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University Daily Kansan
Monday. Dec. 4, 1961
Self-Help Urged By Sec. Udall In Haskell Talk
Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall last night told Haskell Institute students to develop their own abilities, then turn to helping the Indian people.
Secretary Udall gave the half-hour talk as part of his one-night stop in Lawrence. He is presently visiting northeastern Kansas to inspect the proposed acreage for the Prairie National Park in Pottawatomie County.
"IN EDUCATING YOURSELVES and in your concern for your people, you can prove that Indian people in this country have the ability to achieve and to compete as well as anyone else.
"Above all, we need leadership at the reservation level. We hope some of you students return to the reservation after your education here." Secretary Udall said that both luck and governmental programs for the training of Indian youth have combined to produce new opportunities for the Indian people.
Stewart L. Udall
"AS THE COUNTRY GREW, you were pushed off on poor lands and left to fend for yourself," he said. "But now it's turned out that some of the land wasn't so poor after all."
He was referring to recent uranium and oil discoveries on Indian lands.
He said the key to President Kennedy's program for improvement of the condition of the Indian people is development of these lands, combined with the education of Indian students.
"We are encouraged that tribes are earmarking federal aid money for college scholarships," he said.
More than 1,000 persons heard his speech.
Propaganda War in Asia, Pringsheim Says
A propaganda war of vast dimensions rages in Hong Kong, Klaus H. Pringsheim, instructor of political science, told a capacity crowd at the Current Events Forum Friday.
"Yet Hong Kong is a showcase of peaceful coexisting contrasts and will remain so for some time," Mr. Prinshting said.
The Chinese Communists, the Chinese Nationalists, the "third force" or those people in between Peiping and Taiwain and the United States Information Service flood the city with newspapers, magazines, books, pamphlets, films and radio broadcasts declaring their respective superiority. Mr. Pringsheim said.
Squatter's shacks with no electricity or running water are situated on a hillside and surround a city of modern, luxury-style apartments where elevators zip to the top of 15 and 20 story buildings, Mr. Pringsheim explained.
The people in Hong Kong are not worried about the East-West struggle. Mr. Pringsheim said. The fate of their relatives in Communist China is what Hong Kong residents worry about, Mr. Pringsheim explained.
"They send food, pills, and vitamines to them," he said. "When the people make some money they put it aside so they can send food to their families on the mainland."
Hong Kong will become Chinese, in fact it is Chinese now, Mr. Pringsheim said. "The people who
"American sailors spend 10 million U.S. dollars there annually."
live there prefer to stay because they live well."
Sometime in the next 10-15 years, however, the Communists will move into Hong Kong, he said. "The British won't fight for it. Hong Kong is a British crown colony but the Chinese actually run it."
Meanwhile, Hong Kong will continue in its rambunctious way to enjoy spectacles as the Battle of Flags, Mr. Pringsheim said. In this propaganda device, newsmen count the number of Chinese and Nationalist flags which are hung from the city's windows on each faction's respective holidays.
But the residents still gobble up the Communist propaganda, Mr. Pringsheim said.
This does not mean however, that the Chinese have been persuaded by the political exhortation in the Communist dailies, he continued.
"The Chinese buy the Communist dailies because they are full of sex, crime and color," Mr. Pringsheim explained. "Also, a Chinese may be seen with the leading Communist paper under his arm, not because he sympathizes with the Communists, but because his wife wants the recipe the paper has."
On the whole, the Chinese Communists win their audience because they do a superior job of presenting material. Mr. Pringsheim said.
Nevertheless, Chinese Communist propaganda does well only because
it interests the Hong Kong reader and offers him a tremendous amount of material, far above the United States' output, Mr. Pringsheim said. Actually, Hong Kong is a hallmark of capitalism and is similar to the contrast between East and West Berlin, he continued.
"Why do the Chinese Communists allow capitalism to exist," Mr. Pringsheim has often been asked.
"Allow it to exist? They love it!" he exclaimed. "They're making a fortune."
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is apt to be interrupted by someone doing it.—Chatham Blanketeer
In 1960 the Chinese Communists had an export-import trade worth $1.1 billion, Mr. Pringsheim said. The United States contributed to this sum when 100,000 Americans visited Hong Kong last year and bought souvenirs, many of which were Communist-made, he continued.
"We're carrying on an aid program over there," Mr. Pringsheim said.
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