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BY DR. SAMUEL H. SUTHERLAND PRESIDENT, BIOLA SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES, INC.
Service • MUSIC • DRAMA • INTERCOLLEGIATE SPORTS • • • a Bible college where every student majors in Bible while enjoying a well-ordered and disciplined campus life in the realm of the physical, spiritual, academic and cultural. For information write: Dr. B. Myron Cedarholm, President
Bringing Up Father p o R m o r e y e a r s t h a n o n e c a r e s t o r e m e m b e r , a c o m i c s t r i p h a s appeared in newspapers across the land w ith the above title. It is the story o f a husband and father who, completely dominated by his w ife and fam ily, invariably is blamed when things go wrong. A lthough but a comic strip, behind it is a truth too true to be funny. In July, 1967, a special detachment o f the Los Angeles Police Force, Hollywood division, made a raid in a parking lot that resulted in the apprehension o f more than 100 teenagers and a few adults. These were herded into paddy wagons o f various sorts and taken off to the police station. The raid occurred shortly before midnight. The rest o f the night was spent in calling par ents and getting them to come down to be informed o f their youngsters’ actual activities. The press reported that these parents were “ shocked, angry, indignant, mortified, chagrined, embar rassed.” Assorted expletives on their part revealed their mental and emotional reaction to this totally unsuspected situation. These youngsters had told their parents they were going to the theatre, a dance, a party at a friend’s home or to some so-called respectable place. Instead, they congregated on this lot where, follow ing the raid, the police picked up marijuana cigarette butts, vials o f hero ine, packets containing LSD , contraceptives o f various types, and almost every imaginable variety o f “ mod” gadgets and gimmicks which are the common property o f teenagers today. The trap also netted switch knives, clubs o f various types and other defen sive weapons “ just in case.” The tragedy was that so many o f the parents had absolutely no idea that their young people were indulging in this sort o f business. They had never taken the trouble to find out what their young people actually were doing. They had "trusted” them im plicitly, and it was left for the law to reveal their actual activities. Am ong the excuses that the youngsters had, one major one was to the effect that there was no discipline in the home; no one to guide them or check on them, and particularly the fathers were
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