The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-20
MASSACHUSETTS CITY
 VERY MUCH AROUSED OVER GLAND FACTORY
Doctor Goes Ahead With Plans in Spite of Protest of City 0fficiaIs-ToWn Split Into Factions.
By RAYMOND RUSSELL Special Dispatch to The Age Herald (Copyright, i92a, by The Aee-Herald)

(Copyright. 1929, by The Aee-Herald)
 West Dennis, Mass, August ls.-A refusal by the select men of West Dennis to grant him a sanitarium H. cense has not deterred Dr. J. Lee Hanson from going right ahead with the development of his gland fac tery," In this, the most staid section of the old Bay State.
 pr. Hanson sat smoking pensively on his factory" veranda today while his goats and sheep and rabbits-the monkeys haven't yet arrived cavorted about tho place deleyoplng nice, fat. strong glands which some day may adorn the anatomy of a wealthy Conrad in quest of his youth.
 Downtown tn eoutraged citizens of the community fussed and fumed as to what they could do and there was high talk of the immortality and un- godliness of the modern Idea of scrambling animals and human be- ings together In an effort to extend the Biblical life and portion of three- score years and ten.
 Doesn't Need License
 pr. Hanson says he doesn't need a license to operate the factory" and that his experiments will go aneaa. regardless of what the country folk think of this new fangied" notion.
 Whatever glands may have done in the past to other human beings, they have certainly set the qulet folk of West Dennis by the ears. They have torn the old Cape Cod town as it had never before been shaken In more than a century of existence. Dr. Han son, who Is medical director of the Massachusetts Clinic for Diagnosis. in addition to being the founder of the first gland farm in the east. merely smiles and waits for the storm to blow over.
 The trouble began when the clinic. represented by Dr. Hanson, a spe- cialist In glandular pathology. pur- chased one of the old farming prop. critics here and announced to the world that henceforth West Dennis would have something besides it's tradition to boast about
 VIII Have Gland Farm West Dennis, he said, was about to have a gland farm, a real gland farm, where the fountain of youth would bubble and gurgle for the aged, and
  treated for their afflistions. Furthermore, Dr. Hanson an- nounoed, West Dennis gland farm was to conduct many varied and radi : cal experiments in glandular pathol- ogy. For this purpose 1t was to keep vast numbers of goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, etc. upon which these experiments would be conducted.
 Residents of West Dennis had heard about glands before the farm was established. They read of them over the news of them or discussed them gravely, which ever might be their individual attitude on things glandular But this was in the quiet repose of West Dennis far from the scene of the glands. But when, to their amazement. the glands were brought right into West Dennis, and they were obliged to rub elbows with them. so to speak, quite a different situation presented itself. Then the fun began.
 Splits Into Factions Residents stood open mouthed on the roadsides and watched the glands. alive, kicking and squealing, brought in by motor trucks
 From that moment the town was split into factions
 The summer residents were the first to object. Society ladies from the Back Bay and the fashionable suburbs of Boston, who came to West Dennis to dwell in it's memories, could not reconcile themselves to glands.
 q can't bear to think of 1t: I just can't bear to think of it," wept on. Boston matron. "I have been coming to West Dennis for years, to enjoy its quaint surroundings and It's tradi- tion.~I intended to write some poetry this year and. my dear, I'm just too upset to do a thing. All I hear in the town Is glands. My friends, in their letters. ask me about the glands. I am almost mad from glands. They are positively vulgar"
 On the other hand many of tho townspeople welcomed glimmer of tho outside world in West Dennis. They wanted the gland farm here and didn't hestftate to say SO. On this issue lifelong friendships were shat tered. The one apparently least con cerned about the matter was pr. Hanson. He went cheerfully about his work and in due time applied for a license to conduct sanitarium. Never before was a town meeting SO largely attended as the one in which Dr. Hanson's sanitarium IT, cense was thrashed out. The select men. Gallo Crowell, William Crowell and w. s. Rogers. gravely listened to the storm, and then, just as gravely announced that a license would not be issued.
 Dr. Hanson replied with equal gravity that he inteded to conduct his experiments in West Dennis license or no license.
 Next day came a fight-the first fist fight West Dennis has known in years-when two young townsme on engaged in an a1tercation having to do with the relative organic position of the thyroid gland and It's physical functions. The residents are still wondering--and the fur is still fly ing.