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Psychiatrists Forthrightly Blame Parents for Juvenile Delinquency By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York IP Two psy chiatrists have forthrightly blamed Barents for juvenile de- linnnpnrv Tn JI1U1V1UUOI Vt linquent, one parent or both fostered and condoned de 1 i n q u e n c y without know ing it; in the case of the Delos Smith gang delin quent, the parental fostering was entirely conscious. This was stated as proven fact by Drs. Adelaide M. Johnson and Mary E. Griffin, psychia trists of the University of Min nesota and Mayo Clinic. They were urging family physicians to show a more knowing awareness of emotionally disturbed parents because, they said, they invari ably go together. And so both children and par ents are in need of psychiatric treatment. But it is futile to try to straighten out the kids psy- chiatrically without at the same time straightening out the par ents. The juvenile delinquent is but one category of disturbed children "the child who becom es the psychopath at a later age." "The parents of delinquent children unconsciously gain sat isfaction from the specific anti social behavior of children," they said. "Always we find impulses to ward behavior similar to that in the child are present in these parents. These impulses are un conscious, poorly inhibited and close to breaking through into consciousness." Some Examples As examples they cited: (1) The parent who tells the child it is wrong to steal, but covers up for the child when he is caught doing it; (2) The parent who says "You may not play with fires, but if you must get it out of your system, we can set fire to papers in the sink." The parent has a weak spot (or spots) in his or her conscience; all un knowingly, it is transmitted to the conscience of the child. With gang delinquents, they M y pay New York I have just return ed from the Soviet Union. But before I write a series of articles telling of things I didn't think would have passed the Russian censor, I want to tell you some more about my trip. From Tashkent, of which last wrote, we went to Samar kand, getting up at 5:15 a.m. (for the next three days we rose at this rather strenuous early hour.) The trip to Samarkand was well worth the effort, however. On arrival there we were met by two women the president of the executive, committee of the city council and the president of the local trade union. They brought with them an historian who evidently loved to tell about his city. We devoted the morning to sightseeing. The government is spending a good many rubles in the restora tion of old buildings in Samar kand, and there are some lovely old tombs with beautiful colored inlays on their facades. We saw the tombs of the first wife of Tamerlane, the Mongol con queror, and other relatives, end ing the tour with a visit to his grave. There is one amusing story concerning a tremendous edifice, now crumbling away as a re sult of earthquakes. As the leg end goes, it was ordered by Tam erlane's wife for his return from one of his conquests. The wife wanted the building ready for his arrival, so she visited the con struction scene every day. The engineer in charge fell in love with her and kept the work moving slowly so he might see her every day. Finally, she let him kiss her to get the work finished. He kissed her so heartily he left a spot on her cheek. Upon her hus band's return, he was highly pleased with the building in his honor. But he noticed the spot on his wife's cheek. He asked her about it and she told him the truth. Tamerlane immediately sent for the engineer, but they found only his assistant in one of the towers of the great mosque. The assistant said his master had suddenly grown wings and dis appeared into the air. This story has several embel iishments. One says that the lady, in order to persuade the engineer not to kiss her, went into the house and returned with a tray of many colored eggs. She asked him to eat them. He did so -and said they all tasted alike, whereupon she said all women are alike, too. "I have many beautiful girls. laxe ana kiss one of them in stead of me," she begged. The engineer responded by getting a glass of water and a glass of vodka. He gave 'her the water first and she said it was good. He then gave her the vodka and she said she could not drink it because it burned her. You see. ne said, some wo men have no effect upon one whatsoever. Others make you burn." So she finally allowed him to kiss her. We returned to Tashkent at 7 p.m., feeling it was worthwhile getting up early to realize that Tamerlane was a real person and not just a myth from history books. Up at the same hour the next morning, we got ready to take a plane to Moscow. But at the airport we were sent back to our hotel to wait until the weather in Moscow cleared. So instead of arriving back in Moscow early, we got there in the afternoon. On the way to the hotel I was delighted to meet Mr. Tanner, a member of our delegation to the meeting of the World Fed eration of United Nations As sociation in Geneva this month. He told us what had happened there and promised that, when he arrived home, he would send me his impressions of his trip in the Soviet Union which was just starting. We were given a preview, whh Ambassador and Mrs. K. P. S. Menon of India, of the Rus lian film, "Flight of the Crane," By Eleanor Roosevelt (Trade Mark Registered U.S. Patent Office) in which an Indian producer was interested. It is a very touching film, well acted and free of propaganda, but stressing what happened to people in war and, as usual, bringing in the peace theme. We also were shown some In? dian scenes set in the 15th Cen tury, telling the story of a Rus sian traveler in India. But this film was incomplete and un doubtedly, will undergo many changes. Indian writer Santha Rama Rau was in Moscow with her hus-band and child, and I was glad to have a chance to talk with her that night at the Rus sian embassy where we all had supper after the film. ' The next day we rose again at 5:15 a.m. for a flight to Sochi. The plane left exactly on time and arrived at an airport some 30 kilometers from Sochi. Sochi is in the mountains which came down steeply to the blue waters of the Black Sea. We, in America, have never adopted the European system of a sanatorium for different types of cures. They prevail all over Europe and have become a part of the health services of the Soviet Union. There are 50 sana- toriums in Sochi alone. We stayed in one operated by the Ministry of Health, but the unions have their own, as have other organizations. Thousands of people go to Sochi for rest treatment and, in some cases, for a disciplined one month vacation. I asked whether it is possible for one to divide a vacation into two weeks in the summer and two in the winter and was told this was possible. But bathing there, I was told, is good only for five months of the year. While we were there, the water felt so warm and the sun was so hot that one wondered why it is not possible to bathe the whole year around, except perhaps the wind from the mountains may become much colder. The breezes gave us a pleasant sense of coolness and the nights were always fresh. I found a blanket comfortable in sleeping. E.R. (Copyright, 1957. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) continued, "The parents are quite consciously in accord with the child. It is their world against our world. Their culture avows it is all right to steal or to betray the other world. Trick ery, vandalism or extortion against the other group is con sciously condoned." They were discussing the tech niques of modern psychiatry in "Postgraduate Journal," point ing out that the general practi tioner who cares for 85 per cent of American children and for that reason "his detection, treat ment, and disposition of disturb ed children can be a personal, medical, family and social con tribution or they can reflect in adequate understanding and the failure to assume responsibility for his patients in the largest sense." An Account Needed They wanted to know "How can we account for the presence of so many unhappy, unpleasant and unproductive adults in our society. Given such basic assets as intelligence and physical well-being, how can we explain the misfits, the psychosomatics. the depressives, the school fail ures, the unmotivated, the psy chotics, the maritally disabled the individual delinquents and the sexually deviant . Modern psychiatry can speak with "exactness," they said. The fact is that "the unhappy, the un productive and the unpleasan adults of our society were the disturbed children of a genera tion ago and what is more per tinent, they are the parents of our presently disturbed chil dren." Monday, September 30, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE 1 YOUR WATCH iwf Celler Plans Bill To Conclude Draft Washington (IP) A New York congressman plans to introduce legislation next year to end the draft. The Democratic congressman, Emanuel Celler of Brooklyn, said it no longer is necessary to force men into military service because the armed forces can get all the men they need through voluntary enlistments. Furthermore, Celler said, abol ishing the draft would save the government S28 million annually in salaries of selective service officials, office rent and other expenses. Heuberger Regrets McClellan's Abuse Portland (W Sen. Richard L Neuberger (D-Ore.) said Satur day he regretted that Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) had .be come "abusive" in his reply to a remark by Neuberger that the Arkansas Senator should get be hind President Eisenhower. McClellan Friday referred to Neuberger as a "littla man play ing cheap politics," and the Ar kansas Democrat had added, "If the d e s cription is not strong enough, I'll make it as strong as you like. ( "I regret that Sen. McClellan became so abusive in his reply, Neuberger said. "I think Sen. McClellan has done a good job in trying to root out criminal elements in our economic life But he should be consistent." Sen. Neuberger declared that if Sen. McClellan was to spread three weeks "looking for crime" in Portland, then he should not "condone" mob rule in the cap ital ot nis own state. SENTENCE COMMUTED Havana, Cuba (IP) President Fulgencio Batista will commute the death sentences imposed on a Cuban navy officer and two ennsiea men lor tneir rotes in the Cienfuegos revolt, it was of ficially announced Sunday. 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