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The Washington times., 1922-11-19

affectability or irritability. Dead organ
isms, on the other hand, cannot respond
to environment, and in the authors
terminoogy, death is a state of infinite
physiological inertia, the biological anti
podes of affectability.
"Livingness is exhibited not only by
entire organisms, but by their constituent
tissues and cells. For tissues and cells
can feed, excrete, produce heat and elec-
trio current, give rise to nti-bodies, and,
finally, produce new elements. The rea-
son for the life of the entire individual is
that each of its ultimate constituents Is
alive.
"In judging the livingness of isolated
organs, tissues and cells, we must have
some convenient method capable of being
followed out in the laboratory. The signs
of life in the laboratory are, for instance,
in the case of a muscle-it absorbs oxy-
gen, it gives out carbon dioxide, it pro-
duces heat, it twitches or contracts, and,
finally, it can evolve an electric current.
"Of all these signs of life, the one men,
toned last is by far the most delicate.
"The isolated heart of frog, long af-
ter its gaseous exchanges and heat produc-
ton are imperceptible, can yield distinct
electric currents to that sensitive instru-
ment, the galvanometer. The evolution OF
electric current is then the most delicate
sign of life, and it is also the last sign"
In this connection the experiments con-
Quoted by DR.. Carrel, in New York, has
given rise to the belief that some of the
tissues which compose the body are poten-
TALLY immortal. He has taken small pieces
of tissues from living animals, transplant
ed them in what he called nutritive fluids
and kept these tissues alive for long
period of time, entirely apart from the
body in which they originally had been
living. A piece of connective tissue taken
from a chick before Matching has been
kept alive for longer than the normal life
time of the hen. And what is more re-
markable, the rate of growth and multi
plication of the cells did not decrease.
From this science argues that the inter
action of different tissues, each checking
and counterthecking the development of
the other, leads to death. Whereas, the
unchecked multiplication of any one sort
Of cell under the right conditions Of food
can continue indefinitely.
Science also believes that to prolong
the existence Of man as q whole an at
tempt must be made to discover what are
the organs involved in maintaining the
balance Of adult life, and then try TO help
these organs when they begin to fail to
function properly.
"It may be asked" writes DR.. Harris,
"can q human being enter into the state
Of latent lifei The answer II Yes but In
so replying we must recolleet the kind Of
suspended animation which is compatible
with the delicate proto-plasmie structure
and the complicated chemical behaviour Of
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=. could not discover the least
symptom Of life in him. We begun to
concede he. had carried the experiment
too far, and at last we we're satisfied he
was actually dead
BY nine in the morning as
we were going away we observed some
motion about the body, and upon exami
nation found his pulse and the motion of
his heart gradually returning; he began
to breathe heavily and speak softly
still more extraordinary are the tarra-
tives of the Fakirs of India, who are said
to allow themselves to be built up in
sealed tombs for weeks without food and
to be alive at the end of that time Re-
ports Of these cases Of human suspended
animation are now too numerous and too
well authenticated by European eye-wit
nesses of unimpeachable integrity TO
set aside as either in themselves untrue or
as due to collective hallucination."
The Hindu wishing to pass into this
condition of suspended animation COM
poses himself into very calm and inipas-
sive state.
He fasts a suitable length Of time and
makes other necessary preparation. His
ears and eyes are stopped with wax and
his friends then turn his tongue back into
his mouth. Then the spell of narcolepsy
overcomes him, and he can live in this
state Of suspended animation and be
brought to life afterward apparently with
out doing the slightest injury to his body.
This suspended animation in man ID,
in q way, similar to that state ID
animals called hibernatiSn. eve learn,
says DR.. Harris, "from these cases
Of alienation that even after breathing
ceases the animal may yet live; but Il may
surprise some readers TO learn that even
after the heart has ceased beating the orr
eanism does not necessarily die all at onee
The fact is, many Of the tissues Of the
body live for . long time after the body as
a whole h dead. In more technical Ian
The Washington times., 1922-11-19
Ingenious Invention Designed to. Permit a Mourner
at the Grave to Listen at the Telephone and
Watch for the Movement of the Semaphore
Which Will Rise if the Body Stirs.

to exhibit at the beginning of lecture
on physiology frog frozen so stiff that
it can be he'd out horizontally by the toe
like a piece of board, yet by allow
ing the frog to thaw it will skip about
at the end Of an hour like a healthy
animal.
"The organism in latent life is not
dead" says DIR. Harris, "for it Is capable
of manifesting once more all the vital at
tributes which no dead thing can do. II
is, however, very far from being fully
alive, for it may be manifesting none Of
the attributes of livingness, save the pos
sibility Of developing a feeble electric
current, which can be detected only by
delicate apparatus accessible TO biological
experts. II is not dead, however much It
looks It."
Scientific experiments are to be con-
tinued in the hope Of cleaning up the
whole mystery Of death and finding some
satisfactory means Of positively putting
an end to the possibility Of being buried
alive.
The Washington times., 1922-11-19

man being, we pronounce the person dead
when breathing has ceased and the pulse
is no longer perceptible The breathing
may be so slight that only by the moisture
of the breath condensing on a mirror can
It be known to be going on"
This rising as II from the dead is
called anabiosis and was first discovered
to be one Of the properties of minute or
ganisms called rotifers, the worlds earli-
est and crudest type of animal life. To
their resistance to the forces of destruc
ton the world to-day owes its peopling
with animal life. Bacteria, the simplest
of all plants, likewise show an extraordi-
navy persistence to live. They may be
dried UP and crushed into dust, yet they
continue TO retain their disease producing
properties.
Polar expeditions have found Ash
frozen in blocks Of ice, which have be-
come active againUpon being thawed out.
Snails, water beetles and other forms Of
insects can also become active after a
period o. apparent death. II is possible
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case in which a person ran the rlsk OF De-
ing buried alive was that of Anna Held,
the famous French actress. During her
last hours her daughter, watching at the
bedside, noticed her mother had ceased
breathing. The physician was called and
pronounced the noted actress dead. In
formation was given to friends and tele-
phoned to the press for public announce
ment
Several hours later a change in Anna
Held's countenance was noted. A slight
heaving of the bosom occurred and she
gently began to breathe again. The physl-
clan was hastily recalled and the death
notices given to the press retracted. But
after heroic methods to restore life had
been exhibited she gradually sank to
death.
Medical science now claims in the case
of Mrs. Walter W. Ackers of Los An
geles, literally to have raised her from
the dead by manipulation Of her heart
after it had ceased beating for fully three
minutes.
AIRS Ackers while undergoing an oper-
alton for gall-stones died. The physician
in charge, after he saw life had passed,
thrust his hand through the surgical in
cision made in her side, reached upward
past the visceral organs Of the abdomen
and grasped the heart. He manipulated
it counterfeit to its pulsation while an as
sistant physician started artificial resplra.
ton. Within ten minutes Mrs. Ackers'
heart began to beat, she breathed and
came bacI; to life.
The latest Investigations into this phe-
nomenon have been conducted by Profess
sor D. Fraser Harris, Of Dalhousie Uni
versity, Canada, who gives the results Of
his laboratory experiments in recent
number Of Science"
'"To the ordinary person." he writes,
nothing seems easier than to be able to
distinguish between life and death. per-
son naturally thinks Of the entire organ
ism as alive, the signs Of It's life being that
it is warm, that II breathes, that its heart
beats, and that II is aware Of its surround
ings, all of which Is in sharp contrast with
the cold, still, unconscious corpse in which
the beating of the heart has ceased for
ever.
'Tf asked to say whether an animal
lying in the road was alive or dead, we
should at once try to arouse It, stimulate
Il, as Il Is technically called, and II on its
receiving the stimulus, a shout, a, pin
prick, q touch with the boot, the animal
Jumped up or turned over, you would at
once say L was alive; II II failed to do so
you would assume II was dead.
"In physiological language, an animal
on being stimulated, II alive, will respond
In some way or other. IL dead, Il will not.
Exactly the same reasoning applies to the
isolated tissues, heart, muscle, etc, Of the
body. Response 10 stimulus h the chief
test Of livingness. whether Of individual.
organ, tissue or cell.
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81. It can feed itself.
"2. 1t can transform
the potential energy Of
food into the kinetic
energy of heat IAN
imal heat), movement,
nerve energy and cleo
trio current. A living
organism under this
aspect is an energy
Transforming machine.
"3. 1t can manufact-
ure anti-bodies to resist
infection.
-. The living body
has a life history, COM
prising birth, youth,
prime and senescence.
The living being is
never stationary. 1t
has time relations.
80. Finally, it can
reproduce itself.
"All these acts are
responses to its en-
vironment, and the
property Of being able
to respond is called
The Washington times., 1922-11-19

rT1HE fear of being buried alive has
r tormented the human race from
- earliest times, and now and ther
the opening of tombs and coffins in grave
yards has revealed most distressing evil
-lence that those who were dear to us have
come to life and consciousness in their
graves. indeed, many have left specific
provisions in their wills to drain their
arteries to make sure that they will not
awake in the grave, and many wills are on
file which provide that means be tam fol
keeping the supposed dead body under
observation TO give immediate relief at
The first sign of reappearing life. One
elaborate system of prevention Of the
danger of death after burial is shown on
this page.
. A very strange fact is that science with
all its research has been unable to sug-
gest any certain and practicable method
for determining positively that death has
really come. Many tests, such as apply
ing lighted candle to the fingers to see
whether a blister forms or not, injection
of f1uorcscCin into the veins, which Will
give yellow cast to the face if there
is the least flow of blood, and various
other means have been suggested-but
none of them are satisfactory and
positive.
Scientists have recently conducted ex-
tremely interesting experiments starting
at the very bottom of the ladder, and ex-
amining into the well-known phenomena
of suspended animation in the animal
world with the hope of finding out more
definite facts about death
1t has long been known that germs,
and indeed fish and reptiles, may be frozen
stiff in a cake of ice and yet thaw out
into life and full activity. Everybody
knows that bears and other animals curl
up in the Fall Of the year and "sleep"
through the long, hard Winter until they
wake up into renewed activity with the
coming of Spring. This we call "hiberna-
ton"
Professor Carrel, Of the Rockefeller
Research Institute, has also made many
advanced steps in this interesting study
by demonstrating in his laboratory that
he can keep alive certain tissues and
bones of the human body long after the
corpse has been thoroughly dead and
dissected.
Physicians know, it is doubtless true,
that certain persons have been buried
alive in the sense that while the hearts
action was still at minimum they have
been placed in coffin. Stories. of per:
sons "laid out" for the undertaken, and
reviving on his arrival, are not un-
known. Some persons have revived on
the bier; but the number of persons buried
while the body as q whole lived Is in
reality very small. Moribund persons
have been buried at times of great con-
fusion during plaques and epidemics.
This has happened when the people
have been In q state Of narcolepsy or sus-
pended animation.
So, recently science has pried into the
mysterious secrets Of suspended animation
and understands hoW Hindu fakirs buried
for months and sealed up In their tonhs
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some Of the lowlier
creatures and yet live.
What we may admit Is
that life in man can be
retained when all the
vital processes have sunk
to a minimum.
what is known as
trapce, or narcolepsy Is
the form which latent
life takes in the human
being. Every now and
again we hear of casees
of persons, usua lily
young women, going into
profund and prolonged
sleep from which they do
not awake for weeks or
months. During that
time they take no food,
they scarcely breathe,
their hearts action is at
a minimum. This is, Of
course, quite different
from the hypnotic or
mesmeric trance.
POSSIBLY the most
famous ease of mar
colepsy is at Of
Colonel Townsend, Of
Dublin, which has been
described by the we'll
known DR.. Cheyne:
"'He could die or ex-
pire when he pleased,
and yet by an
effort he could come to
life again. He composed
himself on his back and
lay in a still posture for
some time \. I
found his pulse dpk
gradually till at last i
could not feel any by Il e
most exact and MID
touch.
DR.. Baynard could
not feel the least motion
in the breast, nor DR..
Skrine perceive the least
soil on the bright mirror
he held to his mouth
The Washington times., 1922-11-19

guage this is local
life after somatic
d e a tn. Thus,
some muscles live
for hours, and
the skin and hair
roots live for
days after gen
eral or somatic
death. 1t is we'll
known that If the
face be shaved
Immediately af-
ter death that the
hairs will have
grown to a per
ceptible extent
within the next
day or two. In
regard to the hu-
The Washington times., 1922-11-19

human tissues. No mammal, no human
being, can be dried up or frozen stiff like
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1922-01-12
i inventor de
4 la ametrslladora

Sc diScutc actUaimentc Oh F"ancla
quiGn fu6 cl inventor de Ia ametra-
lladora
he los rStulioS prarti~AdnS r'Sulta
que I'm senior du pcrlun. rrrscilt6 en-
1910 IL %cnt0%crs i0yen rcy Luis WI.
un "0r%%uo" militar, az" fuIcioI;iba
con IN siSfcna Il" marilbrip y podfa
disrarar II lalas "casi SiInuItdECa-
mclte" y, For coASigu."atc, p0dfa ami
quilar lin rr%imiento iMtcgr0 en- po-
COS miHHtoN. Sr@in rchI ula cr1nica
~Gpoca.
Ia mlr-r :rrr@ parcel tan mortf-
fcra, qlr 81 rcy y ministries no
solo la reNi%2&rcn, sin, Que pnSieron
en- priSi6n n inventor como cncmigo
dc la huranidad.
Las r%ptcncias cr"mi":.& de FraAcia,
trltaron de onScguir Il inycnto. pero
du Prirun rohu~6 per motives patri6-
ticos y muri1 en- la p%oHrezi.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1922-01-12
c R O N CA
L E N | N

Cuando ell baron Wrangel form6
Ell Crimea I'm ejercito contrarevolu-
cionario, COMIC el mando' de la van
guardia Il su hombre de confianZa. ell
general Slaschichef. Y este l0gr0, al
frente de los vOluntarios blancOs reu-
nidoS Ell SebaStopol, tyitOs i%ndudables.
Pues bicn. He aquf que ell general
Slaschichef So ha pasado al b~olchevis-
mo en- compahfa de OtroS varios off
ciales superiores. y TrotZky V Le-
min le han rccibido con los braZos
abiertos.
Y sin embargo, habfa un mar de
sangre entire S~laschichef Y los soxietS.
Aqucl ahorcqha tDdos los enmunistas'
funcionarios rojos o no, quS geafan Ell
SUI poder. Estos f%usildban ii todos los
voluntarios blancos que cogfan 1Hon
las armas Ell la mano.
AnteS de marcharse Il Moscou, Slas-
chichef ha heclIo pGblica II carta,
donde dice:
"El bolchevismo que yo combat va
no eXiste. Solo queda el nombre, es-
pantajo de incautoS."
;Ticne raz6n Slaschichef? Veamos.
La denomilEada rclliblica rusa de
los SoYicts ACADIA de festGiar9el guar
to aniverSario lie los lsNefso& de oGtH-
bre de 1917. que Il jGfgS consilerall
comielZo de la nueua era. nr9ia,, \
LA correspondence IlternafioAal,,
organo Official de Ia, p~r9paSqaRR9a ,mpnl-
dial sovittica, ha pqbliqaAo cQpi til
motive un ndmcro extraprdipari99,.,X
en- lugar preferente Sci }miifm9r m ar
tfculo de Icnin. .-,.ei f. ,ah,af,
Else a%rtfculo de ,LIHA4ino Pa efqaulsaqq
Finmensa sensacci6na esa Ru9ia ~ f 1sEq
de ella, rs una re~cti1ic2ci3n tt!9taaIt r
II confession de errores ,enormeS, r.
una promesa de posipuiliffpHq2., olas ,os
He aquf algunos paTrafQS dei te fHe
inca culpa" le%niniano: IL, snnfe>bse
"IIemos querido intrQluGir, median,
re Ia legislation del EStaqo, moletariQ,
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1922-01-12

Ell un pals de pequela prOpiedad cam
pesina, la industrial v ell reparto del
comunismo. Y este ha sido causa del
des0rden v el hambre. YO no guerra
que asf sucediera. Me he equiyocado.
Y 10 confiesO.".
Luego dice que hay que dar a la
maquina Marcia atras, que 81 colecti-
vismo disqualification de los instrumcn
tos de production Y cambio) tampoco
do resultado IL los sOviets. Y por Ill
timo, anuncia i'll mundo In formula
nueva que ha encontrado.
Formula nueva que es vieifsima.
fQuiere %organizar ell capitalismo del
Estado. Ofdle: 80 s.
,lfEhs capitalismo, nefasto eli maHos
de p%articulares o consorcios, es bene,
ficioso en- manos del Estado. Hoy1Hor
hoy, al Es II etapa que de-
zen ecorrer las sociedada0E Esta-
do pfoletario necesita Eertirse ell
un propietario atento(I eSpcrimcntado
previsor. Tiene que haccr el conner
clio en- gran escala. De 10 c%Ontrario =
V ahora me refiero eXclusivamente Il
RuSia.- janis lograri restableccr LII
pr0speridad economical"
+ pero Lenine ha conclude por com
'fdendeR qlN ell i~nstint9 pers9pal tes;dkt
.''prindtstls fa.erza creatloraty Fefgaiifz$
! dora. y escriEc: sf'rItdG
q "Ea Hidh misma nos ~sfmfohtts seguir
''G&a yfdas In participation ode JOS atra-
baja{olpsf N log beletlqios inteasifi'
: thi la production, que cs p~Fseisamenltte
+'el chictiyoj Que debemtof, alcanYar Il
'tofo pr9eie; fEL3comerssio en gFarde 81
'tala asocia acknowledgements millones
de aldqanpS, ~ ipreresa, Icy, .e94gaNfi-
mai a lataIFrdaffi6iF Sade IasprWliesasdin n:
r. He aquf. despues des ~8gppatt4YYpaanos dc
tahteos' defensayos. @e eppflar; cruel
fm4ntc sobre la carne viva de Ia Russia
mfellfY, ST. pensamiento !dfl jffe toda-
vfa ipdiseutido. del ,g9hielnp 5 role
ti1,0nde cstd ahora el lh4enin ~ipfiexible
dogwatifo, que hahia hlerho 81 qe1di.
go social de 'Das Kapital. Y GUERRA
impOnerlo al mundO entero?
> pero leinios cI paIfafo ~fihdl 'tel' ar
tfculassst ~ ~ 81
'Terminamos. Ell csta ciencia nue.
va. la clase preparatoria. Namos Il pa.
Sar a las classes siguienteS colnproban,
do. a cada paso. la teorfa o Ia prac,
tica, sin miedo Il recomcnZar con fire.
%cuencia el mismo dcber Y esforzan'
donos POI corregirno\a nosotros mis-.
mos Ahediante ell anaV minucioso
dq klcstras propias faltaN
ST. Tiene raz1n ell general SM&hi'
chef. FL bolcheviSmo. Ell Rusia.res uf
Fiibinbre. NADIA mas. Ell grande V pau
btfrimo pals eslavo evoluciona CONF
predijo Cork. a UNI organization de-
mocrltica agraria, basada on la pc
queia propiedad Y Ell la cooperation
FL campesino e ha impuest0 Il lr
%dOctrinarioS v ~dcmagogos. Es 81 dut'
ITO. Y TODD ha tenido que plcgarse (:
su vOluntad.
FabidH VIDAL.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1922-01-12
A VISO
SOciedad Industrial
LA EuSkalduna"
fINCORP. EN- 190S.)

En- virtud de acuerdO del Con
sejO de Gobierno de esta Cor
poraci0n,. sc convoca a los Sres.
AcciOnistas a una Junta Gene
raj EXtraOrdinaria, en- las Off
cinas de esta Sociedad, Infanta
Luisa 4 V 6 (Marina) a las 10
de la mahana del Martes IA de
febrero Gle 1922, para tratar V
resolrer acerca de la convenient
cha de discover esta Corporation.
San Juan, Puerto Rico II de
EnerO de 1922.
4TELINO VICENTE.
P~rcsidcntc.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1922-01-12

Lii anterior fotografia fue hecha GER
ca de Fredericksburg, Virginia, donde
la,ss fuerzas de Marina de los Estados
Uinidos verificaron sus maniobras de
ctono. Ell General Butler hallabase
al komando de los 5000 Devil Dogs
qI9 ALI tomaron parte. Arriba, los
IN at;nos llegan al compamento despues
de tuna dura prueba por los campOs
de Virginia: abajo. I'm operator ina
lirhbrico de campana va registrando
| Los movimientoS de las fuerZas en- sus
P" Operaciones.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-29
On the Screen
Curwoed Picture, valley of ST.
lent Men, al Rialio, Story
Of Frozen North
BY EIarriette IJnderhilI

There is an interesting story in 'The
Valley Of Silent Men" at the Riaito,
but it seems to lis that the author has
held 1t back and has shown the other
side Of the case. In short, he has
portrayed the effect when he should
have shown the cause, for in that lay
the real story. 1t Is d James Oliver
Curwood picture, wEfcn means that 1t
is filled with snow, mountains and
mysterious murders. An old man
seeks the death OF three men and he
wanders about in the frozen North un-
til one by one he accomplishes his
fell purpose. Each man he strangles
with strand of long, black hair. It
is ali done because these three men
killed his young wife in n spiris of
jollity one day while they were out
trapping. Presumably they were out
after foxes, but when they came upon
lone doe they did not hesitate to take
her for good measure. Then and there
old Radican (who was not old then)
vowed to dedicate his life to the pun-
ishment of these men. Now this is
the story, which seems to US vastly
interesting, but it is not the story told
on the screen. You do not know any
thing about it until the very end Of
the picture. All you are let in on is
the fact that every now and then a
respected citizen is found stranglcd
with u strand of black hair and that
an unknown girl named Marette comes
down from the North and takes up
her abode with Inspector Kedsty of
the Royal Mounted. She tells him that
he is in danger and she will save
cannot save him, for her old father
sneaks in at night and strangles him
with the usual strand Of hair. The
love interest comes when Cor
poral James Kent confesses to the
murder to save a pal, and then the
girl makes he- father take the blame
which is all right, as the old man
Immediately goes to the happy hunting
ground.
For the first time since we have
known who's. who in the movies" Lew
Cody plays hero, and he didn't even
shave off his moustache to do it. He
braved public opinion and played the
role in his villains makeup. Alma
Rubens gives a sincere and charming
performance as the girl She also does
some stunts of the mountains that
ought to make her serial queen i'm
mcdiately.
Joseph King, George Nash and J. w
picture was directed by Frank Bor-
cage. The comedy is a Max Fleisher
"Out of the 1nkwell."
Hugo Riesenfeld conducted the or
chestra through Won Suppe's morn
ing, Noon and Night in Vienna" and
then he took them through some CLASH
cal jazz. This seems to be the most
popular musical number on the pro-
gram. Grace Bawman sings "My Heart
Is Calling" Arthur J. Martell is
manipulating the big new organ,
which initiates everything from sub
marine to an airplane.
The picture at the Capitol is in
teresting, but surely not because it is
plausible. 1t is called DUSK to Dawn
and is starring vehicle for Florence
Vidor King Vidor directed it. Add
to this the fact that Jack Mulhall plays