individuals with limited interests. Above all, they should broaden their
interests and make an effort, as citizens, to comprehend the overall
problems. The limited interest groups, I believe, are victims of one of
the great fallacies of our age—the fallacy that all ills may be cured by
the expenditure of money. The quality of governmental programs are
adjudged on the basis of the money spent thereon. This, in my mind, is
a grave error. Could we cure cancer by doubling the amount of money
we spent on research into its causes? If so, who wouldn't double, triple,
quadruple the amount? If you will pardon the personal allusion, I was
criticized by certain groups for refusing to authorize the establishment
of a hospital of a certain bed capacity, when all of the experts in the
field advised me that a hospital of that size not only was not required,
but in any event could not be staffed under present conditions. A hos-
pital half the size, and adequate for present requirements, was approved
by me, but groups with limited interests were not satisfied.

To get back to my thesis, it is the responsibility, not of the Governor
alone but of all citizens of the State, to weigh our requirements for
governmental services one against the other and to balance them all
with our ability to pay for them. That is the reason I say that it is the
obligation of all of us, as citizens, to study thoroughly, and try diligently
to understand, the processes of government. It is, as I have said, not an
easy undertaking. But a great American patriot said: "Those who
expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the
fatigue of supporting it. "

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