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.
A FAMILY AFFAIR
ATLANTA lUPD-It will be a
amilv affair Sunday when W. W.
ichnlanus Is ordained as deacon
tn the Presbyterian Church. The
Rev. W. M. Schotanus, his son,
will be In charge of ceremonies.
THIEF AT SECRET BASE
LONDON UPI- A burglar
broke into the super-secret U.S.
Air Force base at Bentwatcr Fri
day, and stole two .45 caliber
Sten-type machine guns, the Air
Force reported Saturday. Officials
said the thief had risked being
shot by sentries posted through
out the base.
Chas. J. Cizek
TAILOR
Suits t Sleeks Made te Ordtr
Parted Fit Guaranteed
119 SOUTH 7th
QUulXt SSJjP
FOR BOYS
AND GIRLS
3
YKJUV 0.OTH SOMETEfllCae TO WEM
FLANNEL
PAJAMAS
Sanforizpd.
Coat style.
Cute prints,
stripes. 4 to
12, 6 to Id
159
POLO
SHIRTS
Long sleeve
combed cot
ton knit in
Mripps and
patterns.
Sizes 816.
1
59
FLANNEL
SHIRTS
1
98
Firmly tailored cotton flan
.net with doublo yoke,
stand-up collar, roomy
pocket. Attractive plaids in
varied colors. 8-16.
km
DOLLY AND ME
PAIITY SETS
White nylon
tricot with ruf
fles. Sizes SM
Doll's fit 16
20" sizes.
1
00
TODDLERS'
DRESSES
Drip-dry fine
count cotton.
Full sweep
skirt. 1-3
J98
2?8
Slipper Sox
S-M-L
79 d $
' ,
100 Nylon Snowsuits
One style with double zipper, knit
cuffs, cap and bonnet. Other style
with sinqle zipper, detachable mitts
and feet. 12 mo. to 36 mo.
6
98
Girls'
Slipovers & Cardigans
Orion and Banlon
34-48
98 0 0 98
Slipovers
2"&3
Cardigans
3.98
4.98
5.79
o Infant's Mittens ... 69c Girl's Gloves ... 77c 79c - 89c
o Christmas Red Dresses M4 S1.98 S2.98 o Cap and Muff Set $2.98
o Baby Pepperel Blankets Sl.98-S2.77 Head Scarfs 100 virgin W00' 77c
J.J.
528 Main