European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 19, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes july 1985 columns today crossword whats a vacation without noise by is this the noise pollution authority it this is Kmim on vacation at Tash Moo Pond and i Haven heard any noise All Day a let me Check the you were supposed to have a Crew cutting Down a dead tree in the next Yard at i Oclock this they didst show and i slept until 8 Ive Iell Rotten All did a private Jet Fly Over your House at i Haven heard a plane All what kind of an authority do you people run when a Guy cant get sufficient noise to satisfy his Basic vacation needs were doing the Best we we put you Down for a to Clear the land behind your but we had to Send it Over to Lesley Pines because the couple there Only rented a House Lor a week and claimed Priori in you people should have enough pollution devices to satisfy new York City were not new As matter of our authority slay in business if we didst have noise pollution volunteers available for a Large percentage of our in we City people Are used to getting noise when we want the silence is driving me i sit on my porch in my rocking chair and All i hear Are the Sweeting of Birds and the occasional voice of the Turtle in the did the boy show up with his electric hedge Cutter at the til tons he was scheduled to be there from 2 to 5 when you were taking your lie did i complained to Bob Tilton and he said it was none of my business when he has his Hedges mobs very much against weve had complaints about him its 6 Oclock and in having guests for Why dont you Send Over a garbage truck so we cant hear ourselves think we dont Send out garbage truck Crews after 5 would you consider three or four motorcycles revving up in front of your House at this stage in willing to take wait a the dispatcher said we had an Emer there is an old lady in Oak Bluffs who just got Home from the Hospital and he sent the Hells Angels you must have someone who can disturb the we have a Bunch of Bee drinking College kids who will play hard Rock outside your bedroom but there booked up until this is the worst summer Ive Ever Ive been Here 10 Days and spent three of them in utter please dont we sent out a Road Crew to dig up your Street they used their pneumatic drills for four hours and then broke for i dont Call that the authority is doing the Best it everybody wants noise pollution when they arc on but no one is willing to pay for i dont want you to Tell me How Tough your life All i care to know is Are you going to Send someone to get on my nerves or Arent you if you dont Tell i believe i have Good news for there going to Start building a condominium across the Street from you next and it should take two the noise from digging a new foundation will be enough to drive you up the ill believe it when i hear it with my own two c 1985 los Angeles times Syndicate fear of losing kids is sign of times try i Ooiman Boston Iii a supermarket in Maine there is a poster of a it says that she is there arc Oiler such faces boys and 3 years 1 i years x years hanging like the most wanted in Public some Are on the Highway toll others on the hic ago or on milk or on Gas All of them Are in new Jersey last they began fingerprinting school in North they put microdot into the molars of some at Tufts uni they developed a technique for these Are in just in children Are Ever Over the past year or the alar about the abduction of children has been raised a television special or a talk show or a a hot line dial Congress declared a National missing childrens the Media rounded up the usual statistics million children a year it has taken All this time for the facts to catch up with our bleakest just we hear that there Are not children a year abducted by child find in new York has altered its estimate to 600 such Kidnap and the Fri says 67 were reported in nor Are there million missing children in this the Fri among the the overwhelming majority 90 percent there Are differ ent figures from different Peoples arc runaways As they say of the perhaps As Many As 90 percent have been taken by one Parent from another in a disintegrating Are those children All at risk but this is not the fear that grips most parents who let a child walk to school for the first who leave the children alone in the who lose a preschooler in the shopping who wait for a child to come Home from and wait and it is the strangers that we it is impossible to exaggerate the pain of those parents who have lost a it is but it is easy to exaggerate the and in these the fear has been fanned out of All proportion to the i think its Worth asking is there such a receptive audience for this primal anxiety it int just the misused statistics that cause an epidemic of there must be some particular vulnerability in parents the terror of losing a child is a Staple of mythology As Well As Village folklore is full of stones about Strang ers who steal gypsies were the vagrants and sus in those communities were tight enough that the Only strangers were rootless More and More of us Are strangers on our own the cities Are neighbourhoods less the ratio of strangers to strangers to families has changed this i at the Root of our in this same we routinely place our children in the hands of people we hardly the doctor at the the teacher at the swimming the bus it is not a coincidence that the fear of child abduction is heightened at a time when More of us leave Small children in Day care outside the Home and family than Ever when we Tell our children As we must to beware of strangers the number of people wearing that Label is much larger than it once the More time they spend away from the More unknown their the More easily our anxiety can be the victims of abduction deserve their de serve All the sophisticated methods of discovery in our but the victims of hysteria should wonder about the strangeness of our fear grows irrationally in a world without communities where we know the names of 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