,THE MICHIGAN IDAILY Furloughed G.I. Travels Well, Cheaply in Europe EDITOR'S NOTE: Second in a series of articles on the German occupa- tion contributed by a University stu- dent who has just returned to this country after 18 months on the Stars and Stripes, famed Army pub- lication. Ay BARNEY LASCHEVER A furlough in Europe is more than just a chance to take off for a few days, it is an opportunity for the occupation soldier to re- assume the traditional role of the gaping American tourist - at a fraction of the cost. Armed with a Leica camera plus a fancy lightemeter and range- finder, where formerly a box cam- era would do, our errant GI treks down to the lovely Bavarian Al- pine towns of Garmisch-Parten- kirchen or Berchestgaden, there to enjoy the hospitality of Army Spe- cial Services. lMfaster Race Caters In Garmisch, scene of the 1936 winter Olympics, Special Services maintains several fine rest center hotels, a number of skiing resorts and the Grand Hotel on Eibsee lake for enlisted men. In Berch- estgaden, were Adolph's ghost to comhe nosing around, he would find the master race catering to the delicate American warrior, with breakfast in bed. Most popular, however, of all the Special Services projects, are the seven-day or weekend tours through Switzerland, where the hospitality, the food and the sight- seeing are superlative. I received quite a shock near Geneva; when I discovered a friendly doctor learning English from a set of phonograph records containing a reproduction of a magazine article on a lynching in the South. Earthy language to be sure, but hardly the stuff to ex- port for language students. Good Behaviour For some strange reason, Swit- zerland is probably the only country in Europe where the GI came anywhere near behaving like a human being. "It's so much like America," they used to lisp. Other than the plumbing, the sim- ilarity extended no further, as far as I could make out. Paris is an overnight trip from most installations in Germany, with the exception of Berlin, but. here the price is higher because the Main-Seiner-Paris to Frank- furt express - is now run by the French. With a little bit of ingenuity, the average Yank can really be a big shot in France - and usually is. One enterprising sergeant back in the "good old days" when cig- arets could be imported from the States, started out for Nice with $10 and 18 cartons. He rented a house and wined and dined for 18 days, and when he flew back to Germany at the end of his fur- lough, still had the original $10. Strict Control Nowadays with the strict money control system and other regula- tions, large scale black marketeer- ing on the part of Americans is practically impossible. Canned cof- fee has supplanted cigarets as a medium of exchange in Germany, but it is bulky and difficult to handle. Furlough bound GI's are also turning increasingly to Scandin- avia where the nightclubs, shops and restaurants are a pleasant re- lief from 3 per cent beer and watered schnapps. Recently, 10-day tours through Austria to Vienna were started and weekend trips are made to Prague right through the Iron Curtain with nary a scratch. Low Potency And in every major post in Ger- many, the Army runs enlisted men's and officers' nightclubs, where what is jestingly called al- coholic drinks are sold at 15 cents a shot. The average GI club usually runs through its monthly liquor ration by the second week, shifts to beer and ends up the month with coke. Most clubs have floor shows, some even without one single accordian player. An over-indulgent fraulein in a club I attended one night got into her cups and during the Na- tional Anthem at closing time froze into a Nazi salute. (Next: the fraulein) Campus Highlights Hillel Birthday Ball .,. Tickets for the Hillel Birthday Ball will be on sale from 8 until 5 p.m. today in University Hall. The all-campus affair celebrat- ing the Foundation's twenty-first birthday will be held from 9 until midnight Saturday at the Union. Deutscher Verein ... The first meeting of the Deutscher Verein will be a Classical Evening at 8 p.m. to- day in the Assembly Hall of the Rackham Building. Casbah Tryouts . . Tryouts for the Campus Casbah floorshows will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. tomorrow in the Grand Rapids Room of the League. Singers, dancers, instrumental- ists and specialty acts are needed to fill vacancies in the semester's schedule. I Dance Captains. . League Dance Captains will meet at 5 p.m. today in the Un- dergraduate Office of the League. A VC Meeting ... The campus chapter of AVC will meet tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Union. Plans for the National Vet- erans' Housing Conference and AVC's attitude toward MYDA will be discussed. Delta Epsilon Pi .-. The initial meeting of Delta Epsilon Pi fraternity will take place at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20, Rm. 305, Michigan Union. All old members must be present. Any man on campus who is of Hellenic descent or who is a Phil- Hellene is cordially invited. RECENT ARRIVALS: University, But Not Weather, Gets Foreign Student Approval By ANIDEE SEEGAR Edward Yanne. from the Brit- New foreign students this se- ish colony in Hong Kong, is a mester admire the University but sophomore in chemical engineer- not Ann Arbor weather. ing. He was surprised to find Chien Ting Tai, graduate stu- that American movie houses did dent in economics, arrived only not play the national anthem at a week ago from Shanghai. He the end of the film, as is the says, "Here it is cold, but it is custom in Hong Kong. quiet and beautiful. I like this Ernest Kuh, undergrad engi- place very much." neer from Shanghai, found regis- tration easy; but room-hunting us m essArt was not, and he now commutes from the Village. Paul Schildge, forestry student To Be Subj 1ect from Paris, suffers from too-warm j classrooms and the high cost of £ living. "The life, it is very ex- Lf xhi 1011 pensive, don't you think?" Michael Esperne, surgeon from Beginning today, the University Buernos Aires, has only superla- Museum of Art will exhibit the tives for the University and its "Twenty-Sixth Annual National hospital. He calls them far bet- Exhibition of Advertising and Ed- ter than those he has seen in Bos- itorial Art," fifty-one selections ton and New York. from the exhibition of the same Aboulghassem Zirakzadeh, from name at the Metropolitan Mu- Iran, likes the practical work he seum of Art in New York City. gets as a graduate student in civil The exhibition, which will run engineering. But Ann Arbor has through Sunday, March 7, is made its drawbacks for him: up of original designs and en- "The weather -that's really graver's proofs used by business troublesome. I never saw such a and industry. climiate in my country-no!" The current exhibition is in- Chinese students were politely tended to stress the importance of surprised at finding some prej- maintaining in commercial art udiced landladies. Latin Amer- standards of taste and craftsman- icans were amazed and delighted ship as high as those prevailing to find all of the schools of the in the fine arts, Miss Helen Hall, University together, and on sueh curator of the Museum of Art, a large scale. French students said. It tries to recognize art di- were busy discovering the game of rectors who have shown outstand- bridge. All were glad to be here ing taste in page design and ar- tists and photographers who have Quartet J ill Pla showvn most originality. nThedesigns in this exhibit Four music school faculty mem- show the gradual disappearance bers will join in a chamber music of the barrier between the fine concert of Mozart and Brahms at arts and commercial art, Miss Hall 8:30 p.m. today in Lydia Mendels- said. It shows the improvement of sohn Theatre. the quality of the art and design The public is invited to heam now appearing on the pages of Mozart's Quartet in G minor, K magazines, newspapers and other 478, and Brahms' Quartet in ma- media, she added. jor, Op. 26. ALL IN THE FAMILY-Sally Rawlinson, screen newcomer, is the 'daughter of Herbert Raw- linson, star of "silents." In 1944 just before the Ger- man retreat from Greece, Greek currency, printed at Nazi order,' reached a black market exchange rate of one American dollar for 6,000,000 drachma, says Encyclo- pedia Americana. The Greeks paid 15,000,000,000,000 drachma to the Germans for occupation costs. li DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN ____________________________________' for that. . E M A TEXTBOOI Try FOLLEYT' S MICHIGAN BOOKSTORE State Street at North U. Phone 6363 (Continued from Page 4) subject. "Applications of Atomic Energy." The public is invited. Deutscher Verein: 8 p.m., As- sembly Hall, Rackham Bldg. Stu- dents from the School of Music will present a classical program. Polonia Club: 7:30 p.m., Inter- national Center. Election of offi- cers. Everyone invited. Refresh- ments. Lithuanian Club: Organiza- tional meeting, 7 p.m., Michigan League. All students of Lithuan- ian descent invited. Intercollegiate Zionist Federa- tion of America: Tues., Feb. 17, Hillel Foundation, 8 p.m. Mr. I. Schlussel, JNF Chairman of De- troit will speak on the subject, "Buy the Fort." Dancing and re- freshments. All welcome. Coming Events Research Club: 8 p.m., Feb. 18, Rackham Amphitheatre. Papers: Dean-emeritus H. M. Bates, "The Nuremberg Trials." Prof. L. B. Kellum, "War-time Exploration in Southwestern Alaska." Economic Club: Wed., Feb. 18,j 7:45 p.m., East Conference Room, Rackham Bldg. Dr. Harry Shul- man, Professor of Law, Yale Uni- versity and Umpire for Ford Mo- tor Company and UAW-CIO, will speak on current problems of col- lective bargaining and labor rc- lations. Members of the staffs and graduate students in eco- nomics and business administra- tion are invited. Political Science Round Table: The Graduate Students of the De- partment of Political Science are reminded of their first meeting of the Round Table, Thurs., Feb. 19, 7:30 p.m., West Conference Room, Rackham Bldg. Prof. James K. Pollock will be the main speaker. Graduate history Club: Meet- iig, Wed., Feb., 18, 8 p.m., Clem- ents Library. Prof. George Kiss of (picturej ..e the Geography Department will Feb. 17, 7:30 p.m., second floor{ terrace room, Michigan Union. All1 men in the School of Business Ad- ministration are invited. Refresh- ments. Sigma Delta Chi: Wed., Feb. 18, 7:30 p.m., Michigan Union. American Society of Mechanical 'Engineers: Open meeting, 7:15 p.m., Wed., Feb. 18, Rms. 321-323- 325, Michigan Union. Speaker: Mr. Tom Kinkead, of Central Spe- cialties Co. Men's Rifle Club: Wed., Feb. 18, speak. All graduate History stu- dents are invited. Refreshments. 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