14A THE SPRINGFIELD SUNDAY REPUBLICAN, SPRINGFIELD, AUGUST 29, 1954 Reds' China Control Is Shaky One of Reasons Why They May Avoid Large- Scale War. (Editor's note: China is not only a first world porcer -its poucr is growing fuster than that of any other country. Where is it bound? Do Reds have China's many millions under thumb, free to mess their plans of conquest? Three articles, looking at this key nation from all angles, I answer these and other questions of world import. Sensoncd observers wrote them all. This is the first.) By FRED HAMPSON AND 1.
RYAN Foreign Staff) In a county of Shantung day, a Communist water conservation commissar ordered the peasants to dig 20,000 wells. The peasants feared Communists. But they knew how to resist. They dug 20.000, holes, and dug them any place at all. Of the 20,000 "wells," only a couple of dozen produced usable water.
Not Like Russians There lies one of the greatest problems, of present-day ComChina, and one of the big reasons why Communist China likely to be frightened of involvement in a large-scale war. The regime still has A tremendous distance to travel before it can claim it controls the country. The Chinese are not like the Russians. Russians are casily regimented, easily led, do what they are told, shrug their shoulders fatalistically, have little personal ambition. licst has bounce.
Born the Not so the Chinese. The, lowmost extreme poverty, he is shrewd maneuverer, A natural trader. He is a hard, persistent worker, who can labor just as arduously in tropical as in cool climates. He is a master at evading the and never does it with any feeling of guilt. is a smalltime capitalist, ant enterpriser.
bargainer, A seller. That is all right at the lowest levels. but when he becomes too successful. still tries to do it all by himself either. gets bogged down or to scale back.
Korean War Heavy Drain Today 10 the impose a Communists central are trycontrol which rules every phase of every man's life. The measure of sucachieved by the Red regime far has been attributable to huge army and to An ability to or retreat when the going too dangerous and an ex-1 plosion threatens. One thing- is certain in today's China, however. That is that is no hope for any Chinese. matter how able or ambitious, better his lot unless he gets the Communist Party.
If gels into the party--it now figures- numbers 612 million by Peiping -and does not deviate -he at first, get everything he and then, perhaps, all he wants. But it is difficult to get the party and sometimes dangerous, because it is easy to sin grievously. There hardly any question that the Korean War constituted A heavy drain on a flimsy Chinese economy. And the question arose naturally: Could. a flimsy economy withstand major shock -such as World in II? The answer obviously the negative.
Data On Economy Score Information is still fairly scant today's Kodak Cameras W'e Are Never Undersold UNITED LUGGAGE CAMERA 1688 MAIN OPP. LYMAN ST. signs that summer is on the wanc while traveling an 130- lated Berkshire road a few day's ago. There We found chumps of sumac. proudly playing leaves as vermillion as the colorings of an ancient Chinese vase.
and islets of k-eyed-Susans Small landowners in China are led to the execution ground under along the edges of woodlands guard of armed soldiers in f*ckang during a purge of landlords. ses like gaily honneted country lassharing the latest gossip at Death sentences sometimes are deferred for two years, giving the A church social. state a labor force which has mounted to millions. Easing up of Socing those things made us collectivization has been reported recently. with a probable return realize that autumn WAS close to rural areas of farmers ho had migrated to the cities.
'The at hand. We were convinced of her impending arrival when A. photo was made in 1952 by a Chinese photographer who smuggled solitary saffron maple loaf it out to Hong Kong. danced across the road, locked in the mischievous teasing breeze. embrace To us of that a on China's economy, but there is even though the Communists with little dance was the swan song enough to piece together a Russian help did A fair job of of summer.
because when ture of a regime caught in a rebuilding some of the war -wrecked maple leafs begin to change struggle asainst, terrific odds to factories in the area, especially in their colors autumn is surely pull a os el y- joined. Anshan. and certainly at hand. sprawling country together and The vost to China has been pracmodernize it. It is costing much tically all her caportables, includ- Big doings recently happened in in human blood and suffering, ing food that should not have been the vicinity of Pine and Central 'and it surely does not present exported.
and most of' the foreign streets. A dog had a birthday the picture of a regime ready to exchange that gets into China from party. whose dog it was we do not risk large-scale war. the waning flow of overseas remit- know. We do know that A small Before the Communists came and the trickle of western hoy stopped us at the entrance fo along--and fooled many abroad commerce.
the Central Pharmacy to solemninto thinking they were mere Today China seems lv inform us that he had just come "agrarian reformers' rather than needed an end to her involvement from "Whose A birthday birthday party. party?" totalitarian Communists -China in shooting wars SO that asked. We under the Nationalists had es- attempt to recover her economic can tablished modest base from balance and consolidate the Com- 1-plained. was for a dog." the tot exwhich the was ready to munist Party's hold on the coun-jall the kids "'He went had 10 a it." birthday and spite many This wAS de- try. The talk about liberation 'Was it a good struggle shortcomings and cor- Formosa seems mere bluster.
since asked. our curiosity piqued. party?" we the Chinese know it involve Oh, swell" came the enthusiruption. At the end of 194T there were soon for the big war. It is far too astic reply.
"We played games n' them in some 15,000 factories in China. that. everything. Only 16 were foreign-operated and China's leaders seem too shrewd It took 2 little doing but we FiThe factories produced An urban have too much to lose. And it is formation a about the birthday party only about 500 government to risk going war now -they nally prodded the rest of the inbase, workers running in to more metallurgical than a chem- mil- not Tre-tung at all dies unlikely -he is that now when apparently Mao from seems our that there small really informant.
was a dog It ical, machinery and textile in a sort of semi-retirement- that had a birthday party to which tories. Reconstruction and reha- China. like the Soviet union, will some of the neighborhood children bilitation after the ravages of vearsigo through a struggle for power. were invited. It must have been 'of war with Japan -And the Mao, chairman of the Central a good party too.
for we were told production was many times that years old. but his has been hard cake, favors and the rest of the munists-was under way and 1917 People's Government. is only 61 that there was ice cream and of 1915. Must Barter Food heen Undoubtedly there would have help from the West for a nonCommunist China. The West had more equipment available for the Chinese than the Communist nations had.
If China had expanded western trade, she would have had a large return in foreign exchange. If she had remained in the west-: eri camp, the enormous remittances from the overseas Chinesethose living abroad- -would not have shrunk to the present low! level. By shutting herself off, China not only limited the industrial help. available to her, but lost the earnings she needed for buying abroad. Now the Chinese must use her needed agricultural sorely by a vast and povertystricken population--as barter to get goods.
from Russia and the Communist countries. They even had to institute rationing last fall, for ory, the and first it time in Chinese memis still in force. Under the Communists, according 10 the best information available, industrialization has been largely a failure. The announced buildup look come--because impressive it will for be vears com- to parison to virtually nothing. Even Manchuria will take a long time, life.
A con of peasants and prophet of the peasant Communist revolution. Mao WAS born in Hunan province. He was present but in a rather obscure capacity when the Communist Party was founded in Shanghai in 1921. The Chinese leader is a "practical Marxist" who apparently regards China as the rightfu! leader lof all Asia. His chief henchman is Chu Teh, born into a family.
Chu, always a professional! soldier, was a young officer in Yunnan during World War I. he is commander-in-chief of Chinese Communist forces. Chiang Learned About Chou lo Chou Also from a wealthy family, En-lai, today's dapper and smiling premier. was born in Niangsu in 1898. attended Tientand Tokyo Universities.
During the birth of the in China he was in France, organizing a Communist Youth League there which was to be A Chinese Red headquarters in Europe for many years after. Handsome, mannered, a charmer with European ways, Chou was once described by Chiang Kalshek as A "reasonable Chiang learned better later on. But this much seems likely: If Mao should die. any lesser leader -for example the theorist Liu OPEN DAILY EVERY DAY PRICES 'til At 9 P.M. NW -WAGNER are usually lower than sale' prices BRAND NEW 1954 BENDIX WORK FREE WASHERS $125 $2 WEEKLY 855 Bailey-Wagner 1610 State St.
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KING Summer is on the wane. lerl blossoms are making A final stand of loveliness in gardens and meadlows and tinges of autumn scarlet and gold are already beginning to fringe the gay, green petticoats of her forests. Soon she will quietly steal away 10 leave the Valley hushed by the spell of what the Indian poetically called 'The Moon of Falling We are fond of this particular time of year. It's pleasant to drive along lonely country roads of A Sunday afternoon and watch the coming of autumn endow our little world with a beauty that only the twilight of summer can boast. It'3 a pensive time of yeAr.
A hush of expectation hovers over A countryside awaiting the embrace of autumn and, wherever We wander, 1'A see companionable little clusters of goldenrod. nodding and whispering the harvest season to come. We first noticed the telltale works. Did the dog have ire cream and cake. too?" 11 "Of course silly." the tot said disdainfully.
had A bone." Which goes to prove that' if you ask a silly question you don't always get a silly answer. We thought W'P were seeing things as we journeyed down a country road in the vicinity of Windsor. recently. There, right smack in the middie of the road, stood a family of ducks, each of them as motionless cigar store Indian. They looked for all the world Shao-chih-would have 1 tough time kecping China unquestioningly faithful to Russia.
If Chou emerged as the leader, there is grave doubt that he would even make the try. He is a free-wheeler. Liu Shao-chih, the fourth of today's quadrumvirate of Chinese Red leaders. hails from Mao's province of Hunan. Ile studied Moscow and joined the party in 1922.
Slim and ascetic, he was miner in his youth and later became the dogmatic Marxist-Communist theorist of the party. A Come specter of Leninism las opposed to Stalin's deviations from it) Liu seems gradually to he pushed aside by the ambitious and able Chou. Whoever emerges as the dictator after Mao, he faces A Jong. tough job. Although China has increased her power many times since Mao took over, she is A long, long way from out of the woods.
Park in Aurora, Does Duty as Bank Aurora, Ill. VP- Park custodian Ray Moses now knows that there really was $365.10 buried under a clump of bushes in his park. Frank Butenoff, 70. told Moses that he believed someone had stolen the money he had buried in a tin can. Moses grabbed his shovel and asked where it was buried.
Butenoff Moses who soon uncovered the tin can containing the exact amount Butenoff told him he had buried. like one of those groupings figurines one sometimes sees decorating the lawn of a suburban home. For a moment 11'C thought that WAs exactly of what they were and began 10 wonder who in heck had set 1hem in the middle of the road. We were almost directly upon them when the leader suddenly exhibited signs of life, quacked dire maledictions in our direction and sedately led his little A brood off into the woods. It wAS as though an inanimate tableau had suddenly, come to life and we believe our eyes for a brief moment.
liven though w'e had 'every intention of attending, W'C unfortu-' nately missed what was perhaps one of the auctions of the year, Friday night. It must have been an unusual sale because friends who attended tell us there were scads of antiques, carefully gathered by auctioneer Walter Moore for his annual sale of worthwhile collector's items. From what We hear. all roads. led to Walter Moore's Ludlow Friday night.
Just 10. give readers 8 vague idea of the type of antiques Mr. Moore placed on the auction block. we're going to list a smattering of them. To begin with, there were five music boxes.
a lovely chafing dish. case and French. clocks. A pine blanket chest, pressed glass, out glass and some distinctive pieces of chinaware. To top things off there a 1913 model Buick touring car and a good selection of oil Doesn't that sound interesting? our would -plans have had not been awry right up there in the front row when Mr.
Moore's auction began. We're sorry we were unable attend. Certain antiques arc becoming almost impossible to find. To prove our point we're g0- ing 10 tell you about our recent. search for A pair of old oil lamps, needed by a friend 10 decorate the renter pillars of a magnificent Greek-revival type house.
When our friend described the type of lamp he wAnted we assured him that such a pair of lanterns would be easy to find. "Heck. almost any antique shop will have we said. "Just give l18 3 day or two and we'll locate A pair for We almost had to eat our words because the la ps weren't as simple 10 locate as we thought they'd be. ll'e visited a dozen or more antique shops and found a fairly good variety of single lamps, but no pairs.
The single lamps it'e examined weren't at all the sort of thing our friend had in mind. 1'c were about give up our quest and admit defeat when we luckily visited an antique shop which had a pair of the prettiest doorway lanterns we've ever seen. Made in mont in 1853, they were an alVer- tistic blending of brass and iron which We immediately knew would he exactly what our friends wanted. We didn't haggle about the price. We just bought them.
We'll he anxious to sec how they look when they're installed at our friend's home and begin 10 twinkle their friendly. oldworld light when darkness falls. Gourmets Guide: For wonderful food and a setting of exquisitely landscaped flower gardens we recommend the Log Cabin Restaurant. Fasthampton There's an outdoor co*cktail lounge which overlooks one the most superb views in the Valley and the food lives up to the reputation for sheer which is the pride of hostess Edna William's kitchen. The menu is uncomplicated but comprehensive.
The house specializes in chicken, steak. lobster and A. selection of truly delicious. old New England desserts. had dinner at the log Cabin last Sunday.
The Student Prince and Fort Restaurant, Fort Springfiold, is one of our favorite downtown dining spots. The menu lists wide variety of dishes. including Ger-! man specialties prepared with a special brand of. skilled know -how. An ideal place lunches.
dinners and after theater snacks. Student Prince one of the largest collections of rare and unusual steins and glasses in New England. It is cozy with old-world charm. Courtesy to guests is an observed custom of the picturesque dining place. It won't be long before school bells will ring to announce the opening of a new school vear.
Even now. children are being fitted to new school clothes and are otherwise preparing for the great back-to-school adventure. The not too distant sound of school bells is already beginning to echo along Springfield's Main St. Of a recent afternoon, for instance, we noticed more than the usual number of children trooping in and out of downtown stores to be equipped The Marita Denise Brunton School of the Dance 1954 1955 Season CLASSES ARE NOW FORMING IN BALLET TOE TAP CHARACTER BALLROOM MODERN MUSICAL COMEDY GROUP AND PRIVATE INSTRUCTION BEGINNERS AND ADVANCED STUDENTS 1658 MAIN ROOM 301 SPRINGFIELD Phone Studio 9-0137 Residence 4-5035 -P 1 'Dave' Malcolm and Friend In larger picture, Dave Malcolm, author of the widely-read "Our Hilltop Neighbors" feeds a chickadee from his hand on his Charlemont porch. The insert picture shows a chickadee perched on a jar of sunflower seeds which Dave provides for his feathered friends.
Both pictures were taken by Donald S. Lacroix. A YOUR 8 SUNDAY, Aug. 29-Born today, are one of those unusual combinations of whimsy, caprice, bright humor, yet with serious attitude toward all the serious things of life. You seem to divide all of living into two parts: your working day, when you are aus- terc and devoted to the business of making money or gaining fame land vour success in playtime yOur hours, profession, when you forget everything except hav-1 ing a good time.
You have a great deal of energy and consequently are able to do many things at one and the same time. You are fond of people and a fine host or hostess. You enjoy social life but prefer entertaining in your own home to going out for the evening and attending public; entertainments. It is likely that you will cultivate a group of people who have a similar interests and enjoy their company 10 the exclusion of any casual acquaintances. Fond of music, literature and the arts, you may become the patron or an appreciative audience rather than a performer or active participant.
Your fortune seems 10. run in cycles. Learn to take advantage of the favorable, periods but avoid committing yourself to important decisions the month of May. In marriage, wed someone born under Scorpio. Libra or Sagittarius -for such is apt to be the most congenial.
Among those born on this date with all sorts of clothes and school supplies. We noticed too, that Main St. restaurants were crowded with children lunching with their parents, following shopping forays. or enjoying soda and sundae rewards for good behavior at the doctor or 'dentist's office. Movie theaters are getting their share of back-to-school business, too.
Saturday is usually children's day at the movies. but every day has become children's day in the brief time remaining before the reopening of school. It seems that the promise of being taken to the movies will induce children to observe decorum. while on shopping sprees with their parents, more than any other reward they could he offered. If you don't, believe US.
just take a the lines of children waiting 10 enter movie theaters on any weekday afternoon. We suppose the same situation exists in other towns and cities of the Valley. It must be grossed in the excitement of wonderful to he A a child engetting ready to return to school. We vividly remember the fun and anticipation that surrounded the event when we were a small boy. are: Maurice Macterlink philosopher; Oliver Wendell Holmes.
author; John Locke, philosopher: Albert Ritchie of Virginia and William G. Brownlow of Tennessee, statesmen: To find what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide. MONDAY, AUG. 30 VIRGO (Aug.
24-Sept. 23) -Good ideas should he a dime a dozen. so select the best one and put it into immediate operation. LIBRA 24-Oct. 23)-You should be able to trust your hunches today.
Act upon whatever conies to mind, first. It will be "SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. at Jiven if the flow of ideas appears its peak for you. it is important that you herome highly selective.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22) -At home- but on the job especially--make use of An innovation in procedure to advance yourself. CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan.
20) Investigate the details of A sug. gestion made to you by another hefore adopting it. Be very sure it is right. AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb.
19) A single, bright idea today could pave the way 10 your fame and fortune, so be on the lookout for PISCES Feb. 20-March 20)- One of those times when your brain is superactive and sensitive 10 all impressions. Select only the best ideas. ARIES (March 21-April 20)-You should have the green light for anything that you want to do now. Make excellent progress in your career.
TAURUS (April 21-May 21) -Bc careful if traveling in heavy traffic. especially during the very early morning hours. Don't try to make up for lost time then. 22-June 21)-You may judiciously combine business and pleasure if al all times you keep your wits about you. CANCER (June 22-July 23)-- You can be confident that all you, do today, on the job, will bring its proper compensation and even a profit.
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2-2181 Weatherman Tracks Path Of Hurricane -AH law, he and has ing cess thus a halt gets there no to into he will, needs into but such A War was Washington. Aug. 28 (UP) Hurricanes such as the one now churning up the Atlantic off the Carolinas once brought extensive damage and death. But the federal warning system has reduced destruction and fatalities today. The warning system, operated by the U.
S. Weather Bureau in co-operation with the Air Force, provides ample time for the Atlantic seaboard and Gulf states to "batten down" before the big blow hits. The storms now are tracked almost from their inception until they blow themselves out. Hurricanes develop in the "belt of doldrums" in the AtJantic Ocean and Western Carihbean Sea. After the cyclonic, or circular, movement is established, the whole mass usually moves in a westerly direction at about 10 to 12 miles an hour.
It usually requires five days for the storm to move forward 1200 miles, even though the winds about the center have velocities of 100 miles an hour. As soon AS the disturbance is Incated- either by planes or shipsthe word is flashed to the Weather Bureau. Then the warning sys1em swiftly goes into action. 2 Fly Into Eve Heavy weather planes, usually Boeing WR-29's, are sent into the hurricane center. They fly through heavy winds--with gusts 150 miles an hour--into the center, or' eye, of the hurricane.
The eye is a relatively calm AY PA ranging from seven to 20 miles in diameter. The planes radio information on the size of the hurricane, velocity of the winds, and the rate of travel of the whole storm mass. The weather station in Miami charts the hurricane and decides if and when it will strike the coast. If it appears. it will hit, word is immediately flashed by teletype, radio and newspaper to all areas in the storm's path.
They quickly begin preparing for the blow. The Weather Bureau is certain of its data before it issues a warning because it costs a city the size of Miami about $1,000,000 to batten down. Each hurricane is designated by A girl's name in alphabetical 01- der of their sequence in the season; The season for the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf states is June 1 to Nov. 1. GERMAN REDS RAISE GERM WAR CHARGE Berlin, Aug.
28 (INS) -The East German Communists made A 1'i- cious new propaganda attack on the United States tonight, claiming they had "evidence" the U. S. was planning a germ warfare attack on the Soviet -occupied zone. The East radio claimed that the Red security service had seized a document giving details of American plans 10 the people of East Germany with disease bacteria. for your bright ideas carefully today, you may find some are much better and more practical than others! MEATS LAND SO.
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