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Show gl1' r4r 0 y 1 The Salt Lake Tribune. Sunday, September 2, Word to Wi?e Time to Live: First Commandment Is fBe Patient NEA Needs By Bob Walton Be Patient Better President The above is the first of 10 commandments laid down by Olive Richards Tardiff in her , new paper- Amencan education needs more ene lies these days the way Custer needed more Indi- ans. This is d why I . clear to tired my fragile foundations book own new Her Dr Her comments have about as much chance of winning fnends and influencing people as I hae of being elected to the College of Cardinals. I remember in 1968 when we led a demonstration of 20,000 teachers to the steps of the state capitol m Hamsburg she reminisced proudly. That was a few years after she really blasted her local school board for failing to s Mrs W. grant the deemed necessary. He- - announced program as NEA prexy? Dont flinch, folks: 1 To get the presidential candidates in 1976 to seek NEA endorsement, in return for which she will pick one to support. Che promises to cam- paign vigorously to put a friend of education- - in the White House. ... pay-raise- - - ' The Realities T , (Note: Change that to read fnends "f the NEA and you d be considerably closer to the stern realities of the situation.) 2. To pressure Congress into , ; passmg a collective-bargainin- g bill for public employes, pre- sumably so everybody from ! teachers to firemen can go ; out on strike any time they feel like it, with consequences which are best left to the imagination. 3. To get the federal govern-men- t to finance of the total cost of Amencan one-thir- d r public education. That shouldnt cost affluent old Uncle Sam much mere than 1 $50 billion a year. Im going to stop here, fnends, because my goal in this column is not to make you hate the education estab- lishment more than you do already. Instead, Im trying to convince my fellow teachers " that this kind of logorrhea spread all over the country in .. the pages of a popular is precisely what turns . people off on us educators by the millions. We may as well cut our professional throats with a dull knife. Bit of a Shock? ' publi-catio- n This may come as a shock to you, Mrs. Wise, but the overwhelming majority of par--I ents, voters and taxpayers dont approve of teachers who demonstrate; dont want you . blasting their elected school , boards; dont believe Presidents of the United States - should be elected on the basis . of their friendship" with var--t lous groups and organizations. And dont think that firemen, policemen and school teachers should be going out on strike, and dont agree at all. that the federal government should be either interfer-.- . ing with or paying for local 1 school operations. Now inasmuch as the whole future of public education depends upon our ability to gain popular support for our legitimate requests, what in l blue blazes were you thinking Madame President, about, when you came up with a platform which couldnt have been more carefully calculated to turn everybody sour on the public schools if it had been written by the president of the Private Schools Assn.? Have Some Regard If you really believe this guff, you should at least have had enough regard for the teachrest of us ers not to slap the Amencan people smack m the chops with "platforms and reminwhich make them iscences jee stoplight red at the expense of all teachers every- where. lrd-workin- g What we need so badly is an ' NEA president who will talk - to reporters about teaching children to read properly, spell correctly, learn the mul- ' tiphcation tables and wnte a page of English prose without gross errors in punctuation, : sentence structure and simple grammar. If yea had just done that, Mrs. Wise, instead of what you actually did, we teachers would have been gratefully in your debt. i 4 other commandments are just as simply stated Each will be quickly understood by couples whe have ended their active bves and are spending more or less all cf iheir time together Adjustment Painful To the first commandment she added a line. Adjustment is as painful for your husband as for you. The others are: Dont complain. Dont nag. Theras time tomorrow for what cant be 2. 3. done today. 4. Be flexible. Dont criticize. Criticism erodes love. 5. 6. Set goals together. 7. Try new things. As one door closes, another opens 8. Dont worry. 9. Be contented living pamphlet from your Social Security office on Medicare ar.d Skilled Facilities Nursing When Congress wrote the Social Security bill, it did little to provide for the cost of rest or nursing home expenses, with the result that most of the burden falls on the family Assignment to such facilities is usually preceded by at least three days in a hospital and then is limited to a few weeks In instances many only patients are forced to apply to welfare to meet expenses (Having trouble managing to make ends meet m retire- - ment Send 50c and a long self .ddressed stamped envelope for a copy of my bulletin on retirement budgets to Bob Walton, How to Prepare a Retirement and Budget Save Money. 2210 W 75th St , Prairie Suite 305, lllage, Kan 66208 ) has little The joy of to do with money and possessions. 10. Have fun. Tough to Learn She sums it all up with an observation so many senior citizens have yet to learn: Retirement can be the time of your lives. The book is written around the lives of three couples, Esther and Dick Duffy, Joan and Ted Kruger and Ida and Bill Laplante, each with different problems and life styles. The Duffys are childless and have hved their bves for each other. They sold their home and moved to a mobile home and are putting to good use the hobbies they developed over the years. Esther is quoted as saying retirement is the best thing that ever happened to us. although sheriffs reports say no suspects or vehicles were the mixer, worth at $534 of estimates TS in seen in the area at the time of the theft Allan Carlson, owner mu Everything For The Builder SALT LAKE Cmr-CG- DEH its SUGAR HOUSE : cottchwood asail GcurmnjL tmxi 'TIL 5 P.f.1 dont go along with the old ideas that a man should be king in his own home, he is quoted as saying, but I do object to Jean thinking of it as her own private baihwick. Why should men have to do all the adjusting in retirement? 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He is dirty He swarms and scuds about. with hundreds of his brothers and sisters through kitchens and baths. 2.99-$3.9- 9 SAL expen- sive. A. You should Reg. W11 but she does list retirement activities, breaking them into free or low cost and those Bui Theyre Gean By low, low Prfcos! So-th- I Clings to Golf With the Krugers it is a difIt could give you a better ferent story. Ted resented retirement and clings to golf as understanding of your own his only outlet, refusing sug- situation and is certain to be gestions from his wife to develop other skills with his hands. A lack of money keeps them from traveling, and even short trips are out if they interfere with his golf schedule. all that keeps Apparently them together is a mutual feeling of affection and a common sense of humor. the The third couple, Laplantes, had worked long and hard together operating their small restaurant. Then Silver- Kills germs by millions on contact. For general oral hygiene, bad breath, colds and sore throats. Stock up, save gold-colore- d no-gfa- glass. 5x7,8x 1 0". 11x1 4". Also 34x5" double frames. lutions, virtually indestructible. But to Alice Gray, an insect speciabst with the American Museum of Natural History, roaches are clean, graceful and catlike, worthy of our respect and admiration. and necessary to the ecological balance. They are not villainous at all " Miss Gray, a bug scient'st at the and possessor of decided opinions about what she called our prejudices about Friday as she presided over installation it of ihe month, roaches are here to tinue untd Sept 30 museum for 35 roaches are to be i.dmired, Miss Gray said, "for their and tlier adaptation. Roaches are at least 300 million beauty years old, from the coal age, and remain unchanged from that time. Miss Gray They are incompletely metamorphosed. said, and have displayed a historical abibty to survive. Despite their endurance however, few cultures accord them reverence she said, with the exceptions being India and Polynesia where jewelry and ornaments devoted to the roach exist Roaches, despite their histoncal existence in Egyptian culture and beyond, their predating of the dinosaur and their significance in 20th century urban life are not intelligent, Miss Gray said. "They are wonderfully programmed You stimulate them and they respond. It is thus easy to maneuver them into destruction, she added (Copyright) 3or own crush stretch paifi hose f:t almost everybody years, cockroaches, talked of that beautiful insect of the museum's exhibstay, which will con- All v" 3 DOYniTCVXtJ Two of the husbands regret their wives are not better informed on financial affairs and ..re determined to do something about it to prepare them in the event the women survive them Both are findmg it an uphill battle as the wives are content with the way things are Ted Kruger has a different outlook. Sit down and make a list of the pros and cons with your husband, and try to reach the final decision fairly," she wntes. "If you decide to go on working, be prepared to change your mind if too many problems creep up at home Mrs. Tardiff has one word of caution for the working if you continue to wife: work, be sure your earnings go into the common fund, she writes. She also points out as long as you work there can be no extended trips to warmer climates. 1 t LUMBER At concrete mixer disap, peared at 34rt E 7290 Wives Content those of other couples to whom ahe talked Raf,erty president. Mrs. Helen Dickerson Wise sume full responsibility Both she was overwork ad and he spent his days from noon to midnight watching television themselves They rescued when one day on a short dnve they found a lakeside cottage for sale md bought it on the spot. 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