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prospects of the organization. One of the main functions of the former National Committee for Mental Hygiene had been to support testimony and urge appropriations for the funds of the National Institute of Mental Health. And I had earmarked funds for Lymne Adams, our lobbyist, a rather inadequate lobbyist, to arrange for hearings and witnesses so that a good fight for the Institute's funds might be made.

I had attached this idea to the National Mental Hygiene Committee and had Dr. Stevenson had gone along with it and there was no terrific opposition, so it went on. Lyn Adams, the lobbyist, took some directions from me and not from Dr. Stevenson, who was rather mild himself.

However, after the organizations had merged, in some way Mr. Lamont duPont of the famous duPont family came on the Board of the Association and objected to the association's support of Federal appropriations. He did not wish for the new National Association for Mental Health to continue this function or to continue paying Lyn Adams for his work. Actually, I had paid it to the Association and they in turn had paid him. So, I was providing earmarked money for it.

There were other concern of equally unforesighted individuals on the Association's Board, so I decided the best thing to do was to form an independent committee for education and support of funds for the National Mental Health Institute myself. I did this. It was called the National Mental Health Committee, and we later changed the name to the National Committee Against Mental Illness so as to distinguish it from the Association.