European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes Friday june 10, 1977 modern Medicine by Michael j. Halberstam mothers of my generation used to Tell their children you Don t have to drink Mohave a Good  today s teen agers if they re being told apparently Are not listen Rise in teens drinking alarms off car a parents on wonders Stead they Are watching their Parent a behaviour which often implicitly endorses drinking and feeling similar pressures fro their Peers. Net result a rising rate of teen age drinking that has alarmed Public health officials and parents alike. A Federal government sponsored surveying 1974 showed that by senior year in High school 93 per cent of boys and 87 per cent of girls had experimented with alcohol As had More than half the nation s seventh  data on elementary school Chil Dren Are not available an estimated 24 percent of adolescents aged 13 and under have one or two drinks at least once a  disturbing the number of arrests of youths for alcohol related offences an Drunken driving has risen dramatically since 1960.teen-agers Are using alcohol for various reasons. Many claim they drink for the fun sense drinking represents a move toward adult Type behaviour and is not necessarily a rebellion against  lessons can begin when children Are preschoolers. The average american first tastes alcohol by age 10, usually in a diluted experimental sup at Home with parents. The first introduction to alcohol strongly influences How the child will use it later. Low alcoholism rates prevail in group where children Are introduced to drinking Early in life and taught How when and Why their parents drink. In order to guide their children effectively parents must establish their own Atli Ludes about alcohol. Conflicting cultural values ranging from prohibition to wild West barroom lore make it difficult foursome people to define what attitudes and practices they want to Foster about alcohol. Ultimately a child needs to be shown that drunkenness is not comical that alcohol does not provide an escape from one s prob lems that people should not be pressured to drink or ostracized if they do not and that drinking is neither virtuous or evil Perse families that develop drinking problems tend to avoid these issues and have vague inconsistent standards about alcohol  one Parent favors alcohol use while the other does not. In some cases parents dogmatically condemn alcohol causing their children to react against their preach ing or to feel so guilty that it increases the likelihood of problem drinking. Some of the highest rates of alcohol dependence occur among children strongly pressured not to drink until age 21. Nobody knows exactly what causes Alco holism although researchers have identified some of the conditions that propel Youn people toward problem drinking. In general children who Are loved and accepted by their parents and Given a Clear set of values Are less vulnerable not Only to drinking Butto other drug related problems. Future columns will Deal with other aspects of the teen age drug abuse scene. C new York times Art Buchwald Washington i went out to san Francisco last week to the american bookseller s convention to flog a new Book i have coming out in the fall. Modesty prevents me from telling the title at least15,000 Book buyers Bookstore owners publishers editors and promo Tion people were there and i would estimate at least 10,000 new title were being pushed. I can t remember All of the titles but As i went from Booth to Booth Igot some idea of what awaits the Book Reader this fall. The first Booth i stopped at the Salesman said Here is a free copy of the Book of the year How to perform your own heart transplant operation you save $3,000 by cutting out  you mean the doctor doctor heart surgeon whatever you Call him. The Book tells you everything from where to find a donor to How to Deal with vascular re i went to the next Booth and was handed a Book entitled How tomake a million dollars in real estate and have sex at the same  is a racy title i said. It s a self help Book. Many real estate agents make a lot of Money but they re very shy about sex. This Book helps them overcome their inhibitions particularly when they re showing an unfurnished House. As you notice it s full of illustrations. The author feels real estate people have to come out of the  few Booths Down a Man was autographing books. He apparently was a psychologist because the title of his work was releasing inner Energy by biting your  when he saw i was a reporter he explained his theory. All life giving Energy starts in the fingernails. Most people have pent up Energy really electric charges that has Tobe released before they explode. By biting your fingernails you make it possible for the Energy to escape out through your hands which relaxes the joints in your Knuckles and gets you through the  two aisles Down i found a publisher s rep pushing a Book entitled the Joy of Oil spills which tells people How to have fun when a Tanker goes aground off their Beach it shows you How to build tar castles out of Oil and Sand How to swim through an Oil spill and still breathe and How to organize a fish Fry from All the fish that have rolled up on the Beach. A few Booths Down i found the id amen Book of etiquette confessions of an Oral surgeon the last Chance food stamp diet Book dating Jackie Onassis on $5 a Day and is there an irs after death Christmas shoppers can expect Many supernatural books this  that caught my Eye was entitled Anita s  the plot concerned a child who drank nothing but Florida Orange juice and found himself wanting to be a woman. He has a transsexual operation and winds up winning the women s Tennis singles at Wimbledon. The Success of roots has forced Many publishers to come Outwith their own versions. One was entitled leaves and told of a Wasp s search for his roots Over a period of 12 years. He remembered his grandmother sitting on the porch in Southampton repeating a Story about her great Grandfather who founded the Standard Oil com Pany of new Jersey. Taking a $50.000 Advance from his publisher he went to new Jersey and there in a Small Village called South Orange he found the very place his great great great Grandfather had come from. The people of South Orange were so Happy to meet one of their own that they made him a member of their country club for life.  across1 be promis ing4 portico 8 Spring or Dart 12 pub drink 13 Rich Arab Prince 15 adorn17 basketball team18 elliptical 19 sacred song20 scatter 22 sex Russia ruler 24 indigent25 worn out 29 Ostrich like bird30 Ordinary 21 Friend i Paris 32 defector34 Grain Husk 35 Keats for one36 bubbly 37 under40 join Metal 41 eager42 Model 46 cattle archaic 47 woe is me48 Paulo 49 members . 50 enraptured51 recede down1 harmful 2 Cauchy tree 3 proper4 beverage tube5 fresh water Duck 6 Cereal grass7 metric measure8 Ere 9 neglect10 exist 11 waste allowance avg. Solution time 25 min. Khi1k huh Aasmaa he Sis t -10 answer to yesterday s Puzzle. 16 higher than crumbly stratum20 hurried 21 volume22 doctrine 23 deface25 appoint ment26 heaven 27 moslem priest 28 minute30 forehead 33 types of Lyric poems 34 hardy36 banquet 37 Cook by dry heat 38 morally bad39 join together40 envelop 42-forthe course 43 wing44 talk idly45 crowd today crossword 6-10 dear Ann Landers my brother and his girl Friend have been going together for Over seven years. Mary Ann to a devout Catholic and Mark to jewish but not very devout. They Are both in their late 20s and Mark is Well of financially. The problem is How they will raise their children. It in t that Mark is so dedicated to the jewish Faith he just says be does t want his children to braised As gentiles. Mary Ann feels this is very unfair under their Curnest a pcs please Don t Tell me to  and Mary Ann Are As eager for a solution As i  dear con sorry but i a going to Tell you to mob. Tools it your problem. Ii Mary aaa and Mark Are interested la my opinion they can write to me and get Iii you were to go to them with Ana Landers said it would reconsidered interference by at Lead one of the parties and he or she would be right. Dear Ann Landers i smoke and intend to continue. Within reason. The problem is that som people forget this is a free coun try.1 belong to a Bridge club. One woman who is also a Long Tim member gets on my nerves. The minute a cog net comes int sight she says Don t smoke. If hurts my  if it hurts he Throat Why does t she drop out of the club whenever there is a problem the smoker is Walys expected to Bow to the non smoker. I think this is terribly unfair. Will you do All of us smok ers a big favor and comment please . Smoker dear . Why is the smoker always expected co Bow to the non smoker because u is a free country. The air belongs to everyone. No one has the right to Pou Teit if an individual wishes to smoke be should be pc matted Todo so but Only insofar As be does no interfere with the rights of other. Laboratory tests have prot took induced evidence that Dom by who breathe the air smokers for extended periods of time meetings card parties cocktail babes Etc Are Adver sely affected by it i urge All my readers to summon the courage when some out ugh a Garet and asks do you mind & i woke to say yes i do mind. Do m Botha favor and put it  dear Ann Landers i be asked this question of several people and have gotten several different answers. No one seems to know for sure. Please consult wit your authorities and get me the Correct information. It Means alot to me for reason i won t go is it possible for a dark skinned Caucasia Brown eyed couple to have a fair skinned Blue eyed child Needt Knowder need 1 checked with a not i prize Smalac  answer was a Appena All the  so there s you answer right from the top of it. Olympus. 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