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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
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Corvallis - "Rural Areas
Development In Oregon" is
the title of a new folder just
puoiisneci ty tne Oregon State
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the ststewide program which
is headed by a committee of
21 men and women.
RAD offers help In organi
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ana tecnnical aid that local
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the economic climate of rural
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program supported by the
U.S. Department of Agricul
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people survey the humen and
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area and plan how they can
best be developed. Various
state and federal agencies,
brought together by RAD,
stand ready to assist In these
efforts If their help Is re
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gang knew I went the limit.
Would anyone tell?" 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.
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