THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25, 1976
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Staff photo by Douglas Winship
With the phasing out of the armed services
draft, the local selective service board
has closed “permantly”. The board’s
records were distributed to various fed
eral agencies. The last of the material
was moved from the office Feb. 19.
Associated Press
NEW YORK — If you had it all to
do over again, would you have chil
dren?
When advice columnist Ann
Landers asked her readers this ques
tion, 10,000 of them responded, and
70 per cent said: “No.”
“The most fascinating and disturb
ing mail I’ve received in a long
time,” Miss Landers said in a recent
column.
“Granted the negatives have a
stronger compulsion to write than
the affirmatives,” she said later in a
telephone interview. “Even so, I was
amazed by the number of people
who wrote to say that having chil
dren isn’t worth the trouble. ’
A number of psychiatrists, equally
surprised by the letters, telephoned
her to ask what she thought of them.
Miss Landers said.
Dr. Harcharan Sehdev, director ol
the Children’s Division of the Men-
ninger Foundation in Topeka, Kan.,
said that the letters appear to reflect
“the general changing trends and op
tions of family systems and the place
of children in society and the home.
But he said it has always been a
myth that Americans love their chil
dren.
“We like to believe that we love
children, adore children, value the
world of the future . . . but in reality
this is hardly the case,” he said, cit
ing a history of child abuse, child
labor and underfunding of children s
aid programs.
A Boston newspaper columnist,
Diane White, reacted to the letters,
saying: “We seldom or never hear
any parents we know speak out
against having children, which is
perfectly understandable. People
don’t like to talk about their mis
takes.”
Miss Landers said her negative^
mail fell roughly into three’
categories: letters from older parents
whose children ignore them, from
younger people concerned about
overpopulation, and from people
with young children who find
parenthood restricts their life-styles.
Among those she ran in her col
umn, Too Late for Tears, the mother
of two children under 8 in Tampa,
Fla., wrote: “I was an attractive, ful
filling career woman before I had
these kids. Now I’m an exhausted,
nervous wrekc . . . Our children took
all the romance out of our marriage.
I’m too ired for sex, conversation or
anything else. ”
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Primary shows struggle ahead
By WALTER R. MEARS
Associated Press
I0NCORD, N.H. — President
1’s marginal victory over Ronald
ganin New Hampshire’s key Re-
lican primary points to a long
ggle for the Republican presi-
nomination. It signals that a
:k knockout blow will be hard to
in the procession of elections to
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’S P rei %ord is a winner, and that helps,
[the New Hampshire verdict also
iMvs that when they get to the vot-
T 1(1 booth, Republicans are closely
I ded between the man who is
sident and the man who wants to
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rvloon pi
ieorgia’s Jimmy Carter was the
winner in the first of the presi-
ftialprimaries, scoring a comfort-
svictory that makes him the fron-
pner among Democratic candi-
is, There are nine all told.
liter’s new mantle is one that
■ kve drawbacks. But it is a giant
■ Tiiesdi Jte l' forward for the former governor
so fU 4 came to New Hampshire as a
—ss exc Pbiidx more than a year ago and left
er join® first prize.
uling il*l^ remember when we couldn’t
pd a microphone, said Carter.
■He’ll find plenty now, for it is both
(lie blessing and the curse of the
Tntrulining candidate that he faces
lense scrutiny every step of the
pipaign:
With the ballots counted after an
M-night Republican tally awarded
Ford his victory, the political cara
van breaks camp and moves south-
Ird, the Democrats to do battle in
lissachusetts next Tuesday, Ford
jd Reagan to meet again in Florida
on March 9.
Ford captured his first statewide
litical contest with 51 per cent of
jevote, a margin of just over 1,300
Hots.
With 94 per cent of the vote
jounted, Ford had 54,051 to
agan’s 52,706.
Among the Democrats, the tally
lad this way:
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— Carter 22,591 or 30 per cent.
— Rep. Morris K. Udall of Arizona
18,146 or 24 per cent.
— Sen. Birch Bayh of Indiana
12,276 or 16 per cent.
— Former Sen. Fred Harris of Ok
lahoma 8,628 or 11 per cent.
— Sargent Shriver 6,501 or 9 per
cent.
— Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of
Minnesota, on write-in votes, 4,180
or 6 per cent.
The New Hampshire vote was a
preface, to be overtaken within days
by the decisions of other voters, in
bigger states. Reagan had an apt
phrase for it: “One primary does not
a summer make.”
It will take 31 to do that, in almost
weekly competition that won’t end
until June 8.
Reagan and his managers had tried
hard to convince political opinion
makers that running reasonably
close to Ford was all that should be
expected of them. But offstage,
Reagan men clearly thought they
had the lead and might win outright.
“I feel what’s happened tonight is
a victory,” Reagan said after mid
night, with the Republican verdict
still in doubt.
“Hogwash, ’ countered Rep.
James Cleveland, the Ford cam
paign chairman. “A victory is a vic
tory, particularly for an incumbent
who is making tough decisions . . .
against a guy who can come out of the
west and make promises every day of
the week. ”
There was another phase in the
primary, and Ford was winning that
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decisively. With the vote count near
ing completion, delegates backing
him for the nomination led for 19 of
the 21 seats New Hampshire will
have at the Republican National
Convention.
Carter led for 13 of the 17 Democ
ratic delegates, Udall for four.
Howard H. Callaway, Ford’s na
tional campaign manager, said
Reagan had been beaten in his
strongest northern state. Reagan
said he had done better than anyone
should have expected.
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