The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 105

Hirohito's Verse on 'Children' Doctor DTKalU fc i has iwi -inMir Pangs By Eugene Schoenfeld, M.D. ami 1946-967 A.D.).' It became an annual court function for the new year about 1870 in the reign of Emperor Meiji, the grandfather of Hirohito. Each year the Imperial household a special representive known as the "meshiudo" who dedicates to the Emperor a poem of his own composition. This year's meshiudo, Godo Nakanishi, president of the Japari Bird Watchers' society, wrote: DEAR DR. SCIIOENFELD: My boyfriend and 1 have been going steady for quite some time now.

I am 17 years old and we have had sex a few times. I am not on the pill or anything and he does not use protection. When he is ready to discharge, he gets up. I know this is generous, that's why I am writing. Is it that when you put Vaseline on the penis before inter- The sun began to shine over the snow-covered 'ake as children called out in voices pharp and clear to feed the swans afloat 'on the lake.

course it does to the sperm cells and you don't get pregnant? I plan to get on the pill next year but I have to go on something before then. C.C grandson, how eagerly I await your return from Switzerland young voice of yours recorded on tape. Your words enthrall me day and night. Princess Chichibu, 63 years old, wife of a brother of the Emperor: So great is my wonder to see today's children clever at adopting world's happenings in play. Soon after they happen on earth.

Crown Price Akihito, 39 years old: Straining his round eyes my child says there are thorns on the stem of the hemp palm leaf. Crown Princess Michiko, 38 years old: Stars are reflected softly in the eyes of little children as they play in the fragrant summer grass in the garden. Prince Takamatsu, 68, the Emperor's younger brother: Tis a pity to think of parents whose children are retarded. For parents always wish little ones to grow up sound in mind and body. The Imperial household agency has announced that next year's poetic theme will bp "asa" (morning).

It said the theme could also be interpreted broadly to mean "morn" or "daybreak." Anyone who would like to try his hand at a 31-syllable poem in Japanese can submit, it to the Imperial Household Agency at the palace in Tokyo between September 1 and October 11 this year. By Don Oberdorfer Washington Post Service Tokyo EMPEROR HIROHITO was inspired by children with balloons at the Winter Olympics. Empress Nagako wrote of her grandchildren. The president of the "Japan Bird Watchers' society was moved by children calling out to swans on a lake. The three of them and some 30,000 other Japanese composed poems in a classical 31-syllable style as part of the annual New Year Poetry Festival sponsored by the Impe rial family.

In an audience chamber of the Imperial Palace, the leading entries of this year all on the specified subject of children were read aloud in front of Japan's first family, about 70 honored guests and a live television audience across the Japanese islands. The Emperor, who is 71 years old, wrote about the children carrying many-colored balloons who participated in the opening ceremony of the 1972 Winter Olympics held in Sapporo last February. In an unofficial translation his poem read: The balloons released by children skating on the frozen rink fly up into the faraway sky. Empress Nagako, who is 69 years old, is reported to have had some of her ten grand' children in mind when she wrote: Feeling as. if 1 had returned to the days whenI was a child 1 play together with the small children.

The Emperor's poem was read three times by an official and the Empress's poem read twice as the royal couple looked on during the traditional history of Imperial poem-reading parties is a very old one, traced by some back to Emperor Murak SWi 4 ANSWER: Apparently you didn't learn enough about preventing pregnancy at home, church, or in school. Withdrawal is a foolish way to try to prevent conception, as you've noted. Using Vaseline as a contraceptive is another fast way to slip into EACH OF THE poems submitted in the annual event is composed of 31 syllables in 5-7-5-7-7 syllabic arrangement. Such an arrangement is beautiful to the ear in Japanese but difficult to translate in poetic form in English. From the" 30,000 entries by commoners, including 430 from abroad, a panel of judges selected nine poems to be read at the ceremony, pne of them, by a 62-year-old retired schoolmaster named Hideo Nishimura, was translated thus: Behold, masked dancers yplaying merry in the green, lit is a village feast I keep alive in memory.

Lo, the ogre-faced kid is romping with zest. The poems of other members of the imperial family were also read, as is In unofficial translations, some of them are as follows: Prince Mikasa, 59 years old, another brother of the Emperor: Dr. Schoenfeld Don't wait until next year before visiting your, in Tlhe ixpeir i mroeiroti Why Ads Are irry Ab That Eb3 E3 physician or Planned Parenthood. Even if you do consult your own doclor, you surely should attend one or more Planned Parenthood birth control classes. DEAR DR.

SCIIOENFELD: I never knew how "liberal" my ex-husband's sex attitudes were until now when I'm single again and becoming "acquainted" with other men. We nearly always engaged in rnutual oral-genital sex as foreplay preceding sexual intercourse. And, tuite often, we enjoyed oral sex to the point of climax, Emitting intercourse whatever suited our fancy. To my dismay, the three lovers I've had since my divorce were not willing to perform this enjoyable act on me. Yet they were quite pleased when I did it to them.

One of them finally did it reluctantly, but I didn't enjoy it due to his obvious reluctance. My God, am I just meeting the wrong men or was my ex-husband the rare exception to the rule? I might add that I'm in my middle 20s and so were my lovers. Puritans they shouldn't be! How can I convince a lover that I want to get as well as give oral sex? B.J. ANSWER: Several members of my research staff responded to your letter with indignant comments. "Selfish pigs!" was one immediate response.

"She's running around with the wrong crowd," observed my head research associate. About 30 years ago, Kinsey's studies of sexual behavior found a man was more likely to perform cun-riilingus if he were better educated." While only 4 per cent of married men with less than a ninth grade education pleased themselves and their wives this way, the figure was 45 per cent for males with one year or more of college. Both figures are probably higher today. Kihsey wrote, "Because of the widespread taboos on the subject, the contemplation of participation in oral-genital activities often results in blocked emotional responses Presumably you are in good health and attentive to personal hygiene if you've any doubts see a gynecologist. The most complete work on oral sex, G.

Legman's "The Intimate Kiss" (Pocketbooks), tells us this form of lovemaking is considered by many as more intimate than vaginal intercourse. Perhaps your new friends feel they don't know you well enough. Or you've been attracting a skewed sample of the men available to you. Naming Names By Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Special to Th Chronicle New York THE PROHIBITION of the sale of alcoholic beverages in this country was called "The Noble Experiment," among other things.

It did a lot to destroy our respect for policemen, who were expected to enforce laws which were stupid and unpopular. The war in Vietnam might aptly be called "Noble Experiment II," since it was a similarly narrow-minded adventure in virtue. It has left us with a secret and unjust contempt for our soldiers, especially our airmen. That contempt will become less and less secret as time goes by. People think unthinkable things and speak unspeakable things in the privacy of their homes, meaning no harm when blurting this or that.

And a reasonable woman said to me in such privacy a few days ago that she couldn't really care what happened to some of our prisoners of war. She pitied the captured ground soldiers and the captured fliers who had flown in support of troops. But she thought that the fliers who were shot down while bombing civilians from the stratosphere shouldn't have been doing what they were doing. "I wouldn't want to wear a bracelet with one of their names on it, and pray for his early return to his family and all that," she said. "I'm sorry." I REMINDED her that the fliers could be given prison terms for refusing to bomb this or that.

"They could have resigned," she said. We had seen films of recently captured airmen on television the night before, and she didn't think they were noble or anything. "They volunteered," she said. "They didn't have to do that. They're healthy and intelligent, and the country is prosperous.

There are plenty of things they could have done in civilian life." Pure but Vulnerable Berlin BAYER, THE West German pharmaceutical firm, has decided to adopt a picture of a lime tree leaf as a "symbol of purity" all part of the German chemical industry's answer to charges that they are polluting the environment. The choice may seem pure, but it is unfortunate, as most opera lovers will know, for when Siegfried was covered with dragon's blood in order to become invincible, he overlooked a lime tree leaf stuck on his back. And that, of course, is the spot where Hagan drives home his spear in the opera's climax. N.AJi4. Mtrthill teiMM Los Angeles BRAND is fast disappearing.

Increasingly, advertisers are claiming flatly that their products are bet-' ter than the opposition. and nam-, ing names. Traditionally, of course, advertisers just said 'their product was best, period. Competition was always anonymous; if pictured, its name was covered. But what used to be gentlemanly' sparring matches are now lurning into slugfests.

Look at what's happening: Mazda, in ads and commercials, shows its new automatic transmission model spurting away from a Ford Pinto and a Chevrolet Vega in acceleration tests. The competitive models are shown clearly and named. Schick, claims in its advertising that its electric shaver outper-1 forms its three leading competitors, Norelco, Remington and are clearly identified. There are more examples of headbutting advertising, but you get the idea: my widget is the best; the Acme widget is second rate. It's called comparative advertising.

CONSENSUS IN the advertising industry is that this is a trend that will grow. But advertisers and their agencies realize they are on new, shaky ground and few are willing to be quoted on the subject. What caused the change? Basically, it stems from a Federal Trade Commission suggestion that broadcasters reverse a long standing policy and accept comparative advert tising for an experimental period. Says Gerald Thain, assistant director for national advertising of the FTCs Bureau of Consumer Protection: "We wanted to institute the experiment because we feel the role of advertising should be informational. To the extent that you have comparative advertising and the competition isn't named, you're not giving complete information." Thain cites the hypothetical case of an advertiser saying his products is better than that familiar Brand X.

"If there are five other products in the field, the advertised product may be better than one but maybe worse than the other four. That's unfair." Advertisers are still not permit tet to otenly disparage a competitor, Thain stresses. "You can't shake a can of bolts and say that's what a (name of car) sounds like." Timet Srrrtr PAGE 5 me that we may now encourage mercenary warriors in our midst. That is how I would write it, if I were writing science fiction. There would be this jaded, cynical country, see, where romance was dead as a doornail, and it would create this ferocious, highly paid war-rior class.

And so on. The Pick of Punch Copyright W73, Toronto Sun Syndltot IS. PUNCH I i Best Foot Forward Dept. Paris FRENCH pop singer Michel Polnareff bared his bottom on an advertising poster boosting a new show, Parisians far more prudish than most tourists realize were deeply shocked. Questions were asked in Parliament.

Police dispatched people to paste strips of paper over the pop bottom. Such is life, it's done Polnareff nothing but good. Before the poster, he earned an average of $2000 for a one-night concert. Now his fee has rocketed to $5000 a night. DON'T REALLY think that will 1 happen.

I do think, though, that we will continue to elect priggish, ignorant, stubborn people to high office. Their blind enthusiasms, commonly learned at their mothers' knees, will lead us into more noble experiments. Humanity will again fail to cooperate because the experiments will be incomprehensible to most human beings, and painful and wasteful besides. Humanity will come to look like a defective machine to the noble experimenters. They will order our policemen and soldiers to bang on it hard, to make it run smoothly.

The experimenters will again force our policemen and soldiers to disgrace themselves in public. Sorry about that. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is author of "Slaughterhouse Five." SO, IN THE privacy of her home, she was no longer able to believe in a romance which in the past has made us so energetic when defending our soldiers the romance of our innocent soldier boys. We have made our soldiers ghastly by giving them ghastly things to do.

Too bad. Some experiment. Noble Experiment which was Prohibition, gave us a hardy and heartless new class, the gangster businessmen, who can be expected to sicken our society for at least anoth-. er hundred years. I am curious to see if Noble Experiment II will leave us with a similarly persistent disease.

We encouraged and admired the gangsters when they were getting their start, and it seems possible to "If we're ever going to compete, we've got to accept contiinerization." S.F. Sunday Examiner Chronicle, Sunday Punch, January 28, 1973.