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Newspapers Dear Abby By Abigail Van Buren Generation Gap ty here. CORDIALLY, MARK Hasn't Reached EVANS, Ph.D. calories of food per day the should have to established minimum for good health. If every person in the WAS world were to have the State minimum, it would take twice. Friday the amount of food now, held produced i in the world.

And. of a there is an excess of births Hanoi over deaths of 100,000 per day, And demographers say. Something cials is bound to happen in the 21st ed so century. that 1 ti at the Hopkins Journal They say Nixon' it takes money to make money. Bra The government takes plenty.

I State wonder why they never make Chark any. Unite to sen ficials Albany Ledger St. Pat's not SC day is coming next month, one The of our favorite observances. Frida: The Irish, being a no-nonsense Japan breed, wouldn't mind if from Congress moved the obser- vance Monday, like so month many other holidays. It would Bra just give them two holidays in the same week that would' Japan justify lifting a glass.

ment Mong Grant City Times- Tribune paper Women have won more and more political privileges, but we still do not hear it said that U. any American girl may hope to grow president. up to be elected Pa have feathers, but we think it's Pattonsburg Call We don't TI a pretty stupied robin that would return to this area PAl before May 15. States Vietn dark Troy Chief Our athletes Comn are competing in another they winter olympics, and with the The same problems and Viet frustrations that have plagued day's them since the events were bomb resumed after World War IL. they While almost every other coun- sume try that participates in the games finds some way 1 to sub- side sidize the athletes, we still their don't send our best or provide plena adequate financing for those Marc who do compete.

This is a sad gar, admission for the richest counman. try on earth and somewhat them puzzeling to the other nations when around the globe. sion next Atchison Globe It is Bel always necessary to put medicine in something sweet" quest side to get a boy to take it, but a girl confe will take it cheerfully if she is told it will be good for her prese The complexion. nist meet Fairfax Forum Wonder if and Washington, the fellow who negol could not tell a lje, would ap- The prove of having his birthday it cle shuttled all over the calendar a re just so a few workmen could confe enjoy a three day holiday. sever the DEAR MARK: You seem unbelievably well-adjusted.

Now, if there are any Freudians out there (frustrated or otherwise) who suspect that you have a problem, I hope they will write in and tell us both what it is. DEAR ABBY: I wrote to you 10 years ago for advice on what to do about a. man I had been going with for 20 years. I was married and so was he, but we carried on a real love affair all that time. Well, he solved my for me when his wife left him.

He got a divorce and took up. with a young girl he hardly. knew, and he married her. I thought I would die when he dropped me for her, but now I realize that he did me the greatest favor in the world. I can now appreciate what a jewel my husband is.

He is ready to rettre, and I pray God: will give me many years to make up to him for all the heartache 1 put him through. Please tell women that it doesh't pay to be the other woman. I learned the hard way. Thank you. WINSTON SALEM DEAR W.

That's what I've been saying for 15. years. But if I had told you that 10 years ago, would you have listened? What's your problem? You'll feel better if you get it off your chest. Write to ABBY, Box 69700, Los Angeles, Cal. 90069.

For a personal reply enclose stamped, addressed envelope. 'Hate to write letters? Send $1 to Abby, Box 69700, Los Angeles, Cal. 90069, for Abby's booklet, "How to Write Letters for All Occasions." Stretching the Dollar "Everywhere we hear that dollar doesh't go very far these days. Well, actually, it does. It goes to Vietnam, Formosa, Pakistan, South America, the Philippines and outer space." -Tabor BeaconEnterprise ST.

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$23.40 per year News-Press, Daily and Sunday -Gazette, Daily per year (Other subscription rates available upon request) The child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him. -Luke 2:40. Nature has provided us with the powers of physical growth if we are given a balanced diet. When our spiritual diet has an imblance. we cease to grow in God's likeness.

The Downfall of Chivalry The late Sen. Everett McKinley Dirksen once arrived a little late to address a women's group. He set things right with his opening sentence: "Girls, I'm a little breathless this morning-who wouldn't be with all this loveliness and all this grace." Such a line definitely would not do in 1972. In fact, Richard Reeves reports in New York magazine that President Nixon has a stack of memos on how to talk to and about women in, the upcoming political campaign. One of them reads: "Don't use the pejorative compliment, 'I was noticing how beautiful the women look here Do approach women as And a politician who dared refer to any female over the age of 16 as a "girl" would risk a lecture from Germaine Greer.

The woman thing seems to call for a whole different set of responses among politicians and ordinary citizens alike. For example, David Satter speculates in the Los Angeles Times about what might happen aboard the Titanic in 1972. Children would continue to get first place in the lifeboats, but women would consider preferential treatment mere condescension. In the ensuing rush for the available places, it would be survival of the physically strongest. Repealing chivalry is especially traumatic for gentlemen of the old school.

To take off a hat in an elevator with a women's lib type is to court a karate blow. A gentleman ought to walk to the outside when accompanying a lady, but that gesture can mark him indelibly as a male chauvinist. In an age of role reversal, the weak have become strong, and the strong the weak. Ev Dirksen made it out just in time, leaving the rest of male-kind to manage as best it could under difficult circumstances. Stem Drug Flow The heart of the drug problem in any community is that group of individuals who offer drugs for sale and who promote their use.

Without a source of supply, many youthful users of illegal drugs would not try drugs in the first place and certainly would have but little opportunity to obtain more drugs needed to form a habit. For that reason it is well worth a try to cooperate with police in providing information concerning drug pushers. Such names, furnished to police officials, could be of major importance in breaking up drug operations in St. Joseph and the immediate area. From time to time a number of persons have had reason to believe that certain individuals are dealing in drugs.

During the forthcoming Turn in a Pusher month observance i in March--and during the entire year as far as that goes--citizens should co-operate with law enforcement officials by providing police with the names and other information concerning the supposed pushers. Providing such information is not merely a step in punishing a person who is breaking a law, it is a step toward saving youths from being subjected to the temptation of acquiring a dangerous habit and a step toward improving the entire community by ridding it of a drug problem. They've had so many vice raids in Kansas recently that the record of Carrie Nation is in danger. One family which has had a number of its members in jail has its own special cake recipe. It starts out with: Take three cups of flour, two hacksaws, a pinch of baking powder The President in China By RALPH de TOLEDANO There has been consternation in certain of the more politicalized quarters of Washington over the news from Peking.

For Mr. Nixon has comported himself with dignity and sober good sense, as befits a President of the United States. And the Chinese leadership has played into his hands by the eagerness with which it has played its hand. Despite propagandistic rhetoric to the contrary, Premier is the suitor in this first encounter, a precious fact which Mr. Nixon is not likely to overlook or underestimate.

That the general reaction, even from veteran anti-Nixonites, has been one of general approval, sometimes bordering on real admiration, puts his opponents of the Left and the Right in a bad predicament. The reaction to the ill-timed and remarks of Representative Paul (Pete) McCloskey, "Republican" claimant of the Presidential nomination, even before Mr. Nixon had filled his lungs with Peking air, is an index of the opposition's situation. For at, a time when millions of Americans are seeing the events in China live, ba is not only in poor taste but nowhere politics. In a few weeks, the Democratic Presidential candidates and large segments of the media will be rewriting history to make the President look bad.

But now all they can do is bite their nails and hope that the impression Mr. Nixon is making will not be indelible. Any McCloskeystyle carping will open them to the charge of attempting to sabotage a process which is significantly conditioning the world's future. Those on the Right, convinced that the Peking trip is one more indication of a "leftward drift" in the Nixon Administration, are less inhibited. They have taken a flat stand that nothing good can come of the President's dramatic gesture.

The Left, on the contrary, is forced to praise the act while belittling the mo motive. That great section of the citizenry which comprises Middle America is not so blind or so silly as to be fooled by what the gaggle of senators seeking the Presidency may say or why they say it. On an issue so important and so far-reaching as renewed relations with Communit China whether de jure or de facto the public will use its own judgment in assessing the success or failure of Mr. Nixon's mission as the results unfold over the next. months.

Attacks on the President by the Democrats, "Pete" McCloskey, or Representative John Ashbrook as he seeks to assume leadership of America's, conservatives, will all have a political ring. And charges that the President went to China merely to gain political advantage or to monopolize the media are not likely to dispel the impact of his trip. The voters know that anything a President does, right down to petting his dog, has political overtones. That is the nature of the Presidency, particularly in these times of mass press and TV. coverage of the White House.

The charge that Mr. Nixon is unduly projecting himself into the news, moreover comes with little grace and less logic from those who belabor him repeatedly for not holding more press conferences. The President's posture in Peking will tend to defuse the emotional bomb of the China Even observers like myself, who have warned over the years of Communist duplicity, must withhold judgment on the President's diplomatic incursion. Whatever our views, we have been forced to accept mainland China as a fact of international life. For Mr.

Nixon, there were two alternatives, if logic is to be respected. Mr. Nixon took one course the normalization of relations with the Communists in Peking. The only other course, let's face it, would have been to bite the nail and press for the destruction of the Communist regime. And this, of course, would have played into the hands of the Soviet Union as well.

The test will be in how astutely the President balances Peking's obvious desire for tacit support from the United States in its resistance to Soviet aggression diplomatic now in a war of military nerves, possibly overt in the near future against America's national interest and those of our Pacific allies. This 1s a complex problem with which the Muskies, the McGoverns, the Humphreys, inter alia, do not have to wrestle. But Mr. Nixon will have to make decisions, some of them involving matters of considerable subtlety that cannot be translated into headlines. Let the critics consider this.

(National News- Research Syndicate) The Lighter Side of Life A man walked into the office of the registrar of births and deaths to declare the birth of a son. "And what is the child's Christian the clerk inquired. "Xqngryz," replied the father. "Ah, 1 you're Polish?" the clerk asked. "No, I'm an There are four dimensions to most things we buy these days: Length, width, height, and debt.

The problem with most motel room walls is that they are too thick when you are trying to listen and too thin when you are trying to sleep. One definition of high fidelity: The fellow who comes home always drunk, but every night. One of the best ways to teach children the value of money is to borrow some from them. A business executive, striving to overlook the ineptness of his lovely new secretary, called the young lady into his office. "Miss Welch, your latest letter shows you're improving.

1 I've counted only six mistakes." As the girl started to express her relief, the boss added wearily, "Now, why don't we have a look at the second sentence?" A talented but indigent sculptor was asked to contribute $500 to a community building fund. Unable to dig up- the cash, he presented the committee with a marble statue equivalent to the requested sum. Some time later, he was approached again and told that the committee was still $800 away 'Another Spin-Off From Moon CAME EDWIN ARMSTRONG PEACE Jim Bishop: Reporter Twenty years ago awakened with my chest "asleep." It tingled. I sat up and looked at the clock on the night table. Five a.m.

I lit a cigarette and rubbed the chest. The tingle remained. Half asleep, I was surprised to find that I could inhale only shallow breaths. I phoned Dr. Bernard Krull.

"This is probably nothing and I apologize for waking you up, Bernie, but In 15 minutes he and the volunteer ambulance corps were at the house, my wife and 1 children were awake, crying, and I was on my way to Holy Name Hospital. End of story. The beginning and end are as swift as the snap of fingers. Dr. Krull was wise.

He treated the case as though it were the worst type of heart attack--a myocardial infarction--and, fortunately, it proved to be the least simple decompensation. It did not happen again. And yet, when God paroled me out of that hospital bed, I decided to maintain an interest in the human heart. The first thing I learned was that the 10-ounce pump cannot be isolated for study without considering the condition of all the arteries and veins in addition to the efficiency of the lungs. This is encompassed by a single word; Cardiovascular.

Translated, it is the feeding and garbage disposal system for every one of the billions of cells in the human body. It. carries flod; it hauls refuse: away. The greatest advance in cardiovascular studies, in my estimation, is not in the area of the dramatic hearttransplants, but in the field of preventive medicine. Look at it this way: One per cent of all Americans will die this year.

This comes to a little over two million persons of all ages expiring from a variety of causes. Of these, 1,098,300 (54 per cent) will die from cardiovascular disease. There is nothing sudden about CVD. The human heart and arteries absorb a lot of abuse, usually over a period of years, before an artery is plugged by a clot, or the heart stutters and fails. When a patient dies of a heart attack, the next of kin the hospital.

The odds. are usually says: "'He was never poor. The American Heart sick a day of his life." To the Association, which asked me contrary, the inner lining of his to write this article, does not arteries had been thickening want healthy people to become for years as deposits of fat overly heart-conscious. The diminished the size of the tube cardiac cripple is almost as to a point where blood could bad as the fat wheezing man barely squeeze through. who never a bothers about his I don't know of anyone over heart and says, "I'm 30 who hasn't some form of Dr.

Edwin Boyle, Director of arteriosclerosis. That's a doc- Research at the Miami Heart tor's word meaning hardening Institute, is the most articulate of the arteries. It is part of the man on the subject. His life aging process. The only judge work is to prevent heart atof whether you are piling up tacks, strokes, congestive too much fat inside those heart failure and to curb arteries is your family physic- hypertension.

He knows that ian. He can undertake simple the calendar age of most peotests for cholesterol and ple has little meaning. The triglycerides, in addition to cardiovascular age is the true taking an electrocardiogram determinant. There are old and listening to your heart men at age 35, and young ones relaxed and under stress. at 75.

If he says that your plumbing It is an irony of our times system is operating under that if the family car stalls at "normal tolerance," take your red lights, we take it to the wife out and have a happy service station for a checkup. blast. If not, then follow his If the heart falters, emitting counsel to cut down on fatty lightning flashes chest pain, substances, smoking, and we call it "indigestion" and count yourself lucky that you pop a few antacid pills in our are now in a position to mouths. The obvious conPREVENT a heart attack. clusion is that we cannot do without the car, but we can Either way, you're for- dispense with the heart.

tunate. When a heart attack Have a heart. Be good to occurs, two out of three yourself patients die before they reach (King Features Syndicate) Agnew's Joke Unappreciated (Omaha World-Herald) A good of the things Spiro Agnew has said have been twisted or misquoted by his critics and used against him unfairly. But the other night in French Lick, Agnew said something in a speech that was completely uncalled for and beneath the dignity of his office. Speaking of Rep.

Paul N. McCloskey, who is. challenging President Nixon for the 1972 nomination, Agnew cracked that McCloskey is going so broke running for the presidency that he is auctioning off his favorite painting Arnold, Crossing the Delaware." In most minds, Benedict Arnold is synonymous with traitor. Perhaps Agnew meant. that McCloskey was a traitor to his party for opposing the Turning Back the Pages 40 YEARS AGO, Feb.

26, 1932-The 4th district congressional committee of the Republican party will choose two candidates to the Republican National Convention at a meeting Tuesday A possibility that Governor Caulfield may call a special session of the Missouri legislature to pass a Congressional redistricting bill appeared today B. Howe, pioneer Atchison, resident and younger brother of Ed Howe, -noted editor, died today Miss Annie Laurie Thornton and John H. Doan, both of St. Joseph, were married last night in the study of First Baptist Church. 25 YEARS AGO, Feb.

26, 1947-The weather is expected to remain cold tonight and tomorrow with a low tonight of 17. State officials were here today to confer with Mayor H. D. Allison before inspecting St. Joseph nursing homes Miss Beulah Cole, a deputy circuit clerk, has returned to duty after an absence due to illness Francis Smith, former state senator, has been appointed by the State Supreme Court to the bar committee of the 6th judicial district, which comprises St.

Joseph and Buchanan county. 15 YEARS AGO, Feb. 26, 1957-The annual report of the city traffic department shows 759 new traffic signs were erected last year and 1452 were replaced Average gas refund checks of $7.70 were expected to be received by domestic users within 2 week; it was said today. Henry A. Bundschu today submitted his resignation as federal referee in bankruptcy for the western district of Missouri: The two pumps operating on wells at Lake Contrary are raising the lake level about one inch eyery 24 hours.

From Area Altamont Times The worst thing about retirement is that you have to drink coffee on your own time. Highland Vidette Everyone has something he can do better than anyone else, even if it's just reading his own handwriting. Gallatin North Missourian Being acquainted with the source of questionable material Life magazine has printed in the past we're really not surprised they'd try to do business with a guy like Irving. But how in the world did a fine company like McGraw-Hill get sucked in on such a snow job? King City Tri-County News FOR CAME President. But the remark could be taken to mean that Agnew thinks McCloskey is treasonous because he is a dove on Vietnam.

This is a sore point in this country, because the allegation often has been too loosely made that those who oppose the war are unpatriotic. The vice-president should have known better than to have made such a crude joke. PEOPLE'S FORUM RECOGNITION FOR Editor, News-Press: The 1st of March is approaching which is St. David's day, the national day of Wales. I have noticed at different times Welsh names in both St.

Joseph's papers, people of those names perhaps being descendants of Welsh ancestry. Being one of those myself, I wondered if it were possible for the radio stations to give a brief narration of Wales and playing some Welsh records of oid Welsh songs. I know there are such but I doubt if you would have them. There may be someone you know having Welsh connections, perhaps possible but not probable. I realize time is short.

Even a few days late I would appreciate a little something about the Welsh nation and Wales. In the past there has been culture there, music, literature and other forms. Whether or not this request will materialize I can at least thank you for reading this. I realize I should have tried to contact radio stations but not being familiar with the letter calls, I thought perhaps through the newspaper medium I might reach a radio station. -Emma Williams Stevenson Gladrest Farms, Worth, Mo.

The best way to break up an unruly crowd is to have someone announce they are taking up a collection. Plattsburg Leader Action continues in Jefferson City in the halls of legislation. The House killed the bill that would have permitted unlimited legislator expenses and approximately 100 more legislative secretaries. We congratulate those representatives who voted against it. It shows that the majority of our representatives realized that this is not the time for such action.

PErF Hiawatha World -Winter is the time when women can use cold weather as an alibi to get new clothing to keep from freezing. Edgerton Citizen Remember when a good movie was one with a happy ending? Savannah Reporter We were reading our January issue of the Purple Martin Capital News from Griggsville, and we find the first Purple Martin scouts have been reported sighted in the Gulf states Jan. 8 in Florida and Jan. 14 in Texas. We wouldn't advise anyone to get eager and prepare their Martin houses for the first arrivals because the scouts aren't due in these parts until the last of March.

Smithville Democrat-Herald Little did St. Valentine realize he was starting something that was to grow into a five and one quarter million dollar business in 1972. Maryville Forum Farming has always been a challenge. And in the next cen-. tury it may even be more.

Health officials say that every This family DEAR ABBY: With mixed emotions, amusement and annoyance, I read the letter from the mother who was concerned because her eighth grade son insisted on kissing her goodby every morning. As a small boy, who kissed his parents and grandparents regularly, I had to contend with counselors and a school principal (who hated children) who found me frustrating. As a child with a formidable record of academic achievement, I had many friends. Why were the pseudopsychologists unhappy? Because my classmates elected me captain of the softball team as well as class president. Everyone knows "gifted" children have social problems, and if they don't, they'd better develop some or some courses in child psychology will be phased out of existence.

Today, I -still kiss both parents regularly. As a young Ph.D., still single, Alike living at home as part of a closely knit family. I constantly encounter persons who declare, in dismay, "'When are you going to move out and lead your own life?" They are especially upset, in this age of hippies, yippies and malcontents, that I share my parents' sense of values. After all, what respectable young man today gets along well with his parents? Unfortunately, some parents seem intent on invoking the dubious principles of reverse psychology: They applaud wildly as Johnny "expresses" himself by telling Mom and Dad to jump out the nearest window, but they worry if he displays even minimal affection for parents, who, in many instances, have devoted a large part of their lives to him. If you are acquainted with any frustrated Freudians, please suggest that they try to solve their own problems before inventing neuroses for the rest of us, in order to satisfy their own preconceived misconceptions of the generation gap.

No need for anonymi- woul Th the meet daycel Ame have past. a Us Sa SA form who juan "wr for Jo uty of Dru that noth on Fi two drus Cali mal gra: tice from its goal. "Don't worry about it," replied the artist, "In the past few months that statue I gave you doubled in "I'm supposed to tell you there will be a small Parent-Teachers meeting tomorrow night," explained the boy to his father. "Well, if it's a small one, do I have to go?" asked the father. "Oh, yes," replied the son.

"It's just you; me, the teacher and the principal." It was Saturday and 6-year-old Barry had just seen his first football game. That night, when he said his prayers, he prayed fervently: bless Mama; God bless Daddy; God bless Ruthie; Yea, team!" If you'd take the advice of the experts, the best way to stay healthy is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like and do what you'd rather not. Eight-year-old Danny asked his father what the word "extinct" meant. "Well," replied Dad after a moment's thought, "suppose that all of life on earth was wiped out, then you could say that the human race was extinct." Danny pondered this explanation for a while, then queried, "But who would you say it to?" Guide: "Sorry, sir, but I don't guide deer hunters any more. I just go with fishermen." Sportsman: "What's the reason Guide: "Because so far, I haven't been, mistaken for a fish." vati Fin fort job.

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