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Show t M1"1 t L- - 10 Cartoon Comment f be Balt lake Ethane Marquis Childs Adenauer Talks With JFK Hold Out Slight Promise' Monday Morning, November 20, 1961 Sex Psychopathy: More Study Needed Recent crimes with sexual psychopath . overtones lend additional emphasis to the need lor a continuing professional study of the problem. A searches under way throughout the- Intermountain West for a man representing himself as a doctor who two weeks Aurora, Colorado, ago forced a girl into his car, brutally beat her and shot her twice in the head when she resisted his advances. d man Last week another an girl at similarly kidnapped Corvallis, Oregon, and held. her for 12 hours in an isolated rural cabin. The little girl was released unharmed. WASHINGTON Konrad Adenauer has for so. long been the symbol of a re- Ger- " m an y linked 1 There are no pat answers to the problem. Too often scattergun legislation or tls spurredby. public, hysteria, resulting from a shocking sex crime or case reports on devious practices. All too often, says' Dr. Nathan Masor, New York specialist in the field, sexual psychopathy occurs in an otherwise integrated personality. In a chapter in the book, Sociology of Crime, he adds: Europe that it Is hard to realize he comes here this time with quite another status. It is as the head of an u- gray-haire- In Towaco, New Jersey, a man lured a girl into his home, shot her and set the house afire, dying in the flames. The Utah Governors Committee on Defective Delinquents and Aggressive Sex Offenders created in 1957-5- 8 in the wake of a series of sex assaults, was reactivated this fall. The reason for calling the committee back together was a shocking sex baby-sittin murder of an American Fork in September. A former inmate of the American Fork Training School (for mental defectives) is awaiting trial for the crime. The committee has asked various social agencies for opinions regarding its 1958 report which stressed the need for better staffs and facilities, more cooperation among agencies and institutions. er Not a Good Location Salt Lake County is about to close a deal for purchase of 10 acres of land for a new combined juvenile detention home and juvenile court at 3500 South and Fifth West. A suggestion by a State Bar committee that the juvenile court be located closer to the center of the city was rejected. Both state and county officials (jointly planning the new development) stressed the necessity of having the home and court in close proximity. We agree with the latter concept. There is need for the juvenile judge and his subordinates to be in close contact with children placed in detention. But we question the choice of the location at 3500 South and Fifth West Streets. Many juveniles and parents of juveniles will have occasion to visit the court and at times parents will need to visit the detention home. But transportatien for many will be a real problem. The proposed location is approximately a mile from the nearest bus route, on State Street, and bus service even there is rather infrequent, about every 45 minutes. Many youngsters and parents do not have cars. Must they take a cab such a long distance and back? Will they have to walk a mile each way from the bus and perhaps wait three quarters of an hour for a bus,"perhaps in inclement weather? Surely some more convenient location for the public can be found. Whats the matter with the original proposed location on the county hospital grounds, which Is far more centrally located and where there is good bus service? High Cost of Garbage City officials of Las Vegas, Nevada, recently were informed by their private franchise garbage collector, that he was losing money on the contract price of 35 every three months per household. Decontract he wanted the spite a city to up the charge to $7.50 a quarter. This is worth noting in Salt Lake City where a switch to private garbage collection has been studied. Incidentally, if the collection fee increase is granted, it would amount to $30 a year per household. Thats as much as many Salt Lake City homeowners pay for a years supply of water. 10-ye- ar Maybe the Hogs Worry The common idea is that human beings with ulcers worry too much or work too hard. At least nobody assumes they acquire the painful things while snoozing in a hammock. Yet now it develops that hogs are troubled with ulcers too, and the National Institute of Health has ordered a $45,000 study of hog ulcers to see if some light can be shed on the cause of the same ailment in humans. Visiting Cartoonist Medically, Dh Masor says, the sexual psychopath does not differ from the normal person. From an anatomic, physiologic or glandular point of view there is no demonstrable disparity. Sexual criminality is as likely to be prevalent in people of intelligence and means as it is in those of moronic caliber. The sex deviate is a product of unbridled, aberrant sexual appetite, which has transcended the intellectual processes ... n, But what do we really know about the effectiveness of such programs? Reports should be available to appropriate authorities in this country as to whether Danish and Dutch medical and legal authorities believe that the stringent program reduces the number of attacks and whether the problem men can safely be returned to society after the IF IT IS Impossible to predict who will7 become a rapist or sex slayer as" many authorities contend, then research into the problem should be greatly intensified. Meantime, the need is ever great for police vigilance as well as parental responslbilty to make sure children have adequate protection and supervision at all times and to acquaint youngsters of the danger of being friendly with strange men. Sex crimes constitute a part of the highly complex and troublesome mental hygiene problem which needs to be vigorously attacked on the broadest possible front Way Is Still Open It is encouraging that the Utah State Road Commission plans to meet again with officials of the U.S. Forest Service to further discuss the problem of saving aesthetic values of Logan Canyon In a proposed widening and straightening of U.S. Highway 89. Plans call for reconstruction, providing for two lanes (and passing strips where terrain permits) of 4.6 miles of road in the narrowest, most spectacular part of the canyon, one of the most beautiful routes in the Intermountain West This will be in addition to five miles under reconstruction from the mouth of the canyon to the east. Because the canyon is in the Cache National Forest, a permit from the U.S. Forest Service is required before construction can begin. After many months of study and many meetings of various interests, the Forest Service has set up requirements which must be met These are aimed at minimizing the encroachment of the highway on the river, one of the outstanding fishing streams in the region, and impairing other natural values in the canyon. Members of the Road Commission have made several concessions in design to the fish and game, scenery and other related considerations. But spokesmen have warned there is a point beyond which the agency will not go in expense not directly involved in highway work. WE ARE CONVINCED that reasonable men can work out an agreement, which though not wholly satisfactory to all, will take care of the absolute require- -' ments for highway widening and hold down damage to fishing water and foliage. Future policies vital to this country are being formulated in the Logan Can- yon dispute. Payment to private owners for land and other resources taken or damaged in road construction is made as a matter of course. The costs become an integral part of the expense of highway construction. We are convinced that where highways require bulldozing through public areas important aesthetically and for recreational Use, that every effort should be made to minimize or repair the damage. This also should become a normal part of highway construction costs. Road Construction and Resource Use, a statement and recommendations of the College of Forest, Range and Wildlife Management of Utah State Unlver-- i sity, should serve as a general guide for such construction In the future. - Crocktt la Washington Stu Iley Listen to my diagnosis! ' f I, y ncertain and contentious Mr. Childs' The individual may be the embodiment of virtue in every respect save in departure from accepted sexual code. DR. MASOR discusses treatment systems employed in Denmark and Holland. In the former a plan of rehabilitation is carried out by which sex offenders are cared for in a hospital-prisostaffed by skilled professional personnel. The aim is rehabilitation through personality and behavior evaluation, consistent with, the Intelligence of the offender. The prognosis for rehabilitation is poor for repeaters past 26 years old whose victims are mainly children. In such cases castration is performed on the persistent offender. The system is similar in Holland. Some authorities in this CQuntry view this treatment with extreme skepticism. unltea with iwe 'united 'labor movement Monday Morning Tokyo News What Did Other Cabinet Members Do? The superiority of the female of the species is demonstrated again. Jackie Kennedy sails ever the head of a horse after it stops suddenly and lands across a rail fence, but remounts in a few minutes and continues the fox hunt Jack wielded . a shovel planting a tree months ago and still has a lame back. more days Twenty-nin- e and you wont have to worry about whether to send out Christmas cards this year. THAT white stuff falling in the hills much to your current unenthusiasm will taste mighty good in next summers lemonade. One thing to be said in favor of cliches, platitudes and hackneyed phrases: bipartisan.- - Theyre Our man Alfred,- - who keeps a weather eye out the window on Main Street surveyed a bloodless but fendermangling collision the other day. he opined Well, There are two cars that wont be Jamming the highways this dont you go and kill a couple of geese? retorts the Why? farmer. It wasnt UD ALL-SA- news is sometimes hard to follow through. Several of President Kennedys Cabinet officers and his top economic adviser attended an important economic conference in Tokyo early this month, WE BEAD that Interior Secretary Stewart U d a 1 1 discussed how the UJS. might cooperate to save the Pacific red salmon. And we have seen the pictures of his dramatic climb to the summit of sacred 12, t Mount Fuji, his performance with chopsticks while wearing Japanese robes and his relaxing in a futon (bed). Udall-sarealizes fond dreams, the Japanese are quoted as saying. All of which is interesting. But what the heck did Secretaries Rusk, Hodges and Goldberg and economist Walter Heller do in 397-foo- n Japan? If Khrushchev is hard up for names of towns and cities which once proudly bore the name of Stalin, he might consider Disneyland. We seem to recall he was once Intrigued with the place. A CONVENTION Is ft gathering In a distant city, where you pay $9 for an ordinary dinner featuring a speaker you didnt bother to go hear when he was on the local lyceum circuit This story is relayed from Radio Free Europe A Commupist official visited a collective farm in Hungary and asked toe farmer: .DO YOU realize that tomorrow Is the first anniversary of the formation of your collective? You should celebrate the occasion. Why Next time were going to have toe courage to tell the friendly physician, Td say you gave me a pretty good physical examination, for a doctor your age. ( y their SAVE YULE MUSIC time for toeN annual fault Its Dana Andrews, starring in the current University of Utah theatre Broadway-boun- d play, The Captain and the Kings, confesses he once was a press agent I was younger then, he explains. WELL, when fame and security are assured a fellow can freely admit the peccadillos and weaknesses he has now overcome. The real boss of the household is the one who has charge of the controls on the electric blanket. Milwaukee Journal. TERRIBLE TOYS A "best seller toy a battery-run "jovial bartender," complete with cocktail shaker, martini glass, drunken reel and whisky-re- d complexion has women's groups of the nation up In arms, says the Insiders Newsletter. AND IN Texas a toy cocktail bar with two stools modeled after "Mommy and Daddys redwood and wrought-ironumber is on sale for over parents. The cost: oil-ric- n Big nosed and death-raguns and toy atomic weapons? $64.95. Moral question: How much worse are these toys than the great variety of snub- - appeal to the operators of the multiplying electronic carillons Please save the Christmas hymns for the church services and childrens programs a month from now. Dont make the jaded, unprotected listener hate more what traditionally has been considered beautiful and sacred music. The sum total of taxes we pay is some total. Jack Herbert The typewriter lobby solemnly denies that the machines have ruined A young executive we know Is curious to know what has ruined A survey made in West Germany showed that high school girls who wear spike heels to school have a 60 per cent higher flunking average and are Involved in more juvenile problem cases than girls who wear flats. As a result the state ministries of education have spiked the wearing of stiletto heels in school. Dont worry kids. They wouldnt dast do that in free U.S.A. ERNE LINFORD. Other Viewpoints They Learn by Their Mistakes Denver Post: It seemed a little below Dwight D. Eisenhowers dignity to poke fun at the Peace Corps. The corps is just getting started. If memory serves correctly, some of Ikes own troops had some bad moments at the start of the north African campaign during World War II. But they profited by combat experience and became fighters. They served their nation well The same can be true of the Peace Corps if it profits by Its mistakes. coalition that he must now at 85 try to assert a measure of his old authority. What this means for the Western Alliance is evl-deenough. The Adenauer of the past could take a stand, even a comparatively unpopular stand, and be sure of enough support to get his policy apThat is not true proved. today. IN FRANCE Gen. De Gaulle's authority has been narrowly circumscribed by the conflict in Algeria with Its tragic repercussions in French political life. Besieged as he is, De Gaulle on Berlin has merely said, no negotiastand firm, tion. Although the urgency of deadline for the a year-enSoviet signing of a separate peace treaty may have been removed, the embarrassment to the Western Alliance is nevertheless great. A split in the Western front seems to be the primary objective of Premier Khrushchevs strategy; It would suit him perfectly to have France and Germany balking as Britain and the United States try to move forward to realistic negotiation. This is why many diplomats are saying that President Kennedy should with complete frankness tell the chancellor an a g r e ement must be reached on a negotiating position. To allow the present drift to continue Is to risk further division within the alliance. d But frank speaking will come up against the fact of the concessions that Adenauer made to hold on to power after his failure to win an outright majority in the September elections. In order to persuade the Free Democrats to join with his Christian Democrats in the present coalition government Adenauer signed a secret document that seems to close the door on any negotiation over Berlin. This was later published by one of Germanys leading newspapers, the Sud Deutsch Zeitung of Munich. The newspaper criticized Adenauer and many of his colleagues In the Christian Democratic Party for having made so many compromises in order to keep a grip on power. The agreement, which may be challenged as unconstitutional in Germanys highest court, says that Article 7 of the Treaty on Germany, to which France, Britain and the United States subscribed, declares unity "to be the alterable aim of German policy. Any settlement of the Berlin issue which would diminish in any degree the ties between Berlin and West Germany or constitute any form of recognition of the fact of an East German state must be excluded, d THE WALL dividing be sanctioned, according to the agreement, either directly or indirectly.. On the eve of his coming to Washington Adenauer publicly declared that no negotiation can take place until the Communists remove the wall, thereby seeming to put a stopper on the talks with the President before they be--,, gin. Incidentally, the feeling is strong about the way in which the Adenauer government allowed emotions in Germany to get out of hand about the wall without making any move to set the record straight It is possible, of course, that the language of the agreement may be merely window dressing and Adenauer will be free to act as he pleases. AFTER ALL, the Free Democrats' swore during the election campaign that they would never enter a coalition with Adenauer and the Christian Democrats. In some respects the foreign policy of the Free Democrats has been less rigid than that of Adenauer. They have urged recognition of Poland and Czechoslovakia and closer contacts with the East Germans. IN THEIR brief encounter the chancellor and the President will have a great deal Ber-vive- un cannot to talk about But in view of all that has gone before or rather has not gone before the question is whether this will be still another dialogue of the deal . And it is a little late to gloss this over with one of those happy communiques about the unity of the alliance. Public Forum By Our Readers Gome Fighting Editor, Tribune: Ogdens outgoing city council should be commended for the good work It did in law enforcement. Many citizens will follow with keen interest the incoming city councils administration. In all the citys business there is nothing more important than the enforcement of the laws. Crime is rampant in Ogden as It is in many cities. With a reputable, experienced, efficient chief of police encouraged to enforce the laws without fear or favor, much progress can be made in alleviating crime conditions. Newspapers, if they report fairly and fully the operations of officialdom, will help immensely in keeping any weak officials on the beam - and - will - minimize crime. Too often newspapers publish censure of good men and women and good work. The collective education, experience and talent of the seven city councilmen elected to take over the city government Nov. 20 make it possible for them to do a good Job and to give further evidence of the superiority of government under the Ogden charter. C. N. WOODS, Ogden, Utah city-manag- The Youth of a Great World Statesman Biography Depicts Churchills Age of Adventure The Age of Churchill: Heritage and Adventure, by Peter de Mendelssohn. Alfred A Knopf, Inc., New York. $8.95. be hoped that the succeeding speeches and will fulfill toe Churchill was in love with language. He bebright promise of toe au- English came its master. The great thors beginning. Sometimes, however, the reader may feel that too most Americans, for the much attention is being paid part, think of Sir Winston to detail; that the complexiChurchill chiefly as the great ties of British politics are not leader of World War II worth toe space they receive. Yet, since Churchill is "a whose eloquence was magchild of toe House of Comnificent whose courage was mons, toe background ' is superb. There is nothing for complete unwrong with that Indeed, it necessary Moreover, De is natural; genuine heroes derstanding. handles detail Mendelssohn are all too few. But the hero so that it never deadeptly is also a ' man and, . in Churchills case, a man who generates into dullness. needs to be better known by THE PICTURE of toe. his many admirers on this young Churchill Is fascinat, side of toe Atlantic. someing. He was brash Peter de Mendelssohn has thing like his own son, Ranwritten a biography In the dolph,' perhaps, though of 19th Century tradition as far far greater ability. He as detail is concerned. (This served briefly in the British volume, 650 Tpages in length,? army and did not hesitate to is the first of a projected' tell toe army where he t thref.) At toe same time, he . thought It. was wrong. He has attempted "to depict was ruthless in debate. Winston Churchill as he saw But what he had to say himself year after year . . was usually to the point as his contemporaries saw and he was often proved him, and as he saw his uncannily accurate by THE RESULT Is a superb account of the first 37 years of Churchills life, and it is to writings. volumes De Mendelssohn quotes ex- from tensively hi lilt , Churchill's Jl Winston Churchill . . . As he appeared at turn of century. orations of World War II were forecast by his speeches at the turn of toe century. Yet it must be said also that In some Instances, early speeches resemble parodies of those to come. CHURCHILL was fortu- nate to be bom when he was, in an era when it meant something to be toe son of a lord, toe grandson of a duke. And though he would have made his way eventually Without help, he might not have moved quite as fast, This volume ends Churchills appointment first lord of toe admiralty in 1911. In De Mendelssohns words, "the long and tumultuous youth, toe age of adventure and experiment Is over. Churchill has been a soldier, a war correspondent, a member of Parliament, a member of the cabinet He has switched from toe Tories to toe Liberals. He has been Lloyd Georges collaborator. It was a period of great and significant change. The biographer brings his central figure and members of toe cast brilliantly alive. Theodore Long. |