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How Others Try To Control You Page 6, Portland Observer, October 28, 1987 by Jane Wilson It s a push-button society, or so it has often been said. But this may e more true than we previously might have suspected. Much like a computer, you have push-button impulses, key wore phrases that can compel you to do things against your better judgment, or which can repress you from doing what you want. Even without under standing the mental mechanisms involved, people frequently try to control you by discovering and using these phrases to manipulate your reactions According to the current best-selling book ' Dianetics The Modern Science of Mental Health” by L. Ron Hubbard, “ The 'handling of human beings' and what people have been calling, roughly, 'psychology have been actually push-button handling of a person's aberrational phrases and sounds." "Children discover them in their parents and use them with a vengeance." says Hubbard. "Wives may find that certain words make the husband wince or make him angry or make him refrain from doing some thing and so they use these 'push buttons.' And husbands find their wives push buttons and keep them from buying clothes ot using the car. In fact, everywhere we are manipulated by button words. ver tising frequently tries to discover general public words and to use these to make people buy. In the advertising field, they even talk about impulse buying! But just what are these button words and why do they have such a power over us? Hubbard discoverd that these buttons are in fact words connected to past experiences of pain and emotion. But until the effects of these phrases are released through "Dianetics” technology, a person generally is not Photo by Richard J Brown C om m ittee to Elect Susan Graber to the Supreme Court Susan Graber, a well-known and experienced trial and appellate attor ney from Portland, announced that she would seek election to the Oregon Supreme Court, Position Four. The incumbent, Justice J.R. Campbell, is expected to retire at the end of this term. Former Supreme Court Justice Betty Roberts said: In 1985, Susan Graber was one of only two lawyers in private practice whose names were submitted by the Oregon State Bar to then-Governor Atiyeh for considera tion to fill the vacancy that my resignation created on the Supreme Court. I am delighted that she has agreed to run. She is the best qualified person for the jo b ." Justice Roberts is joined on the campaign committee by for .'V mer Supreme Court Justice Randall Kester. Ms Graber's professional activities have included service as a pro tern District Court Judge, an arbitrator, and a mediator, and she presently chairs the Executive Committee of the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference. Ms. Graber also has -arved as a member of the Board of Governors of the City Club of Ponlanc. She is a 1972 graduate of the Vale Law School Campaign chairman Clifford N. Carlsen, Jr., who has twice chaired successful statewide judicial campaigns, said that Ms. Graber is an excep tionally well-quaiified candidate. Ms. Graber said. I consider myself to be a legal scholar, not a politician, but I intend to win this race. aware of the connection. Is there a defense against manipulative efforts of others to control you with buttons? "Dianetics" actually details a method to gain full control over your own responses. But simply recognizing the phenomenon could be a step toward clearer thinking. 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