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Show Page Four FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1960 THE SALT LAKE TIMES was the fact that it populated the government with amateurs. The administration's first Secretary of Defense made his initial economy move by hiring a fistful of $20,000 a year men to super-vise cut-back- s. Unfortunately for the taxpayer it took more than a few months for the Defense Secretary to realize that Wash-ington wasn't Detroit. Under GOP Administration Russia Calls the Tune Being on the defensive is not only incomprehensible. It is costly. The United States and few will deny this is dancing to Russia's tune. When they call a waltz, we waltz. When they play a polka, we polka. This is a humiliating and infuriating situation. It is a state of affairs that can arise only under bankrupt leadership The fact is, we have been sung to sleep by the song of complacency. We might just as well admit it before it is too late. We might just as well face up to the realization that unless something is done and done very quickly, our house of twigs will be blown around us. If we want to preserve this great nation for our children, we must act now. The American people must be awakened to the danger. If nothing is done, the sleeping giant will continue to be pinned down by an army of administrative-Lilliputian- s mismanaging, bungling, competing with each other, wasting the vital potential we need to restore ourselves to our rightful posi-tion in the world. When the present Administration came to power in 1952, it was dedicated to efficient administration, balanced budgets, and strong leadership. So they said. They announced stridently that they would throw the rascals out. Well they threw "the rascals" out. But to paraphrase Lincoln, they rather wish they had a few "rascals" back. Out of six fiscal years for which the Eisenhower Adminis-tration has had complete responsibility, four have resulted in deficits and two in slight surpluses. The deficit for these six years amoulnts to 19 billion, 311 million. In the last completed fiscal year 1958-5- 9 occurred the largest peacetime deficit in the history of the United States 12.5 billion dollars. In the proposed 1960-6- 1 budget outlined by the President the interest costs alone will be over a billion dollars more than the total U. S. government expenditures at the height of the New Deal of fiscal year 1935-3- 6. But this is what we would like to emphaszie. What is really important is not the budget itself but the value the government receives for the, money it spends: It is in this area that the present administration has had its greatest difficulty. One of the main problems faced by the incoming administration in 1953 ' THE SALT LAKE TIMES S Combined with Tho Salt Uk$ Mining & Ugd Ntw Fe3rleSS Pnblisbfd Evory Friday at Salt Iski City, Utah Entered at the postofFice at Salt Lake City as icoood Independent cltts matter August 23, 1923 wider the act of March ft, KeWSpaper 7U Wwt Temple Telephone EM 64 1 GLENN BJORNN, Publisher Subscription Price $3.00 per year in adrance "Tbij publication is not ownod or controlled by any party, dsn, cliqnt, faction (orcorporation." Number 38 Tranquilizers Cut Mental Illness A revolution has taken place in our mental institutions, according to the Health News Institute. A revolution which, for the first time, holds forth hope that instead of building new mental institutions, and searching desperately for personnel to staff them, we may be on the road to reducing our mental health problem. This is not a bloody political revolution. It is a massive change based on a small tablet, a liquid or a hypodermic syringe. It is the revolution of the tranquilizer drugs. Since the introduction of the tranquilizers, early in the 1950's, the population in the nation's state and federal mental institutions has decreased steadily. According to a report in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Dr. Henry Brill and Robert E. Patton of the Departmentof Mental Hygiene of the state of New York, there is a direct correlation between the introduction of tranquilizing drug therapy in the 1950s and the steady decline in the number of mental patients in New York state hospitals. The drop, they say, "was coincidental with the intro-duction of the tranquilizing drugs." The fall in the population of mental hospitals in New York has continued for four consecutive years. In the four year period, the total reduction has been 4,100 cases. But tranquilizing drugs have had a vital effect, even on those patients forced to remain hospitalized. This is evident in the reduction in the need for restraints and seclusion, and the liberalizing of hospital policy. The Health News Institute points out that the decline in mental hospital population is not restricted to New. York Mate. In the three-yea- r period, 1955, 1956 and 1957, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare reports that population in mental hospitals throughout the nation declined by more than 10,000 patients, despite an increase in admission rates. And, during 1959, HEW states, mental hospital population declined by an additional 2,142. The revolution in mental hospitals, sparked by the advent of the tranquilizing drugs, does not lie solely in the realm of statistics. For statistics do not tell the story of the thousands of patients who are helped out of the halls of uselessness and into the world of self-sufficienc-y; of the new hopes of those families who had been forced to commit a wife, husband or child to a mental institution, or the emotions of those who found that a loved one would be able to return to a normal, useful life. A Lesson From Two Presidents (Continued from Page 1) over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart." This was no empty piety but a statement of fact. In America we do have freedom to worship God "according to the dictates" of one's own heart. It is a basic freedom one for which we should be grateful. But, like all the freedoms, it is one that has to be practiced to be kept. Perhaps President Lincoln had this in mind when, speaking of the Civil War then raging across the land, he said: "The struggle today is not altogether for today. It is for a vast future, also. With a reliance upon Providence all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed with the great task which events have evolved upon us." Great tasks are still upon us. The struggle is yet for the future. . In such times as these, the words of these two great Presidents may well be our guide. Throughout the nation, the Religion in American Life movement is asking all Americans to worship every week. For in worshipping God regularly, we can find that strength which makes for a strong spirit and an unconquered will to live at our best. the--L EASED GRAPEVINE v --r Fifteen recommendations to speed up and improve legislative procedures have been tentatively-approve-by a subcommittee of the Utah Legislative Council. Recommendations will include pre-sessi- on filing of bills with the Legislative Council about Nov. 15; a pre-sessi- on confer-ence above Nov. 15 at which the houses would organize and adopt the rules; a 30 day dead-line for filing of bills after the session convenes, a requirement that the executive budget be pre-sented by the 5th instead of the 10th day of the session; printing of the executive budget by the opening of the session which is predicated on plans to provide aids for a newly elected gover-nor; an electric roll call for the House; a change in rules to make a working copy of a bill an offi-cial copy and various recommen-dations dealing with the printing of bills and speeding up commit-tee work. Leon Sweet, 89, founder and chairman of the board of Sweet Candy Co., died Monday at his home, 1283 E. So. Temple. Budget of Salt Lake City de-partments were cut $258,505 on Tuesday by the city commission in order to wipe out a deficit (Notary public or o carried over from 1959. The commisiosn approved a recommendtion from City Audi-tor Louis E. Holley to reduce the budgets of each department on a percentage basis according to the percentage of the total bud-get each department received. Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County agreed this week on the first steps toward a joint city and county capital improvement program which might eventually lead to consolidation of some governmental services. A site for a new coliseunT and physical education building has been selected northeast of the stadium on the University of Utah campus. The news was re-ported at a meeting this week of the university's Board of Re-gents. Holger M. Larsen, Utah's Dan-ish vice consul, this week was honored by the Danish govern-ment on receiving the "Order of Danneborg." Humphrey Campaign Increases As Senator Barnstorms Nation (Continued from Page 1) grew faster than the classrooms, but there was no money for school rooms or teachers in the budgetary strait jacket. "Streams grew more polluted, cities more crowded, slums more squalid but America in her fiscal strait jacket could at best attack these problems only half heart-edl- y. The problems of automa-tion, of suburban living, and the technological revolution in agri-culture were neglected and cast aside. The population grew, the problems multiplied, but the budget remained fixed "No major area of American effort fails to bear directly on our relations with the rest of the world. But planning in America cannot be dictated. In a democ-racy no man can lead by order-ing and directing, but only by persuasion. The next President of the United States must be more than an executive. He must in a very real sense be an edu-cator. He will lead successfully only by building a consensus behind a total national effort-embo- dying the national will and expressing the nation's priorities. "In his role of educator he must tell the people that if the age of complacency continues, America will soon become a second class power." i .. . v ..h Dead Horse Point Designated as Utah State Park Spectacular Dead Horse Point near the confluence of the Colo-rado and Green Rivers, historic Brigham Young winter residence in St. George and the picturesque home of the "Buckskin Apostle," as he was known, Jacob Hamblin in Santa Clara, were designated as Utah State Parks and historic sites and taken into the State Park System, Harold P. Fabian, chairman, Utah State Park and Recreation Commission has made public. Governor George D. Clyde joined with commissioners in accepting the . new park lands and historic structures at formal ceremonies. For faster, more complete relief of headache, neuralgia, neuritis pains, take STANBACK Tablets or Powders. STANBACK's S. A. 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