The day book. [volume], November 17, 1915, LAST EDITION, Image 12

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spread out he spans 84 inches. Wil
lard had the biggest span until Ful
ton came in. He spans 83 inches.
The Rochester man measures 6
feet 4 inches and weighs 220. Willard
measures 6 feet. 6 inches and -weighs
243. Fulton is arhale of a man, but
the only thing he has on the cham
pion is reach.
The best information regarding
Fulton's punch comes from the re
port that he floored Art Pelky 13
times in a recent bout. Prior to that
he knocked out Jack Moran, Jack
Lewis and Tim Logan. None of them
is a star performer. Fulton claims
to have upset Willard In an exhibi
tion bout at Rochester last spring.
Tonight the new big heavy meets
Andre Anderson at Milwaukee.
DOCTOR TO ALLOW DEFORMED
BABY TO DIE
Out at German-American hospital
is a baby five days old condemned to
death.
A great scientist has said the child
had better die. It is deformed. It is
hunch-backed, one-eared, and has
apparently a defective eye and mal
formed chest The scientist when
the child, a little girl, was born, look
ed once at it and quickly decided that
if allowed to live it would be an im
becile. The scientist put the question up
to the mother and father, Mr. and
Mrs. Allen Bollinger, 2013 Fletcher
si. He told them that a simple oper
ation would save the child's life. An
intestine is twisted and the stomach
cannot digest food, but he told them
what their baby had a chance to be
if allowed to live, so they voted for
its death.
There will be no-execution. The
surgeon will simply not make the In
testinal operation and the child must,
therefore, soon die within 48 hours,
it is expected.
"I am not afraid of the law," said
the doctor Dr. H. J. Haiselden one I
of the city's most noted surgeons. "1
think I am doing right by the world, i
If I let this child grow it will be miser
able and will bring misery into the
lives of others."
The wonder of it all is that the
baby is not already dead. It seems to
live to spite the decree of science.
When sentence was pronounced upon
it it was said it could not live two
days. It has lived five days and
seems quite happy still, as it-kicks in
play its chubby feet and draws its
pink toes to its mouth.
Mr. and Mrs. Bollinger have four
growing, healthy children. They
have voted for death to their newest
child because science said it would be
of unsound mind, would be a care
and misery to them.
Science knows the little body is de
formed, but the question being asked
is: Can science look into the future
and see what mind the wanting body
would shelter? Had science years
ago claimed death for every child
born as this one was, would there
have been a Robert Louis Stevenson
to enrapture and elevate the world
with his wonderful works of litera
ture, and would there be a Wizard
Steinmetz to give the wonders oZ
electrical invention that rival those ol
Edison.
Both of these great minds were
born deformed and crippled, so that
they hardly looked like human
beings, and no one thought such
wretched bodies could contain sound
minds.
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A LOT OF 'EM FEEL THIS WAY
ABOUT IT
Stoner I was out shopping with
my wife yesterday and lost her in
the crowd.
Doner You were lucky.
Stoner No I wasn't She" found
me. Answers.
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According to Punch, an old Lon- .
don Sportsman is gradually eating
up his pet goldfish as a part of war
economy. In order to give them a
sporting chance he fishes for them
blindfolded every morning.
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