120 HUMANE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS USED IN RESEARCH 
funds. And due to redtape and snafus with the local authorities in 
nearby Maryland the project has been delayed. But FDA expects 
that contracts will be awarded in a few days. Work will begin soon at 
the Beltsville Agricultural Station location and will be completed 
prior to December 1963. More than 500 dogs will be housed in inside- 
outside runways. Laboratory and supporting space will be adjacent. 
Appropriation of funds to remove these wretched animals from their 
medieval jails — where they are acting as servants of humanity — was 
a landmark in congressional concern for animals. 
There are many other long-term dogs kept under similar conditions 
throughout the Nation. The Animal Care Panel is now setting up 
standards, for voluntary compliance, for test animal housing and care 
under a $14,000 NIH grant. But it has not yet reached a decision on 
the quartering of dogs. It is more expensive to provide the run space, 
as compared to cages. But it is also expensive to buy a first-rate micro- 
scope, X-ray apparatus, and other tools needed in scientific research. 
And these animals, being endowed with life, are more than mere tools. 
The Congress has already provided money on a matching fund basis 
for laboratory installations that would include proper humane animal 
quarters. But it appears there is a curious reluctance in taking ad- 
vantage of it. 
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for asking me to tell my story. 
Mr. Roberts. Thank you very much, Mrs. Free. The subcommit- 
tee appreciates your deep interest in this matter. 
I might say that the chairman is certainly aware of your success 
in other fields, and he is grateful to you for your appearance. 
I am placing in the record an article by Josephine Ripley in the 
Christian Science Monitor on the laboratory animal problem and 
your efforts in regard to the FDA animals. Also, I am putting two 
of your syndicated articles in the record. 
(The documents referred to follow :) 
[From the Christian Science Monitor, Mar. 8, 1962] 
Washington Report — A Renewed Sensitivity 
(By Josephine Ripley) 
Man is a dog’s best friend, but he sometimes needs to be reminded of 
it. 
A newspaper woman whom I know, Anne Free, of the North American 
Newspaper Alliance, took on that reminding job a few years ago with such 
tenacity that Congress went out of its way to vote money for more humane 
treatment of the Government’s experimental dogs. 
Anne had heard that these animals were cooped up in cages in which they 
could hardly turn around, the cages piled one on top of another in the base- 
ment of a Government building. 
She insisted upon seeing this for herself, found it to be true, and immedi- 
ately took off on a one-woman crusade to change these conditions. She found 
a sympathetic listener in Senator Lister Hill, Democrat, of Alabama. As a 
result of her efforts, Congress, in an unusual procedure, since department budg- 
ets for the year were already set, voted special funds for more adequate quar- 
ters for these dogs at the Beltsville Experimental Station in Maryland. 
This was the beginning of a renewed sensitivity by the public to the need 
for animal protection. Behind this need is something that comparatively 
few persons realize even now. That is the tremendous increase in the use 
of animals for medical and other experimentation. 
Ten times as many dogs are being used in testing food additives as were 
used for that purpose in 1956. These chemical additives have developed rapid- 
ly since the war. They are used in foods, cosmetics, and pesticides sprayed 
