The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-18
.HARD-WORKING
 CHINESE AMAZE
 6. l. WITH GRIN
By HUGH A. CRUMPLER

United Press Stan COrrespOndent)
 A B-29 Base, Northwest China = (UPJ = How do you like China?" I asked a CT aircraft mechanic who has been in the land of lotus blos- sorns nearly two years.
 ''Well, Bob," he said, i've been away from the States so long I pdlum forgot what home looks like, but compared to India this here's paradise.
 T got plenty gripes about China if you got a couple hours to hear lem, but the people are friendly and cheerful and hard-working and they don't kow-tow every time you come walkin' down the street like they do on the other side of The Hump"
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 They do a lot of damn fool chattering 1t seems to me like and they're runnin' this ting hao' co. K.) business in the ground, but for my money the Chinese are all- right folks.
 Nov you take that soldier there. He's got a rift and a quilted uni- form that makes him look like a bed that took notion to get up and start walkin' around but he ain't wearin' no socks under them grass sandals and it's coldern blue blazes right now. I can see you appreciate that or else you been drinkin' this jingbao juice because your noses reddern Tojo's face.
 But no matter how cold it gets that guard is always grirnin' and ting hao-ing' all over the place. I seen him do a couple of pretty bad things but I figure it's his job to make these coolies behave and I don't intend to interfere. When one of 'em takes it in his head to run from the guard he knows how to use that bayonet just enough in the right places to keep him runnin' until he's tired him. self out.
 Tt seems to be like the Chinese are bound to be the hardest workin' people on earth because I don't see how it'd be possible to put in any more time than they do. Them strip do everything by hand, in- coolies swarmin' all over that air. cludin' breakin' up the rocks and sortin' out the gravel but they get the job done with grin
 Farmers Thrifty
 You see farmers pushin' live hogs to market on a wheelbarrow so they don't lose any weight. They push them hogs a long way, maybe 30 miles, and I figure it must take three or four days, and then maybe the same time comin' back, just to save couple of slices of bacon. Talk about farmers! ran my farm like these Chinese there wouldn't be enough uncultivated ground left to have a smal fish fry on.
 By now you probably got a pretty good idea that me and the Chinese ain't got any shootin' dif- ferences and we ain't. But when said this places paradise I had a couple of 'buts' to throw in.
 "In the first place some ignorant Schoolteacher told me China's in the Orient and the Orient'S hot This here part of China must have seeded from the Orient because if there's colder place anywhere don't believe it and I Sure'S hell don't wanna be there.
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 "China's been at the end of the supply line 8 long time now and ] guess she'll stay there awhile longer Aside from three cartons of ciga- rets and one can of juice and soap and totohpaste we don't get much in the way of PIX rations any month. ain't seen a bottle of beer in three months and when I get back over ''The Hump" I'm gonna make up for them three months and I'll fill myself up with another three months reserve just in case
 "The social life over here ain't gonna wear no man out before his time. You might say it's confined to movies and bull sessions and the bull sessions are mainly confined to one subject but I wouldn't hard ly say they're monotonous.
 If you got any kinda eye for rety girls you can see some of these here Chinese are nice to look at. But you gotta be careful though or they'll get you in trouble but if you just sho around long enough you can find yourself a nice one, maybe
 Hey, U.PD, you better hadn't quote me. There's one thing about the States haven't forgotten and that's tsweet little girl back home and I don't want her gettin' any wrong ideas about the Orient like I did"