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LADY LONGLEGS — Connie. Sindell stretches her legs and hairdo
at the same time on a jetty at Miami Beach.
"They Don't Come
From Normal Homes"
Said J, Edgar Hoover, direeter
of the FBI, recently:
ILI should, like to emphasize
that the juvenile prebieln in any
community . regardless, of
size and location . , stems pre.
manly from parental neglect and.
adult indifference."
The Christian Science Monitor
commented on Hoover's state-
ment:
"Sureiy a people who have
made a democracy practical in
its political can learn how
better to strike a balance be-
tween individuality and re-
sponsibility in homes,"
It often appears to us that our
society does not have a clear
picture of the type of home con-
ditions and family that breeds
these misfits.
For so often we write and
we speak as if these were aver-
age or normal homes in which
something misfired while rais-
ing the children.
The normal, average home
rarely, if ever, produces the so-
cial misfit who is constantly in
trouble with the law,
Carmen Santor, Clinton Coen-
ty's probation director, did a
fascinating analysis of the sprieg
grand jury cases which. ieivelereel
teen-agers and older thew and
women . . . (He) found that in
most cases, the parents of these
young people have been involv-
ed with the law at one time or
another, So t h e parents were
misfits and simply producing
another generation of trouble-
makers.
In many cases, the parents
were divorced or separated. The
teen-agers were troublemakers
in school, poor in their studies
even though some had the men-
By ROSETTE HARGROVE
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
Paris — The little woman be-
hind the biggest man in France,
President Charles de Gaulle,
could be expected to remain in
background on their Ameri-
4 can visit.
4 ;Onlookers, would see a shy,
e handsome woman of 60 whose
;coal black hair is flecked with
gray. A simple dresser who pre-
fers tailored suits to formal eve-
ning gowns, Madame de Gaulle,
now mindful of her rank, has
her wardrobe designed by lead-
ing fashion creator Jacques
Heim,
But unlike many leading
French women, she never dons
jewelry.
Since moving to the Palais de
l'Elysee ( France's "White
House"), Madame de Gaulle has
been seen less rather than more
YVONNE "often strolls the
taI to de, their work,
Tbe3r. rarely Attended church.
The eases bore out llooveri§
observation that the young peg-
pie were the result of parental
indifference and -neglect,
But the point we wan t to
stress is that they do not come
from average or normal homes.
They came from very abnormal
home situations in. almost all
eases,
We can't appeal to the parents
of these young people to be re,
sponsible. Most of them don't
know what the word means, We,
can't ask them to ease up on
their desire to be individualists.
for they wouldn't know what we .
are talking about.
They are people who are
struggling for survival, And in
this struggle they haven't learn-
ed moral principles or ethics, nor
do they understand the role of
education in helping them to
make a better life for them-
selves.
We approach this whole prob-
lem of delinquency and adult
crime on a bookish level, phras-
ing the problem in terms of "re-
sponsibility". and mindividuality"
and "lack of discipline."
It seems to us that -if we ever.
hope to stem the tide of crime
and reduce the criminal element,
we'll have to roll our sleeves and
go to work.,
Santor's study shows that we
will have to do .something to
break the endless cycle of cri-
minally inclined families raising
children to be similarly inclined.
And this is a tough out to crack,
But there must be some an-
swers to this if those who are
truly concerned dig into the
problem with sincere, intent to
finding t h e in, A society that
truly wants to lick the prob-
lem can do so, — Plattsburgh
N.Y. Press-Republican..
Northern France, the daughter
of a prosperous businessman
was raised quietly with her
three brothers. Her background
sharply contrasts to that of her
husband who is the son of a
professor of philosophy and
French literature.
They met over a spilled tea-
cup. After World War 1, the
Vendroux family came to Paris
to celebrate. At a party, the gan-
gling officer de Gaulle, deeply
engrossed in conversation, acci-
dentally knocked the tea on
Yvonne. He apologized. A few
months later, in April, 1921, they
were married.
She bore three children: Phil-
ippe, a naval officer stationed
at Toulon with his family; Eli-
zabeth, the wife of an Army
colonel serving in Algeria; and
Anne, who died at 20. Anne was
buried at a little cemetery near
La Boisserie, about 200 miles
This Lover's Heart
Goes. Tick-rock!
The moment he saw her, Nor-
man Alien's heart went tick, lock
Not zing, zing, zing, nor the beat,
beat, beat, of a totritone.
heart, .in fact, did none of the
nip.-ups the songwriters write
lyrics about, it just went tick,
lock teeter,. a bit louder than.
usual, but with the same clock,
like sound that has kept the 27-
year-old stockbroker's • clerk
alive since 1053, when surgeons.
in Edinburgh, Scotland, put a
plastic valve in, his heart. Now,
his telltale heart can be heard 111
feet away,
"If I'm excited it gets very
loud and fast," Allen said, Danc-
ing with a pretty girl can even
send it into a cha-cha beat. But
last month, Allen announced he
had "met a girl who doesn't mind
this ticker of .mine," And so, he
is ready to pop- the question., But
first, he plans to check with the
doctors, "I can dig the garden
all right," he said, "but I want
to be on the safe side about
marriage,"
ANCIENT 'ART
The making of fine English
bone china combines ancient
arts employed at the dawn of
history with the most up-to-
date methods. At the Royal. Wor-
cester works in England, clay
objects are "thrown" on. the pot-
ter's wheel, then passed on mo-
dern trucks through gas-fired
tunnel-kilns for 56 hours, at a
temperature of 2,372 dog. F,
SPRING SHOWER—Joan Gately
finds she can test her new um-
brella, slicker and overshoes
on a sunny day without rain—
just by jumping into the water
at Weeki Wachee Springs. Joan
is star of an underwater mer-
maid show.
Trying To Stop
Stars Twinkling
His eight children were de-
-lighted when an astronomer in
the United States journeyed
more than five miles up into
the air — because he undertook
the trip in a fibre-glass basket
suspended below a balloon to
find out what makes the stars
twinkle, Now he knows. So do
the children.
He explained that the twinkl-
ing is caused by the star's light
passing through turbulent air.
He was able to see the stars un-
obstructed by the atmosphere.
Asked whether the stars still
twinkle_ five miles up, he said:
"A little, but not so much as
They seem to from the earth."
That twinkling may be popu-
lar with children and poets but
it's a severe handicap to astro-
boinere all over the world, es-
pecielly those who specialize in
photographing the heavens.
Experiments' are now going eh
With a device which, it is hoped
May banish the star? twinkling
and prevent it from blurring as,
fronothers' vieiOn while' photo-
graphs are being taken. It is
called a photo-electric guider
and can be fitted to letge teles-
copes,
A doctor was in bed Whele his
''phone rang and an excited voice
told him the baby had swallow,
ed a corkscrew', The doctor was
about to leave for the address
that was given to him when his
'phone rang again.
The same voice on the line
said: "It's all right new, doctor.•
We've, found Another corkscrew."
Only a week since I last wrote
and what a change. Hardly any
snow to be seen; just the re-
mains of a big drift here and
there and a little either side of
the snow-fence. Never before
have we seen so much snow dis-
appear in such a short time. Al-
most miraculous. And signs of
spring everywhere. Two days
ago I heard an oriole; yester-
day a robin perched for twenty
minutes on an ash tree in front
of the house. More spring flowers
are appearing in the garden
every day and to my delight
there are pussy-willows showing
on our golden pussy-willow tree.
It is such a little tree—not' more
than two feet high, given to us
by an old friend two years ago.
Because of poor growing condi-
tions we thought we were going
to lose it. But we babied it
along, protectled it against rab-
bits, so new we reap our reward.
In fact we expect a marked in-
crease in the growth of all our
trees and shrubs this year, the
snow will have provided them
with plenty of moisture. Thank
goodness they have not been cut
down by rabbits — but that was
no thanks to the rabbits, Late
last fall Partner wrapped the
lower part of every small tree
and shrub with tar paper. Cor-
rection . . . he wrapped all but
two and those same two have
had most of their branches
whittled away by- rabbits, proof
positive protecting trees really
pays off,
Well, instead of snow we now
have mud but even that shows
signs of drying rapidly once the
surface moisture has drained
away.
We welcome all these cheery
signs of better days to come as
family-wise last week wasn't ex-
actly one of the best. I had. a
return of flu complications and
Ross was in Milton Hospital.with
pneumonia. Poor little chap, like
many another three-year-old he
must have wondered why his
Mummy should have taken him
to a strange place and left him
just when he needed her most,
However, his parents were al-
lowed to see him twice a day,
which was a surprise to me as
when David was in the Sick
Children's Hospital visits by par-
ents were not encouraged at all.
Not actually forbidden, merely
discouraged. The nurses said a
small child, too young to under-
stand explanations, is better left
to adjust to hospital routine;
that parent-visits upset him emo-
tionally. That is understandable
but hard advise for parents to
follow, However, Dee, unknot6
to David, used to see hiiii
through a glass partition and
generally he was playing quite
`What could have scared
father: Leap year?"
happily in his cot. But if he had
caught sight of her ... well, you
know what would have happen-
ed. Children are usually looked
after so well in hospital these
days that the kindest thing par-
ents can do is cooperate with the
nursing staff. It helps too if a
child has been trained not to
fear doctors and hospitals.
Sometimes I think that co-
operation is a lesson that some
of us never learn. What would
you think of a case such as this?
It happened to European friends
of ours, resident in Canada for
ten years. Mrs. A.'s widowed
mother, until eighteen months
ago, was still living in Europe in
a country under Russian "pro-
tection." Mr. and Mrs. A, were
not happy about her so, at con-
siderable trouble and expense to
themselves they managed to get
her over to Canada. They have a
nice home, several school-age
children, and were able to give
Mother all the care and atten-
tion she could possibly need. At
first she was determined to learn
English but after a few weeks
gave up the attempt. Then she
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got very homesick, complained
because she had no one to talk
to, other than „her daughter, and
of course, could not understand
what the rest et the family was
talking about,
Finally her son-in-law ar-
ranged for her to go back to
Europe — at his own expense,
and, inconvenience. An expense
which he could ill afford at that
time.
Now, as you know, there are
always two sides to every ques-
tion. In this case whom do you
consider was at fault? Mother
came to. Canada of her own free-
will. She had no other chil-
dren; no close ties with her old
home in Europe, And yet she was
homesick. Having accepted pas-
sage money, and the offer of a
home with her daughter, wasn't
it up to her to try and adjust
to a new way of life in Canada?
Also to have persevered in learn-
ing English.
We hear plenty of stories of
life in Communist dominated
countries, why then, should any-
one want to go back? Is it
patriotism, a desire to share the
up and downs with fellow-
countryman? Or guilt —having
so much when "over there" they
have so little? Or is it a matter
of age? "Mother's" tolerant son-
in-law thinks they made a mis-
take in expecting the old lady to
adjust after more or less being
torn up by the roots. What do
you think is the answer?
Putting Heat On
The Hutterites
They swarm like bees, say
their critics. They use their re-
ligion as a front for business, and
thus escape income tax. They re.
ject citizenship, refuse to bear
arms, and contribute little to the
community. They are buying up
much of the best land in the
Canadian prairies with tax-free
income.
The last charge was the real
reason for widespread restive-
ness which flared into a recent
parliamentary attack. by Conser-
vative backbenchers on the Hut-
terian Brethren. "It is time the
Hutterites are treated like all
others with regard to taxation,"
declared Tory John McIntosh.
Who are these Hutterites, and
why are many Canadians so
exercised?
They were originally Swiss
pacifists who formed the first
Hutterite group in the sixteenth
century. Over the years they
wandered " from Switzerland
through Eastern Europe, to Rus-
sia, finally to the U.S.
When the U.S. draft laws hit
their young men in 1918 they
began to move to Canada in sub-
stantial numbers. Twelve colo-
nies all told moved from North
Dakota into Alberta. (Some
8,000 still remain in the Dakotas,
Montana, and Washington.)
These twelve have now grown
to 55 in Alberta, with the over
flow spilling eastward into Sas-
katchewan and Manitoba. Al-
though there are still fewer than
10,000 of the Hutterites, they
now control an estimated 500,000
acres in Alberta. Surplus funds
are used to buy more land on
which to set up new coloriles
("swarming," as non-Hutterites
call it). This usually takes place
when the population of an estab-
lished colony goes substantially
above 100,
Despite their social eccentric-
ities, the Hutterites 'are law;
abiding farmers quite different
from 'the railway-bombing,
school-burning, nude - parading
Sons of Freedom Doulthobors in
British Columbia. Aside from the
economic rivalry, they get along
Well with. their neighbors. But
now the economic rivalry is be-
ginning to pinch.
—From NEWSWEEK
ISSUE 17 — 1960
Modern .Etiquette
fly. Anne .Ashley
Q. Is it proper to botj.k.
knife And .tetk When eating fishp-
A, Only the fork should be
used,
Q. I received a birthday card
which lied .a pretty .handkerchief
e nclosed, I failed to. write a Pete.
of . thanks, and my husband
claims this was wrong. What aka -
you
A. .i agree with your rips,
band.. One should always, thank
the ..donor of a gift, no matter
how small. It may be, That is. •e
mark of refinement,
Q, I have a very.fine engage,
ment ring, and I should like 10
have it insured, Is it the place
of my fiance to pay the prem-
ium?
A, The ring's safekeeping is:
entirely dependent upon you, and
you should pay the insurance
costs. After you are married,
your husband, e.f course, assumes
this expense.
Q. At an informal dinner,
where there is no maid, who 1,s
3 esponeible for starting a parti-
cular dish around the.table?
A. The person or guest nearest
that dish.
Q. When eating in a restaurant
where butter pats are served in
a paper containers, may one let
the knife rest on the pat when
not in use?
A. No. The knife should rest
along the upper right part of the
dinner plate, and never, of
course, with the handle resting
on the table.
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in accordance with her hus-
leanete desire to separate his
state and feneily life.
There is ho readily available
biography of her life ricer is
likely to hold a peese tontitee,
&lee, She often strolls the streets"
of Peels incognito, her favourite
pastime, Despite Prdtdeol, she
has asked that no teicelotited
Honour marks be ideated on her ▪ auto; that no adVenee guard
Cleat traffic for her; and that
Palace guards editairi /rani Pte-
renting grime foe her:
To some she. is kritieen as the
'`great unknown," to intimates
rat "Aunt Yvonne, the great Mute
eine," but to most of the world,
ehe hes been Mme e Yvonne de
Gaulle since she Married her
ei.usband„ then a lietitehartt, 89
;'ears ago.
Bare 'Yvonne, Vendeettek; 'iii
1900 in a Provincial` town' Iti
Little Lady Lets Her Husband
Enjoy Taking All The Bows
streets of Paris incognito/'
east of Paris, the home the de
Gatilles acquired in 1033.
In Anne's honotie, Madame de
Gaulle founded a home for Mee-
tank deficient girls heat Peels
*bete she spends much of her
working time,
World War II forced Yvonne
from La Beheserie June, 1949.
She joined het husband who
escaped to England and then,
Went to Algiers:
After the War r the de °thine§
eventually returned to La Solt-
teeie to enjoy some years. away
froth the publie eye.
But etion villagers noted that
the family's black auto left for
Paris more frequently, They
said, "When she (Madame da
Gaulle). goes With him, that will
be the day the country Wilt
again call upon him to take
over."
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