SIXTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuesday, October 29, 1957
Try and Sfop Me
By BENNETT CERF-
TT SAN ANTONIO a group of retired Army officers organized
J- a recreational center they call "The Henpecked Club." Into
its quarters stormed an irate, 200-pound wife one evening,'
swept the poker chiDi onto
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the floor and pulled an ex
general out by the ear,
screaming, "How dare you
join a club with a revolting
name like this? You're not
henpecked!"
At the Chez Paree In Chi
cago, an opulent guest at a
ringside table offered Joe E.
Lewis a bunch of imported
grape3. "Jfo, siree," said Lewis
haughtily. "You don't catch
me taking my wine In pills:"
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There's a snobbish apart
tnent house in St Louis where dogs are allowed but no children!
Whenever tenants have a new baby, the first thing they have to do
Is to teach it to bark.
1957, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate,
e Family Council
Editor's note: The Family Council consists of a Judge, a psychiatrist,
three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers. Each
article is a summary of an actual report. The Family Council does not give
advice; it merely repoits on problems that have keen dealt with by
responsible agencies and counselors.
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Mrs. R. M. Our daughter
wants to keep her illegitimate
baby.
Barbara M. I want this baby
I'm not ashamed!
Mrs. R. M. My 21-year-old
daughter got into a lot of trouble
and now she is just making
things worse for herself.
Barbara was going with a
man and was planning marriage.
She learned, too late, that he
had a wife in another state.
When he discovered she was
pregnant, he ran out on her
That's bad enoiJgh but here's
the worst. Barbara refuses to
give the baby out for adoption!
She says she wants to keep her
child and that she plans to
bring the baby up as her own.
My husband and I have cried
and begged and pleaded, but it
Morse Sees Review
Of Basin Planning
Hunting Resources
Great Falls, Mont. (Special)
Senator Wayne Morse (D-Ore.)
in a speech here recently, brand
ed as "the handwriting on the
wall for a curtailed, inadequate
development plan," the recently
released "Preliminary Findings"
of the Corps of Engineers in its
"review" of the 1948 "308 Re
port." Speaking before the annual
convention of the Montana Far
mers Union here, the Oregon
Senator described the document
as "a grim warning of what can
be expected if the Eisenhower
Administration's river develop
ment policies are continued." He
described the "review" findings
as providing less flood control,
less but, more costly power, less
irrigation, and serious conserva
tion threats.
Question Posed
Taking note of the current
series of hearings in the North
west dealing with the review,
the Senator described the issue
at stake as: "Shall the natural
resources of the Columbia Basin
be developed fully in the public
interest or sacrificed to piece
meal underdevelopment to pro
mote the monopoly position and
profits of a few private utili
ties?" Morse praised the original
"308 Report" and the progress
made on its recommendations
until 1953, when, he said, "the
Eisenhower-McKay Administra
tion proved it had no interest
in multi-purpose development at
the Libby Dam site by breaking
off all negotiations on the shar
ing of benefits with Canada."
"At about the same time," he
added, "the Eisenhower - McKay
wrecking crew started the same
sort of job at Hells Canyon . . .
but the Hells Canyon fight is
far from over as the favorable
vote in the U.S. Senate proved
last June."
Forest Grove Girl
Named Top Journalist
Spokane ilF Maxine Moore,
a high school senior from Forest
Grove, Ore., was named top
journalist at the ninth annual
Northwest High School Press
Conference which concluded at
Gonzaga university here Satur
day. Miss Moore attends St. Mary's
of the Valley Academy at Beav
erton. As winner of the top
award she received a full tuition
one-year scholarship to Gonzaga.
Sydney, Australia (IP! James
McGirr, 66, former Labor Paryt
premier of New South Wales,
died suddenly here Sunday.
McGirr, 66, former Labor Party
was responsible for introducing
legislation bringing the 40-hour
work week to Australia in 1947.
Sawdust
doesn't help. She is such a stub
born girl. She is too young to
understand what she is doing
to her life. Her married sister
is willing to take the baby and
bring him up as her own, but
Barbara refuses to give in even
this much.
Barbara M. I refuse to be
shamed or bullied into anything.
My parents say I'll never be
able to get married with an il- i
legitimate baby, but I don't want
any man I'd have to lie to. He
takes me as I am, or not at all.
I want this baby. I was very
much in love and I'm not asham
ed of anything. I'm willing to
tell the world this is my baby.
My parents cry, "Shame!" but
plenty of people think I have
courage.
It is very generous of my sis
ter to be willing to take the
baby, but I want to be able to
call him my own. I couldn't
stand to hear my child call my
sister "Mother" and to look at !
me almost like a stranger.
The' whole family is ashamed
of me, but they don't have to ;
worry. I'll go away where I
won't disgrace them. And I
won't lie and say my baby's
father is dead either.
The Council: The R. M.'s are
putting the emphasis in the
wrong place when they stress
the shame of Barbara's position
and their worry that she won't
be able to marry. Barbara has
someone other than herself to
consider at this time.
If Barbara talks her problems
over with a clergyman or with
a social worker' attached to a '
family agency, she will come to
see that she must consider the I
future of her child, above all
else. "Plenty of people" may
think she has courage, but in
bearing this child she is not put
ting on a performance for the
benefit of the public.
This admiring crowd will not
be able to help her when she
faces the inevitable problems
how to care for her child and
at the same time support both
him and herself, what to tell
her child when he asks about his
father, what to tell him when
other children say things that
might shame him, how to make
up to him emotionally for the
lack of a father.
Barbara is right that giving
the baby to her sister would not
work. It would be the worst pos
sible arrangement. But Barbara
must be aware that keeping her
child will take more than cour
age. It will take work and great
patience and intelligence.
She should realize that she
cannot change her mind after
the first few months without
risking emotional damage to her
child and the chances of ar
ranging a satisfactory legal ad
option for an older child are
slim.
Barbara must recognize that
this is not an occasion for mak
ing grand gestures, but for deep,
serious consideration and firm,
mature judgment.
(Copyright 1957. General
Features, Corp?)
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