" .Go-Man-Go . .." t SeventiethYear EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN when Opinions Are Free UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Truth Wil Preval" 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. L.. "".a AY, JUNE 22,1960 NIGHT EDITOR: MICHAEL BURNS 4 f Federal Control Needed For Boxng's Problems BOXING, the sports world's favorite whipping boy (or punching bag, if you prefer) suf- fered another black eye during the recent Con- gressional investigation in which boxers told of payoffs, fixed fights, and general gangster- ism in the professional sport. This revelation, if it can be called that, is nothing new. Boxing seems to be continually in the public eye for illegal activities of one sort or another. Fighters have been accused of taking "dives," and a good number of times the charges have been substantiated. Man- agerial mishandlings and connections with the underworld have long been a blemish on the sport. Monopoly charges have split the ring crowns into two parts-the New York and Massachusetts version of the title recognized in the rest of the world. All of these factors have tended to give boxing a name that no sport in this country should have, and a reputation that the sport does not deserve. AS IN MOST GROUPS, there are a few un- savory characters who reflect unfavorable opinion upon the rest of the honest members. However, in boxing the disreputable element has reached such growing proportions that the entire sport is in danger of being destroyed. Another sad thing about the situation is that the worst element has worked its way to the top, controlling some of the best fighters in the world, and is not just operating among the lesser-known pugilists. The public must be willing to pay their money to see the sport for professional athletics to exist. When scandals continually smear the good name and integrity of a sport, the public loses faith in the sport as a whole. Then there are two apparent courses which the sport can take: it can attempt to continue to exist as a sham sport, appealing to spectators merely by showmanship, as professional wrestling does now or it can take measures to restore its lost honesty. OTHER SPORTS have suffered scandal and, by taking adequate measures, cleaned the blots from their names. Pro baseball suffered the Black Sox fixes in 1919 and remedied the matter with binding legislation and the ap- pointment of the first commissioner of baseball to see that the events would not be repeated in the future. College basketball has seen several scandals, also. Point-shaving incidents at Pittsburgh and City College of New York rocked the nation's faith in the play-for-fun collegians who were taking payments to keep games close enough MAX LERNER < .'wzw,. Bookish Cam for certain gamblers to collect huge bets. But this too was solved for the time with stringent penalties and tightened regulations. Of course, these sports had a central organi- zation to begin with and merely utilized this organization toward greater control. Boxing does not have this central agency but operates on a state-by-state basis, which is the reason for some of its problems. BOXING, HOWEVER, has had numerous op- portunities to mend its own fences before it was too late. It has never done so, for scandal and shady characters appear to the public to be as much a part of the sport as six ounce gloves and a 24 by 24 ring. The time has come when the matter must be solved by those outside of boxing to protect the fans and those honestly trying to make a living in the fight game, before the final knockout blow is delivered. 'OVERNMENT regulation seems to be the answer to boxing problems, although that thought is rejected by many people as another move toward centralizing control and destroy- ing competition. But the fact is that boxing will be entirely .destroyed if the muck and corrup- tion that presently exists is allowed to continue disgracing the sport. Notable efforts at legislation in this vein have been introduced in the House. Bills which would prohibit ex-convicts from managing fighters may serve to eliminate some of the un- derworld connection with boxing. Judicial at- tempts to break up promotion monopolies have helped. Managers have been suspended for violations, such as Cus D'Amato, Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson's mentor. But these are only a start toward completely cleaning up the sport. BOXING definitely needs stronger legislation to prevent the causes of these scandals. This does not mean that all professional ,ports need stronger federal control, but boxing's problems have continued for so long without remedy that the only recourse appears to be federal control. Penalties for illegal acts should be established to protect the fighters and the spectators. People will pay and crowd into arenas to watch good, honest boxing. Take away the honesty of the sport and you have nothing but a drama on a small stage. Boxing is sick. It needs help. The fear that the medicine may be too strong for the patient must be dismissed else the cancer of corrup- tion leave nothing to this once-respected sport. -MCHAEL BURNS ' .l. * .., I AT THE VANGUARD: Boyfrien ByCrowtdc ATTEMPT.ING to establish a resident theatrical company in Detroit is like trying to start art oasis in the desert-it costs money. If the Vanguard Playhouse con- tinues to play to audiences as sparse as the one Sunday night, money will be the most of its back- ers' worries. The current offering at Van- guard, "The Boyfriend," is a mu- sical satire on the 1920-type mu- sical comedy. Satire is always difficult to per- form. Adding the limitations of a small stage and a fairly large number of people dancing about it, the Vanguard players under- took a rather heavy task. Mary Lou Briley was a fine Polly combining a good voice with an equally good sense of satire. She plays a "poor little'rich girl" who captures The Boyfriend amid the standard cliches of flapperism THE SPOOF of the Charleston era featured girls with perman- ently bowed mouths, permanently wide eyes, and permanently posed stances. Of these Helen Gregory sparkled during a naughty Third Act romp with an old roue. But Connie Mavis, Maisie, muffed what can be a highlight of the show, "There's Safety in Numbers," by being too heavy-voiced and heavy- footed. Mme. Dubonnet, Eileen McCabe, missed a few opportunities for nuance in the comedy. However, she was uniformly competent both in her singing and acting. When she and Miss Briley combined talents for a duet in Act Three, the audience was treated both to a splendid spoof of sentimental songs and a good vocal blend. AS THE "Frisky Old Gentle- man," Lord Brockhurst, William Feaster was much good fun. Like most of the cast his comedy was of the highly unsubtle type, but was certainly "frisky" as promised. Despite some obvious lack of coordination, two grand pianos served admirably as a substitute f or an orchestra, More finesse on the part of the chorus would have vastly improved the choreography making it more professional. It was skillfully planned in spite of a small stage conveying the vitality, the gross movement-and the cliches-of Flapper dances. Planning an 4mbitous bill of plays for the June-November sea- son, the Vanguard Playhouse says it is attempting "to create the classic plays, both modern and tra- New Books at Library Powell, Lawrence Clark-Books in My Baggage; Cleveland and NY, The World Publishing Co., 1960. Weems, John Edward-Race for the Pole; NY, Henry Holt & Co., 1960. P Cramped rd Qu arters ditional, which are not feasib economically on the commercia stage." While the current produc tion may not be a classic in an qualitative sense, it is certainl an ambitious undertaking -- on worthy of support. -Jo Hardee DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of The Univer- sity of Michigan for which The Michigan Daily assumes no edi- torial responsibility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3519 Administration Build- ing, before 2 p.m. two days preced- ing publication. Wednesday, June 22, 1960 VOL. LXX, No. 2S ~*; ~'. WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Mass Murder's Problems By DREW PEARSON lidates MI== s ":ir d.^'1 fr:.'^ VWae v 4" fr. rr MORE THAN most of us realize, the Presi- dential race is becoming a Battle of the Books. Prodded by Nelson Rockefeller's attack, Nixon has pushed ahead the publication of his speeches, "The Challenges We Face" (McGraw- Hill). Kennedy's volume of speeches, "The Strategy of Peace," edited by Allan Nevins (Harper) has already been making converts and influencing delegates. And Adlai Stevenson, an old hand at putting his speeches and papers together, has done it again in "Putting First Things First" (Random). This is not meant as a book review, but as some notes on American leadership as the con- ventions approach. I don't know how many people are going to read in volume form the speeches they neglected to read when first made. I doubt that many will. For style and substance I would rate Steven- son first, Kennedy after him (the most erudite Presidential candidate since Woodrow Wilson), and Nixon last. But what counts in these com- pilations is not their intellectual or literary merit but their weight and the fact that they are there. Americans want to feel that their leaders are heavily concerned with world peace, even when they don't read more than the titles of their tomes. SENATOR Kennedy has just started his next volume by reading a long and comprehens- ive speech on foreign policy on the floor of the Senate, boring the galleries but appealing to the intellectuals. More than in any campaign I can remember, the line-up of the intellectuals is becoming a matter of concern for the strate- gy managers. Where once it was a battle of maneuver to align the sub-literate bosses of the 11;4rS- Mt43gUUDButI Editorial Staff KATHLEEN MOORE, Editor MICHAEL BURNS..........,.....Night Editor ANDREW HAWLEY .................... Night Editor MICHAEL OLINICK ............... Sports Co-Editor state delegation, the long-distance phones are now humming to get out statements by Prof. J. K. Galbraith or Professor Arthur M. Schles- inger, Jr., Where once Virginia was the mother of Presidents and then Ohio, Harvard is now bid- ding for that role. This is a sharp change of cli- mate from the 1948 campaign when Truman rapped out machine-gun battle communiques and Dewey bored everyone to death with his flat courtroom prose. It is an even sharper change from the 1952 and 1956 campaigns when the great count against Adlai Stevenson was that he was an egghead, and when a specter of fear haunted the nation-the fear that Americans might get a man in the White House who was literate. The days of anti-intellectualism in American politics are now over. The pre-convention cam- paign has become a Battle of the Eggheads. TNHE REASONS ought to be clear enough. The next decade in American world policies will decide not only America's position among the powers of the earth, but quite literally whether its children live or die. Americans have had enough of bumbling policies to last them for some time. They are assessing the candidates not only for "personality" and "appeal" but for grey matter in their brains. Which is why the commitment of the professors has become of some importance. But the fact is that the Republican political stalwarts will take Nixon, although any rea- sonably sensitive person has to get sodden with drink before he can read through ten pages of his prose. The fact is also that the Democrats will pick the man they think will lick Nixon, whatever the cadence of his sentences. THE GREAT question of our time in the de- mocracies should not be "Who can get the delegations delivered to him?" or "Whocan sew up a majority of the delegates?" but "Who can lead?" That in turn can be broken into what strike me as the three great problems of democratic leadership, transcending the things called "is- NEW YORK-Tuvia Friedmann, who escaped from a Nazi con- centration camp to spend 16 years tracking down the Nazi in charge of those camps, was not willing to disclose to me the final details of Adolf Eichmann's capture in Ar- gentina. He explained the rela- tions between ArgentinaandIs- rael were too delicate at the mo- ment and the story of Eichmann's capture would have to come later. I learned, however, that certain Argentine officials definitely co- operated in removing Eichmann from Argentina despite the Ar- AT THE MICHIGAN: 'Finn' Grim EVEN THE METRO-Goldwyn- Mayer lion gets into the act in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" at the Michigan, but like the rest of the film, he (she?) turns out to be tamer than the punch at a Hatcher tea. From the time Huck bangs his pap on the head and takes off down the Mississippi with the runaway slave Jim, the adventures follow one another with a numb excitement that only rarely aroused any of the children at yesterday's matinee (who were, however, audibly gleeful over the cartoon-an inferior new version of an old Seuss story). But the film "Huckleberry Finn" has certainly come a long way from the Twain novel. Hollywood has taken almost everything ob- jectionable out of the novel (and that's a lot), whitewashed more of the characters and incidents, and generally toned down the pitch of excitement throughout- so that the result is as clean, red- blooded-American, and hearty as a handshake from the vice-presi- dent in charge of students. EVEN THE "Come Back lip on de Raft, Huck Honey" school of thought will have to look else- where for evidence to support their thesis, whatever that may be. Well, Eddie Hodges doesn't really give a very convincing per- formance, but then the children will probably think he does. At least, as Huck, he is stocked with the tallest tales anyone ever heard outside a Joint Judic meeting. The runaway slave Jim is played rather amiably by Archie Moore, a name sports fans are supposed to recognize but moviegoers would sooner forget. This Jim, unlike Twain's doesn't seem to know the meaning of fear. Or, for that matter, of terror, either. Archie, as Jim, tries to sing a couple of typical Hollywood songs, yet even he doesn't seem to have much confidence in his own sing- ing. Or maybe it was just some- thing he had been eating-at the Union, maybe? TO BEDEVIL Jim and Huck, a couple of would-be river pirates keep popping up (out of Dickens. I thought at first) to try to claim the reward for runaway slaves. All the one pirate ever gets his hands on is a Hollywood "twenty- Allxl n i. p anp., w nsp an gentine government's current pro- tests. In Latin-American diplo- matic circles it's strongly suspect- ed that these protests were in- spired by the present. Argentine political crisis and the desire of the Frondizi government to curry favor with the military clique which has always been close to the Nazis. * * * FROM FRIEDMANN I got one hint as to how the man who masterminded the murder of 6 million Jews was finally tracked down. "Eichmann was a fiendishly clever man about everything ex- cept one point-protection to him- self. When he set up the concen- tration camps in Poland for the murder of the Jewish people he neglected no detail. He even had gravel sprinkled around the rail- road stations after each trainload of Jews was unloaded so the next tr~ainload would see no traces of those who had come before. "Everything was arranged with the German passion for cleanli- ness and efficiency. Most of the Jews were told they were being brought to a place where they could get a new start in life. Even quaint Polish chalets were built near the concentration camp rail- road stations to carry out the appearance of rustic rural peace. "But," continued Friedmann, "when Eichmann fled to Argen- tina he neglected one thing about himself. He had four sons and he neglected to induce them to change their names. Some of them lived near him outside Buenos Aires. It is not true, as reported by some newspapers, that they thought he was their uncle." * * * CONTINUING HIS recital of the facts which demanded that Eichmann be captured and face trial, Friedmann reviewed the de- tails-which some people have forgotten-of the most gruesome mass murder in all history. "Up until the time the United States entered the war," he ex- plained, "Hitler's government was worried about inflaming Ameri- can public opinion by too drastic treatment of the Jews, thereby dragging the United States into war. "But about the time it became evident the United States would come in, it was decided that the confinement of Jews in concen- tration camps was too expensive and they must be killed. "HOWEVER, THIS presented some problems. First, it presented engineering problems. Not enough bullets could be spared by the army to kill 6 million civilians, so Eichmann was given the job of finding a solution. He came up with gas. "Seconld, there was the problem of finding personnel tough enough to murder people, to withstand the screams of little children and the wailing of old people. "So Eichmann set up a train- ing program to make men hard- boiled enough to kill defenseless unarmed civilians. A soldier would be given a dog as a pet and after he had become fond of the dog he would be ordered to kill it. If he graduated from this without emotion he could qualify for the liquidation camps. *, * * "IN ONE CASE two officers were buddies. One of them let a German people, It was afraid of public opinion. "So all around the concentra- tion camps were signs warning that any unauthorized person who approached would be killed with- out challenge. "THE FIRST execution by gas took place in November 1941 near. Riga when 50 Jews were -placed in a hermetically sealed bus and driven through the streets until they were dead. This had two dis- advantages, however. First, it cost gasoline. Second, the local people found out about it. "So in late November orders were sent that Eichmann was to visit Rudolf F. Hoess, commander of Auschwitz, and teach him how to build gas crematoriums which could handle 200 Jews every 15 minutes. This stepped up the gas- sing rate to 15,000 Jews in Aus- chwitz alone, And there were six of these murder camps in Poland. "Eichmann was the SS man who masterminded this. Is it any wonder that my government is determined to try him? He will be given a completely fair trial, but he must be tried.", (Copyright 1960, by the Bell Syndicate) MEDICAL MISSION: Hope Ship Prepares for Launching SBy FRANK CAREY Associated Press News Analyst WASHINGTON (M--The "Hope ship"-a new American ex- periment in international health cooperation-will sail for south- east Asia on Sept. 21. This was reported Monday by Dr. William B. Walsh, a Wash- ington physician who heads Pro- ject H o p e-a nongovernmental effort that springs from President Dwight D. Eisenhower's people- to-people concept. The venture, under organiza- tion and fund-raising for more than a year, is designed to bring American medical and health skills and techniques to the people of other nations. The project name "Hope" stands for "health opportunity for people everywhere." ** * THE HOPE, the ship that will spearhead the effort, is a onetime navy hospital ship-the USS Con- solation-whichhwas taken from the mothball fleet and loaned by the government to the Hope Pro- ject. Walsh told a reporter more than two million dollars in mu- tual security funds were granted to refit the 15,000-ton vessel for ToT heEd Pickets .. . To the Editor: N ANN ARBOR interested students and townspeople have been picketing and peacefully demonstrating for over twelve weeks at local branches of Kresge's and Woolworth's in sympathy with Southern sit-ins; they have demonstrated peacefully in front of the Cousin's Shop; a local clothing store charged with practicing racial discrimi- nation; they have distributed leaflets explaining their purposes and urging others to join the fight for racial equality. The Ann Arbor group has focused its attention on two concerns, the nationwide struggle for human dignity that is spearheaded by Southern students in their sit-in demonstrations, and the elimination of Jim Crow practices in the Ann Arbor community. In the first of these areas, the group is offering moral support to the Southern students who are facing many hardships in their struggle for equality. In addition, the picketing exerts economic pres- sure on the national chain stores involved to bring about an end to their present policies of racial discrimination. ON THE LOCAL SCENE, the group has been successful in arousing student concern over problems of discrimination. The Student Govern- ment Council has endorsed the picketing of both the local and na- tional stores, and aroused student opinion gave striking support to the May 17th march in commemoration of the 1954 Supreme Court deci- sion on school integration. In addition, a campus chapter of the NAACP has been formed and is now working actively for equality in housing. er rm on mare an lmnnrtant cnntribution to civil liberties by General Notices University of Michigan G r a d u a t e screening Examinations In French And German: All graduate students desiring to fulfill their foreign language re- quirement by passing the written ex- amination given by Prof. Lewis (for- merly, given by Prof. Hootkins) must pass anvobjective screening examna- tion. The next administration of the objective screening examination will be on Wed., June 29. from 't p.m. until 9 p.m. in Aud. C, Angell Hall. Within 48 hours after the examination the names of the students who have passed Will be posted on theBulletin Board outside the office of Prof. Lewis, Ex- aminer in Foreign Languages, Room 3028, Rackham Bldg. Students desiring to fulfill the Graduate School's re- quirement in Frenchand German are alerted to an alternate path. A grade of B or better in French 12 and Ger- man 12 will satisfy the foreign lan- guage requirement. A grade of B or better in French 11 and German 11 is the equivalent of having passed the objective screening examination." French Club Meeting. Wed., June 22 at 8:30 p.m. In Room 3050, Frieze Bldg, Come and speak French with your friends and other French people from Ann Arbor. During the Summer Ses-. sion, four outstanding French films will be shown beginning with "Mr. Hulot's Holiday" on Thurs., June 30. Future films will be "Bizarre, Bizarre," "Calque d' Or," and "Le Plaisir." Membership cards will be sold Wed., June 22. TONIGHT, 8:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre: Irving Berlin's musical come- dy hit, Annie Get Your Gun: Perform- ances through Saturday. Tickets avail- able at box, office 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. Season tickets_ for all five Playbill productions or any four productions also available. The Playbill will include these presentations: Jean Giraudoux' AMPHITRYON 38, July 6-9; william Shakespeare's AS YOU LIKE IT, July 20-23; William Inge's PICNIC, July 27- 30; and Mozart's opera (with the School of Music) DON GIOVANNI, August 3-6. Classical Studies Coffee Hour: Thur.. June 23, East Conference Aoom bf the Rackham Building, 4 p.m. All students and friends of the Classics are cordially invited. Recitals Faculty Recital: Millard Cates, tenor, will present a recital in Aud. A, Angel (Continued on Page 4) 4. I the specific needs of the project but that otherwise the venture has been--and will be-supported entirely by privately donated funds. The 800-bed hospital ship, he said, has been converted to one of 230 beds, with the extra space revamped into accommodations for teaching localadoctors, nurses and technicians at various ports of call. THE VESSEL IS scheduled to undergo sea-trials late in July and be formally transferred to .the project on Sept. 15. It will sail from San Francisco on Sept. 21, with Indonesia as the first lengthy stop. It will remain there for about six months, then go on to Viet Nam for another four-month stay before returning to the United States. Walsh says it will cost about three and one-half million dollars for one year's operation of the vessel. * * * THE PROJECT HAS also re- ceived invitations from the medi- cal professions of Korea, Okina- wa, Pakistan and other countries. The ship will have a permanent staff of 15 doctors, several den- tists, about 50 nurses and about 30 technicians. In addition, 50 doctors will be flown from the United States every two months to serve on a rotating basis, with- out pay. The ship will serve as a floating medical center to augment local training facilities. In addition, about half the medical staff will be organized into mobile teams and sent inland to train technic- ians, midwives, inoculationists, X-ray operators and other health workers. In Indonesia there is only one doctor for every 71,000 people-a shortage that typifies much of southeast Asia. * * * WALSH SAYS THE emphasis of the Hope Project is on teach- ing-as distinguished from treat- I _e