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24 'oQDERICH StGNAL-STAR, THURSDAY', JANUARY 2.3, 1969
"Two Innoce in d•Cttina"
How shaft i ' owi'unless I go,
to' Cairo and Cathay? Thus it
was that in September 1960
Pierre Elliott. 'Trudeau arid
4acques Hebert set Out with a
few others on a voyage of
discOvexy X49 ,fid
Subsequ';
ent1 �lthe w$ a of
their expenexice4, 'din )French.
",Now, eight4a; rs later, so
dilatory has b � iz `the march of
bi-limgualism, tlbook has, been
translated' ° into ;English. as "Two
Innocents in ,Red China"
' (Oxford UniversitPress.)
1)4 original interest was to
see whether the book captured
any of the enchahtmei t of my
own fleeting visits to China,.
Trite these anticipated those of
the Prime Minister by some 36
years„ as far as the sights, sounds.
and smells of Peking were
concerned. But mybwri
recollections were of places and
thingsrather than people, 'and it
soon developed that Trudeau
Was most interested in the
people and how they were
reacting to -the -nostrums of -Mao
Tse Tung. •
So, "observation with
extensive view", thg : survey
began at Peking, but searching
modern Peking for . the old
Peking is not too rewarding. Is
the Hotel • Hsin Chiao what was
yesteryear the ;Hotel des Wagons
Lits? Probably! But their
„cicerones were ponderous with
their propaganda. The simplest
' oceprrence, . is 'immediately
explainedln terms of the 'Great
Leap Forward' or the 'Five Year
Plan'. It becomes monotonous,
which accounts for the fact that
Trudeau and his companions
were soon pulling the legs. of Mr.
Wen and Mr. Hou and the
ineffable Pi. - The duckjs good.
What is the recipe? Once Chinese
cooks guarded • their secrets
jealously. No more! Their, art is
-in the 'service' of the whole
people now. •
Certainly ,,,one thing has not
changed over ,o. the years; the
availability of - labour. Toe
safeguard official visitors such as
these, an army 'of Hous ' rushes•
forward if you so.. much as
stumble oii• a stone. Do we
Renewal .'69
Twenty international renewal
preachers will assemble at St.
Peter's Seminary_ in London to
begin- -a we of orientation
-February 18 in preparation . for
the preaching phase of Renewal
'69.
Among . the specialists who
will indoctrinate the preachers
about ..the general data and
attitudes 'of they people of
Southwestern Ontario is Dr.
Rudolf Helling, Dean of the
School of Anthropology and
Sociology at the University of
Windsor.
"No one is better qualified to
describe the communities and'
people- of Western Ontario, than
Dr. Helling," Father J. Claude
Primeau, director of Renewal
'69 said. "Hehas Oen ) the•
co u\ or\ ' f tc► ,.. de gra
\studies\ an \ has\ composed and
analyzed questionnaires of
thousands of persons, throughout
this area," Father Primeau'
added,
-The renewal preachers will
know first-hand the people they
will be working with throughout
the season of Lent. They will
• study thevaits and surveys of
each .palish during their week'`of
orientation. •
the preaching phase is ,the
culmination of, the renewal
effort in the diocese of London.
This- phase will run .five weeks,
with 20 preachers spending one-
week in each P Ate„fiY,e
territories. In each area the
r priests. will 3,. preach Sunday
• -through Thuxsdayr„
They will conduct a renewal
.,. ,week in . Perth and . Huron
counties 'March 16 -,22..
. • E've .:�. o n • c uirc as
been.ntv`te4 t� conduct a Day of
Renewal" or a Week of Renewal
to correspond witty -Renewal '69
in-- each respectiVew area of
-Southwestern Ontario.
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Cough? A battalion is
immediately 'recruited to take us
to the hospital.
But art, has suffered. I. think °
back to , the painting in Silk
thread whieh Mr. Fung gave ane
in Tientsin; a beautiful scene
with ducks near a pond.
Exquisite colours and superb
drawing. Still, in the Congress
Chamber, artists ,,,the regime
have succeeded tn`,painting
blast-furnacea, and • muscular
worker's as delicately as they
used ",to paint swallows perched
on boughs of cherry blo$som.
Butwho wants a blast -furnace as
incentive? ncentive? Well, the Chinese
do.
In three days hardly a fly was
seen.. The State convinced 650
million people that to kill a fly
was, patriotic. A 'huge nation
mobilized to• kill flies. The
greatest, massacre of flies since
the flood!
The Forbidden City has been
"restored" at vast expense and is
now open to the millions. ,The
peace and happiness of the
Palace of Perfect Peace is bowled
over by a band of , friendly,
nois.y_,.. peanut -eating,
photosnapping Russian tourists.
Let us escape to the little
Buddhist temple .,,on Coal ' Hill
and ' find the disillusioned
Buddha, weary of watching
Chinese file past, mocking him
as though, "'some , imperialist
fetish. But let us also thank '114L
Hou. "Thank ' you and your
Emperors!" The emperors did
nothing — the palaces were built
by the misery of the poor and
the' ingenuity of the workers, is
the reply. we get.
In a department store a ,fur
hat is marked 750 yuan -($300).
Who can buy that? The Russian
experts,'.I imagine. We' go -to see
a prison. We abolished bars.
Instead of punishing prisoners as
before the Liberation, we
rehabilitate them by ]work and
"education. Marxist edification? to
clear the head of old prejudices?
the cause of all error?
In the Minorities Institute
workshop they are making — 0
mystery of planning.— wax fruit.
The'only criterion ijiow much
does Wang or . Fung produce.
Does he exceed his quota?
Excellent! He will be rewarded.
But why tie ` up, costly
TWO UNNOCENT$ 'IN REDCH1NA
machinery? In an automobile
factory a travelling' crane is
manoeuvred above our heads by
a Juliet, who surveys us from her
balcony with great almond eyes.
On the outskirts of the place we
noticed tractor engines left out
in the rain. More " surplus
production? No. That's because
the ,architect didn't build enough
shelters for our tremendous
. production.
Carpets? `Since Chairman's
Mao's Great Leap Forward
production has doubled; trebled;
quadrupled; quintupled • The
whole • world " is going to be
covered with. carpet. Wall to
wall •
Who decides the overall plan?
Who tells you that this year you
t` i st produce more shoes and
fewer hats? "First of all the
State lays down the outline plan.
Them the people discuss it, then -
their elected representatives.
Finally the State decides!"
Nevertheless the fact remains
that the man who exceeds his
quota is rewarded, regardless of
whether anybody . will buy his
produce.
Wages? They are regulated by
the State in conformity.. with the
Plan. What about the right to
strike?'It is pointless. Production
belongs : to they State. The
workers (i.e. the people) have no
interest in ceasing to produce, so
today the revolutionary State
has been able to give work to all
Chinese; and for today's
Chinese, work is the cardinal
virtue. As a result the- fact that
there is unemployment in the
West constitutes ,the irrefutable
argument ,for the' Chinese,
against capitalism.
"If the worker is deficient
• • (not unsatisfactory) we "'give
him evening courses; we educate
him." Don't you -ever dismiss
bim? "Dismiss him? Anywhere
. else he would find the same
employer — The State." It has
become a religion. The baker,
who "befo
was preve
grotesque
dough, n
disquiet]
steadily
the
e the Liberation", .
ed from making ,his
figurines ' ° out of
w fashions them with
gly, bad taste -
- by the thousands. It is
e with •wax fruit, with
tractors, engines, carpets.
Everyone produces, • and,
apparently loves it.
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your telephone
manager
The other day I came adross.,,an ,interesting article about
telephone callin. in' the old da s. The articl descri ed how',
r\ u `by me get* barrying pertinnt information
ab -long dietafice calls roth \what we called "recording" to
"line" posifions. At that time, a "recording" operator took dOwn,
the detailS of a customer's long disteanee call and then said, "We
will call . you b. Anpther "line" operator Ft up the
connection and t en telephoned the caller. Beginning in 1926,
„CLR (combined e and recording) ensured that most calls were
completed whil the caller remained on the phone.
VS, a far ry from 1969 when you can pick up the phone in
Gode h and 11 almost anywhere in just a matter of seconds.
And for most lo g distance callS you don't have to speak to the
operator at Ml.
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Did yoti know that the ordinary looking telephone in,your
home. contains at least 62 different materials that come from all
over, the world, They range from the most valued --- gold -- to the
yourpnone to Work better and longer. • .
Many of these 'materials-- iron, zinc, copper, -nickel and
plastics 'can be_obtained in Canada. But it takes the resources Of
nations' on every continent _ but Antarctica to provide raw
material's for a single phone: Tin, for e3iample, comes from
Malaya, Bolivia and Nigeria and is used in electroplating
To seek out these ingredients, suppliers are Constantly on
the move to gather the needed raw materials. Man'y are
well,linown: aluminum, carbon, chromium, copper, cotton, lead,
--nitkel, nylon, tayon, rubber,"silver, steel and zinc. Other materials
have more exotic nam'es snail as beryllium, Molybdenum,
vanadium and palladium. The latter is a precious metal that is
noted .,for its high 'electrical c'onductivity and resistance to
corrogion. It's used,Tor practically all electrical contacts inD the
So the next time•you make a telephone call, and you can
tall practically. anywhere now, remember that, through your
phone, the World is truly at your finger tips.
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But there was, always the
same question which Trudeatt•
and his cohorts failed to get
answered: How does the State
regulate what is made •of each
article? Does the State really
plan? Or has the State invented
soxne new economic laws, whith
pass by the intelligence a the.
Thinking .back to the, cid
Peking; to the camels arriving
loaded with goal; the shops.full
of glass •plateg and cups made
,from broken Haig and kaig
bottles, brought down from
Tientsin in sacks; the rainwater
guttering, flattened Out in
Tientsin, sent to Peking, then
moulded into shape again in
Peking. This was the classic road
of Asia; innumerable
pedestrians, moving slowly,
under the torrid sun; plenty of
mule carts, bi'e'Yeles,
wheelbarrows, • highboes, rare
automobiles honking
incessantly. Where had this road
led in forty years?'
`.1Ne knew it now, after five
weeks in China. We knew that
this road tree of refuse, 'these
pedestrian* without rags, were
.not exceptional: In all our
travels, even the unplanned ones,
we had never met a beggar or
seen the stinking filth that
characterizes nearly every road
in Asia. We knew that those
innumerable. little trees that
covered the neighbouring &WS'
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,were not there to, impress the
new arrival; they wete part of
the plan of afforestation that
was little by little wresting the
Gobi Desert from the
domination of the sandS1 a plan.
whose traces we SaltY rigllt up to
the foot of the Great Wall," ,
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