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Show The PARSON 2 Page May 31, 1963 THE PARSON Dissentors Praised that was conceived in the dissentors and horn by their actions. Today We all live in a country minds of Chief Justice of Student Court, John King Parson Editor, Etosian Editor, Homer Ng Kathy Schwertz dissentors can be found inf almost every field of endeavor. There are those people that feel that dissenting opinions help destroy an ideal or institution, what ever the case may be. However, as long as there are people who are not afraid to voice their dissenting opinions progress will continue to be made. For no matter whether or not their opinions are right or wrong they force people to think and to eventually come to a conclusion that will be of value to all concerned. The world needs its dissentors, no matter what liable might be attached to them. Whether they are called radicals or crackpots, they make YOU think regardless of whether YOU want to or not. May there always be dissentors at Westminster so that this college may continue on its journey to the top. Ken Denne Editor Editors Note: It has been a pleasure being the Editor of the PARSON this year. I thank you all for Elaine Dokos the opportunity. A SICK AMERICAN TELLS WHY Editors: Note: This timely article is re printed from Spotlight published and distributed by the Committee for Constitutional Government, Inc. and cold, and dust and thirst, and the deaths and births like beads strung together on a thread of hope of freedom and a land of plenty for their children yet unborn. And when she viewed the new land she wrote in simple word pictures of the cities and farms and schools, and happiness that would someday bloom in the greatness of the vast new land. She wrote of her tomorrow and my to- nho heard Mr. Khrushchev tell our Nation that my greatgrandchildren will grow up in a Communist world. For some time now this has bothered me. I am not a brave man not even a big one. I suppose I would have to admit that I am, among my own neighbors and in my own eulture, the typical, average, day. The ink was badly faded, but the message was clear. As I read, began to think about America and being an American and what it all stands for; and I thought about our enemies and what they intend to do to America, to those rich lands and farms, to the cities and the people, to its freedom and its hope. And, suddenly, I realized that I am a sick American. I mean really sick. ' I am sick of panaceas and genteel suburbanite to whom family, the mortgage, and security have well-educate- d, items. been the I am now 50, and soon my wife and I will see the first nt of our three children married. I paint my own house, re- pair my own car, grub my own devil grass, and nurse a modest savings account at the I am a Bank of America. man on the quiet side, and dissension makes me terribly nervous. Frankly, I am the kind who simply doesnt have it in him to fight anyone ever. My wife had me cleaning out an old trunk in the storage room the other day, and I ran across the huge old family Bible that I hadnt thought about for years. My greatlaw-abidin- of backing up. g grandmother had kept a journal of the trip across the Great Plains with a wagon a and oxen when she and were youngsters coming out to settle in California in the great migration. wrote about it as the wild, new land, rich and abundant in mythical great-grandp- Great-grandm- a In talking to Mitsuo Shida of Waseda University, I was impressed and pleased to find we agree on many things, even with his broken English and my complete ignorance of the Japanese language, we were able to communicate and arrive at some important conclusions. One such conclusion was proportions. On the trail she wrote of sickness and hunger, and heat The following letter was sent by a resident of San Francisco to Paul A. Terry, director of education of the Copley newspapers: I am one of the Americans ' Leon Reyes I am sick of reactions where there should be initiative. I am sick of bureaucrats who tell me that my enemy is not really my enemy, and that I should live together with murderers and tyrants. I am sick of government that hasnt the guts to clean traitors out of its own offices. And Im sick of being a nice, patient guy about it. I am sick of placidly accepting excuses instead of successes; of being a silent gentleman for fear of controversy. I am sick of my country being ridiculed all over the world. d I am sick of who place personpoliticians al career above the fate of the flag. I am sick of 40 years of relentless, creeping, cancer- pink-livere- ' the fact that American students, like Japanese students, are for the most part a gay and energetic generation. As with most students around the globe, we need only a cause toward which to direct our enthusiasm. Mitsuo cited the fact that the Communist element in Japan is almost exclusively a student element. If this is an exaggeration it is however true that the Communist students are the backbone of the partys Japanese movement. All around the world students and young people are the voice that is heard and the force that is felt. One only has to rea of Hungary, Korea, Israel, Mississippi, Prince- ton and the H.U.A.C. riots LOOK BACK in San Francisco in 1960. Whether we agree or not with the reasons behind these movements, we cant deny the fact that they presented an unavoidable and sometimes indestructable force. It is this force that will decide Japans future role. And here at home, it is this force that can completely destroy or appreciably enhance the integration movement. I hope the above will help me illustrate the point I want to make. This point being that there is only one sure thing that every Senior has over the fledgling Freshmen, and that is the fact that the Senior knows what he has missed and what he cant reach back and get. If he has failed to become a vital part of something in school, its too late for him to try now. Young students on this cam cjbb A Senior. be your gibes now? your gambols? your Where Alas .poor Nikita! I knew him, Samson. fellow infinite ous, communistic godlessness that never once has wavered from its avowed purpose of conquering that flag and seeing it trampled in the mud under Rusian boots. I am sick of my genteel desire to stand pat and pray while the enemy advances. I am sick of educators who teach tolerance of subversion and of clergymen who would have me quail at the specter of battle and turn my cheek in fear of what our enemies might do. In all honesty, the thing of which I am most sick is the man who let these things come to me: myself. And by the living God who made me, sir, I am a sick American who intends to get well. pus and across the country have every opportunity to become an important part of any thought or movement they feel it right. This movement or feeling need not include only our campus, but can extend to the city, state or entire country. Make yourself heard if you feel you have something worth saying. Make your actions felt if you think theres even a slight chance of success. We all have the opportunity to make the most of our four years in school. If we do this, we would have no excuse for feeling our stay was not quite worth the time and money. In a way I wish I could start over. I now know of opportunities I should have taken advantage of. I envy Mitsuo Shida because he has an excess of the quality I lacked. 1660 A of jest! songsfyour flashes merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar? of |