t. PROGRESS IN FIEL1> OF MED
ICAL SCIENCE IN YEAR 1927
Whatever, else tnav be said of 1927,
.,rt will go down in history as a year
. of remarkable progress in the field of
medical science. Research ,tr prolong
life by the preventions and cure of
• - disease 43 going .steadily ahead, and
.. the reported accomplishments of 1927
. indicate thati the.; medic* 1 men are
eteadi.hr. .uiiftddihe the.secrets of na
ture. To2l922iCredited twenty
: <k , two, distinct ^.additions to medical
knowledge in x pamphlet issued by
-the_AmeiacAa®As*jeiation for Medical
Progress.
Notable in. the, list is the successful
treatment pfs-paresis by malaria in
^.—•culrdion../Eherfever kills the paresis
g.. gertpjtTaijai.Qtaiiune cures the malaria.
A.i-cAnotheBL-doctor has produced what
„ appears ito be a crystalline form of
inr, imiulwi,. a/deficiency of which sub
.- ^stance is-the cause of diabetes. The
discovery of myrtillin, a druge de
. .rived, from. a Siamese plant, is ekpect
c. eri ,cto do much in the treatment of
ti ithfetadissas*.
•iJOtietary. discoveries'include the use
c,P of iivpr to, cure pernicious anaemia;
t the. presence of vitamin C in milk as
well an*green vegetables, the absence
•, of. which in diet causes scurvy; a- spe
c-:. eial-.redbced diet for treating epileptic
c...children, and the use of dried milk
-treated by ultraviolet light in pre
v venting'rickets in children.
The, year also saw progress in de
ve veloping a serum to fight African
t sleeping sickness, and important dis-1
i ■ -©ftyeriss were made about the chem-j
kiiicak nature of tuberculin. German
scientists have discovered changes in
u. MjimfcJ tissue due to the action of ar
•senic, which may have an important
l. beaymy on the problem of cancer, and
c.: otheifciG mans have evolved a new
„ ..anaesthetic.called avertin.
AOtner -studies with rtshich progress
v, .. wasctnadc, had to do .with sunstroke;
prO'jjfitamine, a ger mthat causes tra
v choma , in monkeys; .a-:.curative anti
r. toxin, for erysipelas; X-ray studies of
the head as a means of id* ntification,;
r-,. and experiments, which show that the
. first.-born child is more likely to have
malformations of mind and body .than
I. late* children .^Ex
L ttADIUJ#,ntUM!£>I>: WOMEN TO !
RECEIVE ABOUT £50 000 EACH
NEWARK, N. J.-rr-Tbe suits .filed j
i by five., young women, whose doctors!
say they have been doomed to early!
< death because of radium.> poisoning j
were settled out of court, early this!
«... afternoon.
Under the settlement, arranged by
Federal Judge Clark,, the United
States Radium Corporation.agreed to
pay each plaintiff what., would.. ap
proximate $50,000 in. a jury, award.
The successful arbitration of the I
strange industrial tangle occurred at:
* . a conference in Judge Clark’s cham-\
bers. He had volunteered to act.as;
referee after the case . .had been1
fought on many technicalities in the
, v Jersey, courts of equity.
Each.woman will receive $10,000 in
v cash, an annuity of $600 and all doc
; tors' and hospital expenses for the
. rest of their lives. The corporation
will meet counsel fees and, court ex
penses. Raymond H. Barry, the at
torney who sought to get the women
.. a legal hearing, is to receive $15,000
i for his. services.
„.The women originally sought per
; mission to.sue for $250,000 each. They
charged..that they incurably poisoned
v.. themselves ..while corporation em
ployes hy.placing brushes in their ■
mouths,,which were laden with a ra
. dium paint, for luminous watch dials.
, DEVELOPMENT OF MOTOR BUS.
Writing, in..Nation’s Business, Er
nest. N,-..Smith, general manager of
the American Automobile Associa
tion, tells some significant.., things
about the-, development of the motor
bus;
“Remember the ’old days'-^-say
about five years back—when the ap
pearance of a large bus ahead of you
on the highway aroused your anger
as you contemplated .the difficulty o£i
passing it? And as you jockeyed for
position you perhaps muttered to
yourself, ‘I wonder who rides in those
things, anyway?’
“Ask that question today and the
answer will be, ‘Last year .they car
ried 2,525,000,000 passengers.’
“ ‘Oh, well,’ you say, ‘probably
from New York to -Coney Island.|’
But the answer will be, ‘There are
270,000 miles of common carrier bus
lines in this country as against 257,
000 miles of rail lines.’
“If that doesn’t bring you up with
a start, then think of this: “The
American public paid to common car
rier bus lines the sum of $312,500,000
for transportation in 1927. . The best
figures, available indicate that the
busses themselves traveled approxi
mately 2,000,000,000 .miles.
“The average tax per bus is about
$750 per year as against the average
tax of about $30 per private car per
year, while the average bus load is
ten passengers arid the average pri
vate car load is two and one-half pas
sengers.”
MIDDLE-AGED JOBLESS MAN
SEEN AS NATIONAL MENACE
BROOKLYN.—“I foresee a great
national peril unless the business men
of the country make a concentrated
effort to solve the problem of the
middle-aged jobless man,” Senator W.
L. Love said at a meeting of the
Men’s Club of St. Vincent's church, in
a talk on “The Problem of the Job
less Middle-Aged Man.” H etold his
listeners that countless thousands of
mature, honest, hard-working men
have been' “shoved to the wall and
thrown down the chute of enforced
idleness through no fault of their
own.
“Where is tre village blacksmith ?
Where is the old family coachman?”
Dr. Love asked, adding: “In many
cases the vocation has been sacrificed
upon the altar of progress in modern
labor-saving machinery.”
Senator Love told his audience that
he had been informed that at least
one Brooklyn concern has adopted the
practice of employing, as office boys,
middle-aged men who have been
thrown out of work, adding that “they
find them a great improvement on the
cigarette-smoking, gum-chewing male
flappers, whose chief concern is in
Watching the clock.
AIRPLANE SOLVES ITS
OWN FUEL QUESTION
BERLIN.—A trans-Atlantic flight
with an airplane towing a motorless
plane carrying gasoline reserves is
being planned by the Raab-Watzen
stein Airplane works, in Gassel. The
flight.is expected to take place in the
fall.
The glider will be towed by a
strong cable. From this glider gaso
line will be drawn through .a hose to
feed.the airplane motor.
When the gasoline of the glider
tank is exhausted the trailer will be
set. free and the plane will continue
its journey alone. It will then draw
its fuel from its own tanks.
Officials said today that the venture
is in no way fantastic and declare
that they have found a. way of taking
og with a heavily, loaded plane and
glider trailing.
ADVERTISING.
All progressive merchants adver
tise these days, and so do njany pro
fessional people.
Merchants simply have to advertise
to be progressive. They have found
.that advertising pays.
But some of them- would be more
progressive if they’d advertise con
sistently. They, .advertise.when busi
ness is good, of course. But they de
crease their advertising or eliminate
it altogether when business is .not so
good.
That is just the opposite of what
should be the case. The-iixue to ad
vertise more .than ever is .when busi
ness is not so good. .Xhat’kttna.yray
to make it good aga Ln-i-to* advertise.
John Wanamaker made millions as
a retail merchant. Of newspaper ad
vertising he said: “When the times
i-.rp ‘ ard and people are not buying Ls
ihe very time that advertising should
be heaviest. You want do get the
people in to see what you have to
sell, and you must advertise to do
that. When the times are good they
will come largely of their own accord,
but 1 believe in advertising all the
time. I never stop advertising.”
ATTACK IS RENEWED
UPON A PENMAN. 2HJ80RY
PHILADEJaEHIA. —®rof. Henry
Fairfield Osborn, president of-- thu
American Museum af Natural --Hi.1-; -
tory, today renewed his attack upon
the ape-man theory of evolution: and
defended his own pro-dawn man
thesis.
He spoke before the American-Phil
osophical Society meeting here.
“Granting,” said Dr. Osborn* i “all
the very strong circumstantial evi
dence in favor of the ape-man theory,
which has been piled mountain :high
by investigators since the -time of
Darwin, and has been recently re
vised and stimulated to new. force by
the attacks of fundamentalists on the
whole evolution theory, we must look
for the direte evidence which can
come only fro mgeology and paleon
tology.”
Referring to the Central Asiatic ex
pedition of the American Museum
which left Pekin on April 14 for the
rich Mongolian fossil beds, .Dr. Os
bom said that proponents of the ape
man theory held that the party would
find a primitive ape that would have
been capable of giving' rise to the
human family in Miocene times.
According to the new theory* the
Mongolian deposits should yield a
true prototype of man.
The final solution of this problem,
said Dr. Osborn, rests with the fossil
hunter and the explorers. “I do not
know the exact figures, but I think it
safe to say that 50,000 to 1 is the
ratio of probability of the discovery
of fossil remains of lower orders of
primates of tertiary times.
“Meanwhile the circumstantial evi
dence of geology and geography is
all in favor of the theory that the
pro-man stock was well established
in oligocene times and conservatively
estimated at sixteen million years
ago.” {
DO YOU KNOW THEM?
Inquiry has been received at the
Governor’s office for the following
persons:
Earl Stout, who was last heard
from at Lake Minehumina, Alaska,
during 1327.
Benjamin F. Decker, whose descrip
tion is given as 40 years old, beight
about 5 feet 8 inches, heavy set,
light complexion, blue eyes. .Was last,
heard from near Juneau.
Any information concerning the
above should be sent to the Gover
nor's office, Juneau, Alaska.
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