an aditan Ba I Seuenty-Second Year EDTED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSrrY OF MICHIGAN =4 -- UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD iN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Where Opinions Are Pree STUDENT PUBLIcATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 Truth Will Prevail" ditorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. Y, JULY 27, 1962 NIGHT EDITOR: DENISE WACKER Should Euthanasia Be Allowed, For Drug-Crippled Babies? .. . jORAL STANDARDS, as anyone might have noticed, are changing. Birth control was ompletely unacceptable' to most people 20 ears ago. Today, people welcome birth con- ml as a solution to the pressing problems of verpopulation. In Great Britain two members of Parliament nil ask the government for the legalisation of uthanasia (mercy killing) of babies born with eformed or missing limbs as a result of the iother taking a tranquilizer, thalidomide, dur- -g pregnancy. At this time, their request will robably be turned down, as they no doubt dpect. In the past, such a suggestion would ever have been seriously proposed. In the Atture, it will be heard more and more often nd may-unfortunately-receive less and less esistance. Deformed members of a population will ome from other sources than mis-used drugs a the future. Spontaneous mutations can ause diabetes, myopia, blindness and drawf- ess. The presently increasing genetic pool f mutations comes not so much from increas- rg the mutation rate (through fallout) as rqm the increasing success of medicine in flowing afflicted persons to lead normal lives. rHE POINT may be reached when a large portion of the population suffers from dis- bling ailments. At that point, the remaining opulation, will be supporting those people rho, although unable to work, are still able >reproduce. People may then seek a Draconian code of ugenic laws to replace Darwin's "survival ofh aie fittest." Our mora4 reservations might be lowly eroded for the sake of expediency. Many people will be charmed by the quaint lea of breeding people. The aura of super- eniuses used in a cold war of science leads eople to forget an individual's rights. Similarly, :ese same people will want to eliminate the uller sections of the population which, they bserve, produce the most progeny. [HOSE WHO RECOMMEND either euthana- sia or eugenics do so for the "betterment f the race," rather than any humanitarian easons. Widespread restrictions on reproduction ac- >rding to intelligence and ailments would be tyranny of the worst kind for two reasons. irst, there exists an easily seen need for estrictions which is only a rationalization. The 'ord is not headed toward a genetic break- own. Existing medical techniques can handle lmost all defects (most, such as myopia, or -ort-sightedness, are minor), and as for the wild-up in mutations, other avenues are open. ersons with some defects have statistically ewer progeny than the average without being lade aware of any problems of humanity. iowever, a tendency toward indoctrination of fflicted people should not be inferred. Also, ie future may provide other suitable means. PHE SECOND REASON that restrictions on reproduction would be a tyranny is that a able government with many classes would : set up (perhaps classes could be designated s alpha, beta, gamma, delta, and epsilon, with uses and minuses). The ruling class, the ealthy and intelligent, would control the ates of the rest of the population. Euthanasia and with it abortion may some- ay be instituted. Mercy killing is not neces- iry and can only lead to a further erosion f what is considered unacceptable. Such a willingness to trample other in- ividuals' rights is evidence of the acceptance f the philosophy that the ends justify the eans. In this case, however, neither the ieans nor the ends are desirable. -MICHAEL SATTINGER Yes.. R ECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS of the adverse effects of the European sleeping pill thali- domide have once again raised the moral and legal question of abortion, In Arizona, -a preg- nant woman has been denied an abortion at a state hospital even though the probability of her baby being born normal is less than half.' Recent announcements from Europe estimate the number of babies born defectively as a re- sult of their mothers using thalidomide in the early stages of pregnancy, at 4,000. In England the number is well over a thousand and judges have ruled that this is still not grounds for abortion. This leaves two possibilities for expectant mothers who have taken the drug: either they can have a deformed child or they can have an illegal abortion. DEFORMED CHILDREN cause mental and emotional problems for their parents, they are great financial burdens and could have a detrimental effect on -other children in the family. In many instances - they end up in state institutions and become burdens on the taxpayers. This is not to say that each individ- ual does not have the right to live. But, this is an ugly enough world to bring a normal child into, without subjecting the incapable to cop- ing with the world on an equal basis. But abortion is a nasty word. Some people equate it with murder but there is a difference. Before a child is born he is not, for all intents and purposes, a person. There are some people that claim to have pre-natal memories, Salva- dore Dali among them, but this seems to be a not-too-well accepted theory. Denied the availability of a hospital abortion there is the possibility that those women will seek professional abortionists. This is, in the final analysis, a much worse fate. The child will be destroyed, but in many cases the moth- er also dies or is seriously injured. - - --VY -,- - - L:f rW~P''L- :s DEMOCRACY ABANDONED: Cuba Betrays Its Revolution AT THE STATE: Lemmon, Novak Glitter in Fog 'THE NOTORIOUS LANDLADY" is a movie filled with urbane wit, double meanings, side-splitting slapstick, and Kim Novak. This is a movie that will make anybody happy. It is a tangle of murder, perjury, love, and diplomatic maneuverings. Jack Lemmon plays a career diplomat, transferred of late to the Court of St. James. In search of living quarters he answers the want ad of Mrs. Carley Hartwick (Kim Novak) and there the plot involvement begins. IT SEEMS THAT Scotland Yard is convinced that Mrs. Hartwick has done her husband in and her neighbors and an ubiquitous be-der- I i ACCOMPANY THIS with the mental anguish of having this type of operation performed under the most primitive of conditions and one soon begins to wonder which is the lesser of the evils. The children born of women who have taken thalidomide in the early stages of pregnancy are not always deformed. There is a possibility, slight, but a possibility that the baby would not be born with pliocomelia, a type of atrophy in which babies are born without arms or legs or only with small stubs. So, the alternative is to let the child be born, see if he is deformed, and then kill him. This, in black and white newsprint, seems heartless. But, it is not an instance of killing to purify a species; this is not a case of a "master race." If a woman feels that she would rather abort her child than carry it for nine months only to give birth to a deformed child and then face the agony of putting it in an, institution, try- ing to care for it at home or relieving it of misery through euthanasia, and her husband agrees, there is no reason that a medical mis- take, the dispensation of an imperfect drug, should hang over !the victims' heads for there- mainder of their lives. . E f By PHILIP SUTIN Daily Staff Writer YESTERDAY, JULY 26, was the anniversary of a betrayal. On that date nine years ago, Fidel Castro raided a Cuban- military base as the start of his revolution. That attack failed, but two years later Castro was back in the Es- cambre Mountains fighting his revolution anew. On New Year's Day, 1960, Castro succeeded. Cuba was his. Like his first raid, Castro's rev- olution raised hopes for freedom and economic progress for all in Cuba. Unlike that unsuccessful attack, Castro's revolution has failed from within rather than be- ing defeated from without. When Castro took power, the hopes of the Cuban lower and middle classes were on this "sav- ior" to lead them to freedom and spread the wealth, largely in a few corrupt Cuban and American hands, throughout the people. Cas- tro pledged agarian reforms, more housing, expanded educational fa- cilities and social welfare meas- ures to his people. Moreover, he promised freedom from the tyr- anny of the hated Batista regime. WHILE CASTRO made bold starts toward meeting his econom- ic goals, no one noticed his re- luctance toward implementing his political ones. He seized huge United States land holdings and divided them among the Cuban peasants; he promulgated agarian reforms and established an agency to carry them out; he vigorously attacked illiteracy and set up a mass educational program to wipe it out. Yet no one cared about his delaying political reforms. Castro first hedged on holding elections, then scrapped them, saying that the mob rules. Two hundred "trai- tors and counter-revolutionaries" were summarily tried and. shot. Moderate elements were forced out of his government and extremists and pro-Communists have replac- ed them. At first, it was conceded that Castro needed an interim period to create order and carry out needed reforms. Later, it became more clear. Castro was a totali- tarian either by choice or fate. Cuba's hopes were dashed - she was to get no freedom. NO ONE IS SURE why Castro became a pro-Communist dictator. Some say he always had these designs on Cuba. Others claim, with much validity, that Castro was forced into the arms of the Communists by United States pressure and once in their grip, he, and Cuba, are locked there. Probably a combination of Cas- tro totalitarian proclivities and outside pressures has made Cuba the closest thing to a Soviet sat- ellite in the Western hemisphere. Russian domination is quite ap- parent in Cuba-even down to the Havana bars and hotels catering to the Soviet bloc trade. The Cuban people are now in the vise of a new tyranny. They TV's Duties WIN a mass audience, you must offer the average of common experience, and this can- not satisfy the individual's varie- ty of tastes and interests. So the pursuit of a mass audience, nec- essary to attract the advertising that is the competitive incentive for the commercial companies, re- duces the range of choice offered to the viewers; they will be kept unaware of what lies beyond the average of experience. To give the public what it wants in this sense, says the Pilkington Committee (set up to investigate British tele- vision), is patronizing and arro- gant. For the broadcaster to "give the public what he thinks is good for it" would also be patronizing and arrogant, but this is not the alternative. The broadcaster's duty is to "respect the public's right to choose from the widest possible range of subject matter and so to enlarge worthwhile experience,'" and to do this the broadcaster must explore and give a lead. -The Manchester Guardian have no more freedom than in the Batista regime and under pro- Communist regimentation they may have even less as the state owns property and tightly con- trols the Cuban economy in a bungling way. * * * ECONOMIC ADVANCES have been lost with political hopes. The Cuban economy is tied to the depressed Soviet bloc. Its agri- culture is shattered due to mis- management and loss of its sugar market. Meanwhile, Castro has been at- tempting to export his revolution. Cuba has become a base for ex- treme left-wing activities in Latin America. It has been the source of attempted revolutions in Pan- ama, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Venezula. Castro's admirers- are strong factions in such countries as Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Peru. Yet many of these people in their misery only see the promise of the Castro revolution. Their leaders blame its shortcomings on the United States and hide the intrinsic fraud and failure of Cas- troism. Blinded by the vision of freedom and plenty, they fail to see that the Cuban revolution has not delivered, but has actually set back the people. The poor of Latin America have failed to see Castro's betrayal. * * * IN CASTRO'S FAILINGS there is denocratic hope. Rather than berate Castro, the United States should point out his failings and suggest and promote democratic means of social reform. The Al- liance for Progress is attempting to do this, but it has not been able to get around the entrenched La- tin American aristocracy to the poor of Latin America. Castro's revolution has pointed out the need for social reform in Latin America. But, by turning totalitarian, it has betrayed its ideals and failed. July 26 should not be a celebation of a fraudu- lent revolution, but a reminder of what can happen when a re- bellion goes wrong and a challenge to democracy to solve South America's basic social problems. bied detective keep her under con- stant surveillance. Lemmon hears some highly damning dialogue and is convinced that he will soon fall victim to the homicidal characteristics of his beautiful landlady. A candlelight dinner turns into a conflagration and he misses the chance to pur- sue his investigation. * * * THE NEWSPAPERS spread the scandalous news about the mur- deress and the. State Department employe and their fire and Lem- mon is called on the carpet. The story twists and turns and we find Mrs. flartwick being tried for the murder of her husband, who has turned up very much alive and leaves with a bullet lethally placed in him. Things are looking very bad for the defendant until the nurse of a chair-ridden neigh- bor and testifies that she saw the shooting and is sure that it was accidental. Perjury., Acquittal. Murder of a pawn broker. Now the chase begins. * * * IT WINDS UP at a home for the calcified wealthy with Lemmon chasing a runaway wheel chair down the cliffs overlooking the At- lantic. Lemmon is always perfect. His sense of comic timing makes the movie click. He is ably sup- ported by the Scotland Yard dicks, light-stepping Fred Astaire, and the ever-present London fog. The movie is well-scripted with plenty of suspense, story, and tight-lip- ped humor. The directing by Rich- ard Quince is tight, fast-paced, and entirely profesional. Kim No- vak is very believable as the warm, winsome, and thoroughly feminine "murderess." She appears, well- iced in gowns of her own design, as the perfect confection for a di- verting summer evening. -Alan Magid LETTERS to the EDITOR To the Editor: IN AN EDITORIALy our writer recounts the past ten years of Egypt's history. It is with deep regretthat we witness a member of the editorial staff conveying untrue information and malicious interpretation of the U.A.R.'s sta- tus through the University stu- dents' publication. It is extremely difficult to un- derstand the writer's motives for having not presented a fair eval- uation of Egypt's gigantic steps forward since 1952. She could have spent a little time studying the situation in Egypt by looking up some of the many texts and cur- rent books available in the Near Eastern Dept.'s library, instead of relying upon Israel's information bureau. She could have been more academic by consulting the opin- ion of American economists who assent that Egypt's gross national product has been rising seven per cent a year and its investment rate has been an annual 15 to 17 per cent. She also could have educated herself to the fact that industrial production has trippled in Egypt since 1952 and that the average Egyptian's income has increased by half. She could have read much about Egypt's achievements in magazines too; like Fortune Octo- ber issue, 1958 by Gilbert Burk, or as recent as October 1961 in the Reporter by Clair Sterling. Therefore, we appeal to your morals, not to allow the Michigan Daily to be used as a propaganda tool for the benefit of Israel and zionism. -Mansour Hassan,-Grad AT THE CAMPUS: RDose Marie . I dove You POM THE SPIRIT of the Art Fair no one defects, not even the Campus Theatre, which did its little bit last night by showing the noted art movie "Rose Marie" ("I Love You"). This was another one-nighter ini the Campus' cele brated "Operetta Festival," and I counted forty-three people at the nine o'clock show. Rose Marie, as everybody knows, is about a girl who is turned into a mountie by a mountie, and into a lady by a moose. The mountie is played by Howard Keel (of course); the girl is Ann Blyth. The drama loses none of its customary verve .in the translation into Cinemascope, and "#Color Glory," whatever that is. Songs (14-count 'em-14) are announc- ed with lines like, "Tell us about it, Barney," or the always popularx "There's a song about that." *t* * THE FILM, clearly one of the early foreign-location enterprises, is set in the Canadian Rockies, whose splendor is calculated t, dazzle anyone. There is some truth in this. The camera-man, for one, is so taken with the scenery that often he forgets to follow the action, and for whole minutes at a time the screen Is void of everything but a mountain or two, the sort of illuminated Picture Leo Ping would pay a small fortune for. But, as if such pageantry were not enough, there is high drama too. "An Indian girl named Wanda kills her own father, framing a white trapper (surprise! Fernan- do Lamas). Somehow the Lucky Strike singers and dancers, cu"- ningly disguised as Indians, man- age to rip off a little dance be- fore they catch Lamas and try to burn him." * * * THE MOUINTIES arrive at the last moment, and sing a chorus or two before dismounting. Here the Indians miss a good bet. They could have easily burned Howard Keel, too, thus ending the aovie, and doing the American public a favor in addition. Unfortunately they free every- one, leaving justice to the Crown. The Crown doesn't do much better, so at the end you can see Keel sing goodbye to the only girl he ever loved, swatting her horse on the rear (doing, it could be argued, the right thing but to the wrong party), while the full MGM or- chestration peals across .a cloud- less sky and the mighty Campus curtains swallow, whole, the Rock- ies, Lake Louise, and Banff. -Dick Pollnger DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 2) 80-Psychological Subjects. Must be stu- dents. At' least one, 2 hour session. 1-To work switchboard from 3:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Would probably need transportation. Permanent position. 2-Meal jobs. FEMALE 1-Good commercial artist for nws- paper advertising. Part-time or full- time. 1-istologist. Must have, a natural science background with two years of college education. Experience not necessary. -tfine, permanentposi- tion. 1-Food supervisor. Degree in dietetics or equivalent experience. Monday thru Friday, 4 p.m. to 8p pn 20-Psychological Subjects. Must be stu. dents. At least one, 2 hour session. Economics- EGYPT'S PRESIDENT Gamal Abdul Nasser , has formally opened a jet aircraft factory quipped to produce traineds, fighters and roop transports, official sources announced in Cairo yesterday. It is very interesting to note that the planes o be turned out are all of a military nature. And speculation begins as to who is financing his expenditure and what the proposed use for hese planes is. Egyptians, it would seem, have no wish to aanufacture merely commercial airplanes. Es- ecially, when there is not even enough food to o around. -S. RICHMAN Editorial Staff RED RTTSSELL KRAMER............... Co-Editor 'ETER STEINBERGER ..................Co-Editor L JONES ......................... Sports Editor 'YNTHIA NEU ............... .... Night Editor rERALD STORCH ...,.................. Night Editor 'HILIP SUTIN.E ...... ...Night Editor DENISE WACKER ..................... Night Editor F A MOTHER who has taken these pills wishes to abort her child she should be allowed to do so. She should, of course, be informed that there is a chance that the child will be normal. However, if she does not wish to have the baby for this reason, medical facilities should be made available to her. The alternative should also be provided. Doctors should be allowed,I upon permission of the parents, to perform euthanasia (mercy killing) on those deformed, children after they are born. This suggestion, of course, is just wishful thinking. No legal or medical board in this country will allow such a ruling to pass. They will fear a parade of horribles. That is, once this sort of ruling is passed then other actions like eliminating other children born with men- tal and physical defects, will become legal. And from there, perhaps we would go on to eliminate those people whose color we did not like or who had the "wrong" religion. In the first place, there is a large but limited number of women who have taken this drug. The number who have taken it while pregnant is smaller-so the situation will not continue indefinitely. Then, too, it is not as if this were just any old deformity. There are cures for some de- formities and with the advances that modern science is making there will soon be cures for many more. BUT, IT IS RATHER UNLIKELY that they will ever discover a way to draft on limbs where none exist and make them functional enough so that the deformed person will be able to live a normal life. Mercy killing, already discussed in many courts, is not acceptable to some people. They fear that it will lead to unnecessary and un- merciful killing. And, pretty soon, as the parade of horribles would indicate, people would go around having doctors kill other people just for the sake of it. 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