The Leader-Post from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada • 38

Wednesday, May 31, 1978 The Leader-Post Regina, Saskatchewan 38 Lifestyles Planning children not just for parents Jaspar 4 pill. "While 15 Is a very young age to be thinking of an intimate relationship since It is a very big responsibility, parents should always say what they think but not necessarily Impose their set of values on the youth." In the case of the 15 year old, the mother should reserve a snap judgment, but talk about the problem with the girl and think about what her daughter is really asking. "Often parents are so shocked that they respond without thinking. But the mother and daughter should be discussing deep questions about relationships and what the daughter wants and wants to know." "A parent has to have a discussion that is uninterrupted. Parents are very Often too much Involved In things outside the home and have little more than a passing relationship with their youths." This week, the emphasis will be on teaching young people how to prepare for the responsibilities of life, she said She said some places do not allow teen agers to get birth control information.

Mrs. Mills cited Quebec as an exception. There, information is given to 14 year olds. But most areas reserved that information for those over 19. Parents also must be Informed and willing to listen, she said.

An example Is a 15-year-old who asks her mother about using the birth control fully developed." These problems contributed to a growing number of poor, single parentsin 1976, the last year for which figures are available, 300,000 single parents, lived below the poverty line, she said. Teen-agers are better trained to drive cars than they are to have mature sexual relationships and become parents, Mrs Mills says. Although parenthood is the most important profession, people seemed to think it needed no training. "We constantly look at it as something everyone can do." Among programs sponsored in each major city bynocal planned parenthood organizations is a series to teach parents how to talk to their teen-agers OTTAWA (CP Planning children is not just for parents, says Mary Mills, executive director of the Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada. And the focus of national planned parenthood week, which began Monday, is directed at teen-agers and their need to learn about birth control.

Teen-age pregnancies cannot be nored, she said. Most recent statistics indicate that 80 per cent of young mothers keep their babies, and "these young mothers are but children themselves." In 1974, single girls between 13 and IS had 9,870 births. And in 1975, the figure increased to 12,596. "And one must take into account the socio-economic problems, the number who go on welfare because their education has been interrupted, and the physical difficulty of carrying their babies to term because their bodies are not yet J. i lllllilifill mmL Mary Moore (gap oafe 03 1 Program paying off CALGARY (CP) A program started four years ago to improve relations between high-school students and police, has paid off, says an officer in charge of the city police youth detail.

The program, involving six city high schools, assigns a police officer to each school to spend his days mixing with students. "It took a while for kids to accept the idea," said Insp. Al Menzies. "They looked at us with a rather jaundiced eye for the first year, but slowly and surely our fellows earned their respect." "Really, there are two approaches you can take in dealing with kids in schools," said Menzies. "An officer can go into the classroom with lecture-type material or you can do what we've opted for here nave a policeman available to communicate with kids whenever they want it." Assistant Police Chief Howard Leary said the program resulted from efforts by police to become more involved with the public.

He said the force once operated as a "paramilitary" operation, working in platoons. Now, police have adopted an approach which has teams of officers remaining In one area. Each team has one man who acts as a crime prevention officer, working in schools, counselling teen-agers and talking about police work and the law. Menzies said students still visit guidance counsellors for help In academic areas but officers have found that they are approached if a child is experiencing such thing as alcoholism in (he home. Despite problems with acceptance of uniforms in similar programs in the United States, the Calgary officers have no inhibitions about wearing duty clothes in the schools.

"They make no bones about who they are and they have no trouble with kids accepting them," Menzies said. In fact, students have begun to aid the Mary Moore, popular food columnist with The Leader-Post and 17 other Canadian daily newspapers, died in a Hamilton, Ont. hospital May 22 after a stroke. It came as a shock to her many faithful readers, many of whom looked on her as a dear friend, though they may never have met her. Her column, in addition to giving down-to- earth recipes, was a collection of folksy, over-the-backy ard fence gossip about her family, her travels, interests and friends.

I had talked with Mary just the previous week and learned of the tremendous response to her Mary Moore Cookbook. She said the response had been overwhelming and "beyond expectations." More than 25,000 orders had been received, 8,000 or more coming from the London, area, and at least 1,000 from Leader-Post readers. She said she was expecting the first copies of the book to arrive from her publishers any time and would begin mailing them out on the basis on which orders had been received. Since, at that time she planned to do this work herself, with the help of her secretary, it was expected it would be some weeks before evervune received the book. At that time, too, she had not yet received the first completed book.

But said she would send a copy as soon as possible. That copy, personally inscribed, arrived Monday, though dated May 19, just three days prior to her death. It is difficult to review a cookbook, which, after all, Is a collection of recipes, divided into sections such as appetizers through candy and confections, plain and fancy casseroles, salads, to sauces. It will take hours to peruse and will be treasured by all who receive it In this case, it is more interesting to read of the book's author, whose first cooking column appeared in the Edmonton Journal 50 years ago. That was Mary Moore's major starting point.

Since March, 1928, a maximum of 25 Canadian daily newspapers subscribed to her column. Some papers were merged, and some sold to chains so that 18 newspapers were subscribing to the column at the time of Mrs. Moore's death. The column had an estimated readership of more than one million. In the foreword, Mrs.

Moore said the recipes offered were, for the most part, from her own table and the tables of her readers. "From my readers, Indeed, came the countless pushes and encouragements to which this book owes its birth, for without them it would not have been written," she said. Mrs. Moore got her start through her sister, Pearl Clark, who was then in the advertising business in Montreal and who asked Mrs. Moore to come up with recipes for green salad, sandwiches and jelly to run with an advertising supplement in The Journal.

From this assignment, Mrs. Moore and her two sisters, Pearl and Doris, formed their own canning company in Hamilton, Ont. Mrs. Moore continued to try to interest newspapers in her food column as well as accepting assignments such as preparing cookbooks for food processing companies. But it was her column which brought her the greatest satisfaction "and the most work." Her readers wrote, "asking for some well-nigh impossible recipes to make in a home kitchen.

But like the U.S. Marines, the improbable I do at once; the impossible takes a little longer," she said. Readers found her column interesting because her recipes were practical and economical, as well as intrigulngly named. Judy Crelghton, Canadian Press family editor who interviewed Mrs. Moore two years ago, found her busy answering, with the help of her secretary, inquiries from readers all across Canada.

These she handled in the spacious office in the basement of her home in Hamilton. Later she talked to her as she tested a recipe in her home kitchen before running it in her column. At the time of the interview Mrs. Moore was 73 and had no thought of slowing down. When asked, she appeared "astonished and almost hurt," Ms.

Crelghton wrote. "I'm not going to retire while I can still walk," Mrs. Moore said at the time. Nor did she ever retire. Death intervened.

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