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EDITORIAL
Russians
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Russia. A word that us
ually brings to mind a
feeling of hatred, dislike,
and desperate competi
tion. What is it like to be
in a room with eight top '
members of the agricul
tural field In Russia and
active members of the
Communist party.
Attending the press con
ference held for the Rus
sian Minister of Agricul
ture, K. G. Pysin, and
seven other members of
the Russian delegation, I
was interested in more
than Just the news as
pects of it.
What would their atti
tude be when asked about
the Cuban situation and
the reported fields of rot
ting grain in the virgin
wheat fields in Russia?
What would their dress be
and what would their gen
eral attitude be?
. The eight Russians
walked in the door and I
discovered that they
were mostly dressed like
a very average Ameri
can would dress. Their
shoes were the only things
that weren't typically
American.
They seated themselves
at the press table and as
I looked at them I won
dered how they could be
so firmly fixed in their
way of life and how we
could dislike other people
so much. I felt a little of
my dislike for them leave
and started to pity them.
M. A. Olshansky, presi
dey of the AH-Unlon
Academy of Agriculture
Science, was probably the
most impressive looking.
He had a tremendous
amount of white wavey
hair ... he looked like
he should be one of the
characters in a Tolstoy
novel. He spoke slowly
and appeared lost in
thought most of the time.
Mrs. Marina Lvovna, a
Russian interpreter, had a
charming smile and list
ened intently to all that
was said. She wasn't
dressed very stylishly
but her shoes looked
American.
A. S. Shevchenko im
mediately caught one's at
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tention by his extremely
blue eyes that seemed to
be laughing. He has been
called "Will Rogers" by
newsmen and one can
readily see why. His gen
eral happy attitude and
physical appearance cre
ated a very good impres
sion. Pysin was one of the
few that were true to
form. He looked and acted
like one would expect a
Russian dignitary to act
and look. He seemed to
be like Khrushchev would
appear.
The questions started and
I slowly began to see
what these men were
really like. The interpret
er from the State Depart
ment had a solemn face
which fit the occasion.
The State Department
interpreter seemed to be
doing a very good job, but
the two Russian interpret
ers who accompanied the
delegation listened very
intently. Several times
when she would leave out
one word that only dupli
cated what had already
been said or meant the
same thing, the Russian
interpreters quickly inter
jected it.
Pysin was asked the in
evitable question about
crop failures in Russia.
He said that Pravda
didn't precisely say that
and that the American re
port was incorrect. He ad
mitted that harvest was
lower than usual but said
that this was due to a
lack of rain.
The whole interview fol
lowed on these lines
Pysin, who did the ma
jority of the talking, ne
ver let himself be" "talked
into a position of criticiz
ing the Soviet Union. No
remark was ever made
that indicated they were
ever in the wrong.
Y.hen asked about the
grain trade agreement be
tween Red China and Can
ada and the food shortage
in the former country, Py
sin said that he had not
studied the economy of
Red China and couldn't
say about a food short
age there. Does the Min
ister of Agriculture in
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Russia actually expect ns
to believe that he doesn't
know about the economy
of another Communist na
tion that is a neighbor to
the Soviet Union?
Pysin's favorite phrase
was "that is their prob
lem." This covered every
thing from the Red China
Canada trade agreement
to whether Pysin thought
the' American farmer
could actually benefit
from joint collective farm
ing and eventually state
control.
I could feel the dislike
of Russia return to me.
When Pysin was asked
why the American farm
er was a leader In the
world of agriculture, he
didn't attribute it first of
all to techniques, know
ledge or anything that
would resemble praise of
the United States. The
first reason was that the
climate and geographical
conditions were the best..
He never admitted to our
superiority for the sake of
technology and freedom
being first.
Members of the Itussian
delegation were asked con
tinuously what ideas they
had found that they could
adapt, what was new to
them, what Khrushchev
had found when he visited
here that they could use,
but they never answered
those questions with ' a
straight answer. They
beat around the bush and
came up with absolutely
nothing as an answer.
The delegation seemed
to enjoy themselves more
when Dr. E. F. Frolik,
dean of College of Agri
culture gave the welcom
ing speech. He asked the
Russians to attend the
football game Saturday.
Before consenting to go,
they appeared more con
cerned about visiting with
agriculture experts than
having a little recreation!
At the end of the con
ference I had the feeling
I had absolutely nothing
worth while from the
straight news angle, but I
had gained a big insight
into the life and world of
the Russian top command.
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From Dr. Calkins
No branch of higher
education is more neg
lected today than the re
education of the, educat
ed. And no neglected
branch of education is
more important at this
time to the welfare of
our country. I am less
disturbed by the condi
tions and problems fac
ing this country . . . than
t am by the intellectual
unpreparedness of our
people and especially our
thinking people, to f a c e
these problems in an in
formed and responsible
way . . . No one in these ,
times can go far on the
Intellectual capital he ac
quires in youth. Unless
he keeps his knowledge
or skill up to date, re
vises it, adds to it, en
riches it with experience
and supplements It with
new ideas ... he is soon
handicapped for the du
ties of the day.
Dr. Robert D. Calkins,
President of Brookings
Institution
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Remember the picture above? It flashed across your
television screen on a hot night last July. Perhaps
you remember that it originated from France. And
that it reached the U. S. via Telstar, the world's first
private enterprise communications satellite.
Since that summer night, the Bell System's Telstar
has relayed electronic signals of many types -television
broadcasts, telephone calls, news photographs,
and others.
But there's one Telstar reflection you might have
missed. Look into the faces of the Bell System people
below and you'll see it It is the reflection of Telstar's
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There is probably no
college fraternity which
does not publically enno
ble the concept of scho
lastic excellence. Indeed,
most of them suggest that
the primary ideal encom
passed in their initiation
ceremony is the attain
ment of some kind of
scholastic distinction. Yet
when we consider the
other aspects of fraterni
ty life we get the im
pression that this is not
the primary objective at
all, but rather a neces
sary evil.
It is true that the all
fraternity average is
above the all-men's av
erage, as It consistently
has been. But this is the
result of two salient fea
tures of the "Greek" way
f life: 1) pledges are re
quired by the University
to make a 5.000 average
before they may be eli
gible for initiation, and
2) the Greeks tradition
ally select certain mem
bers exclusively for their
scholastic ability. The lat
ter do not, in fact, have
to meet the usual social
and personal criteria
which most rushees do.
Almost without excep
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an esoteric quality
tion, a fraternity pledge
class leads an entire
h 6 u s e in scholarship.
Freshman fraternity av
erages espcially tend to
be proportionally higher.
Yet when the p 1 e d g e
period ends, initiates find
that, the scholastic , em
phasis disappears the
publicized fraterni
ty ideals notwithstanding.'
Moreover, there is an
atavistic (perhaps "chick
en" would be a bet
ter word) tendency with
in the system. Greek
letter organizations occa
sionally raise their aca
demic standards for a pe
riod of time, only to low
er them again when high
e standards begin to
eliminate certain favored
individuals. This has, in
fact, occurred already
this year in more than
one house. Idealism, at
least in' this instance, is
hard-going and thorough
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success that glowed brightly on the faces of all who
shared in the project
Their engineering, administrative and operations
skills created Telstar and are bringing its benefits
down out of the clouds to your living room.
These Bell System people, through their talented,
dedicated efforts, make your phone service still better,
more economical, and more useful.
The reflections of Telstar are many.
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ternity system will be en
gaged in the building of
homecoming d i s
plays. And each house
must decide (if indeed
they even think of it)
whether to participate or
, not. Each display usually
' requires many hours of
work, traditionally pro
vided by pledges (whose
averages must be tem
porarily neglected for the
sake of a trophy).. Yet it
would be unthinkable for
most houses to legislate
that only active members
should work on the dis
plays And the suggestion
that a house not partici
pate at all seems to be
the ultimate profanation
of the idea of school
spirit (coming from the
Greeks, this seems the
greatest of all paradoxes,
the grossest expression of
the traditional fraternity
proclivity even worse
than their mere exist
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