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The leaders of the house of labor, the distinguished Cabinet officers, the Members of the Senate, the Members of the House who are on this platform, with your support, with the support of all good Americans throughout this country, have done in 2 years what we have been talking about doing for 200 years.

degrees, that will give our children the kind of education that we have been talking about for 200 years. And along with those 24 measures that in time will give to the people of this country the kind of health they ought to have, we passed six major education bills, beginning with Head Start and ending with Ph.D. We have passed the Nurses Training Act, the Health Profession Act, the Medical Research Facilities Act, the Heart, Cancer, Stroke, High Blood Pressure Act. We will take in $6 billion this year for medical care and for social security. In the last 2 years I am proud to say-I think I am prouder of this than anything I have ever done in all my 58 years-upon my recommendation the Congress in the last 2½ years has passed 24 health bills. We have come a long way down the road of care and compassion for the afflicted. A great people must share the vision of leaders like Dr. A great nation must also measure by other yardsticks of concern. And twice as many little Negro babies die in their first year as white babies.ĭollars alone serve as very poor measuring instruments for the cost of ill health.

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To our older Americans who are trying to live out their lives in security and comfort, to our very young, for death still takes its great toll in the cradle, to our minority groups, for the man whose skin is colored lives 7 years less in this country of ours than his fellow American. Its price comes highest to those that are least able to pay. It is borne in sorrow by almost every family in this land. This year alone the total cost to our country in all illnesses will amount to more than $62 billion-nearly one-tenth of our gross national product. Our great experts estimate that mental illness will cost us $8 billion this year that cancer will cost us over $3 billion that heart disease will cost us over $7 billion that the common cold and other respiratory diseases will cost us $5 1/2 billion that rheumatism and arthritis will cost us $3 billion. That cost must be measured in doctor bills and hospital fees and medicine, but also in the cost of earnings and production. But we can estimate, I think, the terrible cost inflicted on this country by disease. It is very nearly impossible to put a price on the value that such a man as Dr.

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He knew that the first job of this great sanitarium, which he liked to call a 'University of Health,' was to teach people how to get well and then teach them how to stay well. It takes a good carpenter to build one.'ĭr. He knew the meaning of Speaker Sam Rayburn's words: 'Any donkey can kick a barn down. He was a builder, a constructor, a developer. He worked to fulfill his ambition, and I quote him 'to spend my entire life in human service.' Later on, I am happy to say, she became one of my admirers, too.įrom what Mrs. Kellogg but, as you must have observed, I brought along one of his greatest admirers. We came here to Battle Creek today to honor not only an institution, but to honor the man who gave it life. And he is returning this week to be the floor leader of some of the most important administration measures that we will pass this year. He has played leading roles in much vital legislation. Phil Hart has been doing a terrific job for Michigan in the Senate and in the Nation. He represents your district with the same dignity and the same effectiveness as did his grandfather Todd back in the year 1896. He has drafted and pushed through the House of Representatives, the first term that he served there, the most important population amendments to the food for freedom bill. Paul is a freshman Congressman, but he has earned, and I think he deserves, the respect and admiration of every good American who is interested in his country regardless of the party he belongs to. I am especially pleased to be able to come here and tell you what a terrific job your own Congressman Paul Todd is doing in Washington. I am pleased to be here today with Paul Todd, Senator Hart, and the other members of this delegation. Mayor Wilklow, Congressman Todd, Senator Hart, distinguished members of the Michigan delegation, my colleagues from Ohio, distinguished leaders from the house of labor, ladies and gentlemen:

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