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Show Fri.'ay. October X World J Polly: On Wc Bv Karen Blaker, Ph.D. DEAR DR. BLAKER I absolutely cannot get my children to pitch in with chores around the house. I come home from work exhausted and try to convince them to help. They object, complain and even cry. Over the years, to tell you the truth, I have found that it actually take less energy just to do everything myself. They are 10 and 12 years old. Shouldn't they be old enough to understand since their father and I were divorced, and I've had to go to DEAR POLLY The work myself, it just isn't like the good other morning as we fix- old days? Why do they keep making my ed breakfast the plastic life so unbearable? bread wrapper touched I imagine that in DEAR READER the hot waffle grill and the "good old days" you did all the melted all over it I did household work instead of punishing not want to scratch the yourself for the changed circumstances grill and did not know however, you need to ask yourself what to do. When it whether or not the "good old days" way cooled my husband pulled was in fact the best approach for raisoff all he could. Then he ing your children. I believe that when put some rubbing alcohol children adapt to doing certain ona damp cloth and rub- household chores, they are preparing bed the grill until it looks themselves for the repetitive, sometimes boring, but necessary tasks good as new. CHARLOTTE of adulthood. Need Security Guarding? - - - - - By Tom Tiede JOHNSON CITY. Texas (NEA) - Lyndon Johnson has been dead for more than five years, but his ranch on the Pedernales is just about the way he left it. The ' high-power- automobiles are here, the deer still seek shade and under the mesquite Secret Service agents peer from suspiciously the windows. Service at home. two-wee- k Subcommittee on Appropriations, which ets the SS budget, say the wages for all agents guarding former first ladies is $600,000 annually, and the total cost of the secur- rarely leaves her Indehome Mo., pendence, 94, anymore, and Mrs. Eisenhower, 82, makes only occasional public appearances. But the enterprising Mrs. Johnson, 66, uses her guards for a wide variety of activities. For example, Mrs. Johnson travels a good deal. And in this regard her agents plan her itinerary as if she were the president herself. Members of Congress say that Mrs. k Johnson took a trip to Greece earlier this year, and she was protected all the while by at least 10 federal two-wee- ity exceeds $2 million. The amount is not much in the overall government budget, or even in the full SS budget, but taxpayers here in Johnson City think it's excessive. Even Mrs. Johnson's longtime acquaintances point out that she's a millionaire several times over, and, as one says it, "If she wants security, she can buy it." The same can be said for Mrs. Eisenhower, actually. She too is a millionaire, with solid investment income. Mrs. Truman is not so wealthy, but she is well to do. Congression- officers. The officers who accompanied Mrs. Johnson to Greece spent public money, naturally, perhaps as much as $30,000. Mrs. Johnson travels first al investigators say she receives a generous $30,000 government pension that could more than cover private normally her guards do too. In addition to air and ground transportation fares, SS agents are given travel allowances and their regular salaries. The Secret Service refuses to discuss the precise amounts spent by Mrs. Johnson's crew. But members of the Senate moreover, members of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee believe the federal protection is unnecessary on its face. Sen. Layton Chiles, says the presidential widows are rarely threatened; at most, he adds, they get crank phone calls or childish and protection. Besides this argument, letters. The Secret Service confirms this view. Agents who have guarded presidential widows say it's the dullest job in law enforcement. Mrs. Eisenhower spends much of her time in bed. Mrs. Truman is a virtual shut-iAgents say they run errands, for the most part, and some feel like "gofers with guns." Except in Mrs. Johnson's case, perhaps. The Secret Service reports she has received threats thought to be significant. The service believes she remains a target because of her husband's unpopular involvement in the Vietnam war. One of her former guards says flatly that "she needs us, absolutely." Mrs. Johnson may even need the security while she's home on the Pedernales. LBJ's birthplace here is still a tourist attraction, and his ranch is part of the tour. More than 200,000 people visit the ranch annually. Friends say Mrs. Johnson would have to stop the tours if the SS were eliminated. In all likelyhood, the tours will not have to be stopped. Congress is presently considering a measure that would cut the protection for presidential widows from lifetime to six months, but Mesdames i NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN celebration of the feminine form in Truman. Eisenhower and Johnson would not be affected: they would be the last to receive security for life. If passed, the new measure would affect only two former first ladies still living: Mrs. Nixon and Mrs. Ford. But the law would be flexible in any case. Mike Hall, of the Senate Subcommittee on Appropriations, says Secret Service agents would be immediately assigned if circumstances warranted. This means a threatened widow could be given guards in case of omens or public abuse. "The greatest worry is kidnapping." says a Secret Service executive. "We'd have to be ready to step in to prevent it. 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A matter-of-fac- t approach is the most helpful. w PROTECTING PRESIDENTIAL WIDOWS currently runs the government about $2 million per year. Lady Bird Johnson (left) recently took a jaunt to Greece with 10 Secret Service agents in tow. Mamie Eisenhower (center) and Bess Truman rarely go out. Agents say they mostly run errands for them. age Surely you wouldn't want them to turn out like a former patient of mine who never had to take responsibilities agents? They remain to protect the late president's wife. Lady Bird, and their presence has provoked increasingly public grumbling all the way to the United States Congress. Critics believe federal protection for the former first lady is an extravagance the nation can't afford. The protection is fully autnorized, of course. The Secret Service provides security lor presidential widows Bess Truman and Mamie Eisenhower as well. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis forfeited the benefit when she remarried. Patricia Nixon and Betty Ford are currently protected along with their husbands. Of the lot, Mrs. Johnsons protection is far and away the most extensive. Mrs. Truman, class, M K DEAR M.K. Put an inch or two ol hot water in the tub and let the soak for quite a time. With a spatula or putty knife loosen one corner and then pull hard and they should come off. Warm vinegar or rubbing alcohol should remove any remaining sticky" substance. POLLY Do White House Widows Secret - Utah-P- Little Yelpers... plastic floral appliques from the bottom of a bathtub'1 Pruvo. They're Mother's Hit - POLLY Can .of the readers tell me what will remove Congressional Critics Ask 1979. THE HERALD. Choices Appliques In Bathtub DEAR you or 19 V |