Denison University - Adytum Yearbook (Granville, OH)

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William O. Douglas, Justice of Supreme Court Mr. Justice William O. Douglas of the U. S. Supreme Court was convocation speaker for the 14th annual Charles Felix Burke Memorial lec- ture in Swasey Chapel May 7. He spoke on Com- munism vs. Democracy in Asia. We are making the same mistakes with Red China that your fathers made with Russia, he told his audience. He said that China is using slave labor to build its industries and will soon be the third largest industrial nation in the world. However, it will not be powerful because the population is increasing so fast that the people ' s standard of living will be low, he warned. Prob- lems of China will continue to ferment and will be the greatest for us and for Russia, he added. The United States is way behind in the ideological conflict with communism. As we pre- fabricate a house, the Communisfs prefabricate a society, sending into underdeveloped areas teams of teachers, engineers, and experts in every field to set up a society. They have used the press in ways we haven ' t dreamed of. They make available a wide variety of books at inexpensive prices. Ex- cept in the larger cities where there is a U. S. In- formation Agency library, people in the back country of Asia have no books to give them the ideals of democracy, the speaker stated. He urged students to prepare to become teach- ers in these countries to work- with the children who would become the prime ministers. He cited the Peace Corps as the symb ol of what the United States can do. , addresses Convocation 23