"We have today more sick and defective minds than there were soldiers killed in all our wars from the Revolution through World War II. More than half of all beds in all hospitals--whether equipped to handle them or not--are occupied by sick minds. Yet, for every sick mind in a hospital, there are 18 or 19 out of the hospital but who need psychiatric care. Every staff doctor in state hospitals has, on the average, 240 patients to care for. In the south central states, the average number of patients to each staff doctor is 346. "The fact is that it is our youth which is cracking up. Out of every 1000 young men called up by the draft, 178 were rejected as mentally diseased or defective. "Looking ahead, the psychiatrist foresees, only 20 years hence, some 16,500 senile insane and imbeciles pouring into the state hospitals every year."[34] "Noah Webster, the lexicographer, must have been mistaken in defining the word civilization as a 'reclamation from a savage state as being cultured and refined.' He should have described it as a most horrible, shocking, and brutal state. "'They must have been men because they killed each other and must have been civilized because they did it frightfully'--said Voltaire. "Our ancestors, the savage aborigines, men of the Middle Ages, and even Nero, seem to us to have been barbarous. They were saints compared to our present brutal kind. They would have been shocked had they foreseen our present cruelty, in our modern, so-called civilized age. "Our civilized age culture brought about the age of scientific killings by some of our earth so-called civilized governments, by gas asphyxiation on the battlefields, sinkings by submarines of non-combatant ships whose innocent passengers floundered and drowned in the troughs of the high seas, and without warning the bombardment of open cities with the extermination of their blameless inhabitants. "Having seen the perfect life on your planet, we feel a sense of shame, guilt, and disgrace in the conduct of our fellow earth men. It never seriously occurred to us that money lust was the primary cause of our misfortunes. We never gave it a thought that we could live without it. "Thanking you for the opportunity of letting me talk to you. You will now hear from our following speakers of terrible happenings on our planet." The toastmaster then announced Mr. David Levy as the second earthman speaker. "Honorable President and Vice-President and distinguished Martian representatives. If it wasn't that we are all here, trying to find ways and means to help my fellow earthmen, I would feel ashamed to relate what I am going to, but under the circumstances I feel it honorable. I am a German-Jewish refugee, a member of a suffering earth sect. I was in Germany before the war, and also a member of a contingent of American troops in the start of its invasion.