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medical researchers to abide by the same standards of conduct expected of 
private citizens toward animals are indicated. 
The N CS AW considers the Moulder bill, H.E. 3556, to be reasonable, 
effective, and workable legislation in all respects but one. Our ob- 
jection is to the phrase “unless the project plan approved by the 
Commissioners states that anesthesia would frustrate the purpose of 
the project.” 
This will be found on lines 1, 2, and 3 of page 8, section 12(b) of 
the bill. 
The phrase vitiates an otherwise excellent bill, and would permit the 
continued infliction of intense and prolonged suffering on animals, 
without the relief of anesthesia. 
We urge that the bill be amended to remove the phrase, and we are 
deeply pleased that Mr. Moulder so recommended in his remarks 
this morning. 
We feel so strongly about the need for a clear requirement for 
anesthesia in experiments causing suffering that the NCSAW can 
support H.E. 3556 only if lines 1, 2, and 3 on page 8 are struck out. 
In all other respects, we consider the bill to be the answer to the 
need for legislation establishing humane standards for the care, hous- 
ing, and use of animals in research. 
I will then cut out the rest of my statement to save time, except 
to say that I believe the cost of administering the Moulder bill, if it 
is enacted, would be one-two thousand four hundred and forty-eighths 
of the NTH appropriation for research grants in fiscal 1963. 
We of the NCSAW are confident that the taxpayers of this coun- 
try would agree with us that the merciful treatment of animals is 
worth that tiny expenditure of money. 
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. 
(The complete statement of Miss Jones follows :) 
Statement of Helen E. Jones, Executive Dieector of the National Catho- 
lic Society for Animal Welfare, Washington, D.C. 
Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, my name is Helen E. Jones. 
I am executive director of the National Catholic Society for Animal Welfare 
which has headquarters in Washington. The NCSAW is an organization con- 
cerned with advancing knowledge of the Catholic Church’s teachings on ani- 
mals and on man’s obligations in the relationship between man and animals. 
The society is concerned also with the application of those teachings in daily 
life for the alleviation of animal suffering and the advancement of respect for 
God’s animal world. In that connection it works for the prevent of nation- 
wide cruelties. 
The NCSAW’s membership is composed not only of Catholics but also, as 
associate members, of many who are of the Protestant and Jewish faiths. 
The NCSAW is represented here today to testify to the need of laboratory 
animals for protection and to urge that any bill reported by this committee 
be adequate to insure a major reform of the conditions under which mil- 
lions of animals are used each year for experimental purposes. A little later 
in my testimony I will give the NCSAW’s specific recommendations on leg- 
islation. 
But first, Mr. Chairman, please permit me briefly to state the reasons why 
the enactment of legislation by the Congress is so urgently indicated. 
NEED OF ANIMALS FOR PROTECTION 
1. The vast numbers of animals used experimentally now are without ade- 
quate protection under existing laws. It is true that every State has de- 
clared cruelty to animals to be illegal. But 10 of the State anticruelty laws 
specifically exempt cruelty to animals in laboratories and 1 additional State 
