Milford chronicle., 1951-01-19
University Head
Decries Draft Law
teontinnad from nrsr naasn

not to abandon your educational
opportunities.
Our enemies nave us badly out
numbered" he said. Our hope of
success depends upon every one of
us coming to count for not one or
two, but for many Of our opposites
in the lands Of Communist domina-
tion. And education is the only way
| know to accomplish this seeming
miracle.
"All the miracles which sur
round us-the radio, television, and
other scientific comforts of our age,
as we'll as our social and economic
miracle Of freedomZare the result
Of cultivated intelligence. 1t is
through labOr-saving machinery
i inventiOn-that manpOWer has mul-
tiplied itself into steampower, cleo
trio power, and, more recently, at
omic power.
$50 by continuing to emphasize
education, by training intelligence,
every citizen can be brought to his
maximum potential contribution and
bring forth new ideas whereby one
western man has not the strength
OF ten but Of thousand"
Dr.. Perkins cautioned that "the
great danger is that we have no
monopoly on this idea; in fact,
there are some indications that the
enemy may realize that education
is a secret weapon even better than
do we who Invented it. The Rus
slams are seeing to it that all their
ablest young people are being Civ
en- the maximum educational op-
portunity.
This is not so in this country"
he added. Education here still de-
pends more upon the size of your
dads pocketbook than 1t does upon
the height of your /. @.
And to this handicap, it now
seems that we would add a policy
of military recruitment that disre-
CARDS to too great an exent the fac
tor of trained intelligence as our
greatest weapon.
4 am confident that our govern
ment manpower policy ultimately
will be directed toward conserving
our intelligence for further train
ing and developing each youth to
make his maximum contribution.
If we and the Russians finally
come to the same policy, final vic
tory Of one country over the other
will depend upon you and the dis
charge Of your personal RESPONSE
bility to make more for learning
than your counterparts behind the
iron curtain"
After noting that America needs
educated young people desperate
"" DR.. Perkins said that 1--WE must
continue to emphasize in our edu-
cational processes not only chem
istry, physics, mathematics, or en-
but the modern counter
parts OF what once was called NOR
al philosophy F.. Should you for
get or not acquaint yourself with
the cultural heritage of Western
civilization, we might win a war
Due emerge from it inst as uncivi-
lied as those we war against" If
all over the U. S. dis
charge their high personal respon-
ilbllity ito get more out of college
han any other generation that has
preceded YOU" he said, they will
10 much to insure that Western
civilization as we know it will con-
lnue. On the other hand, failure
o accept personal responsibility
viii bring the curtain down. for
III time perhaps, upon the greatest I
adventure of mankind and make
he future one for dull beasts in
stead of civilized people"
DR.. Perkins summed up "the ]
Western heritage, the thing we are
warning to preserve" in two con-
'epts which, he said, distinguish
'ur system of values from the Rus
ian's: that man has created in a
liVine image and must emulate
hat image to fulfill HIMSELF; and 8
.that man can improve things bv
luman will, intelligence and ac- ,
ion" ,
This Western spirit, rather than }
- u u4y revolutionary. 4
aid President Perkins, "for it con-
radicted and all but annihiIated !
he two dominant themes of the =
rchaic world-the fatality of en- :
ironment and the omnipotence OF '
ne state. It is the tragedy of Mar +
ian communism that it would re- !
tore the old fetters of tyranny and
atality; it is revolutionary only in ),
nat it would turn back time and :
DR.. Perkins described it as "a 9
Ugh privilege that we should be n
ngaged in the decisive battle for !,
he highest concepts that have ever
ripped the mind and Imagination h
mankind in its long history. + 4
There will be sad days of strug- 9
e ahead" he cautioned. eve must !,
ave more courage, hope and un- Il
hakable conviction than any gem . >
ration ever had before us if we E,
re to emerge from this conflict and -
ass on to the next generation the a
Iestern spirit" "
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