European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 01, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I monday. November 1,1993 commentary the stars and stripes Page 15 family7 acts As a crime breeder -. I a.  William f. Buckley the problem of crime is rearing its cyclical head though this time there seems to be a singularity in the picture that tends to routinized past reactions. Thirty five taxi driven in new York City have been killed so far this year and the Drivers thought to make a Demon stration Over this. In Washington d.c., mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly came up with the Humble suggestion that the National guard be mobilized and put at her disposal. If memory serves the last time the guard was mobilized was when Robert e. Lee came within hailing Dis Tance or was it when Martin Luther King was killed at an rate one thinks of the National guard As there for emergency situations and mayor Kelly forces us to wonder whether the crime rate in Washington is an. Overnight problem something of median duration like the Mississippi River floods or inthe nature of the Hundred years . Lowell Weicker of con y. Next Cut suggests with his Affinity for psychobabble a ban on All handguns which is a terrific idea if you can begin by confiscating the hand guns of everybody who is disposed to use them for aggressive purposes. If you accomplish that you Don really need to worry about the others which would rust away from neglect. Some weeks ago this space was Given Over to asking the question what deterrents might we use in particular against Young people who Are the principal malefactors. Sending then to prison tends not to work because they Don t care that much if they go off to an air conditioned three meals a Day life whatever there metical privations in part because they do As they do pretty confident that they won t be caught and convicted and in this they Are properly confident one half of 1 percent of felons end up in jail. And switching the perspective society does t get much Relief because the Young person who goes to prison As a wayward criminal tends to emerge from prison As a hardened criminal. .?.the obvious recourse would appear to be Corporal punishment but it is resisted not Only because i brushes up against the category of cruel and unusual punishment but because we have had great stretches of history in which Corporal punishment simply did t work Australia being the showcase example. One correspondent reminds us that if punishment does not work for All it nevertheless works for  was founded As a penal Colony received a huge number of roughnecks and was plagued by wrecked families drink and All sorts of violence for a Long time. Yet by the time i visited in 1968, Australia s bobbies wearing shorts patrolled downtown Sydney blow Irv in the wind. Without guns. Something happened besides Victoria morals drastically to reduce the rate of at least violent crime. Punishment within the control of responsible officers was very Likely a part of  another correspondent suggested As punishment that would humiliate miscreants in the Esti mation of their Peers the return to stocks. The were used at one time in our history probably for that very purpose. Of course they were set up in Village squares or other commons and we no longer have such things in close proximity to neighbourhoods fraught wit crime s we do Nave flatbed trucks though and i sup pose that a Young hoodlum paraded around his neigh boyhood in stocks would be subjected to hoots and hol lers and taunts at that time and  one professor associated with the department of communication disorders and special education of Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania recommend Reading a Book called delinquents on delinquency by Arnold Goldstein. The excerpts he sends along concen trate on two factors that Are though of As crime Breed ers. The first is the dysfunctional  this Means usually single parenthood. The second  first reminds us yet again of the Rise in illegitimacy in the past 20 years which corresponds roughly with the Rise in crime. But How to combat illegitimacy int Plain though we might begin by refusing to subsidize it with welfare. But essentially we have a problem of the National ethos. Not very Long ago Pierre Trudeau the great Fig ure in Liberal politics in Canada calmly patented an Al _. _ guess not one reference was made to the exhibitionist childbirth. And drugs. Will the moment never come when America reasons that fewer human beings would be Hurt by the dispensation of drugs at Market manufacture Price than at Black Market prices and those that would be Hurt would be those who had inflicted the Hurt upon themselves not innocent taxi Drivers trying to make a living. C Una Wal press Syndicate year of the woman looking for More Success los Angeles except for the candidates families no one is Likely to be watching the returns in tuesday s new Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial elections More closely than Kathleen Brown the state treasurer of California. With women candidates in the Only two gubernatorial elections this year Brown who wants to run for governor of californian ext november is anxious to see if the year of the woman still has some life Init. It was California More than any other state that made 1992 temp Rabic for women by electing Dianne Feinstein  Boxer to its two Senate seats. Women also won Senate seats for the first time in Washington and Illinois and the Streak continued in May of this year when Kay Bailey Hutchison won a special Senate election in  pre election polls for tuesday s voting snowed an Uphill climb for demo crat Mary sue Terry in Virginia and re publican Christine Todd Whitman inner Jersey despite the fact that earlier this year both were regarded As favor ites. Pollsters like Celinda Lake an Linda Divall Long have known that women Are trusted More in legislative roles Tjhan As executives. But the victories of Ann Richards Barbara Roberts an Joan Finney u 1990 gubernatorial elections in Texas Oregon and Kansas seemed to show that gender was no bar Rier to the state House. Only a few months ago Kathlee Brown seemed to be an almost sure bet to follow her father Pat Brown and he brother. Jerry Brown into the gubernatorial office in Sacramento. The brow name Means in Stant recognition in California and Kathleen brow had shown her own political sure footed Ness in easily winning the treasurer s Job in her first statewide Campaign three years ago. When incumbent re publican  Wilson found himself struggling with budget Cri Sis after budget crisis brought on by a severe recession the cutback in defens spending and the collapse of the construction Industry Brown had no difficulty amassing an Early $3.5 million Campaign Treasury that seemed Large enough to scare off any serious Challenge for the democratic  recently As last August when the National women s p9litical caucus came Here for its convention Brown was the Toast of the party the warm and witty superstar who would put the government of the Golden state into a woman s hands David s. Broder for the first time and quite plausibly fans said become the first woman on winning presidential ticket. But the Kathleen Brown who showed up the other saturday morning casually dressed in jogging clothes for a interview in a Hollywood restaurant was a sober sided politician of 48 who under stands nothing will be handed to her. Just As the crime Issue has proved to be a problem for Terry in Virginia and Whit Man in new Jersey Brown can see that the California climate of opinion May create Tough problems for her. Feminine Charm and lawyerly caution May not be enough for people who Are scared and angry. California has been rubbed raw she told me. There s a cynicism about government exaggerated by a sense of helplessness about the Economy. But most fall there is fear fear of crime fear of violence fear of the  Wilson who seemed hopelessly out of the race was buoyed by a legislative ses Sion in which the majority democrats scared into their senses in Wilson s View by the lingering economic distress of near double digit employment compromised Early on a Bare Bones budget and finally gave the governor some of the re visions of workers compensation and corporate tax Laws he said were driving business out of the state. Wilson also missed no Opportunity to pick a fight with president Clin ton and As Clinton s popularity skidded in the state Wilson s seemed to Rise. Finally the governor jumped on the Immi Gration Issue and assured that no on could possibly get to his right by asking for the most extreme remedies imaginable including a constitutional Amend ment to bar citizenship to  Chil Dren of illegal aliens. The polls on Wilson Bounce up and Down but the political consensus is that he has put himself Back into Contention. In his first direct Challenge to Brown last month a news of Ference response to her Maiden speech on the immigration Issue even Brown sallies admit that Wilson came off Best. The Veteran of half a dozen statewide races made her look like a Novice. Nor it turns out can Brown feel secure about the democratic nomination. John Garamendi who lost several statewide race before becoming the first elected insurance commissioner is going after the nomination and Kathleen Brown  is still a hot political property. But she d take Comfort if at least one of the women gubernatorial candidates on the ballot tuesday showed that her Early favorite status was justified by the results. C the Wunn ton port