Harlow found the newborn animals cuddled up to a "mother" made of terrycloth and wire with a painted woodenhead, but were cool to "mothers" made out of unpadded wire, even when the latter gave milk. Psychologists had long suspected, Harlow said, that "contact comfort was an important basic affectional or love variable, but we did not expect it to overshadow so completely the variable of nursing." It is cheering to realize, he said, that as more and more women go to work, "the American male is physically endowed with all the essential equipment for serving in the maternal capacity. . . .

In contrast to the tranquilizer philosophy rampant today, Dr. Frank. Tallman, former director of mental hygiene for the State of Calif., said recently that tension is a necessary factor in human life-a normal, healthy emotion. "Life couldn't exist unless there were chemical tensions. The business of living is tension producing." For example, if a salesman employed by an automobile agency selling cars weren't anxious to sell them, he would be sick. However, if he were so nervous and tense he couldn't deal with customers, then he would be neurotic. Stresses appropriate to the situation help us to survive and attain our goals. Therefore healthy persons utilize stress to gain energy for accomplishment. We must all experience stress in order to grow into well-integrated human beings; consequently, a child overprotected from stress is being unprepared for living.

Eugene Ertle, president of the American Culinary Federation, said recently that men are far better cooks than women. "Men have more of the creative urge, they have a great natural talent, and they take it into cooking."

We Believe in Freedom BUT Department: Sociologists Robt. McGinnis and R. W. Mack of Wisconsin and Northwestern Universities, tested a sampling of students and teachers at each school to find how many agreed with the several freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution, found that most approved of star chamber trials, double jeopardy and such, that four out of ten felt that the right of free public assembly should be barred to some groups. Perhaps things haven't really changed much since Puritan days when the standing concept of freedom was "freedom for me and for everyone that sees things my way." It will probably be a long time before most Americans will agree to Justice Holmes' contention that freedom is only real when it means freedom to do and say things that the majority strongly disapproves of, finds quite shocking. The freedom merely to conform is no freedom at all. . . .

In defiance of the U. S. Supreme Court, a Western Pennsylvania Court upheld the conviction of two East Liberty newsdealers for selling magazines which the Supreme Court had already declared were not obscene. The Penna. court, with two judges dissenting, held that the sales were in violation of state law, and they attacked "civil liberties crybabies" who fail to recognize their "basic obligations toward society." The two justices failed to explain what the sale of magazines already approved by the highest court in the land (an opinion cleared these two nudist magazines the same day the court upheld ONE) had to do with unnamed "obligations."

Report that Connecticut Bar Assn. has recommended change of all laws regarding sexual relations between consenting adults. . . .

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