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money! The treasurer was terribly annoyed about it all.

In the fall of this year I wrote a letter to Dr. Frank Adair--in the fall of '44--who was then, I believe, the Chairman of the Medical Board, enclosing a contribution from Raymond Loewy's office as an indirect payment for services I had rendered to RaymondLoewy, and asked Dr. Admair that a research fund for the Society be established with this contribution. This contribution did, in fact, establish the first formal research fund of the American Cancer Society, which has since then, since 1944 to September 1, 1953, collected nearly 30 million dollars. (Jane, please add the additional money collected for research since '53 to date.)

Unfortunately, the end of the disease is not yet in sight, but as I see it in the perspective of now 20 years, an immense amount of fundamental work has been done. The cracks are appearing and perhaps they will bring great openings of insight into the disease and its cure.

May I interrupt, Mrs. Lasker, to ask at that point, did you anticipate that the research would be sponsored almost entirely by the Cancer Society and private funds?

I think at that particular point I did, but I got interested in '43 or early '44--I think this is in out other discussion--the possibility of Federal funds. The Federal funds at the time of the war, during this period, were being used for diseases that might have influence on the