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« i i i MYTHICAI. PAUL ANIt H K BLIJE OX 4 Ustu anut' itani lid Paul Bunyan, Fabulous Hero Of ianadian Folk Lore, Actuälly Live? itraa'^ yös- Aino -yyu traa ian-:~ Lev--' ciaa lyyn illan-' neet"': ijat. läh- - :on -•• ryh-iek-aal. talia kas-' leh-tka-> ior-sas-. tieet iuin abi- ;B¥ JOABT HOLSIES ["Paul Bunyon? Oh yes, he's ttiat" rp of Iblk lore who built;the Grah^^ knyon of the Colorado and ali that.: at he never really lived. After ali, |reryone ]mows he's just tihe figment a lot of imaginatlons." . •lo! Paul Bunyon was a real zhän. ad there are records of some • who^ ew him. Mr.: James Stevens wäs; r sure that the Bunydblegendsörl-^ ited in CanadaiV,and he searched and Tvlde among loggers, and he^ ad genuine proof. vAt last he niet? Juls Letourneau In the Big Berry mtiy, PuyaUup. WashinEJton, and |uls's father-in-law, :Z. BernecJiei a owy-maned, shining-eyed; keen-aded yeteran logger of ninety years, ao -told • him about the orlginal hero. uncle, Cöllet B e l l ^ c ; fought by .side of Paul Bunyon, and läter ^rked1;wo seasons for him. ''My unc- CJoUet Bellalne." said Mr. Bemeche aestly. "knovv that Paul -Bunyon rry five hundred pounds on portage^ lat is truth. He was very big- strong in, you.understand; he flght llke ! . . h e work like h i . a n d he pack £6 h ... Never was another man llke lul Bunyon. :That's right." : •,••.,•* • • In the introduotion to his collection the Paul Bunyon stories, Mr. Ste-iTS tells us: "The Paul OBunyon legend had its •igln in the Papineau Rebellion of 7. In the Two Mountains country. St. Eustache, many loggers armed: th mattooks, axes and wooden forks ich had been steamed and warped ito hooks. stormed into battle. Among em was a mighty-muscled, bellicose, larded ; giant named Paul. Bunyonl lis forest warrior, with a mattock In ;e h a n d ; and a great fork- in the er, poverful as Hercules,''lÄdomi-' ible as SpartacuB, bellowing llke: a-ÖNTHB • • • ' iueen's troops like Samson among the Ihilistines. He came out of the rebel-on with great fame among his own Id. His slaugfhters got the grandeur ' legend. "Later ihis Paul Bunyon operated a ging, camp.. ; In that day logging heroic labor. In the autumn' the, ^ggers went to the woods, forcing lelr way in batteaux up swif t ijyers. every trlp there were many •vveari-le portages around rapids^ Snow ice lodked. them. in their camps ^r five or six months. The workday from dawn to dusk. The loggers ved on beans, sait pork and sour- 3ugh bread. At night there were iTJCKErS lAccording to the mnsical comedy, Uttle Paul Bunyan, wriUeh by John and Mary Holmes and Bnbe Bromftein for the flf th annual Champion concert, Janaary 15 hi Toronto. Paul Bunyan is no ghost. The new «»»e f«>n» this prodoction wlth words by John Weir, published oh this page, tells of the Canadian tradltions behind this hero of folk-lore. r The music Is based on Canadian folk themes and was composed . by -a gronp.of mosiclans who assisted in the Production. The Cham-^ pion concert promlses to be an entertaining cvent which torontonians fdll not miss. The camp boss was like the chief of a tribe; his wlll had to be the läw; and he /had to: have expeptional physical power and courage to enf orce it. Af ter his part In the rebellion thete was no more famous camp chief in Cainäda' ihan Paul Bunyön.'' Thijs then is the hero whq SQ cap- •lous. ;Titan, ; raged- • amoiisiftheT turedthehearts^^o Canadian lumberjacks that they took him with them when they went to'the lumbercamps of Maine and Mchigan of British. Columbia; Oregon and Washington. This is the Paul Bunyon whO: 60 captured the imaginatlons of -tihe American loggers that they took his legend and elaborated and exag-gerated it to the picturesque level wli|ch we read today. And this is 4he f Igiu-e whlch, arlsing out of; the struggle for the people's rights, symbollzes In a very real sense 'the vigor, courage, inventiveness and determlnatlon of .the Canadian tradition. Beglnning wlth Paul Bunyon, soldier In Paplneau's forces, he has be- Dngs and tales around the shantyJcome the creation of whole genera-ive. Of course these were mainly itlons of loggers. Thousands of story-t their own life, their own heroes. I tellers by far-flung campfirra häye PAUL BUNYAN WORDS BY JOHN WEIR •MUSIC BY K GROUP OF COMPOSERS (Sung by tLittle Paul Bunyan) \Paul Bunyan was a lumberjack, a giant lägging man, jPaut Bunyan ivas a crackerjack wUh magk in his hand, \With faithful Babe, his big Blue Ox, he flattened out the plain, iThcn picking up the scatteredrocks that studded the terrain . \He piled the RCcky Mountains up and capped them ali withsnow —- [He ptdled down clouds to da that job . . . oh wasn*t that some showl He scored the earth for Hudson Bay to make a tiater hole, Thenivith his little jinger traced Tohere rivers had tö flow, . ; He bent a river just a bit and made Nia^ra Falls, • Newfoundland then he went and set amid the ocean's squäUs — Paul Bunyan was a mighty man, he was the first Canuck, l He made the country with his hands, and then he said, "Cood Luckl" Paul Bunyan was a logging man, a chopper-dovm of trees —- ' • \ His axe jlashed in the morning sun, his beard floived in the breeze. iHc Tvas the bcst dam' ivorking man this coifntry ever saw, lAt cvcry trade he tricd his hand, ivas master of them alt: \He built the citics big and proud atid paved the slreets and roads, iTIte western prairic then he ploughed-— and grain grew up like gddl Hcjaid the rails from east to west-— and then he ran the trainf He'sailed upon the ocean'screst from China to Ukraine, . ^ He built the mills and made machines — and how the goods did flow/ Into the earth hedug doion deeP''and brought up oil and coal: , Paul Btinyan pickcd an atom up — a frightful mystery — v And crackcd it like a hazelnut! "Your turntdvfork," said he. (Sung by Big Paul Bunyan) In logging camps big tales arctold of me and what I do. Since lumberjacks don't lie, yöu hftovJthose stories mustbe truc. But first my story started ivhen, a century ago Our figfit for liberty was led by Louis Papineau With axe in hand I stoutly fought to guard my country s right. Paul Bunyan was ä patrict — and fhal*s myffeatest pride.- ,,\ Vvc roamed across-this vast domain from 'L/abrador to Nome, Pvelogaed in Oregon and Maine; aU camps I caU.myHome, AU taorking people are my kin, no matterurkat their tonguc-i - Nor what the color of thetr skin, tee ali shoutd be as one. Paul BunyanithoughMs'n(^£riforgot^ihe COuntry^M loves mosl; A true Canadian Patrioi— oh thafs my proudesthoast. contributed their shares.to Che picture of Paul Bunyon. "And he.at least, will live as long as there Is a forest for his refuge, as long as there are 'Shadows and whispers of trees." ;And he will live as long as there are vrorlting men. ' And whodoes Paul Bunyon belong to? HIS. stories have been created by lumberjacks ali over'this oontinent, and his legend belongs -to both Cana-dlanand'American loggers and work-ing men. But as Paul Bunyon himself might have said: ".when the story-telhng Americans get golng.with their tali tales, they teli fthe - tallest, the broadest and'the longest Stones you everheard. Now mind you the Grand Qanyon is the. deepest river bed you ever saw but vhen they vanted to blame a big. man for ma-king It, the biggest man they could find tvas a Canadian.*? « NOTE: The si<elling of the name "Bunyon" Is dellberate In this articlc. The orlginal French- Canadian spelling Is Bnnyon with an "o". After the migration of : i the legends across the border the name was somehow and at some time, as yet undated historlcally, changed to Bunyan with a n " a " . Both spelllngs are used In contezt " through the article. Membership Urged To Attend Älerfs Änitual Heefmg Sudbury: — One of the main toplcs of discussion at the recent Alerts membership meeting was the question of forming. a new executive for the yearand plans.for the annual meet-ingi which v;ill be held on Monday, January 24 th. . It fs important that ali mcmbers make a specia] affort to be present at this meeting, so that club actlvities can be set on a sound basis for the confing peripd- The promotlon of club actlvities wos also discusscd and It was felt that par-ticular omphasls should be placed on getting the regularThursday night gym actlvities on a more actlvc basis. Ali members interested in gymnastlcs are urged to come/to the Jiall on (these nights. ,Within a f^w weeks the gym routines for next summei^s Lilttojuh-las should be available and reheatsals will start as soon as Instructions ar-rive. Considerable discussion wasgiven to the national campaign: launched by the national executlves of.theFinnish Organization and the Sports IFedera-tlcn to send Pinnish-Canadian dele-gates to the Wond Pcace Gongress and to the Fif th AVorld Youth Festival which v/ill be held in V/arsavir this summer. The campaign vwas warmly recelved and plans were discuesed to meet the commltments it place^ on the club. ENOVGU MOUTIIS TO FEED Bank Teller <'glving a vorker some £0jlcd bais): "1 hope you*fe nöt afrald of germs," " . Worker: "Ujn^t worry. -A genn couldn't live on my salary." Speedjskiers Trainiiiig foif .Vndtefish. —^ Speed sklers are look-^ : In^. fonvaiidv to ä busy ski seäson Voäd Winter. The first meet Of the sea- Eon, a' trainlng meet was held last Simday. r^*^Besides;provIding competi-'- tive» trainihJS*' the -meet also helped pack • down the track,whlc^ • next month will be used for the Finnlsh- Canadian AmateurSports- Federation! cross^ountry ehampionshlps;; Speed A. C. was grantcd tl:e honor of spon-sorhig this Important. meet; this year,' and naturally we want oiur,'tradt:to be in the best of condition for such an, important event. This' yesur-, the. championshlp meet wlll toe lield' con-sideraibly earller than last year, so there will be no shortage of snow, as was the case last year, ,when due to the shortage ot the white stuff, the meet had; to be ,run. off on the Ice of Trout Lake. ' Although sklers bf other clubs had ; been, invited. to participate In the trainlng meet, only five skiers had Te-? ported by starting rtime. , The results on the five kilometer event were as follows: 1) K. Puiras 2752 2) O. Ranta 28.15 3) D. Puiras 29.13 4) K i Palomäki 29.27 5) S. Kangas 30.17. Although the times at fhrst glance do not seem too impressive, when the soft track and poor snow condltions are taken into consideration, the boys weren't exactly standing stlU. By the time: the liitto:, championships roll a- Tound the boys wlll be In the peak of condition and wlll offer ali comers stiff competltion. — J . P. .Torstaina, lammik. 13 — Thursday, Jan. J3,1955 ^ ISiv^ Busy Weekend for Disfrid Skiers ^ndbury. — The first officlal crossrcountry ineet" of the : iNickel Dlstrlct this season wlll be the Alerts sponsored me?t Saturday, January: 15, at T^ön 'Puisto. - In order to' entice prospective champlons to-don their slats without the embarrässment of handng to drop out»aftor the first lap, the ptogram calls for a one lap etvent over the five kilometer.eounfe in €)ven the men's open event/"- The program liujludes a whole /losfc- of . events, so a good tum out is e^ected, dejpite the f act that Saturday Is not the best of days and • post time IS 3 PIML on the button. • rnie following events wlllbevrun off ät this meet: Men's open^ under 21 and under 17 classes five kllo-meters; women's open,: girls, under 15 and boyo under 15, classes one kilometer. Three trophles wlll be presented in each class. Speed has also put up the Carl Sundholm trophy, which; Is presently held by that club. In the competltion for -this' trophy each club's best results In the men's open, under 21, women's open and glrls under 15 classes are taken Into consideration. The competltion for this 'particular trophy i'i restrlcted to FCASP clubs, but skiers lutvlng Northern Ontario Ski Zone cards are weIcome to participate in ali Indivldual events. The following day, Sunday, Voima Is holding an open Invitation meet at their Long Lake Hall, which will also be open to ali Northern Ontario Skl Zone sklers. In the men's open class the 10 idlometer event will be Tfals year Canadian blade experts have an addltlonal incendve to epur them on In long practice sessions for the Canadian fignre-skating championships. Berths on the 1956 Olympio team wi]lbedecldcd on the show- .ing of competltors in the Canadian championships to be held In Toronto, Jfanuary ZO--- 22.. Puttbtg thclr best skate fonirard for senior lanrels will . be Francis. Dafoe and NorrlsBowden; Canadian and worId patrs cham-' plons, who wlU be seeking their fourth national crown. Gullivei^Lesson inCliik' Work UreTf illustrafed 30th Aniiiversaiy of the FCASF crealtes special interest in Vieslti sponsorcd iLiittojiihla r Edmonton. ~- This artlcIe may come as somewhat of; a sucprise to certain Indivlduals back la Port Arthur, who urged me, to contributo, regularly to Cluto News, bu t whO| at the same time expressed' dubious exclamatlons on their eyebaUs as to my fu ture Hcora-pptence In^the ranks of llterary bards: To "them I say PHFFJ^T! Fromthe look,of things thcy'can't lay much clalm to 6uperflous: life In their ;own domain, namdy. the Lakehcad','much less clilde me for lack of news from this forsaken; country ;wh6re.; Flnns are almost non-exlstent. vPerhaps I shouldvfirstly.put down a; few • pcrsonal observatlona of' my Eastern tourduring the recent hollday season. The one and only output-of • local talent whlch I wltnessed wa8 < a i play cntltled "Talkoo'Tansslt." Music has always held a certain fasclnatlon for me ^Itihough Its technlcal aspects are In thesame class as Sanskrit or Oreek.Humour and music mlxedto-^ gether provide an'undeniabl^ enter-tainmenit treat and !^Talkoo Tanssit" can beheld<as a good example, at least from my vIewpoInt. Special mentlon should be made of the make-up artlst who managed to. convert • yesteryears: models Into excellent verslox^ of ,mo- US SPORTS EDITORS SHUN MARILYN BELL 1954 Was A Year O f Accomplishmenl For Outstanding Canadian A t h l e t es dern streamllnlng., ^ ^y^, Although Vtuf east had onlp a fevf young people, they pre8ente4 food for; tiiought. > X shaU recite hlstory to pro»., vlde the moraLfor an of ten mtotjlon-"^;'' cd but not neatly enough etressed^ polot of Club wqrk In general. Sev;^!" i - 4?^ • m W BY JIM HUNTER The year 1954 wlll go down in -Canadian sports history as one of great achlevements. for our athletes, and growlng national consdousness among sportsfans and players alike. This .was the year of Marilyn Bell. Tom Park, Rich Ferguson, Frances' Daföe and Norrie Bowden, Rocket Richard, Pat Pleteher. It"was also, the year In which such outq^apdlng eridiron personalities as Joe Krol and, Hec Crlghton strongly challenged the" grovJng U S . Öomination of Canadian fooiball, and called for some swift cha'nges. ' Tii^e past year was also one of many upsets. :It seemed as if every time somethuig happened in the sports World, It was the unexpected. •From a Canadian viewpolnt the most astounding uprnt was the defeat of Canada's .East York Lyndihursts by. the Soviet tcam in the World Hockey •Championships held ^at Stockholm last ^ a r c h . The Moscow Dynamos, entered forvthe first time In the worId series, nascd out the Canuoks, 13 points to 12 when the tally was counted. In tlie flnal game the Dynamos beat the Caiiadiaxft by the score of 7-2j proving they were the ma:i-ers bf the tournament. Canadian fans were eorry a better team couldn't go to the worJd tournament. Had the govemment pro-vlded funds to help scnd a team to Stockholm, top-notch players who would be compensated for time lost from. work would have: been able to make the trip. Continuing on hockey, 1954 .'iaw the Detroit Red Wings take the National Hodkey League's Stanley Cup for the slxth time. The Whigs nosed out Montreal Oanadiens in one of- the most excitingplay-of f series i n NHL history. Tony Leswlclk's sIow bounclng goal at 4:29 in the overtlme perlod bröke the;tie and gave the Cup to «Detroit. Ib Was as spectacular a^flnlsh as could behad. '.' ' ' " It seems as if .never a yetfrjgoes by^ without Maurice;/Richardtbreaklng^ into the news with another xecord elthcT made orbroken.'.Thls.yiear the Rocket- söored hls^ 400th goal whlle Montreal was defcatlng Chicago 4-2; Although the game was In Chicago the fans gave the Rocket. a standlhg' ovatiori' when• the feoal was scored; Three diecrs for the fans In' Chicago who reallzed' Richard is one of the most skllful' players hockey ha.'i ever ssen. ' ) • ' ' for the Dr. Markkanen trophy. Other events wlll be 5 km. for boys under 18, 3 km, for boys under ,15 and for under 12 the distance wUl be 1.5 km. The:women Will compete in a five km, event, A spsclal event wlll be the five km, competltion on a level tracfe, presumably on the ice, for the Star Bottling Works trophy. rhe referee. dldn't miss Uils oof., .One of nfne penaltln referee Bed Storey hand oat^at BUpleLeaf Garden» In Torofitoi.laa^. Saturday nUhtvrent to the Leafs ErieNesterenko,,*bowit an h^ tangled irith'ChIcago'ii Andy Bafhgate, The thlrd place Leafs, looMnx: more energetle (han In some of thefr oiher recent ontlofs, broke * wfadeas strbv of eieht games when they whltewashed (be Havks 5 — 0. Bfonlit^ stOI beads the leafoe. The year that saw Marilyn Bell successfully swlm Lake Ontario "for the honor of Canada'^ 'wlll long: be remembered by Canadians along wlth others in the world. As wen as be-comlng the first and only person ever to sWim across Lake Ontario, Marilyn made the news last July 26 wheri.: she became the first woman to fInish the 28-mile Atlantic City Ccnteimlal swlm and was reventh i n the fleld of 37. The 17-year-old Toronto sohool giri was pickcd as Canada's outstand-: ing female athlete of 1954 by Can-ada's sports edltors. In oontrast, the 'New York Times in Its review of events iri the thrlUing sports year, makes no mcntion of Marilyn Bell. It's about time the sports vrltern In; the UJS. forgot national favorltlsm and looked out at the international scenc for a change, Special mcntion should be made of Winnie Roach Lueszler who made a valiant etfort to swlm Lake Ontario for Canada along with Miss Bell, 'Another Canadian sv/immer whO bacame rccognlzed as a champion v/as Tom Park. « e set a new world re-cord for the treacheroas swlm at the Catalina Channel off the California coast, Tcm fiwam the 21-mlle »tretoh i n 13 hours and 24 minutes, knocking 23 mlnuteq of f the rccord establl^hcd toy Florence Ohadwlck of the 'United Statos in 1952. He also outswam To-ronto's Marilyn Bell and ClVf Lums-den to come in first at the 26-mlle Atlantic City swim In July. As a member of the yfourman relay sv/lm •team, he helped Canada take top hcnors agalnst Philadelphia and Buffalo at the Canadian National EX' hlbitlort. Each one worthy of pratje. put them' together and you have a sensational year for a terrlfic Canadian athlete, • « * * The British Empire Gamcs' held in Vancouver fchl» year gave the World many fiports thrllla. The most spcc-tacular- was the "Mlle of the Century" featurlng the only two runners ever to brcak the four-mlnute mlle; •Au«traIia*B John Landy ad England's Roger Bannktcr, Landy had been In front most of the way ^nd seemed headed for; ivlctory when he took a pccÄc cjvcr his left shouUcr to sce where Bannister wa», and in a flash ths Britonpassed him on the right. -Banniieter was timcd at 3:53,8 and Landy vart cioee behind wUh 3:59,6. Right on the heels of' the;two was Canada'3 Rlchla Ferguson who placed thlrd wJth the Canadian record of 4:044. Richie v/as named; as Can-tt4a's top male athleto of the: year, a tltle well deserved for a fine effort for Canada. <WhUe on the subject of the B,E,G„ I thlnk a mentlon of Toronto's Jackie MiaoDona'^ Is i n order. She came second In the shot-put tests at the B,E,0,, and- later heaved an 'elght-pound • shot ^44 •feet, 9% . Inchea • to Cleveland: to si^^ amevr. U ^ . >women'£i rccord, . Canadian ii^rty rann wltne$sca a. big upset: when'- the Montreal AIou-efctes wcre defeated by the game -iJdf-nionton Eskimoa in the Oreyy Cup football battle. > Ths Esl^os, 5-1. underdogs oV eastem böökiefc,; nosed" out.the'powertulMoiitteal team 26-<25' i n the ^last' three^mlnutes-^of (the- game, Chuck Hunslngcr, Alouette-.halfback, ftunbled;vthebaU. on- the Edmonton 20-yard line, and , Jackie Parkejr' scooped It up: ran 93 yards for an F4dmonton touchdown f or: öne of the greatest ; endings of ali East^^est; cla:i,lcs, • • • • •:y'^''^'\. ''.'^ji^'-"; •' . Pat Fletcher' of Saskatoon ;Jolted, the golf World faybccomlng the first Ganadian-born Winner of the; Canadian Golf Open in nearly 30 years, Also on the golf course, Canada's six players finished second among tcams from ali over the British Empire in the summer. (Marlene Stewai't, Cati-ada's past athlete of the year, successfully retalncd two national ladiei) golf championships. Ali making an exceptionally. good year for golf in Canada, Skating playcd a part in Canada'6 sports vietories in > •1954. Skating at their best; 24-.year-old France» Ijafoc and Norrie Bovden, 27; .both- of Toronto, :won the world's palrs figure-skating champlomhip ; in Oslo.: Norway; last February, The Canadlanri -piled up a total of 11,110 polnto, v/ell ahead of the 6wi«s team ^v/hlch captured second place. — Champion, NOT RIPE Bill; I just saw a grcen «nakc, Joe; Leave it alone; it might be Just as dangerous a» a ripe one. ral years ago a commtttee was $;a(lter<» ed behind stage at 316 Bay Street iv^tb^i/" ^ the'avowed purpofie of picktag out,A^^^ m tentative east forfa forthcomIi}|(iplay^A'^l^^j' to be stagedby the "younger crpffd"''"^ ^ l* As always male actors were In p i ^ t l - | f ui supply biit the opposlte sex were; hard to cbmeby. Among the, mimeai suggested wa& that of ä young glrl whqf ; wiis a consclentious läm membpiv The;| committee chairman stressed the/faefet-, ^, that she was very Shy and not.se^;^ /, :C; Ingly posse^ed^of a voIce-witih^t)&[e* least attrlbutes for stage enunclatlott:-! thusher name .wasstruck off'the Itol;.'/^ Someitlme later at the behest of-el->;^ | ders she played a 4>it paot in a dra!bdä>^ play and I wltnessed her backstage be»:|?f > fore curtain time. She was euggestlve ^ of a condemncd mn;whohaa:akeadyj?J?;; had his last meal and Is only waJtlng &>r the blindfold. I suppose only thc^;^^ fchought of getting it oyer wfth, gav^Ll her enough gumptlon to carrjr thru, that evening. Laist 'q^rlng she appear*4 ed at the drama festival'in Toronto ; giving forth a very credltable perfpr*' mancc cspeclally elnce tbe part,tahe, playcd was not at ali in keeplngvlth; her usual self. On December SOth; the same young lady (nature haddone [ ' away wlth the gltl) appeared In "TaK»-' | koo Tanssit" but «lo longer was'die'i'" * just a bIt player, and the vblce In n^-t 'r \ v dltloii to other modtriated cha^^, .v , gave fort^ Wlth eparkling song. To- 'J^i day she would still be Just one of \ nudience if someone, either throuilh toreslght or necesslty, had not,lstrong3, / armed her Into^that first Wt partl,,^, : The' moral behind'the «torjr Iso^r vipus, Nobody Is wlthout abllity be'l^\ In any activlty whatsocver, end-we;v| should not look fop people lwlthtft^: lent Mpon whom to heap our burdejos.'' | Instead we should pick out the t i r ^ , ^ | flowers, and,corobtolng'the''two to- /| gether, we would*create^a blooäiölg* " gardeijifron» whlch ithe wldest cholcto^- would be available. In this present age we necd the full resouncea of a l i , •% progresslve minded people — partlcö;-/^ " % larjy the YOUTH..,The story Of-the'' '1 aotresst,wIll remalntfoTeoi05t',in'/mj^.!v, mlnd at Jcast, because the cbayroatf«/ \ | whose Influence caused her to ^toe ^ , | blackllsted dnce was •~"'* TRTTLY! • The restjOf my observatlons « j o i b e - briefly descrlbed: ' "Ali quiet on the v ^ ' Eastem front," The solltude wa8 9i<>|S^,/' f-markedly reflccted upon my favo^te \ subject, namely the Liittojuhlat. ^\lt \ "J seems to me that we should be heating ^ ; \ fcome whisperlngs from South Foreu-,- ,''^\ pine about this «me of year. How- ^ - ever It may, seem, sprUig Is only just' \ around the comer; It te ncver/too soon" , to start Uie wheels of publlclty roll»**' mg. The clubs In other centres should' * be cnvlous of Viesti, because this suip^- \ mer, as in the case of the 1Ö50 Liitto- ^ < juhlat, they' have a drawlng" card"" v/hich does not come our way very of-/ ten, This is att annlversary year o f .. the F . c. A, S. F. and the Pinnlsh-Ca-: nadians love to ccl^brate occasions of ' this type. Of course, you say, evenr year Is an annlvprsary; but only whBii-they copie wltJi a five or a zero at the' ond are they consplcuous. Unless tny / reasoning is absolutely toaywke this; wIU be theSOkh year of ouf federatlons-^ existence. Shouldn't be too diffIcult to " work out »omething- Special; around thaf >— lefs hear from you, Roy. — Gulllver, I 1^. i - 1 YOURS gis A KIGHEB AUTHOBITY Years ago womcn .went to the ;docrir: tor to see if they could have childrcn iii — now they gp to the landlord. , i Olemme jälleen saaneet kirjavarastoomme KAKSI SUURTA SUOSIOTA SAAVUTTANUTTA ROMAANIA MIKA VVALTAIIY: , KAARINA MAUNUNTYTÄR 314 sivua — Hinta nid. $L75 Ruotsin:ja Suomen historian kuuluisin, romanttisin rakkaustarina'; on Mika Waltarin: iccrtomana ollut lukeyan yleisön, suuressa suosiossa, EBICII MABIA REMARQUE: ELÄMÄN KIPINÄ 343 sivua — Hinta sid. $3,75 SAAPUNUT UUSI Li^METYS Kirja Jollainen kirjoitetaan vain kerran vuosisadassa. m Erich Maria Remarque, >joka ensimmäisen maailmansodan jälkeen kirjoitti teoksen "Länsirintamalta ei mitään uutta", on Jälleen hätkähdyttänyt lukijoitaan julkaisemalla romaanin toisen inaaU-^;y^^^^ mansodan Järkyttävimmistä kokemuksista, keskitysleireistä.: ,' ^ Dramaattinen jännitys vangltseC'lukijan ensimmäiseltä sivulta'al-^;vv. käen. 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Title | Vapaus, January 13, 1955 |
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Date | 1955-01-13 |
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MYTHICAI. PAUL ANIt H K BLIJE OX
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lid Paul Bunyan, Fabulous Hero Of
ianadian Folk Lore, Actuälly Live?
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;B¥ JOABT HOLSIES
["Paul Bunyon? Oh yes, he's ttiat"
rp of Iblk lore who built;the Grah^^
knyon of the Colorado and ali that.:
at he never really lived. After ali,
|reryone ]mows he's just tihe figment
a lot of imaginatlons." .
•lo! Paul Bunyon was a real zhän.
ad there are records of some • who^
ew him. Mr.: James Stevens wäs;
r sure that the Bunydblegendsörl-^
ited in CanadaiV,and he searched
and Tvlde among loggers, and he^
ad genuine proof. vAt last he niet?
Juls Letourneau In the Big Berry
mtiy, PuyaUup. WashinEJton, and
|uls's father-in-law, :Z. BernecJiei a
owy-maned, shining-eyed; keen-aded
yeteran logger of ninety years,
ao -told • him about the orlginal hero.
uncle, Cöllet B e l l ^ c ; fought by
.side of Paul Bunyon, and läter
^rked1;wo seasons for him. ''My unc-
CJoUet Bellalne." said Mr. Bemeche
aestly. "knovv that Paul -Bunyon
rry five hundred pounds on portage^
lat is truth. He was very big- strong
in, you.understand; he flght llke
! . . h e work like h i . a n d he pack
£6 h ... Never was another man llke
lul Bunyon. :That's right." :
•,••.,•* • •
In the introduotion to his collection
the Paul Bunyon stories, Mr. Ste-iTS
tells us:
"The Paul OBunyon legend had its
•igln in the Papineau Rebellion of
7. In the Two Mountains country.
St. Eustache, many loggers armed:
th mattooks, axes and wooden forks
ich had been steamed and warped
ito hooks. stormed into battle. Among
em was a mighty-muscled, bellicose,
larded ; giant named Paul. Bunyonl
lis forest warrior, with a mattock In
;e h a n d ; and a great fork- in the
er, poverful as Hercules,''lÄdomi-'
ible as SpartacuB, bellowing llke: a-ÖNTHB
• • • '
iueen's troops like Samson among the
Ihilistines. He came out of the rebel-on
with great fame among his own
Id. His slaugfhters got the grandeur
' legend.
"Later ihis Paul Bunyon operated a
ging, camp.. ; In that day logging
heroic labor. In the autumn' the,
^ggers went to the woods, forcing
lelr way in batteaux up swif t ijyers.
every trlp there were many •vveari-le
portages around rapids^ Snow
ice lodked. them. in their camps
^r five or six months. The workday
from dawn to dusk. The loggers
ved on beans, sait pork and sour-
3ugh bread. At night there were
iTJCKErS
lAccording to the mnsical comedy, Uttle Paul Bunyan, wriUeh by John
and Mary Holmes and Bnbe Bromftein for the flf th annual Champion
concert, Janaary 15 hi Toronto. Paul Bunyan is no ghost. The new
«»»e f«>n» this prodoction wlth words by John Weir, published oh
this page, tells of the Canadian tradltions behind this hero of folk-lore.
r The music Is based on Canadian folk themes and was composed
. by -a gronp.of mosiclans who assisted in the Production. The Cham-^
pion concert promlses to be an entertaining cvent which torontonians
fdll not miss.
The camp boss was like the chief of a
tribe; his wlll had to be the läw; and
he /had to: have expeptional physical
power and courage to enf orce it. Af ter
his part In the rebellion thete was no
more famous camp chief in Cainäda'
ihan Paul Bunyön.''
Thijs then is the hero whq SQ cap-
•lous. ;Titan, ; raged- • amoiisiftheT turedthehearts^^o
Canadian lumberjacks that they took
him with them when they went to'the
lumbercamps of Maine and Mchigan
of British. Columbia; Oregon and
Washington. This is the Paul Bunyon
whO: 60 captured the imaginatlons of
-tihe American loggers that they took
his legend and elaborated and exag-gerated
it to the picturesque level
wli|ch we read today.
And this is 4he f Igiu-e whlch, arlsing
out of; the struggle for the people's
rights, symbollzes In a very real sense
'the vigor, courage, inventiveness and
determlnatlon of .the Canadian tradition.
Beglnning wlth Paul Bunyon,
soldier In Paplneau's forces, he has be-
Dngs and tales around the shantyJcome the creation of whole genera-ive.
Of course these were mainly itlons of loggers. Thousands of story-t
their own life, their own heroes. I tellers by far-flung campfirra häye
PAUL BUNYAN
WORDS BY
JOHN WEIR
•MUSIC BY K GROUP
OF COMPOSERS
(Sung by tLittle Paul Bunyan)
\Paul Bunyan was a lumberjack, a giant lägging man,
jPaut Bunyan ivas a crackerjack wUh magk in his hand,
\With faithful Babe, his big Blue Ox, he flattened out the plain,
iThcn picking up the scatteredrocks that studded the terrain .
\He piled the RCcky Mountains up and capped them ali withsnow —-
[He ptdled down clouds to da that job . . . oh wasn*t that some showl
He scored the earth for Hudson Bay to make a tiater hole,
Thenivith his little jinger traced Tohere rivers had tö flow, . ;
He bent a river just a bit and made Nia^ra Falls,
• Newfoundland then he went and set amid the ocean's squäUs —
Paul Bunyan was a mighty man, he was the first Canuck,
l He made the country with his hands, and then he said, "Cood Luckl"
Paul Bunyan was a logging man, a chopper-dovm of trees —- ' •
\ His axe jlashed in the morning sun, his beard floived in the breeze.
iHc Tvas the bcst dam' ivorking man this coifntry ever saw,
lAt cvcry trade he tricd his hand, ivas master of them alt:
\He built the citics big and proud atid paved the slreets and roads,
iTIte western prairic then he ploughed-— and grain grew up like gddl
Hcjaid the rails from east to west-— and then he ran the trainf
He'sailed upon the ocean'screst from China to Ukraine, . ^
He built the mills and made machines — and how the goods did flow/
Into the earth hedug doion deeP''and brought up oil and coal: ,
Paul Btinyan pickcd an atom up — a frightful mystery — v
And crackcd it like a hazelnut! "Your turntdvfork," said he.
(Sung by Big Paul Bunyan)
In logging camps big tales arctold of me and what I do.
Since lumberjacks don't lie, yöu hftovJthose stories mustbe truc.
But first my story started ivhen, a century ago
Our figfit for liberty was led by Louis Papineau
With axe in hand I stoutly fought to guard my country s right.
Paul Bunyan was ä patrict — and fhal*s myffeatest pride.- ,,\
Vvc roamed across-this vast domain from 'L/abrador to Nome,
Pvelogaed in Oregon and Maine; aU camps I caU.myHome,
AU taorking people are my kin, no matterurkat their tonguc-i -
Nor what the color of thetr skin, tee ali shoutd be as one.
Paul BunyanithoughMs'n(^£riforgot^ihe COuntry^M loves mosl;
A true Canadian Patrioi— oh thafs my proudesthoast.
contributed their shares.to Che picture
of Paul Bunyon. "And he.at least, will
live as long as there Is a forest for his
refuge, as long as there are 'Shadows
and whispers of trees." ;And he will
live as long as there are vrorlting men.
' And whodoes Paul Bunyon belong
to? HIS. stories have been created by
lumberjacks ali over'this oontinent,
and his legend belongs -to both Cana-dlanand'American
loggers and work-ing
men. But as Paul Bunyon himself
might have said: ".when the story-telhng
Americans get golng.with their
tali tales, they teli fthe - tallest, the
broadest and'the longest Stones you
everheard. Now mind you the Grand
Qanyon is the. deepest river bed you
ever saw but vhen they vanted to
blame a big. man for ma-king It, the
biggest man they could find tvas a
Canadian.*? «
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