William Menninger believes that psychiatrists today have a responsibility toward the broad social problems of our time. In order to better appraise the needs and the available resources, he feels it is necessary to survey the pertinent statistics relevant to the needs of the community and the existing facilities. In his paper he presents some startling figures regarding the prevalence of mental and emotional maladjustment, the availability of psychiatric personnel and the resources for research. For example, there was a loss of 2,478,000 men in military manpower due to psychiatric disorders. Only four percent of medical education is devoted to psychiatric training whereas thirty to fifty percent of medical practice concerns emotional problems. In the field of research, for every dollar spent in psychiatric research in this country, sixty-five dollars were spent in other medical research and two thousand five hundred dollars in industrial research. These and other significant findings make this paper extremely worthwhile for those interested in broadening their psychiatric horizons.