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by Willis J. Walker, Jr.
ONE IN SIX HIGH
SCHOOLERS USE DRUGS;
ONE IN THREE ALCOHOL,
SURVEY SAYS
One student in six in
Georgia high schools admits to
drug usage and one in three
reports using alcohol,
according to a five-county
cooperative State and Local
Health Department survey
made earlier this year and just
released by the Department’s
division of mental health after
weeks of study and analysis.
The survey report, based on
information supplied by
84,400 junior and senior high
school students in Fulton,
Bibb, Houston, Muscogee and
Chatham counties, covers the
age group 12 through 18. An
analysis of average student use
over this seven-year age span
revealed just under one out of
six (15.5 per cent) reporting
drug usage and slightly more
than one out of three (36.5
percent) reporting contact with
alcohol.
However, the study
determined that both drug and
alcohol usage rose sharply as
the student’s age increased;
among 18-year-olds use of
drugs was reported by 26 per
cent of the students and
alcohol consumption by 55.4
per cent.
The drug most frequently
reported by the students was
marijuana (8.8 per cent); glue
or gasoline sniffing ranked
second (5.6 per cent) while a
variety of tranquilizing drugs
was third in usage at 4.9 per
cent. Amphetamines, with 4.1
per cent reported usage, ranked
just below the tranquilizing
group.
The so-called “hard drugs”
were at the bottom of the list
in averaged totals of the five
counties surveyed: narcotics
other than heroin (morphine,
and other less common opium
derivatives) affected only 2.3
per cent of the students;
cocaine, 1.9 per cent; and
heroin, 1.3 per cent. Again,
hard drug usage increased with
the age of the students
responding.
Results of the study -- which
began in Bibb county in
January and ended in Fulton
county in April - were
announced simultaneously
Friday by health officals in the
five participating counties and
by state mental health director
Dr. Addison M. Duval at a
news conference in Atlanta.
Dr. Duval stated that the
student sampling guaranteed
anonymity to those
participating. He said also that
the effort had the “full
cooperation” of the State '
Department of Education and
the additional support of the
five involved county boards of
education.
“We chose the counties to
survey,” explained the health 1
official, “ quite frankly,
because these areas had shown ’
a lot of interest in the drug 1
abuse problem, and the people
there already had some 1
expertise.” <
By working with the
counties chosen, said Dr. £
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[ Duval, the survey could be
; conducted rapidly and with
, “expectedly accurate” results.
Dr. Duval, who is a
psychiatrist, said that since
i April - when the data
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i members of his staff and State
Health Department
bio-statisticians have been
intensely analyzing a 50 per
cent sample of the survey
questionaires. “The report
we’re releasing,” said the
official, “is based on our close
study of what 42,200 Georgia
youngsters told us.”
Dr. Eugene Hodges, a
sociologist on the state mental
health staff, and Mrs. Ann
Johnson, a bio-statistician,
were both deeply involved in
questionaire interpretation,
according to Dr. Duval.
Dr. Hodges cautioned
against reading too much into
the drug report. “It is a study
only,” he said, “and while the
data will be immensely helpful,
it should not be considered as
either complete or as
completely accurate.”
He added, “Because of the
time factor, we were unable to
survey a truly rural area, and
we have also been unable to
really check the accuracy of
what the students told us.”
The inability to poll school
drop-outs must also be
weighed, cautioned the
sociologist.
The survey was administered
during regular class periods in
125 schools by health
department program
representatives. The
questionnaire upon which the
study was based was originated
by a committee of health
department staff members
assisted by consulting experts
from the Center for Disease
Control in Atlanta.
Dr. Duval indicated that
details of the data compiled
would play a significant role in
charting by the Health
Department’s evolving drug
abuse control program across
the state.
Rev.
Roundtree’s
Appreciation
Day
On Sunday September 19, at
three o’clock, the pastor,
officers, and members of
Thankful Baptist Church will
honor their pastor, Rev.
William Roundtree. He has
been a member of Thankful for
over seventy years; the entire
Rountree family holds
membership at Thankful and
for many years; the assistant
pastor’s late wife, Mrs. Nellie
Rountree, was the teacher of
the Cradle Roll Class.
Rev. Roundtree’s daughter,
Mrs. Emma Tolbert and her
family reside in Chicago,
Illinois; his son, Ernest, and
family reside in New York
City.
All friends are urged to
attend.
Chaplain Says Young People
Are Turning To God
Jesus Freaks, Jesus-Rock
and a dislike fpr organized
religion have become
trademarks of a youthful
revival in Christianity.
Down-home religion has a new,
young face, in events ranging
1 from mass baptism in
California to Jesus communes
1 in the wilderness. And
chaplains at Fort Gordon are
1 working to keep up-to-date.
Lt. Col. John P. Kirkland,
center chaplain, said: “We feel
that if it (the Jesus Movement)
is of the Lord, you can’t stop
it. More power to it. Young
people in the last several years
have been looking for
something. They haven’t found
it in drugs, alcohol or all the
ways of the world. They have
found it in Jesus.”
Emphasis is placed on
reaching the men on a
person-to-person ba-’S and
leaving off the fancy trappings
sometimes associated with
organized churches. Rap
sessions -free-wheeling
discussions without ground
rules--are held; guitars and
modern music have replaced
traditional hymns at some
services, and the 4th Advanced
Individual Training Brigade
(Military Police) is building a
chapel-in-the-round with
rough-hewn beams and few
decorations.
Chaplain Kirkland said: ‘We
are taking the tools the young
people are interested in and
using them. We are not
changing the message, because
I think the true message is
what they’re looking for.”
Capt. J. Franklin Pierce,
the young Protestant chaplain
of the 4th AIT Bde., tries to be
both visible and accessible. He
follows the MP trainees
through their busy day to be
with the men.
“I’m trying to aim more
toward the individual and
make a larger commitment on
a personal basis,” he said.
Chaplain Pierce tries to show
the men that there is a living
and personal God. He said: “I
v try to preach that men must be
saved for today and not only
some time after death. For a
soldier., especially in Vietnam,
what is there besides today? I
want the men to see that Christ
is a living part of their
everyday lives.”
Just returned from Vietnam,
Chaplain Pirece said he learned I
that men “need the faith to get
them through each night.”
Capt. R. George Plummer,
Protestant chaplain of the sth
and 6th battalions at the
Southeastern Signal School,
also stresses the personal God.
He said young people are
searching for the historical
Jesus that lived and worked
among men, not some
“Superman way out in space.”
Failure to find a close
personal identification with
God is the reason young people •
are leaving some churches, the
chaplains said.
“Some churches have
become more of an
organization than a living
organism,” Chaplain Kirkland
said. “The church should be a •
living thing.” He said the fi
chaplains are trying to <
re-establish the close J
communication found in the e .
early Christian church. t>
The non-denominational 0
approach favored by the young
doesn’t worry Chaplain Pierce.
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“What difference does it
make,” he said. “The
denomination doesn’t matter,
Christ matters.’’
Churches, however, still have
a place in religion, the chaplain
said. But, they said the church
must become more involved
with people if it is to attract
the young.
“The churches must become
more actively engaged in the
day-to-day lives of people,”
Chaplain Kirkland said. “It’s
going to take a revival in the
minds of church people.”
Chaplain Pierce said: “The
church is vitally important as
an institution of the Holy
Spirit, but the Holy Spirit must
be the guiding influence, not
men. The church must become
a dynamic force in the world.”
The ability to establish
dialogue with the men is
important in all the plans being
made by the chaplains. They
said they didn’t think their
rank inhibited the
communication with enlisted
trainees and men.
“We are not looked upon as
part of the establishment as
much as a minister on the
outside,” Chaplain Kirkland
said. “The men relate more to
us as someone they can talk
to.”
A chaplain’s rank can also
help the soldier, he said. “The
rank lets us step into the
establishment and get things
done,” according to Chaplain
Kirkland.
“If the rank does inhibit
anyone., it’s the chaplain’s
fault,” Kirkland said. “It
depends which side of his
collar he shows: If the rank
shows instead of the cross, he
isn’t doing his job.”
Lt. Col. William A. Foley,
deputy center chaplain, agrees.
“Anytime a chaplain becomes
just an officer, he should get
out,” he said.
Chaplain Foley, who will
retire soon after 20 years in the
Chaplain’s Corps as a Catholic
chaplain also believes that
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This Week At
The Library
NOONDAY FILM PROGRAM
On Tuesday, September 21,
the films, “True Story of the
Civil War” and “Abraham
Lincoln: Background Study”,
will be shown at the
Augusta-Richmond County
Public Library’s weekly series
of film programs “The World
in Films.” The films will be
shown in the library’s
Auditorium at 12:10 only.
The film “True Story of the
Civil War” is the winner of an
Academy Award for the best
documentary. This film is the
actual record of the crucial
Civil War period in our nation’s
past. It is made up mostly of
Matthew Brady’s original wet
plate photographs.
In the films “Abraham
Lincoln: Background Study”
Lincoln is studied in relation to
the historical period in which
he lived by presenting his life,
writings, and speeches against
the background of the
Kentucky hills, Indiana
backwoods, and Illinois prarie
country.
There is no charge. The
public is invited.
LIBRARY STORY HOURS
Children of the area are
invited to attend the weekly
Story Hours conducted by the
Augusta Library. They are held
at the Main Library on
Tuesdays; at the Wallace
chaplains do not always have
to agree with Army policy.
He said: “The fact that he is
in the service doesn’t mean he
agrees with everything that is
done. He may or he may not.
Perhaps by working here he
can bring about changes that
wouldn’t be solved by his
leaving.”
Chaplain Kirkland said he
has never found any conflict in
being a minister and being in
the Army. “My primary
allegiance is to God,” he said.
“If I find that the Army ever
stands in the way of my
ministry, I will clear out.”
Chaplains volunteer for
service in the military through
their denominations After
serving for an initial three
years, they can notify then
churches and leave active duty.
While in the service, they have
all the rights and privileges of
an officer.
All of the chaplains
interviewed said they found
deep satisfaction preaching in
the Army. Chaplain Kirkland
said he feels he has more
freedom in the Army than in a
church outside. “I have never
been told what to preach or
how to conduct my services,”
he said. “On the outside, you
sometimes feel you must
preach what you think the
congregation wants to hear.”
Chaplain Pierce said he
appreciates the attitude the
Army has toward chaplains.
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Branch Library on Wednesdays
and at the Appleby Branch
Library on Thursdays. All
programs begin at 4:00 p.m.
This week “The Golden
Goose” will be told at the Main
Library on Tuesday; “The
Wicked Kings of Bloom” at the
Wallace Branch on Wednesday;
and “Mr. Honey Mouth” at the
Appleby Branch on Thursday.
The film, “Little Animals”,
showing a variety of small
animals feeling, moving and
eating, will be shown at the
Main Library and Wallace
Branch. Books will be reviewed
for various ages and interests.
PROGRAMS FOR
PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN
The Library announces its
picture book programs which
are planned for pre-school
children who are old enough to
enjoy books. The “Picture
Book Half Hour” program at
the Main Library at 902
Greene Street is held on
Thursday at 10 a.m. Tuesdays
and Wednesdays at 11 a.m. are
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