New-York tribune., 1918-01-10
Anti-Vivisection in War
Further Remarks on the Red Cross BY
a Noted Agitator
o the Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: An editorial in The Tribune Decem-
Der 81, requires some attention from anti
vlvlsechonists since it is repiete with "gen-
tie accusations which are totally unvar.
ranted. We ask OF The Tribune equal space
in its columns in which to meet these ami.
madversions,
If Cuba and Panama have been cleared OF
yellow fever. the United States of bubonlc
plague, Serbia and Macedonia of typhus, the
Philippines Of cholera and our army of
typhoid-pr presumably by the products of vivi-
section. serums and vaccnes-how does it
come that the fundamental reliance of the
serum fanatics is always upon sanitation car
ried out with military discipline and exact
ness: That when the sanitary requirements
are neglected. typhoid, etc. ETC.. take their
immediate toll of men whether they are in
oculated not. And that, on the other
hand, sanitary conditions maintain the camps
in excellent health even without incubation,
As a matter of fact, Cuba and Panama were
cleared of yellow fever solely by cleanliness.
Sanitation in short. Serbia was pest-hole
until they cleaned up the camps and also the
men, individually. The Philippines
also handled along sanitary lines, and typhoid
inoculation is helpless unless backed up by
stringent sanitary exactions
Attention here should be called to the rec
ondte camoufage instituted by the medical
profession-face to face with failure in the
results from inoculaton-u consists in
stating, for example, that "there are no cases
Of typhoid, but para typhoid has made its ap-
rearance in quite number of cases" This
change of nomenclature saves their faces
beautifully. and the confiding public. en-
masse never suspects the joke that has been
played upon them by these grave and rev.
erned seigncurs.
There is a slight inconsistency between
the statement that NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. care
only Tor animals, and the admission that
many fetters have been received by The
Tribune telling Of help to the Red Cross
from these same Observation-Disclosures Asa
matter of principle. the "animal' humanta-
rlan includes the whole of scntient creation
in his idea and practice of mercy Reversely,
it would seem to be a matter of principle
with the "human" humantarians to deny the
claim for mercy of everything less and lower
than himself
Contemplated Torture
1t is not clear where the desire of tho
antl-vivisectionists to prevent funds given
Tor mercltul purposes from being consigned
TO cruel purposes can be welcome to German
agents, whose thought is entirely destruc-
tive, whereas ours is entirely constructive
We not only deplore the contemplated tort
ure OF animals by the Red Cross (noting the
clever omission to mention the dog as one OF
the ANIMALS to be utilized as vivisectional
materially. but we dcplore the hazards to the
life and health Of our boys which will be
occasioned by the plethora of experimental
serums and vaccincs which will issue forth
from this proposed hothouse of vivisection
presided over by the most ruthless viyisec-
tors.
We strenuously object to the meaning read
into a letter from Mr. George Ariss wherein
he alluded to the great amount of necessary
surgery upon those sad unfortunates wounded
IN the war. The necessary is thing, the
unnecessary is another Since il is eXpe-
rience the vivisector is said to crave. surely,
as Mr.. Ariss said the field of war is so tre-
mendous that it will require all the time and
attention these vivisectors can possibly give
III order to do justice to the humans suffer
ing therein
Far from being silenced in England. the
anti ti-vivsectionsts have never been more
active 1t is in consequence OF the unceasns
exertions of the "vivisection aboitionists" OF
that country that incubation in the Englisn
army is not compulsory 1t is to their credi'
alone that English soldiers may save them
selves from this dangerous practice
The responsibility OF taking up and foist-
ing upon the public practice such as viV''
section, immoral. brutalizng and degradins'
as 1t rs, rests upon the Red Cross with huf',
iui eject and it has, b. this STEP chanScu
Its meaning to the world from Of bene"-
cence to one of sinister omen-even to man
kind Itself DIANA BELAIS.
Vice President National AntiVivlsectlon
Federation, President New York Anti
Vivisecton Society.
New York, Jan. ., 1918.