Today's Poland Nation of Great Contrasts;
Necessities Lacking But Drink Flows Freely
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Sy P.USSEL JONES
Uniled Pres. Correspondent
Poznan. Poland "? This s
Pohmd today:
Packed Catholic churches, a
CommOmst government, stom-ache-wrenching
poverty, a mil-,
lion dollars worth of vodka
drunk daily.
People who make no bones
of their dislikes for their Rus
sian neizhbor to the east hut
feel thp blank rtpnth rf hatrerl
toward their German neighbor j
to the west.
A county whoe own Com
munist leader himself so rec
ently knew the "darkness at
noon" of a Red prison. One
where Josef Cardinal Wyszyn
ski, Roman Catholic primate of
Poland, is virtually as free and
influential as in pre-war days
Twenty-eight million people
with
oniy lou.uuu trucKs ana
cars among an 01 mem. loo . .
poor to buy one suit in five ! Mn. M. R My husband and The Council There is some
years, but cooking in butter ; j are quite concerned about our thing awfully wrong with this
Drunkenness so widespread all ! ,7. year-old daughter Caroline. ! picture. These two young people
vodka shops are closed paydays
o at least some money gets
home.
Steal To Live
People speaking with aston
ishing candor of their Com
munist government and about '
the Russians, yet a Parliament i
with no electoral opposition to !
the Communists. A nation with 1
an alm,t fully socialized econ-
omy, yet one where S2 million
in goods are stolen every dav;
by people who must steal to
stay alive.
A strange country of contrasts!
and contradictions
It was in this city Poznan a
year ago this month June 28
that the worker. rose against
the Red Regime. Fifty-three
were killed and more than 300
WOUnded. But the SPark Of!f a,it rarnlm. tr, crntL.thor rirU c tlm-, Ko,..l V.mt
Poznan brought Wladislaw
Gomulka, "Poland's Tito," back
to power from a prison cell The I
spark jumped national bound ,
aries it helped ignite
'he
bloody revolt in Hungary.
I drove here from Vienna
across Czechoslovakia. On the
trip you can see the full range
from free Austrian democracy
to Czech Stalinism to the Polish
"road to socialism."
After Vienna, its streets teem
ing with cars and hardly a uni
form in sighU the Czech frontier
came as a brutal reminder that
we still live in two worlds.
Poland a Contrast
As I drove up to the Czech
border, soldiers trained their
tommyguns on my car from be
hind accordions of barbed wire.
Steel rails barred the road to
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une v-ecn snov. ca more
i man a sullen curiosity at the
new German-made car and its
American driver on the 200
miles across Cechoslovakia.
I What a contrast once in Pol -
and:
The people were interested in
the car and its driver. What
kind was it and how much fuel
did it burn? Would it be pos -
siblc to sit for a moment in
the car. Would one dare to ask
for a short drive? Where was 1
going and why?
Here in Poznan I met Boni -
ienwner at nis wortsoencn
idutuij. u ustru
The Family
Editor'! not: The Family Council
j three clergymen a newspaper editor, a women s editor and two writers fcach
article is a summary of an actual report The Family Council does not civ
advice: it merel reports no problems
agencies ind rounelnr
Mrs. M. R Wp'tp afrai'H far-
0iine win get hurt.
Carolina R. I rinn't mind
waitinz
She is very much in love with a
bov two years older, who is now
in the service:
We liked Roddy very much at
tirst. He eemed well mannered
and intelligent and comes from
- n,iri h.,me U e oav the two
voune DeoDle Dlentv of encour-icnts
agement and they have been ex-
rh anoinif letters rerrnlarlv RnH.
dy keeps writing that he loves
Caroline.
But when he is home wi leave,
Roddy often goes out with other
firi"w telle rriir, that 1.0
wjii call and keeDs her waitine
arrmnri and then he neuteri her
We have spoken to him about '. were Prepared to go.
this, but he says that as long as . Now they find themselves for
they aren't engaged, there is no ced to manage the rest of the
harm in his seeing others. We ; affair. If Roddy is writing love
rinn't Irjinw u-hat tn rir ahnitt if letters he shotilri n, t ho snr-inir
hurt
...
Caroline R I know that what I
Roddv does isn't rieht. but I'm :
afraid that I'll lose him alto
gether if I complain too much.
After all, things are pretty tough
for him in the service and he
says that he has to have a real
good time when he comes home.
He likes to see some of the other i
sins ne um-u iu urn. wiiu. j
My parents want us to get en-!
gaged now so that Roddy will '
stop going out with others, but j
Roddy says it would be best to j
waint until he gets out of the!
service. Then we can have a i
short engagement and get mar
ried soon afterward.
Sometimes I think my parents
are right, but then I think Roddy
is right too. We are so young that
when you
T , . . ,
enuncr is a macnine 1001 op -
erator. He is one of the men
who went into Poznan's street
, a year ago, his arms linked
jwith those of men, women and
! students who braved the rifle
jand machinegun fire.
! Was Poznan worth it?
j Lentzner Holds Future ;
Lentzner will decide that. The 1
j future of Pland really rests on I
j his shoulders and those of men
like him.
1 Lentzner is a thin, tircd-l,ook-;
ing man of 49. He supports his j
jwife, year-old son, daughters. 10,
ana u, ana nis agea momer. I
1 dsrwtru iiiiii w iiy 11c: sidtt.t:u ills
Council
eontutt of a Judge, a psychiatrist.
that bava been dealt wirta by responsible
thorp 1c nn riPPri t r hnrrir ahnut
getting engaged. I don't mind
! waitine a vear or so. if I ran he
! sure of Roddy.
are in love, says Mrs. M.
K., but she is the onlv one who
shows any certainty about this
act-
! Roddv must eo out with other
1 girls to have "a real good time."
Caroline relates uliai her mr.
think and what Roddv
j 'hinks, but s quite uncertain
! ahotit whpt she thinks What a
. basis for an engagement!
These parents are so overpro-
ective that they leaped at the
'dea of marriage the moment
' thev saw a cleam in a vounu
1 man's eye. They pushed things
1 larther than these young people
out about it. He, in return, must
defend himself by telling them
he isn't engaged yet and they
don't know what to do.
All of these interesting things
are goina on above Caroline's
head without her having any
thing to say or do about it. This
is supposed to be her courtship,
but she is just a bystander in the
rffair.
a in.-.-,t.- jii:iiis siiuuiu i"i s
their fears about Caroline's get-
ting hurt and push her oil on her
own. If she gets hurt this time,
she'll know better what to do
next time If she is forced to
fight her own battle, she may
win or lose, but at least it will
be her own victory or defeat
not Mother's
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General Features Corp.)
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me.
Is life any better now?
"I made 200 zlotys (S8) a
month more than then." he said
I "But wages are still too low and
it is difficult to live."
What about new freedoms of
press and speech?
"Well, I don't read much, but
it's a good feeling to talk to
you. And anyone else, without
thinking thaC someone is listen
ing and reporting,
"You know, the change I like
best is films from the West. Be-
lore mey were soviet ijjms ana
luo uuil lu sit uuuugii.
Would Lentzner dare to pro
test openly again?
He smiled slightly.
"One must remember," he
said, "that Poland is a small
country .with -great neighbors
He obviously meant Russia and
West German. "We can not do
exactly what we want and when
we want. We have made a start
Things are better than they
were. We must go slowly."
Nickel Firm Starts
Drilling Operations
i Cave Junction The Nickel
Corporation of America, under
' tne direction of Alex Skrecky.
j has started drilling operations ;
: on Eight Dollar mountain, with
the Coleman drill company of.
Grants Pass doing excavation
work.
Woodcock mountain drilling,
under way for some time, hs
yielded up so many s a m pies
that an assay office is now under
construction at Cave Junction.
Previously samples were sent
! to San Francisco, after being
j dried first by the sun. then by
electric furnace. The Abbot A.
Hanks office of San Francisco,
j which will do the assay work
; here, has had a p u 1 v erizing
machine and a rock crushed in
I stalled at the new addition to
; the corporation's office building.
According to Edward White of
New York City, and John H.
White of Salt Lake City, officals
of the Nickel Corporation of
America, it will take about 60
days more on exploration be
fore plans for a processing plant
will be made public.
London HP Peiping Radio.
j the propaganda voice
China claimed that
of Red
Chinese
Communist anti-aircraft units
damaged one U.S. Navy plane
and shot down two Nationalist
fighters Wednesday in the Swa
low coastal area.
Pasco 1 The body of Mrs.
Claudia B. Anderson, 68. of Pas
co, has been found in Wallula
lake.
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