I gh s.. Whl th' I . com d bl n .. hed from 1910 10 1940. ~1ost (If the Kunishigecame to the United States trom eltotlc names ,as tel oon I 1 r- I e IS vo ume IS a men a e m mboe~ followed the Plct('lrioll Move- Yamaguchi Prefecture when he was 17, enaders . . the Rlzal Club Orch~tra . and undertaking, Its impressive appearana me-nf. turning ~autiful objects and while Koike wa~ 38 when he arrived In the Manila Tropical Troubadou~ , These sets up expectations of quality not always experiences into beautiful imagt"S." Even- his work. Kunishige concentrates on the bands played for community socials and fulfilled, The writing is uneven; some of tually many of the members prints were human fonn , clothed or nude, and taxi dances. where the Filipmo bachelors the es.;;ays are dry and thin. Ed and Betty hown throughout the Unlle<! States abstract sha~ linh and shades. would pay a token to dance with white , Burke's article on the restoration of the

Europe and Asia. The Depression led to Equally impressive in scope but drier in Filipino, Japanese. and Chinese taxi- Nippon Kant although containing much the Club s disbanding 10 192Q. After the lone is Mayumi Tsutakawa's E'So;.ay on dancers . some of whom were also presti. Information and scarce photographs of tragedy of World War \I few of the NorthwestpaintersbeforeWorldI<V.rll tutes . the period. seem' self-<:ongratul.tory. photogr.1phers prints and negatives Short .. ketches are pre.ented on a great Carlos Bulosan has depicted the life of And Sui Sin Far, writing o( her experi-survwed many artists . including George early Filipino Americans most notably, ences as a Eura .. ian, communicates an

The works of two members. Dr. Kyo Tsutakawa Fay Chong, and Fraru.. and three of his works a~ included in this almost condescending attitude toward Koile and Franl Kunishige. are featured Ok.J.cia . The prints of artworks are nota- edition. My First Day in America '" des- Chinese. She uses the term Chinaman' and Illustrate two divergent paths: the ble, but one Wlshes for mo~ detail and cribes his am val 10 Seattle from the with an unconscious acceptance that may tradition.J..l. Asian-inspired. and the mdl- Insight into the Iivt"S and msplrahon of the Phihppmes , It IS a wonderful short piece. reflect the period. but is dubious vidualistic. modem style. Koike. an Issei artists full of humor and n talgia.' 1y Father Turning Shadow51"to Light IS. never­from Shimane Prefecture. WilS the leader Two essay~ on Filipino American lite \\'asa \'\IorkmgMan Isa very good, con- thelec;s. a landmark book both for Asian of the: Suttle CarMf".J. Club and Its most are presented. The hf"5t Peter Bacha s "A ventional p<"Ioem but probably the best Americans and for a:-t In the Northw t

prohHc member Hi, print!. of Northwest Mo1.n01\&'5 Heart tells of young Fihpmo pie..:e In the whole book is the poem It illumi.nates the rich. divets.e artisliC and Lrodscapes and Seattle cityscapes men who pursued bOXing C.1rftN-. not 'What Would You Dor a stirring cultural heritage which heretofore combine tM Pictorialist concern with a only toe:scape poverty and drudgery but outcry from a betrayed heart . remamed obscure. As Alan Chong Lau Japa~ sensibility The pre-vailing tone to attain equality, for 'the prize ring was The internment of J~panese Americans .. tates in the introduction. "This book is a IS serene and ~storal. but the composi- a suspension of society's norms. during World War II was a painful event beginning. Hopefully. more scholars tion is decidedly Japanese - dark pines ··Sweet Music" by Robert Park Antolin for l~L and many never expressed their and writers will persist in recording the .tg.J.inst a misty background of pine-cov. recounts the music and naght life of feelings about it . But Shizue Iwatsuki. an hi5tOry that is ours and thai evolv~ e:red hills or a calm lake with three piers Filipino jazz musitians who played 10 big Ie: i woman from the Hood River Valley relentll>Ssly

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t..st )'Hr in Son Francisco. the fint /tIJiAn Amencan Jnz Festival WOlS h~Jd ~ enthusiastic, ov~rf1ow oludiencu. 11w f'~t . With the theme, Asian ~ in Jan from the 40'. to the: ..... ' Wi! more succa.sful than .. yon< hod i!Ngmod.

It wiS decided to male this a Yf'arly twN. and thl year"s festival has the ~ E>cpIonotion and Expor\mentatlon: y,.dttional Music of Asia .. nd ew MusiC of Asian A~ric ... n Musicians .. nd C_rs lnspiro<i by lau and Tradl­donal Asian Music. BKause of the linuttd budget. this year's festival will anlyuwoive local musicians.

1"M festi .... al will be on October 8 and Q

~>' and Saturday) al Lone Mountain Auditonum on the campus of the Univer­satv 01 Sin Fr.lnciscoat 7:30eolch evening. Tht performers Signtd for the festival mclude the Son Francisco T atko Dojo lod by Souch, Tanaka and considerod a rultur,,1 propert In Japan. Gerald

Qduta. .1 multi-instrumentollist and ~r currently performing and ~ with Roscoe Mitchell of the Art En!<mble 01 Chicago. Umtod Frcnt whoo< .tbums Path With A Heart and Ohm,.AUnitofR isl;tnce have been well tfttl\'ed in both Europe and the Stat~ Utd leinne Aiko Mercer Russel Baba Ensmble, Mercer is one of the £inest triidlbOn.1i Japinese drummers in the Lnited Stites and performs with the San Fnnasco Tiiko DOJo. B~ba has per­kvmed wllh Eddie Moore and Michael \\1ut .. nd hIS debut album Russel Hisashi a.ba ~IVed an excellent review in o..."but. Other performers will be mnounced is tM festival draws nearer. Dr Herb Wong and Heidi Change will be miSttr of ceremonies . Plans are also ~ wily to produce a series on Asian Amman jazz mUSicians for alional PublIC Rodio as well .

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An offshoot of thIS proJect will be historical documentation of Asian Amer­ican musicians through oral history wnting and t ven radio programs . For more mIormation on the fes tiv.JI ind o~r rela ted .Jcti vities write P.Jul ): a maz.akl a t 2)63 Jones S1. ~n Fran­cisco. CA 04133 .

T he P rin ts of Izumi Ku rolwa will be shown at the \'\'illiams-Johnson Gallery . 317 East Pine. July 8 through August 7. The preview i. lul y 8 S pm - 8 pm. Call 623-7078 ror more information.

Warren Furutani . well known community worker in the Los Angeles Japanese American community has started a record label ror Asian Amencan Musicians. His £irst release will be by Charlie Chm. one of the origin.al mem­bers 01 the group thot producod the album. A Grain of Sand . For more infor­mation on this new record company. contact Wa~n Furul~ni . c/o Amera ia Bookstore. 338 East 2nd St .. Los Angeles CA90012

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The Intcmauona.1 Enr1lln<:r 90'111 pr~nt a Sp«illlwuc show(1l.SlOg c.rnuy( writing and photograph y works b) "~Ian Amcru.aJ1 Artms thlS ~ , AsiJ.n American writen and pho(ognphen art: Invited to submit a.n~ prnlowly unpubhshed short stones, p~. POCl!Y.' or black and whue pbotOCrophs to be judg«! and publIShed ID • speoal eight Pili· supplement to appnr in the Novcmber 17 issue of the Inu:ma.uonal EUtlllner

Works Will be Judged by {wo pands of dastlngulshed literary :a.nd photo­CnphK figures: In the Seatde an:a Fim. s«ond. lhlfd and hononbly menuoned ... rlu .,11 ap~ar In our specu,1 CnJI"!~ So.rUJ (Slue thl5 fail

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A Ja~M'H tu ctre.mony will be con­ducted by ce.rtUlrd Tea Master an 1M Arboretum', laponese Gorden on Sunday. August 1 at 3 p.m. Call 625-4671 .

Two new titles from Univel"'5ity of Washington Pres are Chinese Painting Style by lerome Silbergeld .nd Imoges of Ameria: Precisionist Painting and Mod~m Photography by Karen Tsujimoto. Silbergeld·sbook e'Cplains the tethniques and traditional modes of expression by Chin~ artists. r"ujimoto, an assistant curator of San FromclSCo's Museum of Modern Art . wrote this catalogue ror an exhibition that documents a new dU't'Ction in Amerinn art from the prt'-World W.ar I yeoJrs through thel 0405.

lbe 1982 As~n Amenc:an lntematton.J.I Film Festival sponsored by Asian Cine­Vision concluded a standing-room-only m ew York City and will tour the West Coast in August and September The program includes Chan Is Missing by Wayne Wang (current ly showmg in town), local him maker DaVId Kimura 's piece Taiko, ChrishneChoy· 81tt~rsw t Survival, and films from India and China as well as a Sessue Hayakawa retrospective showing. Set for San Fran­cisco and Los Angeles in late August and t'arly September. it is hoped somone will sponsor its appea rance in Seattle as well

The Tokyo Flute Society will perform in concert Wedn~ay. August 18 at 8 p .m . .ill the Nippon Kan Theatre . C~II 624-6220 for mo re Information.

De Plus En Plus will present a program of chamber music for voice, nute and gui t.Jr Sunday. August 15 at 4 :00 p ,m.

a .. re Rousseou (soprano). EstheI- Sup; (flute). and Mary Fox <.o,W) will perform works by Ha~1. Faure. Sor. Muczynski and othen The concert Will beat theCerman Unitod Church 01 Christ ~I 11th Avenue ~d HoweU, AdnuSlion by dONtion For information. call 323-0964

Th. Thomas Burk. Memorial Wash­ington Stile Museum p~nts a colorful exhibit of Chinese Fireworks labe.iJ In the Boisene. the MU$e'um's Cafe on the Court from August 7 through September s.

The 25difftrent labels in this exhibition are festive constructions 01 embossed gold leaf foil and bnghtly pomtod poper They were hand-mOide in China between 1850 and 1910 as advertism\ents for the fireworks industry They were 10

sucassIuJ that few h.av~ survived to tell about the culture of this period in Chinese history

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MtCoy has htlod the show -A venues to Quality" because he found that each Cicada artist has a uruque apprcach to his or her craft. He sees the common ground as ex· c.lknce in their work. not 0 particuIM ap­proach or method.

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Thirty......, ye... ago this month, World War U came to • sudden hall alter tho Unit.d Slates bombed Hiroshima and N~. TIUs JIIDI! ll, • Japanese delega­tion of 1,500 flew 10 New Yori< 10 partici­pate in whal tum<d out to be the largest single demonstration in American history and to p""",,1 the Unit.d Nations Special Session on Oisarma.ment with two-and...a­haH Ions of paper, bearing signatures from haH the population of Japan, calling for world disarmament.

AmoI18 the delegation were 150 hibaku­sha, victims of Hiroshima and N~. Another 150 were detain<d in Tokyo, an.g­edly beau... they w.... associat.d with Communists. The hibakusha w.re old and ill, but on June ll, they were driven 10 the front d the rnaIci>ers so they rouId walk the final steps, leading approximately one mil­lion rnaIci>ers inlo Central Pari<.

MVI is holdmgphoto or himsr.1f days afl~ bombing. His faa is comp~tdy ~~lNctN throtJ8h ye~rsol pbsticsu~ry_ - Sharon Maetb photo

The marcher.; came from Canada, Aus­tralia, all over Europe as well as the four com<rS d the Uniled Slales. Marchers came down from Harlem, up from China­town, across the Brooklyn Bri~, and from the posh apartments on nearby Pari< Avmue.

Many never set foot in the Pari<, let alone "" witlUn sight of the .\age when: enter­Iainen and politicians spoIte and perlorm­ed for six straighl hours . The speak.,. ranged from Orson Well .. '0 Jill Clay­burgh, from Abbie Hoffman to The Rev. Ben Chavis, from R;1a Marley 10 Bella Abzug. from Barry Commoner to a variety d people from COI18re5!. And the media

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was there to stalk the celebrities. not to cover the demonstration or the reasons that so much of humanity had gathered '0 show Presidenl Reagan that Americans will no' accept the nuclear buildup, nuclear war­fare,orevennuclearpower

One of the hibakush.o kepi saying that victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were only the beginning. and that hibakusha are everywhere" including Three Mile Island weners and the Navajo whose land is be­ing stripmined for uranium to build nu­dear bombs.

The sole Asian American speaker al the New York demonstration was Dr. Michio Kaku, a nuclear physicist for disarmament and former University of California at Beri<eley and Harvard student activist. Kaku said that President R;chard Nixon s plan to end the Vietnam War was to drop

an atomic bomb on Hanoi, but it did not happen because 200,000 people demon­strated in the ation's capital . '!here's one thing the U.S. military fean; the ma.t," said Kaku. "the American people. The Ameri­can people will decide again."

It took some effort for one million peo­pIe to gather in Central Park. Jt was more of • c:elebration when 50,000 gathened in San Francisco in a simultaneous demonstra­tion. And it was great entertainment for the lOO,CXXl who went to the Rose Bowl sta­diwn the prevIous week for a peace concert led by S.evie Wonder, Jackson Browne and Linda Ronstadt. But, it was a real major effort for the 1,500 10 come from Japan, stepping foot on the land of tta, nation which defealed Japan and which dropped bombs killing millions of innocenl people and leaving many permanently ill from Ita,

radiation. Despite early day proclamations by Reagan officials discounting the demon­stration, the demonstration had to have an effect. If il didn't, Sea.tlej ... should nol resl easy knowiing that this beautiful area is T ar­get 1 and that nobody will survive. Peace demonstrations and activism are no longer things to be left to pacifists and hippies. Jt's a matter of life and death for all of us.

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AS/salin m y third grade class. / stared out the u'U1dow. I w as looklllg forward to recess . I was Rll.l iOlls to gtlt out onto thl' playground fo r klck hall. Finally. the bell nmg and 1 nm Wildly down tire sta irs to the pillygrou lld , It was a grcat fc(>/i1lg. nmmll8 free with a u'arm wma gC1l tly strolmlg my face.

The k ickbal1 gamc started rigllt QU'ay. My tram w as up. Judy kichd the ball 0."(" 5U'01ld base mto c{'"t~rfje1d aHd ran ,,11 t'u~ way to third base. Slle yelled back tom(' , }.;.ick mchome,f JustastJiepitdu?r rolled tile ball toward me three kids startt.-d to chant Ching Chong Cluna­man . I told th~m to simI lip, but they kcpt badgenng m~. On Ou' tJllrd pitch. I kickt.·d Q flyball to tire first basemml, Dimr! I wisJI£'d thos(' kids would teQv(' me Il/onl'

The bt!ll50unded agam and it was time to go tl,1C'k to debS. 0" the way into the building /llcQrd a dliJd say, Hey , slant tl'~ 1 Gm t you kick a JeC'c"t ball? My facc fUn/t·d r~d from allser mid fmstra-1/011

the children fe.lt .lbout themselves . I com­pared their anSwers with the answen. of 47 Caucasian kids. All the children live in the greater Sealilearea

The questionnaire asked the children about six major .l.reas In their li ... ~: Intelli­gence, popularity _ behavior. anxiety . happiness and physical characteristics. The onl y significant d ifference between the Japanese and Caucasian groups was in the area of physical characteristiC'S . The Japanese children d id nol like their appea rance as much as the white children. Many of the Japanese American children weren't as happy with the shape of their eyes and nose. They also showed an uneasiness about their height. Overall. though, the total self~oncept of the tw o groups was"' t Significantly differen t

I wasn't surprised at the resu lts. Asian American children still seem to be battling the same problem of ethnic stereotypes that 1 did when I was their age. Negative stereotypes of Asians abound in newspapers, magazines, trade publications and television

Parents should be aware of the impor­tance of talking ahout ethnic membership and racial physical characteristics. They

It has been o\'er 23 years since that should reinfor~ m their children a posi­incidenttoolplace.l'msurethousandsof live altitude about ethnicity. This other Asian children have experienced reinforcement should start at infancy and Similar indignities. It is not an uncommon continue through adolescence. QCcurrence though it should be Parents are usually very excited about

I ha ve often wondered how the present their infanfs physical feature. generation of Asian American children Sometimes parents will say. What beau­feel about themsel\'~. There have been tifulbrowneyeslhebabyha:., 'Or'llo\'(;' civil righI'S advancements and .m the baby's soft skin.' Parents should con­Increased awarenes:. of racial discrimina- tinue to verbalize tho~ po:.itive teelings tion. but people's altitudes don't change to children a:. they grO\l\. For e.xampll' qu ick1r parents can repeatt-dly tell tht>1r three-Thi~ qu~ion led me to a graduate re- year-old at "anaus times ""holt great

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We live in a very busy world . Children are bombarded wi th many images, both good and bad . It is the responsibility of parents to help gUide t h~r children through the maze of life. One way wecan help children grow i.s to instill in them, at an early age. a strong and posillve sense of ethnic heritage. A healthy identity wiU help children cope successt-ully Wl th the n~atiye images and derogatory remar~ which they will encounter through life .

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"The \Vashington State Commi.."5lon on A.si.m Arnerian AffaIr.. IS CUIl"eOtl~' lacing sunset .. view by the t.g.sl.tive Budg<t Committee. w'ith a scheduled termination d. .. 01 Jw>< 30. 1983. An mformation.11 m«ting has been scheduled T u..day Aug­ust 10.t 6,30 p.m. m the Bush-As" Cen­ter. M«tingRoom B.

The Commission issed...ingsupport from those interested in participating in the for­mation ol a lobbying group whose primary focus will be to ensure the Commission's survivaL If you have any questions, please call th~Commiss.ionat 464-5820.

to ~ to the growing number of racial conflicts in th~ Seattle schools. Asian Paalic Amerian (APA) "'Presentatives from various agencies and organizations are fonning a group of community per­sons, educators, and parents to address is­sues impoKting AP A school personnel and children in the Seattle School District.

If you are interested in participating in such oil group, please come to the initial meeting Wednesday. August 11, 6 p.m. in m«tmg room B of the Bush-Asia Here!. For moreinfonnation, call 464-5820.

Volunteers are needed for weeding. seed­ing. selling and a myriad of other tasks, says Sharon Hart, coordinator of the lnd~ chines< Farm Project a srn.J!I Sammamish V.Jley site betng farmed by 10 Hmong and MIen refugee families.

According: to Hart, volunteers are need­ed to work one-to.one with Hmong and MIen families on their individ u>1 plots of land. help box vegetables for market, and assist farmers sell the" produa! at the Red­mond, Pike Plaa! and other .... markets. In addition, individU>1s with carpentry and other technical skills ... beingsought.

Interested volunteers should call the Washington State Commission on Asian American Affairs at 464-5820.

Volunteers ... surveying their neighbor­hoods throughout the city to detennine the impact ol national budget priorities on the services and quality of life in their own neighborhoods and communities.

The Budgot Priorities Impact ProJ"el 01 the American Friends Servia! Committee (AFSC) is providing quick and simple sur­veys which a few volunteers can conduct by telephone in their community or neighbor­hood in a matter of hours. "Whose Budget Is It Anyway,· a colorful stide-tape show that takes a look at the increasing military spending and the decreasing hurn.Jn ser­vices budgot and the effect on ordin.Jry Americans is available free of charge through AfSC.

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1be Comnuttee for Justice fo r Domingo and Viemes along with the Union of Dem­ocratic Filipinos present the following events:

"Th. o...d Are Not Silent," a film about the involvement of Chilean secret police in political assassinations worldwide Friday August 6, 7,30 p.m. at Kane Hall. Room 130, University of Washington. A $3 dOM­tion is requested.

A ... ch-in. panel discussion and work­shops on the political and legal cha.llenges 01 defending peoples civil Uberties will be chaired by fsabel Letelier and Rene Cruz. They wUl specifically focus on the poUtical murders 01 Orlando Letelier RobbIe MoI­lit and Silmo Domingo and Gene VIeme5. This will take place Saturday. August 7, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Piggott Hall Auditorium, SeattleUniversity, $4 donation.

Dr. James Kenji Morishma, associate professor of education and former Asian Amerl<:an Studies director. has been ap­pointed assciate dean of graduate studies and research in the college of education at the University of Washington, succeeding Dr. Donna H. Kerr. a University professor of education.

Morishima also held posts as director of institutional educational research from 1967 to 1973, acting director of institution-

a1 education research between 1964 and 1967 and has been a faculty member since 1970.

The Asian Multi Media board of di rec­tors vote unaminously at its recent board meeting to change the thea tre com­pany's name from "The Asian Exclusion Acr· to "The orthwest Asian American Theatre,"

"The name change does not reflect any change in our commitment to promote Asian American art and artists, (ka Kiyohara said. "And we hope it will clar­ify what we are: an Asian American the­atrecompany.

Two Seattle Cen tral Community Col­lege (SCCC) publications have won awards in the 1982 Annual School and College Publications Contest sponsored by the National School Public Relations Association.

The college fundraising brochure, 'sCCC-Serving Your Community's Educational Needs," received the Award of Excellence. It was one of eight college publications to receIVe this award out of 1.087 publications in the contest .

An Honorable Ment ion a ..... -ard was giV­

en to the Seattle Central publica tion, <'What's in a Name1," a four-page book­let describing the college programs and services. It was one of 30 college publica­tions to receive this award.

The Seattle Central publications were produced by Everett E. Reagan of the col­lege public information office and design­ed by college graphic designers Sharon Nakamura and lucy Hart-Hoyt.

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'Gary Locke IS a hard-working advo­cate. dedicated to improving the quality of Life in this area , said k urose, "In addi­tIon Roberts pointed out . "the people of this district pay a high proportion of the State's ta'tes , but we get few services. Our representah,<e has to take our needs to Olympia.

'Cary unde~tands thf> Legislative process.·· said Vassar. 'He will be an ac­tive and effective representallve for th~ 37th District. We<re proud to be on his team

Representative Peggy Moxie has filed for re-election to the House of Rtopresentatives for the 37th District , Position 2

Maxie's support of smalJ businesses con­tinues to be one of her maJor priorities as she pushed the BUSIness Industrial Devel­opment Corporation btll through the House. That bill allows formation of pri­vately funded development corporations to aid small businesses th.t have been refused credit from financial institutions.

For more infonnation, contact the Peggy Maxie Committee. 1441 Madrona Drive, Seattle. 325-6088.

The Tamesa Scholarship Fund recipi­ents are Andrea Mano. daughter of Mr. and Mrs . George Mano, and Cecilia K~­nako Egashira daughter of Mrs. Sumako Egashira The Rev. Emery Andrews Memorial Scholarship was presentKf to Christina Nakayama, daughter of Father and M rs. Timothy Nakayama.

Andrea is a recent graduate of Renton High School and will attend the Univer­sity of Washington (Uw), majoring in electrica l engineering and computer sci­ence. Kanako is currently a graduate stu­dent in health education at the UW. She is beginnjng her thesis on 'ihe Adjustment Process to Nursing Homes for ]apanne Americans , interviewing Issei at Keiro Nursing Home. Christina is a lincoln High School graduate who will attend the UW tostudy computer science.

[he Grand Pavilion l~ated in Hing Hay Park in the District is receiving a new coa t of paint. if you haven·t already na­ticed.

This au thentic Chinese Pavilion was a gift from the people of the city of Taipei, Republic of China, to the people of Seat­tle . Thestructure is valued at $40,000.

Painte" Jim WiJheImsen and Dal. Mouser are in their fifth week of work and are scheduled to belinished by August 1.

Funded by the 1969 Forward Thur.;t Bond issue and dedicated in 1975, the Parks Department has put this job on the list 01 capital improvement projects for future funding.

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Evory first Tuesd.y of the month .t 5:30p.m., a smaJl group of Asian , Pacific women casuaUy converse over teriyaki at TenJ... t>u At6 ,3Q. thesmollgroupjoins. ff'W more Asian Pacific women at the Bush Asio1 Center. The conversation flows uSliy into ill meeting and the tOPICS become somber

The Asian Pacific \Nomen's Caucus gnppies wl,th issues rangm,g from affir­INtive action to nudear war. from . tt'mltYPlcal dolls to bilingual education. Children are often pre!Oent at meetings Action is discussed and voted on. Mem­bers volunteer to carry out the~; hes of the group.

Roughly si>;. years ago, a fe\\" Asian I PKific women set the groundwork for an activist community group addressing racism and sexism. Many of the faces N",e changed. but the commitment mNins: the Caucus style is shaped by its unn.gglO8 members .

\\'hen we began this column several months ~o. we wanted a medium to commumcate with the rnt of our com­munity . We felt it Important not only to let others know of our issues and work. but to provide ~ forum for Asian Pacific \o\"('Imen to sh~re their knowledge and v»t'\\ . This ti~. we want to report some of our activities ames will be men­ti('tned because we truly believe the Cau­cus 15 greater than the sum of its parts its put ~redynamite .

Politia.I1y we are persistent Ul

Worming government officials of our Vlt'\\'~ Recently. weinvit~SeattleOffice 01 Women 's Rights (OWR) DIrector DonN Stringer-Moore to our meeting. In the pist we had been disappointed in her office's ~bsence in our community As a ~ult of our meeting. an employment right. brochure is being developed under OWRs auspices That offia. will be n.-sponsible for securing funding to pub­li h the brochure in five Asian languages. ~wu BBtayoJa a ist«f in th imtial development Yun Takahac;h.i and E \ elyn lritani are reviewing the contento;.

We closely monitor developments on the city. county. state. and. to d certain r"II.tent . the national levels of government . We are active in writing letters of support and co~m about service and budget funding and cutbacks of agencies serving

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Women our community. We are especially active on issues of affinnalive action and minority business enterprise.

Ticiang Diangson led our efforts against fonner County Execuhve Ron Dunlap's attempt to water down the Min­ority / Women Business Ordinance. And through Mana, we participated 10 the development ot a stronger ordinance under County Executive Randy Revelle We firmly informed Mayor Charles Royer of our disappointment when salary cutback~ in his office aftKted women only.

Though the Caucus does not endo~ candidates. we continue to c~~ponsor candidate forums and the- rt"Sulting V1C

tory celt'brilhons with the ASian Amell­cans for Political ActIon (AAPA l.

In education, Wl' upported parents and students in a lawsuit .tgainst the eli .. mination of bilingual education and the attempt to include bllirvrual education as part of ba!lic 1Ostruction. Along with AAPA and the \'Va.,lUngton Association for Asian and Padf c Educatum we

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conducted ~ I1\iSS community meeting with Seattle School District Superinten­dent Don Steele

Culturally, through Martha Choos efforts, we co-sponsored ·Breaking Out the first production brought he", by ~ regional Asianartsconsortium.

The Caucus is more than a local organi­zation. Ourprese.ncehas been felt nation­ally. Three years ago. we were recipients of a grant from the De~rtment of Labor to conduct a workshop on the employ­ment needs of Asian Pacific women. The grant connected the C~ucus to a na­tional network of Asian Pacific women. That network fonnally convened its first national conference and the C~ucus is a founding organization, We sent three delegates to the organizing conference -~aria . a me.mooof the national planning committee. Joan Yoshitomi and Vicki Woo. The Caucus 15 the only Asian Pac­ific women's group representing the Northwest, \Vith the network. we are now lmlted With national policy develop­ment~and actIons

lntematlon.lly. our member5 met someo( thesurvlvors of the H bomb from Japan. They came to the U.S. to jom the mtemahonal demonstration tor peaCf' last month. Yuri organized .. luncheon to ... hare our expenences as women and as Asians in two distinct societi~

We WIll continue our lobbying ond ad­YOC~ey efforts. However, we have also become: ilWMe tlat we need to nurtu~ and educate ourwlves. This f~ll. we ut'

embarkin.g on .J.n ~mbitious commuruty eduabon senes. Slurley Shunodo. Evelyn lnt~ru . Yuri and M.J.ria luive planned ~ year·long scMdule of workshops.

leadIng off in September wtll be.n Em. ployme:nt Skills Building mani-s.erin ,

ovember will bri"8 a session on polih­cill savvy . Slres5 reduction , a cook.tfl3 demonstration .J.nd I ~rty Me on the boord for D.amber. The topper wtll be. se:ries 10 the: spring, ·How to be Powerful .and Still be: Asian. The: enhre sch~ule: will be: open to the general community With ~ mmimal fH for non-C~ucus mem­bers

Strokes should .Iso be extended to members of the Executive Committee. Sally K.azama. co-chair, is busy organlZ­Ing st~nding committees that will font\illJ­ize some of the Caucus reponsJbilihes. Ma.rtha Choe. tre..,urer, has made smse of the Caucu books (it took. b.nker to do It) .nd she wtll h .. d fundnti .. ng effort>. Kudos should be extended to

ancy Lim and Elaine: Ko, C<H«retaries Olney deve.loped the. newsletter fOnNt

and, now that she IS off to Yale:. EI~lne will continuea5 the sole secretary.

ust but not least. we truly th..nk Jane: Yambe for her conhnumg work cooroi­nati"8 the columns which appear in this newspaper.

Asa purely Yolunteerorg.tnization. the Caucus is dependent on its mMlbe:rs . Dues ~re 510.00 ~ year and y.."!' undertu.e occ~sional fundra.ising efforts to support our worl. At the IntefThltional District St~t Fatr. we sponsored an herb .. J Ice tea booth and a femirust fortune-telling booth coordmated by Martha .nd Ticiang.

\.'Ve believe th..t we have established ~ grOWing viable network of Asian Paci­fic women ~nd. ,"creasingly. men. en­compassing all ages Asian Pacific groups, and occupation!». We use: the sys­tem to male ch~.nge:s or at the very least voice our opinion. \\'hat \o\>'f' h~ve written about i only an indication of what we do. The worl continues. Jotn us

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The refugE!es: Whose problem is it1

pabIJc .-.-..... tt .......... _ wnly 10 _ canplkalild .... Whi~5U~ ......... ~ .. pri""'ry obligation "'the CW1IIIy ..... poUticaUy mponsible lor their ..... menll;, the refugft crisIo is _ ..... human and sociological problem. The refugft is a product '" political and teO­nomic machiNltions tNt the big ~ a", makill8 todivido the worlcl....,...-.

Whether the refupa lib it ... -. they will always haft to lace the cIiffIcuIt, '" living in a .tn.,. land, with • -u, different culrure. A lilt~ knowlodp '" the English language wiD gift a little CCIfto vertience, but it will not CU~ mental and psychological scan their lituation hu inflicted on them. As they are aU aware, the problem does not end with lindins a country in which to stay. Whef't'W'l" they a re, as long as they continue to remain uprooted from their homeland, they wiD always have to live each day unsure 01 what the furure holds.

I thought the reply of the woman, who did not strike me as a political science student, was pro-refugee, very profound and could lead to a better understanding why Indochinese refugees are in the U.S. This attitude, however. is very much the exception. A considerable number of people, Asians and Americansalike, con­tinue to be "haunted" by the ever-grow­ing refugee population in this country.

Why do refugees rum off some people7 Is it because their presence lessens the chance of survival for many Americans who have to compete for decreasing dollars budgeted for social services1 Is it because refugees take any kind of menial job compared to their American counter­parts1 Is it because they are alleged carriers of communicable diseases? Is it because several of them are successful businesspersons1 Or is it because some of them are fonnersoldiers and government officials who have acquired blood debts in their last-minute effort to thwart the resistance1

The refugee is a product of political and economic machinations by the

big powers

While it is a problem to make a distinc­tion between what is true and what is false, I do not want to provide absolute guidelines in answer to the above ques-

lions. What is of utmost importance is the pressing question of why refugees exist.

Many people are so engrossed in the survival of the refugees - which is a very valid concern - that in the ensuing con­fusion caused by the federal cuts, there are certain political realities people either forget or ignore.

People are essentially the product of their own society. Our ideas, attitudes, beliefs and mores are usually a reflection of the economic forces that shape our

society. Unavoidably, in this society there are conlradictions, contradictions between the farmers and the landowners, between factory wo;kers and factory owners, between the ruled and the ruling. In simple words, ours is a society that is formed by irreconcilable class interests. The clash of such interests, which is some­times bloody on both sides, often times results in the displacement of people. A good example are the refugees.

It appears then that the refugee problem is not just a matter of cutting off

Whenever I hear some refugfto talk about their pain, sulleri"&,, falS, anpioh, insecu ri ty and apprehe.nsions, my heart literally bleeds for them. But their prob­lems do more than touch my heart . TIwy make me realize that theirs is a problem tha t is bound to repeat history as long as the rul ing few entrenched by foreisn capital continue to threaten the interests of the many. And the paradox is no OnP

can turn their back on the social intftftts of the many and still find themselves undisturbed a nd living in contentment .

In the end, the refugee problem is not the problem of the refugees alone. It is the problem of humanity .

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