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Show ft Doctor's Plan To Start Gland Transplanting Hospital Stirs Staid Town Into Frenzies I! j. By RAYMOND M. RUSSEUa (Copyright. 191'. by The Standard-Examiner Standard-Examiner WEST DENNIS. Mass.. Aug. 19. A rcfus.il by the selectmen of West! Donnls to grant him a sanitarium II-1 cense has not deterred Dr .1 bee Hanson from going right ahead with the development of his gland factory" Ir. i his, the most staid section of th-: old Hay State. Dr. Hanson sat smoking penslvelyi on his "factory" veranda today while: 'his goats and sheep and rabbits the monkeys haven't yet arrived cavort- aH nlinnt tV.. nla rn Irvnlnnlnf nl f .1 1 strons glands wh.eh some day may adorn the anatomy of a wealthy Conrad Con-rad In quest of his youth Down town the outraged citizens of the community fussed and fumed as to what they could do and there was Mgh tslk of the mmorality" and un-GodUness un-GodUness of the modern Idea of - rani bl lng animals a.nd human beings together In an effort to extend the biblical life and portion of three-score years and ten. Dr Hanson says he doesn't need a license to operate the "factory" and ilini his experiments will go ahead, regardless re-gardless of what thA country folk think of this "new fangbd" hotlon. The trouble began when the clinic represented by Dr. Hanson, a specialist special-ist ln glandular pathology, purchased one of the old farmnlg properties here and announced to the world that henceforth .West Dennis would have something besides Us tradition to boast about. West Dennis, he said, wns about to have a gland farm, a real gland farm, v 1 or the fountain of youth would bubble and gurgle for the aged and where defective children might be tf..ted for theiT afflictions. Furthermore, the doctor anounced. .- 1 J the West DettntS gland farm" was to conduct many varied anil radical experiments ex-periments In glandular pathology. For this purpose It was to keep vast numbers num-bers of goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, etc upon -which these experiments would be conducted. Residents of Wesl Dennis had heard about glands before the farm was established. es-tablished. They read of them in the) newspapers They chuckled over the. news of them or discussed thomj gravely, whichever might be ih'ir in- lndlvldual attitude on things glandular j But this was In the quiet repose 0f lU'cut liciinis far from the scene Of tho! iglnnds. But when to their amazement amaze-ment the glnnds were brought right In to West Dennis and they were obliged ob-liged to rub elbows with ihem. so to speak, quite a different eltuntlon pre-1 scnted Itself. Then the fun began I Residents stoop open mouthed on (the road sides' and watched the glands, alive kicking and squealing, brought In in motor trucks. From that moment, the town was split Into factions. Mover before was c town meeting so largely attended as the one In which jDr. Hancon's sanitarium license was 'thrashed out. The sclerrmoii, Caleb I BS. Crowell. William Crowell and W. S. iROgerS, gravely listened to the storm. and then Just is gravely announced a Illr. nsf would not f-c issued. Dr. Hanson replied with equal grav-lty grav-lty that he Intended to conduct his j experiments ln West Dennis, license or no license. , Next dav came a fight the first figh' West Dennis has known In years when two young townsmen engaged In an altercation having to do with the relative organic position of the thyroid gland and Its phvslal functions. The I residents are still wondering and the Ifur Is still flying. ' |