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2 THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1927 MERCY OR MURDER? The Recent English Case of a Father Drowning His Hopelessly Afflicted Daughter Has Again Raised the Cry That Doctors Should Be Given Authority to Administer "Easy Death" to Sufferers. Here is a Sane, Clear-cut Answer By WENDELL C. : (Reprinted from New To The fee paid by the state to a public executioner each time he throws the fatal switch is $150. Those whom he sends into another world have, after a careful review of their lives, been condemned as enemies to society, who have forfeited the right to live. Their death has been decreed by the combined efforts of judge, ji prosecuting attorney, other officers of the law, the backing of public opinion, executioner's part is little mos HILLIPS, M.D. k "Herald Tribune") ith very little ser j of smell or , the 5Tei 1 the i Of B In all these persons, of mind and character were and are normal. The case seems a bit different when the new born child is a hopeless idiot or a monstrosity. In the Hippocratic Oath taken by all doctors when they receive their police and j medical degrees, they swear always illy with to preserve human life to the best of their ability. But the question has been raised by some physicians, "Is a monstrousity human life?" Many t people the doctors, when they are present at the 1 man. He Dirth 01 ono of these horrible mis-it was even | takes of nature, will simply allow it ear a mask, Ito aie °y taking no precautions to see him and his jtnat jt lives--an easy matter, since | most monstrosities live only a short t least in all time allywa!" n^_a (iftftT> | A case of this kind which caused a furor twelv There is in all of us--at least in all Christian and Jewish peoples--a deep, instinctive revolt against the ******: ot Baby John Bollinger, born in the <■■. mo, even i! a Horn iue. *no uoiiuc" i ri«»«.«» *_____«___ tt___«_ m.i i hand that quenches the spark for any other human being. We shrink from the man that does it. This is why public opinion will always, I believe, be against legalizing "easy death," or euthanasia. This is the taking of life, as a merciful act, from one to whom it has become an insupportable burden because of incurable disease or suffering, or from rne to whom it will never give any conscious satisfaction, as in the case of monstrosities or hopeless idiots. Recently an English jury acquitted Albert Davies, a twenty-eight-year-old shipyard laborer and war veteran, who had confessed to drowning his three-year-old daughter in order to end her suffering. The child had been tubercular from birth, a doctor had despaired of her life and death was considered a matter of only a few days. Within the last year the little girl had suffered severely from many other diseases. The jury's decision was not only applauded by the court, but almost by the presiding judge, said in his charge to the jury: "Had this poor child been a mal instead of a human being, from there being anything worthy in the man's action in puttii Tested Recipes Chocolate Cookies To make delicious chocolate cookies cream one-half cup of shortening, add. gradually one and one-half cups of sugar and then two eggs, well beaten. Melt two squares of chocolate over hot water, add one-fourth cup of hot water to the melted chocolate and add it to the first mixture. Dissolve one teaspoon of soda in one-half cup of sour cream; beat into the cooky-mixture; add one teaspoon of vanilla; then stir in the flour, sifting one-half teaspoon of salt with the first cup. About five cups of flour will be needed to make the dough so that it can be rolled fairly thin. Bake cookies ii quick over (375 degrees F.) for about ten minutes. The recipe makes si: dozen. Red Man Cookies he i 3 to punishment if he had not done it. Davies, if he did take the life of the child, did so from the motive of love and pity for the child's sufferings." The reasons for acquittal here were perfectly obvious, though the technical legal excuse was that the prosecution had not proved the child to be actually alive when submerged in the bathtub. The trial has raised once more a . question which has been agitated for hundreds of years, but is perhaps more serious to-day, because of the charge leveled against our civilization that we are using our scientific knowledge to keep alive the fit at the pense of the unfit. Once more the cry goes up that laws should be passed giving doctors the power, within their discretion, to administer the "easy death" Such laws have actually been framed, and favored by a number of doctors, in .New York, Iowa, Ohio, Illinois and many other states, but invariably they have been defeated by publii opinion, even though public opinioi has always been in favor of releasing special individuals who have pleaded this as an excuse for what is, under the law, murder. What- the instigators of such a law do not seem to realize is that most doctors do not wish to have thrust on them the responsibility of being pro-pecuting attorney, judge, jury and executioner, all in one. Suppose such a law had been in existence in Spain when the Marquis do Villalobar was born. When this pitifully malformed bit of humanity came into the world even his parents wanted him to die. He had no feet; it seemed improbable that he would ever walk. He had no top to his skull; the slightest pressure on the soft skin would have touched his brain. Though it probably could not have been foretold at birth, he could not grow any teeth Life seemed to hold for him nothing but helplesness and misery. To kill him would be a kindness. , Since this was forbidden by both Church and State, his parents made a Vo\'ena, begging the Lord to take back tho useless, suffering little life. But their prayers were not answered. The Marquis de Villalobar lived. Forty-four years later, fitted with, artificial feet and an artificial top to his skull, he was one of the most striking figures in Washington society and diplomatic life, Minister from Spain to the United States From this post he was transferred to the ministry at Libson and later was Spanish Am-bassado-r to Belgium during the try- German-American Hospital' cago. Dr. H. J. Heiselden, head of the staff, refused to perform an operation which would have prolonged and possibly saved its life. His stand was taken with the consent of the child's parents and he did nothing to hinder any other physician from operating. The baby was paralyzed on the left side from head to foot, was deaf and suffered from many other deformities. In cases like this the doctor seems to many person justified in making no effort to prolong life. But as a result of the publicity that is given an "easy death" of this kind, others not so "easy" and far less justified, almost always follow. There was such an epidemic of deaths in 1925, following the hysterical trial and acquittal in a Paris court of Mile. Stanislawa Umin-ska, a Polish actress, who shot and killed her fiance, dying of cancer, to end his agony. A few days later a Parisian seamstress killed her sister under similar circumstances. In the same month Dr. Blazer, of Colorado, chloroformed his terribly crippled daughter. Near the same time, Lieutenant Colonel William Dunn killed his invalid father and mother and then committed suicide. It is easy to see the effect that such a suggestion, oft recurring, would -■ ■ -a "'W'"-il-"i'^ .tempers • ■ _£-,--~-_ ™> " ~ uevef-BSBfrfeiopoaea mat CUD offlo/r. UJafZuT any one but a physician or committee of physicians should be given the legal authority to take a useless or painful life, other people, far less able to judge the medical aspects of the case, are apt to dash in and take the responsibility, deeming the disease of the sufferer "incurable." But "incurable" is a word that even the medical profession is being frequently forced to discard. For many years sufferers from hydrophobia regarded as doomed, and their death was sometimes hastened by bleeding, to end their own suffering and danger to others. If the killing of such people had been made legal, science might not have had the same stimulus to discover a cure. Cancer is another disease, formerly considered incurable, which we are learning to conquer. Though the laws of economics sometimes point to the control of population as desirable, and such control has long been practiced in countries by exposing girl babies, it is contrary to the basic principles of Western civilization, and is, I believe, too great a responsibility to put on any one man or small group of men. In Old Quebec AN OUT DOOR OVEN )ther land is this glimpse of Old Quebec where t n many rural sections. er and then add 6h< which the soda has Beat well and bake in moderate oven (350 degi about twenty-five minutes. sour milk In en dissolved. ) for Chocolate Mocha Filling 3 Tablespoons of melted butter, 1 cup of confectioners' sugar, 1 tablespoon of strong, cold coffee, 1 tablespoon of cocoa. Cream the butter and sugar, add the cocoa and mix with | variation 0 the standard recipe the coffee. Add more coffee or sugar :has a distinctive flavOT which is ifneeded to make thg right consit- pleasing. Cut dry bread Cars Nut Frosting lhi Cup brown sugar, 14 cup white sugar, 1/3 cup cold water, whites of two eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1/3 cup English walnut meats. B0il the sugar and water until it threads--about 240 degrees F. Pour on to beaten egg whites and beat until nearly cool. Put into double boiler until mixture becomes granular around edge of pan. Remove from the fire and beat until the mixture holds its shape. Add vanilla and chopped nuts and spread on cake. A simple butter cake is especially nice with this frosting. Crumble Cakes Sunday School Lesson December 11. Lesson XI--Isaiah Counsels Rulers, Isaiah 37: 5-11, 14-20. Golden Text--Thou wilt keep him In perfect peace, whose mind Is stayed on thee; because he trusteth in thee.--Isaiah 26: 3. ANALYSIS. I. ahau and the syro-issaelite in» vasion, Ch. 7. II. heuekiah and the egyptian ALLI- r cake can be used f lance, ch. 31. le cakes which are ; m. the' Assyrian crisis, chs. 36 and to make these litt Just the thing to noon tea. Collect the odds and ends until there are enough to make a cup half when they are put through 37. Introduction--Isaiah was a keen 'bserver of the events of his time. It vas with deep insight into God's ways the meatchopper and proceed as fol-1 that he looked upon the tragic events lows1: Cream three-eighths of a cup of his age, the fall of Damascus in of butter and three-fourths of a cup , 'rs2> the fall of Si nana in 721, and ot sugar. Add one egg, well beaten.!the sieSe of Jerusa m in B.C. 701. Sift one cup of flour with one tea- I. ahau and the syro-israelite in-of baking powder, one-hali j teaspoon of cinnamon, one-fourth spoon cloves and one-fourth teaspoon , ------r nutmeg and add to the first -fn™ig pow , Dissolve one-halt teaspoon ]^a™^^ In 735 the king of Damascus (or ather of Syria), hard pressed by the ------wer of Assyria on the east, alliance with the king of ' these two of soda in one-fourth cup of cold-water. Stir this in and then add the , one and one-half clips of crumbles. ; Ahaz, king of Judah in Jerusaie Drop by teaspoon about three inches preferred to ally his little kingdor apart on greased baking sheets and with Assyria, and thus made hin * bake in a moderate oven until nicely . and his people vassals 0 _ ary to that proud and pcwcnui em-Ipire. Chapter 7 tells us hew these j iwo petty kings, to strengthen their endeavored ihvt to persuade'and then browned. Raisin Cream Pie earn and raisins combine unusually delic: one cup of sugar add well beaten defensive league against Assyria, ms pie. To '"aded Judah intending to take Jem-cup of sour »alem, depose King Ahaz, and put «nd one npon the tJlrone of Judah 1 ___their own choosing, and how in Jevu- cup of seededi raisms; which have ga, ki an(j «' ,e were stricken been put through the meat grinder, with terror (vs. 1-2 c.f. v. 6, and 2 Make a rather rich crust, line a pie Kings 16:5-8)."" Isaiah, then c'ompar-pan with this, put in the cream-raisin atively a young man, brought to the mixture and cover with an upper crust, king a message of comfort and cheer. Bake in a hot (450 degrees F.). oven He counseled watchfulness and calm until the crust is done--about thirty ;^5^ence ihl,.??'°tei:tT5-c minutes. Chemung Brown Betty This "up-state" Brown Betty is Double the recipe and try for a minute < in top as well as be- j butter. Slice apples Jehovah, and predicted the speedy overthrow of the invading kings. He seems to have opposed the dependence upon Assyria's help (2 Kinj" 16:7), but Ahaz rejected his ndvk-el It was at this juncture that he foretold to Ahaz the coming of another and greater king, scon to be born, whose signifi- . the period of trouble ing ye; s of the v which c who - He lived t- of many examples hopelessly deformed at birth or shortly after, and yet who grew up, not only to anjoy life themselves but to play a worth-while part in the lives of others. Steinmetz, electrical wizard, was a hunchback; Helen Keller was deaf, blind, dumb The Gingerbread Clown I have a little clown All made of gingerbread. He's got an icing coat That's colored white and red. We baked him in a pan And filled him full of spice. We gave him raisin eyes And nose and mouth of rice. I should eat my clown He'd be quite gone, you see, And we couldn't use him To trim our Christmas tree. STEWED OYSTERS Oyster: Well, here I am again, Mr. Clam. Clam: Yes, and If you don't watch out, you'll get locked up fori aettina stewed! spoon of vanilia and stir in ope cup of broken nut meats. Bake ia a well buttered square pan for about thirty minutes in a moderate orer (350 degrees F.) while hot, cut in two-inch squares with a hot knife. This recipe makes sixteen squares, and words simply fail us to try and tell how good they are! Apple Cake Sift two cups of flour, four teaspoons of baking powder, one-fourth cup of sugar and one-half teaspoon of salt. Blend with this one-third cup of shortening and stir in two- thirds cup of milk and one beaten egg. Spread over the bottom o fa shallow buttered pan. are, core and quarter ripe apples and press the quarters Into the dough. Dredge well with sugar, sprinkle liberally with cinnamon and scatter currants over the top. Bake or thirty minutes in a moderate oven (325 degrees F.), cover liberally with apple jelly and bake ten minutes longer. A Sour Milk Cake 1 cup of sugar, 3 tablespoons of butter, 6 tablespoons of cocoa, 1% cups of sour milk, 1 teaspoon of soda, 2 cups of flour. Cream butter and sugar, i tinue baking until when' tested it add the cocoa and flour sifted togeth- done. About one hour in all. tency to spread. If it is to be put tween the layers. Dutch Cake mom Put alternating layers of fried £hu:h^^X^uA^oi ,V 2/3 Cup sugar, % cup shortening, li^d and apples in a buttered baking mate deliverance,'n'nd'he, succeeding egg, % cups flour, 2% teaspoons bak- disn- making the top layer of bread; to tre throne of David i - ( ing powder, 1 cup raisins. Mix in the dust tne toP liberally with sugar and lisri a kingdom which shou'd endure -order given and bake forty-five min- cinnamon and bake in a moderately forever, see also 9:1-7. Ahaz seems n a moderate over (350 degrees not oven (375 degrees F.) until the to have profited not. at all by Isaiah's When done make holes in the ! °PPles are thoroughly cooked. j message but went his own foolish and pour over it a filling made of 1 | In testing *is recipe we found that ' ?*;j®"™* ^,h«?£ 2/3 cup sugar, 2 ' moistening jhejn^dlent. slightly j "^^^^^n'SJ'SS as he apparently expected, but it Wf>« the #rst declaration of Jsrael's b.r.- vith milk improved it. Maple Nut Pie Betit the pouring over the top of the cake make sure that it runs down into the holes. Return to the ' ^ oven for three or four minutes. This , cake may be used as a coffee cake, although it is primarily a dessert. Molasses Cake j golve the last two in a little of the Compare 11:1-10 and Acts 13:22-2 % Cup shortening, 1 cup molasses, 'cold 1| lid before adding to the other n, heuekiah and the Egyptian alu-1/3 cup sour milk or buttermilk, 1 ingredients) and one-half cup of ance, ch. 31. teaspoon soda, 1 egg, 2% cups sifted chopped nut meats. Cook in a double' The kingdl0m of israel came to flour, % teaspoon allspice. Melt the stirring constantly until thick, and en(j w{tn the fail of Samaria* in B.C. shortening, add the molasses and stid continue cooking fifteen minutes long- 721, and the carrying off of many of until thoroughly blended. Dissolve er. Pour into a baked crust and chill, its people into captivity. Assyrian Pie is rich but wonderfully Ui ^ coming King and Saviour, *,iu Mhr t^Ptw ™„ m,« Z j,j,i was taken UP by other Prophets after Mix together one cup of milk him and handed down through the fol- 3 cup of maple syrup, add one lowing centuries until its fulfilment in 1 beaten egg, one tablespoon of flour, the birth and ministry and spiritual i tablespoon of cornstarch (dis- kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. the soda in the sour milk and add to Serve topped with the first mixture, stirring well. Then of the flour and drop in the egg, beating well. Add the rest of fihe flour and the spices. Beat -for ike in a greased and floured loaf pan or in muffin pans. One-half cup of nut meats or raisins may be added. Sponge Cake tat the yolks and whites of four eggs separately. Then beat one-half cup of sugar into each and then beat the two together. Stir in one cup of flour very lightly, add one teaspoon of vanilla or three-fourths of a teaspoon of lemon extract. Put in a cold oven and gradually turn on heat until the oven reaches 325 degrees vhipped c GLUED TO HIS SEAT "The Mucilage maker was held up In his office today and robbed." "Was he scared?" "Yes--glued to hls^eat, he said." Princess Secures Record Moose Head Another strange one: The lad who romped through piles of dry leaver delighting in the resultant rustling and crackling sound has developed into the man who can't bear the sight ' a solitary leaf on his lawn. Who would have thought it: Every bungalow is two-thirds "bungle" thi'-d "owe." Prince Michel and Princess Sturdza, of the Rumanian legation, Washington, with secured during a hunt on the borders of Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada. Pr holding the record moose head, with a spread of sixty-one inches, the largest ever tal of the record heads for that district. The party also secured mountain sheep and moi which are shown in the photograph, and intend returning another year to hunt grizzlie Railways photo. 3s Sturdza is shown ay a woman and ono n goats, heads of - Canadian National do not appear to have entered Judah until B.C. 701. It was four years before that date that Sargon, one of the greatest of the Assyrian warrior kings, died. At his death there was rebellion in many parts of his vast empire, from Persia to the borders of Egypt, against the oppressive burdens which his rule had imposed. Babylon revolted and was subjected to terrible punishment by his successor, Sennacherib. Hezelriah, son of Ahaz, king of Judah, with the Philistines end ether neighboring states, also threw off the Assyrian yoke, induced by promises of help from Egj'pt. Isaiah, now old in years and in experience, had no confidence in Egyptian promises and denounced this Egyptian alliance. He would have king and people put their dependence first and before all on God, who holds his people fast even as a lion holds his prey against the shepherds (v. 4). or . as birds flying ever guard the nests which hold their young, v. 5. Compare 30:1-5. III. the Assyrian crisis, chs. 36 and 37. The Assyrian armies entered Palestine in B.C. 701. See the story of their coming as told in 2 Kings, chs. 18 and 19, and in our lesson. There is also an Assyrian record of this invasion which has high historical value. Many of the cities and strongholds of Judah were taken and Jerusalem was besieged by a detachment from the main army at Lachish, under the command of one of the king's chief officers. The story of this officer's meeting with Hezckiah's tv/o ministers and his insolent speech in which he demanded the surrender of the city is fully told in ch. 36. In the negotiations for the Egyptian alliance, Isaiah's counsel had been neglected, but in this crisis he was consulted and he sent to Hezekiah in reply an assuring and comforting message, ch. 37:5-7, Either at this time or earlier Hezekiah had endeavored to buy off the invaders by payment *f a very large sum in money and treasure, 2 Kings 18:14-16. For this or some other reason, the siege was lifted, but later the. Assyrians returned with a second demand for the city, ch. 37:9-14. The mention of Tirhakah here (v. 9) is puzzling, as Egyptian records show j that he did not reign until ten years i later. The prayer of Hezekiah in his I deep distress, and the message of Isa-| iah, breathing defiance to the foes and I confidence in the Lord, the Holy Ono I of Israel, are t^o well known to need i further comment. In some myster-. ious and awful way, by plague or ! other cause (v. 36), the Assyrian ! army on the borders of Egypt was. j destroed, the siege of Jerusalem was. consequently abandoned, and the king-, j dom of Judah was saved from extinc* Ition for another hundred years.