The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-03-04
|Ed itorial Comment
on Current Subjects
From The Southern Medical Journal
SENATOR MEYERS ANT1-uv1sEc.
7TION PJIra r

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TON BILLs 8
Senator. Meyers, of Montana, has
discovered that dogs are responsible
for the Allies victory. He. there
fore. says that they earned the pro.
lection OF the Government" and has
introduced bill in the United State:
Senate to abolish .vivisectionr Of dog.
as practced by barbarous college pro.
lessons and other research workers
who use animals for experimental pur.
poses. Senator Meyers does not al
yet advocate pensions and Govern.
ment-owned kennels for the familie.
and relatives of dogs who fought ir
the war, but he damns, with his usua
Ivociferous objections, the monster:
among scientific men who are heart.
less enough to use innocent. harmless,
unprotected (and sometimes orphan]
CANNES for the advancement of med.
tcal science, which has for its obiec,
the prevention OF disease and the saw.
ing OF human life.
Senator Meyers limits his bill "a
preventing yiyisection among dogs
thereby discriminating against cats
.cooues, horses, human beings and
other animals that helped to win the
war and that have been used by these
cruel scientists in carrying on yariou,
experiments-aluays with the idea OF
lessening disease and death among
men, women and children. Senate,
Meyers Is missing an opportunity fol
undying fame by not extending his
philanthropic efforts to protect all the
animals that are used for experiment.
al purposes.
Cats are used more than dogs in
experimental laboratories; and cats
by the thousands did their bit" in
the war. One of the services render
ed by cats during the war was in kill
ing the rats that infested the trenches
and dugouts OF the British and French
soldiers; and, horrible to relate, cats
we're used for experimental purposes
to see II trenches and dugouts con-
tanned poisonous gases that were used
by The Huns to kill and disable Allied
troops. II the cat were killed, or IL Il
whined, when 1t reached the bottom
of a trench, soldiers kept out; and
while some cats were sacrificed. many
soldiers lives were saved by the ex-
periments. Senator Meyers is, not fair
to TON" and Table" when he ex-
ciudes them from the beneficience OF
his anti-vivisection bill.
One of the most cruel experiments
that has been made on animals was
by woman biologist, an American, in
Paris during the war. She endeavor-
ing to find some animal beside SOL
der on which the Acootie" could
live; and she was also trying to find
out IL man could not take some drug
which would not poison him. but
would prove fatal to the pediculus
when he sucked human blood from.
his victim. She, therefore, used both
men and "cooties" for experiment.
One OF her subjects was French
sailor. who always came in drunk
whereupon for two francs an afternoon
he would allow the Coolies to feed
upon him: This heartless biologist.
after her pots had feasted upon French
blood, would place them under the
microscope to observe their spost-,
prandiah performances. She FOUND
that after htye had fed upon the
drunken sailor they fought ferocious.
ly, tearing off one another's claws
ami manning and killing each other
to such an extent that she nearly lost
her .cooties:" After long searching
she found a Frenchman who did not
drink and who was willing to be ex-
perimented upon for a price. The
.'coot.es" who fed upon this son of the
white ribbon were docile and alto
gether lovely to each other. These
experiments, are OF everlasting value
to prohibitionists, while at the same
time theyssgive comfort to the in
ebriates who want to. do their part
in killing off enemies Of the race.
Z. The part that the Coolies" played
in winning the. war should not be
forgotten. The Germans had no soar
aud they are not very clearly peo-
pla at best, so that thousands OF then
soldiers were disabled by trench few
er and many died of typhus. Both
these diseases are transmitted by
".cooties." These despised parasites.
therefore. helped to disable and kill
off tine Germans and Austrians; and
in simple Justice to friendless lice,
Senator Meyers ought to include them
in his bill for protecting worthy ami
mails. ~
During the war and in all ages,
men have been experimental upon to
demonstrate facts that will benefit