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.
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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.
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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.
Thurston Morton (R-Ky.) has
publicly revealed what most
diplomats here had long sus
pected the United States
engineered the 1954 over
throw of the Communist re
gime in Guatemala.
The former GOP national
chairman said former Presi
dent Dwight D. Eisenhower
endorsed plans to topple Ja
cobo Arbenz, Guatemala's
Communist president.
The United States has ncv
er formally identified itself
with the Guatemalan episode
of 1954.
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