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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
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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
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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.
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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'
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1adcmr1t for SnetTa tjitfrnte gwioIrM idtJUrVe, GfwoJiire emtaining TCP li etrvercd Iry U.a
tor monkeys happened, so
tar as science can tell. And
the water and alcohol bottles
were alternated day by day In
the now established way.
During the 54 days while
their lives were filled with
the unpleasant and coucen
(rated on avoiding it, the
monkeys drunk considerably
more alcohol than they had
in the tranquil period pieced
Ing it. And their "drinking
patterns ' changed, when lite
was on an oven keel, their al
cohol consumption was more
or less evenly spaced for the
day.
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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Chlcago-IUI'D-Walter S. Hal
liinan, national committeeman
from West Virginia and tem
porary chairman of tho 11)52
Republican National Conven
tion, was reported recovering
today from a heart attack.
Hiillanan was stricken Mon
day In his hotel room before
a session of the Republican
National Convention. Ho was
taken to a hospital where doc
tors said ho was not In criti
cal condition,
Three per cent of American
families have an annual In
come of $500 or less.
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