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Summer Session Kansan
Friday, July 19. 1963
White Collar Work Induces Medication
By Delos Smith
NEW YORK—(UPI)—A check of 3,042 white collar workers from executives down to clerks revealed that one quarter of them had used drugs either to slow down or speed up their minds.
To specialists, that is both a high proportion of an entirely normal group of people and an indication of less than ideal emotional health. However, the drugs had been prescribed by physicians in every case.
HOW REPRESENTATIVE these 3,042 are of all American white collars no one can tell. They work for one of America's largest and most respected industrial corporations which selects employees with care, looking for the best.
Drs. Sanford G, Rogg and Sidney Pell gathered their statistics by giving each man and woman a questionnaire when he or she reported to the medical department for an annual check-up. The questionaires were filled in later and anonymously.
They asked if any "psychotropic" drugs had been taken during the past year. These were broken down into tranquilizing drugs, sleep-producing drugs and the psyche-energizing drugs which are better known as "pep pills."
ROGG AND PELL refused to discuss the "validity" of the prescriptions by which the men and women obtained their drugs. Some were taking more than one kind, and half of the takers had taken them for one month or longer.
"About 60 per cent of those taking medication did so for frank emotional conditions such as nervousness, unexplained tensions and insomnia," Rogg and Pell reported to the technical journal, "Industrial Medicine and Surgery."
Women more than men used the drugs for just plain nervousness. But three times more men than women used drugs for hypertension and this the scientists attributed to the freedom the female has to "express her emotions directly." The male must often suppress his.
"INCIDENCE OF the use of the drugs increased with increasing age and was higher among women than men at all ages," they said. "It was striking to note that no male under
25 used psychotropic drugs, while 21.3 per cent of the females in this young-age group used them."
The drug-takers were asked if their medicine helped and high percentages replied, yes. The biggest vote went to the tranquilizers but the affirmative totals for the sleeping pills and the pep pills were not far behind.
Indeed, the three totals were so close that they "suggested placebo effects," the scientists said. Such an effect is to feel better because you're taking something rather than because of what that something does to you.
All were employed by E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company in a city setting with many hospitals and "medical sophistication." As a check, Rogg and Pell gave the same questionnaire to 3,104 male blue collar workers of a manufacturing plant in a semi-rural setting.
The percentage who used psychotropic drugs was 16.4 rather than one quarter. Rogg and Pell said they did not have enough information to know if this lower rate was "due to their greater physical activity, resulting in decreased nervous tensions."
Eleven Campers Perform at Recital
Eleven high school music students of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp performed Wednesday night in the Advanced Student Recitals in Swarthout Recital Hall.
The students in the recital were Rick Funk who played "Partita in C Minor" on the piano. Royce Chandler who sang "Give A Man A Horse He Can Ride," and Susan Sandow, who played "Concertina" on the flute.
ANN THOMPSON played "Prayer" on the Cello, and Dale Weddie, the 3rd movement of Mozart's "Third Concerto" on his French horn.
"Mood for Percussion" was played by Wayne Erck and Evan Johnson. Alice Spier played a piano piece "The Cat and the Mouse."
Another concert will be given next Wednesday night at 7:30 in Swarthout Hall.
do. They want to sell themselves so badly that they are a bit frustrated and don't wish to be held back or to hold back, and this may be one of the causes of this seeming overintensity at times on the part of the Young Republicans. We need to educate the general public as well as our own party as to the accomplishments of our party within the recent years. We need to tell the people about our stand on civil rights, a stand that actually is stronger than the Democratic party's.
YR Head Wants—
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Q—If you do that, how do you also carry the South?
A-I don't think that the South, the individual Southerner, is as concerned about the civil rights issue as he is about the economic and social and political future of that portion of the country.
Q-IN ITS civil rights resolution your executive committee appears to have come out against a proposed public accommodations law.
A-I have in my mind serious and sincere doubts as to whether it's a violation of a personal right to refuse service or to insist on service. It has not been legally decided. I am
not a racist. I am definitely, if anything, a liberal on civil rights. I'm for these people 100 per cent and there's no doubt that any citizen of the United States must have the right to vote, the right to housing, the right to education, the right to employment. But I do not want to confuse privileges with rights.
Q—Do you think a conservative Republican candidate would run better next year than a so-called metoo candidate?
A-I don't think a me-too candidate would be as strong a candidate, this particular presidential year. But I think that in 1864 the Republicans are going to elect their candidate no matter who he is.
As for his own future plans, Lukens said he definitely plans to run for public office later. "I intend to run as soon as I've acquired enough polish and lost a little of my amateur standing," he said, "to run on the Republican ticket for any office which I think I'm capable of filling."
He said he would run from Ohio—but that he certainly would not run for Congress from his home district while Rep. Clarence Brown, his Congressman and Congressional sponsor, remains in office.
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