Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-02-27 | Page 6 | We Do Not Fear Comparison

r We Do Not Fear Comparison DELEGATES DELEGATES to the tenth annual Rocky mountain speech conference in Denver attended by University of Utah students among others from universities and colleges in this area passed a resolution urging the establishment establishment establishment establish establish- ment of a compulsory year one-year college course on the philosophies methods and results of nazi nazi- ism fascism and communism At the same time according to the resolution students should be required to take a course of the same number of hours on the government of the United States Idea of the students was that such study would help to combat subversive trends in the colleges by giving students the facts concerning concerning concerning concern concern- ing the governmental and political systems systems' of the ism regimes in contrast to the workings of our own system It isn't a bad Idea We in America are convInced convinced convinced con con- vinced that our form of government is the best bestin bestin bestin in the world We do not fear comparison with any other system Rather we welcome it We would like nothing better than t to have the workings of our system studied fairly honestly and widely In the totalitarian countries Conversely Conversely Conversely Con Con- we are perfectly willing to have AmerIcans Americans Ameri Amen cans study the nazi fascist or comm communist systems provided terns provided its it's a fair fairand and honest study We Weare Weare are confident that after a aa a. a fair comparison no sensible person would prefer an Ism regime to the American system That being true we should give our college and university students the opportunity to study these foreign systems carefully and make a fair comparison of them with our American system Such a careful study in the classroom would be far better than the inculcation of ism philosophies and methods by propaganda Given a fair presentation of the facts we can trust American youth to reject all the isms in f favor vor of democracy And if we cant can't trust them to m make ke that sound choice then were we're headed for forthe the ruin of democratic government no matter what we do