Pueblo chieftain. (Pueblo, Colo.) 1889-current, 1921-07-24
By Frederic ]. Haskin


Washington, D. c.. July 21.-Many
centuries ago King Solomon. in his
great wisdom. hit upon a simple and
excellent way of finding out which one
of two claimants was the mother of
certain child. He merely offered to
cut the child In half and award por-
ton to each. One woman agreed, the
other demurred. and the wise patri-
arch decided that the one who objected
must be entitled to the babe.
Now the claim has been brought for
ward that the fatherhood of children
can be determined by surgery of
much less drastic kind. 1t is claimed
that examination Of the blood of a
child and of its male parent will show
conclusively the relationship. This
test was taken as conclusive evidence
recently by a Judge in San Francisco.
One Paul Vittori. having denied We
hemently that Mrs. Vittori's babe was
| also his. and Mrs. Vittori having been
quite as insistent that 1t was. the
! scientific man was called in.
This scientist, DR.. Albert Abrams,
took drop of blood from the infant
and one from Vittori. The "electrons'
OF the two drops were adjusted in
what was called an "oscilophore'. and
the doctor announced that the "elec-
irons" synchronized in their vibrations,
therefore Nittori was the father of the
child. Superior Judge Graham, sitting
in the case. thereupon ordered Mr..
Nittori to pay his wife s25 a month for
the support of the oaby.
An "electron," it was brought out, Is
an infinitesimal bit of matter, and 1t
seems that your blood is just teeming
with electrons. These tiny electrons
vibrate. it is claimed. and vibration of
the electrons in the drop of Vittoris
blood synchronizing with the vibra-
tons of the electrons in the child's
blood. it was decided that Vittori must
he the child's father. Nittori must pay
the money ordered by the court or go
to Jail for contempt of the courts
mandate. He still insists that blood in
this case is telling something that Is
not so.
Experts Are skeptical
Experts of the United States Public
Health Service frankly admit that
they know of no such test, and seem
skeptical concerning Il. Some of them
see a possibility that the quality of
blood in a child might be evidence of
the child's paternity. but the test
would be of quite another character.
The blood of all the people in the
world is divided into four classes.
one. two. three and four. The differ
ence between the groups is that the
| cells of one kind of blood will dissolve
| in the serum, or fluid part. of the blood
of another group
| This discovery is very important in
view of the large number of operations
In which blood from one person is in
| troduced into the veins of another. II
| n person whose blood is in group four
| has transefused into his veins the
| blood of a person who would fall in
group one. it would mean the dissolu-
ton of millions of tho cells of the blood
of the sick person, and might result
fatally. There are records of many
such cases which occurred before the
four groupings of the blood were
worked out.
Some of the Public Health Service
experts believe that 1t might easily be
possible that where the blood Of a
and the paternity of the child was dis
puted between n man whose blood was
in group three and a man whose blood
| was in group one, tests might prove
the parentagc. In such n case the as
| sumption would be that the man whose
blood was classed as group one would
be the child's father.
So far as these government experts
are aware. however. this has never
| been tried in n court and they believe
| II doubtful that the courts would take
the tests as conclusive evidence. 1t
would be confusing. they point out. II
| the mothers blood proved to he in
class four. for instance.
| The grouping OF the four classes of