SURVEY

Fuss over Galveston's "red-light district" recalls time a former high official of town entered a brothel with friends and by chance got into room occupied by his teenage daughter. Repercussions flew all over town. Another time a local Ladies' Auxiliary boldly invaded a lush house on Post Office St. to call their fallen sisters to repentance. Prayer meeting went off sweetly, till, during tearful singing of YIELD NOT TO TEMPTATION, patron barged in, calling lustily for favorite fille de joie. Singing stopped. Leader fainted. Patron was her husband.

Chief Air Force Chaplain, astonished that some recruits were not church members, ordered recruits to specify faith (joining church and taking lessons) or label selves atheists. In most faiths, church joining is by free will. Nor is it government function to impress men into church.

Provincetown Police Chief Rogers promised "Every effort to drive undesirables out of Provincetown and the Cape," after raids on Atlantic House netting 20 men on "morals charges." Barnstable Unitarian minister Kenneth Warren, forgetting his church's liberal modernism, warned his flock of the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Recent KEYHOLE bit on Baltimore cops who booked prostitute, discovered things are not always what they seem. She was a man. Arithmetic in story puzzling: This boy hadn't had piece of manly attire in 6 years, had spent 2 in army, is now 22. WAC maybe?

Frisco millionaire "Bunny" Breckenridge, who wants to become woman, nabbed as "vagrant" in raid on Embarcadero bar, Sea Cow. Case dismissed. "Vagrant" with so much money?

California changeling Tamara Rees, who wanted apology for statement she's fathered two children, recently

wed to burlesque promoter. Daily papers still call her father. We apologize anyhow.

Third LA man in year and a half suicide by hanging, blindfolded and chained before mirror dressed in feminine undies. Police baffled as two were wed and third popular with women. None had sex-deviate records.

Vancouver, BC, police upset by exposé in sensational weekly FLASH. Police chief put on indefinite leave. A detective committed suicide. Canadian Senate Investigating Committee digging into charges of corruption, vice, dope.

Ten arrested in raid on San Jose's Midway Cafe. Described by Police. Chief Blackmore as "only known meeting place here of members of the 'clan'."... Radio-TV writer claimed in court "strange passions" made his wife unfit mother . . . Florida cops quizzing California sailor who killed D. C. army doctor after latter allegedly made advances . . . Similar California case involves Seattle man... 16-year-old Vermont girl told police her rape charge against salesman was fabrication. If she hadn't confessed, how possibly could he have proved his innocence?

GLINTS OF LIGHT

Dr. Lauretta Bender of NYC's Bellevue called juvenile delinquency fuss mostly nonsense. Real wonder is why so few are delinquent. "Children have an amazing capacity to tolerate bad parents, poor teachers, dreadful homes and communities." "At turn of century we had the same types of youth crimes as today, and proportionally as often ... We have blamed the home entirely too much. A broken home in adolescence is a tragedy... but it takes a combination of several causes to push a particular child along the road to delinquency"