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To ynbee Tel/rs on Colonialism

Arnold J. Toynbee, visiting
Heath professor, Monday night
colonial em-‘
pires with spreading Western
civilization in non-Western coun—
tries, and thus laying “the

foundations for the building of,

a future world-wide
civilization.”

In the first of a series of ev -
ning lectures, the historian said
he was speaking as a “citizen
of an ex—colonialist country"
and an “anthcolonialist,” at-

common

, tempting to present “as lmDar

7 the world’s history,”

Ken Freedman (left), portraying the Devil and A1 Bos-

ton, as God ale on stage in
pelfmmance of? “J. B.”

the first act of the Grilmell

 

Individual Evaluation Might Lead
to Eltra curricular Participation

To the Editor.

This is a time of evaluation
on campus, All of the various
organizations are involved in an
evaluation and a culmination of
the year’s activities before the
transition at spring vacation.

This evaluation process is
good. Organizations will profit
from it. But it must be accom—
panied by a similar process on
the part of the individual stus
dent. This is the time of year
when he must do some evaluat—
ing of his "Grinnell experience."

Four years at a small liberal
arts college in the middle of
Iowa will make a big differenc
in his life. The person he has
become when he receives that
coveted B.A. is partly determin—
ed by what he has done during
the four preceding years. Actvi—
ties both in and out of the class—
room are important.

SOME or THE latent abili-
ties of an entering student are

developed at Crinnell. The im-,

portant thing to realize, though,
is that the choice as to whether

his latent abilities are developed,

rests with each individual stu-
dent. His choice of activities, or
his choice of no activities, is his
own. However, when he says.
“I’ll wait and see how much
time I have.” and then, rather
unconsciously, never gets involv—
ed, he’s putting off a decision.
By deciding not to decide. he
usually makes a decision not to
participate.

Our college community has a
wealth of fine extra—curricular
activities. Each offers many op—
portunities for service and lead—
ership. Now each organization
is concerned with the problem
of student apathy. It‘s a tragic

situation, but the tragedy is on,

the individual level. ln the long
run, not the organization, but
the individual student, suffers.
Four years at Grinnell cost
exactly the same in time and
dollars no matter what one does
while he’s here. It’s easy to
pass up opportunities, or to put
off the decision. The hard thing
to do, it seems, is to make that
active decision to participate;
this is the time of year to make

,it . .

This is not a plea for a com—
munity of ioiners. Nor is it an
anti- Burling treatise. But it is
inspired by a real concern that
Imany students are passing up
once in a- lifetime opportun' ies
by just never making a positive
decision to get into extracurric-
ular activities.

The way to get to know peo—
ple and the way to develop la—
tent personal qualities is to
jump in with both feet, to do
some work, and to make a real
contribution to the community.
Active participation in selected
extracurricular activities will in-
lfinitely enrich our Grinnell ex-
perience. It's a necessary sup-
plement to academic activities.
Let’s bring the beforesspring-va-
cation evaluation down to an
individual level and then per-
sonally and actively launch the
various programs for next year.

Sue Taylor

Ilanguage Houses
‘Establish Council

The chairmen of the college’s
,four language houses announced
|the formation of the Council of
lLanguage House Chairmen, which
:will discuss the programs and
.problems of the language houses.

The committee consists of
Jean Gilruth, Spanish House;
Susan Grohs and Pamela Dry.
den, French floor; Stephen rleck,
Men’s German l-louse; and Ann
Lousin, Women’s German House.

White Caps
‘to Give Show

The annual White Caps show
will be held April l2 and 13.
This year's theme is “The City."

A variety of solos, trios, and
duets will comprise the various
numbers. it will be possible for
students to get tickets during
the lunch hour the first week
after vacation,

 

lof the Christian Crusade.

tial an account of
in Retrospect’ as I can.
“Colonialism has been a big
feature of the last chapter of
he said.
“And today we are in sight of

‘seeing the last vestiges of West

European colonial rule liquidat—

,ed.
“Portugal will perhaps be the,

last West European colonial
power, as well as the first. But
she too will, and should, lose
the rest of her empire.
“Perhaps Portugal tries to cling
to her Colonial empire because
of the mistaken notion of pros-
tige. She has not reconciled her.
self to ceasing to be the great

power she once was. As she sees‘.

Walker, Hargis

‘Colonialism ‘

it, the possession of an empire
marks her as still being a great
power.

“Modern Western colonial
I empires developed because the
‘ West forged ahead in efiicien
cy, in technology, social orgaui
zation, financial efi‘iciency,
honesty, and military disc)
pline. Britain conquered India
not by better weapons, but by
better discipline, regular pay,
accurate and honest bookkeep-
ing. Indian rulers fell into the
power of the British East In»
dia Company whom they had
hired to manage their armies
for them.

“The new world-civilization
will start by being predomi -
Iantly Western, but will become
ljust; modern as the noanestem
peoples make greater and great-
,er contributions to it.

”The greatest need of the
newly independent countries . .
is to have more capable, experi-
enced, and public-spirited citi-
zens in all Walks of life. The
most advanced Countries have
not enough of these. In the most
backward countries there is a
‘famine of them.

i “The ear—colonial powers find
themselves better off after losing

Relate Their

 

Ultra-conservative Beliefs

By John Wolf
5&3 Ass’t News Editor
The visitor to Des Momes lastl
Friday evening could find manyl
things to do Besides hosting,
the semifinals in the boys statel
basketball tournament, the city
was also the site of an ultra-
conservative political rally. The
main attractions of the rally,
“Operation Midnight Ride,"were
General Edwin A. Walker—for.
mer army general who resigned
following a controversy over
his John Birch views and more
recently involved in rioting at‘
the University of Mississippiil
and Dr. Billy James Hargis, head

Even the basketball semifinals
were not enough competition for
Walker and Hargis. Approxi-
mately 1400 people, including
five from Grinnell College, filled
Hoyt—Sherman auditorium to
hear the threc»hour marathon.

Hargis spoke first on the in-
ternal threat of communism (ac-
tually going beyond communism
to include all organizations
which are “anti»Chl‘ist">.

l-largis covered a variety of
topics in the hour he had left.
He complained that too many
communists were being allowed
on college campuses because this
is “academic freedom." On the
other hand, it is “nnscholarly”
to allow anti-communists to
speak.

Expounding on another sub—
ect, Hargis exclaimed that he
Couldn’t think of a worse paper
in the country than the ”ultra-
liberal Des Moines Register-
Tribune."

The House Committee on Un—
American Activities (not the
House Un-American Activities,
Committee, stressed Hargis) re-
ceived a boost from the minister.
it is basically a good system
and must be fulfilling its mis—
sion, since it is now the No. 4
target on the international com-
munist hate list.

The National Council of‘
Churches was the next target.
Hargis cited a statement by
HCUA stafi director Richard
Arens (page 1303, Feb. 20 1960,

 

. point that

‘HCUA proceedings) that “Thus
‘far, of the leadership of the Na-

tional Council of Churches of
Christ in America, we have
found over 100 persons in lead-
ership capacity with either corn.
munlst front records or records
of service to communist causes.
The aggregate affiliations of
leadership . . . is now, accord-
ing to our count, into the thou—
sands . . . which would certainly
suggest . . .,that the statement

‘that there is infiltration of fel-

low-travelers in churches
educational institutions
complete understatement.”

General Walker concluded the

and

is'a

‘program with a ll/zAhOLIX‘ disser-

tation on external
threats.

The UN. came in for the bit-
terest attack. of the evening.
Among other things, Walker as-
serted that “The UN. has no
future, because no future is in-
tended. it is only a propaganda
front.”

Attacking the
claimed that that organization
has laid the U. 5. "wide open to
invasion and occupation” (un-
doubtedly referring to Alaska,
which he said earlier is not hard
to take and which we are not
prepared to defend).

The constant reference to the
U.N. brought applause
some of the more liberal mem—
bers of the audience. Walker
drew the largest ovation of the
evening from the generally re.
ceptive audience when he said
that the hecklers just proved his
internal subversion
was possible in this country.

Following the talks, this re-
porter collected some literature,
including a copy of the propos-
ed “Liberty Amendment,” which
would repeal income tax and
take government out of “free
enterprise." The two actions
would hopefully offset one an-
other since the federal govern.
ment loses j'over $40 billion a
year” in its business ventures.

The literature claimed, “The
program is so simple it scares
intellectuals’ to death.”

communist

U.Nt, Walker

 

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their colonial empires. The for-
mer colonial empires were not
sources of wealth and power.
They were snob-value luxuries,
indulged in by countries that
were rich and powerful_al.
ready.”

Toynbee described this as be-
ing one of the decisive ques-
tions for the future of the hu—
man race: “Are the newly inde-
pendent pecple going to prove
capable of running their coun-
tries in a modern way?

“To develop themselves, the
newly independent countries need
large capital investments from
abroad. Will the rich countries
be willing to invest? Will the
poor countries be willing to re-
ceive foreign investments with
conditions attached?

“The newly independent coun—
tries are naturally sensitive a—
bout anything that might look

. to them like a new encroach<

ment on their independence. At
the same time, in many of them,
power and wealth are in the
hands of a small majority; and
the purpose of foreign aid would
be defeated if it were used to
make the rich minority richer,
and not to benefit the people at

“Colonel” Coolie

Nancy Cooke ls,
ROTC ‘Colonel'

Nancy Cooke, a Grinnell jun—
ior, was announced as honorary
‘Cadet Colonel’ of the 255th Air
Force ROTC Cadet Squadron at
the 12th annual Grinnell Mili-'
tary Ball last Saturday.

Miss Cooke was chosen in vot-
ing open to all Grinnell men
students from a field of five
candidates. The other candidates,
all named ‘Cadet Majors,’ were
Joanne Domovich, Main; Judith
Finn, Loose; Jean Gilruth, Span-
ish House; and Catherine Mc-
Donald, Haincs, '

Miss Cooke was “commission-
cd" by Cadet Commander Gar-
win B. Smith, whose promotion
for the rank of Cadet Colonel
was announced late in the eve-
nlng.

The Notables, Air Force dance
band of the Strategic Air Com-
mand, played for the ball in
Darby Gym.

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