Education: Books v. Tunnel

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These questions Dr. Keliher and the commission believe they have the answers to in Life & Growth and its companion volumes. For moral taboos they try to substitute pragmatic guides to the satisfying life. To help young people make up their minds to marry early, the authors suggest overthrow of the taboo against the wife working, still strong outside U. S. metropolitan centres. Marriage and the family are potently buttressed with stories of happy domestic experiences. The authors load the arguments against sex relations before marriage: Sometimes such experiences are not destructive, but most of those who have tried free love warn of its psychological dangers: a high proportion, of boys still want to marry a virgin. The same principle holds for petting. Youth must choose on the basis of "what memories and what expectations you want to carry into marriage and what creative uses you might be making of the same energy by restraining intimate, intense and sexually exciting petting." It is suggested intimate caresses will have more meaning if reserved for the life partner.

Far from discouraged by the Philadelphia set back, the Commission on Human Relations this week sent to 20 schools films (largely excerpts from commercial pictures such as Cavalcade, Fury) showing human problems and what to do about them. A radio campaign along the same lines will soon take to the air.