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Page 2 ‘Pan Americanism Is Not A Dream Geographically the area of Pan America includes all the countries and peoples from Alaska through Tierra del Fuego (Cape Horn) with more than 25 countries, including the languages of English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and many different dialects from the Esquino dialect to the jungle dialects. These are some of the reasons why an exact definition of Pan Americanism is difficult to arrive at. Many volumes devoted to this subject do not even attempt to define it. Furthermore, it may be said that there are almost as many different kinds of Pan Americanism as there are types of Pan Americanists. However, the important point is not how well we can fit a perfect definition in a single statement, but whether we understand or not what this term means. It is amazing how many people tend to confuse the word Pan Americanism with what we may call Pan Latino Americanism. For example most of the students on this campus think that the Pan American Week, is a Latin American “fiesta.” Instead, they should try to see that the sombreros (hats), mascaras (masks) and other exhibits are not a tourist side show, but an effort of the Memorial Student Center to present the different countries, customs and peoples. A Panamanian thinker said, “Pan Americanism is not a theory or a dream, it is a fact, manifested in the concerted action of all the American republics for the purposes of common good in their international existence.” It is true that Pan Americanism, as dreamed by Simon Bolivar, laid down the foundations of a united America. It is also true that through the year, the ideal of under standing and cooperation among the peoples of America has evolved and improved, thanks to Pan Americanist leaders such as Bernardino Rivadavia of Argentina, Juan Martinez de Rosas of Chile, Jose Cecilio del Valle of Honduras, Rodrigo Pinto of Brazil, Andres Santa Cruz of Bolivia, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Clay and Franklin Delano Roosevelt of the United States. However, the present generation, seems not to realize the urgency and importance of inter-American friendship. Especially in this age when more understanding and co operation among the American countries is needed, we should not limit ourselves to having representatives to the Pan American Conferences where the excessive oratory usually takes most of the time. Instead, we must remember that inter-American relations can never be in the abstract. They are nothing but the sum of personal relations between people and groups—business men, teachers, students and govern ment officials. The success of the Pan American cause depends entirely upon the degree to which every individual desires to under stand and cooperate with other American peoples.—Jorge A. Inchauste, senior civil engineering major from La Paz, Bolivia. Your frienly, neighborhood col umnist attended a journalism conference over the past week end in an attempt to improve the fare which I am required to write at least once a week. I managed to sit through sev eral banquets and boring lec tures by different people trying to impress us with the Okla homa University Department of Journalism, but I was awakened abruptly during a lecture on columning by none other than Larry Grove who writes Poor Larry’s Almanack for The Dallas Morning News. Larry read quite a column that he had written on the subject of column writing, and it so impressed me that I found my self wishing that I had written that witty tid-bit. In fact, if I can’t think of anything next week, I still might write it. Overheard from a member of the Baylor journalism delegation to the same conference: Seems the Aggies have found a booster in the band leader that was playing in Pat O’Brians during the Easter holidays. A sip stood up midst the festi vities and shouted, “How about playing “The Eyes of Texas” for the number one team in the na tion ?” The band leader put d&vn his baton and said in a calm voice, “What the hell do you mean, number one team? Those guys from A&M cleaned your plow.” Some of the delegates from A&M got into a discussion with a member of the TWU delega tion who shall remain anonymous for her own protection and for mine too. It was late at night and we were all feeling pretty good and this young lady was having a hard time getting her words in line and then getting them to come out the way she wanted them to come out. At one of the banquets given by SDX, the professional journal ism society, the Texas delegation presented the people from Okla homa with a plaque from Gover nor John Connally making them an official territory of the State of Texas. The Oklahoma delegations ex pressed their appreciation and promptly announced an economy move to go along with the Tex ans. It is the nine gallon hat. One of the Sooners told the group that it looked funny on the head but it was still big enough to cover up the speedometer to keep reporters from telling how fast you’re going up a hill and pass ing cars at the same time. Red China Fortifies Borders Against Threa ten ing Soviets Bulletin Board THURSDAY Corpus Christi Hometown Club will meet in Room 3-B of the Memorial Student Center at 7:30 p.m. Deep East Texas Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 2-A of the Memorial Stu dent Center. Pasadena Area Hometown Club will meet at Wehrman’s Cafe at 6:15 p.m. Rio Grande Valley Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 208 of the Academic Building. Tyler-Smith County Hometown Club will meet in Room 3-C of the Memorial Student Center at 7:30 p.m. ELECT DEMOCRAT HONG KONG <A>) — Red China has sent substantial troop rein forcements to Sinkiang and has cleared and fortified a belt 2 miles deep along hundreds of miles of the disputed border with the Soviet Union, White Russian refugees said Wednes day. The refugees from the re mote region of northwest China reported the two feuding giants of world communism are waging a propaganda war across the border and tension runs hign. They gave this picture: Soviet broadcasts boast that some Sin kiang border areas eventually will be added to the Soviet Union. The Chinese denounce Premier Khrushchev, calling him “a good friend of the Ameri cans” and saying he deceived China by reneging on his pro mises of Soviet aid. In their feud over the best road to world Communist domin ation, Peking and Moscow fre quently have lifted the curtain on their private cold war in Sinkiang. The refugees, who reported they abruptly were allowed to leave Sinkiang recently after a four-year ban, gave what they said was a firsthand account of the struggle in one corner of the vast region. There were 125 White Russians in the group that reached Hong Kong after 12 days B. H. DEWEY, JR. STATE Representative (28th District—Brazos County) MEMBER of Southern Re gional Education Board. LEGISLATOR— 1953-1962 “BEST FOR CRISIS IN EDUCATION IN 1965” (Paid Pol. Ad) CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle . 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