Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 21, 1993, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor David 6977042 focus Winnipeg free press a 7 npvprnhor91 1qqt 1993 spanking sends wrong message when my two Young Chil Dren Start quarrelling Over who sitting in the front seat of the car or who not having their Bath first at i Start to feel like Cross old mama when Treyve been at it All i Start to lose my that when i feel like boxing them in the ears but i struggle to keep my self and i theres something about hitting or spanking whether there smaller or bigger than i that just int but according to Fred Cleverley in his column spanking hurts the Parent More free november i must be Wacky to feel this he suggests that if some children Are not spanked at the appropriate age they Are Likely to become objectionable adults who will hit every one that comes within reach whether doing so is Legal or Cleverley also says that the vast majority of parents fully under stand the difference Between hitting and spanking when they punish their in my the two Are synonym up spank in your diction and youll find to slap on the and How Many parents spank their children when they Are Calm and Cleverley suggests he did As a Parent 1 think spanking happens most of ten when parents Are enraged and have lost and How Many parents spank their children when they Are Calm and As Cleverley suggests he did As a Parent discipline should never control children by Force and discipline should help children develop internal self control and self direct As parents and we need some conflict management skills that our kids Are now being taught in the new conflict manager discussions in As parents and teachers we have to change our and Stop worrying that if were not Tough the children will take advantage of in All for climbing aboard Law professor Anne Mcgillivray anti spanking Section 43 of the criminal code should be Abol Why should any Parent or teacher be allowed to use physical discipline on a child Chery Larcher Winnipeg kids deserve same rights As adults apparently Vic Pruden is trapped in a time As an accepted Means of child discipline is archaic and Dis a society complaining of youth violence while citing the Lack of Corporal punishment As a contributing Factor should quickly assess its thoughtlessly made like begets like violence begets children Are As valid human be Ings protected under Canadian human rights Law As Pruden Natalie Pona Winnipeg weakest people hit the hardest the comfortable Mem Bers of Premier Hilmons conserva Tive Cabinet continue to Hack away at the lives of the weakest members of our former child and family services minister Harold Gille Shainer silenced the voices of pain when he centralized the system a couple of years ago and made advocates shut the Cabinet then Cut funding for 56 agencies most of them advocacy and helping groups last at a paltry saving of million in a Defi Cit of now the new minister of family Bonnie has Cut welfare admitting that she Doest know whether she could live on per that could Only be she goes if i had but she Doest have so things Are she tells them to go out and find she belongs to a party and government screwing Down the econ omy so that jobs Are harder to Only slightly less disgusting is the free press editorials advice to her the next Day that if she is going to Cut welfare pay let her make sure that the food Banks Are Well 1 never thought 1 would see the 4ay that emergency food Banks letters the free press welcomes letters from letters must be signed and should include a clearly printed address and Telephone names will be published but not All letters maybe edited for style and Short letters Are less Likely to be please address letters to letters to the Winnipeg free 1355 Mountain Winnipeg letters can be sent to our fax would be soberly put Forward As a More or less permanent and accept Able it is the smugness and indifference of the comfortable that 1 find on the same that the poor took it on the Chin our Premier and our mayor each wrote a Cheque for three quarters of a Mil lion dollars to the lets who Are sapping million out of the pub Lic Treasury this year to pay Rich attack those who Are re Ward the make this no carlr1dd Winnipeg lets Tell Story using real history compliments to the free 1ress for the valuable series of articles appearing in your paper under the Masthead Manitoba too few people know of the inter Esting Sites Here in our own prov Ince and you Are helping to Correct As you pointed out in that column on november there Are some wonderful attractions along High Way it would be a mistake to think that any of those Sites had any thing to do with the North West mounted As you the route of the a amp through Manitoba began at it closely approximated the route of Highway crossing the Rivers and streams at known one in the Village of near Cartwright and Deloraine there Are ruts of the Wagon trains left by the Boundary the a amp and the Many settlers who followed their Lead in taking up land across Southern Manitoba and the Manitoba government has posted signs along the roads indicating the Boundary commission a amp for two heritage Canada has had an agreement with the peo ple along this route to work with them to help develop their heritage and economic resources in order to provide an authentic experience for this heritage regions program highlights distinctive Canadian a showcasing their natural and heritage Tell the Story using the real history of Rosemary Kalaher heritage Canada governor fur Manitoba Werier against development to Val Werier Good grief your article on the Norbert Golf course finally made me have you Ever had anything Good to say about any development in Manitoba take a look at your you Are against development in Rural Manitoba because it threatens Habi you Are against development in Winnipeg because you guessed it it threatens ski Golf courses it Doest matter that these things will pre serve most of the Trees and allow people to enjoy you treat them All like proposals to build toxic waste if they decide to expand the Park ing lot at Polo Park Are you going to come out against that because it threatens mands Creek 1 have an Why dont you take out a map of the province and draw a Circle around the tiny area where you think development can take place then maybe the people who do the building which creates the jobs which allows people to buy the free press can move Forward with their plans without having to fear your de sire to protect every tree and Bird in the Tracy Leipsic Winnipeg a photo the Kennedy in an open limousine with Texas governor John Connally shortly before the president was Juk seems Frozen in time by Shaun Mullen Knight Ridder newspapers witty and sir Lancelot to his Guinea struck Down in his barely Days into an american Golden wicked and the first Teflon presi a Man who embraced civil rights too late and guaranteed thai the United states would not escape the horrors of a War in which one was the real John Fitzgerald Kennedy he was three dozens of mov thousands of books and count less assassination conspiracy Theo Ries Juk seems Frozen in time for those of us old enough to the eternal flame atop Liis grave still Burns but for whom for whomever you think Juk though historians and conspiracy buffs have toiled in the trenches of Juk revisionism for 30 most people apparently Haven changed their minds about Kennedy since the dark Days Fol lowing his november 1963 As whether they thought the 35th president was a Demigod or a mor they probably feel the same Way watch films in the Public there Are two says Jack who teaches a course on Juk assassination theory at Camden county Community people Ratcli those films Over and Over again of Kennedy Riding from love Field in Dallas to Dea Ley and for Many of the mythical figure died says its almost As if the historical the Kennedy of the Bay of pigs and Judith is an other he Kennedy failure at the Bay of pigs and his troublesome Liaison with a mafia simply dont make a difference to most its As if those events never to be there is a prurient in Terest in Juks sex but few people seem touched by deeper concerns about the moral or National Security implications of his affairs with Exner and other Wom says Bruce the author of the Good a 1988 Book about How our perceptions of Juk have the Kennedy received a warm Welcome when they arrived at love Field in the sex lives of Public figures have become much More technicolor and open to Public and Over people have be come More people re ally dont care about that stuff any says a history pro Fessor at the University of Penn in most of what the revisionists say about Kennedy is at the margins of How people he there is lodged in people this sense of Kennedy importance and his positive not the Darker aspects of life in Camelot that have dribbled out Over the last 30 Kuklick says this explains the phenomenon of the critically disclaimed but hugely popular 1991 Oliver Stone movie that introduced Kennedy to a new Genera lion of the movie rests on the belief that Kennedy was different and represented something new in the political order that was completely corrupted when he was assassinate Kuklick a Way of blaming if Only Kennedy had everything would have been completely its a Way for americans to relieve themselves of the responsibility of the its a Way of blaming old politicians for our with the exception of the authorized biographers who have painted Juks presidency with the warmest few scholars con tend that his achievements account for the idolatry and Imit Juks achieve ments were and no president since then has received such consistently High popularity his foreign policy was tarnished by the Bay of pigs fiasco and the deepening quagmire in but Juk adeptly handled what was seen As the biggest menace of lie Era the brinkmanship of soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev by balancing a military buildup and accelerated missile program with efforts to improve relations with the communist Juk was not Able to get Khrushchev to take Down the Berlin but he did eventually extract a nuclear test ban treaty from most memorably to anyone who lived through that he won j962s eyeball eyeball show Down the cuban missile at Juks reach sometimes seemed to exceed his Al though Congress was dominated by it passed Little truly significant legislation because Southern democrats often sided with his initiatives on poverty and civil rights did not become Law during his b it us was Able to Sloke the economic recovery of 1962 with a tax Cut and meaning Ful economic a feat hat has foiled Many a politician since wages and unemployment although some critics argue that he was slow to embrace the Bur Kennedy casket sat in the Centre of the Capitol Rotunda As crowds paid last coning civil rights he responded to White mobs and blatantly racist deep South governors firmly when with Federal coupled with his skilful casting of the United states As an under dog to the his commitment to putting Man on the Moon helped trigger a quantum leap in Sci ence and and there was some substance behind the new Frontier idealism of which he often spoke both the peace corps and Alliance for Prog Ress were innovative approaches to difficult problems and sincere attempts to understand the aspirations and problems of third world what Juk May have done Best of was to continue to hold out the Promise of better times despite the problems con fronting America in the Early who has been critical of Kennedy presidency Over the says he now acknowledges that the people who continue to adore Juk May be closer to what passes for the truth Ihan the Revi a number of scholars still find Camelot and to some extern i share he but at the same he history is sometimes Kinder to Juk than the cold facts would seem to the flood of research on Hie Early years of involvement in Vietnam continues for get the Bay of pigs was there an other Public policy disaster in this Century As enormous As Viet Nam Kennedy role Kennedy role in the seminal years of involvement has seemed but the latest re search suggests very strongly thai although Kennedy was not very straightforward with the pub he wanted to get out and was very suspicious of our commit ment cynics Delight in pointing out that Kennedy assassination May Well have saved him from political and it May have saved his Public from pain and embarrassment if the gentlemen agreement be tween Kennedy and the news me Dia had been revealing de tails of his extramarital poo health and other less positive aspects of his with every passing year and every new assassination conspiracy Book there Are now roughly the feeling grows that less and less is actually known about the circumstances of his ;