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WHY ONLY 250?
Negro Works Complete
AmericanLterature
THAT University students are overwhelmingly
in favor of a course in American Negro liter-
ature was evidenced in the campus poll Friday.
Of the 250 students who voted, 89.6 per cent
said yes, 4 per cent no and 6.4 per cent voiced
no opinion.
If the vote of these students is indicative of
the feelings of the remaining 4,000 civilian stu-
dents who didn't vote, there is obviously a de-
mand for such a course.
But why didn't the other students vote?
Was it because they 'didn't have time,' didn't
care, or because they would rather let such
a delicate issue remain dead and buried?
Would they have sided with the 4 per cent
who voted no or the 6.4 per cent who voiced no
opinion?
These people, rather than those who voted yes,
need such a course. Something is needed to blow
away the fogs that cloud the thinking of these
recipients of a 'higher education.'
People who refuse to broaden their outlook
to admit that Negro culture is essentially a
part of American life form the bottleneck
opposing the achievement of racial equality,
toward which this country is supposedly dedi-
cated.
WE ARE willing to bet that if we asked the
first ten people we saw on campus, "who
was James Weldon Johnson, or who is Margaret
Walker?" none would know. Student connection
with Negro culture is limited to what Harriet
Beecher Stowe said about it 100 years ago in
'Uncle Tom's Cabin.'
The works of Johnson, for example, "The Cre-
ation," "Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the
Resurrection Day" and "God's Trombones" are
comparable in quality to the poems of Vachael
Lindsay and Stephen Vincent Benet. Simply be-
cause Johnson was a Negro, his works have been
judged only on that basis, and not as a contribu-
tion to American literature.
An understanding of Negro culture as an
integral part of American life is. essential if
the Negroes and whites in this country are
ever to live amicably together.
Such a course as the Inter-Racial Association
is advocating would be one means of accom-
plishing this-Jane Farrant
Claire Sherman
REQUEST:
University USO Dances
Must Have Mixer Gaines
S.RVICEMEN on campus haVe frequently com-
plained that Ann Arbor is an unfriendly
town and that coeds are so cool they practically
freeze up if a man in uniform says "good morn-
ing!",.
The situation probably was not that bad, but
the Women's War Council, recognizing the prob-
lem decided to establish a University USQ cen-.
ter at the League.
Unfortunately the center has failed to ac-
I'd Rather
Be Right
By SAMUEL GRAFTON
NEW YORK, Aug. 8.-I am willing to admit
that we all have to become less opinion-proud as
we listen to that cracking noise in Europe.
We cannot outguess this thing, we can only
try, to keep up with it. Who would have dreamed,
six months ago, that by this time Italian soldiers
would be fighting on the side of the guerrillas in
the Balkans? Yet that, in effect, is the situation
if it is true that there have been armed clashes
between Germans and Italians in that region.
There is a whole hatful of miracles taking
place. If Hitler tries to keep Italy, or a section
of it, in thewar by force, that is likely to have
a disastrous effect on his relations with the
satellite , governments of Hungary, Bulgaria
and Roumania. The rulers of these countries
will, regardless of their political preferences,
and out of sheer, ordinary caution, have to
conserve their forces, not to fight the war but
to protect themelves against Hitler. They will
have to hold in reserve or hide enough of their
forces so that they can hope to have out when
they need out.
It is not unlikely that Hitler may find himself
fighting four separate enemies in the Balkans:
satellite governments who will want out, plus
guerrillas, who have been fighting all along, plus
Italians, and also Allied invaders.
There is no use any of us pretending we have
private road maps through this difficult new
political territory, because we do not. Just try
to imagine yourself to be a Balkan guerrilla who
has been fighting both the satellite regimes and
the Italian oppressors and who may soon have
both of them for allies, and you will have a glim-
mer of what breath-taking decisions may lie di-
rectly ahead.
That is only part of it. There has been much
expectation, some of it lively, of the day which
might come when Russia would walk into a hos-
tile Balkan peninsula and proceed to take over.
It is just as likely, or even likelied, that Rus-
sia may find some of the Balkan governments
to be her allies, long before there is a Red sol-
dier in the peninsula. Both may yet be fight-
ing Hitler, with a line of Germans in between.
In fact, to rise against Hitler now would be
the surest road to Balkan independence, for
it is the road to alliance with us and Russia.
We may be sure that the present governments
of this region cannot long miss this point; re-
gardless, again, of their own political pref-
erences, for these have become irrelevant.
A minor miracle in the chain would be the
spectacle of Italians in Italy fighting openly for
freedom before the French in France have been
able to organize themselves to do the same.
A Fascist Italy stabbed French democracy;
a free Italy may yet stab French fascism. We
may, only three years after the first Italian
march into France, find ourselves cheering a
second Italian march into France.
Just to make it more complicated, I suggest
the possibility that German, too, may rise be-
fore France, leaving that desolate panfull of fas-
cism as the coldest leftover in the history of the
world.
(Copyright, 1943, N.Y. Post Syndicate)
Domin ic Says
R ELIGION like truth, has its perversions In
"Papa Is All," the Calvinistic perversion of
God's purpose in the universe is one of the
central facts. Human life at its best oscillates be-
tween the drive of human destiny or the purposes
of God at one pole and at the other man's wish
for the freedom of the human organism to find
its rest in this minor act and that human satis-
faction. Christianity in early Roman life got a
thrust in the direction of dominance due to the
power of law, order, government, system, regu-
larity.
Today all of our life is being disciplined in
similar fashion. Like those three victims in the
play, we all seek escape from regimentation.
Free time of the trainee is an illustration. He
shakes off the barracks with alacrity. No
doubt he is a better soldier on Monday because
he lived in relative freedom on Sunday. In the
recent radio address of President Roosevelt, it
was the announcement of less coffee-rationing
that hinted at a release we long for but know
we cannot fully possess.
RELIGION by many is perverted in the direc-
tion of human freedom by the Humanists.
This under-emphasis of the Calvinistic truth re-
sults in indirection, places man above God and
gives a distorted view of the basic forces or laws
of existence. Papa did not fall into that mistake.
Rather the three-day spree on the part of Mama
and her telephone, the son and his mechanics,
the daughter and her dates mildly tend to illus-
trate it. Whereas Papa thought his own will was
God's-will, the Humanist believes that there is
no God and that God is one with the universe
and that man is his own, belongs to himself and
is raster of his own fate. Often he assumes that
what pleases man is right, what man selects is
h.is own business and obligation is a misnomer.
OPA CEILINGS:
Students Must Protest
Too High Food Prices
THE PRICE OF FOOD has been a topic of con-
versation and unhappiness to all students
who of necessity must "eat out." The time for
a little action has come and it is now possible
for students to do something about the prices
that they gripe about.
According to OPA regulations restaurant
owners must not raise the prices of food
above the prices which they charged April 4
through April 10. If you think that you are
being charged more than this base week high
allows, complain to the local rationing board
about it-and actionwill be taken.
Food prices in Ann Arbor have zoomed way
out of proportion to the rising standard of living.
You must know of some restaurant where the
cost of a ,meal has gone up in the past few weeks.
In an average day's conversation you say that
you do. Instead of writing home for more
money it would be more logical to protest.
THE OPA cannot act without complaints. It
is an agency to mediate the problems of the
restaurant owner and the public. It will favor
neither one side nor the other, but will be more
than willing to examine complaints from stu-
dents who are certain of their charges.
Adding the word "large" to the menu does
not entitle the proprietor to raise the price of
the item. If he does serve you less for the
same price now than he did in April you are
entitled to complain.
You needn't be charged Sunday prices for
weekday food-and if you are it's your own fault
because the OPA is only too willing to enforce
the law.
A proprietor dare not take off the cheapest
meals on his menu thereby making you pay
more for your meals than you normally would.
Be sure of the charge that you want to make.
It will only make more work for the local OPA
office if you go off "half-cocked," but if you con-
tinue paying 95 cents for a dinner that formerly
cost 85 cents you're being gypped and you should
do something about it. - Margaret Frank
DREW
PEARSON'S
MERRY-GOROUND
WASHINGTON, Aug.6.-Charles E Wilson
hard-hitting production wizard of the War Pro-
duction Board, called in a group of airplane
manufacturers recently and gave them a
straight-from-the-shoulder lecture on the cur-
rent slump in war production.
"What in hell is the matter with you?" he
concluded. "We need planes."
"Charley," spoke up one of the manufacturers,
"we have planes running out of our ears."
Then followed a heated discussion regarding
the number of planes being produced, which
admittedly is high, but with increasing needs
in Russia, Italy and over Germany, is not high
enough. Investigation proved that while a lot
of planes were being produced, too many of
them have been lying idle in factory yards
awaiting one or two small but necessary gad-
gets to make them complete.
Wilson is working to remedy this lack of co-
ordination.
He is also making a survey of the reason for
labor slow-ups. This survey consists of interviews
with war workers, usually the higher grade men
who would be expected to stay consistently son
the job. The transients have not been inter-
viewed.
Result of this survey shows that too many
workmen think the war is about over and that
faster production is no longer necessary. In
an Indiana war plant, for instance, one work-
er gave this as his reason for taking time off:
"The war's going to be over soon," he said.
WPB experts also blame industrial leaders
in part for the production slump, believe that
too many of them are already scheming to get
into peacetime production now instead of con-
centrating on first jobs first-namely, winning
the war.
W.A. White and Gerne Cox
William Allen White, the "Sage of Emporia,"
was conferring in Denver the other day with
Assistant Attorney General Norman Littell, the
man who forced the Navy to give up its much-
criticized lease of Elk Hills' naval reserve.
As the conversation terminated, White re-
marked to Littell:
"I wish you would take a message back to the
Attorney General for me."
"I'll be glad to," said Littell.
"Ask him," instructed the Sage of Emporia,
"when he is going to prosecute Representative
Cox "
White was referring to Eugene Cox of
Georgia, the Democratic Congressman who al-
legedly accepted a fee of $2,500 from.an tll-
bany, Ga., radio station for lobbying with the
Federal Communications Commission. The
FCC subsequently recommended that he. be
criminally prosecuted for accepting the fee,
and in retaliation, Cox has now persuaded
his back-scratching Congressional colleagues
to vote $60,000 to investigate the FCC and
(Continued :"from Page 3)
at 4:10 in the U'iversity High School
auditorium unuder the auspices of
the School of ;'Education afternoon
lecture series. }The public is invited.
On Monday evening at 8 o'clock
Mr. Robert Hayden will speak upon
the Negro Pf ople in American Fic-
tion. The tlk will be in the Rack-
ham Amphitheatre under the auspi-
ces of the fInter-Racial Association.
"Group 'Psychological Elements in
Discipline.! Problems" will be the topic
of the lecture to be given Tuesday
afternoon at 4:10 in the University
High School auditorium by Dr. Fritz
Redl, Aisociate Professor of Social
Service Administration, Wayne Uni-
versity,' before the audience of the
School. of Education afternoon lec-
ture series. The public is invited.
On/Tuesday, Aug. 10, at 4:15 p.m.
in the Rackham Amphitheatre Prof.
Preston W. Slosson will give his Uni-
versity Lecture on "Interpreting the
News."
On Wednesday, Aug. 11, at 4:15
o'clock in the Rackham Amphithea-
tre' Assistant Prof. W. B. Willcox will
give a University Lecture on "Post-
wnar International Organization .L
Reegional Aspects." This lecture is
under the auspices of the Program
n Regional Administration and Con-
struction.
Academic Notices
Seniors in Mechanical, Chemical &
Metallurgical, Electrical, and Indus-
trial Engineering: Mr. W. S. Idler of
Aluminum Company of America will
interview Seniors of the above divi-
sions on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 1943, in
Rm. 214 West Engineering Bldg.
Interview schedule may be signed
on the bulletin board at Rm. 221 W.
Engineering Bldg.
-R. S. Hawley, Chairman
Dept. of Mech. Eng.
Students in Speech: Prof. Henry L.
Ewbank of the University of Wiscon-
sin will speak on "Persuasion or
Propaganda" at the assembly of the
Department of Speech at, 3 p.m.
Wednesday in the Rackham Amphi-
theatre.
Students in the College of Engin-
eering: Your cooperation is needed in
making a survey of courses to be
taken for the Fall Term of 1943.
Slips, being handed out in classes
Monday and Tuesday, are to be re-
turned promptly to the instructor
who hands them out. In case you
are missed, see Prof. Kessler, Room
241 West Engineering Bldg.
If you are in doubt concerning
courses to be taken, consult your
Classifier. A schedule of consulta-
tion time is posted on the Bulletin
Board of your Departments Classi-
fiers will be available in the West
Quad on Monday and Tuesday eve-
nings, Aug. 9 and 10, to aid students
in the Navy and Marine Corps.
-C. F. Kessler, Chairman
Classification Committee
Seniors in Mechanical and Aero-
nautical Engineering: Chrysler En-
gineering Company representative
will interview Senior Engineers Tues-
day, Aug. 10, 1943, in Room 218 West
Engineering Building.
Sign the interview schedule at
Room 221 West Engineering Build-
ing.
-R. S. Hawley, Chairman
Dept. of Mech. Eng.
( -Conceerts
Record Concert at Horace H.
Rackham School-Another of the
weekly concerts will be given Tues-
day;evening at 7:45 pm. The pro-
gram will consist of the following
recordings: Corelli's Concerto in C
Major; Mozart'sSymphony in D Ma-
jor, Hafiner; Sibelius' Concerto in D
Minor, and Chopin's Waltz No. 7 in
C Sharp Minorand No.. 8 in A Flat
Major. Servicemen are cordially in-
vited to join the Graduate Students
at these concerts.
Miss Bernarda Danford, soprano,
will present a recital for the Master
of Music degree at 7:15 p.m., Mon-
day, Aug. 9, in the Rackham Assem-
bly Hall. She is a pupil of Arthur
Hackett.' The public. is cordially in-
vited.
School of Music Assembly: Feri
Roth,, violinist, Oliver Edel, cellist,
members of the Roth String Quartet,
and Joseph Brinkman, pianist, of
the regular faculty of the School of
Music, will be heard in the final
chamber music program at 8:30 p.m.,
Tuesday, Aug. 10, in Pattengill Audi-
torium, Ann Arbor High School.
Persons without cards of admis-
sion will be permitted to occupy any
vacant seats in the auditorium after
8:30.
Exhibitions
Rackham Galleries: Exhibition of
Paintings from ten Latin-American
Republics. From the collections of
the Museum of Modern Art, New
York. Open 2 to 5, and 7 to 10 daily
except Sundays. July 26 to Aug. 14.
Churches
First Presbyterian Church, Wash-
tenaw: 10:45 a.m.Morning Worship
"The Voice of Silence" subject of the
sermon by the minister.
4:00 p.m. Sunday Afternoon For-
um in the Lewis Parlor will be led by
the minister on "When Mars Pre-
sents the Bill." Dean J. B. Edmon-
son and Prof. H. C. Kochkof the
School of Education will take part
in the panel discussion. Buffet sup-
per following the forum will be in
charge of Miss Phyllis Booth.
First Congregational Church: Reg-
ular Sunday morning service at 10:45
a.m. Dr. Edward W. Blakeman will
preach .the sermon; "Religion as a
Social Therapy."
Sunday, 4:30 p.m.: Congregational
Student Fellowship and their friends
will join the Disciple students at the
Guild House, 438 Maynard St.. for a
trip to, Riverside Park where there
will be games, a picnic supper and
vesper service. Students in military
service are, especially invited.
Unitarian Church, State and Hur-
on Streets: Edward H. Redman, Min-
ister. 11:00 a.m. Church Service with
Mr. Redman preaching on: "Labor's
Destiny."
3:30 p.m. Recreation for students
and servicemen with Mr. Hans
Schmidt leading folk dancing.
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church-
8:00 am.dHoly Communion; 11:00
a.m. Junior Church, Tatiock Hall
(Nursery- Grade 4) ; .1:00 a.m.
Morning Prayerand Sermonby. the
Rev. Henry Lewis, D.D. 5:00 p.m.
The Canterbury Club for, students
and sericemen will meet at Page
Hall to go for swimming, picnic sup-
per, and discussion at the Hunter
residence on Geddes Road -.Dr.hLewis
will lead the discussion on the sub-
ject, "Is it ever right to tell a lie?"
There will be a celebration of the
Holy Communion in the church on
Wednesday at 8 a.m.
First Church of Christ, Scientist,
409 S. Division St.: Wednesday eve-
ning service at 8:00.
Sunday morning service at 10:30.
Subject: "Spirit." Sunday School at
11:45.
Free public Reading Room at 106
E. Washington St., open every day
except Sundays and holidays from
11:30 a.m. until 5 p.m., Saturdays
until 9 p.m.
The Lutheran Student Association
will meet at the Zion Lutheran Par-
ish Hall, 309 E. Washington St., at
4;30 p.m. The group will leave from
the Parish Hall for Riverside Park
where the evening meal will be
served, after which there will, be a
campfire devotional service. Luth-
eran servicemen and students are
cordially invited.
Lutheran Student Chapel: Divine
Service Sunday at 11 in Michigan
League Chapel. Sermon by the Rev.
Alfred Scheips, "The ChristianYouth
and His Future."
The Michigan Christian Fellow-
ship will offer its regular Sunday
Program this afternoon at 4:30 0'-
clock in the Fireplace Room of Lane
Hall. All. students are invited to
attend these meetings.
Memorial Christian Church (Dis-
ciples): 10:45 a.m., Morning Wor-
ship, the Rev. S. V. Mattson of Lan-
sing will speak on Creative Faith.
4:30 p.m., Disciple students and
their friends will meet at the Guild
House for a trip to Riverside Park
for games, a picnic supper and ves-
per service. Students in service es-
pecially invited.
Events Today
Hispanic Club: Contrary to the
previous announcement, there will
be only one section of the picnio
group, and it is to meet at the Michi-
gan League at 5 p.m. The -other
arrangements are the same as before.
Free transportation to and from the
picnic will be provided, and everyone
is to bring his own picnic dinner.
The picnic will last from 5 to.8 p.m.
Swimming will be included in the
activity.
The Graduate Outing Club will
meet at the Rackham Building at
2:30 for a hike to Eber White Woods.
Bring a picnic lunch.
Coming Events
Demonstration Debate: At 4 p.m.
Monday in the West Conference
Room of the Rackham Building, the
Department of Speech will sponsor a
demonstration debate on the nation-
al high school question, "Resolved,
that the United States should Join
in reconstituting the League of Na-
tions." Anyone interested is invited
to attend.
The Karl Marx Society is having
the second in a series of discussions
Wednesday evening, Aug. 11, at 7:45
p.m. at the Union. The discussion
will be on "Can Communists and
Non-Communists Unite?"
DAIILYOFFICIAL BULLETIN
* THE M
is Karl Reed, a mechanical
engineer . . . Secretary of
the class is Howard J.
Howerth, while James
Fitzgerald, chemical en-
gineer, is the new treas-
urer.
FORMER UNIVERSITY
student Arnold H. Reck-
nagel, '41, was reported
killed in action in the
South Pacific recently by
the War Department . . .
Lt. Recknagel had been
overseas with the Air Corps
since last March.
* *I *
THE LOCAL OPA office
has requested that stu-
dents who have to pay a
higher price for their meals
than they did during the
week of April 4-10 lodge a
complaint with the office.
Students who eat out a
great deal are in a better
position to check on whe-
ther local restaurants and
drug stores are observing
the base period Set in Ap-
ril . . . Without complaints
the OPA has no way of
acting against offenders.
ICH IGAN DAI LY SERVICE EDITION
the afternoon and also en-
gage in different athletics
at five meetings a week.
Many of the men say they
are in better condition now
than ever before as a re-
sult of this stringent body-
building.
A TIMELY eighth in-
ning homer gave the Co. C,
3651st S.U. a 1-0 yictory
over the medic servicemen
from Victor Vaughan
House last week.. . . The
undefeated record of the
Co. Q team was kept up
by dynamic Wesley Far-
bach, first baseman, who
hit the winning homer . .
Kolesar, University grid
star who pitched for the
medic team, allowed only
two hits besides the disas-
trous homer . . . Hurler
Kolombatovich of the Co.
C team, kept the crowd of
students in stitches by his
antics . . . He dusted off
the mound with a broom,
raked it, and then dashed
out with a flit gun to brush
away his opponents in a
stunt like the third act of
term . . . Students en-
rolled in the fall term,
however, will not receive
tickets to these games, un-
like the Great Lakes set
up last fall . . . MSC will
face. the Wolverines Sept.
29 and the. mighty Irish
will make a try at revenge
for last year's defeat Oct.
9 . . . Seats will be given
on the basis of class pref-
erence as usual, and ser-
vicemen will be handed
tickets through their com-
manding officers.
* * *
GRID TACKLE Jack
Karwales has joined the
All-Star ranks that will
face the, Washington Red-
skins Aug. 25 . . . Other
Wolverines on the All-Star
roster are Julius Franks,
Elmer Madar, Al Wistert,
Don Boor and Rudy Smeja.
* * *
SHAPING up for the fall
schedule, the Maize and
Blue has carried on
throughout the week de-
spite heavy rain and mud
that entangled them in the
muddy field ... Stress this
former Badger center, who
has been out of the run-
ning because of slight in-
juries to his arm and' leg
sustained in early sessions,
is back on the field in fine
shape ... Punting practice
has been held after regular
drills as the V-12 players
have to reach mess :by 6
p.m., ending practice ear-
ly . . . So all the time has
been devoted to regular
practice, but during these
extra - drill punting ses-
sions, Bill Daley, ex-Min-
nesota grid star, has been
consistently getting,. off
long, rangy punts even
when bucking a headwind.
Also booting long ones are
ex-Badger , Elroy Hirsch,
and Wolverine Howie Wik-
el and Paul White.
* * *
INTRAMURAL softball
teams went to town last
week, with the 'Avengers
in Flight A taking' a 26-8
win over the Marauders,
while the Hurricanes came
through with 'an 11-5 win
over the Airacobras . . Ifn