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...damage the low, thatch-and tile-roofed houses of the Japanese village of Saga, in the Honshu countryside 60 miles northwest of Kyoto. But in peaceful Saga (pop. 2,500), as everywhere in Japan, the defeat shook the complex structures of Shinto and Buddhism which had served most Japanese as religion...
This year Saga's cautious bamboo-shoot farmers realized with shocked surprise what a spiritual vacuum was left: in January's general election, 37 of their young people voted Communist. Saga's conservative toshiyori (elders) lost no time in calling a town meeting to talk it over. Up stood prosperous Farmer Sakuji Takahashi with a ready-made solution. In the big city of Kyoto, said Sakuji, he had heard Msgr. Paul Furuya, a Japanese Roman Catholic priest, preach to some new converts. The monsignor's brand of religion, he argued, looked like just what Saga needed...
Bishop Taguchi of Osaka and Msgr. Furuya accepted. Led by Takahashi and Kataoka, resplendent in dusty morning coats, 800 villagers crammed the town hall to attend Mass, while hundreds more, in their best go-to-meeting clothes, waited patiently outside. When it was over, a village spokesman pledged Saga's entire population to "throw away the world of superstition and embrace the true faith...
Yesterday a little brown package arrived at the CRIMSON from John P. Brown '14, one of the two perpetrators. He supplied the stein's biography as far as Copey's door mat, but he preserved in secrecy the rest of the saga...
Last week, Author de la Roche and the saga of Jalna, a mythical 19th Century estate in southern Ontario, were still making literary news. Mary Wake field (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $3), Miss de la Roche's eleventh novel of the Jalna series, was published in the U.S. The Literary Guild chose it as the Guild selection for February (for March in Canada) and expected Mary Wakefield to sell 500,000 copies. That would push the sales of Miss de la Roche's novels (now translated into a dozen languages) near the two-million mark...