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Newspaper Page TextWEDNESDAY, MEDF0RD5g&TRIBUNB ''EveryonenSouthern Oreson Read! The Mall Tribune. ' Published Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. S3 North F'rSt-. Ph.J72-6141 " ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bui. Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mng. Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women' Editor DALEERICKSON, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as aecond class matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act ol March 3. 18(17 SUBSCRIPTION RATES 3y Mall In Advance. Dally and Sunday 1 yeartlBOO Daily and Sunday fl moa. 10. no Dailv and Sunday 3 mo. 5.00 Sunday Only One year 5 00 Single Copy (Mailed) 20c By Carrier And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year S2I.00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. 1.75 Sunday Only 1 mo. 50c Carrier andVendori Copy 10c Official" Paper of' City of Medfnrd Official Paper of Jackson County ' United Prena'Tnternatlonal Full LeBBed Wire U. P. 1. Telepho NewBplcturea "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS i ASSOCI ATES OKicea In New York. Chi cago Detroit, Sim Francisco. Los A nuclei. Seattle, Portland, Denver. NEWSPAPER ISHERS SOCIATION N ATI O N A I EDITORIAL 5C0TIN Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 veers ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 12, 1952 (Sunday) Total of 49 apprentices re ceive status of journeymen at special ceremonies. New municipal airport ten minal to be completed in Do- cember; big, modern structure planned, 20 YEARS AGO Sent. 12. 1942 (Monday) Graduation ceremonies held for first local class of Red Cross nurses aides. 1 From Arthur Perry's ''Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The army made a record-breaking display of pedestrlanlsm here Saturday morning. Never oe fore in Jackson county history have so many people been seen walking, without a p seen w a 1 k I n g without a parked auto as the objective, or leaving a football game." 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 12, 1832 (Wedneiday) Medford golfer Chandler Egan loses in first round of match play, at national ama teur golf tournament at Baltimore,- Md. Jackson county rural schools considering general school beautification program. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 12. 1922 (Thursday) Jackson county fairgrounds crowded as 2,000 persons at tend opening day of county fair. Several local young people start oacking their trunks for the trip to Corvallis, where they will enroll in Oregon Ag ricultural college. 50 YEARS AGO Sopt. 12, 1912 (Saturday) Local sportsmen offer $200 reward for information lead ing to the arrest of persons dynamiting fish in Rogue river. Jackson county Democrats r:.ip S'.ino to be used by parly in Oregon as campaign fund to back electing of Woodrow Wilson as President. What's Your I.Q.? Nino or ten correct is suporior; seven or eight is excellent; five ot six Is good. 1. Who was Aristotle's must famous teacher? 2. In which group of Pacific Islands is Cebu? 3. What is a gherkin? 4. In what buy is Alcalraz Island? 5. Was the late Franklin D. Roosevelt ever a candidate for the office of Vice Presi dent? 6. What shin was lost on her maiden voyage when she struck an iceberg? 7. Of what office is the Comptroller General of the United States the head? 8. Knights ot Columbus is a fraternal order w hose membership is Catholic, or Protestant? . Which is smaller In area, "Ihode Island, or Delaware? 10. Which of these was bom first: Daniel Uoonc or Juffalo Bill? Answers: 1. Plato, 2. Philip pines. 3. Small pickled cu cumber. 4 San Francisco Bay. 5. Yes (1920 ticket with James M. Cox). 6. Titanic. 7. General Accounting Office. 8, Catholic, 9. Rhode Island. 10. Daniel Boone. ONCE TOO OFTEN Ipswich, England -'ITU - Ar thur Gray was cleared of careless driving Tuesday afler he testified he sneezed three times before crashing Into a telephone pole. SEPTEMBER 12, 1982 How To Do The Job We have received a letter a personal one, not intended for publication conerning recent editorials on Medford's core area, or, as we like to think it may become, UPtown Medford. Because the letter is from a widely experi enced, thoughtful and intelligent person, we print a major portion of it, as follows: "As I've been away most of the summer I haven't followed your 'UPtown Mer'.iord' campaign, but I did get the Sept. 8 issue and I think you are 100 per cent right in your editorial of that date. "Even though I haven't any financial interest in uptown Medford, I'm vitally interested because Med ford is now 'my City' and I want to see it go ahead. Maybe I'm concerned because I have seen cities die of this same 'disease.' Other towns I'm concerned about are dying a slow death so slow that, apparent ly, the merchants and the landlords are not aware of the painless ailment which moves too slowly to cause any immediate alarm. "Having seen the results of 'surgery" in other com munities where action was taken In time to save the patient, I'm fully convinced that you are on the right track in fact, maybe it's later than we think. "Medford seems to be a community that does things. The concerted action which made possible the new high school football scat-section Is a good example of what Medford can do when something needs to be done. "If the same type of aggressive leadership gets be hind the UPtown Medford movement, your campaign will be resultful and everyone will benefit. But action has been postponed long enough." "THIS is only one of a large number of com ments received as a result of prior editorials on the subject. About 90 per cent of them have been favorable. The other 10 per cent have been based on a misapprehension that we were "attack ing" downtown Medford, and in some manner not explained were attempting to damage the merchants of the area. The contrary, of course, is true. All that we have written on the subject has been motivated by a keen concern for the health and future of the UPtown area. If some individuals care to interpret this as something else, that can't be helped, but it does them no credit for perspicacity. IT IS A FACT that a number of downtown busi- nessmen (and landlords too) are concerned about that area's future. It is a fact that they have formed an organization, and taken a few prelim inary steps toward a new approach to the prob lems of the central business district. It is a fact that they are "thinking big," and have tentative plans which, if they are successful, will provide the surgery It isunhappily, also has been slowed and hampered by bickering, dis sention, foot dragging and backbiting by a minor ity, and by an attitude of the part of others. I TPTOWN Medford is, v centlv, in a period of opportunities. But, by the still the danger that the creeping illness may be come chronic, and that the business area will re main "down" town Medford, instead of working to become- UPtown. Doing something is always more difficult and dangerous than sitting idly by either compla cent or fearful. Taking imaginative, more challenging than whining. Cooperation takes more intelligence and good will than bickering and1 back-biting. And organizing tor sclt-help is tougher than running to the city council for help. But it is the way to get the job clone. h. A. Miss America Pageant Miss Martha Wyatt represented both the Rogue Valley and the beauty, charm and dignity. We welcome her home and say to her, "Well done." . As nearly could be determined from tele vision and from comments of others closer at hand, much the same could be said for the other lovely and gracious young women who partici pated in the Miss America beauty pagent. At this point, however, we run out of nice things to say. The splendid young women aside, we think the show is a crass, objectionable, taste less exercise in commercialism and exploitation. "THKRE'S nothing wrong with the idea of this beauty and talent contest, as such, and the prizes, particularly the scholarships, are worth while. But for an asinine fathead like Bert Parks to be master of ceremonies in charge of some of the nation's most beautiful and talented young wom en is an affront to decency. The endless commercials, the graceless com ments of the master of less comedy routines and back-aiul-forth banter that served lo fill in the time between the appear ances of the contestants combined to form an outrageous spectacle. We not only welcome you home, Marty. We're glad you're back, K. A. 427 Youngsters On Monday, the first day of school, the total number of youngsters registered in the elemen tary grades was more than on the same day last year. Now -I'JT, out of a total registration of more than 8,500, doesn't seem too terribly large about 5 per cent. . But it can be looked at another way. For 4J7 students, 15 to HO additional classrooms are need ed, as well as 15 to 20 additional teachers, not to mention books, supplies, buses and all the rest of the educational impedimenta. E.A. which is needed. a fact that their work helplessness and fear on as the Mayor put it re- transition. It has vast same token, there is constructive action is state of Oregon with ceremonies, and the wit "Catchy, Aren't They!" ... Communications ... Letters lo the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen na.ne or initial for publication is permissible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view la, clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must net exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this eolumji do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. CongrattiBlions, Martyl To the Editor: The state of Oregon, the Rogue River val ley and the town of Jackson ville can be justifiably proud of Oregon's representative to the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City, N.J. Miss Martha "Marty" Wyatt of Jacksonville displayed great poise, dignity and naturalness which came across the foot lights to millions of viewers across the nation. She most certainly Is to be congratu lated on going into the semi finals. We enjoyed her inter pretive dance and she could only have been beaten by more experienced contestants in the field of fine arts, NOT by more talent, because we don't think the others were any more talented than she. So congratulations Miss Oregon, from former Oregon ians as well as home staters! Mavis E. Peters Leland B- Peters 134S Don Carlos ave., Tempe, Ariz. (Formerly of Jacksonville, Ore.) Tk, Tsk To the Editor: In your editorial of August 30, en titled "Plague"! it is stated that when more than 60 peo ple die in traffic accidents in less than a month all we do is shake the head and mut ter, "tsk, tsk," but that if an epidemic took this heavy a toll of life, health authorities would be besieged with de mands to "do something. Very true. Yet, at the same time, what statistics show to be a major contributor to this highway toll does not, in many cases get even a minor "tsk, tsk." Then, to compound the fallacy of this attitude we are invited and encouraged through num erous advertisements In major media (including the Mail Tribune) to become "people of distinction" (perhaps "ex tinction" would be a better word) by joining the array of users of alcoholic beverages and thus add to this menace. How can you, and we, as a supposedly enlightened peo ple, pass this killer by with such a weak "tsk, tsk" atti tude? A. Ray Neptune Rogue Valley Manor Medford Scholar, Teacher, Humanitarian To the Editor: In the recent passing of Edward C. Root, southern Oregon lost in, other grand citizen, and the career of one closed, though a part of whose good work will go on. , For more than a half cen tury Mr. Root lias taught, supervised, conducted, music in Jackson county. From 11138 to 1!)58, when he retired. Mr. Hoot was supervisor of music in the Jackson county public schools where thousands of youths received their early training in music. When the Rogue Valley Council on Aging was organ izing in li'58 and lenders were needed for ils various activi ties. Mr. Root volunteered to teach music, and the Senior Activity Orchestra was formed, for which he wrote much of its music. I A community, the world, I can ill afford to lose its best citizens. John E. dribble 13!) Kenwood Medford Holiday Observance To the Editor: National holidays are not properly re ayAnA l ,t,-i i ,.,,. "rolled drinking and'fasl dnv- inn m ilt Hk-so , isi.uis nr. iods of mourning. With ihe cra".v marred by contention , day Church of God, or any advent of the -5 hour work i w'n the Jews. No doubt they J other observer of Saturday, as week, more time will be avail- j wcre of the Basket of Evil the Sabbath, as Americans we able for consideration of their F 'H ,ne Prophet Jeremiah believe it our duly and privl history and meaning. 1 advo- ! refers to In chapter 24. On i lege to set- that any one or rale the discontinuance of1 the other hand the people oi every one has the right lo lliese three holidays: Menuir-;'he Galilean country were worship God as he is guided ial Day: Independence Day; i more inclined to listen to the ; by his conscience, and not Labor Day because of al-: teachings of the gospel our be penal. zed because h; most (otal non-observance. Savior was bringing to Earth j is sincere in his convie Special hour-long services; in all its fullness. jtions. When the senators or meetings might very well It was there he fed the start taking their orders MEDFORD MAIL be held in plants, offices and stores, presided over by com pany executives. Or, special programs via radio or tele vision could be utilized. These three holidays merit the sober reflections of all true Amer icans. It is no sin to work on these days. But is it great to be alive. David Frisch P.O. Box 282 White City, Ore. Lots of Garbage To the Editor: Regarding the news item appearing in the Mail Tribune 9762 "County Court Gets Camping Fee Check". The item stated that the County Court had re ceived a check from the How ard Prairie concessionaire in the amount of $1,533 for over night camping fees. What it didn't state was the fact that the County Court returns this $1,533 to the concessionaire for keeping the camping sites cleaned up! This seems like an awful lot of garbage to me. John Ellison Star Route Ashland, Ore. -o- Editor's note: It not only is an awful lot of garbage, but a lot of other things, too. Con cessionnaire Bob Johnston re ports this year he budgeted more than $10,000 for main tenance and operations chargeable to user-fees dur ing the current season, and lost money on that phase of the operation. The concession requires a season-long crew of 1U, plus four others on week ends. Maintenance involves regular emptying of more than 100 garbage cans, pro vision of wood for campers and picknickers (the number of campers has ranged up lo l,3U0 on some week ends). regular inspection, cleaning and servicing of eight lava tory units, and regular clean up of all public areas, beaches and roadways. Lavatory sup plies, iignts and other util ities are also charged to the user-fee account, not to men tion water, night watchman and traffic control operations. Price Increases To the Editor: "When prices rise on any commodity, it doesn't make news any more," savs John R Schumnf of Eagle Point. Not always true, if we remember the naughty words spoken during the steel price raise a few months ago. And how could our worthy paper slip their raise of prices in if we were reminded each day how the cost of living is going up? Our big trouble in protest ing prices is not figuring per centage. The cent raise on a quart of milk does not begin to compare with the almost a cent a day on the paper. I'm afraid, E.A., that you are beginning to look like one of those "dirty Republi can businessmen." Mrs. C. A. Larson Prospect, Ore, Land of Joseph To the Editor: In the days of Cyrus the Persian, the Hebrew people compris i n g the tribe of Judah and part of the tribe of Benjamin, were permitted to return to Judea and Jerusalem to re build the Temple. However, the tribe of benjamin con tinued their migration and settled in the northern part of Judea, called the Land of Benjamin by the prophet Jeremiah, but better known as the Galilean country. At the time of our Saviors ; ministry upon the Earth Hi; I vimh iu jci us.iiem w ere gen- TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON High Drama Seen on De Gaulle, By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst In Hamburg, Germany, the cheers of thousands of Ger mans rolled over Gen.' Charles de Gaulle in 8wm"!m a great wave. i Not since Na poleon, in that capacity, had a French chief of state visit ed Germany, and certainly never had one been met with Mewiom such enthusi asm. In these days of nuclear tests, Geneva conferences and recurring crises, there also are moments of intense human drama, and also-tragedy. In Hamburg, where he pressed his personal campaign to seal a new era in Franco- thousands, filled the nets with fish, walked upon the water of the sea of Galilee and stilled its turbulent waves. It was there also he found his honest sincere fish ermen (except Judas), who were to become his apostles and leaders of his church and kingdom he was going to establish upon the Earth. And that would be connected with his Father's kingdom in heaven, through the higher Melchisedec priesthood. Could there be any other reason our Savior loved the Galilean country and had such great success there than the fact that Jacob, the friend of God, had loved Benjamin and Joseph more than his other sons, because they obey ed the principles of the gos pel and walked in the foot steps of their father? Hence the spirit and blessings of God and his servant Jacob rested upon the land and peo ple of the Galilean country. By the same token, this land of Joseph that we are living in (Deut. 33:13-17) that has always had the blessings of God upon it, and its many prophecies have been so liter ally fulfilled (Deut. 28:10-13). Surely we should love our country, and flag, the symbol of freedom and liberty that Mrs. R. P. Corona pointed out well in Sunday's Mail Tribune. John F. Peterson 611 South Holly st. ' Medford. Religious Liberty Slipping? To the Editor: Could it be that we will sacrifice thou sands upon thousands of lives, and spend billions of dollars to try and guarantee religious liberty to the world, and yet lose our liberties right here in the good old U.S.A.? A recent news happening should make every true American sit up and ponder. An editorial in a District of Columbia paper says, "On Thursday, June 7, the Massa chusetts Senate voted 21 to 14 to exempt Sabbatarians from tile new Sunday law currently under consideration. Two days later 'The Pilot,' of ficial newspaper of the Arch diocese of Boston, launched a fiercely militant editorial attack on senators who had voted for the amendment and listed their names. The editorial then described how on the following Sunday certain churchgoers were urg ed by their pastors to read the article and to pressure their senators into rescending the amendment. On Monday the senators dutifully did so by a vote of 31 to 8. The following Friday an editorial in 'The Jewish Ad vocate,' also published in Bos ton, protested that "democ racy and freedom of con science took a stinging blow on Beacon Hill this week when the Senate surrendered its objectivity and autonomy with overtones frightening to contemplate." The editorial charged "The Pilot" with a "naked display of pressure heretofore unrevealed in the commonwealth," and with causing "incalcuable harm to good will in this community." Recent happenings in Mas sacluietts convey the fact that certain ones are unalterably opposed to the fundamental American principles of civil and relgious liberty, and that they are determined to im pose their will on public pol icy in tiiis country. Whether or not sympathetic with the ideas of Jewsv Sev enth-day Baptists, Seventh- i nay rtovenusis or ine sevemn- Win Bidault, at Historic German friendship- after cen turies of hostilities, de Gaulle was experiencing a moment of drama. At almost the same hour and moment, in Italy, another Frenchman who also had serv ed his country well, was ex periencing his moment of hu miliation. That man was Georges Bi dault, twice France's premier and many times its foreign minister. A hunted man in France, Bidault was being deported from Italy and delivered by Italian police to the "border of his choice" - presumably either Austria or Switzerland. In their personal moments of triumph and tragedy not too many hundreds of miles separ ated these two men wnose lives for many years had been interwined. In 1944, when de Gaulle moved along Paris' Champs Elysees on an August day to mark French liberation from Nazi captivity, Bidault was at his right side. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The news today? Nothing very startling. But, up to the hour this is written, there is no SHOOT ING news. That, in itself, is BIG news perhaps the big gest news in the world. THERE'S another U2 plane incident. The Chinese com munists claim to have shot one down over Red China. The Chinese Nationalists ad mit they bought a couple of them from the U.S. two years ago and have been using them. The Chinese commies re fuse to pay any attention at all to the Nationalists' story that the shot-down spy plane was theirs. They insist the wicked Americans are using the U2s to spy on Red China. EVER since the U2s were first unmasked (when the Russians shot down one of ours) it has been a mystery to most of us why it is so much worse to send a high - flying plane over an unfriendly country and look down at what is going on in the way of military preparation than to flood a country with human snoope.rs. I suppose it all depends on who is doing the snooping. UNCOUNTED centuries ago, King Solomon wrote in his Song: "For lo! the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in the land." in the -- Mediterranean area. It is now autumn in the California area and the voice of the politician is heard in the land. INCUMBENT Governor Brown, seeking re-election, opens an intensive two-day campaign this morning in Southern California. He says to the reporters: "In the weeks ahead, you will hear two voices in the land, expressing themselves on this new era. You will hear the voice of Republicanism, crying doom, yearning for the past, agonizing at change, pro posing nothing and carping at the present. "And then you will hear the Democratic voices. And I can tell you they will not cry doom or carp. They will be filled with optimism and hope." CHALLENGER Nixon, open ing what he calls a "border-to-border, person-to-person campaign that will cover 2.000 miles this week," laun ches what he savs will be ''eight weeks of the most in tensive campaigning Cali fornia has ever seen." HMMMMMM. If what the politicians PERFORM after election were as wonderful as what tliev PROMISE before election, what a perfect world this would be! from a church uroun it will not be- long until Revelation ! 13 will be fulfilled. From the I tremendous pressures being : applied for position, favors 1 and money. In , lovers of American liberty 'utter awak en. Bible prophecy is rapidly being fulfilled before our eyes and God's toiiioi row is just ahead for thise who will remain true. Henry Johnson Jr. 2315 'Highway 66 Ashland, Ore. Contrast Bidault served as de Gaul le's foreign minister in the post-war French provisional government. In Italy, there were rumors that Bidault had come to meet Jacques Soustelle, another figure in the human drama. For Soustelle, like Bidault, had been one of the men closest to de Gaulle, and like Bidault had gone into exile this year because of violent differences with de Gaulle over Algeria. Bidault became president of the National Council of Re sistance, composed of de Gaulle's bitterest enimics and Strictly Personal By Sydney (c) Field Enterprises, Inc. PARENTS Every now and then, I re ceive a flurry of letters from high-school boys and girls asking me to write a piece defending their right "to be treated like grown-ups" by their parents. Ah, me, where have I heard that refrain before? It seems not llarla so many years ago that I was rebelling against wearing rub bers to school because it was sissified, and darkly contem plating running away from Soviets Continue Armored Car Runs Berlin - (UPll - The Soviet Union today sent its usual convoy of three armored troop carriers into West Ber lin without trouble despite Allied determination to end the daily trips of Russian armor. The three personnel car riers entered the British sec tor of West Berlin across Sandkrug Bridge with a change of guard for the Soviet War Memorial. They were waved through by British military police after a one-minute wait. They returned to East Berlin 2!) minutes later without halting at the crossing. British military police jeeps escorted the boviet ve hicles on their half-mile run in each direction to and from the memorial. Routine handling of the Russian convoy of armor in dicated the British were giv ing the Soviets time to follow their demand to return to using buses to transport their memorial guard. The Russians had been using buses to ferry the guards, but switched to ar mored vehicles Aug. 21 after the buses were stoned during three days of rioting by West Berliners. SEVEN MILES APART Brentwood, England - iLTIl -Mrs. Anne Powell, 23, a housewife, has given birth lo twins - seven miles apart. Wendy was born at Brent wood Maternity Hospital. Then Mrs. Powell was rushed to St. Andrew's Hospital's special maternity unit becajse of complications and twin David was born. All were doing fine. Try and S?op Me By BENNETT CERF "ytHE WORLD'S TWO greatest point-killers," declares -- Don Quinn, "as everyone must know, are waiters and telephones. Most of us have experienced that shattering moment, when, lunching with somebody we want to make sure realizes we have a great sense of humor, we've crept up to the punchline of our very best story, only to have the waiter barge upon the scene, demanding. 'Who gets the roast beef hash?' " ... Sister Annette writes about the time she took some third-gratlors in her parish to visit the ijp. then asked tl-.em to write a paragraph about the animals that interested them most. Wrote one moppet: "The animal that interested me. most was the Warning S'-ar.d Back. Kveiy time we looked at it he spit at us.' ... A resigned wife poin'.e-i to her husband stretched out In the garden hammock. "My husband." she explained, "believes that to keep healthy, even- man must have a hobby. His is letting the buJs va.::h him." M A 10 year-o'.d pul. des.-i-lied by her doting mother as "tempera mental." raised particular tantrums every time she was told it was time to go to bed. "I hate bed." she exclaimed one night. "If I took bed in school it wouid be my worst subject." C 1963. bt Bennett Cert. Distributed b)r King Features Syndicate Between Moment regarded as a successor to the- outlawed Secret Army Organ, ization which spread terror throughout Algeria and, in ar lesser way, France. In France, there have been strong official suggestions that Bidault was one of the leaders who ordered the as sassination attempt against da Gaulle last Aug. 22. Both Soustelle and Bidault have called de Gaulle a trai tor to France. Today both men are in ex ile while de Gaulle pursues his Olympian course - imper vious to hatred, unswayed by two assassination attempts, certain of his way. J. Harris home because Dad wouldn't let me borrow the family Essex for the Junior Prom. But what teenagers don't realize is that parents aren't that way only while the chil dren are young they remain that way no matter how old the children get. To a mother, a child is a., child, whether he's five or 50. I'm in the dim valley of middle-age, and my own . mother still treats me like. " a little boy who doesn't know when to come in out of ihe rain. The only differ ence is that being a parent-, myself, I don't resent it any more, I just shrug and un derstand it. My mother is still con vinced that I don't eat enough "nourishing" food that I don't get enough sleep, that I don't wear heavy enough clothes in winter, and that I work too hard none of which is in the slightest way true. She is continually giving me advice, chiding me for the error of my ways, warn ing me not to drive too fast, and in general treating me with more parental solici tude than I treat my own 18-year-old daughter. Most mothers can't help acting protective any mora than fathers can help act ing authoritative, or chil dren rebellious. These pat terns are as old as mankind. Of course, some parents are more moderate than others they know a child has to be given some leeway, and they recognize that growing up is a painful process of emotional adjustment. But, deep inside, every parent unconsciously worries a thousand times a day about the welfare of his offspring. For instance, I was normal ly indignant about careless drivers until my first child became old enough to play out in front and to cross streets; then I suddenly acquired a burning hatred for all reck less motorists and would glad ly have sliced the heart out of anyone who imperiled a child's life. Before I was a father, such a strong feeling would have seemed absurdly excessive to me. My only advice to the re sentful high schoolers is to grin (however wryly) and bear it. Give in on all those trivial issues that mean so much to parents then you'll have more bargaining power when the big issues that mean so much to you come up. Most parents aren't unreason able, they're just over-anxious. So will you be when your little girl starts playing postoffice with the boy next door.