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The tall, lean man told the cab driver, "Take
me to the Department of Health, Education,
and Welfare."
"Which entrance?" the cabbie responded.
"You want the cranberry entrance or the
poisoned-chicken entrance?"
Usually his gag got a laugh, but not this time,
so the driver added, "That was a joke, Mister."
A hollow groan came from the back seat. "It's
no joke to me, my friend," the passenger said.
He was Arthur S. Flemming, Secretary of
Health, Education, and Welfare, whose pro
nouncements on cancer-producing chemicals
in our foods have stirred up the biggest hor
net's nest in recent Washington history."
Capital old-timers are still hard put to
understand what happened. When Presi
dent Eisenhower appointed Flemming,
the latter was known only as a fine ad
ministrator, a sturdy Methodist, and a
nice shy gentleman. He was expected
to serve out the tail end of the Eisen
hower administration with self-effacing
efficiency.
And then, as the saying goes, the
roof blew off.
Flemming called a press confer
ence 17 days before Thanksgiving
and announced that some of the
new cranberry crop was contami
nated by a poisonous weed killer
labeled aminotriazole. In tests on
rats, it produced cancer of the
thyroid. The law was clear: any
food containing a chemical that He made headlines with cranberries
caused cancer in an animal could ,1 . t
una cupuns, men wun
not be offered to humans.
Close on the heels of the cran
berry incident came the discovery
of a cancer-causing chemical in
caponettes. Another Flemming
warning swept $10 million worth
of chickens out of supermarket
refrigerators.
There was more to come. Peni
cillin turned up in milk. Seven
teen dyes used in lipsticks were
banned. Quinine flavoring in
14 Family Wnkly. May 22, 19C0
lipstick and jelly beans;
yet this is no headline
hunter, just a dedicated man faced
with problems ranging from
Social Security to the Black Death
By CURTIS MITCHELL
tonic water and the coloring agent in black
jelly beans were questioned.
Suddenly, Flemming was famous or infa
mousas a Don Quixote of the Potomac who,
in behalf of the housewife and her family, had
taken on powerful pressure groups without bat
ting an eye.
People began asking, "Who is this guy?"
Formerly a political-science teacher, Arthur
Sherwood Flemming resigned from American
University to become a civil-service commis
sioner in 1939, specializing in recruiting
workers for nine years.
For two terms, he served on the reorgan
ization-minded Hoover Commission with
two powerful fellow workers and friends,
Milton Eisenhower and Nelson Rocke
feller. Later, he became President Eisen
hower's defense-mobilization director.
But for 20 years nobody mistook him
for a ball of fire.
Then came those cranberries.
When pressure from businessmen
and growers mounted, some observ
ers were startled to see him stick
to his guns. But not those who
knew him. They would have been
stunned if he had taken even
a small backward step.
A lay leader in his church, he
holds deep convictions which he
applies to every aspect of his life.
More than any other cabinet
member, he has given his abilities
to national religious projects,
serving as vice president of the
National Council of Churches.
His career is all the more re
markable because he never in
tended to become a Government
official. His chosen field was edu
cation. When he was tapped for
the Civil Service Commission
when 34 years old, he talked it
over with his wife, Bernice Vir
ginia Molen, an ex-teacher who
was American University's regis
trar. Europe was at war and we