Dear Ann Landers, hat's with parents, anyway? Don't they remember when they were kids? Why do they want to spare their children every hardship? We all have to face life sometime, so why don't they let us find out for ourselves? Teen-agers want to learn from experience and not be pro-tected against everything. I am sixteen and my folks treat me like an infant. If I get into a jam or louse myself up it should be my problem. I'm only going to live once and I want to look back at all the fun I had and not remember my youth as a time when I couldn't do anything. Is it wrong to go where the other kids my age go, and do what they do?-U. H. S. Student
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Dear Readers, , I read several letters in your column about the danger of fires caused by lint buildup in clothes-dryer vent pipes. Since my wife religiously cleans the lint filter every time she uses the clothes dryer, I never considered that we would have a problem. After reading those columns, I tried to assure myself that everything was OK, but I was still uncomfortable and decided to disconnect the dryer and check it out, just to be safe.
Well, I was shocked beyond all reason when I removed the first section of the exhaust pipe. It was almost 100 percent full of solid lint buildup. I have no idea how any air could have passed through that clogged pipe. I ended up taking everything apart, including the motor fan, which was packed with lint, as well. I thank God your article appeared when it did, Ann, because we were sitting on top of a disaster ready to ignite and didn't know it. -- L.H., Grand Rapids, Mich.
