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LIVING The Boston Globe Saturday, January 1, 1972 10 MEDLEYBILL FRIPP am wc rr git im tK 1 arising I IVl i 1 if R-rt 'A'of being able to hear is the least of our problems. Our biggest problem is not being able to communicate This inability can isolate and terrify a person who lives in a silent world under the best situations, but in emergencies it can seem insurmountable! Willis Mann i 1 VW .7,1 i' i t' tit 1 SANDAL MAKERS STEVE McINERNEY AND DELLA O'SHEA (Joseph Dennehy photos) Sandals for all seasons IV' finished and the final touches will be made at the point of sale. "That way we can keep prices stable," says Mclnerney. The Sandal Shop has recently rented a loft on Thayer Street in the South End with three people cutting out the shoes getting a supply of sandals into production. Everyone in Harvard Square talks about the 'Lynn Independent Industrial Shoemaking School, a government-subsidized school which offers free courses in sandal making.

"It's a whole new field," says Mclnerney. Down the other end of Harvard Square, namely the boutique called Pier I Imports, the sandal that's the seller is made in Mexico. But with a special twist. Soles are hand-yewn from discarded automobile tires and the pollution-aware students think of sandals with tire soles as a form of recycling. Many talk about the fact that the tires aren't burned or buried in dumps and that they're taking steps to make the world cleaner.

Pier I Imports, started by two love 25... 1: By Marian Christy, Globe Staff Harvard Square dwellers underscore their blue jeans with sandals. If the sandals are hand-made, all the better. Sandals represent an investment $18 to $35 and in order to get the most out of them, the wearer gets the kind without toe rings. That way 'sandals become feasible-practical footwear for winter when worn with socks or tights.

There have been complaints around the Square that sandals are too expensive. Everyone wants the custom-made kind where the foot is traced on a piece of leather and the shop gives the customer a 5 -year guarantee. "But," says Steve Mclnerney of Cambridge, a shoemaker with The Sandal Shop in the shadow of Harvard Square, "it's terribly hard to find people interested in making shoes. By the time early spring rolls around, the backlog of orders is huge and the demand exceeds the supply." Many Cambridge shops, including The Sandal-Shop, are already making a supply of sandals that are half- Pre-teens The new voice of liberation has a high pitch to it, and the hands that scrawl its. graffiti are dirty.

The Under Twelve Liberation has erupted, and some 4000 moppets from coast to coast are wearing the UTL badge and spreading its message. "We want to have the same privileges as adults," trills UTL president John David Pierce, 9-year-old ex-Los Angeles disc jockey, recently fired, from his job because of his revolutionary pronouncements. One of the liberation's specific demands is that telephone operators stop asking kids if "mommy is home." "We're old enough to handle the. phone," says Pierce. Hero of the movement is legendary child revoluntionary Marion Delgado.

The care that Julia Childs lavishes on choosing her food was evident in Cardulos of Cambridge the other day when she took a full ten minutes sampling cheeses before she settled on a brie and parmisan Lolly MacDonnell of Louisbourg Square, unhappy to miss a New Hampshire ski Christmas when called home to Kansas' City because of family illness, got some solace in attending the Chiefs-Dolphins playoff game, One of Derek Sanderson's many women returned Christmas clothing he had given her because the sizes were too large. "I could have swum in the damned thing," she told a salesgirl at Simon Sons, returning a dress. Syracuse University has a brightly colored comic book, "Ten Heavy Facts About Sex," to inform freshmen about the facts of life The engine crew will think the train BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG Schools and the By Elizabeth S. Coolidge Globe Staff THE ROTTEN YEARS, by Mala Wojciechowska, Doitbleday, $4.95. In her speech accepting the New-bery medal in 1965, Maia Wojcie- chowska said teenage is a time of finding out what life will be like I hope that some light will come from my books and that, because of this light life will lose its power to frighten you." This book is a direct attempt to do this.

It is no novel. It is a position paper on the wrong things in life, and especially in schools, that frighten teenagers. The author's ideas, are embodied in the person of Elsie Jones, a most unusual teacher. Elsie was married in 1930, when she was 16, to a forerunner of today's hippies. Her husband loved life, and was free enough to show it he smiled at strangers.

He infected Elsie with his joy of living, and though she was widowed at 18, she resolved to become a teacher to teach kids the important truths her husband showed her. She has been fired from 18 schools and in this book has finally found a principal imaginative enough to let her try a great experiment. She throws away textbooks, and for. one month tries to teach her students about their own souls, about spiritual and moral values, about helping others, especially little children, about peace and love and smiling at strangers. "The Rotten Years" is really not a very good book, structurally at least.

It is practically impossible to write a book deliberately to put across a message and produce a work of art at the same time. Nevertheless, 1 think teenagers will be very interested in the ideas here, and should find the main theme, the relevance of school, very close to their hearts. Ar THE COUNTRY OF OURSELVES, by Xat Hcntoff. Simon and Schuster. $4.95.

Age 12 and uf. Nat Hentoff, like Maia Wojciechowska, is an author who cares very much about teenagers, and he writes convincingly in his newest book about revolution in a high school. Teenagers will feel at home in his book, and have an interesting time CONFIDENTIAL CHAT went off the track when it pulls into Back Bay the night of Jan. 28. The faded station will be the setting for the Winter Ball, music by Herbie Sulkin and the Allston Allstars, to benefit the South End Historical Society.

The Boston Women's Legal Collective is compiling a list of women lawyers, to 4 do divorce work for women for nominal fees. The tele-'phone number is 661-9650 Boston Gas Company fudged a bit on its card of its controversial South East Expressway tank, eliminating what many think is the silhouette of Ho Chi Minh. First-born children are much more fearful than younger members of the same family, two Midwestern psychologists report. One reason may be that parents usually expect more of their firstborn than they demand of later ones and put greater pressure on him to succeed, according to Frank H. Farley of the University of Wisconsin and Wallace L.

Mealiea of Indiana State University. Imports from China are still only a trickle, but one who is deeply -into the trade is Truc's Cy Harvey, awaiting his second delivery of Chinese soaps. Harvey imports the soaps through a Belgium dealer The Male Chauvinist Award of the Year surely must go to Will Harvey, author of "How to Find and Fascinate a Mistress." Mrs. Nixon has reportedly been given advice to shun the new Chinese-style fashions on her trip to Peking. Experts caution that Chinese leaders may not feel complimented Chess set sales are up 40 percent over the past three years and chess clubs are being swamped with applicants, thanks to the exposure given Bobby Fischer.

teen scene JACKET ILLUSTRATION from "In the Country of Ourselves" figuring out what Hentoff is telling them. Who is ahead in the school fight? Is it Scanlon, the teacher, with his sympathetic responses, his good teaching, his affinity for liberal, causes, and his loyalty to some mysterious other force never stated? Is it Rothblatt, the man who thinks he can be both "mensch" and a good principal? He seems to have won round one. Or has he? Perhaps the winner is Jane, the incredibly lovely, incredibly pacifistic girl. Or Ernest, the angry black Or Velma, who is trying to teach Ernest to channel his anger to help his brothers, not. waste it taunting whites.

It doesn't seem to be Josh or David, the campus rebels. And surely, it's not Schwartz, the teddy bear boy. The novel moves swiftly from one person to in'short punchy chapters. The students protest against the principal for preventing a liberal black, who happens to be under indictment, from speaking at the schooL In describing this process, the author raises a number of questions that kids today need to be asking, such as this: Does an impassioned, dedicated fighter for freedom have the right to restrict other people's liberty in order to fight for a new world he sees it? Hotline for the deaf By Ellen Goodman Globe Staff WASHINGTON It's an anti-anti-freeze day and Mrs. goes out to her garage at the usual hour, 7:45 a.m.

She has to be at work by 8:15 and the car won't even try to turn over. has gone into labor Rer contractions are now ZVz minutes apart and her husband won't be back from work for another two hours. Mr. is depressed, gray-black depressed and alone, and within reach of a bottle of small capsules. He's tried to commit suicide before and he's afraid.

Three people with problems, minor ones, major ones, but problems accentuated by a similar one. They are all deaf. But now, they can get help. These three real cases live within calling distance of the- nation's first Hotline for the Deaf. "To all the regular problems of people are added the enormous problems of communication," says Diane Cabot, who recently added the service for the deaf to the regular hotline programs of the Prince County Mental Health Association.

The Hotline program she says, was handling 500 calls a day from the general population, problems of drugs, unwanted pregnancies, anxieties, loneliness, with telephones manned 24-hours a day by volun-teers. But she knew they were missing this particularly isolated segment of the population. Now, they are connected to 250 Washington area homes of the deaf through an elaborate telephone teletype machine system known as a TTY. When Mrs. called the Hotline, she placed her phone in her home photype unit adapter and typed out her message.

In the Hotline office, another phone was placed on the machine, next to the keyboard which typed out the message electronically. The volunteer read it and on the same yellow paper typed an answer. Within minutes, he had found her a mechanic and called her boss to say why she'd be late. Similarly volunteers communicated through the machines to Mrs. found her doctor, found her an ambulance and called her husband at work.

They "talked" with Mr. over the phone teletype machine, and then found him professional help. The volunteers all have lists of professional people who can communicate with the deaf through sign language. In the first three months of operation, the Hotline for the Deaf averaged five calls a day from the deaf community. With only 300 machines currently in the area, they can touch only a small portion of the deaf population, but it's a model beginning.

The National Association for the Deaf estimates that there are 250,000 deaf in the United States, at least 3000 in Massachusetts. Many of them are outside the regular channels of social service. i As Willis Mann of the NAD, and a sponsor of Hotline, told an audience recently, "Deaf people are just like everybody else. They have the same fears, the same anxieties and problems. But not being able to hear is the least of our problems.

Our biggest problem is not being able to communicate." Mann, who has been deaf since he was 10, said, "This inability can isolate and terrify a person who lives in a silent world under the best situations, but in emergencies it can seem insurmountable." But for the deaf in th Washington area now, communications is On the Hotline. Misconceptions abound about cause of Rh babies Chatters This is my bloodstream, her blood first letter to the Chat will begin, producing de- after having been an inter- fensive proteins called an- ested reader for some time, tibodies. Harvard men five years ago, is based in Texas with 150 units spread coast-to-coast. The founders, Don Emery and Terry Gill, have discovered a new labor market in Mexico and, because of the cheapness of the used tires, can turn out sandals for little money. Currently the Mexican sandals are $3.99.

During warm weather months they're $7.99. "Customers come in and try them on by sitting on the floor," says Delia D'Shea. "Everyone talks about how tired they are of mass produced clothes and accessories shoes included. People in their 20s deliberately bypass things made on machines. It's, much too impersonal." It's not unusual to roam the Square and see thrift shop fur clad girls thick wool stockings and summer sandals.

The look is definitely ragamuffin and geared to let Establishment know they're not part of The System. And in the stores like Design Research, The Coop and The Lodge, it's not unusual to see some girls come to work in sandals or clogs. Never mind their colleagues who have chosen boots. The true Harvard Square woman sticks to her look. An old borne Chatters We are new homeowners, and since we were adventurous we purchased a house that needs lots of work it's over 100 years old: Everything plumbing, fixtures, water, etc.

needs to be repaired or replaced. Having put in copper tubing (water) we face myriad other problems. It looks like our next project will be waterproofing our basement. A national corporation has pretty much convinced us to use them. What have any of you done about a damp basement, no leaks, but lots of bugs? The foundation is fieldstone, which has leeched.

If you used the national copora-tion with it's patented formula and a 20-year guarantee, what did you think of them? Finally, what kind of siding is best for an older frame house. Vinyl gets our vote so far. There's asphalt on now. I've answered several of the Chat members. Hope someone will help me.

Portia at the Bar SLICK TRICK To make a play clock for children learning to tell time, paste numbers cut from a. discarded calendar page onto a paper plate, and attach moveable cardboard hands with a paper fastener. A funny face drawn on the clock helps to make learning fun. falling asleep in his arms. W7 101 It is prompted by several letters to The Treasure of Love, which would tend to give the ordinary reader misconceptions about Rh babies and what causes them leading perhaps to unnecessary worry.

As a registered nurse specializing in obstetrics, I would like to clarify. Most humans have a special protein in their red blood cells these people have the Rh" factor or called Rhx positive. A few of us approximately 15 percent of the population lack this factor and are called Rh negative. If a woman who is Rh negative (lacking that special protein) marries a man who possesses the protein it is possible that she will have children who also possess it. The first child (unless its mother has ever received a transfusion of Rh positive blood) with positive blood will have no problems, but if some of this child's blood has slipped into its mother's If this mother has any more children with Rh positive blood, her antibodies will cross the placenta and begin to destroy the baby's blood cells causing severe illness or death either before or after birth of the infant.

As can be seen, for a woman to have an Rh baby one afflicted with erythroblastosis fetalis the woman must be Rh negative her husband Rh positive. She must have been previously exposed to Rh positive blood, either from a blood transfusion or from bearing an Rh positive infant whose blood had passed into her bloodstream (this does not always happen). For Rh negative mothers now pregnant with their first child, there is even more hope. Most of these Will be able to receive a special injection after delivery that will prevent their bodies from developing antibodies against Rh positive blood. Trooper A born saver can't be cured Dear Still Trying Fump Move over; I want to join you for too, have a cluttered house and "no solution.

I wonder, if housewives were polled, would there be more clut-terers or more spick-and-spaners, or would there be an even number of each? My guess would be there are more like us, what do you think? As for closets; I have to admit that three-quarters of the space in mine is occupied with things, that only get moved when I clean the place and back they go to be stored again. A few years ago I did make a rule and try to stick to it when cleaning; if I haven't used it in the past year, get rid of it I can't always bring myself to part with it but in many cases I give it the "old heave ho." I guess a born saver can't be cured, so Til give up trying and enjoy life. Jetsam identity Case of mistaken Dear fenfant d'Avril One of the nicest compliments I ever received was when a member of the family, trying to guess my identity in the Chat, asked me if I was by any chance I'enfant cTAvriL I was so Mattered, but had to be henest zr. admit it wasn't so. Every is a thing I had the notes few other enjoy forward Just one of your letters of beauty.

I wish the room to store all from you and a favorites, but I reading them and remembering and looking to the next one. had to tell you! Kain-in-my-fare.