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Among the others who have agreed to speak are Harry W. Laidler, who will join Norman Thomas in discussing socialism: the Honorable John Dickinson. Assistant Secretary of Commerce speaking on the New Deal: Max Eastman, author and editor, who will explain communism, and Seward Collins, editor of the American Review, whose topic will be Pascism...
...family social relations was exceedingly satisfactory in the first paragraph; but later paragraphs overemphasized a sexy sensational discussion that occurred in one of the seven sections of the conference. Less than 60 of the more than 300 members of the conference heard the radical-remarks ascribed to Dr. Dickinson and Dr. Dearborn, and the final report of the group made no reference to this brief discussion. . . . However . . the readers of TIME are entitled to a scientific interpretation of these remarks, as follows...
...Dickinson's statement that in his consulting work he has found a great increase in the number of engaged couples who confess pre-nuptial relations, should be evaluated in the light of the fact that in recent years he has become a world-renowned leader of medical research concerning birth control. Dr. Dearborn is a psychologist who helps people with their mental troubles...
...whole matter is that statistics collected by such specialists offer no proof, and in fact, no indication of what may be the situation among young people in general. Remember that only engaged couples who are anxious about their sexual affairs would be likely to consult such specialists as Dr. Dickinson and Dr. Dearborn. That . . . will explain why their opinions were opposed by the overwhelming majority of competent persons in the conference...
...stood Psychologist Lester Winthrop Dearborn, 40, of Boston, stocky, soft-spoken president of Massachusetts Society for Social Hygiene. To consult him in Boston, he reported, had lately come 200 engaged couples. As with Dr. Dickinson's, half his couples were not waiting on ceremony. "Does continence make for happiness?" cried Dr. Dearborn. "The answer is 'No.' The problems of those who had practiced continence were exactly the same as those who had not. I know of five young students of theology who confessed they had had relations with women they later married...