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ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE Sunday, Sept. 25, 1966 3M Sssn and disiahd By HENRY W. CLUNE LSD Maybe He Had a Point They don't rehearse a large and expensive opera company merely to have it sing in an empty hall, or coach a football team in intricate patterns of play simply to have it run through a signal drill on a field in back of the stadium. By the same token, it would hardly seem that great armies are being organized and trained and that refined instruments for the mass killing of men are being manufactured, only to rtWi IJ 'tl 4i itl4 nave the armies displayed on parade grounds and to have the lethal weapons trundled about in holiday pageants. At the moment, the world seems to be arming for Armageddon, and this country, which has been bellyaching about peace for years, and rV snooting UP at the 5 same time, is in the arms business up to its armpits.

Two or three months ago, Eugene J. McCarthy, United States senator from Minnesota, wrote an article for the Saturday Review under the title, "The U.S.: Supplier of Weapons to the World." mnrr itT ii rW VISIONS OF HEAVEN AND HELL: the stuff that puts you into your imagination." Below the tide, was an exegetic sub head: "How our foreign policy is being undermined for $35 billion worth of armaments exports while industry and the Pentagon lobby for even larger shipments." The senator appended to his piece in the Saturday Review a chart which he had borrowed from Forbes Magazine, which listed the sales of armament by several prominent firms to foreign countries, between 1962-65. The figures were astronomical, and when I read that one firm had sold $1,106,400,000 of this sort of goods; another $959,900,000, and so on, it struck me, perhaps in my innocence, that this dear peace-loving land, whispering of disarmament, when it comes to merchandising arms would make old All Krupp, in his foundry in Essen, look like a fellow peddling popguns and air rifles at a Christmas bazaar. time. Then the music controlled him, controlled his muscles, his body temperature, and even the colors on the wall hanging.

He saw himself in other people. He found much of it funny, and he said at one point: "God, this is beautiful. I've never felt so alive in my life." He saw a nurse entering the room. "She came and she had a pixie look on her face," he said, "like a little girl. She looked' like a little girl with a short dress on, and a real cute little bow dress like grandmother, and her face would I knew it was her face, I could see that and yet I was seeing a little fox, and then a little squirrel, and then a little kitten, and then a little grin.

(Laughs.) It was real crazy." Seventeen days later, he was asking, "how long does this wonderful feeling stay with me?" He feels he has had a spiritual rebirth and remarkably for a man who used to take a vacuum bottle of vodka to work, he hasn't had a drink in more than eight It is true, too, of other volunteers after LSD long periods of no drinking, or long periods of reduced drinking. It is also true that some have slid back into their old ways, as if LSD and Viejas never existed. The LSD subjects are carefully screened by batteries of tests to make certain that their mental and emotional and physical equipment will not be deranged by the drug. The results are coded for analysis later, when the study is completed by May of 1968. The men will be followed up personally by social workers, and if they leave the world of the traceable, by federal and state arrest records.

Two elements in an alcoholic are generally consistent: He is hostile and he is dependent. It is the idea behind the honor camp system to teach that each man must depend on himself, and learn to help others. If LSD can help, the county is willing to try it. the real meaning of LSD, from overheard remarks when she told her father: "Oh, I know what LSD is. It's the stuff that puts you into your imagination." It is difficult to be more specific than that.

The drug varies within the course of a single experince. Shortly after having his Injection, one man vomited, and screamed accusingly, "why do you doctors want to get someone through this it could destroy someone's mind you could destroy someone's mind it would be terrible." Yet at the end, this some man was saying, "I really saw myself today I just want to see my wife and kids, and I hope that these people look at me as I am today, a newborn man again. I hope that all the people I've hurt in my life will think of me as I am today." Another volunteer began his "trip" feeling cold off and on, and then felt purged of thoughts that have been bothering him. "The worst thing," he said, "was walking through a jungle when I was six. Yesterday, I was able to get out of it by myself.

I understand my problems and think they can be solved. I had to find ont for myself. Today I have empty places that I have to fill up." Some men lave walked out of the experimental session-after six months at the honor camp into apparently fruitful and productive lives. Sometimes they have sought the aid of outside organizations like Alocholics Anonymous. One Trip 'Real Crazy1 One of the most hopeful alumni of the project is a man who was a constant drinker, and constantly in trouble.

His LSD trip was what the psychiatrists call "a classic experience." First, he felt like a puppet. His hands became larger and smaller as he looked at them. He shifted between hot and cold, saw himself in the South Seans and the North Pole at the same And remember? They found old Alf guilty of war crimes, and sent him to the sneezer! At one point in his article, Sen. McCarthy says that "the Pentagon reportedly is 'encouraging' additional purchases of U.S. arms by Germany by threatening transfer of U.S.

troops from Europe to Viet Nam." Well, perhaps that is what an army is for: to implement the hard sell, and help a nation's economy. But just the same, fine stores that they are, if I were a kid, I wouldn't want to go to war for Macy's or Gimbel's. Or even for General Dynamics! A Phone Call at 6:30 a.m. When the so-called "Cold War" was developing, sometime after World War II, a fellow telephoned at 6:30 o'clock one morning, to say that he had something critically important to tell me. Annoyed at being roused from bed, I asked if he couldn't In the Mils outside San Diego, psychiatrists regularly 'inject patients with LSD, but not just for kicks.

It is a controlled experiment to see if the drug can cure alcoholism. Nobody knows the answer yet and for many a patient "the ride" has weird effects. i By JOHN BARBOUR Associated Press Writer VEEJAS, Calif. (AP) He Is a self-destructive drinker. Alcohol leads him Into trouble.

It helped break up bis marriage. Once he tried to kill himself. Ten minutes ago to help sway him away from drink he received an Injection of a controversial drug on trial LSD a packaged bit of dreams that thrills, frightens, distorts, damages, depending on the mind that drinks it up, seeks it out. And depending on who gives the drug, and where. It la a icary drug, defamed by misuse, defended by hope, end too often endowed with magic by those who shouldn't have it But this is different A minute after injection, he felt the first effects.

Now he is somewhere between his mind and his imagination, aboard a single musical note in a flotilla of notes, riding a single strand of color in a changing ballet on mulit-hued pipe cleaners, ribbons and spheres. Everything is pure. The only notion his companions have of what he sees behind hie black eyeshade are his infrequent whispered words, his trailing, unfinished sentences "Haw yon ever seen when yon're at the mshore the skeleton of a crab, to dean from the tea. Well this Is thla Is transluence I don't ever want to forget this." The drug Is called chemically D-lyserglc acid diethylamide. Its effects are unpredictable, mystical, beautiful and potentially dangerous.

It is easy to make, difficult to control. Its action is as varied as the persons that use it. Its repeated use seems to leave Its mark on the personality. It can strip a psychotic of the defenses that enable him to cope with the world. It has been all but banned by the federal government.

It has been taken by philosophers, musicians, doctors, writers, dope addicts and kids bent on kicks. Each tastes it differently. 'Honor Camp for Alcoholics In this small camp In the rugged mountains outside San Diego, LSD is being tried on carefully selected subjects as a treatment for atocholism, one of a handful of experiments condoned and supported by the National Institute of Mental Health. The indications are hopeful hot the testa have barely reached the half-way mark, have about Vk years to ran, and the pyjchUtristi who guide them are well aware of the tight grip alocholism hat on its victims, of the frailty and temporarineu of good resolve, Each month a group of volunteers at this county honor camp are given the drug in a controlled study administered trough the Vista Hill Psychiatric Foundation to determine if LSD can pull alcoholics away from the path of drink. A study In Canada has claimed success with these and other misfits under LSD, but proof is not easy.

Dr. Keith Ditman, psychiatrist at the University of California at Los Angeles, who heads the study, prefers to withhold judgment. He has had LSD himself, as have other doctors on the team. They know many of its effects. But no one knows exactly how the drug works, whether it temporarily upsets the chemical balance of the brain and nervous system, where the site of action is, whether the drug blocks or enhances or both.

Ditman explains that LSD makes a person more open to suggestion from outside stimuli, more Impressionable. If you look at the human brain as a camera, he says, the effect of LSD Is to increase the speed of the film, make it more sensitive. For some susceptible Individuals, and a massive LSD experience, there is often a religious-like conversion. For alcoholics who often have a sort of gun barrel view of the world, LSD can conceivably provide a broadening, fulfilling experience. For some, it awakens the meaning of religious experience from an earlier time In life when It had real meaning.

For some, It means a spiritual rebirth. For some, it means only a long, boring afternoon, waiting for something to happen that never will. That some Individuals will fight off, or not relent to LSD has been known before. But for some alcoholics, it Is the most vivid experience they say they have ever met. The sights they see, the sounds they hear all feed Into the LSD dream that the mind seems to synthesize.

Perhaps Ditman'i five-year-old daughter Cynthia caught Tomorrow on the U. R. Campus 400 students, mostly sophomores and juniors. Parking garages: A five-level tilt-ramp garage providing space for about 2,400 cars, "and a two-level underground garage with space for 400 cars, will be built with funds from sources other than the campaign. The largef garage is planned for railroad property for which purchase negotiations now are being conducted.

The railroad property also will provide for an inter-campus roadway. OTHER EXPANSION AND remodeling plans: Eastman Quadrangle: After the new buildings have been completed and are occupied, present Eastman Quadrangle buildings will be re- Continued From Page 1M One expected to start this fall. Plans call for six four-story buildings to be built between the railroad tracks and Mt. Hope Cemetery, north of the present campus, on land recently acquired from the city. A self-amortizing loan from the Department of Housing and Urban Development will finance the buildings, to be occupied in September 1968.

Undergraduate residence center: Phase Two, expected to consist of one tower 15 to 18 stories tall, is scheduled to be completed in 1969. The tower will be located north of the Phase One buildings, between River Boulevard and the cemetery, and will house call at a decent hour, or meet me In the office. "I couldn't be seen talking with you," he said. "Could I meet you in Scottsville tomorrow morning at My curiosity was aroused, I said "yes," and he showed up half an hour before the appointed time. He was an intelligent veteran of the war, who was employed as an engineer by a highly reputable firm.

He was nervous, and obviously distressed. He said that he and his wife couldn't sleep nights worrying about shipments to Russia of mechanical devices that were produced in his plant that were vitally essential to the manufacture of armament. The young man said that he had been through one war, in which thousands of Americans had been killed with munitions that had been made out of junk sold by the United States to Japan, and he didn't want to see this country repeat the tragic mistake of helping to arm another potential enemy. I told him that I couldn't accept his unsupported oral report, and the next morning, at the same unholy hour, he returned with a plant inventory that seemed a yard long. Without using names, I wrote what I had learned, and a few days later had a telephone call from Karl E.

Mundt, the mid-western Congressman, and a member of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. He wanted to know the name of the plant. I told him, but added that I had learned that the late President Roosevelt had advocated sending tools, to Russia and that while the local plant might possibly have a moral obligation in the matter, it had done nothing illegal Mundt, apparently, was a determined fellow. The engineer telephoned me the next week, to say, happily, that a large device for Russia, which already had been placed on a flat car, was still standing in the yards. Is War Really Just a Game? We get into wars, we send thousands of young men to be killed, then we kiss our enemies and make up, and the whole unholy business is looked upon rather as a game, and there are heroes on both sides.

Heroes such as that fine little gentleman, who was guest star on a nationally televised fun show, one day last year. Matsuo Fuchida! Charming fellow; meet him, mother! One day, 25 years ago, the President of the United States said, "December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy That was the day that the then young Mr. Fuchida led the attack on Pearl Harbor. He got a nice hand from the studio audience, from whom he elicited many chuckles. One might hope, during his performance, that the relatives of the men who were killed in our scuttled fleet were tuned in on another show.

Today we are in a baffling war in which the terrible tactic of torture apparently is employed on both sides, and if our people do not approve of this sort of thing, they seem to con- nive at it. In an illuminating story in the New Yorker, the other week, a wounded Viet Cong prisoner told, quite matter-of-factly, how he was beaten with clubs and tortured with electrodes by the Vietnamese before he was interrogated by Americans; and on this desk, under date of July 25, 1966, is a copy of The Times-Union, with a. two-column picture panel headed, "Operation Torture. Viet Cong Get a Working Over." The thumbscrew and the rack weren't being used, in the picture; only the water treatment, the bastinado and clubs. Over here, in the Great Society, a fiend may rape two girls, and cut them to pieces with a knife.

But those dear old penguins on the bench of the United States Supreme Court say no, no, a fiendish suspect mustn't be questioned; the police must be very tender of his rights. The late Fred Allen used to say that he'd quit the human race, if he could get his initiation fee back, Maybe he had a point handball courts, and basketball courts. Indoors, needs Include increased locker and shower facilities, modernization of the men's swimming pool, enlarging exercise rooms, replacement for the small wrestling room, and adding a multi-purpose gymnasium area. Already under way, and expected to be ready for use next spring, are expansion of intramural and scoccer fields in the Lattimore Road area adjacent to the graduate living center. The funds campaign includes $500,000 for expansion of athletic facilities.

Expansion into north section of Genesee Valley Park: A series of land use studies is being made to determine best use for the park lands. University planners expect the area will be developed for major professional school research and administration facilities which can be conducted at a distance from the main campus. No development In the park lands will be done by the university until new city park lands at the south and east edges of Genesee Valley Park have been developed. The city will create new picnic and recreational facilities to replace those on the land which will become university property. The fund campaign does not include money for development of the new land.

ALTHOUGH MUCH OF the River Campus development timetable is fairly indefinite, planners say the entire program will be completed by the 1975-76 school year. In addition to the $31 million earmarked for capital construction, the loud campaign includes $7 mil-lion for professorships, graduate fellowships and undergraduate scholarships. The current Rochester campaign is part of a nationrl campaign which started in the spring of 1965. modeled to provide expanded space for programs in humanities and social sciences, business administration, and the College of Education. The humanities and social sciences renovation program is expected to cost $1 million, with $700,000 to come from the fund campaign; business administration renovation will cost about $700,000, with $400,000 from the campaign; and the College of Education remodeling Will cost about $1 million, with $700,000 to come from the campaign.

Eastman School of Music: New and expanded facilities and a school-wide modernization of classrooms, studios and offices. The initial stage of this program is estimated to cost $5 million, of which $3 million will be from the campaign. The program includes expansion of the Sibley Music Library to provide additional space for new collections and for research, study and listening areas for students and faculty; construction of additional practice rooms, classrooms, and ensemble rooms; improved facilities for ballet and expanded facilities for the opera department; additional dining rooms, lounges, recreation facilities, and locker rooms; modernization and refurbishing of faculty and administrative offices; addition of special research and audiovisual areas; the Eastman Theater ventilation system will be improved and the building will be modernized. A study of the possibility of relocating the school on the university campus, was made, and an architectural study was made of the buildings. The two studies showed the buildings to be sound, and that the school would best serve the community and its students in the present location.

Expansion of athletic facilities: Although plans are not firm, needs include an indoor -outdoor swimming pool, additional multi-purpose athletic fields, tennis courts, By CARL T. ROWAN UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. Much Is being said and written these days about the gloom that pervades the 21st session of the UN General Assembly. Perhaps it is time to remind oneself mat gloom never has been a stranger in the corridors here. I remember the fall day in 1958 when a revolt in Hungary od a war in Suez had stirred angry passions and gloomy fears of milder strife.

I struck un a corridor conversation with the The U.N. Is Weaker Today But There's Sfill Hope of humanity on that bleak afternoon when he said: "We realize that, as perhaps never before, a choice is offered to mankind. Twice in my lifetime a war has brought untold sorrow to mankind. Should there be a third world war, the long upward progress toward civilization may be halted for generations and the work of myriads of men and women through the centuries be brought to naught." Because the UN did not have the power to force Soviet tanks out of Hungary, the organization became the target of some snide and bitter criticism. There were renewed assertions that it was "just a debating society" and that "the UN was dying." Even those who believed in and hoped in the United Nations expressed fear that the world was plunging back into those barbaric days when only brute force counted days when morality, justice and intellect were of little consequence in the face of national pride, resentment, avarice and ambition.

Not only has the UN survived but, in the 10 years since that gloomy session on Hungary and Suez, it has served the cause of peace in countless ways. BUT THE UN IS WEAKER TODAY EVEN THAT IT WAS in 1956. Problems like Viet Nam and the Dominican Republic and Rhodesia have been beyond the UN's effective reach. Does this mean that there must be less hope for peace today than there was a decade ago? I think not, the Viet Nam war notwithstanding. Nor does it mean that the UN is of no present value of future hope.

Perhaps I am sentimental. But I think the UN still provides i valuable meeting ground where Dean Rnsk and Andrei Gromyko can snarl at each other. And a lot of people can close their eyes and pray, as Prince Wan did, for just a ghost of good wilL General Assembly president, mild-mannered, soft-spoken Prince Wan of Thailand. "Prince Wan," I said, "I don't know how you do it You're about as gentle a man as I know. How does it feel to preside over all this anger and invective?" "Mr.

Rowan," he replied, "you know the story of 'Anna and the King of Siam'7 Well, it was my grandfather whom Anna was trying to teach English. He learned pretty well but Anna could never make him understand the iWfnrpnre hptwppii a snirit and a chost. Rowan "Well, this Assembly finally has shown me the difference. You will recall that when I took the gavel, I pleaded with the delegates to show a spirit of good will. "At this stage Mr.

Rowan, I'd gladly settle for a ghost of goodwill." I CHUCKLED OVER PRINCE WAN'S REMARK MANY times during that somber fell but more often my mind drifted back to the January afternoon in 1946 when delegates from 51 nations launched the first Assembly session in pride and optimism. I recalled the way In which Clement Attlee, then British prime minister, articulated the hopes of the great mass.