Show 1I pa 7 topaz times 2 3 may 25 1943 the energetic C TH ernie agitator ter no w in chicago now and wed like to think that hes taking the boys in chi to the cleaners in poker and bridge with as much success and aplomb as he showed while he was in the city while ernie was a sharp and sagacious bridge playtown awn altheree are about two thousand nisei in chicago N no every day 0 japaincreasing number the is ready and be here yet and I1 hope there never will nese boys here than more work girls are for anc inq dallai a sTunning short on cash paying a dollar was running stice 1I wa 4 1I looked high end and low for days and day for a room 13 a month the trouble finally found a nice room for 15 1 domn most of the places is dont want japanese opthe local USES tried to help me find a linotype and erating arati ng job by contacting a couple of printers was no1I called up a couple more but it boom too dice 1I have to be an union man to A C o fay A acet any kind of such work in chicago printing places are still afraid to take the chance of hiring nisei md a job in a candy the USES found me c an hour 6 days a 60 cents factory at money money in when he was always a er player cashing were down but the chins chis wore as he was one afternoon fond of telling the chips fell too well for him and aloo co hes finally 1 oft eft has i paradoxically was so gt ill ill get time week for a 9 hour day so be a overtime and half for a day king taking comes to jobs and rooms the japa1I guess when hen toughest time finding them because there the nese have are no japanese hotels in chicago as far as 1I know and of course there are no japanese companies hiring unlucky nisei were fell the enough lucky that he he was game wass via 7 ca cardd stud arnies hole ernies cards were a pair of deuauspices the start was auspin and the cards concious op of tinued sweet on top deuces the hidden double doucen it lt and a deuce a queen and deuce the fourth douce and ing trustarnies four of ae kind ernies better breaks than the japanese because potent combination in ed more there are all kinds of jobs advertised in the a language any mans nans papers for negroes but 90 of the american companies us but but his vision of rakcompanies A hire few will wont hire nisei a beajust got about all they could handle most of ing in the chips onquadruutifully concealed pathe them already have between 10 to 20 nisei on tho as one plet quickly faded away yroll and hesitate to take on any more because card s superintendent told me a group of nisei are very con- for the next two way were that fell his spicuous in any plant a completing queens both iwao kawakami board on with house W grand full of course the result chicago boys quietthe othar that AM and there at arrived in dashington D C lyY and quickly folded up me was nobody to meet mo oh I1 got homesick right there for once the cards had and then kathorine katherine came running over 10 minutes later been so good as to be too they were good and ken got off the bus 20 minutes later on was time BUGS ETC surprised to find the train r 1I live in a single jingle room fur to a bug book according ass r fl dished not so nicely for 5 per 033 jlc CT IL that weve sten 1 1 1 seen recently y week in a small red brick 53 jtb w J the female horsefly is a A ry rooming house the room had p S the blood bloodsucker while sucker to had one aj r v male been repainted white bite any com ja window which wont open the 1 l ments its competing against white americans and negroes even the negroes are getting a tough scrap ill I ji I 9 avell 9 1 L 1 iw 5 smallest closet ever one bureau TK 1 EVER HEAR THIS a little table one light cha ff chair ir ones second hand this and bed and a linoleum floor the landlady makes my with us so dont blame us 1I have to eat bed and cleans my room every morning for it out every meal but it will be a novelty for a while Q why are a soldier food prices are very reasonable if one finds the right rooster and an old maid I1 I1 I1 F places alike A but the soldier sings for war bonds made a budget yankee doodle doo the dont know how long 1I will be L ie to stick to it division un- rooster crows cock a doo I1 will be secretary to the rc 1I have an office all dle doo der mr powers a swell fellow old while the to myself and 1I stay in there all day doo im really be maid sighs any doodle dool am giving 10 I1 s- ginning to miss alice and mary and i tso t so much fun in PW made all the gang who are youa mary kawata lath st washington QUERY NW DC niso a or lyance perc perchance a WATANABE 11 |