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History from tne files ol Th
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ego.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 5, 1953 (Thursday)
The missing Medford bride-to-be
turned up safe and sound in
Oakland, Calif., unaware that
she had been the object of a
five-day search.
An early morning fire caused
damage estimated about $5,000
to Anderson's Thrift Market,
711 S. Central Ave.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 5, 1013 (Friday)
Extra point kicked by Bob
Watson nroves winning margin
as Medford Hint! School football
team defeats Bend, 7 to 8; Med
ford touchdown scored by Sieve
Dippcl.
Plans for Medford Armistice
Day parade announced by Col
W. H. Paine, parade director. ;
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 5, 1933 (Sunday)
Members of Jackson County
Budget Committee schedule pub
lic hearing on 1034 fiscal pro
gram; committee includes Com
missioners R. E. Nealon and
Ralph Billings, County Judge
Earl Day, Fred E. Warn", Med
ford, and George Alford, Phoe
nix. Crime in Jackson County cen
ters chiefly around thefts of tur
keys, wood and gasoline, ac
cording to Sheriff Olmscheld.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 5, 1923 (Monday)
Total of 7,413 tourists, largest
number in state, registered at
Medford tourist registration sta
tion during 1923.
Corning Kenly leaves Medford
on trip to Chicago.
50 YEARS AGO
Nov. 5, 1913 (Wednesday)
C. W. Ashpole of Tolo spends
two days in Medford on bus
iness. Eagle Point residents vole to
"slay wet" and to allow sale of
liquor to remain legal.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nino or ten correct Is superior
seven or tight Is eicellent; live or
sn Is good.
1. Dean Acheson occupied
what post in the Federal Gov
eminent? 2. In the history of baseball
who was knowns as the Georgia
Peach?
3. Who composed the ever-pop
ular tune Mar Dust .'
4. If an object is ovale, what
shape is it?
S. Taking t h c population
growth into account, did the U
S. percentage (.rime rate in
crease or decrease in the moo's?
8. Where is the Valley of Ten
Thousand Smokes:
7. Quote the line In the Slur
Spangled Banner which follows
"Then conaucr we must.
8. What is another name for
the card game Twenty-one?
9. A famous bell, nicknamed
"Big Ben" is in what European
city?
10. Name the European ex
plorer who discovered the Phil
ippine Islands.
Answers: t. Secretary of State.
2. Tyrus Raymond Cobb. 3.
H o a g y Carmlchael, 4. Egg
shaped. S. Increased four times.
(. Alaska. 7. "When our cause It
ii just." 8. Black Jack. 9. Lon
don. 10. Magellan,
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S-AS0CIAT10N
NOVEMBER S, 1963
Youth
This Thui-sday evening an event of special
significance will occur when, for the first time,
a "juvenile jury" of high
dents convenes in the court of Ashland Municipal
Judge Richard Cottle.
They will advise the
cases brought before him involving teen-agers
and young adults. The
make the final decisions,
advice and counsel of
bracket as the defendants.
This is one of a few
nation. The best-known
a city of some 205,000 population.
AN ARTICLE in a recent issue of Readers' Di-
gest (condensed from Parents' Magazine)
told about the Jacksonville experiment.
It said; in part:
". . . The presence of the Youth Jury has reduced the
city's former alarming rate of juvenile delinquency by at
least a half within the single year of the jury's existence."
Judge John E. Santora, in whose court the
jury functions, is quoted
"Perhaps the most powerful effect of the Youth Jury is a
deeply psychological one. It takes the pseudo-glamor out of
being a bad boy or girl. It cuts even the worst hoodlums
down to size. I can preach. They know I can sentence them
to a very uncomfortable time. They glare at me. But they
don't glare at that jury. They look, and then they wilt. These
are decent kids who are shaming them down. 11 works almost
every time with lasting results."
rNE OF THE more interesting features of the
Youth Jury system has been some of the
penalties they have devised. They think that
parents always can pay tines, so they concentrate
on finding ways to really "punish" the young of
fenders. A favorite one, particularly for traffic of
fenders, is to spend one
the medical center, where
tims of auto collisions,
violence.
In other instances, they are assigned to polish
brasswork at police headquarters, or sweep up a
city park.
"He knows that he s
that sticks," Judge Santora said.
WE HOPE that Judge
a Youth Jury is as
Judge Santora's. It may
m the size of the community, and other differ
ences, will create special problems.
But we see no reason
work well. It certainly is
is only fractionally as successful as the Jackson
vile experiment, it would do much to broaden
understanding, and create an atmosphere where
youngsters m trouble will
justice teen-age style,
the court to back them up.
Ernest Evans, the youth worker whose idea
the Jury first was, said :
scoundrels. We don't like it, and we're doing
something about it." '
Uood luck. E. A.
Data Explosion
In addition to the "explosions" we read about
the population explosion, the technology explo
sion, and so on The New York Times notes an
other one the data explosion.
It has been said that
have lived on earth since
out of ten are still alive.
that new scientific data are being discovered at
a tremendously accelerated rate.
1 he problem is that there is so much of it that
no individual could possibly encompass it all. It
would be a life's work merely cataloging and fil
ing all the discoveries,
them and relating them
CVEN IN narrowly specialized fields such as
- molecular liioloev. sav scientists have
difficulty keeping current with new findings
which have direct application to their own work.
Attempting to keep current with other but re
lated fields is even more difficult.
. Computers programmed to receive, classify
and assign scientific data may be a partial an
swer to this problem. But it can be but a partial
answer at best, simply because of the sheer vol
ume of material,
There probably is no real solution to the
problem posed by this data explosion, except for
individual scientists to
they know how, in their
specialization learning, as the saying goes
more and more about less and less.
'FHE big challenges in
lie in discovering the large relationships be
tween apparently unrelated sets of facts, and
formulating the theories which explain them.
This cannot be done by narrow specialization,
but must be done by interdisciplinarians who are
capable of the abstract
bined with wide observation and knowledge,
which can lead to such magnificent break
throughs in science as Darwin's evolutionary
theories and Einstein's concepts of the structure
of the universe.
And here again the sheer mass of available
data makes the task of the interdiscipline theoriz
er all the more difficult and all the more im
portant. E. A.
Jury
school and college stu
judge in connection with
Judge, of course, win
but he will have the
people in the same age
such experiments in the
is in Jacksonville, Fla.,
as saying:
or more week ends in
they can see the vic
knife fights and other
being punished. And
Cottle's experience with
successful as has been
be that the difference
it can not work, and
worth a try. Even if it
know they will receive
but with the authority of
"All kids are being called
of all the scientists that
civilization began, nine
This means, of course,
let alone understanding
to the others.
keep working the best
ever - narrowing fields of
science, now as always,
tvne of thinking, com
pi
FAREWELL TO DIEM
WASHINGTON What hap
pened in Saigon was bound to
happen,' for the tragically sim
ple reason that Ngo Dinh Nhu
finally lost all grip on reality,
while President Dinh Diem,
though sane enough himself,
nonetheless saw the outer world
through the half-mad eyes of
his brother.
Even in Washington, halfway
around the world, it is easy
to imagine the climate of the
last days and weeks of the Diem
regime. As long as two months
ago, when this reporter was ui
Saigon, the army leaders were
already beginning to rally
around Gen. Duong Van Minh,
because they had already con
cluded that President Diem's
government was no longer via
ble.
Even Ihen il was clear thai
if Diem did not lake the "need
ed steps to m.ke his govern
ment viable once more, the
army leaders would eventually
take steps to find a new gov
ernment. From that time until
the grim climax, the prepaid
tions for the coup d'etal went
forward without interruption,
spurred onwards in recent
weeks by the cuts in American
aid to Vict Nam.
THE tension must have been
A all but unbearable in Ihe
lasl fortnight or so. For by
then Ngo Dinh Nhu of course
knew that something was afoot,
yet dared not strike preventive
ly for fear of causing a counter
strike; while the coup leaders
of course knew of Nhu's knowl
edge, yet neither dared nor de
sired to turn back. So each side
continued without flinching, like
mere automata in the hard grip
of fate, until the final road of
lank artillery.
This is a sad end. The fash
ion, nowadays, is to forget the
debt owed to Ngo Dinh Diem.
Yet Diem alone had the guts
to put down the gangster sets
that the French had used as
allies in the Indo-China War.
And Diem alone had the sturd i
ncss and determination that as
sured South Viet Nam's sur
vival in the first chaotic years.
Without Diem, indeed, Saigon
today would almost certainly be
ruled from Hanoi. The Commu
nists themselves for years ex
pected South Viet Nam to fall
to them automatically, like a
ripe fruit. They only launched
the present civil war when Diem
left them no room (or doubt
that their huppy expectations
would never be realized.
IN those early days, when this
reporter was also in Saigon,
Diem, the bravo nationalist,
was the hero of the breast-boaters,
and the target for the
breast-beaters' indignation were
the wicked French colonials,
who then hated Diem. But as
breast-beaters always need
someone or something to be
indignant about, and as the
French faded from the scene
and only Diem was left, the
breast-beaters naturally turned
on Diem at last.
In truth, the breast-beaters
played a major role in this
tragedy, not least because they
strongly influenced Ihe first
American reaction, when the
Communists finally gave the
signal for a full-scale civil war.
As a sample of the (utile twad
dle talked in the U.S. Embassy
in Saigon at that critical mo
ment, it is only necessary to
record one fact.
When Ihe war began in bloodv
earnest. President Diem decided
to arm the civil guard, whose
members have suffered more
casualties by now than any oth
er force fighting the Commu
nists. Yet (or months on end.
this decision of Diem's met with
angry, obstinate American re
sistance, on the singular ground
that an armed police force did
no conforr.-. :.',,k the best and
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD,
Matter
of Fact
By Joseph Alsop
JO New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
highest principles of Asian de
mocracy. 1MIE recent tragedy was di-
rnrllv rnntpH in lhat lime
before President Kennedy im
posed more order and realism
on U.S. policy in Vict Nam.
Ngo Dinh Nhu, in particular,
was permanently warped by his
memories of the earlier period.
He could never take advantage
of the new opportunity that was
offered to him in 1961, because
he could never quite believe the
opportunity was real in view of
what had gone before. In the
conduct of the war, the team
of Ambassador Frederick Nolt
ing and Gen. Paul Harkins made
great progress. But in the poll
tics of Saigon, and in his deal
ing with the United States, Nhu
plunged onward from folly to
folly, always dragging Diem be
hind him. And so the end came
at last for bolh Nhu and Diem
the end which might well
have been averted by more
practical common sense at the
outsol.
The question now, it must be
added, is whether practical
common sense or the outcries
of the breast-beaters are lo pre
vail in Washington. As was un
avoidable, the Diem regime has
been supplanted by a military
junta. Procuring efficient, hon
est, energetic government from
a military junta is not easy at
the best of times.
This difficult task will be ren
dered all but impossible if
Washington uses its vast lever
age in Saigon to satisfy the
breast-beaters, by seeking to
stage a virtuous comedy of civil
government. Creating a work
able civil government in Vict
Nam is simply not feasible in
the midst of civil war. Let the
war be won first, as it can be
won, and let the Vietnamese
settle their own political affairs
thereafter. These are the prac
tical rules to follow, whatever
the breast-beaters may say.
Communications
No Sales Tax
To Ihe Editor: It seems to
me lhat the mandate, if there
was one, of the Oct. 15 refer
endum is being misinterpreted
by those legislators advocating
a sales tax. True, it is the
people in the higher income
brackets who hire the lobbyists
to brain wash the legislators
into again attempting this re
gressive and unjust form of
luxation, but it is the people
in the opposite category who
cast the majority of votes.
There is every reason to be
lieve that if a general sales tax
is enacted it will again be re
jected in referendum election,
and the people should go farther
by marking every legislative
advocate of such a tax for
elimination at the polls at the
first opportunity.
Above all things the legisla
ture should not reduce the pay
of legislators. For the first
time in the history of the stale
it is now possible to elect rep
resentatives who arc independ
ent of pressure by special in
terests, since with the present
pay scale it is possible (or an
honest man to run for the ol
fice without sacrificing his time
or his honor.
The great fault of the I!;:)
tax program was attempting
too much at one time. Taxes
should have been gradually and
intelligently increased over the
last ten years as the cost of
government increased in har
mony with the increase in all
other costs. Instead, prior ses
sions of Ihe legislature rode
the war surplus down to its last
thin dime without attempting
to compensate, and each session
passed the buck on ahead
The often expressed idea that
a general sales tax will solve !
the lax problem for the fore-
seeable future is an expression!
OREGON
'Minds and Hearts1 of People Seen Key
To Vietnamese Problems by Young Officer
3f
PHIL NEWSOM
UI'I Foreign News
Analyst
The small, brown-faced man
wearing the insignia of a lieu
tenant colonel in the South
Vietnamese army turned from
the military map before him
and, with his pointer still in
hand, told this correspondent:
"If we get the people with us
then this war is over."
' In his words there was frank
criticism of the handling of the
war effort by then President
Ngo Dinh Diem, and that was
one reason his name could not
be used in Saigon dispatches.
Critics of the regime did not
last long in Diem's army.
His name still cannot be
used. As a director of South
Viet Nam's psychc':;ical war
fare unit, his identity would be
of importance to the Commu
nist Viet Cong.
But from the beginning he
was one of South Viet
Nam's young officers who rec
ognized that loyalties of the
people eventually would prove
more important than guns in
the fight to save South Viet
Nam from communism.
'Minds and hearts, he
called it.
The conversation with the
colonel of psychological war
fare took place a little more
than a year ago. Dissatisfac
tion with President Ngo Dinh
Diem was mounting, along with
pressure from the Commu
nist Viet Cong.
In the years 1954-61 united
States aid to South Viet Nam
had amounted to $2.5 billion
and was to rise still farther so
that it came to $1.5 million per
day.
The Viet Cong had forced
abandonment of 1,000 class
rooms and 600 health centers,
20 per cent of the country's
total.
In the course of a year, the
coastal railway had been cut
500 times.
In one of the greatest rice
growing countries of the world,
the government was forced to
borrow rice to feed the people.
The war in Viet Nam has
been called an indigenous war
because, regardless of U.S. ad
visors on the one hand and
Communist Russian and Chi
nese aid on the other, it is be
ing fought by Vietnamese. It
also has been called two wars,
one being fought by day
and the other by night.
Fighting on the side of the
Communists have been some
25,000 regulars, aided by
peasant militia of up to 200,000
and by intelligence supplied by
perhaps a million others.
The objectives of his psycho
of ignorance or Intentional mis
representation. State services
to the people and the where
withal! with which to pay for
them has always been and will
continue to be a problem for
the self governing state and
should be a subject for study
by a permanent interim com
mittee. Such a committee is
possible and logical with the
present pay scale of legislators.
It is possible that a legisla
tive session free from pressure
by special interests could ob
viate the need for new tax
souices by closing the loopholes
through which such special in-,
terests avoid paying their just
share of the income tax, but
if a new form of taxation is
found necessary, why not a
"gross earnings" tax? This is
one of the fairest forms of taxa
tion since it is based on the
ability to pay rather than of
the necessity to spend, as is
the sales tax, and it is one of
the mrst difficult to avoid pay
ing. D. Ivan Frills,
747 Fortncr Lane,
Ontario, Ore.
Overseas Trade
To the Editor: Having read
with a great deal of interest the
heart-breaking cries of the big
spenders, their crocodile tears
at the mere thought of reduced
spending, my heart really goes
out to them. They recognize
neither race, color or creed,
Ihe aged, sick and infirm arc
included in their money mad
plans. They have no sympathy
at all for the problems ui that
forgotten clan of people: retired
persons, many of whom must
live and pay taxes on a yearly
income less' than the $6iX) per
month pocket change allowed
our esteemed Governor over
and above the almost $2,000
monthly salary.
Knowing these folks are con
sidered from the nngle of lax
and votes only and having
mmu mm iniina nuum boiii
tears aeo. I have been Irvine
io find a workable solution, one j make-work project. The
satisfactory with them so that t Exposition is industry s answer
on the next overseas picnic they l President Kennedy s repeat
can extend the trin to the Islelcd challenge to unchain the Iron
! of Man and eel free coconuts
from Ihe monkeys, sorta like
the old saying "Birds of feather
flock together."
Establish an exchange ss-
logical warfare campaign to
win "minds and hearts" were
clear in the colonel's mind.
First, he said, the people in
South Viet Nam's rich delta
country did not regard the Viet
Cong as Communists but rather
as resistance fighters who first
battled the French and then
the Americans and who
Suicides More Frequent Than
Thought; Motivations Complex
By
WILLIAM B. DICKINSON, JR.
WASHINGTON Society no
longer buries the bodies of sui
cides at a crossroads with a
stake driven through the heart
to pin down the ghost, a prac
tice common in England as late
as the 18th Century. But enough
of the primitive horror of sui
cide remains so that large num
bers of people continue to think
of self-destruction in terms of
punishment, moral condemna
tion, sin, insanity and coward
ice. Because of the old attitudes,
experts on the subject encounter
great difficulty in spreading this
message: The great majority of
suicides and suicide attempts
are the product of emotional
states which are only temporary
and which are remediable.
This knowledge is crucial to
a solving of what has become
a public health problem of the
first order. At least 20,000 Amer
icans will take their own lives
in the next 12 months, and
100,000 to 2SD0O0 others will
make serious but unsuccessful
attempts to do so. One eminent
medical statistician estimates
that possibly as many as two
million individuals now living in
the United States have tried at
some time to commit suicide.
Eleven of every 100,000 Amer
icans ended their own lives last
year a total of 20,890 persons.
Among persons aged 20 to 35,
suicide was the fourth leading
cause of death, being outrank
ed only by accidents, heart dis
ease and cancer. For every two
persons killed in automobile ac
cidents, one commits suicide.
For every homicide in this coun
try, there are two suicides.
Even these startling statistics
are believed to understate the
dimensions of the problem.
Many patently suicidal deaths
are certified as "accidental"
or "natural" because of strong
local taboos regarding self-destruction.
The actual number of
self-inflicted deaths each year,
some experts think, may be
twice or even three times the
official total reported by the
U.S. Public Health Service on
the basis of death certificates.
Investigating teams say they
have encountered evas'on, de
nial, concealment, and even di
rect suppression of evidence of
suicide by friends and relatives.
Suicide notes may be deliberate
ly destroyed. Letters may be
written to a coroner protesting
tem whereby they can trade
person for person with foreign
countries. Then when a group,
politicians excepted naturally,
reach retirement age, round
them up and ship them over
seas, preferably to the country
from which their ancestors
came. In return insist that
refugees be young, husky and
healthy, thereby they are in
sured of regular taxes for the
next 20 or 30 years and votes
that shouldn't be too difficult
to control. That way we would
probably come under foreign
aid so with our meager income
it should be sufficient to exist
on. If not, what's the difference?
At least we wouldn't bo under
foot over here and who would
care anyway?
Claude M. Hall,
2860 Placer ltd.,
Sunny Valley, Ore.
Railway Progress
To the Editor: In October
railroads and their suppliers
staged an impressive Railway
progress Exposition in Chicago.
It was an eyeopener to those
who declare railroads obsolete.
The motive-power revolution
did not stop with the dicsel.
A specialized car revolution
stresses increased capacity and
loadability. The wedding of rails
and trucks in piggy-back serv
ice combines the best features
of both modes and releases high
way space to private automo
biles. Unitized trains, automat
ic trains and railroading by
computer demonstrate the un
tapped potential of the Iron
Horse.
This potential is inhibited by
vested interests in subsidized
non-rail transport allied with
political regulation empire build
ers and those who would reduce
. ., , . ......
railroads to a huge Vt PA
Horse and let him run
K. Fritz Schumacher
(Former Santa Fc "Rail")
81 West Grand View Ave.
Sierra Madre, Calif.
promised the people land.
The government, he believed,
must give the people new lives,
teach them their interests and
how to protect them.
Amnesty must be sincerely
offered to Viet Cong fighters
who come over to the govern
ment side. And young men
must be assured that a future
in advance a possible ruling of
suicide, such protests some
times being accompanied by
petitions from whole neighbor
hoods.
Superstitions
In his classic work, "Suicide:
A Social and Historical Study"
(1938), Henry Romilly Fedden
traced the prevalent attitude to
ward suicide to primitive tribal
superstitions concerning ghosts
of the dead, especially ghosts
of persons who had been mur
dered. "Whereas the ghost of the
murdered man bore malice only
against his executioner, the
ghost of the suicide was believ
ed to harm society in general,
and the latter was held to be
indiscriminately and collective
ly responsible for his death,"
Fedden wrote. Indeed, the prim
itive suicide frequently was a
revenge suicide in which the
victim believed that his ghost
would haunt and plague his
enemies. Then only recourse for
a community was to mutilate
or destroy the corpse, so that
Ihe risen ghost would be in
capable of inflicting harm.
It remained for the Christian
church to attach the onus of
sin to suicide, although Biblical
scholars and others have found
no specific anti-suicide teach
ings in the Old Testament or
the New Testament. Fedden be
lieves that Saint Augustine's
condemnation of suicide in the
first quarter of the fifth cen
tury was written in part in reac
tion to excesses of suicide
among members of some religi
ous sects. These zealots appar
ently thought of self-inflicted
death as a good means of avoid
ing worldly sin (which would
result in perpetual punishment).
By the end of the fifth century,
suicide had become so tainted
that not even the ascetic or
martyr could take this way out
with impunity.
Complex Motivations
Most psychiatrists agree that
the conscious and unconscious
motivations which lead a human
being to the point of self
destruction are complex and
obscure. Psychological, physi
ological, social, ethical, cultur
al, economic and situational
factors may all play a part m
a single suicidal act. Dr. Joost
A. M. Mecrloo is among those
who pleads for recognition of
an "infinite number of motiva
tions" in suicide. Self-destruction,
he says in "Suicide and
Mass Suicide" :i962), repre
sents not only tic wish to kill,
the wish to be killed or the
wish to die, but also "the secret
belief in mystical rescue and
revival; an urge lo make a
magic offering to the gods; and
many other motivations . . ."
While the person who at
tempts or completes suicide
may. not be well in a psychi
atric sense, only one of every
five persons committing suicide
is believed to be psychotic, or
insane in the popular sense of
the word. It is said that suicide
is more preventable than any
other major cause of death, but
that both physicians and lay
men need to become more
aware of the danger signals.
Researchers have shown that
75 per cent of ihe people who
kill themselves give clear indi
cation of their intention by ad
vance word or deed. This is
Ihe desperate "cry for help"
that relatives and doctors ig
nore only at their peril.
Suicide prevention centers are
springing up throughout the na
tion to help such persons
through their period of depres
"Wilh Riiisia out of Ihe race, ne'll he first lo Ihe moon.
'Course il means they'll probably be first with a cure lor
cancer, heart disease and Ihingj like dial!"
beyond the army awaits them.
It meant that in the huts of
the peasants, the picture of
Communist leader Ho Chi Minh
must come down and one o(
democracy take its place.
This was where Diem failed
and what today constitutes one
of the biggest jobs of the new
government.
sion. Their general success
seems to have proven that most
individuals who think about kill,
ing themselves are suicidal for
only a limited period of timo.
If they are saved then, they
can go on b lead useful, even
happy, lives.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris'
(cl field Enterprises, Inc.
THE END OF CRIME
In the wake of the Valachl
testimony before the Senate in
vestigating committee, it was
only to be expected that law
enforcement officials would ask
for more stringent measures
and better tools to fight or
ganized crime.
But none of these new tools
which include permitting wire
tapping would be effective,
except against the isolated
criminal who is not protected
by influential "connections."
And he is not the main problem
in our modern urban society.
There are only two ways to
get rid of organized crime, and
neither will be acted upon by
communities. The first is la
eliminate all contributions lo
political parties; the second is
to double police salaries and re
move the police depart m e n t
from political influence.
w
The community ilsclf .should
provide a budget for political
campaigns, so lhat candidates
and parlies are not dependent
upon large contributions from
dubious sources. This would
be intiiiilcly cheaper in the
long run than permitting rack
eteers (o buy immunity
through vast political dona
lions under Ihe table.
The second, and comple
mentary, way of reducing ov
canized crime is lo drop Iho
thousands of useless and para
sitic political workers from
the chics' payrolls, and to use
these additional funds to re
cruil a higher type of polico
candidate who is paid a wago
commensurate with the dig
nity, the importance ami the
clanger of Ihe job.
If political influence wcro
removed from (he polico
forces, and if racketeer influ
ence were removed f r o nl
the financial needs of politi
cal parties during campaign
years, organized crime would
soon go out of business.
It is axiomatic in knowledge
able circles that organized
gambling, prostitution, and sim
ilar illegal operations could not
exist for 24 hours in a town in
which the police were incor
ruptible and free from political
influence. Nations like Great
Britain, for example, have no
"syndicate" problem becauso
the police, the courts and tho
political parties are not sleep
ing together, as they so often
are here.
There are three kinds of
crime: emotional, private, and
organized. The first two are part
of the human condition, and w
will always have them, in great
er or lesser degree. The third
kind is a cancer that is peculiar
to the modern urban structure,
and can be cut out of the body
politic. Bui not as long as tho
body politic refuses to dcpoliti
cize its administration of law
enforcement and justice.
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