Show THE BOLLINGER BABY parowan carowan Pa rowan U utah tah nov 30 lh I 1 it I 1 15 editor times the civilized world is making a great furore anent the bollinger baby it was born in one of the C chicago h hospitals i t a f few e w days a ago z 0 eose alaa rabi lays u under n d the most 0 s t unfavorable n f a v 0 conditions con d i so far as prospect of living is ia concerned at the very best if it had lived it would have been a most pitin pitiable a b 1 e object both physically and mentally t a 1 ly it is contended by some that a surgical ical 0 operation a ti 0 n might have abat isgrig perv aryed e d its life i f H however e v e r the house surgeon in his best judgment did not operate on the poor baby and so he is stron gly condemned by many anany and P raised praised by others even the medical lc at people are about evenly divided on the question whether an operation should have been performed or not the most inte interested retted parties were the parents of the unfortunate child and it appears they did not approve of operating on the baby and then who can say that an operation would have been successful it is well understood that operations result in death as well as I 1 life ife sometimes the chief surgeon of the british army said a few years ago that one half of the practice of medicine was only guess work and surgeon general hammond of the united states army expressed himself himself in about the same way being one of the laity and a humble citizen I 1 am not taking sides ori on the discussion anent the bollinger baby but have in min dother babies for instance there was a poor child died of starvation and cold within two hundred feet of one of those grand palaces in the windy city whose owners had a dog wearing a collar valued at 1200 that is one of many incidents that happen every winter under our vaunted christian civilization but the ultra respectable lailios dont publish the sufferings of thousands of babies in every large city of our land in conclusion let me say that I 1 am glad that parowan carowan is not a large city in the above sense A CITIZEN |