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WSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1959
NIGHT EDITOR: THOMAS HAYDEN
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Same Old Story
Greets Red China Bid
T WAS THE same old st'ory from the United
Nations Tuesday - Communist China had
o chance of gaining -membership- at this ses-
on, but maybe next year the General Assem-
ly would consider the possibility.
In the meantime, Communist China was re-
rganizing top military personnel, continuing
er Laotian maneuvers and bombarding the.
hinese Nationalists every other day - hardly
onvincing evidence that she is ready to join
peace-seeking organization. Nor does there
eem much hope that she will be asked to in
he near future, barring a change either in the
ommunist nation's aggressive tendencies or
a the United States' stand on the issue.
Opposition to Red China's entry into the
nited Nations; spearheaded during the last
ine years by the United States; is in part
ased on the, fear that she would gain the
TeXts and Prices
dHE COST of text books is extremely high-
and seems to be rising each semester..
This problem would be relatively easy to.
olve if the bookstore owners were rbandit
hiefs who were "robbing the students blind."
owever, separate investigations made con-
erning the. proposed Union bookstore made
ist year by, the Upion and The Daily indi-
ate that this is not true. It seems that the
ookstores give efficient and reasonably priced-
ervice.
The evidence clearly shows that the ob-
ous and most dramatic solution, a student or
rniversity sponsored bookstore is not a prac-
cal solution.
, UT STUDENT Government Council should
set up a cpmmittee to investigate the prob-
m and perhaps work for some partial solu-
ons.
For example, they could consult with facul".
Y, bookstores and textbook publishers in or-
er to seek some method of reducing textb'ook
osts. More paperbacks and a larger Under-
raduate Library reserve-book list might help.
There might be an' opportunity for a four
er cent reduction, if the-Legislature could be
ersuaded to exempt textbooks from the use
ax.
The problem of textbook prices offers an
rea where SGC might well serve the student
Security Council membership now held by Na-
tionalist China. Her power in this position
might presumably be great enough to disrupt
the peaceful goals of the United Nations, per-
-,haps even destroy its authority.
AS AMERICA'S Walter S. Robertson, former
assistant secretary of state, told the Gen-
eral Assembly this week, Red China's record
is hardly commendable - 'since first nominat-
ed for membership she has been involved in at-
tacks on other Asian nations six times, found
"guilty of aggression" by the United Nations
for actions during the Korean War (which
she still denies) and spread "organized hatred"
in propaganda against non-communist nations.
The United States officials has insisted that
membership be granted only if she demon-
strates her desire for peace. Her rapid growth
into a world power doesn't seem too significant,
if she wields it aggressively.
The American policy, tends to slight- p-
bilities of somehow discouraging Red China's
war-like mood. Nine years of snubbing by the.
United Nations has had no effect, so what
reason is there to believe that nine more years
of the same treatment will change her?
INDIA, the annual sponsor, holds the ,oppo-
site idea. Membership for Red China, ac-
cording to neutralist Indian policy, might very
well be sufficient to tame her since she would
then be responsible to a world government.
Red China would be on the same plane as the
rest, ofd the nations and would continually be
required to justify her actions.,
Neither forced seclusion or reliance on social
pressure seem to be the complete answer, but
a "probational" membership or a combination
of granting Red China membership, then sub-
jecting her to the scrutiny of her peers and,
if necessary, forcing -her to conform to the
tenets of the United Nations might work. Other
solutions undoubtedly exists:among the mem-
bers of the General Assembly. Yet the United
States' opposition is so absolute that even dis-
cussion of the issue is postponed every year.
One thing is certain - postponement cannot.
'last forever. Red China, as a rapidly growing
world power, must be shaken out of what re-
sembles a state of juvenile delinquency before:
she reaches maturity.
The United Nations has a year to think it
over. Perhaps next year the General Assembly
will sit down and pool ideas. - it would be
the first real progress made in nine years.
--KATHLEEN MOORE
Whthe News
by Robert iunker
WORDS ARE UNUSUAL. You can read them, have them explained
and be satisfied as to their meaning. Yet when they are properly
used and a situation arises, they cani be twisted to say practically
anything.
And what they say in the end depends entirely on who has the
power to change them. Thus one views with avid interest the pro-
posed Student Government' Council plan, which was written, among
other reasons, "to clarify" the old plan.
Taken literally, this would seem to say that ambiguities which
had obviously existed in the old Stu G plan were to be cleared up. Even
a brief perusal of the latest edition will make it shockingly clear that
ambiguity has not been removed, and that one would probably lose a
debateif he claimed the new plan was any clearer than the old.
A SAMPLE or two of illustration:
Under the heading "functions" appears Function A: "To recognize
new student organizations."
Function B: "To reactivate and deactivate student organizations."
Function C: "To withdraw recognition from student organizations."
These three functions seem elear enough until one small point is
raised: does the term "student organizations" include fraternities and
sororities. As many students know, the present plan revision grew out
of a dispute over a sorority, Sigma Kappa. The case brought out an
ambiguity in the former plan: did SGC have the jurisdiction to de-
clare a sorority guilty of discrimination and order them to sever their
connections with the national?
THIS POINT seems even less clear in the present plan. There are
those who say Greek letter groups are not student organizations but
rather student-alumni-administration groups and thus would not be
included in SGC's. new areas of jurisdiction. Some high officials have
assured those concerned that the term "student organizations" does
include Greek letter groups.
But at any angle the plan seems to be full of ambiguities.
And there are distasteful aspects as well. Substantive review has
been explicitly included in the powers of the Committee on Referral.
Now if four members of the referral committee deem an action of SGC
'unreasonable," the referral committee takes up the question and can
reverse a Stu G decision on the basis of differing, opinion.
SOME STUDENTS fought this. Mort Wise, former SGC executive
vice-president, walked out of the meeting at which the plan .was
adopted. He felt the plan was opposed to any concept of student gov-
ernment he could support.
Bobbie Maier, a second student representative, voted against the
plan. Ron Gregg, Stu G president, supported the plan along ,with the
administration and faculty members. Mr. Gregg obviously had a differ-
ent view of student government's scope and power than the other two
student members of the committee which drew urp the. plan.
"What can this differing concept be? On the surface it appears that
Mr. Gregg does not care to head a strong student government or to
fight for the ideal of a strong student government with control over
student affairs.
* *~ *
ONE IS FORCED to wonder whether this is aywise position for a
student government leader. Objectively considered, of course, Gregg
,may have seen the obvious: the administration must take the ultimate
blame for student conduct and wishes to have a voice in student affairs.
The administration holds the power, and no plan which excluded
them from areas of Jurisdiction could pass if, they desired otherwise,
Gregg may have been trying for the best possible compromise for stu-
dent" government.
Yet a good fight would have done much more for the SGC morale.
AT THE CAMPUS:
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t illnesslt. Louis Post-Dispatch
THE. SENIOR COLUMN:
. Starting To Learn A fter Class
By CHARLES KOZOLL
Personnel Director
IN TODAY'S frantic search for
standards, the illusion of the
"liberally educated man"' has.
gained eminence in many, collegi-
ate circles.
Enlarging the mental picture of
a tweedish pipe smoker who can
shift intellectual tacks from dis-
cussions of Plato to theories of
nuclear physics, educators have set
out to prove that the present
overriding concern with producing
technicians can be fatal to any
progressing society.
A cursory review of recent
changes in course and department
construction readily illustrates the
trend-integrating relevant areas
of psychology, economics and poli-
itical science to provide a cross
section of data, drawing men from
different disciplines together to
discuss one area of the world. All
this toward the end of a wider
academic perspective for students.
-* * *
WIDENING this perspective will
hopefully. turn the individual who
faithfully memorizes cold factual
data into one capable of 'seeing
relationships between facts and
theories and of applying them
both to general and specific prob-
lems.
This individual may not become
a stereotype of the white collar
worker who worships his hi-fi,
television set, barbecue pit and the
notion that the only thinking man
appears in prominent cigarette
ads.
He may be the same individual
who realizes that the entirety of
university education does not oc-
cur within the confines of either
the library or the classroom. The
academic community provides not
only the means to acquire a
sweeping view of academic mat-
ters, but certain techniques to put
these fairly abstract principles di-
rectly to work.
THE MOST abstract of the lot
is called "human understanding"
and it seeps into practically every
section of college experience. It
starts the day when a freshman
greets his roommate for the first
time and never really stops.
It isn't really concerned with
having dorm bull sessions on reli-
gion or squatting on the floor of
a .crowded apartment pretending
at knowledge of existentialist phil-
osophy while hopefully broadening
moral outlooks.
It is intimately tied up with
learning first that other opinions
and characters do exist and sec-
ond that because they may irritate
our own patterns that have been
solidified for ten years, they aren't
crackpot, beatnik or immoral.
* * *
HUMAN understanding isn't a
science that is learned specifically
through being steeped in a maze
of extracurricular activities or be-
ing classified as a Big Man on
Campus (BMOC) or Growing
Wheel On Campus. The sense of
accomplishment which comes from
having learned how to" work with
people rather than use them won't
be part of Buro-Cat training pro-
grams, pledging periods or any
form of indoctrination that vari-
ous organizations use.
If there could be developed a
method which' would imbue alU
students with this ,desirable qual-
ity, it could be put. 'on booklet
form for freshmen edification.e Un
fortunately-or unfortunately-it
can't be done, and remains a tax-
ing individual process.
* *~ *
DESPITE the fact that gaining
such insight remains, a difficult
proposition, the majority of grad-
uating seniors who take the time
to reflect upon tlie benefits of
their four year experience regard
this aspect as the most beneficial
part of their academic training.
Seniors regard the football week-
ends, the carnivals, the clubs as
"enjoyment," but evaluate the
ability to live with all people. as
the one difference between an
educated hack and the liberally
educated man.
The hack will be able to move
along with the mass; the liberally
educated man will work and live
with, people.
--JAMIE SEDER
U' Pease Offensive
N DISSIMILAR context, but with the same
underlying meaning, both President Eisen-
wer and the University Center for Researcir
1 Conflict Resolution have expressed hope
r the abolition of conflict through education.
Both believe war is "the harvest of arrogant
inds." Both maintain knowledge is the mean 0
break through this curtain of insanity.
But In a recent speech before the National
lucation Association, Eisenhower, the soldier,
ped that the education of future generations
uld be a real basis for security. "Our schools
e strong points in our national defense," he
Id the association on its 100th birthday cele-
ation.
The University Center for Research on Con-
et Resolutions, rather than investigating
ays of defending against the possibility of
ir, has taken the offensive: it will fight,
rough research, to encourage peace.
The Center, approved in June by the Re-
gents, seems prepared to strike out along this
relatively unexplored frontier.
IT WILL PIONEER the area through study by
the social sciences. The Center hopes to at-
tain what might otherwise appear as simply
an idealistic goal with an educated, varied and
dedicated committee of faculty members.
Then, through their efforts, subsidized by a
generous anonymous pledge and other dona-
tions, the Center hopes to attract other quali-
fied social scientists from institutions all over
the world by sponsoring conferences and semn-
jinars.
With further operating resources, and an
expansion of scholarly cooperation, the Center
could develop into an internationally promis-
ing and prominent setup.
Whether there will be one in the future could
be the mark; of its success.
-NORMA SUE WOLFE
CONFUSED SITUATION:
'Civil War' Troubles Laos
INTERPRETING THIE NEWS:
Oiling the Waters
I
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
NIITA KHRUSHCHEV is trying' to revive
the suave supersalesman who appeared be-
fore the National Press Club in Washington a
week ago.
But water, and temper, has flowed over the
dam since then.
The Soviet Premier is now going out of his
way to reassure President Eisenhower that the
flurries of conflict stirred by people critical of
the Soviet regime will not affect their consulta-
tions this weekend.
He also is moving to repair his relations with
the American business world; first damaged at
his Economic Club dinner in New York. He
finds a manufacturing plant and its wages
something to admire, and says he gets along
better with business men (who to him represent
the capitalistic system) than with politicians.
Business with the United States is one of the
things uppermost in Soviet policy now, as wit-
ness the appeals for trade by Khrushchev,
Mikoyan and Kozlov.
KHRUSHCHEV ALSO must have realized
that his rejection by AFL-CIO leaders was
internationally damaging to the Communist
claim to leadership of the world's workers. So
he suddenly arranged to be welcomed by Harry
Bridges' left-wingers in an attempt to prove
that the AFL-CIO leadership did not speak for
all.
The British press, which is expressing con-
siderable alarm lest Khrushchev's reception on
his tour interfere with Western efforts to reach
an accomodation with him, reminds that there
were similar flurries when he visited England.
GEORGE MEANY, President of the AFL-CIO
who refused to join his lieutenants in
bread-breaking with Khrushchev in San Fran-
cisco, has seized the occasion to remind that
Khrushchev and his policies may not be dis-
associated from Stalin and Lenin and their
policies of world conquest.
There are important questions, however,
By PETER DAWSON
Daily Contributing Editor
MEN FROM Argentina, Italy,
Japan and Tunisia are now
trying to find out what's happen-
ing in Laos.
Unfortunately for their mission
(sent by the United Nations Se-
curity Council) the fighting seems
to have died down. The investi-
gators will have a hard time find-
ing much out about the situation.
They might have anyway; proving
that a certain man is a Commun-
ist or a North Vietnamese instead
of a supporter of the Laotian gov-
ernment is like proving somebody
likes Faulkner and hates Shakes-
peare.
The conflict appears to involve
Communists from Laos and its
neighbor, North Vietnam, trying to
take two border provinces away
from Laos-those of Phong Saly
and Sam Neua. They may -not try
a full-scale attack after the inves-
tigators leave; they may prefer to
try to undermine the Laotian gov-
ernment.
* * *
'THE PROVINCES were attached
to North Vietnam for all practical
purposes until late in 1957, even.
though they were supposed to be-
long to Laos. They were taken over
in 1953 by Communist forces in
the Indo-Chinese war, and by the
Geneva settlements ending the
war in 1954 they were to go to
Right-wing Laotian politicians
reacted violently to this. Prince
Souvanna Phouma was dropped,
and with him went neutralism.
Thin in came Phoui Sananikone's
government.
The new government did many
sensible things. It also got hard on
the Communists-too hard, per-
haps. In this It was partly pushed
by the army and the Committee
for the Defense of National Inter-
ests.
* * *
EVEN THOUGH two Communist
battalions roamed the two prov-
inces, the government accepted a
Chinese Nationalist consulate, took
away the legal status of the Com-
munist Party, and last January
suspended the legislature and
postponed the next election.
It also tried to disarm the two
Communist battalions. This July
hit-and-run attacks on! govern-
ment posts began. The Laotian
government charged that they in-
cluded Laotian Communists and
were led by North Vietnamese offi-
cers.
During the week of Sept. 1 the
fighting got worse; the attackers
brought in artillery and North
Vietnamese regular troops, or at
least so claimed the Laotian gov-
ernment.
On Sept. 4 the government ap-
pealed to the UN for an emergency
force. The U.S. had just send aid,
mostly small guns and ammuni-
in the other direction-that North
Vietnam wil try to take it over,
partly for its own sake, but mostly
as a route to South Vietnam and
perhaps to Laos' other neighbors-
Cambodia, Burma and Thailand.
' How far the affair gets blown up
depends on how much it is worth
to North Vietnam and to Laos and
its defenders, including the
SEATO nations which are com-
mitted to its defense.
The General Assembly would
probably just as soon avoid an-
other Korea, especially now that
Khrushchev and Eisenhower are
exchanging visits. And probably so
for almost everybody, including
Russia and the United States.
Many observers think Laos prob-
ably isn't worth a war to China,
since Formosa is more important
to her.
To the use of an emergency
force India would probably pre-
fer the restoration of the com-
mission set up in 1954 to watchj
over the peace in Laos. India was
its chairman, Canada and Poland
its other members; it left Laos last
August.
* * *
INDIA suspects Laos has violated
the neutrality it is supposed to
maintain. (The United States, by.
the way, has supplied $30 million
a year in military aid to Laos
since 1954, some of it apparently,
wasted in corruption.)
North Vietnam most likely will
CHARLES CHAPLIN is' a genius
who made films. These films,
are at once- both the greatest re-
flection and the greatest expres-
sion of that genius. True, Chaplinj
often constructed films that tot-
tered dn their framework; true
also that he indulged himself in
that most knowing and sophisti-
cated of concepts, "the common
touch," but these are piddling con-
siderations and in no way affect
the overall quality of his work.
"The Gold Rush" is a very great
film.. Whatever qualifications I
may make in no way affect that
statement. Part of its greatness
is that it'is primarily a visual film.
This, in spite of the fact that
Chaplin made a serious error,
when in 1942 he reissued it with a
narration that Is both stupid and'
obtrusive. Fortunately, to balance
this he also added a musical score,
a sort of meatgrinder Dimitri
Tiomkin affair, that more t]han
compensates for the dialogue.
IT WILL'BE a long time before
anything as beautifula the dance
of breadrolls hits the screen again.
Close behind it is a feast of shoes
and a blizzard and bear bit that
couldn't be improved upon. Chap-
lin learned early that the easiest
way to handle a camera was to
place it on a tripod and make cer-
tain- that what it recorded was top
quality. This is not to say that
"The Gold Rush is-crude. Chaplin
learned how to cut from character
in "a way. that'is still being used to-
day, only not as effectively. Note a
cut to an aging. dance-hall floozy
at the New Year's Eve party.
. The cast that surrounded the
master in "The Gold Rush" would
be hard to improve upon. Perhaps
the dance hall scenes were so good
in themselves that they made the
performance of Georgia Hale seem
better than it was, but I doubt it,
for she combined with beauty and
fragility just the right touch of
hardness and the result was the
best portrait of this type I have
ever seen.
* * *
THROUGHOUT, ALL this the-
hand , of Chaplin, the director,
never lost control. He knows when
to stop in this film just as he
knew how to utilize every prop
Iu-~ I
that could be used, something tha
is a lost art today with the excep
tion of Fred Astaire,
"The Gold Rush" was made i
1925. I urge you to see it, not be
cause it is historic, not because it'
important, but, because it's enter
tainment.
--Al Phillips
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VOL. LXX., NO. 3
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- THOMAS TURNER, Editor'
PHILIP POWER ROBERT JUNKER
Editorial Director City Editor
AHARLES KOZOLL............ Personnel Director
7OAN KAATZ .......... .. ... Magazine Editor