Wisconsin State Journal from Madison, Wisconsin • 56

Features Editor: Chris Juzwik, 252-6180 Wisconsin Revisited 4G 1G HOMESTYLES 7G Sunday, June 14, 1998 COMMENTARY Wisconsin State Journal GEORGE i i HESSELBERG I i COMMENTARY Stay-at-home 20-somethings are reshaping American dream 3k uA rirt'iMii 'in PhotosSCOTT PATRICK Car 25 rolls through the woodlands of East Troy during a weekend trip of the East Troy Electric Railroad Museum. Let's take it from the top The Southern Baptist Convention has adopted a statement affirming a "biblical hierarchy" for the family, stating "a wife is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband." I asked my wife what I thought about this, and she said not much. The Baptists suggest that the idea of women submitting to men was stated by God after Adam and Eve had lapsed into sin in the Garden of Eden. Because of that, what had been a partnership turned into a hierarchy. I asked my wife if we could establish a hierarchy and she said no, so we won't Oh, no, not another soccer World Cup.

Not another chance for sports columnists to show they are just as arrogant as the many so-called athletes they cover. The World Cup is the world championship in the sport of soccer. American sports journalists hate it because: 1. They don't know the rules, so it must not be interesting. 2.

They never played the sport as Children, so nobody else did, either. American sports journalists cannot envision themselves scoring the winning goal, as readily as they can see themselves hitting a winning home run or scoring a winning basket, however remote that eventuality. "Amazing, also, American sports journalists actually boast of their ignorance soccer. It reminds me of a professor I met who boasted of not reading the newspaper. Why, I wondered, would someone consider it a badge of honor to be uninformed? Madison is No.

1. We could kill a fatted calf, except that, in Madison, we would first need a permit from the Livestock Consumption Subcommittee, then a permit to place the required barriers around the Capitol Square, then an Assurance of Compliance certificate from the Committee for the Humane Grilling of Raw Meat, then we would have to make sure to reserve parking spaces for legislators, then we would have to have our logo approved by the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Logo Protection, then we would have to make sure we are not making an obscene sandwich within 100 feet of a charter school, and, if we are, pay the adult entertainment tax on that. I am still waiting for the graph that increases in Madison's property taxes with its magazine rankings. A phalanx of clergy can assemble Jo "bless" the Harley-Davidson motorcycles in Milwaukee, but it is illegal to buy one from a dealer in Wisconsin on a Sunday. Anybody else notice that the report on Madison Fire Department recruit training said the recruits had no written guidelines to follow, no leader to teach them, confusion about what was needed to complete training, no daily training schedule, and no written requirements for graduation? And all this was AFTER the class was selected with the help of an $80,000 consultant The report, however, insisted there is no major flaw in the training process.

Anybody else remember the days of endless hearings before the Madison Police and Fire Commission, when the exact requirements for training of recruits were gone over and over and over because of the pressing need to fairly recruit and train female and minority firefighter candidates? Anybody else note that Marcia Holtz, the training chief relieved of her duties, was one of the first Madison female firefighters? She was suspended, then dropped as a recruit in 1978 because film and reports of the recruits training showed she "lacked necessary uppor body strength to qualify" as a firefighter, according to deoartment leaders. 7Z ii rfir-frniiri By Tyler Gray Orlando Sentinel Talk about a homeboy. A stocked fridge, full-time work and full-time school kept me at my parents' house until I was 21. Full-time good times landed me back home at 22. Others my age are staying home longer.

When it comes to hard facts on Generation the statisticians are the slackers. I've looked for facts with little luck. The most conclusive stuff was published in June of 1997 in Time magazine survey results that said 30 percent of men and women in their 20s live with their parents. Is it the big-screeh TV? Is it the constant stock of Little Debbie Fudge Rounds? Or is it that living at home gives hard-working people room to carve out niches, start their own businesses and be their own bosses? I thought about hanging at home until I got a real job. But instead, at 22 1 moved into a $200-a-month shanty with tissue for a roof, Lincoln Logs for walls and a petri dish for a carpet that when left for a week could look like a moldy plate of old pancakes.

It's a safe bet that home used to be mobile. In the same year, I ditched the dump and started touring the country playing bass guitar with a heavy metal band called Bloodlet. My second home still had the wheels. It was a 15-passenger van, and I thought I was movin' on up like George Jefferson. But about halfway through the tour, I realized I wasn't coming home rich.

I did get a couple of good tattoos out of the deal, though. The collect call went something like this: "Dad?" "Hey, son! You coming back soon (and giving up this pipe dream for a college education)?" "Boy am I. Remember when you said I can always come back to live there if I needed to? I need to." So at 22, 1 moved back home for a couple of months not that it was a bad place to live at all. But it took a lot of Fudge Rounds to kill the taste of the pride I swallowed in moving back. The Time survey aside, here's a real scientific and factually based study of a population completely representative of the country as a whole this guy named Keith.

Keith is 23. For the years that he has been my friend, I've never considered him a homebody. But until Keith got a career going, he didn't plan on moving out. "It's mostly a financial choice," Keith says. "Right now, responsibilities are taking up most of the time I would be using to look for a place." What responsibilities? Rounding up clients for his new business that has taken the place of a series of dead-end jobs.

While living at home, Keith had worked about 60 hours a week as a retail store manager, then a coffee jerk, then a record jerk. You see the pattern hard work but jobs for the sake of a paycheck. But during those mindless hours at dull jobs, Keith was making a plan. He was using the spare time and money wisely, like many of those surveyed by Time. Keith paid for his own classes but decided college wasn't for him.

He finished massage-therapy school again, self-financed and that's when he set out to be his own boss. He has set up his shop in an established health-care center in Winter Park, Fla. Asked why he didn't rush moving out Keith says he's learning to walk the career tightrope while he can still use home as a safety net His hours are flexible, and his mom doesn't mind the company. "Yeah. I really get along well with my boss," he jokes.

Sounds like an American dream to me. Volunteer motormen and conductors run East Troy Railroad's ancient trolleys on weekends throughout the year and Wednesdays through Sundays during summer months. For a complete schedule of trolley runs, see Page 3G. East Troy trolley links passengers to the past By William R. Wineke Wisconsin State Journal EAST TROY "All aboard!" Motorman LeRoy Stellpfiug was about to apply power to his trolley and he wanted to have some of the patrons of the East Troy Electric Railroad get back on the car.

Instead, people were getting off and rushing to restrooms or to purchase railroad caps. The cheerful scene at the East Troy Electric Railroad Museum a week ago contrasted with the festivities of Dec. 13, 1907, when dozens of dignitaries I ft 1 turned out to celebrate the arrival of the first intercity car. Wisconsin was once home to 350 miles of city and intercity electric trolley lines. One of these ran from Milwaukee to East Troy, anchoring commercial development for the community.

The East Troy Electric Railroad is the last such line in the state and is now owned by a museum. Driving from East Troy to Milwaukee today is a brief trip. In 1907, the journey took a full day. On the new railroad, it took two hours. Those early days are memorialized in the work of the Electric Railroad Museum, which operates trains on v.

it i 1 1 Wii aiiid An East Troy trolley ride gives a sense of what it must have been like decades ago. Railroad events The East Troy Electric Railroad Museum operates several special-event trains throughout the year (a Father's Day train is sold out): Aug. 8 Summer Serenade. Sept. 26 Night in Paris.

Oct. 3 Oktoberfest. Oct. 17 Sweetest Day. Oct.

24 Autumn Leaves. The cost is $45 per person for each dinner train. The museum also runs "Tea Trains" serving English sandwiches, tarts, scones and tea on June 28, July 26 and Sept. 13. The cost is $22.50 per person.

Paid reservations are necessary for all the meal trains. On June 21 the museum will sponsor a Transportation Heritage Day that will feature a car show. Holtz sued, claiming discrimination and lack of due process. Nearly two years later, the city paid the legal expenses of Holtz and two other trainees after their lawsuit was dropped. Holtz and another woman became successful firefighters, with Holtz trailblazing her way to the top, after joining the 1980 class.

ESPN2 not even the main ESPN, even lower than the Cartoon Network has decided that the UW-Madison football team will play a night homecoming game this fall. ESPN2 has decided that 75,000 Badger fans have to find a place to stay overnight in Madi- a hit -v Afiva hnmo Iota That 1- On a recent Sunday, as train officials waited, stragglers climbed aboard for the last trip of the day. Finally, the trolley bells clanged twice and the wood-seated, open-air trolley bumped away from the old station near downtown East Troy. It clanged a couple of blocks to the museum barn, where volunteers work to restore old trolley cars, and then Please see TROLLEY, Page 3G erarchy is even more set as servant-master than the Southern Baptists. yf SATURDAY MONDAY Stalked by the angry hound of midlife, men must reinvent themselves.

FRIDAY To upgrade or not to upgrade: We discuss the pros and cons of Windows 98, which hits the market next week. THURSDAY Assuming construction doesn't bother you and you don't mind a little extra time in the car. Summerfest '98 in Milwaukee has the makings of a great celebration. WEDNESDAY The Badger State Games are upon us; we'll look at several area athletes and provide a schedule of the events in BreakAway. THIS WEEK Concerts on the Square is a popular place to hang out But what do the musicians who perform think about the.