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If Parents Don't Help the Kids, Who Will?'
By TOM TIEDE
NEA Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON—! NE A)-
For years knowledgeable re
searchers in the area of nar
cotics abuse have predicted
(1) parents would one day
suddenly discover their sons
and daughters are involved;
and (2) when they did, they
would likely panic and take
heavy-handed steps to stop
the threat.
And now it has come to
pass.
In recent months parental
citizens’ groups have organ
ized across the nation
Stunned that Johnny is tak
ing pot, confused because he
seems to enjoy it, they have
hastily demanded a series of
solutions that range from
giving regular urine (drug
detection) tests in high
schools to purging all psyche
delic literature and staff
sympathizers from the edu
cation system.
In Morris County, N.J., for
example, where 800 drug ar
rests were made last year,
an irate parent has pro
posed: “Search the kids’
lockers, give them saliva
tests, escort them to and
from lunch Anything. We
have a nightmare here—and
we have to take some dras
tic steps to save these kids.”
Such tactics, of course,
Georgia, S.C. Eye N.Y.
By United Press International
Moves are underway in the
South Carolina and Georgia leg
islatures to adopt New York
state’s “freedom of choice”
school desegregation program.
Federal courts have outlawed
freedom of choice programs in
the South.
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will not work.
Dr Robert Petersen is
with the government’s Cen
ter for Studies of Narcotics
and Drug Abuse. Says he:
“In the first place, saliva
and urine tests won’t work.
In the second place, if par
ents think they are going to
stop drugs simply by police
state methods, they may end
up finding they are not only
missing the problem, they
are becoming part of the
problem.
“One sure way a parent can
keep his kid on drugs, or
even get him more involved
with hard drugs, is to attack
the problem with a big stick.
Run schools and homes like
jails. Pry into kids’ pockets.
Make big threats. Almost
surely, then, they will drive
their children even farther
away."
York” bills is to “point out the
inequities” taken by the Depart
ment of Health, Education, and
Wetfare in school cases.
Bill Under Study
“If they are allowed one
thing, why should we not?”
asked Rep. Harold Breazeale,
chairman of the South Carolina
Senate Education Committee,
which took the freedom of
Petersen, whose agency
distributes tons of narcotics
literature to requesting or
ganizations, says he is not
opposed to the proliferation
of parental groups concerned
with youthful drug use.
The first thing for such
groups to realize, he says, is
that “Kids aren’t the only
ones who like drugs. Big
people do, too. Alcohol, ciga
rettes, sleeping pills—these
things are taken by the
majority of the population.
We are, in fact, a drug
oriented society.” The doc
tor suggests parent groups
avoid these pitfalls:
• Don’t panic. Many kids
choice bill under study.
In Atlanta, State Comptroller
General James L. Bentley Jr.
circulated the New York school
plan among Georgia legislators,
urging its passage to “at least
give the courts a chance to dis
criminate between New York
and Georgia.”
Florida Rep. Jack Poorbaugh
said Tuesday a movement has
try drugs, but few are ad
dicted to them. The evidence
is youngsters are not on the
road to Sodom and Gomor
rah. The drug worry is val
id, but the researcher be
lieves that tact and under
standing are a far more
valuable defense against ad
diction than an excited,
wide-open mouth.
• Avoid scare tactics.
Petersen insists that kids
know that “marijuana will
not make them sterile, blind
them, or send them to an
early grave.” So telling them
so is counter-productive. The
doctor believes parents must
be well informed of the facts
—which include the harmless
as well as the harmful ef
fects of drugs — and should
use “facts only” in discus
sions and dealings.
• Never stereotype the
young society. A boy who
deviates from what his fa
ther did at the same age,
says Dr. Petersen, is not
necessarily a bum. All long
haired males are not hippies
All marijuana-smoking fe
males are not nymphomani
acs.
• And communicate in
stead of alienate. Dr. Peter
sen feels that parental meet
ings without youthful par
ticipation solve nothing. He
believes kids must be lis
tened to.
begun for passage of a Consti
tutional amendment allowing
freedom of choice as the “only
sensible way to resolve the
school crisis.” He said the drive
is “bipartisan and is going be
yond the confines of the state of
Florida.”
The Judiciary Committee of
the Florida House Tuesday
passed resolutions calling for
And as for other don’ts,
there is a final one worth
noting:
“Don’t be discouraged,”
says Dr. Petersen. “Parent
groups never get results
overnight. The drug problem
among kids is too deep. It’s
enormously com p 1 ex, be
cause kids are enormously
complex. The thing to do is
just to keep trying. The par
ents, I mean.
“Keep trying. Because,
let’s face it, when all is said
and done, if the parents don’t
help the kids today, who
will?”
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public election of federal judges
and asking Congress to limit
federal court authority in cases
involving the forced busing of
students.
Block State Funds
The Georgia House passed a
bill Tuesday which would block
the use of state funds to transfer
students and teachers in compli
ance with federal court orders
issued for Burke County, Ga.
The bill charges state funds
“currently are not available in
sufficient sums” to provide both
quality education and teacher
and student transfers to satisfy
racial balances.
And at Savannah, Ga., U. S.
District Court Judge Alexander
A. Lawrence granted a 30-day
deadline extension Tuesday for
new desegregation plans to be
submitted by the Chatham
County school system.
The order pushed the deadline
for submission of the new plan
back to April 1. It also set back
the final date for tendering new
teacher contracts from Feb. 15
to March 15.
Lawrence said the teacher
contracts for next year must
contain the provision that teach
ers will serve in any school re
gardless of its racial composi
tion.
School attorney Basil Morris
said a census to deterine the
black and white students in the
Chatham School still is under
way, forcing the delay. He said
a meaningful desegrega
tion plan would be based on the
outcome of the census.
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Crime Rate Threat
COLUMBUS, Ga. (UPI)-The
increasing crime rate and re
lated violence in the United
States is “the most serious,
most dangerous threat in the
history of our country,” State
Public Safety Director Col. R.
H. Burson said Tuesday night.
Speaking in observance of
National Crime Prevention
Week, Burson told a local civic
group “sustained public de
mand” was the best preventa
tive for crime. That, he said,
would “change the attitudes
Plane Missing
WARNER - ROBOTS, Ga.
(UPI)—At least 10 planes from
the Georgia Civil Air Patrol
joined the search today for a
private plane missing on a
flight from West Virginia to
Florida since Monday.
Spokesmen for the Eastern
Rescue Coordination Center
said Augusta’s Bush Field had
been made mission headquar
ters for the search. CAP units
in West Virginia. Virginia and
New York Plan
ATLANTA (UPI) - A court
approved freedom of choice
school desegregation plan in ef
fect in New York State was cir
culated among Georgia legisla
tors by Comptroller Gen. James
L. Bentley Jr. Tuesday.
In passing the circular around,
Bentley added it was his under
standing the New York state
legislature also has passed leg-
SCLC Man Acquitted
SAVANNAH, Ga. (UPI) - A
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference field worker was
acquitted Tuesday on charges
of draft evasion.
U. S. District Judge Alexand
er A. Lawrence ordered the
jury to bring an acquittal ver
dict after Benjamin Van Clark
showed he had not been provid
ed funds to travel to the state
wide hospital to which he had
been assigned.
Clark had been classified as
a conscientious objector by the
Chatham County Selective Serv
ice Board, but had failed to re-
New Insurance Agent
ATLANTA (UPI)-That por
tion of the federal Medicare
program dealing with physician
costs in Georgia will have a
new insurance company as its
agent.
Douglas Richard, regional
representative for health servi
ces for the Health, Education
and Welfare Department, said
Prudential Life Insurance Co. of
America will serve as the new
agent.
Prudential will replace John
Hancock Mutual Life Insurance
Vote Against Burson
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (UPI)-
Edward Martin said today the
Senate’s refusal to confirm him
as a member of the State Board
for Children and Youth was
“really a vote” against Welfare
Director William Burson.
In a lengthy statement, Mar
tin said he “wasn’t important”
himself in the 48-6 vote against
his confirmation. “This was just
to prove their dictatorial pow
ers,” he said.
Martin said the Senate action
merely served to back up the
accusations he made against the
Senate for passing the so-called
“get-Burson” bill.
Chatham Gets Delay
SAVANNAH.Ga. (UPI)-U.S.
District Court Judge Alexander
A. Lawrence granted a 30-day
deadline extension Tuesday for
new desegregation plans to be
submitted by the Chatham
County school system.
The order pushed the deadline
for submission of the new plan
back to April 1. It also set back
the final date for tendering new
teacher contracts from Feb. 15
to March 15.
Lawrence said the teacher
contracts for next year must
contain the provision that teach
ers will serve in any school re
gardless of its racial composi
tion.
School attorney Basil Morris
said a census to determine ex
act number of black and white
students in the Chatham schools
still is underway, forcing the
delay. He said a meaningful
Wednesday, February 11, 1970
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and behavior of the groups and
mobs who preach lawlessness
and violence.”
Burson said most of the
blame for the ever - increasing
crime rate can be laid at the
feet of the individual citizen in
the U.S.
Crime has mushroomed be
cause the individual citizen has
failed “to measure up to his re
sponsibilities in contributing
toward making this a decent,
law - abiding society,” Burson
said.
North and South Carolina are
combing their respective states
as well.
Authorities said the plane, a
Cessna 182, was piloted by Max
Frank Carpenter, 64.
It was last seen at takeoff
from Beckley, W. Va., and was
en route to Vero Beach, Fla.
No flight plan had been filed.
The plane was reported to be
silver with red and black trim.
islation to prohibit state funds
to be used to bus students for
the purpose of achieving racial
balance.
The potential Republican gu
bernatorial candidate suggested
the Georgia legislature enact
similar measures to “at least
give the courts a chance to dis
criminate between New York
and Georgia.”
port to the hospital.
His assignment there had
been in accordance with the
Selective Service Act. The act
provides men classified as 1-0
(conscientious objectors) will
spend their normal service time
in civilian work “contributing
to the maintenance of the na
tional health, safety or inter
est.”
Lawrence sent Clark back to
the draft board to have his or
ders reprocessed and transpor
tation provided to his duty sta
tion.
Co.
Richard said he anticipates
no problems in the changeover
and added there was little
change expected either in per
sonnel or procedure.
Some 340,000 Georgians are
enrolled in Medicare’s Part B
medical insurance program,
which involves doctors’ fees.
The program paid out |21,767,-
000 in fiscal 1969, Richard said.
No reason was given for Han
cock’s decision not to renew its
agreement with HEW.
“This vote furthered my first
statement,” he said. “Not only
will some members of the Sen
ate ax little children in their
legislation to show their powers
in the Senate. They will also
pull a name from three other
appointees to make their point
of their show of power.”
He said the Senate’s action
was “really a vote against the
Department of Children and
Family Services director (Bur
son) who has been and who is
still trying to carry out a pro
gram... to feed poor people in
every county of the state wheth
er they be white or black.”
desegregation plan would be
based on the outcome of the
census.
Lawrence gave the plaintiffs
in the case five days to file ob
jections to the delay, and Rep.
Bobby Hill of Savannah, repre
senting black clients in the
case, said “objections are forth
coming.”
Hill said, “Any further delay
is out of line with what the
court has consistently re
quired.”
He also speculated Law
rence’s decision might force
him to carry the litigation to
the U. S. sth Circuit Court of
Appeals in New Orleans. Hill
said first he would request a
new hearing before Lawrence
requiring the school board to
show cause why the extension
proposed by Lawrence should
be granted.
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Bill Would
Block Funds
For Transfers
ATLANTA (UPI)-The Geor
gia Senate received a bill to
day which, if passed, would
block the use of state funds to
transfer students and teachers
in compliance with federal
court orders issued for Burke
County.
The measure passed through
the House Tuesday under local
courtesy rules, meaning it
faced no debate and no formal
vote.
The bill charges state funds
“currently are not available in
sufficient sums” to provide
both quality education and
teacher and student transfers to
satisfy racial balances.
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