iv. September 13,1947
THE NEW CANADIAN
Farewell to School Days
BrSANDY
coolness in. the air now: fh? grass glistens with : H^-r^nc dew to open the day, and a chilly breeje meets me ac
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fcel of fre�hly threthed grain through your finger*? The ^eH'.<jrhttle yellow mur��? The tight of '�helve's packed with f upon jar of frujt put up in the late summer heat? The sound tf � sportsman'* rifle from the bruth nearby?
'r-.'nv ^Member and autumn are synonymous. They symbolize,'
.'--<� .,:.'.'' of. school. �-.',� ...
V\u-'\'' .'iiort'year* ago. in crisp. cotton and bright red- sweater. L-vv;!^ ; -rW notebook and unsharpened pencil in one hand, a dime I walked to school for the first time. The door* ui'' a building welcomed me as 1 entered, my feelings a � si-urines*!* and timidity.
H the start of years happily spent, ar school. ( k* turned to number work, then came maths, algebra. n,1 trig. Bangs and pigtails turned to perms, .Cotton--' ills, junipers and sloppy joes. Six changed to 'sixteen. 1. (V:,,;y year when September came, there came' thin same, old doing hack to school again.
this year, I am not going back to school again. I'm a ',3 to now. I won't be with the crowds at the textbook tfrs in the bookstore. I won't hear the crackling of stiff bock covers. The gang at the coke stand has scattered and-the juke-box keeps on spinning '/'Auld Lang Syne." Utmr!:ib�T thai freckle-faced brain-box in grade ten? Hemeinb.of \ ,:ay .liii'iiiy scared us w.ith.his first crew cm?.'Remember the !>'.'� .it Kinds' after she. got that new portable philter-player? �M- . . . ah. 1/iU gone, gone are the old familiar faces; ami u'u-es till the old familiar places. . .
.�one' to varsity , to. take up electrical engineering.'�'. Peggy's '�for designing, and there's a few nurses in the making. . Aii-V r.c. well. 1 ought ;to be getting my master's degree soon. : I've been haling ;t very .highly �.qualified position for the last five �years.' In tluv fjnvttMxeil field of sugar beets/ 1 mean And so to daikon digging for the sixth consecutive season.' . ' . . . . ..''"' :�;".
in the beet tield, I'll stretch my stiffening .back and look tip to Tv;iYi- \vlu--n t he school van passes .by. . The kids in the bus inay.bi frixmijig. and griping about yesterday's homework'-' that isn't done, ]a>if iiishrs sleep that was lost and today's -teacher' who'll be crabby.
But CH be thinking of the school days I've said good-bye to. . School, with all its worries,.troubles and pains, rewards us with furi. experience, knowledge and happy companionship unobtainable elsewhere.' .'. "'�'....��". ': �� ''�'�'-;' .-�� ��..�;_'�..''';\"; ��'..:'.'.;'.;
."� Ye*; 'the best years of our lives 'are spent during our school days.
hir-mce Tad"
FREUD? MY HAT!
By PEG
�L.llinc .through some back issues of Ni^ei publications and reading. anide? 1 had meant tp for some tims. I -came across � an" article probing a giil's inind/ The author-j'lact'd.a morb.id emphasis on the ..soli-ailed sub-conscious and im-. 5-llf-d � things our mothers would not have flared to think. The 1 Ni'so'.-, too/ have fallen for this .;<!an�H-.ous and' damaging sport. .. it i> a general belief that pro--.V.ts the feminine niii'id is;a;pas-. tirn�! most gentlemen should shun,-r.ot on ly" f 6v" \yhat; t hoy may d is-(6v.;; -but also, because -the/dis-.-;i"�nnetM�'.d thoughts '-we're likely to cMvi'/thr-; probers tlienisc-lves � <o t^f s� ivicxv of the psychiatrist. i;U this.writer was obviously not � ?e;;!l.?man. The story opens . sr.n-.vMr.rrYa girl unhappy for no :c:^;r,;iate reason. Then it e\-=~vj;V-s he i- past love-life which -^ b-1:; particularly frustrating: ifyV conclusion .is that all -.-he ;-c^'->�_;> a man. " " � ��'
HALf, BAKED SKEPTICISM' '
i- .-::<-r* nothing about psycho-.
'"':�;':� I'm heartily tired of
'"��- "~'(-^dian'simplifications' of
":; .--.-i.-s of human thought.
-�� �- -..'i; not even indulge in .an
- ��� - s:>i-ll'"of. the blues without
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�-'" ' '�>- some uiimentioiiabio : x- '���":-b his half-baked mod-.
'.....;'-� isn^. be j�odh pot>hs
�'�"�� ^ -h�- do^i! not und^r-'
- ". ��" �"' stfrSjos of the m^die-
i-sionp of Jo,rt_n r.f
"are saddened ;in spite of 'clear, blue .skies,-'when you feel 'ihe.'-.4u<'-'-den thrill of .discpverfng; a .new/ bloom -in .the perennial bed., can . -:bur .skeptic jump at this and ro-
- tort that "There is nothing /without a cause" .and toinmejice liis.'�
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FRUStRATION CASE
The dabblings.of these amatr'vr psychologist-authors^actually hinder thewo.rk of .psychiatrists by giving .a false impression � of.th.it ..elusive quantity.; t lie mind. Like7 .- the centipede who started to trip . after someoiie asked him h.ow h�? inanageil .his ieet, the modern woman is far wo;ye for tlie '..term "frustration.'" It "imprc-s'scs.
- the Uninformed into actual ne.Vii'O-. . -ti'cism. � . � .-...:�'--..�
These writers would probably accuse nie of oampensatin.*:'. my"
- 8^-nse of irusiration by belittling them, ."Aha. a cause of .�'�'rii'st;�<;"� tioii and she doe.-ii'.i kr.ow.it. nor want to/'
The very', fact'that lUy-se ar.jhor-are -so obsessed by s;u h m_n;--' bidity should yield sqir,<- < ati>�- in-� investigation "if "iheir log;, is"..10 . b�. us�'d. .-The jovi-rs o; iina'y"--.s-shoub: s:t"dow:v;ind analyze ;r:V::;-s*�lvr��; Who ktiows.; thv-y i--:&).'<. fip.il that they-n�-i-d a \<�}>�'.
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1 he jeep
By HARl MATSVKATA
In The Christian
Monitor
Hanake's dream came true today, as ^he cliinbed into our jeep for the first time. Shy and embarrassed lest some of her friends see her. and wonder what she�^in elevator girl �was doing: in a shmchutfun (occupation) jeep, she ducked her head down, and waited for it;to start. , . ; . '� , ' - �'...'. ' ' ' '..."'. " �.-.' "' .� ' � ..� -.- ��
"What a fortunate pirl yon are j - - �'�
todiiy, goinp for a ride in a jeep'" the beauty of the cherry blossoms her mother had said to her. as she under the clear blue spriii* sky.
packed Hanako's small aluminum luilv h box with ?ome rice and a few pieces of.pivkle.
Little Crici of Delight
Driving dow,u.the t-ro^ded main
street ot Ginza. Hunako uttered little tries of delight as p.ede*-. irians. hearing the horn, scattered in quick response. ';'� ,'..'-.
� "Isn't. i,t wonderful to be riding ably in a jeep and speed-, away:" she exclaimed.' as we passed a crowded . tram with people hanging''precariously put from the doors.
She was .in a different world �a; new world which .she and
several million Japanese' have
observed w.ith7wonder and awe,
ever since the first jeeps and
Gl's arrived in Tokyo over
two summers ago. Each morning and evening. Hanako has a
hard time working herself ^onto
one of these trams; elbowing
through the crowd isn't t*asy for
her, as she is rather short and
small, Sometimes she^ has to
wait many trams before she ."can- get on. ..� . . . . ..'
As Hanako once remarked. "We shail .become democratic .and -�polite-, when, the, f ranspprtation .situation improves?;..1J ut .today, we :bave to be rough and aggressive,* ri.ce ration or we- shall never, get to ouv� basis, office.-'- ;
Although the nice thing;.* to eat - okashi � '(oiikesV, ame (cajidy^ atul osushi iJaj^anese version (�C ^Hnd\Vithes> � which accompanied the usual cherry -vie -.inp season were missing, the people outwardly appeared happy and g�> -in momentary escai�e (row the unpleasant realities of an inflated economy, high prices and low salaries. The past cold winter. with little, charcoal or. firewood, food' And clothing, seemed to have been forgotten iri the galaxy of �softly moving color.
"Wouldn't you liki to get out and join the "�troller� in the park?" asked Hanako. But the qujck retort was, "Oh. no. I want to stay in the jeep!" The cherry blossoms to her were of little concern this afternoon.
Hanako is Jss .'year* old, a liftle 'titide.r five feet, but quite attractive. If things had succeeded: as, the militarists planned, she -no doubt wo.uld be inai ried to a pros-perous merchant by now. Her father had ,been a .Well-to-do rice merchant in Tokyo till 1!\37, when with the outbreak of the China, -Incident the rice ration system was put in force, and reduced . him to a mere employee in the ageniy on a salaiy
Cherry Blossoms at Ueno
It was a beautiful day. and
crowds were Hocking to L'eno Park, in the heart of Tokyo, to see the cherry blossoms. Despite dreary post-war conditions.; oha-.Jia'mi (vie\v.iug .. the hoiiorablo flowers) was in full sv/jng: Men. wonieii and children dressed, in. their best kimonos were strolling lazily through the park, taking in
Mompei and Blouse Outfit
But today, dressed in a neat Imt
shabby mompeiXJapanese version of slacks) and blouse outfit, mado from "her : mother's wardrobe. Hanako is-"enip!oyed as an eleva-. tor girl i.n one "of the office buildings''in Tokyo.
. New and pretty clothes for -which she would give almost anything are faeyon'd the reach of her small pay. All the money
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You�"asked for if. so here it is. For all those; readers who like Pen-Palling, a department is being launched in this is--.ue. With n. bottle of ink. instead of champagne, just to" be appropriate. "
All those who wish pen pals are asked to ;send in their ages, interests: descriptions, etc.. and the kind of^perTpals they wish, and from where. .
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: oM a:.:' war.ts .pen pals in India.
A::i�a'. Scothij-i: -i-.V:ti. als.^-wherf-.
Ht-r a�:'l:'�''ss :�- care cf W. E. Reid,
3C Market Square. Chatham, Ont.
ts Sato says-.'she has a lew pen pahs now in England. Hawaii. .l*,S.Av Japan and Canada. � She would like to add to her .list of peiv j'als froin New Xe'afcin.d. Australia. South Africa. America, ami various other countries. ; Hvr'^ad-dre?> is P.O. Box 163, Vernpn. B.C.
SPIRIT OF CANADA
\Vhat o| -the spirit of Tanai;.:'.' Priir.e Minist�>i King, speaking in Toronto t.his'week, said "this. 101:1: try "must i ontinvie to iio her t:tL most 'to help P.ritaiti.V. Are we do: ing tjiai? . Can we lionesMy examine our-.consciences and say. that w'f- aiv doing ev^-rythine pos sili'e to mak�- Britain'-.- . burd-n. less? No 11 �.��"��'. \f, ;i ri'H\\ er. -"OUaw_a Journal. ' - .
the Q�U at the end of the month goei into the family pool to provide three tcanty meal* a day for he* parents and younger brother at cchool.
Living in the center of Tokyo, sho is ionstanily aware of two worUi? Ue'r monotonous, colorless. o\ erytlay worhl,1 and the colorful! viVHcioiis life of th� Aniericait at my people, with their numerous j�'eps. new sedans, fashionably dressed 'women/. un>l tho e\ er pi;esont (il's.
Crossing the Bridge
K\ery Japitni'se girl 'dreams of ctossing the bridge to the other 'worhl,' [lrhey- look upon.-Ja^aneso girls'.able, to..sjveak l''nglish with' admiring envy, .thinking Ihat kuoxvlfdge of Knglish is ono nieanx of getting arrows.
Another -way. they believe, is by learning how to. typewritt, Hanako thinks so. for she goes three tjmes a wi'i-k 'after, office hours to master the touch system at ;i-� nearby, typing scljool \\jih the lioju1 of -getting a. job (priueYietl \vjlh the ocrupatiotu
At Yasukuni Shrine
As \vo. drove aiputvd, \\ e caino " .ne;u; Ya.sukiini Shriue. v. liichduring th<> war was a popular visiting plare for families of battle-fallen .soldiers. "Till wV- meet 'at Vasukuni Jiujai" were the parting words of ���many soldiers, \vlio,. according to Shinto custonk believed their "souls: won I'd fetuiu 10 tho; shrine: ; :
Hauako, who has been very silent for ^ome time, suddenly asked nio whether we couldn't .go To the shrine. As \ye ai)proaehed the entrance she implored me;lo stop, and jumping Off llu'y. jeep she called ba'c'k.- "Do you iliinoV waiting a inoment?�'�' ?>he ran lo-ward the .center of the lorii. and coming to a full slop, pin Iiei; hau.ds iogetii�r below her knees, and made, a ..very low. reverent : bowv � .
�As she carne running back she.
had tears in her eyes. -'Did you
lose someone in your family in
the war?" "Yes," she replied,
V-my brother was killed in �
China Just before the war
.ended.''; . .
Fulfillment r fa Dream
Ha-ving no wairh. she < a.; i ied a
(lr>ck in lu-r hand. Tho tiine no\\r �hov\-('d-.ii 'was'iieai ly" cine o:clock, when she -had to" be ba<-k.ut work. As w�-� tiii n(>(| i he- < 01 iiei. and WPIP. bark agaiti, I lu-ard her s:i>-. "Qi,, how my link- sister "will �-�ivyinf? tonight: My di�-ain 'ba.s be�-n fill?-..filled ��.�now I don't can if . I go bick and run the vleva'tor!" ''Ihi.nako �an now bcr<i>t .of-.liav--' ing t;tstt-d d�-mo< ia<.y. For to h"�-r as ft> jimny." clevatoi'- gills, stoie rl�-rks <ir sti'e'et stall vendors, tin- libi'juJUius",-j�M-p i.~ >ti[l tu�- nif�st !;mg.;bl�- .-i^'ii di "-f ;;<' y. ii; Japan.
DOKIE
By Eddie Sato
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