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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
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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.
For any government to
change China into abundance
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-in-ex-ile
across the Taiwan Strait.
the war continues. For both,
there is only one China, and
each believes that one day tlie
civil war will be concluocd
with its own proper victory.
But like the Yellow River
which courses slowly toward
the sea and has seen regimes
come and go with tragedy and
joy for thousands of years,
China changes and yet is unchanging.
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