Daily Hansan
59th Year No.37
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Monday, November 6, 1961
U.S. Must Support Berlin To Keep Europe Respect
By Martha Moser
A KU instructor who left Berlin a week before East Berlin was sealed off said yesterday that the United States would lose the respect and support of all Europe if it backed down on its agreement to protect Berlin.
He said Russia had deliberately drawn up the agreements giving the U.S. access routes into Berlin, thinking we would back down from using them when threatened. When the U.S. backed down, he said, we would "lose face."
ECKHARDT WESSLING, instructor of German, spoke yesterday at a coffee hour sponsored by the KU-Y. Twenty-two students met in the Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity house to hear him speak.
Mr. Wessling talked about the history of Germany, the German people and East Berlin and East Germany under Communism. Early in his speech he asked if he might sit down to make the hour more informal.
Mr. Wessling stressed the fact that there are three agreements that guarantee access to Berlin. "I was surprised," he said, "to learn that some professors have said there are no signed agreements guaranteeing this. The basis of free access is absolutely legal in three treaties."
MR. WESSLING COMPARED conditions in East Germany today to those in George Orwell's novel, "1984."
"Orwell forsees," he said, "In '1894' what happens is exactly what happens in East Germany. If a youth resists the government, the Communist party starts brainwashing him. Then he either escapes or is broken down until he joins the Communist Youth."
A student asked if Radio Free Europe had any effect on thinking in East Germany.
Mr. Wessling said that a radio in the American sector of Berlin broadcasts to East Germany but most people were afraid to listen to it for fear some neighbor might overhear it and report them.
"THE COMMUNISTS DISLKE the radio transmitter and ask America to get rid of it," he said. "That's one of the reasons they would like to have West Berlin—to get rid of the station."
Mr. Wessling did not express much hope for East Germany retaining recollections of freedom. He said that students are being indoctrinated to communism and the older people who remember the old system do not dare to talk.
"In East Germany," he said, "the problem is individual freedom, not getting more food or more clothing. Although they scarcely have enough to keep alive, they would prefer getting less and being free.
"IN EAST GERMANY since everything is government owned, there is no competition among people in their work, no price competition and no pride.
"The farmers in Germany had owned their ground for a century. They considered their soil holy, the backbone of their life. The Communists took away everything and
Homecoming Dance Tickets Now on Sale
Tickets for the SUA Homecoming Dance may be purchased for $2.50 at the campus information booth and the Kansas Union ticket counter.
The dance will feature Ralph Marterie and his band will play from 9-12 Saturday night.
turned it into community property. They work their own land now as slaves. They obey their master Communist who tells them what to do."
He described Berlin as a city island in a Red Sea. He said it Russians would not try to take West Berlin as long as American soldiers are there. The difference with the U.S. is not a military question, he said, but one of diplomacy.
HE SAID THE COMMUNISTS put up the barbed wire fence dividing Berlin to keep the people in.
"There was a great refugee problem with 2,000 people escaping a day. In five more years at this rate everyone would have been gone. They kept the people in because they wanted them to work. Those who try to get through are arrested or shot."
The German instructor said that when he walked up to the barbed wire fence, the Communists called him an American slave, an American spy and a slave of the capitalists.
"In theory," he said, "communism is appealing. But what they practice has nothing at all to do with their theory."
MR. WESSLING SAID he had an aunt in East Germany that he hadn't seen for 15 years. She lived not far from him.
"Just down the hill," he said pointing to the floor as if pointing to her house. "The Communists would not let me go to see her. When she died I asked for permission to go to her funeral. They would not let me.
"Some people return to East Germany from West Germany to see the family they left behind. Sometimes a person is not allowed to see his family. That is the most cruel punishment imaginable — not being able to see one's mother."
HE SAID THAT most other people who return to East Germany were those too lazy to work, the antisocial and criminals.
"At first," he said, "those leaving West Germany are given everything. They are used for propaganda purposes, hailed as escaping from capitalism."
Mr. Wessling is teaching at KU this year on a Fulbright scholarship.
Scholarships Seen As Aid Solution
Two KU faculty members say that federal scholarships are possibly the answer to the question of federal aid to education.
Speaking at the Current Events Forum Friday, William York, assistant professor of education, and Darwin Dioff, assistant professor of economics, explained the reason for federal scholarships.
PROF, DA1COFF said the fear of a central authority, or fear of federal encroachment on educational freedom, or even fear of racial integration hindered the development of a federal school aid program.
With the use of federal scholarships, a student could attend the school of his choice. Prof. Daicoe said. The government would then circumvent the problem of private vs. public schools, the problem of racial integration, and the fear of federal authority over education.
"There are six generalizations which can be given in support of federal aid," Prof. York added. They are:
"MANY PEOPLE operate on the premise that there is something inherently bad about the federal government and something inherently good about local government." Prof. Daicoff said.
- The national interest demands the best education for our children.
- There is demonstrable information that where more money is spent the quality of education is better.
"Actually, the national government has been less guilty than local government in inhibiting intellectual freedom."
There are education deprivation in some areas of the United States.
In the past, people favored financial help for constructing buildings rather than in paying teachers' salaries because they feel paying salaries will lead to control over teachers, he explained.
- Educationally - deprived areas exert more effort to get money for education than wealthier areas.
- Education is a commodity in inter-state commerce and thus cannot be considered as solely a local problem or concern.
- The financial ability of States and local governments to finance education is less than the ability of the federal government.
"THE IDEA of gimmicking up the tax structure is not the way to get around this bias," he said.
Perhaps the best way to solve this problem, he added, would be the use of federal scholarships.
Kennedy - Nehru In Conference
NEWPORT, R. I. — (UPI) — President Kennedy personally greeted Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru today to begin a round of formal and informal talks on world problems between the two leaders of the West and the uncommitted bloc.
As they walked from the plane, Nehru spotted about a dozen Indian students attending Brown University and the University of Rhode Island. He walked over to greet them and to accept the bouquets of flowers they brought him.
Wearing a long brown tunic with his white cap and a rose in the button hole. Nehru disembarked from the plane at Quonset Point Nava! Air Station to shake hands with Kennedy.
Nehru then walked to an open convertible for the short drive to the dock to board the presidential yacht, the Honey Fitz, for the trip to Hammersmith Farm, where the President and Prime Minister were to hold a private lunch.
John Kenneth Galbraith, U. S. ambassador to India, also was in the welcoming party. During the Kennedy-Nehru lunch he was to lunch separately with Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs. Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter.
Nehru, prior to his departure from New York, told newsmen he would discuss world affairs, particularly "maintenance of peace" with Kennedy.
ABSORBED—Julietta Papadoponlon, Salonica, Greece, graduate student, studies the "Field Sculpture No. 2" by James Wenkle, Lawrence graduate student. The sculpture is on display at the 8th annual Kansas Designer Craftsman Show in the Music and Browsing Room in the Kansas Union.
Frosh Football Player Dies After Operation
John Reid Puppin, 18-year-old freshman from Oklahoma City, died early this morning from complications arising after an emergency appendectomy Oct.28.
His death came at 1:10 a.m. after a series of ups and downs in his condition. Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of the University Health Service,
John Reid Pippin
reported that on at least three occasions. Pippin was not expected to live through the night. During the day, however, Dr. Canuteson said, Pippin would show signs of rallying.
Pippin was a football player for the University, and started as a defensive back in the KU freshman win over Kansas State. He was also a pledge of Sigma Chi fraternity at KU, and was to move into the Sigma Chi house the weekend the appendicitis developed.
He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Pippin Sr., a sister, Mrs. Joan Howell, and a brother, B. C. Pippin Jr., all of Oklahoma City.
Funeral services will be from the M. O. Baggery Funeral Home in
Edmond, Oklahoma. He will be buried Wednesday in Oklahoma City.
Chest Drive to Feature Band
A concert by the Dukes of Dixie-land Dec. 3 and a contest among living groups will be highlights of this year's campus chest drive.
THE ONE-WEEK DRIVE WILL start December 2 with a breakfast at which Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoer will speak. In addition, a representative of the World University Service, which will receive the largest portion of the funds collected, may be able to appear.
Charles Hess, Kansas City, Mo,
senior and chairman of the campus
chest committee, said a goal of $5,900
has been set for this year's drive.
He said donations will be solicited from living groups and that each group will be asked to provide an estimate of the amount it can give.
TROPHIES WILL BE AWARDED the fraternity, sorority, men's dormitory, and women's dormitory which gives the largest donation, he said.
Last year, Delta Gamma won the sorority division; Tau Kappa Epsilon, fraternity; Gertrude Sellars Pearson Hall, women's dormitory; and Battenfeld Hall, men's dormitory.
The campus chest drive is conducted each year to give KU students the opportunity to make one contribution instead of being asked to donate to many drives during the year. The committee will divide the proceeds among a number of organizations, to be announced before the drive begins.