European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 22, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday december 22, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 11 Ann Landers dear Ann Landers i finally got around to taking your owl or Lark test and was not surprised to learn that i am a 100-percent card carrying owl. I asked my husband to take the test and As i suspected he is a purebred Lark. We have been married Tor 20-plus years and get along Fine. I Don t ask him to stay up at night with me and he does t ask me to get up in the morning with him. Owls however seem to be in the minority and this is what i am writing about. I cannot believe How Many Well mannered people believe it is perfectly of to make insulting comments about my sleeping habits. What gives them the right to imply that i am a Lazy Good for nothing Slob who spends half my life in bed i would t think of ridiculing them for turning in at 9 . Several friends have complained because they can not phone me before noon without waking me up. Idon t Call them at 2 a.m., an hour that would be far More convenient for me than noon. I Hope you will address this problem in your column Ann. You said you were an owl and we owls need All the help we can get. Torrance Calif. Dea Torrance you bet i m an owl and i Don l give a Hoot who know it my Mendi would t dream of calling me be fore noon and i never Call them after 10 at night. Civilized people respect one another s differences. In fact. It is our differences rather than oar similarities that make the world such an interesting place. Is. Ill bet this column goes in lots of envelopes for mailing to special friends dear Ann Landers i have shed a million tears and my heart is breaking. Please Tell me what to do. I have been married for 34years to a College educated professional Man who is handsome and successful. Glen and i have known the Smiths for several years. I am certain that Glen and Martha Smith Are having an affair. Whenever we Are together which is often they arc in their own Little world. Martha and Glen never in clude me or Martha s husband in the  talk right Over us As if we weren t there. Martha can t keep her eyes off Glen and he can t keep his hands off her. Or. Smith has never said anything but i m sure he is just As miserable As i am. I have tried to arrange dates with other couples but Glen refuses to go out with anyone else. And yes have told him How i feel but he does t seem to care that i am humiliated and heartsick. 1 should Tell you that Glen has had Many affairs during our marriage and All the women he lakes up with have similar qualities. They arc flashy coarse shallow and vulgar. I spoke with our pastor about my heartache and he talked to Glen at length. Glen told him stay out of my personal  i will never divorce my Hus band and am in desperate need of guidance. Bitter herbs in Texas dear bitter herbs Glen it not about to mend his ways. He has Learned that he does t need to because you will put up with any kind of garbage. Since you have no intention of leaving this despicable Alley cat you d belter get some counselling and learn How to handle the pain. Dear readers i be heard from hundreds of you informing me that the author of the poem to All parents is Edgar a. Guest. Shame on me for not knowing. Letters readers express views on wearing furs recently someone wrote to you to complain about the Sale of furs at cafes outlets. The reply that cafes philosophy is to allow the customer Freedom of Choice was exactly the Correct response. It is my opinion that cafes policy in this matter is also exactly appropriate. However i feel quite certain thai this reply and indeed this policy will not sit Well with the animal rights  these extremists the animal rights stance is not merely a political position it is a religion. For them the War on furs is nothing less than a holy crusade. The Bambi Isu if you will have arrogated to themselves the authority to be. The voice of the voiceless and to. Speak the word for beast and Bird Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1850-1919. These coercive utopians have a wonder filled vision of a future where everything will be Rose petals and Lute music and fluttering butterflies and they intend to shove this vision Down our  have All kinds of swell ideas about How to manage the game herds without All that Barbaric Hunt ing ahem As Long As they Are spending someone else s Money do you think i am exaggerating read the words of or. Tom Regan president of the culture and animals foundation As quoted in the october Issue of the animal s voice Magazine that movement the animal rights movements i conceive it is committed to a number of goals including the abolition of the use of animals in science the dissolution of commercial animal agriculture the elimination of commercial and sport Hunting and , i am not making this up. Do you say that you arc not ready to become a vegetarian too bad Regan and his evangelical storm troopers arc not going to allow you any Choice in the Mailer. Once the movement has become victorious you will either toe the line or become an outcast a despised flesh Cater furtively eating squirrels and other rodents in the secrecy of your basement enamel House living forever in dread that your own children will Lurn you  will come the inevitable Knock on the door As the Bambi police come to take you away to the Asylum or the re education  let us be humane and compassionate but let us not forget that fanatics Are always pathological. William m. Zwiker Frankfurt West Germanas an avid Reader of the stars and stripes i am continually amazed by the style people use to convey their messages in the letters to the editor  am affiliated with the millions of people who Are tired of certain other people jumping on any Wagon that  your message towards cafes and Jindo about furs won t give you results. Make your argument work for you by aiming in at a group that can control the ways in which animals Are protected not to an organization that thrives fro consumer demand. The stopping of ranching Breeding and trapping or illegally killing animals should be done by helping to pass Laws that will keep the killing of animals in Check not  your resources to Send vital information to those of us who May want to help on certain issues. Offer logical suggestions rather than just crying All of the  Ann Bulle Frankfurt West Germany trappers Are environmentalists an conservationists Well 1 suppose that adds up like this they Rob our environment of millions of wild animals 17 million yearly. In the process they kill another 5 million trash animals dogs cats Birds anything that wanders into one of those hellish devices. They try to conserve the belief that trapping actually is beneficial to wildlife and helps control everything from starvation to rabies. Did anybody Ever wonder How the 65 countries make out that Don t have the infamous leg hold trap trappers Check their traps daily some states have no checking requirements at All. Even if a trap is checked daily at 5 ., if an animal gets caught at5 30 ., it won t be discovered until 23 to hours later. It will be held by the trap its leg crushed exposed to rain Snow and predators until it is killed by the trapper. Why Don t you slam a car door onto your hand and stay put for 23vi hours then write another letter and Teli everybody How you feel the trapper comes and to and behold he shoots the animal. Maybe next we will learn that he euthanized it by injection. There is More documentation than i care to look at which proves that most trapped animals die a lot less humanely. Heads Are bashed in with Blunt instruments and sometimes they Are crushed with a Boot As Well. Other times the animal is taken by its Hind legs and swung so its head hits a tree or a Rock. There is no Law regarding the disposal everything pretty much goes As Long As the Pelt stays  do admit that you never ranches fur animals. Neither have i yet i know a lot More about them than you do. You think that the animals Are kept Well and clean there and have big pens As Well. Fur farms arc concentration Camps for animals. They arc institutions showing Man s inhumanity and greed better than any thing else. Animals who in the wild have Large territories to roam live actually vegetate in tiny 10x12x14 Inch cages. These cages Are filthy. The floor is wire painful to the animals feet but the cages Don l need to be cleaned because fees and urine go right through the wire onto the ground. The stinking mess constantly assaults the sensitive noses of the caged creatures. They frequently develop neurotic behaviour chewing their tails and pacing compulsively. In Breeding to produce unusual colors re sults in such physical defects As blindness deafness screw neck painful neuromuscular disorders and de formed reproductive  comes in Many forms none of them humane. There is suffocation and drowning asphyxiation by changeling exhaust fumes into the animals enclosure burning their eyes and lungs before they die there is also neck breaking by hand or mechanical Means an electrocution. The latter is the preferred method for larger Ani Mals such As foxes. An electric Cable is clamped in he animal s Mouth while another one is inserted into the animal s rectum. The pain suffered by this method is extreme and the animals scream horribly. Again there is no Law regarding the living or dying of these unfortunate creatures everything goes As Long As the Pelt does not get damaged. All in All there is no humane Way to make a fur coat. If you feel that you must wrap yourself in a Gar ment that was produced with so much pain and suf Fering then you should truly be ashamed. Ignorance is Bliss but nobody in this Clay and age is so ignorant anymore As to believe that millions of animals owe anybody their Coats. Keep fur where it belongs on the wild creatures backs where it is truly Beautiful. On everybody else fur is just something dead. Nina i. Bertz ludwigs Burg West Germany european edition col Genee. Townsend Usan commander editor in chief it col Suzanne 1_ Phillips Usan Deputy commander editor m Chiel Marie Kominicki Mert Proctor Deane b. Mcdermott production manager managing editor emulation manager tin Newi Sepor u in authorized not Lydel publication Lor member of the military Terv col Overe Eia. Con no of tin Sun and St non Are not Nece Manly the Omalev will. Or condoned by. The . Government. M department of Devonia or the us. European command. 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