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SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 30. 1958 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PARE T A , Ample Foodr Better Housing; Schools, Churches Under Red Thumb By JOHN STROH.M NEW YORK iNKAi Ques tions often asked me since my 50 hour flight home after a tour of Red China are: "How do the Chinese people live, eat and work under com munism? What's happened to re ligion, the schools? Are they do cile or will they ever revolt?" A consolidated reply would be something like this: The food is adequate, the hous ing vastly improved. Schools, churches and all means of pub lic expression are in the complete service of the state. There was no visible evidence of any dispos ition to resist complete regimen tation. Light office work earns a rice or flour ration of a pound a day. Workers in steel plants and coal mines get up to two pounds a day. Every individual can buy 4ft cents worth of meat (half a pound) ev ery week, with sometimes an ex tra ration for Sundays. Each fam ily gets a pound of beef monthly and 10 ounces of edible oil month ly per person. The cotton cloth ration is up to tix yards a year per person. Chinese wages are edging up. In the two dozen plants 1 visited wages average about $25 a month. The lowest paid workers get about $12; the highest paid, $40. Fac jtry managers and top officials get $60 to $75 a month. The idea of high wages for managers, ar tists and intellectuals such as are paid in the Soviet Union would be sinful in China. The new regime is putting a sur prisingly high priority on apart ment buildings for industrial work ers. Near Hankow a hundred apart ment buildings were put up before they started building the new steel mills. "Go ahead, knock on any door you like," the secretary told me when I asked to visit homes of workers. The door 1 knocked on opened into a large, clean one room apartment for a family of seven. A bed big but a bit crowd ed for seven stood in one corner. Their clothes hung in wardrobes. They had an alarm clock and a thermos bottle for hot water, two important symbols of an improved standard of living. Three families shared a hole-in-the floor toilet and a stone tub laundry. They share the same kitchen and cook over a mud mor tar stove, or over a small jar filled with charcoal. Their rent bill is $1.25 a month. In another worker's apartment In Shenyang, the family of eight has a big room with two beds and a tiny separate kitchen equipped with gas and a stone sink and running water. For monthly rent of $4 they also gel a private latrine. A diploma on the wall testified that mother has learned to read, and is now teaching others. Her husband operates a lathe, gels a very high salary of $48 a month. Beside the diploma was -a red pa per entitled Family Program and Budget, listing outgo as $14 a month for grain; $1(1 for vege tables; $4 for water, gas, elec tricity and rent; $2.80 for trans portation. Th?re were some mis cellaneous expenses and a little leu over for savings. Also, the housewife agrees to keep rooms clean, observe sanitation rules and teach Ihem to the family, educate her children and be a good moth er. The old homes In the cities Morse Sees Peace Hopes In Arbitration MEXICO CITY (AP) Peace can best be kept if all nations agree to submit threatening is sues to international justice and law, Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore) said Friday at. a news conference here. Morse, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is a member of the U.S. official mis sion here to attend the inaugura tion of Adolfo Lopez Mateos Mon day as Mexico's president. The United Nations charter, said, gives the U.N. the right to ask the World Court for advisory opinions on disputed issues, but this authority has never been used.- Morse reiterated his stand on the Berlin issue as squarely be hind President Eisenhower. "The Berlin issue," he said, "raises a question of internation al law on which we have a right to stand." Morse, the chairman of a Se nate foreign relations subcommit tee studying Latin American pol icy, said he did not wish to com ment yet on U.S. policy toward Latin America yet because the study was not far enough advanced. Morse said he would not object . to oil loans to government-owned oil companies such as those in Mexico and Brazil "if it could be proved at the time of the request that it would benefit the people and the economy of the nation." Official U.S. agencies thus far have refused such loans to the government-owned companies. "If we believe in the self deter mination of peoples," he said, "we cannot question their insti tutions. WAC Recruiter Schedules Visit Girls interested in the career ODDortunities afforded by the Wom en's Army Corps will be able to talk to Sgt. Anne Hawkins when she visits the local Army ttecruit ine Office on Tuesday. The WAC offers the choice of special school training in such fields as finance, stenography, drafting, photography and medical and dental work, among others. A recruit applying for a special school receives a written guarantee that she will attend the school of her choice after completing basic train ing. Sergeant Hawkins will be glad to talk to any girl that is inlerestcd In gaining training and experience In a worthwhile job through the Women's Army Corps. Those wish ing to see her should phone TU 4-8401, or call in person at the recruiting station, in the Army Re serve Center, Fourth Street and Klamath Avenue. and in the country are not nearly so nice, have no running water, or inside plumbing. The residents carry water from open wells or from ponds where they do the family washing. The New China does insist that all w ater be boiled before drinking and the typhoid rate is sharply down. Textile workers in Peiping in vited me to visit their bachelor girls' apartment. Six giggling girls in pigtails, trousers, and wearing no makeup, shared the room with double-decked beds. Kent, 15 cent a month each. The girls had joined the militia and were learning to (ire rifles. One of them showed me a poem she's written about Chinese indignation over American ('imperialism" called "Angry Fire." The Chinese food was wonder ful. And I became quite adept at reaching out with my chopsticks UZZ H'Zt SSfi ji i w IF THE SHOE FITS, this Red Chinese youngster is going to have to wear it, even if he seems unenthusiastie a mamma tightens the laces. Price tag is $7.40 on cloth models. 'Sly. ,11 1 ' ' ; ,1 to snare a bit of bamboo shoot, -'oose giz'ard or sweet-sour pork is we all ate out of the same dishes. Such delicacies as bird's lest soup and sharks fins are available for a dollar a plate, but nust be ordered in advance. And they apologized that snakes, a Con tonese delicacy, are not available until winter "when their fat helps keep you warm." I shopped the stores in every town and was amazed at the quan tity and variety of goods available and the fact people were buying them. Here are some price tugs judge these against the wage earner's average monthly salary of $25 a month: Socks, 20 certs: towels. 40 cents: wool sweater, $!) 20; ham, 80 cents a pound: chicken. 44 cents a pound: rubber boots, $6.80; Chinese cloth shoes. $7.40; rice. 5 cents a pound: umbrella. 50 cents: ladies' cotton lacket. $5.45: leather jacket, $40: blue cotton cloth, 16 cents a foot: cotton goods. 50 cents a yard; basketball, $3.60. The Chinese assert they are stamping nut illiteracy, and many counties cliiin they already have. Most communes and factories hold adult classes in reading and writ ing. Education is compulsory for seven years; middle school is op tional: college entrance is by ex amination mil) . The schools of China today from kindergarten to college are glori fied workshops. This follows the general Communist line, greatlv intensified in recent months, that "education must he combined with productive tabor." So schools adopt mountains and 10-to 12-year-olds take a month's (rip to plant trees. The College of Engineering near Hankow in five years of existence has an enrollment of 7,500. "We don't give degrees," the secretary told me, indicating degrees were out of step with socialism. In class room factories the students manu factured electric motors and punch presses. ' In this wav students develop CATHOLIC CHURCH IN PEIPING has scattered handful of worshippers. Many Chinese priests have joined "Pat riotic Priests" movement, apparently aimed at a state church. into cultured laborers with social ist consciousness," I was told by a professor of the new line. "Be sides," he added, "the work-while-you-sludy program creates wealth Tor socialism." Every Chinese going to school today must study agriculture on The Chinese Opera is still draw ing sell out crowds in Peiping where 1 saw the most famous Chi nese actor of the past 40 years: Mci Lan Fang. He's in his six lies, always takes a woman's part, sings and talks in high falsetto to accompaniment of the discordant BACHELOR GIRLS' QUARTERS in Peiping Is shared by six girl textile workers, four of whom giggle for the camera as they sit on one of the double-decker beds. two-stringed violin and ear-splitting cymDais. One Sunday morning in Nanking l attended tne Church of Christ, a Buddhist temple and a Catho lic Church with a Friends of World Peace" sign over the door. So those who are religiously in clined have churches to go to. ("Most of us have discarded the old superstitions," a Communist of- licial told me.) Ihe theory that "all must work on the farm some time." Educators have tackled the mon umental task of putting Chinese picture writing into the Roman alphabet. It takes a gigantic type writer to type Chinese, and then onlv in a limited 3.000-word vocab ulary. So all papers and records are hand written. Another problem is the score of spoken dialects. My interpreter had to have an interpreter in Can-ion! Every factory has a "Worker's Palace of Culture" where they show movies, have rooms for dis cussion groups on new factory methods or Marxism, for playing pingpong or chess. There are about five million Catholics in China, but foreign priests have been deported and many Chinese priests have joined the "Patriotic Priests" movement. which seems headed toward a state church. Protestant faiths have been con solidated, with the logic "If you have the same God, why not the same church?" A member of the Nanking Union Theological Seminary told me: " Compared with the spirit of com- , petition and even hostility that ex isted Deiween some of the church bodies in the Past, we see this consolidation as nothing short of an act of God himself." Select them now ot Kil l! STORE Specialized Dipt. Store 721 Main Si. S3? Delicious anytime ... for after-school snacks, dinner dessert, evening refreshment. APARTMENTS FOR WORKERS have a high priority under Red China's new regime. In this one in Shenyang, a family of eight pays $4 a month for one big room, tiny private kitchen. '"h 1 ijL- ill - ''' M i L'lsri'i ii I" li Zmi iiii i ii , . IN SHENYANG APARTMENT, worker's wife cooks over charcoal stove of tiny kitchen while daughter washes. In other apartments, three families share the same kitchen. Missing Youth Killed By Car GRANTS PASS (API-Eugene Wayne Lowdcn, 19. was pro nounced dead on arrival at a hospital here Friday evening from injuries suffered while work ing on an old automobile. His family got worried when he was not on hand for dinner at their home near Wilderville. Ore . and members went to look for him. They found him pinned beneath the fender of the vehicle, which had slipped from a jack and crushed his chest and neck. 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