HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-02-09, Page 7African Version
Of Psychiatry
The emotionally disturbed no -
five of Nigeria and the equally
upset New York executive often
unwittingly take the same course
--and the same cure,
The New Yorker hies himself
to a reputable Park Avenue psy-
chiatrist, where the doctor ens.
ploys talk and tranquilizers to
treat his patient.
In Nigeria, the unfortunate
native goes to a community
Witch doctor, whose mud -hut
office is marked with a white
flag. 'There, resting on a grass
mat instead of a leather couch,
the patient is put into deep coma
with a draught of mysterious
yellow liquid. This is the "tran-
quilizer. Later the patient is
given a cake of black soap,
which' the brightly robed witch
doctor persuades him will "wash
away the evil spirits." This, of
course, is the "talk."
This interesting parallel he-
tween the practices in the prim
Park Avenue office and the
primitive African mud hut was
made recently by Dr, Raymond
Prince, 35, a soft-spoken psy-
chiatrist of McGill University,
who recently spent eighteen
months in Nigeria, practicing in
the British -built Aro Hospital.
Now, with a Society for .the
Investigation of Human Ecology
grant, Dr. Prince returned last
month to the bush country of
western Nigeria, where, he will
continue his investigations into
witch doctoring in the sprawling,
populous (45,000 natives and
Europeans) community of Abe-
okuta.
"A mentally disturbed native
of the Yoruba tribe may stay
under the witch doctor's care as
long as two years," Prince said.
"And he is required to pay a
stiff fee. If he is wealthy, he
will pay the doctor in goats; or
he may work off the debt in the
doctor's fields." The high cost of
being witch -doctored, in fact,
was what drove some natives to
Dr. Prince at the hospital.
On Dr. Prince's last visit to
Nigeria, a highly regarded witch
doctor named Adetona permitted
him to watch a treatment. After-
ward, Prince persuaded him to
give him some of the potent yel-
low liquid which he then had
analyzed in London,
r "The herb distillation turned
out to be chemically similar to a
tranquilizing drug known to us
for just fifteen years," Dr. Prince
maid. It is made by boiling a
root from the tree Rauwolfia
tat grows nears the- village an•
its active agent, reserpine, is
used in most modern tranqui-
lizers.
"I would guess they have been
using this drug for hundreds of
years," he added. "And there are
others—perhaps some we don't
know yet—that might be invalu-
able to Western medicine.
"On this trip, I'm going to look
for other drugs, and also probe
Into the question of how much
of the cure depends on the magic
el 'talk,' and how much on phar-
macologically active drugs. This
question is pertinent to Western
psychiatry, too."
NOW IN LIQUIDATION
In Milan, Italy, a sustained
outbreak of car stealing came to
an abrupt halt with the arrest
of Giancarlo Monti.
He confessed to the police that
he was forced to steal, and sell,
two cars daily to keep up with
his thirst. His daily drinking
needs were 30 glasses of brandy,
plus 4 pints of wine with each of
his meals.
INET PROFIT A real catch
for any lucky fisherman, Kathy
t ,braze° drops info, Vise net dt
Sliver Springs. Kathy, 17, is a
Iaigh school senior.
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Future Of Oil In
The U.S. And Canada
The National Planning Assn.
has made a study ' of North
America's industrial raw mater-
ials — petroleum, iron, coal, tim-
ber and so on — for the next 20
years, It has come up with some
conclusions which are good, and
some which (in the words of
our favorite historian) need put-
ting in perspective.
First it finds that by 1980 the
U.S. and Canada — which al-
ready use half the world produc-
tion of crude petroleum, a third
of its iron ere, and copper and
four-fifths of its natural gas —
will need twice the amount of
industrial raw ' materials they
now consume. This is based on
the expected rise in the Gross
National Products of the two
countries.
Second, it finds that the U.S.
will have to rely much more
heavily on Canada for petroleum,
natural gas, iron ore and num-
erous other raw materials. Can-
ada in turn will become more
dependent on the U.S. for coal,
molybdenum and phosphate. All
this will be to the mutual bene-
fit of U.S.:Canada trade,
Third, both countries will be-
come increasingly dependent
upon sources of supply outside
the North American continent.
It is this last finding that
concerns us, with particular re-
ference to oil. History has shown
and is showing now in Cuba and
the Middle East, that we cannot
rely too heavily on foreign re-
sources. One day they are here,
the nextday they are ex-
propriated.
The question then arises, how
are the U.S. and Canada to be
sure they can meet the demands
of 1980, when all the oil produc-
ed in the entire world as of the
present day would only just meet
North American demands then?
How, especially, in the face of
the burgeoning needs and growth
of the rest of other nations of.
the globe?
There are some obvious, limit-
ed -term answers. Conservation
is currently holding oil produc-
tion in Oklahoma and other
states well below capacity in
anticipation of these growing
demands; new exploration tech-
niques have revealed unsuspect-
ed oil reserves both here and
a b r o a d; and new drilling
methods have put us within
reach of oil once thought to be
inaccessible.
It is not 'disloyal to the oil
industry, however, to foresee, as
does the National. Planning
Assn., the day when the graph
of the nation's demand for ener-
gy rises more steeply than the
graph of the American oil in-
dustry's potential.. It is no secret
that new energy sources, notably
atomic energy are being readied
to fill that diverging gap,
The oil industry itself has
recognized this through its own
dramatic diversification in re-
cent years, And in that recogni-
tion lies not a symptom of weak-
ness in the industry, but one of
its great strengths.
Phillips Petroleum Co. has
launched into the mining and
processing of uranium for the
Atomic Energy' Commission, and
is now reportedly running six
nuclear, reactors, Kerr-McGee
Oil Co, Is developing new bran -
num fields. Research into other
energy forms is under way with-
out fanfare in several companies.
This, of course, is only part
of the diversification story. From
the petrochemicals of the new
Sunray Chemical Co, to the
production or odorants for natur-
al gas by Helmerich and Payne
of Tulsa, to the voting machines
of Seiscor and the electronic and
laboratory equipment of the
Crescent Petroleum Corp., the
oil industry is demonstrating its
versatility in the face of new
challenge and new opportunity.
It is a most logical develop-
ment that the oil industry should
put its established technical.
know-how, research facilities,
and organization to work in these
new fields. Who better to do it?
We suggested some time ago,
when Phillips was first expand-
ing into the uranium business,
that the company better rename
itself the Phillips Propulsion
Co. Humble Oil Co., we note, is
referring to itself these days as
an "energy company."
The evidence of the passing
years is showing that every other
oil company might consider the
same role, It should be the pur-
pose of the oil industry that,
whatever may make the wheels
turn in the future, the oil in-
dustry will be the one that sup-
plies the raw materials.
This is the sort of enterprise
to keep the oil industry from
ever becoming bearish; to make
it instead thriving and bullish.—
Tulsa (Okla.) Tribune.
MERRY MENAGERIE
"Of comae X love you, dear --
Pee never seem you look
more gruesome!"
Duke Still Trying
To Pay His Taxes
Six years ago, England's un-
conventional Duke of Bedford
opened his 335 -year-old Woburn
Abbey estate to sight -seers --
and to such other paying visit-
ors as a convention of nudists, To
raise still more tax money, Bed-
ford is showing off part of Wo -
burn's $4 million art collection
in the U.S, and Canada. Last
month, the exhibit opened in
Portland, Ore. —. where Bedford
and his bride (former French TV
producer Nicole Milinair) were
drawing even more comment
than were the Woburn treasures.
First they frustrated a welcom-
ing committee by bumbling into
town on the wrong plane, and
checking into the wrong hotel.
Next, they snubbed a reception
.awaiting them outside Portland's
Art Museum. Then, at a lunch
counter, Nicole tried her best to
explain — to a distracted wait-
ress — that the Duke's honest
efforts to make ends meet have
caused much misunderstanding.
"People over in England think
my husband is mad," said the
Duchess, between puffs on her
cigar.
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Some nineteen _years ago,
when water supplies virtually
dried up at David Monteith's
farm, near Prince Albert, Sas-
katchewan, he decided to "en-
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for him.
After getting the consent of
Government officials for con;
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loads of poplar trunks to be/
dropped into the river close by
his farm. This was done and
immediately beavers took over.
Working industriously with the
logs and mud the energetic little
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farmer Monteith has no anxiety
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