Arizona republican., 1921-07-28
Ry Frederic J. Ha.kin

WASHINGTON, ID. c., July 26.-1 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 portion to each One woman agreed, the other demurred, and the wise patriarch decided that the one who objected must be entitled to the babe
 Now the claim has been brought forward that the fatherhood of chill dren can be determined by surgery of much less drastic kind. It is claimed that examination of the. blood of child and of its male par ent will show conclusively the rela- tionship. This test was taken as con- elusive evidence recently by judge in San Francisco. One Paul Vittori, having denied vehemently that Mrs. vfttori's babe was also his, and Mrs vittori having been quite as fnsistent that it was. the scientific man was called in.
 Tins scientist ,Dr. Albert Abrams, took a drop of blood from the infant and one from Vittori. The "elec- irons" of the two drops were adjusted in what was called an "oscilophore." and the doctor announced that the "eIectrons" synchronized in their yi- brations. therefore Vittori was the father of the child. Superior Judge Graham, sitting in the case, tnere- upon ordered MT. Nittori to pay his wife $25 a month for the support of the baby.
 An "electron," it was brought out. is an infinitesimal bit of matter. and it seems that your blood is just teem- ing with electrons. These tiny elec- irons vibrate. it is claimed. and VI braton of the electrons in the drop of Vittori's blood synchronized with the vibrations of the electrons in the child's blood, it was decided that Nit- tori must be the child's father. Wit tori must pay the money ordered py the court or go. to jail for contempt of the courts mandate. He still in sists that blood in this case is telling something that Is not so.
 Experts Are Skeptieal
 Experts of the United States pub lie health service frankly admit that they know of no such test, and seem skeptical concerning it. Some or them see a possibility that the qual- ity of blood in a child might be evil dence of the child's paternity, but the test would be of quite another character.
 The blood of all the people in the
 
 These classes are merely numbered one two, three and four. The differ ence between the groups is that the cells of one kind of blood will dis solve in the serum, or fluid part, oi the blood of another group.
 This discovery is very important >;n view of the large number of oper- ations in which blood from one per son is introduced into the veins of another. If a person whose blood IS in group four has transfused into his veins the blood of a person who would fall in group one, 1t woulu mean the dissolution of millions oi the cells of the blood of the sick per son, and might result fatally. There are records of many such csses which occurred before the TOUT groupings of the blood were worked out. Some of the public health experts believe that it might easily be pos sibIe that where the blood of moth l. CT and child were in group one, ano the paternity of the child was ols- puted between a man wnose piooo was in group three and man whose | hIood was in group one, tests mfgh' prove the percentage. In such a cass | the assumption would be that the map whose blood twas classed as group one would be the child's father | So far as these government experts ara aware however, this has never l ,een tried in a court, and they De. | Geve it doubtful that the courts l would take the tests as conclusive 1 evidence. It would be confusing . thev noint out, if the mothers biooc l nroved to be in class four, for III
 stance.
 | The grouping of the four classes l of neonle according to their blood ha' | been of inestimable service in sur
 gerv. however. In the early days
 blood transfusion, according to gov
 ernment medical experts, many tra
 eedies occurred through lack or th knowledge since obtained.
 Why Transfusions Sometimes Fan
 In those days, often a successtu
 transfusion of blood occurred wlt
 no i'll effects to the person recelVln
 the blood. This was due to th
 blood which entered their veins De
 ing of the same class as their oW | blood. But for time it was mat
 fer of chance Sometimes a perso of some other class was obtained
 and the result was that instead C
 supplying the much needed blood {
 the sick person, the cells of wha
 blood he or she had left were de
 stroyed by the liquid part of tn
 new blood injected into them. Tn
 effect of this was weakening, an death might ensue as a result of tn
 body's falling to secure sufficier
 nourishment.