Page 2 University Daily Kansar Monday, Feb. 25, 1952 Comments Editorials 'Beloved Country' A Story With Significance Early in 1948 "Cry the Beloved Country," a first novel by South African Alan Paton, slipped almost unheralded into bookshops in this country. Now after three years and numerous translations London films bring it to the screen. Literary critics and the general reading public have received Mr. Paton's book as a masterpiece for its beautiful prose, deep spirituality and understanding of human sufferings. Adaptation for the movies was done by Mr. Paton, but as Time magazine says, "Unhappily, the film betrays its literary emotion rather than motion." The story is this: Rev. Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee) a Zulu minister, leaves his native province, Natal, to journey to Johannesburg to persuade his lost sister and son to return to the wholesome life of the outlying provinces. In Johannesburg, the simple and sincere man faces all of the major facets of one of the most complex sociological problems in the world—the white exploitation of the South African native, and its results. Erosion and starvation in the outlying provinces and the cruel living conditions in the cities foster high native crime and feed the blanket of fear which envelopes the population. Zoltan Korda filmed the picture in the real locale: Ixopo, Carisbrooke and Johannesburg. These are expansive shots of rolling green hills, played-out mining areas and savage slums. Though the movie has the novel's passion, it has lost much of the poetry. In the character of Stephen Kumalo, the author achieves his plea for tolerance, fairness and reconstruction for the beloved land of sun and gold. The plea has been answered in South Africa with more fear and tyranny. The rate of native crime is higher than ever before and a larger portion of the population in disenfranchised fter the unconstitutional decree of Prime Minister Malan last summer. In Johannesburg last week Mr. Paton announced that current world affairs had left him feeling "so uncertain and politically frustrated" that he and his wife are going into seclusion for a year. "Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the mind and heart, whenever one opens the pages of these messengers of doom . . . Cry the beloved country, these things are not at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart." These are the key words to the South African problem, Mr. Paton says. With little revision they could apply to the rest of the troubled world. —Katrina Swartz. short ones Billy Graham, the fiery evangelist, declares there is much corruption in Washington. This is almost as earth-shaking as Senator Kefauver's statement that "a Democrat can win an election." “. . and here, freshman, Bruno is working on a chemical to make people invisible . . Oh Bruno? Where are you, Bruno?” 'Princeton Students Did It' Comments . At the University of Princeton police chased, but failed to catch, two students charged with tearing down nine rural type mail boxes and stealing one sign. Said the police chief, "The only thing we know is that Princeton university students did it." 'Leave Us Alone Week' The Idaho Argonaut, University of Idaho, has instituted a "Leave Us Alone Week" in honor of mid-semester exams. What the Argonaut wants is a little quiet.—“A week in which we can be free of private 'gimme' campaigns. . .salesmen. . . declarations. . . and queen contests. . .” Texas Welches on Blood Promises... Only 265 of the 2,800 Texas university students who pledged blood showed up to donate in the first three days of the bloodmobile visit last week. The drive for pledges was given a two-page write-up in Life magazine, and the chairman expressed disappointment at the small turnout. Could it be the brave Texans are afraid of needles? A student at Southwest Texas State Teachers college spent an entire week in the stall with a 1,139 pound steer, caring for him painstakingly. His steer won the Houston Fat Stock show award, and after collecting $18,600 from a Houston restaurant owner for the giant steer, he had no beef coming. Nurses Steer for $110 an Hour At Sacramento Junior College the president and vice president of the sophomore class were elected by a landslide. Total vote: 11. Interpretive Articles Crusading Billy Graham, a stylish groomed young minister, is rebuilding in the minds of American people something that has suffered a bit of de-emphasis in the past years. Billy Graham Offers Solution That de-emphasis has been a lack of religion and moral goodness. With his revivals in the National Guard armory in Washington, D.C., Graham has stirred up as much excitement in the past few weeks with his "moral dilemma" crusade as the administration has stirred up with the recent corruption scandals. Judging from the crowds that have gathered to hear the evangelist, the people like his theories. Although no member of Congress or high-level bureaucrats have been among the converts that have walked down the repentance trail, many of them have sat on the speaker's platform to listen. Other big-shots have been seen in the audience. While Graham draws the crowds his staff keeps the number of converts on file—all in a businesslike manner. Assistants check the activities of the converts to see if Graham's words are actually heeded. The atomic bomb has been a subject of emotional appeal in his revivals. "Why man, let the atom bomb come; we're ready for them if we're Christians. It is not Communism I fear most, but moral corruption inside America." His opening crowd in the armory numbered 10,000. Since then the crowds have appeared in a steady number of five or six thousand. He has also drawn crowds with noon talks in the Pentagon. His words seem to suit the senators enough for some to praise his work. But he has drawn criticism from rival preachers. The Rev. A. Powell Davies, pastor of the Washington's All Souls' Unitarian church, says he is using old-time religion which has caused guilt feelings in the listeners. The Rev. Davies statement was counteracted by one from Dr. George Docherty, pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian church. Dr. Docherty said. "I am certain that this young man is being used by God in the nation's capital to remind us of the sovereignty of God." If our basic beliefs are shaken, Graham can maintain and renew our faith. We believe he has a good start. —Lou Fry. Communists A Menace In British Malaya Malaya is a British colony in Southeast Asia. And it's another of the Southeast Asian countries having Communist troubles. Malaya, a peninsula just southwest of Burma, is about the size of New York state. Its population is about 75 per cent Malayan and Chinese. The remainder, besides the British, is Indian, Ceylonese, and Eurasian. The Malayans are easy-going as far as government and development are concerned; the Chinese are the business men; the British are the governors, and the Indians, although few in comparison, are political minded. Malaya has only one season, but has plenty of rain. It is four-fifths jungles, the present hang-out of the Communists. The Communists are Chinese who know the jungle, and routing them out is difficult for the British. The jungle is dense, travel is slow, and the rain makes the ground slippery and twice as hard to walk over. Behind every bush Communists may be lurking in ambush, only to be discovered too late. The Communists aren't just living off the jungle. They force outlying villages to give them supplies. Whether these outlying groups are sympathetic doesn't matter. If they don't comply, they find themselves stretched out in a tree with their throats slit as a reminder to others. The Chinese in towns pay to keep their families in China in good health, others pay to keep their buses in transit from town to town, and others pay to keep their plantations going. Under the Briggs plan, the British have moved more than 200,000 of these 400,000 outlying Chinese into camps that are protected by barbed-wire and patrols. By this move they hope to cut down Communist supply sources and they have succeeded to some extent. The British also are waging a psychological war with the jungle bandits. They either drop leaflets by air, or patrols leave them at old camp sites. The leaflets compare the miserable life of those in the jungle to those who have surrendered and are enjoying life in the city. The Communists in Mayala are not as developed as other Chinese Communists. They haven't established liberation areas, and they fight over women and money. Around their camp sites have been found pieces of paper with such things as "he's too sullen," indicating that they have a sort of bull session in their meetings. Their main objective is to disrupt the country's economic system. Malaya's economy is tied up in its two major resources, tin and rubber. The tin mines are more easily defended from the Communists than are the rubber plantations. The owners of the plantations are in constant danger. They drive around in armored cars, but that doesn't protect them from bombs that are tossed under their cars. At night the yard around the owners' house is lit by spots, and anyone step ping into the light gets shot. The easiest prey for these bandits is the rubber worker out on the plantation who isn't protected. Malaya is a federation of nine states, each with a native ruler and two enclaves. Singapore is not included in the federation because it is a crown colony. Malaya lacks leadership in trying to create a new nation. Dato Onn bin Pa'afar, minister for home affairs in the federation government, has started an Independence for Malaya party which is multi-racial. This attempt at unity could deal a blow to Communist activities if supported. However, the Chinese are a discouraging factor in the movement. Their belief in duo-citizenship leads to the question, whose side would they take in case of invasion from China? The Chinese will have to consider this new movement, because if it succeeds they will be living under a nationalist management without any voice in the government. —Nancy F. Anderson. News Room Student Newspaper of the Ad Room KU 251 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS KU 376 NO 231 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA Member of the Kansas Press Assn., National Editorial Assn. 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