European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 7, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Life with father seen As different in 90s sunday june 7, 1992 the stars and stripes b Page 11 Springfield mass. A he likes to play with the kids and help them with Homework. But he could do a better Job of teaching them to work hard and behave themselves. Recognize him he a today a dad As seen by americans surveyed in a study released Friday. Quot the Good news is that today a fathers Are seen As More approachable More responsive a said Rebecca Shahmoon Sha nok a program director at the child development Center in new York City. A but people Are wondering if today a fathers can exert sufficient family leadership in the current environment to raise truly responsible  she is helping interpret the results for Massachusetts Mutual life insurance co., which commissioned the Survey to help with its marketing efforts. The Survey found that 63 percent of those polled think today a fathers spend As much or More time playing with their children As fathers a generation ago did. A total of 66 percent believe fathers now Aid their children with school work As much or More than the other dads. But Only 16 percent think today a fathers Are better at disciplining their children and 55 percent said they were worse. Nineteen percent said fathers Are now better at teaching their children to work compared with 47 percent who said they were worse. The Survey also asked people which to father most reminds them of their own. The top pick was John Walton of the Waltons at 25 percent followed by by Archie Bunker of All in the family with 17 percent. Columnist Max Lerner Dies at 89 after stroke new York apr Max Lerner a Liberal syndicated columnist author educator and editor died Friday at a Hospital. He was 89. Lerner had been ill for several months and spent the last four weeks at mount Sinai Hospital where he died said Kelly Larkin a Hospital spokeswoman. Lerner battled cancer for the past decade. Lerner died of a stroke the new York Post reported. Lerner a last weekly column appeared in the Post on april 18. Lerner was born in Minsk Russia in 1902 and came to the United states five years later when his parents immigrated. After earning a masters and ph.d., he started a teaching career in 1932, working at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronx Ville n.y., and spending Summers As chairman of the Wellesley summer Institute in Maine. He lectured at Harvard but shifted gears in 1936 to become the editor of the nation Magazine. Lerner returned to teaching at Williams College in Williamstown Maine two years later As a professor of political science. Through the years journalism and education remained intertwined in his life. He spent five years As a radio commentator before getting a column in the now defunct new York Star in 1948. A year later he began writing a column for the new York Post. The los Angeles times Syndicate distributed it. He also wrote More than a dozen books. Two of them it is later than you think and the mind and Faith of Justice Holmes were reprinted with new afterwords in the past four years. Big Welcome Home hug Diane Wahlstedt leaps into the arms of her husband Navy it. Eric Wahlstedt upon his return to the Oceana naval air station in Virginia Beach va., on Friday. Wahlstedt a f-i4 Pilot spent six months aboard the aircraft Carrier America in the Mediterranean sea and the persian Gulf. The Carrier was to return to Norfolk naval base on  bans Tot from Kitchen in Mother s restaurant Springfield mass. Apr  place reopened saturday with the eatery a 19-month-old namesake planning a comeback to the dining room a but not to the Kitchen. Quot it just feels Good to be Back in the restaurant a Jennifer crafts said saturday after opening the restaurant in Chicopee. A it feels Good to be Home. Her son Andrew John did no to help open but crafts assured the morning crowd he would be along later. A judge ruled Friday that crafts 29, who owns the restaurant could take Andrew John to work As Long As she keeps him out of areas where food is prepared. The child must stay in a High chair or Playpen Hampden Superior court judge William h. Welch ruled. Authorities had declared a health emergency and shut Down the place wednesday claiming that having the toddler there All Day made him both a menace and a victim. Before the diner was closed . Was there from 5 . To 2 p.m., six Days a week his Mother said. He was a hit with patrons greeting customers when he Wasny to napping in the Playpen in a Hall next to the Kitchen. Crafts said she quit her Job As manager of a Chain restaurant and opened the breakfast lunch spot 11 months ago so she could spend More time with her child. She refused to put him in Day care even though health authorities contended that the baby a dirty diapers posed a sanitation problem. They also said he could get Hurt at the Grill and other Kitchen equipment. A the children should be with their moms not with Day care because there Are so Many problems out there with Day care centers a crafts said after fridays hearing. Chicagoan celebrate 7 00th birthday of City s eur air Ann i Tai tue a n. Chicago up the City a rapid transit Al once hailed As a a Railroad in the sky but now a target for demolition celebrates its 100th anniversary this weekend. The Els landlord the Chicago transit authority planned to commemorate the Advent of the elevated rail system with cake for passengers and rides on old fashioned replica cars saturday. Riders love to complain about late trains surly ticket agents and conductors inconsiderate fellow passengers and noise not to mention the $1.50 Basic fare. The system provided 134.9 million trips last year Down from a record 228.8 million trips at the systems Zenith in 1926. But every time the cat tries to close a station the faithful come out full Force to protest. A even a dyed in the Wool curmudgeon can to help but be in Awe of the sight from the Al when it goes Over the Chicago River a said George Krambles a former cat director and Al historian. At 105 years of age Michael Figliulo of Streamwood says he still takes a dozen rides a year and can remember when Potbelly stoves warmed passengers at stations and trains were pulled by steam engines. A a there a no better Way to get around a Figliulo said. The first stretch of the Al opened in 1892 in time for the columbian Exposi Tion. It ran from just South of the Loop to 39th Street and parts of the original steel Structure still carry commuters. The system now stretches from 95th Street in the South to the Northern suburbs to of Hare International Airport in the Northwest and into the Western suburbs. A new Spur to Midway Airport on the Southwest Side is scheduled to open next Spring. Like Many projects in Chicago the Al started out As a scam by developers. The two Story elevated track structures a engineering feats in their Day a and ground level tracks were built in areas where the developers owned property in a bid to Spur housing construction. Each leg was Independent and the City did not unify the system and take Over operation until 1947, when the cat was born. The first proposal for the a Railroad in the sky was made in 1869. The systems first Accident occurred in 1893 when one train hit the rear of another stopped at 22nd Street. The worst Accident occurred in 1977, when two trains collided on a curve downtown sending four cars plunging onto the Street killing 11 people and injuring 200. The trains were electrified in the 1895. A Chicago Engineer incorporated motors in every car enabling operators to run longer trains. The design provided a Model for rapid transit systems nationwide