As for the men of the slums, Mr.
awa thinks about as little of wrath as he is high in his of the women and little men are good for thing! he once told me; "they are foul-mouthed, selfish lot. I thank God for our' Japanese women; the: lower these fall, the greater are the: heights of self-sacrifice to which they rise, Never condemn an erring woman until you have learnt of her true history and the real cause of her fall, is another of Kagawa's dic-pardon ne) ingly, Mr. savoir, chest tout
Kagawa has taken every possible opportunity of finding out why these women have turned to a life of shame.
In Kagawa's pocket can always be found a needle and thread and Here comes Kagaw The little ones of yush'out of their miserable homes to-greet a gaunt, smiling, dadly-essed, worse-shod man of about 35 who is the idol and the delight of the children of slumland.
Of all the slums T have seen those of Shinakawa, in Kobe, are the most heart-breaking, especially in the severe Japanese winter, The dwellers there are also Russians, Chinese, Eurasians, Filipinos and Ainu. The industrial progress of Japan was 80 rapid that the slums grew till things became well igh impossible for the authorities to sot right. Social ser-Jay soil. For a long time the vice is not a thing indigenous. to
police were the social service workers. As was to be expected, they bungled things. When Kagawa firat-set to work, with t tance of Western Christians, to bring some sunshine into the fives of the slum dwellers, he was looked at askance the authorities, As, however, authority' in Japan hes come to eon ede that it is not infallible, Kagay now enjoys a certain meed of oficial patronage and help in his work.
Tu the over-crowded slum streets, two or three buildings rear their heads high above the dog-boxes that the place is mostly made up of. They are brilliantly lighted. wheezy gramophone will be playing musie ofa sort. They are drinking booths. Too often they are also places where the bodies and souls of the girls of slumland are bartered away by a drunken parent or rascal-jan awl and twine. The former is for mending the clothers of the children, and the latter for repairing their straw geta (sandals), When he has any money to spare—and he often has precious Httle—he buys books for the kiddies, and. Jeducates them. Little wonder' then that he has been hailed as the Saint) of Japan!
A Gandhi in Polities, The political leanings of Kaj are do violence of any' dalism. Like Mahatma Gandhi, he
0 a staunch anti-mitiis a wonderfully con-vineing speaker, and the tone of his arrests crowds with a magic Hmagnetism. People who have often Jcome to scoff have stayed to pray, latter hearing him. to the Bible that Kagawa-san'
for inspiration. Next Dickens' "Christmas
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