Editorial April, 1971 Vol. 24, No. 4

Prepare for the Journal of Better Living Executive Director Ernest H. J. Steed Landing Editor Francis A. Soper Assistant Editor Twyla Schlotthauer Editorial Secretary Elizabeth Varga Office Editor T. R. Torkelson For some time we had been flying Art Director Howard Larkin blind. The clouds were thick and Layout Artist Henry Rasmussen Circulation Manager A. R. Mazat heavy, almost obscuring our own Sales and Promotion L. R. Hixson, Milo Sawvel wingtips. Our flight from Denver was heading west. Suddenly we broke out into the In This Issue open. The snow-covered landscape below looked cold and still; ahead 2 Prepare for the Landing Editorial loomed the jagged peaks and sharp 3 Love Opens the Door Lavonne Zublin escarpment of the Sierra Nevada. 4 "Several Swigs"—A Sequel Alma L. Campbell The public address system on our 5 Today's Unchecked Killer Jean Davison Convair 880 crackled as a cheery 6 The Ear of the Beholder Keith Merced voice came over clear and strong, 8 Death of a Pusher T. Casey Brennan "We are having to reduce our 9 The Simple Life Ernie Holyer PAN AMERICAN ground speed in order to get into 10 Could It Be Me? As told to A. E. Terrill line for our landing at San Francisco." 12 Teens—Life Can Be Beautiful A New Kind of High We were still ten miles from the California border, but that Interview with Vonda Kay Van Dyke distance would need only about one minute's flying time. 16 Start the World—I Want to Get On Immediately the high whine of the jets began to lower per- Diana C. Gleasner ceptibly, and we knew our nearly 600 miles per hour was 18 I Went to a Party Teen-ager Danny Groves being cut back. And it wasn't long until we started sliding 19 Color Special "Listen's" Newspaper in Miniature from our 35,000 feet elevation down over the western slope 24 "Somebody Cares" of the Sierra. The towns and fields of the Central Valley glided by under- In the Next Issue neath, and with Mount Hamilton ahead of us we banked north, then west again over the San Leandro Hills and Oakland, • Is LSD really so bad after all? Regardless across the Bay into a smooth landing under the threatening of what you think, you will want to read, "A fog clouds which are so characteristic of the San Francisco Little LSD—So What?" area in late afternoons. • "Listen's" cover story takes you "down un- That landing, though apparently routine, was not done on der"—and not to Australia either, but to the the spur of the moment. It was planned even before our flight habitat of undersea explorers in Tektite II. was begun, and the plan was put into effect while our plane was still hundreds of miles from the airport. Photo and Illustration Credits Cover, Courtesy of Vonda Kay Van Dyke; pages 3, 5, 8, 10, 16, We got into our assigned sky traffic lane, followed carefully and 17, D. Tank/Henry Rasmussen; page 4, World Wide Photos; pages 4, 18, 20, and 22, United Press International; pages 9, 18, the designated approach pattern, and carried out instructions and 24, Henry Rasmussen; pages 13 and 14, Ray Fisher; page emanating from the control center. We were preparing for our 19, WHO Photo by T. Farkas; page 21, Herbert Bennett. landing. Many people "fly high" today. It may not be at 35,000 feet; Editorial Office it may be at sea level or any other altitude. They say they are 6840 Eastern Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20012 seeking a "high." Publication Office Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1350 Villa Street, There are different kinds of "highs." This person can feel Mountain View, California 94040 one after smoking pot, that person claims to find one with Subscription alcohol. Still another says he gets it with heroin. There are Yearly subscription, United States, its possessions, and Canada, many ways of securing drug "highs." Such persons, however, $5.00; single copy, 50 cents. To countries taking extra postage, $5.25; single copy, 50 cents. are flying high without preparing for the landing. They even talk about, and anticipate, the "crash." But this is hardly a Change of Address Send change of address to LISTEN, 1350 Villa Street, Mountain safe way to land. View, California 94040. Zip code must be included. Allow thirty days for change to become effective. Give both the old and the On the other hand, there are "highs" which can be secured new address. through healthy and normal ways. These mean getting a real thrill out of life, living it to the fullest, but through it all pre- paring for the landing. LISTEN, monthly journal of better living (twelve issues a year), provides a vigorous, positive educational approach to the prob- Vonda Kay Van Dyke, "Listen's" cover personality this lems arising out of the use of tobacco, alcohol, and narcotics. It is utilized nationally by Narcotics Education, Inc., also by many month, is a pilot herself. She says she gets a real "high" going organizations in the field of rehabilitation. Second-class mail privileges authorized at Mountain View, California. Form 3579 up in her plane. She well knows what it means to prepare for requested. Printed in the United States of America. the landing, not only in her plane, but also in the experiences of ever y life. This is her "new kind of high," as she puts it, Copyright, 1971, by Narcotics Education, Inc. "a ki which bri y in for a landing without regrets." 44,424a, Don't ask yourself, "What have I done wrong?" rather, "What can I do now?"

Lavonne Zublin

Horns blared behind me as I slowed stared at me from his cocoon of blue velop for him. Golden curls which were traffic to peer into the faces of three long- blankets. Our eyes locked in communi- his pride were my shame. Mark began haired hitchhikers. The boys, looking cation, and we silently agreed that no to roam. "Belonging" meant more than gaunt and cold, stared back. The weirdly negative diagnosis would keep hitm-dewn, anything else. Long hair was an admis- dressed three made no move toward my and it didn't! sion ticket to crash anywhere, and he did. slow-moving car. They seemed to know Mark sat at ten months and walked at I tracked him down once and found I would not stop. fourteen months. He did not walk as him existing in a little shack in an alley. Did they often suffer the searching other children, nor hold objects as other Blankets hung at the windows. As I ap- scrutiny of mothers? Having determined children, but he compensated. He was proached the converted garage with its that my son was not one of them, I ac- always learning, always cheerfully achiev- front door propped open, I strained to celerated and drove on. I was relieved ing new skills. There were no more spills, see into she dark room. Identifying my- that Mark was not among them, yet at bumps, or tears than with any child; for self 'to a form that became distinguish- the same time I was sad. I would con- although his way was not normal for me, able as a long-haired boy, I was directed tinue to wonder where he was. On what it was for him. Was this applicable to his to the kitchen. My steps were careful as lonely corner was he waiting? life now? I circled polite but wild-haired girls and It was not as if I never saw my hippie After seven major operations, when he boys cheerfully playing cards on the floor. son. Without warning he would appear, was six years old, Mark began to attend I avoided stepping on guitars, pillows, only to disappear again, leaving in the school regularly. He achieved academic clothes, and full ashtrays as I made my wake of his visit an anxious mother to awards throughout his grammar-school way to Mark. ponder, What makes one boy turn away career. His character and attitude shone In the kitchen my son stood at the from everything his family stands for, like a bright star. I wondered now, When sink eating a burned, shriveled TV din- especially when his brothers and sister did that star begin its descent? ner. I was heartsick, remembering the eagerly contribute to a society which In high school, Mark's English .teacher well-balanced meal I had prepared earlier needs their stability? Of all the children, said of him, "Once in five hundred stu- at home for his brothers and sister. The why did Mark choose the route of the dents do I hope to find a student like only unoccupied place to sit was on a hippies? Mark." He did well in school. He was on naked, soiled mattress on the floor in a I asked myself over and over, What the debate team. He played his guitar, small room adjacent to the kitchen. It did I do wrong? It has taken a long time sang in the choir, and won talent contests. was there that we visited. to resolve that question. Through neces- All went well until he became a senior. The small room contained no dresser, sity Mark had more attention and careful That year, dating reached a frenzied peak and clothes were piled high in cartons. guidance than his brothers and sister. as graduation neared, and he was left out. Two of Mark's suits hung alien and dusty He was born with multiple birth defects. Did the seed of rejection begin to sprout in the strangely postered room. I looked I was told it was unlikely he would sit or as Mark became a young man? at Mark's frail form and felt ill. I lis- walk before the age of five, if at all. Mark entered college, but he quit a tened, empty of understanding, as he said When he was one month old, he was semester short of finishing his sophomore he was going to "make it" with his music allowed to come home from the hospital. year. Because of his need to be accepted, and no one could "put him down" be- I remember how I held him close during he let his hair grow. As Mark began to cause he was writing about life and he the ride home. His piercing little eyes "look" hippie, a social life began to de- was experiencing it! He spoke of a song

LISTEN, April, 1971 / 3 LOVE OPENS THE DOOR he had written by using drugs to release "Several Swims" self-expression, as he termed it. Poor Bach, I thought, had to rely on talent alone. When I left, I implored Mark, -A Sequel as I always did, to figure out why he was living the way he was. By now I knew I didn't need the answer, but he did. "Forward march," the young sergeant found guilty of negligent homicide and Driving home, I reflected upon the commanded, and seventy-eight Marine re- of drinking while on duty, and was sen- scene I had just come from. Overlooking cruits waded into the swamp on the out- tenced to three months of hard labor and the obvious lack of money, I knew that skirts of the large boot camp. It was an reduced in rank to that of private. the kids who sat cross-legged in that unusually dark night, and after an hour's The story does not end here. The de- shack, with curtains of hair hiding their hiking the sergeant led his troops into a moted man remained in the Marines faces, did not express the freedom they until he was honorably discharged for tide-swollen creek. professed to have. One hippie girl told Of the seventy-eight, all got out alive medical reasons in 1959. Though he is me that most of her friends had come except six, all under twenty-one years of alive today, he is still in jail—a jail of his from broken homes or from parents who own making. He says he deserved what age. had disowned them. Whether this is fact After this tragedy, fourteen years ago, he got, but the price is small compared or not, whether the parent is rejecting the with what his conscience still demands of the nation focused its attention on the child or the child is rejecting himself, I junior drill master, and later on the train- him. asked myself if this rejection was at the According to a recent news magazine, ing methods of the Marine Corps. A con- root of our child's reason for turning from vincing lawyer tried to place blame for he says, "The only thing I felt and still society. the deaths on the tough machinery of feel is losing those six boys. . . . I just Was rejection the total of Mark's prob- keep thinking that those guys would be Marine discipline. lem? Had the time simply come when grown men now, with families of their But was that really the truth? The the acceptance and approval of nurses, sergeant, who had an untarnished record own. You can never forget that." doctors, brothers, sister, and parents wasn't The six young men who lost their lives of eleven years' service until that time, enough? According to Mark the hippie admitted he had taken "several swigs" of that night did not drown merely in a girls looked beyond the material mani- vodka during the afternoon before the swollen creek. They drowned because of festation and recognized his "inner" qual- a few swigs of vodka. march. Tests taken afterward judged him ities. For Mark it seemed it was social not "clinically intoxicated." But he was Alma L. Campbell rejection. For others, it was hypocrisy, the hypocrisy of our times that says, Let our neighbor's daughter or son bring home a partner of another race, creed, or color. Now, some five years since Mark grad- uated from high school, he is beginning to seek an answer for himself. It is a process called maturing. He and his friends have learned that you cannot re- ject life, but must live it and change it, if need be. His hair is getting shorter. The pads he crashes are cleaner. He and his friends are now anti-drugs. "I don't need it," Mark says. He is considering going back to school. He would like to teach English. The nightmare is nearly over. At twenty-one Mark is finally growing up. He is entering the mainstream of life and will contribute where he can. Our door was never closed to him be- cause he had become an embarrassment. There is nothing wrong at being embar- rassed unless you allow it to shut the Searchers continue on the lookout the door! No one communicates through next day for a sixth Marine missing after closed doors! a forced night march. Once I wrote a friend, "I am going through hell!" She wrote back, "Don't stop!" I didn't. When your hippie child knocks, how- ever seldom, open the door. Your child will grow out of the hippie stage too if he has the stability of a family behind him. It doesn't have to be a physical pres- ence. Wherever your son or daughter is, he must know, at a moment when he is "really down," that somewhere someone Sgt. Matthew C. McKeon would not cares. respond in court to the charges against Don't ask yourself, "What have I done him of drinking on duty and in the pres- wrong?" rather, "What can I do now?" ence of recruits. Then have the patience and love to do it!

4 / LISTEN, April, 1971 Jean Davison •Results of our outmoded drinking,. TO driver laws are y tragic, but not accidental. Unchecked Killer

The next time your children make a Yet as of October, 1969, either one of game of counting oncoming cars during them could legally drive in eighteen states a long trip, take their total and divide ( Arizona, Connecticut, Hawaii, Idaho, by fifty. According to the United States Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Missouri, Department of Transportation the num- Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, ber you come up with will tell you how Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Ten- many drivers approaching you were drunk nessee, Wisconsin, and Wyoming) and —not just drinking, but drunk. And each in the District of Columbia. one of those drivers is twenty-five times None of those states presume a driver more likely to have a collision—a colli- to be intoxicated until his blood-alcohol sion that could involve you—than if he level reaches a very high 0.15 percent. were sober. Under this standard, the same two men Drinking by drivers has taken many would have to put away over five drinks more American lives since 1965 than the in an hour to be legally "drunk." Their Vietnam war. In fact, drinking contrib- chance of being involved in a collision utes to about half of all traffic fatalities, would go up to 1 in 5. or more than 25,000 deaths last year Nine other states (Maine, Maryland, alone. Recent studies in California and Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Sweden reveal that most drinking drivers Mexico, New York, Texas, and Virginia) involved in fatal collisions are problem either have no set presumptive level of drinkers whose records show previous intoxication at all or have lesser penalties traffic violations. for test levels between 0.10 and 0.15 America's drinking-driver laws are percent. Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, among the most permissive in the world, and Illinois have other loopholes in their and there is evidence that more sensible drinking-driver laws. Altogether, thirty- legislation could reduce traffic fatalities one states fail to meet the minimum stan- significantly. dards urged by safety experts. In 1967 a British law went into effect The Highway Safety Bureau recom- which allowed police to give on-the-spot mends that the blood-alcohol level defin- breath tests to drivers they suspected of ing intoxication be set no higher than driving under the influence of alcohol. 0.10 percent throughout the country. This During the following year, traffic deaths standard is comparatively lenient. Swit- dropped 15 percent. zerland, Britain, and Austria set their Oddly enough, this improvement was limit at 0.08 percent. Norway and Sweden not brought about by a greater number have an even lower 0.05 percent thres- of arrests and convictions for drunken hold. And some of the countries in eastern driving. Instead, wide publicity about the Europe put the legal limit at 0.03 per- new law apparently had a deterrent effect. cent, a level which would allow an aver- As an official of the British Automobile alcohol is in his bloodstream and being age driver only one drink. Association put it, "The [Road Safety] carried to his brain. We have much to gain and nothing to Act seems to have a psychological effect Many factors affect the rate at which lose by strongly supporting effective on many people. People aren't drinking an individual gets drunk—his weight, the drinking-driver laws. In addition to sav- as much as they did before." amount of food he has consumed, and the ing lives, a reduction in automobile col- New tire standards and improvements length of time between drinks, among lisions would bring down the high cost in highway markers were also given some other things. But scientific studies have of car insurance; and it would free police- credit for contributing to the improved shown that no one is fit to drive when men to handle other problems. safety record. But casualty rates dropped the alcohol in his blood reaches one tenth Promoting better legislation is one most sharply during "drinking hours"— of 1 percent (0.10 percent) concentra- way of reducing the needless highway weekdays between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. tion. Many people are incapable of driv- slaughter. Another is more subtle, but (down 33 percent), late Saturday night ing safely at even lower concentrations. psychologically important. It is simply to (down 42 percent), and early Sunday The British Medical Association puts this stop using the word "accident" inaccu- morning (down 40 percent). figure at .05 percent. rately. The overwhelming majority of A law bringing similar results in this On the average, a 180-pound man would traffic deaths are not caused by accidents country last year would have saved at have to consume about four drinks of at all, but by what could better be de- least 8,000 lives, a figure equal to the liquor on an empty stomach in one hour's scribed as "avoidable collisions." As long entire population of Abilene, Kansas. time in order to reach the 0.10 percent as we continue to say that 50,000 people A few years ago, drivers were often level. On a full stomach, an average 130- die every year in highway "accidents," it asked to walk a chalk line to prove their pound man could drink the same amount is very difficult to realize that most of sobriety. Today reliable chemical tests before reaching the same state. If either these deaths are preventable. can be used to determine whether a driver of these two men then drove, his chance When a man or a woman who has had is really "under the influence" or not. of having a wreck would be 1 in 20, ac- "one too many" can legally drive down These tests indicate not how many drinks cording to a report to Congress by the your street, the result may be tragic; but the driver has had, but rather how much Department of Transportation. it will not be accidental. •

LISTEN, April, 1971 / 5 here's a man in California who's Sherman has written, directed, pro- drug-abuse education that utilizes radio over thirty, but the kids trust him. duced, and narrated a series of six audio techniques of the thirties and forties. He's turning them on—not to dramas that bore into some of the prob- Kids don't remember "Lights Out" and T drugs, but to heavy listening about lems of drug abuse among young people. "Inner Sanctum," but Sherman does. drug abuse. And they're turning him on His young company, MicroDramas, of "These old radio programs were fantas- —on over fifty radio stations across the Rialto, California, has already achieved tics," he says. "People still remember United States, and in classrooms. national attention and favorable com- them more vividly than they do last His name is Jory Sherman, age thirty- ments from such people as Ann Landers, night's television special." His idea was seven, and he's created a series of drug- Congressman Joseph M. McDade of that kids would remember his dramati- abuse tapes that are "outta sight," as the Pennsylvania, Congressman Jerry Pettis of zation of a girl going through withdrawal kids say. Kids ranging from eight to nine- California, Senator Alan Cranston of Cal- symptoms much longer if he reached teen unanimously agree that he's reached ifornia, John Finlator and Dr. John H. them through the ear, not the eye. He them not through the eye, but the ear. Langer of the Bureau of Narcotics and may be right. "We've made the listener use his imag- Dangerous Drugs in Washington, D.C. Late in 1969, Sherman wrote a radio- ination again," says Sherman, a poet who The story of MicroDramas and Jory type script about some kids messing was once a rebel himself and maybe still Sherman is a remarkable one in this day around with methadrine—"speed." Edu- is. "Unlike film, which shows everything of technological miracles and computer- cators liked the script, and one man in and often incorrectly, we've brought the ized progress. Sherman went back thirty the field of educational tapes amazed imagination back into play." years or so to come up with an idea of Sherman with the statement that "no- The Ear of the Beholder

Keith Merced

6 / LISTEN, April, 1971 body's ever done anything like this for the educational field." A quick thumbing through all the catalogs bore this out. Norman Rogers, president of Classic Text Tapes, wrote Sherman a letter that said, in part: "Dialogue from 'The Smoke and the Venom' is so gripping, it's almost unbearable. You most certainly are close to something very big." Armed with that encouraging statement, Sherman and his wife, Charlotte, formed MicroDramas Company and began writing more scripts. "I became very excited about produc- ing this series," says Sherman. "I rented a studio and gathered around me a group of actors who were interested in my proj- ect. We began production, and we fin- ished six tapes despite a lot of delays be- cause of money." Sherman is a free-lance writer, and he had to stop every so often and write a short story or an article to pay for his actors, engineer, and the studio time. "It took me about five or six months to do the series," he says. "My engineer and I worked long hours getting the technical parts the way I wanted them. We worked on four-track Ampex equipment and pro- duced many of our own authentic sound effects." These sound effects are sometimes chill- ing. In one script, "The Burning," which concerns two boys who experiment with gasoline sniffing, the listener can hear the flames licking at the boy's body as he runs screaming for help. No one can Unified School Districts thoroughly tested Sherman, a good-looking, personable listen to this tape without having the Sherman's tapes, and they agreed with six-footer, found that he was in demand hackles on his neck rise and chill bumps the author. His tapes were unanimously as a speaker. He began appearing before creep along his arm. approved for use in grades five through drug-abuse groups, service clubs, and Like all of the tapes, "The Burning" is twelve and for adult classes. seminars. He has talked to Kiwanis, based on an actual case. "Sometimes I But the tapes, Sherman found, were not Rotary, and Exchange Clubs, among took a composite of several real cases," limited to classroom use. They were as others. Several drug-abuse centers in Cali- Sherman explained, "but in this script I natural for radio as was Fibber McGee fornia have purchased his tapes and are knew the boy who was severely burned. and Molly a few decades ago. "We tested using them as part of an overall program. In researching it, I talked to the doctor them over a San Bernardino radio station, A large company, Acoustifone Corp., dis- on the case, a burn specialist; and he told KRNO, for an hour each week, Monday tributes his tapes to schools. His tapes me that he had five other cases just like nights at seven in prime time. We played are being distributed intramurally by it in the hospital at that time." the tapes, and the audience phoned in Smart Set International, a nonprofit or- Sherman's scripts are vivid, although afterward. The response was overwhelm- ganization that is run by teens on high he shies away from the sensational. "I ing. The switchboard was jammed. We school campuses. don't believe that fear is a deterrent," got calls from kids in the fourth grade, Sherman doesn't claim to have a cure- Sherman says. "But in my tapes I have teachers, police, junkies, ex-dopers, liter- all. But he thinks his approach is valid. tried to show both sides of drug experi- ally every type of person in the commu- "One word," he says, "is sometimes worth mentation—and the withdrawal part is nity. It was devastating!" a thousand pictures. If that word is en- frightening. Maybe some of it will stick Sherman won an award for the nine- cased in vivid sound effects it can conjure with the kids who hear it and they won't weeks' series in last year's Twin Counties up the most striking image ever con- fall for the pusher's line when they come Press Club's Annual Awards Contest— ceived." up against it later on." first place for the category, Best Radio So far his tapes have dramatized the Not everyone agrees with Sherman's Public Service Program. "I'm proud of effects of drug abuse concerning metha- technique. A San Bernardino public- that," Sherman grins. drine, glue and gasoline sniffing, heroin, health official was not enthusiastic about Sherman's interest in drug abuse goes LSD, and the barbiturates. his approach. "We believe that these tapes back ten years when he became interested As for the kids who listen to his tapes: would frighten the youngsters. And," she in the toxic effects of alcohol on the "Man, that sounds like a bad trip I had adds, "we do not think fear is a deter- brain. In San Francisco he interviewed on STP once," said an ex-doper listening rent." a large number of alcoholics, gathering to "The Smoke and the Venom." Sherman agrees with the doctor but useful data on delirium tremens from Another teen-ager said, "I'd hate to points out that his tapes do not frighten patients at Napa State Hospital, Agnew hear these in the dark." children. "I tested them on three-, four-, State Hospital, and Fort Miley Veterans "So would I," says Jory Sherman as he five-, and 6-year-olds; and they were able Hospital. Later he expanded his research looks up into space as though listening to follow the story with no trouble. None into drug effects on the mind and par- for something. Who knows, he may yet of them had any traumas about them." ticipated in many experimental programs prove that the ear is mightier than the The San Bernardino and Los Angeles with psychiatrists and neurologists. eye! •

LISTEN, April, 1971 / 7 There is a battered door leading from such a long night, you would have found room intrudes upon your tranquillity. the alleyway to the stairs that will take someone willing to be sacrificed on your Last night there had been a gathering you to the solitude of your apartment. altar!" here, and you find yourself wishing they Somehow, you feel safer once you are You take a deep breath and then con- had stayed. You try to remember their behind it. The suitcase you carry, packed front the drunken woman who is block- faces, and it is not difficult. full with pills of many colors and shapes, ing your door. You know her well, but Yes, you did see those faces before. suddenly seems lighter. it is only with the deepest regret that Only the bodies were different; the wide- You do not think of tomorrow, only you admit it. eyed, droop-jawed faces were the same. tonight; and you know that tonight you "My business is going quite well," you A cold sweat covers you, and you know will not be caught and caged again. say. You pause a moment for effect, then you are remembering a place called Ward You were caged once before, and you you ask, "How is yours?" F again. can never forget that, can you, Bruce It does not faze her. She laughs and You know the things you have read. Carson? But then, that was twelve years continues her torments. That drugs bring on artificially induced ago, and for a vastly different reason. "It was a great day for weaklings when neuroses and psychoses. But that isn't That was to help you. You smile wryly dope became fashionable, wasn't it, true—you know that. So why has your and sardonically as you make your way Bruce?" she says. mind made such a comparison? up the creaking stairway. You stare at her, stone-faced. People take drugs voluntarily; no one Memories of another place flash "I'll bet," she continues, "that you never goes mad voluntarily. You think back to through your mind, like the pictures in even made it to first base with a girl Ward F. You remember the screams and an old-time penny arcade. There had before you became a pusher. In reality, the agony, your own screams and agony, been some who called it Ward F, and you are only a pathetic little mouse. And as you were made a pawn of forces you others who called it for what it was—an because I do not take your garbage, I see did not understand. insane asylum. you as a pathetic little mouse. But the The pills have been too much for you, No, you can't forget that place, any girls you bring up to your apartment, your memories have been too much for more than you can forget the other links even the teen-age boys, when you have you, the woman in the hall was too much Death of a Pusher

that made up the chains which bind you your little dope parties, they see you as for you, everything has been too much now. a man of steel! And do you know why?" for you tonight. You open your mouth There was hope in your heart once. "Get out of the way," you say. You are to scream, and you hear a voice ring out. You recall that too, but only with bitter- tired of her 'sadistic little games. "I suffered! Why me, while the rest ness. After Ward F, you drifted from Her eyes gleam. of the cursed world went its merry way. menial job to menial job, from city to "Because when you give them that I suffered, and now they will suffer too. city, and then— stuff, you can use them! I know. I can I'll control them, I'll make them feel the Then came the drug culture, and you hear what goes on in there. You can make things I felt, I'll make them tear out their were caught up in it, caught up in its them cry, you can make them fear, you hair in frustration as I did." swirling tide; and somehow you rode the can make them scream. You can make The voice seems far away, but with tide, while others drowned. them tell you anything of their lives horror you recognize it as your own. And For the first time in your life you were thit you wish to know. You like that with even greater horror, for the first bringing in a steady income. That was power, don't you? You think that because time in your career as a pusher, you rec- important to you, but there was some- you make them weak, you are making ognize the truth. thing even more important—you be- yourself strong—" You stifle the urge to burst into tears. lieved. She begins to laugh again, almost hys- How long have you told yourself that You believed and so you took the stuff terically; and you push her out of the way you are only spreading understanding? you sold. 'You're one of the good ones, and enter your room. And how long have you known in your Bruce, how can you ever doubt that? The The woman is a fool, and you do not heart that your real mission was the bad ones, they just sell it, but you— allow her chidings to bother you. spreading of misery? Suddenly you realize you have reached Still, for reasons you do not fully un- It is only with the greatest difficulty the top of the stairs, and a voice breaks derstand, you open your suitcase and re- that you rise from the bed and proceed through your silence. move a vial of pills. You take one. Then, from your apartment and back onto the "What, Mr. Dope Pusher? No pretty on impulse, you wait a few moments and street. young girls to bring up to your apart- take another. Perhaps you didn't see the truck that ment tonight? Isn't your garbage selling You sit down on the bed and wait for hit you. well these days? I should think that in them to take effect. The solitude of the T. Casey Brennan

8 / LISTEN, April, 1971 he Indian servants soaped the clumsy carreta wheels, stowed away the lunch baskets, and T yoked gentle oxen to the pole. The Simple Life Excited youngsters piled into the crude vehicle and called to the teamster: "Pronto, Estanislao! We mustn't be late for the picnic!" The carreta squeaked to a shady spot along the stream. Song and laughter drifted through the trees. Agile mothers Note From History by Ernie Holyer and grandmothers, who had arrived earlier on horseback, lifted out the baskets con- The early Californians kept their diet from San Francisco to San Diego. On taining tamales, enchiladas, and other simple and did not resort to the crutch horseback, he traveled "many miles to food. Vivacious girls filled jugs with clear of artificial stimulants in order to be minister to officers and soldiers, to set- creek water. Athletic men sprang from happy. tlers, rich and poor, to the missionaries, their fiery Arabian horses. Walter Colton, one-time United States and to the Indians, to all with equal kind- All ate the simple food with hearty Navy chaplain and first American mayor ness." The good doctor hardly wasted his appetite, and all drank refreshing water in Monterey, said, "There are no people nights on drunkards, for the soldiers, with their meal. After the baskets emp- that I have ever been among who enjoy warned against liquor, observed an eight tied, a still dark-haired grandfather flashed life so thoroughly as the Californians. o'clock curfew. his white teeth at the youngsters and Their happiness springs from a fount The sober civilian population boasted reached for the guitar. The adults took that has very little connection with their iron constitutions. One man "frequently turns in making up funny verses. Even outward circumstances. There is hardly spent thirty-six hours in the saddle, yet the alcalde, the all-powerful law man, in- a shanty among them which does not when he alighted he appeared as fresh vented a rhyme that sent the girls into contain more genuine gladness of the as though he had just arisen from bed," titters of laughter. The young fellows heart, more true contentment." said Governor Alvarado. meanwhile showed off their skills on J. B. Dye, an American pioneer of The early Californians expected to live horseback. 1832, recalled, "The Californians were eighty or ninety years as a matter of This scene is typical of the happy life the happiest people on earth." course. Hundred-year-olds were no rarity. in California under Spanish and Mexican Holding alcohol in low esteem, the One Guadalupe Romero saw 115 sum- rule. Early Californians spurned alcohol; early Californians enjoyed a high degree mers; Eulalia Perez counted 118 birth- as a result, they enjoyed rugged health, of health and a long lifespan. They kept days. warm family relationships, and friend- their teeth intact, rarely grew gray hair, The historian Bancroft credits a life of ship with the law. and retained their mental and physical pastoral simplicity and the lack of de- William Heath Davis an American fitness into an amazingly old age. structive habits for the notable physical who lived a lifetime with the Spanish, During the fifty years of Spanish rule perfection of the early Californians. says, "It was a rare occurrence to see an one doctor sufficed for all of California (Continued on page 18) intoxicated person among the early Cali- fornians." Richard Henry Dana, a visiting Yankee sailor, says, "I don't remember having seen one of them intoxicated." This nondrinking people engaged in year-round outdoor exercise. The men were constantly on horseback. The women cooked, washed, and baked outdoors. Since sitting beside the stove was con- sidered unhealthful, the thick-walled adobe houses lacked fireplaces, and the doors always stood open. Full of natural pep, the Californians needed no coffee to perk them up. Pork, too, was unpopular. They raised a few pigs merely for soap making. No self- respecting Californian ever forced his In- dian workers to eat this detested meat. Dr. Maxwell, who sailed to California in 1843, observed that the Spanish there did not indulge in sweets. He says, "At that time, the female population of Mon- terey had never tasted a cake, mince pie, or anything of that sort, and the stewards of our mess were set to work making all kinds of delicacies for supper." Dr. Max- well recorded that Captain Armstrong, the host, perspired so profusely that "the perspiration rolled down over his cheeks" while the supper guests appeared relaxed. Too bad he doesn't mention which of the parties sported better sets of natural teeth.

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ometimes I close my eyes and the whole scene comes back. There is this kid, stoned out of his mind, in a seventh-grade metal-shop class. The teacher has been giving him a bad time Sabout his sloppy work, and last night his Could folks threatened him with juvenile hall because he came in after midnight and wouldn't tell where he had been. He hates the other guys in class; he Tommy's Story as Told to hates the school. And deep down he hates A. E. Terrill himself. It Be Suddenly, like a flipped-on electric light, a great idea fills his head. He stares at the acetylene torch in his hand and at the oxygen and acetylene tanks nearby. Turning the flaming torch on the nearest tank, he begins to laugh crazily. Let the whole place blow up! It will serve them right, the guys who avoid him, the stupid my dad and come to school without my you "slip somebody you love" so they can teachers. They'll all blow up together. breakfast I joined Richy and his gang go to sleep. out front. In English class I felt kind of drowsy, Wham! The torch flies from his hand but I didn't dare go to sleep. Soon I was and he sprawls on the floor. A classmate "Hi, Tommy," Richy grinned. "You relaxed and not worrying about any- is on top of him, pinning him down. look like you need a couple of these." He dropped two red capsules in my hand. thing. The teacher called on me, and I "Mr. Hardwick! Come here. Tommy's didn't know the answer; but I said some- going ape. He's trying to burn a hole in A couple other guys opened their hands to show they had the same thing. I felt thing that made the class start laughing, the acetylene tank." good about being included in the gang and I laughed with them. That hour went Mr. Hardwick comes running, and the by so fast I could hardly believe it. class crowds around. and didn't worry about those two cap- By this time I'm shaking and sweating, sules. I came early again the next morning to just remembering. Because I'm Tommy, On TV I've always seen the men in join Richy and the other guys, but this and that was the beginning of the end. white coats and the sick-looking ladies time Richy didn't offer me the pills. So I talk about pills for being tired, pills for handed him my lunch money and he I was ten when I smoked pot the first being nervous and jumpy, and the kind slipped three reds into my palm. time. My sister Gloria gave it to me. She was thirteen, and she and some of her girl friends were experimenting with pot while the folks were away. I walked in on them and threatened to tell, so they let me try a joint. Was it because they were older and included me in, or did that sweetish smoke give me a little high? I don't know. I remember it as fun, and for a while Gloria and I got along pretty good. No arguing and fighting like usual. We just felt kind of good because we had this secret. When I went to Wilson Junior High, the kids I'd known in grammar school weren't close anymore. Getting used to six teachers bugged me, and sometimes I stuttered in class and everybody laughed. Mom and Dad were always on my back about my grades, and outgrowing my clothes, and developing lazy habits. They insisted that I get a paper route; so there was no time to groove around with other kids after school. I felt left out of things. I used to look at Richy Martin and envy him. He was always goofing around with a gang, not the "brains" but some real cool guys, I thought. Richy belonged to my old Boy Scout troop but didn't last long. His old man was always getting boozed up and finally was sent away to the Veterans Hospital, and his older brother landed in San Quentin. But Richy seemed to be doing all right. Some of the kids said he was a pill pusher, and he always seemed to have plenty of money. One morning after I'd had a row with

10 / LISTEN, April, 1971 In a couple weeks three wasn't enough, Luckily that period didn't last long. I my folks, and all the others who had tried and I was giving Richy a buck a day for couldn't sit still in class or get along with to tell me where I was headed, seemed to six pills. I would take one at night and anybody. All my promises to the folks crumble when these addicts spoke. They one when I got up, another when I got were broken, and I began shoplifting. had been there. They knew what it was to school and three at noon. That way I Stealing $65 leather jackets that I ped- like to be hooked. Suddenly I felt like my was at school when I got a real high. I dled for $15 paid for my meth tabs. They prayer had got through. These people didn't want my folks to know; so I tried made me too jumpy and I liked reds could help me. to play it straight at home, but I got into better, but I didn't want to kick barbi- At the end Beth announced that they an awful lot of trouble in class. turates again. would stay after the assembly and rap At Wilson Junior High there were Things came to a head about a month about drugs with anybody who was in- probably 1,800 kids, and at least a hun- after I got out. A substitute art teacher terested. Only a few others stayed, and dred were steady users. Only a couple sent me to the principal for running I waited until they asked their questions. dozen turned on at school, mostly the around the room and cussing at her. Then, my knees and voice shaking, I ones having trouble with grades. Most When I got to the door, I saw the prin- blurted "Can I go to Chrysalis? Will you of the users just popped pills on week- cipal and my probation officer and the take me? I want to kick, and I don't know ends and sometimes at night. look on their faces told me they were how. Help me." talking about me. I turned and ran, but They had never taken anyone under ichy was the biggest sup- it didn't do any good. That night I was eighteen at Chrysalis, they told me. Some- plier. When he got busted back in juvey and kicking speed. The how I persuaded them and finally I began and sent away, we didn't first time had been bad, but this was a nine-month residency at the recovery have any trouble because worse. They might have done something house. some older guy started com- for me if I had admitted I was using, but It wasn't easy, but I learned there is ing every morning. And it I tried to hold out. The cramps, vomiting, a better way of rubbing out feelings of Rwasn't long before Richy was back. and sweats went on and on. It was three failure than popping pills. All of the fifty After I had been using reds about three days before my folks, the parole officer, people at Chrysalis admitted to feelings months I wanted Richy to sell me more and my case worker met. When they of rejection, loneliness, of being unwanted than six every day, but he wouldn't. He brought me in, I didn't have the strength and unworthy. It wasn't just my prob- said I'd really go ape and spoil every- to deny it anymore. They talked about lem. When the "squealing feelings" were thing, so I made out with pot, sometimes sending me away, but I swore I could worst, there was always somebody to two or three lids a week. In our town it stay clean if they sent me home with my rap with, talk it out. Everybody shared a costs ten dollars a lid, and I had to get folks. drug problem, and we seemed like broth- money. It was another lie. One part of me ers and sisters. Concern and kindness One time another guy and I met after wanted to quit, but when Richy offered were like a healing ointment that got at dark and smashed a drugstore window. me a half dozen reds I took them. the pain of not being understood by those We had cased the place and knew where I tried to cut down, keep it at four or outside. They told me, "God doesn't need the bulk pills were. We shoved reds, five a day. But I knew it wasn't going to to change, just our idea of God needs dexies, bennies, yellow jackets, and lots work. I was still a failure, a pillhead. Tak- changing." of other stuff we didn't recognize into ing the pills seemed the only way to stop paper bags and beat it. That was the only the painful feelings inside. Sometimes I y folks have been time I peddled pills, and I was pretty was sane enough to see where I was great through this scared; so Richy finally took most of the headed, and I prayed for help. But God whole thing. At first stuff off our hands. We had heard about didn't seem like anybody I knew. they didn't under- fruit salad parties where all kinds of pills stand—they couldn't are dumped into a bowl and then every- he second week back in understand; but they body pops whatever they grab. Two high school an assembly was an- came to Chrysalis to attend the open school kids in town died that way, so I nounced for all grades, and meeting3 so they could learn. Once a didn't want to try that. I stuck to reds. word got around it was going week they go to Nar-Anon, a group of But that wasn't any kind of insurance. to be about drugs. We ex- relatives and friends of drug addicts who One day I got to feeling real wild and pected a juvenile officer or a want to learn more about the problem started beating up a smaller kid in the doctor, but I was surprised to see a man and what they can do to help the addict. gym locker room. I didn't even know and a pretty woman and two young guys Sometimes I go with them, and the other why. Coach tried to pull me off, and I sitting on the stage. The principal said parents ask me questions about my ex- took a swing at him. Finally he and three they were from Chrysalis, a drug rehabil- perience. Their own kids may still be eighth-graders hauled me off and threw itation center. using. They can't talk to them and get me in the shower. The woman stood up. "I'm Beth and straight answers, but I try to explain. It That was my introduction to juve- a drug addict. In twenty-three years I helps because they know I've been the nile hall—and kicking. I was there three went from alcohol to pot to pills to route—not the whole route, but as far as days, sweating, vomiting, shaking. When heroin, beginning when I was thirteen. I want to go. It makes them hopeful that I couldn't sleep, I began seeing things I've been married five times, lost my chil- their kids, or husbands, or brothers and crawling on the wall, but I didn't go into dren, been arrested nineteen times." sisters, will want to get clean too. convulsions. When the social worker Al, Joe, and Morris followed with their I didn't go back to my old school. The asked me if I was taking drugs, I said stories of life with dope. Jails and hos- folks decided they would make any sac- "No." They booked me as uncontrollable, pitals had been their only homes, death rifice to send me to a private, religious assigned me to a parole officer, and let waiting with a dirty needle or an over- school where classes are small and I get me go home with my folks. dose when they were on the street. Each special coaching and counseling to bring I made lots of promises about my be- had found a way with God's help to en- my grades up. One night a week I go havior, but all I thought about was seeing dure the pain and horror of withdrawal back to Chrysalis to meet with the hypes my connection and getting something to and get clean. Now they were helping and junkies and pillheads still trying to stop the stomach cramps and gagging I others lick drugs at Chrysalis. get clean. Sometimes I can help some- was trying to hide. Now I knew by ex- While they talked, I began to sweat. I body; and they always help me, because perience how awful kicking reds could could see what my life was going to be they remind me of what I was—and what be, so I began taking speed. like. The wall that stood between me and I never want to be again. •

LISTEN, April, 1971 / 11 Teens-Life Can Be Beautiful

A New Kind of High Listen Interviews Vonda Kay Van Dyke

Miss America is an award that keeps a achieved so much, and set so many goals. young girl hopping busy during the This kind of gets me all proud. There are year of her reign. It also can be the still really good kids around. beginning of a career that keeps ac- I work with a lot of organizations like celerating even after the crown has 4-H that really point out the greatness of passed to others. the generation today. As I talked to them Vonda Kay Van Dyke is a case in and sang some of my songs, of course, I point. From the pinnacle of her prom- told them how proud I was of them. To- inence as Miss America she has kept day people talk about the new generation, going on up. Now in demand as a say they're making too much noise, or speaker at youth conventions and in they're causing too many problems. I'm high schools, a singer (two records) glad they're making noise, because I think and composer of her own songs, an they've got something to say. When I author of two best sellers for teen- was their age I couldn't do this. We did agers (half a million each) and a third have the educational background, but I book just being published, a licensed don't think we had the openness that the pilot, a radio and television artist, a kids do now. They're open not only to model for colorful fashions, the wife what they're saying themselves. They're of a physician in residency, Vonda open also to listen to what other people Kay seemingly has it made—and all have to say. And really this is great. this in just five years! Do you think there is really a genera- Above all this, and probably the rea- tion gap between parents and their son for "all this," is the fact that teen-agers? Vonda Kay is herself. She simply Well, first of all the phrase, "genera- loves people, loves to talk with them, tion gap," has always bugged me. Natur- loves to be of service to them. And Kurley Q helps his mistress win the ally, there's a generation gap, since years that, incidentally, is the reason for Miss America title. A prime attrac- are going to separate people. Today it's this Listen conversation with her. tion of the pageant that year was more of a communication gap than any- Vonda Kay's ability as a ventriloquist. thing else. Vonda Kay, what did you learn dur- What should be done about it? ing your year as Miss America? I think the only way to solve this prob- Well, I had some exciting times. The Miss I've always been interested in teen-agers lem is through mutual love and respect. America year was my highlight year. Just because I think going through those years This has to go both ways. There's no way to be able to sound out the ideas of myself was not the easiest in all the world, around it. Parents a lot of times expect people I came in contact with, to listen to and I can understand why there are a their kids to love and respect them in what they had to say, taught me a great few problems. everything they say and do. Well, the deal. I think one thing it taught me is What do you think of teen-agers? kids have to be loved and respected for that I had an awful lot to learn myself. A few weeks ago I was at the National what they say and do also. You've talked with many young peo- 4-H Convention in Chicago. I've been I think that today's kids are very bright, ple. Why are you interested in teen- there three or four years, and every year and they're very intelligent. They know agers? the kids are so great to work with. They've a lot more than we knew years ago. They lack one important element in the whole great. It's not great unless you make it version it says, "Is your life full of diffi- scheme of things, and that's experience; that way! culties and temptations? Then be happy, and they're going to get that. I think it's How do you get your kicks? for when the way is rough, your patience important that if you don't agree with I think that getting involved in things has a chance to grow. So let it grow, and the ideas of teen-agers you at least listen that are happening, and putting my whole don't try to squirm out of your problems. to them and respect their ideas. Then tell self into them, is where I get the most For when your patience is finally in full them what you've learned through your kicks out of life. I'm sure my parents bloom, then you will be ready for any- experience. were upset with me when I was a teen- thing, strong in character, full and com- In other words, it can't be all love and ager. I must have made thirty or forty plete." respect for parents only. I think some- posters a week for our school football That's the way I really feel. The more times the older folks are a little bit to games. I had to do them after my home- patience and knowledge you gain while blame for some of these problems. work was done, but that is what made you're young through handling what are You have some rather unusual inter- the games more exciting for me. It's a sometimes insignificant problems, the ests for a young person, don't you matter of putting yourself into something easier it will be for you to cope with think? and making it happen, not just looking bigger problems later in life. Well, I like to fly. A couple of years ago at life and saying, "Well, whatever comes If a teen-ager asks you about drugs, my husband encouraged me to go out and my way, we'll see what it does for me." what do you tell him? see what I could do about flying, because Not too long ago I was talking with a he's crazy about airplanes. I took my first teen-age girl, and she asked, "What do lesson. I was scared, but I enjoyed it. Be- you think about drugs?" I could tell by cause I wouldn't let it defeat me, I kept the fact that she was getting on the sub- taking lessons, and now I have about ject that she was either thinking about ninety hours, which aren't very many ac- using them or had used them. tually. But I've had some fun. I told her that what she does is her busi- In the book that I'm finishing I tell the ness, but my feeling is that I have so kids that there are so many experiences much fun every single day, and life is so in life that you can really have a ball, but exciting that I don't want to mess it up you've got to look for them. When some- in any way. I feel that drugs would dull body first mentioned flying to me, I the excitement of life. thought it couldn't be too exciting. I knew I have the security and confidence that I it was going to be a little scary, but not need for life because of my faith in God. too exciting. In the chapter on "A New Sure, I'm unhappy sometimes, and I have Kind of High" I point out that the first problems, but it's a great feeling of satis- time I ever got up in the plane by myself faction to get over these problems, to I was really afraid, but then after that I conquer them rather than to bend under started doing my cross-country work. them. What do you mean by a "new kind of Also one of the greatest objections I have high"? to many drugs is that they're illegal. Kids People talk about getting "high," whether don't realize the lasting scar that can be it's with alcohol or drugs or anything else made by running into legal problems like that; I don't think this is necessary. when they're young. This will be some- I find an experience like flying a great thing that will follow them around all wild experience actually, and it's some- their lives. So it's not just a moral prob- thing that doesn't hurt you. You've got to make it do something for lem, it's a legal one too. I explained to And the same thing would go for being you. this young girl, "You know, you're too involved in an important performance. If Do you think that using drugs is the young to get messed up. Wait until you I'm singing one of my favorite songs and way to get the best out of life? get a little older; wait till you're a little I get lost in the song, I forget that the Definitely not. I've always been the kind wiser; then take another look at it. And people are there. I'm really thinking about of person who, if I see something wrong, I think you'll look back and say, 'I'm glad what I'm singing. That's a wild feeling I want to make it right, or at least make I didn't take drugs.' " too. It really is. I get goose bumps some- it so I can live with it. This is one of the How do you take care of your hangups times. That's my clue that it's happened. challenges of life, and you're merely run- and problems? So there are a lot of things, if you look ning away from it by taking drugs. You're When I look back on some of the disas- for them, that can give you a natural not meeting a challenge. You've got to trous things that happened to me in "high" which is tremendous. meet challenges head on, because this is school, whether it was losing a very im- Is everything "great" in life? what prepares you for the future. portant boyfriend or a football game, or I don't think that the world is necessarily Why don'touy use drugs? missing a step when I was a cheerleader, full of happy experiences that are really One of my favorite Bible scriptures is in they aren't so bad now. I thought they meaningful or that everything's really the book of James. In the Living Letters were horrible at the time. Now I laugh and realize that getting over I think you're grown up when you stop better, the only way he can do it is to my embarrassment or my hurt feelings telling people you're grown up. I used to dedicate himself to the job, and it's an made me a stronger person. It's made me say, "Now look, I'm old enough to make endless one. able to face a lot more serious problems my own decisions. After all, I'm a big What about setting goals for yourself? now that I'm in the adult world. girl. I know what I'm doing." When I was in college one of my favorite What's your reaction when you see a But when I stopped being on the defen- quotes was, "A low man sees a little woman smoking? sive, when I stopped making excuses, that thing and does it, but a high man with I don't like to see women smoking. I think was when I discovered I had finally a great thing to pursue dies ere he knows that it's very unfeminine. I've never seen reached maturity. I could relax. I didn't it." In other words, you can set all sorts a woman smoke gracefully. She can try, have to be constantly trying to convince of little goals for yourself, little accom- but it never works. It ruins the beauty of someone I was grown up. plishments, and you can make them, but a woman, and I'm not necessarily talking Does success come naturally? it doesn't really mean that much. about her facial beauty, or something on When you become a success in anything, It's different when you set a goal so high the outside. Women can be beautiful no it takes a lot of work. When I was getting that you don't think you can reach it. matter what they look like, but certainly ready for the Miss America pageant, I Maybe you never reach it in a lifetime, smoking doesn't help them. And know- was the first runner-up in a local pageant but that's what makes life exciting. ing some of the medical reports that have for two years in a row. Then finally I won Whether you make your goal or not, it's come out in the past few years, I feel it's the reaching out for something that's best not to get involved in smoking. important. How do you feel about forming habits Where do you start, and how do you like smoking? get there? Habits are hard to break. They can be a It's kind of a funny philosophy right now, very dangerous thing; for whatever you because the kids are talking about caring, form when you're young, whether it's really caring about life, but they're sitting opinions or actions, it's going to follow back and saying, "I don't want to do any- you for the rest of your life. So it's impor- thing; I don't want to go anywhere; I tant that you choose the right things. don't want to be anything." To me this What is a square? doesn't make sense. I think the idea of A square to me is someone who says, "I peace and love and brotherhood is a great think this way," but never will listen to one, but you can't sit back and let it all anything anybody else says. He puts him- happen, man. You've got to get involved, self in his little corner and pulls the cur- and you've got to work for it. tain, and that's it. He is sitting in the I'm thankful that some of the teen-agers dark, not affecting anyone else's life. He I run into who are getting involved are is not getting in the way of anyone else starting with themselves, because that and is not letting anyone get in the way where you've got to start. You've got to of what he thinks. make yourself at peace with your con- Are you a square? science, with the world. You've got to No, I hope not! Maybe it's because I'm start making your inside happy, and still part of the younger generation that I you've got to start showing love to other feel I'm open to what people have to people, and then it's like a magnet. You say. I like to listen to kids express some start showing love to other people, and of their reasons for doing things. And I they start showing love to you. have some very strong opinions. I have my first pageant because I was the only How do you look for peace? some very strong ideals, some very strong contestant who showed up. That didn't In order for you to be at peace with the beliefs. help build my confidence too much, but world, you've got to decide what's going Can a person who is a real Christian it gave me a chance to go on to the to give you a sense of peace. You can try be a square? county pageant. I reigned almost a year drugs, or something like that, but that's Christianity to me is an addition to my as Miss Arizona before the Miss America temporary. If you're going to be really life. Being a Christian is definitely not pageant. peaceful, it must be for a long time. As being square if you're following the kind I worked out in a health studio three far as I'm concerned, the greatest way of example that Christ gave. Christ was days a week. I didn't eat desserts. I was that I have found peace is making God talking about loving your fellowman, very careful about my diet and exercise, a part of my life. It's not a religion as about getting involved in the lives of and of course I was constantly preparing such, it's not a church, it's a faith. I think other people, about reaching out and car- my talent routine. the kids today really need something to ing. And that's what the world is about I wanted to do my very best. I had to hang on to, something that they can today. This is contemporary. Christ's mes- work very, very hard. I think that's the count on. The kids have some good phi- sage is contemporary. way it is in life. If someone wants to be losophies and some good ideas, but they've What is maturity? a success, or if someone wants to become got to make them work. Teens-Life Can Be Beautiful

Is there anyone in particular you ad- of them on records. This is a great expe- able things that I'd like to. This is some- mire or try to pattern your life after? rience. This is another thing about get- thing that I have to face. I have to show Rather than idolizing one particular per- ting yourself something really exciting a little bit of discipline, and it pays off. son, I've always liked to admire the best and making it happen for yourself. The When you talk with girls at high characteristics and qualities of many peo- first time I ever wrote both the words schools, what do you tell them about ple. and the music to songs was for this pres- keeping their appearance at their As far as patterning my life after some- ent album. The first time I was in a re- best? one, as a Christian I think the only per- cording studio and heard the orchestra Getting yourself fixed up on the inside is son I could point to as a perfect pattern playing the tune that I had written and much more important than on the outside. would be Jesus Christ. Of course this is heard my voice singing the words that There are a lot of make-up tricks that you a goal I can never achieve. The Bible is I wrote—it was really thrilling! I had can use, a lot of commonsense things like full of things that you can do to try to be been working on some of the lyrics for wearing the clothes that look best on you as much like Him as possible, and all we three years, and it finally happened! no matter what the style is. There are can do is try to live up to His teachings. I've now released my second album with all sorts of little pointers, but most im- Are you an extrovert? Word Records and had a chance to write portant is your attitude about life and Yes, I could consider myself one. I like three of the songs myself, including the about other people and how much you to search out ways to communicate with title song called "A New Kind of Happi- care about the people around you. That's people better and bring their personali- what's going to attract people. ties out. One very good example was A good-looking girl can attract a young when I went to Atlantic City to be in the man for a date, but when they're think- Miss America Peageant. A very dear ing about marrying, that a different friend of mine with a local radio station story. did spot interviews with me. This gave What do you do about your personal me experience in learning how to handle appearance? radio and TV people, which is very im- There's too much emphasis •today on what portant in Miss America competition. He you look like. Sometimes when I look in trained me to handle this in a certain the mirror, I'm not happy with myself. way, by interviewing them. Always focus I think I'm really ugly. I really feel ugly. on the other person. It was during this But when something exciting happens, time that I really started feeling this way. I'm feeling good and I'm happy. I can It was a gimmick at first, but it became look in the mirror and say, "Hey, I don't a natural thing. look so bad after all. I look pretty good!" How do you overcome your personal It's a matter of attitude. What you think problems? about yourself has a lot to do with how If I have a problem, or am really up tight you appear to others. about something, the best thing I can do Does mental health have anything to is to get involved in something else. If do with it? I'm hurt about something, then I try to If you're happy, your whole face will make someone else feel better, because show it. Everything is going to take on there's always someone who has a much a different attitude. People are going to bigger problem than I have. You can find be attracted to you. it if you look for it, and this helps you. Do you have a "code" of life? What are your hobbies? What do you Everyone's code of life has to be some- like to do for fun? ness." I get to say what I want to say. I thing very personal. No one can pattern Maybe you can't call cooking a hobby, but talk about love. I talk about peace. I talk his life after a code that somebody else that's the thing I love to do. I like to about God. I call it inspirational rock. has already set up. The one great universal make up my own recipes and invent They are kind of groovy message songs. code of life, and one •that I think can be things in the kitchen. This makes cook- What do you do about your diet? successful in everyone's life, is to work on ing exciting. I take vitamin pills, because I feel I might finding faith in God. It's "working" on I love to water-ski too. I like anything miss something during the day. I try to it too. I mean you just don't up and say, that is in the sunshine. I even like golf, eat a balanced diet, and I think that's "I'm going to believe." You have to listen and I'm not good. I have a great swing, most important. It's not only important to people and their experiences. You have but I can't always depend on where the for your physical appearance, but I think to be receptive to God and what He can ball's going. I love football, to be in the it's really good for you, and it makes you give you. stands and to watch it on television. feel better. So I would say that from my own ex- What type of music do you like to I have one big weakness. I love choco- perience this is the best code of life. The compose and sing? late; anything chocolate! And it likes me most important thing is to find a way of Song writing has become a big hobby for very much—it adds—even grows on me! life that you are satisfied with. If you buy me. I have six songs published now, four I don't allow myself to eat all the enjoy- mine, that's great! When I asked Anne Deuschel, the only nation, the better it will work. And it has dare to dream, dare to imagine yourself female limited hydroplane racer in the to work if you really want to inject ex- in action. But imagination is like a pump. United States, why she raced, her reply citement into your life. It has to be primed, and one of the best was, "I'm enjoying life to its fullest. It's The first step toward doing anything is ways to prime it is to read. too short at best, and I don't want to miss to imagine yourself doing it. Picture Anyone who is fortunate enough to a minute of it." yourself writing that book or paddling be hooked on reading will never be There are people like Anne all around through the Everglades. Is it really so bored, for good books are plentiful and us. They don't all race hydroplanes; but impossible? free to all public library card carriers. they do lead lives full of adventure and The word "excitement" comes from the The kind of reading which will enliven accomplishment, lives crammed to the Latin excitare meaning "to set in motion." your days is of two distinct types. brim with rich experiences. That's the clue—setting your life in mo- The first type is wide, random, brows- Do you? Or does it seem that others tion. Once you've picked up a little ing-type reading which provides you with have already cornered the market on ex- momentum, you'll find that a life which the raw material that you can turn into citement? has been set in motion ripples along from experience. Idea browsing is fun and re- A friend of mine grew up in a small one stimulating day to the next. All that's laxing, but you have to be alert to pos- town in Indiana. A vivid childhood mem- required of you is an occasional nudge to sibilities that present themselves in the ory was seeing the steamer trunks being keep it going. oddest places. carted out of a neighbor's house for their Leading an exciting life, like using a It was in the personals column of our annual European trek. She dreamed that playground slide, takes a conscious effort. local newspaper that I read, "Hot dogs someday she, too, would cross the ocean. The hardest part is getting started. You in maple Syrup. Bring your own wieners Though her family had no money for have to walk over and climb the ladder. and rolls and come to the sugar house. travel, she held that dream close to her. It won'•t just come to you. When you We will simmer your hot dogs in our Today she earns her living as a public- reach the top rung, you'll see things with own syrup." school teacher. She has never won a lot- a totally new perspective. That in itself What a memorable day. Besides the tery, but in her system of priorities, travel may seem reward enough for your initial gastronomical adventure promised, we has been at the top. She has had a monkey efforts. But the fun part is in the activity. were introduced to the old-fashioned art steal her passport in the Treetop Hotel Soon you're going back for more without of sugaring by a family whom we met in Africa, and has recently returned from really thinking it out. Before you know it, as strangers, left as friends. All this from the Arctic Circle. She has seen the world, even the climbing is fun. You feel, look, a glance at the personals. only because she first imagined she could. and act younger. That person with the An article in a magazine gave us the Why not dust off your imagination? sparkle is you. inside track on the windjammer cruises Like a muscle, the more you use imagi- You'll never go stale as long as you off the Maine coast which resulted in an Start the World! I Want to Get On! Diana C. Gleasner

16 / LISTEN, April, 1971 inexpensive yet immensely satisfying salt- itself, and who knows what interesting Life suffers at times from predictabil- air week beneath the sails. The help- opportunities it may lead to? ity. Weed out some of the activities that wanted column in a national newspaper I used to teach a senior citizens' class clutter your life and no longer are mean- was our first tip-off to the Cayman Islands, in swimming. One seventy-two-year-old ingful to you. You pass this way only close yet offbeat Caribbean gems that woman in my beginner's class after weeks once. Why not get the most out of it? provided us with some priceless expe- of intense effort finally made it across the We, too, have put in our hours work- riences and memories. deep end under her own power. I needed ing on fund drives, PTA's, and at ten- Just think of all the exciting opportu- no other reward than the satisfaction of hour-a-day jobs that were sometimes less nities you may be missing but for the witnessing her accomplishment. But I than stimulating. But we have also made turn of a page. received a very damp hug and the breath- time for excitement. The second kind of reading fills in the less disclosure that this was the most ex- When the swollen spring creeks call, chinks that are left after we devote great citing thing that had happened to her we launch our canoe and shoot the rapids. blocks of time to obligations: raising chil- since she had had a baby. The lawn can be cut tomorrow. dren, punching the time clock, keeping One of my friends recently became When my brother arrived from college a house in order—all limitations on our active in a little-theater group; another with a seven-foot boa constrictor, we mobility. Even if we weren't anchored to went back to college; another took up threw, on four hours' notice, a boa con- some extent by the exigencies of normal photography and has gradually built up a strictor party. living, it's simply not possible to go ev- reputation for her interesting slide lec- Who knows when in a lifetime these erywhere, do everything, know all. We tures. The applause, the diploma, the opportunities may come again? have to be selective. compliments, and the checks from the Excitement is a state of mind. It's But reading as a substitute for expe- banquet circuit are all appreciated; but dreaming the impossible dream, but chip- rience is limitless. Be a rookie in the pro the long hours of involvement leading up ping away at the possible dreams at the football business with George Plimpton to them are satisfying in themselves and same time. It's a good book, a new semes- in Paper Lion, relive pioneers' struggles add dimension to lives which otherwise ter; it's reviving an old love, making a in Giants in the Earth, experience a ghetto might have lapsed into dullness. new friend; it's resourcefulness of the childhood in Manchild in the Promised spirit kept pliable by constant use; it's Land. Don't sell vicarious experience Take the less-traveled road. It can make the pursuit of your very own goal. It's not short. If you're not an expert sailor, you'll all the difference. When you leave the being afraid to direct your course down be better off going around the Horn with well-worn track, you'll find excitement some partly hidden pathway. Sir Francis Chichester in Gypsy Moth lurking just around the bend. Less-trav- Excitement is a life set in motion. Circles the Globe. And that way you won't eled roads have a way of opening up Start the world; I want to get on—and have to lay in a supply of dramamine. instead of closing in on you. stay on. • Learn flexibility. It's worth millions. Being flexible means you can cope with about any situation. It means that you have an alternate plan always ready in your hip pocket and that you can have fun even when your plans go awry. How well I remember taking our care- fully accumulated savings and investing in the stock market. If our stock went up, we decided we'd take a vacation; if it went down we'd still take a vacation. Whatever happened, we'd try not to sell at a loss, and we vowed we wouldn't— repeat, wouldn't—miss out on a trip. I'd like to tell you the stock went up and that we went around the world. It didn't. It went down, so we put our canoe on top of the car and laid claim to one very special isolated island in On- tario, Canada. (The cost: a one-dollar- per-day Algonquin Provincial Park per- mit and six muscle-taxing portages.) P.S. Two years later the stock went up. We sold and invested in an unfor- gettable seven days in Bermuda. We'd hate to have to decide which trip was more fun. All we're sure of is that flexibil- ity paid off.

Develop your own resources. Do some- thing you've had in the back of your brain to "try someday." Well, today is someday. How 'bout it? Why not learn Spanish (adult education), take art les- sons (perhaps through an accredited cor- respondence course), or learn celestial navigation (from your local power squadron). Developing your talents is exciting in

LISTEN, April, 1971 / 17 I Went to The Simple Life a Party

As Told by Teen-ager Danny Groves

Once I was invited to a little get- us all to run out the back door and be (Continued from page 9) together, which turned out to be a booze quiet until he could get rid of them. party. Naturally the parents of the host There was a mad rush as everyone dashed Records show complaints to the gov- were out of town. for the back door. Some of the guests, ernor about the "bad liquor" foreigners When my date and I arrived, we could who had gotten •high, stumbled over end occasionally brought into the province smell the heavy cigarette smoke. I then tables, breaking a few things here and and about the "bad-effects on the drink- knew that this wasn't going to be the there. A few minutes later our host came ers' morals." Saturday evening I'd expected. Once in- and invited us back in, explaining how People of character, the early Califor- side, we were immediately hit with loud cooly he had handled his grandparents. nians believed in helping rather than rock music and asked if we cared for any- The party got into full swing again. hurting their fellowmen. Consequently, thing to drink. I said OK and jokingly Some of the girls who had been drinking "there were no courts, no juries, nor any asked, "What are we drinking?" The host quite heavily soon became sick and passed need for them," says one early writer. motioned for me to follow him into the out. In the near darkness of the room you "People were honest and hospitable." kitchen. On the shelf was an assortment could scarcely make out figures sprawled In the towns, the alcalde acted as un- of liquor—whiskey, some rum, a couple out on the floor. Suddenly the telephone paid administrator. A sober person with of bottles of vodka. rang; the loud music was turned off, and good judgment, he assisted ranchers and I told him I hadn't known this was one of the girls was called to the phone. townsfolk with his commonsense advice. going to be a drinking party. He assured She was instructed to sober up and try Through his own good example he earned me that I didn't have to drink if I didn't to talk to her mother in her normal voice the citizens' respect and the honor be- want to, but if I were smart, I would get so as not to cause any suspicion and get stowed on him. stoned like the rest of them were plan- everyone into trouble. She managed to ning to do. I didn't want everyone to talk to her mother in a somewhat normal J. M. Guinn, leading citizen of Los think I was a square, so I decided to stay. voice and told her she would be home at Angeles, recalled, "Comparatively few When the drinks were passed out, I at midnight. It was now about 10:30 or capital crimes were committed in Cali- least had the sense to insist on having so, and most everyone was pretty well fornia under Spanish or Mexican rule. ginger ale. stoned. The era of crime in California began with The party progressed into the night; Another hour passed, and it was time the discovery of gold. There were no Joa- some of the intoxicated couples left the to get the ones who had to go home quin Murietas or Tiburcio Vasquez be- living room and went into the bedrooms. sobered up. The host's parents were not fore the days of '49." (Incidentally, the We should have excused ourselves then, due home for a few days yet, so some of people of Los Angeles were the exception but against •my better judgment we stayed the kids were spending the rest of the to the general rule, for they drank wine and talked. Some of our friends were now night there. Soon they were pouring black with their meals; and the mission padres becoming rather ridiculous and not mak- coffee into some of the drunkest kids. drank alcoholic beverages too.) ing a lot of sense. It was all very amusing, Others were being helped to stagger up Still in the 1840's, one Jose Arnaz so we forgot about leaving. In the middle and down the street in the cool air trying wrote, "I can assert that . . . perfect secu- of all the fun everyone was supposedly to sober up enough to get home, past rity for the person prevailed in Califor- having, the host yelled out that his grand- their parents, and into bed without caus- nia towns and highways." parents had driven up out front. He told ing any suspicion. Conditions changed radically when I felt it was about time to take my date hordes of gold seekers littered the prov- home, so we left, feeling rather guilty for ince with imported bottles. Mariano Gua- staying so long. dalupe Vallejo remarks on this regrettable I had nearly forgotten about the party change: until about a month later when we all "How splendid would it have been if found out that one of the girls was preg- the superior culture which the North nant. Nothing but trouble has come from Americans brought to California had not that one evening of supposedly real fun, perverted our patriarchal customs and I thought. If this is what booze parties relaxed the morality of youth! For, as cause—people getting sick, feeling guilty, much as it pains us, we cannot deny that lying to your parents about what you had our offspring have forgotten the whole- done, a girl becoming pregnant. If all this some maxims that were taught to us. This can come from drinking, I have decided relaxation of principles of moral sanity I don't want any part of it. For me it must be attributed to their association seems cheapening and degrading. I feel with unscrupulous people who emigrated sorry for those who think they have to in such numbers to California." join in in order to be cool and to be ac- Today, California leads in alcoholism, cepted into the crowd. drug abuse, divorces, crime. Yet none of There are many more rewarding things today's artificial stimulants can bring back to be found in life, and I want to find the happiness and rugged health of the them. • early Californians. •

18 / LISTEN, April, 1971 COLOR SPECIAL

Ads Sell "Ridiculous" Smoking--Medicine's Drug Use to Public Worst Problem Madison Avenue image makers "Smoking is the most severe have been blamed for enticing problem the medical world faces. Americans to take pills for every It causes three of the major killers imaginable purpose, including —emphysema, lung cancer, and "sometimes utterly ridiculous rea- heart disease." sons." That's the opinion of Dr. Charles "In uncounted advertisements we Tate, chief of the chest disease sec- are being told, persuaded, and con- tion at Jackson Memorial Hospital. ditioned not to accept any minor "Back in the 30's," Dr. Tate says, discomfort," says Dr. J. S. Graven- "lung cancer was so rare that we stein of Case Western University in [doctors] wrote reports about it. Cleveland. But since World War II when to- "We are continuously bombarded bacco companies shipped millions to take drugs for sometimes utterly of cigarettes to GI's, the incidence ridiculous reasons. We are cajoled of lung cancer has increased alarm- to pop a couple of pills into our ingly." mouth to get fast relief, freedom, There is no adequate treatment pleasure, sleep, comfort, relaxation, for lung cancer, he says. "Yes, we and regularity. operate every day, but we save "The consumer is continuously very few. Only five percent of pa- urged to take drugs. Consequently, tients with lung cancer will live he demands drugs also from his five years regardless of any known physician." form of treatment." With such "pernicious, irrespon- Of all the people who shouldn't sible advertising," Dr. Gravenstein smoke, mothers head the list. Ba- says, "we should not really be sur- bies subjected to smoking adults prised when our young people and smoke-filled rooms may de- adopt this belief and seek their velop smoke irritation and spasm own drugs to cure their own dis- and die. comforts, imagined or real." In Dr. Tate's opinion, pipes and cigars are not so dangerous because the average person doesn't inhale Smoking is being seen today as the most severe medical problem our Big Money in Heroin when he smokes them. "There can world faces. The earlier a person starts the habit, the greater the damage A kilo of relatively pure heroin, be trouble in the throat and mouth can be. costing a local wholesaler between area if the person smokes long $30,000 and $40,000, can be worth enough, but the chances of cure are slightly more than $200,000 by the markedly better." time it reaches the city's addicts. Based on testimony at a narcotics conspiracy trial in Washington, Drink Cure Is Shocking Alcohol Is No. 1 Drug D.C.'s, U.S. District Court, one kilo Many patients at Stockton Dr. Bobblett says the technique The No. 1 drug problem is alco- of heroin, from supplier to user, (Calif.) State Hospital are literally has been in use at Stockton State hol, not marijuana, amphetamines, typically would work out like this: being shocked out of alcoholism. Hospital about a year and else- or LSD, according to Daniel X. The local middleman would sell Dr. Edward Bobblett, of the hos- where for about six years. The Freedman, M.D., director of the it by the ounce, or "piece," at $1,500 pital staff, says people addicted to psychiatrist said although the 60 American Psychiatric Association per ounce, or by the "spoon," 1/16 alcohol are in two classifications: percent effectiveness record may task force on drug abuse. ounce, at $100 per spoon. those with anxiety problems and not sound impressive, other alco- Dr. Freedman says there are be- A kilo-35.2 ounces (16 spoons to those with behavior control prob- holic treatment methods have been tween seven and nine million alco- the ounce)—contains roughly 563 lems. The behavior control prob- rated only 30 percent effective. The holics in the U.S. and last year spoons. Narcotics agents say a lem type is three times more com- psychotherapy technique also is drinking drivers and pedestrians spoon is further broken down—af- mon than the anxiety prone type. rated 60 percent successful. accounted for 30,000 auto deaths. ter dilution—to between 200 and Counseling is provided to help Although drug abuse has in- 300 capsules for street sale. Taking patients in the first group overcome an average figure, that means about creased sharply in recent years and the sources of anxiety. For the 140,750 "caps" per kilo. has become a "shock issue," alco- other type, shock therapy is ad- holism has affected more lives more Where's the Problem? The going street price for a cap ministered. dramatically than drug abuse, he "There are more alcoholics in is about $1.50 in Washington. If the Dr. Bobblett says the latter tech- states. San Francisco alone than there are kilo were sold in straight ounce narcotics addicts in the entire lots, then, it would bring the seller nique, estimated to be 60 percent Dr. Bobblett says the typical al- effective, is administered through a coholic is "somewhat older" than country." about $52,000 on his $40,000 invest- mechanism strapped to the pa- the typical drug user. An alcohol —Nicholas Johnson, member of ment. tient's arm. As he sits at a table habit also requires longer to de- Federal Communications The ultimate worth of that kilo, across from the therapist, his fa- velop than a drug habit. Commission. as it reached the city's addicts, vorite alcoholic beverage and a He attributes alcohol and drug comes to roughly $211,125. container of orange juice are abuse to a person's inability to cope placed in front of him. with stress, and he notes that According to Dr. Bobblett, the there is a trend in society today to In This NEWS Subsidizing Drunks patient is told to reach for his fa- blot out stress with chemical ♦ Coffee loses ground among "Perhaps more American motor- vorite alcoholic drink. As he does agents. youth drinkers. See page 20. ists would take an interest in the so, he receives a mild but un- Dr. Bobblett says that in the accident rate on our roads if they pleasant shock. Shocks are ad- shock technique, a person not used ♦ Drug addicts usually are knew that 50 percent of their in- ministered as he touches the glass to dealing with stress is placed un- started by friends, not pushers. surance premiums are used to to his lips, sips the drink, and swal- der stress in association with the See page 21. subsidize drunk drivers." lows it. He then is instructed to chemical agent or escape mecha- ♦ Half of GI's have used mari- —John F. Martina, New York take a drink of orange juice and nism he craves. "It is a diversion," Department of Motor Vehicles. receives no shock. the doctor says. juana. See page 22.

19 LISTEN NEWS April, 1971

This Education Is Bad Youth Spurn Coffee Henry F. Unger For years teachers have been tell- Coffee may not always be "America's national beverage." ing their students to drink mod- A growing number of young Americans never touch coffee. The erately. This permissive approach Medical grounds for their disaffection aren't entirely clear. Some surveys find is now the cause of apparent fail- that young people would rather drink something cold and canned. ure of alcohol and drug abuse edu- Reports Others suggest that many of the young shun coffee for the same reason cation programs. they shy away from a martini: Both are too "establishment." That's the opinion of Dr. Weldon But the answer may well be that many simply can't stand the way P. Shofstall, Arizona State super- coffee tastes. intendent of public instruction. Millions of bleary-eyed Americans wouldn't think of leaving home Dr. Shofstall believes that at least in the morning without at least one cup of coffee. And millions of one in nine persons cannot drink Hip Disease others get little work done at the office until the coffee wagon comes moderately and that one usually There is a relationship between by or they get their coffee break. In fact, Americans still slake their runs into trouble farther down the high dependence on alcohol and daily dysphoria with coffee to the tune of $2.6 billion annually—a figure line. He also notes that there is no serious hip disorders, says a Uni- that perks up the spirits of the coffee industry. absolute way to tell which one of versity of Iowa medical research But trouble looms in the crucial market for the young. Only 32 per- the nine will become an alcoholic. team. cent of youths from 15 to 19 years of age now drink coffee, down from He states that this permissive ap- Dr. Michael Bonfiglio, a professor 54 percent in 1950, according to the Pan-American Coffee Bureau. A proach to teaching the dangers of of orthopedics and the team leader, study of students—mainly at the high school and college level—showed alcohol and narcotics will be elimi- says that a study of 50 patients a 61 percent drop since 1950 in the number of cups of coffee consumed nated in Arizona's new drug abuse during an 18-month period re- by the average student, the bureau says. education program. vealed the tie-in between heavy Like a sleeping American groping for his morning cup of coffee, the drinking and hip ailments, which industry is waking up slowly to the problem. So far, the industry has are caused by death of a bone tis- • Pennsylvania State Governor sue. Shafer has signed legislation per- Dr. Carroll Larson, head of the OFFICE-OURS mitting the sale of beer and liquor Department of Orthopedic Medi- in a restaurant at the new Phila- cine, says the hip complication is I delphia Veterans Stadium. (Phila- usually found among people who delphia "Evening Bulletin") also have liver damage from chronic alcoholism. 0 0 O ger TITAN IC -I ibe COM PANY Why Kids Go for Drugs Drunk Drivers PLAN as Sixth graders say parents can "In Oregon more than one half of ' I, drive children to drugs. all traffic fatalities are caused by Dr. Eugene Morong, a New York drunk drivers," according to Dr. psychiatrist, asked some students Gil Bellamy, coordinator of Oregon for their explanations of addiction: Traffic Safety Commission. "Although the drunk-driver prob- s‘ff • Parents are too interested in Kok-r their social life. lem was identified early in this • Parents don't spend enough time century," he continues, "it was at home. not discovered until the past sev- "Confound it, Wilson, you simply must break your habit of • Children are afraid their parents eral months that while the social stepping out for a coffee break!" don't understand them. drinker can be much more danger- • Parents set a bad example. They ous behind the wheel than the launched few new product ideas and promotions appealing to the young. tell children not to smoke, then do nondrinker, he is not the core of The National Coffee Association tried a big promotion campaign for it themselves. the problem." coffee houses, but after three years "we couldn't point to any change Dr. Morong admits: "I'm a physi- A pioneering Oregon study shows in young people's attitudes toward coffee," says George Boeklin, an cian, and I'm still hung up on this that persons convicted of drunk official of the association, which represents U.S. coffee makers. "So," habit of smoking. It's inexcusable." driving had the following charac- he adds, "we just phased out of it." The doctor warns youngsters not teristics: Now, some coffee companies are trying to put their product into to chance drugs such as marijuana • One in four had a criminal rec- packages that are more attuned to the youth market. General Foods, and LSD, the effects of which he ord. the nation's largest coffee concern, is hawking Sanka as a "diet" drink says are not fully known. He says • They had a previous charge of and Yuban as a "dessert." To compete with the soft-drink market, it is like playing Russian roulette. drunkenness not associated with many companies are experimenting with instant presweetened iced- Dr. Morong tells parents to lift driving. coffee mixes and with carbonated coffee drinks. the barriers separating them from • They averaged three times as Most coffee companies reject the theory that youths are drinking their children. many prior traffic citations. less coffee because they no longer find its "adult" associations alluring. "Don't be ashamed of telling • One out of every four drivers Bob Adams, however, questions the executives' judgment. them you don't know," he says. convicted of drunk driving does not Bob is a 10th grader in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Slurping down "And stay away from the right- even have a valid driver's license the last of a chocolate milk shake at a lunch counter, he insists, "I don't and-wrong bug." at the time. drink coffee because I don't want to get hooked like my mom and dad " American youths who no longer see coffee as a symbol of maturity may be in a better position to judge the beverage on its merits than their elders, who may be drinking coffee because of social convention or mass addiction. The youths' verdict frequently is that it stinks.

Addiction Treatment on Ship A Navy hospital ship may be used "Communities are resistant to as an alcoholism and drug addic- having such a facility in their tion treatment center. neighborhood. They picture skid Dr. Essex C. Noel III, Washing- row types and addict-criminal ton's new mental health adminis- types. The use of a hospital ship trator, says he has asked to use one would mean that no one's com- of the hospital ships now in moth- munity will be invaded," Noel ex- balls in Norfolk. plains. Noel says present alcohol and "We've got some problems in the drug treatment facilities are inade- District of Columbia," Noel says. quate and that the city has a "You know, they've got the hos- Groups of four space engineers spend from eight hours to seven days as "pressing need" for such a facility. pital ship 'Hope,' which goes all test crewmen inside the gondola on this giant spinner at this space center in He plans to anchor the ship near over the world. Maybe the United California. The tests will provide information for the construction of an earth- the Washington Navy Yard in States Navy can help some of the orbiting space station planned for the 1970's. The spinning creates an artificial southeast Washington. Americans here who are in need." gravity similar to that of a rotating space station.

20 April, 1971 LISTEN NEWS

My Shepherd WHAT WHERE In a telephone booth in south- WHY WHO ern California a card was found by a police officer which read as fol- WHO HOW lows: "Heroin is my shepherd, I shall WHEN WHAT always want. He maketh me to lie down in the gutters. He lead- eth me beside troubled waters. He ♦ The smoke residue from small destroys my soul. He leadeth me cigars has been shown to be a more in the path of wickedness for his active cancer-producing agent than sake. Yea, I will walk through similar residue from cigarettes, ac- the valley of poverty and will fear cording to London's Tobacco Re- all evil, for thou heroin art with search Council. (San Jose "Mer- me always. Thy needle and thy cury-News") capsule comfort me. Thou strip- pest the table of groceries in the ♦ Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., presence of my family. Thou rob- chief of naval operations, has an- best my head of reason. My cup of nounced he is authorizing booze in sorrow runneth over. Surely her- barracks, long hair, hard rock mu- oin will stalk me all the days of my sic clubs, and an end to "Mickey life, and I will dwell in the house Mouse" clothing regulations for My husband is Scotch and Irish, but unfortunately the Scotch of the damned forever." sailors. Zumwalt has authorized is by absorption." On the back of the card, in tor- possession of alcoholic beverages in tured handwriting, was this post- naval barracks and installation of script: beer-vending machines in certain "Truly this is my psalm. I am a bachelor officers' quarters. He also young woman 20 years old, and for has set up hard rock clubs "where "Friends" Start Addicts the past year and a half I have they can really rock it" on an ex- been wandering down the night- perimental basis at five naval sta- Friends and associates far out- tonio addicts averaged 12.9 arrests, mare alley of the junkies. I want tions. weigh pushers as the means of in- and those in New York averaged to quit, and I try, but I can't. Jail Lt. Gen. George I. Forsythe says troducing young people to hard 3.6. didn't cure me. Hospitals didn't the Army is also seriously consid- drugs, a new study of more than ♦ There were four male addicts to help me for long. The doctor told ering relaxing its regulations so 6,500 narcotics addicts suggests. every female. my family it would have been bet- that beer will be permitted in the Of every 100 addicts in the study, ♦ Those who kicked their habit ter and kinder if the person who barracks. (UPI) 84 got started on hard drugs temporarily stayed off drugs only had first gotten me hooked on through friends and only two be- 12.6 months at the longest. dope had taken a gun and blown ♦ Broadcasters will have available cause of pushers. Moreover, the The addicts shared certain envi- my brains out. I wish to God she drug-abuse education programming Federally financed study found ronmental factors as well. For 39 had! My God, how I wish she had!" aids as a result of a cooperative that 25 percent of the addicts stu- percent, home life through age 18 project by the National Association died followed an invariable four- was fatherless; 11 percent lived in of Broadcasters and the National step sequence toward addiction. homes without mothers in this pe- -<> Coordinating Council on Drug They began with marijuana and riod. Nearly one fifth of the ad- Abuse Education and Information. advanced to amphetamines, or dicts-19 percent—didn't know The project is designed to give "speed." Then they began using what work their fathers did. More Pot, Drugs Are Serious broadcasters an evaluation of pro- barbiturates, and finally they be- than half of the addicts-55 percent Approximately two out of three grams on drug abuse and also pro- came heroin addicts. The other 75 —lived with relatives, but not with adults in a national Gallup survey vide a medium for information ex- percent skipped one or two of the their parents, husbands, or wives. say that marijuana and drugs con- change among U.S. broadcasters on steps, the study found, but none Two thirds of the group studied stitute a "serious problem" in the drug abuse problems. (Denver went directly to heroin without had not been married. public schools in their community. "Post") first using one of the other drugs. The study's findings do not apply Results of the study were re- High school juniors and seniors, ♦ to U.S. addicts as a whole because however, differ somewhat from More than 500 of 1,057 medical leased by Friends of Psychiatric the 6,500 addicts studied were not students surveyed said they had Research, Inc., a Baltimore non- their parents on this question. chosen at random, spokesmen for While 64 percent of adults say the used marijuana at least once, ac- profit research group. Friends of Psychiatric Research cording to the Association of Described as one of the most problem is serious, only 39 percent said. However, these addicts were of high school juniors and seniors American Medical Colleges. And comprehensive drug-addiction stu- like most U.S. addicts in several re- 114 said they had used it more dies ever done in the United States, hold this view. spects: poor family background, A total of 1,592 adults and 299 than 100 times. Some 300 students the report is based on interviews lack of education, urban residence, said they still smoked marijuana. with addicts in New York City, high school students were sur- bad work history, police records, veyed. (AP) Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, and use of several drugs. D.C., New Jersey, San Antonio, and This question was asked first: ♦ The researchers found that their Marijuana and other drugs are Anyone smoking 24 or more Tacoma. All the addicts had been interview results improved mark- cigarettes a day has a one-in-nine treated at Federally financed cen- increasingly being used by stu- edly when they hired former ad- dents. Do you think it is a serious chance of contracting lung cancer, ters. dicts as interviewers. They said this according to the Royal College of The addicts ranged in age from problem in your public schools? lessened the addicts' suspicion and The following table compares the Physicians, London. Their report 13 to 74. The study found that hostility. emphasizes that there is little dif- among them: views of adults with those of the high school juniors and seniors. ference in the effect of cigarettes, ♦ Fifty-four percent started using -<> cigars, and pipe tobaccos. It estab- narcotics because a friend of the lishes a direct connection between same age used them. Another 30 smoking and coronary thrombosis, percent were started by older Polluted Fatalism Don't high blood pressure, cancer of the friends. Pushers accounted for Yes No Know bladder, and gastric ulcers. (UPI) just 2 percent, and the remaining Near Chicago a grandmother took 14 percent began for reasons other her four-year-old grandson and Adults 64 22 14 ♦ The House Commerce Committee than these. seven-year-old granddaughter for Students 39 59 2 has approved a $300-million author- ♦ The addicts were poorly edu- a ride in her small car. The young- The second question and results ization to attack the alcoholism cated, averaging 10.1 years of sters began squabbling over which follow: problem among civilians and in schooling. Thirty-seven percent would get to sit up in the front Do you feel that the local public the armed services. The funds will had never worked, and another 21 seat. schools are doing a good job of set up a National Institute on Alco- percent had been unable to hold a "If you don't let me sit there," teaching the bad effects of drug hol Abuse within the Public Health job for six months. the four-year-old said to his sister, use? Service. Health officials say an es- ♦ Arrests were early and frequent. "I'll chop your head off." Don't timated 18 million Americans have Only 5 percent hadn't been ar- The seven-year-old shrugged. Yes No Know an alcohol problem and that alco- rested, and the 95 percent who had "Who cares?" she said. "With all holism costs United States industry been were arrested first at an aver- this pollution we'll be dead soon Adults 39 25 36 about $4 billion annually. (The age age of 17.6 years. The San An- anyway." Students 49 45 6 New York "Times")

21 LISTEN NEWS April, 1971 Drugs Interact With Food lite YOU Le_ WILSON MacDOUGALL The principal foods which may Enterprise Science Service interact with drugs contain the or- When a person takes different ganic compound tyramine, and in- medications at the same time he clude pickled herring, chocolate, runs some risk that adverse effects yeast extracts, aged cheeses, beer, Alan A. Brown will result from interactions among sherry, and Chianti wine. the drugs. Among some 55 combinations of Here's a chance to measure your knowledge of weights and mea- Interactions of certain drugs with drugs and food to be avoided, ac- sures. In the first column are standards that range from 1/7,000 of a some foods and drinks can also cording to "The Medical Letter," pound to almost 93 million miles. The right column has the common cause serious reactions and even be are: explanation for each standard. How many can you match correctly? lethal. Aspirin with anticoagulants, To reduce the chance of such in- which can increase bleeding ten- 1. barleycorn a. 27 to 48 inches teractions, "The Medical Letter," dency. 2. hairbreadth b. 100 lbs. avoirdupois an authoritative publication for Excessive use of alcoholic bever- 3. kip c. one drop physicians and health workers, ad- ages with many kinds of tranquil- 4. minim d. 92.9 million miles vises that physicians limit the izers, which can increase depres- 5. fathom e. 63 gallons number of drugs prescribed for sion of the central nervous system. 6. line f. 1/48 of an inch concurrent use by a patient. Barbiturates with anticoagulants, 7. kilogram g. 3 inches or 4 inches Further, the publication stresses, which can diminish the effect of 8. hand h. 6 feet a patient should inform his physi- the anticlotting agents. 9. astronomical unit i. 8 quarts cian or dentist, who is prescribing Digitalis drugs with prolonged 10. hogshead j. 1/3 of an inch or administering a medication, of use of laxatives or cathartics, 11. skein k. 5 1/2 yards other ethical or over-the-counter which can increase the toxicity of 12. ell I. 1/4 of a pint drugs he is already taking. the digitalis. 13. peck m. 2.2 pounds 14. cubit n. 1/7,000 of a pound 15. gill o. 1/12 of an inch 16. cental p. 4 inches Moonshine May Contain Lead 17. rod q. 360 feet 18. palm r. 1,000 pounds Another hazard has been added to automobile radiators are used to 19. grain s. 1/8 of a mile drinking illegal whiskey, or "moon- distill the whiskey and, in many 20. furlong t. 18 inches shine" as it is commonly called. cases, chemical additives used in Not only is the consumer of automobile cooling systems such as moonshine subject to hangovers, rust inhibitors or leak stoppers are possible death from overconsump- combined into the finished product. tion, and severe fines from reve- Also, water used in making the nuers, but he may also suffer from moonshine might come from a pol- Half of GI's in Vietnam lead poisoning as well. luted or stagnant stream, causing In over 100 samples of recently impurities to be combined into the confiscated moonshine tested by whiskey. Have Smoked Marijuana the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Other impurities range from in- (Tennessee) Health Department, all sects, drawn into the cooking pot Half of the enlisted men leaving Their senior officers were una- samples have been found to contain by the odorous mash, to dirt and Vietnam have smoked marijuana ware of the way that marijuana large amounts of lead or mercury grime from the unsanitary equip- there at least once, according to a flourished among their troops, Cap- pollution. ment used in distilling. survey by an Army psychologist. tain Stanton discovered. Of the Dr. M. M. Young, director of the A Federal revenue agent says a But the survey also found that a departing officers surveyed, from health department, says lead poi- common ingredient used in making third of the troops had tried mari- major to colonel, only one con- soning or lead intoxication affects moonshine is rubbing alcohol. He juana before they left the United ceded that more than 10 percent of the brain of the drinker causing says many cases of empty alcohol States. his men had used marijuana as confusion, disorientation, impair- bottles are often found at whiskey Capt. Morris D. Stanton pre- much as once a month. ment of memory, and possible hal- still sites. sented the survey's results to a The survey discovered that 27 lucinations. hearing by a special Senate sub- percent of the departing enlisted All these signs can also accom- Answers committee on alcoholism and nar- men, and 22.6 of the new arrivals, pany or appear as mental illness, 's-OZ fu-61 16-131 fl-LL f9-91 cotics. intended to keep smoking mari- the doctor said. 11•11. 1!-£1. 0-0L 13-6 Others testifying at the same juana in the United States. More In the production of moonshine, fw-L O-9 !)-t, hearing argued that narcotics isn't than 40 percent of the men in both the only problem; alcoholism is categories thought it should be le- just as serious, they said, and prac- galized. tically nothing is being done about Among other drugs, Captain Stan- it. Maj. Avrom C. Segal, chief of ton found that only 6.3 percent of the psychiatry department at Fort the departing enlisted men had Meade, Maryland, said the inci- tried opium before they got to Vi- dence of alcoholism in the armed etnam, but 17.4 percent had tried it services, especially among older before they left. He found amphe- noncommissioned officers and com- tamines, or "speed," had been tried missioned officers, is the same as by 16.2 percent of the departing the 6 percent incidence among ci- enlisted men, but only 12.4 percent vilians, or higher. of the new arrivals. He said the The narcotics survey showed that use of heroin, morphine, and bar- 50.1 percent of the departing en- biturates showed little or no in- listed men said they had smoked creases while soldiers were in Viet- marijuana in Vietnam, including nam, and the use of LSD and STP 29.6 percent who had used it more actually declined. than 20 times per year. One man out of six had smoked marijuana at least 200 times in a year. In addition, 34.8 percent of the arriving enlisted men said they had Addicts "STOP" Driving tried marijuana before coming to Four out of five narcotic addicts Vietnam, about half of them more listed with the Federal Bureau of than 20 times a year. 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Nobody Cares, Huh?

in Gratitude by beth

. . the ring on your phone is a special ring someone is asking for aid for someone to rap with to sound off to cry to in hopes that their anguish will fade

my acid was bad like never before my thoughts grew worse and worse my eyes were its cameras its tools for deception instruments of its curse

the walls pressed toward me and the ceiling crashed lower i thought i was doomed to die but your voice put the world in its proper perspective a truth i can never deny

you carried me through to a world of beauty from a world of ugly blindness so ben what i say is directed to you and all others who share your kindness

people who care are people to trust they'll advise you as much as they dare their love for the world will outlast any evil so thank you "somebody cares"

"Somebody Cares" is a "crisis inter- vention counseling program" for the teen-agers, according to its director, Pastor David. Sponsored by the St. Somebody Cares! Luke Lutheran Church in Silver Spring, Maryland, a suburb of When people get too far down Washington, D.C., the telephone ser- or too far up, we try to help. vice averages about ninety calls a We'll rap with anybody about anything week from young people asking for help. "Somebody Cares" is staffed from eight in the evening till by volunteer workers, mature high one in the morning. school and college students, teach- ers, professionals — "anyone who cares and can understand."

Beth, author of "in Gratitude," is one teen-ager of thousands who have received help during the four- teen months the service has been in operation. (301) 588-544O