60 HUMANE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS USED IN RESEARCH 
going to talk about vertebrates, we have to be as concerned with other 
vertebrates too. 
So it seems to me that there are things in it that need modifying 
and amplifying, but I do not see how biologists can deny that there 
needs to be something that would guarantee the kind of care and 
treatment of animals that our country has really needed long ago. 
Mr. Roberts. Thank you, Dr. Miller. 
I appreciate your contribution and your coming from a long dis- 
tance to be with us here today. 
We are always glad to have Texans before this committee. You 
know, this committee furnished the Speaker of the House of Repre- 
sentatives, the late and beloved Congressman Rayburn, who was 
chairman of this committee at one time, and we have two wonderful 
Texans on the committee now : the gentleman from Texas, Mr. Rogers, 
and also Mr. Kilgore. So Texas is well represented on our committee, 
and we are delighted to have you here today. 
Dr. Miller. Thank you. 
Mr. Roberts. Any questions ? 
Thank you very much. 
Our next witness will be Dr. James T. Mehorter, dean of students, 
Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, Mass. 
May I also say, Dr. Mehorter, we extend a warm welcome to you. 
Massachusetts is also well represented on our committee by Mr. 
Macdonald and Mr. Keith, who serve on the full committee, and I am 
sure they will appreciate your appearance. We are delighted to have 
you. 
STATEMENT OF DR. JAMES T. MEHORTER, DEAN OF STUDENTS, 
BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, PITTSFIELD, MASS. 
Dr. Mehorter. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 
I have abandoned my students and my college today and flown down 
here from Massachusetts because I feel strongly, after some years of 
experience and thought about the subject before you, that Congress 
should act decisively against cruelty that now is much too frequently 
perpetrated against animals in the name of science. 
As you have been told, my training and experience has been in the 
field of educational psychology with specialization in the discipline of 
mental hygiene. 
Research in psychology has produced some of the most revolting 
and least defensible cruelties to animals, and I feel a strong moral 
duty to speak against these things and to urge you to act on H.R. 3556 . 
A few years ago, the late Dr. Robert Gesell, father of Mrs. Stevens, 
who is appearing before you today in further support of action to 
protect laboratory animals, and who was then the highly respected 
and even revered chairman of the Department of Physiology of the 
University of Michigan, said to a meeting of the American Physiologi- 
cal Society, and I quote him verbatim : 
The National Society for Medical Research would have us believe that there 
is an important issue in vivisection versus antivivisection. To a physiologist 
there can be no issue on vivisection per se. The real and urgent issue is hu- 
manity versus inhumanity in the use of experimental animals. But the NSMR 
attaches a stigma of antivivisection to any semblance of humanity. 
