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SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 2. 1958 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE 5 C Red China Purges Human Minds In Dramatic Remolding' Processl f ivTl If I ?? '' till' REMOLDING THE MINDS OF CHINA, a girl lecturer at a farm experimental plot near Tientsin spreads the word on the new social order while her audience busily takes notes. ' 1 ; i PARKED BY THE DAY OR THE WEEK in a flate - run kindergarten in Peiping, these youngsters are brought up in communal fashion while their parents work in a textile mill. ST ' ! ! .S;.u-; ;..-i.:i,.,t...-....... AT INDUSTRIAL SHOW in Peiping, 139 tractor models were on display, all built in the last five months including this steam job. AUTOMOBILE FACTORY in Nanking turns out wooden cars in which only metal is in wheels and motor; 1959 goal is 1,000. P.T.A. NEWS CHILOQUIN ! CHILOQUIN The second meet ing of the Chiloquin PTA was called lo order by the president, Mrs. Robert Doak, October 13. Eev. William Rentz, of the Chilo quin Assembly of God Church led the group in prayer. Delphine Erickson, vocalist, sang "How Great Thou Art" accom panied by Aeatha DiUlio, pianist. Candace Freid, Sharon Zamudio and Sandra Taylor entertained the group with an exhibition of the hula-hoop. Mrs. Hobackis fourth grade boys and girls presented a folk dance. Mrs. Forrest Freid. Mrs. .John Plnuff. Mrs. A. N. Starkey. Mrs. Wayne Harris, Sirs. Joe Jackson and Mrs. Nelson volunteered to help with the health clinic to be held later this monm. URGENT MATTER Tnwsnv. Md. (AP) The el- dcrlv woman calling the police itati'nn said she had to reach Friendship International Airport right away. The desk sergeant asked why the hurry? The wom an said her daughter was on a plane bound lor New York, then added: "1 want to tell her my cat had kittens and she can have two of them." Mrs. Doak announced that Mrs. Hoback's fourth grade room won the PTA membership drive con test. Kathy Susac. president of the class, accepted the gift and thanked the PTA. This is the sec ond year Mrs. Hoback's room has won the membership drive con test. Second prize was awarded to Mrs. Whiting's first grade room. Jim Boyle. Klamath County centennial chairman, spoke to the group about the centennial to be held in Portland at the Pacific International Building from June 19 to September 17, 1959. He also gave highlights of what the small er communities and cities were go ing to be doing throughout the slate to attract visitors to their areas as well as to the large exhibit in Portland. Roger Wright, local volunteer fireman gave a speech on civil defense and how it will affect our community. Mrs. Doak announced that Edu cation Week will be from Novemt bcr 9 through November 15 and will be entitled "Report Card USA." Refreshments were served by a group of second grade mothers. The next meeting date of the Chiloquin PTA is November 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the Chiloquin Grade School gym. By JOHN STKOHM NtW YORK tNKA I hat been chatting informally with ; Ited Chinese government ofticui (or some time when he leaned for ward and asked: "What did you hear about Chini! before you came here?" I decided frankness was the best policy. So 1 replied: ' Some good but mostly bad." "1 realize your monopoly press slanders our country," he said quickly. "Well," I countered, "what about all of those people you shot? Isn t that true? "They deserved to he punished.' he retorted. "They would not co operate with the land reform and it was impossible to liberate our potential productive capacity with out land reform." So there it was. a flat confirma tion of one of the big questions about the Red republic, and ut tered with calm assurance that no reasonable person could be shocked. The British, who recognize Pei ping and admittedly have more precise sources than most Western nations, estimate that Mao Tse- lung's regime actually shot BOO.000 to one and a half million Chinese during the "land reform." The American figure is five to 10 million, but it may include some sentenced to prison or "rehabilita tion. All of these souls are gone with out a trace, but a new kind of purge is evident everywhere. It is the purge of ideas. 'What we aim at is to wine out all harmful ideas opposed to socialist construction but not the people who harbor those ideas," party othcial told me. "And what happens to them?" "They're remolded," he said This "remolding" is perhaps the most dramatic single enterprise in Red China. Hundreds of thousands some say even millions of gov ernment officials, writers, artists and businessmen have been sent out to farms or construction proj ects to work the "conservative" ideas out of their systems. Or as the Party puts it "to purify them selves for communism." Three cabinet ministers, top au thors and movie stars are among the intellectual elite put out to re deem themselves. These are the ones who spoke up when Mao published a report in 1956 entitled: "Let flowers of all kinds blossom, diverse schools of thought contend." Their sin was in criticizing the Party. The current doctrine puts it this way: The decision has been made that the Communist Party knows what's best for the people of China. So anything in China is subject for criticism except the Communist Party. One who, as 1, has just come from an extensive tour of Russia is at once impressed by the speed of Maos campaign to communal ize life. The Chinese are hurtling toward pure communism at a pace that makes Russia look like it's standing still. They are intoxicat ed with the thrill of running their own show they re no Russian stooges. The Russians, with their inter preters tagging along, are as "for eign here as the British or this correspondent. In Peiping 30,000 Russian technicians live in their own compound outside the old Walled City. They even have their own bus system. I heard more Marx quoted in Red China than on any trip to Russia, heard more denunciation of Yugoslavia's Tito. You re heading for communism faster than Russia." I observed to a government official. Don t lorget we ve had the ben efit of Soviet leadership" and then with a smile "and of Soviet mistakes." In most factories I saw Russian machinery. In every hotel I ale in the same dining room with So viet technicians. However, 1 saw no more evidence that Russia is running China than that American technical assistance people are run ning Nehru s India. I spent a month traveling m Rus sia before spending a like time in Red China. There is a signifi cant contrast. Russia seems to be hacking off from pure communism, ising profit and incentive of pri ate ownership to get more pro ttction, especially in agriculture This is "capitalistic deviation" n China, where there is a whirl vind campaign to organize com nunal groups of about 2,000 fami ies each, where all farming, rading. industry, schooling and nn ilia are consolidated. I was told that the communes ire run by committees elected by "representatives of the people." These "representatives" them selves are elected by the residents of the commune who have "proved themselves worthy to vote. Farmers are paid like factory workers. Canteens feed them three limes a day so housewives can be "emancipated" from their grinding stones and rice pots to work with rake or lathe. If the farmer rips his pants he gets them mended in a communal tailor shop. Laundry is done the same way. The kids are parked in state kindergartens, sometimes for the day, sometimes all week Some of the communes are cx perimenting with a system where by the farmer and his wife work apart all week and only live to gether weekends. Russia tried some of these stunts early m tho revo lution but the Chinese seem bent on starting communism at 'A despite anything that may be said about learning from Russian er rors. The real test may come when the Chinese peasant, who was first given the land after his landlord was shot, then asked to give it up, next is asked to part with the family pig which usually is tied outside his front door. Ihe Chi nese farmer and his pork are not ligUtly parted. 1 went through China's largest hog packing plant in Hankow, de signed and built by Russians. 1 was told the Chinese are killing 8,000 hogs daily and sending 40 per cent of the frozen meat to Russia m payment, affftauafi porR is the most coveted luxury in Chi na and the ration is 40 cents worth of pork per family per week. Russia has agreed to finance and build 210 major projects in the first Chinese Five-Year Piart and 45 in the second for a lee. of course. Many times I looked at Ihe name-plate on a machine tool to see the country of origin. Fae- tnrv officials would speak up: Russian but we can now make these machines in China." The Chinese have built 139 dif ferent types of tractors in the past five months and some of those that f examined looked efficient, al though there were also a conglom eration of steam, electric and wood- burning jobs. A wood-working plant m Nan- kina is turning out automobiles in which everything is wood ex cept the wheels, motor and a hell to drive the rear axle. iThere isl Ute common fly is practically pub fie enemy No. 1. I heard of one Catholic Mass hat was dismissed so the congre gation could go on a sparrow hunt iccause sparrows "eat 11 million lens of grain annually." Drinking fountains feature "boiled water." In the old China petty thievery was common. In 1'J.iX, I did not bother to lock my hotel room door. hotel employe made a dash to the raitroad station to return a dime notebook 1 had left. The hon or system is being introduced for distributing stumps, candy, ciga rettes and other goods. "Cumshaw" was a way of Chi nesc life; today tips are an in suit. Alcoholism is unknown. Gone, too, are forced marriage of the young, selling of children by poor peasants and prostitution Homes have been set up in Shang hai to re-educate "the girls' to what is gravely described as "a more useful profession. Two Swiss businessmen made passes at girls in Shanghai a few months ago and they are still in jail! mmc MM 22JL2Ld IN HOG-PACKING PLANT at Hankow, butchered pigs; move down conveyer line, Russia gets 40 per cent of the'' pork. 4-H NEWS More than 19,009 4-H achieve ment pins will be presented to boys and girls throughout the state dur ing October and November by of ficers of first Nations! Bank of Oregon, ho are sponsoring the award and scholarship program for the 22nd year. M. E. Shannon, manager of the ;Sowh Sixth Street Branch of First National, presented achievement awards to members of the Hen ley. Midland, and Poe Valley clubs in this area on October 13, at the Klamath County Fairgrounds. The Oregon 4-H Citm youth pro gram attracted 31,126 youngsters in the state during the past year and their activities were super vised by 5,109 adult volunteer leaders. BLASTED BANK MONTICELLO, Ky. (AP) - The Monticcllo Bank has its windows blown out by a dynamite blast. Burglars weren't involved enfy workmen next door who used too much explosive in digging a base ment . MOVING? Catt TU 2-5282 NORTH AMERICAN VAN LINES YREKA According to an an nouncement made by Bill Ruddi- man, Siskiyou County farm adviser i for 4-H, the Ttiiclake 4-H clubs wiH , hold achievement night on Thurs day evening, November 6, in the Home Economics Building at the1 Tulclake Fairgrounds, Achievement ptns for the past year will be presented to members of the three Tulelake 4-H clubs by Bill Hagelstein, First Western Bank at Dorrts. The Lava Bed Community 4-H Club will host the occasion. Ruddiman stated that the meet ing will start at 7:30 p.m. and all 4-H'ers, their friends and families are invites. v. AWK! not one privately owned car in alii patching a chicken for the pot Lnma.) steel is in snort supply but increasing due to new large mills and thousands ot DacKyaro furnaces on farms and schools. "Foreigners convinced us we could not be manufacturers," said a tractor factory manager in Tientsin. "Now we're showing them and I hope you tell Americans vour Eovernment's embargo on China has not worked." The announced industrial target : "Catch Up with Britain." Actually if China does catch up with Britain, because of its great er size the Chinese will have only 10 per cent of the living standard of the British. To the traveler returned to China after two decades, the changes one sees cannot help but impress. The old China was a dirty place, with open sewers, flies on the meat and the same village pond water used for washing and cooking. In the new China they are pul ling the sewers underground and city streets are constantly being washed and swept. 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