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Posters Have Education Role En Red Chinese Universities Editor's nut: This is the last of three dispatches by a prominent i 1 ucosiav lommunist law proressor reporting his reactions to what he saw and heard in Red China. His dispatches are digested (rom a lengthier report published late last Tear in a provincial Yugoslav news-newspaper. By PROF. MAX SNUDERL (Distributed by UPI) E c o n o m ic development, rapid industrialism and prog ress in the countryside are fostered in China by the quick growth of technical schools, particularly a kind of high school. In Peiping there are at least 30 schools for all con ceivable professions aero nautics, railways, geology, veterinary science, medicine, agronomy, forestry, agricul tural machinery, radio engi neering, films, social sciences, etc. even for professions which we do not know at all. The level of the professions is low because so many sci entists have been expelled and replaced by "experts." That is why the cadres emerg ing from these schools are not so good. However, they are better than nothing, and it is believed that they will im prove with practical experi ence. Rule in Schools A severe rule prevails in all these schools. Experts are needed urgently and at any price. There are no democratic or academic freedoms, or basic rights of man! "Study and work tirelessly!"-this is the slogan. At the National University of Peiping, when Comrade Ni Tsen, the deputy rector, be gan talking about the univer sity and its work, my atten tion was called to the word "poster." The interpreter, following my questioning glance, ex plained 'with gestures that a poster is a large piece of pa per on which a text is writ ten and then hung up some where. Comrade Ni Tsen said that students at his univer sity had recently drawn 500, 000 posters attacking waste and intolerance. He stressed with pride that the students of the university had twice broken the record for writing posters; in 1957 and 1958. Posters on Backs All the walls of the numer ous buildings of the univer sity, inside and out, were hung with posters as high as a man could reach? In front of the buildings there were racks on which posters hung. Every corridor was decorated with posters. Strings were stretch ed across the corridors from one wall to the other, with posters hanging from them, like laundry hung to dry. You had to stoop in order to pass under them as you walked along the corridors. I thought this was only a specialty of the National Uni versity. Soon I found that the making of posters had become the first and foremost method of general education and po litical indoctrination among the youth, for the "discovery of rightist trends" and for the training and disciplining of students throughout China. I found the flood of posters at every university, faculty, high school and institution I visited in Peiping, Shanghai, Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Havana-Cuban army Capt. Herman Marks, an American citzens who heads the firing squads at La Cabana Fortress: "II is not a pleasant job, but it's a job that must be done." Richmond, Va.-Segregationist leader Edward J. Silver man, addressing anti-integration marchers at the state capi tol: "We must make a martyr of Virginia and Virginia lead ers must be willing to become martyrs themselves." Salina, Kan.-Mrs. Irene Henderson Kelley, who was offi cialy named "Kansas Mother of the Year" after 39 other women received erroneous notification that they had been selected: "I was sure I'd be named . . . There was a committee of the Stale Business and Professional Women's club working for me, and they're a powerful group." 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"Every science has its philoso phical and ideological basis, both in .Communist and in bpurgeois states. This is es pecially true of law consid ered as a social science. "A skilled profession, how ever, remains a profession. Within a particular profession there are technical problems which are not directly con nected with the problems of Marxism-Leninism. . ." "No," came the laconic re ply, "there are no such prob lems. Marxism-Leninism and the law are one and the same thing." I did not want to sur render. "What do you mean?" I persisted. "Comrade Li Khen Hin will confirm the fact that in criminal law there are many questions arise which are professional. There are also problems of state organ ization for example, the bica meral system, questions of legislation, administration, the right of domicile. Needs Expert Advice "These," I said, "are pro fessional questions, and one needs expert and scientific advice to solve them." "There used to be such lec tures here, too," came the answer. "However, the stu dents discovered from their posters that those were bour geois views implying a tend ency toward the right. That is why we have abandoned these lectures. All of the ques tions you mention are settled by correct Marxist-Leninist analysis." I must say the answer made me faint-hearted. "You have courts," I per sisted, "and you have laws. How are laws implemented?" "We have Party organiza tions ' and secretariats which take care of that," I was told. I gave up. I saw that if I had to revise my present con cept of the legal state, I would indeed have to become a real revisionist. FLU THIRD WORST Portland-ftTD-Oregon's "cur rent influenza-like epidemic is the third worst in the state's history, the State Board of Health said today. This year's outbreak was topped only by flu epidemics in 1957 and 1917-19, the board said. Dur ing the week ending March 28, 3545 cases of flu were re ported throughout the state. There were 2496 cases in the seven days before that. 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