Dear Editor
YOUTH AND CULTURE In your April 25 issue. Sir Hugh Taylor places upon the youth of America the responsibility for undertaking the kind of education that would enable it to embark upon a "Cultural...
...Washington, D.C...
...This old stock Marxist claim has not been proven...
...Furthermore, our several hundred applicants, two dozen of whom were successfully placed, did not regard themselves as making a "sacrifice," but rather as participants in a bold and inspiring venture...
...Corroborative evidence as to the willingness of American students to participate in this kind of enterprise is seen in the fact that applicants for Friends' Work Camp projects are consistently oversubscribed...
...He believes that married students place an additional financial burden on universities which is causually related to low teacher salaries...
...who introduced a bill that would study the feasibility of establishing a Point Four Youth Corps...
...The subjects of war and imperialism belong not in economics but in sociology...
...This exhortation is bemusedly "academic" and improper...
...There is no such thing as capitalist imperialism per se, or Communist (or socialist) imperialism per se...
...As perceived by Taylor on other grounds, the scope of the probTHE NEW LEADER welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...lem requires Government subsidy and direct participation...
...On January 4, 1960, a concrete step in that direction was taken by Congressman Henry S. Reuss (D-Wis...
...No action has yet been taken on this bill which now reposes in the House Committee on Foreign Affairs...
...One system is as capable of using its economic power for imperialist ends as another...
...They are willing to do so, moreover, at the wage levels that prevail in those countries...
...While these and other private agencies have done creditable work in attempting to transplant Western ideals of brotherhood and democracy, and in enabling participants to learn from their neighbors, their effectiveness is restricted by limited financial resources...
...The current Harvard Business Review contains an article—"Who Are the Economic Imperialists Now...
...SIDNEY KORETZ...
...Brooklyn, N. Y. ALBERT C. ETTINGER IMPERIALISM Raphael Abramovitch (NL, April 18) apparently believes there is more inherent drive toward war in capitalism than in socialism (provided it is democratic...
...Toward that end, he advocates that college students make many sacrifices, including the postponement of marriage...
...As a founder of the International Development Placement Association, I can testify that there is no dearth of students willing and able to participate in the economic and cultural development of newly independent countries...
...by E. M. Winslow which gives thumb-nail sketches of some of the arguments that "capitalism" is inherently "imperialistic," and shows that they are nonsensical...
...It is also irrelevant to Taylor's more important and valid thesis—the need for a Government program to channel American student energies toward employment abroad...
...Morally backed by prominent liberals, the IDPA failed in 1956 solely from a lack of funds to process applicants...
...Sir Hugh Taylor places upon the youth of America the responsibility for undertaking the kind of education that would enable it to embark upon a "Cultural Marshall Plan...
...Presumably, student continence or intercourse out of wedlock is to be preferred to the professorial distaste for the "sacrifice" required to organize an effective teachers union...
...Interested readers might write to Representative Thomas Morgan, the chairman of that committee...
Vol. 43 • May 1960 • No. 19
