State of Mind

Ohio's Republican Congressman Alvin F. Weichel got the floor for five minutes:

"Mr. Speaker, for a great many years the Good Samaritan Hospital in my district has served the public health by caring for the sick, the lame and the infirm. During the past two years its facilities . . . have been taxed to the utmost . . . and the electric refrigerator, like the deacon's one-horse shay, has worn out. . . .

"In its effort to preserve and safeguard the food for the sick, the hospital attempted to purchase a new refrigerator. . . . It filled out an application and sent it to Washington. . . . I talked with the agency here, but [was told] . . . refrigerators are not being allotted to hospitals.

"I agree it is cold on Lake Erie . . . and the hospital . . . would be willing to have someone go out on the lake and chop out a cake of ice each day. However, there is a shortage of manpower. . . .

"Mr. Speaker, with this denial fresh in mind, I remember reading . . . where one Harry Hopkins received a brand-new electric refrigerator for his new home in Georgetown. . . . I am glad that Mr. Hopkins . . . is not obliged to cut his ice each day from the waters of the Potomac but, nevertheless, people back in my district feel that the sick and infirm in hospitals should be given a refrigerator."

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