European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 05, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                New look to treatment of prisoners continued from Page 13 ties from nearby universities. High school diplomas Are common. No matter How Good the in prison to program what a convict needs most is work when he s out. Joblessness Usu ally Breeds crime. Companies unions and individuals Are gradually overcoming hostile attitudes about sex convicts. Even the Federal government traditionally barring offenders shifted its policy a year ago. Some sex convicts now can be bonded. Even the Junior chamber of Commerce has Chap ters inside prisons. In april 1966, it chartered its first in prison chapter atthe Federal correctional institution at Texarkana Tex. Other chapters late were organized in other prisons the latest at Terre haute  of America s offenders statistics show Are under 30 the Jaycee age. It will take a Long Long time to Geta favourable Public climate toward the offender says Austin Maccormick executive director of the Osborne association of new York City and one of the nation s top prison experts. The former imprisoned Man still seems to be the one thing people fear. All we can Hope is to extend the under standing already started by the Intelli gent and socially minded  the traditional prison Way endless rows of bars cells. M Ann Landers dear Ann Landers my Hus band and i married Young. I was 16 and Ted was 20. We were very Happy for the first two years. We had a child whom we both wanted and we love her very much. Last year when i was preg Nant with a second baby Ted became involved with a 16-year-old tramp. When i Learned of the affair he promised he would Stop seeing her and he kept his word. I had a very difficult pregnancy however and the baby was born with a birth defect. My doctor said the defect was due to the emotional Strain which i suffered while carrying the child. I have tried to forgive Ted but i can t seem to do it. When Ever i look at the baby i blame him ail Over again. Please help me get Over rating my  am making my life miserable and his As veil. Bitter woman dear woman 1 have checked with physicians in Chicago Washington and Boston Ana Al three say it would be impossible to state for certain that the birth defect was due to emotional up set during pregnancy. So in the Page 14 interest of fairness Stop blam ing your husband. You might also do that Doctora favor and suggest that he do some serious investigating inthe Field of birth defects so that he does t continue to cause unnecessary anguish to other mothers who May have defective babies. Dear Ann Landers i am girl of 15 and have been begging my parents for a year to let behave a boy girl party. Well they finally said . For my birth Day. The party was last night Andi am just sick. One couple wandered off into a bedroom and were necking up a storm when my Mother walked in on them. She told them to get out of the bedroom and to join the others. They were so embarrassed they left without saying Good Bye. This morning my Mother Tor into me like it was my fault or something. 1 really fee lawful. This couple has been go ing steady for Ages and it is no my business what they do but i think they had some nerve tomake out in our Home. Now my Mother says i can t have anymore boy girl parties for a year. Is this fair innocent victim of Friend dear Vic your Mother should not hold you responsible for the conduct of your friends. I do feel that you should let this couple know that you Are keenly disappointed in them and i your Mother should reconsider and give you another Chance chop the love Birds off your next party list. Dear Ann Landers i was amused by the letter from the California woman who resented being called doll by the Butcher Honey by the Gas station attendant sweetheart by the parking lot fellow and sugar l y the postman. In London the women recalled Ducky while in the Northern provinces it is  favorite pet name for the ladies is one which originated i Scotland however. It is  How do you think that on would go Ever in the . . Of Vancouver dear Van Don t try it. Chick yes. But Hen never 1967, publishers Hall Syndicate the Sands of Karakorum by James Ramsey Ullman popular Library despite Book cover promises of surfing passion and strange love vows Ufa jets of Karakorum manages to be a pretty engrossing novel having utile or nothing to do either with surging passion or strange love , Jame Rey Fliman s literary foray into exotic set Tings is a kind of religious tract that employs a non Christian Al Legory to push a Christian message Faith will move mountains. The Story to told through the eyes and extraordinary persistence of a journalist he Shanghai Frank Knight who tracks Down a ft-ifffrtfisj1" Frt esd Taister John Bickel across the breadth of a Chlara gone mad with communism. Jul " Iff Cwm a  " ithe motivation for the journey is a mingling of professional curiosity and thinly justified Friendship and the arduous sail leads to a squalid town a the Edge of the Gow desert. Borba where Knight finally finds Bickel s wife but not Bicke Bickel ostensibly searching out needy patients As a minister turned medical Man in nearby villages hag to fact answered Mystic and mysterious urging to head for and beyond the Black Sands of , once the capital out of which Genghis Khan and his hordes poured is Little More than a civic Skeleton in thetas Peshut it Homs the key to the quest of Bickel. A Man who had become disenchanted with Man s Talent for injustice to i fellow creatures. Whether Sands satisfies a Reader is largely dependent upon the Reader s capacity for being moved by message Ridden prose. But whatever his capacity it is Likely he will be held to the end by Ullman s indented and undeniable gifts As a writer of adventure even though the adventure at times seems dulled by sermonizing. George Eberl Sweeney s Island by John Christopher Crest the Reader who picks this up thinking he s bound for an other South seas adventure in the manner of Nordhoff and Hallis in for a rude Surprise this is a grim faced thriller bloody from beginning to end and with a chill that is somehow never dispelled. It is apparently the study of a sociological Experiment that gets out of hand but one can t be quite sure. Sweeney is a London millionaire a giant of a Man who takes people and turns them in his hands until he thinks he knows what makes them tick. He assembles a group for a late party and just after the roast beef casually suggests they join in a Pacific cruise on a yacht he has bought. The mixed bag of guests Don t really want to go but Sweeney has his ways of making it All look More attractive. Sweeney flies them to Honolulu where they Board his newly purchased Schooner and set sail. The eerie atmosphere deepens As they sail far from the sea lanes and then Stop for an Island picnic. While All Are ashore a mysterious fire Breaks out in the Schooner sending it to the  re stuck and on their own. But they won t starve the South seas Are hospitable and there Are traces of habitation. The crewmen Hustle up grass shacks and they All Settle Down most to simply exist but Sweeney apparently to watch the layers of civilization Peel away. Turns out the ship s Steward is a swaggering bully Complete with pistol he terrorizes the other crewmen and the guests. Lydia becomes a goddess of sorts and rules the Little Colony except for Sweeney who remains aloof from the crumbling group. Savagery rules and those with some Hope attempt to escape Butare caught. Naturally a typhoon has to come along and the people match the storm in wildness. The Experiment gets out of control and death walks in picking Sweeney As first victim. And it develop that the Island is a nuclear testing area for Long term effects of  the end the . Navy comes to the Rescue or is it to bring Justice to the survivors. It s a pretty grim business at  writes with a certain compelling style that carries the suspense Well. If the novel in t first rate it in t far  Bauman blah s by Sheilah London Nana Jaso Robards in London to play Paris Singer one of Vaness Redgrave s lovers in Isadora brought his trumpet with him to practice for his role of a broken Down trumpet player in his forthcoming play on Broad Way. Jason plans to join pal Conrad Jones and his tailgate 5 if i m Good  according to his Mayfair neigh Bors he is not yet Good enough. 1 cornered Michael Caine at Otto Preminger s Dorchester hotel party following the Bri Tish premiere of hurry Sun  he half apologized forthe film saying our intentions were  it too some courage on Preminger s part to attend the party after the devastating British reviews. It s doing smashing business Star and stripes Graham in America said Michael stoutly especially in the  pm not easily shocked when see a movie but i thought the sex scenes in hurry Sundown were Clumsy embarrassing revolting and obviously employed by Preminger to sell his picture. Harold Prince and his wife Judy Are living in a Villa in Rome. They have a meeting planned with Lars Schmidt in Paris. Lars married to Ingri Bergman Hopes to produce Prince s cabaret in Paris and also his fiddler on the  Van Cleef and his wife have decided to make rom their Headquarters. Lee buddy of Clint Eastwood in the fabulously successful Dollar Pic Tures has been offered som movie roles in Hollywood but hell stick to Rome he says thursday october 5, 1967