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Love Remains Great Prescription
For Man s Ill's of Mind and Body
Christ’s commandment to love one another, given
nearly 2000 years ago, is now meeting with increasing
scientific approval among the medical and other profes
sions. Much of this approval has come about within the
last 10 years.
For instance, psychiatrists now
charge lack of love with being at
the root of nearly all mental ill
ness. At outstanding mental hos
pitals throughout the nation, a
standard prescription for treat
ment of many mental cases is
“love, unsolicited.” Often the
world, to a loveless person, seems
so cold and barren that he with
draws from its realities. It is
only when such mentally ill per
sons can be helped to recover.
Love Beats Environment
Child psychologists, too, believe
that so long as a child is Joved,
unfavorable factors in its env
ironment fail to endanger its
mental health. “Security in in
fancy does not depend upon ade
quate food supply or shelter,”
says Dr. Brock Chisholm, of the
World Health Oi^anization.
“There is only one thing upon
which security does depend to
the most important degree: un
questionable, all-embracing, ob
vious love,” Dr. Chisholm adds.
Sociologists offer their scienti
fic approval to the theroy when
they agree that love, not material
deprivation, is the answer to the
problem of juvenile delinquency.
Dr. Harold F. Strong, director of
the Children’s Village at Dobbs
Ferry, N. Y., where privileged
boys are retrained for good citi
zenship, says, “We are undoing
the damage done by parents who
have confused the word love with
appeasement.” Children without
adequate love are as bereft as
if they were shorn of major mat
erial comforts and, mental health
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workers prophesy, are candidates
for serious trouble sometime in
life.
Criminals Respond Favorably
Numerous persons concerned
with prison management and re
formatory treatment have dem
onstrated that criminals ex
posed to humane treatment
usually respond favorably ac
cording to their capacities to ex
perience all-embracing love.
Love of one’s fellow-man is the
only means astute political scient
ists offer for attaining enduring
peace. It is believed that the per
son who experiences real love
is not a warrior at heart and is
interested in the welfare of hu
manity as a whole.
The kind of love, though, that
scientists are prescribing for the
ills of mankind is the simplest
and at the same time the most
complex human attainment. Cer
tainly it has little relation to the
variety of love depicted by the
usual Hollywood movies, TV
soap operas, and many of the cur
rent best-seller books.
Meaning of Love Often Unknown
Dr. Abraham Stone, a New
York urologist and president of
the America Association of Mar
riage Counselors, says, “We doc
tors are learning how to pre
scribe love. But the trouble is
most people don’t know what
love is.” So many times when
people say they love,, they really
mean they desire, want to possess,
or get gratification from the ob
ject of their affection. There
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are a number of things that love
is not.
For example, love is not posse
essiveness, or trying to make an
other person over into the image
of what you would like him to
be. Love can easily be confused
with over-solicitiousness or over
protection. Love is not depend
ency nor extreme self-sacrifice,
although it requires some sacri
fice from time to time.
Love Not Possessing
“The love of a person,” says
Dr. Harry A. Overstreet, “implies,
not the possession of that person,
but the affirmation of that per
son. It means granting him, glad
ly, the full right to his unique
humanhood. One does not truly
love a person and yet seek to
enslave him by law or by bonds
of dependence and possessive
ness.”
Dr. Erich Fromm believes, “To
love a person productively im
plies to care and to feel resonsi
ble for his life not only for his
physical existance but for the
growth and development of all
his human powers."
Love can be likened to the
soil which enriches a rose. Nour
ished properly, it helps to rose
to grow and to attain its full
development in a blossom of un
surpassing beauty. Love is essent
ially giving rather than receiving
although the giver is usually re
warded more than the recipient.
All Have Love Capacity
“While every human being,”
says Dr. Fromm, “has a capacity
for love, its realization is one of
the most difficult achievements.”
Love, as defined by scientists,
depends on the individual’s abil
ity to love rather than on the
attributes of the object of affec
tion.
Dr. William C. Menninger says,
“I think that the best thing par
ents can do for their children
is to teach them how to love.” He
believes the only way to teach
love is by example, and that
children must receive love in;
order to be able to give it to '
others.
Scientists warn that parents
may not really love their chil
dren because they have the urge
to caress, protect, and provide for
them. Animals, also, do this for
their young and it is a matter of
biology. It is believed that human
love extends beyond the biologi
cal urge when it helps children
to grow independently instead
of being smothered and possessed.
Must Love Self
Scientists believe also that we
must love ourselves if we are to
be able to love others. Joshua
Loth Liebman, religionist, points
out that the Biblical injunction,
“Thou shalt love thy neighbor as
thyself” presupposes that we
would love ourselves. He feels to
learn to be good to one’s self
is more difficult than to learn
how to be good to others.
Dr. Robert H. Felix, of £he Nat
ional Institute of Mental Health,
defines self-love as: “One has a
feeling of dignity, a feeling of
belonging a feeling of worth
whileness, a feeling of adequacy,
and a healthy sense of humility.
He would say ‘I don’t think I‘m
the best person in the world,
but I’m certainly not the worst
either.”
Should Love “People”
As a test of when a person
loves, as prescribed by the scient
ists, his affection is not limited
to his family, his possessions, or
his special friends. A person who
loves constructively, loves peo
ple. The love of one or a few per
sons fails to create good-will
toward many, it is doubtful if
real love has been experienced.
Hate has been scientifically
diagnosed as a diseased form of
love. To the degree that we hate
ourselves, or others, we are emo
tionally ill. Even the admoni
tion “Love thine enemies” helps
to eliminate from our .minds the
poison of hate and is essential
to our own well-being.
Dr. Chisholm believes. “Our
destiny depends upon the number
of mature individuals we can
produce, people capable of love,
capable of approaching the pro
blem of our changing world as
love people and not hate people.”
Dr. Walter P. Little
Dr. Charles H. Little
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