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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B. 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
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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. She
missed the bracelet during a
party at the Eden Roc hoteL
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