The Mail-Journal, Volume 16, Number 41, Milford, Kosciusko County, 31 October 1979 — Page 17

CHINA STUDY TOUR - Fifth In A Series

Interesting 16-hour train ride finds us in ancient

By ARCH AND DELLA BAUMGARTNER TIENTSIN, China, Wednesday, Sept. 26 — The happy American tour group with which we are touring China arrived in Tientsin at 3:30 p.m. yesterday afternoon, following an old-fashioned (in American terms) train ride of 15 hours and 50 minutes from Changchun, from which our last column was filed. < But first about the citv of Tientsin, (pronounced “Teean-jin”). Tientsin is China > third largest city, located about 74 miles southeast of Peking. It possesses China’s largest artificial harbor and is a key transportation hub serving the populous North China Plain. It is also a leading industrial center. Tientsin has a population of 6.7 million spread over an area of 4,200 square miles and is the smallest, of China’s three centrally administered municipalaties. The city proper extends, for almost 10 miles along the banks of the Hai River, a factor which in the past made the city vulnerable to Hooding.

ill' - - Amr -mH Fw ■- WORK ON A COMMUNE — When we visited a 30,000-member coiffinune outside Tientsin we found the most primitive of equipment. As the group moved forward, we lagged along behind and caught these two young Chinese men pulling a heavy load of straw. Gracious as we found all Chinese, they obliged for this photo for us.

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Short History Os Tientsin Recently unearthed records indicate that Tientsin’s original site dates back to the Warring States period (403-221 BC). However, continuous settlement apparently did not begin until about 800 years ago, when the city was known as Chih-ku (“buying and selling”). Tientsin received its present name in 1404, at a time when it began to assume its characteristic role as a transshipment point between the southern coast and Peking. A military garrison was posted, city walls built (destroyed during the Boxer Rebellion), and storage facilities expanded. The next phase of Tientsin’s development began in 1858 when the city was designated as a treaty port. The city was parceled out among British, French, and other Western concessions. Western-style buildings were constructed, port facilities improved, and light industry (mostly textiles) expanded. Yesterday afternoon, prior to boarding the train last evening for Tientsin, we visited the most famous movie studio in China at Changchun and had occasion to

get a little (very little) behind the scenes view of China’s filmland. Anyone who visits a movie studio is usually disappointed at the backdrops used to create an illusion of grandeur, and this was our experience here. As it happened, they were not shooting pictures when we visited the studio. We were given the customary green tea and told about the studio and how many films are made at this particular studio per year, and so on, before we toured the sets where scenes were being constructed by carpenters. Our host spoke and we applauded (we’ll never quite get used to clapping our hands for a speaker and having him clap along with us!), telling us the studio has 2,000 staff members, 200 actors and actresses who come from an actors’ college. This studio has made 300 feature films, and is equipped to make 15 to 20 feature films per year. This year alone they plan 15 feature films, of which seven are already completed. The studio imports about 500 films from 40 foreign countries for China distribution, we were told. Cost of production of an average full-length film: 6000,000 Yuan, or about $360,000 American dollars. Gang Os Four Again Everywhere we went we heard about the Infamous Gang of Four and how their 10-year reign of influence had held back production in all forms of China’s life. Here we were told how the Gang of Four threw a dark shadow of influence over the film industry. Cost of entering a Chinese movie house: 20 fen for an adult, or 20 American cents; 10 fen for children, or 10 American cents. The cost of entering a movie house in China seems to be right, and well within the means of most Chinese. When one comes to think about it, there are no newspapers for general distribution, no magazines, very few radios and fewer television sets, the movies,

then, become the most popular means of entertainment in China. Before getting off the movie studio tour topic, we should note that we met and photographed China’s most popular movie star who happened to be at the studio during our visit. One of our guides, Chang Kuo-tung (he’s the fellow that brought Delia’s medicine six miles from the hospital Sunday morning) recognized the movie star immediately, and told us he was famous and instantly recognized throughout China. We failed to write his name down. Visit Jiiin University The revolution has brought a scramble for higher education to the young people of China. We made note of this yesterday afternoon when our tour group visited Jilin University, the largest university in this country. We had a long conference with president Wu Pei-Chi, in which he told us the university has 8,000 staff members and has grown considerably since its founding in 1948. It has 11 departments, six in social sciences and five in natural sciences. There are 5,090 students, 300 post graduates and its multiple buildings sit on a tract of 410,000 square meters. The university has 30 specialties, and specializes in its language department in English, Japanese and Russian. The strong Japanese unfluence is still felt in this area from the ocupation by the Japanese, we were told. The university is particularly interested in its library. We were shown through its library and a display of old books whose text has been lost in time. Not being familiar with Chinese history, there we could not appreciate the value of these rare books. Os the more than 500 universities in China, there are about 50,000 student applications taken each year, and only about 17 per cent of these can be accepted. Thus, the scramble for entrance into college level training. Inasmuch as we were an

English-speaking group, we were taken into a class of 20 English students and we were quickly paired off so that one or two of us could talk to a student. These young students (ours were both 22 years of age) were enraptured to be able to speak to a real-for-sure English-speaking person. They wanted correction from their guests. We promised to send an English dictionary to our adopted pupil, a bright young lady with a wide smile, showing even, white teeth. They followed us to our bus, since this was our last stop at the university, and there was much picture taking and comments of best wishes before we left. This was a touching moment. Train Trip To Tientsin It’s been a long time since most of us have had an overnight ride on a train powered by a steam locomotive. It was something we anticipated with slight trepidation. And we almost missed that. Our conductor. Wayne Scruggs, a bright young Atlantan whose performance has been a model of efficiency until now, overslept, and when one of our party hastened to his room to bring him forth, they found Wayne sound asleep. Needless to say, he got the usual “raspberries” in the form of a round of applause, he inquired, “Is everyone wide awake on this bus?” Anyway, we got to the train, boarded, and it wasn’t but two minutes until the train pulled out. Chinese trains are punctual, rest assured of that. / Our ride was to be 15 hours and 50 minutes in duration and it was important that the train be on time. We pulled out at 11:40 p.m., in the first class sleeper, the Attaways and us sharing a compartment. It wasn’t all that bad. The two of us took upper berths, one on either side, and there were plenty of comforters and pillows to make us comfortable. We had memories of old coalfired trains being jerky and, sooty and generally uncomfortable. But not this one. It began smoothly, moving over a road bed that proved to be in excellent repair. The ties are of prestressed concrete, and are bolted to the rails. In the morning the dining car appeared spotless, with potted plants gracing every table, alongside bottles of whiskey, red -and white wine. A sign at the end of the car adopted Chairman Mao’s famed slogan, interpreted LEGALS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON FINANCING OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FACILITIES Notice is hereby given that the Town of Milford Junction Economic Development Commission, Milford Junction, Indiana, will hold a public hearing at 7:00p.m. on November 12, 1979, in the Town Hall, Milford Junction, Indiana, on the application of Lakeland Loving Care Center, Inc. for the proposed financing of the cost of acquiring real estate; constructing thereon a nursing home containing approximately 60 beds and 21,750 square feet, making capital improvements, including landscaping, parking lots and driveways; purchasing equipment and furnishings; paying expenses In connection therewith; all of the foregoing being for a nursing home for the care of the elderly and infirm and all being in full compliance with applicable building codes, laws and regulations, through the issuance of Industrial Development Revenue Bonds in the principal amount of Seven Hundred Seventyfive Thousand Dollars ($775,000) with a maturity or maturities of fifteen (15) years from the date of issuance. 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literally, “Serve The People.” It was a large breakfast of three eggs, Canadian bacon, hot coffee or tea, served in glasses (Russian style), biscuits and jelly Back in the dining room for lunch, we were served six dishes: starting with a cold dish of pork, carrots, green peppers, onions, fried fish, a dish of shrimp, white rice, egg drop soup, wheat rolls, pork rolled in egg batter and deep fat fried, and beaten eggs fried in a sugar syrup. _ And then there was, Tsingtao beer — always beer for lunch and dinner — and sweet soda tonic water. It was in this setting that the sun came up like a rec ball, its first rays revealing people already in the fields. It’s interesting to see the countryside come alive in the morning. China does its transporting by rail, not so much by trucks, and it was interesting to see the train stations teeming with people as we passed through. We found building, mostly brick building, going on everywhere we went in China. The red brick are being stored at various points from which they will be taken to building sites. Watching the trains in China gives one an indication of the heartbeat of this vast land — and there were many trains indeed. We encountered many trains of coal and of oil tank cars, giving an indication that this country has an abundance of each of these precious natural resources. We passed unlimited fields of tall corn, sorghum, rice and other crops awaiting harvest. Missing were the huge tractors and combines one sees in the m id-west in the United States. When we mentioned this, our friend Henry Walet, the retired hardware store owner from New Iberia, La., now on his 28th overseas trip, commented, “Yes, but if they get all that equipment and cut down on labor, how are they going to keep all those people busy.” It was a good answer. One nice thing about a long train ride such as this, one has a lot of idle time and can get acquainted with other members of our party and with our tour guides. These tour guides are usually younger, eager to learn, knowledgeable people. They are a fountain of information, if one only exercises a little patience with them. For example, as our train passed through Tang Shan, a city of several million, Chiang Kuotung, our guide informant told us about the devastating earthquake that hit that area in the fall of 1976, killing and injuring several million. Chang said there wasn’t a building left standing when the dust cleared away. We remembered the earthquake but had forgotten the particulars until Chang refreshed our memories. Chang himself comes from the peninsula town of Dalian, across the Yellow Sea from North Korea, and at age 25 has a bright future in front of him. When we arrived in Tientsin by train, two tour buses whisked us off to the four-year-old Friendship Hotel in a highly populated section of the city. Again these Chinese towns do not have central business districts like those cities in Western countries. This 188-room hotel is; spacious, well appointed, and with excellent accommodations. Our

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Tientsin, China

room here has about 10-foot ceilings, comfortable twin beds, modem bath and, bless them, hot water. There’s an antique shop and gift shop where we purchased a small panda carpet. Beauty Parlor Incident There was a beauty parlor close to the hotel that two of our party, Marian Attaway and Polly Inglefritz, took advantage of. Marion called the interlude “well worth it,” that she had the best shampoo she had ever had. It wasn’t exactly her style, she noted, leaving the beauty parlor looking something like Shirley Temple. She told the other ladies of our party how they soaped her hair, put it up into a top knot then would stand back and laugh. She took her nail polish along to do her nails while under the dryer.

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and this really caused a sensation. She was sure they had never seen anyone use nail polish before. As she was doing her nails the male stylist came over, extended his little finger for her to put polish on. The girls didn't look like they usually do when they have their hair done, but they were one up on the rest of the ladies and had clean hair, too. This wraps up our first day in Tientsin. We have another day here, then on to Peking via a twohour train trip where we will climb the Great Wall. It is the desire of several of us to call the U.S. Embassy at Peking to see if we can arrange a short session with Ambassador Leonard Woodcock or an aide from the Embassy.

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