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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1972-03-30, Page 15M1, tarp •rsa s , .Readir - r, I • B R HE LEN i LLEN - performsservke THE TQRONTQ''ff I .v SYNDICATE Dear Ann: We have been Our address is': C.&L,.M., P.O. pleased with your interestin Box 7 l 8p, -Santa -Barbara , abused and battered .Children. California 93102.—Sincerely„ M e:hrldzr n : .in thet 1VI rs..d 1?rkecutr .Are. a ole` United'. v . "Director. Dear Mrs. Pike: Here's your' letter. You at'e' 'performing a great service and I'm sure the s... GO SIGNAL, AR Stated each year; as victims of 'battering than froln any other single disease or cause. We would likeparents everywhere td know something can be done tobreak response , will be tremendous;. this horrendous°cycle. Thank you for writing: - ..A Santa, Barbara phisician's ., . Dear Ann Landers: When I read wife, Mrs. HaroldB. Miles,'out ofthe letter from that .woman who her concern'for a child who had • has a pathological fear of dentists been beaten ' to death by his I khew I had to write this letter. nineteen-yeanold • ,father, . I'm one of those people who is �, organized a listening, referral scared. to death of dentists, ,too. and resource center, called . I'm over 50 years old and, have C:A,L.M. (Child Abuse Listening been, this way all my life. Mediation, Inc.) which .has a My dentist solved the problem backup service of volunteers. like this: He knocks me, out, with C.A.L.M.'s vOlunteers go into the sodium pehtathol and it works like homes of troubled clients to act as a dream. He has done as much as ,, compassionate listeners .andtwo hours' work in one sittings af�ietid tly°nerghthors to help avertl- W tri:Nva-ke p -it' -a-il:over•••--- "' crises'and relieve tensions. novocaine., no fear of t h e These troubled parents are grinding—nothing. It's more encouraged .to seek counseling expensive, but worth it. Tell that from whatever facilities are woman, will you? --Happy Teeth available in the community. Dear Happy: My dental - Through e•ntal-Through the concern of ` ' Consultants say sodium .pentathol Let's see. The first lie Zealander 1 ever treat was French teacher called Jean- nie Cameron. I kissed her''up in an apple tree one day. •::the : was wcntysrx; - amd. lonely. 1 was nineteen an nineteen. She wasn't a' New Zea- lander then. She Was p ,high school teacher. And,I was a student. 1n • fact, when the word got around that I :was `. kissing. my °French teacher up in an ante tree, it very nearly' ruined me with my fifteen year-old girl friend;'' who thought " teachers should be seen •and heard, but not touched. Hovlever, that's another story. Jeannie fell in. love - with a New Zealand airman, during the war. His name was Andy. Sid he owned a sheep ranch! But I reckon he was a shoe clerk. �_ __.He was>ntr diff-er-errt--frena• thousands of Canadian ser- vicemen, who married love- ly little English ducks on the strength of their big cat- tle ranch, or gold mine, hack . home. The girls came, out expecting The Pon- derosa, and found they were the sole menial on 120 acres of cedar and rock. Or John- ny didn't happen to own that, gold - mine. He just*. worked in it. The chaps were not being Tslionest. After all, if you. said to an English girl, "The old man has 120 acres", it sounded as _ though there must be at least ten ser- vants. If he said, "I'm a gold miner". 7t sounded as though he. had a.gold mine. C.A.L.M.'s volunteer workers' friendly help, they find answert. for the problems which might otherwise drive them to taking'out their frustrations and anger on their children. The tremendous response to • this program from persons . needing help has convinced us that' a similar 'neeg_exists in every community, yet as far, as •we have been able to determine, no other such organization existed in the United States 'prior to our inception. We are extremely anxious for other communities to . know what can be done, and to have. others take an interest in starting similar programs to work toward preventing child abuse and neglect everywhere. We will be happy to share information or statistics with anyone who might be interested. JOE'S BP Sery ice Station and Coffee Shop 411 Huron Rd., Goderich 5246871• tr ,r. .l can be dangerous unless administered by a trained anesthetist. 'There should be oxygen handy in case the patient runs into trouble and needs to be • resuscitated.' , He suggested you can telljust bylookingat his nitrou's oxide(laughing gas) which . picture that Martin has no f nitrousalgesic, not an gas) whit inhibition's. He is a self-assured young fellow of nearly three, quite at' iS an ease in any situation. • It's a pleasant, easy -to -control Martin is a tall, handsome boy 'with light brown curly hair, fair.skin gas. The patient experiences a and -dark, eyes 'lancing with•- mischief. His ancestry is mainly white feeling of elation and there' is no . with one black great-grandparent., pain. This youngster was a• late starter, so much...so. that a year or so ago:he + + + a was Iisted_as slow learner. Now, however, recent psychological tests D,E A R A N N L A ND E R S: I indicate he is atleast a'eerage in ability, perhaps better. enjoyed that letter signed „ Martin's foster mother credits much of his advancement to Sesame - "Eleven Steps in, Virginia," Street. He never misses the program 'and she says he has learned a whose writer said the neighbors great deal from it. This is especially helpful for Martin because there laughed when .she carried her 'are no other-;votrng children around, and the people on, television are •baby everywhere on her back— • • very real to him. papoose style. The •mother had . '.'This youngster has a. good°memory and log'es to look at books or been told by the pediatrician that listen to stories: He likes music and carries a tune well. A -sociable boy, her child who wouldn't eat needed,' he delights in going shopping or visiting. Ile is very active but lonely, nobody to play with. affection and that the warmth of a ; since Ile has ► m o t li e r" s body was very Martin will be a joy to young, energetic parents who will appreciate reassuring. So the young mottle' . a healthy, Lively little son. ' strapped the baby to her back, To inquire about adopting Martin please write to Today's Child, Box 888 Station K, Toronto. l•'or general 'adoption information, ask your even while doing the housework • Children's:Aid Society. . and 'hanging out the wash. - ' How right., that doctor was' Physical closeness breeds .' securityDuring the year I lived in West Africa I heard_ child cry only once, when a • mother ' was bathing him in a stream .and the water was unusually cold: 'Since that fasninating year in the midst of -primitive"peopte, 1 have BUSY, FRIENDLY BOY come to believe that cal -led civilized satiety -- over- indulges children by 'giving them material things, the children have many more emotionalproblems because they feel rejected. They ..are abandoned behind bars a good part of the day—either in a crib or a play pen."The natural reaction is ' for -a child to be lonely and cry. We could learn a lot from the Indians, Africans and E`skimos.— Says farmers don't use common sense Well, Jeannie ,went to New Zealand with Andy, . in one week, and 1 was shot. down the next. and '1 brine she slep'k. well, ,, In prison vamp,* I knew counting those; nori,ex'istent another New.te. lie was a sheep as they leaped over " squadron leader. Lverybody the' seer 'counter - ..., "'el'se.-thQugit '1 waraaui* ' , "\ The next New Zealanders ' the ben but 1 knew he 'Was I met were in training, in just another' New te. He'd• •Lngland. "They spoke, ., come to .my room in bar- English, but',11 was a'little racks every;sO Often and .bel- just different, "Once l• asked two low, `4Snrile:y, do you know of :them what they were 'Where 1' can "WYa .truck;in doing.,that evening, One re. (are d'er?" Ilia plan,.aft:cr�re-' ° plied, W. theft we'd wecic lease, was .not to &o ,back :to " ecress a cepple o'' peddocks N.Z. by ship, with; the . anev .a .' bayah," Mtach re- ' .others, ..but to head" for • search • divulgpd that . this Uanada', and drive across the 'meant they thought they country by truck. It's' quite would walk across a .couple possible that he planned to of paddocks (fields) and drive it right across the, have a bear at the pub." . Pacific, too, but 1 couldn't Tht'n I got to a squadron. . remember a single truck Three of us in a tent. Two ' , dealer, so I don't know. Canadians and a New Zea- what happened. lander. By this time I could 'This seems like a long - talk New Zealand. Nick was preamble to something, and i oldguy,matyy_pout twenty -it is. Writinga column is one Jive.. -Good 1W-arlhY, of . t.hc_ t tela jobs_irr the- 'world. he'world. Onee in 'a ' while, shouting into the void, you hear an echo. It warms the heart. Such is this, from " Auckland, New Zealand. "Thank you, dear Bill Smiley, for your delightful column, 'Here ram, 7,000 miles from home and I felt that my little. world was crumbling around me. We are gradually losing every- thing and "at present may lose ' our house as we try to make a go of it in New Zea- land." "As usually happens at p,4actical, - realistic, Th'e other Canadian, Freddy, was nineteen, virginal, ideal- istic, dealistic, and credulous. I" was sort of in, between. Nick used to tell that • boy stories that curdled his blood and even curled my hair slightly. He told us the biggest lies about the fish .and the ,deer and the sheep and the women of New Zea- land that I blush, even now, to think of .haw I half be- . lieved-him. • Freddy was sold and we formed a syndicate, then and there, to go to N.Z. after the warand nd get rich in • two years. The syndicate Was rather • shattered , when Nick and Freddy were killed while so- 'Local 335 of the - ,National OLD'SCHOOL FOR ME DEAR OLD SCHOOL: Right'you are! 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