CHINESE POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE
How many
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THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1957.
rice bowls
and how much rice?
HINA'S Communist leaders have alwaye been realistic-nt least over internal affairs. Sometimes they will hammer away with their theories for a long time, but in the end. they usually face whatever facts there are, and in the last few weeks they have been facing the rock-bottom facts of China today.
What are these facts? They are quite simple. China wants to become industrialised, but China is an agricultural country. Thereforo China must have an agricultural surplus to export so she can buy capital goods from the Russiana and others, But-and this the equation that must be balanced-China also has larger population than any other country.
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by Richard Harris B.B.C.
now the States
are crazy o
ROBIN HOOD AND MR SCHWEPPES!
dick my
Washington. DRITAIN'S interests may Dbe neglected in Africa, Asla, and other outlandish King Arthur's knights. As I Scotsman, shrewdly imaginative way--and it will be really
set on of an evening David Ogilvy. parts, but I can tell you one I'm confronted with "Fabian of thing-here In America we the Yard," "Sherlock Holmes, are colonising the States all and "The Scarlet Pimpernel,” over again.
-DON'T. IMAGINE THEY'RE THE ONLY ONES
subsidiary measures have been Hellungklang proving where the Icgalised
Amur river bends round to form Slowing down the population the frontier between Chine and increase tackles one side of the Rumia. problem; the other is growing The drive to the northwest more crops, A new campaign mean even harder work for this has begun too, There most of the land in Kansu, Ching- was farge agricultural hal and Sinklang noody irriga-
Let me just give you an exhibition in Peking a
few tion before it can take people, works ago and a conference of and besides, there are different idea of the sort of thing model agricultural workers was nomad peoples living in these that's going on now. Five years ago if you had present rute there won't be any urged to produce a bumper parts who may not take idndly Still, it is suggested to the Chinese that surplus to export,
harvest in 1957. Teng Tzu-bul, to the newcomers. China wil
tho Communist director of agricultural policy, explained how important it was it the rate of China's industrialization was not to be slowed down, BAD LUCK
their task was going to bo not be able to earn the money rather difficult because of their to pay for imporiz, big population they would have Horo are the figuren, There brushed the objection aside and were 502 million on the told you that Communism can mainland la the 1953 census, take care of any numbers. Now, The arrual no! Increase Li the return to realism in obvious somewhat over two percent,
So the
Those films
going on and it is going to continue for the next 20 years. Over one million people have
OnlyTTEM: The extent to already moved and that the beginning. It will mega British films have new homes and new craps and United States, TV b less crowding on the land in short of sensational, the crowded plains of North
in two bad years Of course we must remember
Chino.
It
from recent statements irs which means somewhere Peking. The change probably between 12 and 15 million more beyan when the census of 1953 Chinese every year. produced the Arst accurate total population of China must that China has had rather bad' answer to the question of how now be in the region of 630 lucit since 1949. There have good many Chinese there really inillon, If the same percentage only been two really were-582 million.
increase were to continue, in years; floods and drought and That must have shaken them five years time the Chinese Pests have ruined crops in all 1954 and Peking, though the result of would number 700 million, in the other years and
1966 wore two
of the worst The shaking was not immediate- ten years' Lime Chiris would
two bad ly apparent. But in the have a population of close on years-that is to say
years out of the thres since the following year realism began 800 million.
consus revezled how bie sho of the
problem was. People's MORE FOOD
This
but no surplus
appeal was straight. forward and factual and urged
to creep in when one
the members of Congres suggested that perhaps birth control might help, and it
the use of scientific method, but wasn't forg afterwards that How are they going to be the peasants may find that es birth control clinics were being fed?
The answer is that they operative farms may not be so opened all over China; but still can bo fed with the increased scientific. We shall know more we were told that this was only rate of food production that about that atter next autumn's to help women in spacing their China has kept up during the harvest. But there is one other children-talk of keeping down pust five year, but quite way in which China is going the population was dismissed.
clearly there isn't going to be about this business of popula Surplus. So the facts that tion und food, One of the BIRTH CONTROL
Chine is facing are the simple biggest migrations in history is official policy treasing agricultural production meat there
and fundamental ones of in- being directed by the Gover- to The under-
Now, in 1957, that attitude and seeing that the number of populated regions of the north- has gone. Birth control is now mouths to be fed doesn't grow cost and northwest of China. the official policy and there is so fast that the increase isn't The drive to the northeast- hardly any attempt to hide the Immediately swallowed up. or Manchuria as we still call reason the equation isn't going There musi be a surplus. That it has been going on for mote
There to balance.
urc too is why birth control has been than a century, Now the many mouths to feed and offetoily introduced and why Government is shifting thousands they go on increasing at the abortion and sterilisation-as of familles
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Those planes
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TLADIMIR SMIRNOV, I have had 100 to 150 letters a
sounds promising, London agent of Russia'a after. Inquiries around Intourist Bureau, speaks London travel agencies I report the English with an effort. But disappointing
resulls Mr Smirnov got his mes Intourist. I find only one small sage across to
me.
agency and a shipping line are Russia he sald, actually hooking tours to Russia. "Come to "We want many, many
In Berkeley Street, Britain's tourists in the U.S.S.R."
biggest travel agency told me: "We tried inclusive A 13-day tour
tours to of Russia would cost me about £125, Russia last year. Oh yes, we had
But many inquiries. everything hotels, meals, ex- cursions and transport 15 and bookings were so poor that we from London--included. This are not doing it this year."
sec Mr George
British
I went to
actual
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&
Well, if and when the Queen docs come over to visit James- town, she will find that more than just Virginia has been it is smart to go British these colonised by the British-the days.
whole country is in a fair way My British sults attract to join us.
admiring comment from my American friends. My daughter's girl friends are openly envious of the black cardigan I look her from London,
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business in Graham Greene's He started "Potting Shod"--and, of course, underdog but won all the way. Pric Portman and Margaret Now there are cheer for packing 'em British boxing in the American in for a good cry at "Separate Pres. I never thought to sea Tables," by Terenco Rattigan.
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Ho Russiane are to
British We started
the base price of a third class tour, and relative to agency which handles virtually the Cross, mariager of the travel distance covered it is cheap. Not only that, The Russlan all the Intourist business,
The government would actually pay sald
definitely keen me £2 59. . day "pocket hollday-makers. money" for every day I spent doing tours in 1955 and this will in the U.S.SR
to
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CHAPTER 3
His Own Outfit
were the Reno Club, Fair land Park and Pla-mor ball- Main rooms, Tower and Street theatres, and the Frog Hop ballroom, a little way out of the city.
oile
Baste's punching, sparse-noted
Like Duke Ellington and Fletcher
Moten's Henderson, orchestra brought orchestral qualities to big band jazz. The ensemble had * LIVERUNTAS' of "You will need the money," be our best year yet. Last year
tonal blendings. And the we took out a Conservative said Mr Smimoy, who Is a
He
exuberant Basie-inspired rhythm. Moscow University graduate In Parliamentary candidate,
of the enjoyed
himself-made dates "We cam so many with some Russian girls" economies.
"ING of the local jazz rection became KT
reasons why Kansas City, grew more roubles in Russla..........”
scene In the late famous for its solid rhythms, *This seemed
STRICT PLANNING A mixed-up
Twenties was Bennle Moten. Moscow way of explaining a In actual figures, this agency His band, however, never familiar economie fact that the booked 300 British touris
the Moten band sound. Since Russian rouble is pegged at Rustla last year. This year the became famous on a nation- plano style was just right for about four times its real value figure will be nearer 500. At the wide scale as they might those days, Basie has often In sterling. The big deterrent price, the figure is still very have done if they had had ald how indebted he was
old mid-West to holidays in Russia has poor,
the opportunity to broadcast the always been this artificial ex- Why, despite pil induce-
bandicader. For stranging and record. But in those a change rate. Il means that a ments, ure Intourist holidays
scores and playing with the days, Jim Crow was too band for a number of years, ho bottle of beer costs you 8, in not catching on? Russia instead of 28.
The reasons are very Russlan. powerful to allow that kind learnt great deal Yat the Russian government
You can forget, if you are of thing to come about.
orchestra 1022- moulding an w190, -for the first time in cearly 20 going to Russia, any Bohemian
Much that he learnt he years-is making a real effort to nonsense about stopping off at When The Blue Devils later modifed and used for his attract British tourists in 1957. some little wayside in which finally disbanded, the Count, own band,
Under the new dispensation takes your fancy. Intourist along with Walter Page,
overy British visitor to Russla, holidays
are
organiced
na
chunky
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to
about
But Bennie Moten fell ́ ́11. The day care when he was not
rich or poor, will be paid £2 5s, relentlessly as a Five Year Plan. trumpeter Oran "Hot Lips" First group a day for the duration of his All hotel bookings must be Page, and Jimmy Rushing, stay. It Ja meant to cover the made in advance, You get went over to Moten. cost 04 cigarettes, postcards, vouchers for "your meals, and @ouvenirs—even the od bottle they come in different colours "I played third plano in able to leave with the band for to show which class you belong that band," recalls the an appointment in Denver. He to and how many mess you are Count. "Bonnie was the big stayed in Kansas City for en Other subsidies have been entitled to. arranged. There are half-price The class structure Laman at the keys, and his operation. rall farea from the fronder to elaborate. You have the De brother Bus played pland As the boys were in the the start of the tour, and free Luxe tour, the Superlor tour accordion."
of a beer. HALF PRICE
rail travel thereafter.
then the 1st, 2nd-and 3rd-class
midst of the arst night at Denver, Bas · Moten "was called "We are building new hotels tour. These Soviet class Five members of that off : the stand to shower, the and restaurants," "beamed Mr distinctions are much too
His brother had significantly, puzzling for the British travel band stayed with Basis for telephone,
died on the operating 'table. the first Intourist agent to be agents, who in practice only many years. As well as appointed to London since 1989. book De Laxe, Superior and Page and Rushing, Trum- All the mustafană în the band
will be gr "Soon, it is said, you
peter Ed Lewis, Jack had a great respect for Bennio able to drive into Russia -in Nearly all the British travel Washington, on baritone to bear. The band carried on and the news, was a hard blow sax and drummer Jo Jones o bost they could, under Bus's were to form the nucleus of leadership, but broke up after many of the Count'a banda, mame six months.
Probassy
room
your own cara,”
3rd, sleeping two or three to a The
Intourist Bureau 18
and travelling promoting to Come to Russia charabang groups of 30. drive by Prem advertising and The De Luxe tour, at a brochures, Ube any capitalist whacking 210 15 a day ex- organisation. A 40-page booklet cluding travel, enables you to tell you Where to Go. A
a chauffeur Kansas City bumper issue of the Russian vel alone de
driven car. newspaper, Sovint NOT FOR ME Wendy, carries a bikini-clad The whole thing is so tightly Also in the band at that bloode on the cover and Ave onganized that you do not get porlod was Eddie. Durham; pages of stories and pictures, your vino in London until you who combined trombone PROGRESS
have booked your meals in playing with a great deal of Times have changed indeed. Russia d
arranging In 1966 not a single Intourtsi
war nich Mr Bmimoy! volg wong kuhised. Now Briton griendly Russian I: bore to ard offered hard roubles and tell him that this was my, idea free transport as well,
of a purgatorial holiday. How successful has the Comme Yes, I do want to go to To Ruada campaign,beent
Russ. But not a the voucher "Sines, we started advertising mystian. Nish to that in the British Frame in January,
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"Scene of my flow mainbtra in the Moben: hand joined me, and X organised, my fast ezonál group,” skys Hogle, In 1935, he the outit, and alerged eventually it grew to its present sice.
"I don't mind saying it was a * med scuffle with that band,” be recalls. “Wa ware in and out of the Reno Club for a year before The band built up a great things even started to look up. following as they became Thats where Benny Goodmen well-known in (practically and John Hammamend orme ing OVERY Kansas City jazz V
And that enter marked the hunt. Some of those places tuming point in Desigi ziren.