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WRONG MESSAGE
LEARN TO LIVE WITH IT
WE HAVE ATOMIC ENERGY. We can’t close
our eyes to it, so we must learn to live with
it, stated a scientist recently before a group of busi
nessmen here. In order to live with it, much is to be
learned on how to control it. The project at Cape
Thompson is probably the most carefully prepared
and planned project of our age.
Specialists from all over the world are invited
to participate and observe. These specialists are from
all possible scientific fields having to do with the fish,
flora, human life, tides permafrost and other related
fields.
Alaska is fortunte to be the place to be chosen
for this project. As their studies are being conducted
much is learned about Northwestern Alaska which
can be applied for other purposes. For example the
geological study of land encroachment in that area
has been revealed.
As over 800 scientists are expected to come and
go to this area next year, Nome should plan to see
that these visitors are according every opportunity
to see and enjoy the wonders of Northwestern Alaska.
Planning should start now so that we will be ready
when the time comes.
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Sen. Henry M. Jackson of
Washington Is New
Demo. National Chairman
LOS ANGELES. Iff—Sen. Henry
M. Jackson of Washington was
elected chairman of the Demo
cratic National Committee Satur
day.
He agreed to serve in the key
position through the presidential
campaign and until his personal
friend, John E. Kennedy, “is
firmly established in the White
House.”
Kennedy had asked Jackson to
take the national chairmanship
after he had tapped Sen. Lyndon
Johnson for his running mate.
Jackson had wanted the vice
presidential nod, and at first said
he was not interested in the top
party position.
16-Year-old Pilot Making
Cross Continent Flight
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y., Iff)—Six
teen-year-old Edward Miller
landed safely in Cooperstown to
day o i a cross-country, solo flight
from his home town, Calistoga,
Calif.
The red-haired youth, flying a
rebuilt 1945 light craft, hopes to
become the youngest pilot to com
plete a solo flight across the
country.
After visiting relatives here for
several days, he plans to call on
relatives in New Jersey and then
go to Washington, D.C.
Miller flew in from Lock Haven,
Penna., where he stopped to tour
an airplane factory without
knowing that his failure to arrive
in Cooperstown yesterday had led
to fear he had met with a mishap.
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FBI Director Notes Trend Toward
Overzealous Pity for Criminals and
Equivalent Disregard for \ ietims
course, would remove the threat
of the thing most feared by the
criminal — punishment for his
misdeeds.
A prison official proposes that
all jails be converted into hos
pitals or rehabilitation centers.
Inmates are not in prison to be
punished but to be treated as sick
• Reprinted from the FBI Law
Enforcement Bulletin, July 1960>
By J. EDGAR HOOVER
We are faced today with one
of the most disturbing trends that
I have witnessed in my years in
law’ enforcement—an overzealous
pity for the criminal and an equi
valent disregard for his victim.
This dangerous tendency is in
herent in the various theories and
systems now being suggested,
many of which are aimed at mak
ing sweeping changes in our es
tablished methods of dealing
with the lawless. A continual
study of all practices is a neces
sity, for there is no progress in
a static society, but every con
ceivable angle must be consid
ered before revisions are made.
One proposal, which propon
ents attempt to justify from an
economy standpoint, calls for a
Hearing on Certain Form
Of Hamblin" Scheduled
For Aug. 1 In Juneau
JUNEAU. Ifl —Revenue Com
missioner Peter Gatz today sched
uled a hearing on proposed regu
lations to authorize certain forms
of gambling for August I in the
Senate chambers of the Capitol in
. Juneau.
j In addition to the Juneau hear
■ ing a Department of Revenue of
■ ficer will be available at the An
' chorage City Council Chambers
j on August 3 in both the morning
: and afternoon to explain the pro
| posed regulations to interested
S persons.
Persons or organization not
planning to attend these sessions
may submit a statement of their
views to the Department of Reve
nue, Game Division, Alaska Of
fice Building in Juneau post
marked no later than August <5.
France Grants Independence
To Eighth Former Colony
PARIS, —The little African
republic of Gabon Friday became
the eighth former French colony
to be granted independence. All
! remain within the French com
munity, rapidly trning into a
loose-knit organization like the
British commonwealth.
vast decrease in the number of
persons sentenced to prison. Other
diverse schemes being propound
ed, if adopted, would have the
effect of virtually opening the
doors of our prisons or turning
them into little more than restric
tive resort hotels. These plans, of
men, he asserts. With these few
words he has adjudged all crim
inals mentally ill. Do away en
tirely with definite prison terms,
exhorts another individual, who
advocates the establishment of an
absolute indeterminate sentence
system under which a criminal
would remain in jail only that
length of time he requires to con
vince a person or group of per
sons that he is “rehabilitated." A
premium would be placed on act
ing ability. Still another expounds
a reciprocal law throughout the
United States whereby all charges
against an individual—no matter
for what crime or in what juris
diction — would be wiped out
merely by serving one prison sen
tence.
Americans are noted for favor
ing the "underdog.” But all too
often we have witnessed a “mad
dog” transformed unto an “under
dog” by certain people who quick
ly forget or choose to ignore the
great suffering by innocent vic
tims of hardened and professional
criminals.
It is imperative that every hon
est effort be made to rehabilitate
those individuals who have stray
ed from lawful ways. But must
the America! people, and espec
ially the law'enforcement officer,
continually be forced into a type
of Russian roulette by a distorted
philosophy which places concern
for the criminal above the wel
fare of society, and time after
time releases men who have
demonstrated nothing but con
tempt for our laws.
There can be no law and order
in a society which excuses crime
on the premise that the perpet
rator is “sick.” Basic logic de
mands that a man be held morally
and legally responsible for his
willful acts.
When a hardened criminal un
wisely is granted leniency, the
very lives of countless unwary
citizens who by chance come in
contact with him are placed in
jeopardy. As part of its over-all
responsiblty to protect the public,
law enforcement must take a
strong stand against perverse pity
for criminals and its resulting
dangers.
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