Show THE OGDEN UTAH OGDEN STANDARD-EXAMINE- 7A R SUNDAY MORNING JUNE 25 1960 PULSATING LIFE He rrccl arid Co aassn brine yu m a rara allwosl carpst vaus sculpiumd bmadioom (Editor's Note— Th warm vibrmt lift Peiping— under whatever tyrant— hti tiwey conquered its temporary epprn-ler- i An Associated Press reporter with fond memories is sure the great Chinese city will cast its spell even upon Here is his recollection of an Cemmunists exotic city's migtcii charms) By John Roderick PEIPING (AP)— The sun glints on the blue tiles of the Temple of the clop clop of the Heaven ricksha-boechoes on the frozen I y a steamy fragrance streets young sprigs of onion releases a rises from sidewalk noodle carts This was the Peping of more than stream of rich juices into the a decade ago when I lived in a startled mouth But there are house on Ta Tien Shui Ching “Lane poems too to the lowly bean curd of the Great Sweet Water Well” baked fried boiled roasted and Those days have gone buried forever in the past But Peiping capital of the Khans where a Venetian traveler named Marco Polo once sat awestruck at Mongol splendor lives on One of the world’s most magnici-cen- t cities it bears the traces of waves of conquerors— the golden hordes of the Tartars the warriors of Kublai Khan the Manchus and today the men of the Red Star of communism But the city in its time has them all bending them to Its spirit and its beauty It is profligate with its charm and fascination for rich and poor capitalist and Communist alike The Communists who have made it their capital now call it Peking But travelers returning from the mainland report that it is much the same physically as it was 10 years ago its monuments newly-painte- d and restored its broad avenues widened During the year of my stay there Peiping held me in its spell as it has so many voyagers before and since Who could forget the winey tang of its northern air suffused with perfumed dust from distant or the music at sundeserts set as scores of pigeons miniature flutes tied to their legs wheeled high in the sky? In Peiping more than any other place in China East really met West as foreigners and Chinese mingled and communicated There thousands of foreign Ta ‘‘The Big Noses” — spent lifetimes in scholarly pursuits writing painting philosophizing or helping the people of their adopted city My landlord Dr Jean Boussiere a French surgeon was one of these city of CONQUEROR ADDS MARK—In its long history Peiping— the most beautiful in are Now Communists the — various ruled power has been China conquerors by through the sheer mag- But always Peiping manages to conquer its conquerors-- netisra of its vibrant life Here stands the new Cultural Palace another enormous rh It is a mixture nf modern structure in a city full of the-t-- " architecture ! iyp con-qure- Hiti-nil ' Fidgets for Dam CAIRO (UPI) — Egypt is still waiting for the final blueprints of the Aswan high dam from Russia but hopes to have them soon and complete the dam agreement with the Soviets this summer y ' Egyptian public works minister Moussa Arafa has said that the target date for completion of the dam is still the end of 1967 It will back up a lake 300 miles long Besides increasing land cultid it will vation by nearly industrializathe for provide power tion of the country After first agreeing to help finance and build the first stage Russia earlier this year offered to help finance the entire project Changes were made in the original plans drafted by Western experts and the project will now be built as a whole instead of in three separate stages Pi-Tzes- one-thir- HOLDS UP PLANS de a until — uerhaps the Dowager Empress but she made sure this i hi v iHrt CUNNING SHREWD Under the tutelage of this spry who knew Chinese high and low for 100 miles around I got to know the mentality the of China feared seasickness barge would never rock Made of marble it is set firmly in a lake near the Summer Palace at Peiping Now it’s used as a public restaurant But it stands as one of the buildings which have made Peiping the most beautiful city of China — and perhaps the world ld shrewdness the cunning and the wormth of these northern Chinese More thany anything Peiping was a city of pulsating life From sunset to midnight there was the steady sound of honking spiced to the plebian bean shoot and to Tientsin cabbage sauteed in a bland cream sauce SCRUBBED 1000-00000- (100-0000- I BRUSHED Cleanliness in 'that time seemed unnecessary though now the Reds are said to have scrubbed and brushed all public places The table-clothwere gray from indifferent washing and an occasional friendly rat sauntered across the stone floor in the most famous of the Peking duck restaurants of 1947 Neither the houses nor the restaurants nor the temples was the true Peiping Its life was in the crowded colorful streets where humanity jostled along hardly locking up to note the lumbering passage of a camel train or pause for the rumble of faraway guns The streets were like a vast and unending stage whose actors were Mongolians Tibetans Chinese Manchus foreigners beggars in outlandish clothes the rich in blue s slik Merchants hands folded across ample stomachs beamed from hundreds of doorways on Jade Sreet Copper Street Brass Street Lantern Street Bronze Street Inside a shop a customer sipped tea before beginning the polite ritual of bargaining In front of him the treasures of a museum: Bolts d of tribute silk T’ang bronze pots blazed with figurines a bluish patina clay horses made a thousand years ago Quick-witte- d taller intelligent than their compatriots the inhabitants of Peiping are its chief treasure They have seen the conquerors come and while they listened to the music of the birds cultivated of varieties gold fish strange into crickets popped tiny cages and tasted superb food they have waited patiently for them to go For they believe— and perhaps with reason — that though men are mortal and transient Peiping is eternal es ' V v:v V’ long-gown- three-colore- That required amendments in the plans and has delayed arrival of the blueprints now being drafted in g w h i s 1 1 i n g bugle-tootin- g Moscow Arafa said He said meansinging crying drumtime workers have cleared 30000 g anand beating cubic meters of earth from the site nouncing bean curds noodles of the diversion canal birds or goldfish for pomegranates 0 The soviets have promised old clothes and paper to be sale rubles (250000000 dollars at collected knives and scissors sharpofficial exchange rates) in addiened tion to the 400 000 (XX) rubles Once Walled City Poses Problems With the Communist armies outdollars) already promised side cutting off supplies hunger and For British Also With Red Chinese for the first stage defeat discouraged the Chinese in “We have drawn up a draft agreethose 1898 it lease intended KONG convention HONG the days (UPI) By day ment for completion of the project But if tragedy hovered only a is rural vil- to preserve Chinese authority over a to it impoverished Moscow” Arafa typical and submitted little the way off the Chinese still knew place said “It is being studied and we lage By night it is a blatant hotto be gay They sailed inhow REDS COULD ACT hope it can be completed this sum- bed of vice terminably in little boats on the mer” is the anciThis the same issue could artificial lake of the winter palConceivably He said 41 Soviet engineers and ent city of Vewloon — Hong Kong’s cause trouble in the future if Peiace munching watermelon seeds 55 Egyptian engineers are working Casbah ping felt like tweaking the British and sipping green tea They skated at the site as well as “thousands” On seeing the walled city today lion’s tail on its frozen surface in winter And of workmen one finds it difficult to imagine how The present Communist bosses of in spring they hiked out to the Meanwhile German engineers this apparently undesirable six China have expressed no official inin the hills and to the have made preliminary surveys of acres of real estate could ever be a terest in the walled city since they temples summer palace to admire the treash another big scheme— to create the reason for rocking the boat of seized power in 1949 in the “Hall of Serrated ures lake in world’s largest man-mad- e relations But they could raise the jursidic-tio- n Clouds” the Qattara Depression in the westIt no longer even bears the disbugaboo — for propaganda Best of all they laughed— at life ern desert by digging a canal from tinction of being walled Part of its purposes at least — at any time at their own unhappy rulers at the the Mediterranean Sea medieval ramparts were torn down no matter what the Hong Kong SuArafa said they would be return- by the Japanese during World War preme Court ruled foreign devils who almost II and the remainder by Hong Kong For like their Nationalist prede- quaint ing for further studies next fall on the eve of the capital’s fall authorities after the war cessors they have never revoked debated whether to adYet there have been a number of the original 1898 lease agreement urgently to the Peiping Club women mit occasions when Britain and China nor the clause which stipulated that And when they could they ate contended for this tiny enclave of the walled city should remain some of finest the and most exciting narcotics dens brothels gambling -governed ever food has man created Into There’s nothing attractive or exojoints condemned houses and squatof restauthousands the capital’s ters’ shacks tic about the walled city Even for In July last year a heroin den the most lowbrowed No neon lights rants they streamed good humored and full of anticipation to destroy operator was murdered inside the wink out in welcome and no rock with chop sticks legions of overwalled city One of the murderers ‘n’ roll blares from barroom juke stuffed ducks millions of birds boxes BONN (UPI) — Vice and other was represented by legal counsel nests fins bears’ paws and sharks’ bare-foote- d Unwashed ragged DANGEROUS GROUND crimes are sharply on the upgrade candied potatoes children play in the littered filthy in West Germany and authorities Odes have been written to the The young Indian lawyer Abdul streets for in that pass blame the country’s booming pros- Hamid Suffaid like other Hong alleyways whose crisp skin the walled city and sail toy boats Peking duck perity Kong lawyers knew he was tread- down nauseating open drains wrapped in thin pancakes beside “Vice including rape major ing on dangerous ground but noneDRUGS PROSTITUTION thefts blackmail armed robbery theless argued that British laws and similar crimes” a spokesman did not apply to the walled city He Their parents toil at handicraft said “are crimes of prosperity applied for a writ of habeas corpus industries or work in humble shops The crime rates in the United States for his client and virtually ordered that supply the community’s sevare a good example of this” a panel of bewigged Hong Kong Su- eral thousand residents with the All crimes but murder were up preme Court justices to turn him bare necessities of lifein 1959 over 1958 figures Vice was loose Dogs and cats are rarely seen the big leader Suffiad cited as authority for his alive They are served roasted as a The total number of murder and argument a clause in an 1898 h delicacy 1959 was cases which during manslaughter agreement designed By day it seems a typical imWASHINGTON (UPI)— Construc1020 or 76 per cent above 1958 to make the walled city a tiny Chine- poverished rural village It is just tion of the world’s largest solar but in relation to the population se-ruled enclave on British soil a dingy collection of gray stone rise there was a drop in homicides He also emphasized that since the hovels and crude shacks present- telescope is scheduled to begin at of one per cent per 100000 popula- clause had never been revoked by ing marked contrast to the modern Kitt Peak National Observatory tion China’s rulers — Nationalists Com- jet airport at Kai Tak a mile and Tucson Ariz within 60 days the anWith 6030 rape cases in 1959 munists or otherwise — the walled a half away Prostitution prevails National Science Foundation nounced yesterday this offense lumped statistically 11 city must still be subject to Chinese behind unlighted doorways packingDr Alan T Waterman director 1958 cent -case not over British and cardboard shacks and per jurisdiction said the telescope will permit reThe Supreme Court ruled against in attic brothels ONE PER 75 to probe much deeper him It declared in no uncertain Emaciated drug addicts slink into searchers of the sun into the There were 8737 cases involving terms the walled city- was an integmysteries — — dens called divans is 1959 or instrument in The 79 expected to be per ral homosexuality of the Colony of Hong Kong to smoke opium and take heroin two years It in about cent more than the year before arid part completedas such it came under Brit- Or they squat in the open sniffing Pandering with 7004 offenses was ish law The Hong Kong colonial pinches of narcotics they purchase will be available to all qualified up 37 per cent and what the sta- government had occupied it in 1899 from “pushers” for about 17 cents scientists for research purposes Dr A Keith Pierce associate tistics called ‘‘other vice cases” on orders from the British govern- (U S a packet the new observatory director were 157 up London in and ment China’s jurisincluding prostitution Leering touts lead the way ' to which wasofdedicated March 15 said for the year diction ceased as of then the court lewd exhibitions and stripteases will give this country In all there were 1951290 crim- said Overlords of the criminals in this the telescope inal offenses in 1959 or 224725 British residents suffered a mo- human jungle are the triads — sec- a “significant Astronomical remore than the year before The ma- mentary pang of apprehension The ret societies — who run the vice search advantage” The foundation has granted jority — 1200000 — fell into the minor defense lawyer had prodded a sleep- rackets for the project The telecrime category but there were 751 ing dog which the colonial governSometimes they war on each will have a focal length cf which fig- ment normally prefers to let lie other using razor-sharmeat chop- scope 800 feet and will form images cf ured out to one major crime for Similar frightful moments were pers kitchen knives and acid as sun several times larger and the every 75 West Germans experienced in 1948 when riots their favorite weapons more brilliantly illuminated than Theft and fraud were the most broke out in the walled city and are attainable with any other solar common crimes' totalling 605341 spread to Canton 80 miles away Voted New Powers There were 5250 cases of armed The Nationalists maintained Brittelescope NaACCRA (UPI)-T- he It will consist of three large reGhana to and the ain no had govern robbery power blackmpTs Teen-ag- e crime also up 25 waded city They also charged tional Assembly yesterday voted flecting surfaces combined in a a supporting Kwame system per cent with a total qf 16793 Britain acted unilaterally in 1839 Premier and President-elec- t of a 10 size the structure Nkrumah about laws of to make walled the crimes involving minors including when she took control powers without office clausa the la building parliament itoiy rijsriM etbrtexuil efi3Ki city tftsi rivekir Vice? Heroin? Murder? 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