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Sounding of the Shofar,
Traditional Symbol of the Jewish New Year
TEAMSTER UNION BOSS:
Hoffa Just Few Steps
From Peak of Career
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second in a series of articles on Teamster
vice-president James Hoffa, Today's installment begins an interview with Hoffa.)
SEEKING SOME KIND of rapport, the reporter began,"First a crucial
question. My wife wants to know why you always wear white socks?"
"Because my feet sweat less in them," Hoffa said. No smile. Period. End
rapport,
Still groping for a door through the vestibule, the reporter struggled
with small questions.
"With all the troubles you've had as a union leader, the fights, the
pressures, the criticism, the intense work 16 hours a day, the time away
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DNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1957
NIGHT EDITOR: MICHAEL KRAFT
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Enrollments Go Up.. .
And So Do Building Needs
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WITH THE announcement that enrollments
have increased for the fifth straight year,
it appears evident that rising enrollments are
quickly joining football, coloring leaves and be-
wildered freshman as part of the traditional
fall scene at Michigan.
This tradition however, has a more pertin-
ent meaning behind it. Primarily, the increase
of this year and the recent past reflect not a
greater number of high school graduates but
only the greater proportion who continue their
education.
The spiraling enrollment expected when the
"war babies" graduate high school and reach
college age is still a couple of years away.
But it takes several years to design, approve
and erect buildings. To meet the demands of
rising enrollments, which are expected to reach
40,000 in 1970, the University has planned an
ambitious five year building program that will
need over $100,000,000 in state appropriations.
The program undoubtedly is adequate to
take care of the University's needs . . . if it
is fulfilled.
BUT FROM past indications, wrestling funds
from the Legislature will be a slow process.
The buildings- the University hopes to begin
in 1958 should sound familiar to Legislative
committees for the University also tried to
start them last year.
In some cases, with the proposed new music
school building for North Campus, negotia-
tions with contractors had been nearly com-
pleted. But the University was forced to drop
the plans when the Legislature failed to come
through with financial support.
And then there is the Mental Health Re-
search building, for which the government
authorized a grant to be matched by the state
government. The Legislature, however, did not
appropriate funds, and mental research is
still waiting.
Ironically, the results of the Legislature's
economy minded "hold the line" philosophy
against spending which prevailed at the last
session will cost the state more money. Costs
for both material and labor have risen an esti-
mated eight per cent and they will have to be
paid by the same "money-saving" legislature.
Traditionally, the Legislature has been hesi-
tant about appropriating capital outlay money
to its universities and until the state's tax sys-
tem is revised, only blind optimists can expect
more money.
In the meantime, the war .babies are reach-
ing college age and the pressures on higher
education are mounting.
PERHAPS THE University feels a moral ob-
ligation to accomodate the growing num-
ber of those who want higher education. But
if the Legislature does not feel a correspond-
ing financial obligation, it's time for the Uni-
versity to also "hold the line."
Crowded class rooms and harrassed profes-
sors are too high a price to pay for tradition.
-MICHAEL KRAFT
--Daily-Bud Bentley
Faubus Joins The Court
In Trampling the Constitution
ROSH HASHANA, YOM KIPPUR:
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Jewish Holidays Explained
ITHE TRAGEDY of Little Rock is that the
events there have ended, for the forseeable
future, the rational consideration of the con-
stitutional issues implicit. in the entire school
lesegregation issue. In acting .as he has, Gov-
ernor Faubus has betrayed the interests of ev-
eryone involved for the sake of temporary p.
itical advantage.
When the Supreme Court overruled the
renth Amendment in its desegregation deci-.
sion, it opened what should have become a
great constitutional debate on the question of
federal vs. state rights. And, for a time, it ap-
peared that the South was prepared to meet
hat challenge: it did not filibuster collective-
y on the civil rights bill. Even when Senator
'hurmond let passion or politics overcome his
etter judgment, he talked the full 24 hours on
he subject - no mean feat. The Senate as a
whole moved toward becoming a great con-
titutional debating chamber.
Then Governor Faubus, along with inciting
o riot, obscured the issue. He insisted that he
lid not dispute the jurisdiction of the Supreme
Court; he was merely attempting to preserve
aw and order. In effect, he conceded the en-
ire constitutional issue before it was fought.
HE ALSO surrendered in advance on the out-
come of his own fight. "Litigation," he said,
was the solution to the problem, not the disso-
ution of the threat of violence. As Governor
Faubus well knew, any litigation would either
tart or finish in a federal court, and he would
ventually lose - but also win the next elec-
ion.
To ensure this, he sent the National Guard
o "maintain order," and also to keep the Ne-
"roes out. At the same time, he insisted that'
he was not challenging the Supreme Court. In
short, he played both ends against the middle,
vith the Southern people - both white and
Kegro - in the middle.
For one thing, there was no threat of vio-
ence until the governor sent the troops out,
andshe made no attempt to back his assertion
that there was, until he had made sure that
there would be. As a result, he now can say,
and is saying, "I told you so." It is doubtful
if he is very popular with his fellow Southern
governors at Sea Island.
Indeed, responsible Southern governors -
from Caleb Bos in Delaware to Price Daniel
in Texas - must realize the tremendous dis-
service done them and their way of life by
this sometime-liberal, sometime-conservative
turncoat. In the majority of desegregated
schools thus far, there has been no serious
violence. The major exception (Clinton, Ten-
nessee) is as much due to the neo-carpetbag-
ger Kasper as any citizen of that town.
GOVERNOR Faubus has changed all this.
He has set peaceful race relations as far
back in his way as the Supreme Court did in
its; more important, to the South and to the
country at large, he has completely conceded
to the federal, government in the constitution-
al issue.
The South, as a result, has lost ground in
its efforts to resolve the question of states'
right and federal power. For Governor Faubus
is so universally regarded as representative of
the South - outside the South - that for
years to come, when Senator Russell or Sena-
tor Thurmond attempts to raise the constitu-
tional question, the people will picture a mob
surrounding Central High School, and armed
soldiers keeping eight children from entering
classes.
This, then is the great sin of Governor Fau-
bus. He has destroyed any chance for intelli-
gent, rational discussion of the great constitu-
tional issue of modern times, confounding one
side of the debate with sheer race prejudice,
merely for the sake of another two years in of-
fice. In so doing, he has wronged the cause for
which he pretended to fight, and more, the en-
tire concept of government by law.
-JOHN WEICHER
By HERMAN JACOBS
Director, Hillel Foundation
1. What is Rosh Hashana?
Literally, the beginning (head)
of the year. It starts the year, ac-
cording to the Hebrew calendar,
on the first day of the month of
Tishri. This year the Jewish New
Year 5718- falls on September 26
and 27.
2. What is the length of the
Holiday?
It extends from sundown of the
eve to sundown of the last day.
This year from Wednesday eve-
ning, the 25th to Friday evening,
the 27th. Reform Jews observe
only the first day.
3. How is it observed?
With special religious services
in synagogue and temple featur-
ing the blowing of the Shofar
(the ram's horn); festive meals;
sweet delicacies, symbolic of the
sweetness of the New Year; ex-
change of greetings, "L'shana
Tova Tika'sayvu," meaning may
you be inscribed (in the Book of
Life) for a good and happy year.
4. What is its special signifi-
cance?
Rosh Hashana is also known as
Yom Ha'zikaron, the Day of Re-
membrance; Yom T'ru., the Day
of Sounding the Shofar; Yom
Ha'din, the Day of Judgment
when all Jews take stock and re-
view their actions and moral be-
havior and when they pass be-
fore God, as Judge; in review.
5. What is Yom Kippur?
The Day of Atonement.
6. When does it fall this year?
Yom Kippur extends from just
before sundown of the 9th day
of Tishri, this year Friday, Octo-
ber 4, through sundown of the
10th day, this year Saturday, Oc-
tober 5.
7. How is it observed?
With special evening and all
day worship, fasting, penitential
prayers. The best known prayer is
Kol Nidre, recited by Jews the
world aver, with its music fa-
miliar to others from frequent
rendition or performance in con-
certs. In fact, the eve of the Holi-
day takes its name from this
prayer.
8. Significance?
Yom Kippur is the holiest day
in the Jewish calendar and con-,
cludes the period known as Aseret
Y'me Tshuva, the Ten Days of
Penitence, introduced by Nosh
Hashana, a period dedicated to
repentance, prayers and acts of
charity.
Legend has it that during this
period God, reviews the life of
each person as though it were
written out in a book before Him
and determines from this record
what shall be the man's destiny,
whether life or death, health or
illness, prosperity or poverty ...
with the person inscribed and
sealed for a good year if adjudged
worthy.
from your family, did you ever
wish even for a moment you were
in some other line?"
"Never."
End foothold.
Hoff a, wearing a white, short-
sleeved shirt, blue tie, shiny gray
trousers, moved impatiently in his
chair. He shifted his taut, power-
ful frame - height, 5 ft. 5 in.,
weight 170 lbs., but the chip on
his shoulder remained obvious.
Some students of Hoffa say the
chip can be traced to various
factors-to the grim poverty of
his boyhood in Indiana; where his
father was a coal miner; to his
grubbing for odd Jobs in Detroit;
to the abrupt end of his education
in the ninth grade; to his first
strike - at a grocery chain where
he worked for 32 cents an hour;
to his slow climb to the union
throne room through picket line
fights and backroom power plays;
to his "bad press"; to repeated in-
vestigations of him; to the simple
fact that James Riddle Hoffa is
shorter than most of his fellow
men.
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WHATEVER the reason, the
chip on his shoulder has gotten
him in trouble, most of it in his
climb up the Teamsters ladder.
He has been convicted three
times. He was fined $10 in 1938
for disturbing the peace-using his
fists on those who objected to
Teamster organizing tactics at a
Detroit laundry. In 1940, he was
fined $1,000 for a violation of
anti-trust laws for conspiracy to
create a monopoly in the waste
paper business and threatening
independents with violence.
In 1946 he pleaded guilty on a
minor state charge and paid a
$500 fine in an attempt to Organ-
ize merchants who picked up their
supplies.
HIS LATEST brush with the law
was his acquittal on bribery
charges when a Senate committee
claimed he tried to buy informa-
tion about their investigation of
the Teamsters.
Just a few steps from the peak
of his union career, Hoffa still
faces much unfinished business.
He still must square himself
with the law, this time on a wire-
tap conspiracy charge. He must
face again the Senate Rackets
Committee inquiring into his hood-
lum association and "conflict of
interest" activities. He must also
square himself and the Teamsters
with the AFL-CIO for violation
of its ethical practices code.
None of these diversions is ex-
pected to stop Hoffa's election as
Teamsters' president in Miami
* * *
NOW THAT he's near the top at
44, now that he has matured,
according to his union conferees,
and is less impetuous with his
fists and brain, can Hoffa look
back at his 25 years with the
Teamsters and see where he might
have done some things differently?
"Circumstances, conditions
change," Hoffa said, studying the
ceiling. "If I could I might have
done some things differently. But
who knows? . ..
"Were there any particular mis-
takes you regret?"
"There's no man living who
don't make mistakes. But you
don't correct mistakes by being
afraid to make a decision a second
time."
ALSO PRESENT at the inter-
view in Hoffa's big, blond-wood-
paneled office were his attrney
George S. Fitzgerald, whose pres-
ence was "only a coincidence," and
Bert Brennan, president of Local
337, Hoffa's partner in some of
his business ventures and a co-
defendant on the wiretap charge.
The phones rang repeatedly and
men frequently poked their heads
in the door for whispered confer-
ences. On the phone, Hoffa seemed
to settle things quickly, concisely.
Brennan took some of the calls
and proved even more concise.
"Tell 'em to drop dead," he told
one caller and hung up. The inter-
view resumed.
* * *
Q. MR. HOFFA, what is your
comment to the charge that you
exhibited unusual forgettery' be-
fore the Senate committee?
A. All a man can do is try to
recall events to the best of his
ability. If you sat in this office as
I do day after day and get 60 calls
a day and people bouncing in and
out with many kinds of problems,
you'd find it difficult, too, to re-
member everything .. .
0 TIM he hna.rinos hurrt vr
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1957
VOL. LXVIII, NO. 7
General Notices
Regents' Meeting: Fri., Oct. 18.. Com-
munications for consideration at this
meeting must be in the President's
hands not later than Oct. 9.
Change in Christmas Vacation Date.
At its meeting September 12, the Deans'
Conference approved the recommenda-
tion of the Calendar Review Commit-
tee to change the date for resuming
classes after Christmas from Fri., Jan.
3, 1958 to Mon., Jan. 6, 1958.
Pershing Rifles Smoker for all fresh-
men cadets and midshipmen. wed.,
Sept. 25, 8:00 p.m. in North Hall.
Veterans who are enrolled in the
University of Michigan under Public
Law 550 (Koea G.I. Bill) for the first
timemust report to the Office of Vet-
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Applications for Phoenix Prject Re-
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wish to apply for grants from the
Michigan Memorial-Phoenix Proect
Research Funds to support research
in peacetime applications and-impli-
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applications in the Phoenix Research
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Oct. 2. 1957 Application forms will be
mailed on request or can be obtained
at 118 Rackham Bldg , Ext. 2560.
Fulbright Awards for University Lee-
turing and Advanced Research have
been announced for 1958-59 for the fol-
lowing areas: Europe, the Near East,
the Far East, Africa, and Latin Ameri-
ca. Those applying for lectureships are
expected to have at least one year of.
college or university teaching experi-
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are expected to have a doctoral degree
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International Exchange of Persons,
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mation may be obtained in the Of-
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Applications for Fubright Awards
for graduate study during the 1958-59
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dia, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Nether-
lands, New Zealand, Norway, Philip-
pines and the United Kingdom. The
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and include round-trip transportation,
tuition, a living allowance and a small
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Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, and Vene-
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governments pay maintenance allow-
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ally are for one academic year, but
some may extend for twelve months.
Interested students who hold an A.B.
Degree or who will receive such a de-
gree by June, 1958, and who are pres-
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university in the spring of 1957 should
direct inquiries and requests for ap-
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national Education, U.S. Student Pro-
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The following persons have been se-
lected as ushers for the 1957-58 weason
for the Choral Union Concerts, the Ex-
tra Series Concerts and for the Lec-
ture Series. The usher tickets for these
series may be picked up at Hill Audi-
torium Box Office between 5 and 6
p.m. from Wed., Sept. 25 - Fri., Sept.
27. The tickets must be picked up at
this time as they will not be given out
at the door at the first concert as in
the past.
Anabel Anderson-Imbert, Janis Adams,
Suzanne F. Adams, Lucille Apicos, So-
phie Alli, Judith L. Anderson, Kay Ab-
bott, Byron Antmnan.
Susan G. Brandt, Laird H. Barber, Jr.,
Charles J. Botero, Virginia R. Bush,
Les Benet, Anthony David Blau, Bev-
erly Berney, Dan Berwin Brockman,
Marjorie Anne Brooks, Diane Rae Berg-
man, Harvey Berman, George Bleek-
man, Jr., Dolores Bleekman, Margaret
Elizabeth Berry. Elaine Burr, Philin R.
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THE CULTURE BIT:
Entertainment Attractions
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>:. tt>:By DAVID NEWMAly
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LOOKING UP:
AS I SAW before me yes
Times picture of Negro re
bent already on one knee,k
the groin by the toe of a b
I mourned for mankind ar
certain things.
I wondered what it wast
grimace on the face of ther
,fighting for a cause-was
curity, a thing so "rationa
ingrained from parents' ped
thing innate with all men
superior blood over other
I wondered what it was th
to life, that clenched lawle
foe already down and holdin
Does ,man need these ca
wars?
Wondering Out Loud
By JAMES ELSMAN JR.
terday a New York I wondered where courage could be found
eporter Alex Wilson, as nine adolescent Negroes found it to walk the
being pummeled in jaws of possible death to go to school. This
rick-wielding sadist, Quiet Generation has its moments and its
nd wondered about heroes after all. With student forages like these
and others in Hungary, in Poland, in South
that put the intent America and round the world, history is moving
racist, like someone fast and in the right direction. To the authori-
it economic inse- tarians of this age-Faubus, Kadar and their
al," or was it hate kin-are coming the Toth's and, yesterday, a
lagougery, or some- Negro girl, Melba Pattillo. Trembling with
z, a wish to prove courage, she said to herself Monday morning,
races, other kinds. "I must go," and recited in a whisper, "The
at brought mortido Lord is my strength and my shield," she went.
ess fists to fight a If we all were made of such stuff.
g no intent to fight.
lesthenics between AND I WONDERED what the listening ears
of colored peoples over the globe would
interpret from the scene. Do they really under-
stand when we say, "We're making progress"?
And then I wondered if we, whose roots are
lit I:43aset in Northern soil, could be true and say,
"It's a terrible thing" when we have harhnred
IT IS CUSTOMARY in scribblings
of this sort to say welcome to
the freshmen, who are already
tired of being welcomed and would
just as soon go home. The sports
scribes bid good rooting to the
fans, the women's page gals hail
the coeds, and so on.
Here the problem is touchy. Do
we say hello to the dilletantes?
Greetings to the mad bohemians?
Howdy, first-nighters?
No, rather than limit the reader-
ship, we expansively say hello to
all freshmen and elders, passing
on this advice: take advantage of
the enormous amount of cultural
activity around here, whether as
participant or spectator. Sometime
during the heady round of parties,
football games, horror movies and
Presidential teas, see if you can
squeeze in a play or a concert or
an art exhibit. The lists look prom-
ising.
* * *.
WHATEVER your particular in-
terest in the arty field happens
to be, you're odds on to find it
here. We hear that saidso often
that we tire of it, but it happens
to be so. The bearded folk-singer
who just wants to strum his guitar
for an evening can always find five
other fellows who want to do the
same. Somebody or other is always
having a folk-sing at his apart-
ment.
The baroque lover can find
things baroque in any number of
little, unknown concerts in town.
The cool cat always knows where
a session is going on.
actors and musicians and inter-
ested parties have been complain-
ing about drop-offs in attendance
at live presentations. What's to
do? It's up to you--you can see
things or not see them. Sometimes
you're lucky if you miss it. But
only sometimes.
So, for general information (A
public service of The Culture Bit),
here is a kind of vague preview
of what's coming up. It's an ex-
citing schedule, for all that. The
productions may be awfully good.,
They may even be better. A lot
depends on the people who attend.
Encouragement, that's what we'd
like to see. A lot of people who are
knocking themselves out could use
it, Encouragement.
PROBABLY the best publicized
events are the concerts at Hill
Auditorium, with such diverse at-
tractions as Myra Hess, William
Warfield and the Obernkirchen
Children's Choir scheduled to ap-
pear. It is a sure-fire schedule,
albeit Montovani is included, and
attendance is usually no problem.
But don't neglect the local offer-
ings, which are often as good as
the pros. The wonderful chamber
music of the Stanley Quartet
(free!), the student recitals
(free!), the performances of music
school faculty members and groups
(free!), the occasional jam sessions
at the Union (ditto!)-all are
worthwhile events which do not
always get their deserved attend-
ance.
The theatrical scene is sadly
imaginative speech department
which sometimes hits the mark
quite solidly.
Starting off the season will be
the venerable farce, "Arsenic and
Old Lace," followed by more am-
bitious productions such as
O'Neill's powerful "Desire Under
the Elms" and Shakespeare's
"Love's Labor Lost." Student plays
will also be on the boards, as will
be the usually stunning operas pre-
sented with the School of Music.
Buy a ticket. See a play. It wouldn't
harm you.
The lecture series dramatic
highlight, as we see it, should be
the Emlyn Williams reading of
Dylan Thomas' beautiful boyhood
recollections. Already seen in Lon-
don, it was acclaimed a smash. As
for George Jessel's talking mem-
oirs . . . well, to each his own.
* * *
ANN ARBOR Civic Theatre will
continue to present current thea-
trical excursions, among them
"Teahouse of the August Moon,"
"Guys and Dolls," and a recent
Hopwood winner by Harriet Ham-
me, "Mia Mine." Quality is any-
one's guess here-sometimes, as in
last year's "Bus Stop" they come
up with a real winner.
On the musical side, the Gilbert
and Sullivan Society will present
two of the Masters' works this
fall, "Trial by Jury" and "The
Sorcerer," with another show in
the spring.
Soph Show has picked a won-
derfully tuneful show, Gershwin's
"Girl Crazy" for their offering.
Finally, if Musket's "Kiss Me
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