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HONORARY CHAIRMEN
Hon. Sherman Adams
Assistant to Tbe President
Hon. Douglas McKay
Secretary of the lnterior
Hon. Val Peterson
Administrator, Federal

  Civil Defense
Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson
Hon. Gordon Persons

Governor of Alabama
Hon. Howard Pp
Governor of rrzona
Hon. Francis Cherry
Governor of Arkansas
Hon. Earl Warren
Governor of California
Hon. Dan Thornton
Governor of Colorado
Hon. John Lodge
Governor of Connecticut
Hon. J. Caleb Bo gs
Governor of DAaware
Hon. Luther W. Youngdahl
Judge, Distric: of Columbia
Hon. Dan McCarty

Governor of k3orida
Hon. Herman E. Talmadge
Governor of Georgia
Hon. William G. Straaon

Governor of Illinois
Hon. George N. Craig
Governor of Indiana

Hon. William S. Beardsley
Governor of Iowa
Hon. Edward F. Am
Governor of Kansas

Hon. Lawrence Wetherby
Governor of Kentucky
Hon. Charles e. Farnsk

Mayor of Louisville, Jy.

Hon. Robert F. Kennon
Governor of Louisiana
Hon. Burton M. Cross

Governor of Maine
Hon. Theodore R. McKeldin
Governor of Maryland
Hon. Christian A. Herter
Governor of Massacbuserrs
Hon. G. Mennen Williams

Governor of Michigan
Hon. C. Elmer Anderson
Governor of Minnesota

Hon. Hugh White
Governor of Mississippi

Hon. J. Hugo Aronson
Governor of Montdna
Hon. Robert B. Croshy

Governor of Nebraska
Hon. Charles H. Ilussell
Governor of Nevnda

Hon. Hugh Gregg
Governor of New Hampsbir.
Hon. Alfred E. Driscoll
Governor of New Jersey
Hon. William B. Umstead
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Hon. C Norman Brunsdale
Governor of Nortb Dakota
Hon. Johnston Murray
Governor of Oklahoma
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Governor of Oregon
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Governor of Pennsylvania
Hon. Dennis J. Roberts
Governor of Rbode Island
Hon. Sigurd Anderson
Governor of South Dakota
Hon. Frank G. Clement
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Hon. William C. Mnrland
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Hon. Walter . Kohler, Jr.
Governor 01 Wisconsin
Hon. C J. Ro ers
GovAnor ol(wyominp

NATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH COMMITTEE

1129 Vermont Avenue, N.W. Washington 5, D.C.
        REpublic 7-4398

Co-Chairmen Executive Director

MIKE GORMAN

MRS. ALBERT D. LASKER 0 CHARLES SCHLAIFER

14 April 1954

Dear Mary:

In answer to your request of Tuesday for a memorandum on
what can be done at the state level in the  next ten weeks:

   1. The southern state survey still has priority.
If possible, I should still go down to Atlanta for a week
and help them round out their reports. llowever, I have
hesitated to go away for a week because of the uncertainty
about the dates for the hearings. I talked to the elusive
Colonel Quinn last night and he still doesn't have a firmed-
up date on the fiouse side. IIowever, he thought they would
probably finish with theTnstitutes the week of April 26th,
meaning that we might go on hlay 3rd. As to the Senate, the
Lord only knows when they will start hearings.

   2. The mid-western regional conference on mental health
has been tentatively scheduled for June 7-8 in Indiannapolis.
Sidney Spector is doing practically all the preliminary work
for this conference. Ile doesn't think the mid-western group
is equipped to make a regional mental health resources survey
in time for the '55 legislatures, however,  the American
Psychiatric Association is making a survey in Indiana.
Governor Williams had his own survey made last year in
Michigan. Among the big states this leaves Ohio, Illinois,
Minnesota, and Wisconsin, It is my impression that Minnesota
has been surveyed to death, and I think there was a survey in
Illinois preparatory to the 1953 legislature, which voted
$9,000,000 for research for the biennium.

In other words, the mid-western situation is much

different than that in the south. In the south you were
practically starbing from scratch; in the mid-west, there
have been a number of surveys of various kinds. However,
there is a tremendous need for regional cooperation in re-
search and training and I think this will be one of the
major achievements of the June conference. If the Senate
hearings ddnot occur at that time, I should go out to
Indiannapolis and push whatever I think can be pushed after
talking to a couple of the Governors. Much of this has to
be played by ear.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Hon. Sidney S. JIcJIath

Hon. Elbert S. Carve1

Hon. Fuller Warren

Hon. Henry F. Schricker

Hon. Earl 6. Long

Former Got erncr of Arkansas

Former Goreracr of Delauare

Former Gorernor of Florida

Former Corernor of Indiana

Former Gbt.ertror of Lorririaia

Spafford Ackerly, 31. D.
Chester Alter, Ph. D.
bIrs. >lax Ascoli
Edward L. Bernays
Barry gingham,
Karl Bowman, AI. D.
Francis J. Bracelacd, >I. D.
Henry W. Brosin, &I. D.
Anhur Bunker
Melvin A. Casberg, AI. D.
JIrs. Bennett-erf
Bennett Cerf
David Crockett
R. W. Cumley, Ph. D.
.Albert Deutsch
Franklin G. E baugh, JI. D.
Xlrs. Winthrop Emmet
0. Spurgion English, hl. D.
Jack Ewalt, hl. D.
Jacob Finesinger, SI. D.
Emerson Foote 7
Jlrs. Allmon Fordyce
Edwin Gildea, hl. D.

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Hon. Frederick G. Payce

Cnited States Senator and

Former Get.ernor of Alaine

Former Gorernor Gf Masrarhrrsetts

Former Governor of hfississippi

Hon. Paul A. Dever

Hon. Fielding L. Wright, Sr.

SPONSORISG MEMBERS

Margaret C. - L. Gildea, AI. D.
Mikc Gorman
Roy Grinker, hI. D.
hlrs. John Gunther
John Gunther
Irving Harris
F. Homburger, AI. D. ~
Robert W. Hyde, hI. D.
Mrs. Henry Ittleson, Sr.
hI. Ralph Kzufman, M. D.
William K. Keller, AI. D.
hlrs. Robert Kintner
Judge John H. Lamneck
Isabel Leighton
Airs. David Levy
hirs. Leonard Lyons
Arthur hIag
hirs. Florence Mahoney
Albert Q. hiaisel
hIrs.1 Joseph LMankiewicz
Ben May
Karl A. hlenninger, bf. D.
William C. Menninger, hl. D.

Hon. John W. &cr.er

Hon. b7. Kerr Scctt

Hon. Gordon Brox ninp

Hon. Frank A. Barrett

Former Get rrnor of .\fontam

For:rlrr Gcrrrnor cf .Y+r:h Carclim

Former Goremor 6f Tei;t.tejree

L'nited States Senator and

Former Gorernor of Wyoming

Lois Jfattox JIiller
John A. P. Millet, 31. D.
Robert A. Moore, .\I. 0.
Douglas Orr, Jl. D.
AI Ostrow
Clifton Perkins, hl. D.
Howard Potter, >I. D.
Justin Reese
Bernard J. Reis
Thomas A. C. Rennie, JI. D.
Elmo Roper
Thomas Rosenberg
Helen Ross
Leonard Rountree, J1. D.
Arthur H. Ruggles, AI. D.
hfrs. Charles Schlaifer
Julius Schreiber, JI. D.
Spyros P. Skouras
Harry C. Sdonon, &I. D.
Benjamin Spock, JI. D.
Airs. Charles Vidor
@ro T. Woods, 31. D.
S. Bernaid Wortis, 31. D.

Purpose: Through a broad educational campaign, to create public understanding and support of the IO-point Bill of Rights for
the mentally ill adopted by the 7954 National Governors' Conference on Mental Health.  To convince the American people to
actively support federal, state and local preventive mental health programs emphasizing research, training and expanded clinic
and community services designed to treat and cure mental illness in its early stages.

Mrs. Albert 9. Lasker
Kirkland, Arizona

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3, There are also regional meetings of the very important

state commissions on interstate cooperation. These are annual
affairs and they are composed mostly of legislators. Bane
attaches great importance to the actions of these commissions.
The southern meeting will be held at Fort Monroe, Virginia on
May 3-5 and the mid-western one at French Lick, Indiana around
the last week in hlay. Rlental health will be an important part
of the agenda at both of these regional conferences. It would
be useful to attend these,since you are dealing here with
legislators who are actually the final arbiters of the monies
voted for mental health.

   4. You must remember that the Council of State Governments
is doing a very aggressive job of selling the recommendations of
the Detroit. conference to the key people involved. It has sent
out 5,000 summaries of the Detroit conference to legislators,
budget officers, state officials, the National Association of
Science Writers, etc, At the regional meetings referred to above,
it will continue its evangelical work. Because the Council is
the official representative of both the National Governors' Con-
ference and the Conference of Legislators, it is able to do many
things which we could not even attempt. Furthermore, when it
sends out a summary of a National Governors9 Conference on Mental
Health to a legislator in rural Oklahoma, he pays attention to
it because it has the status of an official communication, When
we send the same summary to that rural legislator, he frequently
dismisses it as propaganda from a bleeding heart organization,

potential out of the existing organizations in the field - the
National Governors' Conference, the Council of State Governments,
the American Psychiatric Association, etc. In other words, my
major aim is to work myself out of a job. If we can persuade
these outfits to adopt progressive programs, then we have put a
real foundation under the mental health movement.

5. I still feel very strongly about getting the maximum

6. If you have tine to see Bane in Chicago next Tuesday,

it would seem to me that the important questions which should
be asked of him are the following:

a. !Nhy doesn't he expand the National Clearinghouse on
  Mental Health to the point where it can do an effec-
  tive technical and program-planning job for all the
   states?

b. What is he doing towards selling 1955 state legis-

latures on line items for research and training?

c. What does he want the mid-western regional mental

health conference to accomplish?

hlrs. Albert D. Lasker
Kirkland, 12rizona

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d. How about the New England and IVestern areas?

Does the Council have any plans in these areas?

I realize the above thoughts are random in nature; however, I
don't think you can write a firm blue print for the next two
or three months. If Fogarty and his little boy Quinn decide
on a House floor fight for research construction monies,
doesn't that change the picture as far as conLcentration of
effort is concerned?

I think we ought to talk in more detail about this when you
come back east.

Hope that all you girls get rid of your annoying colds,

The New York office is sending a copy of the Menninger piece to
Mrs. Rosenherg, I have taken care of the matter of the Saturday
night editor's dinner for Mrs, Mahoney. Miss McDonough is
sending me copies of the new heart booklet, which T. am eager to
see. I am also awaiting one hundred copies of the mental health
fact sheet.

Cordially,

yc&

hlike Gorman

Executive airector

P.S. The House Interstate Commerce Committee is again in

Executive Session this morning on the grant-in-aid
bill. I hope to have word on it this afternoon.

Mrs. Albert Do Lasker
Z Triangle Ranch
Kirkland, Arizona

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