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The sraff of our counseling cenrer had
che opporcunity
ro
read che anides in
your Febcuary issue of
The
PLAI N
TRUTH. We commend you for your
sincere focus on che problems of roday's
youth. We have found your publicacions
to be a greac belp in counseling and
rehabilitating juvenile delinquencs and
we wish tO contin'Ue using your maga·
zinc for che purpose of enlighcening our
misguided youth. Will you picase add
our name ro your mailing lisr?
Mark
S.,
Probacion Counsellor,
Sale Lake Cicy. Urah
1
am pleascd ro inform you chat our
1
7-year-old college son is changing a loe
as a result of you r inreresting arricles
about drugs, sex, che new generation
and
so
on. Formerly he just cm
Out
che
pictures for his pin-up album. But of
late he has been having very lively dis–
cussions wich me on chese topics. He ad–
mics he has now "seen che sense in your
magazine. " Thank you very much for
your publications - they help train my
child.
Learn, Baby Learn
W.N.,
Acera, Ghana
The anide ' 'Leacn, Baby, Learn ' ' in
che March-April issue was revealing to
che nacion as a whole.
Ir
showed how the
infanr's environmenr does definirely in–
fluence che child tbroughout his entire
life. Alchough
1
am not a parcnt as yec,
1
do enjoy children and hope ro have
sorne of my own. Being prepared ro
bring up your children with oprimism,
prepararion and opportunity is che re–
sponsibilicy of evecy parent. Could you
picase send me your book,
The Plain
Truth
About
Chiid
Rearing'
Ross W .,
Los Angeles, California
About Marijuana
l would like you to enlighcen me
more abour che faets of marijuana. In my
school over 70% of our boys are caking
marijuana and ocher rypes of drugs.
1
smoke marijuana myself but can no
longer conceal rhe facr chat
1
am sadly
disappoinced in ir. Just under half of our
rucors are on drugs.
Hecror
C.,
Nigeria
In your !ase magazine (March-April)
you had an arride abouc marijuana.
1
am
14 and have been smoking ir and hash–
ish for S years, since
1
was
9.
1
agree that
grass makes you lazy, bur after you
aren 't sconed anymore, ir's all righc. l ger
sconed ac tease
3
times a week and
J
am
still able ro maincain a B-C average in
high school. Grass is not screwing up
my life.
1
am
very happy living with my
sister and her husband and
m
y owo hoy
friend .
So
far
l
have noc had any serious
problems. So as you can see,
l
am an av–
erage, happy 14-year-old and
1
don't like
your magazine. Picase
stop
sending it ro
me.
Va lerie
L.,
Palos Verdes Peninsula, California
New Correspondent
The Correspondence Course is che
mosc imeresting and fascinacing srudy
that
1
have ever had che good forrune ro
come across . What amazes me mosc is
chat you ask the quescions and rhen cell
me the scriptures
ro
read ... rhen rhe
Bible supplies che answers. M ter doing
che f¡cst lesson and reading che booklets
sen c ro me,
1
observed you were abso–
lutely righc.
B. T .,
Nigeria
Big Business: For Peace or War?
In
Tbe PLAlN
TRUTH magazine of
March-April, Gary Alexander rreacs che
huge mulrioacional corporarions very
kindly. He offers a number of argumcnts
in cheir suppocc, and che arricle is worch
reading. He quoces Pecer Drucker (Mm,
Ideas.
<lml
Politics)
as saying, ' 'This (che
multinacional corporacion) may well be
exacdy whac we need ro de-fang che na–
tionalist monsrer."
The point is chis, wich invescmcnrs all
ovec che wocld, the multinacional com–
pany could nor possibly be in favor of
all-out war.
J
agrec. But I am far from
convinced that che big supra-nacional
outfirs are a!ways againsr "lirde wars,"
(Continued on inside back cover)
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