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__by Gary Trudeau:

” please’ publiah an: ter to
| ur ¢ pn? will not identi-
yo myself ‘and hope you |will

: forward to: seeing you all. a

Christmas, but -p

“you cone. |.

Newspaper coverage fs. nice
when ‘it. recounts  achieve-
‘ments. Possession and arrest.
are something else. You have.

_. =o idea what a constant wor

_ this is, and what grief It would
cause your. grandparents If.
v:. they ever found out. The
think you are all perfect. .
The evidence is mounting
that pot is not the harmleas
weed #0. many of you thought.
Don't you read the news
papers a for cocaine, LSD
an: plils you pop, they can
- be lethal, especially when
- . mixed with alechol, which you
2 much — especially at -

holiday time.
““=. We stopped harping on this
subject long ago because you

told. us. we were square and
boring you to death But the
evidence is there if you will ©
only open your eyes. Your col-
lege records, the Job changes,
- the mood swings, outbursts of
temper, broken relationships,
the lost weekends and your ir
ability to see the connectlon
’ between your failures and the
ares are truly depressing.
But IT guess this Is one of the —
problems. People who are on
drugs sre unable to see them-
selves as others see them.
--We welcome you all with

open arms because you are ~~

ours and we Jove you, but
please, leave the pot and pills
and: paraphernalia behind this
year. Give us peace of mind. —
You Guessed It — It's US
Dear Us: For several

see eae
.4 on co
' caine; LSD 5 itu -
heroin, Angel

ae
Dust
the ; e popular

“that
in the late ‘66s,
wre now know .that some of
earlier notions, particular-
ly about pot and cocaine, were
Both are far more «
damaging than we thought. ,
From the beginning I have
counselled to

drugs. There is now solid evi-
dence that ne tang use of

if Dear nes: We are Jooking ””

° Christmas, ase don't...
‘bring your drug.hablt. when ©.
Pes ‘holidaya will be more.’
.* 7" pléagant If we don't Have-to
“worry about getting -busted.

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thank you later.
Please stop that child before
. » sherulns her tife._

- When I was 13, my parenta
allowed me to date a 1%-year-,
old boy. The. kids at, school
thought it was terrible. [ soon

- had reputation of a tramp
— so I behaved like one.

. By the thme I was 16 1 was

_ out’ of control. [ became so

wild my parents didn't mow

- .what to do with me, so they’

gave up and said { would have

o learn the hard way. since I
refused to listen to them.

‘Shortly before. my 16th |

"| ahead and hope you will take
this prep fo a profeasional -..

" -"Eniclosed you will also find & vos
‘ spoon so. you can eat youl’.

birthday I-ran away from ~ ;

_ home. I went to New York City
and found a dumpy furn
room, which was all J gould af-
ford. a oO

* T worked nights in a bar. It
was.acrummy place where the
only women who came in were

. hookers, At a time when [ |
- should have been enjoying life

and ‘having a wonderful time, I
was alone, hungry, stoned
every night and scared ‘to
death,—- - o
_ Five months of that life was
all I could take, 1 swallowed
my pride, cal ome an
asked Mom if I could came
back. She said, “We'll come
and get.you.” tot,
Luckily Tf straightened out
my life, thanks to my forgiv-
’ Ing parents and some wonder-
ful counsellors.“But there are
still times when I cry for the
fun and youth that were lost 10
meforever. . .
Don’t let this happen to your
child. — Hope You
Dear Hope: Your story is an
ise cer aa
can paren!
and give up.
Thate to sound ike a broken
but Vil say it one more
time, line is a
kind of love, Kids don't vant
everything ‘or. Some-
times they are testing. —
Dear Miss Know-It-All: 1
gotcha this time. You sald ina.
column several weeks ago that
talking birds do not know
. What they are saying — they
are merely mimics. Read the
enclosed and go put on a dunce

py. July 30, 1962.

humans ca
th birds rather than .
them to imitate sounds —
is exactly I :
. e : Yq
; Fe |
Test Prayer : iq
Now] mye down to stidiy, ~
I pray the Lord I won’ ad .

nutty. .
If I should: fall to leans this

n
the Lord I will not flunk
- Both Ido, don’t shed a L

id
Just put a rose my earch

' Tell my teacher I did my beat:!:;,
“Thea wile may books upon my !

tapoet my '

chest. .
IT should die before I wake,
That's one less test Wl have to

take.
— Suffering Student tk
Curious in-laws ;
Dear Ann Lasers, We ori;
in our iid-20s and have beew}
married for three years. My,

- husband and I it along fine,’

The problem is his paren e
George and I have demon!

strated we know how to mam} |

age our financia} affairs.’ His
rents, however, want tg;
ow exactly what we do with,
every penny: You wouldn't be’
lieve the questions they ask. 15 —
have got to the point where EB;
am afraid to buy anything news)
for fear of getting the third de,
gree. : : Aj
On several cccasions my
mother-in-law has. said ‘things +

- . ke: “John works so hard, Ri

hope you are very carefuly
about how you spend hig;
money." I have never shown!
my irritation about guch rey;
marks because J den't want tq :
hurt her-feellngs. : :

She is a lovely person, and
‘we have no other problems ex-':
cept. thls. What can you sug+
gest? This problem {s beginad

ning to get under my skin. 4;
No Spendihrift In Oregon» *!

ive organs of hoth cap. _ . Dear Oregon: If you and your
females. It also can interfere , Tt seems that Arlene Fepper: ~ | boshand were A y
with memory, visual percep... berg. a researcher in the bic- and had to ask the ws for *
-- flon and fs a factor in many logical sciences at Purdue financial help, It would be
teenage automobile accidents. University, found an African reasonable for them to make
—_ Bray parrot mad ne gaee pet +> sich inquiries, Since such is not
- -- store. She nam m Alex an : usband
. Awhile back Eread a verse. _ is teaching him how to com- the cave, you and your bus fiscal
or a poem in your column municate rather than. mimic. idiots, ae i
about a father who was pass- ‘She will ask Alex a question It is up to hi tel
ing: bis good name on to his and, instead of permitting him tell then thei ce uehand a
wn. He hoped the boy would to imitate her,-she gives him . th * about or finan afz2!
take good careof itso whenhe ~ ‘the corréct, answer and. he Honing a mate th considera -
| ft on to his son the = = must repeat it. When he re Feccousible and you bot
hame would be unsullied. 1 sponds-Iincorrectly, Miss Pep- you irresponsit he bea the
hope you can find it, because I perberg: shows disapproval. reset “te ope he BG,
have a special reason for want- en he gives the right an-. gumption to speak up. se
ing :to.see it in print agains ae co, ‘or
Thank you, Ann — A Faithful Stee ts ; AL.
er.” anne - 1"
The poem you want appear- EA | . ag
ed in my column on Mr 20, H THCL FE , in
1978, and 1 am pleased to run _ ; : es meas
it again. The author is Edgar: ‘ Ae
A. Guest: . me EL tite
Your Name aa i a
You got it from your father. MS
"twas the best he had to-give. - i Hy
And right gladly he be a oe
stowed-it. It’s yours, the whilé Dorit
youllve. te ad meee
You may: lose the watch he - hs
gave you and another you may et
claim, : 7” 1s |
But remember, when you're : KY
tempted, to be careful of hi: ae;
name, whe
~ Tt was fair the day you got - a
it, and a worthy name to bear,.. Weng
- When he took it from his fa ey
ther, there ‘was no dishonor cay
there, ek at
- Through the years he praud- Ofe
ly wore it, to his father he was ae
true, ~ ae _ “a4
And that name was clean uh}
and spotless when he passed ‘it yoo
on to you. ne cab
-_-Oh, there's much that he has can
given that he values not at all. . a
--He has watched you break . a nd,
your playthings in the days-..- a ad
when you were small. a d “\ cid
You have lest the knife he: oS = WOT ON qe.
gave you and you've scattered... ——— , : med i,
Many age yi “FIFTY PERCENT OFF /..WOW!..1P BETTER HURRY ee
-. But yo - . o, a
father if you're careful .with _. To THAT SALE AT THE MALL /" ity
his name. Te . _ re 7 aul
it is.yours to wear forever, ioe
ours to wear the while you “s

ive, . .
Yours, perhaps, some. dis
_ fant morning, to another boy
to give. ee
nd you'll smile as did your. .
father — >with a smile that all
canshare, ~

if a clean name and a good’ -
_ fame you are giving. him to

wear. Se

. Combined families
I realize combined families

from previous es have
built-in problems. What can a

won'tcooperate? ,

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