Dr. Benj. Karpman, St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Wash., DC, says cheaper to treat sex offenders psychologically than to imprison them.

Dr. J. Roswell Gallagher, Children's Hospital, Boston, tells parents to worry if children are conformists, not if they rebel against authority.

From Albert Edw. Wiggam's syndicated LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND column:

Question: "Do pictures of pretty women tend to sell goods more to men than to women?"

Answer: "No. Both research and experience show that each sex is more attracted to pictures of its own members-directly contrary to popular opinion. A man glances at a picture of a pretty girl and quickly forgets her. But a picture of a handsome man. tips him off to some product for men. He instantly identifies himself with the good-looking fellow..."

Question: "Is it good psychology to marry your opposite?"

Answer: "No. Most people imagine that because there is a North and a South Pole, an up and a down, etc., that people must seek their opposites in friendship and marriage. We like people who are like us. Lovers, and husbands and wives, tend to be alike, physically and mentally. That is why cousins so often fall in love, and in many cases would do well to marry."

Broadway columnist Leonard Lyons, answering a reader's query, "Why don't you campaign to oust sex deviates from Broadway, the way they were ousted from the state Dept.?" answered, "Because it's none of my business, and because Broadway isn't like the State Department, and because a work of art should be judged solely on merit and not on the private life of the artist. Otherwise we would lose some of the most gifted contributors to the treasure of our theatre." In another Lyons' column: "The night clubs of Paris are thriving, including those featuring female impersonators.

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This type of club has been barred in New York, but is most popular in Berlin. To find a queer joint in Berlin all you have to do is throw a stone." Let him without blame throw first...

ODD BITS

Miami police arrested John McElroy for being nude in streets, got explanation that McElroy stripped because he felt too conspicuous in prison uniform he was wearing when he escaped from city stockade . . . Elderly Ohio man jailed for signing over 500 smutty letters with names of six enemies

Montebello, Calif. girl barred from graduation ceremonies and called non-conformist for wearing attractive pink dress unlike style dictated by school.

Navy in San Diego upset when water taxi operator told SP's passenger he'd taken aboardship had unmasculine outline. Navy dropped charges against woman stowaway who just wanted to meet the boys.

Mobile, Alabama hypnotist who told mesmerized woman he was her husband and was raping her was not indicted by grand jury . . .

OTHER LANDS

True love and racial propagation supposedly twin justifications for hetero sex, but British anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer, questioning 11,000 Britishers, found that one-tenth (of those married) had never been in love; one-half had, but not with their mate, and almost half approve of extra-marital affairs . . . Church of Scotland surprised at loose morals indicated by poll of members-50% of men approve pre-marital sex ... A Scotsman living in London is busy hunting fairies-the supernatural kind. In response to a newspaper request, he found that sightings of traditional elves and gnomes, still looking as they did in old storybooks, outnumbered sightings of more up-to-date flying

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