Show III S 'S Snow Teacher Helped By NANCY Tc SORENSEN Fight Communism S S One of the objectives of our mission was wasS to show the Latin American people that there is another way of life llIe better than communism communism explained Dr William C. C 5 head of Snows Snow's Agriculture Department regarding regarding re reo garding his work for the past two years on onan t an agriculture development project in Uru Uru- guay S This project was initiated by Iowa State University through the State Department under under un un- der he Alliance for Progress an aid program developed by President Kennedy for Latin American countries Dr was a member of a team man from the I I Iowa State University that opened the project project in do South America I IThe The team worked with the Republic University University Uni Uni- of Uruguay a year live school with students According to Dr t the there h e r e were two main purposes purposes pur pur- I poses in working with the university first t to evaluate upgrade and introduce new material in into to th the c cco co courses and second to set up a research program in the areas of beef cattle and sheep and pasture forage and nutritional management However the team worked with the overS overall over over- S all objective of increasing increasing in in- creasing the agricultural agricultural tural production of the country I feel our real success was in working with the people ur Dr stated The agriculture people are tremendously anxious and willing to cooperate cooperate co operate with our program They want to adt advance ad ad- t vance and develop thier agricultural ques where There are two groups of people we worked the demonstrators who are the Lu H. H It minority Tutu ana uie ue Calm year peace C The demonstrators are mostly students who are tare reactionary and take up any cause which has a glorious aspect he explained They have a definite resentment toward outsiders and do not want to accept any outside out side help They want to create within their own own wn country something they can claim as their own Americans living in the country are the object of both favorable and unfavorable ac ac- They are often befriended by the native native native na na- tive people but are occasionally beaten ridiculed ridiculed ridi ridi- or taken as hostages Dr ex ex- plain d. d However in hi my own personal experience ex ex- experience we had no mishap or bad experience while we we were there He is married to the former Nina Edmunds daughter of Mr and Mrs Gomer Corner Edmunds of Manti Mantl They have two sons According to Dr the University University IL sity is infiltrated with communism The vulnerability J of this university and other Latin American universities to communism he explained explained ex ex- is due to the fact that they are completely completely com com- independent from government and other agencies within the country A criminal can claim asylum in the university university uni uni- and neither the government police nor any other agency can touch him The university provides no outside activities activities ties such as dances drama or sports Dr Chris stated that perhaps this is why students students stu dents look to demonstrations and riots as a away away away way out for their energy and talents The majority of r ILS URUGUAY OR SNOW Agriculture continues to be the major interest interest in in- terest in the life of Dr William new Snow College faculty member the people however however are peace loving people peo pIe who value above everything else their peaceful way of life The people of ofU U Uruguay rug u a yare are trying trying try try- ing to help themselves but the governmental system is not such that it can can maintain Its own power and make its own laws Under these conditions conditions condi condi- it is very difficult difficult cult for any scientific and technological advancements advancements ad ad- to come about Outside forces have much more influence influence in in- fluence than the government government gov gov- itself and when the people realize real ize this they lose confidence confidence confidence con con- in the government govern ment and withdraw any capital they have invested and any other other oth oth- oth er support The government gov gov- government then becomes becomes be be- comes poorer and has even less power Thus Dr Chris Chris- described the negative chain reaction which makes it so difficult for underdeveloped countries to improve Two months ago Dr and his family returned from Uruguay to Ephraim where he was appointed head of Snows Snow's Agriculture Agriculture Agri Agri- culture Department Tr Dr who war wac ra rai pH in fn Mav 1 field is is a graduate duat of f S Snow m College g and c Utah i-h i State University and received his doctorate in agriculture from Iowa State University He had several reasons for returning to Snow College One of them is to create an awareness of career opportunities in agriculture ture and to guide young people interested in agriculture into that field Contrary to popular belief the field of agriculture is not narrowing according to Dr Although the field of producing is becoming smaller other job opportunities in agriculture are increasing Among the opportunities Dr cited are research working in connection with the United Nations Nations Na agriculture in hi industry in selling and in hi state and federal governments Furthermore he continued any young fellow with a background in hi agriculture has a tremendous advantage in filling agricultural positions over those who have no experience I r hope to use my experience to aid young people interested in agriculture he concluded |