Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-08
IODINE OF SEAWEED
HELDFAT ANT|DO!E
u. S. Chemist Tells of Effect
on Thyroid Glands Which
Governs Weight.


PHILADELPHIA, September s.
iodine from seaweeds as a proven
i've of high blood pressure and harden
lng OF the arteries was outlined here
today before the American Chemical
Society convention.
DR.. J. w. Turrentine of the Bureau
sc Soils. Department Of Agriculture.
speaking before the division of the
chemistry of medicinal products, said
studies in Government laboratories
show that the excess weight of ad-
Iancing years may frequently be at
tributed to an inactive thyroid gland,
indicating an inadequate supply of TO-
dine in the human system.
The activity Of iodine naturally oc-
curing in SeaWeed was shown to be
some 200 times greater than that of
the iodines frequently used in the
treatment and prevention Of goiter,
he said
BY activity. he explained. was meant
the power of the iodine to Increase or
restore the normal functioning of the
thyroid. gland. The abnormal func-
Joining OF that gland results in goiter,
ne said.
In clinical tests in which thyroid
diSturhanCcS-goiter in its various
forms-have been treated. the superior
activity Of this natural vegetable form
Of iodine has been convincingly dem
onstrated, DR.. Turrentine said. adding:
simple "oiter has been shown to
diSappear promptly under this treat
ment The enlargement Of the glands
has sllhSidcd. In toxic goiter metabol-
ism has been restored to normal, and
where the heart and nerves have be-
come involved these symptoms have
disappeared.
Much Soil Goes to Sea.
When the utmost is made of soil
resources a population Of 200,000,0o0
will he maintained without difficulty
n the United States, Jacob G. Lip
man, director of Rutgers College eX-
detrimental station, New Brunswick.
\. J., told the division of industrial
ana engineering chemistry.
Sediment carried by the streams of
the United States to the sea. avera ges
one inch in 760 years, he said, which
each year amounts to 1888 900 900 tons,
or go, 100000 cubic yards of surface
soil.
Crops removed from the land carry
away with them the material they
take up from the soil, said Prof. Lip
man, who declared that 1000, 900
bushels of wheat contain about 120, 900
tons of nitrogen, equivalent to 600, 900
tons Of sulphate of ammonia.
Mastery of Atom Seen.
4 remakinG of the entire social or
der in mastery of the atom by science
was forcsecn by Prof. James +. Norris
IF the Massachusetts Institute OF Tech
nology in his annual address last night
rs president OF the chemical society.
No know the atoms consist of I'M
thinllable amounts of bound-up
encrgE. They are like a jack-in-the-
hoN. When we learn how to touch the
button the energy will spring out and
We can uso it," he declared.
There will then be no underground
slaves and no coal barons. A limit
loss supply of energy will make over
the world. Every man will have t1mo
ia taste of the joys of lfe."
Pointing out that such q discovery
would destroy our present system OF
social values, he predicted IAN eco
nomic upheaval would force upon the
world a change from the present un-
satisfactory system based upon gold
10 a more rational one based on some
thing more damental-perhapS the
value of IL mans labor, or on neces-
Sary commodities" He declared
proDerty rights in natural resources
Nouid uJStIt}edE,
\ feature of the session last night
was the presentation of the Priestley
medal for 1926 to DIR. Edgar FANS
Smith. former provost Of the Univer-
eity Of Pennsylvania and former
president of the Chemical Society, in
recognition of his work as an electro
chemist and his researches in the his
tory Of chemistry.
The medal. which is awarded by the
society every three years for the most
outstanding achievement in chemis-
try, was established in honor of Joseph
priestley, the discoverer of oxygen.