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PRESIDENT, BIOLA SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES, INC. S everal m on th s ago , a report was released under the endorse ment of the National Council of Churches, proposing that Americans liberalize their attitude toward the drinking habits of Americans. According to press reports, the National Council o f Churches recommends: 1) the lowering of the drink ing age to 18 in the transition step toward eliminating altogether legal age barriers in the sale of alcoholic beverages; 2) liberal izing alcoholic beverage advertising in mass media (i.e. news papers, television, etc.) by allowing alcohol consumption to be shown in family settings, letting people in ads, including women, be portrayed actually drinking and generally portraying drink ing as a family, rather than barroom, occupation; 3) making alcoholic beverages available to young people at adult-supervised activities such as church functions. The report was entitled, “ Alcoholic Problems: A Report to the Nation.” Of course, the whole report does its best to tone down the ill effects o f even social drinking, at the same time admitting that approximately one-third o f the arrests in the U.S. are for public drunken ness. There were more than 250,000 arrests in the United States for drunk driving and hundreds of thousands o f arrests for alcohol-based crimes such as disorderly conduct. The report esti mates that from 20 to 25% o f all welfare families have a drink ing problem. The findings also revealed that 75% of high school students have had alcoholic beverages more than once before graduation. Approximately 33% say they drink with some regu larity. The report seems to distinguish between the so-called social drinker, the “ problem” drinker, and the “ alcoholic.” The problem drinker uses alcohol to such an extent as to cause “ physical, psychological, or social harm to the drinker or others. ’ Of course, the alcoholic is defined as one in which “ the individ ual has lost control over his alcohol intake in the sense that he is consistently unable to refrain from drinking or to stop from drinking before getting intoxicated.” This appalling situation reveals another instance in which the National Council of Churches seems to be doing everything possible to drag America down further and further into the mire and muck of moral and spiritual decay. Of course, the Na tional Council leaders have long since given up any semblance of belief in the Bible as the infallible Word o f God. To them it is a book merely to be read ceremonially and used as part of a dull, dry, religious ritual which is totally devoid o f significance to the modern mind. Because the National Council leadership
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