The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-12
INFLUENZA CARRIES a
DEADLY STINGER ON
BOTH. ENDS
BY HERBERT KAUFMAN.


BY HERBERT KAUFMAN.
YEW YORK reports nearly 500 cases 81 sleeping sicl
~ ness in week Take care. Spanish flu carries
deadly stnger st both ends.
it brain fever. Infanle paralysis Is more familiar
form Of the same horror.
lived near Albany during the Reign Of Terror found i
widely prevalent in America.
Physicians were unable to find remedy then, and the
vagueness Of concerning at the Mayo lab
oratories suggests that shouldn't be too hopeful Of
Pernicous anaernia likewise eudes remedy we know
what It does but not quite what is Johns Hopkins
sxpeTss recent case stumbled on new
eral more besides.
Long Trail Of Controversy.
CvCIENCE travels long roads. All knowledge develops
link by link The chain Of progress reaches into the
The Turks expermented with vaccination before
submitted her child 70 direct incubation When il Con-
stantnople is really responsible for the conquest Of
The American Telephone Company celebrates Bells dis
covery with bion-do corporation Some European
encyclopedias still credit the invention 70 Elisha Gray
The trail to Yesterday is Uttered with uncertainty and
We have very little absolute knowledge
She Paints d Strange Picture Of Lafayette.
trait Of Lafayette Madame Is Marauiss. after
hearing the story Of the Republics beginnings
co.; sc - ;nsrd neire n those rng
from the dull memoirs Of that imbecile.
aa beloved bsDap s. e
ing her funds through Taeyrand the very day before
announcing the failure Of his institution.
'sYOu Pays your Money and Takes Pour
Choice"
TT is even difficult to estimate the verify OF current
opinion. "A Richmond banker, studying Far East
affairs predicts from Athens that the stage is set
for further bloody drama in that stormy petrol roost
simultaneously Sir Horace Humboldt high commits
soner to Turkey informs the British foreign office that
One military authority asserts that nations about
to abandon the use Of mustard and phosgene Sneeze
gas is much more effective and merciful One good
Whit Of that synthetic influenza sufficient 70 aneshe
tie an entire army.
claims that civilization is doomed by the next war.
According to his notion coming battles will be decided
by poisons incredibly vruent that not soldier will
In the words Of distinguished Snowman, you
pays your money and you takes your choice
Mr.. Bedford Does NOT Discuss Profits.
BILLION dollars loss in gasoline is estimated for
~ 1928 All due to the carelessness of the public.
Nobody is offering advance information on
what the public expect to pay for motor fuel this
Mr. Bedford, chairman of one Standard Oil Com
pany informs the country o6S instead That our aps
crease partly credited to Government nonnterference
He contrasts this happy estate with the condition Of
the railroads. compelled to operate under more less
Federal direction during an identical period.
Mr. Bedford, however offers no explanation for 800
per cent profits Perhaps he will later reconcile those
giant earnings with prevalent gas prices
The responsibility for which can't be laid to careless
motorists-its more likely due to careless voters.
Some Perfectly Obvious Things.
r - MING engineers, caught with empty canteens
MI desert off the Gulf of California, distilled
49, water in tin cans and won through. The head
is full of relief expeditions
DR.. PEARL also at Johns Hopkins, finds that most
folk die from arrangements Of the almentary tract
heart troubles and pulmonary infections.
Nothing to Methuselah, still such knowledge
hasn't taught hundred generations to watch diet.
control passions avoid exposure When we properly
protect ourselves in these respects, than thirty
persons in million will be centenarans.