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by the enthusiasm of an individual, and the income of this million dollars was allocated to the Society, which was then about $40,000 a year. Too bad, because they should have given the million dollars to finance a real campaign, 10 years before, just as if Albert's money had been used from 1928 on, we would be in a different stage today if it had been used to finance fund raising for research.

They didn't have anybody on their staff who particularly understood fund raising.

They didn't understand this.

On this visit Dr. Little told me something which I had not known before, which was that Albert and his sisters had given the Society $50,000 in memory of their brother, Harry Lasker, who had died of cancer eight or nine years before, in the early '30s, and they had used the income on this fund of $50,000 for pamphlets. Unfortunately, Albert never supervised the pamphlets or some dynamite could have been put in the organization much earlier. Even the pamphlets would have been better had he even looked at them.

I asked Dr. Little what he needed additional funds for, and he said he was very anxious to have a thousand dollars to hold a conference and four thousand dollars to have a paperbound