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A - I! U I Chinese ESeftcain Comiinieciomi With Aotherlcamid Always By ARTHUR J. DOMMEN United Press International Hong Kong-HTO-An ancient Chinese proverb says "It is easy to govern a kingdom, but difficult to rule one's family.'' The people of China resem ble the children of one im mense family. They remain intimately connected with their motherland all their lives, no matter in what far off land they may be residing. Chinese are travelers and South China, on the other hand, is a land of intensive cultivation, abundant rainfall, canals and flooded rice ter races. In the South there are thatched-roof houses with woven bamboo walls, pereni ally green landscapes, and crowded cities with narrow streets and large "floating'' populations of campan dwel lers. People Dominate It is not crops and dikes and traders. They have spread out i "1 'as which are the prill. over the entire globe. Many are wealthy and important leaders in the business and governmental circles of other nations. All Look Back But they all look back wist fully 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 rivers, to the narrow gorges of Shcnsi and the lofty plateaus of Tibet, China stretches across Asia as the United Slates stretches across North America. China's four million square miles correspond roughly to the size of the continental United States, and both na tions are situated in the same general latitudes and have the same types of weather. Many Similarities Both contain within their borders tropical areas of heavy rainfall and swamps, as well as snow-capped peaks. The Chinese cities of Peking, Tsingtao and Canton corres pond roughly to the American cities of Washington, Rich mond and Miami by their lo cation on the cast coast. North China is a land o! semi-arid plains where aari culture is precarious. It has mud-walled houses with heat ed brick beds called "kangs." It has dust-blown winter land scapes and cities with broad tree-lined avenues. Agencies Agree to Fish Net Removal Portland - 'I'Pli - Representa tives of federal and state fish and game agencies Wedncsriay agreed to the immediate re moval of Idaho Power com pany's fish net at Brownlee dame on the Snake river. The agreement, subject to approval by the Federal Pow er commission, hinges on the company's finding "satisfac tory alternate means" for maintaining and restoring the fishery resource on the Snake. The net had been installed to prevent small fish moving downstream from being killed in the Brownlee dam turbines. However, it had not operat ed satisfactorily. Currently fish collection barges at the net are provid ing temporary passage of downstream migrants. The agreement stipulates the pow er company will continue to operate the barges until satis factory permanent can be provided. cipal features of China but its people. China has through the cen turies had more people than it knew how to feed, clothe and house. The history of the Chi nese people is one of recur rent famines and misery. The present leader of Communist-dominated China, Mao Tsetung, has admitted that there is in China less than one-sixth of an acre of culti vated land for every person. The total population of Chi na is now estimated to be more than 700 million. It adds an extra 15 million every year. Send Money Home Overseas Chinese have tra ditionally regarded it a point of honor to remit back to their native village a portion of their earnings abroad. This solicitude for the well-being of one's family is like the sanctity of ancestral places, which are preserved even un der the Red regime of the peo ple's communes in the valley farmlands of the Yellow Riv er. It cuts across lines of polit ical demarcation. After all, the Chinese have a civilized history going back more than : 30 centuries, and the present regime has been in power only 13 years. ! Through the years of the ' i Middle Ages in Europe, and ' then through the Renaissance I and Reformation periods, in far-off China one imperial ! dynasty always began its rule j with strength and hope, and : ended it perhaps a century ! later in apathy and the rigor j mortis induced by the rigidity i of a noble but inefficient sys- tern of government. j Opium War The low point in China's fortunes in the 19th century came with the humiliation of utter defeat by the British in the so-called "Opium War and the terms imposed by the treaty of Nanking in 1842, which included the cession of Hong Kong Island. From that point on, there followed a succession of "un equal 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 expense. Many Dialects Within the Chinese-speaking population, there is an al most infinite variety of dia lects. A Mandarin - speaker from Peking has difficulty in understanding the talk of a Cantonese - speaker from Kwanglung. For the Chinese, writing is the great unifier so far as lan guage goes. Whereas pronun fialii.nc' vat-v ' alt nvpr the facilities I country, the written language, consisting of complicated cnaracters painted with a brush that evolved gradually 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 char acters. Industrious People 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 export to the U.S. in little workshops 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 shuf fling plastic domino - like SECTION b' blocks. The game is Mahjong, and it is almost a national pas time with the Cantonese. Even the Communists have not been able to suppress it. The noise of counters being slapped down on the hard surface of tables rings out through open windows into city streets. Like To Eat But what the Chinese like to do best is to cat. Chinese PAGES 1 to 10 Medford Tribune MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAYi AUGUST 29, 1963 cusine with its soups, its del icacies of duck and pork, its fragrant herbs, and its noo dles and rice, is certainly the most varied, if not in every one's book the tastiest, in the world. The Communist regime in Peking, installed a f t c r a bloody civil war which had begun 22 years carlirr. is try ing to build a new China. In its propaganda, the re gime claims to be cleaning up city streets, and eliminating flies, rats and sparrows. 11 says it is taking city dwellers out of age-old slums and put ting them in modern apart ment houses, ridding the vil lages of superstition, provid ing health an deducation facil ities where none have ever existed before, and providing factory j obs for the unem ployed. Herculean Task But in China, with its 550 million peasants and 100 mil lion city dwellers, each new factory and each new hospital is a tiny drop in the bucket. 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