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MEMKO
In the struggle against drugs,
The Boy Scouts of America have been taking the anti drug message
to every community
For years, the Boy Scouts of America have been a leader
in taking the anti-drug message to *** every community. Now,
you are an example of the dedicated and committed community leaders
who are exemplifying for now on my belief in that any definition of
the successful life in America includes service to others.
For years, the Boy Scouts of America have been a leader in
taking the anti-drug message to every community. XXX By
actively engaging in the lives of others, you are demonstrating
a central tenent of my administration -- that
an
C
from now on, the definition of the Successful life in America
must includ 8 service to others.
Annia
11
89 JUL
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
DATE:
8-3-89
FROM THE PRESIDENT
To:
Chriss/Mark
Re Boy Scouts.
It would be nmice ot have some
news in thsi speech but for sure
we should add in recent statistics on
drugs
highlight cociane use
down by 1/3rd (or whatever the good news was
this week) but also mention the jopb
ahead to whip the crack menace
and the
need for the scouts to help their less
fortunate bnrethren in to staying away from
drugs. " you are lea ding by example
but there must be some way for scout
troops ot actively engage your-selves
in thel ives of others (ask Gregg Petersmeyer)
OK for rest of it.
gb
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN
8/3/89
August 2, 1989
INFORMATION
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
CHRISS WINSTON
FROM:
MARK DAVIS MD
SUBJECT:
BOY SCOUT NATIONAL JAMBOREE
I. SUMMARY
On Monday, August 7, 1989, at Fort A. P. Hill in Bowling
Green, Virginia, you will address the Twelfth National Jamboree
of the Boy Scouts of America. The audience will consist of more
than 30,000 Boy Scouts. You will be introduced by Bill Swisher.
Secretary Skinner will also be present. The speech is 15
minutes long and will be teleprompted. Because this is an
outdoor setting, a very sunny day may require us to revert to
cards.
II. DISCUSSION
The main themes of this text are the space program and
scourge of drugs.
Davis/Martin
Aug. 2, 1989
Draft: Three
Title: C:Scouts
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: BOY SCOUT NATIONAL JAMBOREE/Ft. A.P. Hill
August 7, 1989/10:30 a.m.
<<< (Thank you, Bill. Let me start by asking a favor. For the
next ten seconds, I would like to hear every patrol in the Boy
Scouts give its call, starting now
)
)
( (Wait ten seconds))
( (Okay, okay, thank you In all that noise, I thought I
could make out otters, panthers, owls and even a moose call or
two. Just think, out there somewhere in the thick Virginia
forest are a lot of wild animals, and they've all just fallen in
love
)) ( (PAUSE) )
Last Jamboree, I understand you had an unwelcome visitor by
the name of Bob -- Hurricane Bob. Bill tells me you didn't have
a camp out
You had a damp out.
But this Jamboree is coming together marvelously. You can
canoe, kayak and swim. You can race trail bikes and compete in
archery. You can earn Merit Badges while you work your way down
the Midway. ( (Undoubtedly, some of you will also be asked to
organize snipe-hunting expeditions.) ) This all sounds like a lot
of fun. But there is one activity here that really tempts me to
leave the White House behind and spend a few days with you here
at Fort A.P. Hill. I am talking about Fish Hook Lake.
2
I started fishing at age five or so, in the cold waters
along the coast of Maine, using a lead jig with a piece of white
cloth for bait, sometimes trolling with an old green cotton line.
((And, of course, the first thing I caught was a cold. )) But
after awhile, I got the hang of it, pulling in mackerel and an
occasional flounder. I became acquainted with the waters off
Kennebunkport so well that now I know every reef, when the swells
will break and where you can find the seals on a given day.
Since the time I was your age, I've waded in a clean, clear
river in Iceland next to the Prime Minister of that land, and
caught my first salmon. I've pulled in bass in many states, and
fought dolphin, kings and hard-hitting 'cuda on the high seas.
As you might have guessed, fishing is my favorite source of
relaxation. It is with a rod and reel in my hand that I tend to
count my blessings, especially if I'm with one of my
grandchildren, or with Barbara
( (the only woman on earth
who can read and fish at the same time, and catch every word and
every fish. ))
But no matter where I fish today, I always look back to the
days when I trailed that piece of white cloth along the
shoreline. And there's a lesson here that I want to share with
you. Whatever you love to do -- whether its hiking, hunting or
kayaking -- hang on to it. As you pursue success in school, and
later in your careers, don't forget to find time for the things
you love to do. If you stay true to the hobbies of your youth,
3
you will find a source of relaxation and replenishment that will
never fail you.
There are other things you will learn as a Scout that will
serve you well through life. Your Scout Law commands you to be
trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient,
cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. ( (Whew!))
That may sound like a lot to remember, but it isn't. For at
the core of that code is something simple -- a desire to serve
with honor, a sincere feeling for one's fellow man and for one's
country. Service isn't a lifelong chore to be carried out. As
Chief Scout Citizen Teddy Roosevelt put it,
"
the full
performance of duty is not only right in itself but also the
source of the profoundest satisfaction that can come in life."
In short, to serve and serve well is the highest fulfillment
we can know. Bill Swisher, who gave SO much time and commitment
to this Jamboree, certainly knows this. Around the country,
Americans, like you, are serving others in a thousand ways,
providing a thousand points of light and "doing a good turn
daily."
I know the Boy Scouts have always helped out through times
of disaster, from fires to flash floods. The Boy Scouts were
there when Franklin Delano Roosevelt appealed for help during the
Great Depression, gathering almost two million articles of
clothing, household furnishings and food for the needy. And the
Boy Scouts were a strong helping hand at home when older brothers
fought a war in Europe.
4
Today, the Boy Scouts have taken on a new struggle, to
defeat what you call the five "unacceptables" -- illiteracy,
unemployment, child abuse, drug abuse and hunger. In fact,
fighting hunger alone, Scouts, Cub Scouts and Explorers rounded
up 65 million cans of food for local food banks -- the largest
collection of food ever undertaken in the history of the United
States.
Your focus is right on target. Today, we can be grateful
that no depression or war looms ahead of us. But this doesn't
mean that the times we live in are less demanding. The Boy
Scouts of this Twelfth National Jamboree will face challenges
unimagined by your parents.
Perhaps the greatest challenge of our times, I'm sorry to
say, is one of the "unacceptables" -- the continuing struggle to
keep drugs out of our high schools
a form of pollution, a
poisoning of the mind, a corruption of the very soul, of young
America.
Last week, a Wall Street Journal reporter wrote movingly of
his son, a boy named Ryan. Ronald Shafer remembered his Ryan as
an enthusiastic collector of baseball cards who could name every
batting champion back to the 1960s -- the kind of bright boy for
whom life was an open invitation to succeed. But Ryan started
using drugs and alcohol at age 12, and soon became a stranger to
his parents and classmates. By age 16, Ryan was dead.
5
There are thousands of Ryans across America, thousands of
young men and women who are in danger of losing their future,
their very lives, to this scourge we call drugs.
L
The Boy Scouts of America has assumed a leadership role in
confronting this problem. You are teaching self-protection
strategies against drugs and other dangers. You have circulated
these strategies in direct language in a very successful pamphlet
called Drugs: A Deadly Game. And you have done something else --
you are leading the youth of America by example.
Now I want to challenge you to take the final steps. Ask
yourself if you know someone like Ryan Shafer. And if so, have
you done everything you can to help him or her?
There are other, more positive challenges facing your
generation. When the first Boy Scouts chapter was formed,
Americans had just tamed the farthest reaches of the West. There
were only a few remote places in the world unseen by Man. Since
then, the world has become smaller. And SO has the room for our
imagination and daring -- a narrowed space for the restless
spirit of freedom that is so much a part of our national
identity.
But you and I know that there is a new frontier, a frontier
without limits -- space.
Once again, Boy Scouts have played a leadership role in
preparing a generation for space exploration. It is no
coincidence that half of all astronauts were once Scouts.
Admiral Richard Truly, who is doing such a great job at NASA, is
6
an Eagle Scout. Gus Grissom, an American hero who lost his life
in the early space program, was a Scout. David Scott, who
operated the first lunar rover, was a Scout. Jim Lovell, another
lunar explorer, is with us today
I guess, Jim, it's true
what they say: "once an Eagle Scout, always an Eagle Scout." And
I doubt that any of the Scouts who participated in the 1969
seventh Jamboree in Idaho will ever forget Eagle Scout Neil
Armstrong, who made man's first step on the moon, and later sent
his greetings to the Jamboree from deep space.
The first spacefarers were unique, the lucky few. But your
generation will have a broader, greater opportunity to live in
space, to travel to establish an outpost on the Moon and explore
the mysteries of Mars. This is the challenge of the next century
-- your century and your challenge.
Near the Jamboree area is a NASA exhibit called Freedom
Station, which includes a display of our nation's first
permanently manned space station in the next decade. Nearby are
also large-scale models of the space shuttle and other
spacecraft. This is America's space fleet, and its mission is
gradually changing from exploration to settlement. When we aim
for the stars, it will be to stay.
This brings to mind a small coincidence. Just a few miles
away, along the Tidewater Coast of Virginia, the first Englishmen
arrived in the New World -- also not just to explore, but to
stay.
7
Those early colonists faced a terrible struggle. Their
first autumn brought a bitter harvest of hardship. Their first
winter brought tragedy. But in the end, the generation of
Captain John Smith escaped the confines of the Old World and
settled the new, a fresh frontier, a boundless promise called
America.
Today, as before, some timid and chiding voices caution us
against the danger, the hardship and the expense. Perhaps they
should have seen Steven Spielberg's extravaganza. Or perhaps
they should listen to Ray Bradbury, a writer who once said that
space will make children of us all.
He meant that the strange beauty and mystery of space will
teach even the most cynical and worldweary among us to rediscover
the wonder of their first glimpse of the night sky. It is this
sense of wonder and curiosity that draws you from the comfort of
home and television to the outdoors. Tonight, when you are lying
in your cots around a campfire, surrounded by dark forest,
looking up at the stars of the night sky, I want you to consider
something. Perhaps you, or your children -- or as hard as it is
for you to imagine, your grandchildren -- will one day look up at
the night sky before going to sleep, and see the Earth as a
faint, twinkling blue star. ((PAUSE))
It is this spirit, a spirit of wonder, of discovery and
adventure, that is surely drawing us to a new destiny on new and
far distant worlds.
8
You are privileged to be the generation that will witness
the first large movement of men and women into space. And as
this happens, I know that the Boy Scouts of today will be in the
lead.
Thank you for inviting me to your Jamboree. God bless you
and God bless the Boy Scouts of America and the world.
#
#
#
August 4, 1989
INFORMATION
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
DAVID DEMAREST
FROM:
MARK DAVIS
SUBJECT:
BOY SCOUT JAMBOREE
We have incorporated your comments concerning the decline in drug
use, and how the efforts of the Boy Scouts dovetail with the call
to national service.
Please also note another change, in the opening joke.
Originally, you were to elicit the "yells" or animal calls from
each patrol. Advance has learned that this venerable Scouting
tradition is in decline, and that the joke runs a serious risk of
confusing the kids.
In its place is a joke about a pre-teen movie idol by the name of
Yahoo Serious. A photograph of Mr. Serious is attached.
#
#
#
ON SCREEN
Photo Copy Preservation
Yahoo.Serious, taking a break, "Young Einstein,
Yahoo Can't
Falling in love with "Marie
Curie" (Odile le Clezio).
Triumphantly uncovering his
Be Serious
discoveries before the 1906 Sci-
ence Academy Awards, a social
gathering that includes "Darwin,"
T'S AN ugly question but some-
"Edison," "Freud," "The Wright
one's gotta ask: Did Crocodile
Brothers," "Marconi" and "humor."
Dundee and Pee-wee Herman
Certainly, "Einstein" has some
have a child? If not, then who's this
funny moments. Serious (do you call
Yahoo Serious kid with the Aussie
him Serious on second reference?)
accent, the aren't-I-cute? demeanor
gives the movie his all-as produc-
and the touted box-office success
er, writer, director, star and, in
back home, carrying his pre-proc-
Buster Keaton fashion (minus the
essed legend, "Young Einstein," to
artistry), stuntman.
1,200 theaters across America?
Apparently Serious, or Yahoo, or
Is Yahoo Serious? And what ex-
Pead, came up with the idea of be-
actly are the quarantine laws for
coming a great comedian while
wildlife visits of this kind?
reading Charlie Chaplin's autobiog-
Moving Warner Bros.' hype aside
raphy on Mount Everest. The idea
for a moment (the team of bulldoz-
ers will be right along): "Young Ein-
for "Young Einstein," though, OC-
stein" is a comedic retelling of the
curred halfway down the Amazon
Einstein story, in which-deep in
when he saw a native sporting an
the cartoonish wilds of Tasmania-
Einstein T-shirt.
apple farmer's son Einstein (Yahoo
Some legends are born. Others
Serious, a k a Greg Pead; now the
can be found on Warner Bros. press
pseudonym makes sense), seeking a
releases.
formula to carbonate his father's
Whether you find "Einstein" fun-
flat beer, splits the first atom. "En-
ny or just another Croc probably
ergy equals mass toims the square
depends on whether you had a
of the speed of loit, he says, and he
stuffed koala as a kid or on whether
embarks on an odyssey to patent his
you just like watching things be-
E=mc2 formula, which involves:
cause they're weird. But don't go
Surviving the unscrupulous
looking for the bigger questions.
schemings of jealous patent-office
The most burning inquiry will be,
manager Preston Preston (John
"How does he make his hair stand
Howard).
up like that?"
Inventing the world's first
Desson Howe
surfboard, the electric@guitar and
****
rock
I
1
1
Davis/Martin
Aug. 2, 1989
Draft: Five
Title: C:Scouts
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: BOY SCOUT NATIONAL JAMBOREE/Ft. A.P. Hill
August 7, 1989/10:30 a.m.
Thank you, Bill.
To all the Boy Scouts out there, I understand that it was
quite a hike to get from your campsite to this natural arena.
Thank you
...
( (Looking at all the young men and women here today, I'm
afraid I have to give you a warning
If you stay in the
forest too long, you'll start to look like Yahoo Serious
))
( (Last Jamboree, I understand you had an unwelcome visitor
by the name of Bob -- Hurricane Bob. Bill tells me you didn't
have a camp out
...
You had a damp out. ))
But this Jamboree has come together marvelously. You can
canoe, kayak and swim. You can race trail bikes and compete in
archery. You can earn Merit Badges while you work your way down
the Midway. ((Undoubtedly, some of you will also be asked to
organize snipe-hunting expeditions.) This all sounds like a lot
of fun. But there is one activity here that really tempts me to
leave the White House behind and spend a few days with you here
at Fort A.P. Hill. I am talking about Fish Hook Lake.
I started fishing at age five or so, in the cold waters
along the coast of Maine, using a lead jig with a piece of white
2
cloth for bait, sometimes trolling with an old green cotton line.
((And, of course, the first thing I caught was a cold. )) But
after awhile, I got the hang of it, pulling in mackerel and an
occasional flounder. I became acquainted with the waters off
Kennebunkport so well that now I know every reef, when the swells
will break and where you can find the seals on a given day.
Since the time I was your age, I've waded in a clean, clear
river in Iceland next to the Prime Minister of that land, and
caught my first salmon. I've pulled in bass in many states, and
fought dolphin, kings and hard-hitting 'cuda on the high seas.
As you might have guessed, fishing is my favorite source of
relaxation. It is with a rod and reel in my hand that I tend to
count my blessings, especially if I'm with one of my
grandchildren, or with Barbara
( (the only woman on earth
who can read and fish at the same time, and catch every word and
every fish. ) )
But no matter where I fish today, I always look back to the
days when I trailed that piece of white cloth along the
shoreline. And there's a lesson here that I want to share with
you. Whatever you love to do -- whether its hiking, hunting or
kayaking -- hang on to it. As you pursue success in school, and
later in your careers, don't forget to find time for the things
you love to do. If you stay true to the hobbies of your youth,
you will find a source of relaxation and replenishment that will
never fail you.
3
There are other things you will learn as a Scout that will
serve you well through life. Your Scout Law commands you to be
trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient,
cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. ( (Whew!))
That may sound like a lot to remember, but it isn't. For at
the core of that code is something simple -- a desire to serve
with honor, a sincere feeling for one's fellow man and for one's
country. Service isn't a lifelong chore to be carried out. As
Chief Scout Citizen Teddy Roosevelt put it,
"
the full
performance of duty is not only right in itself but also the
source of the profoundest satisfaction that can come in life."
In short, to serve and serve well is the highest fulfillment
we can know. Bill Swisher, who gave so much time and commitment
to this Jamboree, certainly knows this. Around the country,
Americans, like you, are serving others in a thousand ways,
providing a thousand points of light and "doing a good turn
daily."
I know Boy Scouts have always helped out through times of
disaster, from fires to flash floods. The Boy Scouts were there
when Franklin Delano Roosevelt appealed for help during the Great
Depression, gathering almost two million articles of clothing,
household furnishings and food for the needy. And the Boy Scouts
were a strong helping hand at home when older brothers fought a
war in Europe.
Today, the Boy Scouts of America has taken on a new
struggle, to defeat what you call the five "unacceptables" --
4
illiteracy, unemployment, child abuse, drug abuse and hunger. In
fact, fighting hunger alone, Scouts, Cub Scouts and Explorers
rounded up 65 million cans of food for local food banks -- the
largest collection of food ever undertaken in the history of the
United States.
Your focus is right on target. Today, we can be grateful
that no depression or war looms ahead of us. But this doesn't
mean that the times we live in are less demanding. The Boy
Scouts of this Twelfth National Jamboree will face challenges
unimagined by your parents.
Perhaps the greatest challenge of our times, I'm sorry to
say, is one of the "unacceptables" -- the continuing struggle to
keep drugs out of our high schools
a form of pollution, a
poisoning of the mind, a corruption of the very soul, of young
America.
We had some good news last week about drug use in America.
The number of overall drug-users in the United States is down by
almost 40 percent. This is a real tribute to those who have
worked in the service organizations, the youth clubs and
communities across the nation. And it is especially a tribute to
the Boy Scouts of America.
But we cannot yet claim victory. The number of people
addicted to cocaine and crack has almost doubled. We must work
harder. I am especially looking to you to encourage friends to
refuse drugs -- any illegal drug. I don't want any young
American starting down the path to cocaine and crack.
5
Last week, a Wall Street Journal reporter wrote movingly of
his son, a boy named Ryan. Ronald Shafer remembered his Ryan as
an enthusiastic collector of baseball cards who could name every
batting champion back to the 1960s -- the kind of bright boy for
whom life was an open invitation to succeed. But Ryan started
using drugs and alcohol at age 12, and soon became a stranger to
his parents and classmates. By age 16, Ryan was dead.
There are thousands of Ryans across America, thousands of
young men and women who are in danger of losing their future,
their very lives, to this scourge we call drugs.
The Boy Scouts of America has assumed a leadership role in
confronting this problem. You are teaching self-protection
strategies against drugs and other dangers. You have circulated
these strategies in direct language in a very successful pamphlet
called Drugs: A Deadly Game. And you have done something else --
you are leading the youth of America by example.
For years, the Boy Scouts of America has led our nation in
taking the anti-drug message to every community. By actively
engaging in the lives of others, you are demonstrating a central
ideal of this Administration -- that from now on in America, any
definition of a successful life must include serving others.
Now I want to challenge you to take the final steps. Ask
yourself if you know someone like Ryan Shafer. And if so, have
you done everything you can to help him or her?
There are other, more positive challenges facing your
generation. When the first Boy Scouts chapter was formed,
6
Americans had just tamed the farthest reaches of the West. There
were only a few remote places in the world unseen by Man. Since
then, the world has become smaller. And so has the room for our
imagination and daring -- a narrowed space for the restless
spirit of freedom that is so much a part of our national
identity.
But you and I know that there is a new frontier, a frontier
without limits -- space.
Once again, the Boy Scouts has played a leadership role in
preparing a generation for space exploration. It is no
coincidence that half of all astronauts were once Scouts.
Admiral Richard Truly, who is doing such a great job at NASA, is
an Eagle Scout. Gus Grissom, an American hero who lost his life
in the early space program, was a Scout. David Scott, who
operated the first lunar rover, was a Scout. Jim Lovell, another
lunar explorer, is with us today
I guess, Jim, it's true
what they say: "once an Eagle Scout, always an Eagle Scout." And
I doubt that any of the Scouts who participated in the 1969
seventh Jamboree in Idaho will ever forget Eagle Scout Neil
Armstrong, who made man's first step on the moon, and later sent
his greetings to the Jamboree from deep space.
The first spacefarers were unique, the lucky few. But your
generation will have a broader, greater opportunity to live in
space, to travel to establish an outpost on the Moon and explore
the mysteries of Mars. This is the challenge of the next century
-- your century and your challenge.
7
Near the Jamboree area is a NASA exhibit called Freedom
Station, which includes a display of our nation's first
permanently manned space station in the next decade. Nearby are
also large-scale models of the space shuttle and other
spacecraft. This is America's space fleet, and its mission is
gradually changing from exploration to settlement. When we aim
for the stars, it will be to stay.
This brings to mind a small coincidence. Just a few miles
away, along the Tidewater Coast of Virginia, the first Englishmen
arrived in the New World -- also not just to explore, but to
stay.
Those early colonists faced a terrible struggle. Their
first autumn brought a bitter harvest of hardship. Their first
winter brought tragedy. But in the end, the generation of
Captain John Smith escaped the confines of the Old World and
settled the new, a fresh frontier, a boundless promise called
America.
Today, as before, some timid and chiding voices caution us
against the danger, the hardship and the expense. Perhaps they
should have seen Steven Spielberg's extravaganza. Or perhaps
they should listen to Ray Bradbury, a writer who once said that
space will make children of us all.
He meant that the strange beauty and mystery of space will
teach even the most cynical and worldweary among us to rediscover
the wonder of their first glimpse of the night sky. It is this
sense of wonder and curiosity that draws you from the comfort of
8
home and television to the outdoors. Tonight, when you are lying
in your cots around a campfire, surrounded by dark forest,
looking up at the stars of the night sky, I want you to consider
something. Perhaps you, or your children -- or as hard as it is
for you to imagine, your grandchildren -- will one day look up at
the night sky before going to sleep, and see the Earth as a
faint, twinkling blue star. ((PAUSE))
It is this spirit, a spirit of wonder, of discovery and
adventure, that is surely drawing us to a new destiny on new and
far distant worlds.
You are privileged to be the generation that will witness
the first large movement of men and women into space. And as
this happens, I know that the Boy Scouts of today will be in the
lead.
Thank you for inviting me to your Jamboree. God bless you
and God bless the Boy Scouts of America and the world.
#
#
#
Davis/Martin
Aug. 2, 1989
Draft: Five
Title: C:Scouts
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: BOY SCOUT NATIONAL JAMBOREE/Ft. A.P. Hill
August 7, 1989/10:30 a.m.
Thank you, Bill.
To all the Boy Scouts out there, I understand that it was
quite a hike to get from your campsite to this natural arena.
Thank you
( (Looking at all the young men and women here today, I'm
afraid I have to give you a warning
If you stay in the
forest too long, you'll start to look like Yahoo Serious
))
( (Last Jamboree, I understand you had an unwelcome visitor
by the name of Bob -- Hurricane Bob. Bill tells me you didn't
have a camp out
You had a damp out. ) )
But this Jamboree has come together marvelously. You can
canoe, kayak and swim. You can race trail bikes and compete in
archery. You can earn Merit Badges while you work your way down
the Midway. (Undoubtedly, some of you will also be asked to
organize snipe-hunting expeditions.) ) This all sounds like a lot
of fun. But there is one activity here that really tempts me to
leave the White House behind and spend a few days with you here
at Fort A.P. Hill. I am talking about Fish Hook Lake.
I started fishing at age five or so, in the cold waters
along the coast of Maine, using a lead jig with a piece of white
2
cloth for bait, sometimes trolling with an old green cotton line.
( (And, of course, the first thing I caught was a cold. )) But
after awhile, I got the hang of it, pulling in mackerel and an
occasional flounder. I became acquainted with the waters off
Kennebunkport so well that now I know every reef, when the swells
will break and where you can find the seals on a given day.
Since the time I was your age, I've waded in a clean, clear
river in Iceland next to the Prime Minister of that land, and
caught my first salmon. I've pulled in bass in many states, and
fought dolphin, kings and hard-hitting 'cuda on the high seas.
As you might have guessed, fishing is my favorite source of
relaxation. It is with a rod and reel in my hand that I tend to
count my blessings, especially if I'm with one of my
grandchildren, or with Barbara
((the only woman on earth
who can read and fish at the same time, and catch every word and
every fish. ))
But no matter where I fish today, I always look back to the
days when I trailed that piece of white cloth along the
shoreline. And there's a lesson here that I want to share with
you. Whatever you love to do -- whether its hiking, hunting or
kayaking -- hang on to it. As you pursue success in school, and
later in your careers, don't forget to find time for the things
you love to do. If you stay true to the hobbies of your youth,
you will find a source of relaxation and replenishment that will
never fail you.
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There are other things you will learn as a Scout that will
serve you well through life. Your Scout Law commands you to be
trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient,
cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. ( (Whew!) )
That may sound like a lot to remember, but it isn't. For at
the core of that code is something simple -- a desire to serve
with honor, a sincere feeling for one's fellow man and for one's
country. Service isn't a lifelong chore to be carried out. As
Chief Scout Citizen Teddy Roosevelt put it,
"
the full
performance of duty is not only right in itself but also the
source of the profoundest satisfaction that can come in life."
In short, to serve and serve well is the highest fulfillment
we can know. Bill Swisher, who gave so much time and commitment
to this Jamboree, certainly knows this. Around the country,
Americans, like you, are serving others in a thousand ways,
providing a thousand points of light and "doing a good turn
daily. "
I know Boy Scouts have always helped out through times of
disaster, from fires to flash floods. The Boy Scouts were there
when Franklin Delano Roosevelt appealed for help during the Great
Depression, gathering almost two million articles of clothing,
household furnishings and food for the needy. And the Boy Scouts
were a strong helping hand at home when older brothers fought a
war in Europe.
Today, the Boy Scouts of America has taken on a new
struggle, to defeat what you call the five "unacceptables" --
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illiteracy, unemployment, child abuse, drug abuse and hunger. In
fact, fighting hunger alone, Scouts, Cub Scouts and Explorers
rounded up 65 million cans of food for local food banks -- the
largest collection of food ever undertaken in the history of the
United States.
Your focus is right on target. Today, we can be grateful
that no depression or war looms ahead of us. But this doesn't
mean that the times we live in are less demanding. The Boy
Scouts of this Twelfth National Jamboree will face challenges
unimagined by your parents.
Perhaps the greatest challenge of our times, I'm sorry to
say, is one of the "unacceptables" -- the continuing struggle to
keep drugs out of our high schools
a form of pollution, a
poisoning of the mind, a corruption of the very soul, of young
America.
We had some good news last week about drug use in America.
The number of overall drug-users in the United States is down by
almost 40 percent. This is a real tribute to those who have
worked in the service organizations, the youth clubs and
communities across the nation. And it is especially a tribute to
the Boy Scouts of America.
But we cannot yet claim victory. The number of people
addicted to cocaine and crack has almost doubled. We must work
harder. I am especially looking to you to encourage friends to
refuse drugs -- any illegal drug. I don't want any young
American starting down the path to cocaine and crack.
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Last week, a Wall Street Journal reporter wrote movingly of
his son, a boy named Ryan. Ronald Shafer remembered his Ryan as
an enthusiastic collector of baseball cards who could name every
batting champion back to the 1960s -- the kind of bright boy for
whom life was an open invitation to succeed. But Ryan started
using drugs and alcohol at age 12, and soon became a stranger to
his parents and classmates. By age 16, Ryan was dead.
There are thousands of Ryans across America, thousands of
young men and women who are in danger of losing their future,
their very lives, to this scourge we call drugs.
The Boy Scouts of America has assumed a leadership role in
confronting this problem. You are teaching self-protection
strategies against drugs and other dangers. You have circulated
these strategies in direct language in a very successful pamphlet
called Drugs: A Deadly Game. And you have done something else --
you are leading the youth of America by example.
For years, the Boy Scouts of America has led our nation in
taking the anti-drug message to every community. By actively
engaging in the lives of others, you are demonstrating a central
ideal of this Administration -- that from now on in America, any
definition of a successful life must include serving others.
Now I want to challenge you to take the final steps. Ask
yourself if you know someone like Ryan Shafer. And if so, have
you done everything you can to help him or her?
There are other, more positive challenges facing your
generation. When the first Boy Scouts chapter was formed,
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Americans had just tamed the farthest reaches of the West. There
were only a few remote places in the world unseen by Man. Since
then, the world has become smaller. And so has the room for our
imagination and daring -- a narrowed space for the restless
spirit of freedom that is so much a part of our national
identity.
But you and I know that there is a new frontier, a frontier
without limits -- space.
Once again, the Boy Scouts has played a leadership role in
preparing a generation for space exploration. It is no
coincidence that half of all astronauts were once Scouts.
Admiral Richard Truly, who is doing such a great job at NASA, is
an Eagle Scout. Gus Grissom, an American hero who lost his life
in the early space program, was a Scout. David Scott, who
operated the first lunar rover, was a Scout. Jim Lovell, another
lunar explorer, is with us today
I guess, Jim, it's true
what they say: "once an Eagle Scout, always an Eagle Scout." And
I doubt that any of the Scouts who participated in the 1969
seventh Jamboree in Idaho will ever forget Eagle Scout Neil
Armstrong, who made man's first step on the moon, and later sent
his greetings to the Jamboree from deep space.
The first spacefarers were unique, the lucky few. But your
generation will have a broader, greater opportunity to live in
space, to travel to establish an outpost on the Moon and explore
the mysteries of Mars. This is the challenge of the next century
-- your century and your challenge.
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Near the Jamboree area is a NASA exhibit called Freedom
Station, which includes a display of our nation's first
permanently manned space station in the next decade. Nearby are
also large-scale models of the space shuttle and other
spacecraft. This is America's space fleet, and its mission is
gradually changing from exploration to settlement. When we aim
for the stars, it will be to stay.
This brings to mind a small coincidence. Just a few miles
away, along the Tidewater Coast of Virginia, the first Englishmen
arrived in the New World -- also not just to explore, but to
stay.
Those early colonists faced a terrible struggle. Their
first autumn brought a bitter harvest of hardship. Their first
winter brought tragedy. But in the end, the generation of
Captain John Smith escaped the confines of the Old World and
settled the new, a fresh frontier, a boundless promise called
America.
Today, as before, some timid and chiding voices caution us
against the danger, the hardship and the expense. Perhaps they
should have seen Steven Spielberg's extravaganza. Or perhaps
they should listen to Ray Bradbury, a writer who once said that
space will make children of us all.
He meant that the strange beauty and mystery of space will
teach even the most cynical and worldweary among us to rediscover
the wonder of their first glimpse of the night sky. It is this
sense of wonder and curiosity that draws you from the comfort of
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home and television to the outdoors. Tonight, when you are lying
in your cots around a campfire, surrounded by dark forest,
looking up at the stars of the night sky, I want you to consider
something. Perhaps you, or your children -- or as hard as it is
for you to imagine, your grandchildren -- will one day look up at
the night sky before going to sleep, and see the Earth as a
faint, twinkling blue star. ((PAUSE))
It is this spirit, a spirit of wonder, of discovery and
adventure, that is surely drawing us to a new destiny on new and
far distant worlds.
You are privileged to be the generation that will witness
the first large movement of men and women into space. And as
this happens, I know that the Boy Scouts of today will be in the
lead.
Thank you for inviting me to your Jamboree. God bless you
and God bless the Boy Scouts of America and the world.
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A MESSAGE ABOUT DRUG ABUSE
DRUGS:
A
Deadly
SANGEROUS
GAME!
T
his country is in the midst of a serious drug crisis.
We are seeing kids-only 9, 10, or 11 years old-play-
ing a deadly game of Russian roulette with their hearts,
their livers, and in particular, with that most marvelous and
delicate organ, their brains.
Our brains are better by far than any computer man can
invent. Let's say you have a computer with 64K of memory,
and you blow out half the circuits. That computer may
still be able to perform some simple functions. But it's
never going to be able to do the complex, sophisticated
tasks it was designed to do. That's true of your brain, too.
That's why more and more kids, parents, and young adults
are realizing that taking drugs is not just dangerous-it's
deadly. By saying "No" to drugs, they're saying "Yes" to
life and all the good things that can come from it.
Scott Baio
Antonio Smith
Julie Parisien
Art Monk
Peter Billingsley
Turn the page and read what these five superstars say
Enjoy
Created in association with Coca-Cola and Champion International.
A MESSAGE ABOUT DRUG ABUSE
J
ULIE PARISIEN. "Skiing requires complete concentration and
quick reflexes. We've learned at school how drugs affect your mind and
body. None of us at Burke use drugs because we know you can't take drugs
and win."
A
t age three, Julie Parisien resented the fact that
only lessens their enjoyment of the benefits of being a
she had to stay inside with the babysitter while her
top skier: if they stay out too late, they'll be too tired
older brothers, ages four and six, skied down the soft
the next day. Self-discipline is the key.
powder of many New England slopes. The next year
Burke students don't "just get by"; the school places
she insisted on following behind them, and since then,
a high value on excelling, on being a community of
little has stood between her and her skiing.
dreamers and doers.
By age seven Julie was racing in local races such
During the winter Julie has classes in the morn-
as the interstate Buddy Werner League for under nine,
ing, skiing in the afternoon, plus an additional physical
where she came in second. Each year after that for the
exercise such as weight training or a four-mile run.
next four years, she was either first, second, or third
Weekends are full of races all over New England. There
in the Maine state championships. At age 13, she
is never a vacation. Every September returning students
skied for the U.S. Olympics in Italy for two years.
must meet rigid physical criteria set down by the U.S.
Last year she was second in the eastern division
Olympic ski team; last year two students were sent home
championship.
for failing to meet the test.
Now, at 15, Julie follows a rigorous schedule at
the 13-year-old Burke Ski Academy in East Burke,
Burke promotes an unusually positive camarade-
Vermont. The school is dedicated to the belief that stu-
rie among the students. The atmosphere is competi-
dents should not have to choose between serious aca-
tive but supportive; students learn to handle failure as
demic interests and their commitment to ski racing.
well as success. If one of the students is having trou-
ble, the other students will offer help, if the student
Living in rustic cabins in the mountains, Julie and
wants it.
65 other students have only a few firm rules-no grades
(students are evaluated by their teachers and by them-
Through skiing Julie has learned how to compete-
selves without the format of grades), no curfew, no
that you can compete and fail and it does not mean
drink, no drugs, no cigarettes, no lying, and no TV. And
you are a worse person, or that you can compete and
no high school prom.
succeed and it doesn't mean you are a better person.
Although some of the freedoms are tempting at
Julie's future plans include skiing for the U.S. ski
first, students soon learn that taking advantage of these
team in the Olympics and going to college.
A MESSAGE ABOUT DRUG ABUSE
A
NTONIO SMITH.
"As a member of the Young Astro-
nauts program, I've just returned
from the Soviet Union where I par-
ticipated in the first youth exchange.
I study very hard. There's no place
in my life for drugs of any kind."
Wh
hen the principal of Chicksaw Jr. High School in
Memphis, Tennessee, called Antonio Smith into his
office for "some sort of interview," Antonio didn't know
that his answers to questions such as "Do you like to
travel?" and "What do you think of outer space?" would
Antonio
Smith
win him a trip to Washington, D.C., to see the President.
Because of his "victorious" interview, a 3.8 grade
point average, and his community activities, 15-year-old
Antonio was selected to be the Memphis representa-
tive to the Young Astronauts program, launched by Pres-
ident Reagan in 1984.
scope and to investigate the forces that cause a gyro-
The Young Astronauts program is a national
scope to slow down.
educational program for elementary and junior high
But it's not just outer space that intrigues Anto-
school students designed to promote the study of sci-
nio. Planet Earth holds considerable interest for this
ence, mathematics, and technological subjects. Con-
young man. This past summer he joined his school trav-
ceived by syndicated columnist Jack Anderson, the
eling club for a tour of the Western United States, includ-
program distributes "Adventure Activities" such as
ing New Mexico, Arizona, and California. He recently
model rocket kits to participating schools. Each of
took a two-week trip to the Soviet Union with 10 other
the thousands of chapters nationwide is eligible to par-
Young Astronauts. The Young Astronaut-Young Cos-
ticipate in writing, art, math, and science contests, with
monaut Youth Exchange was a direct result of the
prizes sometimes including trips to Space Camp and
Geneva Summit agreements between President Reagan
shuttle launches. Young Astronauts like Antonio can
and General Secretary Gorbachev. Antonio and other
also use their computers to access a high-tech elec-
students toured Moscow, Leningrad, and Star City, the
tronic information system which keeps them informed
Soviet cosmonaut training facility.
on the latest happenings of the U.S. Space Program.
Antonio, the youngest of four children, enjoys riding
Young Astronauts pledge their best efforts "to
his bicycle, collecting stamps and foreign money, and
improve my grades in science, mathematics, and related
sprinting around the track for his school team. (He has
subjects, to learn about space and to help others
won awards for the fastest mile at two meets.) He sings
towards these goals."
tenor in his church choir, and is a member of the
National Junior Honor Society.
As president of his school's Young Astronauts pro-
He wants to be an astronaut or an engineer when
gram, Antonio is responsible for showing members com-
he grows up.
puter programs from NASA and arranging science and
technology activities. He and other future space explor-
ers study the cosmic drama of the birth and death of a
star by observing the Orion region of the sky. By using
the Sky Travel program on a Commodore 64 or 128
computer, they find out what the Hunter Orion looks
like throughout the night. They learn to "pilot" a gyro-
A MESSAGE ABOUT DRUG ABUSE
SCOTT
BAIO.
"I'm 26 years old, OK, and to this day I've never
even taken a hit off a joint. I've never done anything because I'm afraid
I'm chicken, so I stay away. And that's the only way-to stay away. So if
someone approaches you, all you have to say is one little word-NO!
You'll always be glad that you did."
Wh
hen Scott Baio
Scott has also proven him-
was only nine years old, he
self as a serious dramatic
went to his parents and
actor in several television
confidently declared, "I
productions. He starred in
want to be an actor." "Sure,
the Emmy-nominated
whatever you say," his par-
"Luke" and "The Boy Who
ents replied, dismissing his
Drank Too Much," a per-
young ambition. "But first
sonal favorite of Scott's,
finish your homework."
where he played a teenage
They thought that might
alcoholic. Other dramatic
have ended the discussion
roles include the ABC-TV
right there. But it didn't.
Afterschool Specials,
From that early beginning in
"Stoned," which earned
Brooklyn, where he was
Scott an Emmy nomination,
born and raised, Scott has
"Walk Don't Run," and "All
turned his desire to act into
the Kids Do It."
one of the most meteoric
Scott's career contin-
careers any young person in
ues to flourish as he moves
this country has enjoyed in
from teenage roles into
many years. That career is
parts more befitting his own
now being topped off with
age-26. In addition to
a return of his series,
"Charles in Charge," he will
"Charles in Charge."
be seen in the upcoming
Scott began his career
feature film, "I Love N.Y.," a
in commercials, and at 13 got the big break that all
romantic drama with Scott playing a young photog-
actors, young and old, hope and pray for. He was singled
rapher who falls hopelessly in love with the beautiful
out by the director from a herd of 2,000 competitive
daughter of a famous celebrity. The film, scheduled for
kids to play the lead in the movie, "Bugsy Malone."
early 1987 release, boasts an all-star cast including
Scott's acting career was launched!
Jennifer O'Neill, Christopher Plummer, and Verna Lisi.
In his free time Scott devotes himself to his sec-
When producer Gary Marshall created the role of
ond greatest passion, sports. He has been an avid ath-
Chachi Arcola, the Fonz's nephew on "Happy Days," for
lete since he was a child, collecting 15 trophies in all.
Scott, he had no idea of the impact the young actor
His favorite is basketball and his favorite team is the
would have. Overnight Scott became one of the most
Lakers. He also loves nice cars, especially his current
popular members of the cast and continued to be an
black Corvette.
audience favorite for the eight-year run, receiving up
to 5,000 fan letters a week. "Joanie Loves Chachi" was
Scott has a definite nostalgic streak in his musical
born in 1982.
tastes. He loves the golden oldies of Frank Sinatra and
Linda Ronstadt and has collected just about every
In addition to his unique talent for comedy,
Beatles record made.
A MESSAGE ABOUT DRUG ABUSE
A
RT MONK.
"As athletes we have to take on the
responsibility to set good examples
for our young people. Whether we
like it or not, there are people out
there who look up to us and really
idolize us.
"I think we have to assume a re-
sponsibility to be good role models.
Personally I don't use drugs. Drugs
have never played a part in my life.
I've always been concerned about
my health and physical conditioning.
All drugs will do is pull you down-
hinder your performance."
I
f anyone should know what makes an athlete who
91 catches led NFL receivers, bested only by Roger
wins-it's Art Monk. Selected by the Washington Red-
Craig's 92. He gained 1,226 yards, the third best in the
skins in the first round of the 1980 draft, Art Monk has
league. In the last eight weeks of the season, he had
been making and breaking the catching and running
six 100-yard games, catching 56 passes for an incredi-
records for seven straight seasons.
ble 926 yards. In the December 15th game against the
Starting in 1980 he broke a Redskins rookie receiv-
Bengals, in RFK stadium, he caught 13 passes to set a
ing record set back in 1964 by football's all-time lead-
new Redskin record and to tie the NFL best for 1985.
ing receiver, Charley Taylor. He led the team in
Football experts call Monk, "sturdy." As the third
receptions in 1980, '82, '84, and '85, and in yards in
best receiver in the conference, he has consistently aver-
1980, '81, '84, and '85.
aged 50 yards per game for three years and in six sea-
The end of the 1986 season marked the third year
sons he missed only five games. Though he has had
in a row-a team record-for gaining more than 1,000
his share of battle scars-a sore shoulder and a twisted
yards each season. He's been named best receiver by
knee-sturdiness is his tradition. At Syracuse University
his peers, the Associated Press, UPI, Sporting News, and
he never missed a practice or a game because of injury
Football News.
in four years. In high school he was a national inter-
His seventh season with the Redskins saw the
scholastic champion in the 330-yard intermediate hur-
defenses of the opposing teams doubling their efforts
dles at White Plains High in New York.
to keep the ball away from him. And for good reason:
Off the field, Art occasionally does TV broadcasts
his 1984 season was like no other that any other receiver
for the Superbowl. He enjoys spending time with his
ever had. In 1984, his very best season, he rewrote the
wife, Desiree, and his children, James Arthur, Jr. and
NFL record book with his 106 catches. There went
Danielle. During the summer he operates a football
Charley Hennigan's 20-year-old record of 101. That year
camp for kids.
he played in the Pro Bowl. The Quarterback Club voted
him Player of the Year, and the Redskins voted him
Most Valuable Player. Coach Gibbs said of him, "I can't
see how a receiver can be more valuable to a team."
And his 1985 season was right up there, too. His
A MESSAGE ABOUT DRUG ABUSE
PETER
BILLINGSLEY.
"I
have
a
very
busy
schedule
dealing
with my work, school, and family, and there's no place for drugs, drinking,
or smoking in my life. I know the danger and damage they can cause."
is a modern Jack-in-the-Beanstalk story, filmed in Dal-
las, Texas. Peter plays a young boy who is sent to buy
groceries with the family's last $50 and buys a dirt
bike-which turns out to be magic-instead.
On TV he has sold hot dogs with Billy Martin, mar-
garine with Reggie Jackson, and video games with
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He's never had a professional act-
ing class. Commercials are the toughest, says Peter,
because directors "yell and scream, when all you're
doing is talking to your fellow actors. You just have to
ignore all that."
Off-stage, the blond-haired, blue-eyed kid with the
horned-rim glasses is a typical teenager. The son of a
financial consultant, he's a high school freshman. He
likes science and computers and balances his work as
an actor with the demands of school work.
He loves comic books, particularly "Thor" and
"X-Men" ("When I turn 21, I'm going to donate $1,000
to comics") and horror stories, and he loves sports-
everything from football, basketball, and baseball to
skateboarding, go-cart racing, and motorcycling. He's
also a junior class golfer, having picked up the sport
from his father. His handicap is 29 and he is giving
serious thought to turning professional after college.
A native of Manhattan's upper East Side, Peter is
the youngest of five children, all of whom have tried
their hand at acting. His two older brothers and two
older sisters (including actress Melissa Michaelsen)
T
have all worked in television, either commercials, soap
elevision audiences know him in the Hershey
operas, or mini-series.
Syrup commercials and as co-host of the NBC-TV hit
Peter lives in Phoenix, Arizona, close enough to
show, "Real People," where he has reported on go-cart
the second hole of the next-door golf course that golf
racing and frog jumping. Moviegoers saw him in the
balls often land in the pool. It is far from the glitz and
MGM classic, "A Christmas Story," as Ralphie, the boy
glitter of his Hollywood workplace. "I have regular
in Indiana in the 1940s whose earnest Christmas wish
friends in Phoenix," Peter explains, "and I'm just a reg-
is a Red Ryder Carbine-Action, Two-Hundred Shot Range
ular guy to them. I don't see any of the money I make.
Model Air Rifle. He's shared the bill with such stars as
It's all being put in a trust fund for me until I'm 21."
Linda Evans, Teri Garr, and Michael Landon, to name a
Although he likes Chinese, Indian, and Thai food
few.
(no eggplant, please), his favorite is pizza. When he
Only 15 years old, Peter Billingsley has been a pro-
grows up, he wants to "open up a pizza store where
fessional child actor since he was three. In those 12
you can get the best pizza in the world!"-with no sar-
years, he's made five television movies or specials and
dines, anchovies, or olives. "If I stay in show business,"
six motion pictures, including "Paternity" with Burt
says Peter, "I think I'd like to write, produce, or direct
Reynolds, "Honky Tonk Freeway," and a horror film
like Ron Howard." He'd like to be in a thriller like a
called "Death Valley." His latest movie, "Dirt Bike Kid,"
James Bond movie.
A MESSAGE ABOUT DRUG ABUSE
D
R. SCHUSTER GIVES YOU THE ANSWERS
Charles R. Schuster, PhD, is
in the University's medical school.
the Director of the National Institute
Dr. Schuster's numerous works
on Drug Abuse (NIDA). He is a rec-
have been widely published. He
ognized leading researcher in the
received his PhD from the University
field of drug abuse throughout the
of Maryland.
world. Prior to joining NIDA in
Washington, D.C. in 1986, Dr.
In a recent question and answer
Schuster was Director of the Uni-
session with teenage adolescents,
versity of Chicago Drug Abuse
Dr. Schuster answered frequently
Research Center and a Professor of
misunderstood questions about the
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
effects of drugs and their abuse.
TRUE
Pressure
didn't change the way your body functions.
OR
from friends
And there's no such thing as a perfectly safe
is impossible
drug-even the drugs a doctor writes a pre-
FALSE?
to resist.
scription for.
FALSE! Sometimes it may seem really hard
Some of the harmful effects of smoking mari-
to disagree with a friend or a group. A group
juana, taking amphetamines, or using other
of kids might all agree that they like-or don't
substances may take weeks or months or
like-certain movies, or a sports team, or a
years to show up. And by that time, damage
teacher, or their brothers and sisters.
to the brain, the heart, or other organs may
be permanent.
The group might even say that taking drugs
is a smart, safe thing to do. And you're either
dumb or a chicken if you don't want to try
The effects of
them.
TRUE
marijuana
But ask those same kids, individually, what
wear off in a
OR
they really think. You'll find that some of
few hours.
FALSE?
them-like you-don't agree with the group
at all.
FALSE! The feeling of being high may last for
Say "No" if the group is pressuring you to
only a few hours. But we now know that a
try drugs. There's a good chance someone
person's ability to do complicated tasks can
in that group will admit to you later that
be affected for as long as 24 hours. Even if
they want to say "No," too.
someone is smoking after school, he or she
may eventually find it harder to concentrate
during regular school hours.
TRUE
Some kids
There are also long-term effects which may
OR
just aren't
never wear off. Marijuana smoke contains
affected by
more of the cancer-causing substances and
FALSE?
certain drugs.
lung irritants than cigarettes do.
FALSE! There are probably kids around you
THC, the main mind-altering substance in
who use drugs and who appear to be okay.
marijuana, alters the hormones that makes
But drugs wouldn't be called drugs if they
adolescents develop into adults. THC stays
THE HEART
Increases heart rate by 50%. Low-
ers oxygen supply to heart muscle.
THE BRAIN
THE LUNGS
May cause permanent brain cell
Contains more cancer-causing
damage, loss of memory, confusion,
hallucinations.
agents than tobacco. Irritates lungs
and damages the way they work.
THE HEART
Makes smokers more susceptible
Contributes to high blood pres-
to colds, pneumonia, and flu. May
sure, enlarged heart, heart failure.
lead to chronic bronchitis, emphy-
THE LUNGS
sema, and lung cancer.
Willia
Greater chance of infections.
THE SEX ORGANS
THE LIVER
Temporary loss of fertility. Impairs
normal sexual development. May
Severe swelling and hepatitis,
cirrhosis.
be especially harmful during
adolescence or pregnancy.
THE SEX ORGANS
Impotence (inability to have sex).
THE STOMACH
Inflammation, ulcers.
A little
THE PANCREAS &
or a lot-
INTESTINES
it could cost
Smoking &
Inflammation, diarrhea.
you your
Tobacco
life.
Chewing
THE MUSCLES
Weakness and loss of tissue.
The leaf from the tobacco plant
dried and cured. Highly addictive.
FACT: Contains the drug nicotine.
Constricts blood vessels, impairs
breathing, stimulates central nervous
system. Causes injuries to:
THE HEART
Contributes to heart disease, attacks.
THE LUNGS
Can lead to incurable cancer. Also
bronchitis and emphysema.
It could
be your
last
breath.
Amphetamines
Stimulants which affect the central
Cocaine
nervous system. Also called "speed,"
"uppers," "pep pills," and other names.
Short-term effects include restlessness,
A white, crystalline powder
sleeplessness, irritability, nervousness.
extracted from the leaves of the
plant ILL 1.,
Can cause hallucinations, depression,
DRUGS:
A
here's only one way to "win" the dangerous and deadly
game of drugs: DON'T PLAY.
This poster describes some of the short-and long-term
damage that can be done when drugs are used.
GAME!
The more you use and abuse drugs, the less chance you
have of growing up healthy- - in body and mind.
First-time
Marijuana
users
Alcohol
are losers.
Grass, pot, weed. Common names
FACT: Drinking-and-driving acci-
for dried leaves from the Canna-
dents are the number one killer of
bis sativa plant.
teenagers in the United States.
FACT: Contains more than 400
Like cocaine or heroin, alcohol is
chemicals, including a mind-altering
a drug. It can alter moods, cause
substance called THC. Immediate
changes in the body, and become
effects: reduces short-term mem-
habit forming.
ory, alters sense of time, reduces
Alcohol is absorbed directly into
concentration and coordination.
the blood through the stomach
May cause acute panic reaction and
and small intestine. Alcohol
injuries to:
depresses the central nervous sys-
THE BRAIN
tem, causing impaired judgment,
May cause permanent brain cell
decreased self-control, impaired
damage, particularly areas control-
coordination, slow reactions,
ling memory and behavior. May
slurred speech, and sometimes
cause acute fears and anxiety.
unconsciousness. It causes injuries to:
A MESSAGE ABOUT DRUG ABUSE
in the lungs, liver, brain, and reproductive
But used repeatedly, these drugs produce
organs for up to one month after one mari-
just the opposite effect. A person becomes
juana cigarette has been smoked.
more and more irritable and nervous. Often-
times the person develops symptoms of
TRUE
schizophrenia. They may withdraw and be-
Heroin is
have in bizarre (crazy) ways. They may
OR
addictive, but
become paranoid (suspicious) and believe
FALSE?
that the whole world is out to get them.
cocaine is not.
They lose their sense of reality.
FALSE! Cocaine becomes an addiction in
many of the people who try it.
The worst thing: if
TRUE
you drink too much
When people are addicted to heroin, or alco-
OR
you get sick and
hol, or amphetamines, they go a little crazy
have a hangover.
FALSE?
when they can't get it. It's the same with
cocaine addicts. They'll do just about any-
FALSE! Throwing up might be the least of
thing to get drugs-things they wouldn't
your problems. Chug-a-lugging large quanti-
dream of doing if they weren't addicted-like
ties of alcohol can cause death very quickly.
lying and stealing.
Remember, people who drive while they are
drunk often kill or injure themselves as well
Smoking
TRUE
as other innocent people.
cocaine is bad,
OR
but snorting
TRUE
it is okay.
FALSE?
OR
Driving stoned is
not as dangerous
FALSE! Smoking pellet-sized rocks of cocaine,
FALSE?
as driving drunk.
called crack, can be extremely dangerous
and very quickly addictive. Snorting cocaine
FALSE! Driving high is a deadly road hazard.
can be extremely dangerous also.
Smoking marijuana affects many of the
skills needed to drive, including coordina-
Of the hundreds of deaths per year caused
tion, reaction time, and perception.
by cocaine, 25% are from snorting the drug.
Testimony in the investigation of the death
To make matters worse, the pot smoker
of University of Maryland basketball star Len
behind the wheel may think he is driving
Bias shows that Bias was snorting cocaine-
safely. Marijuana detected in the blood and
not smoking crack-the night he died.
urine of traffic accident victims suggests
that many of these deaths are due to
"drugged driving."
TRUE
Amphetamines
OR
and cocaine
You can get
TRUE
make you
all the way
FALSE?
OR
feel "high."
through school
without trying drugs.
FALSE?
TRUE and FALSE! For a few hours after tak-
ing amphetamines or cocaine, a person may
TRUE! If you want to, you can, and there are
feel on top of the world. The day seems
people all around-parents, teachers, friends
sunny even if it's raining outside.
-to help you do it.
COCA plant. Fliging addictive.
anxiety, heightened fear that people
FACT: Immediate effects: loss of
are "out to get me." Violent and bizarre
appetite, increased blood pressure,
behavior. Injures:
heart rate, breathing, and body tem-
THE BRAIN
perature. Injures:
May cause permanent brain damage,
THE BRAIN
speech and thought disturbances.
Paranoia, aggressive behavior,
THE HEART
hallucinations. Convulsions. Possi-
ble permanent brain damage.
Rapid or irregular heartbeat. Heart
disease or heart attack from injecting
THE HEART
high doses.
May cause heart irregularity, heart attack.
THE BLOOD VESSELS
THE LUNGS
Serious and life-threatening infections
Respiratory (breathing) failure.
-including AIDS-from injecting
THE LIVER
amphetamines with nonsterile equip-
ment or contaminated solutions.
Hepatitis from injecting cocaine
with nonsterile needles.
Take
THE NOSE
cocaine,
Ulcers in the mucous membrane.
you're
insane.
When
Beware! Inhaling (sniffing) gasoline,
you crash,
paint thinners, glue, cleaning agents, lighter
you come
down
fluids can cause depression, drowsiness,
hard.
headache, nausea, blurred vision, poor
judgment, poor coordination, lead poi-
soning, bizzare behavior, coma and death!
If drugs are so
There's no simple answer. Is it lack of knowledge
Availability. Drugs are available almost every-
or education? Is it stress? Environment? Social
harmful why do
where. Schools, concerts, meetings, even at
acceptance? Is it genetic? These are some of the
home. (Alcohol, cigarettes, diet and other pills).
so many young
reasons. Perhaps the most common known
Curiosity. A response to "a new experience"
reasons are:
adolescents get
with many adolescents. The desire to experi-
Peer Pressure. The desire to be popular
ment in new ideas and behavior.
involved with
with friends, to be one of the gang, to be
Escape. To free the mind of daily problems
them?
accepted.
and conflicts; the hurt of growing up.
Copyright 1987 Boy Scouts of America Irving, Texas
A MESSAGE ABOUT DRUG ABUSE
D
R. TALBOTT GIVES YOU THE FACTS
G. Douglas Talbott, MD, is
throughout the medical field. He
internationally known in his field. He
received his MD from Columbia
serves as the Program Director of
Medical School in New York City.
the Adult and Adolescent Chemical
Dependence Programs (Drugs), in
the Ridgeview Institute, Smyrna,
Dr. Talbott and his Associate,
Georgia. He is also President of the
Director, Dr. Harold Smith, work 24
American Academy of Addictionol-
hours a day treating adolescent drug
ogy and Chief Medical Consultant for
addicts. They have helped hundreds
SAFE centers of Atlanta. Dr. Talbott
of teenagers through the difficult,
has won numerous honors and
expensive, and prolonged program
awards and is widely published
of rehabilitation. This is their advice.
You don't need to be a drug
WARNING! Drug use can start at
1
addict to die from drug abuse!
Say "No!"
7
any age. Say "No!"
Marijuana smoking can
Teenagers often say, "It can't
2
alter your brain capacity,
8
happen to me." Wrong! There
reduce your growth, your
are an estimated 3.3 million
learning ability, your reflexes,
adolescent alcoholics in this
your night vision, and damage
nation. Say "No!"
your lungs. Say "No!"
When kids sell drugs,
Any drug abuse
they are already drug
3
can lead to serious
addicts themselves.
drug dependence.
Say "No!"
Say "No!"
Drinking and drugs
Teenagers often think
they cannot become
10
(marijuana, etc.) don't
4
mix. It can be a deadly
addicted to drugs.
combination. Say "No!"
Wrong! They can!
Say "No!"
"Designer drugs"
11
are extremely dangerous
Family love, education, self-
and very addictive-
5
esteem (pride), and a belief in a
sometimes 1,000 times more
power greater than self
potent than heroin. Say "No!"
are the best weapons
against drugs. Say "No!"
A very high percentage of ado-
When it comes to
12
lescents who "just have a beer
or two" can quickly become
6
their health, kids
addicted to alcohol.
think they're
"bullet proof."
They're not! Say "No!"
So don't be tempted - just say "NO".
AFTER SCHOOL, DAVID GOES TO THE FIELD
WITH HIS FRIENDS, AND RUNS INTO
TROUBLE
YEAH!, YOU'RE CHICKEN!
OH! so YA THINK
COME ON, THE STUFF'S
HEY
YOU'RE COOL?
REAL GOOD!
DAVID!
/ BET YOU'RE
STEVE'S
SCARED!
NO!
GOT
SOME
NO THANKS
GOOD
GUYS - /
DUST.
DON'T DO
WANNA
THAT STUFF!
SMOKE
SOME
WITH
US?
DAVID KNEW THEY DID DRUGS, BUT THEY NEVER
APPROACHED HIM BEFORE.
HI MOM - WHEN'S
DINNER WILL
DINNER?
BE READY IN
ABOUT AN
/ DON'T
HOUR.
WANT THE
GUYS TO THINK
I'M CHICKEN
-
-BUT
/ KNOW
DRUGS ARE
DANGEROUS!
HE DECIDES
TO GO HOME.
DAVID GOES TO HIS ROOM, TALKS WITH HIS DOG
BARNEY.
WHAT SHOULD
/ DO, BARN?
SHOULD /
RUFF!
LISTEN TO
WALLY AND
DAVID FALLS INTO A DEEP
STEVE?
SLEEP. CONFUSED, FRIGHTENED
AND UNCERTAIN. HE BEGINS TO
DREAM.
THE SHADOWS GROW DARKER AND LONGER AND
THE WIND BEGINS TO HOWL.
SUDDENLY
THERE'S A
LOUD
CRASH!
(THE
DREAM
CONTINUES.)
HELT?
SOMETHING IT'S AT THE IS WINDOW! TRYING GET IN!
TWO CREATURES APPEAR!
ATTL
HELP! HELP! HELP!
NO!
THEY OFFER DAVID DRUGS, HE REFUSES AND CRIES
OUT IN FEAR!
THE MONSTERS ARE SNORTING AND ROARING -
AND SMOKING DRUGS!
SUDDENLY IN THE DREAM
WALLY AND STEVE APPEAR!
THEY ARE ON DRUGS AND HIDING. THE ROOM BECOMES
FUZZY. DAVID IS RESISTING!
SIRENS SCREAM OUTSIDE.
WALLY, STEVE AND
THE MONSTERS RUN AS
BARNEY, BARKING AND SNARLING,
SWOOPS TO THE RESCUE.
DAVID IS AWAKENED BY HIS MOTHER'S VOICE.
HE LOOKS AROUND WONDERING
WHERE HE HAS BEEN.
DAVID!
DAVID!
THE MONSTERS
COME TO
SCREAM AND ROAR,
DINNER!
SWINGING
THEIR ARMS,
LEGS AND TAILS.
THEY VANISH INTO
THIN AIR!
MOM, I'VE JUST HAD A
NIGHTMARE. TWO MONSTERS
BROKE INTO MY ROOM TRYING TO
/ WAS SCARED, / DIDN'T KNOW
MAKE ME TAKE DRUGS.
WHAT TO DO.
/ DON'T WANT MY FRIENDS
TO THINK I'M CHICKEN.
DAVID, YOU DID THE RIGHT THING!
BE STRONG IF YOU KNOW IT'S WRONG,
AND DRINKING AND DRUGS
ARE WRONG.
NEXT DAY AT SCHOOL HE'S APPROACHED
AGAIN BY WALLY.
C'MON
DAVID, JUST
POLICE
TRY IT ONCE.
SEE WHAT
IT'S LIKE.
NO!
I'M GLAD
/ JUST
SAID NO!
LATER THAT
WEEK
BRUIG
HIS FRIENDS STEVE AND WALLY ARE PICKED UP BY
THE POLICE FOR USING AND SELLING DRUGS.
DO WHAT DAVID DID-JUST SAY "NO."
A MESSAGE ABOUT DRUG ABUSE
FIRS LADY Nancy Reagan began her own anti-drug campaign
in 1981 and has since become America's number one spokesperson
against drug abuse.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
January 27, 1987
To the Youth of America:
Yes, drugs that's are played indeed only a deadly by losers. even game. say, And "Wait They're sometimes until a
game when they lose, they with can't drugs, sometimes there's side
next tomorrow. year," because Be smart. Stay on score. the winning
no with those who really know the
on you to help keep from America drugs. strong We
We're and free counting by keeping share in yourself the good free things our happy, country
want has to you offer. to We want you to enjoy a
productive life.
Please. Just say "No" to drugs.
Through Nancy Reagan's work with the
Ronald Regan
President's Drug Abuse Campaign, she has
been instrumental in urging adolescents
to refuse drugs by just saying "NO".
Uoucy Reagau
"THREE STEPS TO SAY NO"
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After you've said no and stated your reason,
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copies of a 16-minute video tape, Drugs: A Deadly
Copyright 1987 Boy Scouts of America
Game can be obtained from: Drug Abuse Task Force
S200, Boy Scouts of America, 1325 Walnut Hill Lane,
Reprinted from an insert in the March, 1987, Boys' Life magazine
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Teacher's Guide
Deadly
Drugs: A Dangerous Game!
In our interviews with experts on drugs we've learned that there is
a great deal of confusion and misinformation-as much among adults
as children-about the realities of the drug problem. Is cocaine really
addictive? (Yes.) What's the harm of trying it one time? (Drugs are
potent, and hence dangerous, even in small doses. And, yes, one time
may be lethal.) What's the number one drug abuse problem? (Alcohol.)
As a teacher, you may be reluctant to approach the topic of drugs
with your students. Perhaps you feel that your students are more
"street wise" than you about drugs.
That's why we put these authoritative materials together-so that
you can share with your students the real facts about drug use and
abuse among young people, the real facts about peer pressure, and
the real facts about just saying "no."
There are five parts to "Drugs: A Deadly Game!"
1) An 18-page, full-color booklet'
2) A 16-minute video of superstars saying "no" to drugs
3) A poster depicting the effects of drugs on the body
4) An eight-page Teacher's Guide
5) A student activity worksheet
The booklet contains:
a) Personal histories and remarks by five superstars.
b) A series of true and false statements from Dr. Charles Schuster,
director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, in Washing-
ton, D.C.-and 11 facts about drug abuse from Dr. Douglas
Talbott, program director of the Adult and Adolescent Chem-
ical Dependent Program of the Ridgeview Institute, Smyrna,
Georgia.
c) "David's Nightmare," a comic strip, demonstrating peer pres-
sure and parental understanding and support.
d) Comments by President and Mrs. Reagan.
Each piece was designed to reinforce the other and to show stu-
dents that yes, drug abuse is prevalent, that it is dangerous and often
deadly, and that popular people like NFL star Art Monk, and televi-
sion and film star Scott Baio can say "no" to drugs.
Each section of this Teacher's Guide contains background infor-
mation and facts you need to know as well as points of discussion
("Up for Discussion") to stimulate your students to think about how
these issues affect their present and future lives. Reference materials
for further study are listed at the end.
*Reprinted from an insert in the March, 1987, Boys' Life magazine
H
OW prevalent is drug abuse among high school students?
According to recent surveys by the National Institute on Drug Abuse
(NIDA):
Although for five years prior to 1985 there was a decrease in the
use of a number of illicit drugs among high school seniors, in
1985, the trend changed. There has been an increase in active
cocaine use and an increase in the use of opiates (narcotics)
other than heroin.
About 60 percent of high school seniors have tried an illicit
drug. Approximately 40 percent have tried some illicit drug
other than marijuana.
By the senior year of high school, 17 percent have tried cocaine.
One in twenty high school seniors in 1985 smoked marijuana
daily.
One in twenty seniors drinks alcohol daily, and 37 percent have
had five or more drinks in a row at least once in the prior two
weeks.
Thirty percent of seniors have smoked cigarettes in the survey
and 20 percent are daily smokers.
By twelfth grade only about 10 percent of youth have never used
an illegal substance.
These figures show, according to NIDA, that American high school
students are more involved with illicit drugs than students in any
other industrialized nation in the world!
Although education is the first step in dealing with this pervasive
problem, studies show that, in addition to information, an environ-
ment that is supportive of adolescents is crucial. Oftentimes things
that have nothing to do with drugs-like someone to talk to-may be
the real deterrent to drug abuse. You may want to encourage your
students to explore anti-drug or adolescent support groups in your
community or to observe what other communities have done. For
example, New York City's SPARK program, operating in 98 New York
high schools, uses peer counseling with an adult coordinator to help
students with personal problems. Operation Snowball in Illinois is
an intensive training institute in which teenagers come together to
acquire problem-solving and helping skills.
Prices for brochure, Teacher's Guide with test, copies of a 16-
minute video tape, Drugs: A Deadly Game can be obtained
from: Drug Abuse Task Force S200, Boy Scouts of America,
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Copyright 1987 Boy Scouts of America
Enjoy
Created in association with Coca-Cola and Champion International.
The Booklet
Background: "Superstars" shows students
Students admit a lack of confidence with
what some of their peers and heroes think
their peer group. At the Palo Alto Peer
about drugs, what they've accomplished
Counseling Program, students say that they
without drugs, how they've said "no" to
need to learn how to make friends and to
drugs, and that students, too, will be able
be a friend. When they learn this, peer influ-
to accomplish something worthwhile if they
ence can be a part of the drug abuse
have a clear, drug-free mind. Our purpose
solution.
is to inspire teens to say "no" in the face
of what can be powerful peer pressure,
without fear of losing their friends.
Scott Baio, 26, born and raised in Brooklyn, has been a
professional actor since he was 9 years old. He is best
known as Chachi Arcola, the Fonz's nephew on the TV
sitcom "Happy Days" and its spin-off, "Joanie Loves
Chachi." Scott has appeared in several made-for-television
movies, including the afterschool special, "Stoned" (which
earned him an Emmy nomination). His current feature film
is to be released in 1987 - Love N.Y."
Julie Parisien, 15, U.S. Olympic Women's Junior Sla-
lom Champion, has been racing on skis since she was
seven. At ages 13 and 14, she skied for the U.S. Olympics
in Italy. A high school junior at Burke Mountain Academy
in Vermont, Julie and 71 other boys and girls maintain a
rugged and competitive physical and academic schedule
to meet the rigorous standards set by the Olympic Ski
Team.
Peter Billingsley, 15, film and television actor. Perhaps
best known as co-host of the NBC-TV "Real People," and
as Ralphie in the classic, "A Christmas Story." Since he
entered show business at age 3, he's made more than 100
commercials (the Messy Marvin of Hershey Syrup fame),
six motion pictures, and five television movies. A science
and sports buff, he lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
Roger Clemens, 23, star pitcher for the Boston Red Sox.
Roger is known for his right-handed, 97-mile-per-hour
21
fastball. This year he won the American League Cy Young
Award, the All Star and American League's most valuable
player awards. Married with a young son, Roger lives near
Houston, Texas, where he started his baseball career.
Antonio Smith, 15, member of the U.S. Young Astronauts
program, is a junior high school student who is seriously
interested in science. As president of the regional Young
Astronauts Club in Memphis, Tennessee, he was selected
out of thousands, nationwide, to represent the U.S. Young
Astronauts program in Russia. He and nine other U.S. stu-
dents were guests of the Russian cosmonauts for 10 days.
Art Monk, 29, wide receiver of the Washington Redskins,
has been making and breaking records since his rookie
year. Named best in his field following the 1985 season by
United Press International, the Associated Press, Sporting
News, Football News. Monk's 91 catches made him the
top NFL receiver in 1986, when he ran 1,226 yards. The
father of two children, he operates a football camp for
kids during the summer.
The Video "Drugs: A Deadly Game!"
Background: This video was produced to
3) Discuss the video personalities and their
inspire students to say "no," just as these
personal messages on the use of drugs.
superstars have done. It features the per-
What other personalities can you remem-
sonalities and articles included in the
ber who have talked against drugs on TV?
18-page booklet.
Up for Discussion
1) Discuss what someone would look like
if he or she were on cocaine, marijuana,
alcohol or smoking cigarettes. Discuss what
one student said about drugs: "You can
maintain control if you don't do drugs-you
won't look stupid, get sick, be unable to
drive, make a fool out of yourself, become
violent, or be sexually vulnerable."
2) Discuss different ways of saying "no"
diplomatically but firmly without feeling
embarrassed.
Resources
Other helpful publications
The National Institute of Drug Abuse has
include:
many resource materials on drugs. You
may be particularly interested in:
Adolescent Drug and Alcohol Abuse, by
Donald I. MacDonald, 1984. Year Book Pub-
lishers, 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL
Adolescent Peer Pressure: Theory, Corre-
60601. Paperback, $15.95.
lates, and Program Implications for Drug
Abuse Prevention. DHHS Publication No.
Getting Tough on Gateway Drugs, by Robert
(ADM) 86-1152.
DuPont, Jr., 1984. American Psychiatric
Press, Inc. Paperback, $7.95.
Communicating With Youth About Alcohol:
Methods, Messages & Materials. DHHS
Gone Way Down, Teenage Drug-Use Is a
Publication No. (ADM) 86-1429.
Disease, by Miller Newton, 1981. American
Studies Press. Paperback, $2.95.
Parents, Peers, and Pot and Parents, Peers,
and Pot-II: Parents in Action, by Dr. Marsha
Kids and Drugs: A Handbook for Parents
Manatt, NIDA Publication No. (ADM)
and Professionals, by Joyce Tobias, 1986.
86-1290. No. (ADM) 86-1290.
PANDA Press, 4111 Watkins Trail, Annan-
dale, Virginia 22003. Paperback, $3.95.
"Saying No: Drug Abuse Prevention Ideas
Peer Pressure Reversal, by Sharon Scott,
for the Classroom" (NIDA 1980).
1985. Human Resource Development Cen-
ter, Amherst, MA 90406-2138. Paperback,
Drug Use Among American High School Stu-
$15.00.
dents, College Students and Other Young
Adults: National Trends Through 1985, by
Strategies for Controlling Adolescent Drug
Jerald G. Bachman, Lloyd D. Johnson, and
Use, by J. Michael Polich, 1984. The Rand
Patrick M. O'Malley, 1986. The National
Corporation, 1700 Main Street, P.O. Box
Institute on Drug Abuse, Rockville, Mary-
2138, Santa Monica, CA 90406-2138. Paper-
land 20857, ADM 86-1450.
back, $15.00.
As a Peer Counselor:*
0
Offer trust, openness,
Don't dominate, preach
comfort, and under-
or tell people what to
standing.
do.
0 Listen, clarify, and help
0
Don't give advice or
people see alternatives
offer solutions.
for decision-making.
Support and
Don't do for a person
encourage positive
what he can do for
action.
himself.
Show understanding
Don't put people down.
without being phony.
Respect confidentiality.
Don't gossip about
what was said in group
sessions.
0
Realize that not all
Don't expect all pro-
problems can be solved
blems to be solved
and not all people want
quickly and easily.
to be helped.
Refer troubled students
Don't attempt to provide
to a professional
services beyond your
counselor, psychologist,
qualifications.
or community agency.
*
Adapted from criteria developed for peer counseling
programs sponsored by the Center for Human Devel-
opment, in Lafayette, California. Reported in Resnick,
Henry and Jean Gibbs. "Types of Peer Program Ap-
proaches," p.74, in Adolescent Peer Pressure: Theory,
Correlates, and Program Implications for Drug Abuse
Prevention, DHHS Publication No. (ADM) 86-1152.
2. THE WHERE AND THE WHEN
0
Where would be a good place for your peer
group to meet - school, the YMCA, a city
recreation center? What are the advantages and
disadvantages of each?
When would be a good time to meet?
3. THE HOW
How would you find out about other peer group
programs? (HINT: For starters, check out the
National Institute on Drug Abuse publication,
Adolescent Peer Pressure, which tells about
SPARK, a counseling program operating in New
York's high schools; the Chicago Youth
Development Project, founded by the Ford
Foundation in 1960; and Project CLASP at
Stanford University.) How can you apply some of
their ideas to your school?
o
What would be the first three steps you would
take to get a peer group program organized?
0
Envision some of the obstacles you might
encounter and describe how you might deal with
them.
4. THE WHO
0 How would you go about finding an adult
counselor? What kind of person do you think
would be most effective?
What kinds of students do you think would
benefit from this program?
How would you train students to help other
students? What kinds of personality traits should a
student have to help other students?
11. The majority of high school seniors take drugs.
12. Alcohol makes you more sociable.
Student Activity 2. Start Your Own Peer Program.
While the negative effects of peer groups - for
example, persuading someone to take drugs - get
most of the publicity, peer groups can also have far-
reaching positive effects. To accentuate the positive
and downplay the negative, many students across the
country have started peer programs - counseling or
health-centered programs that use students like you to
provide support for other students.
Your peer group doesn't have to focus on drug abuse.
In fact, some groups have focussed on self-esteem, for
example, and in the process, had a positive effect on
drug abuse.
It's not easy to start and maintain a program, but
students everywhere agree, that with a little help from
your friends, the problems of adolescence can be
turned into constructive learning experiences.
1. THE WHAT AND THE WHY
0 List three good reasons why a peer group
program is a good idea, for example - they help
with drug abuse, they provide students with
someone to talk to.
0 List three things your peer group program could
provide, such as after school discussion groups,
90 minute tutoring sessions, training for people
who are going to tutor or counsel.
0 List three kinds of activities that would help
students develop social, interpersonal, academic,
and organizational skills.
distribute and .to students.)
(Xerox or copy
STUDENT ACTIVITY WORKSHEET
Student Activity 1. Drugs - True or False
and Why?
1. Students take drugs because they are
lonely.
2. Five years from now, it won't make any
difference that I smoked marijuana today.
3. Saying no to one person may be easier than
saying no to another person.
4. Cocaine is not addictive.
5. Alcohol kills more high school students than any
other drug.
6. If I start smoking cigarettes now, I will probably
continue to smoke most of my adult life.
7. Amphetamines are a good way to lose weight.
8. All drugs have positive as well as negative
effects.
9. Athletes who use stimulants will have better
athletic performance.
10. Nicotine is not addictive.
(Pullout Section)
that he almost never gets quoted because
Amphetamines
he doesn't have gory pictures with people
shooting up. All he says is, "Alcohol is our
Amphetamines include three closely
nation's number one drug abuse problem."
related drugs-amphetamine, dextroamphet-
amine, and methamphetamine-or "speed,"
Prevalence: One in 20 senior high school
"white crosses," "uppers," "dexies,"
students drink alcohol daily and 37 percent
"bennies," and "crystal." They look like
have had five or more drinks in a row at
yellowish crystals in tablet or capsule form.
least once in the two weeks according to
Prevalence: Statistics unavailable.
a recent NIDA survey. For people between
the ages of 15 and 24, alcohol-related
Short-term effects: Increased heart rate
automobile fatalities are the number one
and blood pressure, dilated pupils,
cause of death. An estimated two-thirds of
decreased appetite, dry mouth, sweating,
all adults are drinkers. There are 18 mil-
headache, blurred vision, dizziness, sleep-
lion alcoholics and alcohol abusers in
lessness, and anxiety. Injections may cause
the U.S.
sudden blood pressure increase and death.
Long-term effects: Heavy use over a long
Short-term effects: Alcohol is a central
time can lead to malnutrition, skin disor-
nervous system depressant that causes
ders, ulcers, and various diseases. Lack of
relaxation and drowsiness, impairment in
sleep, weight loss, depression, and brain
judgment, reaction time, coordination and
damage can result in speech and thought
emotional control, and frequent aggressive
disturbances.
behavior.
Addictive? Some people report a psycho-
Long-term effects: Obesity with chronic
logical dependence, a feeling that the drug
excessive use; irreversible damage to brain
is essential to their normal functioning.
and liver, fetal alcohol syndrome, lack of
These users frequently continue to use
motivation, and many other complications
amphetamines to avoid the "down" mood
leading to possible death.
they get when the drug's effects wear off.
Addictive? Yes. People become addicted
Up for Discussion
to alcohol the same way they do to cocaine
1) What other drugs do we use in society
or heroin. No one knows what the "trigger-
(caffeine, prescription drugs)? Do you think
ing" point is-how much alcohol is needed
there is any health difference in the drugs
for a person to become an alcoholic; there
we legalize as opposed to those that aren't
is general consensus that there may be a
legal? Are legalized drugs safer?
genetic predisposition to the disease.
2) What do amphetamines and cocaine
Tobacco
have in common? (Both cocaine and
amphetamines are central nervous system
Tobacco is the dried and cured leaf from
stimulants and require larger amounts of
the tobacco plant. It contains the drug,
the drug, over time, to produce the same
nicotine.
effect.)
3) What do tobacco and opium have in
Prevalence: Twenty percent of high school
common? (Both opium and tobacco hab-
seniors smoke daily.
its develop rapidly. In both cases, simple
Short-term effects: Central nervous
exposure to the substance usually leads to
system stimulant, constriction of blood
repeated and then chronic use. To the
vessels, impaired breathing.
extent that experimentation leads to
chronic use, tobacco appears to have an
Long-term effects: Lung and other can-
"addictive potential" similar to that of
cers, heart and blood vessel disease, cough,
opium.)
higher infant mortality; many deaths.
4) How is alcohol encouraged in our soci-
ety? Can you think of some specific
Addictive? Yes. Abstinence from cigarette
examples-advertisements, social expecta-
smoking may be accompanied by mild
tions, peer pressure, traditions?
physiological changes such as increased
heart rate, hand tremor, skin temperature,
5) How is tobacco encouraged in our soci-
and subjective changes such as increased
ety? Why do you think people smoke? What
desire to smoke and irritability. Although
do you think their lungs will look like in 10
tobacco has not received the media atten-
years?
tion that cocaine and other drugs have, it
is by far the most widespread health
6) What is a habit that you have done for
problem among young people and the
a long time that you think would be diffi-
most preventable. To put things into
cult to break? Why?
perspective, according to the Surgeon Gen-
7) Can you think of something that seems
eral, there were 350 deaths nationally from
good at the time but, over a number of
cocaine in 1986 and 350,000 deaths directly
years, is detrimental? (For example, eating
related to cigarettes.
too many sweets.)
Dr. Schuster Gives You the Answers
Dr. Charles Schuster is director of the
National Institute on Drug Abuse, Washing-
ton, D.C. His main theme-that children are
playing Russian roulette with their bodies
when they experiment with drugs-is
underscored by the several myths he dis-
pels as true or false in the booklet.
Up for Discussion
1) Dr. Schuster adds these myths to the
true and false answers in the booklet and
video. Can you think of some other myths
about drugs that you or your friends
might think are true?
A. MYTH: One time can't hurt you.
FACT: More potent, more available, and
more lethal than ever, cocaine, heroin, and
a rapidly increasing list of synthetic drugs
can threaten the life of even a first-time
2) Dr. Schuster says that our brains are
user. Cocaine, once thought to be less dan-
like computers. What kinds of things can
gerous than other drugs, in 1986 accounted
your brain do now that you may not be
for over 350 deaths. Today's marijuana has
able to do if you were taking drugs? (Math-
three times the amount of THC than mar-
ematical calculations, decision-making in
ijuana that was available in the 1960s and
your everyday life, etc.)
early 1970s.
3) What does Dr. Schuster mean when he
B. MYTH: The most dangerous drugs
says, "There's no such thing as a perfectly
have been outlawed.
safe drug-even the drugs a doctor writes
a prescription for?" (That every drug, even
FACT: New synthetic "designer" drugs
aspirin, has some kind of side effect, or
are being marketed amazingly fast so that,
"contraindications." You should view skep-
as one drug expert noted in U.S. News and
tically any foreign substance you put into
World Report (July 28, 1986), "These drugs
your body, even if it seems like something
haven't been tested. No one is even sure
good; you should be aware that it may
about the toxic effects. But people are
well have more than one effect.)
still lining up to buy them
The public
is taking the role of guinea pigs."
Related Activities
1. Have students bring in articles about
C. MYTH: You won't become addicted to
drugs from newspapers, magazines, etc.
cocaine with casual use.
Discuss TV news.
FACT: The two million cocaine addicts
will tell you differently. The up and down
2. Review the booklet and video produc-
cycle of the cocaine user who always needs
tion, "Drugs: A Deadly Game!"
more to get his kick is often started with
casual use and often continued without the
user knowing he is becoming addicted.
Up for Discussion
1) Can you name some well-known fig-
(Students are making important decisions
ures who used drugs and lost the game?
about their future life that could be
(Answer: University of Maryland basketball
harmed by drugs. Refer to Body Chart in
player and Boston Celtics top draft
booklet.)
choice, Len Bias, and Cleveland Brown's
defensive back, Don Rogers, both died
3) How do you think someone got to be
in 1986 from cocaine abuse. Former Wash-
selected out of 350,000 students to
ington Bullets basketball star, John
visit Russia with the cosmonauts or
Lucas, was addicted to cocaine. British pop
became the NFL's best wide receiver, or a
singer Boy George, has sought treat-
national champion skier at age 15? What
ment for heroin addiction.)
does it take mentally and physically to ac-
complish that? (Dedication, discipline,
2) Why is it especially important at this
concentration, all things that are impossible
point in your life not to play with drugs?
when taking drugs.)
Dr. Talbott Gives You the Facts
G. Douglas Talbott, M.D., serves as the
program director of the Adult and Adoles-
cent Chemical Dependence Programs
(CADS), in the Ridgeview Institute, Smyrna,
Georgia.
1. You don't need to be a drug addict to
die from drug abuse! Say "No!"
2. Marijuana smoking can alter your brain
capacity, reduce your growth, your learn-
ing ability, your reflexes, your night vision,
and damage your lungs. Say "No!"
3. Any drug abuse can lead to serious
drug dependence. Say "No!"
4. Teenagers often think they cannot
become addicted to drugs. Wrong! They
can! Say "No!"
5. Family love, education, self-esteem
(pride), and a belief in a power greater
Up for Discussion
than self (spiritual) are the best weapons
against drugs. Say "No!"
1) How do your peers affect the decisions
you make in life? Can you think of some
6. When it comes to their health, kids think
examples in which your friends influenced
they're "bullet proof." They're not! Say
your behavior?
"No!"
2) What does "peer pressure" mean to
7. WARNING! Drug use can start at any
you? What is an example of positive peer
age. Say "No!"
pressure?
8. Teenagers often say, "It can't happen to
3) How do you feel when someone asks
me." Wrong! There are an estimated 3.3
you to do something you don't want to do?
million adolescent alcoholics in this nation.
4) Can you think of famous people who
Say "No!"
were able to resist peer pressure and forge
9. When kids sell drugs, they are already
their own way? (Cesar Chavez, leader of
drug addicts themselves. Say "No!"
the United Farm Workers of America, Susan
B. Anthony, head of the suffrage movement
10. Drinking and drugs (marijuana, etc.)
to give women the right to vote.)
don't mix. They can be a deadly combin-
ation. Say "No!"
Related Activities
11. "Designer" drugs are extremely
1) Have students role-play a situation in
dangerous, and very addictive-Sometimes
which they are pressured by friends to do
1,000 times more potent than heroin.
something they don't want to do.
Say "No!"
2) Have students cite examples from
12. A very high percentage of adolescents
history or from the newspaper of
who "just have a beer or two" can quickly
situations in which people said "no." Also
become addicted to alcohol. Say "No!"
collect examples of positive peer influence.
David's Nightmare
Background: During adolescence, with
YEAH!, YOU'RE CHICKEN!
OH! so YA THINK
COME ON, THE STUFF'S
major physical, social, and psychological
YOU'RE COOL?
REAL GOOD!
changes, there are pressures and induce-
/ BET YOU'RE
ments to test new behaviors, to rebel, and
SCARED!
NO!
to identify with other people of similar ages
going through similar experiences. Peer
pressure, such as David's, may be too much
for some.
Peer influence is the dominant factor for
many teenagers' decisions to experiment
with drugs. But the pull of the peer group
DAVID KNEW THEY DID DRUGS, BUT THEY NEVER
APPROACHED HIM BEFORE.
is not enough without other factors.
Research indicates that young people who
don't have the trust of their parents are
more susceptible to group pressures, are
more likely to feel lonely, and may be more
inclined to use drugs.
The Body Chart
Background: "Drugs: A Deadly Game!" was
prepared to illustrate graphically to stu-
Marijuana
Alcohol
weed
dents the short- and long-term effects of
I
drugs on the body. Hang this chart on the
wall and occasionally turn it over and
review the questions and answers on the
lears
back.
The concept of "long-term effects" may be
the hardest idea to convey to junior and
I
I
senior high school students, for whom life
is so immediate. Traditional drug abuse
CO
programs fail, notes one expert, because
of their emphasis on hazards that may
occur in the future; they do not take into
curab
account the present orientation of most
Amphetamines
adolescents. At the same time, it's impor-
Cocaine
tant to emphasize that what feels OK today,
FACT
may, over a period of time, be harmful, that
the cumulative effect can be very harmful.
Tars from cigarettes and marijuana smoke,
over time, have produced tumors in labo-
ratory animals; cocaine, over time, destroys
the nasal passages; alcohol abuse, over
time, eats away at the liver.
Cocaine
Marijuana
Cocaine, in its pure form, is a white crys-
Marijuana is the common name for a crude
talline powder extracted from the leaves
drug made from the plant Cannabis sativa.
of the South American coca plant. The drug
The main mind-altering (psychoactive)
sold on the street is a mixture of the pure
ingredient in marijuana is THC, but more
substance (cocaine hydrochloride) and
than 400 other chemicals also are in the
various adulterants added to increase the
plant.
quantity. The drug is inhaled or "snorted."
Or, in another form that can be smoked,
Prevalence: 54 percent of high school
drug users "freebase"- an especially dan-
seniors have tried it, but since 1981 the
gerous practice. The use of cocaine is risky
numbers have been decreasing.
in all forms, and risks increase with the
amount and frequency of use. When
Short-term effects: Relaxation, euphoria,
smoked, large doses reach the brain within
increased appetite, alteration of time per-
seconds. When snorted, even small
ception, heightened mood (positive or neg-
amounts of cocaine in sensitive persons
ative), acute panic anxiety reaction,
may be enough to cause convulsions that
increased heart rate (by as much as 50
can result in heart and respiratory failure,
percent).
and death.
Long-term effects: With regular marijuana
Prevalence: By their senior year, 17 per-
use, there is a loss of motivation and
cent of high school students have tried
impairment in thinking, reading compre-
cocaine.
hension, and verbal and mathematical
skills. Research shows that students do not
Short-term effects: When cocaine is
remember what they have learned when
"snorted," the pupils are dilated, blood
they are "high." Heavy use depresses the
pressure, heart rate, breathing rate, and
production of sperm, contributes to lung
body temperature all increase within a few
cancer, and contributes to depression.
minutes and peak in 15 to 20 minutes. This
wears off in 30 minutes and the user feels
Addictive? Long-term regular users of
depressed.
marijuana may become psychologically
dependent, needing more to get the same
Long-term effects: Restlessness, depres-
effect and viewing the drug as the most
sion, insomnia, sexual indifference, sinus
important thing in their life. Often referred
irritation, and an inability to socialize
to as a gateway drug. Stronger drug usage
normally.
usually follows.
Addictive? Yes. Research shows that an
addicted animal will prefer cocaine to food,
Alcohol
even if starved. Addicts who don't get it
Alcohol, like cigarettes, receives less media
may be severely depressed and fatigued.
attention than other drugs, but is by far
Those who become addicted to cocaine
the most widespread drug problem in this
never thought they would. Some cocaine
country and costs us the most in lives. Bill
habits cost $200 to $3,000 weekly plus dam-
Gregory, spokesman for the National Insti-
aged health, career, and personal life.
tute on Alcohol Abuse, told one reporter
DRUGS: A DEADLY GAME
A youth-oriented, full-color, 18-page booklet is available
that includes testimonials from young role models, as well
DRUGS:
A
Deadly
as a comic book story entitled, "David's Nightmare," which
DANGEROUS
focuses on peer pressure. Medical information is provided
GAME!
and a fold-out chart of the human body depicting the harmful
effects of drugs, both physical and mental, is included.
Comments from former President and Mrs. Reagan are an added
bonus.
A teacher's guide is available as a companion piece. It
provides suggested topics for review and discussion.
A 16-minute videotape shows role models saying "No" to drugs
and graphically depicts what happens to the human body when
drugs are abused.
A 23" X 32" full-color body chart poster that explains the
short- and long-term damage that can occur when drugs are
abused.
23" x 32"
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DRUGS: A DEADLY GAME
In 1987, The Boy Scouts of America launched a major effort aimed at educating
the public about the dangers of drug use. The campaign, "Drugs: A Deadly Game,"
is directed toward all segments of the community. It focuses especially on
youth, whether or not they are involved in Scouting.
The tragedy of drug abuse must be met head-on. Our youth are our most precious
resource. We must convince them to just say "No" to drugs.
As of January 1989, the BSA had distributed:
7,380,819 Brochures
5,428 Videotapes
272,036 Teacher's Guides
45,232 Posters
Boy Scouts of America was awarded a Presidential Citation for Private Sector
Initiatives, one of thirty awarded in 1988.
potent than heroin. Say 'No!'
are sometimes 1,000 times more
Institute, Smyrna, Ga. "Designer drugs
doctor writes a prescription for."
Programs (CADS) in the Ridgeview
perfectly safe drug-even the drugs a
Adolescent Chemical Dependence
Abuse. "There is no such thing as a
the program director of the Adult and
tor of the National Institute on Drug
G. Douglas Talbott, M.D., serves as
Charles R. Shuster, Ph.D., is direc-
ON, me,
always be glad that you did."
around with any kind of drugs. I tell
down-hinder your performance."
chicken, so I stay away. Say 'No!' You'll
today. I don't smoke, drink, or fool
in my life. All drugs will do is pull you
thing because I'm afraid I'm
worked too hard to get where I am
drugs. Drugs have never played a part
a hit off a joint. I've never done any-
his 97-mile-per-hour fastball. "I've
rookie year. "Personally I don't use
"Happy Days." "I've never even taken
Cy Young Award, he is a legend with
ing and breaking records since his
Chachi Arcola on the TV sitcom
the Boston Red Sox. A winner of the
Washington Redskins, has been mak-
since he was 9. He is best known as
Roger Clemens, 23, star pitcher for
Art Monk, 29, wide receiver for the
Scott Baio, 26, has been an actor
12
An Educational Program for Youth
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Public Relations
1325 Walnut Hill Lane
P.O. Box 152079, Irving, Texas 75015-2079
Telephone 214-580-2000
FACT SHEET
DRUGS: A DEADLY GAME
PURPOSE
In 1987, the Boy Scouts of America launched a major effort aimed at educating the pub-
lic about the dangers of drug abuse. The campaign, "Drugs: A Deadly Game," is direc-
ted toward all segments of the community. It focuses especially on youth, whether or
not they are involved in Scouting.
NATIONAL
Drug abuse is a serious problem that affects the well-being of our society as well as
PROBLEM
its future. It is a national scourge in every respect.
Statistics indicate that American teenagers use more drugs than those of any other devel-
oped nation. These studies show that more than 60 percent of high school seniors have
tried drugs, 26 percent have smoked marijuana, and 6 percent use cocaine at least once
every month. Today, one out of every six 13-year-olds has tried marijuana.
BSA
The BSA has long been concerned about drug abuse, especially as it affects our nation's
INVOLVEMENT
youth. In 1987, the BSA, along with other youth-serving agencies, was invited to the White
House and challenged to address the drug problem head-on. This was the impetus of
the "Drugs: A Deadly Game" program. For its efforts, the BSA was awarded the Presi-
dent's Citation for Private Sector Initiatives in 1988.
IMPLEMENTATION
A list of available materials follows. These materials, all under the title "Drugs: A Deadly
Game," were prepared with support from Coca-Cola USA, Champion International Corp.,
and the National Eagle Scout Association.
A youth-oriented, full-color, 18-page booklet is available that includes testimonials
from young role models, as well as a comic book story entitled "David's Nightmare,"
which focuses on peer pressure. Medical information is provided and a fold-out chart
of the human body depicting the harmful effects of drugs, both physical and mental,
is included. Comments from former President and Mrs. Reagan are an added bonus.
A teacher's guide is available as a companion piece. It provides suggested topics for
review and discussion.
A booklet directed toward parents and Scout leaders includes information on recog-
nizing the signs of drug abuse, what parents and Scouting units can do, and where to
turn for help. (This booklet is also available in Spanish.)
A 16-minute videotape shows role models saying "No" to drugs, and graphically depicts
what happens to the human body when drugs are abused.
A 23" X 32" full-color body chart poster that explains the short- and long-term dam-
age that can occur when drugs are abused is also available. (This chart is also avail-
able in Spanish.)
A public service announcement (PSA) that features basketball superstar Dr. Julius
Erving is available. In this PSA, he shares the mesage, "Drugs don't make sense." The
PSA is available in 60-second and 30-second versions from the Public Relations Service.
Campaign lapel pins and body chart stickers are also available.
DISTRIBUTION
As of January 1989, the BSA had distributed:
7,380,819 brochures
5,428 videotapes
4,881 parent/leader booklets
272,036 teacher's guides
45,232 posters
587 public service announcements
ORDERING
Orders may be sent to: Drug Abuse Task Force, S200, Boy Scouts of America, 1325
Walnut Hill Lane, P.O. Box 152079, Irving, TX 75015-2079.
No. 2-574
1989 Printing
PRESIDENT'S CITATION PROGRAM FOR PRIVATE SECTOR INITIATIVES
The President of the United States of America
Awards this
CITATION
To
"Drugs: A Deadly Game"
" program of
Boy Scouts of America
Champion International
Coca Cola, USA
for outstanding service to the community
and finding
innovative private solutions to public problems
The White House
Washington. D.C.
Ronald Reagon
September 20. 1088
William P. Casey
Executive Vice President
Bottler Operations
Coca-Cola USA
Division of
The Coca-Cola Company
February 12, 1987
TO: U.S. Bottlers of Coca-Cola
Last week, I wrote to you concerning one of the most exciting and important
community service, public education, and promotional activities ever launched in
the area of drug abuse awareness.
With national support from The Coca-Cola Foundation and Coca-Cola USA,
The Boy Scouts of America today launched "Drugs: A Deadly Game" via a major
news conference at the National Press Club in Washington. BSA's 408 U.S. councils
were simultaneously notified earlier in the week.
Now, it's time for your involvement in what is the most multi-faceted, anti-drug
educational programs ever developed. This effort potentially reaches into every
community organization. A key objective is to place the enclosed drug awareness
color brochure into the hands of every young person in America.
As a start, here's what we've worked out with the Scouts in terms of initial
distribution, reaching up to 8 million youngsters and adults.
4 million Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, and Explorers.
1.2 million Scout leaders and parents.
7.5 million subscribers to Boy's Life Magazine (March Insert) and 1.9 million
readers of Scouting Magazine (March-April issue).
With your help, local councils can now extend this reach to millions of other
Americans, young and old, via civic and community groups, religious and fraternal
organizations, and public and private school systems.
Enclosed are suggestions for cooperative programs with local councils.
We know you've seen and may have been involved in other anti-drug programs.
We truly believe this is a very special one because it brings together the strengths of
local councils with local Bottlers throughout America. It also has all of the honor and
patriotism with which Coca-Cola is traditionally associated. We hope you'll agree this
is a significant effort.
Please contact your local Boy Scout council as soon as possible or expect a call
from them. If you have questions, please contact Coca-Cola USA Public Affairs
Programs -- Rob Martin, 404/676-3702, or Bob Longenecker, 404/676-2691.
Best wishes, and thanks.
Bill Casey
P.C. 173-
Atlanta
404 676-20
THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
D. 132.310
FEB 18 1987
BURRELLE'S
Boy Scouts to wage anti-drug fight
The Indianapolis News
Boy Scouts of America is initiating a
nationwide campaign aimed at fighting drug
abuse, says Ben H. Love, chief scout execu-
Eagles dinner Thursday
tive of the national organization.
More than 300 Eagle Scouts are expected
Love will speak about the campaign.
to attend a "Gathering of the Eagles" din-
called "Drugs, a Deadly Game," during a
ner at the Indiana Roof Ballroom Thursday.
visit to Indianapolis Thursday. He will make
The dinner is a part of the Crossroads of
his address to a gathering of 300 Eagle
America Council, Boy Scouts of America,
Scouts.
anniversary celebration.
"This is not a program that we will hit
the media with and then let die," Love said
of the anti-drug platform. "It is something
we will incorporate into all facets of our
Those characteristics were expected to
program."
keep the Scouts "physically strong. mental-
Information about the campaign will be
ly awake and morally straight," according
distributed to Scouts in the March issue of
to the Scout Oath. But now the leaders of
Boys Life magazine. Individual Scout troops
Scouts are doing more than speaking about
will discuss the material. and each Scout is
good things. They are actively speaking out
encouraged to discuss drug abuse with his
about the many problems confronting
parents.
young people.
"It will be part of a our total program
"These are problems that impact all of
that teaches young people to be aware of
society." Love said. "We are doing this
drugs and how to say no," he said.
because of the need for us to do everything
Love also will address the problems of
we can to improve the environment in
illiteracy. child abuse and teen unemploy-
which young people are growing up."
ment during his speech.
Love said the drug program is targeted at
"I will be speaking about things we have
all young people, not just Scouts. He said
identified as unacceptable in society today."
the material will be made available to other
he said. "In Scouts, we help people estab-
interested youthforganizations.
lish values that permit them to make ethi-
"That is the thing that really make us
cal choices throughout their life."
excited." he said.
For many years, Boy Scout leaders have
The material was written with the "con-
sought to teach young men basic qualities
sultation of the best experts in the coun-
of trustworthiness, loyalty, bravery and rev-
try," Love said. The program is funded with
Ben H. Love
erence.
the assistance of the Coca-Cola Co.
Will visit here Thursday
THE NEW YORK TIMES. THUR DAY, MARCH 12, 1987
However, in 1987, Reebok has moved
strongly out In front. And now that It
Advertising
Is acquiring the Avia Group Interna-
Philip H. Dougherty
tional, which is more performance-
oriented than fashion-oriented, II will
be hard to keep up without the proper
shoes.
2 More P.&G. Products
The commercial will appear, BC-
Air-Sole
confing In Ms Hale, on network and
To Slater, Hanft, Martin
spot television, as well MR on cable,
New Publisher Named
where Nike already has a position in
Slater, Hanft, Martin, already A
Introduced
ESPN basketball games. Four other
At Working Mother
Procter & Gamble agency, has picked
spots will be coming along. each of
up two more products, Dramamine
Carol Evans, 34 years old, will be
which will feature a different shoe -
and Icy Hot. The former Is a motion
taking over the publisher's job at
walking, basketball, all purpose and
sickness product, the latter a pain-re-
By Nike
Working Mother magazine when
children's.
lieving ointment. Already at the
Raymond Eyes retires at the end of
The air time purchased will be
agency in Percogesic, an aspirin free
the month.
almed at reaching more women dur-
pain reliever. Billings for the prod-
Ing the week and more men during
Ms. Evans, who became a working
ucts were not disclosed.
HE first team from Nike was In
mother herself only this year, has
Needham Harper Worldwide had
T
weekend sports programming. The
town yesterday from Beaver-
time hasn't been bought yet, but a
been the magazine's advertising di-
given up the amamine account last
ton, Ore., bringing word of revo-
media representative from Nike's
rector since 1982. She joined Working
June, while Icy Hot was last at
lution and making plans to spread it.
agency, Weeden & Kennedy in Port-
Mother's sales team in Chicago In
Tatham Laird & Kudner. Recently
What you consider a revolution and
1978, the year It was started. Previ-
land, Ore. is negotating now in New
the products have been without agen-
what Philip H. Knight, the president
York.
ously she was with American Home
cles.
and chairman of the athletic shoe
In addition to the video advertising.
magazine.
The brands were the property of
company, considers a revolution may
there will be a magazine campaign
G. D. Searle & Company and are now
not be the same. But at least Cindy
featuring, for starters, an eight-page
handled by Procter's Richardson-
Hale, the ad manager of Nike, agrees
Insert that starts off: "Nike-Air is not
Wunderman to Handle
Vicks.
with the boes.
a shoe. It's a revolution."
"We saw in the late 1970's what we
The Insert has already appeared In
New Optima Card
Boy's Life Distributes
thought was the running revolution,
Runner's World and will next appear
Now that American Express has
but it wasn't," Mr. Knight said, "It
In April or May in Sports Illustrated,
Anti-Drug Kits
was the first shot of a fitness revolu-
revealed the existence of 118 new Op
People, Rolling Stone, Gentlemen's
tion."
Quarterly, Glamour, Mademoiselle
time card, it in possible to reveal that
Boy's Life magazine, the official
This year's revolution is the new
Its agency for the Introduction is
publication of the Boy Scouts of
and Esquire. The same publications
Air-Sole air-cushioned shoe, which
Wunderman, Ricotta & Kline, the
America, has, with a financial assist
will get later ads on individual
Nike will be offer this year In 11
models of shoes.
Young & Rubicam direct-marketing
from Coca-Cola and Champion Inter-
models. According to an ad that ran
Both the first commercial and the
specialty agency.
national, printed and distributed 5.2.
That in Itsell tells you there will be
million kits 10 help in the war on
In the February Issue of Runner's
Insert feature the Max Air model, the
only one of the new lineup to have a
a little something different about the
drugs. They have gone to the scouts
World, II is "a special gas, pressur-
Ized inside a tough, flexible, urethane
see-through heel. It is quite distinc-
campaign. II will be via direct mail
and adults connected with scouting.
instead of the usual broadcast and
Now the magazine is anxious to en-
skin" that "provides a spring-like
tive
cushtoning."
Nike's total ad budget la about $22
print onslaught one expects from new
large the distribution to many more
To spread the word of this Innova-
credit cards.
young people and is scouting for spon-
million, but another $40 million or 80
tion, Nike plans to spend $7 million
Since the client already has the list
sors.
Is being put Into promotional activi-
of all of Its card holders to work from,
for advertising from late March
ties and endorsements. Nike has 350
direct mail can make for an exqui-
through mid-May. The majority will
to 400 athletes in Its stable of such
sitely pinpointed marketing effort.
be spent in television, starting with a
loyal (and sometimes paid) wearers,
There has been trade talk that this
60-second commercial of the black-
Ms. Hale said.
could be a $15 million to $20 million
and-white documentary genre in
According to Mark Sullivan, the
advertising campaign.
which ordinary health nuts appear
editor of Sports Style, a trade publica-
with such stare as Michael Jordan of
tion, factory sales of athletic wear
basketball and John McEnroe of ten-
were about $2.5 billion last year,
nis in a variety of sports Including
which he translated loosely to $4 bil.
barefoot swimming.
lion nt retail.
And they do it all to the accompani-
While Nike was the market leader
ment of the Beatles singing "Revolu-
from 1980 through 1985, Reebok caine
tion." It marks the "first time in ad-
In with its more-fashion-than-per-
vertising history that an original Bra-
formance-oriented footwear and
iles group recording has been
moved steadily up on Nike Last year,
licensed for use in a relevision cam-
Mr. Sullivan said, each had about 23
palgn," Nike said In a statement.
to 25 percent share of the market
IEDIA NOTES
'Ms.' to Celèbrate Anniversary With New Look
By Noreen O'Leary and Barry Hochfelder
NEW YORK-Some 20 years ago, an edi-
tor at a well-established women's maga-
zine described to Gloria Steinem target
female readers: "mental defectives with
curlers in their hair." So it must be with
sweet revenge that Steinem-with her
trademark long, straight hair-is getting
ready to pop the corks on the 15th anni-
versary of proving them wrong.
Ms. will celebrate its 15th year of pub-
lishing with a special July/August double
issue. And in September, the magazine
will launch a bolder, redesigned format
and logo plus regular editorial features
Barr (left), Steinem celebrate Ms.'s birthday.
that focus on areas like entrepreneurs,
personal style and the "new family."
"We're a news magazine, SO we change as the world changes," says Steinem, one of
Ms.' founding editors. "In our first years of publishing we spent much of our time writing
about the problems. We felt there was no understanding of what it was like to be a wom-
an on Wall Street or a welfare mother
Now in the last several years we've been able
to report more on solutions."
The anniversary issue will draw on that past as well as speculate about the future. Ms.
is planning personal accounts and reflections of the past 15 years; "Lists of 15" that mark
the period's high and low points; and predictions, like "Signs of Intelligent Life in the
Universe in the Year 2002," a piece by Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner.
The magazine is offering advertisers a triple-issue discount if they buy the July/
August, September and October issues.
"We're saving to advertisers that we really believe in this relaunch and we want you in
the book," says Helen Barr, Ms. advertising director.
Ms.' rate base is normally 450,000. An additional 100,000 copies will be printed for the
July/August issue and 30,000 extra for September and October. Advertising for the anni-
versary issue closes April 24. Single-issue rates are $12,485 for a 4/C full page and
$9,290 for B&W.
MAGAZINES
Coca-Cola and Champion International. In
The March issue of Boys' Life, the publi-
addition to being bound into the March is-
cation of the Boy Scouts of America, con-
sue for the 1.3-million Boys' Life subscrib-
tains an anti-drug section sponsored by
ers, the booklet is being distributed to ev-
ery Boy Scout and Cub Scout.
The May 3 issue of the Washington
Post Magazine will include the 1987
Spring Home + Design issue. Close:
April 3. Rates: $13,595 (B&W); $17,195
(4/C). The June 28 issue will be a special
issue devoted to "The Constitution To-
day." It will commemorate the 200th an-
niversary of the U.S. Constitution. Close:
May 29. Rates: same as above.
Family Computing will raise its circu-
Ron
lation rate base 3.6% to 435,000 effective
Wilkerson:
with the June issue. It is the magazine's
Eagle Scout
sixth increase in its three years of publish-
ing. Ad rates will increase 9% with the
pues
June issue. New rates: $10,620 (B&W);
Freestyle
$11,990 (4/C).
Superstar
Metrocorp, the Philadelphia publishing
consortium that owns Boston Magazine,
Philadelphia Magazine and Manhattan,
Boys' Life battles drugs.
inc., has purchased Atlanta Magazine
Fri, March 13. 1987, Denver, Colo. Rocky Mountain News-83
Scouts sends anti-drug message
nization. More than 6.5 million copies of
By BILL HUSTED
tonio Smith, a member of the Young
the 16-page booklet have been printed,
Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer
Astronauts program; skier Julie Parisien;
with more on order. Through the sponsor-
and Washington Redskin Art Monk).
ship of Coca-Cola USA and Champion In-
Boys' Life magazine, the official publi-
ternational Corp., BSA officials say they
"We didn't want to use recovered drug
cation of the Boy Scouts of America, is
hope to distribute the full-color brochure
users," Young says. "Kids can get the
hiking down a new trail.
to every young person in America. The
feeling that they can take drugs and sur-
Once the safe campground for stories
project began last year when President
vive. We want to show that people can be
on scouting, canoeing and knot-tying, its
and Nancy Reagan asked the BSA to help
successful without using drugs."
March issue faces America's drug prob-
combat drug use.
The booklet also includes drug infor-
lem head-on. A hard-hiting, pullout bro-
"Scouting has a tradition of stepping in
mation from two doctors, a centerfold of
chure titled Drugs: A Deadly Game is in
and helping," says Young, in Denver to
the human body showing what damage
all 1.5 million copies.
discuss distributing the booklet with local
and effects drugs have on specific organs,
In addition to Boys' Life subscribers,
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. executives. "We
a five-page comic strip about a drug-
the booklet will go to all active Boy
thought the magazine was the perfect
related nightmare, and a message from
Scouts and Cub Scouts, scouting volun-
format to get the message across that
the Reagans.
teers and parents of scouts.
drugs are deadly, there is no such thing as
"Some traditionalist parents believe
recreational use."
The booklets are available to schools
that we shouldn't be addressing this top-
Young says that drug use is not specifi-
and youth organizations, either free
ic," says Warren Young, publisher of
cally a problem in scouting today. "I
(through sponsorship of local organiza-
Boys' Life. "They say that we are being
would be naive to think that no Boy Scout
tions) or for a small charge to cover
too realistic. They want their sons to be
has ever used drugs. But it is by no means
costs. Along with the booklets, BSA has
reading about camping and hiking -
an epidemic. This program is preventa-
prepared a teachers' manual and a 16-
that's why they put their kids in scouting.
tive, and it goes beyond scouting."
minute video tape of "superstars" saying
But we have to help the scout understand
"no" to drugs.
the problems he will encounter growing
DENNIS SCHROEDER/Special to the News
up."
The booklet features anti-drug mes-
For information on the booklet, write:
Warren Young, publisher of Boys' Life, says
The brochure is part of an ambitious
sages from five positive role models (ac-
Drug Abuse Task Force S200, Boy Scouts
anti-drug campaign mounted by the orga-
tors Scott Baio and Peter Billingsley; An-
of America, 1325 Walnut Hill Lane. Irving,
the magazine was the perfect format to get
Texas 75038-3096.
the message accross that drugs are deadly.
SAN DIEGO EVENING TRIBUNE
Be prepared - use Boy Scout materials to educate about drugs
Q. am à teacher in a middle
"The country is in the midst of a
and amphetamines
affect various
school: I'm using this summer to pre-
serious drug epidemic," be adds.
organs of the body.
pare a health unit for my students
"Taking drugs is not just dangerous,
The teacher's guide contains short
The materials are
next fall.
it is deadly.
takes with concise information on
designed for
Can you please tell me where I can
The materials are designed for use
the prevalence, short-term effects,
get information (and how much it
within sconting and for use by
long-term effects and addictive po-
scouting, schools,
will cost) for young people that will
schools, community agencies and
tential of each of these drugs In ad-
community
acquaint them with the harmful ef-
others as well. They include a 16-
dition; a student activity work sheet
feets of drug abuse? Thank you.
minute video, an 18-page booklet and
STRAIGHT
is included that contains a true-or-
agencies and
a teacher's guide.
TALK
false quiz and Information about how
others as well
A. Some of the best I've seen is
The video shows what happens to
to start a peer counseling programs
contained in a new set of materials
the body when drugs are used and
BY SUE RUSCHE
The material. was underwritten
prepared by the Boy Scouts of Amer-
depicts role models saying no to
with support from, Coca-Cola USA
Order from the Drug Abuse Task
ica. The organization has undertaken
drugs. These Include 15-year-old U.S.
and Champion International Corp.
Force, S200, Boy Scouts of America,
a massive national campaign to spur
Olympic women's junior slalom
director of the Adult and Adolescent
The booklet has been distributed free
young and old alike, in and out of
1325 Walnut Hill Lane, Irving, Texas,
champion Julie Parisien; actor Scott
Chemical Dependence Programs at
of charge to all of the Boy Scouts' 4
75038-3096.
scouting, to say no to drugs.
Baio, 26, of the TV situation comedy
Ridgeview Institute in Atlanta, pro-
million youth members.
"We are seeing kids - only 9, 10 or
"Happy Days"; 15 year-old Peter
vide medical information about drug
Kits containing one video, five
Sue Rusche, author and national
11 years old - playing a deadly
Billingsly of NBC-TV's "Real Peo-
effects.
teacher's guides and 100 booklets are
authority on drug abuse, answers
game of Russian roulette with their
ple"; Boston Red Sox pitcher Roger
Of particular interest to you for
available at cost to non-Scout groups
questions from readers in her col-
hearts, their livers, and, in particu-
Clemens and others.
your health unit is a spectacular
and individuals for $32. The video
umn. Write to her in care of The Tri-
lar, with that most marvelous and
Charles R. Shuster, Ph.D., director
fold-out chart of the human body. It
may be ordered separately for $16,
bune, P.O. Box 191, San Diego 92112.
delicate organ, their brains," says
of the U.S. National Institute on Drug
shows how each of five drugs - CO-
as may the package of teacher's
Chief Scout Executive Ben H. Love.
Abuse, and Dr. G. Douglas Talbott,
caine, marijuana, alcohol, tobacco
guides and booklets, also for $16.
King Features Syndicate Inc.
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, Tuesday, April 14, 1987
not
-
LAME
SUN-TIMES Rich Hein
Warren Young holds a new poster that shows the areas of
the human body that drugs can fatally strike.
Anti-drug poster
makes graphic point
By K. O. Dawes
Boys' Life. the official mag-
SAYNO!
azine of Boy Scouting, has
published its first centerfold—
TO DRUGS
not the girlie kind, but graphic
nonetheless.
Chicago Times / WLS-TV 0
The three-page. full-color
pullout poster is an anatomi-
March mailing of Boys' Life
cally explicit diagram of the
and Exploring, another Scout
damage that drugs can do to
publication. Although they
the human. body-whether in
feature a girl skier and show a
the brain, blood vessels, heart,
supportive mother in the com.
liver or sex organs.
ic strip. they primarily are
The Boy Scouts of America
aimed at males.
committed $1 million to the
The star attraction is the
anti-drug campaign it hopes
poster-size body chart. said
will have a major impact on
Young.
every family in America, said
"Kids are really interested
J. Warren Young, publisher of
in processes and are fascinated
Boys' Life.
by seeing what can happen" as
So far, more than 8 million
a result of drugs. he said.
16-page brochures containing
The body chart deals with
the centerfold have been dis-
the effects of marijuana, alco.
tributed to 4 million Scouts
hol, tobacco, cocaine and am-
and 1.5 million Scout leaders,
phetamines, as well as inhal-
other youth groups and maga-
ing fumes from gasoline and
zine subscribers.
other fluids.
Titled "Drugs: a Deadly
"We're helping the kids
Game," the brochures feature
know why they must say 'no'
young athletes and entertain-
to drugs,' he said.
ers saying "no to drugs." They
A teacher's guide and a vi.
also have a five-page comic
deocassette also are available
strip about peer pressure on a
The material has been free to
child to use drugs and a relat-
Scouts but is available for a
ed nightmare to illustrate the
fee to others from Drug Task
"Say No" message to younger
Force S200, Box Scouts of
children.
America, 1325 Walnut Hill
They were part of the
Ln., Irving, Texas 75084-3096.
The Post-Register, Idaho Falls, Idaho, Sunday, April 19, 1987
Dont' Miss It!! Come and Join in this Big Event
and say "NO" to Drugs
DRUGS: DEADLY
A Dangerous Game
RALLY
Tuesday, April 21 - 7 p.m.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
Bonneville High School Gymnasium
Guest Appearances by:
3165 E. lona Road, Idaho Falls
ADMISSION FREE
The General Public is invited in addition to the following:
Cub Scout
Boy Scout
Varsity Scout
Packs
Troops
Teams
Explorer Posts
Girls of
School Groups
GOVERNOR
JASON BUCK
Corresponding
CECIL ANDRUS
Defensive tacks
be
to
the
the
ages and leaders
to
of
your
to
and
sum
right
.
Mor.
Community Organizations and Leaders
who
THIS WILL BE THE LARGEST DRUG AWARENESS
RALLY EVER HELD IN THE STATE OF IDAHO
The "Drugs-A Deadly Game" Rally has been organized by the Teton Peaks Council,
Boy Scouts of America. with assistance and cooperation by the United Way of Idaho
Falls and Bonneville County, Just Say NO. Inc. High On Life - NOI Drugs and Alcohol,
Be Smart Don't Start and other supporting groups
Here is a list of the other outstanding
JENNIFER HOVEY
VICKI HOFFMAN
are
1680
Mrss
U
entertainment features for Tuesday evening:
IC
the
MISS
of
She
Mign
School
De
She
name
to
Ideac
the
A full Court of Beauty Queens will perform a "Kisses for Commitment" Ceremony
Miss
Bance
She
Marine Corps Dressage Unit
Cheerleading Competition
young
and
commening
-
i
she
VICA
atoportant
to
NO
NOT
Siam Dunk Against Drugs featuring Steve Hayes Utah Jazz. Clint Bean and Kenny Anderson
i
from Ricks College: Don Holston and Rodney Harris, ISU.
MAURICE ELLSWORTH
PHIL MOON
Inter-School Bano with over 100 members
Safety Kids
appointed
United
for
ON
Page
not
Fiame
scanc
by
President
1985
he
-
federal
enforcement
check
Fremont
Migh
School
Slaw
are
13
of
the
1988
loans
Broadcasiers
Association
and
FREE SOFT DRINKS
CANDY KISSES
General Rally Chairman - Dane Wathins
Come early and linger atterwards 10 have a tree son
Rally Program Produced by - Dennis Stoddard and Rex Johns
drink courtesy of
will be provided courtesy of
Cola Bottling Company
Farr Candy Company
This Important Message is brought to you by the following firms
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April 22, 1987
Copyright 1987. The Post-Register
SAY
DI
A CROWD PACKS the Bonneville High School gymnasium Tuesday
Boy Scouts to build anti-drug sentiment among youths. The gym's
Saying no to drugs
might for a "Drugs - A Deadly Game" rally. Organizers estimated
normal capacity is 5,000. Story and more photos, Page A-2. (Post
8,000 attended the event sponsored by the Teton Peaks Council of the
Register/Monte LaOrange)
Gov. Cecil Andrus receives candy kiss from Miss Idaho Jennifer Hovey.
(Post-Register/Monte LaOrange)
Cub Scout Weston Marshall heeds anti-drug messages.
Scouts' anti-drug rally draws overflow crowd
By DAVE FIELDS
Post-Register staff wither
An Idaho Falls anti-drug rally ad-
'The message is clear,
vertised as the largest ever held in
idaho pulled in several thousand
drugs lead to crime,
more participants than expected
Tuesday night.
crime leads to prison
The "Drugs - A Deadly Game"
and, in too many
rally at Bonneville High School
attracted a crowd ranging in esti-
instances, drugs lead to
mates from 6,500-8,000 people. The
injury and death.'
overflow crowd filled the school's
gymnasium, where for 1 //4-hours they
- Gov. Cecil Andrus
listened to testimonials from digni-
taries and athletes, watched a "slam
dunk against drugs" competition,
Idaho's state penitentiary, 85 percent
and participated in anti-drug cheers.
have used drugs.
The purpose of the rally was to
convince youths to say "no" to
"The message is clear, drugs lead
drugs, and rally chairman Dane Wat-
to crime, crime leads to prison and,
kins said that the event was the
in too many instances, drugs lead to
impetus needed to get "everybody
injury and death." he said.
together" against drug abuse.
The loudest cheers from the audi-
"I think that this is going to have
ence were for Buck, a South Fremont
a positive influence in the Upper
High School and Ricks College prod-
Snake River Valley," he said.
uct. The BYU senior was selected
The rally was so successful that
this year as the top lineman in the
organizers may consider making it
country, receiving the prestigious
an annual event, he said.
Outland Trophy.
It was initiated and organized by
Athletes have a "great opportu-
the Boy Scouts of America's Teton
nity" to be role models for the rest of
Peaks Council in cooperation with
the country, he said. Unfortunately,
other drug awareness groups. It was
many have spurned the chance by
part of a national BSA drug aware-
resorting to drugs. he said.
ness program.
The varied, quick-paced program
The deaths of professional football
mixed live and taped anti-drug testi-
player Don Rogers and college bas-
monials from dignitaries and celebri-
ketball player Len Bias should have
ties with anti-drug cheers led area
underlined to others the dangers of
cheerleaders.
drug abuse, but there are still many
Dignitaries included Gov. Cecil
that have not listened. Buck said.
Andrus, U.S. Attorney Maurice Ells-
"You don't need it," he said. "I
worth, Brigham Young University
am very fortunate to be recognized
Football star Jason Buck speaks out against drugs.
football standout Jason Buck, former
as the best lineman in the country
professional basketball player Steve
this year and I acheived this by never
Hayes, Miss Idaho Jennifer Hovey
using drugs."
The mostly teen-aged audience
drugs to friends and acquaintances
8,000. Gary Higley, Bonneville High
and Miss Idaho-USA Vicki Hoff-
He challenged eastern Idaho
participated eagerly in anti-drug
who did not attend the rally.
School principal, said that the gym-
cheers and listened respectfully to
man.
youth 10 develop peer pressure
"I think this will really help a lot of
nasium had a capacity of about 5,000
comments by the dignitaries.
Andrus, who called the nation's
against drug abuse and to set an
people who are kind of intermediate,
people. Another 1,500 occupied the
"This will make them think about
drug problem a plague, said that he
example for others.
kids who are in between saying 'yes'
adjacent commons area, he said.
(drugs) before they make a decision,"
flew in from Boise to lend his sup-
"You can make it a cool thing by
and 'no,' said Jeff Herring. 16, an
People came from 12 counties
said Mark Avery, 15, & Bonneville
not using drugs,' he said. "Do it.
Idaho Falls High School student.
port 10 the rally's efforts.
from as far away as Salmon, and
High School student.
An estimated 40 percent of those
The multi-media rally included
The turnout was so large that
Jackson, Wyo.
"I wasn't interested (in drugs)
arrested in Idaho have used drugs or
taped testimonials against drugs by
many were turned away at the door,
Follow-up drug awareness meet-
before, but 1 know now that I will
Watkins said. A commons area at the
alcohol. he said. Meanwhile, 40 per-
Ronald Reagan. television personali-
ings will be held among Teton Peaks
never tough the stuff," said Merrill
ties, and a U.S. Olympic hopeful.
high school used for overflow and
cent of all automobile accidents
Council units. Harold Hillam, coun-
Morrison, 18, a Twin Falls student
equipped with closed-circuit televi-
involving drugs or alcohol were
The Safety Kids, a group of local
cil president. said that other groups
It put across a good point, I feel."
sion coverage of the rally was filled
were invited to use the multi-media
caused by drivers between the ages of
youths, performed two anti-drug
The youths were encouraged to
16 and 24. or all the inmates at
to capacity, he said.
drug information available through
songs.
spread the word about the dangers of
Watkins estimated the audience at
the BSA.
THE KANSAS CITY STAR, May 28, 1989
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drug and substance abuse problem
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The comprehensive program.
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Citation for Private Sector Initia-
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Comprehensive? The "Deadly
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Marijuana
Alcohol
of testimonials from young role
Grass, pot, weed. Common names
FACT: Drinking-and driving age).
models; a teacher's guide: another
for dried leaves from the Canna.
dents are the number one killer of
booklet for parents and Scout
bis sating plant.
teenagers in the United States.
leaders alerting them to the signs
FACT: Contains more than 400
Like cocaine or heroin. alcohol is
of substance abuse and identifying
chemicals, including a mind-altering
a drug. It can alter moods, cause
sources of help; a video on the toll
substance called THC. Immediate
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habit forming.
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cry, alters sense of time, reduces
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shown here explaining the long-
concentration and coordination.
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May cause permanent brain cell
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ling memory and behavior, May
sharred speech, and sometimes
across the nation, according to
cause acute lears and anxiety.
unconsciousness It causes injuries to:
Ted Accas, Texas-based director
of marketing for the Boy Scouts of
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THE BRAIN
Even the venerable Boy Scout
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THE LUNGS
May cause permanent brain cell.
Contains more cancer-causing
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campaign: In its current printing
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it includes a strong anti-drug mes-
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Constricts blood vessels, impairs
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other day, a local union," noted
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Jere B. Ratcliffe, Scout Executive
THE HEART
for the Heart of America Council.
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larger goal of combating the so
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called "Five Unacceptables:" drug
could
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cate the impact Scouting pro-
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coca plant. Highly addictive.
anxiety. heightened fear that people
age six to 18 and girls age 14 to
FACT: Immediate effects: loss of
are "out to get me Violent and bizarre
20." he said.
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The response from local leaders
heart rate, breathing and body tem-
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speech and thought disturbances.
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hallucinations. Convulsions. Passi-
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attention not only of the young
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high doses.
older Scouts who are aware of the
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- in the March 1947 issue of Blown us to 2 bays
A Public Mescage from The Kansas City Star Co.
THE WASHINGTON POST
To Scouts,
Spielberg's
The Star
By Elizabeth N. Aoki
Washington Post Staff Writer
FORT A.P. HILL, Va., Aug. 2-
The crowd was spellbound, as au-
diences usually are for a Steven
Spielberg performance.
The celebrated film director and
producer entertained them with a
story. not about extraterrestrials or
PHOTOS BY GERALD MARTINEAU-THE WASHINGTON POST
animated rabbits, but about scout-
Spielberg answers a question at the news conference for scouts, during which the youths struggled to get his attention.
ing, and how he'd been the butt of
the oldest Boy Scout prank in the
book.
ing was the inroad" to his career in
Fairfax County, whether scouts
Many had scribbled their home
"They gave me a rucksack and
motion pictures.
would appear as characters in any
state in dark letters on their note-
put me out in the mountains," he
It was as a member of Troop 294
more of his movies, Spielberg said
books, and were waving them aloft
said, "and told me to bring some
in Scottsdale, Ariz., that a 13-year-
he hoped to do a history of scouting
hoping to attract Spielberg's atten-
snipe home." An appreciative roar
old Spielberg persuaded his scout-
from 1910 to the present.
tion; two boys even claimed to be
of laughter went up from the 300 to
master to accept an 8 mm film to
He added that although all scouts
from the moon.
400 boys assembled before him.
earn a merit badge in photography.
experience humorous mishaps that
One enterprising and hopeful
The rest, as they say, was cinemat-
might make for a fun comedy,
scout wrote "JOB" in large letters.
Spielberg said he spent 2½ hours
ic history.
"there is also something important
Asked about it by Spielberg, he ex-
hunting for the mythical snipe
"Before scouting, I was wimpy
to be said about scouting," which he
plained he was an animator who
when, "mercifully, I saw flashlights
and always inside myself," said
wanted to show.
wanted to work with Spielberg's
and heard someone calling out my
Spielberg, who went on to become
Baker, who is covering Spielberg
company on the next "Roger Rab-
name." The scout leaders got me
an Eagle Scout, scouting's highest
for a scout program on a Fairfax ca-
bit" film.
out and said, 'Welcome to the Boy
rank, and who today is active in
ble station, said he was "really im-
A scout from Maryland was
Scouts of America.'
scouting in the Los Angeles area. "I
pressed" with Spielberg's answer.
turned down when he requested an
The Boy Scouts welcomed Spiel-
got into scouting
and it opened
Others were impressed that Bak-
autograph.
berg today to kick off their 12th
a new realm for me, being in the
er, out of the hundreds of scouts
"This is not the wrist of a football
National Jamboree, a weeklong
outdoors.
present, had gotten Spielberg's at-
player," Spielberg said, noting that
quadrennial affair held at this Army
"It taught me how to make eye
tention so that he could ask a ques-
if he said yes to one, he'd have to
facility 20 miles south of Fre-
contact, to speak out when I had
tion.
say yes to all, which could take
dericksburg. More than 30,000
something important to say."
Baker said his technique was to
hours.
scouts and scouting staff members
Spielberg, who is here to unveil a
hold up his jamboree troop patch
Spielberg, who rarely gives inter-
are attending.
new merit badge, in cinematogra-
(which he later gave to Spielberg)
views, admitted that being in the pub-
Spielberg, answering questions at
phy, said that the opening sequence
and "keep mouthing 'please, please'
lic eye makes him uncomfortable.
a news conference-at which scouts
of his movie "Indiana Jones and The
for the next five minutes until he
"Believe it or not, this is not ex-
got to be reporters for their home-
Last Crusade," which shows the
saw me."
actly the easiest thing for me, get-
town papers and radio and television
hero as a young scout, was "sort of
Toward the end of the hourlong
ting out in front of people to talk,"
stations, while the professional media
my thanking the Boy Scouts for put-
news conference, the scouts got
he said. "But I like talking to you
(at Spielberg's request) got to wait
ting me on the map."
boisterous in their attempts to get
guys. You're the best. You're the
outside in the rain-said that "scout-
Asked by Brian Baker, 14, of
answers to their questions.
scouts. We're brothers."
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Public Fears
Stolen Future
In opinion polls, drug use constantly
ranks as one of America's top concerns.
Drug Abuse Exacts
"It is foremost on parents' minds," says
Lee Dogoloff, executive director of the
American Council for Drug Education.
ts Most Tragic Toll
"Drug and alcohol use is the thing most
likely to wrest their child from them be-
From Nation's Young
fore that child reaches adulthood."
What is frightening as a parent is that
children have an amazing ability to hide
Shafer, a Fan of Baseball,
even extreme drug and alcohol abuse until
it is. almost too late. We didn't find out
Started Using Drugs at 12
about Ryan until he was 14. And the extent
of his use was far beyond our worst
And Died, Addicted, at 16
fears.
In a paper I discovered only recently,
Ryan wrote during a rehabilitation pro-
1 Family's Rescue Attempts
gram in early 1986:
"I used cocaine a
lot. It started out as
By RONALD G. SHAFER
a weekend use, but
soon I had or tried
aff Reporter of THE JOURNAL
MCLEAN, Va., - In America's night-
to have it daily. I
are of drugs, the most tragic victims are
used, PCP [an hallu-
1r children.
cinogen ] about 2 or 3
I know. In this quiet, well-to-do suburb
times a week. I used
Washington, D.C., my teen-age son,
hallucinogens all the
yan, became trapped by drugs starting at
time, such as acid,
bout age 12-while he still was playing
mushrooms, peyote,
Little League baseball. With his sunny
ecstasy and mesca-
smile, big brown eyes and impish wit,
line. I used LSD
Ryan was a free-spirited charmer who
about 300 times."
Ryan Shafer
could make you laugh. A voracious collec-
The omnipresent
tor of baseball cards, he would tell me he
drug was marijuana. It started Ryan on
could name every batting champion back
his downfall and was always the drug he
to the 1960s, "you know, the ancient days
went back to.
of baseball, when you were still young,
He never meant to get hooked. But for
Dad."
reasons nobody yet knows, some people
Now, his laughter is gone. Because of
have a predisposition or vulnerability to
drugs, he is dead. And every day, my
drug abuse. "For such kids," says Dr.
heart breaks a little
Frederick K. Goodwin, head of the U.S. Al-
ADDICTION
more.
cohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Ad-
Ryan's death,
Photo Copy Preservation
ministration, "even a first use of alcohol or
like countless oth-
an illicit drug may be an irrevocable step,
AMERICA'S
ers, isn't officially
leading to serious substance abuse."
recorded in the na-
In the suburbs of America, both drug
DRUG CRISIS
tion's rising drug
use and the violence related to it are often
FIRST OF A SERIES
toll. On the night of
hidden. Ryan was coming from the home
Oct. 1, 1987, at age
of a drug dealer who for years had cor-
16, he drove his tan Mustang off a street in
rupted and molested youths who feared for
nearby Vienna, Va. He inexplicably fled
their lives if they exposed him. After
the minor accident and ran a half-mile
Ryan's death, several young people coura-
down the road, where he was bumped by a
geously came forward. In 1987, the man
car. Even though a passing motorist tried
was arrested and charged with statutory
to restrain him, Ryan, with a crazed look
rape and selling drugs to minors.
in his eyes and a sudden strength far be-
He will never go to trial. Around
yond his small size, broke away and ran
Christmas of that year, he killed himself
down a hill and onto a busy expressway;
by placing a plastic bag over his head and
he was hit head-on and killed instantly by
suffocating. His death also isn't counted as
a van that didn't stop.
drug-related.
Tests showed no evidence of drugs. But
I will never fully know why Ryan got
he was speeding from the home of a drug
involved in drugs. In my view, there is still
dealer. We later learned that, earlier the
a dangerous myth that good kids from
same day, he had obtained elsewhere three
good families don't do drugs. Children are
"hits" of LSD, a hallucinogen that can
vulnerable no matter who they are or
cause panic and that often doesn't show up
where they live. My son had his problems,
in tests. One way or another, drugs took
but he was a sensitive, caring and unfor-
my only son.
gettable young man.
The only reason my family is now reliv-
Ryan Glenn Shafer came into our lives
ing our nightmare in print is the hope that
on May 27, 1971, when my wife, Barbara,
it might save one young person who thinks
and I adopted him in Prince George's
he or she can control their drug use-and
County. Md. He was two months old, and
one family from the pain we will always
Barb cradled him on her lap as we drove
feel.
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A4 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL MONDAY, JULY 31, 1989
Stolen Future: Drug Abuse Exacts Its Greatest Toll
From the Nation's Young; The Story of Ryan Shafer
Continued From First Page
Next came minimization. Thank God, it
the "sicker, quicker generation" of young
to our home in Laurel. We issued a press
was "only" pot. In fact, today's marijuana
people known as "garbage heads" who
release: "R&B Shafer Inc. announces a
can be a deceivingly damaging drug for
heavily abuse both drugs and alcohol.
major expansion."
young people, and, in the case of heavy
Ryan's drug of choice was LSD, which
In 1976, we moved along with our
use, can cause short-term memory loss
causes vivid hallucinations. Fellow resi-
daughter, Katie, two years younger than
and long-term health problems. Some
dents dubbed him "blotter boy" because
Ryan, to McLean, in Fairfax County; Va.
strains are 25-times more powerful than a
he had used LSD impregnated on blotter
Barb chose for the most part to forgo a
decade ago, says the American Pediatrics
paper, and sold like sheets of stamps for as
full-time job and threw herself into school
Association, which adds: "Marijuana is no
little as $3 to 55 a hit.
and community volunteer work involving
longer the 'harmless little giggle' referred
We discovered the limits of drug test-
our children. I got involved too, helping to
to by John Lennon in the 1960s." Pot and
ing. LSD is detectable only in special tests,
coach most of Ryan's baseball teams.
alcohol can also be gateways to more seri-
if at all. Cocaine remains in the system
Ryan grew to be a fun-loving boy with
ous drugs. By now, Ryan- was long past
only about two to three days. Marijuana
wide and intense interests. His sense of hu-
the experimental stage and into planned
stays in the system about 30 days and,
mor charmed his friends and adults. In
use.
thus, is the most likely to be detected.
his first year at Longfellow Intermediate
As Joyce Tobias, a registered nurse, ex-
Barb and I attended parent-counseling
School, he became the first seventh-grader
plains in her booklet, "Kids & Drugs," in
sessions. We learned that, like us, most
ever voted "Joe Cool." When a mother was
this stage "attitudes change and what was
parents had no idea of their children's
informed of this choice, she said, "Why, of
once unacceptable behavior is now cool
heavy drug or alcohol use until the youths
course. He is Joe Cool."
and acceptable. Unexplainable mood
could no longer hide their dual lives. Some
Despite his glibness, we knew Ryan had
swings begin, including withdrawal, anger
of the parents were strict, some were le-
been troubled by low self-esteem and by
and aggression. Verbal abuse toward par-
nient. all were caring. There is no magic
difficulty in school. (We now know that
ents, profanity and rebellious attitudes be-
bullet of parenting against drugs.
both are early warning signs of a child at
come a constant friction point between
They also were middle-class parents.
risk of drug use.) What we didn't know
parent and child."
most of whom had insurance. Six weeks at
was that he had begun experimenting with
Family's Toll
Arlington cost more than $12,000. Else-
drugs as early as the sixth grade. We were
As he moved into the third stage, chem-
where, treatment programs can cost $30,-
going through the typical stages of parents
ical dependence, Ryan's problems took
000 or more. The poor must go to limited
of drug-abusing adolescents.
control of our family. Drugs changed him
public facilities, which in most areas have
The first stage is abject ignorance.
into a person we didn't recognize-lying,
waiting lines.
Back in 1983, we never suspected that drug
shouting, scheming, manipulating. My wife
The Arlington Hospital program, like
use was possible with our pre-teen: He was
and I alternated between anger over his
most drug-treatment programs, is pat-
way too young. In fact, these days, drug-
actions, uncertainty over his seemingly
terned after Alcoholics Anonymous, em-
using youths on average begin at about
persuasive insistence he was innocent, and
phasizing a support group and education
age 12. We began to notice personality
frustration over our inability to resolve the
on how alcohol and drugs destroy the body.
changes-hostility, rebellion-but they
seemed the normal changes we had seen in
our friends' teen-agers
Possible Early Warning Signs
The next step is denial. Ryan's actions
worsened, but we didn't accept what we
Certain behavior may indicate a child is involved with drugs or alcohol:
know now were warning signs: use of eye
Abrupt change in mood or attitude
drops to cover up red eyes from smoking
Unusual flare-ups of temper
marijuana: incense burning in his room to
Sudden decline in attendance or
Increased borrowing of money
mask the odor; calls from friends whom
performance at work or school
from parents or friends; stealing
we hadn't met; trouble at school; money
from home, school, or employer
missing from around the house.
Sudden resistance to discipline at
home or school
Heightened secrecy about actions
Other Signs
and possessions
By the time Ryan reached ninth grade
Impaired relationship with
in 1985 and began McLean High School, he
family or friends
Associating with a new group of
friends, especially those who use
no longer could hide his troubles. He began
Ignoring curfews
drugs
cutting classes-a common tipoff to drug
use. By the time the school called us, he
Source: Department of Health and Human Services
had missed nearly two dozen classes and
was failing everything. We found that
situation. As the turmoil took its toll on our
school officials at that time didn't know
In a dormitory-like setting, Ryan dove into
family, we argued over the proper course.
much more about drugs than we did.
the program with gusto. He won over coun-
When a child is on drugs, the traditional
The school did guide us to a local physi-
selors and parents with his personality.
tools of trust and discipline no longer work.
cian, Dr. Warren Klam, who has treated
When he was free of drugs, we got our
It was time for professional help.
hundreds of adolescents. Ryan began urine
real son back. He told us about his drug
In January 1986, we put Ryan into the
tests for drugs, or, as the kids call them,
use; how he had slipped out of his bedroom
Arlington (Va.) Hospital's six-week, resi-
the "whiz quiz." Ryan, as drug abusers do,
window at night to buy drugs; how he had
dential Adolescent Treatment Program.
denied drug use. "You don't trust me," he
started taking drugs to impress older
He had hit bottom and was ready to accept
self-righteously protested.
friends, who at first gave him drugs for
treatment. Drug use was overwhelming his
The tests showed "low positive" mari-
free; how he couldn't stop without help.
life, but he still hid the full extent from us.
juana. (They would have been "high posi-
The night before he went into treatment,
He returned home in time for his 15th
tive" but Ryan told us later that after giv-
he sat calmly watching television. Later he
birthday in March 1986. As part of the
ing me a specimen while I observed, he
told us he was on an LSD "acid trip" and
treatment, he attended 15 weeks of after-
later would sneak into our bedroom and
saw snakes coming out of the TV set.
care five days a week. He also was re-
water it down.) Actually, he had been cut-
The intake tests revealed the frighten-
quired to go to 90 meetings of Alcoholics
ting classes to smoke marijuana daily.
ing extent of his drug use. He was part of
Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous in 90
days. He did so with enthusiasm, he
dropped drug-using friends, and it seemed
our troubles soon would be behind us.
Photo Copy Preservation
nim in a small Northern Vir-
been put up for adoption, feelings he never
ginia school, Enterprise, for troubled
expressed in our many talks on his adop-
youths. The school had only about a dozen
tion. He eventually. was diagnosed as
students. He got off to a fitful start, but by
manic depressive, suffering the wide mood
his 16th birthday in 1987, Ryan, now a 10th
swings of a bipolar disorder. It isn't known
grader, was doing great. His drug tests
whether drugs caused. his problems, or
were clean. His grades were the best ever.
whether he used drugs to self-medicate.
A dedicated teacher helped raise his read-
ests at Springwood showed no extensive
ing level, damaged by pot use, to 12th-
ecent drug use and Ryan this time didn't
grade level. He won school awards for
ave withdrawal symptoms, but with LSD
"funniest," "best personality" and "most
here aren't any. We wonder now if he may
supportive." He got his driver's license,
1 ave fooled everyone all along.
worked part-time and had a lovely girl-
1 Once again, he responded to treatment.
friend. He was a joy.
His mood swings could bei stabilized. with
Then, suddenly, the old signs began re-
ithium and other medicines. After six
appearing. His grades began slipping; he
weeks, in early September, we took him
began spending money excessively. His be-
home. He was accepted at Fairfax
havior deteriorated. A test showed signs of
County's special education school.
marijuana, probably laced with PCP.
Ryan seemed free from drugs and-more
School officials told us what we knew:
like his old self. He closely followed the
Ryan had to go into another rehab pro-
news and discussed the Supreme Court
gram. We were crushed.
nomination of Robert Bork with more facts
In June of 1987, he entered a new 10-
than even his father, the journalist, was up
week outpatient program at Arlington Hos-
on. Correcting me, he would quip: "I think
pital. As he progressed, his tests showed
I know a little bit more about Supreme
no drugs, but we were troubled. This time
Court nominations than you do."
his personality didn't change back. He re-
His medicine made him tired, and he of-
mained abusive and temper prone. Yet, he
ten went to bed early. One night in late
never got totally out of control. After an
September, I looked in his room as he was
outburst, he would apologize.
falling asleep in bed and said, "I love you,
A Dark Turn
Ryan." He picked his head up, smiled and
We believe he truly wanted to stop
said softly, "Thanks, Dad.
using the drugs that had consumed him. In
Within the week, he was dead.-
a note he wrote in the summer- of 1987
The fatal accident occurred at about
thanking us for putting him in treatment,
30 p.m. on Oct. 1, just as Barb and I
he said: "For the first time in a long time
re returning from. an open house at
I am very happy with my life. I really
an's new school, enthusiastic about his
don't want to lose what I have just because
spects there. Until midnight, all we
I want to smoke pot."
ts Id find out from the police was that he
Then the situation took a dark turn. At
as run from his car and hadn't been
Alcoholics Anonymous, Ryan claimed. to
heard from. Finally, at Fairfax Hospital,
have found a "sponsor," a recovering ad-
we were ushered, for privacy, into an
dict with longer sobriety whom he could
young state
call whenever he felt. his own resolve
trooper; who began in police jargon to tell
weakening. Inadvertently, we eventually
us there has been an accident. What he
discovered that the supposed sponsor was
was struggling to say hit us like a jolt of
a man whom Ryan had mentioned briefly
electricity: Ryan was dead:
and forbiddingly regarding his earlier drug
The Real Cause
use. According to some of Ryan's friends,
the man may have attended AA meetings
The terror that ripped through my body
as a way to recruit young people.
was overwhelmed by a wrenching reality:
The man, 30 and single, was a shadowy
that I would never hold my little boy
figure who had befriended youths and who
again. Soon came a numbness that has
had been suspected of providing drugs to
never totally gone away. It is true that if
kids at his home for several years in
your child dies, a part of you dies with
McLean and, later, in Vienna, Va. Ryan
him.
apparently met the man, a telephone com-
Publicly, Ryan's death wasn't consid-
pany employee, while in junior high
ered drug-related, but we made a decision
school, when he went to his house with
0 talk about the real cause. Acting on our
friends, and had become a regular visitor.
bleas, the state police pursued the probe
Exactly how the relationship resumed
hat resulted in the drug dealer's arrest.
later still isn't clear.
He was charged with distributing mari-
We forbade Ryan from seeing the man,
juana and other drugs to minors. He also'
but he did so anyway. Events moved
was charged with the statutory rape of a
quickly amid the resulting turmoil.
13-year-old girl and with soliciting sex
from a 14-year-old boy.
For the first time, Ryan talked about
Our main concern after Ryan's death
committing suicide. The next day, in early
was the psychological impact on our
August, he was ejected from the rehab pro-
daughter, Katie, now nearly 16. Katie has
gram after testing positive for marijuana.
In a frantic day, we checked residential
never used drugs and has dealt with the
loss of her brother by counseling others
programs around the country. Springwood
Psychiatric Hospital 30 miles away in
against drug use. Despite a recent federal
Leesburg, Va., had one bed open. We could
survey showing a decline in drug use
bring him that night.
among high school seniors, nearly one in
two seniors says he or she has tried an il-
A New Diagnosis
licit drug. The agency also didn't survey
This time Ryan, angry and frightened,
those who have dropped out of school.
resisted. We got him to Springwood, where
The key to saving lives is early inter-
doctors told us he was in a deep depres-
vention, during the one to three years that
sion. Therapy indicated that at least one
young people typically hide their drug use.
factor in Ryan's low self-esteem was sub-
"What I see often," says Dr. Klam, the
conscious feelings of rejection for having
specialist in adolescent care, "are parents
who wait until there is a crisis before they
act. If you feel in your heart something
isn't right, it's better to get that kid in for
an evaluation."
The only real solution is prevention-
keeping kids from ever trying drugs in the
first place. Drug education- early as el-
ementary school-is vital, and it should in-
clude parents and teachers.
Photo Copy Preservation
For Ryan, it is too late. On Oct. 7, 1987,
I drove with my wife and daughter to a
cemetery near our home. Just over 16
years before, Barb had carried our new
son home on her lap. This day, she carried
the urn containing his ashes. Now we visit
Ryan's grave and we weep, and we ask,
Why?
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WASHINGTON - "Fa
of the investment world
died religious Americ
Youths' aid sought
nearly half a billion dc
past five years, securitie
in war on drugs
reported Monday.
Bible-quoting con art
to fleece the flocks of ti
By Kevin Merida
warned John C. Baldwi
Washington Bureau of The Dallas Morning News
of the North American S:
BOWLING GREEN, Va. - Presi-
ministrators Association
dent Bush praised the Boy Scouts of
for of Utah's Division of
America on Monday for its volun-
"Religiously oriente
teerism and urged Scouts to work
are one of today's hottes
harder to help their friends stay
investment con artists,"
away from drugs.
Associated Press
said.
"Perhaps the greatest challenge
More than 15,000 Ame
of our times, I'm sorry to say. is
President Bush greets a crowd of Boy Scouts and their lead-
been victimized by reli
the continuing struggle to keep
ers gathered for the group's 12th National Jamboree near
schemes in the past fiv
drugs out of our high schools - a
Bowling Green, Va. The president spoke to about 35,000 peo-
cording to a report, "Pre
form of pollution, a poisoning of the
pie at the gathering Monday.
Faithful." The total ta)
mind, a corruption of the very soul
swindles: more than $450
of young America," Mr. Bush told
ten last week by Wall Street Journal
ting on the campground at Fort A.P.
The report was prep
35,000 Boy Scouts at the-group's 12th
reporter Ronaid Shafer, who told
Hill. When the president spotted one
national Council of Bet!
National Jamboree.
how drugs and alcohol led to the
of several Texas flags amid the
Bureaus, which is an ant
"I am especially looking to you to
death of his 16-year-old son, Ryan.
crowd, he took notice.
ciation of businesses, ar
encourage friends to refuse drugs-
"Ask yourself if you know some-
"If you will permit me a note of
sociation of securities of
any illegal drug," he added. "I don't
one like Ryan Shafer," Mr. Bush
regional pride, 1 understand my
the 50 states.
want any young American starting
urged. "And if SO. have you done ev-
home state of Texas has a pretty
The schemes have r
down the path to cocaine and
erything that you can to help him or
good size delegation," Mr. Bush said,
bogus investment funds
her?"
crack."
eliciting a roar from Texas Scouts. "I
self-proclaimed born-age
Although the president himself
The president looked out over a
saw that flag and 1 want to acknowl-
planners to givers of
was not a Boy Scout, he brought
sea of Scouts clustered by state sit-
edge it."
spired" investment ad
along three former Eagle Scouts
who are serving in his administra-
/ every great city there is one great
Ity
tion: Transportation Secretary Sam-
uel Skinner, Deputy National Secur-
ity Adviser Robert Gates and Deputy
White House Chief of Staff Andrew
Topping it
Card.
Mr. Bush lauded the Boy Scouts
off-
for its volunteer goal to defeat what
the Scouts call "the five unaccept-
with
ables" - illiteracy, unemployment,
hunger, child abuse and drug abuse.
In requesting that Scouts try
savings!
harder to eradicate drug abuse
...on
among their peers, Mr. Bush re-
essential items
Grow this Fall's
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FROM Policy
We had good news last week about drug.use in America last week.
(37%).
The number of overall drug users is down almost 40%. And the
is.
number of cocaine users is down 50%. This is a real tribute to
those of you who have worked in the schools, in your families,
in the communities, and in service and youth clubs -- and the
Boy Scouts have been leaders in this area -- to rid our Nation
of drugs.
But this is not all good news. The number of people addicted
almost
to cocaine and crack has/doubled. So this is not a signal of
victory -- but a signal to work harder. I am counting on each
and every one of you to not even try drugs -- any illegal drug
-- in the first place. And to help your friends and peers
refuse drugs. I don't want any of you -- or any young American
-- starting down the path to cocaine and crack.
Davis/Martin
July 31, 1989
Draft: One
Title: C:Scouts
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: BOY SCOUT NATIONAL JAMBOREE/Ft. A.P. Hill
August 7, 1989/10:30 a.m.
( (Thank you, Ben. Let me start by asking a favor. For the
next ten seconds, I would like to hear every patrol in the Boy
Scouts give its call, starting now
) ) ( (Wait ten seconds) )
( (Okay, okay, thank you
In all that noise, I thought I
could make out otters, panthers, owls and even a moose call or
two. Just think, out there somewhere in the thick Virginia
forest are a lot of wild animals, and they've all just fallen in
love
)) ( (PAUSE))
Last Jamboree, I understand you had an unwelcomed visitor by
the name of Bob -- Hurricane Bob. Ben tells me you didn't have a
camp out
You had a damp out.
But this Jamboree is coming together marvelously. You can
canoe, kayak and swim. You can shoot shotguns and compete in
archery. You can earn Merit Badges while you work your way down
the Midway. ( (Undoubtedly, some of you will also be asked to
organize snipe-hunting expeditions.) ) This all sounds like a lot
of fun. But there is one activity here that really tempts me to
leave the White House behind and spend a few days with you here
at Fort A.P. Hill. I am talking about Fishhook Lake.
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2
I started fishing at age five or so, in the cold waters
along the coast of Maine, using a lead jig with a piece of white
cloth for bait, sometimes trolling with an old green cotton line.
((And, of course, the first thing I caught was a cold. )) But
after awhile, I got the hang of it, pulling in mackerel and an
occasional flounder. I became acquainted with the waters off
Kennebunkport so well that now I know every reef, when the swells
will break and where you can find the seals on a given day.
Since I was your age, I've waded in a clean, clear river in
Iceland next to the Prime Minister of that land, and caught my
first salmon. I've pulled in bass in many states, and fought
dolphin, kings and hard-hitting 'cuda on the high seas.
As you might have guessed, fishing is my favorite source of
relaxation. It is with a rod and reel in my hand that I tend to
count my blessings, especially if I'm with one of my
grandchildren, or with Barbara
( (the only woman on earth
who can read and fish at the same time, and catch every word and
every fish. ))
But no matter where I fish today, I will always look back to
the days when I trailed that piece of white cloth along the
shoreline. And there's a lesson here that I want to share with
you. Whatever you love to do -- whether its hiking, hunting or
kayaking -- hang on to it. As you pursue success in school, and
later in your careers, don't forget to find time for the things
you love to do. If you stay true to the hobbies of your boyhood,
3
you will find a source of relaxation and replenishment that will
never fail you.
There are other things you will learn as a Scout that will
serve you well through life. Your Scout Law commands you to be
trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient,
cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. ( (Whew!))
That may sound like a lot to remember, but it isn't. For at
the core of that code is something simple -- a desire to serve
with honor, a sincere feeling for one's fellow man and for one's
country. So service isn't a lifelong chore to be carried out.
As Chief Scout Citizen Teddy Roosevelt put it,
"
the full
performance of duty is not only right in itself but also the
source of the profoundest satisfaction that can come in life."
In short, to serve and serve well is the highest fulfillment
we can know.
Certainly, you have been proving this every day, by "doing a
good turn daily." Boy Scouts have been helping out through times
of disaster, from fires to flash floods. The Boy Scouts were
there when Franklin Delano Roosevelt appealed for help during the
Great Depression, gathering almost two million articles of
clothing, household furnishings and food for the needy. And the
Boy Scouts were a strong helping hand at home when older brothers
fought a war in Europe.
Today, the Boy Scouts have taken on a new struggle, to
defeat what you call the five "unacceptables" -- illiteracy,
unemployment, child abuse, drug abuse and hunger. In fact,
4
fighting hunger alone, Scouts, Cub Scouts and Explorers rounded
up 60 million cans of food for local food banks -- the largest
collection of food ever undertaken in the history of the United
States.
Your focus is right on target. Today, we can be grateful
that no depression or war looms ahead of us. But this doesn't
mean that the times we live in are less demanding. The Boy
Scouts of this Twelfth National Jamboree will face challenges
unimagined by your fathers.
Perhaps the greatest challenge of our times, I'm sorry to
say, is one of the "unacceptables" -- the continuing struggle to
keep drugs out of the lockers of our high schools
a form of
pollution, a poisoning of the mind, a corruption of the very
soul, of young America.
Earlier this week, a Wall Street Journal reporter wrote
movingly of his son, a boy named Ryan. Ronald Shafer remembered
his Ryan as a voracious collector of baseball cards who could
name every batting champion back to the 1960s -- the kind of
bright boy for whom life was an open invitation to succeed. But
Ryan started using drugs and alcohol at age 12, and soon became a
stranger to his parents and classmates. By age 16, Ryan was
dead.
There are thousands of Ryans across America, thousands of
young men and women who are in danger of losing their future,
their very lives, to this scourge we call drugs.
5
The Boy Scouts of America has assumed a leadership role in
confronting this problem. You are teaching self-protection
strategies against drugs and other dangers. You have circulated
these strategies in direct language in a very successful pamphlet
called Drugs: A Deadly Game. And you have done something else --
you are leading the youth of America by example.
Now I want to challenge you to take the final steps. Ask
yourself if you know someone like Ryan Shafer. And if so, have
you done everything you can to help him or her?
There are other, more positive challenges facing your
generation. When the first Boy Scouts chapter was formed,
Americans had just tamed the farthest reaches of the West. There
were only a few remote places in the world unseen by Man. Since
then, the world has become smaller. And so has the room for our
imagination and daring -- a narrowed space for the restless
spirit of freedom that is SO much a part of our national
identity.
But you and I know that there is a new frontier, a frontier
without limits -- space.
Once again, Boy Scouts have played a leadership role in
preparing a generation for space exploration. It is no
coincidence that half of all astronauts were once Scouts. Gus
Grissom, an American hero who lost his life in the early space
program, was a Scout. David Scott and James Irwin, who operated
the first lunar rover, were Scouts. And I doubt that any of the
Scouts who participated in the 1969 seventh Jamboree in Idaho
6
will ever forget Eagle Scout Neil Armstrong, who made man's first
step on the moon, and later sent his greetings to the Jamboree
from deep space.
The first spacefarers were unique, the lucky few. But your
generation will have a broader, greater opportunity to live in
space, to travel to the moon and to even set foot on another
world. This is the challenge of the next century -- your
challenge.
Near the Jamboree area is a NASA exhibit of "Freedom
Station," which will become our nation's first permanent manned
space station in the next decade. Nearby are also large-scale
models of the space shuttle and other crafts. This is America's
space fleet, and its mission is gradually changing from
exploration to settlement. When we aim for the stars, it will be
to stay.
This brings to mind an small irony. Just a few miles away,
along the Tidewater Coast of Virginia, the first Englishmen
arrived in the New World -- also not just to explore, but to
stay.
These early colonies were ill-fated. Their first fall
brought a bitter harvest of hardship. Their first winter brought
tragedy. But in the end, the generation of Captain John Smith
escaped the confines of the Old World to settle the New, a fresh
frontier, a boundless promise called America.
Today, as before, some timid and chiding voices caution us
against the danger, the hardship and the expense. Perhaps they
7
should listen to Steven Speilberg ( (quote to come)) Or perhaps
they should listen to Ray Bradbury, a writer who once said that
space will make children of us all.
He didn't mean that literally. Bradbury meant that the
strange beauty and mystery of space will teach even the most
cynical and worldweary among us to rediscover the wonder of their
first glimpse of the night sky. It is this sense of wonder and
curiosity that draws you from the comfort of home and television
to the outdoors. Tonight, when you are laying in your cots
around a campfire, surrounded by dark forest, looking up at the
stars of the night sky, I want you to consider something.
Perhaps you, or your children -- or as hard as it is for you to
imagine, your grandchildren -- will one day look up at the night
sky before going to sleep, and see the Earth as a faint,
twinkling blue star. ( (PAUSE) )
It is this spirit, a spirit of wonder, that is surely
drawing us to a new destiny on new worlds.
You are privileged to be the generation that will witness
the first large movement of men and women into space. And as
this happens, I know that the Boy Scouts of today will be in the
lead.
Thank you for inviting me to your Jamboree. God bless you
and God bless the Boy Scouts of America.
2 AnD thE would
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Chin the
West
Davis/Martin
July 31, 1989
Draft: One
Title: C:Scouts
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: BOY SCOUT NATIONAL JAMBOREE/Ft. A.P. Hill
August 7, 1989/10:30 a.m.
((Thank you, Ben. Let me start by asking a favor. For the
next ten seconds, I would like to hear every patrol in the Boy
Scouts give its call, starting now
...))
( (Wait ten seconds))
( (Okay, okay, thank you
In all that noise, I thought I
could make out otters, panthers, owls and even a moose call or
two. Just think, out there somewhere in the thick Virginia
forest are a lot of wild animals, and they've all just fallen in
love ...)) ( (PAUSE) )
Last Jamboree, I understand you had an unwelcomed visitor by
the name of Bob -- Hurricane Bob. Ben tells me you didn't have a
camp out
You had a damp out.
But this Jamboree is coming together marvelously. You can
canoe, kayak and swim. You can shoot shotguns and compete in
archery. You can earn Merit Badges while you work your way down
the Midway. ((Undoubtedly, some of you will also be asked to
organize snipe-hunting expeditions.) This all sounds like a lot
of fun. But there is one activity here that really tempts me to
leave the White House behind and spend a few days with you here
at Fort A.P. Hill. I am talking about Fishhook Lake.
2
I started fishing at age five or so, in the cold waters
along the coast of Maine, using a lead jig with a piece of white
cloth for bait, sometimes trolling with an old green cotton line.
((And, of course, the first thing I caught was a cold. )) But
after awhile, I got the hang of it, pulling in pollock and
cunner But all that work eventually paid off with mackerel, and
the occasional flounder, or smelt. I became acquainted with the
waters off Kennebunkport so well that now I know every reef, when
the swells will break and where you can find the seals on a given
day.
Since I was your age, I've waded in a clean, clear river in
Iceland next to the Prime Minister of that land, and caught my
first salmon. I've pulled in bass in many states, and fought
dolphin, kings and hard-hitting 'cuda on the high seas.
As you might have guessed, fishing is my favorite source of
relaxation. It is with a rod and reel in my hand that I tend to
count my blessings, especially if I'm with one of my
grandchildren, or with Barbara
((the only woman on earth
who can read and fish at the same time, and catch every word and
every fish. ))
where
bish
But no matter how much fun I have today, I will always look
back to the days when I trailed that piece of white cloth along
the shoreline. And there's a lesson here that I want to share
with you. Whatever you love to do -- whether its hiking, hunting
or kayaking -- hang on to it. As you pursue success in school,
and later in your careers, don't forget to find time for the
3
things you love to do. If you stay true to the hobbies of your
boyhood, you will find a source of relaxation and replenishment
that will never fail you.
There are other things you will learn as a Scout that will
serve you well through life. Your Scout Law commands you to be
trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient,
cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. ( (Whew!))
That may sound like a lot to remember, but it isn't. For at
the core of that code is something simple -- a desire to serve
with honor, a sincere feeling for one's fellow man and for one's
country. So service isn't a lifelong chore to be carried out.
As Chief Scout Citizen Teddy Roosevelt put it,
If
the full
performance of duty is not only right in itself but also the
source of the profoundest satisfaction that can come in life."
In short, to serve and serve well is the highest fulfillment
we can know.
Certainly, you have been proving this every day, by "doing a
good turn daily." Boy Scouts have been helping out through times
of disaster, from fires to flash floods. The Boy Scouts were
there when Franklin Delano Roosevelt appealed for help during the
Great Depression, gathering almost two million articles of
clothing, household furnishings and food for the needy. And the
Boy Scouts were a strong helping hand at home when older brothers
fought a war in Europe.
Today, the Boy Scouts have taken on a new struggle, to
defeat what you call the five "unacceptables" -- illiteracy,
4
In foct, fighting
unemployment, child abuse, drug abuse and hunger. Regarding the
hungr alone
rounded up
later, Scouts, Cub Scouts and Explorers scouted 60 million cans
of food for local food banks -- the largest collection of food
ever undertaken in the history of the United States. (( (Sioux
City being checked) ))
Your focus is right on target. Today, we can be grateful
that no depression or war looms ahead of us. But this doesn't
mean that the times we live in are less demanding. The Boy
Scouts of this Twelfth National Jamboree will face challenges
unimagined by your fathers.
Perhaps the greatest challenge of our times, I'm sorry to
say, is one of the "unacceptables" -- the continuing struggle to
keep drugs out of the lockers of our high schools
a form of
pollution, a poisoning of the mind, a corruption of the very
soul, of young America.
Earlier this week, a Wall Street Journal reporter wrote
movingly of his son, a boy named Ryan. Ronald Shafer remembered
his Ryan as a voracious collector of baseball cards who could
name every batting champion back to the 1960s -- the kind of
bright boy for whom life was an open invitation to succeed. But
Ryan started using drugs and alcohol at age 12, and soon became a
stranger to his parents and classmates. By age 16, Ryan was
dead.
There are thousands of Ryans across America, thousands of
young men and women who are in danger of losing their future,
their very lives, to this scourge we call drugs.
5
The Boy Scouts of America has assumed a leadership role in
confronting this problem. You are teaching self-protection
strategies against drugs and other dangers. You have circulated
these strategies in direct language in a very successful pamphlet
called Drugs: A Deadly Game. And you have done something else --
you are leading the youth of America by example.
Now I want to challenge you to take the final steps. Ask
yourself if you know someone like Ryan Shafer. And if so, have
you done everything you can to help him or her?
There are other, more positive challenges facing your
generation. When the first Boy Scouts chapter was formed,
Americans had just tamed the farthest reaches of the West. There
were only a few remote places in the world unseen by Man. Since
then, the world has become smaller. And so has the room for our
imagination and daring -- a narrowed space for the restless
spirit of freedom that is so much a part of our national
identity.
But you and I know that there is a new frontier, a frontier
without limits -- space.
Once again, Boy Scouts have played a leadership role in
preparing a generation for space exploration. It is no
coincidence that half of all astronauts were once Scouts. Gus
Grissom, an American hero who lost his life in the early space
program, was a Scout. David Scott and James Irwin, who operated
the first lunar rover, were Scouts. And I doubt that any of the
Scouts who participated in the 1969 seventh Jamboree in Idaho
6
will ever forget Eagle Scout Neil Armstrong, who made man's first
step on the moon, and later sent his greetings to the Jamboree
from deep space.
The first spacefarers were unique, the lucky few. But your
generation will have a broader, greater opportunity to live in
space, to travel to the moon and to even set foot on another
world. This is the challenge of the next century -- your
challenge.
Near the Jamboree area is a NASA exhibit of "Freedom
Station," which will become our nation's first permanent manned
space station in the next decade. Nearby are also large-scale
models of the space shuttle and other crafts. This is America's
space fleet, and its mission is gradually changing from
exploration to settlement. When we aim for the stars, it will be
to stay.
This brings to mind an small irony. Just a few miles away,
along the Tidewater Coast of Virginia, the first Englishmen
arrived in the New World -- also not just to explore, but to
stay.
These early colonies were ill-fated. Their first fall
brought a bitter harvest of hardship. Their first winter brought
tragedy. But in the end, the generation of Captain John Smith
escaped the confines of the Old World to settle the New, a fresh
frontier, a boundless promise called America.
Today, as before, some timid and chiding voices caution us
against the danger, the hardship and the expense. Perhaps they
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should listen to Steven Speilberg ( (quote to come) ) Or perhaps
they should listen to Ray Bradbury, a writer who once said that
space will make children of us all.
He didn't mean that literally. Bradbury meant that the
strange beauty and mystery of space will teach even the most
cynical and worldweary among us to rediscover the wonder of their
first glimpse of the night sky. It is this sense of wonder and
curiosity that draws you from the comfort of home and television
to the outdoors. Tonight, when you are laying in your cots
around a campfire, surrounded by dark forest, looking up at the
stars of the night sky, I want you to consider something.
Perhaps you, or your children -- or as hard as it is for you to
imagine, your grandchildren -- will one day look up at the night
sky before going to sleep, and see the Earth as a faint,
twinkling blue star. ( (PAUSE) )
It is this spirit, a spirit of wonder, that is surely
drawing us to a new destiny on new worlds.
You are privileged to be the generation that will witness
the first large movement of men and women into space. And as
this happens, I know that the Boy Scouts of today will be in the
lead.
Thank you for inviting me to your Jamboree. God bless you
and God bless the Boy Scouts of America.
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Steven G. Mead
2911 Tahoe Dr.
Merced, C.A.
95340
read gifts (JB
Vice President George Bush
c/o The White House
Washington, D.C.
Dear Vice President,
This letter is written from one father to another. It is the story of
a short thirty minute visit you took to a little farm town in California
called Merced, and the lifetime effect you had on a little ten year old boy.
That boy was my son.
On the 14th of October, 1988, we found out that you were coming to our
city on a campaign visit. We are very heavily involved in scouting and we
were asked to have some of our boys present to line the entrance onto the
platform where you were to make your speech.
One of those scouts was Micah Mead, my son. He was very excited and
proud to be able to meet the Vice President of the United States. In
addition, Micah had a scout medallion which said "Do your best", and "Help
other people", and he wanted to give it to you.
As you were leaving the stage, Micah reached out and handed you the
medallion. At this point the act of taking the medallion from Micah would
have been enough to make his day. But you did not just take the medallion.
You reached into your pocket and handed Micah your tie clasp. Micah has
been on cloud nine ever since.
I want to thank you for this everlasting gift you gave my son. So.
from one father to another, I wish you all the best.
From a citizen to a politician, I encourage you to "Do your best, and
help other people."
God be with you,
Street. Menl Stene D. med
Steven G. Mead
Solux City
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too tragic for children
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Center -Andrew W. Allen - is
Council - President of the Prairie Gold
Courcie of the Boy Scouts. Marion
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of Drs are involved in Boy Scouts
Deputy Sherriff Judy Lanners worked
crowd control has a son at the jamboree
A
of boy scouts from Soux City have
been visiting a hospitalized boy from
Caspes, Wyo. They bring hun books and
have befriended him.
Davis/Martin
July 31, 1989
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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: BOY SCOUT NATIONAL JAMBOREE/Ft. A.P. Hill
August 7, 1989/(Time)
( (Thank you, Ben. Let me start by asking a favor. For the
next ten seconds, I would like to hear every patrol in the Boy
Scouts give its call, starting now
...)) ( (Wait ten seconds) )
( (Okay, okay, thank you
...
In all that noise, I thought I
could make out otters, panthers, owls and even a moose call or
two. Just think, out there somewhere in the thick Virginia
forest are a lot of wild animals, and they've all just fallen in
love
.)) ( (PAUSE) )
Last Jamboree, I understand you had an unwelcomed visitor by
the name of Bob -- Hurricane Bob. Ben tells me you didn't have a
camp out
You had a damp out.
But this Jamboree is coming together marvelously. You can
canoe, kayak and swim. You can shoot shotguns and compete in
archery. You can earn Merit Badges while you work your way down
the Midway. ( (Undoubtedly, some of you will also be asked to
organize snipe-hunting expeditions. )) This all sounds like a lot
really
of fun. But there is only one activity here that tempts me to
leave the work of the White House behind and spend a few days
with you here at Fort A.P. Hill. I am talking about Fishhook
Lake.
2
I started fishing at age five or so, in the cold waters
along the coast of Maine, using a lead jig with a piece of white
cloth for bait, sometimes trolling with an old green cotton line.
( (And, of course, the first thing I caught was a cold. )) But
after awhile, I got the hang of it, pulling in pollock -- greasy,
can't
inedible devils -- and cunner -- another fish, also inedible.
But all that work eventually paid off with mackerel, and the
occasional flounder or smelt. I became acquainted with the
waters off Kennebunkport so well that now I know every reef, when
the swells will break and where you can find the seals on a given
day.
when I was your
Since those days of my youth, I've waded in a clean, clear
river in Iceland next to the Prime Minister of that land, and
caught my first salmon. I've pulled in bass in many states, and
fought dolphin, kings and hard-hitting 'cuda on the high seas.
As you might have guessed, fishing is my greatest favorite source of
relaxation. It is with a rod and reel in my hand that I tend to
count my blessings, especially if I'm with one of my
grandchildren, or with Barbara
( (the only woman on earth
who can read and fish at the same time, and catch every word and
every fish. ))
But no matter how much fun I have today, I will always look
back to the days when I trailed that piece of white cloth along
the shoreline. And there's a lesson here that I want to share
with you. Whatever you love to do -- whether its hiking, hunting
In puesoing success in school,
or kayaking -- hang on to it. Don't let the future pressures of
AS you pursue success in school,
AnD later in your consens,
Don't forget to leave to room do for
the thinp you Come
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school lege and career
If you stay true to the
hobbies of your boyhood, you will find a source of relaxation and
replenishment that will never fail you.
There are other things you will learn as a Scout that will
serve you well through life. Your Scout Law commands you to be
trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient,
cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent.
That may sound like a lot to remember, but it isn't. For at
the core of that code is something simple -- a desire to serve
with honor, a sincere feeling for one's fellow man and for one's
country. So service isn't a lifelong chore to be carried out.
the full
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As Chief Scout Citizen Teddy Roosevelt put it,
performance of duty is not only right in itself but also the
source of the profoundest satisfaction that can come in life."
In short, to serve and serve well is the highest fulfillment
we can know.
Certainly, you have been proving this every day, by "doing a
good turn daily." Boy Scouts have been helping out through times
of disaster, from fires to flash floods. The Boy Scouts were
there when Franklin Delano Roosevelt appealed for help during the
Great Depression, gathering almost two million articles of
clothing, household furnishings and food for the needy. And the
Boy Scouts were a strong helping hand at home when older brothers
fioe UnAccep tAbles
fought a war in Europe.
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Today, we are thankful that no depression or war looms ahead
of us. But this doesn't mean that the times we live in are less
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demanding. The Boy Scouts of this Twelfth National Jamboree will
face challenges unimagined by your fathers.
One of these challenges, I'm sorry to say, is the continuing
struggle to keep drugs out of the lockers of our high schools
to
keep this pollution out of America's bloodstream
for that
is what it is, a pollution of the mind, a pollution of the very
soul, of young America.
Earlier this week, a Wall Street Journal reporter wrote
movingly of his son, a boy named Ryan. Ronald Shafer remembered
his Ryan as a voracious collector of baseball cards who could
name every batting champion back to the 1960s -- the kind of
bright boy for whom life was an open invitation to succeed. But
Ryan started using drugs and alcohol at age 12, and soon became a
stranger to his parents and classmates. By age 16, Ryan was
dead.
There are thousands of Ryans across America, thousands of
young men and women who are in danger of losing their future,
their very lives, to this scourge we call drugs.
The Boy Scouts of America has assumed a leadership role in
confronting this problem. You are teaching self-protection
strategies against drugs and other dangers. You have circulated
these strategies in direct language in a very successful pamphlet
called Drugs: A Deadly Game. And you have done something else --
you are leading the youth of America by example.
There are other, more positive challenges facing your
generation. When the first Boy Scouts chapter was formed,
5
Americans had just tamed the farthest reaches of the West. There
were only a few remote places in the world unseen by Man. Since
then, the world has become smaller. And so has the room for our
imagination and daring -- a narrowed space for the restless
spirit of freedom that is so much a part of our national
identity.
But you and I know that there is a new frontier,
PIREZT
CHALLENUE
frontier that can never be tamed or exhausted -- space.
Once again, Boy Scouts have played a leadership role in
preparing a generation for space exploration. It is no
coincidence that half of all astronauts were once Scouts. Gus
Grissom, an American hero who lost his life in the early space
This is challenge.
program, was a Scout. David Scott and James Irwin, who operated
the first lunar rover, were Scouts. And I doubt that any of the
you as Jone Hareach go
Scouts who participated in the 1969 seventh Jamboree in Idaho
will ever forget Eagle Scout Neil Armstrong, who made man's first
step on the moon, and later sent his greetings to the Jamboree
from deep space.
The first spacefarers were unique, the lucky few. But your
generation will have a broader, greater opportunity to live in
space, to travel to the moon and to even set foot on another
world.
Near the Jamboree area is a NASA exhibit of "Freedom
Station," which will become our nation's first permanent manned
space station in the next decade. Nearby are also large-scale
models of the space shuttle and other crafts. This is America's
6 changin. 3 When me aim for the
space fleet, and its mission is gradually shifting from pure
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exploration to settlement.
This brings to mind an small irony. Just a few miles away,
along the Tidewater Coast of Virginia, the first Englishmen
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arrived in the New World mot 11146 just to explore, but to settle.
These early colonies were ill-fated. Their first fall
brought a bitter harvest of hardship. Their first winter brought
tragedy. But in the end, the generation of Captain John Smith
escaped the confines of the Old World to settle the New, a fresh
frontier, a boundless promise called America.
Today, as before, some timid and chiding voices caution us
against the danger, the hardship and the expense. Perhaps they
should listen to Steven Speilberg ( (quote to come) ) Or perhaps
they should listen to Ray Bradbury, a writer who once said that
space will make children of us all.
He didn't mean that literally. Bradbury meant that the
forgut,
magled t will he you, was to werd
strange beauty and mystery of space will teach even the most
cynical and worldweary among us to rediscover the wonder of our
first glimpse of the night sky. It is this sense of wonder and
curiosity that draws you from the comfort of home and television to the
outdoon.
into the dark forests. around the campfire, to sleep under the
Tonght, as you
stars. And it is this same spirit that will surely draw mankind
to a new destiny on new worlds.
You are privileged to be a part of the generation that will
witness the first large movement of men and women into space.
7
And as this happens, I know that the Boy Scouts of today will be
in the lead.
Thank you for inviting me to your Jamboree. God bless you
and God bless the Boy Scouts of America.
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United States
External Affairs (A-100AE)
FYI
Environmental Protection
Washington DC 20460
Agency
Community and
EPA
Intergovernmental Relations
JUL 28 1989
MEMORANDUM TO:
Greg Petersmeyer
Deputy Assistant to the President and
Director, Office of National Service
FROM:
Office Peggy Harlow of Community Knight, Director and Peggy Hright Intergovernmental
Relations
SUBJECT:
President's Visit to the Boy Scout Jamboree
It is my understanding that the President plans to visit the Boy
Scout Jamboree at Fort A. P. Hill, Virginia, on August 2. It is
important that he be aware of a display that EPA will have there
featuring the President's Environmental Youth Awards Program.
Because the Program is the President's, it is possible that he
will receive questions about it.
The Program recognizes young people from each of EPA's ten
regions for environmental projects they have completed in their
local communities. The best project from each region is selected
for a national award and is brought to Washington for a ceremony.
We have a request at the White House now for the President to
present those awards in November. Enclosed is a brochure which
explains the Program.
United States
Office of
Environmental Protection
External Affairs
Agency
(A-108EA)
EPA
The President's
Environmental Youth
Awards
1988 National Winners
The President's Environmental Youth Awards
Y
oung people in all fifty states are invited to participate in the
President's Environmental Youth Awards program, which
offers them, individually and collectively, an opportunity to
become an environmental force within their community.
The President's Environmental Youth Awards program
encourages individuals, school classes, schools, summer camps,
public interest groups, and youth organizations to promote local
environmental awareness and to channel this awareness into
positive community involvement.
"There are two things that are
permanent in this country, two
things that we pass on from
generation to generation without
even speaking of our pride or their
preciousness. One is the treasure of
"One day in the not too distant
our minds and hearts. The other is
future, today's youth will begin to
the treasure of our land-the
take responsibility for the
environment."
environment as consumers, as
voters, and as community leaders.
President George Bush
We must assure that they appreciate
not only this country's magnificent
natural heritage-our farms and
our forests, our waters and our
wildlife-but also the essential role
that a healthy environment plays in
our nation's economic well-being.
The President's Environmental
Youth Awards Program is one way
of recognizing significant
achievement as our young people,
the future caretakers of this earth,
become involved in their
communities. Congratulations to
this year's winners. We applaud
you and all the award candidates,
and we are deeply grateful for your
fine efforts."
William K. Reilly
Administrator
United States Environmental Protection Agency
President's Environmental Youth Awards Application
This is a voluntary program. Applications should
be completed only by those who wish to participate.
Individual, School, Camp, or Youth Group (Circle One)
Sponsor
Name
Name
Telephone (
)
Street
Street
City
State
Zip
City
State
Zip
Project To Be Considered For:
REGIONAL
NATIONAL
AWARD (Check One or Both).
Describe Project and Results Achieved
Number of
Certificates
Required
Project Dates
Beginning
Ending
Presentation
Date or Last
Day of Term
Name organizations which helped on project and describe how they helped.
Did Project
Receive Press
Coverage
Yes
No
If "Yes" attach Press Clippings
On a separate sheet of paper, please list the name(s) addresses, ages and grades of individuals qualifying for awards. Print or type the name(s)
Signatures Application must be signed by adult sponsors.
OMB Number 2090-0007 Expiration April 30, 1990
These supporting materials may
Judging Criteria
Role of The Sponsor
include mounted photographs,
Each Regional Awards Panel will
news clippings, and other
The adult sponsor plays an
supplemental items such as full
judge projects on:
important role in helping a young
texts of scientific papers. Typed
The environmental need for the
person or group of young people
(doubled spaced) applications are
project.
carry out their projects and apply
encouraged. Applicants should
for awards. Sponsors should offer
The environmental
type or write only on one side of
suggestions and advice on:
appropriateness of the project.
each sheet.
Developing a sound approach to
Accomplishment of goals.
Applicants are strongly urged to
the project.
follow the specific criteria that the
The long-term environmental
Project implementation
Regional Judging Panel will use to
benefits derived from the project.
evaluate applications. (See Judging
Working with other groups and
Positive environmental impact
individuals in the community.
Criteria.) Because judges cannot
on the local community and
visit projects, students are
society.
Completing the application
encouraged to include
form(s) and preparing
photographs, newspaper articles,
The extent to which the project
accompanying materials.
and other supporting materials
was designed, coordinated, and
with their applications. This will
implemented due to the young
The sponsor must be an adult
help the judging panel to gain a
person's or persons' initiative.
and can be a teacher, youth group
more comprehensive view of a
The positive ways in which
advisor, summer camp counselor,
project.
other groups or individuals were
or community leader. Young
involved to provide funds,
people must work closely with the
On a separate sheet of paper,
attached to the 3-5 page
resources, or publicity.
sponsor(s) throughout the project
and application procedures.
application, list the group name (if
Innovation.
Questions not answered by this
applicable), names of individuals
Soundness of approach,
brochure can be directed to your
and addresses of all project
rationale, and scientific design (if
state's EPA regional office.
participants and sponsors. Also list
the project name if it has one. The
applicable).
sponsor's home and work
Clarity and effectiveness of
telephone numbers and signature
presentation.
must appear on this sheet.
How To Apply
Eligibility
To be eligible, a young person, or
group of young persons, must
have completed an environmental
project while in grades
Kindergarten through 12, and the
project must be sponsored by at
least one adult representative of
their school, camp, youth group,
or public interest group.
Application Deadline
To participate in the annual
national awards competition,
projects must be completed by July
31 of the award year; applications
must be mailed to the appropriate
Student representative Tim Baraclaugh,
from the Raton, NM, Future Farmers of
Regional Office; and applications
America Chapter, participates in the 1988
UNITED
STATES.
must be postmarked by July 31 or
Youth Work Group meeting.
earlier of the same award year. Do
not mail the application to EPA
Headquarters in Washington, DC.
AGENCY
PROTECTION
Project Examples
Young people can help promote a
clean environment in a variety of
ways. They can choose
work-oriented projects directly
affecting the land, such as litter
clean-up campaigns, adopt-a-beach
programs, and river clean-up
projects. Students can also design
and implement projects to increase
public awareness of environmental
concerns, or study environmental
issues through science experiments
and projects. Some examples of
award winning past projects
include:
A Florida high-school student
conducted a four-year project
carrying out research on the
problem of beach erosion and
planted sea oats as an erosion
deterrent. She was also honored
for using scientific methods to
Sponsor Gail Church and youth representative Tara Church, from El Segundo, CA,
measure the effectiveness of this
discuss their 1988 winning project.
revegetation project.
could learn about and monitor the
National Awards Competition
In a science fair project, a West
activities of plants, fish, and
Virginia senior high-school student
animals.
If a project produced especially
researched a local environmental
significant results, sponsors are
problem related to acidified mine
How The Program Works
encouraged to enter the national
drainage.
awards competition by marking the
A Future Farmers of America
The program has two components:
appropriate box on the application.
The regional certificate program
One outstanding project from each
chapter in New Mexico designed
and operated an experimental tree
and the national awards
of the ten EPA Regions is selected
for national honors.
farm and ran a rehabilitation center
competition. Regional certificates
for injured wild game.
are awarded by the Regional
National individual project
Offices of the U.S. Environmental
winners, or one representative
A class of sixth-grade students in
Protection Agency. The national
from a national award-winning
New York State developed an
award winners are selected by the
group project, along with one
awareness campaign encouraging
regional offices and their
project sponsor, will receive an
the clean-up of a local landfill.
recognition program is
expense-paid trip to Washington,
Their recycling efforts resulted in
administered by EPA Headquarters
D.C., to participate in the annual
an extra 250 usable cubic yards of
in Washington, D.C.
National Awards Ceremony, and
landfill space and halted the
to consult with the EPA Youth
proposed close-up of the landfill.
Work Group about the President's
In addition, their town formed a
Regional Certificate Program
Environmental Youth Awards
Committee on Solid Waste
Program and other environmental
Management.
The sponsor must complete the
education initiatives for young
attached application and mail it to
people.
A Girl Scout Troop in California
the appropriate EPA Regional
initiated efforts to increase the
Office (see listing on back of
number of trees in their city as a
brochure). The regional certificate
Application Procedures
means of filtering air pollutants. In
program is conducted year-round;
addition to planting and
Although creativity is encouraged,
therefore, applications for the
maintaining these trees, the group
applications must conform to the
regional program can be submitted
also planned Arbor Day activities
following guidelines:
at any time.
and other environmental
awareness activities in their
If a project is completed in the
The sponsor(s) MUST sign and
community.
regional component of the
date the application.
program, all participants will
The applications must
Students in a Brooklyn, New
receive certificates signed by the
summarize the project in no less
York, junior-high school designed
President of the United States,
than three, and no more than five,
and operated an Environmental
honoring them for their efforts in
8-1/2 by 11 inch pages, not
Studies Laboratory where students
environmental protection.
including supporting materials.
EPA Regional Offices
EPA Region 1
EPA Region 4
EPA Region 8
JFK Federal Building
345 Courtland Street NE.
999 18th Street, Suite 500
Boston, MA 02203
Atlanta, GA 30365
Denver, CO 80202-2405
(617) 565-3187
(404) 347-3004
(303) 293-1693
Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky,
Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South
Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont
Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Dakota, Utah, Wyoming
Tennessee
EPA Region 2
EPA Region 9
26 Federal Plaza
EPA Region 5
215 Fremont Street
New York, NY 10278
230 South Dearborn Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
(212) 264-2515
Chicago, IL 60604
(415) 974-7765
New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, Virgin
(312) 886-7935
Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada,
Islands
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota,
American Samoa, Guam, Trust Territories of
Ohio, Wisconsin
the Pacific
EPA Region 3
841 Chestnut Street
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EPA Region 10
Philadelphia, PA 19107
1445 Ross Avenue
1200 Sixth Avenue
(215) 597-9800
Dallas, TX 75202-2733
Seattle, WA 98101
Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania,
(214) 655-2200
(206) 442-4280
Virginia, West Virginia, District of
Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico,
Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington
Columbia
Oklahoma, Texas
EPA Region 7
726 Minnesota Avenue
Kansas City, KS 66101
(913) 236-2803
Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska
Debbie Combs and Sandra Puckett (sponsor), from Bluefield,
WV, were among the 1988 national award winners.
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sire or of power to strive after great things,
is as little worthy of a nation as of an indi-
THE STRENUOUS LIFE
vidual.
TOMORROW morning early we go on
I WISH to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble
horseback, each taking a spare pony, which
ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life,
will be led behind the wagon, a light "prairie
the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife;
schooner" drawn by two stout horses, and
to preach the highest form of success which
driven by an old French halfbreed. I wear a
comes, not to the man who desires mere easy
sombrero, silk neckerchief, fringed buckskin
peace, but to the man who does not shrink
shirt, sealskin chaparajos or riding trowsers;
from danger, from hardship, or from bitter
alligator hide boots; and with my pearl-hilted
task, and who out of these wins the splendid
revolver and beautifully finished Winchester
ultimate triumph.
rifle, I shall feel able to face anything. How
long I will be gone I can not say: we will go
THE only man who makes no mistakes is the
in all nearly a thousand miles.
man who never does anything.
A MAN who in civilization would be merely
THE capacity to be bored, whether treated as
a back biter becomes a murderer on the fron-
a sin or a misfortune is an awful handicap.
tier; and on the other hand, he who in the
city would do nothing more than bid you a
WE must be vigorous in mind and body, able
cheery good morning, shares his last bit of
to hold our own in rough conflict with our
sun-jerked venison with you when threatened
fellows, able to suffer punishment without
by starvation in the wilderness.
flinching, and at need, to repay in kind with
full interest.
YESTERDAY I rode 72 miles between dawn
A LIFE of slothful ease, a life of that peace
and darkness; I have a superb roan pony; he
which springs merely from lack either of de-
looks well, with his beautifully carved saddle,
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plated bridle, and silver inlaid bit, and seems
to be absolutely tireless.
AGGRESSIVE fighting for the right is the no-
blest sport the world affords.
IF you have the pluck, the grit, in you to
count in sports, just as you have the pluck
and grit in you to count in your studies, it
will help you to count in after life.
I ALWAYS believe in going hard at everything.
My experience is that it pays never to let up
or grow slack and fall behind.
NOT once in a thousand times is it possible
to achieve anything worth achieving except
by labor, by effort, by serious purpose, and
by willingness to run risks.
THE accident did not keep me in five minutes.
I rode straight through the rest of the hunt. I
don't grudge the broken arm a bit. I am al-
ways willing to pay the piper when I have had
a good dance, and every now and then I like
to drink the wine of life with brandy in it.
IT is of far more importance that a man shall
play something himself, even if he plays it
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badly, than that he shall go with hundreds of
boys and college graduates, wherever they
companions to see some one else play well.
come from, and whatever their social posi-
tion - possessed in common the traits of
THE man should have youth and strength
hardihood and a thirst for adventure. (The
who seeks adventure in the wide, waste
Rough Riders.)
spaces of the earth, in the marshes, and
among the vast mountain masses, in the
I COMMANDED my regiment, I think I may
northern forests, amid the steaming jungles
say, with honor. We lost a quarter of our men.
of the tropics, or on the deserts of sand or of
How I escaped I know not; I have not blanket
snow. He must long greatly for the lonely
or coat; I have not taken off my shoes even;
winds that blow across the wilderness, and
I sleep in the drenching rain, and drink put-
for sunrise and sunset over the rim of the
rid water.
empty world. His heart must thrill for the sad-
dle and not for the hearthstone. His eye must
I AM as strong as a bull moose, and you can
use me to the limit.
be true and quick, his hand steady and strong.
His heart must never fail nor his head grow
bewildered, whether he face brute and human
I THINK very little of mere oratory. I feel an
foes, or the frowning strength of hostile na-
impatient contempt for the man of words if
ture, or the awful fear that grips those who
he is merely a man of words. The great speech
must always be the speech of a man with a
are lost in trackless lands.
great soul, who has a thought worth putting
IN the last resort, no material prosperity, no
into words he utters.
business acumen. no intellectual develop-
ment of any kind, can atone in the life of a
THE only safe rule is to promise little, and
nation for the lack of the fundamental quali-
faithfully to keep every promise; to "speak
ties of courage, honesty and common sense.
softly and carry a big stick."
ALL - Easterners and Westerners, Northern-
IT is not the critic who counts; not the man
ers and Southerners, officers and men, cow-
who points out how the strong man stumbles,
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or where the doer of deeds could have done
it is hardly worth while to have lived in the
them better. The credit belongs to the man
world at all.
who is actually in the arena, whose face is
marred by dust and sweat and blood; who
strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short
THE twentieth century looms big before us
again and again, because there is no effort
with the fate of many nations. If we stand idly
without error and shortcoming; but who does
by, if we seek merely swollen, slothful ease
actually strive to do the deeds; who knows
and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard
the great enthusiasms, the great devotions;
contests where men must win at hazard of
who spends himself in a worthy cause.
their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear;
then the bolder and stronger peoples will pass
SUCCESS comes only to those who lead the life
us by.
of endeavor.
WE are face to face with our destiny and we
WE hold work not as a curse but as a blessing.
must meet it with a high and resolute cour-
and we regard the idler with scornful pity.
age. For us is the life of action, of strenuous
performance of duty; let us live in the har-
THE work of the Police Board has absorbed
ness, striving mightily; let us rather run the
all the time and energy I could give. There is
risk of wearing out rather than rusting out.
nothing of the purple in it.
IT is sheer unmanliness and cowardice to
I THINK it perfectly possible to combine a full
shrink from the contest because at first there
knowledge of the evil that exists, not only
is failure; or because the work is difficult or
with a determination to cut out that evil, but
repulsive. No man who is worth his salt has
with a clear understanding of the great good
any right to abandon the effort to better our
that exists also.
politics merely because he does not find it
pleasant, merely because it entails associa-
IF with the best of intentions we can only
manage to deserve the epithet of "harmless"
able. tions which to him happen to be disagree-
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I DID not care a rap for being shot. It is a trade
exist, and who fails to see that the only way
risk, which every prominent public man
to insure the triumph of righteousness in the
ought to accept as a matter of course.
future is to war against all that is base, weak,
and unlovely in the present.
ALL daring and courage, all iron endurance
of misfortune make for a finer nobler type of
I'VE had many a splendid day's fun in my life
manhood.
but I can't remember ever having crowded
so much of it into such a few hours. (After
LET us see to it that, while we take advantage
his first submarine voyage, 1905.)
of every gentler and more humanizing tend-
ency of the age, we yet preserve the iron
I AM busy correcting the proof of the fourth
quality which made our forefathers and pre-
volume of "The Winning of the West" and by
decessors fit to do the deeds they did.
the middle of May or June, I shall be through
the hardest part of my work, both literary and
ONE of the prime dangers of civilization has
official. I shall then have finished a year of
always been its tendency to cause the loss of
as hard work and as much worry and respon-
virile fighting virtues, of the fighting edge.
sibility as a man could well have. I don't mind
When men get too comfortable and lead too
work; the only thing I am afraid of is that by
luxurious lives, there is always danger lest the
and by I will have nothing to do. (Written
softness eat like an acid into their manliness
while Civil Service Commissioner.)
of fibre.
IN this world the only thing supremely worth
THERE is no place among us for the mere
having is the opportunity coupled with the
pessimist; no man who looks at life with a
capacity to do well and worthily a piece of
vision that sees all things black or gray can
work the doing of which is of vital conse-
do aught healthful in moulding the destiny of
quence to the welfare of mankind.
a mighty and vigorous people. But there is
just as little use for the foolish optimist who
DID you ever see such a fleet, and such a day;
refuses to face the many and real evils that
by George isn't it magnificent!
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I AM wrestling with two Japanese wrestlers
three times a week. I am not the age or the
build. one would think, to be whirled lightly
over an opponent's head and batted down on
a mattress without damage, but they are so
skillful that I have not been hurt at all.
ONE afternoon Archie turned up with his en-
tire football team. We had obstacle races,
hide-and-go-seek, blind man's buff, and
everything else; and there were times when I
felt that there was a perfect shoal of small
boys bursting in every direction, up and down
stairs, and through and over every conceiv-
able object.
MY trip with the boys in Arizona was a great
success, although it is rather absurd for me
now to be going on such trips, for a stout,
rheumatic, elderly gentleman is not particu-
larly in place sleeping curled up in a blanket
on the ground, and eating the flesh of a cou-
gar because there is nothing else available.
I HAD to go. It was my last chance to be a boy.
(Referring to his South American Expedi-
tion, 1913.)
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FAR better it is to dare mighty things, to win
their worldly well-being as dust in the bal-
glorious triumphs, even though checkered by
ance when weighed against their sense of
failure, than to take rank with those poor
high duty, their fealty to lofty ideals. Let us
spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer
show ourselves worthy to be their sons. Let
much, because they live in the gray twilight
us care, as is right, for the things of the body;
that knows not victory nor defeat.
but let us show that we care even more for
the things of the soul.
THE joy of living is his who has the heart to
demand it.
AMERICANISM means the virtues of courage,
honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardi-
hood - the virtues that made America.
THE nation that achieves greatness, like the
THE NATION
individual who achieves greatness, can do so
only at the cost of anxiety and bewilderment
and heart-wearing effort.
WE are the citizens of a mighty Republic
consecrated to the service of God above.
THE path of self-government is very difficult,
through the service of man on this earth. We
and only those peoples can tread it who are
are the heirs of a great heritage bequeathed
able to control their own passions and follies.
to us by statesmen who saw with the eyes of
the seer and the prophet. We must not prove
THROUGHOUT past history Liberty has always
false to the memories of the nation's past. We
walked between the twin terrors of Tyranny
must not prove false to the fathers from
and Anarchy. They have stalked like wolves
whose loins we sprang, and to their fathers,
beside her, with murder in their red eyes,
the stern men who dared greatly and risked
ever-ready to tear each other's throats, but
all things that freedom should hold aloft an
even more ready to rend in sunder Liberty
undimmed torch in this wide land. They held
herself.
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Federal Republic have set before us, unless
we are Americans in heart and soul, in spirit
and purpose, keenly alive to the responsibility
implied in the very name of American, and
proud beyond measure of the glorious privi-
lege of bearing it.
IT IS a base untruth to say that happy is the
nation that has no history. Thrice happy is
the nation that has a glorious history!
PUBLIC
THERE are numerous and grave evils incident
to free government but after all is said and
done I cannot imagine any real man being
willing to live under any other system.
THE nation that has done a great work lives
forever.
NATURE
IREMEMBER distinctly the first day I started
on my career as a zoologist. I was walking up
Broadway, and as I passed the market, I sud-
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wood. That seal filled me with every possible
NOWHERE, not even at sea, does a man feel
feeling of romance and adventure.
more Ionely than when riding over the far-
reaching, seemingly never-ending plains; and
WHILE my interest in natural history has
after a man has lived a little while on or near
added very little to my sum of achievement,
them, their very vastness and Ioneliness and
it has added immeasurably to my sum of en-
their melancholy monotony have a strong fas-
joyment in life.
cination for him.
I STARTED in the very earliest morning, when
I SHALL never forget our three camps; the
the intense brilliancy of the stars had just
first in the solemn temple of the giant sequo-
begun to pale before the first streak of dawn.
ias; the next in the snowstorm among the
By the time I left the river-bottom and struck
silver firs and the third fronting the stupend-
off up the valley of a winding creek, which led
ous rocky mass of El Capitan.
through the Bad Lands, the eastern sky was
THE farther one gets into the wilderness, the
growing rosy; and soon the buttes and cliffs
greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.
were lit up by the level rays of the cloudless
summer sun. The air was fresh and sweet, and
WHEN the days have dwindled to their short-
odorous with the sweet scents of the spring-
est, and the nights seem never-ending, then
time that was but barely passed; the dew lay
all the great northern plains are changed into
heavy, in glittering drops, in the leaves and
an abode of iron desolation. Sometimes furi-
the blades of grass, whose vivid green, at this
ous gales blow out of the north, driving be-
season, for a short time brightens the desolate
fore them the clouds of blinding snow-dust,
and sterile-looking wastes of the lonely West-
wrapping the mantle of death round every un-
ern plains.
sheltered being that faces their unshackled
anger. They roar in a thunderous bass as they
FROM the standpoint of real pleasure I should
sweep across the prairie or whirl through the
selfishly prefer my old-time ranch on the
naked canyons; they shiver the great brittle
Little Missouri to anything in Newport.
cottonwoods, and beneath their rough touch
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the icy limbs of the pines that cluster in the
soils have been still further impoverished and
gorges sing like the chords of an Aeolian harp.
washed into the streams, polluting the rivers,
WE HAVE fallen heirs to the most glorious
denuding the fields and obstructing naviga-
tion.
heritage a people ever received, and each one
must do his part if we wish to show that the
nation is worthy of its good fortune.
I RECOGNIZE the right and duty of this gen-
eration to develop and use the natural re-
IN THE Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural
sources of our land; but I do not recognize
wonder which is in kind absolutely unparal-
the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful
leled throughout the rest of the world. I want
use, the generations that come after us.
to ask you to keep this great wonder of nature
as it now is. I hope you will not have a build-
OF ALL the questions which can come before
ing of any kind, not a summer cottage. a hotel
this nation, short of the actual preservation
or anything else, to mar the wonderful gran-
of its existence in a great war, there is none
deur, the sublimity, the great loneliness and
which compares in importance with the great
beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is. You
central task of leaving this land even a better
cannot improve on it. The ages have been at
land for our descendants than it is for us.
work on it, and man can only mar it.
A GROVE of giant redwood or sequoias should
I BELIEVE that the natural resources must
be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful
be used for the benefit of all of our people and
cathedral.
not monopolized for the benefit of the few.
THE civilized people of today look back with
WE HAVE become great because of the lavish
horror at their mediaeval ancestors who wan-
use of our resources. But the time has come
tonly destroyed great works of art, or sat sloth-
to inquire seriously what will happen when
fully by while they were being destroyed. We
our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron,
have passed that stage. We treasure pictures
the oil, and the gas are exhausted, when the
and sculptures. But we are, as a whole, still
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in that low state of civilization where we do
THE meadow-lark is a singer of a higher
not understand that it is also vandalism wan-
order, deserving to rank with the best. Its
tonly to destroy or to permit the destruction
song has length, variety, power, and rich mel-
of what is beautiful in nature, whether it be a
ody; and there is in it sometimes a cadence
cliff, a forest, or a species of mammal or bird.
of wild sadness, inexpressingly touching. Yet
it comes forever laden with a hundred mem-
To LOSE the chance to see frigate-birds soar-
ories and associations; with the sight of dim
ing in circles above the storm, or a file of peli-
hills reddening in the dawn, with the breath
cans winging their way homeward across the
of cool morning winds blowing across lonely
crimson afterglow of the sunset, or a myriad
plains, with the scent of flowers on the sun-
terns flashing in the bright light of midday as
light prairie, with the motion of fiery horses,
they hover in a shifting maze above the beach
with all the strong thrill of eager and buoyant
- why, the loss is like the loss of a gallery of
life.
the masterpieces of the artists of old time.
I DOUBT if any man can judge dispassionately
IT IS not what we have that will make us a
the bird songs of his own country: he can not
great nation; it is the way we use it.
disassociate them from the sights and sounds
of the land that is so dear to him.
IT IS an incalculable added pleasure to any
one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to
I CAN no more explain why I like "natural
know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to
history" than why I like California canned
read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.
peaches.
SPRING would not be spring without bird
SPRING has fairly begun. The frogs are noisy
songs, any more than it would be spring with-
in the ponds, the robins and song sparrows
out buds and flowers, and I only wish that be-
and redwing blackbirds are in song; the
sides protecting the songsters, we could also
maple buds are red and the willow tips green;
protect the birds of the sea-shore and the wil-
the first mayflowers and bloodroot have ap-
derness.
peared.
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THE country is beautiful beyond description.
It is the high tide of the year, with tree and
flower and bird.
THERE are men who love out-of-doors who
yet never open a book; and other men who
love books but to whom the great book of
nature is a sealed volume.
JOHN Burroughs and I had a very pleasant
time during our three days at Pine Knot. I
was much pleased to be able to show him all
the birds I had said I would, including the
Bewich's wren, the blue grosbeak, the gnat-
catcher, the summer redbird, etc. I think he
found the place almost too primitive, for a
family of flying squirrels had made their
abode inside the house.
THE keenest enjoyment of the wilderness is
reserved for him who enjoys also the garnered
wisdom of the present and the past.
WE ARE not building this country of ours for
a day. It is to last through the ages.
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BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Magazine Division
1325 Walnut Hill Lane
P.O. Box 152079
Irving, Texas 75015-2079
Address Correction Requested
Photo Copy Preservation
PRESIDENT'S CITATION PROGRAM FOR PRIVATE SECTOR INITIATIVES
The President of the United States of America
Awards this
CITATION
To
"Drugs: A Deadly Game"
" program of
Boy Scouts of America
Champion International
Coca Cola, USA
for outstanding service to the community
and finding
innovative private solutions to public problems
The White House
Washington. D.C.
Ronald Reagon
September 20. 1088
William P. Casey
Executive Vice President
Bottler Operations
Coca-Cola USA
Division of
The Coca-Cola Company
February 12, 1987
TO: U.S. Bottlers of Coca-Cola
Last week, I wrote to you concerning one of the most exciting and important
community service, public education, and promotional activities ever launched in
the area of drug abuse awareness.
With national support from The Coca-Cola Foundation and Coca-Cola USA,
The Boy Scouts of America today launched "Drugs: A Deadly Game" via a major
news conference at the National Press Club in Washington. BSA's 408 U.S. councils
were simultaneously notified earlier in the week.
Now, it's time for your involvement in what is the most multi-faceted, anti-drug
educational programs ever developed. This effort potentially reaches into every
community organization. A key objective is to place the enclosed drug awareness
color brochure into the hands of every young person in America.
As a start, here's what we've worked out with the Scouts in terms of initial
distribution, reaching up to 8 million youngsters and adults.
4 million Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, and Explorers.
1.2 million Scout leaders and parents.
7.5 million subscribers to Boy's Life Magazine (March Insert) and 1.9 million
readers of Scouting Magazine (March-April issue).
With your help, local councils can now extend this reach to millions of other
Americans, young and old, via civic and community groups, religious and fraternal
organizations, and public and private school systems.
Enclosed are suggestions for cooperative programs with local councils.
We know you've seen and may have been involved in other anti-drug programs.
We truly believe this is a very special one because it brings together the strengths of
local councils with local Bottlers throughout America. It also has all of the honor and
patriotism with which Coca-Cola is traditionally associated. We hope you'll agree this
is a significant effort.
Please contact your local Boy Scout council as soon as possible or expect a call
from them. If you have questions, please contact Coca-Cola USA Public Affairs
Programs -- Rob Martin, 404/676-3702, or Bob Longenecker, 404/676-2691.
Best wishes, and thanks.
Bill Casey
P.C. 173-1
Atlant 301.
THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
D. 132,310
FEB 18 1987
BURRELLE'S
Boy Scouts to wage anti-drug fight
The Indianapolis News
Boy Scouts of America is initiating a
nationwide campaign aimed at fighting drug
abuse, says Ben H. Love, chief scout execu-
Eagles dinner Thursday
tive of the national organization.
More than 300 Eagle Scouts are expected
Love will speak about the campaign,
to attend a "Gathering of the Eagles" din-
called "Drugs, a Deadly Game," during a
ner at the Indiana Roof Ballroom Thursday.
visit to Indianapolis Thursday. He will make
The dinner is a part of the Crossroads of
his address to a gathering of 300 Eagle
America Council, Boy Scouts of America,
Scouts.
anniversary celebration.
"This is not a program that we will hit
the media with and then let die," Love said
of the anti-drug platform. "It is something
we will incorporate into all facets of our
Those characteristics were expected to
program."
keep the Scouts "physically strong. mental-
Information about the campaign will be
ly awake and morally straight," according
distributed to Scouts in the March issue of
to the Scout Oath. But now the leaders of
Boys Life magazine. Individual Scout troops
Scouts are doing more than speaking about
will discuss the material, and each Scout is
good things. They are actively speaking out
encouraged to discuss drug abuse with his
about the many problems confronting
parents.
young people.
-..
"It will be part of a our total program
"These are problems that impact all of
that teaches young people to be aware of
society," Love said. "We are doing this
drugs and how to say no." he said.
because of the need for us to do everything
Love also will address the problems of
we can to improve the environment in
illiteracy. child abuse and teen unemploy-
which young people are growing up.
ment during his speech.
Love said the drug program is targeted at
"I will be speaking about things we have
all young people, not just Scouts. He said
identified as unacceptable in society today."
the material will be made available to other
he said. "In Scouts, we help people estab-
interested youthorganizations.
lish values that permit them to make ethi-
"That is the thing that really make us
cal choices throughout their life."
excited." he said.
For many years, Boy Scout leaders have
The material was written with the "con-
sought to teach young men basic qualities
sultation of the best experts in the coun-
of trustworthiness, loyalty, bravery and rev-
try." Love said. The program is funded with
Ben H. Love
erence.
the assistance of the Coca-Cola Co.
Will visit here Thursday
THE NEW YORK TIMES, THUR. DAY. MARCH 12., 1987
However, in 1987, Reebok has moved
strongly out In front. And now that It
Advertising
is acquiring the Avia Group Interna-
Philip H. Dougherty
tional, which is more performance-
oriented than fashion-oriented, 11 will
be hard to keep up without the proper
shoes.
2 More P.&G. Products
The commercial will appear, ac-
Air-Sole
coriling in Ms Hale, on network and
To Slater, Hanft, Martin
spot television, as well MR on cable,
New Publisher Named
where Nike already has a position in
Slater, Hanft, Martin, already A
Introduced
ESPN basketball games. Four other
At Working Mother
Procter & Gamble agency, has picked
spots will be coming along, each of
up two more products, Dramamine
Carol Evans, 34 years old, will be
which will feature a different shoe -
and Icy Hot. The former is a motion
taking over the publisher's job at
walking, basketball, all purpose and
sickness product, the latter a pain-re-
By Nike
Working Mother magazine when
children's.
lieving ointment. Already at the
Raymond Eyes retires at the end of
The air time purchased will be
agency in Percogesic, an aspirin free
the month.
almed at reaching more women dur-
pain reliever. Billings for the prod-
Ing the week and more men during
Ms. Evans, who became a working
ucts were not disclosed.
HE first team from Nike was In
mother herself only this year, has
Needham Harper Worldwide had
T
weekend sports programming. The
town yesterday from Beaver-
time hasn't been bought yet, but a
been the magazine's advertising di-
given up the amamine account last
ton, Ore., bringing word of revo-
media representative from Nike's
rector since 1982. She Joined Working
June, while ky Hot was last at
lution and making plans to apread it.
agency, Weeden & Kennedy In Port-
Mother's sales team in Chicago In
Tatham Laird & Kudner. Recently
What you consider a revolution and
1978, the year It was started. Previ-
land, Ore, In negotating now in New
the products have been without agen-
what Philip H. Knight, the president
York.
ously she was with American Home
cles.
and chairman of the athletic shoe
In addition to the video advertising.
magazine.
The brands were the property of
company, considers a revolution may
there will be a magazine campaign
G. D. Searle & Company and are now
not be the same. But at least Cindy
featuring, for starters, an eight-page
handled by Procter's Richardson-
Hale, the ad manager of Nike, agrees
Insert that starts off: "Nike-Air is not
Wunderman to Handle
Vicks.
with the boes.
a shoe. It's a revolution."
"We saw In the late 1970's what we
The Insert has already appeared In
New Optima Card
Boy's Life Distributes
thought was the running revolution,
Runner's World and will next appear
Now that American Express has
but it wasn't," Mr. Knight said, "It
In April or May In Sports Illustrated,
Anti-Drug Kits
was the first shot of a fitness revolu-
People, Rolling Stone, Gentlemen's
revealed the existence of its new Op
tion."
Quarterly, Glamour, Mademoiselle
time card, it in possible to reveal that
Boy's Life magazine, the official
This year's revolution is the new
and Esquire. The same publications
Its agency for the Introduction is
publication of the Boy Scouts of
Air-Sole air-cushioned shoe, which
Wunderman, Ricotta & Kline, the
America, has, with a financial assist
will Ret later ads on Individual
Nike will be offer this year In 11
models of shoes.
Young & Rubicam direct-marketing
from Coca Cola and Champion Inter-
models. According to an ad that ran
Both the first commercial and the
specialty agency.
national, printed and distributed 5.2
That In Itsell tells you there will be
million kits to help In the war on
In the February Issue of Runner's
Insert feature the Max Air model, the
only one of the new lineup to have a
a little something different about the
World, It is "a special gas, pressur-
drugs. They have gone to the scouts
ized Inside a tough, flexible, urethane
see-through heel. It is quite distinc-
campaign. It will be via direct mail
and adults connected with scouting.
Instead of the usual broadcast and
skin" that "provides a spring-like
Now the magazine is anxious to en-
tive
cushtoning."
Nike's total ad budget is about $22
print onslaught one expects from new
large the distribution to many more
credit cards.
To spread the word of this Innova-
young people and is scouting for spon-
million, but another $40 million or 80
tion, Nike plans to spend $7 million
Since the client already has the list
sors.
is being put Into promotional activi-
of all of its card holders to work from,
for advertising from late March
ties and endorsements. Nike has 350
direct mall can make for an exqui-
through mid-May. The majority will
to 400 athletes in Its stable of such
sitely pinpointed marketing effort.
be spent In television, starting with a
loyal (and sometimes paid) wearers,
There has been trade talk that this
60-second commercial of the black-
Ms. Hale said.
could be a $15 million to $20 million
and-white documentary genre in
According to Mark Sullivan, the
advertising campaign.
which ordinary health nuts appear
editor of Sports Style, a trade publica-
with such stars as Michael Jordan of
tion, factory sales of athletic footwear
basketball and John McEnroe of ten-
were about $2.5 billion last year,
nis In a variety of sports Including
which he translated loosely to $4 bil-
barefoot swimming.
lion at retail.
And they do It all to the accompant-
While Nike was the market leader
ment of the Beatles singing "Revolu-
from 1980 through 1985, Reebok came
tion." It marks the "first time in ad-
In with its more-fashion-than-per-
vertising history that on original Bca.
formance-oriented footwear and
ties group recording has been
moved steadily up on Nike Last year,
licensed for use in a television cam-
Mr. Sullivan said, each had about 23
paign," Nike said In a statement.
to 25 percent share of the market
ADWEEK
MEDIA
NOTES
'Ms.' to Celèbrate Anniversary With New Look
By Noreen O'Leary and Barry Hochfelder
NEW YORK-Some 20 years ago, an edi-
tor at a well-established women's maga-
zine described to Gloria Steinem target
female readers: "mental defectives with
curlers in their hair." So it must be with
sweet revenge that Steinem-with her
trademark long, straight hair-is getting
ready to pop the corks on the 15th anni-
versary of proving them wrong.
Ms. will celebrate its 15th year of pub-
lishing with a special July/August double
issue. And in September, the magazine
will launch a bolder, redesigned format
and logo plus regular editorial features
Barr (left), Steinem celebrate Ms.'s birthday.
that focus on areas like entrepreneurs,
personal style and the "new family."
"We're a news magazine, SO we change as the world changes," says Steinem, one of
Ms.' founding editors. "In our first years of publishing we spent much of our time writing
about the problems. We felt there was no understanding of what it was like to be a wom-
an on Wall Street or a welfare mother
Now in the last several years we've been able
to report more on solutions."
The anniversary issue will draw on that past as well as speculate about the future. Ms.
is planning personal accounts and reflections of the past 15 years; "Lists of 15" that mark
the period's high and low points; and predictions, like "Signs of Intelligent Life in the
Universe in the Year 2002," a piece by Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner.
The magazine is offering advertisers a triple-issue discount if they buy the July/
August, September and October issues.
"We're saving to advertisers that we really believe in this relaunch and we want you in
the book," says Helen Barr, Ms. advertising director.
Ms.' rate base is normally 450,000. An additional 100,000 copies will be printed for the
July/August issue and 30,000 extra for September and October. Advertising for the anni-
versary issue closes April 24. Single-issue rates are $12,485 for a 4/C full page and
$9,290 for B&W.
MAGAZINES
Coca-Cola and Champion International. In
The March issue of Boys' Life, the publi-
addition to being bound into the March is-
cation of the Boy Scouts of America, con-
sue for the 1.3-million Boys' Life subscrib-
tains an anti-drug section sponsored by
ers, the booklet is being distributed to ev-
ery Boy Scout and Cub Scout.
The May 3 issue of the Washington
Post Magazine will include the 1987
BOYS
Spring Home + Design issue. Close:
April 3. Rates: $13,595 (B&W); $17,195
(4/C). The June 28 issue will be a special
issue devoted to "The Constitution To-
day." It will commemorate the 200th an-
niversary of the U.S. Constitution. Close:
May 29. Rates: same as above.
Family Computing will raise its circu-
Ron
lation rate base 3.6% to 435,000 effective
Wilkerson:
with the June issue. It is the magazine's
Eagle Scout
sixth increase in its three years of publish-
ing. Ad rates will increase 9% with the
puer
June issue. New rates: $10,620 (B&W);
Freestyle
$11,990 (4/C).
Superstar
Metrocorp, the Philadelphia publishing
consortium that owns Boston Magazine,
Philadelphia Magazinc and Manhattan,
Boys' Life battles drugs.
inc., has purchased Atlanta Magazine
Fri, March 13. 1987, Denver, Colo. Rocky Mountain News-83
Scouts sends anti-drug message
nization. More than 6.5 million copies of
By BILL HUSTED
tonio Smith, a member of the Young
the 16-page booklet have been printed,
Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer
Astronauts program; skier Julie Parisien;
with more on order. Through the sponsor-
and Washington Redskin Art Monk).
ship of Coca-Cola USA and Champion In-
Boys' Life magazine, the official publi-
ternational Corp., BSA officials say they
"We didn't want to use recovered drug
cation of the Boy Scouts of America, is
hope to distribute the full-color brochure
users," Young says. "Kids can get the
hiking down a new trail.
to every young person in America. The
feeling that they can take drugs and sur-
Once the safe campground for stories
project began last year when President
vive. We want to show that people can be
on scouting, canoeing and knot-tying, its
and Nancy Reagan asked the BSA to help
successful without using drugs."
March issue faces America's drug prob-
combat drug use.
The booklet also includes drug infor-
lem head-on. A hard-hiting, pullout bro-
"Scouting has a tradition of stepping in
mation from two doctors, a centerfold of
chure titled Drugs: A Deadly Game is in
and helping," says Young, in Denver to
the human body showing what damage
all 1.5 million copies.
discuss distributing the booklet with local
and effects drugs have on specific organs,
In addition to Boys' Life subscribers,
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. executives. "We
a five-page comic strip about a drug-
the booklet will go to all active Boy
thought the magazine was the perfect
related nightmare, and a message from
Scouts and Cub Scouts, scouting volun-
format to get the message across that
the Reagans.
teers and parents of scouts.
drugs are deadly, there is no such thing as
"Some traditionalist parents believe
recreational use."
The booklets are available to schools
that we shouldn't be addressing this top-
Young says that drug use is not specifi-
and youth organizations, either free
ic," says Warren Young, publisher of
cally a problem in scouting today. "I
(through sponsorship of local organiza-
Boys' Life. "They say that we are being
would be naive to think that no Boy Scout
tions) or for a small charge to cover
too realistic. They want their sons to be
has ever used drugs. But it is by no means
costs. Along with the booklets, BSA has
reading about camping and hiking -
an epidemic. This program is preventa-
prepared a teachers' manual and a 16-
that's why they put their kids in scouting.
tive, and it goes beyond scouting."
minute video tape of "superstars" saying
But we have to help the scout understand
"no" to drugs.
the problems he will encounter growing
DENNIS SCHROEDER/Special to the News
up."
The booklet features anti-drug mes-
For information on the booklet, write:
The brochure is part of an ambitious
sages from five positive role models (ac-
Drug Abuse Task Force S200, Boy Scouts
Warren Young, publisher of Boys' Life, says
anti-drug campaign mounted by the orga-
tors Scott Baio and Peter Billingsley; An-
of America, 1325 Walnut Hill Lane, Irving,
the magazine was the perfect format to get
Texas 75038-3096.
the message accross that drugs are deadly.
SAN DIEGO EVENING TRIBUNE
Be prepared - use Boy Scout materials to educate about drugs
Q. am à teacher in a middle
"The country is in the midst of a
and amphetamines
affect various
school: I'm using this summer to pre-
serious drug epidemic," be adds.
organs of the body.
pare a health unit for my students
The teacher's guide contains short
The materials are
"Taking drugs is not just dangerous,
next fall.
it is deadly.
takes with concise Information on
designed for
Can you please tell me where I can
The materials are designed for use
the prevalence, short-term effects,
get information (and how much it
within sconting and for use by
long-term effects and addictive po-
scouting, schools,
will cost) for: young people that will
schools, community agencies and
tential of each of these drugs In ad-
community
acquaint them with the harmful ef-
others as well. They include a 16-
dition; a student activity work sheet
facts of drug abuse? Thank you.
minute video, an 18-page booklet and
STRAIGHT
is included that contains a true-or-
agencies and
a teacher's guide.
TALK
false quiz and information about how
others as well
A. Some of the best I've seen is
The video shows what happens to
to start a peer counseling program
contained in a new set of materials
the body when drugs are used and
BY SUE RUSCHE
The material: was underwritten
prepared by the Boy Scouts of Amer-
depicts role models saying no to
with support from, Coca-Cola USA
Order from the Drug Abuse Task
Ica. The organization has undertaken
drugs. These Include 15-year-old U.S.
and Champion. International Corp.
Force, S200, Boy Scouts of America,
a massive. national campaign to spur
Olympic women's junior stalom
director of the Adult and Adolescent
The booklet has been distributed free
1325 Walnut Hill Lane, Irving, Texas,
young and old alike, in and out of
champion Julie Parisien; actor Scott
Chemical Dependence Programs at
of charge to all of the Boy Scouts'
4
75038-3096.
scouting, to say no to drugs.
Baio, 26, of the TV situation comedy
Ridgeview Institute in Atlanta, pro-
million youth members.
"We are seeing kids - only 9, 10 or
"Happy Days"; 15 year-old Peter
vide medical information about drug
Kits containing one video, five
Sue Rusche, author and national
11 years old - playing a deadly
Billingsly of NBC-TV's "Real Peo-
effects.
teacher's guides and 100 booklets are
authority on drug abuse, answers
game of Russian roulette with their
ple"; Boston Red Sox pitcher Roger
Of particular interest to you for
available at cost to non-Scout groups
questions from readers in her col-
hearts, their livers, and, in particu-
Clemens and others.
your health unit is a spectacular
and individuals for $32. The video
umn. Write to her in care of The Tri-
lar, with that most marvelous and
Charles R. Shuster, Ph.D., director
fold-out chart of the human body. It
may be ordered separately for $16,
bune, P.O. Box 191, San Diego 92112.
delicate organ, their brains," says
of the U.S. National Institute on Drug
shows how each of five drugs - CO-
as may the package of teacher's
Chief Scout Executive Ben H. Love.
Abuse, and Dr. G. Douglas Talbott,
caine, marijuana, alcohol, tobacco
guides and booklets, also for $16.
King Features Syndicate Inc.
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, Tuesday, April 14, 1987
THE
CASH
SUN-TIMES/Rich Hein
Warren Young holds a new poster that shows the areas of
the human body that drugs can fatally strike.
Anti-drug poster
makes graphic point
By K. O. Dawes
Boys' Life. the official mag-
SAYNO!
azine of Boy Scouting, has
published its first centerfold-
DRUGS
not the girlie kind, but graphic
nonetheless.
Chicago Sun-Times / WLS-TV @
The three-page. full-color
pullout poster is an anatomi-
March mailing of Boys' Life
cally explicit diagram of the
and Exploring, another Scout
damage that drugs can do to
publication. Although they
the human body-whether in
feature a girl skier and show a
the brain, blood vessels, heart,
supportive mother in the com-
liver or sex organs.
ic strip. they primarily are
The Boy Scouts of America
aimed at males.
committed $1 million to the
The star attraction is the
anti-drug campaign it hopes
poster-size body chart. said
will have a major impact on
Young.
every family in America, said
"Kids are really interested
J. Warren Young. publisher of
in processes and are fascinated
Boys' Life.
by seeing what can happen" as
So far. more than 8 million
a result of drugs, he said.
16-page brochures containing
The body chart deals with
the centerfold have been dis-
the effects of marijuana, alco-
tributed to 4 million Scouts
hol, tobacco, cocaine and am.
and 1.5 million Scout teaders,
phetamines, as well as inhal-
other youth groups and maga-
ing fumes from gasoline and
zine subscribers.
other fluids.
Titled "Drugs: a Deadly
"We're helping the kids
Game," the brochures feature
know why they must say 'no'
young athletes and entertain-
to drugs,' he said.
ers saying "no to drugs." They
A teacher's guide and a vi-
also have a five-page comic
deocassette also are available.
strip about peer pressure on a
The material has been free to
child to use drugs and a relat-
Scouts but is available for a
ed nightmare to illustrate the
fee to others from Drug Task
"Say No" message to younger
Force S200, Boy Scouts of
children.
America, 1325 Walnut Hill
They were part of the
Ln., Irving, Texas 75034-3096.
The Post-Register, Idaho Falls, Idaho, Sunday, April 19, 1987
Dont' Miss It!! Come and Join in this Big Event
and say "NO" to Drugs
DRUGS: DEADLY
A Dangerous Game
RALLY
Tuesday, April 21 - 7 p.m.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
Bonneville High School Gymnasium
Guest Appearances by:
3165 E. lona Road, Idaho Falls
ADMISSION FREE
The General Public is invited in addition to the following:
Cub Scout
Boy Scout
Varsity Scout
Packs
Troops
Teams
Explorer Posts
Girls of
School Groups
GOVERNOR
JASON BUCK
Corresponding
CECIL ANDRUS
LACAME are
be
to
the as the
ages and leaders
support
to
the
important
Compa
Against
Drugs
1986
Jason
your and
South high School and
learn; not
RICAR Comege
known who
Community Organizations and Leaders
THIS WILL BE THE LARGEST DRUG AWARENESS
RALLY EVER HELD IN THE STATE OF IDAHO
The "Drugs-A Deadly Game" Rally has been organized by the Teton Peaks Council,
Boy Scouts of America, with assistance and cooperation by the United Way of Idaho
Falls and Bonneville County, Just Say No. Inc. High On Life Not Drugs and Alcohol,
Be Smart Don't Start and other supporting groups,
Here is a list of the other outstanding
JENNIFER HOVEY
Mas
VICKI HOFFMAN
Idenc
are
Idenc
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Miss
Idanc
entertainment features for Tuesday evening:
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the
MISE
of
Sayana
America
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migh
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A full Court of Beauty Queens will perform a "Kisses for Commitment" Ceremony
Miss
She
Marine Corps Dressage Unit
Cheerleading Competition
commening
about
-
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she
apportant
a
more
ands
Siam Dunk Against Drugs featuring Steve Hayes Utah Jazz, Clint Bean and Kenny Anderson
De
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from Ricks College: Don Moiston and Rooney Harris, ISU.
MAURICE ELLSWORTH
PHIL MOON
Inter-School Band with over 100 members
Safety Kids
appointed
United
State
for
"O95
Night
MOI
Fame
Idanc
DT
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Fremont
Migh
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Phil
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and
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on
Subject
of
as
the
1986
Idaho
Broadcasiers
Association
above
and
FREE SOFT DRINKS
prevention
CANDY KISSES
General Rally Chairman Dane Watkins
Come early and linger aherwards to have a tree son
drink courtesy of
will De provided courtesy of
Rally Program Produced by - Dennis Stoddard and Rex Johns
Cola tiling Company
Farr Candy Company
This Important Message is brought to you by the following firms
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April 22, 1987
Copyright 1987. The Post-Register
JUN
A CROWD PACKS the Bonneville High School gymnasium Tuesday
Boy Scouts to build anti-drug sentiment among youths. The gym's
Saying no to drugs
night for a "Drugs - A Deadly Game" rally. Organizers estimated
normal capacity is 5,000. Story and more photos, Page A-2. (Post-
8,000 attended the event sponsored by the Teton Peaks Council of the
Register/Monte LaOrange)
Gov. Cecil Andrus receives candy kiss from Miss Idaho Jennifer Hovey.
(Post-Register/Monte LaOrange)
Cub Scout Weston Marshall heeds anti-drug messages.
Scouts anti-drug rally draws overflow crowd
By DAVE FIELDS
Register staff water
An Idaho Falls anti-drug rally ad-
'The message is clear,
vertised as the largest ever held in
.daho pulled in several thousand
drugs lead to crime,
more participants than expected
Tuesday night
crime leads to prison
The "Drugs - A Deadly Game"
and, in too many
rally at Bonneville High School
attracted a crowd ranging in esti-
instances, drugs lead to
mates from 6,500-8,000 people. The
injury and death.'
overflow crowd filled the school's
gymnasium, where for 11//hours they
- Gov. Cecil Andrus
listened to testimonials from digni-
taries and athletes, watched a "slam
dunk against drugs" competition,
Idaho's state penitentiary, 85 percent
and participated in anti-drug cheers.
have used drugs.
The purpose of the rally was to
convince youths to say "no" to
"The message is clear, drugs lead
drugs, and rally chairman Dane Wat-
to crime, crime leads to prison and,
kins said that the event was the
in too many instances, drugs lead to
impetus needed to get "everybody
injury and death." he said.
together" against drug abuse.
The loudest cheers from the audi-
"I think that this is going to have
ence were for Buck, a South Fremont
a positive influence in the Upper
High School and Ricks College prod-
Snake River Valley," he said.
uct. The BYU senior was selected
The rally was so successful that
this year as the top lineman in the
organizers may consider making it
country, receiving the prestigious
an annual event, he said.
Outland Trophy.
It was initiated and organized by
Athletes have a "great opportu-
the Boy Scouts of America's Teton
nity" 10 be role models for the rest of
Peaks Council in cooperation with
the country, he said. Unfortunately,
other drug awareness groups. It was
many have spurned the chance by
part of a national BSA drug aware-
resorting to drugs. he said.
ness program.
The varied, quick-paced program
The deaths of professional football
mixed live and taped anti-drug testi-
player Don Rogers and college bas-
monials from dignitaries and celebri-
ketball player Len Bias should have
ties with anti-drug cheers led area
underlined to others the dangers of
cheerleaders.
drug abuse, but there are still many
Dignitaries included Gov. Cecil
that have not listened, Buck said.
Andrus, U.S. Attorney Maurice Ells-
"You don't need it," he said. "I
worth, Brigham Young University
am very fortunate to be recognized
Football star Jason Buck speaks out against drugs.
football standout Jason Buck, former
as the best lineman in the country
professional basketball player Steve
this year and I acheived this by never
Hayes, Miss Idaho Jennifer Hovey
using drugs."
The mostly teen-aged audience
drugs to friends and acquaintances
8,000 Gary Higley, Bonneville High
and Miss Idaho-USA Vicki Hoff-
He challenged eastern Idaho
participated eagerly in anti-drug
who did not attend the rally.
School principal, said that the gym-
man.
cheers and listened respectfully to
youth to develop peer pressure
-I think this will really help a lot of
nasium had a capacity of about 5,000
Andrus, who called the nation's
comments by the dignitaries.
against drug abuse and to set an
people who are kind of intermediate.
people. Another 1,500 occupied the
"This will make them think about
drug problem a plague, said that he
example for others.
kids who are in between saying 'yes'
adjacent commons area, he said.
(drugs) before they make a decision,"
flew in from Boise to lend his sup-
"You can make it a cool thing by
and 'no,' said Jeff Herring. 16, an
People came from 12 counties
said Mark Avery, 15, a Bonneville
port to the rally's efforts.
not using drugs," he said. "Do it.
Idaho Falls High School student.
from as far away as Salmon, and
High School student
An estimated 40 percent of those
The multi-media rally included
The turnout was so large that
Jackson, Wyo.
"I wasn't interested (in drugs)
arrested in Idaho have used drugs or
taped testimonials against drugs by
many were turned away at the door,
Follow-up drug awareness meet-
before, but I know now that I will
alcohol. he said. Meanwhile, 40 per-
Ronald Reagan. television personali-
Watkins said. A commons area at the
ings will be held among Teton Peaks
never tough the stuff," said Merrill
cent of all automobile accidents
ties, and a U.S. Olympic hopeful.
high school used for overflow and
Council units. Harold Hillam, coun-
Morrison, 18, a Twin Falls student
involving drugs or alcohol were
equipped with closed-circuit televi-
The Safety Kids, a group of local
cil president, said that other groups
It put across a good point, I feel.'
caused by drivers between the ages of
sion coverage of the rally was filled
were invited to use the multi-media
youths, performed two anti-drug
The youths were encouraged 10
16 and 24. Of all the inmates at
to capacity, he said.
drug information available through
songs.
spread the word about the dangers of
Watkins estimated the audience at
the BSA.
THE KANSAS CITY STAR, May 28, 1989
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
Scouts tell drugs:
"Take
a
hike!
Scouting is helping young
people fight drugs and
come away a clean winner.
DRUGS:
rugs. Not even Scouts who
D
are trustworthy, loyal and
brave can avoid confronting
A
there's only one way to "win" the dangerous and deadly
them.
gaine of drugs: DONT PLAY
The Boy Scouts of America are
taking bold steps to ensure that
This poster describes some of the short-and long-term
young people come away from the
damage that can be done when drugs are used in large
encounter a clean winner, The
program is called "Drugs: A Dead-
quantities or over long periods of time.
ly Game," and its no-nonsense
measage fits the seriousness of the
GAME!
The more you use and abuse drugs, the less chance you
drug and substance abuse problem
have of growing up healthy-in body and mind.
nationally and in Kansas City.
The comprehensive program.
which was launched in 1987,
earned Scouting the President's
Citation for Private Sector Initia-
tives in 1988.
Comprehensive? The "Deadly
Game" program utilizes a booklet
Marijuana
Alcohol
of testimonials from young role
Grass, pot, weed Common names
FACT: Drinking-and driving acci-
models: . teacher's guide; another
for dried leaves from the Canno-
dents are the number one killer of
booklet for parents and Scout
bes sativa plant.
teenagers in the United States
leaders elerting them to the signs
FACT: Contains more than 400
Like cocaine or heroin. alcohol is
of substance abuse and identifying
chemicals, including mind-altering
a drug. a can alter moods, cause
sources of help; a video on the toll
substance called THC. Immediate
changes in the body, and become
of drug-and alcohol abuse on the
effects: reduces short term mem-
habit forming.
body; and a poster like the one
ory,alters sense of time, reduces
Alcohol is absorbed directly Into
shown here explaining the long-
concentration and coordination
the blood through the stomach
and short-term effects of drugs
May cause ncute panic reaction and
and small intestine. Alcohol
injuries to:
and alcohol.
depresses the central nervous sys-
Recently a rock song was added
THE BRAIN
tem, causing impaired judgment,
to the arsenal. It has received
May cause permanent brain cell
decreased self-control. impaired
damage, particularly areas control-
coordination, slow reactions,
considerable air time on stations
ling memory and behavior. May
sturred speech. and sometimes
across the nation, according to
cause acute lears and enxiety.
unconsciousness It causes injuries kr
Ted Accas, Texas-based director
THE HEART
of marketing for the Boy Scouts of
Increases heart rate by 50% Low
America.
ers oxygen supply to heart muscle.
THE BRAIN
Even the venerable Boy Scout
Handbook has been enlisted in the
THE LUNGS
May cause permanent brain cell
Contains more cancer causing
damage, loss of memory, confusion,
campaign: In its current printing
agents than tobacco. Irritates lungs
hallucinations.
it includes a strong anti-drug mes-
and damages the way they work.
THE HEART
age.
Makes smokers more exceptible
Contributes to high blood pres-
to colds, pneumonia, and fhi May
THE
sure, enlarged heart, heart failure.
lead to chronic bronchitis, employ-
sema, and lung cancer.
THE LUNGS
Greater chance of infections,
THE SEX ORGANS
K.C.
Temporary loss of fertility. Impairs
THE LIVER
normal sexual development. May
Severe swelling and hepatitis,
be especially harmful during
cirrhosis
PLAN
adolescence or pregnancy
THE SEX ORGANS
Impotence (inability to have sex).
THE STOMACH
inflammation, ulcers.
The "Deadly Game" program is
THE PANCREAS &
up to speed and gaining momen-
INTESTINES
tum in the Scouts' Heart of Amer-
ica Council here in Kansas City.
"More and more, we are pres-
Tobacco
Smoking &
Inflammation diarrhea.
Chewing
THE MUSCLES
Weakness and loss of tissue.
enting the information and mak-
The leal from the tobacco plant
ing materials available to outside
dried and cured, Highly addictive
groups church groups, youth
FACT: Contains the drug nicotine,
groups, school health classes, law
Constricts blood vessels, impairs
enforcement agencies and, just the
breathing stimulates central nervous
other day, a local union,' noted
system. Causes injuries to:
Jero B. Ratcliffe, Scout Executive
THE HEART
for the Heart of America Council.
Contributes to heart disease. attacks
He said the "Deadly Game"
THE LUNGS
campaign springs from Scouting's
Can lead to incurable cancer. Also
larger goal of combating the so-
bronchitis and employsema
called "Five Unacceptables:" drug
H could
abuse, child abuse, illiteracy, un.
be your
employment and hunger.
Law
Ratchiffe offered figures on local
breath.
Scouting membership that indi-
Amphetamines
cate the impact Scouting pro-
Stimulants which affect the central
grams such as the "Deadly Game"
Cocaine
nervous system. Also called "speed.
could have. "About 22 percent of
"uppers," pep pills," and other names.
Short-term efects include restlessness
all youth available from Cob age
A white, crystalline powder
on are involved in Scouting," he
extracted from the leaves of the
sleeplessness, intability, nervousness
Can cause hallucinations depression,
said. "That's 35,000 youth, boys
corn plant Highly addictive
anxiety, heightened tear that people
age six to 18 and girls age 14 to
FACT: Immediate effects: loss of
are "out to yes me." Violent and bizarre
20," he said.
appetite. increased blood pressure,
behavior. Injures:
The response from local leaders
heart rate. breathing and any tem-
perature, Injures:
THE BRAIN
has been uniformly positive. ac-
May cause permanent brain damage,
cording to Rateliffe. More impor-
THE BRAIN
speech and thought disturbances.
tant is the response from the
Purannia, aggressive behavior,
hallucinations Convulsions Presi-
THE HEART
Scouts themselves. "It has the
bie permanent brain damage
Rapid OF irregular heartbeat Heart
attention not only of the young
disease or heart attack from injecting
Scouts." be said, "but also of the
THE HEART
high doses
older Scouts who are aware of the
May cause heart irregularity. heart attack
THE BLOOD VESSELS
impact of making their own deci-
THE LUNGS
Serious and life-threatening infections
sions."
Respiratory (breathing) failure
-including AIDS-from injecting
10.order your
THE
LIVER
amphetamines with nonstenle equip-
ment or contaminated solutions,
Hepatitis from injecting cocaine
with nonsterile needles
posterland.kit:
THE NOSE
Uncers in the TRUCOUS membrane.
nº
to:
Force
E
Boy
Lane
For more information about Scouting call the Heart of America Council, 816-942-9333.
OCepyright 1987 Day Scotts of America Irong. Texas Reported am -
they in the March 1997 - of Date LMO- the magazine for Fees
Public Service Message from The Kansas City Star Co.
8
AMERICANS
2.
The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath
to be openly an
is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.
If we have any
But if we wis
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
continue to mail
First Annual Message to Congress, Dec. 3, 1901; Messages
and Papers, p. 6643
the legitimate (
mined in all the
3. We can have no "fifty-fifty" allegiance in this country. Either
life. We canno
a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American
slogans and ph
at all. We are akin by blood and descent to most of the nations of
Europe; but we are separate from all of them; we are a new and
distinct nation, and we are bound always to give our whole-
10. The succ
hearted and undivided loyalty to our own flag, and in any in-
the ideals and
ternational crisis to treat each and every foreign nation purely
according to its conduct in that crisis.
ican people ha
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
unity of action
Sept 10, 1917; Works, XIX, 33
emergency that
of all nations.
4. Like all Americans, I like big things: big prairies, big forests
and mountains, big wheatfields, railroads
and everything else.
But no people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity cor-
11. The Ame
rupted their virtue.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
the developme
Speech at Dickinson, N.D., July 4, 1886; Bad Lands, p. 409
integrity, of co
not too late to
5. We have taken millions of foreigners into our civilization, but
we have amalgamated them, and
we have made them all
Address a
Americans. We have bred to a type.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
12. The over
6. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular
two great quali
national group in America has not yet become an American.
WOODROW WILSON
Address in Philadelphia, Pa., May 10, 1915; Messages and
Address a
Papers (Shaw), I, 115
7. We [Americans] are the predestined mediators of mankind.
13. Only Am
WOODROW WILSON
Speech at St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 9, 1919; Public Papers, VI, 82
Speech in
8. American citizenship is a high estate. He who holds it is the
peer of kings. It has been secured only by untold toil and effort.
14. The Am
It will be maintained by no other method.
To attempt to turn
it into a thing of ease and inaction would be only to debase it. To
contented, easy
terms of Hardi
cease to struggle and toil and sacrifice for it is not only to cease
by material p
to be worthy of it but is to start a retreat toward barbarism
This is the stand that those must maintain who are worthy to be
These years of
crises, are "yea
called Americans.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
We must pu
Speech at Arlington National Cemetery, May 30, 1924;
we must put 1
rendezvous with
Foundations, p. 23
American pur
9. We believe that we can best serve our own country and most
and purposefu
successfully discharge our obligations to humanity by continuing
selves, we real
BUSINESS 21
ve called it "boondoggling"
Bribery See Corruption 3
and forests to improve the
Brotherhood
1.
I
make it my earnest prayer that God would
incline
of the policy that
the hearts of the citizens
to entertain a brotherly affection and
citizen in the United States,
love for one another and for their fellow citizens of the United
States at large.
LIN DELANO ROOSEVELT
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Oct. 15, 1936; Public Papers,
To the Governor, June 8, 1783; Writings (Fitzpatrick), XXVI,
V, 495
496
t of those who wish to con-
2. The rule of brotherhood remains as the indispensable pre-
man who
determines and
requisite to success in the kind of national life for which we strive.
Each man must work for himself, and unless he so works no out-
legislature shall be permitted
ish interests in seeing that no
side help can avail him
To be permanently effective, aid must
their behests and that no law
always take the form of helping a man to help himself.
ile to their interests.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
WOODROW WILSON
First Annual Message to Congress, Dec. 3, 1901; Works
(Mem. Ed.), XVII, 110
Sept. 19, 1912; Typescript,
lection, Princeton University
3. Hawaii cries insistently to a divided world that all our differ-
ences of race and origin are less than the grand and indestructible
nanager.
unity of our common brotherhood. The world should take time to
WOODROW WILSON
listen with attentive ear to Hawaii.
Epigram
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
Address at New Delhi, India, Dec. 10, 1959; Public Papers
for brains and will power.
Eisenhower, 1959, p. 831
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
el, June 3, 1953; Index, p. 31
See also Character 3, Charity 2, Democracy 14, Foreign Relations
15, Justice 14, Peace 46, 58, Politics 16, Responsibility 2, Union 19
more than atomic power, or
even manpower, is brain
Budget
See Debts, Economy, Prosperity 15
stronger than anyone else-
but he was also dumber. And
Bureaucracy
1.
I am accused of usurping power, when my whole life has been
one continual battle against the tendency of bureaucracy or aris-
JOHN F. KENNEDY
tocracy-the concentration of power in the hands of the few.
pr. 16, 1959; Strategy, p. 203
I am for holding all possible power in the hands of the people
permanently
ANDREW JOHNSON
Interview, Feb. 20, 1867; Presidents and the Press, p. 415
ossible, that a man can give
2. Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its
to a service that is not easy,
power. You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the
ist, to stand against purposes
daily working life of a people without at the same time making it
WOODROW WILSON
the master of the people's souls and thoughts.
HERBERT HOOVER
France, May 30, 1919; Public
Papers, V, 507
1928; New Day, p. 162
brave men will make it so.
Business 1. The business of the country is like the level of the ocean, from
JOHN F. KENNEDY
which all measurements are made of heights and depths.
July 26, 1961; Tide, p. 191
JAMES A. GARFIELD
Speech to the House of Representatives, Jan. 7, 1870; Lives,
p. 24
28
CITIZENSHIP
3. Partisanship should be kept out of the pulpit.
It makes
every resou
saints of sinners and sinners of saints. The balance wheel of free
of our fami
institutions is free discussion. The pulpit allows no free discussion.
scientists.
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES
And so e
Diary, Jan. 3, 1892; Diary and Letters, V, 44
See also Religion
See also An
Citizenship
1. Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close
scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate
Civilization
1. To corr
of their fidelity and usefulness. Thus is the people's will impressed
of sympathy
upon the whole framework of our civil polity
and this is the
or as indivi
price of our liberty and the inspiration of our faith in the Republic.
GROVER CLEVELAND
.
First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1885
2. Cultivate the highest and best citizenship; for upon it rests
2. An En
the destiny of our government.
wandering a
WILLIAM MCKINLEY
hanging on
At G.A.R. Campfire, Buffalo, N.Y., Aug. 24, 1897; Speeches
he at last be
and Addresses, p. 42
3. The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours
Speech
is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight-that he
shall not be a mere passenger, but shall do his share in the work
3. The wo
that each generation of us finds ready to hand; and, furthermore,
that in doing his work he shall show not only the capacity for
sturdy self-help but also self-respecting regard for the rights of
others.
4. No peo
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
between ste
To New York State Chamber of Commerce, Nov. 11, 1902;
Presidential Addresses, I, 200
Speech
4. The good citizen is the man who, whatever his wealth or his
poverty, strives manfully to do his duty to himself, to his family,
5. The co
to his neighbor, to the State; who is incapable of the baseness
religion and
which manifests itself either in arrogance or in envy, but who
while demanding justice for himself is no less scrupulous to do
At Por
justice to others.
6. Civiliza
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
open, ever I
At Syracuse, N.Y., Sept. 7, 1903; Ibid., II, 473
must be pro
5. Nothing is more important to America than citizenship; there
is more assurance of our future in the individual character of our
Memo
citizens than in any proposal I, and all the wise advisers I can
7. Civiliza
gather, can ever put into effect in Washington.
The proceder
WARREN G. HARDING
the laws of 1
At Galion, Ohio, Aug. 27, 1920; Speeches of Warren G.
The most i
Harding, p. 81
nature.
6. Patriotism means equipped forces and a prepared citizenry.
It is not
Moral stamina means more energy and more productivity, on the
farm and in the factory. Love of liberty means the guarding of
Addres
26
CHARACTER
3. Friends, I am a thorough believer in the American test of
11. Nation
character. He will not build high who does not build for himself.
the moral fi
BENJAMIN HARRISON
our growing
At Indianapolis, Ind., July 4, 1888; Speeches, p. 39
initiative in
of moral pe
4. In acquiring knowledge there is one thing equally important,
and that is character. Nothing in the
world is worth so much,
will last so long, and serve its possessor so well as good character.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY
12. Chara
At Savannah, Ga., Dec. 18, 1898; Speeches and Addresses,
p. 177
5. It is character that counts in a nation as in a man. It is a good
13. It is n
thing to have a keen, fine intellectual development in a nation, to
heritage tha
produce orators, artists, successful business men; but it is an in-
it the spirit
finitely greater thing to have those solid qualities which we group
together under the name of character-sobriety, steadfastness,
the sense of obligation toward one's neighbor and one's God, hard
common sense, and, combined with it, the lift of generous en-
See also I
thusiasm toward whatever is right. These are the qualities which
vidualism, I
go to make up true national greatness.
War 1, 5, 1
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Charity 1. I deem
Address at Galena, III., Apr. 27, 1900; Works, XIII, 437
of his incon
duty to see
6. A sound body is good; a sound mind is better; but a strong
and clean character is better than either.
capable.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
To Drs
At Groton, Mass., May 24, 1904; Presidential Addresses,
III, 14
2. Charity
love that un
7. No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man
the giver, b
can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at
themselves.
great abuses, nor afford to make powerful and unscrupulous foes,
if he is himself vulnerable in his private character.
Accept
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Autobiography, p. 84
3. Better t
8. Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manu-
spirit of cha
facture of daily duty.
frozen in the
WOODROW WILSON
Address at Arlington, Va., May 31, 1915; Public Papers,
III, 337
See also Be
9. The one continuing, unchanging and unchangeable thing is
thropy, Reli
character. A business built with conscience as its architect and
ment, Wealt
character as its cornerstone, is destined to stand foursquare and
firm.
Church 1. The loa
WARREN G. HARDING
10. Character is the only secure foundation of the State.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
2. When o
Address in New York, N.Y., Feb. 12, 1924; Messages and
Papers, p. 9378
74
EFFORT
32. If we, of this generation, are to assure greatness for our
2. The only
nation, survival for our freedoms and honor for ourselves, we must
of effort to at
make provision in our land-and in all lands where men are free—
for education of the first class on all levels.
At Grot
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Address to University of Texas Ex-Students Association,
See also Achi
Apr. 1, 1959
Revolutions 8
33. Education is mankind's only hope. Education is the impera-
tive of a universal and lasting peace.
Education is the key that
Elections
1. Believing
unlocks progress in the struggle against hunger and want and in-
established by
justice wherever they may exist on the earth. It is the path which
can be best ac
now beckons us toward the planets and the stars. Above all else, it
tion to use th
is the well-spring of freedom and peace.
election, I des
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
ing my inflex
Address at University of the Philippines, May 13, 1961;
election to a
Story, p. 182-83
Lette:
34. Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Address at William Jewell College, Nov. 9, 1961; Ibid.,
2. You wer
p. 182
business men
35. We have entered an age in which education is not just a lux-
the men in porting
ury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become
enthusiasm fo
a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex,
industrialized society.
Levels of education which were once regarded with awe, have
3. What is t
now become commonplace. And jobs which once could be filled
for something
by strength and native intelligence now call for a college degree.
We have truly entered the Century of the Educated Man,
To
If we deny a man access to the education to which he is entitled
by capacity, we also deny him access to his rightful place in our
4. If any in
economy. And, I might add, we also deny ourselves his productive
were require
skills.
tional life, I di
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
begin with "I
At Tufts University commencement, June 9, 1963; Vital
Speeches, August 15, 1963, p. 644
Second /
See also Arts (The) 1, Books, Colleges, Culture, Desegregation 2,
Discipline 3, Discrimination 4, 6, Enlightenment, Government
5. If you th
71, 100, Ideals 8, Ignorance, Knowledge, Language 1, Libraries
cult to be we
3, 4, Military Matters 5, Morality 1, Negroes 1, 12, People
(The) 8, 11, 13, Preparedness 8, Prosperity 7, Security 5,
Address
Suffrage 2, 3, Universities, Women 3
Effort
1.
In this life we get nothing save by effort; far better it is to dare
See also Ball
mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered
by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither
Eloquence
1.
Borrowe
enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the great twi-
own eloquen
light that knows neither victory nor defeat.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Address in Chicago, III., Apr. 10, 1899; Works, XIII, 320
See also Pub
ELOQUENCE . 75
assure greatness for our
2.
The only life that is worth living is the life of effort, the life
onor for ourselves, we must
of effort to attain what is worth striving for.
ands where men are free—
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
evels.
At Groton, Mass., May 24, 1904; Presidential Addresses,
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
III, 15
Ex-Students Association,
Apr. 1, 1959
See also Achievement 2, 3, Action 1, Greatness 3, 4, 12, Life 6,
Revolutions 8
Education is the impera-
Education is the key that
Elections
1. Believing that the restoration of the civil service to the system
hunger and want and in-
established by Washington and followed by the early Presidents
earth. It is the path which
can be best accomplished by an Executive who is under no tempta-
the stars. Above all else, it
tion to use the patronage of his office to promote his own re-
election, I desire to perform what I regard as a duty in now stat-
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
ing my inflexible purpose, if elected, not to be a candidate for
lippines, May 13, 1961;
election to a second term.
Story, p. 182-83
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES
is an opportunity.
Letter Accepting Nomination for Presidency, July 8, 1876;
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Letters and Messages, p. 5
e, Nov. 9, 1961; Ibid.,
2. You were never more mistaken
than to suppose that
p. 182
business men carry elections. A large vote is brought out when all
ducation is not just a lux-
the men in politics are pleased and satisfied and set to work with
ver others. It has become
enthusiasm for the ticket.
fenseless in this complex,
CHESTER A. ARTHUR
1878; Arthur, p. 211
regarded with awe, have
3. What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand
hich once could be filled
for something?
call for a college degree.
GROVER CLEVELAND
Educated Man.
To a political adviser, 1887; Man and Statesman, I, 271
on to which he is entitled
his rightful place in our
4. If any intelligent and loyal company of American citizens
ourselves his productive
were required to catalogue the essential human conditions of na-
tional life, I do not doubt that with absolute unanimity they would
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
begin with "free and honest elections."
it, June 9, 1963; Vital
BENJAMIN HARRISON
ugust 15, 1963, p. 644
Second Annual Message to Congress, Dec. 1, 1890; Messages
ulture, Desegregation 2,
and Papers, p. 5562
htenment, Government
5. If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very diffi-
Language 1, Libraries
cult to be worth re-electing.
Negroes 1, 12, People
WOODROW WILSON
sperity 7, Security 5,
Address at Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 25, 1913; Public Papers,
III, 62
far better it is to dare
See also Ballots, Democracy 22, Peace 20, Suffrage, Voters
even though checkered
por spirits who neither
Eloquence
1. Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as
live in the great twi-
own eloquence.
at.
JOHN ADAMS
EODORE ROOSEVELT
To Benjamin Rush, Aug. 28, 1811; Writings, p. 163
899; Works, XIII, 320
See also Public Speaking 1, Speeches
66 DUTY
4. The public have no idea of the constant accumulation of
Political Pa
business requiring the President's attention. No President who
Republics 1
performs his duty faithfully and conscientiously can have any
Taxation 6,
leisure. If he entrusts the details and smaller matters to subordi-
nates constant errors will occur. I prefer to supervise the whole
Economic
1.
Spiritua
operations of the Government myself rather than entrust the
Matters without eco
public business to subordinates, and this makes my duties very
great.
JAMES K. POLK
Dec. 29, 1848; Diary (Quaife), IV, 261
2. Our ec
vancement
5. I hold that while man exists it is his duty to improve not only
we add to
his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
I am
It by no m
for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest
foundation
number.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Addre
Address at Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 12, 1861; Complete Works,
VI, 120
3. These
6. Toil and a hearty advocacy of the principles of free govern-
ment have been my lot.
The duties have been mine, the con-
upon the
of econom
sequences are God's.
and not fr
ANDREW JOHNSON
forgotten
Upon taking the Oath, Apr. 15, 1861; Speeches, p. xlviii
7. Duty determines destiny. Destiny which results from duty
performed may bring anxiety and perils, but never failure and
dishonor.
4. I will
WILLIAM MCKINLEY
economic
Speech in Chicago, III., Oct. 19, 1898; Eloquence, II, 816
istration
prise afte
8. The prime requisite is to arouse among our people
an
understanding that the full performance of duty is not only right
in itself but also the source of the profoundest satisfaction.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
5. Ther
Outlook, Apr. 8, 1911; Works, XII, 192
on behal
bility for
9. Our whole duty, for the present, at any rate, is summed up in
the motto: "America first."
Mes
WOODROW WILSON
Speech in New York, N.Y., Apr. 20, 1915; Messages and
Papers (Shaw), I, 109
See also
Freedom
10. My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for
you; ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of
Economy
1. We
the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together
in withh
we can do for the freedom of man.
tional 0
JOHN F. KENNEDY
care tha
Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961
fully an
See also Character 8, Citizenship 1, 3, 4, Debts 11, Friendship 5,
Government 5, 31, Happiness 13, Homes 4, Laws 29, Liberty 30,
Th
Life 7, 8, Nations 8, Negroes 4, Patriotism 5, 7, Peace 33, 40,
GERMANY
105
10. We must prove ourselves
friends, and champions upon
terms of equality and honor. You can not be friends upon any
orld must convince every
other terms than upon the terms of equality. You can not be
e criterion of the attach-
friends at all except upon the terms of honor.
professions of good-will
WOODROW WILSON
of it.
Address in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 25, 1913; Messages and
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Papers (Shaw), I, 35
9; Writings (Fitzpatrick),
11. There is only one thing that holds nations together, if you
XVII, 266
exclude force, and that is friendship and good will.
Our
th few, and let those few
task
is to organize the friendship of the world, to see to it that
confidence. True friend-
all the moral forces that make for right and justice and liberty
ndergo and withstand the
are united.
the appellation.
WOODROW WILSON
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Speech in Rome, Italy, Jan. 3, 1919; Public Papers, V, 363
1783; Ibid., XXVI, 39
See also Appointments 3, Democracy 20, Foreign Relations 6,
foes.
36, 39, 55, 56, Gifts 6, Government 45, Loyalty 1, Opinion 5,
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Peace 28, Politics 3, Presidency (The) 4, 7, 27, 30, 49, 50, Society,
Union 25
1793; Works (Ford), VI,
225
Frontiers
1. We stand today on the edge of a new frontier, a frontier of
an alliance with the follies
unknown opportunities and perils, a frontier of unfulfilled hopes
and threats.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
JOHN F. KENNEDY
2, 1786; Writings, V, 440
Acceptance of Nomination for Presidency, Los Angeles, Cal.,
the world that we are just
July 15, 1960; Vital Speeches, Aug. 1, 1960, p. 611
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Future, The
1. For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too
3, 1806; Ibid., XIX, 156
great for revenge. But for the security of the future I would do
everything.
when new, ripened with
JAMES A. GARFIELD
tive cordial.
Address in New York, N.Y., Apr. 15, 1865
THOMAS JEFFERSON
17, 1811; Ibid., XIII, 77
2.
If a man is wise, he will gladly do the thing that is next, when
the time and the need come together, without asking what the
great bore. Never make
future holds for him. Let the half-god play his part well and
manfully, and then be content to draw aside when the god appears.
JAMES BUCHANAN
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
1ar. 15, 1853; Life, II, 96
Autobiography, p. 91
ation which you think I
guished from my enemies.
3. Ours is a land filled with millions of happy homes, blessed
that those who agree or
with comfort and opportunity. I have no fear for the future of our
policy. I recognize no such
country. It is bright with hope.
HERBERT HOOVER
o myself.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1929
1863; History, VIII, 217
See also Civilization 8, Health 7, History 2, 18, Hope 2, Past
enemies nor overawed by
(The) 2, 3, Politics 26, Progress 3, 9, Right 13, Space 1, Voters 5
ANDREW JOHNSON
Gag-Rule
See Gifts 3
866; Messages and Papers,
p. 3915
Germany
See Europe, Negotiations
LIBERTY 167
eral departments, will
28. God gave us Lincoln and Liberty; let us fight for both.
his spirit is suffered to
ULYSSES S. GRANT
urture.
A toast, Feb. 22, 1863; Speeches, p. 7
HENRY HARRISON
29. Human liberty, the only true foundation of human govern-
Address, Mar. 4, 1841
ment.
institution secures may
ULYSSES S. GRANT
es.
To citizens of Memphis, Tenn., 1863; Ibid., p. 7
JAMES K. POLK
30. It should not be forgotten
that liberty does not mean
Address, Mar. 4, 1845
lawlessness. Liberty to make our own laws does not give us license
es into anarchy, which
to break them. Liberty to make our own laws commands a duty to
isms.
observe them ourselves and enforce obedience among all others
MILLARD FILLMORE
within their jurisdiction. Liberty, my fellow citizens, is respon-
Dec. 6, 1852; Messages
sibility, and responsibility is duty, and that duty is to preserve the
and Papers, p. 2716
exceptional liberty we enjoy within the law and for the law and
by the law.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY
only be preserved by
Address at Cleveland, Ohio, July 4, 1894; Eloquence,
JAMES BUCHANAN
IX, 853
ct. 7, 1852; Life, II, 48
31. When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power
ependence, and with it
is not far distant.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
with it. Let North and
liberty everywhere join
1887; Works, VII, 322
we shall not only save
IS to make and keep it
32. Liberty is a means in the pursuit of happiness.
ve so saved it that the
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
the world over, shall
At Fresno, Cal., Oct. 10, 1909; Presidential Addresses, p. 337
rations.
33. Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional principle.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
WOODROW WILSON
omplete Works, II, 248
Political Science Quarterly, June, 1887; Ideals, p. 34
definition of the word
34. The ideals of liberty cannot be fixed from generation to
V, are much in want of
generation; only its conception can be. the large image of what it
go the same word we do
is. Liberty fixed in unalterable law would be no liberty at all.
word liberty may mean
WOODROW WILSON
self, and the product of
1908; Constitutional Government, p. 4
may mean for some to
product of other men's
35. Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has
ut incompatible things,
always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a
follows that each of the
history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limita-
y two different and in-
tions of governmental power, not the increase of it.
WOODROW WILSON
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Speech at New York Press Club, Sept. 9, 1912; Crossroads,
18, 1864; Ibid., X, 77
p. 130
ause of liberty I would
36. I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to
ican flag as my winding
a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. We shall
not be poor if we love liberty.
ANDREW JOHNSON
WOODROW WILSON
862; Not Guilty, p. 68
Speech at Mobile, Ala., Oct. 27, 1913; State Papers, p. 36
PATRIOTISM
197
the government in private
3. The approbation I have received from the people everywhere
can achieve social reform.
on my return home on the close of my official life, has been a
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
source of much gratification to me. I have been met at every
1912
point
with a hearty welcome and expressions of "well done
thou faithful servant." This is truly the patriot's reward, the sum-
am not a doctrinaire of the
mit of my gratification, and will be my solace to the grave.
mixture of paternalism
ANDREW JACKSON
Government
is proper.
To Martin Van Buren, Mar. 30, 1837; Life (Bassett), p. 721
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
1909; Presidential Addresses,
4. Blessed is the country whose defenders are patriots.
We
I, 333
cannot exalt patriotism too high; we cannot too much encourage
love of country; for, my fellow-citizens, as long as patriotism
of institutions of the Amer-
exists in the hearts of the American people, so long will our match-
upon the public treasury for
less institutions be secure and permanent.
Independence and ability of
WILLIAM MCKINLEY
saves our government from
Speech at Syracuse, N.Y., Aug. 24, 1897; Speeches and Ad-
lermines our whole political
dresses, p. 37
HERBERT HOOVER
5. Patriotism should be an integral part of our every feeling at
1921; Memoirs, II, 45
all times, for it is merely another name for those qualities of soul
which make a man in peace or in war, by day or by night, think of
his duty to his fellows, and of his duty to the nation through
reserve your sang froid im-
which their and his loftiest aspirations must find their fitting
patience, perseverance and
expression.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
THOMAS JEFFERSON
1916; Works, XVIII, 201
1792; Writings, VIII, 316
6. The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands
of me
on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he
and I feel myself
loves his own wife.
the utmost. My chief puzzle
to be a virtue.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Speech in New York, N.Y., Sept. 6, 1918; Ibid., 551
WOODROW WILSON
915; Life and Letters, V, 375
7. We are a humor-loving people. We dislike shams. Our sense
of the ridiculous is very keen, almost too keen, and in the mer-
that, if one will only exer-
ikely to be filled.
cantile and material spirit which has been rife, we are prone to
make light of exhortations to patriotism, and the forms and sym-
CALVIN COOLIDGE
bols through which patriotism finds expression. I think we have
Autobiography, p. 50
gone too far in this direction. Patriotism is a real virtue, and the
Tolerance 5, Virtue 7
forms and symbols which suggest it, and by which we recognize
its existence and our respect for it, are proper reminders of a
serious duty, and keep us in touch with it as an elevating motive.
be supported on patriotism
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
of interest, or some reward.
Speech in New York, N.Y., May 30, 1908; Problems, p. 63
GEORGE WASHINGTON
78; Writings (Fitzpatrick),
8. Patriotism is a principle, not a mere sentiment. No man can
XI, 284
be a true patriot who does not feel himself shot through and
through with a deep ardor for what his country stands for, what
ssions and more acts of real
its existence means, what its purpose is declared to be in its
history and in its policy.
ANDREW JACKSON
WOODROW WILSON
eb. 22, 1824; Life (Parton),
Remarks at unveiling of Commodore Perry statue, May 16,
III, 41
1914; Public Papers, III, 108
TRUTH 313
berty 44, Monopolies 4,
3. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.
WOODROW WILSON
e of the East is the key
Address to Congress, Jan. 8, 1918; Messages and Papers
(Shaw), p. 468
ning of China to the com-
no section more than the
4. Treaties are too often scraps of paper; in our age the signal
for two World Wars was the callous repudiation of pacts and
CHESTER A. ARTHUR
pledged word. There must be a universal urge of decency.
ages and Papers, p. 4704
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
to the community of na-
Address at Columbia University, Mar. 23, 1950; Peace, p. 15
of a just and lasting peace
which seeks to promote
See also Secrecy 1, Slavery 29
able world trade, is thus
States.
Trusts 1. The trusts and combinations-the communism of pelf
GHT D. EISENHOWER
GROVER CLEVELAND
Public Papers
Eisen-
To Representative T. C. Catchings, Aug. 1, 1894; Courage,
hower, 1957, P. 142
p. 586
2. The great corporations which we have grown to speak of
rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the state, and the state
not only has the right to control them, but it is in duty bound to
control them whenever the need of such control is shown.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
THOMAS JEFFERSON
At Providence, R.I., Aug. 23, 1902; Addresses and Presiden-
97; Writings, VIII, 319
tial Messages, p. 15
truly epicurean, ease of
3. A trust does not bring efficiency to the aid of business; it buys
ese I wish to consign my
efficiency out of business.
WOODROW WILSON
THOMAS JEFFERSON
1912; New Freedom (Hale), p. 180
Correspondence, p. 59
See also Monopolies
Truth 1. Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to
happy.
light.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
THOMAS JEFFERSON
0, 1787; Works, II, 241
To Charles M. Thruston, Aug. 10, 1794; Writings (Fitzpat-
rick), XXXIII, 465
2. There is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish un-
friends can make laws?
known to the whole world.
between aliens than laws
THOMAS JEFFERSON
ar, you can not fight al-
To Henry Lee, May 15, 1826; Works, VII, 448
h sides and no gain on
questions, as to terms of
3. Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
To Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 14, 1864; Complete
1 Address, Mar. 4, 1861
Works, X, 158
treaty obligations only
4. I have faith in the people.
The danger is, in their being
ount interests.
misled. Let them know the truth and the country is safe.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
ges and Papers, p. 4699
Ca. 1865; War Years, III, 223
VIRTUE 327
it has been exercised three
2. As we maintain the vigil of peace, we must remember that
justice is a vigil, too.
In this hour it is not our respective races
origin of the government
which are at stake-it is our nation.
ves, is conservative
If it
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
I am willing to abide by it.
1963; Life (magazine), Nov. 29, 1963
ANDREW JOHNSON
Aug. 2, 1848; Speeches, p. 2
See also Foreign Relations 11, Liberty 16, 20, 24, Peace 87, 88,
accompany the use of the
People (The) 2, Policy 2, Political Parties 4, 5
ce if such a course did not
tional duty and an assent to
Virtue 1. Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
is not willing to share the
GEORGE WASHINGTON
To Robert Howe, Aug. 17, 1779; Writings (Fitzpatrick),
GROVER CLEVELAND
XVI, 116
essages and Papers, p. 6114
2. Virtue is not always amiable. Integrity is sometimes ruined
who did not exercise the
by prejudices and by passions.
Adams, Jefferson, and the
The wisdom of Solomon, the meekness of Moses, and the pa-
nough to have friendly Con-
tience of Job, all united in one character, would not be sufficient
are other ways of killing a
d it is a great deal easier
to qualify a man to act in the situation in which I am at present
(as minister plenipotentiary to France); and I have scarcely a spice
ors to prevent objectionable
of either of these virtues.
hey do pass and then veto
JOHN ADAMS
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
Diary, Feb. 9, 1779; Works, III, 188
ginia, January, 1915; Presi-
3. Virtue is the master of all things. Therefore a nation that
dency, p. 14
should never do wrong must necessarily govern the world.
major bills than any other
JOHN ADAMS
of Grover Cleveland.
Diary, Aug. 4, 1796; Ibid., p. 423
HARRY S. TRUMAN
1952; Memoirs, II, 479
4. Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles
and practices of virtue.
ntrived for me the most in-
THOMAS JEFFERSON
that ever the invention of
To Robert Skipwith, Aug. 3, 1771; Writings, IV, 237
ceived.
JOHN ADAMS
5. And if the Wise be the happy man
he must be virtuous,
1789; Letters to Wife, II,
too, for, without virtue, happiness cannot be.
133
THOMAS JEFFERSON
ent is honorable and easy,
To Amos J. Cook, Jan. 21, 1816; Ibid., XIV, 405
6. My desire was to achieve results, and not merely to issue
THOMAS JEFFERSON
manifestoes of virtue. It is very easy to be efficient if the efficiency
1797; Writings, IX, 381
is based on unscrupulousness, and it is still easier to be virtuous
same price.
if one is content with the purely negative virtue which consists
THOMAS JEFFERSON
in not doing anything wrong, but being wholly unable to accom-
plish anything positive for good.
War 1, 67, 74
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
portunity for honest busi-
Autobiography, p. 287
7. Patience, forbearance, faith and Christian tolerance. Those
N DELANO ROOSEVELT
are rare virtues, too seldom found among the men who have the
12, 1937; Public Papers,
strength to rise to high places. They are the virtues that men
VI, 300
need to seek and cultivate in these years of stress in the world.