Life — May 15, 1913 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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oF eRe: What Do You Think? We are Constantly in Receipt of Important Letters Which are Too Long for Our Limited Space. It Echoes in Germany Dear Lire: In your number of March 6 you made advertent misstatement which I wish to correct. My authority for doing so is the Literary Digest of March 29, which 1 am willing to believe verifies its facts before printing them. You say, in an article on the Pankhursts, “we do not punish the insane or infants.” You are wrong; we do punish infants. We send them to prison at ten years old, to serve an cleven-year sentence for stealing a five-cent bottle of soda water! This is the punishment a judge in Georgia was allowed to mete out to Ollie Taylor, and the Supreme Court of Georgia sees no cause for setting aside the verdict. (Do you believe in the recall of judges?) The child has served three years of this sentence. May God have mercy on the souls of those Supreme Court Judges of Georgia, and of every adult man and woman in Georgia. They need it. Do you believe the annals of the Dark Ages can show any act more hideously in dis- accord with justice and humanity? I don't. Do you believe that there are many children who, at the age of ten, haven't taken something which wasn’t theirs? I don’t. Can you do something to make that unfortunate child feel that justice isn’t dead or that human kindness exists? I have the honor to be, Very truly yours, (Miss) Jane A. Evans, Gotttncex, Geersaxy, April 12, 1913. “A Challenge” Epttor Lire: Dear Six.—I do not see how any cause, even anti-vivisection, can be ad- vanced by such outrageous lying as ap- pears on page 790 of this week's Lire. Under the caption, “ Our Greatest Ex- perimenter,” appears this sentence: “And it is only fair to acknowledge that, of the two hundred and seventy- four sure cures for cancer and tuber- culosis discovered at the Rockefeller In- stitute, at least two hundred and seventy- two are due to the tireless research of this lovable man.” This certainly conveys the idea that the Rockefeller Institute is in the habit of announcing “sure cures” for cancer and tuberculosis, A more infamous charge could not possibly be made against this institution. I challenge Lire an to show that the Rockefeller Institute has ever announced a cure for these dis- eases, or even faintly intimated that one was in sight. Brevity is Desirable The point I raise is one that does not have anything to do with the vivisection controversy. It involves ordinary jour- nalistic veracity and decency. Person ally, however, I think that this statement is a fair illustration of the respect for truth that has characterized the whole anti-vivisection campaign for forty years. Sincerely, Burton J. Henorick. Rocnente Park, New Rocuente, N. Y., April 19, 1913. From Malay Zpitor or Lire: Deak Six—Am I right when I infer the following to be your attitude toward our American customs regulations? Tariff dutics incite people to smu; gling. Smuggling is a sin and a crime against the State; remove the temptation to sin and commit crime by removing the tariff, then the poor people will have a temptation less to contend with. You are anti-suffragists and anti sectionists; you are illogical, for wom- an's suffrage, no matter how rational, will first attack such pretended evils as vivisection. You have no very great argument against the first, but your cam- paign in favor of the second is auto- matically a campaign for woman suf- frage. I wonder if you would have the temer- ity, in view of your attitude against vac- cination, to make a thorough examina- tion of its results in the East, and at the same time to investigate the results at- tained by new and radical cures of the most repulsive diseases of the East (which are many), All of these cures have been discovered through what you are pleased to call the “misuse” of the lower animals and the “ poor patients” in the hospitals. After chastising you, dear Lire, let me tell you, strictly between you and me, I couldn't in this out of the world spot do without you, Yours very sincerely, Jutes Maver. Tanyonc Mau, F. M. S., March 14, 1913. P. S.—You might also, if only for my sake, keep up your deprecation of old New York. It does a little toward con- vineing me that I am better off where I am, Even every very little bit helps. vivi- For “Constant Reader’ Eptror oF Lire: Dear Sin—Am a constant reader of Lire and hope that you will permit me a small space in your column, “ Letters from the People.” In reading the April issue I find in the above said column a letter signed “ Constant Reader,” knock- ing the Jew. I presume the writer of same was a man, and he apparently had good cause in withholding his name and signing as he did, “Constant Reader.” In showing his contempt for the Jew, he assuredly selected the wrong model when he mentioned Dr. Friedmann, As for Cook, he is not a Jew; German would be nearer correct. If Dr. Fried- mann was a fake he could charge a cer- tain sum for injecting his valuable serum and thereby become rich. As you know there are plenty of consump- tives in New York and elsewhere who would only be too glad to pay for the treatment, But as you see the Jew is giving his wares away free of charge and has done much good already. Al- though Dr. Friedmann has come in for some harsh censure it is because of some previous fakir (who was not a Jew), and who extracted moncy from the poor people and gave them nothing in return, and no doubt if “Constant Reader” chooses to recall, he will remember that the Jews have done more for America than a good many other nationalities have done. Trusting this will reach your “Con- stant Reader,” I am, Respectfully yours, (Miss) Hetex Gorvon, New Yor, April 7, 1913. Are We Bought ? Eptror oF Lire: Dear Stx.—lIn vain I search the pages of Lire for a new horror or breach of trust committed by New England's great- est railroad, but instead a great ad stares me in the face. So now all seems quiet along the north shore of Long Island Sound. Surely that wonderful “ Awful Num- ber” did not reduce your subscription list that much? And say, would vivisection lose its horror if the Rockefeller Institute should advertise for victims in your pages? Yours truly, Louis Bartext. Mepicat, Laxe, Wasi, April 21, 1913. Our correspondent does us an in- justice. We have said all the things that we can think of about the New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail- road up to date, but if our friend can think of anything more, let’s have it In the meantime such is our con- fidence in the mismanagement of the New Haven road that we believe that it is only a question of time before they compel us to be again disagreea- ble. Tue Eortors. comicbooks.com