Editor, The States:
In a letter that you published on Dec. 3, I charged that "New Orleans medical schools" are inflicting upon animals a variety of cruelties, the precise nature of which I described. In a sentence of my letter which you deleted (I do not criticize the deletion; you were generous with your space) I wrote: "I am not singling out any particular medical school in this indictment; I am saying that in the medical schools of New Orleans these cruelties occur."
Dr George D. Davis of _LSU medical school has answerecf me in your columns by asserting that my statement was at least partly untrue as applied to LSU. That assertion, however, is no answer to what I charged. Dr. Davis does not deny that the cruelties that I described do occur in New Orleans medical schools. He says only that some of them do not occur at LSU.
Because the Humane Society of the United States is a responsible organization that intends always to stick to facts, we are acting promptly upon Dr. Davis' statement in your columns that "records, operating rooms, and animal quarters" of the LSU medical school "are open for legitimate inspections at all times." I have written to Dr. Davis, requesting permission for me and another, member of our technical staff to visit the LSU medical school at an early date.
FRED MYERS,
Executive Director, Humane
Society of the US.
