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established 4 Ta ADRIAN DAILY TIMES Established in Ceolidated Apite an4 subsidhed Every Afternoon Except Sunday STUAR] BH. PERRY, Publishes Office NOs West Maumes Sizeet, Adrian, Michigan an ree TELEGRAM in ABZ Emered at the post office at Adrian Bilingan, ax second-class matter. cee ee MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS che Associated Press is exclusively enti tled to the use or reproduction of any newa dispatches crefted to it, oF not other oie sredited to the paper, and era news published therein. Ail Tight on Fepredlartlita ‘oF epecial dispatches here in are also reserved. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION is carrier in Adrian or any other town where The Telegram maintains 2 carrier service, 18 cents a week. By major ural delivery and in town, only where no carrier service is main Yad, a Michigan, Wisconsin, Impis, Indiana and Ohio, $4.00 a year, $2.25 for six months, SL30 for three months, 60 cents for one month All subsrripions Biclly in advance. By ‘mall to any point in the United States, outside of the above five states, $9.35 a year, $470 for six months, 52.5 for three months, 8% cents for one month all u subscriptions ‘strictly in advance, hers will confer a favor by re pong ag arorantly any irrequisrity in ‘naiv ety by enail or carrier, Friday, June 19, 1962 THE DIPLOMATIC FRONT Apart from the important recent activities of armed forces there have been important events on what might be called the diplo matic front. One was the Russian agreements at London and Wash ington, the other was our declara tion of war against Bulgaria, Ao mania and Hungary. The Anglo-Russian treaty signed at London is of great importance, both now and after the war ends .The parties agree prosecute the war; to enter no negotiations with Hiller or with any German govern ment that does not renounce all regressive intentions; and after the war to “unite with other like-mind ed states for common action to pre serve peace and resist aggression in the post-war world.” Running for twenty years, the treaty seems to associate thewocations firmly in policy throughout the war pe riod. Molotov, the Russian foreign minister, then came to Washington where he conferred with President Roosevelt. The President did not have power to make a treaty, but apparently their conversation was along the same lines as the Lon don treaty, for the official state ment said that it dealt with the “fundamental problems of co-oper ation with the Soviet Union and the United States in safeguarding peace and security to the freedom- loving peoples after the war.” It also was stated that a “full under standing” was reached as to speed ing up supplies to Russia and es tablishing a second front in Europe in 1942. ' The net effect of the negotiations at London and Washington is fourfalé—to bolster Russian mo rale, to make co-operation more ef fective, to encourage all the con quered peoples, and to lay clearly a foundation for post-war co-opera ton to establish peace and security. It is obvious that peace will have to be insured, and liberty defended, by the four great powers—Ameri ca, Britain, Russia and China. All are so great that the co-operation of all is necessary, so it is ex tremely important that our rela tions with Russia should be put on a sound basis of mutual under standing as soon as possible. Suspicious critics will not over look the fact that in the Anglo- Russian treaty the military agree ments specified only Germany and other nations associated with her in “sets of aggression in Europe ’— making clear that Japan was ex cluded. But that need cause no apprehension. Everyone knows that Russian and Japanese policies and interests are as antagonistic as fire and water, and that Russia will never rest resy until Japan is reduced. But it is equally obvious, that Russia cannot afford to have another war in the east until the German peril is disposed of in the west. So it is vital to stave otf @ collision with Japan, just as it was vital to stave off a collision with Germany a few years ago by making great concessions to Ben in. Russia is doing her very best right now for the allied cause. She would be less effective, not more, if she had to take on a war in the Far East. Our declaration of war against the three Balkan countries seemed at the time more theoretical than Practical, but the news dispatches soon shed a new light on it. With in a few days we read that several American heavy bombers were forced down in Turkey, having come from somewhere across the Black Sea where their pilots said that “their mission was scram plished.” We do not know officially what that mission was. One rumor is that they helped the Russians at Sevastopol. Another, more prob able, is that they bombed oil es tablishments in Romania. What ever they did, they could not have done it without Congress having declared war on Bulgaria and Ru mania, for they had to fly over the territory of those nations. That declaration freed our hands for air operations anywhere in the Balkan or Black Sea regions. Thus diplomacy, or we might say statecraft keeps pace with our armed forces in the world-wide op erations. We may well be glad that it is so skillful and for-seeing. HOW TO KEEP THEM IN An Ann Arbor man a few days ago was robbed, shot and left for dead on a lonely roed by a man to whom he gave a ride. The man WAS an ex-convict named Maloney who had been paroled only a few weeks before from the Jackson prison. Where he was serving a 2- to-15 year term for breaking and entering. Previously he had been paroled after serving a 1-to-5 year sentence at Janis for the same of fense. As he is only 29 years old, it i obvious that he served only as small fraction of the maximum sentences. ‘This case is only one more of its! kind, but it raises again the ques tion of what should be done with’ .convicts of confirmed criminal dis position. This case is only one more of its i|kind. Every day the papers record ‘some paroled convict committing a new crime. There have been thou sands of such cases in Michigan, the crimes ranging all the way from petty theft to murder. An oute standing case was that of Dominick Piccone ,two months ago, who two weeks after his release on parole murdered three farmers. In Ma loney’s case the parole authorities were lax in letting him out so soon, especially after his second offense. In Piccone's case the officials were not to blame, for he was serving a 3-to 4- year sentence for assault, and he was held to his maximum time. But in both cases, and hun dreds of others, the same problem is presented—how to keep in prison criminals who clearly sill the dan gerous if released. Whether a criminal should be held for a few years or for life of ten has little to do with the partic war offense for which he is sen tenced. He may have served one or two terms for crimes that calls for only short or moderate sent ences, and yet he may be so thor oughly criminal in type that he is almost sure to commit a major, crime if released. Piccone was young, with no record of serious games except the one for which he was sentenced for a short term; but he was recognized by all the prison officials and experts as a man of vicious, malignant and hom icidal type. They regarded him as highly dangerous, and were reluc tant to let him go, but there was no way by which he could be held l any longer. It is very plain that some way], must be found for keeping such dangerous persons in prison, where [ they cannot commit the new crimes], that they are almost certain to], commit if released. It is not aj! question of what they have done, but of what they probably will do. 1) The public and innocent persons i t should be protected. The state owes them that it owes criminals nothing. Dr. Selling, head of the Record er’s court psychopathic clinic in Detroit, says the way to meet this problem is to sentence all felons to terms of from one year to life; [then those who are not of criminal’ type can be released early, while the dangerous ones can be kept as]; long as the welfare of society may] require.Clincis has such a law, and he says that while it does not] work perfectly it has “vastly re duced the hazards attendant on the release of dangerous criminals on parole or after the completion of short terms.” He suggests that a commission should study the operation of such laws in Illinois and other states that have them. It is a sound and practical suggestion. It is high time that Michigan took up the matter, and made some attempt to scare an evil that is costing the state so dearly every year. t
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