The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California • Page 11

Oct. 18, 1951 San Bernardino DAILY SUN 11 Tokyo Girl, Assigned Task of Helping Westernize Japan, Absorbing Democracy in American Schools stop. Kissing, among adults, is not a Japanese custom. The sight of it was enough to send Tokiko into stitches. in the Saturday Japanese classes of the Ninety-fourth street Buddhist church, so she won't forget her own language.

But she wouldn't go, because big brother Johnny wasn't going. The Sprungs solved that. They made Johnny study Japanese too. He is the only occidental pupil in the class. Sprung customarily kisses Mrs.

Sprung when he leaves for the office, but Tokiko almost made him Eight states tour their highways with magnetic sweepers to keep down the flat tire toll: Arkansas, Kansas, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and Oklahoma. The sweepers are trucks equipped with huge electromagnets, and an average of six pounds of tire-damaging metal per mile is collected. NEW YORK, Oct. 17 UP) A dren, and because they have two children of their own, 17-year-old Tokyo girl whose father wants to At least 75 cents of every dollar consumers spend for pork goes for cuts that make up less than half a hog's liveweight, according to Ohio State university agricultural scientists. help westernize Japan is settling radiant.

The teacher had given her a front seat and put a gold star on her paper. Last month, following her father's instructions, she was enrolled Peggy and 10-year-old Johnny. NOT THE FIRST down now to her task a longtime study of democracy. It is not the first time a Japanese has sent his daughter here to Little Tokiko Matsudaira is 7 years old. She began her study bring back American ways; four girls were to the United Sept.

10. in the second grade of public school 166. States by sailing vessel in 1868, but Tokiko is the youngest. With Japanese single-mindedness, her Her father, aide and nephew of Japan's envoy in Washington when Pearl Harbor was attacked, has given her a big assignment. She is to spend her childhood and youth absorbing American ideas, then return home to propagate them through journalism, teaching, or politics.

FLEW UNACCOMPANIED The neat, polite little girl flew from Tokyo to New York unaccompanied last June, to live on Manhattan's upper west side with the family of Murray Sprung, an father believes his country's future leaders should be thoroughly immersed in American culture. Tokiko, meanwhile, plays jacks and jump-rope with American girls on Eighty-sixth street, and a letter from her parents is read to her once a week. She is bright, observant, and im-itativa When Peggy Sprung, a Vassar freshman, picks out a tune on the piano, little Tokiko, who has never had a lesson, plays it after her. At a summer camp in Massachusetts with the Sprungs, she learned to ride horses and to swim nearly 50 yards. Tokiko has adopted Johnny Sprung as her big brother.

This sometimes leads to complications. When school opened, Johnny bucked, like any 10-year-old schoolboy, and Tokiko announced that if Johnny thought school was that bad, she would't go, either. She finally went, though, dragging her feet, but she returned attorney who father while prosecuting war criminals in Japan. WAR HERO BACK IN ARMY MSgt. Paul L.

Bolden, termed the Sergeant York of World war II, takes oath 1 OCT'20 21 A.M.'til9P.M. ymtLmimJq lfFrfjIrW tAll doily ond Sunday ence 9 9 PMi yOUAWU AU H0ms FLOODLIGHTED HI6HT19 I URNISHINO BY BUTLER BROTHERS for a new enlistment at Birmingham, Ala. He won the Medal of Honor for killing 35 Germans in Belgium Dec. 23, 1944. Bolden had been a civilian guard at Restone arsenal, Huntsville.

He is 29. (AP Wirephoto) Tokiko walks with occidental giant steps now, instead of oriental pigeon-toes. But she still uses an engaging pantomime to supplement her monosyllabic English. She is the only child of Koto Matsudaira, a former member of the Japanese foreign office who was known for his western sympathies. Matsudaira was first secretary pf the embassy in Washing BUTTER RESERVES DROP TO HALF OF YEAR AGO WASHINGTON, Oct.

17 UF) ton. He was interned' there with his uncle, former Ambassador Sa- buro Kurusu, after Japan's mm tary struck on Dec. 7, 1941. HELPED WRITE TREATY The nation moved into the fall season with butter reserves only about half as large as a year ago, the agriculture department reported today. The reserves help meet consumer needs during the fall and winter, seasons during which produc- i I I i i s.

Matsudaira helped draft the peace treaty signed in San Fran Cisco. At present he is touring his country for Premier Yoshida's liberal party, delivering lectures on tion usually does not match demand. Officials expressed belief, however, that the reserves will be sufficient because butter consumption has dropped considerably below last year's level. A year ago, reserves totaled 234,000,000 pounds, the bulk of which was owned by the government under a producer price support program. Reserves presently are about 113,000,000 pounds, virtually all held by the trade.

Officials said this year's decline in butter consumption has been accompanied by an increase in use of margarine. Butter production has. dropped below last year's level largely because consumers the treaty's benefits. Af I I 1 I I 1 X. I I I S.

I I Several months ago he conceived the idea of making his daughter an apostle of peace" a lifelong symbol of American-Japanese fr, I few v-v II II friendship. He talked it over with 1.1 1 T. mi. III his wife, with many Japanese lead vA ILL" rv ers, and finally with little Tokiko. Tokiko was only six then.

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