Baby doc blasts arms race
By Paul Szydelco
CM the Emerald
It is "difficult to raise children in a comfortable,
friendly, relaxed way" with the tension and threats
that abound in this nuclear age, famed 1950s "baby
doctor" Benjamin Spock told an EMU Ballroom
crowd of about 200 Saturday night.
Spock, the co-chair of the National Committee
for a Safe Nuclear Policy, said studies show that
children do have anxiety but that it is not based on
their own mortality.
An average child worries about "what will happen
to me if my parents get annihilated," he said.
This anxiety later turns into cynicism, Spock said,
adding that more than half of the population believes
there will be a nuclear war before the year 2000.
"An amazing, disturbing phenomenon is how
few people become activist even in a very mild way,"
he told the crowd.
While parents should write letters to world
leaders and even demonstrate, they also should
reassure their children and encourage them to write.
"Children write touchingly sincere, pleading let
ters, and I think that probably a child's letter does
more good than an adult's," Spock said.
Another reason for anxiety is that some sources
of security, like the comfort of extended families,
religion, and a sense of community, have been large
ly eliminated, he said.
Without the obligations that accompany belong
ing and the confidence inherent in having people
around, children grow up with a "loose feeling of
detachment," Spock said.
Another source of tension in our society, he said,
is too much competition an outgrowth of the "rug
ged individualist" mentality.
Spock then reviewed the present nuclear
situation.
The President, the Secretary of Defense and
other top leaders have all said they "disbelieve in
disarmament," Spock said. These leaders believe the
United States can outdistance the Soviets in the arms
race and win a nuclear war, as well as eventually de
mand that the Soviet Union divest itself of the coun
Dr. Benjamin Spock
tries it has taken over and to give up communism, he
said.
This is a "child's fantasy, an insane person's fan
tasy, and at the very least, an ignoramus' fantasy,''
Spock said.
He recommended letters, phone calls,
demonstrations and even civil disobedience to fur
ther the cause.
Spock concluded that all the little things add up
and that individuals can help change policy.
"You have to make up your own mind, and then
you've got to have the guts and determination.. .The
important part of taking your position and doing
something, is to keep on doing it,w he said.
The beat of a different drum
The Portland Indian Urban Council was one of several groups of Indian singers featured
at a Pow Wow held Friday night in the EMU Ballroom. They were performing a round dance,
part of a social get together for local Indians.
Photo by Ken Kromer
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