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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1969-07-31, Page 1024 OOh. itICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, JULY 3 1; 1969 TOQIIY'S CHILD BY HELEN ALEN `?ozbnterekgram Syndicate ' This lovely baby is David, Welsh and English in descent. Though he isn't yet four months old, he is extremely alert, and observant. A happy child with a winning personality, he has a beguiling smile, as you see. Occasionally this little fellow looks•.doeply thoughtful as though he had the weight of the world on his .shoulders, 'and he is a little shy of strangers, but he soon becomes friendly. His eyes are very 'blue, he has fair skin and sparse fair hair. David has an excellent background in terms of 'both health and achieve- ment, and he is expected to be above average in • ability. This baby needs a loving mother and father who will be able to help hien realize his potential. To inquire about adopting David please write to Today's Child, Department of Social and Family' Services, Parliament Buildings, Toronto 182. For general information about adoption, ask your local Chil'dren'fi .did Society. • 4 r ANN LANDERS a Favoritism can hurt children. DEAR ANN LANDERS: Please print this letter, Ann. I need to say something to my mother. She might not guess this letter is meant for her, but if it helps some other mother realize how she hurts her children, when she shows favoritism, I will have helped somebody. Dear Mom: Do you know how I feel when you and Sis and I have a conversation and you never look at me? All your comments are directed to Sis — as if I wasn't even in the room. When I° express ' an opinion yon - interrupt and ask Sis what SRR thinks. When she says something amusing you. shriek. with_ laughter. I- don't think I've ever made you laugh in my whole life. I realize Sis was your first honest and hely principled. Thank you for allowing me to have my. say. ;,p ON RECORD DEAR ON: The best policing. job in any profession is done by those in the field. Keep at it, and throw the rascals out. DEAR ANN LANDERS: Please tell everyone who has. relatives in California to stay home. If they want to visit, suggest a hotel or a motel, or tell them to pitch is tent. When a cousin says casually, "We'd love to have you," he means for an. evening. He doesn't mean come with your kids and stay for two weeks. _My-wife-and.-Lare.fed.up--with moochers and we need your help. How about it, Ann? — ANNUAL SUCKERS DEAR ' AN : Do these born and I suppose it's . natural moochers just appear at your door -- or do they write or call and say they are coming? If they just show up, waltz them back to their cars and direct them to paid lodging. If they write or call, say, "Sorry we can't, put you up this year." Of course if you have macaroni where your spine belongs you won't be able to do it. It's up to you. DEAR ANN: What are the limits to a grandparent's right? Here's the story: My in-laws were here for the day. Our six-year-old son, in a interested in doing an playful mood, squirted his embalming. display for a science grandfather in the face with a project prompts this letter, water gun as he was coming Because you have so much through the doorway. My influence I wish you'd tell father-in-law flew into a rage, people to stop being so afraid of .shook the boy and pushed him funeral homes end everything into a, workbench. He then connected' with death. It may. ! k nicked up the water gun and not be a pleasant thought, but, smashed it against the wall. I was sooner or later we all end up the walking by and witnessed the same Way.�.. Whole thing. Qr My husband and I do not use My husband's family has beenvi©!once with our children. I in the funeral businessfor three ordered my father-in-law to take generations. Burying people is to love the first one best, but must you show it so openly in. everything you say and do? I know I'm not as pretty as Sis nor as bright and witty, but I 'practically break my neck trying to please you and I want so much for 'you to,love me. Please,. Mom, listen to me. I'm — TALKING TO YOU DEAR TALKING: Your message came through loud and clear. If your mother read it, .she got it. DEAR ANN LANDERS: The 16 -year-old boy who was Serving The Feed Dealers of Western Ontario PHONE 524-8388,. GODERICH part cf our culture and someone has to • do it. Some highly, damaging books ' have been written ..abet funeral directors recently, and while I know disreputable scoundrels in the business, the majority of `us are hishands off the boy. We got into an argument and I told my father-in-law he was no longer welcome in our home. He put down $2 for a new water gun and ' left. My husband is not speaking to me today. I feel I • was right. Do you? — FT. LAUDERDALE. DEAR F.L.: NQ. Grandpa's reaction was an understandable overreaction to a surprise attack. I can't fault him for it. There are times when it makes no sense to sit down and try to reason with a• 6 -year-old. This was one of those times. It iS healthy for a child to see anger and righteous indignation. It is also healthy for a child toget what's coming to him. You had no right to bar your father-in-law- from the house. The `house belongs to .your husband too. Furthermore, the, boy tii+ri u1 Ldnse a great deal ....I--.... have a hunch Grandpa is the only person in the family who has the gumption to teach your son respect for authority. DEAR •ANN LANDERS: Once you said people can really. handle the big things in life but it's the little things that send them around the bend. How right you are! Listen to this: Our daughter and son-in-law eat with us three nights a week because they both work. 'and I like to cook. Mendel is a nice person, but he doesn't say much. He just sits on the sofa and rattles his car keys. The noise isn't very loud but it drives my husband crazy. Our daughter knows it and I hoped she would speak to Mendel but she hasn't; Please don't tell me to do it.. I can't. Both Bonnie and Mendel read your column every day. Be a friend and publish this letter. --- NO NAME NEEDED. "Bar the door, Matilda, and close them shutters! Henry, look to your flintlock! The. In- juns are on the war -path!" Let's hopeit doesn't come to that, but the Indians of Can- ada, a quarter -million- of the natives of this vast continent, .have blood in their eye, wheth- er kit's a product of politics or bean wine. .And they don't need toma- hawks, bows 'and arrows, and rusty muskets this time. They have two weapons which bring .. them right into the nuclear age -.--"One is—the W t f tl' 1 guilt complex, with which "they belabor him at every opportu- nity. The other is the mass media, which they 'are using with a skill that Would make a public relations man turn green. DEAR • MENDEL: I say MENDEL!!. Can you hear me over the 'rattling of those car keys? Stop it fella! It drives your father-in-law nuts. POISONS The curious child is not deterred by the taste - of medicines, common household 'cleaning products, cosmetics and insecticides — all sure poisons. Keep them out of. reach, tinder lock and key if necessary. of the loot and avaricious mer- chants gathered from miles around to separate the Indian and his treaty money as quick - lx as possible. Today, he might be' able to buy a few bottles of wine. • Second, the Indian culture, or what's left of it, is quite dissimilar to that of the White man's. It is based on commu- nal, rather than cut-throat soci- ety. ociety. The romantic refers back to the' "noble red man". The pragmatist calls him "a shift- essabum.- Neithher--is--anywhere— near the truth. He is a human being. He's neither red nor any more noble than the rest of us. There are some facts that have led. up to the current confrontation. First of all, the Indians were victims of orie of the greatest con jobs in history when the various treaties were drawn up. Have you ever read one? They sound great, .full of poet- ic stuff like," As long as the rivers run to the sea and the grass grows to the sky and the mountains do, not fall down .. . etc., etc." Then :Comes the crunch, in the small print. As long as, the Indian stays on his reserve, and out of the • white man's hair (especially the scalp), he and his children and his children's children shall re- ceive an annual bounty from the Great White Queen across . the Big Water. For a whole Indian band, it . might be 1,000 pounds stet; ling. Not cash annually, but . only the interest thereon. Fig- ure out sometime what the in- terest is on -1,000 pounds ster- ling in 1969. Yes, inflation has caught up with the Indian, too.° . Treaty Day, according to old-timers, used to be a • real fair at the reserves. Each In- dian family received its share Third, the paradox exists that the Indian has special privileges (medical care, -fre( education, no `taxes on the re- serve, etc.) and yet he is un- derprivileged (inferior housing and education, plus plain old discrimination, social and 'eco- nomic.) And now, the Federal gov- errunent, with a cold logic that seems ' to seep down from Mr. Trudeau, says, "Put !up or shut up. If you aren't happy about the way we run things, do it yourself." This, after years of treating reserves with all the largesse and benevolence usually associated with an or phanage. lite Federal government proposes to dump the Indian problem on the provincial gov- Injuns on thewarpath ernments and the Indians themselves, all in the course of five years, then fold its tent and steal off into the night. The provincial governments want the Indian problem like they want the Black Plague. So do the Indians. For the latter, the Canadian government's new policy is a smoke -screen to cover failure. For the young Indians, dissolu- tion of the reserves is like burning your boats behind you. For the middle-aged and elder- .. ,° it- is_.teiri£yin8.- __.•.,,...� _ Indian• leader Wilmer Nadji- won of Cape Croker put it succintly, if over -simply, when he said the new legislation would allow an Indian to sell his property for two bottles of wine. • That doesn't solve a problem. It creates one. e The Indians don't • want as- similation. They want help to get. on their feet and some redress for 200 years of being considered second-class Cana- dians. Some reserves are worthless, mere slum areas. Some are ex- tremely valuable as potential resort areas. How does every- body get a fair share if these lands' are handed back to the Ind,ans themselves, for dispos- al as they see fit? 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