Show G. G B. B Shaw Tempted to Have Head Cut Off If It Can Be Kept Alive BERLIN March 16 The AP-The newspaper tomorrow will say that George Bernard Shaw has acknowledged that he is greatly tempted to have his head cut off A German AGerman friend recently asked the Irish dramatist and wit his opinion of the recently announced invention of the R Russian professor enko who kept a severed head of ofa a dog alive for more than three hours by means of a pumping arrangement are ar- Shaw replied frightfully I find the tho experiment Interesting but cannot imagIne anything sillier than the Suggestion to try It on a crIminal sentenced to death To prolong the ute life of such a person is undesIrable The Tho experiment should be tried on a scientist whose life Ufe Is by an Incurable organic dl disease ease say cancer the stomach whereby humanity is is- threatened with the loss of servIces of his brain What is easier than to save such genius from the deathbed bY y cutting ort off the head thereby freeing the tho brain from disease and keepIng uP circulation in 1 tho thio ar- ar t. t 4 teries and veins so that the great greatman man may continue to lecture and advise us wIthout being impeded by body infirmities I am greatly tempted to have hav my head cut oft off so that I 1 may continue con con- to dictate pla plays s 's and books independently of any illness without without with with- out having to dress and undress or eat or do anything at all except to Produce masterpieces of dramatic dramatic dra- dra matic art and literature I would ot of course expect one or two vIvIsectionists vivisectionists vIvI- vIvI to submit themselves to the experiment to prove to my satisfaction that it is practicable and not dangerous but I assume that would not mean any serious difficulty I I nfl anI deeply obliged to you ou for brInging to my attention thIs highly satisfactory possibility A university in which all chairs were occupied by a row ot of the fInest brains in the country with nothing but pumps attached to them them- briefly where the whole system Of teaching was purely cerebral cerebral- would be an enormous normous improvement on the of i |