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Show Bdddddt TjJnuis 10A lot Sol t- :!the sino-sovi- Ideological dispute et City, Utah, Saturday, May S, IWI the tTinied States T - it- - By DENNIS BLOODWOBTH -Observer JESewtoe as 'having been divinely inspired. iBINLwdo VAILABLE Lessons From The Elk Kill of predators, particularly wolves, has up-th-at the balance further. The resultant National Park has officially opened Its doors for NOW THAT YELLOWSTONE i . 1962 season, tvorried wildlife lovers can bf reassured: The elk are stilL there, from many park . Still readilyobserved - ; - roads. reduction elk The In the parklias ruined nothing; In fact, careful herd counts now show at had the reduction program not been carried out, far more animals would have suffered the slow, hard death of starva tion and freezing. - The count, both in and o pf the park, Pfl showed 5,725 animali after 4,792ha kill or elsewhere and shipped trapped et the . ' much-criticiz- l and, their As another example, Park Superin-tendent Lemuel A, Garrison tells us that for the first time, grasshoppers are a problem inside the park attracted by small plots of hay planted to feed horses used by park personnel The practice has been discontinued, but who can tell what effect the insects will have on natures primitive balance? aown-unequlv- o- ' h OBVIOUSLY, the nature undisturbed deal is gone beyond reclaiming and man must do his intelligent best to main-B-ut carcasses turned over ta the Indians. Some 340 victims of winter-ki- ll have been found, and experts believe that many tnorewHl die berdfeadequat spring and summer feed is avallable.The range used by the elk is badly depleted, despite the reduction. Without ItTooth nature is about16 credibly complex .(if the grasshoppers are ' in- prcpe,F poisoned, for example, what mains?). the range damage and the winter-kil- l ' would have been far worse. Moreoverritshould be pointed out, this winter that seemed so harsh was really little more than average. The elk population had'soared during several light winters. This first normal winter in some years" caught the population way out of balance. , tth. - As a corollary to better management, more Intelligent cooperation with other agencies is also needed. r ' .. whd belleve -- The elK reduction program within officials claim, for example, could largely have been avoided If Montana fish and game officials had seen fit to establish an appropriate open season at the time the elk were out of the parky Wyoming fish and game officials could also takebetter advantage of the migration of the Teton National Park - If this offends'the purists, Proper c management-deman- ds more knowledge and more research than -isnow availablepthat Is one of the Park Services priority needs. SEVERAL LESSONS stand out from the bitter controversy over elk. One Is that man is going to have to play much more active role in helping keep the national parks in closer " Tirds or fish that X herd.,. sec-taria- Tse-tun- .. BIO PLANS are afoot to Increase, the na-tional park acreage considerably and' otherwise to expand our Outdoor recreation facilities. But taking care of what we 'have is also a never-endin- g job that" demands greater understanding and "cooperation on all sides, that nature should be left to take its course In the parks, they must realize that man disturbed the balance when ha first set foot there. Civilization crowding along the northern edges for example, has disturbed the seasonal migration pattern, The elimination - NewJLoolc At Nauvoo HAROLD P. FABIANS contributions to lovers of history and of beauty are well known to residents of the Mountain States. His tireless efforts were largely responsible for creation of the Grand Teton National Park in Its present splendid form. And his effective work pushed Utahs own parks program off to state- - a running start after years at a virtual standstill It Is gratifying, therefore, ' that he is spearheading an Investigation pf he details of Premier Chou EnJaTs report to the National, Peoples Congress In Peiping have led political experts to believe Chinas more intransigent Corn-smunis leaders are at last bowing to economic necessity, f ; There are signs that they ara anxious to patch up their costly quarrd with the Soviet Union; and they jmVe now cahy that first priority must be given to agriculture. X. But these can be no doubt that If they ara modifying their policies. It is only because they have been forced most reluctantly to do so, and that they regard the change of line as no more than a tactical swerve. The Chinese Premier gave no figures for Industrial or agricultural production, nor any hard tacts' on the progress of the current five-yea-r plan at least In the version of his speech contained In the published communique and this in Itself Is a significant comment bn "the shaky state of the nation. Moreover, nothing has been re- the pposltlon-voicedby." the congress who delegates) projects Were " known beforehand to wuPrui'e86enual , eomPletlon- blaming Chinas economic difficulties .Thiahas. an already formidable accumulation domStIc PUcies and Jhe of Industrial problems stemming Soviet split from food shortages, the need to tch labor from factories to fields, Sectarians Vs. Moderates sickness, among undernourished 1957 has been Joined" workers, inadequate supplies Of raw SINCE thebattle materials, poor quality products and Chinese Communist falling markets. Party between.. nationalistic headed by - Liu Shao-ohl- , Reports show that con: chairman of the Republic, who enloy work on many" factories and T the active sympathy of Mao' neering schemes has been abanchairman of the party, and the doned. In other plants output has and the Wuhan more pragmatic moderates, whose dropped by 80 champions are generally believed steel complex, for example, the sec to W Premier-Cho- a riidMafshal- - end largest in China, has feeeiL wnrt of capacity, ac-TChen Yl, the foreign minister. , big only at 30 sectarians aim has been cording to latest available figures, to promote Chinese Communlsf con- -' The outputoLcarsand tractonr in formlsm and to eliminate all here- - the show piece factories at Chang Chun and Loyang is believed to be tics, even at the cost of national well below 10,000, units a year, efficiency. At the same time they sought to build Chiha quickly though each was designed to pro-an- d ruthlessly Into a modern social- - duce 30,000. The government has 1st industrial power capable, of publishing production lenging both Russia and the West ures- for world leadership. . The moderates have advocated a Grain Lags slower, more JHrmly based develop 196L China produced no more jment of the national economy and close friendship with the USSR. she did in 1957. Last year she was obliged to import gram, mainly from Australia and Canada, -- to the value of about $350,000,000 and Is placing further, orders for 1962-63- . ' Peipings effort to pay for these purchases can only be described as desperate. In 1961 the Chinese sold-abo70 of all the silver purchased in JLondon, the accepted World market a total of some 40,000,000 ounces. They have also been unload-ingold, and attempting to diversify their exports to cover a range that extends from wolfram to bicycles. China reduced the value of .her mahded the rapid repayment of all Imports from Britain from $85,500,-tlal- s loans including, it is reported, the 59? ,in 960 les than ; st of armaments supplied to 000 last year. Jn the Same-perio- d she cut her Imports ' from West Chinese forces during the Korean War. The Russians turned a deaf Germany by more than ear to appeals for grain deliveries- - front France by more than 25 per to relieve the acute "food- - shortage. cent, from Switzerland by 33 percent It is estimated that about 3,000 Soviet and from Austria by nearly 75 per technicians working on key Indus-- , cent. trial and engineering projects in Chinese receiving remittances rtiaL-.-XstPP-4 , from relatives in Malaya are allowed to spend some of the money to buy necessities but at double the normal price. Many overseas Chinese have been told that they should purchase the houses occupied by their parents irt overcrowded cities like Shanghai the implication being that if they do not the parents may be evicted and send down to the country." It. is reported from Macao that they also can buy out relatives who are still In China but wish- - to leave the country, for sums varying from pound $2,000 to $2,500, and from Formosa that this can be done by paying the ! price of 15 tons of fertilizer. - slowly. There is less emphasis on industry, more on agriculture as the foundation of the economy, According ' to Hong Kong sources, the Chinese Communist Politburo decided in to seind an envoy to Moscow later this month in order to effect a reconciliation with the Soviet Union. And Moscow and Peiping have signed a new trade pact. ' On the other hand, the Communist press is threatening irresponsible" Communist In the provinces with It accused them China On its Own or arrogance. of thinking they know that in view of Rus- - better than Peiping. Experts believe China must now thatrihis trend presages a new rectification campaign, perhaps even a own efforts, her nse solely by major purge of Communist cadre the Communist leaders , appear to One thing is certain it reflect a have made belated concessions tq widespread conviction among many Individualism in party officials and members that the moderates. scientific research, hitherto a form the past policies of their leaders in of heresy, today enjoys official the capital have brought the counproval. Editorials In Communist- - try to the brink of ruin. d po& - Mr. Fabian brings impressive creden " . to the task. He has just been ' pointed as chairman of the Advisory Board on National Parks, Historic Sites, Buildings, and Monuments. As such, lie ap- - - "before Brigham Young and his followers were driven out In 1846 suggests fascinat- ihg possibilities Surely, the citys history - two-third- WHATEVER THEIR CONVICTIONS on ' tary plans bring ihe health insurance cov- the matter, a, group of eastern doctors erage well over 50 of the total. More anana more firms are extending their regutactics 4a questionable adopted lar health coverage nouncing they Ml not treat patients under pensioned of re-President Kennedys program of medical tired workers, care for the aged if it passes Congress, If medical care were .included, the The way to defeat-th- is plan is to ex- - "Serial Security tax for the avccage worker amine its details and to get the facts bewould go up from the present $10 a year fore the public. Emotionalism such as ' to $283 a year by 1968. It would push the These doctors arlT using can .only play into" Social Security tax weH beyond 10 of the hands of those Mo are trying to.put tlic coveiod payroll, despite the fact that . the program over. Secretary Ribl-coThis fight Is building into what may himself recently said, J. think we be the hottest issue in Congress this sumhave reached a stage of almost maximum mer. As it does, the public interest vv.ll taxation under Social Security. In my best be served by sticking to the facto. mind, 1 place that at 10 of payroll." r Among the farts are these: Average yearly medical expenses of The "Kennedy program, or the elderly are estimated at around $180 a year. Is it necessary to boost the Social bill, putting medical care for the aged under Social Security would leave out Security tax of almost everyone over their d nearly, four million older people not working career this much to provide care to less than 10 of the population many by Social Security. At the same time it would force all others into the program of whom can well afford to provide their whether they need it or not. own care? It would not pay doctor bills. and THESE ARE THE KINDS of facts the," would not cover hospitalization after 90 know to judge fairly Public , the days. , bill We believe that It would. duplicate or override existif the public has them this headlong jump ing voluntary hospitalization plans' vhich toward the complete welfare state will be are growing tremendously. Blue Cross such headline-husoundly defeated,-Bu- t alone covers five million of the 16 million ing revolts as the Nevy Jersey doctors Americans 65 years or over. Other volun- staged sen e only to confuse the facts. -- re ff -- Kmg-Anders- cov-ere- ' King-Anders- nt Fai r Or Peepshow? .THE SEATTLE Worlds Fair has just" - slipped a notch in the estimation of' anyone wpb respects modesty and moral integrity, --And Indeed she didrtghelost modesty, and thxrespect of others. She made herselfrcheap. As Apostle Hugh B. Browmhasf put it, The exposing of the un body to public view i like a for sale notice indicating cheap, shopworn, or marked-dow- n goods., self-respe- ct xreports ..indicate . a couple of shows turing female nudity. I lost more than she added, gained. fea- Peasant Tells Of Fleeing Chinese Commune Because Of Hunger (Editors Noter. Llaog Chu,- who wrote the following dispatch, used to be a landless farmer In Red China a member of the class the Communists call the backbone of file revolution." Liang swam to freedom in Portuguese Macao after Red guards accused him of for food. secretly catching-shrimHere he tells of his hardship in the commune and of his break for ' freedom.) By LIANG CHU (Written for UPI) HONGKONG (UPI) Everything after the establish- ment of the Commune. We turned over to it all We had, and we did everything on order, if we worked, we were given two meals of About seven ounces of rice aNqieal. We had enough food'during the p -- d e ent from the remarks of this particular yjung girl, who said she was disgusted by frequent vulgarremarks from spectators. They treat us like animals in a zoo, she said, and Im tired of it. diately. . handleqgkj plaqyngJkh tatoe. carrots, taros, melons and f . r,- - Or Vegetables. Only a very small portion of the crop is distributed among the com-- , mune members. Most of It is for export. , x ; -- offer "thait is clean 'end decent as well as highly interesting that it doesnt need to stoop to using peepshows to attract visitors. It, should discard them, imme- w -. f ' " fi ' puzzled -- about they sent it They keep the shipment of such produce secret . Since they didnt let qs eat what planted and harvested, you can figure out how well they treated us. They scolded us filthily.- - They are poorly educated people" and very ill- mannered. . There were many militiamen in The whole militia unit had only. two rtfles.They Used those to patrol near the river bank or the seacoast , There were some PLA (Peoples Liberation Army) soldiers) also sta- tioned ift our area. They (rushed to a trouble spot as soon as (hey heard a warning shot by the militia guards. gotone or -- eve-pin- g, 4 I was always d aftimwwt on' e went from bad to Worse. Sometimes we worked as many as 18 hoqrs. We started work aboulto two hours before daybreak. Life be-- XTHE SOLDIERS didnt eat the X same food we did. They eat meat cape harder and harder. We never got anything good out every "Week and they can always of the commune system. They kept eat their fiIto.They even feed their .reducing wir ration of lire, we could pigs with rice grueL The ,, mllitiamen 'get the same still eat seven ounces of rice a meal last spring, but new itrpnix. 5,1 food ,as ordinary peopleXbut they ounces per meal. get mote of it The PLA soldiers We had to attend meetings where the cadre made It clear that those who worked harder would be given" more food. Those who failed to meet the days quota had to eat less. We saw movie shows in the but they were mostly about the problem of Increasing pgpduCv tion. Some pictures talked about the problem of reducing manpower; What goes on at ftiese showwSif for one showgirl, ho 'quit In dis Thats pretty blunt talk-b- ut its true.. gust. Her comments speak volumes not -- Immodest the human body Is THE CADRfS said - mechanized of exposure ' only on the' nature of such shows but an assault on virtue, No better are those framing would help reduce man-bu-t also' on the insidious natures of girlie It wouldnt make our who seek out such displays. Both the dis- power, magazines and on clothing fashions which wo easieit They-any just assign weaken barriers viewer file player and the som kind daringly expose five human body. C w,?rk and degradation. .There is always more work That these things are degrading to 1 against immorality too-muc- h mid-Marc- h Stressing 536-000- Facts, Not Emotion, On.Health Care organs are underlining that ideas and ambitions must be related to reality and that it is better to lay a find basis" and even go forward get far treatment s food Is concerned. The main, reason, I wanted as-wh- ere -- young men with me. X I will not reveal their names - .We ' ' i tv m r be- cause they maw stiU be in China. They all wanted to escape, but they " didnt know the route. got in a stolen boat and used four planks for oars. We rowed desperately for a time, but soon we became grounded. We jumped into water and tried to push, the boat the Js crimp. along.-B- y daybreak we were still - Uy offense was eatehlng shrimpa . pushing It, and- - grinding them into shrimp We had to leave the boat whem too. sold fish, paste. I caught afid the receding tide made it impossible Because I Worked all day farming, to keep pushing it Then the rising I had to catch them at night. tide washed it away. A passing junk The cadres told me there was turned It over to a PLA unit, and food in the mess hall, and asked within an houp "they were looking -n. .. jy it was necessary for me to for us, ' catch fish and shrimp for a profit. All of us buried ourselves under They pretended not to know that prickly bushes. The soldiers came even a bird could barely survive in only about 10 feet away, but they didnt spot us. wljiat tiey fed us in the mess halls, or that we also needed money to Later, a soldier, several militia- take care of small expenses. merf and a hunting dog came back- .Why the dog missed us, I still cant ONE DAY when I was peddling figure out. shrimp paste, the militiamen disAfter dark ' we climbed a hill covCred what I was doing and they a clear View, and the four with confiscated it all without any com.Voung men decided it was impossible pensation. to swim Jo safety. They also threatened me by sayI TOLD THEM to wait a little out had found that my ing they boats .anlonger in case-soplans for escape. They said I would have escaped Jong Ago "I Wasnt chored there. I said We could steal one for the final break through. coward. We waited three -- days and three That very evening asked nights without food and never caught sight of a boat. We were so exhausted from hunger that the four youths declded to turn back fcven at the risk of being shot 1 .They were young and their reo drds had been clean until then, so they thought theywould get off with ' short terms of labor reform. , My case was different I had committed the- - offense of selling i shrimp paste, INvas a criminal. . I had iso alternative.- I. would rather be drowned than surrender . myself to certain death, H as ' I swam, about an hour.-Jus- t 1 touched a " . x,J wasrabout exhausted,-iddon. ..reef., X.whs ,.np . AV in water and the current was strong, manager to rest a few minutes "" before" going on with the fight. THANK HEAVEN, 1 made it 1. coyldnttoelieve it until after X rescued. to escapewas because I wasnt getting enough food. The other reason was that the eadreg cusedme-o- f -- lotloWin? my hwn law." That means I did something for ' myself. The Communists think that a , -- . |
