AW -4 .r _ .. .. . ..- i . .4. - .,- ,:.,, r 4- -.r -.?, . I 4 a 4 Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY MAGAZINE Sunday,-October 20, 1957 Sunday, October 20, 1957 THE MICHIGAN DAILY MAGAZINE I7 Aclrpgan hal MAGAZINE OPERA: STATE STREET Race Problei Vol. IV, No. 2 5unday, October 20, 1957 CONTENTS - OPERA By Harry Dunscombe SIBELIUS By David Kessel BRAINWASHING By John B. Dalbor 'VOSS' By Roy Akers THE MIGHTY MESABI By James Bow 'EXILES & MARRIAGES' - By R. C. Gregory THE FOLK SONG By Rose Perlberg RACE PROBLEMS By John Weicher STATE STREET SURGERY By Jo Ann Hardee STRATFORD By Jean Willoughby RUSSIAN TOUR By Lewis Engman A RIOT? By Akira Ebuchi Page Page Page Page Page Page. Page Page Page Page Page Page 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 10 11 12 14 16 (Continued from Page 11) wrought below. For those seeking the intellectual stimulation they did not find in the shop down- stairs, there are $2.98 games in. which are rock and seashell sam- ples for the geologically-minded students, bugs and leaves for the zoology and botany major. But the student cannot escape, even in this paradise of the past. The handwriting on the wall is the big black letters on the corrugated aluminum front or the red letters of the electric sign at the back of the store. Tradition is being crushed in a wild stampede toward progress. ALREADY THE trend has been followed by other merchants. Another bookstore has changed its facade. But behind that glass and mock marble exterior is an in- terior of solid sameness. More serious are the changes in the drug store, which has mini- mized the thrill of the search by placing merchandise in reachable locations and installing mid-twen- tieth century lighting. Frighten- ingl Equally frightening is the pros- pect of what may happen to State Street if this frenzy for modern- ization continues. Rumors, as yet unconfirmed, are that the bank may be expanded, a move which would tend to thwart the deep intellectual exchange which oc- curs as people wait in line those first days of registration. Perhaps the "they" who have done this thing could be persuaded to reverse the trend toward non- traditionalism themselves. W i t h little effort, the most violent of- fender could be restored to its original cozy size. As for the remainder of the building, it need not be a complete loss to the community. The re- moval of a few floor cases and the addition of more bins and shelves with a meat counter, and a com- munity shame can become a mean- ingful contributor to man's growth. MAGAZINE EDITOR: Tammy Morrison MAGAZINE PHOTOGRAPHER: Bud Bentley PICTURE CREDITS-Unless specified, photographs are Daily photo- graphs by Bud Bentley. Page 2: Photograph courtesy University News Service; Page 3: Photograph courtesy School of Music; Page 4: Photograph by Associated Press Newsphotos; Page 8: Photograph by Perry Ryan; Page 12: Photograph by David Kessel; Page 13: Photograph by David Kessel; Page 15: Photographs courtesy School of Music; Page 17: Photographs courtesy Akira Ebuchi. (Continued from Page 10) 1 seems to move southward and eastward continually; a new line is set up every few years. PERHAPS THE major reason for the failure of this policy is the presence of older, not so well kept up houses in every neighborhood. Ofteh -Negroes seeking better com- munities move into these places, starting the evacuation process over again. In addition, many of the more well-to-do white fami- lies move to the suburbs, leaving vacancies. The ideal solution, complete mutual tolerance, is absolutely out of the question. One reason is the short time in which all these events have happened. Nearly ev- ery adult resident, including those in their early twenties, can re- member back ten or fifteen years to when things were different. Any educational campaign is in for tough sledding. Interracial crimes add fuel to the fire, but the basic desires of preservation on the part of the whites and improvement of living conditions of the Negroes are very nearly mutually exclusive in Chicago at present; this is just what the trouble is. A LONG-RANGE solution is to stop the problem at its source, to limit thenumber of Negroes coming to Chicago. There is here the almost insurmountable prac- tical problem of enforcement. How do you stop poeple from attempt- ing to better themselves? Even if an indirect method could be found, perhaps by cutting relief payments to those, who have not held jobs in the city before seeking aid, po- litical problems remain. Negroes form a sizeable part of the Demo- cratic vote in city elections, and the Democrats quite naturally do not 'wish to lose that vote, while Republicans are equally desirous of either gaining Negro support or cutting Negro strength. The ques- tion disappears into a jungle of partisan politics. A rough working solution com- bining all three of these methods may be worked. out, as a practi- cal necessity, to avert either of two far less pleasant alternatives. On one hand, the entire South Side might become Negro, some- thing neither race really wants. Such an occurrence would severe- ly limit new industrial develop- ment, in the only open area left to it, on the eve of that expan- sion. An all-Negro community might even result in the destruc- tion of the jobs which brought them to the city in the first place. THE OTHER, and worse, alter- native is race warfare. No one wants to explore the ramifications of this possibility. The city had, a foretaste of it in the Calumet Park riot this summer. The po- lice have established that white youths started the affair and the offenders have been dealt with severely, but the story persists in the white neighborhoods around the park that,the Negroes really started it. Another incident is thus added to a growing list, each leav- ing a little more animosity. A riot ........-......... it's holiday GLASI Pledge Forn dances com formal shoe your list! O evening sho The largest Formal shoe tinting a sp All heel hei and materia A SCENE from last year's University production of the opera "Hansel and Gretel," presented joinuy by the speech department and music school. Pictured are Svea Blomquist as Gretel, Mary Mattfeld as Hansel, Kathleen Rush as Mother and James Berg as Father. ne: set t bli be car bal wi on of sin the " pet ne: icing... and SIZ4 nals or those ing up, make s a must on ne of dozens of )e styles. selection of es in town, ecialty. ghts, style als. 95 " Nl! 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