Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 May 1949 — Page 8
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Importance of Change, In Opportunities for Youth Told in Study
“ELMTOWN'S YOUTH: THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL CLASSES ON ADOLESCENTS,” By August B. Hollingshead. New York Wiley, $5.
By HENRY BUTLER ONE OF the hardest things to explain to most people is the discrepancy between belief and fact in our society. People will see the discrepancy where it affects them as {ndividuals—for example in the matter of traffic violations. | If we see somebody else drive through a red light, we automatically voice the general belief that careless drivers should be punished. But If, DREDS of interviews as individuals, you or I make|o,n parents sud high school the ‘same mistake, we for-|youngsters, the Hollingsheads
get the general belief and startitound ample evidence of this in!
Conn., School
phrase nately, is in bad odor because
uals, we're special cases. J This constant shifting of attitudes makes things difficult for the student of society—the soc-lever you want to call it, it does fologist. Looking at all of usigperate. A certain number of scientifically, he has to checkiwell-heeled dimwits go to exour behavior against our state-pensive colleges and a certain ments of belief at every point. The old gag about “Do as I|high talents wind up as greasesay; don’t do as I do” packs monkeys. plenty of meaning. It has especiall Two weeks ago in this column, Paper. it also
for and generally treat our young people,
® ® » AUGUST B. HOLLINGSHEAD, Yale sociologist, throws consider. able light on the belief-vs.-fact conflict in his new book, “Elmtown’s Youth” If you remember “Middletown” and “Middletown in Transition,” by Robert and soc
stainless-steel sink in your dream. (Signs on streets kitchen is making the garbage. 28¢8
some comics, Task, 2nd you San flgwy Whe'e headlines,
town), here’ d of teen- If employment opportunities wah eres a kin 88% swindle, adolescence will lengthen. in the sense of
1s. much smaller than the
the identity of Elmtown (pop. . or so), which also might twin-propellor well be Hoosier, from Dr. Holead's description,
“beattie,” vainly|per circulation
movie money.
:
ummer Signs,”
By E. T. LEECH Editor. The Pittsburgh Press, a Beripa-Howard Newspaper
number of boys with potentially|you get ‘em to read it?
: good skit for a musical comedy|in instilling a desire Middletown. I haven't checked on|gy.¢ little Tommy, 40, with! Yet dally and Sunday newspa-
begging 95-year-old papa . for|time high in 1048, Sales dailies averaged over 52
an oil Ar, is inclu
Art Museum through June 5. It portrays a scene familiar to mek, 5 RE alas mami, casero 0 work. The very Eefifor Says Few Americans tras ws 1. woe Really Take Time fo Read
THIS HAS WORKED pretty well. For over the years, as the entertainment side of newspapers AFTER YOU print it, how canigrew, there also has been an unV deniable growth and broadening That, in a nutshell, is the big-io¢f the public's appetite for the gest problem in editing a news-imore solid type of news, : But there is still a Db! b to {ficarice in the way we plan|I mentioned Dr. Norbert Wiener's|and book publishers Worrying.\,, gone with halt or oe the
“Cybernetics” (also a Wiley book, Aug ls the hist question in|, perican people who are still
The Census Bureau says all
they did Dr. Hollingshead?) Dr.|8ave 2.7 per cent of our people Wiener says calculating machines|are now able to read. But surveys are making most ordinary human show that half of them don’t do brains obsolete. The high-speed|®0 beyond the bare essentials of
electric garbage-chewer under thelife. They can't escape reading i , names on pack-
ae Sitier Sunpls matter man obsolete. Give your imagina- which surrounds them in a world tion a couple of snorts out of its|0f Printed words. Plus perhapsic i ose, There is a good chance that reading will get a set-back. And
BUT MILLIONS never read|that may have very serious reper- (sults--not just for publishers, but Lang
keeps magazine
ball scores and 5 8»
a sustained
: ' Meanwhile, doctors are prolong-|usal of printed material. Schools|for the nation. Only by reading Dr. Hollingshead's Eimtown,.. jie Somebody could do &|teach Jrinte but seem to fail{can any man acquire real underto read. standing of what's going on. If television or any other reached an all-|entertainment seriously cuts into our troubles will million |grow and our chances of solving
of the|reading time,
W. Zimmerman,
virtually nonreaders. Now there is wide speculation that television may play havoc with reading. Recently I attended a meeting of newspaper circulation managers and one of their topics was how to sell papers to people who spend their hours watching television. you can’t watch television and do
‘Summer Signs’ Included in Hoosier Art Show
spare For
instructor in composition at the Hartford, ed in the 42d annual Indiana Artists Exhibition curr the artist since his boyhood in Kokomo.
‘Pens tory of ley
The Hollingsheads, as sociologists are concerned with what they observe, not with what they might conjecture. That's good scientific practice. They would
copies by the year's end. Each|them decline. week more than 46 million Sun-
da pers ere ro magasines| BOOK On Baseball
than the rest of the world to-
Andrews Novel
.
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leave to the social psychologist gether. We are
and other complex factors in the|are struggling picture. As good point out that Elmtown adults|enues. . (are much concerned about what! puppy 1S a
ter than adults do. That is per- DOHtY which
haps not entirely unselfish, like
ahead in life, taxes and get
The Hollingsheads wanted to find out what status adolescents
: ] sophomores’ behavior toward hold in society. They wanted to 1t adolescents were iy Se buck. There are many
freshmen,
rs» ONE IMPORTANT point they/on being kids. Many are menmake in the is this:|tally more mature than their
most directly
nan’s land between dependent idhend id. 1ndspensant adults Indiana lore should know, a cen-|the customs of their particular) yo tury ago the behavior-pattern for Clues. sed the teen-age boy often was to] Xach generation of adults, re-
drink and gamble and
formance, wants youngsters to portant news
observers, they/mands from their limited rev-
“‘character-bullding” ac-\jaang which does a lot of readtivities for youngsters. Adults\;;o 14 probably is the same mi-
manding Officer), kids will go|they “ought” to read. There iz an amazing lack of popular interest in matters which
Adolescence is a kind of no-iparents, They will smoke andithe individual-—his government, swear his job, his wages and taxes, the
1 : prices he pays and all the other and dabble in sex, sccording toi, thay determine what kind
» » MANY folks think the solution argue, by word or fist, with the|calling its own moral trainingito this question of more “worth and its own ‘dubious moral per-| while” reading is to put only im-
the world's great-
the whole problem of jealousy|est buyers of books, and libraries
to meet the deo . minority of Amermanages to get
pay most. of the credit for having
and vitally affect
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young people didn’t have to bite/The kids have got to be better attempts of this kind have been ¥ the fingernails of frustration. [than we've been, or there’s no made, The journalistie cemeteries Sofia Our whols opportunity picture| Meaning to life. are file 8 remains. o orrow has changed. I think that point] If you wonder why there's so Publications which tried to make . possibly is more significant than|much juvenile delinquency or why peop s rad what the editor Dr. Hollingshead’s observations|your own kids are such prob-| goeq: “eV DUgHE 10 Sead, on the class-stratification of Eim-|lems. read “Elmtown’s Youth.”|, 0 8 TAa%8 BIDZCRHONS Rave town. As he views the picture,(It won't tell you the whoie| lina they must give & fot © Sxpross 9 Eimtown has five definable|story. No single book could. formation Gomics bf course, are saciaTs and classes, Gravy goes to the top|But it may sharpen your vision.|ip. prime example—also the chief oral
more sympathetic
De Judgments—more accurate, i, get readers, but also in the
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classes. Theoretically, they're not supposed to exist in a country/can't see the facts as the kids else.
That's the big thing. If you|be coaxed into reading something
where, again theoretically, any/see them, you might as well adolescent who avoids tobacco,/throw in the sponge. It'll do no alcohol, laziness, procrastination|good, except to your vanity, to and the bad habit of asking|write letters to the editor comtroublesome questions can go|plaining about the Godlessness § { right up the ladder. Dr. Hollings-|of modern youth. ; J head carefully reminds us of] After all, the kids are not to
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