'AGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Peace Corps Fills Need The Peace Corps established yesterday by President John F. Kennedy is the most significant step the United Slates has yet taken in this world of “haves" and “have nots” that will stand or fall according to the outcome of the relationships between these two groups. It was simultaneously a strategic foreign policy move and an invaluable propaganda piece for the West in the current ideological struggle for the minds of men. But more important it was a recognition of the re sponsibility of the U. S "the haves" to minister unto the "have-nots" and opportunity for dedicated Ameri cans to help their fellowmen. Finally the U. S. has hit on just what is needed by the under-developed countries. The Peace Corps volunteers will go only when and where requested. They will serve without pay. They will eat, speak and live with the people. They will, in effect, become a part of their society. It is in this context that they will aid that people. They will be the true ambassadors of American concern and desire to help the under-developed countries. They will be reaching the people in the only way they really can and need to be reached. The conditions of service, of themselves, should keep the Corps free of the type of foreign servant that earned us the title of Ugly Americans. The Peace Corps can be the organization that erases this ominous label from our nation. These goodwill teachers and technicians will be invaluable to countries in establishing educational and economic foundations which they so sorely need so that their capabilities can catch up with their great desire to accomplish a century’s revolution in a decade. Wo were only sorry to sea that these men and women who will be serving their country in a much more noble capacity than the military will not be given draft exemptions. However, those of draft age who enter the Peace Corps will probably have bypassed the draft by the time they return. Congress should waste no time in establishing this as a permanent program. A Student-Operated Newspaper 56 Years of Editorial Freedom lath} (EoUpgtan Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 PibllshH TlMdaj through B*turd«7 morning during th* Onireriltr y»«r. Tho Dolly Collegian la a student-operated newspaper. Entered as eecond-elass matter Jalj ». 191 i at the State College. Pa. Poet Offlee under the aet of March *. W|. Mall Subscription Pricer 13.00 per semester 13.00 per rear. Mailing Address Bog 361, State College, Pa. Member of The Associated Press and The Intercollegiate Press JOHN BLACK Editor City editor and Personnel Director, Susan Mnkroum; Assistant Editor. Gloria Wolford; Sports Edilor, Sandy Padwe: Assistant City Editor, Joel Myers: Copy and t'entures Editor, Elaine Miele; Photography Editor. Frederic Botrer. I.ocal Ad Mgr., Brad Daris; National Ad Mgr., Ho) Deisher; Credit Mgr., Mary Ann Crane: Assistant Credit Mgr., Neal Keiti: Classified Ad Mgr., Constance Kirsrl; Co-Circulation Mgrs., Barbara Molt. Richard Kitelnger: Promotion Mgr, Elaine Michel; Personnel Mgr., Becky Kohudlc; Office Secretary, Joanne Huyett. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Headline Editor, Sandy Yaggi;" Wire Edi tor. Dick Leighton; Night Copy Editor, Polly Dranov; Assistants, Maxine Fine, Carmen Zetler, Toni Baurnes, Anne Debuhr, Margie Haiprin, Myra Harris, Susan Tankoos, Cathy Mink, Anne Mac- Nair, and Denny Mollura. i SOONER OR LATER VOU A- \ [ ft, ftp I 6ET TIRED OF HAVIN6 $0 cig g: ; JldzzzL... j-j.J , ! THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA CHESTER LUCIDO Business Manager Letters Brandt Differs On Nittany TO THE EDITOR: After read ing Tuesday’s Collegian edi torial on the Nittany room search incident, it seems to me the writers have made a fun damental error in assessing the laws which govern such ac tions. No one can argue that throw ing firecrackers around a dor mitory is irresponsible and highly unworthy of college students nor would anyone say that steps should not be taken by the University to correct such situations. The University, then, is not a superstate, but considers at least three-fourths of its fam ily as subject to state and na tional laws. There is no rea son to suspect that it should exempt the other one-fourth from the same regulations. This is where the basic dif ficulty arises, for members of the administration have, to my mind, violated the spirit of Art. 1 sec. 8 of the Pennsylva nia constitution and Art. 4 of the Bill of Rights which state that “The People shalJ be se cure in their persons, homes, papers and effects from un reasonable searches and sei zures ..." The Collegian has supported this violation by suggesting that the character or maturity of the individuals involved al ters, in some way, their rights as citizens. - ' The fact that not all of the residents of Nittany 37 were implicated in the firecracker case but that ail were subject to the same unreasonable treat ment is strangely reminiscent of the manner of other societies from which the nation has had to protect itself in the past. —John Brandt, Graduate Student • Letter cut (Ed. Note—We did not support the violation by the counselors of the right of security of pri vate property. We pointed out that this was wrong. We also rapped the irresponsible gesta po accusations which were hurled in this case.) Gazette TODAY Bridge lessons. fi:HO-8:30 p.m., HUB card room DOC Council Dance, 8-\2 p.m., RUB ballroom Intrrfnndia Foik Dance, 7:30 p.tn., 301 Knsr. B In(ernUte Debaters, 8 p.m., HUH assembly room IV(\ 12:15-1:10 p.m., 218 HUB Mineral Industries Colloquium, 4:lf> p.m., MI auditorium Pi Kappa, 6:30-8:30 p.m., 214.216 HUB Placement, 8 a„m.-5 p.m., 203 212*218 HUB Square Dance, 8 p.m.. Wesley Founda tion, 256 E. College Ave. Catholic Clergy May Defeat Castro By STEPHEN R. BLUM Contributing Writer Fidel Castro is in the process ot knelling his own death bell; or rather the bell is going to possibly be rung for him. The bell is that in the steeple of every Roman Catholic church in the world, with the possible exception of Franco’s Spain where the clergy has submitted to the Generalissi mo. There has been a good deal of sparring between the Castro government and the clergy, and this was and is to be ex pected. The Vatican sits on very slowly moving foundations and is not prone to make the sort of quick political outbursts that Castro seems to require. The tensions that arose dur ing the Castro revolution (to be distinguished from a rebel lion, which it was for only a short time) and which have been slowly brought to a fren zied pitch have definite propa ganda uses in motivating the people to action. Every transitional govern ment needs to try very hard to respect somewhat the Old Or der while nevertheless sys tematically destroying it. It a revolution is to be total in na ture and social in character, then eventually all vestiges of fnterpretin, Corps Will Young Tom By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst President Kennedy’s Peace Corps of economic and educa tional Tom Dooleys is exactly the kind of thing to fire the imag ination of America’s youth, and of her oldsters, too. Aside from its serious and important purposes, this is indeed opening a New Frontier for thousands of young people, aware of the need for a truly new world, ‘ dedicated to the search for it, yet facing years during which a forum for their ideas would be hard to obtain. Here is s p o n sorship and subsidy for a new generation of Dooleys and Schw eitzers during the . years when learning is easiest and outgiving most satisfying. Dr. Edward Teller, one of the top men in nuclear phys ics, taking a look at the prob lems produced in his own field, suggested some time ago that a year of work abroad should be a requirement for finishing college. This in or der that Americans might learn to speak some of the out-of the-way languages "and learn about the big world in which they will have to survive or go down.” In this business of learning, which could transcend the pro gressive results in the fields of economics, of agriculture, of education and of health, the ROBERTS uwwm/. mmm\ / pyrs a note l IN MV LUNCH.. J ‘‘A SAIL£ each day tom BRING HAPPINESS YOUR WAY ’ the Old Order must go. In order to keep people in the frame of mind to keep ac tive a revolutional rebirth (or purge, depending on your bias) there are a few basic things that elementary mass psychol ogy says must be done. There must be a scapegoat and an aiieniion-'geiier, if possible in combination. For weeks Dr. Castro used the impending “invasion” of U.S. forces. Since the invasion alert could not be kept up in definitely before even the zealots began to doubt its ve racity, the Church now comes into the limelight as the at tention-getting scapegoat. A poignant novel by the Brit ish Roman Catholic novelist Grahame Greene, "The Power and the Glory,” tells of the feelings of a priest in a Mexi can state where the Roman Catholic faith was dictatorially abolished by a law which re quired all priests to either marry or leave the state’s boundaries. The ensuing spiritual dejec tion of the people, coupled with the fear of being near the novel's hero, an incognito priest who continues to minister to the people, make the book good literature but hard to believe factually. But the time and place of events such as Greene wrote of FRIDAY. MARCH 3. 1961 Rouse Dooleys program strikes a new note in seeking to have the corps mem bers live and work at the level of those whom they will seek also to help. There are undoubtedly per ils which the program must face. Communists, recognizing the opportunity connected with working abroad under the U.S. flag, will make desperate at tempts to infiltrate the corps. They have long been attempt ing to subvert the idealist type of youth which will provide the backlog of the corps. The State Department and the FBI think they can handle that, and are taking steps to do so. Wisdom is not a general at tribute of youth. Overzealous ness in attempting to combat old and stultifying customs is a danger. Isolation for a time from the affairs of their own country will present some members of the corps with the problem of "re-entry." But they will be in the mid dle of a great modern adven ture —the search for a basis on which men and women of good will may live with other men and women of good will, in a world where space no longer separates. v l ** M *~y THAT 6 NOT A LUNCH.,.HS A CHINESE FORTUNE COOKIE! may be drawing near. Roman Catholicism is not a minority in Latin America, and the Catholic hierarchy in the Western Hemisphere is a po tent spiritual and political force. Dr. Castro just might be burning both ends of the taper. On the one end may be Latin America’s Catholics. These peo ple may be more than upset by banishment of the priesthood, should that happen in Cuba. The other end of Ihe taper may be the now-dormant flam© of counler-revolution sparked from within Cuba. The coun ler-revoluiion, should it come, would be partly theologically based. I believe Castro has done a great deal for Cuba. People who had never previously done so are eating and sleeping in some degree of happiness. I will not condemn this. From the viewpoint of one with not all the facts, and from the viewpoint of one who is not pretending to judge, I would even personally condone much of what the Castro government has done. But, Castro is now attempt ing to play with one of man’s most cherished emotive forces —his will to believe. This may be a spiritually and politically disastrous move for Dr. Castro to undertake.
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