The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, April 24, 1959 Page: 4 of 6
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THE REDBIRD
April 24, 1959
THE REDBIRD
Publishedweekly except during holidays, dead week and
final examinations during the regular school term. Opin-
ions expr ssedare those of the student editors and do not
No One Asked
Me, But---
necessarily reflect those of the faculty and administration.
Items of interest are solicited and may be submitted at
the REDBIRD office.
Editor....................................................Nancy Liby
Associate Editor....................................Joanne Webb
News Editor.........................................Stuart Kinard
Sports Editor.....................................James Mellard
Make-up Editor.......................................Hank Smith
Editorial Columnist..................................DiAnn yick
Business Manager.....................................Tom Dixon
Staff Writers.............Howard Perkins, June Ann Rag,-
land, James Mielke, Ruby Rives,
Hank Smith, Lillie Caldwell.
Reporters.................Bill Green, Benita McClurkin,
Marilyn Reel, Ruby Rives, Mari-
john Rowe, Linda Cowan, Esther
Chand, Jo Marie Klebba, Wand?
McAdams.
Typists............................................Madge Channing
Glenda Fuller
Faculty Sponsor......................................Gayle Wyati
The Show’s The Thing
Many of us are not aware of the nne artistic talent that
exists right here on our campus. Perhaps because the
art department is relatively small, they do not receive
the recognition due them for tneir hard work and the many
inors they have brought to Lamar Art students at La-
mar, though small in number, are large in talent. Many
of the students have exhibited work in national shows
throughout the country and have won state, national, and
even international awards. Lamar has "walked off' with
top honors in the Kappa Pi Honorary Art Fraternity's na-
tional competition.
Beginningthis Sunday, April 26, the art department will
present their 5th Annual Lamar Art Show. This show is
the big event of the year for the art department, aid it is
hoped that those who enjoyed the Engineering Day exhib-
its, the music and drama departments' productions, and
presentations of various other departments will also sup-
port the art department by attending the art show. In ad-
dition to encouraging art students, those who attend will
see some very fine work.
Students Find Russians Think
independently Despite Rulers
More than forty years of
ruthless Soviet Rule have
not squelched the Russian
people's capacity for inde-
pendent thought.
This is the conclusion of
Ifale University student
Charles Neff, who toured
the Soviet Union recently
with seventeen fellow mem-
bers of the Yale Russian
Chorus. In an article in the
May Reader's Digest, Neff
tells author Enno Robbing
that throughout Russia, the
young singers encountered
people eager to learn about
the outside world.
Neff and his friends visited
Russia as students rather
than smgers; *-hus they had
no "official" concerts sch-
eduled. But when their first
impromptu song - delivered
in a Leningrad hotel - met
with enthusiasm from the
Russian listeners, they
knew they could safely sing
theii way through the cou-
ntry.
Lively discussion usually
followed their concerts,
Neff reports . Peace was
the central theme. With
s u r p r i sing frequency the
opinions expressed by Rus-
sian citizens shouted, "Ob
come on, we've heard that
before." Russian students
attacked Marxism on the
same grounds wtflch it i s
criticized in the West.
So deep is the Russian's
desire for peace, says Neff,
that some i n d i c a ted they
would stand up to the Krem-
lin if it tried to send them
into battle. One middle aged
worker declared: "I will
never kill a man again - ex-
cept to shoot the officer who
tells me to shoot."
Religion is surprisingly
vigorous, Neff says. At
least 200 babies were bap-
tized in one day in a Greek
Orthodox Church in Lenin-
grad . The youth of the wor -
shippers, mostly young par-
ents who travel led from
nearby towns, belied the
Soviet claim that only the
old cling to religion.
Neff's conclusion: The
Soviet people are not about
to revolt. They, are, how-
ever, critical of their rul-
ers - often in a highly vocal
way. And significantly, the
criticism seems to be in-
creasing.
The article, "To Russia
With Music," is condensed
from The Lion.
Announcement
Everyone interested in
photography is invited to at-
tend the reorganization of
the Lamar Shutter Bugs,
The reorganization meeting
will be held in the Seminar
Room of the Library, Tues-
day, April 28, at 7:30 p*m.
by Di Ann Vick
The front page editorial of
the Manchester Guardian
Weekly lor ApriTlb contains
a cursory analysis of sev-
eral of the proposals offer-
ed by Western diplomats as
p o s s ible solutions of "the
Berlin problem." It con-
cludes the analysis with a
disturbing comment:"...all
such proposals, even if they
were agreed between the
Western allies, would only
have a chance if the West
were now prepared to deal
with the Russians in a wid-
er political context. West-
ern discussions so far all
point in the opposite direc-
tion. There seems to be lit-
tle chance that new West-
ern proposals will be made
to test R u s s i an reactions
and to force Mr. Krushchev
to display his own flexibil-
ity. It is a grim prospect
for the foreign minister's
conference^ and for the sum-
mit meeting that is to fol-
low." The allies have rea-
ched a standstill in pro-
posing strategem to count-
e r, if not end the threat
posed by the U. S. S. R.
Since 1953, the West (as
represented by the govern-
ment of the United States)
has followed an inflexible
policy of opposing any So-
viet move without offering
counterproposals that could
be used as a basis for ne-
gotiation. Seemingly, the
Kremlin realizes the weak-
nesses of such a position
and has resorted to diplo-
matic guerilla warfare. This
coupled with the rise of A -
matic guerilla warfare.
This coupled with the rise
of Arab, African, and Asian
nationalism has resulted in
alesseningofWestern pre-
stige and, in some instanc-
es, anti-Western sentiments
which have been seized by
the R u s s i ans to their ad-
vantage. Skillfully, the
Kremlin encouraged the
nationalist movement, in -
cheating their sympathy and
understanding for a move-
ment so like their own re-
volution. More important,
the USSR has entered into
economic agreements with
such pivotal nations as the
United Arab Republic, In-
dia and now Iraq. TheWest-
era p o w e r s, on the other
hand, support the status-
quo and emphasize military
aid when the nations involv-
ed would far prefer tract-
ors to tanks.
President de Gaulle of
France was fully aware of
this when, in his press con-
ference of March 26, he
proposed that:".......we.....
pool a percentage of our
raw materials, our manu -
factured goods, our food
products, some of our sci-
entists, technologists, eco -
nomists...How much more
worth while that would be
( Continued on Page 5 )
On Campus
with
MaxShuiman
(By
(By the Author of “Rally Round the Flag, Boys! "and,
"Barefoot Boy with Cheek.")
VIVE LE POPCORN!
Thu other day as I was walking down the street picking up
tinfoil, (Marlboro, incidentally, has the best tinfoil, which is
not surprising when you consider that they have the best ciga-
rettes. which is not surprising when you consider that they take
the best filters and put them together with the best tobaccos
and rush them to vour tobacco counter, fresh and firm and
loaded with smoking pleasure). The other day, I say. as I was
walking down the street picking up tinfoil, (I have, incidentally,
the second largest ball of tinfoil in our family. My brother
Eleanors is bigger more than four miles in diameter but. of
course, he is taller than I). The other day, as I was saying, while
walking down the street picking up tinfoil, I passed a campus
and right beside it, a movie theatre which sjiecialized in show-
ing foreign films. Most Campuses have foreign movie theatres
close by. because foreign movies are full of culture, art. and
esoterica. and where is culture more rife, art more rampant,
and esoterica more endemic than on a campus?
Nowhere; that’s where.
I hope you have all been taking advantage of your local foreign
film theatre. Here you will find no simple-minded Hollywood
products, marked by treacly sentimentality and machine-made
bravura. Here you will find life itself in all its grimness. it>
poverty, its naked, raw passion!
Have you. for instance, seen the recent French imjiort. I.i
( rui/iin ili Mmi (hn'U (“The Kneecap ), a savage and uncom-
promising story of a inati named (’laude, whose consuming
ambition is to get a job ns a meter reader with the Paris water
department? Ihit he Is unable, alas, to afford the flasldiglrt
one needs for this jiosition. His wife. Hon-Hon, sells her hair
to a wigmaker and buys him a flashlight. Then, alas. Claude
discovers that one also requires a leatherette bow tie. This time
his two young daughters. Caramel and Nougat, sell their hair
to a wigmaker. So now (Maude has his leatherette bow tie.
but now, alas, his flashlight battery is burned out and the
whole family, alas, is bald.
Or have you seen the latest Italian masterpiece, hi Donna E
Mohili (I Ache All Over), a heart-shattering tale of a boy and
his (log? Malvolio, a Venetian lad of nine, loves his little dog
with every fibre of his being. He has one great dream; to enter
the dog in the annual Venetian dog show. Hut this, alas, requires
an entrance fee, and Malvolio, alas, is ))cnnilcss. However, he
saves and scrimps and steals and finally gets enough together
to enter the dog in the show. The dog, alas, comes in twenty-
third. Malvolio sells him to a viviscctionist.
Or have you seen the new Ja|>ancse triumph, Kibutzi-Snn
(The Radish), a pulse-stirring historical romance about Yamoto.
a |MH»r farmer, and his daughter Ethel who are accosted by a
warlord one morning oil their way to market? The warlord cuts
Mimoto in half with his samurai sword and runs off with Ethel.
When Yamoto recovers, he seeks out Ethel’s fiancS, Red
Buttons, and together they find the warlord and kill him. But,
alas, the warlord was also a sorcerer and he whimsically turned
Ethel into a whooping crane. Loyal Red Buttons takes Ethel
home where he feeds her fish heads for twenty years and keeps
hoping she’ll turn back into a woman. She never does. Alas.
IU9 Mu Sbulmu
if there's smoking in the balcony of your theatre, we hope
you'll be smoking Philip Morris—or, if you prefer filters,
Marlboro ... Marlboro—-new improved filter, fine rich flavor
—from the makers of Philip Morris.
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Liby, Nancy. The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, April 24, 1959, newspaper, April 24, 1959; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth499244/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.