European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse 12 the stars and stripes August George Pell to be remembered for his Weh decisions Washington the name of sen Claibore Diu Wilt not dominate the histories of our but he has left a thanks to president Carter was Abelio nominate new head of the a Uima endowment Tor the the foundation most important to american scholarship Pells importance to the life of the mind in America Hows from his chairmanship of the authorization subcommittee that 19 Sovereign Over Pells most notable recent exercise of sovereignly was in blocking Tor More than a year Tinti after the Isufi election a Vole on president Vatt Domino Sun of Donald Barman for o second term As Bend of brought to a Umi which enjoyed Broad and distinguished support in the academic would Nave Beeri approved Bui Herman is a scholar arid n to Eive Pell his he offended by Tho without being usefully Ith thinks nah funds too Many esoteric scholarly projects Thul do not out to be length and breadth of our lie sometimes Sims to think scholarship is he thinks Neh Shii uld to More like the National endowment for the which Nancy Hanks runs in a Way do Sumid to win the admiration of Turku and to inc enacting ctr Tif set for appointments not the the while House conducted a search for a after several candidates Carter ecu Click Iti i his administration for Joseph one of the Early supporters of car Urs Duff yes mandate includes cleansing Neh of what Carter Calls its describes himself As a Polit ical lie is a minister from Cuil where lie received u 1h from Hartford Seminary he a urdu there at Yule before running unsure less filly fur the administering tile and Iran of University pin and serving us an assistant Secre tary if slate his wife is an assistant of it is possible Juffey is the or just the Best to Oleuse pal thinks Nicl i has been a Pale Shadow compared with the Aru endow which he says has generated More momentum at inc roots Peil thinks Neh should offer Grants to Lum grocers and presumably Pell is a bit vague on this paint each would do his thing in the humanities yield of Hia Pell is pleased at Lossl by the tact that Neh spent just to bring King Tut to six million museum Visi tors Neh spent just to bring abcs War and Pease to 40 million Lela Pell Falls easily under the spell of stalls and is powerfully affected by the fact thai in a recent 15 month period the arts endowment issued Grants totalling million while Neh issued Only Tala Lingtai perhaps Duffey will but inclined and Able to make Pell understand that the aim of ski under Borman was whereas under Hanks one aim of the arts endowment can this in terms of a democratic doctrine that Art is almost any instantaneous enjoy ment of needless to congressmen understand the Charm of William ways to Cope with violent crime the conventional Wisdom is that one needs to spend ones time in probing Llie cause of our social a few very Bright men James Ernest Van Den Haag have been tr1ng to Tell particularly in the Field of that it would be splendid if we were to discover the causes of or the techniques of rehabilitation but it is our absorption with these pursuits that Dis tracts us from coping with weeks after the anarchic outburst in new York the talk still tends to dwell on the causes of but what should be done herewith a few propositions More people than Are now in jail ought la be in the objection hat there Are not enough Jaila is an insufficient there Are two ways of do along with the the first would be to build More the second would be to release from jail prisoners who have been sent there As punish ment for committing nonviolent n Federal Only 23 per cent of the inmates Are there for having Mur or in new York slate 30 per cent of the inhabitants Are not guilty of violent these people could be punished in different outside 1 there being no Way to make Parent responsible for the behaviour of their Chil Dren when there Are no parents it is Esti mated thai Over so per cent of Black teen agers in new Vork City live without one or More Parent Legal distinctions Between children and adults should be abolished where there Are no parents and where there Are they should be abolished after repeated judges or parole boards who release a prisoner of whatever age before he is 0 years who has been convicted three tunes of a class a or twice of a class e should be subject to impeachment the Community should acknowledge responsibility for failures to Ade quate Protection to a member of that com victims of violent crimes should be compensated also should victims of under reasonable now none of this suggests thought should cease to be Given to the causes of every kind of if the future holds for in some medea ton that Wilt transform the son of Sam loin Francis at we should by All Means do our Best to get it past the Federal drug but the methodological breakthrough is overdue we must reason from the particular Back toward toe rather than the other Way it is Nice to see old Spencer Tracy movies with father Flana Gan saying such things As m such thing As a bad but the broken the ravished the tortured old Man Are the Concrete going after the symptom of the disease a cognate cliche is unreasonable when it is not known How to treat the Dis since we do nol know Bow to treat the lacking for instance Thornty to require people to procreate Chil Dren Only in then we must ask whether dealing with the symptom int to he preferred to doing nothing at the answer should be but of course it int and that is Why no Reform movement has grown out of the awful events of the and
