undoy, October 20, 1957
THE MICHIGAN DAILY MAGAZINE
Page Nineteen
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STATE STREET
(Continued from Page 11) placing merchandise in reachable (Continued fromI
rought below. For those seeking locations and installing mid-twen- seems to move sou
roght bnelow.aFor tonseekingytieth century lighting. Frighten- eastward continually:
-the intellectual stimulation they tg! is set up every few yea
.did not find in the shop down- Equally frightesing is the pros-
*stairs, there are $2.98 games in pect of what may happen to State PERHAPS THE maj
which are rock and seashell sam- Street if this frenzy for modern- the failure of this
ples for the geologically-minded ization continues. Rumors, as yet presence of older, not
students, bugs and leaves for the unconfirmed, are that the bank up houses in every n
zoology and botany major. may be expanded, a move which Often Negroes seeking
But the student cannot escape, would tend to thwart the deep munities move into
even in this paradise of the past. intellectual exchange which oc- starting the evacua
The handwriting on the wall is the curs as people wait in line those over again. In additi
-big black letters on the corrugated first days of registration. r
the more well-to-do
aluminum front or the red letters Perhaps the "they" who have p the sub
of the electric sign at the back Of done this thing could be ersuaded . t
the store. to reverse the trend toward non- vacancies.
Tradition is being crushed in a traditionalism themselves. W i t h The ideal solutio
wild stampede toward progress. little effort, the most violent of- mutual tolerance, i
fender could be restored to its out of the question.C
ALREADY THE trend has been original cozy size. the short time in wh
followed by other merchants. As for the remainder of the events have happene(
Another bookstore has changed its building, it need not be a complete cry adult resident, in
facade. But behind that glass and loss to the community. The re- in their early twent
mock marble exterior is an in- moval of a few floor cases and the member back ten or
terior of solid sameness, addition of more bins and shelves to when things were d
More serious are the changes in with a meat counter, and a com- educational campaig
the drug store, which has mini- munity shame can become a mean- tough sledding. Inter
mized the thrill of the search by inful contributor to man's growth. add fuel to the fire,1
desires of preservatio
of the whites and im
living conditions of
are very nearly mutu
in Chicago at presen
what the trouble is.
w A LONG-RANGE
stop the problem
- to limit the numbe
~ coming to Chicago.
the almost insurmoi
tical problem of enfo
do you stop poeple f
ing to better themse
an indirect method cc
perhaps by cutting re
to those who havei
in the city before se
litical problems ren
forma sizeable part
cratic vote in cityc
the Democrats quite
not wish to lose tha
Republicans are equ
of either gaining Neg
cutting Negro streng
tion disappears into
partisan politics.
A rough working.
bining all three of t
may be worked out,
~rmcal necessity, to av
two far less pleasant
On one hand, the
Side might become
thing neither race
Such an occurrence
ly limit new indus
ment, in the onlyo
to it, on the eve o
slon. An all-Negr
"ALREADY THE trend has been followed by other merchants. might even result iN
Another bookstore has changed its facade. But behind the glass tion of the jobs
and mock marble exterior is an interior of solid sameness." them to the city in t
Race Problems
Page 10) THE OTHER, and worse, alter- next summer might be the fuse to
thward and native is race warfare. No one set the fireworks off.
; a new line wants to explore the ramifications Chicago is walking a tightrope
irs. of this possibility. The city had blindfolded, unsure of what will
or reason for a foretaste of it in the Calumet be at the end or what is below. It
policy is the Park riot this summer. The po- cannot even try too hard to re-
so well kept lice have established that white nove the blindfold, lest it lose its
eighborhood. youths started the affair and the WindyeCity mayhdetermine not
g better com- offenders have been dealt with only its own future, but also that
these places, severely, but the story persists in of other northern cities faced with
tion process the t' similar problems, and perhaps the
on, many of white neighborhoods around whole course of race relations in
white fami- the park that the Negroes really the north. The city knows roughly
urbs, leaving started it. Another incident is thus "what happened;" it is now des-
added to a growing list, each leav- perately worried about "what
ing a little more animosity. A riot next?"
in, complete. _---
s absolutely
)ne reason is
ich all these
d. Nearly ev-
cluding those
ties, can re-
fifteen years its holiday ilcng...
lifferent. Any
n is in for
'racial crimes G S andS
but the basic
n on the part
provement of
the Negroes
ally exclusive
t; this is just
solution is to Pledge Formals or those
at its source, dances coming up, make
'r of Negroes formal shoc a must on
There is herea
untable prat- your list! One of dozens of
rcement. How evening shoe styles.
rom attempt- The largest selection of -
lves? Even if
ould be found, Formal shoes in town,
hief payments tinting a specialty.
not held jobs All heel heights, style
eking aid, po-
ain. Negroes and materials.
of the Demo-
elections, and $ 95
naturally do
it vote, while
ially desirous
pro support or
th. The ques-
a jungle of
solution com-
hese methods J cq
as a practi-
ert either of as aenin Pegue
t alternatives.
entire South
Negro, some-
really wants.
would severe-
trial develop-
pen area left
f that expan- a
o community
the destruc- 306 SOUTH STATE STREET
hich brought
he first place.
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