Detroit evening times., 1945-04-05
Scottish Society Acts
To Halt Vivisection

THE Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vvisection,
acting a resolution passed its annual meeting,
announced at Edinburgh that meeting will be called
early date to take action for enactment of legsa
tion prohibiting the cruel and vicious practice
The society," under the presidency of the Duchess of
Hamilton at its SD annual meeting in Edinburgh last
November so at Garthshore Hall, unanimously passed
a resolution introduced by Mrs. Violet Linton and
onded by Mrs. {. A. Hutchison which declared:
That religion, morality science, logic and the
results yivsecton experiments themselves and all
eXClaim against the practice and exhibit clearly as
possible the faacy of attempting To investigate nature
by unnatural methods involving pain to the victim and
moral degradation to the investigator this meeting calls
upon the public to demand its abolition by law"
CUBsTANTIATING the resolution on vivisection, Mrs.
- Linton said in part:
Il need not dwell long religion nor dwell on
the immortality of exploiting the helpless wish only
to say work on the calm appropriation by our adver
sares of the word science and question if this high
flown title is justified by their dongs.
These Investigations cannot guaranty the same
action among the same species of their agonized
victims Far less they guaranty the reaction in the
infinitely complex problem of human disease
Even among themselves many have acknowledged
"Sir Frederick Treves confessed that his series of
experiments the digestive organs of dogs had not only
been useless but misleading and that he had to
unlearn what he thought he had learned.
Was it not Prof. Startling who said before the Royal
Commissions The final experiment must oWoys be on
the man.?
TETTNHEN the reaction of animals to various posOns is
absolutely different and there are also the infamous
poison gas experiments which yielded totally different
results i'm the of dog and man.
I'VE told that soldiers bitterly objected and could
not conceal their contempt of those eXperimenerS
What analogy there possibly he between natural
disease and artificial diseases produced in animals under
unnatural conditions of cOnstraint and terror?
Neither animal nor human life can be standardized.
Are those types of exploration sound and justfable
DO the results show the insight of those who up
hold them:
"A brave new world we are promised. God help us!
I'VE told of another brave world into which
there entereh nothing that defileth, that Worketh
dbon,inotio n,aketh he.'
Gould there be more accurate description Of this
pseudo science, yivsectOn-he science of blood poison
sadists st@"'o we al De 0ofas"So 10 support 'nsSe
How can Satan cast out Satan?
Bernard Shaw in Back to Methusaleh' wrote -.
ask myself Wha spell has fallen upon intelligent and
humane that they ailoW themselves to be imposed
upon by this rabbIe of dolts, bockguards inpostes
quacks, liars, and uors of ALL credulous conscientious
fools?'
Such is the opinion of perhaps the foremost thinker
of time of these self-named scientists
1T is for to unhOrse them and roll them in the
dust where many Shortived black magic theories,
cures and panaceas already lie.
Let us recOnSecrate ourselves to work without
fear in this righteous and fundamental cause"
The Scottish society is federated with the Animal
Defense and the AnVvisection Society of London 1t
issues pamphlets collects funds and has dog protection
club within the organization.
Meta Ivory is honorary secretary.