European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse Hire a Dot Auto executive sunday june 15, 1980george Mair the stars and stripes Page 15 and get a rebate . Businessmen invite government regulation business executives Are heard complaining Mure and More that government regulates them Loo much and yet Loo often they behave in ways that demand More and More regulation. Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan loves to note that general motors spends is billion a year and employs 23.000 people just to comply with government regulations. Still business invites regulation through irresponsible and deliberate anti social behaviour. Check these recent examples Firestone tire and rubber has agreed to pay a $500.000 Fine the largest penalty Ever assessed under the Federal Law. Tor not recalling 400.000 unsafe tires. The previous record Holder for such fines was general motors Ronnie Reagan s favorite for refusing to Tell car owners about a defective Carburettor plug. It paid $400,000. There Are insecticide manufacturers who make agricultural poisons banned from use in the ., but thai they sell overseas. Not Only Are foreign workers endangered but the Poison gels into food that is shipped Lolic . And ends up on our tables. There is widespread dumping of hazardous waste that endangers the lives of thousands of americans. The Environ mental Protection Agency says there Are several thousand unsafe dumps in the country and the latest news about genetic damage from he love canal is one example of what can happen. The Story goes on from unsafe tunnelling to contaminated food to flammable pyjamas to plastics that produce poisonous Gas. If business conducted itself in respectable ways and Industry policed itself government regulation would not be needed. They Don to so govern Cal Nusi. John Roche keeping up with a society in flux last night on to we heard a Dis Cussion on the breakdown of the family the problems of one Parent relationships and the remedies needed for the trauma impacted on children. Some of the Vocab ulary Shook me parenting has become dysfunctional for example. When did Par ent become a verb Bui the interesting aspect of the round table was its historical innocence. It was fascinating for one whose paternal ancestors were seamen to hear about the sad Fate of youngsters who weren t a in Correct English As opposed to social work Csc. The children in question obviously were fathered but in this usage the concern was the absence of daddy to bid his Little Georgic or Sally goodnight and be a role Model. Now a Century and a half ago Nicholas Aloysius Roche or Francis Xavier Kelly or any of 50 others would kiss their wives and children in Brooklyn climb aboard ship and vanish Over the horizon. The families they left behind were substantial my father was one of 11. They would not be fathered for maybe a year. A Century ago Alois Novak and his fellow slavic americans worked in the Anthracite mines. 10 hours a Day. Six Days a week. True they went Home at night but had Little time or Energy to father their broods except in the Correct sense of the word. They could not Lake the kids to the museum of science. Unknowingly they were role models by god. They wanted their Young sters logo to school and become Good american citizens. By projection we might expect that this Seething mass of a fathered children to be the basis for a nation of catatonic schizophrenic disoriented traumatized zombies. Some sociologists have in fact so described the United Stales but icy have confused history with autobiography. On inc con Crary. Inc a fathered grew up to be Aboul As sane and Ducci i a body of Cili cons As one could ask reason As that in certain vital respects inc past worked. To say this is Noi to push the myth of a Golden age six of my father s siblings died in childhood of Dis eases the average contemporary doctor would fail to diagnose. How Many today have encountered a Case of typhoid or diphtheria la was a Lough soc icly Wilh a lot of rough cd i hut it provided thai sense of comm a which contemporaries miss in our n Pik to ten rootless polity. First of ,. Ii he working class sector i am a scr a the Power Structure was a Iriart it inc probably scr i a i i this thai has led working c is women to resent the professional women s libbers whom icy think want to Trade Power for glory. When my maternal grandma decided her Mother in Law had Moocher on grandpa Long enough she went to the third floor bedroom and Ihrck great grandma s bed out inc window into inc Street. Could Gloria stir Tom match thai second and american churches have been slow to realize in clergy played import land roles As surrogate parents. In 1900, with grandpa Roche off to sea. If dad and his brother Arlie got into a Nasty fight. Grandma would say boys Slop it or i la Send for father was not a guitar playing priest who spent his time signing petitions against the South korean govern ment. No. He pal o Brien of the Lac Lac show a big Lough irishman who would Bell hell out of inc boys. Ihnn temper it with absolution. Then there was inc extended family usually in Elisc geographical proximity. I once calculated that around 1930 i had Over 20 first cousins in Brooklyn. It was symptomatic of the transformation of America mores that i hardly knew them but mine was the first generation to escape. Which makes the Point we were Liber ated from that mini police state. Inc extended family and now american soc icly is confronting inc Price of liberation. In 1900 if aunt Kathryn had logo to work to make ends meet her spinster sister would come by and take care of the kids. If Grai Uncle Frank went gently senile his son would put him in the third floor backroom i emerge from a three Story Brown Sion House universe and All hands w Ould Cher ish him. The breakdown of Icse traditional institutions has led to automatic resort to slate action to fill the vacuum. Much of this is essential but bureaucracies do Noi special ize in love and love is the Core of Par perhaps if our churches spent less time on civil rights in Chile and More on Emma lactic outreach to the neighbourhood lonely part of this Gap would be filled. 1c Kino feature
