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Visiting Japanese Policemen Say “Grass” Is Growing Problem In Japan, Too
VANCOUVER- — While Japolice have all but elim5ed opium trafficking, more
^ more Japanese young people
marijuana, two tisitTokyo police officers said
Vancouver recently.
"■■Fifteen years ago we had
opium addicts in Japan but
Ethete are very few,” said

have in Canada. Glue-sniffing is
the most popular addiction with
our hippies but the use of mari­
juana is increasing,” he said in
an interview.
Because Japan was an island
it was easier for police to pre­
vent opium being smuggled in
than it was for Canadian police,
who had the border with the U.S.
i^eant Kazuyoshi Shibata, 27 to contend with. (Heroin, which
tf the 40,000-strong Tokyo me­ addicts use in Canada, is derived
from opium.)
tropolitan force.
"‘■We have hippies like you
Sgt. Shibata
and Constable

Eiji Tominaga, 24. both of the
Tokyo police training and per­
sonnel department. are on a
three-month tour of RCMP and
city police forces across Canada.
At present they are guests of
Vancouver City Police and are
studying the operation of the
traffic division.
They will also join the detective division to learn about
Vancouver’s crime-fighting- techniques.
Sgt. Shibata said that Tokyo

has one policeman to every 250
while
Vancouver has
citizens
one to every 570. Tokyo’s poo­
elation ls around 10 million,
“But what you lack in police
manpower you make up for with
better equipment,” he said.
In Vancouver most patrol work
is done in cars or on motorcycles,
but
the
majority of Tokyo’s
police still walk the beat.
“Of course we do have many
patrol cars and motorcycles, but
nowhere near the same propor-

tion as you have."’ said Sgt.
bata.
Constable Tominaga saic Toadopted “the
kyo police have
soft approach” to deal with disturbances.
“Up to last year we had many
disturbances by radical students.
But so many other citizens were
against them that thing's have
quietened" down now,” he said.

During' their stay

in

Canada

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“SUKIYAKI”
Practical Japanese
Cookbook $1.50
(plus postage)

The ftm Canadian

STRENGTH FOR THE
BRIDGE
By MISS J.L. BEATTIE
$5.00 (plus postage)

An Independent Organ for Canadians o# Japanese Origin

Toro-nto, Ont

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1970
......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

An Old Letter To An Issei Nisei Painter Creates Book Of Poems
Father From His Soldier Son And Photos About Discarded “Gioves”
The U.S. this month observed Veterans Day. Earlier this year,
the Seattle Post-Intelligencer published for the first time an un­
forgetable war letter capturing the pride, the will, the devotion
and the heartbreak involved in a single soldier’s personal battle.
The letter was from George Sawada, graduate of Franklin High
School, Seatlle, and the Univ, of Washington, to his father Shinsaku. now deceased. The younger Sawada became a sergeant in the
142nd Regt. Combat Team, He died in action in Italy — some­
fhing his letter appeared to foresee.
*
*
En route to Camp Shelby, April 30, 1943
Dear Dad:
I hope you don’t mind my calling you that. I haven’t called
you Dad before, but tonight for some reason or the other, I find
Father such a cold, formal word, especially in Japanese, and Dad
conveys just the meaning I want. It is at once an address of respect,
but it expresses also the closeness of our relation and the deep
mutual love and understanding which must exist between the two
before a Japanese son can call his father Dad. I know that this is
irue of us so I have addressed you as such.
You are probably wondering why I have written you this
letter so soon when we had" just said good-bye only a few hours
ago, but I felt that I owned it to myself and you to tell you some
of the things I should have said and didn’t when the time came
ior us to part Perhaps, it was because I was overly reticent;
perhaps, it was because we are Japanese, but mainly because,
1 think, I was a little bit self-conscious.
When Mother Died
You are old now — aged since Mother passed away many
years ago and left you three little children to naise, but once
you were not so old. You were young when she was alive and I
can still remember what a happy family we were then.
Do you remember when we all went crab-fishing to West
Seattle—that time when I was bitten by a crab .and howled so
lustily? How you gently pried it from my fingers and then kissed
bem, which was such a strange thing for a Japanese to do, and
y.en you saw Mother looking, you acted sort of gruff and turned
sheepishly away ? But Mother knew and loved you more.
Do you remember the day when we went fishing on SnoQualmie River and caught all those little trout, and when we
*ere apprehended by the game warden, the difficulty you had
‘^plaining to him that we wanted to put them into the pool in
^,“ar(^en- The time we went hunting in Seward Park with
d.b. gun and were almost arrested, and the scolding we received
Mother when we came home ? Do you remember how happy
,J ^e "'hen Mother was alive and you were young ?
; Then tragedy struck our home. I do not like to remember
“6 months after she passed away. How lonely we children were
>? i v more lonely you must have been. I know now how’ mucn
°v^ Hei’, more than any or all of us. She was not a picture
“J. You had met her when both of you were students in Hawaii,
hvo had fallen in love. How* happy you must have been
^nner in your earlv davs of marriage, I can only imagine from
happiness I knew.
*
then that awful night when she died, you came home and told
J'/5 gently as only you knew how that she had gone away, that
AnrT5tn cry because Mother wouldn’t want us to. Hiro and I
f,>V^)ane'ie boys so we didn’t cry, at that time at least. But
S1“eh she was such a little thing, cried into the night
-vou were from sleepless nights of vigil, you walked

>-^i0? a^ed overnight. You would smile at us, but it was not
Xjv; ieart How sad you looked when you thought wewere
131 Hed, and your pretenses dropped
dropped like
like a heavy
r*ce I saw you weep, and I didn’t know what to do.
P
,
Healing Balm
p .• lf sa:G. that time is a healing balm, but I know that, it was
U X ^‘lck awakened you from the numbness of this loss,
t *'Uther more but you loved us too. We were, her heritage
O.ein-- . 11 °f Hei’ in her love of you and now left in your care.
'°iU "la^ f°r her now you gave to us. You were a father.
^’nJn?"50 become a mother and .a little something more, and
Thf-Oi.our weRare, you never remarried.
1 "as all very difficult for you at first for we were sucn
(Continued on Page 8)

VANCOUVER, B.C. — Canadian Nisei artist,
Roy Kiyooka has created a book of photographs
and poems entitled “Stoned Gloves”. Published by
Coach House Press ($3.50), this volume contains
some 40 photographs and some poems inspired
from “gloves” found discarded at Expo ’70 in
Osaka.
On his trip to Japan’s Expo, where he built
a sculpture for the Canadian exhibition, Kiyooka’s
imagination was most impressed not by the spec-

tacular displays, but by gloves. Hundreds of them.
Wherever he went on the exposition grounds,
he told Vancouver Sun writer Stan Persky, he
encountered the discarded
cheap
white cotton
gloves the workmen had worn. When the gloves
were beyond use the workmen threw them away.
Persky reported that Kiyooka had taken literally
hundreds of photographs of these cotton gloves
laying in dirt, bits of debris, and trampled leaves
nearby.
A sample poem on “gloves
written by Kiyooka is as follows:

“Sweet Poppa” You Can’t Go Home Again!

a psalm for
He
built
a
house
in
Ueno
and
5 fingers
TOKYO. — Once you give a
make
house to your mistress you can­ presented it to her in 1954.
Two years later, their rela­
a pass at
not recover it even if the rela­
tionship turned cool and he de­
the moon
tionship is severed.
manded
that
she
return
the
twoThis was the judgment deliver­
the thumb
ed by the Supreme Court recent­ storey house, but was refused.
points
When he brought their quarrel
ly to a Tokyo man and his
to
former mistress, who had been to the Tokyo District Court, she
the grass
suit.
The
quarreling in court for 14 years. brought a counter
heapt
court’s judgment
in 1963 was
with gloves
The reason the gift was given favorable to her, but the Tokyo
was based on an illicit motive. Higher Court said in 1965 that
whole­
For this reason, the man has no since their relations were against
some Night
right to claim proprietorship to public morality, both must ac­
cupt
the house, the nation’s highest cept
inconveniences
accruing
in the palm;
court declared. The decision was from the relationship.
palmdunanimous.
Final y,
the
Supreme Court
light
The man, 62-year-old president said that the ownership of a
Stoned Gloves is
volume
claimable bv
of .a textile wholesale firm at Ni- thing no longer
honbashi, became intimate with anyone else belongs to its present of, as Kiyooka describes it:
40 photo/graphs
a hairdresser 20 years his junior. holder.
and a brace of small poems:
from hundreds ‘found’
on-site at Expo ’70
About 33.5 percent of them Osaka.
YOKOHAMA. — The biggest
complaint voiced by foreign tour­ bought woven goods, 25.8 per- the photos show how
ists to Japan is high commodi­ cent transistor radios and other the gloves fell
24.8 from the hands of work-men.
ty prices, according to a recent electrical equipments and
survey conducted by the Tourist percent watches.
flying home at 35000 ft.
Department of the Kanagawa
Of the foreign visitors cover­ I imagined a cloud of whitegloves
Prefectural Government.
ed by the survey and who stayed falling into the Pacific
Some foreign visitors prefer- at hotels, 19.4 percent were the litter’d-site sings
ted to buy Japanese goods in housewives, 16.9 percent company thru in -sight, the poems link
glove
percent shopHong Kong rather than in Japan employees, 14.5
to
glove.
because their prices in the Brit- owners, and 9.7 percent retired
The National Gallery in Ottaish Crown Colony are cheaper, persons.
the survey revealed.
The survey showed that 17.3 wa has issued a fold-out poster,
About 3.000 foreign tourists, percent of the foreign visitors containing a photo of gloves shot
who stayed at six hotels in Kana- took taxis at one time or another, in a series of different light ex­
gawa Prefecture between sprint 42.3 percent said that their taxi posures, which announces .an ex­
and summer or arrived in Yoko­ drivers were able to understand hibition of Kiyooka’s photographs
hama aboard three excursion English and 70.6 percent were of gloves.
ships during the same period, satisfied with the service they
Writer Persky, sas of the book:
were questioned in tne sun et.
“In the sense that what Kiyoo­
The survey also said that 77.9 ka gives us is the insistent, explo­
The most sought-after souve­
nirs were Japanese dolls, bought percent of the foreign tourists ration of an idea, Stoned Gloves
by 34.5 percent of the foreign, wsited Japan in groups, and 47 is not for judgment, because it is

Japan Prices Hit By Critical Tourists

tourists covered by the survey.

percent traveled as families.

(Cont. on Page 8)

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Page 7

Tuesday. November !?, 1970

NEW

Books On Nisei Are
Hit Hard By Critics

PAGE 7
It to a good policy to
barre the KIGHT POLICY
CoMUlt

Hamilton JCCA New Year Dinner-Dance Dec. 3rd

HAMILTON.—The Hamilton J.C.C.A. annual New Year Din­
ner and Dance will be held at the Hillcrest Restaurant (Wentworth
OX BOOKS AND SUCH.—Somewhat more than a wear ago and Concession Stsr..) on Thursday, December 3rd from 8:30 p.m.
s major American publisher issued a novel titled “American Scrap- Music by Mel Pallo and his band. Dinner will be served between
book’’ by Jerome Charyn. From the Nisei viewpoint it was insulting 8:30 and 9:30 p.m.
Jnd bordered on the scurrilous. It was hardly more than a sex
For tickets, please contact Mr. Ken Hashimoto at 3S5-6623.
novel whose chaiacteis just happened to be Japanese Americans. Early reservation is suggested because of the limited number of
The setting- onh incidental to the story, was a war relocation tickets. —T.M.
tEnter- There really wasn t much point to the story and the readjrj public in its infinite wisdom seems to have relegated the book
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io isr as I am aware, no Nisei voice was raised to protest. Viet. Order Nurse Is Qualified Trained Individual
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Hus book, at least no voice w-as raised loud enough to make an
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TORONTO. AV hen you see the Victorian Order nurse going
impression. This is only proper for there are ways other than on her rounds, you may have wondered just what she does, and
public protest to express displeasure about a commercial product, who she is. She is a graduate of a school of nursing and in addi­
if a published work lacks merit, the reading public will withhold tion she has special training for nursing the sick in their own
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'ts support from the book counters. If the work is libelous, ou° home. This is the main service of the Order. The V.O.N. nurse
OF
rsn ?ee}; redress in the courts.
stays long enough in the home to carry out the doctor’s orders
Since publication of “American Scrapbook” however, one N
and to give the needed care and treatment. Whenever possible
i-authored book has been published and a second is about to be she teaches a member of the family how to care for the patient
consult
published. Both have been the targets of immoderate criticism. between her visits.
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h the first instance, the protest was directed almost entirely it
The V.O.N. nurse is in close touch with other community serv­
TORONTO
I one word in the title, the word “Quiet”, although the text itself ices and, if the patient needs help the family cannot provide, the
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I ran some 160,000 words and none of the protestors had seen any nurse knows how to get it. A telephone call to the Metropolitan
I portion of the manuscript. In the second case, leaders of the Bud- Toi onto Branch Victorian Order of Nurses will bring’ one of these
|ihi:t Churches of America after carefully examining “Japanese nurses to the bedside of the sick person in your home A
participant
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| Americans: The Untold Story,” have filed a vigorous public protest. of United Appeal. V.O.N.
Res: 922-1353
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The second book was written by a group of Nisei educators
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I suitable material about Americans of Japanese origins for grade
Nisansei Kai Bowling At Shea's Ave. Rd. Nov. 21
I schoolers, these teachers cooperated to produce a book aimed at
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cultural contributions of a little-known minority.
sports yet — so what to do for a Saturday night ?
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Well, why not bowl ? Nisansei Kai is holding’ its annual bowl­
According to published reports the official Buddhist protestsays in part: “. . . we find the overtones of the text to be racial, ing night this year at Shea’s Avenue Road Bowl (1654 Avenue
consistently anti-Buddhist and pro-Christian biased, and a gross Rd., opposite the Glendale Theatre) on Saturday, November 21st.
misrepresentation of the true picture of the lives of Japanese For your enjoyment we have reserved 10 lanes of 10 pins from
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7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., and for those of you that wish to play
Americans.”
This is a serious indictment indeed, coming as it does from 5 pins, there are plenty of lanes upstairs.
1 the lay and spiritual leaders of a religious sect claiming 100,000
Everyone will be placed on a team, each member of which
NISHIMURA
members. Certainly the authors will deny it, although they have will play 3 games. Since teams will be organized before Saturday,
not been heard from at this writing. But regardless of whether please phone Kayo Ouchi (924-3258) or Tak Furukawa (766-6913,
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the charges are justified the tragedy is that the Buddhist leader­ so that they can arrange to put you on a team. The bowling will
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ship feels so strongly that it has grievances .and has chosen to commence sharply at 7:00 p.m. so that we can finish by 10 o’clock,
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voice them in the manner that it has.
923-6877
Prizes will be awarded to the team with the best composite scoreAt this juncture it is difficult not to wonder about the charac­ during the house party at the residence of Gary Inkster (28 Bat­
teristic that Dr. Harry Kitano has described as the “Enryo syn- tersea Crescent). A midnight- buffet supper will be provided as
drome’- in its essence, one feels no constraints about giving well as liquid refreshments.
members of the family hell about any matter, but one uses reSo come on everyone — let’s bowl. And don’t forget, if you’re
uraint and deference in relationships with an outsider. “Enryo” coming, please let Kayo or Tak know.
mi haie been cast off to some extent, but its influence would
For those of you that are interested, at the last executive
appears to exert itself still if the man’s name is Charyn or Smith meeting, we discussed changing the name of the club, the Nisansei
er Jones, for that matter.
Kai, which suggests that only Nisei and Sansei are permitted
The Japanese American Curriculum Project which produced to join,
This is false and we welcome all young Japanese and
Japanese Americans: The Untold Story,” was supported by the friends.
Several good suggestions were put forth at
the
national JACL with a $4,000 grant. This in no way makes JACL
meeting but the executive was split and could not come to any
ittpondble for the contents of the book. But there would seem
decision. Some felt that changing the name would hinder the club
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k be an implied obligation for the JACL leadership to step in and
since the name, Nisansei Kai, is already established and that
-^ to heal a breach that could well become a serious one. A
most non-Japanese speaking people know the two words Nise’
^ec^ as "’^^i’Ventioned as this effort to provide school children
^ul instructive reading matter deserves better than to be made and Sansei and can easily identify with the club.
Hence, anyone having a suggestion for a new name or wishJe undefended victim of a public controversy. It is unfortunate
ute issue was made a controversy at all. Such problems are not ing to express an opinion on this subject should contact me:
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Solved by fencing in the public prints, which results only in
‘‘Silent Majority”, please speak up. Remember — bowling, Sat.,
‘hardening of positions. As any peace-maker
_ will tell you. acSKATES
Nov.
21st
at
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s.

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Letter . . .

NEW

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Tuesday, Novemhp,

Gloves

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thoughtless little ruffians. How trying we must have been to only one part of a conception ter of what might be seen seems
a lonely’ Father, I can only imagine. But the thought that we that reappears in many forms. inescapable. Here are the gloves,
Second class
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were without love of a mother constantly tempered your anger What Kiyooka means to bring us mute testimony? to the fact that
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and impatience, and you loved us a little more for our weaknesses.
.
Thus, in your love for us, you found surcease from sorrow and to, simply, is a recognition of whatever kind of splendor we
an object. We are brought to the make, it is short-lived. You
loneliness. And so the years passed.
PUBLISHED ON Eyrny
I was now in grammar school. How proud you were of me gloves again and again, set in thought Osaka was a place of
and fhiday TtiS:
when I made the school’s indoor ball team. You looked so pleased the minimal circumstances of mirrors. That’s only? part of it.
sfBscwnos ?M0 „ v
wnen I showed you the letter I had won. But also how sad you
their
attitudes
and
the
dirt
they?
What

s
left
is
the
discarded
skin
six months “ '
could appear when you saw my report card, but remembering
lay on, or half buried in. Finally of those who made it with their
your boyhood, you understood.
En^1^^^
As we grew older, you became more our companion than
we say, yes, gloves. Such a re­ hands.
father, and' business was
. - better
-------- so that
----- you could devote more cognition may? be the extent of
^N fi,^S
of your time to our leisures. Do you remember the vacation we
This may not be the kind of
Kivooka

s
intention.
four spent in Idaho in the summer of 1927, the beauty of the
art one finds most exciting —
479 QUEEN ST. WEST
places and the lakes which were teaming with bass which struck
“At that point, he leaves open I don't — but one can appreciate
your bait with savage viciousness and fought to the bitter end?
%^onto 133, Ont.
And the biggest fish that always got away? We four were almost to us the possibility of many the intensity of one man’s vision
EMpire 6-5005
as happy as when we were five.
readings. The allegorical charac- of particulars.”
Then came the Depression and overnight we were poor. Your
business and even the college fund you had saved for me were
lost in the debacle. I wanted to leave school and g'o to work, but "Pot
(Continued from Page 1‘)
you were vehemently against it. How well I remember that evening
two Japanese
policemen souvenirs to take back from our
when, finding you were
.and careworn, I hopefully the
have stayed in police barracks visit to Canada but everything
Help Wanted
suggested this possibility.
and
in
homes
of
Canadian
policeBETTER
Blouses
h
Tired Shoulders
novel
in the shops here seems to be street to Foster :as
Bldg., 1
You slowly straightened your tired shoulders, and some of the men.
need experienced sewers
haggardness slipped from your face as a smile of determination
“We have been looking for made in Japan,” said Constable at home. We nick P exrid c
broke its bleakness.
Better Blouses’ Co. , 460
Tominaga.
W., Toronto.
“No,” you said with quiet doggedness. “You shall continue
your education.” It was a promise. I do not know even to this day
“But I’m sure we’ll find some­ EXPERIENCED sewing mac^
how such a dogged courage could stem from so tired and frail
°FS °n blouses to work in. f
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a body, but it did. You worked harder; your hair became a little
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more gray; your face, a little more careworn, but we weathered
Through
the debacle. That I was able to graduate from high school near
the top of my class, I owe to this selfless love.
Buy and Sell
Seven more years passed, and I was graduated from college.
You were proud of me then. After the graduation ceremony when
Through
I gave you the diploma you held it close to your heart and there
Representing
were tears of joy? in your eyes. I saw you weep again for the
second time.
Robt. Owen
The same year, Hiro was inducted into the Army, and we four
Realtor
were three. We held a farewell dinner in his honor, and do you
remember the pray?er you gave then: “God keep us and grant
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One December morn, out of the friendly? sky, treachery struck
witn appalling devastation. You turned pale when vou heard the
news. For days after, you were silent in your misery. Japan was
the countiy of your birth, but America, the country of your choice.
Fiom that day you ceased speaking of Japan. Out of this treacherv
grew our misery.
In the spring of the following year, we were forced to evacuate
the iclocutiou centers. It was a bitter blow to nio. I. a citizen,
with a brother already serving- in the Armv. must evacuate, and
I could not understand why the German and the Italian aliens
were not included. I had had an unbounding faith in the justice
of this nation, but she in return had placed me behind barbed wires
like any enemy alien. I was stricken with bitterness, and bitter
was my denunciation of the government for this apparent dis­
crimination.
Sting of Bitterness
I hen you comforted me and slowly withrew the
terness as you did many years ago when Mother passed a wav
I could not understand nt the time why you should attempt to
restore my laith in the government which had never given vou
the rignt ot citizenship and now by evacuation had made vou
again penniless. But I did not realize the love vou bore for this
country made more dear because here it was that Mother had
died ai1^
b^en laid to rest: “Where vour treasure is
will your heart be also.”
t^0,Y clearly I remember your words of consolation now
as I write this letter. Wisely you said: “It is for the best. For th?
good ot many a tew must suffer. This is your sacrifice, accept it
.as such, and you will not longer be bitter.” I listened to vour
words and he bitternes left me. A despised alien without citiZ
ship, vou showed me what it means to be a citizen That I havtrth through this trying period anTYe^
what
1 anVv?
Amencan citizen. 1 owe to your understanding
\ hen the time came for enlistment, I was readv mv faith
and loyalty restored. stronger, firmer, unwavering; I ’volunteered
And tonight as the tram carries me farther and farther from
it also seemed to carry me back over the years of our happy you.
recalling to me those days when we were five, the four? life,
three, and now you are only two. I have written this letter as
the
came to me.
There is an old Japanese or is it a Chinese
man
must weep thrice ere his span of life is done
or
words
.
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to
w
this
effect. I do not know whether this i: tine or not, but I have already
seen you weep twice, once in s
be true and it is predestined th ?r°?V ana «nce in joy. and if thU
‘veep again, then dad.
let it be for me—once in glory . 2
tor the victory that shall surelv
be mine. God bless you. Dad. an d keep you until this happy day.

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