Further Mention

When a successful businessman, President of the FSP International Corporation, becomes President of NAPAN (National Association for the Prevention of Addiction to Narcotics), a private, voluntary non-profit organization devoted to scientific research and public education in the field of drug abuse, it is news. Even more noteworthy is the book written by himself and nine experts with chapters on "The View of a Practicing Physician," "Criminal Justice," "The New York City Program," "The New York State Narcotic Addiction Control Commission: Its Program and Activities," "Group Therapy," "The Community Mental Health Approach," "Methadone Maintenance Treatment," and "The British Experience."

The NAPAN President, Nathan Straus III '38, in "An Overview" evaluates American approaches by comparing them with what the British and Dutch are doing. The U.S. Treasury Department of the United States succeeded in closing down the 40 clinics in operation in this country between 1919 and 1923. Mr. Straus believes that the outpatient clinic approach can be of great value. The facts which he gives about drug addiction and its control in the Netherlands suggest that Americans should take a long hard look there. Despite widespread use of marijuana, hashish, LSD, and opiates, heroin addiction in Holland is almost non-existent.

A must for every parent with growing or grown-up children, this book is Addicts andDrug Abuses: Current Approaches to theProblem, a Twayne publication for the Center of New York City Affairs, New School for Social Research. In only 188 pages, costing $6.00, it offers a clear-cut and readable synthesis about the enormously complicated problems of drug abuse.

Formerly the Ernest I. White Professor of History, Cornell University, now Professor of History at Yale, David Brion Davis '50, winner of the 1967 Pulitzer Prize in non-fiction with Homicide in American Fictionand the Problem of Slavery in WesternCulture, has edited with a commentary TheFear of Conspiracy: Images of Un-AmericanSubversion from the Revolution to thePresent (Cornell University Press, $10.). Concerned with the role played in American history by the fear of conspiracy and subversion, Professor Davis assembles speeches, documents, and writings over a vast span, from George Washington to Stokely Carmichael and Joseph Welch. Images of conspiracy and subversion are used as a means of studying American tensions, values, and expectations. It would teem that unreflective Americans simply cannot understand that the amorphous and unproven allegations by irresponsible persons do not warrant the uneasiness and panic in their search for destructive radicals and anarchistic revolutionaries.

The first part of the book contains two analytical essays: "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" by Richard Hofstadter, and by Professor Davis "Some Themes of Countersubversion," which examines Anti-Masonic, anti-Catholic, and anti-Mormon literature. Other sections are "Conspiracy in the American Revolution (1763-1783)," "Ideological Responses to the French Revolution "(1795-1802)," "New Threats to Internal Security (1825-1860)," "The Widening Conflict over Slavery (1835-1865)," "Enemies Old and New in the Gilded Age and Beyond (1863-1908)," "Responses to International Involvement and Ethnic Pluralism (1918-1948)," and "Toward the end of Consensus (1936-1968)." These seven parts include over 85 selections arranged in chronological order. Professor Davis's introduction, headnotes, section introductions, and afterword supply background material and raise questions of interpretation.

With three published books and poems and articles in 60 literary magazines in the United States, Canada, England, and Australia, David Rafael Wang '55 is the most widely published of the Chinese poets in the United States. In an article in WLWE (World Literature Written in English, April issue, University of Texas), "The Use of Native Imagery by Chinese Poets Writing in English" by David Hsin-Fu Wand of the State University of New York College, Geneseo, compares and contrasts Wang's work with that of three other Chinese poets, Wai-lim Vip, Ta-hsia Kuo, and Suzi Mee. Mr. Wand finds that Mr. Wang in his poetic practice aligns himself more with Louis Zukofsky and the Black Mountain Poets than with any other group. In one poem, "The Twain," using images strikingly Chinese in feeling if not in sound Mr. Wang portrays how difficult it is for the father of a Chinese girl who was brought up on the teaching of Mencius whose odes she has memorized and who embroiders pillows, plays the lute, and handles the brush to consent to her marriage with an American sailor from Arizona who chews gum, plays the guitar, yells and whistles, and has ridden broncos and steers in rodeos. Unable to solve his dilemma, the father invokes the aid of Chuang Tsu, the Taoist patriarch, to alleviate his fear about "the churning of the water/and the disappearance of the light in the forest." Water is used as the symbol of the female.

Among 33 contributors from several countries, all expert in the field of occupational psychiatry from a historical perspective, a Dartmouth College Trustee who is neither a physician nor a psychiatrist is singled out by a physician for praise. Reviewing in the January American Journalof Psychiatry a Little Brown book entitled Occupational Psychiatry, A. R. Foley, M.D., writes: "Part I General deals with the field of occupational psychiatry from an historical perspective. It also describes the roles of the various mental health professionals in occupational mental health programs and the consumer's viewpoint as documented in Charles Zimmerman's chapter on 'The Businessman's View of Mental Health.' There is always a risk inherent in selecting out contributions for special comment; however, this reviewer did find the latter chapter to be one of the book's most interesting in style, content, insight, and over-all perspective, perhaps because if it was written by a non-mental health professional."

In cooperation with the New Hampshire Natural Preserves Forum, Charles J. Lyon '34h, Adjunct Professor of Botany, and William A. Reiners, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, have edited the revised edition of Natural Areas of New HampshireSuitable for Ecological Research, Publication No. 4 of the Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College. The 1961 edition was financed by a fund established at Dartmouth College as a memorial to Willard W. Eggleston '91 (1863-1935), one of the great field botanists of the early 20th century. The revised paperback of 75 pages with 12 photographs and a map contains descriptions of alpine tundra, talus slopes and cliffs, spruce-fir forests, deciduous forests, mixed forests, flood plain forests, unusual pine stands, upland successional tracts, ponds and streams, wetlands, and dunes and beaches. The 40 sites of the first edition have been brought up to date, and 19 new areas identified and described.