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7 Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, February 7, 1952 Whitten Gives ' Stand On Mental Health Measure crcisc control; following that, a j portion of the law' or an article of I a chapter could deal specifically | v(ath ' each separate institution —*| which, trrmy mind, would be ren-• deririg services considerably differ- j ent one from the other. There are, of course, some things ■ very impprtant and also essential Dr.. B. O. Whitten, superintendent | to an institution that no law can of tl/t State Training School, issued ( put there. It has to be done by im a Statcmept to the press a few days ! dividuals. If might be possible, ago stating that he does not object, however,* to take away by legisla-j to the school being under a Mental j tion some of those perhaps small i Health Commission bill as now be-1 but very dear things—and dear to fore the Senate. His statement, 1 the hearts of families who have t lanfying his. views on the propos-i children here. I am in position to ^d ihange, follow: know that some of'-South Carolina’s * * * finest citizens would much prefer 1 have read the press accounts of that the law' governing the State wirt editor, and odier articles in the Training School not be bound into Greenville papers, with references j.the-law that governs the other in to proposed, bill on mental health stitutions as contemplated in the I learned first in Columbia last i proposed bill. These finest citizens week that some individuals were believe that the full returns of a‘ under the impression that the su- law', w ith a Mental Health Com- penntendent of this institution ob- mission and the legal operations of | jocts to having it under a Mental all of the institutions concerned. I Health Commission as proposed in can be had and, yet, better preserve the bill. I do not know the source the identity of this institution as ai » f such rumor. ■ school and the terminology used in j I read in the "Piedmont'’ last fhe procedure under which it oper- j rights Monday) a paragraph as fol-1 a tes. which have been in effect for | a further wedge between the-fac tions of the Republican party. As a • result, the predictions are being freely made -*that GOP chairman Guy Gabrielson likely will resign immediately following the conven tion in Chicago in favor of a chair man more pleasing to the success ful nominee." • • * * Herschel D. Newsom, master of the National Grange, has “reexam:- ined“ the more than 50-year-old policy of the Grange with regard to strict government control of rail roads. Since 1876„ the Grange has been a historic champion of strict federal regulation of the railroads. Newsom said: “Recent events have made it all too evident that rail road bankruptcy means eventual government ownership or govern ment subsidy — neither solution is tolerable.” He asked "moderniza tion” of the transportation Act of 1940. • • • * The American Farm Bureau Fed eration in a statement critical of some portions of the’ President’s state-of-the-union message inter preted sections of the speech as an endorsement of the Braiman farm plan and declared the federation would oppose efforts to abandon the existing law, which, it said, gave Secretary of Agriculture Brannan enough authority to set price Supports. tops f( i f • quality tops for quality ow : •Dr. Rutledge said the society felt that a separate director would the past 33 years. Society's Work Praised The work of the South .Carolina ' M(/Pr/ve? **♦ lumnate the objection of .the State , Socjety for Mental ,and Social Hy- Train.ng School to being under the giene is .progressive and useful. I (proposed overall state) M e n t a 11 believg it will result in much good Health Authority in all matters.” , for the state. I will appreciate sin- I don’t know any w-ay for my | cerely all the help it can give to position to be understood except to this institution. I wish it had been ask that this statement be given | possible for the fine and able fnefn- space in your daily paper. First of bers of the society, and any others all, 1 do not overlook the very fine interested in this legislation, to work of the Joint Committee on make a more thorough study of the Mental Health and particularly its institution in order, to fully appre^ chairman, the Hon. Werber Bryan. I h^kve never made the statement nor do I believe any member of the joint committee of nine thinks that I opose this institution’s being un der a State Mental Health Commis sion. I can’t think of any reason to abject. Position Is Outlined The original draft of the bill stat ed there should be a director of mental health facilities who should have the power to appoint and re move ail officers and employes of state mental health facilities. To hold the superintendent of an in stitution responsible for the man date some of the things to which we cling tenaciously in the interest of better understanding, better at titudes and, eventually, better out-, look for children who have been institutionalized. Finally, this is not much of a personal matter with me. Having been here for 33 years, my tenure of office henceforth will be rela tively short. I could easily get along with most any set-up of legislation during the short period of time which I most likely will be on hand. I feel, however, that I .owe something to the parents and friends most seriously interested ici in which it is operated and, at j an< j ideals that the personnel the'same time, delegate authority | h a ve tried to establish within the to another person to appoint and institution during their period of remove its personnel’ did not ap-1 service. pear to me as sound legislation; " • • • therefore, opposed that I would ai-| Dr _ mmen , s statement-appear-j way, welcome the help of a dmec-i in ^ Greenvi n e N ews a feW days 1 l Go GREYHOUND . ond SAVE tor serving in an advisory capacity, who could at all times take his recommendations, pro or con, to the commission for settlement if need be. 1 have expressed disapproval of leg.slation that would abolish the present law governing this institu tion and bind it into one that would deal with the functions of certain institutions now in existence and anticipated in the bill, such as the State Hospital (white and colored), 'an institution for alcoholics, one for drug addicts, and probably one for -senile cases, as proposed in the biM. I have felt that the Mental Health Commission could easily be set up, defining its duties and powers in detail and specifying the various institutions oveY which it is to ex- ago. Dr. W. W. Adams VETERINARIAN 614 Musgrove Street Phones: Office 958 Residence 991-W Clinton, S. C. Goodyear Tires and Tubes BATTERIES AND • ACCESSORIES McMillan ' Service Station Sinclair Products Phone No. 2 . vp. to- DATE # You will ^ind this dependable pharmacy up-to-date in every re spect. We carry a com plete stock of all the newest research medic- inals and are equipped to compound your pre scriptions promptly and properly. Won't yoo please try ns next time. McGEE’S (RUG STORE Phone No. 1 As Washingtdh Sees It... THE NATIONAL SCENE Washington.^ Feb. 2. — With pre liminaries out of the way, the sec ond session of the 82nd congress set out to do some business, and the first action'involved spending, with House passage of a 10 per cent pay increase for all members^ of the armed forces and the reserves. To tal will amount to some $800 mil lion. Passage was by an over whelming vote of 269 to 89 and was bi-partisan. It is expected the Senate may also pass the measure. Some of the so-called prelimi naries included a joint-session ad-1 dress by Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the budget and economic message of the Pres ident, calling for expenditures in fiscal 1952 of approximately $85 ! billion. While Mr. Truman asked , for $52 billion for military obliga- ! tory authority it was less than the $60 billion in 1951. What the' President has done in his budget for military purposes is to spread the peak asked for by the military experts into another year, 1954T* moving back the target date for maximum preparedness. The budget, for instance, still provides for the 143 wings in the air arm, but at a slower rate in that addi- ! tionat plant capacity required now j in order to produce additional planes by 1954 will be deferred. As a matter of practical econom ics much of the money to be appro priated will go to pay for backlpgs already placed on order and extra money would not produce a single additional plane for the negt year or so. As the economists see it, Mr. Truman, in cutting down on con- tractural authority, has weighed the danger of war in 1954 against the inflationary danger of increased expenses on the nation’s economy and further accumulated deficit spending. Even so, if the congress does not levy additional taxes, as the Presi dent asks and for which he re proached congress* there will be a deficit in 1953^ some 14 billions of dollars. Even though the budget is the largest peace-time budget, there was a slash of approximately $1 billion in domestic expenditures. Insofar as the Truman-Churchill talks are concerned, among the most important agreements was the interchange of steel as against tin and aluminum. 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