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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
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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•
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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
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'swung out into the balimy.,
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out. Things didn't 'seekn .to
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was still chuckling so much
that I suddenly realized that
my head was high, my,stride
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