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Talk Back to Your Television Set
Television is now of "age"! Full frontal nudity, ul–
traviolence, and such once-taboo subjects as male and
female homosexuality, adultery, unmarried couples in
bed together, wife-swapping, and abortion have already
made their debut on television. What's next?
[f you disapprove of these recent trends in televi–
sion programming. there is something more you can do
than just turning off you r television set o r switch sta–
tions. Nicholas Johnson, a member of the United States
Federal Communications Commission, says, "Express
your views. Write the stations, the networks, advertisers,
the FCC [Federal Communications Commission). De–
velop specific suggestions about programs you would
like to see- or have taken off the air - o r othe r specific
suggestions for station management." All nations have
simila r government regulatory bodies.
As an individual or parent, what you allow to come
into your living room is your responsibility.
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Take the Drinker's Test
Most people picture alcoholics as skid row dere–
licts. But in actual fact, skid row derelicts comprise only
a scant three to fiv e percent of the alcoholic population.
Alcoholics are not necessaril y obvious in appear–
ance, not even to themselves. The bulk of alcoholics a re
nearly indistinguishable from typical Mr. and Mrs.
Middle Class - mid-thirtyish, married, with a good job
a nd a family, who drink socially, occasionally drinking
one too many.
How then can one know if he may have a drinking
problem?
The foiJowing yes o r no test can be a good in–
dicator.
lt
was devised by Dr. Robert V. Seliger for use
by Johns Hopkins University Hospital in deciding
whether or nota patient is an alcoholic:
l.
Do you lose time from work dueto drinking?
2. Is drinking making your borne life unhappy?
3. Do you drink because you are shy with otber
people?
PlAIN TRUTH Februory 1973
4. l s drinking affecting your reputation?
5.
Have you ever felt remorse after drinking?
6.
Have you gotten into financia! difficulties as a result
ofdrinking?
7. Do you turn to Iower companions and an inferior
environment when drinking?
8.
Does your drinking make you care less ofyour fam–
ily's welfare?
9.
Has your ambition decreased since drinking?
1
O.
Do you crave a drink ata definite time daily?
11.
Do you want a drink the next mo rning?
12.
Does drinking cause you to have difficulty in sleep-
ing?
13. Has your efficiency decreased since drinking?
14. Is drinkingjeopardizing your job o r business?
15. Do you drink to escape from worries or trouble?
16. Do you drink a lone?
17. Have you ever hada complete loss of memory as a
result of d ri nking?
18. Has your physician ever treated you for drinking?
19. Do you drink to build up self-confidence?
20. Have you ever been to a hospital or institution on
account of drinking?
A
YES
answer to any two questions should be taken
as a serious wa rning that you may have a significan!
drinking problem. You are definitely an a lcoholic if you
answer
YES
to three or more questions.
The principie for being the master and not the
mastered (in this case the alcoholic). is to be "temperate
in all things," as the Biblical injunction admonishes in
J
Corinthians 9:25. Following this principie is the only
way to play it safe when it comes to drinking alcoholic
beverages.
- Potrick
A.
Pornell
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