CAPTAIN J. W. ROBERTS, USN
Commanding Officer THE
AD A K
CDR R. L. STRAUB, USN .... 5 U N
Executive Officer
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F.W. MCCLUER,PN2 X315 R.KENNEDY,YN2,X230
wholehartedly with Chaplain Perry’s
article on -advising parents on sending
their children to good wholsome movies.
Each parent, has the responsibility of
seeing their, child.mature in the best
possible environment. Each ohil'd is a
gift of God,' coming from God,, pure, inn
ocent and unblemished. It is up to the
parent to see that their child does not
change..
• Today the workers of evil are in our
midst and we must,-, in exploring new fron
tiers, be vigilant at home. We have been
blessed in the heritage passed on by our
forefathers, new it is. our turn to pass
that blessing, of a solid moral fiber in
society, to the next generation. I’m suh^
that our parents want the best for their
youngsters and Chaplain Perry and I are
most happy to aid you in attaining ..this
goal.
Chaplain Morris i
THE BEST FOR OUR YOUTH
George was 13, a nice-looking boy of
average intelligence .• For many, minutes
he stared blankly at his widowed mother
napping on the sofa. Then he went te*
the kitchen, fetched a seven inch'bread
knife and stabbed her to death.
When the Chicago police questioned
him, George wept uncontrollably.' Why
did he do it? His ansx^er came. "I got
an urge to kill mother while watching
some goofy movie", the teen-ager sobbed.
The story of the film that George saw
before he killed his mother may have
been innocent of the remotest reference
to homicide. Certainly there were other
influences already at work which aroused
George to murder during the course of the
movie.
The raised-eybrow themes of many
modern films have made reponsible men
and women anxious about moral detriment;
to adolescents via the-silver screen.
It is with this in mind that I concur
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