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Corruption, Inflation, Civil War Tear Land

By ARTHUR RICKERBY Nea Staff Writer SHANGHAI, Dec. 26—Mao Kang, the quay and sobbed Her f{rightened a minute

10 brokenly.

stood on screams of empty hopelessness Map Kang homeless, deserted.

was dirty, rageed, She had just watched police drag her mother and older sister off to jail. Their crime: Snatching bits of coal that fell from sacks being unloaded on the dock. Actually it was stealing. But Mao Kang was hungry: so were her sister and her mother. The bits of coal, furtively smuggled across the city, might have brought. enough on the black market for a bowl of thin rice,

Story of Millions

Now Mao Kang didn’t have even her mother and sister to help her. Police ignored the sobbing child. Mao Kang's story, as she told it to me through an interpreter, is the story of millions of Chinese, squeezed by inflation, civil war, government corruption and a peace that has brought no peace. Mao Kang and the other millions, whose nation won its war with American help; today ‘are infinitely worse off than are their former enemies, the Japanese, under American military government. i “We have no home, no place to sleep, no place to go,” Mao Kang sobbed, “When my mother gets out of police hands how will she know where to find me? “We have been sleeping in alleyways, on streets, anywhere. Once we were honest. Today the only way we can get rice is to steal something and sell it.

Beggers Everywhere

“We beg for food, for money for food. Few ever give us anything When they dont, we go hungry, and steal.” Reggars are everywhere in China today. The streets of Shanghai, Tsingtao, Nanking and other great cities are full of them. Little babies, old women, blind old men, mothers wearily carrying children on their backs, trudge from door to door, hands outstretched, eyes pleading

Some are professionals. Most are not. Many are refugees from battle areas fleeing the civil waF. All their possessions have been abandoned They have no money, no way to earn a living.

Contrast to Japan

All this was a marked contrast to post-war Japan as I saw it. Japan, too, has felt the pinch of inflation, but not like China. Jap-

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I saw none of the extremes’ in Japan that I found in China The Nipponese are not the bes 'fed people in the world, but the is little actual starvation. Few Japanese are actually homeless al though some live in caves, others i ramshackle wooden and dirt dwell= ings. If there are beggars mn the Japan of today, they are well hidden. American occupation, American aid, and internal peace have meant the difference in Japan: One Chinese businessman, who has had dealings with the United States for many years, told me |seriously: “I wish China had fought the war {against the Allies on the side of Japan. Then we could be treated as a conquered country, receive assistance, have peace and an honest government.”

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Don’t Rush Into Marriage UNIONTOWN, Pa (UP) — Mr and Mrs. Harry N. Krepps, 86 and 78 years old, respectively, reflected on their 62 years of wedded life and came up with some advice for lovers. “Don't ready to Krepps. “Maturity

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counts a lot,” added Mr. Krepps. “Even in the happiest of marriages, and ours has been that, all is not happiness.”

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(Continued From Page One) welfare?” In the article, Dr. Davis ought justify Russia's denial of individual liberties, one-party monopoly, bureaucracy, concentration and firing squads. He defended firing squads and concentration: camps in this manner: “Russia believes it is wiser destroy the enemies the people from rather than wait until they foment war from without." Raps U. 8. Policy i An even more fervent admirer of the Soviet svstem, Dr. Harry F Ward, will be presented as an expert. on minority rights and Ameri-can-Soviet, relations American's. foreign policy, Dr. Ward in the Bulletin last May, is the Hitler program all over again.” { As an expert on “The Christian church and Europe” the federation mvited Dr. Guy Emery Shipler, edi-| tor of the Churchman, who is listed s “head of Protestant delegation to Yugoslavia.” of

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Durham Remains Under Suspension

» (Continufd From Page One) office. He said today $hat if Patrolman Durham “had not lost his temper, there would never have been anything to it.”

¥ 48 ~ ATTORNEY RICHARDSON ap-

pearing in the patrolman’'s behalf, said it was clear to him that the whole episode reflected a clash of personalities, “I feel it's ashame that the suspension had to come as & Christmas present to one of the most decent and honest officers in the police department,” said the attorney 4 “I think he has been penalized enough under the circumstances.”

Proposes Movie Admission Raise

PHILADELPHIA (UP) — Holly« wood’s loss of foreign markets may cause an increase in movie admission - prices throughout the ecountry, according to Lynn Farnol, advertising and publicity director of Samuel Goldwyn Productions. Speaking before the Poor Richard Club here, Farnol described England's 75 per cent tax on imported films as a major blow to Hollywood productions, He said 80 per cent of the film industry's overseas profit has been wiped out. Farnol said the price rise was necessary if American screen entertainment was to maintain its present level,

Japanese Food Snails Subdued in Guam

GUAM (UP)—African snails, brought to Guam and other islands by the Japanese during the was as a quick source of food, are being brought under control here after

vigorous action by U. 8. authorities |

to eliminate the pests, The snails are being killed by an arsenic poison called “"metag.” | The snails, big fellows which constitute a major danger to nearly all plants, breed with great rapidity and are a source of danger on many islands where they were implanted

an intense feeling of despair and according to the American Petrole- by the Japanese, who considered

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