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mm $ - wmmmmmmm wmm Complete Creative Project New Standards For Safe Cribs Set By Commission PAGE It - PLAINDEALER-WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1973 Mrs. Carl Kohrt stands before her fourth grade class introducing Brian Landis and David Ewald, before their presentation in conjunction with an independent study program. The boys are shown in rear center of photo. > Brian Landis and David Ewald, working under the study program for the gifted, teamed together on a study of trees and their products. Many students at Edgebrook school are participating in the independent study program for the gifted. These students do many interesting and creative projects. ° fourth grade boys from Mrs. Kohrt's class, Brian Landis and David Ewald, teamed together to do an in-depth study of trees and their products useful to man. After com­ pleting their study, Brian and David presented their findings in a seminar approach to five other classes, their parents, and school administrators. As part of their project, Brian and CThe Worry 1 -- Clinic * David used a camera to make color slides of twenty trees. They collected, pressed and mounted leaves from each tree they photographed. The boys made reports for each tree and transparencies to illustrate the parts of a tree from a seed to maturity. They collected and displayed tree products and demonstrated making paper by recycling face tissues. Invitations to their seminars were written on paper they made by this process. The Law Serves You Marvin's problem shows that forensic fighting requires an even more deft strategy than the boxing ring. So by all means learn to use that "Pause and Praise" device, supplemented by the "Reversible Why." It is not natural to do so, but star salesmen and public leaders need to cultivate this strategy till it becomes automatic! By - George W. Crane, Ph. D., M.D. CASE K-565: Marvin J., aged 28, is a political science teacher. "But, Dr. Crane," he began unhappily, "I seem to get caught up in many angiy debates during my college classroom lectures. "And when I am invited to address public gatherings, where a forum discussion follows my 40-minute talk, angry arguments are very likely to follow. "So how can a speaker deftly side-step many red hot issues or tricky questions from the audience that evoke anger? "For I seem to 'lead with my chin' when I get embroiled in forum discussions." PAUSE AND PRAISE When a professional speaker or star salesman encounters an objection, he usually has the facts on the tip of his tongue by which to answer it. But if he spouts these snappy answers too quickly, he deflates the ego of the prospect or questioner. For his rapid-fire reply mows down the questioner like a machine gun! He may thus win the argument but lose the goodwill of the sales prospect or even his forum audience. In this situation, bite your tongue, if need be, to curb your quick natural tendency to reply to that query. Instead, "Pause and Praise." Sometimes the query comes in all innocence from some young person who really believes he is raising a profound question. For you to mow him down in staccato fashion, makes him blush in humiliation, for your rapid, detailed answer causes him to feel: "My goodness, I must look like a fool, for I thought I had a very serious question but see how quickly he answered it!" Other queries are propounded just to give the questioner a chance to stand up in public and gain a little at­ tention. He may not even be seriously concerned with your answer, for he just wants the audience to see him. Another question may ac­ tually be placed by an enemy to try to trip up the speaker. But in all such cases, pause and praise, for this inflated the ego of the sales prospect as well as the questioner in the forum audience. Moreover, it gives you time to stall for a few moments and collect your wits, in case you have been caught off guard. And it will even spike the guns of your hostile critic, for if you have lauded his keen mind by your public bit of praise for his astute question, he will not care too much what you say in reply to it! For nobody can long think ill of you if you have publicly shown that you think well of him! So pause and praise, as by saying: "That is a very profound question you have raised, Mr. Brown. In fact, I wish you'd stand up and repeat it so all those in the galleries can also hear it." This is the "Pause and Praise" strategy but it can also be supplemented by adding the "Reversible Why," thereby letting the audience cooperate in evolving the solution. Say, for example, "Mr. Brown's problem may have been faced by other prominent business leaders like himself, so does any one of you in the audience wish to tell how he has "solved such a dilemma?" Maybe several people will then add their suggestions, thus leaving you the task of merely summing up the discussion deftly, with everybody feeling happy! (Always write to Dr. Crane in care of this newspaper, en­ closing a long stamped, ad­ dressed envelope and 20 cents to cover typing and printing costs when you send for one of his booklets.) Dresses Do women try to throw out last year's dresses? No, they try very hard to get into them! EQUALIZING THE SEXES Women and men are becoming more like each other every day, in relation to Illinois law that is. Women and men gained a number of new rights this past year, according to the Illinois State Bar association. New statutes which became law Oct. 1 and which relate to women: -- Prohibit discrimination based on sex or marital status by firms issuing credit cards; -/ Prohibit savings and loan a s s o c i a t i o n s f r o m discriminating on the basis of marital status when -making loan*; \ * * - Prohibit discrimination because of sex or national origin in state university hiring; - Guarantee women equal pay for equal work; -- Change "widow" to "surviving spouse" in the statute governing recoveries sought from those responsible for someone's death; - Eliminate the requirement for separate rooms for women in state employment offices where people register for jobs; - Give a married woman the same right as a married man to attach a lien on her spouse's house; HAPPINESS IS: FINDING WHATi YOU WANT IN THE PLAINDEALER'S CLASSIFIED WAN AD SECTION TODAY "The Unusual In Women's Apparel" The Fashion Shoppe / (2fl%L±brLCLL <zSuJ£at£X± fun-fcufiLonecl for tftz gizf on tfiz go. . . OPEN EVENINGS & SUNDAYS TIL CHRISTMAS *D\££. THE FASHION SHOPPE An 18-month old girl frac­ tured her ankle when she fell while climbing out of her crib. A 7Vfe-month-old girl fell out of her crib after her 3-year-old sister lowered the side rail. A 5- month-old boy suffered bruises, cuts, and abrasions of the head when he worked his body between the crib slats. His father heard him crying and found him hanging by his head from the crib. These and similar reports of accidents involving baby cribs appear often enough in the newspapers to make parents uneasy about tucking their infant in for a nap. And they have good reason to be concerned. Most of an infant's first months of life are spent within a crib. Some cribs, however, far from protecting a baby, can actually be hazardous. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety commission estimates that 150 to 200 children die every year in accidents involving cribs. Another 50,000 are injured. These deaths do not include sudden infant death syndrome. But there is promise that in the near future this heavy accident toll can be significantly reduced. Strict new federal safety regulations governing the manufacture and design of baby cribs will soon go into effect. They are directed specifically at those crib features most frequently cited as being involved in ac­ cidents. The new regulations, for example, eliminate a serious strangulation hazard by requiring that crib slats be spaced no more than 2%" apart. The wider spacing found on present-day cribs makes it possible for an infant to work his body between the slats; but his larger head may be caught. The accidental lowering of side rails is another serious hazard that will be corrected. Safe locking devices for dropsides will be mandatory on new cribs. There are two ways these mechanisms can be made safer: they can be designed either to operate only under ten pounds of pressure or more or to operate only after the per­ formance of two separate actions. This should prevent the catch from being released by a small brother or sister or from being tripped accidentally. The metal parts of cribs have been the cause of a wide variety of injuries-pinching, bruising, lacerating, crushing, breaking, and even amputating of fingers and toes. Metalwork on new cribs must be designed to avoid all injuries to the infant. A difference between the size of the mattress and the size of the crib has resulted in infant suffocations. A baby's head can become wedged between the mattress and the crib when the mattress is too small. Therefore crib sizes will be standardized. In addition, all cribs' ship­ ping cartons and assembly instructions will carry a strong warning advising parents that only tightly-fitting mattresses of a specific size should be used. Not only will the length and width of cribs be standardized, but also the rail height. This has been done to help avoid the most common of all crib ac­ cidents, the fall. These preventive measures should give parents added assurance when they put their infants in bed. SLAFF OF THF WEEK * #M\mdt "Now IH give you a rough estimate on when I'll be able to pay you." A 0 D -- Forbid housing cor­ porations or their contractors to discriminate on the basis of sex or national origin when hiring; Forbid hiring discrimination by sex, creed or national origin under contracts for public buildings and public works; - Eliminate discrimination against women employees by adding widowers as women's compensation beneficiaries. The Illinois State Bar association also points out that men benefit from two new statutes dealing with sex discrimination. They have been give# the same rights as womeh in collecting workmen's compensation awards for disfigurement of chest, legs or arms, and, under a second new statute, have the same rights as a woman if they unknowingly marry a bigamist. MAJOR APPLIANCES. TELEVISION &• STEREO PRICED LOW TO KEEP SPIRTS HIGH! 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