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A. No, there is only one sounding you get regarding any tax and
that is negative. I think the point is that the only people who make
the response are usually the people who are affected by that particular
tax; and those who are not affected by it, even though they may favor
it, don't say anything. I have never let myself become involved in a
tax program solely on a basis that there is a response — a favorable
response — to it because, I guess, we would never pass a tax if we

waited for that favorable response.

(Again Spring Grove)

Q. Governor, returning to my question for a moment, the fact re-
mains that despite your long-range efforts in this area there are still
eight people sleeping on the floor there and that Dr. Tuerk says that
this will get better before it gets worse — no, I mean that it will get
worse before it gets better. Do you plan to take any (interruption)....

A. Let me say this, Mr. Weiss: It becomes completely apparent to
me that this is a rather frivolous line of inquiry when you single out
eight people in a State of 3, 600, 000, and what you are trying to say
to me is, Are you going to drop other matters and rush to see what
happened with eight people? The answer is that we are going to con-
tinue to — within the best means at our disposal — make the reforms
that are necessary to prevent this kind of thing. But Dr. Tuerk him-
self, I am sure, with the number of beds at his disposal, is able to
adjust an eight patient plus or a minus factor overnight without my
intervening.

(Cost of New Constitution)

Q. Governor, you have come out in strong support of the new Con-
stitution — you have said that you will work hard to see that it is
approved or to encourage its approval. Do you think that when the
people find out what it is going to cost to put it into effect, its ap-
proval might be in danger?

A. A lot of the things that are cost factors in the Constitution are
difficult to cope with — to even make a reliable estimate of at the
present time. I think that there are going to be some rather extreme
claims of what this Constitution is going to cost, but regardless of
whether that is done or it isn't done, it seems to me that if the re-
forms are necessary and if the costs are programmed over a reasonable
time, they would eventually come into existence whether or not by
way of a new constitution. If the court system needs a reform and if
the reform came about through simple legislative program to reform
the courts, it would happen regardless of whether or not the Con-