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,
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Nanking and Wuchang. I was
told that such posters could
also be found in offices, hos
pitals and elsewhere.
At the high school of law
in Wuchang, I asked what the
posters said.
Text of Posters
"Problems of Marxism-Leninism,"
was the reply. "The
students write about revision
ism, evidences of rightism,
bourgeois views and so forth."
"What about legal prob
lems, since you are a high
school of law?"
"No, the purpose of our
teaching is to create full
fledged Marxists and experts.
That is the same thing."
I was puzzled. "The same
thing? If I understood you
properly, you want to have
students who are good law
yers and simultaneously good
Marxists." -
"No. The basis of the law
is Marxism-Leninism."
But I still did not under
stand. "I do not think we under
stand each other," I said.
"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.
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Portland-ftTD-Oregon's "cur
rent influenza-like epidemic
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history, the State Board of
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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.
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Wednesday, April 1, 1959 3
Indians in the United States
during 1952 received more
than $15 million in bonuses,
rentals and royalties from In
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gas.
Algeria, Algeria - (U?3 - The
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1,172 rebels "out of action"
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