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Martin Block (Continued from page 42) passed through their teen years, and I have three others yet to be launched. So, as a father, I'm very much interested in teen-age problems. As a deejay, I have observed and served several generations of teenagers. And now I would like to talk frankly, to tell the truth about them and to them. Since I'm most comfortable in front of a microphone, we'll stop the music in the Make Believe Ballroom for a few minutes and have a "MakeBelieve Ball" with two teenagers. One will be my friend Terry, and we'll call her male counterpart Tom. Being typical, they will be healthy and good-looking, well-educated and inquisitive, good-humored and a little cynical. They don't look like monsters, but I take precautions and seat them across the table from me. Terry says, "This is to be honest and we'll not evade any hot issues. Right?" "That's right," I say. Tom looks suspicious and says, "I can ask you about sexual relations or drinking or money or anything?" I take time to gulp, and agree. Tom grins and says, "Well, we'll shoot the hot ones at you later. First of all, we agree things are in a sorry mess. You can't blame us teenagers for the H-bomb and the threat of war, and you can't blame us for feeling that it's kind of futile to plan anything." "If people didn't plan for tomorrow, we'd have chaos." "The point is, who's got a future?" Tom says. "Not me." "That's right," says Terry. "Will there be a male in my future? Important question." Ihis was grim and I didn't mince words. They were talking about dying — about being killed by a bomb or while soldiering. They didn't think much of their chances of survival. So I enlightened them, for their chances of living are a lot better than those of their parents ever were. It wasn't long ago that an epidemic of flu or typhoid or some other disease would sweep through a city and kill off a number of your friends. Today we don't have to worry about such epidemics. Medical science has given our children almost foolproof protection, plus a gift of longer life. Then I needled Tom about traffic accidents. "You know that deaths and injuries on highways average out higher than they were in Korea during war. But — tell me this — do you know any teenager who has refused to drive his father's car for fear of being killed?" I told them — as I would tell any adult — we take our chances at any age. What is really deadly is killing time worrying about something that may not happen. "Okay, but I still have to lose a couple of years because of the draft," Tom says. "How'd you like that?" "I wouldn't like it and you're not going to like it and that's that." Tom looks a little surprised. "No speech?" "I won't make a patriotic speech because I don't think the youngster who gripes about Army service is any less loyal than the rare one who does not. 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