t tat Uatol Seventy-First Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Where Opinions Are Free UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Truth Will Prevail" STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. Radock TCe AGENCY: AA UP Protests J. WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1961 NIGHT EDITOR: PETER STEINBERGER Eiehmann Trial Settles Debt to History NOW THAT THE Eichmann trial is no longer a sensation, but a grim fact of life to which one becomes accustomed as one does to the threat of bombs or unemployment, it is possible to evaluate it in a different light than was focused on it originally. The question of the legality of the trial, the motives behind it and the ethics of possible verdicts has receded to the background. There is no more use in arguing whether Israel has a right, moral or legal, to try. Eichmann; she is trying him. There is no more use in debating Israel's right to convict and sentence him; the sentence does not matter. Now there is only the fact that the trial is proceeding and the question of the effect it is having on the world. EichInann's testimony has been no surprise to anyone. It was predicted long in advance that,he would maintain he was only following orders and that he was unaware of the full extent of the atrocities his henchmen were perpetrating. WHAT WAS NOT expected in advance was the effect the trial would have both in Ger- many and in Israel. It is of course being covered in meticulous detail by the press of both coun- tries. For the Germans it is a revelation. Old accounts and second-hand reports of atrocities pale beside the endless repetition of inconceiv- able brutality ticked off in monotonous calm by the news wires. Those who thought they knew it all were wrong. It was impossible to imagine before- hand, but now-with the television and news- papers bombarding the consciousness of the whole world-one can begin to form some sort of conception of a nightmare world with no exit. All Israel begins and ends each day with the news of the trial. People who survived the nightmare are telling the stories now which they have kept locked in their memories for nearly two decades. One wonders how men can go on living with such memories, but somehow the trial begins to make sense if finally they can break their silence, not just to intimate friends, but to the entire world. WHAT IT MEANS is not that Eichmann will be convicted for his crimes or that his debt will be paid. There is no equating the deeds of his department with any sort of justice or retribution. It means that the story having been told once, aloud, those who survived the terror can die without having the truth die with them. And those who died-the six million-will not simply be forgotten. The testimony is not a funeral service, but it is a public recording of which the world will be forced to take per- manent note. This is all that can be asked and, to those who doubted before, it is now clear that the trial was necessary. Eichmann does not matter. Justice does not matter. Vengeance does not matter. The debt to history is being paid. 1 -JUDITH OPPENHEIM By MICHAEL OLINICK Daily Staff Writer NEW ADMINISTRATOR'S first week on campus is much like a new freshman's-only more hectic. Michael Radock, who assumed duties as director of University relations on Monday, finds him- self accumulating as many forms (which must be filled out) and books on the University (which he wants to read) as plague the incoming student each fall. Radock's desk is piled high with histories of the University, this year's 'Ensian, President's reports on the state of the campus, copies of The Daily and a pile of 'de- manding forms. The former manager of educa- tional affairs for the Ford Motor Company feels he has "more than the average citizen's knowledge of the University," but there stiil remains a great deal for him to learn. Though his knowledge of Uni- versity history and details of its operation might be analagous to a freshman's, Radock feels his requisites are parallel, too. He knows there are many problems ahead and that the University sets high standards it expects people to meet. AS A FORMER STUDENT, col- Radock knew the University as lege teacher and businessman, "one of the great universities." He stressed the leadership role of the Ann Arbor campus and the "auto- matic bracketing" of ' Michigan with the other top names in edu- cation. As director of University rela- tions-and University relations are public relations-Radock feels his role is to strengthen this image of the University and to help it become a model institution of higher education. "The biggest problems we have," he said after a long pause, "is to have not only educators and sister schools, but the man in the street, alumni back into the University. Ie notes a growing trend to in- vole alumni in college affairs at levels other than financial appeals. Some schools are inviting grad- uates back to take new courses or to advise the administration on policies and programs. A past member of the Alumni Development Council, Radock thinks alumni "can play a signifi- cant role in the University's re- lations with its friends and its foes." Lyle Nelson, outgoing vice-presi- dent for University relations and a close friend of Radock's, will help him get oriented to campus buildings and campus thought. Nelson is leaving for Stanford University for a similar public relations post. Radock-who just left one large institution for another - doesn't believe the University's complexity should drive students into feeling they are nothing but statistics. "The initial impression you get is I'm nothing but a number,' but this feeling changes. Each person forms his own groups of friends and associations and realizes he can never know all the people on the campus. It's a problem each individual works out for himself." TWO DAYS as director of rela- tions for a large and complex con- cern like the University is not long enough to form concrete and definite programs or initiate meaningful action. A man needs time to assimilate the knowledge of his job and of his institution, and Radock, not handicapped by any preconceived notions he might find impossible or unwise to implement, is using his time wisely. Outside of his nine year stay with Ford, Radock has spent most of his adult life in education and he's happy to be back in it again. "Of all the challenges facing us, I find higher education one of the most exciting and satisfying." THE ROMANTIC POSSIBILITY of unmasking that tall, crew-cut boy in your economics class as a private detective has been snatched away by the American Association of University Professors. The AAUP's long and often difficult fight to guara'ntee academic freedom for faculty members rolled over the "sales enthusiasm" of the William J. Burns International detective agency recently. One of Burns' 12,000 employees let his initiative get the better of him and suggested that colleges might want to hire detectives to spy on professors and/or non-academic people. A letter under the agency's (world's largest) letterhead went out from the Houston office to six college presidents in Texas sometime I understand the University's unitue role of leadership and the prob- lems we face in maintaining the role. I'm not sure he has that understanding." A former public relations worker at Westminister College i New Wilmington, Penn., and Kent State University in Ohio. R" okbe- lieves that informal channels of communication often have more weight in transmittig a ignfi- cant interpretatin of e Uni- versity than "official" stemens do. "Everyone's job is University re- lations" is a short ~ay of putting it. THIhS BELiEF may explmn IRadock's hope to integrate the New Status Symbol Detective yWork i CONSTITUTIONAL CONYE Exclv i 7"aI e S TF THE PRESENT trend in John Birch style name-calling continues, the time is not far disant when, among campus student bodies throughout the nation, to be referred to as a "com-symp.," will become a major status sym- bol. Despite the purported "conservative revolu- tion among the ranks of our nation's youth," our universities are still distressingly fraught with Communist Dupes and Communist Agita- tors, so much so that the John Birch society is at present compiling a file on such agents of the evil Communist conspiracy and all their crimes. It is this very sort of activity which gives the Evangrelism E UNIVERSITY community sadly lacks the services of an influential evangelist. The sophisticated atmosphere of the campus shoves religion by the wayside, in favor of the so- called "scientific" method. Devotion to the secular, to logic, and to the cold steel of the dissecting table remove God from men's hearts and leave blasphemous sin in His place. We need help in a hurry, too. If someone doesn't convert all those scientists and engi- nvers pretty soon, Heaven may lose out in the space race. -M. OLINICK conservative movement in the United States a bad name. The fact that the Birch Society has been re- cently placed on the government's list of sub- versive organizations, which it so abhors, de- tracts somewhat from the strength of its accu- sations. But then, they're all Dupes up in Wash- ington anyway. W OULD THE conservative movement in the United States have run aground anyway, without a John Birch society, to chop holes in its hull? Would the "Goldwater for 64" cam- paign have lost its potency without Robert Welch to ruin its reputation? Most probably, yes. Conservatism, in the modern world is a lost cause. Unrestricted free enterprise and the economic instability brought abqut by its functioning does not provide the nation with the economic coordination neces- sary for successful cold-war competition with the Soviets. But .what about "conservative" foreign policy? An example of this planning is the infamous Cuban invasion, a political as well as military fiasco for the United States. In today's cold- war ,struggle, where no nation on the face of the earth, no matter how small, is insignificant, Teddy Roosevelt's "carry a big stick" policy can no longer be used successfully because the stick of our opponents and their friends may prove to be larger still. -EARL POLE (EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is the second of a six-part analysis of the issues likely to be consid- ered at the forthcoming constitu- tional convention. Primary election for delegates to the convention is next Tuesday.) By JUDITH OPPENHEINI Daily Staff Writer QUESTIONS pertaining to the executive branch of the state government to be considered at the constitutional convention seem to involve essentially five major topics. The first question in the minds of a great many people is whether lesser state officials ought to be popularly elected or appointed by the governor. At present all the states except New Jersey elect some percentage of officials below the rank of gov- ernor and lieutenant governor, but they differ on which are elected and which appointed. In "The Voter and the Michi- gan Constitution" Leo C. Stine points out that methods of selec- tion vary from election to appoint- ment by the governor to appoint- ment by specialized boards and agencies in some states. Under present constitutional ar- rangements, he explains, Michi- gan's officials are to a great ex- tent independent of each other and of the governor. The governor's power to appoint and remove officials of newlycre- ated state agencies is not specific. Some officials he appoints him- self, some he appoints with the consent of the state Senate and some he selects from candidates recommended by private agencies. Those in favor of extending the number of appointive posts argue that the governor ought to be able to appoint all officials who are logically responsible to him. They claim the existing system is confusing and haphazard and that election and appointment by other groups of officials who must work closely with the governor prevents him f m urng out his work in a unim ad reo - sible manner. Those who favor maintenance of the status quo and election of a majority of the sta : offic fear giving the goerno toomuc power and see no need to coy the federal Constitution an this re- spect. They believe the best gov- ernments and thloseclosest to the people are those lere the ap- pointments are decided by popular election. * * * THE SECGND issue involving the executive branch s atU of the removal power of thi gover- nor. He is not nmow permittd to remove admistraiie offiCials while the Legilare is in session. When the Legislature is not con- vened, he may remove such of- ficials but only if he is able to show cause for doing so. Those who favor greater ap- pointive power for the governor al- so think he ought to be allowed to remove those responsible to him and should be able to do so for administrative reasons as well as for official causes, Another question which calls for clarification is that of adminis- trative reorganization. At present there are 120 separate administra- tive state agencies. Most of them are in one way or another indi- rectly responsible toUthe governor, and are headed by cmisosor special boards. Terms of these board and com- mission members vary greaty and although a new governor may oc- casionally be able to appoint some members, the terms are usually staggered so that his appointive power over them and contol over their activities is very limited. The executive organization stat- ute of 1958 enables the governor to submit reorganization plans for these agencies to the Legislature. Perhaps there ought to be a more uniform method of selecting such board members or some easier way for the governor to reorganize or redirect their activities since they are indirectly responsible to him. .K * H QUESTION of the advis- :iit of a four year term for the governor and lieutenant gov- ernor is one which has been dis- cussed widely for some time. The present gubernatorial term is only two years-which means that the incoming governor must spend six months, or one quarter of his term, working under his predecessor's budget. He must also spend a great deal of time simply learning the ropes, seeing to details of moving to the State Capitol and organizing his program. Almost as soon as he is effectively underway, he must either run for re-election or be replaced by a new governor. Those favoring a four-year term for the chief state executive and the lieutenant governor argue that if they were elected in non-presi- dential years, there would be less chance of their being swept into office as part of a national ticket and thus they would be mnore like- ly to win the election on the mer- its of their own program. A last executive issue is that of civil, service changes. At the present time administrative con- trol of the civil service is hindered because the power of abolishing civil service positions is vested in the agency hiring the civil serv- ant and thus beyond the gover- nor's control. In addition, the Legislature is deprived of its usual ability to determining compensation for civil service jobs by mandatory ap- propriation of funds to the civil service. Civil service will present a point of contention between delegates who wish to see it more directly under executive control and those who wish to consider it more an independent operation. this January. "Many colleges and universities have found that our services can be very beneficial and informative," the letter said, get- ting on to the main point: "The same system which has saved countless dollars in business can be used in your institution to give youdan inside, on-the-scene report concerning any practices detrimental to the institution's character and reputation. "Teaching practices can be view- ed with information from a 'stu- dent' who is trained to report objectively on what he or she sees or hears from the classroom. Al- most each department has its controversial member. "These departments invariably are: religion, philosophy, psychol- ogy, English (literature), biology, history, government, journalism, speech and drama." * * * DISMISSING out of hand any color or individualism in such dis- ciplines as mathematics, sociology and Slavic languages, the Burns appeal details the private eye's commitment to his studies: "A "student' trained in his du- ties as a Burns operative can enroll . . . obtain his class sched- ule . . . attend class and send daily confidential reports to the Agency . . . After the necessary body of fact and information is developed, corrective steps can be made quickly, quietly and effi- cently. "Burns operators can also be inconspicuously placed in positions of kitchen help, laborers, cashiers, office help, janitors, in any field where a security problem might exist . .." The AAUP's General Secretary William P. Fidler shot an imme- diate, angry letter to W. Sherman Burns, the agency's president. He scorned the proposed operations as "entirely inconsistent with every concept of academic freedom and academic due process, which repre- sent the hallmarks and the foun- dation of the whole system of higher education" and asked abandonment of this "type of ac- tivity." BURNS' APOLOGY came 11 days later. He said the letter was sent out without approval of the local manager and that "steps have been taken to correct this to see that there is no recurrence of it." He said he felt the offer demonstrated more "sales en- thusiasm" than "mature thought." From now on, the agency pledg- ed, such activity would join ot'her 'off limits' areas like divorce and anti-labor investigation. Private investigations of profes- sors seems bound to continue, how- ever. The Circuit Riders continue to publish detailed lists of edu- cators who have supported what are termed "Communist or pro- Communist organizations." Stu- dent nembers of the John Birch Society have been accused of spy- ing on teachers in attempts to record politically damaging state- ments. The House Un-American Activities Committee also has a record of inquiring too far into the academic man's precepts. * * * THE PROFESSOR will probably never be immune from the prob- ings of over-zealous defenders of what they think is the Nation's Honor, for the professor is di- rectly concerned with the training of young people's minds. Universities, however, should realize that the freest exchange of ideas guarantees (to a greater de- gree than any restriction could) the best development of these youths. 'Surprise' By WILLIAM L. RYAN Associated Press News Analyst FROM Fidel Castro's Havana, by way of South American capi- tals, come lreports these days that the Cuban public is being prepared for a "big surprise." The date for unveiling this su- prise, say these reports, is July 26, the eighth aniversary of the start of Castro's revolution. And the surprise: the talk in Latin America is that Castro will announce to the Cubans the for- mation of a single political party -with the participation of the Communist party. That would be the final step, actually, in turning Cuba into a satellite of the Soviet Union. For all practical purposes, the Com- munist party would be the ruling party in fact, if not also in title. THERE IS MUCH evidence to substantiate the report. Sources in Latin America say that efforts to send out dispatches about it met interference from the new Com- munist-like censorship prevailing in Havana now. But the word is out, anyway The government is preparing a holiday atmosphere for the occa- sion-which wil coincide with a visit to Havana by Soviet space- man Yuri Gagarin. The Cubans, during the celebra- tion next week, will learn a little more about the joys of living in a police state rapidly modeling itself along the lines of a "people's democracy." Their radios have told them that an important phase of the celebration will be "to sa- lute the glorious day with 100,000 committees for the defense of the revolution." RAUL CASTRO, brother of the premier and the chief of Cuba's armed forces, has told Cubans a "defense committee must be creat- ed in each block, in each working center, in each cooperative, in each people's farm, in each farm district, so there will not be a single inch of our soil whemle peo- ple are not defending and fighting for our socialist revolution. "The people organized in com- mittees for the defense of the rev- olution must defend their country fighting against illiteracy, unsani- tary conditions and all the evils bequeathed to us by imperialism. They will also win the fight for production, vigilance, culture and each of the tasks assigned to us for the uninterrupted develop- ment of our revolution." The key word in all that is "vig- ilance." The defense committees, about five to a committee, mean there will be 500,000 spies for the government as it turns power over to the hands of the Communists. Policy "IT IS NOT OUR AFFLUENCE, or our plumbing, or our clog- ged freeways that grip the imag- ination of others. Rather it is the values upon which our system is built . . . If we are faithful to our own values . . . we are likely to find a higher measure of sup- port abroad. But if we fail our own values and ideals, ultimately we shall have failed ourselves ... -Sen. William J. Fulbright 4 V COMMUNISM: Cuban A t i I ,r A4 Aid Program Necessary PRESIDENT KENNEDY this week entered a critical period in his effort to modernize our foreign aid system. The objective is, as the Democratic platform of July, 1960, promised, "to place our programs of international co- operation on a long-term basis to permit more effective planning." What is the President trying to get Congress to do? Not necessarily to put more money into foreign grants or foreign loans but rather to adopt what Treasury Secretary Dillon has called "the most efficient and least costly method of providing development assistance." The President wants to make such assistance, as nearly as possible, a unified operation, as any business man would. He wants to plan a few years ahead, as any business man would. THE PRESIDENT-ELECT had a task force working on this idea last January, before he was inaugurated. He has submitted it to the friends of the United States in Western Europe and received their approval. He has tried to interest them in providing a certain 'Re-groupmenf WHAT WAS REPORTED from a Paris gar- den party has now been confirmed by President de Gaulle himself. The "partition" against which the Moslem rebels aroused tragic demonstrations in Algeria recently is n'ot that but a prospect of temporary regroupment of the "Europeans" in the coastal regions until they can be resettled in France or their se- curity otherwise protected. percentage of their own annual gross income each year for aid to under-developed countries -perhaps one per cent. The President suggests a new unit, the Agency for International Development. Second, he asks authority to borrow $7.3 billion from the Treasury during the next five years to finance economic development loans. This means he would not have to come to Congress every year to ask for new authority and new appropriations for that particular purpose. This is where the trouble comes. Congress is all for economy, which the new plan promises, but is not in favor of letting go any of its annual control over money. Speaker Sam Rayburn is on recent record as saying that in spite of powerful pressures Congress will realize the necessity for long- continued planning and will accept the Ken- nedy plan. If the dollars we give or lend are to do their utmost for peace and prosperity, Congress wil have to pass something closely resembling these proposals. -NEW YORK TIMES Copyright 1961, The New York Times , Not Partition the poorer hinterland to the Moslems. This was to be the price the rebellious Moslems would have to pay for outright independence. BUT that is not the de Gaulle concept as he prepares to end the Algerian struggle on the best possible terms for all concerned. 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