Seventieth Year -.ru ' .. EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Then Opinions Are Free UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Tutb 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. JUNE 25, 1960 NIGHT EDITOR: ANDREW HAWLEY Saade'sr Withdrawal Unfortunate for State, Party DENVER--Even at this distance from Ann Arbor, one is somewhat saddened by the withdrawal of George Sallade from the pri- mary contest for Michigan's lieutenant gover- norship. For sometime Sallade has criticized his col- leagues in the state (and even national) Re- publican Party for their sluggishness and in- ability to identify with the modern American voter and his needs. On the state (Michigan) scene, he has often broken the typical party line-by supporting the personal income tax, road-building plans, increased aid to universities, and social and economic welfare programs. He has accrued, and quite willingly, the titles "Young Turk," "maverick," and "irregular," plus others un- printable. His amazing frankness, blended with excessive scarcasm, has become a well-known characteristic. Sallade has openly attacked the conservative (and dominating) element of the Michigan GOP; for example, there was the un- Election Year Compromise? PASSAGE OF THE BILL providing medical care to the aged by the House of Repre- sentatives is another in a series of half-hearted compromises that seem to appear about elec- tion time and with which few are satisfied. The coverage under the bill is incomplete and is nothing more than a make-shift measure passed as being better than nothing at all. Although many senators favor some sort of care for the elderly citizens of our nation, the Ways and Means Committee was unable to arrive at any decision that would have shown in a positive manner that Congress does really care about them. The bill is not expected to pass the Senate without numerous additions which will make the bill stronger and thus seems doomed if the present attitude continues to prevail in the House. It is also interesting to note that letters from concerned voters were instru- mental in getting at least this inadequate measure passed.' It is very disheartening to see the elected representatives of the country's citizens at- tempt to appease one segment of that populace with a watered-down version created out of the uncompromising attitude of election time. -M. B. forgettable day he blasted Carleton Morris In front of newsmen, legislators, and Gov. Wil- liams in a small discussion of Michigan's fi- nances. THIS YEAR Sallade evidently saw an oppor- tunity to elevate himself politically. He announced his candidacy for the office of lieutenant-governor and received, as usual, a mixed reaction. Apparently this was all the Grand Old Party was waiting for. Although it was impossible to clearly spell out, one could sense all the long-breeding animosity Sallade was up against in his newest, and most challenging, campaign. That same animosity, from within GOP ranks, helped to crush the soaring political ambition of Gov. Williams during the two-year tax crisis. The Governor had, in a sense, whipped the Republicans too hard for the first ten years of his tenure, and their reciprocal vin- dictiveness broke down many promising tax proposals in the years 1958-59. The Republi- cans were now after Sallade, a critic within their own ranks. Sallade has usually been politically tough when in a jam, and for a while this spring there was some hope that he might be able to reach at least the primaries. His personal aggressiveness, combined with a slowly-devel- oping "Progressive" movement in the GOP, might hav made the difference. BUT, AS LAST WEEK'S headlines indicate, Sallade did fail. That failure is unfortu- nate for at least two reasons. First, despite an occasional obnoxious re- mark, Sallade was highly knowledgeable re- garding state government and politics, and sensitive to the demands of a rapidly-growing state. Second, it is becoming apparent that his "progressive Republicanism" is the kind of attitude the GOP must increasingly develop if it is to be a potent force in modern politics. The party has already lost out to the Dem- ocrats in many urbanized areas. And here in Colorado, a shift is developing that can be seen in other Western-Midwestern states-the farm vote seems to be slowly swinging to the Democratic Party. If such is the pattern, the Republicans have a great deal to worry about. Acceptance of the "irregulars," like Sallade and others, may be the only means to revitalize the party. --THOMAS HAYDEN PHILIP POWER "Thank Goodness You Got Back All Right-Now We Can Stop Worrying" IV " I M - \ 4. 7t { i t El - . rr newcomer Elana Eden) meets a Tryon). His family had settled in Moab when there was a famine in the family's native town of Beth- lehem. HE CONVERTS her to believing in Jehovah. After he is killed, she has to flee with her mother-in-law Naomi (Peggy Wood, of TV's Mamma series) to Judah because, through her conversion, Ruth has become extremely persona non gratis with her old temple asso- ciates. She is also nongratis with the people in Bethlehem because of her Moabite background. However through strength, prayer, and fortitude she overcomes their prejudices and is able to marry her kinsman Boaz (Stuart Whit- man) after a kind of Beatrice- Benedick courtship and the advances of a more closely but extremely cloddy kinsman, Jeff Morrow. * * * "RUTH" NEVER wanders into the DeMille skin-flick Biblical tradition. There is plenty of move- ment, color and excitement but all these elements are kept in, hand with restraint that borders on the austere so that the story of Ruth can always move forward. The acting is uniformly good, but specal mention must go to Miss Wood who makes Naomi a truly wise and noble woman. There is a shrewd humor to Miss Wood's characterization that adds much to the warmth and believ- ability of the role. Special mention must be given to Viveca Lindfors as the head- mistress of the temple school and Thayer David as the high priest. They take their rather ordinary roles of the film's chief heavies and make them interesting; each one makes his role a human being and not just a mere embodiment of pagan evil. Last word goes to the set and costume designers. Never before have I seen such authentic look- ng and feeling Biblical costumes and settings as in this movie. Everything down to the smallest detail is perfect from the re- strained sensuality of Moab to Bethlehem's rustic harvest cele- bration. -Patrick Chester Jewish goldsmith, Mahlon (Tom INTERPRETING Rebels Set For Talks By J. M. ROBERTS Associate Press News Analyst AFTER NEARLY two years the Algerian rebels have raised a slender hope for peace by agreeing to explore, in personal negotia- tions, President de Gaulle's ideas about an "Algerian Algeria." Part of the credit must go to the French army because of its sector - by - sector cleanup cam- paign which, though far from decisive, has made an effective show as a weapon of national unity and eventual domination. Part must go to de Gaulle him- self for his advocacy of a demo- cratic approach through national determination after a cease-fire. De Gaulle's idea is that, in a period of peace, Algerians can be brought into political agreement and voluntary alignment with France, similar to that of other members of the French Com- munity. * * * UNTIL NOW, the rebels, with their so-called provisional govern- ment, have insisted on a promise of complete independence, to be discussed simultaneously with the projected cease-fire. De Gaulle refused, Now they have agreed to start talking about a cease-fire, expect- ing but not assured that the nego- tiations will lead, into political matters. The rebels have recently re- ceived firmer support from inter- national Communism; the wave of nationalism sweeping Africa gives them a sense of attunement with a far larger movement; the French in Algeria themselves believe they would lose everything in 'a politi- cal showdown. All this aids the rebel barganing position and they may believe now that negotiation gives them a better chance than continued fighting which, after six years, has not been very suc- cessful. AT THE MICHIGAN: Biblical 'Ruth'Appears THEY SAID IT COULDN'T BE DONE, but now Hollywood has fir done it. They made a Biblical epic in which the moguls of filmd have pretty much stayed within the Original Script. Of course it g without saying that when the three and one-half pages of the 1 The Book of Ruth, .are blown up into two hours of screenplay, " Story of Ruth," something has just got to be added. Scriptwriter Norman Corwin has conjectured that perhaps R the great-grandmother of David, might have been a priestess of Moabite god, Kemash, to whom little girls were sacrificed- each spr While preparing the latest little victim, Ruth (surprisingly gi: WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Byrd Favors Tax''Loopholes By DREW PEARSON MAX L E R N E R s .>. Quarrel Loses Bite W HEN ARGENTINA brought its case against Israel before the UN, much of the heavy artillery behind it had been quieted. President Frondizi of Argentina declared, the other day that if Adolf Eichmann were returned he would be available for extradition to Israel, and that there was never any intention to send him back for trial to Germany. In short, Argen- tina's quarrel with Israel has become a matter of formal procedures, not of Israel's legal or moral right to secure Eichmann for trial. Just as Israel blundered in the wording of the note it sent to Argentina, so the Argen- tines blundered by their extreme attack on Israel. After the initial reaction of hurt nation- al pride, the Argentine people have had sec- ond thoughts. One opposition deputy even ac- cused the Argentine delegate to the United Nations of having been a Hitler follower dur- ing World War II. There is a rising conscious- ness of the degree to which the Peron govern- ment, by its hospitality to former Nazis, had involved Argentina in the Nazi guilt. It is worth noting that the critics of Israel's, action do not always bring clean hands to their indictment. The Argentines would have been wiser to put their protest on record, and berate the Israelis behind the scenes, rather than insist on the debate of an issue from which they are unlikely to come off gloriously. T HERE REMAINS the larger question of whether Israel has a right to try Eichmann and whether it would be wise to have a show- case trial. I wrote earlier of the pattern of historic justice-not revenge, but justice- which will be rounded out by an Israeli trial of one of the arch-murderers of the Jews. The touchy point here is whether Israel can claim to speak for Jewish victims of Eichmann. My own answer would be in the form of a question: if not Israel, then who? It is interest. ing that the Russians and the Poles, both of them hostile to Israel as a matter of policy, seem content with letting an Israeli trial pro- ceed. Their motives are clear enough. They want reason why the democratic world should fear it, or wish it to get entangled and strangled with legal correctness and red tape. Split internally as it is on this issue, West Germany simply cannot be trusted to push the case, even if it wished to. Nor could an international tribunal survive the political tensions of the cold war. The trial of Eich- mann would become not an act of justice but a political weapon which would be grasped by one handle or another, depending on the political position of each nation. Israel has, of course, its own internal politi- cal tensions and its own political purposes to serve. But, as I have said earlier, Israel comes closer than any nation to being a carrier of historic justice in the case of the Nazi crimes. Perhaps the Israelis cannot speak for the world Jewish population that is alive today, but cer- tainly they can speak for the dead. Both their tragedy and their triumph lie in the fact that they are spokesmen of the dead, who died be- cause there was at that time nowhere in the world for them to go, and no nation to speak up for them. WILL AN ISRAELI trial stir up ugly pas-{ sions? This is the fear of many who would otherwise regard Israel as the appropriate site of the trial. Frankly, I don't see how we can calculate in advance its psychological impact. Certalinlyj it will rekindle some embers of hate, simply by having the massacres recounted publicly and dramatically. But I recall that there was a swastika madness in 'Germany only a few months ago, that spread its infection far around the world, and that it happened with- out any Eichmann trial. Silence does not cure diseases, and the racist hatred that Hitler left behind is a disease needing cure. It would be best, of course, if the Germans would take on the trial with a whole heart, since it is in and through them that the ori- ginal poisons were spread. But that is too much to expect today: the best we can hope for is that they will try some of the other murderers I - it - WASHINGTON-Some Madison Avenue moguls figured the Patterson-Johansson fight would be the last time they could invite clients to a big boxing match and deduct it from Uncle Sam's tax bill as a business expense. However, Sen. Harry Byrd of Virginia, the millionaire apple- grower, is going to save them. He's also going to save the yacht owners, the night-clubbers and the corporation chiefs who use. private airplanes to carry clients to Palm Beach and Miami-all as a deductible business expense. Senator Byrd is going to be a godfather to these legal tax loop- hole beneficiaries through the simple expedient of stacking the Senate-House conference consid- ering the tax bill with friends of the big taxpayers. Byrd is chair- man of the Senate Finance Com- mittee, a powerful post. As such he has made it a practice to over- rule the entire Senate on fiscal matters he doesn't like. It makes no difference how the greatest deliberative body votes. Byrd can usually overrule it. He does this by appointing con- ferees who will vote with him. So when the Senate early this week voted to plug three tax loopholes which benefit the big taxpayer to the tune of $t billion yearly, Byrd appointed the following con- ferees: Sen. Bob Kerr of Oklahoma, one of the biggest independent oilmen in the world, who benefits from tax loopholes. Sens, John Williams and Allen Frear of Delaware, both elected with the support of the du Ponts and faithful followers of their economic doctrine, Sen. Frank Carlson, Republi- can of Kansas, who generally votes conservative on fiscal mat- ters. Senator Byrd himself, biggest apple-grower in the world, who recently split with Gov. Lindsay Almond of Virginia because Al- mond was too moderate. This line-up of tax-conserva- tives aroused Louisiana's cham- pion of the "poor folks," Russel Long. He claimed Byrd had stacked the committee in favor of the millionaires. To appease him, Byrd finally appointed Long a member of the conference. The house conferees, led by Ways and Means Chairman Wil- bur Mills of Arkansas and New York Congressman John Taber, are so opposed to plugging the tax loopholes that they even blocked the House from voting on the amendments. Here are the amendments which the Senate passed but which Byrd is now sabotaging: 1) Tightening of the law on "swindle sheets," outlawing busi- ness deductions for yachting trips, night clubbing, theatregoing, and other entertainment. Sponsored by Pennsylvania's Sen. Joe Clark, this will cost businessmen an esti- mated $250 million. 2) Repeal of the four per cent tax credit now allowed on stock dividend income. Sponsored by Minnesota's Sen. Gene McCarthy, this would cost the coupon clip- pers an estimated $350 million. 3) Revision of the law on de- pletion allowances, restricting tax benefits to raw minerals rather than the finished products. Ten- nessee's Sen. Albert Gore, the sponsor, estimated that this loop- hole, if not closed, would soon cost the treasury $600 million a year. If Byrd gets away with reopen- ing these loopholes, the revenue loss must be made up. Those in the lower tax brackets will be hardest hit; the big-bracket boys will benefit most. iowever, the Senate liberals who fought to close the tax loop- holes won't give up without a last-ditch fight. Senators Gore and Long have served quiet notice on Byrd that they will challenge the report of his conferees if they kill all the Senate amendments. This could hold up the tax bill past the June 30 deadline, leav- ing Uncle Sam temporarily bank- rupt. "THE REPUBLICANS are watch- ing with ill-concealed glee the bandwagon rush to nominate Sen. Jack Kennedy even before the Democratic convention gets underway in Los Angeles. Reason for the glee is the fact that the Kennedy putsch nullifies one of the chief charges leveled against the Republicans-monop- oly. Democrats have been charg- ing that the GOP doesn't believe in competition, that they'll merely meet in Chicago to give formal blessing to the previous choice of the party bosses-Nixon. Now the shoe may be on the other foot. Though the Democrats were originally set for a good old- fashioned healthy free-for-all, it now looks as if they were merely going to ratify the choice of the party bosses. What plays into Re- publican hands is the manner in which certain big-city leaders are falling into line behind Kennedy --most of them Catholics. Latest report is that Gov. Pat Brown of California, a Catholic, will abandon his aloofness and plunk for Kennedy shortly before the convention. Mayor Dick Daley of Chicago, another Catholic, will do the same. Only hold-out among the big Democratic bosses is Gov. Dave Lawrence of Pennsylvania, former mayor of Pittsburgh, who is op- posing Kennedy, partly because of Kennedy's religion. Lawrence, himself a Catholic, believes that it hurts the Democratic Party to, have too many Catholic politicians in high places. (Copyright 1960, by the Bell Syndicate) HUNGARIAN STUDENTS MEET: Refugees' Protest Si By CONNIE MAHONSKE Daily Staff Writer FOUR YEARS have passed since the Hungarian Revolution, and for those who were not directly involved, the remembrance of the protest has faded into mere his- torical fact. To the members of the Associa- tion of Hungarian Students in North America (AHSNA), who met in Ann Arbor this week, it has not. Their immediate objec- tives include not only adjusting to life in their adopted countries of Canada and the United States, but reminding the Free world of the dangers of Communism, which they experienced in a revolt-torn Hungary. *~ * * SCHOLARSHIPS AND financial support received from American organizations and universities when the Hungarian students first arrived were only temporary in nature, but it enabled them ,to get through their first year, Now they are continuing by working their way through college or by qualifying for other schol- arships through their scholastic achievements. Three of the refu- gees are now studying under Woodrow Wilson fellowships. But a large number of students arrived in the United States and Canada after the first refugee- scholarship quotas were filled. These need help to take intensive English courses and to enroll in universities. An important role of AHSNA is to maintain contacts among Hun- garian students in spite of the great physical distances separat- ing them and to help them in adjusting to the new environ- ments in their adopted country. Although these students enjoy the same opportunities to enroll in universities as Americans do, most of them have the added dif- ficulty of not getting any finan- cial help from their families and the fact that job opportunities are limited since they are not United States citizens. The mem- bership fees and donations to AHSNA are used as loans and scholarships to needy refugee students. '. * * A US N A WAS FOUNDED in 1956 and has 1500 members. Del- STATE VISITS INDICATIVE: INation Seeks To Take Place as World Leader By PETER STUART Daily Staff Writer PARIS-France had made plans carefully and she had made them big for the official state visit of Israel's Prime Minister David Ben- Gurion. Troops of French honor guards in snappy red, 'white and blue uniforms had assembled before the Arc de Triumph's arches far in advance of the visitor's arrival. French government officials in business suits paced in front of the troops, as crowds of expectant Parisians began to gather along the 12 avenues leading into the Arch. All pre- parations were complete now, but it was not time for the arrival of the state visitor. During the long wait, the skies clouded. Then while the military band played both national an- thems and Ben-Gurion appeared. with French Minister of State One aim of AR SNAis to trans- Roger Fey, the rains began to fall. mit the experiences acquired by The shower was not severe and living under Communist rule and the clouds soon cleared, but it later in a democratic country. was the only flaw in an otherwise They wish to point out the con- perfectly planned (though per- trast and inform the students of haps anticipated) moment of underdeveloped countries of the pride for France. dangers of Soviet Communism, which they believe seems to sup- port anti-colonialism and nation- THESE RECENT outbursts of al movements until its own influ- gregariousness toward other na- ence is strong enough to take over tions of the world, coupled with the country and introduce a to- France's first atomic bomb deto- talitarian regime, nation and her cavorting at the The Association sent a tele- NATO conference a few months gram to the Cuban Student Or- ago, are underscored by concur- ganization urging them to con- rent developments at home. sider the sad experiences of Hun- Perhaps it is simply the lan- gary with Soviet imperialism. guage barrier compounded by the *ry . first' rushes of the new tourist ANOTHER AIM is to speak for season, but Americans cannot fail their silenced native country be- to contrast the friendliness of hind the Iron Curtain and remind other Europeans with the sneers the world that no peace can be of French cab drivers or the achieved without securing the downright rudeness of French basic human rights for every na- hotel clerks. tion--including Hungary, Elections for officers of AHSNA WHAT DOES ALL this mean? were democratic in procedure. Just that France under the rein The new president of the Associ- of Premier Charles de Gaulle has ation is Dezso Bognar-Kegl, a made terrific strides toward com- .graduate student at Columbia pleting her rebuilding from the University. The newly elected Second World War. president in his inauguration With this job done, she con- speech emphasized his intention siders herself ready to re-enter the to preserve the political neutrality world picture-:forcibly through of the Association from rightist blasting atomic bombs, if neces- and leftist attempts to exert in- sary, or through summoning 4- DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETINJ ive 91 4alin Inolljo A1Uaa lL official publication of The Unilver- College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Schools of Business Ad-