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IV THE "CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1954

MONSENSE ANERKA

World Copyright by arrangement wun the Manchester Guardian

Social Revolutions

In The New China

A

CCORDING to the statistics, hardly

By DERYCK WINTERTON

one unhappy family Special Correspondent of the Daily Herald, London, who can now be found toured Red China with the British Labour Party, delegation Among the 185 familles in

Wanglo village, in Lushan of their methoda, based County.

accumulated experience, often effective.

on

Kre his

Supposing a student says in answers that Ne thinks Morxian le full of mistakes? There is nothing to prevent the him doing that but, of course,

by he does not.

by

That is the opinion of the

In Peking i saw ong of official handbook on the old children's hospitals run marriage law of the the muncipality. It WIS $0

This is the same sort of reply overwhelmed People's Republic of China. completely

children that is given about the freedom crowds of walting

was of the Press-To criticise the and parents that Onc baffled to sce how they ever general policies of the Govern- out or tronted nt ment as opposed to some par- ali.

of bureaucratie They were everywhere ticular plece which packed in the corridors, on the

the Government You

the stairs or in long

are told patient lines deck

Press could and would criticise outside.

J Government policies

One

may doubt the ability of statisticians to decide whether a family is sorted happy or not, but it is true that the change in the legal position of Chinese women by the Communists is itself a revolution.

Women are now, in law at least.

equal footing with mien for marriage and divorce, the owning of property

and

pay.

un

They are also equal for many jobs which are tough enough for men,

The custom of having more than one wife, which was already dying, is now illegal.

Women are being trained for professions on a sur prising scale. They make

were

the for

But the prospects for universities, the prospecia

are now 50 infinitely China, brighter in many ways that one guesses they are prepared swallow what they do not like for the sake of clear national and personal advantages,

of

Les rmour

IN

Britain Today

Everything Stops For Tea

London, hopelessly waterlogged, will" sit HOSE who take con- in trains with pained express siderable, delight in sion on your face, concentrating -on "the middle pages of The predicting a sorry end Time, for England and Englishmen.Moreover, the Englishmen L will doubtless be encouraged obviously to completely in the by the latest amouncement away of the thing that he feels on tea consumption.

horribly unconfortable when, be

Every man, woman and comes out of it. Let him wake. child (and possibly a sizable with the birds chirping and bees up to a fine summer morning. number of dogs) consumes buzzing, and he will put down just over 30 cups of ten n his sudden feolling of energotle week. Three years ago, par well-being to nothing more than for the course was a measly the need for a cup of tea. 27. cups.

Tell him that he has just won What is more, the Englishman £75,000 on the football pools Is starting to drug himself and what does the Englishman earlier in the day. The Tea do. He just grunts and tell the Bureau reports that warly wife to brow up. morning teu consumption is de- finitely on the increase.

Working on a conservative estimate, we can safely assume that

something in excess of BD million cups of ten are swallowed every day in London alone.

The spectacle, then, is one of No

of

Daily, just, us moni workers are getting into the mid-morning swing of things, everything stops for tea..

Get yourself arrested, and the firm thing the police sergeant does is pour you a cup,

accial

ion is completo Occasion

Englishmen bu

busily doping them without several cups swallowed

salves into that state of hope. quickly, just to make sure that La torpor which is known as nobody comes out with any

typical English reserve." bright cracks.

Drink enough les, and you, But, enough of this, I see

too, filled with tunnie' acid and the offico cuy has arrived....

WHEN

Just A Bit Thick

psychiatrists

For it may very well be that

a

Whowing up at town planners they are attacking the problem meetings, the ordinary mortal from the wrong end. How do may be pardoned for suspecting these people come to be living, that the thing is getting just a forlorn, In one room?

The little thick.

phenomenon Nevertheless, Dr T. M. Ling relatively new one, We have ever had before, more generat had some fascinating things to more houses per head than we to say to the town planners

at St gathered

moro publicly- Andrew's prosperity and

available recreation. University last week.

It is

Is just possible that the Dr Ling funds a link between problems is that people are less the suicide rate and the kind of capable of solving their own houses people live in-and problem than they used to be? statistical connection between Do they drift town planning and the upsurge room dwellings through sheer of mental disorders In modern inertia, fall to make friends be- cause they just don't. make the cftort, and lose their zest for Town planning, which loaves Hie bochume can find nothing

they millions of mon and women that really interests them? Living In one-rcom "flats," But if that's

how come? true, surrounded by the grime, of in- Has it

it something to do with and the architectural cur over-more-complex way of dustry

which bicis arcte from life in decay which, the more prosperous, havo

vaster

Have we paid a fabulous price

And this is probably truc the great majority of educated Chinese. It is futile to expect that China, which never had Western Democratic should suddenly think them the most important thing in world.

ADVANTAGE

*

ideas,ocieties.

the

into their one-

each man is an

CHINA & linked tightly with long since moved on, goes hands ever in an over

Russia because so far it is

in-hand with mass unhappiness.

',!

so almost entirely from Russia But there is another angle to for cur industrialised society?

By contrast with an ordinary bad. But policies have not yet Chinese crowd they were silent be anything but good, - even the smallest children there has been no noed were quiet and behaved.

exercise this freedom.

HOSPITALS

ROM there I went straight to one of the now children's hospitals, now nearly finished. It is obvious that the Chinese intended

D

to that the machines and technical help that she needs has come,

to seize such

the problem. Dr Ling edas that

mothe Increasing mass unhap-

on

The questions are not rhetori-

Gnswers.

So with strikes. Yes,

say But if China is willing to take piness in our society today can cal. There don't seem to be any union leaders, there is a right also from the West, as she in- be atributed to the decline in to strike, but since the policies siste she is, and the West is religious values....and to

But one thought may be worth are decided by a Government willing

pursuing an increasing belief in the efficacy

or clerical and enormous political and economic of the State."

Today's Industrial led by the working class since there

is full discussion advantage, that link will be "Health,

worker must likely spends his friendship, and a zest with the unions,

werking hours performing the there is no weakened

for, life." he goes on, "are occasion to strike.

same mechanical operation over being I asked ono English speaking incressrigly

demanded end over agd of a 100, his Ono's guess ls that Marxist Chinese where he had learned from the community........as to make the contrast doctrine is

In 19 cas # fairly formal English.

right, and the responsibility is aa sharp as posible, but

intelligence in affair

for exceeds the in China, and that so At school and, university, he being

shoulders Intelligence demanded fact the contrast is sharp.

long as lip service is paid the said. Was English taught now? of scrow is not turned too tight. Not so much.

I was told by the Director of member of the staff who was Tsinghua University that every there five years ago la stili Russiats there. It is easier, perhaps, for age." for engineering teachers to accept And that is the sort of in- be. Marxiam,

but it is not to be different attitude which most supposed that everyone now in Chinese would probably like to 100 percent converted.

be able to take to Russia.

in

It was a huge building brick with spare land gardens, full of light and glass for

and air. There are playrooms with the toys already waiting. There is accommodation mothers to stay if need Treatment will be free.

up one-third to a half in The hospital does not open some medical schools and a for another month, and it was

that fifth at Tsinghua Engineer- stated

treatment charges had not yet been fixed but

ing University which, up to that there would be a "provi 1936, is said to have had ston" that those whe earhot only one woman, graduate.

HYGIENE

pay need not.

China needs thousands more such hospitals,

So far thero is freo medical Aro

care only for those who and

regarded as the key men women of the nów society-. at industrial workers, civil servants, teachers and students,

ANOTHER revolution has been in hygiene, which seems to have been cepted almost ne a universal religion.

the

How about Russian?

sro

Does

Yes, there was more Russian, government Lg - things which become atrophted and sink to

Then he added: "But to us,

Just another langu

for the “Friendship and a rest for life" Jab-mearing that his mind must

stagnate.

I eventually obviously can't the level of the machine? provide whether they are run by the bad old capitalists pr anybody else.

Dr. Ling leaves 415 there, hoping, no doubt, that the town planners will take the matter suitably to heart.

BACK AGAIN AFTER A LONG ABSENCE

William Hickey

1066 AND ALL THIS

I tlonal Servicemen this Copps was

The whaltering thing about

With illiteracy reckoned at Ond expected China to be 60 percent of the population, education is another révolution.

London. phones,

tew rusty ... razor dirty, disease-ridden, with that has to be put through. MET three young Na- blades, and a piece of coal.” smells and files. But It is agreed that the last, five Here there is at least the

he had made this that advantage years have seen a

Written week who made me feel as set in the same frathe of mind trans-

language, complicated as it is if I had served in a bow that a sophisticated parson buys formation. Flies have been is the same for all China, and and arrow army. I felt dia- an old cottage. To him radio is almost wiped out, the streets that apart from the dialects in tinctly 1066,

801 simple that he finds it sting are clean, there is no litter, the Southeast, there is a cam-

to make it rather dimoult, to mon spoken language. This, And yet as they explained build # no garbage heaps, no smells. considering the vast ale of radios and "electronic equip pieces of metal,

set with old bits and So far, as one can judge Civate pretty considerable ment" I tried to reassure acil; we were

Bill we were at one in the from the looks, the people and children are healthy.

Disease like smallpox have been attacked-it is

advantage

EDUCATION

DRIMARY education, which... as

myself.

"After all, it you got to do?" I asked him. longer have was only 1989."

Twenty-Chroo days," he They were on duty with the answer fort bure he could Army exhibits at the Radio have added the hours and Show.

There was Omporal Kan

I should there thought both of them would have been offered

commission Still, I don't want to do them any harm with the authorities. Neither complained. But Williams told me his eye- eight had failed him

seemed odd to me. Pro- widing he knows all about these complicated machines, what the devil does his eyesight matter? Spectacles have been invented..

Mid-air joust

I WAS talking to Colin "Tlu

Legs Hodgkitizen, who lost both legs in an air crash before claimed that five hundred yet is for

fought his way back to flying. million people have been starts at seven. At 13, a child in, R.E.M.S. He has made a

Still, he love the Army

hoais stimit that his he was shot down over BL vaccinated in five years, talocs ch ENETI for - middle "Desert Island Wireless,”... just pory low-ball give him gen Ömer in 1943, Now he bas and that in some cities last school, if he falls that is the to show how a little inventive... · Interesting hobby. But he had heard from the Germans-squad- year there was not one, d'or his schooling.

Inesa can produce a radio out of all the challdemos of the trained ron to which bis vietor Belonged,

almost anything

Tubuza, frj

4Tmin "They are writing a history of Middle school lanis until: 19.

Hla set was, a mass of bila of pow

he wild, "I'm. -the unit and want to get Alled and if the next exam is passed barbed the university is automatic cigarette tins, bits of lead pencil,

wire.

· pilole Impressions of their pot silver paper, eving back

machines and act

uncties School fees are low less than a metal polish night One has

Hodgicinson it he One pound yearly university is free

have known that there'would-be metal polish in any thing; to, do But there is a chronic short. How tightly enter

with the Army, ngerpt doctorw. It is estimated students to

from universal, : Cappa Libe the others he is whled. He laurbed. Hów the war and then, “Uko “Bader,

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