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...both the nation and the world, 1955 may well be known as the year of the Great Cure-All. As people look away from the Government's short-lived promises of Salk vaccine for all, they turn now to another panacea--the Conference at the Summit. But amid all the talk of top-level meetings as medicine for the world's political ills, a most important fact has been only lightly brushed over: the Russians have not yet accepted Western invitations to confer...
...reason for the father's reluctance became shockingly clear. The family and all the neighbors danced, sang and drank deep at a gay, all-night wake, planned days before and sanctioned by their belief that all children who die go happily and directly to heaven. An ill-timed cure of the youngster would have embarrassed the whole community, most of all the father in his role as begetter of the fiesta...
Even with volunteer programs and increased state budgets the basic problem in mental health remains unsolved: how to find both a cure and a prevention. The answer, pointed up by last week's Ford Foundation grant of $15 million, is research. Already over 700,000 mental patients fill more than half of all available hospital beds in the U.S., and the rate is on the increase. Yet less than one percent of all expenditure for mental illness now goes to research. Ford has shown the way that both public and private agencies should follow...
...volunteers help not only in entertainment and in organized activities, but also in just treating the patients like normal human beings. As one of the volunteers said, "We don't try to cure the patients. We just talk to them, if they want to talk, or play with them, if they want to play...
...Superintendent of Metropolitan State, William F. McLaughlin, M.D., describes the contributions of the volunteers in another way. "We don't have enough doctors and nurses to reach all the patients. And even if we did, we still don't know the real answer to curing the patients. But if you create a normal environment and activity program--as the volunteers do--the patients respond. It is the beginning of getting their trust again, and often it is a spring-board to a cure...