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University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 1, 1962
A Positive Effort
There is a great mass of criticism continually directed at the United States because it does not practice its ideals. It may believe in them, the arguments run, but what does that mean if it does not act on them.
In view of this type of criticism, it is especially satisfying to see some of the humanitarian ideals the United States has long expressed being put into practice. The group that is doing this is the National Council of Churches, through its Church World Service.
THE CHURCH World service is engaging in a program of resettlement in the United States for Cuban refugees from the Castro regime. There are presently about 100,000 Cuban refugees in Miami and they are arriving at the rate of nearly 2,000 per week.
It might be noted here that in other areas of the world where people have fled from a government they hate or fear to a country sympathizing with them, this constructive policy of resettlement has not been carried out. Instead permanent refugee camps with miserable living conditions have been set up. The refugee camps for refugees from Israel are good examples of this.
The Cuban refugees have fled from an oppressive, Communist dominated society that they hate. The United States has admitted them because it sympathizes with that antagonism toward Communism and with their desire to destroy it in Cuba. Many groups in the United States, the Church World Service among them, have recognized the basic humanitarian obligation that the United States has toward the Cuban refugees.
THE SITUATION is also suggestive of the great difference between the Communist system and the free, democratic countries of the Western world. In every country where the totalitarian system originating in Russia has gained control, a flood of refugees has poured out of that nation until the Communists could seal the borders effectively.
In contrast, the main criticism directed at the United States is that it keeps people out. There is no shortage of people who want to live in America. This difference between the Communist governments and the United States is one of the most telling testimonies against the Communists that exists.
—William H. Mullins
In one of the letters to the editor today there is a plea by the Communist Party Lecture Bureau for organizations to invite Communists to talk about communism.
Communist Speakers
They say communism is widely discussed and often attacked without Communists present. They say this is like holding a trial without the defendant being present or having a hearing.
THEY MAKE A good point, but with some qualification. The defendant—communism—does have a say in the "trial," either by defenders of communism, by Communist publications, by articles in mass media, or by unbiased speakers who talk on communism.
But the latter is indeed a rarity. And this is the strongest point of the Communist propaganda plea. Of course, communism is hard to define—it varies from country to country, depending on who is applying the theory of communism to an actual government.
Yet a Communist lecturer would at least be parading under true colors. He would give his audience a picture of communism as a Communist sees it. His audience would look for his biases—his motives and ideas could be checked against the firm knowledge that he is a Communist.
OPPOSE THIS to the vaporous shouting of groups such as the John Birch Society, the American Legion, the Daughters of the American Revolution and others. The logical conclusion is that a much more valid picture of communism could be gained from a Communist than from groups presenting an irrational, emotional or suspiciously motivated picture of communism.
In America, we see democracy from a participant's viewpoint. To make a valid comparison between democracy and communism, we should be able to see communism from a Communist's viewpoint. In a government established and run by the people, we have a right to this comparison.
If the American people cannot remain unswayed by this comparison, it is time for a major revamping of the American government. This editor thinks that the American form of government is in no danger from such a comparison.
—Karl Koch
A Reply to the Kansam Editor:
My attention has been called to a recent issue of the Daily Kansan in which one Arthur C. Miller has written concerning membership in national fraternities and sororites.
SINCE THE FIRST rule in any good reporting and editing is that of accuracy, I would like to correct the impression left by the article in your paper. February 12, with reference to Alpha Delta Pi Sorority and the withdrawal of its chapter at Lake Forest College in Illinois last year. This withdrawal was not based on discrimination but on the matter of local autonomy which had been voted as College policy by the Board of Trustees.
Alpha Delta Pi believes first of all in democratic processes and the right of free assembly (including the choice of one's friends) as guaranteed to our American people by the Bill of Rights. When the Lake Forest Trustees voted for local autonomy in fraternities and sororites on that campus, they also expressed preference that only Lake Forest alumni serve as chapter advisers.
To Alpha Delta Pi, a federation of locally autonomous chapters is not acceptable, nor is it synonymous with fraternity. Protest was voiced to the Administration over such policy but to no avail. Accordingly, the local chapter was notified it would not reopen this
Fraternities and sororites have contributed richly to the development of the University of Kansas and to the loyalty of its student body over the years. It is hoped they will not be put in a false position upon your campus for all American students are sincerely trying to work together.
past fall, as it was felt unfair to hold any students in the face of further harassment such as had gone on at Lake Forest.
Maxine Blake
Grand President
Alpha Delta Pi
As you know, Communism is being widely discussed in this country, but in most cases without the Communists. This is not only unfair because Communists are most often the targets of attack at such discussions. It is un-American in tradition. Also it is not due process. It is like holding a trial without the defendant being present or having a hearing.
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Offer From The Communists Editor:
MANY SPEAKERS on this topic are either professional anti- Communists or ill-informed persons whose material is based on untrue, prejudiced or outright reactionary sources. Such speakers create the atmosphere of the witchhunt and help ultra-Right fascist elements to the detriment of peace and social progress.
Communism is a philosophy and movement which is more than one hundred years old and has many millions of adherents throughout the world. The Communist Party, U.S.A., is in existence 43 years and it has according to objective historians made valuable contributions in the struggles of labor, of the Negro people and for the cause of peace, democracy and social progress generally. Communists have made heavy sacrifices in the course of these struggles. They ought to be given a fair hearing.
They will give a truthful view of the Communists on such topics as Communism, Marxism, the McCarran Act, the policies of the ultra-Right, the vital issues of peace, democracy, freedom of speech, socialism and other current topics. Such speakers are available for lectures, symposia, and debates.
WE WISH to inform you that we have set up a Lecture Bureau to make speakers available who can speak with knowledge and authority on Communism.
It is entirely legal to have Communist speakers, as the Attorney General recently stated.
Fees for speakers is not a main consideration. We ask organizations able to do so to cover fees and expenses. May we hear from you?
Sincerely yours,
Lecture Bureau,
Communist Party, U.S.A.
Third Floor
23 West 26th St.
New York 10, N.Y.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
"DID YOUR DRAFT BOARD GIVE YOU AN EXTENSION ON YOUR EDUCATIONAL DEFERMENT."
By Calder M. Pickett Professor of Journalism
AMERICAN HERITAGE, February 1962. $3.95 a copy, $15 a year.
George R. Stewart has contributed a particularly absorbing story of the Old West for the new American Heritage. This author, who compiled the Donner story into a shocking history, tells us of the covered wagon and its contribution to American folklore and symbolism.
Stewart gives us a bit of disillusioning detail. He finds absolutely no evidence that covered wagon frontiersmen, from their wagons formed in a circular pattern, ever had to stand off arrow-shooting Indians. One more legend blasted.
The article is illustrated beautifully, as could be expected in this publication. The cover is a familiar painting by Frederic Remington, showing a tough-looking old sentinel on the trail west.
AMERICAN HERITAGE'S PUBLICITY RELEASE boosts an inside story of Pearl Harbor, but there is little in this article that we don't know already. It does contain the exact words of a Billy Mitchell prediction of a Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Other reading is not quite so familiar. A Marine colonel tells how the United States got Guantanamo in the Spanish-American War. Two writers, one of them Malcolm Cowley, tell of the brutal "middle passage," the slave trade of the 18th century. And 13 posters show us the execrable taste of Americans in the Gay Nineties.
Another article describes the train that took the body of Lincoln to Springfield in 1865; another describes that mysterious figure, James Otis, who fought the Writs of Assistance in 1761 and then began to follow a career that was part-patriot, part-tory.
This issue brings the second installment of a series on American Progressives, this one dealing with George W. Perkins, a partner in the Morgan firm who backed Theodore Roosevelt. A photograph portfolio shows us "The Face of Maine" of two generations ago, an eloquent series of photographs, accompanied by a Longfellow poem, shows us the Jewish cemetery at Newport, R. I., and an article tells us about Parson Weems, who started that story of the cherry tree and young George Washington.
The Russian Government appears to think that Soviet decrees can change the laws of genetics; the Vatican apparently believes that ecclesiastical decrees could secure adequate nourishment for us all, even if there were only standing room on the planet. Such opinions, to my mind, represent a form of insane megalomania entirely alien to the scientific spirit.—Bertrand Russell
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