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Impresssons Of Written
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...35.Nakayama_te jdori,-A. ..ehome,r
' , Kobe, Japan.
Mareh 20th, 1935.
Dear SeritrherFriends;~ ™
Before the time comes when the
hum df Japanese conversation be
comes such a daily common place as
to - obliterate first impressions, .it
might prove interesting—or amusing
—later, to record some of these!about
our study of. the Japanese language,'
Nippon Go, as it is called here..
— jLn the first place one is: impressed
' with the thought of Japanese as
i worthy of being called one of the.
world's languages. I asked a foreig
ner. not lorig ago, who has lived most
.-OfJ^.^l^fe^in-J^p.an^why^he~!hadn^
learned Japanese. “I wish now 1
had,” hd replied., “When I was a boy
my father wouldn’t let me AI wanted
. to, but he just said, ‘What, that coolie
lingu? I should say not?’” Such an!
.attitude, one* regrets6 CbT^^TPe'pre—
' .. • sents, or rather represented,: trie gen- .
- i ■ tKe"languages' of the’ Orient,; both' in
Japan and. China during the past half
. \ century ■ pr more. Exceptions of
course have been many: Missionaries,
itudents of history or anthropology
ete.r some .business men; and the dip
lomats. But that old attitude, even qf
"7" "theiWrii^rity is changing and ehang-
ing rapidly. , '
\. Whatever may be said of the Jap-;
anese haying or notHhaving^the-qual^
ca^e<l!a ^aagaago
. is nQw tending to become one. /For
the Christian world, it-is the lang—
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KINLOUGH
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Little Cpulfien McBurney of Bervie
spent a few days with her .cousin,1
Balfour McLean.
Mrs. Lavina Hodgkinson -visited
over the week-end with Mr., arid Mrs.
D. MacDonald, 2nd . con.
M^, and Mrs. ^JasxPercy, Mr. and!
, Mrs., Lloyd Pe’rey andJ^Mary were
Sunday visitors with rfeiatives here.,
Mr. and. Mrs. Wm.|Haidenby and
Mrs. Geo. Haldenby Attended the
Wraith — Wrijl receptiori \pn Monday
'evening. ' •' ;•’ r '
Mr. W. Tweedy has. returned from
Port „Colbourne where he spent the
winter.'
The ,
Lucknow Sentinel
Published every Thursday . morning
at Lucknow, Ontario.
Mrs. A. D, MacKenzie — Proprietor
Campbell Thompson—Publisher
THURSDAY, MAY 23RD 1935
THURSDAY, MAY 23R& **>35
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it ever be possible to understand the
■^vpie"xnemse'ives .wno "are'" strange/
ovllju.
xmis point px view; wime ousea d**
•^vuy<*i u-MiocuxwtiS ariu y Ucxu e*cu oj .;
In—n> ' riixv uVc .'in. «* a pun as hcu au".
uquavc xyr uur ^purposes. ■ e uo want
.u get vo Uxiucxavailu lue dapuii<MG!
rp^p-xey-s-u-'.w^pu'VTuem'TErst'rT*'^^
ixeixcVe axsu, mat Uxeto ax-e"' suxn-
vxc:nL...riOras ana parades anxong tnu^
xn.«*.iiig Up tne language LXlUt we can
-vuili lu pronvuace oxiu inaae usabxc.
^xp's, tuugues ana. vocal enuxus/aua^
’-~Aix*(,«xxy iiut umereni xrom our own
nicke tuemseives inceiiigioie m tnc
uoe ux tne&e strange sounus; why mA
<urs; r uixriermore we want .to pe-
^ieve tne Japanese are just xoiks lute
uurseives, wno can laugn at jokes ana
xtinny tilings , (like foreigners witii
viieir funny customs ana tneir at
tempts at speaking Japanese) that
'ifej
Tadey dan weep, ..wmen Tuv^''*ones'''''!' geii>
sick or die, or leave to go to xai
away places, with tears not unlike
ours/ Furthermore we want to believe
our eyes can learn to see some mean—"
in^fie„sl^kge_2Tnaze-J-0L
laundry signs," their writing.. We
mow-td"-draw^"some:"of^tl^e^§igns^
ourselves so that others, at least those
wno have patience with us, can rec
ognize. in our shaky hand what we
try to say. .
Now that we have begun opening
our. mouths and making our tongues
wag a little in Japanese, it is inter
esting what hew-understanding we
get of the people; their customs, and
theigaspjrations.-Bookb-and-Triaffiyidn^
stories-are oftennwritteriby people
Jvho do not know even what w^ kno'xy <
of the language or the customs. For
example, the icustom of removing ones
„ a Japanese
iiome"ls often referred/to by foreign
writers as a most unnecessary • and
undignified proceedure. These writers
evidently are not aware of the Jap
anese attitude toward our custom of
leaving opr shoes' on, even in the
-house. -This amuses them. They^see a
person come trampihg along a dirty
street,-, turn' into the house, ring the
uvor-peil, ne usnered in Wd walk
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nage in which Kagawa exprestos him- ^1065 'be^ore ■ entering
self. It .is the medium of the present
day world’s second highest output of
7 literatureto Japan is’listed next to
> Soviet Russia. It is the medium, as
sisted by numerous foreign w*prds,
Japanese pronounced, through which
almost every^book worth' translating
from French/ English or German,
reaches the Japanese publicj-’infew
months after these appear ■■in_thp_hnok_
tiffough which five millions in Taiwan
A A (Formosa), fifteen millions in Chosen,
». in Manchuko (Manchuria) are at
> various ^tages in becoming. educated,
. along modern educational lines.
Thgge latter mentioned millions- in
Formosa,. Korea, and Manchuria, or
\ at least tens of'thousands of thVm
-'are doing these days’, wha't we "are
doin^ reading the public school read-
ers, scribblingx“.ji” (characters) and
- trying to acquire A few phrases with
which to enter into understandable
conversation with the Japanese people '
In the second place one .is interested
in the possibility* of this language
^actually .becoming a means of' com/
, munication even for - Occidental for-
. eigners like' ourselves. Friends among
foreigners here have often made such
.helping encouraging statements as,
“At is quite, impossible^ for" any' for-\
. eigner tp acquire the Japanese lan
guage. Even though a whole life is
— spent at/t, a foreigner never really
^acquires it/’ The different degrees^
- of politeness in the language, depend-
mg on the social class or rank of, the
person spoken to, is pointed put. These
polite forms are so varied as to forp ’
the Japanese language itself. A mas-
a Japanese
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much better chance to £0,me through
successfully than has the,. pleasant..
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■ “Ah,! Here’s just '.the
. r—He -has-neveit-been:
ridden. You can start out together.”
. “Savages vyould be -surprised arid
-eigaret^e—lighter at- a'-s ingle touch/’~
writes a missionary;v ’
So wduld lots Mbf- cigarette lighter
owners.
ce.pt defeat than to struggfe. -From
this ( point, he may gradually ■with
draw into himself until ,he| shuts out
the world he has found so difficult
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MENTAL HEALTH
There is no more difficult task than
guiding children along the road
Which * Should..lea"d thrim" to^
happy'adult life. It. is an astonishing
fact that so few of those who, as
parents or teachers, have this grave
responsibility .^...attempt. _ .Ap.J.i.pjrfipare
themselves by gaining an understand
ing of child behaviour.
When the child starts to school, he
may-have a-hard-time- t£Had-just-him—
self to what is, for him, a new life.
He finds a new person, the teacher,
in authority.; His future attitude, as
an older child and as an adult, to
wards,. authority will be largely in
fluenced by the way in which his'
teachers exercise authority. \
Ihe child who finds himself pun
ished unfairly will naturally come to
chink of aUtnority as being unfair; he.
may begin to question the desirabil
ity of ail authority. Such an attitude
may lead hiin to become defiant when,,
m has dtesirfe to attain .the happiness
»(riricIi-“We“"'all--w it;-
through misbehaviour, which gives a
Satisfactory outlet to his dis.like of
authority. B '. • , .
At all ages we like attention. Every
child should receive a certain amount
of^ attention but when he deinands
the- centre of the stage-at? all- times , ^exe„ls_SDmething„wr-O.ng.jJffi^chilcr
v^ho is spoiled at home may demand
a” great deal of: attention, at school'
through being a “show-off’\ just be
cause he does not want to give up the,
attention which he has enjoyed at
home. _
The same kind of behaviour may Stable Sergeant: “D’ja -ever, ride a
result from..two. directly opposite horse before?”
causes. As we ha ye said, the child ..Rookie: “No.’’
who,, is'spoiled at home, may be la - Sergeant:
•‘show-off^-rin'sehooltoA
true too of the' child" w:ho receive^ v''”
make Up, in . school, for what he has
_ _ . Jjfeen-depriv.ed_of_at-hpme.-_ ------—i
guage-is concemedt ^we ..are trying—to- 'fa^Just^.a.s^.a certg.in-amou.nt-of—atton—-
; •__... ^jOn is desirable, so alsp should e’deh
as >we' study, a' °ne ’be' allowed_ to gain satisfaction
resting th state ’through .the sense of ’achievement.
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mean “There doesn’t seem to be much
chance for further opportunity of ac-r
quinng »territory ih -this cfeupury as
xn umes past, so. let tbe whole .worm
settle down in peace, .and well-just-
aoia wDat we have." To be let into
'chinking of this sort is -not conducive
lo one s own peace of mind, you can
well imagine, but it is at least sat-:
isfjThg to itodi^sta^nd7 the "other Tieiv
lovris point of view ’ and to 'see oor—
selves as itners sees us,” even though
the picture isn’t very complimentary,
or"however~mtfch~toffe^unvHffihg^”tfe
admit that the plans of Oriental mil-
iltarists will better the situation.
So touch,for he spoken language
an!d the «slant on things one gets thru
its use. Now whjat apput what some--
one/has called those “laundry signs'
tne written language? -x ® ...
Once wnen on furlough a minister'
mend took, me one’ day into a Chin
ese laundry to chat with his friend
Charlie".
“Write the typrd ’for /God’/' saila
tne minister, “and see if uhaer-
>xund^/....^.__; —.2—-
' 1 put forth my best, attempt.
• Cnarliplooked, ap,' the character*
ahd tnen at us, evidently quite at a.
toss to know wnat the game mignt oe.
• x»xe po . savey/’ he said, .
^Vrie^ftonTSteFT~tfioiighTr^^—frienct
^:imuieij/musto-.bfe~pKettX.».dumD.<--n&u
co be-abie -to-reaa a - simple -littje
word like “God”. ’ But 1 tried to ex-
plam. Suppose two Chinese, all dress
ed in their Sunday best came into a
xittle shop of a Canadian somewhere,
and without much introduction wrote.
“The All Highest” on a piece of paper
and then ^tool back waiting for the
shop-keeper’s reaction. What w-ouid
the -Canadian be likely to do or say l
Vyould, his ' reaction ; be unlike
iCh0Wk.?±H¥^vtoiffd^v^CXbZfinaZoiiU
first something of the underlying
meanjngT7"’"''’""^~
Itos is what we are doing these
aays-also^Sofar-asrtnewntton-lan"
=S=TO^-nirerie“ffi^pens to bfT^/to"
Japanese' seems to indicate a Jittle
iacK of proper appreciation for the
"beauty ?-oiTrirgg
l ake also for, example using the
language to chat, about the present
political situation. From the West
these days -.come, echoes of a good deal
oi talk fanout peace, etc. Along .-witn
-his • thqre is not a. little criticism, oi
vhe militarists in Japan because oi
ganger. to the peaceful equili-
onum of tne world. Thinking Japanese
people advocates also of J peace and
'/Qt to Western peace idealism,
rind themselves puzzled, confronted
as they 'are with the Country’s mil
lion new babies every, year.Whatever
tninking people say or may not say
aoout a .sfiJution of this problem,, the
militarists are nqt without a plan to
solve it'■in their own way. So far\as
one can s understand^this plan, they
simply mean! to solve the population
problem by enlarging the nation’s,
oorders, .which they have come to call
-‘life-lines.” As the nation-family in
creases, the farm line fence must he
extended to take in extra fields some
where, if The family is to-be able to
eak out an existence. How do thepouce iorms are so varied as to form c<SJi uuv au cAi*i.cuce. now ao me
. as it were, different languages within militarists propose to proceed? Weil,
the Japanese language itself. A mas- 'peacefully if possible. Peace natural-
iy pays, in the long run. But if not
possible, /hey are also prepared for
less peaceful methods. They expect
however, and state their expectation^,
that the. less peaceful methods are
1 quite likely to be necessary! In spite
' tery of ail these '.formal, polite e^
pressions'is, considered an impossible
task. The lohg, involved sentence
structure is another difficulty, as is
also the wide.use of the Chinese, mi'x-
( ed in with the Japanese. All this, of
course is quite true, so true that, if ‘of peace talk in countries controlling,
one pauses to think about it, interest ’ more “territory than they really need,
, to ^oing ahead is .apt to shrivel ■ up they feel that teal1 peace sentiment
and die. People who have never at- in these countries (ours included) is
tempted ,acquiring the language take- not yet strQng enough to enable or-
trie stand that this jumble of strange, dinary bargaining for the land the
Oriental sounds called Japanese is country needs, to be even discussed,
quite impoesibie for an Occidental to Hence they are critical of tis Western--
inderEtand anyway and neither can ers. They interpret our. peaee talk to
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iind Out something about the unuer-
lyirig meaning. And, ; / /
ii|ttie4. it may be interesting tb state
chat' we find it not “an unintelligible
maze of laundry signs” but i series
of pictures through, which the root
ideas of the language are as discern-
lble as the fundamental ideas of
English through Latin or Greek roots.
—-^Fake-for-examp fe'“trre: ,
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tion is. desirable, so also should ehch
Qne be' allowed to gain satisfaction
The child who is repeatedly set tasks
which, are beyond his mental capacity
becomes discouraged.]. To him,, failure
becomes a, habit. Children vary great
ly in their menal, capacities. and their
capacities should be. the! guide’ to w.hat
J^expecied-of-themr-not-^he-a-mbitboh-
: T?-.:-A-::Brook7-B.-Th.-7of Bly th" will”be~7T
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vices at 11 a.m. and 7.30 p.m.
Mt. , a'ncl Mfs! Richard Gardner
■ "vis'itocl on “iSunday with Durigarinon
and Westfield friends.
Rev. Campbell Tavener of Blenheim
called on Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Andrew
on. Wednesday last. ''
Mr- Will Hunter Jr./ spent Sunday
with friends at Walkerton.
----and—M;ns.f-_.Dav4d—-Ri-te-lrto—a-nd—-
■aTOjpMrs. W/Ti Gardner on Sunday
afternqon.
vamxu iu». uuc,. {wwiaiiu. ui«s>swy. u> xne uanaaian weaicar . •• •’ ’ ' ■ >*'timid child who has,, in r’eality, giyert -s^ciation., 184 College St.,' Toronto Mlss Jess’e Andrew • spent a ‘day
un’d;h€-'fightoand-ffinds'"it~eariertnJa'C’-~wiU"lffe~hh'swerea^persmiaITy“ ’
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means language. Simple and concise,
'ish’t it.? :. . ;
--^Nip’A-wr4tten-^.^madeograph-.....is_'
a picture representing the sun. Il
we look ^.the* rioon-day sun with our
squinting, naked eyes, it will appear
like a- circular.. object with a hori
zontal stroke representing thd dihm-
eter.v At least this is how primitive
Oriental people represented, long ago,
what their eyes sjiw of the sun. But
s^ince these people like to draw their
picture writing as if in little frames
Of uniform size, this circular sun be
comes ip ordinary printing, a little
rectangular symbol, with a horizontal
stroke across the centre like the 'woo
den sash of a two-paned window.
Nbw for “pon” the second syllable.
There is first a perpendicular stroke
like the centre Stem of a tree. From
a point about half why up this stroke
like a’tree’s roots leading down into
the ground, are two strokes, one on
each side !of the stem. Across the
main stem, marking the point where
if it^1 were actually a tree, the fceed
was located and life began in another
stroke. This < simple ideograph drawn
with five strokes, is a picture, of a
tree and means what the ■ little' cross
stroke mentioned above indicates,
“source’’ or “origin”. This . is the
..name usbd to designate Japan. The
country of the. sun origin, ori the
“Land of the Rising Sun.” x
The third ideograph is “k°” lan
guage. It is . made up of three parts,
ph the left side is the' root ideograph
representing the idea of speech*. It
consists of four, short, parallel strokes
and underneath is a circle or red-
tangle representing -the hunian mouth
The other side of the ideograph con
sists of the figure for “five” and be
neath it another mouth.'1 Thus in this
ideograph one sees at a ’glance two
ideas in combination, .“five mouths”
plus “speech1”. Or in other words, five
people together In a' group engaged
in the manufacture of “language”.
And so it goes. .One could make
an interesting list of words and ideas
expressed. by simple “pictures”. For
example the ideographs or “pictures”.,
for mpn and woman appear in -inter
esting: combijiations/ Man bef&ie
earth, means usefulness or duty; man
beside a tree means rest. One woman
under a roof-.means peace; a woman
plus a child expressed something
good. Or, for example, a pig under
a roof means-house or home; but an
ox under a roof is trie. ideograph for
prison. , . -
Knowing even' this mucl|, “Nip^-pon
flgo” begins to take ori ’new 'meaning.
Greetings to all our Lucknow
friends, ' Sincerely,
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