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HORSE GETS DAY OFF - Why should I work like a horse cays Tommy, a horse who pulls a fruit and vegetable cart ail day. His owner found him in the cellar of the stable and he refused to come up the narrow stairway from which he either fell or walked down. Here Victor Brazinskas of the Chicago Anti-Cruelty society ponders the problem. The floor nay have to be broken to rescue Tommy, he says. (UPI Telephoto) , W Givt STAMPS ELLIS MARK 20 Crater Laka Avenua Scientists have succeeded in leaching cockroaches to find their way through mazes However, the insects forget the lessons overnight and have to be retaught the next daXJ O O o l t-gj ltil I I I i : r o MAIL TRIBUNE, M.dloid, Or. 10 Capitol Memo ursday, J tint 2, 1960 Prickly Issue of Reapportionment Coming Noxt Year By DOUGLAS GRIPP Salem IUPD The prickly Is sue of legislative reapportion ment in Oregon, a byproduct of the 1060 U.S. census, is coming up next year. It has been five years since seats in the Oregon Legisla lure were reapportioned, and the 1961 Legislature is sure to tackie the question, If it TToesn't, the alternative under present law is for the secretary of state to do it. It seems likely the lawmakers will want to do it themselves Some counties may lose legislative seats and some may gain. The next session, faced with a protQm of length as it Is, is sure to find figurtfjj this out a long and toucliy topic. PouibU Gainers fNo county wants to lose any state senators or repre sentatives. Several see gains on the horizon. Possible gain ers include Multnomah, Lane, and Clackamas counties. Pos sible reductions, at least ac cording to the census, may be in the offing for Polk and Yamhill counties. The new census statistics reflect roughly a ratio of one seat in the house for every 29,000 persons; for every 58,' 000 persons, oae Senate seat. Sam H a IVy, legislative counsel, says any formula the Legislature comes up with does not have to be approved by the people. So there is no question of the Legislature having a free hand in the mat ter. Biggar Districts Possible Reapportionment prior to 1955 whent way back to 1910 Haley says the total make up of the Legislature 60 member, in the House and 30 in me Senate-is not ex pected to change. But if the 1961 sessioncalls for a change, legislative districts could be made bigger. In this Ijyise, the number of legisla tors would be cut down. An attempt to alter the bor ders of Oregon's four con gressional districts could be a bitter fight. They are out of whack now as far as the population balance is concerned. by o t ) Mavo CLUflki r ftmeiituj professor MMlel Emuttui Comultant In Mtdlclnt. Mara Cllata Can Psychopathic Criminals B Curtd byQ, Psychiatrist? luuuy, many vury uaiiscr- ous criminals are escaping punishment because the judge labors under the mm i '!r it i Four Rose$ 01 stT iIt Y' Tfcl Distilled the Slow. OiH-p.K .Artwn four roses Distilling Catfie. O IOUISVILLE. KENTUCKY JJ 0 THE STAND-OUT! Look for ANTIQUE in this stand-out bottld5 .Sand you'll find America! outstanding bou&on. delusion that sending ithe man for. a jfew monthMo a mental hos pital wiirre- u 1 1 in his cure. Actual ly, a j"dge iorl a higher courrl Or. aituu In Massachu setts recently was distressed to learn that in the usual over crowded State Mental Hos pital, the patients got no treat ment to speak of. There are too few psychiatrists for hun dreds of persons. A few weeks ago I attended a big psychiatric congress and listened with pleasure to an address by Dr. Melitta Schmideberg of New York, who is an expert on Ute prob lenwif treating psychopathic delinquents and criminals. Some of the courts in New York keep sending patients to her. In was much interested in the statements of this woman who is so obviously honest. She said that criminals can rarely be treated in prison. They aren't interested in such treatment unless it will serve to get them out of jail. If it won't get them out quickly, then why should they be both ered talking to a psychiatrist? Actually, as I Just said, in most prisons, facilities art not available for the psychiatric treatment of many persons. Temptation Lacking Also, as Dr. Schmideberg pointed out, if a psychiatrist were to treat a psychopath in a prison, how could he tell if the fellow was any better? In jail, the man hasn't either the. temptation or the opportunity to get into mischief. It is silly, then, for a psychiatrist to say that a sex offender has been cured by two or three months of psychotherapy. There is no girl around that he can attack and rape and kill. ReceAjy, I saw in the paper that a ex criminal had been dismissed "cured" after three months of treatment. A few days later -true to his usual paVhirn of behavior, he raped aim beat almost to death another girl. Dr. Schmideberg taAd of one good reason why thVsuperin tendents of many prisons and mental hospitals quickly let dangerous men out to prey again on the ffiyc - the place is just too crowded. In the wards the beds are placed side by side, and there Is no room for more. Dr. SchmldeberJKsald that the patients she gets from the courts have been acnt her by a Judge or a parole officer. These delinquents have no In terest in coming to her, and so they keep breaking one ap pointment after another. They keep constantly lying, even when the truth would serve them belter than their lies do. They will come to see her only when the parole officer gets after them and scares them enough. They come only because of fear that they will again be thrown Into prison. As Dr. Schmideberg says, these men are unfit for any psychoanalysis. AbouLall one can do for the man ifcflry to do for him something that hit "ANNUAL SUMMER SAVINGS SPREE" junta DRIJS parents should have done for him when he was a boy. Dr. Schmideberg has found that the delinquent does not want a job; he hates work of any kind, and he particularly dis likes the only type of job that can be found for a man like him. The only reason why he may try a job for a while is because, if h does not take it, he will have to steal or cheat, and then he may land back in jail. Numbtr Astonishing p. The doctor says it is irkon- ishing the number of these de linquents who are practically illiterate. As boys, they would n't go to school and learn. They wouldn't settle down to anything that would do them any good. Naturally, an illit erate man who refuses to work as a day laborer has only one job open to him, and that is stealing. Some M these delinquents who havajteen around psychi atrists a while will tell Dr. Schmideberg that they are criminals because their father rejected them for a brother. But, as tfik doctor tells them, this excuse will not justify them in their stealing; and society will not forgive them because of their childhood trauma." A) Dr. Schmideberg. says that practically all of l&esi crim inals sne sev are not just neurotic; they arepsychotic. They -were made Wong, and born wrong. Many of them are schizophrenics. They are so constituted that they just cannot fit anwhere into our civilized type of life. Hence, they must constantly be get ting into mischief, and having to steal and rob and swindle. But, ( she says, being a criminal Is a tough job. There is so much strain to it, con stantly having to avoid the police. She says the criminals who are sent to her (Qnit that they don't want any treatment; they don't want to be cured and they go 1j her only be cause the probation 'officer says, you go, or else. Dr. Alvarez' new booklet "How To Safeguard Your Vision" may be obtained by sending 25 cents and a large, stamped, self addressed en velope with your request to HSr. Walter C. Alvarez, Dept. raflMT, The ReaWter and Trlb- line SyndicaterBox 957, Des Moines 4, Iowa. (ReUatad by Th ngiiitnd Trlbunt- Syndicate, 1960) Toi Graduates Corvallis - Vernon L. Gli son of Mcdford has been named one of the outstanding graduates In the Oregon State college school of business and technology this year. Selection of the top busi ness graduates was made by the faculty on the basis of scholarship, leadership, and promise of future achieve ment. The OSC school of business Is one of only 95 in the coun try that is fully accredited by the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Busi ness. J s. 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