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Kodiak’s placid way of life has
been marred recently by several
episodes of an explosive nature.
Some of it could come under vhe
classification of much ado about
very little. The impression, could
be gained beyond jhe borders of
our little world here that gamb
ling here is wide open. Nothing,
of course, is further from the
truth.
It is not quite dear as yet a
to whether an order was issued ti
“curtail" gambling—the right t
do so is not granted to any one
Apparently a chance remark wa
interpreted as an order. Now tha
the smoke has cleared, and th
Police Department and the Cii;
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Council have had a talk, we can
once more settle down to the us
ual routine. Certainly, the mem
bers of the force are there to
carry out orders and afford pro
s tection to the citizens. Their re
, sponsibility lies in the enforcc
, ment of the law—how can you
censor anyone for doing his duty?
t We don’t gamble—except when
> we drive along the road.particu
t larly at night. Anyone driving
along Mission Road the other day
when the carload of teen-agers
were traveling at better than 70
mile per hour—that would cer
tainly come under gambling with
ones life. When we went into the
publishing business—we gambled
a little, too. We gambled on whe
ther enough happens in Kodiak
to provide copy to fill the columns.
We gambled whether enough
readers could be found to justify
advertisers to, seek, space., W«
gamble .every day we. get up in
the morning. In £%ct, to-be philo
sophical about it, life is one big
gamble. The urge is there in most
. of us, to .gamble one way or an
other.
Gambling with the lives of a
car-load of people as in the Mis
, sion Road incident, is another
matter,. This sort of thing, goes on
all the time in the States. We have
always put it -down to sneer bore
dom on the part, of the young
people who play the s game of
‘Chicken’ and Speed towards each
other in cars, Li's living danga -
ously, but to what purpose? Speed
ing in Kodiak can be answered
with the same question. It comes
under the category of “the thrill
that comes once in a lifetime.”
Unfortunately, its not as lasting
or satisfying as the originator nf
the phrase meant when he coined
it. ......
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Toastmasters at their Tuesday
bandied around the question,
“\yhat ,L ljke ior dislike) about
Kodiak." tNot too many of them
.were , very, severe in their criti
. cism, ,;,Tiiie_ episodes mentioned
above as occurring recently brings
out the actual lack of crime dis
turbances in our town—particular
ly of a serious nature. According
to FBI figures there has been a
; 1^4 percent increase in serious
criming Violations throughout
the United States in the first half
of 1,956, J. Edgar Hoover states
, tijat at the rate of increase, we
face the prospect of a new all
tjme recorii of 2% million major
crimes in 1956. There, was a tyvo
tonths percent crime decrease in
1955?'The annual cost of crime is
estimated at 20 billion dollars.
Hoover sums the situation up in
the following words. Calling at
tention'to the necessity for unified
police1 effort, he states: Police
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agencies must first merit publ'c
confidence and then agressively
seek the cooperation of the peo
ple they serve. In their own in
terests, it behooves the citizens to
respond. The civic leader who be
grudges the police organization the
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wherewithal to discharge its du
ties, the parent who sets a bad
example for his youngster and
through neglect allows his child
to become a crime statistic, the
traffic violator who adds count
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