THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1944 RELIGION-WAR: Counselors and Leaders of 29 Miehigan Colleges To Convene McNary's Successor Religious counselors and leaders from 29 colleges and universities in Michigan will convene in Lane Hall a week from Saturday, March 18, for a conference on "Religion in the Wartime College." Sponsored by the War Emergency Council of the Christian Association and the Conference of College Teach- ers and Ministers of Religion in Michigan, the conference will deal with present and post-war problems. Ayers To Speak Featured at the conference will be an address by Chaplain Jule Ayers, who will speak at 10:30 a.m. in the Assembly Room of Lane Hall on the subject "Our Men in the Wartime College." Chaplain Ayers, a graduate of the .University and Union Theological Seminary, has travelled through the Scandinavian countries, Russia, Greece, Turkey and the ,Holy Land. He has been a minister in New York and is now serving in the Army Air Corps as chaplain to 1,200men who have returned. from overseas. A symposium on "The Situations Which Challenge Leadership" at 11 a.m. will present problems faced by various types of educational institu- tions. Representing a church college will be Charles Kraft; a state college, John Price; a municipal college, Dor- othy Zimmerman and Dean Joseph;P. Selden of Wayne University, and a university, the Rev. Charles H. Loucks, of the First Baptist Church, Ann Arbor. Discussions Planned A discussion of "Religious Coun- seling" will be held from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Chairman of the panel will be Dorothy Powell, University of Chi- cago faculty member and YMCA leader. Other -participants include Prof. David Trout, Central State Col- lege, Chaplain Ayers, the Rev. Henry Ru in Will Begin Monday 0. Yoder, Trinity Lutheran Church, and Dr. Edward W. Blakeman, reli- gious counselor for the University. ElizabethHawley and Makepeace Isao, University students, will take part in a discussion on "Post-War Education as a Religious Opportun- ity." Others on the panel are Prof. Howard Y. McClusky, associate dir- ector of adult education and, William Muehl, acting director of the Student Religious Association.- German Prize Contests Open Tests for Sophomores To Be Given March 24 The annual contests for the Bron- son-Thomas and Kothe-Hildner Ger- man prizes will be held March 24, according to Prof. H. W. Nordmeyer, department chairman. All students interested in compet- ing are asked to register and obtain complete instructions as soon as pos- sible from the German department office, Rm. 204 University Hall. The Bronson - Thomas Prize is awarded to a junior or senior en- rolled in a German course (32 or above) on the basis of an essay form competitive examination. Contes- tants may choose a subject'for their essay from a list of 30 topics dealing with German literature from 1750 to 190. ,Two prizes of $30 and $20 each will be awarded from the Kothe-Hildner Fund to students taking sophomore German in a German-English and English-German translation compe- tition. Counterfeit Gas Stamps Investigation Discloses DETROIT, March 6.-WP)-Ethan C. Prewitt, OPA enforcement attor- ney, said today that a spot check of gasoline stations disclosed that 30 per cent of the current C-2 ration coupons they had received from cus- tomers were counterfeit. As a result of the check, he said, 22 gasoline dealers who had in their possession 13,000 counterfeit stamps seited 65,000 gallons of gasoline, "enough for 975,000 miles of driving or the equivalent of a month's A- book rations for 5,400 automobiles," the attorney added. Guy Gordon (above), Roseburg, Ore., lawyer, has been appointed by Oregon's Gov. Earl Snell as suc- cessor to the late Charles L. Me- Nary, Senate minority leader at the time of his death. Sen. Gor- don pledged himself to carry on "as best I can" the general pro- gram of the late Republican leader. Persii 3Talk Held at Center Dr. Mott To 1 Speak Sunday Talk Marks Hundredth Anniversary of YMCA Marking the hundredth anniver- sary of the YMCA, Dr. R. Mott will speak on the topic "Journeys among the Students and Colleges of Friend and Foe" at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 19, at Rackham Lecture Hall. Dr. Mott, who received his LlD from Edinburgh, Scotland, served as secretary of the International Com- mittee of the YMCA from 1900-1915. Since 1915 he has been chairman of the World Committee, head of the World Student Christian Federation and until 1934 chairman of the Insti- tute of Social and Religious Re- search. Honored by French He was alsora member of President Wilson's special diplomatic mission to Russia and was awarded the "Knight of Legion of Honor" by the French. In 1931 he wrote "The Present Summons to World Christianity" and in 1939 "Five Decades and a Forward View" was published. Students To Participate "Dr. Mott perhaps has done as much as any other leader living to bring about cooperation among students in various countries and to create a soli- darity of student youth in behalf of the Christian religion," Dr. Edward W. Blakeman, religious counselor, stated. According to Dr. Blakeman, results of his work include the YMCA hos- tels, low cost recreation, classes in inter-faith and inter-racial problems, the training of religious leaders from foreign city associations, the youth organizations in Army and Navy, col- leges in the prisons during war and peacetime, special YMCA rural and urban groups and the amalgamation of Christian student groups in the universities of Europe and Asia. Meetings To Be Held for Daily Staf and Try-Outs An important meeting for all old members of The Daily Business Staff will be held at 4:15 today in the Student Publications Building, Business Manager Beth Carpenter announced. There will be a meeting for all those interested in trying out for the business staff at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday at the Student Publi- cations Building, Margery Batt, as- sociate business manager, an- nounced. "The United States is like a Shang- ri-la for the people in South America; "We always talk about the United States," Stelio Moraes, who has just arrived at the University from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to study landscape architecture, said in an interview recently. He said he had expected to find the American people cold and un- willing to help others but that so far he has found exactly the opposite to be true. The first opinion, he ex- plained, is probably due to the fact that most Americans who go to Bra- zil do not know Portuguese and therefore appear distant. Speaking of Argentina, he said, "To us in Brazil, Argentina has proved to be a great disillusion. We thought that they had a good and stable government, but now we see that they have not." He compared the climate in Rio to that in Miami and termed the people Brazilian Student Terms U.S. 'Shangri-la' * FRESHMEN! SOPHMORES!I Try out for BUSINESS STAFF ACTIVE EXPERIENCE i~n ADVERTISING LAYOUT AND DESIGN! ACCOUNTING AND BOOKKEEPING! TYPING AND OFFICE WORK! FREE INSTRUCTION and opportunity to test your ability with actual practice. The Daily office affords a wonderful chance to "get acquainted" on campus. MEETING for all who want to participate in the University's best extra-curicular activity: in Rio "happy and gay." "I was very surprised," he continued, "to see snow here and the trees bare. This is the first time I have seen snow; in Brazil our trees have leaves all the year." Moraes is here on a fellowship from the Institute of International Education in New York and expects to stay until the end of = October. Then, he said, he hopes to work in an American architectural office. An Information Please in Persian highlighted the program at the In- ternational Center Sunday. Questions were asked about Persia, translated into Persian and answered in Persian. The participants were men from the ASTP class in Persian here. John N. Faily, instructor in Persian, was in charge of the question pro- gram. This was followed by a reading of a quatrain from Omar Khayam in the original Persian and a film, "Glimpses of the Near East."Com- ments on the film were made by Faily. The students also demonstrat- ed their ability to write Persian on the blackboard. Commenting on the program, Dr. Esson M. Gale, director of the Inter- national Center, said, "The whole thing was a striking demonstration of the efficiency of the intensified system of teaching languages." He said that the men had been studying Persian only about eight months here. After the program refreshments were served and a social hours was! held. Registration for rushing will begin officially at 3 p.m. Monday in Rn. 306 in the Union, Henry Schmidt, Jr., President of the Interfraternity Council announced yesterday.. Rushing by fraternities will also begin on Monday, Schmidt an- nounced. He added that even though rushing and registration start on the same day, it will be necessary. that a man register with the IFC before he is rushed. Fraternities will not make dates with prospective rushees until said rushee has registered. WEDNESDAY at 4:15 420 MAYNARD ST. Phone 23-24-1 'p I .. ,. ... .r., ,, .. . . .. III I Fow w d m w For Second Semester We Have Great Quantities of Sedt All Priced to I s I Your Advantage I TEXT and REFERENCE BOOKS For All Departments N fill