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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD. OREGON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19. 1963 Outlook for Modern State Constitution Is Reported Better Than Many Predict Eugene - "The outlook for , "An equal risk would be a modern Oregon constitution the temptation to reach an is better than most people agreement on the lowest corn would have predicted six mon denominator, throwing months ago." University Law I out all meaningful provisions Professor Hans A. Linde. a ! in order to submit any docu- I ment at all to the voters. This ; could give the public the form I of constitutional revision. member of the constitutional revision commission, told newspaper men and women at the 44th annual Oregon Press conference at the Uni versity of Oregon recently. Linde said that "many leg islators appreciate the neces sity of submitting a new con stitution to the voters as a whole, rather than piecemeal. and others are at least open minded about the proposals now before the legislative committees studying the re vised constitution. "This," he continued, "is largely due to the wide and objective press coverage which the preparation of the new constitution got through out the work of the commis sion." Credit to Press "If Oregon succeeds in adopting a modern constitu tion by this method of study and deliberation, it will be an accomplishment of nation al significance and Ore gon's press will deserve much of the credit." Linde said that action could and should be completed at the present session of the Legislature to submit a re vised constitution to the vot ers, "Or much of the drive for constitutional reform may be dissipated." "It has taken 12 years to carry the work of revision this far toward success," he pointed out. "Newspaper men know how hard it is to awak en and sustain the wide pub lic attention needed for a fundamental act like the adoption of a new constitu tion. "The public has been as well informed as it ever could be that a new state constitu tion is now before the Leg islature. They will expect the right to vote their own choice about a new constitution if not precisely this draft, then one substantially like it. Fail ure by the present Legisla ture to act would withhold that choice from the people until, perhaps, 1966. Other Choice "If the Legislature cannot reach agreement to act un der the authority given it by the people in 1960, then per haps it should turn the task back to a constitutional con vention, for which the Leg islature offered itself as a substitute. of anything of sub- empty stance. "To watch legislative de velopments for that type of mis named 'compromising' may well be the most impor ! tant task of the press with I reSDCct to rnnstitiitinnal rpvi. sion in the weeks immediate ly ahead," he concluded. Parliament in Italy Dissolved; Elections Slated Rome -IUP1I- President An tonio Segni dissolved parlia ment Monday to open the way for new general elections. Segni met with Premier Amintore Fanfani, who counter-signed the dissolution or der. The cabinet convened im mediately and set the elec tions for April 28 and the first meeting of the new parlia ment for May 16. The disbanding of parlia ment was the official starting gun for what is expected to be the bitterest election cam paign in Italy since the Com munists nearly won control in 1948. Voters To Have Say The election will give vot ers their first chance to say what they think about Fan fani's year-old experiment in center-left government. He formed an alliance of his Christian Democrats with the Social Democrats and Re publicans that provided a working majority in parlia ment. The Socialists helped keep it in power with their voles, even though they were not actually in the govern ment. In return, ihe center -left enacted some legislation-such as nationalization of the elec trical industry for which the Socialists have been clam oring for many years. The Socialists are basically neutralist but retain some tics with their former Communist allies. The Christian Demo crats arc a center parly, and firmly committed to the West ern alliance. 7 - . ENGAGEMENT TOLD - Evangelist and Mrs. Billy Graham have announced in Chicago the engagement of their daugh ter, Virginia Graham, above, to Stephan Tohividjian of Mon- treaux, Switzerland. Graham said the wedding will take place in Switzerland in the spring. (UPI) The Medical Roundup Emeritus Consultant tn Medicine .Muyu Clinic Emeritus rrofcsMir i Medicine Mayo clinic (Register and Tribune syndicate, 1963) Exophthalmic Goiter In many ways, the most serious type of goiter is the exophthalmic, in which the eyes of the a woman -will first look strange, and later may bulge in a characteristt c way. Often the woman ' a reddish skin, and she r eyes. She jittery Alvarci keeps blinking will be very nervous. restless, tired and irritable. In spile of a good appetite, she is likely to lose much weight. Study Under Way To Check How Form, Content of Language Influence Thought Eugene-What do the words you use and the way you put them together reveal about the way you think? This problem is under study at the University ol Oregon in a project headed by Dr. iredcrick R. Fosmire, as sociate professor of psychol ogy, under a grant Irom tne National Institute of Mental Health of the U.S. Public Health service. The work has significance both for basic psychological theory and for the diagnostic techniques used by clinical psychologists and psychia trists. "There is evidence today that the form and content of our language influence the way we see the world about us, the way we think about things, the way we attcnipt to solve problems, even the things which we recognize as problems," Dr. Fosmire said. Language Habits "We do not know just what features of language have this influence or the extent of the influence. In our research pro ject, we are trying to identify some of the language habits thai influence these things," he explained. Over the past three years, some 600 undergraduate stu dents have been given word association tests once or twice, and about 40 of them have been studied intensively. In addition, six hospitalized schizophrenic patients and six members of a hospital staff, matched for age, education, and intelligence, have also un dergone linguistic tests. Dr. Fosmire, presently as sisted by graduate student Ed ward Tryk, Eugene, is testing tlte commonality language habil-whethcr a person tends to use common words and order them in common ways, or whether he uses rare and individualislc words and uses them in uncommon sequenc es. Some of their observations are reported in the Feb. 1 is sue of the technical journal, Science. aX LIKE BROOK! jiiL i SUNNY BROOK SUXNY H 13KOOK n m Qt. w Pint t Qt. w p,n . She will probably perspire excessively, and she may feel so warm that she will kick olf the bed clothes at night. In the doctor's office, she will be restless and perhaps unable to sit still. She may complain of loose bowels and a throbbing heart, with a rapid and often irregular pulse. She will sleep poorly. Her hands may be trembly. If the doctor asks the fam ily, he may learn that for some lime Ihe woman has been irritable and unreason able and not herself. I gen erally can recognize such a woman and make the diag noses the minute she walks into the office, and I am sure of what is wrong the moment I reach out and touch her hand - her skin is as warm as if she had a fever. Such a woman will bo found to have what is called a high metabolic rate. In her big and over-active thyroid gland (goiter, just below the voice box in the front of the neck), she is making too much thyroxin (the thyroid hor mone). Because this hormone regulates the speed of the chemical changes in our tis sues, the poor woman's body is like a steam engine with out a governor - it is racing, and is causing her heart to race. Measure Oxygen One way in which to meas ure the metabolic rate (rate of body chemistry) is to measure Ihe amount of oxygen she uses per minute as she breathes into a special little machine. The test may show that she is using 75 per cent more oxy gen than a normal woman of her size and weight and age should use. Another way in which to find how serious her condi tion is, is to get an expert chemist to measure the protein-bound iodine (p.b.i.) in the blood. In cases of exoph thalmic or other forms of toxic goiter, this figure is higher than normal. Treatment of the condition can be surgical-with removal of the goiter, or with drugs which will tend to quiet the activity ol the gland. District Meeting Scheduled by DAV A district meeting of Dis abled American Veterans and auxiliary will be held Sun day, Feb. 24, in Building 224, al the Veterans Administra tion domiciliary, White City. Groups attending will rep- resent Grants Pass, Klamath Falls, Rosrburg, Oakland and Coquillc, in addition to local chapters. The meeting wilj begin at 10 a.m. with dinner to be served in the domiciliary can teen. The auxiliary session will be in the music appreciation room of Building 224. A flag will be placed at the build ing's entrance for the con venience of DAV personnel who are not familiar with the facility. The National Order of Al ley Cats, both fun and honor degrees of the DAV, will meet Saturday, Feb. 23, at 8 p.m. in the basement lounge of the Timber Room, 3 South Riverside ave. A dinner will precede the business meeting. Thus far, no differences in social adjustment have been found between the two groups, but other differences have emerged, Dr. Fosmire said. Socially Conservative Those using more common words appear to be more so cially conservative, compli ant, and docile, as well as more consistent and predict able. These characteristics re main fairly constant over a variety of tasks, including problem solving, stress situa tions, and others. "A member of the high commonality group will ap proach problems the same way from time to lime and from task to task," Dr. Fos mire said. "But the low-com monality person is much more variable and less consistent and predictable. Among dif ferent tasks and over periods of time, he will try many dif ferent approaches and may even contradict himself." The researchers have found thai most of the common group are achieving, in terms of school grades, at about the expected level, but the un common group includes many more undcrachicvcrs, those who are receiving poorer grades than their intelligence levels indicate they should. There arc more women in the common group than men. There is also some suggestion that linguistic styles are asso ciated with vocational inter ests, Dr. Fosmire pointed out. For instance, in Ihe high-commonality group, there are many more men majoring in business administration than in the sciences. Follow Instructioni The common group appears to understand and be willing to follow instructions better than the uncommon group, Dr. Fosmire said, possibly be cause the uncommon group "interprets the instructions differently and simply does not sec what is expected of them." Dr. Fosmire pointed out that "the high-commonality group tends to have small iso lated concept classes in which they emphasize differences rather than similaritics-black- white, for instance. 'The low- commonality group appears to have more fluid concepts and is more at tracted by similarities or by associated or coordinate re sponses - black-dahlia, for in stance." In word association tests. the common group responds with smaller, more repetitious clusters of words which arc generally neutral in lone. The uncommon group tends to give they farr. after graduation from college. "Although the members of the uncommon group are, as a whole underachieving now, it does not mean that they may not turn out as well as, or belter than, the other crouu large, complexly lnicrreiatea 0VCr the long pull, ' he corn clusters of words which have mealed More information about other types of goiters is in Dr. Alvarez' little booklet. "Thy roid Troubles and Goiters." You may obtain a copy of it by sending 25 cents and a self addressed, stamped envelope with your request for it 'o Dr, Walter C. Alvarez. Dept. MMT. Box BJ7. Drs Moines 4, Iowa. St. Patrick's Day Dance Scheduled Jacksonville - Tickets arc now on sale for the St. Pat rick's day dance scheduled for Saturday, March 18, the Jacksonville Community hall by Centennial post American Legion. The dance will be held from 9 p.m. to 1 a m. with the music to be furnished by a group of American Legion musicians. Tickets arc available from any post member, it was stat ed. Food will be served the snack bar during the dance, with full meals also available. more emotional content. The contribution of the work to psychological theory is limited at present, since no one has yet devised a method for finding out which is cause and which is effect - whether people think as they do be cause they talk as they do, or the other way around. Clinical Diagnosis The use of the findings in clinical diagnosis is not lim ited by this factor, however, Dr. Fosmire pointed out. As long as certain associations between language habits and thought patterns can be cslab lished, it will help the clini cal psychologist and psychia trist in the diagnosis of psy chological disturbances, par ticularly in the identification of the schizophrenic or pre schizophrenic person. It has long been recognized that schizophrenics sutler s loosening of thought associa tions and develop language patterns that reflect this loos ening process. But, Dr. Fos mire pointed out, researchers are able to find people with no trace of psychosis whose language patterns and asso ciations arc just as uncommon as those of the schizophrenic. A part of his project is to try to learn the differences in language content and struc ture between these two groups. In an associated study by graduate student Myron J Moroz, Eugene, it was found that schizophrenic patients are no better able to under stand schizophrenic discourse than are normal people, Theory Exploded The results seem to explode the widely held theory that schizophrenia represents a re gression to an earlier, more primitive level of thought and language, and therefore, it should be easier tor schizo-! phrcnics to comprehend each other, Dr. Fosmire said. Dr. Fosmire hopes to be able to do long-term follow-up studies on those students who have been studied intensively, in an attempt to find out how He would also like to do a study of children to find out how early in lite these associ ated thought and language habits develop and the effect that parental language may have on these habits. U. S. Said Behind Guatemala Change Washington - (UPU - Sen. 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