The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-02-09

ing to keep competent personnel at
these places if they have to work
under impossible conditions?
Would you work in a mental hos
pital under the best of working CON
ditions
AS representative of the people
of the State of Montana do you not
feel it is your job, pleasant or other
wise, to see that this situation is
taken care of? If it takes money
must you not see that it is forth
coming?
Are you willing to leave Helena
an dior two years carry on your con-
science the burden of the lives of
1000 people at Warm Springs?
Are you willing to leave Helena
and for two years carry on your con-
the frantic voices of 174 mothers
and fathers asking for help for their
helpless children who have no place
to turn except the Training School
at Boulder? Who must wait two
years for someone to plead their case
before another group of polite
politicians? Who must watch their
mentally deficient child grope in
society in which he cannot compete?
Who must watch their family disin-
tegrate under the pressures of alb
normal living? Who must live in ter
ror lest the child commit some social
crime to scar many lives?
Do you know that trained per-
sonnet in the field of mental health
is in very short supply?
Are you willing to have Montana
lose the personnel we have gained at
no little effort because they cannot
stand the gaff of impossible over
and the heart breaking
pleas of desperate parents?
Of course it is just as we'll didn't
ask all these questions because
would have received no answer and
il might not have been polite"
| attended one of the Wednes- |
day legislative teas at the Mansion |
this week. 1t was pleasant surprise
to see the popping up" that has been
given the old Mansion the past two |
years. There was new paper on the |
walls and bit of fresh paint here
and there and it really did wonders.
Mrs. Bonner is a cordial hostess and
a person always feels so welcome and
The serving table was beau
,iful. 1t had revolving center piece
decorated with musical notes and a
miniature grand piano. The only
light in the room came from a small
1eam in the ceiling aimed on the
,enterpiece. When we arrived Mrs.
Ralph Cook and Mrs. Harry Wilson
we're pouring. Each of the legislators
wives is in the receiving line at one
If the teas. They are all so elegant
n their colorful formals. I'm usually
uneasy about attending "teas" be-
,ause I am the type who spills my tea,
lrops my dainty, or steps on the host
,sses formal. But there is no reason
o be uneasy because everyone is
very gracious and amiable and | am
ure if you attended you would feel I
IS comfortable as did |. c
I
Senator Guerney Moss. R-Flat- i
lead, said the bill allowing the v
ross filing of candidates for Of +
ices on both tickets would make t
Mug Wumps" of politicians. A
Mug Wump?" Senator Moss says it Il
5 bird that sits with his mug on +
ne side of the fence and his wump o
n the other. The bill was killed by Il
eing indefinitely postponed z
Harry Haines, R-Missoula, was al {
0 on the committee that met with {
ne Governors Interim Committee u
n Mental Health. He has the kind II
st brown eyes, and they kinda spark u
!. We sat across the table and | had Il
he impulse that would like to wink p
him. 1 had hopes the eyes might
effect his compassion for the people
| whose behalf we appeared at the c.
earrings. a.
Ny first meeting with Neil Taylor, W
: Daniels, was this week. AS is the az
asa with so manV of these fellows m