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Nations of the world History of China is one of recurrent famines, misery, over population : By Arthur J. Dommin UPI Staff WrlUr HONG KONG (UPI) - An an- ; cient Chinese proverb says "It is easy to govern a kingdom, but difficult to rule one s family. The people of China resemble the children of one Immense family. They remain Intimately connected with their motherland all their lives, no matter In what far-off land they may be resM. Ing. , Chinese are travelers and trad' ers. They have spread out over the entire globe. Many are wealthy and Important leaders in the business and governmental circles of other nations. f But they all look back wistfully toward the sprawling China they call home the most populous nation in the history of the world which lies across the heartland of Asia. From the noisy seaports and the flat deltas of its silt-laden fivers, to the narrow gorges of Shensi and the lofty plateaus of Jibet, China stretches across Asia as the United States (Stretches across North America. China s four million square miles correspond roughly to the size of the continental United States, and both nations are situ- kited in the same general loll iudes and have the same types Of weather. Both contain within their bor ders tropical areas of heavy rain fall and swamps, as well as snow-capped peaks. The Chinese cities of Peking, Tsingtao and Canton correspond roughly to the American cities of Washington, Richmond and Miami by their lo cation on the east coast. ' North China Is a land of semi arid plains where agriculture is precarious. It has mud-walled nouses with heated brick beds called "kangs." It has dust-blown winter landscapes and cities with broad tree-lined avenues. South China, on the other hand, Is a land of Intensive cultivation, abundant rainfall, canals and flooded rice terraces. In the South there are thatched-roof ' houses with woven bamboo walls, perennially green landscapes, and crowded cities with narrow streets and large "floating" pop ulations of sampan dwellers. ' It is not crops and dikes and mud walls which are the princi pal features of China but its people. China has through the centum fos had more people than it knew how to feed, clothe and house. The history of the Chinese people Is one of recurrent famines and misery. .... , '. The present leader of Communist-dominated China, Mao Tse- lung, has admitted that there Is in China less than one-sixth of an acre of cultivated land for every person. The total population of ChL.a Is now estimated to be more than 700 million. It adds an extra IS million every year. Overseas Chinese have tradi tionally regarded it a point of honor to remit back to their na tive village a portion of their earnings abroad. This solicitude Ifor the well-being of one's family is liko the sanctity of ancestral blaces, which are preserved even under the Rod regime of the peo ple's communes in the valky farmlands of the Yellow River. It tuts across lines of political de marcation. After all, the Chinese have a cllizcd history going back more than 30 centuries, and the present regime has been in power only 13 years. ; Through the years of the Mid dle Ages in Europe, and then through the Renaissance and Ref ormation periods. In far-off China one Imperial dynasty always be gan its rule with strength and lope, and ended it perhaps a cen tury later in apathy and the rigor mortis induced by the rigidity of a noble but inefficient systom of government. The low point In China's for- Water sports center eyed . PORTLAND (UPI) -Plans for a water sports center in an area Just north of here were outlined at a meeting Friday In the Hilton Hotel. Walter A. Winter, president of the South Riverside Kiwanis Club and Bob Thompson, said Smith and Bybee Lakes in the Columbia River lowlands could be dredged lor the center. The proposed lake would be 9, 000 feet long and 3.000 feet wide. No estimate of cost was offered, but the sponsors said it would not be near the cost of the proposed football and sports stadium being considered for the Delta Park area. Ron Musson, Seattle, driver of the champion hydroplane, ap plauded the plan. "It's fantastic the greatest plan I've seen anywhere," he said, l'e said new spied records could be set oa such a lake. tunes In the 19th century came with the humiliation of utter de feat by the British' in the so called "Opium War" and the terms Imposed by the treaty of Nanking In 1342, which Included the cession of Hong Kong Island. From that point on, there fol lowed a succession of "unequal treaties" which saw the European powers and very nearly the United States also Involved in attempts to carve out enclaves of territory at the emperor's ex pense. Within the Chinese-speaking population, there is an almost in finite variety of dialects. A Mandarin-speaker from Peking has difficulty in understanding the talk of a Cantonese-speaker from Kwangtung. For the Chinese, writing Is the great unifier so far as language goes. Whereas pronunciations vary all over the country, the written language, consisting of complicated characters painted with a brush that evolved grad ually from rough sketches. Is the same In all sections. Learning these characters by heart is a monumental feat of memory work. To read even a newspaper, the Chinese must know at least 6,000 characters. Perhaps because they have to fight for a living almost from the day they are born, the Chinese are among the most industrious people in Asia. Whether they are selling their privately owned eggs and chickens on the Communist tolerated so-called "free market" in Shanghai, or whether they are turning out plastic flowers for ex port to the U.S. in little work shops in Hong Kong, the Chinese are ingenious, Industrious and in defatigable. When they are not working, their favorite game Is one which keeps them absorbed for long hours, sitting around garishly lighted tables shuffling plastic domino-like blocks. The game is Mahjong, and it is almost a na tional pastime with the Canton ese. Even the Communists have not been able to suppress it. The noise of counters being slapped down on the hard surface of ta bles rings out through open win dows into city streets. But what the Chinese like to do best is to eat. Chinese cuisine with its soups, its delicacies of duck and pork, its fragrant herbs, and Us noodles and rice, is cer tainly Die most varied, If not in everyone's book the tastiest, in the entire world. It is symbolic of this love of eating that even in Peking, capi tal of a nation which has just emerged from three extremely lean years in the countryside, great attention is still paid to serving succulent banquets of Pe king duck (the exact number of courses depending on the esteem to be bestowed on the visitor) to visiting dignitaries. The most lavish tables are laid on when Chinese festival time come around. According to the Chinese calendar, which runs on the basis of the full moon, the new .year usually comes in Febru ary or March and is the occasion for the biggest, richest and most noisy festival of all. The Communist regime in Pe king, Installed after a bloody civil war which had begun 22 years earlier, is trying to build a new China. In its propaganda, the regime claims to be cleaning up city streets, and eliminating flies, rats and sparrows. It says it is taking city dwellers out of age-old slums and putting them In modem apartment houses, ridding the vil lages of superstition, providing health and education facilities where none have ever existed be fore, and providing factory jobs lor the unemployed. But In China, with its 550 mil lion peasants and 100 million city dwellers, each new factory and each new hospital is a tiny drop in the bucket. For any govern ment to change China into abun dance where hunger is no longer the central problem is a Hercu lean task. Also, the Chinese civil war is not yet over. For both the regime in Peking and Chiang Kai-shek's government-ln-eTile across the Taiwan Strait, the war continues. For both, there is only one China, and each believes that one day the civil war will be concluded with Its own proper victory, PROMISES ACTION WASHINGTON (UPI) Secre tary of State Dean Rusk promises the United States will do every thing it can to settle the religious controvcry In South Vict Nam. Rusk said Friday the U. S. government was "deeply dis tressed" bv the conflict between President Ngo Dinh Diem and I the Vietnamese Buddhists. Corripltte Auto and Truck HIAO and BLOCK REFIN ISHINO STROUT'S AUTOMOTIVE 1M Oretnwoed Ph. 312 2472 ''l'. ftl M'.y7 r- YfC'o ffl'.- , l ft V WA - U 1 in urn nil iimiM fUnM'i Mill if n in li i iii f TiMs rnnr,',Y ' u" i " 3 ' n t FOOTBALL IS COMING When Jim O'Keefe, business manager at St. Charles Memorial Hospital, tales his children out for a scrimmage he has almost enough players for a -football team. At present he is fielding a team of eight. Players are: Mary Ellen, 7, front left; James, 6, front right; Steve, 9, Sen. Goldwater sounds warning on nuclear ban MADISON, Wis. (UPI) Sen. Barry Goldwater said Friday night that Senate ratification of the proposed nuclear test ban treaty may send the United States down a one-way path to a Soviet-controlled non-aggression pact. "Once the journey has begun," the Arizona Republican said, "it would be hard to turn back." Ho said that tho treaty carries unacceptable risks and that the Communist desire for a non-aggression pact is aimed at "storm ing the bastions" of American freedom. Goldwater spoke at commence ment exercises at the School of Bank Audit and Control operated jointly by the University of Wis consin and the Association oi Bank Audit, Control and Opera tion. "Every responsible member of the government knows full well" that the test ban treaty envi sions a non-aggression pact be tween the NATO nations and the military alliance of the Soviet em pire, the Warsaw Pact nations," Goldwater said. He said the United States stands on the brink of such a pact "with high hopes and high heartiness, with the clink of con vivial glasses raised in Moscow fresh in our ears, with Khrush chev's grin and Dean Rusk's smile fresh in our minds. The terrible truth is that it is tyranny and barbarism with which we propose to share the earth, permitting tho world to be half slave half free ond giving tyranny a protected sanctuary from which it can erode or at tack tomorrow." Temperatures Here are the high and low tem peratures for the 24 hour period ending at 4 a.m.: High Low Btnd 82 45 Astoria 71 53 Baker 87 51 Burns 89 53 Klamath Falls 86 50 Lavkiew 85 55 Medford 91 53 Newport 61 56 Pendleton 89 58 Portland 84 57 Redmond 87 46 Salem 86 48 The Dalles 93 66 Chicago 80 59 Los Anpelps 88 67 New York 80 63 Salt Ijike City 98 70 San Francisco fin 54 Washington 84 65 Dr. Joseph W. Paulson Osteopathic Physician and Surgeon Announces The Opening of an Office in the Medical-Dental Building 7th and Deschutes Redmond Phone 548-2929 Week in review Talk of security dominates hearing By United Press International Despite the peaceful implica tions of the limited nuclear test ban treaty, talk of security dom inated Senate ratification hearing on the pact. Through Secretary of Sate Dean Rusk, President Kennedy prom ised that if Russia violated the agreement in any way, this coun try would end the ban "over night" and resume Immediately testing in the atmosphere. Conceding that risks remained in the nuclear situation even with the treaty. Rusk said that never theless a continued nuclear wea JFK to spell out nuclear safeguards WASHINGTON (UPI) - Penta- gon sources said today there is little doubt the Kennedy adminis- tration will furnish the Senate a ' bill of particulars" detailing its specific safeguards against los ing ground from any Soviet vio lation of the nuclear test ban treaty. Detailed specifications of how the administration will proceed with underground tests and main tenance of laboratory and test site facilities were demanded by senators on the preparedness and armed services committee groups. The sponsor of the move. Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash., went so far as to say that the Senate needs a "second treaty" with the executive branch to "make sure they will in good faith carry out what they say they will do." Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, chair man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, assured the three-committee group handling the treaty he is confident the "safeguards" sought by the military themselves will be provided. Sen. Howard W. Cannon, D Nev.. said that if the bill of particulars does not resolve sena torial questions about the treaty, they might "require a very specif ic statement from the President on these safeguards." During testimony Friday before I a closed session of the prepared-1 ness committee. Gen. Curtis E. ! LeMay joined Taylor and other ! military chiefs in supporting the treaty. Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-1 Ariz., and other seantors gave re-! porters a consensus of the Air j Force leader's views following the ! hearing. it indicated that while LeMay I urged ratification of the pact, he had more reservations than other i military leaders. j left; Kathy, 10, right; and Greg, 12. The young lady second from right is Jill Raczynslci, II, a niece. Mother Marge and future players at home are: Tim, 3, Jo Ann, 4, and Patricia, 16 months. pons race bore a greater risk. In the Cuban missile crisis last fall, he said, both sides had "looked into the pit of the in ferno," seeing for the first time that "nuclear war is an opera tional matter." U. S. Superior in Arms Defense Secretary McNamara gave a candid and trenchant ap praisal of U. S. nuclear strength, easing the worries of many of his senatorial listeners. The Un ited States, he declared, has "tens of thousands" of atomic warheads ready for delivery, is superior beyond question to Rus sia in nuclear power, and would undergo little risk in inking the treaty. McNamara told the senators in conclusion that nothing in the treaty would change the baic fact that "America will maintain its ability to survive a surprise at tack with sufficient power to de stroy tho Soviet Union." TV T.lAnn T Knnh-.. Airman of the Atomic Energy Commission said AEC activities would not suf- fer in light of the ban, and Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor gave the sen ators the all-important endorse ment of the joint chiefs of staff to the pact. Some Doubt At week's end it appeared that the overwhelming majority of sen ators approved of the pact. A small minority evinced doubt, chief among them Sen. Barry Goldwater ond Sen. Henry M. Jackson. United States negotiators a t Geneva broached new specific measures, striving to maintain the impetus of east-west rapport established in the Moscow nuclear test ban negotiations. But Russian negotiators reject ed a proposal that both sides cease making fissionable materia! and use large amounts of stock piled uranium for peaceful pur poses instead of weapons. Administration officials did not foresee any immediate new agree ments with Moscow in the offing, thought they hailed the accom plishments and the friendly tenor of the Moscow talks. B.P.O.E. ELK. PICNIC August 18 -1 P.M. Shevlin Park - Upper Meadows Meat, Coffee, Soft Drinks and Ice Cream Will Be Furnished Members Bring Salad or Dessert Members & Their Families Only Rusk hopeful for some easing of tensions WASHINGTON (UPI) Secre tary of State Dean Rusk is opti mistic Russia may be willing to make isolated agreements to ease tensions with the West, but sees little hope of a solution now to all cold war issues. One potential agreement the United States would be willing to discuss, Rusk told, his news con ference Friday, would be the pro posal to station observation teams at transportation centers in ma jor countries. The teams would be on the lookout for large-scale troop movements which might in dicate a surprise attack was in the offinc. But Rusk cautioned against ty ing together cold war issues in m an attempt to settle all con flicts m one session. The more issues such as disarmament, Ber lin, non-aggression pacts or nuc lear free zones that are linked, he said, the more difficult negotia tions would become. As a "very helpful contribu tion" to further easing tensions, Rusk said, the Soviet Union should agree to remove its re maining troops from Cuba. He said that while he was in Moscow he told Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko of the United States' interest in seeing all Rus sian troops pulled off the island, but would not reveal the Soviet official's reply. Shortly after Rusk's conference the joint House-Senate Republican leadership called on the Russians to withdraw the troops as a "demonstration of good faith" be fore the United States takes any "second step" toward new agree ments with the Soviet Union. Since last May when the Senate armed services subcommittee es timated there were 17,500 Soviet troops still on the island, the group said that "so far as can he learned, no significant reduc tion has been made in the Soviet forces since." MAY CUT PLANE FARE LONDON (UPI) The nation alized British Overseas Airways Corp. announced Friday night it mav reduce its first-class trans atlantic round-trip fare from $900 to $676 m an effort to attract more passengers. No. 1371 4 The Bulletin, Saturday, August 17, 1963 Religion in America Members of church in Virginia enthused about zone system By Louis Casssls UPI Staff Writer The Rev. Louis H. Frach?r is a tough-minded pastor with a rare capacity for viewing his own" parish with detachment. His parish is St. John's Episco pal Church in Waynesboro, Va. To an outsider, it looks extreme ly successful. It has 550 baptized members and 400 communicants on its rolls. Attendance at wor ship is so heavy that three serv ices have to be scheduled each Sunday morning. The Sunday School is overflowing with chil- ! dren. Paris organizations are bustling with activity. But the Rev. Mr. Kracner looked beneath the surface of in stitutional success. He saw a par ish which had grown so large that many of the members didn't even know one another. People coidd get sick or die without their neighbors hearing about it in time to show their concern, u was a far cry from the New Testament concept of the church as a close-knit fellowship in. which each member gave andi received love, acceptance and understanding. Problem Is Common Thousands of other American parishes have the same problem. Some of them have tried to over come it by holding "coffee hours" after services, or by including social functions in the parish pro gram, or by setting up organiza tions to promote fellowship. The Rev. Mr. Fracher decided that his parish already had plenty of organizations, and that what it really needed was a lit tle "disorganization" or decentral ization. He told this idea to his vestry, and last May the parish was divided into 12 "zones," each containing from 20 to 25 families. Each zone is headed by a mem ber of the vestry, who serves as a lay minister, watching over the material and spiritual well being of the families in his zone. Every few weeks, the families in a particular zone meet at someone's home to worship, to gether, get better acquainted and talk over the affairs of the par ish. Members Enthusiastic The members of the parish are enthusiastic about the zone sys tem. They no longer feel like strangers to one another. They find that communication in the parish is not a one-way affair. Through the zone meetings, every back-bencher has a chance to speak his piece about parish Jessel admits paternity, sets support money LOS ANGELES (UPI) En tertainer George Jessel admitted paternity of the 17 - month - old daughter of actress Joan Tyler and agreed Friday to pay $500 a month child support. The settlement, signed by Jes sel and filed in Superior Court, will end a paternity suit filed by Miss Tyler, 29, against Jessel, 65, after the actress appears in court next week to testify the agreement meets with her ap proval. In addition to the support pay ments, Jessel also agreed to take out two life insurance policies totaling $35,000 naming the child, Charris Carta, as sole benefi ciary. In addition, Jessel prom ised to pay Miss Tyler's lawyer, Manuel Ruiz Jr., $4,500 fees. rilSLUOnGER&nEYnOLDB INC. nerallDiredors PAUL REYNOLDS DIRECTOR iHf onom OF THE GOlDin HILL AT IRVING AVENUE policies, instead of waiting to be told what the rector and vestry have decided. But the most important result of the zone system, in the eyes of the pastor, is that it has made St. John's parishioners aware that . "the church is not bricks and stained glass windows the church is people." "It is in small groups that men and women can truly learn to be the Body of Christ at work." says the Rev. Mr. Frach er. "We are confident that the zone meeting will prove to be an effective way to demonstrate what the 'ministry of the laity' is all about. One of the tasks which each zone takes on Is to 'seek out the unchurched chil dren and adults in your neighbor hood. Another Is to look up nom inal church members, the 'strayed sheep,' and try to bring them back to the fold." Sign enrages' Negroes, sets off rioting By United Press International Negro teen-agers, enraged over a huge sign saying "Nigger go home,' ' kicked, scratched and mauled police in Elizabeth, N. J. Friday in another violent civil rights demonstration. Fists flew and several police men were knocked to the ground and kicked. The demonstrators, boys and girls and some first-graders, be came incensed over a sign-with letters two feet high and 25 feet long which said: ' "Nigger go home, go home, where ever you live." Eighty of the demonstrators were booked, and of these only three were adults. About half those arrested were girls. The integrationists have been protesting alleged job hiring dis crimination at two construction sites. Gov. Richard Hughes sent a top civil rights officer to meet with Negro leaders, and promised to take action on their complaints. In East St. Louis, the scene this week of a massive demon stration in the city's largest bank, an agreement was negotiated to hire Negores In banks and sav ings and loan associations. An integration leader said four banks and four savings and loan associations had agreed to hire 20 Negroes immediately in non custodial jobs. Seven of the jobs will be full-time. Ohter integration developments: New York: The leaders of the massive civil rights march planned to take place in Wash ington Aug. 28 said President Kennedy agreed to meet with a civil rights delegation and unem ployed workers on the morning of the scheduled march. Mobile, Ala.: Mayor Charles S. Trimmier angrily denounced an ultimatum by Negro leaders that the city commission enact inte gration laws or face court action in 60 days. Myrtle Beach, S. C: Two states and the U. S. Public Health Ser vice declined to participate in an interstate sanitation seminar here because of segregated facil ities. Choice Steak DINNERS Top Sirloin, Rib, T-Bone Only 1.95 PASCALE CAFE 1219 S. 3rd 382-3582 It's All In The Name The Order of the Golden Rule is exactly what the name implies: it'i a world-wide affiliation of de pendable funeral directors who serve others as they themselves would wish to be served. We are proud to be a member. BEND, OREGON