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Women Should Stay Home and Care for Kids, Mental Health Lecturer Declares Br ALFRED LEECH United Press Correspondent Chicago (U.R) Dr. Herbert Ratner said women should stay home and take care of their kids nd quit trying to make "assist ant wives" out of their husbands. Ratner, health commissioner of suburban Oak Park, made these points the other night at a mental health lecture attended by married couples. Husbands shouldn't have to wash the dishes unless they vol unteer, he said. Blast Frightens Portland Citizens Portland (U.R) Sound of an explosion in southeast Portland sent bomb-jittery citizens run ning for their telephones Satur day night. Portland and Multnomah county police failed to turn up anything but a few minutes la ter, Oswego police reported a fraction of a stick of dynamite had gone of when inadvertent ly thrown into a bonfire. Oswego police said that they thought that was the explosion heard in Portland. One more anonymous tele phone call marred the week end and sent sheriff's deputies to St. Johns Catholic school at Mil waukie to search for a bomb. None was found. "Then why should I have to wash them?" a young housewife asked. "Because it's your job," said Ratner, who minces no words. There was a hush, followed by masculine guffaws. Second-Rate Woman "Why should a woman try to make a second-rate woman out of her husband?" Ratner de manded. "What are we trying to do. set up a matriarchy?" Ratner, an associate professor of preventive medicine at Loyola University, said most parents, husbands included, don't show their youngsters enough affec tion. Many young mothers, he said, are too busy with clubs and "community work." "We're raising a generation of latch key kids," he said. "They come home to find that mama has gone out to improve the school system or the police force." Civic and community organi zations should be left to older women who already have raised their families, he said. Willingly Ensnared But many young mothers be come "willingly and happily en snared" in such groups, he said, and kid themselves that they are doing a "greater good" for their children. So the child, unsure of his par ents' affection, shows off or "acts up" when company comes, or scribbles on the walls to express his resentment, Ratner said. One out of every 12 children born in this country is headed for a mental institution, he said, so is behooves parents to expend their energy on "a hangup job of child rearing." Discrimination in ; Home Loans Charged Portland U.R) A Portland urban league meeting yesterday was told the Federal Housing Authority is still discriminating against minority groups in granting insured loans. Loren Miller, Los Angeles at torney, told the group the FHA "lent its support to residential segregation" right after its es tablishment in 1934. While the FHA has not requir ed race restrictions on. insured land since 1947, Miller said, "it continues to insure loans for home construction with the full knowledge that resultant hous ing will , neither be rented nor sold to Negroes or members of other minority groups." To foster international good will, Cleveland maintains a series of gardens in Rockefeller Park, each morning a different national culture. The project was begun in 1926. Thus far, 16 of the Cultural Gardens are finished. -v MONEY, MONET EVERYWHERE 1,200,000 silver dollars or 36 tons, Is on display at Cleveland's Public Hall during Super Market Institute convention. Bea Mitchell tells store owners that is profit stores made from selling her company's product last year. Eighteen guards were on duty. (International) USE TRIBUNE WANT ADS T 2 SI XL IF IS 3 o AND PROBABLY NEVER AGAIN i PRICES GOOD ALL WEEK - MAY 2nd to 7th am in if mm ML M led room By So Dies Dookcase Headboard with Footboard MR. AND MRS. DRESSER Sea Foam $ Silver Walnut 108 95 Mengel O Stanley O Hooker O lleywood Country Modern O L. A. Period Gillespie AIL OPEN STOCK Buy Now and Add Later PINK Mr. and Mrs. Dresser BOOKCASE HEADBOARD and NITE STANDS $as95 MAPLE BOOKCASE HEADBOARD MR. AND MRS. DRESSER $2L2S95 low Over 50 Brand New Suites To Choose From ai mud SIXTH and BARTLETT o We Deliver Anywhere o Phone 2-4848 or 2-4740 i r r it j r w-rw m iire Stems 5 Monday, May 2, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUXS TIYZ ,-tJti m DDDtrodiiactory (Meg THE NEW v LI A m M v Vi a new kind of mattress com bining the resilience of steel springs with the softness of foam rubber MADE Medford Furniture excuis Store the world's most experienced mattress maker A FULL 5 YEAR GUARANTEE! Foam Rubber Over Steel Springs gives you surface softness with inner resilence. The result Is Superb Comfort. .Made in Standard Mattress Size Can be used with standard springs. You don't have ' to buy a special spring to go with it. Regular $59.50 TWIN OR FULL SIZE VfilU SAVE 200 FtE) Mi Sixth fir Barrier Phone 2-4848 or 2-4740 7
