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...Generalissimo Chiang is reported to be up-country "fighting Chinese Communists" against whom ''his victories have been many" (TIME, Feb. 24). My father is living in this up-country section-his residence for thirty years -in its most Communist-infested area. He has escaped from the Communists twice within the last twelve months, once in one of Chiang Kai-shek's military planes-piloted by a young Iowan-and once afoot, mere yards ahead of the Red vanguard. His latest letter, dated in January, warns me that despite all I may read, "no Communist army...
...share the common misconception of the Midwest of those who seldom venture beyond the Hudson. Draw a horizontal line across Indiana about 20 miles south of Indianapolis. South of that line you will have more than one-third the State's area. And in that one-third plus area there are more hills than plains...
...which flow east from the Appalachian slopes into the Atlantic, west into the Gulf of Mexico or Great Lakes. Power from these rivers helped make the northern Highlands the great manufacturing region of the U. S., where dwell 28% of the nation's population in 5% of its area. But in many & many a spring the friendly rivers have turned into roaring engines of destruction, wiped out what they had-helped men to build...
...this point the command again rings in memory: "Get wisdom, but with all thy getting, get understanding." In the nineteenth century and the first third of the twentieth, the area of man's knowledge vastly increased. Jove's lightning, once more mysterious than the sun-spots, now illuminates homes, irons shirts and cooks toast. At 150 miles an hour man rides the air more easily than stage-horses could plod the ground at fifteen. The X-ray pierces steel, and the radio causes a whisper to be heard in five continents. But the alphabet and the multiplication-table are unchanged...
...power was cut off in the city, police had to depend on three portable sets operated by amateurs for spreading the directions which joined parties working in different parts of the area, and the Harvard unit was the vital link in the chain...