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THE NEW CANADIAN
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GLEANINGS
There were two men, A and B, talking in a market place. A said to B that he could clear the whole place in a minute. On B expressing a doubt, A offered to prove his power. So saying, he stood on a stool and called out that at such-and-such a street a millionaire was emptying his pockets and giving his fortune to anybody that came his way. The market .was-swiftly emptied. Seeing the marvelous effect of his speech, A began himself to run, and when U as-kcd him the reason, he said, "When everybody .believes the story, there'may be something in it!" �' '� .
By CINDERELLA
"This Which I've lust Inherited, .."
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Joe Has Changed
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/IT'S (;0!M; TO. :m-; ruthi-r of "beginning/' . . . � . � difficult f<> tcil;this .story ..since ; Pointing to Jin, Joe said,- "The it-inay !n> d;:inirrprrtrd in some Japanese.-character for 'hito' .i,s (|uart<!i:s ;u;'i \vhc\hrr 1 make (lie same .character as that for anythuiir ' i-u-'iri/r--rt'iiiaiiis'{si lio , -Jin's: iiaiiie.'' � � ' . '� ��
;sw;n.--;. V ; | The fellows were tickled. Jin
I'vi1 kiimvsr JnMVu a IOMJ; time.! uns as ton is he'd and I was sur You niit;!U, s,iyfh:U I tun about the.' only Ni*;'i ft tend I hat J;)e has �evi'r had, uhich is rather unusual since Jor ..is. a. N isci.
I prised. The fellows'.ate it up and (he thought even struckme.'..'. . Why didn't 1 know that? I'm a
has changed. Anyone ehan--|-. ;�Havq you a Japanese name ?" es . ovor the/.years, <>>> .might.'; (lie question was put to Joe slate. Hut what 1 lum-observed i This time, I thought, Joe is iro-
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nig to clam up. He ,was very
.about- Joe. is unus'uai .since' it concerns \vhat :\vix-; tiir very- core, of Joe\s c'Ii:iraeti r,"utlook and
touchy about his Japanese name, I knt'w froiii; past experience. But "
L'havji)i-,\yhK-h;n!ad!> liliii a queer! I was.".wrong again; guy to snmr N|st.i:' . . �.: � ;' ; j � <Mrs; Mukoto," Joe said, "It
". _. ;. "� ..�-:''... -*-.. >. �','-;� -. / | means honest aiul: true.".Joe;.\vas; : IT WAS lU-'lvlNC Vtlie "lunoh j�'proud of his'JapnneVe^name! : luiur at S.'. Spi iti^.M- 'ayi'l �': S">is. j ' �.: ; ..�.'*.-'. */*.�': ; ..wholo Jr�e and.1 \vurk for a li^ntj. j tMIS CHAXGE IX JOE hasn't ,11 W-ts ..the -spiv!!�i of rhy"..yej�r..-j."c'o!H.e? ouf of .nowheVe.' About a Iho^uv!!- Jirpaurse prince: >y.�s ! year ago. Joo, his*\vife Toshie �com.ii.ig to town, aiuf-tho.'.pap^; and I went" Vo see '^ashonion '* .were jjuung.it plenty of tniblicity. You ivhiembei:, -RashWon" was Snjneonc ay.';ed -.Joe,' "\Vh;it ^'-^ Japanese niovio which copped (loos AkihittJ -mean?."' -al! Pi'ue:? in 'one, Kuropcan festi-
: ' I evpeeted ,l,.e:to oive a blank -^ ! f'mmi it; ."r�ihc> dull, I'm. look:a'if.!!nuit:Me soiru-thin? about: -'-ir''lv �f thV ^lctioii �.dventure fan. sonit-iinng tro � didn'i caio and :''Jl >ils >vrea<-' ^aid Joe. "I couldn't rare !rss. \^ I wa< "^'thcy TonJ<l 'have picked up �Wrong.' Ho ;-xi^aiiuMl. that-'"Ki^"' ilu> 'v'ol.n�'10-".1� liHle � h�d a hard meant � ^x�novoloho,'-'/ o,-: "lov^"' <inu' c:i^1��?^ *<>me of the: lines."; and thai v-aki-'Vas tin- ^u^-aJrnt': A -fJ!rK^^n'fu'^d;";l looked at
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; : V:"!v;>'!; .l<>e had.never cared for "�Japa;io.>o-movies before.' To put :.:; p'-'lu^iy. :!u\ was "<>n record-as :>:;;::n-' that he wouldn't touch "i:e' \VH!I '.a ten-foot pole. Of
character and He was held as an example for all to'follmy. He was dearly loved by the monks.
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;!i?:^a.\ 'of: t'hi-:-- what T >h:i!T call ''Thi.-K:\shonion.Affair/'. e'a^w t:Vf .very" next day-at tlu^ xhoji. ��';��.-,.--�''.'�� '_';.'-
Joe. a-ki-d 'if-'anyone:had s.een;
.:;;::�::. "'Iv.islu-UriOM!" No ono had. Some �] t - had - ni'vvr lu-ard of the film and i ' ::= Joe was 'rather disappointed, "It's a -rreat film/' was Joo's rocom-IUM IK�-';'� int-ii'dation and he outlined the -oki of . p!of, quite neatly. I thought. i-4ii-:iui; iU'nf\'� 'lit1, wov; .'in t-^ t*1!! of-;i!:other (,o li,> ,'i" '!e!-- st.^y. �A-rI:t-.^- by the author of :ii; 'toi.fl- t^f ��K-V-lv :- = -v." I":i.i:-;.::.'K.�\v. I e'n-
A Jocal village girl of ill repute accused this boy of being the father of her coming child. He denied, the whole affair but all evidence pointed to hisrguilt. He was expelled from the monastery by the ;.sorrowing monks. The boy .became a beggar in medieval Japan, ridiculed for being a C.hristi�n, and suffered much.
One day, the-hbme of the village girl caught on fire. The word; spread through the crowd" vyhich gathered quickly that the baby was still inside. The beggar boy was seen to plunge� immedifitriiy into the blazing wooden .dwelling. ��Aha'j said the villagers, he's a brave enough lad, but this proves without a doubt that he is the father of the child!
The baby vvas rescued. The boy, suffering /rom fatal burns, was laid in the street to die. Theiij an amazing sight met the eyes of the crowding throng. Through the torn and/�.-'.burnt rags which the beggar wore could be seen two very girlish breasts. The boy was really a girl! \She could not have been t he f a t h elr.'
The village girl confessed that
,-sho had made the false charge for
one reason. The boy, because of
his noble character, had aroused
.vhedevil in 'her heart. "
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IT WAS QTITE A STORV and
Joe �enthusiastically'-led the ilis-cussion on *\vo important -��point's which were brought up. \Vas the story possible ?. And Was. t hi* gir! a" fool? I ha<i my own questions. Whore did Joe gqt all his new knowledge about Japan ? Why the .new interest in things Japanese?
Toshie told me later that Joe brings home books on Japan from the library. One day. I found Joe looking at a Japanese magazine.
"I wishl could read this stuff," sard Joe. shaking his head. I '?hook'my head..for I recalled Joo siu't'ring- at anyone who studies the "ka:;n" a'nd th:' "kar.ji". That wa> ~v"i'.t? time ago. ...".�� * �
AS I SAIl>. Jv't' has changed. I h 'pe 'r^ <>r.^ n~i5ur:�1rrs:<-tnd? J^e. h^wrVf-r. He's the sarr^e Nisei wb<* trwi to rri:�: ->r the first' day .if-our war, that is. the war which sMrVii -�:-. F>� t.'r.ber 7:h. . 1; -^k-, :-.c-'-.r :..:-. r. Y- .i .�>-. ! :h:::k :hi- r.-'*- J -��'.;* a hi? ::::-pr.-\en:cr.i,..v*'r ?ht^ ��tti J'^r � a :v: i<-r c:v"rt-n ai" ar'x-ur.^.
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I THINK it's going to be a pretty good old world.
True, the joyous exuberance of New Year's Eve is a thing the past. Laying rooms across the country are just getting over th� woefully forlorn look, with Christmas trees cowering in comer-, awaiting the man of the house to lend & hand^in taking do\m f trimmings..Couches now show a few more cigarette burns; A shelves are suddenly short of glass tumblers. And many of have only just got over heavy heads and upset stomachs, ati sheepishly" trying to convince our pals that we can take the stafj or leave it alone; , .And-our pockets are considerably lighter k
With the cold dawn of 1954, the New Year which we had look� forward to with something almost akin to a chiid's antkipaliw of Christmas, the New Year which we so crazily ushered in .witl demonstrative fervour, looks very much like the old year we thrown out for a better one.
The''/'cold war" is still on. Unemployment has increased to i point where we. Tiow give it more than a sneaking^ uneasy glans* And although Ottawa says the cost-of-living index is slowly ..comicj �down, most of us don't even feel it, what with the cost of housir? still making us cut corners. And the world is as silly as ever, \\1ti Aly Khan still chasing ..women all over the Hiviera) with Rob: Rockefeller still pondering over whether she should or should^ jg-J '� j accept half a million dollars, arid Christine Jorgensen still tclh'nc I-MJ'*'"^' ^ the newspapers that she wants to live like any normal woman- �����-�.f- W really does! And most of us still have to shovel our o\vn snow of? ':>_,-<-- ' �'� � our verandas, arid still continue to pick up that weekly -pay clroqu?. T. And we're all appreciably getting older. .".'. And we've still go: a lot of things we want. ..' "'��...�
;/The outlook isn't comforting. But I still think it's going to be 'a pretty good old world. , ;: � i
Despite the pessimistic .picture of the World at .large, despite the fact that the material bounties of the earth are not distributee equitably�like my scant two hundred dollars against Bobo's coc! half a million --the things'which really matter are much mine, fo? t*-as Bng as I shall cheri.sh them, as they are Rockefellers', Fords', jft Barbara Hutton's or Aly Khan's. I can't say that Rockefeller fc more of-the world's sunsets, moonlights, green trees, bird-song and wind-song; ncr can I say that I .have less of life's ;ecstasios; .thaus they. Those moments of high resolve, those momehts of infinite tenderness, those Wondrous moments when the .soul rises beyond one's known abilities, those, moments of love, pain and conflict and tragedy are no less for me than for thetn.-
Despite the continuance of -the cold war, despite criticisms reserved expectations, and we can still count on enlightened men of failure, the world picture if dark, has not darkened beyond our and women of different nations sitting side -by side or across a conference table in friendly diacussiohs. -
.Despite the presence of peculiar people in our world, strange characters with .dopey problems which to folks like us arc .not problem? at :all,; despite the fact that there are Individuals: who persist in making human beings look like a three-ring^ circus, \ve still have with us .vibrant, magnificent people like. Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Dr. Ralph Bunche, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Queen Elizabeth, Alan Paton, Vincent Paladinoy "who keep somtthinir of man.'s capacity for selflessness in all of .us alive. . .
Despite the fact that we have to work round the calendar; living from pay day to pay 'day, despite the fa*t that we sf ill have to shovel the snow off our porches when we most hate to, we can sai 11 count on more than ^just food and shelter*. We still have the four freedoms. And for those of us who shrink from standard conformity in any: shape or form, ours is the fifth freoffom. shiniivg and challenging - the freedom to give of one's best. .
And I guess we can't deny that we're, atrgettin.tr .older, a;:l most of us haven't acquired a quarter of all the tilings we've wished for and wanted and even worked for up to this time. P;;t I don't thinlMhat really matters. The important thing is that we'-.v been given another chance at 365 days of living. Suppo^inir \\T w,.rr to look at it from the other side of the telescope, and "sir :v-.ri-ir we discovered that our time was running short. We'd real:'- - :;h a .jolt that air our growing older--and wiser too, if we ; : .': morons � wouldn't amount to a row of beans if we weren't ^ r the chance of livfng another 365 days to put into practice all �'::�� richness of experience. . .
I've jupt had'365 day.? dumped inta niy lar>.. ; . and I think ^ ' going to b� a pretty good old world despto a lot of things I dont Lie
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