Detroit evening times., 1945-12-27
DUDLEY FIELD MALONE
236 South Wetherly Drive
Beverly Hills, California


SAN SIMEON, CALF,
DEAR MR.. HEARST:
NOR YEARS l have noticed your gallant
Il support of millions of men and women
in this country fighting against the wide
spread, ruthless, blood-letting cruelty to dogs
by the vivisectionists.
There is now pending before Congress,
awaiting public hearing before the commit
tee on the District of Columbia Bill 491 ITO
prohibit experiments upon living dogs in the
District of Columbia and providing a penalty
for violation thereof"
have recently studied past hearings be-
fore Congressional committees and legislative
committees of the states, setting forth views
of those for and against vivisection.
Generally, these discussions have produced
more heat than light. The hearings have in
variaby ended in mere medical disputes.
TNO Me, the issues involved are simple.
Il They should be more generally under
stood, for find that many people of humani-
tartan instincts are completely confused.
In many of our states, as here in Cali
fornia, there are strong and precisely worded
cruelty statutes with penalties against the
torture or abuse of living animals.
The vivisectonsts, however, in this and
other states have had amendments passed to
these cruelty statutes" ABSOLVING THEM
SELVES, their so-called scientific labora-
tories" and all medical institutions from the
provisions, which SPECIFICALLY DEFINE
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS"
BY these amendments forced through the
various legislatures to exempt themselves
from the penalties of the cruelty statutes"
the vivisectionists publicly admit that THEY
ARE GUILTY TORTURE AND
CRUELTY against animals but do not wish
to be held to the same penal standards as the
rest Of us in the treatment of our animal
home companions.
IRENE CASTLE MCLAUGHLIN, whose
Il father, DR.. Foote, was a famous veteri-
nary Of New York state with The corrobora-
ton undisputed of two witnesses, one health
inspector, exposed dreadful conditions in the
treatment of dogs by the vivisectionists in
Northwestern University Medical School.
The treatment of these helpless dogs was
so outrageous that an action was begun
against the university doctors. No denial nor
defense was made to the charges but the case
was dismissed merely on the technical ground
that medical schools even under the exposed
conditions were EXEMPT FROM THE
CRUELTY STATUTES"
LNOR OVER half a century England has
Il had a strict statute controlling the pro-
miscuous torture and murder of dogs 1t
provides for the care of them under anes-
thetics in sanitary surroundings and opera
tion on them only for SPECIFIED SCIEN-
TIFIC EXPERIMENTS in medicine, NOT TO
BE SOLVED BY OTHER PROCESSES
Other European nations have laws re-
stricting vivisection and even under the hor
rors of Hiter's Nazi Germany, a law was
passed there in 1888 controlling promiscuous
vivisection and limiting operations on living
animals TO the proved necessity of a specific
scientific experiment, performed by a scientist
of accepted standards, in the presence of a
government inspector and an experiment in
capable of possible solution by other methods
In our country we have the unhappy rec
ord of thousands of dogs stolen from their
owners or picked up on the streets or dogs
bought from pounds, and transported across
state lines to distant cities, there sold to So
called medical laboratories" and authorized
medical schools for torture, operations, and
blood-letting experiments.
Certainly, in this the most humane coun-
try in the world, such foul practices should
be stopped by appropriate national and state
penal legislation.