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T It MICHIGAN DAILY

:ATtTRDAY, tVEMBET 17, 1945



Educational

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Destroyed by


Dutch Student Patriots Resisted NazisSays
Dr. Wouter Njihoff, Distmguished Bookseller

War's Havoc
SOIC IDEA SPREADS:
Many Other Campuses Also
Or anize Similar Groups

MNTERNATIONAL
STUDENTS' [DAY
NOVEMBER 17, 1945

By MARTHA DIEFFENBACHER
"Netherlands students were good
patriots in the resistance movement,"
explained Dr. Wouter Njihoff, dis-
tinguished continental bookseller,1
who, with Dr. L. Brummel, Librarianf
of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek at the
Hague, made a Netherlands govern-
ment-ponsored visit to the Univer-
sity's Main Library yesterday.
"They broke into German offic-
er's closets to secure ration books
for the underground, and they serv-
ed as spies or radio operators," he
continued, adding that, "10 per
cent of the Netherlands' student
body was killed in concentration
camps."
Dr. Brummel and Mr. Nijhoff ar-
rived in America four weeks ago to
survey the supply of scholarly books
available here and to discuss a mutual
exchange of research material pub-'
lished during war years. Mr. Nijhoff's
own printing establishment, along
with the establishments of other
printers, was lost during the German
occupation. Many private libraries
were confiscated, although literature
continued to survive, partly in the
official libraries preserved under Nazi
supervision, but mainly in the pub-
lications of underground workers.
New Student
Organization
TO Be Planned
(Continued from Page 1)
camps inside Germany. That they
and students in other countries over-
run by the Germans preferred death
to the destruction of their freedom of
belief stands as a reminder of the
strength of this belief to students
throughout the world.
The special meaning of this first
peace-time International Students
Day has been movingly expressed by
the Czechoslovak student group. This
significance is being interpreted into
action at the congress.
The Prague conference, which
will open with a mass demonstra-
tion by the students at Charles
University, is a step nearer to
realization of the ide for a perma-
nent world student body con-
ceived by a group of representatives
from national student groups meet-
ing in March, 1945, in London.
During the summer, a Committee
of Seven Nationalities drafted the
constitution for the Student Federa-
tion which will be submitted to the
congress.
Dr. Edward Benes, president of the
Czechoslovak Republic, will address
the Prague assemblage,, and mes-
sages from President Truman, Mar-
shal Stalin and Prime Minister Atlee
will be broadcast tomorrow.
Besides setting up the proposed
federation, the congress will also
discuss the new organization s re-
lationship to other groups with
allied aims, such as the Educational
and Cultural Organization of the
United Nations.
American delegates to the congress
include Marion Applebaum, Gloria
Gordon, Russell Jones and Molly
Lieber. Douglas Hunt will also at-
tend, but asra non-voting representa-
tive. All were members of the Ameri-
can group which attended the World
Youth Conference Nov. 3 to 13 in
London.

"In Amsterdam we were amazed
recently to see a collection of about
1,000 of these clandestine publica-
tions, well-printed and well-publish-
ed," Dr. Brummel reported.
A complete collection has neverl
been aniassed, since these editionsl
Anyone wishing to send aid to
people of the Netherlands may do
so by mailing parcels to Mr. H.
Drion, Representative World's Stu-
dents Relief,
Ministry of Education
Arts and Sciences
Prinsessegracht
The Hague

were circulated privately and cau-
tiously. Young poets, many of un-
known, but inspired by the resist-
ance movement contributed to these
literary jourals, but translations, for
example, John Steinbeck's "The Moon
is Down," were also printed.
: sidces books, the Germans con-
fiscated "all every day things," ex-
plained Dr. Brummel, "all our tools,
our car s, our radios, even our cloth-
ing,.~
These confiscations are handicap-
ping the students returning to their
universities. Schools were operated
under German authority until the
military reverses of Sept. 1944, when
they closed to reopen now under
Dutch supervision again.

FROM MARBLE TO MUD:
Foreign Universities perate
Under Unbelievable _andicaps

The spirit which inspired the for-
mation of SOIC is not unique to the
campus of the University of Michi-
gan.
Students at Alabama, Bennington,
Sarah Lawrence, Wellesley, Wheaton
and Wisconsin, moved to an aware-
ness of international problems, also
have taken steps to form campus
groups to serve as sounding boards
for their opinions in world affairs.
Firm in the belief that the atomic
bomb made a necessity of a here-to-
fore desirable world federation, the
girls of Wellesley College organized
a Committee for World Federation as
a part of the Forum (student organi-
zation "studying national and inter-
national affairs and current trends."
Since its recent founding the Com-
mittee has already taken steps to be-
come more than an organization of
paper and plans. A petition urging
control of the atom bomb by the
United Nations organization was
signed by 1043 members of the stu-
dent and faculty body, and sent on
to President Truman.
A mass meeting, called by president
of the college Mrs. Mildred McAfee
Horton for Nov. 23 is being planned
as an attempt to pursuade the entire
college that national sovereignty is
an anachronism. Dr. Vernon Nash,
author and advocator of world fed-
eration, will address the. gathering.
On the inter-collegiate side, the
group held a meeting last week with
representatives from several Boston
colleges with the formation of a Bos-
ton nucleus in view. It is planned
weekly events.
The World Youth Organization at
the University of Wisconsin initiated
its activities last March aiming at
those students who were in the ano-

malous position of attending an In-
stitution of higher learning but who
took no interest in current affairs.
They started a campaign to get
every organized house to set aside at
least one hour a week for discussion
on some current problem. Professors
and well-informed students were sent
to the various houses to lead the
groups, and a gratifying response was
received.
This campaign was followed by a
round table discussion with five out-
standing professors as guest speak-
ers.
A Mock Peace Conference was the
culmination of the WYO's discussion
program. Following publicity through
the campus newspaper, over the radio
and via a bicycle parade, more than
1,000 students congregated to plan
the kind of peace they wanted.-
Dividing into five caucuses to dis-
cuss separate problems, the students
passed resolutions which were for-
warded to the Secretary of State.
They favored the Bretton Woods
agreement and an international se-
curity organization. To reinforce
their decisions a campaign was staged
urging students to write their Con-
gressmen in behalf of the resolutions.
The first project for the fall term
will be to encourage international
correspondence.
(See Editorial Page, column one.)
MICHRIGAN
NOW

By A. REBEL DERDERIAN
The student situation overseas is1
characterized by two facts.t
First of all the students who'were
fighting in the underground or were
exploited as deported workers desire
to catch up on the precious years
which they have lost. But many will
be unable to take up their studies
unless they get help in funds, in
books, and in other ways. Secondly,
their war-time experiences have con-l
vinced many students that the Uni-J
versity should be transformed into a
real community with a clear purpose.
International Students Day is a
day to remind all people of the7
present and future that a battle
was fought and won against the op-
pressors of learning, but the story
does not end there. True the peace'
has been won, but the suffering still
continues in the Universities:
CHINA-Since 1937, 73,000 stu-
dents have evacuated their colleges
not once, but as many as seven times,
for distances of well over 2,000 miles,
or in the American students' view, a
pleasure trip from Detroit to Los An-
geles. These Chinese students not
only carried their own belongings, but
also books, scientific equipment, and
oil lamps.
They lived in bamboo and mud
huts, and the word vegetable was no
longer a part of their speech. Sun-
burned, mosquito-bitten, and un.-
washed, these self-appointed protec-
tors of learning plodded from moun-
tain to mountain, across the Chinese
waste lands carrying with them their
shrine of education.
Undernourished as they were,
they gave more than 100,000 c.c. of
blood to the American-staffed blood
bank of Kunming.
A report on Yenan Medical College
in China, by Doctor Isadore Klien, to
the American people "-at the time of
our visit there were 210 medical stu-
dents in the college, of whom 54 were
women. The text books were all hand
written translations-on the walls
were medical charts, mostly copies by
the students themselves-the same
lack of surgical and other material
that hampered the hospitals hampers
the college. Its staff could diagnose,
but not prescribe; not even spectacles
were to be obtained. They used ordi-
nary manicure scissors for iridectory
operations. The optical lamp was a
Standard Oil Company can with a tin
hood made from a German die-can
ined with tinfoil from Japanese cig-
,rettes-"
More than 90 per cent of the Chi-
Wires Received
y SOIC nISD I

nese students rely on government
help to further their education in
China today.
PHILIPPINES - The beautiful
city of Manila was changed into
rubble overnight, and with it went
the University of Manila whose i-
;rary contained 250,000 volumes of
technical and classical works.
From one of our own G.I's, Cor-
poral Joe Mixer, University of Cali-
fornia, '43-"I just returned from the
Philippines where I saw schools start-
ing up with nothing but thatched
roofs overhead. But they are build-
ing students who will some day build
their country."
EUROPE-The capital of art is
now the capital of tuberculosis. There
are 30,000,000 displaced persons in
Europe, and according to Thomas E.
Cooley of UNRRA, the "settlement
of displaced persons will take from
twenty to thirty years. The educa-
tion of its students cannot wait that
long a period; outside help is a neces-
sity."
Physical damage to the univer,
sity buildings in the Soviet Union
totals four billion dollars. The Uni-
versity of Kiev in the Ukraine was
completely destroyed, including a
300,000 volume library, twenty-
three laboratories and eight mu-
seums.
In Poland the universities have
been closed for five years. The entire
teaching staff of 180 at the Univer-
sity of Cracow (founded in 1364) was
sent to concentration camps in 1939.
Later, similar events took place in the
Universities of Warsaw, Lublin and
Poznan. More than one-half of Po-
land's 125,000 pre-war public school
teachers are dead.
Holland's University of Leyden
(founded in 1574) was closed by
the occupying authorities in 1941
when 54 Gentile professors and
three instructors resigned in pro-
test to the dismissal of their Jew-
ish colleagues. Six thousand stu-
dents were ordered into forced la-
bor in 1942, and in a 1943 student
purge, 1,700 students were deported
to concentration camps.
French students have suffered
deeply and universities have been
ravaged. Students at the University
of Caen vividly describe what hap-
pened to their university under bom-
bardment by United Nations armies
on July 7, 1944, in these words:
"Everything has gone up in flames."
In Athens in November 1944, 8,000
Greek students were living on one
communal daily meal of beans with
oil. At previous student registration
732 were found to be infected with
tuberculosis.
International Students Day 1945
is observed in the spirit of Frank-
lin Delano Roosevelt, who in his
last I.S.D. message, had this to say
to the youth of America: "-in the
victory now to be won and the
peace to be secured, there is a prac-
tical task for the young people of
all countries ... with the clear eye
and firm hand of youth they must
help create a better world toward
which we now strive."

SOIC Organized in Response
To Pleas of ForeignStudents

By SHIRLEY FRANK
SOIC, the Student Organization for
International Cooperation, was or-
ganized in June, 1945 "to promote
world youth cooperation and under-
standing."
Inspiration for the organization
came from a World Youth Congress
delegation which visited Ann Arbor
last June and urged Michigan stu-
dents to unite with and aid other
youth movements throughout the
world. Coming from various coun-
tries of Europe and Asia, the delegates
described vividly the poverty-stricken
conditions of theirhomelands and the
devastation of their universities. It
was in answer to their plea that
SOIC was organized.
SOIC Recognized
Fifteen days after these speakers
left, SOIC had been formed and rec-
ognized by the University administra-
tion. Its immediate aims were to or-
ganize all interested students, contact
youth groups throughout the world,
and send material aid to a foreign
university.
SOIC is administered by a council,
executive board, and standing com-
mittees. The council is composed
of representatives from 21 campus
organizations, and the chairman of all
standing committees. Any organiza-
tion desiring membership on the
Council may petition that body.
All Students Eligible
All students except first semester
freshmen, regardles of affiliation, may
become committee members and also
are eligible for a committee chair-
manship.
The most important project now
on SOIC's agenda is the selection of
a foreign University to receive ma-
terial aid. The University will be
chosen in the all-campus election De-

cember 5. Funds for this project will
be raised by SOIC and WSSF work-
ing jointly.

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WANTED
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WANTED MEN'S CLOTHING-A
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clothing. Sam's Store, 122 E.
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2 GIRLS WANT RIDE from Ypsilanti
for nine o'clock classes. Phone 2095
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FOR SALE
FOR SALE: Ticket to Purdue game
Nov. 17th. 206 S. Thayer, Phone
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FOR SALE: Men's and women's bicy-
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Church St., Apt. 6.
FOR SALE: black velvet evening
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dresses. Size 13, phone 9765. 7-8
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LOST AND FOUND
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Wednesday morning. Reward.
Phone Tilda Ritman or leave mes-
sage at 9823.
LOST last week, brown topcoat. Call
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strand pearl necklace. Reward. Call
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LOST-Lady's small rose gold Lady
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Horses for Hire or boarded - Eng-
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-a courtesy car - located at Fair-
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ALL MEN of Pi Kappa Alpha, please
contact Raymond H. Nething, 203
Adams. West Quad.
PERSONALS
DEAR JOES: All is forgiven. How
about coming to see me Friday, the
16th, at the Open House given by
the girls at Cy Adams House.
Hedy,
1,000 Hill
ATTENTION: All Lambda Chi Alpha
alumni and transfer members from
other schools are asked to come to
the local chapter 320 South State,
any afternoon.

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"-Please extend my best wishes
for your success on International
Students Day." Orson Wells
"-Our best wishes for success
today, and our sincere desire to
cooperate with you in the future."
Dorothy Nessler, Chairman, Wel-
lesley Forum Committee for World
Federation.

These are the constituent organi-
zation of S.O.I.C:;
All Nation Club, Engineer Council,
Graduate Council, Hillel Foundation,
Inter-Cooperative Council, Inter-Fra-
ternity Council, Inter Guild, Inter-
Social Association, Daily, Ensian, Un-
ion, Michigan Youth for Democratic
Action, Newman Club, Fair-Hellenic
Association, Post-war Council, Stu-
dent Religiaus Assn., Veteran Organi-
zation, World Student Service Fund,
League Council, Unitarian Student
Group, and Assembly.

802 SouTI STATE

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