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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY,, APRIL 6, 1961 .
The Family Council
..i..E?u'or' ,Not! FamUs Council consists of . Judge, psychla
i. . . " clergymen, trims editors and women's editor. Each article
!!. Ji m.m,r)' ' actual case history The council reports on prob
V?iJii i-hf.beM de,u wUh J responsible agencies and counselors.
(Copyright 1981 General Features Corp.).
Mrs. G. O. - He's on a "let
ter"strike and never writes
home from college;
Bruce O, She's overanxi
ous and I want her to relax
about me. .: . :
..': . . ' '
Mrs. G. O.-My son is at col
lege 500 miles from home and,
, for . some-reason, he has a
block against writing to us. I
drop him cards and letters
. regularly, telling him every
little thing, asking him ques
tions. But now I feel 'I'm
; talkjng, to myself, or to the
' Wind. - , -s ,
It's" bad . enough that he
won't jot a few words off to
me, but it's downright em
barrassing for. me to meet
one of his girl friends or my
sister, and learn he didn't
. even send them a thank you
note for cookies or birthday
cards. .
I tell him it's not what he
writes, it's the idea, Even one
line would do.
Bruce O. - At first I wrote
'my. parents, a "duty" letter
every Monday. But. setting
things .down in black-and-white
make a lot of hot air
sound much too solid, too im
portant and historic. I've as
sured my mother that nothing
worth writing home about
happens to me.
For example, once I men
tioned dating a coed. In her
next few letters my mother
, kept asking about Donna,
whereas by then I'd forgotten
all about Donna, was a few
girls past her and deep in my
term paper on Urban Re
newal. The clincher, though was
her calling me. long-distance
to bawl me out. She knows
I'm O.K., but she nags any
way. . . ' .;. - -
Drinking Habits
In Finland Show
Unusual. Aspect J
l Helsinki - (U?l) A sociolo
J gist with a bent for the unus-
ual might study the phenoni
' enon that makes Finland both
, the most teetoling and the
most . hard drinking country
in. Europe.
With a per-capita consump
tion of 2.5 liters, or just un
der three quarts, of alcohol
; per year, Finland consumes
less than any other country
in western Europe. ' -
But ' in proportion to .. the
actual amount consumed,. Fin
land turns out more alcohol
ics than any other country on
the continent. -
Henrik Wallgren, a young
Finnish zoologist and physiol
oeist, is no expert on sociolo-
gy, so all he does is pose the
4 question: , ,
"Why has Finland mote al-
coholics than, for example,
France?"
Own Theory
Using some data gathered
by other researchers and
some he dug up himself, Wall
gren comes up with a theory
of his own:
. "The greater the -percen-
tage of hard liquor in the
' total, amount consumed, the
greater the alcoholism rate In
comparison with total con
And Finland's liquid diet is
more than three-fourths hard
lirjuor.
Using some figures compil
ed for his study, "Some Social
and Cultural Aspects of Al
coholism," published by the
Canadian Psychiatrical asso
". 'elation. Wallgren noted that
, drinking habits vary greatly
from country to country.
France, with a per capita
consumption of some 17 liters
(almost 18 quarts) of alcohri
annually, does' about two-
thirds of its drinking from tne
wine bottle. The average Ital
ian drinks little more than
half of the amount the French
man consumes, and drinks an
even greater percentage of
. wine. The Belgian drinks
about 7.5 liters of alcohol a
year, according to these fig-
, ures, and beer makes up about
. 90 per cent of the liquid diet.
Perhaps Wallgren theorizes,
geography and climate play
some role, since Finland, Swe
den and Norway, in that or-
der, are Europe's biggest con
sumers of hard liquor.
The Council - The obvious
solution for Mrs. O. would be
to stop pumping the news into
Bruce so plentifully nd punc
tually, and start starving him.
Let him get so hlungry for a
letter ' from ' home that he
breaks down and asks, "Are
you there?"i
But there's a chance in this
case, that even- then Bruce
wouldn't write. Mrs. "D; may
be one of those mothers who
is so hovering,-so smothering
mat ner son is grasping for
air. He's grateful . for those
500 miles, every one of them.
At last what he eats, wears,
says, does, need not be re
viewed by her. Of course he'll
accept her homemade
brownies and laundry pack
ages and he won't mail his
thanks. He'll tell her he'd
rather forego the attentions
than be forced to acknowledge
mem. .
As to Bruce's correspond
ence with others, Mrs. O.
needn t try to "cover" for
him. He can mend his own
fences when he's in town. To
coax some form of response
for herself, she might try the
touowing:
Cut down, desist, hold back.
Be cryptic when she writes,
to keep him guessing. "Met a
couple of your friends on the
train," will do. Don't say who.
wnat train, and what s new.
This will be hard for an ef
fervescent spouter like Mrs.
O. But restraint is bound to
pay off eventually. She might
also try the lazyman s form
letter in which Bruce need
only check off multiple-choice
answers like: I'm well, alive,
Kicmng, sick, pooped, etc.
But 'fess up, Mrs. O. Those
fat letters to your son fill
your needs more than his and
he can't respond in kind. To
Bruce, though we suggest that
he stop going to the inhuman
extreme of complete silence
in order to "discipline" his
mother. A letter home is a
letter home. It needn't say a
thing. ..
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