FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, JULY M. 1954 pnhIlt THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY. JULY 22, 1954 CAN NEGRO AND WHITE LIVE TOGETHER? Africa's Major Prbe:Racial Co-Existence Nunn Gets Cataloging (_ rnl v lnt Role of Speech Education In General Curriculum Told I JOHANNESBURG (A)-Can the white man work and live with the colored to develop the vast riches of Afria and lead its people along the lines of free Western civiliza- tion? This vital question is an imme- diate, burning issue to 5,000,000 whites now living among nearly 200,000,000 Africans-mostly pri- mitive blacks-on a continent nearly, four times the size of the United States. Great world social forces are steadily pushing the African issue to the forefront in London, Paris, Lisbon, Brussels and Madrid-the centers of African colonial rule. Ninety per cent of Africa's sur- face and 75 per cent of its people are ruled today fr6m these Euro- pean cities. This illustrates the continent's importance in a day when "imperialism" and "colon- ialismh" are fighting words. It should be noted however that in: some cases there are varying de- grees of self-government. There are rumblings in widely scattered parts of the dark conti- nent--from the area north of the Sahara inhabited chiefly by Arabs down to the Cape, where South African Prime Minister Daniel Ma- Ian is trying to restrict the voting rights of more than a million half castes. French Decline Decline of French prestige be- cause of the Indochina debacle may soon bring new disorders in North Africa. There is pressuresfor speedy solution of Egyptian de- mands that 80,000,Britishtroops pull out of the.Suez canal zone. Nationalism, demands for irde- pendence,. cries for equal treat- ment are part of the brew in this African ferment. In some areas like theGold Coast and Nigeria (whose 30,000,000 people consti- tute nearly half the population of the British colonial territories), full self-government may be only a year or more away. Britainn and Egypt, which to- gether rulebthe million-square mile Sudan on the upper Nile, last year guaranteed self-determination to the Sudanese. BrLitish administra- tors are being withdrawn gradu- ally.; The pot is boiling over in other places, Mau 'Mau "land freedom arm- ies" have been fighting for more than 20 months in Kenya in an arnti-white rebellion. Shortage of land for the native blacks is one reason.7 -Next door in neighboiing Ugada, known as "the pearl of Africa," black political leaders de- manrnd an African government by Washington and Moscow, rival centers in. today's battle of ideas, are watching closely, lending a hand- now and then. American Influence American capital is helping to mine uranium riches of the Congo and South Africa and to produce rubber and iron ore in Liberia, the little African republic founded in 1822 by freed American slaves. :::" ::::::::::::::::::Is firm, paternal rule of backward blacks, ; , plus advancement for the civilized, the; .......................... solution for Africa's race problem? :,"rEgypt demands French brace for - 1 -British pull reaction after A[GERIA out of Suez. *i nohia ./ LIBYA :EGYPT'r \ndochinc Val .. I :::ill Sudan, nearing i ndependence, favor .-I r i Egypt or Britain? I. FRENCH WEST AFRICA. , tT" R A THE SUDAN t.. UTRAL ~ i*. -'~~t .* -NIGERIA "" QUATORIAL"a Ia t AFCA:ETHIOI . BERIAA CAM[ROONS : 1' ~ KEMYA Will oldest African #G republic promote Mau Mu st ill "AfricaforAfricons'? .C Gon morch. . .......................}- .. .it go beyond Independence expected.in , year .:Kenya? or two. Con handful of educated " ,::::blacks provide needed leadership? :~QL Black members of parlioment in Britain'"s new centrol state::::.r ......... .. ......1 ............ seek removal of color bar, SG TI ET ....-. MAP POiiiNTSiUTREiiNL UNIEN OF AFRICAR MAP PONTS OU REGINAL PR LEMS O UTAFRIAFRC Arab kingdom. Mostly sandy des- ! (1, AA3 N.t (fib ert, Libya is not self-supporting and the British help subsidize it G. Raymond Nunn, associate in return for military advantages, catalog librarian in the General Liberia, where one must have! Library of the University, has ac- Negro blood to vote, depends to a icepted an appointment as chair- large part on the Firestone Rub- ber plantations, iron deposits now producing 1,750,000 tons of ore yearly, and on American technical assistance. Foreign shippers, at- tracted by low taxes, registered one sixth of the world's new ship- ping in 1953 under the Liberian flag. The Union of South Africa sup- plies nearly half the world's gold and claims to have the world's biggest uranium resources. It is the center of world diamond produc- tion. With all this it has its prob- lems too: chiefly apartheid and the struggle to segregate white skins from colored. The Union hints every now and then it will leave the commonwealth. Nearing Independence The areas nearing independence are the Gold Coast, Nigeria and the Sudan. Last month the British suggested British Togoland be in- tegrated with the Gold Coast, which is rich not in gold but co- coa. Nkrumah, first Negro to be- come prime minister of a British colony, is American educated (at Lincoln University in Pennsylvan- ia and the University of Pennsyl- vania). He led his people toward freedom, using non-violent means such as a general strike. The Gold Coastedepends on cocoa for reve- nue but has great bauxite re- serves which require electric pow- er and thus foreign investment. A new constitution goes into ef- fect in Nigeria soon under which the British will grant self-govern- ment to any region that wants it in 1956. Elsewhere, African demands for a political voice are dealt, with dif- ferently. In British Ras-,, Africa, including Tanganyika-still two- t.'irds uninhabitable because of the tsetse fly-some negroes have been appointed to legis~atille coun- cils. White authorities in Tangan- yika, Kenya and Uganda do not want to see them elected. man of the Special Committee on Cataloging Oriental Materials of the Division of Cataloging and Classification of the American Li- brary Association. This committee was set up to review and amend library catalog- ing codes for publications in Far Eastern and South Asian lang- uages, collections of which have grown rapidly in U.S. research libraries since the war. A native of Enr'land and well on his way to becoming a U.S. citizen, Nunn is a graduate of the London University School of Librarianship and the London School of Orient- al iio African Studies. He was granted a Master of Arts degrec i Far Eastern languages by the University of Michigan this year and has passed frs preeiminary examinations for a Doctor of Phil- oso:hy degree. During the last three years, he ha,- been connc teJ with the de- velopment of the Far Eastern col- lectiGns in the General Library in ::c'oiation with members of the Jata-es Center and the Depar.- ment 2af Far Eas;,,rn Languages. Documentary To Be Shown "Passion for Life," a documen- tary film of feature length, will be shown at 4:15 p.m. and 8 p.m. today in Aud. B. of Haven Hall. The film presents a picture of village life inrasFrench mountain community in Provence. It con- cerns the story of a young ex- soldier who goes to a village to ex- pound democratic principles. The film is in French with Eng- lish sub-titles. Admission to the event is free: The movie is the climax of the summer film festival sponsored by I the education school. h Paul W. Briggs, Superintendent of Bay City Public Schools, spoke yesterday under the auspices of the speech department on the sub- ject, "A School Administrator Looks at Speech Education." Briggs said that to understand the role of speech education in the public school it is necessary to see how speech fits into the general curriculum. Speech is of great im- portance to education, he contin- ued, since a nation to be strong, must be vocal. The superintendent believes that there are three main responsibili- ties in teaching speech. The first is remedial work with the handi- capped child, teaching him to communicate with the world. The second responsibility is to the av- erage child. The third and major area of importance is to the child orio I N W Littlec wing Sizes 0 SD R ESSE SUITS Sizes The tir Pull-on Earring ON FOREST JUST OFF SOUTH UNIVEI who excels in speech. This child should be given additional oppor- tunity to develop, he said. There is a new trend in speech education, toward its introduc- tion in classes from kindergarten through high school. Briggs feels that the child should be taken through a series of planned speech experiences. Briggs named a few of the prob- lems facing the teachers of speech today. He said that there was a lack of general understanding of the potential of speech education. There is also a lack of vision in interpreting this potential to school administrators. Certain basic experiences for children are obligations of a dem- ocracy. Of these experiences, the ability to express oneself ably ranks at the top in importance. A 'I SMART- s PACKABL E- FTUBBABLE- dress up or down our 2-piece beauties. HITE AND PASTELS collars - jewel necks - sleeves. s 10-18 at 14.95 to 39.95 ther wool knits, too. ES .......... from 25.00 .. .49.95. 121/2 to 221/2 - 10-40 ny ribbon hot.....3.95 cotton gloves......3.95 gs and bracelet. . :1.00 ea. American experts supply technical aid in some areas. There are im- portant U.S. strategic air bases in Morocco and an American airfield in Libya. An American military mission was assigned to Liberia in 1951 and a similar mission was sent recently to help train Haile Selassie's forces in Ethiopia. The Communists, striving for a foothold, provide money and men, too-to finance political agitation, foster unrest and build common fronts with awakening African nationalist movements. In Asia, the communist cry is "out with foreign imperialists." Here it is "Africa for the Africans." They don't add their intention is to in- stall a Communist brand of im- perialism. Another world capital watches too. New Delhi, center of an In- dian nation bursting with excess population, hopefully eyes the vast reaches of Africa across the Indian ocean. Hundreds of thous- ands of Indians today crowd the seaports and inland cities of East Africa, down as far as Durban in South Africa. The South African government, suspicious and fearful of its grow- ing Indian population, last month of South Africa. All have their asked India to close down the of- separate problems: fice of the Indian high commis- Egypt has an army junta striv-$ sioner to the Union. This consti- ing for economic stability and at- tuted a break in diplomatic rela- tempting to provide a better life tions between members of the Bri- for millions of fellaheen. Crooked tish commonwealth. politicians are itching to regain Hemingway Revisited 'control and communists are stir- Africa has changed tremendous- ring up trouble among the masses. fivtlikr thA rAt fNrth Afric ,yl m ly in the last 50-in the last 10 years. Air travel more than any1 other fact is responsible. There are .airfields, not more than several hundred miles apart, all over the continent. Symbolic perhaps is the infor- mation that the ice cap on mount Kilimanjaro is fast melting away. Lions, leopards, elephants and giraffes are being pushed back steadily into narrow game pre- serves. You can still "bring them back alive" but it's a much tamer and more luxurious sport nowa- ways. But one can still see digni- fied blacks with pierced, dangling ear lobes, or wearing massive cop- per wire anklets, even on the streets of Johannesburg, a modern skyscraper city that gold built. The black population of Africa is on the increase and whites fore- see a future when they will be even more outnumbered. For the most part the blacks are without education. There is only a handful of capable leaders, like Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah of the Gold Coast. That's why white leadership is necessary now. Separate Problems The five independent countries in Africa today are Egypt, Ethi- opia, Libya, Liberia and the Union Egypt ie e rest o2worm Arca is chiefly Arab, as opposed to Ne- gro. Ethiopia is self-supporting, with coffee, gold and new, unproved uranium wealth. The country is primitive and feudal and lacks educational facilities. Although a black-run empire for centuries, Ethiopia still needs scores of for- eign advisers. The United Nations recently gave neighboring Eritrea, Italian pre-war colony, to Ethio- pia as a federated state. Eritrea isj broke. Libya was also Italian. The Unit- ed Nations set this up as a new i I t i I I } i ,# RSITY t 4 11 OM E T P I T14 G CONTINUATION of our PRE-INVENTORY SALE Lady Hathaway Shirts (selected group) 20% off Sizes 10to 18 FROA THE 7 r k! 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