Euthanasia?

During World War I, many U. S. citizens firmly believed that the Germans built factories to make glycerin and lubricating oil from corpses (a rumor invented --and afterwards confessed--by the British Government). Last week rumors circulated in the U. S. about the State slaughter of "80,000 to 100,000 German cripples and lunatics." Some reports:

> In Wuerttemberg a number of insane Germans were taken from an asylum, driven to the outskirts of the city in busses, herded into wooden huts, killed.

> Recently a prominent Protestant bishop, head of a huge colony for the insane and crippled, was ordered to deliver 1,100 of his hopeless patients to be killed. Whether he did so or not, even rumor did not say.

Sulfanilamide ("the wonder drug") cures a number of serious diseases, but heavy doses often cause anemia. Last fortnight Pharmacologist Maurice Smith and his colleagues in the U. S. Public Health Service reported a preventive for sulfanilamide-anemia in rats: extra rations of protein.

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