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THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 21. 1963
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
Venereal Disease Crisis Seen Here By National PTA
By PATRICIA MeCORMACK
United Prs International
New Yprk -(BPD- The Vmb,
penicillin and the Klnsey re
port figure in the newest cri
Cii of concern to the National
Congress of Parents and
Teachers.
. The crisis is increases in
venereal diseases, reported in
piany parts of the country,
on both sides of the tracks
but especially among young
people in the IS to 24 year
age bracket.
The bomb unsettled world
conditions on a steady basis,
giving some youngsters an
excuse to "live it up" every
chance at hand.
Penicillin, meanwhile, re
moved the deadly fear of
venereal disease infection.
And the Kinsey report?
Well, this document report
ing on sex habits of some of
the people has somehow be
come synonomous with what
should be, with what is ac
cepted and with what is right.
. A sociologist, sifting facts
on VD for the National Con
cress, brought the bomb, pen
icillin and the Kensey report
Into the picture.
Celia S. Deschin, of Adel-
phi college. Garden City,
N.Y., didn't atop there when
analyzing the situation in a
report in the PTA magazine.
Parents, teachers and dou
ble standards of morality also
caught some fire from the
associate professor in Adel
phi's graduate school of . so
cial work.
Aererse Kinsey
Prof. Deschin suggests, as
one counter-attack, a Kensey
report in reverse.
: This would be a study of
self- reliant, non - problem
youngsters to find out what
makes them tick the right
way.
' The question: Way do some
youngsters, exposed to' pres
sures of the bomb, confidence
in penicillin and Kinsey's re
port, adhere to moral codes
essential to a stable society?
The professor believes all
youngsters want to.
"Contrary to popular be
lief," the sociologist said,
"youth in trouble are not
enjoying their flouting of tra
ditional standards.
"In our study of youth sick
with VD, interviewers were
Impressed with frequent ex
pressions of guilt."
Prof. Deschin directed an
Truck Industry
Tells Phenomenal
Vehicle Growfh
', New York fUPO Today's
fnotorlst, if asked what is
the most familiar sight in
traveling today, probably
would answer: The truck.
There are few hours of the
day or night wherein the
rumble of some mammoth
hauler is not heard on the
major intercity highway at
regular intervals; few resi
dential neighborhoods where
in appearance of si.iall de
1'very trucks is not part of
the regular daily scene.
The American Trucking as
sociation, in its- recently is
sued annual report, assembled
some figures to show the
size of the trucking industry.
700 Registered in 1904
In 1904, when teamsters
still drove teams and not mul-ti-horsepowercd
diesels, there
were 700 private and for-
hire trucks registered in the
United States.
In 1962, the latest year for
which figures are available,
there were an estimated 12
million, according to t h e fig
ures of the ATA research de
partment. This Included farm
trucks, but not government
owned trucks. The ATA sta
tisticians sam there were
622,140 of these in 1961. They
did not give the figure for
1962.
California, that long, busy
an., growing state, led the
60 states of the union in the
number of registrations of
private and for-hire trucks:
1,116,855, nearly 25 per cent
more than the 902.181 rcg
istered in Texas, the next
high, and more than double
the 502,659 in New York
state.
Growth in Revenue
From a revenue standpoint,
growth in the trucking indus
try over the years has been
almost as phenomenal as the
growth in the number of ve
hicles, according to the ATA
report.
Using as its source data
from the Interstate Commerce
commission, Bureau of Trans
port Economics and Statis
tics, the ATA report said rev
enues in 1981, the latest year
available, were $7,375 billion
almost double what they
were in 1950.
historic research project for
the U. S. Public Health serv
ice in cooperation with the
New York City department
of health in 1958.
The investigation, sponsor
ed by the American Social
Health association, involved
interviews with 600 teen
agers attending social hy
giene clinics in New York
City.
The report, "Tcenagero and
Venereal Disease," published
in '61, has done much to fo
cus attention on the social
aspects of VD.
Do Nothing
. One thing that struck the
sociologist was the sameness
of response when the teen
agers were asked one ques
tion: What do you do in your
spare time? Of the 600 inter
viewed,, 509 replied, "noth
ing." What can parents and teach
ers do what should they
do to institute effective
educational and preventive
campaigns? Prof Deschin's an
swers: Replace ignorance with
knowledge, stir community
apathy into community ac
tion, and encourage the co
operation of private physi
cians in reporting cases of
VD.
Clarify our own as well as
the youth's attitudes toward
sex. Constructive sex educa
tion requires a point of vkw
and sanctions for codes f
behavior to which society ex
pects its youth to adhere.
Control Outlined
"To control VD in the 60s,"
the sociologist said, "we need
parents with courage and
conviction to do some plain
talking and acting.
"We need parents who will
speak out clearly for what
ought to be and act resolute
ly to reinstate discipline and
control.
"We need parents, teach
ers and other adults who will
lift the unhealthy social pres
sures on youth and counter
act the bombardment of sex
ual stimuli.
"As parents and teachers
I believe we have no choice,
if we would guide youth into
activities that will help them
grow into useful, mat' e
adulthood."
P.S.: Medical authorities
agree that venereal diseases
are not mere communicable
diseases. If untreated or poor
ly treated, syphilis can cause
blindness, insanity, heart dis
ease, paralysis and death.
Gonorrhea can cause blind
ness, heart trouble and ster
ility in both males and females.
in
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Generators Augment
farm Power Supply -
College Station, Tex. -HJTO-'
Emergency generators can fill
important functions when
storms interrupt a farm's
power supply, the Texas A
and M college extension serv
ice says.
Extension agricultural en- -gineer
W. S. Allen said a gen
erally acceptable model is
one driven by a farm tractor.
The generator is less expen
sive than other types and the
farmer would have less in
vested in a piece of equip
ment he would use only oc
casionally. But the farmer
can choose models up to an
automatic engine-driven gen
erator that is more expensive.
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