THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1966 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1966 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE Adolescent Suicide: Significant But Secretive By The Associated Press EDITOR'S NOTE: Suicide among the young seems to be on the in- crease- it may amount to 5000 cases a year-and authorities are concerned. Causes and symptoms are becoming clearer, but more study of prevention measures is needed, and a new federal center is being set up. Suicide is the No. 2 cause of death among college students. Among those aged 15 to 19 it is the No. 3 cause of death. There are nearly three known adoles- cent suicides a day, and some ex- perts say the true figure may be 5,000 a year. "The most onerous suicide is the suicide of the adolescent," says Dr. Edwin S. Shneidman of Los Angeles, special consultant to the National Institute of Mental Health. "In such a suicide we are troubled with the assault upon our accepted values. "We are tormented because we say, 'Here is a person who is about to enter the external potential of life and yet because of internal conflict takes his own life'." Why should such young people kill themselves, or try to? "There are five categories of problems most troubling to ado-' lescents," answers Dr. Stanley F. Yolles, director of the institute. "These are problems the young people do not readily discuss with people who are in the position to solve them. They are: parents, poverty, peers, broken romances, and pregnancy." In the college atmosphere, there is what becomes an intolerable pressure for some young people. Iften, it is indirectly applied. "My parents have not said a thing to me about maintaining a 'igh average," says a Cleveland girl attending a Rhode Island school, "but I know they would be terribly disappointed. I know how much of a sacrifice it is for them to send me here. I don't think I could face them if I failed." A student attending the Uni- versity of Connecticut says: "I was always bothered when final exams came, but now it's too much. If I don't really score high, I mean real high, then it means that I could end up being drafted and going to Viet Nam. When I think about that, I think sometimes I'd rather kill myself." School problems - focused al- most entirely upon the worship of high grades-makes students a high risk group. The New Jersey Department of Education said a three-year study showed that 41 students killed themselves and 738 tried to do so but failed. Thou- sands made suicide threats. The most universal reason is the pressure to achieve high grades. The danger period is that time be- fore examinations. A recent study indicates that by the time 1966 ends, as many as 90,000 college students will have threatened suicide and 1,000 will have suc- ceeded. In defining suicide people, the Los Angeles Suicide Prevent Cen- ter concluded: "They are no inger able to sweep their feelings ux,der the rug of indifference and de- nial. They must face their feelings of hopelessness, helplessness, and dependeicy." Suicide has been held in such disgrace that it has been difficult for investigators to arrive at clear figures of how often it occurs. In 1965, there were 22,560 known suicides and almost all experts in- sist that the true figure is at least twice as great. As for the suicide rate among college-age people, there is a ques- tion as to whether the rate has in- creased or whether the reporting techniques have improved. -ow- ever, there are indications that uhe rate has gone up. The National Association for Mental Health of New York re- ported that the number of mental hospital patients between the ages of 10-14 increased six-fold in 1965. To get some clearer notion about suicide, its causes and its preven- tion, the federal government has set up a center for studies of sui- cide prevention. Dr. Shneidman is the apointee-elect as its direc- tor. The center will be a focal agency for all activities relating to suicide and will also be coupled to mental health centers establish- ed an dbeing planned under the guidance of the National Institute of Mental Health. 'Big Four' Slap Israel For Attacks Jordanian Tells UN American Agitation Led to Border Battle UNITED NATIONS (P)- -The 'Bif Four' powers joined yesterday in condemning Israel for a large- scale military attack on three Jor- danian border villages taken in reprisal for Arab sabotage raids on Israeli territory. Varying only in intensity of lan- guage, the delegates of the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union sharply criticized Is- rael. But Jordan at an urgent session of the U.N. Security Council blamed the United States for rising tension in the Middle East, said condemnation was not enough and asked the council to consider punitive action against Israel. Lord Caradon, the British am- bassador, said his delegation de- plored the reprisal attack and added, "We must condemn such w actions, which only increase the risk of continued and wider con- flict between Israel and her Arab ,neighbors, and we hold the gov- ernment of Israel responsible for them.~ U.S. Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg said his country was the Sfirst to issue a. statement con- demning the reprisal attack imme- diately after learning about it. Condemnation "The United States then con- demned this raid, and condemns it now, deeming it in clear vio- lation of the solemn obligations undertaken by Israel in the gen- eral armistice agreements," he said. "And what makes it of course most deplorable is the tragic toll in human lives of this inexcusable action." Muhammad H. El-Farra, the 4 Jordanian delegate, described the attack as "vicious, merciless and inhuman." He listed the casualties as at least eight civilians and 12 Jordanians killed, in addition to many wounded. A. U.N. report said 125 buildings were demolished. Charter Action A El-Farra called on the council to consider action under chapter seven of the U.N. Charter, which contemplates sanctions and even use of military force in dealing with threats to peace. He said the United States has made a domestic issue out of the Palestinequestion, and added that U.S. policy, "therefore, has been no deterrent to the Zionist crim- inals who cross the demarcation lines to destroy and butcher." Goldberg made no direct reply to that charge by El-Farra but said that the reprisal attack "caused loss of lifeand destruc- tion far in excess of the cumula- tive total of the various acts of terrorism conducted against the frontiers of Israel." Republicans REGISTRATION FOR TRAINING: Want House Wirtz Suggests Draft Lottery Rules Change National 'Opportunity Board' Will Demand Half Of Debating Period On Conference Bills WASHINGTON (A) - House Republicans started a drive yester- day for major changes in House rules and for more representation on House committees in line with their resurgence at the polls. The objectives were discussed informally Tuesday at the first meeting of party leaders since the Republicans gained 47 House seats in last week's elections. They will be spelled out in more detail and probably expanded at a later meeting. Minority leader Gerald Ford of Michigan, who will be chief of the 187 Republicans in the House convening Jan 10, said he expects no trouble when the GOP leaders meet with Democratic leaders next month to work out their party ratio on committees. Two to One The committee ratio in the pres- ent House is two to one or better in favor of Democrats who now outnumber Republicans in the House by that margin. In the new House, Democrats will have an edge of about four to three over Republicans. Republicans appar- ently are willing to settle for a WASHINGTON (P) - Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz, calling the military draft unfair, proposed yesterday a national "opportunity board" to register youths for com- munity service, education and job training as well as military serv- ice. He said it could be tried on a voluntary basis first, and possibly make it compulsory later if nec- essary. Wirtz told Catholic University students they were benefitting from "a Selective Service System more haphazard and inequitable than any method yet tried or sug- gested for selection for military service." Draft Compels In his prepared speech, he said the present draft system "almost compels, as I see it, some kind of lottery system for selection for military service." Wirtz was the second- major Johnson administration official to suggest a draft lottery, which is opposed by the Selective Service. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara said in a Harvard Uni- versity interview e a r 1 i e r this month that a national lottery would help in "eliminating the deficiencies" of the present draft system. education, job training or a job, or a community service program,r and "that it be recognized as the3 youth's obligation, in return, tof use this opportunity." Compulsory Register On the possibility of making s u c h registration compulsoryr Wirtz said:E "It would be precisely those whot present the most serious problems,t both for themselves and for thee community, who would fail to taile advantage of any or all of the op- tions which were offered them;c and their continuing misdemean- ors would make a new systemr seem not to be working even if itE were in fact providing the general situation materially."' Wirtz called the unfairness ofr the present military draft systemt only part of an infinitely larger problem of providing opportunityt for all American youths.C "There is as much reason, and more, to require every American youth to 'register' for living as for fighting," he said. He told the college students: "You complain, properly io my judgment, of the unfairness of the method by which one boy out of every two is selected for some kind of military service. But is it worse than the unfairness of the way one boy or girl out of every two gets to college and the other one doesn't?" He said under the present cir- cumstances, "no other kind of service or education or employ- ment warrants, in my judgment, exemption from military service." He said this is partly because the present system of draft defer- ments "adds the burden of mili- tary service on top of the disad- vantage of the often inequitable denial of educational and other opportunity." -Associated Press JOHNSON RECUPERATES PRESIDENT JOHNSON IS SEEN recuperating after his throat operation yesterday at Bethesda Naval Hospital, Bethesda Maryland. Unable to speak because of the operation hours earlier, he communicates with Ladybird in writing. VIET HARD LINE: IntermParty Conflict Growing At Bulgarian Communist Meet SOFIA, Bulgaria (P)-The split widened yesterday in Communist ranks over the China problem while Hanoi's hard line on a Viet- namese settlement gathered more support. Differtnces became more ap- parent as more Communist party delegations addressed a congress here of the Bulgarian Communist party. In speeches made public so far from the closed sessions, seven parties lined up behind a Soviet- inspired effort to hold a world Communist conference to seek unity in the divided Communist movement. Three opposed it and some were equivocal or ignored the subject. It has become the most dramatic issue of this gathering of Commu- Officials Deny U.S. Dropped H-Bomb Near Puerto Rico WASHINGTON (P) - The staff of the Congressional Atomic Com- mittee denied a report yesterday that a hydrogen bomb was drop-, ped near a small island off Puerto Rico last August. They said that a Navy aircraft on a practice mission accidentally dropped an unarmed "training nuclear weapon" which could not have exploded and contained no nuclear materials. The committee staff said a re- port on the training accident had been sent to the joint senate- house atomic supervisory panel at the time and news accounts were carried of the mishap. Allege Bomb Drop The committee report differed with a copyright story carried by the Oakland Calif. Tribune that a hydrogen bomb had been drop- ped by an Air Force bomber. The congressional staff said that the Navy aircraft flew from an aircraft carrier at the time of the mishap, and that the practice bomb, which was not armed, later was recovered by Navy divers. Science writer Jim Hazelwood said in the tribune that his sources reported the bomber was on a training mission. Training Flight A Pentagon spokesman said there was a military training mis- sion in the area about the time quoted in the Tribune story, but withheld official comment until the details could be checked. Two members of the Senate- House Atomic Energy Committee, one a Democrat and the other a Republican, said they were not surprised, but neither would per- mit quotation by name. "We have had reports on these accidents several times in the past," one member said. "I would guess there have been half a dozen or so but with no danger result- ing." The other member said he was not familiar with the reported August case but added "these things have happened before, sev- eral times within the continental United States." nist and leftist parties from some 70 nations. The Kremlin wants a confer- ence to establish a pro-Soviet pol- icy line that would leave China an outcast from the world Com- munist movement. Both Moscow and Peking now denounce the other's policies as deviations from true communism. But a conference would leave no room for neutralist Communist parties that are presently trying to use the Moscow-Peking dispute to assert their nationalistic inter- ests. So they are opposing it, or dragging their feet. Quiet Line On Viet Nam, the recent Soviet quiet line that omits any public :statement of conditions for a peace settlement was countered by pseeches reasserting Communist demands for total victory. Delegates from Cuba, Mongolia and North Korea voiced the hard line. And Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh of the Viet Cong's National Libera- tion Front sounded a staunch battle cry while denouncing Amer- ican peace proposals. The contrast between the quiet line of Soviet bloc nations eager fgr peace, and Communist parties taking a tough position had ap- peared earlier. ne Brezhnev General-Secretary Le onid I Brezhnev of the Soviet Communist party used brief, unemotional phrases to accuse .the United States of aggression in Viet Nam. But Secretary-General N i coa i Ceausescu of the Romanian party restated the whole package of Hanoi's peace program that in- cludes the demand for an uncon- ditional American withdrawal. Mongolia echoed the Romanians. North Korea used similar phrases. The Cuban delegate, Julio Ca- macho, said the Cuban people "are ready to give the last drop of our blood to defend the just cause of the Vietnamese people." Other delegations avoided dis- cussing peace terms or going much beyond general denunciations of the United States. t i t i c I !I t It I ,r three-to-two, ratio on committee JanuaryReport assignments. Both Wirtz and McNamara said Debate specific action should await the Specifically, he said the minor- report of the National Commission ity should have half of the time on Selective Service appointed by allowed to debate conference re- President Johnson. The report is ports which are final compromise due in January. versions of bills passed by the Sen- The commission is also consider- ate and the House. The entire ing "a broad-scale national service time, usually one hour, now is controlled by the majority, which program. can use it all or allot some of it Wirtz suggested his national to the minority. "opportunity board" proposal be If the 21-day rule is retained, tried first on an entirely voluntary Laird said, it should be changed basis. to allow the top Republican on a He proposed that every boy and committee to call up for House girl register with the community action bills approved by his com- at age 18, that the community mittee but blocked by the Rules have the obligation of providing Committtee. every youth two years of further Grocer Lobby Defends Increase in Food Costs World News Roundup HILLEL DELI HOUSE Sunday at 5:30 p.m. ENTERTAINMENT with your choice of a Hillel Sandwich 9 2 corned beef or pastrami sandwiches " soda * pickles i potato chips * music CALL 663-4129 for reservations 1429 HILL STREET All Are Welcame NEW YORK (R) - A group of food manufacturers and retailers, sharply aware of the growing furor over rising food prices, de- fended those pricesand offered housewives little hope that the price spiral would stop soon. "Food prices are up, there's no doubt about it," said George W. Koch, president of the Grocery Manufacturers of America, a group that speaks for the Amer- ican food industry. "But the farmer is not to blame -the manufacturer is not to blame-the distributor is not to blame. There's nothing that the men from the farm to the table can do about it." War Takes Blame The major blame, he said, lies in the fact that the United States is at war. "I don't care what Washington wants to call it, for all practical purposes we are at war in Viet Nam. Every time this nation is at war, this nation's economy is in- flated. "Rising food prices are the re- sult of this inflation, but they are not the cause of it." Koch said that farm, manufac- turing and distribution costs are up and those higher costs are re- flected in costs to consumers. Part of the reason, he said, is that the once vast food surpluses of the United States have been depleted because of increased for- eign and domestic demands to the point "where supply and demand have just met." "For example, when Florida's citrus crop is damaged by frost, the price of orange juice goes up immediately," he said. "That's what we're experiencing now on a much larger scale. It's the old American economic law of supply and demand." Koch said the price of every- thing is up, and added: "But a housewife doesn't buy a car every week, she doesn't buy a new re- frigerator or washer every week." SCULPTOR'S THEATER presents an Anti-War Drama: "Flowers of Destruction Introduced by the Amazing Machine" First Presbyterian Church 1432 Washtenaw Avenue (between S. University and Hill St.) TH U R. & FRI., NOV. 17 & 18 Shows at 7:30 & 9:30 P.M. CONTRIBUTION sponsored by VOICE-SDS By The Associated Press VATICAN CITY-Pope Paul VI yesterday warned Roman Catho- licism's largest and most influen- tial order -- the Society of Jesus Jesuits-not to weaken in its tra- ditional obedience to the papacy. At the same time he praised the 35,000-member, order and exhort- ed the Jesuits to help carry out the modlernization program out- lined by the Vatican Ecumenical Council. FRANKFURT-A German psy- chiatrist, Prof. Friederich Panse of Daesseldorf, testified here that Adolf Hitler once had psychiatric treatment for temporary blindness, HAVE YOU BEEN INS' "THEli RGiESWT LITTLE claiming it was an aftermath of mustard-gas poisoning in World War I. Panse said examination showed instead that the blindness was induced by hysteria. He was a witness at a trial of three Ger- man doctors accused of sending thousands of mentally ill Germans to gas chambers. 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