CASTLEGAR NEWS, July 6, 1980 ‘Bryant part of tradition of conservative women ELLEN GOODMAN Spare me the Saturday night snide jokes about this. I am no fan of Anita Bryant's politics, but I con't want to poke through the ashes of her marital eruption for the another self-ap- pointed smug savior of the American family has become a shaken survivor. The story seems familiar. Moral superior at home; mother superior to country | A few years ago Bryant was questioned about her wifely role in a Playboy interview. “If Bob (Green, her husband) asked you to do something right now that was against the grain of your thoughts,” she was asked, ould you simply submit to hie te answered then, “I might rebel against it — andI have many times — but biblically, 1 would submit, yes.” But a féw weeks ago, she said no, She would instead divorce her husband after 20 years and four children, ‘because he ‘“vio- pete eon precious asset ” Her and use my name and reputa- tion to bulld their personal ‘careers instead of my minis- “This women who once as a very husband and others, she said, “considerod tw control me One day was just too much; celebrity’s life is pretty tough Co Bill Smiley YOU HAVE no idea how tough life is for us celebrities: signing autographs, beating off groupies, phone ringing with congratulations and re- quests for interviews, trying to be triumphantly modest. I'm certainly glad my celebrityness lasted only one day. Two days and I'd prob- ably have started thinking 1 teally was. somebody worth knowing. I did start charging students one dollar apiece for autographs, and had a fair little run there until one of them reminded the others that they could get a free signature just by reading the nasty remarks I make on their report cards. That was” the end of that bonanza. To the bewildered, your A bright young colleague, who writes well, expressed the opinion that the article was badly written, and was attacked furiously by other colleagues who thought he was jealous. He wasn't. He was right. It was a bit choppy because an editor had ob- viously been busy with the scissors, to make the thing fit around photographs and into the space allotted, as is their wont in. a’ magazine that caters’ to a typical .TV old, broken-down, favorite colurinist was the subject of a profile in a_ national magazine called Today, and the phone has never started | ringing since. Some people thought the article was dreadful. An old colleague was disgusted because the magazine printed how much I make a year. My wife was furious. The photographer who took my picture scrunched up the drapes he drew behind me for a background, and they looked as though they needed ironing. My assistant depart- ment head was annoyed about my picture, because the art department of the magazine had not used the air brush to wipe out the wrinkles, jowls, and other appurtenances of wisdom » and maturity. But those wonderful peo- ple, my completely uncritical students, thought it was great: first, because my name was in big type; sccond, because it was a national~ magazine; third, because my picture was in it; fourth, because they got a little reflected glory. They’d have been just as happy if { were an axe- murderer, as long as I hit the media. So, one day my Grade 9 thought I was just that snarly old grey-haired guy up front who kept telling them that a verb has to agree with its subject. The next, T'was in the same magazine as Richard Burton, and my wife was taking on the dimen- sions, figuratively speaking, of Elizabeth Taylor. Personally, | have some Reed has pees in the To Georgia," using a pick and a Peavey: instead of a bow and Thee a not only tones on new sounds with the un- predictable Reed at ine con- trols, but it is rumored that the artist is considering anew ending that would alter the outcome of the famous duel between the Devil and Johnny. After picking both parts, Reed professes that (unlike the original version) the Devil is technically the hands-down winner of the musical conflict. * Dolly Parton, straight off “the set of her upcoming feature film ‘Nine to Five,” held all eyes as she walked onto the center stage of Nashville's Grand Ole Opry for a surprise homecoming visit. But as the fans clicked cameras and surged to the front of the stage, little did they realize Dolly's co-star stood inconspicuously 3- mong a group of backup singers, joining in on the chorus of.‘Applejack.' It wes a blue-jean clad Jane Fonda beneath the Martha White flour sign, in town to visit Dolly and get a one-of-a-kind lntreduction to country re Cistage, the two ac- tresses joked and discussed the movie, with Fonda ad- enjoyed the most. Dolly has a tot to do with that... She's a little bit of Harlow, a little bit Monroe, and a whole lot of... naughty,” she laugh- ed. After the show, Dolly and Jane teft for east Tennessee plays an Appalachian wood carver. Dolly's plans include a return to the sound stage also, playing lead with Burt Reynolds in the film version of ‘Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.’ * ‘Nine to Five! will be released next Christmas. Susan Anderson From our records to watch department Susan Anderson .B Records. This is Susan’ 's first attempt at the record grooves, and although this outing won't see the top ten, the young lady shows definite promise with a down- heme country style that’s free and easy. She should prove to be a first-rate. Her initial_effort is titled scores to settle about the article. For one thing, it was too innocuous and kindly. The writer, Earl McCrae, isa cracking good sports writer, who has done some. fine hatchet jobs on sports figures in Canada. Least he could have done is carve me up a bit, and let me get into a slanging match with him, via the public print. It was as though Mc- Crae, usually as soft as a sword, had muttered to himself, ‘Poor old sod; he's over the hill. I°tl use the but- ter instead of the salt.’’ This is the same writer whom George Chuvalo threatened .:t0 punch right through the -wall of a gym when he had written a piece about George, the perennial punching bag. Another guy I have a bone to pick with is Ray Argyle, who owns the syndicate that distributes this here now col- umn. At one point in the article, he called me a “monument.”” Well, I'll think of ‘something ‘to -call you, Mr. Argyle. ‘One adjective in the article amusement for old friends of my wife. It is the word “languid”. Mind you, it’s tather a neat word. Better than pudgy, pugnacious, bubbling, feisty, or any of 2 oy @Qeaenapnmuanmaag those... ther over-worked" magazine-article words. But my. wife is about as, languid as a Roman Candle. We were at a big wedding the weekend the article came out. About halfway through the reception, I was fairly bub- bling, fairly feisty, and pleasantly pugnactous. 1 drifted over to where she sat, + looking choice she had freely made faced another choice: be- tween her conscience and her marriage, between her be- * Hefs and her husband. It happens, in real life, all the ie, Still, the Anita ‘Bryant ss saga is not just another tale of disillusionment and div- orce, She is part of a long tradition of women who enter ' the public sphere only ‘to “defend” the private. one:- conservative women who be- come part of change. hs . The 19th century ;de- fined women as the. Keepers of moral values. Aa duly appointed moral superiors to Maddux Book Review Far Blue Mountains To The Far Blue Moun- tains. By Louls L'Amour. E.P. Dutton & Co,, Inc., New York, (In Canada: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, Toronto. $9.60.) 286 pp. Book Review By Percy Maddux A story of a lifetime of adventure in the latter days of the reign of the first Elizabeth is that of Barnabas Sackett, languid, and observed, “Migawd, you're looking languid tonight.’’ She marched straight to the bar and had me put on the Indian list. (Oh, yeah, somebody i is going to write that that is a racist remark.) ~ ™ You'll be glad ‘to "know that the wedding turried out well. I drove to the of Louis L'Amour's novel “To the Far Blue Moun- tains.” The book is written in the first person and amazingly enough, tells of the death of the narrator at the end. The action takes place in Great Britain and in America in a vivid recital which will make the reader reluctant to put down the book. It is not a en e home,’ ‘they often become mother-superiors to the country. These domestic women of the world founded not: only the social purity movement against prostitu- tion but the. mass movement against saloons, called tem- » perance, _, By the thousands, they worked without guilt and erusaded without criticism because they were, after all, protecting the family. In the 20th century, too, traditional women have founded very popular and public “moral” crusades. Anita Bryant’s controversial second career was begun to “save the children” from her bizarre nightmare vision of pee learned things that moved them in new, often quite unexpected and even unset- tling directions, . ." The women who wanted to save the 19th century family from prostitution in- evitably started lobbying for ‘women's employment, if only to save them from “sin.” The women ‘who wanted to kill the Demon Rum realized that todo so they would need the vote, © Their 20th-century de- scendants have irresistibly drifted in the same direc- tions. Even conservative wo- men battle now against se- cond-class status. ‘in. their political parties. The neighborhood wo- men who fight highways or school policies begin to run for statewide office. At Love Canal, the “mothers” fight to be taken aertonely, to be Phyllis Schlafly, for her part, has made a full-time out of defendi period piece, for there are somo modern expressions which have crept in, such as ‘a maturo homemaking. Again and - again, “mothers” have found- ed and filled the anit-abor- an able and 1 — in order to be heard. Rarely. do any of them “go home” again. Rarely aro their homes untouched, Anita Bryant, - too, a public defender of the family “came up with something”, “bring it off", and the residents of the area being designated “the locals.” Hereisa good, clean novel which packs plenty of punch .:;; and will keep the reader-at a high pitch of excitement. CL SHOWDIZ 100) sono) while she map-read. She drove home, but I couldn't see the street signs. We drove around a strange city for an hour and a half, completely lost. Finally, I saw a car, and a plice beside it that seemed to be open. “Stop! Ill ask where we are,” I nipped out, went up to the stopped car, ani demanded of the two police officers inhabiting it, “How, in the name of all that is holy, does one find the Royal Connaiight’ Hotel ‘in this misbegotten city with ‘all ‘its * sthpid ‘one-way’ siréets?”” is going’ to’creaté’ endless ~ “The cop was 'a modiéum of decorum. “If you'll just look to your right, sir, you'll see that you are parked directly in front of it.” So much for being a celebrity. saa BEB B eee ‘The Island’ sinks into depravity by J.T. Yurko ‘The Island’ from Universal Pictures, Directed by Michael Ritchie. Screenplay by Peter Benchiey, based on his novel. Starring Michael Caine and David Warner. Rated R. Review entertaining body of work. As. his theme, Ritchie examined the great American pastimes, ranging 4 from sports (‘Semi mi- Tough ‘Downhill Racer,’ and jad_ News Bears’) to siinice (‘The Candidate’) to beauty pageants (‘Smile,'} which is one sf the most Fotly onin i film Michael Caine, ard working reporter eat from his wife, promises to take his son to Disneyland, Before they ever get near the place, however, his son spots a gun shop and convinces dad to stop. They not only stop, but dad buys his son a .22 caliber handgun Just what every kid ree sther and son never make it to Disneyland. Instead they barely survive a plane crash and are captured by sadistic, in-bred pirates. The brigands urge the son to kill his father, and the father is forced to mate with a woman whose husband he killed. {t would have been better for all concerned if they simply went to Disneyind and spared us this ridiculous, replusive movie. If director Michael Ritchle and screen- writer Benchley had meant for the film-to be a proxy for - Disneyland, then theirs is surely a ‘Grand Guignol Dis- neyland’ of horror sure to please Jack the Rippers of all at has happened to director Ritchie? His career, prior to this, contained a remarkably consistent and lms of recent years). Now out of left-field comes this preposterous, and gore-filled film. Axes divide heads, knives slit throats, and by the absurd climax, corpses fay strewn from one end 7 the wide screen to the other. But what makes this film so repellent is its cavalier treat- ment of human life. Even the most graphic horror film bears the inherent message that depicted carnag well, horrible, Yet in this fii the killing, maiming and torturing is made to seem like a fun thing to do and is reinforced by. a‘ rousing, up-tempo sco! There is Tittle question that Ritchie is a competent direc- tor who can easily handle any genre, then shape the film to suit his thematic pursuits. Combine Ritchie's tatents with Benchley’s success at making us hesitant to go near the water (courtesy of ‘Jaws’ and ‘The Deep’) ani Island’ had great potential! as ‘chilling’ entertainment for a hot summer evening. Instead what we are presented with is, to borrow a phrase from Englishman Michael! Caine, quite | simply “a bloody mess. CONFIDENTIAL REPORT: Did Dus! doin Nasty? That's what my contact is saying. According to him; ailleingus J.R. Ewing of the “Dallas the boyfriend of J.R.’s wife, TV series, was shot by Dusty, Sue Ellen. “As of now, the killer is definitely Dusty, but nobody around here will admit to it,” quoting a source at Lorimar Productions. But, says the source, ‘None of the cast, including Larry Hagman (who plays J.R.), knows the gunman's identity."... . Life on the set of Laverne and Shirley is just as zany as the hit TV idlady ‘Edna Babi (Penny Ma show itself, says the girls’ ” Garrett. These two girls abis! @ 18 and Cindy Williams) are absolutely amazing. The directors go crazy just trying to get them on the set. It's organized chaos, that's exactly what it is.” Batty says she loves the kooky pair both personally and professionally. “| guarantee that in, sa five or ten years, a lot of the routines they do on their show will be remembered, just like eure) e and A Hardy ; me. are remembered,": figures..: Organized chaos seems tod ie the. wit pe the girls need because out of it they do a lot of improvising.” TV TICKER: Young Valerie Bertinelll may be living ‘One Day At A Time,’ but the co-star of the TV series is still very worried about her future. “I'm runnt ing scared,” the 20-year-old actress admitted to me. “I'm terribly afraid I'll never. get another acting Jo! mean, I've A Time’ ends. | job after ‘One Day en stereotyped. At Everyone thinks of me as sweet, young ‘Barbara Cooper.’ No one knows | can act in other roles as well.” However, Valerie is quick to admit she’s a lot like Barbara. “Ninety percent of me is Barbara,” says Valerie, “though | think I'm ten percent more mature than she is. And | have to admit | like her being sweet and innocent, Producers of keep Barbara pure and the show have decided to virginal and I'm_ glad. . Pernell Roberts, the moody star of TV's ‘Trapper in, ." keeps his weight just under 200 pounds Po jogging’ three miles every day and eating fresh vegetables from his garden near the ‘Trapper’ set. TV CLOSEUP: Andy Rooney, the resident wit of CBS's ‘60 Minutes,’ gave us these 2p colleagues: Mike Wallace—"Bright raisals of his rittle genius at what he does. He goes for the uur vein like nobody. in our business—not only goes for it, but cuts it. And for some feason, he does not seem to make all that many enemies." Hterate, Morley Safer—'Bright, easy-going, pod te orter. He has an inquisitive mind.” fe did public-service reporting that beret that of perhaps any other television reporter during the years he covere: the White House.” Harry Reasoner—‘‘My closest friend of the four. He, in pure intellect, is the brightest tue’s th least mn in .the business.” Andy Rooney— of the fot. But a really sweet guy.’ the least intellectual “| love being a doctor, don’t you?” actor Jack Klugman of TV's ‘Quincy’ asked the 119 graduates of New York's Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. Klugman, whose career was saved six years ago when a Mt. Sinai doctor removed a tumor from his throat, cautioned the new medics. “If Lever walk into one of your offices. . teen t be so * quick to put a stethoscope on me... Take a few minutes to listen to me. t might tell you what's wrong with me.” KINNAIRD TRANSFER LTD.- L.A. (Tony) Geronazzo, Manager . UNION Excavating — Trucking Gravel Products Phone 365-7124 SHOP tion, anti lear energy, pea tcpiek and anti-war movements. For many, it has been a logical--;extension of first concerns. But..for others it also‘ has become an attempt to have it both: ways, to justify working outside the home by defending the home. After all, in traditional times and marriages, the women crusading “for her family” is more acceptable than the ‘woman crusading “for her own rights.” - A century ago, for ex- ample, the press condoned the illegal acts of the temper- ance women because “these women were not agitating for suffrage.” And only last month, the husband ofa Love Canal leader supported his wife's activism, saying, “The hell with all that equal rights stuff — they're fighting for their families.” But as women go into the world, join causes, be- come leaders, they change. In - his’ new book, “At Odds, “historian ° Carl “Degler' says that the 19th-century move- ment women “saw things and Your Carpet: Headquarters... Carpets by Ivan Oglow 365-7771 and the traditional female Fole, was pushed or grew out of submission. 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BANTAM § (13-14 years) (15-16 years) ICE TIME: 7 days at 1% hour/day RECREATION ACTIVITIES: 1 hour’day MIDGET Castl B.C., VIN 3B2, Phone: 365-3386 ‘World's most ‘desirable male’ How Robert Redford copes with the “‘burdens’’ of success — and why he remains totally faithful to Lola who married him when he was pales and out of work ay John Wood He is the world’s ‘‘most desirable male” -as far as millions of women of all ages are concerned. Men envy him his pularity and the fact that! ne can earn a million a movie any time he wis! Yet Robert Redford who has just madea comeback ina a new film, The Electric Horseman after spending fo ars in self-imposed reclusion in his lonely ome top jome admits that ‘‘stardom”’ has to be paid fo! “Jt is a heavy price in personal Ii ” he revealed when he came to anaes to publicize new movie. ‘That is why I the movie scene because I was teghtened 0 of the way. it was affecting both myself and my ‘There are fearful emotional problems when you have tolive with th the fact that you have Become! a kind of living oe reco; You Here no privacy. ‘ou can never go for a atroli without being challenged by people who want to talk to “You can learn to live with all this by bullding a tective screen around yourself, But what you cannot is the ones around whom you love. Lola my wife erself, she is ie very capable woman. « But what troubled me deeply, and what prom} me to ee into rectunlon was that it affected my chil lems because of my name — and I'am ee thelr vulnerability.” n. They dis- dren have had everything they ever wanted. For dlestis there isnt no money problem. Lola tries to give them as normal an uppraee ee possible, le, but 1 am not going to that their lives are n my son Jame Cw A is 17) he will never be able to five down the that he is ihe son of Robert Redford. is is. coritag nies sor cma ay, and 2 ama frying fo help over this c he has. sy may bes fs, Shauna id a oh Ase their oe an ding from ola ‘and myself I feel confident, apa ut will Ie ern to cope.’ ue He may be the world’s number one ‘male sex 5; but all those ladies of an Fa es who dream 0: themselves being ca it: They don’t stan ann nie a “one woman man” — and the woman wife Lola. nbol,’? ding case fs his Unusually for an actor, he ‘genuinely enjoys a happy marriage. ‘‘We have bee! he says. ‘“That is a very unusual thing today, for there isa - tendency in North America to regard the idea of mar- riage as old-fashioned. ast never flanned to pepsi but when I met Lola I ere and then that she was right for me. And hat shew ould be my life partner. But of course it was not altogether easy. You have to work at it to make a marriage happy. “We both had to learn to accept the responsiblity which ge brought. There were tears and there was grief. But there are compensations. You build up things together, ou build a home and a and you are a team. All becomes worthwhile as as you \id closer together and you both gain strength thro the Itisa me which Lola shares. ‘ Bone a rare comment on their life together, for she . prefers to remain in the bac and. as. the le for just “Long ago I learned in life that you have to pay for sucoest “Fame is a doubl ed sword. For instance are still plagued at college and school b’ ihe otter kids who bombard them with questions about . Even for self there are problems. The minute I sone cmebody New I am immediately asked, about Bob— as though I had no > personality of my own.’ If he finds it so painful to cope with success, why doe: Robert Redford continue to make movies? For when he is g an actor, many \. 4 ce, OF else an my own piafaction you “But when I am reall ar with ‘myself if I had to lead my whole life all over again in all probability Iwould 7 ited the fame things whlch hich I ave cone. are not going to to n Frankly i ry exe ting career, There Bootle lots of adventures and there is a lot of fun.” ‘But I have! to be very careful to ensure that it does not or to : “I-never-planned... to marry young.” “she was right for me.” run away with me, When you face the adulation of 2° crowd it can be very seductive. You find yourself enj maou ¥e and you to that you Feally are some! ae Special. Mayselte Tees ie aati eget the arn about youat ail yee ear lucky — and that is all thing Special isto “That is thi year. former S ww bring S peal a to JOHN CHARTERS’ Reflections & Recollections The return recently a former pupil, Marguerite Alored (nee Fletcher), and her mother from Alberta back to Castlegar for a visit with their many friends was a great opportunity, not only to catch up with the comings and going of mutual friends, former class-mates, and colleagues but a reminder that one such friend and colleague may also be back in town this summer. His name is John Munday and he taught at Stanley Humphries for the first several years of its beginnings, where, as a sensitive, inovative, and witty teacher, he had considerable influence on the early developmént of the school. However, as a deeply religous man he also had a call to go as a missionary teacher to Peru. At that time I was writing a column for the Castlegar News under the pseudonym of EGO, though I had started teaching souvenir. They use it in their ceremonies. . A. Talking of use, I read of a woman who had a husband who never did a stroke while he lived but she put him to work after he died. B. How? A. Put his ashes in an hour glass and used his as an egg” timer. Said she kept him busy all the time that sway. C. What will we do with John’s head? qe You could put it over the mantle piece on top of the D. Excellent idea. Then we could look at him and say, ‘Dear John, how he has improved. Never kept an appointment in his life, but he's always on time now.’ B, It's going to be quite an experience. ’ at Victoria High. Hence in of 1956 the column appeared: 2 ‘There is nothing so satisfying as helping prepare a friend for a long trip. Not.only does it leave him emotionally fit and eager to be off, but it also gives his wellwishers a real sense of ‘ake for le last Sunday evening when a group of friends gathered to wish John Munday godspeed his proposed trip to Peru. John was a teacher in Castlegar for several years and is well known so that his experience in this matter will be in consequence more vivid. Lack of space (and a poor memory) must curtail the entire recounting of the affair, _ but the reader will be able to glimpse the spirit. A. Well, John, this is great news. Is everything in readiness? Clothes packed? No. Pith helmet? No. Snake bite antitoxin? Uh- no. Arrow repellent armor? N- no, not yet. A. Heavens, hadn't you better hurry. You haven't even got the essentials. B, What about your papers, John. Are they-all in-order? John. Almost. I've got police clearance. (The red light and bicycle incident two years ago took some explaining, but I. Te been ii and d and have my passport. T'm going to see the Peruvian consul tomorrow about a visa, B. Tomorrow! When do you leave for Peru? John. In two weeks.. B. Thad a friend who had to get a visa just to go to the States and it took‘three months. And she had lots of pull. John. Dear mother. What do I do now? C. You could have another farewell party this time next "Considerable conversation here in which it ensues that John. ofly needs a visitor's visa. A consideration which his comforters assure him will enable him to leave in six months — if he is lucky, and the conversation turns to Peruvian and Bolivian fauna. D. Did you say that you will be part of the time in the jungle, John? John. Yes, I'm certainly looking forward to that part of it. D. Yes, but you had better not go swimming. These cannibal fish, what do they call them, piranhas, have been know to eat a man alive in a matter of minutes. A. Will have to keep one eye on the trees as well, though those thirty-foot anaconda snakes will squeeze him like a toothpaste tube and swallow him in no time flat. B. He'll be very flat indeed, that is if he doesn’t walk into the jaws of a jaguar. C. I hope you have a good stout mosquito netting, John, to keep off the vampire bats. © John, Oh, those are just imaginary people who change to bats to suck people's blood. C. Nope, they’re real bats alright. If you leave any part of your body, your foot for instance, sticking out from under the with Itcan bea and awallow y fide! devour you. I keep it at be bay by keeping away from the Hollywood scene. I don’t §o (0 to movie les — and z avoid the temptations which clearly do Pome my way.” The temptations he ts referring to concern the women. fans and the actresses who make up their minds to seduce’ bert Redford and set about it with single-minded = enere is no way I am go! to fool ied ‘bia when her family was dead against her beco. my wife. I was penniless and out of work — a man who wanted to be an actor. I don’t blame her folks for reacting like that. But ske stuck by me through thick and thin. jing Wolhoome an ator You ber forget loyalty dying to become an actor. ou a oni fo! like that. aos marriage, m: ost impertan z BRE, le. I would ne never senn oft risking all Pa that for the brief pleasures of a quick romance. “phat would destra the love and loyalty which exists tween us. And ni is worth that.” ‘At 42 and after iis toes success, Robert Red- ford Js branching ¢ out ito directing, dhe is about to” e ers of being Te ea by 81 finds the allure of movie-making too ea to resist. In The Electric Horseman Robert Redford plays the role of a one-time champion rodeo rider who becomes an intant celebrity when he is given the job of promoting a breakfast cereal on television. The movie is meant to be a gentle satire on commercialism, but when the ying ¢ ‘runs away”’ from the publict cme eh hels 8 portra: message of escape Me ‘iso feel when the me ito netting, they'll bite a little hole in a vein and suck you dry as an orange. And the trouble is you never feel it. Just get tireder and weaker. Probably quite a pleasant death. D. Better see that he has a few extra pints of blood in his handbag, Ann. He'll need them. B, Have you done any reading about the native peoples, John? - John. A little. C. The Jivaros, for instance? John. The Jivaros? Who are they? C. The fiercest of the native tribesmen. Four-foot arrows, poison darts, and all that. B. They are also headhunters. Cut off your head and shrink it the size of a baseball. You could send us yours as a for the P Ete. ate. ete. and so on. As I said, there's nothing so satisfying to would-be travelers than to get away from the -friends as fast as possible. EPILOGUE: The irons of the entire exercise is that, after twenty four years of missionary work, John who is now in Equidor, has experienced in some way,or other, virtually all of the things that we had offered as a part of our ‘help’ — with one exception — he still has his head; though he did narrowly miss having it blown off during a local revolution. x The fact that he still in all essentials, the same man who, left here.a quarter century ago, and continues to carry on his good work with undiminished energy and good humour, can only indicate that he has the courage of a lion and the faith of a Daniel. We, his many. friends in Castlegar would be most happy to greet him again. HOt Graham DEAR DR. GRAHAM: Tam in college, and my roommate isa student from another country who has a different religion. He asks a lot of questions I can't answer. Where can I find some answers to his questions? — SE. - DEARS.E.: I hope first of all that you will thank God for this opportunity. God has brought this young man many thousands of miles, and of all the roommates he might have gotten, God led him to you, a Christian. Pray for him and seek to show the love of Christ to him. Students from other nations who come here for several years are one of the greatest mission fields we have, and I wish more Christians like yourself (as well as churches which are near campuses), would take advantage of these opportunities for witness. (Your pastor, incidentally, can probably supply you with the names of several Christian organizations which have ministries with foreign students.) As you seek to help him- understand Jesus Christ, the firat thing is for ygu to be knowledgeable about what you believe as a Christian, and why. The Bible says, “Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have” (1 Peter 3:15). St your Bible every day, and seek help also from other Christi! who can help you understand what you believe as a Christi A Christian worker on your campus, or a local Christ may be able to d books that will help you with this. : Then learn as much as you can about your roommate's religion. This will show him that you have a genuine interest in him, and will help you answer his questions as well. Again, I would encourage you to seek Christian books which will be helpful in di various and in them from a Christian. viewpoint, Most of all, demonstrate by your life that Jesus Christ is real-to you. Ask God to help you show Christ's love to him in practical ways, and introduce him to other Christian friends you have on campus. Labels to be made meaningful: or out of reach of children A committee In Washington Is looking into labels that appear on everyday products in the hope they can make them more ‘‘meaningful’’ to consumers. already know more than any consumer has a right to know. 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