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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."
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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.