The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-14
We Die Sooner if We Think We Will-M. Coue Gives Advice to Doctors - Don't Tell the Patient He Is Sure to Die Hanging Women in England - Prayers for Dr. Whitenack May Save Others.

DeHeV1nR that HIS Ifl1SSlOn IIllS country has been successful. M. Glenn enceau is convinced that he is going home to die. The odds are all in favor of this view. Men are always steadily moving to- ward death. A man of 81 will always be justified in assuming that the journey he is taking may be his last. His belief may shorten a mans life or lengthen it. If M. Clemenceau thinks the end Is near it VIII certainly be nearer.
 Another distinguished French man. Dr. Emile Coue. who is soon coming to America, is pro foundly convinced that sug- gestion may have the most dis astrous consequence. For in stance" he says. Eff a doctor who by his title alone has a sugges- tive influence on his patient tells him that he can do nothing for him, and that his illness is in curable, he provokes in the mind of the patient a feeling that may impede or prevent his cure.
 
 If, however, he tells his patient that his illness Is, it is true. a seri-
 
 and patience he can be cured. the physician sometimes, and even often. obtains results which will surprise him" Doctors may heed this advice even though they do not believe in NJ. Coue's system of healing. To tell a patient cynbcally. even brutally, that he cannot be cured. that he cannot live. helps to make the cure diff fcu1t and the death early.
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 Justice Shearman, sitting in the Old Bailey court. London's an ctent and famous tribunal. has sentenced three women to death within 24 hours, after they had been convicted of murder. The first was Mrs. Edith Thompson, who invited her lover to kill her husband. Would it be better If America inflicted the death pen atty on its women slayers? The go swer. They kill more readily in the old world than in the new world. Life is held lightly over there. American mercy to wom- en may be a necessary conse- quence of the American frame of mind.
 But America has more mur- ders every year than England has in g. number of years. America probably has more murders an- nua1ly that there are persons who have been killed in the Quarrels in Ireland. If g few harg1ngs would materially reduce these murders would the hangings be justified? It is hard to be cer- tain that murders would be less if hanginSs were more. England has few murders and hangs with certainty. but England has homogeneous population which 4-k civilization, and there would probably not be as many mur- ders under such circumstances.
 In Italy they have no capital punishment for murder and the murder rate in that country is much better than the murder rate for America A great body of opinion seems to believe that fear of death has not much of 8 restraint.
 
 Dr. M. Royal Whitenack. New ark's baby specialist. who has ptCS4oCA AAO O4I LII OI s.VVV babies. is dead of poisoning re- ceived from an operation on a child. He d!ed while the city's people prayed in the churches of all denominations that he be spared to carry on his wonderful work. Eleven transfusions and several operations were perform ed without avail.
 
 The great peril when the babies come Is to the mother. Some de- nominations include in the ritual a form of prayer which is regularly offered up for the b>nefit of all mothers about to be.
 Prayer. in this case, was not a preventive in the direct sense of the word. But the prayers offered in this case may very we'll stimulate more careful consideration Of the conditions necessary to safety, and prayer may be answered in the recovery