The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-02-18

HAkIkOltD. Conn. fNh. IN
Should we kin hopolcssiy mad and
dangerously violent iunatics as a
humanitarian meslsuro3
No. say many.
Yes say othera
Tho question is being agitatcd
thruout Connecticut and New York.
York.
In the Ncrwhich state hospital In
\ violent. incurahie maniac lie Is
SO and a giant. SO eager II he 20
Kin himself or his guards that he
has been manacled for five years.
Once a month five strong guards
unchain him and battle him lie u
racked with disease. suffers mental
and physical anguish. can never be
cured. Death only win release him.
I'm HuMANITY's NAME
HE SHOULD BE KILLED"
Members of the Connecticut iegis
lafurc. led by Senator Hall. OF New
Britain. visited him. Then. with DIR.
Franklin s. wilcox. superintendent
Of the Norwich Insane Asylum, they
said: In humanity's namo he
should be killed" They now seek
a law which viii permit ending this
type OF misery.
Arc they right or wrong1
DIR. Charles Eliot Norton. man OF
letters and friend Of Longfeilow and
Lowell. was strongly In favor OF XIII
ing all wrecks OF humanity. lie said:
'-The prolongafion OF life in such
. case is mere criminal cruelty"
Here ~ what others say about is-
DIR. WILCOX. superintendent Of
the Norwich asylum: Il say a hope
Iczsiy insane person who has be-
come 80 violent that the lives OF
Others are impcrsied. should be
mercifuiiy put to death The violent
" insane sufferer should be confined
Is years. which would enable experts
to know positively whether he could
30 helped or cured. or he should DO
forever relieved Of his sufferings--
DIR r. +. C. KIEB. superintendent
az Aiatteawan state hospital for the
insane at Beacon n. T. Il do not
agree with DIR. wilcox Life and
death belong TO the creative genius
Of the world. not to man"
SENATOR FREDERICK ".
DREW Of Anscnia. N. ": The state
should take steps to put the chronic
insane out OF their misery
WILLIAM q. BANTER. field SEQ
retary Of the Connecticut Prison as
ISOLATION: Il favor tho execution OF
hopelessly insane
DR. wHrTEFIELD n. THosP-
SON. eminent ncurologist. says:
There are few insane persons who
are suffering great mental torturcs-
After year or less In an institution
insane persons do not suffer men
tally
DR. JOSEPH A BLAKE cello
brated surgeon. says The eutha-
nasiA proposed would have . utiil-
tartan value. but would present no
many justifable difficulties that IL
would be Impracticable.-
MARGUERITE l. SMITH. New
York assemblywoman: I'm against
L. How shall we decide who Is
durable, who incurab,o?-
DIR HAVEN EMERSON. FORMER
New York commissioner OF health:
Il do not believe any law can be 20
plain as TO provide doctors with the
proper basis for taking life. The
medical science In not 80 developed
today rs to make US sure OF such
cases Our Information concerning
the mind and its diseases Ii not suf.
ficientiy advanced yet"
DR. ELIZABETH HAMILTON
MUNCTE. alienist and lecturer. IF
II Is morally right to kin the so
called sane criminal. then II should
be morally right 10 XIII the equally
dangerous insane
Every state has It's hopeleeziy i,
zane.
What do you think about this
question:
Bucncs Afrcs has nearly 1000 chi.
dren under Is employed at an aver