Sunday, May 20, 1956
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Page Seven
Writer John Frederick Muehl was warned to "calm down,"
but his irrepressible enthusiasm and energy managed to sustain
him on a 2,300-mile journey through India.
stroke brought him to collapse and
he was rushed to a modern hospital
lot recoveryn
tU ,L h iin the account.
of his U l a; in India ntiS
book ontitled! "int iw irs wit
eliots B tiwr-
ti e i the en
tirefieti o fiim i 'vvriaiiv' i
ho lm Ni tiit itvilvi
toe viii ii ii bitt ti~o of Ite ti
ii i'vi iiiri tt.l'
Iii toti a tt outI iitu ni e'v
"All I have to do is look at a
globe and find a primitive spot
and I go into a trance. If I ever
thought I'd have to spend the rest
of my life teaching the same course
from the same notes, year aftee
yeso-I'd just die.'
Whether or not rontinuous ies-
denic routine would be a death
his;;w for Muehl, he is unaikely to
beromvie antytaiing like sit oriiniary
fauity meiber. '"I am not a schol-
ar," lie will sauy immedliatety when
ritioincid about lis; teahlinig. tHe
iikes smsalt ctlasses, he likes sttu-
cni "tehen I can get to know
them persnally."
What he feels most about his
present job is that "the kids are
so different today. When I started
teaching there wre a great many
vecrans in my cise s. They ques.
tioned evrything I said. rhe kids
today just write things down for
the most part.
"I remember that when I was 22
I had a 35-year-old armty liuten-
sa ini one of yn' classes He would
come in drnk every day. Ote dty,
when he was more drunk tian
usual, I threw him out. He stopt-d
at the door and yelled back, 'Sb
buy eborysy, and take it easy' "
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fj
liit i tot ti tilut. it i i
of a 1'yc0 to i winre unk i1 Ciii' TVOMPL>)MSIE-T ~ fter his retit:
and economic conditions that are SINh0 vihad his heard in favor of
such an immense labyrinth of con a earked contrast to his black
fusion they would scti ci most taitlents. yc Moehl: "I once
American urban dwil'r. so people wouldn't think it was a
Whether Mut hl has really found
India in the villages is a question ;may. and doubtless will, protest,
worthy of much discussion, but but not one in a million of them
remaining unanswerable in the will have seen or done what . .
fioal analysis. The corruption and
horror he reports represent as Muehl did in his six months of
serious a problem as any nation journeying,"
has ever faced, and his disqust Muehl explains it in this way:
with a caste system that he feels "I was going to put a preface in
increases poverty and starvation, my book, saying that there was
and a government which cannot no such thing as a re'al India,
come near to solving the really that there are only many Indias,
big problems demand the most in- and this India Ls my India. But,
tense consideration, then I thought this would be ap-
Muehl's attitude toward his parent to any intelligent reader."
findings is a combination of anger
against injustices and a feeling MUEHL HAS now been away
of sympathy for and understand- from India for some seven
ing of the people he knew. years. Last summer he was asked
As one critic has said, "Indians to write the script for the award-
en fret Jttat, John Frederick
a "tookie d vt r." Both are red
hair and a perpetua puzzle for
almost dyed my mustche black,
hoax,"
I
winning TV documentary Assign-
ment: India." Working with form-
er U.S. Ambassador to India John
Chester Bowles he ran into some
difficulties,
"Bowles kept telling me things
had changed so much since I was
there, and that the differences we
had in outlook-he was far more'
optimistic than me-would be-
come more uniform if I should
visit India again. I don't think so."
Muehl does hope to return to
India some day, to see if there
are many changes. His is an es-
sentially roving spirit, infused
what he called before "juvenile
dreams" and what he now de-
scribes as "middle age fancy."
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