Myra Tanner Weiss: First Week at Mid-West School (13 July 1946)/title> <meta name="description" content="Myra Tanner Weiss: First Week at Mid-West School (13 July 1946)" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../css/doc.css" /> <meta name="robots" content="index,follow" /> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#0000FF" vlink="#0000FF" alink="#FF0000"> <p class="linkback"><a href="../../index.htm" name="top">Myra Tanner Weiss Archive</a> | <a href="../../../index.htm">Trotskyist Writers Index</a> | <a href="../../../../index.htm">ETOL Main Page</a></p> <hr width="100%" noshade="noshade" size="1" /> <h2>Myra Tanner Weiss</h2> <h1>First Week at Mid-West School</h1> <h3>(13 July 1946)</h3> <hr width="100%" noshade="noshade" size="1" /> <p class="info">From <strong>The Militant</strong>, <a href="../../../../newspape/themilitant/1946/index.htm#m46_28" target="new">Vol. X No. 28</a>, 13 July 1946, p. 5.<br /> Transcribed & marked up by <a href="../../../../../../admin/volunteers/biographies/eocallaghan.htm" target="new">Einde O’Callaghan</a> for the <strong>Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL)</strong>.</p> <hr width="100%" noshade="noshade" size="1" /> <p class="fst">For the first few days everyone at the Midwest Camp on Little Pleasant Lake near Jackson, Michigan, spent his time basking in the sun, on the raft in the lake, or on the grassy terrace in garden chairs. In the cities we get so little sun, rushing to and from work that we forget it can burn. Consequently our more tender-skinned campers are now very sensitive to the touch.</p> <p>The lake is one of the most beautiful I have seen. The trees grow thick and green to the water’s edge. The water is neither too warm nor too cold for swimming in the day or evening. We swim out to an anchored raft and lie there in the sun or dive and play water games. The camp athletes occasionally play soft-ball and everyone plays shuffleboard and ping-pong on the large screened porch of the recreation hall overlooking the lake. Those looking just for rest can lounge on the deck and garden chairs and lazily watch the sun set and the last boaters and fishermen drifting on the water.</p> <p>In the morning after breakfast we go to School. This week an experienced auto worker is leading a class on trade union problems in America. Railroad workers, rubber workers, steel workers and many others exchange their experiences. Each will be far better equipped to meet the problems in his union after a week or two of such extensive and varied discussion.</p> <p>Our “Dean,” Comrade Warde, is giving a series of talks on American History. Our session today under the trees, coinciding with the celebration of the 4th of July, dealt with the victory of the first great American Revolution. The rich traditions and fighting courage of these rebels of 1776 serve as lessons for us in the revolutionary struggle for socialism today.</p> <p>Oscar Coover who is in charge of organizing this wonderful school and camp is very busy now. This week the camp is filled to capacity. There are comrades and friends here from the Atlantic to the West Coast. Socialist Workers Party branches represented include Detroit, Toledo, Chicago, Akron, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Reading, New York, Los Angeles as well as several comrades from Canada. In order to accommodate all for the July 4th holiday, Oscar has been busy taking out of store all the extra beds and blankets. The excitement of seeing old friends and meeting so many new ones will make the week-end a joyful occasion. We shall have plenty of talent for own <I>Midwest Follies</I> this coming Saturday night when every amateur becomes a star.</p> <p>Perhaps you think I’m trying to tempt you to come to our camp in Michigan for a week or so oat of the sweltering heat of the city. Well, I am. My only regret is that all workers can’t enjoy such a vacation and directly experience the cooperative and comradely spirit that exists here.</p> <p class="link"> <br /> <a href="#top">Top of page</a></p> <hr size="1" noshade="noshade" width="100%" /> <p class="linkback"><a href="../../index.htm">Myra Tanner WEiss Archive</a> | <a href="../../../index.htm">Trotskyist Writers Index</a> | <a href="../../../../index.htm">ETOL Main Page</a></p> <p class="updat">Last updated: 19 June 2021</p> </body> </html>