C H E E S E F R O M O R E G O N
by James O. Henry Chairman, History Department,
Red China Eases Life in Communes
binations could be justified, he said that they failed to give the best treat ment and even results in more resis tant germs. The doctor said he was “ discouraged and disturbed that these combinations continue to be pre scribed by physicians in spite of re peated warnings of their potential and actual danger by most of the leading workers in the field.” Anthropologist Links Culture To Mental Illness “Man is not really ‘bom ’ until he is 8 or 10 months old, and during these months he is particularly vul nerable to elements of his culture that may induce mental illness,” says an anthropologist. Dr. Ashley Montague of Princeton told a group of Psychia trists that he thought that there was a basic relation between culture and the incidence of mental illness. This “ unborn” condition of the infant in creases his chances of succumbing to the forces in his environment that produce mental illness, Dr. Montague believes. “ Birth,” he told the Eighth Annual Psychiatric Institute, “ is wrongly interpreted as the interrup tion of the symbiotic unity between mother and child. The continuation of this unity should be recognized, and the needs of the infant met.” He further stated, “ Contact with the mother’s body, the baby’s visual ex perience of that body, the support she gives, the breast feeding that should continue for at least nine months, all these are indispensably necessary conditions for the well-be ing and healthy development of the infant.” Dr. Montague believes that any culture which discourages its mothers behaving in this manner is likely to contribute in a major way to the predisposition to mental ill ness in its members.” A remarkable resurgence of church attendance has been reported in Com munist Czechoslovakia by a University of Connecticut political scientist who recently returned from two months of study in Central Europe. Dr. Curt Beck, an authority on Czechoslovakia, who lived in that country from 1933 to 1938, observed that the Govern ment permitted regular church serv ices, and he added that they were ex tremely well attended. “ As a matter of fact,” he said, “ one can enter a Czechoslovakian Church Attendance On Increase
The rigid discipline of life in the communes set up last year in Com munist China was eased in the southern provinces in April because of growing unrest, reliable sources reported recently. Increased freedom of activity and less interference with family ties were among the major con cessions made by Communist author ities in an effort to create a more harmonious and cooperative atmos phere, according to persons reporting on recent visits to the Chinese Main land. In addition, they reported food allotments have been increased a sub stantial degree in these rural centers of communal living and working. Diming the first months of operation of the commune system, there were numerous reports from China that peasants were underfed and over worked to a point that was harmful and sometimes fatal. Among the major concessions reported was a system of crop retention controlled entirely by the commune leaders and workers’ representatives. Under this system the leaders and representa tives have been given full power to determine the food needs of the com mune. These amounts are withheld from the produce turned in to the Government. The report said that commune leaders have voted that ap proximately 60 per cent of total crops should be withheld for commune con sumption. So far there has been no I indication of any objection or inter ference by the central Government, it was reported. Impartial Test of Drugs is Asked Dr. Maxwell Finland of the Har vard Medical School said recently that United States drug companies have put dangerous antibiotic com binations on the market. He recom mended to Senate investigators that a panel of “ honest, impartial” ex perts be set up to evaluate all new drugs before release to the public. “ If the drug industry does not want to support such a panel,” he said, “ then the Government should organ ize and finance it.” Dr. Finland told the Senate Antitrust and Monopoly subcommittee that there were more than 100 antibiotic combinations on the market. He said that they were doing little but encouraging “ shot gun therapy” by doctors. Declaring it was “ doubtful” if any of the com
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