European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 8, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                April 1985 the stars and stripes Page 11 Ann Landers letters dear Ann Landers while we were captioning several weeks daddy treated the family to dinner in a Nice res the Check came to this was for five we Are not drinkers so there were no wine or my dad left a just As we were heading for the our waitress came Over to daddy and the tip should be 15 percent of the sir he was very embarrassed and gave her another i am Only 16 years but i think my judgment is i was very upset by the waitress i feel that no one should be obligated to give a i realize that waitresses depend on tips to because their Basic salaries Are so but certain people like us dont have a lot of Money to eating in a Nice place once in a while is a big treat and just paying the Bill was a Strain on am i wrong about this sign me off in Chicago dear ticked you Are not although a 15 percent tip is the expected if it is not a waitress should never approach a customer and ask for More Many people resent tipping and feel the restaurant owners should pay their employees a living i but its a if restaurant owners were forced to do they would have to charge the customers so you and i wind up paying either since we cant lets keeping tipping those wait ers and they work hard and need the dear Ann Landers i am a 24yearold divorced woman with two Small i have been on my own for almost three years and can Tell you that the decent men out there Are few and far several i met a very Nice Sam is 23 and an Only we liked each other from the moment we met and have been spending a great Deal of time he is wonderful to my kids and they Are crazy about he has his own apartment but sometimes spends the night with last saturday night Sams parents tried to get hold of him and he was at my they started to phone at 7 and gave up at 5 in the morn they chewed him out for two Days about spending the night lord knows finally he got mad and told them that what he did nights was none of their i can understand his parents frustration and feel very guilty about what Hap what should i do i hate to be the cause of trouble Between Sam and his should i Tell him he cant stay at my place All night anymore even though i love being with him and we plan to marry next year in Texas dear mid since Sam does not live at Home he should not have to answer to his parents about where he spends Bis Howe i believe that a woman with Young children should not allow a Man to sleep although we Are living in an age when everything i cling to the very Square notion that this sort of thing does not make for 9 morally healthy Environ ment for dont criticize military says Reader recently a writer criticized a medical command doctor for referring to soldiers As kids in an article where the doctor was interviewed about col weather the writer stated that he was in the old brow shoe riddled with draftees and civil Law evaders constituting a much lower Caliper of personnel than we have in the dedicated and professional enlisted peo ple who serve with Pride i was also in the old brow shoe army in and and we were constantly riddled with the Dod records show that always Dur handling of packages questioned i am writing this letter in concern of the Way the United states postal service handles before i left the United states in August mailed three packages to the 21st re placement in because that is where it said to mail them on my two months after i arrived in i wrote 21st replace ment and they wrote Back and said if they got them they would be on received a letter from my sister in the United states saying two packages came Back and she had two weeks later i received but no one knows what happened to the third i came Back from the Field on 15 and received a the Box was taped up with the top of my third package taped to i opened it and Only half of my belongings were in it is bad enough it took four months for that one package to get but my personal be longings such As certificates and tapes cassette were who would want them they could have kept the Field jacket and other but Why my very important per Sonal belongings i wish someone would look into it and let me those items Are not 4 Wayne Watzke Germany editors note staff Mario mail services he 1st personnel he replies the United states postal service and the military postal system move millions of parcels a Small number of them Are lost or damaged or some of their contents get separated from the Container or wrapping while in were truly sorry that your package was one that suffered this there May be some the uses has established a system to help customers with such when articles Are found in the postal system and the addressee cannot be Ridenti they Are sent to the dead parcel Post Branch in new the items which were missing from your package May have been sent please Contact your local postal officer who will assist you in completing the necessary paper work to inquire about if your package was he will also assist you in filing a claim foray missing or damaged we advise our patrons to attach a slip of paper inside the parcel showing the name and address of the sender and addressee for identification purposes in Case the outside addresses Are obliterated in cockfighting Story criticized it seems highly improper that the stars and stripes should publish a two Page Fea Ture article extolling the Virtues of an activity which is illegal in 42 i refer to the practice of in Day of flying the a correspondent presented a glamorous Pic Ture of cockfighting in puerto Rico and the shrewd figures handlers and gamblers who make it the article ignores the seedy racketeer ing that always accompanies this kind of and instead of the stringy corpses dragged from pools of we see the crusty with its spurs and mutilated representing the machismo of the Veteran along with Bull Coon on a and All other animal death contests Are perpetrated solely for mans amusement staged an Imal fights inflict needless pain and harassment on but there is a danger in seeing animal con tests As merely they Are also demoralizing and detrimental to human the bullfight and the cockfight survive in other countries because tourists and journalists continue to patronize them As Art or a vestige of a More heroic bygone they fail to recognize such spectacles for what they really Are a pitiful and gruesome Public Slaughter and a degrading sport for a civilized perhaps next time the stars and stripes will exercise its editorial responsibility be fore printing articles which condone activities that Are immoral and repugnant to the american Melville Germany German Motorist saved the Day Ive read Many letters written about Ger Man american relations Here is one More to the i think of it As one person helping on was driving from bad to Augsburg in my a when i started having the Rotor i was using tape to hold it Ogeth however it would not hold for Long periods of 1 pulled into a parking place and asked a German Motorist if he had some electrical he but offered to Tow my car to the next Gas station and pay for the part that i needed 1 had no this Motorist pulled my car to the Gas Sta Tion and received information As to where a Dat Sun dealer was he then pulled my car across town to the the Dat Sun dealer gave him directions on How to get to a Toyota located in another he then drove to the next located the Deal paid for the parts i needed and re turned to my this Man then waited until i had started my car to make sure that i would not need any More i had asked for his name Many at one time he when in in America and have trouble you can help after buying the parts that i needed he finally gave me his name Egon to Grimmeit i say com Herzen vie Len Viel Glueck und gute Rex Bolen Germany its party time again if annual end of the year party Means some thing to read Terrie and Shell la would like to hear from former Yokota players looking for those up pictures and were both stationed in Germany and wed like to organise a former up members annual end of the year Contact Hwo erty Box 2192 Apo 09130 or Johnsto Conle Safe Serpai Apo ing a the military reflects a better Cross Section of society and has a higher Caliper Soldier than we have with an Al Volunteer we certainly had fewer category fours and less violent More men completed their first and the Dod did not dumb Down the training manuals and add pictures to help get the message i Well remember the time when we would come in from throw our on our grab a Towel and hit the showers try that in july when i first enlisted in the old army air the standing army had about the draft started in late 39 and by the end of 1945 the military forces were around 10 million i would say that the original standing army of was pretty much riddled with we had a big demobilization after but a couple of years later the draft was renewed and we were again riddled with draftees during after the same old Story big a few years later Vietnam reared its ugly head and again we were riddled with draftees and possibly a few civil Law Evad Wii was won by draftees Ameri draftees americans were stopped Short of Victory in and draftees americans were not allowed to win in in the event we have another our present 2 million military Force will no doubt gain about eight million and again be riddled with i cant give you the exact figure of How Many were killed listed As missing in and but in sure that 90 percent or More of that number was draftees and civil Law Johnson Germany european edition Usa editor in chief Cdr us Proctor Deputy editor in chief managing editor Blackwell Mcdermott production manager circulation manager this newspaper is an authorized unofficial publication for members of the military services contents of the stars and stripes Are not necessarily the official views or endorsed the the department of defense or the european the appearance of advertising in this including inserts 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