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Treaty Status ENQUIRER and NEWS Saturday, June 8, 1957 countries with which United States has "Status of Forces" on similar agreements EDITORIALS Japan Communist bloe Knights Templar Say: Army, Not Japanese, Should Try "Girard The U.S. government's action in turning over Specialist 3.C. William Girard to Japanese courts for trial in the death of a Japanese woman has brought a storm of criticism from officials in all parts of the country. The man on the street also disagrees with the action, judging from the answers given the inquiring photographer this week when he asked "What is your opinion of the U.S. turning Specialist Girard over to the Japanese for trial?" The question was asked of Knights Templar attending the Michigan Grand Commandery's 101st conclave.

Their answers follow: Ike Should Make The Reply Dispute over jurisdiction in firing range death of a Japanese woman has marred previous good record in Japan. Xrr1 Our American governments seem to have an innate gift for fumbling the ball when it comes to foreign relations. Another disturbing example comes up in connection with the report that the Soviet Union is willing to televise inter- Saeific Ocean Formosa. Acquittal of soldier who killed 'peeping torn" set off riots in Formosa, where servicemen enjojf diplomatic immunity from Chinese law. Requests tor continued Gordon Smith, Sherman Lake, conclave publicity committee: William Owrey, Flint, eminent commander, Genesee Valley As Other Papers See It From the Editorial Viewpoint exclusive jurisdiction by Army on US.

bases is holding zip renewaZ.of bases agreenzetiirwith Commandery: I "I think that it was a very poor don like the decision. From whole thing. He should have had Phuippmes. the accounts I have read, am a court martial, as 0 1 any convinced that 1 man in an American uni form. These -s-" the man was on duty, and should be tried by an Army court, not a civil court.

If the case was reversed, if a Jap- anfsp i i 7. p. be tried by for- 4 y'J views with President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Macmillan of Britain. President Eisenhower apparently believes that since Nikita Khrushchev is not the nominal head of the Soviet state, a TV interview for Soviet consumption should feature someone below Mr. Eisenhower's rank.

Khrushchev was interviewed over a U.S. television network last Sunday. These observances of the niceties of protocol won't influence the Soviet people and if we are to believe this and previous administrations, which have spent billions on the project, reaching the minds of the Russian citizens is one of our most promising avenues toward assuring world peace. The hard facts are that while the Soviet people may not understand America's democratic system, and how it works, they do understand leadership and they do remember the leaders of the last war. As one of the most important leaders in the Second World War, President Eisenhower would get a much wider and more appreciative audience than any representative, however intelligent, he might send in his place.

Apparently this line of reasoning is too direct for Washington. Or maybe the Soviet offer of "equal time" was a demonstration of fair play that was so surprising that our leaders are still numb from shock. eign courts, as for whether he jT was off. duty, I had killed an Gordon Smith American soldier, he would certainly be tried by Japanese courts, so I see no reason for the Japanese to try our soldiers." Lyle N. Union st, recorder of Battle Creek believe uwrey there is no such "iiing as being off-duty overseas.

Servicemen in foreign countries are technically considered to be on duty at all times." Stanley G. Wilson, Howell, grand standard bearer: "I'm in clined to think the Japanese have been biased in their re- KrvJj Ports or wnat happened. Cer Ike Needs a Vandenberg From the Harrisburg, Evening News It has been one of the political tragedies of Dwight D. Eisenhower's years in the While House that there have been no outstanding Republican leaders in the Congress to marshal the GOP representatives and senators behind Ike's program when the legislative chips are-down. i The men who really believe in and speak out for the Eisenhower program and fight for it in the House and Senate do not enjoy the political prestige and influence of top-rank leadership.

They do not have the seniority or the party caucus power for that. They speak out from the "back benches." There is no Arthur Vandenberg who in the middle of his career broke with the tenets of isolationism in the realization that America had been thrust into the demanding, the sacrificing role of world leadership by the inexorable course of events and there could be no turning back or turning away. Senator Vandenberg spectacularly blazed the trail in his party away from its traditional isolationism. "Whether they agreed.with him or not, his congressional colleagues recognized without question that his break with his past took great political and personal courage. With this respect, in this full recognition that he was indeed a man of conviction and integrity, they listened when Senator Vandenberg spoke out and searched their souls.

The Senator Vandenbergs are so very few and far between in any generation. Had he lived what a pillar of political strength he would be today for President Eisenhower in his current political battle with the Congress to get the adequate mutual security and other diplomatic and defense appropriations so necessary to wage the peace in these demanding and frustrating years of cold war. rC -CfVw 3 Command er No. 33: "I cant see it at all. That man is a member of the United States Army, and if he is to be tried, he should be tried by an Army court martial.

This country has no business tainly if a Jap-a citizen killed someone in this country, he would be tried by American courts. If the killing was outside the line Status of Forces Treaties Often Irk Na tiona lists G. Wilson of Japanese should duty, the try him, but if during duty, he should have an army trial. I power the "status of time of the Formosa riot, put it this way: 'also think there have been facts Tom Henshaw of AP News-features herewith reviews "status of forces" treaties currently observed by the United States. forces" agreements.

"What are they? giving in to L. W. Loutit pressure and kowtowing to the Japanese government. I believe that as a matter of principle American military personnel overseas should be tried by military courts and not by foreign civil courts." Earle W. Cowles, 172 Main st, commander of Southwestern "To us, court jurisdiction is part and parcel of our national sovereignty and especially to Briefly, they are treaties ne gotiated with foreign govern peoples newly liberated, na covered up, and that a lot of the fight aver jurisdiction could have been avoided if the whole story had been told at once." T.

M. Wager, Saginaw, member of Grand Commandery in tional sovereignty is sacrosanct Anything that violates it arous ments which provide that U.S. military authorities have the primary right of legal jurisdiction for any offense arising out of an act or omission by a serv es the deep resentment of the RECENT demonstrations of anti-American feeling in the Far East have thrown the spotlight on a controversial by-product of America's rise as a world people. battalion: "I am "The crimes of which these soldiers were accused did not iceman done the performance of official duty. Foreign courts struction board: "I'm not at all satisfied with the idea of the arouse the indignation of the populace as much as the fact are given the right to try and punish American servicemen that the courts of the countries ANGELO PATRI Japanese courts for civil offenses committed where the crimes- were com while off duty.

Where it enjoys mitted were not allowed to try utuiineiy opposed to any member of the armed forces being turned over to courts of an occupied country for trial. In my opinion, he was on duty because Educators jurisdiction, the foreign na the accused. tion promises the accused will "What was resented deeply trying American citizens. In the case of crimes which fall under the jurisdiction of both Japanese and Amer-ican Army have certain legal safeguards including a speedy trial, in was that the native civil courts were made to yield to the Should Keep Best Traditions The Poet's Corner Recent Settler to Refugee I once immigrant grasp your hand In welcome to this land not land. You will find out.

You will discern What to absorb, and what unlearn. formation on charges, legal aid American military. Please Be Kind To Space Visitors The, passing scene has its own way of making comments on history. Take, for instance, the brief item which noted that a British Overseas Airways strato-cruiser, flying from London to Jamaica, reported sighting the Mayflower II just 210 miles west of Bermuda. What a sight the plane would have been for the first Mayflower passengers, who measured their passage in months instead of hours.

There's another bit of news which bears the implication of progress, but no one seems to be quite sure. It was a want ad in the London Times urgently requesting working drawings of a flying saucer. And then there's the case of progress going into reverse. The story from Ghent, Belgium, tells of the formal debut of Belgium's new electronic brain. Government ministers were assembled for the occasion.

The great moment arrived and the brain signaled its refusal to think! Ah, temperament, temperament! But then, this is the month of June, when even electronic brains should be excused for an occasional deviation from normal. By the way, did you know that this month will provide the finest conditions in years for visits by flying saucers from outer space? London's Flying Sau- cer Review makes a plea to its readers to "be kind to such visitors." Of course, it's up to you. ana interpreters, etc. THE STATUS of forces agree A WAVE of publicity is curoonintr tfio nnnfnr in 70. ment with NATO countries was lation to its courts, I think the Japanese T- M.

Wager should try him, but this is a clear-cut case of an offense while the man is on duty. I am ratified by the U.S. Senate in schools and WKRHUN 1953. The NATO instrument of extra guard duty assigned Earle Cowles him, and should be tried by an Army court. Particularly for crimes which carry the death penalty or a long prison term, the Army should be the only ones to try him." Alex A.

Macdonald, Detroit, captain general of Bedford what goes on has been the basis of similar in them. Some sure that he will get a fair trial agreements with other coun of this is an tries, including several in the honest endeav in the civil courts. Ray C. Pryser, 142 Winter past commander and education- or to get more and better- edu far East. Until the recent Far East incidents, status of forces treaties were working quietly and apparently well.

a 1 foundation member: "It's terrible, the commandery: "Turning him over to the Jap- cations for the children of the entire country. Some does not Wh. 1 worst thing that sucse was At April hearings before a It is not soil, not heat or cold, This country, new to you and old As Canaan shore for ancient Jews In flight from Egypt You will choose By your convictions, weak or strong, Your status, know where you belong. America is great and tough. You will have smooth.

You will have rough. And weather? Climate of the mind You brought along. And once you find Your square -or planting, once your own Muscle has broken earth, your bone Resisted winter wind and hail; Once you have built to breach the gale, You'll know the price you have to pay Inherent in the right to stay. It is not landing field or dock You enter by but Plymouth Hock! Pearl Strachan Hurd in the Christian Science Monitor. k'G pniilri harmpTi stem from this g.

1 Senate Armed Services sub "-I'l-- t-i That young man Army sends unselfish objec 9 committee, Maj. Gen. George Patri tive. StUl, any W. Hickman judge advocate general of the Army, gave this movement to better the school 'A Visitors returning -from the various marshes in and around report on the agreements: ing of our children is to be greeted enthusiastically and was an enlisted man under the protection of the U.S.

Army, and deserves to be tried by an Army court draftees overseas without giving them any choice, and is responsible for taking care of them. In the Battle Creek, report there will Between Dec. 1, 1955 and Nov. 30, 1956, a total of 14,394 helped forward. be a bumper huckleberry crop.

All persons holding any stock We need more buildings, American servicemen commit are advised to hang onto it. more knowledgeable and dedicated teachers. We need to re ted crimes that came under the jurisdiction of foreign courts'. view our courses of study and The foreign courts waived jurisdiction in 9,614 cases. Some Looking on the brighter side, let's figure that even if you can't take it with you, it can sure brighten up the port of embarkation.

the methods used in teaching them. Many of the new ideas that so annoy some of our were dropped. There have been Ray Pryser mole tnan 10OO cases of Army men having trouble with the Japanese, and not one of them has been given a Japanese trial. There is no reason to make an example of this boy." case of men who A. Macdonald enlist instead of being drafted, may be it should be different, but the draftees don't ask to go.

I assume that he will get as fair a trial in the Japanese court as he would in a court martial." more articulate critics have A total of 4,437 cases reached trial resulting in 275 acquittals, 3,876 fines or reprimands, 178 good in them and that good Today in Local History June should be preserved. suspended sentences and 108 confinements, 12 of them for That should not mean, as it Ignorance that is when you don't know anything and somebody finds it out A Near Miss INEZ ROBB has meant to some educational more than five years. Gen. Hickman called the been turned in for more than 1883 Erastus Clark, 78, an leaders, that what was good in the old should not be preserved. The modern school is missing a month.

The most recent fire. early settler and former land agreements "generally satisfactory." 1855 The Dutch Reformed Church was established here. Announced that the Rev. P. P.

Lee was to conduct services at Wakelee JIall. was on May 5. lord of the Battle Creek House, died here. His Wife was Dr. out on some of the old princi A football coach was trying to get the dean to let a prospective tackle get by without a written test.

As a trial, the dean asked the boy "How much are BUT OCCASIONALLY, dis ples that guided teachers in the past. Among these are Mary, Clark. putes arise. A status of forces agreement was at the heart of 1884 The Michigan Central imitation, rewards for achievement, promotion when ready. the recent incident in Japan in Railroad started operating sec Women's Skirts Are on Last Legs TSTELL, SIR, every so often in this vale of tears one has to tell an old and dear friend, fired with a noble intent to reform the world, that he is licked before he six and six?" "Thirteen," the athlete replied.

"Aw, let him in 1875 Edwin C. Nichols had started construction of an elegant new home in Maple street. All learners need clear exposition of the Droblem in hand. 1889 A citizens meeting called by Mayor James Green was held at the City Hall to organize local relief subscriptions for victims of the Johnstown, Pa. flood, of May 31.

A committee with A. C. Ham-blin as treasurer, was named to collect local subscriptions. ond class sleeping cars at no which the U.S. Defense Department Tefused to turn an extra charge.

They were much Thev need time and quiet in accused soldier-slayer over to pleaded the coach. "He only which to practice the tech like day coaches, except that berths were made up by brake- the Japanese for trial. The Americans claim Spec. missed it by two. 1878 Football was all the rage in Battle Creek.

The Nichols Shepard employes were organizing a team. men and the beds were made up by passengers who brought niques; repeated practice of a process until it becomes habitual reaction; opportunity A fellow who had just bought 3.C. William S. Girard was on duty when he allegedly shot a new car, returned it to the 1891 The old building ad their own bedding. Accommoda for application of what is starts.

to death Naka Sakai. mother dealer to ask why it jerked so violently when put in first gear. joining the City Hall in W. Main street was torn down. It tions were also provided for families to do their own cook- of five, who was scrounging Among acquaintances, learned, freedom to originate ideas within the frame empty shell cases from a firing mat proves it a real served many years as a resi Robert C.

Ruark can probably 1881 The name of White's station, east of Battle Creek on the Michigan Central, was changed to Wheatfield. the dealer replied. "It's just range. work of the discipline acquired dence. A.

Lew Clark was born do more with anxious to get started. 1887 No fire alarms had there and it had been the residence also of Sanford Whit- THE ELEMENTARY school "Can you give me an example is the most important depart comb, Henry Brinkerhoff and of wasted energy?" ment of our public education Samuel W. McCrea. Microclimate Study Vital program. In this school is laid lelling a hair-raising story to a bald-headed man." an elephant gun and a typewriter than any feller I know.

He leveled the typewriter the. other day at American women in an at the foundation for all future 1899 The addition to the learning so the teachine and at State shows that rpUE Department of Agricul- Ellis Publishing Co. over the Battle Creek River, was the The Japanese say Girard was off duty. The U.S. Far East Command agreed to let the Japanese try Girard but Defense Secretary Charles E.

Wilson ordered the soldier held in Army custody pending a Pentagon review of the case. On Tuesday Wilson and Secretary of State Dulles issued a joint announcement that the United States had decided to turn Girard over to Japan for trial. The United States has no learning must be thorough, ac measurements of humidity and last structure to be erected of ture reports that the study of microclimate is playing a key role in improvement of curate, fundamental. Much of the difficulties the secondary temperature the main con It's easy to recognize the French premier in any picture of the Big Sour. He's the fellow you never saw before.

With a Toothpick A man returned to his office tempt to get the schools face is caused by the wood within the fire limits. The ordinance was adopted after construction had started. ladies out of pants and back lack of this basic Naming. This forage crops. Microclimate is the climate down next to the ground the is in Dart the fault of the into skirts.

But modernists in control of the one Monday morning showing Robb even if he schools. atmospheric environment near signs of a strenuous weekend. 1906 The Calhoun County Normal at Marshall, under Miss Eva Warriner, graduated its first class of 14. status of forces agreement with brings up the elephant gun and levels it at the girls as a further 'What have you been up to?" For example, they insisted on silent reading in the first grade. Formosa.

Pending an agree asked a friend. powerful persuader, he's still the surface where plants grow. Spokesmen told the United Press that department work carried on five or six years at the pasture research laboratory Fishing through the ice," stituents of microclimate in a stand of close-growing forage plants differ to a surprising extent from measurements made a few inches above the ground. Knowledge of these differences facilitates the breeding of quality varieties that not only yield well but live longer. The scientists created special instruments and other equipment for studying microclimate.

They made practical application of their research in solving cropping problems by de licked. the grade where children must learn the rudiments of reading ment, the members of the American military mission there enjoy the same immunity to 1914 The city's first auto groaned the sufferer. Skirts are definitely on the laundry delivery service was sight words, sentences by Fishing through the ice! For way out. In another 20 years local law possessed by diplo started by the O.K. Laundry.

what?" they will be found only in split- their location, words and phrases in their order on the level attics and in museums. raries. And, frankly, I think we had both better find another dead monkey to beat before we date ourselves too hopelessly. We are crying in our beer and in the wilderness over a younger generation of girls that has been permitted to attend school in blue jeans and church in slacks. (Just how worldwide is the revolt against skirts I realized two years ago when a young British matron in slacks sat next me during services in Canterbury Cathedral!) "WHAT WILL HAPPEN to sex?" was Bob's alarmed inquiry when we discussed the decline and fall of skirts the other day.

The answer to that query is that sex is going stronger than ever. You have only to look at the marriage and the birth -statistics during the past decade to know that young Americans of the shorts-and-slacks set are marrying faster and begetting more furiously than ever before in our history. If trousers had seriously inhibited feminine sex appeal, the girls would have discarded them long since. -My sex isn't that stupid! Bob and I might hope to win our battle for skirts if they had proved any more effective as a man trap than trousers. But we have to facet the fact that sex is here to stay.

Girls in shorts and sweat shirts may not look appetizing to Bob. But and it kills me to say this to a friend! the sap still rises in the spring -with the same urgency in the young. 1931 The first school elec "Cherries," was the answer. After the teacher had asked page, phonij elements that mats. Thus there was no legal question of jurisdiction by the Army court martial that acquitted M.

Set Robert R. Rey For 20 years I have beaten out tion was held under the new would enable them to read new her pupils to write essays on charter with voting in precincts. words. These children must my brains and my portable in an attempt to convert women back tr skirts. So lax, I've lost nolds of voluntary manslaught work to learn these arts in Our Dog," she noticed that two Elected to the board were C.

Edward Spencer, Frank A. order to read. They will not brothers had turned in identical stories. every battle, and it is a foregone er in the shooting death of Liu Tze-jan. But the acquittal touched off a riot.

Noyes and Howard W. Cava- veloping varieties that are more disease resistant and more suitable for success under ground-level growing condi be reading in the real sense of that term until they are in nagh. Cornering one of the boys, conclusion that shall lose the war. 01' Confederate General Reynolds said his wife caught the late third of the early Ruark isn't going to be any tions. i she asked "This reads almost word for word the same as your brother's story." fourth grades- Until then they are reallv only learning to more successful.

Its the new Liu peering through a window at her while she was taking 'a bath. The sergeant said he ran The researchers found that 1935 Incorporation papers were filed at 75,000 by the Rich Mfg. Co. Losrt Cause. weeds, such as matted chick- read.

After that we expect Yes ma am, I know, the boy out to chase Liu away and shot weed alfalfa, sometimes do replied, "It's the same dog." BOB'S CONTENTION that damage by holding moisture Just a Half Minute THOSE who take God as their Help find true joy! God opens your eyes and helps you to see glorious realities and possibilities to which others are blind. God alone heals broken hearts. God lifts you up when the world or its people let you down. God rekindles hope even when its ashes are cold. God opens doors that seem locked tight.

God forgives sin and removes its power and guilt. God comes in though all else goes out. God loves you and always will. 1957. James Herbert Garner him when the Chinese came at him with a stick.

them to read to learn, a very different and a highly important department of teaching and learning. and slowing air movement, cre Secret Revealed During World War a milk ating a microclimate favorable 1942 At a meeting of the Sanitarium board, Dr. J. H. Kellogg outlined plans for a corridor to connect the main building with the library building.

THERE HAVE BEEN other, bottle fished out of the Pa for development and spread of That is just one department cific was found to contain a disease organisms. where the old way should be The department said that re preserved and anv new method piece of watersoaked paper too faint to be deciphered. Clearly less controversial, status of forces cases recently in the Far East, where local feelings on the subject tend to be extreme because of the area's strong tried out carefully. Oral read women are architecturally and aesthetically unsuited to exterior pants is true, true, true! Not 'to beat about the bush any longer, 999 women out of every thousand look like hell in any kind of trousers, be they shorts, slacks, blue jeans, jodpurs or knickers. That is, they look like hell to Bob and me.

Obviously, they look enchanting to themselves and their contempo it was a case for the FBI. 1945 Gabriel Casella, 56, a Various tests were made and ing, in the first three years is essential to learning to read. Silent reading comes much. member of Battle Creek's old Venetian Trio, died unexpected search in ground-level climatology raises the possibilities that forage crops will become easier to deal with, yields per acre will be higher, and unit production costs probably will: be lower. acids applied to the paper.

At ly on the Bijou theater stage nationalist current. Gen. Carlos P. Romulo, Philippine ambassador to the United States, last six words stood put clearly: "Two quarts of milk. No much later.

We need the old principles to sustain the new ones. while playing with the Bijou orchestra. speaking in New York at the; cream..