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Experienced Doctor Says There is An Alcoholic Personality By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor New York -CPU- A physi cian widely experienced with alcoholics disputes the grow ing scientific suspicion that there is no such thing as "the alcoholic personality." There is such a personality, said Dr. Robert L Levy, but you can get confused by it taking a number of forms. This is so small matter, In the view of mind scientists To them, the disease, alcohol- Ism, is purely a disease of the mind, and if science ever gives I up on the efforts to blue-print "the alcoholic personality,' there may never be a solution for this affliction of more and more people. But some scientists have al ready given up. One said cau tically that the only thing alcoholics had in common was that they all drank too much. Another remarked it was im possible to find Just about anything you wanted to find in any group of alcoholics. Unconscious Needs ' Levy said the place to be gin describing the structure of "the alcoholic personality' was at its foundation stones . beneath the surface, and not with any of the weird per sonality patterns which could be ereceted on those founda tion stones. Those stones are uncon scious needs, according to Levy. If those needs are. of great intensity and if alco hol seems to lessen the prob lems which , grow out of the needs, then you have the base of "the alcoholic personality, One set of needs, he contin ued, are masochistic and Jthey are "the major determinant of much pathological drink ing." ' "Overtly, alcohol "punishes' in a variety of ways, he said "There is the simple hang ' over. Therels the binge 'with its miserable days and weeks of resulting sickness. There are the lost jobs, the promis ing careers ruined, the mar riages broken. , Serves As Device '1 "The overt- self-punshment, of course, serves unconscious ly as a problem-solving de vice. Our patients commonly show such, unconscious mech anisms as, 'look, I am v sick, and only as an invalid am, I lovable.' Or 'I am sick. This explains why I did not accom plish what I wanted to in life, and which I could have eas ily accomplished otherwise'."! Another need at the base of the "alcoholic personality" is a need to return to the in fant's way of experiencing life. Alcohol makes it seem unconsciously that "there is an available bountiful mother floating somewhere just out of sight," he said. This is "a symbolic func tion" of alcohol, he said, and it is closely connected with another symbolic function. The first feeling of alcoholic personality" this impression: "I feel pleasure. That is be cause I am lovable." Or it may go this way: "I feel pleas ure. I have been forgiven." Quotes From the News By United Press Inttrnational Cleveland, Ohio - Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan on Russian boasts that they are going to catch up and overtake us in living standards and productivity: "A long lime ago, Lenin told us lo learn from the Ameri cans' business-like attitude and their ability to organise in dustry. We are attempting to do just that." Bakersfield, Calif. - Leslie Stafford Jr., the 45-year-old well digger who fought free of a tomb of sand and gravel after he was once given up for dead: "I don't know exactly what I was thinking all the time. I Just prayed." . Philadelphia - M. O. Anderson, superintendent of Inde pendence Hall, on an offer by the London foundry which cast the Liberty Bell to repair the crack in it: "The cracked bell ... is the greatest symbol of freedom in the United States and possibly throughout the entire world. I'm sure we wouldn't be interested in having the crack re moved." 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Johnson referring to the -showdown between Johnson and Vice President Richard Nixon on the Senate's opening day on revision of Senate rules to gag filibusters: , "This will not be a panty-waist fight. This is a plain struggle between Johnson and Nixon." Grange News Roxy Ann Grange The first meeting of the new year, of Roxy Ann Grange was held Friday, Jan. 2, with B.J. Ritchey, new mas ter, presiding. ' Mrs. Paul Dalton was in stalled .as Pomona and Ros coe Roberts on executive com mittee; Mrs. Lewis Bish was given the third and 'fourth degrees. . Mrs. Carl Quackenbush, home economics chairman, an nounced the next meeting of HEC will be at eight p.m., January 14, at the home of Mrs. Evelyn Hendricks, Mrs. Mabel Christiansen will be cohostess. She said the next Grange meeting will be birth day night, those having birth days in the last half of the year are to bring cakes and serve, Roscoe Roberts, insurance agent, reported no raise in protected " areas, unprotected areas are up, also extended coverage going up. The last insurance meeting was held in the new building in Seattle. Mrs. Eleanor Mankins, chap lain, reported the Claypool baby is ill. Mrs. Wight and Mrs. Hall are back after hav ing the flu and Mrs. Byers is home with a sprained ankle. Mrs. Van Gordon, lecturer, read a letter about fighting, written by a fifth grader in Josephine county. Christmas decorations were taken down during lecture hour. The master announced council meeting will be held Jan. 17 at Central Pjoint and Mr. Haggard of Copco will put on a safety program March 27 at the Grange hall. The meeting was closed and refreshments were served by Mr. and Mrs. Carl Quack enbush. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Garrett and Mr. and Mrs. Alva Sims. Butte Falls Grange Butte Falls Master Earl Deen presided " at the last meeting of the Butte Falls Grange. Kizzie Edmondson was installed as chaplain, Released Prisoners Take Quick Trip Back Baton Rouge, La. -(DPD-Rob-ert C. Booker, 42, and James Walden, 39, enjoyed only 18 hours of freedom after their release from the state peniten tiary. Brooker was arrested for forcible entry and Walden was back in jail for picking Booker's pockets. Velma Casey, secretary, and Ted Fredenburg, treasurer. Peter Thomas, Medford, spoke on the scouting pro gram and the Grange voted to sponsor the Girl Scouts and the Cub Scouts. Committees named for the new year included, ways and means. Grace Wells, Elga Ab bott and Everett Moore; agri culture, Ted Fredenburg and Roscoe rent; membership, Bob Wells. Mildred Laird, Jim Arnold; youth committee, Elga Abbott, Dorothy Wright, Dean Stockton; investigating committee. Maud Arnold. Vel ma Casey, Rose Arent; com munity service. Frieda Moore, Harold Arnold, Kizzie Ed mondson; and legislature, Ted Fredenburg, Ernest Smith. Emoeene Abbott, home eco nomics club chairman, an nounced that the next serving committee for the next Grange meeting will be Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Laird and Mr. and Mrs. Ross Arent. The Grange bazaar netted $74.20. The next home economics club meeting will be Tuesday, Jan. 13, at the home of Grace Wells. Khrushchev Rejects Commune System As 'Old-Fashioned' Washington - (DPD Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev in his recent Moscow talk with Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.) rejected the com mune system recently insti tuted in Communist China. Humphrey, writing in the Jan. 12 issue of Life magazine about his eight-hour talk with the Soviet boss, said Khrush chev called the system "old fashioned and reactionary . . . not nearly so good as the state farm and collective farms" in Russia. Humphrey also said Khrushchev noted that com munes were based on the principle, "from each accord ing to his abilities, to each according to his needs." Khrushchev said, "You know that won't work because you can't get production without incentive." 'Rather Capitalistic' The Minnesota congressman said he asked the Communist leader if his statement on in centive wasn't "rather capi talistic." Khrushchev replied: "Call it what you will. It works." Khrushchev, H u mph rey wrote, also told how he laid a propaganda trap for Presi dent Eisenhower and how the President "walked right into it." Khrushchev said his propa ganda victory over Eisenhow er came last July when the President rejected Russia's re quest for . credits to finance Soviet purchases of consumer goods in the United States. Humphrey said Khrush chev related that "U.S. propa ganda had been telling the Soviet people how badly off they were and how sorry Americans were for them." The Soviet premier said he "just got tired of it." So he said he wrote Eisen hower a personal letter re questing the credits and was "delighted" when the Presi dent rejected the request. "You helped me," Khrush chev told Humphrey, Vyou showed my people that you did not realy care about them. You walked right into it. You were stupid, you were fools." Khrushchev likes President Eisenhower, Humphrey said, doesn't care for former Presi dent Truman and "is openly disdainful of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles." Khrushchev also said that recent accounts by Adlai Stevenson and columnist Wal ter Lippman of their visits to Russia were "the best of the worst." EVA LOSES BRACELET Miami Beach -(CPD Actress Eva Gabor lost a $25,000 dia mond bracelet here last week end, police reported Wednes- MA1L TRIBUNE, Mod'ford', Oregon, Thursday, January 8, 1959 TA day. Officers said Miss Gabor and her mother, Jolie, spent the New Year's week end in a fashionable resort hotel. 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