European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday july 22,1988 the stars and stripes Arin Landers Page 11 letters dear Ann Landers today i quit. I walked out on an executive position in a major electronics company. I decided to Stop chasing after the newest Thebes the most state of the Art in everything. It suddenly dawned on me that i had my priorities Bol fixed up and my children de serve better. I had to admit that getting Ful filament from my career was a pipe dream. It May elude me i motherhood As Well but i now know what really matters. After nine years of paying someone to raise my children i was forced to admit that my family is More important to me than anything else. I wish i had known this when my first child was born. I am now 36 years old and Happy to say that we Are expecting our third child in a few months. If the Goodlord keeps my body going we May have four. This Means cutting Down on vacations and our entertaining will be reduced to Popcorn and video parties with afew old friends. But that s what we like Best anyway. An acquaintance has this framed motto on his office Wall no Success in life can compensate for failure at  i Don t know who said it but it certainly is True. Sign me truly liberated in Saratoga Calif. Dear truly your letter is sure to elicit a Strong response from career women with children who were miserable staying at Home and decided it would be better for All concerned if they went Back to work. I will also hear from angry mothers who Are divorced and must work in order to make ends meet As Well As married women whose families cannot Hack it on one paycheck. There is no one answer to this dilemma that is right for everyone but the authorities i respect recommend that the Mother stay at Home with a new baby for at least six months and for a year if possible. This recommendation makes a great Deal of sense to me. Dear Ann Landers please warn your readers not to say anything in the presence of a person who is in a coma that they would not say if that person were Alert. I survived a very serious illness a few months ago and recall clearly that the relatives who visited me in the Hospital were planning my funeral and speculating on who was going to get my property my jewelry and so on. It was positively fascinating. I generally mistrust Anonymous letters so i am sign ing my name but please Don t use it. Call me Alert in my sleep dear Alert thanks for the Eye opener. I wonder How Many  ple who read your letter will wonder if you mean them. Dear readers remember the 16-year-old High school Sophomore in Westminster md., who wrote that her class was studying the roaring 20s and they found the express ions of those Days so Peculiar it seems banana Oil was the cat s pyjamas. Nikki Naylor s teacher offered her extra credit if she could get a National commentator to say banana Oil on the air by june 15. Well the letter from Nikki who Calls herself an insignificant teen Ager arrived late in May but i rushed it into print and to and behold on june 14 at 7 56 . Jane Pauley bless her Beautiful heart said banana  the High school raised its Victory Flag for Nikki and she will get the extra credit As promised. So hot Damn and 23 Kiddoo los Angeles times Syndicate columnist Landers welcomes your letters. You can write to her in care of the stars and stripes Apo 09211, . Forces european edition col Jeffrey m. Cook Usa commander editor in chief it col Suzanne l. Phillips Usan Deputy commander editor in chief Marie Kominicki Mert Proctor Deane b. Mcdermott production manager managing editor circulation manager this newspaper is an authorized unofficial publication for members of the military services overseas. Contents of the stars and stripes Are not necessarily the official views of or endorsed by the . Government the department of defense or the . European command. The appearance of advertising in this publication including inserts or supplements does not constitute endorsement by the department of de sense or the stars and stripes of the products or services advertised. Everything advertised in this publication shall be made available for Purchase use. Or patronage without regard to race color religion sex National origin age. Marital status physical Handicap political affiliation or any other non Merit Factor of the purchaser user or Patron. Cat s letter about food brings responses my name is Chessie. I am a one and a half year old cat who has taken two americans on As boarders. On of them is helping me operate the computer to write this letter. I am aware of the Impact of the falling Dollar and Donot charge my boarders much rent. All i ask for is regular feeding. As you know we cats Are very partic ular when it comes to eating. Recently my boarders have informed me that their source of Supply for can Ned cat food has dried up and i Don t like dry food. I also am not used to regular German cat food. There Are some Premium German brands that i like but with the current Exchange rate my boarders find them too expensive. I would like to Point out that cats May appear to lie about and might be considered Lazy but in fact we Are shrewd observers of life. I have watched Many Short Ages come and go in the commissary arid Exchange system but this cat food shortage escapes me. Cats Eathall year round creating a rather stable predictable de Mand for cat food so it is hard to fathom the cause of the shortage. I will devote More thought to this matter Between naps but i must inform you that if cat food is no forthcoming in the Exchange commissary two Ameri cans will be put out on the Street and it will be on your conscience not mine. Chessie Frederick Heidelberg editor s note we received two answers to this letter. The first is from it. Col. Charlie White Public affairs officer he. Cafes Europe Good news Twenty three of our 26 lines of cat food Are presently in Stock. If your cafes Europe Exchange orders it they have it. We did have a problem during the last month with 17 of our 26 items being out of Stock for periods of one to three weeks. That has been corrected. If your dinner bowl has yet to whet your appetite have your boarders talk to their Exchange manager for assistance. The Heidelberg Exchange manager is an Thony Trevino and he can be reached at 06221 13062. Editor s note the second reply is from  w. Phillips commander . Army troop sup port Agency european commissary Region dear Chessie there Are very Many friends of cats Here in the . Army troop support Agency which runs army commissaries and we All understand the very particular needs and tastes of cats like yourself. We carry 17 lines of moist cat food in army commissaries in Europe seven of which Are mandatory for Stockage in All our commissaries and 10 that Are optional. We Are unaware of any systemic cat food shortage in our commissaries. It sometimes happens that late de liveries disrupt the regular flow of merchandise to our stores and this May have been the Case at your local commissary. Please inform your boarders that whenever they encounter difficulties in obtaining a particular product at their commissary be it cat food or anything else they should speak with the commissary officer to determine whether the product has been deleted or is just temporarily out of Stock. If the item is out of Stock the commissary officer should be Able to obtain the item from another store in our system. We thank you for writing and Hope that you Are once again dining in the style to which you Are accustomed. Quarters cleaner appalled by pig sties this is in answer to the writer about cleaning quart ers. I m an american family member. I work for a German contract cleaning firm. Let me Tell you i have cleaned some filthy pig sties there Are apart ments that i would t let my dog live in this is after they have been cleaned enough to pass Check out inspections so the requirements can t be too Indian language request i am a linguist specializing in the grammar of North american Indian languages Nail. Together with a colleague from the Institute of linguistics at the University of Cologne i want to record texts and examples for sentences in several nails such As Choctaw Chickasaw Dakota Pawnee Arapahoe and others. Members of the . Forces who Are native speakers of a Nail and would like to help can Contact us directly. Or. Berthold Simons alte Mauer am Bach 58-60 5000 Kiln 1, West Germany office Telephone 9 .-5 . 06043/804244. Hard to pass i be cleaned toilets where Lime is so bad that acid would t take it put so we had to Chip it out with screwdriver. This is disgusting then there s the Lime that is so bad on Shower Walls it takes a razor Blade or a Putty knife to get it off there have been refrigerators that it took two hours to clean and people had food in them. We be cleaned up dog and cat messes i Don t see How people could live this Way whats so hard about keeping your Home clean some of these women Don t even work outside the  do you do All Day How Long does it take to Wash your toilet bowl with Lime away once week or run the sweeper i just wonder what these German cleaners think of us. I Don t think any of us have anything to complain about when it comes to a permanent change of station move. Sawinda Miller Kitzinger West Germany Reader comments on census proposal in reference to the article Congress still battling Over census i feel my obligation is to voice my Opin Ion in defense of where my count should be placed. I do not have any reservations about being counted in the 1990 census however it is important to me to know where my number is going to placed in reference to the redistribution of the House of representatives. From what i understand what rep. Thomas Ridge r-penn., and Barbara Kennely d conn., Are saying is that they want to take the military count and add those num Bers to either their states count or another state s count so that some folks in Congress won t lose their jobs. Kennel by states that she wants to drop the alien count and that the military count is based upon the last military installation the Soldier was based giving those states an advantage Over the states with fewer installations. I would like to Point out that each Soldier has a Home of record that he she should be counted  do however agree that the military could be counted where they vote. 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