The Coral Gables Times

Thursday, June 8, 1961, page 5 (of 50)

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The Middle Way Two Visitors & What They Saw

By JOE MORRIS Correspondent The two Laotian monks, frequently seen around the Gables in their brilliant orange safrant-robes and open sandals, left the University of Miami campus this week. Winding up a two-year State Department scholarship covering an intensive English course and social study, the 26-year-old Rev. Hongsa Chanthavong and the Rev. Phimphone Sakdavong, age 22, left Wednesday for their Southeast Asian home in Vientiane, Laos. Their English is excellent as a result of long hours and constant study. At first they burned the study lamp from 7 at night until 3 a.m. However, the last semester was easier — they knocked off at 1 in the morning. They had little time and little money for sightseeing, movies or bathing at the beach. The tuition of each was paid by the State Department. Additionally, each received $170 monthly for living expenses such as room, board and books. Friends did offer to take them to the beach but they declined, figuring that since they couldn't swim it was time wasted. They took in the Seaquarium and Parrott Jungle but nothing beyond those. The weather here is similar to that in their country. And when the temperature dropped last winter they did what they always did at home ... put on two or three more robes and kept moving. Life in the Unuted States changed them a trifle. They cut each other's hair with mechanical clippers, instead of scissors and they ate everything but rice for breakfast and lunch — the only two meals they have each day. But they still wouldn't shake hands or come in physical contact in any way with women. Short in stature and suntanned by nature, the two young men responded pleasantly to every question asked of them. "Where do you worship Buddha?" was one question asked. "We worship Him in the quietness of our room," they answered. "The statue of Buddha is a symbol for the idea that makes our minds quiet and in harmony with Him. We do not confess sins nor ask favors for ourselves. We try to do good instead of evil. "Adn by following Buddha's middle way, not too strong — not too weak, we seek happiness through peace of mind." The brightly cotton-clothed priests plan to teach, in their temple in Laos, Buddha's way of life to all the people who come for instruction. They are totally unconcerned about which political group controls their country — be it Communistic or Democratic, Their only desire is to help their fellow countrymen find harmony and happiness the Buddha way.

When Is Advertising Propaganda?

The methods of the advertiser and the propagandist are really not usable for any purposes other than their own. They want their audiences to be as passive and uncritical as possible. Their methods are calculated not merely to make that audience believe what it is told, but also to believe just because it has been told. Their aim is to hypnotize and condition. The last thing they want is any thinking-for-yourself. Hence, what they are engaged in is not a kind of education but the direct opposite of education. The end result of their skill in one kind of communication is a group of listeners and "viewers" who are less than ignorant; it is a group which knows things that are not true and has become increasingly incapable of learning anything. Nothing more clearly distinguishes a method of education from a technique of indoctrination than the fact that education demands from the subject some effort, especially some effort of attention, while propaganda does not. — From "Human Nature and the Human Condition," Joseph Wood Krutch, 1959.

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OFF BEAT By MAURICE LABELLE

By MAURICE LABELLE A recent long conversation with an attorney concerned the power of observation, but more particularly the ability to remember details some time after an occurence. We congratulated each other on our ability to see things as they really are and agreed that attorneys and reporters are particularly blessed with this talent. Obviously we would not be in this business unless we had a special knack for separating illusion and reality, we concurred. And we cited numerous examples to prove our prowess. Finally it was noted that The Times had moved from its familiar old home at the corner of Salzedo and Aragon to its new quarters at 364 Sevilla. The barrister said he had not known this fact. As a matter of fact, he said, he had just had a haircut at Tony's Barber Shop across the street and had noticed that the old building had been re-painted green! It was disheartening to have to tell the attorney that the color was decidedly of a pinkish variety. This didn't appear to faze the barrister, however. He switched gears quickly and pointed out that Tony had his windows tinted green recently and that apparently accounted for the wrong image. Which goes to prove that the power to rationalize sometimes equals if not exceeds the ability to observe. —ML— ED RUSSO had at least one taker on his promise to punch in the nose the first person who questioned his loyalty for opposing the People to People Committee oath of allegiance. Ed tells how the person contacted him after reading his remarks in the May 25 Times and would not accept the explanation that he had signed loyalty oaths many times before and, as a member of another city board, had already signed the oath in question. So what's all the fuss about? —ML— City Tax Assessor Tommy Blount is celebrating his 15th year with the city. That's about twice as long as anyone figured him to last after he was fired back in 1954. Tommy only last February won back his department head status.

'I Tell You, Mother'

By PHILLIPS RUSSELL Correspondent If anyone is resolved to read just one book about Civil War days during these Centennial years, it might well be "Walt Whitman's Civil War." Whitman is celebrated as a poet, but this collection of his war writings, often done on the spot, proves he could write a stirring, pounding prose. Listen to this: "We had a large cavalry regiment pass, with blankets, arms, etc., on the war march ... They were preceded by a fine mounted band of 16, about 10 bugles, the rest cymbals and drums. "I tell you, mother, it made everything ring—made my heart leap. "The sabers rattled on a thousand men's sides—they had pistols, their heels were spurred—handsome American young men ... all good riders, full of the devil, nobody shaved, very sunburnt . . . Alas, how many of these handsome, healthy, rollicking young men will lie cold in death before the apples ripen in the orchard?" Whitman, friend to the wounded, wrote chiefly from the Union standpoint, but he tried to be fair to the Southern side. In the hospitals he tended the Confederates as well as the Yankees. For example: "Have struck up a tremendous friendship with a young Mississippi captain (about 19) that we took prisoner, badly wounded at Fredericksburg ... he wears his Confederate uniform, proud as the devil—I met him first at Falmouth, his leg just cut off, and cheered him up ... his eyes bright as a hawk, but face pale ... sometimes when I lean over to say I am going, he puts his arms around my neck." In these random jottings we see what the formal histories do not, and cannot, give us—the common soldier, North and South, what he did and said and felt. Whitman brings back the America, the Union of States, that we feared was lost. Or worse, maybe never existed except as a useful myth. (A. A. Knopf, New York, $5).

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