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of having an advisory council to the Commissioner. Also, there is concern about 
the attendant regimentation that would inevitably be established in the opera- 
tion and administration of this legislation. Researchers now feel they are over- 
burdened with paperwork. Additional regimentation may keep good scientists 
from making research their lifework. 
May I add that workers at the land-grant institutions are concerned regard- 
ing the relation of the proposed legislation to the earlier legislation suggesting 
research at the State agricultural experiment stations. Congress passed the 
Hatch Act in 1887 as well as subsequent acts, all of which Congress con- 
solidated into the amended Hatch Act in 1955, which directed the State stations, 
among other tasks, to undertake research in human and animal nutrition as 
well as the prevention and control of diseases in man and animals. 
The land-grant institutions therefore feel this proposed legislation will be no 
contribution to the forward march of science and may well seriously hinder 
its progress. 
Mr. Roberts. Is Miss Alice Wagner, editor of the magazine Popular 
Dogs here ? 
I happen to be a reader of yours, so I have been waiting for your 
statement. 
STATEMENT OP MRS. ALICE WAGNER, EDITOR, POPULAR DOGS 
Mrs. Wagner. Well, Mr. Chairman, I have been editor of Popular 
Dogs for almost 15 years. We consider it the national purebreed dog 
breeders magazine of the country, more or less of a trade journal. 
Mr. Roberts. I wish you would give a little bit more space to Kerry 
blue terriors in the book. 
Mrs. Wagner. The September issue does. 
Since I have been editor, we have had an animal welfare section, j 
because we believe that all of the welfare and care given to all animals 
reflects directly or indirectly on the purebreed dog. 
Consequently, because we have written about the humane slaughter 
law and animal research, we have received letters from doctors and 
veterinarians and students — students from various universities. 
I would like to read one — parts of one article — I won’t read it all — 
from one of the students we received, and she headed it “These Things 
I Saw — by Margo Nesslerod.” 
I am a student studying veterinary medicine. I was never and am not now [/ 
in the employ of any humane society or other such organization. Neither am J 
I being paid for this article. It is a cry and plea from a young person still j 
holding on to a few ideals I have grown up to believe in, and I am beginning to 
wonder if there is any real humane goodness among humans. 
I am not a sentimentalist, a crusader, or a fanatic. But I cannot, under any 
code or way of human life, condone what I, in a few short years, have seen. 
I took a year off from my education and went to work for a few months at 
one of Chicago’s well-known and wealthy medical schools. 
A Great Dane was kept in a 6-by-4-foot compartment for 8 months without 
release. He was a blood donor for the heart-lung machine that required blood j 
to prime it and start it flowing. 
I watched that animal stagger about semiconscious for hours, as long as 36, ! 
from time of anesthesia to awakening, because the ignorant, untrained men 
who cared for the animals knew nothing about anesthesia. 
This dog had had distemper at one time, and was in terribly poor condition, 
certainly in no condition for donating blood in large quantities. He was not 
exercised, was not fed enough, nor properly, and was badly tormented by the 
caretaker boys who believed it high amusement to poke at the animal to make 
him lunge at the door. 
I checked a stool sample and found tapeworms, roundworms, and hookworms, 
plus a tiny parasite called coccidia that caused eventual ulceration of the 
intestinal tract. I rid him of his parasites with a few capsules, and com- 1 
pounded his water at a cost of only a few cents. 
