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Wednesday, Dtetmbtr II, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE If IHX Other Ages Had 'Tranquilizing Drugs', Professionals Reminded By DELOS SMITH New York U- Other ages had their "tranquilizing drugs" too, a medical scientist has re- Belf-Tighfening Due in Indonesia Jakarta, Indonesia IP) President Sukarno called today tor a "national struggle" in the showdown with The Netherlands over control of Dutch-held West New Guinea. As he spoke there were reports of new seizures of Dutch property in the Celebes. Sukarno spoke to a "Free West Irian" rally in Surabaya, in East Java. It was his first public ap pearance since the abortive as sassination attempt Nov. 30. Re ports said heavy security pre cautions were In force at Sura baya. "We are not making compro mises . . .."Sukarno told bis cheering audience. He said Indo nesians must be prepared to make heavy sacrifices if they, hope to wrest control of West Iran (West New Guinea) from the Dutch. He warned the nation would face shortages of food, clothing and other vital goods. Sukarno also was quoted as O saying that "to3 many people seek to concentrate their hopes on the United Nations" to brinp about a settlement of the con troversy. "The struggle cannot be re solved In Washington, Moscow or Peiping but in Indonesia," Sukarno' said. minded the profession and some of those drugs eventually blocked the general progress of the people who used them gen erously. Prof. Julius Pomeranze of New York Medical College spe cified that he referred to "alco hol, tobacco, betel nut, cocoa leaf, opium and heroin." His was the newest voice raised in warn ing against the over-prescribing and over-use of happy pills. "Tension and anxiety are not only products of progress they are also factors in its develop ment," he said. "Anxiety creates the drives that lead us to pro gress. Tranquilizing drugs of the past have moderated drives, al tered physical structure and de stroyed emotional patterns. In this sense they have impeded progress." Anxiety Provides Drlva He granted that it was "not pleasant to live with constant anxiety." But, he. continued, real istic situations of living produce anxiety quite realistically. And it is the anxiety and the "drives" anxiety mobilizes that permit the mastering of the situations, he said, adding: "to destroy these anxieties may destroy our mech anism for handling these situa tions." His warning was circulated among medical men through the technical journal of the Ameri can Geriatrics Society. It was based upon the premise that "the role of the physician cannot be replaced with drugs. Drugs can only be useful when the physic ian has established the role of friend, helper and true mediator, and then prescribes with full knowledge of the drug and the patient." This age of medical chemistry has created "extremely valuable drugs" but it also has encour aged laxity in diagnosis. He thought it would be "a great ad vance for mankind if a drug were able to overcome the neu rotic drives which lead us to unhappiness. Unfortunately the facts, when carefully consider ed, leave little hope that such a drug has been found." He said the tranquilizers chlor promazine and rauwolfie serpen tina had been proven to have real effects in body chemistry and were both useful in the treat ment of some severe mental dis orders. He questioned that real effects in body chemistry had been proven in the case of me probromate which is marketed under the trade names of "mil town" and "equanil." He said meprobromate had been proven out only for persons who are mildly neurotic and, at the same time, have a good un derstanding of their own emo tionly processes which produce their unhappiness, and an under standing of what stresses upset them. "However, awareness of the situation and good insight are fundamental in the self-evaluation of tension, and this evalua tion often causes the tension and its somatic (bodily) components to disappear," he said. "Drugs for which such claims are made must therefore j be measured with extreme care, for results attributed to the drug may be the result of the patient's own emotional effort." & TOYC ar fear i OPEN EVENINGS df - MOORE - 'I Outdoor Supply f 816 S. Rivtrside S&H Green Stamps Biller Cold Wave Hits North Plains By UNITED PRESS The bitterest cold wave of the season, borne on near gale force winds, knifed across the North ern Plains and the Midwest to day. Weathermen warned the cold blast would push to the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts by nightfall. Sub-zero readings were com mon at the core of the frigid air mass from the Eastern Dakotas across Minnesota, Northern Wis consin and the Northern Great Lakes. 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