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V Ifci V PA01I IMA5MA (PKCE HIESI) - - ft TORONTO ONTAM — jahääaymahch Jl NO aii FHMiMi Can—ian PuM#4 VW TiMMday Thr My m totiirtlay y Th Vapaa m Prtm Limited Toronto out NO UNHOLA PrMKtent VAINO MALMIVUORI Manaor RKYNOLD PEHKONEN Edltor Hvat Addraaa of Protidonf 4 Soho St Toronto Ont uolnoaa and Editori! Dapart- - monto: MO Spadlna Ava Toronto Ont Phono WA 7721 ftaglatarad aa aacondoaaa mattar January 19th 1932 at tha Poat Office Department Ottawa Ont ttubacriptlon rataa In Canada jnd Unltad States: Par Yaar 375 dix Montha &00 Three Montha 100 In othor Countrloa: Par Vaar SaOO: I Montha KM The Past Decade To-da- y this papcr ppears In kind of a festä 1 garb in honor of its tenth annlversary The pist ten years and the results our papcr has achievcd during that tlme nnturally do not loom very large outside the Canadian Finnish colony but amon-- j oursclves thia period has mcant very much in many ways Before the ycar 1932 the Cana-dia- n Finns did not possess a newj-pap- er vhich could have servcd them more conspiruously in cherish-In- g the lovo of democratic freedom whlch is heriditary to the Finnish people At that timc the chief factor among us Finns was the corn-munist- ic ncwspaper Vapaus pub-lish- ed In Sudbury and backcd by a nation-wid- e network of organlza-tion- s vhich formed the most acttve sectlon of the Canadiun Co:nriun'it party Other liberal organizations worthy of notc did not exlst but th} arrogancs of the said conimunist group and the flagrant sprcadmg of conmunlst dictatorshtp-doctrlne- a among the Finns had aurrcd up a aplrit of resentment not only nmon the comnuinists themselvcs but to a greater degree also among the tens of thousands of Finns who werc outside the said group The unre-strain- cd communist activity has-ten- cd the dcvelopment of the sltua-tio- n nnd when In tha 'ali of lf3t a few venturcsomc soula began a hustle to establish a new papcr vhicn vould be the mouthpicce for the the liberal and democratic Finns In Canada it found n sympathctic rcsponso vith ali exccpt with the communists and a fcw very rcac-tlonary-mln- dcd Finns Our paper comnicneed publication the bcginnlng of the year 1032 at first as a veekly paper latcr twlcc vcckly and finally three tlmes a wcck Fium the very 3tait lt had to struArlc agalnst financial diificultiorf and prejudic for its opponents did thelr utmost to make the task very difficult but aftcr a few years of hard strugcle resistance began to crumble and the papcr saw bettcr days The financial position improied as subscriptions mounted and it can b-- statcd nov that the papcr is on a sound business basis As has becn atated pre1ously the history of our paper during the past ten years dces not at first glance aeem very Importanl outside the Finnish communlty although tr us lt is prcgnant with meaning The Vapaa Sana has during Its deccnnlal existance overcome the influenee of both the communistic and reac-tlona- ry groups with their totalitarian doctrines and now the great mijontyt Kalevala The hiitory of our epics la a fascinatlng one It Is qulte comprehenil&ie that people with ome degree of llterary culture irera able to create Immortal llterature but that ancient and illlterate people wbo were unable to put their thoughts and emotlona Into wrltlng were nevertheless able to express them orally in such stately verse that today tbey constltute some of our priceless llterary treasures is not so readlly conclevable In the realm of ancient epics we flnd that the Finns are the proua possessors of the great epic Kalevala slgnifying the Land of Heroes Venerated and loved by ali the Finns lt clalmg fam e not only in Finland 'but its plare as the fifth national epic of the world and contalns a whoIs treasury of poetical beauty 'folklore and mythology lt represents tnt poetry and accumulatlve wlsdom philosophy and experlence of a people It was commited to writlng only one hundred years ago and "lt U regarded" says pro f John Martin Crawford translator "as one of the most preclous contributlons to llterature of the World made alnce tbe tlme of Milton or the German classics" Centuries before It was reducel to ritlng its passed orally from generation to generatlon and comprlses the only history of the ancient Finnish race The greatly loved American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow found a German translatlon long before the Engllsh translation was made and was so thrilled by hls discovery that he decided to preserve and perpetuate the slmple and beautiful meter and pian of Kalevala In hls lovely mythlcal poem HIawatha A pagan epic the vhole Finnish peole its author Kalevala dates to remote antkjuity Scholars bellere that parts of Kalevala at least are over four thousand years old composed long before Russlans and Swedea were their neighbora as no mentlon Is made of them Vhen the Finns — that sturdy sombe1' and medltative race who wandered from their origlnal home in the Ural raountalns and beslde the Caspian sea — were driven farther Into the bleak northland they went slnging ali the way and that singlnj grew Into thelr national epic — Legends from the tlme forgotten Slnce we now are here together Come together from our roamlngs The almilarity between the lncantatlons storles and proverbs and those of ancient Hunganan wrltlngs Indicate that these two people were sometlmes united It eiuals Iliad In length and possesses merits like those of tlio Greek epic Vere It rot for the palnstaklng labours of the country-doctor-profess- or Llias Lönnrot who collcted the oral poems and songs from the mouths of the agid by the firc-sld- e the fishermcn on the lakes and the shepherds in the fields this llterary gem vould have suffered oblivlon On horsebacic he-rod-e from vlllage to village and throughout the countrjslde seeking the tards vith their songs He as often beset by poverty and crltlcism was heaped upon hlm Soine clergymen frowned on hls efforts to collect "pagan trash" Success crowned hls work and finally on Feb 28 1835 tho lii Rt manusTlpt wls submitted to the Finnish Llterary Society whlch had It published in two volumes Immedlately Its importance was recognlzed In llterary clrcles nnd Dr Klias Lönnrofs fame was established The Finns ure so proud cf it today that Feb 2Sth is declared a legal holiday and Is celebrated as Kalexala Day throughout the nation There nre tales of hlgh adventure and herole deeds vrondrous vootngs eddlng songs of rare beauty lt Is ablaze lth luxurlous splendour—glow-In- g colour georgeous ralment slieen and sllver and gold and the sparkle of jewels siiKPPstlng that Finns In thelr roamlngs may have touched the flowery and brllllant lands of the Orlent Ali nature is artlculate The deep forests the blue lakes the beautiful raplds the pine-cla-d islands — ali speak n langua?e of their own to the ancient Finn The poem reveals eharmlng pictures of the home life of a people whose natural language Is poetry nnd whose understandlng and love of nature is profound Here a niother-inla- v Is givlng thanks for a "second daughter": Wiio can stlr the flre at evenlng Who can veave the flnest fabrlcs Wiio can twlrl the useful splndle Who can rinse tny sllken rlbbons Larger bulld our bumble cottage Wlder bulld the doors and Windows Hlsher fashlon tbou the celllng Decorate the Malla in beauty Kalevala beglns wlth the creatlon of the world "In the solltude of ether" "from the eggs of a duck who flew" "over the blue back of the ocean" to flnd a nesting plact of Canadian Finns stand unani mously for democratic iaeais If we appralse this task merely from a Canadian vievpolnt itJ social slgnlficancc shotild be recos-nize- d About one-hal- f cf Canada's population Is other than Anglo-saxo- n so the edueatlonal ard cul-tur- al vork porferme among an Immigrant grcup vho cannct speak or understand Erjslish fully which endeavors to acqualnt thom In thelr mother tongue vith the lavs cus-to- ms and history of tne:r new adopted country shoulrt rot be con sidered altogether insipnificant There have been nniong Uie lm mlgrants— and stlll are—a number of forelgn language nevspajers who are opposed to the prevailln? system of government in Canada therefore the vorth of tho newspapers ui national publie life vhlch firmly support democracy against totalita rlan doctrines is Invaluable though lt is not alway recognlzed by the leaders of our country Vapaa Sana can regard In tht respect vriXh satisfaction the work accompllshed during the past ten years and start the second decade with hlgh hopes lt has steadfastly en-e- d the caue of dewiracy and will eontlnue faithfully to tread the sime path in the future Prof Kaarlo Hilden Ph D lec turer in anthropclogy In the univer-sity of Helsinki Finland gives the follONVins explanatlon: "In ansvver to this question vhcnce come the Finns the succes-slv- e staxes of colonlzation give clear proof The ontlquities of the Roman Iron Age indicating a sett!ed population have ali been found In South-We- st Finland nono at ali of that period having becn found In other parts of the country The earliest antiqultles of flxed agriculturista found in the region of Lake Faijanne Ir Central Finland da te from about 50C A D those in Ladoga— Carelia in East Finland from about the ycar SOO lt is an important fact that the oldest Carelian Iron Age finds clearly descend from tTes ordinary m West Finland and are not of East European character From this fact we may conclude that the definite colonlzation of the country in tht Iron Age began in South-We- st Finland gradually spreading from vest to east thus clearly establish ing the fact that the Finns did not wander into thelr present homeland from the --east via the Carelian Isthmus as has been prevlously be-liev-ed but from the south over the Gulf of Finland This is also proved by the fact that the antiqultles from the beginnlng of the Iron Aee In Finland are of Baltic type Moreover in additional pro-i-f we find old loanwords in the Finnish language It is evldent that this immigra tlon to Finland contlnued cver a Stirring Epic of the Finns By Rev A Lappala Vilnimölnen in this story is tbe Finnish Hercules but older and more cunnlng Tbe greatest of tbe heroes be inrented the harp and made it from such by-produ- cts as the jawbone of a flsb and the sllken hairs of a beautiful maiden for strings The new harp or Finnish Kantele In the crafty hands of Väinämöinen broke into such majestlc music that Ali the northland stopped to listen Leaped the squlrrel from tbe branches Climbed the ermlne on the fences 0'er the plains the elk deer bounded And tbe lynxes purred wlth pleasure Wolves awoke In far-of- f swamplands Ducks arose from inland waters Swans came gliding from the marshes Tiny flinches green and golden Flew in flocks that darkened sunllght The Finns have not only glven the greatest llving composer Jeau Sibelius to the world and produced an internatlonally known and promis-in- g young viollnlst Heimo Haitto but with thelr colorful folk songs they have a reputation for fine choral music The Helsinki University Chorus and The Finlandia Male Cholr who thrilled great audiences on this continent a few years ago are stlll remembered for thelr vibrant and stirring choral messages From Kalevala we learn that the ancient Finns loied music and song Väinämöinen with hls harp did not allow song to disappear "into the cracks of the earth" He sang Tili the copper bearing mountains And the flinty rocks and ledges Heard hls magic tones and trembled Mountain cliffs were torn in pieces AH tbe ocean heaved and tumbled And the dlstant hllls re-echo- ed Much of the poem centres about the forging of the sampo a magic machine vsbich glves ease an luxury to llving a machine On uhich one side the flour Is grinding On another sait is maklng On a third is money forging And the lid Is many colouied Somethlng subllme and sacred Is revealed In the passlonate love and devotlon of the Finns for thelr homeland lt Is more preclous than life Itself and there is no other country so beautiful and perfect When th? ancient Finn wandered away frem home he felt the pangs of homeslckness One's own country it the dearest One's own table is the sveetest One's own home the most attracthe Grant klnd Ukko God above me Grant that I agaln may vlslt Mr beloved home and country Hetter dwell in one's own country There to drink its healthful waters From the slmple cups of blrchwood Tlian In forelgn lands to vander There to drlnk the rarest llquors From the golden cups of strangers Hiisi the devil In Finnish mythology bearln? also the epithets Juutas (Judas?) Piru and Lempo as chlef of the forest demons and exceedingly wicked He ereated the serpent the Vilest thlng of God's creatlon Wrlthing hlsslng thlng of evll The Finns have been a Godfearing people I)iig before the Lutheran reformation came to Finland and before the crusades planted the Christian cross on Finnish shores they sought succor and guldance from Ukko (old man) the hlshest flelty In Finnish mythology Under that name they concelved of God Ukko Fields the thunderbolts like the Greek god Zeus and also svlngs a hammer like the pagan god Thor An amazlng ethlcal and spiritual note is found in the slmple but majestlc prayer oi Väinämöinen Guard us thou O great Creator With thine arms of grace protect us Help us with thy strenght and vlsdom Guide Ihe mlnd of ali thy heroes Keep arlght the thoughts of vomen Keep the old from speaklny evll Keep the young from sln and folly De to us a help forever Whence Come The Finns? long period of Ilme larger and smaller gronps wandering in between 100 and 600 AD They brought with them the culture of the Iron Age They brought with Uiem a knowledg of agriculture" and cattle-rais'n- g and lald the ground for a permanent occupatlon Naturally th inhabl-tant- s also carried on huntbig and flshlng and from their villages In South Finland they started out on expeditlons Into the vast forest regions that spread over the country at that tlme Here a new question arises Has lt been possible deflnltely to esta-blish the original home of the Finn vhence they began thelr vanderings to the Baltic regions and Uience to Finland? It must be-- stated at the atart that the hypothesls of the famous Finnish philotogist M A Castren who in 1340 declared that the Finnish people originated in the Altals in Southern Siberia can not be maintalned in the lightt cf new Scientific research There is indeed not a single blnding proof for assumlng Asiatic origin but on tho contrary much tliat speaks agalnst the assumption In the light of the archaeological and linguistlc eMdence avallable it seems extremely pro-bab- le that the origlnal home of the Finns is to be found somevnere in European Russia vrtthin the forest regions lying between the Urals Kiev and the Baltic Sea — in ary event vest of the Ural momtains" I The racial eompositlon of the Finnish people has not as Jet been definltely analyzed However In the light of research Prof Hilden makea the fol!owing comment: "1) The general opinion prevailin heretofore that the Finns are of Asiatic origin and Mongolian race is not based on Scientific fact 2) The East-Baltl- c race is the most Important cumponent part of the Finnish nation which race is blond relatively tali and sturddv built 3) The blond Ncrdic race forms the second Important racial corn ponent vhich has been estiblished in ali sections of the country but most partlculary In the West 4) The Samian race clement ie the Lapp influnece is noticeable in the north and east withcut how ever being determinative to any marked degree 5) Racially the Finns 1-el-ong to the rest of the European peoples without any sharp dema reations connected more espedally to their nearest geographical nelghbour- s- A Stormy Decade (Continued from page 1) tn ali these thlngs our paper has accompllshed a difficult task during the past decade It has not only crushed totalitarian strongholds among the Finns but Inculcated them with democratic ldeals and inspired them to be intelltgent guardlans of the democratic ay of life Proud of i these achlevements It begins Us se-cond decade Ofth Record There are many pohucaj ► tons in this World Their number may be Ur- „- we suspect We mav be on fr have nid en n„ ! hurt thoiKh We fl nnnv 6WJ = pT1ai l~m uUc rcaunu or our refw of the life around us It i mT a three dollar enint- - ftirvuee odfollsaorniemiIsntdaikveiduaIlts cuc+rUaL tinker with our demorate "!L They think that thev are ing the machine wherea th2 axUlieiU~s™6 v_jui me Deanngs ~imc c For example some individ' and organs have begua to lauJ? a ucinwTaiic machm- - grease that smells cf dictaton " "cj-- are noi SloppecJ the bu will burn " Let us examlne these busj-- SO that M--n „ tr„io„ U-lave- Wt r The conscription plebiscitc lsssnt going through rough weather S-o- argue that the peoplä must h sulted vhether they want to sh the gun and go to the ttOa Empire'3 borders to chase ani- - & enemy otners say that no - tions please make then shoufc the gun and go a ttird grouj no guns and no conscription ä sun a rourth ch'rps in that la the people think d-- 3 not ti let the enemy plaster 0ur hosfl siin ieaa we want no guns Aiia mey au vvant to our social machinery the c- - brand of grease becausc they kac now to run the machine slmpletons pohtlcal 'v hkrc- - with just xsui mere are also somj (M fools These are reahy alarmLie rt have begun to plash the beucz ana tne axles with the cheap ra4 dictator-oi- l Some individual u organs you see have bemjn to ju glowing pictutcs of the Coaaua social machine and vhen the onpa happens to a bit gloomy it li iLr fully retouched ma made presc able The surprising thlng abcut tha bunglers Is that they Ime sei- - seen how the dictatoiV nacia vvorks neither have they ever pci thelr noses into their paraiss given it much practical thoufchtli? are singing their h)mns cf pm thousands of miles avay rjj because peddlr3 are sdlirg t': the Idea i The writer has seen to typrti dictator-machin- es In operatoa ia from cxperlence we must say tä it Is no pie eating ccntest for & common vorklng man We vrite fron expentnc could teli a thlng or two to Reverend gentlemen who have ö covered such beautiful Chra- - features in dictatorship We teli them exactly what thej K would be lf communis'ii nansat some other brand of d-rUton- !? besran to ralse a row in Ca They would be qulte simplf patched to klnsrdom come No ot reason would be ne ded except fact that they are r verend fca men ji course u wouiu uuitit--- worshinned the ereat r Vrn Eatv the Dictator If they kep '-- 1'1 Vr ChrisUanity and knelt f diebitor and thr hliz ar ♦" - --- 1! - bosses of the Godless Lea? et l would nrobablv be saved-- The picture we have pait' admittedly dismal But thert ii j ♦ Vilnir an nv fir lt! 11 -- ! Ka tniifiliuii I Il CXACtly on personal experience we'v k1 dictators TherAfnr wa would adrlit Ib rvartntr pet burned fr2 S nel1 maebl-- M thAt Ui? --"l behalf of dictators eontlnue te 1 the good old democrauc 11 remember to use lt wise!y ' 4 ~ iti y un dirJTtr a ntNr Vinf uni nci?- - Rock EM -- '- A man without thougfct ts future must eoon h-iv- e orrow — Confucius and know tiiat this is the traÄ ' - „ tn tJ W no ev vaii iiayt"- - — ieither in life or tn death - '
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Title | Vapaa Sana, March 28, 1942 |
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Subject | Finland -- Newspapers; Newspapers -- Finland; Finnish Canadians Newspapers |
Date | 1942-03-28 |
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OCR text | V Ifci V PA01I IMA5MA (PKCE HIESI) - - ft TORONTO ONTAM — jahääaymahch Jl NO aii FHMiMi Can—ian PuM#4 VW TiMMday Thr My m totiirtlay y Th Vapaa m Prtm Limited Toronto out NO UNHOLA PrMKtent VAINO MALMIVUORI Manaor RKYNOLD PEHKONEN Edltor Hvat Addraaa of Protidonf 4 Soho St Toronto Ont uolnoaa and Editori! Dapart- - monto: MO Spadlna Ava Toronto Ont Phono WA 7721 ftaglatarad aa aacondoaaa mattar January 19th 1932 at tha Poat Office Department Ottawa Ont ttubacriptlon rataa In Canada jnd Unltad States: Par Yaar 375 dix Montha &00 Three Montha 100 In othor Countrloa: Par Vaar SaOO: I Montha KM The Past Decade To-da- y this papcr ppears In kind of a festä 1 garb in honor of its tenth annlversary The pist ten years and the results our papcr has achievcd during that tlme nnturally do not loom very large outside the Canadian Finnish colony but amon-- j oursclves thia period has mcant very much in many ways Before the ycar 1932 the Cana-dia- n Finns did not possess a newj-pap- er vhich could have servcd them more conspiruously in cherish-In- g the lovo of democratic freedom whlch is heriditary to the Finnish people At that timc the chief factor among us Finns was the corn-munist- ic ncwspaper Vapaus pub-lish- ed In Sudbury and backcd by a nation-wid- e network of organlza-tion- s vhich formed the most acttve sectlon of the Canadiun Co:nriun'it party Other liberal organizations worthy of notc did not exlst but th} arrogancs of the said conimunist group and the flagrant sprcadmg of conmunlst dictatorshtp-doctrlne- a among the Finns had aurrcd up a aplrit of resentment not only nmon the comnuinists themselvcs but to a greater degree also among the tens of thousands of Finns who werc outside the said group The unre-strain- cd communist activity has-ten- cd the dcvelopment of the sltua-tio- n nnd when In tha 'ali of lf3t a few venturcsomc soula began a hustle to establish a new papcr vhicn vould be the mouthpicce for the the liberal and democratic Finns In Canada it found n sympathctic rcsponso vith ali exccpt with the communists and a fcw very rcac-tlonary-mln- dcd Finns Our paper comnicneed publication the bcginnlng of the year 1032 at first as a veekly paper latcr twlcc vcckly and finally three tlmes a wcck Fium the very 3tait lt had to struArlc agalnst financial diificultiorf and prejudic for its opponents did thelr utmost to make the task very difficult but aftcr a few years of hard strugcle resistance began to crumble and the papcr saw bettcr days The financial position improied as subscriptions mounted and it can b-- statcd nov that the papcr is on a sound business basis As has becn atated pre1ously the history of our paper during the past ten years dces not at first glance aeem very Importanl outside the Finnish communlty although tr us lt is prcgnant with meaning The Vapaa Sana has during Its deccnnlal existance overcome the influenee of both the communistic and reac-tlona- ry groups with their totalitarian doctrines and now the great mijontyt Kalevala The hiitory of our epics la a fascinatlng one It Is qulte comprehenil&ie that people with ome degree of llterary culture irera able to create Immortal llterature but that ancient and illlterate people wbo were unable to put their thoughts and emotlona Into wrltlng were nevertheless able to express them orally in such stately verse that today tbey constltute some of our priceless llterary treasures is not so readlly conclevable In the realm of ancient epics we flnd that the Finns are the proua possessors of the great epic Kalevala slgnifying the Land of Heroes Venerated and loved by ali the Finns lt clalmg fam e not only in Finland 'but its plare as the fifth national epic of the world and contalns a whoIs treasury of poetical beauty 'folklore and mythology lt represents tnt poetry and accumulatlve wlsdom philosophy and experlence of a people It was commited to writlng only one hundred years ago and "lt U regarded" says pro f John Martin Crawford translator "as one of the most preclous contributlons to llterature of the World made alnce tbe tlme of Milton or the German classics" Centuries before It was reducel to ritlng its passed orally from generation to generatlon and comprlses the only history of the ancient Finnish race The greatly loved American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow found a German translatlon long before the Engllsh translation was made and was so thrilled by hls discovery that he decided to preserve and perpetuate the slmple and beautiful meter and pian of Kalevala In hls lovely mythlcal poem HIawatha A pagan epic the vhole Finnish peole its author Kalevala dates to remote antkjuity Scholars bellere that parts of Kalevala at least are over four thousand years old composed long before Russlans and Swedea were their neighbora as no mentlon Is made of them Vhen the Finns — that sturdy sombe1' and medltative race who wandered from their origlnal home in the Ural raountalns and beslde the Caspian sea — were driven farther Into the bleak northland they went slnging ali the way and that singlnj grew Into thelr national epic — Legends from the tlme forgotten Slnce we now are here together Come together from our roamlngs The almilarity between the lncantatlons storles and proverbs and those of ancient Hunganan wrltlngs Indicate that these two people were sometlmes united It eiuals Iliad In length and possesses merits like those of tlio Greek epic Vere It rot for the palnstaklng labours of the country-doctor-profess- or Llias Lönnrot who collcted the oral poems and songs from the mouths of the agid by the firc-sld- e the fishermcn on the lakes and the shepherds in the fields this llterary gem vould have suffered oblivlon On horsebacic he-rod-e from vlllage to village and throughout the countrjslde seeking the tards vith their songs He as often beset by poverty and crltlcism was heaped upon hlm Soine clergymen frowned on hls efforts to collect "pagan trash" Success crowned hls work and finally on Feb 28 1835 tho lii Rt manusTlpt wls submitted to the Finnish Llterary Society whlch had It published in two volumes Immedlately Its importance was recognlzed In llterary clrcles nnd Dr Klias Lönnrofs fame was established The Finns ure so proud cf it today that Feb 2Sth is declared a legal holiday and Is celebrated as Kalexala Day throughout the nation There nre tales of hlgh adventure and herole deeds vrondrous vootngs eddlng songs of rare beauty lt Is ablaze lth luxurlous splendour—glow-In- g colour georgeous ralment slieen and sllver and gold and the sparkle of jewels siiKPPstlng that Finns In thelr roamlngs may have touched the flowery and brllllant lands of the Orlent Ali nature is artlculate The deep forests the blue lakes the beautiful raplds the pine-cla-d islands — ali speak n langua?e of their own to the ancient Finn The poem reveals eharmlng pictures of the home life of a people whose natural language Is poetry nnd whose understandlng and love of nature is profound Here a niother-inla- v Is givlng thanks for a "second daughter": Wiio can stlr the flre at evenlng Who can veave the flnest fabrlcs Wiio can twlrl the useful splndle Who can rinse tny sllken rlbbons Larger bulld our bumble cottage Wlder bulld the doors and Windows Hlsher fashlon tbou the celllng Decorate the Malla in beauty Kalevala beglns wlth the creatlon of the world "In the solltude of ether" "from the eggs of a duck who flew" "over the blue back of the ocean" to flnd a nesting plact of Canadian Finns stand unani mously for democratic iaeais If we appralse this task merely from a Canadian vievpolnt itJ social slgnlficancc shotild be recos-nize- d About one-hal- f cf Canada's population Is other than Anglo-saxo- n so the edueatlonal ard cul-tur- al vork porferme among an Immigrant grcup vho cannct speak or understand Erjslish fully which endeavors to acqualnt thom In thelr mother tongue vith the lavs cus-to- ms and history of tne:r new adopted country shoulrt rot be con sidered altogether insipnificant There have been nniong Uie lm mlgrants— and stlll are—a number of forelgn language nevspajers who are opposed to the prevailln? system of government in Canada therefore the vorth of tho newspapers ui national publie life vhlch firmly support democracy against totalita rlan doctrines is Invaluable though lt is not alway recognlzed by the leaders of our country Vapaa Sana can regard In tht respect vriXh satisfaction the work accompllshed during the past ten years and start the second decade with hlgh hopes lt has steadfastly en-e- d the caue of dewiracy and will eontlnue faithfully to tread the sime path in the future Prof Kaarlo Hilden Ph D lec turer in anthropclogy In the univer-sity of Helsinki Finland gives the follONVins explanatlon: "In ansvver to this question vhcnce come the Finns the succes-slv- e staxes of colonlzation give clear proof The ontlquities of the Roman Iron Age indicating a sett!ed population have ali been found In South-We- st Finland nono at ali of that period having becn found In other parts of the country The earliest antiqultles of flxed agriculturista found in the region of Lake Faijanne Ir Central Finland da te from about 50C A D those in Ladoga— Carelia in East Finland from about the ycar SOO lt is an important fact that the oldest Carelian Iron Age finds clearly descend from tTes ordinary m West Finland and are not of East European character From this fact we may conclude that the definite colonlzation of the country in tht Iron Age began in South-We- st Finland gradually spreading from vest to east thus clearly establish ing the fact that the Finns did not wander into thelr present homeland from the --east via the Carelian Isthmus as has been prevlously be-liev-ed but from the south over the Gulf of Finland This is also proved by the fact that the antiqultles from the beginnlng of the Iron Aee In Finland are of Baltic type Moreover in additional pro-i-f we find old loanwords in the Finnish language It is evldent that this immigra tlon to Finland contlnued cver a Stirring Epic of the Finns By Rev A Lappala Vilnimölnen in this story is tbe Finnish Hercules but older and more cunnlng Tbe greatest of tbe heroes be inrented the harp and made it from such by-produ- cts as the jawbone of a flsb and the sllken hairs of a beautiful maiden for strings The new harp or Finnish Kantele In the crafty hands of Väinämöinen broke into such majestlc music that Ali the northland stopped to listen Leaped the squlrrel from tbe branches Climbed the ermlne on the fences 0'er the plains the elk deer bounded And tbe lynxes purred wlth pleasure Wolves awoke In far-of- f swamplands Ducks arose from inland waters Swans came gliding from the marshes Tiny flinches green and golden Flew in flocks that darkened sunllght The Finns have not only glven the greatest llving composer Jeau Sibelius to the world and produced an internatlonally known and promis-in- g young viollnlst Heimo Haitto but with thelr colorful folk songs they have a reputation for fine choral music The Helsinki University Chorus and The Finlandia Male Cholr who thrilled great audiences on this continent a few years ago are stlll remembered for thelr vibrant and stirring choral messages From Kalevala we learn that the ancient Finns loied music and song Väinämöinen with hls harp did not allow song to disappear "into the cracks of the earth" He sang Tili the copper bearing mountains And the flinty rocks and ledges Heard hls magic tones and trembled Mountain cliffs were torn in pieces AH tbe ocean heaved and tumbled And the dlstant hllls re-echo- ed Much of the poem centres about the forging of the sampo a magic machine vsbich glves ease an luxury to llving a machine On uhich one side the flour Is grinding On another sait is maklng On a third is money forging And the lid Is many colouied Somethlng subllme and sacred Is revealed In the passlonate love and devotlon of the Finns for thelr homeland lt Is more preclous than life Itself and there is no other country so beautiful and perfect When th? ancient Finn wandered away frem home he felt the pangs of homeslckness One's own country it the dearest One's own table is the sveetest One's own home the most attracthe Grant klnd Ukko God above me Grant that I agaln may vlslt Mr beloved home and country Hetter dwell in one's own country There to drink its healthful waters From the slmple cups of blrchwood Tlian In forelgn lands to vander There to drlnk the rarest llquors From the golden cups of strangers Hiisi the devil In Finnish mythology bearln? also the epithets Juutas (Judas?) Piru and Lempo as chlef of the forest demons and exceedingly wicked He ereated the serpent the Vilest thlng of God's creatlon Wrlthing hlsslng thlng of evll The Finns have been a Godfearing people I)iig before the Lutheran reformation came to Finland and before the crusades planted the Christian cross on Finnish shores they sought succor and guldance from Ukko (old man) the hlshest flelty In Finnish mythology Under that name they concelved of God Ukko Fields the thunderbolts like the Greek god Zeus and also svlngs a hammer like the pagan god Thor An amazlng ethlcal and spiritual note is found in the slmple but majestlc prayer oi Väinämöinen Guard us thou O great Creator With thine arms of grace protect us Help us with thy strenght and vlsdom Guide Ihe mlnd of ali thy heroes Keep arlght the thoughts of vomen Keep the old from speaklny evll Keep the young from sln and folly De to us a help forever Whence Come The Finns? long period of Ilme larger and smaller gronps wandering in between 100 and 600 AD They brought with them the culture of the Iron Age They brought with Uiem a knowledg of agriculture" and cattle-rais'n- g and lald the ground for a permanent occupatlon Naturally th inhabl-tant- s also carried on huntbig and flshlng and from their villages In South Finland they started out on expeditlons Into the vast forest regions that spread over the country at that tlme Here a new question arises Has lt been possible deflnltely to esta-blish the original home of the Finn vhence they began thelr vanderings to the Baltic regions and Uience to Finland? It must be-- stated at the atart that the hypothesls of the famous Finnish philotogist M A Castren who in 1340 declared that the Finnish people originated in the Altals in Southern Siberia can not be maintalned in the lightt cf new Scientific research There is indeed not a single blnding proof for assumlng Asiatic origin but on tho contrary much tliat speaks agalnst the assumption In the light of the archaeological and linguistlc eMdence avallable it seems extremely pro-bab- le that the origlnal home of the Finns is to be found somevnere in European Russia vrtthin the forest regions lying between the Urals Kiev and the Baltic Sea — in ary event vest of the Ural momtains" I The racial eompositlon of the Finnish people has not as Jet been definltely analyzed However In the light of research Prof Hilden makea the fol!owing comment: "1) The general opinion prevailin heretofore that the Finns are of Asiatic origin and Mongolian race is not based on Scientific fact 2) The East-Baltl- c race is the most Important cumponent part of the Finnish nation which race is blond relatively tali and sturddv built 3) The blond Ncrdic race forms the second Important racial corn ponent vhich has been estiblished in ali sections of the country but most partlculary In the West 4) The Samian race clement ie the Lapp influnece is noticeable in the north and east withcut how ever being determinative to any marked degree 5) Racially the Finns 1-el-ong to the rest of the European peoples without any sharp dema reations connected more espedally to their nearest geographical nelghbour- s- A Stormy Decade (Continued from page 1) tn ali these thlngs our paper has accompllshed a difficult task during the past decade It has not only crushed totalitarian strongholds among the Finns but Inculcated them with democratic ldeals and inspired them to be intelltgent guardlans of the democratic ay of life Proud of i these achlevements It begins Us se-cond decade Ofth Record There are many pohucaj ► tons in this World Their number may be Ur- „- we suspect We mav be on fr have nid en n„ ! hurt thoiKh We fl nnnv 6WJ = pT1ai l~m uUc rcaunu or our refw of the life around us It i mT a three dollar enint- - ftirvuee odfollsaorniemiIsntdaikveiduaIlts cuc+rUaL tinker with our demorate "!L They think that thev are ing the machine wherea th2 axUlieiU~s™6 v_jui me Deanngs ~imc c For example some individ' and organs have begua to lauJ? a ucinwTaiic machm- - grease that smells cf dictaton " "cj-- are noi SloppecJ the bu will burn " Let us examlne these busj-- SO that M--n „ tr„io„ U-lave- Wt r The conscription plebiscitc lsssnt going through rough weather S-o- argue that the peoplä must h sulted vhether they want to sh the gun and go to the ttOa Empire'3 borders to chase ani- - & enemy otners say that no - tions please make then shoufc the gun and go a ttird grouj no guns and no conscription ä sun a rourth ch'rps in that la the people think d-- 3 not ti let the enemy plaster 0ur hosfl siin ieaa we want no guns Aiia mey au vvant to our social machinery the c- - brand of grease becausc they kac now to run the machine slmpletons pohtlcal 'v hkrc- - with just xsui mere are also somj (M fools These are reahy alarmLie rt have begun to plash the beucz ana tne axles with the cheap ra4 dictator-oi- l Some individual u organs you see have bemjn to ju glowing pictutcs of the Coaaua social machine and vhen the onpa happens to a bit gloomy it li iLr fully retouched ma made presc able The surprising thlng abcut tha bunglers Is that they Ime sei- - seen how the dictatoiV nacia vvorks neither have they ever pci thelr noses into their paraiss given it much practical thoufchtli? are singing their h)mns cf pm thousands of miles avay rjj because peddlr3 are sdlirg t': the Idea i The writer has seen to typrti dictator-machin- es In operatoa ia from cxperlence we must say tä it Is no pie eating ccntest for & common vorklng man We vrite fron expentnc could teli a thlng or two to Reverend gentlemen who have ö covered such beautiful Chra- - features in dictatorship We teli them exactly what thej K would be lf communis'ii nansat some other brand of d-rUton- !? besran to ralse a row in Ca They would be qulte simplf patched to klnsrdom come No ot reason would be ne ded except fact that they are r verend fca men ji course u wouiu uuitit--- worshinned the ereat r Vrn Eatv the Dictator If they kep '-- 1'1 Vr ChrisUanity and knelt f diebitor and thr hliz ar ♦" - --- 1! - bosses of the Godless Lea? et l would nrobablv be saved-- The picture we have pait' admittedly dismal But thert ii j ♦ Vilnir an nv fir lt! 11 -- ! Ka tniifiliuii I Il CXACtly on personal experience we'v k1 dictators TherAfnr wa would adrlit Ib rvartntr pet burned fr2 S nel1 maebl-- M thAt Ui? --"l behalf of dictators eontlnue te 1 the good old democrauc 11 remember to use lt wise!y ' 4 ~ iti y un dirJTtr a ntNr Vinf uni nci?- - Rock EM -- '- A man without thougfct ts future must eoon h-iv- e orrow — Confucius and know tiiat this is the traÄ ' - „ tn tJ W no ev vaii iiayt"- - — ieither in life or tn death - ' |
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