European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes january 1981 Russell Baker a Friend of mine goes Down to the Sunbelt every year about this and a Sensi ble thing it is to if you can swing it i thought of him the other morning when the thermometer outside the window stood at 3 degrees below and it is an absolute certainty that he thought about and Felt the reason i know this is that he telephones every january when the temperature outside my window goes Down around Zero and asks if i am suffering not neglecting to men Tion that he is getting a Tan while sipping Coco nut milk by the swimming you could be cruel to this Man by refusing to answer the but he has a lot of friends up Here and would keep phoning until he reached somebody to congratulate him on being in the since cruelty to friends comes hard to i always take his Calls and Tell him i am suffering is a White being mid i do not have to sleep on the Side and though Winter has never been a Pas Sion of i like to suffer it because it makes the coming of Spring seem twice As i Tell him i am miserable because it improves his Day Down there in the i go on about this because of the Federal commission which suggested recently that the government ought to Aid and abet Migra Tion from the icy zones to the at first this seemed like an excellent Al though 1 was reasonably sure that the Sunbelt politicians would scream about if you were comfortably dug in Down in the Sunbelt and really liked you certainly  want the government encouraging hordes of people from Newark and Camden and Youngstown and hundreds of failing Little towns from new England to North Dakota to move in on would you a lot of those people Are hard pressed for and if you Are comfortably dug into a place and really like the last thing you want is to have the neigh boyhood overrun by people hard pressed for they drive Down run up the Cost of social services and bring children who Are going to need More up go your whats a great Deal of Sunbelt territory is already having trouble finding water to sup port its present the hordes from blizzard country Are not going to bring the great lakes with it int Sunbelt politicians who Are howling against government abetted it is the new York poli this is hard to explain once you get beyond the fact that new York politicians Are natural if i read them they do not want new yorkers going they like having More people to govern than they can govern this keeps the unemployment Fig ures High and the welfare costs staggering and makes the subways both dirtier and and of they particularly dont want Well heeled new yorkers pulling out of Man Hattan and going since not All these Wel Todo manhattanite Are engaged in tax free some actually pay we All know what that Means to a no mat Ter where he comes in their protests the new York pols conjure a picture of an Arctic wasteland stretching across the Northern half of the nation with once great cities All but abandoned and dying in the slush while the government subsidizes the tanning of America Over Coconut milk by the swimming 1 am not sure this picture would terrify me if Oki mis Advance pfc sure to Send a i were spending this january in Cam Youngstown or one of those hundreds of failing towns Between Maine and the Northern it might even make me lust a bit for Palm when i think of my Friend Down there by the swimming Pool this Telephone in his picture seems too farfetched to be in his the pleasure of the Sunbelt requires the existence of blizzard coun no pleasure without As the philosopher imagine for a moment that the dimmest possibility comes to pass and that the toasty Southland harbours practically everybody of whatever degree doing All those things they now do Down South plus All those things that Are now done up what do we have same old but without cold everybody running the air conditioner All sum Mer instead of the Furnace All and enjoying tepid air in the who Are you going to Telephone in january to savor the pleasure of your Sunbelt condition by hearing about your fellow mans frostbite if there is nobody left to Tell you How luckily situated you Are Down you Are stuck like All the rest of the country with nothing but insufferable summer heat and the Monotony of unchanging seasons the rest of the in the Sunbelt needs a thriving North Ern Community to keep its people contented with reminders that blazing Summers and three unchanging though not much to cheer Are not worst of All possible with its growing political it will compel the government to subsidize the perpetuation of such a the place it chooses to will Proba Bly be new since it is not Only a great place to visit but also a great place to complain c new York Wirries Giscard will visit Vatican this month Vatican City a Pope John Paul ii will receive French president Valery Giscard Destain in an official visit the Pope will see Giscard at the end of his scheduled today trip to the Vatican the French president had planned to come Here last november but postponed the visit because of the devastating 23 earthquake in Southern across 1 american cartoonist 5 chatter idly 8 River Valley 12 recorded proceedings 13 land of the free 14 Lamb pseudonym 15 kind of pie 17 greek letters 18 fortify 19 pub order 20 for one 21 gaming cube 22 encore in Paris 23 liberates 26 deprives of office 30 fixed routine 31 Public vehicle 32 indians 33 some children 35 etching Needle 38 oscillate 37 Anglo Saxon letter 38 old Nick 41 in favor of 42 Jane or John 45 stage direction 46 thorough 48 in Caen 49 Circle segment 50 handle 51 equal 52 Shea player 53 suppose Down 1 in Madrid 2 Maple Genus 3 Check 4 faucet 5 Craft and treachery 6 the Chama 7 exclamation of contempt 8 Georgia and Alabama 9 choir Section 10 Ananias was one 11 Sunrise direction 16 speakers platform 20 drink slowly solution time 24 113 answer to yesterdays 21 fifty fathoms 22 egyptian god 23 brother 24 anglers need 25 zone 26 defective bomb 27 filthy place 28 Moray 29 Compass Reading 31 entreat 34 treat hides 35 Street sign 37 upright 38 ooze 39 wheel spindle 40 Ceramic Square 41 in France 42 unit of Force 43 Platinum wire Loop 44 popular cheese 46 beavers edifice 47 papa s crossword 12 tit w 23 38 45 48 51 24 39 25 40 21 36 16 19 34 13 31 46 49 41 22 37 20 35 14 17 32 47 50 53 27 42 10 28 43 29 44 113 dear Onn Landers dear Ann Landers i know you have More urgent problems to at tend but this Means a whole lot to i have been babysitting for a woman for almost seven two months ago they closed the Bridge Between her Side of town and mine for the Bridge is not i was going to Call and Tell but it was on the front Page of our newspaper so i didst think a Call was Nec when she came to pick me up quite late that i asked what she said she got lost again because she is used to com ing across the when she was driving me to her place she started to take the i re minded her again the Bridge Road is open and didst you see it on Page 1 in the newspaper last night she if it want in Ann Landers i didst read so will you please put a word in your column telling Kreuger that the College Bridge is open thanks a Jeanne in dear Jeanne Kreuger is going to get lots of phone for sure she will remember that the Bridge is open from now dear Ann Landers help i am a 26yearold married Wom an with two Small my Mother is driving me she Doest Trust my dad Worth a and i am getting the Brunt of mom listens in on All dads phone she goes through his Wallet and grills him As if he were a this goes on she Calls me every Day and asks when i last saw what did he where has he who did he see when i Tell her i Haven talked to dad in several she accuses me of covering up for him and being a party to whatever he is supposed to be dad is retired but spends a lot of time on his real estate and other i dont think he has any desire to fool around at i have never seen any signs of please Tell me what i can do to get my Mother off my uninvolved dear sounds As if your Mother is a sick you can do nothing but suggest professional help to relieve her Annie at this is the Way you should present it to peo ple who Are excessively suspicious when there Are no grounds for it need dear Ann Landers a while Back someone wrote and asked if you could suggest a tactful Way to get those Las ditch stragglers to go Home after a i wanted to write at the but As i put it i Hope in not too late to add a gimmick that works very Well in our when people stay on beyond the time we find my husband stands up and lets go to bed so our guests can go everyone but they All get the hint silly but dear Nice if it its in not knocking i used to go in the Kitchen and come out with a Box of com that c Field enterprises