HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1970-01-22, Page 164A";0 DAR.I k SI A eSTAR,, T U 'S A11t JATV'Ai ." 22.,'x970
The photographer achieved something of a miracle
in gettiiig' such a solemn picture of Douglas, because
this little boy is usually smiling Douglas is 10 .months
ltd; . a healthy, sturdy :baby .of Anglo-Saxon ancestry,
with blue -gray eyes; Eight brown hair and fair skin. He"
is alert ;and interested in whatever is going on, and loves
i Landers.
;i
Place dro,
DEAR ANN LANDERS: How 'Wasn't that 'wonderful of him?".
does one -free •himself from the , It would help- if my
clutches of friends who have father-in-law wotild tell us when
been on a trip? 1 don't 'mean lie invites somebody. At least we
LSD. I mean Europe* the Orient, could keep track. As it is we
Hawaii, Puerto Rico or, -heaven have no idea show many to
forbid, an' African safari: You'd expect. It .could run up 'tp 40
think no one in the world had extra$. We left out people we
been anyplace but them. • wanted to invite because. there's
Name dropping. is old hat. Ito,. room,. and now ,'vtire find my
Now .it's,, place dropping. -father-in-law's barber, his. wife's
Thirteen, countries in eightee a ' h a i rd reser, 41 her interior.
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days! How in the devil could
they have seen anything but the
airports? The real pain comes
when they drag out the film
projector and show reel after
reel " of ` tec'hnically : lousy
pictures, Then there's the
dialogue "That's the room we
slept' in... There's the car that
picked us 'up at the airport.
There's the fishing schooner.
. Here's a picture of Junior teasing
a skunk. Thepicture isn't very
good -- I had to move -fast. Ha,
ha, ha."
Is there a : graceful. way to say
'no to invitations to,hear people
talk about and show movies of
their trip? — . ,DL'NMORE,
PENN.
DEAR DUN: Nine times.out
of ten, there is NO graceful way.
So — my advice is to say "no" if
"no" is what you want to say,
"and'if you're not asked back, so
what?
DEAR ANN 'LANDERS: I
hate to bother you with this
because. so many people
„need
your help 'with serious problems,
but please, Ann,- when you .finish
with---t-he others, may -be -you -ea
,attention, especially, from children. Rut e ' oesn use
when he's alone and amuses himself with. his. toys.
Douglas gets around his foster home by , crawling and
he's very speedy. This lively infant isn-'t `a bit shy, being
quite ready to make friend's with anyone. He likes to be
outdoors and he's always happy to go for a "drive:
To, inquire about adopting . Douglas please write to
',Tod ay's Chilli,, -Department of Social and, Family Serv-
ices, Parliarrrent Buildings, Toronto 182; For other infor-
mation on adoption..ask your Children's Aid Society.
,lames RichilrdsOfl. & Sons Ltd
Serving The Feed Dealers ""of Western Q;ntario
PHONE 524-838$; GODERICH ,
help us..
What can we • do,_ about.
grandparents who invite
everyone they see t� our son's
Bar Mitzvah? We . belongto the
'largest synogogue in town but it
won't be big enough if
everybody corn,es.
After the services, we are
having a luncheon'in the social
-hall. My husband and I sent out
240' invitations. This is all the
place will hold. - Every time I
turn -around, someone I handl
know says, "Our whole family is
coming to -Barry's Bar Mitzvah.
Your father-in-law invited us.
deeorator rand her card club are
,all corning. Please tell us what:to
dog— TROUBLE
DEAR T: You are stuck:
Order extra wine:, more herring,
chopped liver, -kugel and sponge
cake. And niazeltov:
-- HEALTH & SAFETY
DEAR A`NN 'LANDERS:
Forgive nae for .contradicting
you, but you were wrong when
you told "Mrs. Bu.nioned
that compulsive talkers are,
incurable.
Not only was 1 a compultive
talker, but. I was a compulsive
eater: I overcame both illnesses
— and so can Mrs. Ear,
The 'tvVo prerequisites are (1)
a.11 awareness of the affliction
and- (2) a genuine desire to
overwrite, same. -•-. THINNER,
QUIETER AND I-IAPPIER
DEAR _ T Q AND 'H: Yoriti-are
right. Thanks for -the correction;
Mainly for Y1.6thers
iyCarolHart .,
Get' Rid Of Get-At-Ables
''Get-at-ablet" can get you if you don't watch- out.
What are -"get-at-ales"? They're. the acet ssible, attainable,
available, reachable, just plain lietltdy things that'cpm-lead to acci-
dental injuries 'in, the home.
An examination --by the Council ...on Family Health of reports of
hone accjdent e shoe's that very 1
young Children, 1?eltieultirly
those„ under the 1tgi' of five, ,are
especially vulneratrle. ,
Here are some of the more
common "get -at -able" situa-
tions found l,c the Council, a
non-profit ul gitnization pun-
sored as a public service by.mem- --
hers of the drug industry:
Turpentine left on tijp-of :i'''
‘i'ork .bench by a do-it-yourself
dad.
— 1,1 nicating ul s ulehe un"t 11
bottom shelf of a closet.
—Furniture p611sh left on the
dining table when the telephone
rang.
Medicines became ''get -at-,
'abh5''sft.r toddlers•when:
Left on the kitchen
sill. •—
—Placed on tot, of w bureau in
gruldlnutla..L's mon.
—Left in lnuther•'s'hanatta>
---Stol•e,l with toads 10 the 1•e-,
frigeratol• or pantry.
Lola 1vhldow ledges and un-
uarde,1 olren NV d rc
reachable f ',:
—A feut'-year-old who fe 11
• from the .second flour.
--A five-year-old who fell 50
.feet frons -the rilird floor: •
---A toddler who toppled onus
a second floor porch. ,
—An oighteelltniunth-oldgirl•
who fell two stb'ries,onto a ruse
' bush..
—A two-year-old buy who
climbed onto the slanting- roof
-arid slid to the ground.
--yl akc a
agams look • thi oughout
your home. You'll rind "get -at -
able" situatiuns•in every room.,
Correct them before they do their
damage, 'says the Council on
Family idealth.a...
Thinking 'back over the
year-end reports ,gf the • 1960s,
I realize that. all the experts
painted a picture of a decade
of .violence and change proba-
bly unequalled "in history.
' What is especially embarrass -
ing isthe thought that 1 did
the same thi-tag, though I'm no
expert: .,
On second thought, it" was all
pure poppycock. "It's true .that
'The Sixties included' these,
things, but the 1940s, in `ret
rospect, make the 1960s look
like a children's birthday par-
ty: Noisy, disoitanized, messy,
but essentially 'kids' stuff in
earison.. -
Surely it was in The Forties•
that today's vidlence, revolt,
drug addiction, sexual free
done, disgust with. the Estab-
lishment, and all the other
goodies of The Sixties, had
their roots.
In' the 1930s, those lucky
enough. to- have - a job were
working for less than it costs
today for a night, on the town.
As Toronto newspaper colum-
nist Richard Needham pointed
out, the Great Depression was
not brought to an end by our
economists 'or politicians, but
by Adolph Hitler. War created
jobs, wages went :up, prosperi-
-ty • began. Sickening thought,
but true.
. In The Sixties, we waxed in-
dignance over Chicago cops for
beating - dissidents over the
head. And so we should. But in
The Forties, six million non-
dissidents...a all ages anal_ both.
sexes were beaten, gassed or
starved to death. And millions
of others were obliterated with
°out even ' waving a placard.
How's that for violence'.'
,Revolt? It was„, everywhere,.
in '.partisan groups and new
nationalist :organizations. And
the rebels were, just as long-'
haired •and bearded and dirty
'sand a lot hungrier than
_
today's rebels. They, too, were
of both sexes, as today.. BO
they .were fighting' for some-
thing, not against eyeryth<ing.
And they were laying on the
line not just a clout en the.
head, a 'tripe in.:rhe pads d ag
on, and a fine, but their lives.
7.
The ' Establishment? Irk 1945
the 13 r, t"i s h threw, .it—out,
•
including .,-that heroic but un
mistakable memhe'r :'of it, Sir
Winston Churchill. That" was a
.far, far greater thing than'riot-
ing on a campus. .
--Atrocities? ' We had one, ap-
parently, in Vietnam; recently,
with the Yanks as villains for a
change. Vile? Certainly. But it
'was a mere- trifle 'compared to
the atrocities of The ,Forties.
On all sides. Tell your kids
abeut Lidice, the bombing of
Hamburg' and Dresden, and
what the Russians did at War-
saw,
And then there was the big-
gest one of all, Committed by
the Good Guys —' the atom
bombs dropped on- Hiroshima
and Nagasaki. Today's- atroci-
ties are peanuts,however in-
digestible.
Drug ' addiction? There
wasn't any "pot" around. But I
wonder' how many . alcoholics
are wandering around today
who got their start when- they
�tx!',es
were. pure
bosh
f .
m
were 1d; and in uniform? I
could list you • a dozen, from rf
personal knowledge. Just mol•
„tipsy.
Sexual : freedom? ' P! rha s#:,int •
wasn't as''blatant and self-con--
scions
elf -con=scions and °pupliciti'-conscious
as It is today, but ;it was there...
lady, it was there. Now, f don't
for one minute !Oen. bus-
-band.' But those other -guys.
Wow! •
Change? ' whole , countries
disappeared. iViil1ions of people
""-wandered,, ,r,,,,,, iceneelcss. : New,
countries sprang into;. being.
However, just as The Sixties
weren't all rotten, neither
were The Forties. They pre,
duced 'courage and sacrifice
and2 a `greats.' sense of sharing..
and loving, amidst all ' the
hatred.
They produced a generation
thilt sincerely, believedthat a
better world was not only
needed, but could be built.
They produced' entire new con.
cepts of world Peace: They set
the seeds for the end' of the'
old imperialism,. Never mind
that these have been frustrated
and warped since.
And, as asideline, they pro-
duced the millions of kids who
are now a mystery and 'terror -
.and bewilderment ,to those rel-
ics of : the f6ightful Forties.
. Nuff said? 0
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