European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page 11 Ann Landers letters dear Ann Landers i am a 16-year-old High school Sophomore. In our . History class we be been studying inc 1920s. As Many people know Lite 1920s were a fun and Carefree age. Many new expressions came about during thai period. Some of them survived such As booze and hot dog the Point of my idler is his our history teacher who is an All f of around fun Guy jokingly promised to give our class some extra credit Points if he heard the old 1920s expressions banana Oil on the National news Ai night. The expression is one of disbelief. Instead of saying no Way or get out of Here you would say banana  1 figured that although t Don t need the extra Points it would be fun to try and see if 1 could do it. With your help who better than Ann Landers to come to the res Cue. If everyone who reads your column used the express Ion once or twice a Day i m sure that by the end of the school year june 15 something might happen. I realize thai most of your letters arc from people who need help but maybe this letter will prove that one unknown insignificant teen Ager can make something Hap pen. . In Westminster my. Dear unknown insignificant teen Ager you certainly did t give me much Lime. Your letter arrived in late May. Ii lakes awhile to Eft my copy edited Here at he Chicago Tribune Hen it must go id California where it is checked Over by Bali the to Angeles times Syndicate find creators Syndicate before it is sent to my papers around the world. Today is june 14, it would be a Miracle if one of the National news commentators said banana Oil hut maybe one of your local use jockeys Elj read this say those immortal words on the air and you can Muade your teacher id count it. Please let us know whal happen. Dear Ann Landers i am a lady about your age. I have been driving for Many years and have always made an Effort to be a Safe and courteous Driver. Recently i blinked my lights to let he passing trucks know that they were Clear of me i have always done this and under stood hat it was common Road Courtesy. My husband who was in the front Seal beside me had a fit. He yelled arc you crazy you arc just asking for trouble i asked what in the world he was talking about. He said everyone knows that blinking lights Are a signal to the truck Driver that you want to go to a Motel. I was very surprised because i m a fairly sophisticated woman and i have never heard of this before. Ann have times changed so drastically that what was once kindness and Good manners is now considered a vulgar invitation bewildered in Florida dear Florida we checked Lili several trucking companies and nobody has Ever Beard of his. Maybe your husband Lias been Reading Loo Many steamy novels. Dear Ann Landers at sen. Hubert Humphrey s funeral president Jimmy Carter quoted Mahatma Gandhi As he listed the seven deadly sins. I d love to have a copy. Can you find them mils fan dear mils Here they Are wealth without work pleasure with out conscience knowledge without character Commerce without morality science without humanity worship without sacrifice and politics without principle. Lai Angeles time end cite Tofu Imil Lindarfo Wito Omal Lour  an Mizii to iwo in Cir Al the Start ind strip Apo Mil. U 3. Reader grateful he can voice his beliefs every Day i see new reason to be glad i m an Ameri can. Today i saw a Story in the Stan and stripes attributed to associated press telling of an individual convicted and facing a prison sentence for publishing what the judge slated was a  no it s not a libel suit nor yet another soviet court disposing of an inconvenient dissident it s our nearest neighbor geographically culturally and with what i thought Wai a common Legal heritage. According to the a Story which for purposes of this letter i must accept As accurate a Canadian court convicted a publisher for apparently believing and stating in print the proposition that he holocaust did not actually happen. The Story reports that the judge stated that this was false and that the Canadian Constitution s charter of rights and freedoms similar to our Bill of rights did no protect falsehoods fur ther the judge is reported to have instructed the jury at the Start of the trial that the publisher was wrong. The soviet Constitution specifically protects free Dom of expression. Yet in Russia this right docs not stretch to protect people who disagree with the state. The highest soviet court has ruled the right to Freedom of expression docs not include the right to slander inc state . To disagree. In other words in Russia you have perfect Freedom to say what you want but Only so Long As you Parrot the government line. This brings to mind Galileo s irial when for Pur poses of its own the inquisition determined that it was inappropriate for the Earth not to be the Center of the universe. Galileo s stated belief thai the Earth moved around the Sun was unacceptable and a falsehood and Galileo was required to recant. John Peler Zenger s trial also comes to mind. In my opinion the publisher s belief was wrong but that is not the Point. Even in the United states people Are sometimes wrong. Some still believe that the Earth is Flat i think they should be taken to the Edge of the Earth and pushed Oil. Some believe that the Moon landings did not really Lake place but were staged in the Arizona desert. Some believe Juk was the victim of n conspiracy. Some apparently even in the White House believe in astrology. Some even believe that Congress is not incompetent irrelevant and immaterial. At least in our country a person can believe and even publish such ideas without being sent to prison because some judge or the ruling party Doe not agree with that belief. Again today i m glad to be an american. Don a. Tymm Offenbach West Germany honesty is still valued appreciated in reference to a recent writer s letter a personal sense of Honor 1, too applaud the honesty of or. Reigers. As inc Heidelberg Community found property custodian i receive numerous articles some of High value which have been picked up and turned into my office by honest people much like or. Reigers. These people include both German and american. I receive Many wallets and pocketbooks with Cash still in them some of which can be returned to their owners. Theoc sons turning in the items do not wish to be identified nor do they want compensation for their honest efforts but ask Only that the owners be contacted and inc items returned if possible there Are however those that Lake advantage of the situation end clean House and end up turning in an empty Shell i think we Call it the nature of the  Well for those beasts out there remember it could be your Wallet watch or ring that you May one Day inadvertently leave sitting in the local Sho Pelte. For those remaining few thank you for your honesty to certainly makes my Job easier and much More pleasurable when the owner of a Wallet containing $300 Cash thai has been missing for several Days is contacted and told that the entire contents have been recovered. And to the writer consider yourself Lucky. There Aren t Many like or. Reigers left out there sol. Dave Murphy Schwet Zingen West Germany find Way to help not Hurt those in need a while ago i was very concerned and frustrated about some things that were going on in my life. I really needed to talk to someone so 1 confided in some one i thought was a Friend. Today i learn my Confidence has turned into com Mon knowledge. To this person i guess it was easier and a hell of a lot More fun to betray my Trust and publicly display my personal problems. It could be also that perhaps feeling insecure about her own situation she fell a need to Tell everyone about mine convincing herself that hers weren t so bad. If she or anyone else who gets a thrill out of gossip is Reading this letter i d like to say this to you if you Are the warm compassionate kind human beings i know you like to think you Are offer to help with a household chore or maybe take the children so she can get some work done. Offer to take them to do their shopping and errands or help them make a family budget. 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