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I hope we know something about it. I have also, before we got 

 into the business that we are in, I did teach college for 6 years and 

 directed a testing and counseling center and in our work we have 

 had the opportunity to test perhaps 8,000 or more young people so 

 that some of the comments that I will make are based on scientific 

 fact and not mere emotionalism. 



I think what most importantly must be said here is that we fre- 

 quently pay a great deal of lipservice to the question of what is the 

 prdblem with youth, why is there the alienation, why is there the 

 drug problem, why is there the so-called generation gap, the over-30, 

 under-30 nonsense, and so on. 



I think there is no simple answer to this except that the one world 

 alienation perhaps sums it up. 



There is an increasing, and I have noticed since my days as a stu- 

 dent which seems like 4,000 years ago, but really was not that long ago 

 and through my teaching career and my business career, there is an 

 increasing feeling on the part of young people that our words and our 

 actions are very simple, that our words, our national symbols, our rea- 

 sons for being, our society, our purposes have been slipping. 



What we say and what we do are two different thmgs and so what 

 we say to our kids sometimes lacks credibility. 



For example, someone commented just the other day on the radio 

 that how interesting it is when we sit down and give our youngsters 

 a lecture on the evils of marihuana and other drugs, and the very lec- 

 turer is seen by that child waking up to a pep pill, popping three diet 

 pills during the day, having a couple of tranquilizers to get through the 

 day, the two or three straight-up martinis at 5 :30 and the sleeping pill 

 to go to sleep. 



These are not drugs, you see. These are the adult versions of pharma- 

 ceuticals. 



It becomes very hypocritical on the part of the youngster when we 

 say do not use your drug, whether marihuana or LSD, but it is OK 

 for us to use ours, but you cannot use yours. 



In the same way, we say you shall not kill, but go ahead butchering 

 animals and fighting wars and doing all the other things that seem 

 naturally hypocritical to the youngster who has not worked out all of 

 the rationalizations that we adults have managed. 



What has this got to do with the Harris-Pry or bill ? Very simple 

 and rather obvious. 



At some point, and I do not know what this point is, whether you 

 members of this subcommittee and the full committee will grasp this 

 opportunity to make this a point or not, I have no way of knowing, I 

 can only hope but at some point if we are really to turn the situation 

 around, if we are really serious about recapturing the Anierican dream, 

 about recapturing our young people, about again bringing imity and 

 integration into our society, and I do not mean integration in the nar- 

 row sense, I mean in the total sense, we have just got to begin some 

 place. 



We have got to begin to show by actions, not by great words, that we 

 really are serious about some of the things we say so that the yoimg 

 people can begin to identify with those things we do. 



What a great beginning right here, because would it not be a nice 

 thing if we can say at one point, "Look, it is not the American Govern- 



