62 HUMANE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS USED IN RESEARCH 
Too many laboratories hire uneducated, unambitious, unfit men to 
handle and care for their animals. Wages commonly offered for 
that kind of work are too low to attract true technicians into that line 
of work. 
Very few American laboratories, even among the large universities, 
provide any professional veterinary care for animals. 
These kinds of facts I give you gentlemen from my own background 
as a student and subsequently as a university and college teacher and 
administrator. 
There is a need for the action proposed by the Moulder bill. I 
expect that there will be some who will tell you that you must beware 
of interfering with science, of impeding medical research. By im- 
plication, if not directly, there probably will be an attempt to equate 
the Moulder bill with attempt by antivivisectionists to forbid entirely 
the use of animals in research. 
That kind of argument against the Moulder bill is nonsense, a kind 
of nonsense that is particularly unbecoming in men and organizations 
that claim to follow scientific modes of thought. 
The Moulder bill will not interfere to the slightest degree with legit- 
imate research of any kind. It might get in the way of some of the 
boondogglers who are to be found in laboratories just about in the 
same proportion as elsewhere. 
Research would be improved and money now wasted could go to 
better work. 
But there is not a single phrase in the Moulder bill that would hurt 
any honest research worker or impede his work- I certainly would 
not have appeared before this honorable committee this morning if 
I felt that I would be supporting the antivivisectionist platform, for 
I am an enthusiastic supporter of humane medical research. It is a 
feeble argument, indeed, to assert that great medical and humane 
advances have not been made by medical research. Surely, they have. 
In conclusion, then, I would like to offer you a thought that comes 
from my own specialty in psychology ; that is, mental hygiene. This 
is a field of behavioral science that is often misunderstood or simply 
not understood. 
I do not intend to afflict you with a discussion of my chief profes- 
sional interests. I trust that you gentlemen of the committee under- 
stand that when a psychologist speaks of mental hygiene, lie refers 
to an aspect of health, of public health as well as private health. 
The point that I really finally wish to make is that our entire Nation 
is harmed, as surely harmed as it is by radioactive fallout or by in- 
discriminate use of poisonous insecticides, by cruelty that has the 
appearance of social sanction and legal blessing. 
It is important in this era when violence and primitive brutal ism 
are a threat to our entire species and even to the physical existence 
of the earth that we cultivate and encourage and nourish in every 
possible way the qualities of empathy and compassion and love that 
are the essence of mental health. 
Neither our Nation nor our race can afford cruelty, whether cruelty 
of deliberate, willful nature or cruelty of neglect, carelessness, and 
indifference. 
I believe that the Congress can more surely guide our Nation toward 
safety and happiness by moving in the direction of compassion and 
