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́EXPERIENCE IN THE FORETOP.

LIFE IN A BATTLESHIP DESCRIBED.

INTERESTING DUTIES,

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1927.

·MANKIND'S RIGHT TO

KILL

MERCIFUL AND CORRECT

TO END SUFFERINGS?

DOCTORS WHO SAY "YES'.

*

A. Jury at Chester Assizes had to consider this great question.

Their verdict, however, leaves the attitude concerning the "Right to Kill" unsettled, because, they accepted the suggestion of the defence that there was no proofi that the child was still alive when the distracted father immersed her in cold water in bath.

Daily News.)

Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane (pre- sident of the New Health Society):

I see nothing wrong in carrying

As we come out from the warm shelter of the Ward Room the icy rain, borne on the wings of After hearing one of the saddest the gale, flicks our faces like, the stories ever told in a Court, of fringes of a wet towel manipula-Law, they found a way of acquitt- ted by a bullying schoolboy, ing a father who said that he kill writes a Times correspondent, ed his three-year-old daughter- The scream of the wind across the the victim of a terrible disease- ship. is like the high-pitched to put her out of her agony. ravings of a monstrous cat shriek ing its rage into the desolate night. The darkness is of that tense quality, familiar to patrols between the lines of two armies, which produces a terrifying im pression of loneliness and is yet alive with menace. We'grope for ward blindly till our hands strike

Views on the "Right to Kill" the brass rall of the ladder, dankare given below (quoted from the and clammy like the face of a dead man. On the upper deck the blacker mass of the picket boat looms up like a cliff about to fall on us, We pass round its stern, and in a trice are among the com-out the principle of the right lo kill provided always that it is forting bustle of humanity.

done with due safeguards. I The mast on a battleship seems should not give the power to any at first sight to be like the toes one medical man to take life. I on a human body-n survival of would suggest it be done in con- an instrument which once per-aulation with a number of other formed a useful function but medical men who had definitely which is now retained only by come to the conviction that the the conventional instinet of the patient was incurable and suffer designer. The impression, is missing great pain.. lending. That which from the As a further sageguard, I would distance appears to be a squat have a legal adviser present, be- blob of steel, serving as an un

cause a man with a trained mind gainty tree for the support of Uke a barrister would be able to bunches of steel mistletoe, turns weigh the evidence and help in ar out on closer acquaintance to be a riving at a decision. graceful and lofty column. fitted at intervals with tastefully de- signed flats: On the first floor there is room for a large body of signallers, and an immense eabin for the use of the Admiral is the al sea. The second floor so-called bridge, consisting of a splandfilly fitted working cabin, surrounded on three sides by a broad walk. The next floor has ample rom for another batch of officers and their satellites.

We don't allow our pet animal. to suffer. Why should we allow our loved ones to bear pain when all hope of recovery is impossible?

"There is No Right.",

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Doctor of Medicine and novelist:-1 think. we owe a great debt of gratitude to Mr. Justice Branson. He was

He has set a prece very brave. dent which I hope will be followed. The right to kill is an net which ought to be properly safeguarded. Three doctors at least should cer tify that a person is, incurable and in great pain, and if the person himself a willing, painless death should be administered. I have always hold this view, which.I be lieve is only common sense and common humanity. If it were mate law it would be a very great improvement.

So far the aszent is made by a brond and easy wooden stair- esse. but from now upwards things become more primitive The mast, tapers nakedly up to vast steel mush roora, whose Occupants clamber to and fro upon perpendicular steel rungs elamper to the main shaft, My companion tells me raysteriously to equip myself with stout lea- ther gloves and a gas mask, and

Dr. Bernard Hollander (mental start the ascent. I follow to specialist):-There is no right to hastily, and receive his foot upon kill a human being, and to make my band with a violence against

a general rule, apart from the which gloves are no protection particular case in question, would We descend again blaspheming,be dangerous. If we had per trouble-a man who had been mission to kill any suffering per

and, after us, the cause

of the

my

son who would be. able to see the coming down faster than companion had been going up. end? One can never tell when a Our next attempt is more success-person is beyond recovery. ful, and find out the object of the gloves. The upper rungs, where, the funnel is nearest to them, are nearly red hot.

Through a Manhole.

Most remarkable cures have taken place in persons whom it was thought were going to die. Hence, if killing were permitted, people suffering would not have the chance of recovery.

It is not enough for a doctor A final heave through a small

to declare that a case is hope- manhole brings us into the fore-less, and that death is the only top: It is a fairly large circular solution, for doctors have fre- chamber, into which ment mechanical devices are fitted 1kequently been known to make the picces of a jig-saw puzzle. mistakes in such matters.

and

Dr. Walter Hadwen (President

bave

It is full of a dim blue light, such of the British Union for the as prevails in the chambers which the Swiss hew out of their glaciers Abolition of Vivisection)I can for the amusement of tourists. only say that for anyone to take It is full also of a noxious the life of a human being is most vapour, and that peculiar tinny serious. To legalise the killing

of anyone, as appears to amell

the inseparable from

present, case, vicinity of a coalmine. The fore been done in the top, being just over the orifice of open the door to consequences the funnel, receives the full bene- the end of which fit of the furnace gases whenever forsee. Personably, I could never there is a following wind. I now bring myself to do it. If a per- therefore, learn the object of son is suffering, it is possible to rélieve the pain without resorting bringing a gas musk.

to death.

A desire to see what happens, however, makes me prefer to

one cannot

of

our:

cough, and my companion and I see some darker mass against the crouch down "upon two wooden black curtain of ven and sky. stools in the least affected corner. Even as look the side He hangs round his neck a thing ship bursts into flame, and, with like an Inverted stethoscope, a scream louder even than the which is really a telephone com- wind, a salvo of star shells de- municating with every part of parts, to burst in golden stars far the ship. Through it he issues out over the waters. There is orders for the testing of every the enemy ships, immobile and part of a tremendous fighting silver, "seeming to shrink from mechanism which can launch over the fierce light. In real battle 50 tons of projectiles from its we should at once have blazed side at any one moment. I

every available ounce of our realize as he does so that the broadside at them, but mercifully very few men on the mast are the we are not shooting to-night. only part of the whole ship's They merely turn the cold eye of company who really see anything their searchlights upon us, so us at all of a battle. The hundreds to show us what they could have in the bowels of the vessel ardone had shells been allowed to but blind automata; 80, too, are follow light.

In their discomfiting, but help- the gun-crews. Even the firing

is not, though it can be control ful, stare we clamber down. led by those who serve the guns.The dock, once so cerle and The vast majority of the whole desolate, has become a friendly, 1,200 men who keep the ship in recognizable thing of wood and action are just as much mere In- steel. A bugle sounds. Back in strument as were the galley slaves the Ward Room pessimistic of old.

officers tell each other how cer Suddenly, upon a small tablettainly they would be dead in real in front of us, letters of fire ap-warfare, and optimistic officers pear to tell us that the turrets explain how certainly that fate. are loaded and waiting. A voice would have been reserved for the croaks out, "Expect to encounter enemy. Meanwhile, since real chemy immediately." Peering warfare it is not, both optimists through the broad slit which runs and pessimists agree to drink each around the chamber I scem to other's healths,

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