
                         THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
                 Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, June 4, 1994                    TAG: 9406040008 
SECTION: FRONT                     PAGE: A8    EDITION: FINAL  
SOURCE: Short 
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BE A COMPASS, NOT A WEATHER VANE

{LEAD} There have been recent seemingly contradictory articles showing drunken driving decreasing by a third in the past decade, yet drug use again is on the rise. These puzzled me, so I thought a while.

Driving drunk has been uncool for quite some time. However, the present administration sends conflicting signals about drug use.

{REST} We say we are gung-ho about family values, yet where do we spend our time? Far too many of us work more than is necessary because we want transitory things. I see that idiot box (TV) on hour after hour in many households. Modems only increase the amount of idiocy possible.

We are in a moral nose dive because we are inconsistent. Mother Theresa said it best: How can we as a society tell people not to be violent when we abort babies?

It is time for us to decide whether we will be consistent like a compass or inconsistent like a weather vane, going whichever way the wind goes.

DAVE VAUGHN

Onley, May 23, 1994 by CNB