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4 D THURSDAY. JUNE 13. 1963 BEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEOFOR V OHECiON Yeoflirag' American Poerins off ieha voor Cayse Alarm Br FREDERICK H. TREEIH United Prm International Darien, Conn., Is a quiet, well-to-do town which, by out ward appearance, has been sp:-ed many of the social ills of today's world. But inside the ostentatious colonial homes which dot Its tree-lined streets, there is deep concern about the conduct of the younger generation. In this commuter suburb of New York City, teen-age be havior has reached the "point of alarm," a study committee of the council f Darien school parents concluded. A community-wide survey, in stigated by merchants dis turbed by teen shoplifting and thievery, showed trends to ward "delinquency, immoral behavior and law-breaking." Problems Listed The survey revealed pat terns of theft, vandalism, un derage drinking, and perhaps most alarming, sexual In volvement even among junior high school students. The study group was told of neck ing among sixth and seventh graders in theaters an "unbe lievable amount" of necking and petting by junior high students at the movies and high school students in large numbers engaging in "rather serious sex behavior.' One teen-fit girl spelled It out bluntly. "Accepting a date to the drive-in movie is like accept ing a date for sexual rele Uons," she said. No one knows for sure how many of Darien's teen agers are active participants in this type of behavior. Nor can any conclusions about the thousands of other cities, towns and hamlets of the United States be drawn from the findings of the Darien parent's group. Increase Known But this we do know: Juve nile delinquency is on the In crease, illegitimacy and ven eral disease are more pre valent among teen-agers now than in recent generations and America's fast-packer, ur banizing society has confront ed adolescents with confusion and contradictions where once there were clear cut Puritan ethics. Several years ago, Dr. Al- Rubber Bottom Lays On Man-Made lake Hutchinson, Kan. -IUTO-Tois a rock in a lake here and it may bounce back. The lake has a rubber bot torn. The man-made lake, the sec ond of its kind, was fitted with a butyl rubber bottom to keep Its salt water from seeping into nesrby streams. The sa line solution Is vital in remov ing liquid petroleum gas from underground storage caverns. It took 49 tons of rubber to cover the six-acre lake bottom. It will hold about 300,000 bar rels of salt water. Underground caverns are used for storage of liquefied petroleum. During summer months, the fuel Is pumped into the caves. When winter comes and demand for fuel rises, the salt water is flooded . into the holes and pushes the two million barrels of liquid as into pipelines. In summer, when produc tion exceeds current demand, the fuel is pressured Into the caverns and the salt water is forced back into the lake. Cities Service Oil company was faced with the problem of storing the salt water. Fresh water could not be used be cause it would dissolve the walls of the salt-formation caverns. Bo salt water and the rubber bottom lake were de vised. Conservation men demand ed that possible contamination of fresh water be avoided, so the butyl rubber was Installed Mobil built a similar rubber bottom pool earlier In Texas, Deep wells are used to ac quire more water wnen neea ed and to dispose oi surplus, (red Klnsey spelled out in number and percentage what he purported to be a reasonably accurate picture of the sex behavior of Ameri can males and females, teen agers included. Some sociolo gists have questioned the va lidity of the Kindsey findings snd one. Dr. Celia S. Deschln of Adelphi college, Garden City, N.Y., contends they were not only misleading but harmful in a sex -drenched culture such as ours. She said in a recent article that the Klnsey reports "made pos sible the inference that what is is synonymous with what should be - that the practices reported were socially deslr- sble." Deschln Speaks Out Dr. Deschln, a major Inves tigator and prolific writer on teen-age sex behavior, sees this Klmey norm, adult ex ample, absence of parental guidance on moral questions, urban anonymity, economic uncertainty and lack of moral standards in other areas chip ping away at long accepted moral codes which, if some what Victorian at lest were clerly defined. Dr. Deschln concludes from her studies that "there has been a change" in teen-age attitudes toward sexual In dulgence, a trend away from American society's "official" moral code - that premarital sex Is patently immoral. She Believes it is not possible to determine accurately to what extent behavior has followed this liberalization of atti tude. Youth Confused The teen-age view of sex and morality is to a large extent one of confusion and searching for values, Dr. Deschln believes. She thinks adults are largely to be blamed because of their in ability to communicate to teen-agers In conversation and example a clear-cut picture of the behavior expected of them. To Illustrate the point, she Interrupted an Interview to inquire of this reporter his own views on whether pre marital sex was permissible under any circumstances. Further, she challenged him to question adult friends on the same point. I can say this: There was an amazing lack of "yes" and no" answers and a profusion ot qualified replies. we need parents who will speak out clearly tor what ought to be and act resolutely to reinstate discipline and control. We need parents, teachers and other adults who will lift the unhealthy social pressures on youth snd counteract the bombardment of sexual stimuli," Dr. Deschln wrote in an article this yesr In the PTA maga zine. Sx Stressed Lest any confusion arise as to the context in which Amer ican teens are developing their moral values, Max Ler- ner, in his book "America as Civilization," put in this way: "America has come to stress sex as much as any civilization since the Ro mans." Walk through Times Square one day and you what he means. "My Bare Lady." a nudist camp epic continuous to 4 a.m.. Is the feature at one theater. A marque across the street emblazons In lights, "instant sex." On a new stand, a teen-age magazine headlines this: "My whole AdvarUMmtni FAT OVERWEIGHT Available to vou without a doc tor'a prexrlption, our drug ciHtd ODRINEX. You muit low ugly 1st In 7 dan or vour montv back. No strenuous xarclM. laxttlvai, mai- uaa or taking of totalled reduc Ing canditi, crackttt or cooklo, or chawing, gum. 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And have you noticed Hollywood actresses seem to be standing in line these days to be filmed in the nude? Elizabeth Tay lor, Kim Novak, Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, to name a few. Dating begins at 12 or 13, sometimes sooner, and many teen-Bgers soon start "going steady" dating one person to the exclusion of all others. This Is believed by some par ents to be a contributing fac tor to sex experimentation. A priest In Jersry City, N.J., believes this practice leads to a virtual state of "trial mar riage" with illegitimate preg nancy a very real possibility. For that reason, the tUv. James A. Carey banned steady dating at St. Michael High school under penalty of expulsion for violators. Deans Alarmed But if Father Carey is alarmed by sex behavior in less than affluent Jersey City, so are presidents and deans of some of this country's most exclusive colleges. The dean at Vassar found it necessary to address a convo cation at her fashionable girls school on the desirability of chaste behavior. "On many campuses today there is serious concern about confused student moral 1 1 y, excessive drinking, dropouts due to early marriage and out - of-wediock pregnancies. These situations are certainly not unrelated to the high di vorce rate, illegitimacy and emotional illness in adult society," wrote Dr. Edward Solomon of the department of social science at Sarah Lawrence college in summing up a 1962 meeting of 20 col lege presidents and deans on student sex standards. Writing in the January is sue of the Journal of the Na tional Association of Women Deans and Counselors, Lester A. Kirkendall, professor of family life at Oregon State university, said: "I believe that the propor tion of college youth engag ing in premarital intercourse is increasing, but the amount of known participation is clearly extensive enough that, increasing or not, there is still a problem." Winston W. Ehrmann, a staff associate of the Ameri can Association of University Professors, was perhaps less tactful in his summation of the situation: "The sexual revolution since World War I has pro duced a marked change in the incidence of premarital herer osexual behavior of both sexes. Although males, gen erally speaking, are sexually more experienced than fe males, this forty-year period shows an increase in the pro portion of females who have petted or engaged in coitus which is much greater than the increase for males. By the time of their marriage most college men of recent generations and probably about one half of all women in our country have ex perienced premarital coitus." Accept New Code The picture emerging, then, is that of a more sexually ac tive generation with old standards attracting fewer adherents and the newer code of values not clearly defined. Dr. Ira Reiss, in a recent book, "Premarital Sex Stand ards in America," finds not one but four standards from which unmarrieds can choose They are 1. Premarital chas tity. 2. The double standarc (premarital sex is okay foi men but not for women. 3 Sexual permissiveness wher affection exists. 4. Sexuai permissiveness without affec tion. Reiss believes both abso lute chastity and the double standard are on the wane that permissiveness when af fection exists is probably the coming sex standard and thai permissiveness without affec tion, i.e., promiscuity, wil never have many adherents. Zi A ' '.: ' . sV ' ,T -af ft-'--'- f i J -V I " von nn nn cD'b. LUSCIOUS VINE-RIPENED 100 GUARANTEED Mmmmm GOOD! 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