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You may not remember the date, but you probably
remember the weather. All over the East Coast, tem
peratures reached an all-time low. While demands for
energy reached cm all-time high.
Up From Dust And Darkness
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u j neighboring utility had ecjuipment failures cmd
had to borrow" power from CP&L. Then, CP&L and
another neighbor also had problems. This, coupled with
record demands, could have created a serious energy
crisis, and caused some drastic measures.
Yyu may hove seen the results on your TV screen.
The first screen shows normal power. When we had to
cut back power, your picture may have looked a little
smaller than usual. H things had gotten worse, we may
have had to shut off power altogether for a period of
time, and youd hove had no TV
Even more importcmtly youd have had no electric
ity for heating or cooking. Or hot water. Or anything.
Fortunately we didnt hove to do that. Because, on
January 17, CP&L's power system had 26% reserves.
But, in the 1980s, well hove less than half of that
reserve. Which may not be enough, if we have more
situations like the one on January 17 Whots more, if the
demand keeps going up, the way it has been, we'H
hove to build more and more plants. Which, of course,
eventually means higher rcrtes. That's why it's importcmt
that all of us keep doing everyfhing we |
can to keep the demand as low as possible. w|n|!|»
for morpirfoTOOtion on how YOU can help keep the demand down and al the some ame.soveonyourelectric bill, coll or stop in olonyCP&Loffice.
Young people!
They’re something else!
I’ve always been so close to
them, I’ve never encountered
the so-called ‘generation gap’
psychologists are always talk
ing about. And as a rule, they
treat me exactly as they do one
of themselves, not as a hope
less square.
I love them, appreciate them
and they sense this quite
easily wtoout my even bother
ing to tell them so. Their
instincts tell them I’m “an
all-right guy,’’ and they re
spond in kind.
They like me, never fail to let
me know it and to me, this is a
huge compliment to my inher
ent humanity.
During the three years I
taught English, Biology,
Health, Civics and even Physi
cal Education in grades 7
through 12, I always knew
what they were thinking,
feeling and doing, not out of
morbid curiosity but simply
because they wanted me to
know just as I wanted to know.
I approached them on human
terms and they were appre
ciative. And even though I was
blind, so much so that I could
never distinguish between any
two of them by sight, they
never took advantage. And
when they suspected that
somebody else did, their in
stant wrath was kindled to
ward that individual.
They trusted me, I never
betrayed their trust and con
sequently, they told me any
thing and everything, often
things they wouldn't have
dared to to tell even their
counsellors, much less their
parents. Very often they said
tome, “How I wish I could talk
to my parents the same way I
do to youl’’
Sometimes 1 talked to their
parents for them but never
without their full knowledge
and consent. They respected
me as a person and the least I
could do was return that
respect.
One year because the royalty
on high school plays was so
high as to be prdiibitive, we
put our heads together and
decided to write and produce
our own anual high school
play. What an idea and
experience that was!
We set down the main thread
of the story and ad libbed the
rest, recording the results. We
openly debated points that
were weak and changed them.
We worked at that darn high
school play like slaves but
loved every minute of it.
And guess what happened
when we finally staged the
playl We had the biggest
turn-out in the school’s his
tory. Naturally, because every
single pupil was involved.
Which means that they involv
ed their parents. Mends and
neighbors through their sheer
enthusiasm. You’d better be
lieve we packed ’em in that
night! And then we calmly
proceeded to amaze the pants
off ’em with our incredible
performance and creativity.
That play was the talk of the
community for weeks. And
sometimes even now when I
see one of those students, he
or she will say, “Remember
our high school play? Boy, that
was fun!’’
It was fun because they,
themselves, did it. Oh, sure.
some New York playwright
could have written a better
script. According to the liter
ary critics, that is, but not
where those students were
concerned!
The story was simple but
appealing and the idea origi
nated with them, not me. It
was about a “kiss thief’ who
became so enamored upon
meeting the female lead that
he drew her into his arms and
kissed her soundly. The rest of
the story was about all the
trouble that one kiss caused.
Happily, the whole thing was
ultimately resolved at the
altar--and the couple lived
happily ever after. I honestly
don’t think Hollywood could
have done better.
Now, that isn’t the kind of
idea we old fogies would have
come up with. But to idealistic
young people, a simple kiss is
a thing of great magnitude. It
isn’t surprising that oiit of
their romantic, young minds
came a whole story woven
around a simple kiss.
Yet, young people have their
own particular faults and
failures. For example, some of
them are enormously preju
diced against older people,
just as older people are
enormously prejudiced against
them. To them, romantic love
is the exclusive prerogative
and possession of the young.
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They can’t imagine an older
couple being in love or even
needing love. “The old fools’’
make them “sick.” That
because they have not yet
learned that love is the nearest
thing to heaven we have on
earth, the need of which goes
with every individual from the
cradle to the grave.
Young peoplel
They are always “going to
the dogs” where too many
older people are concerned.
Old people who have such
good forgetters. Why can’t we
old fogies remember how
things were for us and with us
when we were young? Today’s
young people are no better and
no worse than we were. Oh,
more cars and telephones are
available to them. And they do
make the most of these, like
the other special privileges
they have which we didn’t
have. But can you blame
them?
Young people are necessarily
show-offish. They are in that
stage of life when making the
right social contacts is of the
utmost importance to them.
And they are out to attract
attention to themselves, just
as they have to be in order to
succeed. So don’t be offended
when they are loud, boister
ous, or even boastful. Over-
loA it if they have a tendency
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to wear their skirts short and
their pants tight. And look the
other way witti a secret smile if
you happen to see scribbled on
the restroom wall some
such slogan as STAMP OUT
VIRGINITY!
Remembering that many of
us did the same kind of thing
when we were young. 1 still
remember the old wreck of a
car in my day which had
scribbled on the sides of it the
bold lettering, HEY, GIRLS,
DO YOU DRINK OR SMOKE?
IF SO, THROW YOUR BUTTS
IN HERE)
And the words written on a
bathroom wall, JESUS LOVES
SINNERS. Under which some
naughty guy of my day had
scribbled, SO DO I-ESPEC
IALLY GIRL SINNERS!
No, that didn’t make us bad,
just show-offish. We were just
out to prove our worldliness
which we equated with sophis
tication, and above all, manli
ness. Oh, sure, we often went
about this business of proving
our adulthood in the wrong
way. But WE made it, didn’t
we?
They will, too, if we’re just
patient long enough and don’t
lose faith in them. Also if we
don’t expect them to be freer
of errors and mistakes than we
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