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1 Wtafc I Wat guts Claw. Kid Tundmt, Dtttmttr 21, 1H4 v. Eist European Peoples Hive New Burdens 0 .0 Don't Give the Criminally Insane A Second Chance to Strike a til aviIbI New burden fall the Eat Zuwean peoples with the tight; bin rolition with the West. tow peoples are ruieu hierarchy installed by the Krem- It n. ttw Ptvt nf been prevented had it not been for understand along with families, knowing Oi able but foolish sympathy on the part family.

And there have been times when World War IL They had no TtSSiL choice-the Red Army, with the Mlt fcw5 j'ttwitattSi Moscow-trained stooges, flowed into their countries and there cmtrut: tf. no effective contact with the SffiSS West. ta um uw for npakJkMtea toll has been conservatively eiU- -ffi ffJf mated that' 30 per cent of the When are our legislator and courts going to take action to remove the menace of mental eases who are habitual criminals? At every opportunity, defense attorneys try to convince juries that thieves, rapists and murderer are insane or were at least temporarily insane at the time the crime was committed. Then, frequently, after mental tests are completed, the guilty ones are sent to either prison or a mental hospital for a comparatively short term. Rehabilitation is a splendid thing.

Whenever It is possible to take a man from a life of crime, educate and cure him and return him to society a normal, law-abiding citizen, that should be done. But all too frequently we read of heinous crimes being committed by second and third offenders. Many times, person's first crime might have should be in some sort of institution. reasonable to suppose that all insane be prevented. But by proper lawmakers and our courts, many would not be given a second this meance, we have cases of insane who are set free.

that in this day of medical people, if they had a free 'vote, would ballot against the Communists. Actually they faced penalties if they did not show at the ballot boxes to vote ior a single slate of candidates selected by the Red rulers. TELL OF HARDSHIPS Refugees from the East tell in detail of the hardships, the bit- social progress and of supposed more much more could be done lerruying numDer ot repeat ter anti-Soviet animosities of the rule was carried out throughout people. But there is no series of lhe In manner worthy of stories about: any effective under- slaal nlars ground resistance; It has become were nicely attired and wore passive resistance mostly, in con- their happiest smiles, as they al-trast to those early post-war ways do upon such occasions. i i Rptpr Mcfionalrt.

who lives States would support their nationalist world-wide contest between communism forces of freedom makes that impossible. British, who rule Cyprus as a crown Middle Eastern headquarters ousted from Suez. Our govern- we have a big stake in supporting in the Mediterranean. our leaders realize that, if we were with a major ally, such as Britain, of EuroDe and this country is hoped that the people of Greece be made to understand our position. has.

never opposed freedom for not now. But in this instance, of what Is best for the. greater The Chinese Student Problem Congressional Quiz Gordon Martin Yule Cards difference between flexible and supports? supports arc hluh when there's a commodities or hen supply and balanced, low when there's a surplus. years wnen armea oanas neia oui in the forests in expectation of that familiar word The term now dims because it is based on a belief that world opinion, with a little assist from the subjugated peoples, one day would force the Soviets to withdraw Thp Kremlin 1tipm nf "ro-pris- tfnee" has now hardened into one of coagulation. That waj the original iaea unuer aiaun.

In the opinion of western po- litical leaders this was very evident In the recent "security conference" held in Moscow. The men who took top billing in that conference, aside from the voices of Moscow, were the Poles, and East Germans. The latter satellite countries sent their top men. The others settled for less. THOSE WHO REMEMBER The dramatization presented by the main speakers in Moscow's "security" conference was nimed not only at the French West Germans but all the not have a chance to vote viuuna uui icurouuu the Nazi tyranny.

roallv-is the most efteHivp wea- pon "in the Soviet arsenal. This would have more effect if it were not publicly announced long aco- by the Communists that Nazis were no longer prevented from holding key jobs in eastern Europe. Actually Nazis have' been selected and encouraged to join an anti-western Communist military bloc Robert S. Allen Ike's Program Extensive WASHINGTON Presi dent Eisenhower's domestic legisla- tive program lor. next year will provide the same price guarantee the supply situation.

According flexible supports, lower supports and help melt surpluses. the farm surplus? figures are available on surpluses, but statistics on government inventories price-supported commociiies provide Santas In Green Because a group of young Delaware County Marine Corps Reserves cared, several thousand local youngsters are going to have a happier. Christmas. The "Toys for Tots" campaign sponsored by the Marine Reserves was a complete success. Giving of their own time, these boys set up more than 200 collection centers throughout the county where persons could leave new or used toys.

After the playthings were picked up, the Marines sorted them. Those that were used! and could be repaired and painted up, were "worked over" by the trainees. All the toys suitable far use were then turned over to the Salvation Army and Child Health Center in Chester for distribution. Beginning yesterday, parents of needy children were able to take their youngsters' Christmas list to either place and choose the toys re- quested, it available. Authorities at both Salvation Army and the Health Center expressed amazement not only at the mountain, of toys, hut at the quality.

And they were especially pleased and surprised at the fine repair work done by the Marines on used toys. What adult can forget the thrill of seeing those wanted toys' beneath the tree-on And what adult who didn't find some childish delight there can ever forget the hollow the aching void? The men and women who work in our various welfare organizations can tell you that hundreds of boys and girls would have had a pretty bleak Christmas it not for these young Marine Reserves. 7 Last year, the boys collected 7,000 toys. This year, a goal of was set. By yesterday, the Marines had received 13,093 toys.

Some of these, of course, were in bad shape, and the Reserves will go, all out this week in an effort to salvage as many as possible. It is hoped that at least 10,000 toys will have been given out by -Christmas. The others will be kept by the Reserves, who will work on them and save them for distribution next year. A salute to our Marine Reserves is in order. Theirs is true spirit.

Our Stand on Cyprus During the past week, rioting Greeks have, expressed their displeasure with the United States" decision to oppose the bid the people of Cyprus break away from British rule. About. 80 per cent of the people of Cyprus are Greek, and they want immediate union with Greece. Their desires are quite understandable. in less turbulent times, there is no doubt cians have gone enlightment, of penal reforms, 10 ail aown crimes.

entire defense shortage of farm miscellaneous W. g. Rogers swers to our thousand and one questions. It is interesting, from my safe desk, to watch ice form dangerously oh wing edges; it's interesting, too, to learn the navigator's problems. But navigation is called "a pursuit of truth," and there are larger.

truths in this absorbing hook than the facts of mechanical flight. It's thrilling to read of the man who fell miles without a parachute and with hardly a bruise; of the woman who practically froze to death and un froze; of the tornado that milking stool; of the pilot who Laura Z. Hobson that the patient It is not crimes could action by our men and women chance to strike. In addition to criminals not It seems logical me that the United aspirations. But the and the The colony, have their there since being ment feels that Britain's interests In addition, to have a split based.

It is to be and Cyprus can This nation any people. We it simply is a case number. What's the rigid farm price A Flexible demand are Rigid supports no matter what to the theory of discourage production QHow big is A No accurate as such, of rough guide. minor, on sept, billion a year ever, is normal What is the economic assistance ated for fiscal A Military aid assistance. "NEAR AND Certain things that are near aglow with memory cheer of an old brittle leaves favorite nook playground day things full of life broken and sweet the'se more and treasures with them 1 the priceless my heart.

Federal holding's totaled about S3. 9 WASHINGTON The question of exchanging Chinese students for Americans has been discussed secretly lor some time and is more complicated than appears in the headlines. The amazing fact is that the State Department sent nine Chmess studenls back to China after the 11 U.S. airmen were convict ed of trumped-up spy charges. Inside fact is that the United States is dickering, not merely release oi we 11 airmen, out for a larger group of.

American hostages including 28 civilians au, 11 others not in ja.ii out unable to leave China, and three priests under house arrest. The regoUaUons are going on ifl Gen whfire Red ChJ. na and (he have consular offices, with messages usually delivered by intermediaries, though the US. consul and Chi- nese consul have held more than one conference. The' 35 students China wants returned happen to be technical specialists in electronics and engineering, sorely needed by the Communist, So the State Department is caught between the moral to rescue the American citizens on one hand and military pressure on the other not to return the 35 specialists, badly needed by Red China.

Also the State Department is Note Hints have also been dropped that. Red China might let the imprisoned Americans go in return for over $125,000,000 in Chinese assets frozen'- in this OLD TRUST-BUSTER Joe O'Mahohey of Wyoming, one of ever to. serve in the Senate, is now back on the job and has fixed his eagle eye on the Dix on-Yates contract. the Securities Exchange commission wnen it was an m- strument for protecting the pub-, lie ramer man Helping wan street: and who helped to write the Holding Corporation has asked the SEC some questions heart of the Dixon-Yates wrangle. One of O'Mahoney's most important Senate probes was of the insurance companies.

Now he wonders why and how New. York Life Insurance and Metropolitan Life are putting up approximately 599,000,000 of their policyhold-' ers' money to build a power plant for Dixon-Yates which is considered an extremely, doubtful risk by so many members of Congress and probably won't get a Congressional appropriation. O'Mahoney is also interested in knowing just why the Holding Corporation Act isn't oeing mastered by the SEC, and why corporations with practically no ju, comparea to wwut earlier. Some of the inventory, how- reserve, rather than surplus. total of U.S.

military aid and to foreign countries appropri- 1955? 'totals $2,419,000,000, economic 5301,000,000. The' grand total, including aSSmmi. om mmtr Dtvkm to ILJll "ZLZ lUW OifoL JinULL 71 YEARS AGO ift the public hold extra literary exercises in the schools on the Friday he-fore Christmas holidays, and yesterday the long-established 011 h-street, and is well known as a wife-beater, was Dracticine his old game last night. This morning he was taken "before Alderman Welser. YEARS AGO George Bull, one of the motor-men on the Providence avenue line, of the Chester Traction has his schedule down so fine that the people along the line set their clocks, when his ear goes by.

He can run a trolley car right up to the dot and not a second ahead or behind. It is not unlikely that at the next meeting of the Board of Educa- ti dl jj measureg wm be taken to have the heads of various industrial establishments in this city comply with a clause in the school law regulating of minors. 40 YEARS AGO gth sf Eddystone, was one of trie successiui pigeon exhibitor at the Philadelphia Poultry Show recently. She won first prize for importea cnecKerea macic jor pourters, second prize lor cockerels, second prize lor hens, and third prize for black ikered snow cockerels, first year of the Commis sion lorm of government in Chester will come to a close with "the first Monday in January. 30 YEARS AGO A triangular plot of ground at the intersection of Baltimore pike, Chester road and Oakdale avenue in Swarthmore, has been purchased by the Keystone Automobile club from Mr.

and Mrs. Albert C. Thatcher, as a site for a memorial to the late Joseph Weeks, the champion of highway development in Unable to compete with motor truck freight, lines which "have been established, the Philadelphia and West-Chester Trac tion today announced that it has een compelled to petition the Public Service Commission for permission to discontinue hauling milk and light freight. 20 YEARS AGO Irwin A. Williamson of Drexel Hill, superintendent, of the Emergency Educational' Relief Project in Delaware County, proposes to obtain 50 of the finest musicians in the area to form Delaware County's own orchestra.

The or chestra. which has already be- -tu, 50 George T. Ashton of Lewis Schrader formerly an instructor, in music. tugene Ward, Tis" cose employes, returned yesterday from a successful hunting expedition Central Pennsylvania. Ward and James each bagged a deer, but Latham, seiged with "buck fever," "blasted away at a honied.

animal which turned be a bull calf It- cost him 515 and a lot- of embarassment. 'YEARS AGO fwo Chester Drintprs went fleaT the to meet jrvu-lc James a. UI unes composing room learned in a letter he received today. Pvt. Ppffr Stan.

kus writes that when his ship pulled alongside another to take recently he spotted a familiar face on the other veu sel. When asked where he came "Xa pTa man L. Fry of Chester. Stankus then remembered him from the Chester Times composing room. After the two printers exchanged etaoins, the ships parted, one bringing Fry home and the other taking Stankus to a battle area.

John Nay lor. ox-Snnn- fic'd student, returned from -n acuic recently with a j-jhcuijou 01 paintings his duf- Juif A Moment Expenditures, -is $2,782,000,000. Ben Burroughs Reflections Inntf at- all tho rfiriclma! cards friends who send me fond regards of them are very cute with Christmas cheer in wprds astute. I note cathedral scenes of singing youngsters in their teens and lines from carols sung by Yulctide holly decks, the hall. I notice, too, some cards so gay which picture snow- and horse-drawn sleigh and with the wish it brightly tells I almost hear those jinglebells.

But suddenly I realize among the Christmas cards I are those from folks I clean forgot which leaves me in an awful spot so out I rush to buy more cards and thus return their fond regards. Next year I'll have them on. my list but still some others will be missed' so next year every year, 1 fear I'll post last-minute cards of cheer. weren't enthusiastic about returning, but were drawn by strong family ties. The State Department permit- tea an to leave, except spe- iallsts whose skills would aid tiie nnemv.

Of these, half ehansed skill. The Chinese Communists, for their' part, didn't release a single American, though they agreed to permit letters home and made other minor concessions. The StaLe Department, however, decided to let the 27 go home, as gesture of American good faith. The last nine of this group were permitted to take off. even after the trumped-up spying charges were brought against the The deal allowing these 27 to return was kept supersecret for fear of causing a political eruption on Capitol Hill.

no more Chinese technicians will be given exit visas until the Reds start releasing Americans in DEAR" do I hoSd sacred objects and dear special things bringing joy and untold flowers crushed in faded pages and worn out book torn and that linger taken Irom a tarnished things from childhood's, fragments of a bygone so seldom, resurrected 'though-hid ancient toys ragged baby shoes so very are things that I hold precious more each time we meet that have little value but would not part for they are objects-. near and dear unto up against possible howls from their minds after the Korean the powerful China lobby. War, leaving only G2 still want- For instance, Senate GOP ing to go home. Leader Knowland of California, Of these-62, the United States unofficial China lobby spokes- secretly agreed at Geneva to reman, has been agitating for turn '27 with the least strategic capital are permuted to duuo up De even more extensive man nas great industrial empires using been officially disclosed, other people's money. This was In addition to the 12 major what the Holding Corporation measures that were linked by the Act was to prevent.

white House following the con-Yet now the Mississippi Valley ference with the Republican con-Generating formed only a gressional leaders, six others al-few days after Mr. Dixon and so were discussed. These Yates got their power plant portant proposals are: OK from Adm. Strauss and the Federal aid ior school construc-Budget Bureau, is using origi- tion A far-reaching water resources gun practicing, is directed by plan. Arthur Hasslcr of Upper Darby, A new natLna1 transportation with arranging of scores by Lew-policy.

is Grubb of -Chester. Some-local Revision of Lhe Natural Gas musicians who have beeri select- Robert S. Allen Life in Greece Better Week of 'Oh, I Forgot' years to get the Americans re- leased from behind the Curtain. However, the State Department fears he may yell even louder if the 35 Chinese techni- cians are sent back to Red Chi- THE CHINESE STUDENTS Meanwhile, the 35 Chinese specialists are not held under ar rest, as is the case with most of the Red-held Americans, but bee to go where they please Actually, the 35 represent only a small handful. of the 4,500 Chinese students who were studying in this country before the Korean war.

Less than 450, or a bare 10 per cent, elected to go back to their Communist-controlled homeland. Even these few George M. Adam Alexander Smith, who wrote in 1S63 that charming book of essays called "Dreamthorp," once stated that the only immortality for which he wished was that he might be "occasionally quoted." So I quote: "In my garden. I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights. My inter- ests are divided between my ger- aniums and my books.

With the Slower I am in the present; with lhe book I am in the past." A strancer called upon Words- the great English poet and as to where lhe poet worked. He would like to see his libary. Said the servant; "This is master's room, but he studies in the fields." From one's library comes lhe silent voice of history. Poets, novelists, historians, scientists, inventors, discoverers, and all manner people are all recorded in books that may rest upon anyone's library shelves at his will. The story of human life is recorded in volume after volume.

Civilizations have risen only to die and be buried. Only in books and crude characters docs there remain any story. Wc can select our own friends when wc build a library, and sine is no criterion of worth. Stevenson once said, friends but these without capitul- anon, Ttiars ine way is wun books. Once have read and loved one vou want it to slay with you mr so long as you live unless you send it out to bless someone else! rial capital of.

only Sduu to Dor-row an initial 55,500,000, after which they go la the insurance companies lor the remaining 599,000,000 of policyholders' money. Mahonev feels tnis is some- fnrnftratton ActVas definitely designed -to- stop. Yet the seems. to: be condoning it. Note Among other mings, me Dixon-Yates plant' is to be located on a former channel of the Mississippi River, a famous for changing its channel from time to time.

Last night at about 10 we went- Athenian taverna, operaieo. near the ancient Parthenon by a modern Greek named Viclor Kypiakoe. This was a kind of -combined delicatessen, nowe-r shop, night club and restaurant, plus a wide-open kitchen so the customers could he sure their food was cooked the way they wanted it. We could look to the left and watch the octopi slewing; to the right and view a beautiful Grecian singing Latin love songs with a hand that thumped out a surprisingly good mambo. It was a confusing kind of restaurant and it became more so when the aitcr appeared with plates of He said everything was cooked (0 order and wouldn't madame (all foreigners sret French snoken here) like some nice octopus? lie gave one of these a vvicririo in chmu tirm, froci, it and while Mrs.

O. didn't exactly shriek, he got the idea. He said he could chop this octopus in small pieces" and she'd think she was eating lobster. She said she could get along without lobster, too. Then, he asked, perhaps she would like some baby octopus as an appcuzer, rTcncn-inea ana 10 be eaten like potato chips? Hilda was having none of that; neither would she try the stuffed squid, priced at 30.000 drachmas, or 10 drachma, and actually at 35 cents, American.

Act to exempt certain producers ly as prescribed in-' ai widely criticized Supreme Court deci- Anti crime legislation primarily at eradicating gam-' blmg and narcotics syndicates. Legalizing the use of wiretap-' ping evidence in federal courts, with this authority vested chiefly in the Attorney General. Reason these measures were not included in the White House announcement is uia.t. vtuiuua ue- tails are still under considers- tK within Administration among the legislative chiefs. So pending, final agreement, if was decided to say notning unui later.

are part the President's 1355 domestic pro- )W, projected in either his State of the Union message or in special The was very positive about that in the meeting with the congressional leaders, and none of them indicated dissent. HOW THEY'RE THINKING Atty. Gen. lif-rbert Brownell made it clear he is not giving any ground in insisting the Jus- tice Department have control wire-tapping. This unyielding' demand was the chief reason this legislation trot nowhere in the last Congress.

The House parsed a bill, but gave the federal courts authority over wiretaDDinir. Vwncll then car- ried his fight to the Senate Ju- diciary Committee, which shelved the bill completely. It is still gathering dust there. Ho told the GOP chiefs that he is determined renew his battle in the coming Congress. "This legislation is he contended, "and I will con- tinue fighting for it.

The government hasai have it in order to effectively combat treason, subversion, and sabole." BrowT.ell also explained that lhe Administration will advocate "package" anti-crime measure. SONG OF THE SKY. By Guy Murchie. Houghton Mifflin. Ever since Rachel Carson wrote "The Sea Around Us-," knowing editors have combed colleges, studies and garrets for some one to write a book to match about other natural elements.

Here, for the first time in I don't know how many tries, comes an author who rightly belongs in Miss Carson's distinguished company. In cEfect this is a story of the transatlantic flight of the first regularly scheduled air xreignicr, gins to provide fascinating an- "Oh I forgot Aunt Hannah1." If that doesn't ring a bell, you're a real lucky Christmas snopper ana auutu as unusual a phenomenon as that meteor that fell out of the sky the other day and bruised a lady's thigh. For this is the week of "Oh, I forgot," If it's not Aunt Hannah, it's Uncle Hcrbic, and no matter how thorough and conscientious a list maker you are in November, it's a sure thing you are going to find a gap here and there in December. And when you do, that's when you gasp in dismay, that's when you feel stony-hearted, that own thoughtlessness at having to say on, jl lorgot. A NATIONAL CHORUS It's a national chorus, however, so don't ieiil dismayed or stony- hearted, don't feel freakish or all out of slen with the crowd.

We all have at least one dear good soul in our lives that wc just can't help forgetting. Or one Business we over- look, or one distant relative who ent us something last year and who slipped right out of our mmas untu tnc eleventh nour ot the. last shopping day before The could have come down safely if he'd had three hands -but was ouiigeu, niMtdu, man. what Murchie calls a Chinese landing "one wing low." But nature is more thrilling than man, and you will be utterly absorbed by the accounts of the world's many winds, the clouds with their varied texture, and the sounds that nature makes, the shriek, howl and clangor, and the song. murchie, like a poet, is in love with the things he writes about-air, winds, clouds, weather; and he's filled a wonderful big book with them.

salesgirl for showing her tapered veivet siacKs. "She's too fat ior those skinny pants," the gorgeous one said impatiently. "And she's one of those cranks that with the times it got to be just what The salesgirl brought out more stock and the customer's rose a notch about "just having will make a ood showing, you the salesgirl didn't, I sure did. I moved tut of earshot, but lhe gorgeous gift-giver didn't iovc out 01 my mmri. What else but black bate was lhat description she'd given of her old aunt, pare and 1 adrfrned hate, not tapered a bit? out ol a present bought in such resentment about "having to give something?" Mv darlinir Hannah, now.

and Uncle Ilerbiethov'ro differ- oni; it i aid torgcl lor a minute, I certainly came to in plenty of time! ATHENS Life in Greece since I was here only three years' ago has taken. an amazing turn for the better. If only it weren't for the fresh boiled octopus, my bride. The spine-jolting holes in the streets have been repaired. The stores, which once were bare, now are crammed with merchan- disc.

The citizens are properly clad and most of them are getting enough to eat. Even the monetary system is beginning again to make sense, or at least, the natives think so. I'm not so sure, myself. I've got a wad of ma bills in my pocket and also a fpv Sfl-rli-ariima nntfvt: Thrv tcrcliangeablc. Turns out that inflation got so wild-eyed a while back, when every Greek-was a multimillionaire and needed a basket to cany his money, that the government decided on a drastic reform.

It told the citizens that henceforth they'd have (0 ignore the last (hroe zeros printed on their money. The Thills became twenties and the yellow tens. It also began to print new money with the proper number oi naughts, but it did not call in the old, HIGH LIVING So 50,000 drachmas in Greek money actually means 50, which in turn anns up to u.h.a, This may be all clear to vou. but when it comes to sDondinc mrngs grow complicated. Most of my spending hereabouts has been on high living, Greek style.

They're the names of our lists, ponr souls. They're (he duty people i minds and Hearts. And this is the week, all right, all right, for separating the sheep from the goats, if Aunt Jinnnah and Uncle Herbie will pardon the expression. This is the time when the- "duty" of life sills away from the love and warmth in if. and perhaps that for ihey may be the poor un- a JiIt of a more than the loved and popular folks wc know.

But I do think that when wo stop lumping our duty feelings vim our sponiancous then achieve a new honesty and maturity thai ran add lots (0 aur peace 01 minu. Once you have them, you can't possibly act" out the sort of scene 1 jusi wiincssea in 111c ncgngt department of a big Fifth Av I just witnessed in the negligee nue siorc. There was a gorgeously furred customers asuing aooui "iouiie- ing pajamas for on older wo- man," and plainly vexed with the Mil.