Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-12-28
Ten Words or less en- Cents
PUBLIC OPINION

/ ~ CAk ~ 49, 49,
Please publish my dog talk, emil.
tied Dogs, automobiles, poison. edi-
ltor EVENING NEWS, &c.
According to the NEWS an order
has been issued by the acting mayor
Ito the police department to detail
policemen to devote q couple OF
hours each morning to shoot dogs,
A similar order was given by Mayor
Brace q few years ago, and proved
livery unsatisfactory and was soon
countermanded. Ii was found that
the shooting OF the dogs and bowling
of wounded dogs Ca lot OF which got
away to die a miserable death under
tho house stcops and bushes) fright
ened children and dsiicate women
into Mysteries.
1t was rumcred that a number OF
still births and at least one death re-
suited, directly caused by said shoot
ling. Aside from the cruelty 1T was a
plain case OF the remedy being worse
than the disease. Do we learn by
experience or can We remember only
d few years and then repeat Our fol-
lies. It was a wonder to me at the
time that . lot Of suits at law were
not started against the city. There
IS now and was then IA ordinance IN
effect foftidding the discharge OF
firearms inside the city limits.
The automobiles are yearly killing
thousands of innocent women and
children on our roads and streets In
this country. What would be done
to the man who proposed 10 blow up
and dynamite automobiles In the
streetsf Ask our eminent specialist
on mental diseases, DIR. Ramsay.
And 1t Is also q fact that at least ten
thousand Of people are put to death
each year In this country By poison.
such as is manufactured by the
Hoessler & Hasslacher Chemical
Company: some Of the victims adj
ministered the drugs themselves to
end 1t all, but thousands are put TO
death each year by being poisoned
by others for various reasons, n of
the most common being money The
life insurance people are reckoning
with this aver increasing evil ia
crime seldom detected and the most
common form of murder brought on
by insurance companies
greed for businessl. That such
abuse of p~russic acid, cyanide of po-
tassium. arsenic or strychnine exists
be an excuse for stopping the
manufacture Of said drugs would be
ridiculous. Said drugs are beneficial
and useful In their places.
To revert to dogs: It seems that
according to analysis by the state
board of health the dog crossing the
present dog war was not affected by
hydrophobia. Other facts eem to
that their findings were cor
rect. Is 1t not a fact that auto or
seIf suggestion play q great part In
auman life. Science has for q long
lime tried to utilize said phenomena.
( believe the sad case of the young
was largely a a of auto
suggestion or else q case of common
Ietanus SO prevailing and caused by
hundreds of different causes, from
Fourth OF July celebration to step
ping on q rusty nail. Then again, q
Is subject to accidents pecu-
liar to hts profession as we'll as a
Ii. The difference is the
cause OF the machines fatal accident
Ia easily determined. whereas the
victim sometimes gets a diff
cause OF death Inscribed on
his death certificate. than the true
one, which is more subtle.
/ do not blame the young medical
man who no doubt has ambitions
for calling his superiors attention.
especially If they. be governmentais
to his existence. 1t must be pretty
tough for a man of ambition to have
to vegetate In a hole like Perth AM
boy, (San Francisco or Honolulu
would be much more preferablet but
I am glad ! never. had any such
disease as ambition. IL 7 had it
might have led me to worse things
than diagnosis Of chickenpox as
smallpox or tetanus as hydrophobia.
+ think the case OF the editor OF
the EVENING NEWS Is hopeless. 1t
Is a scientific fact that not more
than one per cent. OF all humans is
absolutely mentally balanced: some
are of n way and others another.
The editor OF the NEWS (who by
the way is a most able and well In
formed young man almost capable of
being chief engineer OF u national
governmental machine, II 1t was not
for the fact that the dogs OF war
would scare him to death) is abso-
Ilutely dany On dogs, but what are
we going to do about 1t. Ask DR..
Ramsay and / will bet a glass of
lemonade he will tell you il all peo-
pie afflicted with little mental dis
orders like that were sent to the
bug-house there would not be enough
OF us left for keepers,
ST0Ey