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“ It expects the kind of absolute alle giance and dedication with passion from its followers that Christians can give only to God. But Communism cuts men off from God, . . . from any thing spiritual or transcendent. Chris tianity relates man to God.” Polish Colleges Have Record Enrollment Poland’s university year began last fall with a record number of students at their desks, and Marxist professors more firmly entrenched behind their lecterns. One hundred sixty thousand students—20,000 more than last year —are enrolled in the country’s seven ty-one universities and other institu tions of higher education. The student body includes 800 foreign students, a quarter of them from non-aligned Asian and African countries. As a consequence of an accelerated retire ment program a number of professors trained in pre-Communist Poland are gone. The program, which reduced the compulsory retirement age from 70 to 65 years, is expected to elimi nate all non-Marxist professors from philosophy faculties by 1963. Some non-Marxists retain high prestige. As a group, however, their influence is small in university circles. In. the area of ideological affairs, colleges and high schools,have begun a second year of improvised compulsory courses in Marxist-Leninism. These were re introduced last year after a five-year hiatus. The courses were low in pop ularity among the students and, ac cording to official critiques, were in adequately taught. This was attrib uted to a shortage of qualified teach ers and the absence of a standard textbook or instructor’s guide. Lutherans Advised to Assist Pastors Recently a warning to laymen against the tendency to let their pas tors become “ errand boys” was given by the president of the American Ev angelical Lutheran Church. The Rev. A. E. Farstrup of Des Moines, Iowa, told delegates to the church’s eighty- fourth annual convention that denom inational congregations should organ ize themselves so that many more du ties could be taken from the shoulders of their pastors. “ Pastors,” he said, “must have time to study and medi tate and to counsel with those seek ing his help.”
Red Drive Concentrates on U.S. Colleges
“ The Communist party in this country is stepping up a nation-wide campaign to influence students,” an official of the Federal Bureau of In vestigation said recently in a speech in St. Louis, Missouri. Cartha D. DeLoach, the assistant Director of the F.B.I., stated, “The Communists have grown increasingly ambitious in their designs upon youth!” Party function aries have been making speeches at colleges across the country. The Fed eral Bureau of Investigation is investi gating the party’s Progressive Youth Organizing Committee, Mr. DeLoach stated. This Committee was formed thirteen months ago “ to pave the way for g r e a t e r Communist influence among American young people, in cluding broad segments of our college students.” The Committee fills a void created in 1957 when the party’s Labor Youth League was disbanded. Mr. DeLoach said that the party also was circulating a monthly newspaper, New Horizons for Youth , without a Communist label, although under Communist control. The paper, which was first published late in 1960, is edited by Daniel Rubin, who is na tional youth director of the party. According to Mr. DeLoach, “ during an extensive tour in the Midwest last fall, Mr. Rubin appeared, both official ly and unofficially, before student groups and papered a number of cam puses with Communist literature.” Communist1 Data Given Christians in Church Manual Nominal Christians who fail to practice their faith while subscribing to its principles must share responsi bility for growth of communism, ac cording to a new church “handbook on communism,” an eighty-six-page booklet published recently by the Committee on World Literacy and Christian Literature of the National Council of Churches. The handbook is a “new, revised and enlarged” edi tion of a booklet first published by the Council’s literature committee in 1952. It is supposed to update the description of Communist theory and outlines at the same time the nature of Christianity. Concerning Com munism the booklet states: “ It is a religion because it demands a man’s ultimate loyalty.” It further states:
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