The Bulletin, Mount Joy, Pa
Thursday, May 2 8
Present Roster Of 20,000 Would
Fall Far
Short Of Manpower
Needed For National Emergency
Courtesy Keystone Defender
The need {or ddit
police officer dur I a4 na
tional emergency \ lon
been emphasized You need
these auxiliaries, civil de
fense director hav been
told, because of additional
traffic problems, the possibil
ity of hysteria and panic, the
serious problem of espic
and subversive actions
There is another need, not
too often stressed civil
defense official This need
arises from the probability
of greatly-increased criminal
activity during emergencies
The story of Germany dur
ing World War II illustrates
this need for additional po
lice protection. For example
looting during air raids was
a vexing German problem
Attorneys and local leaders
of Germany, renorting to Al
lied leaders following the
surrender, stated that loot
ing in German cities was an
important problem even
among “decent” middle-class
people who suffered porsonal
loss or deprivation because of
air raids. These German of-
ficials claimed there was a
relationship between the
looting trouble and the size
of the bomb-load dropped on
the city!
Juvenile delinquency, too
problem
attack.
were
was a
under
factors
family
to Germany
Contdibuting
disruption
life, loss of parental
control, the ‘thirst for life”
of youth amidst death and
destruction, along with poli
tical ferment. It was stated
that organized juvenile
“gangs” operated during air
raids, looting and engaging
in various petty crimes.
of
There is, of course, no
way of determining, exactly
the reaction of Americans to
bombing raids. But it is in-
teresting to note the German
behavior, inasmuch the
populace there was somewhat
disciplined. The general be-
havior of disciplined Ger
mans during air raids was
characterized as “indifference
toward the law and regula
tions in general.”
as
Germany had no true, or-
ganized effective civil defense
police organization. The reg-
ular police force tock extra-
ordinary measures to combat
crime increases , however
Witness these shocking sta-
tistics;
Death sentences for crimes
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PLUMBING INSTALLATIONS and ALTERATIONS
in Germarfy increased from rumors are usually. concerned 17, in the schools of the area
19 in 1939 to the high of with ihe cau oF he dis- Birth certificates and vac-
aster, extent of physical da- certificates should
,336 in 1943. Of these pun mage, and the nature and accompany the Registration.
! ents, 17 pereent was of death and personal (But, vaccination certificates
classified as given to “thieves, ;. vies Later rumors ap- may be presented in the fall
swindlers, profiteeys from... {4 pe concerned with prior to the starting of the
black-outs and looting.” blame for the dis- School session.) The Kkinder-
Many were associated Ac a rule. such rum- Barten child must be five
ctly with behavior during ors lose detail as thev ecir- years old on or before Jan-
bombing attacks! 4 " __uary 31, 1958. Children may
3 culate; certain details are be registered at the five kin-
The story of a Swede who seized upon and sharpened gergartens of the area, Mt.
retursed from Cologne, Ger- and exaggerated at the ex-|Joy Borough; Mt. Joy Town-
many, in 1943 confirmed the pense of other relevant de- ship (Florin School North);
increase of crime there fol- tails; and the account be- Washington School, Florin;
lowing air raids. He said that comes distorted by the ex- Maytown and Marietta.
a phenomenon which was |pectations of the person fic lf)
growing more threatening spreading the rumor.” At birth, the average hu-
every day was the increase Certainly trained police man heart beats 140 times
f gangs, mainly of desert-l,,, po available, to recog-| PEL Minute.
ers, foreign workers, and ,i;6 and catch such rumors! . : : BS
criminals, who lived in the|,,,q aqvise authorities at once Wich ust Receive consid-
ruins of the destroyed sec-|,¢ their distribution. eration-in planning. :
tions and carried outs raids| _, i (Note: Data presented in
at night. | Following prolonged bomb this article was taken main-
Hamburg repovied tie Toot iF Shocks in Germany and ly from official sources
Japan a good deal of what porting to the United States!
ing of basements and of food
and tobacco stores by gangs
of 50 or more armed youths
During the confusion of air
raids or {hreatened raids,
polic2 there reported, these
gangs movad into swift op-
peration. In Bremen, such
reached such
tions that police
made after each raid,
raids propor-
patrols were
backed
up by all available police
together with specially-dep-
utized air raid police. Judg-
ment followed in night
courts.
Japan fared no. better
while her cities were under
attack. There, the rumor-
mongering problem — an all
important for police during
emergencies
od.
Japancse
was emphasiz-
officials are
porting here: “Despite vig-
rous control measures, the
ncidence of both overt sub-
rersion and rumor-mongering
-howed during ex-
freme They say
he Japanese war leaders, or
‘he leading circles, are re-
sponsible for the air raids,
hortages of food, high
yrices. All kinds of terrible
rumors are running loose
among the citizenery and lit-
tle organization combat
he disease.”
It is interesting to note|,
that in the United States the
rumor has played its part in
re-
increase
emergencies.
to
natural disasters. In the
floods of 1955 here in the
Commonwealth there were
vicious rumors concerning
the break-out of a large dam
on the upper Delaware.
These rumors started panic
community.
in one And dur-
disaste
The Na-
Texas City
ran rampant,
tional Opinion Research Cen-
. Kindergarten
ing the
rumor
ter reported, en the latte
disaster: Registration for children
“Rumors are a concomi- Who plan to enter kindergar-
tant of virtually every dis ten in the schools of the
aster situation : The initial Donegal School area will be
: held Friday afternoon, May
might be termed ‘‘vagrancy”
bothered police officials.
was accompanied, it
stated, by
moral and sanitary standards
Some of the homeless
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a deterioration of
came wanderers who refused |!
assistance if such were avail-
able.
Another police problem (in |
3 WITH a gas incinerator—no garbage to carry out,
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Japan, particularly) was the
increase in number of
cides during the
emergency that
war's end.
disorders, eventually
ed to be a physician's prob-
lem,
police attention.
There is little doubt, there: |
about the disruptive be-|
fore,
havior of a percentage of
the population during a
of extreme national
cy. It is an eventuality!
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