New Britain herald., 1915-11-19
A BABY, AND SOME DETECTIVES

In denying that physician, or even hospital board, has the right
 to say that any person shall be kill
 ed or allowed to die in the interest
 of science, as was the little baby in
 Chicago on Wednesday, Miss Jane
 Addams, the famous head of Hull
 House, has advanced notable ar-
 guments for detectives. Miss Addams
 contends that detectives are not ne-
 cessarily a burden to society and in
 many cases of persons, living as well as dead, they have been among the worlds great men and women. In support of her protestation against
 scientific elimination she has pre-
 sented what she terms list of the
 worlds greatest detectives, as fol-
 Helen Kellar-Not born with in
 hrmities, but they came soon after
 ward-blindness, deafness, loss of
 power of speech. Despite all these
 obstacles, she refused to be discourag-
 ed or thrown into the discard. She
 is an accomplished woman today-a
 benefit to the world.
 John Milton-Greatest of all Eng
 fish poets, wrote Paradise Lost even
 though he was blind.
 Lord Byron-Born club footed, but he became one of the sweetest sing CTS of English verse, 8 social favor ite, a soldier of fortune and a man to whom the world must ever pay tribute.
 "De Quincey-Master of English, generally credited with having been what scientists term today mental defective.' Robert Louis Stevenson-Autho or 1 of Treasure Island and many other books, equally able and famous, was tubercular from early life. He was 1 forced to fight daily to keep the life spark burning, yet he wrote some of the masterpieces of American liter ature. "Napoleon-Accordin to the mod ern physician he probably went through life without any thyroid glands. He was an undersized, sick ly boy and man, yet he rose from the position of a poor Corsican to Emper- or of France, became the worlds greatest military strategist, framer of the still living Napoleonic code of laws, and whipped all Europe on the l field of battle.
 | s"Emperor William of Germany The outstanding figure in the Euro pean war today has fought i'll health l from earliest life. One of his arms l has been withered from babyhood, yet with only one good arm the Kaiser does many things today that the or l dinary man with two arms cannot do. Marshall P. Wilder-Tho ough a physical dwarf he taught himself to l be so entertaining that the world | forgot his deformity - and he died l known as one of the worlds greatest cmedians.
 mosthenes-Greatest> of Greek | orators, perhaps greatest in the world, was born tongue tied. He made 1 himself an orator despite this most discouraging of defects. "Talleyrand-One s,of the most famous of French Premiers, he was
 born a cripple. It was he who. said: l Only fools and women write letters.' l. Peter ,StuyvesantS- The early Dutch GoXernor1lof New York and founder of the ..spressnt stuyvesant family in America, had but one good leg. This did not deter him from becoming great leader among
 his people. ".r. l -,,"Dr. Charles Proteus Steinmetz- Wizard of the General Electric co1n- pany and considered by many electri clans the equal, if not the superior of Thomas Edison, has suffered from physical infirmities from babyhood." Admittedly these are the excep-
 tions in life; although Miss Addams'
 list is not complete. Hardly a. city,
 town, or hamlet in the United States
 that cannot boast of some man or
 woman who, though - born mentally