FATHER OF TWO BOYS ASKS:
Aren't People Supposed
To Have Children?
"The ideal number of children, if you want to get along with
your neighbors, is none. I've found that people don't like kids,"
states John Bedford in the October Reader's Digest.
Bedford is the father of two boys and is deeply angry at the
modern world's attitude toward children, as he sees it. His article
is condensed from Maclean's.
"My wife and have been re
fused lodging because we have
children," Bedford says. "Peo
ple glare at them In movies be
cause they've asked a couple of
questions. They've been report
ed for running across lawns, for
standing on running boards of
parked cars, for making chalk
marks on the sidewalks until
I'd like to slip them a few rocks
and turn them loose."
With two "normal, decent
boys" Pete, nine, who goes in
for girls; John, seven, who goes
in for frogs, worms, dead birds
and jet propulsion Bedford
and his wife are convinced that
"today our cities and towns, our
streets and houses, our very way
of life seem designed to dis
courage children."
Normal expenditure of Pete's
and John's energy invariably
draws a complaint from some
neighbor. "Every time one of
them lets out a whoop half a
dozen people look up from their
petunias and scowl. Every time
they get carried away with their
games and forget that their feet
are on someone's lawn people
look at one another and shake
their heads."
"Aren't people supposed to
HAVE children any more?" the
author wonders.
Deploring the fact that natur
al playgrounds, the open fields
and woods, are not available to
most children, today, Bedford
says the public playground is
no substitute. It's a place "for
getting rid of your children with
municipal help . . . from D to 5,1
on Plot No. 13-A."
The general idea appears to be
that the less you see of children
the more progressive you are,
Bedford observes. "Parents just
go through the parental motions
like an alderman laying the first I
brick of the city hall. After
that some paid worker takes
over."
The author "wouldn't be a
kid again for a new 1950 maroon
convertible with a ram-Jet en
gine." He can see the day com
ing, he says, "when children will
be conceived by artificial in
semination, born In cellophane,
raised in a pressure cooker, sent
to a nursery school at two, then
to a placement bureau for an
aptitude test and brushed off
for good."
DAV Top Man
Coming Here
Salem will be paid a visit next
Monday by the newly elected
national commander of the Dis
abled American Veterans, Da
vid M. Brown of Cincinnati,
Ohio. i
During his visit here the DAV
commander is to be an honor
guest at the Salem Chamber of
Commerce luncheon. He will be
introduced during the program,
which at an earlier date was ar
ranged by the Salem Business
and Professional Women's club.
Speaker at the luncheon is to
be Mayor Dorothy McCullough
Lee of Portland.
Monday evening Brown will
meet with members of the Sa-
lem chapter of DAV at the Sen-!
ator hotel. Time for the meeting
is 7:30 p m.
Coming to Salem with the na
tional commander will be Cic-1
ero F. Hogan of Washington, D. I
C, and a group of Oregon de
partment officers of the DAV.
Hogan, who is director of claims,
is a former Salem resident. I
B-36's to Fly Between
Alaska and U. S. Weekly
Anchorage, Alaska, Sept. 27
(Ai Giant B-36 bombers soon
will start making weekly trips
between the United States and
Alaska, the air force Alaska
headquarters disclosed here last
night. One of the big six-en-gined
planes arrived here Sun
day from Fort Worth, Texas,
and two others are due later
this week.
Capital Journal, Salem, OreRon, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 1949 13
Retired Medford Phone
Manager Dies Monday
Medford, Ore., Sept. 27 UPJ
Robert B. Hammond, veteran
manager of the Pacific Tele
phone and Telegraph Co. here
and recently retired, died Mon
day afternoon. Hammond was
born in Ashland in 1884. He
graduated from University of
Oregon. He was vice president
of the League of Oregon Cities
in 1928.
Dr. Ray J. Pinson
announces
opening of his
PROFESSIONAL OFFICES
for the practice of chiropody
in all of its phases.
Office located at
428 Oregon Bldg.
Phone 20704
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