TIFF MICIGAN i~t i lH VVr-.DNri..qnAV- x.a u x~a a a iri 'C X x 1X71V L'MJUfl L OCCUPATION SOLDIER: GI s in Germany Need Army's Permit To Date (EDITOR'S NOTE: Third in a series of articles on the German oc- cupation contributed by a Univer- sity student who has just returned to this couiitry after iS months on the Stars and Stripes, famed Army publication. By BARNEY LASCIIEVER Nearly every GI in Germany and Austria has his fraulein. Touring clergymen have re- turned to the States with the pro- nouncement that immorality among -the American occupation troops is not as widespread as some reports make out, but the fact still remains-nearly every GI has a German girl friend. The Army has been forced to recognize the situation much as they would prefer to disavow it, and in fact have set up a semi- legal system designed. to protect the health of the GI,dbut not de- prive him of his companion. Arinty Investigates In order to escort a German or DP girl to one of the many night clubs or service clubs run by the Army, a social pass must first be obtained for the girlsthrough the post Special Services officer. The girl is screened for her political background. If either the girl or the sol- dier appear at a club with a dif- ferent companion, the social pass is revoked. However, if a soldier tires of; his girl, he merely re- quests her pass, turns it in, .and then is free to obtain another one for the next girl of his fancy. Companionate Marriage It is sort .of a companionate marriage affair that can be called off by word of mouth. From my observations, I would venture to say that the average German girl that ties up with an American soldier is for the most part a refugee herself. Either she is one of the 1,500,000 Sudeten- land Germans that were moved into the US. Zone from Czecho- slovakia, or she has come in from one of the other three zones, us- ually from the Russian zone. It is also true that many Ger- man girlsawith families fraternize, but they are in the minority. GI Garb Sometimes you have to look twice, but as the occupation wends its weary way onward, more and more German girls are appearing in cut-down, dyed GI overcoats or coats cleverly fashioned from GI blankets. The first day the renovated Darmstadt PX opened featuring a new well-stocked food counter, GI's by the scoredshowed up with duffle bags and hauled away enough food to feed a regiment. Apart from the fraulein, many GIs and American dependents are devoting a good deal of worth- while time to what is called Ger- man Youth Activities. These con- sist in maintaining warm club houses where democracy is dished. out in the form of cokes and American athletics. Discussion Groups Recently the trend has been toward holding discussion groups also, but there is a scarcity of trained personnel for this sort of specialized work. And in a sur- vey, 40 per cent of the kids ad- mitted they attended the clubs for the chocolate bars and cokes. Also the middle class families have tended to refrain from supporting these activities. As for the displaced persons, the Germans for the most part are extremely indignant. "Why don't these persons go back where they belong," an el- derly German woman complained to me. "We Germans are such a poor people." That the state of the DPs or the condition of post war Ger- many had anything remotely con- nected with the Germans them- selves, does not occur to them. Cordial Welcome In the French zone, I was wel- comed with open arms. "When are you Americans going to help us drive the French back to the Rhine?" a German asked me. The overwhelming sentiment from former Wehrmacht soldiers now working for the Americans is that they would like nothing bet- ter than to join the American Army and fight the Russians. Everybody hates everybody. (Next: The Stars and Stripes, the soldier's newspaper.) ANTI-POLIO WEAPON-War against infantile paralysis is now being waged on a new front at the School of Public Health, with the addition of a new "weapon" for study of the virus that causesj polio. Above, Dr. Thomas Francis, Jr., chairman of the Depart- ment of Epidemiology, looks on as Dr. Martin Hanig, research associate, places some infectious material in an ultracentrifuge. UniversityVrus Laboratories Buy N.ew Anti-Polio Weapon University of Michigan re- of an electrically driven ultracen- searchers in the Virus Laborato- trifuge which operates on the ries at the School of Public Health principle of centrifugal force. have a new weapon in their war The new machine which was against poliomyelitis in the form pThasewithinunshpohiddsb purchased with funds provided by the National Foundation for In- Ai A ne Paralysis, will be used to 1E ir "whirl infectious solutions contain- gRing viruses at speeds up to 1,000 Ta~ lk ih-vEd; t41-1 revolutions per second. The cen- r 1 } Coinmissions To Be Given ROTC Men ()tuhtaudiug Sileis Will Receive Awards Presentation of reserve commis- sions and awards for distinguished military students by the Univer- sity ROTC will take place at 4 p.m. today at the Intramural Building. Colonel Karl E. Henion, Profes- sor of Military Science and Tac- tics, will present commissions of second lieutenant in the Officers Reserve Corps to the following ROTC Cadets: Joseph A. Baclaw- ski, Brooklyn, N.Y., infantry; Keith E. DeMerritt, Willow Run, quartermaster; Gerald H. Giczew- ski, Detroit, signal corps; Norman E. Hearn, Wheeler, infantry; Stephen S. Johnson, Manistique, infantry; and Donald E. Kenney, Kenmore, N.Y., infantry. Cadet Awards Colonel Henion will also pre- sent awards to the following cadet officers who have been designatedj by him as distinguished military students: Lt. William D. Albrecht, Detroit; Lt. Col. Joseph A. Bac- lawski; Lt. Harold Coleman, De- troit; Major Gerard H. Giczewski; Lt. Lawrence E. Girton, Jackson; Capt. Robert F. Guthrie, Detroit; Lt. Edwin A. Irion, St. Joseph; Capt. John W. Perry, Detroit; Lt. Donald E. Queller, Terre Haute, Ind.; Lt. Richard R. Robinson, St. Louis, Mich.; Lt. Robert E. Rugar, Willoughby, Ohio; Lt. Ralph E. Echroeder, Wyandotte. Qualifications for the above award as a distinguished military student include outstanding quali- ties of leadership, definite apti- tude for military service, high aca- demic standing in the ROTC class, and outstanding accomplishments in campus activities. Outstanding Service Major Howard E. Porter, Signal Corps ROTC instructor, will pre- sent the Pi Tau Pi Sigma officer's key to Cadet Major Gerard H. Giczeweki, national and local commander of Pi Tau Pi Sigma, honorary signal corps fraternity which has its national headquar- ters at Michigan this year. The award is being given on be- half of the local chapter in token of Major Giczewski's outstanding service to the signal corps frater- nity and to the ROTC program. 1101( Those Bonds! By ART l1G61 EE Art - conscious students who have signed up for University's art prints are picking them up this week at the Student Print Loan Collection office. lii. 206 University l1ll. Those who haven't yet filled that blank space on the wall will have their last chance to do some- thing about it next week when the remaining prints go on dis- play at the office. But only 75 prints remain to be assigned out of a total of 600 -and Mrs. Eloise Wilkinson, di- I:R.AConducts Member Drive Group Seeks Recruits To FightPrejudice The Inter-racial Association is conducting a membership drive today and tomorrow and will have booths set up in University Hall and the League from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on both days. IRA is a student organization devoted to the purpose of elimi- nating discrimination from every segment of campus life, according to Harry Cross, president of the group. Last semester, IRA initiated a drive to enforce the Diggs Anti- discrimination Act in local bar- bershops. Plans for the rest of the year include a tentative list of speeches by Dr. Harry Ward, Dr. Herbert Aptheker, and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. The first IRA meeting of this se- mester, open to present and pros- pective members, will be held at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, in the Un- ion. rector of the office, saya t iad those 75 will go pretty fast There were 125 more prints available this semester than in the fall, but. the director says that the collection's popularity is growing faster than the collection itself. "Nearly 100 per cent of the students who borrowed prints last semester were back again this term," she reported, "and a lot of them brought their friends." Esthetic Attachment Considering the fact that prints may be borrowed for a semester at a time and that the same prints, can't be borrowed more than once, what happens when someone gets sort of attached to the print that's been keeping him company all term? Mrs. Wilkinson had the answer for that one: "We try to talk him into taking another print by the same artist-and it always works." If the attachment is too great. she said, the borrower can also order a copy of the print from a commercial dealer. Improve Critical Taste In any case, Mrs. Wilkinson said, the purpose of the Student Print Loan Collection is to im- prove students' critical ability by acquainting them with the many works of different artists. The most popular paintings so far, she said, have been those by Cezanne, Van Gogh, Picasso and Winslow Honer-"good men, one and all." Tryouts To Meet Tryouts for the editorial, sports or women's staffs of The Daily may attend the first of the regular meetings at 4 p.m. today and 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Conference Room of the Student Publications Building. ONLY 75 LEFT Studeit A rt Enthusiasts Cluim Prints for Private 'Galleries' Staee To Talk In 'U' Lecture SeriesToday Arthur W. Stace, editor of the Ann Arbor News, will open the se- mester University lecture series in Journalism at 3 p.m.. today, in Rm. E, Haven Hall, speaking on "The Changing Newspaper." A Notre Dame graduate. Stace has been active in the newspaper business for over fifty years, in practically every capacity known to daily newspapers. Author of syndicated news arti- cles on Michigan's idle lands lead- ing to the organization of Michi- gan's recreation industry, Stace has worked for the Grand Rapids Press as writer and, eventually managing editor, before going to the News. A coffee hour will be held at 4 p.m. in the News Room of the Journalism department, at which time Stace will discuss many phases and problems of his pro- fession. Grove Patterson, editor of the Toledo Blade, will give the second lecture in the series Wednesday, Feb. 25, at the Rackham Amuphi- theatre. The evening lectures will be open to the public. Class in Festival Music To Be Held A music appreciation course, in which students will study this year's May Festival program, will begin at 7 p.m. today in Rm. 206 Burton Memorial Tower. Taught by Prof. Glenn D. Mc7t Geoch of the music school, the University Extension Service course will consist of ten lectures. Registration for the course may be made at the Extension Service offices in Rm. 107 Haven Hall, or at the first meeting of the class. . Dennis Flanagan, who won a Hopwood Award in 1937 and has since risen quickly in New York publishing circles, will be inter- viewed by E. G. Burrows of the Broadcasting Service, at 2:30 p.m. today over WKAR (870 k.c.) In one of the weekly "Hopwood Room" series, Flanagan will dis- cuss his journalistic experiences and the relation of science to liter- ature in modern writing. After rising from office boy to scientific editor of Life, Flanagan is now beginning publication of a remodeled "Scientific American." During his Flanagan was Daily. University career, associated with The tr iugal force caused by the spin- ning will pull the minute viruses out of the solutions so that they may be purified and concentrated. The machine is equipped with an elaborate optical system with which it is able to take photo- graphs of the viruses as they whirl at high speed. Analysis of the pic- tures is expected to yield valuable information :concerning growth, reproduction, and chemical consti- tution of the organisms. According to Dr. Martin Hanig, research associate at the School of Public Health, the ultracen- trifuge will also be used in re- search on other viruses. One of these is the herpes virus which causes cold sores about the mouth in human beings, sometimes lead- ing to serious complications. Alpha Phi Omega To Show Films Prospective pledges of Alphi Phi Omega, national fraternity of present and former boy scouts, will see Rose Bowl films at a smoker at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Union Ballroom. Purpose of the smoker is to fa- miliarize men with the activit ies of the fraternity and to point out va- rious bene fits of membershil. Hisory.. (Continued from Page 1) ance on the past as a source of revelation. / "In the classic period,"* Dr. Hel- ler said, "Israel linked the indi- vidual to the whole social moral- ity, and beheld the nation as part of a society of nations." Dr. Heller referred to the Bible as a great non-critical history, al- though many of its books have been altered in the course o fhis- tory to give interpretations dif- fering greatly from the orignial intent. UMT.. - -, (Continued from Page 1) is no vital connection between UMT and foreign/ffairs." 'Need Protection' Other comments were: Rep. Dingell: Protection is nec- essary. Other countries are arm- ing, we need to arm also. SCoffin: I am undecided. I want to look at it from both sidIes first. Sen. Ferguson: Nobody can be" against security. Asking a man if hie is against security is like asking if hse is against sin. However, if UWT is just to train foot-soldiers, its worth is questionable. Petition White House Gen. McLane, War Dept : Armies are still necessary despite atomic warfare. The White House would not see the delegates, but suggested that petitions be left with the left gate guard. The assembly's achievements were strong protests against UMT and resolutions adopted against: 1. Red-baiting in the press and other sources. 2. Discrimination and segrega- tion in Washington. Contest Entries Close Friday Sophomores and upperclassmen who plan to enter the preliminar- ies of the annual University Ora- torical Contest, slated for March 5, must be registered in the Speech office, 3211 Angell Hall, by Friday. Orations must be approximately 1800 words in length and on a topic of public interest. Sopho- mores, juniors, and seniors are eli- gible for the contest. Further in- formation may be obtained from members of the speech staff. At MICHIGAN JAMIE SCHAEFFER VETS CHECKS- Checks being held for the fol- lowing veterans at the Ann Arbor Post Office will be returned to Columbus on Feb. 24. Luzine B. 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