PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, SUET 4, 1952 THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY. 3ULY 4, 1952 f« Korean Women Broken at Early Age by Life of Drudgery * a s s s s * * * * CPL. ROBERT R. KORFF , Living with a history of poverty has given the Korean male a re- source that cannot be matched by many other people--this inimit- able asset is his wife. To many American men the Ko- rean woman would be the perfect mate, the ideal satisfaction of his ever-seeking ego. She will cater to her husband, respond complai- santly to his every wish, wait on him, and, above all, work for him. * * * THE INHERENT submissiveness of Korean mama-san stems from a pattern of long-established cul- tural mores and religion. Confu- cianism, the dominant religion of Korea, advocates the superiority of the male. It gives the woman a secondary place. From the moment of birth she has been traditionally kept in the background, looked upon as inferior, and simply as a con- venience for bearing offsprings. But if the Korean woman does not commend a pedestal of hon- or in her society, she, neverthe- less, maintains a position of im- portance. Such ordinary household chores as caring for the children and home, and preparing the family meals are only a part of her daily ritual. When the man of the house needs some assistance in his farm- ing labors, he calls upon his wife to help him plant the fields, glean the young crops, harvest and thresh the grain. In certain in- stances, when the family does not own an ox, she will pull the plow. * .* * SHE ALSO keeps a tight hold on the family purse strings. If her husband's farm has any extra crops at the end of the growing season, she will play the part of saleswoman and merchant at the village market. Between market days, farm- ing, and cooking she can be seen squatted among the rocks ,I .3 GRAIN IS SIFTED THROUGH STRAW SCREENS BEFORE BEING STORED Armed with a sturdy stick, her bundle of washing balanded deli- cately on her black hair, she jogs upstream. After selecting a desir- able pool where several flat rocks are easily accessible, she beats the dirt from her wash with a stick. Call it ingenuity or pure orient- al intuition, but long before the American boby-soxer appeared on the scene, the Korean mama-san had solved the baby-sitting prob. lem. To her, no such problem ex- ists, because she carries her child wrapped in a papoose- fashion on her back. Whether Constantly busy, the Korean woman's work day is never done. Perhaps her greatest desire in life is to see her children grow tall and strong enough to care for her and relieve her of her weary la- bors. If this happens she will be for- tunate indeed, because the cruel burden of life seldom allows her to MAMA-SAN CARRIES*HER CHILD INTO THE FIELD WHILE live beyond the age of 40 or 50. SHE WORKS ,t 111 ACHIEVE MARK: Names of Students Earning All-A Records Announced CLOTHES ARE WASHED BY BEATING THEM AGAINST A ROCK WITH A STICK Independence Day Formerly Festive, Noisy (Continued from Page 1) STUFFED, tired, but still en- thusiastic, the townspeople once xhore gathered in the afternoon for a "military parade." Early in the evening there were more pic- nics and dinners and later on a huge fireworks display. Winding up the day's activi-. ties was a huge dance sponsored by the German Workingman's Association which lasted well Into the neif day. In summation of the gala day's events, the newspaper commented that it was a Fourth of July which "Ann Arbor will long remember." "There were but a few fights, no accidents and but one arrest was made during the day," the account added. DURING THE 1850's fire de- partments played a big role in the Independence Day activities. Contests were held between the crews of rival cities with cash and "silver trumpets" as prizes. The files of the Michigan His- torical Collection in the Rack- ham Bldg. reveal a charge of "barefaced dishonesty" in one competition at Albion in 1858. An anonymous letter writer charged that an adverse wind caused the best crew to lose the water throwing contest. Judges took no account of wind velocity in awarding the prizes. Small-town newspapers devoted large amounts of space to detailed accounts of Fourth of July fes- tivities. The Marshall Statesman prefaced its story in 1858 with the remark "It seems that the na- tion's birthday is not entirely for- gotten by the degenerate sons of noble sires." Later in their story they paid tribute to a speech by one George C. Bates. "It was a splendid, chaste and eloquent production, and de- livered in a style peculiar to Bates," the paper related. "He has no equal in this country on the stump." Pays Tribute TRAVERSE CITY-Predict- ing for Northwestern Michigan College a prosperous future, rich in service to the people, Uni- versity President Harlan Hat- cher, extended best wipes to sponsors of the new institution at ground-breaking ceremonies on the new college campus here ' hursday. .. President Hatcher paid trib- ute to the ambition and industry of area residents in transform- ing a lumbering center to a land of varied industrial com- mercial and recreational acti- vities. Bio-Sciences To Hold Third Symposium "Biological Regulation" will be the topic of discussion at the third annual Biological Symposium to be held in Room 1300 of the Chem- istry Building, July 7-18. Speakers at the symposium, sponsored by the Division of Bio- logical Sciences, will be: Dr. D. J. Ingle, research physiologist, the Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo; F. H. Johnson, associate professor of biology, Princeton University; Jack Myers, professor or zoology, Uni- versity of Texas, Austin; and Car- rol M. Williams, associate profes- sor of zoology, Harvard University. Each of the four participants will deliver two public lectures and lead a technical seminar on recent developments in his research field. The public lectures will cover such subjects as "The Relationship of the Adrenal Cortex to Growth" and "Biological Optima." Names of 111 students who earned all-A records for the spring semester have beenannounced. Students who made the perfect records are: Shirley J. Swegles; Patricia A. Arden, '52 SM; Robert R. Ashley, '52 SM; Barbara L. Boyer; Robert B. Carback; Irene F. Dess; Robert H. Hunt; Ellen Kurath; Martha J. Mitchell, PhB; Mary C. Razgunas, Ed.; Elizabeth S. Uhr; Nancy K. Watkins, '52; Lloyd T. Wiegerink, PH. * * * THE LIST continues with: Se- vero K. Guerrero, Jr., '52; Alan R. Krueger, '52 BAd.; Helen R. Beatson; Charles D. Fisher, NR; Margot J. Abels; Hugh B. Ander- son; Bernard H. Backhaut; Ruth L. Baker, PbH; Joseph M. Bick- nell; Evelyn R. Grossman; Fre- derick Horwitz; Alice M. Kretz- schmar; Vivien D. Milan, SM; Stanley M. Millman. Sondra Platsky; Joan M. St. Denis, SM; Leenard S. Sand- weiss; Donald E. Sarason; James A. Sellgren; Patricia J. Shaw; June H. Stone; Shirley A. Swin- son, P; Arthur Jt Vander; Joyce J. Winter; Lillian M. Vaughn, '52. Martha N. Neff; Donald E. Pierce, '52PbH; James B. Moran, '52; William J. DeJarlais; Marion L.. Nowlin; Joyce A. Mersereau, Ed. ('52); Constance Newman, '52; Irving B. Weiner; John R. White, '52; Harry A. Eason; Richard G. Knapp; Beverly B. Cole, SM; Nancy L. Bonvouloir; Donna A. Chapin. George W. Myers, Jr.; Richard J. Ball; Lawrence C. Sweet; Allen M. Abrams; John R. Bassett, '52 NR; Jack A. Brown; Randall 0. Zempel, BAd.; Carol V. Lutz, Ed.; Charles W. McGary; Robert E. Reid; Betty J. Brown, '52; Donald W. Haapala; Angelo Cantera; Carl A. Heyer, '52; and Donald E. Potter. C DIGGING CLAMS FROM BETWEEN ROCKS IS BACKBREAKING Photos by Corporal Edward H. Johnson Potter. I 3 Plans Filed For 'Balanced Legislature' LANSING-(P)-Two rival plansT for reapportioning the Legislature appeared yesterday to have securedt a place on the November election ballot. The second one was added yes-. terday when the Michigan Com- mittee for a Balanced Legislature filed 290,424 signatures with the Secretary of State to gain a ballot place for its proposal, similar to the Coleman plan which was de- feated by the 1952 legislature. EARLIER, a CIO-sponsored committee had filedIts petitions to obtain a ballot spot for a dif- ferent proposal. The "balanced Legislature" or Coleman plan would retain the present apportionment system generally, adding two seats in the 32-seat senate and 10 seats in the 100-seat, house. It would cut De- troit into legislative districts and provide a mandatory method of periodic reapportionments. 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