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Frank W. Suggitt, D.P.A., consultant, economic development and planning, 
Michigan State University. 
Rev. Samuel H. Sutherland, D.D., LL.D., president, Biola College, La Mirada, 
Calif. 
Bishop Joseph A. Synan, Sr., D.D., general superintendent, Pentecostal Holiness 
Church. 
Rev. Charles L. Taylor, Th. D., D.D., clergyman, Episcopal Church ; director, 
American Association Theological Schools. 
Ross M. Taylor, Ph. D., department head, University of Wichita. 
Weldon J. Taylor, Ph. D., dean, College of Business, Brigham Young University. 
John Tebbel, Litt. D., writer; professor and chairman of Department of Journal- 
ism, New York University. 
Ralph I. Thayer, Ph. D., professor of economics, University of Washington. 
Albert W. Thompson, Ph. D., dean, College of Science and Arts, Washington State 
University. 
Carol L. Thompson, M.A., editor, Current History. 
Ralph B. Thompson, Ph. D., professor of marketing, University of Florida, 
Gainesville. 
John S. Walters, editor, Times Union and Jacksonville Journal, Jacksonville, 
Fla. 
A. E. Zucker, Ph. D., professor emeritus, University of Maryland. 
It is gratifying and I think it highly significant, that many of these eminent 
Americans who recommend control by law of the use of laboratory animals are 
also eminent scientists. They express a conviction based on considerations of 
morality and they know well the facts behind the issue. 
Many of these men and women have added spontaneous additional remarks 
that are germane to the issue that you are considering. For example, Dr. 
Loren C. Eiseley, the very famous anthropologist of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania, has written to us : 
“I furthermore believe that animals kept in captivity for experimental purposes 
should be protected by some kind of adequate housing standards for reasons of 
health and comfort. Many are ill fed and otherwise abused.” 
Dr. A. R. T. Denues, president of Oancirco, Inc., a cancer research institution 
located in Rye, N.Y.. has written : 
“I am sure that your efforts will help medical research and its proper con- 
duct. My thanks.” 
In the list of names above you will find evidence of the best and the most in- 
fluential of American thought on this subject. All who are quoted are agreed 
that the Congress should act to protect laboratory animals by law. 
I have said to you that enactment of H.R. 3556 would save substantial amounts 
of money now wasted. This is an important reason for enactment of the bill 
and I offer a brief discussion in support of the bald statement. 
Again, as the best possible resort, I appeal to commonsense. It is obvious that 
wherever and whenever a billion dollars of money is being spent, there inevitably 
is waste. That is particularly unavoidable when the enterprise is one of research. 
I don’t really agree with the dictum of a former Secretary of Defense that “pure 
research is what you do when you don’t know what you’re doing,” but I think 
that we all felt that in his epigram there was a kernel of truth. It is not a 
truth that is discreditable to scientists but it is, nevertheless, truth. And when 
“you don’t know what you’re doing” with a big part of a billion dollars, there 
is bound to be waste. 
In the part of our national research and teaching activity that uses animals, 
there indubitably is waste. 
The Journal of the American Medical Association said, earlier this year, that 
“far too few people have realized that the stepped-up efficiency with which these 
sums (for medical research) are raised does not necessarily mean that they 
are equally efficiently spent.” 
The Presiden of the Markle Foundation, which for many years has specialized 
in financing discriminating medical research, has said that the current vast flow 
of funds into medical research has attracted status seekers and men of doubtful 
ability into the field and has resulted in much shoddy research because the pre- 
tense of work is done for shoddy reasons. 
President Kennedy himself, when a Senator, called for coordination of medical 
research in new ways so as to avoid wasteful duplication. 
Dr. Alan Gregg, vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation, has said that 
“the medical literature of today exemplifies all too fully the biological adage 
that life is choked by its own secretions.” 
