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Home My WebLink AboutZurich Citizens News, 1975-02-27, Page 4PAGE 4 ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1975 What can we do? The plaintive complaint of adolescent off- spring that there's nothing to do is said to plague parents everywhere. Perhaps this depends on the parents but certainly the lack of planned activity is often given as an excuse for teen- agers in trouble. One parent in Denver, Color- ado, apparently tired at the same old chorus, has summed up his feelings in an "Open Letter to a Teenager," The Crime Commission of Houston, Texas, considered it worth reprinting in pamphlet form: "Always we hear the plaintive cry of the teenager" What can we do? What can we do? "The answer is go home! Wash the windows. Paint the woodwork. Rake the leaves. Mow the lawn -,;',Sweep the walk. Wash the car. Learn to cook. Scrub some floors. "Help the Church. Visit the sick. Assist the pqAor. Study your lessons. And then when you are through, and not too tired, read a book. "Your parents do not owe you entertainment. Your city does not owe recreation facilities. The world does not owe you a living, you Bowe the world something. You owe it your time and energy and your talents so that no one will be at war or in poverty, or sick or lonely again. "In plain simple words: Grow up" quit being a cry-baby; get out of your dream world; develop a backbone, not a wishbone, and start acting like a man or a lady. "I'm a parent. I'm tired of nursing, protect- ing, helping, appealing, begging, excusing, tolerating, denying myself needed comforts for your every whim and fancy, just because your selfish ego, instead of common sense, dominated your personality and thinking and requests. " Why kids take drugs! Discussion on drugs has reached the ludic- rous stage where parents fall into a 'guilt trap" egged on by numerous studies, surveys and pontifications of psychologists and psychiat- rists. Studies reveal that kids take drugs because Daddy and Mommy take tranquilizers, or they drink, or they don't go to church, or they are too busy with business, or Mother works. So what's new? Humans have had their frail- ties since Eve plucked the apple and Adam ate it. Kids take drugs for the same reasons adults take tranquilizers, drink, or overwork --they are lonely, scared, disappointed, have failed, are experimenting or trying to find out who and what they are. The sooner adults stop flailing themselves with guilt about where the kids are at, and begin to act, the sooner ways will be found to cope with drugs. Use of drugs is not going to be stopped by guilt -filled adults stiffening laws, lengthening jail sentences and asking the police to do their work for them. Parents first have to lay down a few ground rules for children: like getting home on time, revealing where they were and with whom, helping with chores of running a home and a family. Next, parents should try talking and listening more. Tonight would be a good time to discuss with the children why some parents drink, smoke are busy with business, don't go to church or why Mother works. Then the subject could move on naturally to the children's ideas thoughts and responsibilities. It could be a beginning. (Unchurched editorial) ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 401111941. H # Member: eCNA .Canadian Weekly. Newspapers Association, N O aw itb Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association 1,.11.0, Subscription Rates: $5.00 per year in advance in Canada; $6, 00 in United States and Foreign; single copies 150 Int�rnation al Scene (by Raymond Cannon) IT JUST WON'T FLY I'm sure that when some people took a look at the very primitive aircraft which had been developed by the Wright brothers, their first reaction was "You'll never get that thing off the ground." Well, the Wright brothers proved that not only could you get it off the ground but you could keep it off the ground, and we all know what happened after that. I have just come across a picture of another type of air- craft which has a rather wierd look, and when I showed it to a variety of people, the verdict was unanimous: such a thing would never fly. In fact, said one, it must have been invent- ed by a crackpot. Well, a few people considered the Wright brothers to be crackpots, so I'll tell you about this anyway. When we think of the wing of an aircraft, we think of something that sticks out from the fuselage, either straight out or at an agnle. Those aircraft whose wings project at a sharp angle we normally call 'swept- wing' aircraft and those are associated with supersonic flight The one thing they have in common, however, is that they stick out at the same angle; that is, if the wing on one side is at 45 degrees to the fuselage, the wing on the other side is at exactly the same angle. Imagine, if you can, a wing which sticks out at a 45 degree angle backwards on one side and a 45 degree angle forward on the other! You might call this 'an obique wing' and, if you want to make a rough draw- ing of it, you can attach it to a normal fuselage and when you look at your result, I know what your reaction will be -- you'd never get that thing off the ground! Don't be so sure. I have just come acro a learned paper on this topic, where an aircraft witl an oblique wing was tested in a supersonic wind tunnel at NASA Ames Research Center. Before we go any further, rem- ember that NASA is the organ- ization which put a man on the moon, so we aren't talking about crackpot scientists. A number of very thorough tests showed that not only could the oblique winged aircraft fly, in malny ways it was superior to the aircraft now in existence. Here's what the NASA res- earch scientists came up with in their study of the oblique wing aircraft. First of all, it had the smallest gross weight and the lowest fuel consumption It also had a lower noise level and would, therefore, be more acceptable to the environment- alists, especially those who live near airports. The scientists REDI MIX CONCRETE IALSO FORM VIORPC) McCann Const. Ltd. DASHWOOD Phone 237-33E1 or 237-3422 also discovered that such an aircraft could increase the cruising speed by as much as 50 per cent. They also recommended, naturally enough, that further development studies, together with wind tunnel tests, would be required to develop the full potential of the oblique wing concept. •This should be studied together with an economic evaluation of this type of air- craft. As far as I know, little, if anything, has been published in the daily newspapers about this aircraft, so if you ever see one flying through th6 air, rem- ember where you read about it first. It all boils down to the old story about the people who didn't know that something couldn't be done and went ahead and did it anyway. 0 About people Sgt. and Mrs. Cecil Gibbons spent last weekend with their daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Johnston, in Zurich. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Yungblut have returned from a few weeks vacation in Florida. 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