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SUNDAY, DECEMPKR 7, 1953 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE 13 B Russia, Red China Clash In Ideals But Share America As Top Enemy By JOHN ST ROHM NEW YORK (NEA) - Russia and Red China seem to be head ed down two different roads to ward communism, but their No. 1 goal and enemy is the same, the United States. Both of them tutor their people to hate America as the chief ob stacle in the path of a "perfect" Communist world. Both use this hate to prod their regimented peo ple to catch up with the capitalist rivat. Where the Red rivals lake dif ferent paths is in defining the Com munistic Utopia they hope to reach after all their Five Year Plans and Great Leaps Forward. China is rushing toward com munal living, eating and wages. Russia is edging more and more toward profit and private owner ship. One who travels as I did, first through the Soviet Union, then rTfciMirinrni'n xszfflWM wm jf--ssw. ran GREAT NEW ROLLING MILL at Anchan makes a sharp contrast to backyard blast furnaces, symbolizes Red China's hopes of producing 20 million tons of steel next year. ' i-'oByf .J PAIR OF SHOES is tried 'on by Russian collective farm worker whose cash wages are 6 rubles per labor day. Shoes clerk holds sell for 300 rubles near $30. kmi i hi imm, 'fe4J i ... "DRIVE AMERICA OUT" of Formosa is message on these posters above a bust of Mao Tse-tung in a Red China commune hall. through Red China, sees increas ing signs of rivalry between Mos cow and Peiping. One cannot talk to hundreds of persons behind the Iron and Bamboo curtains without feeling that eventually this para doxical rivalry may lead to basic schism in the Red world. Two crises rocked the Com munist world at the time of my visits late this summer and fall. The first involved Russia and China. While I sought assistance from the Russian Foreign Office to get a visa for Red China, Nikita Khrushchev was having to fly to Peiping secretly to patch up Iations with Mao Tse-tung. Mao reportedly was miffed by Khrush chev's call for a summit meeting which did not include the People's Republic of China on the guest list. Now I am able to understand why nothing came of this applica tion and why t finally had to go directly to the Chinese Reds to get admitted. Khrushchev didn't want an American reporter under foot in Peiping. By the time I reached China the second crisis was in full flower. Al though it stems from Red artil lery attacks upon the off-shore is lands, Qucmoy and Matsu, there seems no doubt in any Red Chi nese mind that the other party to this crisis is not Chiang Kai-shek but uncle bam. I have told the Red China story in earlier dispatches to this news paper. Now, against the bac ground of my observations in Mao's China, I am able to set down my observations in revisiting areas of Russia which I had seen in 1946 as the first American cor respondent to tour the Russian hin terland after World War II. One impression of Russia after a dozen years is that there arc many changes that to American eyes appear favorable. There s more freedom to talk, less fear of secret police and Si berian exile. Almost every time I walked out of my hotel in Moscow I w a s stopped by college students who wanted to talk about America. W hen I reminded them I was what the Soviet press calls a "war monger," they grinned and said: "Oh, that's just politics." The Russians seem more realis tic and less dogmatic than before Unlike the Chinese, they seem to be drifting away from the aims of communism as defined by Karl Marx. Their state capitalism to day features strong incentives and wide variations in economic re wards. "We're operating more on eco nomic fact today, less on political theory," an official told me. An American translates this into trend toward the profit system. Peiping, on the contrary, seems to, pride itself on its pure, doc trinaire communism. Mao sees himself as the true apostle of Len in. "We are learning from Russian mistakes, the Chinese said. Agriculture in Russia is in far better shape than it was 12 years ago. That means more food and better clothing at lower prices (Historians tell us comfortable people are less war - minded than miserable ones.) In 1946 I priced butter at $8 a pound: today it's $1.25. Bologna was $12 a pound; now it's $1. Peo ple in the cities dress better. Few er farm folk are barefoot. Leather shoes, $80 a pair in 1946, now sell for $35 and $50. City dwellers still share dingy kitchens and bathrooms with oth er families. They eye the apart ment boom and hope their turn will come soon for low rent and a measure of privacy. Russian agriculture Is heavily mechanized; China still depends upon human muscle. Direct food and dress comparisons are impos sible because the Russians and Chinese live so differently. But the Russians eat and dress on a scale that would be luxurious to a Chin ese. The new apartment housing in both Russia and China is far supe rior to the old, but would rate as substandard in any American city. There's more of almost every thing in Russia today. Ivan can shop for a small auto mobile if he has $3,000. Or for a bicycle if he has $60. His wife can wear silk at $10 a yard or hose at $3.50 a pair. She can wear lipstick, once looked upon as a bourgeois affectation. In China there is not a single privately owned automobile. Lip stick is considered a capitalistic frivolity. There's a trickle of consumer goods in Russia in 1936 214.000 refrigerators, 193.000 washing ma chines and 162,000 vacuum clean ers were turned out for this na tion of 200 million. There are more schools, more hotels, more trallic, more doctors, more books, more stores. Above all, more confidence. In so m e quarters there is a cockiness born of Russia's first Sputnik. It leads to a faith that the Soviet system eventually will pay off In more good things for the people, a belief much strengthened since Stalin's death. But the longer you stay in Rus sia the more you are impressed with some basic things that have not changed since 1946. For example, both farm and city folk with whom I talked still hale war with the passion of those who have experienced invasion. And yet I'd guess 90 per cent fear the U.S. may start a new war and again peasant women, with reproachful tears, asked me: Why does your country want to make war on us?" Truth to a Soviet citizen is a far cry from the truth we know as Americans. The Russian only knows what his leaders want him to know about the outside world. Much they are told sounds like fantastic falsehood to an Ameri can. They are constantly told tth-SJk JUS BACKYARD BLAST FURNACES like this one up the Yang tze from Nanking, polka-dot Red China's 1958 landscape in farmyards, on school playgrounds and vacant lots. ' j Time I Americans live in capitalistic slav ery while Russians are headed for a Socialist Utopia. These falsehoods booby trap the road to better understanding between the Russian and Ameri can people. I saw many im provements in the living conditions Prince, Fiancee Play Love Match TOKYO (AP) Crown Prince Akihito teamed up with his pretty fiancee in a mixed doubles tennis exhibition Saturday. It obviously was a love match even though play stopped with score 3-3. Akihito and Miss Michiko Minna, both 24. were making their first public appearance together since their engagement was announced nine days ago. Akihito met on a tennis court the girl who will be come Japan's first commoner empress. The cxniumon was caneo wnen each side had won three games. In tennis terms, a love game is one in which a side fails to win a point. Party Requests Red Admission SASKATOON. Sask. (AP) A resolution asking the Canadian government to recognize Commu nist China was adopted by the Saskatchewan Farmers' Union Friday at its convention. The 400 delegates urged Canada to extend long-term credit to the Red Chinese "in order to build up a market for Canadian goods there." of Russians but no sign that Uto pia is around the corner. After 40 years of communism, Russia's standard of living Is low- er than that of tiny neighbor Fin land. Needs of the people still run poor second to the demands of the state. Sheriffs Elect New President PORTLAND (AP) Josephine County Sheriff Lloyd Lewis was elected president of the Oregon state Sheriff's Assn. at its fi nal convention session Friday. Lewis replaces John Elfering of Malheur County. Forrest C. Sholcs. Deschutes County, was named vice president and Charles Slrawn. Coos County, secretary- treasurer. 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