As I briefly mentioned, China is a bit of a mess at the moment. Anyhoo, British and French marines in Canton fire machine guns at demonstrators.
Dr. Maurice Lebon of France wants large-scale breeding of monkeys, because monkeys are fun. No, wait, it’s because monkey glands can be used to “rejuvenate” humans.
A committee on gun sales appointed by NYC Mayor John Hylan endorses proposals before Congress to ban the sale of guns through the mails, to put a high sales tax on guns, and to ban toy pistols.
NYT Index Slip of the Tongue of the Day -100:
You gotta wonder whatever happened to that gun proposal! I see it's buried on page 15. How something so sensible and rational is still forbidden by the 2nd Amendment (which is nowhere mentioned) is one of those anomalies of the United States. Imagine this: "The committee believes that an enlightened public opinion will convince law-abiding, honest and peaceable citizens that the possession of a pistol indoors or the carrying of it on the person without is of no protection whatsoever against a surprise attack of the burglar, the highwayman or the assassin, who is frequently a blackmailer, and that a pisto in the house is dangerous only to the family, as much to as giving to the children a venomous cobra to play with." You just know this never went ANYWHERE.
ReplyDeleteRegarding the use of monkey glands: "the Voronoff method was an attempt to rejuvenate men by transplanting monkey testicles, but it was not a scientifically sound or ethically justifiable practice. Voronoff's observations indicated that the transplantations caused the older animals to regain the vigor of younger animals. He also considered monkey-gland transplantation an effective treatment to counter senility. His first official transplantation of a monkey gland into a human took place on June 12, 1920."