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Show Rafferty Viewpoint Religion Stirs Social Ills? Bali Its Flippers By Dr. Max Kafferty For eight years, Ive sat on a statewide commission which decided among other things whether certain teachers to keep on teach-- i n g. During this time, the era ziest I let-te- rs got came not from die suspected but teachers from the psychiatrists appointed to examine them. Im sure there must be a great many sensible, sane psychiatrists practicing in these United States; they just dont seem to write me letters, thats all. What I'm leading up to is recent statement by a Califur-ni- a headshrinker to the effect that such modem plagues as pornography, marital infidelare ity and caused by that old devil i rel1-gio- Dr. Alexander is crusading currently Rund-ma- re':-giou- whatnonsexual functioning, ever thta means. he intones, Clerymen. to handle are such cases. Sometimes they themannroach impotence selves. How could they successfully counsel others? Psychiatrists, seemingly, am all splendidly potent. As Yon Know . . . Now as ny readers know. Ive bad occasion from time to time to tee off on a varied assortment of churches and preachers who have strayed from the paths of righteo'i-ness-, but to indict the entire ministry as sexually inadequate seems a bit much. My criticism of our present crop of clerical swingers is not that unsufficiently Ouite the rontrary. parson doesn't frequent red-lighouses, and most bishops eschew mixed nude bathing m the city pool. This, however, ing. What raises my hackles is the good doctors public musing about the cause of the Niagara of obscenity presently flooding the land. "One really of the reasois porn- ography began here, he offers. was the repressive attitude of religion . . . toward sex. Oh. sure. And thus it follows as die night the day that if wed iust get rid of all our sexual taboos we Americans would shortly be every bit as n s and fearlessly against training in childhood, cal'ing it one of the most prominent factors in terms of theyre Its true that the average doesnt necessarily mean that because a man wears his collar backward hes got to be some kind of a eunuch. No research I'm aware of indicates that ministers families are either (a) smaller or (h) sexually squirreiier than any other families. Dr. Runciman to the contrary notwithstand- were sane enough sexy. 111 Iii Footrace, Californians Ask Oregon Festival KLAMATH FALLS, ORE. Two young Califor(UPI) nia men say they are investigating the possibility of staging a religious festival which they claim could attract up to to Klamath 300,000 people County this summer. The two students at the Institute of Ability at Lucerne Valley, Calif., conferred with commissioners and county other local officials Thursday and Friday. They said they had asked Gov. Tom McCall for approval. Its not a rock festival. Drugs and alcohol wall not be said Richard H. allowed, Williams. He and Howard Ensler said thew represent the World Congress for Ena Los Angeles lightenment, organization. O happy as are the citizens of Scandinavia, where anything goes sexually and where also the insanity and suicide rates are the highest in the world. The theorv here, of course, is that inhibitions are bad per se, and that reoressing one's desires and emotions is certain in later life to turn you into some kind of burningeyed, nut. I challenge this. In fact. Ill go further and make a pitch not for more inhibitions, fewer. The ability to inhibit our basic drives is onp of the few characteristics w hich separate us from the lower animals. A hyena, for example, is compMe'v uninhibited. So, on another level, is the Wild Man from Borneo. They ao what comes naturally whenever tliev want to do it and regardless of who happens to he around and in the way. But we do not call this sort of behavior civilized. thin-lippe- LIBERAL, KAN. (UPI) -The big race i5 Tue-daIt's the dash of the flapjack flippers in the annual Shrove y. Tuesday pancake race run on two continents over 415-yar- courses seconds. Miss West's time was 3.1 seconds better than the previous international best set in 1967 bv Englands 59.1 By R. M. Sorge United Press International UNITED NATIONS Enuiuvment of available labor will be one of the major global problems of the near future, according to a series of projections published by the United Nations. eco Romioully In advanced countries a steadily growing labor force is faced with increasing automation. But the most critical situation faces the developing countries where a faster population growth is confronted w ith limited capacity to expand employment. n A report by the U.N for Social Development warned that accorrhrg to current estimates, 'Die economies of the developing countries will, during the next decade, be faced with the staggering tak of employing some 220 million additional workers, compared with the the Ccm-missio- task facing the economies of the industrialized countries, where the additional figure is estimated at 56 million. Balanced Progress The commission is a branch of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). The commission came to the conclusion that the developing nation? should concentrate m the future on balanced economic progress, giving attention to both industry and agri- culture With emphasis on using their available labor force rather than on rationalization. 'Die commission stressed that more jobs could be secured at much less cost by assisting rut M end other small enterprise than by building tip spectacular industries which contribute little to alleviate general unemployment. Where manufacturing industry has been introduced." it said, "the technodogv of the g Keeover Securities NEW YORK (Apt $2 million in stolen About securities reported missing from a New York brokerage firm late last year were recovered Sturday morning with the arrest of a man, pohoe said. rM Bunkei There won't be anybody close to that nine this year, says a lace promoter. MLs West, the first Negro ever to v. in the tare, wont . She'll be on complete Tue.-da- v the sidelines cheering for her sister-in-laMrs. Gifford West, and a cousin, Lori Love. Shes been coaching both since of labor-savin- g equipment is too high in relation to the absorption capacity of the local market, with the result that this equipment Is lying idle a large part of the time. At the same time smaller radi-tion- using methods may not benefit from a lair share of help with loans, management ad ice and marketing, which w o ild help to make them more viable." fl-IIDlL- mmsb 00BKES WM j Viaduct Construction on 4th So. Detour to KETCHUM'S Not Good Not Bad IT'S PEAL FUN Go To 8th West Via FABULOUS 2nd SOUTH GET A GLIMPSE OF THE NOVELTIES. CHUCK mm c Buffet HU vJliwjjgJn o At 8th West turn left to 4th South, then left to 7th West Furnlturn Annex is at ith West Not o Bad Wat It? Children 10 So comfortable. So clean. So economical. t industrialized countries has often been uncritically copied. In some cases this is the economically sound course. In other cases, production methods developed in and inferded for countries where capital is and labor scarce plentiful may be the wrong economic choice for countres " here the opposite situation applies. Efficient iVvices? It has sometimes been as desumed that labor-savinvices are synonymous w ith but this is not automatically the case if trained personnel to maintain and repair the machines is not available. In other cases, the output Mis Janet slugging old Run-cima- ith contest- 11-1- If Ever We . . . Civilization, in fact, is built upon inhibitions. If we ever succeed in rooting up and turfing out all our taboos and moral restrictions, we will find tha civilization will have gone out the door with them. Its only because we're carefully inhibited early m life that all of us dont go around picking pockets, w ants flipping hotcakes on a skillet as they sprint. It pits P'e ladies of Liberal against the lasses of Olney, England. Times are compared by trans atlantic telephone following the Liberal leg of the race. Glney leads in the series. "cut Liberal won last years race in world record time when Miss Kathleen Wust, 19, bounded over the brick of tins piai ic town in d ladies or attacking each other with stone dubs, for that matter. The most adversely inhib- ited persons according to Runciman, are fundamentalist strict Roman Protestants, Catholics or Orthodox Jews: in other words, the most moral, decent, upnght folks on the scene. Seems they take a dim view of premarital sex, sodomy, adultery and orgiastic behavior generally, as did n our fathers before us. So accuses them of not and functioning normally thereby contributing to our sexual problems. Fla) jacks U.N. Predicts Employment as Major Global Woe i a Year Through Age TO Anytime (25c minimum) MOUNTAIN FUEL r i |
