The Governor of Arkansas sets forth in this paper an extremely progressive psychiatric hospital program. He recognized the crucial problem—the lack of trained personnel—and made arrangements for universities, veterans' hospitals, and medical schools to train psychiatrists for state hospital work. Psychiatrists' training in the state medical school will be of four years' duration, and the training of clinical psychologists, psychiatric social workers, and psychiatric nurses will be accelerated for the formation of psychiatric teams. In addition, Governor McMath plans a new fifteen-hundred-bed center for diagnosis, training, and acute intensive treatment, to replace the present mental hospital at Little Rock.