transport, so it was as if they covered the road on foot. (There is strong proof that hereditary abnormality is the result of weak nutrition in the mother or the father, or a deficiency of the vitamin B known as "Riboflavin." Two rats were given feed rich in this substance, and the young came out healthy, strong, and normal; then after a while they were given food lacking this substance, and the result was that the young were born blind, or with extra organs on their bodies. The experiment was repeated several times, and the result was the same.

Hartley's place of work was fifty miles from his home, and his weekly income was fifty dollars, of which he paid five to a friend who drove him to his work and ten toward the support of two children

from a previous marriage, leaving him thirty-five dollars a week — and this to support a wife and three children. Life was not easy or smooth: the clothing was not sufficient, they had no means of heating the rooms of the house, the furniture consisted of a bed and a few chairs, and the water was outside the house. In the dawn of that spring the woman learned that she was pregnant, and she came to visit the family doctor whom she trusted; he also visited her twice during that summer. While he was examining her in November, he fancied he heard the beating of two hearts, and he made certain that he had felt two heads during the examination. On the afternoon of December 11, 1953, Mr. Hartley and his wife came to the doctor's office, and she was advised that she must enter the hospital. He accom-

panied her to Washington, where the chief of surgeons proposed that she be delivered from the side — "Caesarean" — and on the following morning, at exactly eight o'clock, the surgeon set to work. He said: "I looked for two bodies, but I found only one." He brought out the twins and laid them on the operating table; they were washed, then taken into a room containing an abundant supply of oxygen to help them breathe easily, and they were surrounded with every care to preserve their life.

A long discussion took place over what the doctor could do for these two children — should he allow them to live? But this idea never brewed in

his head, for he is sworn to preserve life, and killing them is counted a crime.