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Hardy Poles Make Economic Advances
Ey Phil Newsom
UPI Foreign News Analyst
By Pim Newson
From 1957 through 1963, The United States sold Poland around $500 million worth of farm products, including sizeable amounts of grain.
The grain went into Polish hams which in turn went into Polish exports, becoming one of Poland's best earners of Western hard currency.
By the end of 1963, the figure had fallen to 55 per cent with machines and industrial consumer goods increasing to 45 per cent. But the system depends upon an important "if."
And in its turn the hard currency went into the machines needed by Poland in her headlong rush to convert an agricultural economy to an industrial one. That Poland has made progress under the system may be seen by a look at the nature of Polish exports.
The "if" is the weather. A succession of two disappointing crop years and the severe winter of 1962-63 broke the cycle and the Polish economy began to slide toward stagnation. Transportation broke down, plants closed for lack of fuel and raw material. Unemployment rose and with it the discontent of Polish workers.
IN 1956, 75 per cent of Polish exports consisted of foodstuffs, raw materials and semi-finished goods.
Consumer costs for coal, gas and electricity jumped 100 per cent.
The hard-drinking Polish worker was hit by a 15 per cent jump in the price of vodka.
THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE of the Polish Communist Party has been wrestling with the problem of the troubled economy since last July and on June 15 is expected to present its economic plan for 1968-70 to a party congress. For the
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Young Democrats Elect New Officers
Major goals of the new five-year plan, according to party leader Wladyslaw Gomulka, will be creation of 1.5 million new jobs and elimination of the need to import grain for bread and animal fodder.
The Young Democrats met last night and elected five new officers.
They are Mike J. Rogers, Hutchinson junior, president; Marsha Babicki, Topeka senior, vice-president; R.J. Smith, West Plains, Mo. sophomore, Treasurer; Marsha Allen, Lawrence junior, secretary; and Bradford Sumner, Leawood junior, collegiate council representative.
The whole picture of Poland is one of contrasts and Gomulka, one of the few men successfully to defy Khrushchev in recent years has ruled by delicate checks and balances.
Within the party he balances a right wing favoring return to the hard line of Stalinism against "revisionists" arguing that to win the support of the masses the party must serve the popular interest.
THE GOVERNMENT opposes the Catholic Church to which most Poles belong and occasionally increases pressure against it but short of similar measures practised within the Soviet Union.
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Free enterprise is permitted to an extent greater than in any other Communist-bloc nation. Official statistics show more than 15,000 privately operated retail stores in Poland.
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Nearly 90 per cent of Poland's farmland is in private hands.
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The Polish farmer is like the weather, easy to talk about but hard to change. Polish agriculture is the best of any Communist nation. But the Polish peasant is stubbornly fond of his own way of life.
He also is stubbornly fond of his horse which the government would like to replace with a non-grain-eating tractor. Recently the government noted with some dismay that the horse population had increased to the point where there are now 14 horses for every 250 acres of privately-owned land.
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Carlyle S. Smith, professor of sociology and anthropology, will speak at the meeting of Sigma Xi, honorary scientific research society, at 7:30 p.m. today in room 411 of Summerfield Hall.
Prof. Smith will speak on his recent archeological exploration in Polynesia and show slides.
Thursday, March 19, 1964
LONDON, — (UPI) — Charles Cooper, 46, said last night he lost interest in girls after one jilted him when he was 16.
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