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PAGE FOUR — Sapulpa Daily Herald. Thursday, Eeb. I. 2007
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New alcohol test for teens P°°ner or okie?
B\ CRAIG HARRIS
CNHI News Service
There is a new test avail-
able that will reveal if your
teenager drank alcohol last
weekend.
ABC News had the story
this week. I think it's a good
idea. To me. it would be
successful if it keeps just
one teenager from drinking
and driving this weekend -
or drinking and making
some other stupid decision
in a clouded state.
Peer pressure is a terribly
powerful force. Few can
resist it. and parents need all
the help they can get try ing
to keep their teenagers safe.
This may be the cavalry.
Pequannock Township
High School in New Jersey
will begin using the test
next month. It will be a
urine test delivered to stu-
dents at random on Monday
mornings. It will show if
tested students consumed
alcohol any time during the
past 80 hours. School offi-
cials say they will not pun-
ish students with alcohol
found in their system, but
will notify their parents.
“We have a serious prob-
lem.” said Superintendent
Larrie Rey nolds.
Again, as a parent. I like
this idea. Alcohol kills more
than five teenagers every
single day in this country,
mostly from drunken driv-
ing. Add in other drugs and
we have an all-out epidem-
ic. It’s the death toll from
Sept. 11 year after year. Not
only that. but many
teenagers contract sexually
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transmitted diseases, get
pregnant or find themselves
beaten up because of deci-
sions they make while under
the influence. I want us as a
society to do all we can to
stem the tide.
Like everything, there are
drawbacks. For instance, it
is so sensitive, it may mis-
take vanilla for alcohol, or it
may give false readings
because of hand sanitizers
or other consumer products.
Further, some teens are
so bent on being popular,
they don’t care if they get
caught or not. In fact, some
may see it as a sign of matu-
rity to face the music. That
would simply he something
else to brag about. And
some parents are so busy
with their own lives, they
simply don't or can't care. It
remains. though, that
knowledge is power.
Not surprisingly, the
American Civil Liberties
Union has already weighed
in. Sarah Wunsch at the
ACLU in Massachusetts
said. "You send the wrong
message by doing a mass
lest of all kids about whom
there's no suspicion. I think
it teaches kids that they have
no rights at all.”
Ms. Wunsch needs to
realize that no one has the
right to break the law in this
country, hut statistics show
half or more of those stu-
dents did just that. I get so
tired of those who want to
protect criminal behavior.
We have laws for a reason
and we can change them if
they are unfair or unjust. It
is illegal for any teenager to
drink in America and that is
for their own good. I may
not like buckling my seat-
belt. hut that law may save
my life some day. Rights
only go as far as the laws of
society let them. Laws are
like stripes on the highway,
but the ACLU doesn't seem
to grasp that. They want a
world without rules or
boundaries - and would not
like it if they found them-
selves in it.
No. I think the message it
sends is. "Hey kids, we love
you and we are doing all we
can to keep you safe from
harm. Please excuse this
inconvenience, and we are
proud to say that we know
you are going to pass this
test.” Those with nothing to
hide have nothing to fear.
Those who drank over the
weekend will no longer be
able to hide it from their
parents. That deterrent may
just save their lives.
Craig Harris writes a
weekly parenting column for
the Palestine (Texas)
Herald-Press.
fly H) MONTGOMERY
CNHI New s Sen-ice
The first of my 700
Oklahoma history columns
appeared Sept. 6. 1993. and
I'm giving to reprint it. edited
for length:
Four score and six year,
ago our lathers brought forth
on this prairie a new state,
conceived by the Boomers
and dedicated to the proposi-
tion that it's better to get
there vx>ner than to he creat-
ed equal.
Yes. it really was 86 years
ago that voters of the Indian
and Oklahoma territories
approved the Constitution
for the state of Oklahoma.
That was on Sept. 17. 1907.
President Theodore
Roosevelt proclaimed
Oklahoma the 46th slate on
Nov. 16.
So Oklahoma is now one
year younger as a state than
tlie United Stales was as a
nation w hen President
Abraham Lincoln delivered
his Gettysburg Address on
Nov. 19.1863. He, of course,
counted 87 years from July
4. 1776. the day the
Continental Congress adopt-
ed the Declaration of
Independence.
The Boomers were large-
ly responsible for forcing the
first Oklahoma land opening.
The central part of the state
was made available lo home-
steaders on April 22. 1889
The Boomers had attempted
as early as 1879 to establish
colonies in the Indian
Territory.
Sooners were would-be
settlers who sneaked into the
areas of the first and subse
quent openings. Some have
questioned the use of a word
synonymous with “cheater"
as a nickname.
The historian Gaston
Litton wrote in 1937 that
“Boomer" for a time was
used to identify all new set-
tlers in the years following
the first run.
"But eventually the word
'Sooner' gained ascendary
and in recent years has
eclipsed all other nicknames
for Oklahomans.” Litton
wrote.
Our other nickname.
“Okies." was used for all
destitute people fleeing the
Great Plains in the Great
Depression It was a fighting
word for many an Oklahoma
Gl in California during
World War II
Dewey Bartlett, governor
from 1967 to 1971. took on
the considerable project of
convincing < Iklahomans and
everybody else that “Okie"
was respectful.
'The initials.” he said,
“stand for Oklahoma. Key to
Intelligence and Enterprise "
His press secretary. Mike
McCarville. even wrote a
hook about it.
But most of us here in
Oklahoma would Sooner
stick to the original
Let’s cut their pay
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Bv ERIC BRADSHAW
CNHI News Sen-ice
Who doesn't ever feel a
tad hit sore about how much
legislators get paid?
While school teachers,
police officers and firefight-
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there's always room for the
legislators to make a bit
more.
Well, an Oklahoma legis-
lator from Guthrie is trying
to get a bill passed to have
voters decide whether to cut
legislative annual salaries
from $38,400 per year to
$29,908. the annual income
of the av erage Oklahoman.
State Rep. Jason
Murphey recently held a
press conference to talk
about House Joint
Resolution 1007. An
amendment to the
Oklahoma State
Constitution, the hill is cur-
rently waiting to he sent to a
committee and then, if
allowed to be heard, w ill get
a vote in the House
Murphey claims, among
other things, that state rep-
resentatives in Oklahoma
make more than the national
average and more than many
of their neighbors
It's a great hill, hut what
do you think will likely hap-
pen’
Republican and
Democrat legislators alike
will oppose it. As someone
from Murphey *s office said
to me on the phone, it's not
a popular bill. On the other
hand. I am most certain that
il" it does pass. Oklahomans
will vote the cut in heartily.
While I vote for many a
Democrat, I love the more
conservative approach to
stale spending — cutting
hack unnecessary programs
and in this case, cutting leg-
islators' pay.
It does not surprise me in
the least that Murphey is a
Republican.
Eric Bradshaw writes for
The Sun in Midwest City.
Okla.
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