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Dear Ann Landers: The college kid who complained because his mother wrote such boring letters made my blood boll. May | answer him?

Dear H.K.: You saund Ilke a spolled brat to me. What gali you have to put down letters from home because they aren't full of sensational news or insightful overviews of global Issues. What are YOU doing that's so exciting?

Studying, maybe? Making out here and there? Bending your elbow at the local pub? Smoking a few Joints? Big deal. Are your letters scintillating literary masterpieces? How thrilling for the folks to read about that so-so flick you took in last night and that your grades this term won't be as good as you expected. Invarlably, there's a line or two saying your car isn't running right, and the cost of repairing it Is out of sight so please send some extra dough.

Local solar-tempered home

The first solar-tempered house to be constructed in Castlegar was started seven weeks ago,

The owners, Mr. and Mrs, Robbie George hope to be moved in by fall of this

year,

Eric Clough, the design- er of the house, explained that the house ts partially heated by ‘‘passive’’ solar methods. Passive heating is

Quit complaining, Little Lord Fauntleroy, and be A

glad you have-parents who can write. Some of us don’t, you know. And, by the way, If that problem Is the only one you can dredge up to lay on Ann Landers, you ara also a bore. — Up To Here In Spokane hing or three. is yt y ad a Kis ks that he’d never get another letter, Including one that says, ‘‘Here’s the check for tultlon.”” Dear Ann Landers: My wife and ! have been married for seven years. | used to think she was the most beautiful woman on earth. | was sure she'd be a terrific wife and mother.

Now It seems she can't get dinner on the table until 6:30 p.m. | come home at 6 and like to sit right down toa hot meal. That's the way my mother did It. No more homemade bread either. (Too much work, she says.) The laundry is always backed up. Yesterday | pulled out a shirt with a button off.

We have slx children — the youngest are twins, four months old. | think a man who brings in a good paycheck every week has the right to expect a clean house, meals on time and the washing and ironing done right. Is It too much to ask here to shape up?’

— Rockford, Ill.

Dear Rock: A woman who has had six kids In seven years hasn't had much time to shape up. What have you done to help, besides getting her pregnant? If Planned Parenthood Isn’t forbidden by your rellglon, | suggest it.

just what dy Implied; active, mechanical’ means of gener- ating or moving heat are not used in the solar part of the heating system. Instead, mas- sive building materials in the structure trap and store heat to be released at a later time.

The George house, he said, will get approximately 40 per cent of its annual heating requirements from the sun (in this area up to 65

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(Another news story from special correspondent Koozma J; Tarasoff at Mos- cow Olympics.)

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Having accepted the tight to host the 1980 Olym- pics, the Soviet people have’ prepared well for the visitors.

More than 100,000 Mos- covites and other citizens of the 15 Soviet Republics have been employed directly in preparing Moscow, Tallinn, Kiev, Minsk, and Leningrad for the 1980 Olympics. In

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keeping with the standards of giganticism set at Munich and Montreal, the Soviets have far exceeded their expectations. Thanks to their efforts, for both athletes and spec- tators alike, these facilities are first-rate for the three- week span of the Olympics. One hundred construc- tion projects have been com- pleted, including a_ fully- equipped and quiet Olympic Village for the athletes, new sports facilities and the re- constructed 103,000-seat Len- in Central Stadium, a press

per cent solar contribution is possible with {deal orienta- tion). However, the house will use much less than half of the energy normally required to heat a conventional house of similar size.

The bullding is heavily insultated to conserve energy and, in addition, will be cacooned with a blanket of styrofoam. Triple glazing will complete the war with the

winter cold.

. Most of the solar heat will be generated through the use ofa south-facing solarium (or greenhouse) to be used as additional living space and as. a place to grow ornamental plants. It can be used for food growing as well. The heat will be stored in a large masonry

wall (called a thermal storage ‘

wall) and ts released into the tooms as the outside temper-

980 Olympics

during the Olympics, and in fact all signs, announcements on billboards, and guide books are in the offical lan- guages of the Olympics: Rus- sian, English and French. In the press centre, the con- ferences include simultane- ous translations in a dozen languages.

While_much was done by the Soviets themselves, a number of products were im-. ported, including: pre-pack- aged juices, computers, copy- ing machines, a Pepsi-Cola

centre to

date the work of 5,000 jour-

nalists and an It di

Swiss timing de- vices for recording winners,.

Songs and Songsters

58 Oklahoma Indian

59 Animation

60 Excess of 116 Songfrom solar year “Show Boat”

62 Philippine tree 119 Song intro-

63 “\— for Two” duced by Guy

@4Havinganouter Lombardo covering

65 Dean Martin bestseller

67 Morsels

68 Prong

69 Hit for Bobby Vinton

75 Roman poet

78 Theater sign

81 Philippine

115 Philippine termite

19 Hacienda brick 20 “Whatever — Wants” 21 Voting group 123 Tardy 22 Ethical 124 Newspapers and magazines 125 Obliterate 126 Ardor 127 River tothe NorthSea 128 Barbara and

23 Duet for Gordon Mac Rae and Kathryn Grayson

113 Dean Martin hit 18 Ignore

24 Borders

26 Great destruction

75 Hit recording by Louis Armstrong

76 Pungent bulb

Ti Rave

78 Spanis!

of Gaul 80 Overt

89 Mountain lake

91 Enroll

93 Roman 554

94 Edible mushroom

96 Seat in the chancel

d— 98 Noted

h painter 33 Herecorded 79 Ancient people “Puppy Love” 121 Stowe character 35 Journalist 122 Mother of Apollo 37 RiverinSpain 84 Classify 39 RiverinFrance 86 Malayan canoe 40 Workasa waiter 41 Marsh bird 43 Metamere 44 Atax 45 Detest ~ 46 Celebes ox 47 Rod,

Negrito 82 River in Paris 83 Growing out 84 Ooze 85 Trudge 87 Prophet 88 Ship's hawser 89 Singer Mel 90 Globe

28 Has terror of 30 Pilaster 31 “The Swedish Nightingale” 32 Time periods (abbr.) 33 Dyer’s vat 34 Handle roughly 36 Bird of peace 92 Amateur 38 Noah, inthe basebali N.T. 94 Singer Tony 39 Single units 95 Ameche, et al. 40 Aspersions 97 Drawing room 42Tennisstrokes 98 Aharbor 44Hammerheads 99 Outside: 47 Curing comb. form 49“‘DerBingle” 102 Solar disk 53Showy flower 104 Cover S4It’sa‘grand 105 Poet's word oldname”’ 106 Student org. 55Spanishuncles 109 Castle ditch 57 Canadian 111 Popular i cheese

2 Indolent one 3 Parts of speech 4 Retired 5 Exclamation 6 Announces * loudly 7 Peggy Lee hit 8 Olive genus 9“The—On” 10 Warp yarn 11 AnEast Indian grass 12 Circular 13 Cellulose acetate 14 Doctor’s org. 15 Stadium, for one 16 Aspider (dial.) 17 Arawakan language

48 Capricorn

50 Soap(Pharm.) 99 Overact

51 Edge

52 Ivy League college

54 Virus disease

56 Coveredby bony plates

59Castsaballot 107 Herecorded

61 Aninstant

64 Roman 104

66 Compass reading

67 Smiled warmly

69 Cudgels

‘70 Sweet secretion oneucalyptus leaves

71 BeehiveState

72 Competes

73 Man’s name

74 Threefold

and lyricist

100 Hue

101 Florida city

103 Variety of orange

105 Dull finish

106 Slyly malicious

“Mack the Knife” 108 ‘— Marner” 110 Russian news agency 112 Altered: comb. form 114 Geological division 115 Matured 117 American humorist 118 — Cochran 120 Uncle (dial.)

Average time of solution: 64 minutes.

Airport built by West Ger- mans, the large Cosmos Hotel built by the French, and other accommodations for the use of the visitors,

Unofficial estimates put the entire Moscow Olympics construction costs at around $400 million, fess than half the total for both Munich and Montreal. With labor turn- over being low in the Soviet Union, 40,000 Young Com-. munist League volunteers, battalions from the army, plus students from colleges and universities, haye helped out with material and manpower.

Every citizen in the So- viet Union has been made aware of the value of a suc- cessfully-promoted Olympics.

In visiting the facilities, I was impressed by what I saw. To get some idea of the prep- arations I interviewed several Mascovites.

“What has it meant to you?’’, I asked an 18-year-old student in languages in the University of Moscow.

“For me and other stu- dents,’ said Ira, ‘‘it has meant working each weekend for a year, visiting museums and learning about the ins and outs of being a guide. For us students it has also meant shortening the school year by two months in order to allow us to train and work in the hotels, information centres, the sports fields and other facilities connected with the Olympics.’’

To a taxi driver who is lucky enough to be officially designated for Olympic travel, it has meant taking a course in English and learn- ing about the historic sites of the city. The customer can get en route.

For one hotel worker, it has meant taking a course in the fine of being a

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good waiter and host, know- ledge of the Russian dishes, several languages and more.

Artists, actors, ballet dancers, singers, and instru- mentalists are normally away on holidays in summer, but all have stayed to entertain the guests. The Bolshoe Theatre, the Moscow Circus, the Pyat- nitsky Chorus, and the Moi- seyev Dance Ensemble are among the popular groups that opened their doors to the tourists.

As part of the construc- tion period which preceded for over four years, all im- portant museums, churches and historic buildings were remodelled. And there was a general clean-up of the city in Moscow, In fact, the city has never looked cleaner than now.

To prevent congestion, and permit rapid transit to sports facilities, Moscow was temporarily closed for the duration of the Olympics. Dis- trict cars were not allowed to come within 45 kilometres of the centre, in fact, Moscovites comment that the city has never been so quiet.

The metro, or the Soviet subway, has been made bilin- gual in English and Russian

Sony screens and other needs. In many ways, the Olympics has stimulated Moscow to become modern- ized with the latest technol-

cow and the other Olympic centres a better place in which to live. Housing will be offered to Soviet citizens, the sports facilities will become second-to-none in the world, and the Novosti Press Agency will take over the huge Press, centre. if In the process, thousands of Soviet citizens have gained new skills in another langu- age, the art of being host, or the use of new technology. The Olympic games for Moscow has become an asset rather than a liability; it has paid for itself because the projects involved have been budgeted as part of an over- all plan for the cities involved, so the taxpayers will not have to be burdened with extra costs for years to come, as in

ogy in trans- portation, food and accomo- dation.

Naturally, the Soviets are disappointed that the Japan- ese, Americans, Canadians, West Germans and other did not allow their athletes to the Olympics. The athletes here in Moscow would have en- joyed the competition offered by these countries.

“If it wasn’t for elections in the United “States,” said one taxi driver, ‘‘President Carter probably would not have boycotted the Olympics. Asa result, sports and politics got mixed up, and the losers were the athletes as well as the peoples of the world,”” he said.

The sacrifice of the Soviets will not be lost. All of the facilities will make Mos-

Results from Joy Keillor Bridge Club

Eight tables, with an av- erage of 84, took part in Monday night’s session of the Joy Keillor Bridge Club, with the following results:

North-South

First, Ian and Bev Mac- Donald — 98; second, Norm and Les Gailie — 96; third, Etuka Cameron and Rae Wel- lock — 85%.

East-West

First, Jim and Bev Swain — 101; second, Wayne Wyton and Mike Keffer — 87%; third, Jude Goodwin and Julie Smith — 8%.

In brief, Moscow has done everything efficiently, safely and in the spirit of. peace, friendship and beauty that embodies the traditional Olympic ideals. Moscow and the Soviet people have gained much from the Olympics.

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Achoice between family and freedom

By RICHARD COHEN of: the “Washington "Post “Writers Group

IN. CHICAGO, WALT. er Polovchak, 12 years old and evidently with a mind of his‘own, has annoucned that he would father remain in America without his par- ents than return ‘to the Soviet Union with them.

AS A. RESULT, HE has been given - political asylum here, setting up a classic confrontation over children’s rights and mak- ‘ing Walter, maybe, the first kid ever to defect from his family for political reasons, Think of the possibilities.

THE CASE IS A COM- plicated one. Walter and his family immigrated some six months ago. The father, unhappy here, has decided to return to’ his native Uk- raine, and take most of his Ttamily with him — his wife, Walter, and a six-year-old

‘son, Michael. (A 17-year-

old daughter has decided to stay behind.) : WALTER : GREETED the news by running away. . He hid out with cousins in the Chicago area. until

. found by the cops and, in » due course, the newspa-

pers. ‘Here is better than my country,” he declared with simple eloquence, ticking off such reasons as school, friends, and a new » bike — no small matter toa 12-year-old. yess

Times that try

THERE are times that are sent to try. us. And whoever said that said a mouthful.

Every time a child is born, first, second, 12th or grand- child, we are, tried with a ‘combination of fear and joy.

Every time an oldster dies, we are tried with regret, sor- row and nostalgia.

When a daughter is mar- tied, we are tried with grief, happiness, and the bank manager.

When we're applying fora job, we are’tried with sheer terror, a mind that functions like a rusty pump, and swea- ty armpits. * =

On the eve of an opera- tion, we are tried with a sud- den realization that we've let

WALTER'S INTRAN- sigence put the entire fam-

lily. before. officialdom and *

left his poor father’ dum- founded. ‘He assumed, as fathers have .through the ‘ages, that where he: went his family: would :,follow, ;

and he, for one, was golng |/:: back to the! Ukraine. With’:

evident pain, he says his son js being ‘kidnapped,’ ‘ WHILE THAT MAY. or may not be the case, it is true that as matters stand now he Js being ‘asked to.

choose between his son and _

his homeland.

WHAT. IS TROUB- ling about this case is that it does not involve the usdal © reasons that elther allow or compel authorities-to sep- arate a child from his fam- ily. No one yet has spoken about brutality or abandon- . ‘ment or neglect. Instead, the topic of. diseussion is what you could call politics.

_ |THE DESTINATION Walter's father chose for him was the Soviet Union.

“Had his father chosen En- gland. instead,'.no one would be before the ‘courts and. the Chicago” papers would have ‘been. silent on | the matter. 000 0" =

TQ. THE SOVIETS, the case must be stunning, and to appreciate how they must view it you.only have to ask what would happen ‘if the shoe weré'on‘the other

foot. What would "happen, ;

for instance, if ‘a’ ‘family

lightly tough enough to sole your boots, and the medium- rare steak so raw no self respecting wolf would eat it.

Or so well done you’ could ©

use it as charcoal on the barbecue.

Old friends try us, some- times thoroughly. After 15 minutes of eager conversa- tion during which they tell you how successful they are at Acme Screw and Gear,

wanted to emigrate’ from the Soviet Union to Amor- ica but was being held up by a 12-year-old: kid who cited his friends, his school,” and his bike?

WHAT WOULD.HAP- pen, of course, is that we. would all cheer if the father took the kid by the ear and. hauled: him. across the

, ocean, squealing in pain. Some decisions are too im- portant to be left to kids.

BUT SOME DECI. sions are too important — or too irreyocable — to be | left to adults. There. are some things parents cannot

do, or should not be able to

do.

‘. A TRIVIAL EXAMPLE that conies.to mind is giv- ing a child some’ idiotic name that seems at the.mo- ment to be a good idea. I cite, for example, america Hoffman, the child of for-*

_mer Yippie Abbie Hoffman, - who will have to explain all his life how he got the name

and why it is spelled with a |

small ‘‘a,”’

The Polovchak dilem- ma, is of course, more pro-' found: Walter might have

“ had to spend the rest of his life in the Soviet Union and, while “he- talks, now «of. schools and bikes and such things, he would have learned later that the crit- ical difference between So- viet and American fife is not any of those but, in- | stead, freedom. .

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to read next fall, Actually, -they’re about as sensitive as an old rubber boot, but their parents think they are. Here’s the situation. You , have 20,000 books. One third of them are. falling apart. Another one-fifth is so scrib- bled with obscenities by those sensitive youngsters that you »couldn’t peddle them .at a , burlesque sifow. ‘

Your budget for new

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our i with God slip rather badly in the last five years, and a sim- ultancous realization that surgeons are not God, and ‘one little slip means, you've lost your spleen instead of yout left ovary.

Wives and husbands are. sent to try us. The former with what Mary said to Edith before Gwen butted in, The latter with why they double- bogied the 17th hole.

Politicions try us. And try us, and try us, and try us. And we always wind up with a gaggle of geese nobody in his right mind would vote for. t

Preachers try us, either by reminding us we have sinned and there is no health in us, or going off into a tedious half-hour dialogue with God, who must be as bored as the congregation.

Waitresses try us. They don’t wipe the table. They bring the two-eggs-over-’

they ask: ‘‘And~ how's Jack?” Since you've never: had a brother called Jack, John, Johann, fan, Sean or Jan, and your two sisters are Mabel and Myrtle, this can be quite trying. Best answer is: “Fine. How's Archie?” You then find yourself talk- ing about two people neither of you ever knew.

Some of my craftier read- ers will long since have realiz- ed that this is merely an inor-

dinately lengthy introduction -

to.a personal experience that is trying. In other words, a long spiel to a pain in the arm. .

Right on,. crafty readers. The most trying time for the head of the English depart- ment is the end of June. Alone on your bowed shoul- ders and greying head is the chore of deciding what 1,500 sensitive teenagers are going

books is the same as it was, eight years ago. Books have

, doubled and trebled in cost.

‘Well, no problem there. You simply sprinkle some gaso- line around the book storage center and drop a match, hoping you don’t burn. the

whole shoe factory. But there’

is a problem. The books aren’t insured.

Of course, you get. great ‘support. from your English teachers. Their fastes range

) RHE QUESTION really is‘ whether ‘a parent has:a right, for, reasons of his own, to condemn a child toa lifetime in a totalitarian country. °

IT’S NOT AN EASY question to answer. If the answer for Walter’ is to remain in America, why should it be different for his little brother. simply -be- cause he is still too young to have voiced ‘an opinion of where he would like to live?. After all, he, too,. would have had to live out his life in the Soviet Union.

IN FACT,

) THE sorts of could be

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asked of parents embarking for places like ‘the. grue- - some Jonestown or, for that matter, anywhere a child will live’ poorer materially

decision irrevocable. In the case’ of little Walter, it is. What would be missing for him would be the all-im- portant element‘of choice. _ By staying in America, he retains just that — choice. He can always decide later where he wants to live. FO! YONE IN- volved, the choices: have been awiul — family vs. country. But Walter has chosen well, It’s not that a boy doesn’t need his fam- ily.-It’s rather that a mi needs his freedom. : — Vancouver San

whom have never read a book from cover to cover in their lives. Thiey know tess

. about sex and profanity than

the veriest Grade Sixers. Hovering behind the cen- sors is the great body of ad- tministrators, educators and politicians, huddled in terror that their sponsorship of a book might cost them a job, a vote, or a censure from

"some. other .nit. who has

from Dickens, who turns the _

kids off like a tie in summer, to the Texas Chain Saw Mur- ders, which ‘would probably turn them right’on. After these suggestions, they — the English teachers — go off to sail their boats or stride the golf course,

And lurking in the wings, of course, are the self-

— appointed. censors, most of

ascended to the height of

"his/her competence.

Ah, what the heck. It hap-

= pens every year. I’m too old ** to go back to: The Mill On - The, Floss, the most boring

book I’ve ever read. A Tale of Two Cities is liable to stir’ up the Pequistes in Quebec. Uncle Tom's Cabin will in- furiate the black militants. We'll hang in there with: Huckleberry Finn, a homosexual novel about a black man and a white red- neck; Who Has Seen: The Wind, a filthy novel- about the sex life of pigeons; Henry IV, Part One,'abdout an old drunk and a young libertine; Hamiet, a play about an in- cestuous hippie; Lord Of The Flies, a novel about kids murdering each other; True Grit, with 17 violent deaths; The Great Gatsby,

do.

My, baby’s firat words were, ‘'There’s nothing to

\had hoped It might be something like “ma-ma"' or “*da-da,"" but It was still exciting for us. | called. my

husband at work and as he listened to this small voice

the words sloorly on the

words cloarty

That's NA proudly. : “TL know, He's been saying It since he got up thia

morning.”* :

He was to continue saying-it until he got his own

: apartment at the age of 23. In all that time, we never

agreed on what is ‘‘something to do.’* ‘ His idea was always something that involved elther

a car, lots of running water, something from the attic,

permission from the police, refreshments, aiadder to the

horns or a Blue Cross card.

‘roof, his father’s tools, a credit card, music, hats and

My Idea: included the basics: putting things in boxes, sorting, cutting grass, running errands, hanging

- Established trends fortell the future

- ‘Canada becoming less imp

By MOIRA FARROW.

CANADA IS ON ITS way to a’ future of less international. importance, more U.S. domination and an almost.equal size work- force of men and women chasing after too many jobs. 2 ‘

next 50 years looks to Toronto’ consultant: John Kettle but he emphasized that his predictions are based on trends already well established.

HE TOLD A’ STAND- ing-room-only seminar at ‘the First Global Cc 3

cent and 40 per cent res- .pectively. a ~ “$0 OUR ABILITY

rt and our connection ’ « with other countries are de-

creasing’ he said. ‘‘And we're linking oufselves to the U.S. which is declining so our own decline becomes faster.’’

KETTLE SAID CAN- ada has few options to change this situation. He said it would be enormously expensive to buy back our U.S.-owned companies, im- possible to link with Europe because ‘‘they don’t want us” and to link

on. the . Future :that *Can- ada’s - booming.: affluence. has peaked and its rapidly increasing work-force is go- ing to mean trouble.

“WE BECOM- ing more closely linked to the U.S.” said Kettle, who quoted statistics from many sol

urces. HE SAID THAT IN the last 50 years Canada’s exports to western Europe has fallen from 25 per cent to nine per cent and those _to the U.S. have increased from 35 to 70 per cent. “WE ARE CUTTING ourselves off from Europe as.a trading partner be- cause Europe prefers to, trade within the European ic Ci

ing a weird bootlegger; Drac- ula, which the kids love; and The Pearl, in which a guy kills four people and his baby has its head shot off. Then there are: Of Mice and Men, in which a chap shoots his buddy, a moron, in the back of the head, and Julius Caesar, in which the lead character is stabbed 16 times by his buddies. ©Argyle Communications Inc.

said Kettle. ‘But our links to the U.S. in language, trade, economics, © televi- sion, books, pop culture and newspapers using’U.S. news services .are strong and pervasive. :

: SAID CANAD. used to provide.75 per cent © of the world’s nickle and 60 per cent. of the. world’s newsprint but those figures have now fallen to 25 per .

with Japan ‘because they

only want. our raw mat- .

-erlals.”” He .commented:

~“'I’m somewhat gloomy

about our international re- lations.””

KETTLE SHOWED graphs to illustrate that the more educated a woman is the more likely she is to have a job. By the year 2025 the workforce will have only 10 per cent fewer women than men, mainly because of the effect of education of women,

EFORE THE SEC- one World War ‘less than one-third of the workforce was made up of women. “It’s also true that the more ecucation you get, the less children you have’’ said Kettle. ‘Education is like a contraceptive. Wo- men with education become more interested in their careers and see themselves as men do— as people with potential.’

BY THE YEAR 2000 he said, about SO per cent of women will have some Post secondary education. And in the next 30 to 50 years the workforce as a

A solution for nothing to do ,

things on hangers, growing up, doing homework,

clearing the table, helping the elderly and developing an.

, attitude toward social change.

The problem ‘is that children: are taught to be spectators from the: moment they are born.

We stand over their cribs entertaining them with funny faces, hide behind our hands and try to scare them -7 half to death, put a rattle in each hand and dance, sing to © them, glve monologues while we change diapers, play

games when we feed them we bed them down at night.

, and tall them stories when

Their potty chairs have recordings in them, their * cribs have twirling mobiles, thelr chairs have springs and wheels, their car seats have horns and steering wheels,

they're‘an audience for it.

@.: their eating bowls have pictures In the bottom, their dolls talk and their pillows squeak. “ As they get older, math becomes a

game and = athletics become a spectator sport. They don't live life , .

The cure for ‘‘There's nothing to do” should be -” obvious. Always keep a list of chores on hand to fill the”

whole will double. “BUT IT’S UNLIKELY

that .the’’ population _..will” an

double so there will over supply of workers,”’ he

sald, Be)

. KETTLE PREDICTED that the result will be un- employment or else people

3+ will have to work less or be

less efficient.

“RIGHT THERE YOU have the makings of large social and economic prob- _lems and the possibility of

make the situation worse so we need ‘inefficient .ma- chines, typewriters that

work. more. slowly; some _

horses on the farm, and more hand work.

“THE OTHER POSSI- bility is that we'll work only 10 or 20 hours a week or only 10 years out of a life- time.” : :

COMMENTING 0! the post-war baby boom when Canada’s annual birthrate soared from 250,000 to 400,000, Kettle said that from 1951 to 1966 seven millidén Canadians were born, almost one-third Canada’s current popula- tion.

THIS “BIG GENERA- tion" said Kettle, is now in the workforce facing great

competition for both em- -

ployment and promotion.

HE SAID THE LUCKI- est Canadians alive today were born in 1938 because they never had to look for a job or ask for pomotion. He | said the big generation was brought up in an era of rising expectations and. af- fluence that will never oc- cur again so they have high hopes which probably won't be fulfilled.

portant’ |

“1 LOOK FORWARD with trepidation to the time when the big gen

eration get political” he sald. “But *

1984 all the big generation © will be in the electorate and .we'll probably see new pol- itical parties formed.”

Kettle doubted that the big generation wil pro-

* duce a second baby boom and said one child per

* couple is most likely which is less than replacement

+ level. So by the year 2000 Canada’s population will probably be declining with- out immigration.

HE ADDED THAT Canada’s greatest problem is to survive until 2000 be-' cause after that new forms of energy will be available. But he warned that Canada and the western world is now so dependent on im- ported oil that a revolution in Saudi Arabia could bring industrialized countries close to a standstill.

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By SHELLEY BANKS A little white house in the suburbs, a commuting * husband and a wife who stayed home with their 2.2 kids, was one of the old myths ‘about marriage.

But the reality is changing: Nucleat families are getting more and more difficult to find, housing prices are soaring out of reach, and husbands are no longer the only bread- winners.

‘Two-career marriages have become . the rule, rather than the exception. * [think the cost of living is so high, I don't see how people manage with- -out two paycheques,” said Pat Cook, head librarian at Britannia Public Library. She's been working for 12 years, since her children were old enough for school. “It's more challenging than sitting home and washing floors,” she said.

“We have seriously considered having just one

Two-career

_ person work and the other » stay at home,” said her husband, Paul, brarian at King Edward Campus of Vancouver Community College, and the one who'd like to be at home? “But we prefer to have two paycheques. It outweights the disadvan- tages.” i Two incomes for many couples mean the freedom to take time off, to take professional gambles or save for a new home or business. “When the kids were small, I stayed home

. becaucs I wanted to,” said Evie Atkinson, who quit work ‘for four years re- cently to go into civic politics. “Once they were in school, I was chomping at the bit.” ,

i So she got a job.as a private secret » “For 19 years, we Teel yn what I made. We salted his salary away for the building.” Twelve years ago, the new repair shop finished, she

head li--

joined husband Lorne at Ace Cycle. ~

Money, symbol of power in the marketplace, often means power at home as well, and the partner who earns the most, traditionally the man, is thought of as the family. authority figure. But, as women more into the professional sphere, more and more wives are -out-earning their male companions,

“I earn slightly more than him,” said Pat, laugh-

But she ‘said her

“He thinks it’s great. It

doesn't really matter, does _

it? It’s all coming in to the same house. I work longer hours than he does. He has better vacations, It all

she'd twice as much as I do,” agreed Paul. “I don’t see anything wrong with that at all.”

marria

. However, not all couples are as comfortable with their salary split. A Vancouver real estate ageat who earns consider- ably less than his wife, a family doctor, was willing to talk, but his wife re- fused. “She feels touchy about it,” he explained.

For the Cooks, two careers mean more than extra money to help put their family of four ‘through school. “There's a sense of friendship and companionship,” said Pat. “We are in the same field.

, We are generally inter- ested in the same sorts of areas.” 3 And competition, that

poe] similar jobs, is the least of their worries: “Had we not been working in the same field, we probably wouldn't have met, anyway,” said Paul.

But marriages like

these have added prob- lems: “In two-career mar- riages, there are simply ore things ot take care of — the jobs, the house, the children,” said Dr. Ellen ,Berman, marriage counsel- lor and University of Pen- nsylvania psychiatrist. “Nobody has - spare time for the minor things that make life easier, like calling the plumber and buying toilet paper... At night, both partners are - exhausted and don’t have much emotional strength for each other or the chil- dren, much less friends.” “We don't have to “make an appointment with each other, but we do find time together very pre-, cious,” said. Doreen Bra- verman, who runs the Flag Shop and a screen printing operation. Husband Jack runs an advertising busi- ness, “It's not a 40-hour week by any means. I work atleast a six-day week. We both work very long

ges the rule, not t

hours.”

And-a Cornell Uni- versity study found women in two-career relationships still bear major responsi- bility for household man- agement and child care. Their workday simply grows longer.

: “I am definietely the homemaker,” agreed Mer- la Beckerman. Less than two years ago, she became

e exception

always have an au pair who lives in. That's the secret of a nice, happy home life.” She said it isn't as expen- sive as it might seem: “A lot of the girls ‘aren't looking for money. They'll do it in exchange for room and board,”

And with an au pair to do ironing and prepare supper, and a weekly cleaning woman to do the

a partner in Cr 'y Art Collecti which

rest, said househol is

buys art work for city of- fices. “That's definitely my responsibility. Jerry's time just doesn't permit it.” But there are ways around the traditional

easy: “When I come home, I don't have to get into the drudgery. I feel very strongly that when you have two working persons, you don't have to be the

model. A said their children are old enough to look after themselves, and

both she and Lorne try to-

ignore the housework. “Our kitchen floor gets to the point where you are tripping over the dirt,” she said, a For Braverman, hired help is the answer: “I

Although working couples are in the majority, much of society doesn’t recognize them. Delivery people still expect someone

to wait around for them;.

repairmen assume some- one will be home. Cook said she has to insist they set a time. “They don’t have

“heard of marriages split-

much choice, do they? If T'm paying for the service, they come when it’s con- venient for me.” She paused. “I had a slight argument with the Cable- vision people . . .”"

Being partners in busi- ness as well as at home, as the Atkinsons are, can cause problems: “I had

ting up, but it’s delightful,”, she said. “You get a read- ing without even having to say anything ... He's the boss until 6 and after 6 'm~ the boss.”

But after such close contact throughout . the year, they take separate vacations: “We don’t take holidays at the seme time. Not that we can't. stand each other. But Lorne’s- into cycling. When he goes on holidays, he'll go with a couple of buddies and go to Germany for three weeks. I go to Maui.” i

—The Vancouver San