Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 6

II -Vm w-weUV- -if IM A -1 HZJL I -V Thursday April 23 1992 Abilene Reporter-News Editorial' A NEN STUDY CONCLUDES THAT WOMEN'S ISSUES DO NOT RECEIVE appropriate EXPOSURE IN THE PRESS WijJa ON PAGE C-36 UNDER THE WEATHER MAP OR COME ON MUER1 DOES IT SAY THAT? Heinz is one of a kind CEO earns his millions BDI4 BUM4 NKf'l at fcjl min' '4 HM'' 'IMIAm av 'I omw Things we need ne day after Earth Day is an appropriate time to reflect II upon some of the knicknacks gadgets and oddities that JJL are stacking higher and higher in our lives products of often questionable value -First let it be said that the onward march of technology has favored mankind with many truly useful creations computers -the microwave oven TV remote controls and best of all $umeroua advances in medicine jtL But marketing genius occasionally takes us down pointless paths For example what good are snap caps for tubes of toothpaste? messy gummy and sticky no way to keep them clean True they try to fall down the lavatory drain like the old ones which screwed on But definitely not hygienic Besides who wants their fingers stuck together with toothpaste? supposed to go on the toothbrush-vAnd who came up with the idea to put perfumed ads in fnagazines? For subscribers with breathing disorders such as isthma or hay fever like stepping on a printed booby trap Frequently cussed and with us for years are the plastic food containers for storing leftovers in the refrigerator Their (lumbers seem to grow jamming cabinet drawers and Overrunning the kitchen making you wonder if like (oathangers they multiply on their own Another plastic wonder is the little canisters in which rolls of mm are sold Once the film comes out does anybody have a use for them? Apparently notjudging from the way we litter the landscape with them I The extraneous packaging for compact discs and audio Cassette tapes is another question mark Is all this plastic Oecessary? Merchants say to prevent shoplifting It also helps contribute to the problem in landfills In the meantime science has taken us to the moon and back made us dream about going to Mars and in the Supermarket it has given us sacks of potato chips you can rarely open sealed in high-tech packaging that is light years jeyond cellophane Technology is a wonderful thing although at times a bane as yell as a blessing One thing ip for sure however Applied technology is the only route to solving or seeking to solve Ihe environmental problems of the day Just a second honor men ms obert Mans 46 teaches social Btudies at Athens High School in Athens IMo He is well aware Thomas Edison inventor: Humphrey Bogart actor Vincent Van Gogh painter Langston Hughes poet Remembering Mack chuckle 4 4 it's time we stopped up on Anthony one ofthe ite CEOs become a symbol of the overpaid executive: last year he took home $761 million For what was he 1 automobiles? Airplanes? Computers? Not exactly What Anthony g(A $751 million for was making ketchup the chairman of Heinz-I suppose you could call his salary an outrage You could asktl why we pay our CEOe ten times what they pay in Japan And why1-" whose company is a --lowly 79 on the Fortune 500 should make more than guys who- employ ten times the people and create ten times the profit You could aak such questions But I say the man deserves it Let me explain by comparing Another big money maker was Charles Lazarus who took in million for running Toys Us sure he did a fine job but I -in need Toys Ua You can -buy toys lota of places Then theif was Fred Smith $61 million fo-ia running Federal Express I like (j' Federal fabulous road-y staff but plenty of folks deliver overnight Then Lee Iacocca took in $20 million and T-V admltllikemy good cars out thereAaani exerdae I went through biggest 78 companies and decided Irould live without just about all their products IBM? There are other Exxon? There sother gasoline Kodak? Other film But as God as my witness thernt is only one Heinz ketchup the worst that could happen if General Motors under? Perhape a hardcore national depression Not great but get through it -p The worst that could happen if Heinz went under? Td be a goner I put Heinz on everything: filet -mignon chicken ved briaket Iij'- -dip pasta in it and toast in it If aj 3 waitress ever serves me an omelette without Heinz walk 1 One day I took my wife to the White Horse Tavern ordered lamb chops in the A ng dollars range and then covered them with 1 Heinz I heard that when word gd back to the kitchen they had to wrestle a hari-kari knife from the chefs hands his iblem I want what I want And you dare try to sneak me Hunts which is not real ketchupMk And yes Fll probably now pt a iTi' livid phone ull from the ad guy at my newspaper who handles the Hunts account but I have to tell it ail feel it In my 39 yean j1 never had a bad meal The 7 reason is that even if I hate something I soak it in Heins and know the differerence I In short if Heins went undefi Fd have to check myself into a long-term care facility and stay on heavy sedation for the rest of my life If Anthony O'Reilly demands $85 million this yeu I saypaytheman I I hope none of you takes thia as making light of a serious problem When General Moton pays head guy $3 million for iming the company $4 billion wrong in America When factory wages continue to I -plummet wltdle CEO salaries 1 triple wrong in America time to putlrard rules on this Rule one: tie salary to performance Rule two: only pay huge stock options ifthe stock booms over five or ten -years Rule three: lower a hard ceiling even the best CEO 1 should get no more than a few million or so But then rule four if I I was saddened to learn this iponth of the death of a good AbilenianMackEplen are many citizens of your who have known and loved Mack longer than I but none who bad admired him more than I Hid For many reasons 1: As a young designer my first significant opportunities came from Black when he took me to pee nuyor restaurant and fchfeteria projects in the East then commissioned me to design and oversee the innovative operations he envisioned and Hin Abilene each in the 1950s introduced me to good ensign then to others who gave ie further opportunities based on his personal recommendation When I would thank him his was always that modest I grew to 1 expect and appreciate Some years ago the English philosopher Malcolm Muggeride is quoted as having said know that when I approach The Celestial Gates I will hear sounds of Celestial Music and Celestial It is comforting to me to know that those sounds of heavenly laughter will now include that Mack Eplen chuckle that he bestowed on all the young people he helped and sponsored HARVEY BOUKLAND Atlanta GA Defending Brother Nicholas Elisha Graves Otis inventor of the passenger elevator Charles Lindbergh first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean non-stop solo in an airplane Joe DiMaggio athlete Franklin Delano Roosevelt president ofthe United States who led the nation out of the Depression Frank Lloyd Wright architect Ernest Hemingway author Alexander Graham Bell inventor ofthe telephone Charles Drew surgeon who developed techniques to process and store plasms Pablo Picasso artist Scott Fitzgerald writer Dick Butkus football player sure that if I did some additional research I might be able to come up with even more men who have made contributions to Mam said you see a very good" rgiimont ho matfo tVmt Tnuri 1 truly have played a role in shaping our world and are deserving of a History he being overly modest? Don't the historically important men whose existence he uncovered perhaps merit more than a single second of recognition? he said jay even be worthy of two maTHburaltodtoBivlCMln8 1 mcfailtolimi and that it should he part of any weight-loss and weight-maintenance plan But if diets rarely work and can do more harm than good if weight is in large part beyond normal control for millions of people why she wondered do women the chief targets of such discrimination allow themselves to be made miserable about their appearance? She began to see the questions in the context of mx discrimination and women's liberation And she welcomed reports of anew and growing anti-diet movement intended to free women from such persistent pressure and from chronic self-imposed hunger The national preoccupation with being thin is a cruel and effective way to undermine self-confidence and acceptance she heard other women saying some in new kinds of politicising support groups When she decided ahe would no longer impose such strictures on herself it was as much an act of political liberation as it was a new freedom in bar personal life The result she found was a new kind of self-acceptance a new willingness not to Judge herselfby her scales and her clothes size She does try to eat a healthy balance of food and to exercise She become a member of one of the new anti-dieting support groups she time But die is no longer among the one-third of all American women who are either on a diet or feeling guilty because they that there are special weeks and months devoted to commemorating thehistoric contributions of women and of various ethnic groups all for this He thinka great every time I raise the question of why there is no History Month I get the same tired reply from he said say day is He knows what they mean Men or so it seems are increasingly being criticized for having an unfair advantage in life and for hogging all the rewards the world has to offer 1 know that no winning this he said one will ever declare a History Month So Fd like to suggest a compromise June SO an additional second is going to be added to the year This happens two or three times a decade You can check it I did right According to officials at the US Naval Observatory the master clock of the United States must be adjusted every three yean or so because of slight inconsistencies in the rotation This is done by adding one second to the clock ie one second to the year This year the extra second will be added at precisely 69 seconds after 5:69 pm Central Daylight Time on June 30 propose that this extra 1 She had always been a bit overweight Most of the time it nagged at her like an aching tooth reminding her to -avoid full-length mirrors and clinging clothes warning her away from swimsuits and summer beaches never letting her forget she had a deficiency of character and willpower immediately obvious to everyone she encountered She became over time successful in her job although she realized that with more i self confidence she would have done better She was happy with her children and her husband grateful for their love But the social and cultural pressures to be thin dripped away at her selfesteem dunning into her mind a sense of failure and insecurity Recently however she began to sense the beginning of ehange both in social pressures to diet and in medical understandings of overweight Earlier this month a panel of specialists in obesity convened by the National Institutes of Health concluded that none of the 'V common methods of weight loss under a supervision or not were likely to result in losing weight and keeping it off All but 6 percent to 10 percent of i dieters regained the weight i within five years or less the i i panel reported Other studies put the success rate even lower Such a low incidence of long-term success would brand any other medical treatment a failure and should spur a demand for more scientific research into Bob Greene second be designated aa History Mam said 'Tt can be a national second that will allow men to reflect on their -accomplishments and feel good about Ifthe idea of History Second gains momentum and men all over the world pause for that second in June to ngoice in the MHimpiilnnimfai nfpiffl down through history here are some men whom Mam hopes' will be honored that 1-medal second perhaps we can think of them-he add Jonas Salk developer ofthe polio vacrine Neil Armstrong first parson' to walk on the moon John Philip Sousa composer of Stars and Stripes Lou Gehrig baseball player Dr Martin Luther King Jr civil rights leader Thomas Jefferson president of the United States and founding father of democracy Jackie Robinson baseball player John Steinbeck author Dwight Eisenhower 1 president ofthe United States ynd iiipraimi lymm tiiIot of the Allied invasion of Europe the physiological basis of weight control she thought How unfhir 7 to blame dieters for what was assumed to be a deficiency of willpower and an excess of self-indulgence when the fault may well lie in genetic differences in metabolism or other unrecognised factors She began to look for such evidences herself What she found is that the link between calorie consumption and weight is not necessarily as dearcut as generally assumed and preached For example studiei suggest that dieting can change metabolism in ways that slow the burning of calories and increase the storage of perhaps an evolutionary coping mechanism that allowed human ancestors to survive during famines She found other studies that report that fat people usually eat' about the same amount as thin people but that apparently genetic differences account for how much is stored aa fat Obese people who do lose weight and stay at a level may show physical signs of anorexia and starvation Her reading did convince her that increased exerdae can be another factor in regulating body As one of the people who has treasured one of Brother black and white photos for many years may I say that I never considered it as a method jf selling me to a family I always considered it more of a aper back to a different time Copies ofthe picture were given to me to my sister my brother and to those we left tyehind 2 1 hi ghly resent (as I feel others in this area who were placed in lovely Christian homes with onderful parents certainly do) the implication that the kindly old gentleman who kept us from garving was some kind of evil charlatan who stole away children I feel that both your gaper and owe an apology to the memory of this caring person hope that the children of Brother Nicholas in this area A Shelton Frank Puckett VNThi ktdvviqoqm -L- upNiy niigMi BM Whitaker Beta Bruce Abilene PubNthef' Editor Managing EdKor Associate Editor Political Editor will Join me in demanding that the memory of Brother Nicholas be restored the respect it so richly deserves Let me assure Barney Dewey that someone signed thepapers for him to be placed in a home He probably would be truly surprised if he knew who I know I was! ANNIE PARKER WEEMS Rotan NOTE: Ms letter refers to a recent account on "Unsolved Mysteries" and a newspaper story by Deborah Crowe The accounts concerned Barney Dewey and fus long-lost sister Angelina who reportedly learned that more than 50 years earlier been taken from their mother in Haskell without her consent and by different West Texas families Daily Meditation Dr BM Braelor First Baptist Church this Urns they had reached the wBsfle to which Stay wars going and he made as to continue ns Journey Kit they prsaasd I hjmr Stay with us lor evening draws on and the dayk tomo over' Bo ha want In to stay with Sot And when he had eat doaw with them at the table ha took bread and aaidttia Meaatog ha broke the bread and offend to them Than Stair ayea won opened and Stay retag-mod him and ha vanlahod from thwr sight They said to one another DM we not Joel our hearts on Are ea he talked with uo on tha road nid expUnod the acripturaa to ueT Luka (NEB) Mhor giva us the dbdpHnt to wtooratand the 8crtpturss and glvo us the warmth of yoi love with understanding Amen Reporter-News I ilS 1 A 'tp A Harte-Hanks Newspaper tVJL! without I don't care what you pay them Which brings up Coca-Cola chairman Roberto Goisueta who without a Coke do it I need neeif a Coke with my turkey sandwich.