Listen for 1964

1111'IPEN of every ten of the women admitted were alcoholics. In actual numbers, the Department's report re- vealed, alcoholic admissions doubled in the last three years. But since most alcoholics are hospitalized for only short periods of time, they continue to occupy only about 5 percent of the beds in the Maryland mental hospitals. ANTISMOKING DRIVE. A national education pro- gram to discourage young people from smoking has been started by the Canadian health ministry. Some $600,000 in government funds is being allocated for H DULL DREAMS. Alcohol can deaden a man's dream life. Caffeine doesn't particularly liven it up either. information, education, and research. An additional If you want proof, ask the seven medical students $100,000 also has been made available by the Na- who proved the point by downing the equivalent of tional Cancer Institute for lung cancer research. six ounces of 100-proof gin before beginning a good night's sleep. Electrodes were attached to the stu- # MORPHINE REPLACEMENT? Medical science, for years dents for scientific observation, and the records searching for a pain-killing drug that is nonaddict- showed a substantial reduction in their dream lives. ing, may have found the answer in a drug called Scientists have learned that very active brain Win 20,228. It has been successfully tested and will waves and rapid eye movements are associated with be available in the near future if the Food and Drug dreaming. Alcohol slowed down these patterns in Administration approves the drug. One spokesman the medical students, which means that alcohol was from the National Academy of Sciences noted that reducing their dream life. Caffeine, taken in a dose Win 20,228 has no pain-killing effect in animals, only equivalent to three cups of coffee, did not have the in humans. Nor has the drug produced to date the same effect. Nor did it increase dream life. bizarre psychic reactions which have been trouble- some with some other pain-killing drugs. CZECH CHECK. There is a check on drinking drivers in Czechoslovakia that has proved quite effective. If • a drinking driver becomes involved in a traffic acci- dent, he may be fired from his job or given a year's As the lung cancer deaths continue to imprisonment. The law feels that the driver knows spiral toward the 50,000 mark per year, what he is doing when he drinks and drives in a why do smokers continue to smoke? In his book, "Why Give Up Smoking?" A. A. Os- manner dangerous to others. trow lists these reasons, given by smokers, for continuing to smoke. # FEMALE BUYING POWER. A survey conducted by Schenley Industries, Inc., producers of whiskey and other alcoholic beverages, has shown that women 1. To relieve tension and to help antici- pate stress. are a surprisingly important factor in determining 2. For pep when depressed. the fortunes of the nation's distillers. One out of 3. To help think. three liquor purchases is made by women, for in- 4. For companionship. stance, and almost half of the female population 5. To express sociability and to add drinks distilled spirits, as compared with 60 percent poise. of the male population. 6. As a reward for effort, and for a rest- ful change of pace. 7. To ease restlessness. W. • ALCOHOLIC MENTAL PATIENTS. For the second year in a row, alcoholics outnumbered all other patients 8. Because smoking involves a satisfying admitted to Maryland state mental hospitals, the De- ritual. 9. For sensory pleasure. partment of Mental Hygiene has reported. It was 10. To conform to custom. learned that more than 30 percent of all admissions 11. To keep from eating too much. were for a primary diagnosis of alcoholism. More than two out of every five men admitted and one out OUR COVER Seldom has ,1 champion in any sport so completely dominated May-June, 1964 his field as has Chuck McKinley in tennis. Not only national in achievement, but inter- Vol. 17, No. 3 national, Chuck gained fame at Forest Hills, at Wimbledon, in the Davis Cup matches last De- cember, and lately at Salisbury, Maryland, in winning the national singles. Listen's cover is by Hal Swigget, San Antonio, Editorial Office: 6840 Eastern Ave., N.W., Texas. Washington, D.C. 20012. ARTICLES Editor Francis A. Soper . Editorial 4 Too Contented . Peace or Armistice? . Lee Lester 5 Assistant Editor Michael A. Jones Does Your Community Need Liquor? . William N. Plymat 9 Combating the Drinking-Driver Menace Editorial Assistant Edna M. Tarr Interview by Gordon F. Dalrymple 16 Editorial Secretary Linda Anderson Finding the Real Solution . James R. Phillips 24 Here's a School for Drunks! . Robert B. Hunt 28 Art Director Howard Larkin SPECIAL FEATURES Layout Artist Ichiro Nakashima "Good Horse Sense Makes Good Car Sense" Interview by Francis A. Soper 7 Circulation Manager Dave Olsen Formula for a Miracle . Wife of an Alcoholic 14 Sales and Promotion L. R. Hixson He Plays for Keeps . Interview by Marion Rubinstein 18 What Is Safe Driving? . William C. Nunley 36 Jesse 0. Gibson PERSONALITIES Editorial Consultants William C. Nunley—Driver of the Year 7 WINTON H. BEAVEN, Ph.D., Director, Institute Stanley Mosk—California Attorney General 16 of Scientific Studies; MATTHEW HILL, Wash- ington State Supreme Court; ANDREW C. IVY, Chuck McKinley—Tennis Champion 18 Ph.D., M.D., D.Sc., LL.D., University of Illinois, Betty Miller—Transpacific Solo Flier Blendena Sonnichsen 21 Chairman of the National Committee for the Pre- David N. Strausser—Judge vention of Alcoholism; CYRIL B. COURVILLE, M.D., D.N.B., M.Sc., Director, Cajal Laboratory REGULAR FEATURES of Neuropathology; GEORGE T. HARDING, News 2 M.D., D.N.B., F.A.C.P., President and Medical As the World Turns 20 Director, Harding Sanitarium and Hospital; LAURENCE A. SENSEMAN, M.D., D.N.B., Party Pick-Ups by "Blossom" 25 F.A.C.P., Director, Fuller Memorial Hospital. Youth Asks—The Doctor Answers R. W. Spalding, M.D. 31 Views 35 Publication Office, Pacific Press Publishing Associ- ation, 1350 Villa Street, Mountain View, Califor- STORIES nia 94041. Printed in U.S.A. Twisted Shadows Wharton B. Trout, Jr. 22 Hello, Bennie 26 Office Editor Gordon F. Dalrymple POETRY Poems With a Purpose Listen Authors 33 LISTEN—bimonthly journal of better living, pub- MISCELLANEOUS lished in the interests of scientific education for the prevention of alcoholism and narcotics addic- Boycott on Dates? William L. Roper 17 tion. Endorsed and utilized nationally by Nar- Empire of Alcohol Federico Ortiz, Jr. 20 cotics Education, Incorporated. Drug Problems H Stuart Morrison 20 Second-class mail privileges authorized at Good Health—Your Most Valuable Asset Henry H. Graham 29 Mountain View, California. Form 3579 requested. Copyright, 1964, by the American Temperance Flying Hero Falls—The Second Time Henry F. Unger 30 Society, W. A. Scharffenberg, Executive Secretary. PHOTO AND ILLUSTRATION CREDITS Page 5, Board of Education, City of New York; pages 7, 8, Courtesy of Ameri- can Trucking Assns.; pages 14, 15, Mike Jones; page 18, Zintgraff, Abilene "Reporter-News"; page 26, Three Lions; page 33, Henle, Monkmeyer ; page 36, Forster Studio. A JOURNAL OF BETTER LIVING IETEN YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION, United States, its possessions, and Canada, $2.50; single copy, 45 cents; to other countries taking extra postage, $2.75; single copy, 50 cents. When change of address is desired, notify the Pacific Press Publishing Asso- ciation, 1350 Villa Street, Mountain View, California 94041. Please send the old address as well as the new, and allow four weeks for change to become effective. Too Content ARE YOU happy? Are you worried? Are you confident? Are you satisfied? These questions were part of a nationwide survey done recently by a prominent news magazine to determine the way people live today. This survey found that people "have never had it so good as they now have it." They are well fed, well clothed, well housed, well fixed with cars, gadgets of all kinds. In other words, the public in general is contented. In fact, the trouble is that they are too contented! "There seem to be no national goals, or even personal goals," said one summary of the survey, which touched every part of the country and all strata of society. "If you're intense about anything," the summary continued, "you're put down as an oddball. We are developing into people who don't have any opinions. We drift." Perhaps this is a situation into which we are drifting deliberately. We live in an age of drugs—"mood" drugs, "super-thought" drugs, "consciousness-expanding" drugs, "relaxant" drugs. This is one factor, an important one, in the present trend into chemi- cal living. Too many people are virtually putting their minds to sleep through drugs, with the result that they can no longer face reality or develop vigorous mental reactions. As the New York psychiatrist, Dr. Daniel Casriel, observes: "We have many people who are suffering from disuse of their normal fear and anger. They are so drugged that they cannot react normally to situations that should produce strong reactions." In an age of fast-moving events that are vital to every person, this is indeed tragic. A story is told of the mother of a very disturbed child coming to her psychiatrist for advice. He suggested that she take a tranquilizer each day until it was time to bring her boy back again. Several weeks later she returned for another consultation. "How is Johnny?" asked the doctor. Shrugging her shoulders, the mother replied, "Who cares?" Although this story may be somewhat overdrawn, it illustrates a trend.

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