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that's how it got opened.

I wanted to make this point here, because I think it's of real significance in the history of your career.

Yes.

Between fiscal '46 the Cancer Institute had about 46 million for intramural and project-grant-in-aid research, while the Cancer Society raised for research about 30 million since '45 and up until '53. And, all told, including what the Cancer Society raised between '45 and '53, for all its purposes, public education, medical education, services and fund raising, 130 million dollars. This compares with nothing raised before for research by the Cancer Society and with only four million appropriated in the whole history of the United States between fiscal '38 and fiscal '46 in the National Cancer Institute. As I have said, the research funds have been rising to even greater heights in both the Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute (and I would like Jane to please insert here a chart showing the up-to-date increase in cancer research funds, from the Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute, and also their overall funds).

Unfortunately, the answer is still not at hand and we must go on urging more effort and more funds, because in the total of our gross national production of over 560 billion, this is still not any large sum to prevent this horrible disease in human beings. At least our efforts and those of thousands of