Thought Can Do For You
KEEP PERISHABLE GOODS: WITHOUT REFRIGERATION
A warehousé-keeper who has consistently and successfully. applied Mao Tse-tung's philosophical ideas in his: daily work," |. according to the June 11 Hshinhua, recently gaveia testimonial at a meeting in southwest China of more than 800 official representatives "from the county level up who had gathered to discuss questions relating to the study of Mao Tse- tung’ Ss | works. "
The 32-year-old Fan’ Kuang-jung is the son of a poor peasant. and had little education. With bitter memories of childhood poverty, he was "deeply thankful for what the.Chinese Communist. party, chad done for him and his family." So in the early ‘post- liberation years, he resolved to work hard out of gratitude and in the hope that good work would bring him better food and clothing.
"Fan Kuang- jung began studying Mao Tse-tung's writings in 1956. Since that time, he has read all the four standard volumes of Mao Tse-tung's selected works, running to over a million characters, and come back to many a the articles again and again." “pt :
When reading one of Mao Tse- -tung's articles, "Serve the People , " he realized that "formerly oppressed people like himself ought to be
working heart.and soul for the revolution." To merely work hard, as he had been doing, was not enough. "He suddenly felt ashamed of having such avlow level of political awareness." He began to pay attention "to: the class struggle in the sphere of his own ideology." A crucial experience was his realization one day that he was responsible for the spoilage of some bamboo shoots. Instead of letting another comrade take the rap, he made a public self-criticisn. That paved the way for another great step forward in mastering the thought of Mao Tse-tung.
=) “Brom the moment he resolved. to work as one of the masters of the new society, Fan Kuang-jung began to use as a guide the following passage from Chairman Mao's philosophical work, ‘On Practice'
. "tl? aman wants to succeed in his work, that is, to achieve the anticipated results,,-he must bring his ideas into correspondence with the laws of the objective world; if they” do not correspond, he will fail-in his practice. After he fails, he draws his lessons, corrects his ideas to make them correspond to the laws of the external world, and can thus turn failure into success; this is what is meant by failure is the mother of success, and a fall into the pit, a | gain-in your wit.
"Fan Kuang-jung set himself to investigate the laws governing the deterioration of different goods. He conducted a series 6f- — scientific experiments in the warehouse and gradually he evolved a whole series of methods to prevent rotting, moth and insect damage and other forms of deterioration in more than a hundred kinds of foodstuffs. In this way, he managed to change a passive situation into an active one.
"He recalled how he got inspiration from the works of Mao Tse-tung when he was trying to prevent the crystallized sugar coating on:dried tangerines from becoming sticky. He came across these: words: ‘It is well known, that when you do anything, unless you understand its actual circumstances, its nature and its relations to other things, you will not know the laws governing it, or know ‘how to-do it, or be able to,do it well' in the article ‘Problems of Strategy in,.China's Revolutionary. War.' He began to think ‘that to make the meited sugar coating recrystallize he would have to create conditions in which crystallization could take place. To absorb the excess moisture, he first tried to pack the stock in:lime. When he found that lime affected the taste of the fruit, he uried rice bran and was successful...
; "One day he ‘fell. “E11 and was taken to a hospital. ‘When the nurse took his temperature, an idea suddenly came to Him: ‘Why not get a thermometer to check the temperature of the goods so as to prevent fermentation?'.
» "When Fang Kuang- jung got back ‘to work, he enlisted the cooperation of his comrades and some technicians and made a special
thermometer for the warehouse. Later he improved the device by linking it up with an alarm-bell in the office so that it could give prompt warning of any dangerous rise in the temperature of. the goods. Then he added an electric fan to the thermometer, so that when . -the goods reached a critical temperature, the electric fan would automatically begin working to cool them down, and when the temperature dropped to a safe level, the electric circuit would be broken and the fan would stop.
- "As his knowledge of the laws- governing the deterioration of commodities in the warehouse grew, Fang Kuang-jung designed many pieces of equipment to improve the storage processes, such as an automatic piling machine, an automatic counting machine and an infra-red drier. wee "When he first started “reading Mao Tse-tung's books, he ‘could not finish even a short article without consulting a dictionary. By dint of hard work, he has now read more than a hundred books on chemistry, entomology, climatology, and other sciences related to the successful handling of ‘goods in storage."
Today a deputy political instructor at the storage depot, Fang Kuang-jung summed up the benefits to be derived from deep study of the thought of Mao Tse-tung: "When you listen to the. chairman, things will listen:to you."
What Mao's Thought Can Do For You
GIVE THE VATICAN A RUN FOR ITS MONEY
The Chinese pavilion at-the 1966 International Fair in Budapest was a huge success, according” ‘to the May 31 Gaily bulletin of. the Hsinhua News Agency.
Every day large numbers ‘of visitors made entries in the visitors' book or spoke to the Chinese personnel "to voice their love for the Chinese Communist party and Chairman Mao Tse-tung. and to praise the correct line of the Chinese Communist party." ;
"Many visitors expressed great admiration for Chairman Mao's infallible leadership," continues the Peking news agency. "An old house-painter said: 'You are: truly engaged in revolution; Mao Tsetung's: leadership is infallible...all Marxist Leninists of the . world pin their hopes on China.'"
. "Several. Greeks wrote in the visitors' book that 'the (Chi-. nese) :pavilion is very brilliant, but the most brilliant is not the pavilion but the political line of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao Tse-tung. Without Mao Tse-tung's political line, the pavilion could never be so brilliant.'"
What Mao's Thought Can Do, For You
Og as THE MORE YOU READ, THE MORE YOU WANT
fms" £6llowing dispatch appeared in the. June 10 Daily News ~Release ofthe. Hsinhua News Agency. Struck by the evidence it offers on! ‘the popularity of the thought of Mao Tse- tung, and influenced by Chairman Mao's article, "Serve the People," previous thoughts seemed to slip from our mind and we found ourselves lining up. In short, we joined the crowd and as our first contribution we decided to add emphasis to the most important words in the article, thus making it easier to find the outstanding passages. We hope that this will help in a modest way to hold high the great red banner of Mao Tse-tung's thought.
[The original title of the article is "Liberated Laotian People Love to Read Mao Tse-tung's Works. "]
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KHANG KHAY, Laos, June 9 (Hsinhua) -- People in the liberated army in Laos treasure Chairman Mao Tse-tung's writings very much and have deep respect for the great leader of the Chinese people.
They said that what Chairman Mao wrote is truth and that Mao Tse-tung's thought is the beacon light for the people of the world in their advance.
One of the leading members of the Xieng Khouang provincial committee of the Neo Lao Haksat said: "Mao Tse-tung's thought is truth that guides the oppressed nations and people in their struggle. His writings warm one's heart and enlighten one's mind. Every sentence Chairman Mao said shines like truth. The more I read, the more I want to read; I've never read such fine works before."
The commander of the Xieng Khouang district command of the Laotian People's Liberation Army told Hsinhua: "I love to read Chairman Mao's ‘Problems of Strategy in Guerrilla War against Japan,' and the article, ‘ Long Live the Victory of People's War!' which embodies Mao Tse-tung's thought. The two articles are of practical importance for our current revolutionary struggle. Chairman Mao Tse-tung's concept of people's war considerably heightens our confidence in defeating U. S. imperialisn.'
He went on to say that "Chairman Mao's works meet our needas if he wrote for us. When we have questions unclear in our mind, we turn to his works for an answer. We study his works with our particular problems in mind."
Commenting on Mao Tse-tung's "Talk with the American Correspondent Anna Louise Strong" which he had studied, the commander of an anti-aircraft unit in the advance positions on Mount Phou
Khouth said: "Chairman Mao pointed out 20 years ago that all reactionaries are paper tigers; this brilliant judgment is absolutely right."
Pointing at. the mountain, he said to this correspondent: "Look, the U.S. imperialists and their lackeys have poured thousands of tons of bombs and artillery shells on this mountain and made it two meters lower. Yet it still towers here in the hands of. our heroic people. Does: not this prove that man:-is the primary factor, as Chairman Mao said?-Is it-not that the outcome of a war is decided by the people, not : weapons?"
Somvang. Semesathith, governor of Xieng Khouang province, who. had visited China last year, told this correspondent: "I had the © pleasure to see for myself the great successes the Chinese people had won in building socialism under the leadership of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, when they celebrated their national day last year." The ~ radical change that had taken place in new China under Chairman Mao Tse-tung's: leadership in the 16 years after its liberation "represent a great victory for Mao Tse-tung's thought, "he said.
Recalling his visit to Ta Chai, once a poor mountain village in Shansi province and now a famous model in self-reliance and determined hard work, the governor said that "The Ta Chai people have succeeded in carving away: mountain slopes and building up. terraced fields and finally emerging from backwardness with flying colors. They were able to do so because they have mastered and applied Mao Tse-tung's thought to their work. I'm sure that if the Laotian people, too, master this thought, they will be sable ko | achieve similar successes.
Pot Pung, the chief editor of the Khang Khay's newspaper, "The People's Liberation Army," who had just finished the translation into the Laotian language of Mao Tse-tung's "Analysis of the. Classes in Chinese Society," said: "In the past, we were not too clear about class struggle. Chairman Mao's article has opened our ; eyes, and we are now analyzing the position of the various classes in Laos by applying Chairman Mao's method of class analysis, so as to see who are our friends sand who are our enemies.
The Laotian author Souvanthone said: "y ‘like, to read books about the Chinese Revolution; but I like Mao 7se—tung.s works most. I can hardly lay his works down until I've finishe em. I have read 'Talks at. the Y Yenan Forum in Literature and Art.) three times.
He added, "These talks of Chairman Mao's are a great inspiration to me. Every word of his touched my heart. Chairman Mao teaches the literary and art workers that they should serve the workers, peasants and soldiers and should engage in literary and artistic creation in the heat of the struggle. This is one hundred percent true."
He said, "In my career as a writer I have made many failures. I am living in embattled Laos, but my works have not profoundly reflected the heroic struggles of the Laotian people, because I
~ have not gone deep into the heat of the struggle."
"This article of Chairman Mao's makes me see the light. I have now found where my problem lies," the writer said.
The Laotian people ardently love Chairman Mao‘s works and warmly love Chairman Mao. Many Laotian People's Liberation Army fighters, youth, women and graybeards told this correspondent with great emotion: "Chairman Mao, we love you!"
Somsi, commander of a unit on the Mount Phou Khouth front, told Hsinhua: "The army and people on the Mount Phou Khouth front have boundless respect for Chairman Mao Tse-tung. They ‘shout, 'Long live Chairman Mao,' whenever they hear thé name of Mao Tse-tung men— tioned over the radio or in a speech."
. The commander.added: "The Chinese people are determined to follow Mao Tse-t g's thought forever. We Laotian people are also determined to follow. Mao Tse-tung's thought forever. "
_ A company commander said: "Chairman Mao Tse-tung's thought has inspired us with determination in struggle and strengthened our confidence in victory. We are sure to win final victory. " ‘
Three combat heroes of a certain unit defending a nosition on.
the Mount..~hou Khouth front, pointing at the shining badges of Chairman Mao pinned .on., their, breast pockets, told the: correspondent : "hese Chairman Mao badges | are.a.most precious, gift. Even in the thick-of combat we try our best to protect ‘them, We '11 never allow’ anything to stain the great Mao Tse- -tung." sees
A commander told-Hsinhua a very moving story. After a battle people founda notebook among things left behind by'a comrade who gave his life with: honor for the country. On the first page of the notebook was pasted a portrait of Chairman Mao cut out from the pages of a pictorial magazine. He wrote the following words on the back of the portrait: "Chairman Mao, we love you!"
Whenever men and women and militiamen who were transporting grain in the Mount Phou Khouth front -area came -across-the Hsinhua correspondent:, they raised their thumbs and said in Laotian: "Long live Chairman Mao:-Tse-tung!" A woman. highway repair worker told this correspondent with emotion: "Chairman, Mao is very preat indeed. We wish Chairman Mao long life from the bottom of” pur’ hearts.
An old man raised both arms and shouted, "Long live Chairman Mao!"
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