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FILE NAME: Metropolitan Life (ML) DATE: 1934 DOC#: ML226 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Met Life and Insurers Financing Saranac Lab Oa Puas 15(1921 th Vslfars Osodttss "authorised a appropriation of fS,000. por yoor for flo poors to tho Soroaoo Laboratory for tho purpoaa of enabling it la oooporotloa 1th this Csspaay to ooatlaue batteriologial studino of sHieosia." Deooabor H,1MJ X roto to Dottor tosto. ! abound to tbs Froddost tho first sad soooad paragraph os Poco 1 of Dr# Gardaor's Utter of Dsosobsr 12th to yotz) aad tho Froddost says that Uh events taralac as thoy aro sows mst ast iradii for la adtaaso hot that yoa ooa soy that as look apoa tho prtposiUoa aad apoa ths rssalts that oro bsing aoooaplishsd ith fatar aad that our disposiUsa ill ho to rsoovoad rtasnalof tho 15,000 appropriation for oasthor too poors bagLnaiag July 1,1934 alosa nssnutiila soasthisg happons to aoks as ooasidor such aotloa iaadviasbls." (Shoso to paragraphs arai "Had a noting la Chioago ith roprosontatlTos of tho Sttoal Xasuraaoo Coapsaios (Uborty, Laabranas, Xployors aad inorieoa X think.) Whiting aad Ksutkls orgnxdsod it to asidor a rosoorsh progron hioh thoy aid fiaaaeo hors st tho laboratory. Xa ay spoooh to tbna X aoatloaod that tho Hot. had arrlod aa for 15,000 annually during tho last S poors but that X m a not oorj sortala that you said ho abU to ooatiauo. X thsro* fsrs aaksd than ts roplass this grast Ith 15,000 f thsir som ts osa* tinao tho tody sa O sad siliossis* Thsy had prsrlsnsly rittsa as fsr a sehsdfcls of assossary axporinsatal vorh iaohioh X iaoludod a otudy of aolabillty, aontralisatisa of allioa aotisn in tho body aad inanity is TS aad pasaosla. iftor ay spoooh thoy took ay hroath aony by asking as if X seald ds all this pragma sinultaassusly if thsy gars as 110,000 a paar far ths asst 1 ysars sad ysrsaalsd yoa to ssatiaas ith yotr pros* sat ssotribatisa. Xt osa ha isas aad X told than os Thsy aro pottiag _it ap to thsir shiofs aad ooaa ts fsol that thorn io good prospoot of ousosss. "WoroTor, X doa*t out to bo pat la tho ysdtlaa of ham iag aonasd that tho lot. it gsiag to fait bsforo 1 hat had fsr a rsesssl of tho sppmpriatisa sad 1 da*t tant thoa to bo hargdalag Uh yoa to do ssaotMag boa yoa hato airtody dsas ss aash aad say ast fool ablo ts do asros lo X lap all arda sa ths tab!.") tho f poar appropriati#* dooorihod boto ill tondaato st tho ad of thio asath. Doctoro Xaaoa ad WsOsaasll attsadsd tho Cosforonsss oa SUisosis at Sanaa last vosk aad Doctor loans, sap that a Pobo tOth ho "hsi laash ith Dr. Oardaor, la aoapsap ith throe or four rsprosaotatitos of tho Assodati of astaci Oaaualtp Coapodso*. During ths Xaashssa Dr. Oardaor roodtod a tologroa frsa ths Sssrstary of this Aassdatisa, astifyiag hla that ths Assssintisa hod sad Ida s grant of 15,000 sod said bo iaollaod to listoa fatorablp to a raysod for tho rosoni of this grast far period of poors aad alas pssdbXp ths iasroosiag of ths aasnat. Xt as ths hops sf tho roprossatativos of ths Assooistisa grossst ts han this grast lasrsaasd to 110,000 a paar fsr thrsa psora. Mr. draff, etas ropmsaats ths Xotisasl Boari sf Surety aad Oasualty Oadsrurltors, stated that ho thoaght it as prsbabls that ths steak nantis iasladsd la this Asssdatioa odi also sappsrt ths V f -- * labsratsrp aad it is ay 1stestion ta disauta this ith Ur. Albsrt Vhltaay at a aaatlag that aa art ta bar* this vk. As soon *> I bar af any fartbar aetlsa by tba aasoalty oapaal* I < ball Infant yea." A f M i U M af M(tt|aUml liatuti sblsh ara uioeiitid *ith tabarsulasia 1 af Mr* lapartaasa to-day ta ttao firaa and aaga aaraara iblch aovar with insurants, than at aay tins proriouo. Rasulta af grant sains hara alraady baaa attainad by thaaa raaaarab wortara at Saraaaa laboratory( aad tba proaiass af furtbar and son- tinuad diaooTsriao la tba naar futara ara brlUiaat. lha high or- i tality froa tabaraalaala aaoag aar Industrial pslicyholdars aba ara sagagsd la haraful aaeupatiaas aaa aad absold aaatlaua ta ba attaakad by Just sueh tssaarah aa tba Saraaaa graaf ara asking aad patting iirta sparatlaa. Va tbarafara rsssaatod that tbia Caapaay'a appropriation af 1$(000 par yaar hspinning duly 1(1954 ba raaavad far S yaars, If poasiblat aad far 1 yaar aayaay d1b-0aa. 29(1914