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Pag 2 ' EDITORIAL'. Monday, February 12, 1962 J EDITORIAL PEOPLE TO PEOPLE For a Better Understanding Think International! Today, the Nebraskan begins its aeries on the People To People (PTP) program on the University of Nebraska campus. This program, which actually had its birth nearly five years ago, is part of what for mer President Eisenhower called a need to understand people: "If we are going to take advantage of the assumption that all people want peace, then toe problem is for people to get together and to leap govern ments ... if necessary, to evade governments ... to work out not one method, but thousands of methods by which people can gradually learn a What Can You Do? WHAT ONE PERSON CAN DO (ACP) Can an individual influence the world crisis? If so, how? Kelly Smith writes in the University of Kansas DAILY KANSAN: Probably the best way to be of influence is to be informed, and then to apply that information toward a constructive use: By joining a political party or political pressure group. By focusing interest on the international scene through People To People, Peace Corps and foreign student organizations, talking with ambassadors and representa tives from foreign countries. By traveling at every opportunity, and judging each locality in terms of its own problems, needs and expectations. By attending lectures, listening to those xperta in the field of foreign relations from our own country. By reading books, newspapers, weekly magazines and periodicals. Only by taking an active part in gov ernment . . . can anyone make that one voice heard as part of public opinion. ERIC SEVAREID Cuban People May Topple Castro's Communist Tower Washington has put the best face possible on the semi-abortive conference at Punta del Este, but proves its (satisfaction by mov ing ta rn e d l ately to shut off virtu- auiy an t e main- tog im- f ports I from Cas- j , t r o ' s L tJ -1, -it Cuba. Sevareid The final agreement at the conference was, like the communique at the Geneva Summit confer ence in 1955, a solution, not of the problem that produced the conference but of the problem of hav ing called the conference. Fundamentally weak governments like those of Brazil and Argentina sim ply followed the political tradition that, in the words ofv Lord - Bryce, "The nearer danger is the greater danger." Had they broken with Cuba they would have had to deal with domestic turbulence now; permitting the Cu ban embassies propa ganda and subversion fac tories, in reality to re main on their sou, merely postpones the showdown. But, say some influen tial Americans, there is a way to avoid this dilem ma. Wt set up a co-ordinated counter-intelligence system with the Latin Americans, their secret m&Ciivo Tf vi JUit tt lui uui to detect, expose and get agents;, meanwhile eco nomic progress under the Alliance for Progress will be .alleviating the social condition! that make La-, tm America a fertile field for political disrup tion. . Neat and k deal as (his sounds, it bears, at least In isy awn judgment, very !.;.: rtttticnibip t real ity. CoHBter-tetelUgeace la t Latin America is art .fcrlght, new thought; it existed for genera tion and fiie proof of its fswetspeteaee and briba tI5y ia various countries Ktmhtr Associated CeHerUto Press, fifPBii4iwial Trtm Representative: Kstkntal tAiishtr frrriee. Ineorponted Poblbhed it-" Im tl Student Catoa, Lincoln. ?VrZ.m i;'dtrae 1-TTXTT-ONZ YE A IS OLD " 14th & B Telephone HE 1-J631 ext. 4225, 4228. U2T ttW rmtm wm n 9tr mmumn :ju'm . . h law' .a, "Taa. tat 4. 0lT - a aaMiaW . W.aalal.y. n,4n rrW.y tmrn. a cfcl rear, cM talent Jlir M lUilralM af little bit more about each other." Everyone of us must cooperate. And where is the best place to start? RIGHT HERE ON THE UNIVERSITY OF NE BRASKA CAMPUS. As Mr. Jagjit Singh, rag columnist, pointed out last Friday, there are on our campus, 235 foreign stu dents representing 46 foreign countries. Joyce C. Hall, president of Hallmark Cards and chairman of the PTP program, said in a speech that: "When you look into the hearts and minds of men of any race, color or be lief, you see that they have more in common than they have in difference ... but only the surface has been scratched." What can you do? Support the PTP pro gram. It offers a Brother-Sister program; international-student job placement; in ternational discussion groups; tours; as sistancein housing and orientation 'and even programs for the American student abroad. There is a place where you fit in and are needed! , And the results? They'll be surprising. You will gain an understanding of peo ple of other countries on a first-hand ba sis. In all practical aspects, you will be a part of a "peace corps." You will be as sisting these foreign students in their un derstanding of our way of life and our people. You will affect the attitude that they will hold for the people of America when they return home to assume top positions of leadership. The Daily Nebraskan wishes to com mend the students who have taken the leadership initiative to promote this pro gram on our campus. We also wish to of fer to them our complete support and co operation. We again urge the student body to join in with their support of the People To People program. "Men must understand one another be fore nations can . . ." f erg lies in the enormous in crease in Communist sub-, version activities in the last few years. In any case, exposing foreign agents Is only part of the problem. What, for example, is to be done about the Urugu yan students, intellectuals and labor leaders, who filter into Argentina and are the flown 80 to 100 of them every week to Havana for indoctrination courses? The massivness of the Cuban-Russian ef fort in Central and South America is only dimly comprehended in this country, and to rely on "counter-intelligence" is to lean on the slenderest of reeds. Nor can we think of ec onomic reform as an "al ternative" save in the very, very long run and under the luckiest of stars. For the next few years, which are the cri tical years, what the Al liance for Progress ac complishes in Latin Amer ica will have very little to do with what the Commu nists accomplish. The Communists, who want merely to seize or to dis rupt power, work on a short fuse; effective eco nomic reform can be thought of, in many south ern countries, only in terms of decades. Why? Because the pop' ulation of all Latid Amer ica has increased 30 per cent in the last 10 years. Because in 13 short years it will contain a hundred million more mouths than it contains now, if present . trends continue. Because, as President Kennedy told Congress last March, Latin Americans will have to d 9 u b I e their real in come in the next 30 years merely to maintain the abysmally low standards of living that exist today. None of this means that Latin America is bonnd to "go" Communist; tt does not mean that any spe cific country is bound to "go." It does mean dec ades of misery, saeial a anarchy and constant po Utictl dismptions tit Daily Nebraskan P,Mfeaa navr tt lutoHiHwi af fat NknatlM aa Siaat rrtlliU k tnm tnm cSKartal emntk a m aart af tba gaacaanasltwa ar aa tfca aart af aa; aiia aiHalli (to Catmattr. tt mm man af la Daily Kehmkas staff ara atraaaaR waaaialU far vtat tacr EDITvMAlt Ituf TMm Da frtaa Maaajta. UMar .. Hm r.nat Vrw E&tar rhaaar Blillati t!rta E4Mr Dare WaaHanfc At Kea E4ttar Aa Aaarrm Ki(M Ktt Mttar ak Bnam. Tan Katoac faar E4nri .. Kaarr WMtfar. 8a Hrik, Garr Later Staff Wrtten Mika Martha a. Taaj Ratoac. Urmty tUxrn Jaaair ma WrNan tm fimitrk. kk ..ai ufl FkaMfraaker Daac Miftilaai FSIKXM WAFT '"aral Maaarar . . WI (WakVkl AaaMaat BaMaM Maufen ..Jaka ZctHarrr. Tan FHckeu, af IW I'atrcrtttr taa CmanUei aa afMaa. CtrtltiB Mlaarar Monday, February 12, 19621 which we will be drawn deeper and deeper and in wMch Communist agents a have a field day vi i could be mitigated, at .oast, by locking the doors of their embassies in those Latin countries where they still have em bassies. But there is another way which can lead to a check on Communist in fluence, and it has noth ing to do with counter intelligence of economic reform. This lies in t h e possibility of Castro's fail ure in Cuba and the col lapse of his system from within. It is in this hope that Washington officials have decided to tighten the economic squeeze on Cuba. They now know two things: first, that the Soviet Union is not, after all, going to spend the money and effort neces sary to make Cuba a Communist "showplace" something much feared in Washington a year ago and second, that Cas tro, having milked dry the Cuban capitalists and middle class, will now be forced to get the develop ment and trading capital he needs by sweating it out of the workers. This is what Stalin had to do; it is what Mao Tse-tung has had to do. It is what Jagan of British Guiana frankly says he intends to do. The Cuban worker is soon going to know that he never had it so bad, and. if we have our wits about us, all of Latin America can be made to share this knowledge. It is possible that Castro's regime will make it through this economic val ley of the shadow. But the resources of the Cu ban island are not similar to those of the Soviet Union; the temperament of the volatile, highly in dividualistic Cuban people is not that of the Russian people. It is permissible to be lieve that the Cuban Sam son will bring the temple down upon his head, how ever long the hairs of his beard may grow. w a arrant rtanarr im. .... Jtai Treatar i- I Student Qiallanges YD Prtesident I To the editor: 1 In regard to the articles I "A Student Speaks Out" I and 'Out of the Woods" in Jan. 17th's editorial i section, I would like to I make a few comments. I do not agree with Mr. I Forrest's belief that we I all should run to our "po- I litical bomb shelters" and I get ready to experience 5 another campaign of mud slinging. I also do not agree that the Young Re publicans would be justi fied in returning Mr. Muenster's charges In the same kind of language that he used. Political mud slinging has gone on between both parties ever since there were two par ties, and it will continue to do so. Despite this, I would ask the Young Re publicans not to do arty mud slinging. In regard to Mr. Muenster's charges that the Republican party is degenerate and obstruc- ftiomst, I challenge him to State specifically in what I ways the Republicans are I degenerate and obstruc- tionist I do not want to g see any glittering gener- I alities or mud slinging, but I I want to see from Mr. I Muenster some absolute, I concrete evidence to pr" ve his charges against the Republicans. Anonymous Republican fReader Commends iRag Articles I To the editor: Let me commend you I on including in your pa- per recently those unus- s ually worth while and constructive articles S namely, I Korean Educators Warn; Understand Communism 1 State Department is i Busy Studying Outside I View of American For- I eign Policy Big Eight Okays PTP i pilot program. I Glen Vanderhill i Physics Dept. HA MA HA' DONE ITi And tTKE's DOING IT.' AJJDNOlOYOUftSTlW POOTMOTB to student travel Travel to Em-ope the NsA-wa? and meet the students in the countries you visit A 54 day program visiting five coun tries costs S79S, all indusi, including transportation. Write: U.S. National Stu dent Association, Dept. . .2161 Shattack Avenue, Berkeley 4, California. 'Tke U.S. Smoitl SitJeml Ail' rtmtrcM 9 0 n-pnj Mrrw ar. Q0TH3 CIY Lb. wt fUs lip ? THIS SUMS I L .1 MONEY I H In M CZ SAVING I ' PHILCO SUNSHINE CENTER not. Sumy Almost a semester and a half has passed since this column last appeared in print. The last article was written while the 'Great White Father" post number one was eagle eyeing our' depart ment of journalism. Aft er a complete investiga tion lA wjiich nothing was proved or disproved ev erything was forgotten. Since that time NOT GUILTY has not been in print When this column was a regular feature of the Nebraskan it was the most read and least liked of all its peers. With this dubious honor and notori ety NOT GUILTY , is again presented in its same RIDICULOUS man ner. Many events of the last semester were passed over by the tainted axe due to a bland editorial policy. I shall try to rec tify this by donating some space to the notable events of last semester. MOST ILLOGICAL DE CISION OF THE SEMES TER: The decision to give a $90,000 bonus to the construction company that could finish the dorm by . September, 1963. Announced reason for the decision ... WE would lose that much in student fees if it isn't completed. BEST PERFORMANCE IN SPORTS: Willie Ross' superb play while scoring three touchdowns against the opposition. WORST PERFORM ANCE IN SPORTS: Wil lie Ross' fumble inside his own ten yard line. QUOTE OF THE SEM ESTER: "The yellow paint? Officer that's left from our homecoming display!" FLOP OF THE SEM ESTER . . . THE COL LEGE HYMNAL NEWEST INNOVATION . . . The Daughters of Minerva. BEST DANCE OF THE SEMESTER "I'll never play Lincoln again" or "What evidence?" MOST GULLIBLE ON VtXI MADE M ASREEMfVT WITH vow? teacher to &ve up w Blanket if she'd 6(Ve up CHEMNS HB? FiN6ERNAll5. I fAllED TO RECKON WITH THE TENACITY OF TH6 MCCERN-CW SCHOOLTEACHER! T COUPON! - aUO 50 vrrrji r - CAMPUS: All those fresh men who paid their fa thers hard earned money to look at an English 3 final ... The same one that was sold on this campus three years ago. CONGRATUATIONS to the Phi's for finally paint- Tender messages . . . flowing ert . . . GIbeon VslenHnet tell sweethearts you selected the finest. See a complete display at our store. ' Goldenrod Stationery Store 215 North 14 FREE TELEVISION Romano's Pizza Contest V A Beautiful 23" walnut console TV.will be awarded to the Sorority, Fraternity or dorm that turns in the most coupons. V A Contest coupon will be attached to each ' Pizza V Ends March 18 $1 1 Coupon, $1.50-2.00 2 Coupons $2. 50-$ 3. 00, 3 Coupons FREE DELIVERY 432-596! 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Then, through our tainted and bloodshot eyeballs, we are going to take a lock at the dating situation on campus. . -0i m4 sheet ream CENT o. 7 JH vr . -V-i-. v
