Show Examining O Oi r I By DR GEORGE GEORGEI S. S BENSON Director Director N National al Education Program ProgramS S a cy Arkansas A nation can can be only as ns g as ns its people If its people peo peo- plc arc are weak in the basic character character char char- acter virtues or weak in an understanding riding of the great values and truths of life then t that lat nation will be a n weak naI nation nation na na- na- na I tion lion and sooner or later it h will crumble A significant laboratory laboratory labor atory st study y has be been n m made dc of ofa I Ia a cross section of oI American I Ic c character The hc results ts' ts se seem f f fo indicate serious s defects in the I upbringing of ol a n generation of I. I Americans m r. r i can s from in infancy anc through childhood and bt into I youthful youthful- maturity The The results constitute a challenge ro 40 o our three great institutions the institutions the homey home the school school the church The study was made by U U. U 5 S. S Army Aimy psychiatrists psychiatrists' It Ity y was s a study of the actions and re reactions reactions reactions re- re actions of Americans soldiers captured and imprisoned imprisoned imprisoned for nearly three th e years by the Chinese Communists in North Korea Koren When the results were all in President Eisenhower Eisenhower Eisenhower Eisen Eisen- hower and the leaders lenders of our nations nation's internal security and national defense were so disturbed disturbed dis- dis that a a a. new Code o of Conduct for the armed servIces services services ices was adopted and in an nn unprecedented move it was announced to the nation by bythe bythe bythe the President himself President nt Eisenhower said This is a n statement of ot first s which every male and md every female in our so society society so- so should know Major William V E. E Mayer the Army's thief hief psychiatrist on the Ko Korean Korean KO KO-I rean prisoner stud study comment- comment d d on the principles ng the requirements of or the theode theode ode I 1 think a great many arents and teachers some- some low Ow believe that children get uch principles by osmosis or Dimply imply by being exposed to hem nem in some vague way that require any direct con- con cious attention This is a mistaken belief The Code d dew dr hands five attitude require require- requirements rents ments I 1 1 If youre you're ever captured captured- Keep alive the spirit of t Your life depends depends' upon it it Three thousand of the I American prisoners in Corea Korea died The Army is convinced con eon vinced that an nn important Lacor Inc fac- or in this amazing death rate I was vas a breakdown in the spirit of resistance The same breakdown breakdown breakdown break break- down ren rendered ered the surviving surviving surviving sur sur- prisoners incredibly resistant non-resistant to their Communist Communist Communist Com Com- captors The characteristic characteristic characteristic character character- which broke down was perseverance 2 2 Try to escape This country exists because of an I impulse to freedom Major Mayer emphasizes Violations of this freedom have always I in the past stimulated the most I violent reaction on the part of Americans And yet out of the men captured the I. I survivors were three years in captivity vity n and nd n at t no notime notime I time did a single American I ever succeed in an engineered escape from irom an established I 1 POW V c camp amp Ever The atti attitude i atti tude lode which broke brok down here traditional high evaluation evaluation evalu evalu- was vas the atlon of or freedom t with E 3 Don Dont Don't t make maIte a deal Ideal the Korean Most of tr enemy the prisoners Major Mayer and p a n adeal accepted his staff starr found deal from the Communist captors He said It It seems that in talking about compromise compromise com com- along and getting gelling promise with people today and being r non aggressive and md every i nobody nobodY being quiet and raising ing his voice i if possible e 4 on a compromise on weve we've gotten minor minar level mixed up with A y compromise on an the thc level 01 of i i principle The character prin- prin weakened here were j l J honesty and courage I 1 A do anything to hurt hurt- D 4 4 Don Don't Dont l i. fellow Love I j your thy neighbor Gods God's command command- j ment merit M Major aJor Mayer layer described the tae Gallagher incident A domineering soldier Gallagher forced some soldiers ill with wan in m a n aprison dys dysentery from a n hut but be bc- bc into 30 prison prison compound zero low-zero weather They died within hours hows Other soldiers in inthe in inthe the hut but testified te at Gallaher h trial that they didn't try to fOP o sop his brual action U reason renson given I just d dr di ems t treason feel fecI it was any of or my bust bus bustio busto to io t interfere Yet they k dY the sick men would die char characteristic c broken here wg L.- L. brotherly love und and 5 Establish a 1 command support rt the command The attitude altitude of many prisoners toward command w was s You may be a captain or a sergeant but In this prison camp you dont don't rank No one asserted leadership and that's exactly what the Communists wanted We Ve had to put this terribly obvious statement in th the Code Major Mayer explained because somehow we are not teaching leaching about the attitude of t I leadership the willingness to take this responsibility the thc willingness to be other other than merely popular |