♫ THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 80, 1954.
New evidence
of
Forced Labour Russia's Far North
IN
By WALTER KOLARZ
its Issue of Decem- Ukhta must be considered as ber 1, 1958, the Soviet evidence that the number of Official Gazette carried prisoners and ex-prisoners in two decrees which show these territories has in- that a significant adminis- creased to such an extent us trative reform has just been to warrant administrative carried out in the Komi Re- promotion. public, in the Northern part of European
Russia, Tho
The new district is to be first decree stipulates that a formed partly at the expense new district is to be formed of the existing district of in the area near the Arctic Kozhva, which is the head- Circle in the neighbourhood
Walter "Stalin
Is
The growth of Ukhta seems to be due to its importan
Junction For the time being, it an oll centre and as a railway is only an Important station on which was built during the war the Pechora rallway line.
nt
the
price of tremendous hon merifice. But there are indications that 10 will also be
now come the termima of a railway line which will run to in the Northern Solikams,
distance of rais, covering a over 300 kilometrow,
current
The
The building of the Urui- of the town of Vorkuta. The pppppppp÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷↓·↓+++ Pochwan railway line does not second transforms the
Kolarz.
of figure in the published text of author locality of Ukhta from a
Five-Year Play, Eterns! and
Russia" the district town into a town (1944). "Myths and Realities in but specialised Soviet economic referred to it of republican importance Eastern Europe" (1980). "Russin journals have (gorod respublikanskogo and Her Colonies" (1982), and overal times either directly or "How Rusula is Rulod" (1953), indirectly. They have stated, la podchineniya).
particular, that it will be pos a specialist moript writer on the staff of the BBC, He was sible in future to get cool from The significance of these formerly diplomate correspon the Pechora coal basin for the
Industry of two decrees, which change dent of an International news metallurgical the administrative "set-up" agency. He is a specialist In Urals.
Such a statement was inare in one of the most inhospit- Rovlet and East European affairs.
of uble corners of the Soviet
££££££÷÷÷÷÷ty in one of the latest issues
the journal, Planmed Economy, Union, may not be obvious
which is published by the State Planning Commission in Mos- cow. Obviously the transport of cunt could only be done by roll since there are no suitable in-
and waterways in the area.
Lo
the average Europesu. quarters of the ill-famed Their meaning, however, Pechora Cumps, and it will will hardly be lost on the also include the suburbs of many thousands of people Vorkuta, from which the no who, particularly during the less formidable Vorkuta Second World War, lived as Camps are administered.
No Decline
SUEHARA
A top-ranking woman novelist says mothers are taking too much on themselves
APPEAL to the father of the family to reinstate himself in the household as the No. 1 authority. I consider that the sorry state of affairs that exista in so many homes today-homes of both wealthy and poor-is largely 'due to the decline of paternal power.
Woman has become a tremendous force in the world, and gained her emancipation at the cost of her children-particularly of her sona.
She has taken over too completely the control of her children. Father-and what father wants-comes a poor second; either out of laziness or indifference his themo-song is: "Ask your mother.'
1 is wrong. Petticoat govern- }ment has never, at any period of story, been good for boys: hence the necessity" to get them away from there voting mommas and dante, at me earliest possible moment,
It is only when they leave the shelter of mother's wing to come under the more merciless male discipline that they start to be- come men.
But that disciplme should have been enforced right front the stari by the father,
OF
Guilty wives
turn
¡FTEN | #nd his lack of re- sponsibility is due lo ú weak desire to "keep in" with his wite, who is always inter- slave labourers in the Vorkuta is the centre of the
fering with: "Leave the poor Northern areas of the Komi new Soviet sub-arctic coni
kid alone" or "Don't be mich a brute" Soviet uninesty Republic. To these unfor- mining busin. It became a ANY
Such
a woman who continual- granting full freedom of tunate convicts, who were town only in 1948 and since
movement to ex-prisoners wouldly undermines her husband's in- engaged either in road and then it has continued to
Пислее lead to a depopulation of such
Is guilty of the greatest railway construction or in grow. As early as 1947 it had arc as the northern part of wrong. She is helping to mining, place names such as 30,000 inhabitants. Not far the Komi Republic and locall her boy into a young reprobate
Ukhlo.
who feels he can always wriggle Vorkuta and Ukhta are very from Vorkuta
HO- ties like Vorkuta and a large familiar.
culled workers' settlement where the majority of the in out of every scrape by counting
harbibus must be kept against on his mother to back him up. has sprung up called Inta, their will, since these areas are I do not mean that the modern suitable for father should behave like a which is now becoming the not
colonisation, and are Barrett of Wimpole Streci Tuzl chief locality of the new dis-
july unhealthy for women
be the complete tyrant, Dut trict.
and children, The
do assure you thai degree which the Soviet despiss a weak father just as Government promulgated founded Ukhta is as notorious as
he will exploit a slave-labour March 1953, although affecting mother. towns change their Vorkuta as Atatus whenever there centre. In its vicinity there considerable member of peo- ple in all parts of the Soviet the in- ure
large Ukhtizhm Union, did not
the deplete the inmates of northern part of the Komi Re- a Camps, of population in particular area. And this of which have been employed in public.
the Ukhta course applies to the latest servicing
New Districts
IN Soviet Russin
districts
and
is
crense
D
are
spectacular
new
oil
ellmatically
mnesty
in
The Sovic: Government 10 administrative reform in wells. They have also been determine to develop the Far The used in the construction of North at any cost, and thic ad- the Kom Republic,
reform which formation of the new a great electric power sta- ministrative administrative district
In tion and in the building and affect the Vorkutu-Ukhta arca
suggests strongly that the Vorkuta area and the maintenance of the Pechora labour in Northern Russia is far
from declining. elevation of the town of railway line.
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Time measurement
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boy
100-iloring
It is no use a father saying ho works all day su "must leave the children to mother.”
It is no good moaning that he has too much on his mind. A good man must never befon busy ip teach lila son contthl or mete out punishment where it is due.
Influence
E problem, though
family.
is nol confined to the boys
In
0
naturally had more
Psychologists say that children ure no longer afraid of their parents. Perhaps it is a pity they aren't. Religion is based on love and fear. It's not a bad thing to make the young feel a bit more scared and be a bit more religious.
Many fathers who are hard цр sacrifice tliemselves too often to buy expensive toys, Give them TV. Give them tho to the cinema. money to go Give them whatever they ask for.
They hardly whether
YOU FATHERS- Get a grip on
your family!
By DENISE ROBINS
oľ
scum to mind not little Johnny
What Fun We Would All Have Missed!
By James Heath
-
EAR Bertrand Russell,
D You pertainly started
something when you said the other day that
"the great louers of history would be looked upon as juvenile delinquents fo- day. Helen of Troy wea 19 years old when Paris carried her off to Sparta." For that's only 'one ample.
ex-
Most of the romantic rols his hair cut, characters of history aud gives up his hearsay would have had
or
DT
ધ
scat in a bus. thin time today. Half their "Just make fun would be scotched by sure he's happy," the complex law and order Is the cry. "Les, of this brave new world. him stay out all night.** **Don't *repress' him!"
Then when he
NO MONEY
For a start, love potions would commits a crime, be illegal under an Act of 1881. nobody is more
surprised than And elopements (like Elisabeth Florence) father, who has Barret Browning to been so kind and would be impossible without a so generous. Or special currency allowance from mother who has ine Trqusury. loved him **
dearly.
This sort of love and kindness amounts to cruelty,"
Воп
Cleopatra, who was 10 (but looked older, as they say in the
police court reports), would The James Carnes, the con- Dimost certainly have been querors of Everest, the war packed off to approved herves are not of the molly-sendol for nor association WIM coddled brigade. You cannot car man 33 years ber I hope and belleve 1 Was companions
evil haunts, produce a hero out of a tolerant with my children, but I wouldn't he have turned out to you've wrapped in cotion
wood senior. never allowed the lack of Le A healthier, nicer human and mentally smothered in jam:
Romea would have caught R respect, the "cheek," even the being?
the son you've encouraged to contempt that I have seen
think himself more attractive for abqucting a 14-year-old girl, parents put up with today.
than any other boy and to whom Jullet you've never read the lesson of self-denial: the son you've allowed to be a moral and physical coward sheltering beh hind your own indifference.
Born bad?
1
moral weak- ARE vice and
nesses inherent or eradicable?
What has destroyed him? Civilisation through the medium of his supposed-to-be-civilised parents. And father in particu- lar.
Worst
What, in fact, can be for a boy's morale than to be a mother's darling — to be, re- Into ved. 203
for instance, from the where he Is being disciplined-to learn from the
that
be that
I don't believe so, nor' innocent children grow pestilential creatures just CRUSC they Were ·borla way. Even if same have
for Kreater potentiality
evil be than others, that evil can checked and oflox conquered by earcful handling in
Rich от
the
poor
-It doesn't
beginning his power not only over his doting mother but over women in general?
Pandering
I, as the mother of three formative years. daughters, to-do with them than their matter.
by I And if mother is father, but the influence and nature Soft and inclined to good couns of both parents pamper her offspring that is that it is more beautiful, more Are nccessary to chiklren of where father should step in and sensitive
wield the strong arm.
both sexes.
Personally, I tried to make my children's home so happy
that
they
wanted to stay in it. I encouraged them to bring their boy friends buck to see me. Only then could I help them to form their Judgments, and offer friendly advice. Five minutes
Look at the modern young gentleman of today with his stove-pipe trousers and his slick, long hair and his passion for sensationalism. Is he the result
of his own upbringing?
No.
HAVE no use for paychology which allows a child to think
than any other child and so must have preferential
treatment,
Once one of my own employ- ees whom I discovered to be a thief, said: "I must be forgiven because I
psychopathic
Case,"
am a
I denounce
AA
GIRL wrote to me recently and said she was, forced to take her boy friend into museum or a public park onder to talk together because her mother would not allow her to tako her friends home.
· UNMILITARY
Imagine what Cyrano would have copped for "conduct pre- judicial to good order and mult Tory scipuu"-waen nie trieno stoje, Laurough the fùntly 10 会议。 ATMY seu rum, (acesui Act), And the military would bave got her too for "wÁJKUJAY
ទ obs kuusing an mucer An execuson of his duty."
I eventually that girl is
Even the nursery characteri driven
wrongdoing,
are pretty poor lot, mezmurod up aguinar today's regulations,
into
whose doar les the
at
the the
and over-indulgent mothers as I denounce the lazy fathers
the criminals. It is they who
bafone up should come
rather magistrates
than youngsters themselves.
For Juvenile delinquents there la the chance of redemption and a fresh start.-
For the parents-only lifelong remorse. They have had their chance and lost it the tragic If the same boy could have Who told her that she was? mothers who care too much and Who pandered to her in her the weak fathers who don't films or crime stories or bad extreme youth?
care enough.
of rensible warning is worth lived on a desert island without five years of regret.
BRONSTEIN
CAPTURES
AFFECTION IN ONE
London.
FT was my birthday. My birthdays have fallen
By Rene MacColl
adds
every day in this London where thoroughly confusing to sit in
packet of charm, dressed in an
MY MOVE
men
to
In Kensington Square.
The Flod Piper would be pipe ped on four counts; the Rivers Pollution Act, und the Yubile Health Act · (for putting all those
rate in the river); the Sunday Entertainments Acti (for playing his pipes on a Sun- (ap); and the Town Polico Cluures Act (for leading an un- authorised band of children though the streets),
VAGRANTS
They had a poor REDBE of right and wrong --- those nur- sery types. For who are these anti-social characters Who "sleep in a cold open field, all out in the wind and weather?”. Why, they are the Wraggio Taggie Glpsies 0, and are quite Linble
to be charged under the Vagrancy Act unless able to give a good account of them- selves.
Poor litlo Black Mumba--the The high jinks are observed health visitor, wild have surdly
"But aha, I sco de danger and not too late; so I say to my knight 'Go how now." Dis- cussing one of his classic games, What's that frightful din? It's into two main classes: Seems that in the East he was nifty little movie set-up) Dickley: "Later I read
locals-here an I thought I understood. Hoya chess magazine that there was born. He'll be had up, sur the candle-lit, enke-domin- known to the
in a Little Boy' Blue sounding hils ated, excitement-filled occa- far-flung middle-as "H.IL" and
illustrative gesture towards his I'm dorned sure I didn't.
And I hate to say this-here Bot I didn't see it So I make Instrument.
easy move I I could have made. enough, for Using ̧a” Nolay sions when I was still young this, he explains, "stood for 'Hie and there among the distin-
Heaviness' and moderately innocent.
The ghost
guished audience I observed the it would have been easy to make. my own move and I. read that
Poor Aindalu. He's for it for All the others since, which giggio atalks repkily through the siified ynwa and the drooping this other
eyelid. For Hays, alus,
mowe, have tended to be humdrum audience.
is of the
etcetera, breaking Into stronghowes and etcetera. But what is stcoterm? finding treasure which he didn't He tells us that among the Sabin school. A droner. Bid in What is the good of easy move declare (as he should) to the affairs, I can't tell apart in synthetic milks now being con- the evening-Bronstein! For if the player At retrospect. So this year I sumed in various parts of the Bronstein I fell book, line,
ROD $17
Crown. and Tho fact
his cager set out to give myself a world, is ono fashioned of "fish vodke. What an enchanting
Poor Jack, allowing his bean birthday which would some-
"That sounds liko a chopt A tile, prematurely ball helper keeps of thing сталу
or moving stalk to grow, as it certainly Sabin, "and how stick in my memory. It won't go into it further at this 11-Biting zoot sittantho aloeves them to the wrong squares adds must, over the publie tootpath. worked.
time.
On that note I left. hung down to his knuckles and hallgrity. This slyly modest le prune it back.
the atmosphero of high The law would have made hims MacColl (I said to myself), Round Two got off to
Hle I have ever droll is a nightingale mughing a the Bamingest elart. It seen outside the USA. you live a upole of informative had been my words is being pushed out by at a talk on "Planning Control well-qualified art clever
people Some Industrial Experiences," Wo are in the H. Q. of the with what I thought was rather hauled her off for allowing But do you ever lend an ear? at the Royal Instituto of Society for Cultural Relationis a reproving eye by Comrade | Little Bisok Sambo to šať“ 100 No. You are apt to lounge in Chartered Surveyors In Grent with the USSR, in Kensington Tolush, a much older and mare pancakes for ten. movies or sit staring at Idiotic George Street.
restralood character, starting to parlour games on TV. Bad." So... offer on this lecture to Repairing to G.G. Stroot, I Inside, the properties include a rat over the temples, where observed a quantity of men, vast balalaika standing in the his turn comes be trests matters Jag. A
gravity. His closely resembling chartered hall, and. In tho, choss room a with portentous surveyors, trooping into an im- beaten-up
concert
Grand plano Samments are translated by a MacColl and a
nervous young interpreter. First to the Victoria Halls In posing
-And "Just look at that old entranou.
salamander store,
schoolboy hero Heryales, dire Bloomsbury, where about 100 troop in too, and ask mys, While a helper stande on a
"Lecture!
table moving floor,"
ing stydama witholit moving chesenen about on male and femiate dairy tech
But I managed to get to the a...) jumbo-sized. demonstration But Tolash, too, can, twinkle, from Mito "Wafer nologists are sliting in an at- tentive trance
The shooting wild! Iecture a two-header by wallboard, Bronstein gives a talk. At one point ha skyw In a basement wrors. Dekle and Horm of the which convulses, us meeting-room.,
English know-well this play ban contraventiori Ministry of Civil Aviationi; on Six men are seated up on the control of Aircraft Movements of fun no Iiming could mako, Boigh cheat master. Filber
This Bronstein, with his penso it was found by the great and drainage and the prote
tion of wild bird green-bako-fronted platform,
tres Loud orice of #KJ&-P}]»b@ry whe Tive of them, like the rest of us at London Airport" the big money
· in`` tho - entertain" ·mériden Pfs listen to the sixth and ho if premises being low of the ment world. For one
out, is
institute of Civil Engineers. A IN is American.
heard of: a Bed Bui turbs subject? Milk D. R. Babin,
of the
Organisation; ut . Didn't like to tiptoo out, again,
kindly stayed. 1 muS
With his gold-rimmed pretty hours glasses and flotky quiet votos he won
Br, born to be an uncle. But oh wilay
(Cher drobniors of hiss delivery16963 May though hinwelt irathu gombáci
Square.
id Tolnahi,
NO, NO, SIR!