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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Dec. 18, 1957
Indonesia And The Future
Few persons are aware of the potentiality of a rapidly expanding Southeast Asian power, Indonesia. While it has been in the headlines the past month as it goes through the final phases of kicking the Dutch out of the islands, few are aware of the potential of the country as a world power.
This mighty island chain, consisting of 3,000 islands spread over 3,000 miles has 85 million inhabitants and expects over 100,000 by 1965.
No other area in the world is so richly endowed with natural resources. Most of it is derived from the rich lava soil which supports a population density unequaled in the world on the largest island, Java, where 55 million live.
The principal crops are rubber, sugar, coffee, tea and tobacco. Besides the oil, there are large untouched deposits of metals such as tin and iron ore.
The natives are a restless, dynamic group of people, just now beginning to exercise their political muscles after being under Dutch control until gaining their independence in 1949. Politically, things are still very much muddled although President Sukarno is very much the leading political power of the land. The Communists have made some gains and while they
have only a small force working, they have a tremendously closely knit organization.
The country is ripe for exploitation. The population is rapidly increasing but the land under cultivation is not. There is little new employment offered as the people are going through a state of political, economic, military and social unheaval.
Industry has just begun on the islands and while it is of little importance at the present, there is every reason to believe that if the Dutch experts remain to train the natives, the industry will mushroom.
With tremendous natural resources at hand and plenty of cheap labor, Indonesia needs only the technological skill to transform some of the farm population (about 80 per cent of the people live on or near the farm) to industry.
Indonesia is sitting pretty much in the same position as Japan before it began building up its manufacturing in the 1920's. The Japanese were faced with an overflowing population and internal problems before the military came into power and pushed the people into war.
The same thing could happen in Indonesia. The potential is there; all that is needed is a strong leader to build up industrial might. Let's hope that strong man never arrives.
Rally To The Monsters
-Dick Brown
Where art thou gone, ye old time horror movies? It is getting so a body can't get a wholesome scare. In perusing a list of horror movies offered to the citizens recently we noticed there is a lack of good, down to earth, simple, old time, horror thrillers.
We need a renaissance of the monster-werewolf-vampire cult. No more of these science fiction creations; give us a simple creep.
We don't mean to sound stuffy. In fact, some of the recent thriller offerings have sent genuine shivers clear down to our gravity belts. But inwardly we long for the simple life. To be scared by an outer space monster, chased by a thing from a sticky lagoon, and ultimately captured by an incredible shrinking blob is too close to the truth to be funny or terrifyingly entertaining.
Modern scarecums are too complex, too much a product of the imagination and less a product of the fiction laboratory.
The days are past when we can observe a mad Dr. Frankenstein creating his monster in a moldy castle, complete with a matched set of monster assistants. The mid-century monster is never created in a laboratory with electrodes
cracking in the background; he just appears. No reason. He just appears.
We long for the halcyon days when a handsome young man with a clean-shaven look could, within minutes, turn into a raving, hairy werewolf and pursue maid over hill and dale, finally to rest in peace, a victim of a silver bullet.
Nor shall the days of the vampire be forgotten. This is a chap that really chills the blood. This fellow is the product of the most fertile imaginations. Can you imagine dealing with an antagonist that, just when you have him cornered, shrinks into a silly-looking bat and flaps out the castle window. It's ridiculous. What can you do with a guy like that. He doesn't want to place his mind in your body, like some modern creations; he simply wants your body. He is simple and refreshing. Straightforward. Nothing subversive about this chap.
Well, we've reached a conclusion that not only is the world going to pot, but the monster population is too.
What this world needs is less talk, fewer politicians, and a darn sight more monsters.
Petition, anyone?
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
—John Eaton
'I HAVE TWO BOOKS FOR MY COURSE. I GET ALL MY LECTURES FROM TH' BEST ONE...TH' LOUSY ONE IS MY REQUIRED TEXT.'
Hofstra college of Hempstead, N. Y. held its opponents scoreless in its first three football games this season.
There are 350,000 primary party units which form the base of the Communist party pyramid in Russia.
Dailu Hansan
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