SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 2. 1958
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
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Red China Purges Human Minds In Dramatic Remolding' Processl
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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?
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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. Policemen and
schoolgirls carry fly swatters ana
Midland and Odessa, Texas, arc!
both tough cowtowns ana oiifowris.
300 mites west of Fort Worth. Each I
supports a symphony orchestra and
chorus. I
isn't a pleasant job. Take the case
of Duane Evanson, who swung
hatchet to decapitate a rooster,
but missed. Well, not entirely. He
severed the tip of a fmeer on the
hand with which he was holding
Ihe fowl.
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lb If HANDS
and both parties benefit
when "help wanted" ads
appear in the
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