fear, destructiveness, as well as love, creativeness in action, pure joy of life, and other generally recognized desirable qualities.

'And in regard to the need for expressing these 'positive' as well as 'negative' responses, there is an iron law according to which all that goes unexpressed will not thereby be eliminated, but will assert itself in often uncontrolled and uncontrol-

lable ways...

"Remember that when you punish a child for being 'bad' you are using a double-edged sword. On the one hand you are helping him to learn the rules of society by which he will have to live; but on the other you are punishing underground feelings of destruction and hostility which, if not skillfully and understandingly guided into the open, will become deep-seated festers— eventually wrecking a terrible vengeance on the individual and society.

"It cannot be an accident that Germany, which has perpetrated some of the most brutal horrors humanity has had to bear, has also been most given to authoritarian and disciplinary upbringing...

"Let's face it. We must all be punished and yet loved and cherished. There is (or should be) no contradiction between these two. The point I am arguing goes, of course, well beyond the questions of children's education.

"Our habits of thinking in terms. of villains and heroes extends well beyond our family management, but expresses itself in political attitudes and conduct of foreign affairs.

"It is hard to admit, but there simply are no villains on whom to blame it all. There are simply lots of human beings, all with a similar set of fundamental drives, all needing control and love in order to function in society.

"And some of these human beings have had their basic drives so profoundly inhibited-often by being overwhelmingly goodies for much longer than health and sanity will permit-that the problem. of their control poses a most serious problem for society.

"It is of course worrisome, from the social point of view, that there are parents with such lack of understanding. It is much more profoundly worrisome that it should have been possible for this boy to go through his whole fifteen years without anyone who was responsible for his upbringing . . . taking note . . . of the danger signals. . .

"My final word has to do with the operation of the machinery of justice. Had I caught the boy in the act, I would have wished to kill him. Now that there is no undoing what is done, I only wish to help him. Let no feelings of caveman justice influence us. Let us rather help him. . . .'

This was not the disinterested, obstract theorizing of a sociologist but the sudden and deepfelt response of a man who had just cruelly lost his own beloved child.

The boy, Edward, a handsome, well behaved and well liked, religious youth, had been playing with the child, who had followed him. into his basement, when a sudden urge came over the boy. She became alarmed at his embraces, and in panic, apparently without knowing why, he strangled her and stuffed her body in a closet. A few hours later, Edward told his Confessor, and was sent to the police. Judge J. Sydney Hoffman, following the urging of the girl's father, ordered the boy sent for psychiatric treatment. Let's only hope it can help. . . .

LA Topcop Parker, trying on the philosopher's mantle, blamed the