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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17124, 20 April 1921, Page 8

A suggestion' made by tho superintendent of the State insane' asylum of Connecticut will doubtless provoke heated discussion. To the committee of the Connecticut Legislature ha recommended that the incurably insane 3hould be mercifully put to death. One of the inmates is a man 50 years of age, a veritable giant in stature, so violent that , he is kept constantly shackled to. an iron cot in a padded cell, and is only unchained at long intervals, when three of the most powerful guards give him a bath. This man, the superintendent said, would never recover his reason, and would*have to remain fettered until released by death, and some' members of the committee agreed that he would be better dead than kept alive, and that persons hopelessly insane, after observation and examination by experts, should be legally put to death. The greyhound is reputed to be the oldest doinesticated dog, and can be traced back by frescoes and sculptures for thirteen centuries before' the Christian era. A fine group of greyhounds fondling each other, more "than 2000 years old, is among the treasures of tho British Museum, and some of the dogs depicted, in hunting scenes on the Egyptian monuments are of the greyhound type. In England the greyhound has been popular since pre-Nor-man times, and the high esteem in which it was held is evident'from the law which, until last century, forbade anyone save a "gentleman" or a freeholder to possess one.