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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Feb. 7, 1962
U.S.Aid and the Reds
Secretary of State Dean Rusk faced severe criticism Monday from a special committee of the House of Representatives because of U.S. aid to Communist Yugoslavia. The chairman of the committee, A. Paul Kitchen, told Sec. Rusk he thought one Communist country was as bad as another. Sec. Rusk replied that U.S. aid, designed to pull Yugoslavia away from the Soviet bloc, had been profitable for the West.
THE BASIC purpose of U.S. aid to any Communist bloc nation should be clearly understood before any attempt is made to evaluate its benefit to the United States and the West in general.
The United States is sending aid to Yugoslavia (and other Communist nations) in order to aid them in breaking the Soviet hold on their economies and thus open the way for them to develop independent national policies. This is entirely to the advantage of the West. There are old and strong antagonisms to Russia in such countries as Poland and Yugoslavia, which are two countries the United States has sent aid to. Free from the absolute rule of the Kremlin, they represent a lessening of its power. Forcing them into the Soviet camp by virtue of economic necessity only increases the Kremlin's power.
THE FACT that the governments of the Communist bloc are brutal dictatorships is irrelevant in this context. The only question is whether or not it is to the advantage of the United States and the West in general to send aid to selected Communist bloc nations. In view of the information available about the conflicts that exist between certain of the Eastern European members of the Communist bloc and the Kremlin, it seems obvious that it would be to the advantage of the United States.
Obviously the United States has no intention of sending aid to such Communist nations as Bulgaria or Red China, which are either firmly in the Kremlin's grip or even more aggressive than the Soviets toward the West.
THE OVERALL picture of U.S. reasons and plans in giving aid to such Communist bloc nations as Poland and Yugoslavia may seem to be too cold and calculating, but this type of approach is often necessary in international affairs. A long range, comprehensive plan designed to deal with some aspect of the Communist menace requires it.
Considered from a realistic standpoint U.S. aid to Yugoslavia (and to Poland) has served the national interests. As long as it continues to do so, it is justified.
William H. Mullins
Guest Editorial
Textbook Censors
The crowd was packed in the old Supreme Court chamber Wednesday to hear more testimony in the hearings of the special House Textbook Investigating Committee.
WE THINK IT WELL that people are concerned about the types of textbooks that students use. However, the testimony we heard, coupled with that of earlier hearings, has led us to the conclusion that too much of this concern is misdirected.
Then there was the lady who has been a social studies teacher for 31 years. She was blasting away at the State Board of Education's method of textbook selection, yet presented herself as being a one-person censorship board for all textbooks used in the Texarkana school.
For example, there was the gentleman from Tyler who appeared before the committee and vigorously denounced some history textbooks. Yet when he was asked if the textbooks were now in use, or being considered for use, the businessman admitted that he didn't know. To us this was utterly ridiculous. Here was a man denouncing books that might never be used in the public schools.
This was the same lady who said, "Our boys and girls do not need to be trained to be good world citizens. They need to be trained to be good citizens of the United States."
BY STATING THIS BELIEF, which seemed
to be the real center of her attack, she indicated to us that she is unwilling to accept the role of the United States as a leader in the world. She showed a great lack of concern about getting along with her fellowman, unless of course he lives within the boundaries of the United States.
Her beliefs appear most unrealistic to us, and if this is the sort of thing that she wants students to be restricted to, then there is real danger.
And we wonder about her use of the word "trained." She kept talking about training students, not about providing an education opportunity. That training sounds like a technique that some of the countries she most opposes might be apt to use.
ANOTHER WITNESS was disgusted with the way that the history books had reported post World War II events, and in fact was opposed to their emphasis on modern history, suggesting that they should include instead much more detail about George Washington's inauguration.
Several of the witnesses cited specific texts as bad, with their reason being that the authors had listed extreme leftwing or possibly blasphemous poets as being important literary figures.
Concern is fine. But we're concerned about the misdirected concern of these would-be censors. We hope that they will carry little weight in determining what our students can read.
(From the Feb. 1 Daily Texan)
An Angry Voice
Editor:
The people who attack others because they are different (from a different state, have a different skin color, go to a different church or none at all) are the same sick people whether they slink together in basement meetings, hold a sheriff's office in the south, or write editorials on a small daily newspaper.
Sen. Harbaugh Praised Editor;
Now that Sen. Harbaugh has had the courage to stand before the Kansas Senate and express his beliefs concerning the encouragement of socialism at KU. I believe that he should be lauded. This is an aspect of our educational system here which has long been without a voice.
voicing of all opinions and theories in order that the University community may be better informed...' but the sad fact remains that most of the instructors and professors who have been given, or who take, this opportunity to voice their opinions concerning political, social, or economic views, all seem to have one opinion.
I trust that some new light has been shed by Sen. Harbaugh, and that it has caused some dull eyes to open wide and see exactly what has been going on about them.
NOT MANY will disagree with William Mullins' statement that the University ". . . encourages the
THEN, TO equate the influence
of our two major conservative clubs to the opposite influence of liberal instructors on their captive audiences seems somewhat out of proportion.
Ferguson, Mo., senior
Worth Repeating
Brent K. Mandry
A proposal to eliminate material from a curriculum is apt to be met with about the same psychological resistance as a proposal to remove bodies from a graveyard.—Byron S. Hollinshead
Let us not deceive ourselves; not only in Latin America but in the entire world we are living in situations that are radically new and that demand the establishment of a new system of relations between the highly industrialized and the underdeveloped peoples. Juscelino Kubitschek, former president of Brazil
Sound and Fury
By Dwight Payton
The Ellsworth (Kansas) Messenger
For reasons unknown the University Daily Kansan recently printed an excerpt from an article by a guy named Roger Bryce under the caption, "The Weekly Editor." The general theme seemed to be that weekly editors are bigoted SOB's.
This country editor feels flattered. I hadn't realized the country press was important enough to be given the Great Liberal Smear.
By the tenor of his article, one must judge that Bryce, had he lived during Christ's lifetime, would have referred to Jesus as a little, country, crackpot preacher who prates of stuff like brotherly love, the golden rule, innocence of little children and other such trivia.
PIERCE the thin veneer of intellectualism typical of those who prance and dance at the socialistic masquerade and you can spot two telltale characteristics:
1. The liberal seeks to destroy all existing customs, habits, traditions and beliefs with lies or ridicule or both with no distinction made between good and bad; and
2. With established authority eliminated, the stupid little people like country town (and city) folk are to be propelled into an age of "enlightenment" dictated by the self-appointed intellectual elite.
Obviously the liberal world will be the opposite of that old one which was too foolish and silly-sentimental to be tolerated—the world of country editors and other commonplace components of the American which was born of man's tortuous struggle against governmental tyranny and the glorious dream of individual freedom and dignity in the sight of God.
AS FOR country editors "intimidating some poor school principal"... Bryce should investigate the power of teachers' organizations, state and national, and their affiliate, the PTA. The brave new world is here to the extent that the intimidated people today are citizens from all walks of life who realize that big debt, big bureaucracy and big union power are building to big disaster. Most of these little people, including many country newspaper publishers, are afraid to speak their minds in public.
Be it noted that there are no country editors in Russia, or China, or Cuba, or anywhere else in the world. The weekly newspaper, the little unit of free expression, linked to and made possible by free enterprise, could only germinate and flourish in a climate of freedom such as once afforded by pre-welfare state America.
Bryce attempts to slur the weekly editor as "cleaving to Flag, Motherhood and Country" as if this were a heinous triumverate. He doesn't say what he cleaves to: If not motherhood, an opposite such as communal takeover of children for state indoctrination, perhaps? If not the proud symbolism of a flag emblazoning willingness to fight for freedom from tyranny, bespeaking independence, proud self-reliance, honor, faith in God, justice—if not these, then Bryce must subscribe to statism wherein symbols are forbidden lest they awaken dreams in the subservient citizen masses. If not to country, what? Country at least stands for something over and above the liberal creed that the end justifies the means.
NATURALLY the Roger Bryces would try to destroy the influence of this voice. The Roger Bryces believe they alone are called from on high to think for and write for the masses, tailoring to whatever phase of dialectical materialism might be called for at any given moment. Lies ever will be needed to cover socialism's predestined and pitiful failure.
Essentially, socialists like Bryce are children of failure, malcontents speaking from jealously of a world they themselves could not build—they only move in and take over by force, destroying wealth and productive capacity in their wake. And—great irony—they always act in the name of humanitarianism.
No, friend Bryce—and students at KU—we country editors don't want to "return" to anything except to common sense living, with emphasis on honesty, individual dignity nurtured by freedom, faith in God of the sort which in turn bases on faith in God's children's ability to be good christians and good citizens without some caste of self-elected "super intellects" shouting orders every step of the way.
WEEKLY EDITORS make no pretense at being representative of the American Press as Bryce suggests. Those who still can find time and have the guts to write for their editorial columns in spite of the crush of inflation, governmental red tape and socialistic pressures, represent the last frontier of journalistic freedom in America and the world. They are representative of the dying order of personal journalism.
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