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8 A. ,- MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. TUESDAY. JULY 36, 1080 SMITH Wftfffmri MS NEXT .' EHMOS ft: OREGONIANS AT CONVENTION Form- wave during a demonstration for Smith In er Oregon Governor -Elmo Smith (center) front of the LaSalle hotel in Chicago. The and Mrs. Paul Daughtrey, who is vice-chair- ex-governor is the Republican candidate for man of the state GOP central committee, the U.S. Senate. (UPI Telephoto) The Family Council Editor Note: The family ConncU consists of a JDdgt, a psychiatrist, three clergymen, a newspaper editor a women's editor and two writers Bacb article is a summary of an artvaJ lit history The Council reports on problems that haTO been daatt wi by responsible atendes and counselors Jerry F.-Jean overrules my punishments. Jaan F.-Jerry is too hard on the boy. Jerry F.-My wife and I are having a big feud over the .bringing id of our oldest boy, Mike is 10 and has just gotten to tne stage wnere ne , likes to throw his weight i' around. He has been down right fresh recently. When he is told something he turns right around and does the opposite. I feel that Jean has been encouraging this behavior by being too soft with him. Even worse, she overrules me when I punish him. Aside from- the fact that this encourages the kid to think he can get away with anything, it makes me a cruel monster to my son. Jean F.-I really think Jerry is too hard on Mike. The kid is far from the potential juve nile delinquent his father sees. He just gets overenthu- siastic about certain things and then he forgets his re sponsibilities. Recently, for example, we bought him a bike. He was told that he must always keep it in the garage when it wasn't in use. But one day a , couple of his friends came by and he got involved and left the bike in front of the house. As punishment Jerry for bade him to go to a picnic he had been looking forward to. When the day came I felt so sorry for him I let him go. " The Council: One of two in cidents do not create indelible patterns in a child's mind and they don't make a mon ster of a basically devoted father. Children are very sen sitive to the underlying mean ing of the behavior of others toward them. Although Mike may at times be resentful of punishment, he knows that both rules and punishment are set for his own good and are proof of his parents' love. We agree, however, that on the whole it is important for the parents to present a unit ed front-not only because the opposite could show a parent in an unfavorable light but because children thrive best when there is harmony and nnniil.(iini.tr In 4l,ol. hnrB They are torn apart by seri ous dissension. , on tne other nana, we don t advocate a rigid set of regu lations that allows no room for appeal.- We ; think, for example, that Jerry's punishment for the bike incident wasn't par ticularly good. Psychologists and educators agree that "the punishment should fit the crime" if the child is to bene fit from it. A far better pun ishment would have been to deprive Mike of the use of his bike for a week. He would belter have assimilated the lesson. He would have learned that his parents didn't con sider him ready for th re mm MiTH America fNAIOR i sponsibility of a bike. When he got it back he would ap preciate the privilege and re spect it. To a child, an entirely un related punishment is apt to smm Of N;C SM 1"H seem very unfair. Mike saw no relationship between bike and picnic. The picnic pun ishment may have come some time after the bike incident had been pushed out of Mike's mind and he would naturally feel hurt while learning lit tle. We think, therefore, that punishments should be more carefully talked over by both parents before the decree is issued. ears Scientists Test Alcoholism Theory By DELOS SMITH UPI Sci.nc. Editor New York-IUPB - The widely-held theory that one way to become an alcoholic is to learn to cushion yourself with drink while trying to avoid things you consider unpleas ant, has been put to an acid scientific test. The result indicated there may be something to it, al though it was inconclusive. Scientific testing requires pre cise measuring of causes and their effects. That's extremely hard to do with people and their drinking Scientists Robert Clnrk and Edwin Polish took the next best animals, monkeys - two monkeys, one male, one fe male. It's only a little less hard with monkeys but at least you can make them abide with your conditions. One day the monkeys had access to water bottles. An other day their bottles con tained an alcohol solution with the approximate kick of the usual Scotch - and water, On the third day, they had bottles of both and could choose. Measure Each Drink These three kinds of days were mixed evenly over a period of 43 days. Daily Clark and Polish measured how much of the available drink each monkey drank. This gave them a "base-line," that is, the preferences of monkeys for alcohol over water when nothing unpleasant is happen ing to them. Then came the unpleasant, in the form of mild electric shock. The monkeys could avoid it by pressing a lever. But first they had to learn how. At first, the shocks were far apart. Later a shock was on Us way every second, which they could avoid by lever pressings less than a sec ond apart. The monkeys had 20-hour days of this "avoidance con ditioning" with each hour of avoiding the unpleasant fol lowed by one hour of rest. This went on for 54 days and some days the monkeys had water bottles, some days al cohol bottles, and some days both. Drinking Pailarni Chang After that, there were 56 davs much like the first ner- lod of 43 days. There was no shocking! nothing unpleasant' Does your car have its moody days, when it grumbles and sulks? 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But under "avoidance con ditioning" they took on much of their alcohol load during the first two or three hours of the day, and seemed In the words of the scientists "heavy lidded and lethargic" - In an other word, drunk. Alcohol hwas cushioning them against the unpleasant The question of whether the monkeys had been con verted Into alcoholics by their discovering of this cushioning usefulness of alcohol, was the one inconclusively answered. When the pressure of avoiding electric shock was' removed one monkey slowly returned to its "base-line," drinking no more than it had before it was "conditioned." The other monkey didn't get back to its "base-line." Clark and Polish work in the Walter Reed Army Insti tute of Research, Washington. They reported to the Ameri can Association for the Ad vancement of Science. Group Considers Station Request Corvallls-fllPB-A request for a permanent branch experi ment station in the Madras area of central Oregon has been taken under considera tion by the Legislative Com mittee on Agriculture, it was learned here today. Sen. Francis Zieglcr (R- Corvallis) said the request was made by farmers in the Madras Redmond area who cited unique soil and climatic conditions as reasons for the station. Cost of the proposed station for one blcnnium was estimated at $21,000, Zicgler said. CAB Recommends Basic Air Pattern Washington -IUPD- The Civil Aeronautics board examiner hero Monday recommended a basic United States-Orient pat tern which would permit Pan American and Northwest Air lines to operate, on an unre stricted basis, from Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles to Tokyo, Manila and Hunt! Koii'' After the filing of excep tions nncl briefs, tne case will bo argued, before the board makes -its final decision. 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