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MY PARENTS THINK my husband and I should 280. ; them. My fa-! ther’s people are drunkards and unclean. Ever since I can, remember I've wanted to be clean and do right but I was the oldest of seven children. We were neglected and

I did most of the work.

I want my kiddies to be as proud of my parents as they are ot my husband's folks. Should we move away? 1 tell in love with a boy from a nice family and we married in

our teens. We're happy and have three lovely children and a neéat

home. My Bushand owns a garage ‘hear our ‘home and we arel: .

‘MRE.BI OT You su move away from your parents but not from your conscience which is hurting you mow. You don't know the dreams your mother had, the sacrifices she made and the tears she shed because she had so little to offer and so many to care for. - b Teaching your children to respect you and all their elders will be easier if you respect your parents. Invite them to your home and visit thém often—be affectionate and ask their advice. _'Flattery might make them improve. - Your husband is proud of you despite the “shortcomings of your parents—they contributed in some way to traiming you to be a good wife. Don’t blame your father for his relatives’ drink-ing-~-you don't: want. people - blaming you “for your parents’ | wea

Urges “cessful Marriage WE'VE HAD difficulties but we talk things over and come to an understanding and we're as much in love as when we married. I don't see why people don’t try a little harder to make marriage a success. We're the children of separated parents, but ‘we've been married 22 years and have four lovely children. | Our daughters talk over their dates with us and I get a thrill knowing -I'm included in their plans. I'm te he their conversations. . R. } You start boring your ehildren when you feel hat they re you, don’t you think?

Seeks Value of Ancient Petinies

HOW DO I learn the value of Indian Head pennies about 68 years old? MRS. J."Z.

Inquire at libraries, coin shops and coin Soa, or Write | 2. ered

Wayte. Raymond- Ine, 650-5th Aves New Fork My Uncle Orders Me Around ° s

WHO IS RIGHT, my uncle or I? I'm 13 and when Dad isn't home my uncle orders me aroung like I'm his slave. When Dad is here he is véry meek. I can't go on like this. DISGUSTED, Talk to your father confidentially and have him tell your uncle how far he can boss you.

‘We Are Fat and Happy’

YOU'RE STRIKING below the belt, Tady, when your answers . condemn men’s widening waistlines. I'm fat, my grandfather was| fat, my wife is fat, my in-laws are fat, and we have some fat little boys and two fat, dogs—but we're happy. If fat people weren't so good-natured, we'd all be mad. We feel Jucky to get fat with groceries so high. . It makes us unhappy though, to think of our dear Mrs. -Manners, as scrawny and hungry, sallow and wan.” T like you—| 1 like your Philosophy. We've an extra place at the table, THE FAT MAN; You're just the man to tell me if fat people are fat because they're happy or happy because they don’t worry about becoming | fat. Policy forbids my sending vou a tinted phofo and I'm not | so_silly that I'll ask the boys in the office the shape I'm in. Pve had this frame for a long time—I'm comfortable in it.

waved between sizes 12 and 14? I'll think of you when I refuse gooey desserts and hear the compensating dull thud of coins | on the bare bottom of my piggy bank. { I don’t want a long line of mad fat people—me without | vitality from those nourishing chocolate pecan balls. My attack } on the “male pouch” was a plea for sympathetic understanding and tolerance between husbands and wives. Hubands loosening their belts over pudgy middles are sometimes as irritating as wives publicly applying lipstick to mouths | no longer the wrinkleless “rosebuds” of youth. | No, thanks—no potatoes. (Well, maybe just a spoonful.)

‘How Can | Win Girl's Friendship?’ PVE TRIED to make friends with the girl who goes with my boyfriend's brother but I just can’t win her. This girl, who is 18, doesn’t get along very well with her boyfriend, and blames me

for a lot for their arguments. How can I win her as my friend? I’ ves

invited her places and to my house. - They broke up and she is hurt because I won't tell her what | her boyfriend does on other dates. I don’t think it's my business, | do you? I'm 16 and go with a boy 18. We have had only a few little arguments. 2 C.D.

Tell her kindly, once and for all, that you don’t carry tales. .

= nn she won't let you mind your own ‘business see her less often.

Let Mrs. Manners and readers of the column share your problems and answer your questions. Ww rite in care of The Times, 214 Ww. Maryland St.

British Oil Firm ‘Bungles | Labor Problem in Iran |

| “BY LEIGH WHITE, Times Foreign Correspondent ~~ ABADAN, Iran, May 19—Nowhere are the shortcomings of the 20th century more in evidence than in the midst of this throbbing steel monster—American-built and British operated-—which is the world's largest oil refinery. “The age of inadequacy, I call it,” said the Englishman who was serving as my guide. He .was admitting, in his ironic, = a British way, that after 40 years } running water, flush toilets ant the Anglo‘Iranian Oil Company electric lights had failed to solve the basic prob-! The contrast between the com: lem of industrial- management— pany houses and the hovels in

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er's approbation instead of his ple live contributes to the very resentment. discontent which the company is| “he more backward a country Striving to elffinate. ’ is the more pressing the problem; ~Nirtne of -Neeessity | is. Failure to solve it leads the Skeptical Iranian company off-| more readily to social upheavals! c¢ials are convinced that, to avoid| ending in totalitarianism and serious trouble in the future; certain expropriation. |AIOC will inevitably have to as-| i Must Take Curse {sume responsioility. for housing! The American century, if it 1s most of Abadan's population of to succeed any better than the 110,000 people. British century, must take the The Argan American oil cémcurse off the word imperialism by pany, mating a virtue of necesproving that Amefican industrial sity, has guaranteed to provide leadership will benefit not only every one of its workers with adAmericans but the people of every equate housing. Yet its housing country in which our energy is program is lagging =o far behind felt, its industrial development that 85 It is therefore indispensable for per cent of its Arab employees American oil companies in this are still living in tents and temarea to profit by AlIOC’s :mis- porary barracks. takes. One of the greatest crimes of British imperialism has failed the Soviet dictatorship, in my in this century because, rightly opinion, has been its failure to or wrongly, many backward peo-| give equal priority to men and ples have concluded that they are machines—its willingness to sacriits victims rather than its bene-/fice humanity in the interests of ficiaries, | industrial power. A large percentage of AIOC'S| 1444 5 g crime for the Soviets, employees seem to have reached, 1,.e created slums around the same conclusion, and the com- their new industrial developments Pany is now striving to convince in Siberia, it would be equally a them they are wrong. |crime for Americans to create Nerve Warfare {slums around their new industrial Whether or not it succeeds will 4ove1opments in the Middle East. | depend on a number of factors h including the nerve warfare of | The time is past when either the Soviet Union—which are be-| Americans or Britons can afford Yond the company" s power to con-

| ATIOC should be given credit for) ‘however, is housing. It was lac) | attempting, however belatedly, to

of a rectify its own mistakes, and one) au ie houaing, uate hai) can only hope that the other oil| Communist-incited strike of 19486. | companies will follow its example.

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an Jmpréssive housing program i at would be even mole impres- - sive If it were not so long a. Set Memorial Services Unfortunately, it seems likely to fall unless its scope is doubled or by the Naomi Chapter No, 131, . trehled fn the very near future, OES, at 8 p. m, Friday in the Ma-| % por sn of AIOC's 72,000, sonic Temple. Elizabeth Van Cleef| amp are housing today in is Sorts matron and Enoch Bals equipped with lard Is woriny patron,

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