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Page 2 Monday, April 13, 1964
GUEST EDITORIAL:
Macf, Mcrcf World
Somehow it seems in the rush and press of our mech
anized society that the emphasis on the push-button and
computer, the rockets and horsepower have replaced com
pletely the goals these things were to help us attain.
There is constant criticism of this thing called K-States
"intellectual climate," or the lack of it. Many faculty
members and administrators have expressed concern over
its apparent absence. Some students, including Student
Senate, have become interested. People have acknowledged
K-State's lack of culture and cultural programs.
The reason for this might be pre-occupation throughout
the country with the sciences. It is evident on the K-State
campus, and it seems to have arrived by way of Washington.
K-State cannot build a new auditorium in the immedi
ate future because it is able to get partial federal financing
for the construction of science buildings and a library addi
tion. While these things may be needed, especially library
expansion, the arts and humanities go begging.
Millions of dollars are being spent to advance science
and research in the universities across the country. Ostens
ibly, this scientific advancement will make life better for
ns, to give us leisure, comfort, and peace of mind.
But one scientific advancement leads to another and
the emphasis remains with science. It is the pioneer com
pulsion to see what lies beyond the next hill.
There seems to be no comfort, no peace of mind, no
leisure. No time to sit back and enjoy the fruits of our ad
vancement. It is an unending cycle.
We are turning out experts with the test tube and iso
tope who know little of the life that their inventions will
influence.
As we race madly on toward mechanization we must
not smother everything else in the dust.
Science and technology must not be belittled, but we
dare not become single minded. When it is all said and
done, it will take the humanist help to maintain, if not re
store peace of mind.
Kansas State Collegian
Spare
Beatle, John,
"It is worth the attention
of anyone who fears for the
impoverishment of the Eng
lish language . . . theirs is
arguably our liveliest
stream of 'experimental
writing' and Mr. Lennon
shows himself well equipped
to take it farther," writes
the TIMES LITERARY
SUPPLEMENT.
"Its ancestry is plain:
Lewis Carroll, Klee, Thur
ber and very noticeably
late Joyce," writes the LON
DON TIMES, while the
DAILY MAIL, after invok
ing the names of James
Thurber, Saul Steinberg,
Edward Lear and Harold
Pinter, says "What might
at a glance seem just as
nutty as a fruitcake is plant
ed with anarchist bombs
popping damagingly under
traitlaced notions."
What the British press is
comparing to the greatest
English and American hu
morists in IN HIS OWN
WRITE, a collection of origi
nal poems, parodies and
drawings by the writing
member of the Beatles,
SfutfHf
7ww
Parts
Writes Book
John Lennon. Published in
England on March 21st, the
first printing of 50,000 copies
was completely sold out
that day. The Duke of Ed
inburgh has just asked Len
non for a copy, but he
will have to wait for the
second printing. Simon
and Schuster will publish
the book in this country on
April 27th. Price: $2.50.
Mr. Lennon has created
his own style a unique
combination of pure whim
sy, pointed satire and verb
al innovation. About him
self, he writes, "I was
bored on the 9th of Octover
1940 when the Nasties were
still booming us. I at
tended to varicous schools
in Liddypol. And still didn't
pass much to my Aunties
supplies. As far as I'm con
ceived this correction of
short writty is the most
wonderfoul larf I've ever
ready."
IN HIS OWN WRITE, by
John Lennon, will be privi
leged by Simon and
Schuster on Agile 27th and
wool socks for $2.50.
Council
5 1
CHARMER
ERIC SEVAREID
U.S. Obliged To Ful
Outworn 'Super7 Image
A spate of speeches by
highly responsible American
leaders, Senator Fulbright
most dramatically, make
the points that: Americans
cling to
worn out
c o 1 d-w a r
myths, do
not recog
nize that
the p o s t -war
polari
z a t i o n of
power be
tween the
U.S. and
Russia i s Sevareid
ended, assume China must
be permanently hostile,
cling to an unworkable posi
tion on Cuba, fail to recog
nize that Europe now has
its own power and mind, and
fail to recognize that com
munism in the world has be
come plural and is not at
all monolithic.
It is easy to recognize
the cogency of much that
the senator says, harder to
understand exactly whom
he is trying to say it to, and
even harder to understand
exactly what he wants this
country to do in certain
areas.
None of these arguments
is news to the "intellectual
community;" large books
making these and other
points have been coming out
for at least three years. It
is not news to the adminis
tration, which has been say
ing many of these things at
least since the Kennedy
speech at American Univer
sity last summer. It may be
news to a few extreme right
wing leaders and their pock
ets of followers around the
country, but the generality
of citizens has not been in
a rigid, frozen state of mind
for a long time.
The majority of Ameri
cans have calmly accepted
restraint and flexibility in
our foreign policy, and re
strained and flexible it has
surely been in most re
spects, ever since the Kor
ean war when we did accept
very limited victory for the
first time since the war of
1812 We did not hit Russia
when we had overwhelming
nuclear superiority. We did
not "unleash" Chiang Kai
shek. We did not act reck
lessly in Berlin, over the
blockade or the wall. Not
for years have we talked
about "liberating" the satel
lite countries. We do not on
the whole treat countries
like Poland and Yugoslavia
as simple Communist units,
without independence. We
no longer object to neutral
ism. We are not forcing our
selves and our defense strat
egies upon "Europe;" we
have, in fact, been endless
ly patient with the deep dis
agreements between the
European capitals. We did
not invade Cuba. We have
allowed the Russians to take
their own time abut getting
their troops out of there,
and it is manifestly untrue
that we are "so transfixed"
by Cuba that we are neglec
ting the rest of Latin
America, a; Senator
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Humphrey claims we are.
We did sign the atomic
test ban treaty with Russia.
We did agree to send wheat
to Russia and we are most
sincerely trying to negotiate
some measure of disarma
ment with Russia.
It is perfectly true that
China may not be perman
ently hostile to us; all things
alter in human history. But
the real point is that China
is hostile to her neighbors,
from virtually all of whom
she has taken or demanded
territory. It is these rela
tionships that will have to
change before her relation
ship with the United States
can really change. If Sen
ator Fulbright feels that we
should experiment by recog
nizing China or allowing her
into the United Nations, he
does not say so.
He is surely right in say
ing that we can afford to be
more generous with Pana
ma, even to the point of re
vising the 1903 treaty on the
Canal. But it has to be un
derstood that concessions
now will whet, not diminish,
Panamanian appetities for
more concessions later on.
That is all but axiomatic in
such a political relationship.
As to Cuba being only a
"distasteful nuisance" and
not an intolerable danger,
that depends on what this
country and other Latin
countries do to make sure
Cuba remains only a nuis
ance. Would a Communist
Cuba, economically flourish
ing as well as militarily
powerful, be more or less
of a danger to weak Latin
regimes? We had better
think hard about this. The
general proposition that fat
Communists are less dan
gerous than thin ones is
highly debatable.
On the day that Fulbright
said our economic boycott
is a failure, still more des
perate Cubans reached Flor
ida in small boats, bitter
about the lack of food and
clothing as well as freedom
in Castro's Cuba. How do
we know there is no chance
for an effective anti-Castro
movement developing? How
can one ever develop if we
drop the boycott and restore
the relative Cuban prosper
ity that Castro destroyed?
These are the real questions
to be answered in .judging
whether or not the boycott
should be lifted.
Altogether, it is quite true
that our relative world posi
tion has changed. We are no
longer a superpower; . we
are only a great power.
Our European friends con
tinually remind us of this.
Unfortunately, since they
cannot and will not con
tribute very much lo die re
novation and protection of
vast areas like Latin Ameri
ca, or to the security of
hundreds of millions of hu
mans in South Asia, we are
obliged to go on acting like
a superpower, however
much we dislike the role,
however much some sena
tors dislike the terminology.
Can a house divided stand . . . ?
by kenneth tabor
When the neo-Bolshevik
Communist theoriticans de
scribed the goals of their
party as world domination
through economic and mili
tary warfare, they were
unaware of a maiming, kill
ing, destructive force which
we today call nuclear war
power.
With this nuclear war
power's presence, the Com
munists found it necessary
to readjust much of their
methodology or face end
less frustration in the
achievement of their goals.
After the death of Stalin
and the inter-party rivalry
which followed, this read
justment was begun in the
person of Nikita Khru
shchev. It has followed
since his assumption of the
number one spot within the
Soviet hierarchy that
through the interaction of
the Soviet bloc and the oth
er nations of the world Rus
sia did learn to live with the
problem presented by this
nuclear power structure.
The first stage in this
learning process was the at
tempt to produce a nuclear
deterent and a defense sys
tem. Though Russia is still
emeshed in final stages of
this attempt, the device has
all but been dropped as a
means of living with the
problem. With the develop
ment of successful methods
of both brainwashing and
propaganda, Russia enter
ed its most important stage
of reaction to the existence
of nuclear war power; for
these two devices came to
be, at the hands of their
practicers, means of and
methods for warfare equally
as pragmatically useful as
armed combat had been be
fore. Russia had found a way
to strive toward their goal
of domination without blow
Dear Editor:
Last week was Peace
Corps Week here at the
University (the week before
vacation). Several records
were set; one student in
formed the recruiting team
that he had heard the
"Peace Corp Spiel" seven
Hamlet's Answer
Dear Editor:
After seeing the Univer
sity Theatre's production of
HAMLET twice, then
reading Susan Stanley
Wolk's criticism of it and
of Tom Crawley's fine per
formance, I can only quote
Hamlet himself: "For the
play pleased not the mil
lion; 'twas caviare to the
general." (Act II, sc. 2).
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ing themselves into the out
ermost parts of the galaxy
in the process. Finding a
method and applying it,
however, are r'0 different
things, and to accomplish
their end through these
means they had to deviate
from a direct road of con
quest and satisfy some
stomachs with a bit of food
and a glass or two of vod
ka. And this Russia set out
to do.
Were Russia a truly af
fluent nation there would
have been no problem. But
she is not. Her production .
of finished materials cannot
rival ours and neither can
their raw materials. Even
more important, they have
a farm problem which
makes ours look like house
wives with a few weeds in
their garden. What it all
amounts to is that to supply
their people's needs they
had to break out of their
own iron curtain and
bargain with the forum of
nations which exists outside
of their bloc. The most re
cent of these moves was
our wheat saie.
One need seemed to
spawn another for the So
viet Union, so that for some
time they were so busily
engaged in giving their peo
ple food and raiment and
making the agreements and
pacts necessary for doing
that, that they had precious
little time left to pay atten
tion to the internatonal party
organization.
The party fell into some
sort of disarray leaving in
its wake many petty dis
agreements which, when
they had time to flower and
foment, brought forth some
rather major disparities.
The member Parties of the
overall movment began to
take sides; and, seeing this
taking place, Russia began
to shore up her defenses for
a party reorganization.
His first move has been to
give more autonomy to the
various and sundry Party
groups. He could have done
little else. By allowing them
this freedom he restored to
those groups with legitimate
complaints a necessary
measure of freedom of ac
Peace Corps Thanks
times. The one record of
w h i c h we of the P e a c e
Corps team are most proud
is that eighty-nine students
took the examination be
fore the team returned to
Washington.
As a returned volunteer,
I was asked to assist in
this past week's program.
It was a great pleasure,
but the privilege of work
ing with University student
groups was even more en
joyable. Mr. Gibson and Mr. Cald
well were very pleased with
the cooperation they re
ceived from the University
Administration, the Chair
men of the various depart
m e n t s and individual in
structors. Official recogni
tion and thanks have been
rendered these people.
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tion. He gave the trouble
makers enough rope to hang
themselves with so that
when the time came he
would be able to discipline
them severely.
But one of the major com
munist movements was not
quelled by this measure.
And not only was it n o t
quelled, but also the meas
ure itself threw them into an
opposition camp. That group
was the Red Chinese. Be
cause of their great popula
tion, Red China does not
have to face the problem
of nuclear war power. Be
cause of her great popula
tion. Red China does not
need to be concerend about
whether her citizens are
hungry or fed. Because of
her great population, Red
China has not had to face
the problems which the So
viet Union has had to con
front. Thus, they have at
once been vociferous in
their castigation of the So
viet policy and able to
spread out a net of subsi
diary cell groups, not of the
Communist Internatio n a 1
but of her ewn national
party.
The presence of nuclear
war power was a frustra
tion to the Russian goal,
but it was one with which
they could deal because
in essence it was a concept
that their minds could ex
plore and evaluate. The
threat posed by Red China
is a reality. It is something
which will probably not be
solved at the level of a for
um because there is no will
ingness on the part of the
Chinese to talk it out.
The separation of the
Sino-Sovict 'bloc into i t s
components may end up be
ing solved only on the bat
tle field.
The question posed to us
in the West is not how the
split may be reconciled. The
question for us is can it be
reconciled. And if it can not
be, the larger question
comes to mind as to wheth
er a division such as this
will be just the thing that
will not only delay the Com
munist threat, but will deny
and destroy the world wide
Communist movement
However, without the stu
dent cooperation this proj
ect would have been mean
ingless. Many helped in
small ways and it would be
impossible to list them all,
but I would like to point
out several students who
did a great deal of "leg
work" which made the job
a little easier for the team.
On behalf of the P.C. re
cruiting team. I wish to
thank: Doug Thorn, Jackie
Riley, Mike Kir km an,
George Kimball and Den
nis Trippel, and also the
activity chairmen of t h e
living units for the wel
come volunteer assistance.
Robert P. Scheuerman
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