Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-13
WWSECTION IS
DOING NO GOOD
Miss Lind Says No Light Has
Been Thrown on Cause or
Cure of Cancer.

Miss Lind-Af-Hageby, of the Lon
don i-Vivisection Society, ad-
dressed the members of the New Jer-
sey Investigation Vivisection Society
at the home of DIR. James c. Corlies,
20 East Park street, last night. Miss
Lind is one of the foremost anti-vivi-
sectionists in Europe, and yesterday
returned from the international anti
vivisection and animal protection
congress, which adjourned in Wash
ington Thursday. DR.. Corlies also at
tended the Washington congress as
representative of the New Jersey So
ciety, of which he Is president.
Other speakers at the meeting last
night We're Miss Katherine S. Nichol-
son, of Philadelphia, director Of the
American Anti-Vivisection League;
Mrs. p. l.. G. Henderson, of Boston,
secretary of the New England Anti
ViVisection League, and Mrs. Clinton
p. Farrell, of the New York Anti
Vivisection League.
Miss Nicholson, the first speaker,
told of her experiences in investigat-
ing the conditions which were alleged
to exist at the st. Peters Founding
Hospital in Philadelphia. She de-
clared that she and her associates,
after forcing their way into the hos
pital, found enough evidence there to
have six physicians indicted by the
grand jury for injecting virus of tu-
berculosis into the eyes of founding
inmates of the institution.
"Those six doctors are now held in
heavy bail and their cases are sched-
uled to be heard next week. We are
going to make every possible effort to
place them behind the bars" she
said vindictively.
DR.. Corlies then made a few brief
remarks and outlined the career of
Miss Lind, whom he introduced as the
next speaker.
You can't argue from a surgical
operation on dog, cat or monkey to
surgery on a human being" she as
serted. "Vivisectionists, after all the
years of experiments on dumb anil
mails in an effort to find either the
cause or cure for cancer, have not
been able to throw even an iota of
light on either cause or cure"
Mrs. Farrell commented briefly on
DR.. Simon Flexner's denial of a pub
lished story anent the alleged inocula-
ton with disease germs of forty-six
normal children, furnished through
the courtesy of sixteen physicians
from various asylums in New York
Mrs. Farrell said that the expert
menter in the case has not himself
denied the story.
Mrs. Henderson told of the work the
New England Society is doing.
Were fighting as hard as we can
every hour, every day and every
night" she said. 1.-The particular
work that is being done just now is
the sending out of letters to physi-
clans with a series of letters, such as:
DO you believe in experimenting on
human beings with the knowledge or
consent of those experimental upon,
and upon what classes shall expert
luents he practised--criminals idiots,
irtmates OF institutions under the care
of the State? Should such wards of
the State not be as we'll protected as
are animals by the S. p. c. A?
Do you think the State has a moral
right to give one class power over
other defeneeless huuan beings?'
1.-THE answers that have so far come
in" Mrs. Henderson said, "have been
gratifying, with but few exceptions"