Medicine: Kindly Murder

The moral problem which every community faces—whether or not to kill off in all kindness its incurably diseased members—was dramatized for Germany last week by the Reverend Walter Nithack-Stahn, pastor of the fashionable Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin. Pastor Nithack-Stahn knows of the skeletons in his congregation's closets. He knows too that the incidence of mental diseases have been increasing tremendously in all civilized countries, that in Germany, especially, post-War maladjustments have permanently deranged the minds of thousands. An astute gentleman alert to the wide interest in the subject, he wrote a play, The Mother, which was produced last week...

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