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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Sept. 24. 1964
Sex Education Begins at Home, Reports State Medical Society
The Illinois State Medical Society reports that the appalling number of teenage pregnancies, criminal abortions and venereal disease victims presents a valid basis for this concern.
CHICAGO — (UPI) Here's help for parents concerned about the sex attitudes—and activities—of teen-agers.
It adds that "sex education, like charity, begins at home."
The society suggests that parents face up to the responsibility of such education. There is evidence that parents either ignore their roles as sex educators or that they are not sufficiently informed to fulfill it.
"It has become commonplace," the society said, "for parents to shrug off the responsibility of sex education by asserting that their children know more about the subject than they do.
"THIS IS SELDOM the case; and when it is the case, it can easily be corrected with helpful booklets available from local church groups, medical societies or other expert organizations."
What should you tell your children?
It takes a whole book to answer that question, according to the Child Study Association of America, New York, the parent education organization which has been counseling families since 1888.
The book, "What to Tell You
Children about Sex." will be published early in October (Duell, Sloan and Pearce). It will be available in bookstores or from the association. 9 E. 89th St., New York, N.Y.
IN CONVENIENT QUESTION and answer form, written simply and plainly, the book covers the whole range of sex questions teenagers and other youngsters will ask. The areas covered include conception, birth, growth, pre-adolescent and young adult sexual discovery.
"Sooner or later every parent finds himself face-to-face with the problem of sex education. We try to answer the many questions of the growing child—but when these questions deal with sex, reproduction and the feelings of the adolescent, we find ourselves bewildered.
Dr. Milton I. Levine, internationally known authority on sex education, says in the forward:
"MOST MODERN PARENTS realize the almost vital importance of adequate sex education. They are aware of its influence on the child's normal development, his later adjustment to the opposite sex, and his ultimate happiness. Unfortunately, most of us are products of a generation where sex talk was taboo."
The Illinois society, meanwhile, suggested that parents who are uncomfortable about discussing sex
College Smokers Help Create Pipe Shortage
Have you noticed something different about the men on campus this fall? Oh, they are still wearing the same type clothes, but have you noticed that more college men are smoking pipes?
Since the Surgeon General's report on cigarette smoking, in April of this year, the demand for pipes has outstripped the capacity of the pipe manufacturers.
"This is the only business I know of where you can't keep your stock up," said George Wilson, proprietor of a Lawrence pipe shop. Wilson remarked that he orders "by the dozens" in hopes that at least he will get a partial order.
The bigger companies have cut back their variety of pipe shapes, to keep with the limited supply of briar. They are making only the more popular shapes. The popular shapes include special "campus" and "debonier" pipes for college men.
WILSON SAID YOU have to "fight to get merchandise." One major company withdrew nine lines of
pipes in a recent communique to retailers.
Wilson's shop carries pipes, cigarettes, cigars, tobacco and other smoking accessories and is frequented by college men.
Of course with the supply being limited and the demand high, the logical conclusion is higher prices. One company raised its prices 20 per cent.
THE SMOKING scare also caused the introduction of petite, jeweled pipes, in hopes to appeal to the ladies, but that trend was just a flash in the pan, Wilson remarked. Little cigars were brought to the market and lasted for a while before dying out, he added. The little cigars were the size of cigarettes.
matters with their children ask themselves if their sex attitudes are completely mature or if they themselves have lingering doubts, fears and guilt. The society added that "sex education . . . when woven into the moral fabric of your children at an early age and fortified with parental love and understanding, will yield a superior material that is highly resistant to illicit sexual temptations."
The situation is not limited to the Lawrence area, or the state. The entire nation is short of pipes. The Europeans are smoking more, too, and imports are on the decrease. At least the Continentals and the Americans share one thing—the pipe shortage.
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