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The Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune from Chillicothe, Missouri • Page 15

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Red China: Nation of Work and Hate U. S. Newsman in Mao's Land Sees Country-Wide Anli-U. 5. Campaign.

By JOHN STROHM NEW YORK (NEA) Communist China is a nation organized to work and to hate. No human beings have ever taken on a more complete mental and physical bondage in order to leap forward into the 20th Century than the subjects of Mao Tse-lung. Nor has human intelligence ever been brain-washed into a more violent hatred ol United States leaders. I have just traveled 7,500 miles behind the Bamboo Curtain which for 10 years has shielded from American view the massive state that calls Itself the People's Republic of China. At the height of the Quern oy crisis, I have witnessed a hate- America campaign that extends to the most remote peasant village.

Was this what the Red masters of Pelplng wanted me to see when they granted me a visa? Or did they accept my statement that I wanted to visit the farms and factories of the New China I had first seen 21 years could report to the people of America? Back home now, I ask myself these questions while sorting out Impressions. But the answer is not clear and It may never be. Enough that it happened that John Strohm of Illinois, walked with only minor in the streets, fields and buildings of Red China, snapping pictures with four cameras, talking with whom I chose and visited schools, farms, hospitals and landmarks without prior appointment. For three weeks I traveled, by automobile, boat, train and airplane. My days began at dawn, ended at midnight.

Although I saw militiamen training everywhere to repel the U. S. Marines who were expected to storm ashore any clay, I do not be- llevp, there is danger of full-scale war in the Formosa strait. This backward people has too much to do to hoist its vast expanding bulk upwards toward seemingly impossible social and industrial goals. It cannot afford war, but in cocky self-confidence it Is willing to risk war to infuse an apethetlc peasantry with nationalistic pride to drive weary bone and muscle to accomplish prodigious works.

The Communists say over and over they licked Uncle Sam in Korea. People who know nothing of the power of a modern sea and elr fleet chatter loudly and arrogantly that America is a "paper tiger." As one who traveled among; the Chinese people 21 years ago, I must report sadly that our once vast reservoir of goodwill built up in China by generations of good deeds by U. S. citizens and organizations is now being poisoned liy a campaign unequalcd In the history of the world I arrived at the tail-end of the hate-America demonstrations in Peiping which sent three million people coursing through the streets O'HARA'S BARBER SHOP Proudly we salute the veterans of our fightinf forces for their high courage in time of war for their steadfast devotion to the finest ideals of citizenship in time of peace. Closed Armstice Day Serving Livingston County 50 Years.

We Appreciate Your Smokey Says: 60IN6 IN RK CARS. LETS MAKE OUR Most fires can be prevented! shouting "Down with American 1m perlalism. Americans get out of Asia or be smashed." But this was no window dressing in the capital. Everywhere in north, central and south China I saw my country portrayed as a bloody- fanged wolf, a ruthless and ravaging soldier or a dollar-bloated Uncle Sam. All evidence of opposition has been swept away, and of this I will write later.

Everyone I talked housewife, factory manager or me on the evils of American Imperialism. A militiaman In a Nanking factory shouted he was ready to work or go to the he shoved his rifle Into my stomach to dramatize his feelings to the first American he'd ever met. A collective farm chairman in North China said: "We whipped the American aggressors In Korea and we will fight them If they invade China." He added that his farmers were so indignant they worked 15 days and nights to overfulfil! the farm example of the transmutation of hatred into labor force. A woman chairman of a neighborhood cooperative In Tientsin said her neighbors were so Incensed that 130 of the women are learning to shoot rifles to defend their homes against America, As I stepped out of the Church of Christ in Nanking on a Sunday morning a young man greeted me cordially in English, but when he found out I was an American he demanded: "Why do you want to invade China?" I could not persuade him to talk about religion, or anything else. He would only rant against "aggressors." A worker In Hankow came over and gave me a written protest against "American butchery" when I walked through a hog-killing plant.

Chinese officials assert that 300 million Chinese have demonstrated against American imperialism. RAISING A GENIUS? IT'S NOT EASY NEW YORK have -rouble coping with your teenager How would you like it if he were a genius? "It's not easy," says Mrs. Regina Fischer of Brooklyn. Her 15-year-old son, Bobby, is a genius at chess. He won the United States cahmpionship at 14 and became the youngest international Orand Master in history this summer.

His one dream is to snatch the world chess crown from the present champion, Russia's Miklhail Botvinnik. One of Mrs. Fischer's definitely "not easy" moments came this summer when Bobby appeared to De stranded in Yugoslavia after his first international tournament. "He had a round trip ticket, but nobody made any reservation for him and he couldn't get a plane. I knew he'd spent most of his money at the World Fair in Belgium and I was afraid the Yugoslav Chess Federation wouldn't go on paying for him after the tournament had ended.

"I went to the Yugoslav Em- Jassy but it was the weekend and I couldn't find anybody. I tried to Bobby, but they said he had left by train. "I was really worried. I knew he was loaded down with books and didn't see how he could manage He doesn't speak the language. could Just see him sleeping in a train station somewhere and peo- people stealing everything he But Bobby used his tournament prize money to get to Munich ROBERTSON MOTOR CO.

says. (DEEP KNEE BENDS AS IN CRAMPED, LOW-SLUNG ORDINARY SEATS) but this (MIDDLEMAN LEG ROOM AND SPACE-PLANNED INTERIORS) IN THE FABULOUS HEW COMING IN A FEW DAYS TO ROBERTSON MOTOR CO. 721 SOUTH WASHINGTON he lound piane space nome. Chess is not a popular game and there are no funds to send the American champion to tournaments. Bobby won two tickets to Yougslavia on a television program.

His 21-year-old sister, Joan, took the second. "Bobby doesn't like the idea of his mother going around with him to tournaments. Besides, I figured it would be better for me to be here in case anything was primarily." She laughed slender, dark-haired woman with a smiling mouth in a gamine face. The Fischers separated when Bobby was 2 and Mrs. Fischer raised her two children on hear earnings as a nurse.

"I don't discipline Bobby. He's too big. Anyway, there's not much to say. He comes home and sticks his nose in a chess book, stops to eat, and he's back again until it's time to go to bed. "Bobby's one of the ones who play for blood as they say in chess.

He's serious. He has to study all the time. The countries publish pamphlets and books at a great openings always being worked out. "He's not interested in girls yet don't play chess. He doesn't smoke or drink.

He does chew his nails down to the bone, but I'm afraid to make him stop. I don't know what he migh take up. "Some of these chess players twitch all over. Honest. They start with an eye and twitch down to their feet and start again.

I'd rather he chewed his nails." "The only thing I do is nag him to get some fresh air, This yeai he's joined the and says he's go- uig to gel in better pnjsicai sudpe. "He used to be wonderful fact, he himself used to say he wanted to be a baseball player. "I don't know a thing about chess. In fact, I tried to make stop for four years. But I've given up now." tmcA By BESSIE KENT Mrs.

L. F. Bonderer, Miss Nellie Bonderer, Mrs. Jim Wagy of Chillicothe; Mrs. D.

J. Bonderer of Mooresville; Mrs. Ben Rogers, Mrs. H. B.

Robertson, Mrs. Gertrude Locke, Mrs. F. A. Funk, and Miss Edna Ruth Bosler all called on Mrs.

M. A. Potts and Miss Kathleen this week. Mr. and Mrs.

Bill Whitehurst and Jeanie of Shawnpe, Kan, and Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Burgett were din-, ner guests of Mr. and Mrs. James Burgett Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Remick called on Mr.

and Mrs. Paul Todt of Mooresville Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Locke and two children were Sunday dinner guests of his mother, Mrs.

Gertrude Locke. Make Donations in Person Five members of the Utica Doer's Club went to Marshall Monday to visit the Crippled Children's Home and presented them with shirts and tea towels which the club had made. Those who went were mar- jorie Searcy, Leta McNally, Maxine Dykes, Tootle Dudley and Nadine Stamper. Community Progress Notes The community progress program committee sewed lunch at the schoolhouse Tuesday, netting $19. The next meeting will be Nov.

Rk uie bciiuuniuuoe. An are Interested In ow ewnrtnffitt? progress please try to attend. Mrs. D. J.

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