Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 28, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba Women of student learns peasant life following is the second in a series of articles about the women of China. The author a missionary of the United Church of Christ has lived in Hong Kong for the past 10 years and just visited China. By Rhea Yean special we prove an hour out from Yean he old revolutionary base area n the mountains of Northwest 3iina, where the communists made their Headquarters after completing the famous Long March. Our newly made Shang Hai bus bumped Over ruts and negotiated innumerable hairpin turns before we arrived at the terraced Village of Liu Ling which Jan Myrdal has written up so graphically in his report from a chinese Village and China the revolution continued. Our visit there was All too Brief but one of the people i and ate before an hour s study of Mao tse Tung thought in which practical problems of the Day s work were also consid ered. Then she went to cultivate Corn. At other times she had worked on building Ter races planting and harvesting. After lunch at 1, there was a two hour rest period then fur her work until 6. What do you do with your Leisure miss Yang was asked. Her answer revealed a difference Between our concept of private time outside working hours and her commitment to be a politically Active educated Young woman completely in Omen s monday february 28, 1972 15 had Chance to talk with was 22-year-old miss Yang a Stu Dent from peking who has been working in the Fields of Liu Ling is t peasant for the past two years. She is one of several million Young people in China who have mowed the Call to go to the Countryside to learn from the peasants in fact per haps to resettle gently. Miss Yang admitted that in the beginning life in Liu Ling was hard. The peasants treated us she said and welcomed us warmly even giving us their Best caves. But i was not used to peasant Cave houses or eating a Grain mixture of Millet and Corn. Besides carry ing two baskets on a shoulder pole is painful and tiring work. But now my friends and i can manage most of the heaviest tasks in the she said. Miss Yang looked healthy and Sun tanned. Her Long hair Hung in thick braids. She had got up that morning at washed solved in her political and so Cial environment. She serves As a reporter for the Village. When she sees Good examples for peo ple to follow she writes stories about them. During a recent Harvest time miss Yang had written 14, Arti cles that were circulated in the occasional commune paper or broadcast Over the brigade relay system one such Story told How one night when the weather suddenly grew Stormy the peasants Rose and hurried to the Fields to save their crops from an approaching Thunder storm. Much of her evening time was Given to such writing. She also reads hero technical manuals on Basic medical treatment and Agricula ural science. Sometimes she goes to a movie watches performances by travelling drama troupes or takes walks. When asked about boy friends the 22 year old smilingly explains that she has Little time available and is too Young to get married anyway. How Long might you stay in Liu i asked. This de pends where i am she replied. I May have the Opportunity to return to the City for University education after a few years. But i would be Happy to stay right Here to be part of the peasant family and make my contribution to China in Liu crafts sports courses Start at St. James y the St. James Assiniboia Branch of the Young men Christian association has received a Federal local initiative project Grant. With it High people have been hired to con duct programs in the Community such As Light physical fitness activities and concerts for senior citizens gym am swim programs for Indian rest do tial schools and informal sports with juvenile probation services. The Branch also offers five week courses in wine making decoupage Bridge creative arts Badminton macrame Gui tar hair care Ballet and tap dance and family gym at the Assiniboia Christian Centre 3390 Portage Avenue. Some classes began last week others Start this week. Fees vary with each course. Streamliner meet a representative of the House of teak Ltd. Will explain the use and care of teak at a River East Branch meeting of the Streamliner club of Manitoba tuesday in Poison school 491 Munroe Avenue East Kildonan weigh in begins at 7 . Lucille Curr 1800 main arrear and Dave Boland 234 Enfield crash or won Privat for hit Tat costumes at the festival do Voyageur costume Ball held last weekend in St. Boniface. Cyc lax keeps the roses Blooming in a London smog take four Steps to a Spring fresh Bloom with the newest Viro mental skin care products created by Cyc lax of London. Lotz Heads lebanese mrs. Jack Lotz was elected president of the Canadian lebanese women s auxiliary of Winnipeg. 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The 22-year-old University of Lethbridge student majoring in Ethan botany spent last summer interviewing aged residents of the blood Reserve in Southern Alberta. With a Grant he studied the use of natural Prairie plants by the Blackfoot society. Blackfoot families were not permitted to have More than three dependent children at any one time he was told during the interviews. This was to limit the Chance of starvation in the band during harsh times. To help the families limit the number of children band members had Access to combi nations of roots and herbs that were supposed to produce birth control brews and medicines or. Gadd said. During the summer or. Gadd made several tapes of his interviews with the Indian elders. These have been sent to the provincial museum in Edmonton for deciphering because they Are in the original Black foot dialect or. 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