The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 22, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 13, 1952 Page: 6 of 8
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THE THRESHER
SATURDAY, DECEMBER U, IMS
UNESCO
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to open the eyes and the minds of
children so that they can learn to
think for themselves. They fight
our schools in this country for try-
ing to open the hearts of children to
other people and other lands.
Hostility may be forced upon us
by the actions of other nations but
as a people, like Lincoln, we do not
•want enmity grown on ignorance.
That is what UNESCO stands for
when it says that "ignorance of each
other's ways and lives has been a
common cause, throughout the his-
tory of mankind, of that suspicion
and mistrust between the peoples
of the world through which their
differences have all too often brok-
en into war." This is good Ameri-
can teaching and it is the teaching
of the religious faiths of Ameri-
cans.
Not Godless
It is sometimes said that UNES-
CO is Godless. Nothing could be fur-
ther from the truth. Religious lead-
ers and God-fearing men of many
faiths have participated in the work
of UNESCO. Jacques Maritain, the
great French philosopher and lay
Catholic leader, was one of the men
who formulated the UNESCO Con-
stitution and has represented
France at UNESCO conferences.
Reinhold Niebuhr, professor of
applied Christianity at the Union
Theological Seminary, was a mem-
ber of the United States Delegation
to UNESCO in 1949 and one of the
principal speakers there. Monsignor
Frederick G. Hochwalt, Secretary.
General of the National Catholic
Education Association, was one of
the early promoters of UNESCO
and a United States delegate to
several of its conferences. In 1946
he delivered the sermon at the Mass
held in Notre Dame Cathedral for
UNESCO. Not long ago, he said
that "religion must take the leader-
ship in pointing out that love among
men is not only the purpose but the
connective tissue of international
society" and he urged all religious
people to support UNESCO and
make their influence felt in its pro-
gram.
Non-Denominational
Protestant and Catholic clergy-
men have been delegates to UNES-
CO from other countries. In Flor-
ence in 1950 the writer sat two
rows behind a cardinal at the Mass
held in Santa Croce at the opening
of the UNESCO conference; and
the Vatican sent its special observ-
er to sit in at the UNESCO Confer-
ence there.
Another great Catholic educator,
Father Edward B. Rooney, S.J.,
himself an observer at several
UNESCO Conferences, speaking
before the National Catholic Educa-
tional Association in 1950 on "UN-
ESCO and the Catholic College"
made this statement:
"I sometimes wonder just how
international minded, how world
minded, our students really are
when they leave us with their A.B.'s
and their B.S.'s. And I wonder, too,
how much of the real Catholic—in
the sense of universal—spirit they
have grasped while they sat at our
feet. Are we not, partially at least,
responsible for the narrow outlook
of their minds? These and similar
questions you can ask yourselves.
The answers may be suggestive of
means for implementing the pro-
grams of UNESCO and of the
world's greatest Unescan, Pius
XII."
Ever since the organization of
the United States National Commis-
sion for UNESCO its membership
has included Protestant, Catholic,
and Jewish clergymen and others
representative of religious groups.
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This is not an anti-religious record,
therefore. Quite the contrary, it
shows the close association of re-
ligious men with UNESCO.
As UNESCO includes representa-
tives from countries with differing
cultures and histories — Christian,
Jewsh, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist
and other faiths—it is to be expect-
ed that no people anywhere in the
world will agree with all its deci-
sions or all its activities. We are
not in full agreement here at home.
But we have learned that toler-
ance is necessary if society is not
to be autocratic or to be consumed
with hostility. Compromise in UN-.
ESCO, as in our political life gen-
erally, is frequently the way to
progress. Nor can we always have
persons appointed to serve UNES-
CO with whom we are always in
full agreement. To many people
Professor Ralph Turner, for exam-
ple, is a splendid historian and a
man who loves his fellow men. Be-
cause others do not share his views
is scarcely a reason to damn an in-
stitution such as UNESCO or to
forbid young people from discuss-
ing and helping to forward the
ideals and activities of UNESCO.
That would be intolerant.
The aim of UNESCO is to achieve
that day when "nation will not lift
up sword against nation, and they
will learn no more the art of war."
This certainly is a noble purpose.
It is worth striving to attain. UN-
Lite
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PALS are sponsoring the Rice play-
ers the fifteenth and sixteenth of
December when they present their
four one-act placs at Autry House.
The PALS are also giving a tri-
cycle and a wagon to the children
in Rusk Settlement.
On December 19, the CRLS pledg-
es are giving a Christmas party for
the upperclassmen at the home of
Jane Warner, 6345 Belmont. The
pledges are also making scrapbooks
to be given td underprivileged
children this Christmas.
Ann Strawn will be the hostess
for the OWLS Christmas party De-
cember 17, at 615 Fenwood Road.
The OWLS are furnishing food and
Christmas gifts for a needy family.
The MELLS are planning to fill
two baskets of food in cooperation
with the APO charity drive.
On Tuesday, December 10, Miss
Iris Siff, a fashion coordinator from
Sakowitz spoke to the girls in a
joint-lit meeting on fashions in re-
tail merchandising.
ESCO is big enough for all views
to find expression to the end that
an international climate of good will
rather than hostility shall prevail.
—James Marshall
Bonn
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know it for what it really is, about
the efforts that are being made
to stop infiltration of un-American
ideas into schools and colleges, the
more I feel that these are. the
efforts of frightened men, insecure
men, mdn with no faith in the
strength of democracy, men with
no faith in the common sense of
the American people, men with no
faith in the power of American
writers and religious leaders and
teachers and statesmen, men with
no faith in the homes and the neigh-
borhoods and the towns of our
country. In short, men with no
faith in America. These men, I
am convinced, are the real un-
Americans among us.
Very little except a negative out-
look on life is to be gained by
expending all of our energies on
opposition efforts. But life itself
is to be gained, and, indeed, en-
riched, by a forthright espousal of
what we here in America call "the
democratic way of life."
Instead of loyalty pledges, we
can substitute a simple, straight-
forward statement, "I am a mem-
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