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NEW $2 BILL

OTTAWA (CP) — Little
robin redbreast is in the
centre of a $2 flap.

Ornithologists say the
technically accurate name of
the birds which grace the
backs of the new Canadian $2
bill is American Robin, or
Merle d’Amerique in French.

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CLEAN
COTTON RAGS

itor eres

Sinclair Robinson, head of
the French department at
Carleton University is some-
what ruffled, saying rouge-

‘ge — red throat — is the
accepted French-Canadian
name. French-English and
French-language dictionaries
back him up.

It's an example of the
tendency “to adopt the tech
nical term rather than the
common term when referring
to an object in French,”
Robinson says.

Further, he says, Merle

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Big cats
MONTREAL (CP) — The
new prized possession for
status-seekers are baby
tigers, cougars or lions and
provincial wildlife authorities
are warning that owners may
soon have their hands full.
Authorities are concerned
by an increase in inquiries
about ownership of big cats.
They say there's a growing
illicit trade in young wildcats,

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Robin centre of flap

d'Amerique translated to
English becomes American
Thrush.

The quest for technical
perfection wasn't as
thorough with the bird's
English name, however.

Michel Gosselin of the
National Museum's ornitho-
logical service, said his sec
tion recommended The Bank
of Canada use American
Robin. That was apparently
rejected as too long and the
bird is simply Robin on the
new bill.

popular

which fetch between $1,500
and $3,000 and require a
special ownership permit.

It's not just a question of
biting off more than you can
chew. Your young cat may
grow into something that
chews more than you can
buy.

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TORONTO (CP) — A magazine cartoon shows a
mother bragging that her daughter is a busy executive,
with a big salary and office and children of her own. But,
the mother adds woefully, “her kitchen floor is dirty.”

Social worker Hilary Freeman cites that cartoon
when asked whether she thinks working women feel they
get support from their parents, specifically their
mothers.

“I think a lot of women are getting negative
messages not only from their mothers, but also from their
in-laws,” says Freeman, who has worked as an employee
adviser with such firms as the Toronto Transit Com.
mission, Xerox Canada and Woods Gordon management
consultants.

Many of today’s working women were brought up by
traditional, stay-at- home mothers and they are made
aware they don't measure up to their mothers’ standards:
they don't spend as much time with their children and
they don't keep house as well or take hours preparing
dinner.

That knowledge adds to their already big supply of
guilty and sense of inadequacy, says Freeman, who is
herself a working mother and regularly runs workshops
for working women and couples.

SKIP ‘SHOULDS'

Freeman says she tells such women “Forget what
you mother would do.” Women cannot live by “the
‘shoulds' — either from their parents or society

“You have to learn to do what is right for you.”

For example, buy all your groceries at the super
market to save time. Forget that your mother said you
get better quality at a butcher shop or a fruit market

“The fruit might not be as good at the supermarket
but you don't live by your mother's standards.”

For years now, the media have been warning women
about the pitfalls of the superwoman syndrome — in
which women feel they must be great at everything they
do: as an employee, mother, cook, wife, housekeeper,
lover.

CAN'T DO ALL

Freeman doesn’t think women are yet heeding the
message that “you can’t do it all.” As a result, they are
left juggling their many responsibilities and begin to feel

Helpful hints for
the working woman

“that nothing is being done properly.”

Through her workshops, she has become optimistic
that men are slowly providing more encouragement to
their working wives and accepting that they must help
more at home.

But she says many women are still putting too much
pressure on themselves by insisting on perfection. That's
part of the reason many have difficulty delegating
responsibility at home and at work

“Your 10-year-old can clean the kitchen sink and so
can your husband. It might not be done as well as you
would do it, but at least it will be done.”

TIME FOR SELF

Women also have to stop believing that others’ needs
aré always more important than their own. At the
beginning of every week, Freeman says, it's a good idea
for a woman to set aside a block of time in her datebook
for herself — and keep to it as faithfully as she would any
ather appointment.

As well, a working-mother must try to set aside a
specific time to be with her husband. If anything is going
to give under pressure “often it is the marriage.”

Again, a woman must accept that she can't do
everything her mother might have done and accept that
she may need hired help: if finances permit, it could be a
cleaning woman or even simply paying a neighborhood
teenager to run errands or help clean for a few hours a
week.

Use labor-saving devices like grocery stores that
deliver. Freeman also says women should scout around
and find a doctor, dentist and repairmen who work
beyond the normal 5 p.m. quitting time.

In Toronto, she says there are walk-in medical and
dental clinics. She adds she personally only uses service-
men who guarantee what time they will arrive — not
companies that only tell you the day they will be at your
home.

Finally, Freeman says parents should set up a
back-up daycare plan for times when their children are
sick. It could be an agreement with a friend or relative or
use of a new emergency service that will, for a fee, send a
homecare worker to your home on short notice.

Hang up on obscene callers

TORONTO (CP) — Rain
drums against the window as
the- woman answers.the tele
phone.

“Pant.
hears.

The breather catches her
off guard. Taken aback, she
continues to listen.

“Who is this?” the woman
asks. The response is a string
of obscenities.

Police, psychiatrists and
others say keeping an ob-
scene telephone caller on the
line is the wrong approach.

Hanging up is one of the
most effective ways to dis-
courage such callers because
it's the woman's reaction that
provides the stimulation,

Pant. Pant,” she

Under a recent ruling of
the Canadian Radio-tele
vision and Telecommuni
cations Commission, effective
last month, telephone comp.
anies will no longer trace
calls without involving police.
But getting a conviction —
punishable by a $500 fine, up
to six months in jail or both
— is difficult.

“You almost have to catch
the caller in the act,” Gage
says.

“A lot of them are sexual
perverts,” she adds. “It's not
a criminal act. It's more a
behavioral thing.”

Dr. Kurt Freund, a Tor
onto sexologist, calls it “the
concept of courtship dis

is on the other end of the line,
he adds.

Obscene callers are all
men, Freund says in a paper
published recently.

Police say there is a dif
ference between random
callers who usually stop
when they get no reaction
and harassing callers who
may not be deterred by
silence. Police tend to think
recurrent callers have a
connection to the recipient

A Gallup poll com
missioned by Bell Canada
two years ago found most
Canadians think offensive
calls are a serious problem

But only a small proportion
of those who had received

they've done it and plead
guilty.”

Gage says ways of com
batting annoying calls in
clude unplugging phones at
bedtime, blowing a loud
whistle into the mouthpiece,
and putting calls on an
answering machine.

Gord Bleasdell, Bell Can.
ada’s senior information
writer in Toronto, says the
company advises harassed
people to keep a log of calls,
change telephone numbers or
get an unlisted number.

Bell is testing new equip
ment in Peterborough, Ont.,
that may eliminate some
problems. A screen displays

order.”

the originating phone num

MEDICAL

October 1, 1

INCREASE REPORTED

Mental health problems

WHISTLER, B.C. (CP) —
Radical changes in North
American culture during the
last 40 years are taking their
toll on the mental health of
young people, says a promi.
nent U.S. psychiatrist.

There has been an over-
whelming increase in eating
disorders, substance abuse,
anti-social or “acting-out” be-
havior, learning disabilities
and suicide among children
and teenagers, said Dr. Den-
nis Cantwell, professor of
psychiatry at the University
of California in Los Angeles.

Cultural changes include
the prevalence of divorced

families, the absence of
grandparents and the dra-
matic increase in violence on
television, Cantwell told the
Canadian Child Psychiatry
Association in this resort
community north of Van-
couver.

Cantwell said more re-
search is needed before psy.
chiatrists can definitively say
the cultural changes cause
the mental health problems,
but there is no question the
two are related.

Gne of the most shocking
increases has been in the
incidence of violent crime by
youths, he said.

Women must

recognize potential

NEW YORK (AP) — A live uptotheir potential have pared with

new study of 1,250 women
with IQs of 130 and higher
who have graduated since
1911 from a New York City
high school shows that most
of them do not consider
themselves gifted.

“If women don't recognize
their potential, they cannot
fulfill it,” said Betty Walker,
an education professor at the
University of Southern Cali-
fornia, whose study of former
students at Hunter College
high school is reported in the
current issue of Glamour
magazine.

Walker, herself a Hunter
graduate, says her survey is
the first to examine factors
that affect the educational,
vocational and personal de-
velopment of gifted women.

Preliminary results of the
study show that women who

While boys have always
committed more violent
crime than girls, in the last 10
years there has been a
six-fold increase in violent
acts committed by girls aged
14-17, Cantwell said. During
the same time, violence by
boys increased three-fold.

BLAMES TV VIOLENCE

“I can't help but betieve
the increase of real violence
relates to the increase of
violence on TV,” he added.

In 1965, there was an
average one hour of violent
shows a week during prime
time television, Cantwell
said. That increased to six
hours of violent shows in
1965, 21 hours in 1975 and 27
hours in 1985.

“Figures show that by the
time the average American
child reaches 18 years of age
they have watched 20,000
hours of television — com
11,000 hours

been inspired by the women's, spent in school. During that
movement, parental en-“time they have watched
couragement and the visible 13,000 murders and 100,000
successes of other women. acts of violence.”

For others, a major ob-
stacle to achievement has
been the conflict between

their intellectual and pro-
fessional interests and the
demands of motherhood.
Walker reports that:
“Graduates from the 1950s

for them were vague and not
career-related. In the 1960s,
alumnae reported explicit
parental pressure to pursue
particular careers and have
families. The graduates of
the 1970s reported that their
parents urged them to have a
career, but did not pressure
them to marry and raise
children.”

French stricken by
dreaded disease

LONDON, Ont. (CP) — Dr.
John Douglas French re
mains an outstanding name
in the scholarly world of
medical research. But the re
nowned neurosurgeon who
dedicated his life to brain re
search and wrote more than
100 medical articles on the
brain can no longer read,
write, or speak

French is a victim of Alz
heimer’s Disease.

He rarely recognizes his
wife these days. During the
past eight years, she has
watched him wither away
while losing the things he

Dorothy Kirsten Freneh of
Los Angeles. “He stares with
vacant eyes wondering who I
am.

“And yet when he does
(recognize her) and I em
brace-him, once in a while he
responds with a tiny smile
and warmth of the lovely
man I once knew.”

The strong voice of Dor
othy Kirsten French, for 30
years a diva with the Metro-
politan Opera, breaks with
emotion when she speaks of
the deterioration of her hus-
band, former director of the

University of California

Vaccinate
against
Hepatitis B

TORONTO (CP) — Hep-
atitis B, a major health threat
to homosexual men and users
of illicit injectable drugs,
should be fought through a
free provincial immunization
program, the Toronto health
board says.

“It is simply cheaper to
prevent hepatitis through
immunization than to treat
the disease,” says Dr. Sandy
Macpherson, the city's medi
cal officer of health.

About 1,670 people in Tor.
onto get hepatitis B each
year and about, 50 to 90
people die from it.

Ontario vaccinates only
some groups who are highly
susceptible. including new
borns and family contacts of
carriers. Homosexual men
and drug users, both far
more likely than others to
contract hepatitis B, aren't
included in those groups.

In his report, Macpherson
estimates there are 7,820
active homosexuals and 1,445
intravenous drug users who
aren't covered by private or
employee drug benefit plans
He says immunization would
not only save lives, but

Cantwell

two families and their new
“natural children,” belong to
neither.

“These children have
clearly more psycho-social
problems than their half-sib-
lings,” Cantwell said.

Grandparents, who used to
act as a stabilizing influence
for families, are playing a
diminishing role as families
live farther apart, making
visiting impractical or im-
possible.

Other detrimental influ-
ences on children's mental
development include the in-
creasing number of teenage
pregnancies, increasing
school dropout rates in which
only 50 per cent of U.S. teen
agers complete high school
and the increasing media

pation with slim, un-
realistic “model” figures.

Fatal disease spre

MONTREAL (CP) — She
was said to have been faith
fully married for 30 years.
Then, she had sex — only
once — with a man she met in
New York.

Her lover was an addict
who used intravenous drugs,

‘ and his semen contained the

deadly HTLV-111
which causes AIDS.
The woman, a middle-aged
mother, died last year and
became one of 380 Canadians
killed by AIDS to date.

virus,

deficiency syndrome

man of the National Com-
mittee on AIDS.
“But we can't tell you the

Menstrual pain
costs businesses

LONDON, ONT. (CP) —
Women who stay home from
their jobs because of men
strual pain cost businesses in
the United States $140 mil.
lion a year and a University
of Western Ontario psychol-
ogy professor speculates
Canadian firms are also
losing millions.

Helen Wallach, doing a
doctoral thesis on menstrual
pain, said there aren't any
Canadian figures available on
how much time women miss
from work because they are
in pain.

She said in the United

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States, menstrual problems
rank second to colds as the
reason given most often for
missing work.

“My suspicion is some
people call in saying it’s the
common cold when its men-
struation,” said Wallach, who
is working with women to
ease the discomfort without
using drugs.

Employers should not as-
sume from this that men are
more productive, she said,
because men have different
types of stresses and ill-
nesses that keep them off the

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says Toronto police Const.
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ing obscene calls.
Assistant Crown attorney

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such calls said they reported
them — 15 per cent to the
phone company and six per
cent to the police.

money, because it would
result in fewer patients in
hospitals.

A provincial Health Min
istry spokesman says the
Toronto request is under
consideration.

Brain Institute.

“At home he would sit at
his desk for hours shifting
papers as though searching
for something,” she says. “So
many times I would find him

ber and a code number can
order a central computer to
spit out a hard-copy record of
the call

This kind of evidence has
yet Lo be tested in court, says
Peterborough Police Chief
Kevin McAlpine, and the
network necessary to set up
such a system is still a few
years off.

loved most — his work, his
life, his mind

“There is no communi
cation whatsoever — only
searching troubled eyes.
which haunt me most waking
hours of my life.” says

Canadian Nat. Institute for the Blind
The Arthritis Society

The erotic value of the call
depends on not knowing who

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Vancouver a
tax bargain

TORONTO (CP Just
because you own an ex
pensive home doesn't mean
you pay the highest property
taxes.

Runzheimer Canada Inc., a
Toronto-based consulting
company, has found that
people in Winnipeg pay the
most taxes, but their houses
cost less than homes in
Ottawa, Vancouver, Calgary
and Regina.

On the other hand, Saint
John, N.B., homeowners pay
lowest property taxes while
their housing values are
roughly the national average

Winnipeg homeowners not
only pay the most property
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