PAG~E Fo~l THE MICHIAN DAILY T~f~fSDY AQ.5,10A --------- ----- -- Co. A Choir To Present Final JR Broadcast All-Soldier Program To Repeat 'Concordia Laetitia' by Request "Concordia Laetitia," repeated by popular request, will be the opening number by the All-Soldier Choir of Company A, 3651st S. U., at 10 a.m. Saturday over Station WJR. A Russian Red Army Song, "Song of the Plain," will be the second se- lection of the chorus. This will be followed by a special arrangement of "Begin the Beguine"by Bill Sawyer. The soldier choir will also sing this number at the League dance Satur- day, Aug. 14. Guest Choir to Sing "The Lord's Prayer" by Kastolsky, sung by a feminie guest choir of the Congregational Church will be the next selection on the program. Pvt. Robert Cohn will then recite a passage from "King Richard Second" with a chorus of "God Save the King" as background. Pvt. Cohn, a graduate of the University of Wash- ington, lived in England for many years. Play Will Be Given Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Murder of Lidice" will then be presented by members of Company A. Pvts. Milton Stanzler- and Robert Langbaum worked on the script, while Pvts. John Baucher, Cohn, Phillip Foise, Grant Goodman, Bernard Rush, Gor- don Cotler and Alvin Yudkoff make up the cast. A Rachmaninoff piano solo by Pvt. Eugene Blakenship will follow. Pvt. Rush will be announcer for Saturday's program. This marks the last in a series of }broadcasts by Company A under the the direction of Pvt. Stanzler. Co. A Choir Rehearses for Sunday Concert Rehearsals for the concert to be iven at 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug.- 14, in i Auditorium by the All-Soldier Choir of Company A, 3651st S.U., are being held regularly, Pvt. Milton Stanzler, chairman, said yesterday. -Three religious works, "Benedic- tus," by Certon, "Concordi Laetitia," 14th century hymn and "Salvation Is Created,'.' by P., Tschesnokoff, are included in program. Tenor Solos To Be Given . There will be two tenor solos by Pvt. Arthur Flynn and three tradi- tional songs by the choir, "Gaudea- mus Igitur," "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes" and "Song of the Plains." Then choir, accompanied by the orchestra, will also sing "The Drum," and "A Soldier's Goodnight," hit song of "Nips in the Bud." Two Negro spirituals and two sea chanties are also scheduled for the choir, while Pvts. Robert Kurka and Otto Graf will play the last move- ment of the violin sonata. 'Marching Song' Wil Close Concert The concert will close with the "Marching Song," sung by the entire company, and the National Anthem The choir, under the direction of Bill Sawyer, rehearses an average of three hours a week, Pyt. Stanzler said. Plans for a new version of "Nips in the Bud," emphasizing the "Army Goes to College" theme, are being made, he added. It will be presented sometime in September as a part of the fall bond drive, with a war bond as admission charge. Dr. A. White Heads WPB Committee Dr. Alfred H. White, of the chemi- eal engineering department, has been named head of an advisory committee on chemical matters for this area, Detroit War Production of- ficals said yesterday. The committee will not do any ex perimental work, but will discuss problems with manufacturers an try to make helpful suggestions in an advisory capacity, Dr. White said. Inquiries may be addressed to Dr White concerning the work the com- mittee is doing.I Double Trouble for Submarines Recent Orders Change Draft Deferments Selective Service orders recently put into effect by the War Manpower Commission make minor changes in students' draft deferment eligibility, Clark Tibbits, director of the Univer- sity War Board said yesterday. This is the set-up including changes: Students in medicine and allied fields are eligible for deferments if they have completed their training within 24 months of certification by the school that the student can fin- ish his training in that time. Pre-professional students in med- icine, dentistry, veterinary medi- icine, osteopathy and theology are eligible for 24 month deferments af- ter acceptance by a professional school. The same deferments may be granted to students of forestry, op- tometry and agricultural sciences, provided that the school has not ex- panded this training more than 150 per cent. Dropped from consideration for deferment are heating, ventilating, refrigerating, air conditioning, safety and transportation engineers. Agri- cultural engineers are eligible for de- ferment. None of these categories is auto- matically deferred, but individuals must apply for deferments if they are eligible. Choir To Give Cantata "The Holy City," a sacred canata by Alfred R. Gaul, will be presented bythe adult choir of the First Meth- odist Church at 8 p.m. Sunday. Sicily Area Director Sailors May Take NROTC 778 'U' Men Eligible For Advanced Course Approximately 778 apprentice sea- men studying under the local Navy V-12 student training program will be eligible to apply for Naval Re- serve Officers' Training Corps Train- ing in March 1944, Naval officers here announced today. This group, composing the largest part of the V-12 unit, must finish two semesters of college before they may apply for the advanced training leading to commissions, officials said. The new regulationsfollow an an- nouncement from Navy Headquarters in Washington, D. C., qualifying V-12 trainees for training leading to com- missions. The approximately 250 former NROTC members of the V-12 pid- gram now living in uniform in West Quad are eligible for commissions in the regular Navy on completion of their course. The only other training leading to commissions is that offered at the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. Marines Receive Regulation Khakis Two destroyer escort boats slide down the ways at Charleston, S.C., Navy Yard after bvivg cliristened. They are U.S.S. Craig and U.S.S. Eichenberger. The boats, which are used as convoy vessels, are able to maneuver out of the way of torpedoes. They prom ise a lot of trouble for enemy U-boats attacking Allied convoys. EMBARKATION FOR COMBAT: JoIG PROF. WESLEY A. STURGES ... of Yale University has been appointed by the state department as area director for American civil- ian affairs in liberated Sicily. Weekly Dances Start Saturday By WILLIA FRYE Associated Press correspondent NEW YORK PORT OF EMBAR- KATION- This it is. This is the jumping off plae, the spot where soldiers start to- ward combat. Here is the aware- ness of the sea, of its mystery and danger - sudden awareness, the vision of far battles, the hard knot that won't dissolve in the stomach. This is the loading of a troop ship. The ferry pushes its ugly flat face, catfish-mouthed, into the pool of light at the end of the pier, nuzzles gently up against the pilings, its en- gines silent. Band Blares Forth Suddenly the band in the light blares into rhythmic sounds-"Noth- ing Can Stop the Army Air Corps," "The Caissons Go Rolling Along," then, oddly, "She's Nobody's Sweet- heart Now," "Sweet Sue," "I'll Be Round to Get You in a Taxi, Honey." "You'd be surprised," the Colonel says, low voice, "the things they ask the band to play. We had to fight like hell to get permission to have a band here. Got 'em to change the regulations. Funny, the things they ask for. Means a lot to 'em. Been a helluva morale fac- tor." Strange how soldiers all look alike. There are tall men and short men, thin ones and fat ones, but no indi- viduals until, for some reason, the line halts, and one of them takes off his helmet, and is just Joe Doakes, the kid from three doors up the street, with a girl in the house at the corner, and a jalopy waiting for the two of them when he gets back. He was always tinkering with that jalopy. SJoe Is Gone Then the line jerks into motion again, the helmet goes back on, and Joe's gone-another soldier moves around the M. P. acting as pylon climbs the stairs to the floor above moves up to the desk where his name . is checked against the passenger list f a safe arrival card is filled out foi mailing to his family when the shi reaches the other side, and he get 1a pasteboard telling him where t find his own particular spot or board. Not so tense, now. The music, the wise crack from the General who was standing alongside as Joe stepped off the ferry, the lemonade and doughnuts and candy and cig- arettes from the pleasant women in the trim uniform of the Red Cross, the bustle over last minute routine at the desk-one or another or all have eased the jaw-tight grimness of the moment. s Up the gang plank, pushini Y against the cleats, and there's a momentary shock, stepping out o the shed, at the sight of the big shi] silent beside the pier. - Moment Is Tense s Coming aboard is the tensest mom d ent of Joe Doakes' Army life, al 7 though he knew, generally an vaguely, from the moment he wa . sworn in that the time probab - would come, and has known since h reached the staging area that n- 'I - 1! I., would come soon-maybe a couple of days, maybe a week, maybe longer, but pretty soon. By the time physical and equip- ment inspections are completed, the order for Joe's unit to entrain may have been received. Maybe it won't come through for a while, but sooner or later it does and the unit is marching from the barracks to the trains waiting in the large yards in- side the camp. While Joe is being checked aboard the troop transport, other ships, miles away, are lying along- side other piers, loading with sup- plies. All to keep Joe in the best fighting trim, with everything he needs, and as much as possible of the other stuff that he just wants. Yes, this it is-this is the jumping off place. And what does Joe think of it? "Well," he says, quietly and ser- iously, "to tell you the truth, I'm sort of glad to be going, at last." The first "G.I. Stomp," a series of Approximately 300 Marines will weekly record dances for servicemen discard civilian tee shirts and slacks and coeds, will be held from 3 p.m. to in a few days for the recently arrived 5:30 p.m. Saturday in the North enlisted man's khaki. Lounge on the first floor of the "Uniforms are being issued stead- Union. ily," Marine officials said yesterday, Sponsors for the first dance will "and the entire unit should be out- be Mosher and Jordan Halls, Alpha fitted in a week." Phi, Alpha Chi Omega, Collegiate The new regalia will be cornposed Sorosis, and Co. A, 3651st S.U. Other of regulation khaki and "go-to-hell" sororities and all servicemen sta- caps, a term taken from the last war tioned on campus have been invited to designate an overseas cap ppirited to attend. at the top. ce5tcL. nm" - ' .ii ' 1 EFFECTIVE TODAY/ AUGUST 5th Union facilities limited to members only That's all it is-just a piece of cloth. You can count the threads in it and it's no different from any other piece of cloth. But then a little breeze comes along, and it stirs and sort of comes to life and flutters and snaps in the wind, all red and white and blue. And then you realize that no other piece of cloth could be like it. It has your whole life wrapped up in it. The meals you're going to eat. The tine you're going to spend with your wife. The kind of things your boy will learn at school. Those strange and wonder- CF.1 rhrull .hrc unn aerinEy* Pachnch . on Sundav. Just a piece of cloth, that's all it is-until you put your soul into it, and all that your soul stands for and wants and aspires to be. Get that straight-it's just a piece of cloth. It don't mean a thing that you don't make it mean. What do you want to make it mean? A symbol of liberty and decency and fair-dealing for everyone? Then snap out of it. The enemy's been getting closer every day. Don't let him get any closer. Start driving him back now. Now? There aren't enough ships yet. Aren't enough cannon, tanks, planes. No, sir. We're going to pay our way. And yeu'ye got to help. Got to help? No, you don't even have to give up your dough. All you have to do is lendtit -at interest. Higher interest than you can. get in almost any other way-in U. S. War Bonds. Interest that makes the Bond worth againas much as you paid for it, in just ten years-just as the time you'll be wanting to take that vacation or buy that home in a world that's free and peaceful and swell to live in again. Yes, that flag is just a piece of cloth until yu breathe life into it. Until you make it stad for everything you believe in and want and refus t y.