Authority to Mutilate: a machine readable edition E.F. Johnstone Creation of machine-readable version: Nancy Gallagher Additional scanning and OCR: Ben Schacher Conversion to TEI.2-conformant markup: Mary Margaret Welch Additional markup by: Hope Greenberg, Shane Barney ca. 5 kilobytes University of VermontBurlington, Vermont USA

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July/2000 Authority to Mutilate The Rutland Herald E.F. Johnstone

The Rutland HeraldRutland, Vermont March 1, 1931

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 March 1, 1931 WE'LL LET NANCY DETERMINE THESE Johnstone, E. F. Authority to Mutilate Rutland Daily Herald March 1, 1931 Newspaper clipping from faculty file of Henry F. Perkins, University of Vermont Archives PEREGRINATIONSAUTHORITY TO MUTILATE. Hide, ye lunatics and fools, They are ready, with their tools, Only waiting the approval of the state. When they think it safe and fit They will make a man of it If they get authority to mutilate. They will hunt them in the hills, In the factories and mills, They will chase them through the counties sure as fate, If they find a man alone They will swat him with a bone In their eagerness and haste to mutilate. They will sterilize the lads With their uncles and their dads‐‐ Any person not exactly up‐to‐date They will do it for a price And I offer my advice‐‐ Give them no authority to muti‐ late! It will lead to great abuse If they turn the doctors loose With their tomahawks and lances up‐to‐date There'll be eunuchs short and tall And the count will not be small If you grant to them the right to mutilate. When a doctor wants a boat On the broad highways to float He will find a place where sap‐ heads congregate He will chase them to a shed And at fifty bucks a head He will freeze his conscience out and mutilate. Let them sterilize the cats, Evolutionists and rats, And the gypsy moths that widely circulate. Working at their own expense, None will ever take offense; For you may be sure they'll never operate. ‐‐E. F. JOHNSTONE. Bristol; March 1st, 1931.

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